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Author's Note
Sorry for the late chapter, there was this black out for days and I couldn't access the internet. Thank Celestia my uncle let I and my family stay over for a couple of days. Unfortunate enough though to forget the laptop. Anyway, hope you forgive me for the short chapter, but here it is. Also, please excuse for using my own name in this story, but we can't just have a nameless random colt in here now can we? Again, so sorry for chapter shorties but this is the best I can do as I'm trying to fit 'fan fiction writing time' into my shenanigan schedules and what not.
And stay chaotic guys!
(Also, self insertion. Because I can!)
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6 Hours Later
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It is 8:32 PM. Luna has spent her entire day fighting non-stop against her foe, the Covenant. As she walks through the halls of the abandoned RGF and UNSC headquarters, she contemplates on her adventures with Noble team. She weeps for the deaths of her nonexistent comrades as they all fell to a cruel fate. Job was the first to go when he sacrificed himself to activate the Slip-Space bomb. She had no control over that moment as it was within his programming to do so. She could still hear his last words to "Make it count". What did he mean by that? Is it to make every bullet she has to hit those alien bastards? Or is it to make sure to spend their time wisely and evacuate the citizens?
Luna then remembers Cat. She was so close, yet so far. Luna hasn't even seen this coming. Had she had the option at the time, she would of taken the needle for Cat and taken out the gunner at the same time. It would of been awesome but yet again, stupid cutscene. June was ordered by Cloudrain to protect Dr. Haylsey while she goes towards CASTLE Base. Why would Cloudrain make the descision to make June do so, she'll never know. Then there was Cloudrain himself. Luna grabs a hoof full of tissues and dabs her eyes. Why did that idiot had to go slam the Pelican into the Scarab? She had a rocket launcher at the time and could of taken out its eyes. Smile was the last one to go. Strange colt that pony was. Yet he was so cool when he took out one of those Elites while stabbed in the chest. All of this, all these deaths, just for this lousy blue container. What is this thing again? An artificial intelligence program? Yea, that thing. Everypony died for this horseapple and half of Noble team didn't even know it. Well it got delivered to the Pillar of Autumn, and now, she is going to finish this. No more running away.
"Luna," Captain Keys said. "You sure you want to do this?"
Luna gave him a smile he'll never see. "Ooooh more than anything. I had a good run, but now I need to finish this."
"Alright, good luck then, and have fun." Captain Keys said.
Luna walks up the steps to find three Zealot class Elites waiting for her. All of them unsheathed their swords, looking at her with those black, malicious, beady eyes.
"Oh I will." Luna responded with a grin.
Luna breaks out her Sniper Rifle and aims her crosshairs over one of the lizard's heads. She pulls the trigger and lands the hit with 120 percent accuracy. She decides to slam the rifle into the second elite's face as it was her last bullet, and trades it for his sword. As the zealot stumbles into his friend, he gets pushed back towards Luna and she swiftly slices the poor reptile into two pieces. The last one is shocked at his mistake and roars in rage at his own stupidity, and at Luna for killing his brothers in arms. It sprints towards Luna with a sword in one hand, and a Fuel Rod in another. Firing in three bursts at a time, the elite rains Luna with green energy balls that will surely melt the armor off her. Luna was splashed upon by green goo and explosions as the Zealot looks upon his victory. As the smoke clears, a blue flash flies from the dark and impales the elite to the wall behind it. Luna steps out from the smoke that is now revealing a blue bubble shield that Luna placed down seconds before the hit.
She walks over to the pad with the mass driver and pauses to look at Smile's body. It leans on the rail, surrounded by two elite bodies. Luna chuckles a little as she looks at the pony skull that was embroidered. It still has that smile on it. She trots over to the seat where the controls are and aims towards the hovering Covenant cruiser. She goes for the red underbelly of the beast and charges up the cannon for the final blow. Suddenly the room was filled with light and she misses.
"LUNA!", Celestia shouted.
"Huh? What?" Luna muttered as she squints to look at her sister.
"Its 8:55 and you still havn't raised the moon!", Celestia said.
Luna looked beyond her sister and sees that the sun is still out.
"But the sun is still up, how is it 8:55 when your big ball of fire is still in the air?", Luna complains.
Celestia looks partially annoyed now. "That's because I can't set it down when the moon isn't rising at the same time."
Luna looked at her sister again with blinking eyes. She rubbed her eyes to clear her vision and stretched her legs. She trots out from the game chamber and calmly brings out the power of the moon from within. It's usually an effortless amount of work, but tonight she felt extremely tired. When the moon appears over the horizon, the sun finally sets and Luna stumbles a little.
"Luna, are you okay?" Celestia asked.
Luna struggles to get up. "Yes sister, I'm fine."
"How long have you been in there?"
"I - I don't know?"
Celestia looked at her sister in worry. If she has been in there for at least 5 hours playing without rest, Luna could be out of commission for the rest of the night.
"Luna, did you eat at all yet?" Celestia asked.
Luna gives a thought about it. "Ummm, I don't think so?"
"Luna! Why didn't you take a break?!", Celestia said.
"I did!"
"To do what?"
"Ummm...to go to the bathroom."
Celestia sighed at her sister's actions. She thought it was a good idea to let her sister delve into the world of video games, but Luna out did herself and stayed in the dark too long. Celestia makes a note to herself to put some lanterns in there. Then again, her place isn't exactly the healthiest place to stay in for too long.
"Hmmm, Luna?" Celestia asked.
"Yes Tia?" Luna said.
"I think it's about time we go get an XBUCK for your own room," Celestia said.
Luna stared at her sister for an extremely long second. One second, Tia gets mad at Luna for not raising the moon, Then she is willing to go with her for a shopping trip? This is most unusually, and possibly the second best, day of her life. She jumps up and down for joy with a smile on her face.
"Oh thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!" Luna cried.
"Eheh, yes Lulu."Celestia said sheepishly as she tracks Luna's movements. "Dear mother, what have I created?"
Luna stopped for a moment when a thought passed her mind. "Wait, how are we gonna go out without attracting attention dear sister?"
Celestia looked at Luna in the eye. "Oh dear, she has that twinkle in her eye again," Luna thought.
"Why just leave that to me."
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Next Day
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"This is a stupid idea," Luna thought to herself. Celestia and Luna were out in the middle of Canterlot. It was a Sunday, so fortunately there were no stupid meetings about tax payer's laws or crops getting trampled by rabbit swarms. Unfortunately, Celestia always had weird ideas on what to do on Sundays. Today is no exception. Tia casted an invisibility spell on her horn, lowered the connection between her mane and the sun to change it to it's usual pink and straight self, and taped a picture of a sun with a smiley face over her cutiemark. Luna suited up in a black robe similar to the one from NIghtmare Night, transformed her hair to a design similar when she was released from her dark self, and adorns a pair of red reading glasses.
"Sister, we're going to be spotted," said Luna.
"Nonsense my dear Luna," whispered Celestia. "Our disguises are perfect!"
"We are still the same height as before!", Luna whispered harshly. "There's no way anypony will be fooled by this guise. The media will find out! We'll be laughing stocks!"
"Oh hush." Celestia flipped her mane. "As long as we don't talk to anypony or get in touch with our magic, everything will be fine."
'You mean everything will go to horseapples,' Luna thought. "Now just remember, if anypony asks, our names are Sunshine Daisy and Cloudy Night!", said Celestia.
"You were always horrible with names." Luna chuckled.
"Ah, here we are," Celestia said.
In front of the two royal sisters was a store large enough to be mistaken for an entrance to a mall, if not for the big sign "Game&Hoof Warehouse" with an icon of a video game controller next to it. They both step through the doors and Luna is greeted by shelves and shelves of game cases. There were multi-color sections in the store, one washed in blue, another imblazed with red, another smeared with black, and many more. 'It's almost like our garden maze in here,' Luna thought with admiration.
Thousands of ponies flocked around the place, looking at the various assortment of games, playing with the toy props (one that looks like the gravity hammer), or watching the TV screens with controllers in their hooves. Across the from the sisters was a kiosk cash register being manned by a single pony, looking at a magazine. The colt appeared to be a unicorn. His mane wasn't styled in any way and was a plain color of black, and his coat is the color of beige. He doesn't look like much at first but Luna looks at his cutie mark and knows it from anywhere.
"Chaotic?" Luna said. "It is good to see you!"
The colt looks up from his reading and has a look of suprise on his face. "Luna? Is that you? Hey whats up?" Chaotic smiled. "I didn't know you were into video games."
"Neither did I," Luna said. "We haven't seen you at Canterlot for a long time. Where were you?"
"Well," Chaotic said as he pondered. "I was going around, touring the cities of Las Pegasus and Manehattan. Nothing much to do there for me, I decided to head back home to Canterlot when I found this guy trying to sell the place here. He said he was retiring and said 'I looked like the colt to take it over.' So I took over the place and made it into the beautiful video game supermarket you see here." He looks away sheepishly. "Sorry I forgot to visit you guys, but its just so dang busy every day that I can't find the time to come by. This store is only managed by a few ponies after all."
"So uh, mind telling me why you two are in disguise again?" Chaotic said with a grin.
Luna looked away embarassed. "Well, our sister just thought these disguises were perfect. We would never wear such an attire willingly. We would rather grace our subjects with our royal presence!"
Chaotic laughs. "Oh my god, Celestia really? Couldn't you just send the usual guards to come by?"
Celestia smiles innocently. "Oh, but I had to let Luna know you were in the city. She was bored like a bale of hay ever since you've went. She always complained to me how she wanted to dress you up into the maid costume again."
"Celestia! We did not say that!" Luna denied.
Chaotic chuckles at the two sisters. "Well I'm glad to see you too. Now then, what can I bring you girls?"
"Well, Luna is going to need an XBUCK 360, twelve month live membership, and a couple games of her choosing." Celestia said.
"Alright then, Luna do you have a specific color you want your console to be?" Chaotic asked.
Luna thinks about it for a moment. "Do you have one with the design of the midnight sky?"
"Hmmm, no but I can have Blue Lightning paint it," Chaoticnote said. "Blue! Can you come over here for a sec?"
"Coming!" yells a mare's voice.
A blue streak of light comes flying over from the blue section of the store. As Luna coughs and waves the smoke away, she sees a light blue mare with a mane striped with blue and white. She had wings that had a sharp edge to them and her feathers dotted with a lightining pattern of the same color as her mane. She dons a cutie mark of a cloud with two lightning bolts of blue come out of it.
"Watcha need boss?" asked Lightning.
"Blue, I have a paint job for you," Chaotic said.
"Okay, whats the order?"
"Its an XBUCK 360 colored like a night sky," Chaotic said. "Luna, is there any other specifics you want on it?"
"Can we have the constalation of an Ursa Major on it, and have have a line art of one drawn over it please!" Luna said.
"Wait," Lightning said with a confused look. "Did you just say Luna? As in Princess Luna?"
Chaotic looked over to her and gave her a smile. "Yea, didn't you hear what I said?"
Lightning had her jaw hit the floor. "Oh. My. Gosh. It's LU-mmmph!"
Chaotic had a hoof over Lightning's mouth. "Shuush! Do you want to whole store to mob over here?"
Lightning peers over to the left to see a bunch of ponies looking at her. "Mmh (Oh)," she said.
"If I let go, do you promise to not yell, shriek, scream, or go fan girl about Luna?" he said.
"Mmmh hmm," she said.
Chaotic sighs as he takes his hooves off Lightning. "Ok, uh could you go work on that thing of hers? You're attracting a lot of attention."
Lightning blushes slightly with a sheepish grin as a lot of ponies are still staring at her. She gives the unamused boss a salute then dashes off towards the back of the store with a path of static trailing after her. Chaotic lets out a sigh of relief.
"Excuse me for my and her behavior. She always has some sort of antics up her horseshoes," Chaotic excused. "She's also batsy about you Luna."
Luna smiles. "It's alright Chaotic, but please due tell. I'm still curious of what games are fun here. I do enjoy the shooter games like Haylo and it's really fun, but are there any other games suited to my taste?" she asked.
"Hmmmm, I believe you're still reading on that book, The 300 Pony Odysseys, right?" Chaotic asked.
"Yes," Luna said. "It is of the most delicate of readings. Its form of Equestrian grammer is more well suited to me, and I do enjoy reading the "Battle of Thermopony. Very immersive the book is."
Chaotic chuckled at Luna's obsession with topless stallions in battle. "I bet. Ok if you two would follow me."
Chaotic leads the two royal goddesses into a giant gazebo tent with a silver icon of a what appears to be a dragon. Along the way, the unicorn was picking off several games off the shelves. He kept muttering to himself about 'main stream basics' and 'few unique games'. He opens up one of the tent flaps and bows to the two to let them go in first. Luna hears a chorus of stallions coming from the dark abyss and walks in, entraced by the epics she was being exposed to already. As she takes her first look of whats inside, she gasps at the big screen in the middle as she witnesses a stallion in armor cuts a gash to the underbelly of a dragon. She looks on as what she perceives the beast's very essence being stolen by the warrior. As the scene cuts the the sky, the title of the game appears.
"I believe the Pony Scrolls Five: Skyrim is in your taste, mistress to the night?" Chaotic asked.
Luna's lips quiver at the taste of adventure as she continues to watch the screen's hero take on more challenges against frost trolls and giant ponies. "Yes," she whispers. "This is what your princess desires."