I was sitting inside the tower, trying to judge my next move. Being the size and shape I was it was quite interesting that nobody had thought of finding me yet, but then again it was entirely possible somebody already knew

Twilight had gone out to purchase some materials I could craft into some decent weapons, maybe then I could get moving and meet up with any decent form of resistance against the King

Crystal and I had taken to training in the basement, we trained all day as Twilight popped in and out, unable to stay long or risking getting caught

But that night something was different, I felt at home. Which was alarming considering where I came from, and the sound of clanking bones only proved my fears

I heard a shocked cry, and then panic as the residents of Ponyville fled back into their houses due to the mobs that had just appeared

Twilight blinked into the room, her saddlebags had some iron and sticks, along with enough iron to get myself some decent protection

I quickly got to work, crafting and creating like there was no tomorrow, soon enough Crystal and I had some armor and swords, both of which we could use to fight the mobs

Before we left however, Crystal took the time to make a bow and arrows, he figured they would help

I opened the iron door, it was time to go

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If the mobs were surprised by the appearance of players they didn't show it, they only showed their usual mindless anger and attempted to take us down

First off were two zombies coming at me, I grabbed one's arm and thrust it off balance, before plunging the sword into its skull, then I twisted to avoid the second zombie, it lunged at me, but only ended up with an arrow in its face

A pony landed with an arrow in its wing and back leg, Crystal picked her up

"Skarfly, you keep going, I'll move the ponies to safety!"

"On it!" I called back

The mobs weren't too happy to see us helping the ponies, and seemed to attack with more vigor and bloodlust

I held my sword in my blocky hands, taking a battle stance

An arrow whizzed past me, grazing sparks off of my helmet, several more began to fire as several dual-wielding skeletons showed their faces

I blocked what I could, but there wasn't much a guy with a sword could do when there were as many mobs as there were now, it wasn't looking good for me as I quickly got surrounded by zombies

I decided to get tactical, I had mobility a Minecraft player could only dream of, as I jumped onto the heads of the zombies while hacking and slashing, the skeletons missed got lodged into the undead minions

Suddenly I was knocked to the ground, an enderman was holding me by my throat, its elbow cutting off my oxygen

It became harder to respond, I knew my sword was no longer in my hand, but I took the arrow lodged in my chest-plate and threw it like a dart, hitting the enderman in the eye

It teleported away and I quickly grabbed my sword, this situation was deteriorating quickly, and there wasn't a lot I could do about it

A zombie quickly grabbed me from behind, thrusting me into a wall, its rotting breath on my face

A sudden flurry of arrows cut down the zombie, along with the zombies that were slowly trudging up to take a piece of me

I had thought it was Crystal, but he was taking care of the ponies, so who-

I looked up and saw a girl on an airship, she chucked down a water bucket and I caught it, easily catching on to her plan

I dumped the water on the ground, and she very quickly landed inside, I scooped up the water and she took back the bucket

"Where's Skarfly?" she demanded

"Present and speaking" I answered, "Who wants to know?"

She gave me a look, a look I recognized quickly and easily

"Cheerful?" My eyebrows surely shot up past my goggles

She gave me a hug, "You're a tough guy to find."

"I'm also a tough guy to kill" I said, "Care to assist me in defeating these monsters?"

She took out her sword, I handed her the iron leggings, and she slipped them on before donning an axe

We turned and faced off with a large group of monsters, mainly spiders and zombies

I jumped through the air, landing on a spider and crushing its skull, spinning and kicking a zombie into another three, then I jumped backwards as Cheerful joined the fray

She diced and ducked, rolled and kicked a zombie square in the jaw

A zombie knocked her over, I moved to help but the enderman from before jumped me, pinning me to the wall again

Naturally we all know what happened next

Crystal jumped in and sliced off the enderman's head, before quickly shooting the zombie in the head

"Thanks for the help" I coughed as he helped me up

Crystal shrugged, "You looked like you needed it, besides we'll need your experience if we're to stop the king."

Out of force of habit I looked up to see the crack in the sky, something disturbed the ripple

Instinctively I grabbed Cheerful and pulled her out of harm's way, as the giant wither skeleton landed in front of us

"Uh oh" I drew my sword, "This is going to be interesting."

It roared, a massive shake that caused a large amount of windows to shatter, and some home supports to fall over

It then coughed, and it dislodged an arrow from its throat, Crystal had already let one fly

I held my sword in my typical battle stance, before shouting a battle cry, and charging in, and it was ready to meet me