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Here's my story. I didn't post it as the main topic so that it doesn't appear twice on the page - slowing download times and stuff.
Enjoy (I hope). And no - it doesn't have anything to do with clocks!
Enjoy (I hope). And no - it doesn't have anything to do with clocks!
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"Right everybody" exclaimed Grix. "Are you ready?" he chanted.
An almighty "YES" burst out from beneath the hide of Sniper, Nebula, Ant, and er-no, who was playing on his GBA.
That time of the year had arrived once again. The SR World Wide Gaming Championships was here. And this time they were determined to bring home a trophy.
The team marched outside their HQ, lead by Grix, and clambered into a rented out banger bus. After arguing who was going to sit in the back seats, the team attempted to work out a valid strategy, as they drove along.
“Ok, then” piped Grix “what we need is something nobody else has, something unique, something…..ER-NO! Stop distracting that man with your GBA” he roared, referring to the man as the bus driver.
“I mean look at those graphics, those sounds, those..”
“Oh. Hi Grix. Problem?” asked er-no, after realising what Grix had said to him.
“Of course there’s a problem” stated Sniper. “Your going to put that nice driver off, and he probably doesn’t want to listen to your bickering anyway.”
Er-no frowned. “But I was just showing him” he whinged.
“Sit down” ordered Sniper.
Er-no would not budge, and Nebula and Ant had to go and try to force him onto a chair.
“Watch it! Easy!” Er-no whined, as he was lifted, then body slammed onto a duo of seats.
“My GBA!” he screamed, as his back connected with one of the arm rests in an unpleasant way. Er-no’s GBA slipped out of his grasp, and hit the deck of the bus.
“Now look what you’ve done” noticed Ant. “You’ve broken er-no’s GBA”.
“Oh, it doesn’t matter” chuckled er-no, producing another from his rucksack.
But as he said this er-no’s ‘broken’ GBA started to emit a weak beam of light, which gradually got stronger. Everyone looked in disbelief, were the petrol fumes that seeped into the bus getting to them?
“Turn that laser pen off” grunted the Bus driver. No reply. “I said turn that laser pen off!” the driver repeated. He looked round to see that everyone was gasping, mouth’s open, at the floor where the GBA lie.
“WATCH OUT!”
The driver, not looking where he was going, careered off the motorway and crashed into a nearby tree and an alarmingly high speed.
The bus was later found empty…
“Where are we” questioned Nebula.
“Is this heaven” thought Ant.
They all took a long look around. This wasn’t right. The scenery, the surroundings, what was wrong with them?
Pixels. Everything was made up of pixels. Small square blocky images. What was this place?
“Quick-a, follow me-a” shouted a red, italian accented man. “Yeah, quick boys, you should come with us” came another voice from a tall, dark female character, who ran up and joined the italian.
“You look like…” started er-no. “You can’t be, your..” he was cut short.
“Yes-a, it’s-a me, Mario”, the short red dressed italian chanted. “Oh be quiet Mario” hushed the other female character, “you don’t need to say that anymore, it’s out of date”.
“Hey! You look like….” Started Grix.
“I’m Lara, Lara Croft” the lady said in a weak British accent. “Look I’d really like to explain, but there is no time, you must come with us.”.
The team – Grix, Sniper, Nebula, Ant, and er-no - all gobsmacked, did as they were told. They followed Mario, and Lara, into a white scene.
“This is Limbo” Lara started. “Its-a the place-a where you can get-a to anywhere-a you want-a” ended Mario.
“Limbo is the loading scene, part of the digital world” noted Lara. “This is where characters have to come when they are wanted to be played on” she said. “We don’t know how you got here, but your entrance was prophesised by the great Gaming God, who we know only as Tony.
Crash Bandicoot suddenly dashed past the group. “You’ll be-a seeing lots of-a that-a” claimed Mario, “So-a get-a used to it-a”.
“Anyway, as I was saying” coughed Lara. “Tony mentioned that you would enter from no where, as humans, to defeat the evil X-box corporation, who have been threatening to destroy us with its new eX-Box powers” she choked, gasping for breath after such as long sentence.
“I won’t believe this” Sniper cried. “I’m just not going to believe that this is real. It can’t be.”
“Well just look at yourselves,” Lara prised. Sniper looked down into the palm of his hand. He, along with everybody else, had been digitalised.
“Where….where am I?”. “How did I get there?” thought Spider, lying helplessly on the floor in another part of the world.
The last thing he could remember was sneaking onto the group’s bus, so he could come with them to The SR Gaming Championships. Then the baggage compartment lit brightly with white light.
Spider got up, and looked around. A dark, unfriendly environment surrounded him. He too, was composed of small blocky polygons. Walking about, looking for any signs of life, Spider noticed the area around him gradually darkening, and the horizon glowing with a deep, red light.
“Hello, Spider” sounded a godly voice. “Don’t say a thing; I know who you are, I know you feel left out. This makes you angry.”
Spider, speechless, nodded his head.
“I know that deep down; you didn’t want to go with your friends to the SR Gaming Championships to cheer them on, you wanted to go to sabotage their attempts.”
Spider paused, then nodded once more.
“I will help you get what you want, and in turn, I will be helping myself.” “I want that Tony gone. He is the reason I don’t rule the digital world. I tried to overturn him once, quite a time ago. I lost the battle, and was banished to the dark side of the DW, where all videogame badguys are sent to when they’re not needed.”
“Will you help me destroy them?”
Spider paused again, for longer this time, but finally grinned.
“I will help you”.
Back in Limbo, Mario was just finishing up telling Sniper, Ant, Nebula, er-no, and Grix, about the dark emperor.
“So that’s-a why we must-a destroy-a him for good-a” He said.
“So you mean he was the one who gave Bill Gates the idea about the X-box?” asked Grix. “He must be stopped, immediately!”.
This time Kirby wafted by, puffing furiously.
“Aarrrrr. Look at that cute Kirby” smiled Ant. He bent out to touch it.
“PUFF”
Ant’s hand jolted back towards his body. “I don’t advise you to do that” started Lara. “He may look like a cute ball of cloud, but deep inside he can get pretty annoyed, especially at the hours he works at the moment” she said.
“Anyway-a” Mario said. “You have to come-a with us to the-a end of the-a world-a”.
“The end of the world?” asked Nebula. “Yes, its where bad guys are banished to when they are not needed anymore. The X-box emperor has also been sustained there since his last attempt to terminate us. It failed, but lately he has been growing in power. That is why we need you.” answered Lara.
Lara lead them out of the Limbo, and into a high-tech, James Bond type scene.
“We need to prepare you” Lara ordered. “This is Joanna, our technology specialist, she’ll take you on for the moment, and gear you up”. Lara and Mario left the room.
“Hi. I’m Joanna Dark” said the happy, stunningly beautiful woman.
“Yoouuurr myyy hheerrooo…! Mumbled er-no, in a hypnotic trance. “Er-whatever” Joanna replied.
Joanna dived into her pockets, and pulled out five, shiny metallic bracelets. “Wear these, they’ll give you console character power” she suggested. “Go on, put them on”.
Ant, Grix, Nebula and er-no slipped theirs on, round their wrists. Snipers would not fit properly, and as he forced it onto his hand it escaped his grasp, and smashed onto the floor, shattering into pieces.
“You imbecile” yelled Joanna. “That was the only one we had for you”. Both Sniper and Joanna looked very distressed.
“What now, then?” asked Sniper. “You’ll have to do without, won’t you” came the unfriendly reply. Sniper hung his head in sadness, and broke out into a sulk.
“I want a bracelet, I WANT A BRACELET” he shouted.
Back in the dark part of the digital world, Spider was also gearing up, ready for an attack. But he was not given a bracelet. He was given a black, lycra suit.
“Cool!” he wowed. “What does this do?” Spider asked, expecting something wicked or awesome.
“It makes you look better…and evil” came the reply from the shadows. “We would have given you something better, but our budget meant that we could not at this moment, sorry.”
“Oh.”
“These things are brilliant” exclaimed Grix, as he double-jumped into the ceiling and shot a fireball at Ant. ‘Ssssss’.
“It’s just too bad that yours broke Snipes” chuckled Ant, as he blew out the flame that was burning his antennae.
They were ready. Ant, er-no, Grix, and Nebula got up, and walked out of the lab, experimenting with their newly discovered powers. Sniper, however, just stayed in his corner, sulking with jealousy, but was finally persuaded into following the others, on the count of him being burnt by Nebula.
As they were walking from scene to scene, now back with Lara, they came across a huge gorge.
“Double-jump across” ordered Lara. Ant, Grix, and Nebula leaped over easily. Er-no only just made it due to the fact that he was put off by Lara’s assets bouncing as she hit the ground on the other side of the large gap.
Sniper had to stay at the other side. Sniper didn’t want to stay at the other side. He took three steps backwards, then sprinted at the hole. Right at the last moment he jumped.
“Snipes no! You won’t make it” yelled Grix. Too late. But as if by some Matrix miracle, Sniper leaped across the gorge, and safely landed on the other side. Lara was not impressed, though everyone else was.
“Well done Sniper” cheered Ant. “No” said Lara sternly - “Not well done; look”. Sniper started to vibrate, and broke into all the little pixels that he was made up of. Those pixels then rolled backwards into the deep, dark gorge.
“Sniper!” Yelled er-no in disbelief. “Lara, what happened? WHAT HAPPENED LARA” he demanded.
“I warned him”. “I told him not to, but he had to be included” she explained. “You cannot cross the border between good and bad without your power bracelet”. “But don’t worry, he’ll be fine. He’s just made the transition back to the real world”.
“The real world? You mean if we take off our bracelet things we’ll go back to the real world? Well, in that case, goodbye.” Nebula attempted to remove his bracelet, but it would not budge.
“No! Don’t, please, we need your help” pleaded Lara. “Please stay, please”.
“Well what’s in it for us?” asked er-no.
“The future of gaming is at steak” Lara continues “That’s why we need you, we thought you were trust worthy gamers, please.”
The crew huddled and had a quick talk about it, but within no time at all decided they would stay.
“We’ll stay”.
“Thank you”, replied Lara.
Continuing their journey, Ant noticed a sudden change in the ground they were walking in.
“Lara, why does the ground suddenly change from lush green grass to a horrible blood red colour?” he asked.
“It’s because we have just entered the X-Box’s domain, so keep a close eye for anything unusual” Lara answered.
But as soon as she said that, a dragon creature resembling Bowser jumped out from the ground, mouth a blazing.
“BOWSER!” warned Lara.
“We know” replied the team. “EVASIVE COMBAT ACTION” chanted Lara. The bands round everyone’s wrist’s started to glow, and they took over.
Bowser, who was seriously hissed off, burst out a ball of fire in Ant’s direction. Stunned by what was going on, Ant just stood there, like a fool.
“Move Ant, move” yelled Grix. Ant did nothing. His bracelet started to shine much, much more powerfully, and suddenly he triple-jumped out of the way of the burly ball of fire, and straight over bowsers head.
“Haha!” laughed Ant, “I know what to do now”.
Styling a huge smile, Ant grabbed Bowsers tale, and began to turn it in a clockwise direction until Bowser was spinning very, very fast. Letting go, Bowser flew off, and onto the green grass, outside of the X-box empire.
“RRROOOAAARRRR” Bowser screamed in pain as he broke up into the little polygons he was made of, similar to what happened to Sniper, and fizzled into a gas. It appeared that Bowser was not allowed out of the X-Box domain.
“Whoa! I didn’t know that was going to happen” laughed Ant, ecstatic at what he had just done.
“Well done, Ant” congratulated Lara.
“It appears your friends are trying to stop me” chanted the voice to Spider. “Stop them” it commanded.
Spider left the scene and proceeded towards where Lara, Ant, Grix, er-no and Nebula were.
“SPIDER” screamed Grix, as he headed towards Spider.
“Stay back, traitor, stay back” Spider warned. “Traitor?” said Grix alarmingly. “What’s this about then Spider?”
“You don’t appreciate me, you don’t care, I’m just somebody who you cuss - a nobody” Spider replied unhappily.
“Spider, what are you going on about? We like you” claimed er-no, “we really do.”
“You do?” asked Spider. “Yes, we do” came the reply. “But you said I start pointless threads” whined Spider again. “Oh be quiet Spider, look, we like you, don’t push it” warned Nebula.
“Oh, ok, it looks like I’m with you then, that’s if..if you’d except me. I promise I won’t ever do anything that’s annoying or stupid ever again” stated Spider, proudly.
“So how exactly did you get here then Spider?” asked Grix.
“Errr….I’ll tell you later!”
“You!” Shouted Spider, pointing at the sky, “why did you trick me? WHY?”
“You little fool. I knew you couldn’t be trusted. EXTERMINATE THEM!” shouted the dark emperor.
Magically, all the videogame bad guys you could ever thing of emerged from nowhere, and surrounded Lara and the group.
“So we meet again, Ali. I hope it was worth coming all this way” grunted Lara.
“ALI?” asked the rest of the group, stunned at this newfound information. “That’s right – I am known as Ali, and I will be victorious”.
The conjured villains formed a circle around the brave heros, and slowly gained in on them. Was this the end? Ant, Grix, Nebula and er-no’s bracelets started to glow, and a beam of light shot out of each one, connecting with each other and forming a stronger sphere of energy. The ring of baddies stopped dead in their tracks.
“It’s not powerful enough” shouted Lara, her voice struggling to be heard over the loud churning from the energy ball. “Spider, it’s up to you”. Spider clenched hard…But nothing happened. “Spider believe in yourself, believe.” Spider closed his eyes, and begun to glow. Suddenly a huge beam of energy, equal to the amount the others were giving out, shot out of Spider, combined with the waiting energy ball, and headed towards Ali. BANG!
“You will pay for this, mark my words; you will pay, the X-Box will ruleeeeee” screamed Ali in terror, as he imploded into a friendly white flash of light.
“Well done, and thank you for all you’ve done here” mentioned Lara, pecking er-no on the cheek. “It’s time to go now, bbyyyeee bbyyyeee”
“Will they be ok, docter?” whispered a woman’s voice.
“They’ll be just fine” replied the docter. “It was just lucky that they were thrown clear of the bus before it crashed”
Er-no awoke, followed by Ant, Grix, Nebula, Sniper and Spider. They were back.
“She kissed me” commented er-no weakly, “I can’t believe it”.
”Boys, you need your rest” came a voice that sounded familiar to er-no’s mother. “Mum” shouted er-no excitedly,” we need to get to the SR Gaming Championships, and fast.”
“Don’t worry boys, they’ve rescheduled it for tomorrow just for you, wasn’t that nice of them”.
Was it all just a dream?
The day went quickly, and by the next day, the team had basically fully recovered. As planned they safely arrived at the entrance to the Championships.
“This is it, then” said Sniper, who had been updated with what happened after his departure. “Yep, it sure is” replied Spider – the newest member of the team.
Tony was sitting on a big chair in the middle of the gaming warehouse. Noticing who had just entered, he sat up, and winked.
“Wow! Winked by the man in charge” they thought
It was time for the first round.
Ant was entered in the Mario Kart 64 race. As the lights counted down from red to green, Mario – who he was playing as – turned his head round form his kart, and smiled. A glitch? Surely not. GREEN! Ant zoomed off into the lead. Checking the map, Ant noticed that the others were only centimetres from the starting line; they were going so slow.
In under a minute Ant completed all the three laps and won the race; he had also set a new record, breaking the previous one by 1.13 minutes. Wow!
Next up was Grix, in a Fifa 2001 PS2 match. He was kicking off. The whistle blew. Aiming to pass the ball to a fellow teammate, Grix accidentally shot it at the goal. It went screaming in, like magic. He tried again, it went straight into the back of the net, and again, and again. Grix proceeded easily through the knockout rounds, and won the final 34 – 1. The 1 being an own goal to give the opponent a chance.
Sniper won his Crazy Taxi DC comp, Racking up a grand total of $1,240,001.87. And Nebula kicked butt in the Super Smash brothers 64 tourny – knocking everyone else off the top of hyrule with a mere few hits. Spider - who it had been decided that he could enter the Championships after all - won his league of Simpson Wrestling.
Last up er-no. Playing Tomb Raider on the PC. Time trial. Go! Lara slid down the gorge, turned left and headed through a narrow crack in a nearby wall. Then turning right again, she climbed up a secret hill, that no one else knew about. Within another 5 seconds, Lara was at the finish line, but hadn’t crossed it yet. Turning round she blew er-no a kiss, and backwards flipped over the line. WINNER! Winning by 43.78 seconds.
And the weird thing was, er-no never pressed one button on the keyboard!
So the team had won all the events, and headed home with a boot-load of trophies. On the way home the winning team were cut up by some other car, causing er-no to drop his latest working GBA onto the floor.
Is it glowing?
Uh-oh.
An almighty "YES" burst out from beneath the hide of Sniper, Nebula, Ant, and er-no, who was playing on his GBA.
That time of the year had arrived once again. The SR World Wide Gaming Championships was here. And this time they were determined to bring home a trophy.
The team marched outside their HQ, lead by Grix, and clambered into a rented out banger bus. After arguing who was going to sit in the back seats, the team attempted to work out a valid strategy, as they drove along.
“Ok, then” piped Grix “what we need is something nobody else has, something unique, something…..ER-NO! Stop distracting that man with your GBA” he roared, referring to the man as the bus driver.
“I mean look at those graphics, those sounds, those..”
“Oh. Hi Grix. Problem?” asked er-no, after realising what Grix had said to him.
“Of course there’s a problem” stated Sniper. “Your going to put that nice driver off, and he probably doesn’t want to listen to your bickering anyway.”
Er-no frowned. “But I was just showing him” he whinged.
“Sit down” ordered Sniper.
Er-no would not budge, and Nebula and Ant had to go and try to force him onto a chair.
“Watch it! Easy!” Er-no whined, as he was lifted, then body slammed onto a duo of seats.
“My GBA!” he screamed, as his back connected with one of the arm rests in an unpleasant way. Er-no’s GBA slipped out of his grasp, and hit the deck of the bus.
“Now look what you’ve done” noticed Ant. “You’ve broken er-no’s GBA”.
“Oh, it doesn’t matter” chuckled er-no, producing another from his rucksack.
But as he said this er-no’s ‘broken’ GBA started to emit a weak beam of light, which gradually got stronger. Everyone looked in disbelief, were the petrol fumes that seeped into the bus getting to them?
“Turn that laser pen off” grunted the Bus driver. No reply. “I said turn that laser pen off!” the driver repeated. He looked round to see that everyone was gasping, mouth’s open, at the floor where the GBA lie.
“WATCH OUT!”
The driver, not looking where he was going, careered off the motorway and crashed into a nearby tree and an alarmingly high speed.
The bus was later found empty…
“Where are we” questioned Nebula.
“Is this heaven” thought Ant.
They all took a long look around. This wasn’t right. The scenery, the surroundings, what was wrong with them?
Pixels. Everything was made up of pixels. Small square blocky images. What was this place?
“Quick-a, follow me-a” shouted a red, italian accented man. “Yeah, quick boys, you should come with us” came another voice from a tall, dark female character, who ran up and joined the italian.
“You look like…” started er-no. “You can’t be, your..” he was cut short.
“Yes-a, it’s-a me, Mario”, the short red dressed italian chanted. “Oh be quiet Mario” hushed the other female character, “you don’t need to say that anymore, it’s out of date”.
“Hey! You look like….” Started Grix.
“I’m Lara, Lara Croft” the lady said in a weak British accent. “Look I’d really like to explain, but there is no time, you must come with us.”.
The team – Grix, Sniper, Nebula, Ant, and er-no - all gobsmacked, did as they were told. They followed Mario, and Lara, into a white scene.
“This is Limbo” Lara started. “Its-a the place-a where you can get-a to anywhere-a you want-a” ended Mario.
“Limbo is the loading scene, part of the digital world” noted Lara. “This is where characters have to come when they are wanted to be played on” she said. “We don’t know how you got here, but your entrance was prophesised by the great Gaming God, who we know only as Tony.
Crash Bandicoot suddenly dashed past the group. “You’ll be-a seeing lots of-a that-a” claimed Mario, “So-a get-a used to it-a”.
“Anyway, as I was saying” coughed Lara. “Tony mentioned that you would enter from no where, as humans, to defeat the evil X-box corporation, who have been threatening to destroy us with its new eX-Box powers” she choked, gasping for breath after such as long sentence.
“I won’t believe this” Sniper cried. “I’m just not going to believe that this is real. It can’t be.”
“Well just look at yourselves,” Lara prised. Sniper looked down into the palm of his hand. He, along with everybody else, had been digitalised.
“Where….where am I?”. “How did I get there?” thought Spider, lying helplessly on the floor in another part of the world.
The last thing he could remember was sneaking onto the group’s bus, so he could come with them to The SR Gaming Championships. Then the baggage compartment lit brightly with white light.
Spider got up, and looked around. A dark, unfriendly environment surrounded him. He too, was composed of small blocky polygons. Walking about, looking for any signs of life, Spider noticed the area around him gradually darkening, and the horizon glowing with a deep, red light.
“Hello, Spider” sounded a godly voice. “Don’t say a thing; I know who you are, I know you feel left out. This makes you angry.”
Spider, speechless, nodded his head.
“I know that deep down; you didn’t want to go with your friends to the SR Gaming Championships to cheer them on, you wanted to go to sabotage their attempts.”
Spider paused, then nodded once more.
“I will help you get what you want, and in turn, I will be helping myself.” “I want that Tony gone. He is the reason I don’t rule the digital world. I tried to overturn him once, quite a time ago. I lost the battle, and was banished to the dark side of the DW, where all videogame badguys are sent to when they’re not needed.”
“Will you help me destroy them?”
Spider paused again, for longer this time, but finally grinned.
“I will help you”.
Back in Limbo, Mario was just finishing up telling Sniper, Ant, Nebula, er-no, and Grix, about the dark emperor.
“So that’s-a why we must-a destroy-a him for good-a” He said.
“So you mean he was the one who gave Bill Gates the idea about the X-box?” asked Grix. “He must be stopped, immediately!”.
This time Kirby wafted by, puffing furiously.
“Aarrrrr. Look at that cute Kirby” smiled Ant. He bent out to touch it.
“PUFF”
Ant’s hand jolted back towards his body. “I don’t advise you to do that” started Lara. “He may look like a cute ball of cloud, but deep inside he can get pretty annoyed, especially at the hours he works at the moment” she said.
“Anyway-a” Mario said. “You have to come-a with us to the-a end of the-a world-a”.
“The end of the world?” asked Nebula. “Yes, its where bad guys are banished to when they are not needed anymore. The X-box emperor has also been sustained there since his last attempt to terminate us. It failed, but lately he has been growing in power. That is why we need you.” answered Lara.
Lara lead them out of the Limbo, and into a high-tech, James Bond type scene.
“We need to prepare you” Lara ordered. “This is Joanna, our technology specialist, she’ll take you on for the moment, and gear you up”. Lara and Mario left the room.
“Hi. I’m Joanna Dark” said the happy, stunningly beautiful woman.
“Yoouuurr myyy hheerrooo…! Mumbled er-no, in a hypnotic trance. “Er-whatever” Joanna replied.
Joanna dived into her pockets, and pulled out five, shiny metallic bracelets. “Wear these, they’ll give you console character power” she suggested. “Go on, put them on”.
Ant, Grix, Nebula and er-no slipped theirs on, round their wrists. Snipers would not fit properly, and as he forced it onto his hand it escaped his grasp, and smashed onto the floor, shattering into pieces.
“You imbecile” yelled Joanna. “That was the only one we had for you”. Both Sniper and Joanna looked very distressed.
“What now, then?” asked Sniper. “You’ll have to do without, won’t you” came the unfriendly reply. Sniper hung his head in sadness, and broke out into a sulk.
“I want a bracelet, I WANT A BRACELET” he shouted.
Back in the dark part of the digital world, Spider was also gearing up, ready for an attack. But he was not given a bracelet. He was given a black, lycra suit.
“Cool!” he wowed. “What does this do?” Spider asked, expecting something wicked or awesome.
“It makes you look better…and evil” came the reply from the shadows. “We would have given you something better, but our budget meant that we could not at this moment, sorry.”
“Oh.”
“These things are brilliant” exclaimed Grix, as he double-jumped into the ceiling and shot a fireball at Ant. ‘Ssssss’.
“It’s just too bad that yours broke Snipes” chuckled Ant, as he blew out the flame that was burning his antennae.
They were ready. Ant, er-no, Grix, and Nebula got up, and walked out of the lab, experimenting with their newly discovered powers. Sniper, however, just stayed in his corner, sulking with jealousy, but was finally persuaded into following the others, on the count of him being burnt by Nebula.
As they were walking from scene to scene, now back with Lara, they came across a huge gorge.
“Double-jump across” ordered Lara. Ant, Grix, and Nebula leaped over easily. Er-no only just made it due to the fact that he was put off by Lara’s assets bouncing as she hit the ground on the other side of the large gap.
Sniper had to stay at the other side. Sniper didn’t want to stay at the other side. He took three steps backwards, then sprinted at the hole. Right at the last moment he jumped.
“Snipes no! You won’t make it” yelled Grix. Too late. But as if by some Matrix miracle, Sniper leaped across the gorge, and safely landed on the other side. Lara was not impressed, though everyone else was.
“Well done Sniper” cheered Ant. “No” said Lara sternly - “Not well done; look”. Sniper started to vibrate, and broke into all the little pixels that he was made up of. Those pixels then rolled backwards into the deep, dark gorge.
“Sniper!” Yelled er-no in disbelief. “Lara, what happened? WHAT HAPPENED LARA” he demanded.
“I warned him”. “I told him not to, but he had to be included” she explained. “You cannot cross the border between good and bad without your power bracelet”. “But don’t worry, he’ll be fine. He’s just made the transition back to the real world”.
“The real world? You mean if we take off our bracelet things we’ll go back to the real world? Well, in that case, goodbye.” Nebula attempted to remove his bracelet, but it would not budge.
“No! Don’t, please, we need your help” pleaded Lara. “Please stay, please”.
“Well what’s in it for us?” asked er-no.
“The future of gaming is at steak” Lara continues “That’s why we need you, we thought you were trust worthy gamers, please.”
The crew huddled and had a quick talk about it, but within no time at all decided they would stay.
“We’ll stay”.
“Thank you”, replied Lara.
Continuing their journey, Ant noticed a sudden change in the ground they were walking in.
“Lara, why does the ground suddenly change from lush green grass to a horrible blood red colour?” he asked.
“It’s because we have just entered the X-Box’s domain, so keep a close eye for anything unusual” Lara answered.
But as soon as she said that, a dragon creature resembling Bowser jumped out from the ground, mouth a blazing.
“BOWSER!” warned Lara.
“We know” replied the team. “EVASIVE COMBAT ACTION” chanted Lara. The bands round everyone’s wrist’s started to glow, and they took over.
Bowser, who was seriously hissed off, burst out a ball of fire in Ant’s direction. Stunned by what was going on, Ant just stood there, like a fool.
“Move Ant, move” yelled Grix. Ant did nothing. His bracelet started to shine much, much more powerfully, and suddenly he triple-jumped out of the way of the burly ball of fire, and straight over bowsers head.
“Haha!” laughed Ant, “I know what to do now”.
Styling a huge smile, Ant grabbed Bowsers tale, and began to turn it in a clockwise direction until Bowser was spinning very, very fast. Letting go, Bowser flew off, and onto the green grass, outside of the X-box empire.
“RRROOOAAARRRR” Bowser screamed in pain as he broke up into the little polygons he was made of, similar to what happened to Sniper, and fizzled into a gas. It appeared that Bowser was not allowed out of the X-Box domain.
“Whoa! I didn’t know that was going to happen” laughed Ant, ecstatic at what he had just done.
“Well done, Ant” congratulated Lara.
“It appears your friends are trying to stop me” chanted the voice to Spider. “Stop them” it commanded.
Spider left the scene and proceeded towards where Lara, Ant, Grix, er-no and Nebula were.
“SPIDER” screamed Grix, as he headed towards Spider.
“Stay back, traitor, stay back” Spider warned. “Traitor?” said Grix alarmingly. “What’s this about then Spider?”
“You don’t appreciate me, you don’t care, I’m just somebody who you cuss - a nobody” Spider replied unhappily.
“Spider, what are you going on about? We like you” claimed er-no, “we really do.”
“You do?” asked Spider. “Yes, we do” came the reply. “But you said I start pointless threads” whined Spider again. “Oh be quiet Spider, look, we like you, don’t push it” warned Nebula.
“Oh, ok, it looks like I’m with you then, that’s if..if you’d except me. I promise I won’t ever do anything that’s annoying or stupid ever again” stated Spider, proudly.
“So how exactly did you get here then Spider?” asked Grix.
“Errr….I’ll tell you later!”
“You!” Shouted Spider, pointing at the sky, “why did you trick me? WHY?”
“You little fool. I knew you couldn’t be trusted. EXTERMINATE THEM!” shouted the dark emperor.
Magically, all the videogame bad guys you could ever thing of emerged from nowhere, and surrounded Lara and the group.
“So we meet again, Ali. I hope it was worth coming all this way” grunted Lara.
“ALI?” asked the rest of the group, stunned at this newfound information. “That’s right – I am known as Ali, and I will be victorious”.
The conjured villains formed a circle around the brave heros, and slowly gained in on them. Was this the end? Ant, Grix, Nebula and er-no’s bracelets started to glow, and a beam of light shot out of each one, connecting with each other and forming a stronger sphere of energy. The ring of baddies stopped dead in their tracks.
“It’s not powerful enough” shouted Lara, her voice struggling to be heard over the loud churning from the energy ball. “Spider, it’s up to you”. Spider clenched hard…But nothing happened. “Spider believe in yourself, believe.” Spider closed his eyes, and begun to glow. Suddenly a huge beam of energy, equal to the amount the others were giving out, shot out of Spider, combined with the waiting energy ball, and headed towards Ali. BANG!
“You will pay for this, mark my words; you will pay, the X-Box will ruleeeeee” screamed Ali in terror, as he imploded into a friendly white flash of light.
“Well done, and thank you for all you’ve done here” mentioned Lara, pecking er-no on the cheek. “It’s time to go now, bbyyyeee bbyyyeee”
“Will they be ok, docter?” whispered a woman’s voice.
“They’ll be just fine” replied the docter. “It was just lucky that they were thrown clear of the bus before it crashed”
Er-no awoke, followed by Ant, Grix, Nebula, Sniper and Spider. They were back.
“She kissed me” commented er-no weakly, “I can’t believe it”.
”Boys, you need your rest” came a voice that sounded familiar to er-no’s mother. “Mum” shouted er-no excitedly,” we need to get to the SR Gaming Championships, and fast.”
“Don’t worry boys, they’ve rescheduled it for tomorrow just for you, wasn’t that nice of them”.
Was it all just a dream?
The day went quickly, and by the next day, the team had basically fully recovered. As planned they safely arrived at the entrance to the Championships.
“This is it, then” said Sniper, who had been updated with what happened after his departure. “Yep, it sure is” replied Spider – the newest member of the team.
Tony was sitting on a big chair in the middle of the gaming warehouse. Noticing who had just entered, he sat up, and winked.
“Wow! Winked by the man in charge” they thought
It was time for the first round.
Ant was entered in the Mario Kart 64 race. As the lights counted down from red to green, Mario – who he was playing as – turned his head round form his kart, and smiled. A glitch? Surely not. GREEN! Ant zoomed off into the lead. Checking the map, Ant noticed that the others were only centimetres from the starting line; they were going so slow.
In under a minute Ant completed all the three laps and won the race; he had also set a new record, breaking the previous one by 1.13 minutes. Wow!
Next up was Grix, in a Fifa 2001 PS2 match. He was kicking off. The whistle blew. Aiming to pass the ball to a fellow teammate, Grix accidentally shot it at the goal. It went screaming in, like magic. He tried again, it went straight into the back of the net, and again, and again. Grix proceeded easily through the knockout rounds, and won the final 34 – 1. The 1 being an own goal to give the opponent a chance.
Sniper won his Crazy Taxi DC comp, Racking up a grand total of $1,240,001.87. And Nebula kicked butt in the Super Smash brothers 64 tourny – knocking everyone else off the top of hyrule with a mere few hits. Spider - who it had been decided that he could enter the Championships after all - won his league of Simpson Wrestling.
Last up er-no. Playing Tomb Raider on the PC. Time trial. Go! Lara slid down the gorge, turned left and headed through a narrow crack in a nearby wall. Then turning right again, she climbed up a secret hill, that no one else knew about. Within another 5 seconds, Lara was at the finish line, but hadn’t crossed it yet. Turning round she blew er-no a kiss, and backwards flipped over the line. WINNER! Winning by 43.78 seconds.
And the weird thing was, er-no never pressed one button on the keyboard!
So the team had won all the events, and headed home with a boot-load of trophies. On the way home the winning team were cut up by some other car, causing er-no to drop his latest working GBA onto the floor.
Is it glowing?
Uh-oh.
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