The Gift of the Mash

The Gift of the Mash is a fanfiction written by Rated PonyStar. It is a romance, slice of life, and comedy fanfiction centering around Sweetie Belle and Button Mash. The title is based of the classic Christmas short story "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry.

Style
The story is written in third-person perspective.

Summary
Hearths Warming Day is almost upon the village of Ponyville and no two ponies are more excited then Sweetie Belle and Button Mash. For the energetic gamer, it's a chance to get as many new games as he wants, but for Sweetie Belle she's excited because she'll be living a dream. After a year of saving their money, she and her sister are going to the Manehatten Hearths Warming Show where all the best actors, musicians, and performers play for one night only.

However, when disaster strikes leaving Sweetie Belle's dreams shattered, Button resolves to help his best friend.

Storyline
The story starts out at Button Mash's house where Button and Sweetie Belle beat Scootaloo and Apple Bloom at one of his many games. Scootaloo nearly breaks the controller. After Button reminds Scootaloo about how expensive the controllers were, Scootaloo accuses Sweetie Belle of being Button's coltfriend. Apple Bloom tells Scootaloo to lighten up, but Button leaves the room to get snacks. Even though she knows her friends were joking, she wishes that they stop thinking that every colt she befriends will become her date. However Button mentions that she is different from the other fillies, she is cool.

In a flashback sequence at lunch at school, the CMC are thinking up of ideas to get their cutie marks and having Button actually join their crusade to find their cutie marks when they notice Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon entering class. Worried that they are going to be bullied again by them because they are blank flanks, but the bullies turn their attention to Button. To their surprise he isn't effect by their name-calling, but he is upset that he lost the game because they were distracting him. After school she heads to the Sugarcube Corner, where she spots Button playing his video games. She soon learns that Button isn't really interesting in finding his cutie mark, all he wants is to enjoy his foal-hood and that he shouldn't be controlled by what his future cutie mark tells him.

Sweetie then starts going over to Button's house to play games, one of them is sealed in glass dome. The game is the Ultimate 11, aka Super Sidebucks 5. There are only 10 copies in all of Equestria and it counts for 1,000 bits. It is so valuable that Button would never give it away. Once the CMC head home, he mom starts to tease him about his friendship with Sweetie Belle.

At the Carousel Boutique, Rarity is decorating the Hearths Warming tree with presents and tickets to see the Hearths Warming Eve Show in Manehatten. Sweetie Belle tells her about Button and how cool he was for standing up to Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. Like the other, Rarity begins to tease Sweetie Belle about Button being her coltfriend. Later that night, she has a dream about to kiss Button in the woods when he disappears and the woods starts to catch on fire. She is awoken by a frightened Rarity that the Boutique is on fire. Rarity then tells Sweetie that she'll levitate her out of the house but Sweetie won't leave her,