In the cave, the ponies looked at Gallop as she was going to do the hacking.
“First let me get onto the Public Access Server for the Cloudsdale Weather factory,” Gallop said to herself.
“What that Gallop?” Applejack asked in wonder.
“Oh it tells relevant companies systems, like admin phone numbers for example,” Gallop said.
Gallop connecting to the Public Access Server for Cloudsdale Weather factory.
“Okay just need this number. We will need that for later,” Gallop said.
Gallop then started bouncing her connection through lots of computer servers.
“How many computers are you going to bounce Gallop?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“ Oh me? I bounce all the time, you should know that by now, guys,” Pinkie said with her usual giggles.
The ponies drew a blank on their faces.
“I'll just ignore that,” Rainbow said not amused.
“Oh as many as possible Rainbow, Gallop answered in a flirty way, which Rainbow wasn't comfortable with. “You do know Apple Bloom's your special somepony, right?” Rainbow said awkwardly. “Oh yeah, right!” Gallop said awkwardly back. She cleared her throat and continued. “Each computer server will have it's own Security level. Like Security Level 1: That will give you 5 minutes hacking time, Level 2: 1 minute and Level 3: 30 -20 seconds. You never directly connect to a server and that's why you need to bounce your connection.” Gallop replied.
“Gallop”? Applejack interrupted. Yes, Applejack? Gallop replied back. Applejack to some time to ask her question but eventually, “Is your name Twilight?”
“Perhaps in the computer world”. Gallop said embarrassed.
“What happens if the timer ends?” Apple Bloom asked.
“Game Over! Once the timer's up, you're tracked and you'll be located. When the timer is going down though, the pony who is tracking you has to fight his or her way though the same computer servers you are bouncing to. You have to be quick!” Gallop replied like she meant it.
“Um, what happens when you have done the hacking?” Applejack asked.
“You have to remove your log files that are stored online. The log files will have all the information about your hacking, what IP addresses use, time of hacking and even your computer information etc.” Gallop replied.
“Right I think we have bounced enough computer servers. I have connected to about 50 computers around Equestria. That will give us over a 1 hour of hacking time.
“Let do this!” Rainbow said with enthusiasm.
“Oh look at that name, Jessie SSP LTD. I think that's a love matching website and Mark is the CEO of that site.” Pinkie Pie said.
“How you know about that Pinkie? You use that site before?” Gallop asked.
Pinkie Pie blushed red and then said:
“I might have, looked at some profiles?”
“Anyway, let's start the hacking guys!” Gallop said determined.
Gallop clicked on connect button. The computer dialled up the computer’s IP address and at the same time, The timer stared 1 hour and 15 minutes.
“Okay, this the Cloudsdale Weather factory logging screen and now we use tools to crack the password. The username is always Admin,” Gallop said.
Gallop then opened up a hacking tool.
“Okay this the ConnectionAnalysis. It tells you what Security level are on this server, as you can see this server's got Level 3: Monitor, Level 3: Proxy and Level 3: Firewall. For this we need, Monitor Bypass, Proxy Bypass and Firewall Bypass.” Gallop said.
Gallop then opened up Password Breaker and placed it over the password box and the Password Breaker started to find out the password.
“Wow, a 15 letter password!” Rainbow said in surprise.
Yeah, I know. That can take 2 minutes to break that password as the Password Breaker has to go through all the letters, numbers and Special characters for each character,” Gallop said.
After 2 minutes there were in the Cloudsdale Weather systems.
“Yay you did it, Gallop,” Apple Bloom said.
“Well no Bloomie, That was the easy part. The hard part is when you are on the system. We now get control of the server now,” Gallop said.
Gallop clicked on LAN part of the server.
“LAN? What's LAN?” Applejack asked.
“Oh, that means Local Area Network. It shows what other computers are connected to the main server. Like 3 computers could be connected to the same network. A Network is like a LAN. For a computer to able to connect to the internet, you need a modem also know as a hub. A modem is a network hardware device that modulates one or more carrier wave signals to encode digital information for transmission and demodulates signals to decode the transmitted information.” Gallop said in Twilight Sparkle sort of way.
“Oh! Like my hub at home,” Applejack said.
“Yes Applejack,” Gallop replied.
“What you looking for on the LAN? It looks like a map,” Rainbow asked.
“It is a map Rainbow, A map of all the component on the LAN,” Gallop said.
“Look, that is the Localhost the main computer and that is connected to 3 computers, a modem and a phone. To be able to connect to the computer on the LAN however, you have to use LAN Spoof. It Fools the Network into thinking you are connected to the system. You have to do that to each computer.” Gallop then said.
Gallop then conceited to each computer until she got to the phone icon.
“Okay, now I need to open up Voice Analyser.
Voice Analyser allows me to record a voice pattern for breaking Voice Verification Security,” Gallop said.
Then the computer called a number: 32753274.
Ring, ring, ring, ring.
A Dark voice answered:
Hello? Hello? Um Hello, come on Hello?!
The call hung up.
“Um who was that, I didn't like that voice,” Pinkie said nervously.
“I think that was Dark Dash,” Gallop answered.
“Dark Dash”?! Apple Bloom said with fright. She screamed and ran towards Gallop. “Hold me Gallop”. “Don't worry Bloomie. I won't let anything happen to you,” She said and kissed Apple Bloom's face cheek.
Everypony was scared and shaking. Rainbow was scared too, obviously but she hid it very well. Except for the time when Fluttershy told her her winter was going to be petless which meant she found Dashie's so-called “Cry Button” and was then sending waterfalls of her tears in front of everypony.
Applejack was then brave enough to say: “Calm down every pony, it ain't like Dark Dash is right here in this cave. So let's let Gallop finish on what she has to do,”
Apple Bloom looked at Gallop. Gallop nodded in agreement and told her filly friend that everything will be just fine. Apple Bloom then grinned at her sweetheart and they both give a short kiss and Apple Bloom then went next to her sister.
“Okay we have his voice sample and now we can break admin part of the server where all the files and log files are. We can change the password too,” Gallop said.
Gallop clicked on the Main Central Mainframe and a new login box came up.
Username, Password and Voice Print Authentication.
Gallop started to use the Password Breaker like before and eveypony was shocked on what the password was: T0Ki11Ga110p
Yep, that's Dark Dash for you and onto the Voice Print Authentication,” Gallop said.
Gallop clicked on Voice Print Authentication.
A blue popped up box with a sound wave line with the following words:
Hello, I am the system administrator. My voice is my passport. Verify me.
Also there's a small box saying: Access Denied in red letters.
Gallop still had the voice analyser opened and she dragged the voice analyser box over the Voice Print Authentication.
“Next the voice was saying: Hello, I am the system administrator. My voice is my passport. Verify me," In the voice of Dark Dash. The red into Green. Access granted
“We're in the mainframe!” Gallop said with glee.
“Has anypony looked at the timer lately? Rainbow asked.
Gallop looked at the timer……
“OH NO……. 5 minutes guys! We have to be quick!”
The system logged on and found lots of Factory reset buttons.
There 4 reset buttons saying:
Reset Password
Reset Voice sample
Reset LAN
Reset Mainframe
Gallop started to work quickly to reset the Password. In her mind she thought L0vebeatsevi1 and then she looked at Rainbow.
* 4 Minutes left *
“What is it, Gallop?” Rainbow asked.
“You're going to be the Admin for the Cloudsdale Weather factory and I need your voice sample,” Gallop said.
“Why me? And does Princess Celestia know?” Rainbow asked.
Then a voice came that Gallop and Rainbow could only hear:
“Gallop knows what she doing Rainbow, Gallop trusts you, I trust you. Make me Proud!” Princess Celestia said with teacher wise.
IT WAS CELESTIA!
*3 Minutes left*
Rainbow smiled and recorded her sample.
“Hello, I am the system administrator. My voice is my passport. Verify me,” Rainbow said.
Gallop clicked on Reset LAN:
A LAN timer reset came up. 60 Seconds.
“Come on!” Gallop said impatiently.
*2 Minutes Left*
Gallop clicked on the last button: Reset Mainframe.
Mainframe reset in 1 minute and 20 seconds………..
*80 seconds*
Gallop logged out of the Mainframe.
*70 Seconds*
Gallop went back to the main Terminal and went to the log files for the server
*60 Seconds*
Gallop started to remove all the 50 logs files.
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Gallop logged off the server and moving quickly went to the Public log files server and logged in and removed more 50 logs files.
There was a big sigh of relief. From all the ponies. Gallop felt as if she were going to have a heart attack.
“THAT WAS TOO CLOSE!” Rainbow said in shock and disbelief.
“Yes Rainbow, it was,” Gallop said.
“Now what?” Applejack asked.
“Now we know how to track down Dark Dash,” Gallop answered proud of herself.
“Say what?” Applejack said looking confused.
“But Gallop, why do you want to track him down?” Rainbow said.
“Because this WAR and will not stop if Dark Dash still is out there,” Gallop said at Rainbow Dash's face.
“Yeah I suppose it's true, but how can we track him down now?” Rainbow then asked.
“Easy, with his phone number, we can get somepony to tack his number,” Gallop said.
“And who is this pony, may I ask?” Apple Bloom asked.
“Oh, just a good old Doctor I know,” Gallop Replied going red.
Apple Bloom looked at Gallop as she knew what she was on about.
“We are running out time Gallop, he could have changed his number by now,” Pinkie Pie said.
“That does not matter for now. Some ponies live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It’s not the time that matters, it’s the pony” Gallop said.
Everypony in the cave had a tear in their eye and they all then said together:
“We got this! We got this together!”