Afternoon at the Arcade

Iris barely blinked as an eccentric pony hopped into the arcade. She bounced up to "Hoof Beats 2" and talked to herself before starting to play. Iris, on the other hand, was playing "Call of Pony 3." A violent video game that Iris enjoyed greatly.

She picked up the fake weapon provided and pointed it at the screen, shooting adversaries as they popped up.

Iris laughed a bit as she blasted the head off somepony in the game. She looke to her left out of the corner of her eye, the pony she had seen earlier was playing alone. Well that was a bit depressing...

"Faust dammit!" she shouted as the game screen went black. She grumbled and turned to the pony playing Hoof Beats 2.

"Hey, mind if I join you?" she asked with a somewhat bored expression.

Iris was taken aback by the energy at which the pony responded.

"Alright. My name's Iridescent, by the way." she said as she stepped onto the aforementioned spot, "and I really don't have a song preference. Just make it, not boring."

She hoped this pony had good song sense.

Iris stepped up and chose a random song. She bobbed her head, getting into the rhythm.

She danced to the music, stepping on the pads at appropriate times. "Woohoo!" she shouted.

Iris smirked at her dance partner, and returned her attention to the screen. The song finished, and Iris hit every note.

"Well that was fun." she said, raising an eyebrow as she scrolled through the songs again.

Iris nodded, "Yeh, sure. One more song."

She tapped a random song and bobbed her head, getting into the rhythm. She danced quickly, her legs expertly hitting the notes easily. She began singing the song as well, glanced at the lyrics in the bottom right hand corner.

Iris threw her head back and laughed as Ember began singing way out of tune and messing up the lyrics.

The song ended and the scores appeared, Iris had perfect score again. She flipped her mane out of her face and beamed at Ember "Okay, what now?"

Iris was a good dancer, and an even better gamer. So she was eager to play another game, hopefully a violent one.

Iris thought for a moment, hoof to chin.

"Well, if you're into the violent types of games, there's Pony Creed, God of Pony, Fallout Pony, Pony Rising, and more." she suggested, listing the games.

She glanced around the arcade, looking for the games. "There's also racing games if you're into that."

Iris grinned, "That's one of my favorites." and led Ember to a large tv with two controllers in front of it. Iris took one of them and turned the TV on.

"Here." she said, handing Ember the other controller. She opened the game up and the loading screen came on.

"okay, you push that button" she pointed to the square on the right side of the controller, "to punch, hit, shoot, etcetera. This one," she pointed to the triangle, "is for jumping. The X doesn't do anything, and the circle brings up the map. Now the left analog stick moves you around and the right one moves the camera around. That's really all you need to know." she finished with a smile, getting ready to play the game.

A white matrix-y kind of screen came on, two ponies stood in the center of it as ancient Fillaly (Italy) materialized around them. She moved her character forwards, towards a building.

Iris's character walked towards a fairly large structure. She clicked triangle an leaped onto the side of the building, grabbing onto a low-lying ledge. She pulled hersel up onto it and clicked triangle again, jumping up and holding onto a hook. Slowly, she made her way to the top of the building.

"You coming?" she asked Ember.

"Ha! It's okay, I was terrible when I first started." Iris said, walkin her character to the edge of the building. There was a long piece of wood thy extended out from the stone. Iris's character strolled out to the peak of it, and an eagle swooped by.

"Watch this." Iris smiled mischievously. Her character leapt off the structure, falling through the air and landing lightly in a pile of hay.