The New Map Adventure

by ConsciousHaze196

Rating: everyone
Tags: Twilight Sparkle, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Alternate Universe, Rainbow Dash, Random, Adventure
Length: 1560

Twilight follows Dash as they fight their way through a simple RPG.

Twilight Sparkle is a pony. Will she make friends in a world where everypony else is not exactly a pony, and the route stretches itself up to the castle that lacks only a "Boss" label? Contains "in-universe" Game AI relationships.

Published 2014-04-12 04:00:03 UTC
Last updated 2014-04-12 04:00:03 UTC

Path of the Player

Twilight was nervous. She was bit by a snake in the forest, and was waiting for Celestia to send her an antidote potion through Spike. Then it came. But when she opened it, the bottle exploded, spewing green liquid in all directions. She fell asleep.

She woke up. She saw a clover green valley with bushes, and a brown pathway was going on behind Rainbow's face...

"Who are you?"

Twilight was who got poisoned, so she might just be... No, she was herself, unless... She stood and raised her hoof, she was likely herself now.

"Hello Rainbow. Then why?.." - she spoke.

"Who are you, magician?" - Rainbow's voice sounded from behind Twilight, while Rainbow was running in a tight circle around her. What Twilight was listening to was Dash's hoofsteps, no, Twilight noticed the continuous sea wave sound instead, she ran towards the bushes and saw a small river behind them. Behind the river was a forest, behind there... a castle?

"What is this? Why are you asking who I am? Rainbow Dash, what are you doing?" - she shouted, while Rainbow's head was somewhere in the bushes as she tried to attack them. "Where's Spike?"

"Who is Spike? Who are you?" - asked Dash, smiling, and then she jumped over a bush. She had wings. She jumped over a bush.

"I'm Twilight Sparkle!" - purple unicorn responded. "I am!"

"Cliche's dominion. This place is," - Rainbow said, her voice distorted as she was trying to go through thorns. "Team, enemies ahead!"

"What are you talking about?"

"It's painful! I'm taking damage!"

"Stop, Rainbow!"

"Okay!" - Dash said quickly, untangling her head and sitting down, rotating her head. "No enemies?"

"What happened with me? Tell me. Why I'm here. Why you are here?" - said Twilight, staring at the bush.

"It's not my fault, I can't cross the river!" - answered Dash, pointing to the opposite side with a hoof. "We fought the fight, Captain Cloud Striker exploded! Wonderbolts tried to cross, but fell into the river! We won and lost! What team are you?" - she shouted, just too quickly to remember.

"Who are Wonderbolts fighting with?" - Twilight asked, thinking about how they could fall into the shallow river.

"I don't know. I can't hear them. Are they off mission?.." - she was getting slower and less excited now.

"What, seriously, there's a bridge!" - Rainbow looked around at the mention, - "You're not making sense, where's Ponyville?"

"You said you found the bridge? Where is it?" - Rainbow said, confused. - "Come with me, we'll defeat General Cliche with this hoof!" - she did a martial arts move, "and this one!" - she fell. "and rainbow." - she muttered.

Twilight was now too surprised to move. "This world is not that one" - she thought, "maybe I can help Rainbow here, though..." She turned to see that Rainbow was already up. "I don't see the bridge, though," - Dash said quietly, disappointed.

Twilight went towards the river. "It's here," - she pointed at the wooden structure.

Then Dash ran into her. "Not the water!" - shouted Dash worriedly, "anything but the water, we can't pathfind through that!"

"Fine," - Twilight said. "Wait then." She decided to try teleport, she didn't like being ineffective!

Then she was beyond the river. She waited for Rainbow. But Rainbow was sitting indifferently.

"This is... strange!" - thought Twilight. "Really really strange! What is she doing? What is she?"

"Twilight Sparkle, are you there?" - Dash shouted then.

"I'm here" - Twilight shouted back.

"Heard a voice from there," - Dash thought, "there can't be anything there! Wait, where could she be? "Come out Twilight, your location is indefinite!"

Twilight got angry and levitated Dash over the river.

"What have you done, is this a glitch?" - Dash said with her jaw touching the clover leaves, then suddenly unfolding her wings, "oh look level three!" - she looked at Twilight and then looking at the ground, "but no way, two can't win here, there's Cliche's sister Fluttershy there, she's as strong as ten!"

"Fluttershy?"

"Yes, she is a witch and lives in a swamp. Her main weapon is Spike. She also can block my attacks."

"Who told you that?"

"My father. He wanted to make me a warrior, but because he was a rainbow, my mother Daring Do made me a warrior."

Twilight made a crazy expression. "Rainbow, I don't understand you much today. Let's just go."

They entered the forest, and it suddenly became dark. The area around them was now lit by something only just slightly glowing. They were seeing trees. And they were going ahead. Rainbow's hooves were producing the sound of crumpled paper, Twilight noticed.

"Oops, I hear something." - Rainbow exclaimed, re-enabling Twilight's sense of current events.

Then, suddenly the dark fog disappeared, and Rarity descended from above, yelling in Royal Canterlot voice.

"I defeated Grinderscream the Vicious, I defeated Spike the Dragon, don't you come near my house!"

"Oh, Rarity?"

"Me is Fluttershy, now prepare I'll attack this way!" - she said, now with soft, almost Fluttershy's, voice.

"Is that a... tri-"

She was launched backwards by Fluttershy's hoof.

"What have you done with Spike?" - Twilight asked, lying on the ground.

"You mean this?" - she pointed at her steel horn, "I've defeated a sorcerer with it!" - she began another attack straight at Twilight, interrupted by flying Rainbow.

"Rainbow Wham, level one," - she announced, hitting Rarity repeatedly.

"Spike, block." - said Fluttershy coldly. She lowered her head, and the combo was broken.

Twilight started to come closer to Fluttershy, who began walking backwards. Then she stopped and said, now with Rarity's voice, "yes, come. I'll make a dress out of you."

Rainbow fell on her, knocking Fluttershy down. "It is on." - Fluttershy said as Fluttershy, quietly.

Then, everything was falling down as she jumped across the area with great speed, her hooves lit by yellow light. Twilight was now teleporting herself, trying to avoid the attack. "What say thou to this." - Fluttershy said quietly, stopping.

"Red!.." - Dash said, kicking her from the air, that hit her metal spike and tore the ribbon holding it on her head. Fluttershy fell.

"Stop." - Fluttershy said. "It's not over, just... wait! Homing rabbits." Nothing appeared. "Idea~" - she switched to Rarity. "No MP? Fine, I resign. You can go, just leave me alone."

"Twilight, what do you say?" - Dash asked, doing an air loop among the trees.

"I agree." - Twilight spoke. "But I wanted to ask her, just who is..." - she looked to where Fluttershy had been, but there was no one there. "Where is she." She was annoyed now.

"Who?" - Dash said.

"Fluttershy."

"She is," - Dash started, "I don't know!"

"Let's go then" - Twilight shouted, standing in place. "Hopefully we'll find Celestia. Celestia knows what's going on."

"Who is Celestia?"

Twilight shook her head.

Twenty minutes later, they were approaching the castle. At the entrance, they saw the billboard reading "I'll defeat you today, Rainbow Dash!" and another one with a big tooth.

"What a jerk!" - Rainbow said, "He built a wall over the entrance. Luckily I can fly now."

She did. Twilight walked around the obstacle through the gap to the side where Cliche was getting the stones for the new wall from. She tried not to be behind Dash, worried about possible traps. Of course, when they passed a long corridor and went into a big room with candles on brown walls and a throne, the grate fell behind them. A big armored unicorn appeared.

"I am the villain," - he said. "You'll be defeated now. Look, I am beginning to defeat you." Then, he ran in a straight line where Twilight was standing ten seconds ago, and into the wall, breaking the glass furniture.

And he started repeating that move, shouting "Look, I'm defeating you!" and hitting the walls.

Eventually, Twilight Sparkle got bored, and hit him with a purple magic ball. His mask exploded, revealing the face of her brother, who then tried to hit the wall again.

"Shining Armor? Oh Celestia. Rainbow, let's go!"

"We can do this, Twilight. He can't even damage us!" - Rainbow was preparing to attack.

"He's my brother. I can't fight my brother!"

"We're supposed to fight him. You're not saying you're switching sides?"

"I have an idea."

She tested her magic ability, and teleported Dash and then herself out of the room.

Surprisingly, she teleported into her library. It was quiet again. Slowly, she looked at the wall and saw shelves. With disbelief, she looked at a shelf and saw books. Finally, she looked at books and felt satisfaction.

Then she heard Rainbow shout, "Twilight! What level is this!"

Author's Note

This was a project for some time, but then existence of that story http://www.fimfiction.net/story/180847/celestia-vs-cleverbot suddenly inspired me to write this. Aside from games that everyone knows (that is, ones from Crytek, Id, and Square), this references book version of Alice in Wonderland a bit.

Also, something that didn't go into the story: Cliche is a son of Black Dart (evil mastermind) and Orifice (crystal pony). Rainbow Dash was born in a temple where a rainbow was holding Daring prisoner, but then became friends with her.