//------------------------------// // The Fun has Began // Story: Young Virtual Warriors // by doorcf //------------------------------// The Fun has Began “So let me say what I understood” -said a utterly confused Pipsqueak “First, somepony took me after he hit me in the head, Second now I’m a computer program and three…” -Pipsqueak now was panicking- “THERE IS NO WAY TO GET ME OUT!” The three ponies flinched at the last point, both of the volume of Pipsqueak’s shouting the was near the volume of the Royal Canterlot Voice and the fact that they couldn’t get him out. “Pip” -said Princess Luna- “We know that you are shocked but…” “But, what?!” “Well you are supposed to be a guardian of sorts and…” –said Luna while trying to think how to put the request “Let me guess” -said Pipsqueak, letting some of his anger show- “you want me to access the information of this “project”” “I will do it, because it seems the only way I can get out of this place” -said in a defeated tone Pipsqueak- “still got a problem, if I’m a computer program how we can communicate with each other?” “I think I have a solution” -said Time Turner- “It seems that they also thought of that and I found this” Time turner showed something like a black rectangle “And that is?” -asked a confused Twilight “It seems to be like a portable version of this computer” -said Turner- “Princess since you are the one using the main computer, it’s you, princess, the one that should use this to communicate with Pipsqueak” While Luna and Time Turner tried to connect the two things Twilight centered his attention in Pipsqueak that summoned something and was rapidly moving his front legs while standing in his hind legs searching in complete concentration “Pip” -asked Twilight -“found anything?” “Yeah and I don’t like them” -answered Pipsqueak in a preoccupied voice “Why?” -asked Luna trying to get the conversation “I'll give you the resume” “One: There are another 7 guardians” “Two: It seems that I’m an incomplete guardian, why? It doesn’t say” “Three: This, where I’m now, is called a tower and it is a database. It also says that towers activates in random intervals and those who control them gain the information within. Also the name of this virtual work is Equis” “Four: There are other sectors with more towers and guardians but they are locked, it seems that is a general problem the good news is that in those locked sectors the towers and the guardians can’t be activated” “Five and it seems the most important: Guardians have the ability to "sense" in a way a tower activation and can guide themselves to the activated tower” “Six: There is no materialization code in this tower, so unless you want someone trapped here until the tower with the code activates, don’t send anyone” “Seven: A programmer can modify the virtual version of a pony but within certain limits depending of the number of towers you have in control” “Eight: Towers can be captured by other ponies with help of a guardian, just like us” “Nine: Each virtualized pony gets a virtualization “card” that give information of the abilities they have on Equis” “Princess before we start all questions, we better finish connecting this thing so you can communicate with Pipsqueak” -said Time Turner A few hours passed before the transfer was complete “Well it must be getting late” -said Twilight- “after all we have been here for hours" “True” -said Luna “What about this?” -asked Pipsqueak- “I mean, do we tell anypony about this or we keep it as a secret” “Better we keep this as a secret until we find a way to get in the worst of cases only Pipsqueak out” “said Time Turner before adding- “Pipsqueak said there are another guardians so its safe to assume they are also ponies” “Turner, remember that Pipsqueak is an “incomplete” guardian” –said Twilight- “for all we know only he is a guardian based on a pony” “Still I have to agree with Time Turner” -said Luna with conviction- “We know almost nothing about this so for now we will keep this as a secret” With that last problem solved all ponies started to get back to their homes “Good-bye Pipsqueak”-said the three ponies at the same time “Bye everypony” -answered Pipsqueak After two hours of travel Time Turner and Twilight arrived to Ponyville while Luna took another hour to arrive to Canterlot no because it was that far but because she wanted to think alone. When she arrived she tried to get to her room as soon as possible but Murphy had other ideas. “Luna!” -said a happy Celestia while hugging her sister- “you finally arrived, any luck?” “No sister” -said Luna lying to her sister “You will have more luck next time” “I wish but we agreed to take a few weeks free of the search” “Well sister I will be in my room” –said Luna wanting to get some privacy “Luna” -said Celestia in a singing voice trying to not laugh- “did you forget to get the moon up? After lifting the moon Luna finally got to her room, sat in her bed and activated to black rectangle thing thing while opening it “Well it seems that Turner said to truth” -commented Luna a bit surprised seeing the insides of the Laptop- “it is a small computer” After waiting for a few seconds she managed to contact Pipsqueak who was meditating “Wow it works” -said Pipsqueak in a surprised deadpanned way while standing “You don’t seem so surprised” -said Luna while lifting one eyebrow at both the comment and the meditaton part “Considering that I’m trapped in a computer, this is nothing” Luna couldn’t help herself and started to laugh falling from the bed “It’s not funny!” -said Pipsqueak trying to control his anger “Sorry Pip but couldn’t help myself” -while laughing like a madmare Meanwhile in another secret location a group of ponies have a reunion in their own “What do you mean by that?!” “What I said you idiot!” “Silence! we will discuss this matter in a civilized manner!” "Agreed" “So someone have reactivated the supercomputer” “Yes” “That will be a problem” “Especially now that we can’t access Equis” “And if they get the information stored there …” “… we will be busted” “We have a chance however, there are two guardians that have been activated with luck they will stop anyone from reaching the towers” “If they can’t?” “That why we will try to crack into the towers when they activate” “But we would need Hours even days!” “If the guardians can halt them then we can afford that time”