Ingress Realities

You know that Aquaintances are people that you barely know? Well in truth they could actually be people you know... ...but ignorance is an unavoidable fog.

Specvitro was fast asleep on his bed in the afternoon; afterall, Silver promised to cover for him today but there was something that was on his mind from it...

Why did she offer to cover the absence...?

His dream was dreary and dark with nothing but a voided nature. There was nothing around him until he focussed on a small light.

He tried to speak but his vocal cords ceased to work.

Specvitro made his move by walking closer to the small light but was halted by an invisible wall. He looked down to see hands coming from the shadows holding his hooves down. Spectre Vitro struggled to move but he was held tightly back; he looked forward to notice his two childhood friends, Plethora Pink and Deft Melody, staring at him with blank eyes.

He tried to speak once more but he couldn't make a noise.

They turned and walked away without speaking a word, disappearing into the void and such caused his to break one foreleg away from the grip of the shadowy grasp and reach out, tears flying from his eyes and his mouth open like he was shouting...

No!...

Abandonment is a fickle tune that during the course of one's life will always happen. It's sour notes will always hang around you forever until you reconcile with yourself...

The shadowy grasp let go of him but he couldn't fester any movement. Tears flowing down his cheeks like waterworks as he stood there, motionless and depressed.

"Come on Spectre-kun~" a female voice came from the shadows, "Continue forward Spectre-kun~"

The tears from his eyes were wiped away mysteriously and he felt the touch of an invisible figure.

It was cold, yet it was warming...

He made his move forward and managed to move a few more meters closer to the dim source of light but was stopped once more by an invisible wall.

There he saw Silver Wing who angrily looked at him, her eyes were as blank as the last apparitions but he could tell that it looked angry. It then spoke in her voice...

"I was wrong about you, Spectre... Forget everything about me, I don't want to see your face again..."

She walked right through him like he was nothing...

Rejection is as worse as Abandonment... a scar that would hurt you so harsh that you would want to die...

Then... his view was engulfed by a bright light and...

He woke up from his sleep in anguish and from the looks of it he had been crying in his sleep.

Just like the dream.

"Morning, Oniichan!~" an incredibly feminine voice came from outside his room and then the door swung open to reveal a fiery red alicorn, her blazing wings and flaming mane and tail emitting a radiation of intense heat.

"Eh... w-what...?" Specvitro rubbed his eyes and took a second look to see that what he was looking at wasn't an illusion, "A-An alicorn?!"

"Hehe, I guess I overdid my opening a bit." the fiery alicorn sneered and walked into the room.

Spectre Vitro looked at her and shouted, "W-Who're you?!"

"Now, Now... hush now, quiet now. My name is Philomena." the alicorn spouted half sarcastically and half seriously.

He got up off his bed and stood in front of her, "Philomena? Like the royal pet of Princess Celestia all the way in Canterlot?"

She shrugged, smirked, and pushed him to sit down back on his bed.

She was wearing two d-linkers... one on each ear...

"Don't take it any other direction but instead think of me as a very distant relative of yours." she stated without hesitation.

A shattered reality...? *...or a true vision...*

Philomena's unicorn horn vanished; she turned around about to exit and said, "I'll be taking residence up in the extra room you have here. Don't worry about me because I'll also try my best to take care of you~"

Why was this incredibly cute pony inside my home... a distant relative? I don't think I know of any distant relatives so I can't really question it...

It was morning so he quickly put on the regulation uniform of his school, his d-linker, and packed up his small bag to then make his way down the hall of the home.

"See you later, Spectre~" Philomena smirked as she sat on the couch in the living room and waved a happy goodbye.

Mental scars are strength as well as a curse, but to be fine with one's scars is a sin and healing them is a godsend.

"See ya." Spectre replied unwittingly as he exited his home and waited at the elevator doors for the elevator to arrive.

He looked around as he waited and a question popped in his head...

Was it a dream or was it real...?

The elevator doors flew open to reveal Deft Melody behind them whom was making his way to school as well.

Deft Melody smiled, "Hey Specvitro!"

"Oh hey again, Deft." Spectre Vitro replied to him and walked into the elevator which then proceeded to go down to the main floor and they exited the building together.

As they walked Deft Melody ambushed Specvitro by saying, "Plethora was worrying about you yesterday there, suddenly getting sick after talking to the student council president."

She said that she would cover it though...

She did and didn't at the same time...

"Plethora told me that prez didn't really explain anything and that all she said was that she asked you out and you denied her." Deft Melody raised a brow while he spoke.

"Wha-What?!" shouted Specvitro in surprise.

Deft Melody made a motion with a foreleg as he walked, "So then Plethora expected that our student council prez did something to you which is the cause of your becoming suddenly sick because of that."

Specvitro quickly recoiled, "N-None of the sort happened! Don't believe all that!"

Deft Melody had a quick thought as he hummed for a second and then nodded just as they both arrived at school. Deft looked over at his friend and smiled, "I think someone's waiting for you, so I'll leave you to it."

Deft Melody departed into the building quickly and left Specvitro to stare right at the pony who was waiting outside the doors for him.

It was none other than Silver Wing.

Her long mane was flowing with the breeze of the wind as she walked towards Spectre Vitro. Her form as she made her way towards him was beautiful from his view. He felt like he could fall over at any second.

Silver Wing stood in front of him and quickly ordered, "Follow me."

"Okay." Specvitro nodded and followed obidiently behind her automatically.

A puppy following a lion... wired connection established...

They sat at a two person table in the lounge and she said, "Don't worry about your classes, Spec, I've already talked with your teachers that I have some business with you."

Advantages of being the student council president

"How was your dream last night?" she tilted her head and smiled, her sitting position was in all terms... perfect.

Specvitro store into space for a moment but then snapped back to life and replied, "Oh, uh, It was..."

She interrupted him, "Horrible, right?"

He nodded in response; She closed her eyes in thought and said, "Alright... how far did you get in your dream?"

Huh...?

He looked at her with and questionably responded, "Not too far... I guess?"

Her forehooves were in contact with each other and her mouth was covered behind them as she said under her breath, "So it's that bad..."

"Hm...?" Spectre Vitro thought he heard her and she opened her eyes and smiled, "Oh nothing~"

"Do you know why I chose this location for us to talk in, Spec-kun?" she asked him with a sarcastic look.

What's the suffix for?

He answered the question with another question, "Why are we located here, Silver?"

She coughed gently and hid her lips behind one of her forehooves and said aloud, "Wired Connection Aura Break."

Accessing Aurasphere...

The area around them began to stretch and pixelate and then the world around them changed slowly into sky and then the ground beneath them began forming along with the walls, foliage, and other specifics.

Specvitro looked across the table to see a solid silver metal armored pony sitting across from him and he raised his hoof to see it covered in a solid black armor.

"Wha...what's going on...?" Specvitro asked.

Silver Wing looked over and inspected him, "My... what a handsome avatar you are... that black color is an incredibly rare sight to come by as well as it showing that you are a deadly adversary."

She giggled, "Although you also look rather cute with those ears of yours~"

"Eh..." he sat there with no real response, his ears flapping once on their own. He looked along his body to see it covered in the same black armor plating, his tail from what he could see covered over so he assumed the same with his mane.

Specvitro looked over at Silver Wing and inspected her form; he noticed her flowing fire-like mane and tail along with her lightweight look from her silver plating. He saw her wings that were also covered in the same silver color or armoring.

"Oh these?" she pointed at her wings and smiled, "I can't fly with them still but I can hover and do all sorts of neat tricks."

There's never been many that could truly hurdle past their scars in this reality.

"So it seems that you've been created an earth-pony avatar, Spec-kun." she said to him in an easy tone, "What kind of skills and or abilities do you have?"

Specvitro opened a window by clicking his name on his head's up display, which then he pressed the tab for skills and abilities.

"There's the regular punch and kick skills and my special ability is... 'Electric Piercing Charge'...?" he questioned the naming of the ability.

She pointed towards an approaching enemy, "It seems you're a type of character who refills his special gauge automatically and starts with it full, go try it out on that small fry slime there."

He nodded and stood up and then she relayed another message, "Oh, when you focus your special ability you need to put your emotions into play for it to have strength. Anger and strife or happiness and joy, they all work if you focus them into it."

Alright...

Bowing his upper body downward in a pouncing form he took in all his emotions into one large burst as he shouted, "Electric Piercing Chaaarge!"

With one fluent movement his ears changed position to form sharp horns that aimed towards the weak mob, they then emitted electrical pulses between each other and after he disappeared in a white flash.

One-hundred percent health depleted to enemy.

He appeared right behind the gooey slime as it twiched with electrical impulses, disappearing into code that drove itself down the ground a full second afterwards. That second gave him enough time to turn his head around enough to see his foe burst into code and at the same time it made him look imposingly cool to Silver Wing.

His two ears repositioned back to normal along with their electric discharges halting. His special gauge was only fifty-percent depleted as well as recharging itself rather quickly.

Specvitro heard clapping originating from Silver Wing and heard her feint voice as she said, "Although a rather easily dodgeable special, it seems rather incredibly strong for it's gauge usage and the fact that you're an earth pony avatar."

"Huh?" he replied in response.

Different Sub-Species reveals different attributes along with their color...?

Silver Wing flapped her moderate-sized wings once and then laid back on her chair, "To put it simply, Spec-kun; pegasi are quick, unicorns are more experienced at indirect combat, and earth ponies are more experienced at close combat."

"The colors you can study up on your own as they usually correspond to the user's mental and emotional scars." she said in a joyful tone which quickly switched into a more serious one, "Although... you being a unicorn in reality but your avatar being an earth pony is mysterious; but hey, there could be some hidden meaning behind the existence of your avatar then."

A sense of another presence approaching.

"Is someone the-" Specvitro's question was quickly interrupted by the flying of missiles from a distance towards them, barely missing as they flew past and destroyed the ground past him and Silver Wing.

Silver Wing shouted at Spectre, "Spec-kun! Quickly get through here!"

She was standing near a beacon that was labelled in clear letters,

'NCRESSFORMHSCHOOL EXIT'

He quickly jumped towards the exit beacon and she followed behind, their assailant however obviously didn't.

Bright light covered his vision and then slowly disappeared as he noticed himself located right outside the lounge standing by the door, he looked to his right to see Silver Wing standing.

"Now you know of the problem that I'm facing here." she calmly said, her eyes closed in a thinking manner.

They both entered the lounge with Spectre Vitro following behind Silver Wing back to their seats at the two-person table.

After they sat down once more Specvitro popped the question, "Why'd we suddenly appear outside the lounge?"

A quick answer followed.

"That's the exit point located in this school, when we access the <> by breaking through it with our d-linkers, we essentially leave this reality as well as pseudo-suspending it with our mind accelerating one-thousand time's faster while we are in the other reality..."

One second in the Aurasphere is one thousandth of a second in the real world, so calculating it could make one day in the Aurasphere equal to only one-forty fourth of a second in the real world...