//------------------------------// // Chapter one: Strange new things // Story: Arby 'n' The Chief // by ColoradoBlueJay //------------------------------// Arby ‘n’ The Chief Luna walked through the ever long hallways of the mountain side castle. The morning sun was rising and her night shift was over. A few squads of solar guards marched passed her, only nodding to pay respect. The sun’s rays peered slightly between the glass window above and reflected off the guard’s armor and straight into her eyes. She grimaced at the pain the light brought her, but continued her journey to her private chambers, so she may seclude herself from the blinding light of the sun. Rounding a corner she found the dark blue doors, along with two of her personal guards standing still as ever. She nodded to them, but they knew what that meant, break. She opened the door and trotted inside. She cracked her neck, making small popping sounds. Her eyes opened to see four peculiar objects lying on the marble floors. She picked up a smaller item of the bunch with her magical capabilities, but it fell to the ground making a clattering sound on the floor. This time she picked it up with her hooves and thoroughly inspected the black object. There was a green X in the middle of a silver field, spanding to four area’s of the circle. She fiddled with the two platforms sticking out from the base of it. Curious of the silver circle again she pressed down on it with the tip of her hoof. Then green spinning fourth circles danced around the silver one. It soon stopped and nothing happened. She placed it back down, and looked over to the other objects. There was a glass stand that held a large black screen device and three smaller objects. One resembled a flat rectangle with many rubber buttons covering it. The next however was more of a cube and had very odd angles to it. Another silver circle was on it, and it had a small cable jutting out from it. After inspecting the cable she retrieved the object from earlier and looked between the two. She connected the two objects but nothing happened. She looked back to the bigger black box and pressed the silver circle. It chimed, making Luna jump a little. She tried picking up the oddly shaped object with her magic once more. Nothing happened, so she pulled a brown leather tome from the shelf from across the room. “Spells and magic resistant materials.” She said aloud trying her best to speak normal equestrian. She flipped through the pages and found what she was looking for. “Plastic, one of the most resistant materials known to pony kind.” she said, and smiled for saying it perfectly this time. She started a chant to activate the spell. All the objects glowed blue. Once the trance was complete, she took hold of the alien objects and fiddled with them even more. This time she took hold of the small black rectangle. It had numerous amounts of numbers, letters, and symbols. She looked it over and pressed down on a red button. The screen came to life filling the screen with a multitude of colors. “Wow.” is all she said before a little icon popped up on the screen. “Some pony wants me to join a party. Interesting.” Before the icon vanished she took note of the small green X on the silver field. She pressed down on it and it pulled up a screen. A tab highlighted in green read ‘Join party.’ Looking down to the left she saw an A icon for OK. She looked at the controller and pressed the green A. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arby sat on the cold counter top of Jon’s apartment in Canada. He sat in between a half full shot glass filled with Jon’s whiskey and the whiskey bottle itself. In the background he could hear Chief playing halo and bad mouthing other players. Greg crawled into the room as he would usally given that he’s a spider. He pulled out his yellow sticky notes and began to write with the black sharpie marker. “What’s wrong?” “Hello Greg. There’s nothing wrong I’ve just been thinking, that's all." “You sure? :(" “Yes, thank you.” Greg crawled out of the kitchen, while the Arby sat and thought. "Is my life all a lie? Or am I destined for-" His thought process was cut short when Chief came into the room. He made his way up the front of the stove using duct tape that was attached to his arms and legs. Once up he hit the Arbiter on the back of his head, and he placed his hands at his hips looking down at his drunken companion. “Oww. What the hell was that for?"he said looking back at the Chief who was looking down at him. “For being such a pussy bitch. Rofl. You should come play haloz with me." “Fine." Arby said getting to his feet. ">:D" Chief made his way back down while Arby just lazily took the side shelves to go play halo. Once down Arby made his way to the black leather seat. They both got comfortable and started playing matchmaking. Chief went on with his usual slander against other players, while he just played the game for it’s intentional purpose. He paced his shots with the DMR, successfully killing the other player who had begun to rage quit yelling at the Arbiter. Chief interrupted the furiated players fit. “Lol U has no skill. U got ur a$$ woopd by teh worst Hal0 player in teh worldz. Trolololololol fagotz." “Oh yeah well you’re just... just... just a fagget.” retorted the young boy in the microphone. “No you are. Lol. :)“ The Chief and the little boy continued to call each other names. But the Arbiter zoned out completely. Flashbacks hit him without remorse. The wedding he and the Chief crashed possibly ruining Clare’s life. He wondered how she was holding up, since he hasn’t heard from her since the whole hacking clan was brought down. His state was stopped by the notification tab popped up on the screen. “Looks like your girlfriend is online." Arby pressed the guide button opening a new page, that got Chief killed. He in turn threw the controller off his lap and walked to the kitchen. “Clare." Arby thought before pressing the send button.