"I still can‘t believe we haven't had hacker troubles in these few months." Flame Girl says.

"Ya your right Flamey, it‘s kinda weird though." Alpha said.

"What does thou mean sir Alpha? Surely you don‘t feel glad that none of those vile hackers are destroying any part of this wonderful world?" Nylocke says in all his role playing splendor.

"Well as long as we don‘t see any more of those ass hats again, I don‘t care myself." Kirbopher ads.

"Hm." The dark and mysterious Gamecrazed says.

"Why do all of you look so down?" Everybody turns to face the speaker. "Oh, I guess you just missed a hacker so much." He laughed

"Who are you? Because I would like to at least know the name of who's ass I’m going to beat." Kirbopher say's while drawing his sword ready to fight.

"Oh I’m sorry, how careless of me. My name is Avenborn." He says.

"Wow, he actually looks cool in my opinion." Alpha say's looking over the anthro griffin. He has a dragon skull looking helmet, without the muzzle, with some white feather's sticking out of the sides, green eyes in the helmets holes followed by a menacing looking beak. The same dragon boned themed armor with some brown fur showing from some of the joints and wrists. His claws have many battle scars and what look like burn marks on them, a spiked tail looking like a lance at the end. To top it off, he had a special wind spear that the characters saw was the legendary spear Gungnir with some kind of writing on its side.

"Wha-what!? How the hell do you have Gungnir? I thought that you could only get it from a defeating a legendary wind dragon?" Kirb yells at Avenborn.

"That is right young squire, how doth thou haveth thine legendary spear, asks I," Nylocke jumps in the air and yells "NYLOCKE DRAGON MASTER OF QUESTIONING!"

"Oh doesn't the cool armor give any slightest hint? And no, how I got this was not with hacks, I got them legitimately, but I had to kinda hack some things to help." Aven say's while motioning to his armor and weapon.

"NO!" Alpha yells out figuring it out. "But that's impossible, it was way too strong even for the five of us put together! The hacks that I would think you would use is level hacks but even then..." Alpha trail's off

"Sure he was a pain in thine royal ass but now I can finally say it, I’ve waited since my first log in and I can finally say it! I’m so excited!" He says getting all giddy like a little kid on Christmas day.

"No, we already ha-" Kirb tries to object but was completely ignored.

"I am," He slams his spear in the ground and jumps and screams with as much joy as possible. "AVERBORNE GRIFFIN MASTER OF DRAGON SLAYING!!!" He lands and starts jumping in place very happily.

"I can’t believe it, I just can’t believe it." Kirb says while facepalming

"I’m kinda glad that he achieved his dream because he seems like he was trying to defeat all of the dragon monsters, well even if he used hacks." Flame says.

"Well even though I would love to tell you all about my many adventures of epic proportions I’m going to have to beat you five here and now." Aven says while getting into a battle stance.

"Well maybe after we beat you, then we'll talk. That sounds good?" Alpha asks setting up the grid to fight.

"Sounds good with me." Aven says.
BATTLE ON!

Alpha opens up with a Zeus rage, a fast lightning attack with pin point accuracy. Aven blocks it with one of his wings and swings his spear, causing a mini tornado to form, but was blocked by one of Gamecrazed dark bombs. Kirb follows with a three slash combination of ice knives, Dust Tornado, and Shockwave . A bunch of ice shards, a mini tornado, and a small force of wind flow out of his sword with each slash towards the anthro griffin. Aven charges his Jump attack, at the last second he jumps high in the air, avoiding the attacks and points his spear down. Kirb gets grabbed by Gamecrazed Black Hand attack and transported him out of the way when Aven slammed into the ground. Aven then flapped both of his wings, sending forth a torrent of razor sharp feather straight towards them. Nylocke and Flame Girl both attack using both Stalagmite Storm and Angry Burst, a combination of towering ice spikes and a giant flame thrower to block the attack. Aven charged at Alpha, who guarded with his Orion Shield . After a few slashes and stabs, Alpha threw his shield at him like a Chakram, but was easily dodged. Aven then swung his spear again, but created a huge tornado which sucked everyone but Gamecrazed in, and flung them all a few yards away. Gamecrazed slashed at Aven's back which connected, but did little other than create a slash mark on his dragon bone armor. Aven smirks at this.

"Oh come now, I fought legendary dragons. You think a simple attack like that would do anything?" He says while slamming the butt of his spear into Gamecrazed, sending him flying.
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The grid was gone, but all the players were still fighting with all their might. They were all heavily exhausted, but Aven and Alpha seem to be handling fatigue the most while the others are either on the ground panting or leaning on something to keep their balance.

"Ok, time to throw out the rule book. Time to end this." Alpha says while a strange black and white static field with some strange yellow symbols in it formed around him.

"I couldn't agree more." Aven starts to emit a blue aura around him and his armor starts glowing the same color. They both starts to charge at each other screaming their strongest attacks.

“VULCAN FIST!"

“DRAGON SPEAR!”

Alpha's fist was incased in a red aura that could destroy a mountain, while Aven’s spear was thrust forward which exploded into a giant blue dragon. They both collided, neither giving an inch until something started to go wrong.

"What the hell is that noise?" Kirb asks with enough worry to make anyone feel like something really bad is going to happen.

"EVERYBODY LOOK OVER THERE!" Flame Girl yells, pointing towards where both Alpha and Aven were. What they saw shocked them all to their cores.

"WHAT IN THE HELL IS THAT?!?" Kirb yells

In the middle of both of them was a giant bright light that seemed to start sucking everything inside of it.

"OH NO," Gamecrazed yells "I'm not sure what that vacuum will do, but nothing can get out of its suction, not even me!" He tells everybody.

"Then what would happen to the game?" Kirb yells. "It's not like if we go the game will be spared!" He yells.

'Alpha' A strange voice say's inside Alpha's said.

"What do you want? I’m kinda in the middle of something here." He replies back to the voice.

'Tell your friends that if you all get sucked in, everyone else will be fine.' The voice says in its ominous echo.

"Well that's oddly specific," Alpha deadpans. He yells out, "EVERYONE, IF WE ALL GET SUCKED INTO THE BLACK HOLE, EVERY THING WILL BE FINE!"

"OH HE-" Kirb starts to say, but was cut off by Gamecrazed

"ITS THE ONLY WAY KIRBOPHER, I'LL GO FIRST!" Gamecrazed yells as he lets go of the the boulder he was holding on to as he was sucked into the black hole.

"SIR GAMECRAZED, NO I’M COMING FOR YOU! FOR I," Nylocke yells as he jumps into the black hole "'NYLOCKE DRAGON MASTER OF RESCUING, WILL SAVE YOU!" As he gets sucked in as well.

"This isn't happening, this isn't happening." Kirb keeps saying because he still thinks this is a load of bull crap.

"KIRB!" Alpha yells."Just trust me ok." He throws him a confident smile Kirbopher‘s way to give him the courage he needs.

"If this kills me, I’m going to haunt you. You know that?" He says as he lets go of his own boulder.

"I wouldn't have it any other way." He says as he sees Kirb go into the portal. "Flamey, it’s your turn now. Don’t worry we'll be close behind you, ok?" He says to her.

"Yeah well, see you on the other side, I hope." She lets go and falls into the black hole as well.

"Well, time to see where this rabbit hole goes to, eh Alpha?" Aven says.

"Yeah, let’s go see if they’re still ok. And you owe me a good story, you know that right?" Alpha says with one final smile.

"Yep, I will, and I'll make it a damn good one at that." Aven says with his own smile, and they both get sucked in and black out
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"Ugh...what happened?" Alpha groaned.

"Well if it isn't sleeping beauty. I was kinda worried Flamey would have to kiss you or something, I don’t know." Kirbopher said.

"WHAT!?!" Both Alpha and Flamey ask at the same time, while both their faces are beet read.

"How about we stop bickering, and figure out where we are." Gamecrazed suggests.

"I agree with Sir Gamecrazed, this doth not look like the woods in TOME." Nylocke says. "Maybe Sir Aven might know, even a foul hacker like he might know a thing or two?" Nylocke adds while looking over to Aven.

"On it." Aven say's as he starts to bring up two strange screens with a lot of codes on them. "Let's see now, search.exe, format:where are we?" Aven says while filing through all the codes and numbers with his two screens.

A sudden beeping noise started coming from Aven's screens. "What the hell's wrong with this? I can’t hack..." He gasps. "ANYTHING!" He shouts which causes the others to cock their heads to their sides.

"What do you mean, Aven?" Alpha asks with concern in his voice.

"I mean I can’t hack into anything, here look." He turns the screens with his claws. "You see the tab 'hacks'?" Everybody nods. "Well the way we hackers work is when we have the codes of let’s say, Nylocke’s sword for instance, we could actually change the abilities and components of the sword. So instead of ice, it turns to fire, you get me?" They all nod with wonder at how hacking actually works.

"So what's wrong, our hacking guru?" Kirbopher asks resting both his hands behind his head.

"There are no codes here at all." They all look at Aven like he's crazy."I'm not joking. Here, if I open the tab," He says while opening the tab. "Nothing's there, not even on any of us." Aven scratches his head. "This has never happened before, and I only had a level hack and some weapon elemental hacks, but that's it. I mean, I wanted to stay legit with my playing, oh god." Aven says while closing his screens.

"So, what your saying is you have no idea where we are?" Flamegirl asks.

"No, sadly." Aven says while starting to lower his head.
*SNAP*

He then shoots his head up when he hears a twig snap, and looks over to see something that not even TOME could prepare him for.

"Umm...hi." A lavender colored unicorn says sheepishly.

"Umm...is it just me our did a frigging horse just talk?" Kirb says will looking at the purple horse.

"I’m a pony, thank you very much." The lavender unicorn says. "But my name is Twili-" She starts to say as a cyan Pegasus dashes forward.

"Why are you even talking to these weird things, Twilight?" Says the cyan pony.

"Yeah, says the 'pony' that looks like it’s out of a five-year old girl’s T.V. show." Kirb says, irritated by the new comer.

"Who are you calling 'girly' punk, you trying to pick a fight with me?" The pegasus challenges.

"Oh ho ho, you really want to fight me, huh? Well, bring it." Kirb says while getting his sword out.

"What in the hay is goin' on here?" A orange earth pony with a strong southern accent says, while charging through some foliage with a butter yellow pegasus, a snow white unicorn, and a way too pink earth pony.

"Hold on young squire, let us at least talk before any kind of violence, for I," Nylocke jumps in the air and yells."NYLOCKE DRAGON OF CONVERSATIONS!" As he lands he continues."We should start with thine names. My name is Sir Nylocke, my allies here are Sir Alpha," Alpha waves.

"Lady Flamegirl." Flamey waves with a warm smile

"Squire Kirbopher." Kirb just puts his sword away.

"Sir Gamecrazed." Gamecrazed just nods.

"And Sir Avenborn." Aven stands up and bows

"Well, I am Twilight Sparkle, and my friends right here are Applejack." She says, while pointing a hoof at the orange farm pony who tips her hat in greeting.

"Howdy."

"Next is Rarity." She points at the white unicorn.

"Charmed, I’m sure." She says while bowing herself.

"Next is Fluttershy, who seems to be getting to know...uh Gamecrazed, right?" She says while pointing towards the yellow pony talking to the shadow elemental.

"The pegasus that wanted to get in a fight is Rainbow Dash." She says. Kirb chuckles a bit which makes Rainbow charge at him.

"What's so funny, huh?" She yells at the young swordsman.

"It’s just a little funny and cute to know your name is Rainbow Dash." He says which causes her to blush and turn away.

"And finally we have-" She was saying until a big pink blur started to bounce around the new comers.

"WOULDYOULOOKATTHISTHISONEHASWINGSBUTSODOESTHISONETHISONEHASWEIRDBUTTONSONHISBODYTHISONEISAGRIFFINANDTHISONEISGREYAND-." The very hyper pink pony stops, as her mouth is zipped by some magical force and she’s pulled away from them.

"Sorry about that," Twilight laughs sheepishly. "But this is Pinkie Pie." She says while unzipping her mouth.

"Sorry about that, I’m just really happy that I got to meet you. Now I have to throw you all a party, I’ll be right back." She says as she disappears in a pink puff of smoke.

"Uuuuhhhhhh..." Alpha tries to say, but Twilight cuts him off.

"Trust me, you don’t want to know. I still don’t understand her, sometimes." Alpha nods

"Come on guys, were moving out." Alpha calls out.

"Well, this is going to be fun." Aven calls out smiling