The Online Gamer: Friendship is for Noobs

We rejoin our hero inside the library of one Twilight Sparkle, although it’s not under the best of circumstances... Twilight and her friends saw fit to bring him into the library and lay him down on the couch.

Fluttershy, being the kind soul she was, took it upon herself to look Aaron over for any kind of injury that might of resulted from his sudden meeting with the ground. All she cared about was that he was a living creature, and no matter how scary he might be, she wanted to help him.

Luckily for Aaron, he suffered no injuries from his little fall. That’s not to say that he can’t get injured from anything else. After a fitful sleep, our hero began to stir. His senses slowly coming back to him. But something felt off.

Now one thing you don’t do is separate a gamer from some of his key needs in life: darkness, caffeine, junk food, and most importantly, the GAMES! Then you go and put said gamer in a bright room with no food, a grossly illegally small amount of caffeine, and to top it all off it’s full of the one thing most gamers hate.

Aaron’s eyes started to focus; the bright lights and fresh scents all seemed so off to him. Where was his dark musky living room? Where is that rancid smell he had come to know and love. Everything was just wrong.

“We does everything smell so gay?”

As his vision was about to fully clear, Aaron noticed his huge migraine and clinched his eyes closed again.

          “Shit, did I fall asleep during Becka’s shitty show?”

Powering through the pain, Aaron forced his eyes opened, blinking many times to clear his vision. What he saw made his blood run cold.

Books everywhere.

Twilight and the other 5 Elements of Harmony plus Spike were gathered in her kitchen, sipping tea talking about what to do with their new ‘visitor’.

                “...........”

    … Alright, it’s more like 7 pastel colored creatures sitting in silence.

    “So anypony got any ideas on what we should do?” Spike asked, breaking the 7 way quiet   game.

“I don’t trust it! I say we give it the hoof and send it packing!” Rainbow piped up slamming a hoof on the table to get her point across.

“Oh that is so like you, Rainbow Dash.” Rarity said with a scoff. “Always jumping to conclusions.”

“What? Are you saying you trust it? I mean look at it. How freaky can you get?”

“Oh I don’t think it looks so bad. I mean did you see what it was wearing? Now, while it may not be to my tastes, I can still appreciate somepony who partakes in the finer things of life, like clothes.”

The rainbow maned athlete lowered her head in moderate shame, “It might be dangerous...”

“Actually, Rarity brings up a valid point,” Twilight interjected. “HE,” putting an emphasis on Aaron’s gender, “Is wearing clothes, so that implies that he is civil on some level. A wild animal doesn’t have the need nor the want to wear clothes. Plus he also spoke right before he passed out. Although I couldn’t quite catch the word. Buck, maybe?”

Twilight was the most intellectually advanced of the whole group, so when she turned on the science, everpony else usually listened. Usually being the operative word.

“Well, ah reckon we could give it-” Twilight shot Applejack a look cutting her off, “Ah mean, give HIM a chance.” Applejack said with an embarrassed smile, looking over to Twilight who nodded in approval.

“U-um actually...” Fluttershy mumbled, trying to get a word in.

The whole group turned their attention to the butter yellow pegasus. Usually if she had something to say, it was very relevant, so she had their undivided attention. Save for Pinkie Pie, who looked to be in deep thought.

“Yes, darling?” Rarity said, motioning for Fluttershy to continue with her hoof.

“ I noticed something about him when I was checking for any injuries.” Everypony leaned in and said in unison “Yes...?”

“A-and Um, at one point he yawned in his sleep.”

“Yes...?” Everypony said, leaning in a little closer.

“And I got a good look at his teeth.”

“YES?!” Everypony was on the edge of their seats.

The timid pegasus was never good with this kind of attention, so she panicked. Lowering her head she mumbled through her pink mane,

“His teeth were.... Nice...”

The sound of four hooves, plus one palm met five faces, save for Pinkie, who continued to ponder whatever it was that Pinkie could ponder about.

She looked up with a confused look on her face. “W-what? They were really white. Oh, and he probably eats meat.” She said nonchalantly.

“WHAT?!” Everypony in the room yelled, causing Fluttershy to dive under the table.

“Didn’t it occur to ya’ll to mention that earlier?” Applejack asked.

Coming out from under the table, Fluttershy continued. “Well no, not really. I work with animals everyday that eat meat, so it’s not all that new of a concept to me... P-plus the gryphons eat meat as well. Oh, also he probably does not eat meat only, just like the gryphons.

The tension on the room eased off. If the timid Fluttershy wasn’t scared, then why should they be?

“Who’s to say he doesn’t eat ponies though?” Rainbow Dash added.

Twilight gave the cyan pegasus a sly smirk. “I’d like to see him try. Between you and Applejack’s strength, plus mine and Rarity’s magic, I doubt he could take us. We even got Fluttershy and Pinkie as an extra precaution.”

“True.”

“Actually,” the Lavender unicorn began looking over to the bubblegum pony. “Pinkie, what’s on your mind? You have been surprisingly quiet over the last few minutes, what do you think we should do?”

Lifting her chin off her hooves, Pinkie Pie looked to her 6 friends.

“What should we do?” She began, her friends waiting for her answer. “We should...”

Pause for dramatic effect...

“Throw him a PARTY!” the curly headed pony yelled!

Five more hooves and one palm, met six faces.“What?” The party connoisseur asked innocently. “He is new to Ponyville, so we should make him feel welcome! And what better way to make somepony feel welcome then a Pinkie Pie Party!”

Letting her friends brood on what she said, she continued on. “We shouldn’t judge him just because he looks different, and might live a different lifestyle. That would make us a bunch of meanie mean pants. Didn’t we learn our lesson with Zecora?”

Everypony in the room bowed their head in shame, even Rainbow Dash. It was amazing how Pinkie Pie could be so hyper and random, yet make something difficult seem so simple. So much that it made everypony else feel like a jerk.

“... Alright, so we wait till he wakes up, and give him a chance. Agreed?” Twilight asked.

“Agreed.” the entire room answered.

“Yea, Ah’m sure he is a nice feller at heart.” Applejack added.

“Maybe he likes the Wonderbolts! That would be so awesome!” Rainbow Dash said with a hoof pump.

Clapping her hooves in excitement, Twilight said to Spike, “Imagine the foreign knowledge he might be willing to share! Oh I’m so excited!” Spike withheld any enthusiasm he might of had.

“Maybe he likes animals...” Fluttershy mumbled with a small smile.

“...And I get to throw a super awesome ‘Welcome the New Species to Equestria Party!’” Pinkie yelled as she jumped in the air, confetti exploding everywhere.

“Oh I’m sure he is such a gentlecolt.” Rarity added with a toss of her mane, and a flutter of the eyelashes.

Everypony in the room was chatting about the possibilities of their new visitor. All apprehension gone, replaced with enthusiasm. Their loud chatting drawing a certain gamer toward their kitchen door. Wanting to make an entrance, Aaron lifted his right foot up, throwing his weight forward into the unsuspecting door. The little bastard never stood a chance.

A loud bang silenced the entire group, their attention held on the dark figure standing in the now open kitchen doorway.

Aaron had kicked in the door so hard that it had busted it off one of the hinges, crippling it.

Aaron stalked into the room with a very unamused look on his face. “Fucking books? Seriously?”

All eyes were on him, nopony daring to look away for a second, Aaron’s grand entrance guaranteed that. Aaron walked up to the closest seat, the one between Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. Pulling the chair out, he spun it around and sat down on it backwards, arms crossed on the back rest.

Directly across the table sat Twilight, Applejack and Rarity were to her right, Rainbow Dash and Spike to her left. The Circle was now complete.

The awkward silence in the room felt like it was lasting an eternity. Aaron kept his eyes cut, moving them from pony to dragon to pony.

Having enough lag time, Aaron leaned forward toward the table, like he was about to say something. He looked almost like he was going to tell them a secret. Cautiously, everypony leaned forward as well, interested in what their visitor had to say.

Taking a slow calming breath, Aaron breathed in, all eyes on him widen in anticipation for first contact...

“RAAAAAAAAAAARGH RARA RA RA RARARAR!” Aaron barked out like a deranged pitbull, hands thrown up in a menacing gesture. His glorious teeth on display for everypony to see.

“GAAAAAAAAH!” Everypony yelled as they jump back, tripping over their own hooves as they tried to serpentine away from their new ‘friend’.

Twilight and Spike fell back out of their seats, Fluttershy jumped out the window, Applejack and Rarity dove under the table, and Rainbow Dash made a beeline for the closet, the door shutting tightly behind her. It would be a miracle if she ever came out of the closet.

Aaron couldn’t help but chuckle at the chaos his ‘little’ outburst had caused. “Hehe, I’m the party leader of this bitch, noobs.” He said to himself.

Laughing to his left drew his attention. A certain pink party pony was still next to him, laughing into a hoof. “That was the best prank ever!” Pinkie managed to choke out between her loud guffaws.

Taking note of his survivor, Aaron held his hand out to her, slowing her laughs. She was worthy.

“I’m AlcoholicSemenThrower. What’s your Gamertag?”

“I’m Pinkamena Diane Pie, but my friends call me Pinkie Pie! Nice ta meetcha!” She said, taking Aaron’s hand in hoof and giving it a firm shake.

“Pinkie Pie? That’s gay. From now on you’re the new Ted, you and me, Co-op style. You game?” Pinkie responded with a head nod, and continued to laugh.

A evil grin spread across Aaron’s face.

“Beast.”