Friendship is a Game

“Sir Micro,” Kanna cheers in monotone as she jumps into his arms. Micro chuckles as he gives her head a quick pat.

“Good to see you to Kanna-chan,” he says. Looking up at Kobayashi (with Tohru peering around the corner growling) he smiles. “Thanks for letting me Sling Ring here. Saves me the trouble of finding a spot.”

“No problem,” Kobayashi waves the thanks away. Looking behind him, she raises an eyebrow. “Who’s your friends?”

“I’d like you to meet Spike Drago and his girlfriend Diamond Tiara,” Micro introduces. “Spike was interested in meeting some from the True Dragon Factions and his girlfriend wasn’t about to pass up a trip to Japan.”

With a grin, Spike shifted into his Dracokin form, expecting a reaction from at least Kobayashi. Too bad for him she just blinked and sipped her coffee. Checking her watch she curses.

“I’m running late. Tohru!”

“Yes Miss Kobayashi!” Tohru cheers as she runs outside and transforms. Micro realizes he shouldn’t be too shocked at this sort of thing, but he can’t help be caught off guard as he watches Kobayashi climb over the railing of her balcony and land on the giant dragon’s back before they take off.

“What’s taken you so long to come back?” Kanna asks. Micro senses the slight tone of sadness in her voice and sighs.

“A lot of crazy things have been happening,” he says. “Let’s just say… bad people like the Exorcist who was after you are after me… but enough about that. Someone else wants to meet you.”

Setting Kanna down, Micro did a quick spin and when he finishes, it is Perl standing there in a blue crop top and black skirt. Spike blushes since the skirt flared out during the spin revealing his friend’s rear to him, but he was strangely used to this sort of thing from Perl.

“OH!” Perl squeals. “You are even cuter seeing in person!”

Kanna just tilts her head. Not from the cutegasm that Perl was having (experiencing them daily from Saikawa), but simply from the transformation. Seeing this, Perl calms down.

“Hehe...there’s a lot of things that Micro didn’t get the chance to explain last time. Tell you what. I’ll tell you everything...if you introduce me to that other dragon who that kid thinks is a demon.”

“He thinks she’s a succubus right,” Diamond grins. Perl and Spike both have looks of realization on their faces. Maybe bringing an actual Succubus wasn’t such a good idea considering…

Oh well.

Putting Kanna on her shoulders, Perl begins chatting away while Micro goes over recent events.

A little bit ago in Sanctuary

“You’ve got to be kidding me!” Chara shouts. “We can’t even trust other Gamers now!”

Micro had just explained to everyone what had happened with Pixel. Asriel lays a hand on his sister’s shoulder to try and calm her down while Sugar pulls out a lollipop to try and settle himself. All around the room others were trying to do similar things.

“So now in addition to finding and saving Gamers we have to worry about them trying to kill us,” Scoota grumbled.

Software wants to say something. She wants to make her son stay in this sanctuary. Hell, they could probably convince everyone here’s families to join them so no one was at risk. Even if they tried to separate their daughter’s from their boyfriends, explaining that they’d still be at risk would end that train of thought.

But she knew that wouldn’t work. Her son now knew there were so many others at risk and held captive by this Tirek person. He’d never give up now.

“Have messages been sent to the ones we found,” Micro asks Sombra. The Latino Android nods.

“So far we’ve gotten a few responses. They say they’ll keep an eye out, but don’t want to meet up.”

“They’re probably worried this might be a trap,” Spike sighs. “What better way to lure people in than promising safety.”

“What about Pixel?” Diamond asks. “Can’t you get her to tell you who to look out for?”

“She’s not talking,” Micro groans. “And I’d rather not force anything out of her. It would probably be false info anyway.”

Silver and Scoots hug him on either side, realizing the main reason he didn’t want to try and pull the info out of Pixel. They almost lost him to despair before.

“The Dream World’s out too,” Asriel surmises. “Since they have Gamer’s locked up, there’s no way to tell the difference between the prisoners and attack dogs.”

“So what do we do?” Fluttershy asks. Micro rubs his chin for a moment in thought.

“Well, Celestia and Luna know more about this now since that Dream world incident. They might have some ideas. For now, everyone has their emergency Sanctuary Keys on them. Ignore anyone we don’t know in case they are working for Tirek. And most importantly-“

Micro froze and blood immediately started pouring from his nose. Falling off the couch, everyone started panicking. Did he somehow get poisoned in the fight?

Then they saw him...for lack of a better term, be propped up partially like a kickstand. Before they could question it, Cleo came down the stairs adjusting her pants.

“Damn that was good. Gotta learn that clone and transform technique. Save me a lot of boring nights.”

Looking up at the gathered group, she watched at the boys (minus Shiro who had a stronger mental fortitude with this sort of thing) fell back from nosebleeds.

“What?”

Present

After recovering from passing out...and then also from the beating Cleo gave him, Micro decided he needed a break. Scoots had track practice the next day, Silver fencing, Fluttershy the animal shelter, and Etc. With most everyone busy, he decided it was about time to make his way back to Japan since it had been so long. However, he was unable to convince his friends to let him go alone, thus leading to his current entourage.

Micro...I doubt you want to miss this.

The mental message from Perl got Micro to turn his attention outside their shared body.

“Ah!” Diamond shrieks as she snuggles against the young boy (who was ironically named Shouta). “You’re so cute!”

Shouta was pure crimson as his head was firmly between Diamond’s breasts, with a blonde dragon woman with a chest leaving Frida’s wanting for a few cup sizes squishing him from behind.

“I know right!” The dragon (Lucoa) cheers. Spike was just watching his girlfriend and the dragon smother this poor boy with a thoughtful expression.

“You know, if I didn’t get this almost daily from three girls...I’d be jealous.”

Perl giggles but decides it’s time to rescue the poor kid. Reaching between the two girls, she grabs Shota by the hair and Blinks them across the room.

“Sorry about that,” she says as he practically curls into the fetal position from fear. “Didn’t expect Diamond to react like that.”

As the boy begins to calm down, he looks up at Perl.

“Are...are you a sorceress?”

Perl blinks in shock before casting Observe on the kid. Seeing his family has a history of magic users, she understands his fascination with her magic.

“It’s a bit more complicated than that but…”

“Can you teach me?” He asks. Perl blinks again before thinking for a moment.

“Well, I don’t know how often I can come over and I’m taking my own lessons myself...but I don’t see why I can’t if I have the time.”

Rubbing the young boy’s head, she sees him blush up at her, but unlike when he was between Lucoa and Diamond, he didn’t look ready to run away.

“No fair!” Lucoa whines.