Pon3s in Terraria

Pon3s in Terraria

Prologue: Tricks

My dearest Twilight Sparkle,

Please gather your friends and meet me at the entrance to the Everfree Forest. Myself and the Elements of Harmony will be waiting there for you. This is a matter of utmost importance, please proceed with all speed. Do not let anypony else know what is going on. Have the others leave letters for their loved ones telling them that they are going on a mission with no definitive end time.

Your teacher,

Princess Celestia

P.S: It is too dangerous for Spike. Make sure he does not see you depart but leave a letter explaining that you are on a secret mission for me and do not know when you will return.

Twilight Sparkle read the letter again. It said the same thing. Well I guess I better go collect my friends. She left the sleeping Spike at home. The letter had arrived by pony mail, not through Spike. So, he didn’t even know of its existence.

Twilight stopped by Carousel Boutique. Knocking on the door, she called out to Rarity. Rarity came to the door, looking ready to go to bed.

“What brings you here at this time, darling?”

“Celestia wants all of us to meet here at the edge of the Everfree as soon as possible. Get ready to go, it seems we have a mission. Meet me at the Sugarcube Corner in 20 minutes.” Having spoken, Twilight spun and galloped off to Sweet Apple Acres.

After she notified Applejack, Twilight trotted to Fluttershy’s cottage. All this running is making me tired... Need to take it more slowly. Arriving at Fluttershy’s cottage, she told Fluttershy what was going on and asked her to get Rainbow Dash.

Trotting back to the Sugarcube Corner, Twilight wondered what Celestia wanted. Its not normal for her to skip Spike. This must be super duper top secret. I wonder what it is... Maybe its a trap... Haha don’t be silly, Twilight. Who would impersonate the Princess? Her thoughts continuing to ramble, Twilight approached her destination. She was suddenly body slammed by a wall of pink.

“Twilight what’s going on? My Pinkie Sense said there were secrets about that you had to tell me! Whatisitwhatisitwhatisitwhatisit?!”

“Pinkie! Quiet! I’ll explain when the others get here!” Twilight exclaimed, pushing the excitable pink mare off of her. She then walked to Sugarcube Corner, with Pinkie bouncing along behind her. Twilight waited for her friends to arrive. When all of them were there, she addressed them as a whole:

“Ok girls. You are probably wondering what is going on. Well, about fifteen minutes ago, I got a letter from Princess Celestia. The letter did not go through Spike, it came by courier. I opened it and read. It told us to meet, secretly, at the entrance to the Everfree Forest. Nopony can know where we are going. The Princess has a special mission for us, and she brought the Elements of Harmony. Are we ready to go?” After everypony said “yes,” she led off to the Everfree.

~~~

Twilight picked up her pace when she saw Princess Celestia waiting for them at the edge of the Everfree Forest. “Princess Celestia!”

“Hello my dear Twilight. Hello everypony. We have a serious threat here. Line up so I can give you the Elements of Harmony, then I will tell you about the threat.” the ponies followed her orders and lined up single file.

“No. Please line up so I can see all of you at once.” Once again obeying Celestia, the ponies lined up so that they were all visible to her at once. Celestia opened the box with the Elements of Harmony in it. Her horn glowed green.

Wait, the Princess’s magic isn’t green... Twilight thought to herself, Oh no! Its an imposter!

Twilight called upon her magic and her friends: “Its a trap!” Her horn glowing purple, she readied herself to charge the fake princess. However, before she could do anything, ropes flew out of the box and tied up everypony. A bolt of lightning flew from the imposter’s horn and encased Twilights, blocking her ability to do magic. The imposter flashed with green fire.

“Queen Chrysalis!” six voices cried out in unison. They had been duped.

“Yes, you obnoxious twits. It turns out that the threat that you had to deal with was... Yourselves!” The queen let out an evil laugh.

“You won’t get away with this!”

“I won’t? Didn’t you leave letters telling your loved ones not to worry and that you didn’t know when you would be back?”

“Oh. Dang girls, she got us good.”

“Yes I did. And to ensure that you will not be meddling with my plans ever again, I will not simply send you to a cave under Canterlot. That was far too simple. I have discovered a spell that will remove you from this dimension and dump you in another. I don’t know where that other is, but it is not here. Have fun everypony!”

Green fire shot from Chrysalis’ horn and surrounded the six ponies, much like it did when Twilight was teleported to the caves under Canterlot. However, this time, it did not simply flash up. The ground dropped from under the bearers of the Elements of Harmony and they disappeared into a void. The flames then converged, closing the rift in between the two dimensions.

~~~

Twilight found herself and her friends floating in a black void. The, all of the sudden, she felt the tug of gravity. She and her friends started falling through nothingness. Slowly, out of the emptiness, a light emerged. It started as a pinprick but steadily grew in size. As it grew in size, its growing increased in speed. Soon the ponies were falling into the light. Everything flashed from black to white.

~~~

Twilight slowly got to her feet. She looked around. “Ahh! Everypony looks different! What happened?”

“Ah don’t know Twilight, but y’all look weird.” the now 8-bit Applejack said.

“Oh! Oh! What happened? Its a guessing game! I love guessing games! Are we -”

Rainbow Dash cut the pink pony off. “We got turned into video game characters. Its a style called ‘8-bit art.’ Its based on old games.”

“You play video games, Rainbow?” Five heads swiveled in her direction, obviously confused. Rainbow Dash looked at all the others, amused by their confusion. “What did you think I did when I was bored? Hey, what is that thing?” The other ponies looked at where she was pointing. From a nearby hill approached a funny looking animal. It walked on two legs, was almost completely covered in clothes, and only had a small amount of fur on its head. Pinkie immediately bounced towards it.

“Hi! What’s your name? Mines Pinkie Pie!”

The animal looked at her, then said, “They say there is a person who will tell you how to survive in this land... oh wait. That's me.”