Pon3s in Terraria

Pon3s in Terraria

Chapter 4: A Ray of Understanding

Twilight walked into the house to find Jake milling about the main room. Seeing nopony else in the area, she concentrated on looking through walls into the surrounding area. She saw Rarity, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash working hurriedly to finish the last rooms before everypony got back.

Twilight: Rainbow, I’m dumping your things in the main room. Off to find Pinkie and Flutter

Twilight: shy.

With that, Twilight exited the house and went right.

~~~

Fluttershy sliced through the last of another slime, a grim smile on her face. They will all die. Every single one. She continued to go to forward, or right, or whatever it was. Directions in this world were confusing.

As she went forward, Fluttershy noticed the environment getting darker. Looking down, she saw that there was purple grass. What is this?

“Hey Fluttershy, the grass is purpley!”

“Yes. I wonder...”

Fluttershy was still looking at the grass when a big purple monster came flying towards her, its pincers opened hungrily. With a yelp, she jumped back and started swinging her sword in a frantic attempt to keep it at bay. As her first few hits landed with very little damage, she glanced at the health meter above its head.

Eater of Souls 36/40

Fluttershy kept swinging her sword, keeping the monster away. She suspected that if it hit her, it would not be good. As it were, she was barely damaging it.

“Pinkie! I need help! That is, if you’re not too busy...”

An arrow flew over her head and struck the monster. Thank Celestia... Working as one, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy managed to bring the monster down to low health. However, just when it seemed they were about to kill it, more monsters appeared on the horizon. Looking at their health and name tags, Fluttershy saw that they were in a world of hurt.

Big Eater 46/46

Big Eater 46/46

Little Eater 34/34

Little Eater 34/34

“Um Fluttershy, I think its time to panic...”

Rainbow Dash’s flailing about was finally stopped by Undead Miner.

“I think so too Pinkie...”

Both Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy turned and ran. Well, walked. There wasn’t much of running going on when they were confined to a constant speed. Looking over her shoulder, Fluttershy saw that the monsters were faster than they were.

“Pinkie, they’re gaining!”

Twilight Sparkle: Hey, does this work? Can everypony see this?

Twilight Sparkle: I think I figured out how to communicate with everypony from afar...

Twilight Sparkle: I’ll explain how it works later. I got RD’s stuff, but everypony needs to

Twilight Sparkle: come home. For some reason I can only put a few words here at a

Twilight Sparkle: time...

Pinkie Pie responded to Fluttershy’s distress by launching off a couple arrows at the leading monsters. Fluttershy stopped and swung her sword, knocking back another of the monsters. The two ponies continued fleeing towards the house, occasionally pausing to hit some of the closer monsters. Finally, one of them hit Fluttershy, damaging her for 25 hitpoints.

“Ahh!”

This hit started a ball rolling, one that left Fluttershy with only 10 hitpoints of life left and Pinkie Pie with 30. None of the monsters had been killed. Pinkie and Fluttershy resigned themselves to fate and waited for the next attack by the monsters. However, as the monsters descended, arrows flew into them, interrupting the attack.

“Pinkie! Fluttershy! Get over here and let’s finish these beasts!”

Twilight stood on a neighboring hill, bow in hoof. She unleashed another volley of well aimed arrows, killing two of the damaged monsters. Fluttershy and Pinkie rallied at the sight, a new determination to live taking place of the resignation in their hearts. Fluttershy used her sword to keep the monsters away from Pinkie, who shot arrows into the crowd of attacking Eaters. Soon the Eaters were all dead, thanks to the teamwork of the three ponies.

“Ok you two. Lets get you home.”

With that, Twilight led the two ponies home. Fluttershy noticed that despite her low health, she could not find any wounds nor did she feel true pain. What a weird world this was indeed.

~~~

Twilight led the two battered ponies into the main room then called the other three down. Looking at the group, she began to explain the messaging system she had figured out,

“Ok. So you need to concentrate on sending a message to everypony. Then, you’ll feel a weird sensation. After that, think what you want to say letter by letter.”

Pinkie Pie: LYKE TIS?

Twilight face-hoofed. “Pinkie, what is that atrocious excuse for the Equestrian language?”

“I dunno. I can’t concentrate long enough to spell stuff!”

Rainbow Dash: This is cool. Not a lot of room tho, gonna have to shorten to txtspk.

“What’s t-x-t-s-p-k?”

Rainbow looked at the confused faces of her friends. “You seriously don’t know text speak? Its used in video games because there’s not a lot of room to put stuff down.”

“Oooooooh,” five voices said in unison.

“Don’t any of you game?” Rainbow was greeted by five heads shaking in unison. “Ugh. Wonderful. Speaking of games, this world seems to be close to a sandbox game I played ages ago... I stopped playing it ages ago because it was boring, but other ponies said it got a new update that added a whole new level to play... What was it called? T-something... The updates stopped on it though, so I never got back into it.”

“Rainbow, what are you talking about?”

“Games. Computer games. I can’t believe nopony here plays them... The game I’m thinking of, it was a sandbox game with zombies and stuff. It was 8-bit and 2D. What was it called? Why can’t I remember?”

“Sugarcube, Ah think y’all’s brain got messed up by that skeleton.”

“Oh! I remembered the game! The game this reminds me of, its called Terraria!”