Skywalker was strolling through the school when he heard quite gasp from some students in the hall looking in his direction. Before he could speak up they fled as if they had seen a ghost. "Why is everybody looking at me funny?", Skywalker wondered out loud as his friends from this World came running up to him. "There you are, Jason!", Applejack said as they came to a stop, "We've been looking all over for you!".
"Why were you all looking for me? What's going on?", Skywalker asked the the rest of the super friends gave each other a concerned look. "Oh, he hasn't seen it yet.", Fluttershy muttered as Twilight whipped out her phone. "Oh, it's really not that bad.", Sutakira muttered as a video started to play on Twilight's phone.
On the screen appeared Sunset Shimmer in front of a large background with a psychotic looking Skywalker, his eyes glowing red and shooting lighting from his finger tips. "Jason Skywalker wants to be your Fall Formal Ruler. He's a reckless young man riding a motorcycle, disturbing the peace of our quiet rural town. He eats puppies, steps on bunnies and kills baby seals with only the power of his mind. Also his middle name is the same as the villain from Final Fantasy VII. What does it say about our school if we give someone like that such an important honor?", Sunset Shimmer said sincere in the video before a voice quickly said "Vote Sunset Shimmer for Fall Formal Ruler." before cutting off.
"I take that back. It's pretty bad.", Sutakira stated dryly as Skywalker replayed the video a few times. "Has everyone in the school seen this? Is that why they were all looking at me that way?", Skywalker asked, his friends giving him a nod, "...This must be an important day for Sunset Shimmer.", he muttered completely calm. With a worried tone to his voice, Big Mac asked, "Why is that?". Skywalker suddenly became enraged as his eyes flashed red for a few seconds, "Because this will be her last day alive!", Skywalker was about to run off to find and kill Sunset but a certain pink haired girl stopped him. "Am I the only one who saw that?", Phoenix muttered to his friends, but none seem to have noticed Skywalker's eyes flashing red. Turning his head towards her, he saw two sympathetic blue eyes looking up at him, "Uhm Jason... Not that it'll make any difference, but I'll still vote for you. You were so nice to stand up for me when Sunset Shimmer was picking on me yesterday.", Fluttershy said, making the taller boy chuckle.
He patted her on the head, smiling as he said, "It's okay. I will still win the F2. If not, I just scare everyone with my psychic baby seals killing power."
And so the Friday came to a close, after saying goodbye to his friends, picking up some groceries, he was not enjoying dinner with his faithful dog companion, Spike, in the living room, as the TV showed the Weather Forecast, saying that after the rain tonight, a thick fog was expected to set in later that night. "Its Friday evening. I have no school tomorrow, what should I do?", Skywalker thought out loud. Spike suggested playing video games. Much to their shock, suddenly the Imperial March started to play, the music coming from Skywalker's pocket. Reaching in his pocket, he saw that it was his Bluecherry Volt, "Oh, yeah. I forgot you can make calls with this thing.", he muttered as he swiped his thumb over the screen. Before he could say anything, he heard Rainbow from this World was the one who called him, "Hey, Jason!".
"How did you get my number?", Skywalker asked, he was sure he hadn't give anyone his contact information yet. "From Flash Sentry.", Rainbow stated as a matter of fact. Though this raised even more questions, "How did HE get my number!?", Skywalker wondered as Spike started to laugh. "Never mind that. Wanna hang out tomorrow afternoon? Say 14:15?", Rainbow asked. Seeing as he hadn't anything planed, he agreed to meet her. "Great!", Rainbow respond, "I'll see you at SCC!", she said before hanging up.
The next morning, at 13:31, Skywalker woke up, a bowl of cereal on his desk as he started the MMO Spike had suggested on his laptop. The words "Lost Story: Online" appeared on the screen. Starting a new character, the game started to load while text filled his screen.
"Reality is just a series of events and players acting out what they believe is real. When we accept that fact, our world becomes 'reality.' Reality is but a reflection of our thoughts and expectations. ...But, what if we were merely reflections in another's mirror? Are you prepared to look through that mirror to discover the truth?".
A few seconds later, Skywalker's was done generating his player avatar. He spawned inside Lazulis City, the place seemed to be deserted. On Game Population displayed "There are 1 player(s) in the area.".
Skywalker's avatar started to walk around when suddenly another message appeared on the screen, "A -PRINCESS- approaches...".
A female avatar dressed in White walked up to him, waving at him as she opened a privet chat box. "Sup? oh wait, your a noob? are, huh?", the female avatar dressed in White tilted her head. Skywalker's avatar nodded, "Well you can say that...".
The avatar preformed a laughing animation, before a typing, "Oh wow. you haven't even finished generating your char yet... Any ways! Welcome to the game! Good thing I'm using my low level alt. I think its just you and me, this is kind of a dead MMO these days... Sorry. I got kinda ooc there. We'r supposed to be our 'alternate selves' right? uhhhh... sooo... what are you gonna call your char? We can meet up later.", those words appeared on the message box.
Skywalker contemplated it for a few moments, funny enough, they had an animation that looked exactly like his own thinking pose, "What name should I use?".
Girl in White scratched her head, "That's the difficult part right? Hey, I got a good name for you! ...How about Zael? kyahahaha! That's good.", a laughing animation started to play as Skywalker typed in 'Zael" as his character.
"I'll change mine to Calista, k?", and in a flash, the girls name changed to Calista. "Have a little deja vu?".
Skywalker initiated the thinking pose, he really needed to hot-key that one, before typing back, "Zael... Calista... Ha, that's clever.".
Calista shook her head, "Oh really? I'm impressed. I didn't think many people played that! Well, if you see any Arganan's, be sure to rescue me. Any way, I'm usually idling here on my days off... So if your bored, maybe we can level together. It sucks to be lonely.".
Skywalker's avatar nodded as a friend request popped up in his mail box. "Sorry, got to go. Remember, let's think positive!" was the last Calista typed before she signed off.
Looking on his phone, Skywalker saw that it was 14:00, he had fifteen minutes to go to SCC. Saying goodbye to Spike, Skywalker rushed out of the door. SCC wasn't that far from his home, just a small walk through the Shopping District. SCC was a small cafe that was popular with the local youth. As Skywalker entered the small establishment, he couldn't help but notice it looked similar to Sugarcube Corner at home, though it was a little more modern. He saw Rainbow sitting next to the window drinking a sports drink. She noticed him too as she said, "Hai, Jason! You made it!". As she said that he walked over to her and sat down. A waitress came over to get his order, after ordering a cup of coffee, he turned back to his friend. "So why me?", Skywalker asked. "Well... Fluttershy is at the animal shelter, McGrath is busy and AJ is no fun...", the rainbow haired girl started.
"And I'm just a bundle of joy!", Skywalker said sarcastically as the waitress came back with his coffee. As she walked away, Rainbow couldn't help but notice her and some of the other females in the establishment were checking Skywalker out. "Now, what is the real reason?", Skywalker asked as he took a sip from his drink, "After I saw how easily you stood up to those bullies, I realized that I need to better myself.", she started, making the young knight wonder were this was going. "So I want you to train me!", she finished and in response, Skywalker playfully tapped Rainbow on the head with his fist. "What was that for!?", Rainbow shouted, as Skywalker smiled while taking a sip. "Training.", said making the girl across from his lighten up. "Does that mean you'll do it!?", the blue girl shouted excitedly, hoping she finally had an exercise partner. "When I feel like it.", Skywalker said with a smile, it seemed this worlds wasn't so different from his own after all.
After a quick jog, Skywalker found himself at the Hero Riverbank, doing push-ups with Rainbow. The athletic girl was keeping up with him, though Skywalker was pushing himself up with only two fingers. "How do you do that? I thought that was something from the movies!", Rainbow said as she took a small break. "Lots of practice.", Skywalker said, before taking a break himself.
Out of the corner of his eye, Skywalker could see Scootaloo approach. "Good afternoon Scootaloo!", he greeted. The brownish girl greeted back before asking what the two were doing. Skywalker explained they were training. "Training? Who are you fighting with, Skywalker?", Scootaloo asked. Skywalker took his thinking pose before answering, "Hmmm... Myself I guess?".
"Wow, cool!", the younger girl said before pointing at Rainbow, "A grasshopper!". Much to his surprise, Rainbow become pale as she jolted on her feet. "Huh!? N-No way! Wh-Where!?", the blue skinned girl said, looking all around her. "It just landed on your back.", Skywalker informed her, but this made the young girl just panic, nearly begging for someone to get it off her. Scootaloo walked over and took the grasshopper off Rainbow's back. "...You don't like grasshoppers?", Scootaloo asked as she let the little green bug go.
Rainbow calmed down, scratching the back of her head, "I'm no good with anything with thin, jointed legs or anything creepy or squirmy.", she admitted. "But they're cute...", the younger girl responded, making the older girl shake her head. "...You're like Fluttershy.", Rainbow muttered to herself. "Because of her love for all animals?", Skywalker asked. The blue girl nodded, "Ayup, Fluttershy is fine around bugs. But me, I totally lose it... Kinda funny, huh?". Skywalker shook his head, giving her a kind look, "It's very feminine.".
For a moment he thought Rainbow had spotted another grasshopper on her, because she had a similar freak out, "Th-That's not true! It's not..." she shouted embarrassed, though she seemed happy, for some reason. "Now come on, training time. Scootaloo, wanna train too?", Skywalker said turning his attention to the younger girl. "Okay!", she replied, as the three started to do sit-ups.
"I'm gonna get over my fear of bugs. I don't wanna look like a sissy next to Jason or Scootaloo! All I have to do is think of them as Sunset Shimmer! Then I'll be able to grab a whole fistful!... I just gave myself goosebumps... G-Getting used to bugs might take a while, but I won't lose to Sunset Shimmer!", Rainbow thought as they resumed their training.