Raid Partners

“Next stop Ponyville! Twenty minute stop! Next stop Ponyville! Twenty minute stop!”

Luna looked up from her game colt as she heard the announcement. She had sat with the other ponies with her hood up. She even looked like just another mare as long as none of her nebulous mane escaped. She sighed, putting her game colt back into her backpack and zipping it up. She got to her feet with a stretch, and allowed the older couple she had been sitting next to leave the car first. Once they were out, she slung her backpack over her shoulder and grabbed her duffle bag from the overhead compartment. She walked out of the car and carefully scanned the small crowd of ponies for her gaming buddy.

Standing in the crowd, with an old fashioned cardboard sign saying, ‘Nightblade’, on it, was a short, barely eighteen, if that, colt in the crowd. He had the same brown coat as the one from the picture, and wild, unkempt orange mane. He smiled to all who passed him, looking at every pony who passed, waiting for her.

Luna smiled and hurried over. “GamerPro I presume?”

The young stallion turns to the voice, and pales at what he sees. First, his eyes linger on her giant breasts, each possibly bigger than his head, and at eye level with him, before going up. She has a beautiful smile, and dark blue eyes that he could just lose himself in. Oh, and that beautiful mane, tucked behind her ears but just peaking out to show that it’s just like the night sky. In fact, he thought he knew a pony… The stallions’ mane stood on end as his eyes widened. “P-princess?”

Luna placed a gentle hand over his muzzle, her eyes scanning the crowd for anypony who may have overheard him. Seeing everyone staying busy she sighed as her shoulders relaxed. “Come on, GamerPro. You mentioned pizza bites?”

He slowly nodded, and began leading the way, staring into the distance with a hundred yard stare. “Umm, m-my actual name is B-Button Mash. Sh-should I just call you Nightblade?”

“You can call me Luna, if you’d like, Button.” Luna smiled and followed after him. “So, as I mentioned before, it seems my plans to spend time with my friend, er fell through? Is that the proper term?”

Button slowly nodded, wishing that he could stop sweating as he walked through town. He didn’t even know why. It was just another gaming buddy who so happened to be a princess! “Um, yeah, and I’m really sorry to hear that. Though, I guess we might make it through all of Diablo now.”

“Wonderful! I was hoping you may have a crashing couch for me.” Luna frowned and wrinkled her muzzle “I said that incorrectly…”

“It’s a couch to crash on, and, well, I have one if you need one…” Button sucked in his lips, not sure what else to say. She was a princess, and you didn’t say no to a princess, even if it meant that you would have one of the hottest mares in Equestria living with you, and scaring the crap out of you at the same time!

“Yes, that’s how you say it. I’m sorry. I still stumble on, hmm, slangs?” Luna lifted her hand and rotated it a few times before frowning. “I am trying though..” She glanced over to where Button seemed to be trembling, and sighed “Am I to much?”

Button jumped at the question, and waved his hands frantically in front of him. “W-why would you be too much? I would love to have a ruler of… Equestria… live in my house… It’s very warm out here? Have you noticed that, because I’m boiling.”

Luna smiled sadly. “Button, for the next week, I am not a ruler of Equestria. I am on a holly day.” She placed her hand on his shoulder “And I am happy to spend it with you.”

His body froze for a moment as he stared into her eyes, his mouth as dry as a desert, before a bright shade of crimson lit up his face and he slowly nodded. “Well, I’m… I’m happy I stocked up on ice cream too then, because,” he swallowed hard, and decided to go for it. “You’re gonna need it after I cream you in Clash!”

Luna grinned and leaned down to look deep into his eyes. “Bring it on.”

A small, strangled response escaped Button, especially when his eyes tore themselves away from Luna’s eyes, and caught themselves a glance at what lay beneath her sweater. As glorious as the twin peaks were, he considered it a rather bad move, as it only led to more parts of his brain breaking as he pointed, and trudged, towards a house, speech still being a far off memory right now.

Luna followed in after him. “I like your home. It’s very nice, and far different from my own.”

Button grabbed the side of his arm, nodding as he pointed upstairs, and regained the ability to speak. “Well, um, you don’t need to stay on the couch. My mom is gone for the week, so as long as you kept it clean, her room is available. We do only have one shower though…”

Luna frowned for a moment “You live with your mom?”

He paled, and slowly nodded as he realized exactly what he would have to tell a princess. “Well, while I’m eighteen, and could move out, I’m… I’m still in school.” He swallowed hard again, staring at the wall as sweat came off of him like bullets from a gun. “The house is open because it’s Spring Break, but I’m grounded because of grades…”

Luna smiled down at him “Well, I will not tell your mom if you do not.” She sat down on the couch, pulling down her hood and spitting out a strand of mane that had flew into her mouth, before digging into her backpack. “Scrunchie, scrunchie, ahha!” She pulled out the dark blue scrunchie and pulled her mane back “There!”

Button stared at the alicorn, still trying to understand what was going on. He knew she had said she wasn’t a princess of Equestria for the week, but for her to act so casually with him was unimaginable for the young stallion. Not only that, but even after the shock had dissipated, her beauty still was enough to make him very nervous. “S-so, what do you want to do?”

“Well, I am here to play games, so I would think we should game.” Luna grinned cocking her head “Do you have Para-sprite? It is my favorite gamer fuel.”

Button winced at the mention of Para-Sprite. He despised the ‘all natural’ junk. “No, but I have something much better, Yak Dew.” He hopped over the couch, and began walking towards the kitchen, slowing as he realized how he just spoke to her, but resigning to his fate.

Luna watched him walk into the kitchen with a smile growing bigger on her muzzle as she almost felt like doing that ‘yes’ dance Celestia had told her of. He is arguing against me; telling me my idea is wrong! A friend, a real friend!

Button came back, a case of Yak Dew, and Yak Dew: Crush edition in his hands. “Mom and I had a night of gaming last night, so we’ll be popping new ones out. Umm, the pizza bites are in the refrigerator over there,” he said as he pointed to a microwave and refrigerator, both set within reaching distance of the couch, “and just tell me if you need anything else I guess.”

Luna reached to grab a Yak Dew. “I’ve never tried one.” She shrugged, popping the tab and taking a swig of it licking her lips “Mmm, that is good!”

Button smiled, a wave of relief rushing over him as he flopped onto the couch. “Told you.” He then stuck his tongue out at her, and stretched out his hands. “So, you name it, I probably have it. Guest’s choice of course, and new, interesting rules are always welcome.”

“Interesting rules? What do you mean by that?” Luna rummaged through the refrigerator, feeling a bit hungry; having only had a small sandwich on the train.

Button chuckled. “Like the fact that every week, my mom and I play Smash, and whoever is the winner by the end of it has to do the dishes for the week, or in Diablo, where if one of us has to use our potion, we have to take a drink of habanero sauce.”

Luna’s ears perked at that, “That sounds like a lot of fun actually! Yes, let us. I mean, let’s use these interesting rules.” She pulled the pizza bites out and put them in the microwave.

Button smiled as he opened up a drawer that was on his side of the couch, soon pulling out a bottle of hot sauce, and a spoon. “Alright, but I’m adding an amendment that you have to squawk like a chicken when you go for milk.”

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Button yawned, his mouth long having forgotten how to feel from the mix of sugar, ‘pizza’, and fire that he had been subjecting it to for the day. They were just getting done with act three of Diablo, and finally, exhaustion was overtaking him. “So, even if it’s only three, I stayed up pretty late last night. How about you?”

“I normally sleep during the early day, but I was up a bit later than usual, and as i’m going to be here for the week, I should try to be a diurnal as I can.” Luna yawned, stretching her arms into the air.

Button nodded, dusting off his shorts as he stood. “Well, as I said before, mom’s room is free for you to use, there’s a shower upstairs, and I’m gonna go to bed. Sleep well, pri-Luna.”

Luna stood up and wrapped her arms around Button, squeezing him tightly into her cleavage. “Sleep well, Button, my friend.”

Button’s cheeks grew warm as he nodded, and stepped away. “Umm, yeah, w-will do.” He then waved to her, and headed upstairs. It wasn’t like this was his first time having a mare stay the night. Sweetie and him had done it a ton of times before during Lan parties, and he never got nervous about that. Then again, Sweetie isn’t a goddess who also rocks as a Witch Hunter.

Luna headed upstairs to the bedroom and set down her duffle bag on the bed, before opening it to pull out a tee-shirt and a pair of boxers to sleep in. Her eyes went to the window, curious if she could see Canterlot from here.

Button meanwhile laid in his bed, staring at the ceiling. His mind was trying to wander to the mare just down the hall, and how she had probably undressed to go to sleep. He had a princess, one of the best looking mares known to Ponykind, in his house. And yet, that only scared him into his clothes, and he didn’t dare undress. If he did, he might start thinking a bit harder about Luna, and if that happened, he would never stop thinking about her that way, or so he feared.

And with thoughts of what was normal to them, and what was knew, dancing inside the two ponies heads, both tried, and failed, to sleep.