The Hub

A winged purple coated pony flutters down to the stool in front of the bar while another more masculine and male version of her stands behind it cleaning various glasses that the other various Twilights have drunken from. The newcomer known as Pegalight sighs and holds up a hoof for the first drink of a long night. The male unicorn version of her, known as Butchlight, uses his magic to pour a drink, a hard one after really looking at how sullen Pega looks, and makes his way down the bar.

"What's got you so down?" Butch asks placing a cleaned glass down.

"Well... I decided to go back home for a few days too, you know, get the ball moving again and try to figure out what I wanna do with myself that makes me all the more special and powerful. Well, I made a really bad mistake following the advice of Rarilight and decided to switch up my style for a few days, " Pega throws back her drink, "And guess what! It worked! It worked too well! Because now everyone wants fashion advice from me and not flying lessons or for me to teach them on how I was able to manipulate the thrumatic fields around me to create lightning in varying degrees of color and speed!"

Pega moves her hoof in a circle and causes a bottle of butterscotch to come flying off the shelf and into her hooves.

"Have you tried telling them you can't?"

"No! Why would I!? My Rarity is all like, 'Oh Twilight! It's destiny! I knew we were friends for just more than element bearers! Oh, we can just stay up all night sharing fashion ideas!' and I'm all like 'Yea sure! We can make a big ole party about it!' and she goes, 'Oh! What a wonderful idea! I'll go call up my contacts and let them know to come to view ALL of OUR wonderful ideas together!' and now I'm here because I need to DRINK before dealing with-"

"Pegalight! How are you darling? I haven't seen you around in quite a while!"

"Speak of the devil..." Pega mumbles and turns to embrace a pristine marshmallow version of herself dressed down in a flowing dress that accents together purple and her white coat perfectly, "Rari! Oh its so good to hear your voice again!"

"Oh how you flatter me, darling. Now spill. How was your new attire? Did it inspire the masses?"

Pega clenches her teeth before looking at the scotch bottle. Pega rips the top off and tosses it back drinking down half of it before slamming the bottle down, "Sure did! I just decided to come to celebrate!

"Celebrate all you like! In fact, I'll even join you and talk about even more designs we can add to your attire!"

Butch leans close to Pega's ear as Rari begins to talk about all sorts of material she can use for her flying friend, "This will only make the problem worse you know."

Pega whispers through grit teeth, "Not if I drink myself into a coma for a while!"

"Up up! You gotta go more up!" A frizzy-haired Twilight yells pointing at the screen before the group of Twilights.

The screen before them seems to be a flat screen television that is hooked up to a gaming console known as the Pbox. There are four cords leading out of the bulky pink machine and into the hooves and hands of four Twilights frantically playing a game up on the screen. Behind the four, cheering and screaming can be heard as "clutch" moves are made about the screen and betting takes place hosted by a top hat wearing Twilight equipped with cape and cane. Her blue mane and darker shade of purple coat really make her stand out against the crowd surrounding her.

"Hey! Quit the back seat gaming!" A purple skinned bipedal Twilight complains while not taking her eyes off of the screen, "Besides! Her ass is coming down hard!"

"You'll have to kiss it first asshole!" Another Twilight yells sat along the same couch wearing 3-D glasses and multiple wristbands of various bands along her forelegs all while magical hands grip the controller in front of her, "Not like you'll ever get the chance to!"

"You got that right! Especially when she's, " The screen flashes red as 3-D glasses wearing Twilight screams in horror, "OUT OF HEAR!" A deep shade of purple, almost black, Twilight yells after triumphantly defeating one of her counterparts on screen.

"Fuuuuuck!" 3-D yells throwing the controller on the ground and storming away.

Cheers, laughter, and groans erupt from the crowd as one of the contenders is eliminated from the race. Meanwhile, Gambellight seems to be erasing a name off of the board behind her and all the while collecting money from grumbling Twilights.

"Damn straight!" Human Twilight yells while laughing, "Talk shit get hit!"

"You better remember that when it comes around..." Another Twilight who seems to be a mix of human and pony.

She seems to have hooves for feet and covered entirely in fur except for hands and face. She had four fingers instead of the normal five associated with humans, but it does not seem to impede her gaming skills what-so-ever. She jerks and moves with her character on screen all while mumbling and groaning about various things happening around her and to her on screen.

"No way Satyr! I'm going for gold this time around!"

"Didn't you say that last time?" Darker Twilight says grinning trying to provoke her opponent.

Human Twilight growls and slouches more while glaring at the screen and her opponents' characters, "But this time is different..."

"She's going for it!"

"She'll never make it!"

"She's crazy!"

"Don't you dare! I put too much money on this match!"

Various words are slung around as Human Twilight begins to enact her plan. Her score climbs higher and higher all the while her character begins to do the unthinkable and unpredictable. Human Twilight can taste victory as she begins to spam the button on the screen near her character.

"What!" "No!" Darker and Satyr yell at once while trying to get their characters to catch up to where Human's was.

"It's too late! I! Have! The! POWER!" Human yells jumping to her feet and raising her controller as the screen flashes blood red before revealing the death of two opponents characters.

Darker slumps back and Satyr flops to the floor both groaning as cheers rise to their climax. They all proceed to chant out Human Twilight's name.

"Twiggles! Twiggles! Twiggles!"

Twiggles laughing manically as the various version of her proceed to pick her up and carry her around announcing her victory for all to know.

"Betting is closed everyone! Money front and center! And remember, we have ways of making you pay..." Gambellights says eyeing a few nervous version of her in the crowd.

A few good looking ones at that too, "And oh how you'll pay~."