Pierce the Netherscape: Enter Oblivion

    Rei Sonkei is seen sneaking through an air vent carrying an AK-47. He hears a faint crying nearby and moves quietly towards the source. He comes to a small, circular room. Twilight Sparkle is sitting in the middle of the room crying. Rei slowly opens the vent cover and jumps into the room. Twilight looks over and gasps, ready to scream. Rei quickly moves his hooves in front of him to quiet Twilight, who pays attention and remains quiet. Rei holsters his gun in his saddlebag and walks to a switch on the other side of the room. The moment he pulls it, the lights go out. When the red emergency lights come on, Rei is surrounded by flesh eaters (minions of Oblivion, go to Turok wiki) and Twilight is nowhere to be seen. Rei un-holsters his weapon and starts spraying gunfire. When he is out of ammo, one of the flesh eaters sees his opening and fires at Rei, who is knocked against the wall and downed. Rei tries to reach for his weapon, but another flesh eater kicks it away. It then raises its sword and brings it down upon Rei.

    Suddenly, Ron, a 14-year-old Mexican Turok enthusiast and the human equivalent of Rei Sonkei, wakes up to his third Oblivion nightmare that month. “I have got to stop playing Turok,” he says to himself.

    The next day, Ron’s friends Shane, a tall young Mexican with short hair and glasses, and Jaye, a shorter American with blonde hair and what seems almost like a saddlebag, are talking with each other at lunch. Then Ron walks over, looking as though he got caught in a mud slide, but got no mud on him. “Rough night, again?” asked Shane.

    “Yeah,” replied Ron, sitting down. “I’m telling you, there’s something fishy about these dreams I’m having. It’s as though - and this is gonna sound weird for all of us - Twilight’s calling for help.”

    Shane began laughing hysterically but Jaye seemed like he knew Ron knew what he was talking about. “Funny you should talk about that,” said Jaye. “Shane and I were just talking about a way that the three of us can say ‘F you’ to Earth and move to Equestria.” Jaye then pulled out what looked like a map and put it on the table that the three of them were sitting at. “What we see here is a map of the multiverse. Here is the dimension we reside in, the one we perceive as our known universe. Rather close to our known universe is Equestria. This means that, with the right supplies and methods, beings from either here or Equestria can cross over into the other dimension. However, the space between each dimension across the multiverse, called the Netherscape, is very dangerous.”

    “Hmm...” said Ron to himself, “I’ve heard the word Netherscape before, but I can’t remember what it represents...”

    “It doesn’t matter,” said Shane, “Jaye still needs time to figure everything out.” Just then, the final bell of the day rang. “If you people need me, I’m gonna go do some sniping on Call of Duty. I can give you the ip for the server I play on if you want.”

    “No thanks,” said Ron, “There’s some velociraptors that need a taste of my assault rifle.”

    “And I just told you guys what I’ll be doing,” said Jaye. “Let’s meet back here on Monday.” And with that, they all walked off.

    Over the weekend, Ron was playing Turok 2: Seeds of Evil. He had just started a new file on which he will play it on hard mode without cheats. He had made it to the first Factory portal. “Bring it on, O-bitch-ion,” he said, feeling proud of his pun. He had walked into the larger area of the factory, where he expected the same speech from Oblivion, giving a cryptic message about what it was. However, this time, Oblivion said something different.

    “Rei Sonkei,” Oblivion said in its dark and hoarse voice, “you and your friends will fail. The multiverse must fall. Discord and The Lich will assist me in my battle. You three will spend eternity in the void. Enter the Netherscape at your own peril. Challenge me and my army... and you will. Forsake. Your. Future.”

    Suddenly, Ron’s game crashed, leaving him sitting in front of his tv, confused. “What just happened?” he asked the blank tv screen.

    The following Monday, Ron, Shane, and Jaye met up again. Ron was about to tell the others what had happened the previous weekend, but Jaye spoke up first. “Guys, I figured it out. I know what we have to do. We have to find a wormhole.”

    “Huh,” said Shane. “Is that all we have to do? I’m no expert, but aren’t the chances of finding a wormhole the same as the chances of being attacked by every type of insect known in the world while in Antarctica all in the same day?”

    “Close,” replied Jaye, “unless you have an object of power, which I do happen to have.”

    “Jaye,” said Ron, “how do you know all this stuff?”

    “Remember a few months ago when I was bleeding all over the place in the back of the room, but the blood was cyan rather than red?”

    “Yeah,” said Shane. “And weren’t there strange symbols on your desk?”

    “There’s more to me than either of you two can fathom. Don’t ask questions, just follow my instructions. Got it?”

    Shane and Ron looked at each other for a moment, then turned to Jaye and nodded their heads. “If you can get us to Equestria,” said Shane, “we’ll follow what you say.”

    “Good. I should have everything ready by tomorrow night. Sleep well, my little bronies...”

    “We are not going along with this if you do that again,” said Ron.

    “Fine,” said Jaye. With that, they all walked off.

    That night, Ron had the same dream as a few nights before. He was Rei Sonkei sneaking through the air vent towards the crying Twilight Sparkle. He moved to activate the switch which made Twilight disappear and cause the flesh eaters to appear. Once more, he tried to fight off the flesh eaters, but he was, once again, shot and downed. Except this time, as the one flesh eater was about to kill Rei, a strange figure rushed behind the flesh eater and sliced it clean in half with a very thin but powerful blade. The flesh eater slowly fell, leaving Rei confused about what had happened. He looked up to the figure that had saved him. It was what looked like a human with a blue cloak. The symbol on the cloak seemed almost familiar though he had never seen it before, though he couldn’t make it out. “Run,” the figure said. Rei tried to reply, but couldn’t speak, so he simply got up and moved as fast as he could out the exit, as badly injured as he was. He was running on three hooves, using the fourth to try to keep his wound from bleeding too badly. He was going down a long hallway, trying to outrun the pursuing flesh eaters. Suddenly, the hallway ended and there was nothing but a deep, dark hole. Suddenly, he saw the figure that had saved him, before. “Get on,” it said. Rei followed his instructions and got on to the figures back. Then the figure morphed into a blue pegasus and flew Rei across the gap. On the other side, the blue pegasus landed and let Rei off. Rei turned to thank him, but it had turned into another flesh eater and gunned Rei down. As it was about to finish Rei, it said “We will see you soon.”

Then, the dream ended, and Ron shot up out of his bed, breathing heavily. “‘See you soon?’ What does that mean?” Ron tried to figure it out right then, but his alarm clock had gone off. “Maybe I’ll ask Jaye about it.” Ron then got up and got ready to go to school. “Hopefully this can be a normal Tuesday.”

    Fortunately for Ron, it was a normal Tuesday. At least until the end of the day, when he met up with Jaye and Shane. They sat down at their usual table outside the cafeteria. Then, Jaye broke the exciting news.

    “I’ve finally gotten everything ready for us to make the jump,” Jaye said. “Come over tonight in your “F you, Earth” shirts. If you actually have one, great.”

    That night, the three met in Jaye’s backyard. “Everyone ready?” asked Jaye. “Shit’s gonna happen quick.”

    As he said that, he pulled a flashlight out of his pocket. “What’s that supposed to do?” asked Shane.

    “It’s the object of power I have. These take on any and every shape possible. They’re common around the Bermuda Triangle, but that’s beside the point. Ready?”

    “Wait,” said Ron. “I’m having my doubts on doing this.”

    At that moment, Jaye threw the flashlight to the ground and a bright portal opened. “EVERYONE JUMP NOW!” shouted Jaye. The others followed Jaye quickly. The portal was like a bottomless pit that they were falling through, but it felt as though they were falling every direction except down.

    Ron was far behind Jaye and Shane. He tried to call to them but they didn’t hear. Then, Ron heard the all too familiar voice of Oblivion. “You have disrupted the Netherscape and opened a portal out. I must thank you and your stupidity.” Then, Ron felt a rush of air pass him quickly. He knew it was Oblivion, and they were all going to Equestria.\

    In the Everfree Forest, Zecora was busy making a potion when Rei Sonkei, Colorshy (a grey pegasus with a paint brush wet with red dye for a cutie mark; the equivalent of Shane), and Blue Jay (a blue OP looking pegasus; equivalent of Jaye) fell into the hut behind her. Zecora was at a loss for words as she couldn’t quite comprehend what just happened. Just as she was about to say something, the three rushed out into the forest.

    “Is everypony ok?” asked Blue Jay.

    “No,” said Rei. “I’m not ok. When we were in the portal, Oblivion jumped in and followed us here. It’s impossible to tell where he might be, but no doubt he brought his minions, The Campaigner and The Primagen with him.”

    “Good thing I brought these guns,” said Colorshy pulling out an AK-47 and a sniper rifle.

    “Thanks,” said Blue Jay, but I’m a mercenary here. I’ll fight with a knife.”

    “So,” said Rei, “we made it to Equestria, but probably doomed it and the rest of the Multiverse. That means before we can enjoy Equestria, we need to kill Oblivion. Sounds easy enough. Let’s get moving.” Rei picked up the AK-47, Colorshy kept the sniper rifle, and Blue Jay drew a knife. They all holstered their weapons and started walking into the forest.