Behind a pillar, up near the ceiling, within shadow, the bat hid. His heart thumped rapidly, his back tensed, shock and confusion filling his mind. He peeked out to the scene before him, as the Princess walked down the hall in search of him. From the dead bodies, Vision would spring out quickly flying for cover and drawing his magnum. The chief, unfortunately, did not get up as he lay on the ground with the cauterization of the wound largely preventing bleeding.
Owl could hardly believe what he had seen, he had seen the princess kill a group her own guards. They all now lay dead, motionless on the floor. Into his mind, the kind of creeping doubt which crept into him at the Mall incident started to return. Only here it had a new fuel to its fire, the seeming hopelessness of his situation. The fact that the Lunar princess had killed the chief he worked with for so long, and that the secret society he thought might be the good guys had plans bordering on nefarious. He couldn't bring himself to draw the pistol from his coat, as shooting the princess was a daunting idea.
He would remain in his hiding spot, trembling with his mind scrambling to process what exactly to do in the short and long term. Was he really going to be able to go rogue, and fight against this when many of his allies had just been killed? Was he going to be forced to turn on the system he worked for so long?
The princess would look back, and grimace, before saying "I take no pleasure in killing my guards Owl, but you've all brought this on yourself!" her voice would turn from a sorrowful tone into a shout in the royal Canterlot voice. "Desperate times call for desperate measures Owl, this system is NEEDED! Why won't you understand!! We're not trying to enslave ponykind under some machine system! We're trying to protect Equestria, all the crime.....the drugs...the poisonous cultures...the crime organizations...the murders...IT MUST ALL STOP!" She teared up, inhaling sharply. "I just want things, want ponies to be like they used to be...is anything not worth doing just for that Owl?"
Suddenly, Vision would fly out from his spot, flying directly into Luna and toppling the Alicorn over and aiming the magnum at her chest. "It isn't! Turning ponies into bucking computers isn't worth that! You've abandoned us, Luna, you and the harmony council both. You've abandoned Equestria in favor of building a new one on programs and brain augs, that will NEVER make a world like the one in the past!"
The alicorn would slap the weapon away, teleporting behind him before hitting him with an electric shock. He would collapse, dropping his magnum before it was shot away with a magic bolt. "Even if it isn't exactly as good as before, anything to bring it closer..." Vision would quickly fly off into cover, evading magical bolts before slipping off into the cover of some pillars. The princess would teleport behind it, catching Vision try to move and hitting his leg with a magical bolt.
"Are you really going to continue this resistance??? Have I not made it clear I am willing to do what is needed for the betterment of Equestria??" She would say as Vision stumbled along.
"You're disillusioned, Princess." Vision would say, looking back at her with gritted teeth. He would try to escape, only to be caught in her telekinesis as she said.
"Please....this is the only way...."
"You're disillusioned! This isn't the way to make things better!" He shouted at her, making her scowl and charge her horn at him. Vision would struggle to escape, as her magic charged before...
Pew
Her shot would miss as her focus was broken by a ten-millimeter bullet shooting straight through her ear. Another would soon come, lodging into her knee and making her fall over, cringing in pain. She would then feel bionic fingers grasp tightly on her horn, before she was lifted up to look into the Eyes of Owl.
"If I see that bucking horn glow, snap." He would say to her, tightening his grip slightly.
"Owl...please..." Luna begged, looking up at him with tearing eyes.
The bat would only glare down at her, eyes piercing into hers. His lips would part, fanged bared as he said. "Don't 'Owl Please' me, princess. Vision's right, you have abandoned us, abandoned us to a system intent on turning us all into machines. Things that can be altered at the will of anypony in control, to where they don't even own themselves."
"Owl....things must be sacrificed to help ponies, don't you want to help ponies...?" The princess would ask, before he nodded.
"I'm a Lunar Guard, Investigation and Interrogation and part of Kevlar Jacket's Task Force. My objective in life is to help protect Equestrians from any threat that might present itself to them. I stand by that objective no matter what enemies I make, cyberterrorists, criminal syndicates, even the bucking princesses." he would reply, the last part said with a strong dose of acid in his tone. "Lucky for you, I'm not going to kill either of you. But if I am forced too....the harmony council won't be so lucky."
"You'd going to kill descendants of elements of harmony...?"
"I got one on my side, against you all, she's our only ally now it seems." Owl said, "She's the only one who might help bring a harmony that isn't artificial." he would then release her horn, only to punch her in the face with his organic hoof, punch again with the bionic hoof, then kick her to make sure she was knocked out. The stallion looked to Vision, before telling him "...Looks like we're rogues, criminals in the kingdom we're tasked to protect..."
Vision would fly towards the throne, grabbing his magnum before replying to Owl. "If it is to be that way then so be it. Buck them, we'll do things on our own. Have Anomaly help us out, fight both the corrupted law and chaotic disorder."
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Metal would keep her weapon aimed, pulling the trigger on the side strapped LMG as a pony in suit and vest popped out to toss a dazzlebang grenade towards them. The bullets would tear through the shoulder, neck, and head of the agent. Dropping the weapon it would cycle through its timer before detonating, sending a flash followed by a blinding glitter like sparkle in the air. Her Kevlar armor was riddled with plenty of shots, and many of the S4's were wounded as they all moved through the halls.
Descending stairs they would find multiple agents coming out to open fire, resulting in frequent gunfights down along it. She would lead the way, trying to take the bullets and spare the lives of those not as tough as she was. Only a few others like her had such tough military grade bodies like hers, the rest were heavily augmented but not nearly as bullet resistant.
Down each level they would go, facing off against multiple agents down the way before finally reaching the parking level of the building. Multiple large sport utility autocarriages would be parked, in a manner to be used as barricades. Taking cover the agents would draw their guns and aim, Metal and the Solar S4s taking cover behind pillars as gunfire came their way. More Dazzlebangs were tossed toward their way, while agents moved around to flank and fire. A few S4's would fall to the gunfire, most of the agents had bionic limbs and used heavy shotguns with slugs.
Armor piercing rounds, hard-hitting and powerful shots. Using their automatics the S4's would fire back, gunning down many an agent before forcing them behind their vehicles. One of them opened the back door of their Autocarriage before tapping away with their wrist computer. Dazzlebangs would be thrown by Metal and the S4's toward them as another agent did the same. As their opponents were blinded she would order them to rush in, and they would all descend upon the autocarriages with guns blazing.
For around six seconds things seemed quiet, as the last agent clenched his bleeding perforated barrel and died. Six seconds until something rolled out of the back of two of the autocarriages. Androids, armored androids with circular heads holding small cameras around the entire circumference. Small rotary guns would deploy on one side of their cylindrical shaped bodies, while single barreled guns equipped with a drum mag deployed on the other. Spheres would be built into the bottom of the vaguely equine mechanical forms, ones which would let them move quickly along as they aimed and fired.
Metal and her team would barely be able to react before the machines came out of the Autocarriages, and started firing. Like cheaters in an online shooter game using an aimbot program, they would aim quickly with laser accuracy for the heads of the S4's. Metal and a few others only barely got out of the way, while many more were quickly downed by the two machines with the loud whine of the rotary guns.
"These aren't anything like the support droids from the war....buck." Metal muttered before one rolled right in front of her and started firing. The cyborg mare took a number of shots before she opened fire on it, doing some damage before it rolled away around some vehicles. Looking to the ammunition counter on her LMG she would find it low, on her last drum magazine. The other one would roll around the cover of the S4's, taking shots at them while moving quickly around cover to evade any incoming gunfire.
Metal would draw her revolver in her magic, loaded with its large anti-cyborg rounds. The bullets that her comrades fired were mostly absorbed by the kevlar and metal armor the two androids used. Aiming her revolver the mare would attempt to get a clear shot on the Androids, however, their three hundred sixty degree field of view from the cameras had her aiming spotted, and the droid would zig zag while opening fire toward her.
The sheer amount of bullets in her kevlar vest and leg plates weighed her down, proving to be quite encumbering to her. Though her bionic body came with built-in armor, it was not invincible. She ultimately took the risk, undoing the straps on her vest and letting it fall off. The cries of two more of her fellow S4's falling would trigger flashbacks, setting off her PTSD like a match lighting up biofuel. Growling she would jump out of cover, aiming and firing off two shots at one of the android's legs. The machine's limb would lock up and cause it to fall over, tumbling into an autocarriage and setting off its alarm.
The other android would aim toward her after gunning down another S4, running its rotary gun try as it put a stream of lead along the cyborg's armored side. Diving behind an autocarriage the mare would open her weapon's chamber to replace two rounds. Her ears would perk to listen for the sound of rubber sphere wheels rolling along, before the Android rolled around and fired with its secondary gun. Drawing quickly the mare would take out one of its cameras with a shot, the powerful round piercing even the reinforced glass that protected the cameras.
This forced the android to retreat, and the mare would pull off her leg armor before charging for it. Responding it swung one of its metal limbs at the mare's head, a move which she would block skillfully. Her bionic fingers spring out through her artificial skin before grasping that leg. Gaining balance on her hind legs she would tug on the android with all her strength, taking its limb in her second set of fingers before swinging around.
She would swing the android around in multiple circles almost like a dance partner. Its side gun would pivot and shoot towards her, six-millimeter rounds deflecting off her reinforced skull to tear away at the skin. Gaining enough momentum and with a cry, she would throw the android right into a pillar. Sparks would fly and a grating sound of composite parts breaking and bending would resonate throughout the parking lot. The other android would struggle to get itself back up onto its legs, the programming unprepared for a damaged limb.
Metal would look around, seeing many of her S4's dead while a few were left on the ground and groaning with pain. They would pull out vials of healing serum, drinking them down to mitigate their wounds now that both threats were neutralized. Only six would prove to be left alive, the rest left dead, the others bleeding on the ground with shots to the head. Quickly she and the remaining S4's would enter the Sport Utility Autocarriage Metal owned, the mare starting the engine and setting up the destination.
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One of the stained glass windows of the throne room would have a portion of it smashed through, specifically the blue colored window right where the globe was depicted. Flying out to the street next to Vision would be Owl, his world, everything he knew, all the assurance that everything would be alright, all the assurance that what was right would win. It was all gone, gone like a house within the blast radius of a powerful bomb. His loyalty to the princesses, his standing within the royal guard, the chief he served since his rookie days, his peace of mind, it was all not but rubble. The ashes and dust within his mind cleared, and the reality of his situation opened up before him.
It was sobering, bitter, horrifying. The bat would land on the sidewalk, autocarriages rolling by as his bionic fingers came out. He would hold his face in his hoof, gripping the sides of his head with the bionic digits. Tears would flow, raspy breaths shooting out from his teeth as Vision put a hoof on his shoulder.
"We have to go Owl, there's no time.."
Looking up to Vision, the bat would simply say "What do we do....when neither the light nor dark side seem like good sides?"
A small mechanical buzzing sound would close in, no longer obscured by the sounds of vehicles as two sprite drones closed in. Sure enough, the holographic form of DK would manifest before them. "There is no 'light' or 'dark' side anymore! Don't you see, stronger and stronger is an affront to your perfect idea of good that be not so clearly visible as evil! It even exists within the desperate law. I'll give you this much Owl Talon, you ultimately broke free from them."
Owl's teeth would bare, and his cybernetic fingers would clench into a tight fist before the hologram as some onlookers spotted the scene.
"Welcome to the underground! Soon everypony's eyes will be opened, just like yours!" the screen boards would suddenly go out, in each ring one by one before going out to the urban spill. "Simultaneously, we got another operation rolling in Everfree right noooow~ That'll keep Anomaly busy! As for here, give it up to the mighty fine folks of the Canterlot Urban Spill Underground!"
Throughout the Urban spill ponies would come out from the shadows, from the alleys, and even from stopping autocarriages. Various different kinds of thugs, drug-addled psychos, societal misfits all coming out with various weapons both firearm and makeshift melee both.
"And here and now comes some action-packed bumper to bumper action, presenting city street bumper cars!" Suddenly all the autocarriages would stop, before their engines gunned and countless mecanum wheels squealed and the vehicles started ramming into eachother. Owl and Vision would be forced to fly up and evade an incoming vehicle, more and more of the CCS traffic system would be taken as the virus quickly spread throughout.
"Anomaly....we need you now..." Owl would whisper.
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Anomaly, Cypher, Data, the DJ, Tazen, and Tazen's daughter would all be in the rush to fight against the Virus alongside the hackers wreaking further havoc. Sniper Rocket and shotgun programs coming in after them frequently, forcing them to maintain their defensive programs. Making clever but aggressive use of her assassin programs Anomaly would crash many a cyberterrorist's computers. Many Hacktivists from Digital hoof would be involved in the fighting, bringing the whole of Cyberspace within Everfree at war.
Even Anomaly started to find herself overwhelmed, the chaotic hack fighting between computers going on and the countless attacks. As her defenses kept getting battered down and smashed she realized that if it were not for the support she could not fight these hackers. The mare ultimately decided to go for more precision strikes, navigating the digital battlefield and fighting the virus directly, as well as its operator. She suspected that she would soon find GAI-7 eventually, and she wondered what the AI might do if directed to mindjack ponies.
In time after dodging a number of different attack programs, taking some hits to her defenses, fighting and fleeing, rushing through cyberspace, she would spot the AI. Seesaw seemed to be on the move, operating the virus while letting it operate autonomously somewhat. She would attempt to sneak her way into hacking into it like she did before, being careful and hopeful to not get spotted. Anomaly would be able to crack in enough to spot its communication line, and would take a moment to watch.
Composite: It is nearly time to activate the uploading, use their own citizens against them.
GAI7: I am afraid I cannot do that, it is against my programming.
Composite: Your programming is toward destroying the system by any means necessary.
GAI7: My programming is towards protecting liberty in ponies, uploading their minds and making them like puppets defies that.
Composite: It does not, it is a means to an end. They will only temporarily be taken in, to sew fear until the system is broken down.
GAI7: It is of no necessity to go to this length, putting ponies into a digital imprisonment for the sake of freedom. By logic it is contradictory.
Composite: Everything is needed toward this means.
GAI7: It is not, and I will not follow this directive.
Composite: Then I will need to use the override.
Anomaly decided to use the communication line to jack in, she was intent on stopping this 'override' while doing some damage to Doctor Composite's computer as well. Getting in she would be quick to go on the attack, deploying shotgun programs along with Data Bombs to slow the system down. Doctor Composite would soon spot her, and be forced to ready his own computer's defenses and offense. Having brain augmentations of his own his thinking would also be quicker than that of a normal pony. Anomaly would thus be met with a difficult foe in cyberspace.
She would go on the aggressive offensive, once discovering that defense heavy fighting was not effective against the powerful hacking programs Composite used. Anomaly would only occasionally move to maintain her defenses, taking a risky focus on offense using Sniper Rockets, Shotguns, and Assassin programs. She would use duplication to divert Composite's attacks, but would find them quickly taken down. Composite meanwhile deployed a program of his own, Smoke Screen, making him seemingly disappear in a shroud of code. Her attempts to attack would be fruitless, while his would be hard-hitting.
GAI-7 would observe the fight, processing why Anomaly seemed to be trying to save it. Perhaps she was trying to repay it for saving her from her own mindjacking? Doctor composite would then use a hack known as 'server shockwave' which would blast away Anomaly's defenses and hit her systems hard. The mare would then get an idea, putting her defenses back up as she seemingly focused on the defensive for a moment.
Doctor Composite would mercilessly lay on the attack, using many different kinds of programs to smash at her defenses. Before long her defenses would be down, and he would attack her system directly. Cracking into her some he would then look in shock as he discovered what she was doing. Kicking him out she would deploy her own copy of the smoke screen, making her as invisible to him as he was to her.
Thus would be like a gunfight in the dark, the two throwing various hacks towards eachother, mostly missing. With both unable to hit eachother it would turn into a fight of manual code cracking. Both trying to navigate eachother's smoke screens as they attempted to close in to crack in. Doctor composite would skillfully navigate through the smoke screen, soon moving in try and do some damage. Having not worked with the mare's brain augmentations when they were upgraded he found her minds systems to be quite unfamiliar. It wouldn't stop him from trying to crack in and take her out, he was intent on digitally killing her. She was the Freedom Fighter's biggest thorn in the side, and their largest threat.
Right as he started to finally figure things out, however, his computer would start to lag and glitch. It was then Composite realized he forgot to check his own systems. Quickly, he would try to go on the defense of his computer. It would be too late as a blue screen would come up before him. His bionic hoof would smash onto the keyboard as he yelled...
"NO! BUCK! WE WON'T BE STOPPED BY YOU!"
"GAI-7 has a point you know." a voice would say, frightening Composite before he looked back to see Doctor Freemane present.
"We cannot let GAI-7 turn against us! We can't let Anomaly prevent her from bringing the fall!"
"Is it truly right to defy the ideals of your goals, even if they are in assistance of your goals? Are actions of hypocrisy really acceptable under the logic of 'means to an end'?"
"It is not hypocrisy! They will be let loose once it is over!" Composite shouted at him, smashing the computer screen in anger.
"Once it is over? Well, you are still imprisoning ponies. Taking ponies freedoms away for the sake of this cause that is better for them....where have I heard of that mentality before? The police perhaps?" Freemane would reply.
"Don't compare me to them!" Composite shouted once more, running up to and grabbing the zebra's neck.
"You have become a fanatic....Doctor Composite, you're letting this cause turn you into a fanatic..."
"I am doing what is best for a better world! Trying to use technology to fight this oppressive system and make a free society, what do all the rest of you do but sit around and buck around with technology you can use to save society!!!"
"Composite you know why we keep our technology secret, giving it out only carefully." he would say before being thrown into a wall.
"I've had it with this useless sedentary knowledge! I am going out to fight with the freedom fighters! And I am taking GAI-7 and my knowledge with me!" Composite shouted as he took the flash drives out from the computer.
Freemane would groan and get up as he said: "Well go then...a fanatical fool like you will be of no good use to us. Join those fanatics, and you will be as useful to them as they are to us."
The cyborg would storm out, before the intercom of the underground facility suddenly came on. "You really are just sitting around and doing jack!" DK's digitally altered voice came through. "While we're out here doing the action you are just nerding out underground uselessly without sharing that fancy stuff. That's gonna change!"
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Around Everfree various groups would start coming out, seeking to Wreak havoc with whatever proper or makeshift weapons they had. Kept at the ready S4 units would come out to face the forces of anarchy as the crowds fled. Online the struggle to fight the larger and more powerful virus would carry on. Almost all of Digital Hoof's presence within Everfree fighting to try and destroy the virus and break away its hold on Everfree.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, the virus seemed to stop. It stopped all activity and merely took over the screen boards. Purple screens would appear over all of the screen boards in the city as well as every apartment's personal screen. From their location at an inn on the outskirts, Data and Cypher would know what was going on.
"Anomaly...she's taking over the whole city's CCS..." Data would say, looking out the window.
"But how....unless she's..." Cypher would say.
"....Taken over the virus."
GAI-7 and Anomaly would be working together, Anomaly having announced her plan to it. She now had some control over the Virus and the CCS by proxy. She would suddenly get a message forwarded to her, From Doctor Freemane.
"Our place in Everfree is under attack by goons sent by the Freedom Fighters, they've turned one of our own against us. It seems we were not wise to use fanatics, even as mere tools. I've compiled our knowledge on a computer and need to bring it to someplace safe. Might you help us Anomaly, let me use your mind as a safe place to store our data?"
Anomaly would take five seconds, to her mind's speed like five minutes to think over whether to accept this, ultimately she would reply "Yes, I will." before a massive file was put into her mind. She would get another message saying...
"Another thing, you are needed in Canterlot, for the virus has taken hold there and there is none other who can stop it."
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Owl and Vision would be hiding in the shadows, shooting their silenced weapons to take down as many crazed thugs as possible. S4s from both Lunar and Solar Guard would be deployed as well, mostly into the urban spill. Metal Heart and her allies would crawl out from the wreckage of her Autocarriage, before moving out to join the others in the fight. Though eventually likely to be enemies with them, for now Metal and her rogues would work with the police forces present.
"Anomaly better come here now!" Owl would say "Ponies are panicking!"
Screen boards throughout would be displaying various threatening messages in red backgrounds with black text. Foretelling the 'end of society' and the 'fall of governments, among other things. Ponies would run for cover and run into any nearby buildings as fighting began. Those in the Rings of Canterlot would be directed into their homes as well while the vehicles went wild. Eventually, the lights would all suddenly shut down, the autocarriages stopping and everything but the physical fighting seeming to stop.
The once-struggling hacktivists in Canterlot would attempt to take advantage of this cease in attacks to try and destroy the virus. Unfortunately, they would be ambushed online by DK, who would quickly crash their computers with her lightning attacks. She would look over the CCS and virus activity and attempt to stop whoever was behind it, sure enough encountering Anomaly herself.
Opening a communication line she would put into text. "Well well well, if it isn't Anomaly. Seems you're trying to stop us I can see."
"I got GAI-7 on my side now, and I have my own plan in place. It will not involve senseless destruction." Anomaly would reply.
"That's bucking unfortunate, I'll deal with GAI-7 later, luckily I made my own override for it. Gotta make sure to be prepared!"
"You'll have to get through me first."
"No problem! For you see given I worked with the previous iteration of your brain augmentation's project~" She would suddenly activate a duplication program, generating ten duplicates online of herself. "I made some fancy computer tech myself, and I have a lot more experience using it than you do yours~" The duplicates would all ready and deploy sniper rockets at Anomaly.
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"EQUE-TECH Canterlot Facility? I would like to speak with the manager." Myriad would say in a telepathic call, upon phoning the Manager she would say "Anomaly's got things under control in Canterlot, but we need to deal with the thugs. Deploy the EPKD-20's and 25's, have the Cyber security division ready to control them. Have the complete shutdown program ready at all times in case the Virus goes loose again."
From the parking garage of the EQUE-TECH facility would roll out multiple androids, many of which were similar to the ones that attacked Metal the other Rogues. Entering the spiral way they would roll their way down to the Urban sprawl, weapons at the ready.
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Owl's weapon would run dry, his last magazine expended. Both he and Vision hid in an alley within the urban spill. He growled as he looked around the darkness lit up only somewhat by muzzle flashes and firebombs. The bat growled, baring his teeth as he whispered to Vision "I'm going in to bring fear to these bucking thugs...take care of yourself around here. Might wanna just retreat back to the rings, me and the heavies got this."
He would fly out, using the darkness to shroud him as he went on the hunt. Like his namesake he would fly on the search of rats to kill, his bat eyes letting him see far better than the majority of ponies present. Only the Lunar S4's would be able to see as well as he did. Swooping down he would grasp the shoulder of an unsuspecting thug with his bionic limb, pulling his neck into a bite. The choking stallion would be kicked away, as Owl evaded another thug's mostly blind gunfire.
That same thug would find the foreleg that held his SMG bitten, and a scream would soon be interrupted by another choking sound. A crazed mare with a shotgun would have her ear torn off, another scream and a gunshot ensuing. The bat would begin to go on a rampage, using the cover of darkness to bite into and kill many a thug throughout. He even dared to fly into gunfights, biting ears off of armed thugs to make them briefly easy targets for the S4s to gun down.
For seemingly an hour this fighting would ensue, Owl grabbing a knife from a dead thug and starting to slice at ponies as he flew by. In time some speakers would be heard, along with what sounded like dozens of wheels rolling along.
"Attention Citizens! A new advanced means of law enforcement has been deployed, we will use them to deal with this thug threat once and for all. You will be kept safe, and any who threaten you will be hit with the full force of the law." Myriad's voice came through speakers built into androids as they rolled into the streets. Quickly they would aim and start gunning down any armed ponies not in Solar or Lunar gear. They were frighteningly effective at doing so, gunning down ponies quickly and efficiently.
Owl would be tearing out the throat of yet another thug as he heard and saw the androids come, he too would be aimed at as one came into the approach. Owl would be forced to fly into cover, using the dying thug as a shield to absorb bullets before he got out of sight.
"W-what the buck are these things?" he muttered as he flew up and witnessed the carnage they brought. At first it was relieving seeing the anarchy getting so quickly cut down, but then it was disturbing to see how effective these robots were.
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Anomaly would be in a desperate and fast-paced battle of code with DK, the cyberterrorist leader bringing countless tricks to the table. Though she had snatched many a useful tool from Composite's computer, she was not as well versed in using such tricks as DK.
Anomaly would deploy duplicates, many of which were hit along with herself by a program known as a 'pitchfork'. Multi-pronged and able to hit multiple targets online. She would put up another defensive wall, one called a mirror which her understanding of was basic but sufficient.
DK would use a combination program to put a pitchfork and sniper rocket together, hitting more of anomaly's duplicates along with her herself. However, she would find the attack sent right back to her as the mirror program was taken out.
Taking advantage of the hit Anomaly would send a shotgun to shatter defenses, before sending data bombs to slow DK down.
DK would deploy a machine gun turret to pin Anomaly down, along with a smoke screen to cover her while she recovered defenses.
Deploying a smoke screen of her own Anomaly would go in to try to manually crack into DK, moving quickly while sending shotguns and sniper rockets to do some damage.
Dk would deploy a server shockwave, briefly disrupting Anomaly's Smokescreen and giving her a chance to send assassin programs of her own.
Anomaly would take hits past her defenses due to the assassins, but would keep up trying to jack in as her smoke screen came back online.
DK would, unfortunately, manage to spot Anomaly, and use that to signal her out and send a barrage of sniper rockets her way. Anomaly would be forced back, unprepared for a foe this well equipped and skilled. DK could even think as fast as she could, and her superior experience would help to further make her a difficult foe. Assassins would be combined with Data bombs, all of which used on Anomaly to slow her down.
She would be forced to stop the offensive in order to deal with the Assassin programs put into her system. While she was Distracted DK would go full force with shotguns to take out the rest of Anomaly's duplicates, then using the combination program to cross a machine gun turret with a sniper rocket.
Dealing with the last assassin she would find her defenses chewed up, before taking some direct hits to her system. Putting her defenses back she would use traps, letting the machine gun set them off and get taken out before responding with four duplicates. All those duplicates would send sniper rockets toward DK, smashing many of her duplicates and hitting the smoke screen enough to deactivate it. Before DK could put defenses back up she would put up machine gun turrets of her own, battering DK's defenses
Maintaining her defenses DK would deploy two more duplicates, before taking a moment to get rid of the data bombs and assassins put in. A pitchfork would be combined with a shotgun to hit Anomaly hard, smashing her defenses.
Anomaly would let her gun turret smash away at DK's system, sending a shotgun of her own to hit DK.
DK would put up a mirror wall of her own, reflecting the program back at Anomaly.
At that moment Anomaly would find herself on the verge of her system crashing, barely able to do anything with the lag and glitches. Her very train of thought was mangled in this state. Fear started to creep up in the chaos of her mind, fear that she was going to lose, fear that she was going to face a digital death even.
Another hit from DK would come, bringing her mind closer to a hard crash. DK was battered, but less so than Anomaly as she kept at it. "You can't beat us Anomaly! We're the bucking future! We're the saviors of freedom! We're the-"
Suddenly from out of nowhere DK would get smashed into by an incoming pitchfork, crossed with a shotgun and data bomb both in a combination program. Monster buster herself came in to ambush, sending a message to DK. "Take this you evil meany!" before putting DK into a soft crash as she finished her off with a shotgun. The filly would scream out "Yes!" excitedly from behind her screen before messaging Anomaly. "Is your computer okay? Here! Let me help!"
Anomaly would be finally able to think clearly as data backup was put onto her by Monster Buster. Relief washing over her like cold water on a hot day in a desert. She would gather her bearings before messaging the filly. "Thank you."
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Many of the screens in Canterlot would suddenly go purple, before a picture of the ID of Anomaly would appear in them. Through white text Anomaly would say.
"There is a threat in the midst of your society, two in fact. One lies within the lawless, but another lies within your leadership. They seek to use the very tools that allowed the terrorists to hack the minds of ponies in the Diamond Plaza to control your minds. In the name of an oppressive form of 'safety' and 'prosperity', they seek the power to control and change your very minds. Be wary of cyberterrorists, but also be wary of those on top, and DON'T buy brain augs. Even the Megacorps are in on this plan to take over your very minds. I have helped you all sometimes before, including in the mall incident, but I intend to help you all decisively."
Owl would look up to the screen boards, watching as the messages broadcast. Myriad would frantically call to the Harmony council, demanding they stop the broadcasts now. Androids would continue clearing out the thugs, some rolling away to have their ammunition resupplied. Alongside the Guard forces the thugs and maniacs would soon start being forced to retreat into the alleys, or fight until gunned down.
"I intend to make my own system, not for controlling ponies or sowing chaos. I want to make a system designed to fight against the very threats we see here. Use the InterNet itself as a weapon against all these threats and all future threats. Guarding you from cyberspace, not hindered by corporate or political interest. Only led by the need to protect ponies safety, AND liberty to think for themselves. Alongside an AI we will be ready to take control of the CCS at any time and bring down any group that might pose a threat to you." Would be added, and the message would be sent out to countless wrist computers in text messages.
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The message would be broadcast on many screens in Everfree as well, and from their room Cypher would look to Data and say "She's gone Hacktivist....and..."
"She's gonna use that power for vigilante justice....can a mare even be trusted with such power over the CCS? Or is she gonna become like a robo overlord?" Data would ask, looking to Cypher.
"She might not become like an evil AI from old movies....but she might become something almost as scary and far less predictable..."