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"Button...Wake up."
"Hnnng... just five more minutes..." he groaned.
The mare sighed, “Button Mash if you do not wake this instant, no video games for two weeks!”
Eight-year-old Button Mash bolted awake from his peaceful slumber. “I’M UP, I’M UP!” he grumbled. “Ugh, what day is it?” Button rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and stretched his stiff, tired limbs. “Why’d you wake me up so early?”
"It’s Monday, in other words the first day of school," Milano informed him as she walks towards the door. "So come on, get out of bed and come downstairs." She turned and looked at her son with a warm smile. "I made pancakes."
Button Mash gasped in excitement and hopped off the bed, careful not to run into the stack of unopened boxes. "Huh, probably should hook up my game systems when I return home." He looked around his new room with a smile, a nice medium size room that was just for him. No longer would he have to share a room with his older brother, a much needed improvement from their apartment in Baltimare. "Okay, Button, a new town means new adventures." He put on his lucky propeller hat before he headed downstairs where his pancakes were waiting to be devoured. "Hey mom, where's dad?" he wondered while stuffing his face with pancakes.
"Oh, he's meeting with Mayor Mare about some building ideas he had for the town." She gave her son a lunchbox. "Now run along or you'll be late for school."
"Okay!" he replied, swallowing his pancakes with a glass of orange juice in one gobble. He grabbed his lunchbox as he rushed outside, "Bye mom!” he yelled as he ran past his mother who was unpacking pictures in their living room.
"Bye sweetie, and have a wonderful day."
It was a nice day in the town of Ponyville as Princess Celestia's sun shined brightly in the sky. The inhabitants of the small town were going about their daily lives without a care in the world. "Man, it sure is nice here," Button thought while looking around the town. "I wonder if the ponies at my new school are nice too?" he wondered to himself as he sees a schoolhouse coming into view. "That must be it!" He rushed towards the building, eager to begin his new life in Ponyville when-
*WHAM*
-he collided with another classmate. "Oh man, I'm so sorry!" Button Mash quickly apologized as he helped his fellow classmate up. "I wasn't watching where I going and- and-" He started to tearing up, curling his lip in panic.
"Ugh, it’s okay, really,” the pale-blue pegasus replied as he got up, shaking the dust off his coat. He took one good look at Button and noticed the water in his eyes. “There's no need to cry, honest!" he said as he put a comforting hoof on Button’s shoulder, trying to calm him down. "My name’s Rumble, what's yours?"
"M-my na-names Button Mash," the brown colt sniffled. "I just moved here from Baltimare."
Rumble pats Button on the back. "See? It’s all good Button. I just moved here from Cloudsdale." His face lit up with in idea. "Hey Button since you moved here and I moved here..." he shuffled his hoof on the ground timidly. "D-do you want to be friends?"
Button Mash quickly grabbed Rumble and gave him a hug. "Yeah, let’s be friends," he answered, almost crushing Rumble’s ribs. Rumble freed himself from Button Mash's bear hug and simply held his hoof out.
"Okay, then lets make it official," he gasped breathlessly, still smiling.
Button Mash looked at his hoof then back to Rumble. "Yeah, let’s." They brohoofed in acceptance of their new found friendship, Button Mash smiled at his new pegasus friend. "We'll be friends forever Rumble. I just know it!”
"Ugh, my head," Button Mash groggily sat up, rubbing his aching head. "I feel like a got hit with a cart made of carts." He crawled out of the mattress he was on, his head still throbbing. “Where am I?” he wondered as he looked around his room. It was a bare stone room, as small as Silver Song’s hut, but more spacious since it was empty. All Button saw was a fancy silk bed, a wooden door and a window. “I bet I could get an idea by seeing the outside,” Button said, walking up to the window. He opened it and stuck his head out, seeing the ocean in the horizon and a sandy beach closeby. “Oh yeah,” Button remembered, “I asked Golden Heart to drop me off at the beach. Still doesn’t explain how I got here, though.” He sighed and looked around. The only other object of interest was the door. “There’s no use standing around here.” The colt made his way to the door and put his hoof on the doorknob. “Please don’t be a trap…” Button silently prayed before opening the door. To his surprise, the door only led to a hallway.
The hero of Green Village stuck his head out of the doorway, looking left and right only to find that there were no guards at all. “Huh, that’s weird,” Button muttered to himself as he walked out of the room. The stone hallway was empty, save for the grand door that lay at the end. “I have a really bad feeling about this.” Button walked to the end of the hallway and went past the other door, bringing him to some sort of chamber.
The chamber was luxuriously decorated, in contrast to what Button had gotten accustomed to seeing dull, barely decorated rooms. Lined up on each wall, black suits of armor were stationed on guard, standing at attention with a spear by their side. Normally, Button would have been afraid but upon closer inspection, he noticed they were empty; merely decorative. The banners of Codex hung in the interval between each suit of armor with a window both left and right of the banners. Going down the middle of the room, a red, velvety carpet with ornately decorated gold trimming ran across to the other side of the room, ending at a fancy-looking throne with unicorn sitting- wait, what?
Button stared at the brown mare elegantly seated on the throne, her long crimson mane flowing down her body and her scarlet eyes looking at him rather eagerly. “Greetings, Button Mash!” the mare smirked, “I’ve been waiting for you.”
Button quickly turned around, making a break for the door. The unicorn smiled smugly as her horn lit up with red energy. Suddenly the door Button came in from was engulfed with a red aura then shut tight. “You’re so cruel, Button Mash!” the mare shrieked with mock hurt “I go through all this trouble to find you and get you a nice bed after you passed out, and you try to leave me?” she covered her eyes with her hooves likes she was about to cry. Suddenly her face snapped into complete seriousness and she rose from her seat to approach Button Mash. The brown pony tried to back away but the unicorn came closer and closer until they were snout to snout and Button’s back was to the wall. “But then again, I should’ve expected that from you.” She leaned in close for a whisper, “after all, you did beat my baby brother.”
Button defensively darted to the side, finding refuge at the corner of the room. “Beat your brother? Who are you?” Button growled, getting ready to pounce at a moment’s notice.
"My name is Scarlet, The Crimson Beauty,” she dramatically introduced herself. “My brother and I are the loyal enforcers of the High and Mighty King Codex! I believe you’ve met my brother, Black Breath?” Scarlet asked, walking back to her throne. She took a seat and reached out a hoof of invitation, pointing Button Mash towards an empty spot in the throne that seemed uncomfortably close to her.
"I'd prefer to stand thank you," the earth pony shook his head, still eyeing the mare with caution.
Scarlet giggled at Button Mash's defiance. "Suit yourself, but as soon as I finish my story, you'll be in my hooves."
Button Mash glared at the crimson unicorn uneasily. There was something about her that made Button Mash uncomfortable, very uncomfortable indeed.
"You're a funny one, aren't you? Looking at me like that. Very well then. I bet you heard that Lord Codex was an evil tyrant didn't you?"
"I've seen and heard the stories,” he dully replied.
Scarlet rolled her eyes. "Don't believe what those fools at Green Village told you, they wouldn't have had to suffered if they just accepted that."
"But he was letting Black Breath starve ponies," Button shot back as he slammed his hoof on the ground. "If Codex wasn't an evil tyrant then why would he let him do that!?"
"Its true that my brother’s methods was a little… harsh," she agreed as she stood up and walked towards one of the windows close to the throne. "But I, on the other hoof, do not use such tactics so my subjects are very happy with their lives.” She motioned for Button to be by her side so he joined her and looked out the window. He saw many happy ponies walking around a nice successful looking village. He could see ponies with carts filled to the brim with goods selling wares at a market place. He caught a couple laughing as they bought carrots from a merchant. There were even some foals running around, playing in the town square. "See, look there, Button Mash. Look how happy they are.” She looked at Button Mash who was still looking out the window. "It’s true that I do serve Lord Codex, but even he can’t be everywhere at once, which is why my brother and I became his loyal enforcers when he took over." Scarlet gently turned Button’s face towards her with her hoof. "Button Mash." She said with a soft and gentle voice. "Become my king and rule with me."