Prologue: My seven opponents

"Come on everyone! The Romero Arcade is just over here!" I heard a bouncy pink girl shout happily as I watched her and her friends make their way down the street. The seven of them were the cutest, smartest, and sweetest girls at Canterlot High, and they were also way out of my league. Who I am?...I here you say...and why am I watching the seven girls make their way to my favorite place? I hear you also say. Well first off, left me assure you I'm not some stalker or pedobear pedo with a van. No I go to Canterlot high, and yes I also know it feels like we all live in that Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day and repeat...uhhh never mind that. I go there with these nice girls, I do mostly okay, academically. I'm more a slacker but you can't deny my heart's not in the right place.

Sure I spiked Coach Iron Will's coffee with...wait no that wasn't me...oh I gave Ms. Harshwhinny...no that wasn't me either...can I start over? Uhhh okay look, my name's Pixel Resolution. I'm just you're average C.H.S student who does moderately well and occasionally pulls a prank or joke on my student's and teachers. this particular day, after schoool, as the late afternoon sun began to set, and the evening broke. I had on my wonky shades, one lens was squared, the other round. One was red, the other green. I had my best jeans and blue sweatshirt on with a relic from my dad tucked away in the pocket. An actual Sony discman, one of the last ones ever made...though I THINK they still make them but I mean just as MP3's caught on...oh anyway...It was a 2002 Discman he got me and said was like the one his father bouth him (only his was the actual Walkman) in 82.

I had in the disc compartment a mix cd of some tunes for the evening, I followed behind the seven girls casually, cause hey they were cute and all, but I'mno creep. As I stood behind them I watched as they Looked up at our destination, The Romero Arcade. You know how they say Arcades in America are deader than Discos these days? Well Dan Romero's half billion cash payout on the lottery, invested into this little bussiness of his was one way of discrediting that statement. The place was a three story business that had the distinct shape of an old arcade cabinet, as the girl Pinkie was quick to point out.

"See! I told you guys, he had it built to look like an old arcade cabinet! Look the front window's like the screen! The name's across the top like on the cabinets inside! Isn't it the coolest?!" She asked with a super hyper attitude, as she bounced and jumped aroun,girl was after my own heart.

"Uh...Yeah Pinkie, It's...pretty nifty." The orange and reddish yellow haird girl Sunset Shimmer said with a nervous chuckle. Clearly she still had to get used to Pinkie's...excentrices. I could tell by how she stammered and slowly backed away afraid Pinkie's head would explode from the excitment.

"I think this place is just dapper darling." The ivory girl Rarity said as she squee'd happily griping her hands tightly and in excitement for the fun they'd all have.

"I'm a little nervous about this, what if I'm not very good at any of the games?" Fluttershy said hiding cutley behind a few locks of her soft pink hair. Twilight Sparkle Placed a hand on her friend's shoulder reassuringly.

"Aww Fluttershy, you know that doesn't matter around us. The point of The Fulchi....I MEAN! Romero...Fun Center is to have fun!" She said ruffling her hair softly. The inside we all, myself included. Could see the mass of kids and teens eunning from cabinet to pinball machine, pool table to air hockey, and whack a mole to BB gun shooting gallery. Everyone has fun at the largest fun center arcade outside Japan, but only the skilled enjoy it l.

"I'll have fun, kicking butt after butt at the games!" A blie girl with rainbow hair said giving a fist bump in the air before a high five to an orange and fire haired one passing by.

"Always sure of yourself ain't you Dash?" The girl said with a grey and bluish steel haired guy on her arm.

"Yeah Rainbow, you know what they say about that ego of yours." Soarin said as I made my move. I steped out from the curb, a glass bottle of Pepsi (no product placement intended) with a straw and my last slice of extra cheese and olive pizza in either hand. I gave the seven girls, ignoring Spitfire and Soarin, a little chuckle and adjusted my shades.

"You know..." I said with a slight dramtic pause as I uttered my words as smooth as silk and cool as ice. "I think Dashie has a point." I paused to take a bit of my pizza and made sure to mhhhm! and smack my lips like it was a pizza topped with truffles (the mushrooms not chocolates) Chèvre (goat's-milk) and Comté (French Gruyère) cheese...yes I don't have a clue WTF I just said.

""Oh really?" Twilight said defensively, I swear she started looking like a horse clamping and stomping to ward off a predator threating a herd, now how silly was that notion? "I think you can have fun in a place like this without getting a swollen head over it, I think we learned that at the music fest a while back." She said as I only took a long drawn out and pleasured sip of Pepsi made with with real sugar, just like the good old days. "There are more important things to life than being competive." As I stepped up to her and smirked smugly as I lowered my funny shades and chuckled.

"I know that Twilight, I just...also think...there is some potential in uping the ante when there's fun to be had in video games, you are looking at the three time champion of Injustice, Mortal Kombat, and even the classics...at the NYC Gamecon tournament...Pac Man, Glaxian, and centipede, I've faced guy and girl alike, and trumped them all, but I've been always been a good sport through loss and victory alike, and I just...want to maybe raise those stakes a bit tonight."

"Well I enjoy a challange as much as the next girl, what'd ya got in mind throwback?" Rainbow Dash said giving me a Face/off face off stare down. She was talking about my apperance, sans possibly the Naruto headband on my forehead, with the big yellow headphones on, the Sony Discman, my short shirt and jeans, and those yellow almost neon sneakers, oh I looked like a throwback alright.

"Uhhh, excuse me, but couldn't we all just go in and not make a contest out of our night off from school?" Fluttershy asked timidly, with a little squeak and eeek of squeamishness.

"No one challenges Pinkamenia, Dian, Pie and gets to walk away from it! be it milkshake drinking, cake baking, or a list of things I can't say because the writer wants to keep this story E rated!"

"Pinkie?...are you tryin ta make tha universe devide by zero gain?" Applejack asked as she also began to get in my face, a look of determination, and perseverance in how she would come out on top.

"Hey least yoyu finally got a line in this prolouge." Pinkie pointed out as a crowd of spectators from the arcade had come out thinking they'd get a first row seat to a seven girl one guy fight.

"Anmywho, ah do think this here parthner ought to put hisw money where his mouth is, ya'll want a contest you got..."skate." She said adjusting her Stentson hat and smirking smugly. As the crowd of onlookers jeered and cheered, they chanted things like, 'Game on!' and 'Go Equestria girls!' As I finally finished off that oh so delicious stuffed crust of pizza I had been savoring. I left a tiny nub almost like the butt of a fine Del Toro Cigar, and I flicked it away just like one as my straw siphoned the last of that oh so good real sugar glass bottle Pepsi. I tossed the bottle away behind me not even looking. I heard a girl squees happily and shout "Look Lyra! I caught that mysterious stranger's soda bottle!"

"What is it with you and junk Bon Bon?" She asked.

"Oh...I...uhhh guess I just got caught up in the moment?" I heard her say. I stood up to all seven of them smiled.

"Me and all seven of you, I get four picks to a game, you get your own, so choose who gets what wisley. The seven of them began to look really taken aback now, but also especially among the competive of the two Applejack and Rainbow Dash, determined. Determined to show just who I was dealing with, so was I on the flip side.

"What's the prize for wining throwback?" Rainbow Dash asked with a grim as she flashed me her teeth and smirked ready to hear.

"Well that pizza I had was pretty good, so if you girls win I'll buy you enough pizza and drinks to throw a slumber party, but if I win...You have...to...hang out with me.

"wait....just hang out?...not date you? Rarity asked placing a finger to her mouth in confussion.

"What? NO I'm not some chavanist that would make you guy...oh wait nevermind that the E raiting thing.

"Hey!...I do the forth wall breaking around here!" Pinkie said giving me her trademark stink eye. As she did, Sunset and Twilight stil came up to and faced me, with looks of determination and...also irk.

"Just who do you think you are?" Sunset Shimmer asked as I opened the door to the Romero Fun center.

"I'm Pixel Resolution." I said adjusting my red headband.