Hello there my amazingful people! Yes OpenOffice, I know amazingful isn't a word, I made it up.
Twilight-"amazingful?"
wonderful and amazing, what? I can't give them a nickname? Readers felt too impersonal.
Twilight-"okay?"
yes, okay. So now then, welcome to the next chapter! I hope you've all enjoyed the story, and that more of you will contribute, I want this to be a story that has you guys telling me a lot of stuff, so that it's not just my story, but OUR story. Cheesy, I know, but still, I like it.
Cheese sandwich-"cheesy? Did you call for me?"
ugh, no Cheese sandwich, I did not. Though I was wondering if you ever wanted to show up in the story.
Cheese sandwich-"maybe in the future, I have a party to get to."
okay, see ya.
Pinkiepie-"ooh I heard cheese sandwich! Where is he?"
just missed him Pinkie.
Pinkiepie-"nooooo!"
um, dramatic much?
Spike-"ugh, you should see applejack when apple bucking season starts up, now THAT'S drama.
Applejack-"hey! Ah am not dr'matic!"
um, a bit dramatic right there, so, before I forget, thank you Vulcan2312 for submitting the winner for G's shop name, which you will see in a bit, when he opens the store. So with that, enjoy!
"howdy there G, whatt'r ya doin'?" Applejack walked up to the unicorn, painting on the front of the store, with Twilight helping him with spelling.
"oh, hello Apple-San, Twilight is helping me write the name of the store on the front." he carefully painted an A unto it.
"alright, now you want one that looks like this." she made an S with magic for Gamemaster to copy.
"well, a'right, by tah way G, you dun need to call me Apple-Son, just call me Applejack, tha's mah name after all." she grinned, and waved as she went to follow Applebloom to the apple stall.
"alright, Applejack." he cleaned off a mistake he made, and tried again.
"there we go, you're getting it. You'll learn how to write Equestrian soon enough." Twilight smiled at him, watching him carefully, as if she was never going to see him again.
'now why in tarnation is she examinin' him like that?' Applejack thought to herself as she left.
"welcome friends. To the official opening of the first game and toy shop in Pony-ville." Twilight said, Celestia said she should practice public speaking, she figured this would a good start.
"really Twilight, we don't need a fancy ceremony." Gamemaster didn't like the attention, and he didn't want to be considered special, or proud.
"oh, calm down, just look how many ponies came? Even Discord." she gestured to the crowd. "now, I would like to thank all of you for being here, and I would also like to thank Applejack for supplying wood for repairs, and anypony else who helped fix this up. Now, Gamemaster, would you like to say anything?" she stepped out of the way, and everypony went silent, and you could hear his hoofsteps as he walked up.
"um, as Sparkle-Sama said." he mentally kicked himself for saying Sparkle-Sama again. "thank you all for being here." all the ponies clapped. "um, I would like to say, that none of this would be here without you, and especially Twilight, if she hadn't almost forced me to stay, I'd be back in the forest." a few of them laughed. And Gamemaster was calming down. "and, as Twilight said, thank you Applejack for supplying repair materials. And now, let the gaming begin!" he made a hydra AB, which grabbed the veil covering the name, and, with a flourish, you could see the name, written in a bright green, contrasting the blue building. "Gamemaster game blaster." all the ponies cheered. "and, to thank all of you here, all purchases come with a free Jacob's ladder." he grinned at Discord, who knew why he said that. All the ponies cheered, and Gamemaster had a busy day selling to easily a hundred ponies, he thought he even saw a few ponies who came from Manehatten visiting.
"goodness, I hope it's not this busy again." Gamemaster was tired, he never had a break the entire day.
"well, you had some publicity already, most ponies hated Filthy, and you got him pretty good, so plenty of them came just for that." Twilight helped him put the hundreds of bits he had earned into a bag to take to the bank.
"well, I think that this will work out okay." he looked around, there was mud all over the ground, and a few games that had fallen open, it was a mess. "if I can clean up. Diamond honey, would you bring me the mop?"
"coming!" Diamond rushed in with a mop and a bucket.
"thank you, would you mind picking up the games that fell over and opened?" he gestured to the easily a hundred pieces all over.
"what do you want me to do with them?" Diamond started picking them up.
"put them in that barrel, I'll sell the as individual replacement parts for a bit each." he painted "1 bit" on the side. "did I write that right?" he looked at twilight, her mane gleaming in a ray of sun-light.
"yeah, good job." she smiled, and noticed that he had some dirt of his forehead, and she went over and wiped it off, both feeling rather, awkward afterward.
'oh, I wish I could tell them, but do they want me to?' Diamond thought while she picked up the pieces.
"um, so, yeah." Twilight muttered.
"yeah, um, so, yeah." Gamemaster started to mop up. "um, well, did you enjoy yourself today?" he asked, wringing out the mop into the bucket.
"um, yes, I must say business must be hectic." Twilight started helping Diamond.
"thanks." Diamond muttered, placing some dice in the barrel.
"I think things will calm down after today, everypony got enough games to last them a few months." he finished moping and straitened the shelves and got an AB to begin bringing more games and such to restock.
"um would you two like to visit for dinner after you finish?" she shuffled her hoof.
"oh, can we?" Diamond jumped up.
"yes, sure. I'll bring some tofu over." he finished cleaning and locked the door and began walking to the bank.
"oh, I've never had that." Twilight walked next to him, and Diamond was hopping around them. Several ponies glanced at them, but said nothing.
"why are ponies looking at us?" Twilight muttered.
'it's because you two look like a couple! And you clearly like each-other, why don't you see it!' Diamond screamed in her head. Still not knowing whether to say something.
"oh, hey G, I figured you would show up soon enough." the clerk was a pony that regularly came over to check on his progress. "I set up an account for you, how much did ya earn?" he opened up the chute to the underground safe, the only way in was through a door that was guarded by two unicorns, two pegasai, and two earth-ponies.
"um, I think two hundred and three?" Gamemaster began counting them.
"oh, wait, we have a counter." the clerk placed the bits into the chute, and the numbers went up on a dial. "yep, two hundred and three, good day huh?" he wrote down the numbers and handed him a checkbook. "you're going to want to make sure to keep a log there, we'll send you a statement with how much you have in your account once a month, and you can make sure the numbers add up, if they don't just come and talk to us." he smiled and waved as they left.
"um, this stuff is kinda bland." Twilight nibbled some tofu as she cooked, they were at the library and Twilight was working on dinner.
"oh, yeah, you want to mix with a sauce, or into a dish, it will soak up flavors." he grinned, and continued reading to Diamond.
"yeah, right." she started mixing it with marinade to put in salad, and she made steaks, Twilight eats meat, spike also does. "you guys okay with steak?" she called out.
"yep, thanks cow!" Diamond called back.
"thanks cow?" Twilight was confused.
"we thank the animal for its meat before we eat, respect and all." Gamemaster called back.
"ah, okay." she finished the meal and they all sat down, Spike having Ruby dust on his.
"what's ruby taste like?" asked Gamemaster.
"here, try one." Spike tossed him a ruby.
"oh, wow, spicy!" Gamemaster crunched on it, and he felt his mouth light on fire! But he loved it.
"pass some of that dust please." he said, Spike obliging, and he covered his steak in the spicy powder.
"um, Dad, why did you eat a jewel?" Diamond stared at him.
"Diamond it's not polite to stare. And they're high in minerals, that and they have distinct tastes, emeralds are mint and honey." explained Gamemaster.
"rubies are spicy, and sapphires are sweet, and fruity. Oh, and pearls are chocolaty! And they're soft inside! And obsidian is bitter, it makes great coffee. Diamonds are interesting, they taste like water, but if you put it into a drink it cools it, and when you're done the diamond tastes like your juice, it's really cool." Spike took a bite of steak. "if you want I can give you my gem notes." he smiled and pulled out a piece of paper. "let's see, oh, and agate tastes meaty, and salty. It makes great steak seasoning!" he went to cupboard and pulled out a piece. "want some G?" he ground some up between his claws and passed the block to Gamemaster.
"thanks." he ground it with magic, and took a bite of steak. "oh wow, that is really good." he grinned at Spike, and gave him back the agate.
"okay, my life just became even weirder somehow, it's almost like someone is writing this and wants it to be as interesting as possible." Diamond muttered.
hey, stop looking at me! You're not supposed to know I'm here!
"huh, well, living with Spike you get used to Gem flavor rants." Twilight took a bite of salad.
"what? I'm a dragon! This is just how I am!" Spike glared at Twilight, before munching on a pearl.
"young dragon! Wait until after dinner for dessert!" she took the half he didn't finish and put it up.
"aw." he looked down, before eating more dinner.
"hey Twilight, can I tell him you know what?" Diamond asked.
"oh, please no!" Twilight knew what she meant, but didn't want him to know, what if he laughed at her?
"well, Diamond has school in morning, so we need to go soon." they finished their dinner, thanked Twilight and went home.
"good night my shining Diamond, may you never become dull." he tucked her in and went to sleep.
"Dad! Wake up!" Diamond shook him awake from his dreams, and he got up groggily.
"Dad! I made you food, but the shop opens in twenty minutes! I can get myself to school, but you need to go!" she shook him one more time for good measure before she went to school.
"what? Shop? OH RIGHT!" He woke up, scarfed down the not-so-good tofu with peanuts and ran over to the shop.
"phew, just in time." he had finished getting everything ready in just enough time to open.
"well howdy there, looks like ahm just in taim." Applejack walked in.
"hello Apple-Sa.. Applejack." he bowed to her.
"hey there G, how was e'rythang yesterday?" she started looking around the shop.
"hectic. Though I'm hoping that was an opening day thing." he started working on a device he had been thinking of making.
"now what's that?" Applejack walked up to him, where he was putting together some copper plates and such.
"oh, you know how I have my AB?"
"yeah, ya never use 'em but yah have 'em." she shrugged.
"I learned to do that so I could play game in the Everfree, so I figured I should try putting it into a videogame device you can carry, right now you only have the arcade cabinets, and this will help ponies to be be to play more games."
"uuh." Applejack just looked confused.
"it let's you play a game that has more stuff than I can put into a box, and can have a story." he simplified. "Twilight got it just fine."
"oh, ah see, yah have a little play, and a game that work together." Applejack further simplified.
"yes, I suppose that's one way to put it." he kept working on the spacing of plates. "the plates of copper magnify the magical energy so that it uses less." he put in a magic infused piece of tin. "and tin can store massive amounts of magic to use to run it. And you can take it to any unicorn to recharge, so anypony with a unicorn friend never runs out."he put the pieces together, it looked like a Gameboy with a microphone. "now then, let's test this out." he put a Tetris game cartridge into the slot, and powered it up, and it exploded.
"well, ah suppose progress don't never happen immediately right?" Applejack smiled. "oh yeah, Applebloom was wantin' a new ball, somptin' about a buck-ball cutie-mark and their old one were busted." she showed him a ball. "how much?"
"oh, please, free, you have been so helpful." Gamemaster pushed the ball towards her.
"naw, I insist on payin' yah." she put a small pile of bits on the counter and pushed them toward him.
"no, really, it's yours." he pushed the bits back to Applejack.
"take the bits darndit!" she pushed the bits back, further.
"really, it's yours I cannot deny a friend something so insignificant to me." he pushed the bits.
"take tah bits!" she placed the bits in the register, picked up the ball, and ran out before Gamemaster could give them back.
He shook his head, and closed his register. "alright, if you insist."
"um, hello, am I intruding?" Lyra walked into the shop.
"oh, of course not." he bowed. "welcome."
"thank you, do you have those sticky hooves?" she asked.
"yes, back with the other toys." he pointed and Lyra started searching.
"I would have been here yesterday, but it was so crowded." she picked up a sticky hoof, and browsed a bit.
"oh, it was very crowded yesterday. I almost drowned in ponies. And one draqonequus." he grinned.
"oh my, Discord was here?" she looked about.
"oh he decided to stalk me for a day on Tuesday." he smiled. "not half bad, but a bit of a prankster, though according to Twilight you have reasons to dislike him?" he started working on his device again.
"oh yes, he turned this into chaos central last year." she shuddered.
"ah, yes, he did say he was less tame at one time. He gave me a literal sandwich." he chuckled.
"hm I suppose." she picked up a chesk game, and walked over to him. "alright, how much?"
he ran a couple numbers. "eighteen bits." she counted them out. And he counted them. "alright, thank you for your business, have a nice day."
"you too." Lyra said, meeting her niece outside, handing her the toy.
"hi G sorry I couldn't be here yesterday the Cakes wanted me to man the shop while they came over for a few things did you sell them anything? You know I need to come here plenty can't have a party without games and yours is the fist real game shop I just got things from the party shop and made the games myself but now you're here oh we are going to throw the best parties together *gasp* maybe Cheese can come over and all three of us can trow a party! Get on that David!"
really? Twice in one chapter, cut it out myself.
"oh yeah you definitely do so anyways what games do you have ooh candy land I love that game! And it has pieces that look like real candy ooh there's even rock candy! Maud would love it!"Pinkie grabbed the game. "ooh look a toy that looks like a rock but it's soft I should get for Maud too she'd love it it could play with boulder!" she grabbed a few more games and ran up to Gamemaster "how much do I pay?"
"give me a nano-second Pie-San." he began counting the giant pile of games and toys. "fifty seven bits."
"here you go!" she handed him a pile, which he counted.
"well, thank you, I hope, Maud was it? likes the rock." he smiled and waved as she pinkie-hopped away.
"hey Dad." the day had dragged on, with no more than two customers at a time, and school had finished.
"hey there Diamond, was school fun?" he asked, placing the Tetris cartridge into the device.
"what's that?" Diamond asked, getting close.
"back up, if it explodes for the fifth time I don't want you getting burnt." he turned it on, and that fateful music started up, Before it exploded again. A cartoony bast mark on his face.
"um, do you want some help Dad?" Diamond asked.
"no, I got it. It made noise that time, so I'm getting closer." he took some notes.
"what are you doing?" Diamond passed him a paper towel.
"thanks, I'm trying to make a device that is small enough to carry that works like an arcade machine, those things were huge, and only had one game. But they're what I grew up with. There was a Tetris machine at school, and I loved that thing." he took the parts and started bending them back into position.
"hello!" Sweetie-belle walked in. "Rarity asked me to see what you had. We don't have any games we can both agree on at home." she looked at Diamond Tiara. "oh, hi Diamond."
"hello Sweetie-belle, look around, Dad's great at making games so you'll find something I'm sure." Diamond smiled.
"um, well, what would you suggest Diamond?" Sweetie was a bit suspicious.
"well, Rarity is into fashion, I know that, what do you like?" Diamond looked up at her.
"um, singing and dancing. Oh, and putting on costumes!" she said.
"alright, well, there's this." Diamond picked up a game that was about making yourself a pop-star, and had cutout costumes, and songs to sing and such.
"ooh, yeah, that might be fun!" Sweetie picked it up. "ooh." she noticed a coloring book about fashion. And picked that up.
"how much for these G?" she asked.
"oh, let's see 'pop-mania' and the fashion book, twenty bits." Sweetie-belle looked down.
"aw, Rarity only gave me ten." she went to put the book away.
"hey now wait, that's how much it costs, without a discount. You and Rarity have never come over here, I'll give you a first time deal, 50% off, that makes it ten bits." he smiled.
"oh really?" Sweetie-belle smiled "here you go!" she handed him the bits and ran back home.
"alright then, It's about time for you to get some dinner don't you say?" Gamemaster smiled and pulled out some packed dinners.
"yeah!" they flipped the sign to "closed, please try again tomorrow, sorry for the inconvenience."
"well, how was school?" Gamemaster took a bite of sandwich, this time without sand.
"fine." she smiled.
"well, what did you learn about?" he asked.
"oh, um, we learned about construction work, and I talked a bit about how we fixed this up." she smiled. They ate without much other conversation.
"alright, sleep well my shining Diamond. May you never become dull." though as he said that, he knew she staying awake a bit longer, the chapter of "the Griffon's goblet" they had finished ended on a cliffhanger, but he went to sleep. Dreaming of when he was a colt, before the bullying, and when he would play Tetris, he got so good he had seven out of ten high-scores. The other three were a few teachers who had too much time on their hooves.
Alright, I hope yo all enjoyed the chapter. Do you guys want the forth wall to be broken? Or should I leave it intact?
Twilight-"huh? Forth wall?"
yeah, ask Pinkie about it sometime. So anyways, please leave a...
Rarity-"hello, you didn't forget about me? Did you?"
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Rarity-"get over here!"
alright*huff* please leave a review, and if you enjoyed *huff* follow and favorite. Oh god, I need to get in shape. And remember *huff* to give someone a smile today :) oh god I can't hold a smile, look what you've done to me!
Rarity-"just one suit! Please?"
NO!
