Chapter 1 - Understanding
Twilight Sparkle was sitting by a grand oak tree just about a minutes walk from her library, enjoying a book on the theory of dimensions: 'Fabric of Reality, guide to the dimensions of the infinite beyond.' She must have read for hours until she showed any signs of a consciousness, for she had sat still the entire time, eyes skimming left to right. It had seemed she had found a spell on creating a portal to a void 'side-dimension,' and after thinking wether or not Celestia was going to be happy about her performing an unknown spell, she decided to perform it.
After racing to her house, she galloped into her basement where she would keep her underground firing range. You'd think it would take over a dozen ponies to build such a large 'cave,' but having a princess' power comes in handy sometimes. Having reach the range, she dumped the book on the floor nearby, took her stance and launched a pinprick beam of purple light towards the target wall. The beam seemed to do nothing until about twenty seconds later, when a hole seemed to be forming. The hole appeared to hold nothing but darkness. Darkness as far as the eye could see. She continued for five minutes, enlarging the hole in the wall until she picked up on an alerting spell in which would alert her when an entity entered or left her house. Probably spike leaving for Rarity's place. As she sensed it, the magic pinprick beam coming from her horn seemed to jump just like a zig-zag pattern, but it seemed way more random. Just as this happened, the nearby dust started to make its way into the portal. Twilight was about to dismiss it as a small pull until she saw an entity through the portal. It seemed to look like the beings she saw when she traveled through the mirror to retrieve her crown. There was only a small problem. First, the being wasn't even slightly furry like the ones through the mirror. Second, It also had a rather bland colour of hair and coat. Third, it was tapping away at the magical machines she saw through the portal, but the world looked way more 'realistic' than she even thought was possible. And fourth, Twilight couldn't pull out of her spell. Not knowing what else to do, she called for help. Nothing.
Twilight waited for hours not knowing what to do. She had tried moving, but her body was paralysed. She was hungry but she couldn't move. Twilight felt her magic had almost depleted due to a state of major tiredness half an hour ago, but apparently she had more. She couldn't use another spell to contact somebody, because it would require ending the first one.
A couple more hours passed, and Twilight started to feel queasy at using so much magic. An alert sounded, which mean only one thing. Someone was here. Yes! Wait... Another alert? Her magical beam broke. It disappeared. The portal remained, but she had broken- free. She couldn't help but scream for joy before her horn reconnected with the portal. Twilight stared in shock for about thirty seconds before the portal blew apart. Literally. But not with the classic orange flame, no. Instead, it was purple, and had the warding look of the void Twilight had seen through the portal before the human had appeared. The colour of null. The colour of nothing. Zero. Absolute nothingness.
All in all, the explosion was like a bomb, but there was no flame, only magic and fragments of an unknown auric matter. The fragments flew as if it actually was a frag grenade. Overwriting anything within the radius. The explosion was small... Compared to the sun. It actually took out everything on their map. From the Frozen North to the Badlands. The explosion was ghastly and lasted two minutes. Even the princesses couldn't outrun it. Luna being the last one consumed by the auric, purple cloud. Canterlot had become a ghost land. Inhabited by only the crusty earth and spooky buildings. Being something that only resembled death and abandonment...
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Jacob woke to his cat, Ender. He had obtained the cat a few weeks back, and it seemed to take a liking to him. He named the cat for his black appearance, and his purple eyes. He was pretty sure purple didn't exist as an eye colour, but he didn't want to know. The cat was his favourite friend in the world. He never had any other friends. Mostly he'd be used by women and tormented by men and their friends. He'd hadn't had a physical friend for years now, only having them exist online. People like him: nerdy, gaming freaks. Well, mostly like him. Man thing was that he didn't look like a nerd, nor did he look like a freak. In fact, he was a rather bulky with a strength of four times the average man, to be honest. But he didn't want to use it on anybody. Nope. He actually thought he looked pretty nice looking too. But what gave it away was the fact that he was a genius and he liked to show it. Any time anyone would look to him for answers, he'd open up his personality for viewing and inform them on everything to relating to the subject. People would call him a friend, but he knew they didn't mean it, because he found out, by scrummaging Facebook, that he would be nicknamed 'The Walking Encyclopaedia.'
The other reason being that his room was decorated with Minecraft related items such as foam diamond pickaxes and cardboard pig cutouts. His wall was a nature scene from the game. His room was full of computers and recording software, the source of power being two dozen power-points covered in the largest tangle of wires anyone would ever see. It was worthy of a world record some would say.
Now he was about to start a Live-stream. Setting up his
headset, he sat in his chair to start playing his beloved game, Minecraft. Half an hour later, after finishing the recording, he swore he could hear shouting, but he dismissed the thought, as he thought it was the kids down the road in the park. Kids. He couldn't help but sadly remember that he'd been one of them once. At the age of nine, his mother died. After the death, his father became a drunken monster 24/7. He had hit Jacob and gotten him into hospital. Blamed it all on the roof collapsing. Said he fixed it once it happened. It had scarred Jacob for life, and that's pretty much why he was a nerdy guy. However, it had also brought him an urge to fight and release the anger every so often. This is why Jacob played games for a living. He would never hurt anybody innocent, but games gave him the fantasy he wanted. Too bad it wasn't completely real. Ender hissed. What? He never hisses. Not even at the other cats. Something must be really wrong. He heard a shout and turned around to find a portal in his wall... Then he blew up. It seemed to be purple, not orange. It spiked throughout his house only completely encasing his room. The rest of his house was scarred by fragmentations. A couple of hundred atoms from the purple explosion made their way from the portal to the phone line connecting the computer to the Internet. The atoms traveled down the line through the Minecraft servers and back down to meet a couple of others... Seven million people's homes exploded that day. A further nine million actually gone missing.
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Dark swirls appear. Colours that don't exist enter Twilight's mind. The ear splitting headache not doing her any better. Darkness turning to red, then to white. The world blurring to green and blue as she tried to stand upon her hooves. The grass too plush and perfect, she began to roll around in it. The feeling of fuzz and fresh morning dew dulling her problems. She continued to lie there until she heard a squealing sound come from above. Fluttershy was falling from the sky! Twilight estimated that she must have appeared nearby the stratosphere before preparing her magic to turn the nearby flower into a pile of mattresses. Nothing. Again? Nope, nothing. Hyperventilating, and forgetting that she had wings, Twilight tried to catch the squealing pony with her own back as she closed her eyes. She waited for impact, but no dice. As soon as she decided it was okay to open her eyes, she felt a blast of air on her face accompanied by the spitting image of a blue and yellow blur. The blur pulling to a halt as she sat in awe.
"Hey Twi! What's up? Other that the whole teleporting explosion thing?" Said a familiar scratchy voice.
"Rainbow Dash?" The words struck her like an arrow to the heart. She started to cry as Rainbow embraced her into a hug. A weepy Fluttershy joining them in the bond.
"I thought I killed everybody. I felt so alone." Twilight said between the tears.
"It's okay, you've got us," Rainbow said, stroking Twilight's mane. "But what do you mean you thought 'you' killed everybody?"
"Oh, um. I, I'd thought I had done it by, uh, casting a spell." She replied.
"Just what spell was that?" Rainbow eyed Twilight suspiciously as Fluttershy broke from the hug and backed away.
"I just tried a dimensional spell. I didn't mean it! It was supposed to be a blank dimension, b-but my library's alerting spell that alerts me if the door is used seemed to trigger a change in the frequency, s-so I-"
"Stop with the science talk, Twi. Just tell me simply, what happened?"
"The spell backfired and it caused an explosion, pulling us all into the new dimension, as well as the physics. The nucleus, I mean brain of the dimension took everything that was teleported here and made a world from all the information it could salvage from the stuff brought here. So, I guess we're stuck here?" Twilight said with a sheepish, but sad smile.
"Well, perhaps you might be able to explain why I can see squares in the bottom of my vision, along with a bar, a line of blocky hearts and other bits and stuff? And why do we look so realistic that my eyes get sore looking at myself?"
"No, not really. All I can say is that the dimension's state had mutated us slightly. But-"
"But what Twilight? We're stuck in another dimension, we have no home, no idea of what to do or where to go. Most importantly though, why does the sun rise so fast. And, err, why is the sun square? And the clouds?"
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Jacob felt weird. He could see his death before his eyes. Repeating continuously. However, he wasn't dead, or at least, he didn't feel like be was. He finally managed to open his eyes. He was in a forest, however the leaves on the trees seemed to have never fallen, and the wood looked very familiar. The grass was so green, plush and fluffy. No signs of weeds or stray strands of grass to be found. Strange... The fact that the leaves seemed to be compacted interested him even more. He tried to pull a leaf from a tree, but it wouldn't budge. He gave it all his might, but no. It just would not give. He tried to jump and climb the tree, managing to get up with only a few scratches. He checked his health. Only lost half a heart. Half a heart? He took a double take on his hotbar. A hotbar? Now Jacob was scared. He felt a rubbing against his feet. Huh? Looking down, he saw that his cat: Ender, seemed to make the journey and end up by his side. Still the same, thankfully. Hang on? Over Ender's head was a name tag. That's not normal either. I'm getting the hints, but I'm not believing it. Minecraft? Err.
That's when he heard the squeal. The squeal that set him into terror. Head turning for the noise, he lost his footing, loosing two hearts on the fall.
"I'm still not going to get used to that." He said. He stared towards the sky to see a yellow object falling, only to be caught by a speeding blue object inclined to land near the shore he'd seen while he was atop the tree. Heading over, he couldn't help but notice that he passed a lava pool. "That could bring be smelt power for days." He said to nobody but himself. As he spoke, something orange and swift ran towards shore faster than he ever could. Running wasn't the right word for it. It was more, galloping? He didn't want to believe what this meant but forced it upon himself to do so. 'Ponies?' He thought. How? My Little Pony is fictional. It is made up. Not real. No. It just can't be. Better go and help out with their situation. Wait a second. Is that? Rarity? He said as Rarity trotted through some plains. Hang on. Is that? Other players? Hang on. They're about to kill Rarity! And they have bows! Think Jacob, think. Greet your own kind or kill for another species. Um. Well, I've never had a human as a friend before. So I doubt they'll act any differently.
Having made his decision, he started punching a tree, and man did that hurt! Having completely knocked down a tree and having collected five logs, Jacob tried to craft. It wouldn't work. He couldn't move his hotbar slider, let alone craft anything. Feeling a deep rage within, he ran out of the forest raging towards the two players, causing Rarity to run into the forest towards the direction of her friends. Good. Now the players. Jacob broke out into a full on run. He roared at the players as they tried to shoot at him. Bows? How'd they get string so quickly? He had just thought this when he was shot in the shoulder, causing blood to pour out of the wound. Two and a half hearts of damage? Meh. Although the pain felt as if his shoulder was being pounded by a sledgehammer repeatedly. However, the arm also seemed to hang loosely to his side. 'Must've broken a muscle of something.' He thought as he was shot in the top of the knee. Blood was spurting now. He was on 3 and a half hearts now, and the guys were gaining on him. However, he managed to hide in a cave before they found him. He was surprised that they hadn't just followed his blood trail, but they just skimmed the area. Jacob made sure to crouch to the ground, hoping that it would hide his name tag. They eventually left. One of them he recognised as a guy he knew as Ozotade. Ozotade was a famous YouTuber who would post anti-brony rage videos and stuff. The main point though: he was famous, and he hated bronies and My Little Pony. Most likely that he would start a clan and hunt down all ponies. However, who knows how many ponies there are, nor how they got here. 'Heck. I don't even know how I got here!' He thought, trying to ignore the pain from his arrow wounds as he head for shore. The blood was still running, somehow causing him to lose half a heart every five minutes. Ender hadn't helped. He'd never help in a fight. He was a lazy cat. However, it's tail was drooping slightly, as a sign of hunger. His hunger was faring little better than his health. He picked a nearby mushroom, and was surprised to find that he could eat it alone. He would think that you'd need to make mushroom soup. But better not complain. Just eat. Jacob managed to find only two mushrooms, In which he ate greedily, before he continued for the beach. He could hear talking, in which at that point he saw the group of mares in a conversation. "What do we do now?" He heard. "Night'll fall soon," and "We don't stand a chance," also "It reminds me of the 'Everfree.'" He decided to make himself known, not for his nerdiness, but for his knowledge.
"It's now or never," he whispered quietly to himself. He dusted himself and stepped out from behind the brush...
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Twilight was crying once again with joy, the group in her embrace. Applejack and Rarity had found them and acted as if they'd found fifty million dollars. If there was any time she would love them most, it would be now. They were all shedding tears at the thought of losing their friends. They were all also so worried about Pinkie and Spike. Well, and Celestia. And Luna. And the rest of the town, and the griffons, and the diamond dogs, and even the dragons. As soon as they'd all calmed down, they were all quizzical about what to do. Asking questions like: "What do we do now?" And "It reminds me of the 'Evertree.'" Fluttershy still whimpering, they all hugged her as the sun started to lower. In the distance they could see the soft glow of the sunset. They gave up hope and Twilight whispered, "What now?"
Twilight's ears pricked up at the sudden noise from the bushes behind her. Everypony else must've heard too, because now the group was looking expectantly towards the forest. For a second there was nothing, but then a large looking biped stepped out from the bush as it stated,
"Looks like your going to need a guide then." The group looked in shock as the creature stated these words, as they had have never seen a biped before. The silence continued until one decided to speak up.
"You're the one who was going to kill me!" Spoke Rarity.
"Fortunately, no. I wouldn't do that to you. I was, in fact, charging the other guys who were going to snipe you with bows."
"Snipe? Bows?" Twilight butted in, obviously highly interested in learning new knowledge.
"Bows," he started. "Are weapons in which will fire deadly projectiles, called arrows, into your flesh. And sniping is when you try to hit the target precisely from a distance."
"Where did you get those wounds?" Asked an inquisitive Applejack.
Jacob decided to reply with one simple word, "Arrows."
Before he could blink, Fluttershy was in front of him tending to my wounds. However, she wouldn't dare pull the arrows from his flesh, so he had to do so himself. Ripping the second arrow from his own flesh, his health dropped to one heart.
"Crap." Jacob moaned.
"What happened?" Asked a very guilty Rarity.
"I'm on one heart." He replied. The rest of the group looked confused. Looks as thought they hadn't figured out the basics yet. He sighed,
"Can you get me food?"
"Why? Should we do that for you. You don't think we're starving too?" Started Rainbow Dash.
"No, it's not that I'm being greedy, but food will make me heal, therefor allowing me to help you guys."
"It's really okay, Jacob. You don't have to get up on that leg or with that shoulder, yo-" whispered Fluttershy.
"It's not that, Fluttershy. It's that you guys don't know the first thing about this world. I know everything about this world. You could say I grew up here, not completely, but its kinda true. I need to help. I don't want to help, but I need to help." The whole group fell silent at Jacob's statement, but Rarity spoke up again this time, defiant to make up for running and leaving Jacob all alone to fight those two humans.
"I will help, Jacob. Just tell us where we can find food, then we can all help!"
"Ok. Best way would be to kill some pigs, cows, or chickens." Now the group looked in horror at Jacob. "Oh, ok. Forgot you guys kinda lived with them. We may need to kill them soon, just preparing you... Anyway, look for mushrooms or cut some trees for apples." The group looked quizzically at Jacob again. "Heh, forget what i just said and just look for mushrooms. It took about ten minutes for them to get back with approximately thirteen mushrooms. Jacob ate three to restore full hunger, then offered the rest to the others. As the ponies ate, he healed. The wounds clotting and fading as he watched. It was slightly unnerving, even to him. After his health reached halfway, he took an extra mushroom and took off for the edge of the forest. Applejack called,
"Where in tarnation are you off to?"
He couldn't help but giggle. " I'm going to 'buck' some trees. Wanna come?"
"I'm confused though." Replied the orange farm mare.
"Why?"
"There ain't no apples on these trees" she said.
He giggled again. "Yes they are, they're just really well hidden, and rare." He turned and started to punch a tree, Applejack flinching every time He smashed his fist into the golden oak wood. After about ten seconds, he got a block, and the top of the tree stood still, gravity not participating. Applejack was wide-eyed.
"What the buck?" She said. He rolled on the floor laughing hysterically due to her play on 'Fuck.' He was still laughing a minute later watching Applejack try to push the top half over when a puffy-maned, pink, party mare burst out of the hollow of a tree and asked what was going on and who was laughing, an ever-lasting smile on her face. He stood still at the sight, silent. Now it was Applejack's time to laugh uncontrollably. A minute passed and Jacob was still staring at the laughing pink mare. Suddenly he burst into laughter and fell onto the ground as well. Wait. This is bad, this is very, very bad. Applejack noticed the change of expression on my face and questioned me.
"What's up sugar cube?"
"And why the long face?" Pinkie added.
"We gotta get back. There's a reason I needed urgent food and this is why." Jacob stated. Only in time to hear a blood curdling scream.
Jacob, Applejack and Pinkie were all racing back to go help their friends. As soon as they saw the beach, they knew something was wrong. They could tell. The beach was covered in blood stains and there had been a struggle. Pinkie just frowned at me and said,
"What could have done all of this?"
"Couldn't have been an endermen because they've got really small feet. The footprint here is of a zombie's size, but if it were a zombie, it would have killed them all here and now. If it were a skeleton, there would be arrows everywhere. A spider would have left weird footprints, but there's only zombie-like footprints. A lightbulb finally flickered in Jacobs head.
"Ozotade... Come on guys. We're going creeper hunting!"
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Twilight woke to darkness. The only light being of an old fashioned torch in the corner if the room outside of her cage. Cage? Twilight lifted her head. Within other cages next to her were Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity. With Fluttershy in her cage was a black cat with glowing, purple eyes.
"Ah, you're all awake!" Came a voice from ahead of her. A tall man with a short, orange mane and a peach coat like Jacob stood before her and the others. I suppose I know your names, but I'll introduce myself. I'm Ozotade, and I. Hate. PONIES!" He practically leaned close and spat the last word into Twilight's face.
"I know you're the ringleader, but where are the others? There are six of you correct?" He asked, literally radiating hatred from his veins. Twilight chose this moment to lie to Ozotade.
"Nope. There are actually only four of us." She said, trying to sound confident.
"LIES!" He shouted, pointing an irregular box at her. Like that was going to hurt her. She was just as confident until he pressed the button. Two sharp needles shot out from the box and lodged themselves within her flesh between her flank and her ribs causing a large electrical shock to falter and paralyse her body for a few minutes. While she was paralysed, Ozotade ordered two men into her cage with a red hot poker and a large amount of restraints, including a red gemstone cover for her horn. She guessed it would cancel all magic when she tried to use it. She was tied to a metal frame and then asked about her friends she just refused to speak. For that, she got a whip to the face, creating a large gash in her cheek. Fluttershy, Rainbow, and Rarity were almost crying at the sight of their friend being tormented like this. Twilight was asked the question again. This time she admitted that there were six of them, but that he wasn't ever going to find them.
"One, I will find them, and two, LIES!" He said as the whip was brought down on her flank, leading to a deep gash in her right cutie mark. Fluttershy was on the verge of death by crying. Rarity was trying to substitute for her friend, only resulting in herself and her friends getting shocked. Rainbow had given up. Officially. And Twilight was now being tortured with a hot poker.
"Where is your human friend?" Ozotade asked, clearly highly frustrated now.
"I don't know" Twilight screamed as she was hit with the needle-like poker... Then whipped over the cheek again. The cat in Fluttershy's cage suddenly teleported. One minute it was here, next it wasn't. No flash of light, no magic. Fluttershy and Rainbow looked in astonishment, however, Rarity was paralysed again, and Twilight was being tortured.
Ten minutes had passed since the cat left, and twilight had suffered plenty more burns, many more whip marks, and a black eye.
"Last time, where are the others?!" Ozotade spat.
"I," Twilight spoke. "I don't know." Ozotade just glared. He gave a hand signal, and the two men started to take her down from the framing within the cage. Once down, they brought her out, and over to Ozotade. Every finger gripping onto her flank felt like boiling water splattering onto herself. She was at the crude, stone table where Ozotade was standing. He had a smirk on his face. He gave the word and the men slammed her body flat against the stone table. Using all of their strength to hold her head down, she tried to scurry away using he hind legs. Instead, the men just held a foot against her flank. The pain she could feel was unbearable, like an eternal flame that had spread around her body, encasing her in a burning, stinging pain. Her back and sides racked with bruises. Ozotade chuckled as he walked over to the furnaces at the end of the room. As he put some gloves on, he grabbed the large iron fireplace tongs. Pushing the iron pincers deep into the flame, he pulled out a large, white-hot coal. He continued to chuckle, nodding to the men who proceeded to hold Twilight's jaw open. The coal edged ever so closer to Twilight's lips, she could feel the intense heat of it from this point, it burnt before it even touched her tongue.
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Jacob had spent all night killing. Killing. Creepers mostly, but a couple of zombies and skeletons, and even spiders. After their hunt of a night, Jacob tried his powers of Minecraft. He tried to move his hotbar, and practiced this until he could do it fluently, learning that you used your mind to do so. To pull an item from the hotbar, he is to reach towards a non-existant pocket and grab. An item will form from an infinite white aura.
He also learnt how to craft and reach his inventory. After a morning of tutoring, he collected sand with Applejack and Pinkie until he had about a stack, the he head inside.
After collecting all the sand, he wanted to craft TNT. He managed to craft about four, leaving four gunpowder. He made some buttons and switches in order to light it, a dug straight down. He made a two by one shaft, standing on both blocks in case there would be lava or a cave. Seeing that he had reached bedrock, he dug around. He dug almost all day until finding the blue treasured stone of so many players. Diamond. Along his mine for diamond, he found many other stones. He tried to lag pillar up, only to find that it was much harder than he thought in reality. It required jumping with a large amount of force while placing the block below you in the split second of time it gave you. However, he made it up okay and sat in front of the crafting table.
"What now sugar cube?" Asked Applejack.
Well, I can create a Diamond sword, but I was wondering on wether I may be able to combine materials and stuff together to improve a tool or weapon. May as well try," Jacob said. As soon as he did, he found that it was possible, therefor; he created a diamond blade with an iron handle. It was lined with gold and powdered in bright redstone dust. It had a lapis hilt and an emerald gem centring the hilt.
"Looks cool! Can I use it? Huh?" Came a hyperactive voice from behind him.
"Sorry Pinkie, but I just can't have you slicing our heads off," Jacob chuckled. "However, I can still let you light the TNT.
"Oh goodie!" That was all that he heard before she trailed off into her usual conversation attitude. Fast and hyper. Suddenly, Ender appeared. Out of nowhere, he appeared.
"Oh, ok."
"What?!" Both girls questioned in unison.
"Well, usually in minecraft your pets will teleport to you if you're too far away. I guess in this world, your pets will teleport whenever they feel they need to." Jacob said, giving him a scratch behind the ears. However, the cat had other ideas. It bound away hissing as it swam across the ocean. Strange. He thought cats didn't like water. After only minutes of following the cat, they arrive at a cobblestone fortification. Multiple guards were outside, and about three inside. He couldn't help but cringe when he saw twilight getting hit with the whip through the makeshift, iron bar windows. Time to use that bow he made. Having shot down four guards, he went to slit the necks of the two guarding the door. Jacob signalled to Pinkie to lay the explosives He smiled when he saw Pinkie and Applejack placing the explosives around the house. As soon as they'd finished, he kicked the door open and walked inside.
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Twilight's lips were burning, yet not even touching the white-hot coal. Her eyes watering from the stress and pressure of the whole situation. Her friends wailing in the cages behind her. She felt her tears becoming singed on the very coal that would burn her lips into oblivion. She felt the very saliva from Ozotade being flecked onto her face as he laughed. It was a laugh of pure evil. A tormented one at that. She lost all faith in anything and gave into her fate as the door flew off its hinges, revealing Jacob with an elegantly powerful looking sword. He stood in an offensive stance as Ozotade dropped the tongs, allowing the coal to sink into her upper hoof. She squealed out of pain and fell to the floor as Ozotade ordered the two men to rush Jacob. He polished them off as if they were chickens, then collected their belongings before turning to Ozotade, only to find that he had Twilight in his grip, gold sword to her throat. This made Jacob freeze. He dropped his sword in an act of defeat and hung his head. This caused Ozotade to release the purple mare and instead bring his sword up to Jacob's. This caused everypony to gasp as Ozotade brought the blade so close to piercing Jacob's throat that everybody was ably to see a steady stream of blood start to ooze from it. The crazed Ozotade started to speak.
"All of you horses. Get into the cages. Now! Or he dies!"
"Don't do it..." Jacob warned, looking oddly bored.
"Wait, what? Why?" Was all Ozotade could speak befor Jacob started up again. "Pinkie! It's paaaarrty time!" The walls started to blow up. She'd done it! She'd blown the place. Stones started to fly, launching a small amount of shrapnel through the building. Jacob grabs his sword and flees the place with everypony else, only to look back and see Twilight collapsed on the ground. Lava started to seep through the cracked ceiling and pour downwards. Jacob had no time to lose. He sunk his sword back into his hotbar and ran. He ran as quickly as his legs would carry him, willing them to go quicker. The cracks were getting bigger. They were creating a circle over Twilight. No! Jacob broke out into an all-out sprint and dived through the dribbled of lava, singing his back, head and arms. The magma cooling on his back, he made it to Twilight. Picking her up in his arms, he continued to run. He ran as quickly as possible, but the cracks in the ceiling were quicker. Ripples and small streams fell from the crevices, but Jacob just covered Twilight with his own body, for if even one more ounce of harm was dealt to this pony, he would have failed himself... and her. More lava fell, almost completely covering his back. He didn't care, he just wanted to keep the one he loved safe. The one he loved. It was strange to know that but stranger to dismiss it. He loved her and she would never even know because he had died of a melted spine. A sharp stinging in his feet faltered them from working. He dragged himself, using one arm to hold Twilight, and the other to drag them both. He had been lucky he actually tried this at home. Dragging his legs like they were broken. Then only using one arm, then only one arm and a person atop of me. It came in majorly handy when this time came. The group of girls was in front of me. Right in front of me cheering me on. However I know I can't. Now with both my feet faltering and having them stuck in cool magma, I know I'm screwed. I reach out to pass Twilight to Rainbow Dash. All the girls are giving me such a sad, teary look. That's all I know before I'm encased in neon, orange, molten stone. Those faces they gave me, you'd think I was going to die or something. Oh. Okay...
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Twilight came to on a bed of sand. She appeared to be next to a pile of molten stone, but then she looked a bit more closely, and saw a certain sword sticking out of the rock.
"Jacob!" She wailed. Her friends struggling not to do the same. "What happened?" She whimpered.
Rainbow Dash stepped up to the plate, "Y-you were u-unconcious and h-he rushed t-t-to grab you..." Rainbow broke down into tears. Applejack continued.
"H-he kept y-you f-from being t-touched from t-the l-l-lava. H-his legs s-st-stopped working a-and soon h-he w-was... W-w-wa-was b-b-bu-burnt t-to d-death." Applejack whimpered between every word. Twilight was now facedown in the sand weeping every tear out of her body. The tears and sand stung her whip-marked cheeks and the bruises all hurt more than she thought they could. They stayed there for two hours, crying all they could, then decided to head back to the shore where they met. They used the chunk of obsidian that held Jacob's sword as a gravestone and threw a small funeral.
"I r-really liked Jacob. He always knew how I felt and would give it all for me." Twilight said. And they all gathered in front of the gravestone to give their final goodbyes.
"He was a good man."
"Yes he was. He would always listen to me, and even gave his own life to save mine." Twilight replied.
"How much was he truly worth to you?"
"He meant the world to me. We related so well together and, well, I loved him." Twilight explained. A wave of silence blew thoroughly their little conversation.
"That's very nice of you. I'm sure he felt the same way."
"Thank you, Twilight said, turning her head to see exactly who she was thanking. "Jacob?" She almost screamed, embracing the human in her scarred hooves. Causing a chain reaction from the others, which ended in a hug, and more tears, and an endless river of happiness.
"I wouldn't want to miss my own funeral," Jacob said.
"But, how?" They all asked simultaneously.
"Minecraft is a game. Therefor it allows respawning. I forgot to tell you and couldn't ever since you were taken by Ozotade." Jacob explained.
"You know him?" Rarity asked.
"Unfortunately so. He released videos, AKA: Moving pictures, around the world. The ones he released are major hate videos on My Little Pony. By the way, I was hoping to only have to mention this later but... Your whole life is kinda recorded on video and sent around the world. Their expressions shifted from confusion, to uncertainty, to sadness, to anger, to happiness.
"You mean to say that we're famous on your world?" Asked Applejack.
"Er, yeah. Pretty much."
"That. Is. Awesome." Stated Rainbow Dash.
"Yes, you could say so. However, being famous can be a threat. For example, yesterday, we almost got killed by Ozotade... That reminds me, I've got to teach you guys how to use Minecraft." Jacob said.
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Although the day only lasted about two hours, the girls wanted to hear about my world more, so he taught them. He also taught them about Minecraft and how to use it. During the night, he created a small campfire with some wood, in which he'd have to replace every couple of minutes. Twilight sat by the fire next to Jacob.
"So, earlier today?" Jacob asked.
"Yeah?"
"'Jacob was such a nice guy. I loved him.' Ring any bells?"
Twilight blushed up to her ears. She had forgotten about that moment. "I- I was. I uh."
"What if I said I feel the same way for you?" Jacob asked. Twilight's blush was consuming her face in a deep violet-red.
"I. I um. Err. But I. I..." Twilight stumbled.
"Sssh. No need to talk." Jacob said, bringing his face closer to hers. Lips connected as she melted into the kiss. Her tongue dancing agains his. He didn't want for this to end. He wished this moment would go on forever. He wanted to be with Twilight forever. For the bond to never part. The sharp points of his canines making her heart flutter when her tongue roll along them. He could feel the difference of here mouth to his, the spaciousness of it and it felt so good to be in her mouth. She pulled away only to make way for what she needed to speak.
"I love you."Twilight said
"I love you too." replied Jacob.
