New Equestrian Online

by The Lutece twins

Rating: teen
Tags: Spike, Science Fiction, Adventure, Violence, Princess Celestia, Slice of Life, Human, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Alternate Universe
Length: 2440

A MMORPG adventure where everyone creates their pony adventurer, well, except for one player in it.

Jackson, Jack for short, has never touched a video game in his life, he has always been the type of person to mostly focus of school work and grades than games, never having any time to spend it on games, or with his friends. When a friend of his forces him to try out a new VR type MMORPG game called New Equestrian Online, or NEO, based off a old cartoon franchise about ponies. A game where everyone can create their own fantasy adventure or life with their own pony character, where they can be a knight or mage to fight off enemies, a smithy to craft new gear and weapons for everyone, a salepony to sell valuable potions and boosts, etc. Is this new MMORPG game the type of game that Jack can get into and finally likes? Who knows.

Published 2022-02-22 00:50:01 UTC
Last updated 2022-02-22 00:50:01 UTC

Prologue

"Dude, are you sure about this? I've never touched a video game ever in my life, I've always watched people play them but never touched them myself." a man, in his late teens, was sitting on his bed, looking at a box that hadn't been open with his address on it. The man's name was Jackson, a high grade student in his school who always had top grades. was in his pajamas on his bed talking to a friend of his over his cell phone, looking a bit bored out of his mind

"Come on man," the voice, a female one, said over the phone. "I know you've always been the great kid with very high grades, but you should really try to relax instead of always doing schoolwork everyday, all day." she said, causing Jack to sigh.

"You know my parent, they've raised me to be that type of person." he said as he lay'ed on his back staring at the ceiling. "Besides, what does this game insure, Alex?" he asked.

"Well, this game was based off a old cartoon franchise called My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. This game is one of those MMORPG's where you create your character and create your own fantasy life there." Alex said, causing Jack to blink and sit up, looking back at the box.

"Wait, your telling me it's one of those games that takes a long time to grind just to level up with some of the same type of missions that can repeat over and over again?' he said, causing Alex to laugh over the phone.

"Oh no no no, they removed those types of boring quests and made it where there are no quests and to just create your own life on there." She said.

"I still don't know, I don't even know what type of character I should create, nor the class I should use." he said as he heard Alex giggle.

"Don't worry, they have a great player base who are very helpful to new players, they always have a moderator or very top player to help out with new player's with any questions they have." she said. "Besides, i'll be able to join you soon after I complete the test I have to finish." she said.

"Fine, I'll give it a test, just this once for you." Jack said as he stood up, walking over to his VR gear.

"Thank you Jack, and don't worry, I'm sure you'll love it, you could use some time to relax and ease your nerves." She said.

"Alex, time for your bath!" Another female voice was heard over the phone, causing Alex to sigh a little.

"Be right there mom!" she yelled "Got to go for now, but please give it a try and than tell me what your think. Besides I heard that they have a raffle going on where one lucky winner get's a specially made character and class that has never been used before. Anyway, good luck, have fun and see you soon." She said as there was a click as the call ended. Jack rubbed the bridge of his nose as he turned to the box. He walked over and opened it and sure enough inside was a game case with the words New Equestrian Online on the front of it. He takes it out and opens the case to take out a square cartridge. He grabs the helmet and inserts the game into it as he puts on the gloves and everything else.

"Well," He sighed as he places the helmet on his head. "Here goes nothing at least." He said as he turned the helmet on as it loads up the game, just as his phone went off with a beep, causing him to take it off and check it. He blinked as he got a message from the game creators.

"What the..." he muttered to himself as he opens the message.

"Congratulations on winning our raffle, enjoy your prize!" it said for the message as it really confused him. He scrolled through the message to see if it had anything else in it, but all it said was the congratulations on it.

"Huh, I didn't think I would win the raffle, so that's interesting." he said to himself as he puts the helmet back on, moving his gloved hands to push on the button and started the game as the world around him goes up in a white blinding light. He felt like he was falling as he opens his eyes to see his feet land on what looked like a large plaza like area. He looked around as he walked forward.

"Hello? Anyone here?" he asked looked around this plaza like are. Suddenly, there was a flash of light, causing him to wince and cover his eyes as he could make out a orb of light floating towards him.

"welcome, my little pony" A soothing females voice said as Jack's eyes widen in surprise as in front of him was a large equine like creature, about as tall as him, it's mane and tail flowing in a invisible wind, a large spiraled horn poking from her head and large wings resting on her sides.

"W-who are you?" Jack asked the equine in front of her, causing the equine to smile softly.

"My name is Celestia, i am the ruler of this world and the one to see which of my races you fit in said world." She said as a screen pops up in front of her as she looked a bit surprised. "Oh? This is interesting, it seems you are the winner of the raffle that the higher ups have gave out." she said with a little smirk resting on her face.

"Thing was, I never really knew that they had a raffle in the first place." Jack said the Celestia as she nodded.

"Well, there is one question that I need to ask you, are you ready to join in with the other's of my world?" she asked him. Jack let off a soft sigh as he rubbed the back of his neck.

"I was forced to play this game, so, might as well get it over with and try it out." He said getting another nod from Celestia. Her wings began to open and spread over the area, her horn glowing brightly, causing Jack to wince and cover his eyes.

"I hope you are ready to start a brand new adventure in my world little one." She said as Jack began to lift off the ground as a portal opens up underneath him. "Enjoy your fun!" she said with a small smirk on her face as he was dropped into the portal as everything became pitch black.

WELCOME TO NEW EQUESTRIAN ONLINE

Author's Note

Hey everyone, i know what your think a little "Why am i creating a new story when i should be continuing the other ones or finishing them up." Well to answer that question, this story was stuck in my mind for a while and just needed to push this one out, and who know maybe with this i might be able to come back to finishing up more of my stories that have been in hiatus for a while, so please enjoy my stories while i try to come back.

World 1: New Beginnings

Jack winced as blinding sunlight shone in his eyes as he felt his feet touch the ground after falling for who know's how long. He rubbed his eyes as he opens them slowly. He gasped as he was standing next to a large tree like fountain, golden orbs floating around the base of the tree as three large crystals, one gold, one red, and one cyan color floated on top of the tree, spinning slowly around it.

"This is beautiful." he said as he was in surprise at how beautiful everything was as he noticed ponies of different sizes, races and classes walking by him. Some ponies having horns, wings, or even none at all walked by him. He did noticed one thing about them, they where giving him a weird look, causing him to blink as his eyes widen at a revelation.

"What the heck, I'm shorter than everyone else!?" he muttered to himself as he finally got to look down at himself in the water's of the fountain, to see that his body was covered in small purple scales with a lighter shade of green scales covering his belly area and underside of his tail. Small wings protruded from his back as green fine like scales protruded from his head down to his tail. A arrowhead tip ending on the end of his tail.

"I'm a dragon!?" he almost yelled out as he leans against the wall of the fountain, rubbing his head "That's just great." he said in slight annoyance, than stopped as he blinked. "Wait, what are my stats?" he asked himself as he opens his character's menu.

'Alright, let's see here.' He thought to himself

Name: Spike
HP: 50
MP: 50
EXP: 0
Level: 1
Race: Baby Dragon
Class: Dragon Gunslinger

Jack closed the menu as he blinked as he looked at his claws. "So, I am a dragon, this....feel all to weird." he said to himself as he began to think "It also said I was a gunslinger as well." He looks down at his sides and sure enough, on his right side there was a holster with what looks like a flintlock like pistol in it as well as a dagger on his left side.

"I wonder what skills I have." He mutters as he opens up the skills menu.

Skills:
Shoot
Aim
Status Shot (LV 1)
Fire Breath (LV 1)
Dragon Scales (LV 1)
Slash (LV 1)
Status Ailment Resistance (LV 1)

Jack blinks as he moves a claw over to the status shot skill and touches it.

Status Shot: Infuse your dragon's breath into a shot that when fired, inflicts a random status ailment (Poison, Paralyzed or Burned)

"That skill can come in handy." he said as he moved his claw over to the Dragon scales skill and touched it.

Dragon Scales: Hard dragon scales cover your entire body that reduces incoming physical and magical damage by 25%

"That, seems to be a little overpowered, but handy to get out of a bind if I'm in a pinch" He said, turning the menu off and began to think "In these types of games, I better start grinding and leveling up if i am going to survive out there." He said softly as he was becoming confused "Question is....where is the front gate..." He muttered as he looked around and noticed a unicorn mare walk by him as he got an idea as he rushed over to her.

"Excuse me!" he said out to the mare, but the mare seemed to not hear him. "Excuse me!" he said louder as the mare this time heard her and turns to him, and jumps a bit at his small stature. "Do you know where I can find the front gate of the town?" he asked the mare as the mare blinked.

"Oh, um it's over there." she said pointing a hoof towards the west side of town. Jack smiled and nodded as his wings gave a little flap.

"Thanks!" he said as he hurries towards the direction the mare pointed. The unicorn mare blinks as she stares a the small dragon rush off, before a voice snapped her out of her out of her stupor.

"Hey Velvet!" a gruff male voice rang out, causing said mare to turn and smiled, seeing a large stallion wearing bulky armor and a large shield on his back and a large smile on his face, along with a mare, a pegasus, wearing engineer gear anda calm smile on her face come walking towards her.

"Oh! Iron Shield and Wind Hammer, nice to meet you two, what brings your both here?" She asked them with a smile.

"Well, me and Wind here though about bringing you with us to a new bakery that opened in town not to long ago." Iron said as he stretched. Velvet smiled at that as she nodded.

"I would like that, but I had to help out a weird new player first." She said to them, which caused both ponies to look at each other in confusion than back at Velvet.

"Weird how?" Wind asked as her wings twitched. Velvet looks toward where she had told the small dragon where the gate was.

"Well, the character the player was using, was a small dragon." She said.

Meanwhile

Spike was smiling as he got near the gate of the town, trying his best to ignore all the stares he was getting as he made his way. He stopped in front of a item store to stare at some new gear that had been put in front of a viewing glass as he looked at them in awe.

"Dang, these people really know how to make things in here, I wonder how long it took them to get these hammers and swords like that." He said looking at a large great hammer and a curved cutlass like sword with a blue jewel embedded in the sword as he took out the small dagger on his hip and sighed.

"Yea, there's no way I can afford any gear in here with my current level and money." He muttered to himself, a bit irritated as he opened his inventory and saw he only had 5,000 gold in it as he looked back to the gear in the store and saw that some are selling for well over 100,000+ gold, causing him to wince a little at how expensive they where.

"Cheapskates." he muttered softly as he turns back towards the gate where he saw ponies entering and leaving as a couple of guardsponies where standing guard, scanning out into the forest in front of them and looking at each pony that enter and leave the town as Spike smiles.

"Well, there's always a good start for everything, so, let's get this level grinding a go." he said as he walks towards the gate and feels the guards eyes on him as he leaves the town and walks on the road towards the forest, a little nervous as this will be the start of his new adventure in the game he has never played before.

TO BE CONTINUED