Twilight watched the city race by as Mar drove through the city. It had been a bit since the PKs had showed up but then it’s hard to show up when you are dead. Twilight couldn’t believe that the biped could take a life so easily and not show any issues. While Twilight was thankful to Mar for saving her she couldn’t get over the fact her new friend was a killer.

Twilight blinked, did she really just think of the biped as a friend despite what she had seen her do and only known her for all of twenty minutes? Twilight looked over the women behind the wheel. She honestly wasn’t sure what she thought about her as she watched her turn the wheel and worked the peddles. IT wasn’t hard for her to figure out how to work the carriage by watching.

“Well here we are. “Mar suddenly said and Twilight looked out the window at a tall brown skyscraper across the street from a construction site. Mar turned the car into a small roadway that went down to a garage door that opened when the car got near it.

As the car drove into the door Twilight blinked and suddenly the carriage was sitting in a large white room filled with other carriages. Twilight looked around trying to figure out how they were suddenly in the room so fast and parked in the blink of an eye. Sighing she climbed out of car when Mar did and closed the door. It was then that she noticed the car was completely repaired as well. This place made less and less sense the longer she was here.

“Well welcome to my Garage Twilight, home of the cars I use the most.” Mar said proudly and Twilight looked around the room. There was a large box shaped car painted black with red trip and a fin on the back. A smaller box shaped one that was grey, a nearly flat dark green car. Two different types of two wheeled cars and what took up most of her vision was a massive black box shaped one with huge tires.

“Like them?” Mar asked as she started to make her way towards the front of the garage.

“Um…they look…nice?” Twilight said a little uncertain.

Mar laughed at this. “Nice is one way of putting it, I usually use the term badass but that’s just me.” She said as she approached a set of double doors in a small alcove beside the garage door. Twilight slowly followed the female biped as she pushed a button and the doors opened reveling an elevator.

Carefully she stepped into the elevator and the doors closed. There was the whir of a machine for a moment then the doors opened into a short hallway with a door at the other end. Twilight walked up to the door and used her magic to open it and walk in not entirely sure how the elevator knew where to take her.

Inside was a very speciose apartment with large windows that gave a decent view of the city outside. “Like it? Was the best placed apartment in the city, only a few blocks from an Ammu-nation, a clothing store and a Pay n’ Spray and had a near straight shot to the airport. The furthest place being the Pay n Spray.” Mar sad as she walked down the steps into the living room, Twilight watching her having no idea what she was talking about.

“Um...that’s good.” Twilight said causing Mar to sigh and look back at her.

“You have no idea what those are do you?” She asked and Twilight couldn’t help but shake her head causing Mar to sigh again. “Jeez you”re such Noob.” She said before heading over to a bottle of amber liquid and undoing the stopper before pouring a glass. “Well an Ammu-Nation is where you go to buy guns and ammo; they have everything you’ve unlocked. As a level one you will only have the starting pistol unless you got the DLC, in which case you will have access to some heavier hardware so you can compete with higher level players a bit better.”

Mar drank the glass in one go. “As for the airport, that’s where you get planes and helicopters, there are a few other places you can get them but I prefer the airport as I get a larger selection.” Mar said as she returned the stopper to the drink. “As for the Pay n Spray it is called Lis Santos Customs now but I’m way more used to calling it Pay n Spray, you got there to fix your cars, customize them or even sell them for some quick cash.”

Mar faced Twilight. “I don’t think I need to explain what clothing stores do I?” She asked with a bit of amusement in her voice and Twilight shook her head. “Ok good, cause I think I’d hate be helping someone lacking basic common sense.”

Twilight nodded and started to wonder around the apartment while Mar stood in the living room not moving at all, Twilight found this odd but decided not to question it as this time do to the strangeness of these creatures.

She made her way down the stairs to the lower floor which seemed to be a bedroom. Twilight wondered around the large bedroom, closet and found the bathroom down there as well. From what Twilight could tell this was a very nice apartment if it could even be called that as it was the size of a small house.

“Hey Twilight where you go?” She heard Mar call from the upper floor and Twilight made her way back up.

“I’m here, was just exploring your home. It’s huge.” Twilight said as she reached the top of the stairs.

“Well it is one of the high end apartments so it better be big, whenever you get enough cash you can get your own, though I do recommend buying one whenever you get the chance whether it’s a cheap one or not.” Mar said as she walked over. “Anyways it’s just the two of us today as my friends are busy.” She said as she started to head for the door. “So I’ll show you the basics Twilight and then we will do some Missions to get your experience and money.”

Twilight nodded and followed Mar out as she walked through the door and joined her in the elevator going down to the garage. “Now then…what shall we take out?” Mar said in thought as she looked over her collection of vehicles. “Can’t go wrong with the Insurgent.” She said as she approached the large black box of a vehicle and climbed up inside as Twilight went around to the other side and climbed inside of the passenger seat.

The large car moved forward a bit and Twilight found herself blinking again and they were suddenly outside of the garage. Mar hit the gas and the Insurgent rolled forward up onto the road taking a right as it did so. “I’ll take you to the airport so there is plenty of room for you to practice driving a bit.” Mar told her as they drove down the road.

Twilight could only nod and then jump as Mar plowed into another car without even trying to avoid it, the much larger Insurgent easily pushing the smaller vehicle out of its bath. “And learning on the Insurgent I won’t have to worry so much about you destroying my car.” Mar said with a chuckle as she continue to drive without avoiding the other cars on the road, choosing to just pushed them out of the way.

Twilight could only watch from the passenger seat and form the conclusion that Mar had no regard for others’ lives as they got onto a larger road and made their way toward a large building at the end of it. They took a ramp down and after driving through a fence Twilight saw a large runway similar to many around Cloudsdale but much, much larger.

There were also other strange vehicles sitting on large Hs painted onto the ground. Mar drove past these and instead headed out onto the run way and went to one end of it. “Here we are, this will be the perfect place for you to get used to driving a bit.” Mar said as she got out of the car, Twilight following suit. “No Twilight get behind the wheel, you are going to drive.” Mar said with a bit of exasperation in her voice.

“Oh…right.” The purple mare said before going around to the other side of the car and climbing it, Mar doing the same on the passenger side. Twilight looked over the wheel and peddles, she was too short to reach the peddles so she’d need to use her magic but she could grip the wheel easily.

“Well? What are you waiting for?” Mar said from the passenger seat. Twilight gave a nervous giggle before using her magic to press the gas down. The large vehicle lurched forward and slowly gained speed till it reached a decent pace by Twilight standards and nowhere near how fast Mar had driven it. “Don’t be afraid to drive at full speed, it would do good to learn how to drive at top speed as you’ll need it on missions and to avoid other players at times.” Mar commented.

“Um…I’m just getting a feel for it is all. “Twilight said focusing on keeping the Insurgent under control. It wasn’t long before they were approaching the end of the runway and Twilight got her first experience in turning a large vehicle in that it didn’t turn very well.

“Tap your breaks to help make sharp turn easier or let up on the gas a bit, trying to take a sharp turn at high speed is just asking for trouble.” Mar explained and Twilight nodded. She did as told and found the truck turned much easier and before long she was driving around the runways with ease and even tried driving at full speed when Mar insisted she do so.

After a bit of Driving Mar spoke up. “Ok I think you got the basics, I’d recommend practicing on your own with other cars to get the feel for them as each car handles slightly differently than the others. Now we are going to test your shooting.” Mar said and was quiet for a moment. “There I set a way point on the nearest Ammu-nation with a gun range, just follow it.”

“You want me to drive there?” Twilight asked stopping the truck in the middle of the runway.

“Well yeah, you need experience on actual roads not just clear runways, trust me it will be fine. “Mar reassured. After a moment Twilight nodded and slowly drove towards the road, she blinked when she saw a glowing purple line on the road, that defiantly hadn’t been then before.

“What’s the purple line?” Twilight asked as she stopped the truck again.

“That’s just shows you the way to the way point, just follow it for now till you learn the city lay out and know the short cuts.” Mar said and Twilight nodded at her once more before she started driving again. Driving on a busy road was much different than on the runway and despite Twilights best efforts; she ran a few cars off the road and heard a few of the other drivers yell curse words at her.

After a bit they arrived at the end of the purple line and it vanished. Twilight could only assume they reached the Waypoint and stopped the truck. When Mar climbed out it only confirmed Twilights theory and she followed Mar as she walked inside of the building they were parked next to.

“Well don’t you two just make a cute couple?” The biped behind the counter said crossing his arms and Twilight stopped mid step.

“Just ignore him, they always say that when two people walk in at the same time.” Mar said with a laugh as she walked to a side room. Twilight had to hurry to catch up. Inside was a blue circle on the floor. “Ok we are going to do a shooting range, you’ll be against me so don’t take it hard at the points, I have way more experience then you.” Mar said. “Just let me set it up and I’ll invite you.” She said as she stepped into the circle, she took her phone out and faded out.

Twilight stared wide eyed at the space Mar had occupied a moment ago and was only brought out of it when her pocket vibrated and beeped at her. Reaching into it she pulled out the black rectangle and saw the icon in the middle had a one next to it. Clicking it she saw there was a message.

Mar342 has invited you to a Shooting Range Event
Accept?
Yes No

Twilight eyed the question wearily, the last time she said yes to this thing she found herself in this alien word, what would happen this time? But then this was from Mar so it shouldn’t be too bad, Mar didn’t seem to care about the death she caused but she did go out of her way to help Twilight and save her from the Player Killers. Bracing herself Twilight clicked YES.

The grey circle appeared once more and a second alter Twilight found herself in a void by herself. In front of her was some sort of menu and a list beside it, she could see Mar’s name with the word HOST beside it and a ninety-seven on the other side. Under that was Twilights name with the word JOINED beside it and a one opposite that, so that’s what Mar meant about her being a level one.

“Seeing as you just started we will use the starting pistol so you get a feel for it, later we can move up to other guns as you get them.” She heard Mar’s voice all around her and the ninety-seven was replaced with three curved lines when she spoke.

“Um…alright, not a problem.” Twilight said and saw her one be replaced by the same lines. After a moment the void vanished and Twilight found herself standing by a counter with the silver L she found in her pocket a while ago held in her back out in front of her, beside her stood Mar holding the same silver L.

“Well good luck Twilight. “Mar said and in front of them a countdown started in front of them.

THREE
TWO
ONE

When the countdown vanished red and blue targets dropped from the ceiling. Twilight jumped when Mar held up the L and it made a loud bang noise and a target vanished, She watched as Mar rapidly snapped between targets, the L making the same bang each time only pausing when something drop out of the bottom of it and Mar replaced it with another one.

“You know to actually practice shooting you need to shoot Twilight.” Mar said as she snapped form target to target sounding amused. Twilight nodded again and looked at how Mar worked the L before she looked down the sights, the L seemed to snap her attention to one of the targets and Twilight carefully pulled the small bit of metal hanging down, yelping as it made a bang and the target vanished. “There you go, though you don’t need to be scared of it, it’s perfectly safe. “Mar reassured her.

Twilight nodded and took aim again, each time she aimed her vision snapped to one of the targets and slowly as she pulled the metal more and more the bang didn’t make her jump as badly till it didn’t bother her at all.

After a few minutes the targets retracted and Twilight blinked in confusion, she had just gotten the hang of the silver L and now the targets disappeared.

The room suddenly went dark and words appeared in front of Twilight eyes.

Match Lost

Twilight blinked and she saw a number appear next with the word CASH above it and it went from zero to five hundred. Then that was replaced by a blue bar that filled slightly towards the number 2 on the opposite side of the one with the letters RP beside it.

After that twilight and Mar found themselves back in the Ammu-Nation back room. “Well that was fun, sorry for kicking your ass so badly but that’s how it works, you got the gist of shooting down so I think we are ready for some missions.” Mar said as she started to head for the doors.

Twilight followed a bit behind her and when Mar stepped through the door there was a beeping and then the ground under her exploded sending her soaring into the air. She came down hard a few feet from the door and Twilight ran over to her limp body. “Oh no, oh no, please Celestia no!” She said with some panic.

When she got to the body she saw under it was a spreading pool of crimson and her friend didn’t move. Twilight’s vision blurred as her eyes filled with tears as she dropped onto the ground beside the dead body of her friend and started to cry. She watched through her tears as the body faded away leaving just a pool of blood behind. She was vaguely aware of footsteps walking up behind her.

“Um…Twilight, what are you doing?” Mar asked standing behind her.

Twilight spun around and looked at her friend alive and well, Twilights eyes went wider then they had ever been before and she was filled with both happiness and confusion at her friend being ok. “Oh thank Celestia you’re alive!” She said happily.

“Um…yeah…I just respawned doe the block…” Mar said a bit uncertainly staring at the purple unicorn. “Anyways…ready for some missions?”

Twilight blinked and wiped her tears away, confusion over riding all other emotions. “Um…yeah...sure one question…what do you mean ‘Respawned?’”

Author's Note

I know some of you or all of you, honestly I have no idea, probably know how to play the game so to you this chapter may be annoying to read or it may not, depends on who you are I suppose.

anyway next chapter is Twilight on some low level missions.