My Little Ponystuck

You are now TWILIGHT SPARKLE.

You have no idea why her name must be in all caps and why 'you' are her, when you are not, as she is her instead.

Her name is TWILIGHT SPARKLE. No, you will not be allowed to name her, as you would probably just be ridiculous and name her something such as HYSTERICAL DAME, or such nonsense.

This purple pony- err, purple UNICORN that is- is expecting to receive a message from a very good friend of hers who is getting her and her four other friends to play a game with her. It's a strange new beta for a game she signed her and her five friends up for.

As the young mare she is, she has a variety of INTERESTS. She loves to read BOOKS. God she loves BOOKS. She's so lonely. But yes, she loves reading. In fact, she was even moved into a library called GOLDEN OAKS LIBRARY. She runs it or something, she has no fucking clue. Spike the Dragon, her number 1 assistant, also lives here with her, helping organize the place. She STUDIES as well. She's pretty much a genius or some shit. That's why she's Celestia's FAITHFUL STUDENT, which she makes note of at the end of every FRIENDSHIP REPORT you send to Celestia. She doesn't do it as much now, though. She's not so sure why. Oh, well.

Oh, look, a pal is writing her a letter. Not really, of course. That's just a silly way to say a friend is attempting to contact her over Letterpal. It's a funny new contacting system via computer recently created. She finds it absolutely ridiculous, but it does help for long-distance conversations, and, apparently, especially for the new game her and her friends plan to play. 'Sstble' it's called. Anyhoof, best not to keep her pal waiting. Horse puns.

— amazingAcrobat [AA] began writing a letter to bookEnthusiast [BE] —

AA: twiiiiiii

BE: Hello, Rainbow Dash.

AA: you ready for sstble?????

BE: Yes, I am very much ready.

BE: Is this 'Letterpal' truly necessary for the aforementioned activity?

AA: yes

AA: well need it to keep in close contact

AA: its fast easy etc

BE: Alright. It seems quite silly, but I suppose it shall be necessary for the game.

AA: thats the attitude i wanna hear

AA: the others are setting up now pp is all ready to go

BE: So, the pattern is to be BE (me) <- CC <- GA <- AA (you) <- GT <- AC <- BE (me, again), correct?

AA: yup

AA: so complicated.

BE: Not entirely. It's a very linear structure and easy to remember.

BE: How exactly are we to play this game?

AA: idk

AA: there arent any instructions with it

BE: Really? I had no idea from when I checked. No wonder I stated my inability to understand the workings of the game.

AA: shut up

BE: In any case, you'd enjoy this. No rules, no restrictions, you can work as you please.

BE: And meanwhile, I will learn how it works through experience.

AA: egghead

BE: Whatever.

BE: I'll be right back, sorry. Spike is heading to the Crystal Kingdom in a bit and I'm helping him prepare.

AA: k bye

— bookEnthusiast [BE] sent the letter to amazingAcrobat [AA] —

Twilight Sparkle trotted down to the main floor of the library, where Spike was locking his bag up. "Already done? Aww... I was looking forward to helping. Heh... You sure you can get there without my help?" Twilight Sparkle smirked, ruffling Spike's head spines.

"I'm not a little kid anymore!" He laughed, swatting away at her hoof. "I'm a big dragon now!" Spike then gave her a big hug. As big of a hug as a baby dragon could give, anyways. "I'll be back soon, don't worry. You can use that silly new Letterpal to keep in contact with me!"

"Hehe, yeah~!" She nodded, then nuzzled his cheek.

"The real question is, can you survive work without my help?"

"I've got Owlowiscious, don't I?" She gestured to the Owl in question.

"Hoo," Owlowiscious hooted.

Twilight tilted her head. "Uh, you."

"Hoo."

"Anyways..." Twilight rolled her eyes. "Need help carrying your bags to the train?"

"Nah, I've got them!" Spike assured, lifting the bags up and walking out the door. "See ya, Twilight!"

"Bye, Spike!" Twilight Sparkle waved, the door closing behind him. "Alright, now to get this party started..." She hurried back upstairs to her room and sat at her computer. However, CC was not online yet, so she could not begin just yet. In the meantime, GA was on, so she decided to talk to her instead.

— bookEnthusiast [BE] began writing a letter to gatheringApples [GA] —

BE: Hello, Applejack.

GA: Howdy twilight! Whats up?

BE: I'm just waiting for 'CC' to get online.

GA: CC? Twilight dont expect me to remember all them fancy initials.

GA: Its bad enough pinkie pie wanted us to keep a pattern among the username initials, which thank celestia you and spike broke...

GA: ...by using the same damn initials as each other but just switched.

BE: That was completely unintentional, I swear. On my part, at least.

GA: Whoo whoo all aboard the idiot wagon.

BE: In any case, I'm just waiting for her to get online.

BE: What're you up to?

GA: Just setting up over here since shes my client player.

BE: This sure is going to be one interesting game.

GA: Its still the beta version so im sure all the bad stuff will be worked out later.

BE: Yeah. And it's just a computer game, so how bad can it be?

GA: Have you picked your modus or strife specibus yet?

BE: My what?

GA: Have yall even installed the game yet?

BE: Not yet. I assumed that it'd be a straight shoot into the game.

GA: Well its not. First you gotta get your pick your modus and strife specibus. The modus is what you keep anything you collect in and your strife specibus is what you use to fight with.

BE: Hmm. That seems easy enough. Let's see...

— —

Twilight inserted the disc. She went through a few typical installation pop-ups, scanning them and reading them carefully. She then game to one that she'd have to assign her Modus. There was a massive list of Modus types, each loosely explained. She decided to choose 'Tree Modus', as alphabetizing and trees were two subjects with which she was very familiar. Then she was to choose her Strife Specibus, for which she quickly picked Bookkind for obvious reasons. Alphabetizing, trees, books... Yeah, a good representation of her living in a fucking library treehouse. Whatever.

— —

BE: Alright, I have chosen Tree for my Modus and Bookkind for my Strife Specibus.

GA: Nice! I picked stack modus and hoofkind. I think rainbow dash picked hoofkind too. Im not sure.

BE: The Modus holds various items in a certain manner while the Strife Specibus is for use of weaponry. So, this is an RPG of some sort?

GA: I suppose so. Im still hazy on all the details myself.

BE: Likewise. I still can't believe Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash convinced us to play this...or how they got us to test for a secluded beta version...

GA: Well learn once the game starts so dont worry.

BE: Yeah. I wish Pinkie Pie would hurry and get on. The wait is straining me.

BE: I don't wish to rush her, but still.

BE: !

GA: Well speak of the devil.

GA: Shes on.

BE: I noticed.

BE: Time to get this started already.

GA: Great. Yall do your thing. Ill be here talking to rainbow dash.

BE: Alright. As soon as we're finished, the chain will begin and you can get her into the game.

BE: See ya.

— bookEnthusiast [BE] sent the letter to gatheringApples [GA] —

— bookEnthusiast [BE] began writing a letter to cupcakeCelebration [CC] —

BE: Where've you been?

BE: I've been waiting for you.

BE: So has Applejack, and I assume the others, too.

CC: sorry!!!

CC: i was busy! :(

CC: but now im not, so we can start!

BE: Perfect. Now we can get somethings settled here.

CC: you have your modus and strife specibus, right?

BE: Correct, I have.

CC: yay!

CC: lemme guess...

CC: tree modus and bookkind?

CC: ;)

BE: ...

BE: Lucky guess.

CC: hehe!

CC: im psychic.

CC: >:)

BE: And I am ballerina. Can we just start the game already?

CC: right, right, sorry!!

CC: just assign me as your server player and ill assign you as my client player.

BE: Okay.

— —

BE quic- I mean, Twilight quickly finished the registration with 'cupcakeCelebration' as her server player. The loading screen came up with a strange symbol constantly morphing along with a rapidly flashing list below of quick phrases, most of which are, at least partially, nonsense. That line sounds familiar. Whatever, it doesn't matter.

Finally, the loading finished. Nothing changed on Twilight's side, so she checked in on Pinkie Pie.

— Open Letterlog —

BE: I don't understand. There's no screen popping up?

CC: dont worry! it worked! just watch!

BE: Watch what?

CC: hmmmm...

CC: your bed!

BE: My bed?

BE: Like...my 'bed' bed? The one here in my room with which you have no contact?

CC: yes. :)

BE: ...well, you ARE the server player.

BE: Okay, I'm looking at it. Now what?

CC: this.

BE: What...

BE: ...the...

BE: ...heck?!

— —

Twilight watched as a strange, massive, pink 'cursor' appeared out of thin air. It lifted up her bed, then dropped it back down. One of the legs ended up broken as a result.

— Open Letterlog —

BE: What was that?!

CC: that was my cursor, silly!!

BE: You mean...that this game basically affects reality?

CC: mhm~! :3

BE: Is it magic?

CC: kinda! i think. i dunno! there is magic somewhere in the game!

BE: Interesting...

BE: Alright. Let's really play this game. Now I'm really interested.

CC: yay!!!!

BE: What's next?

CC: time to deploy some stuff!!

BE: Excellent.

— —

CC: Deploy Totem Lathe.

And so she did, right against the bookshelf in her room.

Twilight Sparkle doesn't know what the heck this thing does, but it looks neat!

— Open Letterlog —

CC: you have a lot of room in your library treehouse.

CC: that'll make it much easier!

BE: It's proper name is Golden Oaks Library.

BE: But yes, I make sure to keep the place very well-kept and organized.

BE: What exactly is this device? It bares similarities to that of a sewing machine, but I presume such a purpose as sewing is not the function of this device.

CC: nope!

CC: it makes a special totem thingy that you'll use later, don't worry!

BE: Alright.

— —

CC: Deploy Cruxtruder.

This one was placed in the middle of the first floor. Plenty spacious!

CC: Deploy Alchemiter.

This was placed down in the basement. Pinkie Pie had to move all of Twilight's other machines to make room. Hope she doesn't mind that they broke!

— Open Letterlog —

BE: I feel the floor shaking. I presume you are dropping more intricate equipment in my home.

CC: hee hee! yup!

BE: Alright. I'm gonna go check them out.

CC: kk! talk to you later! ill still be able to see you, though. :)

BE: That's not creepy at all.

CC: ikr?

— —

Twilight Sparkle headed downstairs, finding the Cruxtruder in the large center. She looked it over. From her observations, he easily presumed the large cylinder in the center was a sort of tube-like container. She turned the wheel, finding the lid to wiggle a bit, but was stuck on top. She frowned and attempted to use magic to simple pull it off, but found it stuck. She then sighed and looked around. Twilight looked through the book shelf and ultimately pulled out The Elements of Harmony: A Reference Guide. She easily smacked it down onto the top. Like a pen, the top was pushed down, then popped back up and fell onto the ground. Just like a pen. The perfect simile.

A fuchsia, circular light emerged from the tube. Twilight immediately could tell it was an intelligent entity as it floated around her like a living creature. At least it wasn't a parasprite. She now turned the wheel, and violet cylinder emerged. Twilight Sparkle extruded ONE (1) CRUXITE DOWEL.

LET US CAPITALIZE EVERY WORD.

Nah.

Twilight looked back at the floating object. She was becoming so curious in it. She understood nothing of it or its purpose, nor the Cruxite of which she did not know the name. She understood the purpose of the Cruxtruder, though. It was to release both these two objects, and to serve as a timer given the timer counting down at about under 4 minutes. What was the timer for? She had no idea. She'd learn soon, though. Turning, she found a strange card on the floor. She picked it up and looked it over. How curio- holy shit where'd it go. Twilight looked around, thinking she dropped it, then looked up. There was a card floating before her, and it had the PRE-PUNCHED CARD in it. Was this part of the game? It must be. Was this...her Modus? She looked down at the EoH:ARG book she had, then focused on it. It disappeared, along with the card, but she knew where it was as well. She could sense them now in a pocket space to which only she had access. This was incredible, beyond anything she'd come across. She had to find out more. Later, anyways, the clock was ticking down.

For now, though, her focus was on the fuch- hey, where'd it go?

Suddenly, there was a flash of light.

Oh shit.

The KERNELSPRITE has been prototyped with OWLOWISCIOUS.

"Hoo."

"Oh, Sweet Celestia..."

— — — —

You are now PINKIE PIE.

HAHA, CLIFFHANGER. But you probably know what happened anyways. At least we'll get through the characters quickly. And we'll be back to Twilight shortly, anyways.

Anywayd, you are now Pinkie Pie in the past, but not too far. A few minutes or so.

You are just chilling in SUGARCUBE CORNER, baking and shit. You love to bake. It's like your talent. But it's not. Your talent is PARTIES! Yay! You love parties! You ju-

Wait, no, shit. You're not Pinkie Pie. Ugh! So confusing. You just look so much like a pink horse! I think.

Pinkie Pie is just chilling in SUGARCUBE CORNER, baking and shit. She loves to bake. It's like her talent. But it's not. Her talent is PARTIES! Yay! She loves parties! She just loves throwing parties for everypony, as well as being their friends. She also loves to SING, SMILE, and SING ABOUT SMILING! YAY! FUN! Oh, and fun. She loves fun. Fun is fun! So is EATING, and boy does she eat! She loves to eat all sorts of sugary sweets, and not-so sugary sweets, too! She also makes a goo babysitter occasionally! Pinkie Pie tends to ramble. She's so random! She even forgets to mention all these as her INTERESTS, which they are! Wait, no, fuck, I forgot to mention them as that. Eh, whatever.

Anyways, she's in the kitchen baking a cake and has completely forgotten that today she will be playing the game Sstble with all her bestest bestie best friends! She's been so busy cooking that she's just plume forgotten. What a silly pony!

Suddenly, her hair buzzes. You see, she already set up Sstble on her computer and has her Modus and Strife Specibus already. Her Modus is 'Hair', in which she has stuff stored in cards spread through her fluffy hair. It's a random selection and she just hopes she can remember she gets the right object. Oh, and look at that! She does! She pulls out her mobile phone and sees her good friend GT is sending her a letter!

Well, actually, her name isn't really GT, but that's half the fun, right?

Not like you couldn't tell who it is right away.

— glimmeringThread [GT] began writing a letter to cupcakeCelebration [CC] —

GT: Ah, hello, Pinkie Pie~

GT: Are you ready for today's game~? ;)

CC: game?

CC: oh yeah!!!

CC: i almost forgot!

CC: but i have to babysit. :(

GT: Babysit? You agreed to babysit the Cakes and distract yourself the day we're starting the game you convinced us all the play.

GT: Oh, darling, what ever will we do with you~?

CC: i feel so bad now...

CC: but its only for a few hours, so no worries! theyll be back in a few hours, and we can start the game then!

GT: I do hope so~ You've just gotten us all so curious to play this game, you and Rainbow Dash~

GT: You even got Fluttershy to want to play it, at the chance of her being last to go in, and Applejack finally bought a computer simply to play it~

CC: i know! im so happy she did!!

GT: Anyways, it'll be a while before I'm even in the game, as I go in between Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy.

CC: teehee!

CC: youre in between rainbow dash and fluttershy!

CC: *hint hint, wink wink*

GT: Now, Pinkie Pie! That is no way for a lady of your age to act!! Highly in appropriate!

CC: you didnt de

— cupcakeCelebration [CC] is no longer writing! —

Oh, no!! Pinkie Pie accidentally dropped her phone into the pot of hot water that she just so happened to be using to boiling! Now her phone was ruined! :( She captchalogued the RUINED PHONE. She also went and captchalogued the POT OF HOT WATER.

Pinkie Pie decided to check on the babies. She captchalogued their bottles off the counter and trotted upstairs to the babies' bedroom. She smiled as she watched Pound Cake smashing away at a tower of blocks, but frowned as she saw Pumpkin Cake teething on one of the blocks. She quickly exchanged the block for the POT OF HOT WATER. ...OH, FUCK, NO.

Now Pumpkin Cake is crying and Pound Cake is scared. Nice job.

Pinkie Pie immediately took Pumpkin Cake to the bathroom and set her in the shower, turning on the cold water to cool her off from above. Pinkie returned to the bedroom and gave the crying Pound Cake the BROKEN PHONE fuck. Now Pound Cake is breaking the phone even more. Ugh. You set the milk bottle by him and return to the bathroom. Pumpkin Cake is a bit more cooled off now...but also dead. Oh shit. Oh shit. Oh no. Sweet Celestia no. She just killed a filly. No. Noooo. Oh no. The Cakes are going to flip.

Haha, ok, make-believe time is over! Oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god. Pinkie Pie quickly captchalogues PUMPKIN CAKE. She has an idea for later. Good. Yes. Good, good...

Not good not good not good not good.

The Cakes will definitely notice their daughter is missing. Sweet Celestia, this is so morbid. Fuuuuck.

Okay. Okay. You can do this. SHE CAN DO THIS. Sorry. This wasn't supposed to happen. Noooo...

Okay, Pinkie heared the front door open. Looking down the stairs, she sees it's the Cakes. They're home earlier than expected. Pinkie rushed to her room and got on her computer. Twilight was on. Good. Time to get down to business. She quickly rushed Twilight in through the game, knowing that, witch her mind, she'd be able to- whoops. I said witch. I meant with. With her mind, she'd figure everything out and be able to handle things on her own. Once Twilight left for downstairs, she dropped a pre-punched card near Twilight and let her do her thing. Time to get Applejack to get her into the game.

— — — —

Later, anyways. You're Twilight Sparkle again now.

— Open Spritelog —

TWILIGHT: Owlowiscious? Is that you?

OWLSPRITE: Hoo.

TWILIGHT: You seem to have merged with the strange sprite object.

TWILIGHT: I'm unsure if I should be fascinated or frightened. I'm feeling particular about both.

OWLSPRITE: Hoo!

TWILIGHT: Hoo, indeed.

OWLSPRITE: HOO! HOO! HOO! HOO!

TWILIGHT: Now you're scaring me.

— —

Owlsprite suddenly hurried upstairs to Twilight's bedroom. Obviously, Twilight followed him. He began freaking out and flying around the telescope. Confused, Twilight looked through the telescope and oh look a meteor headed straight in her direction how lovely. Twilight panicked and backed up into the Totem Lathe, which Owlsprite was now flying around. "This was all part of the game. Of course," Twilight Sparkle realized. She turned and looked it over. There was a card slot. She ejected the PRE-PUNCHED CARD and inserted it into the slot. She then set the ONE (1) CRUXITE DOWEL between the two points on the lathe. The lathe carves ONE (1) TOTEM. "Good. Now what, Owlsprite?" She asked. Owlsprite took off downstairs. Twilight followed suit, and they were in the basement in seconds. She passed the Cruxtruder and saw she had less than a minute. Fuck. Twilight Sparkle hurried down. There was the massive Alchemizer. Seconds to spare, she set the Totem onto the small platform next to the larger one and watched. A scroll appeared. She grabbed it, ran back to her room, and grabbed a quill. She knew what to do.

Somehow, she knew what to do.

And she did it.

She wrote a letter.

And it was sent.