Mark Fischbach sat down at his desk in his office with a sense of lightheartedness; a mug of coffee in his hands, headphones around his neck, and the sound of the Cyndago guys fooling around in the kitchen... No, nothing was quite like being a YouTuber.
Already, he knew that he would have to play a game that he quite enjoyed, but also dreaded - the latest trend in horror, Until Dawn. Mark was nearly finished with the game, of course, and was used to the way the game operated, but a small feeling of resistance had long since settled in his stomach, as the gore and static figures were nothing to look forward to at all. Shaking his head, Mark pulled himself back into reality, readying his controller and monitor for the gameplay. Gameplay was something that he loved, and no stupid jumpscare was going to keep him from recording for his subscribers. Leaning forward, he started up his webcam. After a quick double-check to be sure that the screen recording software was running, he took a deep breath for his intro, beginning the trademark words.
"Hello, everybody! My name is Markiplier, and welcome back to-"
He was cut off by the sound of a plate clattering to the ground in the kitchen, along with abrupt silence. Forgetting about his Let's Play for a second, Mark leaned back in his chair, calling out to the kitchen. "Guys? Everything okay?" Still, silence followed. Removing his headphones, he called out to them again, curious and slightly worried at the lack of a response.
"Guys? Are you in there?"
Once again there was no reply, and this was the deal breaker; quickly, he removed his headphones and rose from his chair to investigate, swiping away some stray pink strands of hair as he did so.
Before he could take a step, Mark's world suddenly went black. The camera was still recording.
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The only thing that Matthias first felt was the sensation of falling. A heavy, vague, unconscious falling, in which he could not stop, so he was forced to let it happen. The YouTuber was completely numb to his senses, as he saw only darkness, felt only the air whooshing past him. For a brief moment, he considered that he could be dead.
No, that can't be it - I'm not dead... Am I?
Matthias' mind began to race as he considered where his life had been. His family, his friends... His wife whom he loved so much, Amanda. If he was really dead, where they all mourning for him now? It seemed unlikely, as it was difficult to imagine the his life without himself, but Matthias knew that life always moved on, regardless of who left and who stayed.
Continuing to fall, Matthias slowly became numb to his own thoughts as he fell for minutes, and then hours. He was beginning to feel as if he was ebbing away to nothing...
But then the first dot of light began to shine. The first little ray of hope became visible. As he began to near it, an overwhelming sense of joy began to fill him from head to toe, and he stretched his arms out to the light, desperate to reach it. Slowly, the light began to expand, and Matthias got closer and closer still, until at last, he passed through the opening in the abyss, crossing into the daylight at last.
However, after he continued to plunge through the air even when he was past the eternal blackness, Matthias felt true panic surge through him as the ground rushed towards him at a terrifying speed. Gulping, he braced himself for death.
Before he impacted, though, Matthias felt two strange-feeling arms cross underneath his back, hoisting him midair almost unnaturally. Jerking his head from side to side, Matthias saw one of the strangest sights he had ever seen; to his left, a bright yellow pegasus, with a highly contrasting blue mane, smiled at him, as if she were unsure of what to make of the situation. To his right, a smokey gray stallion, with a mane that was a combination of light blues, stared at him with a blank expression, clearly analyzing him. Before Matthias could say anything to them, however, a demanding voice sounded from above.
"Thunderlane! Raindrops! Get that unicorn to the ground, we've got to keep going!"
It was at this moment when Matthias finally looked upon himself... And screamed.
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Jack McLoughlin was simply astounded.
He was watching a bright cyan pony, with wings and rainbow hair, zip through the sky left and right, directing even more pastel-colored winged-ponies to carry yet another variety of ponies; some winged, some horned, some just ponies, but all of them continued to be multicolored.
Jack was also confused that he, too, was a brightly colored horse. He seemed to have a coat that was a slightly darker shade of green, with well-kept brown hair, and a tail to match - both his mane and tail also sported his trademark shock of lime green, the recent results of a charity livestream that had been hosted by Markiplier. On Jack's head rested his trusty gray newsboy cap, and his headphones, now wireless, were still looped around his longer and thicker neck. Possibly the strangest thing about his new form, however, was the rather strangely placed, cartoonish image of Sam the Septiceye that was set on his rump.
Sam the Septiceye, right on his butt. To be honest, he couldn't think of anything stranger than that.
Realizing that he had been staring rather intently at his own rump, Jack ripped away his gaze, deciding to once more contemplate why in the heck he was here. With a quick look around, he saw that several of the Equines around him were dazed or panicking, a clear sign that they were just as new here as he was - already, Jack knew that these ponies were not the ones to ask. (That is, if course, if he can still talk.)
Marching up to a rather neutral-looking pony, a slightly teal unicorn with golden eyes, Jack reaching out to poke her, feeling rather awkward using a hoof. Making contact with her shoulder, the pretty mare turned her head to face him as the YouTuber quickly pulled his hoof back. "Did you need something?" She asked politely, tilting her head a bit towards the earth pony who stood before her
Jack's face almost instantly contorted into an awkward expression, as he was inwardly trying to convince himself to openly talk to a horse. "Ah, yeh... I just wanted to ask..."
"Are you a human?"
"Well, yeh, I guess... What I wanted to say was-"
"I knew they existed!!! YES!!!!!!"
"Wha?! Listen, could ye just-"
"Oh, please, tell me EVERYTHING. Do you have cars? Do you eat meat? How do you sit on benches? Are you-"
"WILL YOU PLEASE JUST TELL ME WHERE THE BOCK I AM?!?!?!"
Jack's eyes widened in shock. He could have sworn that he intended to say...
"Bock. Bock. Bock. Bock. Why can't I say bock? Why can't I say bock?!?!"
The strange unicorn simply watched his mental breakdown, clearly amused at what she was seeing. "You humans are used to cussing, aren't you?" Turning around to walk away, the pony quickly called a few parting words over her shoulder.
"You're gonna have a bad time!"
HAHAHAHA!!! THAT'S HILARIOUS!!! YOU THINK YOU CAN TAKE ON THE INTERNET?! HAHAHAHAHA!!!
Cant use normal curse words... time to get creative :D
6437139 So agreeing with that x) (Oh hey Slending!)
The story seems to have a good start... Look forward to more but please proof read it!
6437183 Oh, hey Cristal! But, yeah. Just had to comment that.
... there are a lot of famous youtubers dependant on the communitys your in... who all are we gonna see? Pewdiepie? InvertedShadow? Kugawatten? Vanoss?
This could get... interesting. It's going to be tricky keeping all the viewpoints distinct and on track. Plus there's always the trouble of someone who doesn't know who a particular Youtuber is (for example: who are Matthias and Jack McLaughlin? Google says the second is an actor from the 50's).
Still, I'll nominate Rhett and Link from Good Mystical Morning, as well as Lewis/Xephos and Simon/Honeydew of the Yogscast to be ponified.
/) I actualy facepawed, of course its Markimoo, but anyway,cute job
The Amazing Atheist! His cutie mark can be a banana. Trust me, it makes sense.
I saw this and followed ASAP. My one condition is that our lord and savior Markiplier must appear at some point. Along with every Brony reviewer you can find. Plz?
*Edit* Nevermind. I just read it. My three favorite YouTubers just showed up. Thank you good sir.
6437139 Why are you popping up like an erection everywhere I go?
I'd like to see an awesome dude I know of in this story. His name's UniqueSKD and he's a pretty cool guy. He's got an awesome looking OC and I've heard that Obabscribbler, EileMontyVA, ILoveKimPossibleALot and InkRose98 and many other pegasisters find him irresistibly sexy. I mean, they'll deny it if you ask them but only so their boyfriends don't find out and get hurt. And because the truth makes Mandopony cry in a croner holding to his mandolin.
So, er, yeah, I'd like to see, um, UniqueSKD in this story. My name is, uh, Alicornwingboner69 and this is my request.
(eyes shift left to right and vice versa)
Felix (aka pewdiepie) looks down at his reflection in a puddle of water as his eyes grow wider and wider.
"I'm... I'm...........
I'M SO KAWAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!"
I hate to be that one picky douchenozzle, but his real name is Sean, and his last name is spelled McLoughlin (with an O, not an A)
Also, PLEASE tell me that Bob and Wade will be in this somewhere, even just as a cameo.
Heeheehee, this looks like it'll be one hell of a good fiction! :D
Oh god no, don't take that away from me XD hahahaha!
Man I hope to see a lot of my favorites in this, like Tobuscus, Pewds, H20Delirious.
keep it up, you've earned a fav and a thumbs... one I cut off 8D
Cryaotic and Videogamedunkey, as well as Cr1tiKaL, and I will be FUCKING PLEASED ABOUT IT
Please bring Vanoss if not the rest of the crew into this. PLEASE.
I was thinking of Senpais Danisnotonfire and AmazingPhil. Maybe Tyler Oakley too.
Dan and Phil ere--
Tyler 'ere
The Great Zoroark
Skydoesminecraft and Ross (House_Owner) should definitely be in this as a cameo!
YES! PLEASE continue this! add in all the big youtubers, vanoss wouldn't even be a pony, he would just be an ordinary owl going "what... What the buck? WHAT!" Vanoss would shout looking to himself "I'm a real owl now! yay" then just fly off to the sky
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This made my day!!
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Yes, the creativity shall begin... Perhaps they'll sound it out really, really sloooooooow...
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Thank you so much! I'll go over the chapter again and look for what I might've messed up, thanks!
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I'm just planning on doing a big variety of them; PewDiePie and Vanoss were some definites that I had in mind.
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Thank you so much for bringing that to attention; do you suppose linking the channels in the AN would help? (And how could it be a YouTube fic without Rhett and Link?! )
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Lol, I love him to death, what can I say? And thank you!
If this isn't just for gamers or YT'ers that have won the actual silver play-button award thingy, then could you possibly include Thomas Ridgewell? (aka TomSka , sometimes called DarkSquidge)
Also, I think that Jack's first name isn't actually Jack, it's Seán - just thought you ought to know. Otherwise, I literally cannot wait to see where this is going. XD
And I lost it at poor
JackSean's experimentation/consternation with being unable to swear. The phonetic irish was the cherry on the cake. XD6437397
I'll look into it!
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Markimoo? Done. Bronies? Pretty much everyone who's been on bronies react, plus Mandopony. Fast enough for Ya?
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XDXD I'll look into it!!
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*bows* PRAISE GOD FOR YOU. I was hoping someone would tell me how to spell his last name... I was just guessing. XD As for his first name, I personally just call him Jack... I can call him Sean on popular vote, though, if that's what y'all want.
A Youtube story? Let's do this.
Gonna be any brony you tuber crossovers and some pony needs to make anew art of this
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But I must, for this is Equestria. XD and you should consider it done, my friend.
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GOOD. I SHALL MAKE YOU EFFIN PLEASED ABOUT IT.
6437929 Whooo!
XD, this is aready starting out great, I wonder what would happen if WiiRikeToPray ended up there...
I would like to see:
Minx
Dan and Erin
Seananners
Sark
Yamimash
Chilled
BUT YOUTUBE IS A GUY SINCE STEVE YOUTUBE!!!!
LOL just going of coverart
6437909 So I heard someone wanted me to be in this story. Don't know who it was but I got a link and followed it to this page. Your story looks pretty cool and I hope you'll release more chapters soon. I'm kinda interested to see where this might lead. :)
This is rather entertaining, and I'm interested to see where you go with it. Any who, I think you might want to edit the chapter title. It's spelled 'Prologue'. I don't mean to offend, I did't I saw many, if any, spelling errors as I was reading, so I'm guessing it was something that found its way under your radar. Good luck with the rest of the story.
6438015 (mimicking your voice) And that strong and handsome and funny fellow UniqueSKD...
6437938 Your avatar scares me. Or do I scare it?
Why does it look at me funny?
6437893 Silver? I HATE THAT HEDGEHOG!
Screw you, Sonic 06!
Sorry, but you triggered my hatred of that character we shall not name again.
6437782 Pewdiepie would annoy the shit out of everypony until Celestia threw a barrel at him.
His one weakness.
You're going to do Francis(boogie2988), right? Please say you'll do Francis.
Oh yeah, dont touch his god damned mt dew.
MARKIPLIER!
Also, may I take that YouTube pony in the picture home with me?
6437929 ALAS, IF YOU COMPLETE MY THREE REQUESTS, I WILL PLACE THIS GLORIOUS FIC INTO ALL MY OF MY BOOKSHELVES!
6437291 Matthias is with Markiplier. "Jack Mclaughin" is actually JackSepticEye, who's actually "Sean Mcloughin"
6438068 Heeheehee, its a scary mask 8'D
Made by yours truly
6438427 Sorry, I was busy tending to some wounds that have opened up. Street thugs and knives, am I right?
Say, you want some blood donations? Cause' I got about a pint here in a glass jug from under my left nipple if you need any or know someone.
6438465 I'm more into Doritos 8D
6438475 Don't get me wrong. My blood tastes alright, but that doesn't mean I like having it outside of my body. You know what I'm saying?
6437883 I bet. The internet. is a dark and scary place, if you know where to look.
6437484 I dunno.
6438499 Yeah I feel ya.
My blood tastes... plan, to be honest... could use some salt 8D
6438610 Never tried plan flavor. Plain sure, but never heard heard of plan flavor before.
6438635 shit, forgot the I Dx
I meant plain :P
...
or did I?
I wonder how would Cry look like. That is if you include him, of course.
That alone was enough to get you a like and a fave from me.
6437883 EXCELLENT