//------------------------------// // Chapter 2: Multiplayer // Story: Golden-O-Seven, Double Eye // by Trigger_Finger //------------------------------// 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’.