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SNIPER was bored. So what if monsters had begun attacking the city again? There was nothing he could do about it. If those other stupid idiots he sometimes called his friends wanted to try to stop them, let them. He didn't want to go looking for any stupid sword.
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"So where the hell has SNIPER gone now?" asked Your Honour, turning to the other members of the party.
Grix shrugged, there were much bigger things to worry about than the whereabouts of SNIPER.
Ant however had seen SNIPER disappear, so decided to speak up "Well, he said we were a bunch of stupid morons trying to find this sword, and went off that way." Ant pointed towards a meadow.
"Well if he doesn't care about our homes being destroyed and us being enslaved then so be it. I do, and I vow to find the Sword of Nogard, and slay those foul beasts that attack our homes!" Cried Your Honour, and the three of them set off into the forest.
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SNIPER continued to wander through the meadow, it was a beautiful day, the suns were bright and the sky clear. Walking through the waist high grass amongst the butterfly was something that always helped to cheer SNIPER up. Maybe he should catch up with his friends he thought, and he too headed for the forest.
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pb marched up to FantasyMeister. "You can't keep sending our men out to die! We only have limited resources, and cannot fight them out there in the fields!"
"Then what would you suggest pb, letting those beasts inside our city walls, letting them slaughter our wives and feed on our children?" Replied FM looking down on pb.
"But we cannot hold out forever. We need help!" said pb shaking his head, as he walked away.
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SNIPER's mood had again changed for the worse. Where were those stupid idiots now? SNIPER looked round to see something catching the light in a clearing nearby. Maybe it was his friends! He ran into the clearing.
Moments later he realised that it was not his friends in the clearing, but something much more special. Stuck in the ground was a sword. The sword of Nogard! As SNIPER approached it he suddenly felt a chill in the air. The skies had clouded over, and the wind had picked up to such an extent that the trees creaked. If SNIPER could retrieve the sword, he would be a hero! No more would he be laughed at!
SNIPER grabbed the sword and pulled with all of his might. He could feel the first drops of a violent rain storm lash against his face. Still he pulled on the sword, until it gave up it's hold on the ground. SNIPER could feel great power within him as he held it.
He held it toward the skies as a sign of victory.
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Grix didn't like this change in the weather. Not one bit. Why had it changed so suddenly? He could feel something strange in the air. "That way!" He cried, pointing towards a clearing nearby as thunder crashed in his ears and lightning lit up the skies.
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"Aaaarghhhh!" Cried SNIPER as he was thrown to the ground. A lightning bolt had struck the sword and flowed through his body.
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Your Honour was the first into the clearing. "It's SNIPER" he said, "Or at least it was...." he said, looking at the charred remains of his former companion.
"It looks as if we weren't the first at the scene" Said Ant, pointing towards some footprints leading out of the clearing. Next to these was a strange track, much like that that would be left be a sword, being dragged through grass........
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"So where the hell has SNIPER gone now?" asked Your Honour, turning to the other members of the party.
Grix shrugged, there were much bigger things to worry about than the whereabouts of SNIPER.
Ant however had seen SNIPER disappear, so decided to speak up "Well, he said we were a bunch of stupid morons trying to find this sword, and went off that way." Ant pointed towards a meadow.
"Well if he doesn't care about our homes being destroyed and us being enslaved then so be it. I do, and I vow to find the Sword of Nogard, and slay those foul beasts that attack our homes!" Cried Your Honour, and the three of them set off into the forest.
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SNIPER continued to wander through the meadow, it was a beautiful day, the suns were bright and the sky clear. Walking through the waist high grass amongst the butterfly was something that always helped to cheer SNIPER up. Maybe he should catch up with his friends he thought, and he too headed for the forest.
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pb marched up to FantasyMeister. "You can't keep sending our men out to die! We only have limited resources, and cannot fight them out there in the fields!"
"Then what would you suggest pb, letting those beasts inside our city walls, letting them slaughter our wives and feed on our children?" Replied FM looking down on pb.
"But we cannot hold out forever. We need help!" said pb shaking his head, as he walked away.
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SNIPER's mood had again changed for the worse. Where were those stupid idiots now? SNIPER looked round to see something catching the light in a clearing nearby. Maybe it was his friends! He ran into the clearing.
Moments later he realised that it was not his friends in the clearing, but something much more special. Stuck in the ground was a sword. The sword of Nogard! As SNIPER approached it he suddenly felt a chill in the air. The skies had clouded over, and the wind had picked up to such an extent that the trees creaked. If SNIPER could retrieve the sword, he would be a hero! No more would he be laughed at!
SNIPER grabbed the sword and pulled with all of his might. He could feel the first drops of a violent rain storm lash against his face. Still he pulled on the sword, until it gave up it's hold on the ground. SNIPER could feel great power within him as he held it.
He held it toward the skies as a sign of victory.
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Grix didn't like this change in the weather. Not one bit. Why had it changed so suddenly? He could feel something strange in the air. "That way!" He cried, pointing towards a clearing nearby as thunder crashed in his ears and lightning lit up the skies.
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"Aaaarghhhh!" Cried SNIPER as he was thrown to the ground. A lightning bolt had struck the sword and flowed through his body.
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Your Honour was the first into the clearing. "It's SNIPER" he said, "Or at least it was...." he said, looking at the charred remains of his former companion.
"It looks as if we weren't the first at the scene" Said Ant, pointing towards some footprints leading out of the clearing. Next to these was a strange track, much like that that would be left be a sword, being dragged through grass........
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"Ok... I'll choose..."
Grix ran away.
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Dan looked
"What? Where's he gone?"
Then, the monitors faded away.
As did all the surroundings...
"Oh yes..." Thought Dan. "If the plot gets reset... and it goes BEFORE any of this happened..."
Dan popped out of existance.
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Darkness.
"Damn!" Meka adjusted himself from the fall. "Grix! Did you press the reset button again!"
"...Yes."
"I am really going to hit you if I find you."
Meka swung out at the crowd. M-16 recieved a right hook to his chin.
Before long, they were all laying half beat up.
"Grix... PLEASE. Don't press the reset button again."
"Alright... but only if I don't get confused again."
"Confused! You're the one coming up with all the damn sub plots!" Dan_Uk shouted...
"But at least mine made sense!" Grix counted...
Now the group laid, fully, beaten up.
Grix nursed Joanna. If ANYONE got that joke, they deserve another medal.
And once again...
*ping*
They all followed the sign... hoping perhaps that someone would try and follow the plot this time...
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"We can't let him get above 88mph!" Shouted Meka, who suddenly remebered some details about Back To The Future.
YH gunned the throtle, tried to get ahead of the Sniper clone in the Delorean. Unfortunately the bad traffic made this extremely difficult. Luckily, this also made it hard for the Clone In The Delorean (as he shall now be known), to get above 88mph himself.
The Delorean was weaving through the traffic, using all of the moves from great car chases to try and evade his persuers. Again, like all car chases in the films, the bad guy has to make a bad error and crash into something like a telegraph pole or tree.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
The Delorean was speeding round the corner, tyres sqealing, the taxi close behind. YH was glad he'd played M:SR a lot, he was also the glad the city he was driving round seemed almost identical to London.
The Clone In The Delorean had a perfect idea of where he was going. Straight to the fair ground. He was speeding through all the traffic faster than a strong curry through an inexperienced bowel. YH was trying his best to keep up, but the Clone was too fast.
The Delorean disappeared round the corner, then there was a huge BANG! (Well not quite, but it's the best word the author can think of that sounds like a car hitting a tree.).
The taxi rounded the corner just a few seconds later to see the Clone getting out of the wreckage and running off through the fairground. Everyone jumped out of the taxi, YH, Meka and whoever else started to run after the Clone.
The chase lasted for a long while, but the Clone had finally found his way to his destination. The Ghost Train. Without hesitation, the Clone jumped on the next empty car and entered the ride. His persuers wasted no time in climbing in cars behind.
The ride began, the goodies could see the Clone crouching in the car ahead of them. Suddenly there was a flash of bright light......
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Meka was lying on the floor, his head hurt. He ached all over. He opened his eyes to see a pair of boots in front of his nose. The boots moved away slowly, then back again quickly, kicking him in the stomach. He curled up, trying to protect himself. He dimly heard a voice in th background. The foot stopped the kicking. Meka looked around. He could see Sniper's. Hundreds of them. all lined up, like an army.........
Meka grinned to himself... so far, so good.
Grix ran away.
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Dan looked
"What? Where's he gone?"
Then, the monitors faded away.
As did all the surroundings...
"Oh yes..." Thought Dan. "If the plot gets reset... and it goes BEFORE any of this happened..."
Dan popped out of existance.
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Darkness.
"Damn!" Meka adjusted himself from the fall. "Grix! Did you press the reset button again!"
"...Yes."
"I am really going to hit you if I find you."
Meka swung out at the crowd. M-16 recieved a right hook to his chin.
Before long, they were all laying half beat up.
"Grix... PLEASE. Don't press the reset button again."
"Alright... but only if I don't get confused again."
"Confused! You're the one coming up with all the damn sub plots!" Dan_Uk shouted...
"But at least mine made sense!" Grix counted...
Now the group laid, fully, beaten up.
Grix nursed Joanna. If ANYONE got that joke, they deserve another medal.
And once again...
*ping*
They all followed the sign... hoping perhaps that someone would try and follow the plot this time...
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"We can't let him get above 88mph!" Shouted Meka, who suddenly remebered some details about Back To The Future.
YH gunned the throtle, tried to get ahead of the Sniper clone in the Delorean. Unfortunately the bad traffic made this extremely difficult. Luckily, this also made it hard for the Clone In The Delorean (as he shall now be known), to get above 88mph himself.
The Delorean was weaving through the traffic, using all of the moves from great car chases to try and evade his persuers. Again, like all car chases in the films, the bad guy has to make a bad error and crash into something like a telegraph pole or tree.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
The Delorean was speeding round the corner, tyres sqealing, the taxi close behind. YH was glad he'd played M:SR a lot, he was also the glad the city he was driving round seemed almost identical to London.
The Clone In The Delorean had a perfect idea of where he was going. Straight to the fair ground. He was speeding through all the traffic faster than a strong curry through an inexperienced bowel. YH was trying his best to keep up, but the Clone was too fast.
The Delorean disappeared round the corner, then there was a huge BANG! (Well not quite, but it's the best word the author can think of that sounds like a car hitting a tree.).
The taxi rounded the corner just a few seconds later to see the Clone getting out of the wreckage and running off through the fairground. Everyone jumped out of the taxi, YH, Meka and whoever else started to run after the Clone.
The chase lasted for a long while, but the Clone had finally found his way to his destination. The Ghost Train. Without hesitation, the Clone jumped on the next empty car and entered the ride. His persuers wasted no time in climbing in cars behind.
The ride began, the goodies could see the Clone crouching in the car ahead of them. Suddenly there was a flash of bright light......
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Meka was lying on the floor, his head hurt. He ached all over. He opened his eyes to see a pair of boots in front of his nose. The boots moved away slowly, then back again quickly, kicking him in the stomach. He curled up, trying to protect himself. He dimly heard a voice in th background. The foot stopped the kicking. Meka looked around. He could see Sniper's. Hundreds of them. all lined up, like an army.........
Meka grinned to himself... so far, so good.
"Hey Grix, are you alright?" asked Meka
"What? I just had the weirdest dream, about computers and things."
"You passed out as we walked through to the doorway to the plotline when it made sense, and wasn't absurdly complicated."
"I did? So I imagined what just happened? Oh. That's okay then. So where did it take us?"
"You'll never guess what part of the story the Gods have chosen. It's ...."
"What? I just had the weirdest dream, about computers and things."
"You passed out as we walked through to the doorway to the plotline when it made sense, and wasn't absurdly complicated."
"I did? So I imagined what just happened? Oh. That's okay then. So where did it take us?"
"You'll never guess what part of the story the Gods have chosen. It's ...."
Dan uk stared at the monitor in disbelief!
Grix had finally had his chance to boot the Overlord from his mind so he could be free and made mess of it. What's more, he'd managed to make Sniper crash the entire network shutting the entire thing down.
Now Dan uk would have to reload it while the whole gang's minds were stuck inside the mainframe. Fortunately, all the overlords hackers had been cut off.
Now if Grix could disable the overlord for a while while Dan re loaded the program then everyone could be brought back and the Overlord would be stuck on the hardrive alone. After that he could erase it completely, hopefully destroying the Overlord once and for all.
As the game loaded he instantly brought back everyone else from inside the game. It wouldn't do if the Overlord clung himself onto one of them once Grix had free himself of him.
FM, Dan2K1, Ant, Meka, Your Honour, Sniper and all the rest woke up in their chair as Dan uk took them from within the game.
Next, Dan uk programmed an environment for Grix to fight the overlord in. He wondered what sort of environment would suit him...
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Grix stared at the sign. Everyone else had walked through it but as he tried to follow them, it wouldn't let him. He was being blocked by an invisible force. The sign shortly disappeared. He was left alone...
The darkness started changing. He heard a voice echoeing around...
"Grix, we all know that you really don't want to fight the Overlord right now but so long as he's attacked to your mind, there's no other way."
It was Dan uk.
"Now I'm programming in an environment for you to fight the Overlord in. You'll have to choose which one suits you best...
Stop wimpering about not wanting the main part. You should have thought about it before you jumped into that cartrige! Just beat him and then you can call it a day and go back to that Swordspines office...
Yes, you can have that new coffee machine just beat the overlord..."
Grix sighed. He'd have to finish this one on one. Now which back ground to choose?
A field loaded up.
Nope, too spacey.
It morphed into a space station.
Not enough gravity.
He suddenly found himself on a bridge.
No room for manouvering.
"Come on Grix, we haven't got all year. Just tell me what background you want!"
"Okay," Grix said "I'll choose..."
Grix had finally had his chance to boot the Overlord from his mind so he could be free and made mess of it. What's more, he'd managed to make Sniper crash the entire network shutting the entire thing down.
Now Dan uk would have to reload it while the whole gang's minds were stuck inside the mainframe. Fortunately, all the overlords hackers had been cut off.
Now if Grix could disable the overlord for a while while Dan re loaded the program then everyone could be brought back and the Overlord would be stuck on the hardrive alone. After that he could erase it completely, hopefully destroying the Overlord once and for all.
As the game loaded he instantly brought back everyone else from inside the game. It wouldn't do if the Overlord clung himself onto one of them once Grix had free himself of him.
FM, Dan2K1, Ant, Meka, Your Honour, Sniper and all the rest woke up in their chair as Dan uk took them from within the game.
Next, Dan uk programmed an environment for Grix to fight the overlord in. He wondered what sort of environment would suit him...
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Grix stared at the sign. Everyone else had walked through it but as he tried to follow them, it wouldn't let him. He was being blocked by an invisible force. The sign shortly disappeared. He was left alone...
The darkness started changing. He heard a voice echoeing around...
"Grix, we all know that you really don't want to fight the Overlord right now but so long as he's attacked to your mind, there's no other way."
It was Dan uk.
"Now I'm programming in an environment for you to fight the Overlord in. You'll have to choose which one suits you best...
Stop wimpering about not wanting the main part. You should have thought about it before you jumped into that cartrige! Just beat him and then you can call it a day and go back to that Swordspines office...
Yes, you can have that new coffee machine just beat the overlord..."
Grix sighed. He'd have to finish this one on one. Now which back ground to choose?
A field loaded up.
Nope, too spacey.
It morphed into a space station.
Not enough gravity.
He suddenly found himself on a bridge.
No room for manouvering.
"Come on Grix, we haven't got all year. Just tell me what background you want!"
"Okay," Grix said "I'll choose..."
"Argghhhh!"
Someone threw Grix a sword... he tried to bring it up... but it was too heavy.
The Overlord, God knows how he got in the field... remember? The campsite where Sheepy entered Grix's head? That's where they were.
Or were they in the Ghost Train?
Grix felt the sword in his hands... this was wrong! He wasn't supposed to kill the Overlord!
Meka and Venombyte cheered from the side...
The Overlord bought his sword down. Grix jumped out the way, narrowly missing him.
"Go on Grix, chop his head off!"
Grix held the sword in both hands. "But I don't want to be the main character!"
"Go on! You can do it!"
The Overlord bought his sword around again...
And chopped Grix's arm off.
"Arghhhhh!" Grix's arm plopped to the floor.
"Ok Grix... you've lost. Give me your brain."
"It is mearly a flesh wound... let us continue!"
Grix tried to lift the sword with his one arm...
Until the Overlord chopped it off.
"Ggggtttaaaahhh!"
The Overlord held his sword in the air...
And Grix started to kick him.
"Take that you git! Die! Die in hell!"
The Overlord swung his sword around, and cut both Grix's legs off.
"Come here you git! I'll bite your legs off!"
Meka and Venombyte looked at eachother...
Fm, Venombyte, and all the rest of the characters ran up to the campsite...
"Hey? What's going on!"
The Overlord's arms raised, and lightning fired from his fingers...
Venombyte was hit, and landed in a charred pulp.
"He's..." Fm stood at his side... "He's dead!"
More lightning came from the Overlord's hands.
Fm fell...
"Meka!!" Grix shouted... "The reset button!"
Meka looked around... the reset button...
It was in Venombytes hand. He picked ut up...
The Overlord fired more lightning...
Meka fell to the ground, dead.
"PB!"
Pb, wearing a long black leather overcoat and shades, ran towards the button...
In slow motion, Pb dodged and ducked the lightning... He did a cartwheel... and picked up the button...
He stopped, adjusted his hair...
And was fried.
The button dropped to the floor.
Grix tried rolling towards the button...
When... out of the distance...
"Sniper!"
"Yeah? What?"
"Press that button over there!"
"Where? What button?"
Grix tried to point.
"I can't point. Look, in the direction of my nose!!"
"Why have your limbs been cut off?"
"ARGHHHHH! SNIPER! JUST PRESS THE BUTTON!"
"Why?"
"SNIPEEERRR! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE UNLESS YOU PRESS THE BUTTON!!!"
"I'm not dead."
Grix tried to remain calm.
"SNIPPPPPPPEEEEEEEERRRRRR!"
"Oh... alright, calm down..."
Sniper, walked over to the button...
And lightning came from the Overlords hands...
Sniper pressed the button.
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Darkness.
"We spend a lot of time in darkness." Venombyte said.
Sniper fell from the skies, and landed on the black floor next to FM.
"Ah, hello."
Grix followed... as did all his limbs.
They all sat there for a while. Grix's limbs rejoined the body, and everyone was ok.
"What is this? Limbo? Are we all dead?"
"I pressed the button." Sniper said.
"Oh. So why haven't we started again?"
"I think it's trying to find a spot where the plot made sense."
They waited.
"It's taking its time."
"As I said. It's trying to fi..."
"Yes... we all got the joke Grix."
Still waiting.
Meka thought to himself, and tried to break the silence. "When will we know the God's have found a point?"
"No idea. Perhaps they'll give us a sign."
Ant spoke. "What, like: Walk this way?"
"No, don't be silly. More like a huge beam of light, or us just waking up, or something."
They waited again in pitch darkness.
"Err..."
Meka looked around... he couldn't see anything...
"Did someone just touch me?"
Silence.
"Hello?"
"We're all here."
"Who?"
"All of us."
"Who said that?"
"Me."
Pitch black. Silence.
"Has anyone got the pack of cards... or the sword? That could save a lot of time if it puts us before when we found the sword..."
"No, we haven't got the sword. But we know where it is, so we have the advantage."
"Have we got the cards?"
"They're in my pocket," Grix said. "I picked them up a while back."
"Shall we play a game then?" Ant asked.
They continued to wait in the pitch black.
Then... suddennly...
*parp*
"Oh God..."
The smell filled the darkness quickly...
"Who did that?"
A small giggle came from near them.
"Sniper? Was that you?"
"Why did you automatically assume it was me?"
"Well?"
"NO! It wasn't."
More giggling.
"Alright... it was me."
"Grix, you smelly git."
Grix laughed.
The smell cleared quickly. Darkness consumed them again.
"Don't we have a lighter or something?"
"No. Shut up."
Darkness.
And then... a sign appeared.
"Walk this way." An arrow pointed right.
Ant smiled at being right...
They all walked out, towards the sign... and found themselves...
Someone threw Grix a sword... he tried to bring it up... but it was too heavy.
The Overlord, God knows how he got in the field... remember? The campsite where Sheepy entered Grix's head? That's where they were.
Or were they in the Ghost Train?
Grix felt the sword in his hands... this was wrong! He wasn't supposed to kill the Overlord!
Meka and Venombyte cheered from the side...
The Overlord bought his sword down. Grix jumped out the way, narrowly missing him.
"Go on Grix, chop his head off!"
Grix held the sword in both hands. "But I don't want to be the main character!"
"Go on! You can do it!"
The Overlord bought his sword around again...
And chopped Grix's arm off.
"Arghhhhh!" Grix's arm plopped to the floor.
"Ok Grix... you've lost. Give me your brain."
"It is mearly a flesh wound... let us continue!"
Grix tried to lift the sword with his one arm...
Until the Overlord chopped it off.
"Ggggtttaaaahhh!"
The Overlord held his sword in the air...
And Grix started to kick him.
"Take that you git! Die! Die in hell!"
The Overlord swung his sword around, and cut both Grix's legs off.
"Come here you git! I'll bite your legs off!"
Meka and Venombyte looked at eachother...
Fm, Venombyte, and all the rest of the characters ran up to the campsite...
"Hey? What's going on!"
The Overlord's arms raised, and lightning fired from his fingers...
Venombyte was hit, and landed in a charred pulp.
"He's..." Fm stood at his side... "He's dead!"
More lightning came from the Overlord's hands.
Fm fell...
"Meka!!" Grix shouted... "The reset button!"
Meka looked around... the reset button...
It was in Venombytes hand. He picked ut up...
The Overlord fired more lightning...
Meka fell to the ground, dead.
"PB!"
Pb, wearing a long black leather overcoat and shades, ran towards the button...
In slow motion, Pb dodged and ducked the lightning... He did a cartwheel... and picked up the button...
He stopped, adjusted his hair...
And was fried.
The button dropped to the floor.
Grix tried rolling towards the button...
When... out of the distance...
"Sniper!"
"Yeah? What?"
"Press that button over there!"
"Where? What button?"
Grix tried to point.
"I can't point. Look, in the direction of my nose!!"
"Why have your limbs been cut off?"
"ARGHHHHH! SNIPER! JUST PRESS THE BUTTON!"
"Why?"
"SNIPEEERRR! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE UNLESS YOU PRESS THE BUTTON!!!"
"I'm not dead."
Grix tried to remain calm.
"SNIPPPPPPPEEEEEEEERRRRRR!"
"Oh... alright, calm down..."
Sniper, walked over to the button...
And lightning came from the Overlords hands...
Sniper pressed the button.
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Darkness.
"We spend a lot of time in darkness." Venombyte said.
Sniper fell from the skies, and landed on the black floor next to FM.
"Ah, hello."
Grix followed... as did all his limbs.
They all sat there for a while. Grix's limbs rejoined the body, and everyone was ok.
"What is this? Limbo? Are we all dead?"
"I pressed the button." Sniper said.
"Oh. So why haven't we started again?"
"I think it's trying to find a spot where the plot made sense."
They waited.
"It's taking its time."
"As I said. It's trying to fi..."
"Yes... we all got the joke Grix."
Still waiting.
Meka thought to himself, and tried to break the silence. "When will we know the God's have found a point?"
"No idea. Perhaps they'll give us a sign."
Ant spoke. "What, like: Walk this way?"
"No, don't be silly. More like a huge beam of light, or us just waking up, or something."
They waited again in pitch darkness.
"Err..."
Meka looked around... he couldn't see anything...
"Did someone just touch me?"
Silence.
"Hello?"
"We're all here."
"Who?"
"All of us."
"Who said that?"
"Me."
Pitch black. Silence.
"Has anyone got the pack of cards... or the sword? That could save a lot of time if it puts us before when we found the sword..."
"No, we haven't got the sword. But we know where it is, so we have the advantage."
"Have we got the cards?"
"They're in my pocket," Grix said. "I picked them up a while back."
"Shall we play a game then?" Ant asked.
They continued to wait in the pitch black.
Then... suddennly...
*parp*
"Oh God..."
The smell filled the darkness quickly...
"Who did that?"
A small giggle came from near them.
"Sniper? Was that you?"
"Why did you automatically assume it was me?"
"Well?"
"NO! It wasn't."
More giggling.
"Alright... it was me."
"Grix, you smelly git."
Grix laughed.
The smell cleared quickly. Darkness consumed them again.
"Don't we have a lighter or something?"
"No. Shut up."
Darkness.
And then... a sign appeared.
"Walk this way." An arrow pointed right.
Ant smiled at being right...
They all walked out, towards the sign... and found themselves...
DanDaGr8 stood still. Tamaral launched an attack. He charged up energy in his arm and fired a bolt. DanDaGr8 blocked it with the sword.
Tamaral lunged forward with his own sword. DanDaGr8 caught his arm and held him in the air for a second.
FM used the momentary break to shout a last threat to Tamaral.
"You are going to be so for it when mum and dad hear about this!"
And with that, DanDaGr8 cut the invisible connection over Tamarals head. Tamaral vanished.
"That quick disconnection is going to give his a headache for weeks." said a grinning FM
"What's more he'll be grounded for a further year, banned from the internet and made to visit the metal doctor 3 times a week now instead of just twice. He's done some crazy things in his time but helping the overlord really crossed the line."
DanDaGr8 handed the sword back to Sniper. As he let go, DanDaGr8 split back into the original 4 Dans.
Dan uk brushed his coat.
"Now just have to wait for Grix to deal with the overlord."
He walked to Dan2K1 "It's your shift as Dan now," he said "I'm disconnecting."
With that, he walked into Dan2K1 and disappeared. The other 2 Dan's followed suit leaving just Dan left.
It took a while for Dan2K1 to catch on...
The final fight between Grix and Overlord was going to be inside Grix's brain. None of them could see it from here. Dan uk could view it from the monitor now he was disconnected! Dan2K1 cursed! He'd miss the final showdown!
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Dan uk, Darkness and M16 waited for the needles to unplug themselves from their brains and got out of the chairs leaving Dan2K1 who was still logged into the network as Dan.
They got the popcorn out and looked at the monitor which displayed inside Grix's brain. Now was Grix's chance to fight off the overlord so he could be downloaded back to his body. The action was going to begin!
Tamaral lunged forward with his own sword. DanDaGr8 caught his arm and held him in the air for a second.
FM used the momentary break to shout a last threat to Tamaral.
"You are going to be so for it when mum and dad hear about this!"
And with that, DanDaGr8 cut the invisible connection over Tamarals head. Tamaral vanished.
"That quick disconnection is going to give his a headache for weeks." said a grinning FM
"What's more he'll be grounded for a further year, banned from the internet and made to visit the metal doctor 3 times a week now instead of just twice. He's done some crazy things in his time but helping the overlord really crossed the line."
DanDaGr8 handed the sword back to Sniper. As he let go, DanDaGr8 split back into the original 4 Dans.
Dan uk brushed his coat.
"Now just have to wait for Grix to deal with the overlord."
He walked to Dan2K1 "It's your shift as Dan now," he said "I'm disconnecting."
With that, he walked into Dan2K1 and disappeared. The other 2 Dan's followed suit leaving just Dan left.
It took a while for Dan2K1 to catch on...
The final fight between Grix and Overlord was going to be inside Grix's brain. None of them could see it from here. Dan uk could view it from the monitor now he was disconnected! Dan2K1 cursed! He'd miss the final showdown!
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Dan uk, Darkness and M16 waited for the needles to unplug themselves from their brains and got out of the chairs leaving Dan2K1 who was still logged into the network as Dan.
They got the popcorn out and looked at the monitor which displayed inside Grix's brain. Now was Grix's chance to fight off the overlord so he could be downloaded back to his body. The action was going to begin!
Grix tried to find something he could write about.
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"Oh. You're back."
Grix, bored with whatever the hell was going on with the Dan's and all, decided to pay his brain a visit.
"Yeah. I was bored."
"Actually, I was about to call you." Grix's brain walked over to Grix. "I'm worried about something."
Grix sat on a chair. His brain pulled on up to the table, and placed a sheet of paper on the table.
"What's that?"
"That's the plot of this story since two pages back." Grix's brain scanned the words with his finger.
"Oh yeah. I can't make head nor tail of it... oh. Hang on, request from Venombyte."
Grix's brain put down the paper, stood up, and walked up to the camera.
"This here, is all in Grix's head. He talks to his brain, me. When Grix needs to speak to me in person, I invite him into our mind. Our mind, instead of being the barren wasteland it used to, has evolved into some sort of western setting. Maybe because we were affected when we were put in the Megadrive cartridge."
Grix watched on.
"The megadrive cartridge was supposed to be the final fight, where Grix was fighting Bill Gates in some sort of f-ed up Street Fighter game. But when the Overlord started becoming far too dangerous, FM pulled out the Megadrive cartridge, killing both Grix and Bill."
"Later, Pb decided that the best thing they could do was to try and get his mind onto the Megadrive cartridge as well, to try to help Grix. FM and Venombyte came along for the ride too."
"After a really bad ending, where Grix killed the figment of his imagination that was trying to kill him, the three of them escaped to the outside, where they were transferred into their own bodies. We also learned that the person that Grix was fighting, the Preacher, wasn't Bill Gates as we all expected. He managed to escape into Grix's mind, where he was taken off, and stored somewhere by Sheepy."
Grix was beginning to realise why people were so scared of writing.
"Ok. So in the end, we all realised that we were definitly out of the cartridge, through a scientific process of "pinching yourself", and Sheepy saved Bill Gates' mind."
"NOW... in THIS story, Sheepy managed to get himself into Grix's mind, using a piece of cheese..."
"But wasn't Sheepy just killed... I mean... err... disconnected?"
"Apparently so." Grix's brain read through the script again. "There was this great plot line that Venombyte tried to start as well, some sort of Terminatoresque plot line envolving Sniper."
"What happened to that?"
"Ignored completely. Then, somehow, all these Dans appeared, and using a gun or sword or something, all joined together to form a newbie. And then FM's planetarion usernames started appearing."
"And apparently," Grix's brain added. "We're still in the cartridge."
"But I thought..."
"Don't think, just write."
Grix slouched in his chair. "So, is there anything we can do?"
"Not really... but..."
Grix's brain produced a small white plastic box from his pocket, and gave it to Grix.
Grix looked at it. It has a large red button on it, with the word "RESET" underneath it.
"Talk to Venombyte and Meka..."
"Where is Meka anyway?"
"He was being kicked around by the army of Snipers... and then, God knows. He appeared somewhere else, somehow."
Grix collapsed on the table.
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Grix woke up, still holding the small box in his hands...
Luckly, due to some unknown reason, Venombyte and Meka were near him.
Grix showed them the box. Venombyte took it, and Meka stood next to him...
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"Oh. You're back."
Grix, bored with whatever the hell was going on with the Dan's and all, decided to pay his brain a visit.
"Yeah. I was bored."
"Actually, I was about to call you." Grix's brain walked over to Grix. "I'm worried about something."
Grix sat on a chair. His brain pulled on up to the table, and placed a sheet of paper on the table.
"What's that?"
"That's the plot of this story since two pages back." Grix's brain scanned the words with his finger.
"Oh yeah. I can't make head nor tail of it... oh. Hang on, request from Venombyte."
Grix's brain put down the paper, stood up, and walked up to the camera.
"This here, is all in Grix's head. He talks to his brain, me. When Grix needs to speak to me in person, I invite him into our mind. Our mind, instead of being the barren wasteland it used to, has evolved into some sort of western setting. Maybe because we were affected when we were put in the Megadrive cartridge."
Grix watched on.
"The megadrive cartridge was supposed to be the final fight, where Grix was fighting Bill Gates in some sort of f-ed up Street Fighter game. But when the Overlord started becoming far too dangerous, FM pulled out the Megadrive cartridge, killing both Grix and Bill."
"Later, Pb decided that the best thing they could do was to try and get his mind onto the Megadrive cartridge as well, to try to help Grix. FM and Venombyte came along for the ride too."
"After a really bad ending, where Grix killed the figment of his imagination that was trying to kill him, the three of them escaped to the outside, where they were transferred into their own bodies. We also learned that the person that Grix was fighting, the Preacher, wasn't Bill Gates as we all expected. He managed to escape into Grix's mind, where he was taken off, and stored somewhere by Sheepy."
Grix was beginning to realise why people were so scared of writing.
"Ok. So in the end, we all realised that we were definitly out of the cartridge, through a scientific process of "pinching yourself", and Sheepy saved Bill Gates' mind."
"NOW... in THIS story, Sheepy managed to get himself into Grix's mind, using a piece of cheese..."
"But wasn't Sheepy just killed... I mean... err... disconnected?"
"Apparently so." Grix's brain read through the script again. "There was this great plot line that Venombyte tried to start as well, some sort of Terminatoresque plot line envolving Sniper."
"What happened to that?"
"Ignored completely. Then, somehow, all these Dans appeared, and using a gun or sword or something, all joined together to form a newbie. And then FM's planetarion usernames started appearing."
"And apparently," Grix's brain added. "We're still in the cartridge."
"But I thought..."
"Don't think, just write."
Grix slouched in his chair. "So, is there anything we can do?"
"Not really... but..."
Grix's brain produced a small white plastic box from his pocket, and gave it to Grix.
Grix looked at it. It has a large red button on it, with the word "RESET" underneath it.
"Talk to Venombyte and Meka..."
"Where is Meka anyway?"
"He was being kicked around by the army of Snipers... and then, God knows. He appeared somewhere else, somehow."
Grix collapsed on the table.
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Grix woke up, still holding the small box in his hands...
Luckly, due to some unknown reason, Venombyte and Meka were near him.
Grix showed them the box. Venombyte took it, and Meka stood next to him...
Sniper was slicing through his clones but it was no good. Millions more were just appearing out of nowhere!
He'd have to talk to Dan uk about the programming of this place, it had a really nasty glitch!
Then he saw Darth Sheepy. Was it him who had created the Snipers? He was directing them...
He cut through all the clones between him self and Sheepy. He charged Sheepy and cut through the middle of him. Although the sword went straight through Sheepy's stomach, nothing was cut. It was though the sword had passed through s ghost!
Sniper swung again. Sheepy ducked this time and the sword got stuck on something in mid air, string or something...
Sniper cut through it and prepared to swing at Sheepy again only Sheepy was now chocking as though his air supply had been cut off. He collapsed and his body faded. The other Snipers faded too. He was alone. He ran back to the gang, to find all of hem except Meka Dragon watching the fight.
"What the hell just happened?" Sniper gasped
"It looks to me like you cut his connection line to the network." Meka said "His mind has been cut off from this world and back to the read one. There's no doubt he's going to have a serious head ache when he wakes up and it'll serve him right for using those hacks and glitches to help the overlord."
Sniper shrugged. He'd finished with the sword now. He looked over to Dan uk.
"I've finished with the sword now Dan, catch."
He threw the sword in their direction but he'd forgotten to specify which Dan he had throw it too. They all jumped for it, each grabbing it with their free hand...
There was a crash, a flash of light. All 4 figures merged into one mass of light. An explosion rocked the ground. A large figure stood in the mist, twice the size of a normal human being and heavily built. The sword he was hold was like the one Sniper had thrown, only bigger and crackling with energy.
The mist cleared. The 4 Dans had disappeared. They had merged together with the sword to form:
DanDaGr8
He looked at Tamaral, sparks of energy flying off him. The Overlords servant looked back. The showdown was about to start.
He'd have to talk to Dan uk about the programming of this place, it had a really nasty glitch!
Then he saw Darth Sheepy. Was it him who had created the Snipers? He was directing them...
He cut through all the clones between him self and Sheepy. He charged Sheepy and cut through the middle of him. Although the sword went straight through Sheepy's stomach, nothing was cut. It was though the sword had passed through s ghost!
Sniper swung again. Sheepy ducked this time and the sword got stuck on something in mid air, string or something...
Sniper cut through it and prepared to swing at Sheepy again only Sheepy was now chocking as though his air supply had been cut off. He collapsed and his body faded. The other Snipers faded too. He was alone. He ran back to the gang, to find all of hem except Meka Dragon watching the fight.
"What the hell just happened?" Sniper gasped
"It looks to me like you cut his connection line to the network." Meka said "His mind has been cut off from this world and back to the read one. There's no doubt he's going to have a serious head ache when he wakes up and it'll serve him right for using those hacks and glitches to help the overlord."
Sniper shrugged. He'd finished with the sword now. He looked over to Dan uk.
"I've finished with the sword now Dan, catch."
He threw the sword in their direction but he'd forgotten to specify which Dan he had throw it too. They all jumped for it, each grabbing it with their free hand...
There was a crash, a flash of light. All 4 figures merged into one mass of light. An explosion rocked the ground. A large figure stood in the mist, twice the size of a normal human being and heavily built. The sword he was hold was like the one Sniper had thrown, only bigger and crackling with energy.
The mist cleared. The 4 Dans had disappeared. They had merged together with the sword to form:
DanDaGr8
He looked at Tamaral, sparks of energy flying off him. The Overlords servant looked back. The showdown was about to start.
Dan uk made a quick note to Venom to re read this page to find out what had happened to him (something for Venom to do in between counting taxes ;-) )
And continued with the other 3 Dans attacking Tamaral who still wasn't dying.
They'd managed to prevemt him from attacking so far but they were starting to grow tired and it was only a matter of time before one of them faltered.
The rest of the group suddenly came running onto the scene, thousands of Snipers behind them. Snipers eye widened, he picked up the Sword.
Dan uk, realising that his own crystal sword wouldn't do while fighting Tamaral called to Sniper,
"Can I borrow that sword once you've finished?"
"Sure" Sniper called back and leaving the rest to watch the fight between the 4 Dan's and Tamaral, he went to destroy his own clones.
In every story, Sniper died a thousand times. In this story, a thousand Snipers would die. He was going to see to it personally!
And continued with the other 3 Dans attacking Tamaral who still wasn't dying.
They'd managed to prevemt him from attacking so far but they were starting to grow tired and it was only a matter of time before one of them faltered.
The rest of the group suddenly came running onto the scene, thousands of Snipers behind them. Snipers eye widened, he picked up the Sword.
Dan uk, realising that his own crystal sword wouldn't do while fighting Tamaral called to Sniper,
"Can I borrow that sword once you've finished?"
"Sure" Sniper called back and leaving the rest to watch the fight between the 4 Dan's and Tamaral, he went to destroy his own clones.
In every story, Sniper died a thousand times. In this story, a thousand Snipers would die. He was going to see to it personally!
So.... pb, FM, Grix and the real Sniper were engaged in a confrontation with the forces of evil, somewhere in the fairground. Dan was there too.
"Hey Dan, where did you come from?" asked pb
"I'm not sure... I just seem to be here now."
"oh.."
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"Faster!" shoutes Ant. "We have to catch the sniper clone before he reaches 88 miles per hour!"
"No we don't" said Meka "We're in the ghost train now. You haven't been paying attention."
"Oh"
"Hey, where did Dan go?" asked Venombyte
"I don't know" replied YH "He just sort of.... doesn't seem to be here any more."
"Strange"
"Very"
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Sheepy had wandered away from the main group. They could probably deal with the forces of evil on their own, and then they could get on with the job in hand. In the mean time, it would be fun to have a go one one of the rides.
He walked up to the ghost train...
"Hey Dan, where did you come from?" asked pb
"I'm not sure... I just seem to be here now."
"oh.."
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"Faster!" shoutes Ant. "We have to catch the sniper clone before he reaches 88 miles per hour!"
"No we don't" said Meka "We're in the ghost train now. You haven't been paying attention."
"Oh"
"Hey, where did Dan go?" asked Venombyte
"I don't know" replied YH "He just sort of.... doesn't seem to be here any more."
"Strange"
"Very"
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Sheepy had wandered away from the main group. They could probably deal with the forces of evil on their own, and then they could get on with the job in hand. In the mean time, it would be fun to have a go one one of the rides.
He walked up to the ghost train...
The mist faded and the figure turned out to be...
"Tamaral?"
FM couldn't believe it!
"You're the Overlords servant"
Tamaral grinned "Indeed I am!"
Dan looked to FM "You know him?"
"Yes. 2 years after I was born my mother had twins. Laramat, my little sister and Tamaral, my younger brother. Laramat was an angel, perfect in every way, always thinking of other people. Tamaral on the other hand was a nuisance. Sometimes I thought he was possessed by the devil but I never thought he'd take things this far!"
"Either way he has 2 choices" growled Dan as he picked up his diamond sword, "Disconnect or we boot you!"
Tamaral grinned "Just try it!"
Dan closed his eyes. This is what he had prepared for. His body glowed, turned into a mass of light and split into 4 figures.
Dan uk of the Diamond Sword, Dan2K1 the Scoucerer, Dan of the M16 gun and Dan Buckly of the Cloak of Darkness.
They circled Tamaral. Darkness disappeared. He re appeared above Taramals head holding a black globe of energy which he thrust towards the overlords servant. As Tamaral recoiled from the hit, magic bullets pieced his armour penetrating his body underneath. Before he could recover, Dan2K1 had him caught in a net of purple beams, shot out of his staff. While Tamaral was trapped, Dan uk charged with the diamond sword, cutting off his head, his limbs and cutting his body in half.
The four stepped back as they all put their power together to produce an almight blast.
The blast shook the ground for miles, the ball of energy being atleast 10 metres in diameter. They waited for the smoke to clear. Tamaral was standing there, body intact and not showing any pain.
"I cut him to pieces" stammered Dan uk "I saw each limb come flying off but he's rebuilt himself!"
"He's used cheats and hacks!" muttered Grix.
The four Dans nodded. This one was going to be hard to beat!
"Tamaral?"
FM couldn't believe it!
"You're the Overlords servant"
Tamaral grinned "Indeed I am!"
Dan looked to FM "You know him?"
"Yes. 2 years after I was born my mother had twins. Laramat, my little sister and Tamaral, my younger brother. Laramat was an angel, perfect in every way, always thinking of other people. Tamaral on the other hand was a nuisance. Sometimes I thought he was possessed by the devil but I never thought he'd take things this far!"
"Either way he has 2 choices" growled Dan as he picked up his diamond sword, "Disconnect or we boot you!"
Tamaral grinned "Just try it!"
Dan closed his eyes. This is what he had prepared for. His body glowed, turned into a mass of light and split into 4 figures.
Dan uk of the Diamond Sword, Dan2K1 the Scoucerer, Dan of the M16 gun and Dan Buckly of the Cloak of Darkness.
They circled Tamaral. Darkness disappeared. He re appeared above Taramals head holding a black globe of energy which he thrust towards the overlords servant. As Tamaral recoiled from the hit, magic bullets pieced his armour penetrating his body underneath. Before he could recover, Dan2K1 had him caught in a net of purple beams, shot out of his staff. While Tamaral was trapped, Dan uk charged with the diamond sword, cutting off his head, his limbs and cutting his body in half.
The four stepped back as they all put their power together to produce an almight blast.
The blast shook the ground for miles, the ball of energy being atleast 10 metres in diameter. They waited for the smoke to clear. Tamaral was standing there, body intact and not showing any pain.
"I cut him to pieces" stammered Dan uk "I saw each limb come flying off but he's rebuilt himself!"
"He's used cheats and hacks!" muttered Grix.
The four Dans nodded. This one was going to be hard to beat!
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