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Grix lay in the grass.
Did they have ANY idea of how long an hour lasted, while you waited for the order to go over the top?
General Tony liked to refer to it as popping over, or popping till you... He couldn't remember anymore.
"ON MY MARK!" Commander Edgy shouted.
Men around Grix grabbed their guns tighter.
Then silence.
Grix looked up at Edgy, who was deep in concentration.
The PS2 rabble lay across the field, after taking over the small town of Multiplai. The order was to get it back, with whatever means necessary.
"MARRRRRKKK!" Edgy ran over the top, and men started screaming, and followed him over.
Bullets rained on the field, explosions took out five people in front of Grix...
Grix ran on, determined to fight for the just cause. He knew many of his friends were with him today, and he knew that many would be facing him one day. But he was a soldier of Nintendo, and by God's name, he was going to fight for them.
This wasn't about domination. This was about the right to play fun games.
Grix ran on. Sniper lay down in the grass in front. Grix dived to his side.
"We're going to make it! We're going to make it!!" Sniper reloaded his rifle, and took out another of the snipers, who were ruthlessly taking out more and more of Grixs friends.
Grix got back up again, and ran on.
He ducked under the barbed wire, that ran around the whole of the enemies trench. He rolled under, and dropped straight into the trench. Someone pulled out a gun in front of him... Grix got out his, and shot him in the chest. He spun around. Someone shot him in the arm...
Grix collapsed to the floor. The man walked over to Grix, and smiled through his teeth.
"Goodbye..." A shot was fired.
Edgy pulled himself over. Grix got up.
"Thanks Edgy."
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The town of Multiplai lay in peace, once more, in the hands of Nintendo.
Sniper was helping to get rid of the bodies, Grix was nursing his arm.
Commander Edgy was interrogating one of the surviving PS2 fanatics. Grix wished he could be in there, watching the officers beat the crap out of the scum.
A man walked up to Grix.
"Long time no see. How's your arm?"
"Better." Said Grix. "I'm sorry, but your name escapes me."
Did they have ANY idea of how long an hour lasted, while you waited for the order to go over the top?
General Tony liked to refer to it as popping over, or popping till you... He couldn't remember anymore.
"ON MY MARK!" Commander Edgy shouted.
Men around Grix grabbed their guns tighter.
Then silence.
Grix looked up at Edgy, who was deep in concentration.
The PS2 rabble lay across the field, after taking over the small town of Multiplai. The order was to get it back, with whatever means necessary.
"MARRRRRKKK!" Edgy ran over the top, and men started screaming, and followed him over.
Bullets rained on the field, explosions took out five people in front of Grix...
Grix ran on, determined to fight for the just cause. He knew many of his friends were with him today, and he knew that many would be facing him one day. But he was a soldier of Nintendo, and by God's name, he was going to fight for them.
This wasn't about domination. This was about the right to play fun games.
Grix ran on. Sniper lay down in the grass in front. Grix dived to his side.
"We're going to make it! We're going to make it!!" Sniper reloaded his rifle, and took out another of the snipers, who were ruthlessly taking out more and more of Grixs friends.
Grix got back up again, and ran on.
He ducked under the barbed wire, that ran around the whole of the enemies trench. He rolled under, and dropped straight into the trench. Someone pulled out a gun in front of him... Grix got out his, and shot him in the chest. He spun around. Someone shot him in the arm...
Grix collapsed to the floor. The man walked over to Grix, and smiled through his teeth.
"Goodbye..." A shot was fired.
Edgy pulled himself over. Grix got up.
"Thanks Edgy."
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The town of Multiplai lay in peace, once more, in the hands of Nintendo.
Sniper was helping to get rid of the bodies, Grix was nursing his arm.
Commander Edgy was interrogating one of the surviving PS2 fanatics. Grix wished he could be in there, watching the officers beat the crap out of the scum.
A man walked up to Grix.
"Long time no see. How's your arm?"
"Better." Said Grix. "I'm sorry, but your name escapes me."
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Then he realised it wasn't a nightmare, and thus a saga begins.
He scurried around the Sega camp looking for xombiefied retail assistants, but they had all been washed away where they belong. Dan couldn't find his copy of Tony Hawks 2 anywhere, or had it already been sent to him to arrive on Monday or Tuesday?
That didn't matter for now. There was a health plant to find from Code Veronica, but it might be too late, 'I'm dying' groaned Grix who had somehow been captured and turned into a Sega spokesperson. 'I'll get you that leaf' Dan persisted.
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
Ant had recovered but had tunred into Crash Bandicoot.
FantasyMeister was stuck in Blair after successfully mummifying the Blair Witch (Bill Gates' android creation).
All lay still, as a new army approached. It was the Panasonic 3DO team back from the dead and they had their entertainment rivals Sony in mind to kill. But they didn't get past the Gamegear, which was now in operation across longeviti as a doorstop.
Golden Rhino found himself being attack by the Ghost of the Atari Jaguar, and all seemed as usual.
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He scurried around the Sega camp looking for xombiefied retail assistants, but they had all been washed away where they belong. Dan couldn't find his copy of Tony Hawks 2 anywhere, or had it already been sent to him to arrive on Monday or Tuesday?
That didn't matter for now. There was a health plant to find from Code Veronica, but it might be too late, 'I'm dying' groaned Grix who had somehow been captured and turned into a Sega spokesperson. 'I'll get you that leaf' Dan persisted.
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
Ant had recovered but had tunred into Crash Bandicoot.
FantasyMeister was stuck in Blair after successfully mummifying the Blair Witch (Bill Gates' android creation).
All lay still, as a new army approached. It was the Panasonic 3DO team back from the dead and they had their entertainment rivals Sony in mind to kill. But they didn't get past the Gamegear, which was now in operation across longeviti as a doorstop.
Golden Rhino found himself being attack by the Ghost of the Atari Jaguar, and all seemed as usual.
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thegame1847 wrote:
>maybe you could stress even more about the PS" soldiers being really crap and clueless?!
Errrrrr......NO!!!
>maybe you could stress even more about the PS" soldiers being really crap and clueless?!
Errrrrr......NO!!!
The four trenches faced each other across the barren plains of Limbogota, the still silence of the night broken only by the flash of the odd stray polygon on the jagged horizon.
Trench 1: Sony.....
"ANT!!!!!"
Ant came scurrying along the trench, his six limbs flailing along the trench walls as fast as they could carry him. He pulled up to a dusty halt at the bunker door, gave his special three-armed salute, and promptly fell over.
"Yes, SIR!" said Ant, picking himself up.
"Get me a nice cup of tea, will you Ant? The cold night air is starting to chill my bones." Sheepy rubbed himself in an effort to keep warm as Ant scurried off again in search of a kettle.
Sheepy regarded the plans for the forthcoming offensive on the table in front of him. He considered his alternatives. Should they take on Sega and Nintendo together? Or should they go straight for the big guns of Microsoft. So many possible outcomes....so much to lose...
Trench 2: Nintendo.....
Grix sat up in his bunk sharply. It was the voices again. He hadn't slept soundly for months because of the voices. He rubbed his arm absentmindedly as he listened to the jabberings inside his head....
(Did he?)
[Yeah]
(Hey! There's a lot of rubbing going on in the trenches tonight!)
[Shut up! Act your age.]
(I AM acting my age!)
[Err. ok.]
{Can I join in?}
([SHUT UP!!])
{...}
Trench 3: Sega.....
Dan smiled to himself. He'd just done the fastest lap ever on MSR and was about to have a go at Shenmue when there was a knock at the door.
"Yes?"
"Sir! You'd better come quick! Something's out there!"
Dan gave up on Shenmue for now, and got up, lumbered his way around a stack of Saturns that he had yet to shift, and made his way to the trench wall.
"Pass me those binoculars, Sergeant."
"Here you go, Sir!"
Dan put the binoculars up to his face and pointed them in the direction of the centre of the battlefield. He could make out two figures through the slowly dissipating mist, standing hand in hand. They appeared to be......
Trench 4: Microsoft......
Bill Gates stood alert. He had too. You didn't get far in this business by not being a lert. His mother had told him that. Yesterday. He gazed out into the battlefield, relishing the bloodshed that would surely come with the dawn. But as he gazed out, he noticed two figures in the middle of the battlefield, standing hand in hand. They appeared to be.....
Tony and Fate stood hand in hand. They were singing. It was, after all, New Year's Eve, the dawn of a new age. So they had decided to treat to the world to a tradition that went back to the trenches of ages past. To a relic from a battle long forgotten. They were singing....
"Silent Night, Holy Night........."
_________________________
Sniper, true to his name, lay motionless 100 yards away on the branch of a tree, his trusty rifle pointed directly at the centre of the battlefield. The time was ripe. He centred his crosshairs on the dark silhouette of one of the two heads in front of him, and moved his finger from the trigger-guard to the trigger, and slowly, very slowly, he began to squeeze........
Trench 1: Sony.....
"ANT!!!!!"
Ant came scurrying along the trench, his six limbs flailing along the trench walls as fast as they could carry him. He pulled up to a dusty halt at the bunker door, gave his special three-armed salute, and promptly fell over.
"Yes, SIR!" said Ant, picking himself up.
"Get me a nice cup of tea, will you Ant? The cold night air is starting to chill my bones." Sheepy rubbed himself in an effort to keep warm as Ant scurried off again in search of a kettle.
Sheepy regarded the plans for the forthcoming offensive on the table in front of him. He considered his alternatives. Should they take on Sega and Nintendo together? Or should they go straight for the big guns of Microsoft. So many possible outcomes....so much to lose...
Trench 2: Nintendo.....
Grix sat up in his bunk sharply. It was the voices again. He hadn't slept soundly for months because of the voices. He rubbed his arm absentmindedly as he listened to the jabberings inside his head....
(Did he?)
[Yeah]
(Hey! There's a lot of rubbing going on in the trenches tonight!)
[Shut up! Act your age.]
(I AM acting my age!)
[Err. ok.]
{Can I join in?}
([SHUT UP!!])
{...}
Trench 3: Sega.....
Dan smiled to himself. He'd just done the fastest lap ever on MSR and was about to have a go at Shenmue when there was a knock at the door.
"Yes?"
"Sir! You'd better come quick! Something's out there!"
Dan gave up on Shenmue for now, and got up, lumbered his way around a stack of Saturns that he had yet to shift, and made his way to the trench wall.
"Pass me those binoculars, Sergeant."
"Here you go, Sir!"
Dan put the binoculars up to his face and pointed them in the direction of the centre of the battlefield. He could make out two figures through the slowly dissipating mist, standing hand in hand. They appeared to be......
Trench 4: Microsoft......
Bill Gates stood alert. He had too. You didn't get far in this business by not being a lert. His mother had told him that. Yesterday. He gazed out into the battlefield, relishing the bloodshed that would surely come with the dawn. But as he gazed out, he noticed two figures in the middle of the battlefield, standing hand in hand. They appeared to be.....
Tony and Fate stood hand in hand. They were singing. It was, after all, New Year's Eve, the dawn of a new age. So they had decided to treat to the world to a tradition that went back to the trenches of ages past. To a relic from a battle long forgotten. They were singing....
"Silent Night, Holy Night........."
_________________________
Sniper, true to his name, lay motionless 100 yards away on the branch of a tree, his trusty rifle pointed directly at the centre of the battlefield. The time was ripe. He centred his crosshairs on the dark silhouette of one of the two heads in front of him, and moved his finger from the trigger-guard to the trigger, and slowly, very slowly, he began to squeeze........
OK OK so Sony's dog is called AIBO, not Poochie.
Well you couldn't call a game Sonic aibomon could you?
Well you couldn't call a game Sonic aibomon could you?
Tony disappeared into the night, returning a few hours later with a weary female by his side.
"Let me introduce you all to Fate" he said.
"This is Fate" he said "I've brought her to help Joanna"
Fate moved over to Grix who by this time was feeling a little numb. Various part of him had small white tags. "It's so that I can remember their names" croaked Grix.
Fate told everyone this
Joanna can survive
and Grix will revive
if by morning
you all join in
to escape without saving
and restart all this gaming
another remedy, would be
to bring on Fantasy
"Fantasy" barked Commander Edgy "why Fantasy? How can he help? It was his lot that shot him - er her"
"Fate's never wrong" said General Tony firmly. Let her finish.
He's the one
can get it done
his antidote
a cheat of note
"You can't use a Playstation cheat on me" Said Grix, who then fell unconscious.
One or two onlookers were curious about Fate. Why does she talk like that? Who is she? A newbie, or a regular in disguise.
"Fate is neutral" explained Tony. "She's my wife but she's not on anybody's side." Fate just POPS in from time to time, when she feels like a rhyme.
Sniper and Edgy were huddled together. Sniper looked up and said "Dan can get to Fantasy. He has a way in"
"But Dan's in the Sega camp" said Tony
Edgy explained that as Sega was pretty well blown to bits anyway it wouldn't hurt Dan to make up with Fantasy for the sake of his old friend Grix.
He'll need to take
a game to make
or otherwise
he'll meet with lies
"What does fate mean?" Said Edgy
"We'll use Dan as the go-between for an anti-Microtosh triple-alliance" Announced Tony to the astonishment of everybody around him. "Sonic Poochiemon will be launched on the same day as X-box. With a hedgehog, robot dog and Pokemons it can't fail. Dan will bring Fantasy over for a Sonic Poochimon Pow Wow and Fate will tempt the magic cheat from him to regenerate Grix's arm".
"I'll round up SHEEPY and get off to see Dan" said Edgy
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SHEEPY and Edgy were staggered by the scale of devastation at Sega but they quickly found Dan who was in philosophical mood. "I don't give a damn any more. Whatever it takes to get a good game" Said Dan. "How do we get into the Sony camp. I hear it's well guarded against Windows Outflanking Manouvre 2000.
"It's OK" suggested Edgy "If only the small group of us go they will not shoot us"
Edgy, luckily for all concerned, was right. When Ant, Wookie, Kieren and the others saw the three heros all unarmed they did not have the heart for war. They're all good guys, despite the things they say sometimes.
Fantasy was quickly excited by the idea of stealing a march on Microtosh, especially a triple-alliance launch of a megagame for PS2, Dreamcast and Game Cube to disrupt the launch of the X-box. He willingly followed Sheepy and the others to Nintendo.
"What's up with Grix?" Said Fantasy
Fate stepped in and tempted Fantasy with a poem so powerful that it cannot be repeated here.
With glazed eyes Fantasy drew his weapon. Instinctively everyone except Ant ducked and dived for cover, presuming a double-cross.
Fantasy shot the postbox, then the blue car, then the traffic light in quick succession.
The others quickly realised that Fantasy is a charitable guy, not the sort you would expect to double-cross you. "My GOSH" said SHEEPY, "that DID frighten me".
As if by magic, Joanna was a new arm. Even SHEEPY's graze was suddenly restored! And Ant's chest wound had a crispy new shell to it.
HOORAA shouted everybody. "THREE CHEERS for Fantasy", they all said, spontaneously together, as if a (brain) was emitting synchronised messages to them.
"Now that's a cheat that should win Gameaday" said Ali, only to find himself bombarded with paintball pellets which spelled out "Why not me" on the road in front of him.
"Shut up" said Tony "There could be a Microtosh Slight Fimulalor anywhere in this gameworld"
"Let me introduce you all to Fate" he said.
"This is Fate" he said "I've brought her to help Joanna"
Fate moved over to Grix who by this time was feeling a little numb. Various part of him had small white tags. "It's so that I can remember their names" croaked Grix.
Fate told everyone this
Joanna can survive
and Grix will revive
if by morning
you all join in
to escape without saving
and restart all this gaming
another remedy, would be
to bring on Fantasy
"Fantasy" barked Commander Edgy "why Fantasy? How can he help? It was his lot that shot him - er her"
"Fate's never wrong" said General Tony firmly. Let her finish.
He's the one
can get it done
his antidote
a cheat of note
"You can't use a Playstation cheat on me" Said Grix, who then fell unconscious.
One or two onlookers were curious about Fate. Why does she talk like that? Who is she? A newbie, or a regular in disguise.
"Fate is neutral" explained Tony. "She's my wife but she's not on anybody's side." Fate just POPS in from time to time, when she feels like a rhyme.
Sniper and Edgy were huddled together. Sniper looked up and said "Dan can get to Fantasy. He has a way in"
"But Dan's in the Sega camp" said Tony
Edgy explained that as Sega was pretty well blown to bits anyway it wouldn't hurt Dan to make up with Fantasy for the sake of his old friend Grix.
He'll need to take
a game to make
or otherwise
he'll meet with lies
"What does fate mean?" Said Edgy
"We'll use Dan as the go-between for an anti-Microtosh triple-alliance" Announced Tony to the astonishment of everybody around him. "Sonic Poochiemon will be launched on the same day as X-box. With a hedgehog, robot dog and Pokemons it can't fail. Dan will bring Fantasy over for a Sonic Poochimon Pow Wow and Fate will tempt the magic cheat from him to regenerate Grix's arm".
"I'll round up SHEEPY and get off to see Dan" said Edgy
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SHEEPY and Edgy were staggered by the scale of devastation at Sega but they quickly found Dan who was in philosophical mood. "I don't give a damn any more. Whatever it takes to get a good game" Said Dan. "How do we get into the Sony camp. I hear it's well guarded against Windows Outflanking Manouvre 2000.
"It's OK" suggested Edgy "If only the small group of us go they will not shoot us"
Edgy, luckily for all concerned, was right. When Ant, Wookie, Kieren and the others saw the three heros all unarmed they did not have the heart for war. They're all good guys, despite the things they say sometimes.
Fantasy was quickly excited by the idea of stealing a march on Microtosh, especially a triple-alliance launch of a megagame for PS2, Dreamcast and Game Cube to disrupt the launch of the X-box. He willingly followed Sheepy and the others to Nintendo.
"What's up with Grix?" Said Fantasy
Fate stepped in and tempted Fantasy with a poem so powerful that it cannot be repeated here.
With glazed eyes Fantasy drew his weapon. Instinctively everyone except Ant ducked and dived for cover, presuming a double-cross.
Fantasy shot the postbox, then the blue car, then the traffic light in quick succession.
The others quickly realised that Fantasy is a charitable guy, not the sort you would expect to double-cross you. "My GOSH" said SHEEPY, "that DID frighten me".
As if by magic, Joanna was a new arm. Even SHEEPY's graze was suddenly restored! And Ant's chest wound had a crispy new shell to it.
HOORAA shouted everybody. "THREE CHEERS for Fantasy", they all said, spontaneously together, as if a (brain) was emitting synchronised messages to them.
"Now that's a cheat that should win Gameaday" said Ali, only to find himself bombarded with paintball pellets which spelled out "Why not me" on the road in front of him.
"Shut up" said Tony "There could be a Microtosh Slight Fimulalor anywhere in this gameworld"
Lets recap.
Ant, recovering from a bullet wound to his chest, was planning on the strike on Controlare, which Nintendo really didn't deserve, after the Sega shootout, as it's now being referred to as.
FantasyMeister was missing, and was presumed dead, or worse. After the sabotage of the propaganda exercise that would have made Hitler proud, Microsoft seemed to be a more important enemy than first thought.
Yes, the guns of Sony could fire 128 bullets a second, compared to Microsofts 32 a second, but when you rolled down to it, it didn't matter. Only accuracy counted. But then X-Box had a more likely chance at sacking Graphix, and had a more powerful Commander, and they had a larger army. (CPU and memory, by the way.)
Nintendos group were just as good. Up slightly in chance with Graphix, but with a slightly smaller army. They were possibly the closest enemies since the Megadrive days.
Thinking of the megadrive brought back dreadful memories. Not of the console though, but of his run from the system, not long before Project Saturn was initilised by Sega.
And now it seemed there would be no Sega.
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Dan lay in darkness, with no idea of his location, or why he was there.
Certainly Sega had a good army, but why capture them? If Nintendo had asked, they would have certainly have recieved a large chance of joining up with them.
It seemed Nintendo was more scared of Sega than he thought.
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"We shall leave... in the morning." Tony had a plan. It wasn't a good one, but nobody complained.
"Is everything ready Commander Edgy?" Tony asked through tight teeth, clenched around a pipe.
"Yes sir. Sony will have no idea."
Tony turned to Grix. "How's that arm doing?"
Grixs arm was shot, in a training exercise.
"Not too shabby sir. She'll be right as rain in the morning."
"Jolly good. I'm glad everything is in order..."
Tony stopped.
"Sorry. I think my hearings going, did you say she'll be alright?"
"Yes indeed sir, I did." Grix replied.
Tony seemed lost for words. "May I ask why you are refering to you limb as a female?"
"You may, sir." Grix replied.
Tony sighed. "Why are you refering to your limb as a female?"
"Well it keeps the sprirt up, and all that, sir. Giving my arm an identity gives me more hope that it will pull through."
"But I thought you said it was fine?"
Grix signalled Tony closer.
"I can't say in front of her, but it doesn't look all that good. Joanna..."
"Joanna?"
"My arm. Joanna may not be seeing the night through, sir. She's been infected badly, and she'll be lucky to survive."
"Well give her my love, we'll all be praying for her."
"Thanks sir. Much appriciated." Replied Grix.
Tony walked off. He stopped after a few steps to think about what he said...
"Is something wrong sir?" Dan_UK asked, standing just to his left.
"What? Oh, no. Just fine. Fine and dandy."
"Err... Good, sir."
Ant, recovering from a bullet wound to his chest, was planning on the strike on Controlare, which Nintendo really didn't deserve, after the Sega shootout, as it's now being referred to as.
FantasyMeister was missing, and was presumed dead, or worse. After the sabotage of the propaganda exercise that would have made Hitler proud, Microsoft seemed to be a more important enemy than first thought.
Yes, the guns of Sony could fire 128 bullets a second, compared to Microsofts 32 a second, but when you rolled down to it, it didn't matter. Only accuracy counted. But then X-Box had a more likely chance at sacking Graphix, and had a more powerful Commander, and they had a larger army. (CPU and memory, by the way.)
Nintendos group were just as good. Up slightly in chance with Graphix, but with a slightly smaller army. They were possibly the closest enemies since the Megadrive days.
Thinking of the megadrive brought back dreadful memories. Not of the console though, but of his run from the system, not long before Project Saturn was initilised by Sega.
And now it seemed there would be no Sega.
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Dan lay in darkness, with no idea of his location, or why he was there.
Certainly Sega had a good army, but why capture them? If Nintendo had asked, they would have certainly have recieved a large chance of joining up with them.
It seemed Nintendo was more scared of Sega than he thought.
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"We shall leave... in the morning." Tony had a plan. It wasn't a good one, but nobody complained.
"Is everything ready Commander Edgy?" Tony asked through tight teeth, clenched around a pipe.
"Yes sir. Sony will have no idea."
Tony turned to Grix. "How's that arm doing?"
Grixs arm was shot, in a training exercise.
"Not too shabby sir. She'll be right as rain in the morning."
"Jolly good. I'm glad everything is in order..."
Tony stopped.
"Sorry. I think my hearings going, did you say she'll be alright?"
"Yes indeed sir, I did." Grix replied.
Tony seemed lost for words. "May I ask why you are refering to you limb as a female?"
"You may, sir." Grix replied.
Tony sighed. "Why are you refering to your limb as a female?"
"Well it keeps the sprirt up, and all that, sir. Giving my arm an identity gives me more hope that it will pull through."
"But I thought you said it was fine?"
Grix signalled Tony closer.
"I can't say in front of her, but it doesn't look all that good. Joanna..."
"Joanna?"
"My arm. Joanna may not be seeing the night through, sir. She's been infected badly, and she'll be lucky to survive."
"Well give her my love, we'll all be praying for her."
"Thanks sir. Much appriciated." Replied Grix.
Tony walked off. He stopped after a few steps to think about what he said...
"Is something wrong sir?" Dan_UK asked, standing just to his left.
"What? Oh, no. Just fine. Fine and dandy."
"Err... Good, sir."
Interesting story, a bit like entrapment really....all these people seeming to be on different sides and all. I think you should replace the guns with Light-Sabres and maybe you could stress even more about the PS" soldiers being really crap and clueless?!
Just a Thought...
From Mario and Obi Wan Kenobi..he he he
Just a Thought...
From Mario and Obi Wan Kenobi..he he he
Humm. This topic is going away from the supposed use. Only write in here if you are contributing, or asking a question about the story.
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