What Was the Legend of the Mobtrocity

Act II: This World Just Keeps Getting Crazier

At this point in time, Ty was a little confused about the state of the world. Sure, three ponies that entered the world—Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy—were with Gingerbread and Vincent, but he swore he remembered another one entering the world. Where were they?

He began his hunt right after he spoke to the group of five one last time. He flew all the way to Millstown first, hoping that it might have rested there.

Millstown was completely vacant of any ponies.

He then checked a few other towns nearby. Guraanurgaa, Derp Village, and Harigan Harbor were all vacant as well. When he checked the land and sky nearby the towns, he only found trees, animals, and sand.

He then checked Sparker Plains for any ponies. Since he knew that Fluttershy had wings, maybe this other pony had wings too and flew over the soul door. It was possible, so why would he not check the plains?

Norgray, the town for Sparker Plains, was also vacant, and so was the Universal Graveyard not so far from it. However, there was one place that was unusually huge for the plains. It was an area designed to be possibly one of the most well defended and guarded fortresses in Bercotta.

It was the Nethift Castle.

For some reason, darkened clouds surrounded its top. The walls shifted from basic nether brick to a blend of nether quartz and stone brick, and the entire castle itself stretched much higher than usual. A lava moat wrapped around the castle, too. Along with that, the entire cube complex created by the Mobtrocity that gently flew over the castle disappeared. What happened to the entire castle? Ty knew very well that this was not an intended addition.

So, as the good spectator he was, Ty examined the entire castle a little closer.

What he found was several walkways, courtyards, towers, and walls with strange monsters guarding them. Most of them were basic monsters like zombies, creepers, blazes, endermen, witches, skeletons, and more. They were the usual monsters found in nearly every monster group in Bercotta, but that was not the main focus.

First, some of the monsters were unusually large. There were a few zombies with huge muscles and two gigantic iron axes as tall as Gingerbread. There were endermen with diamond armor, two diamond swords, two diamond shields, and four arms. There were large creepers with red eyes and mouths, nearly chock-full of exploding power, and radiant witches that floated above the ground in their own majestic aura.

Second, someone placed strange armor and insignias on all the monsters. Every soldier wore some sort of chestplate or helmet that always possessed a light blue hue. The armor looked like dyed diamond armor, but Ty knew very well that dyeing diamonds was an impossible feat. Either on the top of helmets or the front of chestplates lay a common insignia. It was simple, really. It was a small puff of cloud with lightning shooting from its bottom. The lightning was composed of three rows with a single color each, each color being red, yellow, and blue.

Ty ascended upwards into the clouds to find even more of the castle. This part was mainly composed of several disconnected and gently hovering pieces of itself. In the center of it all was a blocky circle with a darkened and electrified throne on it, constantly shimmering in darkness and blasts of concentrated lightning.

However, that was not what interested Ty the most. It was the alicorn mare that was currently standing next to that throne and speaking to three four-armed endermen. She was none other than Empress Rainbow Dash herself in all her glorious glory.

Ty hovered closer to her and eavesdropped on her small conversation with the endermen. He definitely knew that the Empress’s voice was rather young compared to what he expected. ”So, you think we should attack this, General Hiss guy?”

“Of course, milady,” one of the endermen agreed through his slick and distant voice. “He is the mutiny of the rest of our army. He loathes our superiority and prefers to hide in his Mobtrocity shell.”

Empress Rainbow Dash lowered her head to listen to the enderman more clearly. ”What can destroying him do for me? Will it prove how great my army is or what?”

“It will force the Mobtrocity to rethink their allegiance with their so called god. They will then join the Army of Loyalty with great gusto.”

”Well, that sounds pretty nice. Maybe I should consider...” Her voiced trailed off as she turned her head to Ty. She cocked her head as she eyed him carefully. ”Who the hay are you?”

Wait, you can see me? How do you know I’m here?

”It’s kinda hard to not notice a green thing in a suit floating in midair.”

Ty turned off his invisibility to present a humanoid creeper wearing a party hat and an expensive tuxedo. He then folded his arms and slightly tilted his head upwards.

So, I bet you’re the runaway pony that changed the Nethift Castle, hmm?

Empress Rainbow Dash narrowed her eyes even more and snarled. ”I want an answer, now. Who are you, and how did you get here?”

Quite the rude one. I’m Ty, an overseer of this entire world. If you do not know, I have access to everything in this world, no matter how near or far. I want to know what you did to this place.

The Empress glanced around the floating pieces of stone and smirked. ”I improved it, bub. The way it looked before was not even close to cool. I made it better by adding my own touch to it.”

Okay then. How did you even do this?

”Well, when you’re an alicorn like me, you pretty get these amazing powers that can do all of this in a second.” Empress Rainbow Dash sneered at Ty with a menacing smile. ”You know, even if you can come up here and meet me, you’re still trespassing in my space. I think you should be taught a lesson about coming up here and dropping in on my conversation.”

Ty spread out his arms as if he was about to hug the open air.

Hmph, go ahead. Do your worst.

Empress Rainbow Dash’s horn glowed in power as a hazy darkness covered it entirely. The dark magic then shot from the horn and struck Ty’s visible body. He remained unchanged and unhurt from the attack, destroying the Empress’s smile. ”Okay, that was not supposed to happen. You were supposed to feel a lot of pain from that strike.”

Ty floated down to the Empress and struck the three enderman down in three consecutive swipes from a diamond sword.

”Hey!” the Empress lashed at Ty. ”Those were my soldiers you just attacked!”

Ty completely ignored her words and proceeded with his.

You see, I’m not an ordinary person. I can control virtually everything you see, possibly even you in a second.

The Empress was a tad bit worried from Ty now. ”So what, you’re gonna fight me or something?”

Ty shook his head and disintegrated his sword into thousands of pieces.

Actually, no. I think I can work something out for you. Oh yes, may I have your name?

”It’s Empress Rainbow Dash for anypony who’s not me. Also, what do you mean work something out?

Ty floated over to the Empress a little closer and stared into her eyes.

Well, you want to keep this army, right?

The Empress nodded slowly.

And you like to see some explosions, carnage, fighting, all that good stuff, right?

She nodded again. ”Uh-huh.”

Well, I’d like all that to happen too.

The Empress shook her head and looked at Ty with a bewildered expression. ”Wait, what? You want me to keep my army?”

And cause some mayhem too while you’re at it.

”Why are you being so accepting of me? Aren’t you willing to fight me?”

Look, I like you, and I know what you can do in this world. I’d like to see you succeed and become a legend here, and I’ll help you do it.

”You will?” the Empress doubtfully questioned.

Yup, why wouldn’t I? Plus, I know an area you might want to place some of your troops in.

The Empress smiled a little as her interest climbed. ”Go on, what is it?”

I think you should add a few of your not so buffed troops to Sparker Plains and Harigan Harbor. They’ll be very helpful for your reign.

”What about the explosions, fighting, and carnage? Where will that fit in?”

It’ll happen once your troops encounter a few adversaries along the road.

The Empress’s face contorted to a blend of curiosity and suspicion. ”What adversaries?”

Oh, nothing. Just a group of five warriors planning to overthrow you.

Her eyes narrowed once again as she smiled viciously. ”Oh, so a few punks think they can stop me, huh? Well, I bet my loyal troops can crush them into pancakes in no time.”

Ty floated away from the platform as he turned on his invisibility again.

Well, I may not be here by your side, but I’ll be watching over you from afar. I’ll make sure you stay in rule, alright?

The Empress lost her small, triumphant smile. ”Okay, then. See you some other time, I guess.”

And with that, Ty flew back down to the land and left the Empress by herself.

She reviewed Ty’s actions and words in her mind. ”Well, that was weird. If he is like this almighty god or something, then I should probably not anger him.” She flew over to another enderman nearby and glared down at him. ”You, bring some of the weaker troops to Sparker Plains and Harigan Harbor.”

The enderman saluted the Empress with his two right arms. “Yes, milady. It will be done.”

}———————————————————————————————————{

The quintet composed of Gingerbread, Vincent, Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy recently completed the Sky Temple. They now had two obsidian blocks, officially aggravated an entire army of monsters, and escaped from the temple. Since they had to escape in another way than climbing down to the ground, they came up with an excellent solution to reach the ground.

However, falling from hundreds of blocks to escape the Sky Temple alive might not be the most promising plan...

“Woo hoo!” Pinkie exclaimed as her body sailed through the open sky. She rolled her body around like she was about to perform a cannonball. “This is the best day in this world ever!”

“I can’t believe you jumped off like that!” Twilight screamed through the acceleration on her body. “You know very well that this is completely crazy!”

Vincent kept himself in a leisurely laid back pose as he drank the beautiful sight of the entire world. “Hey, Twilight pony, it might be insane, but you got to admit how comforting the fall feels. Just hover over some water and enjoy the trees and clouds.”

Twilight twisted her beady and panicky eyeballs to Vincent. “Comforting? We’re falling from Celestia knows how high and about to smash into the ground! What’s comforting about that?”

Vincent shrugged. “It’s comforting once you accept that you might die. Might as well enjoy the view instead of losing your head over it.”

Gingerbread kept to himself as he concentrated on landing into the perfect patch of river. He couldn’t afford to meet another embarrassing death.

Pinkie cartwheeled through the air and over to Twilight. “Come on, Twily, stop worrying and enjoy the fall!” Pinkie returned to her spot in the sky and resumed her diving position. “Wheeee!”

The ground was now fifty blocks from the group now, striking fear right into Twilight’s heart. She closed her eyes and clenched her teeth as she hurled another thirty blocks to it. Vincent still relaxed despite his situation, Gingerbread prayed over his trajectory, and Pinkie screamed playful thrills.

It was then that the group smacked right into the river. Twilight, Pinkie, and Vincent fell down to its bottom and slowly rose upwards, and Gingerbread was insanely unlucky, again.

Gingerbread fell from a high place.

Pinkie swam up to the surface and spewed a stream of water out her mouth. She walked onto land, shook the water off her body and fluff, and looked over at Gingerbread’s body. She then giggled to herself and soon fell over in an army of laughs. “He, he died by a, rogue lily pad!” She kept laughing until it hurt her lungs and throat to continue. She then breathed out calmly while still holding back several more giggles. “I know it wouldn’t have been funny if this was Equestria, but in this world, I can’t help it! There’s no penalty for dying!”

Twilight shook her body to rid herself of the lingering water particles in her coat, mane, and tail. She then eyed Pinkie with slight speculation. “If I recall from not so long ago, we still don’t know if ponies can come back from death. I don’t even know if Vincent can die!”

“Eh, I’d rather not discover that for myself yet,” Vincent noted as he tapped water out of his skull. “This bloke is far from death anyway. I’ve already cheated death by becoming an undead, so I believe I’ll cheat him again.”

“Well, I think we don’t have an objective right now,” Fluttershy proposed as she hovered down to the ground. She faced Twilight as she fiddled with the foliage. “Twilight, do you know where we should go?”

Twilight put a hoof up to her chin and gave a baffled look to Fluttershy. “I have no clue. All I know is that we have two obsidian blocks, and the sun is moving again.”

Pinkie stared at a nearby sign and hopped to Twilight in a flash. “I think we need to go to Harigan Harbor! It’s the only town in the Great Forest we didn’t visit yet!”

Vincent groaned in disgust as he spat a gout of water at the river. “Ugh, Harigan Harbor? The same place that bloody pig who calls himself the mayor lives?”

“Why are you so against the town’s mayor?” Fluttershy asked with a tilted head.

“Harigan is a greedy con man who I suggested to be a target. Sadly, Jason told me no and threatened to expose me to Faygrail if I did.”

“He can’t be that bad of a guy, right?” Twilight fake smiled in hope of not seeing a horrific villain.

“Does conning an entire kingdom out of its treasures sound good to you, Twilight pony?”

Twilight gulped down some worry and laughed nervously.

Only three seconds afterward, Gingerbread crashed into the water with a splash. He surfaced and hopped onto the land with the rest of the group. “They get me every time!”

“Well, now that we are all here, we can go to Harigan Harbor,” Vincent deadpanned.

“Wait, what about Ty?” Pinkie popped up next to Vincent, startling him a tiny bit.

“He’ll be with us soon,” Gingerbread assured. “He likes to disappear and reappear whenever he wants to.”

With worry only under Twilight’s belt, the group began their journey to Harigan Harbor. They fought a few slimes here and there, but there was nothing too serious or dastardly. The group knew that they found the harbor once they found some stairs, a few houses, and another checkpoint.

Twilight Sparkle, Gingerbread, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy’s spawnpoints have been saved.

The group walked up the dark oak stairs and past four guards without any quarrels or halts. They got a closer look on the birch buildings and the locals. The citizens walked around casually, or as casually as someone standing still or running in circles could be. The group kept walking around the few wooden roads until they reached a bigger house with a sign above its door and two guards guarding it. The sign read ‘Mayor Harigan’ on it.

“He named a town after himself?” Gingerbread questioned. “He already seems like a narcissist at this point.”

The quintet opened the door and walked into the house. Twilight had to shove an iron golem’s body out of the way to even see Harigan.

“Ah, visitors!” Harigan exclaimed. His baldness littered his head, and a white robe encased his body. A few wrinkles ran along his face and neck, and his forehead wore a thicker than usual unibrow. “What brings all of you to Harigan Harbor?”

“We think that you could be of some help,” Twilight respond kindly. “Do you have some sort of artifact that can be very useful for us, like a key, item, obsidian block, anything?”

Harigan smirked and nodded. “I, in fact, have two special artifacts fit for adventurers. One is called the Sparker Key, a special item you can use to travel to Sparker Plains.” Harigan took out the head of a deceased creeper and tossed it around. “I also have this head called the Acid Stopper. Both of those can be yours for only the low, low price of two hundred dollars.”

The ponies’ eyes widened as Vincent huffed and stared at Harigan. “See? It’s the same Harigan I remember long ago.”

“Can we make an arrangement?” Twilight pleaded to Harigan. “We don’t have enough, not even a quarter of that offer.”

Harigan massaged his chin. “Well, you can give me fifty raw fish from the harbor, get my blacksmith working again, and collect my well earned fifty dollars from Lemmy. If you do all of those, I’ll drop the price to only ten percent of the original offer. It’ll be a steal!”

“Whatever.” Vincent walked to and opened the door. “Let’s go and give this bad egg his dirty money.”

The quintet left the mayor’s house and searched the area for one of the three requests. Gingerbread pointed to the small house on their right. “Lemmy must be over there.”

The group, or just Twilight and Gingerbread due to the cramped space, walked into the house. They both kept their eyes on the one villager with a black apron. Twilight decided to ask first. “Do you happen to be Lemmy?”

“No, I’m definitely not Lemmy,” Lemmy barked back at Twilight. He darted his eyes from wall to wall.

“Alright, I can play this game.” Gingerbread smiled as he pretended to crack his knuckles. “Are you not Lemmy?”

“Yes, I’m not Lemmy.”

“Do you not own fifty dollars?”

“Yes.”

“Do we not have permission to collect that from you for Harigan?”

“No.”

“Will you not give us the money if I tell you that Harigan will beat you senseless if you don’t give it?”

“Yes.”

“May we not have the money?”

“Yes.” Lemme threw five platinum coins at Gingerbread. “Please come back here some time.”

As Gingerbread and Twilight left the house, Twilight stared at the house and back to Gingerbread. She gave a confused frown and a cocked head to him. “What just happened there?”

“I did not get the money,” Gingerbread replied with an invisible smirk.

Twilight’s eyes quivered a little as she processed what was happening. “But, he gave you five coins. How can you not have the money?”

“It’s because I did not collect the money, that’s why not.”

“Wait, what?”

“We did not interrogate him just now. He was not Lemmy, and he did not have the money. We did not complete that objective yet, so we need to finish it.”

Twilight looked like she was about to pull out her mane. “What, are you, saying?”

“Can’t you see that he’s getting your knickers in a twist?” Vincent interjected. “He’s saying that Lemmy was lying by telling you in his own way.”

“Oh.” Twilight blushed and lowered her head. “Sorry, it’s just that you make no sense sometimes.”

“Expect that from me,” Gingerbread replied. “At this rate, you’ll never understand me.”

Vincent turned his skeleton to the boats. “So, let’s get Harigan his fish an–”

“I already have the fish,” Pinkie blurted next to where Vincent’s right ear would be. She then dropped fifty fish onto the floor.

Gingerbread stared down at the fish and back to Pinkie. “How did you get all of that?”

“I found four chests that had twenty fish total, and I found the rest in the water! They’re easy to find if you look for them.”

“But, you don’t have a fishing rod.”

Pinkie’s face dropped from happiness to confusion. “Why would I need a fishing rod?”

“Sorry, Gingerbread,” Vincent started as he put a bony hand on Gingerbread’s shoulder, “you cannot outweird Pinkie.”

“Um, where would the blacksmith be?” Fluttershy asked as she tapped Vincent’s left clavicle.

Vincent walked a few blocks away from the group and pointed to the big building on the other side of the town. “It could be that building over there. I do see a bloke that looks like a blacksmith in there.”

Gingerbread walked over to Vincent and looked at the building. “Well, let’s try it then.”

The quintet walked over to the building and opened its fence gate and birch door. Gingerbread walked up to the blacksmith with hair on one side of his head.

“May I help you?” the blacksmith asked as he twiddled his covered thumbs.

Fluttershy walked up to the right side of Gingerbread. “We heard that you haven’t been working for some time. Is there a reason why?”

The blacksmith sighed and nodded. “Yes. It’s also the reason why my hair is like this. You see, a band of Mobtrocity soldiers came in here, took my materials and tools, shaved this side of my head, and left like a bunch of goons.”

“That’s terrible! Do you know where they went?”

“If I remember correctly, they always stay between the coast and the local pet store. Be careful, though. I heard that they have a special skeleton with them.”

“We’ll take care of those meanies for you!” Pinkie chirped as she hopped out of the room. The rest of the group followed her.

The group swam, or flew, over to the coast since it was only a few blocks away. They walked up onto the sandy coastline and searched through the trees. They found a gathering of monsters in the distance that were, fighting each other? The group crept through the trees and got as close as possible to see the scene.

“Heretics, heretics I say!” rasped a Mobtrocity marksman. “Heretics must die!”

“Us, heretics?” shouted a zombie with a light blue vest, a wooden sword, and glowing red eyes. “We’re the Army of Loyalty! A loyal subject is no heretic!”

“How can you call betraying General Hiss and our god loyal? You must die!”

“Not today! You will die for your bigotry!”

The zombie and three more with the same attire and weaponry beat down the marksman. Three more marksmen stood back and pelted the zombies with several arrows. A spider painted light blue struck and felled the marksmen. A few goons fought back against the zombies with the help from a raggedy skeleton with glowing white eye sockets. It fired four arrows at the zombies, slowing them down. The goons then struck and punched them until two fell to the ground. The other zombies, as well as a few skeletons with light blue caps and glowing red eye sockets, overpowered the goons and countered the special skeleton. All of the Mobtrocity in the area died from the light blue monsters.

One of the zombies turned to the quintet. “Hey, are those what I think they are?”

“Wha–oh.” Another zombie was dumbfounded from the sight.

“Those things look a lot like the Empress. Wait a minute, one two three fou–hey! They’re going to overthrow the Empress! Kill them, now!”

The zombies rushed towards the group, wooden swords in hand. Pinkie spun into battle and slammed all of them back into the skeletons in the back. Twilight fired a few arrows into the skeletons in the back, and Vincent chopped up the leaping blue spider. Gingerbread performed three critical hits and multiple slashes on the skeletons. Fluttershy kept herself away from the fighting and simply watched the weak carnage.

After all of the monsters dissipated into smoke and loot, the quintet checked the area for the blacksmith’s supplies. All they saw was a lone chest with a few pieces of dropped rotten flesh next to it. Pinkie dove into the chest and tossed out a few metal items, weapons, and tools out of the chest. She then hopped out of it and punched it thousands of times in three seconds. The chest broke and bounced into Pinkie’s inventory. She then sucked up all the metal objects and organized them in her inventory.

How did you do that? That’s not supposed to happen!

“Hey,” Gingerbread started bluntly, “you’re back.”

Yes, I’m back, but I can’t believe the first thing I see when I come back is Pinkie destroying a chest. Just, how?

“What are you talking about?” Twilight asked to somewhere.

You are not supposed to be able to destroy these blocks. Alright, let me test something. Twilight, break that piece of log in the tree next to you.

Twilight faced the tree next to her and smacked a sword at it.

Use your hooves.

Twilight put away the sword and punched the tree multiple times in a constant rhythm. Nothing happened.

Alright. Pinkie, break that block.

“Okay!” Pinkie hopped over to the tree and smacked it five times. A single block from the tree broke and rammed into Pinkie’s inventory. The tree now had a noticeable gap in its trunk.

Twilight shook her head and narrowed her eyes at the tree. “How is the tree not falling? How is it even staying like that?”

“Minecraftian physics, that’s how,” Gingerbread answered. “Some things obey gravity, others don’t.”

“That shouldn’t be happening at all. This one tree is defying all physics that I have studied in my life.”

“Well, this is normal in our world, so deal with it.”

“I can’t ignore something that’s so, out of place and confusing! Does nopony else understand how crazy this is?”

“Personally, it doesn’t matter to me,” Fluttershy answered with complete honesty. “If zombies exist here, then I can see this happening, too.”

“Happens on a normal basis,” added Vincent. “There’s nothing wrong with it at all.”

“I can put the block back there if you want me to, Twily,” Pinkie proposed.

Twilight repeatedly pointed a hoof from Pinkie to the gap at lightning speeds. “Please do that now!”

Pinkie took out the log and placed it back into the gap. Twilight closed her eyes and walked away from the tree with no thought of it. Fluttershy directed her out of the forest before she bumped right into another tree.

You five should get going to the blacksmith now. Time’s a wasting!

The quintet with Twilight in the front began their small journey to the blacksmith. Since the entire town was built above the water, it was impossible to swim up to it. Once the group re-entered the building, the blacksmith smiled and held out his folded arms. “You’re back! Do you have my materials and tools?”

“Yuppity yup yup!” Pinkie threw the items at the blacksmith. He caught all of them and put them away in a chest next to him.

“Now, I’ll reward you all handsomely for your help. Here is twenty dollars and a special bow I crafted. It is infused with a special enchantment that should prove to be useful.”

“Twilight, I think you should have the bow,” Gingerbread suggested as he took the money. “We can use the money for Harigan’s price.”

Twilight happily took the Magical Bow with infinity I and compared it to her bow. “Infinity? What’s that?”

“Bows with Infinity I on them never run out of arrows!” Pinkie answered. “That means you only need one arrow forever!” Gingerbread squiggled his mouth and pressed his eyes on Pinkie for a few seconds.

Twilight took out her old bow and levitated it to the blacksmith. “Here, you can have this. It might be damaged, but I think you can use it to make something very good.”

“Thanks,” the blacksmith almost whispered as he struggled to take the bow. “I appreciate your generosity, err...”

“Twilight Sparkle.”

“Twilight. I won’t forget you. Whenever you can in the future, I would like you to come back and visit. I’ll have something very useful for you.”

“Alright, we did everything,” Vincent noted. “Let’s go back and give Harigan his money and fish.”

The quintet walked out of the blacksmith and to Mayor Harigan’s house. Harigan’s smirk reappeared once the group barged through the door.

While Pinkie threw her fish and Gingerbread tossed his seventy dollars at Harigan, Vincent confronted him with a scowl. “Okay, you bloody fat cat, we have your money and fish, and we got your blacksmith to work again. Can you give us the two items you promised now?”

Harigan took the fish and money as he took out the Acid Stopper and the Sparker Key. “Fine, a deal’s a deal. You may have your items.”

Gingerbread took the two items and examined them carefully. He held up the Sparker Key to Harigan. “This is literally a stick.”

“Yes, a stick that gives you access to Sparker Plains. No refunds! Keep what I gave you and be off!”

Vincent bit his bony thumb at Harigan. “You’ll rue the day you did this.”

“Not in a million years, Vincent,” Harigan scoffed. Vincent’s nonexistent eyes widened right then and there. Before he could speak, the group left the house in a disgruntled mess.

As the group traveled out of the town, Vincent thought about what Harigan said. “How did he know my name? Only you four should know it.”

“Information has a funny way of moving around,” Pinkie answered. “One moment, nopony knows your name. The next moment, you’re known by everypony with a big surprise! That’s how I treat newcomers to Ponyville!”

“Did any of them run away in panic from that?”

“Uh, no. Why?”

Vincent poked Pinkie in the chest with a bony finger. “I would if that happened to me, so don’t get any ideas, Pinkie Pie pony.”

“I would never make a friend angry for something like that! If you don’t want a party, I won’t do it. It’ll make me sad that you wouldn’t want one, but I’d understand.”

“It’s best you never call me a friend. I’m being nice because I’m stuck with you for now, and we both have a similar goal.”

As Pinkie and Vincent delved into a little conversation about parties and friends, Ty noticed another set of text pop up on his screen. At this point, he was used to the messages.

Derpy Hooves has joined the game.

He decided to not send a message this time and focused on his future plans. He had no care for this next pony. He could watch the entire world fill up with ponies for all he cared.

He might have made the wrong decision at that moment, though.