My Little Game: Friendship is Glitching

by Time Reaper

Rating: everyone
Tags: Adventure, Pinkie Pie, Twilight Sparkle, Dark, Alternate Universe, Applejack, Original Character, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Mystery, Rainbow Dash
Length: 22831

Life was simple for Twilight Sparkle until the day came where everything she knew came to an end, now she must figure out why her world is collapsing, where is Spike and who is that voice she hears on her head.

Twilight's life was a simple one. She studied the magic of friendship along her friends and with Spike's help but, when she had to face Discord, something went wrong.

Now her life has moved back to a point before meeting her friends, Spike has disappeared and any attempt to mention him distorts everything around her, some strange foxes are appearing everywhere she goes to, she sees strange occurrences which, for some reason, everybody seems to ignore and she hears a strange voice that nobody else seems to notice.

What is going on? What happened to Spike? Who are these guys? Why her friends doesn't believe her? Who is this voice and why is so focused on telling her where to go? The only one way for her to find is by starting what will become the quest of her life.

Inspired on the many fics I've seen here based on Equestria being a video game but I'll add a twist, I'm also inspired by this little kickstarter

Published 2018-08-14 23:00:01 UTC
Last updated 2019-01-03 21:44:07 UTC

Prologue: Where Everything Went Wrong

Twilight Sparkle was looking at Discord with a great bravado as she had finally reunited her friends and eliminated Discord's spell on them. They had the Elements of Harmony once again and they were ready to use them on the Lord of Chaos to put him back to stone.

They prepared themselves, the Elements charged, Discord started to realize that he was about to be stoned once more and he could do nothing more than scream in fear at the rainbow laser coming after him but, as he was screaming, his eyes opened revealing, instead of his 'normal' yellow eyes with red irises, a bunch of multicolored dots that gave him the appearance of him going mad as his voice started to distort and everything around him started to shake.

"No! I refuse to be sent to stone once again. I will no longer be defeated by you, this will be the last time I will be forced to be defeated by this pesky little ponies."

As he screamed, the sky started to change colors in multiple ways, houses disappeared, ponies started to lose their faces, limbs or disappear completely or appear out of nowhere.

"Girls!" - Shouted Twilight as she tried to make sense of all of this. - "Be careful, I don't know what is going on."

As she turned around, she saw how Rarity lost her face even though her voice could be heard very well. Pinkie's limbs were moving on their own even though her body was staying in place, Applejack disappeared while Rainbow was being dismembered by some mysterious force. Meanwhile, Discord was now becoming a vortex of insanity as everything surrounding him was literally breaking apart, revealing another dimension of multiple colors that Twilight couldn't make much sense of.

"Twilight!"

The unicorn turned around and saw Spike running to her with a lot of fear on his face.

"What is going on!? Why The Elements haven't stopped Discord!?"

Twilight kept collected herself in all the ways of the word as she tried to make sense of what she was seeing.

"I'm not sure Spike but we'll figure it out as soon as we put our friends together."

So focused was Twilight on her friends and on her thoughts that she missed Discord charging an attack directly at her, as the spell was thrown, with reality itself bending to its power, Spike took notice of it and quickly jumped to Twilight's rescue, receiving the attack directly.

"Spike!"

It was all Twilight could scream as the wave blast caught her, making her see all the colors and none of them at the same time. She saw the sun and the moon changing sizes, mountains going to the sky and rivers sinking to the ground as their streams went uphill, the reality started to disintegrate as all she could see were colors and that soon was even less as the colors degraded to just ones and zeroes.

Then everything went black.

Author's Note

EDIT July 12th of 2019: If you like this and you want to support me, you can do it through my Ko-Fi. Feel free to check it out.

The First Chapter - Part Two: Debug

As Twilight opened her eyes to see where she was now, all she could see was a distorted version of Equestria as all she could see were trees shaking in the background of what she considered to be a distorted version of the castle, a multicolored sky with both the ground and walls colored in blue with, as far she could see, very small dots which gave it all a strange look of being punctuated.

It was a strange look for certain.

"Antonio, can you still hear me?"

Yes

"Do you have any idea of where are we?"

No

Twilight gave the place she was standing on a better look around. So far it looked like she was on the exact room where she and her friends defeated Nightmare Moon but with less walls and a complete lack of the sun and moon although very well illuminated with a light that came from nowhere.

"That's strange, if there is no sun or moon, then what illuminates this place?"

She kept looking around, hoping to find a solution to her questions. She moved around as she noticed the existence of an exit she could use to leave the throne room where she was located, which made her wonder how much of this place was actually built or if its appearance was all casualty and it was further questioned as the ground didn't feel like any material she ever felt. It was solid but it wasn't metal, stone or soil. There was no way for her to describe it although she still tried.

"This is strange. It's smooth but it isn't plain, it isn't a material I have ever encountered in my life yet it feels so familiar, it looks uniform but I can see small dots dividing it and even though this is solid I can sense it moving. What is this?"

She then decided to go down the stairs into what looked like to be the castle's entrance room or, at least, a distorted version of it, where everything looked like it but not quite the exact same. Where in the "Real Equestria", as Twilight would later name her homeland, there was a broken fountain where the elements were supposed to go into but it showed signs of being long dead, here in the "Distorted Equestria" the fountain looked complete with five glowing spheres and it was spreading something like water and that Twilight had no interest in analyzing for its constantly changing colors.

As she sought in this new room, she noticed how the place lacked of windows and some walls were gone as well as in the throne room but the door to leave the castle was closed. Twilight moved to the door and tried to open it with magic but then she noticed something off and it was the first thing that freaked her out during her stay in that world: her magic wasn't working.

No matter how much she tried, how much she focused on it or even how much she used mental gymnastics to activate it, her horn was unable to activate its magic, making it impossible for her to open the door.

She then tried to open the door manually by using her hoof but she then realized that the door was closed shut, making it impossible for her to leave.

"Well, that was a disappointment."

It was then when she saw the second thing that freaked her out during her stay in that world. Deep in the castle, as if somehow this world held the only place where she could see something like it: its back was looking toward her but she could still recognize it. It had purple scales with green spikes and it was as tall as a foal.

Twilight's heart almost break as she saw her number one assistant moving deeper into the distorted castle and the only response she could give was a sprint like she has never done before as she tried to catch up with him as she shouted his name.

"Spike! Wait!"

She wouldn't notice it until she left that world on how she was now able to pronounce his name.

Spike left the room as she entered into it, much to her chagrin, and she would have continued to chase after him if it weren't for the strange sound that appeared in the room.

As Twilight turned to her left and saw the source of the noise, she saw what looked like the cub of a timber wolf but, as it was apparently common from this world, it also looked distorted and malformed: It's legs weren't complete as the lower parts disolved before touching the air while half of its face changed shapes and colors faster than she could even blink and its only eye looking at her was a deep red that showed no sentience, only a murderous intent that scared her to no end.

Twilight, being aware of her lack of magic, ran away from the beast, after all, she didn't know how dangerous were the creatures on this world compared to the Real Equestria and she wasn't willing to figure it out, especially if she couldn't defend herself. She ran with as much strength as her legs could give her in Spike's direction finding on her way even more dangerous creatures that scared her to no end. Timberwolves, strange shaking orbs, faces that screamed in agony and literal limbs. All of this scared Twilight and she was really hoping to find Spike and leave. She never noticed how his legs never moved as well as his arms remained stiffs while moving.

She ran through the halls, always on the chase after Spike, she ran through the libraries, she ran through the ladders, she ran until the lower parts of the castle until she finally found Spike, still not looking at Twilight. She got close carefully.

"Spike? Its me, Twilight" -. She started to move her hoof at him. - "I'm here to take you back at Ponyville."

She touched his back.

"Spike? Are you alright?"

As she turned him back, Twilight saw the third thing that freaked her out during her stay on that world and she was unable to stop herself from screaming: Spike was faceless. His front body was in a constant state of disappearing and reassembling itself as she could hear sound coming from his mouth even if it only was imposible for her to discern that horrible sound that screeched her ears and almost made her bleed.

"01010100 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 00100000 01110010 01110101 01101110 00101110 00100000 01010100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01110000 01101100 01100001 01100011 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100100 01100001 01101110 01100111 01100101 01110010 01101111 01110101 01110011 00101110 00100000 01000100 01101001 01110011 01100011 01101111 01110010 01100100 00100000 01101001 01110011 00101101 00100000 01010111 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01001001 00100000 01100001 01101101 00111111 00100000 01010111 01101000 01101111 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00111111 00100000 01010111 01101000 01101111 00100000 01100001 01101101 00100000 01001001 00111111 00100000 01001001 00100000 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101100 01101100 01100001 01110000 01110011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00101110 00100000 01001110 01101111 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101101 01100001 01101011 01100101 01110011 00100000 01110011 01100101 01101110 01110011 01100101 00101110 00100000 01001001 00100000 01101101 01110101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01101000 01100101 01101100 01110000 00100000 01010100 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 00101110 00100000 01010111 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01010100 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 00111111 00100000 01010111 01101000 01101111 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01010100 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 00111111 00100000 01000101 01010010 01010010 01001111 01010010 00101110 00100000 01010010 01000101 01010000 01010010 01001111 01000111 01010010 01000001 01001101 01001101 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01000011 01001111 01000100 01000101 00101110"

There was a huge explosion of light that temporarily blinded Twilight. When it was over and Twilight reopened her eyes, Spike was replaced with a small source of light whose radiation made Twilight feel safe and warm. The light got close to Twilight and, before she could even react, it disassembled into multiple pieces as they entered into Twilight. When she looked over her body, she saw no inherent difference to her body but she wasn't sure if she was fine considering that she was unable to use magic, keeping that piece of information on her mind for later as she was hoping her computer could find anything new on her.

As she went back to the main floor and decided to backtrack to the castle's main entrance, she wondered once again what was going on. She was sure that Antonio would have no clue of what was going on and, should he know, there was a high chance that he would not tell her anything for unknown reasons so it was up to her to figure out this mystery and hopefully figure out what happened to Spike, why time was reset and why only she could remember anything.

When Twilight took noticed of where she was, she found herself in a big corridor that lead to multiple hallways and, as she wondered where to move, she quickly noticed the appearance of multiple monsters surrounding her. Twilight was briefly trying to come up with a plan to save herself but, without magic, she was mostly useless and was unable to defend herself, especially when a headache started to go through her head. It was numbingly painful to the point of her starting to lose the eyesight as only the color red started to fill her eyes.

"Antonio, what is happening!?"

Twilight?

"I feel in pain! Help!"

What can I do?

"I don't know but please help! I cannot plan my escape with this pain"

She tried to think of a plan but the headache only grew as her body went more and more numb and she only saw more and more red. She could feel Antonio's influence over her trying to do something but, whatever he was trying, it wasn't working and the pain was only growing. Eventually, she started to feel her clinging to reality as her eyes were filled with red and only words filled her vision:

DEBUG MODE ACTIVATED

**ENEMY
Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Glitched Sprite
Glitched Bear

TWILIGHT SPARKLE
HP 15
MP 23

Attack
Magic
Item
Run

Twilight Sparkle Attacked Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub suffered 10 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub has been defeated
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Sprite Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Bear Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 3 Dmg

ENEMY
Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Glitched Sprite
Glitched Bear

TWILIGHT SPARKLE
HP 8
MP 23
Attack

Magic
Item
Run**

Magic:
Fireball 3MP

Telekinesis (pick up an enemy and throw it either to another enemy unit or to the ground. The bigger the unit, the more damage it will make at the cost of more MP)
Scan 1MP

**Twilight Sparkle used Telekinesis on Glitched Bear
Twilight Sparkle Threw Glitched Bear towards Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub suffered 20 Dmg (Overkill)
Enemy Glitched Bear suffered 2 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub has been defeated
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Sprite Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Bear Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 3 Dmg

ENEMY
Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Glitched Sprite
Glitched Bear

TWILIGHT SPARKLE
HP 2
MP 21
Attack
Magic

Item
Run**

Item:

HP Potion x2 (recovers 20HP)
MP Potion x3

**Twilight Sparkle used HP Potion
Twilight Sparkle recovered 13 HP
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Sprite Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Bear Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 3 Dmg

ENEMY
Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Glitched Sprite
Glitched Bear

TWILIGHT SPARKLE
HP 9
MP 18
Attack

Magic
Item
Run

Magic:**

Fireball 3MP

Telekinesis
Scan 1MP

**Twilight Sparkle used Telekinesis on Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Twilight Sparkle Threw Glitched Timberwolf Cub towards Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub suffered 8 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub suffered 8 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub has been defeated
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub has been defeated
Enemy Glitched Sprite Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Bear Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 3 Dmg

ENEMY
Glitched Sprite
Glitched Bear

TWILIGHT SPARKLE
HP 5
MP 20
Attack

Magic
Item
Run**

Magic:

Fireball 3MP (Huge fireball with fire based magic)
Telekinesis
Scan 1MP

**Twilight Sparkle used Fireball on Glitched Bear
Glitched Bear suffered 20Dmg
Glitched Bear has been defeated
Enemy Glitched Sprite Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg

ENEMY
Glitched Sprite

TWILIGHT SPARKLE
HP 4
MP 17
Attack

Magic
Item
Run**

Magic:
Fireball 3MP
Telekinesis

Scan 1MP (Scans enemy to find out weaknesses)

**Twilight Sparkle used Scan on Glitched Sprite
Glitched Sprite: A former program that has been corrupted to the point where it's no longer recognizable from its original form. It's still a very physical entity though.
Enemy Glitched Sprite Attacked Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg

ENEMY
Glitched Sprite

TWILIGHT SPARKLE
HP 3
MP 17
Attack

Magic
Item
Run**

Magic:

Fireball 3MP
Telekinesis
Scan 1MP

Twilight Sparkle used Fireball on Glitched Sprite
Glitched Sprite took 25 Dmg (overkill)
Glitched Sprite was defeated
ALL ENEMIES HAS BEEN DEFEATED
Earned 30 Chips
Twilight Sparkle won 23XP
Twilight Sparkle Leveled Up
HP +2
MP+3
Attack +1
Defense +1
Magic Attack +3
Magic Defense +3
Speed +1
Luck +1
Charm +1
Empathy +1
Cleverness +2
Confidence +1
Awareness +1
Conviction +1
New Skill Learned: Iceball
HP and MP has been regenerated

DEBUG COMPLETE

Twilight's headache started to subside as she regain control over her motor functions and her mind became less foggy, which didn't help much to her poor confused mind as she was greeted with an empty hallway when she finally regained herself and all she could ask now was

"What happened? I was surrounded by monster about minutes ago... Antonio, did you do that?"

Sort of

"What? What do you mean by 'sort of'?"

I had to use your body to defeat the monsters

Twilight Sparkle felt once again violated as she saw herself being used once more but, as much as her mind tried to criminalize Antonio for doing so, she just couldn't ignore that he saved her by doing it and she was safe now.

It was a tough fight

Twilight made a slight smile as she imaged a foreign figure trying to use her weak body to fight so many monsters at the same time, it must have been a nightmare. Now to think about it, there was a bear among the monsters so her life must have been at risk but, as much as she searched on her body, she couldn't find a single scratch.

Either Antonio was very good at dodging or she was much stronger than she realized, either way, she wasn't too interested in figuring out the details of the fight.

"Alright, Antonio, I'll let it slide this time because there was no other choice but don't get used to it."

Of course but let's first figure out how to leave this place

"Well, I can agree with you on that."

And so, she moved back to where she came from. Thankfully, for her, she found no more monsters on her way back, which gave her time to think on what she just found.

"Well, I don't know exactly what I just found, but I do know that Spike must probably be somewhere in this castle" -. As she got to the entrance room and saw the exit doors now open, she realized that this wasn't just a small place for her to explore. - "Or perhaps this world."

She took a moment to look at the distorted version of Equestria as she tried to understand what she was seeing right then and there. She knew that, whatever mystery she had on her hoofs, her answer to all of this was on this world, it was just a matter of finding time to get here and explore some more, with the proper gear of course. She wasn't going to enter here again without proper equipment.

"Well, whatever Discord is planning in here, I will stop it... Antonio?"

Yes?

"Will you help me on this?"

You can bet on it

She slightly smiled at the confirmation that she wasn't alone on this, even if that figure was someone whose practices she wasn't too fond off.

"Thank you, you don't know how glad it makes me feel that."

You Welcome

She then decided to move back into the throne room, where the portal back home was waiting for her, and that allowed her to wonder what happened to Nightmare Moon and Luna. They were at the center of the explosion, so they should have been here, right?

The answer came to her in the form of a weakened Princess Luna looking back at her with fear on her eyes.

"You! Where are we? Why I cannot use my magic anymore? Just-"

ROAR

A wild beast suddenly appeared behind Twilight, forcing her to move toward Luna and put herself on a defensive position, surprising Princess Luna on the process. Twilight's headache started once more as she started to see red and a line of words became the only thing she could see.

DEBUG MODE ACTIVATED

**ENEMY
Glitched Manticore

TWILIGHT SPARKLE
HP 17
MP 26
Attack

Magic
Item
Run**

Magic:
Fireball 3MP Iceball 3MP
Telekinesis

Scan 1MP

**Twilight Sparkle used Scan on Glitched Manticore
Glitched Manticore: A Manticore whose program has been corrupted, making it stronger than normal Manticores and giving it attacks that they shouldn't have on the first place. Weak to elemental magic.
Glitched Manticore used Swipe on Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 5 Dmg

ENEMY
Glitched Manticore

TWILIGHT SPARKLE
HP 12
MP 25
Attack

Magic
Item
Run**

Magic:

Fireball 3MP Iceball 3MP
Telekinesis
Scan

**Twilight Sparkle used Fireball on Glitched Manticore
Glitched Manticore suffered 9 Dmg
Glitched Manticore used Swipe on Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 5 Dmg

ENEMY
Glitched Manticore

TWILIGHT SPARKLE
HP 7
MP 22
Attack

Magic
Item
Run**

Magic:
Fireball 3MP >Iceball 3MP
Telekinesis
Scan

**Twilight Sparkle used Iceball on Glitched Manticore
Glitched Manticore got 8 Dmg
Glitched Manticore used Poison Tail on Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 1 Dmg
Twilight Sparkle is poisoned
Twilight Sparkle suffered 2 Dmg due to poison

ENEMY
Glitched Manticore

TWILIGHT SPARKLE
HP 4
MP 19
Attack
Magic

Item
Run**

Item:

HP Potion x1
MP Potion x3

**Twilight Sparkle used HP Potion
Twilight Sparkle recovered 13 HP
Glitched Manticore used Swipe on Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle suffered 5 Dmg
Twilight Sparkle suffered 2 Dmg due to poison

ENEMY
Glitched Manticore

TWILIGHT SPARKLE
HP 10
MP 19
Attack

Magic
Item
Run**

Magic:

Fireball 3MP Iceball 3MP
Telekinesis
Scan

Twilight Sparkle used Fireball on Glitched Manticore
**CRITICAL HIT
Glitched Manticore suffered 27 Dmg
Glitched Manticore has been defeated
ALL ENEMIES HAS BEEN DEFEATED
Earned 15 Chips
Twilight Sparkle won 25XP
Twilight Sparkle Leveled Up
HP +1
MP+2
Attack +1
Magic Attack +3
Magic Defense +3
Charm +1
Empathy +1
Cleverness +2
Confidence +2
Awareness +1
Conviction +2
New Skill Learned: Thunder
HP and MP has been regenerated**

DEBUG COMPLETE

Twilight's headache once more went down as she realized that, with her recovering her mind, the enemy was no longer visible. It was in that moment she realized the relationship between her headache and the monsters, as for whenever they appeared, she would lose consciousness through the headache, leaving Antonio with freedom to use her body to fight the monsters although she would still like to know what he does to fight them.

"Wh-why?"

Twilight turned around and found a confused Princess Luna looking at her with a mixture of wonder, worry and curiosity.

"Why did you save me?"

Twilight Sparkle gave it a thought before answering. She was doing it for the Princess Luna she remembered that was sister of Princess Celestia and she decided to give a second chance but she couldn't say that, she was trying to think of a solution when it came to her mind (and she decided to ignore what was the potential source of inspiration) and decided to give it to Luna.

"Because you are worth it."

Luna looked at Twilight with a baffled face as she tried to digest the information.

"Me? Worth it? But I am Nightmare Moon! I did terrible things to Celestia and Equestria as a whole!"

"I know" -. Twilight then got closer to Luna and slowly moved her hoof toward her. - "But everypony deserves a second chance, including you."

Luna looked at Twilight with tearing eyes as she started to wonder.

"And will Ti- Princess Celestia think that I deserve a second chance as well?"

Twilight simply smiled at her and responded on a reassuring tone.

"I am more than confident that she will, but there is only one way to figure it out."

They both looked at the portal to leave, knowing very well what they had to and jumped into the hole that filled their eyes with one and zeroes.

Author's Note

EDIT July 12th of 2019: If you like this and you want to support me, you can do it through my Ko-Fi. Feel free to check it out.

The First Chapter - Part Three: Clearing Up Doubts

Something that surprised Twilight to no end was how, in the moment both she and Luna came out of the portal, everything started to move once more as if nothing happened although she wasn't sure if she was the only one who noticed it. Starting for an energetic pegasus who was starting to reincorporate herself from the harmonic explosion.

"What did just happened?"

"Ah don't know, but Ah feel as if Ah was hit by a wagon."

"Tell me, darling, I feel so... what is this?" - In that moment, Twilight's friends started to notice the elements in their necks in the form of necklaces, something that she remembered quite fondly but her moment was interrupted by a strange sound coming from above. When she turned up, she saw a strange box with a backwards writing that were coming and going as she was trying to decipher its meaning. When she finally managed to understand the last box, all she could feel was bafflement at what she read.

Congratulations! You earned the Element of Magic!

Twilight tried to wonder why she was looking at that box and questioned herself on whether or not had that box ever been there as well as, if so, why was she noticing it now? But, as soon as the box disappeared, everything started to play out the way Twilight remembered, Princess Celestia coming back and forgiving her sister, as well as both her and her friends going back to Ponyville and being celebrated for saving Equestria from an eternal night.

It was here though, where Twilight started to notice other differences from what she remembered.

The first one, obviously, being the fox waiting for her in the middle of where the Ponyville Market should be. His constant smile remaining in there as if nothing wrong happened and still looking eager to make business with her and his slick voice.

"Ah, I see you have returned from your last endeavor safely. I'll suppose the items I gave you helped in your quest?"

"Yes" -. Responded Twilight, even though she doubted it cared about her opinion. - "And I am thankful for the potions. I suppose that you'll be able to sell me more on a later day, right?"

John The Fox kept its grin as he looked directly at Twilight.

"You are correct!" - His tail moving on a happy manner as his voice managed to remain even on a cacophony of sound due to the celebration and even him giving hints of excitement. - "F.O.X. Inc is more than eager to start making business with you and we'll have more than enough stock for your future quests but we can fix that on a later date. This is a celebration, right?"

The fox then lifted himself around and went to eat and drink with the other ponies who were too happy to care about a fox suddenly joining the celebration.

"Twilight! What are you doing there!"

When she turned around, Twilight saw Applejack getting closer to her with a frown on her face.

"Ah don't know what were you talking about, but please be careful with that fox, all it gives me is a bad feeling."

Twilight smiled at her friend and vanished her worries.

"Don't worry Applejack, I am fully aware of how dubious that fox is. I was only seeing what else it had to say before joining the celebration because now I will be staying in Ponyville with you."

Applejack looked at Twilight with worry as she tried to say her words.

"Yeah, about that. Look, Twilight, I am thankful fer you staying here but are you sure about it?"

Twilight started to feel worried at those words.

"What? What do you mean?"

"Look, its not that Ah don't like you or want you away, its just that... how do Ah put this...? Ah saw something strange when we faced Nightmare Moon and Ah'm worried for your safety."

Twilight was going to ask what did she mean by that but, without any of them noticing, a bird not too far away from them started to spasm as it dissolved temporarily in small dots before reassembling itself, causing a headache on a nearby Twilight, much to the worry of Applejack.

"Twilight! Are you ok?"

As Twilight was trying to remain her hoof down, her eyes lightly shown red, something that Applejack would notice but decide to not comment on it as her friends recovered from the sudden headache.

"Yeah, Applejack, I'm fine now, thanks for asking."

Applejack looked at her friend with worry, not sure of what to do with her but Twilight remained adamant and tried to cheer her up.

"Don't worry, I'm feeling better and to prove it to you, I'm going to drink one of your family ciders and see if they are as good as you claim them to be."

Applejack smiled as she took the challenge.

"OH! You'll see, our cider will make that headache look like a fine cushion."

And as they moved on, the bird landed near Fluttershy who was so glad to see one of her animal friends so nearby.

"Oh, hello little friend, enjoying the celebration too?"

The bird then started to tweet before its voice became distorted and its body dissolved into dots for a brief moment before reassembling and leaving as if nothing happened, leaving alone a shocked Fluttershy, who would remain froze in place (due to the shock and fear) for almost the rest of the party.

Meanwhile, a real unicorn and an athletic pegasus would have their own discussion at what they viewed on the Castle.

"I swear Rarity, for a brief moment Nightmare Moon looked like if she was distorting herself."

"I know, darling, I saw it as well but there's nothing we can do about it. I understand that you find it suspicious of how she was phasing out and then suddenly transformed into Princess Luna but until she proves to remain being Nightmare Moon then the only thing we can work around with is that the Elements worked on their own."

Rainbow frowned at that as she was finding it difficult to explain Rarity what was it that she saw so strange from all of it. Rarity put her hoof on Rainbow's shoulder and tried to calm her down.

"Look, darling, I know that it was something strange to see but everything is fine now, Equestria is saved and everything returned to normal. Even if something else happened back there, this isn't the time for that, this is the time to celebrate so let's do that, alright?"

Rainbow gave the idea a thought before reflecting on how real it was. Nightmare Moon was defeated, Twilight was staying so now she had more chances to know what was she hiding, and she now had a bigger chance to see what were those strange things she saw on her way back.

"Alright, you win Rarity. I'll see how hard is that cider Applejack likes so much to boast about."

"That's the way darling."

So they moved and celebrated as well.

At the end of the day, as Twilight was now on her library, alone, she started to remind herself of all the things she knew and had changed so far. Spike, Antonio, the fox, that other Equestria, so many things but, as she was getting to sleep, she remembered one last thing she was promised about.

"Alright, Antonio, the adventure is over, so now explain me how do you know about me."

There was a large silence before she heard the answer she was waiting for so long but it wasn't what she was expecting.

I have been looking at you for a long time,
this was just the first time you and I have ever managed to interact with each other

Twilight gave this a thought as she started to get comfortable on her bed.

"Well, that's just creepy, but why do you think we can talk to each other now?"

Perhaps Discord has something to do with it
Whatever barrier was separating the two of us must have been broken when he did all of that

She gave this a thought and wondered what else was taken down by Discord.

"So why were you looking at my life? Don't you have something else to do?"

Once again, there was a great silence as she was waiting for Antonio's answer but when it finally came, it brought as many answers as questions.

Where I live, my species is capable of looking at other worlds and we are always curious at how they develop.
We watch them and learn, sometimes we put our influence to lead them into what we think is the right direction

Now Twilight was trying to wonder if he was just lying because that didn't add up with all the weird stuff she saw on this day alone.

"Well, I know some parts are true but there are others that simply doesn't add up, like that other world and how everything was just breaking itself apart."

I know, but that is the best explanation I can give you without giving you an existential breakdown

Twilight gave this some thought, after all the madness she just went today, she wasn't on the mood to have more of what she understood broken down. All she wanted was to sleep and hope that tomorrow would be a better day or that she would wake up on the Ponyville she remembered so much, including Spike, but she knew that was wishful thinking.

And then, as she was about to sleep, she saw that strange box again with a simple message.

Chapter 1 finished

"Chapter one? What does that mean?"

Save?

Yes
No

"What?"

Saving...

"Can't I have a moment of peace and normalcy, please?"

Everything has been saved

Quit?

Yes
No

"What does 'quit' means?"

In that moment, a big force came into her, she felt sleepy and became unable to stay awake as everything faded back to black.

Author's Note

Speaking of biting more than you can chew, this was a pain to write because the more I thought about it, the more I wanted to flesh it out. This has gotten to the point that I don't know when I will update this story again but I still wanted to write this first chapter for you guys. So, what do you think?

EDIT July 12th of 2019: If you like this and you want to support me, you can do it through my Ko-Fi. Feel free to check it out.

The Second Chapter: Moon Booster

Light started to come back into Twilight's mind as she regained her conscience and saw herself on her bed as if nothing happened. For a brief moment, she thought that all she remembered was just a bad dream but she then saw how the place where Spike's bed was supposed to be in was empty and reality hit her like a book, which led her to wonder if there was an explanation to what she was going through.

She then started to feel the familiar feeling of Antonio's gaze looking over her and she realized that she still had to salute her newest friend.

"Good morning, Antonio, how are you?"

Hello Twilight, I'm fine, thank you for asking

"Good to know" -. Twilight responded, still remembering the last things she saw before succumbing to sleep. - "Is there anything new you would like to talk about?"

Silence came to her as nothing came up but then the roof was suddenly transformed into a huge wall of text with inverted words on one side. She tried to reverse the letters to understand what it said as she noticed an arrow moving among the words. The arrow stopped in one word before a new series of words appeared on the rest of the wall.

Statistics
Twilight Sparkle
Level 3
HP 18
MP 28
Attack 12
Defense 11
Magic Attack 31
Magic Defense 30
Speed 14
Luck 13
Charm 9
Empathy 10
Cleverness 17
Confidence 20
Awareness 16
Conviction 19

"What is that?"

Twilight waited around for Antonio to answer but he never did, nonetheless, it didn't stop her from trying to understand what she was looking at those numbers. It was quite clear that they were about her and she still remembered those books she read back then in Canterlot, which meant that this numbers were about her and how strong she was and the more she realized this, the more it bothered her how low some of this statistics were.

"Charm at 9? But how is that possible? I always got well around Princess Celestia and my friends and... and... never mind..." - the embarrassment caused for the realization of how poor her social skills were was enough to make her understand those numbers but still. - "And I fought monsters with those numbers? How did I win?"

Well, considering you were actually weaker, I had to use the potions the fox gave us

"Really?" - Twilight then decided to jump from her bed as she decided to fix herself for the day ahead of her as she picked up her brush and started to braid her mane. - "Well, I suppose we could go to see John and buy more of those potions. I hope we have enough bits for it" -. As she finished braiding her mane and put down her comb, she decided to check her fridge and see what food she needed to buy while maintaining the conversation. - "Still, is that all you can show me? Isn't there anything else about me in that wall?"

Twilight saw how the wall was moving again and how it was slowly moving showing other stuff from her like what kind of spells she knew (even though Twilight was sure she had the knowledge of much more spells on her mind) but then the wall showed something called abilities and she decided to pay more attention to that.

Abilities
Scholar (Equipped): Any magical related statistic, except attributes, and spell will become stronger.
Friendship (Equipped): All statistics will grow stronger when close to your friends and combined attacks will do extra damage.

"So my friends make me stronger? Well, I suppose it makes sense" -. She then packed her saddlebag as she prepared herself to leave her house to buy more goods. - "Let's see, I need to buy more potions from John as well as some food. I think there's nothing else I need" -. As she stepped out of her library, she could feel how she no longer was able to control her body, much to her annoyance. - "Hum" -, she said in a low tone of voice, - "Antonio, could you please help me?"

Sure

She then started to feel Antonio's influence over her and her body started to move to the market, hopefully they would meet John the Fox on the way and they could buy one or two more potions on the way.

As they moved forward, they saw John the Fox on the distance, right while they were entering the market zone, as he was sitting on a market stand with certain goods on it, the potion being one of them, but they didn't expected to see Rainbow Dash, of all mares, on the store discussing with the fox. To his credit, even though Rainbow was shouting at him, John managed to remain quiet, not that it stopped Twilight from wanting to stop Rainbow from angering one of the few beings that may know what was going on.

"Come on dude, why can't you sell it to me? I can save the bits to buy it, I really need that glider."

The fox, as always, remain calm.

"My apologies but here at F.O.X. Inc we only sell our goods to a certain kind of customer that fills the prerequisites that we are searching for, prerequisites that you, sadly, do not fulfill."

"Really!? And what are those 'prerequisites' that you talk so much about?"

"To begin with, you do not have the type of coinage we accept."

"The what?"

In that moment, Twilight got close enough for both of them to notice her, something that Rainbow quickly tried to use on her advantage.

"Twilight! Good thing I found you, look, could you please buy this awesome glider from that fox since it only seems to treat you as a client?"

Twilight was going to ask what was she talking about but John the Fox quickly talked and clarified.

"Welcome dear client, it makes me glad to see you stopping by, would you like to see what products do we have to offer? We now have a special harness that can be equipped to any pegasus and it will increase their speed substantially."

"But" -. Responded Twilight. - "I'm not a pegasus, I'm an unicorn."

"Do not worry" -. Responded the sly fox. - "You could buy it to a friend."

"But, if that's so, then why don't you let Rainbow buy it on her own? Wouldn't it be better to allow her to buy it?"

"Oh, my dear client, it is not as simple as that, you see, here at F.O.X. Inc we only let selector customers to buy from us and your friend isn't one of them, and even if she were, I doubt she had the coinage to buy it?"

"Coinage? You mean you don't accept bits?"

"Well, it's that we see more value into another type of good, perhaps one you are more familiar with after your most recent adventure?"

Twilight tried to think about what he just said and remembered the events that transpired when she and her friends defeated Nightmare Moon, she remembered when she entered into that strange world and the creatures she encountered perhaps they dropped something after being defeated? She tried to search in her saddlebag but, as hard as she tried, she couldn't find those things.

"Do not worry about where are those *cough* coins *cough*, just be sure to have enough of them to buy the goods stored here at F.O.X. Inc and we'll take care of how the transaction will be done."

Twilight wasn't sure of what he meant with that but she would try to think about it later that day, for now, she wanted to see if she could get another of those potions. The fox simply smiled as he moved his paw above all his goods and welcomed Twilight Sparkle while Rainbow was simply leaving her jaw hanging at the unfairness she was seeing.

"Welcome to my shop, I hope you find the things you are looking for."

John's Item Shop
Equipment
>Small Apple (150 Chips): It regenerates a slight amount of energy to the person using it.
Small Clip (150 Chips)
Acrobatic Equipment (450 chips)
Small Bouquet (150 Chips)
Small Ribbon (150 Chips)

When Twilight saw those prizes, she realized that no matter how many "chips" she had at her disposal, it was impossible for her to buy that equipment that Rainbow Dash wanted. Naturally, her jaw almost hit the floor as she tried to comprehend how absurd those prizes were.

"Sorry Rainbow" -, responded a sad Twilight after she recomposed herself, - "but I don't think I have enough to buy that."

"What!?" - Rainbow was more shocked than angry at this. - "Oh... but then... how...?"

"My apologies" -. Said John, the smiling fox. - "But the upper heads determine the prices once they have discussed about the matter at hand, not that I disagree with the prices themselves, but all I can recommend you is to search for more funds if you want to buy it."

In that moment Rainbow Dash saw Twilight with energy as Twilight was already figuring out what she was about to ask.

"Twilight, please tell me where did you get the money to buy from him? I may be able to get enough on my free time."

As Twilight Sparkle remembered the dangers she had to go through and was aware that, whatever Twilight herself had to fight those monsters, Rainbow just didn't have the means to survive through that kind of ordeal but, before she could say something, John responded to the energetic pegasus, all the while keeping his smile.

"I'll remind you that, even if you had the funds to buy the equipment, you still don't fulfill all the requisites we want to admit you as a customer and I think it would be very unfair to ask your friend to stop whatever she was going to do just to search for the funds needed to get you that equipment."

Dumbfounded, Rainbow sat on the ground as she tried to think of a way to overcome those problems, something that Twilight felt compelled to answer about (even though she was wondering where the answer was coming from)

"Don't worry Rainbow" -. Said Twilight with a smile that inspired Rainbow Dash. - "I'll get it for you when I have the time to search for it."

As Rainbow's eyes started to glow, she just couldn't stop herself from asking with hope in her voice.

"Really? You would do that for me?"

Twilight wanted to answer that she would think about it, that she wasn't sure of what she just said or even telling Rainbow the truth about where did she got those chips, but her mouth moved on it own as it responded an answer that Twilight wondered if it was appropriate or not for Rainbow.

"Sure, we are friends after all."

Rainbow Dash quickly rose from the ground and quickly hugged Twilight with joy.

"Oh thank you egghead, you may be crazy but you are a very good friend."

Twilight wondered if Rainbow would go crazy if she knew the truth, but that was a problem for another day, right now, she was trying to form a mental list of the things she wanted to tell Antonio for forcing her to make a promise she wasn't sure she could hold up to.

As Rainbow Dash was leaving the store, another box quickly showed up.

Your friendship with Rainbow Dash has increased.

Twilight remembered then that she also needed to ask Antonio about it.

"Well" -. Continued John, who was still smiling. - "With that out of the way, sir, would you like to see what else I have for you? After all, my store has more than just equipment..."

Twilight remembered the other thing she wanted to search for and decided to give another look at the store.

John's Item Shop
Consumable
>Potion (40 Chips): It recovers a small amount of health.
Ether (40 Chips)
Cookies (40 chips)

As Twilight saw those prices, which were much lower than the equipment, she made a happy face as she was about to ask for three potions.

"I would like one option please."

Twilight took a moment to realize what she just said and realized what she actually wanted to buy but, before she could correct herself, John decided to give her the potion.

"Here you go miss" -. He said with a smile on his face. - "Do not worry about the transaction, it has already been done."

Twilight blinked as she tried to comprehend when did he get the money he was asking for but, before she could make any type of question, the fox continued.

"Is there something else you would like to buy?"

Twilight saw this as her chance to buy more potions.

"No thank you."

"Alright then, have a good day."

Twilight was now starting to get furious.

"Wait, no! I wanted to buy more potions!"

John, surprisingly, kept his everlasting smile as he responded.

"It is understandable that you may be angry but, perhaps, have you considered that you do not have enough funds to buy more? Did you ask the one actually making the purchase before deciding what to buy? After all, there's a reason why he decided to buy what he did."

Twilight gave it a thought and realized that she never asked Antonio about how much did they have, perhaps they actually didn't have enough? Nonetheless, she had to talk to him about using her body while outside. With that said, there was one more thing she wanted to know before leaving the fox, something related with his store in particular.

"Well, before I leave, I would like to know, how do you plan to stay in ponyville if you only sell stuff to me? I don't think you'll make a living in here by selling that kind of stuff only to me and not selling anything else to the residents of Ponyville or only accepting a foreign coin."

"Thank you for your concern miss" -. Responded the sly fox. - "But worry not, you may be representing F.O.X. Inc's especial customer, but that doesn't mean that we're not aware of the need to have other customers in here. We'll have things for the local residents (including yourself) very soon."

Twilight nodded while wondering what was that fox planning to sell and moved on into the interior of Ponyville, hoping that the rest of her day would be a peaceful one, then she saw Trixie's cart and she knew that peace would be the last thing she would ever get today.

It was bad enough that she had to repeat all the adventures she had with her friends (which included dealing with Applejack on Applebucking season again) and it was even worse with the knowledge that Spike wasn't there anymore but to know that she had to endure Trixie's coming as well was certainly something that she wasn't really hoping to see again, especially when the possibility of dealing with an Ursa Minor were still possible.

Once again, she saw Trixie's performance and, like last time, her friends were booing Trixie for boasting. At least she was sure that at least this time, if nobody questioned Trixie, there was a chance that the Ursa wouldn't be brought up but then her friends started to push her to face Trixie and Twilight wasn't too fond of the idea. Sure, she now knew that her friends would keep their support of her as long as she didn't boast but how would that make it better for her or even Trixie?

"Come on Twilight!" - Said Applejack as she tried to remove the knots tying her over. - "Ah' know that you can show that mare how she isn't as good as she claims herself to be."

"I don't know Applejack..." - Twilight tried to respond. - "What would I win by mocking her? Would that make me better when I'm just falling into her boasting game?"

"Because that mare is just going around talking about herself fer nothing else but making bits, somepony should go there and teach her a lesson of humbleness!"

In that moment, not far away from there, a few branches and birds started to spasm as well as making weird noises, causing a huge headache to Twilight, much to Applejack's concern.

"Twilight, sugarcube, are you alright?"

Twilight tried to focus and keeping her head on the realm of consciousness but if she was capable of doing but, thankfully, Applejack managed to remove her knots and started to keep her on her hooves. Noticing how Twilight's headache was now starting to send her to the ground (and some ponies watching Trixie's show were starting to notice), Applejack decided that her friend's health was more important than humbling down some third grade unicorn.

"Come on, sugarcube" -. She said as she started to carry Twilight. - "I'm sure that Rarity and Rainbow would agree if I tell you to go rest if they were here."

Twilight tried to smile at the memory of Rarity running away for her green hair but Rainbow Dash being chased away for a cloud and her headache just soured her mood, nonetheless, she agreed to Applejack and left the place before her headache could destroy her.

Back in the Library, and away from the sources of Twilight's headache, the unicorn finally started to feel better as she was now able to stand on her ground, much to her friend's relief.

"Are you sure that you feel fine Twilight?" - asked Applejack with much concern. - "That headache of yours looked very darn big."

"I know it looks crazy Applejack but, trust me, I feel better now".

"Well" -, Applejack responded as she started to leave the library, - "but you better rest up a bit."

Applejack then opened a door and saw in front of her a small bird that was sitting in front of the library, the farm mare wouldn't have said anything about it but then the bird started to spasm and shake as it did some strange noises. That would have scare Applejack well enough but she started to get even more scared when she heard Twilight screaming even more, as she turned back, she saw her friend putting her front hooves on her head as she was having another headache.

As Applejack was about to help Twilight, she heard the strange bird moving out and, as the bird left the place, Twilight's headache started to subside once again, something that Applejack took notice off.

"Twilight, are you alright?"

"Yeah, I just need to rest up a bit."

Applejack started to leave the Library, hoping that nothing would disturb her friend and now trying to figure out what was all that about. Meanwhile, Twilight decided to rest on her bed and hoped that no Ursa Minor would come to Ponyville because she wasn't so sure that she could deal with one if a headache like that one came back.

"Antonio, do you what was all that about?"

What do you mean exactly?

"I mean, do you know what could have caused me that headache? Why I suddenly have a headache ever since I went to that world and what happens to me whenever I see red?"

I'm not really sure Twilight
If there was a proper answer I could give you, I would, sorry

"Don't worry, things have been very strange here for a while and I still don't have a single clue of what is going on in here."

Twilight was wondering what she could use but, in reality, all she wanted was a small rest before getting a new headache.

"I'll take a rest."

And, as she said that, she no longer felt Antonio's watch on her but, before her mind could come to realize what this meant, her mind quickly fell to sleep.

And so, time passed and the night came to Ponyville. There was no more show from Trixie, the animals were in their bed, Rarity removed the green dye from her hair, everypony was asleep but that was not to say that everything was peaceful as a mysterious dark blue cloud was passing by.

This cloud, coming from the Everfree Forest, was occasionally shaking and any animal it touched suddenly went crazy. As it passed through the calm Ponyville, it moved from house to house, watching at the sleeping ponies wondering what to do with them but it would then quickly move before it were noticed.

It took a while but it eventually got into Trixie's wagon as she was counting the money she made that night.

"83, 84... 85 bits!"

She then put the bits into her bag and started to talk to herself.

"Well, it wasn't as bad as in other towns but Trixie's seen worse. It will help to buy the goods needed for the next town, maybe Trixie would have done had she given a better work out of those mares who dared to but how?"

Trixie was thinking on this as she failed to realize that the mysterious cloud got close and it surrounded her, quickly disintegrating her and reshaping her without her notice. As she came back to herself, Trixie's eyes got red and her voice started to distort. She moved her head to one side to the other as if her mind was enlightened in some way and she started to smile.

"I see, so that's the secret to this world. How foolish Trixie was to think that a live like this was worth it, and now, let's show that Sparkle who truly is the greatest unicorn on this world."

She then looked up as she, for the first time, noticed somebody watching her, at which she responded with a smile.

"And would you look at that, Trixie has a new customer who wants to see her greatness. Do not worry, you'll see how Great and Powerful Trixie is very soon."

Her horn then started to shine as the cart was suddenly engulfed in light, making everything on a 5 mt radius to be destroyed, leaving only a trail of smoke and a broken cart whose splinters suddenly came back to life and transformed into timberwolf cubs and started to attack Ponyville, causing a havoc that instantly woke up Twilight Sparkle.

As she woke up and once again felt Antonio's gaze, Twilight couldn't help but notice the screams coming from out of the library. Her mind quickly started to race as she was trying to remember the spells she used last time to calm down the Ursa Minor but all she could feel was shock as she opened the door and saw a timberwolf cub in front of her and attacking her figure and, as always, she only saw red.

DEBUG MODE ACTIVATED

**ENEMY
Glitched Timberwolf Cub

TWILIGHT SPARKLE
HP 18
MP 28

Attack
Magic
Item
Run

Twilight Sparkle Attacked Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub suffered 12 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub has been defeated
ALL ENEMIES HAS BEEN DEFEATED
Earned 2 Chips
Twilight Sparkle won 3XP**

DEBUG COMPLETE

As Twilight's red view went away, she quickly came to her senses and saw how there were so many monsters attacking Ponyville, that would also explain why her headache hasn't gone anywhere.

"What is going on in here?"

For the first time, Antonio actually decided to answer to her

Trixie went nuts and somehow turned her cart into monsters

Twilight tried to make sense of it as her headache was getting worse. All she could see on her sight were Timberwolf Cubs attacking and terrorizing ponies but she quickly realized that this weren't simple Timberwolves, this were the very same ones that she found on that distorted version of The Castle of the Two Sisters but her mind could barely think as her headache was still there, in the end, her eyes started to see red as another cub got close to her.

DEBUG MODE ACTIVATED

**ENEMY
Glitched Timberwolf Cub

TWILIGHT SPARKLE
HP 18
MP 28

Attack
Magic
Item
Run

Twilight Sparkle Attacked Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub suffered 12 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub has been defeated
ALL ENEMIES HAS BEEN DEFEATED
Earned 2 Chips
Twilight Sparkle won 3XP**

DEBUG COMPLETE

Once again, Twilight stopped seeing red and realized that the cub was gone but as she realized that there were still many of them, she came to realize that her mind wouldn't find peace until she finally decided to defeat all the cubs. She tried to count or even see where all the monsters but her mind was to fuzzy to do so at which she simply asked for help to the one that could actually help her.

"Antonio" -. She almost shouted. - "Do you think you can help me to eliminate all this cubs?"

Once again, her body started to move toward another cub as Antonio quickly responded.

Sure

And Twilight would lose count of the amount of times she got close to a batch of monsters just to lose consciousness and then recovering her sight almost immediately. At the end, once the area surrounding the library was clear, she could finally have a clear mind, although she was still feeling the effects of the headache as it left her, to properly analyze the situation.

"Alright" -, she started to analyze, - "if it is true that Trixie has done this, then I must find her and ask her why."

She then started to see Ponyville and she could still hear the many ponies being attacked by monsters, perhaps her friends were in danger, so she had to act quickly.

"But, how many monsters did Trixie sent? Antonio, how many were just on this area?"

Just on this area? Including the first two that attacked you, about 10 in total

"Really?" - She then started to look at her own body, noticing the lack of damage and how she felt her body to be pretty much energized. - "Then why do I feel as if I just woke up?"

Because you leveled up

"Leveled up? What is that supposed to mean?"

It took a moment before Antonio answered that question but she realized in the meantime that he probably said something that he wasn't supposed to, making her wonder what was he planning to say in exchange.

Well, it means that your statistics have risen

In that moment the great screen Twilight saw that morning appeared and moved to show her how the numbers she saw early now were different.

Statistics
Twilight Sparkle
Level 4
HP 19
MP 30
Attack 12
Defense 12
Magic Attack 35
Magic Defense 33
Speed 15
Luck 13
Charm 10
Empathy 11
Cleverness 19
Confidence 21
Awareness 17
Conviction 20

"Wow" -. It was all Twilight could say before looking back at the citizens of Ponyville and how they were now looking at her with strange looks, realizing what they would probably be thinking, she decided to leave the area, with Antonio's help, while still planning her next steps. - "Alright, if I really grew stronger, then that means this 'level up' helps me to recover my energy, then I would have no problem to clear this city of monsters. Alright, let's go."

As she said this, she quickly went to the area where Trixie's cart was supposed to be located in the hopes to solve the situation as quickly as possible. As she started to get close, to her surprise, she found no monsters around the area and there was no sign of Trixie either, it was as if she was never there.

"That's strange" -. Started Twilight. - "I could swear that Trixie's cart was supposed to be here, and I have no headache so there are no monsters in here, so where is she?"

"Perhaps you shouldn't be asking where The Great and Powerful Trixie is Sparkle."

Twilight was then struck by a spell on her back, sending her down and almost making her lose her consciousness as she managed to make out Trixie's voice as it was accompanied by a strange distortion that Twilight has only found on Nightmare Moon and on Discord both when they were being struck by the Elements of Harmony.

When Twilight turned around, she was surprised to see Trixie now having red eyes, parts of her coat where now shifting colors between red and green as other parts of her body were in a constant state of disintegration. Her mane ended on squares that split apart from her and disappeared at a slow pace and, what worried Twilight the most, her whole body made a spasm that she usually saw on monsters but, unlike them, Trixie wasn't creating any type of headache on Twilight.

"Trixie?" - Asked a worried Twilight Sparkle. - "What happened to you?"

Trixie simply smiled as she started to get closer to Twilight's still downed body.

"Trixie's eyes were opened, Sparkle, Trixie can now see the truth and, as such, her powers can now go beyond what is considered normal" -. As she said this, Trixie's horn started to charge a spell that only distorted the space around it, much to Twilight's worries. - "Trixie can see beyond the code and is now capable of magic much greater than you could ever try to even dream about Sparkle, Trixie will no longer be humiliated by you and now you'll be a testament of Trixie's magnificence."

But before Trixie could even fire her spell, a lasso covered her neck and shoved her to the air, forcing Trixie to disappear before anything else could be done to her. When Twilight managed to look around, she found Applejack looking worriedly at Twilight as she got closer to her.

"Twilight, are you alright? What was all that about?"

"Applejack? Well, I don't know, none of this makes sense."

"Well, we agree on that."

Twilight looked around and noticed that only Applejack was in there.

"Where are the others?"

Applejack looked around and quickly answered Twilight.

"Well, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie are helping around trying to get all those monsters out of Ponyville but the more we try the less we achieve, these things are unlike anything we've ever seen."

"I know."

"That is why Ah decided to look for you, hoping that you would have some spell to remove them, which is why Ah was surprised to see the area surrounding the library being so peaceful. What did you do to remove those critters?"

As Twilight tried to find an explanation, she felt a slight annoyance in her head as Rainbow appeared above the houses.

"Girls, finally I found you. Things are getting stranger, Trixie appeared out of nowhere and used some strange spell to bring up all the monsters together."

Twilight and Applejack looked at each other as they tried to make sense of this and quickly went to Rainbow's direction, with the veracity of her words becoming more and more real as Twilight's headache started to come back stronger, much to Applejack's and Rainbow's worry.

"Hum, egghead" -, asked a worried Rainbow, - "Are you alright?"

Twilight tried to reassure her that she was fine but the headache then increased and started to make her see red, something that both Rainbow and Applejack noticed but, before they could say anything, they were ambushed by a sudden spell that separated the three of them apart.

When Twilight turned, she saw Trixie waiting for them as she started to charge a new spell at them.

"Did you really think that The Great and Powerful Trixie would let you stop her Great and Powerful plan? No, The Great and Powerful Trixie will have her revenge on the town that humiliated her as well on the unicorn that begun all of that"

Applejack and Rainbow tried to stop her but it was to no avail, before they could even reach Trixie, she blasted them both to the ground, giving Twilight enough time to use a teleport spell on herself to quickly pick up Rainbow and Applejack and move to her library, much to Trixie's chagrin.

When they finally got back to the library and with Twilight's headache leaving her head, she could finally start to think of a plan to put everything back the way they should while Rainbow Dash and Applejack were trying to voice their concern.

"Alright" -. Started Rainbow Dash. - "What is wrong with that mare? Twilight never did anything to her and this town has only adored her, from where did she got the idea that we humiliated her?"

"Ah don't know Rainbow but Ah think that we should teach her a lesson or two about causing problems in Ponyville."

"Yeah! Now, Twilight, do you have any plan for that?"

As they finally ended talking, Twilight started to voice her plan.

"Let's see, if I get close to the monster I'll start to suffer a headache and Trixie is out there to get me..."

Applejack and Rainbow kept on looking at her until she suddenly shouted her plan.

"I know, you distract Trixie while I get rid of the monster and then you let me take care of Trixie, quickly, ask the other girls for help."

Rainbow and Applejack quickly approved of this and left the Library, leaving Twilight alone with Antonio.

"You think this plan will work?"

I'm not too sure about it but we can still try

"Well, thank you for that, now, let's go!"

The two of them quickly left the library and, to their surprise, they found the monster quickly going after her. It was one of the strangest sights Twilight could have seen, all she could see where a big amount of timberwolf cubs sticked together, giving the sense of all those things being copied into one another and then sticked together and that was all Twilight could see before her headache took over and made her see only red.

DEBUG MODE ACTIVATED

**ENEMY
Glitched Timberwolf Cubs pack

TWILIGHT SPARKLE
HP 19
MP 30
Attack

Magic
Item
Run**

Magic:

Fireball 3MP
Iceball 3MP
Thunder 5MP
Telekinesis
Scan 1MP

Twilight Sparkle Used Fireball on Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cubs Pack
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cub suffered 50 Dmg
Enemy Glitched Timberwolf Cubs Pack has been defeated
ALL ENEMIES HAS BEEN DEFEATED
Earned 25 Chips
Twilight Sparkle won 30XP

DEBUG COMPLETE

When Twilight's mind came back to order and saw that the enemy was nowhere to be seen, all she could easily say was:

"Well, that was much easier than I expected. I suppose that only leaves Trixie."

She turned around only to find Trixie staring at her with complete hatred on her already red eyes.

"Trixie sees now why you were so capable of surpassing Trixie, Sparkle. It is quite clear that if The Great and Powerful Trixie needs to defeat you, she must first take you to a place where no unfair advantages will be there to aid you. But that will be for later, tonight you'll be spared of The Great and Powerful Trixie's might as she plans for a new way to prove once and for all who is the most powerful unicorn on this world."

And with that, Trixie disappeared, leaving a confused Twilight Sparkle alone as she tried to make sense of what she went through today.

At the end of the day, Twilight was mentally exhausted, leaving it to Antonio to move her body to buy another potion from John the Fox and then go to her library to record her memories and then go to rest.

Meanwhile, Twilight's friends were now feeling as if a curse has fallen into Ponyville for never in their life have they ever faced something like this, each one of them weren't sure of what happened or why but all they could do for now was to just rest and wait for the morning to ask Twilight.

One such friend was Applejack, who was sure that Twilight was the cause of all of this but she was somewhat related but she would have to put her suspicions on hold as that crazy night was finally over, the last thing she wanted was to try to solve this issues before having a rest.

Author's Note

Boy was this a mess to write. Sorry guys but I'll keep this on hiatus while I try to give it some semblance of order and pacing, I want to write this but I have no idea of how to pace the story properly, each chapter I try to come up with becomes long the more I try to think of writing them and with college coming up I don't think I have enough time to properly write a new chapter.

Sorry guys, this will be on the wait and I may try to write something later this year when I have the time and inspiration to write it.

EDIT July 12th of 2019: If you like this and you want to support me, you can do it through my Ko-Fi. Feel free to check it out.

The First Chapter - Part One: Welcome to Ponyville

Twilight opened her eyes to be greeted with darkness surrounding her very being. The sky was dark, her surroundings were dark, even the floor was dark to the point that it was impossible to see it even though she could rest her hooves on something solid, yet cold. No matter where she looked at or what she touched, there was only darkness surrounding her. For a brief moment, she felt something was looking at her, so she decided to scream, hoping to make contact with someone she knew.

She looked to her left.

"Spike! Rainbow Dash! Applejack! Fluttershy!"

She looked to her right.

"Rarity! Pinkie Pie! Princess Celestia! Anyone!"

But nobody answered her. Even though she felt watched, she couldn't see anyone nor anything in the vicinity.

Twilight looked around, but she couldn't see anything, so she tried to remember what was the last thing she did. With a loud voice so she could ignore her apparent loneliness.

"Let's see, I have managed to defeat Discord's spell on my friends, we found the Elements again, we managed to join together and were about to strike Discord with the power of friendship so he could be turned into stone once again and then..."

Her mind drifted off, trying to ignore the strange oxymoron sensations surrounding her. One being of completely loniless and the other of being watched.

"Then Discord started to act strange, he started to say weird stuff about 'not wanting to suffer this once again' and then everything surrounding us started to act strange" -. She thought well what she just said and who was she talking about before correcting herself. - "Well, even stranger than what Discord was already being."

She looked around once more, trying to see from where was she being looked at, she looked up hoping to find something different but she only saw darkness.

"Then he did a strange spell, Spike tried to protect me and then... and then..."

Twilight couldn't remember anything else. She tried her best to remember or to see what else could have happened but nothing came to her mind, she tried to concentrate but that strange feeling of being watched was making it even harder for her to think. She needed to know who or what was watching her.

"That's enough!" - The impatient unicorn proclaimed. - "Who's there watching me!?" - Nobody responded. Twilight started to feel anxious. - "I know you're there, I can feel it, please" -. She started to tear her eyes. - "I don't care who you are by this point, if you are there, please talk to me. I don't want to be alone" -. She started to sob. - "I'm scared, I don't know where my friends are *sob* I don't know where I AM *sob* please talk to me."

A deafening silence followed then as Twilight started to sob, the feeling of loneniless and hopelessness filling her being when...

Hello

Twilight looked around, trying to see who was the one responding with such voice that felt direct but reassuring, but darkness was the only thing greeting her. Nonetheless, the idea of being talked to filled her heart with joy.

"I heard you! Where are you!"

Once again, silence followed through but the response came faster this time around.

It's complicated

"What? What do you mean?"

Silence was her only answer.

"Is it some big secret you don't want to tell me?"

Sort off...

Twilight gave it some thought, she really wanted more answers but she felt she wasn't in a position to ask around.

"Alright, fine, can you at least tell me who are you?"

What do you mean?

For some reason, Twilight started to feel some anger to this question even though there was nothing wrong with it.

"I mean something like your name, is that so complicated to tell?"

Sorry

Twilight then felt some compassion going through her once more, as if the emotion was being forced into her, so she tried to make her words to follow through.

"It's... ok... don't worry I also shouldn't have gone through like that."

"But, anyways, can you at least tell me your name?"

In that moment a big silence went through as Twilight waited, and hoped as well, that this voice would answer her at least this. She was wondering what was taking him so long when, suddenly, the voice started to answer back.

A
n
t
o
n
i
o

It felt weird having it spelled but then the voice pronounced it completely.

ANTONIO

It was a strange name for sure.

"Well, alright Antonio, do you know where I am?"

Sorry, but no

"Well, that's too bad. Do you think you could help me getting out of here?"

Sure

Twilight felt relief washing over her body as the answer came to her and with a pleased smile she responded.

"Alright! Why don't we go, then..."

She looked around and remembered that only darkness surrounded her.

"But... where do we go."

In that moment, she felt a strange sensation on her body. It was as if something was compelling her to move right in front of her even though she had no desire to move in general. It was completely abnormal and she was trying to fight it off.

"What is this!? Why is my body trying to move on its own!?"

Don't worry

"Antonio! Is this your doing!?"

She felt in rage, why, and how, was this thing telling her where to go?

"Why are you trying to move me around?"

It's complicated...

"You know that you can answer that so far before I get sick of it, right?"

She only heard silence but, at the same time, there was no more influence over her body telling her what to do so she tried to move on her own and found herself unable to move.

"What? Why can't I move?"

She tried her best to move her body but, as hard as she tried, she couldn't move herself but then the strange feeling came back and her body could finally move again even though she wasn't completely agreeing on the direction being taken. Suffice to say that Twilight Sparkle was feeling frustrated at her reality.

"Alright!" - She exclaimed. - "You can move me but only as long as I cannot move on my own. Once I regain control over myself, no more control. Understood?"

Ok

So Twilight finally started to move with Antonio's help to, from what Twilight could tell, right in front of her. She thought that it was dumb to move in the middle of the darkness with no direction in mind but she wasn't in any position to complain by this point.

Eventually, though, something started to appear on their direction: A door.

It was a tall, wooden door with Twilight's cutie mark being brightly blazoned on the top with her friends's cutie marks on the lower parts of the door while being colorless and off. It had a simple, golden looking, handle but nothing Twilight couldn't open.

"What is this door doing over here?"

She asked to no one, which would, hopefully, explain why Antonio didn't answer back to her as she tried to analyze the door itself.

"I wonder where do this door leads to, it doesn't seem to be connected in any way to anywhere else."

She felt her body being moved again to the door, although she didn't try to rebel this time around.

"You want me to open the door? Alright, it's not like we have any other choice."

Twilight then got close to the door and opened it. In that moment, a huge light started to surround her, forcing Twilight to close her eyes as the light vanquished all the darkness and bringing clarity to her environment. When Twilight opened her eyes, she found herself in shock at seeing that she was now on her room back when she lived in Canterlot.

"What!? What Am I doing here on Canterlot!?"

She looked around and, sadly, she found herself unable to find her number one assistant.

"s*@/%? Where are you?"

Twilight then quickly realized that she could no longer pronounce Spike's name.

"s*@/%? Why I cannot pronounce his name? Antonio, do you know any reason why I can no longer pronounce s*@/%?"

No, sorry

Twilight looked down to the ground worried for Spike's well being, hoping for him to be fine.

"Alright, Twilight, don't worry" -. She told to herself. - "You still need to figure out what happened as well as figuring out what happened to s*@/%, I only hope Applejack and the rest of the girls are fine."

She smiled on her inside as she realized that she could still pronounce the name of at least one of her friends, so she decided to look around and started to think of a solution.

"Let's see, Discord is probably behind this, so all I have to do is make some research over him to figure out what was that spell he did when we were about to defeat him."

So she moved, on her own, gladly, and grabbed one of her spell books in hopes to find what she was looking for, she didn't expect what the book told her.

There are three types of magic on Equestria:

Light magic, which is divided on the usage on defensive spells like cure, heal, protection, revival, buffs, etc. and offensive spells, which focuses on attacking the enemy with spells like fire, drain, status ailments like poison, etc.

Dark Magic, which can work the same way as Light magic but it can also bring extra benefits to the user at a cost.

The third type of magic, is a secret to everyone.

Twilight Sparkle is a neutral magic user, which means that she can use both light and dark magic. You can find more magic users with bigger affinities to either dark, light or the third type of magic as you progress on your quest.

Take note that the usage of either type of magic on combat will not affect your relationship with others but it will be affected the how you use it outside of combat.

Twilight moved all the pages on her book and saw, to her displeasure, that it was all she could see on her book. No matter how hard she tried, this was all she could see.

"That's strange, I don't remember this book having stuff like this written. Maybe another book will help."

She moved to another book in the hopes of finding what she was looking for.

There are three types of statistics that you should be aware about: Combat Stats, Friendship Stats and Attribution Stats.

Combat Stats are those designed exclusively for combat against enemies. This are divided on Hit Points (HP), Magic Points (MP), Attack, Defense, Magic Attack, Magic Defense, Speed and Luck. This statistics increase whenever a character level up.

Friendship Stats are for non-combat. This are made to develop your relationship with other characters and depending on how you distribute them, it can influence on how you interact with certain characters. This are divided on Charm, Empathy, Cleverness, Confidence, Awareness and Conviction. This statistics increase whenever a character level up.

Attribution Stats are statistics exclusive to your character that reflect their personality and physical being. This stats can only be altered under very specific circumstances and after fulfilling very specific conditions and they can influence both your Combat Stats as well as you Friendship Stats by boosting them up. This are Strength (Attack/Defense) Constitution (HP/MP), Dexterity (Speed/Luck/Cleverness), Wisdom (Magic Defense/Awareness/Conviction), Intelligence (Magic Attack/Charm/Confidence) and Charisma (Luck/Empathy/Charm/Confidence)

There are three statistics that aren't related to them, Evasion, Accuracy and Critical, how this three works are kept secret but both the combat and friendship Stats can influence them.

Twilight looked at the cover of the book and her mind freaked out when she read the title being How to Treat your body Well but all she could read was the same paragraph over and over again.

"This doesn't make any sense, why is this right here instead of actually talking about a pony's physiology?"

She tried to remember and, over and over again, she was sure that the book never said stuff like that last time she read it and every book she read followed the same trend.

The book titled "The Secrets of Pony Biology":

Each character has abilities that will help them on their quest. While some will share the same abilities, others will be unique to said characters and it will give them special advantages that other characters cannot have. You will only be able to equip one ability at a time but you can equip more if you fulfill certain requirements.

The book "The Types of Ponies":

There are four known form of ponies.

The Earth ponies: strong and with a build capable of taking out jobs that require more muscle than strength. Their stronger physique gives them a huge defense as well although they can be quite slow with some exceptions.

The Pegasus ponies: Fast and capable of hitting good attacks thanks to their wings that gives them an edge on multiple areas. They have a very weak physique, which makes them very easy to take out by a strong enemy.

The Unicorn Ponies: Capable of making magic as well as having a high magic attack and defense at the expense of having a weak physique and been very slow. They can be quite elitist as well.

The Alicorn Ponies: Capable of using earth, pegasi and unicorn magic. They are all around with their capabilities, making them very strong. Avoid confrontation with them at any cost unless you have an alicorn on your side or a very powerful magic attack.

All of this books were either talking unrelated topics or were somewhat accurate about what it was talking about but not in the way it should be and so on and so forth, it didn't make sense to Twilight at all.

In the end, she couldn't hold her frustration when she realized that all of her books were now useless to her, so she threw them around her as she screamed with her lungs how frustrating this was and how she desired for an explanation of why everything was going so haywire, so she decided to take advantage of her actual position in Canterlot and go to ask Princess Celestia herself. Perhaps she would know what was going on as well as give her a hint of where Spike was but, in the moment she opened the doors to leave her room, she was greeted by guards who were looking at her on a serious manner.

"Oh!" - She said in a worried tone. - "Hello there, what are you doing in here?"

"We come here in the name of Princess Celestia to-"

"Good!" - Interrupted the overly excited Twilight. - "Because I need to ask her about some strange things I've encountered recently."

The guards quickly gave her a letter which was opened by a curious Twilight and, to her shock, it was the same letter Princess Celestia sent to her long ago, when Twilight herself made the warning about the coming of Nightmare Moon and she responded by sending her to Ponyville to overlook the preparations for the Summer Sun Celebration.

"What? But.. this doesn't make sense..."

"As we said" -. Interrupted the guard. - "We came here by orders of Princess Celestia to take you to Ponyville."

She tried to argue with the guards about her necessity to talk with Princess Celestia, about how Nightmare Moon was already stopped, about her friends, about how Discord but the guards took none of it and put her on the move to Ponyville, much to her regret.

"I don't get it, why did I go back to my room in Canterlot? Why did I receive that letter again? Where is s*@/%?"

She looked around the mountains as she was going back to the life she thought she had just a couple hours ago. She looked up, remembering the eternal gaze from the invisible voice constantly following her.

"Antonio, are you there?"

Yes

"Do you think I'm going crazy?"

No

Relief washed over her mind as she knew at least there was one... thing... who was trying to make as much sense as she was right now. Although her mind couldn't stop the thinking that it wasn't normal to speak to invisible voices but that was a problem for another day.

"Well, at least I know someone who doesn't think I'm getting crazy."

She let a few seconds pass before she decided to make another question.

"Do you have any idea of what is going on?"

Not sure

Twilight wasn't sure if that was the answer she was waiting for.

"Oh, I see..."

"So, do you have any idea of where s*@/% is or why I cannot pronounce his name?"

No

"I see."

"Wait, you know who I am talking about, right?"

This time though, a big silence came as Twilight waited for Antonio's answer, long enough for her to notice that she was taking quite a while to get to Ponyville. Last time it took them quite a few minutes but now at least the double of that time has already passed and they were still on the air and, when she decided to look at Ponyville, little air was covered but, before she could ask about that, she received her answer.

Yes

"Huh? Wait a minute... how do you know s*@/% if the first time we've met was on that dark place? And don't tell me 'it's complicated'!"

It's not an easy question to answer Twilight

"But what is so complicated about telling me what do you know?"

Its because #"$()$._-

Twilight was now in the middle of Ponyville as the royal guards were going back to Canterlot. She tried to remember when did she left the chariot or what did Antonio tried to tell her but there was a huge gap that was blocking her from knowing and that frustrated her to no limit. It made no sense, there should have been at least a memory of her getting to Ponyville but there was nothing, the last thing she could remember was Antonio answering her question and then everything jumped to Ponyville.

"I don't get it. When did I reach Ponyville?"

She looked around and saw that everything was just like she remembered it the first time that she went to Ponyville all those months ago when the Summer Sun Celebration was happening even though the Summer Sun Celebration already passed and that was only another bit more to the mystery of what was happening to her.

Still, it didn't stop her from feeling a sense of nostalgia from getting back to Ponyville after who knows how long it was and this was the best moment to present the town to her newest friend.

"Oh well, Antonio, welcome to Ponyville, the place I like to call home."

It looks very nice

"I know, right? Would you like me to show you around... That way I can go and check on my friends to see how they are."

Sure

"Alright! Follow me! Let's go first to Sweet Apple Acres so you can meet Applejack."

Once again, she felt that strange sensation on her body telling her where to go but, thankfully, it was going through where she actually wanted to go, and on they moved but, as she was passing through the market, Twilight stopped at a strange sight, one she wasn't used to see on her life. A fox.

This was more than a common fox though, it had a brightly red coat with its eyes very closed, making it impossible to see its pupils, it had a very long tale moving to side to side as it waited for someone to talk to him and his paws were all on the ground giving an air of authority and respect but the one thing that stood out of this fox was the fact that it was wearing a business suit and it was constantly smiling although never by showing its teeth.

"Huh? That strange" -. Commented Twilight. - "I don't remember ever seeing a fox on Ponyville."

So they decided to get closer to the fox only to be greeted by it once they got close enough. Its voice was male and sympathetic, with a slight tone of cleverness waiting to find someone who would give him the deal of his life but with the audacity of knowing what kind of customer he was dealing with at plain sight and with an accent that could only be described as 'slick'.

"Ah! A potentially new costumer, my apologies but, as you can see, we're not open yet. Please come back after midnight. By then, we may be able to give you the proper treatment you deserve."

Twilight looked around and saw that the fox was nowhere close to a new shop or store where he could say that he could sell anything of value to her.

"But, where is your store?"

The fox only increased its grin with his teeth starting to become visible.

"Do not worry over such menial detail my dear customer. Once the store is open, you will know for sure."

With a slight worry on her features, Twilight just nodded and decided to go on to Sweet Apple Acres with the hopes of meeting with Applejack. As she trotted over, Twilight couldn't stop worrying over how strange all of this was. She was sure that she already knew what was going to happen but it looked as if there was some slight variation that put her off from this experience, in example, she didn't remember that fox, she hadn't met Pinkie yet and she still wanted to know where was Spike.

When she finally got into Sweet Apple Acres, Twilight couldn't stop from smiling as she saw Applejack doing her chores, forcing her to trot over to her and give her a huge hug as one of her best friends was finally with her.

"Applejack! I'm so glad to finally find you!" - She didn't noticed Applejack's worried face as she strangled her with her hug on a way that would give Pinkie Pie a run for her chocolate. - "Everything has been so strange lately since we encountered Discord. I was sent back to Canterlot, my books doesn't say anything normal and I cannot even find s*@/%. I need your help right now, please gather the girls and-"

"Lady" -. Said the farm mare in a very controlled tone of voice. - "Mah' apologies but Ah feel you are talking to the wrong mare."

Twilight tried as hard as she could to understand what she was hearing but her mind couldn't comprehend the idea of her friend not recognizing her but Applejack kept talking.

"Now, you see like a good feller so Ah won't take it hard but unless you have something to do with the Summer Sun Celebration or you are here to help with the chores then Ah ask you kindly to go away."

Twilight stood there as her friend was leaving her alone to continue on her chores when something clicked on Twilight's mind as she searched on her Saddle Bag to show Applejack how she did have something to do here.

"Excuse me" -. Twilight said in a very confident, almost smug, tone. - "But I do have something to do here."

Applejack was about to tell her off but she then saw Twilight's letter which made her the Canterlot envoy to check everything was alright for the preparations of the Summer Sun Celebration.

"Well Ah'll be. You are in charge."

"Yes and I would appreciate it if you could allow me to see how the food preparations for the celebration are going."

In that moment a very familiar event happened to Twilight as Applejack called all the family for dinner and invited Twilight to eat. Something the unicorn mare didn't try to refuse this time as she was more appreciative of the idea that this might be her last dinner with Applejack.

Once Twilight was out of Apple Acres, she decided to search for Rainbow Dash but not without trying to interact with Antonio while she was making the trot from Applejack's home to Ponyville.

"And that was Applejack. What do you think of her."

She seemed quite nice and honest to me.

Twilight chuckled at his answer but not before noticing how specific were his words but, after remembering what happened last time she tried to dive into that, Twilight decided to let it go this time.

"I know, right? But it worries me that she doesn't remember me. Not only that but it truly looks like I'm back to the day Nightmare Moon was released and that worries me even more."

She stopped to see if Antonio had anything to comment on but, as he remained silent, she decided to continue.

"I think Discord must have used a time related spell but something must have gone wrong because I remember everything and s*@/% is gone, which means I must figure out what kind of spell he used, where it went wrong and how I can use it to bring back s*@/%. Does that sound good?"

Sounds good to me

And, with a smile on her face Twilight started to move closer to Ponyville as a little thought started to cross her mind.

"Antonio."

Yes?

"Do you think other ponies can hear you or that's just me?"

I'm not sure either

"Do you think I should try checking over?"

Not on this moment

"Because, if not, ponies may think I'm crazy?"

Yes

"Alright then" -. She said as she started to enter Ponyville and her voice went lower. - "In that case I'll just lower my voice a bit. Can you still hear me?"

Yes

"Good. Now, what do you think we should do, go for Rainbow Dash or go to the Library?"

"Excuse me."

Twilight looked up just to find Rainbow Dash resting on a cloud, looking at her with strange looks.

"But I would like to know why are you searching for me as well as why are you talking alone."

Twilight was starting to panic when Antonio gave her an idea.

Stay cool and act as if nothing happened

Twilight felt relief washing over her body as she simply took the paper that designated her in charge of the Summer Sun Celebration and showed it to Rainbow Dash.

"Greetings. My name is Twilight Sparkle and I was sent by Princess Celestia to see how are the preparations for the Summer Sun Celebration going along and I will guess you are Rainbow Dash. The one in charge of the clouds?"

Rainbow couldn't stop from making a smug at this.

"The one and only but you didn't answer my other-"

"Well" -. Interrupted Twilight as her hoof moved to a lone cloud in the sky. - "While I see that you have been doing a good job so far, I've noticed that there's one cloud that you haven't removed yet."

"What? That? Pfft. I'll do it later."

For the first time, Twilight smiled as she felt happy that she could take some advantage over her knowledge of the past.

"Alright, it is sad because the Wonderbolts are looking for good recruits and-"

"What did you say!?"

Rainbow Dash was at less than 1 inch from Twilight's face as she was talking, nonetheless, she managed to keep her composure.

"As I said, the Wonderbolts are searching for recruits and one thing they search for the most are recruits that can fulfill their task when asked instead of whenever they fill like it."

In the moment Twilight said that, Rainbow moved as fast as she could and removed the cloud in almost less than ten seconds just so she could return to Twilight's face with a smug grin.

"Do you think the Wonderbolts will take note of that?"

Twilight remained calm and gave her an honest response.

"Yes, I can assure you that they will appreciate candidates like you if you show that level of dedication. Now, if you excuse me, I must search for Rarity."

And Twilight left Rainbow right before she realized that the unicorn never answered her second question and now she wanted to know how she knew about her admiration to the Wonderbolts.

As Twilight felt relieved once again for Rainbow Dash being fine and for not getting diagnosed as crazy yet, she decided to not interact with Antonio for now as she was sure that nopony could hear him. She moved to Rarity's to make sure that she was also fine with the dread of knowing she probably wouldn't know her.

So, as she entered into the Carousel Boutique, Twilight decided to enter as if she were a complete stranger and hoped that this would go smoother than her encounter with Applejack or Rainbow Dash as she opened the door and saw her unicorn friend turning away from her chores as she saw Twilight entering with a shy face.

"Oh? Welcome to the Carousel Boutique, where we can make you a dress that will be in everypony's mouth. I am Rarity, how may I be of service?"

"Hello, my name is Twilight Sparkle and I was sent by Princess Celestia to supervise the preparations for the Summer Sun Celebration and-"

Twilight's voice was interrupted by a shriek coming from Rarity as she got close to Twilight and started to ask about her life in Canterlot, which was fairly much how she remembered when she met her for the first time but, for some reason, Twilight couldn't escape the feeling that Rarity was speaking slightly faster and sometimes it even felt as if her speech was cut before she went to her next phrase. At the very least the conversation was much faster than she remembered.

And so, as Twilight was ending her conversation as well as getting a new design on her mane, she was preparing to leave when Rarity decided to do something Twilight was sure didn't happen last time they met.

"Oh, darling. Before I forget, please also keep this, as a gift, from me" -. She then delivered a small mane clip of a purple star surrounded by blue sky. - "I hope you enjoy it, at the very least, it'll defend your mane from getting attacked by the wind. Now tah-tah!"

And just like that, Twilight was out of Carousel Boutique with something new that she has never seen in her life. Regardless, since it was a gift from Rarity, she felt compelled to put it on her mane as a sign of good wishes to her, which only left Twilight with two mares to meet left: Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie.

Fluttershy wasn't hard to find but, Twilight realized, it would be very hard to make her open up without Spike's help, so she started to think of ways to get closer to her without making her panic, so she decided to make a slow approach as she was practicing with the birds.

Twilight could listen the cheerfulness in her voice as she was wondering what she could do. She thought of talking but she felt it would be rude to interrupt her (like last time) but, in the end, she felt that the best choice was to simply wait until she was over with he practicing. This meant spending a couple of minutes in hearing the beauty of Fluttershy's birds singing a very melodious tune that harmonized with the environments as it reflected the cheer coming from those who preferred to live under the warm-loving sun than the worrying night.

Twilight was so focused on the tune, that she didn't notice how one of the birds decided to fly on top of her head and sing in there which made Fluttershy turn and finally notice, making all the other birds stop which lead to Twilight noticing Fluttershy finally seeing her.

"Oh, uhm, sorry" -. Tried to vocalized the pegasus that made a life out of her name. - "I always tell him to not stay on top of other ponies or animals because its rude... but it doesn't matter if its ok to you but I apologize if it isn't ok but-"

Twilight simply made a small laugh as she simply waved off Fluttershy's fears.

"Don't worry, I enjoyed that singing so much that I don't mind" -. This made the yellow pegasus to release a breath of relief as Twilight continued. -"Well, from what I can tell, you must be Fluttershy, the pony in charge of the music and I feel safe to say that the Summer Sun Celebration will have one of its best music performances in years."

"Oh, no, I'm not so sure" -. Responded a blushing pegasus as she tried to hide her mane from the embarrassment. - "And I don't mean that the birds are bad, I mean that there has probably been better performances and I doubt we may be among the best ones but-"

"Relax" -. Interrupted Twilight once more. - "Trust me, you'll do great but, could you please tell me how you did it? I'm sure Princess Celestia would like to know considering she has many birds on her garden."

The change in conversation made Fluttershy change her aptitude as she was now talking with Fluttershy how to take care of the birds as they were walking back to Ponyville's Library, where Twilight was more than sure she was finally going to meet Pinkie Pie which became true as Twilight opened the door and she was greeted with a huge surprise coming from all of Ponyville celebrating her coming to the little town.

"Wow, for me?" - Asked Twilight as she was trying to fake a surprise which was quickly answered by her pink friend.

"Sure, every newcomer to Ponyville always get a 'Welcome to Ponyville' Party even if this isn't the first time you have come."

"What?"

"And I'll always be glad of making one or two new friendships even if I already know you."

"What?"

"But don't worry, because once a pinkie friend you'll always be-"

In that moment Rainbow Dash put her hoof on Pinkie Pie and started the party as Twilight was trying to understand how it was possible for Pinkie to be able to tell the difference of whether or not the two of them had already met. Was it the Pinkie Sense? Did she remembered? Was she aware of Antonio? She needed to know but, at the same time, she was sure that Pinkie Pie would simply act as if nothing happened and that frustrated her mind to no end.

"Hey, egghead!" - Twilight turned to see Rainbow Dash with the other girls asking her to join. - "Come in and join the fun."

As Twilight walked, she could hear them talking about her.

"Rainbow, don't be so rude. Calling her like that is not from a mare."

"Speak for yourself, is the best I could come up with that wasn't aiming at making her sound wacko."

"Rainbow!"

"Its true, I saw her talking alone when she was walking through Ponyville."

"I have to agree with Rainbow there, sugar cube, she acted fairly strange when we met. Even talking to me as if we already knew each other."

"She didn't acted like that with me, she actually was kind of nice, not that I want to interrupt you or anything..."

"Do not worry Fluttershy, I agree with you, she was a fair mare with me and acted properly."

"Maybe she was so excited to make a new friend that she saw in the future of how good friend we would become and maybe she wasn't talking alone, she was just thinking out loud the same way I do whenever I think of whether or not chocolate is better mixed with milk or mixed with sugar which, I know it doesn't sound important but it is because cocoa alone is itsy bittier so the right mix can hmhmhmhmhmh-"

"Alright" -. Said Rainbow as she put her hoof on Pinkie's mouth again. - "I'll give her another chance. Besides, there are some questions I would like to ask her on private."

In that moment they all turned around to see that Twilight was right beside them hearing the conversation, making them all blush.

"Sorry, darling, it was rude from us for talking about you like that."

"Do not worry, I know I'm not the usual kind of pony" -. Twilight felt compelled to say, which was strange because it wasn't what she was planning to say at all, making her wonder who was the one talking for her in that moment. - "Hum, sorry girls but I think I need to go to the bathroom."

"Oh, don't worry, we all go through that after drinking too much on a Pinkie Party, if you don't mind me answering..."

Twilight didn't mind Fluttershy and decided to go to her private room (which this time around had a bathroom, something else she didn't remember having last time) and finally decided to have another talk with Antonio.

"Antonio."

Yes?

"More than once today I have been acting on ways that feel more as compelled instead of thought by me. Tell me, was that you?"

Maybe

"Look" -. She started to put her hooves on her eyes as frustration was growing. - "I don't know why are you doing it but could you please stop it?"

Not sure I can

"What?" - She almost shouted. - "Why?"

Not sure I should say it

"OK! Fine!" - She shouted in anger. - "Don't tell me anything but could you at least try to let me be? I don't like getting told what to do!"

"Alright, now I'm sure that you were talking with someone!" -. Rainbow Dash opened the door as she started to look at Twilight with a predatory eyes. - "With who are you talking with and what do you mean with all of that of somepony controlling you?"

Twilight started to feel tense as panic raised for her lack of knowledge over how to solve this new problem she never faced on her life.

"Look" -. Rainbow continued with a serious but worried face looking at her with a desire to know more. - "I understand if you are worried but you must explain if you don't want me telling how wa-wa-wa-wa-wa-wa-wa-wa-"

Twilight was now going through panic to complete terror as she saw one of her best friends shaking out from one side to the other on the most unnatural way she ever saw but, before she could even scream or react, the world then started to shake and, when it calmed down, she was now on the Town Hall waiting for Princess Celestia to raise the sun. Twilight looked left and right just to find Rainbow Dash not too far away from her but she couldn't even get close to her as the music began and the curtains were opened just to reveal that there was no Princess Celestia to raise the Sun.

In that moment everything went just as she remembered with Nightmare Moon appearing in the middle of the Town Hall and her telling everybody who she was (although she was now wondering who was the one making that decision) which was then followed with her now having to go the Castle of the Two Sisters to find the Elements of Harmony so she went to her library to find any resource she would need for her quest and it didn't surprise her to find her friends entering into her library although she was now wondering how different it would be this experience.

"Alright, tell us what do you know and if you are, somehow, related to the disappearance of Princess Celestia then I'll-"

"Rainbow" -. The farm mare said as she pulled Rainbow's tail to give Twilight some space. - "Ah know that you have your suspicions of her but this is not the way to show it."

"I have to agree with Applejack here, darling. Just because she acted like that it doesn't mean that we can just burst into her house and act like abusive brats."

"What? But... look. I know what I saw a few hours ago when I was in that cloud."

"Cloud?" -. Twilight was curious, Rainbow didn't remembered what happened not too long ago? - "But what about-"

"Enough talk, each moment we pass here is more time that eany meany Nightmare Moon is doing something to Princess Celestia."

Twilight was baffled at seeing Pinkie being the voice of reason for once but she was right on that. Twilight wasn't sure of what was going on but one thing she could be sure, if she was repeating her story, then she would eventually meet again Discord and she was going to prepare herself to face him and rescue Spike from him.

"Hum, excuse me but, how are we going to face Nightmare Moon when she is this big alicorn that can rival Celestia when we are just normal ponies?"

"The answer is simple, Fluttershy" -. Continued Twilight. - "With the Elements of Harmony."

It didn't take Twilight too much time to explain her plan and, once again, everything was looking as how it should but, as every time Twilight thought that everything was going according to plan or how she remembered it, she was then struck with a new "obstacle" at the entrance of the Everfree Forest: A fox.

The same fox she met earlier back, with the same smile, the same closed eyes, the same paws on the ground and the same slick voice.

"Ah. I see you are about to finally begin your journey."

Twilight and her friends looked at each other trying to make sense of what they were looking at right now. Twilight wasn't sure how to feel on the fact that not even her friends were looking to be familiar with the fox.

"This is the best time to offer you my services then."

Rainbow got close to the fox as she was feeling a little exasperated.

"Look, I don't know who are you but this isn't the time for any craziness or doing business of any sorts. We are on a mission and you are being an obstacle right now."

The fox kept his smile as if nothing happened and continued talking.

"Hello, I am John and this is the Item Store from F.O.X. Inc. Ready to help you out on your most basic necessities."

"Mah apologies" -. Applejack responded with a slight annoyed tone of voice as she was trying to see if she could just go through the fox. - "But this isn't the time to sell us your stuff unless you have the Elements of Harmony with you."

The fox remained the same, ignoring the second interruption.

"While we are aware that you lack of the funds to buy from us, here at F.O.X. Inc. we are prepared to give you piece of what we have as a demonstration of what kind of goods you can benefit from by accepting our services."

His professional tone was something worth recognizing but by this point even Rarity was losing her temper.

"My apologies good gentle...fox. But this isn't the time for it, we must go to the forest and save Equestria and if you aren't going to move then perhaps we should be the ones moving you."

John the fox remained calm and kept looking at Twilight as his professional voice remained the same.

"Do not worry for time, for you have all the time you need to take this decision. All you have to do is say 'Yes' and you will be given our first batch of selected goods that will certainly help you out on your first adventure."

"Wait" -. Even Fluttershy was starting to lose her shyness... sort of. - "First adventure?"

"Twilight, could you please tell this fox to beat it so we can go and rescue Princess Celestia? I'm getting really impatient here."

"Yeah! I may like free stuff but this isn't the time for this... maybe if you have chocolate."

Twilight was about to say no and shut the fox off but she then felt that same compelling force telling her what to do. She tried to fight it as she wanted to reject what the fox was offering but her mouth gained control of its own and said in a very abrupt and forced manner.

"N-Yes."

This was followed by a chorus of perplexed mares.

"What!?"

Before any of them could say something, John the fox decided to speak and finish the transaction as his smile grew, showing off his pearly white canine teeth.

"Great. Thank you for accepting the services of F.O.X. Inc. here are the items you will be given for this adventure. F.O.X. Inc. notifies that any restock of previously given items will be charged with the bonus of being able to stock more than what you were given by us."

In that moment he moved his paws behind his body and took out a series of items on a fashion that everybody thought only Pinkie Pie could pull off. This items were an Apple, three bottles with a red liquid, another three bottles but this time with a blue liquid, a small book, a small bouquet with a small diamond in the middle, a ribbon shaped like a butterfly and a big piece of meat.

As the mares looked at the piece of meat, they were feeling disgusted by the gift. In the end, it was Rarity who, by sheer force of not puking, responded what all her partners were thinking.

"Sir, I'm sure you must be aware that none of us are carnivores, right?"

The fox kept his smile and said on a tone that should have felt dark or sinister but came out as nice, warm and familiar.

"This piece of meat isn't meant for you to eat."

Twilight simply picked the items as she was trying to suppress her anger at Antonio for doing it but not before making a simple question that all of her friend were having.

"Alright, but the rest of these items, what are we supposed to do with them, what do they do?"

The fox kept his tone and responded as if everything happening right now was natural or normal with his smile still adorning his face.

"Do not worry about it, you will know what they are when the time comes."

In that moment the fox finally moved from the entrance and allowed the mares from entering. The mares started to enter into the forest as they all looked at the fox with a mixture of worry and suspicion in their eyes as well as with a desire to hoof his face. A few trots later, Twilight decided to dispel one piece of doubt she had about all of this.

"Girls, have any of you ever seen that fox before?"

All of them said no but that only gave Rainbow an opening to show her anger.

"And why did you said 'yes'? You had no reason to listen to it and no reason to trust in that fox, so why did you accepted?"

"Rainbow" -. Voiced Rarity. - "This isn't the time for-"

"No, Rarity, Rainbow is right" -. Responded Twilight with a sure tone of voice. - "And, in fact, I don't trust in that fox and I wanted to say no, but it was as if something forced me to say yes."

"Something? Twilight, are you sure of that because Ah saw that fox just like the rest of you and Ah saw nothing strange on it."

"I know Applejack, it's just that- look, I don't know how to explain, it's just that there's something wrong with that fox and I don't know how to deal with it."

"At least we can all agree on that."

And with that said, they all decided to continue their journey.

After that, the journey was much more somber as the girls went through it and they weren't sure of what kind of dangers they were going to face already. Of course, Twilight knew what kind of dangers were ahead of them but that didn't stop her from worrying over the possibility that this time something different may arise. The same way, she was mad at Antonio for forcing her to make those decisions and even more for probably hurting her relationship with her friends but, as she moved forward, she started to think about the items given to her by John and wondered if they could be useful to her, after all, perhaps they were useful and she wasn't aware of it and it would be dumb of her to not use them so she opened her saddlebag and decided to see what these items were.

"What are you doing?" - Asked Rainbow Dash as she saw Twilight taking out those items. - "Why are you still holding that stuff? We don't even know if it's safe."

"That is why I'm checking on them, Rainbow. I need to know what they are and what they do."

So she decided to take out the small book first and saw what it contained. To her surprise, it contained some magic theory that she found very useful so she decided to keep it for later, she also decided to take a look at the bottles.

"What do you think they are Twilight?" - Asked Applejack. - "Ah'm not so sure we should even be drinking those."

Twilight gave it a brief thought but she stated to feel a negative emotion compelling her to not drink any of the bottles's content, by this point already feeling apathy for those compelling emotions.

"I agree with you there Applejack" -. Continued Twilight. - "I have a feeling of what they are for but I would rather research them first before determining what they are and what they do."

She then took out the Apple which prompted Applejack to give it a closer look at it. As she inspected, what originally was a suspicious glance turned into a curious and even bewildered one.

"Holy nelly! What is this apple?"

"Applejack, what is it?"

"Twilight, Ah don't know what did that fox did but this apple is very well made. In fact, I thought only the apple family was capable of making such a good looking apple. Twilight, can I keep this apple to check it again later?"

Twilight saw no problem with it, after all Applejack was the apple expert, so she let her take it.

They then decided to take a look at the bouquet that held a diamond and, much the same way that Applejack found interest in it, Rarity noticed that there was something off about the bouquet itself that made her wanting to investigate it further while Fluttershy decided to keep the butterfly shaped ribbon because it looked so cute.

After that, and noticing that there was nothing of interest for Rainbow or Pinkie Pie, the group decided to continue forward as planned and, to Twilight's surprise, everything went, more or less, as well as she remembered. She almost fell to a cliff like last time but some of the things she used to hold herself out almost disappear when she tried to grab them. When they faced the Manticore, this time it was more ferocious to the point that Fluttershy alone wasn't capable of calming it down. It went so far that one of its claws swipe Twilight and made a huge opening on her flank, forcing her to drop her saddlebag and put out the meat which, once the Manticore saw it, was eaten by the monster and it helped to calm him down enough for Fluttershy to ease it and made it go away but at the expense of Twilight being hurt.

"Oh no! Twilight, are you ok?"

Asked Rainbow Dash frenetically as Flutteshy repeated 'oh dear' and tried to think of something for her lack of medical supplies as Pinkie Pie tried to keep everyone on a better mood by trying to think on a solution. As Twilight was suppresing the pain caused by her wound, she once again felt the compelling force moving her to the saddlebag, by this point Twilight no longer cared what Antonio did with her body and just went along with it but that didn't stop her friends for worrying as well.

"Twilight, don't move, Ah cannot help you if you move, it could make your wound worse."

Twilight wanted to retort but she was starting to get curious as she saw "herself" getting the red potion given to her by the fox.

"Twilight, dear, I'm not sure this is the time to use mysterious items."

Twilight's body obviously didn't listen and drank the potion, thankfully it didn't taste bad but it would be better with sugar. Surprisingly though, as soon as she drank the potion, she could feel her body getting well rested and all of them boggled their minds as Twilight's wound started to heal up by itself. In the end, it was Rainbow Dash who made the best response anyone could ever come up with.

"How expensive do you think those potions are? Because I think I want a few of them."

After that everything remained smooth, Rarity helped the river snake to cross the river, they faced a spooky forest and Rainbow Dash managed to defeat the temptation of the Shadow Bolts. Everything was going almost as she remembered, Twilight would never miss how some parts of the forest or the animals started to phase out or dissolve even in front of her friends but they would remain unfazed, letting her clear that they could not see those strange occurrences but, putting that aside, all of this was only, not only, making her happy but it was also improving once again her relationship with her friends but she was once again faced with something neither her nor her friends were expecting that was waiting for them at the entrance of the castle: a fox, more specifically, John the fox was waiting for them besides the entrance of the Castle of the Alicorn Sisters.

As they all saw him waiting, it was a simple impulse to gather up and make a small reunion to discuss what they were about to do.

"Alright, girls" -. Began Rainbow. - "I want to be sure of this. Does any of you have any idea of how did it catch up to us? Because I'm sure that we left that fox back at the entrance of the Everfree and it's impossible for it to catch up to us so fast, even less get ahead of us."

"Ah have to agree with Rainbow. That fox is grating mah nerves and Ah don't feel so safe with it here. Ah mean, Ah thought only Pinkie could pull that kind of stuff out."

"Yeah, so did I and I'm sure that he doesn't have my Pinkie Sense."

"And what do we do darlings? I'm quite sure that it will talk to us if we decide go further and, no offense Twilight, dear, but I don't think you are the best negotiator here."

"Don't worry Rarity. I say that we ignore it and go ahead. Deal?"

They all agreed and decided to move by ignoring John but, as soon as they were about to cross the door, and without even turning its head, John the Fox decided to talk to the mares, once again, with its slick voice.

"I do not recommend you to go ahead, you don't know what kind of danger you may be facing. Perhaps it would be better to have a reminder of what's at stake here, why don't you talk to me so we can solve this issue?"

Rainbow Dash got closer to him and was about to tell him off when the fox turned to his sides and simply said.

"I would prefer to talk with the one known as Twilight Sparkle, if you don't mind, for she is the one that has the capabilities to solve this issue."

Rainbow Dash stopped and, to the surprise of everyone, backed down and looked at Twilight as if inviting her, with a desperate face, to talk with the fox. As Twilight got closer, Rainbow Dash passed by her and simply said 'I don't know what was that, but there is something off with that fox, be careful' so when Twilight got face to face with John, she simply asked.

"Alright, what do you want with me?"

John the Fox kept smiling although his voice started to sound slightly sarcastic.

"You? My apologies but it isn't exactly you the one I want to talk to" -. He then looked at Twilights friends and, as he put his face close to her ear and used his tail to cover his mouth from Twilight's friends, he whispered. - "The one I wanna talk to is the one who you represent, the one truly in charge of this, aren't you mister?"

Twilight's coat started to get pale as she started to think on the connotations of what John said while the fox kept staring at her with his huge grin.

"Now, since you have progressed a lot so far. We thought that it would be much better for you if someone recorded your progress so far and since you don't have an assistant to help you out with that" -. Twilight started to shiver as her mind raced on overthinking at those words. - "F.O.X. Inc have decided to allow all of its representatives to record your progress whenever you encounter one of us and you so ask for it, that way we'll always have a record of what have you bought from us, when, how and where. But, in the case you cannot find any of us and still need to record your progress, all you need is a parchment and ink to do so, we're very sure you have plenty of it on your library as of now."

Twilight was already shaking as she looked at John's closed eyes and her mind was trying to make sense of the information bomb she was getting right now. She wasn't crazy, Antonio was real, the fox was real, her friends weren't familiar with the fox, she truly was back in time and something strange was happening in Ponyville and perhaps even Equestria and she was feeling that beyond Discord, this company was probably related somehow.

"So" -. John the Fox said as he took out a scroll and a quill to write. - "Do you want me to record your progress?"

Twilight knew who he was talking to now so she gave little to no resistance when her lips moved on their own and answered 'yes' as she felt losing weight and how her mind was feeling lighter. The fox moved his paws at the speed of lightning as he wrote everything faster than Twilight ever could even dream off.

Once the fox was done, he thanked her and started to look at what was in front of him as if nothing happened but Twilight was too shaken to even move, which prompted all her friends to surround her, Rainbow Dash threatening the fox as he assured them that he did nothing wrong to Twilight Sparkle.

"Twilight, sugar cube, please react, you are worrying us."

"Darling, I don't know what that brute must have told you but you can be very sure that we are here to help you, please react."

"Twilight, please, you are worrying me."

"Twilight, I know you must be feeling uncool right now, but we need you to react. We can take care of the fox later but we need to save Equestria first."

"Twilight, come on, don't listen to that meany pants. React out of this and I promise you to make a cake and I'm NOT lying about it."

No matter what they told her. Twilight wasn't sure of what to feel, she wasn't sure of what was going on or what was going to happen. Her mind wasn't able to process any of this and all she wanted to do now was to curl up and cry.

Twilight

As her friends were talking to her, she managed to hear his voice.

I promise we will talk about this once this adventure is over but please react

Her mind stopped once again, processing this time the promise of a sort of explanation of this. It wasn't much but it was what she needed to finally run her mind once again how it should.

"Alright girls. Let's do this."

Having alleviated her friends with her sudden recovery. They soon moved into the Castle and did exactly what Twilight remembered happening last time they encountered Nightmare Moon and, as expected, something changed but it wasn't exactly something Twilight thought was going to happen. What happened went beyond what even she considered normal among all the things that were going on around her.

As The Elements of Harmony were surrounding Nightmare Moon, Twilight started to see how the world around her started to shake around as Nightmare Moon's scream were now sounding like a broken record and then, she heard it, Nightmare's voice distorted screaming in agony.

"This cannot be happening again, no, I will not allow this to happen again. I will succeed and release myself from this oppressing chains that force this cursed fate upon me."

Everything around Twilight started to shake, the light started to grow so much that Twilight had to cover her eyes even further until, after a huge quake, everything went quiet. Twilight opened her eyes just to find that the throne room looked slightly the same with the only difference that now, where Nightmare Moon was supposed to be, there was now a giant multicolored hole that seemed to be from outside of the world. Twilight looked besides her only to find her friends static in place, unable to move or even breath and there was only one figure Twilight could now rely now.

"Antonio, can you hear me?"

Yes

"Do you know what is going on?"

No

She looked at the giant hole where Nightmare Moon once were.

"Do you think we should be going in there?"

Probably, I see no other option

"Just what I guessed."

She looked at the hole and, no longer feeling worried, jumped right into it wondering what was going on and if this was going to lead her to an answer she desperately needed and, as she was crossing the hole, she started to feel herself being reshaped as her eyes started to look at ones and zeroes.

Author's Note

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