Cross Deal

Cross Deal

By Jonathan Chung Nguyen

Chapter 1: King of the Internet

"Recently terrorist attacks have been reported... Shootings in Oakland gunning down seven civilians.... Snookie here with the new Jersey Shore!... Did you hear, Justin Beiber got laid! can you believe it?", flickered the Television as the remote in my hand changed the program to the next. The channels shifting along in the numerical system of Comcast cable box. I couldn't be more disgusted with television within in this generation. I sighed, turning off the T.V to return to my desktop.

Well fuck, wouldn't anyone else know? Well now that I think about, the internet knows exactly what I'm talking about. Aside from the fetish and childish users, I find the internet more reasonable than what real life proposed. It's my senior year and College isn't really getting my hopes up at all. I guess software engineers are too mane-streamed.

"Is there something wrong man? You seem pretty depressed", asked Skype as I sit down eating Cup of Ramen. I adjusted inside my seat, cracking my back in the process. Sipping my noodles, I snapped the headset on my head. I flip the mic and responded back, "Nothing much man. You ever noticed how retarded these new shows are?"

Skype bleeped as my friend appeared across the screen. "NO SHIT, what do you think? That reminds me, you ever seen that chain ad recently on Equestria Daily?" I then finished sipping my noodles and I toss the empty cup into the near by trash can. I reeled back in my chair and asked, "Chain ad? What was on it?"

"I haven't seen it yet, I heard it's some kind of Lyra pun", he explains. Gripping my chin to give a deep thought, I look towards the ceiling distracting myself.

"A Lyra chain ad huh? It better not be that Lyra plushie meme. It's getting old as fuck."

"Yeah..., hey man I'll see you later. I'm going to write a shipfic of Trixie and Twilight",

"See you later bro, remember don't add any clop in it."

"That I can't promise you", he exclaims as his Skype webcam turned blank.

I give a small sigh and started to surf the internet. I'm in that weird part of youtube; Tiarawhy videos again... I Instantly exit out of the tab and open another to Equestria Daily. I reread My Little Dashie and teared up to the sad ending. Probably was like my fourth, maybe fifth, reread, doesn't matter really. Probably the only story I actually teared up on. Cupcakes wasn't really innovating at all.

Surfing through the announcements, I found a topic giving an explanation to the Lyra Ads. Apparently the ad mysteriously appeared on the site and someone figured it was a Trojan. The moderators advised everyone to not click it until they can figure out a way to remove it.

And speak of the devil there was a small ad on the right of my screen. The background was blank and matched the background of the website. There was a rendered picture of Lyra sitting on nothing and a giant red button beside her. The ad instructed, "Click here for a Sweet Deal." Ignoring the warnings of Equestria Daily, I click the ad. Faithfully entrusting my computer to the custom Norton security.

Suddenly, my screen exploded with a blinding light and I was forced inside the screen