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// Propaganda 
// Story: Reboot: New Generation 
// by The Irish Brony 
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“Keep him covered,” Pipp says to the commander. The command salutes before the vid window closes. Pipp looks up at the big screen in the command room. It shows Sparky heading to where the Gamecube is going to land. “Be safe Sparky,” Pipp whispers.
“He’ll be fine,” Zipp says, gently placing a hand on Pipp’s shoulder. Pipp looks back at Zipp before responding.
“How do you know that?”
“Because I watched him in the game,” Zipp responds, leaning against the table. “He saved my life and won the game. He really is a lot like his dad,” 
Pipp sighs before nodding and saying, “I hope you are right,”



Sparky speeds across the sky above Mainframe on his zip board. His face is full of determination as he heads to the falling Gamecube. “Wha!” Sparky yells as the zip board is swiped from under him. Sparky goes flying down and lands face-first into the flat roof of a building. He rubs his face as he staggers back up to his feet.
“Who took my zip board!” Sparky yells, turning around to see a group of angry binoms, Some of the binoms being viral, standing behind him. One holding onto the collapsed zip board. “Give that back!” Sparky yells as he runs over to get the zip board, but the binoms move, causing him to stumble a bit. He quickly turns around as a viral binom with an afro, steps to the front of the group.
“You don’t deserve Hitch’s key tool!” The binom yells. The others yelling in agreement with the binom. “You are just a silly, little, kid!” The binom says. Each word coming out of the binom’s mouth angers Sparky.
“If you don’t let me in the game, the sector will be nullified!” Sparky yells back.
“You will cause the nullification!” The binom retorts.
“I have no time for this,” Sparky says before looking down at Glitch. “Glitch, zip board,” The gear detaches and attaches to the zip board. Glitch pulls the zip board away from the binom holding it and returns it to Sparky before the gear returns back to the key tool.
“Get him!” The binom yells as Sparky throws down the zip board. He quickly hops onto it and flies away from the group and towards the almost fallen Gamecube.
“Come on, a little faster,” Sparky urges the zip board as he goes as fast as he can on it. He pulls back before running into the game cube. “Damit!” Sparky yells, looking up at the Gamecube as it solidifies. “Those damn binoms,” Sparky grits threw his teeth before turning around and flying back towards the Principal Office.



“Those damn binoms!” Pipp yells in anger as she slams her fists into the table.
“Pipp, calm down,” Zipp says, placing a hand on Pipp’s shoulder.
“How can I be calm when a sector is going to be nullified!” Pipp yells, turning to Zipp in anger. Zipp backs up and raises her hands up in defense.
“You don’t know that,” Zipp responds. “Maybe the binoms will win this time,” Zipp shrugs.
“They never win,” Pipp responds, still angry, but with a lot less vigor.
“She is right you know,” Phong pips in.
“But maybe with everything going on…” Zipp is unable to finish the statement before the game starts to lift off the ground.
“Game over, user wins,” the announcer says as the Gamecube leaves behind an empty sector in its wake.
“Those stupid binoms!” Sparky yells in complete and utter hate as he slams the door open to the command room. All the binoms in the room flinch as Sparky angrily walks over to the group around the table. “Why would they stop me!” Sparky yells, slamming his hands down on the table, causing Phong to flinch.
“Sparky,” Pipp responds, placing a gentle hand on his shoulder. “Calm down,”
Zipp chuckles before whispering, “Hypocrite,” Pipp looks over at Zipp with a little annoyance while Sparky shrugs Pipp’s hand off his shoulder.
“How can I calm down when an entire sector is now nullified!” Sparky yells, throwing his arms up into the air. “And it’s because of those stupid binoms!”
“Anger at things you can’t control will not fix anything,” Phong says, sliding over to Sparky. “You must let go of the past, and learn from it,”
“But what lesson did we learn from this?” Sparky responds, anger still present in his voice.
“That Megabyte is using propaganda,” Zipp says, looking up at the giant vid window. The others look up to see it showing the afro binom putting up anti-Sparky signs on a building.
“That explains it,” Pipp says before the vid window goes black again. “Is there any way of fighting against that?”
“By making Sparky a hero like Hitch once was,” Phong points out. “If we make him a living icon for the Citizens of Mainframe, they will trust him and lead us to victory!”
“But how do I do that?” Sparky asks.
“That…” Phong says before pausing. “I do not know,” Phong sighs as he shakes his head.
“Maybe if Sparky keeps winning games, they will see him as a hero,” Zipp suggests.
“That might work,” Phong responds.
“I just need to get into the next game that drops,” Sparky responds before the sky turns purple and the city rings out with an electric sound.
“Speak of the user,” Pipp says as she turns to the map of Mainframe on the table. “It’s dropping in sector six,” Pipp says before turning back to face Sparky. “Be careful, Megabyte controls that part,”
“Don’t worry about me,” Sparky says, pointing at himself. “I can get there no problem,” Sparky says confidently before turning around and walking towards the exit. He walks out of the door as Pipp sighs.
“I hope he’s right,” Pipp says, before turning to the vid window.



Sparky goes flying across the sky towards the Gamecube as fast as the little zip board can carry him. He flies much higher so the binom can’t grab his zip board from under him this time. He looks down to see a bunch of binoms with signs, protesting him. Sparky sighs as he slowly shakes his head.
“Wha!” Sparky says as he is jolted forward. He looks back to see one of Megabyte’s ships behind him. His eyes widen as he goes to fly down, but another ship blocks his way. Three other ships fly in to surround him, leaving him with only one option, to go forward.
“Crap!” Sparky yells. He is charging straight into another ship that blocks his way. He smacks full force into it, causing his zip board to go flying into the Gamecube before it drops down without him in it. Sparky grabs onto the ship before pulling himself up and onto the top of the ship.
“Screw you Megabyte!” Sparky yells out in anger as he punches the ship. “Fuck,” Sparky cries as he cradles his hand. “Note to self, don’t punch metal,” Sparky whispers to himself as the top hatch of the ship opens up and out pops a viral binom with an energy gun. Sparky looks up before shouting, “Glitch! Energy shield!” Sparky raises glitch up as the gear extends out and turns into a shield before the viral binom starts shooting.
Sparky slowly scoots toward the binom as he keeps shooting. Sparky get’s close enough that the gun is touching the shield. The binom goes to shoot, but the gun explodes in his hand due to the shot going back into the gun.
“Lights out,” Sparky says before punching the binom across the face. The binom spins around before falling back into the ship. Glitch returns to normal as Sparky climbs into the ship’s control room.



“That’s the second time,” Pipp says, gritting her teeth as the vid window of Sparky closes. The building shakes again as Sparky walks angrily into the command room.
“That virus will pay for this,” Sparky growls. His anger is so great you could roast a marshmallow from just the heat from his head.
“How much more can the shield take?” Pipp asks, looking up and over at Zipp, who is working away at the computer.
“I’m giving it all I can,” Zipp says, before looking over at Pipp. “Two or three more shots and we are toast,”
“Phong, is there a way to stop that weapon?” Pipp asks, looking across the table at Phong.
“The only way to stop it is if we could get close enough to disable it and distract Hex,” Phong explains, looking down at the table.
“I have an idea,” Sparky says as he raises his arm up.
“What is it?” Pipp asks, turning towards Sparky.
“If we send a few CPUs along with me and Zipp, then we could get close enough while they distract Hex,” Sparky explains. “I then can use Glitch to try and dismantle the device,”
“That could work,” Phong nods as he scratches his chin.
“Ok, I’ll call on as many CPUs I can spare,” Pipp says. “You two stay out of range in this sector,” Pipp says, pointing down by a sector near the weapon as Zipp walks down to them. “When I say you can go, then go,” Pipp says. Zipp and Sparky nod before heading for the door.
“You ready to kick some Hex butt?” Sparky asks, looking up at Zipp.
“Ready and willing,” Zipp replies back before the door closes behind them.



“So they are planning to hit Hex and the Hardwear,” a viral binom says to Megabyte. Megabyte chuckles as he leans back into his chair while tapping his fingers together.
“Another futile attempt to save their city,” Megabyte smiles. “Pull fleets two and five to protect Hex, she must not be disturbed,” Megabyte commands.
“Yes sir!” The viral binom responds, saluting before the vid window collapse. Megabyte starts slowly laughing as he thinks of all the ways he could delete the city.
“Oh Phong,” Megabyte sighs. “You think you can just send a fake guardian and a backstabbing hacker to save your city?” Megabyte asks himself. “What a pitiful idea,” Megabyte says, slowly shaking his head.



“I wonder how much longer we have to wait,” Sparky says, his arms crossed over his chest as he taps his foot. He leans against the building with Zipp. CPU ships wait, hidden amongst the building above the two.
“Be patient, she is probably trying to get all the CPUs she can,” Zipp responds before a vid window pops up in front of them.
“Everything is ready,” Pipp says as her face pops up onto the vid window.
“We clear to attack?” Zipp asks as she and Sparky stand up straight.
“Clear and…” Pipp stops as the map in front of her flashes red. “No!” Pipp yells, looking down at the map.
“What is it?” Zipp asks with worry in her voice.
“Megabyte is pulling two fleets to protect the weapon!” Pipp yells before looking up at Zipp and Sparky. “Be careful, this is going to be harder than we thought,”
“When was it ever easy?” Sparky asks as he throws down his zip board.
“Good point,” Pipp responds as Zipp throws down her zip board. “But still, be careful,”
“We will,” Zipp responds before closing the vid window and flying after Sparky, who had already taken off into the sky. Zipp flies up next to Sparky as they head toward the weapon. The CPUs follow behind them.
“There they are,” Sparky says, looking over at the fleet of ABCs headed for the weapon. “Attack!” Sparky yells back at the CPUs. The CPUs head toward the ABCs, leaving Zipp and Sparky flying toward the weapon. Sparky looks down at Glitch as he beeps. His eyes widen before he yells, “Dodge!”
“Shit!” Zipp yells as the two dodges a laser bolt from behind them. They look back to see two ABCs following them. “You keep going!” Zipp yells before stopping and turning around. She pulls her katana out and heads for the ships. The ships fire upon her as Sparky makes it to the bottom of the weapon.
He flies up to the platform before stepping onto it. He ducks and pulls a bit back to dodge Hex’s magic attack. He strands before swinging his arms around as he tilts a bit on the edge of falling off the platform. Hex flies over and grabs Sparky, pulling him in close to her.
“What a lovely surprise!” Hex says, slowly caressing Sparky’s cheeks. “And well dressed too,” Hex says, causing Sparky to blush a bit.
“Thanks?” Sparky asks with a hint of confusion in his voice.
“I hope you are as fun to try and delete as your father!” Hex says with a big smile before throwing Sparky over the edge of the platform.
“Glitch!” Sparky yells, pointing Glitch up at his zip board. “Zip board!” Sparky yells before the gear detaches and flies fast up to the zip board. It attaches itself to the zip board before beeping. Glitch then guides the zip board down below Sparky. Sparky flips around and lands on the zip board before pulling up. The gear returns back to the key tool as he flies back toward the platform.
“You’ll have to do better than that,” Sparky says, flying up to the platform before stepping off the zip board. He quickly picks up the zip board as Hex turns around to face her.
“You really take after your father,” Hex says, clasping her hands together and placing them against her cheek while smiling sweetly. “Let’s see how well you fight!” Hex yells as her face turns into anger. She raises her hands up and points at Sparky. Her hands start to glow white before shooting out a yellow bolt.
“Glitch!” Sparky yells but doesn’t finish as the bolt hit’s his chest, causing him to fly back off the platform. Sparky throws down the zip board again and lands on it. He looks up in time to see Hex flying after him. “Glitch! Aaauuu…” Sparky blanks as Hex starts getting closer. “Anything!” Sparky yells as he parses himself for impact.
Glitch detaches and turns into a light post, stopping Hex in her tracks with a metallic bang. Sparky slowly lowers his arms and blinks a bit as he watches Hex slide off the pole and falls down towards the ground. “Now that’s what I call a high light,” Sparky says, chuckling to himself as Glitch returns back to normal and lands on his arm again.
Sparky flies over to the platform before stepping on again. Sparky picks up the zip board and places it on his hip before walking over to the controls.
“Glitch,” Sparky says, looking down at glitch. “Hack?” Sparky asks. Glitch beeps before extending the orange rode out and inserting it into the command terminal. “All right then,” Sparky says as glitch beeps and turns. Glitch’s screen flashes blue at the same time it beeps.
“How dare you!” Hex yells in seething anger as she charges toward Sparky. Sparky has no time to move. Hex takes Sparky to the ground, causing the rode and gear to rip off of the key tool and stay in place. Sparky grunts as Hex charges up a fireball in her hand.
“Glitch!” Sparky says, pointing the key toll at Hex before releasing what had happened. “Shit!” Sparky says, looking up at the angry virus on top of him.
“Goodbye, Sparky!” Hex says with a wicked smile. But before she can do anything, a laser bolt hits her. Throwing her off the platform and falling towards the ground again. Sparky sits up to see Pipp with a laser gun in her hand.
“Thanks,” Sparky says as he stands up.
“Don’t thank me yet,” Pipp says as Hex flies back up.
“How dare you Pipp!” Hex yells before charging past Sparky and towards Pipp. Pipp flies away with Hex following behind her.
“Ok,” Sparky says, watching Pipp fly away before turning and running up to Glitch. He gently pushes the key tool base up into the gear, reattaching it. “Have you figured out how to dismantle it?” Sparky asks. Glitch beeps back, causing Sparky to sigh. He goes to speak, but the sky turns purple, and electric sound rings out as the announcer booms out across the city.
“Incoming game,”
“Really?” Sparky says, looking up at the game dropping just in front of him. Glitch retracts back to normal as it beeps. “That will work,” Sparky says, looking down at Glitch before throwing down his zip board and jumping onto it. He goes and flies under the Gamecube before it lands down, cutting the weapon in half and causing it to explode.
“No!” Megabyte yells from his chair as he slams his fist into the arm of the chair. He first his teeth as he watches his weapon gets destroyed on the vid window. “You damn incompetent crazy virus!” Megabyte curses. “I’ll get you back for this Sparky, and you, my dear sister will be punished,” Megabyte says as the vid window collapses.



“Nice,” Sparky says, looking around the game. He stands on one of the starting lines of a race track. Other binoms stand on the other places as they reboot. “Formula One racing,” Sparky smiles before double tapping his icon and yelling out, “Reboot!” The green energy overtakes his body. It replaces his clothes with an orange racing suit and helmet. A formula one car appears next to him.
Sparky climbs into the car as the other binoms do the same thing. The user appears next to Sparky in a shark-painted car. The light in front of them lights up and starts at red. The racers rev up their engine as they wait. Sparky looks over at the user, who looks back at him. Sparky, with determination on his face, smiles at the user. They angrily look back before the two turn back to see the light turn yellow. Sparky prepares to step on the gas. 
The light turns green before Sparky steps on the gas. His tires spin out as the other racers speed past him. “Come on, come on,” Sparky says, revving the gas a bit to try and get the wheels to grip. The wheels finally find tracking. “Yes!” Sparky yells as he races after the other drivers. He looks at his dashboard to see he is in thirty-seventh place. “Damn, I’ve got some catching up to do,”
Sparky presses the gas all the way down, causing his body to press into the seat as he rockets down the road. “Excuse me,” Sparky kindly says as he passes a racer. “Pardon me,” He passes another. “Just coming through,” Sparky says before turning around a corner. “I need to go faster,” Sparky says, looking over his dashboard. “Right!” Sparky yells in epiphany. 
He hits the button on his steering wheel, causing the engine to blast like a rocket ship. The front end of the car pops up as he speeds down the road and past the other racers. His front end drops down as he slows down. He looks at the dashboard to see he is now in tenth place. “Much better,” Sparky says before turning back to the track.
“Shit!” Sparky yells as he speeds toward a ramp that had just popped up in front of him. “Oh no, you don’t!” Sparky says in determination. Sparky quickly turns the car into neutral before hitting the break and turning sharply. Sparky’s car drifts for a bit sideways before slowing down and stopping in front of the ramp. Sparky sighs before his eyes widen again.
Racers come head onto him. They do their best to drive around him. One clips his back, causing him to completely face the oncoming racers. Sparky puts the car back into drive before sharply turning around and heading down the track after the racers.
“Let’s see you try that again user,” Sparky says as he slowly comes up to the user in first place. The user looks over as Sparky drives up next to him, almost matching his speed. The user pushes a button on his dashboard, causing spikes to come out of the hubcap of the wheel.
The user slowly closes the gap between the two cars. Sparky’s eyes widen when he notices the spicks. He slams on the break, causing him to whiplash as the user’s car zooms ahead. Sparky hits the gas and speeds after the user. The user looks back to see Sparky on his tail. He pushes a button on his dash before two metal tubs pop out of the back of the car. Oil starts coming out of them and onto the track.
“Oh no you don’t,” Sparky says, quickly turning to the right and dodging the oil slick. A binom ends up sliding on the oil and starting a pile-up in the middle of the road. Sparky slowly catches up with the user as they make it to the second lap. Their cars turn into hovercrafts and the ground turns into a plastic slide-like road.
“Second lap,” Sparky says, a little impressed. “Let’s see how much farther you get,” Sparky says before pushing a button on his new dashboard. The front of his hovercraft lists up a bit to reveal a gun-like thing poking out. It shoots out spikes up and over the user’s craft. The user runs over the spicks, causing the craft to slow down as it loses air. This allows Sparky to speed past the user before losing him around a turn.
“Goodbye user,” Sparky says with a smile on his face as the front closes again. The user speeds past him in a new hovercraft, causing him to swerve so as to not get hit by the user. “Never mind,” Sparky says before correcting his craft and racing after the user. The user looks back before pushing a button on his new dashboard. The back of his craft opens up a bit before mines fall off the back and float on the track.
“Minefield!” Sparky yells in panic. “Slalom,” Sparky says, much calmer as he weaves in between the mines. He uses the sides of the plastic slide-like road to keep completely away from the mines before having to go back down. He makes it throw as other binoms go into the minefield. Most run into the mine, causing their craft to blow up and send them flying into the air. One binom does what Sparky did and slaloms between the mines. He makes it to the end, but before he can celebrate, he runs into a stray mine, causing him to go flying off the road as his craft blows up.
Sparky races towards the user as they make it to the next and final lap. “Let’s see how you do with flying,” Sparky says as their crafts turn into airplanes. Sparky pulls up and lifts off the ground. The ground turns back to a normal race track as orange rings appear in the sky. The user flies through with Sparky close behind him. The user pulls back and flies up and over Sparky. 
“What is he doing?” Sparky asks as he watches the user fly over him. The user lines up with Sparky as he readies a missile. “Shit!” Sparky yells as the user launches a missile at him. “Oh no you don’t,” Sparky says before pushing a button on the side of his cockpit. Flares fly out of the back of the ship, causing the missile to fly towards one and blowing up. “You can’t get rid of me that easily,” Sparky says with a smile. 
The user shoots off another missile toward Sparky. Sparky presses the button again, but this time nothing happens. “Oh no,” Sparky whispers to himself as the missile flies towards him. Sparky tries to dodge the missile, but it keeps behind him no matter what he does. Sparky sighs as he braces for impact, but it never comes. He looks back to see another ship colored white with red stripes flying behind him where the missile was.
“This is your captain speaking,” Zipp says into her radio. “No more missiles, meaning smooth flying from here on out,” Zipp says with a smile as Sparky sighs.
“When did you get into the game?” Sparky asks.
“When it dropped,” Zipp responds. Sparky rolls his eyes at Zipp. “I’ll slow down the user, you get to the finish line,” Zipp commands as the user flies up to her airplane.
“All right,” Sparky says, nodding before speeding away. The user follows him with Zipp right behind the user.



“And that's how we beat the user!” Sparky says, fist bumping the air as he talks to Pipp. Sparky, Pipp, and Zipp are walking down a hallway in the Principal office toward the command room.
“It sounds like you’ve gotten a hang of being a guardian,” Pipp responds, smiling down at Sparky.
“Some binoms still don’t trust me,” Sparky responds as he lets his arms rest against his sides.
“You won’t be able to win everyone at once,” Pipp responds as they make it to the door. “Just listen to those you know have your back,” Pipp says as they walk into the command room.
“Surprise!” the binoms yell as confetti is thrown out over Sparky.
“W-what?” Sparky says in confusion. He looks around the room to see decorations hung around, food and drinks set up on the map table. Overhead of the table is a big banner that says, happy birthday Sparky. “I completely forgot about my birthday!” Sparky yells in surprise.
“We didn’t,” Zipp responds, placing a hand on Sparky’s shoulder. Sparky looks up at Zipp as a small smile creeps onto his face.
“Happy 110 Birthday Sparky,” Pipp says, placing a party hat on Sparky’s head. Sparky smiles before looking up at Pipp.
“Thanks. I can’t believe I’m finally 6,” Sparky says before running over to the table with the food. Zipp crosses her hands over her chest as she and Pipp watch Sparky grab some cake and happily talk with the binoms.
“Hitch would be proud of him,” Zipp says, turning to look at Pipp.
“He would be more than proud,” Pipp responds, looking over at Zipp. “He would be ecstatic,”
“Coco?” a binom asks, holding up a tray to the pair.
“Thanks,” Pipp and Zipp say as they grab the hot cocoa. The binom walks away as they take a sip of the hot cocoa.
“Hey Pipp,” Zipp says, looking down at the hot cocoa.
“Ya?” Pipp asks, looking over at her sister.
“I’m sorry for abandoning our system in search of adventure,” Zipp says, looking over at Pipp with genuine regret in her eyes. “And I’m really sorry for abandoning you and mom…” She is caught off guard when Pipp hugs her. Pipp smiles a squeezes Zipp tight. Zipp smiles as she wraps her arms around Pipp.
“That’s all I ever wanted to hear,” Pipp says, pulling away.
“So,” Zipp says, shrugging. “We good?”
“We’re great,” Pipp says, raising her cup up. “To a new start,”
“To a new start,” Pipp and Zipp clink their drinks together before taking a good sip of their cocoa.