Equestria High

[This is Shade, unlike Kill he is not a conciseness but can affect mental states of ponies]

< This is Shine, read above but replace Kill with Joy >

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I have no idea where I am. Looking around I see nothing but blackness and above me are seven words: ‘Attempting to join Server E, World 1. Please wait.’ I’ve seen those words whenever I play online on various videogames so I’m pretty sure where I am now.

“Hey Shade, Shine, I need you two to do a sweep and see if anypony else is here.”

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*Facehoof* “I forgot there back with Twilight finishing up that spell.” I stood there waiting for something to happen. There were 3 beeps and then a long one and I suddenly saw green lines shoot up from the darkness. The lines began to form mountains, trees and other various things. After it finished I was standing in a snowy area with a treasure chest in front of me, I decided the best course of action was to open it. Inside I found a note, a note from Gears. It read:

‘Welcome to my new game! I know this will be hard to take in but I guarantee you will enjoy your stay here. Now the object of the game is to win 3/5 matches against anypony you challenge or that challenges you. There is no denying a challenge. If you get over 5 wins then you’ll get a prize equal to the amount of wins you have. And here’s a little tip, try and stand on your hind legs from here on out.

I took Gears advice and tried to stand on my hind hooves, to my surprise it was easier than expected! It felt like I’ve been

doing it my entire life!

“I guess I should start looking around for someone to fight… but I have no idea where to start.” I wander around for awhile checking out the area until I come across a sign that read:

To world map -->

“I think I’ll check out some other areas and see what I can find.” I followed the arrow and was shot up into the sky. I felt like something was different with me and noticed I had turned all 8-bit looking! I stood on a yellow circle the read: ‘Frosty Mountain.’

I followed the line connecting to the circle and landed on a green one called: ‘Great Plains.’ Better to stop here and figure out some stuff.

‘Great Plains’

Well it’s just how I believed it would be, a lush green field stretching as far as the eye could see. I decided to lay in the grass and take a moment to think. A moment was all I got before I heard somepony yell something from a distance.

“ORCHID!”

There a small black circle with green dots moving around it appeared below me. I moved out the way right before what looked like a thorn shoot up from it and retract disappearing into nothing.

“WHERE ARE YOU!?” I yelled looking around the field. “SHOW YOURSELF!”

There was an explosion of green otherworldly energy in front of me, once it cleared there was an Earth pony standing in front of me. The Stallion had a cream colored coat and white mane and tail, He had a mask over his face that covered his eyes making them look a demonic yellow. His cutie mark was a weird looking eye; it didn’t make sense until I noticed that he had a large sword in his right forehoof. The hilt of the sword had a large circular rune on it. The center of the rune opened up and there was an eye. It looked at me before closing again.

“Gran, is he the one we’re supposed to defeat.” The stallion looked at his sword before turning back to me. “Alright  then.”

He placed a hoof on the rune of his blade and pulled out a orb of ice before hurling it at me. “Classical Force!”

“Reflect.” I held a hoof out to deflect the orb but nothing happend. “Shit!” I yelled as the orb hit me causing me to incased in Ice.

The stallion ran over to me and leaped into the air with his sword. He threw it at the ground where it stuck in the earth in front of me. He fell down on top of it causing a huge spike to shoot out and several small ones around it.

“Bleeding Gash”  The stallion said as he pulled his sword of from the ground and looked over to the now blinking Chaos as he disappeared.

A seconded later I fell from the sky landing on my hind legs and looking at the stallion that had just killed me. I voice from nowhere called out and said.

"ARENA"

“So I have extra lives. Who are you and why did you attack me?”

“My name is Zero, Zero Zephyrum.” Zero was preparing himself for another attack.

“I don’t know why you would attack your own partner. I thought we were supposed to work together.” I said shaking my head

“I… What?”

“Yeah, I was sent here by… General Gears! Yup General Gears, from… Equestria! To assist you in your mission.” I lied but I didn't want in my current condition.

“I’m… I’m so sorry…” Zero said putting his sword back on his back. “I’m… I’m so very sorry.”

“It’s okay Zero. I forgive you, now what is this mission I’m supposed to help with?”

“No! Let me help you with your mission first. It’s the only way I can make up for what I did.” Said Zero as he pulled out a small cubed container that a B on each face. “Here, if you break this you’ll get your extra life back.”

I happily accepted the cube and crushed it in my hooves. I didn’t feel any different but I decided to trust Zero since he must be a program or something.

“Alright Zero if you want to help me with my mission instead. I need to find and win against 5 people. I’m also looking for my friends that came here with me.”

“I’ll assist you in your search to make up for my previous actions.” Zero reached into the rune of is blade again and pulled out a map. “Gran, do you fell any differences in the cosmic forces?” Zero’s sword opens its eye and looks at him before closing again. “Gran says something crashed into one of the old buildings in the Crumbling Factory Zone.”

“I guess that’s where we’re gonna start looking.”

Zero and I began our journey together by heading to the world map. The entire time we walked to the Crumbling Factory Zone Zero kept telling me how sorry he was for attacking me when we met.

Crumbling Factory Zone

“Gran said that the disturbance is coming from the top of that building over there.” Zero pointed at the tallest building. It must have been the main building.

“Why does it always have to be the biggest building?” I said as we made our way to the entrance.

Up close it looked like this building was built with sinister intentions in mind. There were several cameras rusted with age and falling from their place all around the building. I placed a hoof on the large iron door that was rusty and bent. With a slight push the door fell with a load *THUD* kicking up dust everywhere.

“I’ll wait out here for you my skills don’t work on machines.” Zero got down and sat by the entrance.

“Whatever floats your boat Zero.” I was about to enter when Zero asked me another question.

“Hey what’s your name?”

“ChaosAngel, but just call me Chaos. Everypony else does.”

I went inside the building and noticed that there was an odd energy around me. And with my magic on the fritz I couldn’t figure out the source. Without warning  a loud humming noise began to come from all around. Lights turned on, cameras began to either move or fall of the walls in the attempt to move.

‘INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT! INITIATING DEFENSE PROTICAL!’

“What in Luna’s name?” I looked around trying to pin point where the voice was coming from. I couldn’t find the source but I found something worse, several holes on the walls around me opened up and various turrets’ popped out all turning and pointing red laser lights at me.

“Aw Fuck.”

The guns began firing at me as I tried to run and dodge them. I knew I wouldn’t be able to do it for long so I ducked into a nearby room. Luckily for me there was another chest and this one was golden! I opened it and found a scroll with instructions on how to shadow step.

“Maybe I can get past those turrets’ with this technique.”

The instructions were simple; Dash, jump dash, and repeat. Simple enough. I was about to leave before I noticed a button with a label above it.

Awesome music to listen to while dodging bullets and running through a factory!

I pressed the button quickly and the music started pouring from the speakers.

“I CAN JAM TO THIS!”

I ran out the room and the bullets came raining down at me but thanks to my new technique I was able to dodge them a lot easier.  As I turned corner after corner I ran into missiles, lasers.

“There’s no end to this! But I have to make it to the top of this building and see if Dark’s here.”

I was coming up on the first flight of stairs when a robot pony fell from the ceiling and stood in my way.

“NONE SHALL PASS! YOU ARE AN INTRUDER!”

"You wanna fight bucket head? Well lets go!"

Authors Notes: Good luck Graze I hope your story gets on EQ Daily.