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// Unplugged 
// Story: Reboot: New Generation 
// by The Irish Brony 
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“Hello young Sparky,” Hex says, patting Sparky on the head. “Did you get me out, because if you did, that was quite clever of you,”
“No,” Sparky says with a little irritation in his voice as he looks up at her. “That would be Pipp,” Sparky says, pointing his thumb over his shoulder at Pipp, who was claiming back up onto the port.
“Oh,” Hex deadpans before her mask returns back to a smile. “Well, I better be off. I’ve got a brother to murder!” She says, her face turning into anger.
“Wait!” Sparky yells before Hex pops out with a bright flash of light. Sparky rubs his eyes as Pipp walks over to him.
“You ok?” Pipp asks, crouching down a bit and putting a hand on his shoulder.
“I’m fine,” Sparky says, pulling his shoulder away from Pipp. He looks inside the container to see chains dangling from the wall. “Looks like Megabyte tricked Hex into powering his hardware,”
“He’s going to be in a world of hurt when she gets to him,” Pipp says, looking inside the box.



“You insolent fools!” Megabyte yells as he smashes his fist into the arm of his chair. The viral binom on the vid window starts to shake. The binom tries to shrink down as small as he can as Megabyte stares daggers into him. “I told you not to retreat from the Hard drive!” Megabyte yells, his voice seething anger at every word. “Stop Hitch from leaving the hard drive at all cost!”
“Y-yes!” The binom responds before shakily saluting. “Of course!” He says before the vid window collapse down.
“You did me dirty!” Hex yells as she appears in front of Megabyte. “You lied to me, You deceived me!” Hex yells as he walks closer to Megabyte, who is unfazed. “And you chained me up!” Hex says, leaning down face to masked face with Megabyte. “That was downright kinky,” Hex says before waving a hand in front of her face as her mask turns into a smile. “I liked it,”
“Of course you did,” Megabyte responds as Hex pulls away.
“Of course I could help the good guys defeat you for what you did to me,” Hex says, turning her back to him.
“But you won’t,” Megabyte says.
“How did you know?” Hex sarcastically says, turning around to face him with a surprised mask.
“Because I know my own sister,” Megabyte responds.
“You could always read me like a data dump,” Hex responds. “What do you want me to do?” She says as Megabyt’s smile widens.



“Shit!” Hitch yells as he dodges the crumbling city. “And I thought having to defend against Megabyte’s forces was bad,” Hitch says before one of Megabyte’s ships shoots at him. He doges before pointing Glitch at the ship. “Glitch! Short circuit!” The gear tilts up and at the ship before charging a yellow ball of light. The ball of light shoots off to the ship, hitting it directly before lighting zips around the ship. It goes spiraling down before hitting a building, causing it to collapse onto it.
“This is very bad,” Hitch says as he looks at the guarded port.
“Game over, user w-w-wins,” The announcer says, glitching out a bit as the game leaves. The moment the game leaves the system, a loud crash booms out across the system. The sky turns black as the ground shakes. The electric sound ring out as the announcer says, “Crash imminent,” 
“And it got worse,” Hitch says before turning back towards the fleet waiting for him. “Glitch, how much power do you have left?” Hitch asks as he dodges the laser bolts from the ships. Glitch beeps back as Hitch smiles. “That's just the amount I need,” Hitch says before pointing the key tool toward the fleet. “Glitch, EMP!”
Glitch charges up a blue sapphire before turning into a catapult and flinging it at the fleet. The ball hits one of the ships in the center of the fleet, causing it to shut off and careen toward the ground. The EMP grows in size, causing the ships to power down as they touch the EMP.
“Nice work Glitch,” Hitch says as he flies down and into the USB tunnel. “Now to just get to the other side before the user…”
“Unplugging initiating,” The announcer says as the tunnel turns a bright blue.
“Oh, no,” Hitch says before shaking his head franticly. “No, no, no!”



“Where is he?” Pipp whispers in frustration as she looks down the USB tunnel. Her arms crossed over her chest as she taps her foot.
“Come one dad,” Sparky whispers. “Where are you?” Sparky asks to himself as he starts to get nervous. The tunnel turns blue as a red laser grid appears, filling the tunnel before moving away from the two.
“What?” Pipp asks as a vid window pops up next to her. She turns to see Phong on the vid window, pushing up his glasses as he looks down at the vid window in front of him. “Phong, what’s going on?” Pipp asks, causing Phong to jump a bit as he looks up at her.
“It seems the user has started to remove the external hard drive. The system is scanning the data inside before it can be removed,” Phong explains. “I can only delay the scan for so long before it’s completed,”
“Give Hitch as much time as you can give him,” Pipp responds with worry on her face.
“I will try my child,” Phong says before the vid window closes.
“There he is!” Sparky yells as he sees Hitch at the other end of the tunnel.
“Sparky! Pipp!” Hitch yells out with a big smile on his face. “Yes, I’m going to make it!” Hitch says before the ground shake. The sky turns yellow as the tunnel turns a bright yellow as well. “I shouldn’t have said that,” Hitch says as his zip board starts to fail.
“Dad!” Sparky yells out, throwing down his zip board before trying to get on. Pipp grabs his arm and pulls him off the zip board before he can go anywhere. “Hey!” Sparky yells, looking up at Pipp in anger. “Let me go!” He yells struggling against Pipp’s grip.
“If you go after him, you could end up stuck with him!” Pipp yells as Sparky starts to slip from her grip.
“I would rather be with dad than without him,” Sparky snaps back in anger. Pipp’s heart breaks as the words sink into her head. Tears form in her eyes before her face turns into anger.
“Hey!” Sparky yells as Pipp grabs his gun from his hip. She quickly sets it to stun and points it at him. She shoots him, causing him to fall to the ground. She sighs as she drops the gun next to him. 
“I hope you can forgive me Sparky,” Pipp whispers. “It’s for your own safety,”
“What the heck?” Hitch says in confusion at what he just saw. He has no time to process it as his zip board gives out and sends him into the ground. He skids across the ground to a stop. He sits up as he rubs his head. “No,” Hitch says as tears start to run down his cheeks. “I’ve failed,” Hitch looks up to see the exit still very far away. The end starts to detach from the port.
Pipp and Hitch’s eyes meet as they express sadness to each other across the gap. Sparky grunts as he sits up on his knees. He grunts as he rubs his head in pain. Hitch blinks as he gets an idea.
“Glitch,” Hitch says, looking down at his key tool. “Activate emergency guardian code number one,” Hitch says before Glitch beeps back. “Of course, it’s an emergency!” Hitch yells back at Glitch. “Go to Sparky,” Hitch says before Glitch completely detaches from Hitch’s arm and flies down the tunnel toward Sparky. “Take care of him for me Glitch,” Hitch whispers as he watches his key tool fly away.
“Ow…” Sparky says as he rubs his head. “What happened?” Pipp helps him up as he looks up at her.
“I stopped you from helping Hitch in fear you would be stuck with him,” Pipp explains.
“Wait…” Sparky says as his brain buffers. “Dad!” Sparky turns to see Hitch sitting on the ground with tears flowing down his cheeks and a smile on his face.
“What is Glitch doing?” Pipp asks as Glitch flies up to Sparky before landing on his left arm.
“Glitch, what are you doing?” Sparky asks. Glitch beeps back at him before settling down. “I’m the what!” Sparky says in disbelief.
“What is it?” Pipp asks, but before Sparky can respond, the tunnel completely disconnects from the port and starts to disintegrate. 
“Dad!” Sparky yells out as tears fill his eyes.
Hitch smiles before saying, “I love you Spary, make me proud,”
“Hitch,” Pipp whispers as the tunnel disintegrates around him. It starts to disintegrate him as he yells out in pain. Tears flow freely down Sparky’s face as he kneels on the ground. The tunnel, now fully gone from the port, leaves no trace of Hitch.
“NNNOOOOOOooo!” Sparky yells out as his heartaches. He stands up and runs towards where Hitch was before being grabbed by Pipp.
“We need to go,” Pipp says as she wipes the tears from her eyes.
“No,” Sparky refuses as he tugs at her hand.
“We need to go now!” Pipp says, pointing over her shoulder with her thumb at Megabyte’s fleet fighting the CPUs and winning. Sparky sighs as Pipp throws down her zip board and jumps onto it. Sparky jumps on his and the two fly toward the Principal Office.



“Sparky, please let me in,” Pipp says, knocking on the door to his room in the Pricipal Office. She sighs as Phong slides down the hallway towards her.
“He needs time Pipp,” Phong says as he stops in front of her. “He just lost a hero, and a father,”
“I know,” Pipp sighs, looking down at the ground with sorrow on her face. “We all lost a hero,”
“The real question is, are you ok?” Phong asks, gently placing a hand on her arm.
“Of course,” Pipp says, straightening up. “Why wouldn’t I be?” She asks, looking down at him.
“Hmm…” Phong thinks to himself as he twiddles his long beard. “I will not push you further, I fear you will not be happy with me. But I will be here if you ever need me, my child,” Phong says, clasping his hands together.
“Thanks,” Pipp responds with a kind smile before releasing something. “What do you mean by I will not be happy with you?” Pipp asks, question in her voice.
Phong sighs before saying, “Come with me,” Phong says before turning back down the hallway and sliding away. Pipp follows him down the hallway away from Sparky’s room.
The two enter into the control room where a group of binoms talk at the table. Other binoms run the many computers lining the top overlooking the table. Pipp’s eyes widen when she spots a familiar mare leaning against the far wall.
Standing on the other side of the room is Zephyrina Storm, also known as Zip. She wears a skin-tight blue shirt with an unzipped camo coat. It’s paired with blue jeans, combat boots, a katana on her hip, and sunglasses on her forehead. Her red hair sticks up like a mohawk with a streak of light blue going threw it.
Zipp and Pipp make eye contact before Pipp’s face contorts into passive-aggressive anger. Zipp sighs as Pipp and Phong walk over to her. She pushes off the wall as Pipp stops in front of her.
“Long time no see sis,” Pipp says, looking up at her with slight anger.
“Please don’t say your still mad at me,” Zipp sighs. “Can we at least put that behind us right now, Mainframe needs us,”
“You have no idea what Mainframe needs!” Pipp yells, angrily pointing her finger in Zipp’s face.
“Chill your jets Pipp,” Zipp says, raising her hands in front of her face to defend herself from Pipp’s finger.
“Please Pipp, calm down,” Phong says, looking up at Pipp. “I know you two have had your differences, but please, calm down for the sake of Mainframe,”
“How can I!?” Pipp yells, looking down at Phong. “She’s a backstabbing, lying cheater!” Pipp says, pointing over at Zipp.
“Lying, maybe, cheater sometimes, but a backstabber I never was or am,” Zipp responds as Pipp turns to face her.
“And what would you even know about…” Pipp starts before the giant vid window beeps before Megabyte shows up on the screen, sitting in his chair. The two turn to look. Zipp grits her teeth and clenches her fist as her eyes narrow at the virus.
“Am I interrupting a family reunion?” Megabyte asks, looking between the two.
“Not at all,” Pipp responds with great hate hissing between her teeth.
“You’ll pay for what you did to Hitch you backstabbing virus!” Zipp yells out in anger, pointing up at Megabyte.
“It’s nice to see you too Storm,” Megabyte responds with a wicked smile.
“You keep my name out of your mouth,” Zipp hisses at him as he chuckles.
“While it was nice to see you, Zipp. I have a supercomputer to go to,” Megabyte responds.
“You’ll find that quite impossible,” Zipp responds, crossing her hands over her chest and smiling.
“What do you mean?” Megabyte says as he lanes closer to the vid window. His face contorted into anger as he stares down at Zipp.
“I’ve detached the ports from the net and encrypted them,” Zipp says as a smile slowly creeps onto Pipp's face. “You aren’t going anywhere,”
“Cheek mate,” Pipp responds crosser her arms as well. Zipp and Pipp look at each other with smug smiles before Pipp nods. Zipp nods back before they turn back to Megabyte.
“Your attempt to keep me in is futile,” Megabyte responds, leaning back into his chair. “You have no guardian, your CPUs are trashed, and Mis, Storms isn’t going to change much. I will get into the Principal Office and I will get a portal to the supercomputer,” Megabyte says before the door to the command room opens.
“You’re wrong!” Sparky yells out in anger, pointing his finger up at Megabyte.
“What did you say to me boy!” Megabyte responds in disgust.
“I said, You. Are. Wrong!” Sparky yells out as Pipp and Zipp look over at him. “We do have a Guardian,”
“Who might that be?” Megabyte asks as Sparky double-taps his icon. The black and white icon pushes out a bit before slowly flipping upside down. It pushes back in before blue light starts crossing his body, starting at the icon. His entire body is scanned over by the blue light. His clothes are replaced by a dark blue guardian uniform with dark blue boots to match.
“I am Guardian Sparky Blaze!” Sparky yells out at Megabyte as Sparky points to himself. “And I am the emergency guardian of this system,” Sparky says before squinting his eyes at Megabyte. “So just try and attack,”