Twilight Sparkle and the Terrarian Trials
Chapter 4: In Which Crazy Stuff Happens
Previous ChapterNext ChapterTwilight stepped back to admire her newest creation. It may not have been the prettiest of things, but she hoped it might serve its purpose as "NPC" housing. She had added two other rooms on top of the original house, and put some platforms on the side to be able to jump up. She figured NPC's would be able to jump just as high as she could, so she wouldn't have to worry about making nice stairs.
Halfway through building, Twilight was notified that a merchant had arrived, which she confirmed when she looked back and saw him wandering around. She decided to take a break from building to talk to him. Just as she feared, he didn't say much, and unfortunately didn't have much to sell. Twilight didn't think she would be able to buy anything anyway, as she just didn't have enough money for the interesting-looking items. Which was kind of surprising, considering the Brain of Cthulhu dropped a lot of coins. Now that she thought about it, though, she remembered seeing an overwhelming amount of just copper.
But that wasn't too important compared to what Twilight had done. Now that Twilight looked upon the completed project, at least for now, Twilight was notified of the nurse's arrival. Looking back, she saw the merchant and nurse were chatting. Although the chatting just seemed to be images appearing above their heads.
Twilight looked up and saw that night was approaching, decided she would spend the time underground. From her previous experiences, she knew there were a lot of traps that would kill her if she wasn't careful. She also knew she needed more of those heart crystals, and maybe some more ores.
So Twilight went over to her mineshaft, jumped down, and went back to exploring. This time, she would go in a different direction then she did last time. Twilight hoped she might find something interesting there.
As she walked down the path, placing platforms and removing traps when needed, she had to fight off a few bats. They were relatively easy to deal with when one didn't have a sword that was barely a few meters long. It occurred to twilight that it was strangely easy to swing it, even though it appeared quite massive.
Finally, Twilight came across something that was very interesting, which came in the form of an ice cave. Twilight added the fact that snow and ice were forming into her "Strange" folder, in the subfolder right next to "Pinkie Pie."
In the distance, Twilight could see a new type of slime coming towards her. This slime looked to be made of ice, and had some spikes jutting out of it. As she watched, the slime started shooting more ice spikes right at her, prompting her to dodge. Unfortunately, she dodged right into a dart trap, poisoning her and knocking her into the ice slime. Suddenly, Twilight felt really cold and had stopped moving with the speed she had before. Realizing she wouldn't be able to run away, Twilight steeled herself to fight the icy slime.
Ponyville
The brain caused a lot of destruction before the ponies responded. The few ponies trying to fight back were shocked to realize nothing they did affected the brain at all. They were then surrounded by the really hard to hit eyes which slammed into them, and sometimes right through them, which disoriented them at best. The ponies' attempts to hit the eyes failed spectacularly, as they moved way too fast to even follow them. Except for one pegasus.
"Ha! Take that, you large eye thing! And that!" The only pony really capable of fighting back was the pegasus known as Rainbow Dash. With her mighty efforts, she was able to chase down and destroy a few of the eyes. The rest of the ponies noticed this and started to cheer her on, even while escaping the eyes.
The brain seemed to notice this as well, as it pulled all of twenty-something eyes to rush at Rainbow from every direction. Unable to focus on more then a hooffull at a time, she was quickly brought down to earth.
A few moments later, she attempted to get up, mumbling insults while she did. "It's gonna take more than an oversized pile of mush to-"
She was inturrupted when she felt something really cold hit her in the back. She tried to turn around, but was suddenly very slow. She could feel numbness spreading through her body. Just as she was able to see her attacker, an icy blob thing, it shot an ice bolt at her, freezing her entirely. Seeing its prey immobilized, it decided it wanted to rest on her head. As it bounced along to its goal, it was suddenly caught by a lasso thrown by another pony known as Applejack.
"Ha! Get lassoed, ya varmint!" Applejack was one of the ponies that tried to fight the brain and it's eye things. However, after a lucky hit from Applejack, the eyes started to stay away from the ground so they only had to deal with the pegasi. Her only option then was to use her lasso to try and stop them. To her dismay, her lasso just fell right through them.
And, as the slime looked at the lasso holding it, it realized it was a slime and could just melt right through. It doing so caused Applejack to become really frustrated that her lasso just didn't work. She got the bright idea to buck it, but was unable to do so as the slime froze her like it did with Rainbow.
The slime, now being free of pesky ponies, continued its journey towards its first victim, where it did a mighty bounce onto her head. Now all it had to do was constantly shoot both ponies with ice spikes, and it could keep itself entertained for days!
And then a few bats came along. Recognizing the bats as the ones that appeared as the slime was fighting the Player, the slime welcomed the bats with open spikes, and, together, they had fun with their captives.
Meanwhile, the brain had finally gotten tired of terrorizing the unsatisfyingly small town. A while back, it had noticed an interesting castle on the side of a mountain. With its destination in mind, the brain called back all of its eyes and set forth, hoping there might be more inhabitants there to terrorize.
Terraria
Twilight stood victorious over the remains of the slime and the ice bats which appeared halfway through. Somehow, through overwhelming odds, Twilight had managed to come out victorious, albeit almost dead. She wondered if that would be a recurring theme during her time here in Terraria, as Fodder had called it.
Making her way through the cave system, Twilight came across another abandoned building. Inside, she could see a chest made of ice. Opening the chest, Twilight was able to see a number of potions and coins, as well as an ice boomerang. Twilight wondered what purpose a boomerang could serve in this world.
Well, I saw Fodder using a yo-yo against that Brain. Twilight looked at the edges of the boomerang, and noticed they looked quite sharp. Maybe there might be even more ridiculous things in this world.
Twilight heard the schlorping of another slime nearby. She decided that would be the perfect opportunity to test her theory. Looking at the ice slime, which didn't have any spikes in it this time, she threw the boomerang, watching it hit the slime and knock it back. A few more throws, and the slime was dead. Twilight noted it didn't take nearly as long as with the sword, and decided she would use the boomerang from now on.
Twilight was then alerted to the rise of a blood moon. Curious to see what a blood moon looked like, Twilight teleported back home. She was currently occupying the guide's house, since she didn't have any house of her own yet. She realized she had never talked to the nurse, so she decided that would be the perfect opportunity to do so.
Stepping outside, she was able to take in the reddish tint of the moon, and of the surrounding area. She could see zombies and the flying eyes outside, but she could also see red zombie-like creatures and floating sacks of eyes, both of which were dripping blood.
Twilight didn't want to spend any time outside at night. But she also realized she had to go out at night to get fallen stars to increase her magic potential. She didn't know how she would access that potential, however, as she didn't have her horn anymore. Maybe she didn't need a horn to access it.
She noticed one of the bloody eye monsters coming towards her. A few hits from her boomerang caused it to explode like everything else had. Shrugging, twilight jumped up to the nurse's house.
"Hello? Nurse?" Twilight didn't want to barge in, so she just stood outside the door.
"I don't think I like your tone," the nurse responded, rather rudely.
"Um, I'm sorry?"
"WHAT?!"
Twilight almost jumped off the edge of the platform due to the surprising hostility of the nurse. "I said I'm sorry!"
"Why are you even here? If you aren't bleeding, you don't need to be here. Get out."
"I just wanted to talk! I don't need your stupid healing!" As soon as Twilight said that, she covered her mouth in surprise. She didn't realize she had become so angry all of a sudden. "Look, I really am sorry."
"Why are you even here? If you aren't bleeding, you don't need to be here. Get out."
"Um, you just said that."
"Why are you even here? If you aren't bleeding, you don't need to be here. Get out."
"Stop repeating yourself!" There was that unexplained anger again. Maybe it had something to do with this blood moon.
"Why are you even here? If you aren't bleeding, you don't need to be here. Get out."
Unbeknownst to Twilight, a few of the flying eyes snuck up on her. Acting quickly, Twilight threw the boomerang at them, but unfortunately missed. Now half dead, and seeing the boomerang required careful aiming to work, Twilight switched back to the sword. At least the sword didn't need aiming.
"Well?" Twilight called out. "I'm bleeding now!"
As soon as she said that, she felt a whole lot better. She also noticed her money supply had diminished slightly.
"That didn't hurt too bad, now did it?"
"Yeah, yeah," Twilight said. She decided dealing with the nurse wouldn't be worth the trouble, and dropped down from the platform. It was then that she noticed the guide's door was open, and it looked like something from outside opened it. Fearing for the worst, Twilight raced inside just in time to see a blood zombie kill the guide, resulting in a message saying Maxwell was slain. When the strange zombie turned towards Twilight, she lunged at it and killed it as quickly as possible. She then looked at where the guide was before he died. Nothing remained at all.
Twilight exited the building, closing the door behind her. She looked out at the sea of monsters shambling around and decided they didn't belong here. She realized that would be the perfect opportunity to practice with her boomerang. Pulling it out, Twilight descended into the mass of monsters and began her hunt. They would all die for what they did, and for what they stood for.
Author's Note
A whole bunch of stuff happens!
Just something I'd like to mention real quick: Just as Twilight was changed when she entered Terraria, so too do the monsters entering Equestria change. By that, I mean they pretty much become more intelligent and individualistic. Yep. Poor ponies.
Edit: A whole bunch of bug fixes/typo corrections.
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