Careless Happenings

My name is Button Mash, and I was hanging with my friend Rumble. It was another day in ponyville, and we were in the game place, going to the arcades to play the new trail punchers game. He was mad for beating him a lot, but he still plays to try and beat me. After that we see somepony strange. they were wearing a brown cloak like the cohorts of hungolia. They were just walking around looking at stuff. I decided to spy, and get to there lair and get there treasure. Rumble didn't want to but he went with me. we followed it untill we were hungry. after that we went home. It was a cool day.

"That was a great story Button. I liked where you became a spy, but you shouldn't follow ponies like that. Now is there anypony else that wants to share what happened this weakend?" Ms Cheerilee asked with a smile.

A colt raised their hoof.

"Yes, Pipsqueak. What did you do this weekend?"

Pipsqueak bites his paper and trades places with Button Mash.

"This is how my weekend went. It all started when—"

Button sat back into his seat next to Rumble.

"Why didn't you tell them we went into the forest?" Rumble asked quietly.

"I don't want to get us in trouble. My Mom would ground me forever if she found out." Button whispered back.

"You still need to tell me what happened in there. I almost called for help when you didn't come out." Rumble said, worried.

"It was sooo coool. It was—"

"Is there something you would like to share with the class, Button?" Ms Cheerilee asked with an inquisitive look on her face.

"Uh, no..." Button said, embarrassed.

The whole classroom giggled at Button, and the situation.

"Sorry Pipsqueak. Now you said you got ice cream with your dad?" Ms Cheerilee asked with a smile, trying to keep the class focused.

"I'll tell you later." Button whispered quickly.

Rumble couldn't help but be curious about what happened in the Everfree Forest.

^ Yesterday ^

"Oooh , you got lucky that day, today's the day I'm gonna beat you." My friend Rumble was still mad about beating him at Saddleback Fighters, and I'm not gonna lose my winning streak.

"In your dreams Rumble. You didn't even come close to a knockout, and I had a few flawless victories." He didn't have the skill to beat me, not when I have hours of gaming, though I did feel bad for not letting him win, I did have an idea to make him feel better.

"I was close though. You were down to 6 HP 'till you used that special move, but I have an idea to beat you now." Though I did go easy on him one time to give him a chance, his new strategy might not work. But I wasn't here for that, but for a new game.

Theres a new arcade game called Trail Punchers, and its a co-op game where we have to save some princesses. "We're not gonna play Saddleback, we're gonna play Trail Punchers." I was sooo excited. What was the arcade game gonna look like? How many players can be in it? What's the—

"Are you scared your gonna lose to me?" He asked looking all annoyingly proudly. still doesn't mean he'll beat me.

"Nah, my winning streak will hold, but this is a co-op game, one where we fight bad guys, and save princesses." I'm so glad I saved a lot of bits for this day.

"Oooh, okay, but after that I wanna try and beat you at Saddleback." He'll learn how unbeatable I am, but for now—

"Whoa..." The arcade game looked cool. There was 4 of 'em, 2 facing back-to-back, all different colors, but the same title.

"What do you think this game is about?" asked Rumble, getting my head out of the clouds.

"I don't know, but I can't wait to find out!" I went for the orange one, and Rumble went for the blue one. I inserted 2 bits for each of our game, and we started playing.

^ 30 Minutes Later ^

"I can't believe we can't beat that wood monster! " Rumble was grumpy, and excited at the same time (and was also surprised that I couldn't beat it). We were walking through the shops to go to the park, thinking of strategies to beat him in that forest.

"You know what the worst part is?"

"What?"

"We have to start from the beginning."

"Uuugh!"

There was a code to save the game, but once we got knocked out, and 20 less bits, but we didn't have a paper and pencil, and the code was sooo long, we can't even remember it, and the code would only last for 2 days.

"Just imagine what the evil wizard would be like. That wizard single hoofedly took out the royal guards and took the power stone." That pony was terrifying when it came to power.

"Yeesh, I wonder if we can ever beat him with what our characters are like." Rumble was still angry, but I knew that if we want to beat that wood monster, we need to work together.

"Yeah, but we'll beat that wood monster, and anything else that gets in our way!" I said proudly, but Rumble was looking at something else, all confused.

"What is it?" I looked where he was looking, and saw somepony... interesting.

"Is that Zecora?" My friend asked.

"I don't know. That cloak looks like Zecora's, but it's walking weird and slowly, and... is it wearing 2 cloaks?" Yeah it was, the other was black underneath, and was looking around. It looked like one of the Cohorts of Hungolia.

"I'm gonna ask where it got its cloak. Hey you!" they looked in our direction, "Where did you get that cloak!?" but it turned, walking away.

Before I could lose them in the crowd, I followed it making sure it didn't see me.

"Button, where are you going?" Rumble asked.

"I'm gonna get that cloak back, I think they stole from Zecora." This could also be a start of an adventure, like Sweetie Bell's friends. "And it's not gonna get away with it."

^ Some Time Later ^

Rumble decided to go with me, and we followed it untill they walked into the Everfree Forest. We were hiding behind the trees at the edge of the forest, and they were still walking. I was going in the forest until Rumble stopped me by my tail.

"Okay, I get that you want to return the cloak back, but this is getting dangerous, my brother said to never go in there."

"It'll be fine Rumble, besides, what's the worst that could happen?" And I walked into the forest.

"I don't know Button, this seems like a bad idea." Rumble said, following me.

^ 5 Minutes Later ^

"Where did you go? They were just here, it's like they disappeared." We followed its weird hoofsteps, and in between them was getting longer and longer, until we couldn't find it anymore.

"You know, being in this forest reminds me of Pinkie's old song." Rumble said. I remembered Sweetie's friend, (Applebloom?), went into the forest, and she became friends with Zecora.

"Yeah, everypony was afraid of Zecora, who knew she was nice all along."

SNAP!

"What was that?!" Rumble whispered.

"I don't know!" I whispered back. That's when I smelled it. It emerged from the bushes, and we were scared when we saw it. I wanted to run, but my legs couldn't move, and with Rumble beside me...

"Rumble, I'm gonna distract it and if I don't come out of the forest, call for help."

"Button waii—!"

"OVER HERE YOU PIECE OF GARBAGE!" And I ran deeper into the forest. It howled behind me and when I looked back, I wish I hadn't. Rumble wasn't there anymore, but the timberwolf was.

I never, in my life, ran so fast. I was so scared, what happened to Rumble, was it still chasing me, am I having a nightmare? Everything around me was so blurry I couldn't see anything for a minute, and that's when I fell. When I did, I hit a tree with my head, and I felt dizzy for a little bit. I shook it off,and backed up against the tree feeling the bark on my back. This was real, and the timberwolf was looking at me from the small cliff. It looked at me with those glowing green eyes, and I couldn't help but cry.

"WAAAH, MOM!"

The timberwolf was slowly walking closer, and closer to me, and I closed my eye's, crying. "Goodbye Rumble, Mom, Sweetie Bell. (Sniff!)"

CRASH!

And everything was silent... I opened my eye's and saw the cloaked... thing... and underneath it was a pile of wood. It was breathing hard, and after a minute, it got off the wood pile. The wood began to float. 'What is it doing?!' the wood turned into a timberwolf in no time, but before I could run away, the thing stomped its foot close to the timberwolf, shaking the ground a little, and roared at it.

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!"

It was the most scariest roar in my life.

The timberwolf ran into the forest, whining, and I was left with something much scarier than the timberwolf. This 10 foot beast was strong enough to beat a timberwolf to a pile of sticks, shake the ground with just a stomp, and make a terrifying sound that could be heard for miles.

It turned to look at me, I couldn't see its face underneath the cloak it was wearing, but i knew it was looking at me. I was so scared, I couldn't move, breathe, or blink.

"Hey, you okay?"

'THE BEAST CAN TALK?!' "…"

"Hello?"

"…uh?"

"Oh good, you're not dead. What's your name?"

"Uh, Button. Who are you?"

"Doesn't matter. Do you know your way back home?"

I looked around, and only saw trees around. "I'm… lost…"

"I see… well come on, I'll show you the way." It started walking off, an stopped when it looked at me."Well?"

"I'm… I'm not going with you." Even if it saved me from that timberwolf, I was still scared of the thing that was talking.

"Hmm… Okay, good luck finding your way back." and walked away again.

I thought about what it said, and they're right, I'm not gonna find my way out, not in this forest. "Wait!" It stopped right there, facing away. "Um, sorry. I da— I do need help."

"Alright. Come here then." I tried walking, but I felt dizzy and fell. It turned to look at me, "What happened?"

I shook the dizziness off. "I was with my friend, when that timberwolf came. I distracted it so my friend can escape."

"Mhm, where's your friend now?"

"He escaped to Ponyville."

"Mhm, I see… and why did you go in the forest?" I didn't want to answer, "Button?" but it looks like I had to.

"I—Uh, we were following you. That cloak wasn't yours, and I wanted to give it back to Zecora, but we couldn't find you. I bummed my head when I tripped over a cliff and to the tree."

"Ouch, well then…" It walked to me and picked me up with its weird claws. "Heh, you're like a small puppy."

"Hey, I'm not a puppy!" It laughed.

"Sure, now let's get you home." And it started walking. I never been carried like this before, and I can see everything with how high I was. I had so many questions, and it was a cool… thing.

"What are you?"

"Oh, I'm called a human."

"And are you a colt or a filly?"

"Uhh? Oh, I'm a guy, or stallion you would call."

"So a colt like me?"

"Yes."

"Why do you have Zecora's cloak?

"Okay, as much as you want to play 20 questions, your friend's prolly worried 'bout you."

"How long until we get to Ponyville?

"You want the slow way, or fast way?"

I was so confused with that question. "Fast?"

"Fast it is." and the human started running, and holded me more tight.

"WOAH!" When I was running I thought I was fast, but he's way faster, maybe even faster than Rainbow Dash. It only took a minute, but we made it.

"Well, we're here, the edge of the forest, (Huff)."

"Button Mash!" I heard my friend calling me, and he wasn't far.

"And seems like your friend's looking for you, (Haa), least he's alright, (Sigh)." He put me down and breathed hard, like in the forest, 'Is that how fast he was running?' "Well, go home, and forget what's happened today... Actually go to the doctor first, don't know how hard you hit your head, you probably have a concussion." And he started walking in the forest.

"Wait!" he stopped, looking at me. "Thank you, Mr Beast, I don't know what I would do if you hadn't come."

"Just don't follow me, and forget about this day... and dont call me MrBeast, that name has already been taken." Now I really wanted to know his name.

"What's your name? I'll call you Mr Beast, until you say your name." It looked at me for a little bit, and let out a breath.

"(Sigh). Hmm... Ah! Call me Aiden, Aiden Peirce."

"Button! Where are you?!"

"Now get out of here." and he ran into the forest.

I wanted to chase him. "Button!" but my friend was calling me.

"Rumble!" I was running to where he was calling, and when I saw him, he saw me and tackled me.

"Button! Thank Celestia your alright! Are you hurt?! What happened?!" My friend was breathing fast when he was asking.

"Rumble, calm down. I'm alright, I just hit my head. I think I need to go to the doctor." I think I felt a bump when Aiden was holding me.

"What happened in there?"

"I'll tell you later, but I have a headache right now." Before we started walking, I heard a growl. I looked where the forest was, but when I heard it again it came from Rumble. He looked away, but my stomach growled too, and when he noticed, we were laughing.

"Come on Rumble, let's get something to eat. I still have some bits in my hat." After all that running, I didn't see how hungry I was, and Rumble didn't either.

"Yeah, let's go get some Hay fries!"

It was the coolest day, ever.