The game

by Loli pop

Rating: teen
Tags: Dark, Romance, Adventure
Length: 1450

When rainbowdash grows suspisious of a game she plays, her hole life goes to hell.

Word on the steets of cloudsdale is that there is a new game, a roulet of sorts. You spin the wheel, and you get a chalenge and a disability. Complete the chalenge without cheating and you continue on. Rainbow dash hears of the game, and quickly becomes the all time record holder. But is the previus chapion out to get her? Where did the game come from? Why is this a game? Can ponies die playing it? These are all questions that run through rainbow's head as she strives to find the ultimite answer. But will she find it in time to save the ones she loves?

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2013-08-20 00:09:29 UTC

Chapter one- roulet

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Hi this is loli pop and this is going to be my second story on this website, and i sure hope all of you love it. I havent been a pegasister that long, but despite that fact i am completely obsessed with the show, dont wory. This story is about what seems to be a harmless game, and how it turns rainbow's life into a complete night mare.

Chapter 1-

Noise was all around her. Nothing but noise. Never the slightest moment of silence. Ever. If she had know this is what life in cloudsdale would be like, she wouldnt have bought the cloud house, and would have moved to someplace in ponyville. Butfor now she was stuck in the chaos that reminded her of high school.

Rainbow was looking around the poor side of town to look for a place to eat. Her house was crummy, small, and the mos she could afford. She wasnt exactly rich, all she had was a weather girl salery. Ever other pony who worked with her vollenteered. She was the only pony she knew who was a full timer.

She was shambling towords the shop when a coughing colt

Barged in her way.

"Its about time! You're" he hacked and spit the coughed some more. " your late." He said in a normal voice. "Come ON" he yelled, pulling rainbow dash behind him with one strong wing.

As he pulled her along she noticed every detail of him. He had a dark gray body that was suprisingly muscular for auch an old colt. She suspected him to be around fifty. His black and white mane was strewn and unkempt, and his sulfuric yellow eyes where less than handsome. She was curious to see where her was taking her, and wold visiously fight to get if she had to. She grew up here, and knew about the creeps that crawled the streets.

He took her to a dark alley way, where a group of ponies awaited. He through her towords them and said "there. I got her. I move on now, right?"

"Yep pretty much. See you in the next round." Said a blue-green mare. She had a orangey-blond mane, and some sort of lightning bolt cutie mark. "The name is linghning dust, and you must be the famous rainbow dash."

"Yea. How do you know me?" She relied, curious to what these ponies want.

"I volenteer. Oh how rude of you. You guys havent introduced yourselfes." She said, turning to the shadows.

From within the depths of darkness three ponies emereged, each one was fit in there own way, some wiry and some buff. A small pink mare with a red curly mane stepped out saying, "im candy crush. And these are the players. The white colt is snow shield, and the black and gray alicorn is electra."

"Hi. Ive never met an alicorn befor." She said, trying and failing to conceal her wonder.  She turned to face lightning "you mentioned a game once or twice, what game?"

"I was hoping you would have asked that." She said smiling. "Its a roulette of sorts. When its your turn you spin the wheel, and whoever it lands on gives you a weakeness, like your blind folded, or you cant hear anything. Then you spin to see if your alone or in a team. Last but certainly not least, you draw a card to see what chalenge you get. You complete the chalenge, or your out of the game. Once everypony went those who have finished there task withought cheating move on and you continue on untill there is only one pony left." She explained. "Its alot of fun. Electra hear is the champion. Oh anoher thing, you can draw a Time trial. You pick a partner, and you both do the same task. Whoever finishes fisrt continues on. Wanna play?"

Rainbow thought it over, and decided to. These ponies all seemed to be perfectly nice, and if the chalenges didnt seem to hard. "Sure. Ill spin now."

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One hour later, she deeply regretted doing this. Candy Crush had givin her the disablity of no wings, and now she was stuck doing a partner trip to las pegasas and back in two days. That is no easy task. Las pegasus is easily a seven hour train ride. Sure she can fly faster than the train, but she cant use her wings. She has to walk. Also, she was only given one apple for the whole trip. She had no money with her, and she would use a lot of energy on the journeys. She would have to find food.

Not to mention pepper, the one who got her, was coming. She had no idea how much food he would need, or how fast he could go. They would leave the next day at dawn, which is when their time started. Meanwhile candy crush had one week to get a six year old her cutie mark, electra and lightning dust had to collect a shell from the ocean in four days, and snow sheild had to spend the night in the everfree forest. Rainbow shuddered, pittying him.

She fell asleep picturing the fastest route to las pegasus.

She woke up and met the others at the place they took her. Candy crush soon left, and missed the return of snow sheild, who admitted that he went back to his house at midnight. They walked with electra and lightning dust until they parted ways.

"Are they gone?... Mkay. Heres the plan..." Rainbow was about to say we get sompony to carry them, but pepper cut her off.

"Candy Crush said we couldnt fly, but we can ride trains. We can hop on one and pretend we have tickets. We ride from station to station, begging for food and money along the way. We'll get there quick and come back the same way. If there isnt a train we walk."

"Pepper thats genius!"

"Hey ive been playing this game for a long time. I leaned how to bend the rules."

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Nine hours, six apples, and one trespassing ticket later they where at the las pegasus flats.  Most of the houses where mud and wood, crumbling and decaying.

"Now how exactly do we get up there?" Pepper wondered, craning his neck to see the busslinb city of las pegasus, its infamous casino tower directly overhead.

"Easy." Rainbow replied with a sinister grin. "Somepony carries us."

"Whats in your head"

"I get some pony to carry me up, i get the ticket, they carrie me down. Then we go back."

"Ok. Go do that."

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They barely got back in time, but they continue on. Candy crush is out now, but lightning dust and electra are still in.

Chapter two- the grand finale

Ok one quick thing, has anybody noticed:

-How its derpy HOOVES and dr. HOOVES? They have been in the backround alot.

-pinkie pie grew up on the same rock farm that trixie had to work on.

-most fan fics are sad or tragic and completely different than the show

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My heart pounded as the wheel spun round and round. It landed on electra.

"Im giving you the disadvantage of no food no money. You start with zero bits, and no food. You have to get it on you own.  And NO BEGGING" electra commanded.

"Okay. Now lets see if ill be flying solo or not." I said as i spun the wheel. Eventually it landed on partner task. Another partner thing? Grr. "Who shall it be? Hmm..." I was hoping it would land on lightning dust, and sure thing, it did. "Well hi lightning, i hope we get a fun chalenge."

"I hope so to..." She picked out a card with her teeth and inhaled quickly, "oh dear."

"Um lets wait for them to spin,"

"No ill tell you now. We have to spend a week in the everfree forest."

"Oh dear celestia... Ok... We can do this..." I trailed off, muttering to myself.

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"So.. Do you come here often?" I awkwardly asked, mentally slapping myself with a hoof.

"Actually, yea."

"What?!" Not the answer i was expecting.

"I just happen to draw the cards thats say to do something in the everfree." She shuddered, "i know where to get food, and where to sleep.  Electra showed me. Ugg, she likes to come here, says it calms her."

"So you know the are, whats the plan?"

"We go to the castle at the back. It takes a day and a half to get there. We sleep on the tree tops the other nights. I know how to find food, too."

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