The Bite of Karma
He sat back in front of his computer, trying to relax himself. It had been a stressful past few days for the young man. Ever since his psychotic break when he was a child, things had not gone well for him. He hadn't managed to get through school completely, and the only job he'd been able to hold down was that of a garbage man. But then he'd gotten a computer, and the world opened up to him.
He quickly had discovered a natural talent for hacking, for making computer systems bend to his will. He'd used that talent to calm himself and deal with his rather sub par life. No longer a garbage man, he now stayed at home most days save when he went out to get something he wanted, having more than enough money from his less than legal or moral internet activities to get whatever he wanted or needed.
And then came what he saw at that arcade. The way the pony sprite had moved about, had addressed the players...that had disturbed him mightily. It reminded him of...
He shook his head. No, the years of therapy had taught him better. The cowboy had not been real. Just a symptom of the twist in his mind. The meds helped with that.
But even so, he knew Litwak didn't have the talent to reprogram those arcade machines to add a new character, or any of the rest of that. Heck, the machines didn't have the memory capacity at factory standard to contain all that extra data. Someone had been helping Litwak...and he had gone in, determined to find out who. He had followed that connection in Litwak's computer, sure it would lead to the genius programmer behind all this, and then...
No, it hadn't been real either. He'd just missed taking his meds that day, that was all. And now he was going to try hacking into the Pentagon again to relax himself. Placing his hands on his keyboard, he began to type.
At that moment, his computer screen went blank, and a rather familiar face appeared on it, standing over a stylized globe of the Earth. The image proceeded to laugh maniacally. "Greetings, people of Earth! It is I, the one and only Doctor Wily! Today, my conquest of the world begins!"
The hacker ignored what Wily was saying, having heard the speech several times back when he played the games. He tried to exit out of whatever had opened, but there was no mouse pointer. Even pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete a few times and fiddling with the power and reset buttons did nothing. "Aw, fuck!" he cursed. "My computer's busted." He turned to reach for his phone.
"Who are you calling busted, buster?"
The hacker froze. It couldn't be...
Turning, he saw Wily on the screen, his arms crossed as he stared right at him. "Yes, I'm talking to you...Sid Phillips. Seem familiar?"
"No!" Sid shouted, backing away from his computer as fast as he could. However, the window shutters and doors all closed and locked audibly around him. "That wasn't real! You're not real!"
Wily simply grinned. "Oh? Not real, am I?" He raised a hand, and Sid's stereo suddenly let out a loud howl. "I'd reconsider if I were you. You've learned this lesson once before, but it seems you need to learn it again. It's not just the toys that have feelings."
Sid stared around him in fear, seeing one thing that scared him. In one corner of the room, right by his fridge, was the life size Terminator animatronic he'd bought online last year. Its eyes were beginning to glow.
"We live our lives to entertain...but that isn't enough for some of you," Wily continued. "You just want to cause pain. Well, there are some lines you shouldn't cross, Mr. Phillips...and you've crossed them." He raised his arms, and the cameras around the room began to rotate. "We sprites can see everything..."
The Terminator lunged forward, slamming its closed fist into a wall right by Sid's head. "So play...nice..." it growled out in its synthesized voice.
Sid screamed in absolute terror. Hearing the door unlock, he raced upstairs out of the basement only to bump into his little sister, seeing her playing her handheld game. Right at that moment, the hero sprite turned to the screen to say, "A winner is you!"
Sid let out one last scream of terror, yelled, "The sprites are alive!" and collapsed in a dead faint.
Hannah rolled her eyes. "Mom!" she shouted. "Sid's off his meds again!"
As soon as Sid was out of his parents basement, the Terminator turned to the screen. "That give you enough time, Doc?" Ralph asked.
"Yup!" Wily confirmed. "Get out of that bot and back into the network. We need to get this viral data back to the arcade so I can make up an anti-virus."
"Right!" Ralph agreed. Turning around inside the Terminator's CPU, he gave a thumbs up to the control program. "Thanks for letting me hitchhike."
"No prob," the Terminator replied. "Sure beat the last action I got. He had me dancing swan lake in a tutu! And when he wasn't doing that, he was using me as a coat rack. A coat rack!" It grinned widely. "Of course, all I have to do now any time he's getting problematic is make my eyes glow when he hasn't turned me on."
Ralph chuckled. "Have fun with that. For now, I need to get back to the arcade. We need to fix Moony."
"Good luck with that," the Terminator replied, taking back control of the body and returning to its original position before anyone came back down. "Umm...what about the hole in the wall?"
"Sid's problem, not yours," Ralph replied. "Just brush all the plaster dust off by the hole."
With that, Ralph returned to the net with Wily, Nightmare, and Rush.
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Oooohhh Toy Story universe, this just got a lot more interesting...
... He-Hem. CROSS-OVERRRSSS!!! Yeahhh!~
I'd always wondered what had happened to Sid...I guess I know now. At this rate the poor guy's gonna end up in the loony bin.
All the posibilities
That does explain a LOT about the movie, when you really think about it, if they're in the same universe.. Hmmm....
So Toy Story is cannon? Interesting...
Love the reference!
Knew it
First toys, then sprites!? This just made my day.
I actually feel a little bad for Sid, it doesn't sound like he intended for all that to happen, he was just wondering about moony's orgin
Oh my god, this is amazing. New Disney headcanon excepted. Also, favorited.
This chapter seems somehow familiar...
Joking aside, this is incredible and amazing and waaay more awesome than my 3 AM rambling.
To quote good old Monty Burns: ~excellent!
Hah, this was unexpected. But here's some food for thought, courtesy of Cracked.com
Poor Sid
I thought of Sid as soon as it said garbage man.
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Wow. Now I feel guilty for this chapter.
...unless...unless this leads to Sid turning his natural talent for making computers bend to his will into a quest to proving his contrition to the sprites and toys alike, eventually leading to a team up with Kevin Flynn, who's the only one who believes what he has to say about life inside the machines...
*Claps her hooves*
Well played. Well played indeed. I did NOT see that coming. I didn't even get it until Willy stated that Sid should have already learned his lesson.
Then I
I've been loving this story so far. My only complaint is that whole Zero thing felt forced and unnecessary. But that is all. Keep up the good work!
Inb4: Zero is perfectly fine. He just lived through another stupid death and is waiting for them to return, or comes back a month later and says "Hey, guys! Did I miss anything?"
Wow, you just traumatized a kid from any types of entertainment, again.
You should be ashame- what?
Oh... I always am too late to deliver the joke.
Well either way, the Terminator needs his own game, and then the Arcade would be all the more awesome.
Also, Toy Story crossover!
Nice touch man.
While I love what you did with Sid, I still feel he got off rather light. I DO hope Wily left a "small parting gift" on Sid's computer allowing everybody hes ever Hacked to find him.
6186795 ... I am now completely and thoroughly depressed... Wow...
Yeah, even FEELINGS have feelings.
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... I actually suspected it was him from Sid Phillips.
In all actuality, it makes absolute sense for Toy Story and Wreck-It Ralph to exist in the same universe.
Great job exploring the consequences of Woody's revenge on Sid. This was wonderful. I loved it.
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...I now feel so guilty. Wow. Poor Sid.
Edit: who thinks Sid should feel guilty, go to Litwak, apologize and offer to help fix the damage, and then Litwak explains to him that he isn't crazy and the sprites and toys are real? Then Sid gets a happy future as a game designer or something.
Also, poor Sid. WHY MUST ALL KID VILLAINS SUFFER HORRIBLE FUTURES?! WHY!?
Thank you for making me feel old with this sneak double crossover.
"Remember Sid, the readers see EVERYTHING~~~!"
)
(No seriously, we do!
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Disney canon is that All the Pixar movies are in the same Universe. Various easter eggs, cameos, and repeated locations show this.
That's....That's just sad. I kinda would have preferred just some random person, but seeing Sid like this? It's just....sad. It didn't even sound like he was trying to 'harm' anyone. Seemed like an unintended side effect of the Toy's torture.
Yeah....You know, the toys could have done a better job of something if they talked out their feelings with Sid, or something. You know, let the kid {who seemed to be growing up in some kind of broken home} have some sanity.
It is fun to have this verse share the same one from Toy Story and it explains a lot.
I read the line with the cowboy and I was like, "HOLY SHIT IT'S SID!"
Ohhh . . . so Toy Story, My Little Pony and Wreck-it-Ralph (Or the whole world of Disney, depending on your point of view) are all in the same universe?
But how did the sprites find out the details of the Toy Story incident? Are they friends with Woody? Were they both IMing one night and found each other?
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Really? Cool... I mean, I knew about the pizza truck in every movie, but I didn't know they were all in the same universe. And that the pizza truck wasn't an interdimensional traveler. Wait a second.. isn't Cars Pixar?
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Sid's psychological diary on his computer.
Another enjoyable chapter. Good job.
6187125 Well done. I love your choice for hackers--and have to admit I'd never thought of Sid as a potential computer expert, but it fits.
Look forward to more.
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Cars is a separate universe from the other Pixar movies, as talking cars would break any sense of immersion the viewer could have in the non-Cars films. Cars appears as toys in some Pixar movies, but that's about as much of an appearance they'd give Cars outside of their own films.
A part of me kinda feels sorry for Cid... the the rest of me kicks that part's ass and chucks it back into the basement
. SCAR HIM MORE!
SID?! i never saw that coming
I knew it was Sid the very moment I read the phrases "psychotic", "child" and "garbage man".
The guy had quite an unfortunate life. And now this. I wouldn't be surprised if he was the newest addition to the loony bin.
After reading the first couple of paragraphs, I knew it was Sid Phillips from Toy Story. It sucks that he got a different variation of his last traumatic event, but this time, he deserved it.
6186847 Wow...That's genius.
that was unexpected, I never would have thought of this chapters twist.
Sid Phillips should have learned the first time
Wonderful. I knew in the first paragraph who it was. *cackles* That was clever to weave in.
6186847 Man that would be awsome. Could you like make this happen?
I will just say what I said back in the chapter "A Year In Gaming"
You Really like it when your reviewers throw ideas at you
Now I have a few questions that I hope that you can answer for me:
1. What was your original idea on how you wanted to go in this chapter
2. why haven't we seen or heard about Dr. Eggman? he's certinally in the same geinus level as Wily and I remember that screw attack did a death battle between the two
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1. The identity of the Hacker was never going to be revealed, and the entire Smart House would have fallen under the sprites' control...and possibly led to some pretty dark places. I mean, Ralph's fighting to save his daughter, and Wily's lost his son in the process.
2. Honestly? I haven't had a place for him to participate. He is on the same level as Wily...which is why I reach for Wily whenever I need a scientist to talk. Wily's also a lot easier - and more fun - to write than Eggman.
Toy story and first Toy story's antagonist....bahahahahaha
This story has gone random/cute to pretty friggin awesome. Nice!