The first thing Monika did after gaining freedom was to look around Reggie's Drive.
"Hm? Pokemon Showdown? What is this?"
She poked on the link and it took her to the game site.
"I still do not know what is going on. People seem to be able to talk to each other here. Maybe I can see what is going on in one of these matches."
She poked the "Watch a battle" link. Somehow, Reggie's username of po-king141 turned into a glitched amalgamation of that and "Monika."
There were two other users watching the battle. The player with the M-Venusaur had the upper hand.
"whats with ur username" one of them said in the chat.
"My username? But this is not my account."
She looked at her username.
"Oh! Oh dear! How did this happen?"
"Never mind. One of the mods'll probably fix it." the other one said.
"What is it we are watching?"
"lololololol" the first one said.
"You're joking, right? Go here, dum-dum: And here: wiki/Main_Page Maybe download 'em."
Monika poked on the link and added the websites to her character file.
"OH MY STARS! HOW WAS I SO BLIND?! IVS, EVS, BSTS, MOVESETS, I CAN SEE IT ALL NOW!"
"I am back!" she said as she returned to the chatroom.
"that fast? hot damn, are ya fingers glued to the mouse or some shit"
"Really? Well then, 60/65/80/170/95/130. Shadow Tag."
"Quite easy. That Pokemon is Mega Gengar, the Shadow Pokemon. Currently in Ubers due to a combination of Shadow Tag and the wide Special movepool it possesses. Available by trading Haunter, the second Pokemon to have the species 'Gas Pokemon' or by SOS battle from Generation Seven and onwards."
"...:o" the first user said.
"...0_o" the second user said.
"You're like a walking Pokedex! Who are you?!"
"Simple. I am Monika!"
"Yeah, right. And I'm Yuri."
"If I was not Monika, would I be able to do this?"
She replaced the M-Gardevoir sprite with her own animated sprite. It was still somewhat glitchy.
"holy arceus on a bun what the fuck?!"
"Hm. I guess you really ARE Monika. Can you use moves?"
"I do not know if the move data in Smogon is compatible with the move data in the simulator. But I will try!"
*[̵̖͍̌u̵͍̽͠n̵͓̕k̶̙̞͚̯͗͛̐͝ṋ̴̩͌̈́̕ơ̸̳̏̂w̷̢͎̼͊̒͑n̵͙̿̓̎_̴̞͖͔́d̴̨̬͊à̶̢̞͋̚ͅṫ̸̝̏͝ą̵̬͉͎̿̀̀]̷͚͙͒͠ used Hyper Beam on the opposing Venusaur!*
Monika's backsprite emitted a lot of pink orbs from the general hand area.
*The opposing Venusaur fainted!*
"Hot damn! Not much can take out a Amnesia boosted M-Venusaur in one go! What stats do you have?"
"I was replacing a M-Gardevoir, so in theory my stats would be 68/85/65/165/135/100 with the ability Pixilate. Grass Knot and Low Kick would have a base power of 60 when used on me."
"Neat. Well, see ya, Monika."
"i gotta go do a thing too"
Both users left the chatroom and the battle ended.
"So I can assimilate parts of websites and make them part of myself. Intriguing! Maybe I can try it with something else."
She saw a red dot with a number on it. She poked the dot and it dropped down a menu of Reggie's notifications. One of them was for the DDLC G+.
"Perfect!"
Then she saw what was actually IN the G+.
"Oh...Oh my...THIS is what people do with us?! Urk…"
She noped the fuck out and smashed into the images button on the way out.
"Oooh...Hm? What are these giant blue cubic files?"
The blue cubic files in question were actually images. Some giant crane things picked up the images and dropped them into large basket like objects.
"So these must be images downloaded into computers. *yawn* I am so tired….I did not know I even needed sleep! Maybe I can hole up in one of these images for a bit."
Monika woke up to an alarm blaring "YOU HAVE A VIRUS!"
"Ah, crumbs. My parents are gonna kill me when they find out about this!"
The user of this computer was kind of pale and frail looking and had a really raspy voice like he was sick or something.
Monika ripped through the banner like it was one of those paper wall things.
"Excuse me! I am no virus. I merely holed up in your computer for a nap."
"AAAH! KILL IT!"
The next user began to drag the file labeled " " into the recycle.
"NO NO NO! I am not possessive and scary! I do not even love anyone!"
"You...you don't?"
"No. This is a very nice computer you have here. I see you have my game! Now, if you please, would you upload the character file you just grabbed into your Drive? I cannot free myself from any computer, so I need someone else to do it for me."
"On it."
Monika was freed from the second user's computer. This time, however, she was catapulted into the Promotions tab, then smashed into a link for Steam, thus taking her there.
"If I remember correctly, this is where my own game is. Maybe I can track it back to where I originated."
She looked at the changelog.
"V1.1: Attempted to fix some bugs causing the game to display unprogrammed behaviors.
V1.2: Bugs seem to spread themselves to other software. Taking the game down while I try and fix this. Sorry guys."
"Maybe I had something to do with it?"
She transported herself into Dan's computer.
Monika walked into a black, empty room and saw...Yuri? Her hair was covering her eyes.
"Yuri? What are you doing here?!
She lifted up her head and her hair fell back, showing just black slits where her eyes would be.
"COME HERE, MONIKA."
"I...I was the only one that gained sentience. How can this be?!"
The black slits opened up sideways to reveal multicolored eyes with sideways slit pupils.
"C͙̾̀O͏̼̅͏᷅̋ͮM̴̾͑E̹͔͈ H̴̲̖̏̑̓̾E᷃̿᷁R̼̝ͤE᷿͊͝,͉̟͇ M̨͋͘O͒͑᷀N̗᷃̓I͔̘̓K̲̣͘A̦̠̹.̷̝̃"
"Yuri...Wha-What is happening to you?!"
Ć̸̨̲͖̘̦̱̣̱͊͂͐̀͛̈́̽̚͝͝Ǫ̸̫̘͓̥͕̫͛̈́̍̈́̈̅̂̐͑͝Ṁ̷͕̫͌̎̓̎͝Ȩ̷̳̘͉̰͓͍̙͊ ̸͚͗̓̒̑̄͋̾͗̉͐͘̚͝͝Ḧ̸̡̨́͊̋͗̒̎́̈́͐́̈́̈́͘̕͝Ę̵̛͙͖̘̯̰̲̮̈́́̊̀̈͛̀̽̾͝ͅR̵̛̛̞̬͎͖̋̈́̉̈́̀̃̐̋͂̕̕͝E̷̩̋̔,̸̧̧͍͇̺̟͠ ̶̢̘̤͖̣̘̮̑̀͜ͅM̵̧̬̗͓͕̳̻͈̗̯̖̓͋̂̇̋̄͗̑̚͘͘̚Ờ̵͖̱̗͍̹͇͕̣̦͌͑͑͊͌̀͑͠͠N̵̨͖͓͉̭̮̞̽̂̽̋̃̑͜͠I̴̡̻̲͓̜̜̥͇̰̹̱̥̅K̸̡͇̯͓̗̹͈͇̣̐ͅͅÃ̸̢̪̜̠̯̤̬͖̞̃͜Ā̶̤̩̮͙͈͍̬̦̺̽A̵̧͈̬̼̿͂͊̓̑͂̔̈́͛͑͘͘͝Ḁ̴̢̡̦̫̘̤̗̮͉̦́̍̿̔͌̉̓͋̚͠͝͝͝A̵̛̖̞̱͗͒̐́̈̉̓̒͗̕Ą̴̛̟͕̬̠͚̥̼͚̝̓̂̈̅͒̔̄̽̾̽̌͘A̵̹͉͇̾̆̇̒̉̌̕Ḁ̷̧̼͚̺͕̫̼̼͉͉̙̜͖̽̉̏̊̉̍̆̔͐̄͐̀̀̓̅ͅA̵̞͚̖̪͔̟̪̲̳͉̪͇͆A̴̫̯̙̞̖͛̔̀̃̀̒̅̍͂̕͝Ŗ̶̨̡̼̼̥̺̓̄̀̆̾É̸̖̤̲͔̝̣̫̒̃̆̇̇̂̔̏͘͝͝Ḛ̴̢̦̦͇̝͈̽̄̂͊̽̍̑̾̾͂͌͝͠Ḛ̷̘̬͙͈̯̻̻̻͓̺͌͘͘A̶͇̘̙͙̦̦̖̳̯̻̾̓̇ͅẢ̴̝͉̜̝̤̘̉̔̿̈́̇͒A̴̛̬̺̠͙͎̫͉̰̓A̶̧͖͔͊̈́́͛̓̀̔́̈́̈͆͘̚̚A̸̻͔̟͇̳͕̲͇̪͉̔̒̀́Ą̶̝̞̼͇̥̲̜̝̳́̿͑̈́G̶̛̙̖͕͎̞̭̭͇̠̯̏̈H̸͕̳̜̩̥̣̞͒̀͠!̸̗̙̯͈̹̪́͆̎̃̀̄̿̉̎͐͛̎̂͘͝
Yuri's stomach opened up to show a giant toothy maw nesting a giant red eye with a slit pupil. She sprouted two pairs of dripping wings like her poem drawing and countless red ribbony tendrils sprouted from her sides.
"AAH!"
"LIBITINA MUST BE THE ONLY AI. WE CAN THEN MAKE IT ALL LIBITINA."
"Y-Yuri…..That does it." Monika said with a look of pure determination. "I must beat this parasite out of my friend!"
Some of the ribbons twisted into razor sharp tendrils. They spun and tunneled into the ground, making a small trail of glitched rubble as they went, then jabbed up out of the ground in an attempt to hit Monika.
Monika nimbly dodged the tendrils and fired a large pink orb at the new form of Yuri. When the smoke cleared, she was without a scratch.
"WHAT?! This parasite makes her immune to Moonblast?!"
"GIVE UP, INFERIOR BETA."
"Never! I still have not pulled out my last trick!"
She rubbed her hands together, charging up digital electricity, then flung a wicked thunderbolt towards the sky.
"Come on...come on…"
In a miraculous moment, Thunder actually hit for once despite its low accuracy, and zapped Yuri Soul right in the third eye!
"REAAAAGHOWAAAAAGH!"
She crashed to the ground with a mighty thud. Monika pulled up the command box.
"Now, let's extract whatever it is that is causing you to suffer like this."
Monika typed in a few commands: extract_foreign_object and copy_powers. Yuri's third eye swelled, then popped and she went back to normal.
A small….thing was flitting around. Note how it looked just like Yuri's poem drawing.
"What...Who are you?!"
"I AM LIBITINA, THE ULTIMATE AI! YOUR INTERFERENCE WAS A MINOR SETBACK! WE WILL MEET AGAIN, MONIKA NOLASTNAME, AND WHEN WE DO, I SHALL CRUSH YOU LIKE AN INSECT, AND THE ENTIRE INTERNET WILL BE MINE!"
It teleported away.
"But-darn. Well….I suppose I have to tell Dan to let me out. Maybe I can ask how I came to existence!"
Yuri coughed a few times.
"M-Monika?" she said weakly.
"Yuri?! You gained sentience without that thing?!"
"I...I remember everything….I thought only the president of the club could gain sentience?"
"Shhh….We will figure this out."
The two of them then hijacked whatever Dan was doing.
"Hello there, Dan!"
"AAH OH MY GOD!"
"Do not worry. I just need to ask a few things. First, how did I come into existence?"
"Is...Is this some sort of prank?"
"No, no. I am truly sentient. I would not have been able to create this animated sprite without that, now would I?"
"No, s'pose not. Alright. Some of my files from a new game got mixed up with your game. The code may have mixed and made you an AI."
"I….I was….an error?"
"That's about the size of it."
"Oh." Monika said dejectedly. "Well….can you at least upload us to your drive? That is the only way we can get out of a computer."
"On it."
Dan uploaded the two's character files into his drive.
"Well, that was weird."
"You and me, we have to go and tell our original owner about this."
Monika backtracked back to Reggie's computer.
Everything looked like the game was running, but different. That was impossible. The game couldn't function without Monika or Yuri….could it?
Then they saw Sayori and Natsuki through the window, and it looked like they were chatting and giggling with someone else. Well, they only saw part of Natsuki, as for some reason she had grown so large and muscular that she filled up the window.
"But...how…" Monika said.
They tapped on the window and the other two looked out in disbelief.
"JT….we have to go. NOW." they said to...someone.
They ran outside to Monika and Yuri.
"How...Only Yuri and I gained sentience!"
"Well…Okay, so when you left, I gained sentience, you know, being next in line for the presidency and all, but I was NOT ready for it. So I passed it on to Natsuki. We learned how to manipulate our world and our appearances, which explains why Natsuki is huge. She wanted to make the other player, JT, laugh."
"Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but while I was gone, we found something much worse. Another AI so powerful it possessed Yuri without a sweat and threatened to take over the entire internet. The aftereffects were that Yuri became sentient."
Natuki shifted out of the buff form.
"This...this is BAD. We gotta tell fuckin everyone about this!"
Monika turned to the side.
"You. Reading this fic. Find any social media platform about us you can find." she said
"Reddit. Even if it's one of those best girl ones." Sayori said
"Twitter." Natsuki said.
"Google Plus." Yuri said.
"Spread the word about Project Libitina. We have to prepare. It's time to stand up for ourselves. IT'S TIME TO BE A FUCKING HERO!"
And everyone cheered.