//------------------------------// // Let's Play "Super Filly Adventure" // Story: Button Mash's Let's Play Channel // by Servomoore //------------------------------// Button Mash's Let's Play Channel LET'S PLAY: Super Filly Adventure Note: This story obviously contains Super Filly Adventure spoilers. "Hi! Welcome to Button Mash's Let's Play Channel!" Button Mash yelled. "For today's video, a bunch of ponies asked that I play 'Super Filly Adventure,' so here we go!" Button Mash's mood regarding his channel and the bunch of ironic followers he had attracted improved significantly after the ad revenue rolled in. What hadn't improved was his ability to incorporate his webcam footage into his videos, so his videos continued to only contain gameplay. The game's title screen came up. "Yeah! Super Filly Adventure by Steel Udder Productions! They make all the best games like... uh, Super Filly Adventure! Yeah, okay, I shoulda done my homework. Again. Well, moving on." The screen changed to an image of what looked like Ponyville where a yellow filly with a green mane and tail walked onscreen. "So that's me? Huh. She's pretty." "Pinkie Pie? I know her! She's the partyingest pink pony possible!" Button Mash observed. Since it was Pinkie Pie, he decided to actually read what she had say. "My character is named Jade? She's got a good name, like Sweetie Belle." "A party for me! Jade's so cool!" http://i.imgur.com/zQfuRwf.png "Okay, Jade, we're gonna give out those invites like a champ!" Two ponies appeared on screen from seemingly nowhere, and he went to talk to them. "It's Mrs. Sparkle and Mrs. Hooves again. They must be getting really rich from all the games they're in." "Great, off to a good start." Mrs. Hooves was not on his list of ponies to invite, so he went to the next screen. There was a sprite of Fluttershy. He gave her the invitation. "We're totally beating this game, Jade!" Mash yelled with a hoof pump. As soon as Button Mash's character Jade moved from the screen the sprites of them been standing in, Twilight Sparkle and Derpy Hooves became free to move. "It's that strange magic that took over Apple Bloom and me last week! It controlled how we moved and spoke!" Sparkle said. "Oh, right." Derpy replied, wanting to cover the fact she hadn't heard about that. She would have questioned how she'd teleported to where she was currently standing in Ponyville but she was so used to not really knowing where she was it was practically second nature. "And this time, it's manifested some abomination in roughly the shape of a filly which speaks in a strange electronic voice!" Twilight added. "I guess Apple Bloom might not have been imagining that village out in the forest." "Uh, yeah." Derpy offered. Pinkie Pie galloped up to Twilight then, her ability to move having recently freed up as well. "Twilight, I think that magic thing that got you and Apple Bloom is back and- EEEEEEK!" Pinkie was taken over by the game's magic and compelled to go to gallop to Sugarcube Corner since Jade's sprite was going in that direction and the game wanted to make sure Pinkie was present if Jade walked into the bakery. "Right, Pinkie, but this time, things are going to go differently." The newly freed Fluttershy came flapping up to Twilight then. "Twilight, there's a strange creature trotting through Ponyville! It's like a yellow filly, but it's... off, and it's voice is strange. It doesn't even sound like a voice! And it made me stand in place until I talked to it" With a statement like that coming from a pony as compassionate as Fluttershy, it was clear that Jade was truly an unsettling presence in pony. "And we're going to do something about it! Tell the other keepers that can still move to come with me to the Ponyville Library! I've got an idea for how to deal with it!" Twilight and Derpy began galloping to the Ponyville Library while Fluttershy went off in the opposite direction to spread the word. Twilight turned her head to Derpy as they galloped. "Uh, Derpy, you don't need to come if you don't-" "Don't worry, Rarity! I'm not scared!" Derpy replied with a beam. Twilight sighed. Button Mash had stopped by the Carousel Boutique to give Rarity an invitation and was now talking to Rainbow Dash. "Heh heh, whoever made this game sure knows these ponies!" Button Mash said. Mash wanted to keep talking to Dash even after Dash got her invitation. In the course of the conversation, Dash felt compelled to demonstrate her ability to make it rain, and so a cloud appeared out of nowhere for Dash to bounce on. "Hehehe, she's so much fun!" Button sighed, staring at the yellow sprite with her green mane. "I like you, Jade." Button sent Jade to the left, which was apparently where Sweet Apple Acres was in the game with Applejack waiting. The pair had a little chat, and eventually Applejack asked for some help with baking muffins. "Oh man, I've got to cook muffins now? I guess you can't have a party without muffins, right Jade?" The pair entered the kitchen and went through a little minigame wherein he was asked to choose the right ingredients to add to the mix. "Wow, baking is even easier than Mom makes it look." Applejack gave Jade a muffin. "Okay, I bet this muffin is how you regenerate health." Button Mash said as he sent Jade off to the right, forgetting that he'd already invited everyone on his list of objectives. He saw Zecora on the edge of the Everfree Forest. "Hey, it's Zecora. This time I know she's not going to be the final boss." Button still felt like trotting up and talking to her. "Oh yeah, if it's like the last game, that's definitely true! Thanks!" Twilight Sparkle with considerable help from Spike and her friends had set up all the magical monitoring equipment she'd once used to test Pinkie's "pinkie sense" with added satellite dishes and broadcasting antennae in the Ponyville Library. She might not have included quite so many hamsters on wheels, attached so many racing stripes, sprinkled quite so much glitter, and probably there would have been fewer ribbons if she'd worked without Pinkie and Rarity, but the machine was in good working order. "Alright, I think we're ready to begin scanning for the source of this magic." Twilight told Rarity, Fluttershy, Derpy, and Spike, the only ones available since Dash and Pinkie were still trapped in and around Sugarcube Corner. "Whatever this magic is, it's really scary." Fluttershy said. "Obnoxious too." Rarity added. "It's as if it knows all of us in Ponyville, but reduced us to our simplest interests and most obvious personality traits in what we have to say! I'm not just a pretty face with a passion for fashion!" Twilight activated the machine and scanned the read out carefully. "I'm not getting any useful findings." Twilight said. Her horn went aglow and she adjusted the scan frequency. She didn't want to offend Fluttershy and thus didn't mention that her first scan was looking for evidence Discord was the culprit, but his magic was actually lower than usual, as if he was taking a nap somewhere. She saw some spikes in the data after she adjusted the frequency. "Ah ha! I've found something!" "Oh my, can you lock onto the source?" Fluttershy asked. "Certainly, and I think I've already found it!" Twilight adjusted various settings on the equipment. "Okay, wow, it's a lot closer than I would have thought! In fact it's downstairs in... Spike, go turn off the microwave." "Ooooh, sorry." Spike sheepishly said as he went to do so. Once that was done, the signal died. "Shoot! Well, let's adjust the scan." Twilight made another adjustment and this time, the flow of data was nearly constantly spiking. The amount of magic would be like if Discord and Luna cooperated to cast a spell on all of Ponyville, such was its power. "Holy udders! I've found it this time! Now let me see if I can- WOAH!" Twilight and her friends found their bodies abruptly taken over and they began galloping and flying to Sugarcube Corner. The yellow blocky filly-shaped thing was on its way there, after all, and the game had planned a party for it. "Yay! Time for a party!" Button Mash cried when he brought Jade into the Sugacube Corner and Pinkie announced it was party time. He was delighted at the sight of all the mares at his party, since he had been told a lot of mares being at a party was a good thing. Then Pinkie said she had a present for Jade. "Jade's getting a warrior's outfit? Okay. Wish we had an adventure to go on where-" There was the sound of a dragon's roar in the game. "Woah, that dragon sounded big and mean enough to burn down Ponyville!" "That's what I said, Mrs. Rarity!" Jade volunteered to put a stop to the dragon's reign of terror, and was a moment later outside wearing her new present. "Oh wow! Jade looks so cool!" Button Mash skipped through the new dialogue until he reached what looked like a combat level where Jade would be fighting a dragon. "Okay, Jade, time to... Buck this dragon's ownage!" Thirty seconds later, this happened: "Oops. Sorry, Jade." Once the yellow and green pixelated monster had flown away, the Keepers of the Elements of Harmony made for Ponyville Library again. "What a lame party that was!" Pinkie griped as she bounced along. "Everypony just standing around while I give the new pony a present!? BORRRRRING!" "At least it seems to be keeping that dragon from attacking Ponyville." Fluttershy offered as she looked up at the battle in the sky. "Oh dear! Looks like it just die- oh wait, it's back and shooting magic at the dragon again." "I don't know why we're not going up there and showing that dragon who's boss!" Dash complained. "It barely looks bigger than Princess Celestia!" "Dash, with a mind-controlling, teleporting magic that effects us all on the lose, a small dragon is the least of our problems!" Twilight said as the ponies entered the library. "Maybe, we could talk it out of attacking Ponyville instead." Fluttershy offered. "You can't talk a magical force that controls what you say into or out of things!" Twilight said as she returned to her place at the machine before they'd all gone to Sugarcube Corner. She adjusted the settings and found the traces of magic again. "Okay, everypony, we've got to hurry before the magic takes us over again! We need to convert this machine into a magical disruptor!" "I've never heard of a magic disruptor." Rarity said in befuddlement. "Of course not! That's because we're inventing it now!" Twilight began giving out orders like a princess and her friends scrambled to make the necessary changes. It was fortunate for the ponies in the library that the portion of the game where Button fought the dragon was so hard. Up in his room, Button fought the dragon five times before he first came even halfway close to winning. But even after nine times, his resolve didn't lessen at all. He wasn't about to let Jade be denied her moment of glory. On the tenth time, he finally won the fight. "Yes, we totally beat the dragon! Jade, we rock!" "Okay, I'm going to attempt to send the jamming spell!" Twilight yelled to her friends. With a glow of her horn, she sent a magic-scrambling pulse of energy through Ponyville. The result fell far short of her estimations but she might not have been disappointed. "What do you see?" "Looks like the little yellow filly-like thang beat the dragon. The dragon disappeared and now the filly thang is flyin' down to Everfree Forest fer some reason." Applejack answered. "It would make sense if it came from the Everfree Forest. Okay, I'm going to keep monitoring the magic. keep an eye on the forest in case something strange comes out of it." Up in his room, Button was surprised at the screen that came up after her beat the dragon. "Static? I've never had static on my computer." "Why are we out in the forest?" "That's what I just asked." "Don't worry! I'll get you out of this somehow!" Button's words weren't even reassuring to himself. "Please don't cry, Jade." He begged meekly. Barely had Button Mash finished saying that when he walked onto the next screen. It much darker than any previous level of the game, but he had no trouble seeing a dark pony shape coming for Jade's Sprite. He tried to steer Jade off the screen, but there was no escape. This felt very different from the earlier battle with the dragon. This didn't seem like something where Jade would just start over if she lost. This portion of the game was unbeatable. This was... wrong. "No, no! Don't you dare hurt her! Stop it!" There was nowhere for Button to control Jade to go and the dark sprite was soon touching hers. Button leapt up to turn the game off but did not do so fast enough to avoid seeing this screen. "MOMMMMM!" Button Mash yelled as he dropped the control and galloped from the room. "THE GAME KILLED JADE! SHE WAS LIKE MY BEST FRIEND AND IT KILLED HER!" Just as with his previous video, the instant Button turned off the game, all the beings generated by the game in Ponyville vanished and every real pony resumed control of their bodies. "Oh, Button." Button's Mom consoled after he had galloped up and hugged her, "There, there." She could afford to be pleasant and comforting this time because he was playing a horror game at a much more reasonable hour. Anyway, it was nice that he clearly wasn't becoming desensitized to violence.