Re-Equestria Online

by MrShmoodlePuffs

A Battle to Remember

We wave to the stallion at the desk as we leave the building. Blue leads us by Town Square, and I use the time to look around. There seems to be a fair amount of ponies about, it must be because of the hype of a new type of game and technology. We pass by some familiar streets, and I get an idea where we might be going.

"We must be headed for the Ponyville Train Station, aren't we?" I ask her.

"Yep! I read that you can not only get a ticket for the Friendship Express at the train station, but you can also get the tickets to see events of Equestrian history!" She answers just as we arrive. She heads right over to the ticket booth where an indigo pegasus mare with a short and spiky fiery mane sat reading a book.

"Hello, what do you want?" She asks us without lifting her eyes from the book. I look at Blue with a quizzical expression, wondering if Blue could explain this to me.

"Hmm, well, you see players can choose to do a 'job' to try to get bits, titles, a job at a higher level, or because you just want to. I'm not sure why she's chose that job though, she sure doesn't look like she's enjoying it." Blue tells me. Yep, she could. Why did I ever doubt it?

"Hello, you know I'm right here, right? I can hear you ponies clear as the sky. Just tell me what you want and leave me in peace." She says, rolling her eyes.

"Well, I want to know why you're doing this job if you don't like it so much. This is a game for Luna's sake! You're supposed to have fun." I ask her, my eyes narrowed.

"Ugh, fine. I told this mare that her job couldn't be that boring, and that you didn't need any responsibility to do it, so she dared me to try it. Obviously not trusting me to do it in real life, she made me spend my time on this otherwise awesome game doing this dumb job. I am not giving up though. I will make it 'til the end. I just have to survive this shift! Now, what do you want?" she asks in a monotonous voice.

"Hey, Sparks, you never told me which battle you wanted! Wait, no, don't tell me! I want it to be a surprise!" Blue says, her smile getting bigger.

The pegasus mare shows me a timeline of the battles of the history of Equestria. I point to the third one from the bottom, and the mare nods to me, turning to her strange device that slightly resembled a typewriter, except it printed out of the top. She started clicking the keys, peeking at her book as she did so. Pushing a big green button, two shiny golden tickets came out, and the mare places them before us. The print seems a bit distorted, but what do I know about magical tickets? I touch mine, causing it to turn into golden sparkles, and Blue motions for me to take hers too.

"So, do you need a map to get there, or do you know the way?" she asks me, back to reading her book.

"No worries, I know my way around those parts." I answer, pretty confident in myself.

The pegasus leans over the desk, her mane getting in her eyes. "Oh, by the way, it might be useful for you to know that right now the parts around there are being redevelopped because of some issues, so don't be surprised if it doesn't seem as real as the rest of the game. You won't be able to interact with anything there though, because Luna and her team don't want to endanger players traveling through while it's being tweaked. Be ready for some boring heart-to-heart with your friend there, because there'll be nothing else to do on the way," she says smugly, and delves back into her book, ignoring us completely.

"So, we going?" Blue asks, and I nod in reply. Leading her to our destination, we finally arrive at the Everfree Forest. Blue starts jumping like a mad rabbit, "Ooh! I can tell this is going to be exciting! Onwards!" she says in a high voice, practically bleating excitement.

"Yes, onwards, Blue!" I reply, a giggle coming from my mouth.

We treck on into the Everfree Forest, but like the pegasus said, it just doesn't seem real. There is no noise at all except for the stomping of our hooves, and my limbs just pass through all the plants and foliage. We saw a snake, but it didn't even react to us, slithering away. "So, you liking the game so far?" Blue asks me.

"Ya, it's fine. A lot like the real Equestria. It's nice and has some very interesting features," I answer vaguely, excited to get to our destination.

"I agree! It's cool to be a different pony and do things you wouldn't usually do in real life. I wonder if somepony that was an earth pony is trying out a magic spell right now? Or maybe a unicorn became a pegasus in this game and is having the time of their life flying in the air and sleeping on clouds?" Blue asks with a wondrous expression.

"Yes, that would all be amazing. I myself have never wished to be something else, and if I ever had, I always had my friends to help me out," I tell her.

We finally reach the bridge, and we cross it quickly. "Oooh, are we going to The Castle of The Two Sisters? I think I might know which battle you chose!" she tells me enthusiastically, rushing into the crumbling castle.

I rush in after her, and lead her up to one of the castle towers. "Okay Sparks, now call up your inventory and give me the other ticket," Blue says. I will this so-called inventory to appear, and a list of the items I carry pops up. Most of the slots are empty except for the first three, which contain my room key and the two tickets. Concentrating on the second ticket, I will it to appear in front of me. It drops onto the floor, and Blue immediately picks it up. It bursts into golden sparkles on contact.

"Okay, so what you want to do, is focus on your ticket and try to 'use' it. Think of fulfilling it's purpose and such. Once you get used to it you can put items in your quick-slot inventory and will them to appear without all this hassle. This will be so much fun!" she explains to me, seeming to open her own inventory.

"Our tickets are binded together, so we should experience the battle at the same time. Let's count down. One, two, three!"

Suddenly, I am flung into another body. In front of me stands Nightmare Moon, cackling as the Elements of Harmony in their stone form float around her. I feel my eyes narrow, and I lean forward, supposedly in the position of charge. Wait, this is my body! Twilight's body!

Her voice rings out, "You're kidding, you're kidding, right?"

my horn starts to glow with purple magic, and I charge at her. She charges at me too, but with a very bored look.

In a flash, I am no longer there. I'm quite dizzy, but I recover quickly. I have teleported myself onto the platform with the five Elements of Harmony, still in their stone forms. "Just one spark." I hear myself whisper, and I lean down, my horn pulsing with magic once more. I close my eyes in concentration and I feel my magic envelope the stone elements.

A spark I get, a spark of pain that is, right from the elements! I'm thrown back and I see Nightmare Moon with her hooves in the centre of the elements, tiny electric bolts connecting the elements together, a smug grin settling on my face, but then it stops. I gasp in surprise.

"But, where's the sixth element?" I ask, obviously puzzled and surprised. She starts cackling, and she raises her hooves high, smashing them against the floor, and all five of the stone Elements of Harmony break with a resounding crack. My mouth agape, my ears laid back, my eyelids fluttering in shock.

"You little foal. Did you think you could defeat me? Now you will never see your princess, or your sun. The night will last forever!" She starts laughing again, a swirling mist of dark blue and white twinkles gathering on top of her.

One of my ears prick up at some voices, and I twist my head to face the staircase. I see my friends' shadows on the wall! The come into the room. My eyes widen and I gasp again, and I realize something.

"You think you can destroy the Elements of Harmony just like that?"- I turn back to face Nightmare Moon -"Well you're wrong! 'Cause the spirits of the Elements of Harmony are right here!" I practically shout at her with the utmost confidence. The shards of the stone elements are picked up in a strange magical aura and float up to Nightmare Moon's head.

"What?" She asks, her eyes flicking to each shard.

"Applejack, who reassured me when I was in doubt, represents the spirit of honesty!" The shards of one of the stone elements float to Applejack, swirling around her.

"Fluttershy, who tamed the Manticore with her compassion, represents the spirit of kindness!" Fluttershy flies into the air and the shards follow her, surrounding her as well.

"Pinkie Pie, who banished fear by giggling in the face of danger, represents the spirit of laughter!" Pinkie jumps and lands with her head leaning forward, the shards now floating around her too.

"Rarity, who calmed a sorrowful serpent with a meaningful gift, represents the spirit of generosity!" Rarity looked down onto her hooves in a bashful way, the strange shards circling around her.

"And Rainbow Dash, who could not abandon her friends for her own heart's desire, represents the spirit of loyalty!" She also flies up, hovering in the air as the shards go on around her.

"The spirits of these five ponies got us us through every challenge you threw at us!" I tell her, loud and clear. "You still don't have the sixth element, the spark didn't work!" She says, narrowing one of her eyes.

"But it did, a different kind of spark!"- I turn around to face my friends with a small smile -"I felt it the very moment I realized how happy I was to hear you, to see how much I cared about you. The spark ignited inside me, when I realized that you all"- With a tear sliding down my cheek, I turn back to Nightmare Moon -"are my friends!" I shout.

I look up, and see a stone Element of Harmony, showering us in a beautiful white light, the sixth element! It floats down to me. "You see Nightmare Moon, when those elements are united by the-the spark, that resides in the heart of us all, it creates the sixth element, the element of,"- I close my eyes and face the sixth element -"magic!" I shout. I can feel the sixth element grow and enveloppe itself in a white light, and a flash goes through the room. The shards around each of my friend's join together and create a necklace, a gem in the middle the shape of their cutie mark. Mine, mine was a beautiful tiara where the shards joined into a gem that topped the tiara, that was also shaped as my cutie mark.

We float closer to each other, and a blinding rainbow of friendship swirls on top of us and shoots off, whirling and churning around Nightmare Moon like a tornado, "Noooo!" Her shouts ring out, her eyes wide open.

In a flash of white, we're all lying on the floor.

So I'm flung back into my body, Tango Sparks.

"Oh, that was spectacular! I still remember it, clear as the sky! Wasn't it just amazing Sparks?" Blue asks me, a giddy smile on her face.

"Oh ya, it was great! Just like the real thing. It was amazing, I was Twilight and I was finally with all my friends." I say, sighing. She looks at me with that strange look.

"Oh, you were Twilight? I was Pinkie Pie. Wonder why that was. But it's strange, shouldn't we have just experienced it in the way like a ghost, you know, like a floating spirit? That's what I read in the pamphlet." She says with a puzzled voice.

"Ye, it was weird. I actually felt a bit of pain when the electricity sparked me and when I landed on the floor, isn't that weird?" I tell her, and then take a look at my ticket again. " I remember seeing that something was wrong with the print on the ticket, isn't that also strange? I think that mare at the ticket booth might have messed up the tickets when she was peeking at her book. I think her friend might be right; she may not understand the responsibility needed for that job. Imagine her giving the wrong ticket for a train in real life, or telling a pony the wrong time the train's to come! Things could go horribly wrong," I say, imagining all the disasters that could come if that pegasus was a real ticket booth worker.

"Maybe then she knows what went wrong? Let's go ask her!" she says, hopping on her merry way down the staircase. "Either way, that was really fun!" she says as I catch up to her.

We finally make it out of the castle and are trekking through the Everfree Forest again, though this time it's a little glitchy. I could see a leaf suddenly turn red and then back after a few seconds. I would see a moth, and then suddenly it's a bat. "You know, this forest here is getting quite glitchy. Oh look! That timberwolf is the size of my hoof! They must be having major problems up there," Blue notes as we near the edge of the Everfree Forest.

"I say we head straight to the train station to figure out what went wrong. I wouldn't want the same thing to happen to some other poor pony if they get into a battle that's a lot more serious than that one," I tell Blue, picking up the pace.

A lot more ponies are out on the streets now, and I can see that it's well into the afternoon. Ponies must have come from all over Equestria to get this game. It seems strange, I wonder how many aren't playing?

"Look! We're almost there! I just hope she didn't finish her shift!" Blue says as we near the train station. We walk over to the ticket booth, sighing in relief when we see that the mare is still here.

"What is it? You again?" she says, still reading her unfinished book.

"Ya, it's us. Now tell us what you did with our tickets and why it was all so messed up," Blue demands, slamming her hoofs onto the counter.

"Well, how should I know? Maybe I messed up with the ticket, or the redevelopping of the Everfree Forest messed with the castle. Whatever, my shift is almost over, and then I can actually play this sweet game!" she says and flips to the next page of her book.

"Well, I guess there's nothing else we can do, Blue. I have to go soon, so let's head back to the hotel," I say, excited to get back to Spike. He'll be so happy when I tell him of all this! Too bad he can't play it.

I see ponies talking on the streets, and it's all nice and stuff, but what about real life? They can talk in real life, and unless they live across Equestria, I see nothing to stop them. A bit disturbing too, is that there a bunch of players who had just customized themselves as celebrities like Photo Finish, or pegasi that customized themselves as Rainbow Dash, even unicorns that tried to customize themselves as Luna or Celestia in unicorn form.

We reach the hotel and I check off everything I wanted to do in the game. Do something cool to tell Spike about, check. Learn what this game is mostly about, check. Make a friend, check? Not sure if Blue counts as a friend, or a new friend at that. She seems kind of familiar. All in all I think this was a pretty good game session.

I hear the bell ring as we walk through the door and the stallion behind the desk waves to us. Blue waves back and we walk up the stairs. Finally arriving at our rooms, Blue turns to me. "So, how do you like this game so far? Neat, eh? I guess you'll be logging out now, there's nothing else for you to do," she says as I open my door.

"Ya, I have to go talk to a friend of mine. Maybe I'll see you next time I log on?" I ask her as I walk into my room.

"Ya, next time. Bye!" she says, and then she walks into her room and closes the door. I close my door too, walking over to the bed.

Well, that was fun. I call up the menu, and choose to "Log off".

Author's Note:

I'm going to have the good part soon, but for this chapter I just wanted the tensity to build up.

I'll probably finish the next chapter by tommorow or after tommorow, since my chapters can be really short.

Feedback would be appreciated

Comments

[Silentblade005]

i'd love to see more of this! I'm very excited that this story isnt simply a mirror of sao with ponies, it's got its own concept and story line!

[MrShmoodlePuffs]

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Thank you! Yes, I'm hoping it won't just be a copy of SAO, I've been thinking of bits and peices of the storyline, and I'm just hoping I can make it come together

Thanks for your support

[Ink_25]

Random typos:

excpept

It's cook to be a different pony

I wonder if someopny

...and some other ones.
Okay, one question: did Twilight actually do anything to fight NMM? For me it rather seemed like a 4D movie.
Interesting intro to EAO.

[Opium4TmassS]

ITs very good so far. I'm enjoying what I'm reading.