//------------------------------// // Guys' Poker Night // Story: Continuing the Dream // by Blue Breeze //------------------------------// Author's Note: After a very long time of crazy story arcs, we return to calm and relaxing filler chapters. Huzzah! Thanks to Rhino for giving me the idea for this. And thanks to my viewers for giving me things for losers to do at the end of each round. Now, I want to go over a few things.Every single guy member is involved, but will only have to go once and each of them will go once no matter what. If a pony loses and has to do a certain thing at the end of a round, it is because their name was randomly selected. None of the ponies who had to do the things chosen were on purpose. Don't blame me, blame the luck of the draw. Now, on with the story. At the moment, Drax, Ice, and I are setting up for our weekly poker night. Didn't I mention the three of us play poker every week? No? Well, I'm telling you now. We move all the furniture in the living room out of the way as we set up a large, circular table in the center. Zephyr, despite never really liking poker, especially after what happened in Las Pegasus, had agreed to play. We told him he wouldn't need any money, and since Octavia was away in Canterlot doing a show, he disn't have anything else to do tonight. We had also invited Orion and Rhino to join in. They didn't really seem like the poker playing type, but they jumped on the idea of a guys' night without losing any money. Though with what we have planned, they may lose something more precious than money. We finish setting up the table and chairs as everypony sets down and grabs their cards. "Okay, gentlemen." I start us off. "This'll be normal poker, plain and simple. Though we have an interesting little twist in our game. Instead of playing for bits, we'll be playing-" "All right! Time to play some poker! This is gonna be awesome!" Dark shouts, bursting through the front door, uninvited I might add. We all are shocked before huddling together. "Who invited him?" Dark joins in, having heard us. "I invited myself. I heard you guys were having a poker party and wanted to join in. Shame on you guys for not inviting me." he takes a seat and grabs some cards. "So, let's get started." I sigh. "Fine, you can stay." "Yes!" "As I was saying, instead of playing for bits, we'll be playing for bets. We have punishments chosen for those who lose rounds. When you lose a round, you must take the punishment. All in agreement?" they all nod, a few more excited than others. "Okay, first punishment shall be to listen to Baby, Friday, and Hot Problems all at once and all the way through." They all gulp as they look over their cards. After a moment, we place them on the table. We don't care about looking for a winner, only who is the biggest loser. "YOU'VE GOTTA BE BUCKING KIDDING ME!" I shout. I can't believe I'm the first loser. All the others laugh as they drag me over and set me up in a closed room with three record players. The music starts playing and I can instantly feel it killing my brain cells. I run up to the door and pound on it. "Let me out! I can't take it!" "Nope." Dark says. After some time, I just get into a corner with my hooves over my ears. Soon, the door opens with Dark standing there. "Okay, you're done." I rush passed him and back into my seat. "Okay, done with that. Next round." I say really fast. "This punishment will be to drink a glass of pure piquid rainbows." We set our new cards down, this time the loser being ice. He shrugs it off. "How bad can it be?" "Oh, you'll see." I say. I go into the kitchen and pull out a glass I had been saving. Even cooled, this stuff is VERY spicy. I give it to him. "Looks like you can lead a horse and make him drink." "Pony!" he shouts. He quickly takes the colorfull beverage and just tosses it down his throat. In less than a nnanosecond, he starts breathing fire like a dragon. Ice breathing fire. Only in Equestria, folks. We all laugh as he runs around like crazy. He runs into the kitchen and turns on the sink, putting his head under the faucet and drinking for a whole, non-stop minute. After that, he wipes off his face and takes a seat. "Okay, where were we?" "At round three." I say. "Next punishment is to ding dong ditch Vine's house." Everypony starts shaking at the thought, but puts their cards down anyway. This time Rhino has the weakest hoof(hand?). He immediately gulps at the thought, knowing ine's bad temper at such things, but tries to shake it off. "Well, let's just get this over with." All of us snicker as he leads us down the streets, there not being many ponies out due to the late hour. As we reach near the house, the rest of us take cover behind a distant house as Rhino continues walking to Vine's door. He looks back at us in worry, but we nod to him and that gets him going. He presses the door bell and then immediately uses his Res to try and walk up the house and fund a safe spot. Vine opens the door and looks around. "Hello? Anyony here?" she starts getting mad as she realizes what's happening. "Ding dong ditch me will they?" Vine starts using her powers to sense around and finds Rhino. "Ah ha! Found you!" she has a vine bring him down in front of her. "Rhino?" she asks in surprise. "Oh, h-hey, Vine. Lovely night, isn't it?" he says nervously. "You ding dong ditched the wrong pony." she uses a vine to repeatedly slam him his head into the ground. After getting bored, she tosses him away and into a nearby food cart. After laughing our flanks off and helping Rhino up, we head back to the house. "Okay, next round. This time the loser will do the cinnamon challenge." We yet again place our cards down and find Zephyr to be our loser for this round. "Aw man." he says, slumping. We take him into the kitchen and grab a spoon. We put a whle bunch of cinnamon in it and hoof it to him. He hesistantly puts it in his mouth, at first not feeling much. As time goes on, Zeph visibly starts feeling the burn. His eyes water and he holds back chokes. Soon enough, he starts coughing out a bunch of orange smoke as he chokes for air. We all just laugh like the good friends we are. "You *cough* guys *cough* SUCK!" Zeph manages to choke out. We get him some water and after resting for a bit, we're ready to play again. "Okay, just a few more. The loser this time will get a twenty second long shock, courtesy of Dark." I say. Dark smiles as he rubs his hooves together. We yet again see each other's card and see Drax is the loser. He shrugs. "Meh, I can take it." "We'll see." Dark say. Dark goes over to him and places a hoof on his chest as Drax starts jittering all over. Twenty seconds of this go by before Dark finishes and Drax has smoke coughing of him and his hairs are all sticking up. "Okay, next round is getting kicked in the balls by Drax." I say. Everypony cringes at that one. Same old same old goes by as Orion is the loser here. He takes a gulp as he gets up. "Go easy, man. I still want kids." Drax gets up infront of him. "No promises." DRax takes a strong buck to Orion's junk, bringing tears to the white pony's eyes. He collapses to the ground, holding his package. "I think I felt something crack." "Um, we'll just have you sit this next round out." I say. "Thank you." "Okay, next round is loser gets their mane and tail dyed pink." "Oh, hay naw!" Dark shouts. "We'll just wait and see. Now place your cards down." They do as instructed, and guess what? Dark loses. Before he can run away, Drax grabs him and starts carrying him off. "No! I don't want to! You can't make me! NO!" After much strugglng and a few electrical shocks, we mange to dye Dark's mane and tail completely pink. I stifle a laugh. "Aw, you look so pretty, Dark." He turns to me and snarls. "I am going to end you." "That can wait, we have a game to do first." "Yeah, about that, Blue." Zeph says. "Since everyone has had a punishment now, can we just play for fun?" I shrug. "Sure. I ran out of ideas for punishments anyway." We continue the rest of the night just playing together and laughing it up. Luckily no one really had any hard feelings about what happened, so it went pretty well. Anti-climactic? Yes, but it's the truth. Things don't always have to be crazy for us. Author's Note: I swear I didn't plan any of this, but it sure did turn out great XD.