It's national video game day bitches! :D
UPDATE: It WAS national video game day, until I had to go take a shower and lost all motivation to complete this. What a shame, I almost got it all done in one sitting too. But it's still national video game day in the story, and I'm ignoring that national video game day is in the fall while it's spring in the story. It's better not to question it, kay?
Chapter 11: Games, Stories Of The Trash Chapter
It was a rainy day when Bones got a call. He quickly fished his cell phone out of his pocket and answered, seeing Natallia was calling for whatever reason. Which was weird, because she usually hated talking on the phone. He didn't expect to see her today either, as the talent show was cancelled due to the rain.
Before he could even get a word in, she screeched, "I JUST FOUND OUT IT'S NATIONAL VIDEO GAME DAY!"
He blinked slowly before the words actually sunk in. "Wait really?! That's awesome!"
"Get THE FUCK over here we are celebrating together!" She cheered.
"Okay, okay! Is it really necessary to curse that much over this?"
"IT'S GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING NATIONAL VIDEO GAME DAY BITCHES!"
"S-stop."
"BITCHES!
Bones, after a moment, thought of a witty comeback.
"I am a very male dog thank you very much!" Bones told her, purposefully voice cracking in the middle of the sentence.
He heard laughter on the other line and smiled.
"Okay, okay, I'll stop, I'm just excited is all! I'm gonna put Two Player Game on loop and wait for you to get here, you are coming, right?" Natallia asked.
"How could I celebrate national video game day without my player one?" He retorted, grinning.
"Gaaayyy." She teased.
"You are a female."
"And you're a bitch."
"Very. Male!" He responded, voice cracking in the middle of the word male. The girl on the end giggled hysterically.
"Okay, fine."
"... heteroooo…" She teased.
"Oh shut the hell up!" He cackled. "That's supposed to be normal!" The dog told her.
"What'd ya mean? Everyone's gay nowadays, get with the program!"
"You just made fun of me for supposedly being gay a minute ago!" He accused.
"I was going to make fun of you either way dummy!" The girl retorted.
"Dang it okay." He sighed, knowing he couldn't win this battle. "See ya in a few minutes."
"See you, homo!" She chirped.
"I'm not gay!"
"What's wrong with being gay, homophobe?"
"I never said there was anything wrong with that, I'm just not gay!"
"Whatever, see ya later!" She smiled and hung up. Bones sighed, giggling a bit. Natallia was a weird girl.
…
"Is it really true, I'm your favowite person?" Natallia sang, unaware of Bones. He noted that she seemed to have a new outfit, well, not new, but one he hadn't seen in awhile. The girl wore a Heart Shirt (pink shirt with a reddish pink heart in the middle) and a Red Carnation in her hair.
"Yeah, we're never not going to be a team!"
"Then Michael In The Bathroom happened, and everyone died. The end." Bones said, knowing enough from her ranting to know a good bit about the musical. Enough to make that joke, at least.
The girl didn't startle, surprisingly.
"Good, you get an A on the trash quiz! I taught you well!" She smiled, turning to him.
"Oh no, I've been converted." Bones said darkly. Natallia chuckled. The song was still playing in the background.
"Okay, get your ass over here, I'm kicking your ass at Mario Kart Wii." She told him, patting the spot next to her...
...And Adrien, who he hadn't noticed before now was in her lap the whole time. He gasped, seemingly horrified, and ran to cover the cat's ears.
"DON'T USE PROFANITY IN FRONT OF THE CHILD!" The dog shrieked.
"DON'T TOUCH-A THE CHILD!"
"WERE YOU TOUCHING THE CHILD?"
"Guys like us are cool in college!"
Bones and Natallia incoherently screeched at Natallia's tablet, still playing Two Player Game, for supposedly touching the child.
The cat meowed in confusion as this went on for about a minute. They were now seemingly done, until,
"High school is SHIT."
The two screeched again, drowning out the following,"And you gotta help me conquer it."
Luckily, they didn't screech nearly as long this time, stopping after only a few seconds.
"Okay, that's enough, time for Mario Kart." She sighed, chuckling. She handed him a wii controller and and started up the game, picking two players. He expected her to proceed to pick Maple Treeway, her favorite level, but was surprised when she picked Special Cup to find a level.
"Y'know, I'm feeling rather gay today." She smiled, even wider at the dog's horrified reaction, and picked Rainbow Road.
"Why would you do this?! You suck at this level just as much as I do!" Bones shrieked.
"I've been practicing." She smirked evilly as the level started. "Oh god."
The cars raced down the dip, Bones much more clumsily, hitting each boost pad. They jumped across a small gap with another pad, and turned sharply, Bones starting to sweat from the pressure. They sped across the bumpy section of road, items being off, so they didn't collect anything.
There weren't CPUs either, by the way. Intense.
As they weaved through the two loops, careful of the gaping holes in the middle, they approached a sharp turn. Bones hit the railing, and fell off the map, groaning. He proceeded to watch in awe as Natallia lessened the gas significantly, and made the turn he missed and the one after it easily by simply slowing down before turning.
Lakitu dropped Bones off, only for him to fall off the second turn. Lakitu dropped him again.
He made the turn this time.
As the level played out, Bones falling further and further behind, Natallia easily won.
"Damn, you got freaking good at that." Bones sighed. Natallia giggled. "Okay, we'll play Maple Treeway next." Bones sighed and nodded.
…
"What's this game?" Bones asked, staring at the opening menu as music played. Natallia hummed along cheerily. "The title's right there!" Natallia exclaimed, pointing to it.
Bones groaned. "I know that! But what IS it?"
"A survival game! It's amazing! I'll try to guide you through, this is the single player version though because I don't have Together yet." Bones clicked play, and create new world. He chose the most basic character, Wilson, and clicked create. The emblem and the title faded away to the loading screen. As the words Don't Starve faded, Bones wondered what he'd gotten himself into.
Natallia grinned widely as the game loaded and created the world. Once that was done, Bones was met with Wilson, laying on the ground. A puff of smoke appeared, and a man appeared, warning Wilson to find food before night came, via two short lines of text and the noise of a pump organ mind you, and not actual voice acting.
The man, Maxwell, disappeared with another puff of smoke.
Wilson then stood, and the game officially began, and Bones was able to control his character.
…
Things were going surprisingly well for Bones, in Natallia's opinion. With her guidance, he hadn't immediately gotten killed, and even had a base with a fire pit and a science machine set up! He had more advanced tools too, a shovel and a spear. There were rabbit holes nearby for food, and berry bushes too! They hadn't gotten any beefalo to make a farm yet though, unfortunately.
And then there was a dreadful, familiar line of dialogue from Wilson, to ruin it all.
"Did you hear that?" The man with a harmonica muted trumpet (mixed with a cup-muted trumpet) for a voice asked them.
And yes, I had to look up what instruments their voices were. Geez, I hope at least some of you know what Don't Starve is or this will make no sense whatsoever.
"Oh no." Natallia immediately responded, more to herself and Bones than Wilson, who obviously couldn't hear her.
"What? What's wrong?" Bones asked, curious to what the noise was. Said noise proceeded to play. "They're coming." Natallia told him darkly.
"What? What's coming?" Bones asked worriedly. "Prepare you spear." She said simply. Bones quickly equiped the item. "Make a log suit." "What?! Why what's coming?!" Bones asked, starting to panic.
"Did you hear that?" Wilson asked again, the noise becoming more frequent and louder.
"JUST DO IT." She told him. Luckily, he already had everything he needed, and made the suit. He had Wilson put it on, dropping his backpack. "What's coming?!" He asked.
"The hounds."
"Hounds?" Bones asked. His face then lit up and he smiled. "I can have puppy friends!"
"NO. THESE ARE THE BAD KIND OF HOUNDS. THEY'LL EAT YOUR CUTE FACE OFF." She insisted. The noise played again, sounding even closer.
They then rushed onto the screen. Two hounds. Black fur and gaping jaws.
"KILL THEM, KILL THEM!" Natallia screeched as Bones ran. The hounds were faster though, and they opened their massive mouths as the attack animation played. Since Bones was still running, though, the attack missed and the hound was left a bit behind him.
It barked and continued the chase.
"Ahhh!" Bones yelped.
"It's useless, you need to fight them!" She told him, as he turned and attempted to tank the hounds only to be mauled by both of them. There were two.
"Kite them damn it they're killing you!"
"What does that mean?!"
"Ack!"
Wilson died.
"Damn it." Natallia sighed.
…
"How are we going to make The Sims 4 competitive?" Bones asked.
"I don't know!" Natallia chirped. "Can I see your sims? I'll let you see mine!" Natallia asked, curious to see the sims Bones had just finished. She'd had hers for a while, and copied them to a new game for this purpose.
"Okay!" Bones turned the screen to show her two sims, one an anthropomorphic dog and the other a human. It was them. "Hold up a minute." She told him, wanting to change something. She quickly gave Mini Natallia an unrequited crush on Mini Bones and then switched back to the screen Bones was on.
I don't know if that's a thing you can do in the sims, but I'm sticking with it. A lot of this will likely be inaccurate.
"What did you do?" Bones asked, confused, thinking his sims were perfect.
"Nothing important, just changed a personality thing." She muttered to him, hoping he didn't find the minor change.
Bones looked confused and checked Mini Natallia's traits, which were the same. "You won't find it that easily, just forget it and move on." She told him. Bones sighed, reluctantly accepting whatever Natallia did and hoping she hadn't trolled him somehow.
"Well can I see yours?"Natallia grinned and showed Bones 3 sims, who were all almost normal humans except that one was a vampire, one was a werewolf, and one had some kind of mod turning it into some sort of half dragon. He didn't know if it was just visual or if it actually made her different than a normal sim. He noted that all of them seemed to have a lot of modded material used to make them look cooler.
The vampire was shortest, with long black hair, pale skin, deep red eyes, and clothing that most of which was probably modded and not in the actual game. She wore a navy blue sweater with a skull on it, gray pants, and ugg boots. She also had big bat wings attached to her back.
The werewolf was in the middle in terms of height, with brown hair with furry ears, slightly tanned skin that sort of looked like fur, green eyes, and a green hoodie and jeans. He also had a tail. Yep, he would definitely look like a furry if not for the fact he was a werewolf. Then again, weren't werewolves supposed to have human forms? Not weird sort-of-human-but-not-quite forms? Bones thought the word for that was neko, but he wasn't sure.
The last was the tallest, and seemed to be just a normal sim but with a lot of modded material used to make her look like a half-dragon creature. She had spiky salmon-pink hair and awesome looking dragon horns, pale pink colored skin, lavender eyes with strangely shaped iris and pupils, and a sweater and black pants. The sweater was gray with a bleeding red star in its center. She also had a tail, which was pink with a purple crisscross pattern across its entirety and a deep fuchsia colored array of feathers at the tip. She also had purple dragon wings on her back.
Bones wondered how the hell Natallia was able to make three of them in the time it took him two, especially considering the massive amount of care put into each one, especially the last one.
He also realized these were OCs Natallia sometimes drew in her free time, and though she hadn't written them into any stories or comics or whatever, she'd gave the dragon one a crippling fear of being cliche and also made her almost lesbian but not quite(she had a very strong preference towards females, but still liked guys too).
He was also pretty sure that the vampire was bi and the werewolf was pan.
"How did you make them so fast?" Bones marveled, impressed and a bit jealous.
"Oh, I copied them over from another game." She told him. "Ah."
There was a moment of silence.
"Meh fuck it, I'm using the cast of Be More Chill instead." She told him, deleting the copied sims and going to copy the others.
"Guh- why??"
…
Things were going pretty normally for Bones in his Sims game so far. Mini Natallia learned to cook, which regular Natallia was very jealous of, and Mini Bones got chubby from eating the cakes Mini Natallia made. Bones was going to make Mini Bones start working out to combat this. Jogging, specifically.
They'd also adopted two cats and a dog, Mini Adrien and Aku, Mini Adrien obviously looking the same as regular Adrien and Aku having white fur and purple eyes. Natallia got to name her, and she said that her name was because the fan made Akumatized version of Chat Noir, called Chat Blanc, had a white suit and purple eyes as opposed to Chat Noir's black suit and green eyes.
So, Aku was named after the Akumas. At least, Bones thinks he has that right.
The dog was a white Pomeranian named Toby, full name being Toby Annoying Fox, courtesy of Natallia. She said she'd always wanted to get a Pomeranian and name it that.
So, Bones's game was nice, and relatively calm.
Meanwhile, however, Natallia's game was much more.. exciting.
"HOLY SHIT!" Natallia exclaimed suddenly, causing Bones to jerk in surprise before turning to face her as she started cackling maniacally.
"R-rich-" She stammered out, starting to wheeze from laughter. Bones glanced at her screen, only to see the kitchen on fire with Mini Rich inside. "What the fuck?" Bones asked in alarm, wondering why Natallia wasn't putting out the fire.
"Rich set a fire and he burned down the house!" She sang through her laughter. "Woah!" She cackled.
"Oh." Bones sighed.
Everyone died in the fire.
"Seriously Natallia, what the fuck? I could understand if one of the characters died, but ALL OF THEM?!" Bones asked in disbelief as they stared at the ruin of the Be More Chill house. Natallia sighed heavily.
"I'm sorry, my sweet (pitiful) children, may you always be-" Suddenly, Mini Michael returned home from work. Natallia gasped loudly, just now realizing he wasn't dead like the others.
"MICHAEL MAKES AN ENTRANCE!" She sang out. Bones watched in disbelief.
"Holy shit, I'm so happy I got him a job at that gas station! Michael, you will be rewarded by never having to work again! Quickly now, we must rebuild the house and revive everyone!" She smiled widely.
Bones facepalmed. "If I didn't know better, I'd think this was scripted."
Natallia made Mini Michael pick up all the earns except Mini Jeremy's, and proceed to mourn said dead boy and wait for him to come back as Natallia repaired a bit of the house. Eventually, Mini Jeremy came back as Mini Ghost Jeremy and they went to the wishing well.
Bones watched in numb shock as Natallia donated the max amount of simoleons possible and wished for Mini Jeremy's life, only to have it returned immediately on her first try. Which was insanely lucky.
As Mini Michael and Mini Jeremy had their reunion hug, Natallia only said this.
"... CUZ IT'S AN EFFED UP WORLD AND IT'S A TWO PLAYER GAME, HEY!" The girl sang out.
"Okay, I'm done with the sims." Bones demanded, sick of this shit.
…
Bones gulped in terror as the game started. They were playing an internet sensation, one of the most well known games he could name, a legend among games.. Five Nights At Freddy's.
The first one.
Despite hearing of the terrors, he'd never played or seen it.
And as cringey as the fanbase was and as cute as some of the fan art made the characters out to be, this was a horror game. And Bones was going to get scared. He just knew it.
…
Bones checked each light, opening a door as he saw Bonnie had left. It was Night 3, and Bones was scared shitless. Nevertheless, he remained vigilant, knowing if he didn't then the animatronics would surely strike.
Natallia watched with a grin, enjoying Bones's screeches during the jumpscares. She ignored the fact that she'd been scared by them as well. She only flinched and flailed her hand though, in her defense, when she was scared. She didn't screech like Bones.
Bones checked the camera to Pirate Cove, realising belatedly that he'd forgotten to do so.
The fox pirate was absent. "Check the hall!" The girl barked out quickly, hoping Bones would see it. Natallia grinned, and bit at her hand to suppress her fear.
Bones did as told and saw the fox run down the hall. He lunged to close the door, but it was too late. The fox screeched as he leaned in closer to the screen to attempt to shut the door before it was too late.
Natallia bit harder at the noise.
Bones shrieked and unintentionally latched onto Natallia, who bit her hand harder in surprise.
Natallia cackled as the game over screen was displayed, ignoring the teeth marks she'd put in the callous on her middle finger she had from drawing and writing too much.
"Jeez, calm down man! And get off me!" She told the frightened pupper, hugging him quickly before letting him move back to his original spot.
Bones whimpered quietly. Thanks to Natallia's advice and knowing how to avoid it before now, this was the first time he'd seen Foxy's jumpscare.
…
Foxy pounded at the door before retreating back to his cove. Bones worriedly checked the lights, and had to shut the door on Chica, who'd just arrived. He started shivering, seeing the power was almost out. He checked on Foxy, who luckily hadn't moved. The power finally faded.
Freddy appeared and his music box played, face lighting up menacingly. The light completely cut, the screen black, as a few sounds played.
Bones flinched at a sudden noise, before screeching. Not because he was jumpscared. But because the clock faded in, and the hour was changed from 5 am to 6 am. All was well, and Bones got his paycheck, finally. Natallia chuckled in the background as Bones cheered loudly.
"YES! FINALLY, I GET MY PAYCHECK AND I GET TO QUIT THIS AWFUL JOB!" Bones yelled in victory, assuming incorrectly that that was how FNAF 1 would end, with no more nights to play so that Bones could assume the person working had quit.
The title screen faded in, a new option displayed.
Night 6.
Bones paused, looking for a moment at the new option.
"Nope!" He chirped, continuing his celebration as Natallia chuckled and closed the game as Bones wished. She smiled as she saw the time.
Midnight.
The end of National Video Game Day.
Natallia knew from earlier conversation that Bones would be spending the night, so she went to set up the Bee Movie on Netflix. On her Wii, that is, as the screen was bigger.
The laptop was temporarily forgotten, both by the cheery girl and the celebrating dog.
AND THAT'S THE END! WOOHOO, MONTHS LATE! Heh, too bad I didn't post this on the ACTUAL national video game day.