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// Chapter 10 
// Story: Bubbles 
// by Multi Personas 
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	Bubbles
An anthropomorphic MLP fan fiction
“Here we are,” Derpy said as she stopped in front of a two story house. It looked like the other houses next to it, white with a straw roof and a few windows. “Lets go,” Derpy said as she walked up to the door with you following. She pulled out a set of keys and unlocked the door. “My parents don't get home till four and my little sister gets home from school at 3:30,” she says as she walks in.
“Nice place,” you say as you walk in. You walk into the living room which had a big blue sofa sitting on a rug in the middle of the room, facing a flat screen, which was sitting on an entertainment center. A few pictures line the walls, they look hand painted, and it has a few doors leading off to other places as well as a set of stairs leading upwards.
“Thanks,” Derpy said as she pointed to a closed door next to the stairs. “Bathroom is through that door, and the kitchen is through here,” she said leading you through a door that lead you to a nice looking kitchen and dinning room. It had a marble island that had four burners on it in the middle of the kitchen area, a stainless steel oven with a matching double door fridge, microwave, and sink lining the walls. The dinning room area had a large wooden table with matching chairs around it and a chandelier above it. On the table sat a bowl of fruit, probably wax.
Derpy opened a small door revealing a pantry and grabbed out a pack of popcorn. “Can't game without popcorn,” Derpy said as she passed you to the microwave. A few minutes later, you and Derpy are in the living room, sitting on the floor, X Buck 360 dragged out from a cabinet on the entertainment center, and games spread out in front of you. You had the task of picking out a game. A lot of these games were very similar to the games back on your world, just named differently.
“How about Pony Kombat 9?” you ask looking back at Derpy who was munching on popcorn. With a nod of her head you pop the game in and Derpy, quickly brushing off the popcorn grease on her shorts, sets it up. It was a simple fight; two rounds, level randomized, infinite time. When the character selection screen popped up you quickly select Scorpion, your go-to Mortal Kombat Kombatant, while Derpy selects Kitana. A random stage is selected and the game starts.
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“FIGHT!”
You both jump back and you shoot out your spear towards Kitana who jumps to dodge it but you get her when you summon Demon Fire as she lands, taking away some of her health. She quickly gets up and throws her fans at you, then quickly follows up with Upraise, making you flail hopelessly in the air. She quickly finishes the combo with an air dash, taking away more health. You jump up and throw another spear and again Kitana jumps to avoid it, but you get her when you teleport attack her in mid air. She quickly gets up and starts throwing her fans at you. One of them hit but you quickly teleport behind her and uppercut her in the air, immediately followed by an air throw. She quickly recovers and when you are in striking distance she starts attacking with her fans, but you put a stop to that with a leg sweep, followed with a kick. You quickly dash towards her as she gets up and you finish her off with a punch to her gut, an elbow attack, and a flaming uppercut, draining her health all the way.
“Round two!” you hear as Kitana gets up and you both take a fighting stance, “FIGHT!”
Kitana quickly throws her fans, both striking you, and quickly air dash over you and start a three kick combo, attacking your back. With the last kick you are flung forwards onto the ground, but you don't stay there for long as you jump up and quickly throw a spear. The spear hits and you yank her towards you, quickly following up with the same three punch combo as last round. You go for another punch but she blocks in time but you quickly do a leg sweep and follow up with a slash from both of your swords that you had on your back. She quickly jumps up and attack you with kicks. You try to block them but you are too slow. After the last kick you jump back, trying to gain some distance between you too, them follow up with a Demon Fire. As she was burning you quickly throw a spear and yank her towards you and follow up with two quick high kicks and a middle kick which sends her flying backwards.
“Finish her!” you hear as Kitana gets up but is stunned and wobbly. You hands light on fire and a purple smoke surrounds Kitana, completely hiding her from view. The smoke starts to shrink and so does Kitana. When the smoke clears you can see a now baby Kitana, who pulls out her fans, which are now bigger than her, and attempt to wield them, only to be thrown up in the air and dropped down, where she started crying, the fans landing in the ground besides her.
“Scorpion wins! Babality!” you hear before everything goes dark.
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“Best two out of three,” Derpy said before starting another game. In the next game you were in the lead but at the last moment Derpy pulled some good combos and won, however you won the third game by a mile. Somewhere around the sixth game Dinky came home from school.
“Hey Dinky, how was school?” Derpy asked over her shoulder but never taking her eyes off the game.
“It was alright, got a B on a test,” Dinky said as she plopped down on the couch and took a handful of the dangerously low popcorn. You turn and look at Dinky and give a little wave with a smile. “Hello,” she said returning the smile.
“Oh right,” Derpy said before giving introductions.
The game didn't last much longer and Derpy won by a hair. “Ah ha!” she said excitedly when she won.
“Congrats, I believe the score is now 4:2?” you say, taking a handful of popcorn. Derpy just rolls her eyes and gets up and walks into the kitchen and opens the fridge.
“You guys want a soda?” she asks from the fridge.
“Yes!” Dinky said excitedly, making you smile.
“Sure,” you say. Derpy returns seconds later with three purple cans and hands one to you and Dinky. “Ah, generic purple drink, a classic,” you say before popping the tab and taking a long drink draining half of it. It was actually tasted better than the generic purple drink from your world.
“Wanna pick another game?” Derpy asked taking a drink from her drink.
“Sure.”
“If you open that drawer,” Derpy said pointing to a drawer on the entertainment system, “there should be a bunch of other games to different systems.”
You scoot to the draw and pull it out. You see a treasure cove of old and classic games in neat rows. “They are a little old but still fun to play,” you hear Derpy from behind you. You decide to start in what looked like Nintendo 64 games. You see a lot of games that remind you of games from your world. You come across one game that caught your eye. It was a golden cartridge but when you pulled it put it's sticker on the front has been peeled off, but poorly peeled of because there was still bits of paper stuck to it.
“What's this game?” you ask, holding it up.
“Oh! That's Zelda: Marejora's Mask,” Dinky says.
“Huh,” you say turning the cartridge over. When you do you see one word. Ben. “Nope,” you say before putting the game back in it's spot and closing the drawer and scooting back to your spot. “How about some Call of Cutie Modern Warfare 3?” you ask, holding up the game.
“Sure?” Derpy said. She was clearly confused about your behavior, but she didn't press the matter and in a few minutes you both were playing multiplayer on the Resistance map. With twenty minutes on the clock and unlimited points the games starts.
~15 minutes later~
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You ran as fast as you could, but you were too hurt at the moment to run for very long and far too soon you were back to walking. You pulled your AK-47 off your back and tossed it to the ground, trying to lighten the load you had to carry. It was empty anyway. Now you pulled out your trump card. An RPG. It only had one rocket, but one rocket was all you needed. It never failed you yet.
To be honest, you were scared. No, you were beyond scared. You only had one opponent, and she was not real. She couldn't be real. It was impossible. She never shot one bullet, and you only have one shot left. Every shot you took missed, it wasn't natural. You never missed. Your not very religious but you found yourself praying more in this one battle then you ever have in your life. The worst part; she always knew where you were. Almost as if she was looking through your eyes.
A beeping from a radar on your wrist broke you from thoughts. There she was, on the street next to yours. She wasn't moving, she was just waiting.
“Alright. If that's the game you want to play, then fine. Lets play.” you think. It is time to end this. You slowly walk to the street she was on. You sent one last silent prayer, before walking onto the street and face her. Her. There she was. Just standing there. Her sniper rifle slung across her back, and handgun in it's holster. The only thing she had in her hand was a knife. A knife! Did she think this was a game?!
“Fuck it,” you say, readying your RPG. She didn't move, flinch, nothing. You take aim. Not at her, but at her feet. You didn't want to miss. Without missing a beat you pulled the trigger and felt the rocket being propelled out of the RPG. Time seemed to slow to a crawl as you watched the rocket slowly make it's way to it's target. She didn't move, she just stood there.
BOOM!
The rocket kicked up a lot of dirt and debris when it hit, hiding the damage. You let the now useless RPG fall off your shoulder and you smiled. It was over. It was finally over! It was-
FWOOOSH
No. It couldn't be. So close, you were so close! You looked down at your chest and saw a blade in your chest. You felt tears roll down your cheek. It wasn't fair. You looked up and saw her. Just standing there. Completely unscathed. You fell to you knees. It was impossible.
The last thing you saw before you died was her, just standing there.
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“Impossible.”
“What is?” Derpy asked as she set her controller down.
“I shot you with a rocket!” you say putting your head in your hands. “You shouldn't have survived!”
“Magic armor, dude. Explosives don't do anything,” Dinky said. Derpy just giggled and stuck out her tongue at you, and you let out a big sigh.
“Well, I blame the controller,” you say, setting it down and picking up your soda, finishing it off. You never scored one point during the game. You weren't the best at Call of Duty, but you were no noob.
You hear a door open in the kitchen and a voice call out. “Dinky? Derpy?”
“In here mama!” Dinky answers. A few seconds later a tall mare with light blue fur walked in. She had a long blonde mane that curled at the ends, she wore blue jeans that had paint on them and a big flannel shirt that also had paint on it.
“Oh hello,” she said to you.
“This is my mom,” Derpy said.
“Call me Paint,” Paint said shaking your hand. You tell her your name. “Pleasure to meet you, but what are you three doing inside on this beautiful day?” she asked as she went into the kitchen, sorting through the fridge.
“Playing video games,” Derpy said. “Nothing to do outside.”
“Nonsense. I remember when you were a little filly, you always wanted to be outside. Playing in dirt and with bugs,” Paint said from the fridge. “Oh, your father will be staying late at the office, so how about we go out to eat?”
“Sure.”
“Yes!”
“Wanna come with?” Paint asked you.
“Well, I don't want to impose.”
“Nonsense, the more the merrier, just let me change first,” Paint said as she made her way to the stairs she stopped at the top and turned around. “I have to say. You are far more polite than her last coltfriend,” she said with a wink. Derpy turned a bright shade of red and you felt some heat go to your cheeks.
“No! Mom! He is just a friend, not a coltfriend,” Derpy said.
“Uh huh, whatever you say dear,” Paint said with a laugh as she disappeared. Derpy put her head in her hands.
“I am so sorry.”
“It's fine,” you say with an unexplainable smile. “Lets just play another round,” you say picking up your controller.
“Wait,” Dinky said. “You two are dating?”
“NO!”