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Unlike Pilot Evari didn't have to beg to come here, in fact she had come here with Xai! They were escaping the house while Nutter napped in the middle of a bowl of cookies; Xai wanted to take the opportunity to be away from him, Evari was just along for the ride. But hey the arcade was fun! They had a dancing game that the pair was currently playing together! Unfortunately for Evari it seemed Xai was doing a lot better at it than her, the glowing girl just couldn't seem to step on the arrows at the right times. She kept wanting to do her own dance instead of going along with what the arrows wanted her to do. "Why can't I get an AA+ like Xai?" She grumbled irritably to herself when their scores came up at the end of the game. That wasn't fair! Xai got an AA+ and she got a C+! Hmph. Stupid cheating game. Xai chuckled and pat Evari's head.

"I just have more practice, Evari. You'll get it! Want to play again?" She asked with a smile, watching as Evari nodded and reached over to put in another coin until they both heard a machine nearby going crazy. The arcade was filled with a ton of noises to begin with but nothing quite like that! Evari gasped and just stared at all the tickets that were coming out of that game, abandoning Xai to run over with a small group of kids and watch the boy and the machine.

"Whoa! How did you do that?!" Evari had played this game a ton of times and she never even got anywhere near the top prize! Luckyyyyy!

The boy's answer displeased Evari, puffing out her cheeks and pouting. She didn't like secrets. "I want lotsa tickets too!" Evari whined and stared at his armload of tickets that still seemed to be coming out. Luckyyyyy! There had to be some kind of trick to all that! There were so many things at the prize booth that she wanted that required lots of tickets! There was but one solution...

"I'm Evari. And yer playin' with me today." She stated authoritatively, her hands on her hips and her stance one that said she wasn't taking 'no' for an answer. This boy was going to play with her today and get her lots of tickets and there was no way she was letting him not do it.

Pilot was a weird name for a kid but whatever. Evari was weird too. She couldn't judge. When asked what they were playing next she paused to look around at all the games that gave tickets or prizes of some kind, spotting a nearby crane game that had a bunch of things in it. One of them on the top near the very back was a pair of goggles that lit up around the rims and flashed many different colors, the lenses themselves were colored black with rainbow X's across them. Oooh! "That! I want those goggles!"

Evari then grabbed Pilot's arm and dragged him along with her to the crane machine, putting her hands against the glass and pressing her face to it. Goggles! They were so awesome! "They're so cool! Ar'n't they?" She grinned, pushing off the machine to turn to Pilot. "'Kaykaykay! Show me how ya did it!"

Evari either didn't notice or just didn't care about the uncertainty in Pilot's voice when he agreed the goggles she wanted were cool. She probably didn't care. If Evari thought they were cool then they were cool and everyone else was just stupid if they believed otherwise. She stood beside Pilot and just watched him touch the machine, crossing her arms and tapping her foot impatiently. One second...two seconds...three...

Well? Was he going to tell her or not?!

She blinked, looking at the machine when he started talking. What? Unique to Pilot? Rip off! That was such crap she wanted to know, darnit! That wasn't fair! It took everything Evari had not to start throwing a fit and loudly claiming injustices, instead sighing and turning to the machine. The pressed the button to turn it on while casting an uncertain glance at Pilot, standing on her tiptoes to look over the mountain of toys at her goggles. She turned the joystick this way and that, trying to guide the claw to her prize. Come ooooon she just had to have those goggles! If Pilot was lying to her he was in sooooo much trouble!

Annnnnd...got it! Evari grinned and giggled with excitement, bouncing from foot to foot as she started to guide the claw back to the drop so she could have her goggles. Yay! She didn't know what Pilot did but he got it to work! "Awesome!" She squealed as she pressed the release button over the shoot, letting go of the joystick to reach in and take her new goggles. These looked so cool! She put them on and left them around her neck for now, she could wear them on her eyes or her head later! But that took too much work. The point was that the goggles had been acquired and now she had to decide if she still required Pilot's services. Was the boy still useful to her? Hmm...well...maybe. Yeah, sure. He could stay with her still.

"You pick the next game!" Evari grinned, looking around. What could they play next? There were so many options! Oh, but maybe he wanted to have his tickets counted so he didn't have to carry them around. Oops. She blinked and changed her search to one of those ticket counter things that ate up your tickets and then spit out a piece of paper that told you how many you'd just fed it, pointing at the machine when she found it. "Lessgo there first. You've gottalotta tickets." Boy did he ever! Lucky!

"Of course they do!" Evari stated proudly. If they didn't suit her then why would she get them? Silly, Pilot! Stating the obvious like that. Her gaze followed his own wandering one all around the arcade, looking pretty interested in a few of them. Ski ball? Throwing balls? That looked fun! The Dunking didn't look too interesting...the heck was that stacking game? That looked lame. But she followed him to the ticket counting machine and watched him feed it his tickets with a sound of awe. Whoooooa, awesome! Her eyes widened at the number on the paper and she snatched the paper away from Pilot to just stare at it; Evari wasn't stealing it, she was just in utter disbelief. Whoa! No way! He got that many tickets just from one game?! Luckyyyyyy! Now she wanted more tickets!

...More tickets could wait! He had just said the three magic words: How about DDR. Evari lifted her head to look at the now clear DDR platform, holding her hand out for Pilot to take his ticket back. "Best idea ever~!" She approved! Grabbing his arm, Evari quickly dragged Pilot to the DDR game and pushed past a couple kids who looked like they were going to beat her there if she didn't do that. This game was theirs! They saw it first! Evari stepped up onto the player 1 side of the platform, letting go of Pilot as she did so he could sit on the player 2 side. "Have ya ever played before?" It would be fun regardless of if Pilot was new at this or not, it just would help her decide what level to play on.

Ooh so he had played...alright then! They'd do...normal difficulty. Evari stepped on a few arrows to get the level they wanted, and to select the two player mode. She then took it upon herself to pick their song, grinning at Pilot and giving him a thumb's up. "Good luck~!" She was still fairly new at this game, so it wasn't like anyone had an advantage over the other! Though if Pilot cheated then maybe he would.

That thought did in fact cross her mind! Before the song started Evari eyed him suspiciously. "...You can't cheat." She told him very seriously, like this was a matter of life or death. No cheating! This game they were going to play had three rounds, each one graded by a letter grading system. The one with the higher rank was the winner of the round. The song started and Evari grinned, quick to follow along with the arrows as best as she could.

((Evens = Evari, Odds = Pilot))