Twilights eyes were still closed but she knew she was being looked upon judging by the silent whispering that was going on. Twilight tossed and turned in place as she said, “Oh Spike… thank goodness it was all a dream…”

A young man’s voice spoke up, it was calm but also filled with energy, “I’m afraid not… this isn’t a dream.” Twilight’s eyes shot open to reveal a small monkey like creature wearing overalls and a hat, as well as a blue rat like creature that only wore cloth around its hands and bright red shoes. Twilight jerked up as the blue creature gently patted her as he said, “We thought the same thing until we woke up. So far we’re the only ones in this room.”

Twilight looked around the room, it looked like the room the Wonderbolts would clean themselves off and other things Rainbow Dash wouldn’t mention. She looked around as she said, “I need to get home… Where am I?”

The blue creature sat on one side of her while patting her on the back while the red hat wearing monkey sat on the other side as he said, “No on-a knows where this-a place is.”

The blue rat slumped his head low as he said, “We’ve been locked in here for a couple of hours now. We might as well get acquainted while we wait for help. My name is Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog.”

The red hat man gave a tip of his hat as he said, “Mario, Mario Mario.”

Twilight looked at the two for a couple of seconds before saying, “My name is Twilight Sparkle… Twilight Sparkle the pony?” Twilight looked over at the blue hedgehog as she said, “Funny… You don’t look like a hedgehog.”

Sonic looked back at her and with a smirk he said, “Funny… You don’t look like a pony. His is unreal, ponies can’t talk. Talking animals are impossible.”

Twilight raised an eyebrow as she said, “Likewise… So how long have you two been watching me.”

Sonic slouched down as he said, “Well ever since the rest of the group left we decided to stay back because we looked the least frightening out of all of them seeing as we had the brightest colors.”

Twilight began to rejoice a little bit as she said, “There’s more? Or am I the only of my kind?”

Mario gently placed his hand on her back as he said, “I’m-a sorry but your friends are-a no longer with you… they-a must have been-a left behind.”

Twilight began to feel terrible again when the idea of seeing her friends was scratched, but it soon changed to worry when she heard footsteps of multiple people in the distance. As the footsteps got closer Sonic leaned in and said, “Whatever you do… do not anger any of them.”

Twilight jumped back as the door slammed open to reveal another ape like creature similar to Mario, only taller and wearing different clothes. It looked to be wearing a hood and a jacket. The creature stormed into the room as he said while pointing towards the door, “We found another one unconscious, bring him in Chief.”

Twilight looked past the tall ape to see yet another ape like creature in green metal plating carrying over its shoulder yet another green wearing ape, this on dressing in cloth and carrying a long metal sword and shield. The green ape named Chief dropped the other green wearing ape onto the floor in front of them as it said, “We’re going to need you to cooperate, kid.”

The other tall ape walked up beside him as he said, “You stay out of this soldier, all you’re good at is killing. At least I’m a scientist.”

Chief stepped back ass he calmly said, “Look where that got you, freak.”

Twilight began to cower as the two began to bicker, the skinnier human walked up to Chief as he said with a tone of anger, “You better watch it, I can cut through that armour of yours like paper.”

Chief gave out a laugh as he said, “I’d like to see you try, Alex.” Alex lunged towards Chief with a jerk of his arm but didn’t strike him because Sonic jumped in saying, “Remember guys, we were all heroes where we came from so we are all going to be heroes here. Now about the tunic guy, at least me and Mario know him right?” Mario simply nodded his head before Sonic continued, “This guy can’t seem to talk so ask him yes and no questions only.”

Alex slumped down on the bench opposite of Twilight as he said, “What about the horse?”

Twilight was a little shy and scared of him but she managed to quietly say, “I’m… Twilight Sparkle…”

Alex nearly jumped out of his skin as soon as she talked and said loudly, “Talking animals! This is just unreal!”

Sonic rolled his eyes as he said, “I agree… Anyways she seems nice so let’s just try to get along.”

Chief sat down next to Sonic as he said with a sigh, “Well… from what we understand it couldn’t be the brains of Eggman that brought us all here, Sonic. The very possibility of creating multiple wormholes that funnel into one area is just absurd.”

Alex scratched at his head as he said, “We also figured out that it couldn’t be Bowser, or the Covenant that caused this anomaly, it had to be much more powerful.”

Twilight’s heart began to sink, thoughts were rushing through her head about how she could be the cause of all this. As Twilight watched the group begin to argue again she decided to do the right thing, Twilight got up and said, “I think it might have been me…” The group immediately stopped what they were doing and looked over at Twilight with mixed expressions before she continued, “I was working on a spell when my friend… when we crossed our paths and probably opened up the portal to this place.”

Alex began to furiously walk towards her as eh said with anger, “So you caused all of this?”

Twilight cowered behind the Chief as she said, “I was at fault for my own disappearance, the idea of subconsciously triggering your portals to open up would have taken much more power. If I can get out of this place maybe I can help us all figure out what is behind this.”

Almost as though it were triggered a loud voice rang through the room, “A new contestant has entered the room!” Suddenly right beside Alex a smaller human dressed in orange clothing appeared in a ball of light. When the light faded the boy stumbled to his feet, he had bright blond hair and what appeared to be Whiskers on his cheeks. The boy fell onto his bottom before the loud voice rang out, “Naruto Ichigo!”

Twilight was beginning to shake at all these things happening so soon, Twilight looked over to see the small boy before saying, “What Just happened.”

Alex picked up the boy as he said, “Stay calm kid, and no one gets hurt. We know what you are going to ask and the answer is going to be the same as it was for all of us. We have no idea where we are.”

Naruto ran his fingers through his hair before saying, “What a fall, a few seconds ago I was jumping off the edge of a cliff and fell through a black hole, next thing I know I’m here.”

Twilight slowly approached the newcomer as she said, “Yeah… we all seem to have run into a similar problem. We’ll introduce ourselves later, first we have to figure out where we are.”

Twilight nearly jumped out of her skin when the very same loud voice rang out once more, “The games shall commence in five minutes.” It was then that the man in the green tunic woke up from his sleep as he jumped off of the bench and landed flat on his face on the floor, then the man slowly got to his feet with the help of Mario and Sonic.

Alex looked towards the door as he said, “A game can never be a good thing.”

Twilight began to grow angry at whoever or whatever was the cause of this as she shouted, “A game? You call ripping ones from their lives a game? I demand to know who I… we are dealing with!”

The voice did not respond to her, instead Sonic walked up to her and said, “We’ll find out soon enough.”

The voice returned as booming as ever as it said loudly, “A new contestant has entered the game.” A hole opened up and a very bulky human wearing heavy looking armor tumbled in as the loud voice said, “Marcus Fenix!” The hole then closed behind Marcus as he was getting up.

Marcus rubbed his head as he said, “I’ve been through worse… where am I?”

Sonic began to get a little irritated as he said, “Why are they always saying that? Why can’t it ever be a hello or how do you do? We have no idea where we are!”

Fenix began to walk up to Sonic as he said, “Don’t you smart mouth me!”

Alex got in between the two as he said, “Or what? You have no weapons on you and that bulky armor makes it look like your compensating for something.”

Chief tapped Alex’s shoulder as he said, “We don’t want to be picking any fights here.”

Mario rolled his eyes as he said, “We don’t-a want fights now do we?” Link simply shouted in agreement. But the rest of the group argued.

Twilight watched the group argue until she began to get fed up and got up on one of the benches and shouted, “Alright everyone for the love of peace and harmony SHUT UP!” Twilight was surprized that she managed to get everyone’s attention and after a few seconds of silence she said, “Now what I just heard is that we are all participants in a game, now no one here has any idea what kind of game it is but no matter what kind of game it is if we stick together we can work this out right?”

Everyone began to nod in agreement before Alex piped up, “I never work in a group.”

As Alex turned around to act all mysterious like Twilight said, “So what, you’ll run the risk of losing or worse rather than have to cooperate?”

Alex slowly turned around and said in a low voice, “Fine…”

Twilight continued, “We’re all working together to solve this, we will remain in constant communication with eachother and make sure that none of us get separated from the group got it?”

The entire group nodded their heads in agreement and the loud voice rang out, “A Player has entered the game, Scorpion! A New Player has entered the game Kratos!” Suddenly two more men came out of dark holes, one dressed in yellow and black clothing while the other barely dressed at all, wearing nothing but a loincloth and boots and being covered in red tattoos.

They stared at each other as the white one said in a deep voice, “Don’t I know you from somewhere?”

The yellow one shook his head when the loud voice rang out once more, “The game shall begin… now!” Suddenly the ceiling opened up to reveal a bright light as the floor under them began to rise.

Twilight felt nervous about the games, most of the people here looked so violent except for Mario and Sonic. Sonic kneeled down beside Twilight as he said, “Just stay calm and stick with me and Mario. You’ll be safe.”

Twilight nodded her head as she said, “I hope so.”

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