Chapter 102

Friendship is a Game

by Twistedphoenix1

Edited by SpedaHooves

"So why did Micro have you come to school for him today?" Scootaloo asked as the group of friends followed a disguised Chara to the nearby park (Chara, Scoots, SIlver, Apple Bloom, Sugar, Spike, Fluttershy, Diamond, Sweetie, Shiro). She double checked if anyone else was around before changing to her normal form.

"Micro wanted to work on two projects," Chara said as she stretched, wearing her green and yellow sweater and brown shorts. "One is something he's been planning for a while. The other is him trying to get a jump on the enemy. He is tired of reacting."

Sugar grew a slightly somber look but nodded. Apple Bloom saw the expression and squeezed his hand. He smiled at her, giving her a light kiss on the forehead.

"What do you mean getting a jump?" Spike asked, concerned his friend was planning something dangerous.

"An information gathering tool," Micro's voice said. He was sitting on a swing and smiling at his friends. "It will hopefully let me enter the dreamscape of our enemies and find out what they are doing. But that isn't what we are here for."

With a few quick taps on his screens he transferred small keys to his friends' inventories.

"Take those out." The group looked a bit confused but did as they were told. "Now, hold those out in front of you and say...Sanctuary."

In a flash of light, Micro vanished. The group all looked at each other before shrugging.

"Sanctuary!"

The entire group was surrounded in a burst of light that made them all start blinking. Once their vision returned to them, they (minus Shiro who smirked) gasped.

They were standing in front of a multi story mansion. It was designed a lot like the best possible ending from Luigi's Mansion (Original). The color scheme was dark stone with blue accents and the top dome appeared to be made of glass rather than stone though they couldn't see through it, meaning it must be one way. The L was also replaced with an MC in the middle of a PlayStation controller icon. They couldn't see all of it, but there was a forest behind the house and between the two they saw the edges of a flower garden.

"Welcome to the sanctuary," Micro said from the middle of the path to the door.

"How the…" Silver muttered.

"He created a storage ID and had a bunch of clones working on it, buying materials from the Chaos Auction," Shiro said. Micro raised an eyebrow at him. "I have something similar."

Sweetie turned to her boyfriend and raised an eyebrow.

"You never told me you have a mansion."

"I was waiting for a more...special occasion to show you," Shiro said with a wink as the group followed Micro into the mansion. Sweetie saw the wink and rolled her eyes, understanding what he meant.

"Now," Micro said as they entered the main hall. It seemed relatively standard for such a fancy looking mansion. Hardwood flooring, stairs going up to the next floor, and doors to the many different rooms of the house. "There are a lot of rooms to show you all so we will have to keep things relatively brief in each one."

"Did you not factor in time dilation when making this?" Shiro asked. Micro's eye twitched.

"Thank you for ruining that surprise." Shiro shrugged while the rest of the group with the exceptions of Spike, Diamond, and Fluttershy looked confused.

"Time dilation?" Apple Bloom asked.

"Basically you can set an ID to have time pass faster here than in the outside world," Fluttershy answered.

"It's very useful when you don't have as much time as you want," Diamond said, leaning back against her boyfriend grinning. "Such as wanting to unwind after a test between classes."

Shiro chuckled a bit while the others stared at the couple. Spike chuckled a little sheepishly but nodded.

"No wonder you looked so happy after Cranky's exam," Sugar accused.

"You're just jealous," Spike smirked as he felt Diamond rub herself against his crotch. Seemed she was getting peckish again. He would have to take care of that later.

After getting over that revelation (with a good chunk of the girls planning to abuse that power to its fullest) Fluttershy turned to her boyfriend.

"I'm going to guess you're using the hour to minute set up."

"Bingo. Hour in here, minute out there. And we still age according to outside time so we can spend as much time in here as we want," Micro said as he motioned to the first room on the left. As they followed, they marveled at that. Chara could guess Micro's main reason for that however. Plenty of time to train.

The group followed him into a decent sized dining room with mahogany table and chairs. They didn't stay there for too long before moving on to the kitchen which made Sugar's jaw drop.

Not only were the typical appliances there, but it had a large second half that looked like something out of Willy Wonka (fitting since a chunk of the equipment was from there). He looked over at Micro who smirked.

"I thought since you don't have approval to work the lab at Sweet Tooth's (the company he inherited, not the ice cream truck) yet, I could get you your own workplace."

Sugar was still stunned as Micro turned to the others.

"I actually put a number of things in for you guys, with the exceptions of you guys." At that he gestured toward Shiro, Sweetie, Apple Bloom, and Diamond. "Sorry. I didn't really know what to do for you guys. I can always add stuff on though. Fluttershy, your's is the forest, filled with Pokémon and other fantasy creatures I thought you'd like"

Fluttershy resisted the urge to squee over the thought of an entire forest of cute animals and hugged her boyfriend in thanks.

After they got Sugar to stop drooling, they moved on to the next room. It was a huge living room with multiple large televisions. Each one was hooked up to a different game console with clones playing multiple games.

"Probably my third favorite room here," Micro said. Looking over at one clone he smirked as the screen for that game popped up. With a quick tap and a moment of focus, a Keyblade appeared in his hand.

The tooth was a game controller and the shaft had a tangle of wires twisting around it. The handle looked like a wiimote while the guard was the nunchucks. All of it was in his typical blue and black color scheme.

"Now I will never be stopped by locks again," Micro said smirking. The group shared a chuckle at that as they moved on, agreeing to come back to this room and unwind after the tour.

The next stop was Silver's gift. Out of all of his girlfriends, Micro knew Silver was the most bookish. As such, he had a library set up. At first glance, it seemed relatively small, at least compared to something Twilight's. The room was hexagonal and all the walls except for the one they entered from had tall shelves lined up. I. The center were a few comfy chairs and a long table. Each shelf had a different topic listed at the top and the fronts had protective glass over them.

"Why are they behind glass," Silver asked curiously. Micro smirked and motioned to a small control panel by the door. It displayed all the shelves and their topics. With a tap on one labeled science, he brought up a huge list. Selecting romance from the drop down menu, they all heard the sound of machines whirring. Soon the shelf sunk into the floor and after a few seconds another rose up.

"I have enough reading material to last you-"

Before he could finish, Silver had pulled him into a deep, passionate kiss. Micro was a little stunned as she was the most shy about things like this, but he quickly returned it. After what was probably a minute or two, they heard a clearing of the throat and separated. Chara was filming the whole thing while he others chuckled a bit at their blushes.

"M...moving on," Micro said, taking Silver's hand as they walked.

They went across from the library to another gift. This time it was Spike's. As they entered, the girls were all caught off guard by the six statues of scantily clad female superheroes. Shiro turned to Spike who was staring around the room.

"A Power Pack fan I see." Spike nodded excitedly as he darted toward one of the shelves. On it was the complete collection of one of his favorite comic series of all time. There were other shelves as well, one wall entirely dc, another Marvel, and another some of the lesser talked about ones, but one entire section of the comic room was designated for Power Pack.

Diamond looked at the statues set up around the room, guessing that they must be the heroes from the series. She smirked as she planned to take some time to learn about these characters.

She wanted to be accurate during their role play after all.

When they finally managed to pull Spike away from the comics, the group made their way past the sauna to the stairs and went up to a large row of bedrooms. There were a lot more than enough for just them, which Micro explained as being there in case anyone else was invited into their group.

"Besides," he said. "Some of us will probably be sharing rooms so there are even more extra."

Chara, Scoots, and Fluttershy rolled their eyes, Diamond gave Spike a sultry look, Apple Bloom and Silver blushed a bit, while Sweetie avoided looking at Shiro. She would let him know what she thought of that comment in her own time.

As they approached the roof, they heard splashing and…was that...a moan. Micro sighed and took in a deep breath.

"GUESTS COMING IN!" He shouted and the group looked at him in surprise. After a few moments, they heard a familiar voice call back.

"You can come in now!"

With a nod, Micro opened the door to the roof where they found a stunning sight.

They could see the beautiful scenery of the ID around them. The forest out back and the green fields stretching out in front. A large pool was embedded in the roof before them with clear, glittering water. Diving boards were set up as well as a few relatively large water slides, Damn near like the ones in them parks. The main attraction that caught their attention though, was the hot tub...or rather…

The people in it.

"Hey everyone!" Frida called as she stepped out, leaving Zecora looking like she was adjusting her swimsuit. No one was looking at her right now though.

Frida was clad (barely) in a tight leopard print monokini. It showed off most of her skin and barely hid her breasts from view. The bottom part didn't do much better for her rear either.

"Micro…" Shiro started.

"Yes?"

"Are you keeping this lovely lady and our science teacher here as concubines?"

Micro face palmed while Sweetie smacked her boyfriend's arm. Though she had to admit, she couldn't blame him for checking the busty pinkette out. She was practically naked!

She really should give him her answer to the open relationship thing soon.

"No I'm not," Micro droned. "I wanted their opinion on the place before I showed it to you guys and so I brought them here last night. Zecora must've come in right after school to have beaten us here though."

"Indeed I did our young friend," Zecora said as she finally got out, drawing even more attention away from the conversation as she wore a zebra print bikini. "And I must thank you once again."

"Don't mention it," Micro said. "Just, if you want to have any fun time-"

"We know," Frida sighed. "Keep it to our bed room."

"Actually," Micro said as he pointed to a small screen next to the roof door. "I was going to say set the panel to occupied mode. It will lock the door and let people know not to try to get in."

The group stared at him and he shrugged.

"I'm dating four girls, three of which are typically super horny. Not to mention one of us has a Succubus for a girlfriend." Points to Spike and Diamond. "You really think I wouldn't put measures in place for when we don't want to keep it in the bedroom? Every room has one of these."

Shiro gave him a look of approval while Diamond giggles imagining Spike and her desecrating every room in the mansion. Spike looked slightly nervous about what Diamond would do, Sugar glances at Apple Bloom and blushed when she met his gaze. She just smiled.

Scootaloo and Chara wanted to see their gifts, wondering what role plays or sexy situations they could lead to. Meanwhile, Silver was pure crimson as dirty thoughts filled her mind. The other girls saw this and smirked. It was getting to the point where they should get Silver's cherry popped.

Frida picked up the younger Gamer and hugged his face to her chest.

"You're the best!" Micro smiled, enjoying the moment...until a hand shot out of his back and grabbed hand about ready to plunge a Sai into his shoulder. The others gasped and readied their weapons before Chara motioned them to stand down. Micro pulled his head from her cleavage and smirked.

"Nice try teach," Micro said. "And thanks for the snu snu."

Shiro and Chara cracked up at that while Frida was still staring at the extra hand her protege spawned from his back as it retreated. Micro saw this and clarified.

"Yet another level of Modification," he said. Frida sighed and wiped away a fake tear.

"You're learning so fast."

Chara went to walk to the edge overlooking the backyard but Micro called her back. Her surprise was that way and he didn't want to ruin it. She grumbled when he said it would be their last stop but nodded.

The group went back downstairs (the door to the roof instantly locking behind them and saying occupied). As the group reached the first floor, they got to an elevator that they had passed one their first tour. There were three separate basement floors. Getting off at the first one, The group was shocked by the sound of bowling pins being knocked down.

There were three main parts to this floor. One was the arcade, off to the side behind what had to be soundproof doors since they couldn't hear the idle sounds of the machines. Second was a small bar set up that for those that have played the Bayonetta games looked familiar. Shelves stocked with expensive looking wine and scotch in front of a blue lit background with the logo of a demon with two guns over the words "Gates of Hell." The final part of the floor, was obviously the bowling alley, where, once again, those that knew the Bayonetta games were surprised.

"Beautiful," The voice of Rodin said as his scoreboard lit up with a 300, having bowled a perfect game. He heard someone clapping and turned to see Micro leading his group of friends. "Hey, if it ain't my new pal Micro. See you finally brought your friends to come see me."

"Sorry it took so long Rodin," Micro said as they made their way over to the bar. The group looked at them for a moment before following. Spike tapped Micro on the shoulder.

"Micro," he started. "Is that a disguised clone?"

"Surprisingly no," Micro said. "I had just set up like Gates of Hell from the Bayonetta games and suddenly he appeared saying I was infringing on his trademark. I bought him off with some Halos from my trips into the Angel dungeons and he agreed to not send me straight to Inferno."

"And when I found out he could get me a near unlimited supply of them," Rodin said as he expertly started mixing together drinks. "I decided to set up shop here."

"What about your universe?" Sugar asked. Rodin gave the sweet tooth heir a smirk.

"I'm able to travel between dimensions. One of the few who can do so freely, ever since Bayonetta managed to get me enough of those golden rings to give me back my power of the Infinite One."

Finishing the drinks he slid a whole set of them out to the group. Micro, Chara, and Fluttershy reached out immediately. Spike was next as his Dracokin anatomy allowed him to process the alcohol more efficiently, he just didn't drink since his mom still insisted he wait. The only reason he was ok with it now was because it was just one small one. The others all were hesitant as they never drank before and didn't have any ability to counter it. Micro sighed after downing his and tossed a small capsule into each one of their drinks.

"The capsules will dissolve and counter the alcohol in your body after giving you the feeling for a few minutes."

Silver was the only one still a bit hesitant, but eventually joined the others in the drink. After waiting for the capsules to work, the group bid farewell to Rodin who vanished into a portal.

The next floor they stopped at had a split in the hallway. One sign reading lab lead off to the right while another had a cover over it pointing to the left.

"Ready for your surprise Scoots?" Micro asked. She lit up like a Christmas tree and took off down the hall. Micro chuckled a bit as he followed, the rest of the group close behind. When they got through the doors at the end, they gasped.

The large room was huge. Running around the room was track (as in track and field) with gym equipment around the outside. The inside was essentially a skate park, hollowed out with large ramps, half pipes, etc. When the rest of the group looked toward Micro and Scootaloo, they saw her hugging him tightly and pretty much crying tears of joy.

After showing her all the equipment they had and the shower rooms (Scootaloo smirked, remembering their first time) they took a quick look at the lab. While everything was impressive, the only thing that truly caught their eye was…

"That's an Arc Reactor right?" Sweetie asked. "Like from the Marvel movies."

"Indeed," Micro answered. "I wanted to power this place without worrying about replacing things too often. I would've gotten the tesseract but I don't want to spend over a million on something that I'm not sure will even work in an alternate reality."

The group left the lab and got back in the elevator. Micro hit the first floor button, making everyone curious.

"What's on the last floor?" Apple Bloom asked.

"It isn't finished yet," Micro sighed. "I am trying to set up a huge vault to store items. It will help prevent inventory clutter. Despite having infinite space, I'd rather not have to sort through everything. But enough about that." He turned to face Chara. "You ready?"

Chara was a bit surprised by the tone in his voice. It sounded like this was going to be something huge. More so than a simple gift. She nodded as the doors opened. Leading them to the back door of the mansion, he led them outside.

The girl known to most of the world as almost nothing more than the spirit of genocide was stunned silent. Before her was the most beautiful garden ever seen. Flowers from all over the world grow in wide arrays of colors. Some didn't even look like they were from this universe, clearly having been bought on the Chaos Auction. What caught her attention most though, was the statue in the center.

To Diamond, Silver, Apple Bloom, and Sweetie, who didn't know as much about Chara's original universe, it seemed a little random. To those who knew however, they understood the significance. In the center of a field of yellow flowers, stood a statue of Chara and three anthropomorphic goat people. Two adults, and one around Chara's age. In other parts of the garden, it looked like there were other statues of other people from the underground.

"I found a bouquet of the yellow flowers and used nature magic to grow them into the field before us. They were kept in stasis from a version of your world that...well…"

Chara held back her tears as she nodded. It was inevitable that some versions of her world were destroyed.

"Thank you Micro," she said. Before she hugged him however, he held up a hand.

"I actually have one other thing to show you. See, when whoever put the flowers in stasis did so...they didn't check all of them."

Chara was confused at first, trying to think of what he meant. What would checking the flowers result in? It's not like they would need to make sure a flower is a flow-

It clicked. She saw the look on Micro's face as he smiled. Turning, she saw one flower… separate from the rest of the group. Slowly, ever so slowly, she made her way over. When she got close, the flower turned, revealing a face between the petals. Chara's voice hitched as she fell to her knees.

"Asriel…"

"Hey Chara," The flower said.

Chara didn't bother holding the tears back now.