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// Gaming/Watching a Movie 
// Story: Azurala's 30 Day Derpy Whooves Challenge 
// by Azurala 
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  "Derpy!"

Turning around, Derpy sees the Doctor at the TARDIS door, a cable in his mouth. "What did you find in there this time?"

Prancing back and forth on all four hooves, his eyes bright, the Doctor motions for Derpy to follow him. "I forgot about this room that a companion of mine filled with these devices..." He turns around and dashes off into the blue box.

Hurrying to follow, Derpy trots on behind him and down the stairs. "Devices? Like what?"

Following the cord back, past multiple doors, and down another flight of stairs, the Doctor stops short in an archway. "I think they are entertainment systems, video games and such. Rose used to spend a lot of time down here..." 

"Video... Games?" Derpy cocks her head to one side. "Like those arcade games at fairs?"

"Yes! Yes, like arcade games. You press buttons and things bleep and bloop and...." Flipping a switch on the wall, systems and TVs power on all around the large room, whirring to life. "Ahah! There we go. Now, let's take a look..."

Rose had showed him years ago how to operate each game system, and to turn them on using the controllers, but when he went to grab the first one he saw, a realization came crashing down upon him. "Wait... We can't use these things, can we?"

"What do you mean, Doc? "

Fumbling around with the controller, and nearly dropping it a few times, the Doctor gives an irritated huff. "These damned hooves, Derpy! You need hands to play video games! Hands!"

"'Hands'?" Derpy's nose scrunches up in confusion. "But nopony has hands, Doc. Monkeys have hands, I guess, but, I mean..." She trails off, scratching behind her ear. 

"Yes, well, I've met a lot of talking monkeys in my day and none of them ever told me that one day I'd wake up in a universe where I have hooves." He grumbles under his breath, tossing the controller aside. "But, that doesn't matter now. There has to be something here that we can do, miss Hooves, and I'm going to find it!" 

Taking his screwdriver from where it perches behind his ear, he points it at the closest system. After changing the frequency a few times, it beeps once and the TV flickers on. Rather upbeat music (not unlike what Derpy can sometimes hear coming from her neighbor's house) starts playing, and panels on the floor light up and flash. Examining them, the Doctor gives a little hop of elation. "Oh, this is marvelous! This little game was so fun! And, with some practice, I bet we could play!"

"What does it do?" Derpy trots over, tapping on the lit squares with her hooves experimentally. 

Clicking the screwdriver a few more times, the Doctor gets the game to select something on the screen. "You start the music like this..." A new song starts with a swell of guitar. "And you stand on these things," he tugs Derpy over onto one of the squares, helping her to position her hooves, "and then, you watch the screen. See, it tells you which arrow to step on to get points to win the game-- each arrow moves up the screen, and when it reaches the top, you press it with your foot-- err, hoof."

Watching the screen curiously, Derpy sees an arrow pointing upwards move to the top and, looking down, she presses the up arrow with a hoof. 'Great' flashes on the screen for a second before another arrow comes up, this time pointing left. Moving her hoof, she taps at the left arrow. "I don't know, Doc, this is weird."

"You have to get into it, Derpy! Really play the game! The arrows will get faster and there will be more, so use all of your hooves to hit the panels on time, and it's like dancing!" The Doctor, eyes glued to the screen, starts moving his hooves to hit each arrow as the screen shows. "You'll get the hang of it!"

Trying to watch her hooves and the screen at the same time, Derpy slowly begins to pick up pace until she's bouncing along with the Doctor to the beat of the strange music. "Haha! This is fun, Doc!"

Once the song ends, a voice on the TV announces player two as the winner. The Doctor's jaw drops. "You beat me! Miss Hooves, you won!"

"Yay! I can't believe I got something right!" Derpy flutters her wings in elation. "I want to play again! Oh, Doc, can we play again?"

Laughing at his newest assistant's enthusiasm, the Doctor points the screwdriver at the screen. "We can play all day, miss Hooves."