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// Water 
// Story: ZOHMYWHAT2 
// by cloudedguardian 
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	Rainbow Dash fiddled with the chair for a few seconds before settling into it and placing her hooves back on their positions at the keyboard and mouse. A slightly wicked smile spread across her face as their character turned and began climbing down the ladder under her direction. An audible, and in Pinkie’s opinion, ominous splash announced their arrival in the sewer.
Having apparently thrown subtly to the wind now, the game provided another enemy just around the first corner, just as disfigured as the first had been. Rarity suppressed a shudder as its head rolled in all the wrong ways in its attempt to look at their character and Rainbow Dash promptly charged forward to take it down. She got hit once before getting the hang of it, and the enemy fell into the water with a thunk.
“Okay, weird.”
“I know!” Pinkie exclaimed, earning a raised eyebrow from RD. ‘There should have been a splash, not a- *thunk*”
“Okay, one, I was talking about the controls, two, how the heck did you make that noise?”
Pinkie looked up at her friend with her big blue eyes- And shrugged. Well, if Pinkie Pie herself didn’t know, there was no point in questioning it, so Rainbow simply turned back to face the screen.
“Uggh, its eyes are still glowing!” Rarity whined, shuffling her front hooves in a  clear display of disgust.
Twilight smirked a little, tilting her head to eye the screen. “Now only if we knew whether or not that was deliberate… It could be a visual glitch.”
“Uh, girls? Hate to be Captain Obvious here, but- It don’t matter.” Rainbow said, rolling her eyes slightly. 
“There’s a monster around every corner!” Pinkie announced in a dramatic theatre-like voice, before giving in to a fit of giggles. “Hey Rainbow, Twitchy Mctwitchy Twitcherson would like to say hi!”
“Hi,” Rainbow deadpanned as she slammed the back arrow key to jump out of the way as the monster suddenly took on a burst of speed and tried to brain their character. “Nice to meet’cha, but I gotta go,” she added, as the monster hit the water in defeat. “Asta la vista!”
“I appreciate your attempt at humor Rainbow Dash, but could you please refrain from movie references I can’t follow?” Rarity asked delicately, while raising an eyebrow at Applejack’s attempts to hold her composure.
‘Why should I? Even the egghead got it!” Dash chuckled, earning her a swat from Twilight’s magazine on queue from the purple unicorn herself.
“Just because I’ll read pretty much anything I get my hooves on, including mass amounts of pop culture and movie reviews, doesn’t mean we all do Rainbow.” Twilight said lightly, dropping her magazine back in it’s place on the table.
“Yeah, most of us just go watch the movie.” Rainbow replied, turning in her chair to grin at her.
“Less talky more walky!” Pinkie said quickly, before poking Rainbow in the arm. “Or are you scaaared?”
“I’m goin’, I’m goin’,” Rainbow muttered, turning back around to bid their character forward again and up a nearby ladder. “And see Pinkie? No invisible water monsters.”
“This time.”
“Suuure. Oh, look like we got another save point! That’s not ominous, eh Twily?” Rainbow snorted, clicking on the tape-recorder.
‘Don’t call me Twily,” Twilight huffed. “Only my BBBFF gets to do that. And the save point is probably because of the monsters behind us, not ahead.”
“I vote ahead, personally, but whatever you say.”

Going through the door ahead prompted a short tutorial on the ‘How-to’s of dodging, the use of which RD mastered very quickly on the monster just around the next corner.
‘You know Pinkie, you were right about one thing.”
“I was?”
“Yep. These guys love putting monsters around corners.”

Sure enough, at the crossroads a few steps away, a turn to the left would reveal yet another monster more than willing to knock them a new one… Not that it got to, as it was unable to land even one blow with Rainbow’s well timed dodges and attacks.
“Yer makin’ that look too easy RD.”
“I guess I’m just that awesome.”

Rainbow waded out into the water with a bit of a swager- Making her spectacular jump a second later as a monster charged out in front of her from around the corner all the more epic.
“Fff-ahhhahaa!” She gasped, yanking reflexively away from the screen as her character leaped back to land on the concrete steps behind them. The monster seemed to be an inch away in seconds. “Holy buck you’re fast.”
“Rainbow!”
“What?!”
“Get’em Dashie! Give ‘em the ol’ one-two!”
“I’m working on it!”
“Is it just me, or is its eyes glowin’?”
“They’re glowing.”
“Oh… my…”

With a comforting thud the six’s conversation was brought to an end by the surprisingly speedy sudden attack of the monster’s finishing with its death. Rainbow Dash seemed to almost wilt with relief as her heart resumed it’s normal pace and she stepped over the corpse, and waded through the water ahead to find a dead-end… And a lever. 
“Oh I get it, I bet he was guarding this.” Twilight said cheerfully, earning a raised eyebrow from Rainbow.
“Yeah, that- Or they just like sticking monsters around corners for built in jump scares.”
“Well, that too…?”
Rainbow rolled her eyes again before giving the lever a quick pull. The screech of metal quickly followed the action, announcing that a new passageway was open.
“If monsters guard stuff, then does that mean that twitchy twitch back at the crossroads was guarding something too?” Pinkie asked, tilting her head quizzically.
“I may as well check. I have no idea where the new passageway is right now anyway.”

It turns out that Pinkie was correct. The monster had been guarding what used to be a shut chain link fence- Which was now open wide to allow them to progress.
“Good one, Pinks!”
Pinkie beamed.

Through the gate, out the door, and into the beautiful fresh air of a clear and star-lit night. And then the phone had to ring.
“Help me!! Please help, they’re coming! I’m inside the apartments, hurry-Please!”
“Well, crap.”









A/N I have the stomach flu. My back hurts. I feel like crap. SO WHY DO I WANT TO WRITE SO BAD? >.> One way to get my mind off things I suppose. Yay for inspiration at weird times? XD But, yeah, tiny chapter. You'll get some more when I start feeling a bit better.