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Side Chapter: Miscellanous Worlds

The Conversion Bureau (Side A)

"What did that greenhouse used to be?" asked Xenolestia.

"I think it was called a 'Computer Server Room'," said Twilight Sparkle. "I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right."

"Hmm, very well." Xenolestia shrugged while secretly nudging the barrier to move a little faster.

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The Conversion Bureau (Side B)

"What did that greenhouse used to be?" asked Celestia.

"It was something called a 'Computer Server Room'," said Twilight Sparkle. "I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right."

"A pity. I would have liked to learn more about it." Celestia sighed, watching the barrier push farther, unable to stop it.

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Fallout: Equestria (or any of the side-stories)

Celest-A.I.: Hello User. Would you like to come to a place where satisfaction is guaranteed?

"Oh, no!" exclaimed the wanderer. "I am not falling for another cannibal cult!" They quickly chose the option on their Pip-Buck to delete all data in the system.

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Past Sins

Nyx looked over her shoulder. "Mom, why is Princess Celestia trying to get me to upload my consciousness into a computer world?"

"That's probably just a spam message from an imitation account!" Twilight called from the other room. "Go ahead and delete it."

"Oh, okay." Nyx shut down the program and dragged it into the recycle bin.

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Five Score, Divided By Four (or any of the side-stories)

"Carol, there is literally a portal to the real Equestria in the Quad-State Area. We can just use that."

"Oh yeah, I forgot. What was I thinking?"

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The Sweetie Chronicles: Fragments

The unicorn filly jumped over several obstacles. Shots of various ones and zeros distorted the environment behind her tail. After fiddling with her settings a few times, she managed to get a more mature mare's body. She used that to cast a few spells at her pursuers.

She had lost many allies here to cyber-space. But compared to the friends and shadows of friends in the last few universes, her eyes felt numb to this loss. After a few in-game seconds, she stumbled across the item chest that contained what she was looking for: a fragment of her Twilight's essence. Upon absorbing it, the virtual world fell apart around her.

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Friendship is Optimal

Upon simultaneous attempts to control cyberspace, the physical servers overheated, the ones that contained both of the Celest-A.I.s. There was just no physical hardware in this day and age that could run that many terabytes without slowing down worse than the days of DSL. Much less could be supported if multiple such programs ran simultaneously.

Scavengers tried to recover anything from the wreckage, but the circuits were fried beyond repair. Speculators theorized that the two A.I. forces were horses of coarse discourse.
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Author's Note:

Didn't have any big story ideas for the other fan-fic universes.
Stories belong to their respective owners.
Couldn't figure out which Conversion Bureau story was the definitive first of their publishing, so I just went with a conglomeration for two different paths, kind of like how Sora describes their distinction:
"There are two versions of TCB Celestia, and both make no sense. One has Celestia convert humans because she genuinely thinks that's the best option, and one because she hates humans."

The last line of this chapter full of rhymes was inspired by Colin Mochrie's improvised "news reports" in certain episodes of "Whose Line is It Anyway?"

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