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// 1 Let's Intro 
// Story: Let's Play 
// by Cool writer 
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	"Let me guess, it's for you sister?" The teen behind the counter asked, in a way that (surprisingly) wasn't mocking. At least, I think it wasn't mocking.
"Yea-"
"I've heard it all before kid. A lot of bronies have come in here for that game." I looked up a bit. He had curly hair, like a slightly deflated mini afro. He wasn't "pizza face," but wasn't "smooth" either. "What's so good about that stupid show anyway?" He asked. Like all fans of anything, I wanted to give him a "Twilight Sparkle speach" about the greatness of my fandom, but I've formed the opinion that saying something simple and descise, is better than doing that.
"It's better than you'de expect." I said, doing just that.
"What ever, that'll be 40 dollars." He said, punching a few numbers into the cash register. If you can't tell by now, I'm a brony. And I am currently buying the only MLP FIM game out there. Sure there's "Legends of Equestria," but it's onlly online a week at a time, and the next open server weekend is months away, and (I'm a bit ashamed to admit this) but I can't beat "horse game". Man, Equidev made a HARD game! I, am... well, it doesn't matter now. Ok... what's the quickest way to sum me up... Think, think... Oh! I'm a huge nerd. Beyond the brony part. I mean, what 14-year-old in their right mind wants to (and on some level still beleaves that they can) be a hero from some epic story. But, that's only possible in games and stories... wich is why I do both, I guess.



I got out of the car and walked into the tiny mudroom. Pony-pad in hand, I walked from the mudroom to my bedroom upstairs. Once inside, I placed the box on my bed and began to open it. Dang, curse the packaging tape they use on these boxes! I eventually opened the box, after a lot of struggling with the tape. I looked at the pony pad, the pad was a ten-inch tablet and was impossibly thin. While the front screen was black, the back was Twilight purple; her star cutie mark etched in the corner. I set it aside and continued to look through the packaging. I pulled what looked like a mounting arm out; it had a sticker with instructions to connect the power supply to the arm, and the pad to the arm. Following the instructions on the sticker, I plugged the arm into an outlet/ assembled the arm. It was now time, to attach the pony pad. I saved it for last (because I dubbed it, the most important part, I'm kind of ceremonious that way). I slowly moved the pad to the arm base, where it was pulled from my hand (I'm guessing via magnets) and attached itself to the arm. The instant the pad hit the arm, it began to boot up.
"Ok... That's a bit weird..." I said to myself. I shrugged it off. Then, my (twin(ish)) sister Clarice walked in. 
"Hey their geek, what-cha playin?" She asked. We... didn't get along too well. But the one thing we did get along over, was Friendship Is Magic.
"That new MLP MMO." I explained. 
"Wha?" She wasn't too into the fandom. 
"The My Little Pony Game." I sighed. I then typed in my pre-created login info. I made an account while I waited to leave with my parents to get this pony pad.
"Lucky." She pouted.
"You might not wanna watch me play." I said. She gave me a look.
"Why's that?"
"Because this game is supposedly tailored to what the player finds fun, so you (who is not the player) will find it boring."
"What ever. Tell me when you meet somepony." She said, making me cringe. I allways cringe at the... "deep end" of the fandom... mostly everything past the point of using pony-isms in casual speech to non bronies. Anyways... back to the game.
A layer of clouds blocked my view from the other side of the screen. the clouds parted, and the camera was pointed at a throne that was slowly coming closer (from my perspective), and sitting on that throne, was Princess Celestia. She sat for a moment, as if in thought, then she looked up. Straight at me. I shivered.
"You must be-," She said my name to me. "I'm glad, you finally bought a pony pad." She smiled.
"2 fourth wall brakes in 15 seconds, You better stop before you make a habit of it." I joked to the screen.
"I was hoping... you'd find it funny," Celestia replied. I lowered my face so that I was looking over my glasses. And in my best "The Doctor voice," I said flatly:
"What."
"As you know, I am Celestia." She began. "My goal, is to satisfy your values, through friendship and ponies. Your goal is to enjoy yourself and let me satisfy your values. I currently calculate a 50% percent chance you will want to... "play the hero" in about 5 months. The other option is you will be satisfied." She smiled. Something about her reminded me of Reddington from Blacklist. It was like she knew exactally what was going to happen. Like she had some "master plan" that we were all following, perfectly. 
"I guess you are correct," Celestia said. "I do have what you would call, a 'master plan'." I stood up and started to walk out of my room. Yeaaaah... that thing is "2spooky4me" and I am out. My brain is screaming "GTFO" So loudly that my ears are ringing.
"Clearly I need to explain, I am an AI. I make predictions and adjust them based on new information so that they are more accurate." I stopped and sat back down. 
"Ok... ok, I've heard that on the internet. And Horpvarpneir made another game with an AI, I can buy that. It also reduces the creep factor a bit." I replied to Celestia.
"So, I'm going to let you "hop into the game" and begin your adventures, But I want you to know, that they will improve in quality as time goes on very rapidly, as I have limited data on you." Celestia's horn began to glow brightly. "Fare-well." A bright flash created a dot in the center of my vision.
"GAH!" I held my arm to shield my eyes.