My Minecraft Pony

Chapter 1: The Ultamite Show-Stopper

Twilight

"Show starts in five minutes, guys!"
Spike ran excitedly from the front of the stage, peeking from behind the closed curtains, over to where me and some of the other ponies in the play were rehearsing their lines. I couldn't help smiling at his excitement.
The time of year had come again, and we were all getting ready to perform in this year's Heart's Warming Eve play. (The first year we had done the play, everyone loved it, so we did it again!)
I was dressed in my costume for the play; a plain, raggedy brown cloak. I was playing Clover the Clever, the servant of the leader of the Unicorn Tribe, Princess Platinum (played by my friend Rarity).
It felt weird having my wings covered by the cloak. Clover was a unicorn, but good thing my wings were hidden so I could play a better, non-alicorn Clover the Clever!
"Looking good, Clover!"
Rainbow Dash was trotting in my direction, her costume on, too. She was playing the leader of the Pegasus Tribe, Commander Hurricane, complete with dark, steely armor and a war helmet.
"Same to you, Hurricane!" I called back and smiled.
"I am so NERVICITED!" Pinkie Pie cheered, bouncing up to us. With her giant pudding-shaped hat and old-fashioned dress clothes, she played the leader of the Earth Pony Tribe, Chancellor Puddinghead.
"Where's Rarity?" someone asked behind me. I turned and saw Applejack, in a costume similar to Pinkie's as Smart Cookie, followed by Fluttershy, in a gray dress and hat as Private Pansy, making their way through a crowd of excited ponies who were playing as background characters.
"Probably just adding another pound of makeup or so," Rainbow said with a glance over to the closed door of the dressing room where we had all gotten in costume-Rarity was still in there.
"She does know that the stage crew is here to help us with our clothes and makeup and stuff-right?" I asked skeptically. Princess Platinum was one of the few ponies in the play who would probably need makeup-to pull off a greedy unicorn princess look, that is. Most of the ponies, including me, were playing peasants. Peasants don't normally wear makeup...
"Do you think we should go check on her?" Fluttershy asked with concern.
"No, she'll be-"
I didn't finish my sentence as the door slammed open.
"TA-DAA!"
Everyone gaped at Rarity as she stepped out from the dressing room, and Spike nearly fainted (news flash: he has a crush on Rarity.)
She had added many extra gems and sparkles to her Princess Platinum costume. The large silver crown she wore was studded with many new jewels, and her deep purple cape was shimmering as though she had washed it in a tub of glitter.
Which she might have, actually...
"...wwwwwWWOW! That's SOOO SPARKLY!" Pinkie cheered.
Rarity grinned and made her way towards us. Ponies stared at her in bewilderment as she passed.
"Why thank you, darling! I've decided to spruce up the Princess Platinum look a little!"
"A little?" Applejack muttered, earning a glare from Rarity.
"Yes, and these are all genuine gems from my personal stock on the crown!" she continued. "If you want, I could help spruce up any of your costumes, too!" She glanced around at all of us, and I pictured walking on stage with various gemstones weaved through my raggedy Clover the Clever cloak.
"No thanks," Rainbow told her, trying hard to keep her tone polite (but failing).
"One minute 'till showtime," somepony called out.
"Aaanyway. We should go prepare for the opening act," I told everypony. They nodded, and we all went off to our places.
I could hear the crowd's excited chattering on the other side of the curtains.
I took a deep breath as the curtains slowly rose, and Spike walked out on stage, reciting his lines as the narrator in his funny, old-fashioned costume. Soon he would be done talking, and we would start performing.
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The play was going well so far. We were up to the scene where the leaders from all three tribes held a meeting to discuss the close-coming winter.
"We Pegasi control the weather! We should get more food!"
"We earth ponies grow the food! We should keep what we have!"
"We unicorns raise the sun and the moon! Surely we should get the majority of the food!"
Rarity, Rainbow and Pinkie were great actors, I had to admit. I watched from in the background as Rarity-Princess Platinum, raised her hoof and slammed it down on the table the three ponies stood around in frustration.
Suddenly, a red beam of light shot out of a large ruby on the front of her crown. There were anxious murmurs from the crowd. Rarity looked up at it in surprise for a moment, then remembered she was in the middle of a line, and continued her speech hurriedly. But she never got to finish her line- for at that moment, the red light beam seemed to create a hologram of a tall figure, then stopped shining abruptly.
But the hologram didn't fade.
It became real, and I instantly realized who it was when he turned his face to us, his back to the anxious, muttering crowd, with a wicked smile.
An amulet with a red gem.
A plain blue shirt with darker pants.
Glowing white eyes.
Herobrine?!
He let out a cackling laugh, and tossed the amulet off his neck into the air.
In midair the amulet seemed to flatten out and become a large black circle, a large black circle that began to pull us in through some strange magic force.
Everyone seemed to realize this wasn't part of the act; I heard somepony in the crowd scream.
I galloped forward to where Rarity, Rainbow, Pinkie and Herobrine stood in the front of the stage with his portal, followed by Applejack and Fluttershy. Everypony else, on or off stage, were running for their lives and screaming.
"Get away!" I screeched at Herobrine, and tried to shove Rarity away from the portal.
Herobrine's eyes narrowed, making his evil smile even worse, and as if on cue, the portal seemed to pull us in even harder. Within seconds the six of us were all lifted off our hooves and through Herobrine's portal.