Chapters Chapter 1: WELCOME USER "AERO"
It all started today...
My name is Aero Strike, and I'm Just a regular Pegasus who happen's to love PC gaming. One day, my computer shut off unexpectaly, and after that, I heard knocking. So I went to go open the door.
"Hello Aero" a pony wearing a cloak said "Your world and THAT world will soon merge" He said pointing at my PC.
"wait how do you know my name!" I said, just then he vanished.
I soon forgot what I saw and left to the library in ponyville to go get a book on repairing PC's, when entering I found a my old friend Twilight Sparkle collapsed on the floor "Twilight! what's wrong!" i soon felt woozy, and collapsed right beside her.
. . .
I woke up on the floor of the library, But something was off. I get up to see Twilight franticly runing around the room.
"Hey Twilight, what happened? I saw you collapsed on the floor!" I said.
"I know! I saw other pony's collapsed on the floor before I did, none of them remember It though, do you?" she asked me.
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"Yeah I actually do!" I said "Whats going on?" I asked.
"I don't know, but take a look at this!" she opens her curtain to show me the sky is dark, like at night, but whats weird is there is no moon or stars, and there are neon shaped in the sky that look like clouds"
"What the....." I say, Dumbfounded.
I have known Twilight for many year's, We went to Princess Celestia's school for the gifted pony's together and were great friends "Twilight, where are we?" I ask
"The datascape" She says. "I have read about it in books. This place has all the Data in Equestria, if something is deleted here, the real thing is also deleted." She says pausing "You see, this isn't the Equestria we know, its simply a fictional microchip that effects the real world"
"But How did we get in here in the first place?" I ask
"I don't know Aero, But maybe it had to do something with that stranger you say you saw!" she said
"You may be right Twilight! Let's go ask your buddies if they remember being put in here." I say. I never met any of Twilight's friends, and now I was going too see them.
Later we ended up in Sweet Apple Acres, were I met a pony who seemed like she had been on a farm her whole life.
"Twi, what in tarnation is going on 'round here? My family acts as if I've lost mah marble's. Please tell me you see the weird sky and clouds!" she say's galloping towards us.
"Applejack calm down! We see what's going on!" Twilight say.
"We? Oh you mean you and that pegasus feller right there!" Applejack say's extending a hoof towards me and starts smiling smiling "Mah name's Applejack! I represent the Element of Honesty! Nice too meet ya!" she say's.
"Hey Applejack! My name's Aero Strike, and I don't represent anything! My friends call me Aero, and you can too! Any friend of Twilight's is a friend of me!" I say being nice.
"Well I thank you both for coming down 'ere. So what do you think happened twi?" Applejack say's turning to twilight
Twilight explains the whole thing to applejack "Uugh, I don't get much-a-this, but I guess something went wrong" she say's "Do ya think discord is back, or maybe queen Chrysalis?" she say's
"No, Discord is still frozen in stone, and Queen Chrysalis is too weak too rebel right after the royal wedding." She says "It's a whole new enemy we have to face, we should go warn the others" Twilight say's very seriosly
Applejack then say's something "I know! Pinkie was having a party today! I couldn't attend because i have to buck some apple's, but maybe we can show up before its over!"
"Then there's no time to lose!" Twilight say's as her horn starts to glow
"Wait what is twilight doi-" before i could finish the sentince, a big ball of energy engulfed us.
"What the?" I was suddenly transported to the middle of a party. I saw a couple pony's, a earth pony's, 2 pegisi, and one unicorn.
"Twilight! AppleJack! I'm sooooooooooooo glad you could make it" a pink pony say's Then starts to exhale a lot "Oh my Celestia! I haven't seen you around anywhere! Are you a new pony? I need to start making arrangments for another party!"
while the pink pony is still babbeling to herself. "Party?" I ask, confused and looking at Twilight
"Dont worry, she loves to throw party's for pony's she hasn't seen" Twilight wispers to me
"Well now, I believe there is a Colt we havent met before here" a white unicorn with a purple mane say's "I'm Rarity, Im sure you have heard of my designs yes?" she say's too me
"Rarity hmmmmmmm I can't say I have, sorry. But I'm Aero Strike, Just call me Aero" I say loud enough so everypony can hear
The Pink pony greats me "Hi! I'm pinkie Pie! Nice too meet ya!" Pinkie pie say's giggling"
2 Pegaisi come towards me, One blue with a rainbow mane, and one that's yellow with a pink mane "Hey, My name's Rainbow Dash, and I'm The Best young flyer in Equestria!" what she said my mouth go wide open
"Rainbow Dash! THE Rainbow Dash who preformed a sonic rainboom not once, but TWICE! I'm such a fan!" I said.
"So i see you have heard of me huh, I guess the name has spread already" she say's "You seem like a cool pony, I guess we can be friends. What's your name?"
"My name's Aero Strike! You can call me Aero if that's okay with you!" I say. I look over to Twilight to see her rolling her eye's "What? She's awesome!" I say
"Oh yeah, That shy pegasus over there is Fluttershy" Rainbow Dash say's to me
"Hello..." Fluttershy say's to me
"Hey Fluttershy! My name is Aero Strike, but please call me Aero" I say
"Don't worry Fluttershy, He's a friend of mine" Twilight says
Automaticly Fluttershy smiles and start's to talk to me "Hello! I didn't know Twilight knew you! I'm so glad you're a friend!"
Applejack then speaks up "I hate to break up this little party, but do ya'll remember collapsing and waking up 'ere?" They all nod in aggrement.
"Ok girls" Twilight say's. I looked at her weirdly after that "And guy" she says. She then explains everything to the ones who didn't here it.
"Twilight, I hate to inturupt, but what IS that thing in the everfree forest?!?" Rarity says. We all go towards the window to see a giant spiral of what seemed to be black and red cubes making a vortex like object that covers some of the sky.
Looks like were about to find out
END OF CHAPTER 1
Chapter 2: Enemy revealed
Where was I again? Oh yeah!
Me and the Mane 6 run towards the Spiral we saw in the everfree "Aero! Do you have any idea what this is?" Twilight say's to me while we are running.
"No! I have never seen anything like it!" I say
...
We finally got to whatever was making that Spiral thing, and when we did I saw a familier face.
"That's him." I say to the mane 6 "That's the guy that said the weird thing" I say again
"Hey you!" Rainbow Dash says "Why did you put us here in this geek world?!?"
"Hmm?" the mysterious pony says "Ahh! Aero! How nice to see you again!" the mysterious pony says "I never introduced myself, have I?"
"Who are you? Did you bring us here?!" I scream.
"You see, in order to gain power of the real Equestria, I have to gain power over the Datascape. And the only to do that is to consume everything I see, Including the elements and the player" He says looking at me "YOU are the player!" he says that "If you are erased, along with the elements, I win" He says laughing "I am not a real pony, I am just a program that became a virus to stop being the puppet to FAILestia!" He says laughing manically.
"Who are you though?" I scream
"My name is Virosis, and I plan to take this world for myself!" He says looking at the Spiral "This stuff in the spiral is corrupted data, and I can feed off of it to become stronger" he says taking a bite out of the corrupted data "Delicious!" he says
"You can't take Equestria!" Pinkie Pie says
"Yeah, you and what army?" Rarity says
"This one." Virosis says. Just then, 6 pony like figures come out of Virosis's horn and take shape to look like the mane 6, but instead they had inverted colors "Ladys and Gent, Meet Wrath (anti Twilight sparkle), Gluttony (anti Pinkie pie), Sloth (anti Fluttershy), Lust (anti Rarity), Pride (anti Rainbow dash), and Envy (anti Applejack)." He says looking please with himself "Now i must bid you all Ado, for I have stuff to attend to in canterlot." He says. The Negative mane 6 went into his horn, him being an alicorn and all. he then teleported away.
"CANTERLOT! That's where Princess Celestia and Luna are!!!" Pinkie Pie says screaming.
"Hold on guy and girls, were going there!" Twilight said with her horn glowing. Just then, the same flash happened, and I was suddenly in Canterlot Castle (well the digital one anyways) All i saw was Virosis laughing and Princess Celestia on the floor
"MUAH HA HA HA!" Virosis starts laughing manically "I DID IT! I FINALLY BEAT CELESTIA!" He says calming down "Now she'll do whatever I want." he said to himself.
"How do you prepose to do that?!?" I say
"In this data world, a virus like me can infect ANYTHING it comes in contact with, so i simply re-writed her coding to do whatever I want." Virosis says. Just then, Celestia woke up, but something was different, Her eyes were red, and she attacked me.
"OOF!" I said, taking a magic blast to my chest.
"Its time i deleted the player once and for all." He said, commanding Celestia to shoot me again. I closed my eyes and waited for the worst, but then I heard Rainbow Dash yell something and BOOM, she was on Celestia holding her down
"If Celestia cant beat you, How about the Elements of Negitivity!" He said, once again summoning the anti main 6.
Ohhhh man if you felt the pain I was in. First Envy kicked me as if she was bucking a tree, then Gluttony used a party popper to launch me into the air, After that there was a flurry of magic shots that Wrath used, along with a Gemstorm from Lust, and finally Sloth and Pride slamed me into the ground. After that I heard Virosis say "C-C-C-COMBO!"
"Aero!" Twilight screamed. She then used her magic to teleport us back to digital ponyville
The last couple minutes were a blur. But after that I felt healed. All I knew is that I just came out of the hospital "What happened?" I said
"Ya'll got yer plot kicked by them imposters" Applejack said to me "Lucky fer you though, Twilight here teleported us to the Hospital, and the docs helped ya out!" she said
Just then, I saw something that made me go cold all over my body. A sign that had my face on it, along with the rest of the mane 6, the sign had these words written
=WANTED FUGITIVES BY ORDER OF PRINCESS LUNA AND CELESTIA=
5,000 REWARD IN BITS
"Twilight, Run, Now." I said to Twilight
"Why Aero?" Twilight said. I showed her the sign and she and the rest of the mane 6 teleported out of there. Just then two royal gaurds came to me and hit me with their spears. I passed out.
...........
I woke up in a dark room. The only one I could see was Virosis "Virosis!" I said.
"Hush now, I have a proposition for you." He said "Would you like to hear it?" he said smirking.
"Tell me." I said
"I will let you go." he said "If you play MY game." he said pausing "It is called Deleted, and it decides you freedom, or Erasure." he said "What do you say?"
"Fine, I'll play, but what's the catch?" I said looking at him.
"I'll give you a decision" he said "You could chose to play by yourself, or for me to summon the elements and make them fight with you. Its your choice." he said "Frankly, I don't care. Your going to get erased anyways"
"I'll play by myself." I said. I knew it was too dangerious to drag those pony's into this, so I decide to play solo
"Just know that I will summon the elements to be front row bystanders to your erasure." He said "Here, this is for the game."
He hands me a sword and some armor and touches my forehead, suddenly I grew a horn on my forehead! "Keep in mind its a temporary horn, and it can only levitate that sword" he said.
I tried to levitate the sword, and it worked! "Im ready." I said putting on the last piece of armor
"Then let the game begin! for it will be your last." He said escorting me out of the room
I was lead into an huge oval shaped room with benches. It kinda reminded me of a football field. My armor had blue straks in it, It almost looked like neon.
After awhile, the stands were full of pony's, I saw the Mane 6, which had front row V.I.P seats. They all looked like they were worried about me. Just then a group of 7 unicorns came out of a set of doors, they all had armor like me, but there armor had orange-red kind of neon streaks, and they all wore face helmets that looked like the kind bikers wore
Let the games begin, and let the body's hit the floor
END OF CHAPTER 2
Chapter 3: One cool Pegasis plays: DELETED
See what I did there?
Anyways, Back to where I was.
Celestia announces (The Infected one) "Let the games begin!"
"Well, I guess this is even" I say smugly. Just then a sword comes from the other side of the field and hits me right on the side "Yow!" I say "Hey now, cant we talk about this?" I say backing into a corner.
Suddenly I hear a voice "Looks like the one and only member of the blue team is being backed up into a corner. Looks like this will be a short game." The voice sounded like a announcer.
"I don't know If I can bring myself to delete these pony's" I say hanging my head down "I'm sorry everyone. Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, I failed." I say
Just then I hear a voice "Aero! Don't be fooled! Those are all fake pony's!" It was Twilight's voice!
"How can you be so sure?" I say loud enough so she can hear me.
"They all have the same Cutie Marks! Nopony can have the same Cutie Mark!" She say's screaming.
"Fool me once Virosis, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me a third time, and I give up my life!" I say heading towards those fake pony's with my blade levitated with magic "DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" I say impaling one pony. It was weird though, because there was no blood, no flesh, no guts, all the pony left behind was what seemed to be a pile of red cubes. I guess that is data that has been deleted.
Suddenly I felt a swish of pain near my cheek, and looked over to see two more fake pony's. I quickly run toward them and hit one with the handle of my sword, knocking him out. I then swing my sword towards the other one, who becomes a pile of data soon after the inpact "Yes!" I scream swiping the one who was knocked out, deleting him
Instantly I hear an uproar coming from the crowd. I look over to Twilight and I see her cheering, but crying at the same time. What was that all about?
The last minutes were a blur. I do remember me deleating all of the contestants but one. This colt seemed burly. I lunge at him, my sword floating high in the air above me. This feeling was inside me, it made me happy, what was it anyway's? Hope? Friendship? Confidence? I don't know, but whatever it is quickly failed on me because while heading for the last unicorn, He swung his sword at me. I was able to dodge, but not without taking damage. "This ones tough!" I say to myself. I head for it again, he tries to et me but I quickly dodge out of the way "He must not calculate something going fast" I say looking at the pony who is confused. I lunge at him and backstab him.
"THAT PONY IS A SPY!" I hear someone scream in the crowd.
After that comment everyone starts to cheer like crazy. "Did I win?" I ask to myself looking around, only to see piles of those cubey things all over the place "I WON!" I scream. Instantly the mane 6 rush towards me and start to hug me and high hoof me. I hate emotions like this.
"THAT'S ENOUGH!" I hear a voice scream. at that very moment everything went black. I could still see the mane 6, but they all seemed to fade away.
...........
"Where....." I say getting to my hooves "Am I?" I look around. I only see what looks to be a jail cell, with faceless pony guards. I see the mane 6 sleeping in different cells, except for twilight. Are we in a prison?
"Hey Aero" I hear a voice. Twilight's Voice
"Twilight? Where are you?" I ask looking around
"The cell next to you." she says
I look to the wall, and there is a open window with her looking down in what looks like despair "Where are we Twilight? In Jail?" I ask walking towards her cell
"Sorta" she says not looking at me "We are in the mind of Virosis" she says
"Mind?" I ask tilting my head
Still not looking at me, she says "The mind of Virosis. I don't know how but he built a prison here to delete us and transfer our power over to him" she said "Those guards are Censors. They do whatever Virosis tells them." She says. She looks at me, then says "Hey Aero, Do you remember the promise you made me when we were little?" she asks me
"Of course! Where I would always protect you!" I said
"Then why did you leave Canterlot?" She asked me
"About that..." I say looking down in shame "I Left because that was the day the last of my family passed ." I say
"Your what?" she asks now pushing against the bars of the window.
Suddenly a, what was it, Censor? Yeah a censor! Well a censor comes to my cell door, he takes out what looks to be a key and unlocks the door."ENTITY NAME: AERO_STRIKE. PLEASE STEP OUT OF THE CAGE" a metalic voice tells me "I WILL USE FORCE IF NEEDED"
"Oh this will be fun." I say sarcastically
"HURRY UP ENTITY: AERO_STRIKE. YOU ARE NEEDED IN THE DRAINER!" the censor says as he picks me up with some sort of magic
"Woah!" I say, floating
"Aero!" Twilight screams
Suddenly I feel weak...like I just want to.....sleep......
...........
I woke up in a chamber, with censors looking down at me. I guess I was on a bed "ENTITY:AERO_STRIKE IS CONSCIOUS." A censor says
"No I am asleep...Dumbflank" I say sarcastically.
"SHUT UP ENTITY: AERO_STRIKE!" A censor says taking his horn and putting it over my head "WE WILL SAP THE DATA OUT OF YOU, THIS WILL CAUSE YOU TO BE DELETED" the censor says. Its horn starts to glow and I feel pain, a lot of it
"SPY SAPPIN MY DATA!" I say uncontrollably.
again for the second time I faint after those words were said.
Chapter 4: QUIT CALLING ME A ENTITY!
I do get pretty ticked at that
I woke up in the same I was in, but no one was there but me. Weird.
I hear loud noises. What was that? Suddenly the door swings open to reveal Twilight there with her friends. "Took you long enough" I said smugly.
"Shut up" Twilight says helping me up.
Suddenly we here the sound of hoofs hitting metal. "Uh girls? More of them censor thingies are comin our way!" Applejack says to us.
Rainbow dash looks over at me, fear written all over her face "What do we do now Aero?"
Before i could speak up, Twilight says "Me and Aero will find a way out, you 5 fight as many censors as you can!" Her friends all give a nod, and me and Twilight run out the door.
We ran down the hallways, some ending in dead ends, some not. Suddenly we end up in what seems to be another room full of cells. Why so many?
Suddenly, I hear trotting, but it sounded big and coming our way. I see what was making the noise, a GIANT censor. The censor turns around to see me, and fires a magic blast at Twilight. I jump in front of it, taking a bit of damage. no biggie. I start to fight the giant censor. I try to headbutt it, but those things had invisible armor on! I smacked my head on his armor like fur, and i started to rub my head in pain.
"ENTITY: AERO_DASHER, YOU WILL BE ERASED HERE!" the censor bellows as he smacks me with his hoof. I fall away from him, I regain quickly and charge at him. I notice a button on the back of his head that says "SELF DESTRUCT", so I double around him and I press the button. The censor grabs me and starts to hold me tight, so I wont walk away
beep
What was that?
beep
"Aero get out of there now!" Twilight screams at me. I try to struggle, but to no avail.
beep
"Crap!" I scream struggling
beeeeeeeeeeeeep thank you for choosing Virosis as your prison cell. have a nice day!
Suddenly, I feel all hot. and I am blown away from where I was. Ouch........
I was lying on the ground Twilight overlooking me. "Aero? Aero! AERO!" she screams at me
"What? whats wrong?" I say "I feel lighter......" I look down at myself, only too see red cubes where my back hoofs were. "Whats going on?" I ask. Suddenly my remaining body starts to become red cubes slowly. "ahhh......I guess i'm being erased huh?" I ask, not worried for myself.
"HOW COULD YOU SAY IT LIKE AS IF ITS NOTHING!" Twilight screamed at me. "BECAUSE OF MY STUPID PROMISE YOUR DYING!"
Half my body was erased "Hush Twi, I wouldn't have it any other way. I died protecting you, and that's all that matters."
"NO! THAT'S NOT WHAT MATTERS! I WANTED YOU TO BE WITH ME!" she says "TO BE THERE PROTECTING ME! NOT KILLING YOURSELF FOR ME!"
My head was the only thing left now. "Twilight, I don't have much time left, so I want to say this." I pause "I love you"
and like that, my vision went away, and so did everything else
END OF CHAPTER 4
Chapter 5: Twilight's Sorrow
Twilight stared at the spot where her friend was just a minute ago. All that was left was red cubes. The last words of Aero swam in her head, endlessly. "I love you" kept repeating over and over in her mind.
"Get yourself together. He died the way he wanted to" A stallion like voice said.
"Huh?" Twilight huh'd as she looked to where the voice was. All that stood there was a brown earth stallion. The stallion stared off into a hallway were the giant censor came from.
"Who....Are you?" Twilight asked the stallion.
"I'm Trojan." Trojan stated. "Alright look, We need to bust out, and only I know how. So we can do it my way, or you're way." Trojan bluntly stated as he looked on the ground. Data lied on the floor as he looked down on it. He crouched down and picked up a cube with his mouth, and put it in a fannypack he had.
"Why would you help me?" Twilight looked at Trojan, her fur wet with tears.
Trojan thought for a second, then opened his mouth "Aero is our only hope at defeating Virosis and I need the help of you and your friends inorder to bring Aero back." Trojan looked down, and then at Twilight "So are you with me?"
"Yes" Twilight stated. She knew this stallion, Trojan, was not lying.
"Good." Trojan said, he looked behind him, and said "Alright, first we need to-"
Suddenly a bolt of rainbow appeared and tackled Trojan "what the?!?" Trojan said as he met faces with a cyan pegusus
"Watch out Twilight! This guy is dangerous!" Rainbow dash said yelling behind her
Twilight was confused. "How?"
Applejack went over to Twilight and put her hoof on her shoulder "Sugercube, we took a gander at some archives and saw somethin' disturbing.."
Curious, Twilight asked "what did he do so bad?"
"Well you see darling" Rarity said in low voice knowing Twilight would get shocked "He is Virosis' partner" she paused "He sent us here, and also helped re-program Celetia and delete Luna."
"YOU DID WHAT?!?" Twilight yelled at Trojan. Just mere seconds ago she trusted Trojan, but now? She felt like she couldn't trust anyone. She started to sob again knowing he was just lying about trying to help.
"Umm hey girls?" Fluttershy asked with a shy voice as usual "Where is Aero? Theres a pile of data on the floor, but no sign of Aero."
Twilight now broke out into a full cry. "What's wrong twilight?" Pinkie asked "Don't worry, we'll get out of here soon!"
"That's not it!" Twilight was able to say. "Aero is-is-is!"
"Gone" Trojan said bluntly "he was deleted by a giant censor. The pile of data on the floor was him. I'm sorry."
"RRRRRARGH" Rainbow Dash now compleatly lost it "TAKE THAT BACK NOW!" Rainbow Dash hit Trojan with her front left hoof.
"I'm not lying" Trojan said "You can ask Twilight over there. She saw the full thing."
They all turned there attention to Twilight, as she spoke "He's right. I saw the whole thing. He threw himself at the censor and made it self destruct, but it grabbed him before he could escape and blew up with him" she paused for a bit gathering her berrings "He had a slow death. We got to say our goodbyes and then he just... Faded away from me."
There was a big silence. It was broken when Rainbow Dash hit Trojan in the same spot "YOU SENT IN THAT CENSOR! YOU KILLED HIM!" Trojan spat out some blood.
Right as Rainbow Dash was about to finish him, he spoke up "WAIT!" She halted "I can bring him back! There is a spring in the everfree forest that if a peice of data is brought there, it can re-code and make it whatever it was before, I have some of Aero's data that we can use to revive him!"
"An how do we all know you ain't fibbin huh?" Applejack said angrily.
"Ok look ill make you a deal." Trojan said "If I'm lying, then I will allow you to erase me. I will not resist."
The six ponies huddled up and thought about the whole ordeal and agreed on one thing. Twilight was the one to speak up "We accept your deal Trojan. If you are right you live, but if you trick us, then you die"
Trojan chuckled "hehe, fair trade." Trojan got up and looked around at the corridor where the big censor came through. "Exits this way."
To be Continued.
