Gigavolt's Warped Reality of Equestria.

“I’ll pick the Spellblade,” Twilight said, watching as the several copies disappeared only for her own dress to reform on her body. The cloth remained white, yet bulkier than she remembered, feeling more like a large vest, while a pair of light pants and boots appeared to cover the rest. She turned to find that she was wearing a T-shirt underneath the vest and a scabbard of a sword was connected to a belt around her waist, strapped to her right side. A white bandana was tied around her forehead, just below her horn.

“Hey, what gives? This doesn’t look nearly as interesting as the gear you showed me,” Twilight said, rather disappointed.

“You expected me to give you the good stuff immediately? Does Celestia come to your library to rub your belly as you drift to sleep as well?” Gigavolt muttered throughput the black void.

“Well, of course not, but you just can’t tease me like that,” Twilight retorted. She unsheathed the sword she had and looked over it. “The sword is pretty neat, though, in comparison.”

“Please note that you are still early in the game: don’t expect your equipment to be the best. You gotta work for it,” Gigavolt said. Twilight let out a sigh as she put the blade away.

“Also remember, I’ll be in constant contact with you. My text will be green, if I ask AMP to oversee this, her text will be red,” Gigavolt explained.

“You’ll be talking to me through words? But you have intercoms and the whole ominous voice in this room,” Twilight said, confused.

“No, you’ll hear my voice. It was video logs,” Gigavolt assured. “Shall we begin?”

“I already have a class and my…equipment; I guess I’m ready,” Twilight uttered as a doorway appeared behind her. She made her way towards it and took her first step into Gigavolt’s world; the light blinded her as she heard the green unicorn’s voice in her ear:

Database Updated: Lieutenant Twilight Sparkle

Twilight opened her eyes to find that she was sitting in a moving carriage, all around her were nine ponies dressed similarly to her own: some with suits, others with heavy armor, but the clothing was all white or a very light grey. What confused her the most is how she went from walking to sitting in mere seconds.

“You okay, Lieutenant?” called a familiar voice. Twilight turned to find Applebloom sitting next to her in the carriage.

“Applebloom? What are you doing here?” Twilight asked, confused.

“Did you drink too much before our deployment, lieutenant?” Applebloom retorted. “We are on our way to take out a rebel group on the Equestria-Crystal Kingdom border.”

“A rebellion?” Twilight uttered, shaking off the strange vertigo.

You are a part of the Sunset Squadron of the Royal Equestrian Army; you are second-in command to Major Stronghoof under the rank ‘lieutenant’. Don’t reply to me, it’ll make you look stupid in front of your soldiers.

Twilight grumbled angrily upon hearing that.

“Well, yeah, weren’t you briefed on this by the Major?” Applebloom asked.

“He might have forgotten, sorry Applebloom. And call me Twilight, please,” The unicorn said, examining the carriage’s interior. The insides seemed rather depressing, a bland green tarp covered the roof of the carriage while everypony seemed to be squished together in this small space, just enough room for everyone to sit down in there big armor. Twilight’s eyes stopped on a tan mare that was shaking in her bulldozer suit. “Hey, uhh…”

This is the tutorial, so I’ll let it pass. Private.

“Private, are you okay?” Twilight asked to the quivering mare.

“I’m fine Lieutenant Sparkle, just nervous,” the mare stuttered, her armored fists clenched tightly on her knees. Shaking some of her bright red mane out of her brown eyes.

“What’s your name?” Twilight asked.

“Private Cherry Slim, Bulldozer class, ma’am,” Cherry said, still shaking in her metal boots.

Why did I tell you the rank if she was going to tell you anyways?

“Is this your first time out here?” Twilight asked, trying to calm the mare down.

“Yea, I’ve been training for this and it still feels all sudden to me, ma’am,” Cherry uttered, giving the purple mare a nervous smile.

Twilight returned it with a reassuring one. “I’m sure it will be fine, as long as you try your best to stay safe.”

“Like that will help this wimp.” Twilight turned her head to see a light blue pegasus with a sniper rifle. She looked almost exactly like Rainbow Dash except her mane was pure white and her eyes were green.

“And you might be?”

“Sergeant Sky Line, sexy,” Sky Line cooed, wiggling her eyebrows seductively. “Hawkeye class, and clearly the best this squad has to offer, am I right?” Her response was met with several soldiers calling her a moron, or a stallion shouting out “Shut up” from the forward end of the carriage.

“Don’t worry about this filly, she’s a bulldozer. She should be able to take a few ‘hits’, if you know what I mean,” Sky Line giggled, causing Cherry Slim to blush.

“Hey, Sky Line,” Applebloom piped up, diverting the light blue pegasus’ attention. “Would you kindly shut the fuck up? Your mouth is causing a hazard ‘round here.” This retort caused a few soldiers to chuckle as Sky Line stared blankly at the filly.

“Thanks Sergeant,” Cherry Slime muttered.

“Any time private,” Applebloom said cheerfully.

“You’re a Sergeant?” Twilight asked, rather flabbergasted.

“Why of course, but I ain’t nothing like the military prodigy like yourself, Liue, uhh… Twilight,” Applebloom replied, leaving Twilight to that thought.

Sate your confused thoughts with the Database. Pressing your new finger onto the device in your left ear and thinking ‘database’ will freeze the game’s time, allowing you to read what information you need to get. The database will update itself each time you encounter an enemy or a individual I thought I could waste some time on, or learn more about a character or a location.

Twilight mentally face-palmed as she quickly read her own Bio. “I guess so,” she chuckled. Didn’t give me a great bio, either, she thought.

This isn’t even the final product. Quit your bitching.

“Why did you join the army, Applebloom?” Twilight asked.

“Because my family were forced out of our farm by the FlimFlam company, so we now try to buy it back from them. I thought the army would pay to help my sister and brother out, so here I am,” Applebloom explained.

The thought of Applejack losing Sweet Apple Acres filled Twilight with sorrow. “I’m sorry,” she mumbled.

“Don’t worry Twilight, we’ll get it back; this mission is supposed to pay really big, like 1,500,000 bits big. That give us a huge step closer to getting the farm back,” Applebloom smiled. The purple mare gave the young filly a confused stare, 1.5 million bits just to route some rebels seemed too good to be true.

Database Updated: Sergeant Applebloom

“I hear ya, Sarge. The moment I see that check is the day I’ll dance in the streets of Canterlot,” exclaimed a black pegasus colt next to Cherry Slim.

“And you might be?” Twilight asked,

“Corporal Shadowhide, ma’am. I’m one of the team’s Nightshades,” he said, giving Twilight a calm smile.

“I take it you’re here for the money as well?” Twilight inquired.

“That’s right, ma’am. Manehatten is not the place you wanna grow up in when you’re alone,” he chuckled. “You learn the hard way that money makes the world go round, and you gotta pick up that information quick or you’ll be left behind.”

Database Updated: Corporal Shadowhide

“I see,” Twilight muttered. She turned to Cherry Slim. “How about you, Cherry?”

“Uhh, well… My mother always wanted me to take over her business when she retired, but I didn’t want to for… reasons.” Cherry blushed, hiding her face behind the metal armor.

               “I think that would be nice if you did, it would make your momma happy,” Applebloom added.

“But my mom… runs a Tavern… and a brothel, and I didn’t want to do that. What if I had to work in place of one of the girls? I want to save myself for that special somepony,” Cherry sputtered. Her red face burned red with the thought of her mother’s brothel.

Database Updated: Private Cherry Slim

“I… understand, it does seem like a lot to deal with,” Twilight reassured. ’A brothel, seriously?

Despite the inclusion of a brothel or two, there is no ‘visible’ sex in this game. And I’m leaning towards ‘no’ for including it later.

Twilight shook her head, turning to Sky Line. “How about you, Sky Line? Why did you join the army?”

“Because being in the army is rad: you get paid to be awesome and kill assholes with fancy weapons.” Sky Line smirked, stroking the barrel of her rifle. “And everypony wants to share a bed with a military pony,” she added, winking.

No. Visible. Sex. All couplings that happen in the game will happen while you are not looking and if you walk in on two or more ponies fucking, they are programmed to lying in bed and do nothing in their underwear until you leave them alone. Also, Database Updated: Sergeant Sky Line and The Royal Equestrian Army

’Thank Celestia for small miracles then, ‘ Twilight thought.

“Well, I guess I joined…”

“Sorry Lieutenant, we all know your story. ‘Miss War Prodigy’,” Sky Line teased, causing the purple unicorn to huff while Applebloom and Cherry Slim giggled.

“Alright, kids.” Twilight turned to see a stern faced stallion entering the carriage from the front. His mane was black and cut short, and his coat was only a few shades lighter than the armor he wore. “We are coming up to the enemy base. You all have your teams; Lieutenant Twilight, your team will be making camp. Liuetenant Greenmane, your team will be on recon.” Twilight and the green-maned, orange-coated unicorn next to Stronghoof nodded.

Due to your Bio claiming that you should know that guy, Database Updated: Major Stronghoof

The carriage stopped as the soldiers gathered out. Twilight noticed that they were standing in a winter wasteland, snow as far as the eye can see with exception to the blinking green lights in the distance. She felt the wind cut through her bare fur as she trudged along with the others.

Twilight turned to find Applebloom, Sky Line, Shadowhide, and Cherry Slim. ’How lucky that these are my teammates, she thought.

Nope, all on purpose. Enjoy.

“Lieutenant?” Twilight turned to see the other Team leader walking over to her. “We’re going up ahead; according to the layout, we should be able to make a base just over the hill East of us. We’ll try and make it back quickly to help out with the base. Kinda odd how the Major ordered five ponies to make a base and five to do recon, it seems like we only need three for recon based on what we know of the cultists.

Before I forget. Database Updated: Black Sun Cult and Equestrian Badlands. The snow region you're standing in.

Twilight rolled her eyes when she heard Gigavolt’s announcement and nodded to Greenmane. Her team made way for the hill Greenmane mentioned. The purple mare smiled upon finding a cave behind the hill, opposite to the enemy camp. ’Wow, this is rather lucky. Or is this just another convenience?’ she thought.

It’s the tutorial, I’m not going to send you at Nightmare Moon with 5 ponies you’ve known for 10 hours, that’s ridiculous.

’I get it, You don’t like Celestia.’ Twilight shook her head in frustration. “Cherry Slim and Sky Line, prepare the base. I want to be able to see the enemy camp form this position without getting outside. Applebloom, set up a defense. I don’t want us to be ambushed here, of all places. Shadowhide, take a walk, if you see anypony that didn’t come here via the carriage, be smart about it; if you’re completely confident that you can take them down, go for it, but if you can’t, return to base.”

The ponies saluted and went to their tasks. But all that was left was Twilight. ’I guess I could help somepony out, but who?’