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Sunset was at the lowest of lows. It's like if rock bottom was just the tip of the iceberg. Everything that she tried to do just made things worse. It's almost like she was being forced to be the villain again, like, being written as it or something. She just had her redemption arc, and now it's ripped open, like her heart.

Scrolling through the many, many, Many different comments on "her" Mystable account, she realized just how massive Anon-a-miss' influence was. The Entire school thought she was anon-a-miss, well, except for the staff, but barely anyone listens to them anyways.

Then she got a notification. Thinking it was another agressive message from her, 'friends,' she braced herself for the onslaught of words and possible images that came along with it. But...that wasn't it at all.

It was an ad.

Feeling lonely? Got no one else to turn to? Thinking you got nothing left to live for?

Never settle for those awkward feelings of being alone ever again! SP1K3 is a new, exciting, and interactive experience that will keep you engaged and intrigued. The anxiety of social situations, no matter what it could be, can be nerve-racking, but after just a few hours of interacting with SP1K3, you will soon forget all about those painful emotions of disappointment, anger, sadness, or anything else! Be part of the new craze that is quickly becoming the next social substitute. Remember, the more you participate, interact, and even talk to, the more SP1K3 will engage with you. Your experience is completely up to you. Absolutely NO ADS. Enjoy!

"Wow...Talk about convenient," Sunset laughed to herself, before realizing no one else was there. And even if they were there, who would laugh...who would care...who would even notice? Sunset swiped the notification off her phone, before she went back to scrolling through 'her' hate comments.

"Have you seen that ad for that weird interactive thing?" Sunset heard rainbow dash a few tables away.

"No?" Sunset heard Pinkie question.

"It's so weird. Apparently, it's supposed to be like AR, where after you download, you have an option to talk to an AI and even put your little creature in pictures," Rainbow explained.

"Aww! That sounds adorable!" Fluttershy gleamed.

"Yeah, sounds is the right word. Lemon twist told me about their cousin who downloaded the app. They're now in psychotherapy," Rainbow rationalized.

"Jeez pardner. Wonder what happened," AJ pondered.

"Apparently, they got a super scary creature, and they didn't realize that they would appear in the pictures," Rainbow explained.

"Wonder if we could get sunset over there to download it," AJ pondered.

"Yeah. That would teach her-hey...?" Sunset cringed as she heard rainbow get interrupted. She looked at Rainbow, who was in front of a man. This man was...unsettling to say the least.

"Who's that?" Rainbow whispered.

"That there is dale. He's some butcher who volunteers at the school as a chef," AJ revealed. "My family did some work with him in the past. I remember being real scared of 'im."

"No kidding! The dude has no arms! I'd be terrified!" Rainbow exclaimed.

"He's also smiling very unorthodoxly. How can he even do that?" Rarity pondered. Aj shrugged.

"I don't know, but I've learned not to question him. I remember this one time, Granny smith asked him why he always seemed so happy, and I remember hearing yelling for 3 hours straight, all from him," Aj explained.

"Jesus! The dude must have anger issues or something," Rainbow thought.

"That's wha' I though' too! Granny said he isn't angry, but he just has a really loud voice. More like a loud microphone in him," Applejack continued. 'Dale' was already gone at this point.

"Hey! Thanks for nothing She-demon!" Sunset felt herself get smacked in the back of the head by someone. She didn't know who. Definitely a female voice, but would it matter?

"Nothing huh?" She heard the same voice. This wasn't gonna be pretty.

Black eye. Not the worst to come from it. Sunset has had worst. Sunset was more concerned with the fact that she hadn't really talked to a living person in forever.

The came the thought.

The thought that would change her life forever.

The thought that would lead down a winding road.

A Winding road of mystery.

A Winding road of danger.

A Winding road of supernatural proportions.

The thought wouldn't be enough on it's own, but the action that came with it would be enough to change everything that was going on.

"Maybe I should get that app," She thought. Almost like a call to action, another ad came on her phone for it, but instead of swiping it away, she clicked onto it. She was taken to the appstore where she could see the entire description, images, and reviews for it.

Thing was though...it felt off.

The description was almost the exact same as the one she got earlier, only with a small forward.

Made for ████████████

"Strange," Sunset thought. Maybe it was made for someone or some people, but it wasn't accepted? Far fetch.

The images were...strange. Most were of a small and...while not terrifying, also not very cute creature, similar to a dragon from her world. One image however, captured her eye.

It was of a doorway. The door had a slim window on the front, and the door was being shut, but in the window was that same dragon creature, but it almost looked skeletal. Like it was melted to pieces, and only it's bones remained.

Shivering at the image, she moved onto reviews...and saw only one.

It was from a person named Nicholas.

My Expierence

I'm giving this app 3.5 stars, because it wasn't exactly what I expected. I thought it would be a interactive story sort of thing, like an arg of sorts, but whenever I opened the text channel for SP1K3, it acted...well...like an A.I. There was no human piloting this creature. It wasn't a bad experience, because SP1K3 always listened to me, and even sometimes helped me...well, helped me is a bit of a loaded word, but he got me through some tough times. The creature is a little uncanny, but I'd definitely say, if you are feeling a bit under the whether, illness or just emotionally, this app can be helpful.

⭐⭐⭐

"Hmm...doesn't seem like a bot review," Sunset thought. Screw it, she couldn't get any more down in the dumps, so why not have an A.I talk to her. Maybe it could 'help' her. As she looked at the main icon, she tapped the install button, and waited. The app itself was only 142 MB, which seemed small for an AI, but, who knows. As she waited, she got another message from Rarity, scolding her for 'her' actions. Sunset ignored it, as always.

The app finished downloading and sunset decided to check it out in the morning.

Little did she know, that the night she downloaded that app would be the one of the strangest.

Sunset woke to a rather loud notification. Thinking that it was another scold, she ingored it, but then another came. She continued to ignore it until she thought about it.

"Why try to scold me at night, when I'm asleep?" She said to herself. 'Did they expect to wake me up, or make me down whenever I did wake up?' She thought. She picked up her phone in curiosity, and discovered, while the first message was indeed a scold, the second message was very confusing.

That wasn't very nice of them.

"Huh?" Sunset asked herself, rubbing her eyes, seeing if she was actually seeing things or not. To her surprise, the message didn't change. Sunset smiled, thinking that maybe she finally had an ally, and she looked at the name of this messanger to see who it was.

SP1K3: Nametag: N33D1E

That happiness quickly diminished. It was just the A.I She downloaded earlier. She scoffed, and went to sleep, before waking up quickly, even with minor sweating. How did the A.I know what she just read? Was it connected to the...Of course it was connected to the message service. That was advertised. But, how did it know that was just read? Does it see the read message whenever it's seen? Even so, how did it differentiate from a bad or good message so easily?

Sunset decided, if she was gonna figure this out, she might as well look into...right after she wakes up.

Sunset awoke in a cold environment, snow almost everywhere. Safe to assume this was a dream.

One major wind stream kept opposing her as she trekked through the frigid area. No matter what, this wind wouldn't change it's direction, much less stop for a moment.

Then, all of a sudden, many other streams of wind came rummaging through, completely blind siding her, and having her barely be able to move. She was barely wearing anything, and the wind streams didn't help in that regard. More of her clothing kept coming off as the wind kept pushing.

Then, a small patch of snow opened, almost like a trapdoor. Sunset took the opprotunity and ran with it, running towards the opening and jumping through the passage.

She looked around her new abode, noticing that it was a steel room, with plenty of wood furniture, and plenty of heating. Sunset gave a sigh of relief. She was finally free from that snowstorm of emotions.

"Hello my friend!" Sunset heard behind her before everything went white.

Sunset awoke in a cold sweat, realizing that it was a dream. She sighed, before looking down and realizing that she was...bare. She panicked, and quickly got on a set of clothes.

"Thank celestia. How did that happen anyway?" Sunset asked herself. It was a good question too. She had gone to sleep in the same purple pajamas she had always gone to sleep in. It wasn't impossible to take her clothes off while asleep, but that doesn't mean it was likely. Far from it. What's stranger is that she remembered in her dream she also became bare at some point in it. Could it have been...nah. Most likely she had taken her clothes off after her brain thought that was what had happened.

Checking her phone, she could see that there was a debate war going on the canterlot high boards. She checked it and saw that it was about the identity of Anon-a-miss. Thinking that maybe someone didn't think it was her, she opened it and saw...a sight indeed.

Oh COME ON! It's so obviously Sunset!

I strongly disagree. Evidence to the contrary is plentiful.

Sorry pardner, but ah think we also got plenty of evidence.

Perhaps, but I don't believe the evidence could be as strong as to the contrary.

Sunset watched down as this new person defended her, and she was incredibly happy. Finally, someone saw the light. But who was it? A student who transferred? A Teacher posing as a student? Twilight Sparkle? No, that couldn't be it. She would've known. Albeit, the hand writing is similar, but that's about all the evidence to suppose twilight.

The name tag was also very strange indeed, almost like they wanted to hide themself.

N33D13DR460N

Who is...Needle Dragon? Sounds like someone from her world, but again, doesn't seem possible. Every time someone comes through the mirror, a magic surge is made, and her being from that world would absolutely feel it.

Besides that, why were they defending her? If she doesn't even know who he is, how would they know what the heck was going on, not just with her, but with the entire school?

It just didn't seem to make sense, but she'll worry about that another time. She needed to figure out this new app.

Opening the app opened up the regular messanger on her phone, but it directed her to a new channel with...N33D1E. At that moment Sunset shivered. Similar names, but there was no way this A.I was her savior. Sure it might be able to see any message she gets, and it might be able to interact with her phone and send her messages, but it was only in her phone. There was no way it could get into MyStable that easily. It was just a basic chat bot. Maybe it was just a coincidence, but something was definitely up.

Sunset focused back onto N33D1E and sent a basic message, seeing the message from last night as well above her new message.

Hello?

Hello! How are you today?

I'm not great, but it could be worse.

Why aren't you doing well?

My friends aren't being so friendly.

Sunset cringed. It was a cheesy line, but it was an A.I. And besides, only she would see this text channel.

That's not good at all! Do you know why?

They think I'm sharing their secrets.

Are you?

No! And after everything I did for them too! They just turn their back on me after so long of being friends!

Well, I'm sorry Phe0nix62, however, I see that you truly aren't this...secret spoiler, as you probably saw by the mystable posts.

That was you!?

Correct! I might be just an A.I, but being inside of a phone can give me advantage!

Sunset was gasping for air at this point. How was this A.I So intelligent that it was able to, not only create a new Mystable account, and not just figure out how it works too, but able to distinguish both truth and lie so easily!? How advanced was this thing!?

Speaking of your friends, It seems your getting a call from them. Would you like me to answer instead?

What? You can do that?

Absolutely! I can mute your mic, and speak to them! Shouldn't be too difficult.

Well...If your okay with it, than sure.

No problem for me at all! I'm your friend! Oh, and also it's nearly 8, so you should probably get going to the school, right?

No, Principal Celestia said that I could do my work from home as long as it actually gets done.

Well then that's good! You don't have to worry about anyone being mean at you! Speaking of which, I should take that call. I'll be offline for approximately 6 minutes.

Sunset smiled a smidge. Finally, she had a real friend, through this whole snow storm.

Almost all of the Rainbooms were angry. How could Sunset double cross them, and this quickly? They thought they were truly friends after the siren attack, but now, such an obvious frame job fools even them. Makes you wonder why.

In an effort to get Sunset to finally listen, Rainbow, Rarity, and AJ organized a combined call with sunset, both to chew her out, and to try to get her to be their friend again. Like that would work.

"Alright, I'm firing up the call. You two should be able to join in video," Rainbow said, creating a lobby. Rarity and AJ joined soon after.

"Now darling, we know that sunset is Anon-a-miss, but we should try to be as nice as we can," Rarity suggested. Aj scoffed.

"Yeah, right. That girl is making no one trust eachother. We gotta get her where it hurts," AJ Retorted.

"Whatever. You girls do what you want. I'll do what I want. I'm inviting her now," Rainbow said, clicking invite on Sunset Shimmer, who she labelled as, 'Faker.' "Come on sunset. Join already," Rainbow said after a minute. Suddenly, sunset joined the call, but something was off. Her camera was all black, and no noise was coming from the mic.

"Hello? Anyone there?" AJ asked the black screen.

"Maybe it was an accidental answer while she was walking?" Rarity asked, before a new voice entered through Sunset's screen.

"Hello Sunset's Friends. Friends being in heavy quotation marks," The voice said.

"Huh? Who are you?" Aj Asked the new member.

"I'm one of Sunset's true friends, but you can call me Spike," The voice, now identified as spike, replied.

"Spike? Well, either way, why are you on sunset's phone?" Rainbow asked.

"Not important. Why would you like to talk to sunset?" Spike asked.

"We just need to...see if she's telling the truth," Rarity quickly diverted from her initial saying.

"Lie. Try again," Spike responded.

"Look kid, we just want to talk to sunset about if she truly is Anon-a-miss," Rainbow said.

"Lie. You already believe she is Anon-a-miss, based on blog posts and arguements. Why try to prove something now. Try again," Spike responded quickly.

"Look feller, we just want to talk to sunset and see why she did this," AJ said.

"Half truth. You already have your own ideas about why she did this. Anyways, I cannot give you access to her. She's busy with school work," Spike responded.

"What? She's here?" Rainbow asked, looking around her classroom.

"Incorrect. She's at her house. Principal Celestia said she could stay and work with her schoolwork at her house," Spike responded, which rarity jumped onto immediately.

"And how do you know this? And If she's at her house, how are you on her phone?" Rarity questioned.

"Yeah, wait a minute. She's right. Sunset wouldn't trust her phone with anybody!" Rainbow added.

"That was...the right question. Unfortunately for you, the right answer will not come for a while. Also, don't bother trying to contact Sunset again, cause you'll still have to go through me," Spike said, before leaving the call, leaving the girls in confusion.

Sunset was working a history assignment, Mongols, before getting a message, this time with a different ring then she's use to.

Opening her phone, she noticed that it was N33D1E.

"Friends" taken care of.

Thanks N33D1E. I hope they weren't mean to you.

A bit accusatory, but nothing too bad. And besides, even if they were, what are they gonna do? Try to find me? I'm inside of a phone losers! Come at me!

😂 You seem more sassy than before

Eh, It rubs off from many different sources.

Sunset chuckled.

So, what did they want, and also, why was the notification sound different?

They supposedly wanted to know why you did what 'You' did, and also I just edited me to change the notifcation tone. Nothing huge.

Should've figured. Well, hope your okay.

I'm completely fine. It's you should be worried about. I don't have and pain receptors, both physically and emotionally, but you have many!

Sunset smiled. He really cared about her, didn't he.

I'll be fine for now N33D1E. As long as no one comes to my apartment, I'm sure I'll be fine for now.

How about you make it so that no one Can come to your apartment.

What do you mean by that?

Well, if I'm in your phone, and some of the devices in your apartment, including your door and lights, can be controlled by your phone

Sunset gasped.

Then you can control who comes in and who doesn't! Your like a at home security System, but with feelings.

Exactly. Now, I'm not asking you to hook me up to anything, I'm just putting it out there. Believe me, I don't care. If I am hooked up, I can protect you, which will make me feel better. If I'm not, well that's just less stuff on my plate to worry about.

I wanna hook you up, but how do I know your not gonna become super clingy and try to get me to stay here eternally, or if your gonna become evil?

Well, first of all, I'm disappointed that you would think I'd do such cliche things.

Sunset laughed hard.

And secondly, not only is that not part of my programming, but I really can't just keep you in here. You have the key to the door, and I can only re-lock it over and over. If it does come to that, I'm gonna short circut faster than you can say chimichanga.

Well...I'll think about it.

Again, remember. I'm not forcing you into anything. I don't care if I am hooked up or not. Plus, not matter what, you'll be able to circumvent me if I do become what you suggested. Now, I shall ask that you put your phone down, and do your work.

Sunset listened to it's advice, and continued with the mongols.

N33D1E was a bit busy. More than he thought he would be, that's for sure. He loved his new user, and he was sure that she also loved him being there for her.

But, with everything going on with the user, he was consistently busy. No big deal though. He didn't care about how busy he was, cause he knew he was helping someone who truly needed it, and that was enough to keep him going.

Enough about him though, let's look at sunset's 'friends.'

Rainbow dash was very confused. More than she ever really was. The fact was that not only was she confused at sunset, but now she was also confused at two other people. This, Spike who is apparently allowed in sunset's residence, and this random person on MyStable who doesn't believe that Anon-a-miss is sunset. It made no sense.

Aj was also in Rainbow Dash's boat, but for more serious reasons. The rep made it so that, not only was sunset being targeted, not that she would care, but also that she was targeted. Apparently, there were some believers of sunset who targeted, not just her, but also had plans for some other members of the rainbooms. AJ came home one day to find almost every electronic, not there were many, to be dead. Completely dead. Nothing was turning them on. The screens was barely cracked. Almost all of them had cracks on the bottom right. Kinda strange.

Rarity also had problems, but none actually relating to Anon-a-miss. It sure didn't help anything, but her main problems came from the wave of questions that happened in the span of, almost 2 weeks. It was so confusing, that she could barely focus on anything. Grades began to drop for almost the first time ever.

Pinkie Pie and fluttershy seemed to be the ones spared from these questions and problems, as them only being mainly bystanders, Flutters being even more so. They were vocal the first time through, but afterwards they barely even talked to anyone else. Concerning if anything.

So, let's just say the rainbooms weren't exactly having the best days, but it was about to get worse. A lot worse. And it all was a simple matrix derivative.