One day, Sundude and Moonbro were walking through town, doing their thing, when they came across a building they hadn't seen before. It was all glowy and making a bunch of weird electrical noises.
"What the pseudo-expletive is an 'Arcade,' dude?" Moonbro asked his brother, lowering his shades to get a better view of the giant neon letters.
"I have no idea, bro," Sundude replied, "but it looks most rambunctious. Let's go check it out."
They went inside, and found a bunch of colts and fillies playing all kinds of different video games. The whole place was dark except for the lights from screens and fancy dance pads. There was music with a pumping beat in the background, and the two brodudes bobbed their heads to the rhythm as they walked around.
"I can't see anything with these shades on, dude," Moonbro commented.
"Yeah, me either, but I'm not taking them off. Ponies might recognize us, and I do not want to deal with the pepperonis."
"You mean paparazzi?"
"Yeah, that. Hey, look at this thing!" Sundude pointed to one of the games, which a colt had just walked away from in a huff. "Pac Bro. I'mma try that one."
"Hmm, I think I'll check out Red Dude Redemption," said Moonbro. "That one seems pretty legit."
* * * * *
"Hey bro, I beat your record on Super Dude Bros!" Sundude shouted some time later.
"Oh yeah?" Moonbro taunted, "Well I just finished Maretroid in ten minutes. Beat that!"
"What?" cried Sundude, aghast. "That's, like, impossible! That game is far too difficult."
"You better believe it, dude," Moonbro said, smiling.
"Sundude! Moonbro! We finally found you!" Dawn Breaker suddenly shouted after suddenly bursting in through the arcade's doors which had suddenly opened. "We've been looking everywhere for you!" The rest of her friends trotted in after her, looking awesomely chill. Except for Pinkie Pie. She still looked like Pinkie Pie.
"Whoa, calm down DB," Sundude said, "What's the matter this time. Do I have to beat up more Giant Mutant Cockatrices?"
"No," said Dawn Breaker, "It's you! You've been gone for the last month! Where have you been? Why haven't you helped with all this chaos?"
"What? A month? That can't be right," said Sundude, "We just got here."
"Chaos?" asked Moonbro. "I don't see any chaos."
"You mean you spent a whole month inside this arcade?" Dawn Breaker asked. "That's as long as it's been open!"
"Yup!" pipped the store's owner, Button Thrash, "They've been here since day one. They're my best customers!"
"Huh. Well whadda ya' know. I guess we did spend a whole month here," Sundude said. "Anyway, Dawny, what's the problem?"
"Chaos! It's everywhere! There's giant thorny branches growing around and wrecking everything! My friends and I have tried all we can think of to stop them from growing, but nothing works!"
"I told them they were uncool," said Rainbro Dude, "but they don't seem to give a single f—"
"I tried laughing at them!" Pinkie Pie interrupted. "But that only works on ghosties."
"I tried cutting them up and making them into surfboards, but they don't carve well, man. They don't carve well at all!" cried Rawity.
"I showed 'em what for when they got to my neck of the woods, but I don't have enough, uh, persuasion to kick 'em out of the rest of Equestria," Gutterfly said.
"I threw an apple at one. It didn't help," said Applejack.
"Well, that was a most valiant effort," Sundude said solemnly. "But don't worry, me and Moonbro can handle this, right bro?"
"Yeah, sure, just give me five minutes," Moonbro said, having started up a new game of Space Invadudes.
"Aw, bro, really? C'mon, we gotta save the day and stuff."
Moonbro would have replied, but just then a bunch of the freaky chaos branches burst through the floor and grabbed both the princes. Another pair burst through the ceiling, ripping it off and blinding everyone inside.
"Ah! Natural light!" cried Sundude. "It burns!"
"My eyes!" shouted Moonbro. "And my high score! Nooo!"
The branches wrapped around the princes, immobilizing them as more of the dark vines slithered along the ground toward them.
"Aw man, I do not like where this is going," commented Moonbro.
"Me niether, bro," said Sundude.
"Don't worry, I'll help you!" shouted Dawn Breaker, who was busy dodging a bunch of the branches.
"Naw, don't worry, we got this," said Sundude as a dozen of the vines wrapped around his chest, threatening to crush him. "You ready, bro?"
"Mm-hmm," was all Moonbro could say. The vines had wrapped his muzzle shut.
"Okay, let's do this!"
With a blast of magic, the two alicorns teleported into the sky, hovering there for a moment as the vines tried to figure out where their prey had escaped to. Before they could attack again, Sundude and Moonbro unleashed their awesome power, blasting the vines away with twin pillars of fire that erupted from their horns. All that was left afterward was a smoldering streak of black on the ground.
"Sick," commented Rainbro Dude.
"Alright, now let's go kick the everloving expletive out the rest of these weak vines," Moonbro cried triumphantly.
"Hold on, bro," said Sundude, "I think I've got a better idea."
* * * * *
"Discord!" Sundude shouted sometime later. "Get out here! Did you unleash all this nasty chaos?"
"Aw dang," Discord said, slithering out from behind the castle's sofa-thrones. "I thought you two dudes were dead. I thought this was my kingdom again."
"So you did do it?" Moonbro demanded.
"Yeah..."
"Not cool," said Sundude, "I asked if we were cool, Discord. You said we were cool. You lied man, that's weak."
"Hey man, we can't be cool if you're dead," Discord retorted, shrugging. "I thought you were dead, so we couldn't be cool, but whatever." With that he snapped his fingers, and all the chaos disappeared. "My bad."
Sundude narrowed his eyes at the freaky dragon-pony-goat-griffin-bat-dude-guy-thing. "Yeah, whatever... just don't do something like this ever again, or we'll stone you again. Again."
"Yeah, for forever this time," Moonbro added.
"Totally," confirmed Sundude.
"You got it, little dudes," Discord said, already having stopped caring about them, "I'm out." And with that he snapped out of existence to go do... whatever Discord do.
"Well that was weird," Moonbro said.
"Yeah," agreed Sundude, "I'm tired. Let's go back to the arcade."
"But dude, we kinda incinerated it, y'know, after it was wrecked by those freaky vines." Moonbro paused, remembering something. "Also I think Button Thrash might still have been in there."
"Oh..." said Sundude. "Awkward..."
"Yeah..."
And so once again, the day was saved.