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"A bleak, bleak future..."

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."

Only I'm not going to get wupped by 4 virus horsemen and be needing help. I'm going this one alone. Sorry everyone...

(Come on... everybody should know what this means...)

Ant talked as Dan_Uk slipped into his dreamworld... "Is there anything we can do Dan_Uk?"

"Watch... my dreams..."

Dan_UK fell asleep.

They all heard a voice from a nearby moniter.

"Look, while I'm trying to sort out what's inside the N-chips will you please, please, STOP MESSING WITH THE EQUIPTMENT!"

They looked to see Dan_uk on the moniter.
They could now see where he was and what he was up to.

"I'll be needing someone to hack into the mainframe to give me equiptment etc so don't go all rushing off to hunt down er - no. Sheesh! Those burns are going to seriously hurt when I wake up again in the real world! You'd better get some decent medication while I'm gone!"

Grix, still watching over the group, was starting to think there were too many people in this story. He solved this by triggering a power surge into the machine Dan was plugged into.

"What the hell happened there?" FM shouted after the smoke had cleared.

"Dan! Dan! Are you okay?" Ant said in a panic-stricken voice.

FM looked at the charred body of Dan
"I think that has to be the all time dumbest question I've ever heard." he said.

Just then, pb ran in
"Guys!" he exclaimed "The potion we gave sniper has had a serious side-effect - It's dissolved most of his head!"

"Is he okay?" FM asked

And as if by magic meka_dragon appeared.

"Man, is he good." Said Ant

"Yes, he's really, really, quite brilliant." Replied FantasyMeister.

"Would you like to join us on our mission? Go on, please!" Asked Dan_uk

"Sorry, can't right now, I'm doing the cabaret show on a cruise ship in half an hour, but maybe I'll see you later" Replied meka_dragon, quite flattered, but not really surprised.

And with that he was gone. Gone to sing the songs of years gone by, to the wealthy passengers, cruising eternally in the Bermuda Triangle.

Dan was still plugged in.

Ant had started humming the MGS end-mission tune, "Dum dum dum-dum-dum, dum-dum-DUM!! "Dum dum dum-dum-dum, dum-dum-DUM!! "Dum dum dum-dum-dum, dum-dum-DUM!!"Dum dum dum-dum-dum, dum-dum-DUM!!"Dum dum dum-dum-dum, dum-dum-DUM!!

"Shut up, Ant," FM said.

I'm posting next.

Ant read through the reports on Nintendo's recent history while Dan had plugged himself into the machine.

2055 Reports of chip malfunctions
2056 Nintendo company finally shut down, factory left alone.
2058 Mysterious corporation takes over dealings of N-Chip, witnesses see smoke rising from Nintendo HQ once again, but no official word is given.

"Worrying, very worrying" said Ant as he read what was known of the downfall of Nintendo.

Pb found an old NES lightgun and pocketed it for his retro collection. Unseen to the group, Grix watched their every move and chuckled to himself.

Do Grix alive?

Still, to make sure I don't ruin anything else, I'll just do "inside the N-chip" parts.

All I need is for you lot to not include Dan2k1 or the Microsoft Empire in the storyline (I have special parts for them)

You'll need to Grix alive too.

Do what you like to him but don't kill him!