A strip of light made its appearance near a wide dirt trail in a dense forest, slightly pixelating at the seams and emitting a sound much like a glitch, or corruption of something electric. The surrounding flora and wildlife remained mostly undisturbed, even though the unnatural happenings had no business being there. From this light a purple alicorn popped out and landed plot first on the ground below with a thud.
Twilight groaned and rubbed her backside, slowly starting to get up, "What the hay!? Wha-what happened?" Her thoughts weren't long lived, as a pink blur fell atop of her, and she was once again down, this time on her face.
"WEEEEEEEE!" Pinkie Pie gushed, not noticing her crumpled friend beneath her. "LETS DO THAT AGAI-"
Pinkie was halted mid scentence as she too was crushed under the weight of 4 other screaming mares and draconequus, who was oddly heavy for his slim physique. Now in what used to be a tranquil scenery, lay a groaning mass of ponies, and twitching hooves. Discords laugh soon drowned that noise out too.
"This is PRICELESS!" A camera which had fallen out of Twilights saddlebag lay in front of him, he snapped his fingers and a weak spark shot out, and he was suddenly dressed like Photo Finish. Picking the camera up he aimed it at the mountain of seething ponies. "Say Cheese sandwich!"
"UGH, my wing! it hurts!"
"Close enough I guess." Discord mused. The camera flashed a few times. "Alright, now these photos are coming out great, but Twilight, i'm going to need you to stick your tongue out and cross your eyes, I feel it will really capture your grimace."
The girls started untangling themselves from each others limbs and dusted themselves off, each one rubbing a particular joint in hope of soothing their poor, various muscles. They looked around, taking in their new surroundings, confusion written on all their faces, only Pinkie had a smile on her face, aside from Discord. It was beautiful, enchanting almost, rays of light shone through the dense trees on one side of the dirt trail, the other side was void of any, and the land stretched as far as the eyes could see. But as lovely as it looked, it was unfamiliar, which was frightening in its own right.
Twilight threw an agrivated look at Discord and grit her teeth, "Cut this out!"
In a flash his Photo Finish attire was gone, and he looked down at his form, in surprise? "I didn't.. do that." Discord thought to himself. "I didn't snap my fingers, I didn't will it, then why- how?" Discord was starting to feel uneasy, he was usually the one that causes confusion, not the one to suffer from it.
"Discord! What have you done?! Where are we?" Twilight bellowed again.
This pulled him back to the situation at hoof from the thoughts that had just been relaying in his already convoluted mind. But this didn't deter him from his usual demeanour. "So many questions, bit of a shame that bump to the head didn't give you a sense of humour. But to answer your questions...We, My little ponies, are in Skyrim!"
"WHAT?!"Everypony shrieked.
"You mean, Spikes game?!"
"The very same."
"Discord..."
"Yes, Twiley?"
Twilight cringed at the use of her nickname, only her brother had permission to call her by that, as far as she was concerned. "And WHY the buck did you bring us here!?"
Discord was a bit taken aback by this, even though he didn't like making sense, its not like it wasn't obvious as to why he had brought them here, he had told them his intentions before they arrived here, did he not? And they seemed to be on board with this idea. "Damn mares, they can never decide what they want." He crossed his arms and looked right into Twilights eyes, "Come now Twilight, what a silly question, and I know silly. I don't think I have to tell you to look up 'obvious' in the dictionary, as i'm sure you read them as if they're erotic novels." He stuck his tongue out it disgust.
"Twilight! Such language!" Rarity chided, though she was quite frustrated herself, she was still a classy mare. She put a hoof to her chest as if the word 'buck' had physically harmed her, regardless that it was not directed at her in the slightest.
Discord drooped his ears in an obnoxiously faked display of offence, and waved his paw dismissively, "It's quite alright Rarity, I don't think it even warrants a profanity tag on this story."
Usually a statement like that got some weird looks, but this time it went ignored. The girls were not having it, especially Twilight. The others didn't have much time to get a word in, as Twilight was clearly getting more frustrated by the second. "Don't make me ask again." She demanded, in a voice that cut like glass.
"You all just seemed so disappointed to not be featured in this game, and being the good 'friend' I am, I decided to change that, like I had stated. You all seemed to be on board with it at the time!"
"We didn't think you meant you'd literally put us in the game, Discord! We figured you meant as playable characters, why do you think too much into these things?!"
"Think too much into these things? Now that was actually insulting Twilight, you know I never think about things before I do them."
Twilight was about to speak again when a disembodied voice cut her off.
"Twilight, Everypony, Are you all okay?!"
"SPIKE?" Shouted the 6 of the mares, looking around to find him in this foreign landscape, he sounded close and yet, he was nowhere to be seen.
Spike sat on the couch, controller in claw. He had seen and heard the commotion through the screen. He could not contain the surprise he had felt when they had replied to him, as he never expected for them to have actually heard him. Seeing them all look around for him, he darted to the screen and put his claw against it, thinking he might be able to walk through to them himself. But no, the screen just cast his shadow due to the light he was blocking from the projector. Making his way back to the couch, he slunk back down, a little disheartened.
"Hey guys, i'm back in Equestria, I don't think you can see me, though. Can you still hear me?"
Twilight turned, scanning their digital area again, and for a second he saw her look directly at the screen. "Spike! I'm so glad you're okay, yes we can all hear you just fine!"
"Wow, in all my days of shouting at games, i've never actually had a reply from the characters before.." Spike said, a hint of excitement growing after each syllable he spoke, happy that he might actually be able to still communicate with the group. "You wouldn't believe this, but you're all in my video game!"
Twilight frowned, "We are aware Spike, Believe me, and as you could guess, this is all Discords doing. Can you get us out of here?"
"Ummm," Spike started fiddling with the buttons on his controller, hoping that any one of them would do anything to help their situation at all. Suddenly, Fluttershy hit Rainbow Dash on the side of her head. It didn't appear to be a hard punch, but it did make the multicolour pegasus stagger slightly. Everpony gasped in shock at the usualy sweet Fluttershy's actions.
"Hey! What gives Fluttershy?!" Rainbow snapped, rubbing the back of her head, and moving a few feet away from the suddenly violent buttercream mare.
"O-Oh my, I-i swear I didn't mean to Rainbow dash, i'm so sorry! I don't know what came over me!" Fluttershy profusely apologised. She stared at her own hooves in horror and bewilderment.
"What in Tarnation has gotten into ya Fluttershy?" Applejack sternly questioned, walking over to offer Rainbow some assistance. "I know we're all upset, but that ain't an excuse for you ta' take it out on Everypony! Are you alright Rainb- OOF!" A blue hoof hit the country earth mare square in the face. This time, the unexpected blow came from Rainbow Dash.
Rainbow Dash, naturally being a lot stronger than Fluttershy, managed to knock her friend right off her hooves. Applejack sat up on the ground and put her own hoof to her nose, checking for blood but finding none there. "Well that's the last darn time i'm sticking up for you!" She spat at Rainbow.
"Ohmygosh! Applejack- I- I swear-!"
Pinkie pie started walking forwards, she couldn't explain why at all, and ran straight into Rarity, not bothering to go around the fashionista at all. Rarity caught in surprise managed to stand her ground, but Pinkie kept walking, and with what seemed like little effort, pushed Rarity along with her.
"Goodness Pinkie! If you want me to move out of your way, you could have just asked!"
"I Dont even know why i'm moving! I'm not doing this! Well I am but, i'm not meaning to walk, its like I can't control my hooves!" Pinkie argued. "I don't think this is one of my Pinkie senses either!"
Twilights jaw hung open, "has Everypony lost their minds?!" She thought to herself. She could only guess whose doing this was. "DISCORD, whatever you're doing, STOP IT!" She barked.
Discord, seeming a mixture of shock and amusement from all the chaos in front of him, raised his hands in defence. "I wish I could take credit, but i'm not doing this!"
Spike continued to frantically press buttons, trying different combinations, and sometimes holding down 4 at once. He was far to busy intently looking at the different options on his Ponystation controller, that he hadn't noticed all the commotion unfolding before him on screen, until he finally took a peak to see if any of his attempts had made any good progress. What he did see was Applejack rubbing her nose, Pinkie pie running off screen with Rarity in tow, and Fluttershy sobbing, muttering to herself that she was a monster.
"Did any of that help?" Spike asked, "And what happened to you guys?"
"Did what work?" Twilight queried. "And i'm not quite sure, Everypony just started hurting each other, among other things."
Spike looked down at his controller, "had I really just done that?" He quickly dismissed the thought, "Nahh, no way I could have-" He started again at the commotions on screen, they had halted the moment he stopped doing anything. Maybe this wasn't as far-fetched as he thought? "I think that was me, Twilight."
"You!? But-how?"
"I think I can control some things on my PS4 controller, im not 100% sure, but it would explained what just happened." Spike then got an idea, probably a bad idea, but one nonetheless. "Only one way to find out!" He declared, and he pressed the button on the controller closest to the direction of the screen.
Twilight then lunged forward at Discord, in attack, but missed narrowly.
Discord started backing up from the alicorn princess. "Now, Twilight, come on, I didn't mean any harm here." He croaked. He had been threatened to be turned into stone before, but physically maimed? not quite as much.
"Believe me, as much as I want to hit you right now, I would never actually do it. That wasn't me."
Spike laughed at what he had just made Twilight do, and by the looks the mane 6 and Discord were wearing, let Spike know they could hear his amusement. Now totally sure he not only has some control of his friends actions, but had caused the little scuffle earlier. His laugh died down, as the guilt started to wash over him. He hadn't meant to hurt anypony. "Well, that settles it guys, that was me that made you do those things earlier, i'm sorry. I was just trying to find a way to help you all, that maybe there was a 'go back to Equestria' option or.. something."
"Spike don't touch anything else!" Twilight screeched.
Suddenly, intense and frightening orchestral-like music started playing, The Mane 6 looked around Frantically, even Discord had no idea where this ominous music was coming from. "Oh-Oh." Pinkie Pie Fretted, her whole body shaking.
"What is it Pinkie, is this one of your Pinkie Senses?" Twilight Questioned.
"Yes, remember when I said there was a really big doozy about to happen at Froggy Bottom Bogg?"
Twilight mentally groaned, how could she forget? she had never quite come to understand the Pinkie sense, but at least this time their was no doubt that she believed it. Twilight visibly became uneasy recalling the events, "Is this...another doozy?" Twilight asked, nervously.
"You Betcha!"
"Spikey-Wikey, where is this music coming from?" Rarity Questioned.
"This isn't good, this is combat music! from what I remember about the games i've played with Button Mash, It only appears when there is enemies nearby!" He stuttered.
Applejack looked around frantically, putting herself in a power stance to give her a steady advantage on whoever or whatever was coming. "But ah' don't see anypony, or any enemies?!" She declared.
"YOU NEVER DO! At least not until they're already on you!" Rainbow chimed in, preparing herself as well for attack. However the oddest thing happened, instead of an enemy appearing, the image before Spike went black, and all he could hear from his friends before the loading screen came, were their sounds of struggle, and then, silence.