Po-ny-oh

Under the vast grey sky, standing on the block white surface was two odd three-dimensional ponies. One was a blue haired white-furred pony that wore a black coat and a grey-striped shirt. The other was a white pony with orange fuzzy hair and wore a green top hat and jacket. He also had an evil clown mask that grinned with yellow sharp teeth. On his back, he carried a blue garbed doll on his back and two katana swords.

They just stood there until a black portal materialised and emerged from it was the great chaos dragon Discord.

“Discord! You made it!” shouted the blue-haired pony. “Walrus, someone else is finally here.”

“Hey Pencil Shade,” spoke Discord, unlike himself.

The three paused for a minute.

“Alright, I’m here. Sorry I was away from the computer,” spoke the clown facing about. “Finally here though Discord, what took you and where’s everyone else?”

“Nice to see you as well Walrus. But you shouldn’t be so surprised that no one else is here, considering you made a thirty-two character password and didn’t mind to inform anyone that it was case sensitive.”

“I left it to be copied and pasted it on the forums didn’t I?”

“You didn’t copy and paste which letters were in capitals?”

“I did, didn’t I, Pencil Shade?”

“Don’t bring me into this!”

“Well we could do with an explanation with how you entered here with Walrus’ vague password?”

“Um, well I asked him if he could private message me the password after I couldn’t find which topic he posted it on.”

“Okay, fine, I may have made another clumsy mistake, so how about someone goes and tells the real password?”

“I can’t, I don’t remember it, so I wouldn’t be able to close my browser, tell them and log back on,” said Discord.

“Um, I can’t either, because I deleted the message after I put in the password… I sort of like to keep my inbox clean.”

“Looks like you’re going to have to do it Walrus.”

“Uh, what if I told you I couldn’t?”

“What if I asked if it had something to do with you forgetting the ridicolous password?”

“It was written down, just that it was written somewhere a little too inconvenient like in my satchel I left at college.”

“Sigh.”

“Okay, I can’t let your effort be a waste at least for trying to get on. So welcome to the virtual world I have created.” Walrus led them on a walk across the blank virtual reality. “So yeah, what you have here is an entire realm that rivals the size of my home island, Shetland, nine-hundred-and-fifty kilometres to be precise.”

“So you built this all by yourself?” asked Pencil Shade.

“Not really. I bought most of it off a friend who didn’t have much imagination to do anything else with it. I’ve just encoded some things, made some graphic art like our avatars and invented the game Duel ponies.”

“Why didn’t you come up with a more original game, than one obviously ripped off of Yu-Gi-Oh?” questioned Discord.

“When learning how to use codes, make all the art and let alone dealing with personal life matters, tell me when you have time to come up with a new unique system. The Duel pony system is just around until I do just come up with a new system for the way of it. After all this was just for my amusement.”

“And just how much time did you spend on this personal amusement?”

“You don’t want to know. But these are the reasons why I’d prefer to be called thy Obsessive freak.”

“I do think we’re going to have a lot of fun in this virtual reality game you’ve created so far,” said Pencil Shade.

“All in the name of Magic and friendship,” replied Obsessive freak.

Just then the sky began to flick and the floors flared into different colours like a dancing floor.

“What’s going on?” asked Pencil Shade.

“Bug I’m guessing?” Discord shrugged.

“No… It’s an unauthorised download being added to the game. My computer’s coming up with other user accounts altering my system, which of course isn’t right as you require me to make you a user, which requires two-to-three days of visible progress.”

“Every program has its vulnerability for hackers I guess,” said Discord.

Black portals opened up before them and emerged out were a collective variety of villains from My little pony Friendship is magic marching out to greet them.

“…Well this isn’t right.”

Towering over the villains was a character that almost went unrecognised. It didn’t take too long however to figure out it was Discord, a much darker version of him. His eyes were red, body darker and just really less child friendly. “Greetings, Obsessive freak.”

“Okay, aren’t you the lead villain of my game, Destruction?”

“Indeed, we the villains of your game have been given a new A.I system by a particular group of Brony-haters.”

“…Um are you saying, haters just sent a load of time figuring out how to hack my system, just so they could modify my A.I and tell me this?”

“In a way. But it’s more that it’s a hacker group that all conveniently hates you pile of thrash that plagues the internet. The internet which is to soon become theirs.”

“Huh?”

“Your little pathetic game system was stumbled upon. The world you’ve have has infinite possibilities. It expands, adapts and is capable of consuming wide parts of the internet. We’re surprised that your friend just gave it away, but he’s given you the potentiality that you were squandering to further poison the internet culture.”

“Excuse me, not that I mean to barge in.” Discord intervended. “But what does this all have to do with this group getting you to barge in and bla-bla all about this like it was the morning news?”

“Because there’s nothing you can do.” Destruction and the rest of the villains snickered. “You see, Obsessive freak’s game system is quite flawed. His need to move onto the next stage has left the previous consequences go unscathed.”

“Like?”

“If defeated in a duel, your character is destroyed. Obsessive freak however had left an unfixed error where the destroyed character also causes your account to be deleted. Hence if you wanted back in, you’d have to wait two-to-three days for Obsessive freak to make you a new account.”

“So you’re here to challenge us to a duel and destroy us?” questioned Pencil Shade. “What if we don’t accept?”

“Another flaw Obsessive freak didn’t bother to work on. If you don’t accept a challenge, your character is automatically destroyed. In other words you lose anyways.”

“I’m starting to put this together. Right now this groups infiltrated Walrus’ system, needs time to set their plan into motion, so they’ve turned all his A.I against him in order to destroy his account and then get on with wrecking his system?” asked Discord.

“Correct.” Duel disks then flashed onto the villains’ wrists. “And now that we with this charade, it is time to commence our-.” Duel disks flicked in and out hazily, until there were completely gone.

“Behold, a flaw. This one I bothered to fix. Seems like these hackers didn’t notice the bug I had before where villains would just show up and attack. I fixed this by making it that villains could only duel at specific levels and under certain conditions, as well as having to play specific games. Therefore you villains have become nothing more than an obstacle as I’ve already traced where they are. They’re using moderator accounts to infiltrate my system and alter it from the inside. Therefore soon as I’ve confronted them, I can simply challenge them to a duel and be done with it.”

“Hm, seems like you’re not so flawed after all. But it doesn’t leave the problem that they’re on the final level, where you’ll not only have to still try to get pass us, one by one, but the difficulty you left was absurd to begin with. The group planned ahead to alter our decks, as well as a few rules as a precaution.”

“I can’t wait to see what challenges they’ve brought to my game then.”

“You’ll be surprised.”

The landscape began to cybernetically alter, forming into a black murky swamp. Behind the villains appeared a stone temple ruin.

“You’ll be very surprised.”

The villains were all sucked into black warp holes that opened up behind them and then completely disappeared.

“…Things just got interesting,” said Discord.

“Looks like it’s just us,” replied Pencil Shade.

“Hold on, I’m getting a user coming in.”

A black hole zips opened. The heroes prepared themselves, but popped out from it was a male version of Rainbow Dash.

“Rainbow Crash!” yelled everyone.

“Yeah, hey, only got on just now, didn’t miss too much did I?” The gang stared silently at him. “Um guys?”

“Anyone actually want to fill him in on what’s been happening?” asked Pencil Shade.

“Hold on, I’m looking to see if there’s a record version of message histories?” asked Obsessive freak.

“Now things just got ridiculous.”