Twilight really wanted to defeat the King Slime. But she didn't really have much to do it with. In terms of weapons, Twilight had a large sword, which worked wonders on some enemies, and a boomerang that she wasn't too skilled with. And Twilight knew that just running backwards on that large, kind of flat plain wouldn't work forever, especially with all the enemies that could appear and get her killed. Twilight was pretty sure she didn't like dying.

So when the message that Fodder had arrived graced Twilight's presence, she mentally jumped for joy. now she'd be able to learn a little more from him!

"Oy!" She heard him shout. "Sparklebutt! Get over here!"

A little peeved at Fodder's language, but still as curious as always, she trotted off in his direction. She noted he looked slightly different now, by the new brownish shirt he wore. She also noted with great interest the wings on his back which seemed to be made of space, somehow. "Hello, Fodder. What do you want?"

Fodder gave Twilight a huge grin, which could be commonly associated with insane psychopaths. "I have obtained the ultimate awesomeness!" he cried out.

Twilight wasn't sure how awesomeness could possibly be ultimate, or even what he meant. She quickly reminded herself that this person was kind of crazy, which allowed her to inquire about his statement. "What do you mean, 'ultimate awesomeness?'"

Somehow, his grin got even wider. "Behold! The Meowmere!" As he said that, he pulled out a giant white sword sword with a cat's face on the hilt. She was about to question why such a sword even existed when he swung it, sending a meowing rainbow kitten bouncing out. As she watched it, it made rainbow explosions wherever it landed, until finally disappearing.

Fodder snickered slightly as he sheathed his sword somewhere. "Okay, that's enough from me. How about you, little one?" He kneeled down, almost looking like he cared.

"Well," Twilight was unsure what she wanted to say. She really just wanted answers, but wondered if he would even give them. "Um, I defeated the Eye of Cthulhu?"

Fodder made a "hmm" sound as he started to stroke his chin. "Well done. It's commonly the first boss any player faces, unless you're lucky enough to get a slime rain." He looked around a bit before continuing. "You don't have any arena, though. How did you possibly defeat it?"

"I just ran back and forth on the ground. And what's an arena?"

"You got lucky, didn't you? Well, don't count on it. Soon enough, you'll have to face bosses that like to shoot lasers at you." He leaned in. "And, trust me on this, those bosses REALLY like lasers. Just so you know."

"O-kaay. And the arena?"

"Ah! Right! I think I'll just show you. Just hold on a sec." As Twilight watched, a strange, mechanical saucer appeared in a flash under Fodder, which promptly lifted him up and sent him zooming away. Twilight wondered why he needed it when he had wings, but decided there were more ridiculous things when she remembered his "Meowmere."

After a few minutes passed with nothing interesting happening, Twilight was suddenly startled when something fell on her. She looked back to see Fodder wearing that crazy grin again. "Gotcha! Oh, and, about that arena..." Fodder pointed behind him into the air. When Twilight followed his pointing digit, she narrowed her eyes in confusion at the huge series of stacked platforms floating in the air. She looked toward him to say something, but he shushed her and walked toward the platforms, motioning for her to follow.

"This arena is going to be your boss-battling friend for a while to come, at least until you get yourself some Cosmic car keys, like myself. Come." Fodder led Twilight to a single pillar extending all the way up to the first platform. Twilight stepped around it and say it wasn't a full pillar, but one pillar with a bunch of sloped pieces of wood facing towards it. She looked towards Fodder to see him walk toward the sloped side before being whisked away at an alarming speed.

After a few seconds, Fodder fell back down and started to speak, motioning at the pillar. "This, my dear friend, is a hoik. The way it works is by putting you inside a block. The world then pushes you out of the block because that's just not right. However, in pushing you out, it pushes you into another block strategically placed to send you in a certain direction. It's pretty fun, unless you get stuck in sand."

Twilight was dumbfounded. How could he possibly get inside a solid object in the first place? She certainly let her confusion show on her face.

Fodder chuckled at her confusion. "How about I let you see how it works? Go on, get in the hoik."

Twilight didn't really have anything to lose attempting this. So, taking a deep breath, Twilight stepped forward into the hoik. She felt herself suddenly pulled up, but then also felt a sudden stop. She noticed she was still pretty close to the ground right now.

"Huh." Twilight looked back to see Fodder as he stared at the hoik. "You don't have the same dimensions that I do, do you?"

Twilight wasn't sure how to respond. She simply got out of the hoik and turned toward Fodder. She watched as he got into his floating disc thing and flew up, destroying all of the sloped blocks. Then he came back down while placing regular blocks of wood. Again, he zoomed up, only now he wielded a golden hammer, which he used to change the blocks into slopes. Finally, he fell back down and motioned for Twilight to go up again.

Again, Twilight stepped into the pillar. Now she could see the land falling away from her, instead of just stopping at the beginning. She looked up to see the many platforms racing up to her, which almost made her think she was going to splat against the roof. Thankfully, she wasn't splatted and instead made her way up onto the the first platform. Twilight heard the whirring of Fodder's craft as he came up in front of her.

"Sooo, whatdja think? Pretty cool, right?" He nudged her for a response.

Twilight took a moment to respond. "I, uh, don't know? This is kind of strange."

"Hah! Only a day in the life of a player." Fodder shifted slightly. "Well, I'm done here. Oh, you wanna know something?"

"Sure?"

Fodder leaned in close to Twilight. "I'm writing a really funny story which I'm going to get back to once I leave. It's about a purple pony who gets stranded in an alternate universe and dies a lot. I think you'd really enjoy it."

"Okay..." Twilight wasn't sure why he Fodder shared that information, but decided to think nothing of it. At least, until the relevance of what he said finally reached her. "Wait, what?"

Twilight was too late. Fodder had already left, leaving Twilight very confused and a little angry. Twilight was pretty sure she now knew what put her in this place. And she wanted to tell him she didn't like what he put her through. But then Twilight looked around at the giant arena and realized she probably wasn't going to be able to do that anytime soon. Giving an irritated sigh, Twilight teleported back home. Maybe she might be able to cool off by building some more houses.

Author's Note

Slightly shorter chapter this time. We learn that Twilight is super-small, that Fodder is a prideful asshole, and that it's fun to mess with reality. Tune in next time on ReptileSpaceJewFlatLand!