Dawn of the Third Day.
Diamond Tiara sat down at the kitchen table eating a healthy bowl of Celestia'Os. After the previous day of being drenched with water, she decided to take the initiative and set an alarm clock otherwise her father might have another family tradition for her to experience. "Ok Diamond," she said to herself with dropping her bowl in the sink. "Its almost Friday, just gotta last two more days."
Her father enters the kitchen and sits down at the table with his morning newspaper. "Morning princess, I see that you are up and ready for another day's work."
"I just didn't want to get drenched again," Diamond replied. "Or fall for some other stupid family traditions!"
Mr. Rich only chuckled as he opened up his morning paper. "They're not so bad princess, besides; you and Button might wanna do this for your own foals someday."
"What?!" Diamond said turning around to her father. "What did you say?!"
"I said that you might wanna to these to your own foals someday." Mr. Rich said not looking up from his newspaper. Diamond narrows her eyes at her dad. She could've have sworn he threw in Button's name somewhere in that sentence. "Now run along Diamond or you'll be late for work."
There was more that the young filly wanted to say but decided against it. She bid her father goodbye and left the house leaving for work. Mr. Rich sighs while lowering his paper.
"That was a close one."
Diamond Tiara stood in her usual spot amongst the crowd of workers as her boss gave out the announcements for the day and much like the common worker, wanted the day to be over with.
"Also due to some, malfunctions, the blood pressure machine is NOT to be used by anypony," Button announced. "I don't want to spend five hours getting somepony unstuck again."
Diamond wondered if she could seduce Button into letting her take a half day today, but after thinking about that she decided against it because that would actually require some work and he was always a tough one against her advances, so yeah that wasn't going to work.
"Flitter, Cloudchaser the next time you two work in the clothing department, do try not to insult the customers on their choice of fashion or size."
Flitter pouts folding her hooves. "Hmph, it was just a suggestion."
"Yeah!" Cloudchaser added on. "There was no way she was going to fit into something that small!"
Three days, three days of this crap called working was really starting to get on Diamond's nerves. She shouldn't have to work for a living, her father was rich! And owned this building; Why they should be treating her like a princess not like some normal pony and she cant quit lest she wishes to join the Royal Guard.
"Featherweight, we got a new shipment of developer and film for the Photo Center, if there is anything else that you need please let me know and we'll get that situated."
"Uh, is now a good time to tell you that the Photo Booth isn't working?" Featherweight said. "Apparently somepony broke it thinking that it wasn't working and stole his money."
Button Mash very slowly puts his hoof on his forehead covering his eyes. "And that happened because?"
"Well, from what I remember, he didn't put any money in it."
Button stands still for a few second before turning to his Assistant Manager Dinky Hooves. "Dinky, jot down fix Photo Both, also remind me to put a insert coin sign in the booth."
Dinky nods her head and writes it down in her notes. "Alright everypony, lets get started and have a great day!" The crowd of workers dissipated leaving for their assigned area. "Diamond Tiara!" The pink filly in question stops in her tracks and looks back at Dinky. "Button and I would like a word with you."
Diamond rolls her eyes and makes her way to her two bosses. "Yes?" she said in a high pitched tone.
"Diamond," Button began. "I just want to say I proud of you for lasting this long and to be honest with you, I thought you would quit after the first day."
"Oh honey!" Diamond replied clasping her hooves together smiling. "You of all ponies should know that I can last for quite a while."
Button jolted back a little. He wasn't expecting that, but realized that he walked into that one. She was messing with him now? "Oh really?" there was no way he was going to let her win this. "If that's the case then lets see how long you last after today, because training is over and you'll be restocking items with Blazing Star and Cherry Blossom."
Dinky turned around and left. She knew were this was going and didn't want to be around to hear it.
"But, if do get through the day, how about you come over to my place so I can massage the muscles of yours," Button added smirking. "You will be so sore."
"Oooh so that how it is huh?" Diamond moved over to Button's ear whispering. "Challenge Accepted." she kisses him on the lips to seal the deal and walks away swaying her flank as she walked away smiling darkly. Ha! Too easy! All I have to do now is just last the day and then he will feel three days of pure frustration!
Button Mash however just stood there. He didn't know why but he couldn't help but get the feeling that he just got played and played hard. He sighed as he made his way back to his office shaking his head. "Well played Diamond, well played."
Meanwhile a young brown spotted white stallion puts his camera away smiling to himself. "At last! Photographic evidence of that slime ball Button Mash cheating on Sweetie Belle! Now to get Featherweight to develop this and show it to Sweetie Belle!" he runs to the door only to hit his nose on the glass. "Curses!" the stallion swore rubbing his nose. "It's not open yet! First, wait for Barnyard Bargains to open, then become Sweetie Belle's new boyfriend!"
Diamond Tiara made her way to the stock room. Tricking Button like that was a huge morale boost and put a smile on her face knowing that she successfully pulled that off. Too bad Sweetie Belle was outta town visiting her parents or she would ask her to join in.
"Hey Homegurl!" a voice called out knocking Diamond from her thoughts. "What's with the grin?"
Diamond shook her head pushing the thoughts away. "None of your business!" she stood before two mares who looked about her age. An orange pegasus with a burgundy type mane and blue eyes.
"My bad." the mare apologized. "Didn't mean to get up in your grill."
"...What?" Diamond said confused.
"BLAZING STAR!" both mare turn to the door where a light pink unicorn mare with green eyes stood. "Why cant you use proper English like everypony else?"
Blazing Star narrowed her eyes at the light pink mare. "Says the nerd who speak in Nipponese because anime. At least ponies can understand me Blossom!"
A pegasus and a unicorn Diamond thought to herself. Well, I would say that this is quite ironic, but saying it would be ironic. She stood and watched as the two continued to argue.
"I speak Nipponese because one day I hope to visit the country one day!" Cherry Blossom shot back.
"Yeah! Well newsflash bro, just because you watch anime all night doesn't mean that you know the language!" Blazing Star retorted. "Your Nipponese is TERRIBLE!"
"BAKA!" Cherry Blossom yelled. "How would you know! You don't even speak it!"
"Neither do you!"
Diamond cleared her throat gaining both mares attention. Cherry Blossom gasped and bowed her head. "Gomenesi for our rudeness, my name is Cherry Blossom or you can call me by Nipponese name Sakura."
"What up, I'm Blazing Star," added the orange mare. "And I gots no Nippon name."
Blossom glared at Blazing Star then turned back to Diamond. "Ah, you must be Diamond-chan! Button-sama said we would be working together! I look forward to working with you."
"Rrrrrriiight." Diamond replied forcing a smile. "So, should we get started?"
"Straight up yo." Blazing Star said. "Before the bossman brings us down." she heads to the backroom while Diamond and Blossom stood still.
"Do you have any idea what she said?" Diamond asked. "I'm lost."
"No clue Diamond-chan." Cherry Blossom said following the pegasus mare. " I just smile and nod, like they do in Nippon." Diamond sighs and followed Cherry Blossom to the backroom.
"I'm telling you Featherweight, I finally got proof of Button cheating on Sweetie Belle." Featherweight just continues developing pictures while shaking his head.
"Listen Pipsqueak, we've been friends for a long long time, but listen to me when I tell you that you are wasting your time with this."
Pipsqueak takes his camera from his bag and gives it to pegasus. "Look, just develop these photo's for me so I can show Sweetie Belle what Button does behind her back, and when she does, she'll be my girlfriend like she should have been in back in school."
"Whatever," Featherweight sighed taking the camera. "But I don't think you'll like the results." Featherweight thinks back to the time when he saw Button, Diamond and Sweetie Belle at the movies fooling around with each other. That was a day he would never forget, as he saw Diamond and Sweetie making out, then Button and Sweetie, then Button and Diamond. The hater poisoning was real that day.
Pipsqueak grabs his pegasus friend pulling him in for a hug. "Thanks Featherweight! I'll be back to pick them up later!" Pipsqueak lets him go and leaves the Photo Center with a smile.
"Aww man," Featherweight sighed looking at the camera. "Its just like Miss Cherilee's classroom all over again."
Meanwhile in some other part of Barnyard Bargains. Diamond Tiara and her co-workers Cherry Blossom and Blazing Star were busy restocking some items in the Home and Living isle. They've been doing this all day going from isle to isle just doing this. It was quite easy and was loads better than cleaning the restrooms.
"So Diamond-chan," Cherry Blossom began. "Do you like anime?"
"What's anime?" Diamond replied shocking the light pink pony. Blazing Star shakes her head at Diamond's answer, she was really going to hear it now.
"What's anime?!" Cherry Blossom grabbed Diamond's face looking her in the eyes. "How do you not know the greatest form of animation ever?!"
Diamond only shrugged in response.
"Well that's no good," Cherry Blossom replied folding her forelegs before raising a hoof in the air. "Break time! Come Diamond!" she pushes Diamond away from the Home and Living isle against her will. "Let us depart for the movies! Desu!"
Blazing Star just watches as Cherry Blossom drags Diamond away promising to show her some of her favorite animes while she continued to restock. "Ok I'm bored now." she drops a rug on the floor and goes off to join the two pink ponies.
"Ok, Diamond-chan," Cherry Blossom holds up a little box in front of Diamond. "This is one of my favorite animes, its about a young mare who is forced by her father to get a job or join the guard, while working, the protagonist meets two poines who would become her best friends throughout all the wackiness that ensues."
"So in other words, your standard anime with Senpai jokes." Blazing Star added. "And fan service, all the fan service."
Cherry Blossom groans and turns to the orange pegasus. "Well at least it's better than swiggity swooty I'm coming for that dank MLG booty. What does MLG even mean anyway?"
"It means Major League Gaming," Diamond said interrupting the two ponies. They look at her with surprised looks as she just shrugged at them. "What? Button used to say that all the time back when we were younger."
Many Years Ago
In a small schoolhouse in some small part of Ponyville. A purple colored earth pony mare was currently busy resting her head on her hoof as two of her students was in the middle of an argument.
"You Scrub!"
"Oh how mature, your mother certainly taught you how to speak to a lady Button."
"You, a lady?! Ha! I scoff at you, a lady is pretty to look at and is not a dolled up slut bag like you!"
Miss Cherilee sighs slamming her head on her desk. Another fight between Button Mash and Sweetie Belle has broken out while she was teaching math. How did it happen? Who knew? It was just another day, another Button and Sweetie fight.
"SLUT BAG! Oh that's it! Rarity told me that it was improper for a lady to get her hooves dirty, but for you, I'll give you the most generous beating of your life!"
"Ha! Like you can beat an MLG like me?! My Dragon Punch is too stronk for you!"
Silver Spoon turns her head to Diamond who was just looking at her hoof. "Uh, Diamond?"
"It means Major League Gaming Silver." Diamond said not looking from her hoof.
"Its a good thing that you play video game-" Silver Spoon suddenly found Diamond's hoof in her mouth silencing her. If there was one thing that Diamond Tiara didn't want ponies to know, it was the fact that she herself played video games. It was a guilty pleasure for her.
Miss Cherilee slammed her hoof on the desk silencing both feuding ponies. "That's it! Button Mash! Sweetie Belle! I am sick and tired of your crap! You two argue everyday disrupting my class," Both parties bashfully look down avoiding their teacher's harsh gaze. "So you know what? You two will be partners for your class project."
"WHAT?!" both screamed in unison.
"Oh I'm sorry, did I stutter?"
"No ma'am." both replied.
"No my partner!" Rumble said hopping on his desk. "Who's gonna be my partner now?"
Cherilee scans the room looking for somepony to be Rumble's partner before pointing at Apple Bloom. "Apple Bloom, your Rumble's partner now."
"YES!" the gray pegasus shouted. "Thank you God!"
"Your welcome." The class glances over to Princess Celestia who poked her head through one of the windows of the classroom before leaving doing who knows what.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Cherry Blossom wailed. "How could my OTP hate each other as kids?! she screams into the heavens causing a crowd of onlookers to back away slowly as the light pink pony slams her hoof on the ground. "KUSO! WHY?!"
Blazing Star picked her off the ground before somepony called the mental hospital. "Girl if you don't stop trippin over your damn OTP's. You know that Button and Sweetie are together."
"I-I know, I- I just ship them so hard." she replied.
"Which wont be for much longer!" the three mare turn around where Pipsqueak stood with a huge grin on his face. "Because once my darling Sweetie Belle sees these pictures of Button cheating on her with you, she'll run straight into my hooves."
Diamond just shrugged. "Are you still upset about her picking Button over you? Look Pip, he made a move, you didn't, so you lost, quit crying over it."
"Quiet you!" Pipsqueak points a accusing hoof at her. "This is about you and Button!"
Cherry Blossom and Blazing Star just looked at each other as Diamond just shook her head. "And? Its not we exactly hide it or anything."
"Hide what?" came Button's voice behind. "Hide the fact that I found three employees goofing off instead of doing their jobs?"
Blazing Star and Cherry Blossom quickly hid behind Diamond. "Uh, we wasn't goofing off Button-sama we was just uhhhh."
"Helping out this customer!" Blazing Star quickly added.
Button Mash glances up to Pipsqueak who is glaring at him. "Oh, hello Pip," he said with a smile. "What's up?"
"Vengeance shall be mine!" he yelled before running away leaving pushing his way through the crowd to the exit.
"He still hasn't gotten over me winning Sweetie Belle hasn't he?" Button asked scratching his mane.
"Nope." Diamond replied smiling deviously. She pulls Button for a kiss stunning him for a couple of seconds. "And that is just a taste of what's to come tonight." she winks at him before walking away with him in tow.
Cherry Blossom and Blazing Star only watched as the two walked away. "Wow, who would have thought that B-dawg was such a player? No wonder that stallion was hatin on him."
"So, Button-sama, Sweetie-sama and Diamond-chan are in some kind of three-way relationship?" Cherry asked no one before a perverted smile crosses her face. "I can ship it."