Everfree Forest

The sounds of the darkened forest interweaved through the trees like yarn. The echos of the hollow as the inhabitants had once called it. But to a figure that was lying in a clearing in the middle of the woods, all he heard was noise. Static. Things that made him open his eyes that were previously closed; showing him where the young teen was. Despite the surrounding darkened trees, small beams of light came through the trees, providing some light.

He was quite shocked at first. Originally thinking that he was in some kind of dreamscape. But something told him otherwise. A scratch on his right hand that cut his skin and making him flinch in pain… You couldn’t feel pain in dreams, but right now he just did. Panic began to set in. But he couldn’t allow it to take hold.

He stood up. His clothes now becoming partially visible in the light that poked through the trees. Yellow sweatband on the left wrist, sleeveless shirt with a funnel collar that was known as a dharma and a white part of shorts that were held up by a belt. Shoes and shirt were black with gold trims and an indigo stripe splashed into the center of both pieces. Headphones of the same indigo color were around his neck and another gadget was around his neck, presumably an MP3 player. Before going anywhere, he ruffled his messed up hair and placed his headphones on. Closing his eyes, he took a few deep breaths.

“Breath… Calm yourself… This is probably just a sick prank placed on me…”

Unknowingly though, something else began to happen. The noises he once heard soon became something else that he began to hear. Voices. Voices of someone talking. This brought his hopes up. A lot. Where there’s people, there’s possibly a town of sorts. Where he could find out where he was exactly.

That was… until he noticed something that was in his hand. A round black pin with a white skull in the center.

“What the-? But this is-!” That’s when it hit him. The teen slowly began to recall the memories from before he woke up as he flinched and fell down on the ground.

Earlier that day…

His name was Ron. Ron Dolor. A high school sophomore that was like any typical student. Either you did good in school but couldn’t understand other people or you did good with talking to people, but couldn’t understand what was being taught in the classroom. For Ron, it was the first. Despite only having a couple of friends, he never could understand people and emotions. That’s why his favorite video game character was Neku Sakuraba from The World Ends With You. Because it was someone he could relate to.

I don’t get people. Never have, never will.

Ron could understand people he knew like the few friends that he had and his art history teacher back at school. But in the real world, it was a LOT different. He wasn’t a mind reader. But he wished that he could do so. All he needed was a player's pin and he could tell what they were thinking by reading their thoughts. Of course, that was just a game. This was real life and both of them had their differences.

Over the past few weeks, he had been working on creating the costume based on Neku for him to wear to a small comic book and video game convention. Mostly because it allowed Ron the chance to just be himself without being nagged by his parents or other family members. Now, he was enjoying himself as he explored the vast urban jungle of the convention hall. Vendors were everywhere and so were other people dressed up as other characters. For a moment, he even thought he saw one of his favorite teachers dressed up as that green haired teacher from RWBY. However, it wasn’t exactly what he had to focus on as of right now.

As he continued down one of the rows, he soon came across a small button and pin stand. The title was strange enough. Button Bazaar or something like that. But the merchant himself was quite recognizable. He resembled Mr. Hanekoma from The World Ends With You, Owner of the WildKat Cafe and also the multi-talented street artist named CAT. It was kind of ironic since he was set up in the Artist Alley of all places.

“Well, isn’t this a rare sight.” He said as Ron stopped in front of his booth. “I never expected to see a player like you be here of all places.”

He even sounded like him. Bonus points for that. “Hello to you too.” Ron said. He wasn’t one to speak in long sentences. More likely short brief statements or something along those lines. Looking at his merchandise, he came across a lot of pins that resembled pins in the game that he recognized. One’s called psyches that allowed Neku to use different kinds of abilities during combat. He picked out a few of them that he liked, around five to ten at most and then showed them to “Mr. H”.

“How much for these?”

“Fifty cents each. But… if you're interested, I can make you an offer that’ll be worth your while.” The vendor said as he pulled out a small drawstring bag that resembled a munny pouch from the Final Fantasy series and then took out something that caught Ron’s attention. A Player’s Pin. What a player needs to show that he or she was participating in the reaper's game. “This little bag has a small collection of all the pins that you wanted and then some, but I’ll give it to you for free if you purchase this one.”

“Isn’t that bad for your business?” Ron questioned. All the vendor did was chuckle as he leaned back in his chair.

“I don’t really care how it works for me. All I want to do is make other customers like you happy and enjoy your time here. In another way, It’s what I call haggling.”

It didn’t make any sense, but Ron wasn’t one to say no just yet. “How much is the player's pin?”

“Same price as if you just bought the ten pins you wanted. Five dollars.”

“Okay then. I’ll take it.” The exchange was made as Ron handed the five bucks over to the vendor in exchange for the merchandise that was now his, placing it in his oversize pockets that could hold just about anything. Just as he was leaving though, he heard the man say one last thing.

“Hey kid… Don’t forget… The World Ends With You… If you wanna enjoy life, you got to expand your world.”

‘Definitely seemed like the Roleplaying Type.’ Ron thought to himself as he placed his headphones over his ears and began to walk. However, due to this, he couldn’t hear the commotion going on as some of the people in the area were scrambling to their feet. A shadow loomed over him and the last this he remembered seeing was an exact replica of the Hulkbuster Iron Man suit beginning to fall on top of him.

“Oh come on-!”

Back to the Present…

Now the events of everything beforehand were beginning to piece themselves together like a puzzle. He bought the pins, a huge suit of armor fell on him, and now he woke up in a creepy forest. And to add onto that, his player’s pin was acting like how the pin would actually work in the game. Man, could this get any weirder for him?

He then began to think of a plan for how to proceed. First things first, get out of the forest. He saw a light at the end of the path and began to walk towards it. The sunlight soon flared in his eyes as he saw a huge urban metropolis that reminded him of downtown New York City. But couldn’t tell what it resembled because of the cloudy weather.

“Well, there's a city, there’s bound to be someone that could help me out right?” He told himself as he began to walk down the hillside down towards the city. As he walked on down, he could tell that a few things didn’t seem quite right. First off, most of the prints he found on the dirt road resembled horseshoe prints. Second, a wooden road sign that he saw on the way to the city said “Manehattan” instead of Manhattan. Third, when he was messing around with one of the pins in the collection that he had on him, a spark of lightning went off in the distance, accidently starting a small fire before it was put out.

‘Okay, this is just getting weirder the longer I’m here.’ Neku said as he climbed over another hillside and finally got a view of the city as the weather began to clear up. It didn’t look like modern New York and more like a war torn, great depression age Manhattan judging from first glance.

“Well… That’s… new.” He didn’t have much time to take in the scenery as a loud scream was heard, almost making the teen think that whoever he heard was just trying to pierce his eardrums.

“What the hell was that?” He was now partially curious, running towards the direction in which the sound came from as he entered the city. One thing though that he forgot was that cities like these have multiple alleyways, which meant that he couldn’t know where it was based on hearing it alone… He had to try a new approach.

Holding his players pin again, he closed his eyes. “Focus…” He told himself. Soon, he began to hear the thoughts of what he imagined to be the person who screamed… But from hearing it at first, the individual’s thoughts were quite… odd to say the least.

‘This is just the worst possible thing!! My clothes are torn to bits and I’m being chased around in a once beautiful city overrun by vicious…… creatures. Oh Luna, If I don’t come back from this, please tell my sister that I love her!’

The thoughts in itself was not what Ron was focusing on. Using the player's pin allowed him to hone in on the location of whoever was talking, making it easier for him to find this damsel in distress. He also heard a few loud noises. Like ruffians talking. But as he got closer, Ron could not believe what exactly he was seeing.

Griffons talking to each other, but besides their beaks, they had sharp jaws that reminded him of a set of shark teeth. There were four of them. Each with a different set of leather garments that served as protective body armor.

“What the beak do you mean you lost her!? She’s just one pony!!”

“Don’t blame me. For acting like she’s part of royalty, that unicorn can gallop and she’s handy with magic.”

So he was hearing a unicorn? Now the teenager thought he was beginning to think he should listen in on them, but when he took a step forward; his foot made contact with a crushed soda can.

“What was that!?”

“Sh*t!” Ron cursed to himself. Hearing the sound caused the griffons to begin turning around to see him.

“What the-? What is that-!?”

“Who cares, dumb-beak! If we capture the unicorn and this freak, we’ll get a promotion!! Grab him!!”

Ron himself was quick to react. Sliding backwards to avoid the lashing of griffon claws. He hoped that the rules of needing to make a pact with a partner did not apply with these guys. That question was answered when he used his [Lightning Rook] pin and a blast of chain lightning knocked the first griffon backwards into a lamp post.

“Okay then… If you want a fight… THEN BRING IT!!”

“Heh… Well boys, this punk is just asking for us to kill him.” The supposed leader of the patrol squawked; judging from his regalia being different from all the others. Then flew towards him, one at a time, in a head on rush. Quickly, Ron’s first action was to grab another pin from his pocket at random and see what it could do. The next one he came across had a Y on it and a white circle around it. [Yoshimitsu]. A shockwave pin. Finally, something that he could use to counter with.

Shockwave pins allowed psych users to attack their opponent in a series of slashes. But like other pins, there are limits to the amount of times it could be used. Fortunately, Yoshimitsu had 16 charges. Enough to last him quite a while. As the other three griffons furiously lashed out, he waited for an opening, attacking the first griffon around the chest and the second griffon that came at him around the beak, breaking a few of it’s extra set of teeth. The third however, was smart, surprising him with an extended claw that struck the teen in the arm.

“Agh!!” he flinched in pain. “That was a cheap shot.”

“To be fair, you scarred one of my troops in the chest, knocked out one of my best scouts by launching him into a lamp pole and broke the fangs off of another.” The patrol leader spoke. “I would call that an even trade.”

“Pfft, even trade, my ass!” He shot back, fighting through the pain. The psych user was thankful that the claws didn’t give him a deep flesh wound or rip it down to the bone. That would be extremely difficult to patch up given that he never woke up with a first aid kit. Still, he had to protect himself. If Ron was to figure out how to find a way home, then he had to win this fight!

The head griffon snickered, talking to his comrades in a language that the teen couldn’t recognize. But he had a clear idea of what it meant once the leader flew off. Leaving the other two to face him, they were to deal with him while he would try to find the “unicorn” that they were looking for. Typical for those kind of prideful d-bags to leave their allies to do all the fighting like that.

The two griffons however, had a few surprises in store. For one thing, Their claws began to extend outward and now resembled sharp bone like blades. Another thing was that their actions and behavior had changed drastically as well. Acting more like feral predators than what they were just a few moments ago. Almost like hyena’s because of their sick laughter.

And because of how fast on their paws they were too.

Ron barely had time to dodge out of the way of the attacks of the incoming beasts as he skidded backwards. He scanned the area, thinking about what exactly could he do to be able to effectively hurt them. There were objects scattered everywhere from barricades to carriages and even some other items here and there. Then, something clicked. Why attack these beasts head on when you can just use the environment to your advantage?

Quickly, Ron used his uninjured hand to grab another pin in his pocket as his attackers charged. The teen stepped back again, the talons of his foes barely missing him by a few centimeters as he quickly looked at the pin that he had pulled at random. He breathed a sigh of relief. This was the one he needed. [Kings Knight]. A psychokinesis psych.

Holding the pin in his fist, he began to slash out like before with Yoshimitsu. However, something different occurred that caught the two griffons off guard. They noticed that when he slashed, it was behind a carriage instead of at them. What they did not notice until it was too late was that the boy’s attack sent the carriage flying at them, turning it into a living projectile. As the transport crashed into them and threw their unconscious bodies against the wall, the teenager was glad that this current encounter was over. But there were still some things to deal with.

First off, the wound on his arm. He looked through a few more pins that he had on him and was soon thankful to find one that was a healing Psych. Taking a moment, he held the pin between index and middle finger of his right hand as he put it over his wound. As a few seconds passed, the scars from before had closed and looked good as new.

The other thing to deal with though was the leader. He flew off to go hunting for the prize that he was looking for and right now, could be anywhere in the city. However, another loud scream similar to the first one he heard made the psych user turn around. He heard some commotion not far from his current location in what looked like a department store.

Rarity was not having a good day. First, it was coming back to the once beautiful city of Manehattan to find the town trashed inside and out. Then, there was the Griffons that found her. She was able to get away from them once. But now, she was entangled in a trap that made her barely able to move her hooves as the head griffon she saw earlier came closer. It was licking it’s beak as stared down at the helpless mare.

“I always love to see a mare when she acts so submissively. Too bad that today’s the last day that you’ll draw breath.”

His talons unsheathed as he crept closer. All Rarity was able to see from her current position on the floor was the glowing sun looming over the city. But, in an instant, the tables turned. A bolt of lightning ripped through the glass windows and electrocuted the monster that was in front of her, feeding it with a lot of volts of electricity. The sparks that went off from the single bolt burned away some of the restraints that prevented the unicorn from moving, allowing her the chance to free herself. When she looked out the window, all she saw was what appeared to be the individual who saved her.

“And that… is what I call a fair trade.” She heard it speak. “You wound me, I blast you. Seems fair enough.” This being… had saved her life.

“Are you okay in there, miss? I can see your horn from out here.” Rarity herself now straightened up back onto all four of her hooves. She saw no need into having to delay anything as she trotted out to meet her… savior, so to speak.

“Oh my…… This is quite…… shocking.”

Upon seeing the White Unicorn mare, The teen was surprised by quite a few things. For one, her head could stretch out to his waist. When he thought of a Unicorn, he thought of the size of the being in “The Last Unicorn”, not this tiny marshmallow.

“Oh my……” He heard the mare speak. The teen didn’t think that she could talk. Well, he thought of it as more of talking telepathically than physically talking, but it still took him by surprise. “This is quite…… shocking.”

“Yeah… you and me both.” He sighed, putting his hands in his pockets. “There’s still quite a lot of things that just don’t seem normal to me.”

“Darling, I wasn’t talking about that. I was talking about what you’re wearing.”

“Wait… My clothes? What is wrong with my clothes?”

“Oh, where do I even begin!?” The Unicorn, who hadn’t even introduced herself yet went on a tangent about everything from his shirt, shorts, shoes and even commented on his pins; calling their designs “hideous”. She continued on for a while, not even realizing that Ron had stopped paying attention.

“Excuse me, Miss? I hate to interrupt, but you never actually told me your name.” Ron pointed out, causing the rant to stop upon realization of her flaw.

“Oh my word, you are absolutely right!! Where are my manners!? My name is Rarity. Rarity Belle. What is your name, sir?”

Being called out as shocking and hideous is one thing. But being called “Sir” a few moments later? That was something that he never expected. Matter of fact, what was he? He was himself, of course. But then again, be had the appearance and powers of someone else… After a few minutes, he had an answer for Rarity.

“My name was Ron, but please… Call me Neku.”

“Neku?” Rarity asked, puzzled by the name. “That’s…… unique… I think…”

“Yeah… maybe we should get moving. It’s unknown as to when Mr. Feathers will wake up. So the quicker we get out of here, the better. Do you know a way out of this place that will not attract any attention?”

“Of course. You know, personally I thought you would be wanting to ask a few questions first.”

“It’s not on the top of my Priorities.” Neku retorted. “What is a priority is for us to get out of this city.”

“You… have an excellent point.” Rarity replied as the two of them continued to move. At one point though, when the two of them were presented a shortcut through an alleyway, Rarity grimaced. She stood back while Neku just kept moving.

Turning around, he found himself confused. “What’s wrong?”

“You are seriously going through there of all places!?”

“I don’t see anything wrong with it-.”

“Don’t see anything wrong-!?! The Graffiti on the wall makes that alleyway completely unsanitary!! Seriously, why would anypony do something horrendous like that?” Even though Rarity was saying a rhetorical question, she never actually expected a response.

“It’s not horrendous. It’s art.”

“Art? THIS is art to you!?”

“Art isn’t always what is shown on the outside, Rarity. Sometimes, it’s what’s on the inside. Most artists specialize in different areas and do different kinds of art as a way of expression. To show how they feel. The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by those who break the rules, but by those who follow them… Which begs the question… Why would you be in a city like this?”

Now Rarity felt the tables begin to turn on her as she looked back at Neku. “Well…… the truth is… I’m trying to find a friend of mine. Her name is Coco Pommel and a few days ago, a distress signal that I received lead me to here. ”

“And you went on your own. Matter of fact, how did you get this signal?”

“My friends thought I was going crazy, so I did what I thought was right. As for how I got the signal, I had a hoofheld radio. But it broke when being chased by those mongrels earlier.” The Unicorn replied. “Now I have no idea how to find her…”

Neku sighed, walking past her. “I have one.”

Rarity had no idea what he meant until she saw him hold a black pin with a white skull and close his eyes. She only heard him say one sentence.

Open up… your senses.

Neku opened his eyes again, turning to the Unicorn that was by him. “I found her.”

“H-how? You didn’t even use Magic!” Rarity questioned. All the teen did was show her the pin that he was holding onto.

“Despite their hideous designs as you would say, these aren’t ordinary pins. They’re called Psychs. They let me use different kind of abilities and this one in particular lets me scan the environment around me and read the thoughts of others. Hearing her, I now know where she is.” Neku was now walking over to the wall again, placing his hands on it. But then, he thought of something else too. Realizing that his phone was in his pocket, and believing that it was affected under the same circumstances he had the phone’s camera on and messed with the settings.

“There we go…”

“What was that all about?” Rarity asked.

“My phone’s camera has a unique trait that I’m a bit surprised about, but it helps us in this case if it works. Tell me, when did you receive the signal, Rarity?”

“Uh… Four days ago?”

“And the current time?”

“Like 1:30?”

Playing with the settings, Neku adjusted his phone and snapped a photo. He smiled. “Jackpot.”

“What did that have to do with finding Coco?” Rarity complained, trying to avoid puddles of rainwater on the ground.

“The unique trait of this Camera allows me to take photo’s of the past. I had the phone set to four days ago around the same time as right now and look what I came across.” Neku tilted his phone, showing the Unicorn what he found. It was her friend, hiding inside the wall. “Now, another quote I know is that Art is suppose to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. And with a disguise like this… You might think it’s the least likely place she’ll be. But if you know your enemy, then they’ll probably look in the same place where you might go first. It’s all about staying one step ahead.”

That was when Neku found a loose brick on the wall and pushed it inwards. The wall soon began to split apart like a CGI effect in a Harry Potter movie as Two ponies soon crept closer. One of them though, Rarity knew.

“Coco!!”

“R-rarity!!” The other pony squealed with joy. “Oh, I was so worried about you!!”

“It’s okay Darling. We’ll help get you out of here.” Rarity cooed, trying to calm the scared earth pony. “I know a way out of the city. All we need to do is reach the train station.”

“B-but what about the Griffons, we’ve seen them almost everywhere!”

“Hold on a minute…” Neku replied. “We?”

Behind Coco, Rarity and Neku could see a few other ponies with her. A couple of Stallions, a few mares, and some children. All of them being of different colors and species. “I hid in here with a few of the other refugees that were trying to find a place during the attack on Manehattan. We ran out of food yesterday and only have a few drops of water left.”

Neku now had to take a moment to think this through. “Rarity, how do you plan on getting out of here?”

“By using one of the abandoned trains in the station.”

“How many passengers can that hold?”

“Roughly… all of us?”

“Hmm…”

“Rarity, who is he? Some of the ponies in here are beginning to feel intimidated of him.” Coco murmured as Neku looked up and straightened himself.

“My name is Neku. Neku Sakuraba. I helped save your friend earlier and I believe that we can make sure everypony can get out of here in one piece.” The teen told them. “Rarity, I’ll let you lead the way. Coco, you have a radio on you I assume?”

“Y-yeah. How-?”

“Rarity told me that’s how you contacted her. Once we get this train moving, she would need to use it to contact the other ponies she knows. That way, they’ll be expecting us when we arrive. But in order for this to work, we need to work as a team.”

Unknown Location (Twenty Minutes Later)

Concentration… Focus… That’s what a young unicorn apprentice named Twilight Sparkle was trying to do. But she herself was clouded by the thoughts of her friends. Rarity had went off on her own without backup to find a friend; following a distress call that she didn’t know if it was true or not, and Fluttershy was trying to get berries and other natural cures from the Everfree Forest. Other than that… Applejack and Pinkie Pie were nowhere to be found. Which was always a matter of asking herself over and over if they were okay or not.

“Twilight…” A voice echoed through her private chambers as she turned around. She saw a unicorn mare that had a lavender fur coat like herself and Purple mane. But it was tied up in the back and had strips of cyan.

“Starlight? What is it?”

“The Princess wants to see us… all four of us.”

“Now?” Twilight asked. The other mare nodded as she sighed and got up on her hooves, following her out of the chamber and into the wide underground tunnel that was stringed up with lights. The two of them soon arrived at the Personal Chambers of the Princess as they entered.

“Princess Luna… It’s Twilight and Starlight. We’re here.”

“You may enter. We have been waiting for you.” They heard the voice echo as they opened the door with a simple push of the hoof. Inside the room, two other Unicorns were there. One with yellow Fur and a Mane that resembled the fiery sun while the other had a silver mane and Azure fur.

“Greetings Sunset… Trixie.”

“Hello to you two as well.” Sunset said, smiling a little until she say Princess Luna motion herself to where she was in front of them.

“My little ponies, I’m sorry that I’ve had to interrupt you from your studies, but there is something I must address. All of you are already aware of the current circumstances, I presume?” The room was met with Silence. A cue for the Princess to continue. “Well, as you all know, Ponykind has been in a longstanding war for over 1000 years. But I fear that soon, we will be defeated soon. The forces that we stand up against are just too great. Great enough to take control of my dear sister and force us to abandon all we know in order for us to be safe-.”

Before anypony was able to ask why, one of the guards from outside the room barged in. “Princess!!! There’s a situation at the east gate!!”

“Colonel, explain your reason for why this situation gives you the right to intrude-.”

“It’s Ms. Rarity! She’s alive and has rescued refugees from Manehattan!!.”

Everypony in the room was shocked beyond content. Manehattan was a very dangerous place. Labeled on the list of Top five cities NEVER to go to. To hear that she brought back refugees and was alive to tell the tale was something they needed to see with their own eyes.

“Show us, Colonel.”

“Right this way, Princess!” The Soldier responded as he lead the five of them through the tunnels to the respected gate that he was going to. He ordered a few of the lower ranks to stay out of the way, calling them Maggots and other insults that came off the tip of his tongue. Upon arrival, they could see the train that was seized, but most importantly, the ponies that were coming out of it. The ones reunited with their friends and loved ones. But most importantly, Rarity was seen alongside her friend, Coco Pommel.

“Oh my stars, she was right!” Trixie said. They now approached their fellow friend, shocked and relieved that she was okay. But most importantly, the apprentices of Princess Luna were surprised and also a little confused by who helped them.

The Princess though, saw the individual somewhere else. Along a wall near the gate. Away from all the ponies he had saved. But why? Luna intended to find out as she approached him.

“We must thank thee for saving my little ponies, We do not know thy name however?” Luna said with a bit of of old talk showing given the events.

Neku himself looked up. “Hmm? Oh, uh… You’re… Welcome I guess…” The Princess could tell that something was conflicting him based on his tone of voice and how he didn’t answer Luna’s intended question.

“You didn’t answer my question.” Luna said, she wondered why he was acting like this.

“I’m sorry. I must’ve not heard it the first time. Call me Neku… Who are you though, if I may ask?”

“I am Princess Luna.” The Alicorn answered.

“It’s nice to meet you, Princess. I’m sorry if I don’t seem to be the social type, but right now, a lot of things just don’t make sense to me.” The Teen told her. “I don’t know how I got here, why I was brought here, or what’s going on. I’m lucky to still be alive after those Griffons attacked me.”

Luna gave a sigh. “But you are here. how did you do it though?” Luna asked. She was interested in what this newcomer was. “Also what are thy?” Luna asked.

“Honestly. Everything just seems… blurry. One moment, I blacked out when I thought that something fell on top of me. The next moment, I woke up in a forest not far from the Manehattan place where I found Rarity. As for your second question, I am a human.”

A human was something Luna hasn’t heard about, as for his story. “Do you remember anything before that?” Luna asked. “Anything at all?”

“Kind of… I was attending an event. I purchased something and then I blacked out.” Neku told the princess, looking at his Player’s pin. “Not only that, but the pins I bought turn out to be Psychs that I can control.”

“Are you sure that wasn’t how you escaped?” Luna asked as she pointed to the pins. Neku shook his head, explaining that where he was from, magic didn’t exist. Mostly because the use of magic was known to be fictional or just simple parlor tricks. This was something else to him. Something else that was a mystery. But to Luna, she saw it as something different. Something unique that this “Neku” could do that can really help a lot of ponies.

Dark times were ahead and something watched over them, whether it be harmony or even chaos she didn’t care right now. She could only hope he would help. “Neku… I believe that whatever it is that you could do is not a mystery, but a gift. With the right training and mastery over these gifts, you can help many ponies and what you did today with helping Ms. Rarity save those ponies is proof of this.”

Neku himself looked back at the pins in his hand, thinking the princesses words through for a little bit before looking back at her.

“You really think so?”

“I don’t think. I know. Young Neku, you must know to have faith in yourself if you are to overcome the struggles on the road ahead. You have a lot to learn in a short amount of time. Please, follow me.” Obliging, the teen placed his pins back in his pocket and followed the Alicorn. In his mind, he hoped to find out a little bit of what was going on. For Luna however, it was a glimmer of hope. This boy may be the first, but she believed that more might come soon.

And once they were all ready, she will help them free her sister Celestia from the grasps of the nightmare that controlled her. The nightmare created by…… him.

Author's Notes:

Hey guys, Frost here. This is the beginning of a Collab between a few of us that we decided to make as a way to put our heads together. So this is the first chapter with our first hero, Neku. More to follow...
-Frost