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// Chapter 2 
// Story: Pony Pwnage 
// by oneupthextraman 
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Chapter 2;

Doug and Jeremy bounced up and down to the imaginary music. Twilight had a confused look on her face. After a few seconds, Doug ran up to Twilight and lightly nudged her, and then ran back to Jeremy, and continued his bouncing. 
The bouncing continued for about 30 seconds before Jeremy yelled out, “ITS YOUR TURN!”
Twilight nodded, figuring this was some kind of game they played from their city.  Twilight thought, and came up with a spell. From her horn she started to generate a larger and larger orb of energy until it was about the size of a pony, and launched it toward the two bouncing ponies. 
The minor explosion caused the two and the unconscious one to go flying back a few feet. The three slowly got up to their feet. 
Jeremy groaned. “ugh. I think we just lost all of our hit points.”
Doug also groaned as he got up. “She must be a mage.”
Kyle also got up, but had a slightly different reaction. “ARGH! I’M A GOAT!”
Twilight walked over, and comforted the new awake one. “You’re a pony, not a goat. It appears you three are not from around here.”
Dough responded. “Yeah, we come from the land of the internet!”
Twilight did not recognize that term in that manner. “The internet? How does that work?”
Jeremy fielded that question. “We’re not super sure. We plug this cable into our computers, and awesome things come through.”
Kyle, who now had a few seconds to come to grips with not being a goat interjected. “Actually, we are from a place called Canada. These two were defending the internet from some evil people, and we got sucked in to something, and we apparently appeared here.”
Jeremy piped in. “Yeah, those noobs at the organization were trying to make us their slaves, and the rest of the internet their slaves. But me and Doug here stopped them, for now.”
Twilight had a confused look on her face. She then turned to Kyle, who she found to be the most non-crazy person available to her. “Do you know what they are talking about?”
Kyle sighed. “Sadly, I do.’
“Come with me to the library. It would appear we have much to discuss.”
Far away in Canterlot, Princess Luna woke up from sleeping during the day. She felt a sudden disturbance in the net. Being gamer Luna, she created a bond with the internet and technology in general. Luna ran over to her computer, and pulled it out of sleep mode to see what the sudden chill could have been from. Luna checked out Destructoid, and Giant Bomb. They reported nothing, but signing into her favorite IRC channel, she saw reports from some of her buddies saying that there was a corruption on the internet, doing something horrible to it.
Jeremy, Doug, and Kyle walked to the library. On the way, Jeremy suddenly stopped, and placed a hoof against his head as if he was in pain. 
Doug asked, “What is it man?”
“I’m not sure Doug. I sense a great disturbance in the Net. I’m not sure, but I think it is spreading. “
Doug seemed concerned by this. “Oh man, we need to hurry!” With that Doug ran ahead at full speed. Jeremy tried to stop him, but he was already too far ahead. Jeremy sighed.
After walking for a little bit more, they arrived at the library. Twilight welcomed them in, and Jeremy looked around. “Hey, where do you keep the computers?”
Twilight thought about this. “The computers? In the basement. Why?” Before Twilight could ask why, Jeremy was already heading down stairs. 
She turned to Kyle. “What’s up with him?”
Kyle laughed a little. “It’s a rather long story.” Kyle and Twilight sat down, and Kyle started to tell the story about how their little adventure started, and what had been going on, and how Jeremy had grown up to be like he was, and how crazy Doug was. 
“…And a few months back, Jeremy started reporting that he was sensing a disturbance from the internet. I just blew it off as him being crazy. But, then there started to be news reports about parts of the internet going down, routers exploding, and some sites suddenly changing drastically. But then the news suddenly stopped reporting on it. Jeremy said the war was starting in full swing, and that we must protect the internet.” Twilight seemed heavily interested in his story. “For days, Jeremy was doing something on the internet. I tried to ask him what he was doing, but all he said was that he was ‘pwning.’ About a day later, Doug came over, and they started ‘pwning’ together, and then some kind of vortex sucked us up, and we appeared here.”
Kyle finished his story. Twilight was shocked by Kyle’s story of video games, and such. “But, what does this have to do with our world? We are not as computer driven as your society is.”
Kyle sat back in the chair he was sitting. “I’m not sure. I’m just hoping that Jeremy and Doug can figure it out before it spreads to this world as well.”
The two heard a loud yell of agony from the basement. Twilight ran there, while Kyle slowly walked over. In the basement, Jeremy was trying to use the computer, but apparently it was not working correctly. 
“This machine is crap! It can’t do anything!”
Twilight walked over. “Sure it can. See…” She moved the mouse with her hoof, and clicked on the internet. “I can search for information, and educational things. See?”
Jeremy was not impressed. “Yeah, but it can’t GAAAAME!!”
Twilight laughed. “You got me there my pony.” 
Jeremy let out a loud aggravated yell. “How can I save the world with a machine running integrated graphics?”
There was a loud knock at the front door. This caught the attention of all three ponies in the basement. Twilight rushed up stairs to see who it was. It was Princess Luna. Twilight bowed, and allowed her in. Just then Jeremy and Kyle walked up the stairs to see her enter. 
Jeremy immediately spoke up. “Whoa! A super pony! She has a horn AND wings!”
Twilight smiled a shy smile, and slowly slinked her way over to Jeremy. “That’s Princess Luna! Show some respect!”
Jeremy replied. “How am I supposed to know that?”
Luna was on a mission, so she did not especially care. “I am here to meet with the one that shares a digital connection!”
Twilight and Kyle looked to Jeremy. “I guess that’s me.” He slowly approached her. “What can I do for you?”
Luna smiled. “We must defeat those who wish to do harm to the internet!”