I'm back! I had a great holiday with my mate. Whilst on holiday, he became incredibly addicted to a certain game, one that I'm writing about. His insatiable addiction allowed me to come up with this stupid idea.
If you dislike this idea or think it sucks, just message me on fimfiction. I can rehaul the chapter/write a different story about something else.
Anyway, on with the story!
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"Lalala!" Fluttershy trilled emphatically. She had always been enthusiastic about cleaning, and now was no exception. As she daintily waltzed her way around her cottage dusting shelves and primping up the area, Angel just looked over at her with a look of general distaste and disinterest. With a heaving sigh, Angel rotated around and plodded off to her bed, fed up.
All of a sudden, a knock echoed from Fluttershy's door and resonated around Fluttershy's cottage inexplicably loudly, a knock that surprised Fluttershy beyond belief. She jumped where she stood and couldn't stop herself accidentally letting a gentle but frail squeak from escaping her mouth. This wasn't right: almost no-one came to her cottage, so who could it be..?
With her back hooves quivering a little in fright, Fluttershy softly padded towards her door and reached out a shaking hoof to the handle. Opening it a crack, Fluttershy peeked round the edge of the door nervously to check what stood in front of her.
A few brief seconds later, Fluttershy forced her eyes open so she could see what stood at her door; what she saw surprised her no end - it was Derpy!
"Hey Fluttershy!" Derpy awkwardly announced in her oddly out of place but strangely familiar voice. "I've got a package to deliver you from DerpyMail!"
Fluttershy prised the door open and greeted Derpy with a smile. She couldn't help but admire Derpy for the way she remained strong and enthusiastic, despite all the torture and discrimination she had witnessed throughout her life.
"Oh, Umm, thank you..." Fluttershy softly commented, ensuring she was being polite to Derpy at all times. She was a pony of morals, even if she was shockingly timid.
Derpy rummaged through her mailbag until she clasped her hooves on a solid package. Fluttershy watched as the aforementioned package rose through the piles of letters and was handed over to her. With a grateful nod and another notion of thanks, Fluttershy accepted the package into her own hooves.
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Closing the door behind her deftly, Fluttershy plopped the mysterious package onto the floor. It was about the size of one of Twilight's magic books and weighed a similar quantity as well. Perhaps Twilight had sent her something to read?
Fluttershy gently put the package down on her table with the intentions of not opening it until tonight. Eventually though, curiosity overwhelmed Fluttershy: she had to open this package and discover the goods that were tucked neatly inside.
After a minute or two of extensive struggling with the unnecessarily thick packaging, Fluttershy had fought her way into her gift. However, there was a problem with this anonymous present: what in the hay was it?
It was... a block. A blue one, to be exact. There were pushable things on the front that hooves could manipulate (With great difficulty...), a screen towards the top and a removable object that fitted perfectly into the provided slot. The odd object was scribed with the word "Tetris".
Now Fluttershy had never been this confused in her life. What in Equestria was this... thing? What in the hay does "Tetris" mean?
There was only one solution: ask Twilight! She was a clever pony; there was no doubt that she would have a conclusion to come to over this mysterious object.
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"What in the name of Celestia is that?" Twilight queried. Fluttershy could do nothing but inwardly sigh, ensuring that Twilight didn't notice. Twilight knew nothing about it and her intellect was unparalleled in Ponyville! However was Fluttershy going to find out what the chunk of mechanical engineering was?
"Sorry Fluttershy, but there is no way I could tell you what that is. I guess you'll have to discover it on your own..." Twilight stated boldly before slipping into a sigh. Twilight loved helping her friends, and failing to do so depressed her a little: she felt like a complete failure.
Fluttershy picked up on her friend's attitude and was quick to react. "Oh no, it's okay! I'll find out myself." She reassured Twilight whilst wearing her most convincing beam, causing Twilight to smile as Fluttershy departed Twilight's library.
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With a thick sigh, Fluttershy lay down the object softly on the floor of her cottage and started at it for a while. Just then though, Fluttershy saw something, something she had missed previously. Above the screen was the text "Game boy Colour". After putting two and two together, the imminent conclusion that Fluttershy came to was that the name of this object was Game boy Colour.
This new revelation sparked something in Fluttershy - there must be something she missed. Fluttershy picked up the Game boy Colour and rotated it slowly in her hooves, inspecting every crevice. It was a comfortable thing to hold; almost as if it was designed to be hold in such a way. It wasn't long before Fluttershy discovered a precarious slider. It's existence was enough to cause the now insatiably curious Fluttershy to flick it up without thinking.
Instantaneously, Fluttershy was engulfed in a brilliantly bright light. To boot, the Game boy Colour was beeping constantly. The screen flickered on and the word "Tetris" rose onto it in all its majesty. Fluttershy was in awe at the machine that worked in front of her.
In a few seconds Fluttershy figured out that the pressable things on the front controlled the Game boy Colour. It wasn't long before Fluttershy begun her first game of Tetris. First maybe, but definitely not last. She liked this game; the self-satisfaction given from it was amazing. All she had to do now was learn how to do it all correctly and discover which button controlled what.
All the colourful shapes enticed Fluttershy - each different shape had been assigned a certain colour: this allowed Fluttershy to quickly pick up on each shapes distinguishing characteristics. The shapes fell at a gentle and controllable pace, before touching the bottom of the screen and clicking into place.
It was late, Fluttershy knew, but she was engrossed in "Tetris". Sleep wasn't an option: Tetris all night was already a unanimous winner in Fluttershy's mind.
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The Game boy Colour seemed like a good discovery to Fluttershy at present, but little did she know of the destruction and chaos it would cause her and everything around her in the very near future.
Only time would tell what would happen to Fluttershy and her surroundings.
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If you did read this, thanks! Constructive criticism is welcomed with wide forehooves.
I will be writing the next chapter over the course of the weekend, so expect it then.
-FluttershyAllTheWay