~ Montgomery Gator X Reader ~ Closing Time ~ (Human AU)

Superstarcade ~ 2am

"Uh- uhhh"
Monty looks around, scrambling to answer Vanessa.
Before monty can say anything Vanessa quickly interrupted
"Ugh, it doesnt matter anyways. The point is theres some guest sneaking around after closing time and i dont know where they are. Ive already notified the others, so if you see anything, and i mean ANYTHING set off an alarm IMMEDIATELY" Vanessa finishes and leaves the room through the green sliding door.

"You can come out now, shes gone"
Monty speaks to you while you still hide behind the arcade machine.
You get out from behind the game machine and look over to monty.
"Yikes... shes rough" you mention, trying to break the silence
"Yeah- shes just trying to do her job though." Monty says trying to make the situation less severe.

Monty shows you around his room, he shows you the band posters held on his wall by tacs, his huge purple and green bed, the arcade game you hid behind, and the pictures he has of him and the other glamrocks near his mirror.

"You and the other glamrocks seem super close"
You bring up as monty finishes the tour of his bedroom
"Heh, we are." He replies a moment later.
Now that you have seen rockstar row you think of where to go next.
Monty golf..?
Fazerblast..?
Bonnie bowling..?
'OOH i know' a lightbulb turns on in your head.

"Hey, Monty"
You peek over to him.
"Yeah?"
He responds in interest
"We should go to the Superstarcade! What do you think?"
You get to your point.
"Why? To get your butt kicked by my gaming skills? Cuz im in"
He brags and rubs your head, teasingly messing up your hair.
"We will see who gets there butt kicked!" You respond challenging him.

You both make your way to the superstarcade. It was a long trip from montys room in rockstar row to the retro styled arcade on the third floor of the atrium. Monty held your hand and once again shielded you from the patrolling staff bots. You could see him becoming more caring for not getting caught as the night went along.

You both stand infront of the atrium prize counter, which gave access to the arcade. Monty walked you in as he was more familiar with the area of course.

Before starting your competitive race with monty to get unarguably the best prize in the prize room you lay down to rules.
"So. Rules are
Number 1: no cheating the old machines for more tickets
Number 2: no playing the same machine twice
Number 3: the goal is to win that giant  bonbon plush on the prize counter requiring 100 tickets first
And number 4: loser buys the winner a slushie from the concession stands
Ready.. set.. GO!"

You finish and both you and monty start sprinting through the arcade looking for the best arcade machines.
You see a strange arcade game reading
"Balloon Boys Adventure" "Perfect" you mutter under you breath.

You turn on the arcade game and tap a big red button in the middle of the control plate. Your objective was clear, make sure to keep balloon boy in the air and not touch the grown or any other obstacles. Easy. The bigger highscore you get, the more tickets you get. It was just like flappy bird.

In an effort to get an extra balloon power up you fall and hit one of the tree obstacles. 'No big deal" your thought. You had plenty of other ballons but it was only when you ran into a purple-ish glitch everything became strange.

The background of the seemingly 8bit innocent game turned distorded and had its colours inverted (atleast as much as you could tell.) In a moment of panic you freaked out and backed away from the game, making balloon boy fall and pop all the balloons.

The game screen went back to normal but you still had a face of concern and shock. The arcade machine spew out 20 tickets and in an effort to leave this arcade game as soon as possible you took the tickets from the ticket printer and quickly walked away.

You forget about the game and run over to a new game titled "wack-a-frog" undoubtedly it was some kind of wack-a-mole clone. That game was extremely easy so you thought thats your best bet. You slide a lever on the side of the game table and a small hatch spews out the hammer for the game. You take it and upon doing so happy frog peeps out from one of the holes. Without hesitation you wack it in the head causing an audio cue to go "ow!"

You keep wacking the miniature happy frogs and eventually the small digital clock on the table reads "50" the game ends and happy frog speaks from the speaker "good job!" The printer next to the small screen spews out 10 more tickets. "Yes!" You thought. You had thirty tickets and things where looking up.

In accordance to your own rules you leave the wack-a-frog game to find another one. Over by the dining area you see monty playing some sort of dance rythym game. There was another machine next to him."perfect competition!" You thought.

You waltz over to him and turn on the machine
"Im gonna beat you at your own game so get ready!" You look over to him before picking a song to play.
"Heh suuuure" he goes trying to reassure you he can get the plushie first.

You pick the same song he is dancing to and start throwing your legs to the arrows on the dance pad in harmony to the game. You get some OKs, mostly GREATs and occasionally PERFECTs.

The song eventually ends and some tickets spew out once again from the ticket printer.
"HUH" you say in surprise
"ONLY FIVE TICKETS!?" you put your hand on your head in frustration.
You look over to monty who had just finished. He got 20 tickets.
You jaw drops
"h-HOW" you ask him in disbelief.
"Guess im better at this game than you, loser" he pulls his eye to tease you. All in good fun of course.

You cross your arms and rolls your eyes to his childishness. Completely ignoring that you would do the same thing if the tables where turned.
You play more and more games trying to catch up to monty.
Eventually you reach 100 tickets
'YES!" you thought.
You run over to monty to see how much he has.
HE HAS 100 TOO

You both look over to eachother before you both start sprinting in a race to get the bonbon plushie first.
Monty jumps on platforms, goes through open areas behind arcade machines. Cuts through the bathroom as a shortcut and gets far ahead.
You tail after him clutching your tickets tightly in your hand.

You make it to the prize counter where,
To your surprise, monty was already putting his tickets in to win the plushie.
You run towards him. Time almost feels like its going in slowmo, like some action movie. You catch up to him as he turns around holding the plush in his hand.

"Awwhh man!" You kick the ground from frustration in reaction to losing the race.
"Awww you thought you could beat me? Thats cute" he says, boasting about his victory.
Trailing his statement you blush in embarassment and look the other way. After a few seconds monty lifts out his arm with the plush in hand.
"Take it" he says, in a demanding but sweet tone of voice.
"Wha- but you won it..?" You say denying it against your own desire for the plushie.

"I dont really like plushies, i just wasnt gonna let you win so.. here take it"
He insists and you take the bonbon plush and hold it to your chest.
"Thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!" You squeal. It was so fluffy snd cuddly.
"Dont make a huge deal out of this! Plushies just aren't my thing!"
He says, reassuring his tough guy act.
"And- and you still have to buy me a slushie." He adds.
"Of course, those are the rules after all." You give him a warm smile.

You walk with him to the concession stands to buy him his slushie.
'What a fun night' you think to yourself.