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Hey! Luceti!

[See: one rainbow pegasus wearing a pair of aviator goggles and standing... well, given the white fluffy stuff around her, it can only be assumed she's on a cloud somewhere. But given the trees behind her, it can't be too high above the ground.

Anyway...]

I know this place is full of fighters and all, but are there any athletes hanging around? I'm talking people who're into stuff like sports. Racing. Excitement. Not to mention competition.

See, it's fine keeping myself busy with some solo challenges, and there's no way I'm gonna stop working on my stunts, but I figure it'd be good to have some more variety. Plus, there could be some kind of super cool sport we don't even have in Equestria.

...Which means you should totally tell me if there is. Stuff like soccer, tennis, and hang gliding? I've already tried all of the above. I want something a bit more exciting than that.

[Hm, is there something she's forgoten? Oh, right.]

And if you see a purple pony with wings and a horn hanging around, that's Twilight. Try not to stare too hard if you see her; it gets old fast, and she's still adjusting.

As for me, I'm off to work on a few more tricks. Later!

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[He's only played a few sports in his time here, but they were all pretty cool and exciting to him. Granted he's never tried tennis, soccer or hang gliding, before so he doesn't have much to go off of when it comes to 'exciting sports'.]

Have you ever tried volleyball? There was a whole competition for it last year.

Ha! I've already participated in one of the volleyball tournaments here, and it's definitely one of the sports we've got back home.

Not that I'm ever against a good match.

[It keeps her on her... hooves? Some idioms don't work as well with ponies.]

So have I! And I did pretty well too. [If he does say so himself.]

Are you saying you want to play a round or something right now?

It is kinda tempting when you put it that way.

[She can never turn down a challenge. Ever.]

I'll set something up then. But I'll let you know now, I won't go easy on you if you're really looking for something exciting.

[Volleyball can get pretty intense when you go all out. Now where to do this? The battle dome seems like the best place since its not really volleyball weather.]

How does meeting at the battle dome in twenty minutes sound?

Please, I'd be worried if you did go easy on me! And believe me, I'm not letting up either.

[She snickers, rubbing her front hooves together.]

I'll be there in a flash!

[Hopefully Rainbow won't be there too soon. He needs all of those twenty minutes to get there and figure out how the heck he's going to simulate a volleyball net and a ball. Why couldn't someone have made a volleyball scenario for him to pick.

Chances are he'll still be poking through all the options and muttering to himself after those twenty minutes have passed. Sigh, technology.]

[And in comes Rainbow Dash, trotting along with a snicker and a smirk.]

Having a little trouble there?

No, it's fine. I can handle this.

[No he can't. If this was a training scenario he would have been done minutes ago. Why does volleyball have to be so hard?!

Maybe if he presses that option, and then that one, and-- Wait, that one! Yeah! Got it! Now he has... A chamber with a field in it. No volleyball. Drat.]

I'm used to choosing the options that let you fight monsters in different places.

See, the key is to just mess around until you make something that works. I do it all the time!

[Usually with really bizarre results, but hey.]

[He doesn't sound so sure about that idea, but hey, he came to play volleyball and not spend all his time poking at a console.]

Okay then, let's try this. [A quick bit of flipping through options and picking whatever and he's done.] There, that'll do!

[Whether he's actually set up a volleyball court remains a mystery until they head inside the chamber. How badly can one person mess up a simulated field anyway?]

[Who knows? Either way, Dash will follow his lead, curious and maybe a touch skeptical about what lies within...

So, how bad is it?]

[Well it's not too bad! The field looks normal, no ones flying up around (against their will) or sticking to the floor because the gravity screwed up or anything like that. In fact there's even a volleyball in there! It might look a little odd, but a ball is a ball.

There's just the slight problem of there being no net.]

It doesn't look too bad, huh? [He's pleased with himself.] I thought just choosing whatever back there would have made something much worse than this.

[There's a sort of eerie calmness coming from the situation, considering how well it's going and how well everything came together, but the feeling fails to register with him.]

[...What is that ball. No, really, what is it? Dash stares at the yellow thing, fighting back a fit of laughter.]

Maybe it doesn't look bad, but that's gotta be the weirdest ball I've ever seen!

[She'll touch on the missing net in a sec here]

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[It's not that weird! If anything it's way more more interesting than just any old volleyball.]

Come on, it's fine! It just... [Has a face on it.] Looks a little different from what you're used to.

[He picks the ball up and throws it to himself a few times to test the weight and feel of it.]

So, how's that working out for you?

[Knowing how crazy the 'dome sometimes gets, it's totally possible for a ball to end up as heavy as a brick. Hopefully that isn't the case, though.]

Just fine, like I thought it would! [Heh.] See? Here, you have a try.

[After the next toss into the air, Caius taps the ball over to Rainbow with his fist. The ball certainly seems fine weight wise, but did that face on it wink just now?]

[Oookay, the winking is kinda creepy, but she'll roll with it. Once the ball draws close enough, she'll bump it back with her head.]

Okay, at least it still feels like a ball.

Right? Don't worry about it. We need to figure out how we're actually going to play now.

[He scoops the ball back up and looks around the empty field.]

I don't know how this is going to work, unless there's something we can play with just a ball.

Well, we could draw a line across the ground and pretend it's a net. It's a whole lot easier to pass over, but at least it'd work as a marker...

[Plus, they could still try to keep the ball off the ground on their side.]

I guess so... It's not like there's really anything else around to use, so a line in the dirt will have to do. We'll just have to guess if the ball is out or not if it goes too far.

[Cue Caius scraping a line along the ground with his foot, after which he stands on one side of it and takes a few paces back.]

Hey, I just thought, are you gonna be flying for this?

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