MapleStory

by OmokThief

Job Advancement

Previous Chapter

Hene Hoes and Duping

"Spike I don't think you're gonna get it it's been hours." Applebloom said a little worried.

"I'm not quitting till I get that surfboard!" He said tearing apart ten odd lizards. "It's been one of my dreams to get one of them snowboards ever since I saw one. Now abusing my two times drop rate I'm gonna get one!"

"Whatever you say Spike whatever you say." She said sighing before climbing up a platform and seeing if Sweetie and Scootaloo were done with their card game.

"I won!" Sweetie cried out.

"No fair! You cheated!" Scootaloo said as she started to restart the game.

"Hey I don't cheat its not my fault your bad at this game."

"That's it!" The pegasus said before rudely flipping the table causing cards to go everywhere before everything shrunk down and came together. "I'm never playing with you again!" Sweetie was about respond before seeing Spike run up to them.

"I found one!" He said jumping up and down with a purple surfboard. "I could die happy right now."

"Even without a kiss from my sister?" Sweetie remarked.

"Never mention her again" The dragon said getting a serious look on his before returning back to his happy look. "Nothing could ruin this moment right now." Spike said before getting disconnected.

"What?" he said as he rebooted the game or atleast tried to as it didn't come on. "Hey Twilight!" He called to downstairs. "Did you mess up the internet with your experiments again?"

"No I didn't, I'm going out to a picnic see you later Spike!" she said as she left the library.

"Well I guess I'll try logging in again" Spike said outloud to nobody in particular. This time he was able to log in without fail. "Alright! I got in wait... where's my surfboard?"

~~~

Meanwhile the other three had just logged back on. "Weird did we all disconnect?" Applebloom asked the other two.

"Better question is how did we get to henesys?" Scootaloo said

"An even better question why did Spike react so negatively when I mentioned my sister?" Sweetie added.

"Hmm" They said pondering their questions as two figures walked up to them.

"Well isn't this a surprise it's the three blank flanks!" Diamond Spade said better know as Diamond Tiara.

"Looks like their missing their pet lizard too." Silver Wand also know as Silver Spoon.

"Not today you two go do whatever bowpony jerk do." Applebloom said not feeling like dealing with them today.

"Aw what's a matter can't handle a little social interaction?" Diamond mocked

"You know what one of these days you're gonna get whats coming to ya!" Applebloom huffed and as if she summoned it they were knocked over by a purple blur

"What did I hit?" Spike said turning around. "Oh its just them, anyway something horrible has happened!" Spike said with a distressed look on his face.

"Apologize you ugly lizard!" Diamond said while getting up.

"How rude!" Silver said fixing her glasses.

"Are you two serious? You make our lives especially there's living tartarus and you expect me to apologize?" He said while glaring at them.

"Yes!" Silver said with her nose pointed in the air.

"Geez I knew hene hoes were stupid but come on!" He said facepalming.

"Excuse me? What did you just call us?" Diamond said shocked.

"Apparently you can't hear too! I called you stupid hene hoes who waste there time bully ponies because daddy doesn't love them!" Spike said making them run away crying.

"Don't you think that was harsh?" Sweetie said surprised in how the dragon usually nice and sarcastic turned into a angry and rude beast.

"They had it coming plus they're gone right?"

"Yeah I guess" The unicorn said.

"Now back to the matter at hand my surfboard is gone!" Spike said waving is arms for empathize.

"Oh I think the server got rolled back!" Scootaloo said putting the pieces together.

"What's rollback?" Spike asked confused.

"Oh yeah you were asleep for the last one."

"When did the last one happen?"

"On that day you took a twenty-four hour nap, but anyway rollback is when the server get's reset back to a certain point." Scootaloo explained.

"Oh so that's how we're in Henesys!" Applebloom said getting it.

"Wait we're in Henesys?" Spike said now getting a good look around. Indeed they were in Henesys easily tellable by the old village look, yellow roofed houses and bowponies everywhere. "Wait does that mean my surfboard is gone?"

"Afraid so Spike." Applebloom said

"No!" Spike yelled before getting disconnected again.

~~~

"Well now what? Anything we do is going to get reset." Sweetie said while watching Spike mope in the corner of the item shop they were in.

"We could always wait it out." Applebloom suggested.

"Why dont we do nothing but slowly wait for this pitiful existence to end." Spike said from his corner now seemingly drawing dark clouds over his head.

"Ignore him." Scootaloo said before continuing. "I've been waiting for a rollback since I heard a glitch."

"A glitch?" Sweetie asked curious.

"Yeah yeah a glitch a friend of a friend told me about. You go to the free market then-" Scootaloo said before getting cut off by Applebloom.

"You mean the place where everypony's yelling about whatever there selling and the player made shops?"

"Thats the one, so as I was saying you go to the market then enter a random shop, buy the most expensive item you can then leave and wait to get rolled back again. What happens then you get reseted back with your money and whatever else you had at that point along with a duped version of the item you bought."

"Huh sounds easy enough." Applebloom said.

"Nothing is easy in this cruel cruel world filled with lies and shortcomings." Spike said his dark clouds now raining and shooting out lighting.

"How is he doing that?" Applebloom said as she back away from the now approaching storm clouds. "I think we should go before those clouds fill up this entire room. You coming Spike?"

"I guess even though everything will go wrong."

~~~

"Okay we're here." Scootaloo said as she lead them into the player shop section of the free market.

"Look at all of them there's so many!" Applebloom said looking at all the shops, rows and rows of sheds with signs on top describing what said shop is selling. "Which one do we do we go in first?"

"Lets just choose one at random." Sweetie suggested before opening a door. "Weird there's nopony here."

"Of course there's nopony here it's all automated, pick something up and your money's put in there." she said pointing at the giant piggybank labelled as 'profits' "Lets see here... chairs, wands, swords, knives, helmets,... Oh! This looks good." she said before pulling of a rainbow colored bandana.

"What do you guys think?"

"It's um great?" Applebloom said with a shifty smile.

"I like your mane?" Sweetie said getting the same smile Applebloom had.

"I think you should throw it away now before life takes to away in the cruelest manner." Spike dryly said before going to mope in the corner.

"Well then are you three gonna grab something?"

~~~

"We made a nice haul!" Scootaloo said while dragging a giant sack of stuff.

"I didn't even know you could buy a inflatable house!" Applebloom said also dragging her giant sack of stuff.

"And it only cost us all our money!" Sweetie said.

"I wonder how much we spent?" Applebloom wondered aloud. "Hey Spike you were keeping track of that how much was it?"

"Five million and two mesos." Spike said now being levitated by his clouds.

"Huh is that so? Oh look we made it back to the item shop!" she said before entering.

"Okay now we just wait." Scootaloo said. And they waited, and waited but nothing happened.

"I think rollback is over." Sweetie said.

"So does that we just wasted all our money?" Applebloom said.

"I think so."

"See I told you guys everything would go wrong because this existence sucks." Spike said as his dark clouds now surrounded him completely.

"Okay I've had enough of this" the earth filly said before stomping her way over to Spike and yanking him out of his cloud fortress. "You've been acting strange all day even before your surfboard disappeared and i'm sick of it! So tell us what bothering you. Right. Now." she said putting empathize on the last words.

"I..It's because... because Rarity she.. she rejected me!" he said before breaking down into a fit of sobs. "And then in a attempt to forget about her I spent hours trying to get that board. So just when it looks like my luck changed that was taken away from me too."

"Aw now you made me feel bad about yelling at ya."

"It's okay. I was being a little..."

"Gloom and doomy?" Scootaloo finished.

"Yeah gloom and doomy" he said getting a little chuckle.

"You know Spike, not to be mushy but we're always there you." Scootaloo said fluttering her wings.

"And I'll make sure to give my sister a good talking to!" Sweetie said joining in.

"I was saving this for your birthday but here." Applebloom said before digging around in her bag and pulling out a purple surfboard identical to the one he lost. "Happy month early birthday!"

His eyes lit up before picking it up and jumping around with it. "I'm so happy I could kiss you!" he said before actually running up to her and giving her a quick peck to the lips making her blush and freeze up.

"Did he just?" Sweetie began to say too shocked it finish.

"Kiss Applebloom?" Scootaloo finished while looking at her frozen friend and a mad jumping dragon.