“Ok Dia!”
“Please don’t call me that!” - Diamond tiara pleaded, her face covered by her hair, which she had let loose for the occasion. - “I mean you do know that’s just a nickname and my actual name is Diamond Tiara right?”
Button Mash’s eyes shifted from the screen, where the screen name of “Dia” was displayed, to the girl’s well placed hair. She was gorgeous of course, but she wasn’t here to woo him. She was here to be trained, to become a true ma….herm, woman of the battlefield. A support for him in videogames.
“I know your name Diamond! - He bit the inside of his lip, making sure to taste the taste of it. - But you choose to name yourself Dia so that’s what we’re going with!” - His voice came through, excited and Diamond Tiara, or Dia, softly cursed to herself.
Why had she brought the handheld to school? Why had she referred to Button by his gaming nickname? All questions that were left to her imagination, but that she didn’t not only not only have an answer for, but also, in fact, had done the answer to.
Quite clearly.
In fact the two handheld devices had been getting pings and pongs and whatever the heck Button called them every day for the past few months, holidays and weekends excluded. He had called them something dorky, something like “streetpasts” or something like that, but, in his daze, he didn’t know what.
“Alright, let’s just get this over with!” - Her hands in her two screened handheld, her face scrunched up, the girl was clearly - oh so clearly - not interested in the long winded explanations that Button had to offer about type advantages to cover, and such.
“And remember Dragon is weak to ice and fairy...now fairies are a fairly new concept...relatively speaking, dating back only a few years, so you don’t have to worry about in the re releases of the old games but…”
Diamond Tiara dazzled out of the stream of information, that passed through her ear and left through the other, what sort of information was that for! And whom did it matter? She was no nerd! She didn’t care for it, what the fudge! It was b to the o the ring!
“Alright that’s enough!” - She let out a good smile, as she saw him look down on her, only because he was taller, nobody looked down upon Diamond Tiara. She was top of the top, the best of the best, after all.
“What...I haven’t even explained Same type attack Bonus or Evs, yes, they’re pronounced like the monster, or…”
Okay...it was time for something...drastic...something which would require an immense amount of finesse.
“I hum, I think I get it now, ButtonthePaladin” - She made sure to pay him in full, using his full username, gamer id, tag, whatever, instead of simply calling him Button. To see if he understood, how insulting it was.
He didn’t get it, if anything his smile became wider, like he liked that she was getting used to the idea of them treating themselves by their tags. - Dorks, what could they do about it? - Diamond Tiara shook her head. - In fact let’s battle.
It was a stupid call, Button’s team had been selectively carried and bred across three games to be the best around. He had been not only Button the Paladin, he had been Button the Master. He also played the occasional rpg, this being one of them. Sure his button hovered the skip dialogue button, but still.
And now Diamond Tiara was challenging him, Button Mash to a battle. If Button still wore his stupid (in her opinion) propeller hat, she would have likely seen him push it back, as he said.
“This are the official rules! As dictated by the game, first to lose all monsters loses!” - And then it was on.
Diamond got some good hits, the game automatically put all monsters to the same level, but her stats weren’t breed properly or perfect, it was, so hard, for her to do any damage. She didn’t know what type of team Button had, but she had gone for the classic cutesy designs, which were weak.
“Alright whale on kitty action! A classic!” - Button laughed as he launched a powerful water attack that knocked her monster unconscious, and made it faint, but - Diamond noticed. - never die, they never stated it. Though she had passed a graveyard in the game already.
Her hands struggled against the controllers as she tried to remember every piece of info Button had given her, and he had given her a lot, she had drank 3 milkshakes (even when on a diet), because he spoke so much about the game, this monster game had a lot of depth over 20 years, a LOT of it. There were weaknesses, and abilities, and…
But she couldn’t remember anything, and she was sure that if Button applied half his brain to school like he had applied to this matter he’d be better even that Silver Spoon. Which had grumbled when they latest project and the video project had only gotten B - , apparently missing the point of the project. But earning them for creativity sake.
What was even the point? She was on her last monster, an innocent looking thing, and she hadn’t even beaten one of Button’s own, he still stood, his health yellow, she had done some damage but not much.
“You’re right Button.” - she dropped the paladin part in her speech. - “I was never much for this kind of game.” - She stopped herself, before using a move that was sure to knockout the opponent, but would forfeit the battle for her.
“Risky...you basically committed suicide. I respect that, brave padawan” - Button tufted, messing up his hair in a way that Diamond found totally and...weirdly enough...cute. - “I knew you couldn’t beat me, but I was just trying to get some humility into you…”
“Heck, maybe you’re right, maybe I’m not the best teacher” - He pointed at the messy sheets of paper with his notes on the game. Downloaded straight from the internet and then improved - “There are guys and girls out there as passionate as me, if you’re not into that, and want to be a casual...well I respect that!”
Diamond Tiara smiled...being a casual sounded nice.
“Thanks”
The school bell rung, they were going to be totally late. An unladylike curse word may have been uttered from Diamond’s lips, Button smiled.