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// Chapter 3 
// Story: Pony Pwnage 
// by oneupthextraman 
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Chapter 3;
The team all stared at Luna. “What? Does your princess shock you?”
Jeremy spoke up. “Your princess in in another castle.” He and Doug snickered. Twilight poked Jeremy with her hoof, but the snickering continued. 
Luna spoke up. “I am most certainly not in another castle, little noob.” The snickering stopped. “Oh? Did I strike a nerve?”
Jeremy replied, “I am not a noob. I am a pro gamer. Master of many of the games of our human world.”
Luna laughed. “I doubt that very much. A little one like you?” She walked over, and started giving Jeremy a noogie. “I laugh at you so!” 
Jeremy pushed the princess away. “I challenge you to a match!”
Luna laughed again. “And what game do you choose?”
Jeremy smiled a confident smile. “Ladies choice.” 
Kyle snuck over, and whispered in Jeremy’s ear, “A female horse is a Mare.”
Jeremy had a slight look of discuss on his face. “How do you know that?”
Doug appeared next to Jeremy, “Maybe he likes ponies.” Doug and Jeremy snickered again. Twilight and Luna did not appear to understand what was going on.
Luna cleared her throat. “Then if it is I to choose, I choose the game of princesses.”
Jeremy chimed in, “What chess? I like mastered that when I was like, five.” Doug and Jeremy snickered some more.
Luna spoke again. “No. Star Craft 2!”
Jeremy stopped snickering. “Then let it be on like donkey Kong!” Doug snickered, but then stopped when he did not see Jeremy doing so.
“Do you have a computer, little noob?” the princess asked.
Jeremy looked down, “I do not. What brought us here did not bring with it my PC.” 
Luna smiled a small smile. A little victory over this little pony. “You may borrow one of mine. GUARDS!”
In a few short minutes, the Night Guards had assembled two desks in the middle of the library, and set up the Royal PC, and the Royal backup PC.  Twilight had never seen computers like this before. There were lights, and multiple fans, and the cases of the computers were not just tan-ish boxes, there were designs, and windows to see the insides of the computers with lights in there. Twilight had never seen the inside of a computer before. She marveled a little bit at the insides. But they sure were louder than the ones in the basement.
Jeremy and Luna sat down in their respected chairs. Jeremy taking a while to figure out how to do that, as he never had a tail before. But, he did get situated, and the two loaded up their game. Jeremy chose Protoss, and Luna Terran. The match started, and Jeremy shortly discovered a major issue; he no longer had fingers. Jeremy fussed with his mouse, and his keyboard, but could not just hit one key, or move the mouse exactly. 
Meanwhile, the princess was using her magic, and a little bit of her hooves, and had built up a little marine army, and just walked all over Jeremy.
Jeremy let out a yell. “HOW AM I TO CONTROL THIS KEYBOARD WITHOUT FINGERS!” Jeremy slammed his head on the table. 
Luna leaned back in her chair. “See. One must prove that they have the power. Words are easy. Defeating is hard.” Jeremy seemed utterly rejected. “You are not the one the webs spoke of, it seems.”
There was a quiet knocking at the door. Twilight stood up. “I’ll get it.” She opened it, and it was Fluttershy, looking a little bit more meek than usual. She had some kind of cart behind her. “Oh, hi Fluttershy. What brings you around?”
There was sound from the cart, and a dark figure jumped out of it, and ran to a dark corner of the library where it tried to hide.
Twilight was caught off guard. “What was that!?”
Fluttershy replied, “I’m not sure. He arrived at my house during the storm, and requested help. I just couldn’t say no. So I brought him over here to see if you could help me help him.”
Twilight asked, “Why didn’t he just walk? Is he injured?”
“No, he just doesn’t like the sun.”
Jeremy and Doug walked over and investigated the strange figure.
Jeremy said in awe. “The Masterer?”
The figure replied, “That sun is so bright, and this room is so bright.”
Jeremy rushed over to Twilight and asked, “Can we lower the lights? The Masterer is not used to such brightness.”
Twilight did not seem too sure. All of this was a bit much for her. But, with a helping smile from Fluttershy, she walked over, and turned off most of the lights, and closed all of the shades. When that was done, the shadowy figure walked out from the shadow, and presented himself. He was dressed all in black; part of his face was obscured by a part of his hooded cloak, but you could still see his horn.
“It is good to see you again Jeremy and Doug. I feared I would have to deal with this threat on my own. That would prove to be the most difficult.”
Jeremy knelt down, and Doug did shortly after. Twilight did not like this. “You knelt down to this pony, but not the princess?”
Jeremy stood back up, and responded. “The Masterer is great and powerful. He is second to no gamer.”
Luna laughed. “Much like you were? Please. I bet he is such a noob as you.”
The look from The Masterer was so cold, and so sharp, it made Luna step back a little. “Is that a challenge?” Luna replied in the affirmative. “Name your game young one.”
Luna scoffed at being called, young one. “Star Craft 2” she said suddenly defiantly. 
The Masterer sat down in Jeremy’s chair, and adjusted his cloak to reveal he was an alicorn. This threw Twilight off a great deal. She approached Luna, and whispered in her ear informing her of this. Luna leaned over, and saw the black wings, and smiled to herself. 
The game was off to a quick start. The Mastere used his horn to move the mouse around, and quickly hitting buttons on his keyboard. It was a Terran vs Protoss. The game was over way too fast for Luna to figure out what was going on. All of a sudden, all of her units were gone. When the Masterer sat back in his chair, the keyboard was steaming with magical power. Twilight had only heard of some special ponies being able to expel so much magical power that could result in that.
Luna was shocked by the defeat she just had. It was so fast, and so amazing. She just sat there trying to absorb it. Jeremy cleared his throat. “That all good and like, stuff. But, does anybody have any ideas why we are here?”
The Masterer got off of the chair, and started addressing the group. “Some months back, I started sensing a disturbance in the Internet. These disturbances happen from time to time, but this one felt different in the keys. I investigated further, and found that the Agency was working on something big. Something that could pit the entire Internet against itself, and thus destroy it. It discovered, the Bronies.” There was no response from the crowd. “They have come here to influence the community, and turn them against the rest of the Internet, and increase the trolling levels to such a degree, that everybody will have to enter their walled garden, and live in there. Much like AOL of yesteryear, and Facebook of today, but only much stronger, and more walled.” He looked to Jeremy. “We cannot let this be. Games will be affected, and Griefers will destroy the gaming community and take away the fun.”
Jeremy had a determined look on his face. “Where do we begin?”