Lightning and his entire team were given a day off from their regular duties to attend a small gathering at the New Crystal Empire; Flurry Heart’s half birthday celebration.

“I never heard of anyone celebrating their half birthday before.” said Rainbow.

“I celebrate my half birthday all the time.” chirped Pinkie “And my third birthday, my quarter birthday, my monthly birthday…”

“I… think we get the idea, Pinkie.” said Lightning. “Still, if Cadance and Shining Armor want to celebrate their daughter’s half birthday, and they invite us to a party, I’m up for that.”

Sadly, not everyone in the entire gang was there. Spike, Buddy and Rhymey were not present, as they were tending to their pregnant wives. With Rarity hospitalized, and all three wives on the final stages of their pregnancies, it was best and ordered they didn’t do any traveling and just took it easy.

Still, they didn’t have to be there, as Artie had brought his video camera to record the festivities live for the couples to watch at home, that and to give him ideas of what artworks to paint in future.

“Everyone ready?” asked Krysta, and as soon as they agreed, she warped them off to the Empire, right before the gates of the palace, where they found the Royal Family from New Canterlot had already arrived.

“Hello everyone,” Grand Ruler called, and they all exchanged greetings, especially for the five year olds, Castor and Lelani whom had come to play with their cousins that day.

The children held up two halves of a special teddy bear, and Leilani said “It’s magically enchanted to come together to be a whole.” and everyone watched as the two pieces magically joined making the bear complete.

Celestia leaned in to the grownups whispering, “We actually got this gift, but we’re letting the children take the credit.”

Then, two other familiar friends came along; Abra Kadabra and lovely assistant Trixie.

“Oh, my dear,” replied Abra “Our demands are quite demanding. We’ve gotten calls from every town for those wish to sample our fine art of illusion.”

Trixie nodded, “Of course, it also gives the ability explore new exotic places, and sample their fine shopping and offer.” She demonstrated by showing off her new hat. It looked exactly like her old wizard hat, but with electrical powered flashing stars. One flick of the switch and the stars on her hat began to blink in wild patterns for a few moments before going out again.

Everyone awed in astonishment, and Artie was especially intrigued and he began to record it on his camera, “Rarity’s going to love to see this.”

“I can just hear her now.” joked Dyno, and he did a poor but funny imitation of Rarity “Ay’ Ay’ Ay’! I have an idea for whole new fashions. Colorful lights and all that pretty stuff.”

Myte chuckled, “Dyno! Eso es un poco exagerado *That’s a little overboard!*”

Everyone turned and saw Data Stream, working her garbage duties and pulling her smelly trash wagon along.

“We happen to be having a private conversation, Data Stream.” Lightning called to her.

“Really?” Data sneered as she emptied a trash bin into her wagon, “Then why are you standing in a public place where everyone passing by can hear you?”

“Why are you all here anyway? Shouldn’t you be working…? You know-- doing your jobs like I am.”

“If you picking up waste and smelling like it doing a job I wonder what you call “play.” teased Rainbow, but none of the others felt she was being harsh and didn’t laugh with her.

“This is a day of celebration for us.” said Princess Luna “Let us not ruin it for everyone.”

Data knew fully well it was Flurry Heart’s one and a half birthday, especially judging from all the little presents everyone seemed to have brought, not to mention Abra and Trixie standing with the group. “Magicians?” she scoffed “Well then again, I wouldn’t expect less at a parties for BABIES.”

Everyone was starting to really lose their cool with her. “Now, now…” said Abra as he and Trixie approached Data, “There is no need to lose our heads, especially when… magical things… can found in them.” He pulled a rose out of Data’s ear hoping to impress her so she’d lighten up a bit.

“What sleeve?” Abra asked and he waved his arm up showing that his tuxedo sleeve had vanished without anyone noticing.

The others all gawked and giggled, but Data was still not impressed. “Are you through yet?”

Trixie didn’t take kind to when magic and illusion was being insulted, but she decided to try one of her own tricks. “Please, do wear my hat.” she said as she placed her electronic hat on Data’s head.

She lifted her hat off of Data’s head, revealing a while load of flowers in her hair. Everyone applauded for such magic illusion, but Data felt atop her head, and looked at her reflection on the polished crystal concrete on the ground.

She screamed in horror and fussed, “Get these things off me!” and she angrily brushed the flowers off.

Data stomped and huffed as she grabbed her wagon ready to leave, and everyone still didn’t take kind to her tantrum.

Lightning called her “As long as you continue to stay in your world of hatred and egotism, you’ll never get very far Data.”

Trixie huffed and fitted her hat back on, “The great and powerful Trixie would never let such an insult get to her…” she paused and reflected on her past before her reformation, “…At least now I do not.”

Still, it was a lovely afternoon, and the party was just wonderful. Especially when Shining Armor’s parents, Night Light and Velvet Sparkle, had arrived to celebrate their granddaughter’s half birthday.

“Happy half birthday, Flurry.” said Velvet, and she pecked her on the head, and gave her a cute little bow she had made herself; all pink and frilly with a silvery pendant in the center.

Night Light however looked a little sad, and everyone knew why; all of them wishing Twilight were there. So they all had a moment of silence to honor her.

Lightning looked at the innocent child, who seemed to act without a care in the world. “She would’ve loved her.” he said softly.

Shining Armor and Cadance brought out a special birthday cake, in the shape of half a circle. “Happy Half Birthday, Flurry Heart.” Cadance cooed softly.

Flurry giggled happily, and everyone wished her “happy birthday” too, and Flurry made funny little coos, and blew with her tongue blowing out the one candle on it with her spit, and getting a little on her father’s face, making everyone laugh, and Shining Armor himself laughed as he wiped his face.

After a while, the magic show began, and Abra and Trixie were a smash hit. They performed all the usual tricks-- pulling objects from seemingly out of nowhere, making rabbits appear out of hats, but they did no dangerous tricks that involved explosions or weapons, not even they sawing in half trick; they did not wish to frighten the children.

“YAAAAAY!!” Castor and Lelani kept shouting at the astonishment, while the adults all cheered and applauded.

“And now, for one final trick,” Abra said “Even though Flurry Heart is the birthday pony, she’s a little too young to participate, so, how about her parents come to assist us?”

Shining Armor and Cadance hesitated, but with urging from the crowds, they passed Flurry to Velvet, and joined the magicians on stage.

Trixie then wheeled out two identical boxes, with three doors going up each section. “Would be so kind as to step inside?” Trixie asked.

The couple began to feel nervous, but they stepped inside, and the boxes were sealed, hiding their entire bodies from view. Abra knocked on Cadance’s box, “Are you quite comfortable in there?” he asked.

“Good,” chuckled Abra “Then apparently they don’t understand what’s about to happen to them.”

The audience felt excited, and Abra and Trixie got out their wands performing a small dance, and tapping the boxes each time as they passed.

Then, they opened the tops of the boxes to show the couple’s heads, but then closing the doors and opening the mid-section, their bodies had been switched.

Quickly the magicians shuts the doors, and opened the lower hatches, showing that each pony had one leg which was their own, but their other leg was that of their partner.

The boxes were sealed up again, and the dance was performed, the wands tapped, and when the boxes were opened again, both Cadance and Shining Armor were nowhere to be seen.

Abra and Trixe pretended to look to be nervous when, both their hats started to jiggle. They showed the crowd that their hats were indeed very empty, yet placing them on the floor and simple clap of their hands, Shining Armor and Cadance were pulled from the hats like rabbits, and standing on the stage, both were amazed and speechless, but the sounds of audience applauding for the performance, they took a bow at Abra and Trixie’s urging.

Abra and Trixie had to leave almost at once, as they had another show to do in Ponyville the next day.

Flurry Heart, however, liked Trixie’s hat so much and the way it glowed sparkled. She tried to reach for it, but Cadance held her back “No, no, no… it isn’t yours.”

Trixie on the other hand couldn’t say no to a little pony so adorable, “Happy Birthday.” She said as she placed the hat over Flurry’s head… as a gift.

“Um, are you sure it’s a good idea to give her that?” asked Lightning “What if she tries to bite into the electrical wires?”

“No worries,” Trixie assured, “The wires are made a specialized filament for prevent chewing and to shield it from water damage.”

With that in mind, and no way for Flurry to choke herself on anything, the parents, again, thanked the magicians for all they did.

Later that night, before everyone else in the group had to adjourn home; they were all standing out at the gates of the castle bidding their goodbyes.

“It’s been so nice to spend time with family.” said Velvet, “You know I can’t picture what this would be like if there were no creatures about at all.”

Pinkie Pie gasped at such a thought, “No smiles? No laughter? No Happiness?!! Now that would be horrible.”

Grand Ruler said “Living in big crowds is never an easy thing, but a world without much interaction can be just as difficult.”

Celestia then added, “How we choose to tolerate those around us can affect them as well as us, be it for better or worse.”

Luna concluded, “Those who shun others may find themselves alone in life, but there will always be… the people, and their ways.”

…but one creature-- Data Stream, on her last pickup round of the day-- was passing by and who overheard got a different idea, especially as she eyed the electrical hat that Flurry Heart was wearing and playing with.

As soon as she got home that night, she raced straight to her computer, “Those who shin others will be alone in life, eh?” she snickered as she worked, “Well what if I did more than just that? What if I choose who will stay and who will leave?”

She finished working and then called at her other computer, “Megadox! Where are you? Megadox, I need your assistance!”

The second screen came online and there he was! “I hear you, Data Fleshling.”

The virus of a simple design; humanoid, it had armored platings on its shoulders, its arms and around it’s legs, and in its center was a large cannon that could fire a wave of strong pixelating energy.

“A simple design,” said Megadox “And where shall we send it to? Perhaps a military base…?

“We’re going to send it to princess Flurry Heart’s new hat!” replied Data Stream.

“WHAT!?” thundered Megadox “Of all the illogical places to send a virus… you chose A HAT?”

Angry at his attitude, Data typed into the computers, rerouting a few programs, which began to pixelate Megadox’s screen; creating static, and lags. “Stop that! You are scrambling my sensors!”

“Then maybe you should HEAR ME OUT before you pop off at me like that again!”

“That’s better…” said Data and she showed Megadox her new program, which used the Digital World’s access codes. “What do you think you are doing?” asked Megadox “You dare to tamper with the codes of my realm?!”

Data looked ready to give him more trouble if he didn’t cease with all the grouching. “This virus is going to corrupt that hat and infuse it with my codes, so that anyone who wears it or comes into contact with it when it is activated, they will be instantly digitized and transported into the Digital World as ordinary computer files that I will store.

See now? This is your big chance, Megadox, and mine to get rid of all the yucky, disgusting creatures I can’t stand myself!”

“I see-- a world with less Fleshlings,” replied Megadox, and he snickered wickedly. “With less of those feeble creatures, the fleshling world will be easily conquered.

Data snickered, “Oh, I’ve thought of that. My virus will not only infect the systems, but should he attack Surfer, he can pixelate and scramble the program’s data flow.

In other words, Surfer will get weaker and weaker… until even the simplest touch can delete him from cyber space… forever.”

“Yes… I like it very much.” hissed Megadox “Very well. It shall be done.” with that, programed the virus to come alive. “Go, Pic-Cell! Find the infant child’s hat and wipeout the world of Fleshlings.”

The virus was on its way, soaring through the wires, making its way into the palace, and bouncing off of Flurry Heart’s clown lamp, and striking into the hat.

“Here we go…” Shining Armor said as he tucked his little daughter into her crib, “You all nice and warm? You had a big day.”

Cadance smiled lovingly at her baby. “She’s really getting big. Maybe she’ll start talking soon?”

Her husband agreed, “That’d be way cool.” For now however, he and his wife pecked their little baby goodnight, and tried to take her bit hat away, but Flurry wouldn’t let go of her favorite birthday gift. It was so snugly and pretty the way it glowed.

The parents shrugged and let her hold onto it, and watched as she softly fell to sleep in her crib, still clutching the glowing hat-- All were unaware of the dangers going on inside of it!

Pic-Cell was already taking aim with its pixel-cannon, and it fired at a set of control towers, infecting them with Data Stream’s evil codes.

The towers were now glowing with an eerie shade of red and the systems began to flow with evil energy.

Shining Armor and Cadance watched and waited until they were sure that Flurry was sleeping peacefully, and then Cadance silently and softly pulled the hat away from the baby to set it aside, but by accident, she ended up flicking the trigger switch to make the stars flash…!

Suddenly, there was an electrical discharge, and Cadance just vanished into thin air.

The baby woke up and cried, and in her fussing she touched the hat and vanished like her mother did.

He saw the hat, and foolishly picked it up to observe it, and he, too, vanished, and the hat was inadvertently thrown out the window and floated along the night breeze, and it was picked up by a raven flying through the night.

Like magic, they were transported through the electronic wavelengths in the air, and into Data Stream’s computer where the trio appeared on her screen as tiny little video screens. The parents were panicking and Flurry Heart was still crying in fright.

“Our first victims of the night, and one of them happens to be the Princess.” Data snickered.

Data snickered wickedly, “Ooh, I’ve been waiting for a moment like this.” Then she began to type into the keyboard, infecting Cadance’s file that began to shock her with electrical currents, making her scream in pain. “What’s happening…?!!”

Though Cadance could not see or hear her, Data jeered at the “I’M… what’s happening to you now, Princess!” and she laughed like the mad pony she was as she continued to torture her.

The raven flew over the empire with the hat still clutched in its talons, and in its soaring, it actually managed to trigger the switch which activated the hat, and the raven vanished.

The hat flew down, down, down… towards the train station, and got hooked around the ladder around the side of the engine which ponies that couldn’t fly used to scale to the top when the engine needed maintenance.

“ALL ABOARD! NEXT STOP: NEW PONYVILLE” the conductor hollered, and the train set off into the night, with the hat just clinging onto that ladder.

The train arrived in new Ponyville the next morning, and as the passengers disembarked, the engineers stepped out of the cab.

“Hey, what’s this?” one of them said as he saw and took the hat off the ladder

The other engineer chuckled, “Hey, there’s a switch on it.” and he flicked it on, making the stars glow, causing the two of them to vanish.

The hat plopped onto the ground of the station, until a little filly picked it up as she walked along the platform. “Ooh, look at this hat.” she cooed, and she put it on her head.

She reached to take the hat, just as her daughter triggered the switch. The two ponies vanished, and the hat was thrown up high, which lead to a series of unusual events…!

The hat seemed to drift along from place to place within the station, and anyone who saw it couldn’t resist trying it on and triggering the glow switch, which caused them all vanish and get trapped in the digital prison.

Data Stream was getting more and more prisoners by the minute, and all of them were yelling and begging for freedom, much to her annoyance.

“UGH!! MAKE IT STOP!!” she shouted “I only have two hands, I can’t process all this at once!”

Megadox only laughed at the progress being made and all the prisoners he was taking in.

The children were all outside, sitting in chairs set up, and ready for a real treat that day.

Cheerilee and I had promised that Abra and Trixie would perform a show for everyone as a ways of helping the children develop a sense of wonder and appreciation for the arts.

A little stage was setup too, and Cheerliee and I were helping Abra and Trixie unload their stuff to help.

“We can’t thank you enough for this.” said Cheerilee, and Abra kissed her hand, “My dear lady, it is always a pleasure.”

I was helping Trixie unload, when I noticed she had a second hat in her prop trunk, exactly identical to the one she was wearing.

“I always carry spares.” replied Trixie, and she picked up the spare hat, “But this one… strangely I found it at the train station this morning. When I asked the lost and found, they couldn’t find its owner, so I took it.”

I couldn’t see much wrong with that, for now it was almost time for the show to begin.

The magicians felt flattered, but I didn’t let on that I secretly loved to watch magic shows in attempt to find flaws with the tricks; figure out how they worked by the use of simple science.

After I left to go take my seat outside, Cheerilee became mesmerised by the spare hat in the trunk.

Trixie insisted and placed it on Cheerliee’s head. Cheerliee giggled, “It feels so funny.”

Abra came along, “Trixie, come… it’s nearly time that we--” he saw there was no one there.

Her hat was on the floor, but neither she nor Cheerliee were anywhere to be seen. “I was certain they were just here.”

Abra picked up the hat and called out for Trixie, but still he got no response. “This is no time to be fooling around. We have a public outside!”

“I hear ya,” added Applebloom “I’ve always been a fan of them fancy stuff they do.”

Diamond Tiara snuffed, “Give me a break! It’s all faked. These two aren’t even doing real magic.”

“They are so.” growled Scootaloo “It’s the Magic of Illusion, it’s a very fine art.”

“No joke.” agreed DD “Maybe they’ll even show us how to make Diamond disappear.”

“Just ignore them.” said Silver “Even I know you could do better magic than those four twats any day.”

I was sitting up front, keeping my eyes on the children, but I was starting to grow concerned. “Their five minutes late.” I said “What’s going on back there?”

Suddenly, Abra called to me through the curtains and motioned for me to come backstage.

So I got up, and told the students, “Just stay patient everyone, I’ll be right back.”

The children were starting to grow restless, and some were demanding that the show start.

When I got backstage, I found Lightning and Starla there. “When did you guys get here?”

“Just now.” replied Lightning “We’d been receiving reports that many ponies and other creatures have gone missing, and among them is the royal family from the New Crystal Empire.”

“Yes,” replied Starla “Abra just waved us down as we were passing by questioning by passers; Cheerilee and Trixie are gone too.”

“It’s true,” said Abra “I knew they were both here, and yet when I came to fetch Trixie, they were gone. All I found was Trixie’s hat.”

He held up the hat, and I took it, but this was serious. Even I knew Cheerliee wouldn’t just up and leave, especially during school time without reason.

Abra refused to perform without Trixie, knowing the children wanted to see both himself and her.

“Abra, you performed solo before.” said Lightning “Why not just go out there and bedazzle them a little.”

“But I… I can’t!” said Abra “I can’t rob Trixie of the credit we’ve shared.” But ultimately he remembered his sacred tradition-- The Show must go on!

So, he agreed, and I, still holding Trixie’s hat went out on the stage and introduced him. “Sorry about the delay.” I called to the kids “Presenting, the mystifying illusion of, ABRA KADABRA!”

The kids cheered, and Abra appeared on stage in a puff of smoke, and bowed to the crowd.

“My apologies,” Abra said and he quickly made up a lie so as not to worry the children, “My assistant has suddenly taken ill, but fear not… she is being cared for. That doesn’t mean I still can’t entertain you.”

The children were a little disappointed of Trixie’s absence, but they cheered for Abra, and so did I.

That’s when Lightning and Starla motioned for me to come backstage again, and so I left Abra to his show… leaving in such a hurry that I dropped Trixie’s hat on stage by Abra’s feet.

Abra picked up the hat and said, “For my first trick, I shall make this hat disappear right from the very tips of my fingers, and you’ll not see where it goes.”

He then called some volunteers to come up and assist him; Diamond Tiara, and the four crusaders.

One-by-one, he asked them each to place their hand over a spot on the hat to cover it completely. “This is going to be lame.” Diamond whispered to Silver.

Silver chuckled, and then came her turned to put her hand on the hat, and she triggered the switch!

Lightning and Starla had to leave to continue their investigation, but Starla had one message to tell me in public. “I’ve been doing work with the Surfer program, and I’ve using the data unlocked to build a new weapon for Surfer, in case things get really tough for you.”

She cast some magic from her horn to show me an image of a bazooka cannon with a shape of a dragon for its mouth.

“Behold, the Pyro Program, and believe me, it’ll pack quite a punch, but there’s a catch: it can only come to you when you call for it… and only if you’re in a real spot-- like real danger and when no one else can help.”

Lightning and Starla then headed off, and no sooner had they gone did I hear Silver Spoon calling for me to come out quickly.

I dashed out on stage, and found not only was Abra missing but several children were gone too. “What happened?” I asked.

Silver students explained to me that Abra and his helpers just vanished into thin air, but they never came back.

Now I was really concerned, “Okay listen up!” I said “I want you all to go back inside the school, right now.”

The students were very confused, as well as horribly disappointed, but they did as they were told, except for Snails and Snips…! They saw Trixie’s hat which was dropped on the stage where Abra and his helpers stood.

Snips couldn’t resist and took the hat. “Cool.” and he put the hat on. “How do I look, Snails?”

The two silly boys couldn’t resist and came backstage where I was looking for any signs of the missing ponies.

I looked up from behind a magic disappearing box, “That’s fine boys, but please just go inside the schoolhouse.” And I went back to looking behind the large props.

The boys were having too much fun to obey and began to act like they were on stage.

“And now, me and my great assistant Snails will make something disappear.” shouted Snips.

“Boys, I meant it, please just go inside!” I called to them, but I got no answer.

I looked back at where they were standing, and while they were gone, I never heard them leave the stage-- I would have heard their footsteps.

I noticed the hat was still behind, right where they boys were standing. I picked it up, and remembered Abra told me he saw the hat where Cheeliee and Trixie were before they vanished… just like he himself and his helpers were on stage before they disappeared.

As I observed the hat, I suddenly realized, “Wait a minute… This is electrical.”

My suspicions were confirmed as I noticed my wrist-come was flashing red as I held it near the hat! “There’s a virus in here!”

I opened my holo-computer and scanned the hat, uncovering the codes. “So this thing’s been making all those creatures disappear.”

I placed the hate on a crate and booted up my program, though I really wished the girls hadn’t been captured too, fearing I would need help.

Plus, with Lightning and Starla busy on their mission I had no choice but to set the Surfer program to auto call. Then, in case I ever got in danger, the Super Computer would automatically send me backup, like the program Starla showed me.

The monster and I stared each other down, and then I made a run for it, ready to slash it with my sword, but the virus shot at me with his huge cannon, unleashed a burning wave, forcing me to hold up my sword to defend myself.

The blast stuck my sword, but then I noticed the blade was starting to look funny. “What’s happening to my sword?”

The blade seemed to be pixeliating, getting weaker, and I dropped it on the ground and saw it vanish before my eyes. “Oh, no…!” I wailed. Even though I knew the sword would repair itself back in the Super Computer, without it, how could I beat the monster now?

The rest of the data squad had been captured, so I wouldn’t get any help from them this time.

Pic-Cell then aimed another blast at me. I rolled out of the way, and the blast missed me, striking a huge circuit wall, blowing it to bits. “That was close!”

Pic-Cell roared at me and tried to shoot at me again, and I dodged it again, and jumped onto its back-- like a piggy-back-- “Come on you big bug! Hold still!”

Pic-Cell blasted at me again, hitting me square on! I groaned and moaned as I felt the energy actually begin to burn me through my armor “What is this?!” I shouted. That’s when I began to feel woozy “These rays…! They’re… messing… with my energy!”

Megadox was observing the fight and chuckling, “The Surfer program is wasting away. You have done very well with this virus, Data Stream Fleshing.”

“I’m a little busy right now, Megadox!” shouted Data, and she was in a big mess! The files of all the captured creatures on her computer were screaming and crying out like bats in the night, and she could barely contain them all.

Back at the fight, my suit alarm was going off like crazy as my energy was getting way low, and my armor was beginning to pixelate softly. Soon I would be nothing but bits of data scattered across the grid, until I remember…! “Wait a second! That new program Starla made for me…”

The Super Computer, back at Lightning and Starla’s home, activated in response to my command, and the bazooka was launched on its way along the powerlines, through the wavelengths and appeared inside the hat.

Not only was it an awesome weapon to behold, but it just floated up there, and aimed itself at the monster; firing a fiery blaze at it, and knocking it to the ground.

This released me from the burning energy, “All right!” and then, feeling my second wind, I leapt up high and grasped my new weapon. “Now let’s see what fire-power this thing really has!”

“Draw!” I sneered to him, and we both charged up our weapons and fired! The energies collided with one another, by my fire power was much stronger than any burning pixelating wave, and force the power right back at the monster, making a big explosion, breaking his cannon wide open.

Now to finish the job, I turned my cannon to full power and shouted out my new finishing attack, “FIERWAVE BLAZE!”

WHOOSH!! The blaze from my cannon fired at the virus, striking it hard and roasting it away into data bytes.

“…Adios, Hotshot!” I called out, and then I restored the systems back to normal before porting out.

The files on Data Stream’s computer began to vanish. “What? What’s going on?” she cried out.

“It appears that Surfer has once more attained victory!” growled Megadox “So much for your great idea!”

…Everyone was captures suddenly reappeared out of nowhere, exactly at the places where they vanished. Though they seemed to recall nothing about what happened at all, as if it never happened to them.

All the students reappeared in the field, and so did Abra, Trixie and Cheerilee too.

At the very same moment, I reappeared behind the large props where no one saw me, and Lightning and Starla came rushing into the school yard, when they saw many ponies and creatures all over town just suddenly popping up out of thin air…

I stepped out where they could see me, and I gave them a thumb up telling them everything was fine.

Soon, we all were sitting in the schoolyard watching Abra and Trixie perform; they were sawing Diamond Tiara in half for part of a trick, and all the students laughed at her softly. “This isn’t funny!” she hollered, “Besides, it’s all a trick!

The boxes were separated, and everyone cheered, but Diamond protested as she forced herself out of her half box, “Stop it! I’m not cut in half, see!” but she looked down, and couldn’t see her lower half anywhere, which really scared her and made her jump back into the box.

We all had a good laugh at how funny she was acting. “I still wonder how they do it.” I said “Maybe its best I don’t know after all. Don’t want to spoil the mystery and magic like that.”

Meanwhile, Data Stream was groaning and growling. “No virus… No prisoners… No nothing! Curse that Surfer!”

Megadox showed little sympathy, “I always knew that you Fleshlings were flawed and filled with disabilities.”

Data’s lips curled into a sneer, “Watch what you’re saying! Remember who’s trapped in a computer that I can manipulate and pixelate, and nothing stops until I say so.”

Megadox refused to take this, “Perhaps YOU are in need of a lesson of how it feels to be trapped!” and he blasted at Data through the screen, and trapped her in her own computer file prison.

“Hey!!” Data cried “Let me out of here! Megadox, you Computerized Creep! Let me out!”

“The program is set to wear off… eventually.” hissed Megadox “So I suggest you use this time to reflect upon your own flaws.” He snickered and logged off.

In our next episode: It is a struggle to learn and understand the mysterious power Swift Star had used, and Stammadon continues to train in rage and hatred to boost his own powers wanting to strike again. While all are distracted, Tan Shi decides to take matters into her own hands, and unleashes a strong monster whom seems more determined to wipe out the men than the ladies.

Can the secrets of Swift’s power be solved, and what is this monster’s beef with all men?

Don’t miss the next exciting episode of “Starfleet Magic!”

My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic Season VIII

by DakariKingMykan

Episode 12: Hat's off to You