My Little Game: Friendship is Glitching

by Time Reaper


The First Chapter - Part Two: Debug

As Twilight opened her eyes to see where she was now, all she could see was a distorted version of Equestria as all she could see were trees shaking in the background of what she considered to be a distorted version of the castle, a multicolored sky with both the ground and walls colored in blue with, as far she could see, very small dots which gave it all a strange look of being punctuated.

It was a strange look for certain.

"Antonio, can you still hear me?"

Yes

"Do you have any idea of where are we?"

No

Twilight gave the place she was standing on a better look around. So far it looked like she was on the exact room where she and her friends defeated Nightmare Moon but with less walls and a complete lack of the sun and moon although very well illuminated with a light that came from nowhere.

"That's strange, if there is no sun or moon, then what illuminates this place?"

She kept looking around, hoping to find a solution to her questions. She moved around as she noticed the existence of an exit she could use to leave the throne room where she was located, which made her wonder how much of this place was actually built or if its appearance was all casualty and it was further questioned as the ground didn't feel like any material she ever felt. It was solid but it wasn't metal, stone or soil. There was no way for her to describe it although she still tried.

"This is strange. It's smooth but it isn't plain, it isn't a material I have ever encountered in my life yet it feels so familiar, it looks uniform but I can see small dots dividing it and even though this is solid I can sense it moving. What is this?"

She then decided to go down the stairs into what looked like to be the castle's entrance room or, at least, a distorted version of it, where everything looked like it but not quite the exact same. Where in the "Real Equestria", as Twilight would later name her homeland, there was a broken fountain where the elements were supposed to go into but it showed signs of being long dead, here in the "Distorted Equestria" the fountain looked complete with five glowing spheres and it was spreading something like water and that Twilight had no interest in analyzing for its constantly changing colors.

As she sought in this new room, she noticed how the place lacked of windows and some walls were gone as well as in the throne room but the door to leave the castle was closed. Twilight moved to the door and tried to open it with magic but then she noticed something off and it was the first thing that freaked her out during her stay in that world: her magic wasn't working.

No matter how much she tried, how much she focused on it or even how much she used mental gymnastics to activate it, her horn was unable to activate its magic, making it impossible for her to open the door.

She then tried to open the door manually by using her hoof but she then realized that the door was closed shut, making it impossible for her to leave.

"Well, that was a disappointment."

It was then when she saw the second thing that freaked her out during her stay in that world. Deep in the castle, as if somehow this world held the only place where she could see something like it: its back was looking toward her but she could still recognize it. It had purple scales with green spikes and it was as tall as a foal.

Twilight's heart almost break as she saw her number one assistant moving deeper into the distorted castle and the only response she could give was a sprint like she has never done before as she tried to catch up with him as she shouted his name.

"Spike! Wait!"

She wouldn't notice it until she left that world on how she was now able to pronounce his name.

Spike left the room as she entered into it, much to her chagrin, and she would have continued to chase after him if it weren't for the strange sound that appeared in the room.

As Twilight turned to her left and saw the source of the noise, she saw what looked like the cub of a timber wolf but, as it was apparently common from this world, it also looked distorted and malformed: It's legs weren't complete as the lower parts disolved before touching the air while half of its face changed shapes and colors faster than she could even blink and its only eye looking at her was a deep red that showed no sentience, only a murderous intent that scared her to no end.

Twilight, being aware of her lack of magic, ran away from the beast, after all, she didn't know how dangerous were the creatures on this world compared to the Real Equestria and she wasn't willing to figure it out, especially if she couldn't defend herself. She ran with as much strength as her legs could give her in Spike's direction finding on her way even more dangerous creatures that scared her to no end. Timberwolves, strange shaking orbs, faces that screamed in agony and literal limbs. All of this scared Twilight and she was really hoping to find Spike and leave. She never noticed how his legs never moved as well as his arms remained stiffs while moving.

She ran through the halls, always on the chase after Spike, she ran through the libraries, she ran through the ladders, she ran until the lower parts of the castle until she finally found Spike, still not looking at Twilight. She got close carefully.

"Spike? Its me, Twilight" -. She started to move her hoof at him. - "I'm here to take you back at Ponyville."

She touched his back.

"Spike? Are you alright?"

As she turned him back, Twilight saw the third thing that freaked her out during her stay on that world and she was unable to stop herself from screaming: Spike was faceless. His front body was in a constant state of disappearing and reassembling itself as she could hear sound coming from his mouth even if it only was imposible for her to discern that horrible sound that screeched her ears and almost made her bleed.

"01010100 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 00100000 01110010 01110101 01101110 00101110 00100000 01010100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01110000 01101100 01100001 01100011 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100100 01100001 01101110 01100111 01100101 01110010 01101111 01110101 01110011 00101110 00100000 01000100 01101001 01110011 01100011 01101111 01110010 01100100 00100000 01101001 01110011 00101101 00100000 01010111 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01001001 00100000 01100001 01101101 00111111 00100000 01010111 01101000 01101111 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00111111 00100000 01010111 01101000 01101111 00100000 01100001 01101101 00100000 01001001 00111111 00100000 01001001 00100000 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101100 01101100 01100001 01110000 01110011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00101110 00100000 01001110 01101111 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101101 01100001 01101011 01100101 01110011 00100000 01110011 01100101 01101110 01110011 01100101 00101110 00100000 01001001 00100000 01101101 01110101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01101000 01100101 01101100 01110000 00100000 01010100 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 00101110 00100000 01010111 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01010100 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 00111111 00100000 01010111 01101000 01101111 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01010100 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 00111111 00100000 01000101 01010010 01010010 01001111 01010010 00101110 00100000 01010010 01000101 01010000 01010010 01001111 01000111 01010010 01000001 01001101 01001101 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01000011 01001111 01000100 01000101 00101110"

There was a huge explosion of light that temporarily blinded Twilight. When it was over and Twilight reopened her eyes, Spike was replaced with a small source of light whose radiation made Twilight feel safe and warm. The light got close to Twilight and, before she could even react, it disassembled into multiple pieces as they entered into Twilight. When she looked over her body, she saw no inherent difference to her body but she wasn't sure if she was fine considering that she was unable to use magic, keeping that piece of information on her mind for later as she was hoping her computer could find anything new on her.

As she went back to the main floor and decided to backtrack to the castle's main entrance, she wondered once again what was going on. She was sure that Antonio would have no clue of what was going on and, should he know, there was a high chance that he would not tell her anything for unknown reasons so it was up to her to figure out this mystery and hopefully figure out what happened to Spike, why time was reset and why only she could remember anything.

When Twilight took noticed of where she was, she found herself in a big corridor that lead to multiple hallways and, as she wondered where to move, she quickly noticed the appearance of multiple monsters surrounding her. Twilight was briefly trying to come up with a plan to save herself but, without magic, she was mostly useless and was unable to defend herself, especially when a headache started to go through her head. It was numbingly painful to the point of her starting to lose the eyesight as only the color red started to fill her eyes.

"Antonio, what is happening!?"

Twilight?

"I feel in pain! Help!"

What can I do?

"I don't know but please help! I cannot plan my escape with this pain"

She tried to think of a plan but the headache only grew as her body went more and more numb and she only saw more and more red. She could feel Antonio's influence over her trying to do something but, whatever he was trying, it wasn't working and the pain was only growing. Eventually, she started to feel her clinging to reality as her eyes were filled with red and only words filled her vision:


DEBUG MODE ACTIVATED


ENEMY
Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Glitched Sprite
Glitched Bear

TWILIGHT SPARKLE
HP 15
MP 23
>Attack
Magic
Item
Run

Twilight Sparkle Attacked Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub suffered 10 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub has been defeated
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Sprite Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Bear Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 3 Dmg

ENEMY
Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Glitched Sprite
Glitched Bear

TWILIGHT SPARKLE
HP 8
MP 23
Attack
>Magic
Item
Run

Magic:
Fireball 3MP
>>Telekinesis (pick up an enemy and throw it either to another enemy unit or to the ground. The bigger the unit, the more damage it will make at the cost of more MP)
Scan 1MP

Twilight Sparkle used Telekinesis on Glitched Bear
Twilight Sparkle Threw Glitched Bear towards Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub suffered 20 Dmg (Overkill)
Enemy Glitched Bear suffered 2 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub has been defeated
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Sprite Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Bear Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 3 Dmg

ENEMY
Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Glitched Sprite
Glitched Bear

TWILIGHT SPARKLE
HP 2
MP 21
Attack
Magic
>Item
Run

Item:
>>HP Potion x2 (recovers 20HP)
MP Potion x3

Twilight Sparkle used HP Potion
Twilight Sparkle recovered 13 HP
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Sprite Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Bear Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 3 Dmg

ENEMY
Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Glitched Sprite
Glitched Bear

TWILIGHT SPARKLE
HP 9
MP 18
Attack
>Magic
Item
Run

Magic:

Fireball 3MP
>Telekinesis
Scan 1MP

Twilight Sparkle used Telekinesis on Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Twilight Sparkle Threw Glitched Timberwolf Cub towards Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub suffered 8 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub suffered 8 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub has been defeated
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub has been defeated
Enemy Glitched Sprite Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Bear Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 3 Dmg

ENEMY
Glitched Sprite
Glitched Bear

TWILIGHT SPARKLE
HP 5
MP 20
Attack
>Magic
Item
Run

Magic:
>>Fireball 3MP (Huge fireball with fire based magic)
Telekinesis
Scan 1MP

Twilight Sparkle used Fireball on Glitched Bear
Glitched Bear suffered 20Dmg
Glitched Bear has been defeated
Enemy Glitched Sprite Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg

ENEMY
Glitched Sprite

TWILIGHT SPARKLE
HP 4
MP 17
Attack
>Magic
Item
Run

Magic:
Fireball 3MP
Telekinesis
>>Scan 1MP (Scans enemy to find out weaknesses)

Twilight Sparkle used Scan on Glitched Sprite
Glitched Sprite: A former program that has been corrupted to the point where it's no longer recognizable from its original form. It's still a very physical entity though.
Enemy Glitched Sprite Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg

ENEMY
Glitched Sprite

TWILIGHT SPARKLE
HP 3
MP 17
Attack
>Magic
Item
Run

Magic:
>Fireball 3MP
Telekinesis
Scan 1MP

Twilight Sparkle used Fireball on Glitched Sprite
Glitched Sprite took 25 Dmg (overkill)
Glitched Sprite was defeated
ALL ENEMIES HAS BEEN DEFEATED
Earned 30 Chips
Twilight Sparkle won 23XP
Twilight Sparkle Leveled Up
HP +2
MP+3
Attack +1
Defense +1
Magic Attack +3
Magic Defense +3
Speed +1
Luck +1
Charm +1
Empathy +1
Cleverness +2
Confidence +1
Awareness +1
Conviction +1
New Skill Learned: Iceball
HP and MP has been regenerated


DEBUG COMPLETE


Twilight's headache started to subside as she regain control over her motor functions and her mind became less foggy, which didn't help much to her poor confused mind as she was greeted with an empty hallway when she finally regained herself and all she could ask now was

"What happened? I was surrounded by monster about minutes ago... Antonio, did you do that?"

Sort of

"What? What do you mean by 'sort of'?"

I had to use your body to defeat the monsters

Twilight Sparkle felt once again violated as she saw herself being used once more but, as much as her mind tried to criminalize Antonio for doing so, she just couldn't ignore that he saved her by doing it and she was safe now.

It was a tough fight

Twilight made a slight smile as she imaged a foreign figure trying to use her weak body to fight so many monsters at the same time, it must have been a nightmare. Now to think about it, there was a bear among the monsters so her life must have been at risk but, as much as she searched on her body, she couldn't find a single scratch.

Either Antonio was very good at dodging or she was much stronger than she realized, either way, she wasn't too interested in figuring out the details of the fight.

"Alright, Antonio, I'll let it slide this time because there was no other choice but don't get used to it."

Of course but let's first figure out how to leave this place

"Well, I can agree with you on that."

And so, she moved back to where she came from. Thankfully, for her, she found no more monsters on her way back, which gave her time to think on what she just found.

"Well, I don't know exactly what I just found, but I do know that Spike must probably be somewhere in this castle" -. As she got to the entrance room and saw the exit doors now open, she realized that this wasn't just a small place for her to explore. - "Or perhaps this world."

She took a moment to look at the distorted version of Equestria as she tried to understand what she was seeing right then and there. She knew that, whatever mystery she had on her hoofs, her answer to all of this was on this world, it was just a matter of finding time to get here and explore some more, with the proper gear of course. She wasn't going to enter here again without proper equipment.

"Well, whatever Discord is planning in here, I will stop it... Antonio?"

Yes?

"Will you help me on this?"

You can bet on it

She slightly smiled at the confirmation that she wasn't alone on this, even if that figure was someone whose practices she wasn't too fond off.

"Thank you, you don't know how glad it makes me feel that."

You Welcome

She then decided to move back into the throne room, where the portal back home was waiting for her, and that allowed her to wonder what happened to Nightmare Moon and Luna. They were at the center of the explosion, so they should have been here, right?

The answer came to her in the form of a weakened Princess Luna looking back at her with fear on her eyes.

"You! Where are we? Why I cannot use my magic anymore? Just-"

ROAR

A wild beast suddenly appeared behind Twilight, forcing her to move toward Luna and put herself on a defensive position, surprising Princess Luna on the process. Twilight's headache started once more as she started to see red and a line of words became the only thing she could see.


DEBUG MODE ACTIVATED


ENEMY
Glitched Manticore

TWILIGHT SPARKLE
HP 17
MP 26
Attack
>Magic
Item
Run

Magic:
Fireball 3MP Iceball 3MP
Telekinesis
>Scan 1MP

Twilight Sparkle used Scan on Glitched Manticore
Glitched Manticore: A Manticore whose program has been corrupted, making it stronger than normal Manticores and giving it attacks that they shouldn't have on the first place. Weak to elemental magic.
Glitched Manticore used Swipe on Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 5 Dmg

ENEMY
Glitched Manticore

TWILIGHT SPARKLE
HP 12
MP 25
Attack
>Magic
Item
Run

Magic:
>Fireball 3MP Iceball 3MP
Telekinesis
Scan

Twilight Sparkle used Fireball on Glitched Manticore
Glitched Manticore suffered 9 Dmg
Glitched Manticore used Swipe on Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 5 Dmg

ENEMY
Glitched Manticore

TWILIGHT SPARKLE
HP 7
MP 22
Attack
>Magic
Item
Run

Magic:
Fireball 3MP >Iceball 3MP
Telekinesis
Scan

Twilight Sparkle used Iceball on Glitched Manticore
Glitched Manticore got 8 Dmg
Glitched Manticore used Poison Tail on Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg
Twilight Sparkle is poisoned
Twilight Sparkle suffered 2 Dmg due to poison

ENEMY
Glitched Manticore

TWILIGHT SPARKLE
HP 4
MP 19
Attack
Magic
>Item
Run

Item:
>HP Potion x1
MP Potion x3

Twilight Sparkle used HP Potion
Twilight Sparkle recovered 13 HP
Glitched Manticore used Swipe on Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 5 Dmg
Twilight Sparkle suffered 2 Dmg due to poison

ENEMY
Glitched Manticore

TWILIGHT SPARKLE
HP 10
MP 19
Attack
>Magic
Item
Run

Magic:
>Fireball 3MP Iceball 3MP
Telekinesis
Scan

Twilight Sparkle used Fireball on Glitched Manticore
CRITICAL HIT
Glitched Manticore suffered 27 Dmg
Glitched Manticore has been defeated
ALL ENEMIES HAS BEEN DEFEATED
Earned 15 Chips
Twilight Sparkle won 25XP
Twilight Sparkle Leveled Up
HP +1
MP+2
Attack +1
Magic Attack +3
Magic Defense +3
Charm +1
Empathy +1
Cleverness +2
Confidence +2
Awareness +1
Conviction +2
New Skill Learned: Thunder
HP and MP has been regenerated


DEBUG COMPLETE


Twilight's headache once more went down as she realized that, with her recovering her mind, the enemy was no longer visible. It was in that moment she realized the relationship between her headache and the monsters, as for whenever they appeared, she would lose consciousness through the headache, leaving Antonio with freedom to use her body to fight the monsters although she would still like to know what he does to fight them.

"Wh-why?"

Twilight turned around and found a confused Princess Luna looking at her with a mixture of wonder, worry and curiosity.

"Why did you save me?"

Twilight Sparkle gave it a thought before answering. She was doing it for the Princess Luna she remembered that was sister of Princess Celestia and she decided to give a second chance but she couldn't say that, she was trying to think of a solution when it came to her mind (and she decided to ignore what was the potential source of inspiration) and decided to give it to Luna.

"Because you are worth it."

Luna looked at Twilight with a baffled face as she tried to digest the information.

"Me? Worth it? But I am Nightmare Moon! I did terrible things to Celestia and Equestria as a whole!"

"I know" -. Twilight then got closer to Luna and slowly moved her hoof toward her. - "But everypony deserves a second chance, including you."

Luna looked at Twilight with tearing eyes as she started to wonder.

"And will Ti- Princess Celestia think that I deserve a second chance as well?"

Twilight simply smiled at her and responded on a reassuring tone.

"I am more than confident that she will, but there is only one way to figure it out."

They both looked at the portal to leave, knowing very well what they had to and jumped into the hole that filled their eyes with one and zeroes.