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Blue Shell

Summary:

When Jecka excitedly invited Nicole over to her house, Nicole was expecting something fun or important. What she wasn't expecting was to find her best friend plopped on her couch holding the controller to the brand new video game console she had just bought.

AKA, the fic where Jeckole play Mariokart together. :P

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(See the end of the work for notes.)

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“So, are you playing or not?” Jecka asked, offering Nicole a video game controller that looked like a mix of a dildo and a cellphone.

“With… that…?” Nicole said, making her disgust at the controller more than obvious.

“It’s a Wiimote.” Jecka said, her face flat. “You hold it on its side, and tilt the controller like it’s a real steering wheel to control which direction you go in.”

“A steering wheel?” Nicole asked, again confused at what exactly Jecka was even offering her.

Earlier that day, Jecka had excitedly texted Nicole to ‘Hurry the fuck up and get over here bitch!’. Nicole, assuming something actually fun was going to happen, had indeed rushed over to Jecka’s house only to discover the excitement had all been for not. Rather than discovering a pyramid of pill bottles, or an unlocked booze cabinet, Nicole instead found Jecka plopped on her couch holding the controller of a brand new video game console her parents had just bought.

“It’s Mariokart, Nicole.” Jecka said, as if this explained anything.

“It’s a fucking video game, the kinda shit Jeffery’s into.” Nicole said, eyeing the white box on the tv stand as if it had killed her mother. Actually wait, if that had been true then it would have done her a favor.

“Ew no, Jeffery’s into call of duty and xbox and shit.” Jecka said with a dismissive wave of her hand.

“Clearly you haven’t had to sit down and listen to his thoughts on the canon of the mushroom kingdom, or the zelda timeline, or any of that bullshit.”

“Nicole, just sit the fuck down and pick up the controller.” Jecka said, making it clear this was not up for discussion.

Deciding it best to avoid the mental annoyance of arguing with Jecka (and inevitably losing anyway), Nicole sat down with a huff, taking the glorified television remote and looking at the screen.

“Finally, now then, 100CC or 150CC?” Jecka asked, turning to Nicole.

Nicole turned back to Jecka, not a clue in her mind as to what the fuck Jecka was asking her.

“Uh… right.” Jecka realized. “Let's just do 100.”

Nicole let out a dry snort.

“What's so funny bitch?” Jecka asked, her eyes locked on the character select screen ahead of her.

“You, you’re a nerd!” Nicole laughed, glancing over the selection of colorful characters Nicole had no interest in learning the names of.

“I’m not a nerd, I’m just capable of enjoying good media!” Jecka said in the nerdiest way possible, even going so far as to raise a finger as she spoke. “Now pick a character bitch.”

“If you’re trying to convince me you aren't a nerd, this and Smallville are not a good combo.” Nicole said, hitting the giant ‘A’ button on her controller, selecting the first option.

“Mario?” Jecka said indignantly. “Who the fuck plays as Mario in Mariokart?”

“I mean, his name’s in the title so I’d assume most people.”

“Nobody plays as Mario in Mariokart Nicole, that’s like, the whole point of a character select screen is so that you can pick anyone but Mario."

“Whatever, let’s just play.” Nicole said, leaning back in her chair disinterestedly.

 

Ten.

Minutes.

Later.

 

“NO, DONKEY KONG YOU FUCK!!” Nicole screamed out, fully leaned forward and locked in to the game ahead. No, game was the wrong word. War would be more accurate.

After only two cups, Nicole had fully invested herself into the game, quickly viewing the facade of flashing lights and colors ahead of her as a digital scale model of war. Jecka, playing as Peach, was currently sitting comfortably in third place. Nicole, who had eventually settled on Waluigi, in second. Then finally, Donkey Kong, who had blazed past Nicole and into first place.

Quickly rounding a bend on Toad’s Factory, Nicole smashed through an item box leading to the all too taunting jingle. She just had to get a good item, something that would secure her victory, something like a-

“BLUE SHELL!!” Nicole yelled out, jumping up from her seat, fully invested.

“Calm down Nicole.” Jecka said from right behind her, both in real life and the game. “I do not need you throwing the controller against the wall… again…”

Nicole, having completely tuned anything but the game out, stared forward at the screen and pressed the button, and then, time froze. It was the final lap, the final race of the cup, Her and Donkey Kong both racing down towards the goal. The blue shell was sent out, but would it hit in time? Nicole could feel her heartrate freeze as the shell raced towards DK and then- BOOM!

“YESSS!!!” Nicole actually bellowed out, shooting a fist into the air, her victory was secured, all she had to do now was-

“Green shell!” Jecka’s casual tone chirped from behind Nicole.

“Wait what?” Nicole barked, but before she could react, the foretold green shell appeared from nowhere, crashing into Nicole and sending Waluigi flying, giving Peach just enough time to scrape by and-

“GOAL!” Jecka hollered, also getting up from her seat as the jingle played.

Gawping at the screen, and the results which listed her in the garishly silver second place, Nicole couldn’t muster a noise. Just a strained bleating that eventually erupted into a full on groan. Nicole had half a mind to send her wiimote flying again, this time on purpose, but remembered the wrist strap Jecka had forced her to wear would only result in it swinging back around and into her own face. So Nicole decided against doing that, instead walking backwards and collapsing back onto Jecka’s couch in a state of disbelief.

“What the fuck.” Nicole airily managed to get out, causing the still cheering Jecka to turn around victoriously.

“See?” She said through the widest shit-eating grin she could muster. “Not nerd shit.”

“Heh.” Nicole laughed hollowly, still staring at the screen ahead.

“One more game?” Jecka asked, waggling her wiimote as if it were a treat to entice a dog into doing tricks.

Nicole turned to look that smug bitch in the eyes when she said, “You’re on whore!”.

Notes:

First off, Yay or Nay on the colored text? Not entirely sure I'm sold on it myself but lmk.

This was initially written as part of a larger collection of short fics I was working on. Plan was to make it a big compilation of stories where the main premise was just the girls vibing and having whatever their version of 'fun' is (Very inspired by BlindOracle00's 'just like us' series). I ended up scrapping the fic however after half of the stories were written cuz tbh, it was kinda coming out like crap. I had written four of the planned seven and two of them were just kinda big nothing burgers. I still really liked this one though and didn't want it to just be lost, so I decided to drop it on its own here. But yeah, that's why this is otherwise so short.

Anyway, September has been my burnout month so I wanted to drop this just so that I could get something out this month. Promise I'm still alive and working on tons of stuff, just the perfect storm of burnout and work kicking my ass irl that has kept me busy. With Rarepair week upcoming in December though, I'm finally ready to shift back into full throttle! (Hopefully)