Ingress Realities

Travelling distances over short amounts of time in the real world... A technology that can help good and evil become mobile but at what cost...?

Silver Wing fixed her skirt as she sat and said, "...although the cost is quite heavy..."

A heavy cost...?

She took in a deep breath and then store into Spectre Vitro's eyes deeply, a shallow tone exited her mouth as she said, "If you die in the <>, you disappear in real life as well."

"Eh..." Specvitro retorted in response.

She reached over and patted his head with her forehoof, "In a sense you disappear... but in actuality your soul is just left within the depths of the aurasphere within the Canterlot Castle Dungeon~"

Canterlot...?

"The place where the princesses reside to this very age?" Specvitro questioned dumbfounded-like.

Silver Wing nodded, "If your soul is lost in there long enough, it disappears completely. What's left in reality is a husk of the real pony with no memories of anything."

"Think of it as a large-scale extremely difficult dungeon in an <>, it's a suicidal task to even try to save somepony who is lost" she continued and sat back in her chair, "We can travel large distances in short amounts of time with the <> but at the risk of death to the enemies that scatter the pseudo-universe."

Shallow forms of themselves, dead on the inside but not outside.

Just the thought of ponies without souls caused him to tilt his head in confusion but the question he was about to ask was answered with a quick...

"There aren't that many ponies who access the aurasphere and those who own a copy of <> can infinitely disperse them to others at their own risk." Silver Wing nodded and leaned back, "Now to the problem at hoof."

She swirved her hair around her head and then looked at Spectre Vitro seriously, "That pony that had attacked us... we need to eliminate her... or him..."

Eliminate...? Kill...?

"One thing with the aurasphere is that within every city or town there is one leader and as you can see there aren't many other ponies in this city that do ingress into the aurasphere." she smirked and whispered, "I am the leader of Cressform within the aurasphere, but that pony continually attacks... and from what I can piece together... is trying to userp my throne."

Specvitro looked at her and straightened his seating position to ask, "So why haven't you dealt with them?"

"...because they're backed by an army..." she sighed and looked down at the table, "Recently there have been increasing numbers of ponies appearing and disappearing within the Cressform aurasphere area and with such I figured that the opposing high school in the south is the aggressor."

You don't need a connection to the network to connect to the aurasphere.

"An army in the south?" Specvitro stood up, "What about here in the north of Cressform? Where is everyone else?"

Silver Wing stayed silent for a second or so and visibly Spectre Vitro could see tears falling onto the table. After a minute of silence Silver Wing managed to speak out, "I killed them all..."

Killed them all...She killed them all...

She gave off a disappointed sigh and looked towards Specvitro, "I was... tricked into doing so..."

"Tricked? By who?" Spectre Vitro questioned immediately in response.

The only reply that came after was.

"By the one who attacked us"

After the whole meeting between the two, they said a short farewell before going back to attend their classes that they were missing. Silver Wing did put in a good word for him from what he heard before in their talk.

As he was in class, sitting down and listening to the teacher he was able to pick up some whispers from a nearby group of students.

He figured that they might be talking about him and how every one in the school thinks he cheats because of his almost perfect scores within the first year. Yet, from what he could pick up he heard the name...

<>

Did they know? If they did then what -did- they know?! Are they thinking the wrong things about them?

Thoughts quickly raced through his head but he was able to suppress them as his last class went on.

The school bell rang signalling the end of the school day so he quickly packed his things and made his way out the door.

Who he saw waiting for him outside the school gates was a bit of a surprise to him.

"Hey Spectre!" the plush pink pony waved with a concerned yet joyful smile.

Plethora Pink hardly ever to never walked home with him and as she approached him he returned the gesture and smiled, "Hey, Pinks."

She gave a huff and spoke, "I was told by Silver that she wants to meet up with you over by the local park down the street." she pointed down the path in a distant direction and continued, "She's already there I presume, Spectre; Also don't call me Pinks!"

He gave off a faint chuckle at her uncomfortable retort and then nodded, "Alright."

Spectre Vitro wasn't going to be able to refuse any kind of order in the situation that he's in so he said his goodbyes to Plethora Pink and made his way towards the park.

It's open, it's free, and more importantly it's full of ponies most of the day.

<>

"These enemies, from what I know, are created from the negative emotions of ponies. The stronger such emotions are the greater the strength of the enemy... although when you defeat the enemy it is said that the pony that had unknowingly created it will suddenly lose that negative feeling."

<>

He saw Silver Wing sitting alone on a bench and this time without her school uniform on. Spectre Vitro forgot that he could just take his uniform off when not on school grounds but it would be awkward to do so now so he trotted up to her and put on a smile.

She looked at him and returned the smile.

To his surprise he got to see her cutie mark and ironically he saw a angelic wing. What it meant to him was a complete mystery as it could mean flight but he knew that she couldn't fly like most other ponies in this era. He almost let out a laugh but held it back politely.

Then he felt a cold sting as his d-linker flashed red.

Thoughts Accessed... Danger Code Red... Recovering lost files...

Huh...?

"So you thought it would be funny to laugh at my cutie mark, hm? Thought it was ironic in this day of age?" Silver Wing had a serious face put on while glaring at him with her paralyzing stare but after a second she sighed and released her death-stare on Specvitro.

An expert hacker?

"Eh..." he retorted in response, "I didn't mean to, really... uh..."

His words trailed off slowly as he stuttered, "S-so-sor-sorry..."

"Come... sit." she interrupted his apology and patted the empty spot beside her on the bench that was small for a park bench.

She gave off a small smirk and popped the question, "Do you want to know what my cutie mark signifies?"

Specvitro nodded silently in response.

Silver Wing looked at him with a stare that melt the burning sun itself as she said, "It signifies my ability to utilize my speed to glide. It's not truly flying as I need to use acceleration to even start."

She looked away, "I wish I could fly like my hero, Rainbow Dash."

"Rainbow Dash..." Specvitro thought aloud to himself and responded, "...the fastest flyer in Equestria is -your- hero?"

Silver Wing blushed with wide eyes as she used her wing to cause Specvitro to fall off the bench.

Striving to be what you're not creates feelings of inferiority within themselves...

"Now... let's access the aurasphere." Silver Wing winked, quickly reactivating the private connections between them both.

<>

Then the world froze and broke away as the aurasphere world assembled into existence right in front of their eyes and after the assembly was completed, their bodies transformed into their avatar forms.

Specvitro looked around to see tens of hundreds of enemies that were ranging from flying hawks to fiery goat demons.

But a sight to behold caused all the enemies to scatter away from the area.

"<>"

The sound of a skill command was heard, then a second afterwards dark blue rockets were seen flying upward into the sky.

Specvitro looked up dumbfounded, "What the..."

"Spectre!" Silver Wing shouted out in horror as she dashed in front of him and leapt into the air, the rockets arcing one-hundred and eighty degrees in a semi-circle and homing in on her.

"Silver Wing!" he shouted much too late as the rockets made contact with the spread wings and front body of his friend. All he could do was watch as she fell from the sky with her burnt, broken armor plating and smoke trailing behind.

He ran towards where she was going to land, his speed output at maximum as he caught her on his back, acting like a cushion.

"This land belonds to me, your fake leader is as she is... a fake!" the voice came from where the rockets originated.

Spectre Vitro saw a form walk across the nearby hill to see the same pony that they encountered before.

He stuttered, "Y-you..."

"You shall address me as Cinder Javelin." the unknown pony said.

"Kh... Cinder... 'must be pretty weak... h-heh..." Silver Wing weakly taunted.

Cinder Javelin's wings covered themselves in blue code and transformed into rocket cannons, each pointed at the direction of Specvitro and Silver Wing as he spoke, "Now then... any last words before I send you both to the depths of the unknown abyss?"

Specvitro looked at his foe and cringed underneath his mask in hate, his mask slowly began to shimmer red.

"Just one word~" an unknown voice spoke from a distance with a whimsical and fiery-esque tone.

Huh...?

"Huh?!" Cinder shouted towards the sky, unable to see where this new voice originated from, "Show yourself!"

Then in the blink of an eye a form crashed into the ground, leaving a large smoking crater. The figure stood up, it's flaming metallic form sporting wings and a horn.

"An alicorn avatar? Impossible!" Cinder shouted, pointing his weapons at the unknown assailant.

"Possible, yes. Impossible, to you it is so." It spoke in a regal yet mischievous tone.

Who...

Silver Wing's mask disintegrated and her real face was seen...

Tears...

True tears of pain were flowing out of her eyes but even then she had never screamed nor wailed from such pain. Her armor must've absorbed enough of the damage but the shock from the explosions must've hit her hard internally thought Spectre Vitro.

"D-don't look at m-me..." Silver Wing spat out in a gentle tone, turning her face away.

Spectre Vitro laid her on the ground and smiled, "Don't worry, Silv."

The battle between Cinder and the Fire Alicorn had continued on as Cinder fired his massive arsenal of rockets and machine guns but the Alicorn burned every single bullet and rocket, turning every projectile into ash.

Specvitro removed his own mask and visibly his eyes began to glow purple.

"I'll save and protect you."

His armor began to shift and morph, his form obscure to the point of no visibility until he re-emerged in a demonic-esque covering of charcoal black armor.

Accessing drives, re-accessing transformation.

'Ultimate Skill: Saving Protection' ready for deployment, master.

Spectre Vitro looked around his surrounding area and imaged the landscape covered underneath a shell of impenetrable armor. His mask formed over his head and began to glow a solid blue as the perimeter of his image was covered underneath a sphere of black rock and surrounded the fiery alicorn, Silver Wing, and himself.

He began to glow once more and quickly his form transformed back into his original state.

He passed out quickly afterwards, his helmet disintegrating away in code as he head gently landed on top of Silver Wing.

Shh... it'll be alright...

Alright...?

Let us return back to the past, and seek through your memories.

My... memories...?

Your name is not Spectre Vitro, it was just a fabrication of your nightmarish memories. Your true name is...