//------------------------------// // Breaking Ponies [Update] // Story: Break the System // by Wild Wire //------------------------------// Me and my new friends walk into a bar, and they all ask the bartender for drinks, even me. The bartender is a brown coated stallion with a cider yellow mane and has a cider cup as a cutie mark. The stallion raises an eyebrow, looking at me for a full 7 seconds... before just shrugging. "Okay." He simply states in a deep voice. "Wait, really?" I start to ask. "You're not going to freak out like the rest?" "Nah, I can see in your eyes that you're not trouble. I DO see a bit of mischievousness though, so don't prank anypony. Also the second you walked in all 20 of these guards followed, it's a new record." He explains. "I like you, might come here more than once." I tell him with a smirk, to which he subtly smirks back. So me and t he guards have some fun, some are now having drinking contests, some are watching said drinking contest, and some are even singing on the stage, it's a blast. But then somepony asks me to sing something, and they say it REALLY loudly causing the rest to hear it and push me into singing for them. As I hear this, I decide to accept and go with a song that played everyday at the mall I worked at. "Alright, alright, I'll do it." I say, causing everypony to cheer loudly. I walk onto the stage, and then I pause real quick to see if I can do what I'm think of. I search the console for some commands and I find just what I needed. 'playsound' is the command, and I even find the song too. So I type the full command. 'playsound "music\American_Authors\bestdayofmylife_novocals.wav' 'Set to play Best Day Of My Life (Instrumental version) by American Authors once unpaused.' Sweet, it didn't automatically start the song while paused like on Garry's Mod servers. That will be very useful. I decide to save before I sing it just in case I mess up a part. I unpause, and then I prepare to sing. Everypony looks around for where the music is coming from like they don't do stuff like this all the time themselves, before they hear my voice start the song for real. I keep singing the song and the ponies all cheer, and I mean all of them, even the bartender I didn't get the name of. But... "Stop that right this instant!" Shining Armor shouts angrily, busting through the front door. Everypony just stares at him with a 'did you really have to do that?' look. "Do you realize that we're all having fun right now?" Strong Steel says to him with a slight glare. "Do YOU realize that I'm PAYING you all to capture him?" Shining Armor replies quickly. This absolutely stops all sound in the bar, and it's so fucking quiet that you would be able to hear Twilight flip a page in a book from Ponyville. Everypony slowly turns towards me with determination in their eyes, and I nope the fuck out of there. "Well guys it's been nice but I gotta run so see ya!" I say a bit too quickly before running out the door. "Get him!" And all hell breaks loose. Everypony runs and trips over each other to get me, most trying to squeeze through the the door, no order or formation whatsoever! Discord would approve. I run around a corner and as soon as I'm out of sight I pause the world to catch my breath. "W-woah, okay, those ponies like money quite a BIT, don't they?" I rhetorically ask myself, chuckling at my own pun. "Okay, I need to get of here, but how do- oh right I can teleport now, duh. But who to teleport to? I need to get really far away, somewhere nopony will think to look, and I need to know where I am in the timeline..." I proceed to hum in thought for a few minutes, before I snap my fingers upon getting an idea of who. "I know just who to go to." I continue to talk to myself out loud like a crazy person, but what would you do if the world was frozen? Anyways, I prepare the teleport for a specific pony, switching to the inventory and typing the command slowly for dramatic effect. "/tp 'Stanley' 'Starlight Glimmer' " I press enter, and see Starlight preparing to teleport herself af the end of the 'Our Town' incident, which tells me I'm currently in the season 5 premiere. Seeing as she's about to teleport I switch to the console and type 'notarget' for basically invisibility, and unpause so she can finish her spell. She disappears and I pause again, switching to my inventory and teleporting to her again so I can follow. I appear to be in a cave now, but not one with the cutie mark vault. This must be a backup place to return to when things go wrong... Which they just did, so that's smart of her. Speaking up backups, I decide to save again right here, as I plan on doing something that could end up being really stupid or really great. I unpause, standing right behind Starlight. "How DARE they! I was helping the town! Cutie marks are LIES! They're fools for thinking otherwise!" She starts shouting in rage and anger, lashing about a bit. I disable notarget so I'm visible again, and prepare to speak. "Maybe they are, maybe they aren't." I start, causing Starlight to 'eep' in surprise. "And who knows what is truth or false ?right or wrong? What we see as right and wrong are just the way we think... and I think I can help you." I say to her in a serious voice, as if I'm explaining the red and blue pills. "W-w-who are y-you!? A-and what a-are you?" Starlight asks in a scared and cautious tone, slowly backing away with wide eyes. "Who am I?" I rhetorically ask, slowly forming a dark and mischievous sounding chuckle. "I'm Stanley."