Chapters Volcano Exploring and Reminiscing
Job Advancement
"Finally level seventy!" Golden Apple said a.k.a Applebloom as they were walking on a rocky towards the mountain city Perion.
"We can finally job advance into Crusaders!" Sweetest Treat said who is obviously Sweetie Belle.
"Then our guild name will make sense!" Rainbow Cannon said other wise known as Scootaloo.
"Why did we name the guild 'The Cutie Mark Crusaders' anyway?" Dragonborn asked or Spike.
"Because we voted on it." Applebloom said with the other two nodding in agreement.
"That's not fair though it was three to one."
"Look we're not arguing about this anymore, we cant change the guild name anyhow." the earth filly said before looking ahead. "Perion's right up ahead come on lets get a move on!" she as she dash towards the city.
"Wait up!" the remaining three said before running after her.
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"So we gotta do what again?" Scootaloo asked as they stood outside the job advancement building.
"Didn't you read what the npc said at all?" Spike said before continuing. "We gotta go to Kerning and find some stone at the highest point then it'll automatically advance us."
"Isn't Kerning the place with all the tall buildings and thieves everywhere?" Sweetie asked since she rarely visited the area.
"And dont you have to go and do a jump quest so you get to the top?" Applebloom added.
"Yes and yes, now we're wasting time just standing here lets go." he said starting to walk to the west exit of the town before bumping into a object. "Ow!" he said falling to he rump before looking up at what he crashed into. It was a Orange machine with hundreds of capsules inside. There was a sign attached saying 'Gachapon! win prizes, fame and more prizes! Located at every town. "Huh never saw this before." Spike said ,getting up and brushing himself off before setting to the exit again this time not bumping into anything.
~~~
They entered Kerning and headed for the jump quest entrance.
"That's really high." the unicorn said while looking up at the giant rusty abandoned construction site.
"So uh who's first?" Spike said getting a little intimidated by the sheer size of the place.
Being the daredevil she was Scootaloo stepped forward. "I'll go! Just watch me do this easily." as soon as she got in closer proximity to the construction site a rope appeared from thin air and wrapped its self round her wings."Hey! What gives?"
"It's to make you dont cheat! I'll probably get one on my horn too." Sweetie called out.
"Well that made is harder." Scootaloo grumbled before jumping onto the first ladder climbing up. "That wasnt too hard! One down-" she looked up. "who knows how many more." the pegasus looked down to her friends. "You guys coming or what?" she called down before jumping a gap that lead to a ramp.
"Here we go." Spike said before catching up follow by his other two friends.
~~~
"This is getting repetitive." Sweetie said now barley noticing herself jumping a gap and grabbing on to a rope.
"Worst part we're weighted down by all our weapons, armor and junk." Spike said, looking in his bag and pulling out snail shells and tossing him down.
"Spike! Thats littering!" Applebloom scolded.
"It's a game nobody cares." he said undifferent
"You still shouldn't do it!" she huffed. "Karma is a witch and she's coming after you."
"Please, I never believed in that mumbo jum-" the dragon didn't get to finish as the floor broke and he fell towards the bottom.
"I told you!" she yelled before catching up with Scootaloo and Sweetie.
"About you caught up!" Scootaloo said as she looked behind Applebloom. "Hey where's Scaly?"
"Oh he fell to the bottom." the earth filly said nonchalancely.
"He fell?" Scootaloo said with a eyebrow raised up.
"Is he okay?" Sweetie asked worried.
"Relax I'm sure hes just dandy, plus he survived worst. Like remember the time he fell in a well in Henesys with a piranna?" Applebloom said.
"Or the time he fell of Orbis Tower?" Scootaloo added.
"He sure falls alot." Sweetie chipped in.
"Yeah he's pretty clusmy when it comes to high places." Applebloom nodded.
"Nice to know you girls think im clusmy." Spike said looking pretty beatin up. "I kept falling and falling smashing through so many wooden platforms." he said pulling out a red potion and drinking down. "Lets just get this over with." he said, now taking the lead and climbing higher.
~~~
"We made it!" Applebloom said as they made it to the top of the site. Although there was nothing there the sky and the roof they were standing on.
"But where is the stone?" Sweetie asked, just then a old and powerful sounding voice echoed and said. "If you want the stone you have to answer a riddle."
"Okay then give us the riddle!" Scootaloo challenged the voice.
"What has four legs then two legs and ends with three?" the voice said pretty much confusing three of them immediately, but the last member of there group had it. "You are a human!" Spike called out.
"Correct. Take the stone and don't come back." the voice said grumbling about how kids these days look everything up on the internet. When the voice stopped the stone appeared infront of then with a note saying 'touch me'.
"Wow Spike how'd you know the answer to that question?" Scootaloo asked.
"Living in a library does you wonders. That and some crazy green mare always stops by and checks out books about humans."
"So looks like stone." Applebloom said before poking it causing her to glow.
"Woah I feel more powerful." she said checking her selfover, The rest of them touched to stone too and advanced.
"We advanced! Only one problem though." Sweetie said.
"And that is?" Spike questioned.
"How do we get down?"
Volcano Exploring and Reminiscing
"Are you sure there isn't another way?" asked Applebloom as she looked over the edge of the tiny platform they were standing on.
"Nope this is the only way don't be scared though we just have to cross the lava pit jump on a couple of ropes and swing our way over." Spike said as he jumped over said lava and grabbed the rope.
"Says the guy who can swim in lava like its a cold bath."Applebloom said still not sure about jumping.
"Come on don't you wanna catch up to Sweetie and Scootaloo?"
"How'd they get there so fast anyway?"
"Magic and wings fricken unicorns and pegasi they're overpowered, anyway are you gonna jump or not?" asked Spike as he was losing patience.
"Okay okay uh here I go" she said before jumping over the pit and on the rope.
"Okay now we just gotta jump, on the count of three."
"Three!" he said as they jumped barley landing on the next platform.
"Geez how much farther do we have to go?" Applebloom asked already getting sick of all this platforming.
"Twenty more rooms this volcano is huge, anyway Sweetie and Scootaloo should be up ahead in the next room lets go!" Spike said as he dashed off into the next room of the volcano.
"Wait up!"
~~~
"What took you two so long?" Scootaloo asked who was getting bored of waiting.
"Not everybody can glide over hundreds of pits." Spike said now shooting an annoyed glare at the pegasus before asking a question. "Why are we here again? I can't remember."
"How could you forget don't you remember the crap that happened at Ellina like a month after we started playing?" Scootaloo asked confused about how the dragon could forget such a important day.
"Nope you know I've been having trouble remembering things after that giantic book incident last week." Spike said shuddering at the thought.
"That was pretty nuts." Scootaloo said nodding in agreement. "So you really don't remember a thing?"
"Nope."
"I'm actually forgetting some details too." Sweetie said with a sheepish smile.
"Ugh you two are useless do you atleast remember Applebloom?"
"Didn't have something to do with a goat?"
"No that was last month." Scootaloo let out a sigh before continuing. "I'll just have to tell you three what happened.
~~~
"Grinding sucks." Spike said killing off a couple of slimes.
"It does, but we're so close to level thirty just one more level then we become Fighters!" Applebloom said jumping up and down in excitement.
"But why do we have to do it here?" Spike said now looking around nothing but hundreds of thousands of trees that go up five hundred feet in the air. "The slimes give us like no exp its going to take forever at this rate."
"Good point there Spike. Hey Sweetie why are we grinding on slimes?" Applebloom said now turning towards her unicorn friend.
"Looking for maple swords they're really rare and slimes drop them." she said before stabbing one more slime.
"Huh I never heard of them before is this a event?"
"Yep it's for the game being out for four years."
"Well you two can keep on killing I'm taking a break." Spike said before pulling out a plain sky blue wooden chair. "Say where's Scootaloo at?"
"She was here a second ago." Applebloom said now wondering where their pegasus friend could be.
"Scootaloo! Where are you!" Sweetie called out... No response. At this point they began searching for her friend with no luck.
"She's not up here!" Spike called out hanging dangerously from a high branch.
"She's not in here just slimes!" Sweetie called out from a tree hollow.
"Well she couldn't have just disappeared we gotta keep looking!" Applebloom said giving out orders unknowingly about to be crashed into. "Oof!"
"Oh sorry about that I was just hurrying to my fri-" Scootaloo said before looking at who she crashed into. "Oh hey I was looking for you where's the others?"
"In here." Sweetie said before jumping out of the hollow.
"I'm up here" Spike said before falling down losing some hp in the process.
"I was looking everywhere for you three."
"But we were looking for everywhere for you where did you go?" Sweetie asked.
"Follow me I'll show you." she said before leading her friends to a hidden path behind some bushes. "Look over there." Scootaloo said as she point at what seemed to be a giant monkey with puppet strings.
"What is that?" Applebloom said.
"It's a boss I tried to run and get you guys but it caught me needless to say I died and had to walk back."
"So I'm guessing we're going to go fight this thing?" Spike said now looking at the monkeys health bar that just appeared.
"Looks like it noticed us you guys ready?" Scootaloo said before getting three nods. "Okay then lets do this charge!"
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"And then we beat the thing into a pulp, leveled up and became Fighters The End." Scootaloo said wrapping up the story.
"But that doesn't explain why we're here." Spike said.
"And then we said we should fight a strong boss every year remember? You suggested it."
"I did didn't I?" Spike said still wakking ahead before crashing into a door. "Ouch! Oh hey isn't this the boss door?"
"I think it is. I guess we talked for long we didn't notice crossing twenty rooms huh." Scootaloo said before turning around to her friends. "Are you guys ready?" she said getting three yeps. "Okay then Cutie Mark Boss Destroyers! Plus a dragon."
"Hey!"
"Suck it up dragon boy. Charge!"
Hene Hoes and Duping
"Spike I don't think you're gonna get it it's been hours." Applebloom said a little worried.
"I'm not quitting till I get that surfboard!" He said tearing apart ten odd lizards. "It's been one of my dreams to get one of them snowboards ever since I saw one. Now abusing my two times drop rate I'm gonna get one!"
"Whatever you say Spike whatever you say." She said sighing before climbing up a platform and seeing if Sweetie and Scootaloo were done with their card game.
"I won!" Sweetie cried out.
"No fair! You cheated!" Scootaloo said as she started to restart the game.
"Hey I don't cheat its not my fault your bad at this game."
"That's it!" The pegasus said before rudely flipping the table causing cards to go everywhere before everything shrunk down and came together. "I'm never playing with you again!" Sweetie was about respond before seeing Spike run up to them.
"I found one!" He said jumping up and down with a purple surfboard. "I could die happy right now."
"Even without a kiss from my sister?" Sweetie remarked.
"Never mention her again" The dragon said getting a serious look on his before returning back to his happy look. "Nothing could ruin this moment right now." Spike said before getting disconnected.
"What?" he said as he rebooted the game or atleast tried to as it didn't come on. "Hey Twilight!" He called to downstairs. "Did you mess up the internet with your experiments again?"
"No I didn't, I'm going out to a picnic see you later Spike!" she said as she left the library.
"Well I guess I'll try logging in again" Spike said outloud to nobody in particular. This time he was able to log in without fail. "Alright! I got in wait... where's my surfboard?"
~~~
Meanwhile the other three had just logged back on. "Weird did we all disconnect?" Applebloom asked the other two.
"Better question is how did we get to henesys?" Scootaloo said
"An even better question why did Spike react so negatively when I mentioned my sister?" Sweetie added.
"Hmm" They said pondering their questions as two figures walked up to them.
"Well isn't this a surprise it's the three blank flanks!" Diamond Spade said better know as Diamond Tiara.
"Looks like their missing their pet lizard too." Silver Wand also know as Silver Spoon.
"Not today you two go do whatever bowpony jerk do." Applebloom said not feeling like dealing with them today.
"Aw what's a matter can't handle a little social interaction?" Diamond mocked
"You know what one of these days you're gonna get whats coming to ya!" Applebloom huffed and as if she summoned it they were knocked over by a purple blur
"What did I hit?" Spike said turning around. "Oh its just them, anyway something horrible has happened!" Spike said with a distressed look on his face.
"Apologize you ugly lizard!" Diamond said while getting up.
"How rude!" Silver said fixing her glasses.
"Are you two serious? You make our lives especially there's living tartarus and you expect me to apologize?" He said while glaring at them.
"Yes!" Silver said with her nose pointed in the air.
"Geez I knew hene hoes were stupid but come on!" He said facepalming.
"Excuse me? What did you just call us?" Diamond said shocked.
"Apparently you can't hear too! I called you stupid hene hoes who waste there time bully ponies because daddy doesn't love them!" Spike said making them run away crying.
"Don't you think that was harsh?" Sweetie said surprised in how the dragon usually nice and sarcastic turned into a angry and rude beast.
"They had it coming plus they're gone right?"
"Yeah I guess" The unicorn said.
"Now back to the matter at hand my surfboard is gone!" Spike said waving is arms for empathize.
"Oh I think the server got rolled back!" Scootaloo said putting the pieces together.
"What's rollback?" Spike asked confused.
"Oh yeah you were asleep for the last one."
"When did the last one happen?"
"On that day you took a twenty-four hour nap, but anyway rollback is when the server get's reset back to a certain point." Scootaloo explained.
"Oh so that's how we're in Henesys!" Applebloom said getting it.
"Wait we're in Henesys?" Spike said now getting a good look around. Indeed they were in Henesys easily tellable by the old village look, yellow roofed houses and bowponies everywhere. "Wait does that mean my surfboard is gone?"
"Afraid so Spike." Applebloom said
"No! " Spike yelled before getting disconnected again.
~~~
"Well now what? Anything we do is going to get reset." Sweetie said while watching Spike mope in the corner of the item shop they were in.
"We could always wait it out." Applebloom suggested.
"Why dont we do nothing but slowly wait for this pitiful existence to end." Spike said from his corner now seemingly drawing dark clouds over his head.
"Ignore him." Scootaloo said before continuing. "I've been waiting for a rollback since I heard a glitch."
"A glitch?" Sweetie asked curious.
"Yeah yeah a glitch a friend of a friend told me about. You go to the free market then-" Scootaloo said before getting cut off by Applebloom.
"You mean the place where everypony's yelling about whatever there selling and the player made shops?"
"Thats the one, so as I was saying you go to the market then enter a random shop, buy the most expensive item you can then leave and wait to get rolled back again. What happens then you get reseted back with your money and whatever else you had at that point along with a duped version of the item you bought."
"Huh sounds easy enough." Applebloom said.
"Nothing is easy in this cruel cruel world filled with lies and shortcomings." Spike said his dark clouds now raining and shooting out lighting.
"How is he doing that?" Applebloom said as she back away from the now approaching storm clouds. "I think we should go before those clouds fill up this entire room. You coming Spike?"
"I guess even though everything will go wrong."
~~~
"Okay we're here." Scootaloo said as she lead them into the player shop section of the free market.
"Look at all of them there's so many!" Applebloom said looking at all the shops, rows and rows of sheds with signs on top describing what said shop is selling. "Which one do we do we go in first?"
"Lets just choose one at random." Sweetie suggested before opening a door. "Weird there's nopony here."
"Of course there's nopony here it's all automated, pick something up and your money's put in there." she said pointing at the giant piggybank labelled as 'profits' "Lets see here... chairs, wands, swords, knives, helmets,... Oh! This looks good." she said before pulling of a rainbow colored bandana.
"What do you guys think?"
"It's um great?" Applebloom said with a shifty smile.
"I like your mane?" Sweetie said getting the same smile Applebloom had.
"I think you should throw it away now before life takes to away in the cruelest manner." Spike dryly said before going to mope in the corner.
"Well then are you three gonna grab something?"
~~~
"We made a nice haul!" Scootaloo said while dragging a giant sack of stuff.
"I didn't even know you could buy a inflatable house!" Applebloom said also dragging her giant sack of stuff.
"And it only cost us all our money!" Sweetie said.
"I wonder how much we spent?" Applebloom wondered aloud. "Hey Spike you were keeping track of that how much was it?"
"Five million and two mesos." Spike said now being levitated by his clouds.
"Huh is that so? Oh look we made it back to the item shop!" she said before entering.
"Okay now we just wait." Scootaloo said. And they waited, and waited but nothing happened.
"I think rollback is over." Sweetie said.
"So does that we just wasted all our money?" Applebloom said.
"I think so."
"See I told you guys everything would go wrong because this existence sucks." Spike said as his dark clouds now surrounded him completely.
"Okay I've had enough of this" the earth filly said before stomping her way over to Spike and yanking him out of his cloud fortress. "You've been acting strange all day even before your surfboard disappeared and i'm sick of it! So tell us what bothering you. Right. Now." she said putting empathize on the last words.
"I..It's because... because Rarity she.. she rejected me!" he said before breaking down into a fit of sobs. "And then in a attempt to forget about her I spent hours trying to get that board. So just when it looks like my luck changed that was taken away from me too."
"Aw now you made me feel bad about yelling at ya."
"It's okay. I was being a little..."
"Gloom and doomy?" Scootaloo finished.
"Yeah gloom and doomy" he said getting a little chuckle.
"You know Spike, not to be mushy but we're always there you." Scootaloo said fluttering her wings.
"And I'll make sure to give my sister a good talking to!" Sweetie said joining in.
"I was saving this for your birthday but here." Applebloom said before digging around in her bag and pulling out a purple surfboard identical to the one he lost. "Happy month early birthday!"
His eyes lit up before picking it up and jumping around with it. "I'm so happy I could kiss you!" he said before actually running up to her and giving her a quick peck to the lips making her blush and freeze up.
"Did he just?" Sweetie began to say too shocked it finish.
"Kiss Applebloom?" Scootaloo finished while looking at her frozen friend and a mad jumping dragon.