//------------------------------// // Chapter 1 // Story: Sweetie the roleplayer and Button the gamer // by MichelleTwistaloo //------------------------------// The new game had come out three weeks ago, which technically meant it was not “new” anymore but it still meant that all the hardcore gamers were playing it, trying to get a 100 percent in it. It was a tough feat to achieve though, because the game boasted in a big blurb of text in the back of the cover, that it had hundreds of sidequests, thousands of easter eggs, 4 classes, total replay ability! It was a mature game, rated M for mature, but of course all the interested colts had managed to find the game and burn it to a cd, which was technically illegal, but they didn’t care all that much. One of the colts affected was Button Mash. Of course, the biggest gamer pony of them all would want to try the game. There was one problem with it though, his game time was time detracted to social time and outside time. And to sweetie, who had had a crush on the pony since Celestia knew how long. That time he didn’t spend outside socializing was time he didn’t spend with her. Now, she figured he had no obligation to spend time with her, after all it was not like they were dating or something, but how she wished they were. Still, she thought that all those bytes she had spend on milkshakes and sundaes and ice creams, for him, and herself, weren’t really helping. She sighed. Guess that my sister was wrong, a colt’s belly isn’t the way to his heart. Still she decided she had to do something about the situation. That feeling she got, like she had been hoof punched in the gut, was really tearing her apart. It wasn’t so much the feeling of having her guts frozen, and her stomach turning that bothered her. It was just...well it felt like a betrayal! Though she guessed she shouldn’t be surprised, there was not a single pony who could spend more time staring dead eyed at a screen that his pretend boyfriend. The self entitled “Greatest player in the world”. “Don’t you worry, boyfriend! I will save you from playing as a thief for the 900th time!” she affirmed , as she looked at him trough the window of his bedroom, that, even while being on the second floor, was easily accessible trough a ladder. “I Promise.” She said as she started to descend. Her mind was on auto-pilot as she imagined all the kisses, and hugs, and kisses, and touches, and kisses, she would give Button, when he finally stopped playing the game, and, after that, she would kiss him, again. “Hey Sweetie!” Dinky said as she trotted by, scaring her into falling from the ladder. “Not even going to bother asking why you were creepily stalking him” She cheerfully stated. “yeah....thanks...I suppose.” Sweetie said, as she rubbed her sore bottom, but the worse had yet to come as the ladder, which had been left precariously hanging on the ledge of the window started to fell, right onto a very startled Sweetie. No worries though, it didn’t seriously hurt her, it just gave her a very (ok, not so very)touch soft on the head, making her fall backwards onto the soft grass. “Ugh!” she moaned in discomfort, now sore on two places, and with a bump on the head to boot. “Don’t you worry, I’ll just be back in a jiffy! Boyfriend!” She grabbed the ladder with her mouth and very awkwardly and slowly made her way to her house. She had to set up a plan, but first, drama! She just had to call her friends, maybe set up a live feed with Babs, over in Manehattan, and just play and represent. ... “Alright, everyone has their little figure ready?” she asked, looking at the webcam, where she was talking with Babs. Her friends, who were right by her side nodded. “Ok” “Oh ScootaOrk, you need to help me for you see, the Buttonknight doesn’t want to kiss me, the beautiful magic Maiden Belle, just grab him!” Scootaloo looked at her with a “seriously?” look on her face, as she put her little ork figure near the little knight figure. “Are you sure that’s how we play Dungeon’s and Dragon’s? Those ain’t dolls!” Apple Bloom asked. Babs nodded, she too agreeing with her cousin. “But Button plays Dungeons and Dragons, and so I need to learn how to play it so I can impress him, my boyfriend, besides, you keep insisting we use that dice I threw away. I’m pretty sure that’s not how it works!” The three other fillies shared a look behind her back one of “Not that again”, Scootaloo tried hard not to roll her eyes, but failed at her task, Apple Bloom tried, with all the tact she had (for it sure as heck it wouldn’t be Scootaloo, and her dismissal of love that would do it), tried to get her friend to remain calm and just stop talking about her “Boyfriend” “Listen, I’m all for you finding love, and I know you really, really, really like Button, but I think you should moderate your enthusiasm, just a tizzy little bit?” Sweetie looked at her with a crazy spark in her eyes, as Apple Bloom backed away, Sweetie laughed. “the magic Maiden Belle the Sweetie, needs to have a boyfriend, and so do I! You aren’t perhaps suggesting that I shouldn’t stalk him and stuff?” Apple Bloom stopped. “N...nah” Sweetie suddently returned to normal. “Good, and oh by the way, I was just kidding” “That’s fine, ah guess.” “Appledin the paladin! Grab ButtonKnight! He’s getting away” Sighing Apple Bloom put her little figure next to the knight figure. “Now to kiss!” “Shouldn’t you roll to see if the kiss happens?” “No! It’s my game, so I always kiss! And I keep telling you, there are no dices in this game!” “Bu...” Sweetie’s voice turned again in that scary, ear piercing tone, that was full of squeaks. “No Rolling Dice” Babs gulped. “Ok.” Sweetie returned once again to normal. “Good, you know this is just like that game Button is playing, speaking of which...” She started detailing her plan.