"Explain to me why I'm doing this again?" Soarin asked, his eyes glued to the small screen. He eyed the main menu of a game that Dash was about to make him play, SCP - Containment Breach?

"Oh c'mon Soar!" she jabbed at him again. "You're doing this because I'm not smart enough to figure out what to do!" she finished, answering his lingering question.

"But I'm probably no better at horror games than you!" he pointed out, staring at her and raising his hooves into air. "And I barely know you!"

"But you're a-" she was cut off as Soarin put his hoof over her muzzle.

"I know what you're going to say Dash" he said flatly "What did I tell you, oh I don't know, 5 minutes ago about putting me on a pedestal?" he finished, slightly frustrated.

"Well sorry!" she said, also agitated. "I forget stuff easily!" she said, coming up with a quick excuse, Soarin just rolled his eyes.

"Also did you have to link the laptop to the TV?" he asked, gesturing to the TV sitting on a desk in front of the pair.

"I thought it was funny" Dash whined "You aren't chicken. Are you?" She finished, nudging him in the shoulder.

"Good point..." he said, sighing loudly in annoyance. "Fine, I'll play your stupid game!" He gave in, placing his right hoof over the mouse. He pressed 'new game' and was greeted with another box of information. For the name of the save, he set it to a simple 'Soarin', euclid or keter? He just wanted to play! He selected euclid mode as it meant infinite lives and began.

After a brief and boring loading screen, he was immediately greeted by some bright lights and two weird bipedal creatures. He had spawned next to some sort of sign, it read: Secure, Contain, Protect. SCP-173. Object class: Euclid. Sentient and violent, next to the warnings was a picture of an odd looking two-legged monster. His speculation was cut short when a voice blared out over a loudspeaker.

"ALL CLASS D PERSONNEL, PLEASE ENTER THE CONTAINMENT CHAMBER" He saw the two creatures in a type of orange clothing walk into the room, he looked inside the chamber from the outside, but couldn't see too much.

"Dash, how is this scary?" he asked her, shooting her a confused look.

"You'll see!" she said, giggling slightly.

"SUBJECT D-9341 ENTER THE CONTAINMENT CHAMBER" he heard the voice again, more demanding this time.

"Alright alright!" he responded to the character in the game, he moved his character slowly into the chamber and noticed the monster he had seen on the picture on the sign, sitting in a corner, surrounded by a brownish-red liquid. His screen suddenly flashed black and returned to normal a few seconds later. "Uh, what was that?" he asked to himself.

"Blinking" Dash responded. "The monster doesn't move if you look at it, but when you blink or look away from it, it moves" she said, adding extra emphasis to the 'it moves'.

"PLEASE APPROACH SCP-173 FOR TESTING" she voice over the loudspeaker seemed to yell. He comrades almost robotically moved directly towards the monster as he stayed back and continued to eye it with curiosity, he heard some loud cranking noises as he looked back to see the door refuse to close.

"Oh, it's one of 'those' types of games" Soarin sighed, facehoofing. "One thing goes wrong and the whole place goes to hell." he pretty much summed up the entire story.

"Stop nitpicking at it!" Dash responded, slightly annoyed at Soarin's running commentary. He turned his attention back to the game.

"THERE SEEMS TO BE A PROBLEM WITH THE DOOR CONTROL SYSTEM, THE DOOR ISN'T RESPONDING TO ANY ATTEMPTS TO CLOSE IT SO PLEASE KEEP A DIRECT EYE CONTACT WITH SCP-173 AND WAIT FOR FURTHER-"

The voice was cut off by a loud noise of static and electrical outburst, he looked over to his comrades as the room darkened for a split second. He saw the monster teleport in front of one of his colleagues and a split second later the same thing happened to the other, all of a sudden the monster was standing there, merely meters away from him, staring at him blankly and refusing to move. He was suddenly trembling at the sight of this monster up close, it was just a game, but a very terrifying one at that! He slowly made his way to the blast doors, keeping a direct eye contact with the frightening creature.

His screen flickered again, signalling that he had just blinked. He tried to look back at the monster, but it was gone! If he was scared before, he didn't know how to describe the paralyzing fear that coursed through him at the moment. He tried to act as though he wasn't scared, but Dash had easily picked up on it as he heard her giggling.

He quickly stepped into a now open, yet dark, corridor and walked through the first door. He saw an odd symbol pop up on the bottom of his screen as he trotted to the shelf leaning against the back wall. The symbol looked like a hoof, but with weird cylindrical limbs pertruding out of it. He looked at Dash to see if she knew what to do, but she just shrugged. He trotted out of the small room quickly and made his way to another door, leading to a catwalk suspended by Celestia knows what.

He galloped down the corridor, which filled with a mysterious black smoke as he walked through it. Then, out of the blue. The monster appeared. Suddenly a cracking noise was heard and his character fell to the ground. He then slammed the laptop he was playing on shut and stared in shock at the now closed device.

"I DON'T CARE HOW MUCH YOU PAY ME, I'M NOT PLAYING THAT!" he shivered, pointing to the device.

"Well Soar" she began, an aggravated look on her face "You're certainly paying for any damage for my laptop if it's broken!" she said, adding extra emphasis to the last word. He groaned as she mentioned this.

"Fair enough" he said, kicking a small pizza box at his feet away from him in frustration. He yawned as he asked Dash "What's the time?"

"Uh" Dash looked up at the clock in the room. "About 10:45pm" she continued "You should probably get going Soar"

"Well, that's the thing" Soarin began, looking at the ground and kicking up some dust with his hoof. "I don't have a hotel as I never knew I'd miss the tour" He finished. Dash pieced together the situation pretty quickly, a look of realization on her face.

"Oh hell no!" she said, knowing what he was about to say "You may be a wonderbolt bu-" She was cut off by one of Soarin's death stares. she chuckled awkwardly, remembering what he had told her. "Even still, you aren't staying at my house" she said, folding her front hooves and looking away from him. Soarin fired back with a pair of puppy dog eyes.

"OH, COME ON!" she yelled, burying her face in her hooves. "Did you have to make 'that' face?" she asked, now slightly annoyed. "Fine you can stay, bu you sleep in here!" she now demanded, clearly very annoyed at Soarin's stunt.

"Why thank you, miss Dash!" he said, acting as posh as possible to tease her.

"Also, be quiet!" she warned him. "I have weather duty tomorrow so don't make me come down here !" she finished, giving him a sharp glare to nail her point in.

"Yes Ma'am!" he responded enthusiastically, putting his hoof over his forehead as well.

"AND DON'T TRY ME!" she yelled before marching to her room.

Soarin went to quietly make his way to the couch, he quickly brushed all the mess off the couch and laid down. He was thinking: Did that go well? They were now at least friends now, he didn't want to be 'just another 'friend of Dash's' though, he wanted her affection. He thought he was going about it quite well, at least for the time being. Before he could think any deeper about the two of them being 'together', he let sleep catch him up and fell into his long slumber.

Author's Note

I said I'd most likely get a chapter up by Monday and I stuck to my word!

As I said in the last chapter, on the day of posting, school starts tomorrow and so I'll be posting less.

What did you guys think of my pony gaming writing? I had been wanting to write a chapter for this story that involved something like this, but this chapter here is just to test the waters to see if I can write stuff like this well. If you think of any ways I could improve my writing, don't hesitate to leave constructive criticism!

Rough estimate that the next chapter will be out by Sunday. See y'all then!

Lave Blaze out