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Look. Don't blame me, I'm bored. If people were in here chatting away, I wouldn't have to sink to this level.
Smoke purred from Ant's mouth, drifting into the air, and pulling the life from within him out...
"You shouldn't smoke you know. It's bad for the insides."
Ant looked down at his curry. He wouldn't be suprised if the curry did more damage.
"I can't eat any more." He said. "I'm not feeling too well today."
The man took away Ant's curry, and emptied it into a bucket.
"That'll be 90 credits..." As the man looked up, Ant was no longer at his seat.
"Put it on the slate!" Ant shouted...
Ant had recieved another message. It was from command. Apparently some of the driods had broke lose, killing a few task forces on the way.
Ant got into his hovercar, just a bog standard craft, but the seats were uncomfortable. He knew this would be his last run before he could buy another.
He pulled the craft up, and out of the giant hanger, and into the open air. It was night. You could tell it was night because there were more hovercars around, it usually gets busy at night... Ant looked up at the deep smog that had settled over the city of Pembroke many years ago... not long after Pembroke was declared the new capital of the former British Isles all those years ago... before the war.
Ant remembers it as if it were about 10 years ago, so he expected the details to be a bit foggy.
Professor Miyamoto about 11 years ago invented the next generation of machinary to compete with the Overlords Playchip 3, which was in popular demand with kids...
Under the company name Nintendo, Prof. Miyamoto released the Nintendo chip into the mass market. Hundreds of people brought them, and had them implanted. Some many happy faces... so much peace in the world...
Then something, as always it seemed, went wrong. The chips started to manufuction, taking the persons will of control with it. They produced hundreds of automated psyhcotic killing machines, and Nintendo had no control over them...
The Overlord had ordered that all Nintendo products to be taking off the market, and ordered that Nintendo was shut down.
Ant pulled out of his daydream, and realised that he was heading straight for a building... He pulled up with ease. But someone behind him, who didn't anticipate his move quickly dodged to the left to avoid Ant, and hit the building that Ant was trying to avoid. The sprialling trail of the hovercars smoke reminded Ant to light his cigarette, which was just clasped unlit between his lips. Ant thought he was going insane...
Ant managed to navigate through the rest of the car maze, and ended up at the Overlords headquarters. Sony HQ.
He landed. Finding a space was easy, just land on top of any car already there. Sometimes you would find stacks of cars miles high, with the Jenga like approuch for the man with the bottom car, attempting to remove his car... There had been several "Jenga" accidents in the last few days.
Ant had left his car, climbed down the stack of cars, and entered the building. He proceeded past reception, and walked down the dark stairs. He took the second door on the left, walked around the fountain in the middle of the room to the third door, past the small wildlife display, through the small hall, under the glass bridge, and through the red double doors.
"Who are you?" Said the man inside.
"My names Ant. I'm a Blade Runner."
"Oh... you looking for the Command office. You should have taken the fourth door near the waterfall, this is the lower hall."
"Oh. Ta."
Smoke purred from Ant's mouth, drifting into the air, and pulling the life from within him out...
"You shouldn't smoke you know. It's bad for the insides."
Ant looked down at his curry. He wouldn't be suprised if the curry did more damage.
"I can't eat any more." He said. "I'm not feeling too well today."
The man took away Ant's curry, and emptied it into a bucket.
"That'll be 90 credits..." As the man looked up, Ant was no longer at his seat.
"Put it on the slate!" Ant shouted...
Ant had recieved another message. It was from command. Apparently some of the driods had broke lose, killing a few task forces on the way.
Ant got into his hovercar, just a bog standard craft, but the seats were uncomfortable. He knew this would be his last run before he could buy another.
He pulled the craft up, and out of the giant hanger, and into the open air. It was night. You could tell it was night because there were more hovercars around, it usually gets busy at night... Ant looked up at the deep smog that had settled over the city of Pembroke many years ago... not long after Pembroke was declared the new capital of the former British Isles all those years ago... before the war.
Ant remembers it as if it were about 10 years ago, so he expected the details to be a bit foggy.
Professor Miyamoto about 11 years ago invented the next generation of machinary to compete with the Overlords Playchip 3, which was in popular demand with kids...
Under the company name Nintendo, Prof. Miyamoto released the Nintendo chip into the mass market. Hundreds of people brought them, and had them implanted. Some many happy faces... so much peace in the world...
Then something, as always it seemed, went wrong. The chips started to manufuction, taking the persons will of control with it. They produced hundreds of automated psyhcotic killing machines, and Nintendo had no control over them...
The Overlord had ordered that all Nintendo products to be taking off the market, and ordered that Nintendo was shut down.
Ant pulled out of his daydream, and realised that he was heading straight for a building... He pulled up with ease. But someone behind him, who didn't anticipate his move quickly dodged to the left to avoid Ant, and hit the building that Ant was trying to avoid. The sprialling trail of the hovercars smoke reminded Ant to light his cigarette, which was just clasped unlit between his lips. Ant thought he was going insane...
Ant managed to navigate through the rest of the car maze, and ended up at the Overlords headquarters. Sony HQ.
He landed. Finding a space was easy, just land on top of any car already there. Sometimes you would find stacks of cars miles high, with the Jenga like approuch for the man with the bottom car, attempting to remove his car... There had been several "Jenga" accidents in the last few days.
Ant had left his car, climbed down the stack of cars, and entered the building. He proceeded past reception, and walked down the dark stairs. He took the second door on the left, walked around the fountain in the middle of the room to the third door, past the small wildlife display, through the small hall, under the glass bridge, and through the red double doors.
"Who are you?" Said the man inside.
"My names Ant. I'm a Blade Runner."
"Oh... you looking for the Command office. You should have taken the fourth door near the waterfall, this is the lower hall."
"Oh. Ta."
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There was one fish left.
"All right then, here we go AGAIN," Ant said, and began to say eeney meeney miney mo around the group.
It landed on FM.
"NO WAY!!" pb shouted. "You cheated!!"
"Why would I give it to FM then??"
"I WON PB!!" FM shouted.
"DO IT AGAIN!!" pb shouted.
"We've been doing it for 2 and a half hours now, we should be figuring out how to get out of here!" Ant said, exasperated.
"AGAAAAIIIIINNNNN!!!!"
Ant sighed, and started it again.
it landed on Dan_uk, who was currently still in the game.
Ant sighed again.
"All right then, here we go AGAIN," Ant said, and began to say eeney meeney miney mo around the group.
It landed on FM.
"NO WAY!!" pb shouted. "You cheated!!"
"Why would I give it to FM then??"
"I WON PB!!" FM shouted.
"DO IT AGAIN!!" pb shouted.
"We've been doing it for 2 and a half hours now, we should be figuring out how to get out of here!" Ant said, exasperated.
"AGAAAAIIIIINNNNN!!!!"
Ant sighed, and started it again.
it landed on Dan_uk, who was currently still in the game.
Ant sighed again.
The fight inside the N - chip continued.
As Joanna Dark got hit by Sonic's spin attack, her 2 Falcon pistol fell to the floor.
Both of the Dan's dived for them and picked one each.
They were on the floor, face to face, pointing a gun at each other's head when they heard a voice...
"The plan is working well. Soon the entire world will be under control!"
IT WAS THE OVERLORD!
Both of the Dan's hid under the ring and continued to listen.
They peeped out to see 2 figures, the first one being overlord who turned out to be Bill Gates. So Microsoft was behind it all. He had tricked both Dan's into fighting each other. The second figure...
So the rumours were true...
DARTH SHEEPY had returned!
As Joanna Dark got hit by Sonic's spin attack, her 2 Falcon pistol fell to the floor.
Both of the Dan's dived for them and picked one each.
They were on the floor, face to face, pointing a gun at each other's head when they heard a voice...
"The plan is working well. Soon the entire world will be under control!"
IT WAS THE OVERLORD!
Both of the Dan's hid under the ring and continued to listen.
They peeped out to see 2 figures, the first one being overlord who turned out to be Bill Gates. So Microsoft was behind it all. He had tricked both Dan's into fighting each other. The second figure...
So the rumours were true...
DARTH SHEEPY had returned!
Indeed he was not.
Grix waited patiently in his VW Campervan, staring at the monitors...
"I TOLD HIM TO CAPTURE THEM! NOT KILL THEM!"
Grix jumped into the front seat, started the van, and drove off.
"Humm... somethings missing."
Grix turned on the radio, and turned the volume to full blast.
"BUH BUH, BUH, BUH BUH, BUH!"
The blue VW sped off into the distance.
Grix waited patiently in his VW Campervan, staring at the monitors...
"I TOLD HIM TO CAPTURE THEM! NOT KILL THEM!"
Grix jumped into the front seat, started the van, and drove off.
"Humm... somethings missing."
Grix turned on the radio, and turned the volume to full blast.
"BUH BUH, BUH, BUH BUH, BUH!"
The blue VW sped off into the distance.
They entered the cave and stepped down from their bikes. In front of them stood a big flat rock, and on that rock sat er-no.
"This is too easy, I don't like it." said Ant as they drew nearer to the budda-like form of Er-no. "It's as if he's waiting for us to get to him."
As they walked nearer Ant whispered instructions into FM and Pb's ear, then with a start he shouted "RUN!" They all ran as fast as they could to get to er-no and just as they were in grabbing distance of the rock, a trapdoor opened beneath them and they felt themselves suddenly pulled downwards rather than forwards.
"hahahahha!" laughed er-no as he watched them plummet to their certain doom. "That pit is full of deadly piranha, you will never survive this time!" He got down from his rock and went to look over the edge.
What he saw as he looked into the pit was not exactly what he was expecting. Ant and pb had started a fire and FM held out a stick with a dead fish on the end of it. They were sitting there eating his fish!
"Bu..how....I don't understand." he shouted down at them. "The fish were supposed to kill you. How did you do it?"
"Well," replied Ant. "You know when you put the fish in? You forgot the water."
er-no groaned and held his hand over his eyes. This wasn't going to look good to his master.
"This is too easy, I don't like it." said Ant as they drew nearer to the budda-like form of Er-no. "It's as if he's waiting for us to get to him."
As they walked nearer Ant whispered instructions into FM and Pb's ear, then with a start he shouted "RUN!" They all ran as fast as they could to get to er-no and just as they were in grabbing distance of the rock, a trapdoor opened beneath them and they felt themselves suddenly pulled downwards rather than forwards.
"hahahahha!" laughed er-no as he watched them plummet to their certain doom. "That pit is full of deadly piranha, you will never survive this time!" He got down from his rock and went to look over the edge.
What he saw as he looked into the pit was not exactly what he was expecting. Ant and pb had started a fire and FM held out a stick with a dead fish on the end of it. They were sitting there eating his fish!
"Bu..how....I don't understand." he shouted down at them. "The fish were supposed to kill you. How did you do it?"
"Well," replied Ant. "You know when you put the fish in? You forgot the water."
er-no groaned and held his hand over his eyes. This wasn't going to look good to his master.
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After recovering from the starsnatkestar experience, our heroes headed back out of the Tardis.
Fortunately the BMX's were still where they had been left. One of them was a Muddy Fox, popular back in the 1980's.
"So we're just going to go riding into the cave then are we" Asked Ant
"No. I've got a much better idea" Said FantasyMeister, as he pulled a wheelie on his BMX.
"So what's this grand plan then FM" asked pb, but FantasyMeister was too pre-occupied performing 'bunny-hops' to answer.
After several hours of tricks the like not seen for centuries Ant had had enough.
"Well if he's going to burger about all day, I'm going in on my own." Said Ant, heading in the darkness of the cave.
FantasyMeister performed a small jump and landed on a stick.
It broke with a *click*
Fortunately the BMX's were still where they had been left. One of them was a Muddy Fox, popular back in the 1980's.
"So we're just going to go riding into the cave then are we" Asked Ant
"No. I've got a much better idea" Said FantasyMeister, as he pulled a wheelie on his BMX.
"So what's this grand plan then FM" asked pb, but FantasyMeister was too pre-occupied performing 'bunny-hops' to answer.
After several hours of tricks the like not seen for centuries Ant had had enough.
"Well if he's going to burger about all day, I'm going in on my own." Said Ant, heading in the darkness of the cave.
FantasyMeister performed a small jump and landed on a stick.
It broke with a *click*
Ant and FM thought about *SN@KE* 's question, and pointed to eachother.
"I'LL KILL YOU BOTH THEN!!" SN@KE advanced menacingly on them.
"QUICK, USE THE LIGHTSABRES!!" Ant screamed, and Ant and FM drew out their lightsabres.
"Wrong story." The Author said, and took the sabres.
"Oh pleeeeaaasseee??" FM pleaded.
"Nope."
So FM and Ant turned to SN@KE.
Ant drew out a minigun from no where, and blew the hell out of SN@KE. Snake lay on the floor, dead.
They carried on past him, pleased at their success.
But then. SN@KE laughed, got up, and slashed his sword straight through FM.
"NOOOO!!! FANTASYMEISTER!!!" Ant screamed.
Ant was stunned. One of his friends had just been killed. Properly.
Ant was so annoyed, that he ran straight at SN@KE in an act of desperation, and total and utter, insanity.
"AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!" Ant screamed as he flew himself at SN@KE.
SN@KE caught him in midair.
"Ha ha ha, I will destroy you now."
SN@KE begun to crush Ant with his huge arms.
pb also ran at him, but was kicked aside by one of SN@KE's huge feet, and slammed into a wall.
This was it, they were to die.
Ant was nearly dead, when suddenly FM got up, and hit SN@KE in an...untimely place.
"Oooohhh..." SN@KE groaned in pain, and dropped his sword.
FM then picked up the minigun, and shot him in that same place many times.
"RUN!!"
FM grabbed the unconscious pb, threw him in the Tardis with Ant, and drove away.
"How did you...sur..vive??" Ant asked, in huge pain.
"What?? Oh, I'm protected by a forcefield the Overlord gave me a while ago. I faked it. I knew he had a weakspot."
Ant groaned again, and went back to eating sugar.
"I'LL KILL YOU BOTH THEN!!" SN@KE advanced menacingly on them.
"QUICK, USE THE LIGHTSABRES!!" Ant screamed, and Ant and FM drew out their lightsabres.
"Wrong story." The Author said, and took the sabres.
"Oh pleeeeaaasseee??" FM pleaded.
"Nope."
So FM and Ant turned to SN@KE.
Ant drew out a minigun from no where, and blew the hell out of SN@KE. Snake lay on the floor, dead.
They carried on past him, pleased at their success.
But then. SN@KE laughed, got up, and slashed his sword straight through FM.
"NOOOO!!! FANTASYMEISTER!!!" Ant screamed.
Ant was stunned. One of his friends had just been killed. Properly.
Ant was so annoyed, that he ran straight at SN@KE in an act of desperation, and total and utter, insanity.
"AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!" Ant screamed as he flew himself at SN@KE.
SN@KE caught him in midair.
"Ha ha ha, I will destroy you now."
SN@KE begun to crush Ant with his huge arms.
pb also ran at him, but was kicked aside by one of SN@KE's huge feet, and slammed into a wall.
This was it, they were to die.
Ant was nearly dead, when suddenly FM got up, and hit SN@KE in an...untimely place.
"Oooohhh..." SN@KE groaned in pain, and dropped his sword.
FM then picked up the minigun, and shot him in that same place many times.
"RUN!!"
FM grabbed the unconscious pb, threw him in the Tardis with Ant, and drove away.
"How did you...sur..vive??" Ant asked, in huge pain.
"What?? Oh, I'm protected by a forcefield the Overlord gave me a while ago. I faked it. I knew he had a weakspot."
Ant groaned again, and went back to eating sugar.
Dan_uk (who didn't know how lucky he was not having to face up to *SN@KE*) was now in full combat with Dan_2K1.
The Nintendo and Sega characters were locked in battle too and with all sorts of attacks and objects flying around the room, things were twice as dangerous.
Dan_2K1, furious that he'd had a shell thrown at him lunged at Dan_uk ducked and rolled under the his flying opponent. He jumped over an electrode (a pokemon), kicked it with the back of his heel and sent it rolling towards Dan_2K1. The angry electrode used it's explosion attack.
Dan_uk watched as the smoke cleared to see a sooty and even angrier Dan_2K1. This was going to be tricky...
The Nintendo and Sega characters were locked in battle too and with all sorts of attacks and objects flying around the room, things were twice as dangerous.
Dan_2K1, furious that he'd had a shell thrown at him lunged at Dan_uk ducked and rolled under the his flying opponent. He jumped over an electrode (a pokemon), kicked it with the back of his heel and sent it rolling towards Dan_2K1. The angry electrode used it's explosion attack.
Dan_uk watched as the smoke cleared to see a sooty and even angrier Dan_2K1. This was going to be tricky...
The the skies started to turn black and heavy rain started falling, there was a flash of lightening, a crash of thunder and a man appeared in the rapidly thickening fog.
FM and Ant quickly came to a halt, and started examing the dark figure.
"Who's that?" ant questioned
"I....."FMsaid
"My name is *SN@KE*" a terrifying voice boomed out interupting FM before he could finish, "and i have been sent her to destroy you!!!!"
*SN@KE* drew out a daunting beam sword more powerful than any that has been seen before."now who wants to die first???"boomed the terrifying voice.
FM and Ant quickly came to a halt, and started examing the dark figure.
"Who's that?" ant questioned
"I....."FMsaid
"My name is *SN@KE*" a terrifying voice boomed out interupting FM before he could finish, "and i have been sent her to destroy you!!!!"
*SN@KE* drew out a daunting beam sword more powerful than any that has been seen before."now who wants to die first???"boomed the terrifying voice.
Okay Grix, I get the message.
Pb cautiously peeped out from behind the Tardis door. Behind him, Dan was still inside the computer program and safely tucked away in a small corner under a coatrack. Ant and FM were argueing over what they should do to er..no when they caught up with him.
"We should kill him straight away," shouted FM, "I mean, look at our success rate so far, Grix has eluded us after his clever disguise and then we tried to capture Sniper and he's still running around somewhere with a melted N-chip in his brain. So how many of these criminal faulty N-chip weirdos have we captured? None whatsoever."
"Ah," argued Ant. "But we still haven't found out who was behind the demise of the Nintendo company or who planted the faulty N-chips to gain control of people's minds. The only evidence we have so far is that a large company took the factory over and this statue of the deer and the lawsuits. I believe that the lawsuits are libel papers, but it doesn't help me at all."
"Stag." shouted pb across the room. He had come back in after looking for the mysterious shadow that he had seen earlier and was watching Ant wave the statue about.
"There's no need to be so rude!" said an indignant Ant.
"No." replied pb. "The statue, it's a Stag, not a deer. I looked it up on the computer. It comes from the 'Libel Stag' law firm, they apparently were the company that represented the prosucution against Nintendo during their court case."
Ant looked thoughtful for a moment, the name Libel Stag rang a big bell and he couldn't figure out why. The gang decided to continue their search for er..no in the morning, pb was not keen on going back out at night for some reason and they all needed some sleep. They shut the Tardis door and all went to bed.
Separately of course.
The gang started off early in the morning, they reached the foot of the mountain in about two hours. FM got off of the BMX bikes they had hired to get there and looked up at the circling birds.
"Well, here goes. I don't expect anyone's expecting to get to the top without anything happening?"
"Not much choice, now we're here, let's go." said Ant as they started to ascend the mountain by bike.
Pb cautiously peeped out from behind the Tardis door. Behind him, Dan was still inside the computer program and safely tucked away in a small corner under a coatrack. Ant and FM were argueing over what they should do to er..no when they caught up with him.
"We should kill him straight away," shouted FM, "I mean, look at our success rate so far, Grix has eluded us after his clever disguise and then we tried to capture Sniper and he's still running around somewhere with a melted N-chip in his brain. So how many of these criminal faulty N-chip weirdos have we captured? None whatsoever."
"Ah," argued Ant. "But we still haven't found out who was behind the demise of the Nintendo company or who planted the faulty N-chips to gain control of people's minds. The only evidence we have so far is that a large company took the factory over and this statue of the deer and the lawsuits. I believe that the lawsuits are libel papers, but it doesn't help me at all."
"Stag." shouted pb across the room. He had come back in after looking for the mysterious shadow that he had seen earlier and was watching Ant wave the statue about.
"There's no need to be so rude!" said an indignant Ant.
"No." replied pb. "The statue, it's a Stag, not a deer. I looked it up on the computer. It comes from the 'Libel Stag' law firm, they apparently were the company that represented the prosucution against Nintendo during their court case."
Ant looked thoughtful for a moment, the name Libel Stag rang a big bell and he couldn't figure out why. The gang decided to continue their search for er..no in the morning, pb was not keen on going back out at night for some reason and they all needed some sleep. They shut the Tardis door and all went to bed.
Separately of course.
The gang started off early in the morning, they reached the foot of the mountain in about two hours. FM got off of the BMX bikes they had hired to get there and looked up at the circling birds.
"Well, here goes. I don't expect anyone's expecting to get to the top without anything happening?"
"Not much choice, now we're here, let's go." said Ant as they started to ascend the mountain by bike.
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