A Gamer's Palace (Edited 9-14-2015)
My trek to the "Castle of the Pony Sisters"- or as I shortened it C.P.S. -was simple. Walk in the dark, chose one of three paths, regret asking Applebloom for a map, find manticore, punch manticore, run from manticore, get killed by manticore, tame a timber wolf, pick pocket my dead body, and use timber wolf as a camp fire with zombie and manticore meat roasting. I bet your shouting, there's no zombies in Equestria! No, durr. Like I'm going to admit to eating my old body!
Actually, this was a one time thing and it got me sick.
When I finally found Zacora's hut, I got a map that had an extra trail IN PURPLE and some tea. I think she called it an Arizona brew.
According to the map, this trail is out of sight... 'For the sake of the plot, silly!' and it turns out: you need to be a unicorn/alicorn, somepony with magic lenses, and/or an idiot with a rare Everfree map... that I can duplicate it, nulling rare part. And here I thought I was going to need a compass and sugar cane...
Being the guy with creative powers: I went to the dungeon and cleaned EVERYTHING. "Element of Harmony, Cleaning Crew! WE won't clean dungeons, remove traps, or bury long-dead bodies!" I call out to myself with an echo to respond.
Anyway, with all the dyes and wool I randomly spammed, I had the basics of a nice room. I placed torches in some places on the walls, in one cell is my bed and storage chest, another cell is my make-shift closet with a box Box gave me, and in a farther cell is where my console games are at. PC master race my flank!
There at the castle, I opened my box from Box and inside are some useful MOD items like a cloning chamber set, a bathroom set, an iphone with a 'caution! this is a weapon of mass destruction. no seriously, i shouldn't even have given you this!' written on it, some bedroom stuff I requested, and some Masterballs since I couldn't keep Bulbie.
Well, there's nothing to do... so um... I'll just explore?
I won't bore you with details all I did was walk, avoid traps, and found some out of place things. I found a cotton candy cloud, a green night cap, and Master Chief's helmet. The last one I put on and started 'pew pew'-ing like I was in the USMC fighting Covinent and pretending to fall in love with Cortana, an A.I.
I soon got bored and set up my game system, "I hope the Everfree Forest allows Wifi... it would probably be an Everfree Network... Wait, I need to set up my profile!" After quickly establishing my wifi problem and used the XBON LIVE account I set up at Twilight's place, I got the most important part in front of me.
Name: Legg0
Species: (There's no human) Minotaur.
Class: Swords Stallion
Element: Fire
Gender: M
Horoscope: Scorpio
Do you follow the SUN or MOON? "Whatever doesn't get me banished to either."
Bio: Can I have an account already?!
Friends? GameColt (Button), Box01, DW10 (Doctor), Apple Mark (Applebloom), MockingJay (Sweetie), RDRocks (Scootaloo)
Friend Request(s): Sh1mR, Loyalty, M00nM00n, and EyeOfPie
When everything was said and done, I popped in "Fighting is Magic: XBON Edition" to my console and created some characters while accepting my friend requests and waiting for my party. I invited everyone to a battle... surprisingly everyone was online and joined, accept Sh1mR and Box.
"Omigosh! Rainbow Dash is here?!"
"Of course I am, I'm in the game! Prepare to get REKT!"
"That's not a surprise."
"Don't ruin this for me."
"I hope my... um... D word we can't use around Pinkie didn't bother any of y'all too much..."
"D word? What D word?! There's Daisy, Daffadill, Down, Dork, Da-" "Mute."
"Are you aware that she can still hear you?"
"Unmute. Pinkie, please, just stop. We want this to be fun."
"...Dora, Dorry... okie, dokie, lokie! DOKIE! But I will ask later!"
"I couldn't find white text so I used this text, if that's okay."
"Sweetie Belle, green just might be your color. 
"
"But its turquios... :("
"Apple Mark, how did you do that?"
"Do what?"
"How did you place Sir Macintosh's head in the chat?"
"So... I'm ready if y'all are. Oh and incase this is here: Leeroy Jenkins!"
We decided to go for a "Death Battle" in Canterlot Wedding to test my character. 3 lives, no support, no power ups. Just our skills and items. Being a minotaur, I had "My Little Human" attached to my character. Rainbow had her character in a mech suit and Scootaloo's were in roller blades, testing my reaction time and speed. Luna had twin swords and her sister's hammer swinging at me while Button tried to snipe me. B B A X!! I took out my flame sword and let out a random combo and kept it out, deflecting apples and emeralds. Applebloom was a boxer while Sweetie was some sort of ninja.
"Shenobie! I'm a Shenobe!"
"How did-"
"I told her, you were thinking that!" Pinkie responded as... wait, they all have their own teams! Speed, close/long range, brawlers with projectiles... Regular Doctor came into view and fired Clown Pinkie out of a party cannon, we then proceeded hand-to-hoof combat. Luna returned with AB and SB adding to the closeness of the battle.
"I can't get a clear headshot! Giiirls!!" Button said through the mic. While nopony could attack me, they fought each other like normal. We fought with our avatars for some time with me, Button, Luna, and the Doctor left with one life.
"OK. This stinks, I'm leaving. ... WAIT! What's going on?!"
"Um... Luna just rammed- hey! I thought your avatar died?!"
"WHAT? I call hax!"
"No Button, its 'hacks'... I call shenanigans!"
"I died. I'm done. I'm tired. SO WHY THE HAY, AM I STILL HOLDING MY CONTRO- Woah!"
"Oh my sister! I can't let go either!"
"Hello playerz. You five have been chosen to fight in 'Gamer's Palace'! And what a lovely coincidence, our most beloved and fair ruler....'s sister is here!"
"sister..."
"That was rude... Who are you?!"
"I was getting to that, by the way. Lets speed this up, I'm Electron... probably change my name soon. I bring joy from Tartarus to the electronic world of gaming!"
I attempt to drop my controller only for it to be stuck to me. I can't delete it from my grasp, I suddenly look up at my horns and down to my hands holding my huge flame sword... Wait. I look around to see [Loyalty], [DW10], [GameColt], and [M00nM00n] in front of my looking at ourselves and our surrounding. We are in data Canterlot with a swarm of partially rendered changelings and broken buildings, a human that resembles Electro from Amazing Spiderman 2 is holding a microphone and talking to our 3D shape audience.
"This is awesome! Though, I'm probably going to avoid using my sniper."
"Ladies! ...and you three. Calm down, or you'll die faster!"
"OK. Let's play your game. Allons-y!"
"Finally you speak Doc... Blue text?"
"Atleast its a color."
"We already have a blue!"
"Her's is a light blue."
"Hey, maybe a nice red?"
"What? No!"
"Dude, nevermind. Can you use blue text, again? I won't judge this time."
"Her's is a light blue."
"DOES IT MATTER?! WE ARE STUCK IN MY FAVORITE GAME WITH A FREAK, FROM TARTARUS, WITH OUR LIVES ON THE LINE!"
"Rainbow, stop! Look above your name tag!"
Above Rainbow Dash's [Loyalty] was a half green, half red bar that slowly gained more red than green. I shook my free hand, and luckily, a splash potion of instant health appeared. I tossed it at Rainbow, her bar turned fully green before disappearing. "How did you do that? That's cool, but your avatar doesn't have that ability!" Electron said in awe, wonder, and (no pun intended) shock.
"What? I normally have these powers. Luna probably has her magic, right?"
"NO! NOPONY IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE THEIR NATURAL POWERS OR ABILITIES HERE! It is impossible! Moon butt and Loyalty have the flight of a regular pegasus, Moon butt again has the magic needed to wield her weapons and fire basic blasts, and you three have whatever nonspecial abilities that go with your characters... No! YOU CANNOT SPAWN ITEMS!"
"But, I can do that in real life and its an ability spawned from a video game."
He circles me in an alarming pace, if my character needed to breath, that I would suffocate. He grimaced a few times, snickered, shook his head, then face palmed. His face glitched a bit before it showed a look of anger. "Wow. Nothing. No connection to the outside world, no mind control, not even... Oh my Luna... Are you- HA HAA HA HOO HA!!! OM MY CELESTIA, LUNA, WHOEVER! THIS IS GETTING INTERESTING!"
"If you don't mind me breaking up your new found bromance, I'm in a position where lives plural is on the line."
"Yeah, I'm too excited yet scared to wait!"
"So what? Do we fight each other or team up to fight you?"
"Funny, you should mention that. You all have to fight wave after wave of my army! If you die, you die in both real life and this life. Even if you are immortal! Luckly, you have cheater here with you."
"Electrode or whatever your called..." "Electron." "...you can't kill me!"
"Didn't I say 'even if you're immortal'? I mean, that fact has Luna shaking!"
I chuckle a bit before stabbing myself through the heart, I respawn next to my avatar's body as me dressed like my avatar. "Now kids, don't try that at home!" I bowed as our host looked upon me with another shocked expression. I grab a second flame sword as my old body had nothing worth salvaging, beyond what I already have, and despawned. I looked myself over noticing the tail was gone and the horns were still there, "Are you the final boss? I bet I can beat you without dying."
