Chapter 13 - Truth's Revealed

Micro had just finished explaining parts of his ability to Celestia, Luna, Twilight, and Sunset. Spike was silent, back in his human form as his friend talked.

He didn't reveal everything. The ability to get skills and items from games, some of the skills he had obtained, his training with Frida, and his loot ability. It was annoying enough getting school fundraiser notifications normally he did not want to be guilted into putting insane amounts of money in.

It wasn't that he didn't trust them. Far from it. Spike had known Celestia was a high level ability user and, while they hadn't discussed it too much, he knew Spike would've said something if she was dangerous. There were just some aspects he would rather just keep among friends.

With skills, it was namely abilities like clones and Modification. He did not want many people knowing about that since he wanted to use them to their fullest in secret. The Frida thing...obviously that needed kept secret. And finally, the reason he kept the gaming skills secret was because he didn't want them trying to police him outside of school in fear he got something too powerful.

"So that's the basic jist of it," Micro said. Those that didn't know looked at him incredulously. He sighs and continues. "Do you need me to prove it?"

Upon receiving a nod from Celestia, he pulls the billy club from his inventory, replaces it, then has Spike use a claw to try and cut his skin. Upon seeing that he didn't draw blood and that Micro was completely fine, they accepted his story.

"Well, that is an interesting ability," Celestia said. "You will most certainly go far with that. Now, we just need to establish some rules with regards to your abilities."

"Yes…" Luna started, though she seemed a bit distracted after hearing about the Gamer ability. "Well, basically they are simply not to use them to cheat, disrupt the peace of the school, or anything along those lines. Also, we know that you probably won't be able to keep them a complete secret especially if you form relationships so if you feel it is revealed to someone you can't trust to keep it secret, let us know and we can use magic to erase it. Are there any questions?"

"Actually, I have one," Micro said. "But not for either of you." He looked over at Twilight and Sunset. "Why are you two treating your friends differently? I Observed Rainbow Dash today and it said that you started acting like the others were "evil"."

The two gasped and looked at eachother. Luna looked at him and glared.

"That is a private matter that you don't need to…"

"Principal Celestia," Sunset started. "May we tell him?"

Celestia looked up at them and then back at the boys. She thought for a moment and then nodded. The two younger girls looked happy and faced the boys.

"A bit before the start of the school year, Iron Will, another ability user who was going to be the boy's gym teacher, was found attacked in the boys locker room," Twilight said.

"And the only ones at the school at the time…" Sunset continued. "Were Celestia, Luna, Twilight, myself, and the rest of our group of friends. Rainbow, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Applejack, and Fluttershy. Since the four of us were together…"

"That leaves only the other five to have attacked him," Micro ended. "What's to say something didn't come from outside the school to attack him?"

"Nothing left the school grounds," Luna said. "My sister and I set up a magical perimeter as soon as we sensed the attack. Whoever it was remained in the school and we searched high and low for anything else."

"What type of attack was it?" Spike asked. "It has to be an ability user of some kind if the victim was one."

Celestia reaches down and pulled out a folder. Handing it to the two boys, they pulled out a photo that showed a man with black hair, a blue muscle shirt, and black athletic shorts on. What caught Micro's attention the most though was the fact that he had two large horns sprouting from his head and his legs looked bovine like. Almost like….

"He was a Minotaur!?"

"Indeed," Celestia smirked a little. It was always interesting seeing a new ability user react to the more unique ones.

"You have got to be kidding me…" Spike said worriedly. When Micro looked over, his friend was pointing at two small puncture marks in Iron Will's neck. "There's a vampire in the school?!"

"And they nearly drained him dry," Celestia stayed. "If we had not sensed the attack, they would have. So my sister and I asked Twilight and Sunset to investigate."

"Yes," Twilight said. "That is sadly why Sunset and I became alienated from our friends. We were trying to determine which one was the culprit and well…"

"We started acting a bit too suspicious of them and they found out we were suspecting them of attacking him," Sunset said. "They don't know about the vampire part of it but still."

"Why don't you just tell them about the ability users?" Spike asked. "You seem to trust them enough."

"If we did out the ability user," Twilight responded. "They might decide to stop hiding and it might put the rest of our friends at risk…" She started tearing up. One of her friends attacks innocents. She knew them for years, and to find out one of them isn't what she thought they were.

"Isn't there ways to reveal that someone is a vampire though? Garlic, reflections, sunlight, running water…"

"That's the thing," Twilight responded. "Those are traditionally the weaknesses of vampires, but none of them apply to our friends. Nothing seems to point to them but they are the only ones that could've done it!"

Something nagged at the back of Micro's mind. He couldn't quite place it but something was bugging him about…

"Lv64…" he muttered. "Lady of the Forest and Night!"

"What!?" Sunset cries. "Did your ability tell you something?"

"I haven't used Observe on her yet," Micro said. "But I did see her level and title…" he went pale a bit at that. "And I have a date with her on Saturday!"

About ten minutes later, the pair left the office. After the reveal that it might've been Fluttershy, the group decided to pay close attention to her. Micro would still go on the date with her, but Spike, Twilight and Sunset would be tracking him and keeping a close eye on things to make sure he was ok.

"The first date of my high school life and it becomes a sting operation for a vampire," Micro sighed. "What the heck has my life become?"

Before he could continue, Micro saw the world around him shatter.

"Wha…" He turned and saw Spike looking at him concerned. "What's wrong Spike?"

"What's wrong?" Spike said, a touch of anger in his voice. "We now have six people who you barely know with knowledge of our abilities as well as another who is suspicious of us!"

Micro reeled back, the reminder of Scootaloo making him cringe.

"Celestia and Luna would've made us tell them anyway. Not to mention when you talked about Celestia you didn't seem frightened…"

"And Scootaloo?"

"If she does look into it more Celestia can just…"

"Frida and Zecora?!"

"Well...we were trying to do the right thing and…"

"You aren't being careful enough!" Spike growled. "And on top of that why did you make it a point to tell them about me!? My mom and I are two of the few good Draco Kins out there. You saw Luna's reaction! There's a reason for that!"

"Well…" Micro didn't know what to say. He figure that Celestia and the others could be trusted, but…

"Look," Spike said, seeming to calm down. "I know that we have had good luck so far with who has found out, and with Celestia and then we would've had to reveal our abilities to them anyway. But there are some dark forces out there Micro, who will try to hurt people like us under the belief that we are demons, or use us for other purposes. Just… try to be more careful?"

Micro was silent for a bit, Gamer's Mind the only thing keeping him from tearing up in shame. He nodded eventually.

"I'm sorry Spike...I didn't…" his friend put a hand on his shoulder.

"I get it man. Just think about it from now on ok?"

"Yeah man, I get it."

"Good!" Spike said and they ducked into the janitors closet to exit the dungeon. They checked to make sure no one was in the hall outside and exited. "So, you want to message Sugar so we can do that Event Dungeon?"

"Sounds like a plan man," Micro smiles, happy they were still friends.

Ten minutes later

'Who the heck gives detention on the first day of school?!' Scootaloo raged to herself as she walked through the hall. 'Not to mention Applebloom had to leave with her sister to help at the orchard and Sweetie had to go with Rarity! I'm now alone!'

"So any idea what this dungeon is going to be?" Sugar's voice reaches her. It was coming from a nearby boy's restroom.

'Huh? Why are they here?' She debated with herself but decided to forget her brief embarrassment of going into the boy's restroom and quietly cracked the door open.

"Not really," Micro said as he leaned on a sink. "But how hard can it be?"

"Remember the Legion Zombie?" Spike said. "Micro nodded as if to concede the point.

'Legion Zombie?' Scoots wondered.

"Well I'm in," Spike said at last.

"Fine…" Sugar said reluctantly.

"Good! In that case…" he made like he was hitting a button and Scootaloo felt something in the air. Without really thinking about what she was doing, she ran in and leapt at Micro, who looked up in shock.

Just then, the world seemed to shatter. When it reformed, Scootaloo landed on top of the boy with a grunt. They fell to the ground with her straddling his stomach and looking down at him in triumph.

"Whatever it is you are up to you can't deny it now!"

"Spike...remember the talk about us being careful?" Spike just sighs in response. "Well at least I tried!"

"Micro…" Sugar started. "Where are we?"

Scootaloo and Micro both looked up and around at their surroundings. It looked...really fake. Like ancient computer game fake. The walls were just pure grey bricks with a couple windows and bright yellow doors leading to what looked like outside. Halls lead away to the right and left. There was also one straight ahead, but it was blocked by a figure.

The man's legs were just two blue sticks ending in brown blocks for shoes. His torso was column shaped and had two stick like arms all covered in a green "shirt". His hands were thin and lanky. Finally, there was his head. It was just a Caucasian colored sphere on a short column of a neck. On it were two googly eyes, a raindrop shaped nose, and a thing mouth with red lips.

"Oh, hi," the man said in a weird voice. "Welcome to my schoolhouse." Micro saw the man and went wide eyed, realizing why the event dungeon name sounded familiar.

{Written by Twistedphoenix1}

{Edited by SpedaHooves/KenKanekiTheCat/Me}