Chapter 7
Laugha while you can,
(ya monkey boy!)
"Alright Fishbowl," Enterdragon hissed angrilly. "If you and your new gun are gonna be happy together..."
Fishbowl nodded cheerily.
"You're gonna have to go to war."
Sefus, Cigara, Tropicana, and Snooklear all elbowed each other as they exchanged grins and snickered.
"Can you be intimidating, fearless, ruthless, and powerful in the cafe of danger?"
Fishbowl scribbled on a piece of paper and held it up, showing "I love coffee after a nice emo-burger."
"That was a (censored)ing typo! I meant face of danger, not cafe!" Enterdragon bellowed, and Sefus and Tropicana burst out laughing behind him. "It's not funny!"
"It's settled then!" Cigara announced. "We'll go get some coffee, and then we can discuss other things like going to war and shopping."
"No, we're going to go to war," Enterdragon shouted. "Then we can go shopping and get some coffee."
"Oh come on, it's not a very far walk to the cafe of danger," Snooklear said as he chuckled at the scene. "In fact, there's one at every street corner and there's a street corner right there."
"I've heard the one across the street from it has better service though," Sefus said between gasps of laughter.
"The one on the far corner from that gives you free creamer,"
"NO (censored)ING COFFEE!"
"I.... I can't believe this...." Ruffix whimpered as he shivered next to the reclaim terminal in Shere garden.
"I didn't think anything like that would ever happen," Xaun sobbed.
"It was..." Sillanto gasped, clutching the stomped, smashed, and otherwise ruined NCU he had been working on when the noobs came. "A train on ely beach... nothing like this has ever happened before..."
"I don't know the last time there were so many hecknoobs at the heckler killing grounds!" Cyriann sobbed into her hands. "I can't believe this is happening, nothing like this has ever happened before!"
Everyone sat in stunned silence for a while. Nobody moved, except Windam, tapping at the ground angrilly with the bottle, glaring at it in growing frustration.
"Que loco es que no creimos que seria un tren al playa de hecklores?" Quieromorir said suddenly, digging his fingernails into the ground.
WHAM!
Everyone looked and saw Windam standing over Remains of Quieromorir, the bottle glowing in his hands.
"Oh my God, Windam!" Cyriann gasped, looking at the furious ARK. "What's gotten into you?!"
"Siempre me divertivan los ARK's! Que sympatico de tu para hacer mis suenos completos," Quieromorir whispered as he popped out of the reclaim again. "A mi me gusta muerte."
Windam sighed and clenched at the bottle's neck. "I was killed when someone threw this bottle at my face. And to add insult to injury, you know what it said on the note inside?"
Everyone shook their heads slowly, watching Windam as if he were a cannon about to go off.
"It said 'Run while you can.' And I think someone is going to die for that. Die a painful chain death of bottle damage...."
The Omni-Med doors parted slowly and Feniks, Prawnz, Saetos, Blackdog, and Zenthilar all charged in.
Feniks hefting Seatos over his shoulder, and Saetos was cuddling Prawnz happily with a blissfull expression on his face.
"We can be best friends forever," Saetos chirped as he hugged Prawnz. "And we can all share the perfect slurpees with no ice."
"No ice?" Prawnz replied dreamily.
"No ice at all..."
Drcindy looked up from the receptionists desk and gasped. "Oh my god, not another!" she whispered as the team neared the desk.
"Another?" Zenthilar winced. "You mean there are others that...."
"I like slurpees!" Saetos chirped.
"Mee 2!"
Drcindy grimaced and nodded. "They've been pouring into the ER like noobs to the heckler beach. We don't know what's causing it..."
"I WANT A LEEEET PIE!" Came a demented voice from somewhere in the hospital.
"Me too!" Blackdog shouted before catching himself. "I mean... yarrr..."
"Luckily it looks like the symptoms haven't progressed to far, we're sticking him in one of our clinic rooms. He should be okay..."
Snowkitten the doctor came out of the ER doors with a crash cart and Feniks placed Saetos on it. He then tried to take Prawnz out of his arms, but Saetos tugged back and snapped "My leety!"
"Er, I think the leet could do with the treatment to," Snowkitten sighed, and Feniks relaxed his grip on Prawnz and watched as the three disappeared into the hospital.
"He's gonna be okay, right?" Zenthillar croaked. "I don't think the save-the-leets movement will keep going with half our members incapacitated..."
Drcindy sighed and watched the doors flutter. "I hope so... alright that's it, I'm getting out of here and I'm gonna do something about this."
"But what will we do?" Zenthilar asked, starting to choke up a bit. "How are we gonna stop this... before it's too late?"
Feniks shook his head. "I don't know how... but I know who does... Does anyone have directions to the studio where Oprah films?"
Blackdog gasped. "We're so desperate for help we're going to Oprah?!"
"No, General Li'Angreh is there getting interviewed...."
"Oh."
"You butthole!" Keeper shouted. "You can't keep me here forever!"
"Ha! I would love to see you escape!"
Keeper glared and hopped up and made a mad dash for the door.
"You're not allowed to get up from the corner!" Pinky shouted smugly, and Keeper sighed and trudged back to the other side of the room and sat down facing the corner.
"When can I get up?"
"When I'm done taking over the world," Pinky replied.
Mind sighed. "I can't believe that THAT is my other personality."
"Well, there's only so much noggin to go around," Pinky said encouragingly. "You just took a bit more than he did is all."
"I heard that."
"Get back in the corner!" Mind shouted.
"My friend will kick your butt!" Keeper snapped as he pouted in the corner.
"You don't have any friends."
"Fishbowl!"
Mind's eyes widened for a second.
"Ha, that little twit?" Pinky laughed. "He's useless or I'd have him here and be cloning him to make something to take over the world with, but there's nothing to make with that, much less something to make to take over the world with, so to take over the world by making stuff to take over the world with, I have to only make stuff to take over the world with using stuff that is used to make stuff to take over the world with. Have I made myself clear?"
Mind slammed his palm into his face. "This is going to be one looong world domination attempt."
The clinic doors opened and Snowkitten wheeled Saetos and Prawnz into the room.
It was empty except for one other thing, huddled in the corner...
Prawnz looked over at it. "Brother?"
Pronz looked up. "Prawnz?"
"How j00 get here?"
"Well, I was playing AOC and..."
"Age of Conan?" Snowkitten gasped.
"yup! Cyb0rian adv3ntures!"
"Oh no...." Snowkitten squeaked. She dashed away, obviously about to tell something important to somebody important who would do something important about something important.... (censored) this bureaucracy!
"You know what the best part of a slurpee is?" Saetos asked, his head lolling to the side and wearing a facial expression of someone in a complete daze.
"What?" Prawnz asked, wearing a matching facial expression.
"The syrup," Saetos replied.
"j00 know what's t3h bes7 part of a slurpee?" Pronz asked.
"What?" Saetos asked.
"The straw."
"I've got it!" Omutb said finally as he, Llenlleawg, Craziiblade, Joanbot, Berrenta, and Berrender sat at the remains of Jobe platform, reduced to white, snapped boulders all ripped apart and floating around in midair.
"You know a way that can get us into the shadowlands?" Joanbot asked.
"Yes!" Omutb declared. "I just recently acquired a shadowlands recall beacon!"
"Wow!" Llenlleawg declared. "Show me!"
Omutb pulled the device out of his inventory and held it up for all to see. And as he did so he noticed an interesting tag on it.
"Fixture," Berrenter read, "Can be placed on the ground."
"Oh that's good!" Llenlleawg said. "Now we can all use it!"
Omutb nodded and tried to place it on the ground.
"Uhmmm... it says it's a nodrop and that I can't put it on the ground..." Omutb said slowly.
"But it says you can put it on the ground," Berrender said, scratching his head idly with his support beam.
Just idly scratching his head with a huge frickin' support beam.
"It also says that I can't put it on the ground," Omutb stated.
"But it says you can."
"And then it says I can't."
"You gotta petition that," Berrender said finally.
Omutb groaned. "This is probably not the best time for petitions...."
"Already petitioning, we'll classify this as harassment to get someone here quicker," Berrender announced.
Windam sat tensely at the reclaim terminal, holding the bottle ready in one hand and the nerfbat ready in the other.
Suddenly his pager beeped and everybody leapt into the air.
"GOD (censored)IT!" He shouted, and looked at his pager with a look of pure fury.
After a few seconds of snarling and taking deep, hissing breaths through his nose. "I have.... to.... answer.... a.... petition..... I'll.... be.... right.... back...."
"You know, I'm really not sure this is a good idea," Omutb said tensely.
"HELLO, ARE YOU IN A SAFE AREA WHERE I CAN TALK TO YOU!?" Windam thundered as he appeared, waving the nerfbat and bottle around wildly.
Everyone gasped as he appeared.
"That bottle," Omutb whispered.
Windam heard. "WHAT ABOUT THIS BOTTLE? YOU RECOGNIZE IT?"
Omutb felt himself go white. "That bottle would be perfect for my collection, I've never seen one quite like it and I don't know who would throw one away."
Windam snarled loudly and wound up to strike with the empty bottle.
Omutb eeked quietly and pointed to Berrender.
You died of bottle damage!
Will Saetos and Prawnz be cured?
Will Fishbowl learn to fight?
Who did Windam kill?
Where's Waldo?
Will Keeper ever get out of the corner?
The answer to all these (except the Waldo one) and more in the next episode!