Luna goes to Ponyville and proceeds to try and Court Spike
bored out of her mind at her daily routine, Luna takes a month off from her Princess duties and trade's places with Twilight, she ends up wasting time playing Video Games with Spike, as time move on Luna begins to partake in multiple activities, but only if Spike is willing to do them to, what at first feels like Friendship to Luna is revealed to be a Crush, Luna is determined to win Spike's Heart in the two weeks she has left in Ponyville.
The sound of an alarm is what greeted Luna as she awoke, she sleepily groaned before covering her head with a pillow. A set of maids walked in as soon as the alarm went off and pulled back Luna's dark shade curtains. the light of the sunset filled the room.
"No," Luna groaned, "I don't have to rise to moon till 8," she complained sleepily.
"Ma'am it's 7:40, time to end the day," One of the maids said as she forced the blanket off of Luna, she was wearing a pair of dark blue PJ's with some little moon's on them, Luna gave a sound of refusal as she pulled the pillow over he head, after a moment that to was taken from her.
"Fine," She muttered as she got up and rubbed the sleep from her eyes. "I'm up," Luna stood up and, after waving the maid's away, moved to her private bathing chamber, She took a quick shower, got dressed, and styled her mane the way she liked it before walking out onto the balcony and raising the moon. on another balcony, Celestia lowered the sun. The two sisters waved at each other.
"See you at dinner," Celestia called.
"See you at breakfast," Luna replied with a wave.
The two sisters sat at an unreasonably long table, both sat across from each other in the middle, Celestia was eating a salad while Luna ate a bowl of marshmallow cereal, the two sat in silence for a while before Luna spoke up.
"I need a break," she declared simply.
"If you don't like your cereal you could just ask for a-"
"Not a break from the cereal, a break from...this!" Luna motioned around "This castle, this lifestyle, my job, I need a vacation!" Luna stared at her sister, who took a moment to reply.
"Ok," Celestia said simply "Check in with Twilight, if she's okay with it then you and she can switch jobs for a month, she can raise the moon, and you can ignore her studies and do nothing for a month, but only if she agrees," Luna waisted no time in writing the letter to Twilight using her napkin and using magic ink, it took a minute for a reply after it was sent.
"She's in," Luna said as she read over the letter. "She all on board said she can be here tomorrow afternoon,"
"So you're ready to spend a month by yourself, just you, and a big empty castle with no servants or maid,"
"Spike is staying to run the library, sadly it seems that Starlight is on a cruise ship with her mother to celebrate one of their birthdays, either way, I won't be totally alone, Spike will be there if I get bored," Luna stuck her tongue out at her sister "I thought of everything," Celestia sighed and got up.
"Alright good night, I'll have to switch you and Twilight's sleep cycles so she can do your job so just be ready for that," Luna gave Celestia a nod before drinking her coffee. Celestia gave one final wave before departing for her bedchamber. Luna looked around the large dining room and sighed.
"This'll be fun," She decided as she drained her mug and set off to Night court.
Luna sat in silence as she looked over one of her many piles of paperwork, her sister had to deal with ponies face to face. Luna had to surf through a mountain of paperwork to make sure they were actually eligible for day court and not just trying to get in close to smooze up to her sister, occasionally she had to deal with nobles, but only in the first few hours of her court, her court started at 8 Pm, let out from 12 to 1 for lunch, and ended at 3 am and was not in session on Tuesdays, Tuesdays were Lunas time. Luna checked the clock to see if it was almost time for her lunch break when there was a knock on the door.
"Enter," She said as she tossed a large batch of papers into her nope pile, the door open and Twilight rushed in with Spike in tow carrying a precariously stacked pile of Twilight's stuff, The staff was trying to help him out while keeping up with Twilight, several pegasuses, and two Unicorns where taking things off the top as they walked in, she looked exhausted as she waved at Luna.
"Oh wow, Twilight I wasn't expecting you till noon tomorrow," Luna said as she got up, with a slight flick of her horn Luna relieved Spike of his pile and let him fall to the floor.
"Thank you," he breathed out, his voice echoing with exhaustion as he proceeded to lay on the spot in silence. "I just need a moment,"
"You can take him and the bags to my bed chambers and let him rest in my bed." Luna said simply "I have a hunch he was carrying that for a while," the servants nodded and proceeded to carry the bags and Spike away.
"Thank you," he called back before the doors closed
"Sorry about that," Twilight said, breaking off for a yawn "I was going to levitate them all but I was in the middle of a reading bender, I haven't slept in over 40 hours and neither had Spike, we decided to just come here early since we where most likely going to sleep through the appointed time, I kept dropping everything so Spike took charge of the situation," Twilight smiled up at Luna. "I'm a little out of it so forgive me if I...fail to keep certain formalities in mind," Luna waved her off.
"It is fine, where both Princesses, anyway I suppose it's good your here," Luna lead Twilight to her desk, and rummaged around in one of the drawers for a moment before pulling out a potion and offering it to Twilight. "I find this helps my staff not have to sleep," Twilight looked at the potion in awe before Luna added. "And no, you can't use it repeatedly to never have to sleep again, it only works one every other week, its only for emergency use," Twilight drank the potion and blinked, the bags under her eyes disappeared and in a flash, Twilight felt like she'd just woken up fresh and ready to go.
"Oh, Sweet Celestia I need to learn alchemy." Twilight said as she went for running on empty to having a full tank in a flash, "Any way Princess I thought it would be for best if-"
"I took this time to tell you exactly what Night court is?" Luna asked as she light her horn and an exceptional sparkly spell wrapped itself around Twilight's horn. "Also I just gave you the temporary power to move and control the moon, we'll go over that after the basics of the court," Luna motioned for Twilight to sit in her chair, and she did just that.
"Alright, so first things first, let me tell you the difference between the yes pile, the no pile, and the No longer accepting returning letters pile..."
Luna closed the door to her office with a click, after an hour of explaining and re-explaining the basics of the court and showing Twilight how to move the moon, where it was to be moved, and at what time it was to be moved, Luna was looking forward to her month of no responsibilities. She made her way to her room when she heard sounds and button pressing, she opened the door and found Spike chilling on the floor with a handheld gaming device.
"Oh hey." Spike said briefly looking up then back down "Twilight konk out yet?"
"No, I gave her a potion to...wait how are you..?"
"I've got another day left in me" Spike replied simply Before Luna could question that a sound came from the Handheld device and thoughts of Spike's sleep schedule flew out of Luna's mind as her eyes snapped down to look at the gaming device in Spike's hand.
"Spike?" She asked Spike looked up at her. "Are you playing a Mégamon game?" Spike looked her dead in the eye.
"I am," he replied, he didn't know how he had expected Luna to React, he hadn't expected her to get on her hands and knees and look at his game.
"Who's your starter?" She asked, "I went with Swasung," Spike chuckled at that.
"Typical," he laughed.
"What! Swasung may not be to good early game, but once you evolve it into a Swamanger it's a beast!"
"Don't get me wrong, I'm not dissing Swasung as a Mégamon, I'm dissing it as a Starter, it is the worst Starter in the history of the game."
"Oh, oh really!?" Luna said sitting up to her full height. "I bet you went for Smoko."
"Oh just casue I'm a Dragon I have to choose the fire type!?" Spike shot back. "I'll have you know I went with Buzzleaf!" Luna actually laughed at that.
"Buzzleaf!? Buzzleaf is the worst starter of all the Mégamon Starters!" Spike glared at Luna as he saved his game, once his data was saved he turned his device off, packed it back up and looked the Princess in the eyes.
"Swasung has the worst states of all the Water Starters!" Spike said simply "just because Buzzleaf is considered bland, doesn't take away from the fact that they have the 4th best stats out of all the starts, with a Buzzleaf you can beat the first three League Leaders without having to switch out, and when he Evolves into Humstalk-"
"Oh please Humstalk and Buzzleaf are identical, Humstalk is just Bipedal with almost no state changes!"
"When Swamanger evolves into Swangraver it just turns from a medium sized duck to a Big swan with Guns and all it gets is a higher attack!" for the next several hours Luna and Spike proceeded to argue about who had picked the better starter.
"-and that is why Tobikadachi is the best Legendary Mégamon out of all of the Legendaries from every Generation!," Luna Declared, Her room was a mess of Games and books, Spike stared at her from under a pile of Blankets as she stood on her Bed.
"Alright," he said as he added notes to a half full notebook. "Now that that's done, let's move on to tabled motion F, The Most improved Final Form Evolution based off first from Basic stats." Luna nodded.
"Alright, Allow me to present Tadnobi or Tadichi and Ninjeco as the best Evolution pair." Spike rubbed his snout.
"Oh, Celestia dammit." Spike looked up at her. "Ninjeco has nothing but speed at its disposal, not to mention that its special attack is actually lower than both of the Tabs! now Cactnium and Cactonix are a good candidate, Cactonix has the better defense, attack speed-"
"It's Health is so low." Luna replied rubbing her snout "One crit hit and boom, bye-bye."
"That's why it has such high Defence!" Spike shot back before they could go farther the sound of the door opening drew their attention as a Group of maids and servants looked in.
"Princess," one of the maid said nervously "Your sister wishes for your presence, Mr.Dragon sir, you have also been called by-" Spike waved and Luna got off her bed.
"To be continued then." the two said in unison as Spike packed his notebook, the two walked out into the hall and covered their faces.
"Sweet mother of mine what time is it!?" Luna demanded as she covered her eyes.
"How is it already day!?" Spike added as he mimicked Luna and shielded his eyes.
"It's 2 pm." One of the Maids said with a bow before entering the messy room. the two muttered as they made their way to the throne room, where they found Twilight trying not to nod off while Celestia looked threw the morning reports.
"Alright sister, since I know you, the Maids are packing up the entire room and having it all taken to Twilight's Castel, where they will bring back her stuff while you and Spike take a nice relaxing Carriage ride to Ponyville so everything will be ready for you when you arrive.
"Oh that's not necessary," Luna said with a wave "I can teleport the both of-" Celestia light her horn and spell stuck to Luna and stretched the Twilight, the sound of a Grandfather clock rang out and the two princesses blinked.
"Your Sleep schedules have been swapped, Twilight Its time for you to be heading off the bed."
"But I'm not sleepy yet." Twilight replied "I have so many questions to..."
"Hey, Twilight." Spike said getting her attention as he waved "Bye."
"Be good to Luna, and don't think you can get away with not doing your chores..." the was a dim light from Celestia's horn and Twilight blinked. "I...I...I think I'm ready for bed now that I think of it." She muttered groggily as Celestia undid the effects of the Potion Twilight had been given the night before.
"Come now, my friend." Celestia said as she patted Twilight's back "Let's get you to your bed for the next month. and as for you." She added looking to Luna "Just take the Carriage, you said you wanted to get out, so why not have some fun, see the open roads of our kingdoms before you spend a month sitting in Twilight's Castel doing nothing." with a wave Celestia lead Twilight to her Bed. Luna and Spike watched them go.
"I think she just suggested you where lazy." Spike said scratching his chin "I think." Luna frowned at her sister as she left.
"Fine, let's go take find our Carriage and head off to my temporary home for the month."
"Yeah, I was gonna play Equestrian Kombat X when Twilight finished her Reading bender, guess I get to play it a little..."
"Didn't the 11th one just come out?" Luna asked as the made their way out of the room.
"Yeah but it's super expensive, besides I got all the DLC with it." the Two continued talking about the game as they made their way out of the castle, down a few stairs and found a cart waiting to take them from Canterlot to Ponyville. The Carriage itself was Driverless and looked, to Spike, Like a Giant white Pumpkin. The door's opened up for Luna as she got in and snapped shut as Spike was still climbing in, sending him sprawling across the floor. "Typical," he muttered as Luna helped him up chuckling.
"Sorry about that." She said as they took their seats "The doors close when somepony takes their seat, that was my bad."
"It's fine, just the Universe fucking with me," Spike muttered, "So how does this thing...?" Spike's question was answered before he could ask it as the cart began moving, "Ah...now we can continue our talk as to why Cactnium and Cactonix are the most improved pair,"
"I think you mean the Tads and Ninjeco,"
"Nothing but speed," Spike replied
"Nothing but defense," Luna shot back, Spike looked out the window for a moment before glancing over at Luna.
"I'd say Ninjeco could go suck my dick," he said calmly "but it was not very effective at anything not speed based"
"Bitch that is it, pull out your game system," Luna replied as she teleported her's to her hands "My Ninjeco will kick you Cactonix's ass!" Spike pulled out his game system and the two sat in silence until they began making their way down Caterlot mountain, "Mother fucker!" Luna screamed in rage. Spike deadpanned her,
"Type advantage," He said simply, "Grass beats water, Defence beats Speed," he flipped her off "Cactonixs wins," Luna muttered angrily, before taking a deep breath,
"I'd be mad, but seeing how the current scoreboard is me at 23 and you at 4 I guess you need some tiny victory today, Spike blinked,
Luna grumbled in her sleep as the sunlight began to force its way through her eyelids, she turned away irritably waiting for the maids to come rushing in and force her up. But they didn't come, after a minute she opened her eyes and found herself looking at unfamiliar walls. She was confused for a second before she remembered where she was and a smile lit up her face as she put a pillow on her face and reveled in the fact that she could sleep in if she wanted to. She didn't but she could. She instead lay on her back, spread her wings out and just let it soak in that she could lay there for as long as she wanted and no maids would come rushing in to make her get up. She would have laid there all day if a smell hadn't snuck in through the hall and made her stomach grumble.
"Alright," Luna said as she got out of her bed "Food wins," She quickly got dressed, putting on a light gray shirt and dark grey shorts, before opening her bedroom door and getting completely lost in the maze of confusion that was the castles identical doors. After failing to find the source of the smell in the span of 5 minutes she lit her horn and teleported to Spike, who was making them both breakfast. Her appearance out of thin air with no warning surprised Spike in no visible manner.
"Congratulations," He said, a click drawing Luna's eyes to one of his hands revealing a stopwatch in it "You beat Starlight's time,"
"Time in what?" She demanded as Spike pocketed the watch and began setting the table for two.
"It took Starlight maybe 20 minutes before she gave up and teleported to the kitchen, Shining and Cadance both gave up and just went to sugar cube corner," Spike pointed at himself "I end up jumping out a window and walking back in through the front door to find the kitchen on my first day, and Twilight just teleported here instantly, so congrats you're in third place,"
"How did you beat my time?" Luna demanded as she partook of the food.
"I opened one door, looked at the infinite duplicates of the same door, and jumped out the nearest window, my time was about 2 minutes, yours is a little over 5," Luna squinted her eyes at Spike but before she could say anything he added "And no, you don't get a re-do,"
"Bullshit," Luna snapped after swallowing her food "you didn't tell me it was a contest, and how would you even know when I awoke from my sleep,"
"Celestia informed me that she swapped you and Twilight's sleep schedule, and true to form your awake and ready for breakfast just a few minutes after Twilight usually would, so you've been awake and stumbling about for a little over five minutes," Luna stared at Spike for a good long second before grumpily taking a bite out of her food.
"Lucky guess," She muttered irritably as Spike passed her a mug of black coffee and a tray with all the fixings, the Two settled in for a nice quiet breakfast that lasted an impressive 20 seconds before they began arguing again.
"So what if I played as Pugmancer in Borderworlds Fallenempire?" Spike demanded, "She has exploding Pugs and laser cubes! That's way more Interesting that the Recon Ranger,"
"Recon Ranger takes 15% less damage from all attacks, their bio-suit comes with a shoulder-mounted cannon, and their face mask makes them the only character that doesn't take constant damage in any irritated areas and it has a consistent playstyle, and they dam well can't kill themself with their own dogs!"
"But the face mask also makes them the only character who can't regain health from any food found in the overworld," Luna smiled at that and Spike frowned.
"That was true... until last Thursday when they released the Vacation planet DLC!" Spike blinked.
"Dammit I don't have that," Spike said angrily and the conversation instantly switched tones.
"Oh, I highly recommend it," Luna encouraged with a grin "Main story's only about an hour or 2 long but you get some good gear just for starting it," Spike scratched his chin.
"Dammit I wanted to tryout Equestrian Kombat X, but if there's a New DLC for BwFe...." before Spike could go down the rabbit hole of what to do Luna gave him a solution.
"I don't have anything going on," She decided "Why don't we play both? should only take a few minutes to upload my account onto your gaming station and then we can start out with Kombat X and once we get board we can hope into BwFe and get your Pugmancer...whatever she gets from the DLC I haven't actually checked," Luna need no response as Spike began downing his food at a very quick pace, Luna was about to continue eating as she usually did then blinked. "Fuck it," She decided and began downing her food in a similar manner to Spike, it took little to no time for the two to finish and they made their way to Spike's game room, it was a pretty chill looking place, he had a few gaming consoles lined up on a shelf with their wires and controlled neatly packaged beneath them, Luna gave the room a look around as Spike picked the station that he owned the two games for and began hooking it up, there was a mini-fridge in the corner along with a table housing an open bag of partially stale chips.
He had a nice section of floor space set aside for his Magically enhanced Virtual reality gear, and two shelves overflowing with games, the main attraction was his double set up of Wall hanging monitors that functioned as his Computer monitors and as a clever way to make local-only two player games feel less cramped, beneath the monitors was a desk housing Spike's computer and the Game console he had just set up, along with a selection of 12 games that Luna assumed where either his favorites of the ones he was currently most invested in, a little ways back from the monitors were two chairs, on a recliner and the other a rocking chair, Spike claimed the rocker and handed Luna her controller as she took her seat.
"Alright," Luna said with a smile "Time to kick your virtual ass,"
