After waiting for everyone to settle down, and wanting to clear up the confusion from earlier regarding Sparklez and Twilight. Everyone settled down around Sparklez, Fluttershy seated next to him, with the unconscious Kerry resting on her back, making sure that the feline would be comfortable.
The whole group remained quite, not sure how to start the conversation after what happened earlier. Sparklez not being the one who likes awkward silence, decided to start the conversation. “So, I’m guessing you must be Celestia from what Twilight has told me?” Sparklez said, as he did a small bow, guessing that she must be royalty.
Celestia smiled at the gesture as she responded. “It is nice to see you too. And please, no need for formalities here. As you know, my name is Princess Celestia, co-ruler of Equestria.” Celestia then waved a hoof to the other alicorn next to her. “And this is my sister Luna, co-ruler of Equestria as well.”
Princess Luna did a small bow out of respect. “It is our pleasure to meet such creature like thyself, even from Twilight Sparkle’s descriptions we could not have imagined what a human would really be like.”
Celestia then pointed with her hoof to the other guest who accompanied them. “And this is Discord, reformed Spirit of Chaos.”
“Oh come on Celly. Don’t I get a better title than that? You did promise to make me an ambassador.” Discord said as he crossed his eagle and lion arm.
“May, make you an ambassador, ponies may not take kindly to the idea of you representing Equestria across other nations yet.” Celestia said with a small frown, although it didn’t break her gentle features on her face.
“Pffft, their loss.” Was all Discord said before turning back his attention at the ‘Human’. “But back to matters at hoof, shouldn’t we ask a few questions to our ‘guest’?”
Turning back their attention back to Sparklez, Luna was the one to talk first. “Discord is in the right, we came here to discuss this phenomenon of which this human came to be.”
Sparklez was having a hard time following what she said about halfway through, “You mean, how I got here?” Sparklez asked, trying to make sense of what this second ruler was trying to say.
“Precisely, does thou not understand what we say?” Luna said as she looked at Sparklez, a small frown present as it show her annoyance that even his species were accustomed to the modern tongue.
“Not much, sorry.” Trying to avoid any more unpleasant situations, Sparklez decided to answer her question as best he could. “Well, as to how I ended up here, I don’t have the faintest of clues.” Sparklez said as he gave an unsure expression to everyone, or everypony as they like to say, whatever.
Celestia was the next to speak, “You mean you can’t remember what happened before you got here?” She said as she gave a curious look.
“Not really” Sparklez said. “All I know is that I was doing a Live-Stream on my computer, with my game on, and none of you are understanding what I’m saying, are you?” Sparklez said as he watched the confused expressions of everyone in the room, except for Twilight, who seemed to be thinking about what Sparklez was saying.
“In all the centuries that I have been alive, I’ve never heard of such weird named objects. I think I would like to visit this place of yours.” Discord said, as he had a devilish smirk on his face. Celestia shot him a quick glare as to end anything that he may be planning. “A-as long as I have company of course.” Discord said as Celestia gave him an inquisitive look.
Sparklez gave a heavy sigh, trying to think of how to explain the scenario to people who were not familiar to his kind of technology. “Ok, try to think of the ‘Live-Stream’ as a message, like letters and stuff.” Seeing the small nods of understanding, Sparklez continued. “Well this message is continuous, like it being written and sent at the same time, I know it sounds weird, but I really don’t know how to say it better.”
“Oh, this sounds just like the time Dashie had the whole pegasus residence of the town for the water gathering event. When she showed that film to everypony.” Pinkie said as she jumped on her seat, excited at what was to come next on the story from Sparklez.
Rainbow Dash caught on to what Pinkie had said and tried to question something about it. “Wait, you werent there when we did that, how did you know about it Pinkie?”
“Oh silly, I was disguised, how else do you think I could have got in?” Pinkie said as she pulled down a zipper from her head, revealing a white pegasus version of the mare with a yellow mane. “I got tons of them for my theme parties.” Pinkie said as she pulled down another zipper, revealing her normal look.
Rainbow was about to question how did she manage to make two full body costumes to fit her, but decided to not do it, knowing better than to question Pinkie, as it would just drive you insane. Although, Sparklez didn’t know that.
“What?! How? I mean. How did you? What?!” Sparklez was trying to wrap his head around what he just seen. Even the man had his limits when coming to taking weird things like that, and he had seen a lot of weird things in just one day, from cat looking ponies, to fighting monsters from a game. But now this?! “Can’t. Compute.”
“Is better if ya don’t question it partner. That is just Pinkie for ya.” Applejack said with a smug smile, always finding it funny to see new ponies react to Pinkie’s antics.
“O-ok then.” Sparklez said, as he tried to get back into the explanation. Don’t think about it, don’t think about it. Think it’s just your imagination playing tricks, yeah...Who am I kidding? Ending his mental debate, Sparklez continued with the explanation. “Ok, what Pinkie said helps me with this. The ‘Stream’ means is being sent to other people connected to the internet, like a giant web of information.”
“Wait, you mean, ‘internet’?” Twilight said, finaling remembering some stuff about the dimension that she had been sent to retrieve her Element.
“...Yes, how did you know?” Sparklez asked, not really expecting any of them to know about what he was talking about.
“Not long ago, I was transported to this other dimension where humans lived. And in my time there I learned a few things about their culture and costumes.” Twilight said as recalled more of the events when she was at Canterlot High.
“Wait, you mean there is a portal that can take me home?” Sparklez said with some hope on his voice, but it was short lived as Celestia shook her head.
“I am sorry, but the portal only opens once every thirty moons, meaning that it won’t open again in about two years, I’m sorry.” Celestia said with a hint of guilt, not liking to make the human’s hopes get destroyed.
“Oh I... It’s ok, knew it was too good to be true.” Sparklez said as he tried to get himself back together. “So back to what we were talking about. The information is sent to people who are connected to my signal, or my end if you want to say.”
“So you send this, movie message, to others who know the same magical frequency that you use, and receive this message?” Celestia said, trying to grasp the hard to imagine scenario that was being explained.
“More or less. Humans don’t really have magic, I guess Twilight didn’t mention that part.” Sparklez said as he saw Twilight give a small sheepish smile. “We instead use technology to do all of this, this is where another element to the reason I got here comes into play.”
“Are we playing chess? Oh no, I forgot to bring my thinking hat.” Pinkie said as all of her friends brought a hoof to their face at the incredulity of Pinkie.
“Umm, no...Anyways, we use computers for this type of ‘Live-Stream’. Computers are a very advance machines that are capable to do advance calculations and commands in the blink of an eye, allowing it to transform very complicated data to-” Stopped when he heard the sound of snoring coming from two ponies on the room.
Rainbow Dash was laying on the ground, having fallen asleep at the long and boring explanation. And Pinkie Pie lay next to her, finding it as boring, it needed more pizzaz as Pinkie would say.
“Should we, wake them up?” Sparklez asked as he looked from the sleeping forms of Pinkie and Rainbow to everyone else.
“It’s fine, you can expect Rainbow to doze-off during a Educational explanation.” She said as she edged Sparklez to go on with his explanation of the event.
“Ok then.” I’m saying that way too often today. “The idea is, that using the computer, we can send the information quickly to others, and this is done on the moment, where as I would normally save the information and then send it through the internet for others to watch it.”
At that moment Luna interrupted the explanation. “Sorry if we cut this short, but it seems as thou art trying to withhold the true reason thou got here.” She said as she eyed the human once again, feeling a sense of secrecy around him.
“I was actually getting to that, but it gets even more weird and complicated.” Sparklez said as he got ready to tell them about the game.
“Please, I have heard pretty weird things in my life, I’m sure whatever you said won’t affect me.” Discord said as he had a smug look.
“A while ago you said that ‘Live-Stream’ and ‘Computers’ were the weirdest names you have heard in your life.” Sparklez said, finding it funny how he was going against his word.
“Not the same thing, just go and tell us already.” He said with a frown as he waited for Sparklez to talk.
“Very well. The video message was of a recording of me playing a game on the spot.” Upon the word “game”, Pinkie sprung back awake, a smile plastered on her face as it covered half of her head.
“This game is really complicated to explain, but it was basically about surviving and building in a land vast with plains, deserts, jungles, the lot. With resources given to build a lot of equipment. I was playing this to show a secret of sorts, like a fun secret, for people to use.”
“When I did this I created, this.” He reached inside his shirt and pulled out the amulet, showing it to everyone present. The royal sisters and Discord were taken aback a bit, not expecting to see such jewellery to represent the symbol of the Elements of Harmony. “The secret was that this would allow me to transport to another dimension, where a boss fight would occur. But instead, my world goes black, and next thing I know I wake up in front of the girls here, before fainting.”
Celestia stood there, taking in what Sparklez had said before speaking. “Your tale is quiet interesting, but it seems like a simple chaotic magic teleport was what brought you here. Is that what you meant by ‘Weird and complicated’?” Celestia asked, feeling that there was more to it that she thought.
“I was expecting for you understand as to how I got here, but what I find weird and complicated is totally different.” He took a deep breath, knowing what was to come. “Girls, you remember the monsters that we fought earlier?” Sparklez said, referring to the six ponies that had been present on the library early.
“Monsters?” Luna asked as she wasn’t aware of any monsters on the letter that her sister had received from Twilight Sparkle.
Twilight, seeing the curious looks from the Royal sisters and Discord, having forgotten to mentioned the fight from early. “Yeah, we remember, there were three draconic creatures that attacked me. It seemed that they were immuned to my magic as anything that I tried wasn’t working. If it weren’t for Sparklez, I may not have made it out alive.” She said with a small smile towards the man.
“And that’s when Celestia and Luna arrived, with you on top of Sparklez after you saved him from one of the monsters. Oh you two looked so cute together.” Pinkie said as she gave a toothy smile.
Sparklez and Twilight both blushed at the memory, both hiding their faces from the others. “Yeah, well you may not believe me but, those monsters were from the game.”
Everyone just stared at him, trying to whether believe him or say that he was crazy. “Well, I stand corrected.” Discord said as he proceeded to slap his face, coming out of his little moment.
“Another thing from the game that seems to have come with me, is the display HUD, a sort of way to indicate how much health I got, hunger, stuff like that. And I’m able to see it with this glasses.” Sparklez said as he took off his shades, the HUD disappearing from his view, making his vision return to normal.
Twilight, being the only one that liked to experiment, took hold of the shades, bring it them to her. “You mean you can see your body's vital signals with this?”
“In the game, yes. But here I can only see my hot-bar, experience levels, my arcana bar and a crosshair. I’ll explain it to you later.” He said before she could even asked about it.
Twilight eyed the shades, not really believing that this accessories would do such thing. She couldn’t even feel them being enchanted of any sort. Curiosity was taking the best of her, wanting to see what Sparklez was talking about. Nothing Ventured, nothing gain. Oh well
With that final thought, she put the shades on, expecting to see her vision obscured by anything that sounded to what Sparklez described. What happened next, wasn’t anything that she was expecting.
Her whole body was quickly enveloped by a white mist, encasing her body quickly, not giving her time to react, soon the mist grew bigger as if the pony in side had grown. As quickly as it had begun, the mist dissipated, revealing a big surprised to everyone.
“Twilight?!”
Twilight looked at everyone, her view perspective seemed to have change as it seemed that she was taller than before. Looking down to her body, she saw not the normal hooves that she was used to, but rather a pair of hands that rested on top of a pair of blue jeans.
Looking up her body, she saw that she had a blue top with her cutie mark on her chest area. Twilight raised her ‘hands’ feeling the sensation of extra limbs on her hooves. “N-not again.” She muttered as she went into full shut down, not taking well the fact that she was human yet again.
“Twilight?” Applejack waved a hoof in front of her humanized friend, before giving up knowing it would be no use. “She blew a fuse. may take awhile ‘fore she comes to.”
Sparklez nodded, and went to reach for his shades. As soon as they came off, Twilight’s body was enveloped in the same white mist, enveloping her before going away, revealing the usual alicorn that they knew.
Sparklez cleared his throat, trying to defuse the awkward moment that had occurred as he tried to go back to the subject that they were originally talking. “I know it sounds really absurd, but even this, ability, of mine is from the game, although I don’t know how to use it yet.” Sparklez said as he proceeded to put his hand into his front pocket, slowly taking out the frying pan which he used yesterday.
“Is that, my frying pan?” Fluttershy said as she looked at the cooking utensil which Sparklez had somehow produced from his pockets.
“Yeah, sorry I forgot to give it back. Had to use it to smash some zombie heads together.” Sparklez chuckled at the small joke. Never gets old.
“Whoa, hold down yer horses, did you say zombies? At ‘Shy’s place?” Applejack said, remembering what Sparklez had said earlier about the zombies and, something else. But he hadn't mentioned anything about being at Fluttershy’s
“Yes, and creepers, basically giant exploding penises.” Everyone cringed at the explanation, not liking the sound of that. “Not in that way guys.” And I thought people on earth were dirty minded.
“Very well, do you know of any other ability that you may posses from this, ‘game.” Celestia said, now really interested on what this human was capable of, even if he wasn’t originally like it.
“Let’s see, so far I know how to go through my hot-bar, a sort of quick belt, and how to take those items out.” He demonstrated as he took the first aid kit that Fluttershy had in front of her. The item quickly was enveloped by a silvery mist before it was sent to a pouch next to where the sword was, before it vanished from sight along with the pouch.
“That’s amazing, could you imagine this type of magic on Equestria? Transportation of messages would be revolutionized.” Twilight said as she saw the many possibilities that this presented, having recovered from her little moment a while back.
“It seems so. Sparklez, is there anything else that you can do?” Celestia said as she watched her ex-pupil marvel at this discovery.
“Well, I know that I have a larger inventory where I would have more stuff than my belt, but I still don’t know how to access it.” There was also the fact about how to use other objects like the crafting hud, smelting and even brewing and enchanting. Plus any other interactive blocks from the mods.
“Well duh silly, it’s a backpack, or maybe is your hair, like mine, I have tons of stuff stuffed in my mane.” To emphasize this, she took out a tuba and blew a cheery melody.
Don’t think about it, don’t think about it. Sparklez fought the will to make heads or tails out of the law breaking feats that this Pink mare was capable of doing. “Hmm, a backpack?” He didn’t feel anything on his back, no strap that would indicate some object or body resting on his back.
I don’t feel the weight of a belt but I still somehow have it. Might as well try. Reaching back to where he would normally have a backpack strapped to his back. At first he didn’t feel anything, until he felt the texture of leather form on his hand.
Taking hold of it, he proceeded to slid it off his back. When it came into his view, he saw that it was a rough looking backpack, only having a strap to cover the hole where he could put and take out items.
Sparklez looked at the bag in front of him, not sure if he should open it. “Well, are you gonna open it or what?” Came the voice of Rainbow Dash as she hovered behind.
“Rainbow, darling, let the man have a bit of space, he only just discovered he had this on his back, don’t you think he should take his time.?” Rarity said as she tried to make her friend leave Sparklez alone, having seen how she had treated him
Rainbow didn’t even hear the mare, more attent to finding out what was inside the bag. It may have proof as to what Sparklez is really planning and how he wants to take over Equestria. Deciding not to wait any longer, she went ahead and grabbed the lid for the backpack, flinging it back to reveal...nothing? “Hey what’s the deal? Who carries a bag with...nothing?”
Rainbow watched as Sparklez seemed to be distracted by something, his eyes going around as if following something that was moving really fast. “Hey, Sparklez, stop ignoring me. Sparklez!”
Sparklez wasn’t paying attention, as he now was looking at a large image of the inventory screen, only it missed the crafting hud and the armour and player design. Depending on where he looked, a square of the inventory would highlight as it normally would.
But what drew his attention was five objects, three of which he recognized and two which seemed like a book and a note like before. Deciding to take the objects Sparklez reached his hands forward into the backpack, selecting the object that he was going to move, he then moved his hand towards one of the empty pouches on his belt.
When he did this, a small silvery wisp came out of the backpack, swirling around in the air before ending its journey. Rainbow Dash seeing this questioned as to what happened. “What the hay did you do? Was that some kind of spell to call more of your friends?”
“Alright, that’s it! Rainbow, you have got to stop accusin’ Sparklez of all the monsters that appear. I just don’ know why you distrust Sparklez so much.” Applejack said as she pushed the prismatic mare away from the man.
“So what was in the bag Sparklez?” Twilight asked as she waited for his answer.
“Heh, yeah, funny enough. Umm...” Sparklez wasn’t sure how to say what were the items, he knew what they were from memory after using them, but from the constant accusations from Rainbow Dash, he wasn’t sure.
“Ohhhh, my head.” Came the soft voice of Kerry, as she started to regain consciousness. This in turn surprised the Royal sisters and Discord a bit. “Ow, what hit me?” Kerry asked as she looked around the room. Her eyes fell on Sparklez as she saw the object that he was holding. “Sparklez? Why do you have the Mysterious clock for The Ancient Entity?”
Everyone looked at the cat, not sure what she meant. “Sorry, but, umm...what are you saying about that, ‘clock’?” Fluttershy asked, still worry about the safety of the feline.
“That’s the clock to summon the Ancient Entity. A monster like the other creatures.” Kerry looked at the faces of all the ponies go to a shock and surprise look, and one very pissed off blue mare. “Umm, did I say something bad?”
Sparklez just shrunk himself, now seeing as he could be seen as the one responsible for all the attacks to the ponies, specially with a very angry looking Rainbow Dash, trying to charge at him. “Oh crap”
Rainbow Dash had had it, hitting Applejack, she got away from the cowpony as she took flight. Using all her strength she dived bomb into the man, knocking him back against the wall. In the process Sparklez let go of the Mysterious Clock, making it go out an open window.
Rainbow held Sparklez against the wall, now determined to reveal just what this human really wanted. “I’ve had it with you! The Elements disappeared and you show up, monsters start appearing and you are the only one that can beat them! You may fool my friends, but if you think you are gonna trick me, then you are hardly mis-”
She stopped when a loud roar filled the whole library, the sound coming from outside. Soon after the sound of panicking ponies filled the air.
“What the hay?” Rainbow said as she let go of Sparklez, going outside through the window to inspect what the whole commotion was about. Seeing her friend leave, Twilight and the others went quickly after her, Fluttershy placing Kerry on a cushion before leaving.
Sparklez turned to look at the remaining individuals. Seeing Celestia with a face of concern as she feared for the safety of her subjects. Luna was looking with a deep frown at Sparklez, starting to doubt the man and whether he could be trusted. While Discord looked a bit confused, not sure what was happening.
“Sparklez!” Came the voice of Twilight, as she screamed in terror to whatever was outside. Sparklez looked at the royal sisters, Celestia looking back at him in return, “go.” was the only thing that she said as she soon teleported out of the room with everyone else. Most likely to confront whatever was outside.
Sparklez, with a determined look, took hold of the backpack, strapping it back to its original place before it dissipated like his belt usually does. Taking out his iron sword, he inspected it, noticing that the hot-bar didn’t show any durability bar, but he could see small cracks on the blade, meaning that it was really damaged, maybe not a lot, but he guessed it could be about halfway if it was in the game. Seems I will need to learn how to mine soon. Sparklez thought to himself as he dashed towards the door, ready for whatever was outside. Or at least he thought.
As soon as he crossed the door frame of the library, he came face to a ginormous being, it was leaned to the front as it had a series of fins that erected out of it back. He appeared to have a single eye, which looked to anything that moved, determined to kill. It stood on four stump legs, its rear legs being very short as it supported most of its weight, while its front ones were long, a bit thinner than its rear legs, its antennas scanned the area around, detecting any attacker that may come its way.
When Sparklez came out, the antennas from the being turned towards the man, its eye soon followed and it gave a glare, recognizing the man that had slain him the last time he was brought out of its realm. Giving a loud roar the Ancient Entity went to fling an arm, determined to send the man flying through the air to die from the fall.
Sparklez just stared at the monster, not registering the incoming attack, as he muttered a single word. “Crap.”