Vinyl Scratch marched up the walkaway to the Ponyville cottage she and Octavia called home. It was Thursday night and that meant Game Night! An evening of knock down, drag out, Battle Royale, video game mayhem with her partner. Much was on the line these nights. Legends would be made. Reputations would crumble. Only one would be victorious!
 
And the loser would be stuck doing dishes next week.
 
To the average pony on the street Octavia projected the air of being a refined, cultured, affluent mare, but Vinyl knew that it was just a clever disguise. Beneath that silken veneer and delicate mask was a ruthless opponent who showed no mercy to her foes. Was utterly relentless in her attacks, and crafty in her tactics. Octavia was not one to be trifled with. But Vinyl had a plan.
 
For tonight’s battle the unicorn spent the week reading articles on gaming sites to give herself an edge this night. She’d study her strategies and modified them for the evening’s conflict. She’d even ordered her good luck double cheese, mushroom, and olive pizza for from them to have dinner this evening.
 
With a dramatic flourish Vinyl used her levitation to throw the front door as she proudly marched in bearing the pizza.
 
“Greetings my worthy opponent!” Bellowed the unicorn. “I come bearing our feast! Let us dine and then we shall descend into…..”
 
Vinyl’s monologue faltered as her gaze fell upon the living room. As was typical Octavia was doing some warmup solo matches on the console. As was normal the earth pony was sitting on the living room floor with her back up against sofa.
 
What wasn’t normal was the fact she was stark naked.
 
Octavia paused the game. “Oh! Hello darling. Ah! You brought pizza! Marvelous! I took the liberty of chilling a few bottles of lager earlier today. Why don’t you grab them and some plates and bring them out to the living room. We can eat during our first match.”
 
Vinyl stared over her signature sunglasses at her gloriously nude lover who had the cord of her game controller artistically wrapped around herself. “Uh Octy. Wednesday is usually laundry day. Where are your clothes?”
 
The earth pony nonchalantly looked down at her ample cleavage then back up at her lover. “Well it has been rather toasty this afternoon in the cottage. So it seemed like a very practical way of addressing the problem.”
 
Then she grinned impishly at the unicorn. “Besides you said you wanted to play a stripped down version of the game. You know, with no mods and stuff like that. So I figured I’d go with tonight’s theme. You’re not bothered by this are you?”
 
The unicorn shook her head slowly. “No. No I’m cool with this. Let me get us some plates and stuff.” With that she wandered into the kitchen.
 
She was so going to be doing dishes next week.
 
This is Patreon patron reward for and this is the story that popped into my head as I was drawing it.