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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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They all got into the tardis.
"Well. What now?" FM asked.
"Well, how about we get out of this cartoon world?" Ant said.
"I suppose we wait for Dan to finish." pb replied.
They all sat there for a few minutes.
"Do we all realize that we're sitting in the middle of road?" Ant asked.
"Huh? Yeah yeah." was pb's tired reply.
"Oh....right."
Ant looked behind him, and saw a huge truck coming towards them.
"Oh dear." Ant sighed, and prepared himself for the blow.
The truck smashed into them.
Ant and the others felt a little pain, but they certainly weren't dead.
Instead, they were lying on the ground, completely flattened. Just like in cartoons.
"Hey, this cartoon world might not be so bad after all!"
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Meanwhile...
Grix was lying on the floor, asleep.
He woke up, "Oh, am I meant to be doing something evil?? Sorry."
Grix stood up, and laughed his evil laugh, "HA HA HA HA HA!!"
When he'd finished, he layed back down, and went to sleep.
"Well. What now?" FM asked.
"Well, how about we get out of this cartoon world?" Ant said.
"I suppose we wait for Dan to finish." pb replied.
They all sat there for a few minutes.
"Do we all realize that we're sitting in the middle of road?" Ant asked.
"Huh? Yeah yeah." was pb's tired reply.
"Oh....right."
Ant looked behind him, and saw a huge truck coming towards them.
"Oh dear." Ant sighed, and prepared himself for the blow.
The truck smashed into them.
Ant and the others felt a little pain, but they certainly weren't dead.
Instead, they were lying on the ground, completely flattened. Just like in cartoons.
"Hey, this cartoon world might not be so bad after all!"
_______________________
Meanwhile...
Grix was lying on the floor, asleep.
He woke up, "Oh, am I meant to be doing something evil?? Sorry."
Grix stood up, and laughed his evil laugh, "HA HA HA HA HA!!"
When he'd finished, he layed back down, and went to sleep.
"Do you think we can get a TV picture on this?" Asked FM, looking at Dan_UKs current form.
They stood in their cell in the cartoon world, waiting to hear excactly what they'd done to deserve this. Ant rubbed his chin for a while and suddenly his eyes sparkled.
"I know, I've seen this done in cartoons before, watch...." Ant breathed in until he was completely flat, then just walked casually sideways through the bars. Everyone else followed, except for Dan, who was still inside the monitor and had no awareness of the current situation.
"How do we get him out?" asked pb, pointing at Dan.
"Ah," replied Ant, "Just pull!"
They pulled the TV stand and with a strange stretching noise it changed shape to accomadate the prison bars as it went through them, then snapped back into it's original shape on the other side.
"Come on, we need to get out of here fast." said FM as they rushed past the sleeping form of Chief Wiggum and into the bright light of the cartoon world.
"This is just like 'who framed Roger Rabbit', only weirder!" said an out of breath Ant as they ran back to where the Tardis had been.
They stood in their cell in the cartoon world, waiting to hear excactly what they'd done to deserve this. Ant rubbed his chin for a while and suddenly his eyes sparkled.
"I know, I've seen this done in cartoons before, watch...." Ant breathed in until he was completely flat, then just walked casually sideways through the bars. Everyone else followed, except for Dan, who was still inside the monitor and had no awareness of the current situation.
"How do we get him out?" asked pb, pointing at Dan.
"Ah," replied Ant, "Just pull!"
They pulled the TV stand and with a strange stretching noise it changed shape to accomadate the prison bars as it went through them, then snapped back into it's original shape on the other side.
"Come on, we need to get out of here fast." said FM as they rushed past the sleeping form of Chief Wiggum and into the bright light of the cartoon world.
"This is just like 'who framed Roger Rabbit', only weirder!" said an out of breath Ant as they ran back to where the Tardis had been.
Inside the N - Chip, Dan_uk found himself in a street. Looking around and saw an eletrical storm over a large building.
Probelm found, time to solve it. Running at superhuman speed that his physical self wouldn't couldn't manage with, he went to the buildings entrance. It was crowded so he climbed onto the roof of an adjacent building and jumped onto the building under the electrical storm.
He needed to solve a problem inside the building so he jumped through a window that had been conveniently left open.
Probelm found, time to solve it. Running at superhuman speed that his physical self wouldn't couldn't manage with, he went to the buildings entrance. It was crowded so he climbed onto the roof of an adjacent building and jumped onto the building under the electrical storm.
He needed to solve a problem inside the building so he jumped through a window that had been conveniently left open.
And so they were loaded into the police car. As they left, they heard a voice where they had been.
"Allright!" it said
"I got me a Tardis!"
"Allright!" it said
"I got me a Tardis!"
'D'Oh' said Homer as a pig flew past.....
The tardis landed with a thump.
A quick glance out of the window revealed that our heroes had landed somewhere quite unlike anywhere thay had previously been. They were in a cartoon world!
Suddenly there was a crash, as the door was broken down. In walked 3 men, policemen my the look of them, though one of them was rather corpulent.
"Boys take a look in those boxes" Said the rather chunky police officer.
"Chief Wiggum, look!" Exclaimed one of the other officers, as he tilted to box to show Chief Wiggum the contents.
"Conterfeit Jeans! When will you ever learn? Cuff 'em boys" Said Wiggum.
The police officers rounded up the gang and put on the handcuffs with a *click*
A quick glance out of the window revealed that our heroes had landed somewhere quite unlike anywhere thay had previously been. They were in a cartoon world!
Suddenly there was a crash, as the door was broken down. In walked 3 men, policemen my the look of them, though one of them was rather corpulent.
"Boys take a look in those boxes" Said the rather chunky police officer.
"Chief Wiggum, look!" Exclaimed one of the other officers, as he tilted to box to show Chief Wiggum the contents.
"Conterfeit Jeans! When will you ever learn? Cuff 'em boys" Said Wiggum.
The police officers rounded up the gang and put on the handcuffs with a *click*
"I'm bored" said Ant "What was it we were supposed to be doing?"
"Can't really remember" said pb.
"Well in that case I think I'm going to go drown myself in curry!" Cried Ant.
"Isn't that a bit Madras-tic" chuckled FantasyMeister.
"Can't really remember" said pb.
"Well in that case I think I'm going to go drown myself in curry!" Cried Ant.
"Isn't that a bit Madras-tic" chuckled FantasyMeister.
Grix Thraves wrote:
> Hang on everybody.
I'm trying to post, but SR won't let me. And I
> have no idea why.
Have you SEEN some of the stuff you've been posting recently, Grix? And you still wonder WHY?
:-)
> Hang on everybody.
I'm trying to post, but SR won't let me. And I
> have no idea why.
Have you SEEN some of the stuff you've been posting recently, Grix? And you still wonder WHY?
:-)
They turned round. There was edgy, having regained consciousness. He was looking kind of sheepishly at the Smith & Weston service reolver he held in his hand. They don't make em like they used to, hence why pb had one in his tardis in the first place.
He pulled the trigger again. Another click, followed by some embarrased mumbling. Ant seized the moment and dived headlong towards edgy, but edgy was too fast and jumped back out of the tardis, throwing the gun down as he did so.
The gun went off as it hit the floor, the bullet narrowly missing FM's foot and embedding itself deep in the control console. Sparks flew and the tardis hummed into life, sending them to an unknown point in time and space.......
He pulled the trigger again. Another click, followed by some embarrased mumbling. Ant seized the moment and dived headlong towards edgy, but edgy was too fast and jumped back out of the tardis, throwing the gun down as he did so.
The gun went off as it hit the floor, the bullet narrowly missing FM's foot and embedding itself deep in the control console. Sparks flew and the tardis hummed into life, sending them to an unknown point in time and space.......
They stood there for about an hour and a half while watching re-runs of baywatch 2092 and some seriously dodgy 70's porn before giving up.
"We may miss something important if we stop watching." said FM
"well," said Ant. "There's a box that looks like a digital recorder there, I guess we could try to use that to tape the rest of the dreams. Oh, and don't say anything to Dan about those *ahem* dreams he's had."
"We could also use this TV trolley and portable battery backup to wheel him around. We'll need to get his body back to the Tardis to try and get it ready. If we can get it ready." FM said as he looked at the charred remains of Dan_Uk's physical self.
Pb and FM lifted the equipment onto the trolley, Dan_uk's dreams still continued to run on the screen. They were about to leave when the heard a noise behind them. It went *click*
"We may miss something important if we stop watching." said FM
"well," said Ant. "There's a box that looks like a digital recorder there, I guess we could try to use that to tape the rest of the dreams. Oh, and don't say anything to Dan about those *ahem* dreams he's had."
"We could also use this TV trolley and portable battery backup to wheel him around. We'll need to get his body back to the Tardis to try and get it ready. If we can get it ready." FM said as he looked at the charred remains of Dan_Uk's physical self.
Pb and FM lifted the equipment onto the trolley, Dan_uk's dreams still continued to run on the screen. They were about to leave when the heard a noise behind them. It went *click*
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