Chapter 83 - Post Fight Relaxation
Friendship is a Game
by Twistedphoenix1
Edited by SpedaHooves
After Micro was conscious again, the group decided that most of them needed a shower. At the very least, those who physically fought the plants without a mech suit did. Deciding to wait until everyone was clean before briefing Big Mac. Applejack already knew a lot of it from Twilight, Sunset, and Fluttershy but wanted to know how her sister got involved. Meanwhile Granny Smith was still laying on her bed fainted.
Micro used Observe to make sure she was ok and they decided to see if she remembered what happened. If she did, the Apples would explain it to her. If she thought it was a dream or didn't remember, they would leave it that way.
Applejack stretched as she saw Micro looking clean and coming into the kitchen.
'My turn,' she thought. All the others had managed to claim a spot ahead of her since she was the least dirty but this was her house and she wanted a nice hot shower.
As she stood up she bumped into Micro who seemed nervous for a second.
"Sorry sugarcube," Applejack said as she left. She could've sworn she heard Micro sigh.
Heading up the stairs she began unbuttoning her flannel shirt. As she opened the door to the bathroom, she undid the last button and…
Spike was standing there...drying his hair...with nothing on.
They stared at eachother for a moment. Spike had his eyes locked into Applejack's barely contained knockers hidden by her bra. And Applejack looking down at…
"Sam hill…" she muttered in a daze. Then they snapped out of it. Spike brought the towel down to cover himself and Applejack spun and slammed the door, red faced and holding a hand to her nose as she tried to button up with only one hand heading downstairs.
"That was fast," Sunset said as she noticed Applejack. She and Twilight were reading in the living room. That was when they saw how red her face was.
"AJ?" Twilight asked. "What happened?"
The two saw a small trickle of blood from her nose and started putting the pieces together.
"Who was in the bathroom?" Sunset asked smirking. "Sugar isn't getting a shower, I just saw Micro, you wouldn't have a nosebleed like that if it was Big Mac…"
"You saw Spike naked?" Twilight gasped. Applejack just nodded in a daze as the other two looked at eachother for a moment, and grinned.
"He must be packing if it's making you crack like this," Sunset teased.
"Sunset," Twilight admonished jokingly. "Don't tease her….If she wants to go from riding horses and bulls to dragon riding-"
Applejack threw a chair pillow at them.
Micro
The young Gamer smirked as he waved away the screen congratulating him on completing a quest.
Apple Bottom
-Obtain Applejack's Panties
Quest Reward
-Applejack's Panties
-100 exp
Quest Failure
-Decrease relationship with Apple family
Bonus Objective
-Pickpocket the Panties (Increase relationship with Frida upon reveal)
He had decided to dedicate his Switch clone to playing Octopath Traveler again. When he beat it, he was happy to note that Scholar was removed from the list of rewards. After spinning the roulette, he got Theif as a title. Like Therion in the game, he could now see the percent chance of pickpocketing without discovery.
It was close. Micro had about a 67% chance of succeeding. Relying on his LUK perk to give him the Pervert's Blessing, he got them.
He was scared that he failed when she turned to him, but thankfully it wasn't for that. Micro was also very happy they went straight to his inventory, otherwise…
'No point worrying about that,' He thought as he opened the fridge. Apple juice, milk, soda, and cider. Taking a bottle of the cider out he saw it was hard cider and shrugged. He wasn't planning on becoming an alcoholic or going out to get drunk, but between raising his poison resist skill and just tasting good, he didn't mind indulging every now and then.
Not to mention the fight brought him up to Lv33 so progress there was good. He sent out a party chat message to Chara (who was still level grinding it seemed) as he made his way out to the porch he sat down in a chair next to Big Mac who was downing a cider of his own. The older brother raised an eyebrow at Micro's drink choice.
"You know that's alcoholic right?" He asked.
"Eeyup," Micro nodded. At the other end of the porch he saw Apple Bloom sitting with Sugar as she answered worried calls from their other friends. "I have a poison resist skill and this is honestly the easiest way to train it up. My ability will prevent any permanent damage."
Seeing Big Mac still look at him uneasily, Micro rolled his eyes. His form shifted so he looked to be around 21. Giving Big Mac a questioning look he sipped his cider. The eldest Apple sibling just shook his head and took another swig.
"So...ability users?"
"Eeyup."
"And you, Spike, Twilight, Sunset, and that Diamond girl are all…"
"Eeyup."
"And something happened to get everyone else involved?"
"Eeyup...though let's save that one for when Applejack is ready to talk. I'd rather only have to relive that incident once."
Big Mac looked at him before standing up. He stood over Micro and stared him down with all the authority of a big brother.
"Did that incident have anything to do with you or your friends?"
"Can...you be more specific?" Micro asked, hesitantly on how to phrase it. "We discovered some things afterwards but…"
"Would it have happened even if Apple Bloom never met you?" Micro understood and nodded.
"Meeting me or my friends would've had no affect on it. Maybe they wouldn't have been walking down the road where it happened on that day, but that's about it. The people behind what happened had no knowledge of mine or Spike's abilities until after we stopped them."
Big Mac stared him down for a few more seconds, but eventually sighed and sat back down.
"I guess I should thank you for stopping it and giving her the means to defend herself if something ever happens again."
Micro looked at the man with a raised eyebrow.
"You are taking the revelation about an entire second world in secret along side the...for lack of better term, normal one rather well."
"Kid," Big Mac sighed. "I just helped fight wooden wolves, possessed apple trees, and a huge plant monster from a movie I saw when I was a kid along side a dragon, a robot, Pokémon, demons, and my little sister's boyfriend in a mech suit. I do not think anything can get a reaction out of me anymore tonight."
Micro thought that finding out what almost happened to his sister would push that claim, but he just sipped his drink.
Later
"WHAT!?!?" The two siblings shouted. They had just heard the what happened with Kamoshida and the Diamond Dogs. Well, at least the part that Apple Bloom was kidnapped. The group sighed knowing this would be a long one.
It took an hour for them to get through the rest of the story. Micro sent shape shifted clones of Sugar and Diamond home so their parents wouldn't worry. By the end of it all, the two siblings were looking Micro, Sugar, and Spike with gratitude.
"Thank you so much for saving our sister," Applejack said. Big Mac nodded, only wishing he could give those bastards payback in the way only a pissed off protective sibling could.
"I will pass the thanks onto Scootaloo and Chara," Micro said smiling while Spike nodded.
"I will do the same for Ember," he said. "I'll be seeing her this weekend anyway."
"Oh?" Diamond said, giving him a sly look. "And what are you doing with her this weekend that you couldn't tell your girlfriend about?"
Spike stammered, saying they were just hanging out like when they were younger. This broke the tension and got most of the room laughing. Applejack gave a half hearted chuckle as she looked at Spike with a blush.
This look didn't go entirely unnoticed. Diamond saw Applejack and smirked.
'I wonder…' she thought. 'If it works for Micro…'