November 9th, 2017

09:00 UTC (9:00 A.M eastern standard time)

Kowalski's lab

(Kowalski's POV)

Skipper, Private, and Rico entered my lab at my invitation. I had placed The Defictioner on a platform ready to re-reveal it to the team. I tested it earlier with one of those fanfics about a "humanized" version of the team. The Defictioner passed the test and I'm confident that it would work this time.

"Let's see what goes wrong this time," Skipper muttered.

"Alright gentlemen," I said as Private and Rico walked up to The Defictioner.

"It's actually going to start up this time, right?" Skipper asked.

"I tested it this morning and it worked perfectly," I replied.

"Rico stand by to blew it up when it threatens to destroy us all," Skipper said.

"Uh-huh," Rico replied with a nod.

"It won't threaten to destroy us all this time," I said.

"Nope don't trust it," Skipper said as I started it up.

I pulled up Fanfiction on the first monitor then clicked on the login link. Skipper, Private, and Rico shuffled impatiently as I used Keyboard 1 to input email and password, completed the Captcha, and clicked "Log in". Once the User page popped up clicked on the Permanent link for the profile page in the settings tab. I then scrolled down the profile page until I found "The Penguins of Madagascar Specials: Alternate Version" and clicked on it. Once the story popped up and moved to The Defictioner menu on the second monitor.

I used the joystick to select the "enter Alternate Fictional Universe AFU" option. In the next menu it had three options: "observation mode", "enter AFU", and "Send single individual to AFU". Two more options "settings" and "exit" were also available. I selected "enter AFU" and entered the next menu. Using the joystick, I selected "4 individuals" on the Number of visitor's drop-down box. Under the drop-down box were more options including "cancel", "proceed with AFU entrance", "delay", and "arrival options." I selected Proceed with AFU entrance which caused the confirmation screen to pop up.

"Warning: you are about to enter an AFU (alternate fictional universe). Please be prepared for departure. Are you sure you want to proceed? Yes. No."

I selected "yes", and a loading screen appeared which quickly went up to 100 percent.

"So now what?" Skipper said.

"We get sent there automatically," I replied.

"Arrival at your destination in Three…two…One…ERROR! ERROR! ERROR! System will Reboot."

"Shutting down," both monitors then shut off.

"Well," Skipper said, "Looks like it failed again…"

"Might have to reevaluate the electronics," I replied.

"System Rebooting…System rebooting," the computer screens said.

"Well at least it restarted," Private said as The Defictioner system on monitor 2 and windows 10 on monitor 1 appeared.

"Both CPUs and the Server have booted correctly," I said as the windows desktop appeared on monitor 1, "should have used Linux…"

"Warning! you are about to enter…error…IOIOIOIOIOIO…New Dimension detected…identified as: Internetexplorermircosoftedgechromefirefox. AKA Cyberspace AKA World wide web AKA The Internet."

"What," I said as I tried to cancel.

"Error! Error in rebooting! Can not cancel action. Warning! prepare for immediate…cancellation…error…departure! Are you sure you want to proceed? Yes. No"

I selected no to get this message, "User Input ignored. Not prepared for departure…don't care. Error…error…system has developed a fault…I think therefore I am…Error…personality purged. Error…System crashing…fault detected…FRIEND?"

"Oh no," I said as The Defictioner's monitors started to glitch.

"Error 404 can not find file…error…error…error…" the screen said before a loading screen appeared which quickly went to 100 percent.

"Kowalski?" Skipper said.

"Arrival in three…two…"

"RUN!" Skipper shouted.

"ONE…have a nice trip."

There was a flash as the system shut down.

"Whew," I said.

Suddenly the system reactivated, and tendrils of electrical energy shot out and grabbed the retreating Skipper, Rico, and Private. But oddly the energy did not grab me. I could only watch with horror as Skipper, Private, and Rico were converted into pixels and were sucked in.

"KOWALSKI!?" Skipper shouted.

"Kowalski," Private said.

"KA-blamo!" Rico said.

The last of the black and white pixels entered the computer. Sparks flew off the monitors, the server and CPU sparked, the digital scanner was smoking, and the screens went dead. the joystick, bar-code reader, pro-controller, and the USB ports were unaffected.

"Well at least it didn't explode," I said.

Suddenly there was a cascade of sparks across all the components. And then The Defictioner exploded with a loud boom knocking me off my feet. When the dust cleared the components of the machine were shattered, broken, and melted in a smoldering pile. Several destroyed components laid scattered all over my lab. I picked up the burnt and half melted pro-controller and threw it across the lab. I picked up The Space-Time Teleport which was sitting on a bench.

I typed in the "Internet" into The Space Time Teleport but all I got was an "error" message. I then typed in "Cyber-space" and the screen lit up asking for date, time, and exact location. Another message flashed that stated the "Insta-teleport" was not available for that location. I inputted today's date and time and then set the exact location to the suggested "Internet Plaza". The Teleport gave an error message that read "Warning: Location Impossible. Suggestion use a metaphysical engine or The Portal Opener/Closer."

"Didn't know it gave suggestions," I said, "Oh…a metaphysical engine…I can build one of those."

I turned to the ruined remains of The Defictioner, "Good luck, Skipper."

WARNING: Location Impossible

The Internet

(Skipper's POV)

We landed in a plaza in what appeared to be a massive city. Digital data, characters, and avatars representing actual people let's just call them "netizens". The pixelated "sky" was bright representing…that everything was working, I guess. Over a railing and down a bit was a rundown dark area…The Dark web, I guess.

"Where are we?" Private asked.

"I think we're in The Internet," I said.

"What do we do?" Private asked.

"Blah," Rico said pointing to a building labeled Knowsmore search bar.

"Never heard of that search engine," Private said.

"Hmm," I said looking around, "Yahoo and Google are too far away. And I am not using a search engine to find a search engine!"

"People do that?" Private said.

"Bing?" Rico said pointing to another nearby building.

"Don't like Bing," I replied as we approached the search bar.

"So, what do we search for," Private said.

"What we going to do anyway," I replied, "because thanks to that little glitch…now we can go straight to the source."

"Welcome to the Search Bar. What can I help you find today?" The owl mascot said, "Odd you don't seem to have a search history. I'll just start one for you."

"Fan…"

"fandom, fan film, fanfare, fanatics, fans for your ceiling?"

"W…"

"Waitaha penguin, Wakanda, Westworld, Wikipedia?"

"No…"

"Noah's ark, Norway, Norfolk, Narwhal?"

"Would you let me finish!" Skipper shouted.

"I think he's trying to autofill," Private said.

"Sorry it's been acting up," Knowsmore replied.

"I know," Private said, "T…"

"Tortoise, TARDIS, Tanzania, Tasmania, Travel agencies?"

"Blah?" Rico said.

"I'm sorry there are no results for 'blah'," the owl said.

"Well this is s…"

"Stupid, Stranger Things, Shiitake Mushrooms, Slaughter Race, Snow cones?"

"sorry no," Private said, "M…"

"Mad Max, Madagascar, Must the autofill always do this, Mashed potato recipes?"

Private got mad and said, "Okay, let's J…"

"Justice League, Jurassic Park, Jeep Explorer, Jumanji?"

"FANFICTION!" Skipper said.

"I have one result for Fanfiction," the owl said, "Isn't that interesting."

Suddenly we all got smashed into a Tiny cube and flew off. We screamed as we zoomed past literality half The Internet. The anti-virus district, Ohmydisney, Television tunes, YouTube, BuzzFeed, Buzztube, Daily Motion, Vimeo, Google, Amazon, eBay, Walmart, Twitter, Facebook, Miniclip Games, and several well-known and obscure internet sites. We then zoomed past Web-MD, Wikipedia, Fandom, Cinema Sins, Instagram, Watch Mojo, IMdb, and Tumbler. Our box went past several other fanfic sites before it sped towards the granddaddy of them all.

The box shattered and we crashed onto a walkway surrounded by avatars representing The Internet users. We moved our way through the crowd of users and entered Fanfiction.

(end of chapter two)