Wednesday, May 6, 2009

The One where we all get sucked into the internet

I dont know how this idea got into my head...
For future references, I do not own ANY of the website I am about to talk about. I only own The Misadventures of the Weird Bunch. Copyright 2009 Ashley Magz Ind. (still. Not a real Industry)
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It was an ordinary late summer afternoon... rain was pounding on the roof although we couldn't hear the roof because we live in a condo...

anyway..

it was signal number 9 (there is such a thing in the future) so all work and school were cancelled for that day and the Weird Bunch had nothing to do...

"Sigh..." Annika sighed. "I'm bored."
"Me, too." said Lyca.
"Go online then, like me." suggested Ashley. "I'm trying out facebook." (I actually AM doing that right now!!)
And since we're all super duper frikkin rich, all three of us have our own computers and laptops.

"I already have a facebook," said Annika. "So I'll just go online shopping."
"I'll read mangas." said Lyca.
"As usual..."

On the other side of the hallway...

"Harvey! Stop watching Grey's Anatomy and help me arrange the fridge!" screamed Paolo over the rain. "Besides! Grey's Anatomy is like, soooo decades ago!"
"Whatever...!" yelled Harvey. "Fine I'll stop but I won't help you with the fridge!"
"What are you gonna do then?"
"I'll go online and search for gossip on omg.yahoo.com!" he yelled back.
"Ooh! I'll go online, too and search on how to fix the fridge!"
(P.S. I know we're rich and you must be thinking, we can just call a repairman to fix it, but hellooo its signal number 9! haha)

So Ashley was in Facebook, Annika was on ebay, Lyca was in onemanga.com (the only one I know), Harvey was in omg! and Paolo was on YouTube looking for ways to fix the fridge.

So in the midst of their onlining, a massive jolt of energy in the form of a lightning bolt shot at the satelite dish on top of their building and SOMEHOW being the only 5 people in that building using the internet, they all got zapped in.

Unforch, they were zapped in to different websites so they have to find their way out on their own..

Let's do this alphabetically, shall we? Last name-alphabetically.
First off is.. Kim! Here we go..

"What the F?" said Harvey. "Why am I on the omg! page??"'
He look to his right and saw a picture of Tom Hanks with the title, "Hank lends voice, expertise to WWII museum doc" (this is actually there!!) he read, or entered, the article and followed the link to 'The Obamas, Bono, Zac Efron Named Time's 'Most Influential People in the World' and went through 'J.K. Rowling' and-- wait!

If you're wondering why in the future these current events are still on, its because... I have no explanation. Its just the way it is.

and from J.K. Rowling to another celeb and another celeb and another celeb... then he started to worry how the HELL is he going to get back to the real world. So he decided to find a way to change the website. He looked up to where the address bar should be and nothing. So... he arrived to a point that LINKS where the only way to get to different websites. So once he found the link, he would send out a message... but to who? Duh Ashley Paolo Annika Lyca! So he set off link after link, celebrity after celebrity, finding out lots of stuff... RIP Adam Cook....


Lam.
Lyca oppened her eyes and found herself face to face with none other than Kurosaki Ichigo! But! He was black and white and not moving and he was reeeeally huge. And loads of lines and words and stuff...
Lyca climbed up the page and said..
"Woah. I got sucked into the internet..."
Unfortunately for her, the possibility of finding a link from an anime manga site to.. lets say.. yahoo mail or friendster, was totally impossible. She had no way of contacting others!
She decided to finish up the page first...
"Oh, wow. Shocking."
And then she clicked and clicked trying to find a link that will take her home...

My turn!
So me, I got sucked into an easy place. Facebook, I could just post anything on anyone's "WALL" and help would be coming soon. Sensing that this wasnt such a terrible ordeal for me, I searched around the menu bars and everything (the address bar was locked for dramatic effect) and put facebook on her favorites page.
She thought...
"Hmm.. I dont think I could be the only one who got sucked in here... which means Annika and Lyca are here, too!" she said. "Ugh. They're hopeless without me. I must, I must, I must find them!"
She thought more..
"So I know Annika was shopping... most likely ebay... Lyca... tsss obvioulsy onemanga.. but what about Harvey and Paolo? Could they be... if its Harvey, so obviously omg! But Paolo... he doesnt really go online much..."
She stood up. (She's sitting on a checkbox hihihihi)
"I should find those I'm sure are here first. Annika before Lyca. Because she's more hopeless, no offense..."
So Ashley began her journey looking for the others.

Annika's turn.
"What the-- sweet mother of--F-ing--bitch!" she said. '
She was surrounded by different types of Jimmy Choo shoes.
"I'm in heaven!"
She tried to grab at one and there was a "click"sound. The whole background became white and the details of the bag started showing.
"Oooh! Let's place a bid..."
So she started her online shopping... still not caring about the fact that shes sucked into the internet...
She paid with Harvey's Muster Card (haha i cant stop laughing at it) and went on looking for Gucci stuff...

Paolo was on YouTube so and he had just finished loading the Refridgerator Repair video and he sat on the Play button.
As the video was playing in bad quality behind his back, he looked around and at once realized the situation. He was sucked into the internet. And he knew Harvey was, too. So he had to choose whether to stay or to go and find Harvey and find their way out together. He decided to just think for a while. And while thinking, he searched on YouTube for a video about being sucked into the internet, maybe that could help...

Now I'll explain how we all found each other.

Harvey was still surfing through gossip websites when he finally found a link that could set him free. He found a link to Lindsay Lohan's facebook! Knowing that Ashley was recently starting her facebook era, he immediately clicked it and whirled off to facebook... then he searched for the Ashley he knew from about a bajillion Ashleys on facebook...

Lyca, still at onemanga, knew there was no way to contact Ashley or Lyca from the website she was currently in. And it would take days if she would go link to link looking for a way out... so she decided to put her faith in the idea that Ashley and the others would find her. So she thought.. if I'm gone for a few days, people would know I was missing, duh! And they would go inside the apartment and find three girls stuck in their desktop monitors! So I should just wait and finish the manga...

Paolo, still on YouTube, finished thinking. To find Harvey, he would have to find a way to get to a gossip website.
"Easy," he said. "I'll just type in the search box 'Omg! yahoo' and I would eventually find a video that has a link to it!"
So he started his search, not knowing that he was just totally making the search worse..

Annika, still shopping..

Harvey finally found Ashley's facebook page, excited, he looked around for a place to put a comment. And he was surprised to see somebody sitting on the 'Share' button.
"Ash?!" he yelled.
Interrupted from her thinking, Ashley looked up.
"Hey! I didn't know you were online!" she said.
"Oh, my God! It's so hard to get around the internet without the address bar!"
"Yeah. I was here thinking how to get to the others."
"Others?"
"Annika and Lyca are here, too!"
"Oh! So is Paolo!"
"Do you know where he is?"
"Uhm.. yeah he said he was looking for refridgerator videos--"
"What?"
"Long story. Anyway, he'd be on YouTube. Where are the girls?"
"Annika possibly on ebay or any other shopping website. Lyca, duh."
"Yeah, onemanga. Haha."
"Yeah."
"So who should we find first?"
"Well.. Annika's obviously clueless.. no offense. But... theres a possibility that shes SO clueless she would just stay there and shop all day... but she could also be SO clueless that she wanders off into a totally different website."
"Hmmm..."
"And Lyca. Well... she would eventually find out about the whole 'travelling through links' thing... but I really doubt onemanga has any links that would take her out of there..."
"Yeah.. and Paolo..."
"Well, Paolo's smart. He would obviously try to find you and-- oh no!!"
"What?"
"He's gonna go to omg! He's gonna look for you!"
"Oh... but... I'm not there."
"Ya think?? Omg is a fairly huge website.. and he has no idea you're here in Facebook! What made you go here anyway?"
"Well... I knew you were starting up so.. If I put a comment or something you would see it."
"Hm.. do you think Paolo would do something like that?"
"I dunno.. he obviously wanted to find me first."
"Awww how sweet. So should we go back to omg or what? Did you save it in your favorites?"
"Ugh! I totally forgot!"
"Ugh!" ugh-ed Ashley. "Can you press Back?"
"I don't know... aren't I like, in YOUR page now?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well... we merged. So... I don't have my page anymore?"
"Hmm.. maybe if you leave my page, you will."
"So we split up?"
"I don't think its a good idea..."
"Hmm.. we should find Paolo first. Then Annika, then Lyca."
"Okay. So we go to omg?"
"Hmm... we could... start up a rumor... then it would be posted on omg!... and Paolo would see it and know we're here!"
"But that would take a long time..."
"So would finding a link to omg then looking all over for him!"
"Hmmm..."
Think. Think. Think...
"Can we really start a rumor here on facebook?" asked Harvey.
"Yeah. We could create an account and start up false stuff about really famous celebrities..."
"Okay. Let's try that first... then... if by 10 o'clock, Paolo hasnt arrived or given us a message yet, we go look for him."
"What? No. That's too risky, we're relying on luck!"
"But we can't wait forever! We need something quick!"
"Then..."
Think... Think... (I am actually thinking myself...)

Meanwhile, on ebay.
"Ugh.. all this shopping makes me really tired." said Annika. "Oh wait! I should get the other guys something, too. Especially Harvey. He IS paying for all this stuff..."
Then she realized.
"Oh! The OTHER guys! I wonder if they're stuck here, too..." she thought. "Well... I'm sure if I was the only one who got sucked in, Lyca and Ashley would know and they would try to send me a message... so I guess they're both in here, too!"
Then she thinked (?) or thunk (?) as much as she could...
"Oh! I've got an idea!" she stood up from a 'Place Bid' button. "I'll spend and spend and spend! Until Harvey gets a call from his bank telling him he exceeded the limit!"
So she went off, shopping and shopping even more...

In onemanga..
"Cool..." said Lyca as she was still reading. "Awww.." she reached the end of this week's Bleach manga.
"There's nothing else to read..." climbed to the huge drop-down list. "Hmmm.."
She jumped down, dragging the scrollbar of the drop-down list.
"Ah! Kingdom Hearts! It's been a long time..."


Meanwhile, Paolo was already on his way to omg...
LUCKILY or... somewhat unluckily, he was using his laptop at that time and... well, you know... battery dead...
So now what, you ask.
Well, even though the computer was shut, that doesn't mean that Paolo was removed. It just meant that he was no longer connected to his laptop... he had to get out some other way.
Paolo realized his laptop ran out when the menu bars and the status bar and the taskbar all disappeared.
He knew his only chance was to find Harvey and get out through his computer.
But unfortunately, again, he could NOT move from his current area because, he's no longer in an internet BROWSER. He was now.. IN the internet itself.


What terrible luck it was that Ashley and Harvey still did not realize that Paolo's laptop could, at any moment, lose battery power.
They were still at facebook, thinking... thinking... (I already actually found something.. but still want the effect.)
Lightbulb!
Ashley stood up and climbed up to the address bar.
"It won't work, remember?" called Harvey.
Ashley did not answer. She climbed up until she was level with the address bar and she ran to her left/viewer's right to the black arrow pointing down.
She pushed.
You know that annoying sound that indicated an error or something? The one like.. TUNGK or something? Well, that sounded. Obviously you cant bring down the history.
"Ugh!" said Ashley, disappointed.
"Oh.. you were trying to get to the history?"
"Yeah. But good thing I have plan B.."
She jumped down and walked over to a couple of buttons... and tadaa! The list at the left side appeared, with all the websites she's visited.
But unfortunately... she put in her Internet Options, days to keep pages in history: 0.
So the list was empty.
"Ugh..." said Harvey. "Awww, man!"
"Aarrgh!" said Ashley. "WHY do I always do that??"
Harvey sighed.. and he sat back down on the Share button and started going back to thinking.
"Wait a second..." Ashley walked to the yellow star. "Favorites!""
Harvey looked up.
"What?"
"Favorites! I remember I saved the video of Sims 2 Death Note (I really did watch it, but I didnt save it) there!"
"So? I thought Paolo was in omg?"
"Are we really sure?"
"What? You were the one who said he was gonna look for me!"
"Yeah but now I'm not so sure."
"What?" Harvey said with his high squeaky voice. "Hoo-what!?"
"What what?" Ashley asked.
"I'm not worth saving??" he squeaked.
"Ugh. Let's not have this conversation right now..."
She pushed the star and the list came.
"Harvey," she said. "We're goin' to YouTube."

Paolo meanwhile, was still wondering how come the green loading thingy at the bottom disappeared. This usually happened when somebody pressed the red X button...
He concluded that he was stuck. LUCKILY (no, really, its lucky this time.) he was stuck in youtube. Well, he didnt think that was lucky because if there was a chance Harvey was looking for him, too, there was no way Harvey would think of going to a video entitled.. (holy cow! I totally just saw a REAL video with the link to omg.yahoo.com!) OMG... U HAVE TO READ.. NEWS NILEY/NELNA that was 45 seconds long.
Paolo then thought that it was the end of his time on Earth... he just sad there.. reading the comments... waiting and hoping... just like what Lyca was doing.

So two down, three to go.

Annika sat back down.
"Aw mah gawd..." she said. "I never thought I would ever say... I am tired of shopping!"
She took off her stilettos and rubbed her feet.
"Ugh! My feet are aching!" she sobbed. "How much money does Harvey even HAVE?? Why doesnt this stupid Muster Card run out???"
So she thought...
"Hmmm... what can I buy that's really really expensive? So that I can get this over with and wait for them to save me..."
Lightbulb!
"I got it!"
So she bought Harvey 3 limos, a house in the Bahamas, 2 private jets and a roller coaster.
She was in the middle of buying the Knicks (basketball team) when the error appeared. Harvey lost all his money.
"Yaaaay! Now all I have to do is wait..."

So now three down, Harvey and Ashley are now the only ones on the move.

Harvey was laughing.
"Hahaha!"
"Are you done yet? Let's go!"
"But L really looks like L!" he was talking about the Sims2 Death Note that Ashley saved in her favorites. "And they always beat up Near! The guy shouldve made him a child instead of an adult..."
"Let's go!"
So they jumped to the top of the video and hopped up to the input box.
They both typed (well, in the case of being stuck on the internet, they WROTE) omg! yahoo
The results came at once.
Luckily! They found it instantly. The 45second video entitled OMG... U HAVE TO READ... NEWS NILEY/NELNA.. because the description read "OMG DONT SAY I JUST WROTE THIS MY SELF CUZ HERE IS THE LINK omg.yahoo.com ... "
"Well, that was easy." said Harvey.
They jumped and landed on the link. Click.
They saw Paolo sitting on the 'Next' button at the bottom of the Comments section.
"Hey!" he said as he saw them.
"Hey!" said Harvey.
"Hey." said Ashley.
"How did you know I was here?" asked Paolo. "And I didnt know you were in here, too." he said to Ashley.
"Uh-huh. Lucky guess." said Ashley. "Let's go! We have to find the 2 girls!"
"Oh, there here, too? Do you know where?"
"Yeah, she thinks Lycas in--"
"Onemanga. Duh. But where's Annika?" interrupted Paolo.
"Possibly ebay. Or any other shopping place."
Then Harvey heard a "pssss" sound and something came up from the bottom of the screen.
"... 1 New Message..." he read out loud.
"What?"
"Didnt you see that?" he pointed. "It said 1 New Message..."
"It must be from your own computer!" said Ashley. "So we DON'T share..."
"Who was the message from?" asked Paolo.
"I dunno, it would fit but I saw M-U-S-T... then dot dot dot."
"Must?" asked Paolo.
"Muster card!" yelled Ashley.
"Oh!" Harvey said. Then.. "Oh!!! Annika has my Muster Card!"
"That's it! It proves she's on ebay or any shopping network!" said Paolo. "Oh, and sorry, Harvey. She obviously used up all your money..."
"Wha... w.."
But Ashley was already beside the yellow star.
"It's okay, Harvey. You'll get it back. Good thing I was looking for season tickets on ebay!"

Lyca sighed.
"Its been sooooo long..." she said to herself. "I wonder if they're even coming... and even if they want to, how will they? There's no way to use the address bar..."
She sighed again.
"Now another manga..."

Annika, on the other hand, was quite happy about her predicament.
"Hmmm... I wonder when they're coming to rescue me..."
She looked at her expensive watch.
"Just a few minutes..."
She hummed "Baby got back".
I know what you're wondering... if shes only a singer at bars and restaurants, how can she afford an expensive watch, right? Easy. Muster Card...

And by the way, in order to move Paolo from the YouTube website, they had to remove him from the source so they went to notepad and searched the whole document (i dunno if you can call it that) for the word Paolo and they found 'paolou.hum' and highlighted it by rubbing it with their hands and right clicking (or right HANDing) and left clicking (left HANDing) Cut. Then they pasted him on the ebay website.

"So if I were Annika, where would I shop?" asked Harvey. "Using MY Muster Card."
"Well.. she obviously wanted to spend as much money as she could, so that the bank would alert you faster." Ashley said as Paolo shook his head many times to get rid of the Cut & Paste feeling. "So she would, like, buy cars... planes... HOUSES..."
"Hmmm.. she's more of a limo person. Let's go look..."
"So they searched and searched, cutting and pasting Paolo everywhere until he said, "You know what? Just paste me when we meet her."
So they found a limo that someone recently won the bid for, the username was 'sirbucksalot',
"Is that her?" asked Ashley, surprised.
"No, its me." said Harvey.
"Tsss.. you're so mayabang.."
"What? No, she made it for me!"
"Oh..."
So they clicked the name.
"Recent buy... woah! A roller coaster! Oh look, she tried to buy the Knicks! I guess thats where the bank cut her off!"
"Cut ME off." corrected Harvey.
"Whatever... lets just go there."

"Hmmm..." said Annika. "Who are those 2 people approaching me?"
"Annika!" yelled Harvey.
"Oh! It's Harvey and Ashley!"
"Hey! Great! We found you!"
Harvey right handed and Pasted.
"Hi, Annika!" said Paolo.
"Hey! Where's Lyca?"
"We're on our way to get her."


WILL the Weird Bunch be able to get her? Find out on the next episode!
Bye

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