Winter Song as Link and Yuri as Sheik appeared on the stage Battlefield. Their opponent were Diddy Kong and Luigi.
The match began Sheik was the first to move as she charge at Diddy and gave him a good hit. but Luigi counterattack with a Green Missile. Luigi was about to hit Sheik again but was interupted by a boomerang to the face thrown by Link.
And thus the chaos began each players tried to predict the moves of the other team and tried to rack up some damage. Only Link lost a stock before the other team was defeated.
As the match end the other team got up and shook hooves with the two mares. Yuri became a little uncomfortable when she realised that a few stallions in the audience looked at her and Winter with interest.
As if she knew how she felt Winter grinned at her. "Don't worry about them they just love to see a girl kick their ass for some odd reason, but they are still nerds not many of them will dare make a move on us. Even if they do you just have to tell them you have a wife."
"They are gamers not nerds." Yuri protest.
She waved at hoof at me in a dismissing manner. "It's the same thing."
"Don't that make us nerds? We are at a video game tournament." Yuri responded.
She pondered on the question for a few seconds. "Nah, we have fillyfriends everypony know that real nerds don't have fillyfriends."
Yuri stared flatly at Winter. "That make no sense at all."
"I'ts make sense you should listen to the advice of the great and attractive Sea Pony for she is always right." To her credit Winter kept a serious expression for a whole five seconds before a snort escape her lips and erupted in laughter.
Yuri rolled her eyes at her teammate. "I thought you hated that nickname."
"I hated that nickname because a stupid drunk stallion almost made me drown because of it. But now that silly situation seem so insignifiant after all the time I risked my life against the Reapers I guess I moved on from that night."
Yuri looked down. "You're strong Winter, I don't think I will ever be able to get over the night Yaoi stab me. Sometimes I get afraid of displaying act that could be seen as tomcoltish in fear that somepony else blow my cover. It's the first time I'm playing at games seriously since that night."
Winter shook her head."I'm not strong, in fact I'm more of a coward than you. You're always there when somepony need you. But me I leave everypony behind and head first into danger. Some ponies would say it's because I'm fearless but the truth is that it's because I prefer dying first instead of enduring the loss of somepony I love."
Yuri didn't know how to respond to that and before she could say anything else the next match had begun.
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With a few challenge along the way Yuri and Winter finally were able to go in finals and challenge the one they came for, Feather Sword and his older brother Leaf Shield.
Feather looked at us smugly. "Whoa look at this, the competition must have really suck if two girls made it to the final, too bad they have to face us next."
Ruby is friend with this guy? It's a wonder she didn't strangle him. Yuri thought to herself.
The one responsible for the tournament came in front of them. "To make the tournament more exciting we change things around for the last match. The four of you will fight using these."
The stallion show them a sort of helmet on it was written 'NerveDisc'
"This is a replica of the machine Discord created to bring the humans here during Discord's game." Many ponies gain a nervous look at that.
"Don't worry like I said those are replica made by a human that died shortly after the incident. This one will transport you in a virtual world and not a real one."
Hesitantly Yuri and Winter put the helmet on and were soon followed by the two brothers.
Soon they appeared in Palutena's Temple in it's Final Destination form. Yuri looked at her new hands with a curious expression. "Let's hope we will be able to fight normally even throught we're not normally bipedal."
Yuri turned to Winter expecting to see Link but instead saw Rosalina and Luma. "You're not Link?"
"We're at the final so I figure I might as well chose my best main. And beside I will arleady have to get used to walk on two legs I don't want to have to get used being a guy too, that would be too weird."
Before they could talk further their opponent appeared on the stage Feather Sword was Dark Pit while Leaf Shield was Bowser.
Then the voice of the announcer began to count.
"3"
"2"
"1"
"GO!"
Dark Pit was the first to move as he shoot a arrow at Sheik but she jumped above it and Rosalina made it disappear with her Gravitational Pull. Sheik threw Needles at him but he easily reflect it back at her.
She decide to run and grab him but before she could throw him. She and Dark Pit received a charged smash from Bowser.
He hit his brother just to damage me? What sort of teammate does that?! Yuri thought to herself.
"Yuri jump!" Winter said suddenly, without question Yuri obey her and as soon as she did Luma passed under her and hit Dark Pit sending him flying out of the stage.
Yuri turned her attention back to Bowser but saw that he had disappeared she look back at Winter and her eyes widden as she saw Bowser above her about to ground pound her. "Winter watch out!" Yuri tried to warn her but it was too late and she was sent flying upward until she flashed becoming a star for a second before vanishing completely.
"It's just you and me now and there no way I'm letting a fag win this tournament." Yuri gained a shock expression at this, how did he know?
"Give up now, jumped out of the screen or I will tell everyone what you are." He said with a smirk.
"T-That blackmail!." Yuri shouted.
"Do I look like I care? I will not lose the prize money just because of stupid things like moral. Give up or else."
Yuri thought about that night she was alone in a alley and suddenly a stallion show up it was Yaoi, He grabbed a knife and threw himself at her. Yuri shook her head as the image replay in her head and thought. What if he tell him transgender and another murderer come to finish the job I don't want to die!
But then images of Ruby came to her the sweet sick filly that just wanted to play video games without being judged by her stupid friend.
I got to do this even if it's put my life at risk, beside the chance that there another murderer in that room is pretty low. She looked back at Bowser and respond at his threat by throwing a bomb at him.
"So you would risk your secret being revealed for victory? So be it I will beat you and tell everypony what you are!"
Sheik put a shield arond her as she saw Bowser charging at her but the giant turtle simply grab her and threw her. And then he use his fire breath on her.
Yuri was very grateful that she couldn't feel pain in this virtual world otherwise that would have hurt.
Sheik sent a storm of hit in Bowser direction, he tried to dodge them but due to his large size most of them hit him. So instead he decided to kick her to send her away. Sheik respond to this by using her Bouncing Fish move.
The move hit and sent Bowser flying but it wasn't enough to thow him out of the stage. Sheik fell to her knee too tire to stand up.
Bowser smirk at that. "You should have give up at least you would have kept your secret safe now you win nothing at all."
One last move, I have enough strength for one last move better make it count. With that Sheik Vanished and reappeared just where Bowser was and before he could understand what happened he was arleady KO. Yuri had won the match.
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Yuri woke back in reality to a cheering crowd. "And the winning team of the tournament is: Sea Pony and Button Masher! They win the prize of three hundred bits!" The crowd cheer louder at that.
Leaf Shield fumed as the announcer gave Winter and Yuri a bag full of bits.
He put himself in front of the crowd and exclaimed. "Listen everypony! Button Masher is a transsexual and Sea Pony is a lesbian!" He smirked at the two mares as the crowd looked at him blankly.
"Yes and?" A stallion asked after a few seconds.
"Yeah we all know Yuri was trangender, every gamer in Ponyville know her she has the higest score on more than half of the arcade games in the town!" Another one said.
"Yeah and it's no secret that Winter is a lesbian I see her kissing her fillyfriend everyday, so what your point? Leaf Shield are you trying to start some shit again? Because everypony is fed up with you."
Leaf Shield gaped at them they were supposed to humiliate his ennemies not encouraging them he storm off the room angrily.
Then Yuri felt somepony tugging at her tail she turned around and saw the young colt named Feather Sword. "You were really good, I thought that Ruby was just a fluke but now I see that maybe skills have nothing to do with gender, I guess I shouldn't have tried to follow the hoofsteps of my brother. Can you tell Ruby I"m sorry?"
Yuri nodded after a second and the colt happily ran after his brother.
Winter smiled at the scene. "Look like our mission was a success. So what will you do with your part of your money?"
"I don't know yet what about you?"
Winter rub her chin. "How many poutine do you think I can have for one hundred and fifty bits?"
Yuri facehoof at that "It's a miracle you are not fat."
"Nah Golden Pie keep me active all night so I lost all the calories I eat." She responded with a suggestive grin.
Yuri groan. "Too much information."
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Ruby was happy that her friend finally stop calling her names for being a girl while playing games. Her sickness was cured three months after the events at the tournament. She also ocassionally played video games with Yuri and even got to meet Princess Luna with her.
Yuri lived the rest of her life as a mare and with time lost her fear of meeting another bigot who would want to finish her life.
A few years later Yuri and Sweetie Belle would adopt a young filly and raise her as their own. Yuri was determined to give her the fillyhood she never had. And thus end the story of Yuri Belle formely known as Button Mash.