//------------------------------// // Fast mark // Story: Fast Tap's Little Tales // by Fast Tap //------------------------------// Fast Tap’s pov It was a day when my hours at the orphanage were numbered, I felt strange, it was something I didn't expect… And all I was doing is play something on a console “Wow, so it's my last hours, then I'll have to go to something called the school of friendship” Kevight said, “Don't worry Fast, you will have a great time ...” I said “I know I'm going to leave these walls once and for all, but I'm really going to miss all this” Child Love called me from afar “Fast, the lunch!” I paused the game and I went “I'm coming! I'll be back Kevight!” Kevight knew well that it was time to say goodbye ... but he wanted to give me some gift, so while he ate, he went to see what he was playing, it was a console called “griffincube” and next to it he had a box that was from a game that it was in that device called “super sky fighters melee”, it was a game that I played a lot in my time, one where you fought against other creatures of different times, in an arena where the goal is to get the other one off the screen, my character it was one similar to Kevight, it was a ball that had a hammer and a sword, and it also transformed into rock and gave the most varied and creative blows, and using that character, the artificial intelligence of the game could not with me, nor the one using this the final boss at maximum level; Kevight remembering that I still didn't have my Cutie Mark, he saw that video games fit it well, it's something I like and I'm good at it, but how could there be a way to get it? Well, putting the highest level in the game, not more artificial intelligence, but against professional players, a place that many of them were and organized was in something called "Tournament" I come back from eating “I'm back!” Kevight asked me “Hello again, hey ... did you never play online against others around the world?” I responded “Nope, I already told you that I only play in single-player mode” Kevight added,”Because I came up with something great ...” That night, Kevight went out to see everywhere if there was a tournament for tomorrow, and there was one that said on several posters, the largest in all of Equestria, where all the best griffins players go to face their best fighters where the champion meets He carries the cup of the great fighter, it was the opportunity that Kevight had, for one last time, and taking advantage of the fact that the train will leave on the night of the following day Kevight’s pov When tomorrow came, Fast packed his things, they were few, so it didn't take long for me to approach him and talk him I asked “Hi Fast, do you have plans for today?” Fast told me sadly “Just spend the rest of the day waiting for my train and now” I said “Come on, your train is coming tomorrow night, I have something prepared for you” Fast accepted “Ok, one last time friend ...” I took him to where the tournament was, in the Manehattan theater, where the battles will be seen on the big screen, when Fast saw what the place was and saw what it was, he was surprised, but he was also confused Fast asked, “Why am I here?” I said “I know you like this video game a lot, and it's time to show them who you are” Fast added, “wait, will I be ‘with’ or ’against’ them?” I said, “Against them, doesn't it sound great !?” A griffin comes closer and I shrink and hide in Fast Mane and the griffin said “well well well, look who brought the stork to the shark area” Fast said “Ah, an opponent, hello, my name is Fast, Fast Tap… I'm new here” The griffin asked, “Is that your real name or your username?” Fast asked, “what do you mean?” The griffin responded “In tournaments, we don't use our names, but our usernames, for example, my name is ‘Bettle Smash’, but in tournaments, I am ‘Shine’” Fast said thinking a username “Well, my name is ... umm ...” I gave Fast an idea whispering “Kirzy” Fast said “Ah yes, ‘Kirzy’” Shine said “Ok ‘Kirzy’, I'll tell you something from veteran to rookie, this is not a pony thing, this is a matter of griffins ... and as I see ... you are a pony, the controls are made for our claws, not for hooves without fingers, as they press all the buttons at once, sorry to tell you, but you won't win this even with the best fighter” Fast said convinced “Sadly, because I use the best of all, the ‘fighting ball’!” all griffins heard that and laugh as crazy Shine said between laughs “Are you kidding right? that's the WORST character in the game” Fast stopped trusting in himself “Bu-bu-but...” Shine said “The best are the ones we use: the ‘sliding plumber’, the ‘shattering sleeper’, the ‘swordsman’, and the best ones in the list the ‘spray bird’ and my character: the ‘futuristic fox’, I better leave you to reconsider entering…. hahahaha, fighting ball? JA!” I leave the hideout and I land on Fast nose “Don't listen to him Fast, you will show them who you are” Fast said, “a pony that won't pass even the first round?” I responded “No, a pony that will leave him with mouth open” Fast asked, “Why do you trust that I will win?” “Because you completed that game at the maximum level using ONLY that character,” I said And I sang to make him understand: “‘This is a griffin thing’ Yeah, right! That you only win with the best But that is more a myth I will show you ... that you can” Fast interrupts me “But how exactly do you know about that?” I said and go back to sang “Because I saw you play all this time… You didn't use the one on top And what's up? The best who controls the worst And very good! You will show them It doesn't matter who you will be You can also win How have you back done it Play as you play Ignore those who tell you that you can't Play as you play your win will be this game Listen to me Fast, I don't lie You don't need someone new If you want to be, just be you Play your style And are goiiiing to win they can have the biggest weapons, but you have the most powerful weapon, which is your intelligence and strategy, really You say you're not going to do it?” Fast responded “Yes, exactly!” And I keep singing “Show yourself that you are going to beat them It doesn't work to follow a list As if you were a slave to it Perfect is your way of playing Just keep calm and be happy Play as you play Ignore those who tell you that you can't Play as you play your win will be this game Listen to me Fast, I don't lie You don't need someone new If you want to be, just be you Play your style And are goiiiing to win” Fast said repeatedly “I'm going to play my style!” I said for the end “that's my friend! Feel that power and will! You don't need a ‘1v1 fox only’! I believe that you will win your style!” And we said “Let's play!” Fast said before the first match “Yupi!” Fast Tap’s pov Already after time and also practicing, it was time for my first round and battle, I was facing someone who dominates the “swordsman”, on the stage of a platform, there I realized that it was what I faced and would face later : people who, towards several actions at once, who run from one side to another, slide from all sides and attack from anywhere, this was something I didn’t faced before, but I don’t care even though half of my attacks would give him, they were 4 lives with 8 minutes each game, in this one, I could notice his strategy, which led me to take away 3 lives with an aerial attack up, another with a quick attack, and another with a kick towards up in that order and I only had 2 lives left and to end it was very complicated and improvised, I started with an air strike down, then with an attack to the left, when the swordsman went to attack me, I intercepted him with a kick up and an air strike towards As I take it to the left side of the stage, just below the edge of the platform, I used the hammer attack for the end, which led him to be so far from the stage that resulted in my first victory, and my pass, to the second round The griffin that used the swordsman said “WHAT !? How is it possible?” “well-played dude!” I said and the griffin goes with a traumatized face While another game was being played and I was resting for a while, the griffin tells the others that I was a fighter worthy and hard to beat, but no one else believed him In the second round, some already had my eye that it was what I was doing, in that game I was against one who dominated the "sliding plumber", as the name implies, was faster using the technique of sliding than running, and in an arena where the base platform is medium and had about 3 on it, the trick was to make it be in the sky, where it is weaker and easier to beat, but also used the missile attack, where its character is launched horizontally towards a direction, there was a probability that this attack was devastating to the contact, it was a battle where location and luck were always present, but as I said, it was just a matter of attacking and keeping it in the air, and it was another won battle. The same griffin said after the match “See? fights unstoppably” In the third round I faced one who dominated the "shattering sleeper", what is dangerous is his movement to sleep, if my character was close to it, it was a life less, in short, but that was not all, is also more skilled in the air, so he was fighting against someone better than my character, but I was very lucky since in one he almost gave me the movement of sleeping, but it hardly gives me, but I could achieve it without the difficulty of which I would face later, in fact, by the end I decided to end the battle by pulling it down the stage In the fourth round you could feel that 15 minutes of fame, more if you were now facing the best of the best, of which they were in this order: the “spray bird” and the “futuristic fox” who could be considered almost the same, against which I faced was the one that dominated the spray bird, he had an attack called brightness, where he can use it as a projectile reflector or as an attack that sends the enemies up, but he had something in my advantage in that battle, his recovery was one of the worst without his jump in the air, so to beat him I went steadily away from the stage of a base platform and 3 on top of it, to motivate him to fight in his weakness and every time he did more until can't recover and lose the game That griffin said, “No! How did you do it?” I said “It wasn't a matter of luck, but mental games” The griffin said “Anyway, you'll never win this tournament, and more knowing, you'll face the God of Melee” “God of the Melee?” I asked Shine appeared next to me “It's me, and guess what? Here ends your rookie streak Because you face Shine! The one who dominates the SS Tier! While you master the F Tier!” And it was time, the final of this championship: Kirzy Vs Shine, people were already with their eyes without blinking to see who of the 2 won, until some already made their bets, the final was decided on the stage of the base platform big called "Final Destination", when I was in "Ready" the game ... you could feel that the world was going slow, Shine looking at me, people about to shout the excitement of the battle, and I sat with a huge fear When started the “Go!”, I went straight to him making a dash attack, but I quickly got intercepted by a tail attack and his most powerful attack: the “Shine”, it was like the other, but it pushed the rivals close to the sides, and was pushing so much and was the fastest, that in the blink of an eye, I leave the platform, but not the stage and worst of all, he has more strength, greater speed, greater recovery and the greatest resistance, already when I took his first life he had already lost one and was closer to being thrown off the platform more quickly, but something happened, he began to cover the corner of the platform on the side he was on, clinging to it, let go, and return to it, when I try to intercept it, it came out of it quickly, and now I was the easy target and threw myself almost to lose a life, and protected the corner again, but suddenly, I felt that my mind began to act faster, and on top of the corner, i made the sword attack, which goes up and mercilessly down and that was when the fox was released from the corner, which led him down the stage losing a life, and I, clinging to it Shine was sacred “But what ...!” There I felt that my hooves were faster by pressing the buttons, I felt that something in me was shining, but I focused on more beating this game since it is just that he gives me a lot of blows and I almost none was something like blows from each other another as in an RPG, there was only 1 life left for fox and one for my fighting ball and we returned to fight in the corner, and I decided to finish this once and for all, I grabbed it on the edge of the platform, the next thing was to throw it with me to the bottom of it, and while it fell, people could be heard hyped like crazy goats, and Shine screaming in fear, since it was the end, and there I thought about what happened for all that, I faced the biggest of the game and beat them at first, I think none of here will forget that, but seeing that it was what shone, it was my flank and my Cutie Mark appeared, which demonstrates my unstoppable speed of pressing buttons, when I see him jump from emotion and fair comes out in the game "Game! This Game’s winner is… Kirzy! ” Shine fell to the ground “W-who are you?” “I already told you, I'm Fast Tap!”-I said while the other griffins gave me the trophy with tears because they bet on Shine “The quick with the buttons!” Already when it was the night the next day, and after saying goodbye to my mother, I waited at the train station with Kevight, and when they arrived, the doors opened I said “Well ... I think it's goodbye, thanks seriously for giving me my Cutie Mark” Kevight said a little sad “Yea ... I ...” I hugged him tightly “I'm going to miss you too” Kevight hugged back “... never forget me dude” “I will never forget” I entered the train and the doors close When the train started to leave, I saw Kevight in the window all the time ... it was a goodbye to something old and a hello ... to what will come to me ... Fin Fast says “…this Cutie Mark will always remind me of that adventure and Kevight, forever” Kevight responds “Awwwwe, yeah that was very nice in the end” I look at the time and we were a little late “Wow, that was so much that we have to go to our next destination, come on!”