After the Fanfic Reading (SmoshGames fanfic)

Competition

All through filming gamebang, Ian and Lasercorn struggled to keep their hands off each other. Now that they were out in the open, at least with the rest of the crew, it was a lot harder for them to reel it in. Every so often they would share a look or a touch, make a flirtatious joke about Iancorn, or just generally flirt with each other. After Lasercorn's accusation that Weshire was inferior to Iancorn, Joven was finding himself incredibly annoyed that Wes was behind the camera for this one, and they couldn't 'fight back' and prove that Weshire was at least as good as, if not better than Iancorn. He cast longing looks over at his lover, hiding out of the camera's view. Wes looked back at him, noting the longing in his eyes, and smiled sympathetically, clearly feeling the same way.

As soon as they'd reached the end of the episode, Wes darted forward to embrace Joven, gently brushing their lips together. In an attempt to one-up them, Lasercorn grabbed Ian and pulled him down for a heated kiss, slamming their lips together roughly. Their hearts raced, and they were both a little short of breath when they separated. Lasercorn turned back to Wes and Joven, pulling Ian's arms round him. He looked at them, daring them to try and beat that. Wes smiled, holding Joven's hand, and lent across to whisper to him. His lips brushed against Joven's ear, and he caught it between his teeth, giving it a gentle nip. Joven blushed, shocked and embarrassed by the dirty things his boyfriend had murmured and he snuggled closer, pulling Wes's arms around his waist.

Everyone's attention was focused on the two silently warring couples, despite the PDA's making them all feel rather uncomfortable. They looked to Iancorn for their next move. Lasercorn hesitated for a split second, before Ian spun him round and pulled him in for an incredibly passionate kiss, sliding his hands down to cup Lasercorn's butt. Lasercorn reached one hand up behind Ian's head, running his fingers through that ridiculous bowl cut, and the other hand he placed on Ian's hip, his thumb slipping inside Ian's shirt and stroking him. Wes raised an eyebrow at the two, and said, "Are you guys forgetting that we have an audience?"

Ian reluctantly pulled back from his heated make-out with Lasercorn, and looked up at Wes. "What's the matter? You guys giving up already? Just goes to show, Iancorn is better than Weshire."

"We've only been together two weeks, I think we can be excused for not wanting to make out in front of our friends."

"Besides, if we tried that, we wouldn't be able to hold back. We'd be fucking on the floor in no time." Wes's comments caused Joven to blush hard, and he shrank back into the comfort of his boyfriend's embrace. Wes smiled down at him, and placed a gentle kiss on the top of his head. Then he glanced back at Ian and Lasercorn. "You guys seem to be escalating things pretty fast, you don't feel threatened do you? Why are you trying so hard to prove you're better?" Joven giggled, still snuggling up to Wes.

Lasercorn feigned outrage at that. "How dare you! Why would we feel threatened? Weshire will never last! We'll beat you with our love!"

"Iancorn conquers all! We've already proven time and time again that Iancorn rules, every time we team up to defeat you in gamebang!" Ian continued the defence, hugging Lasercorn tight against his chest.

"You beat the others, maybe, but me and Joven have never competed against you as a team. How do you know we wouldn't be able to take you?" Wes raised his head proudly, showing his confidence in their ability to defeat Iancorn.

"Because it's Joven. Are you forgetting how much he sucks?"

"Maybe we could have a competition, set the two teams against each other, and see who comes out on top. Settle this like adults," Sohinki suggested, butting into the argument before things got too heated.

"Hey we could turn it into a new series on the channel - 'ship wars'. Each week we could pit two teams against each other in some video game challenge to determine who is the better ship, we could get people to comment with ships they wanna see fight it out, suggest challenges... It could be really popular." Anthony looked around, practically bouncing with excitement at his idea. There were mixed reactions from the others.

"Well wouldn't that get a little repetitive after a while? There are only so many ships we can pit against each other... and a limited number of challenges..." Mari seemed a little unsure.

"I don't know, we're pretty imaginative, we could probably keep coming up with challenges for a while... but maybe we should have three or four ships competing at once, just so we don't end up repeating the challenges..." Sohinki was a little more optimistic.

"Yeah and that way we could get a better idea of who's better overall, 'cause, well just one or two games aren't gonna give a fair result." Wes was relatively enthusiastic.

"Yeah, Weshire might win one on a fluke..." Lasercorn smirked, and Joven responded by pulling a face at him.

"But it is a good idea! It just needs a little improvement..." Ian had spotted the look of dejection on Anthony's face.

"Couldn't this turn out a little too much like gamebang? With most of us competing against each other..." Joven didn't seem very keen on the idea.

"Not if we don't put a punishment in for the losers, maybe we could have like, an ongoing leader-board that carries across from week to week, so we could keep track of who's best, and like there could be awards - we could have awards ceremonies - like every month, like we have four weeks of the same set of teams competing, then we do awards for them - oh my god, we have to do this guys." Flitz was now as excited as Anthony had been. Anthony grinned, happy that his idea was now getting somewhere.

"So who shall we start off with? I mean, obviously we need Iancorn and Weshire, they're kinda the reason we're doing this, but how do you guys wanna split?" Ian looked at Mari, Anthony, Flitz and Sohinki.

"Well, Marhinki is pretty popular, so they probably oughta start the competition together..." Flitz began.

"Do we have to have all of us competing? I don't think very many people ship us, and it might get a bit crowded..."

"If we have all of us, that'll make it more distinct from gamebang. We won't be able to have pre-existing ships every month, but maybe we can make some. But I think we need to discuss what sort of awards we're gonna have." Ian gave Anthony a serious look that told him 'don't be such a pussy'.

"Chocolate?" Joven suggested.

"I was thinking medals, but yeah, chocolate sounds good too."

"How about both? Have gold, silver and bronze medals, and the higher up the podium you are, the more chocolate you get." The nods and murmurs of assent showed Mari's suggestion to be pretty popular.

"Maybe we could have something like, the losers have to stay together for another month. Or should the winners stay together?" suggested Sohinki.

"I think the outright winners earn the right to stay together if they want to - and if they don't want to then maybe they can like, choose a pairing for the next month or something..." Ian trailed off, frowning, suddenly unsure of himself.

"So if me and Wes won, we could choose to stay together for the next month, or make you and Anthony pair up, for example?"

"I don't know, I don't think that really works as equal rewards... Maybe we could get first choice of who we want to pair up with next month? And then the second place people choose, if they haven't already been picked, and then third get to pick? That works, right?" There was a general sense of agreement following Wes's suggestion.

"Alright, so now we just need to sort out what games we're gonna play." Lasercorn paused for a moment to think then said, "But can we do that over lunch, I'm staaarving," and draped his arms over Ian's neck dramatically. Ian rolled his eyes, and they all headed off for lunch.

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A/N So what do you think of my idea for a new video series? D'you reckon I should suggest it to them? ;-)