Time: 2/4/2022
Location: Ponyville

Currently walking the halls of Ponyville High is a young man named Asher Roi. Now, Asher is eighteen years old since he is a senior in high school. He is roughly six feet tall with dark brown skin showing he was Zebrican, he also has green eyes with black hair cut low to his head, he has an average build and is currently dressed in a light green T-shirt with blue jeans and black sneakers as he has his black backpack on his back.

"Time for another day of struggles." Asher said to himself as he looked at some of the other students in the halls that shared similar thoughts since Asher wasn't the best student around and his grades proved it but luckily, he was still not close to failing and being held back a grade.

"Hey Asher." A familiar voice said from behind him as Asher turned around and quickly saw the pink skinned menace known as Pinkie Pie running up and giving him a big hug as she is wearing a white T-shirt with a pink heart on the chest with a blue knee length frilly skirt with white knee socks and blue sneakers on her feet as her yellow backpack was on her back.

"Hey Pinkie." Asher said a bit nervously as Pinkie pressed herself against him as she hugged him and if Asher didn't know better, he would have assumed that Pinkie was pressing her boobs against him on purpose to get a rise out of him both literally and figuratively.

"I missed you on winter break. Why did you go and have a good time without me and the other girls?" Pinkie asked teasingly as she stopped hugging Asher and playfully poked his chest.

"Pinkie it was just a family get together. Nothing major I promise." Asher said as he was still nervous since Pinkie could be rather intense when it comes to parties.

"I'm watching you buster." Pinkie warned as the two of them walked to their class together. Since they did share a few classes and soon enough they were in their seats and taking down notes as the teacher talked.

{X}

Soon enough lunch time rolled around, and Asher was at lunch sitting with his friends as they are Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Sunset Shimmer, Fluttershy and Pinkie as the group was just talking and conversing as Asher looked around the cafeteria a bit as he looked on at the other students. Now he knew a few by association to his main friends but every once and a while he would notice a new face.

"Girls I'm serious. I did some research and I think I discovered actual proof of life within the internet." Twilight said as she had spent several days surfing the web in order to do some type of research that she was pretty secretive about.

"Twilight it's not that we don't believe you but it's more like...The internet isn't something that you can find living things in. The internet in a place for literally anything else you can think of." Sunset said which made Twilight pout a bit.

"Fine. I'll prove it after school in the computer lab and then you all will believe me." Twilight said back.

"Well, I suppose I could swing by instead of just heading home." Rarity said.

"Same here Twi. I'll see what your talkin' about." Applejack said as everyone agreed to stay after school and see for themselves what Twilight was talking about.

"Twilight I've got to ask. What made you become so invested in this?" Asher asked.

"Well one day I was just exploring websites before I found something that piqued my interest. The thing that got me curious was a bizarre search engine that you can't normally access and after making sure my laptop didn't catch any viruses, I properly investigated the search engine and that is what led me to finding out about digital life forms." Twilight said as Asher hummed in response not sure if he should attend the meeting after school.

"Well, I think that is a bit fishy, but I'll still stay after school and support you." Asher said making Twilight smile.

"Well, it's settled. After school were all going to meet up in the computer lab and see what our resident egghead is going on about." Rainbow Dash said as everyone agreed with her and then lunch time ended as they went to their classes.

{X}

The time has come as school day for Ponyville High has concluded as a few after school clubs and sports teams stayed after for various reasons but Asher and the girls remained after school as they were now in one of the schools computer labs as Twilight sat in front of a computer and was typing her way through various websites before she made her way to the bizarre search engine she was looking for as it looked similar to google but it has a monster egg image above the search bar and the name above it said [Digital Dive].

"So, this is where you found those digital things you were talking about?" Pinkie asked as she looked at the website with a critical eye.

"Not quite." Twilight said as she clicked on the search bar and typed in [Enter Cyber Space] and then just like that the computer screen showed a series of numbers before they saw a website that looked like a series of ones and zero's scrolling vertically on the website. "This is numerical code and the one's and zero's forms patterns that can be converted into words and phrases and this is how I discovered the digital life forms." Twilight explained but sadly her friends all seemed lost at her explanation.

"Twilight we don't know code talk." Sunset said.

"It's simple. When I type code into the site, I get responses and with those responses I can trace where that code comes from and when I talk with the beings on this site, I discovered that they come directly from the data and note from a server or computer or something else and that means that I am talking directly to the digital beings behind the data." Twilight explained as she started typing.

"Did any of you understand that?" Asher asked the girls.

"No." They all responded back.

"That's odd." Twilight said as a new screen appeared and it looked like a chat room, but the words were all in code.

"What do those numbers mean?" Fluttershy asked.

"It's a code puzzle. If I solve it, I will be able to see the information that the code is constantly hiding behind various firewalls." Twilight explained as she started getting to work.

"Twilight this sounds a lot like hacking." Sunset said.

"Hacking would be if I was using this as a way to hurt people but I am simply looking for information, so it isn't really hacking but information gathering." Twilight said as she stopped typing. "And done." Twilight said as she pushed the enter key and suddenly all the windows, she had opened had all closed at the same time.

"Was that supposed to happen?" Rarity asked.

"No." Twilight said with a sad moan before a new window opened up as this window didn't have any option to close it or anything as it looked like a series of rainbow colored 8-bit blocks that formed a vortex like look before words in a text box than appeared. Those words were [Digital Gate Opened] and suddenly the camera on the computer activated and blinded the group with a bright light as it quickly scanned all of their bodies before they found themselves unable to move as the computer seemed to radiate a rainbow-colored light as it literally sucked in all the teens as all of them were now within the computer itself and saw a series of randomized code numbers and colors.

{X}

Location: N/A

"Ow my head." Asher said as he opened his eyes and saw that he wasn't in the computer lab anymore and instead he sat up and saw that he is in some type of forest that didn't look like any kind of forest he has ever seen before. "What the hell?" Asher asked as he also felt something in his pocket and when he reached in and took out the object, he saw that it was some type of device he wasn't familiar with as it was a hand size rectangular device with various buttons on it as well as a keychain attachment. It also has a small screen near the top of it and the thing was a solid red color with the buttons being a dark green and the sides being white.

"What is this thing and where am I?" Asher asked as he decided to walk around a bit unaware that he was being watched.

Author's Note

Okay it has been a while since I have been on this site, and I am super sorry about that, but I am back and with a new story that I hope everyone will like. So, please show support for this story.