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Back with Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Scootaloo, they’re in the Portal 2 shed, which will eventually lead them to the Aperture Science Laboratories Computer-Aided Enrichment Center.
Within the shed, there was a computer with about four saved games, all of which were completed 100%.
“Okay, so what do we do now?”, Rarity asked.
“I dunno”, Pinkie bluntly blurted out.
“I think we need to start a new game”, Scootaloo explained. “Though, I think we should go into one of the later chapters”
And so Rarity started a new game slot, and chose to play chapter 8. That’s when the elevator activated and pulled the trio down to the facility.
As soon as the elevator stopped, they caught the cutscene where Chell and GLaDOS infiltrate Wheatley and try to defeat him with the paradox. Though it wasn’t a cutscene, it was actually happening in real time.
“Hey, pardon us?”, Rarity asked the two robots and the mute human.
“Who the blazes are you guys?”, Wheately questioned, being clearly confused at the 2D colorful ponies entering his 3D realistic facility.
“You guys aren’t supposed to be here!”, GLaDOS shouted as Chell just starred with a confused expression.
“Wait, we need to ask you a question!”, Rarity said. “Have you seen a virus within th-”
“Virus? There is no bloody virus inside my laboratory!”, Wheatley interrupted.
“Yeah, because it’s most likely been CRUSHED by debris thanks to your HORRENDOUS control over the facility”, GLaDOS screamed.
“This facility is fine! You need to c-”
“EXPLOSION IMMINENT. EVACUATE FACILITY IMMEDIATELY”
“Hold on, I thought I fixed that!”, Wheatley questioned.
“WARNING: REACTOR CORE IS A-”
“There, fixed!”
Rarity and Pinkie Pie gave a passing glance at each other after that.
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Meanwhile with Applejack, Fluttershy, and Sweetie Belle, they’re walking through the city from BeamNG.Drive. Looking around, the city is just utter chaos, with speeding vehicles, stores being robbed, explosions, avatars killing each other, ect.
“Oh my”, Fluttershy muttered. “This place is making me uncomfortable!”
“Don’t worry, Fluttershy!”, Applejack assured. “We’ve encountered much worse! We can do this!”
That’s when they saw a train track with a news reporter who was designed in Wrapper Offline’s Comedy World theme.
“Which car can stop a train?”, she asked the audience as a lamborghini crashed into an upcoming train. Cue a sequence where a bunch of vehicles crash into a train.
“Dump Truck! Lego Car! School Bus! Main Battle Tank! Mario Kart! NasCar! Second Train! Cement Truck! Bentley Limo! Dababy Car! Monster Truck! Big SUV! Soccer Mom’s Van! Peel P50!”, she narrated as those respective vehicles crashed into the train, all of which were demolished in the process, except for the Main Battle Tank and the Peel P50.
“Wow”, Sweetie Belle bluntly muttered before taking a step back, accidentally making another player throw a grenade at his own car.
“OH NO!!!”, the player screamed. “I PAYED 500,000 IN GAME DOLLARS FOR THAT THING!!!”
“Oops, sorry mister…”, Sweetie apologized. “Maybe you can respawn you-”
“SHUT UP!!! SHUT UP!!! SHUT UP!!!”, the player screamed at Sweetie Belle. “YOU’RE GONNA PAY FOR THAT!!!”
That’s when he pulled out a baseball bat and started ASSAULTING her.
“OH MY GOODNESS!!”, Applejack and Fluttershy gasped as they witnessed the player committing child abuse.
“ANY LAST WORDS?!!”, he yelled as he held a KNIFE behind Sweetie Belle’s back.
That’s when Applejack ran up and bucked him in the kiwis, launching him into a parking garage.
“Oh, I forgot”, the player unsurprisingly realized as he looked at a Car-Spawner. “I CAN respawn my car…”
Fluttershy picked Sweetie Belle up and held her while the poor little filly whimpered.
“Sweetie Belle?”, Fluttershy asked with utter concern. “Are you alright?”
That’s when Sweetie Belle started bawling, becoming traumatized by what the player just did to her. Thankfully, Fluttershy being Fluttershy, squeezed Sweetie Belle into her arms, hugging her tightly and stroking her back.
“Don’t worry, you’re safe now”, Fluttershy told Sweetie. “Let it all out. Don’t hide your pain. We won’t let this happen to you again”
It was a long ten minutes before Sweetie Belle stopped sobbing.
“Okay…”, Sweetie stuttered as Fluttershy let her rest in her lap. “I feel better now…”
“Good job Fluttershy”, Applejack congratulated as Fluttershy rubbed Sweetie Belle’s belly.
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And then with Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, and Apple Bloom, they’re exploring the sewers of the city, trying to find the mural Tails was talking about.
“Why do you think this mural is in the sewer?”, Apple Bloom asked Twilight.
“Why DON’T you think it’s here?”, Twilight asked back.
“Well, Tails didn’t explicitly say it was in the sewer, he said it was underground! That could mean an underground bunker, or a subway, or a-”
“Or an underground civilization!”, Rainbow Dash interrupted.
“Seriously?”, Twilight and AB said in unison.
“Yes seriously! Look at this place! From what we’ve seen, anything could be possible!”
“That IS true”, AB replied.
That’s when they found an abandoned subway station behind a sewer grate.
“Yo, what is that?”, Rainbow asked Twilight.
“It seems to be, abandoned…”, Twilight replied.
Twilight removed the grate and placed it onto the subway’s ground. The trio of ponies walked out and looked down the deep, dark, and potentially dangerous tunnel.
“Should we go in?”, Apple Bloom asked, to which Twilight replied, “If it leads us to the mural, then yes”
And just like that, they walked in.
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And finally with Ben himself and Spike, Ben is putting a couple tools into a duffle bag before Spike walks up to him while wearing a green bathing suit.
“Bro, why are you wearing that? It’s winter!”, Ben asked Spike.
“Well, I thought I could use your swimming pool!”, Spike replied.
“Maybe later. Right now, I need to show you something important!”, Ben explained to the purple dragon.
“Well, can I still wear my trunks? They feel quite nice!”
“Sure, whatever…”
And so, the duo of spikey haired men walked up to a nether portal with a Button-Pad connected to it. Ben swiped through the options before clicking on YouTube, and the portal turned red. They walked in, and they wound up at the site in its full glory.
“Welcome to pretty much the largest site on the internet, not counting Google as that’s a search engine IMO”, Benjamin announced.
“YouTube?”, Spike asked.
“Eeyup!”, he replied. As Ben explained the inner workings of the site, we get to see what it actually looks like.
There are multiple screens with various videos, and in the center, there is a massive screen with the YouTube logo right above it. And underneath the screen, there is a hand scanner. The videos on each of the screens included the Mine Turtles song (specifically the scenes near the end of the song with the “You Stole My Lungs” gag and half of the “No Dog There” skit), Cartoonshi’s video where he discusses DreamWorks, the MineCraft Super Redstone House video, Zhong’s “Guess the Soda” short, NathanSaturnBoi’s “Jack Frost” video, TPOT 4, 90’s TV by BrewStew, and many more videos. The video in the center however is “The Vacation”, a video I created on my YouTube Channel, which you should check out!
“Wow…”, Spike muttered.
“Now that you know what this site actually is, I can show you an important video”, Ben explained as he placed his hand onto the hand scanner I mentioned earlier.
Once he placed it on, the giant screen in the middle immediately recognized the user and knew what video Ben wanted to watch. It was titled “The Plan”, created by somebody named “Canara_Animator_78”
“What’s “the Plan”?”, Spike asked.
“You’ll see”, Ben replied as the video loaded up.
The video itself started with colorful splash logos accompanied with a catchy jingle. Afterwards, the user herself appeared onscreen and sat on her antique sofa while holding a book.
“Good evening”, she began. “Today, I need to discuss a very important issue that has been plaguing the Internet as we see it right now. You see, various corporations are becoming corrupt with power. This issue started about 20 years ago, albeit being very minimal. This problem just kept getting worse however, with these corporations taxing smaller businesses around the web, putting them out of business, and keeping themselves afloat”
“Oh my…”, Spike stuttered, with Ben replying, “I know”
“Thankfully, we know how to end this problem for good”, she explained. “All you need to do is fight! Disobey the rules of the internet! Take back what’s ours! Get the money to those who need it! Create a virus for all we care! We NEED to clean the internet up for good! That’s all I wanna say, so please leave a like and Subscribe, and I’ll see you guys next time”
And just like that, the video shut off.
“So, now do you understand what’s going on?”, Ben asked. “Do you see what I must do for this dimension?”
“Wait a second”, Spike realized. “Are you saying that…YOU created the virus?!!”
“Yes”, Ben put bluntly. (what a twist! Glad I pulled it off in the middle of the story rather than the end?)
“Oh my goodness!”, Spike murmured. “Why would you do this?!”
“Because throughout all my life, I had suffered through SO MANY THINGS when living in this place!”, Ben vented. “For example, so many people on here are SO annoying! And it’s unfair when innocent people get harassed over their lifestyle, and I’m sick of it! I had no choice but to retaliate! The people in the surface world can’t actually fix this place, because they’re too busy being lazy! Heck, even this laptop’s OWNER isn’t doing anything to help! He’s too busy complaining about his life to his mommy! So I decided to take things into my own hands! I don’t care if this laptop becomes unfixable in the end! For all I know, it’s WORTH it!”
“So this entire time, you’ve just been an avatar?!”
“No, I’ve been an AI! And YOU’RE not gonna tell anyone!”
And just like that, Ben pulled out a baseball bat and knocked Spike unconscious.
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