An hour after leaving Twilight to her thoughts and hopefully she'll get the hint to express her feeling better but while I waited, it was time for Poker Night at The Inventory. Brock, Claptrap, Ash and Sam were in our regular table with GLaDOS as the Dealer.

“So you just left her while she talked? Cold.” Brock said as he looked at his cards again.

“If you were me and listening to her try to tell you how she feels, you'd do the same.” I told him, tapping the table. Check.

“It's still kind of a dick move.” Ash said. Rolling my eyes, I looked at the table as an ace appeared. For now, I had two pairs.

“I know that but it was either that or tell her to try again in person. I'm trying to be nice and it's hard.” I said to him.

“Being nice is hard for you? Wow, then they say I'm weird.” Claptrap said, receiving a chorus of You are from everyone in the room.

“Hmm, fuck it. All in, baby.” Brock said as he placed all of his chips on the table. Everyone else either called or bet.

“So anything interesting happened while I was gone?” I asked placing another five thousands dollars into the pot.

“Speaking of interesting, do any of you guys know anything about trading cards?”Brock asked

“Not since I discovered girls.” Ash said, earning looks from all of us including Moxxi and Max.

“I never associated with trading cards, never really thought of them like a must have thing.” I said with a shrug of my shoulders as Moxxi came up with a few drinks and set them each down to the respected people. When she handed mine, I saw the coloring of the beer was one of a Rainbow. I nodded my thanks as she left.

“I...might know a few things. Why?” Sam said.

“Well, there was an incident at the Venture Compound yesterday, and, well, Dean's shoebox of collectable trading cards kind of got hit by some stray flamethrower fire.” Brock explained, causing me to almost choke from my drink.

“On Pandora, we keep our shoes in fireproof lockers!” Claptrap shouted.

“On Pandora, you keep everything in lockers.” I said to him.

“I figure I got about three or four days to replace 'em before Dean notices they're missing, but I don't know where to start.” Brock said as he placed his cards down, revealing three of a kind six’s.

“Depends.” I said to him. He looked at me questionably as I set my cards down. Two pairs.

“Depends on what?” He asked me as Sam folded.

“What kind of cards are we talking about here? Baseball? Wacky Packages? Faces of Mirth?” Sam said, listing off a few trading card types.

:“According to Dean's database, it's a full set of Alien Invasion cards.” Brock said, taking a note out and showing the name of the cards.

“That's gonna be difficult.” Sam said as Claptrap and Ash folded, allowing Brock to take the winnings of the round. Twelve hundred dollars. I still have enough to go on.

“Why?” Brock asked as he sat back down after pulling the chips to his side.

“GLaDOS, if you please.” I said to our dealer. She lowered herself between Ash and Sam.

“Alien Invasion cards, published in 1964, were a series of 255 collectable cards that depicted a fictional alien invasion of Earth. Due to their lurid tableaus and violent imagery, they were quickly yanked off the market. As of 2012, only a few hundred intact sets are known to have survived.” She said without missing any details.

“Oh, I remember those! Ha, Discord had gotten them as soon as they came out.” I said as I remembered Discord’s obsession with those cards. A few compartments opened up near our cards and took them before closing back up again.

“Oh man, I had a few Alien Invasion cards when I was a kid. I practically had to trade away my bike to get 'em.” Ash said, as nostalgic as it sounds, I think that's where Discord got that bike. Hmm.

“So you're saying I'm screwed.” Brock stated with a bemused tone.

“Probably, but I'll see what I can do.” Sam said.

“I'll ask if Discord still has them but don't get your hopes up.” I said to Brock, earning a nod from the blonde human.

“Thanks... wait. You said 255 cards, right?” Brock asked our dealer.

“Yes.” GLaDOS said.

“I could swear Dean's database listed two-hundred and fifty-SIX cards.” Brock muttered out.

“It's probably a typo. Have you seen the way teenagers type these days?” Sam said before taking sip from his drink.

“Hmm.” Brock hummed. I then felt something vibrate my wrist. I looked down and saw that it was time for to go. So, gulping down my drink, I then stood up and said my goodbyes.

Walking out the small door shaped portal, I stretched my legs as I saw that I stood in the middle of Twilights castle garden.

I snapped my fingers and a scroll appeared. I opened it up and saw nothing written on it, then took out a pen and began to write to Discord about his old card collection.

Once finished, I closed the scroll and snapped my fingers again, causing a spirit Phoenix to appear flying in front of me. I gave it the scroll and it flew towards Discords location.

That done, I spread open my wings and took of for a small flight. While in the air, I felt something crawl up my right arm, looking down at said arm, I saw that it was my new gelatinous friend.

I had decided to name him Jelly, it suits him really and he seems to love it so that's what I went with.

Seeing an empty cloud, I landed on it and laid down. It felt like I was in heaven again.

“Cloud bed sounds like a good idea. What do you think, Jelly?” I asked my little friend. Looking next to me, I saw that he was rolling on the cloud and letting out what sounded like purrs.

I moved my hand up to him and began to pet him.

“I'll take that as a yes.” I said before closing my eyes and falling asleep.

Dust Basin, White Sands
Siege of White Sands

“Get up!!” Ringing was all I heard. Opening my eyes, seeing my old friend, Emmett. He held out a hand, I took hold of it and he pulled me up to my feet.

Ringing, ringing, ringing throughout the endless gunfire. I felt my eyes grow wide as I saw what was heading towards us.

“Ox!” I shouted as I took out a rocket launcher and used my vulturepack to head up into the air and get clear shot.

Before I was even able to fire, a rocket scab popped out of the top of the Ox Heavy and locked on. Knowing that I'm fucked if I stay in the air, the Pack propulsed me downwards as the scab fired a homing rocket.

I ran towards the rocket and took hold of it, then spun it around before quickly letting go, making the rocket hit a burnt building. The Ox saw this and aimed its cannons at me.

I was ready turn tail and run before hearing a loud battle cry.

“Yeeehaw!” I heard a shout. Looking up, I saw Emmett had somehow gotten a GrizzlyRig exo-suit. Without wasting any time, he ran towards the Ox tank before it fired and took hold of its wheels before flipping the tank over and started using the built in ground pounder.

Sighing out in relief, I took out my kineticrifle and ran towards the rest of the group while Emmett looked for whatever he was looking for.

Finally reaching the limits of White Sands, I saw Shane, Dalton and Vaughn holding off against another squad of Outcast troopers.

Taking a hold of the grenade on my vest, I pulled the pin and threw it.

While it was in the air, the grenade shattered into five cluster bombs.

Seconds later, screams of death could be heard with an explosion. I ran up to a road block, seeing Dalton with his Unionshotgun fully loaded.

Nodding, I counted down then vaulted over the road block and ran towards the nearest Scab. I grabbed him and slit his throat, then without another second I took out my Galloway and provided some cover fire for Shane while Dalton ran towards a group of scabs guns blazing.

Then, hearing the sound I dreaded hearing behind me. I looked back to see a tribal colored Hawk, it raised its foot and stomped me.

Mission Failed
78,789 pts

I awoke, knowing that I died again. It annoyed me that it continued to happen.

I sat up from the cloud, waking Jelly up in the process.

“I'll try again some other time, for now I'll go back to the castle.” I said to myself as I lowered my hand for Jelly to climb on then took off towards the castle.

Once I landed in front of the main doors, I dropped my disguise for a Second before putting it back on. Wearing a disguise for so long can tire me out.

Opening the doors and heading inside, I could hear the voice of Nyx and her three friends as they turned through a corner and headed out.

They saw me and quit down, Nyx was the only one who greeted me and I greeted her friends.

After that, I continued my trek to..

I stopped as I finally realized that I had no idea where I was heading to. Face meet palm, palm meet Face. Jelly saw this and mimicked my actions, making me chuckle as he did so.

Snapping my fingers, making a bag of M&m’s appear. I opened the bag and took out and hovered it above Jelly. He moved around in synch with the M&m before jumping and taking it from my hand.

Shaking my head, I let Jelly on to the floor and gave him the bag. He squealed in joy before he started to devour the candy.

Leaving Jelly to his business, I continued my trek through the castle.

I passed door after door, window after window before stopping in front of a slightly opened door. Not wanting to peek, I tried to listen in as I heard a hushed voice.

“Come on, I can do this.” Twilight, wonder what she's doing? I heard her take deep breaths before saying something. Focusing my hearing more, I could hear that Twilight had been trying to find the way to reveal her feelings to me and ask me out.

After the six attempt, I opened the door in a carefull manner and leaned on the door frame. I saw Twilight practicing on a mirror.

“I know this is really too soon for me to have developed feeling for you but, it happened. I'm sure it isn't just a crush because it doesn't feel like one, it feels better. Being around you makes me feel special.” Twilight said to the mirror but stopped as she tried to come up with something else to say.

“I guess this means I'm in love with you.” She finished up and muttered something else under her breath afterwards. She turned around and saw me.

To be honest, I know I can bend reality to my every whim and screw with logic but I'm pretty sure no one could go that pale. Snow white, hah!

“I-I umm..Hi.” She squeaked out. I chuckled and walked over to her. She didn't move and once I was close enough, I shrunk down to her size and I pulled her into a kiss.

I could see that she was shocked but kissed back. Once I pulled back, I smiled at her.

“To be honest, I felt like this ever since I first saw you but couldn't do anything about it. Father’s rules dictates that I cannot reveal my feeling to anyone unless they have first.” I trailed off before finally shaking my head. “Point is, I'm in love with you too.” I said with a goofy grin.

She looked to be in tears before burying her face into my shirt. We stayed like this for what felt like hours but it didn't matter to us, as long as we were together, we're happy.

I pulled away from the hug as I heard a caw above me. We looked up and saw the Spirit Phoenix with a scroll.

It dropped it on me before flying into a wall, crashing and disappearing after hitting the wall. Twilight looked at me as she wiped away a few tears.

I opened it and saw that Discord wrote back and sent me one of the cards. I bursted out laughing as I read the name, Wrath of Uranus.

Author's Note

Games in this Chapter are Poker Night at the Inventory 2 and Starhawk.

Outcasts are a form of mutated prospecters and Scabs is one of the many names they have.

Vol doesn't necessarily sleep, sleeping for him is jumping into another body until he wakes up ir the body he controls dies.

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