//------------------------------// // The Edge // Story: Sense of Nothing // by GiromCalica //------------------------------// Writing style has changed a bit ever since Luna ate an Oreo. The Seven travel to the Edge, which is the defense system of the Subnet. It's full of machines, protocols and a bunch of other boring shit everyone takes for granted. Twilight saw the awesomeness of the Edge, and it's like Dead Space, only more like chromed sugar cubes as walls. God I hope they don't get diabetes for eating it. Time Turner looks at the strange circular outlet on one of the walls. It looks like it can be connected by a certain kind of plug. "Hey, Twilight" said Time Turner "How about you put your horn in here?" "Oh no" Twilight replied "Here comes the sexual innuendo again." "It's an outlet that sucks di-" Flitter yelled out before being slapped on the face, again, by Cloud Chaser. "You sick fuck" the complaining Cloud Chaser said to Flitter who rubbed her own cheek due to pain. Twilight then attempted to put her horn on the outlet. It fits, and then she casts a magic spell. Suddenly, she's connected to the machine. She saw many gibberish numbers and figures all over, colored in green. The background is in darker green towards black, with a grid of green lines, both horizontally and vertically, like the pattern of a graphing paper. Every window flashed before her eyes like having a seizure. It shows windows saying "TURRET ARMED", "MAINFRAME SYSTEM ACTIVE" or even "CLICK FOR SODA". While surfing the Subnet for porn a switch, Twilight then saw a window that says "ELEVATOR INACTIVE". She then switched it on somehow by thinking about it. It now says "ELEVATOR ACTIVE", and then it seems that nothing happened. "I'm bored" complained Twilight. She disconnects herself from the machine, and exits the digital world. Octavia looks behind her, and there she saw a cube that has a door on it that says "GATEWAY TO VANDALIZING THE MAINFRAME HERE". She then called the other members who were arguing. "And you lost your virginity to a mechanical outlet!" says Flitter. "At least your brother will avoid you once he finds out what you did!" "Oh shut the fuck up." Twilight answered, frustrated because of what Flitter said. "Guys..." Octavia called. "Why?" Flitter asked. "Because you're annoying." Twilight said. "Why?" "Because you have bad manners." "Why?" "Because you kept thinking of dirty thoughts!" Twilight raised her voice. "Why?" "Because it's not nice and off topic!" Twilight raised her voice with a more frustrated voice. "Why?" "GUYS!" Octavia attempted to gain attention once more, with an angry look. "... Why?" Flitter chuckled. "Ugh, look behind me." Octavia pointed behind her while looking in front of them. Everypony saw the elevator door. Time Turner and the other ponies trotted into the elevator, except for one. Octavia wonders where Derpy is. "DERPY!" Time Turner called, which the camera thing reveals Derpy sticking her tongue out and bringing it closer to a fast moving cooling fan on an open vent. Derpy stops, and then follows Turner. "To the third floor, I guess..." Cloud Chaser said, pressing the button leading to the topmost part of the defense system. The elevator goes up, and it zoomed towards the top floor. Meanwhile, the human follows them by means of using random codes from one to 462, finally reaching The Listener's Room, where he/she found a note that leads to 552. Knowing that someone went to the Root, he/she goes pack to the portal, and went there. Twilight and her not-so worthwhile pals walked on the surface. There's nothing much they can find there, except for wiring, pipes and a rocky surface beneath them. Octavia got a bit more pissed off as the dust she stepped on stained her bow tie. "Darn it" complained Octavia, "It's okay if my mane was to be covered with dirt, but my bow tie, which wasted me 200 bits... Dear God, why?" "Stop nagging" Twilight replied "There's more than a billion of those in the future, and don't worry. If we get first place, we'll earn a million bits!" Octavia's angry mood changed to excitement after hearing this. She then runs around her group mates, shouting "OMIGOSH" in repeat. Imagine me doing that in public without any pants... The group then reaches a turret. Its sensors detected a floating Cloud Chaser, which in turn armed itself. Twilight knew that she should've switched the turret off. It's aim is locked towards Cloud Chaser, while it's filling itself with its massive rounds. Twilight then shouted "RUN!", but then Time Turner said "Teleportation?" "Oh shut up" Twilight responded. She then teleported everypony back to the location of the elevator just in time before being disintegrated into a Caesar Salad. But to everypony's demise, the elevator disappeared. Probably the defense system was smart enough to avoid escape. "Duck." Time Turner said in fear, "The turret is slowly walking towards us. What are we gonna do?" Twilight, remembering something familiar, then ordered Time Turner to do something. "WHAT? ARE YOU SERIOUS? HOW ARE WE GONNA SURVIVE THAT?" Turner complained death going to happen for them if they jumped. "Trust me" Twilight replied, with a similar voice to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Twilight grabbed Time Turner's foreleg, along with him grabbing Octavia's foreleg. The triad jumped to their seemingly endless fall just before the turret can shoot them. Suddenly, something broke their fall. It's not the pegasi lifting them either. It was another turret, grabbing the pegasi, whilst aiming at the wingless ponies. "We're screwed, mate" Octavia said "Goodbye cruel world." Suddenly, something cut off their power source, causing them to stop moving, like someone had to pause the game to pee, and then come back to playing after finishing. Twilight and Time Turner stopped hugging each other in their belief that they are safe. Octavia wondered who stopped the turret's power source. Looking at the bottom is a muffin clogging the mechanisms of a power box, and because muffins contain iron and healthy conductive minerals, it short circuited the wires, causing it to explode. Derpy is seen eating one of those at the side. Time Turner then said, "Sometimes I love dumbasses". The pegasi lifted the wingless ponies up to the surface. Twilight looks closer to the giant legged turret the size of 3 Iraq styled houses mixed together. As she looks closer, she saw a piece of paper. Twilight then read its contents. Once you mess something up, the defense systems lock you up for good. There's only one escape, though, and that is the vent. Ende. Twilight now realized that since she messed something up, there's no way she can escape now. But then, she recalled one event, involving Derpy, her tongue, and a cooling fan. She then started looking for vents. She saw one vent piping entrance, rusty and covered in dirt. "There it is, Turner!" Twilight shouted excitedly, "We must enter that vent to get to the portal once again!" "What vent? Oh, that..." Octavia replied, "I ain't gonna let my bow tie get ruined by rust once again." "Okay then, we'll leave you here." Cloud Chaser answered. They all went into the vent pipe. Octavia, not being able to resist because of the spooky surroundings and the noise of sparking wires and steam, ran into the vent, yelling "WAIT FOR ME!" The human reaches the Root. He/she discovered that the power failed. Then he/she went into the darkness with a flashlight. The human wanders around the area, only finding a bloody knife on an circuit box. The human believes that someone murdered someone else, destroyed the circuit box, hid the body somewhere else and went to the portal to escape. He then went to the other side of the Root to find the "murderer" or the victim of it. Meanwhile, Twilight's friends are cramped in the vent. "Okay, who farted?" Turner asked. "Wasn't me" Cloud Chaser replied. "Why would I do such?" Octavia answered. "Not gonna" Flitter told them. "Muffins" Derpy said. "Really, Octavia?" Flitter asked. "What? No. Farting is unethical, especially in a cramped zone like this!" Octavia said, angrily. "WILL YOU GUYS JUST SHUT UP?" Twilight screamed "Farting is natural so stop arguing!" "So you farted?" Cloud Chaser asked. "No. It must be the effect of the carbon dioxide gases from the leaking canisters of the defense system's mechanical automation that causes the smell of rotten feces, therefore concluding that nopony has released CO2 gas from their flanks." Twilight's explanation has confused everypony but Time Turner, which kept all of their mouths shut. While they are in the vent, they found out that the way to the portal has been blocked by a mechanical fan. No intentions of escape, they go around somewhere else. The human went to 553. He/she saw that the door is already open. The human then walked into the lighted temple set and then he/she found several messages carved on the wall. Not so surprised, the human reads the messages written by someone using the jewel scattered on the floor. I LOVE MUFFINS 747 *scribble scribble* NONSENSE - SENSE OF NOTHING The human taught that they went back to the portal to escape to the defense systems, and got locked into it. He/she went back to the portal to catch up, abandoning the search for the victim's body. The ponies reach another vent, finally something that looks like an exit. "Freedom!" yelled Flitter. "Or not..." replied Twilight, after seeing that they are locked in another part of the defense system. "Shit" Turner then gives an advice "Let's turn around somewhere else." They turned around to see that the rest of the vent has been shut down and locked. They're all locked in, just like what Twilight saw on the note. Speaking of notes, Octavia found a note taped on a wall. She then asked Twilight to read it, but then Twilight replied "No way, you read it. I have enough reading for one day", but Octavia said "But I taught you like reading!" Twilight, having no other choice than nag all day long, reads the note's message. Every area has its own escape, I eat live cats and there's another portal nearby. Time Turner looks around for a door, he found nothing but an outlet, a similar looking outlet that they saw earlier. "Twilight" Time Turner called her name "Try to put your horn inside this thing once more!" "Yeah, and get laid once more!" Flitter responded. "Shut the hay up" Twilight answered to Flitter. "Nah, I do it for the lulz" Flitter then chuckled and said "This novel's genre is about comedy, right?" "Oh, I see. Wait, what novel?" Twilight became curious. "Nothing, nothing..." Time Turner said. Twilight became suspicious at first, but then forgets it, and then plugged her horn into the outlet. A brief flash shone on Twilight's eyes before she saw the matrix once again. There, she searches for a way to disable the defense system. She finds a window that says "SECONDARY DS ACTIVE", which, after she chose "DISABLE", a password was required. Twilight then stood there for a while, and then asking the other ponies. "What's the password for this?" Twilight asked. "Muffins!" Derpy answered. Twilight, having no other choice, typed in "MUFFINS". Strangely, the machine accepted that password, and then Twilight has the choice if she wants to disable the Secondary Defense System or not. She chose yes, like what everyday heroes would do just to get their hands on their online kiddy porn. The screen now says "SECONDARY DS FAILURE", even the background says so. Twilight then exits the Subnet world, everypony stared at her like "OMG you did it!" and Twilight responds by saying "Aw, don't be to amazed", in which Flitter responded "Were we even talking about you?". The human finally arrived at the edge, but there's something wrong. Everything is foggy, all the doors are open, and the Elevator's at his/her front. The human went to the second floor, which he/she finally found the group. The Seven were talking. "And then you married a wall, and slept with it!" Flitter replied, before Cloud Chaser hits her head with a lead pipe, saying "WHY WON'T YOU SHUT UP?" Flitter then regains from the pain she felt, and then saw a figure on the elevator. "Guys?" Flitter asked "Who or what is that?" she points her right foreleg on the figure. Everypony screamed like a little girl, except for Time Turner, who is a boy, and doesn't scream because only girls scream, and boys yell and shout out words like "ALLAH ACKBAR". The human walks closer. Cloud Chaser then attempted to use the lead pipe on the figure and uses it as a fencing foil. "Don't come closer" Cloud Chaser warned the human, just before he/she draws his/her shotgun, which scared the shit out of Cloud Chaser and the other ponies. "Tits!" Flitter said, before she heard somepony say "Hey that's not cool", she then found the same skull she got from the first chapter, which then said "Seriously". Then the figure walks closer, holding the shotgun, pointing it upwards. The figure then reveals himself to be... Osama Bin Laden! Man, wasn't that a blast- no wait, it was actually the Terminator. Sorry guys. "Come with me if you want to live" the Terminator said. "Who are you?" Twilight asked. "I am a Terminat-" something stabbed through the Terminator's chest from behind. It's the turret's working sentient leg. The Terminator's power source then bounces to the floor, which Derpy picks up. "Muffin!" she said. Thinking it's a special kind of muffin, she keeps it on her pocket, if she ever had one. "HYDRA!" Flitter picks up the shotgun and points it at the leg's 'eye' or sensors. "Hasta la vista, baby." Flitter told to the leg, before shooting the leg's eye out. It became paralyzed, and then shuts down. "Thank God for weaponry!" Octavia yelled out loud. "Shh!" Time Turner said "Didn't you know what will happen if- Ah, shucks, here we go again." Small spider-like sentient sub-bots crawl towards them in VERY large masses. "Time to teleport!" Twilight shouted, which caught Time Turner's attention, looking at Twilight's eyes. "See? I learned." Twilight said. She then casts a spell in which everypony teleports into the elevator. Twilight pressed the button to go to the first floor. Octavia then wondered why the hay Twilight didn't teleport them all to the portal instead of going through all those puzzles in the first place. As the elevator's door open, the portal is in front of them. Twilight made sure there's no sign of something or someone in there that would be a threat to them. She then said "Sector clear!" which Time Turner responds with "Roger that!", revealing that Turner is lying atop Twilight's back. "What?" Turner asked. "Get off me" Twilight ordered the brown horse to get off her back, which he did so. Then they choose another code for the portal. "Where should we go next?" asked Octavia. "The Land of Chocolate?" Cloud Chaser replied. "Muffin?" Derpy replied. "Let's try the Loop!" Flitter gave another idea. "I'm out of ideas." Twilight said. "Maybe let's just go back home instead." "I found a note!" Turner picks up a piece of paper taped behind the portal. He then reads what it says. After some hours of laziness I therefore conclude that the Core is awesome. Period. Wanna go there? Try 291 for more details about the Core! Unknown if the Terminator was the one who put that note, since it wasn't there before, they typed 291 on the portal, and hit the big round button. They teleport somewhere else. Meanwhile, a woman was running for her life. She reached an escape pod and launched herself TO THE MOON towards the voidness of the Subnet. A man with only one arm then said "Shit. She got away. Quick, boys! We're gonna make a new portal here!" He uses his invisible arm (like my invisible driver's license) and summoned a giant green portal, which he and his men jumped into to follow the woman. What a stalker that guy was.