Games Ponies Play: Shoot For the Stars

Since then, Celestia and Luna have gotten much, much better at Fortnite through the guidance of the two pros. Although they weren’t originally human, which hindered their learning process, it was easy for them to get used to the ropes. They were much more quick on reaction, and they knew the type of gear they wanted. Turns out, Celestia liked the offense class, while Luna liked to stay back and take sniping instead.

It was difficult for them to spend time together on these Fortnite basics. But it was worth it.

A week later, the four met up for squad mode once more, and are ready to take the victory Royale. They were just practicing some more before the game started when some people approached them once again. Uh oh.

“You call that accuracy,” Winston teased, laughing.

Luna peeked away from her sniper rifle for one second and slapped him in the face. “Will you please shut up? This time, we’ve got the skills to beat everyone on this whole island down. Right Celestia?”

“Right,” She replied.

The bully did not care, for he had backup.

“Oho, think about it, dear princesses,” Winston clapped his hands and called his teammates. “You’ve never played squad mode. There are 4 people in a team. Very sure you’re gonna get stupid teammates who dont know what they’re doing.” He turned his vision to his teammates. “We, though, have been winning game after game.”

His teammate Oscar nodded. He was his go-to partner in crime. “Your teammate must be your idiotic ally Nathan, am I right?”

As the group started laughing, Celestia stomped the ground quite forcefully a few times. Ssundee and Crainer appeared beside the two princesses. They held their pistols and light machine gun in their hands, pointing directly at the four.

“You know who we are,” Ssundee said.

Winston twitched his eyebrow and snickered. “Huh. Ssundee and Crainer. Two famous Fortnite YouTube stars. You both were dominating every game... Until we beat you at the last second!”

Jason laughed. “Even two professional players don’t have the guts against us. Come on, let’s get away from these losers.”

“No kidding,” Tommy, another one of the crew said.

The second they were off of their radar, Celestia wanted to burst into flames. They just called her and her sister what now? She couldn’t believe how mischievous they are.

“D-Did... Did they seriously, just call us losers!?” Celestia yelled, stomping the ground in rage. She snatched Ssundee’s light machine gun. “Oh, once this game starts, I am gonna-“

Luna tugged her arm, and Celestia stopped.

“Hey. Calm down, sis,” Luna suggested. “You’re giving them what they want.”

Her sister smiled.

“You know what...” Celestia said, her smile changing to a cold one. “I think they will get what they want.”

“Ahhhh. Oh yeah. They will.”

They high-fived each other, and soon, the battle bus was ready for takeoff. The big match is about to begin.

When the team got on the battle bus, everyone was practically snoring during the explanation of the rules. By the time it was done, that’s when the group started to actually start planning stuff.

“Awesome. The bus is headed straight for the secret base!” Luna pointed out.

Crainer nodded. “Perfect. Let’s go there. Remember what we did- If anyone interferes, react fast. Let’s stick together to make sure we all survive this time around. That way, we will have the strength to deal with surprise attacks while we are in the base. Usually it’s one or two people.”

They all marked the place on the map.

“Okay, so,” Ssundee said. “Everyone better get a shotgun fast. That’s going to be important. Also, remember this is squad mode. As Crainer just said, it is best we stick together. If any of us dies, it’s difficult to win.”

Celestia nodded. “It’s the pack that’s stronger. Now, come on!”

They all placed their hands together in the middle and raised them all up in harmony. As soon they did, the hatch for the battle bus was opening.

“Dive as far as possible as stick the landing as fast as you can,” Ssundee reminded. “Now go!”

They landed swiftly on the ground a few minutes later, on the mountain where the secret base was located. Celestia and Luna were on the top of it, while Ssundee and Crainer spotted a chest on another level of the mountain, so they went to grab that. They regrouped a moment later to infiltrate the base. They got down to a house like structure, and saw a lone player frantically breaking the steel gate blocking the entrance.

“Enemy on radar!” Ssundee said, diving down and charging at him. “Kill it! Kill it with fire!”

All four of them beat the player up in a few seconds. All he had was a bit of resources, though. They soon busted into the base and dropped down.

“It’s easy to naviagate around the base; I’m sure you’ll be fine,” Crainer said. “Split up. Ian, you’re with me. Princesses, stick together and try not to get hurt.”

Celestia nodded and hurried off with Luna down the base. As they passed by the intimidating interior of the nerdy base, there were items everywhere. They got down to the 3rd floor and saw a staircase leading down to a bedroom. They went down and saw a chest. After opening it, some pretty interesting weapons were barfed out.

“Blue pump shotgun!” Luna exclaimed. “Awesome!”

Celestia picked up the blue assault rifle and the green tactical shotgun. “Pretty neat.” Then she heard someone coming. “Luna, get over here!”

“Wh- huh?”

“Just hide and shush!”

They went behind the steel staircase to get the ammo crate as someone else stepped in. He went into the room next door for more loot. When he came out and turned...

“Halt!”

The princesses jumped out and used their shotguns at the same time. He dropped dead in a flash. He had some more healing items which were pretty good.

“Ha, good job!” Luna high-fived her sister.

Celestia giggled. “First kill we’ve had. Let’s go.”

The group continued to search around until they gathered at the 1st floor, where the metal gate back outside was located. Ssundee and Crainer came over with really good gear.

“Believe me when I tell you,” Crainer said, his face beaming. “I found a legendary thermal scoped assault rifle!”

He showed the gun to the princesses- Who were nothing but amazed. It was the newest gun in the game and possibly one of the best weapons. When Celestia tried to use the white-coloured weapon with a fierce-looking laser pointer attached, she could see through the scope, a bunch of blue surroundings and her teammates’ bodies were in different warm colours.

“Does this make others more easily seen?” She asked.

Ssundee nodded. “Player bodies have heat inside them. This kind of scope detects heat, so it will be easier to aim and find your enemy. Pretty cool right?”

Just then, a loud sound was heard. It was the siren.

“Attention players: The zone has now been formed. Please proceed to the zone in 15 minutes before the storm begins.”

Celestia gave back the gun and Crainer looked at the Fortnite Island map. They were already in the zone. And much to his surprise, Snobby Shores was also in the zone too!

“Perfect!” He said.

“What’s up?” Luna asked. “Are we in the zone?”

“Yeah! And we can go to the rich neighbourhood too!”

Ssundee rubbed his hands, feeling pleased. “Very nice. So that’s where we’re going next!”

“Fire in the hole!”

Ssundee yelled that in the cringiest yet most hilarious voice ever, and fired his rocket launcher. At the same time, all his teammates threw grenades at a man-made wooden base that contained a team of two.

BOOM

“Go go go!” Luna screamed enthusiastically.

The squad jumped out of their cover from the nearby bushes and fence gates, and frantically fired their assault rifles and light machine guns.

BANG BANG BANG

And the two dropped dead. As soon that happened, everyone started laughing at their flawless surprise attack. Even when they were picking the loot and healing up a little, they were still dying of laughter.

“OMG, that was awesome!” Crainer couldn’t stop laughing.

Celestia was giggling the hardest, which made the two pros surprised- Being such a regal princess, they never expected her to have such a great sense of humour.

Ssundee finished drinking his shield potion.

“Dang, I didn’t know you had a sense of humour, Celestia!” He said a little playfully.

Luna chuckled and nudged him. “Yeah. When she laughs, she could go on for a while.”

Finally, Celestia did manage to get herself back in condition and they found a lot of spare loot lying around. They did notice some people already went to Snobby Shores, but made the guess they all got killed and now there’s a bunch of stuff lying on the floor. Because of this, they all got very lucky and awesome weapons and healing items.

A while later, the siren came again.

“Attention players: The 2nd zone has been formed. Please proceed there in 15 minutes.”

So the squad packed up all their great equipment and set off. Along the way, they weren’t getting attacked by anyone, so they had a casual chat as they were walking to their next destination, Greasy Grove. It’s a residential area.

“You know, it’s fun getting trained by you guys,” Luna said.

Crainer blushed. “Haha, don’t say that. We’re not that amazing.”

“*giggles* What do you mean?” Celestia teased. “You both are really amazing gamers, I can tell you that.”

At this point, having being praised by two pony princesses, Crainer couldn’t utter anything and blushed heavily. Ssundee rolled his eyes and laughed.

“He likes you praising him,” Ssundee said playfully. “Come on, do it...”

The sisters were giggling as Crainer made an adorable squeak and shook his head. Ssundee joined on the laugh.

“Hey! Come on, bro! You’re gonna mess with me like that now?” Crainer asked, but couldn’t resist laughing along even though it was on him.

Ssundee made a cold smile. “Hashtag Crainer likes being praised by pretty pink princesses! Hashtag hashtag!”

He intentionally made a confused face, having no idea what he just said.

“Don’t judge me,” Ssundee added, turning to Celestia.

“*chuckles* You humans are weird. In a good way,” The princess commented. “Do you YouTubers do this stuff too? Trying to be really awkward sometimes?”

The pros looked at each other, having no idea what to respond with.

“It’s my thing,” Ssundee explained.

Luna made a hum in agreement. “I see. Hey Crainer, you have distinct accent. Mind telling us where you’re from?”

“Not at all,” Crainer replied. “I’m actually Danish, and Ian is American.”

The princesses were very interested. But the moment they wanted to say something...

WHOOSH

“Whoa!” Celestia squeaked, narrowly missing a blazing sniper bullet and hearing the breeze of the wind.

Crainer and Ssundee put their serious face on.

“I smell an enemy!” Ssundee yelled, immediately building a makeshift base. “Where are they, Celestia?”

“Hmmm... I think from that mountain over there. Yeah, that one.”

Crainer peeked out of their cover just a little bit. They covered the top to avoid more sniper bullets coming their way. As he was scanning the landscape, they realised someone was missing in that brief minute.

“Wait, where’d my sister go?” Celestia asked.

Ssundee was busy distracting the enemy, knowing where this was going. Crainer winked and did the same thing, firing his purple tier scar at the enemy’s makeshift base. From what they heard, it seemed to be one person.

Suddenly... BANG!

“Huh!?” Crainer asked, looking through his scope. “Did that guy just-“

“GOT HIM!” Luna yelled triumphantly in her royal Canterlot voice. “HA! Get sniped!”

Ssundee immediately started dying of laughter again.

“Oh my gosh that was beautiful!!” He cried. Turns out, Luna was secretly sniping from another mountain and escaped the enemy radar without anyone noticing. She had a gold sniper and got a critical hit.

After a few back and forth fights around the map, the group eventually made it to the final destination, where the smallest possible zone covering a major location of the island is located: The infamous Tilted Towers. It was some kind of small town, with tall, dense and Modern buildings. When they did get there, they could hear two teams fighting. So, they played it smart and tried to hide from the commotion.

They were in another makeshift base behind a building, on the edge of Tilted Towers. All they could hear was gunshots flying to and fro.

“Should we lay low?” Celestia suggested.

Ssundee peeked out. He saw two huge man-made buildings. Probably player bases for the fighting. He signalled the three to go into the building.

“Go. Top floor, just do it!”

They easily climbed up the stairs to reach the highest floor of the tall building. When they peeked out the window, it only took one second for them to regret the decision. One, because they didn’t want to get spotted, and two, they were literally 10-20 meters above the ground.

Celestia and Luna held onto each other in worry.

“Oh, Tia... I don’t like not having wings!” Luna cried. “I feel so powerless!

Celestia tried her best to calm her down when Crainer had an idea.

“Luna,” He said, “It’s on you.”

“Wh-What!? Are you insane!?”

“You’ve got the most accurate shots I’ve seen. Not even Ian can top it. If you can snipe one of them down, our job would be easier. Right now, waiting for those two teams to finish fighting will only make way for the storm to take place. If so, we’ll never be able to turn the tables around.”

Luna looked unsure. Ssundee comforted her.

“Don’t worry, we’ve got your back!” He said, patting her back.

She finally agreed and lied down. Carefully, the princess slithered over towards the window that separated the balcony and the top floor. It was open, so she peeked out and reloaded her sniper.

“Believe in yourself,” Celestia encouraged from behind. “Just like you told me!”

Luna turned back for a brief moment and gave a nod. When she turned back and aimed, she made very sure it would hit the enemy target, and got frustrated when he moved.

“Ugh... Come on! Stay still!”

Eventually, he started to heal up and this forced him to stay in one place. That’s it!

Bang!

She didn’t know if she killed him or not at first, but then she knew she did- Because immediately after, someone yelled:

“I’M GONNA KILL YOU, GIRL!”

The four silently giggled. They just clearly heard a full grown man scream that with 100% seriousness. What a weird world they live in. But they couldn’t let their guard down- For now they were on radar. They hid behind the walls of the building, but they then heard some strange and suspicious words.

“Oh, it’s going down now!”

And then a rocket came flying over. Boom! The four frantically tried to escape. But, they were shocked when bullets were still hitting them, even when they were running down the stairs!

“What do you mean!?” Ssundee yelled.

Crainer gasped. “Wh-What is this sorcery!? How is he hitting us, dude!?”

“How am I supposed to know!?”

When they got out, they were very low on health. Back on the tower they were getting shot from, stood the gang. That’s right; The self-centred people who dared to insult the princesses. As Winston shot those incredibly ridiculous shots, their enemy fought back with only two players remaining. Tommy and Jason went down and he wasn’t able to save them. At about the same time, one of them seemed to have escaped from their “Port-a-Fort”, a fortress in a ball-shaped gadget.

He opened the door at the bottom of the port-a-fort. He was trying to make a run, but when he turned the corner, Celestia jumped out with her gun. The player was knocked by her scar.

“Where do you think- Wait, huh!?”

In fact, this wasn’t just any normal player- It was Nathan!

“*gasp* Celestia! It was you who sniped them!?” He asked as he took the princess’ hoof. “You’re still okay! Awesome job!”

The princess hugged her friend with a chuckle.

“It’s Luna who sniped them. I’m on her squad team.”

The other three came around. Ssundee and Crainer were suspicious at first, but when they saw Celestia with him, they stepped back from defcon one.

“Aren’t you Nathan!?” Ssundee gasped. “The developer of the cube!?”

Nathan chuckled and shook his hand. Same with Crainer.

“Ha, Ssundee and Crainer. You taught them well, didn’t ya?” He laughed. “But! No time! I got to tell you something!”

“What’s up?” Crainer asked.

Nathan took a deep breath, since he’s majorly hurt. He’s down to 20 hp. He even collapsed at one point. The princesses helped comfort him and helped him calm down.

“I see it now,” He said furiously.

“What?” they all asked.

“They’re hacking! That’s why they’re winning!”

Everyone gasped.

“So that’s why they managed to shoot us even when we were indoors!” Luna yelled. “How dare they use aimbot on us, especially me!”

A second later, Nathan’s teammate was killed.

“Not just aimbot, Luna,” He explained. “I saw their every action. They have infinite ammunition. They can fly without jet packs or launch pads. They have the best weapons in the game and I refuse to believe they can get that many gold weapons. It’s not possible.”

“What do you mean!?” Ssundee yelled in the same voice again.

Crainer nodded. “I agree, what do they think they’re doing!?”

Nathan sighed. “I didn’t even know you can even hack in my system... I’m really sorry. I have to make some adjustments to the security system soon.”

All of a sudden, another rocket flew over!

“Stay back!” He cut his words off and fired his rocket launcher at the rocket. Both exploded on impact.

“But what do we do now?” Crainer questioned. “We can’t match up against those two!”

Ssundee totally agrees. “Dirty cheaters... Curse them!”

Then, both Celestia and Nathan came up with two awesome ideas. They didn’t say it at the same time, of course, but they were both already giggling about it.

“Nathan, since you’re the creator of the console... Just ban them!” Celestia suggested.

He thought for a bit, and was so shocked he’d never thought of this before- He’s the developer of “The Cube”! He can do whatever he wants! He might not be able to ban them from the PC game, but he would be able to ban them from this game in The Cube.

“That’s not a bad idea,” Nathan replied. “But that would take too long.”

Luna started to shake his body. “Come on! You got to! Cheaters should never prevail! Especially against the pros!”

“Alright, chill, Luna. I’ll see what I can do,” He sighed. Then he snapped his fingers. “In the meantime, though... Have you ever heard of the shopping cart glitch? I think it’s not fixed yet...”

The four looked at one another.

“I... I think I’ve heard of it,” Celestia said. “I’ve once watched a video about it.”

The other three had no idea what he was talking about.

“No idea? I’ll tell you. Basically, you-“

Boooooooooooom

”Player Honnathan, deceased. Shot by rocket launcher, 6 players remain.”

The squad all dropped to the floor. Their rivals just killed the developer! They heard them shouting.

“WHOA! Dude! You just aced that idiot-face!” Oscar yelled in excitement.

Winston chuckled. “Not that it matters! He’s the developer, so what!?”

The four were scared- How will they beat a hacker with limitless potential? They were living short on ammo for everything, from their fights along the way. They didn’t get a jetpack either.

“Tia, what is your plan?” Luna asked, shaking her. “Tell us!”

“Okay, okay!” Celestia responded. “From what I understand, and according to Nathan, they might just be like the same as any of our other foes in the past in Equestria.”

“What are you trying to say?” Crainer tilted his head in confusion.

Celestia smiled coldly. “They may be strong, but they”re not very bright. Right here.”

She pointed to her brain.

“Ohhhhhh so I get it!” Ssundee understood now. “You want to think outside the box, Celestia? But how?”

“The shopping cart trick!”

The three were really confused.

“I’ve seen it before. One minute while I set this one up.”

She walked back out so she’ll be exposed. She put her hands up.

“Alright, we surrender!”

Luna looked at her with disbelief. ”What is she doing!?”

The duo looked at her.

“You may kill us, but under one request!”

“And what would that be?” Oscar demanded.

Celestia looked back for one moment, and said, “You both are really good at this game. So why don’t you guys try to shoot us, mid-air, on a shopping cart? How does that sound?”

The pair looked to each other, and started discussing.

“Dude! This will make such an awesome YouTube video!” Oscar said.

Winston nodded. “No kidding, this will be such a legendary kill!”

They both turned back and nodded.

“Alright! We’re doing it!” Oscar accepted the challenge.

Celestia nodded. “Excellent! Now, just build all the way to the build limit, get a shopping cart up there, and slide down a ramp. When you’re in mid-air, you have to kill us! Got it?”

They both agreed, and Celestia walked back to the group.

“What was that for!?” Ssundee shouted.

She winked. “They fell completely under my trap. Basically, there’s a glitch in Fortnite that’s not fixed in this version. If someone is pushing a shopping cart and it falls and glitches into another object as it lands... Something interesting will happen.”

“What is it!? Tell us!!” Crainer begged.

Celestia chuckled and motioned him to step back. “Calm down. Now, let me tell you how we’re going to do this...”

10 minutes later...

“You got it recording?” Winston asked his friend.

“Yep! I’ve set up the recording stuff in the game!” Oscar replied. “Now, let’s do that dialogue we’ve been practicing...”

At this moment, the duo have built a large ramp that goes all the way to the build limit of Fortnite. About 200 something meters tall. Waiting at the bottom, are Ssundee, Crainer and Luna, all with their hands up. They have no idea why they needed to do this, but Celestia told them to, saying that they will act as “Bait”.

“Are you sure about this?” Luna asked Crainer.

He shrugged. “Ehhhh no?”

“Even I’m not sure...” Ssundee said. “What is your sister planning?”

“How am I supposed to-“

She was cut off by a huge voice.

“Hey!” Winston said to their recording camera. “My name is MasterShooter,”

“And my name is ShootyMcShootface!” Oscar followed.

The three wanted to giggle at the names they made for themselves.

“Welcome to jackbutt,” Winston said, “And this is the roller coaster 360 no scope triple kill! Hold tight Oscar!”

“Gooooooooooo!”

At breakneck speed, Winston pushed the cart, and the shopping cart rolled down, getting faster and faster on the ramp. The three could only watch as the plan went on. Soon, the cart leaped off the ramp and Winston was seemingly in a flying position. It’s the game mechanics.

As Oscar was about to aim, the three already closed their eyes in fear. Until...

”Player ShootyMcShootface deceased. Killed by fall damage. 5 players remain.”

“Huh?” Luna said. “What did Tia-“

“Move out of the way!” Celestia said. “I got it!”

In fact, with incredible timing, Celestia used a launchpad and leaped onto their shopping cart, and knocked Oscar off! She was on the cart now, and Winston could only watch is disbelief since he couldn’t move.

“What!? What is that supposed to be!?!?”

Celestia had a big, cold smile. “Let me tell you something. Hackers. Never. Prevail.”

A second before it hit the ground, she got off and ducked right in front of the shopping cart. When it was landing, buzzing sounds happened as it glitched through Celestia’s player skin. And then...

*WHOOOOOOOOOSH*

Winston and the cart were sent flying across the island, straight into the storm.

“WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?” He screamed as he flew away, so far that he didn’t even land on the island anymore. He was lost in the ocean.

Celestia skillfully backflipped as the following words were spoken:

”Congratulations! Victory Royale is yours!”

“Woohoo!” Luna celebrated in cheer. She dashed over to hug her big sister. “We did it!”

Celestia chuckled along as she nuzzled in the hug with her sister. “*chuckles* We certainly did. I never thought I’d say this but... That was really fun!”

“I’m so glad you did!”

When did let go and turned to the pros, Ssundee was shell-shocked. Crainer was cupping his head with his hands. Both of them had their mouths wide-open.

“How did you do that!?”

Celestia laughed so hard, she fell to the ground and started rolling over and over on the road.

“I’ll tell you when we get back to the base. You guys can stay, right?”

Ssundee and Crainer shrugged.

“I guess we could,” Crainer replied.

They all laughed. Soon, they heard the sounds of the battle bus. Only this time, because it came to pick up only the winners, the battle bus was gold coloured.