Team Classes
Chapter 2
Team Classes
“Twitch, hurry up! We’re going to be late!”
“Hold on dude! I can only move so fast!”
“No time! Late bad! Very, very BAD!” I was panicking, sure, but this was important. This was the day that we started playing Equestrian Earth as a team, and as team leader I was not allowed to be late. Ever. “If you don’t hurry up I won’t allow any smooches from Bon Bon, even if she was the one who special ordered you a game!”
“You wouldn’t dare!” He shouted at me as he bounded into the living room with a toothbrush in his magical grasp.
I gave him a deadpan look. “Try me, beetle boy.”
He gave me a bemused face for a few seconds before breaking the facade and looked down in defeat. “Fine. No brushy brushy for me then.” He said as he tossed his toothbrush to the side. He looked back at me again. “ So did the others tell you their ingame names so we can find each other?”
“Yeah bro. Bon Bon chose Sweetie Drops, Heartstrings for Lyra, and Big Red for Big Mac.”
“What classes did they choose, then?”
I glanced up from the two computers I had started up with a confused look on my face. “Uh...don’t know. Guess we’ll find out when we get in the game, won’t we?”
“Alright then, let’s get this party started old school!” He shouted as he hyped himself up.
“You are almost as random as that pink pony that threw us the party when we moved here.”
“You know it!” Was his chosen response.
“All right. I got it set up now. Just put on the helmet and the wires in the spots I showed you last night and prepare for role call.”
“Sir, yes sir!” He saluted as he followed instructions for once. ‘First time for everything, I suppose’.
As we hooked up the wires I looked back at the computers to check if the game was loaded on both screens. Satisfied that they were I glanced over at Twitch to see how far he had gotten only to see that he had jumped in ahead of me.
“Hey no fair, Twitch! We were supposed to start it up at the same time!” I hurriedly put on my own helmet and started the game.
The first thing I noticed was the sense of weightlessness. It was like I was submerged in a giant pool of gelatin. The second thing I noticed was that it was pitch black. ‘Must be the game loading up or something.’ I thought. As soon as that past through my mind though, the whole place starting shining in a blinding white light.
“Ahh! My eyes!” I shouted in distress as I tried to save my pupils by covering them with my hooves.
As my eyes adjusted to the evil light, I saw what appeared to be a figure standing, or rather floating, before me. She appeared to be made of pure coding with wings and a horn.
“Welcome, Noble. I am the Central A.I.” The coded Alicorn said, her voice ringing out like a beautiful wind chime. “Most of the ponies, however, call me The Goddess. You are about to enter a world quite unlike any you have ever seen. A world where dangers can be lurking around every corner. It is a place where you may need to rely on your friends more than anything else to help you.
She paused to let the information soak in. “What character would you like to be?”
I looked at the different figures that had appeared before me and noted that there were four that a pony could choose from. There was an Earth Pony, a Pegasus, a Unicorn and a Changeling. ‘Huh. So Twitch will be able to be himself for a change, eh?’
“I choose Unicorn.” I said finally.
The Goddess looked pleased with this response. “Very well. Please customize your character carefully.”
As she said this, three of the figures disappeared leaving only the Unicorn and a whole bunch of settings appeared around it. I chose to make the Unicorn with my looks in mind. I had turned the coat a nice dark cherry red with inverted flames for the mane. I made it of an average build and height and made sure to change the preset gender from mare (that would have been embarrassing) to stallion. I then proceeded to give it my cutie mark; the sun rising over an arrow of pure glass and light.
As I finished the finishing touches on my character the Alicorn watched patiently. When I stopped she spoke up. “An exact likeness of yourself then I see. You must be very honest with yourself to have added all the flaws as well as the perfections to it.” Before I could question her, she continued to talk. “Now please choose your class. Be warned however, once you choose the class you want there is no changing or turning back.”
When she stopped speaking the Unicorn disappeared completely as well as the different settings only for a bunch of classes to appear before me.
‘Hmm, what to choose. Rogue...nah, that’s too noobish. Warrior? No way am I able to do that. Bard? Do I look like a singer? Wait, what’s that? Celestial Archer...This character harnesses the powers of both the moon and the sun into his shots and rains down justice against his foes from the Heavens while using these very same abilities to help their allies, Now that sounds like a Solar Moon character to me.
“I choose the Celestial Archer.” I stated.
The Goddess looked at me as her eyes lit up in what seemed to be amusement. “A wise choice. Very well. May you have fun and be safe, my little pony.”
The Alicorn the lit up her horn in a flash of white and blue swirls and aimed it down towards me. I closed my eyes in an attempt to save my eyesight from the pure light and suddenly felt as if the whole world put it’s weight onto my shoulders.
“There he is. I told you he was perfecting his class, guys.” An annoying voice rang out.
“Yes you did Twitch, and we appreciate that, but for now why don’t we help Noble Star up so we can get started already, hmm?”
“Alright then Bon Bon. Hey Noble, glad you could finally join us.” He said as I looked up at the others.
“I’m pretty sure you already said something like that, Twitch.” I said as I ran a hoof over the back of my head.
“Ya well, it’s true.” He replied defensively as he sat down with his front hooves crossed. He was wearing what appeared to be fancy blade with the hilt showing two snakes surrounding a cross and had on some light ranger-like armor.
“Hey Nubs, ready for some adventuring?” Lyra cheered as she jumped out in front of me unexpectedly. She appeared to be some sort of support class with a bag full of ingredients and the staff she was holding. The staff itself looked to be a dragons’ head at the top as the focal point. She was wearing something akin to a mage.
“Almost, just let me get used to my surroundings for a minute then we can head out, alright?” I answered back at her as I tried to calm myself from having a heart attack before turning to Bon Bon. She seemed to have chosen a Scholar class as she was currently wearing somewhat the same clothes as my old English Teacher from college. “Hey Bon Bon, you’re the gaming wiz of the group. What’s what in this one?”
“Oh? not even a minute into the game and you’re already asking for tips?” She said with a smirk. “You are learning. Well, we are currently located on the spawn town locally known as Aeroslida. It is the place to be if you are still learning the ropes of the game and has a major quest line that should take you to one of three main travel points in Old Equestria. We are in the main spawn point of the city and if you look around you will see that this area connects to most of the city,”
She cleared her throat before continuing. “The city itself has three main areas of interest, the first being the most important to most players is the Skydome. The Skydome is exactly what it sounds like, it is a giant dome where all the players would go for PvP battles and to train their skills in combat with local trainers, although the latter is not known as much as it should be.”
“Why is that?” I asked to her unexpected but pleased surprise.
“Well, most players only care to test themselves against each other there. Others just go off to one of the other cities to start on their adventures without another glance at their surroundings.
Now, the other locations are the Cloud Library, which is where you would go to learn more about the world and it’s inhabitants, and the Market, where you would go to sell and buy weapons and equipment. Any questions?”
I glanced over to the others to find that their jaws had dropped to the ground. Twitch even caught a fly...and started choking on it. I just shook my head in wonder.
“Well before one of us dies from a harmless coded insect, I say we go find the local instructions guide to teach us the basics.” I motioned over to a pony who was obviously trying to urge anypony to come over to him.
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To say that the guy was helpful would be an understatement. Apparently, there was an update while we were all talking and it involved how the NPC conversed with you and how helpful they were at answering questions. It was like talking to an actually pony! Apparently there was a system to grinding or something; Just have a friend get the attention of whatever you mob you wanted to grind on and attack it with a few surprise attacks that they were weak against, though it was better with a group of mobs rather than a single one as the experience would be split up if you were in a group. The instructor then sent us each on an errand, thankfully it was at the same spot for everypony. After we completed that it was onto another place to help out over there. We learned how to use our own attacks respectively, we learned that there was a map that we could use to get around faster, we then learnt about a special attack that each class could use, though there was only one per class. By the time we were done with the long stream of quests, we were exhausted.
“Pant, pant, dude, pant, are we done yet? I”m tired bro.” Twitch complained as he fell to the ground with his tongue hanging from the side of his mouth to prove his point.
“We should be. I mean the last thing we had to do was talk to mayor right?” I said looking towards Big Mac who was the keeper of the quests, or so we liked to call him anyway.
“Eeyup. We can take a break. Ah reckon there can be something else we can do ‘fore we go see the customs NPC for the next area destination.”
I stared at him for a second. “That was the longest string of big words I have ever heard you say at once. Plan on doing it again any time soon for a recording?”
“Eenope.” He said with a quick chuckle.
I gave a thought to what I was going to say before I noticed what Big Mac was wearing. He was in what at first glance seemed to be Old Equestrian Solar Empire Armour, and had two decent sized warhammers strapped to his back. He also had on a crimson red cape that matched his coat color. “Okay that’s it.” I said finally, getting the groups’ attention. “Where the hell did you guys get the weapons and armor, huh? I don’t have any and I’m pretty sure that ...wait. You guys came on last night without me didn’t you?”
The guilty looks on their faces confirmed my suspicions. “So, this is how the team works huh? Get on before the captain does and get some fancy gear, eh?”
“Hold on Nubs, we can explain.” Lyra started.
“Oh ya? Then by all means, explain why you couldn’t wait.” I started to raise my voice. “Explain to me why I wasn’t told! Try to explain why this is-” SMACK! I stood there dumbfounded as I raised a hoof up to my cheek where Bon Bon had smacked me.
“Noble SunStar! How dare you act like this. I thought you would be better than to accuse those around you without any evidence as to why. Was I wrong to assume so? Why would you act like this?” She had the voice of a mother scolding her child, and with the way I had just acted I wasn’t surprised.
“I...” I paused. I didn’t deserve to be the team leader if I was getting this upset over something so stupid as equipment in a game. So I did the only logical thing I could think of at the time. I looked over at the party options of the group. More specifically, I looked at the leader options. I then looked at each of the others. Bon Bon still wore the look of an angry mother, Lyra looked like she was about to breakdown from the guilt, Twitch looked down in sorrow while Big Mac looked as if he caught sight of something interesting in my direction. I switched leadership to somepony in the group without looking and then left it.
The change in expressions from the group was instantaneous. Bon Bon and Twitch looked at me in shock, Lyra looked up at me as if I was insane and Big Mac looked...disappointed? I didn’t care. “Sorry for the way I acted. I hereby resign from the team. Take care everypony.” I then used one of my abilities from my Character class called ‘Quick ‘Port’ and teleported before anypony could say anything.
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Bon Bon’s POV
“That stupid idiot!” I screamed out as I stomped my hooves on the stone bricks of the road. The suddenness of my actions caused everypony else to finally act.
“Why bro?” Twitch asked the winds that had carried away our stupid and careless leader.
Lyra just looked as if she had been told that her favorite candy had been discontinued, not that I would do something so harsh to her. I personally thought that she had a crush on Noble, but I would never had said anything like that out loud since it would be extremely unprofessional of me.
“We going to follow him or are we just going to let him get away with that?” Big Mac asked looking at me.
“Why are you asking me?” I shot back at him, perhaps a little too venomously though Big MAc didn’t look phased by my tone of voice.
“Considerin’ he made you leader ‘fore he left, twould make some lick of sense to ask you.” He replied calmly.
“He did what?” I looked at the party details to see if he was bluffing. He wasn’t, why would that poor excuse of a-. No, I mustn't think that way. It is improper to think such things. Especially for one with leadership of a group as important as this one. “I...see. Well then, first thing we need to do is find out where he went. Good thing my class comes with a scrying ability for players we met and friended. Just give me a second.” I said as I began to concentrate. I understood why spells were so difficult for Unicorns.
Although I may have chosen a Scholar class, it didn’t make this any less difficult; It takes awhile for the proper spell to be found in such a short amount of time and so many different spells would try to pop up to be used instead of the one you needed. At least, that was the way it was for me anyway.As I was finally able to find the spell I pointed my right hoof at the ground like it was called for from a non-Unicorn caster. My hoof then began to glow a simple eggshell color, whereas Lyra’s would have been a yellow if she was casting a spell. I let the light hit the ground where I was pointing so that it would start to glow with the same color as my hoof.
I noticed that as I did all of this the others seemed to have taken to watching me with a disturbing amount of focus. Why they couldn’t focus this much during our card games is still a wonder to me. I, of course didn’t let that bother me as I continued to pour mana into the spell. Just when I thought I had miscast the spell the light on the ground changed shape and pointed into a seemingly random location. I then brought up my map to see where it was there and noticed something odd.
What’s wrong Bonny?” Lyra asked with a sniff. Poor dear, I would fix this even if I had to rip that stallion a new plot hole.
“Nothing dear, it just looks like we’ll be going to the customs NPC sooner than we thought. It seems that our stubborn mule of a friend has wound up in an area called ‘Bandits Cove’. Hopefully he’s not having much issues considering what we’re going to do with him when we get there.”
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Noble’s POV
“Shitshitshittyshitshit!” I yelled as I ran from the giant hulking beast of an Earth Pony with the word ‘Bandit Boss’ above his head.
“Get back here so I can rip the horn off of that head of yours and shove it up your plot!” He shouted, obviously angry that I fell on him from a twenty foot drop.
“No thanks, I prefer that my horn stay right where it’s at please!” I yelled back...aww who am I kidding. I screamed like a freaking filly on Nightmare Night. Needless to say, all my screaming did was infuriate the hulk behind me even more. ‘What kind of range does this mob have!?’ I thought furiously. I had been running from him for a good ten minutes. I even passed a few other players who looked at me and the level three above my head incredulously as they saw the monster of a level thirty one tailing me like a trainwreck. I shouted at them to help me but...they were laughing too hard to do anything, the worthless plot kissers.
Honestly, if I had thought about it I would have logged out but my panic at a monster of a pony chasing had overridden any logical thought that I may have had. It was only when I saw something glinting on a nearby hill did I do anything logical. “Look over there!” I shouted. “It’s a hoard of gold!”
As I had hoped the stupid mob turned as he was running and tripped over his own gigantic hooves.. and then proceeded to start rolling at me instead of just running. “son of a whorse!” I cursed as I ran from the pancake maker behind me.
I then passed yet another group of players and by the looks of it they seemed to have lost control of their jaws as they dropped at the apparently ridiculousness of a new player being chased by a rolling boss mob a little more than triple their level. I however, was still screaming like a foal who lost their mommy. “How can this possibly get any worse!” I yelled out loud.
I soon regretted that question as I saw a bucking huge hole in front of me. It looked like a canyon, it was so big. Unfortunately, it was coming closer as I ran towards it. I looked around me in a panic only to notice that there was nowhere else for me to go. ‘Whelp, looks like it’s down the pit of death for me.’ I thought with little remorse. I jumped into the hole with the Bandit rolling right in with me.
What happened next was that I screamed in terror as I held my hooves in front of my eyes awaiting the obvious death that was to happen with a splat. Of course, instead of a splat and the feeling of pain I expected, I heard a splat and felt my level skyrocket up to thirteen. I cautioned a look to my death only to see a yellow glow surrounding me.
“W-what!? I’m okay?” I shouted incredulously.
“Well, okay is such a loose term, Nubs. I would say that you instead have simply delayed the severe beating that the bandit should have given you.” A familiar voice rang out.
I looked at my former team in anticipation of the scolding that I would get for this, so imagine my surprise when instead I get hugged by a certain seafoam colored, emotionally unstable, crying Unicorn. “I d-don’t w-want to lose you” She sobbed out in between gasps for air. Instead of talking, I resolved to just hug her until she calmed down. It was...comforting if I do say so myself. It also showed me that I had been an idiot, yet again. “I am....sorry that I made you go through that. I...shouldn’t have done it in the first place. I am truly sorry.” As I said this I felt tears running down my face.
~~~~~
Lyra had calmed down enough to pull away from me and said that she needed to get ready for her concert in Ponyville Centre later in the evening. We all said that we would be there before it starts to wish her luck. I made sure to give her another hug just so I could whisper another apology.
After she had left Bon Bon trotted up to where I was and then smacked me across the face all in one swift motion. It was loud enough that even Big Mac winced. I just took it along with the verbal abuse. “You are by far the most stupid stallion I have ever met. If you had given Lyra a chance to explain to you why we did what we did then you would know that we just wanted to surprise you with some custom made armor. While we were getting the bits for it, we came across a hacker trying to scam other ponies. We reported him to some GMs in the area and it turns out everytime they tried to zone in on him personally he always got away. We allowed them to zone in on us instead so they could catch him and as a reward got this equipment. Are you satisfied now, you stubborn moron?”
“...No.” I simply said. “No I am not satisfied. I just made one of my foalhood friends cry for no good reason. I left the team that I had personally created because I got jealous of my friends, and then I made them all worry about me. They came after me just so they could make me see what I had done wrong. So to answer your question I am not satisfied. I would still be in the wrong no matter what I did.” I looked Bon Bon in the eyes. “I am sorry for my behavior and actions today. They were unjust and completely inappropriate,” I looked down at the ground. “I beg for the forgiveness of my friends and ask that you make sure the team runs smoothly. Now please excuse me. I wish to see one of my best friends off as she performs her first major concert ever.” And with that, I logged off.
~~~~~
“Welcome everypony, to the annual Ponyville Centre Fair!” Announced Mayor Mare, a huge almost foal-like smile plastered on her face. “I would like to inform you all that the refreshments this year are being hosted by the Apples and the Cakes! Restrooms in the City Hall are open to the public for the duration of the day through the night. Please drink responsibly and be safe everypony!”
It was only three pm, and the Ponyville Centre was already fill with seemingly every pony in town. There were ponies playing Spider Tossing, Apple Bobbing, Dunk and Toss and pretty much any other game you could think of. There were even some ponies who had brought a few tables with them so they could play a Dungeons and Dragons Tournament. To say that this year's fair was a success would have been an understatement.
I was on my way to the area where the stage was being set up for the musicians when I heard somepony calling for me. “Director Star, Sir!” I turned towards the voice only to notice a hulking white pegasus with tiny wings.
“Private Snowflake? What brings you here?” I didn’t even know he was stationed here. “Last I heard you were out taking care of three juvenile dragons near Appleloosa.”
“I did take care of them. Took a lot of gems, though.” He replied rubbing his head sheepishly. “I was so worn out from the haul I decided to ask for a week to recuperate, sir.”
I shook my head. “No need for the sir, Private. I am currently off duty on permanent leave until further notice on the Princesses orders.”
He looked at me with a confused look. “Is this about that uh, Changeling thing I heard about sir?” The look in my eyes confirmed his question without words. “So, what were you planning on doing before I, uh... called you out.”
“Wha-huh? Oh, right. Well I was just going to see a friend before...uh,” I glanced up in thought before looking back down at the private. “You know, that’s none of your business Private Snowflake. Now I suggest you go and relax and we’ll catch up later.”
“Yes sir!” He saluted me before turning around to where I believe the cider was.
“Ugh. I don’t need this.” I muttered.
“Don’t need what, Nubs?”
“Ahh!” I could have swore I jumped about ten feet in the air just then. I spun around to see Lyra standing by the stage with her harp or whatever it was called in her magic. “Dang it, Lyra! What did I tell you about doing that?”
“To at least wait until you’re on the toilet so you can crap and have a legit reason for doing so.” She said without missing a beat.
I gave her a bemused look. “No, I didn’t say that. I told you to never do that again.”
She gave me a small giggle for all the trouble she caused. “Ah come on, Nubs. It’s not like I killed you or anything.” Her look took on a more somber change. “Sorry for getting...you know, getting like that. I don’t know why I di-”
“Lyra stop.” She turned her focus back to me. “It’s not your fault, ok? It is not your fault. It’s mine. I freaked out, okay? Don’t blame yourself over this. If anything you should blame me.”
“I could never blame you Nubs.” Lyra turned her head to the setting sun. “It...it would hurt me too much. I couldn’t do that even if I wanted to.”
I don’t know why but I pulled her in for an embrace. “It’s okay Lyra. I think I understand.” I gave her a light squeeze. “I just don’t want you to say it was your fault. Because it isn’t.”
I broke the grasp I had on her and lifted her head so I could see her eyes. “Lyra, you mean more to me than I care to admit. More than I ever thought possible, you know? I never thought it would be like that.” I leaned in to whisper in her ear. “I... I think I love you.”
The seafoam mare looked up at me in amazement and admiration. “R-really?” She looked...hopeful?
I gazed down at her with a small smile. “Really.” I didn’t expect her to jump at me, nor did I expect her to kiss my cheek and then nuzzle my chest.
She sighed out a response. “I was hoping you would say that ever since we first met. I never thought it would happen though.”
“Way to go, bro! I knew you could do it.” Lyra and I looked up in shock only to see Twitch, Big Mac and Bon Bon looking at us.
We all looked awkwardly at each other until I spoke up. “How long were you three there?”
“Long enough, lovebirds.” Bon Bon chirped.
“Ugh, don’t start this.” I groaned as I mentally face hoofed myself.
The rest of the evening went by without much incident, although our group kept getting some stares because of Twitch. Lyra had apparently had a crush on me since we had first met. I was also the reason Lyra joined the Secret Service. She had said that if she had never of met me all those years ago then she would have most likely been on some crazy fetish or obsession. That would have been interesting to say the least.
Big Mac offered to get us some drinks but I wasn’t feeling very thirsty, nor did I want to be drunk this night. The others, however did want a cider or two so he went off for theirs. I opted to just sit back and relax to the sweet refreshing breeze and listen to the soft music they had playing on the stage a few feet to the left of me.
“So Nubs.”
...well so much for that thought. “Yes, Lyra?” I asked with lidded eyes.
“What does this make us? Are we a couple now or are we...” She trailed off from finishing the sentence.
“I don’t know. Do you want us to be a couple or something else instead?” I tried to sit up but she was on my belly and was looking too comfortable to disturb so I adjusted myself so I could rest a hoof on her back instead.
“It’s not like I haven’t thought about it, because I have. I just...I don’t know how this kind of thing works. I don’t want to mess this up.”
“Hey now. What did we talk about, huh? Just let it be what it is, okay? If it becomes something...more, it was meant to be.” I gave myself a smile. “Besides, it’s nice to just relax for once and not have to worry about anything, you know?”
“Yeah, Nubs. Thanks.” She closed her eyes and I think she fell asleep because her breathing became more even and relaxed than it was earlier.
All in all, it was a good night. I just wish it didn’t have to end.
~~~~~
“Are we there yet?"
“I swear if you start this again you will be a very unhappy Changeling, Twitch.” I slowly said as my eye began to twitch from the expected barrage of headaches to come.
“...party pooper.”He finally said after about half a minute.
It had been about two weeks since my little outburst. We made up after the fair but I still wasn’t comfortable taking back the title of team leader. I feel as if I had failed my friends in some way and I can’t be a leader knowing I had done so.
“Are we there yet?”
“Oh Mother of Celestia! Yes, we are here! Wanna know where here is? It’s your new grave if you keep saying that!” I shouted at the worlds’ most annoying bug pony.
“Wow, Nubs. That was harsh.” I heard somepony say from somewhere over to my left.
I looked over to see Lyra trotting over to us with Bon Bon and Big Mac right behind her.
“You know you would do the same if you were me.” I simply stated.
“Maybe I would and maybe I wouldn’t but I know one thing for certain.”
“What’s that?” I cautioned a question towards her.
She got on a pouty look. “The game doesn’t allow signs of affection.”
I just rolled my eyes and looked at Bon Bon. “So, where are we going now fearless leader?”
“Well we were going to Ghastly Gorge but somepony decided it would be cool to piss off the locals and get us banned from Trottingham for a few ingame days.” She glared at Lyra.
“What, I didn’t know they liked the sign that much.” She tried to say in defence. Bon Bon just continued her soul-piercing glare.
“Really, what’s the big deal over some sign?” Twitch asked.
Bon Bon looked at Twitch with a slightly less angry glare and took on one with more annoyance instead. “She somehow burnt the ‘Welcome to’ sign with nothing except a stick and candy. The sign had been there for a very long time and was worth a lot of bits.” The cream-colored mare sighed. “And here, I thought we would be able to do a nice mini-quest or something.”
“Aw, come on Bonny. I said I was sorry okay?” Lyra gave her candy making friend a look that screamed forgive me, not that it did much as her facade came crashing down when she smirked. “That fire was pretty big though.”
“Aww, my little pyromaniac likes fire huh?” I jumped in on the conversation. “Well Pyra, maybe instead of being an alchemist you should have been a fire mage.”
“Oh har har, Nubs. You are such a comedian.” She deadpanned.
“I try.” I quipped back as I then saw her roll her eyes. “Anyway, where are we going now?”
“Well, I figured that we could go see what the big deal was over at the weapons shop on the edge of the Everfree Forest.”
“The Everfree, they have that in here?” Twitch asked as he buzzed around my head.
“Of course they do, bug colt,” I swatted at him to get away from me. “What kind of equestria doesn’t have an Everfree Forest?”
“The best kind!” He exclaimed. “No scary monsters would be able to survive without it right?”
“Wrong again Twitch,” I lowered my head in disappointment. “They would just exist someplace else instead. The monsters only need a place to live and a food source, and we all know what they eat.”
The whole group shuddered at that. Big Mac was the next one to speak. “Ah reckon we should be on our way if N we expect to reach it before nightfall.”
With that we began the long trek over to the worlds’ most dangerous place. Of course, since I hate silence I had to do something to pass the time and seeing as I still didn’t know...
“Twitch, what the hell is your class?” The black carapace covered pony looked away from his favorite cream-colored pony at me.
“Well I thought it was obvious seeing as my class is a specific to changeling players. I am what you would call a Praetorian,” He raised his head in pride. “This class specializes in covert operations and when things go sour... brute force in the ability to change into a dragon. Only Queen Chrysalis’ Elites are ever Praetorians. It takes years to perfect the abilities and sometimes you have to live with dragons to figure out how to use the abilities properly.
“Of course, Noling can use the dragons’ innate ability to survive lava, but our heat resistance is even higher than it normally is as a backup. We are even able to breathe a specific element like fire or ice depending on the type of dragon we become. My version is the latter seeing as I can only turn into a Snow Dragon, or Wyvern, as most ponies call them.” He glanced up at us to see dumbfounded looks. “What? I used to be Chrysalis’ personal expert on the subject before I was banished from the hive.”
“Whoa, Twitch,” Lyra started. “That is so cool, can you turn into one now!? Please?”
He rubbed his head as he somehow blushed through his natural armor. “Well, not yet. I get that ability when I reach level twelve. I’m still only level ten. My abilities aren't that good yet in real life anyway.”
“Okay, beyond the bugs’ new found intellect,” I said startling Bon Bon with how close I wound up near her. “We need to assess what we can do. We’ll start with Lyra.” I gave her the go ahead.
“Oh, well I’m an alchemist. I specialize in sideline tactics with potions and some basic enchantments. I am able to poison unaware opponents as long as they are distracted by a teammate. I can also heal us up to a certain point with the party healing spell.” She threw her head back, clearly proud of what her class was.
“Okay then. Bon Bon, what about you?”
“I happen to be a scholar. I specialize in conjuration and earth spells. That doesn’t mean I can’t use other types of spells like fire or water. It just means that I am better at them than the others. I can not however, use healing spells. So if Lyra goes down nopony here is able to heal us.”
“Interesting,” I began to rub my chin in thought. “We will have to make sure she isn’t targeted by anypony then. Alright, Big Mac. You’re up.”
“Ah reckon Ahm the heavy hitter class, Noble. Ahm able to take a lot of hits before going down and Ah send ‘em packin’ with Mah two warhammers. Ah would probably need somepony to watch Mah flank while Ahm knockin’ heads together, or something. Ah guess that just leaves you, Noble.”
...No matter how many times he talks to me I will never stop being surprised how much he’s willing to say to a good friend. “Well, I’m a Celestial Archer. I harness the powers of the sun and moon into my shots. Mainly means fire and ice attacks, though I can use the other elements as well. Some of my shots have the ability to heal an ally while exploding on impact with an enemy. I can also teleport if my position has been compromised. I can’t use the ability for a few minutes after that though, due to the cool down time on it.
“So altogether, we have stealth, ranged, melee, magic and potion classes. Seems like a nice rounded group to me. Good thing too, I wanna have all our bases covered,” I turned to my friends. “So now all we have to do is come up with a good battle strategy. That would fall to you, Bon Bon.”
“Well only because you refuse to be the leader like the stubborn mule you are,” She gave me an exasperated glance. “I swear this group would be better if only you would pull your head out of your own rump every now and then.”
As we got closer to our destination I noticed how little mobs were around. I mean, sure there was the occasional boar trying to ram at us, but that was it. It was only when I saw the Everfree shop that I realized why. Every single player there was on top of the roof of the place, surrounded by a whole bunch of wild mobs and bandits! I took a glance at the player levels and noticed that they were all around level four or five. A quick look at the enemy showed that they were at levels nine and twelve all around.
Twitch took this silent opportunity as he always did. “Well at least it’s not us.”
All I had time for was to facehoof at his stupidity as every single mob looked at us. “Twitch, you are the worst pony alive at stealth.”
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Twitch choking on a digital fly..... you've made my day xD. Great story man, you updated pretty fast too
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2357919 it helps when I had the second chapter halfway finished before posting the story...
still need an editor though. I think I made a mistake somewhere in ne of these chapters. 
I just started the third chapter and may have it out in about two days, at least.
The thing I like the most about this story is the character interactions with each other. The amusing banter and nicknames are very entertaining.
I think the Nubs/Lyra relationship moved kinda fast, but is not that big of a deal. Speaking of crushes, I found a error.
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thank you. thank you for being what I needed. Feedback and corrections on my story is exactly what I ask for and a god amongst us has given unto me my.... oh wait ...uh this is awkward.
thanks for that bro.
2358798 I would love to be your editor, however I'm afraid my english is not good enough to be of any help (Sure I can take out spelling mistakes if necessary, but I don't think I'll spot minor gramatical errors)
2380057 eh, it's cool bro. Google docs loves to correct my words(it likes to tell me celestia and manehatten aren't words.) All I really need is someone to like say...read it and then fix the way it's written...? wait, that's a pre-reader isn't it?
2381092 You mean like, telling you about the weird/ not smooth written sentences? because in that case, that is a proofreader indeed.
2381104 yeah, that!
I needs one.
2381127 Well it shouldn't be too hard to get one I suppose, maybe you can ask in the Equestrian earth forum for one?
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derp. ok then.thanks.