The Only Chapter
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The Only Chapter

The Only Chapter

The sun was shining, and not a single cloud was to be seen; the usual weather in Equestria. Celestia's beautiful sun was high in the sky, and the time was about 11:19. In the normal town of Ponyville, there was a certain gamer colt and dragon, hiding among the shadows of an alleyway between one of the houses. Button and Spike had been friends for a few weeks now after Spike had recently received an interesting video game that Button had never seen before. Spike, curious about what the video game was about, invited Button over to see if he could find out what the purpose of the video game was. Button happily agreed, and they had been friends since then.

"Why are we here again?" started Button. Suddenly, a white mare with a curled, purple mane stepped out of the local store, levitating her groceries. Next to her was her little sister, a small filly with a lavender and purple mane, who, unlike her sister, had her mane poofed up.

"You see her, right there?" asked Spike, pointing a claw at the filly. "She's mine, so don't try stealing her!"

"Wait, really?" replied Button. "Because in my book, she belongs to me!"

"If you think so, why don't you try taking her?" questioned Spike, mockingly. He let out a gust of flame. Luckily, Button grabbed the lid of a nearby bin and blocked the fire before getting scorched by the green heat and the destiny of black, coal-like coat.

"Oh, it's on!" exclaimed Button. He ripped off part of a pipe and tried hitting Spike with it. However, unlike the video games he enjoyed playing, Spike was hardly hurt apart from getting knocked to the ground. Understanding Button's motive, he melted part of a piece of scrap metal, made it blade-shaped and cooled it down in a nearby water bucket.

"Sorry." apologised Spike, talking to the owner of the water bucket: a mule.

"Don't worry, kid. It's cool." responded the mule.

Button, with a sneer of jealousy on his face, gave Spike another blow, making Spike drop the make-shift blade. He picked it up, grasping it as if he had just made a diamond sword or as if he had bought a really good video game for an amazing.

"I, Button, High Warrior of Hoofrule, will free the princess from the wrath of this terrible beast!" shouted Button, letting out a war-cry. He prepared to slash at Spike, until a claw extended out from the dreaded beast's arms and blocked the blow. Spike let out a zephyr of flame. It began to move on its own, like a snake flying through the air or a bird that was gliding freely. At that moment, Button's mind had changed; a flash of electricty surged through his mind, revealing another part of himself.

"Zeykamiff!" shouted Button, shielding himself from the flame. However, he felt that he was different, as if he had the flame under control; that was because he did. He put his hooves about 2-3 inches apart, and in the middle, formed at his hooves, was a ball of ice. This ice was opaque and was almost fully white, apart from a few pieces of blue stranded around in random places. He expanded his hooves more, and the ice ball grew bigger. He sent it flying towards the living flame, blocking it from hitting its mark. The flame rebounded towards Spike, who, luckily, had fire-immunity applied with his scales. It went out like a candle that had just been blown. Spike, who was far from hurt, had now noticed the other side of Button, now feeling confused and concerned.

"W-what?" asked Spike. He had an unusual expression on his face, one of probably annoyance. Suddenly, Button threw a plate at Spike, throwing him out into the open, becoming exposed. The ponies who witnessed this incident wondered to themselves first, before thinking that it was just 'Spike being Spike.' Wow, what a bunch of douchebags, thought Spike.

Surprisingly, Button jumped 50ft in the air, before landing down onto the ground, scratching the mud with his hooves.

"Oh, there's more where that came from." smiled Button Mash. He clicked his hooves, and was suddenly armour-clad in iron, looking like the Paladin from a familiar game, Terraria. A hammer flew into Button's hooves, and under that mask, Button was smiling.

The gamer princess was chuckling to herself, as she was being her usual self. She was on a PonBox, playing a real life game called "The Sims." She was being a brown colt with a propeller beanie hat, who, using her gamer powers, was hacking into the game. Celestia burst into the room, looking at what her younger sister was doing.

"Sister, what are you doing?" asked the Princess of the Sun eagerly. She saw that she was controlling a certain pony, who was fighting a dragon that looked like Spike... No, was Spike.

"Just having some fun, my dear sister." replied the Night Princess. Celestia slowly walked out of the room, while in the background, Luna was throwing her head backwards in laughter.

Button threw hammer down onto Spike, who, luckily, dodged out of the way. The hammer was left in the ground, the hilt jutting out like weeds trying to take over a cobblestone footpath. Spike darted off, trying to formulate a plan to take down Button. Then the idea hit him: fire. If the metal was melted was melted down, it would be enough to harm Button, however also resulting in death. In life, there are many choices you can make. All choices have a consequence; good or bad. Sometimes challenges are put in you way; a price will sometimes be paid, thought Spike. He gave himself enough time to make his decision, dodging Button's giant fist if need be. Making up his mind, he flew towards Button, gave off a huge gust of flame (using oxygen that he had saved up) and smashed onto the ground, trying to regain his breath. In front of his eyes, mares and stallions were running away, as molten iron began flooding onto the streets of Ponyville. Spike lay onto the floor, with relief and guilt running through his mind. It'll take a long time to sort this up, thought Spike. He got onto his feet, nearly tripping up because of the horrendous sight before him.

"Ahh!" screamed Luna. Celestia burst into the room, rushing to aid her younger sister.

"What is wrong, sister?" she asked with concern. Looking at the TV screen, she noticed the problem. On the screen there was a puddle- no, lake, of molten iron. There was a propeller hat poking out of the pool.

"M-my gamer powers are fading!" cried Luna, fainting. Celestia shrugged her younger sister's sudden action. She should stop overreacting, thought Celestia. Suddenly, a troll face wearing a propeller hat beanie appeared on the screen. Under it was the words: Virus Detected.

Button rose out of the pool of molten iron, and clicked his hooves. He had a purple and red cloak wrapped around him, and was hovering over to Spike. Surrounded by a crimson aura, he summoned a blade, a blade not from this world. It seemed that the blade was indestructible yet unreal. Blue and white in colour, it brought with itself a ghostly presence. Spike's deduction was right: the blade was from the spiritual world. It flew towards Spike; his death seemed unavoidable. Button laughed furiously, cackling at his friend's imminent death. Suddenly, a miracle happened: the blade had missed its mark. Button stared at Spike with confusion, the blade hovering in mid-air. A purple aura surrounded the blade, and a familiar face popped up.

"Twilight!" exclaimed Spike, giving a sigh of relief. Twilight flew towards Button, levitating the sword with her. Taking no notice of this, Button summoned another ghostly blade and commanded it to destroy the princess. It glided gracefully towards the alicorn and unarmed her, leaving her at Button's mercy. Button, understanding the importance of the princess, released her from the grip of the blade. Twilight stared at Button, fury flaming in her eyes. She hadn't seen a power like this ever since the alicorn amulet's rise in Ponyville, and even that wasn't as powerful as this new 'monstrosity' that Button had become. The power of friendship gleamed in her eyes, and she understood how she could solve this 'simple' friendship problem.

"Button, you don't have to be the monster that you are now! Make peace with Spike, and solve this problem, once and for all." Twilight exclaimed. She didn't want to sort out this problem with brute force, however she would have no choice to do so if Button didn't agree to this.

"W-what is wrong, sister?" asked Celestia, her eyes suddenly full of worry. She wasn't a gamer, however she knew what a virus was, and if it was a threat to all of Equestria, she would want to dispose it as soon as possible. Luna looked back at Celestia, her eyes shining back at her.

"My sister, my gamer powers have entered another pony!" cried Luna, her voice deep with despair. "If it is put in the wrong hands, the consequences would be painful!"

"Oh... my... Celestia." gulped Celestia.

"Sure," said Button Mash, responding to Twilight's informal truce. "I'll stop all this fury, AS LONG AS WE SORT IT OUT!"

Twilight smiled, saying," What's wrong?" before getting flung to the side by a pole that Button had locally acquired.

"No!" screamed an innocent pony, who was totally not a Flash Sentry that had come to Ponyville to flirt with the Princess of Friendship.

(The author, who suddenly realised he had run out of inspiration, started to panic as he didn't know what to write. Because of this he decided to not publish the story and forget that he had ever thought of it. Nah, I'm just kidding. But I did run out of inspiration at this point. So I decided to save it for the day.

And yet, on August 7, he STILL couldn't write anything. Never mind, he though of something to write.)

"Nooo!!!' shouted Spike, just like Obi-Wan did when someone may have passed away in the first Star Wars movie. He ran to Twilight's side, gravely responding to his sudden worry with the word, "See you later, Spike."

Spike ran towards Button, anger and fury running through his mind. He knew his 'mentor' would not agree to this use of violence, but now she was no longer here. With all the strength he could muster, he jumped up and soared towards this evil brown pony.

"That's rascist!" shouted a random pony. For some reason, Apple didn't know that rascist was a word and it was apparently an 'incorrect' word.

Button used his gamer powers to summon another sheet of iron to wrap around him, protecting him from reality and the baby dragon. Spike crashed into the armour, crushing the strong alloy. He used his hands (?) to grab Button by the neck, pulling him out of the suit forcefully. Button scrapped some dirt off the ground and started to smudge it into Spike's eyes.

"GOTTEM!" exclaimed a WelvenTheGreat pony, who had thrown his phone towards Spike to knock the dirt off. Spike and the brown, dirty pony started to fight, with force and words, not just the usual pushing and shoving. Button eventually pinned Spike to the ground, asking him why he liked the pony so much.

"You just can't stop how I feel, Button!" I like her a lot, OK? Those green eyes, that beautiful white coat, the purple mane-"

"And pink. Don't forget pink." interrupted Button. Spike looked at Button, confused.

"Wait, you were talking about Sweetie Belle? I thought you were talking about Rarity!" laughed Spike, giving Button a playful punch.

"Lol, I thought you were talking about Sweetie Belle! I love how we fought just to come to this conclusion." said Button hysterically. As if on cue, Princess Celestia, Luna and Cadence slowly drifted down to deal with the situation.

"It seems that the situation is in control, my sister." started Luna the hottest pony. Celestia said nothing but smiled to show her agreement with her sister.

"Princess Luna!" exclaimed Button with awe. "The Gamer Princess!"

"Hey!" interrupted Cadence. "She's not the only one that plays video games!"

Celestia nudged he student, whose plot had risen out of the ground. "Twilight, stop joking around."

A pony wearing black and blue said, "Okay."

Another WelvenTheGreat pony shouted, "Gottem."

Spike started to whisper something to Button.

"Button, why don't we go on a double date?" suggested Spike. Button nodded his approval.

"Yeah. Let's go on a double date." smile Button