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// 20. Happily Ever...  
// Story: SweetieMashMinecraftAdventures YAY! 
// by CristalGalaxy 
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Button shook himself clear of the water. 
An annoyed "heeeeeey!" followed by a laugh made him smile.

"I had just started to be nice and warm!" complained Sweetie Belle with a frown although her eyes were showing no sign of anger. 

Button leaned in and placed a kiss on her lips.
"Pardoned?" 

Sweetie Belle rolled her eyes and leaned back onto her beach chair. "Yeah I guess." 

But the furious blush in her cheeks showed how happy she was.
She had grown so much... One year in their teenage times away certainly had changed both of them. 

Sweetie Belle was taller and her features were now more... more mature.

As for Button, ponies said that he had become a fine young stallion with a strong heart and will to defend his marefriend - something that hadn't changed from the game. 
He was about to dive back into the lake when Rumble came galloping to them, a huge smile plastered on his face. 

"Guys!" he chirped. "Check this out!" 

The colt tossed a page of some newspaper on the ground with a triumphant grin. 
Sweetie Belle got off her beach chair and lifted her sunglasses. Button approached the newspaper and picked it up before reading the headlines : 
"VIRTUAL FOALNAPPER JUDGED" he read out-loud so that Sweetie Belle could hear.
"Ingenious game creator GameSpark was finally judged for his criminal acts that had consisted in foalnapping two young kids of the name 'Sweetie Belle' and 'Button Mash'.
The princesses just announced yesterday that he would be convicted and sent to prison for two years." 

"Yeepee!" squealed Sweetie Belle, jumping on Button and tackling him with a huge hug. 

"My uncle was judged as well but non guilty since he helped rescue," announced Rumble, feeling somewhat jealous at the love filled couple. 
A moment of silence ran by. 

"Remember when we came back?" suddenly asked Button. 

"Oh yeah!" giggled Sweetie. "The looks on everypony's face!" 

"All thanks to me!" smiled Rumble, inching closer to Sweetie Belle. 

Button's ear gave a slight flick. He had noticed that the gray colt had been a little too nice to his fillyfriend. And he never seemed to make her forget that he was the one who had saved the day. 
Button grabbed Sweetie's shoulders and gave her a peck on the cheek before giving Rumble a provocative look. 

"And Rarity cried of joy for two hours strait!" laughed Sweetie Belle, not seeming to notice the tension between both colts. 

"It was only three months ago..." started Button. 

"Yet it seems so far!" finished Rumble. 

They all let out a happy sigh, remembering their bumpy arrival... 





Button put his hooves on his eyes as the white light blinded him. 
Sweetie Belle's form in his hooves had disappeared. 

"Ow, ow, owww! Something's burning!" whined a voice. 

"S... Sweetie...?" mumbled Button, slowly opening his eyes. 

"It's the camera! Guys help me put out the fire or my mom is gonna kill me!" said Rumble's voice and Button saw him putting his bed sheet over the starting flames.

Button got up and helped him, before realizing that the world wasn't blocky anymore. 
His mouth opened wide. 
"S... Sweetie Belle?" 

He span around and saw she was looking out the window.

"We're home..." she murmured. 

"Guuuuuuys! Trying to prevent my house from burning here!" 

But Button ignored him and joined Sweetie Belle.
"We're home!" he shouted and they both opened the window and jumped out, huge smiles on their faces, enjoying the warm round sun.
Shocked screams were heard everywhere.

"We made it!!" chirped Sweetie Belle, lifting her hooves up in the air. 

In the corner of his eye, Button saw Lyra and BonBon stand up from a bench and both shift their eyes from the couple foals to the nearby wall. 
Button looked over it and saw a 'MISSING' poster with their smiling faces on them. He quickly grabbed it and tossed it on the floor.

"TAKE THAT GAMESPARK!" yelled Sweetie before jumping up and down on the poster. 
She stopped when a huge gasp came to her ears. 

Sweetie stopped and looked in the direction of the sound. 
There, dressed in black stood her sister. 

Tears came up to the delicate mare's eyes and she held a hoof to her mouth. 
"S... Sweetie Belle...?" uttered Rarity. "Is it really you...?" 

Sweetie Belle, too shocked by the emotion, simply nodded. 

"Oh my darling!" cried Rarity, running to her and hugging her with all her might. 

"Button!" 
The scream almost made him jump to the sky. 

He turned and saw his mother shaking at just a few hoofsteps of him. 
"M... Mom..." he muttered, unsure how to respond. 

The mare threw her shopping bags on the ground and galloped to Button, way too amazed to cry. 
"My baby! My poor baby!" she screamed. "I knew it! Where were you?! Do you know how much I was scared...?!" 
Her motherly instincts were taking over again and she was unsure if she had to act angry or glad.

Her son on the other side saw Applebloom and Scootaloo hugging Sweetie Belle to death and Princess Twilight Sparkle scribbling on a parchment with rapidity. 
Button smiled at the crowd of ponies that had gathered around.
He grabbed Sweetie Belle and gave her a huge hug but she took his face in her hooves and once again kissed him. 

Exclamations of shock, then cheers were heard all around them. He even heard a "FINALLY MY SHIP HAS SET SAIL!" somewhere. 
Applebloom and Scootaloo were jumping up and down upon seeing the new couple.
Rarity was crying again and Button's mother was laughing her head off, murmuring 'finally, finally, finally' between each breath. 

Button smiled to himself and Sweetie looked up at him. 
Her sparkly green eyes were showing relief as she though the same thing as him.

It was over.
It was all over. 

And they had both gained something extremely precious along the way...





You kids... You kids really think it's done...? 
You'll see. 
You'll ALL see.

Once I'm out of prison, you'll be sorry for ever messing with me...