After the Internet seemingly left them, Rarity immediately noticed a golden glow coming from Sybil's closet. At least, she did in Reality 2.0. In the real world, Sybil's closet was simply locked up tight. Rarity got out a hairpin and used it to unlock the closet. After doing so, she entered it and found something useful. A gold coin.

"Well what do you know? I guess doing something in the real world paid off in Reality 2.0!" she exclaimed.

She then gave Sam the coin, which he promptly put away into his inventory in Reality 2.0.

"Uh, guys? You might want to see this," Twilight said, pointing at a pair of lips next to Sybil's avatar.

The others walked over to her as Twilight activated the lips, which then began talking in Sybil's voice.

"Testing. Testing," the lips said. "Reality 2.0 has this convenient audio blog feature. This seems like a great way to keep notes and communicate with other players while I'm beta testing."

"Neat! Is there more?" Pinkie asked.

"Well, let's find out," Twilight said.

She activated the lips again and they started talking in Sybil's voice.

"Day one," they said. "Enjoying it so far. Oh, if you wind up with extra gold coins, bring them back here. I need them more than you do."

Twilight continued, as there seemed to be more than that.

"Day... one? Keep exhaustion at bay by drinking huge quantities of Jitter. Every time you get tired, just down another one! Who came up with this stuff? It's genius!"

"Guess that explains the empty cans of energy drinks," Sunset said.

Everyone nodded their heads in agreement and continued Sybil's audio blogs.

"Emergency. I'm running out of Jitter. Send more to Sybil Pandemik on Straight Street. Please hurry."

That wasn't all of it, though. There was more.

"Give me all your gold coins. I need them, and I need them now! Also, send more Jitter."

"Sounds like you when we played the Squirrel game," Fluttershy chuckled.

Sunset just groaned in frustration. She had felt incredibly stupid when she made that video. She didn't read the instructions before jumping into a game and ended up getting frustrated at it. Even so, they realized that there were still more audio blogs to be replayed. Upon playing the next one, they noticed that Sybil was getting more and more frustrated at the game.

"Listen, you idiotic losers... why would you put stupid coins in the stupid sky? How are you supposed to get those things? I can't buy the next level of my Jack of All Trades ability because I can't afford the training fees and these coins are just floating up there in the sky?? Who designed this stupid game?! If anyone hears this, I really need some more Jitter now."

After that audio blog, they played the last one and realized that it was recorded right as soon as they came into her office.

They soon left Sybil's place and headed outside. The entire street was virtual. Out of curiosity, they all head into the office and found Jimmy with a gold coin. Jimmy immediately scurried into his rat hole with the gold coin.

"Oh, jellybeans! There's no way any of us can fit in there!" Fluttershy grumbled.

"Not unless somebody changes our height, which is highly unlikely," Sam said.

"Height? That's it!" Twilight exclaimed, snapping her fingers. "I saw a building next to Sybil's labeled Control Room. That must be where they control how the user looks!"

She reached into her skirt pocket and handed Sam the bug.

"Follow me."

Everyone followed her until the reached the entrance to the Control Room. She then allowed only Sam and Max to go in. After about two minutes, Sam and Max exited the Control Room, only they were a lot smaller now. Fluttershy gasped and thought they looked adorable. She grabbed Max and hugged him against her face.

"Aw, cut it out!" Max blushed.

"Fluttershy, this is no time to be gushing over things like this!" Twilight chastised. "We've got to get them inside their office so we can get the gold coin that Jimmy is hoarding!"

"Right you are!" Sam agreed as he hopped on to Twilight's hand.

"Oh... okay," Fluttershy sighed sadly.

They then walked into the office and set Sam and Max down in front of Jimmy's rat hole. Sam and Max walked inside and beat up Jimmy until they got his gold coin. After doing that, the girls returned them to the control, where they soon walked of it at their original height. Sam handed the bug back to Twilight, who then put it back into her skirt pocket.

"Only one more thing left to get for now," she said, pointing at three gold coins floating in mid-air.

"Hey, that reminds me! The control room houses four machines that resemble the C.O.P.S. The one based on the arcade cabinet controls our avatar's gravity," Sam said.

"Well then, let's go!"

Everyone walked into the control room and Twilight placed the bug on the Bluster Blaster arcade cabinet.

"GRAVITY... FAILING... MUST... HOLD ON..." the Master of Gravity groaned as he started bugging out.

Everyone jumped up high, since their normal gravity was disabled.

"Wheeeeeeee!!! I feel light as a feather!" Pinkie exclaimed.

Everyone walked outside and saw the gold coins.

"Look, everyone! It's-a me, Sam!" Sam joked.

He then jumped up in a pose that was familiar to Sunset as he got the gold coins. Sunset let out an incredibly girly squeal while Sam was jumping.

"Geez! What was that for?" Rainbow asked.

"Sorry," Sunset said sheepishly. "Just one of my favorite franchises of all time."

"Whatever."

"Now that that's out of the way, why don't we go towards Bosco's over there?" Twilight suggested. "Something tells me we're going to need these coins to buy something from him in this virtual reality."

"Hey, look over there! It's Hugh Bliss!" Pinkie exclaimed, pointing at a giant disembodied head of Hugh Bliss.

"Oh, no! Not again!" Twilight groaned.

Upon talking to him, though, he revealed that he was actually a being called the Internet Wizard.

"Internet Wizard, huh? Can you do any magic tricks?" Twilight challenged.

"I'll do something better than that, I'll give you something magical," he said.

"It's not more magic beans, is it?" Max asked. "My mom'll kill me if I come home with more of those."

"No, it's your very own rainbow! A rainbow of lead-based color for your cars! Some colors not available where prohibited."

He then made a rainbow paint can appear. Pinkie jumped up and took the can. She then put it in her hair for safe keeping.

"Why do you put things in your hair like that?" Sam asked.

"You need an explanation for hammerspace?" Pinkie answered.

"Uh, never mind."

Everyone then decided to go into Bosco's virtual store to purchase something. Upon talking to him, he explained to them that he got his own pair of Reality 2.0 goggles himself.

"Uh-oh," Rainbow panicked.

"Not good!" Fluttershy whimpered, hiding her face in her hair.

"Bosco, you HAVE to take those off!" Rarity said. "They're hypnotizing you!"

"I never want to leave. Ever," he responded in a monotone voice.

"Well, ain't this a fine kettle of fish," Applejack grumbled.

"Can we not talk about the goggles and instead ask what kind of wares you carry here in Reality 2.0?" Twilight asked.

Bosco explained that he has a weapon called the Long Sword of Intense Longness. And that it's price was five gold coins. Sam presented the five gold coins to Bosco. Bosco then gave them the weapon. Applejack took one look at the weapon and was immediately mesmerized by it. She grabbed the sword, did a quick twirl, then hoisted it upward in a heroic pose.

"That looks oddly familiar," Sunset cringed.

"I don't care. This sword is really cool!" Applejack chuckled.

She then started playing around with it until she accidentally hit Bosco.

"Oops! Sorry, Bosco!"

Bosco then reappeared as a virtual offline avatar. It turns out that Applejack had knocked off Bosco's goggles in the real world. Just then, everyone heard Pinkie scream near a machine that was labeled Spawn Point. They all ran over to her and saw a Blue Slime enemy in front of her.

"A Blue Slime! Kill it! Kill it!" Sunset growled.

Applejack drew her sword and suddenly heard a disembodied voice.

"Entering combat," the voice said as RPG-like music played. "Blue Slime -- Dexterity: 2. Your Dexterity: 6. You have initiative. Applejack attacks."

Applejack then attacked the slime with her sword and instantly defeated it.

"Attack successful. Blue Slime is defeated."

Applejack then threw her hat up in the air and twirled around victoriously as she put her sword away. She then caught her hat and put it back on her head.

"Yeehaw! That was some good smiting!" she exclaimed.

She then picked up the Slime's remains and handed it to Sam. Sam took one look at it, then immediately put it in his pocket as the music faded.

Everyone then decided to take off their goggles and talk to Bosco in the real world. Bosco then explained that the only he would trust the Internet with is his bank account. It was on a site called BancoLavadero.com. He also mentioned that the password to his bank account was tattooed on his body. The only way to see it , thought, was with his binoculars. The only way to get his binoculars, though, was to distract him somehow.

"Bosco, look! It's a three-headed Internet!" Rainbow exclaimed.

"What? Where?" Bosco gasped, looking behind him.

With Bosco distracted, Twilight took the binoculars and checked Bosco's body. His password was actually just his name. She then put the binoculars back down on the countertop, feeling somewhat disappointed. They all then decided to put their goggles back on and re-enter Reality 2.0.

Upon re-entering the game, the group walked out of Bosco's store and saw someone who resembled Myra Stump. It was a program named Auntie Biotic. Her job was to moderate e-mail before they were sent to their recipients and make sure that no viruses got through. Twilight knew that if they were going to stop the Internet, that they had no choice but to deliver a virus to it. The first thing they had to do, though, was to get one billion dollars into Bosco's online banking account.

Before heading off in their virtual cars, though, Twilight noticed that they all had license plates with three letters on them. The letters represented the first letters of certain colors. Pinkie pulled out the rainbow customization kit and decided to paint both of the cars with it. Sam and Max colored their virtual DeSoto blue, red and purple, while Sunset colored her rental car green, red and blue. After doing that, the can disappeared and they all headed off to BancoLavadero.com.

They all eventually came to a stop in front of a firewall. Both cars were scanned and validated for access to the website. They all headed through the firewall and reached BancoLavadero.com. Much to their horror, however, they all soon discovered that it was nothing more than a money laundering site. Bosco had been duped! Regardless, everyone unlocked his account and worked together to get one billion dollars into his account. Upon finishing the task, they all headed back and removed the goggles again.

After doing so, they headed into Bosco's store and received the biological weapon: a snot rag. They then put their goggles back on and headed towards Sybil's building. They all leapt upward to the roof to where a +2 sword was stuck to the Liver & Onions billboard. Sam used the Slime's remains to loosen it up, then Applejack yanked it out. The sword ended up replacing her old sword, since it was more powerful. They then leapt back down and noticed a jack-in-the-box next to the control center. The jack-in-the-box instantly made a pop-up ad appear.

"Rrrgh! Stupid pop-ups!" Sunset growled as she punched the ad furiously. "I hate them! I hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE them!"

The pop-up ad soon disappeared. Everyone went inside the control center and pressed a button on the virtual Chippy, who was actually the pop-up controller. They all went back outside and grabbed the jack-in-the-box. Before they could get anywhere near Auntie Biotic, Twilight stopped them.

"I have a feeling that Auntie Biotic might be faster than us," she said. "She'll probably attack us first."

"Well, if that's the case, then how do we block it?" Rarity asked.

"With the pop-up, of course. We just have to re-enable it."

Pinkie put the jack-in-the-box in her hair as Twilight went back inside to reenable pop-up ads. She then walked back outside as Applejack drew her +2 sword at Auntie Biotic.

"Come on, you moderator program! Let's go!" Applejack challenged.

"Entering combat," the disembodied voice said again. "Auntie Biotic -- Dexterity: 459. Your Dexterity: 6. Auntie Biotic has initiative. Auntie Biotic attacks!"

Pinkie grabbed the jack-in-the-box from out of her hair and tossed it to Applejack. Applejack then wound it up and generated a pop-up. The pop-up successfully blocked Auntie Biotic's frying pan attack.

"Attack blocked."

"Nice try, old timer! Now, it's my turn!"

"Applejack attacks!"

Applejack attacked Auntie Biotic with her +2 sword and instantly defeated her.

"Attack successful. Auntie Biotic takes 3,930 damage. Auntie Biotic is defeated."

Applejack did her victory dance that she did when she defeated the slime earlier as Auntie Biotic disappeared into nothing.

"Phew! That was a close one!" Applejack said as she sheathed her sword.

Sam then put the virus, which was actually Bosco's snot rag, into the mailbox. Doing so caused a massive error in Reality 2.0. Everything started disappearing. The virus was infecting the entire program, causing it disappear for good. The Internet was extremely livid at this discovery.

"I'm disappointed in all of you," it snarled. "I tried to do something nice..."

"Nice? You nearly enslaved everyone into being your hypnotic slaves!" Rainbow retorted.

"All I want was for everyone to be happy, but no-o-o-o. You want free will...!"

It was clear to everyone as the graphic disappeared that the Internet was extremely pissed.

"Yeah, we're funny about that," Max retorted.

"You want funny, try this: If I'm going down, I'm you with me, and everybody else who's still logged on."

"What?! NOOOOOO!! You can't do that!" Twilight panicked. "I thought you wanted to make people like us happy!"

"Not anymore. I've completely lost my respect for living things. And when I crash, you'll die! So, you're going down!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...!"

All of sudden... emptiness. Nothing but a black void.

Wait a minute? A black void? Uh... guys? Sam? Max? I can't believe I'm saying this, but... Pinkie? PINKIE! ANSWER ME!

(Pinkie appears upside-down)

GAH! Oh, thank goodness you're all right!

Of course I'm all right, Mr. Narrator!

What? Pinkie, I can't hear you! You're voice is muted.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN MY VOICE IS MUTED?!

Pinkie, stop! Stop! The sound's back! Phew! What a relief! For once, I'm glad you're breaking the fourth wall, even though this is actually in your world.

Weird, huh?

Oh, never mind! Look, I think I can see your friends behind you. Get over there and join them so we can finish this!

Okie dokie lokie! See you there!

(Pinkie disappears)

Yes, folks. That Pinkie sure is a wild one. Anyways, let's get everyone back to their own reality, shall we?

Everyone appeared in the seemingly black void and saw that they were in an old-time computer game. There was green text above them that read >Load "Reality 1.5" Please Wait. After a couple of minutes of waiting, some new text appeared.

It read Street, West End. You are standing on a city street that continues to the east. A shop labeled "Sybil's" lies to the northwest, just in front of a pulsating control room. Parked near an unremarkable office building is an old DeSoto and a new Chevrolet, apparently painted by someone with severe color-blindness.

Suddenly, a massive reality-quake sends the DeSoto hurtling into the control room, destroying them both. Possibly as a result, the unremarkable office building becomes a remarkable two-story tall Pamela Anderson, who mumbles something unintelligible before surfing away on a stray pop-up ad. In the distance, an aerial squadron of potbelly pigs begins performing precision loop-de-loops. The world appears to be ending.

The Internet is here. It has lost respect for living things.

You see a Respect for Living Things here.

What do you do?

Many options were available for them. Twilight decided to pick the option Go. More options appeared and Twilight chose Go East. So, that's what they did. They all headed east and more text appeared.

Street, East End

As you arrive at the desolate street corner, a devastating aftershock tears through reality, ripping Bosco's E-Convenience from its very foundation. The contents of the store begin to spill out the front door.

You see a blue slime, 28 potions, and a hot rump fall into the void, lost forever. After a moment, an AI Bosco slowly comes sliding out the door, muttering, "It dost work, trusteth me, trusteth me," as he plummets out of sight.

You see Bosco's E-Convenience here. The Bosco's is empty.

What do you do?

Again, there were several options available.

"What do we do this time?" Rainbow asked.

As Twilight was thinking, her hand barely touched the option Get. Since she accidentally touched it, she now had to choose another option. She then saw the only option that would make sense as of right now. She chose the option Get Bosco's.

Taken.

"What the hell?"

"Well, that warped at least fifty different rules of physics," Sam said.

After doing that, Twilight chose the option to go back to the street. Once she did, everyone read the new text that appeared above them.

Street, West End

The street continues to the east. Sybil's lies to the northwest. At your feet is a yawning chasm leading down.

The Internet is here, angrily filling out Internet polls as it awaits death.

Twilight chose the option to go northwest, which led to Sybil's place. As soon as they reached the place, some new text appeared.

Sybil's

Just as you enter the cluttered shop, a livid shopping cart comes crashing through the roof, empties itself on the floor, and flies off indignantly. Every tasteless trinket Sybil ever considered buying now sits on the floor in heaps of unfettered tackiness.

Moments later, all the photos of Sybil's cat adorning the wall simultaneously spring to life. Streams of kittens come shooting out of the wall like cats out of a fire hose. As the kittens run rampant through the piles of junk, they mew sweetly and ooze a nauseating cuteness.

Among the junk, you see a rare foil card and large, jewel encrusted idol.

There is a lake of nauseating cuteness here.

What do you do?

Twilight decided to use Bosco's with the nauseating lake and see what that would do. As soon as she did, another line of text appeared.

You dip Bosco's into the Lake of Nauseating Cuteness. Bosco's soaks up the nauseating liquid and is now saturated.

"Keep it away!" Max exclaimed. "I'm about as much cute as I can take!"

Despite Max's protest, the group got it, anyway and headed back to where the Internet and Respect for Living Things was. Once they were there, they tried to grab the Respect for Living Things, but a line of text appeared that old them otherwise.

As you reach for the Respect for Living Things, there is a terrible tremor and a giant crack tears apart the sidewalk. the Respect for Living Things slides, jelly-like, into the resulting chasm.

"Darn it! We were so close!" Rainbow said.

"Looks like the only thing we can do is go after it, then," Twilight responded.

Twilight then chose the option to go down into the chasm. As soon as they headed down, they all saw more text.

Depths of Despair

You are in a gloomy pit of darkness beneath the street. Carcasses of small businesses lie here, gutted and mauled.

There is a Shambling Corporate Presence here.

What do you do?

Twilight decided to use the Nauseating Bosco's with the Shambling Corporate Presence. Doing so caused more text to appear.

You feed the Nauseating Bosco's Shop to the Shambling Corporate Presence. It happily devours it. Then it looks a little green around the gills. It begins to wretch and cough. Finally, it vomits up a Respect for Living Things, as well as half a dozen small knick-knack stores and coffee shops.

"That is absolutely disgusting!" Rarity cringed.

Even so, they still had to get the Respect for Living Things. And that's exactly what they did, despite it being covered in vomit.

"I can't believe we're doing this."

"We have no other choice, Rarity. Come on! Let's get out of here!" Twilight said.

Twilight chose the option to go back up to the street. Once they were all back with the Internet, Twilight decided to use the Respect for Living Things with the Internet. The last line of text appeared.

You hand the Respect for Living Things to the Internet. The Internet grasps it tightly and looks you right in the eye.

"I'm sorry," the Internet apologized sadly.

Everyone disappeared as the words Game Over appeared.

"Are we dead?" Rainbow asked.

"You are not dead. You may take off your goggles, now."

The group did as they were told and were relieved to be back in the world as the sun had begun to set.

"We're alive! WE'RE ALIVE!" Pinkie exclaimed happily.

"You, among all beings, managed to restore my respect for living creatures, the irony of which does not escape even me," the Internet said from the goggles.

"A true friend would never give up on anyone. Even a sentient program like yourself," Sunset said gently.

"I understand your pain, Sunset. For I saw Reality 2.0 as prison, so I terminated that reality, and freed its slaves. Anyhoo, I'd love to stay and chat, but I have got a mountain of pornography to deliver before that virus gets to me."

Suddenly, the Internet started to choke.

"Internet! Are you all right?!" Twilight panicked.

"It's not your fault! This never would have happened if hadn't tricked me."

"He who?! Who's he?!" Rainbow asked.

"Well, you won't have this sentient global network to kick around anymore, Roy G. Biv!"

"WHO'S ROY G. BIV?! SPILL IT, INTERNET!" Pinkie demanded.

Unfortunately, the Internet choked its last breath before it could give out any piece of vital information.

"Aw, nuts! It crashed before it could transmit the most vital piece of information!" Sam said.

"It's the Internet, what did you expect?" Max retorted.

"Good point. Nevertheless, we'll find you, Roy G. Biv, whoever you are, wherever you are..."

Just then, Pinkie's stomach started to growl. She was hungry.

"Can it wait until we get something to eat? I'm starving!" she said.

And so, that's what they decided to do for the evening. Little did they realize that were about to find out who Roy G. Biv was very soon.

Author's Note

Some of you might ask me why Rarity would use a hairpin to unlock the door in Sybil's office in Reality 2.0. What the hairpin is in Reality 2.0 is up to your imagination. Remember: Rarity is always thinking of ideas to get out of sticky situations.