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Twilight bent over to investigate the strange black card under her hoof, hoping she had not broken it, just in case it be an interesting find. Picking it up with her magic, she glared at it closely and saw nothing written on it anywhere. It looked as if it were to be placed inside of a computer. Why was it out here? She had not seen it when she came out earlier to walk with Fluttershy, but maybe she just had not noticed it then, as she really was excited before.

She blew the dirt and dust off of it and took it into her Library's lab, letting her curiosity take control of her. She walked over to her computer's mother board, looking for the correct port to place the card into.

Spike walked into the room, with a slightly irritated look on his face. "What? No 'Hi, Spike', or anything? I didn't even know you came in! I thought somepony had broken in or somethin'! What's gotten into you?" he questioned her. "Twilight?"

Twilight turned to the dragon, blushing and giggling. "Oh, sorry Spike... I found this card and I was curious as to what's on it... so I'm gonna upload it in my computer and see what's on it. It could be a lost home video, a photo album, or any sort of thing!" she replied, about to push the card into the correct port.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you," Spike urged her, crossing his arms.

Twilight arched an eyebrow. "What makes you say that? It's just a card, Spike. What's the worst that can happen?"

Spike sighed, "What if it has a virus or something like that? Remember what happened that day when Princess Celestia got that virus on her computer? It took us forever to get rid of it, but by then the computer was so fried that she had to buy a brand new one!"

Twilight put the card down. She walked up to Spike and rubbed her head against his. "Aww, look at you. Somepony's gotten their cutie mark in computers, now haven't they?" she said with a giggle.

"Please, Twilight, don't do this," Spike replied. "It's not worth the trouble if it's a virus. You'll thank me when you don't have to spend eight hundred bits on a new computer."

Twilight sighed, putting the card into the garbage can beside the desk which the computer was on and walking for the door. "Yeah, I guess so... Maybe somepony dropped it or something, and maybe it's empty anyways... Thanks for being so concerned, Spike. Why don't we go over to Rarity's instead? Don't wanna spend too much time in front of a screen anyways."

Spike lit up immediately, jumping onto Twilight's back. "Yeah! Let's go to Rarity's!!"

After getting back to the Library, Twilight and Spike went to bed. Rarity's today was fairly plain, as the two unicorns talked about new experiences while Spike contributed by running household errands or wooing over Rarity and complimenting her on her weaving and sewing skills. Spike was the first to fall asleep, but Twilight found herself unable to.

Constantly turning in her bed, she kept thinking of what could have been on that card. Now that all other distractions were gone, her primary one was back to haunt her. She tried to force herself to forget, but it was truly futile. She got up out of bed and creeped quietly down the stairs to the lab where the computer was, getting the card from the garbage and placing it into the port on her mother board. This automatically turned on the computer screen, and Twilight was immediately greeted to the start up screen for her to log in.

That was the easy part. She looked upon her desktop to see a pop up box floating there in front of her.

WARNING

This content is possibly harmful to your computer. Do you want to continue?

Yes or No

Apparently "No" was not an option, and trying to click on the "X" icon only made an annoying low toned beep sound. Twilight knew she should not, but her curiosity was killing her. How much harm could a nasty virus or buying a new computer do to her anyways? She hesitantly clicked the "Yes", and then her screen went black