Chapter:1 Enter the game
After long strenuous hours of shredding KS3’s hard worked on pictures and feeding the remaining shards to the fireplace the team returned to the base, wondering what was the point of this useless task other than annoying KS3. Cajun had, out of the want to be closer to the queen at all available moments, had decided he would join the knights. After attending the initiation ceremony, which consisted of being forced to put a box on your head, being painted blue and running around the room screaming after having one of your eyebrows burned off in a firey explosion, the group headed off to their bunks, weary of mind and body. Little did the group know the trouble they would soon face at the queen’s recent creation
Late in the night the knights were called to the table by the queen. Complaining and drowsy the team slowly arrived at the meeting.

“Yes my liege?” yawned Drako, the newly upgraded dragonlord.

“I have finished my latest creation!”

It was then that one thought crossed the minds of all the knights ‘Oh god.’

“What is is?” Stradlin asked hesitantly.

“The Virtualarotinator!” Mega announced dramatically as she presented what appeared to be a beaming tube from the starship enterprise taped to a TV screen plugged into a keyboard.

“The what?”

THE VIRTUALAROTINATOR!” she yelled, as if Simian hadn’t heard her the first time.

“We get that.” Soma said bluntly. “What’s it do?”

“It puts you in a video game!” Mega explained.

“I doubt it.”

“OH YEAH?!” Mega yelled and grabbed Stradlin, throwing him into the tube and pressing some random buttons on the keyboard. Stradlin suddenly disappeared in a flash of light and reappeared on the T.V screen in an odd looking digital world. “HA!” Mega squealed, delighted “ I told you it worked!”
“Okay Mega, we believe you.” Drako said camly, at risk of being thrown in the tube himself. “Now how do we get him out?”

“We…..I dunno.” Mega slapped her forehead.

'Perfect….”

“NO!” she shrieked “Bad! Very bad! If his life counter hits zero then he goes poof!”

“Your saying if he dies in the game he’s gone for good?” Soma asked, raising her eyebrow.

“EXACTLY!”

“Great…” Drako moaned “That fool wouln’t stand a chance on his own. Mega, can you send in the rest of us?”

“Sure…but how will we get you out?”

“Go find KS3 and Geo. You guys figure a way to reverse it while we take care of everything else.”

“Okay Drako….who’s first?!” she suddenly turned to a happy mood. All but Drako and Cajun backed away, not very eager to enter the world concocted by Mega''s oddly twisted mind.

“I’ll go first Mega.” Drako stepped into the tube, almost expecting to be suddenly vaporized for no particular reason.

“Me next!” Cajun whined, wanting better standing amont the knights.
Mega handed him a peice of headgear, a small eyedisplay snapped out as he placed it on "That's uplinked to the index of the game, it identifies enemies, items ect." Mega proceeded to press the random colorful buttons that decorated her keyboard once again and the same flash of light engulfed each of the knights in whatever order they decided to enter in.

Drako looked around this virtual world, an oddly empty expansive plain sat before them “Okay team, out prime concern here is surviving.” Drako had no intention of dying in a virtual wasteland and was ready to do everything in his power to prevent it.

Stradlin blinked “You mean we’re stuck here?”

“Yeah.” Drako answered plainly.

“And we’re counting on Mega, KS3, and Geo to find a way to get us out before anyone's life counter hits zero?” Gbleek asked.

“Yeah.” Drako nodded.

“We’re screwed.” Soma mumbled.

End first chapter.

Chapter 2:The Battle Begins

“So…..what do we do now?” asked the already bored of their situation, Cajun.

“Well, this is the entry point of the game so I’m sure if we walk for alittle bit we’ll find either, one, a town or two, a nest of enemies probably including an over the top-boss-monster.” Drako explained, agreeing with Cajun that simply standing in the middle of an open field wasn’t very entertaining, and so then began the adventure montage, which consisted of the group crossing fields, deserts, snowy mountains, and firey volcanos, while musically accompanied by the Indiana Jones theme song.

“Ugh, I can believe how long we’ve been walking.” Gbleek whined as he collapsed on the ground.

“I can’t believe Mega managed to put a field, a desert, a mountain, and a volcano all in the same one mile stretch.” Soma grumbled to herself.

“We’ll looks like there’s no town.” Drako said as he looked around the forest them around them. “But on the Brightside there’s no enemies either.”

“Then what are those?” Stradlin asked as he pointed at the figures emerging from the trees.

“Drako swirled to look at the figures, switching his eyepiece to scan them. The enemies before them looked to be nothing more than three lardge badgers with axes. Drako counslted the screen which labeled them out as ‘Badgers with axes’:100LP 0MP.

“Really? No better name than Badgers with axes? Oh well.” Drako grumbled “MB knights! Take them down.”

The team happily oblidged, drawing weapons and charging spells to destroy these odd weapon-weilding animals. One of the badgers charged at Gbleek, managing to land a hit before Gbleek thrust a dagger through it’s skull immediately draining it’s life points to zero. Gbleek stood back up as his life point counter dropped to 90.

“Ugh, stupid thing.” he grumbled to himself, remembering to mark down 'Badgers' under 'things I hate'
Stradlin smacked one badger across the head with his staff, knocking out 20 health while Soma finished it off with a quick lightning spell. Drako meanwhile downed the remaining with a broad swing from his sword.

“We’ll that wasn’t so hard.” Stradlin said cheerily.

“Tell him that….” Everyone stepped back as the unsuspecting Stradlin was knocked clear of his feet and into a neaby tree by what appeared to be he leader, as he was about twice the size of the fallen badgers and wielded a shining golden axe.

“Owwwww…” Stradlin groaned as he looked up and saw his counter go down by twenty “Not cool.” He said to himself as Drako gave the order to attack. Soma and Cajun immediately engaged the enemy as Gbleek dragged the injured Stradlin to safety. The large creature’s swings weren’t fast enough to hit the quick moving Cajun but the quick slices weren’t delivering very heavy damage to the beast. Drako summoned up some of the magic that came along with being a dragonlord and unleashed a energy blast, draining what life the boss monster had left.

Drako picked up the axe as it shrank to fit a size in which he could use it.

“Hmmm…Blinding Light of Destiny. Useful against undead. This may come in handy some day.” He turned to face the group. “Is everyone okay?”

“Minor damages but other than that none of us hit zero.” Some reported.

“Good.” Drako nodded “Come on, I think I know where the town is. We should be there by nightfall. “ he explained and tucked the axe away in the weapon storage program. “I have a feeling this will be more than we bargained for.”

End chapter.

Damage overview:
Drako:100LP
Soma:100LP
Cajun:100LP
Gbleek:90LP
Stradlin:80LP

Chapter 3:Danger revealed
The knights had soon arrived at a nearby town, taking time to rest there for the night, it was a small town without much in the means of weapon dealers of any such thing, though Drako did manage to secure one healing potion for each of the team members. An upside to the game was that you didn’t have to sleep so the group simply sat around and talked until contact arrived from Mega, a hologram of the queen appearing in the game.
“Ah, my liege. How goes the extraction program?” Drako inquired.

“Well there’s good news and bad news….”

“What’s the good news?”

“The good news is I’ve got Ks3, Geo and we’re working on a way to get you guys out. I also got Brad for good measure.”

“Good….what’s the bad news?”

“The vital programs of the game are deteriorating. We only have a few days before the game itself is gone and you guys with it.”

“Perfect.” Drako groaned “Is there anything we can do about it?”

“Well….there are five different towers in the game that house several of the basic, vital pieces of data that hold the game together. If you can secure one of the towers then it might extend our time range, not sure for how long though.”

“I see….where can we find one of these towers?”

“The closest one is in the forest close to town. It’s not too far away but the scanner shows heavy enemy presense. It might be dangerous.”

“We don’t have much of a choice. If we don’t do it then we have no chance of getting out of here.”

“Right…well , We’ll offer any help we can from the outside.”

“Any good tips that might help us SURVIVE?” Soma asked.

“Ah, right. Well first off, I saw that energy blast of yours Drako. It’s all well and good for killing monsters but make sure to take it easy on the special attacks. I’ll upload the MP file for your health displays. If that MP bar hits zero and you keep using special attacks it will start draining your life points. That goes for all of you.”

“Understood.” Drako nodded “Anything else?”

“Yeah, I’ll upload a radar for you, it will show enemy presence in the area, as well as the location of your teammates.”

“Thanks Mega.”

“One more thing…with the game deteriorating you might come across some spots in the game that are just white sections of nothingness. Those are parts of the game that have been deleted. DO NOT touch those. If you do then your gone. Life automatically hits zero. Game over, no questions asked.”

“Greeeeeat.” Soma sighed.

“I’m sure you’ll do fine! Just don’t die and you’ll be fine!” Mega said cheerfully and the hologram vanished.

“Well THAT’S awefully reassuring.” Cajun blinked.

The group discussed among themselves what they would do now. Planning was going to be nessecary if they wanted to survive here. They eventually settled on heading off to retake the tower later in the night after they we’re properly supplied.
“I don’t know why but I’ve got a bad feeling about this.” Drako confessed to his second-in-command.

“You’re not alone there. Besides, we’re stuck in a video game world created by Mega. It’s kinda difficult to have a GOOD feeling about the place.”

“I suppose your right.” Drako chucked lightly “Think we’ll survive this?”

“As long as we have you and Mega to guide us and Gbleek doesn’t go on a rampage and try to slaughter us we’ll be just fine.”

“Yeah…..right….” Somehow, Soma’s words didn’t comfort him.

“This is gonna be a LONG night….” Drako sighed.

End chapter 3
Damage overview:
Drako:100/100LP MP:150/150
Soma:100/100LP MP:200/200
Cajun:100/100LP MP:50/50
Gbleek:100/100LP MP:40/40
Stradlin:100/100LP MP:100/100

Chapter 4:The forest tower

“Guys….you might wanna look at this….” Drako said quietly, it was clear this wasn’t good news. The team had taken up post a short distance from the tower and was formulating a plan. The team gathered around the team leader and looked at the radar display. The screen showed a force of almost three score enemies inhabiting the tower as well as the red skull indicating the boss monster.

“Holy ****!” Cajun cursed “How in the world are we supposed to handle THAT?!”

“I have an idea…but it will be risky.” Drako looked out at the tower “I’m the strongest fighter in the group so I’ll head out into the open by the tower and draw some of the enemies out. I’ll have Soma cover me with her long range spells from the trees. Once we cut down a few enemies they’ll probably send out a bigger force. Cajun, Gbleek, after we draw them out you two will sneak inside the tower and try to get to the data panel. That way you can activate the lock down program and keep the files safe while Soma, Stradlin and I hold off the enemies.”

“It sounds good….but those two woulnt have much time to get those files secure if you’re out there handling the major force of the enemies. Plus they might not send all of their units out.” Soma commented.

“Don’t worry, they’ll never know what hit them.” Cajun grinned.

“Focus.” Gbleek growled.

“So it’s decided.” Drako nodded “Gbleek, Cajun, get to positions.” Drako grabbed his sword off the ground and stood “Good luck to all of you.”
The knights all headed off to their individual positions, Cajun and Gbleek sneaking behind the tower with their Rogueish skills. Soma and Stradlin took up hiding in a tree overlooking Drako’s position in the open area outside of the tower. Drako himself looked up at the massive sturucture, not to exdcited to be the bait.

Meanwhile up in the tower a badger sentery spotted Drako.

“Hey! What that?” It grunted.

A fighter goblin jumped up on the window

“Lookie like a human.”

The two creatures raised an alarm and the gates to the tower creaked open as enemies started flowing from the open doors.

“Here we go.” Drako mumbled and hefted his sword, glancing back at Soma who was charging her spells in the trees.
About fifteen enemies where what first confronted Drako. It didn’t seem to be too difficult as it took little more than a few wide swings for Drako to down the clumsy troops. Then came the wave of twenty-five enemies, they had taken the bait. Drako readied himself for the oncoming battle, already downing three with a quick energy blast as Cajun and Gbleek slipped inside the tower.

“Alright, Drako’s gonna be fighting hard out there so let’s get going.” Cajun said and dashed up the stairs, Gbleek following soom after.
Fifty units had left the tower so far which left ten and the boss to confront the duo and to be honest, Cajun wasn’t worried. The program room wasn’t hard to find due to the map on the second floor stating ‘you are here.’ As they opened the door and saw what they guessed was the boss monter. A ten foot tall demonic chipmunk donning a spear and a red shirt with a giant yellow ‘A.’

“You’ve got to be kidding me.” Cajun blinked . “A giant Avlin the chipmunk?”

“NO! ME ALFIN!” it roared, stabbing Cajun with it’s spear, dealing 40 damage to his life.
“Die.” Gbleek said plainly, tossing several daggers at the beast before jumping up, stabbing the knife into is’s skull and sliding down Alfin’s back life a pirate using a knife to ride down a sail. Alvian fell ofer in defeat as Gbleek stashed away it’s spear and Cajun entered the lockdown code into the computer.

With the enemies slain the group took refuge in to tower to rest. Drako had taken heavy damage from the battle and Stradlin happened upon some paladin armor in the tower which he procceded to use for himself and retrieved the Shining Light of Destiny from weapon storage.

“Good job team.” Drako sighed. “Get some rest. Who knows what we’ll face tomarrow?”

End chapter 4.

Damage overview:
Drako:30/100LP MP:50/150
Soma:100/100LP MP:75 /200
Cajun:60/100LP MP:50/50
Gbleek:100/100LP MP:20/40
Stradlin:100/100LP MP:80/100

Chapter 5: Salvation and Doom

Deep inside Mega’s workshop, a mysterious place where mortals usually fear to tread Mega and her team worked desperately on a way to rematerialize their friends.

“Screwdriver!” Mega shouted, and held out her hand as Brad gave her the requested tool and began tinkering around with the project infront of her.

“TAPE!” Mega requested and was quickly given such.

“FORK!” Mega requested, upon receiving it she quickly finished and presented her creation.

“THE FORKDRIVER!!!” She yelled and held out what appeared to be the fork taped to the metal end of the screwdriver. “NOW WE CAN EAT LUNCH!”

“HOORAY!” everyone yelled as they ran off to eat.

While the team was off eating their lunch the the virtualarotinator suddenly activated, a vortex sucked in a inconviently placed Squid in a jar, action figure of Dr.Octapus, and a video copy of the laser collection , which knocked the control panel before being sucked into the game and shutting off the machine. The team soon returned from eating and Mega blinked as she looked at the newly displayed file on the screen.

“Doctor Squidapus….Life points 2000 Magic points 1000….directive….kill….” Mega read aloud off the screen.

“Well that can’t be good.” Brad thought aloud.

“Nope.” KS3 replied.

Meanwhile in the entry point of the game materialized a man wearing sunglasses in a blue jacket, a squid beak for a mouth and six tentacles protruding from his back.

“DOCTOR SQUIDAPUS BLLLLLAAA!!!!!” He declared before firing a giant laser from its beak, leveling the land around it “Seek out MB knights. Search and destroy.” He said aloud to himself before heading off to fulfill said programming.

“Should we tell the knights that there’s a mutated squid man coming to kill them?” Ks3 asked.

“Yes! Immediately!” Mega declared “….after a snack.”

End chapter 5
Damage overview:
Drako:100/100LP MP:150/150
Soma:100/100LP MP:200/200
Cajun:100/100LP MP:50/50
Gbleek:100/100LP MP:40/40
Stradlin:100/100LP MP:100/100
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Dr.Squidapus: 2000LP 1000MP

Chapter 6:Shakespear and Dragonheart

The knights, after resting to restore their health, were currently in the usual meeting with Mega and were listening intently to the reports, hoping for progress on the extraction.

“Well, here’s the updates guys…and Soma. The outer rim of the game is staring to deteriorate, we estimate about four days till the game collapses.”

“Okay Mega, we’ll try to secure as many towers as we can to extend the time.” Drako nodded

“Right, I’ve uploaded your paladin skills Stradlin.” Mega nodded towards the lounging figure.

“Sweet!” Stradlin grinned widely, eager to use his new skills.

“And Drako, that last battle against the tower forces unlocked your Dragonheart skill.”

“What’s it do?”

“Not exactly sure…but I’ve got the perfect place to try it out. The enemies have learned of your presence in the game and the tower closest to you is being reinforced.”

“I figure this is the nature tower, so what tower do you speak of?” Cajun yawned.

“The darkness tower. Ghosts, skeletons, you know the stuff.” Mega replied.

“Ooooh, fun fun.” Soma grinned to herself.

“Um….sure Soma…but for now a horde of skeletons have been sent to drive you out of the castle. I’d say about five score.”

“Geez, one-hundred? That’s a lot of skeletons.” Drako sighed.

“Bah, I could take down double that!” Cajun boasted.

“Said the man who got owned by a chipmunk with a spear.” Gbleek sneered.

“Watch it Cheeky.” Cajun hissed.

“Break it up you two.” Stradlin said quickly.

“Right.” Mega sighed “Good luck guys...OH! By the way there’s a freakish mutant squid man with unstoppable power coming to kill you! Mega sighing off!” she said cheerily as the transmission ended.

Everyone sat in silence at the revelation of the massive skeleton army approaching from one direction and this squid-man from the other. Drako rushed to the window as the clacking of many bones was heard in the distance. He scanned the enemies in the distance and viewed the results. Shakespear x100 lP:100 MP:0 Bonewalker x1 LP:800 MP:100.

“Oh good god…….” Drako said, mouth gapping.

“What?” Cajun asked as the group walked to the window. Everyone looked on in terror as the undead army approached, could the knights survive this onslaught or would they perish trying to defend themselves?

End chapter 6
Damage overview:
Drako:100/100LP MP:150/150
Soma:100/100LP MP:200/200
Cajun:100/100LP MP:50/50
Gbleek:100/100LP MP:40/40
Stradlin:100/100LP MP:100/100
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Dr.Squidapus: 2000LP 1000MP

Chapter 7:Loss and hope

“Ugh!” Drako grunted as he held back multiple spears with his longsword “This is not going well!”

“Tell me about it!” Stradlin shouted, summoning up the energy for a blast of light.

The knights were taking heavy damage and they had barely made a dent in the opposing army. Gbleek and Cajun were back to back, trying to hold off the skeletons from the entrance when Gbleek was knocked away by the skeletons and Cajun was forced to fight alone. Soma was up in the tower, casting spells down from the windows. Being a mage she wouldn’t last long among all the skeletons. Then suddenly everything stopped as a figure approached over the horizon, slowing closer.

“Is it just me or does that thing have two arms and six tentacles.” Stradlin blinked.

“Oh crap….it can’t be…” Drako whispered to himself. He’d seen something like this on the internet before.

“DOCTOR SQUIDAPUS BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!” He yelled as the laser blast errupted from his mouth, destroying almost half of the skeletons but catching the unfortunate Gbleek in the blast.

“GBLEEK!” Stradlin yelled as he looked on in terror at the dropping health bar “80…..50….20…..” he hung his head “……zero.”

“Gbleek…..” Soma whimpered up in the tower.

“One knight eliminated. Destroy remaining four.” Squidipus declared.

“WHAT?!?!” Drako yelled “YOU WILL PAY FOR THAT! DRAGON HEEEEEART!!!!!!!!!!!” Suddenly, metallic wings bust from his amor and he floated into the air and charged at the evil creature, slicing off the doctor’s tentacles before throwing him up into the air, slamming him into the ground and severing his head with one quick blow. Drako grabbed the body and threw it among the skeletons, unleashing a giant blast of energy that engulfed the entire area.
The remaining knights looked on in awe as the blast engulfed them all, yet left the knights and the land unscarred but obliterated the skeletons. The knights cheers turned to gasps as Drako spiraled out of the sky and crashed into the ground, displaying his life meter LP:20 MP:0

“Get him into the tower!” Stradlin yelled and Cajun carried the overwhelmed Drako inside.

The doctor is gone, for now, but at the price of Gbleek and the majority of Drako’s power. What could happen next to add to this hell?

End chapter 6
Damage overview:
Drako:20/100LP MP:0/150
Soma:100/100LP MP:100/200
Cajun:65/100LP MP:50/50
Gbleek:0/100LP MP:40/40
Stradlin:76/100LP MP:100/100
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Dr.Squidapus: ???LP ???MP

Chapter 8:Moving out

“We’ve got to get out of here.” Soma said to the others. Since Drako was unconscious she was left to take charge. “The enemy knows we’re here and could send another wave at any moment. With only three of us able to fight and with the wounds you two have taken we wouldn’t stand a chance.”

“Right….” Stradlin sighed, loading up the supplies and a stretcher for Drako.

“What of Gbleek?” Cajun asked soma, not wanting to lose his comrade.

“There’s nothing that can be done Cajun. His body disappeared mid battle. There’s nothing left to revive. Even if we could.”

The remaining knights set off to find refuge in a new location, unaware that it would just get harder from here on out.

Meanwhile in the darkest corners of the shadow lands a great evil was taking place. The newly reformed Doctor Squidapus stood next to a figure shrouded in the darkness

“I have done as you aked master.”

“So I see. Good work doctor.”
Before them there stood a wall, multiple people chained to it. A female archer, a male ninja, a female healer, and last the unconscious Gbleek. Somehow that blast had only managed to knock out 99 health.

“Now doctor. Go and capture the rest. Then we shall force them to take us out of this game. Then we can rule the real world.”

“As you wish.” The doctor grinned and once again went after the knights.

The knights head for shelter, a mysterious figure holds Gbleek and three others captive with the intent of capturing the rest. Doctor Squidapus’ power has been restored, and he’s coming. What will happen? Find out soon.

End chapter 6
Damage overview:
Drako:40/100LP MP:300/150
Soma:100/100LP MP:100/200
Cajun:75/100LP MP:50/50
Gbleek:0/100LP MP:0/40
Stradlin:95/100LP MP:100/100
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Dr.Squidapus: 3000/3000LP 2000/2000MP

Chapter 9:You’ve got to be kidding me.

The knights were resting in a town a short distance from the shadow tower. The team was forming a new plan and tending to the still unconscious Drako.

“We’ve got to restock soon. Our meds and provisions are running out.” Soma sighed.

“Is there even a shop anywhere in this town?” Cajun asked.

“I don’t know. Let’s go out and look. Stradlin. Stay here and look after Drako.” Soma stood and walked out, Cajun following shortly behind.

The two walked into the town, looking around at the dark looking city.

“Where are we?” asked Cajun.

“Well according to the sign Translvamityvale.”

“Huh? Really?” Cajun sighed, unamused.

“Forget the parody. We’re looking for a store.” Soma snapped.

“Lets see….The Body shop….I dun wanna know. The big shop of horrors, now featuring Audrey the third. I dun think so….and Ye old wal-mart. HELL NO! NEVER AGAIN!” Cajun shuttered in terror, remembering what had occurred there in the real world.

“You’ve got to be kidding me! This is just perfect!” Soma groaned.

“And I think it just got worse….” Cajun pointed out at the odd figure approaching them. A skeleton in a fancy suit followed by disfigured creatures with gourds for heads. Accompanied by the singing of the following ‘Skeleton Mac he’s king of the patch of doom! Everyone bow to the gourd head king!’

“Really? Are you serious?” Soma blinked “Mega is soooooo watching some suitable horror movies when we get back.”

End of chapter 9
Damage overview:
Drako:50/100LP MP:200/300
Soma:100/100LP MP:100/200
Cajun:90/100LP MP:50/50
Gbleek:9/100LP MP:10/40
Stradlin:100/100LP MP:100/100
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Dr.Squidapus: 3000/3000LP 2000/2000MP

Chapter 10:Project Devirtulize

“Shouldn’t we be working on getting them out of the game?” Brad asked, confused because the group was playing super smash bros brawl.

“Eh, we’ll get to them later.” Mega laughed manically, knocking Brad off the stage and ridding him of his last life.

“Egh, fine. But I’m heading down to the lab to check on them.” Brad grumbled, getting up to leave.

“Your just a sore loser!” KS3 grinned.

“Oh whatever….” Brad walked down into the lab, looking around at the odd collection of items in the basement lab then proceeded to walk over and kick the sleeping Geo.

“Huh?! What?! No, I wasn’t sleeping! I was just uh…, resting my eyes.”

“Yeah, yeah, whatever.” Brad grumbled and brought up the display on the computer “Whoa, that’s not looking good. Hm? What’s this?” Brad brough up a file that was minimized on the computer , reading it aloud “Power pistol, capable of producing enough power for three automatic death shots. Major pumping required…..Hmmm, well that ought to help them out. Let me lock on to Stradlin’s location.” Brad typed in some commands on the keyboard and turned on the speaker.

“Stradlin! Can you hear me?”

“Huh? Brad?” Stradlin blinked, looking around.

“Yeah it’s me, I’ve got something that might be of use to you! Gimmie a sec to get it in.” Brad clicked the ‘Virtulize’ button on the program design and watched as the weapon materialized into Stradlin’s hand .

“Listen up Stradlin! The design for this thing says it’s an instant death weapon. But it only has three shots in it.

“Three shots? Why is it always three?” Stadlin mused, looking over the gun.

“I have no clue.” Brad murmered, pondering the oddly true statement. “But that’s beside the point! Make good use of that weapon soilder.”

“Yes sir Brad!” Stradlin grinned, thinking of the fun he could wreak with this new toy.

“Alright, signing off.” Brad nodded.
End chapter 10
Damage overview:
Drako:60/100LP MP:220/300
Soma:100/100LP MP:100/200
Cajun:95/100LP MP:50/50
Gbleek:20/100LP MP:20/40
Stradlin:100/100LP MP:100/100
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Dr.Squidapus: 3000/3000LP 2000/2000MP

Chapter 11:Reinforcements.

“Wait…what’s this?” for the first time Brad noticed the dot that represented Gbleek was far of the map from everyone else “This can’t be good.” He pressed the button to bring up the view of Gbleek “Oh crap! He’s been captured!” Brad rushed off to find help. He soon came upon the duo of Fred and Shadow epically engaged in a game of connect four.

“Ha! Take that!” Shadow boasted as he dropped in his chip.

“Um, dude, that’s only three.” Fred pointed out.

“Is not!” Shadow whined, gasping as Fred moved to finish his row. Then, being the sore loser he was, flicked the slide on the bottom of the game and caused all the chips to drop out.

“Dude! You suck! I was about to win!” Fred growled, throwing a red chip at him.

“It was an accident!” Shadow lied.

Brad spoke up from his spot in the doorway “Uh, guys….”

“Brad!” Fred stood “He cheated!”

“I did not!”

“GUYS! This isn’t the time!” Brad shouted.

“Dude, calm down.” Fred blinked.

“Yeah, what’s wrong?”

“Come on, I’ll explain.” Brad mumbled, waving his hand for the two to come along. He grabbed Belbell on the way to the lab and dragged her downstairs despite her protests. Upon getting everyone there Brad explained the situation.

“Dude, that’s hardcore. ” Fred blinked. “But I can’t let the kid die, I’m in.”

“Alright, I’m going too.” Shadow nodded.

“Do I HAVE to go?” Belbell sighed.

“Yes BB, you do.” Brad said plainly.

“Why?” she frowned.

“Cause I don’t trust those two alone on a rescue mission.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Shadow asked, angered.

“You two about killed each other over a freakin game of connect four! Noone over the age of seven even plays that!”

“Fine.” Shadow grumbled.

“Go on, get in the tube.” Brad sighed.

Shadow,Fred, and the displeased but still deciding to go BB, were virtulized into the game just inside the darkness tower where Gbleek was being kept. Becoming a ninja, fireman, and vamp-assassin respectively.

“Well…this will be intresting.” Brad sighed.

End chapter 11.

Damage overview:
Drako:80/100LP MP:240/300
Soma:100/100LP MP:120/200
Cajun:100/100LP MP:50/50
Gbleek:40/100LP MP:20/40
Stradlin:100/100LP MP:100/100
Fred:100/100LP MP:0/0
Shadow:100/100LP MP:120/120
Belbell:100/100 MP:150/150
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Dr.Squidapus: 3000/3000LP 2000/2000MP

Chapter 12:Reawakening

Cajun and Soma gathered the supplies from the collapsed figures of skeleton mac and his gourd heads. The creatures were easy to defeat and were convinently carrying multiple health potions and other meds. The two returned to the knights current residence and found Drako was awakening from his coma while Stradlin napped.

“Ugh, what a headache…..” Drako mumbled, sittin g up.

“Drako!” Soma exclaimed happily, thrusting all the supplies into Cajun’s arms and hugging Drako tightly.

“Okay soma, okay, I get it.” Drako gasped, unable to breathe.

Cajun set down the supplies and kicked Stralin to wake him up.

“AH! Uh, I wasn’t sleeping! I was just….okay I was sleeping.” Simian mumbled.

Drako looked at the display on the device infront of his eye displaying ‘Incomming transmission’ he tapped the button by his ear to accept.

“Go for Drako.”

“Drako!” Brad gasped “Thank god your up.”

“You sound paniced, is something wrong Brad?” Drako inquired.

“Gbleek’s not dead! He’s been captured!”

“WHAT?!” Drako shouted, both relief and panic coming over him.

“Yeah, he’s in the shadow tower.”

“Alright we’ll rescue him imm-“

“I’m not done. I just virtulized Fred and Shadow to go and get him.”

“You WHAT?!?!”

“Don’t worry, BB is with them.”

“Oh…that makes the situation slightly better, but none the less! We gotta go help them! Knights! Move out!”

The team gathered up their supplies and headed out for the shadow tower.

Damage overview:12
Drako:100/100LP MP:250/300
Soma:100/100LP MP:120/200
Cajun:100/100LP MP:50/50
Gbleek:60/100LP MP:30/40
Stradlin:100/100LP MP:100/100
Fred:100/100LP MP:0/0
Shadow:100/100LP MP:120/120
Belbell:100/100 MP:150/150
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Dr.Squidapus: 3000/3000LP 2000/2000MP

Semi-not really a chapter-Chapter 13:Break out

“Dude, it’s dark in here.” Shadow commented abit too loudly.

“Shhh, shut up idiot! You’re gonna let them know we’re here.” BB snapped, whispering.

“Really dude, last thing we need are those things finding us.” Fred mumbled, using epic skills to unlock the door to where Gbleek was being held. The group entered and walked straight into a wall of skeleton guards.

“Oh ****! We’re screwed!” Shadow shouted.

“Oh be quiet.” BB groaned, pulling two knives from her belt “I had to be stuck with you of all people.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Shadow protested but was cut off by BB’s use of her Vampssassin skills of short range teleportation to vanish and reappear behind each enemy before proceeding to slit their necks chanting a stream of ‘die die die’ as she killed off each one. Little anime sweat drops appeared on Fred and Shadow’s heads as they looked on at the scene of destruction before them while BB unlocked Gbleek.

“Remind me not to **** her off.” Shadow mumbled to his comrade.

“Agreed.” Fred blinked.

Fred slung Gbleek over his shoulder and the group prepared to make their way out.

End chapter 13

Damage overview
Drako:100/100LP MP:250/300
Soma:100/100LP MP:120/200
Cajun:100/100LP MP:50/50
Gbleek:60/100LP MP:30/40
Stradlin:100/100LP MP:100/100
Fred:100/100LP MP:0/0
Shadow:100/100LP MP:120/120
Belbell:100/100 MP:150/150
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Dr.Squidapus: 3000/3000LP 2000/2000MP

Chapter 14:The thief and the archer

“ATTACK! ATTACK ATTACK! TAKE THEM DOWN! WE HAVE TO GET INSIDE!” Drako roared over the chaos that was taking place outside of the tower, hacking down enemies left and right. The enemies had taken notice of their arrival and had sent out one hell of a welcome wagon.

“We’re trying man!” Stradlin shouted.

“Yeah! For everyone we kill it’s like two take their place!” Cajun yelled over the mess.

“Less talk more kill!” Soma barked

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Mean while inside the tower Belbell’s ears suddenly perked up “I know those voices…Guys! The others are out there! We’ve gotta get out there and help them!”

“Right.” Fred and Shadow replied simultaneously. They knew BB had basically put herself in the lead but they didn’t much mind. She seemed to make good decisions.

Gbleek groaned and rolled off of Fred, lading on the floor. He sat up, holding his head.

“Guys! I think Gbleek is awake!” Shadow gasped.

“No duh dimwit.” Gbleek growled, suddenly shutting up and listening “….that’s Soma out there! Why aren’t you idiots out there helping her?!” Gbleek yelled.

“Calm down, we’re heading to reinforce them now.” Fred said calmly.

“Then what are we doing just sitting here?!” Gbleek stood and grabbed a dagger “Let’s get going!” He dashed off, the others following.

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“Heh heh heh, nice very nice.” Mumbled a cloaked figure inside the tower, shoveling gold coins into his bag of loot. T_L had actually been put in the game awhile back when Mega wanted to test the prototype of the virtulatorinator. She had used him as a test subject and successfully got him into the game but had then forgotten about it, and since T_L normally didn’t hang around the MB’s no one really noticed he was gone. Though he didn’t really care. The game was a lot more fun anyway. He could swipe about anything since the enemies were such dimwits, and making advantage of the chaos outside he looted the place in true thief fashion.

“No duh dimwit…..that’s Soma out there! Why aren’t you idiots out there helping her?”

T_L stood up straight when he heard the voice “Did I just hear the name Soma? The MB’s are here?!” T_L snuck around the corner of the prision room just in time to seeBB,Fred,Shadow, and Gbleek dash out.

“They are here! I better go warn them about-“ He was cut off by a groan “Wha?” He turned to see the archer girl waking “Someone actually survived the prisoner torture? Impressive.” T_L flicked out his lockpick and unlocked the shackles.

The girl fell to the ground and slowly stood “Huh? Where am I?”

“You’re in a video game, the shadow tower. And honestly we need to get out of here before HE finds us.” T_L mumbled.

“Okay…and who are you?” the girl asked.

“I’m T_L, a thief. Who are YOU?”
“I’m…um…I’m Suriko an archer, but you can call me Suri.”

“Okay then Suri, lets get the hell out of here” T_L pulled a bow and quiver of arrows out of his loot bag which seemingly had the ability to store objects much larger than itself.

“Right.” Suri strapped on the quiver. “Lets go.”

End chapter 14.
Damage overview
Damage overview
Drako:100/100LP MP:250/300
Soma:100/100LP MP:120/200
Cajun:100/100LP MP:50/50
Gbleek:60/100LP MP:30/40
Stradlin:100/100LP MP:100/100
Fred:100/100LP MP:0/0
Shadow:100/100LP MP:120/120
Belbell:100/100LP MP:150/150
T_L:100/100LP MP:30/30
Suri:100/100LP MP:90/90
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Dr.Squidapus: 3000/3000LP 2000/2000MP

Chapter 15:O.M.freakin G. RETREAT!

Drako and the knights had dealed with the enemies outside and becan beating in the door.

“Drako, couldn’t you just energy blast this door down?” Stradlin inquired.

“Yeah, but this is a hell of a lot more fun!” Drako responded, beating the door with a random log.

“True.” Stradlin replied cheerfully.

Upon knocking down the door the group ran smack dab into BB’s group.

“Owwww….” Cajun mumbled, getting up after crashing his head against Fred’s.

“BB!” Drako yelled, hugging his ‘other sister’ happily.

BB sighed and returned the hug “Yeah yeah, we can catch up later, but first lets deal with this freakin place.”

“She speaks sense.” Cajun mumbled.

“Thank god, another girl. Finally someone sensible.” Soma smiled lightly.

“Okay team, okay, let’s get going.” Drako ordered.

The team ran inside the building, running up the stairs to the top.

Upon reaching the top of the tower they we’re confronted by a spirit.

“Dude, what the hell is that?” Cajun blinked, turning the Drako.

“Jasper…the unfriendly ghost.” Drako blinked.

“Ugh, really?”

“Yup.”

“That’s gay.” Mumbled a voice from the background as a knife flew from the shadows and nailed the ghost right in the head.

“What in the world?!” Drako turned around “T_L?! Dude, how the hell did you kill a ghost with a knife.”

“Special type of metal, effective against spirits.”

“Ah…wait…is that suri over there?”

“You know her?” T_L raised an eyebrow.

“I’ll explain later. Let’s make sure the enemies are gone now.”

A clapping suddenly broke the silence.

“Huh?” Everyone swirled around to see a figure clad in ebon armor trimmed with blood red edges , horns protruding from his helmet.

“Very good, very good.” The figure clapped, talking in a voice that sent chills down the spines of the MBs. “You’ve defeated my forces in this tower. Very good very good.”

“OH ****! IT’S HIM!” T_L took a step back, preparing to make a mad dash for his life.

“Who?” Drako asked his friend, not moving his eyes from the enemy.

“Allow me to save you the trouble. I am doom, I am destruction, I, am Necron.” The figure charged dark energy on his fingertips.

“Doesn’t sound very intimidating to me.” Drako smirked.

“You fool!” T_L whispered to him “He’s a dark knight. He’s got the combined power of a dark lord and a necromancer. He’s the one that raised the army of these guys.”

“Ohhhh….that’s a different story….MBs! RETREAT!” Drako yelled,as everyone made a mad dash for it.

End chapter 15.
Damage overview
Drako:100/100LP MP:250/300
Soma:100/100LP MP:120/200
Cajun:100/100LP MP:50/50
Gbleek:60/100LP MP:30/40
Stradlin:100/100LP MP:100/100
Fred:100/100LP MP:0/0
Shadow:100/100LP MP:120/120
Belbell:100/100LP MP:150/150
T_L:100/100LP MP:30/30
Suri:100/100LP MP:90/90
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Dr.Squidapus: 3000/3000LP 2000/2000MP

Chapter 16:Division

“RUN RUN RUN!” Drako barked as the MB’s bolted from the tower and into the surrounding deathwoods. In their panic they failed to notice Necron wasn’t chasing them. Upon reaching what they deemed to be a safe distance, which happened to be when the team couldn’t run another step, they settled down. Drako called a meeting and the team gathered around.

“Okay guys, this presents a problem.” Drako “If that guy is strong enough to have raised that entire undead army then he could probably take us down without a problem.”

“Thanks for the moral support.” Cajun grumbled.

“Focus Cajun.” Drako snapped “Our time window till the shutdown of the game is growing smaller. The estimated time when we arrived in the game was three days. We captured the nature tower which extended our time somewhere between two or three days. It’s been two days since then and since obviously securing the shadow tower is out of the question we have only two or three days till shutdown.”

“Well, there are still three towers left.” Soma pointed out.

“Exactly, but considering our remaining time range we woulnt make it to all three of them at this rate. So I’ve decided the best course of action is to split up into three groups and have each one head towards a tower.” Drako explained.

“Splitting up? What is this, Scooby doo?” Cajun scoffed.

“He may have a point Drako, are you sure that our divided forces will have the strength to capture the towers?” Soma asked.

“I see your point and have already considered such an eventuality.” Drako nodded “You’ll have to look at it this way. There is no way we can get to all three other towers as a whole group, with the traveling the enemies on the way and the towers themselves and as we all know, if we don’t extend our time range we all die. So obviously this is the most suitable choice.”

“Point taken.” Soma nodded “Well, what are the teams?” she asked, crossing her legs nervously.

“Alright everyone stand. T_L, Cajun, you go stand there and there.” He pointed to the spots several feet to the left and right of him. The two obeyed and the rest stood. “We are the team leaders.” Drako explained to the rest of them.

“Okay, Soma, BB, Suri, you’re coming with me.” Drako beckoned them over with his hand as the girls stood and walked to him.

“The remaining of the original knights will go with Cajun, that’s Gbleek and Stradlin.” The two stood and walked to Cajun.

“Fred, Shadow, you two will be with T_L.” The two stood and walked to T_L.

“These are your new teams and leaders guys, your lives now depend on the people standing next to you. Don’t betray the trust of your partners.” Drako pronounced to the group.

Cajun raised his hand “Um, Drako, I have a question.”

“Yes Cajun?” Drako raised an eyebrow.

“How come you get all the girls on your team?”

“Because one, Soma is my trusted second in command, I’m not leaving her. BB is a sensible yet strong fighter which is just what I need and Suri, well, honestly. None of you would survive long if you got on suri’s bad side.” Drako explained cooly, in reality he had simply said this to explain his reasoning to the girls. For by the ancient and sacred language of men Cajun and the rest had understood Drako’s hidden message of ‘Because they’re girls duh, and I need something to look at.’

“ahhhhh.” Cajun and the other guys all nodded in acceptance of such a noble pursuit.

Soma, BB, and Suri looked at each other for a moment and shrugged.

“Alright everyone.” Drako brought out the holographic map of the landscape of the game which vaguely resembled a star. “Alright, My team will head to the fire tower. Cajun, you’re team will go to the water temple. T_L, you’re team is going to the wind tower. Does everyone understand you’re assignments?”

Everyone nodded.

“Alright then good luck to all of you and let’s head out!”

End chapter 16
Damage overview

Team Draconic:
Drako:100/100LP MP:250/300
Soma:100/100LP MP:120/200
Belbell:100/100LP MP:150/150
Suri:100/100LP MP:90/90
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Team Knights:
Cajun:100/100LP MP:50/50
Gbleek:60/100LP MP:30/40
Stradlin:100/100LP MP:100/100
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Team Strike:
T_L:100/100LP MP:30/30
Fred:100/100LP MP:0/0
Shadow:100/100LP MP:120/120
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Necron: 10000/10000LP 5000/5000MP
Dr.Squidapus: 3000/3000LP 2000/2000MP

Chapter 17:Taking a break

It had been about two hours since the split up teams had set out and the team was sitting down to rest. There was obvious tension among the group as Gbleek whined constantly about Drako being a girlfriend stealer because he had taken Soma on his team and Cajun and Stradlin were getting fed up with it.

“You’re move.” Cajun addressed Stradlin as he looked up from the game of connect four they were playing.

Stradlin dropped a chip into the board to block off Cajun’s possible win.

“And that ****ing ***** Drako and his **** ****” Gbleek ranted, pacing back and forth.

“Do you mind Cheeky?” Cajun looked up at Gbleek “We are TRYING to play a game for seven year olds here.”

Gbleek growled and kicked their game over, knocking the chips out.

“THAT DOES IT!” Cajun tackled Gbleek and procceded to beat him into submission with a spork.

Cajun threw the unconscious Gbleek up against the tree and wiped off his hands.

“Was that really nessecary?” Stradlin raised an eyebrow.

“Of course.”

“Why?”

“He bugged me.”

“Works for me.” Stradlin shrugged. “Only one problem. Drako expects us to be getting to the tower but now we have a load of dead weight over there.”

“Oh….right….” Cajun blinked.

“Well this sucks. Grab a foot and lets go.”

The two picked up Gbleek and proceeded to head out to the water tower.

Team Draconic:
Drako:100/100LP MP:250/300
Soma:100/100LP MP:200/200
Belbell:100/100LP MP:150/150
Suri:100/100LP MP:90/90
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Team Knights:
Cajun:100/100LP MP:50/50
Gbleek:100/100LP MP:40/40
Stradlin:100/100LP MP:100/100
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Team Strike:
T_L:100/100LP MP:30/30
Fred:100/100LP MP:0/0
Shadow:100/100LP MP:120/120
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Necron: 10000/10000LP 5000/5000MP
Dr.Squidapus: 3000/3000LP 2000/2000MP

Chapter 18:T_L’s Misery

“I spy something tanish.” Shadow nodded as he looked over at Fred.

T_L groaned, Fred and Shadow had been playing “I spy” for the past two hours and since they were in the middle of the desert the object was always the same. Sand.

“Is it, sand?” Fred raised an eyebrow.

“YES!” Shadow clapped “now let’s see….I spy something tanish.” Shadow rubbed his chin.

And THAT is when T_L snapped.

“HEY! YOU KNOW WHAT I SPY?! MY KNIFE UP YOUR &*( IF YOU DON’T SHUT UP!” T_L shouted.

Shadow blinked “I spy something grumpy.”

“T_L?”

“Yup.”

“GRAH!!!!!” T_L jumped on Shadow and delt 90 life points worth of damage to him and growled “don’t make me take those last ten life points away.”

Shadow groaned and slowly stood “Y-yes sir T_L…..”

“Good.” T_L resumed walking and didn’t even bother helping him.

Fred blinked “Okay…..Atleast I won.”

“SHUT UP!” T_L yelled back.

Fred smirked and followed T_L.

This was just not T_L’s day.

Team Draconic:
Drako:100/100LP MP:250/300
Soma:100/100LP MP:200/200
Belbell:100/100LP MP:150/150
Suri:100/100LP MP:150/150
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Team Knights:
Cajun:100/100LP MP:50/50
Gbleek:100/100LP MP:40/40
Stradlin:100/100LP MP:100/100
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Team Strike:
T_L:100/100LP MP:30/30
Fred:100/100LP MP:0/0
Shadow:10/100LP MP:120/120
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Necron: 10000/10000LP 5000/5000MP
Dr.Squidapus: 3000/3000LP 2000/2000MP

Chapter 19:The Fork is with you

Drako yawned as he looked up at the stars. Night had fallen upon the land of the game, the girls were a few minutes away discussing the sort of things he was sure he wanted no part in.

“Drako….Drako…” mumbled a voice.

“Yes mysterious voice from nowhere?”

“I’m not a mysterious voice from nowhere. I’m Mega’s voice from the speaker in your ear.” Mega said plainly.

“Oh, right…what did you need?”

“Drako, the enemies of the game grows stronger and your time runs short. You will not be able to survive with your current power.” Mega explained.

“Then what can we do?”

“Use The Fork, Drako.”

“What fork?”

Suddenly Drako felt the farmiliar tingle that was generated by a virtuilazation into the game. The frame of the object appeared in his hand as it materialized. It was Mega’s creation from chapter 5. The Forkdriver. It was then that Drako came one step closer to his destiny. He knew then what he must do.

“Drako, go forth and capture the tower. Good luck, and may The Fork be with you.”

Drako stood and walked to his group “Girls, we’re heading out.”

“But Sief! It’s the middle of the night!” Suri whined.

“First of, I’m Drako and secondly I don’t care, we’re leaving. NOW.”

Everyone packed up camp silently, preparing for the trip. Not knowing they were being watched.

“Hey, take a look at these guys.” The lizard like creature mumbled to his companion.

“Yeah…looks like a real motly crew. Think they got anything worth stealing?”

“Well, lets find out.”

The two reptilian creatures jumped from their hiding spot and rushed the group. Drako felt the presence of the oncoming enemies and quickly threw up a hand, causing an invisible force to throw the creatures through the air and cracking their heads open on the ground.

“Drako….” Soma paused “How the hell did you do that?”

“The Fork is with me.” He said plainly and put the forkdriver on the inside of his gauntlet and walked away.

The girls looked at each other with a puzzled look “Huh?” they all said simultaneously.

End chapter 18

Team Draconic:
Drako:100/100LP MP:250/300
Soma:100/100LP MP:200/200
Belbell:100/100LP MP:150/150
Suri:100/100LP MP:150/150
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Team Knights:
Cajun:100/100LP MP:50/50
Gbleek:100/100LP MP:40/40
Stradlin:100/100LP MP:100/100
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Team Strike:
T_L:100/100LP MP:30/30
Fred:100/100LP MP:0/0
Shadow:10/100LP MP:120/120
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Necron: 10000/10000LP 5000/5000MP
Dr.Squidapus: 3000/3000LP 2000/2000MP

Not a chapter 20:getting some sleep.

Mega yawned and layed back in the rolling chair that sat infront of the screen to the game. Mega had been working for hours to write a devirtulization program but there was just something that wouldn’t connect.

Brad sighed as he walked down to the lab “Mega? You’re still awake down here?”

“Yeah…I’m here.” Mega said drearily.

“You should really get some sleep.”

“No no…I’m fine….”

“Are you sure? Cause you got that kinda look that says ‘I’m freaking exhausted but I don’t want to sleep’”

“Yes Bradley! I’m sure! I’ve got epic nocturnal skills and-“ Mega didn’t finish her sentence and collapsed from exhaustion.

Brad smiled lightly and slowly lifted up the sleeping leader and carried her off to her room, setting her on the bed to let her sleep. “Sleep well Mega.”

Brad walked down to the lab and sat infront of the game-screen, watching the current events. Brad looked through some programs in the game, looking for any useful weapons or such to send them in the game. After finding no useful files he procceded to play Connect Four on the computer and lost terribly. Multiple times.

“Damn….those seven-year-old computers are tough stuff…” Brad yawned as he walked upstairs and crawled into his bed. Another day was passing off the MB’s time range. Would they ever manage to get their friends out? He could only hope.

Meanwhile Geo grumbled and tripped around in the darkness, complaining that everyone had failed to keep the lights on long enough for him to know where he was. He decided he would just go to sleep wherever he currently was and take his anger out on Nathan in the morning.

End chapter 20.

his helmet “I look forward to seeing how you and your merry band of fools handle this Drako.”

Drako suddenly snapped to attention, had he been dreaming? It didn’t seem like it, it all felt so real. It couldn’t be. How could Squidy still be alive after all that? Drako thought to himself. But if it was true then they were in danger. Necron’s words echoed through his head.

“I look forward to seeing how you and your merry band of fools handle this Drako.”

At that moment it felt as if the dark knight had been staring right at him. The memory sent chills down his spine.

“Drako? Are you okay?” Soma leaned over the collapsed figure of Drako, feeling his forehead.

“Ugh, huh? Soma?” He squinted in an attempt to grow adjusted to the light.

“Yes Drako, it’s me.” Soma smiled lightly.

Seeing the smile on his old friends face boosted his spirits a bit. He slowly sat up.

“Come on you guys, we need to get going.” Belbell’s nose twitched “I smell something odd in the area.”

“Yeah, either I sense a disturbance in The Fork or I have a big headache.” Drako grumbled, holding his head.

“The Fork? What does that even mean Sief?” Suri questioned

“Again, it’s Drako. And I’ll explain later but for now, let’s get out of here.”

Soma and Belbell helped the dazed leader up and the group once again set out for the fire temple.

End chapter 21
Damage Overview:
Team Draconic:
Drako:100/100LP MP:250/300
Soma:100/100LP MP:200/200
Belbell:100/100LP MP:150/150
Suri:100/100LP MP:150/150
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Team Knights:
Cajun:100/100LP MP:50/50
Gbleek:100/100LP MP:40/40
Stradlin:100/100LP MP:100/100
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Team Strike:
T_L:100/100LP MP:30/30
Fred:100/100LP MP:0/0
Shadow:30/100LP MP:120/120
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Necron: 10000/10000LP 5000/5000MP
Dr.Squidapus: 3000/3000LP 2000/2000MP

Chapter 22:Knights in town

“Okay guys listen up.” Cajun whispered to Gbleek and Stradlin “We’re about to head in to town, so we gotta blend in.”

Stradlin nodded “Right, blend in!”

The three nights proceeded to run into town screaming their heads off and throwing eggs at random people just for the lolz. They then ran into a random store and ransacked it for abuch of useless crap they had no need for.

“Quick! Grab that box of cards!”

“Oh hey! A autographed picture of Chuck Norris!”

“DUDE! Transformers two on DVD!”

“Connect Four!....for ages seven and up! HA! Take that narrator!”

“AHHHHHHH!!!!! FURBYS!”

The chaos insued in the store until the guards kicked them out and shut them out for all eternity.

“Atleast I got the Chuck Norris picture!” Stradlin grinned happily.

“True. Ah well! Come boys we go forth!” Cajun pointed and waked off.

Stradlin and Gbleek looked at eat other and walked the other way. Cajun following after he realized he had been walking the wrong way.

Upon reaching the other edge of the town they walked through a oddly placed garden.

“Dude, what the hell is a garden doing in the middle of a path way?” Stradlin blinked.

“I don’t know man. But look! Lettuce! “ Cajun proceeded to kick the vegetable around like a soccer ball.

Then suddenly, a harsh shriek filled the air as the plants shook and rose from the ground, revealing odd bodies the size of a human infant.

“AH! LETTUCE PATCH KIDS! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!” Stradlin panniced and bolted for the town gates, Cajun and Gbleek following shortly after, scared for no real reason.

“Guys! Why are we running from these things?! They’re just stupid pieces of cabbage!” Gbleek asked the others.

“I have no clue dude! I have a feeling it’s just a plot device instituted by the storywriter so we can keep the plot moving while trying to supply chapters the readers in order to keep them interested in the story!” Simian stated, running.

“What the hell are you talking about man?! We’re not in some stupid story right now!” Cajun yelled, smacking some sense into his partner.

“You’re probably right man! I’m gonna keep my ears open for any giant narrator voices though!”

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End chapter 22. Yes I’m ending the chapter now. I think they’re onto me so I’m gonna move to another group for awhile >_>
Damage Overview:
Team Draconic:
Drako:100/100LP MP:250/300
Soma:100/100LP MP:200/200
Belbell:100/100LP MP:150/150
Suri:100/100LP MP:150/150
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Team Knights:
Cajun:100/100LP MP:50/50
Gbleek:100/100LP MP:40/40
Stradlin:100/100LP MP:100/100
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Team Strike:
T_L:100/100LP MP:30/30
Fred:100/100LP MP:0/0
Shadow:30/100LP MP:120/120
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Necron: 10000/10000LP 5000/5000MP
Dr.Squidapus: 3000/3000LP 2000/2000MP

Chapter 23:Spirits

Brad and Geo were sitting in the lab silently, working on the game.

“You gotta blink sometime you bloody twit.”

Brad looked back from his chair to see his spirit animal Phil the Platypus having a staring contest whith Geo’s spirit ‘animal’ Rocky the Rock.

“Phil, you’re not gonna beat a rock in a staring contest.”

“I beg to differ Brad. I’m determined to win.”

“Good luck.” Geo laughed “I trained him myself!”

“How do you train a rock?” Brad raised an eyebrow.

“Like this! Rocky! Sit!”

The spirit rock sat still as it had always done.

“Ha! Take that Brad!”

“Riiiight….you sure showed me Geo.”

“OH DAMMIT” Phil blurted out, blinking his watery platypus eyes “I lost!”

Geo grinned widely as he patted the rock. To most people it would just seem like nothing was there, but those who have seen their spirit animals could also see and hear those of others.

Meanwhile, in the game Drako was currently sleeping again, which was odd cause he didn’t often sleep. Though it wasn’t a bad, nightmare filled sleep. Drako was actually encountering his spirit animal for the first time.

“Greetings Drako. I have looked forward to the day we would meet.” Spoke the black wolf from infront of him. His fur adorned with white spirals.

“Hey…you’re a spirit animal aren’t you?”

“You catch on quick for a mortal.” The wolf nodded.

“Like Phil and Rocky!”

“Like Phil, yes. Rocky is just a stupid rock.”

“Right then…why are you here?”

“In order to keep the balance of spirit animals among MB fics.”

“Huh?”

“Nevermind it. But I am here to guide you. So don’t go screwing up or we both die.”

“Wow, that’s great advise.” Drako mused. “So, what’s your name anyway?”

“My name, regrettably, is Nico.”

“Nico…the wolf?” Drako raised an eyebrow.

“Drako….the human?” Nico smirked.

“Touche.” Drako laughed.

“Now then, you better wake up now. You drifted off in the middle of walking.”

“OH! Crap! How do I wake up?!”

“Like this.” Drako suddenly felt a huge object hit him in the head as he snapped back to reality.

“Whoa, weird.”

End chapter 23.

Damage Overview:
Team Draconic:
Drako:100/100LP MP:250/300
Soma:100/100LP MP:200/200
Belbell:100/100LP MP:150/150
Suri:100/100LP MP:150/150
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Team Knights:
Cajun:100/100LP MP:50/50
Gbleek:100/100LP MP:40/40
Stradlin:100/100LP MP:100/100
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Team Strike:
T_L:100/100LP MP:30/30
Fred:100/100LP MP:0/0
Shadow:30/100LP MP:120/120
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Necron: 10000/10000LP 5000/5000MP
Dr.Squidapus: 3000/3000LP 2000/2000MP

Chapter 24:Oops?

“Hooray!” Mega shouted happily “I finally fixed the scanner!” she declared to Brad and Geo. She pointed at the device used to upload drawn pictures to the internet which was currently being held together with duct tape.

“Meeega!” Brad whined “Why did you spend all that time fixing that thing! Our friends could be in the game dying right now! We shouldn’t be concerned with broken devices at the moment!”

“Well excuse me for trying to fix something! It’s not my fault Geo the Rock is to lazy to take care of the MB appliances!” She said, pointing ZF’s pet rock which sat on the table doing nothing as usual.

“Mega, Geo the rock is a ROCK. Hence the name! You should really assign mechanical maintenance to an actual living person!”

“Bah! Fine Brad, I’ll do that later. But for now I need to work on uploading this giant stack of pictures that has been sitting here since the scanner broke.” Mega said, grabbing a picture and putting hit into the scanner.

“Ugh….Mega, we really shouldn’t be doing this right now!”

“You worry too Much Brad! They will be fine!” Mega said cheerily, scanning the second picture.

Brad sighed “Fine, but I’m going to check on them.”

Brad sat in the chair infront of the screen and turned around, typing in the the command on the keyboard to display the status of the game. He noticed two new files on the game display.

“Wha?” he brough the files up and looked at them. “Ummm…Mega?”

“Yes?”

“Is there any chance that you accidently hooked up the scanner to the virtulatorinator instead of the computer?”

“What?! Nonsense! I would never make such a mistake, and I’ll prove it!” Mega went around to the back of the computer where the wires were hooked up and noticed the scanner cable had been put into the virtulatorinator jack instead of the computer jack directly next to it. “Oh….oops. Well, how bad could it be?!” Mega said hopefully.

“Mega! You just virtulized two of BB’s most violent and crazy characters!” Brad replied “It’s pretty bad!”

“Well…uh…look at the bright side! They are displayed as green units! Our guys our blue and enemies are red, that means those two are neutral! Atleast they aren’t TOTALLY against us.” Mega pointed out.

“True…atleast it’s not Edge.” Brad sighed in relief.

Mega grinned and slowly reached out for a picture of Edge.

“Mega! Don’t. You. Dare.” Brad snapped.

“Awww! Fine!” Mega whined and crossed her arms.

“I better contact Drako, he’ll need to know about this.” Brad put the headset used to communicate with the in-game world on and sent a transmission to Drako.

“Go for Drako.”

“Hey man, it’s Brad.”

“….good news or bad news?” Drako asked bluntly, knowing there was some reason for this contact.

“Well…we don’t know.” Brad explained the situation.

“Oh god….you CAN’T be serious.”

“I wish I was.”

Drako sighed “Okay, I’ll let them know what’s going on.” Drako ended the transmission.

“Drako? Is something wrong?” Soma cocked her head, concerned.

“Yeah, you don’t look to good.” Suri commented.

Drako turned to BB “Well sis, I’ve got news for you. Somehow Mega managed to accidently virtulize your characters Redd and Strife into the game.”

“Really?! That’s AWESOME!” BB squealed happily.

“They aren’t on our side BB.” Drako replied bluntly.

BB went silent for a moment “…….****”

End chapter 24.

Damage Overview:
Team Draconic:
Drako:100/100LP MP:250/300
Soma:100/100LP MP:200/200
Belbell:100/100LP MP:150/150
Suri:100/100LP MP:150/150
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Team Knights:
Cajun:100/100LP MP:50/50
Gbleek:100/100LP MP:40/40
Stradlin:100/100LP MP:100/100
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Team Strike:
T_L:100/100LP MP:30/30
Fred:100/100LP MP:0/0
Shadow:50/100LP MP:120/120
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Necron: 10000/10000LP 5000/5000MP
Dr.Squidapus: 3000/3000LP 2000/2000MP

Chapter 25:Prime

Cajun and the knights had soon escaped the tiny, evil clutches of the lettuace patch kids, now hiding in an area that looked a lot like Stonehenge.

“Everyone okay?” Cajun panted.

“Yeah, yeah…we’re good…” Stradlin replied.

Gbleek sat down on a rock in the middle of the area “Ugh, stupid plot devices, they sure are tiring.”

“I’d appreciate it if you wouldn’t sit on me human.”

Gbleek suddenly jumped up “AH! What the hell?!”

What they had previously believed to be nothing more then a large boulder suddenly started shaking and broke apart, the pieces reformed into a giant humanoid rock monster.

“Holy crap!” Stradlin shouted out.

“What the heck are you?!” Cajun asked the creature.

“I am Rocktimus Prime, leader of the Rock-o-bots.”

“Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude….” The knights all said simiultaneously, this was certinally an amazing stroke of luck. A giant creature in the game that was actually on their side.

“So..you’re basically a giant thing made of rocks that turns into a rock?” Gbleek blinked

“Yup, pretty much.” Rocktimus replied.

“And…you’re NOT going to kill us?” Stradlin asked slightly worried.

“I do not harm humans….except mimes…I hate those creepy things.”

The knights nodded in agreement.

“So, where are the rest of your guys?”

“I’m afraid I remain the last of my kind.” Rocktimus hung his head.

“Well that sucks.” Cajun sighed.

“Humans, the being known as Necron has taken control of my former comrades along with the forces of our enemies, the Rockticons. I need your help to free my allies.”

“First off, the rock pun thing. Getting kind of annoying. Secondly, yes we’ll help you. Working with a big rock monster will be fun!”

“Then so it begins humans.”

End chapter 25.
Damage Overview:
Team Draconic:
Drako:100/100LP MP:250/300
Soma:100/100LP MP:200/200
Belbell:100/100LP MP:150/150
Suri:100/100LP MP:150/150
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Team Knights:
Cajun:100/100LP MP:50/50
Gbleek:100/100LP MP:40/40
Stradlin:100/100LP MP:100/100
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Team Strike:
T_L:100/100LP MP:30/30
Fred:100/100LP MP:0/0
Shadow:50/100LP MP:120/120
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Necron: 10000/10000LP 5000/5000MP
Dr.Squidapus: 3000/3000LP 2000/2000MP
Redd:100/100LP MP:100/100
Strife:100/100LP MP:100/100
Rocktimus Prime:10000/10000 LP MP:5000/5000