"Manehattan! One of the busiest cities in Equestria, and of course the location of the next gaming tournament which me, Gamertag and my companion Game Shard are competing in. We began our journey-" Said a yellow pegasus mare. She had a game controller cutie mark, along with a light blue and green mane and tail, and weird rainbow colored eyes.
A red Pegasus mare with a spiky black mane and tail also with a game controller cutie mark walked up next to the yellow pegasus who was currently narrating.
"Gamertag... Why are you narrating?" The red pegasus asked.
Gamertag, ignoring her friends question, continued speaking.
"On the train to Manehattan, where mystery and excitement were sure to meet us. I, Gamertag was born in this city years ago but moved away a few years ago so I do remember a lot about-"
"GAMERTAG!" The red pegasus interrupted, "WHY ARE YOU NARRATING?!"
"Well my dear Game Shard if you must know this city is a place of mystery! Have you seen all those detective movies? Almost all of them are shot here in Manehattan!"
"I thought they were normally made in London."
Gamertag then continued to ignore her friend. "...I met Game Shard many years ago. She was in need of help due to her lack of intelligence and beauty-"
"HEY! I WILL HAVE YOU KNOW-"
Before Game Shard could finish what she was saying, she was interrupted by the loud speaker. "We will be arriving in Manehattan shortly."
Game Shard sighed, "This is going to be a very long trip..."
~~~Later~~~
They arrived at the train station and started searching for some old friends of Gamertag.
"So," Game Shard started, "Are these guys like related to you or…?"
"No, we just lived with each other for a few years." Gamertag responded.
"Wait, didn't you say one of them was a guy?"
"Yeah, why?"
"So, did you guys like have a threesome?"
"OH CELESTIA NO!" Gamertag shouted.
"Are you sure?"
"YES!"
"Because I am totally okay if you-"
"GAMERTAG!"
Game Shard was once again interrupted, but this time by a new voice. Before Gamertag could process who the voice most likely belonged to she was being squeezed the life out of by a pale colored unicorn mare with a light purple and pink tail and mane.
"H-Hey Kiara” Gamertag said, struggling to breath. “C-Can you let me go n-now?”
"OH MY GOSH I AM SO SORRY!" The unicorn stopped hugging Gamertag and a red pegasus stallion with a spiky black mane and tail that looked almost identical to Game Shard, except was a lighter shade of red, walked up next to the unicorn.
"Seriously, Kiara, I thought you were finally going to kill her. Hey Gamertag! How have you- ... Gamertag…. Who is this and why do they look like the mare version of me?" The red pegasus asked.
"Hi John! Well, this is Game Shard, she is my best friend in the gaming community. Game Shard, this is Kiara and John."
Game Shard looked at the two ponies with a raised eyebrow and said, "Kiara and John... those are some really weird names... Why are they your names if you don't mind me asking?"
"Hello, Game Shard! Nice to meet you!" Kiara said, ignoring Game Shard's question and putting out a hoof to shake.
Game Shard shook Kiara's hoof and whispered to Gamertag, "So, do you know why they’re named Kiara and John?"
"I’ve known these two my whole life and I still don't know why. Any time I ask them they act like I never asked the question." Gamertag whispered back.
"Well, we better start heading to the hotel you guys are staying in. On the way you guys can tell us how you two met." John said.
"Alright, Sure!" Gamertag said, getting her stuff.
The four of them walked out of the train station and into the city. The hotel they were staying in was a very famous and expensive one, but the tournament was paying for everything, since Gamertag and Game Shard were such famous players. Gamertag has been into competitive gaming for about two years and Game Shard has been in it for two and a half years. Gamertag joined after beating everypony in a competition that was held in Manehattan two years ago that was between many colleges. When she beat everypony she became a well known player and was given an offer to try her hoof at competitive gaming. She had gotten very far for her first time and impressed a lot of ponies with her skills and has now won many tournaments and is known as one of the best. Game Shard was born in Las Pegasus, and she and her friends would buy the newest games and race each other to beat it. Once the game was beat they would max out the games. Game Shard always beat her friends in finishing and maxing out the games. So, while in college, a gaming convention came into town and she and her friends got tickets to go. At the convention, they held a competition for the guests, so Game Shard and her friends decided to compete in the competition. Game Shard ended up beating everypony there and was asked to try beating some of the bigger players at the convention. She beat a few of them with some struggle and was given the opportunity to join other competitive players. So now the two of them have been to many places in Equestria, competing in many competitions, and finally have been given the chance to go to Manehattan, the birth home of Gamertag.
"So," John started, "How did you two meet? Was it after being kicked out for cheating? I’m guessing by how much the two of you have won you’ve used your fair share of cheat codes."
"No, John. Unlike you, we do not need cheats to play video games." Gamertag said with a smirk.
"OHHH SHE CALLED YOU OUT!!!!" Kiara yelled.
John then glared at Kiara
"...Too soon?"
"Well," Game Shard started, "to answer your question, me and Gamertag met at a gaming competition in Fillydelphia...."
~~~FLASHBACK~~~
"And the winner is... Gamertag!!!" The announcer shouted. Gamertag had just finished fighting a long and hard fight in super smash brothers against a pegasus she has never met before that was named Game Shard. The ponies all cheered and the two ponies who had just finished their fight went behind the set to go and get some refreshments and relax after their hard battle.
Gamertag started drinking some water when she heard a voice. "So, you're the newbie." Gamertag stopped drinking to see that Game Shard was talking to her.
"Well, yeah, I guess you could say that. But even though I am new I KICKED YOUR ASS IN THAT GAME!" Gamertag responded.
Game Shard laughed and then said, "Yeah, I was guessing seeing those other players you would think all competitive players trash talk but I actually find it kind of a stupid thing to do. And something tells me you are not very good at trash talking any way."
Gamertag's eyes went pink and said, "Yeah, I never really like to say mean things to people… Well, unless they are my friends and I am trying to annoy them."
Game Shard laughed. "Yeah, I am the same- wait, why are your eyes pink?"
"Oh yeah, well, my eye color changes depending on how I feel."
"Ohhh... Wait, please don't tell me pink means, like, attraction."
"What? Oh nononono-"
"Because I am straight and we have just meet and-"
"No, pink means embarrassed."
"OHHHHHHH... Oh thank Celestia... Hey, you uh... Wanna hang out and get something to eat? I was wondering if you could show me some pointers and I could show you some as well."
"Oh, sure! I saw this really good looking pizza place on the carriage ride here, let's go there!"
"Alright, sweet!" And the two of them went off and started a beautiful romance- I mean friendship.
~~~End Of Flashback~~~
"Awww, what a cute story." Kiara said. "My favorite part was when you guys made out."
"WHAT?!" Game Shard yelled.
"She does this all the time, she just loves to ship me with everyone." Gamertag said. "Well, except for John, but I think that’s because she totally loves him." Gamertag whispered to Game Shard.
"I was really hoping she would have grown up by now and learned that forcing two ponies together is a really stupid thing to do." John said.
"NO IT IS NOT!" Kiara said.
"For all of elementary and middle school you shipped Gamertag with everypony she met. Even if it was only after 10 seconds of talking." John responded.
"I THOUGHT THAT HIM GIVING HER HIS PEN WAS A SIGN OF LOVE! AND I ONLY DID THAT ONCE! PLUS IT MADE PERFECT SENSE I MEAN HOW DID HE KNOW SHE NEEDED A PEN?!"
"Because I asked him that I needed a pen!" Gamertag responded.
"NO YOU- wait, you did?"
"YES!" Gamertag and John shouted at the same time.
"Huh. Well now I just feel stupid."
"Took you long enough to realize it." John said.
"HEY! RUDE!"
The whole time Game Shard was laughing at the absurdity of the conversation. "Well, I told you guys how me and Gamertag meet, but, you have yet to tell me how you guys meet Gamertag." Game Shard said.
"OH I WILL!" Kiara said excitedly, "It all started in 1884, when we were all just hired to clean the windows of the newest building in town the-"
"FIRST OF ALL WE ARE NOT THAT OLD." John started, " AND SECOND OF ALL WHERE THE HELL DID YOU EVEN COME UP WITH THAT?!"
"So you know how you have a job and I don't?" Kiara asked. John nodded.
"Well... I watch weird documentaries while you are gone..."
"...Is that why during dinner yesterday you were telling me how jellyfish reproduce?"
"Yep!" Kiara answered. John facehooved.
Game Shard was staring at the two like they were completely crazy, so Gamertag walked up next to her and said, "Trust me, they’re going to keep on bullshitting the story, so I might as well tell you it myself. Our families have been good friends for years and we were all watched by the same foalsitter as foals, so we practically grew up together".
"Aww." Kiara said, "We don't get a flashback?"
"A flashback?" John asked.
Gamertag sighed, "Fine, a flashback."
"WHAT ARE YOU TWO TALKING ABOUT?!" John yelled.
"John," Game Shard said, putting her hoof on John's shoulder. “just let it go."
~~~FLASHBACK~~~
"Thanks you again for watching our foals." Gamertag's mom said to the foalsitter. "Oh, it’s no problem." The foalsitter responded. "Are you sure you can handle them all?" John's father asked. "Yes, now all of you go out and have a night of fun!" The foalsitter said.
All the parents left their kids with the foalsitter so they could enjoy their night getting drunk and doing whatever the hell they wanted... Well, that was not illegal. The three foals, Gamertag, John, and Kiara, were on the floor, playing with their toys in a small foal cage.Their foalsitter went into the kitchen to get the foals some food to eat.
"Gugusghsoa." Gamertag said.
"Djenfifamel." John responded.
"Dndidjfnekk!" Kiara said.
~~~End Of Flashback~~~
"And that is how I meet John and-"
"WAIT!" Kiara interrupted. "MORE THAN THAT HAPPENED!"
"Well, how would I remember, I was, what, one?!" Gamertag responded.
"Well then, lucky for you guys, I have a amazing memory, and I remember what happened in one hundred percent accurate detail!" Kiara said. "So what REALLY happened was..."
~~~Are we really doing this again?~~~
"Oh, will you ever be so kind and protective of our perfect and amazing foal Kiara?" Kiara mother asked in a British accent.
"Oh, why of course! I must say your foal is too amazing to be harmed!" The foalsitter responded in another British accent.
The parents then left to go and buy a bunch of gifts for Kiara, not because it was her birthday, just because she deserved it. Kiara was sitting on a throne made of stuffed animals while Gamertag and John were bowing to her. "Oh, would you please Kiara let us have the privilege to be your friend?" Gamertag asked in a british accent.
But before Kiara could answer a swarm of ninjas broke into the house. "OH NO!" John yelled in, of course, another british accent. "KIARA PLEASE SAVE US!"
Kiara then got up and started fighting off the ninjas which turned out to be monkey ninjas that knew how to fly dragons and shoot lasers from their tails. Then all of a sudden a giant fighting robot broke through the house and-
"THAT’S IT!"
The flashback was interrupted by John yelling.
"WHAT IS THIS?! FIRST OF ALL, WE WERE TOO YOUNG TO SPEAK OR WALK, LET ALONE FIGHT MONKEY NINJAS! SECOND OF ALL, MONKEY NINJAS?! AND WHY WAS EVERYPONY BRITISH!!! THAT’S IT, I’M DONE!!" John finished and started walking away towards the hotel.
"Where’s he going?" Kiara asked.
"I don't know, but wherever it is, it’s probably more sane than here." Game Shard said and then followed after John.
Kiara and Gamertag looked at each other before running off to go and catch up with Game Shard and John.
~~~Later~~~
The four of them made it to the hotel. After Gamertag and Game Shard had gotten into their rooms and unpacked everything the four of them went to the first day of the gaming tournament. After the first day ended, with both Gamertag and Game Shard doing pretty well, they went to a bar to celebrate and catch up some more.
"-and then you hugged my boss and said that you loved him and that he was your long lost best friend." John said, finishing a story about when Kiara was drunk so that Kiara would not drink anything that night.
"WHAT?!" Kiara yelled while Gamertag and Game Shard were laughing their asses off. "THAT DID NOT HAPPEN!"
"You said the same thing the next morning after I told you why you had a black eye and was passed out on the kitchen counter. You asked me why you did not remember anything about the night before." John responded.
"....shut up" Kiara said.
"Wow, that has got to be THE BEST drunk story I have ever heard!" Gamertag said.
"Oh, are you guys telling drunken stories?!" A new voice asked, "I have a ton of them! One time, I burned down a house while drunk- OH, and one time I woke up on the top of the tallest building in Manehattan wearing a wedding dress!"
The four ponies looked over the bar stand to see who was talking. The speaker was dark bluish grayish unicorn mare with a purple and light grey mane and tail and a grey star cutie mark with a red,yellow,green, and blue star around the one big grey star.
"Who are you?" Gamertag asked.
"Name's Moonshine, but you can call me Moon, though I have been called other names like, GET THE BUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE, and, WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY SOFA, and-"
"Oh Kay then.... Are you the bartender?" Game Shard asked.
"Yep! Best bartender in town, that's for sure, but I’m also great at some other things like blow-"
"OK, I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR THE REST OF THAT!" Kiara yelled.
"I was going to say blowing big bubbles but ok..."
"I already like this pony." Gamertag said.
"Oh, I ship it!" Kiara said.
John facehooved while Game Shard laughed and Gamertag smacked her head on the table to hide her eyes from showing her embarrassment.
"Yeah, ok then.... Well, then if you think that me and her should be together," Moonshine started and then lifted Kiara’s chin so that their muzzles were touching. "I wonder what you and me would be like~"
"UHHHH." Kiara said, blushing, and started running away into the mare's room.
John, Gamertag, and Game Shard stared at Moonshine, who then bursted into laughter. "That’s just how those kinds of ponies work. They ship their friends with everypony, but once something happens to them, like somepony flirts with them, they freak out." Moonshine then sat down next to John where Kiara was sitting before and yelled, "YO BARTENDER, GET ME FIVE CIDERS FOR ME AND MY FRIENDS!" She then rung the bell on the table. "Damn, this bartender sucks! What is taking them so long! HEY, WE ARE NOT GETTING ANY YOUNGER OVER HERE!!! THEY SHOULD FIRE THIS GUY!!" Moonshine yelled.
"Umm, Moonshine... Aren't you the bartender?" Gamertag asked.
"...Oh shit you are right... Uhhhh... I MEAN THIS BARTENDER IS GREAT! THEY SHOULD GIVE HER A RAISE!!!." Moonshine shouted.
"No they should not!" Some random stallion said. "Every time I come here, I get drunk from just one drink! Even when it’s a drink with tiny amount of alcohol! I swear, the bartender puts insane amounts of alcohol in each drink, not even depending on the kind of drink!"
"WELL, THEN MAYBE YOU JUST CAN'T HANDLE ALCOHOL, BUB! ALSO, WHY NOT JUST GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!!! AND MAYBE THE BARTENDER JUST THINKS THAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO LOOSEN UP!" Moonshine shouted back.
"Alright guys, be right back. I'm gonna go get us some drinks." Moonshine said.
"But I don't drink alcohol!" Gamertag said, but Moonshine had already left before she finished.
"Well, maybe you should try a drink. Who knows how funny you can be when you are drunk!" Game Shard said with a grin. Gamertag just glared at her.
"...is it ok to come back now?" They heard a small voice ask, and they turned to see the source and found Kiara with her muzzle sticking out of the mare's room.
"Yeah, it’s fine." John said, and Kiara walked back to their table.
A few minutes later, Moonshine returned with five ciders. "Alright guys, drink up!" Moonshine said.
"But I don't drink!" Gamertag said again. "You don't? Well why didn't you say anything?!" Moonshine asked. Gamertag just glared at her.
"C'mon Gamertag! Don't knock it till you try it!" Game Shard said. "Yeah! Plus, I made sure there was only a little alcohol in yours!" Moonshine said. "...fine, but I’m only drinking this much and that’s it!" Gamertag said. Once Gamertag started drinking the last thing she remembered was John saying, "Wait, didn't you not hear her say she did not drink? How did you know to give her less alcohol before you-" And then all Gamertag remembered was darkness...