The Fifth Day
Yesterday at Tenpony Tower playing song after song after song until all of us were too tired to even continue was probably one of my favorite days. I’m not so sure if another will top it or what. All of us ended up sleeping in Tenpony Tower once we were done playing instruments and singing which is a given considering we played until almost the next day. Again I was the first to be awoken early but that didn’t bother me much considering its normal for me now. Looking around, I saw many of the friends and family members sleeping together in relative peace. Course we were in the main square of the tower but that didn’t bother the citizens as they all smiled at us, I think.
So what to do next now that I’m awake? Since we’re here in Tenpony Tower maybe we could… Hmm, do we have any video game consoles? I’ve never really bothered with that idea ever since I first stepped in this world but now that I think about it, with the advent of a technological boom, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was such a thing if only to keep spirits or something up. Better ask Homage about it soon when she wakes up. I think I might try it out depending on certain circumstances.
Hovering above everyone asleep and to the other side of them, I decided to go to the library just to relieve some time and wait for everyone to wake up. My mind was being questionable right now but I decided to just do what my mind has in store and try to read some random books for now. I landed all four feet on the floor scanning around the library for a specific aisle. Looking around a bit, I let a form smile as I found what I was looking. Walking towards said aisle, I shuffled through the shelves and gathered some books and put them on a nearby table. One that was done; I walked to the table, sat down and went to reading.
I let out a yawn as I was flipping through the first book. Looking at the direction where everyone fell asleep, they were still asleep. The clock revealed that it was almost morning soon. I wondered whether I should wake them up or let the Sun awaken them. Well, I’m hoping that the first pony to be awoken would be Homage but you never know who is going to get up. To my surprise, I felt a hoof on my shoulder. Looking as said hoof, the color definitely matched that of Homage and behold, she was right behind me with a smile, “What are you reading today?”
Huh, change of topic today? Oh well, at least she’s awake though when was the question, “Oh just some random book involving technology and what-not. Say Homage, when did you wake up? I think I saw with Littlepip right?” I looked at the crowd of sleeping friends and family to find... her not there apparently.
I looked at Homage to see her chuckle a bit from me checking, “I woke up a bit early as well, though I got beat when I saw you in the library reading something. You sure are an early bird huh?”
I just shrugged from my wake-up call, “Hey can’t help it, millennia of battles would do that to you…” She put a hoof over her mouth and let a small laugh escape. I smiled in return to the chuckle though I did remember what I wanted to ask her, “Oh! Homage, do we have a video game console still functioning or something? I have an idea what we can do today but I want to know if we have at least a functioning one…”
The… I have no idea what I should call Homage, maybe the Littlepip embarrassment or intercourse machine? Anyway, she was looking at me in confusion for awhile. I pulled the book forward and pointed to the contraption in question. She stared at it for awhile with her hoof on her chin until she looked at me, “I think I have one like this in the storage, I can take a look if you like but… I do know that we don’t have game disks so what do you have in mind if no game disk?”
I let a smirk of mine form. She saw at first looked at me in bafflement before joining in my smirk, “Got the idea huh? I happened to have a few game disks saved with me during my adventures though the characters in mind are not ponies…”
She just continued to smile as she pulled me, “Oh no worries, I don’t think that won’t be a bother as long as you got something to keep us entertained. You’re going to have to help me though find it since you suggested it in the first place.”
I just shrugged as I followed Homage to the storage. Before I forget though, “Can I suggest setting this up in the room where you had dinner with Blackjack’s company?” She nodded as we ascended up some stairs and to the storage. That felt a little quick though I was probably thinking of things so the ride was rather short to me at least.
Having walked to the storage in question, the two of us were rummaging through all the organized clutter (that was rather ironic considering the words) trying to find the game console. I flapped my wings trying to get rid of the dust gathering on some of the old relics. Now considerably, they’re not that old but in my case, I can’t tell whether or not they are old as the dust is or not. In any case, it took us awhile trying to find it. Looking through some of the items form the past, I had to sigh from both not finding the thing in question but for also seeing all of this gathering dust. I do wonder if there was a chance to let all this shine again in the current present. My thoughts got interrupted by Homage shuffling through the things here and gasping. I looked to see her trying to reach something. I was next to her as I used my magic to grab whatever she was trying to reach. To our joy, we managed to find the console, “Well we found it, but I wonder if it still works?”
I scratched my head as soon as Homage asked that question. She did bring up a good point about it at least. I looked back where we found it to see four controllers available. Grabbing them with my magic and the console, we both went to the room in question. I hope they have a television here because then all of us wouldn’t be able to play you know? By the time we arrived at our destination, that question was pretty much answered in the form of a big screen TV. Since when did they have such a big television?
I was getting rather lost in things. I looked to see Homage grabbing the console with her magic and begun to set it up as she handled the wires and all the gist of technological knowledge that I lack for the moment still. I pulled out a random book from my thoughts and went to reading it (in case anyone’s wondering, I conjured it up from my thoughts). I sat down and waited as I reading while Homage was setting it up. It took some time before she said that she was done, “All done!” I looked to see the console ready to go. The next process was pretty much what we both thought of, “Now let’s see if this works still.” She pushed the button and at first, there was no indicator of it working. We both scowled a bit before the power button emitted a blue glow. Looking at the TV screen we saw the console working in full effect. I couldn’t help but hug Homage tightly a bit to which she just took it in stride. I let go of her and scratched my head while blushing in embarrassment. She only chuckled as we looked at the progress, “Well since this is working now, what game disks do you have in mind?”
I let a smile form this time as I conjured up I believe as man disks as I can think of, “A whole lot of them we can try…” She kept her smile as I showed her the games in mind and she went to teach me about the basic gist of the controllers. We can wait for the others to wake up anyway. I’m sure the Sun would like to wake them up from their slumber.
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Ugh, no lights please. I hate waking up with the Sun shining on my face sometimes… I had to open one of my eyes slowly to adjust to the brightness. I can’t believe we all sang and played instruments for the whole night. Admittedly, I was rather nervous about singing with just mares when that song I think it’s named Star Sky came up. I think I felt heat coming up on my face from the idea of being surrounded by just mares (and one filly, I almost forgot about Puppysmiles). Even if it was just singing, the idea was rather um… awkward I guess?
At least I can confirm one thing; everyone else is getting up no thanks to the Sun. Sometimes, I think Princess Celestia likes to spite us out of enjoyment even as a hologram. In any case, I got up from my rather comfortable sleep. That’s a little odd but my mind was less focused on that. I was more on wondering where Homage is. Three of my friends were still sleeping and the many new friends here are as well leaving both her and Zodiac if I were to use the process of elimination.
Speaking of them, where are they? If I were Homage, where would I go? Well, there are three places in mind I could think of. It would be either the top floor of the radio tower, the bedroom of hers, or in that room where my friends and Blackjack’s friends came together to eat up. I decided to go to that dinner area first before the others. Well, up the elevator I go. I wonder what those two were doing since they were the earliest to wake up. I really hope that they weren’t… No! What I am I saying!? There’s no way that they would go right for it! Ugh, I’ve been hanging around Homage too long to get anything involving her out of my thought now.
The elevator ride to the floor where that room is felt like it was going on forever especially with those thoughts lingering in my mind. It finally stopped at my location. The doors opened and I tried to locate the room in question. I found the room and was about to enter until I heard a conversation going on inside. I can tell from the voices that it was Homage and Zodiac but what the conversation was about left me wishing I didn’t hear it, “You sure about this Homage? I mean you realize that you’re sitting right on top of me right?”
“Uh huh, but I don’t mind as long as we’re having fun right?” I heard the both of them chuckle as I was met with silence. Celestia’s burning plot, are those two having… sex with each other!? I felt my face heating up from the idea of those two going along with that. Oh Goddesses, why did I have to stumble upon this conversation!?
I was about to leave with a blushing face until I heard the conversation going on after a few seconds of silence, “You know, it would much more fun if Littlepip and Blackjack were here to play along right? Not ignoring the others mind you but those two know when to have fun…”
“Hmm… good point, should I get those two right now?” Now I felt my face getting even hotter by the second!
“Maybe, but let’s wait it out a bit. I want to finish this right now before we get them okay?” Oh my goodness when will this end?
“Sure, then all of us can play together.” Another chuckle came from them and then silence. I need to leave, like right now! Going back to the first floor pronto please! Before I could even get the chance to go back, I ran into something in my embarrassment that left a loud enough of a sound. I stared at the thing for so long until I broke out of it by someone I didn’t wish to hear, “Did you hear that?”
Luna’s tight flank, I am so doomed, “Yeah I did, is someone awake?” I heard hoofsteps coming towards the door, each step louder than the last. Need to hide, need to hide, need to hide! I was looking around the floor frantically, trying to find a good area to hide myself quickly form Zodiac. In the split second of searching, I found and suddenly dived towards the hiding spot of choice. I don’t even know what I’m hiding in but I better hope it works.
I heard the door open behind me as I stood stiff still. I was so nervous on not being founded I didn’t get the chance to hear Zodiac question me at first. It was the second time he asked the same question while poking… whatever he was poking at, “Littlepip, what are you doing hiding in a pot?” It took me awhile to respond to my predicament.
Apparently, I was in fact hiding inside a pot of sorts. I guess my diminutive size managed to almost fit inside the pot. My head popped out of it, my face wearing a sheepish grin on my face, “Uh, hi there Zodiac. How goes the day?” I am so doomed.
Homage came out of the room as well and was looking at me with one of her patented sultry looks and confusion? Okay, the sultry understandable given this is me she’s giving it to but why the confusion? I felt magic surrounding me as I saw Zodiac pulling me out of the cramped pot. It took some time before he managed to do so while setting me down on the floor. Before I could answer his question though, Homage came forward with her question that made more heat rise towards my face, “And what’s my little lightbringer doing up here?”
I was left stammering because of Homage. I saw Zodiac shaking his head and sighing before he begun to laugh, “Homage, do you always leave Littlepip stammering every day or so?” She just shrugged with a satisfied yet mischievous grin on her face. My face was getting even hotter than normal again!
I wanted to leave so badly but another voice intruded in behind me, “So what’d I miss this time?” Luna’s merciful moon, why her of all times? I turned around to see Blackjack looking at me alongside Murky and Puppysmiles. I felt like I was beginning to shrink under all of this attention.
It took me a long while to get out of my predicament with an answer to Zodiac’s question, “I… was looking for the two of you.” I saw Zodiac raise an eyebrow while Homage just continued to give me her sultry look, “I overheard a conversation between the two of you… did you two have um…” I put my two front hooves in front of me and imitated someone going through… you know what. Though Blackjack and Murky were confused as to what it means and Puppy was imitating what I was doing because it looked fun to her, Homage and Zodiac slowly had realization dawned upon them. I felt heat rising on my face as they looked at each other than towards me. I guess they wanted confirmation on what they’re thinking. Before I asked them, I gestured to Puppy. They were able to understand quickly and covered her ears so she doesn’t hear the question. She was pouting from not being able to hear the question but at least she can see. I asked away, “Have you two… um--” That last part when by so fast only Zodiac got it quickly, “Just had sex with each other?”
I saw Zodiac gesturing Homage to come nearby. He whispered and I saw her slowly wearing a grin that just screamed yes to me. She looked at me and with a slow raise of a hoof on Zodiac’s body, “Yes we did have sex.” I only saw her sly grin before I blacked out from that statement.
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What? I was looking at the down Littlepip then at the two of them. Murky was so caught off by that, I didn’t notice him having a gaping mouth. She chuckled though as I saw zodiac coming forth, “She was just teasing her Blackjack, we didn’t actually have intercourse…” That right there, I let myself snicker a bit before falling to the floor laughing hard.
The little pegasus was looking at me in confusion as I was pounding on the floor. My laughter slowly died off as I managed to get up from that and wiped a tear of joy away from my eye, “Oh my God… That was a good laugh there. I really needed that.” I saw Littlepip surrounded by Zodiac’s magical aura and was floated right onto his back. I don’t know why but I think I might enjoy this day then yesterday night. Eh, who knows though? Homage definitely shared in my laughter there for a second before gesturing us to the big room.
I followed and what came sure as hell surprised all of us. I was so stunned that zodiac noticed it fairly quickly as he lowered Littlepip down, “Like it? Today, I was thinking of playing some video games today and lucky that I have a few games in mind.”
I swear I have a humongous grin growing on my face right now. Well I sure was not the patient type but even I was curious what kind of game were we playing today, “So… I see everything’s set up but what game are we playing?”
Zodiac’s smile was beginning to get rather big on me. I swear whatever is in his mind is making him Pinkie-level of excited and it kind of makes me both giddy and nervous. His smile returned to normal levels (thank Celestia) as he turned his attention to Littlepip. From out of nowhere (where does he get the stuff?), a bucket appeared next to his head. Slowly it turned down to Littlepip as tiny drops of whatever liquid thing (I hope that’s water) dripped on her head. One drop, two drop, three drop, four drop, five drop, sixth drop, seven being the lucky number as her eyes were fluttering open, “Ugh, can you please stop dripping water on me?” She fell back into unconsciousness again. All of waited a bit wondering if she was going to wake up again. She did just that except she jerked up in shock and I think I saw a bit of awe behind that surprise? The surprise came first and of course, it was about hearing those two having sex. I couldn’t help but let out a snicker again as she was stammering again, “Oh... oh my Goddesses, I… I… I…” Silence was made before she responded, “Xenith was right, I am so doomed…”
Again I fell backwards and laughed hard. Puppy saw it and she too found it funny as she was laughing with me though it’s probably because she found it just funny. Both Murky and Homage saw it being funny no and let a little chuckle escape. Zodiac chuckled as well but was already popping in the first game of the day. Me and Puppy were hugging each other while laughing before we calmed ourselves and let go. I managed to get just as our alicorn was picking up the controller and getting set up, “Well I got the game inserted. Say Murky, Puppysmiles, think you can wake up the others and tell them to come here?” Both nodded as they left to get everyone downstairs.
On the table, I saw three controllers left. Wanting to join in the fun, I picked up a controller with my magic and sat down on a couch that Homage and Zodiac set up. Littlepip joined as well and surprisingly Homage as she grabbed one. I didn’t get the chance to see what game we were playing but apparently, Zodiac already set things up and was waiting for us to join as three open slots meant anything. So Zodiac was first, I came second and those love-birds came third and fourth. Before the game begun, it had to load which was a good time to the two of us to learn the controls provided by both Homage and Zodiac truly.
We managed to learn everything just as the game loaded though I had to ask quickly before whatever we were playing started, “So… what game are we playing, because I’m trying to understand what we’re playing here Zodiac.” I looked up to see the screen split into four smaller screens. I moved my character and found out that I was on the lower left side.
To my surprise, it said something, “Who didn’t pay the electric bill?” Now that I look around, I just notice that there was indeed no power. Wow, and the guy noted it for me. Looking behind me, I saw a machine labeled Pack-A-Punch. What the heck does that do? My character again said something, “Pack-a-punch? Oh my God, I think it makes vodka!” I couldn’t help but smile a bit. Okay I love the character I’m playing as.
Anyway, on the right sides of our screens were four, from my guessing, blood smears that held points though for what for? Everyone else moved and we managed to found out who we were playing as. These characters looked very odd, bipedal and yet have no coat just skin and are wearing clothing? Who are these guys we’re playing as? Apparently that was answer by Zodiac, “In case you’re wondering, we are playing as humans here. Creatures from the way past that still remain an air of mystery. I’ll answer them soon, just focus on killing the zombies here.”
Zombies… That single word managed to make me and Littlepip look at our alicorn friend in surprise, “Did you say just zombies? Please tell me you did not say zombies.” He gave me a look that pretty much said yes, they’re zombies now focus to which I did. Everyone went their separate ways and currently occupied three of them. So I ended up taking over the last one. Not surprising, zombies came up and boy did they look gross. I’m actually thankful that Zodiac taught us how to play and that we aren’t actually facing against them personally. I still remember that at least headshots do a lot of damage or at least kill and considering how slow these guys are, I just went to shooting their heads off.
I saw the smaller number deceasing with each shot. I can tell what that means easily alongside the big number next to the tiny one. At I believe my third zombie I delivered a headshot, I heard the character I’m playing as say something, “Have a round on me! Get it? Because… never mind, fuck you.” I had to snicker a bit from that response and flash a smile at what he said. I’m repeating this again, I am loving the character I’m playing as. I need to know who this guy is! I was so caught off guard wanting to know this character that I got his as a split second of red indicated. I knifed the zombie in return and well, my answer to the question came by him, “You see what happens when you touch Nikolai?!” Nikolai eh? I ain’t arguing about his name ‘cause I love this character too much.
Around the fifth zombie that somehow managed to get past the door just as it broke down, a floating x two was hovering in front of me. Curious I grabbed the power-up in question. It was later announced as, “Double points!” to which my character responded, “Points?! I’m trying to stay alive here!” Okay, I love this guy too much.
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I heard those quotes from Blackjack’s side and admittedly, I think all of our characters are crazier then I wished it to be though I had to thank her for the power-up. I just gave a headshot to a zombie and my character I’m playing as, well, “Hey! Someone needs to clean up those freak bits!” I could almost wholeheartedly agree with him even if I’ve done my fair share of killing.
I was looking at Homage’s side to see her handling this well surprisingly. I was rather worried about her handling the killing part even if what we’re going against are undead. Seeing her calm still while she’s taking care of them did alleviate some worry from me. She gunned down the last zombie I supposed and I saw the tally increase to two after some music of sorts. I guess that increase essentially means that this is one of those How long you survive games. As the new round started, I heard a weird sound that sounded like machinery. Looking at Zodiac’s side, he just opened a new entranceway for us. All of us followed him and was met with another blocked entrance, “Could somebody pay their points and open this for me?”
Blackjack’s character went forward and opened the door as well. I was wondering what Zodiac was doing but then I remembered that both Homage and Zodiac were awake first so they knew this better than we do. Another door was opened by our alicorn friend except he left it immediately. I wondered why he would open when he answered for me and Blackjack, “Don’t worry, that comes later!”
We continued and Homage this time removed the debris in front of us. I saw Zodiac heading left and we were met with a soda machine of sorts. I saw his number went down by 3,500 points and drank the soda in question. Homage came in next and drank it. The two of us just followed suit and bought um… Jugger-nog? I heard Zodiac answer our questions as I was just wondering, “That perk allows you to survive more hits about five to six precisely.” Well, that’s definitely a good perk then.
I heard the sounds of zombies tearing down the wooden planks alongside their cries of anger or something of the opposite? Anyway, we dropped down to the first floor and found a generator. Of course, I knew what was needed thanks to Blackjack’s character noting it and well, I turned the power on. The buildings buzzed with electricity as I saw lights and others things turn on. Then my eyes went towards a box with three glowing question marks on it. I can make a guess that this is a random box of sorts.
Looking at Zodiac’s screen, he unlocked two more doors before I managed to see why he opened them as I saw a contraption of sorts. He was under it when his character said something, “Attach part A to grommet B… Oh screw it, just press buttons!” and then begun to run back immediately to where we started just as something else was said, “You have twenty-five seconds to link to the main frame.” I guess he’s going to take care of that then? Anyway, we were messing with the random box when I saw it open and shuffling through random weapons. Now I know what it does then… After some shuffling, it stopped and became a… monkey bomb? I saw Homage’s character grab it and well, “Unleash the little guy, Takeo!” They can interact with each other? Who knew?
Blackjack’s character came next just as I heard two things, “Teleport successful,” and, “You have twenty-five seconds to link to the main frame.” After Zodiac finished running back and forth with the three teleporters in mind. The Pack-A-Punch machine was fully ready to go. The other two noted and decided to try it out with their new weapons.
I was the last to go for the random box. After some shuffling of weapons it landed on a… dirty teddy bear? A laugh of a girl came up as the bear ascended and the box was moving around like crazy and before long, my character says something, “Oh, of course! I get the damn teddy bear!” After the initial laugh, it changed its tone to scary and then said farewell as the box disappeared shrouded in electricity.
It took both me and Blackjack some time to register what just happened before Zodiac came back, “Well that sucks don’t it? No worries, it just moved to a random location…” That made me and our juggernaut a bit annoyed about it. Homage chuckled seeing our reaction which pretty much said she saw it coming. Behind us, many of our friends and family were coming in and seeing us well, killing zombies. I think I heard some almost losing their lunch. Honestly, I would to but I’ve gotten accustomed to the zombies.
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By the time everyone managed to get upstairs and into the room, we were already in round six of the zombie mode. I’m surprised that Blackjack and Littlepip are doing well despite this being their first time playing a game. At least I taught Homage about this but still, it was rather surprising. We were down to one crawler zombie that was following me. My character was in delight of seeing it chase him to which others questioned his sanity especially with him sounding giddy, “Look at it, crawling to me!” I swear, if I were to pick a character to like the most in this game it would be a split between Edward Richtofen and Nikolai Belinski. Admittedly their quotes managed to get a few to cheer, cringe or chuckle from the crowd behind us. Right now, I got a few cringes both from the crowd and all three playing with me surprisingly as I killed the last zombie with a knife, “Their screams are so… erotic… ja.” Insanity at its finest, thank you very much.
The music went by as the sixth tally disappeared before all hell went loose (literal in this game) as the seventh tally came forth. A different musical version came forth the as the tally showed and I knew that this just got bad as I was running towards an area perfect to handle what was coming while a demonic voice announced itself and echoed, “Fetch me their souls!”
The other three took notice of me running (Littlepip, Blackjack, and everyone behind me were beginning to panic as to my running and the announcement of demonic voice, Homage not so much as she knew what’s coming) and were following me. What came after the echo effect was over was first a quote from Nikolai, “The air hangs heavy with stench of dog shit.” to which a few did chuckle. After that, lightning after lightning came raining down upon us.
One of them was nearby us and everyone save me and Homage almost screamed when they got to see first sight of a hellhound (The humans’ perspective anyway). I shot a few bullets at it with a machine gun before knifing the damn thing to which Richtofen took the honors of saying, “What have you done to the POOR PUPPIES?” I think Fluttershy was about to say that even though they’re attacking us and gone ferocious, poor Fluttershy having to see us kill these things. I killed another and Richtofen’s said quote was one I’m familiar with if anyone were to know the backstory, “Take them back, Samantha!”
That got a few raised eyebrows but we were so focused on surviving this onslaught that they didn’t bother continuing the subject. We continued running for a while when spawned nearby Blackjack’s character. In instinct, she shoot the hellhound down when her character Nikolai said something rather funny after he spat, “Ugh… it got fur in my mouth.” Funny but it sure as hell wasn’t to Flutters. Maybe I should tell her about this soon.
I managed to find a good location where they don’t strike from behind us as all of us gathered there. The lightning rained down faster as the hellhounds came surging forward with their fangs bared. Of course, all of us fired at will as they came charging. One of them was on fire and came towards me. It managed to get a bite out of me before it got shot by Littlepip’s character and exploded in front of me. In the words of Tank Dempsey, “That’s the last leg you’ll ever hump!” Okay, that I did not see coming. That caused some squick moments in my thoughts now. A few within the crowd can partially agree with me there what with their faces turning a bit green and their hooves on their mouths.
This whole game lasted for some time as we past the hellhound round, safe to say, it sure lasted a long time until about an hour into the game did all of us die. We all died around round sixty I believe. That’s not a bad score for us. It’s a good thing too because all of us would have gotten bored sooner or later, at least now everyone can join in the fun now with different games. Though I do wonder which game we should play next now. Who knows?