Twilight finds her brother's old N64 along with a certain videogame that she soon finds irresistible
When Twilight is sorting through her brother's old things she finds his old N64. In the box is also an unforgettable videogame "007 Goldenpony". Though at first she is skeptical about the game, she soon finds it hard to stop playing the violent videogame. Hilarity ensues.
Anyone who played this game as a kid had a wicked childhood and we will all remember that classic game. So I decided to make a story where Twilight goes though all the frustration and funny quips we all remember from 007 Golden Eye for the Nintendo64
Twilight was sorting through her brother’s old things. He had asked her if she could help him get rid of some old things and so here she was sorting through his things to see what was junk and what was worth keeping.
Unfortunately her number one helper Spike was off with the cutie mark crusaders. She sighed to herself as she fluffed her wings. It was strange getting used to being a princess but after the first month she had easily settled back down into her peaceful life at the Ponyville library.
“It would be so much easier with Spike here” Twilight complained to herself. She found a rather small box without a label that was taped closed with an obscene amount of tape.
Twilight levitated out a knife and cut open the box. She opened up the box to see her brother’s old Nintendo-64. She giggled to herself as she remembered how her brother would spend hours on end playing that thing and she never really knew why.
There were also four controllers: a see through purple one, a green one, a blue one and a grey one. Along with the controllers were the hook up wires and a videogame labeled ‘007 Goldenpony’. Twilight smirked, she remembered hearing about that character back when she was young, actually there were still movies being made about that character.
“Name’s Pony, James Pony” Twilight chuckled and figured Shining would probably want to keep the videogame console for his foals to play when they got old enough. She continued to sort through the things and finally finished her sorting.
She let out a deep huff and sat down on her couch. Her gaze soon wandered over to the videogame box. She got a little curious as to why her brother liked it so much when he was young.
She grabbed a hold of the box in her magical levitation spell and brought it over for further examination. ‘Why is there three handles? Ponies only have two hooves?’ Twilight wondered to herself as she examined the controllers.
She decided to indulge herself a little and trotted over to her flat screen TV. She screwed around with the cords until she successfully wired the cords into the TV. She plugged in the power cord into an outlet then took out the game cartridge from the box.
She flipped the game cartridge upside down and blew into the small crevice like she had seen her brother do so many times to get the dust out of the cartridge crevice. She placed the cartridge into the console then turned it on. She sat back down with the game remote in her hooves then quickly took it in a magical levitation spell, figuring it would be easier to play like that.
The game started to play through a catchy intro where circles would dot across the screen. Then the barrel of a gun followed an earth stallion dressed in a black suit. Suddenly the stallion whipped around and fired a small pistol at the screen.
The gun barrel began to wavier as blood ran down the screen. “Sweet Celestia!” Twilight gasped in shock, this game was so violent. The screen switched to another slide where golden letters read ‘Goldenpony’ with a red ring around it.
See pressed the start button and it skipped to a screen that had four file folders on it. All were empty. She chose the folder furthest to the left and started a file. She clicked on ‘Select Mission’ and there was a few rows of film roll, each negative had several missions but they were all locked except the first mission.
Twilight sighed to herself as she chose the first level that was called ‘Dam’. She skipped the mission briefing pages and clicked ‘Start Mission’. The game started, giving a small preview of the entire level then zoomed into the stallion who was wearing a Kevlar suit rather than the black suit he was wearing during the intro.
The stallion did some pose then the screen zoomed into first person. The stallion brought out a silenced Walter PPK, in game it was called the PP7. Twilight thought to herself why some-pony would make such a violent videogame but continued to play.
She quickly figured out that the analog stick in the middle of the controller was how to move, the start button made her looked to the pause screen which was James’ watch. She wasn’t sure what the green B button did but the A button let her put away his gun. The R and L tab on the top of the controller let her aim the pistol manually.
She put the pistol away figuring that if she was unarmed than no-pony would shoot her, seemed logical enough. She made James walk out then suddenly a Russian pony pointed an AK47 at her and began to fire it. The screen flashed and her health bar indicated that she was taking damage.
“Hey! I didn’t even have a gun out!” Twilight exclaimed. James Pony made several wounded noises as he continued to be shot. ‘Wow he can really take a lot’ Twilight thought to herself as she buttoned for the character to pull out his gun but then she realized she had no idea how to shoot the blasted thing.
She began to press the directional yellow arrows but all they did was make James move left and right and look up and down. Twilight soon became flustered as James couldn’t fire his gun.
She quickly resolved that maybe she could just run through the entire level. She ran away from the Russian stallion that was shooting her game character but as she ran past a sniper tower two more stallions began to shoot her. “Gah!” Twilight gasped as James’ health bar read less than one bar left.
He was hit again and all the health depleted but he was still able to go. Then the final shot went off and the screen went on its own as James fell to the ground, blood trailing down the screen. “Oh that’s not even fair” Twilight complained in frustration. A little clip of James Pony being shot to death played through and Twilight frowned.
The game screen went back to a file folder that read: mission failed, status: KIA. Twilight frowned to herself then began to observe the controller closer. There was no button she didn’t press so why couldn’t she shoot the bloody gun?
Then she flipped the controller over to see that there was a button she didn’t press: the Z button that was placed on the back of the controller. “Why would some-pony design such a complicated controller?” Twilight groaned in frustration then clicked restart mission.
She quickly skipped the briefing again and began to level. She quickly made her character round the corner, aimed the pistol at the Russian pony then pressed the Z button. The pistol was silenced and let out a quiet silenced shot that sounded more like a failed sneeze.
The Russian pony died and fell to the ground comically. “Ha! Take that!” Twilight exclaimed, happy that she had finally found out how to shoot. She walked over to the dead pony whose body faded away but his gun stayed on the ground. She walked over top of the gun and the screen made a clicking sound as it read across the bottom ‘KF7 Soviet picked up’. Twilight wondered how she could equip the rifle and pressed the A button and cycled through her weapons.
She smiled as she equipped the Russian rifle then began to play through the level. She blasted through ‘The Dam’ quite quickly, finding a full set of body armour and even a silenced sniper rifle which made combating through the level even easier. She also realized that the guns would auto aim to her opponents if her gun was pointing relatively close to them.
She soon reached a long strip of the dam and entered the last of the lookout buildings. She entered through a door and proceeded into a basement level of the dam and blasted her way through the underground level. For some reason wooden crates would explode violently when shot and killed ponies nearby.
She quickly blasted through the corridors. Eventually she found that she had completed the level but had no idea of how to finish it. She traversed across the entire map area of the level trying to the exit, to no avail.
Eventually Twilight found a ledge that had an opening she could go off. She quickly assumed that was the way to finish the level. She moved the videogame character off the ledge and the character fell off the dam.
The screen went black. “Wait, no… I didn’t know it would kill me” Twilight gasped and an ending cinematic of James leaping off the ledge played. Twilight cursed to herself as she immediately thought that she had died.
“Well that’s just over rated. I don’t know why Shining would get so much entertainment out of this gruesome game” Twilight complained to herself but the file folders came onto the screen detailing the mission.
Twilight’s wings shot out in excitement as the mission folder read ‘Mission: Complete’. “Wait… how did I survive that fall?” she asked to no-pony in particular. She decided to continue to see what happened next and pressed ‘Continue’.
Twilight was rather agitated that she didn’t get to keep her weapons from the last mission but she found that she had cool little mines. But she didn’t know they were mines until she accidently blew herself up in the ventilation shaft.
She was on her second run through now and had already taken a KF7 Soviet then proceeded to wreak havoc on the Russian ponies in the facility. Even though the idea of the mission was to be rather silent, hence the silenced pistol she received, she blew through the place in a fury of gunfire and bullets barely taking any damage in the process. Rambo would be proud.
She reached a spot where the hallway split into two separate ways but first she had to go into a room to activate which door she wanted to go through. She also found a fresh mount of body armour. “Hmm decisions, decisions” Twilight muttered then decided to go through the door on the right.
She quickly hurried her game character into the room where there were several garbage cans, well they looked like garbage cans anyway. Twilight decided to shoot the cans but as they erupted an alarm went off, her screen read that a gas leak was detected and that the factory was isolating the leak.
Soon her character began to cough and he slowly perished in the nerve gas. Twilight cursed to herself for allowing herself to be bested by her own foolishness. She quickly restarted the mission and played through it again but stayed clear of the nerve gas trap, instead going left.
She blasted her way through another section of the facility until she reached a large open room with ten large nerve gas canisters. She pressed the start button and read the mission objectives. She still had to rendezvous with 006, whoever the hell that was, and destroy the nerve gas canisters.
She spotted some-pony trotted around the bottom floor of the room and quickly shot him. The screen read ‘Mission failed’. “Wait what!?” Twilight exclaimed. ‘Why did I fail? What did I do wrong?’ she asked herself as she pressed the start button and surfed to the mission objectives. Apparently she had failed the part with rendezvousing with 006.
“I didn’t know he was double-O-six” Twilight cursed then started the mission over again. She played through the entire level and made sure not to kill the stallion walking around in the bottling room. She walked her game character up to him and little speech lines began to go across the screen. Soon an alarm rang out and 006, who was a pegasus and his real name was Alec Stallyan, rushed over to shoot the Russian ponies that now swarmed towards them.
Twilight went and began to place mines on five of the facility tanks, one mine on each of the outer tanks to make sure the explosion would destroy the other tanks. Twilight’s heat was pumping, hoping that 006 would hold them off long enough but suddenly the gunfire stopped. “Oh what’s going on now? Did he kill all the bad guys?” Twilight muttered.
Then a little speech blurb from some-pony named Ourumov read across the screen telling Twilight to surrender. She walked he character out into the open to see that 006 had been captured. Twilight cursed to herself silently as Ourumov began counting down. Alec prompted Twilight to finished the mission. As Ourumov reached zero he shot Alec, killing him.
At first Twilight thought she would had failed the mission due to Alec’s death but soon realized otherwise. She proceeded to set off the explosives then escaped the facility with a mission complete. “YEAH!” Twilight yelled out in excitement, she understood now why her brother liked this game so much. Despite the violence it was actually quite fun.
* * *
Spike waved goodbye to Sweetie Bell then proceeded to enter the library. A sudden eruption made him jump in fear but then he noticed the source of the explosion. There was some-pony playing a killing game on the TV in the living room. Their character was in some snowy plains with a dark red haze to the map and was blowing something up with hoof gernades. “Twi…Twilight?” Spike asked curiously, never really expecting to see Twilight playing videogames.
“Oh hey Spike” she replied as she hit the start button and looked back to him. “Twilight... Uhh… what are you doing?” Spike asked curiously, already knowing basically what she was doing but wanted an answer to why she was playing it.
“Oh I’m trying to break into a bunker but I have to blow up a helicopter first” Twilight replied. Spike scrunched his nose. “Oh… and how’s that going?” he asked curiously and Twilight let out an exhausted sigh.
“Terrible, I played through the entire level but threw my only mine and it missed the chopper so I had to restart the entire mission” she informed him in frustration. Spike shrugged.
“So uhm… how long have you been playing?” he asked and Twilight thought to herself about it. “Uhm well… I guess only a few hours” she replied casually. ‘A few hours? A FEW HOURS!’ Spike thought to himself. She sat and played that killing game for ‘Only’ a few hours.
He decided to live and let live and just let her do whatever she wanted. She was the princess after all. “Uhm… so Twilight, what do we have for supper?” Spike asked. Twilight had said she would go out to get groceries today since they were all out of baking supplies.
Twilight smacked herself in the forehead for forgetting to go shopping. “Uhm… hey Spike, wanna order pizza instead?” she asked, trying to cover up the fact that she didn’t go grocery shopping. Spike’s head poked up in excitement.
“Really?!” he exclaimed in happiness. Twilight shrugged, “Sure why not” Twilight replied and levitated over a phone. She dialed the local pizza shop and ordered two pizzas, a cheese pizza for herself and a gem filled pizza for spike.
The total came to 25 bits but Twilight didn’t really care, it would let her have more 007 time. Spike was so happy that he didn’t really know what to do. More gunfire echoed in the room from the TV and shocked Spike back into reality as Twilight continued to play Goldenpony.
“Uhm… Twilight?” Spike asked. Twilight didn’t even look back to him as she responded. “Yeah?” she replied. Spike walked up to her and leaned on the side of the couch she was lying on while she played the videogame.
“You didn’t buy groceries today…did you?” Spike asked, reading her like a book. Twilight sighed and paused the game just as some Russian ponies began to attack her. For some reason while James was looking at his watch they couldn’t shoot him.
“Sorry Spike… I just got so caught up in playing 007 that I forgot, can you forgive me?” she asked apologetically. Spike nodded, “Sure, I don’t mind. I was just wondering why we’d order pizza. You almost never order out” Spike replied, forgiving her for the small accident.
Twilight smiled, “Thanks Spike, first thing in the morning I’ll go get groceries” she promised. She hit the start button again and finally finished the mission but as the ending cinematic played it turned out the James is captured by several Russian ponies inside the bunker.
“Hey Spike, wanna play multiplayer?” Twilight asked. Spike scrunched his nose from the thought of playing a killing game. “I don’t know Twi… isn’t it a little violent?” Spike asked hesitantly. Twilight shook her head.
“Not really, there are only little bits of blood that stains your uniform when you get shot… well that and… the death and shooting” Twilight replied. Spike was still very hesitant about it.
“Oh come on! Just one match?” Twilight pleaded as she levitated over a green controller for Spike. Spike gulped and Twilight sat up to allow him to sit beside her. Spike sat down and Twilight exited to the main menu where she selected multiplayer.
She chose pistols as the choice of weaponry and then clicked character select. She immediately chose 007 leaving Spike with only a few of the bad guys to choose from but he didn’t really care. He asked Twilight who the good guys were and Twilight told Him that Alec was one of the good guys. He selected Alec then Twilight selected ‘Facility’ as the map to play in.
The match began and each player was unarmed. Spike quickly figured out how to move and picked up a gun. He quickly learned he found out how to switch guns as Twilight found a revolver and quickly raced around the map, looking for Spike’s character.
Spike spotted her and immediately realized that he didn’t know how to shoot. “Hey Twi, how do you shoot?” Spike asked. Twilight stopped and looked over to her dragon. “There’s a Z button on the back of the remote” she replied. Spike nodded then began to shoot at Twilight’s character.
Twilight’s top half of the screen flashed and her watch reticule indicated that she was losing health, and fast. She quickly spun her character around and shot Spike’s character once with her magnum, killing him instantly.
A catchy tune played and blood rolled down Spike’s screen as his character died and fell to the ground. Soon it prompted for Spike to press the Start button and as he did he spawned back to life.
Spike quickly found a gun and found Twilight’s character then fired at her, he now had a more powerful handgun with more bullets but it was still less powerful than her revolver. Twilight’s screen flashed but she had recently found body armour that protected her for the time being. She flipped around and shot Spike with her revolver. Once again he died and his character fell to the ground as blood rolled down the screen and the catchy tune played.
Spike frowned as he respawned. He quickly found another gun. Twilight’s health was rather low but she still had a little bit of body armour left. Spike raced through the map and he bumped into Twilight’s character. Twilight fired her magnum but it missed and was out of ammo. Spike fired multiple times and Twilight died.
“Spike… you killed me” she said in a somewhat saddened voice as she let out a depressed sigh. That was the fourth time she’d died since she’d started the game and the first time she’d seen her new hero die after she had become rather good at playing.
Spike’s heart ached as he mentally pictured Twilight dying and him standing there with a smoking gun, due to her comment. “Gah, I’m sorry Twilight” Spike apologized but Twilight simply laughed.
“Oh Spike, don’t worry about it. That’s the point of the game” Twilight assured her dragon. Spike frowned from the reply. He really didn’t like the idea of killing his close friend even if it was just in a videogame.
The match went on for twenty minutes then the timer ended. Twilight had absolutely wrecked Spike with a 37-4 win ratio. “Wanna play again but with a different set of guns and in a new map?” Twilight asked but Spike shook his head shamefully.
“Uhh… no thanks Twi… you go ahead” he replied and Twilight let out a frown. There was a knock at the door and Twilight’s ears perked up. Spike hurried over to the door and Twilight levitated over her wallet to him.
Spike paid for the pizza with a two bit tip then closed the door and walked over towards the kitchen. Twilight looked over to him as he proceeded over to the kitchen.
“Oh Spike… we could eat in the living room if you want” Twilight offered and Spike’s face turned into a curious look.
“In the living room? But you hate it when I eat in the living room” Spike replied and Twilight casually shrugged.
“It’s Friday and besides… I’m sure we could indulge ourselves to let loose just a little and relax” Twilight told him. Spike shrugged to himself and decided to just go with it. He always liked eating on the couch more because it was more comfortable then the chairs in the kitchen where they usually ate.
Twilight began to multitask as she ate pizza and began to play the campaign from where she left off, which was her being held prisoner in the jail cell at ‘The Bunker’.
Spike was asleep peacefully in his bed when suddenly a scream woke him. Spike literally lept out of bed to see what was wrong.
“WHAT!? IT CAN’T BE!” Twilight screamed. Spike’s heart began to pound as he thought something was wrong. He immediately rushed down stairs to see what wrong only to see that Twilight was still playing Goldenpony.
“Uhm…Twilight?” Spike asked in a very curious yet very tired voice. Twilight paused the game and looked back to her dragon.
“Oh hey Spike… sorry, did I wake you?” Twilight asked. Spike nodded and wondered what in all Equestria she would be doing up at… 2:30 in the morning!
“Uh… Twilight…it’s 2:30 in the morning” Spike told her and Twilight gasped as she realized what time it was.
“Oh my gosh! Whoops… he-he… guess I sort of over did it. Sorry, I finally found how to escape that blasted bunker without Natalya Mareanova (Mare-a-nova) dying… or her stopping to tell me ‘We should go to the main control room’” she replied.
Spike groaned as he rubbed his eyes in tiredness. “So…why were you screaming?” Spike asked and Twilight looked back to the screen.
“Remember Alec?” Twilight asked but Spike shook his head. “Oh…well he was my best friend in the beginning of the game and he was one of the good guys but he ended up getting shot by Ourumov. But he somehow survived and is the leader of Janus” Twilight told Spike and he raised an eyebrow.
“They’re the main bad guys in the game. They stole a helicopter” Twilight informed him. Spike scratched his head in confusion. Twilight shook her head, “Never mind, the point is Alec just betrayed me and I was so shocked that I accidentally screamed” Twilight apologized.
“Uhm…so are you going to bed?” Spike asked but Twilight looked back to the clock and shook her head.
“No, not yet. After this mission, I want to know what happens next” Twilight told him. Spike let out an exhausted sigh then began to walk back towards his bed. Before he proceeded to his bed he turned back to Twilight who was still playing.
“Goodnight Twilight err… I guess good morning” Spike said in an exhausted voice then proceeded to snuggle into his bed and pass out.
* * *
An hour later:
Twilight bit her lip so she didn’t yell in anger. She had beaten the level ‘Statue’ only to find that she and Mareanova get captured. So even though she said she’d go right to bed she still had to play the next level to find out what happens next.
But in the end it just proved to be ridiculously frustrating. She’d always escape captivity but then she’d go to rescue Natalya and then Natalya would die in some stupid way before she could rescue her.
This run through however she decided to go around the archives and shoot every-pony first that way no-pony would be able to kill Natalya when they went to escape.
Twilight finally killed every-pony in the archives except the two stallions in the room that were holding Natalya captive.
Twilight opened the door and killed the first stallion but as she turned to kill the second stallion she accidentally shot Natalya, killing her. Well actually it wasn’t really her fault the Klobb just had terrible spread and completely strayed off target and hit Natalya in the head.
Twilight’s face went red with anger as she clicked ‘Abort mission’ then restarted the entire level. She blasted through the level again and made sure she had a more accurate gun when she saved Natalya.
She finally saved Natalya without her dying and blasted through the windows of the library to escape. She let out a relieved sigh as she finally completely the mission. Her body felt exhausted and she let out a yawn then wiped the tears from her eyes that had emulated during long yawn of exhaustion.
As she took her hooves away from her eyes she looked to the clock to realize it was 4:03am. Twilight gasped in shock as she realized she had completely forgotten to go to bed. ‘How do you forget to go to sleep?’ Twilight wondered to herself then figured while she was up she might as well go grocery shopping just to get it out of the way.
Twilight yawned again then quickly left the library and proceeded to the local grocery mart to pick up some food and baking supplies. In her extreme exhaustion from staying up all night she could barely think straight. She entered the mart and grabbed a shopping cart then began pushing it around.
“Uhm… okay…we need…” Twilight mumbled to herself as she yawned again then rubbed more tears from her eyes. In her lack of attention, or maybe it was train of thought, she just trotted along with the shopping cart and tossed random things into the cart that she figured they’d need.
“Soda? Yeah… yeah we like soda…crackers-n-cheese…yeah…ohh Spike likes muffins…or is that Derpy?...ohh and were can never go without Twinkies” Twilight muttered to herself as she tossed random things into her shopping cart.
Twilight figured she’d finally gotten enough and went to the checkout. There was Pinkie Pie, bouncing around erratically as she had a bag of flour checked through.
Pinkie noticed Twilight in her tired daze. “Oh hey-yah Twi! What are you doing up so early?” Pinkie asked in her usual bubbly voice. Twilight just mumbled a response.
“I…I needed to get some groceries” Twilight mumbled exhaustedly. Pinkie looked into her cart to see the random assortment of ‘groceries’. Pinkie scrunched her nose.
“Are you having a party?” Pinkie asked then gasped at the thought of a party today. Twilight groaned in exhaustion as Pinkie began to bounce around screaming “PARTY!”
“Maybe…later though…like in the afternoon” Twilight replied. Pinkie paid for the flour she had bought then bounced off. Twilight paid for her groceries and it came to just over 70 bits which made her curious because it usually came to a little bit more.
She brushed off the thought and paid for the groceries. The store attendant put the groceries in bags then handed them over to Twilight who grabbed them in a magical aura and trotted off tiredly.
She finally arrived back at the library and immediately put the ice-cream in the freezer but left the rest of the groceries in their bags and flopped down on the couch. Almost immediately she passed out.
* * *
9:58am, Ponyville library:
Spike let out a deep yawn as he awoke peacefully… wait… “I woke up naturally…” Spike trailed off as he looked over to his alarm clock to see that it was pretty much ten in the morning.
Spike literally lept out of bed as he realized that something must’ve been wrong. Twilight always woke him up in the morning to door his morning chores. He raced down stairs to see what was wrong, only to see Twilight passed out on the couch with groceries still in bags.
Spike shrugged. ‘Well at least she got the groceries’ Spike thought to himself as he casually walked down to put away the groceries. He picked up the grocery bags without looking into them and walked over to the kitchen to begin putting them away.
He opened the first bag. “Cake…crackers and cheese…cinnamon buns… Doritos… well this must’ve been the sweets bag” Spike muttered to himself as he began placing the assortment of treats and pastries away.
He opened the second bag. “More Doritos… apple fritters… doughnuts… brownies… must’ve been more sweets” Spike assured himself as he began to place these sweets away.
He opened the third bag that had flour in it with a bag of apples and another bag of oranges. He nodded to himself in thought that it was sheer luck that the first two bags he unloaded were the sweets bags.
He put away the flour, oranges and apples then opened the fourth bag. His jaw dropped. “Muffins…Cheezies…cupcakes…chocolate cupcakes…butter tarts” Spike muttered in confusion and his face became one of extreme curiosity.
“Okay Spike think… Twilight never buys this many sweets” Spike said as he looked over to the final grocery bag. Even if it had the rest of the groceries were proper like: baking soda, milk, cereal etc. that still meant that Twilight had bought more sweets and goodies than proper food.
Spike opened the final bag. Inside was six boxes of Twinkies and two six packs of soda. “Okay…something’s wrong… I’ll ask Twilight when she gets up” Spike muttered as he began to put away the ‘groceries’.
Twilight was having a rather romantic dream that had her new hero, James Pony, in it.
Ourumov was chasing them down, shooting at her with his DD44 Dostovei. James tackled her into a room to save her from the incoming bullets. “Hurry this way my princess, it’s not safe here” James said in a romantic and very gentlecolty voice.
Twilight followed him but suddenly three Russian stallions burst from the shadows and held them at gunpoint with several KF7 rifles. James immediately snapped up his PP7 and shot all of them in an instant. All the Russian ponies died in a comical way before James pulled Twilight along with him.
Suddenly Ourumov appeared with Alec Stallyan and the two began to shoot at them again. James pulled Twilight behind a bookshelf in the archives, holding her close to his chest to protect her. She could feel his heartbeat.
“Can you shoot a gun?” James asked her and Twilight nodded. James handed her his iconic PP7 while he pulled out a KF7 Soviet he had picked up earlier.
They both spun out, Twilight levitating the PP7 in her magic aura while James held the KF7 in both hooves. They both fired upon the bad guys, Ourumov was shot in the head by James while Twilight shot Alec multiple times in the chest.
Alec’s body twisted and turned then he finally toppled over a ledge and fell to the floor below with a THUD. James grabbed Twilight and rushed her towards a window, firing upon the window with his assault rifle.
The window shattered just as they reached it and they rushed through the busted window. James proceeded to lead them away and commandeered a nearby aircraft then flew them away to the safety of a warm beach.
After they landed they both proceeded to the beach where James went for a swim while Twilight rested peacefully on the beach. “Wow… I never thought I’d get to see the real James Pony” Twilight mused to herself, thinking it was happening in real life.
Suddenly James trotted out from the water in a very slow trot, showing off his rather toned and muscular build. Twilight’s heart began to pump faster and she gulped as she felt her wings poof out.
James trotted up to her then grabbed her in his masculine forelegs. “Twilight… you may be a princess and I may only be a double agent but I know you are the one” he whispered. All of Twilight’s dreams were coming true (No pun intended).
“I love you too” Twilight whispered back and began to close her eyes as she leaned forwards to passionately kiss with James Pony when suddenly she felt a poking at her face.
“Twilight… Twilight” said a vaguely familiar voice. She pulled back and looked at James Pony only to realize that his face now resembled Spike’s face. She gasped in shock but then felt her world fade away and she began to wake up
* * *
Twilight finally awoke to see Spike sitting across from her in a chair with a somewhat worried look on his face. Twilight noticed that she had a rather protruding wing erection that throbbed noticeably, that and some drool that had soaked her pillow. Twilight coughed to herself to take Spike’s attention away from her wing-boner then quickly shuffled her wings down.
“Uhm…Morning Spike. Something wrong?” she asked and Spike let out a deep sigh. “Okay…I’ll take that as a yes. I should have asked what’s wrong?” Twilight asked.
“You bought junk food…and lots of it” Spike replied and Twilight raised an eyebrow. Spike motioned for her to follow him so she did. Once in the kitchen Spike opened the cupboards and fridge to reveal all she had bought.
Twilight gasped in shock as she vaguely remembered shopping this morning but it was mostly a blur. She let out a depressed sigh.
“Sorry Spike… I wasn’t thinking straight and was pretty tired” Twilight informed him and he raised an eyebrow. “Well I was shopping at four in the morning. I bet you’d be tired too” Twilight told her young purple dragon.
“And how much sleep had you gotten before you went shopping?” Spike asked but Twilight let out a defeated sigh as her response. “I’ll take that as slim to none” Spike told her in a disappointed tone.
“I’m sorry Spike… It’s just that…I was arrested and” Twilight began but Spike gasped in shock at the information.
“You were arrested!? For what!?” he exclaimed but Twilight giggled.
“Oh Spike, not in real life. In Goldenpony. They arrested me and were about to execute me but then I broke out of captivity” Twilight informed him and Spike let out a relieved sigh.
Twilight looked over to the clock to see that it was 12:35, about noon. “Wow…I really slept in” Twilight muttered and Spike rolled his eyes from the comment. Twilight let out a sigh. “Well I know it sounds bad but I really gotta see what happens next…so uh help yourself to the treats” Twilight told her dragon then proceeded to the living room to play N64.
Spike shook his head in disappointment but then came to the conclusion that this whole videogame thing probably wouldn’t last very long and Twilight would soon be back to her regular self.
Twilight started the N64 and began the next mission in the campaign. “Holy cow!” Twilight gasped and Spike rushed over to her in shock, with a butter tart stuffed in his mouth…well actually two.
“What’s….mpghh…wrong Twilight?” Spike asked through a mouthful of pastries. Twilight pointed to the screen. She was on the city streets of Stalliongrad driving a T-72 battle tank. Spike’s jaw dropped as Twilight began driving through the town, causing absolute havoc.
She’d run over countless cars while making sure not to hit the pedestrians. Russians tried to make road blocks but Twilight would simply blow through them, killing the Russian ponies in the process and horrifically crushing their bodies beneath the tank with a blood curdling CRUNCH.
“Aww yeah, no-pony can’t beat James” Twilight cheered in sheer victory. Spike rolled his eyes and walked away from the gaming princess then began to eat more pastries as Twilight continued to play Goldenpony.
Twilight blew through the streets, shooting several road blocks with the tank cannon before proceeding. She finally reached the end of the level within the time limit and an ending cinematic of James trotting away from the tank as a Jeep exploded played. Twilight continued on into the next mission.
* * *
3:35pm, Ponyville library:
“Come on…Come on…Come on…ARRRRG” Twilight yelled, gaining the attention of Spike who rushed over.
“Twilight is something wrong?” Spike asked but in a more casual tone, knowing that it would have something to do with Goldenpony.
Twilight was moving James through some long strips of walkways that were so high above the ground that you couldn’t see the bottom. “Yeah…every time I try to kill Alec he runs away again while saying some cheesy one liner like ‘From the cradle to the grave, your grave James’” Twilight said in a snooty stallion’s voice that sort of made her sound like prince Blueblood.
Spike scrunched his nose. “Uhm…well I’m not much for killing games but uhh…try shooting him in the head” Spike suggested and Twilight sighed.
“I have…several times and he just keeps going like it didn’t faze him” Twilight replied.
Twilight shot Alec in the face again then another blurb came up. ‘You never give up do you? Pathetic really’ then another ‘Finish the job James – if you can’. Twilight gritted her teeth in anger as she began to chase down Alec again but this time she couldn’t find him.
Janus commandos constantly spawned and she’d have to kill them but no matter where she looked she couldn’t find Alec. She searched all the spots that he usually waited at but he was nowhere to be found.
Twilight cursed to herself and as she began to gallop along the lower level she saw a small stairwell that led to a small room. She entered the room but as she did Alec lept out of a small hole in the floor and fell down below as the speech blurb read ‘I was always better James’.
Twilight rushed over to the hole and immediately figured that Alec had lept to his death in an attempt to evade her wrath. She smiled to herself but then wondered how in all of Equestria she was supposed to complete the mission.
She began to traverse around the entire map, figuring maybe she was supposed to go back to the beginning again or something. After about ten minutes she realized that there was a small platform underneath the small room where Alec was waiting.
Twilight face-hoofed in utter disappointment then quickly rushed over and fell down the hole, making sure to land on the platform. Twilight spun her character around just as Alec was about to shoot her and blasted him with her twin ZMGs, which she had taken from a Janus operative that she had killed earlier.
Alec was propelled back and fell off the platform. A little blurb played reading ‘For Equestria, James?’ then a second one from James read ‘No. For me’. Then a little ending cinematic played with Alec falling to his death and James watching.
Another little cinematic played with Natalya flying a chopper close to the platform and James leaping over and grabbing the landing skids then them both flying off. Then came a little scene with Natalya and James both in a forest.
‘James, are you alright?’ Natalya asked and James grabbed a hold of her in his forelegs.
‘Yes I’m fine, thank you’ James replied as he leaned towards her and began to make out with her. Twilight let out a pouty face. James was her fantasy, well at least since she started playing this game anyway. This scene made her a little disappointed and sad.
‘Ohh James’ Natalya’s blurb read as they both continued to make out. Twilight tried to skip the scene but found she couldn’t, no matter what button she pressed.
Twilight turned off the power button with her horn. That ending had ruined her fantasy for the time being but Twilight’s thoughts were soon cut off as she heard a knock on the door.
‘I wonder who that could be’ Twilight mused to herself as she trotted over to the door and opened it. Waiting at the door was all her close friends. Twilight raised an eyebrow. “Hi girls… what’s going on?” Twilight asked.
Pinkie Pie bounced forwards erratically. “Oh silly, did you forget that you’re having a party?” Pinkie asked in her usual bubbly voice. Twilight let out a look of confusion.
“Uhm…I’m having a party?” Twilight asked and Pinkie nodded her head. “Since when?” Twilight asked and Pinkie slapped herself in the head.
“Well… since this morning at the grocery store when you said you were having a party” Pinkie informed her lavender coloured alicorn friend. Twilight let out a groan as she tried to remember the vague morning.
Then she finally remembered mumbling to Pinkie that she’d have a party but later in the afternoon. Twilight looked back to the clock to realize it was almost four in the afternoon.
Twilight chuckled to herself. ‘Well I got nothing better to do, and I did say I would have a party and I’m not about to go back on my word’ Twilight thought to herself. She nodded, “Alright, let’s party” Twilight said with a smile.
Pinkie Pie stuffed her face with pastries as Rarity conversed with Applejack about this year’s cider harvest while Dash had a conversation with Fluttershy about her tortoise, Tank. Spike was chatting with Angel, whom Fluttershy had brought over, while Twilight sat alone with a smile on her face.
She had recently come to the knowledge that 007 Goldenpony was just one of many in a series and that the main character was actually single, giving her hope that she could be his love interest.
She quickly shook off the thought in knowing that he was just a fictional character and wasn’t actually real.
“Hey Twi! Catch” Pinkie laughed and threw a butter tart towards Twilight. In a show of extreme reflex Twilight lept up into the air, using her new alicorn wings to glide her, and caught the butter tart in her mouth then did a barrel roll and landed blissfully on her hooves while she munched the butter tart.
Pinkie’s jaw dropped in amazement. Rainbow Dash clapped “Whoa, that was awesome” she applauded and Twilight gave a bow.
“Oh it was nothing really. James Pony is much better at acrobatics” Twilight told them and they all gave her a curious look. Rarity walked up to her friend.
“Twilight darling, James Pony is just a fictional character… the stunts he performs in the movies aren’t really real” Rarity told her lavender coloured friend. Twilight smiled.
“I wasn’t talking about the movies. I meant the game” Twilight told her and Rarity raised an eyebrow. Twilight rolled her eyes and pointed towards her large flat screen TV that had the N64 still hooked up to it.
“Oh... well you know that they say. Don’ believe what you see on TV, right?” Rarity told her friend, thinking that she was pointing at the TV.
“No, not the TV, the videogame console” Twilight told her then Rarity noticed the old N64 hooked up to the television.
Twilight led her white unicorn friend over to see the videogame console then showed her the game cartridge.
“Oh hey cool! Twilight has a Nintendo 64” Rainbow Dash called out and every-pony trotted over towards Twilight’s Nintendo, even Angel came over. “Hey Twilight, came we play some videogames?” Rainbow Dash asked and Twilight shrugged.
“Well I only have one game but it is multiplayer” Twilight replied. Rainbow Dash nodded her head so Twilight shrugged and placed the game cartridge into the game console then flicked on the power button.
The screen on the television showed the start-up screen, giving credit to the game producers. Then the white circles began to dot across the screen as the iconic 007 music began to play.
Then came the barrel sequence in which James shoots the screen. Rarity gasped in revulsion. “Dear sweet Celestia… how gruesome” she gasped. Fluttershy had a dire look on her face as blood began to roll down the screen.
“COOL!” was all Rainbow Dash had to say. Twilight levitated out four controllers. She offered one to Fluttershy who shook her head in horror.
Twilight offered the grey controller to Rarity who also shook her head. “Darling… ladies are not supposed to kill” Rarity told her friend but Rainbow Dash laughed.
“Oh relax Rarity, it’s just a game” Rainbow Dash chuckled but Rarity’s mind would not be changed. Applejack took the grey controller while Pinkie took the green one.
“Hey, can I use the see through one?” Rainbow Dash asked and Twilight looked to her controller and shrugged.
“Uhh… sure, here” Twilight said and switched controllers with Dash. They started multiplayer and Fluttershy picked up Angel.
“Well, thanks for the party Twilight… but uhm… I have to be going” Fluttershy said in her usual timid voice, not wanting Angel to see the horrid gameplay.
Rarity let out a ladylike cough. “Yes… I have to go to. I have… orders to fulfill. So nice of you to have a party Twilight. We should get together again soon” Rarity said then she to left.
Twilight began to select the multiplayer options. Choosing the library as the map choice, power weapons as the choice of weapons then she selected the character select. Twilight immediately chose Pony.
“Hey Twilight, who’s a good character to play as?” Rainbow Dash asked and Twilight shrugged.
“Uhm… I don’t think there’s any difference in player stats, just what they look like” Twilight replied. Applejack chose Jaws while Rainbow Dash surfed through the characters then chose Natalya.
Pinkie surfed through until she found a funny looking stallion character. She giggled. “Hey girls look. He has a funny face” Pinkie laughed, the other mares also laughed at the sight of his chubby little face. Pinkie selected the character whose name was Oddjob then they all started the match.
“Okay so B is to open doors and reload, A is to switch weapons, L and R is to aim manually and there is a button on the back of the controller that lets you shoot” Twilight informed her friends.
They all began to run around the map, looking for guns or the other players.
Applejack picked up a DD44 and began her search for the others. Suddenly she saw Natalya (Dash’s character) run past. Applejack began to fire frantically and the pistol auto aimed but only managed to clip Dash’s character.
Rainbow Dash, who had an RC-P90, spun around and hosed down Applejack. The iconic death music played while Applejack’s character died and fell to the ground. “Aw shucks” Applejack said as she spawned back to life.
Twilight rushed down a ramp where she spotted Applejack’s character and began to fire her automatic shotgun at her southern friend who became seriously wounded from the pellets of buckshot that struck her character. Applejack quickly galloped her character into the basement and hid behind a pillar.
Twilight zipped past without even noticing. “Hey…where’d you go?” Twilight asked curiously but then Applejack shot Twilight’s character in the back of the head with a Cougar Magnum, killing her instantly.
Rainbow Dash continued on her search for some-pony to blast when suddenly Oddjob (Pinkie Pie’s character) burst out from behind a corner and blasted Dash at point blank with the auto shotgun.
Blood rolled down Dash’s screen as her character died. “ARR Pinkie… I’m so getting you for that” Rainbow Dash said competitively. Se respawned and quickly grabbed an RC-P90 then began to look around for her rival but couldn’t seem to find her.
Twilight searched the basement. She had recently seen some-pony rush passed her but hadn’t been able to find them. Applejack hid in a shallow crevice between two wall posts. Twilight rushed passed her, not noticing her hiding spot, and Applejack burst out from the shadows (Figuratively speaking) then blasted her unicorn friend away with a stream of automatic fire from her RC-P90 she had recently picked up.
Meanwhile Rainbow Dash was on the hunt for Pinkie who had managed to elude her this entire time. Finally she spotted some-pony dash around a corner. Dash’s face went wide with a grin as she took the corner.
She saw Pinkie Pie and began to fire but for some reason the pistol she had didn’t auto aim for her like it did with Applejack. Pinkie noticed the shots from behind her and spun around then blasted Dash at point blank with two loads of buckshot, killing Dash on the second discharge.
Dash scoffed to herself, figuring that she must’ve just had bad luck. Dash quickly respawned and grabbed a Magnum revolver then began to look for Pinkie Pie. It would’ve been easier if it was only Pinkie and her because then the radar would only show Pinkie’s location.
She spotted Pinkie’s character and began to fire but once again she missed terribly. As Pinkie Pie spun around Rainbow Dash took cover and dodged the shotgun blast. She popped out from the corner and fired but still she missed. Pinkie fired back but soon ran out of ammo.
Taking notice of this, Rainbow Dash took the advantage and rushed Pinkie. But as she tried to gun down her friend she found it impossible to even get a shot near her, let alone hit her.
“Hey! What’s going on, I can’t hit Pinkie” Rainbow Dash complained as her character reloaded. She was nearly point blank and still the gun wouldn’t auto aim. Twilight looked over to her frustrated friend.
“Well it’s supposed to” Twilight replied and Rainbow Dash continued to chase down Pinkie while firing, still failing to hit the midget character.
Pinkie picked up shotgun ammo then spun and fired at Rainbow Dash who died nearly instantly from the blast of deadly buckshot. “Wait… that’s not fair! Pinkie’s too small to hit” Rainbow Dash complained as she respawned.
Applejack smirked. “Well that can’t be. If it was impossible tah kill ‘er then they wouldn’t a put that character in the game” Applejack told her frustrated friend then suddenly her character was shot in the head by Twilight. “Darn it… ah died again” Applejack said with a snap.
Rainbow Dash picked up an RC-P90 and quickly found her midget competitor. This time she let loose, holding down the trigger button and spraying the area with a hail of lead. Rounds put holes into the walls and ramps but only two shots managed to hit Pinkie’s character, not really fazing her since she had body armour.
Pinkie immediately spun around and blasted her friend in the chest three times, the second blast killing her but the third blast just being put in for the sake of it. “ARRRG!” Rainbow Dash groaned as she once again respawned.
Applejack traversed through the upper level and bumped into Pinkie Pie. She too tried to fire upon the midget character but missed terribly. Pinkie subdued Applejack with a twin blast from the shotgun, blasting Applejack’s character away with a wall of buckshot.
“Hey! What in tarnation, I couldn’t hit ‘er” Applejack commented, taking notice on how her guns wouldn’t auto aim like they usually would. Rainbow Dash face-hoofed.
“I tried telling you that. Pinkie’s character is too small for our auto aim to” Dash began but was cut off by the iconic death sound as she died again from Pinkie’s wrath. “GAHHH” Dash scowled in frustration from not being able to shoot the small character.
The match continued on for another few minutes. Dash got two kills, one on Applejack and the other on Twilight, before being cut down by the midget character. “Ugh… we really have to choose different characters to make this an even match” Dash muttered.
Twilight accidently bumped into Pinkie while she was ascending up a ramp. In her shock she pulled the trigger several times on her shotgun, blasting Pinkie’s character more than enough times.
Pinkie’s character finally died after her long reign of midget terror. Suddenly an alarm started blaring in the game. Twilight recognized this as the warning alarm.
Applejack looked to her friend who knew more about the game then her. “Twilight, what’s going on?” she asked and Twilight looked over to her friend.
“Oh that’s the ten second warning” Twilight replied and almost as soon as she said that, the match ended. Rainbow Dash let out a sigh as they all looked at the results of the match.
Twilight had gotten six kills, Applejack had gotten eight, Rainbow Dash had a measly four kills but Pinkie Pie had a colossal twenty seven kills. “Yeah… definitely gotta change the characters” Dash muttered.
They chose character select and they reselected their characters but this time Pinkie chose a different character. Though it was fun to have a ridiculous advantage, she knew it was really unfair. She instead chose Muskin (Mus-kin).
Twilight selected a new map named ‘Archives’ but this time they chose a new scenario ‘2vs2’. The match began and the group began to search for one another with their team member assisting them. Twilight was paired with Rainbow Dash while Pinkie was hooked assisted by Applejack.
Twilight burst from the cover of a book shelf and began to fire at Pinkie. Pinkie and Applejack both spun around while Twilight hid back behind cover. Pinkie continued to spray shots wildly at Twilight’s cover while both she and Applejack both advanced.
Suddenly Rainbow Dash flanked them from behind and hosed them both down with a spray from her RC-P90, killing them both before they could respond to her assault. Both Applejack’s and Pinkie’s character died and Twilight regrouped with her friend then they continued on.
Applejack and Pinkie regrouped then began to look for their rivals. Twilight spotted Applejack and fired at her. Applejack spun around and fired off a lone round with her revolver which ended up clipping Rainbow Dash instead of her intended target. Rainbow Dash joined in and fired several round from her sub-machinegun, fatally injuring Applejack.
Pinkie pivoted and joined in the fight just as Applejack died. Pinkie fired blast after blast with her shotgun. Twilight ducked behind cover and Rainbow Dash went to do the same but a lone pellet from one of the blasts caught her in the head, killing her.
Blood rolled down Dash’s screen as she died and she muttered a quiet mild curse. As Pinkie went to reload Twilight burst from behind her cover and blew away Pinkie’s character, avenging her fallen comrade.
Twilight soon regrouped with Rainbow Dash while Pinkie and Applejack did the same. As the group looked for each other Pinkie accidently opened a secret door revealing a hidden corridor. She led Applejack down the secret corridor to the other end and opened it, revealing both Twilight and Dash trotting the other way.
The duo opened fire on the somewhat unsuspecting group, killing them before they could return fire. Applejack and Pinkie hoof clapped from the great teamwork then began to hunt down their enemies again.
The match continued on for the twenty minute duration and in the end it was a very close match but Applejack and Pinkie came out victorious in the end but just barely. Applejack had managed to break the tie when she fired her Cougar Magnum which penetrated through a door and killed Twilight just seconds before the match ended.
Applejack looked to the time. It was getting late and she had to be up early tomorrow for work. “Well Twi, thanks fer havin us over but I gotta be goin” Applejack informed her friend then gave a nod before proceeding to leave.
Pinkie also noticed the time and let out a yawn. “Usually I’d be happy to stay longer but I have to foal-sit the Cake twins tomorrow. Thanks for the party Twi” Pinkie informed her friends then got up and hopped away in a happy bouncing motion.
Only Twilight and Rainbow Dash were left. “Well good work their partner. We make a pretty good team” Twilight said and they both bro-hoofed. (Or would it be called something else?)
Rainbow Dash let out a sinister smile. “But now two allies must do battle to the death” Rainbow Dash challenged. Twilight raised an eyebrow.
“What did you have in mind?” Twilight asked curiously and Dash thought about it for a minute.
“Only live twice with pistols as weapons” Dash suggested and Twilight nodded. She went back to the multiplayer option screen and chose the options for their little challenge.
She also selected ‘Health’ and they both raised their health to ‘+10 novice’. Twilight looked to her cyan coloured friend and she nodded. Twilight clicked Start and with that their little competition began.
The duo had been playing Goldenpony for the last few hours and it was now midnight. After Dash had won the first round Twilight had declared a rematch in which she won using the golden gun. The two soon began to battle it out long after nightfall.
“ARRRG MOTHER-BUCKER” Rainbow Dash yelled as she died again.
“Rainbow Dash! Don’t swear, Spike’s just upstairs” Twilight scolded her friend. Rainbow Dash let out a frustrated sigh as she respawned but quickly found Twilight and blew her away with a grenade launcher round.
“Oh horse apples” Twilight swore and Dash snickered. “What’s so funny?” Twilight asked but soon realized that she had just sworn right after she had told her friend not to. She looked up to her room where Spike slept to see that he wasn’t watching. He was probably asleep.
As Twilight wasn’t watching Dash killed her again. “Hey! I wasn’t even playing Dash. That’s not fair” Twilight whined. Dash chuckled.
“Well you snooze you lose” Dash told her. Twilight immediately found her rival and blew her away with a KF7 Soviet assault rifle. “Hey!” Dash exclaimed and Twilight snickered.
“Snooze you lose right?” Twilight giggled.
The duo continued playing for another few minutes before Twilight started to yawn and found it hard to keep her eyes open. Dash on the other hand err hoof, was hooked and unstoppable.
Twilight yawned, “Well Dash… I’m gonna go to bed… feel free to keep playing if you want but keep the volume down” Twilight told her friend then trotted exhaustedly up the stairs and flopped onto her bed.
She didn’t even have enough energy to tuck herself in and simply passed out. Her sleep was undisturbed and peaceful but the small dragon just feet from her bed had troubled dreams.
* * *
Twilight’s dream:
James lept through a window with Natalya, escaping the Russians. James and Natalya ran around a corner, Natalya going first. As James turned the corner he found himself looking down the barrel of Natalya’s custom revolver.
“Natalya… how could you!?” Pony asked and Natalya laughed hysterically.
“Oh Pony, you can never see the big picture” Natalya laughed. She cocked back the hammer but just as she went to pull the trigger Twilight crashed into her, knocking the gun away.
“Uhg…oomph” Natalya grunted as Twilight pinned her body against the cold hard cement. “Stupid princess” Natalya hissed and head-butted Twilight, knocking her backwards then Twilight toppled onto her own back.
Natalya lept over and slammed her body overtop of Twilight’s then pulled out a knife. “I bet you didn’t expect this to happen, eh princess?” Natalya sneered but then suddenly a lone gunshot went off and a perfectly placed bullet went straight through her heart.
“Close, but no cigar… I always knew that she was heartless” Pony quoted. Twilight pushed Natalya’s dead body off her own and Pony helped her up. “Thank you my dear. You may have saved my life Mrs. …” Pony trailed off.
“Sparkle, Twilight Sparkle. And it’s Ms.” she replied. Pony raised an eyebrow.
“How is it that some-pony as cute as yourself is not married?” Pony asked charmingly as he stepped forwards. Twilight took another step forwards, this was the moment she had been waiting for. The kiss with James Pony.
“I just haven’t found my… special some-pony” Twilight whispered then they both leaned forwards and locked their lips together. James wrapped his hooves around her back and very gently leaned her body onto the soft sand of the beach.
‘Hey wait a minute, weren’t we just on the streets of Stalliongrad?’ Twilight thought to herself but her thoughts were soon cut off as she felt James’ tongue trail into her mouth.
* * *
Spike’s dream:
Spike was having a horrid dream. In his hands was a devastating revolver. Applejack burst from around a corner with one of those sub-machineguns that was really powerful.
“Applejack! What’s going on?” Spike asked fearfully, not knowing what was happening. Applejack turned to him, with a look of death in her eyes then leveled the sub-machinegun on the small dragon and fired.
Spike’s eyes went wide as he lept for cover but a round clipped him in the side of his ribcage, making him scream out in pain. He began to crawl along the ground but suddenly Applejack kicked him, rolling his body over.
She held the sub-machinegun in one hoof as she pointed it at the dragon’s face. “Goodbye Spike, it was nice knowing you” she told him in a devilish voice. Spike had no other choice.
He quickly snapped up the revolver and fired a round into the pony’s chest, fatally wounding her. She fell back with blood oozing from her chest wound. Applejack began to cough and blood came up.
“Applejack… why?” Spike asked as tears came to his eyes. A smile came across her face but she passed away before she could speak. Spike slammed his fist into the floor then suddenly a large chunk of the floor tiles was blasted away by a load of buckshot.
Spike lept back to see Pinkie Pie with a combat shotgun. “Bye-bye Spike” she told him and pulled the trigger but the gun clicked, indicating that it was out of ammo. Spike once again had no other choice and quickly snapped off a round into Pinkie Pie but it missed his intended shot and clipped her jugular.
Pinkie fell to the ground and thrashed violently as blood began to fill her lungs. Spike screamed out in horror. “WHYYYY!?” he screamed in absolute terror but was cut off by a small caliber riflel round that slammed him in the shoulder, knocking him forwards.
“Sorry Spike…but I have to kill you… if you don’t mind” said a very timid voice as Fluttershy trotted up with her AR33 assault rifle. Spike grimaced in anger and fear as he was forced to once again fatally shoot yet another of his close friends. What the hell had become of them?
Spike got up and staggered away. He spotted a flack of body armour and picked it up. He felt a little better for some reason but suddenly he was kicked off his feet by a blast from a shotgun.
His body skidded along the tile floors until he was stopped by a wall. Rainbow Dash casually trotted up with a combat shotgun, sporting a pair of dark tinted sunglasses. “Only one of us can come out on top” she said as she went to finish off the baby dragon.
Suddenly a lone shot went off and Dash’s face became expressionless. She fell to the ground in a lifeless clump and Spike saw Twilight standing behind her now dead pegasi friend. “Hasta la vista… Dashie” Twilight said in a heartless voice.
Spike staggered to his hooves. “Twilight… damn you killed her” Spike muttered as he looked at Dash, a puddle of blood now pooling around her body. Twilight smirked as she blew the smoke away from her gun.
“Oops… must’ve slipped” Twilight chuckled but then suddenly another gunshot went off and Twilight gasped then fell down to the ground with a bullet hole in the back of her head.
Rarity stood there with a silenced PP7. “Ladies always finish last” Rarity said in her pristine voice. Spike’s jaw dropped.
“Ra…Rarity… you… you shot Twilight” he gasped but then Rarity swung her silenced pistol towards the dragon.
“Sorry Spikey Wikey… but business is business… and you’re a competitor that I must take out of action” she told him.
“No I’m not! I’m just a dragon for Celestia’s sake!” Spike yelled but her mind wouldn’t be changed. ‘I can’t shoot her… can I?’ Spike thought. Rarity shot Spike six times, each shot was stopped by the body armour. He was knocked back until he was staggering just to stand.
“Spike… fall down already… or I’ll put you down like the rabid animal you are” Rarity said. Spike grimaced to himself. This wasn’t the Rarity he knew and loved. With a painful squint of his eyes he pulled the revolver up and pointed it at Rarity.
Rarity pulled the trigger on her pistol and it clicked. “Oh drat… these bloody things are always running low on ammo at the worst possible times” she muttered then realized Spike had a perfect shot on her.
She gasped. “My little Spikey. You wouldn’t shoot me, you love me” Rarity cooed. Spike had enough of her games and pulled the trigger back. The magnum thundered but this time the world seemed to slow down.
The gun recoiled at an extremely slow pace and the muzzle flash was blindingly bright. Spike could see the bullet fly through the air and slam into Rarity’s forehead, splattering her head and knocking her body back from the force. It was a painfully emotional thing for Spike, all his friends were dead and he was to blame.
Rarity’s body collapsed and Spike collapsed to the ground, weeping from the death and travesty that he had caused. Suddenly the world around him sat still.
A lone alicorn floated forwards, it looked like Nightmare Moon. Spike quickly leveled the revolver on the alicorn in preparation to fire.
“DO NOT FIRE!” boomed the alicorn and Spike waited hesitantly. Luna gracefully landed a few feet in front of Spike who gasped as he dropped his revolver.
“Spike, you probably know why I am here. I must help you face you inner fears” Luna told him and Spike looked around. Inner fear? This wasn’t a fear of his. This was beyond fear, this was absolute horror.
“What… what is my fear exactly?” Spike asked and Luna shrugged.
“That is for you to know and me to help you with” Luna told him and Spike thought to himself. He wasn’t afraid of killing his friends, in fact that thought had never ever even crossed his mind.
“I don’t know” Spike replied.
“Then why are your dreams troubled?” Luna asked and Spike thought about it for a moment. He hadn’t had nightmares like this until...
“Goldenpony” Spike told her. Luna scrunched her nose in confusion. She had heard of the movie before but she never really expected that particular movie to give anyone bad dreams.
“Spike, movies aren’t real” she told him in a relaxing and soothing voice. Spike sighed.
“I know that… but the videogame is… violent and… disturbing” Spike replied and Luna raised an eyebrow from the comment.
“The videogame?” she asked and Spike nodded. “And this videogame gives you bad dreams?” she asked and Spike once again nodded. “Well if the videogame is what disturbs you than perhaps you should not play it” Luna suggested.
“I don’t. Twilight plays it… all the time” Spike informed the night princess. Luna rubbed her chin in deep thought.
“Then perhaps you should confront her about your fears” Luna told the young dragon. Suddenly the world around them started to shake. The ground felt as if it was splitting apart.
* * *
Spike finally awoke, realizing it was all just a horrid dream. He let out a sigh of relief but then some-pony’s angered yell of frustration alarmed him.
“GAH! Angel… don’t be the midget!” Dash yelled. Spike groaned as he rubbed his eyes and slowly stumbled downstairs to see what was happening.
Spike entered the living room to find both Dash and Angel playing Goldenpony. “Where’s Fluttershy?” Spike asked. Both Dash and Angel shrugged without even looking at him.
“Fluttershy dropped Angel off here. Said that Angel wanted to come here to be watched rather than be left alone” Dash informed the young dragon. Spike raised an eyebrow. That was the first he’d ever heard of Angel wanting to be watched over by some-pony other than Fluttershy.
“Where’s Twilight?” Spike asked and Dash pointed towards the kitchen. Spike nodded and proceeded to the kitchen where Twilight was cooking home fries and slicing oranges.
Twilight noticed her young dragon. “Morning Spike…everything okay?” she asked as she noticed his somewhat distraught look.
“Twilight… can we talk about something?” Spike asked. Twilight nodded as she took off her pan holders and trotted over to Spike. They both sat at the table.
“What’s going on Spike?” she asked and Spike looked back to the duo playing Goldenpony.
“I could ask you the same thing” he replied, wondering why exactly Fluttershy would have let Angel play that violent game, or if she even knew about him playing it at all.
“Well Dash stayed overnight, Fluttershy dropped Angel off this morning and I’m cooking breakfast. That leaves just you” Twilight told her young dragon.
Spike let out a sigh then began. “Twilight… I know you love that game but… it gives me nightmares and I was wondering if… if you could cut back on playing it?” Spike asked. The question took Twilight off guard.
‘He was frightened by Goldenpony? Why? It’s not like it’s a scary game?’ Twilight wondered to herself then spoke her thoughts. “It scares you?” she asked and Spike nodded. Twilight felt her heart sink.
“Ohh Spike, I’m so sorry. I didn’t know. I promise that I’ll cut back on the gaming if it’ll make you feel better” Twilight apologized.
Smoke filled the air. “Hey Twilight! Are you burning something?” Dash called out and Twilight gasped as she realized that she had left her potatoes cooking without some-pony watching.
She lept out of her chair to see that the potatoes had burned and the heat had lit the nearby window drapes on fire. “AHHHH the drapes are on fire!” Twilight screamed and quickly used her magic to turn on the tap then directed the flowing water at the flame engulfed drapes.
The drapes were soon put out with minimal damage to the home, minus the burnt window drapes and the goddess awful stench. Dash had rushed into the kitchen just as Twilight had screamed in shock but couldn’t really do much to help.
“Wow… that smells… pretty bad, and that’s putting it nicely” Dash commented. It resulted in a snicker from everyone except Angel who wasn’t present. The iconic death music from Goldenpony echoed and Dash looked back to see that Angel had kept playing and was now killing her character again and again while she was away.
“Hey Angel! That’s cheating” Dash cried out and raced back over into the living room. Twilight looked to Spike with a heartwarming smile.
“Well… those two will be playing all day” Twilight said as she levitated over her wallet and pulled out a few bits. “Here, take some money and go play with the cutie mark crusaders for the day” Twilight offered her dragon and Spike’s face brightened up.
“Really?” he gasped as he took the money graciously. Twilight nodded and Spike zipped out of the library to go looking for his friends. He planned on going to the fair with them, which was in town for a few days.
Twilight smiled and looked over to the burnt breakfast. She mouthed her tongue around as her stomach grumbled. She really didn’t feel like cleaning the mess then cooking breakfast again.
“Hey Dash, wanna order pizza?” Twilight asked to her friend who was constantly cursing as Angel absolutely destroyed her.
“Yeah sure. I’ll have uhm… Hawaiian I guess” Dash called out and Twilight dialed the local pizza store and ordered two extra-large pizzas, figuring that Angel could have some of hers.
Twilight began to wash and clean the mess made from her botched cooking as Dash continued to play Goldenpony with Angel.
They were in the map ‘Bunker’ and Dash was trying furiously to kill Angel but to no success. She had learned that the little yellow arrows could be used to aim up and down while still moving and she tried to keep her aim low but still found it difficult to even land a shot on the small character.
“Seriously Angel, you’re changing your character after this” Dash muttered in frustration.
Angel quickly zipped up behind her and blasted her with a Moonraker laser. In her frustration Dash grabbed her mane and pulled it. “Guuhhhhh” she groaned in utter frustration as Angel continued to mop the floor with her (Figuratively speaking)
The match finally ended with Angel winning with a 32-7 victory. Dash’s head dropped in self-disappointment. “Alright… Angel, seriously you’re changing your character” Dash muttered and chose character select.
Dash chose Alec but Angel once again chose Oddjob. “Gah! Angel don’t be the midget” Dash exclaimed and chose character select again but still Angel chose Oddjob. Dash’s face turned to a frown but then there was a knock on the door. Twilight hurried over, figuring it was the pizza delivery stallion.
Instead she was greeted by Discord. “Why hello Twilight Sparkle. Nice day isn’t it?” Discord asked in his lackey charming voice. Twilight stood there looking at him.
“Uhm… hi Discord. Yes it is a beautiful morning isn’t it” Twilight replied in her subtle voice.
“ARRRG FOR BUCK SAKES” Dash yelled as Angel continued to frustrate her. Discord raised an eyebrow then squealed in delight from the sight of the old N64 Goldenpony videogame.
“Oh Twilight, dearest Twilight. Would you please let me play Nintendo with you?” he asked as he gave her puppy dog eyes which, coming from Discord, was actually quite revolting.
“Ugh… yeah sure just do me a favour. Never give me those puppy dog eyes again until you practice in the mirror some more” Twilight said with a chuckle. Discord snickered at the comment and gave her a grateful nod then zipped over to the duo playing the videogame.
“Hey Dash, count me in” Discord said as Twilight closed the door behind her. But just as the door clicked shut there was a knock. Twilight opened the door to be greeted by the sight of the pizza delivery stallion.
Twilight quickly paid for the pizza then walked back into the living room, putting the pizzas on the table for the group. “Count me in too” Twilight said and levitated over a controller.
The group decided upon ‘Complex’ as the map with power weapons as the choice of weaponry. They chose their characters: Twilight chose Pony (As always), Dash chose Alec and Angel chose Oddjob again.
“Ahhh! Angel, don’t be the midget” Dash scowled. Discord raised an eyebrow from Dash’s somewhat politically incorrect term.
“Dash, I had no idea you spoke so… vulgarly” Discord commented and Dash let out a flustered sigh.
“Well I wouldn’t be so flustered if Angel would just play fair” Dash commented. Discord smiled.
“Oh my dear Dashie, it isn’t unfair for him to play as the undersized character. You just have to learn his weakness. Observe” Discord told her and chose the character Muskin.
The group began to play and Discord was like a master. He knew all the hiding spots, all the spawn locations for the good guns and the body armour. He immediately picked up a flack of body armour then proceeded to hunt down the small character of Angel’s.
Angel on the other hand wasn’t used to this map and had to look for a gun. He found a DD44 Dostovei pistol but couldn’t find any body armour. He spotted Discord and fired but the draconequus knew of a secret wall that led into a hidden passageway of sort.
He quickly slipped into the passageway as Angel passed by in search of Discord’s character. Discord crouched down. He could see through the wall from the passageway yet a pony (Or bunny in this case) could not see from the outside in.
Discord let loose with the RC-P90 and obliterated Angel in a matter of seconds. Angel squealed in sudden frustration as he died, he never died first.
As Discord slipped out from the hidden passage however, Twilight was waiting for him just around the corner. She had seen the little firefight and waited for Discord to come out of hiding.
As Discord came into view Twilight blasted a load of buckshot into his character at point blank range, killing him. “Drat… well serves me right for being so careless” Discord muttered as he respawned.
Twilight continued on but suddenly she was confronted by Angel’s character who blasted her away but no sooner had he killed Twilight then he was sniped by Discord who was perched up high behind a small outlook window-way.
Angel squeaked again as he respawned but quickly found Rainbow Dash then proceeded to make quick work of her. Dash grumbled as her character died. The group continued to play and both Dash and Twilight realized to leave Discord to fight Angel and then they could battle it out themselves, seeing as how the other two were about evenly matched but Discord having the slightest of advantage over Angel with his intellect and skill of the game.
Elsewhere Spike walked along with the three young fillies, known as the cutie mark crusaders or CMC for short. They walked along the fairgrounds but soon were stopped by Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon.
“Oh looky here, we have some blank flanks and a dragon without wings” Diamond sneered cruelly. Spike groaned in irritation from her bullying.
“I don’t have time for your stupid insults Tiara” Spike told her but she and Silver Spoon both laughed as they pulled out a pair of Wonderbolt stuffies. Scootaloo gasped, well more like squealed, when she saw the Rainbow Dash stuffy in Tiara’s hooves.
“I see you like my Rainbow Dash... tell you what. I’ll give it to you Scootaloo” Tiara said in a sneering voice. Scootaloo’s face when bright with happiness from the offer.
“Really?” Scootaloo asked hopefully. Even though Rainbow Dash had taken her as an adoptive sister, she’d do just about anything for a Rainbow Dash stuffy.
“Yeah sure, because we’re oh so great friends” Tiara said as she went to hand it over to Scootaloo. Scootaloo’s face was illuminating with happiness but just as she went to take hold of the stuffy, Tiara pulled it back.
“HEY!” Scootaloo exclaimed in shock.
“But first you have to beg for it. Get down on your knees and beg for it like a dog” Tiara sneered. Scootaloo’s heart sank and she immediately went to get down on her knees to beg.
Spike grabbed her. “Hey, don’t beg for it. Rainbow Dash is your sister remember” Spike told the young filly but she wanted that stuffy.
“Well my offer still stands” Tiara laughed and Scootaloo once again went to kneel down before her and beg but again Spike stopped her.
“Scootaloo, don’t beg. Tiara where’d you get that thing?” Spike asked and Tiara smiled.
“I won it from a game vendor. Darts specifically” Tiara replied and Spike dragged Scootaloo over to the dart game. The Dash stuffy was roughly two thirds the size of Scootaloo so it was probably one of the larger and harder to win prizes.
“Hey little guy. Wanna play a go of darts? Just four bits and you get three darts” the game vendor offered. Spike only had five bits left after they had spent the rest of the money on junk food and rides, meaning he’d only get one shot at this.
“How do you win the Dash stuffy?” Spike asked and the vendor pointed to the cork board. There were three types of stars: really big ones, about the size of a hoof, medium sized stars, about the size of half a hoof, then little tiny stars about the size of an eye pupil.
“Okay, see the stars? To win a Wonderbolt stuffy you have to hit a small star. It’s easy” the vendor replied. Yeah easy for him to say. Spike gulped and tossed a dart at the small star but it missed.
“Oh too bad. Go ahead try again. All it takes is one bull’s eye to win” the vendor said and Spike tossed another dart but it too missed. “Oh good try, good try” the vendor told him. Spike threw another dart but it also missed.
Scootaloo groaned along with Spike. “Hey, don’t fret. You still got one shot left” the vendor said. Spike looked back to Tiara.
“How’d you win?” he asked and Tiara giggled in a cheeky way.
“A magician never reveals her secrets” she said as she twisted her face away and fluffed her mane. Jeeze that was like something you’d probably hear from Trixie.
Scootaloo lost hope and went to dive to her knees but Applebloom stopped her. “Don’t lose hope Scoots. Come on Spike, yah can do it” Applebloom said encouragingly.
The game vendor nodded, “Yeah kiddo, you can do it”. Spike let out a deep breath. A flashback memory of him watching Twilight play Goldenpony flashed through his mind. He remembered how she threw the throwing knives.
Spike picked up the dart, holding the tip of the needle between his index finger and his thumb. Tiara snickered, “What’s he doing? Doesn’t he know how to play darts?” she asked insultingly.
Spike cleared his mind then focused on the little blue star. He cocked his elbow then tossed the dart. It lobbed through the air, spinning wildly. Scootaloo covered her eyes as Tiara laughed and then the dart connected with the corkboard.
Scootaloo slowly opened her eyes fearfully but then every-pony gasped in unison. The dart had struck the corkboard. The blue star was pinned by Spike’s dart. The perfect bull’s eye.
“HEY-HEY, WE HAVE A WINNER!” the game vendor announced. “So kid, which prize will you have?” the vendor asked.
“The Rainbow Dash prize… please” Spike replied in a polite voice. The vendor grabbed a Wonderbolt Dash and handed it over to Spike. Tiara and Silver Spoon rushed up to Spike’s side.
“That’s impossible… how’d you do that!” Tiara gasped. The street vendor noticed the two stuffies on the duo’s backs.
“Hey! I remember you two! You stole those!” the game vendor yelled. Both Tiara and Silver Spoon gulped as the game vendor lept over the counter to chase the two young thieves.
‘Well that’s how they did it’ Spike thought to himself then looked to Scootaloo. “Uhh… here Scootaloo… I uhm…” Spike was a little speechless. Scootaloo squealed in delight then lept forwards, kissing Spike full on the lips.
“Oooh, Spike an Scootaloo sittin in a tree K-I-S-S-I…uhm…” Applebloom trailed off as she tried to think of how to spell kissing. Sweetie Bell and Applebloom both giggled as Scootaloo pulled back from the kiss.
Spike was blushing furiously and so was Scootaloo. ‘Maybe Goldenpony isn’t so bad’ Spike thought to himself.
Fluttershy trotted along to the library. She had picked up all the things she needed to and it was time to pick up Angel. She trotted up to the library doors and knocked.
Twilight opened the door, a piece of pizza hanging out of her mouth as she answered looked to her friend with a smile. “Oh…hi Fluttershy” Twilight said as she gulped down the piece of pizza.
“Oh hello Twilight… I was just here to” she began but then an explosion from the videogame cut her off.
“Gah… Discord you mother bucker” Dash swore and Fluttershy gasped from Dash’s profanity. She quickly zipped into the room then let out an even larger gasp of shock as she saw Angel playing the violent videogame.
“ANGEL! How could you?” Fluttershy gasped in horror and Angel gulped as Fluttershy flew over and grabbed the bunny who tried to escape her grasp. Fluttershy looked over to Twilight with disappointed eyes.
“Twilight… how could you let poor Angel bunny play that horrid videogame?” Fluttershy asked with disappointment in her voice.
“I’m sorry Fluttershy… I didn’t think it was that bad” Twilight replied and Fluttershy’s jaw dropped.
“Why would it be okay? How is killing okay?” Fluttershy asked and Twilight realized where she was going with the conversation.
“I’m sorry Fluttershy. I should’ve been more responsible” Twilight apologized and Fluttershy forgave her friend before turning to leave but Angel grabbed the floor in an attempt to stay.
“Angel, we are leaving. You’ve been a very naughty bunny” Fluttershy said but Angel still put up a fight. As they left the doorway, Angel grabbed the door-frame and held on tightly. He squeaked a plead for the others to help him but they all knew that Fluttershy was right.
After Twilight had closed the door they stopped the game and exited to the main menu. They chose 2vs1, with Twilight and Dash facing against Discord. The match began and the duo battled with Discord furiously.
The draconequus knew that he’d loose in a head on battle and chose to do a more assassin like approach to the fight. Attacking until his body armour was nearly depleted then quickly fleeing and replenishing his body armour.
Dash and Twilight were hard pressed to defeat Discord but they managed to keep the match evened out. Dash was chasing Discord when suddenly his character simply vanished.
“Where’d you get off to” Dash muttered and began to look for Discord. She checked the radar but it was no help. She continued to look for his player and soon found herself frustrated as she couldn’t find him.
Her eyes glanced over to Discord’s screen, totally by accident, and saw him creeping up behind her. She spun her character around and blasted Discord away. “HEY! Dash did you just… you screen peeker” Discord scowled. Dash gulped.
“What’s a screen peeker?” she asked curiously and Discord sighed.
“It’s when you look at another pony’s screen to see what they’re doing… it’s like cheating” he told her scornfully. It would’ve been the perfect assassination had she not screen peeked.
“Oh… sorry, I didn’t mean to” Dash apologized and Discord gave her a pat on the back then whispered something into Dash’s ear. Dash nodded and they continued playing. Dash regrouped with Twilight and the two began to look for Discord’s character.
Twilight spotted Discord and charged him but Dash ducked behind a wall and didn’t support her friend. Twilight was killed as a direct repercussion of Dash’s leaving. “HEY DASH! Why didn’t you help me?” Twilight gasped and both Dash and Discord snickered.
A sly smile spread across her face and she found her Cyan friend’s character then blasted her away. “HEY!” Dash exclaimed and now it was Twilight’s turn to snicker. “Oh…I see how it is” Dash chuckled and soon the match just became a death match, with every-pony, and draconequus, for themselves.
Soon Spike arrived home, with a few kiss marks on his cheek from the filly known as Scootaloo. Twilight looked over to her young dragon. “Hey Spike… who kissed you?” she asked and Spike blushed as he realized that he had lipstick kiss marks on his cheeks.
‘Scootaloo wears lipstick?’ he thought to himself. “Oh… uhm… Scootaloo” Spike replied timidly. Rainbow Dash lept up.
“No way!” she gasped then laughed as she noticed the kiss marks on his face. “Bwa-ha-ha-ha, that’s priceless. Scootaloo and Spike sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I… uhm…” Dash trailed off as she tried to remember how to spell kissing without messing it up.
Discord blew away Dash’s character with a grenade launcher round, taking the cyan pegasus’ attention back to the game. Twilight stepped over to Spike and patted him on the shoulder.
Spike looked up to Twilight with grateful eyes. “It was Goldenpony… I remembered you playing Goldenpony and how you threw knives… it helped me win the game of darts” Spike told his lavender coloured friend. Twilight gave him a heartwarming smile.
The smell of pizza had filled the library and now everything smelt of fresh pizza. Twilight slapped herself in the forehead for forgetting. “Oh yeah shoot… hey Spike, you want some pizza?” Twilight asked and Spike nodded.
They both walked over just as the round ended. It wasn’t exactly a good outcome, partially because Dash and Twilight had killed each other so much and team killings didn’t count towards overall score, whereas all of Discord’s kills counted.
“Hey Spike wanna have at ‘er?” Dash asked as she offered him a controller but Spike shook his head. “What’s wrong Spike? Chicken?” Dash laughed and began to make taunting chicken noises.
“Dash! If Spike doesn’t want to play then” Twilight began but Spike immediately cut her off.
“Oh you are so on. But only if we use throwing knives” Spike told her. They all agreed and chose throwing knives as the choice of weaponry with ‘Aztec’ as the map. The group began to play and Spike, although somewhat disturbed about killing his friends, showed extreme skill with the throwing knives, even killing Discord with little effort.
“Wow Spike, I do say you are an exceptional combatant. How much do you play?” Discord asked, sure that Spike played on a regular basis.
“Not much. This is my second time” Spike replied, resulting in a shocked gasp from the experienced draconequus. They continued to play and Dash managed to kill Spike while he was chasing down Twilight.
The group continued to play until 7:45pm, at which time there was a knock at the door. Twilight got up and answered the door, it was Rarity.
“Oh hi Rarity. What’s going on?” Twilight asked then realized it was raining and Rarity’s mane had been ‘ruined’. No one inside had noticed the bad weather due to the constant cheering and frustrated groaning as they all played Goldenpony. They had recently switched to automatic weapons so the gunshots also made it a little harder to hear the rain to.
“Twilight darling, may I please stay here for the night until this awful weather passes?” Rarity asked and Twilight nodded, leading her friend into the house.
“Oh drat” Discord muttered as Dash blasted away Discord with a Klobb. The iconic death music played and Rarity looked over to see the group playing that killing game. She spotted Spike playing it and gasped.
“Twilight! You’re not really letting little Spikey play that awful killing game… are you?” Rarity asked in shock and Twilight nodded casually.
“Well yeah… I mean… what’s the worst that could happen?” Twilight asked then suddenly there was a THUD on the window and everyone lept up and looked at the window.
Angel’s body was against the window, sticking to it somewhat, as he looked into the library to watch the videogame. His body began to slide down the window with a high pitched squelch from his wet body fur rubbing up against the window.
As Angel slid down the window he began to gargle, or something “Precious… give me my precious” he gurgled in a high pitched and squeaky voice. Everyone’s face was expressionless and silent as they watched the bunny slid down the window and out of view. Dash broke the silence.
They all just stood there in shock and disbelief. “Okay… well that was weird” Twilight muttered. The others nodded but then the explosion from a grenade launcher broke the silence.
“Hey, I wasn’t playing!” Dash exclaimed but Discord only snickered. The two began to furiously battle again in the game, with Spike slithering around killing off whomever crossed his path.
Spike got the jump on Discord but the draconequus surrounded Spike with a wave of explosions from his grenade launcher. Spike grumbled to himself, he had the perfect jump on him yet Discord had effectively countered him.
Rarity turned to Twilight who had also started playing. “Twilight darling… how long have you all been playing?” she asked. Twilight thought about the question for a moment but Discord answered the question.
“Over seven hours and counting” Discord replied and Rarity’s jaw dropped. Okay Goldenpony was a fun game and all but they had pretty much wasted the day away doing nothing.
“Twilight darling, I know you’re the princess and all but you should really think about doing something other than playing videogames” Rarity told her friend but she just waved in response. Rarity let out a sigh and sat down on the chair beside the couch.
The violence made her look away in disgust every time someone would die and, in her words, the TV would play that awful tune of music. The rain continued on for another few hours, which the group passed by playing videogames, and finally Rarity got up to leave.
“Well Twilight, thank you for the hospitality but I really must be going” Rarity said then got up and walked out but not before giving a nod to everyone. As she left she saw a soaking wet Fluttershy dragging away the bunny known as Angel.
“Precious… please… give me my precious” Angel gargled as Fluttershy pulled him along. Rarity rushed up to Fluttershy.
“Dear, do you think I could have a word with you?” Rarity asked and Fluttershy stopped then nodded. “Do you agree that that game may be getting a little out of hoof?” Rarity asked and Fluttershy nodded again.
“Perhaps we should write a letter to Celestia. Come Fluttershy, let us make haste” Rarity said then led Fluttershy to her boutique.
Meanwhile at the library the group continued to play Goldenpony. “AWWWW YEAH” Dash cheered as the match ended with her in the lead. Discord let out a disgruntled sigh.
“Indeed… I do believe a rematch is in order” he challenged and the group started a rematch in the map ‘Library’. Whether that was a personal thing for Twilight or just coincidence is unknown but the group started the match and began to run around blowing each other apart.
After the set duration of twenty minutes the match ended with Twilight as the victor. “Yes, looks like intellect won this match” Twilight cheered. Discord mumbled to himself.
“I have a better idea… who wants to play for real life?” he asked and everyone’s eyes went wide then he face-palmed. “I didn’t mean actually kill each other. Use pillows for weapons. You know, like pretend that you are your favourite character” Discord offered. They all though about the possibilities.
“Alright… just try not to break the pillows” Twilight said and Discord nodded.
“I’m totally being Stallyan” Dash called out then Discord clapped his hands together and Dash was transformed into Alec Stallyan. “Oh… this is so cool” Dash commented though her voice was different and sounded more like a stallion’s.
Twilight trotted up beside Discord. “Can you make Spike James Pony?” she asked and Discord once again clapped his hands. Spike transformed into the devishly handsome James Pony.
“Whoa… hey cool I’m taller” Spike commented. Twilight smiled to herself and Discord clapped then became the small character known as Oddjob. Oddjob err Discord looked to Twilight.
“I’ll just stay the way I am” Twilight told him and he nodded then they all zoomed off around the library in search of pillows to use as weapons.
Meanwhile Rarity sent the note off to Celestia then sighed. “Hopefully she responds quickly” Rarity prayed. Fluttershy was hard pressed to keep the squirming Angel from breaking free from her grasp.
In Canterlot, Celestia received the note from Rarity. After quickly reading it over she rushed off to find Shining Armor. “Shining!” she called out and the stallion known as Shining Armor turned and gave a salute to the princess.
“Captain, would you happen to know anything about a certain videogame called…” Celestia trailed off and read the note again. “Goldenpony?” she asked and Shining raised an eyebrow.
“Yeah… it was the coolest thing I had as a colt growing up. I never stopped playing it… well until I met Cadence I guess” Shining replied.
“Would it be something you would let a child play?” she asked and Shining chuckled.
“Well… I was seven when I started playing but if I had kids I don’t think I’d let them play it… it was a little addicting” he chuckled with a blush.
“What ever happened to your old Nintendo?” Celestia asked and Shining thought to himself.
“Well… when I met Cadence I found it a little hard to stop playing. I always liked to screw around and do fun things but when I realized that I had better things to do, I had Cadence pack it up so that I wouldn’t be tempted to bring it back out” Shining chuckled.
“Well… it seems that your sister has found that old Nintendo of yours” Celestia informed him and Shining shrugged.
“Well… she’ll know what to do with it. She’s a smart mare” Shining said but then Celestia levitated the note over to him and he read it over. “Uh-oh” he muttered then they both galloped off towards the nearest carriage.
Back in the library the group battled it out with each other. Twilight flew through the air and did aerial combat with Rainbow Dash while Discord and Spike duked it out on the ground.
Dash smacked Twilight across the head with the pillow sending her tumbling to the ground but she stopped just before crashing into the floor. Though it was a fight it didn’t hurt anybody, just a simple play fight.
Discord whacked Spike over the head with a pillow and he whacked Discord back. Twilight threw her pillow at Discord and the pillow puffed as it hit Discord in the side of the head. Dash went to strike Twilight but Spike threw his pillow at Dash which knocked her away, crashing her into the couch.
Discord tossed a pillow that collided with Twilight’s face. The alicorn princess chased the draconequus down to the basement where she threw several pillows at him, one bursting apart as it hit him.
They all continued to laugh and have fun when suddenly there was a knock at the door. Twilight rushed upstairs while the others continued to ‘do battle’. As Twilight answered the door she was greeted by the sight of both Celestia and her brother Shining Armor.
Suddenly her senses flared and she ducked. A pillow flew over her head and collided with Celestia’s face. Discord, who still looked like Oddjob, laughed hysterically at Celestia’s unimpressed face.
Shining Armor was taken back in shock. “Gah… it’s… Oddjob… and James Pony… and Alec Stallyan” he commented, remembering all the old faces of the videogame characters.
“Hi princess… Shining” Twilight greeted them but they both had looks of worry on their faces, Celestia’s face changing from her dire expression into that of a worried one. “Something wrong?” she asked.
“Twilight… may we come in?” Celestia asked and Twilight nodded then led them inside.
“Alright, more enemies” Dash called out and tossed another pillow directed at Celestia. Celestia caught the pillow and tossed it back playfully, catching Dash and knocking her back.
“Twilight… I have… that game of yours, how much have you been playing it?” Celestia asked worriedly. Twilight thought to herself then shrugged.
“A lot” she replied casually and Shining sighed.
“Twily, the reason that N64 was boxed up was so that I wouldn’t play it all the time. When I was your age I was hooked and when I met Cadence I knew I had to get rid of it. I had her box it up in hopes of getting rid of it and that’s why I asked you to sort through all my things. I was hoping that you’d get rid of it for me” Shining explained.
Rarity and Fluttershy entered the room. Angel finally broke free of her grasp and literally lept through the air and cuddled up to the N64. “Precious… my precious” he gurgled.
Everyone’s look was priceless, their mouths were slightly opened while their eyebrows were raised. “I don’t think I really need to explain further… I mean look at you all. You’re dressed like 007 characters” Celestia commented and Discord clapped, returning them to their regular state.
Twilight realized to herself how much this had gotten out of hand. “Wow…I uhh… never knew how much this had gotten out of hoof” she said but Celestia rested of hoof on her shoulder.
“No Twilight. It wasn’t out of hoof, not yet. But it could have gotten out if hoof if it continued on” Celestia said and Twilight nodded. Dash walked up with Spike and Discord.
“So what happens now?” Dash asked, wondering what exactly they were going to do about this whole predicament.
“Are we going to… destroy it?” Twilight asked, not really wanting to break the game console. Celestia laughed.
“No-no, not at all. All we need to do is give it to some-pony who can put it away and only use it when it’s appropriate, such as friends over and what not” Celestia told her.
Twilight thought to herself. “Oh I know. We’ll give it to you princess” Twilight offered and Celestia once again laughed.
“That wasn’t exactly what I had in mind. I was thinking more like… Rarity” she said and Rarity gasped.
“Princess… you can’t be serious… why would I ever need that wretched thing?” Rarity gasped and Celestia giggled.
“For that reason exactly. Your life will not be a decision about whether or not to play it. You have no liking of the game console so it will not be a large part of your life. And for that reason it should be you who take this machine under your watch” Celestia informed her and levitated over the entire console.
Twilight was sad to see the Nintendo-64 leaving but knew that she could probably go over to Rarity’s if she really wanted to play it. In a way Celestia was right, things could’ve gotten out of hand if they went any further.
Rarity took a hold of the game console in her magic and nodded. “I shall take good care of it and make sure it is always functional” Rarity said. They all nodded and conversed a while longer before all going their separate ways.
Twilight looked to the time to realize it was almost ten o’clock. “Wow… we should really be going to sleep, eh Spike” Twilight commented and he nodded. Twilight proceeded to turn off all the lights in the home before trotting up stairs to her bed.
She’d never forget that N64, not for as long as she lived. The videogame that had such a large impact on her in such a little amount of time. She tucked herself in before looking out her window and to the stars. She whispered a quiet prayer then quietly fell asleep, dreaming of James Pony and herself in a romantic getaway.
Elsewhere at the boutique Rarity closed shop. She yawned to herself and began to put away the videogame console that had caused so much commotion. ‘I wonder why Twilight liked this game so much anyway. What could be so fun about a simple videogame?’ she thought to herself.
She was about to put the game console away when she glanced over to her television then back to the clock. It was only 10:15pm. She could just hook it up and have a little peek.
She took the videogame console out of the box and hooked it up to the TV then turned on the game console. A small smile crept across her face as the beginning cinematic began to play.
