Adagio Dazzle sat at a small wooden table in the Dazzling breakfast nook and read a magazine labeled ‘Intrusive Celebrity Touch Weekly’ with a sort of detached interest. For the moment, things were quie—
‘GRAB!’
“Hey!” Adagio protested as her magazine was suddenly snatched out of her hands.
‘WACK!’
Soon Adagio was on the receiving end of mild magazine beating.
“OW!”
‘SMACK!’
“Aria! What the hell?!”
Aria suddenly plopped down in the seat across from Adagio. “You just got Bourned!” she declared as she pointed the rolled up magazine at Adagio.
“… Born?!” Adagio said. “What heck are you talking about?!” She narrowed her eyes at Aria. “Did you join some weird magazine cult that performs unwanted baptisms with magazine drubbings?”
“What?! No! Why would you even—”
“Are you on drugs?” Adagio continued. “How do they feel? Can I have some?”
“Adagio! I’m not on drugs!”
“Oh,” Adagio said as she gave Aria a scrutinizing look. “Well, if this isn’t some weird cult thing or a mood brought on by a chemical imbalance, then what’s going on? I’d expect this randomness from Sonata, but not from you.”
Aria leaned forward on the table, placing her face inches away from Adagio’s and giving her a serious look. “We need to go to the movies!”
Adagio sighed. “What stupid action movie came out?”
Aria grit her teeth. “Here’s a hint!”
‘CUFF!’
“OW!” Adagio exclaimed as she rubbed her cheek which had just been hit with the magazine again. “Seriously stop being weird and just tell me!”
“There’s a new Bourne movie out! So we have to go to the movies!”
Adagio glanced upwards as if she was searching her memory for something and mouthed the word ‘Bourne’ to herself over and over again.
Aria let out a frustrated growl. “You know! The super spy who gets beats up people left and right and has awesome car chases!”
Adagio stared at Aria blankly for a moment. “That’s pretty much every spy movie, you oblivious mook.”
‘SWAT!’
“Stop that!” Adagio demanded.
Arai pursed her lips and gave Adagio an annoyed look. “I’m trying to jog your memory! Don’t you remember the crazy magazine fight?! Or the explosion caused by gas, a magazine, and a toaster?!”
“No, Aria!” Adagio said in an exasperated tone. “Unlike you, I reserve my memory for important things!” Adagio quickly raised a hand in her face as Aria raised the magazine. Surprisingly, rather than smack Adagio, Aria glanced at the article Adagio was reading.
Aria scrutinized one of the pages for a moment then rolled her eyes. “Sure Dagi, I just bet this article on ‘Hollywoo Stars and Celebrities: What Do They Know? Do They Know Things?? Let's Find Out!’ is chock-full of useful information.”
“Hey! I didn’t ask or particularly want your opinion here,” Adagio protested. “So why don’t you give me that magazine back and go get one of your old GamePros and harass Sonata for a bit?”
“What?! Hell no!” Aria cried. “They don’t even make those anymore! Those magazines are going to be worth big bucks in a few years!”
Adagio sighed. “Yeah, sure…” She shook her head. “Well, this conversation has been pointless and stupid, so I really think you should just find Sonata, and—”//
A look of recollection came over Aria as she snapped a figure. “These were the spy movies where all the shaky cam made you sick to your stomach!”
“Oh…” Adagio uttered as a frown came over her face. She furrowed her brow and looked at Aria. “Wait, why do you care?! I thought the franchise basically went downhill when they made the guy from Arrow the main character.”
‘Smack!’
“DAMNIT, ARIA!”
“Avengers!” Aria corrected. “It was Hawkeye from the Avengers! Arrow is a completely different universe!”
Adagio shook her head. “Whatever, turbo nerd! It’s still the other guy so—”
“No it’s not!” Aria said with a smile. “They brought back Bourne!”
“Oh!” Adagio said, a slight look of interest on her face. “Well that actor is much cuter, and the movie titles make sense again.” Adagio frowned as she felt her stomach do a somersault. “But—”
“YES!” Aria said triumphantly. “I’ll go get Sonata!”
Adagio sighed and shook her head as Aria quickly ran out of the kitchen.
“Oh! Hi Aria!” Sonata’s bubbly voice sounded out from elsewhere in the house. “Hey! Do you want to play with me?! See, Queen Horsey Time is getting married to Optimus Prime, but Megatron is angry because he didn’t get an invitation, so he hired Boba Fett and Dengar to…”
“IT’S BOURNE TIME, BITCH!”
‘THUD!’
“OW!” Sonata cried. “Stop it! The secret agents don’t show up until act three!”
Adagio let out an even heavier sigh and threw herself back in her chair, slouching as she let the air slowly drain from her lungs.
-o~Soonish~o~
Adagio, Aria, and Sonata sat in a dim theater as a slew of tense dialogue sounded out from around them and bags of popcorn sat in their laps next to large cups of soda and bags of candy.
Adagio stared forward with an irritated look while Aria wore an almost manic smile. Sonata smiled with a look that suggested she was just happy to be there as she munched on the junk food around her.
Aria let out a sound of giddy excitement. “This is going to be so coo—”
“Use SQL to corrupt the Database!”
Aria’s smile immediately began to tread water the seas of deep concern. “What…? SQL is just the language you use to talk to databases… I mean… if you had access, you could just update the database with nonsense or drop it or—“
Adagio turned her head slightly towards Aria. “Problem?” she asked.
Aria shook her head. “I’m sure it’s just a slight misfire… Nothing to be worried about…” Aria scrunched her lips slightly. “I hope…”
“When are they going to show Bourne!?” Sonata moaned.
-ooo-
“Why do they have a GUI to show they’re being hacked?!” Aria exclaimed.
Adagio raised an eyebrow. “Well… It’s the CIA. I’m sure they have all kinds of—”
Aria turned to sneer at Adagio. “That’s not even a thing that exists!”
“… I’m pretty certain the CIA exists, Aria.”
“NO! Not that. The GUI!”
Sonata stared at the screen in confusion. “Nothing looks gooey to me…”
-ooo-
“I hacked their CCTV…”
Aria grit her teeth. “CCTV stands for CLOSED CIRCUIT TV!” she shouted at the screen. Her full popcorn bag was now mostly a thing of the past, its contents now scattered all over the ground in front of her, herself, and Adagio’s hair. Sonata occasionally leaned over to snag an errant kernel that rested on Aria, Sonata’s own popcorn bag quite empty. Adagio sat hunched over in her seat, her eyes only occasionally glancing up at the screen or Aria.
“Aria, can you keep it down?” Adagio asked. “You yelling is not helping my stomach here!”
“None of these things work this way!” Aria exclaimed as she threw herself back in her seat and threw her hands up in the air.
Adagio doubled over and placed a fist in front of her mouth as her cheeks puffed out.
“Don’t worry Aria!” Sonata said as she leaned over Aria, picked some popcorn out of Adagio’s hair and popped it into her mouth. “I’m sure Bourne will be back soon to fight the bad guys!”
Aria dropped her practically empty popcorn bag which Sonata quickly snagged and began feasting from. Aria then brought her knees up to her chest, wrapped her arms around them and began rocking back and forth. “Ye-yes…” Aria uttered. “Bourne will show up with a rack of magazines and beat up all the people who don’t know how computers work and everything will be fine.”
“There you go!” Sonata said with a smile. She looked at the screen and frowned slightly. “Shame about Agent K, though… Hey! Maybe Bourne is actually an alien!”
Adagio and looked up with a ponderous expression on her face as did Aria. This was soon followed by a groan from both of them.
-ooo-
“There’s a phone in the room! I can hack the computer!”
Aria let out a short, tortured cry as she stared at the landline onscreen before she buried her face in her hand and began to sob uncontrollably.
Adagio glanced up from her fetal position. “Wow… She’s really crying… I haven’t seen her this upset since Die Another Day…”
“Oh no!” Sonata exclaimed bringing her hands up to her cheeks. “We have phones! Does that mean all our computers can be hacked?!”
Adagio tapped her chin thoughtfully. “Maybe Aria can install more firewalls… Like… At least 10… We probably need more proxies, too…” Adagio glanced up at Aria. “Hey Aria, how many firewalls and proxies on our phones would make them safe?”
“WHOUAAAAAAHOUAAAAAAAHOUAAAAAAAHOUAAAAAAA!”
“Okay, I’ll get back to you on that…”
Sonata suddenly pointed excitedly at the screen. “Oh look! More fighting!”
Adagio looked up for a moment before lurching forward slightly with muffled upchuck. She quickly stood up and ran out of the theater.
-ooo-
Aria walked out of the movie theater with a thousand-yard stare on her face. Her eyes were puffy, red, and veiny as she staggered with each step, her arms swaying from side to side.
Behind her Adagio leaned against Sonata with a tinge of green added to her orange features. Sonata looked down at the sickly-looking Dazzling she was supporting, then up at Aria with equal looks of concern.
“… I want to die…” Aria uttered.
“I MIGHT die…” Adagio countered.
Sonata spoke up. “Well… I liked that super SWAT car and all the smashing…”
“UGH!” Aria shouted. “That’s IT! I’m going to take a page from Bourne’s book and live off the grid!”
Adagio looked up and woozily fixed the back of Aria with a stare. “You know that means no internet, right? I mean… If you’re committed to this idea, that’s fine, but let me know so I can sell all your game accounts and stuff… Now those are worth big bucks!”
Aria grit her teeth and cringed. “That’s IT!” She said throwing up her hands. “I’m going to drink a bunch then cry up in my room for a really long time!”
Sonata’s face lit up. “Oh! Can I lick your face while you do that?! Your tears are so yummy and delicious!”
Adagio grinned. “You don’t mind if I film this and put it online, right? I mean that whole scene is bound to get hundreds of thousands or even MILLIONS of hits on MeTube!”
Aria’s shoulders slumped. “My life is empty…” she uttered in a defeated tone.
Adagio and Sonata exchanged grins. “That wasn’t a nooooooo~!” they sang out.
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That BoJack Horseman reference, though
That and the (possible?) Cartoon Horse Program and Space Dandy references.
Wow. If even half the stuff talked about here happens in the movie...
Wow. They're not even trying anymore, are they?
Well, other than that piece of unpleasantness, yet another awesome chapter. I really love the idea of Aria going around beating people with magazines-not even related to BOurne, or it doesn't have to be, just brutality with magazines.
I like this fanfic. It makes me laugh a lot
indeed, it is possible if sunset could go out in one of his adventures?
I feel like the smart thing for Aria to do here would have been to just play Megatron with Sonata and try to assassinate Queen Horsey Time and Optimus Prime.
Adagio & Sonata should be grateful that Aria didn't have extra magazines on her...
uhm. i feel sorry for Aria. like. really bad. odds are id be shouting at the screeen to, if i got roped into seeing this.
still htough, between magazine thwacks, Adagio and Sonata's reactions, and bourne..ing.. happening. it was fun!
...all of a sudden, I'm glad I went and saw the new Star Trek movie.
Granted, I had a discount ticket, but still.
This was hilarious.
So why did Dagi suddenly upchuck at a fight scene, too much gore?
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There's no gore in the Bourne movies that I can remember. Aria mentioned that Adagio often got sick watching them because of the shaky came which the new one has plenty of.
Oh Bojack Horseman. Such a good show.
Oh The Dazzlings are Insane. Such a good fic.
Hahahaha, oh my god man, glorious work on this well done!
Another enjoyable chapter. Great job.
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hehe, I know right? certainly would shake up each day, wouldn't it? this interp is a bit more unstable then normal at least- but its something i quite like, so it would no doubt be fun to hang!
Huh I'm surprised you haven't done a chapter about Deadpool or CA: Civil War. Or that Ghostbusters reboot. Or even a what if Sonata saw a trailer for Sausage Party. Pretty sure Sonata would love the first and last one.
You make it look so easy to make a continuously funny story.
All I could think about after Sonata said Queen Horsey Time
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I've never heard of Borne, but for some reason, I was grinning throughout this whole chapter.
7442723 My exact thoughts!
yeah....true.
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Shaky cams are my bane of existence. I was so excited about seeing the first Hunger Games movie on opening day and almost threw up from the shaky cam and how hot the theatre was. Thank goodness they switched directors after that.
While Aria is correct for the most part *puts on nerd glasses* She is not wholly correct when it comes to the bit with SQL. There is a method of hacking called the SQL injection. Usually this is done by going into the URL that is usually sent and editing it in the 'hidden fields' of the code. One example is replacing the password portion with something the system would consider to be a true statement like 'true=true' in which case it would see that as an acceptable answer and allow you access even without a password. Thankfully there are ways to filter and clean these entries to prevent an SQL injection attack from working.
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The issue with the line Aria fixated on (which was also when I knew this movie was going to be brain-shittingly stupid in regards to computers) was it specifically calls out to use SQL to corrupt a database. Which, at the very least, is redundant. Granted, if I believed for a second that any of the writers had an iota of a clue with what they were talking about, they could have been thinking of this:
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Which, I believe is similar to what you're suggesting.
Let's be fair, she's not really wrong. Also,
Aria would be great at Cinema Sins. *Ding!*
This chapter kinda reminds me of my reaction to The Core.
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Never watched it, but yeah... My understanding is the technological references are a nightmare to behold.
Actually, Applewood is MLP Canon Hollywood.
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Separate dialog.
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... Is it wrong of me that my first instincts are to hug and comfort Aria while watching a martial arts movie marathon that doesn't blow?
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It's a nice movie, but yes. Technological accuracy is something that Media just doesn't get. Which I get ... I mean the reality of it:
http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1262-5-hacking-myths-you-probably-believe-thanks-to-movies.html
and
http://www.cracked.com/article_19160_8-scenes-that-prove-hollywood-doesnt-get-technology.html
... isn't as artistically impressive as fiction (and Hollywood just doesn't get how computers and technology actually work XD.).
Suddenly, I want to go to Hollywood and go all MADverse Sunset Shimmer on movie executives.
Also, has Aria been taking lessons from Sunset on proper ways to use periodicals as weapons? Is she now the Padawan to Sunset’s Sith Lord? Will we see an epic battle where Aria tries to kill her master and become the new Sith Lord?
I certainly hope so.
Hey what about that restaurant arc? It doesn't seem like that was finished just yet.
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They do have conflicts...
(Wait for it...)
... periodically.