//------------------------------// // Small Game Reference // Story: The Chaos Has Been Tripled! // by CroisSunnyPlay //------------------------------// ##Third Person## PRESS START It read in big, bold and blinking letters. (So much B...) Screwball stared at the text for some seconds before looking at Random, who had a silly smile on his face. "So... This is...?" She asked him. "Screwball, what you see now is the start-" He snorted a little at that. "-of the second most chaotic thing to ever exist: Video Games!" He said extending his arms to his sides. "What's the first?" Random had an extremely (silly) serious expression on his face. "You don't want to know..." "But why are Video Games so chaotic?" She looked curiously around. "Pfft, have you ever played those things? The physics in some games make no sense at all! I'm starting to suspect that dad was the one to create them. I mean, a hedgehog drowning underwater? A robot that doesn't go into short circuit if he is wet? Haha, they are my favorite games." "Oh, I see! So now you turned the whole place in a Video Game?" "Yeah! And here comes the hedgehog I mentioned!" Random said pointing at a bipedal blue hedgehog who had red and white shoes and green eyes. The hedgehog paused before giving the siblings a thumbs up. "Sonic's the name, speed is my game!" He said in a clearly male voice before taking off running at impressive speeds. Screwball's eyes lit up in amazement and she looked at Random with a big smile on her face. "I wanna play!" "But of course." Random said in a fake French accent, before laughing and pressing 'Start'. Twilight was panicking. Not pig soup-rice.{1} She looked around at what appeared to be a normal Ponyville, but there were strange creatures running around. She could swear she even heard one of them shout 'Mamamia!' when it ran face-first in what appeared to be a giant green pipe. All of them were shocked at the changes. "Weeee!!" Well, almost all of them. The five ponies and one dragon looked down at a little highway circuit on the ground. You heard it right, it was a miniature version of a circular highway, in which eight miniature karts were racing. Of which one was absolutely pink like it's occupant. Pinkie Pie had somehow shrunk to the size of the karts and was now having lots of fun racing against the other karts. Anypony that happened upon them at that time would swear that there was an audible crashing sound as Twilight's mind broke. Trying to not damage the miniature highway, Twilight leaned down to speak with her tiny friend. "Pinkie?" Said pony stopped out of the way of the other karts and when she spoke it was actually loud enough for everypony (and dragon) to hear, like she was still her normal size. "Yes, Twilight?" "Care to explain why you're so tiny?" By now, one of Twilight's eyes was twitching slightly at the impossibility in front of her eyes. "Well, duh! If I wasn't tiny to play the game, then it wouldn't be a 'minigame' would it?" Pinkie explained in a matter-of-fact tone. Pinkie. "Yyyyeeeeessssss?" Pinkie said sweetly to the sky. ...Did you steal my jokes? "Nnnnnnnnnooooooo..." A guilty smile was on her face now. Pinkie. Give me my jokes back. "Oh fine, party pooper." Pinkie pouted as she walked a little ways away and put one hoof to her mouth, blowing on it and somehow growing back to her normal size. She then reached into her mane and pulled out a book that said "Jokes" on the cover and threw it upwards, much to Twilight's horror. To everyone's surprise, the book didn't fell back down, but continued going up and up and up until it disappeared on the sky. Thank you. Now go back to the story. "Okey dokey!" Rainbow Dash sighed and rubbed her forehead with a hoof. "Pinkie Pie... You're so random." Meanwhile, a little ways away from the mane six, a certain chaos being sneezed. "Ah'm not sure Ah'll ever understand that girl, but that's not important right now. Twilight, what the hay do we do?" Applejack said, turning to supposed leader of the mane six. Twilight shook herself out of her Pinkie-induced stupor at the question. "The princesses! Surely they already know what's happening and are coming to help, we just gotta confront that creature until they get here!" "Um, I'm not sure Twilight..." Came Fluttershy's voice (more like whisper). "Last time we tried that, Discord separated and changed us... What if that is him again! Ooh, I'm so scared!" She squeaked before diving behind Applejack's flank again (Not in that sense, you perverts). "Landsakes, mah flank is not that big!" Applejack exclaimed indignantly. Rarity was having trouble containing her giggles. "Well Applejack, you have to admit that-" "Ah swear Rares, if ya finish that sentence Ah'll smudge mud all over yer prissy face!" Rarity didn't say anything, but she didn't stop giggling either when Pinkie decided to join Fluttershy on her hiding spot. "Girls, focus! We don't have time to ponder if Applejack's flank is big enough to hide us all or not!" Twilight almost shouted in frustration, getting a indignant 'Hey!' from the mentioned farmer pony. "We're going to go confront that creature until the princesses get there!" As she said that, a small blue robot floated down from somewhere to hover besides her. "You got: Frustration!" Twilight's eye started violently twitching again as she walked past the robot towards the direction that Random had gone. The others, not sure on what to do, followed after her. Random finally finished his incredible masterpiece. With this, he would be unstoppable! He would have no limitations! No fear! And most importantly, rainbows wouldn't scare him anymore! While Screwball played some "games" around, he had summoned a workbench and got to work on something to help him with his fear. He spent a long time (five minutes) doing that, and it was finally ready. Screwball had noticed it and after jumping on another turtle, approached him. "Hey Random, what do you got there?" He took off his goggles and looked at her before lifting his masterpiece over his head proudly, like the incredible achievement that it was. "This, Screwy, is what's going to help me rid myself of my fear of rainbows!" Random then put it on. He adjusted the glasses. Yep, it looked like a simple pair of glasses. "With this on, rainbows and rainbow-colored things will seem only a single color to me! Hahahaha, I'm a genius!" Random then started laughing madly, like a mad scientist that has just created a Frankenstein. Screwball joined on his laughter, because she too thought it was brilliant. It was to this scene that the mane six arrived, the two chaotic siblings laughing like crazy over a pair of glasses. Pinkie, of course, walked up to them and joined in the laughter, she didn't know why they were laughing, but it seemed to be a happy laugh, and she loved happy laughs! The rest of the mane six just stared at them. After having calmed down, Random and Screwball finally noticed Pinkie. "Hello again, Pink One! Did you come to apologize?" Random asked Pinkie, who tilted her head in confusion. "Apologize? But what did I do?" "You see, you and your friends put my dad in stone again before I could see him. It's been a long time since we talked, and I wanted to spend some time with him again, you know?" "Stone?" Pinkie then gasped and spoke in one breath. "OhmygoshareyouDiscord'sson!?" "IndeedIambutlet'snotspeaklikethisI'mstillrecoveringfrommytimeinstone!" Random answered equally in one breath. "Okie Dokie! Sorry about having to put your dad in stone again, but he was going to make everypony sad with eternal chaos, and I don't like seeing sad ponies." Random patted the pink pony on the head in understanding. "I know how that is, but I'm sure it wouldn't be that bad. I mean, with eternal chaos, we could have chocolate rain any time we wanted!" "I know, right!? It was what I said when we first came to stop Discord!" "Hmm..." Random scratched his chin, deep in thought before looking at his little sister. "Screwball, are you sure she's not our mom or something? She seems to think like us." Screwball shrugged as Pinkie giggle-snorted. "Silly! I'm too young to be somepony's mommy! But I can be your Auntie Pinkie if you want!" "I'll think about it." Random said with a smile. Twilight finally had enough of the interaction before her and yanked Pinkie backwards with her magic, the party pony sliding to a stop besides her. "Pinkie, what are you doing!? We don't know what that... Thing is capable of! Don't do that again!" "Aww, but I want to be his friend!" Twilight massaged her temples with her hooves. "I don't have time for this..." Turning back to look at Random, who she noticed was wearing glasses now and was sitting on a floating chair with Screwball on his lap as he petted her with one hand like a cat. Twilight took a deep breath to calm down her nerves and stepped forward with a firm look on her face. "Creature! Teel me who are you and I also demand that you stop spreading chaos!" Twilight frowned a little as she heard herself speaking, it sounded like something from one of those comics that Spike reads. She was brought out of her thoughts by Random, who started chuckling. "You heroes are all the same. You come to the villain and demands that they stop being evil. In my opinion, that's like demanding that water stop being wet. You think that just because you're 'important', you can go around and decide who started being evil. Evil is relative, my dear. What is evil to you, is entertainment for another. You think that just because we do what we want, you have a right to demand us to stop. With that said, I am Random Oddball, and I refuse to stop!" The ponies and dragon had to admit that his small monologue made a little sense, and that it was a little impressive. But apparently somepony had a different opinion. Namely, a black Pegasus stallion with a black and white mane styled like that of Vinyl Scratch. He seemed to have no cutie mark, but that wasn't what caught everypony's (do I have to mention dragon as well?) attention. It was his eyes. They were of a crimson red color, and his pupils seemed to be a darker shade of red. Also, he was speaking to Random. "No no no! Your line was supposed to be 'I refuse to acknowledge that order!' Why did you go and change it!?" Random rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. "Sorry, but the 'acknowledge' part doesn't sound that good..." The stallion facehoofed and started walking back to a chair that happened to be close by, and sat down. "Whatever. Let's just continue." A small grey bat pony filly stood by his side, pouting. She had a two tone blue mane and dark red eyes that for some reason weren't slits. She was also wearing glasses.{2} "Why do I have to be here, as your assistant nonetheless?" She asked the stallion while holding a glass of water to him, which he took and thanked her for it. "Because you're cute enough to deserve an appearance in my other stories." "I'm not cute!" "Whatever you say. Where were we... Ah, yes! Scene two, take two, action!" And then it was like the stallion and the filly were never there. Seriously, they just... Vanished. For the sake of her sanity (or what was left of it, anyway), Twilight decided to not question what just happened, instead turning her attention to Random. "You can't keep spreading chaos! It's not right-" She tried to reason before Random interrupted her by banging his first on the arm of the chair. "Silence! You come to my presence, trying to tell me what's right and what's not after what you have done!? What kind of hypocrites are you!?" He said with eyes narrowed. Twilight was taken aback by his exclamation. "W-what are you talking about?" Random closed his eyes and resumed petting Screwball. Gone was the playful and happy air around him, replaced by that of a bitter, exhausted man who has lived for too long. "You don't know what it's like to be trapped during a thousand years in stone. To see the time pass, to FEEL the time pass, but not going with it, instead being left behind." He opened his eyes and looked at the ponies and dragon, who shivered at the look of those eyes. "I have gone insane. And then I became sane again. But then I became bored of sanity, and gave in to insanity once more. I looked into the Void and saw things. Fascinating things. Terrible things. The old me, the one human from earth, died during these years, and I am what's left. And who's to blame for that? Your 'princesses'." "Now hold on a second!" Rainbow spoke up defiantly. "It's not the princess' fault that you-" "What? That I am different? That I am not a pony!? News flash, Skittles, back in that time, your princesses despised everything that wasn't a pony, even more so beings that weren't 'harmonic' as she said it. What do you think was the real reason for Nightmare Moon's banishment? Ol' Celly couldn't have a 'dark and disharmonic' being related to her. She was a tyrant disguised as a princess. She didn't deserve that crown!" Random paused to take a deep breath and calm down, somewhere during that he had begun to shout, and Screwball was looking worriedly at him. "They deserve all the supposed 'evil' in the world to come show them the errors of their ways." He resumed petting Screwball as everyone fell into a stunned silence. Were his words true? If yes, wouldn't that make the princesses the villains? They looked back at Random, but he was back to smiling like a fool. "With that out of the way, who wants to play a game? The last players have just arrived." Random said and held out a hand, where a floating box appeared with text in it. Sunbutt joined the game Moonflank joined the game As everyone started at the box, Random looked at them all with a raised eyebrow. "...I can get gamer names for you all if you want." {1} Guess from where that phrase is. {2} Yep, these two are me in my pony form, and Blaze, from my other story.