Vault: MLP One-Shot Collection

Hello fellow readers/authors! If any of you are curious, I've decided to start up my own short story collection so my story number doesn't astronomically explode. From the title, the stories will be in one-shot format, though some one-shots may get a sequel later on in the collection. Each new story will have a summary in the opening author note along with the title for the new one-shot. I hope this answered a few questions some of you may have, so please read, favorite, follow and most importantly, review!

Luna Ops

One normal Friday after the final bell has rung after school, VP Luna of Canterlot High is dreading the upcoming weekend; she has nothing to do to! However, her curiosity is piqued when she overhears several students talking about a popular FPS game: Call of Duty: Black Ops II. When she asks about the game, Luna's curiosity soars even more. So much more that she ends up dragging the five boys to Walmart to purchase a console and a copy of the game. How will Luna react to playing the game? Will the boys regret their decision once their Vice Principal discovers the joys of online gaming with them?

Disclaimer: I do not own MLP, PlayStation or Call of Duty. The things I DO own however, are my OCs Cougar and Checkered Flag.

I know Black Ops II will not allow you to create custom classes until level four, but I'm going to change it to being able to create a class right away.

Also, my new avatar is my OC Checkered Flag crossing the yard of bricks at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

(Canterlot High. Friday afternoon. 3rd Person POV)

The hallways of Canterlot High School sat empty, not a sound was heard throughout the empty corridors. Yet, there was still tension spilling out from every single classroom of the huge school. So much tension that the machete from Friday the 13th could cut it open. The reason for the tension was quite simple; today was the most coveted and holiest of all school days: Friday. A day so sought after by students and teachers alike that many were already making plans the morning of Friday before arriving at school or even on Thursday evening for the weekend and even Friday evening. However, a sad sigh was exhaled from the office of Vice Principal Luna. "Another Friday, another weekend, and again, nothing to do," the saddened Vice Principal drummed her fingers on the top of her desk while her SamPhone 4 played Poisons' Nothin' But a Good Time. Luna was a very social Vice Principal; she talked with many of the students during passing periods or lunch time in the cafeteria, though many students feared her, for she was in charge of disciplinary actions and her office was always dark. Looking up at the clock, the Vice Principal clicked pause on her phone and sat up from her desk as the bell was set to ring very soon.

Setting the phone in her pocket, grabbing her purse and coat, Luna locked the door to her office and started to walk towards the exit to dismiss the students as they left the school. Her footsteps gave off the only sound within the ghost town-like hallways, giving it an atmosphere like that of Stephen King's The Langoliers. Suddenly, the loud bell rang out, echoing across the school. Luna leaned her back against the wall next to the doors, staying out of the way of the stampeding crowd of whooping and hollering students as they celebrated their two day and three night freedom. The vice principal gave off a smile as her two favorite students, Pipsqueak and Cougar, walked to their lockers with their three other friends, Rumble, Spike and Featherweight, and jammed their books onto the shelves of their little spaces, grabbed their backpacks and jackets and slammed their locker doors shut. "So boys, any important plans for the weekend?" Cougar questioned his friends that still hung around their bank of lockers.

"I'm taking Sweetie Belle to the Hard Rock Cafe Saturday afternoon for lunch," Pipsqueak replied and smiled giddily.

"Speaking of the Belle family," Spike placed an earbud into his left ear, "I'm taking my sweet Rarity to see a fashion history gallery at the Canterlot Museum Saturday," Spike bragged. Upon receiving looks of disbelief, the junior straightened things out, "She went with me to the newest Power Ponies movie last month without complaint, so I'm going with her to this as repayment," he explained.

"Well, Applejack and I are just going to cruise around town and maybe grab a bite at Hard Rock Cafe Saturday afternoon like you and Sweetie Belle?" Cougar asked Pipsqueak.

"A double-date sort of?" the British accented junior tapped his chin, "yeah, that sounds like fun," Pip fist-bumped his older friend.

"But we do what we always do every Friday, Saturday and Sunday night?" Rumble cut in. Luna listened in on the five boys' conversation. She wasn't truly eavesdropping; the five were talking rather loudly.

"If you mean joining the crusade to 2025 to destroy or protect a stockpile of weapons on Black Ops II," Featherweight started.

"Then the T800 clan will be there!" Cougar exclaimed and high-fived Spike. Luna's eyebrows rose; she had heard about Call of Duty before, more specifically Black Ops II, but she knew very little about the game itself. All she knew was it took place in the year 2025 and was better than the newest Call of Duty which she heard flopped big time.

"Man Spike, I'll never forget your lucky kill on Highjacked with the M1216," Rumble shoved Spike's shoulder.

"Oh yeah?" Spike playfully shoved back, "how about Cougar's leap of faith and mid-air knife on Drone?" He asked.

"We can't forget Rumble's spectacular triple kill with his grenade launcher on Standoff," Pipsqueak mentioned.

"Boy, I can't wait to get home boys," Featherweight cracked his knuckles. The boys turned to leave the school and head home to start playing their favorite game when they were stopped by none other than their Vice Principal.

"Oh, hello madame," Pipsqueak greeted his favorite faculty member.

"Afternoon boys," Luna smirked, "I couldn't help overhearing your conversation about going to the year 2025 and killing people?" She asked, pretending like she didn't know what they actually said.

"In a video game yes, it's been a weekend tradition for us since the game launched in 2012 Ms. Luna," Featherweight explained.

"Well, I've nothing to do this weekend, so I was wondering if I could possibly join you boys in your little 'crusade' if you will?" She asked. Cougar, Spike, Featherweight, Pip and Rumble stood in silence at Luna's request.

"You?" Cougar asked, "you want to play Call of Duty with us?" he asked, digging into his ear to make sure nothing was blocking his hearing.

"What? You five are some of my favorite students; I have nothing to do this weekend including tonight, and I've always been fascinated with video games, having never played them before, so would you boys be okay if I joined you tonight?" she practically begged. The five looked at each other in confusion. Of all the weird things that could've happened to them on their way out the door, this one event didn't even crack the top 20.

"Well, do you have a gaming console?" Rumble questioned and crossed his arms over his Blue Angels shirt.

"More specifically, a PS3?" Spike rubbed his chin. Luna shook her head in a saddened reply.

"Where can I buy this, PS3 that you speak of?" Luna asked them.

"Walmart probably has a ton of them on sale since the PS4 launched awhile ago," Cougar replied. Luna's eyes lit up and she grabbed Cougar and Pip's hands.

"Then to Walmart we shall go boys!" the vice principal dragged the two out to her car while their three friends jogged to keep up.

(At Walmart. 3rd person POV)

"Alright, the electronics section, which of these is the console that I require to play with you five?" Luna asked as the six stood in front of the video game section of Walmart. There were sections for the Xbox 360, Xbox One, the Wii U, the PS3 and the PS4. Dozens upon dozens of games lined the shelves and controllers and gaming headsets lined the wall behind them. Button Mash was scouring video game guides, searching for a guide for the newest Assassin's Creed.

"Here, the PlayStation 3," Cougar lightly tapped the glass on the door housing about ten PS3 consoles that were on sale.

"And the game, is this one correct?" Luna pointed to a PS3 copy of Black Ops II.

"Yes ma'am, we'll just find someone to unlock the cabinet," Pipsqueak poked his head around to find an employee.

"So, are these the only two things I require to play with you boys?" Luna questioned as her eyes drifted over the PS3 box. Rumble turned around and picked up a black and blue box with a picture of a gaming headset marked Turtle Beach PX22 and handed it to his vice principal.

"You're going to need one of these to talk with us in the game Ms. Luna," he explained. Luna turned the box around to better understand what it was.

"I will be able to communicate with you five through this headset?" She asked, "interesting," she added.

"And the PS3 box comes with the HDMI cable, power cord and DualShock 3 controller you'll need," Cougar added. Luna lowered the headset box and gave Cougar a look that made what he said sound like he was explaining the theory of relativity.

"I'm not on the good side of technology Cougar," Luna said, "I barely know how my SamPhone 4 works," she explained. The group looked up when a Walmart associate approached them with keys in his hand.

"Sorry, one of the associates misplaced the keys," he apologized, "I overheard you wanted to get a PS3 correct?" He unlocked the glass door of the cabinet.

"Yes that is correct sir," Luna grabbed a PS3 box from the associate.

"Is there anything else I can get for you ma'am?" He questioned with a smile.

"Just a copy of Black Ops II sir, and that's all she'll need," Featherweight patted Luna's back to which she gave him a sly smile. The Walmart employee grabbed a PS3 copy of Black Ops II and handed the case to Luna whom placed it on top of her headset box and PS3 box.

"VP, do you need any of us to carry your stuff?" Rumble offered.

"No, I can handle myself Rumble," Luna pulled her wallet out of her purse.

"Comes to $335.64."

"Alright, who can help me set this up at my house?" Luna asked.

(At Luna's House.)

"Alright Ms. Luna," Pip dusted his hands off, "your HDMI cable is setup, your PS3 is plugged in, your PX22s are linked up with your system and your copy of Black Ops II is unwrapped," he declared.

"Oh thank you Pip," Luna ruffled his hair, "now what else must I do?" She asked. Pip turned on the PS3 and linked the controller with the system.

"You must create a PSN account complete with your email and a gamer tag," Pipsqueak explained. Luna then entered her email information and street address before coming to the game tag screen. "Now remember, once you create the name, you cannot change it Ms. Luna," Pip informed her.

"Hmm, how about this?" Luna entered Ms_Luna.

"No, too formal. Try something more unique," Pipsqueak sat down on her couch. Luna then attempted to enter Vice_Principal_Luna, but was brought to a screen telling her that her name had too many letters.

"Damn," Luna muttered and scratched her head, "this is more difficult than I thought," she set the controller on her lap.

"Here," Pip grabbed the black controller and entered VP_Luna. The screen flashed and asked if Luna was completely satisfied with the information she input to the PSN.

"Ooh, quite clever Pip," Luna clicked yes and was brought back to the main screen for the PS3.

"Okay, you're all set Ms. Luna, just pop the game in, let it download all the patches and then wait at the multiplayer screen for all of us to send you friend requests," Pip headed out the door to walk home which just so happened to be one block over.

"What is your gamer tag Pipsqueak!?" Luna called out.

"UK_Pirate_2010!" Pip replied and softly shut the door. Luna injected the disc into the disc drive and came across a screen asking her whether or not to download the latest software patch. She clicked yes and her jaw dropped at the message that said it would take at least 30 minutes to download all the new software.

"I guess I'll see what Chef Boyardee has on the menu tonight," Luna sat up from her couch and began to prepare herself some dinner complete with some Pepsi.

(30 Minutes later)

"Alright Pip, what's Luna's gamer tag?" Spike asked and set down his Monster Energy.

"I set it up for her personally," Pip replied as the five friends sat in a party together on the game, "her gamer tag is VP_Luna," the British boy replied while fixing his emblem of the UK flag. Spike, Rumble, Cougar and Featherweight all entered the XMB menu for their PS3s and each sent their Vice Principal friend requests.

"And now we wait," Cougar said into his microphone and adjusted his USAF emblem. Meanwhile, Luna rinsed out her bowl of Beefaroni and sat back down on her couch with a few cans of Pepsi. There was a message on the top right corner of her TV screen that read, "You have 5 new Friend Requests."

"Well, that certainly was fast," Luna smiled to herself and opened the message to accept the invitations. She scanned her TV screen as the five requests showed up from UK_Pirate_2010, Blue_Angels_A-4, Flash_Mob_Kid, Power_Ponies_FTW and Strike_Eagle_15.

"Hey guys, Ms. Luna's starting to accept our requests!" Rumble exclaimed. One after another, each of the five boys were alerted that VP_Luna was now Online and ready to play. "Okay, who's going to do the honors here?" the Blue Angels fan asked and sipped a Mountain Dew.

"Spike, you're the party host, how about you?" Featherweight asked. Spike clicked on the triangle button, scrolled down his friends list and sent an invite to Ms. Luna. Back at Luna's house, she was thrilled to get a message from Power_Ponies_FTW titled Game Invite. Clicking back to the main menu of her PS3, Luna accepted the game invite and was instantly whisked into a party with all five of her friends awaiting her arrival.

"Well hello there Ms. Luna," Pip greeted his favorite faculty member of the school.

"Good evening boys," Luna replied, "so before we get started, besides Pip, who is who?" She asked.

"Oh, I'm Strike_Eagle_15," Cougar said.

"Power_Ponies_FTW," Spike declared.

"Flash_Mob_Kid," Featherweight exclaimed.

"Blue_Angels_A-4," Rumble chimed in.

"Okay good, so do we start now?" Luna asked as she nervously gripped her black controller.

"Nope, go to create a class first Ms. Luna," Cougar explained, "I'm the group's Assault Rifler, Spike is the Sub Machine Gunner, Featherweight is our Light Machine Gunner, Pip is our Sniper and Rumble here is our Shotgunner," the Air Force fan said. Luna did as she was told and was having trouble picking a gun to use.

"Uh, it appears that all the gun classes have been taken by you boys," Luna piped up.

"Don't worry VP," Rumble assured her, "the pistols in this game are wicked over powered; just get the Five-Seven pistol, slap on Lightweight, Toughness and Dexterity for your perks and grenade and shock charge for your explosive and equipment." Again, Luna did as she was told and had a class setup, but with no primary weapon.

"What about a primary weapon?" She questioned.

"With how over powered the pistols in this game are, especially that one, you won't need one," Spike replied, "and you can pick up weapons from dead enemies or teammates," he added.

"Oh, okay then. I guess let's get on with this," Luna suggested. Spike clicked to find a match and the six soon found themselves in a match on Hardcore Search and Destroy on Nuketown 2025.

"Alright Luna, just do not go rushing out," Cougar warned, "in this game mode, you die, you don't respawn until the next round," he explained as the six were dropped into their spawn point on the map. Luna gulped as the counter reached zero and her teammates began to move around.

"It's okay Luna, just go hide next to the door in the living room," Rumble ordered. Luna shrieked a little when a grenade blew up a car outside as she sat down. Holding down L1, Luna pointed her pistol at the doorway should an enemy run inside.

"Okay, I think I saw one-," Rumble said before he was silenced and his named showed up on the kill feed.

"There he is!" Pip exclaimed and sniped the enemy that was hiding in the garage of the enemy house. Suddenly, there was a loud burst of gunfire and Cougar and Featherweight's names appeared on the killfeed, leaving only Spike, Luna and Pip left.

"Should I go and search around?" Luna asked.

"Yeah, we need to guard the bomb sites," Spike said as he aimed down the sights of his MP7. "WOAH!" He burst fired his gun and collected a double kill. "Okay, three on three," Spike said in an almost whisper-like state. Luna slowly crouched down and walked outside to sit next to the loading van in the cul-de-sac of Nuketown.

"Hold on," Pip said, "there's two leaving the red house!" he shouted and started to shoot his Ballista to keep the enemies at bay.

"Luna, just watch bomb A near the loading van!" Spike said while running out to kill the enemies that were being held down by Pip's sniper fire. Luna peered around the edge of the opening of the loading van and saw the two enemies that Spike was chasing. One enemy's name appeared on the kill feed as Spike attacked him. But then, Spike's name appeared on the kill feed as the other enemy knifed him.

"Spike!" Luna shouted as the other part of her group was killed.

"And then there were two," Pip said as he scanned the back of the enemy spawn.

"Pip, there's one planting near my bomb site!" Luna exclaimed and started to wildly fire her pistol at the bomb site. The enemy that was planting dropped the bomb, jumped up and started to fire his machine gun at Luna. She ducked down as the enemy sprayed his Type 25 at her. "Pip, help!" Luna begged.

"I'm on my way Ms. Luna!" Pip replied as he jumped from the window of the house in their spawn. While the enemy was distracted, Pip ran up and knifed the enemy in the back, choosing not to quick scope since he believed it was a cheap tactic. "Alright, all cle-" Pip declared until a gunshot went off and hit him in the head.

"NO!" Luna exclaimed and reloaded her pistol. "Pip? Cougar?" Luna whispered into her mic yet received no reply. Ever so slowly, she inched her left joystick forward, making her soldier on her TV inch forward as well. Her left index finger held down the L1 button for dear life, the Vice Principal aimed her Five-Seven pistol in front of her soldier as she creeped around the back of the loading van.

"You can do it Ms. Luna," Pip cheered her on from spectating her soldier. Suddenly, Luna heard the sound of boots scraping against the asphalt of the circular driveway. Freezing, she turned the volume up on her gaming headset to make sure it wasn't her own footsteps. An electronic beep was heard from next to Luna. Curious, she peered around the corner only to find the enemy laying prone next to the bomb site with a brief case in hand.

"SHOOT HIM!" Rumble shouted at his TV set and into the ears of his friends. Panicking, Luna started to fire her gun as fast as her finger could pull the trigger. The bomb site turned orange and a voice came over her headset, "Bomb Active." Standing up, the enemy ducked behind the now hot bomb site and started to fire off with Pip's sniper rifle.

"AH!" Luna shrieked and hit the prone button while still firing her gun. Luna heard a powop sound and a white X appeared at the center of her screen before a +50 appeared in place of the white X. The enemy ceased firing and fell to the ground, dead. "I, I did it! I killed someone!" Luna cheered. She then remembered the bomb she was supposed to defuse and went into panic mode as she didn't know how to! Diving onto the bomb with only 9 precious seconds left, Luna held down the square button as the game told her to and her soldier defused the bomb.

"Well done squad, regroup and go again," the game said. A replay of Luna firing like crazy and killing the enemy was shown again before the game reset for Round 2.

"Alright Luna!" Spike applauded.

"Nice work VP," Rumble congratulated.

"Amazing Ms. Luna," Pip complimented.

"Got ourselves a regular Dirty Harry on our team," Cougar teased.

"Are you sure you've never played this before?" Featherweight asked slyly. Still catching her breath from the excitement, Luna gave out an, unsettling laugh.

"I could get used to this," she rubbed her hands together as Round 2 began. The group of six continued playing for hours and hours until around 1 in the morning. At this time, Luna had already leveled up to level 20 and had her Five-Seven Pistols leveled up to have two of them.

"Well, I'm about ready to crash," Spike yawned and stretched. "Can't be too groggy when you're escorting the prettiest girl in town," he said with a hint of swag in his voice. Suddenly, a different voice replied to the group of six that were in a lobby.

"Oh, you gonna be escorting your mom around her hooker park?" one of the gamers questioned.

"Yeah, she still hasn't paid me for last week, that skank owes me," another voice said.

"I beg your pardon!" Luna exclaimed.

"Luna, they're just trolls, ignore them," Cougar cautioned.

"No Cougar, these boys must know that Spike's mother is an accomplished English professor at Equestria University and is not a skank!"

"Oh hello," a third voice said lustily, "VP_Luna, you got a Snapchat?" he questioned.

"No, I do not even know what that is," she replied.

"Aw, well you should get one and send me some nice shots of your big and juicy tits," he joked.

"DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW YOU ARE SPEAKING TO A LADY LIKE THAT!?" Luna bellowed into her mic, temporarily scaring her students.

"Oh yeah, I love 'em feisty," another gamer said in a fake moan, "hey teach, I'm a naughty boy; I need a spanking," he joked, causing his party of friends to start guffawing and laughing.

"VP, just mute these rejects if you're still gonna play; I'm hitting the sack," Rumble yawned.

"I just can't believe how some kids today will talk to a lady like that. In my day if a boy talked to a woman that way, every man that heard it would smack him upside the head," Luna took a swig of her Pepsi, "but if you boys want to turn in for the night, I guess we'll play tomorrow?" She asked as Spike brought the party out of the lobby.

"Oh yeah, we're all free until around noon," Featherweight remarked. Every other member except Luna all responded with some form of the word yes.

"Well then, goodnight boys and thank you for including me in your game," Luna said as all of her friends got offline. Looking at her clock and seeing as how close it was to being half past one, the Vice Principal nearly clicked her PS3 off, but the urge to keep playing itched at the back of her head. "Oh, I guess one more round wouldn't hurt," she joined a lobby by herself and fixed her 5-7 class to have faster reloading.

(9 A.M. 3rd Person POV)

Spike, per the norm, booted up his PS3 and was surprised to find that Vice Principal Luna was already online. "Hmm, didn't take her as an early riser," Spike sipped a cup of hot cocoa. A smile was brought to his face as Cougar, Rumble, Featherweight and Pip all got online as well. An even bigger smile appeared across his face as his phone buzzed with a message from none other than Rarity.

Rarity: I can't wait to go to the Fashion History Gallery at the museum with you Spikey-Wikey. Don't forget to pick me up around 12:30 ;)

Spike's heart leapt at the thought of spending all day with his girlfriend. His thoughts were interrupted when Luna joined his party. "Good morning Spike!" Luna said with pure jubilation and excitement.

"Morning Ms. Luna, did you sleep well?" Pip asked when he and the other joined the party.

"Sleep? Oh that's a funny one Pip," Luna chuckled like she was on a sugar rush. "I've been up since well yesterday morning. I couldn't stop playing last night, save for trips to the restroom and a trip to 7-11," she exclaimed.

"You pulled an all-nighter on your first night?" Cougar asked.

"Thanks to my good friends Red Bull and Monster," Luna said as she cracked open another can of Monster Energy.

"And you're already level freakin' 55!?" Rumble exclaimed, "did you keep playing Search and Destroy?" he asked in disbelief.

"No, it was taking me forever to get past level 20 playing that game mode, so I switched to Kill Confirmed and started leveling up like crazy up to 55 a few minutes ago," Luna explained and sipped her energy drink. "That and I switched to using the KAP-40 and B23R pistols; they're much more effective than the 5-7 and the Tac-45."

"Okay then," Featherweight said, nervous about how his teacher was becoming obsessed with playing the game already.

"Oh by the way boys, what is prestige level 1? I was asked if I wanted to do that last night," Luna questioned.

"It's really not important," Rumble assured her, "you reach and complete level 55 and then you have the option to restart at level one of prestige one and unlock all the guns and perks again," he explained.

"That's stupid and a waste of time, now let's get this ball rolling!" Luna exclaimed as she downed another huge gulp of her Monster. The others gripped their DualShock 3 controllers tightly and awaited Spike to find a decent Search and Destroy lobby. Several hours later, it was 11:45 and the score was tied at 3 to 3, heading into overtime on Raid.

"Come on boys, pick up the slack a little," Luna said as she was 9 and 3 while the rest were around 4 and 5 and 3 and 6.

"Ms. Luna, it's just a game," Pip reminded her nervously. Ignoring him, Luna tossed her EMP grenade and hit a few enemy players near the kitchen of the huge mansion.

"Haha! I got another UAV boys, no mercy!" She shouted and clicked on her UAV to reveal where all six members of the enemy team were hiding. Luna jumped into the kitchen and brought out her dual wield KAP-40s and blasted away one of the enemies before diving into the cocaine room to reload and toss a grenade back into the kitchen.

"There's one hiding in the courtyard!" Cougar informed his teammates and launched one of his grenades from his grenade launcher at an enemy.

"On my way Coug, give me a second," Spike replied as he refreshed his clip of his MP7 after killing an enemy.

"HE'S GOT AN SVU!" Cougar exclaimed before being hit with the semi-auto sniper and dying. Spike went up to toss some C4 in the enemy's face but was stabbed from behind by another enemy. Meanwhile back in the kitchen, Luna killed the third enemy of the enemy team and was heading towards the courtyard where Spike and Cougar were just killed. Luckily, Pip, Rumble and Featherweight were still alive to give her cover.

"The sniper is in the laundry room," Pip remarked as he aimed his Ballista towards the laundry room.

"Well, where are the other th-" Featherweight asked before getting knifed in the throat in the garage. Luna waited near the door of the laundry room with her dual wield KAP-40s at the ready while Rumble quickly tossed a Semtex grenade into the room. The enemy sniper ran out only to be killed by Luna.

"Eat lead punk," Luna reloaded, "only two left."

"PIP, BEHIND YOU!" Rumble started to shoot off his Remington to lure the enemy away, but to no avail. Pip turned around and tried to knife the enemy, but was shot in the head. Unfortunately for Rumble, the second to last enemy was hiding behind the doorway below where Pip was sniping from and he also got shot, leaving Luna as the lone survivor of the team. Refreshing her ammo clips, Luna ran to the garage to scout for the enemy that killed Featherweight.

"Come on out you punk," Luna said to the game. The Vice Principal darted her soldier back and forth, scouring the garage area for one of two enemies left. Hearing footsteps, Luna crouched low behind one of the vehicles and waited for the enemy to either get within her iron sights or to leave. Off in the distance, the bomb site turned orange as the briefcase was coded and set to explode. "Drat," Luna muttered and stood up from her hiding place. Instead of going out of the garage and to the left, Luna ran through the middle of the map through the rock garden and crouched near the wall closest to the bomb site. The UAV then went away, leaving Luna with no verification of where the enemies were.

The sound of a pin coming out of a grenade caught the attention of the school administrator. A concussion grenade landed near her feet and blinded and deafened her. "NO!" Luna shouted as the enemy killed her, ending the game and forcing her team to lose 4-3.

"Well, you tried Ms. Luna," Pip assured her as the twelve players were brought back to the lobby.

"What a coward, having to slow down and disorient his enemy to kill them," Luna muttered bitterly.

"Hey, it was great playing Ms. Luna, but we've all got stuff to do," Cougar apologized.

"Yeah, I've gotta take a quick shower and pick Rarity up for our lunch date," Spike smiled and signed offline, disbanding the party. Luna watched as all five of her friends signed off PSN. She stretched her back, realizing that she had been up for over 24 hours.

"Perhaps a shower and a quick nap," she turned off her PS3. Several hours later, Cougar and Applejack joined up with Pipsqueak and Sweetie Belle at the Hard Rock Cafe while Spike and Rarity were enjoying the Fashion History Gallery at the Museum and Rumble was watching Top Gun with Scootaloo on his 70 inch flat screen TV; Featherweight was helping Applebloom with sorting out the rotten apples from bruised apples on AJ's farm.

"So, hope it's fine to have two older friends with you guys," Cougar peered over his menu.

"Eh, the more the merrier Cougar," Sweetie raised her glass of ice tea.

"I hear that!" AJ exclaimed and clinked her glass of Root Beer against Sweetie's glass.

"This is fairly enjoyable Cougar, I'm glad I took you up on your offer," Pip smiled.

"So, you guys really helped Ms. Luna of all people to start playing Call of Duty?" Sweetie Belle asked for the third time.

"Hey, we're still shocked at how much she likes it," Cougar replied.

"I think the true shock was her pulling an all-nighter on her first night," Pip added, "didn't she sound a bit, jazzed up as you Americans say?" he asked Cougar.

"You mean hyper like Pinkie Pie?" Sweetie Belle suggested as she kept looking up from her menu to her boyfriend.

"In a way, but not insanely hyper," Pip responded. Suddenly, both Pip and Cougar's phones buzzed and beeped as they received text messages. Their messages said the exact same thing, but the weird and creepy part was they were from Luna.

From Luna: Hey boys, I just, how you say, "Owned" a group of enemies by shooting a claymore that blew up a van. Hope to see you back online soon!

"Uh, when did we give Luna our phone numbers?" Cougar asked as he set his phone on the table.

"We uh, we didn't," Pip replied. "She must've gotten them from our permanent records or something," he set his iSung 5 on the table.

"Yeah, that's not creepy at all," Applejack agreed with the boys. Meanwhile, Spike had received the same message while touring the museum with Rarity. His eyes widened at the thought of how Luna was able to acquire his cell phone number.

"Who texted you Spikey-Wikey?" Rarity sweetly asked, tearing her gaze away from Marilyn Monroe's classic white dress, "does your mother want you to pick up some groceries on the way home?"

"N-no, Vice Principal Luna just texted me on how she blew up a few enemies by shooting a claymore and blowing up a van," he nervously responded and clicked the button to go back to the lock screen on his SamPhone 4.

"Oh yes, that silly little game of- wait a minute, when did you give our Vice Principal your cell phone number?" Rarity questioned in not a jealous or suspicious tone, but one of curiosity and concern.

"Never, that's the problem," Spike set his phone back into his pocket. Rarity pursed her lips, trying to get a grip on this situation.

"Well, as long as you're just playing that silly game of yours, I don't see a problem with it," Rarity patted her Spikey-Wikey's head.

"She did just want something to do on Friday nights and weekends," Spike scratched his chin. "Well whatever, today is all about us," he wrapped his arm around Rarity's waist and led her to a replica of Fonzie's Brown Leather jacket from Happy Days. Elsewhere, Rumble and Featherweight both went through the same thing as their three friends, prompting Rumble to send a text out to his four friends.

(Two Weeks Later. 3rd Person POV)

Things had turned, weird for Cougar, Spike, Rumble, Pip and Featherweight. At first, Luna just wanted to play on Friday nights and the weekends, which seemed fine and normal, but she had taken an obsessive turn. After finding out she had gotten their cell phone numbers from their school records and they had added her to their contacts list, the texts never stopped. The boys were currently eating lunch all together with their girlfriends when Luna appeared wearing a Black Ops II T-Shirt. "Boys! You'll never believe it!" She said excitedly, "I got a second HDMI cable and I hooked my PS3 up to the computer in my office; I can play during school now!" she rubbed her hands together.

"Uh, that's great Luna," Cougar set his Pepsi can down.

"So, I was thinking, let's start playing during after school hours boys, there's enough time before you must sleep," Luna ignored the fact that Cougar was uninterested.

"But, we have homework Ms. Luna," Pipsqueak stopped eating his nachos.

"And track season is right around the corner!" Rumble pointed out. Luna then reached into her pocket and produced a stack of five sheets.

"Here, these are homework excuses I have given to all of your teachers," Luna grinned, "I always thought homework was a waste of time for students anyways," she rolled her eyes.

"Excuse me Vice Principal," Rarity set down her lunch of Sushi and saltine crackers, "but we do like to spend time with our boyfriends; they can't keep ditching us for a silly little video game!" She exclaimed. Applejack, Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo and the boys all nodded in agreement.

"Well then, get PS3s yourselves and join us! Though you'd have to play Ground War," Luna rubbed her chin.

"Sorry VP," Rumble sat up, "but they're right."

"Look, we've had, fun, these past two weeks," Spike looked away from the Vice Principal.

"But we do need to spend a little more quality time with our girls, they were with us before the game came out," Pip added.

"However, we'll still take those get out of homework passes," Featherweight reached for one. Luna yanked them away and crumpled them into her pocket.

"Nope, offer's gone boys; maybe you should spend a little more time with your girlfriends," Luna leaned onto the table and glared at the five girls.

"Dang, well we'll still see around the school and maybe play a little on days off of school, or we can play one last time tonight before taking a break," Cougar snapped his fingers. 'Yes, perhaps on days off of school. Or as soon as tonight,' Luna thought as she strolled away from the lunch room. As the bell rang several hours later to signify school letting out, Rarity, AJ, AB, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo were hit with unfortunate news.

"DETENTION!?" They all shouted.

"Mmm yes," Luna hummed, "every day of every week until the end of the school year," she added.

"Fer what!?" Applejack demanded.

"Oh your list of offenses is quite severe," Luna slid a piece of paper over to the girls.

"Indecent exposure!?" Rarity exclaimed, "I've never shown a centimeter of inappropriate skin!"

"Swearin' in class?" Applejack asked, "the worst thing Ah've ever said was dang!"

"Destruction of school property?!" Scootaloo looked up at Luna, "but Coach Spitfire told me that basketball was on its last leg anyway and she didn't blame me!"

"Singing inappropriate songs in the locker room?" Sweetie Belle demanded, "I happen to sing in the shower, and Pour Some Sugar on Me isn't that inappropriate!"

"Bringin' snacks ta class?" Applebloom balled up the piece of paper and chucked it into the garbage pail, "Miss Cheerliee loves it when Ah bring Big Mac's apples fer her ta snack on!"

"It doesn't matter what you think you did girls, you have detention; don't make it any worse," Luna smirked, "Mr. Discord shall be your detention teacher. Now if you'll excuse me, there's a game I'm dying to play," she winked at the girls.

"You're tearing me away from my Spikey-Wikey for a stupid game?!" Rarity shouted as the door closed.

"We've gotta let the boys know that she's gone insane!" Sweetie Belle pulled her phone out.

(Meanwhile)

"Oh hello boys, hope you like the new player card," Luna chuckled when she joined the party.

"Uhhhhhhhh," Pipsqueak said when he clicked on Luna's profile to see her new player card.

"Well, there's something you don't see a teacher say," Featherweight blushed.

"LUNA!" Cougar said in shock.

"It's a double entendre, I'll give you that," Spike said nervously.

"Do you know how many horny pervs are going to target you VP?!" Rumble exclaimed. Luna's player card had a black background with a nice white crescent moon in the upper left hand corner. Below that however, was a phrase that said: Eat my moon pie.

"What? It's not like you boys haven't had health class before, you know what they look like," Luna shrugged it off. Rumble did a spit take and spat out his Amp Energy drink while Cougar groaned.

"Yes, just because we've had health class means that emblem is totally appropriate," Pipsqueak muttered.

"Thank you God that Rarity isn't here," Spike whispered. The moment was interrupted when Luna gave out the loudest burp any of the boys had ever heard.

"BUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRPPPPPPPP! Ah, let's get it on!" Luna crushed her Pepsi can, "party's over, time to go balls to the walls boys!" She started up a match. Immediately, several enemy gamers took advantage of Luna's player card.

"Oh hey VP_Luna, if I eat your moon pie, will you play with my joystick?"

"I can't play with something that small bitch," Luna smirked.

"MS. LUNA! This isn't like you!" Pip shouted. Suddenly, Pip's phone buzzed with a text from Sweetie Belle. His eyes bulged out of his head as he read the message. He quickly copied the message and forwarded it to Cougar, Rumble, Featherweight and Spike.

"My God," Cougar set his phone down as the match began.

"This madness must end," Featherweight leapt off the side of the map Turbine.

"Hey, what is he doing!?" Luna demanded.

"Doing what she should've done last week," Spike replied as he shut off his PS3 followed by Featherweight, Cougar and Rumble.

"PIP! No, no don't you leave too, please!" Luna begged. Pip said nothing as he shut off his console, leaving Luna alone online.

The five concerned boys all met up at the school to rescue their girlfriends, but Mr. Discord wouldn't have any of it. "Sorry boys, but rules state that the accused cannot leave until 5:00 PM," Mr. Discord shooed them away from the detention room.

"But Mr. Discord!" Cougar fought.

"No buts young man!" the teacher with the lazy eye stared him down. "5:00 let out and no visitors, those are the rules Principal Celestia created, and those shall stay in place," he shoved them out of the school.

"I'll be back for you m'lady!" Spike called to Rarity as Mr. Discord shut the door. The five found themselves in the local Game Galaxy, trying to clear their heads on what to do.

"Okay, so our Vice Principal has gone bat shit crazy," Featherweight started off.

"And she's keeping our girlfriends prisoners until dinner time," Spike continued and leafed through a gaming magazine.

"And she won't leave us alone unless we play with her," Cougar blocked Luna's number on his phone.

"It's simple, you've got to humiliate her until she doesn't have the courage to play as much as she has been," a new voice replied.

"Button Mash?" The five boys questioned as their fellow gamer was playing on his JoyBoy.

"How do you know how to deal with this?" Pip questioned.

"Why do you think I only play handheld games or just single-player RPGs?" Button looked up from his JoyBoy. "I used to be addicted to online gaming back when I was a Freshman. My grades fell to hell and my only friends were Pip and Featherweight. It got so bad that I skipped school one day and my mom was furious. So, she whipped up her own PSN account and whipped my ass on Call of Duty. I was so embarrassed that I quit multiplayer online and stuck to single player RPGs," Button Mash explained.

"Well we can't embarrass her if we beat her, we're too close of friends," Rumble rubbed his chin.

"There is someone here who might be able to help you," Button Mash paused his game, "but it may shock you who it is," Button Mash warned. He gestured with his left hand as a figure walked downstairs from the second floor of the gaming store.

"No, freaking, way," Rumble's jaw dropped.

"Yeah, that was my reaction too," Button Mash went back to jumping onto Koopas.

"Hello Ms. Luna, sorry about ditching you earlier," Pip apologized when all five got online and joined Luna's party.

"We were just so shocked at how different you'd become while playing that we needed a moment to get used to it?" Cougar poorly lied. Rumble, Spike and Featherweight remained silent, not having anything to say to their Vice Principal as they awaited her response and they waited for their surprise to kick in.

"That's fine Pip," Luna took a drink of her soda, "I guess I got a little too rowdy there, but I promise to cool it down from now on," Luna swore. Rumble took out his cell phone and quickly punched in a text to Cougar.

From Rumble: Should we tell her we know what she did to our girlfriends?

Cougar replied with 'Not yet. Wait for you-know-who to arrive.' Finally, the person whom would help the five boys appeared online and sent a message confirming they were ready to help. Luna then started a match up and went to a Search and Destroy game on Standoff. Thinking quickly, Featherweight sent an invite to the mystery person as there were only 11 people out of a possible 12 in the lobby. "Nice emblem," Luna complimented as the twelfth person joined the lobby.

"Which one VP?" Rumble questioned.

"Misstress_Cake," Luna replied, "it's a good looking piece of cake," she complimented again. "What, to afraid to talk?" Luna teased as the player didn't respond. The match soon started up and the five prayed this would work and end the madness that they admitted they'd created. Soon, the six members of the T800 clan started to run to their respective spots on Standoff. Cougar hid behind the statue in the middle of the map, Pip got into his sniper window, Spike hid in the gas station while Rumble and Featherweight hid the warehouse and Luna ran to the meat shop.

"WHAT THE-" The five heard Luna exclaim as Misstress_Cake killed her rather quickly. Misstress_Cake then committed suicide and waited for everyone else in the match to die.

"You aim-hotting cheater!" Luna accused when her team one Round 1.

"Luna, what's the matter?" Spike asked in a fake tone of concern.

"That Mistress_Cake is using aim-bot, I know it!" Luna replied angrily.

"It's just a game Ms. Luna," Pip politely reminded her.

"I'll get her, mark my words boys, this bitch is going down," Luna gripped her controller so hard it almost cracked. Six rounds later, Luna's team was victories 4 to 3, but Luna for the first time went 0-7. She never killed a single enemy player, but Misstress_Cake had killed her all seven times she had died.

"So VP, how do you feel?" Rumble asked as Luna brought her friends back to the main party.

"I'm so humiliated right now, I can't believe we allowed ourselves to play with a cheater like that," she grumbled and set her controller on the ground.

"Well, maybe you needed a wakeup call back to reality Lulu," a voice replied softly. Looking up, Luna saw Misstress_Cake had joined the party, and the voice was all too familiar.

"Tia! You're the cheater?!" Luna exclaimed. There was a knock on the door of Luna's house as Celestia left the party. She answered the door to find a fairly disappointed big sister standing in the doorway with her arms crossed.

"You know, when Cougar, Spike and Pip told me about your gaming addiction, I didn't want to believe it," Celestia entered Luna's house. She walked into the living room where the boys could hear their conversation through Luna's PX22s. "I can't believe that this is where you've been spending all of your free time, no wonder your office has piles of disciplinary papers stacked everywhere! And to think you imprisoned five girls because they wanted to tear their boyfriends away, for shame," Celestia scolded her baby sister. Luna wanted more than anything to lash back at Celestia and tell her to mind her business. Yet, the feeling of guilt for pretty much imprisoning the five girls for no reason and going insane over a video game ate away at her.

"I-I just didn't want to spend my weekends alone anymore sister!" Luna exclaimed, "I heard them talking about how much fun they have playing together on the weekends; I just wanted to spend time with friends on the weekends," Luna explained with saddened eyes.

"But what about your fellow teachers? I'm sure Ms. Cheerilee wouldn't mind going 'clubbing' with you," Celestia put an arm around Luna.

"I tried, but ever since she started dating Big Macintosh, she's busy every weekend," she replied.

"Try seeing your teacher at your girlfriend's house, that's freaking weird!" Featherweight said.

"Silence!" Luna shouted into her microphone.

"Okay, how about Coach Spitfire or Coach Iron Will? I'm sure they wouldn't mind getting together for a drink or two on Fridays," Celestia suggested.

"Spitfire is dating Braeburn and Iron Will sort of scares me," Luna admitted.

"Glad I'm not the only one that's afraid of that steroid induced raging bull!" Spike sighed in relief.

"I said silence students!" Luna screeched into the microphone again. "And ever since you've started seeing Discord, you haven't been able to spend at least one day a week with me," she sat down on the couch.

"Oh, I think I see the problem Lulu," Celestia sat down next to her sister.

"OOOOOOHHHH!" Rumble gagged.

"TURN THE MIC OFF, WE'VE HEARD ENOUGH!" Cougar shouted.

"That's nasty, I'll never be able to get that image out of my head," Pipsqueak groaned. Luna grabbed her controller and shut off her PS3, killing the conversation between her and the students.

"Anyways," Celestia ignored the awkwardness of the conversation via PlayStation, "maybe you don't need anymore friends, perhaps you just a special someone in your life?" she offered. "Hobbies are great for spare time, but they can't love you like another person or a pet."

"I know, but who is the one out there for me?"

"Well, we do have that new track coach coming in from Mannesota High School to replace the old track coach, maybe you could make a good first impression on him; he's single from what I've read," Celestia smiled.

"What's his name?" Luna questioned.

"Checkered Flag I think."

(One Month Later)

Ever since Celestia brought Luna back to reality, things for the sisters and five of their favorite students were looking up for everyone. Thankfully after explaining the situation, Rarity, AJ, Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo decided not to tell their parents what happened with their unfair detention. Luna didn't get rid of her PS3, instead she worked out a gaming schedule for when the boys would be available to play. She also was able to start a Blu-ray collection thanks to the gaming console. And last but not least, Celestia had introduced her baby sister to the new track coach for the school: Checkered Flag. Someone may as well have played Take My Breath Away when the two faculty members first met; they couldn't stop smiling awkwardly and looking away from each other. It turned out that Checkered loved being up at night just as much as Luna did. He even enjoyed horror stories by Stephen King and horror movies like Halloween and A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Luna set her phone to silent as Checkered brought in a huge bowl of popcorn and a six pack of Pepsi Max to the living room and sat down next to her. Stretching his body out, Luna laid down into his chest and grabbed the bowl of popcorn and began to munch on the salty snack. "Too buttery?" Checkered Flag asked as he cracked open a soda.

"It's perfect Checkered, everything is perfect," Luna replied and turned the TV onto the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season opening Daytona 250. Checkered Flag had gotten her hooked after showing her old tapes of races from the previous two seasons. Luna's phone lit up with a KIK message from Pip.

From Pip: Sorry I can't make it. My dear Sweetie Belle has come down with the flu; a true gentleman takes care of his sick girlfriend.

"That kid is a regular Casanova," Checkered sipped his soda. Soon enough, the rest of the gang responded that none would be able to make it to game, including Luna.

From Luna: I cannot make it either boys; it's date night ;)

End Luna Ops

And that's how Luna became obsessed with Online gaming and overcame it. I hope you all enjoyed the first story in my Vault Collection. I have plenty more ideas left. I don't know how often I'll update this collection. Pretty much whenever I get an idea.

Also, the couples you've seen in this story I support. SpitBurn (Spitfire & Braeburn), Dislestia (Discord & Celestia), Scootumble (Scootaloo & Rumble), Sparity (Spike & Rarity), Cheerimac (Cheerilee & Big Mac) PipBelle (Pip & Sweetie Belle), AppleWeight (Applebloom & Featherweight), CouJack (My OC Cougar and AJ), and finally, LunaredFlag (Luna and my OC Checkered Flag).