Hi all. So I was just thinking what if instead of Atlantic City the gang finds themselves in Las Vegas? Lily and Marshall drag the gang to Vegas but change their mind at the chapel as Lily decides she does need to face her fiancé's family. They decide to still stay the weekend as planned and end up being at an arcade the next morning
With a new setting it could be a little dangerous. I mean we know Ted got Robin in season two. (Yes I know I supported them but once I saw Barney dance with Robin I really wanted Swarkles to happen) So what if Barney decides he likes Robin too? I guess you'll just have to read the story to find out silly. It is Mobatsky and Swarkles.
"All right! Game on losers because that's all you're going to do!" Barney cheered as he pumped his fist in the air.
"Dude, what drugs are you on?" Ted asks. Barney just laughs. "The Barndoor doesn't do drugs Teddy Westside!" he insists. " But, I guess having three cups of coffee and four donuts this morning was a bit too much" he admitted.
"I think that may be even worse" Ted replies. "Yep, we're at an arcade with a sugar rushed man-child" Lily comments and Barney only laughs again.
"Chill out Lilypad! Arcades are for fun winners like me! Not major snooty loser pants like you!" he taunts her.
"Major snooty loser pants" Ted and Robin repeat with a salute.
Marshall and Barney roll their eyes. Lily just ignores it and grabs Barney's tie. "Oh really?" she says with a devious look and drags him over to a game.
"Ooh! A ball rolling game!" Marshall says excitedly as Barney gags from being yanked on.
Lily lets go and Barney runs away from her. He sits between Ted and Robin and Lily sticks her tongue out at him.
The attendant takes their cash and gives them each one ball. She starts the game and the five roll their balls into the holes.
Lily ends up winning the game and Barney scowls. "Dumb beginners luck!" he says and stomps off.
Ted chuckles as he put his arm around Robin. "I hope he never wins. It's kinda fun to watch him sulk" he whispers and Robin chuckles back. "You're so bad Ted" she chids.
"I stole a horn for you Robin, I thought the reason your dating me is because I'm a bad boy" he responds.
She only shrugs. "I also love it when a guy is very persistent" she admits.
"So you were testing me then you bad girl" Ted answers with a little growl.
"Oh my god! Can you also stop with the romance for two seconds!" Barney snaps as he is impatiently waiting by a dart game. Ted gives him a small shrug.
"Sorry pal" he replies and Barney just rolls his eyes. "I'm sure you are Mosby" he replied coolly. He turns and gives the attendant a twenty and receives twenty darts.
"For making me wait here and gag you have to challenge me and see if you can pop more balloons Ted" Barney tells him.
"Fine" Ted agrees and gets his darts. "I'm in too" Marshall says and gets twenty darts as well. The girls stood off to the side and watched knowing they'd end up with all the prizes anyway.
Barney wanted to go last so Marshall made Ted go first. He ended up popping only seven balloons.
"Nice try man" Marshall said sincerely as Barney said it with an amused laugh.
"Don't laugh yet Stinson" Ted warned and hoped his friend stunk.
Marshall threw his darts and got nineteen balloons to pop and missed the last one as he threw it to far to the right. Barney just smirked but only managed to hit nineteen as well.
Barney put out another twenty and so did Marshall. It came out fourteen each and both didn't feel like using all their cash on the dart game.
"Call it a draw?" Marshall asked and Barney sighed but nodded. "So should we combine all our wins?" he asked.
"All together you popped seventy-four balloons" the attendant said. She looked at the game with a small sigh.
"Sorry for making you have to go through so much trouble" Marshall said and she shook her head.
"It's fine, its slow now anyway so least I made a hundred bucks here" she said with a warm smile.
"Good attitude" Barney answered and gave her a wink. "Dude, you're way too old for me" she said and Marshall chuckled.
"I wasn't interested anyway" Barney replied. "Lets just get five of those blow up aliens hammers that are five wins each and that's twenty-five down" he added quickly.
"We could also do five of those big six win aliens" Ted pointed out. "That's fifty-five now we got nineteen left" Lily told them.
"Give me one more dart" Ted asked and popped a balloon. "Now we can each have one hammer, one big alien, one small three win alien and a one win bouncy ball" he said.
The cashier did a quick mental math and nodded. "Yep, that's seventy-five and thanks so much for playing" she replies a minute later.
"Thank you" all five respond. She gets out five bags and places their stuff in each bag.
Lily adds her little pink stuffed dog to her bag. "Now what?" she asks.
"Lets try that one" Robin advises. "The bottle one? That's like impossible to win at" Ted points out.
"You scared Teddy bear?" Robin teases. "Oh, bring it on…Robin bird" he says and she laughs.
"Maybe you'll throw better than you can give nicknames" she teases and he sticks his tongue out at her.
He gets out a five and receives a bucket. "You're lucky I'm nice or I wouldn't share"
"Yeah…I'm sure that's the reason" Robin replies. She kisses his cheek as she takes a ring. He kisses her back to show he understands its just harmless teasing.
Amazingly enough Ted manages to ring a bottle after his tenth toss. "See Ted? I knew you could do it" Robin tells him with a proud smile.
He chooses a giant white teddy bear and Robin laughs. "Now I have two cute teddy bears" she says and he nods with his own laugh.
Barney walks over from the other game carrying a giant hello kitty. "My prize is cooler" he says.
"I love them both" Robin quickly says and Ted only smiles. "Relax Robin, I was only going to say there's no need to compete bro when Robin of course will love everything" he says.
Barney nods with a smirk. "Of course, but my kitty is still cooler Ted" he says and Ted rolls his eyes.
"Whatever you say bro" he says and puts his arm around Robin. He leads her to another game and Barney looks at his kitty. "She likes you more Kitty, I know she does because I'm cooler than Ted Mosby" he mutters to it.
He's not entirely sure why he cares so much. Robin is Ted's girlfriend and Barney is supposed to always be the awesome single guy who can bang any chick. So then why is he competing with Ted on impressing Ted's girlfriend? The gang does a couple more games and decides to head back to their rooms with the prizes. They enter the three rooms and Barney lays down on his bed.
He finds himself thinking about her and feeling jealous of Ted for getting to her first. Barney knows its wrong but he also knows Robin Scherbatsky isn't like any other woman he's ever met. She is smart, spunky, curious and fun.
Barney probably wouldn't have even known that or cared but they had to
play that game of laser tag. Barney shook his head. "No Stinson, you backed off of her that night because you figured out she liked Mosby. You can't hurt Ted, you promised yourself he'd be the one you'd spare" he mutters.
A knock is heard on the door a few minutes later. He answers and she's standing there with a warm smile for him. Everything he just scolded himself about is forgotten.
"Ted fell asleep so I thought we could go back to the arcade. There is a laser tag game I noticed as we left" she tells him.
"You know me Robin, I'm always up for a good game of laser tag" he replies and her smile gets wider.
"Good, we did make a pretty sweet team last time" she says. Barney nods and she takes his hand. He likes the warm connection.
Heh heh heh. I guess now the question is what happens next? Does Barney do something stupid and ruin his friendship with Ted or does he snap himself out of this? Heh heh heh.