Post by Escachick357 on Mar 22, 2009 15:45:41 GMT -5
For this Creative Writing class, I decided to write a story based upon people from this site and this site itself. It takes place in the year 2800 and it's up to the staff of this one website to destroy this virus before it kills off the Internet and many people logged into it.
Before I start, I should probably say who each character is based upon:
Miles- Mr. Mew
Matty- Merios
Mikey- Mikey
Chibi- me
Kira- Raine
Xiros- very loosely based upon Jazzbuddah
Alyssia- very loosely based upon Reaper
And now...on with the story:
Two sets of feet echoed through the small school of Charmian High School in Charmian, Washington. I had to turn my head at an angle to look at my best friend, Kira’s, face. She’s a whole foot taller than me and I could see that she was afraid. It was more than an hour passed the ten o’clock curfew not to mention that we broke into the school after the security locks were set up. Being caught inside the school after hours would be an automatic arrest even if you were just a teenager.
I knew Kira didn’t want to come, but it was necessary. The notorious “Internet Eliminator” was attacking the fourth most popular website in the world, Resident Evil Evolution RPG, which we helped run. The hacker had already destroyed the three most popular websites in not only all of the 58 states but the whole world and caused 16,000 deaths and 140,000 injuries to users. All three websites were hacked into and flooded with viruses, which ended up trapping the users into the websites and, depending on how close the users were to ground zero of the virus attacks, shut down their brain function and evidently killed or injured the users while their bodies sat in front of their computers. All three of the attacks happened within six months and the staff of our popular Role-Playing website, based upon the old but still popular Resident Evilgames of the late 20th early 21st Centuries, knew we were the next targets.
We really shouldn’t have been in the school. I knew it and so did Kira. It was too difficult to fight from the computers in our homes. Kira’s father disconnected her family’s computer ever since the Internet Eliminator first attacked. My computer was still hooked up, but I didn’t want my family to know what I was doing and try to interfere. Dad would kill me if he knew I was going online to fight something dangerous. He’s been protective of my brothers and me ever since Mom died and it got worse when my older brother, Avery, was killed last month. I wanted to use the school’s computers. We would have a lesser chance of being interrupted. Kira just came along with me since she was my loyal best friend.
“Are you sure we should be doing this?” Kira asked as we stepped into the computer lab. Good. We hadn’t been caught and somebody forgot to put away the Internet helmets. I nodded. Fighting the hacker was one thing that we absolutely needed to do. Nobody, not even President Thomas Cruise Mapother XCV of the United States, wanted to do anything and I just couldn’t sit by and watch our site die. It especially became personal for me when I found out that Avery was one of the death casualties. I led Kira to the nearest computers and switched them on. The date showed up on the screen: March 22, 2800, my sixteenth birthday.
I picked up my hideous gray helmet connected to the computers and placed it on my head so that my entire head except for my nose, mouth, and most of my chin-length auburn hair were covered. From inside the computer, I could see my body standing in front of the door to our website next to Kira. I took a deep breath and placed my hand upon the door to log into the site.
When logged in, I was automatically led into the clean, white staff room. Some of the other staff members were already there, sitting around the round table in the middle of the room. Miles, the administrator from Australia, grinned at the two of us. “Welcome Kira and Chibi.” he said in his thick accent. I groaned. I hate that stupid nickname. I want people to call me by my real name: Farah rather than the one that means “tiny”. It sucks. Because I am one of the smallest people in the world at 4’8’’, I automatically get that nickname. Kira’s the only one that actually calls me Farah, which is nice considering the fact that she’s a whole foot taller than me.
When Kira and I took our seats at the table, I was surprised at how few people showed up. Of the twelve staff members around the site, only five actually came to fight back. I was a little angry. With not even half of the staff members showing up, the battle would be much harder to win.
“Is this it? This is everyone that came here?!” I asked angrily. It had to be a joke. Earlier in the afternoon, the entire staff came into the room for a meeting and all but one said that they’d be here. Of course, then I remembered that about half that promised to come were extremely unreliable and rarely made it to the really big meetings. Unfortunately, it was not a joke. Nobody else was coming and at the moment, we were at a severe disadvantage.
Miles reached under the table and pulled out five identical gray boxes and placed them on the table. One-by-one, he slid the boxes towards each of the staff members that showed up for the battle. When he nodded, we opened our boxes and picked up the two little metal cylinder items inside. They weren’t too big, probably only six inches long and one inch wide with a black dial along the side. I held one up and stared with a mixture of shock and amazement at the blue sword-like laser that came out of it when I turned the dial to the left. I was amazed even more as it grew bigger the more I turned it to the left and went away when I turned it to the right. This could be a very good weapon. Perhaps we now had a chance. This wasn’t even the last of the presents.
Again, from under the table, Miles pulled out five red suits, all the perfect sizes for our physiques. They were even big enough to fit the bodies twenty-three year old Matty, who was 6’3’’ and eighteen-year-old Mikey who was a little chunky. The only negative thing about the way they looked was that our heads looked like they were on top of a bloodspot.
“I made the weapons and the suits before the Internet Eliminator came around. The suits prevent some virus attacks, but I’m unsure of how well it will do for this battle.” Miles explained. He didn’t need to talk about the lasers. Everyone knew what the lasers did thanks to the fact that I already tried out one of mine.
Miles lowered the protective barriers of the site and ordered all of us to make it outside of the website to protect it from the monsters from all sides. I was ready to fight. The instant I stood on the west outside wall of the website, I felt my face pale. I came face-to-face with what my brother must have seen before he died. There was one small me and around ten thousand fast, different sized bug-like creatures in hard suits and with what looked like spears.
I’m a tough girl, who despite my small size can beat up people nearly two feet larger than me, but this would be near impossible. I knew that I would more than likely die during this battle, but I didn’t care anymore. If I was going to die, I promised that I would take the monsters and the Internet Eliminator with me so I said out loud my final words as the monsters came at me, “Happy Birthday to me.”
The bugs were coming from everywhere and their sizes were different. A few were smaller than me while others were much larger than Matty, but I couldn’t stop now. Even if I chose to abandon the site, I would probably die by the creatures before I made it four virtual feet away from the doors to the website.
My grip tightened on the laser as I turned the dial to the left far enough to make a close to three foot long laser sword. It was heavy, but I could still swing the laser like a sword. It only took one swing to eliminate almost a whole row and turn all of the bus into little pixels. I swung again and again and again until at least half of the monsters were gone. I had to admit that the workout was difficult and my heart was pounding as I swung the heavy item, but I couldn’t stop until I took down the Internet Eliminator. I wouldn’t stop.
The larger bugs, though faster than the smaller ones, were much easier for me to annihilate. It was probably due to my experience with beating up things much bigger than me in real life, but whatever the reason, they were easy to get rid of. However, I did notice something strange about the bugs. When they were eliminated, the smaller they were the stronger they smelled of sewage and waste that had not been properly cleaned.
Suddenly, I felt a jolt of pain from my right leg. I looked down and saw a group of bugs half the size of me pricking my right leg with their spears. The armor around my leg began to glow a bright purple color and my leg began to stiffen. The bugs must have been trying to infect my body with something and the armor was attempting to fight it off.
I knew that using only one laser wasn’t going to work. I would be gone in minutes if I used only one. It was tough to bear the pain of the bugs impaling my leg while I prepared my other laser, but it was worth it to watch a large handful of them turn into pixels with a single swing of both lasers. My arms and nose cried due to the strain of the lasers and the putrid smell the bugs left behind after being exterminated, but I kept swinging. It paid off to ignore the pain when I had only one thousand left.
I felt like a ballerina as I moved around on one foot and gave a few pirouettes while swinging my two colorful lasers and eliminated the remaining intruders. As soon as they were gone, my leg stopped glowing and I was able to move it again, though not without limping.
A crash suddenly came from inside of the staff room. Something inside told me that the thousands of bugs that just took out a handful of my strength was just a diversion from the actual threat and when I ran back into the room, I was shown to be right. The large, round table was broken into multiple large pieces under a large, armored ball with eight mechanical legs with blades on the tips more than twice the size of me. Whether the figure, which closely resembled a spider, noticed me or not, I couldn’t say, it went over to the white wall to my left and pressed a red button the size of my hand with one of its blades.
This was bad. The red button was used to turn the site on or off maintenance mode. Before the figure came in, the site was on maintenance mode. Only staff members were able to log onto the site so only we would be in danger of being killed. Now, the site was on maintenance mode and, within seconds, regular members were starting to log in and wander all over Raccoon City as if nothing was going on.
Almost immediately, Kira, Miles, Matty, and Mikey ran into the staff room. While Mile’s face had a look of pure anger, the others looked just as shocked and horrified as I did. Without thinking, Matty gave a mad dash for the spider in front of us with his laser gripped in his hands. It was a really stupid idea, considering the fact that he is the smart one of the group. The spider made it even more clear of how stupid the idea was when it back-handed Matty with enough force to knock him into one of the television screens on the walls. Matty always claimed to be thickheaded and this attack seemed to prove it. He wasn’t really hurt although his cranium managed to damage the screen used to watch the downtown part of Raccoon City and have shards of the screen in his fauxhawk.
As Matty started to stand up, the remaining staff attempted to fight back with our lasers. One of the large, mechanical legs swung at me and threw my laser ten feet to my left. When I attempted to rush towards it, the spider swiped at me and knocked me away. My butt ached as it slid across the now-dirty floor.
I had only one laser left and I was stuck using it to hit the legs that swiped at me. Miles, Matty, and Mikey were also being swiped at by the spider’s legs. Like me, whenever they ran towards it, they were swiped at and used their lasers to hit back the legs.
I turned to look at Kira. Though her body was just slightly overweight, she was able to dodge the attacks of the monster. Her body shook. Beads of digital sweat rolled down her cheeks and into her brown hair. I knew what the frightened look in her hazel eyes meant. She wanted to go home. We needed her to fight but I couldn’t stop her from leaving while the exit was still free. “Kira,” I told her as calmly as I could, “If you want to go home, go through the exit while you still can. I understand your fear and it might be a little too much for you, but if you think you can handle it, please stay and fight. We could use all the help we can get.”
Kira nodded, but stayed put. I knew what that meant. As frightened as she truly was, she wasn’t going to leave. Not without me. She never wanted to leave anywhere without me. She was too much of a loyal friend and a good person to abandon me in my time of need.
While the creature attacked the five of us, I quickly knew what its main target was as soon as it started heading for another part of the room. To the right of Miles stood the control board, where we held all of our information and controlled all the places to the site. That was the perfect target for a malicious monster and, sure enough, that’s exactly where the Eliminator was heading.
Miles quickly exchanged his laser for a handgun similar to a Beretta from the early Century and pointed it at the monster. I knew what it was. The gun was created by himself and two often-absent staff members from Russia and China. Xiros and Alyssia created the special bullets to freeze the target, whatever it was, momentarily with a virus in its tracks. It was a very useful weapon, but even with Mikey attempting to protect both the administrator and the control board, the Internet Eliminator was attacking them with its legs. Miles couldn’t even get a good aim at it.
Mikey and Miles kept on taking beatings as they attempted to protect the control board. I could see cuts and bruises forming on their legs, arms, and cheeks, but they remained tough. I just didn’t know how much they could take. I rushed towards the spider and slashed it with my laser when I managed to duck underneath the arms. The armor was too strong. I couldn’t even give a dent. Even when Miles was able to freeze the monster in a mysterious golden light, Kira, Matty, and I were unable to cause any damage no matter how much we slashed.
I had an idea to cause some damage. Standing above the spider was a mirror Mikey talked Miles into installing to play practical jokes with a laser pointer on other members. It was also used for Miles to watch the other staff’s hands during a meeting to see if they were really paying attention. Perhaps I could attack it with the mirror, but I needed a boost.
“Chibi, what the hell?!” Matty protested when I climbed up his back and sat on his shoulders. Matty was having problems holding my body up, but I had a better look at the top of the spider. I had to laugh on the inside. The stupid person who created this monstrosity put a hole in the very top, a hole that was just wide enough to fit my laser.
I hurled the laser like a javelin at the mirror. The laser reflected off the mirror and landed straight into the hole…at the very second the virus on the spider wore off. The spider began to shake madly, as if it was about to explode. One-by-one, parts of the top of the creature fell off to the side, a mechanical orange being peeled by an unseen force. What was left of the creature were the legs, a bottom floor, mini-control panel, and an angry blonde woman dressed in a lacey black lingerie top and a matching mini skirt.
My eyes widened and I could tell that the rest of the staff were surprised too. The Internet Eliminator, our main enemy, the one that tried to kill everyone in sight, was one of the staff members of Resident Evil Evolution RPG, a watchman named Paulina.
Paulina looked angrier than she had been when I saw her earlier at the staff meeting. I knew she was still bitter about being demoted from a Moderator, or third-in-command like Mikey, to a normal watchman with almost no authority six months ago because she abused her authority, but hurting thousands of innocent people was just cruel.
“Paulina, what the hell?” I asked surprised. I never liked Paulina in the beginning. Aside from the fact that she called me “Chibi” in an insulting voice rather than the playful one the other staff used, she was a complete snob who constantly tried to bully everyone. I remember one time the two of us got into an argument over another member’s question that escalated into a real catfight. We went together like cats and dogs. The other members felt the same way.
“Shut up!” Paulina screamed in her horrid screechy voice. There she was trying to order me around again. Paulina pressed a few buttons and turned some dials on the control board in front of her. The legs of her mechanical spider swiped at random staff members, this time faster than before. It was nearly impossible to dodge the swipes. Most of the time, when I stood up after being hit, I got knocked down again.
We seriously needed more help. I never realized how strong Paulina actually was and we had nothing to trap her in if we got around to dismantling the creature she created. Thankfully, Kira made an excellent move. She ran to a nearby wall and slammed her hand down on huge yellow button three times. The yellow button was an instant call for the Internet Police, who came to help an emergency like a virus, much like the real-life police. Every website had one. Pressing once meant that there was a slight emergency so the police came at a normal pace, but three times meant that there was a real emergency and they would come running. Paulina was not at all pleased, especially when Miles was able to get a slice at her with his laser.
“You’ll pay! Every single one of you will pay!” Paulina screeched. The legs stopped moving in random directions. Paulina’s next attack would be the worst one yet. The legs straightened and the little part holding the legs, started moving to the left very quickly. The force of the turning legs helped Paulina float into the air. She looked like she was standing upon a floating buzz saw. It was frightening when she started hovering towards the rest of the staff. It was official: she was strongly intent on getting rid of us.
There was no way we could fight the buzz saw with our lasers. It was too strong and we all knew it without even trying to fight it. There wasn’t anything we could do except for to duck to the ground and stay there. Paulina wasn’t flying fast enough to sink to the ground to crush us nor was she able to tip diagonally. In a way this was good, but it also really wasn’t good. She hit the walls a few times and managed to carve into them. It would only be a matter of time before she headed for the control board.
“What do we do?” Kira asked fearlessly. I could only shrug. There was nothing I could think of that would do some damage.
Mikey crawled over and poked me sharply in the side. I snapped my head in his direction with a glare. Underneath his hands he had a little board with wheels on it. It was a useful little item that the staff and Internet Repairmen used to fix wires underneath the control board. When Paulina was heading after Matty, Mikey picked my body an inch off the ground and laid me face-up on the board. He gave me his laser and instructed me on what to do with it. “When she comes towards us again, I’m going to roll you towards her, attack her from underneath. You’re the lightest one that can do it…oh, wait. Here she comes. Good luck, Chibi.” He whispered.
“Wait, what?!” I squeaked, but it was too late for him to answer. I was being rolled at a fast pace towards Paulina. I barely had time to make a five inch long dagger out of the laser and shove it into a hole underneath Paulina’s monster. I was lucky enough not to continue rolling and that Paulina stopped heading towards the other staff. When I rotated Mikey’s dagger in a circular motion, I heard parts of the blades start to fall apart and Paulina scream in rage. I must have been attacking the wires for the monster she created.
“Freeze!” A loud, male voice shouted. It sounded a lot like my dad when my brothers and I angered him. The voice was followed by stomps and guns reloading. A few bullets were fired and Paulina’s monster stopped moving and fell to the ground with a loud crash. The ground vibrated when it fell to the ground.
“Chibi!” Miles, Mikey, and Matty shouted.
“Farah!” Kira screamed.
“I’m okay.” I shouted back. I was lucky. Before Paulina fell to the ground, I was able to roll out from under her. When I stood up from my spot, I saw that Paulina was trapped in neon-colored webs that prevented her from doing anything more than fidget and scream obscenities and death threats. Fifteen men in blue body suits, matching helmets, and handguns ran into the room, part of the Internet Police. My own father was amongst them and he was not at all happy to see me. “Hi, Dad.” I said sheepishly.
Dad’s stern blue eyes stared into my own blue ones. “Farah, what happened?”
“We got the Internet Eliminator.” I answered simply. It wasn’t exactly what Dad wanted to know, but it was the truth.
The death threats and obscenities Paulina was screaming didn’t help prove her wrong. The police went to Paulina and carried her away. She didn’t stop screaming and fidgeting the whole time.
As soon as Paulina and the Internet Police were gone, the staff that came to fight looked at each other and collapsed to our knees with smiles on our faces. We couldn’t believe it. The five of us defeated the one thing that killed thousands and we all made it through with no real injuries. We survived and would live to role play for at least another day.
Kira and I turned our heads to look at the clocks on the wall. The farthest left had the time of 1:02 A.M. Pacific Standard Time. The fight against the Internet Eliminator had lasted two hours. Kira let out a gasp, “Farah, we have to log out or we’ll get caught by the campus security.”
I smiled and nodded. She was right. We needed to log out quickly to avoid getting caught. “Okay.” I said. I turned to Mikey, Miles, and Matty and waved good-bye. “I’ll see you guys later.” In unison, Kira and I walked through the entrance to the sight and back into the real world.
Paulina’s ISP was followed to her original body in her Switzerland home. The Swiss police promptly forced her to log out of the Internet and threw her in the largest maximum security prison in the world. When asked why she would do such a heinous crime, she admitted that she was mad at the staff of Resident Evil Evolution RPG and bored with the rest of the Internet. I’m sure there were other reasons that she kept to herself, but it didn’t really matter. The Internet Eliminator would not be able to harm another person again. She was thrown in jail five months ago. Almost all of the injured people of the Internet have healed.
Kira and I didn’t log out quickly enough and were caught by the campus security as soon as we logged out of the computers and were promptly arrested. I’ve been out of jail for three months. Naturally, since Kira and I were caught inside the school after hours, we were both arrested. Originally, our jail sentences were set for six months each, but I managed to shorten Kira’s sentence when I admitted that it was my idea to go into the school. Our sentences were shortened again when the police found out that it was thanks to the help of Kira and myself that the Internet and possibly the world was saved. Kira only had to serve two days while I served nearly one month.
The Internet is now safer than it’s ever been. The world government created barriers for viruses on the Internet to block off the original Internet Eliminator if she got a hold of a computer or any copycats of hers. Miles, Mikey, Kira, Matty, and I earned metals of heroism for stopping the reign of terror of the Internet Eliminator who, had we not tried to fight, would have added at least 20,000 casualties to innocent people. Xiros and Alyssia earned metals of heroism too for the attack against Paulina.
Everything’s changed now. It’s weird not to have Avery to role-play with Kira and me. Resident Evil Evolution RPGis now currently the most popular website online, but people are trying to rebuild the three sites destroyed by Paulina. Kira’s gotten a little braver and I’ve matured ever since the battle. I’m still surprised that I was able to live through the battle. It’s hard to believe what could have happened had I not done anything. My siblings would end up dying because of the Internet, the casualties for the world would be in the billions before the Internet was shut down, and….
“Hey, Farah.” A calm voice says from my left.
I turn my head and ask, “Yeah?”
“Mikey sent a group of zombies into ‘Apple Inn’ and ‘Captain Matty’ is requesting for Chibi to take care of them.” Kira tells me.
I pull a Beretta out of my jeans pocket and tuck some of my hair behind my ears. I smirk and say gleefully, “Let’s go.” I then dash towards the inn in Uptown Raccoon City with Kira coming right after me. I laugh as I run passed and fire bullets at the random zombies and monsters created by staff and other members of the site.
Well, not everything’s changed.
So, what do you guys think?
Before I start, I should probably say who each character is based upon:
Miles- Mr. Mew
Matty- Merios
Mikey- Mikey
Chibi- me
Kira- Raine
Xiros- very loosely based upon Jazzbuddah
Alyssia- very loosely based upon Reaper
And now...on with the story:
The Online Battle
By: Escachick357
By: Escachick357
Two sets of feet echoed through the small school of Charmian High School in Charmian, Washington. I had to turn my head at an angle to look at my best friend, Kira’s, face. She’s a whole foot taller than me and I could see that she was afraid. It was more than an hour passed the ten o’clock curfew not to mention that we broke into the school after the security locks were set up. Being caught inside the school after hours would be an automatic arrest even if you were just a teenager.
I knew Kira didn’t want to come, but it was necessary. The notorious “Internet Eliminator” was attacking the fourth most popular website in the world, Resident Evil Evolution RPG, which we helped run. The hacker had already destroyed the three most popular websites in not only all of the 58 states but the whole world and caused 16,000 deaths and 140,000 injuries to users. All three websites were hacked into and flooded with viruses, which ended up trapping the users into the websites and, depending on how close the users were to ground zero of the virus attacks, shut down their brain function and evidently killed or injured the users while their bodies sat in front of their computers. All three of the attacks happened within six months and the staff of our popular Role-Playing website, based upon the old but still popular Resident Evilgames of the late 20th early 21st Centuries, knew we were the next targets.
We really shouldn’t have been in the school. I knew it and so did Kira. It was too difficult to fight from the computers in our homes. Kira’s father disconnected her family’s computer ever since the Internet Eliminator first attacked. My computer was still hooked up, but I didn’t want my family to know what I was doing and try to interfere. Dad would kill me if he knew I was going online to fight something dangerous. He’s been protective of my brothers and me ever since Mom died and it got worse when my older brother, Avery, was killed last month. I wanted to use the school’s computers. We would have a lesser chance of being interrupted. Kira just came along with me since she was my loyal best friend.
“Are you sure we should be doing this?” Kira asked as we stepped into the computer lab. Good. We hadn’t been caught and somebody forgot to put away the Internet helmets. I nodded. Fighting the hacker was one thing that we absolutely needed to do. Nobody, not even President Thomas Cruise Mapother XCV of the United States, wanted to do anything and I just couldn’t sit by and watch our site die. It especially became personal for me when I found out that Avery was one of the death casualties. I led Kira to the nearest computers and switched them on. The date showed up on the screen: March 22, 2800, my sixteenth birthday.
I picked up my hideous gray helmet connected to the computers and placed it on my head so that my entire head except for my nose, mouth, and most of my chin-length auburn hair were covered. From inside the computer, I could see my body standing in front of the door to our website next to Kira. I took a deep breath and placed my hand upon the door to log into the site.
When logged in, I was automatically led into the clean, white staff room. Some of the other staff members were already there, sitting around the round table in the middle of the room. Miles, the administrator from Australia, grinned at the two of us. “Welcome Kira and Chibi.” he said in his thick accent. I groaned. I hate that stupid nickname. I want people to call me by my real name: Farah rather than the one that means “tiny”. It sucks. Because I am one of the smallest people in the world at 4’8’’, I automatically get that nickname. Kira’s the only one that actually calls me Farah, which is nice considering the fact that she’s a whole foot taller than me.
When Kira and I took our seats at the table, I was surprised at how few people showed up. Of the twelve staff members around the site, only five actually came to fight back. I was a little angry. With not even half of the staff members showing up, the battle would be much harder to win.
“Is this it? This is everyone that came here?!” I asked angrily. It had to be a joke. Earlier in the afternoon, the entire staff came into the room for a meeting and all but one said that they’d be here. Of course, then I remembered that about half that promised to come were extremely unreliable and rarely made it to the really big meetings. Unfortunately, it was not a joke. Nobody else was coming and at the moment, we were at a severe disadvantage.
Miles reached under the table and pulled out five identical gray boxes and placed them on the table. One-by-one, he slid the boxes towards each of the staff members that showed up for the battle. When he nodded, we opened our boxes and picked up the two little metal cylinder items inside. They weren’t too big, probably only six inches long and one inch wide with a black dial along the side. I held one up and stared with a mixture of shock and amazement at the blue sword-like laser that came out of it when I turned the dial to the left. I was amazed even more as it grew bigger the more I turned it to the left and went away when I turned it to the right. This could be a very good weapon. Perhaps we now had a chance. This wasn’t even the last of the presents.
Again, from under the table, Miles pulled out five red suits, all the perfect sizes for our physiques. They were even big enough to fit the bodies twenty-three year old Matty, who was 6’3’’ and eighteen-year-old Mikey who was a little chunky. The only negative thing about the way they looked was that our heads looked like they were on top of a bloodspot.
“I made the weapons and the suits before the Internet Eliminator came around. The suits prevent some virus attacks, but I’m unsure of how well it will do for this battle.” Miles explained. He didn’t need to talk about the lasers. Everyone knew what the lasers did thanks to the fact that I already tried out one of mine.
Miles lowered the protective barriers of the site and ordered all of us to make it outside of the website to protect it from the monsters from all sides. I was ready to fight. The instant I stood on the west outside wall of the website, I felt my face pale. I came face-to-face with what my brother must have seen before he died. There was one small me and around ten thousand fast, different sized bug-like creatures in hard suits and with what looked like spears.
I’m a tough girl, who despite my small size can beat up people nearly two feet larger than me, but this would be near impossible. I knew that I would more than likely die during this battle, but I didn’t care anymore. If I was going to die, I promised that I would take the monsters and the Internet Eliminator with me so I said out loud my final words as the monsters came at me, “Happy Birthday to me.”
The bugs were coming from everywhere and their sizes were different. A few were smaller than me while others were much larger than Matty, but I couldn’t stop now. Even if I chose to abandon the site, I would probably die by the creatures before I made it four virtual feet away from the doors to the website.
My grip tightened on the laser as I turned the dial to the left far enough to make a close to three foot long laser sword. It was heavy, but I could still swing the laser like a sword. It only took one swing to eliminate almost a whole row and turn all of the bus into little pixels. I swung again and again and again until at least half of the monsters were gone. I had to admit that the workout was difficult and my heart was pounding as I swung the heavy item, but I couldn’t stop until I took down the Internet Eliminator. I wouldn’t stop.
The larger bugs, though faster than the smaller ones, were much easier for me to annihilate. It was probably due to my experience with beating up things much bigger than me in real life, but whatever the reason, they were easy to get rid of. However, I did notice something strange about the bugs. When they were eliminated, the smaller they were the stronger they smelled of sewage and waste that had not been properly cleaned.
Suddenly, I felt a jolt of pain from my right leg. I looked down and saw a group of bugs half the size of me pricking my right leg with their spears. The armor around my leg began to glow a bright purple color and my leg began to stiffen. The bugs must have been trying to infect my body with something and the armor was attempting to fight it off.
I knew that using only one laser wasn’t going to work. I would be gone in minutes if I used only one. It was tough to bear the pain of the bugs impaling my leg while I prepared my other laser, but it was worth it to watch a large handful of them turn into pixels with a single swing of both lasers. My arms and nose cried due to the strain of the lasers and the putrid smell the bugs left behind after being exterminated, but I kept swinging. It paid off to ignore the pain when I had only one thousand left.
I felt like a ballerina as I moved around on one foot and gave a few pirouettes while swinging my two colorful lasers and eliminated the remaining intruders. As soon as they were gone, my leg stopped glowing and I was able to move it again, though not without limping.
A crash suddenly came from inside of the staff room. Something inside told me that the thousands of bugs that just took out a handful of my strength was just a diversion from the actual threat and when I ran back into the room, I was shown to be right. The large, round table was broken into multiple large pieces under a large, armored ball with eight mechanical legs with blades on the tips more than twice the size of me. Whether the figure, which closely resembled a spider, noticed me or not, I couldn’t say, it went over to the white wall to my left and pressed a red button the size of my hand with one of its blades.
This was bad. The red button was used to turn the site on or off maintenance mode. Before the figure came in, the site was on maintenance mode. Only staff members were able to log onto the site so only we would be in danger of being killed. Now, the site was on maintenance mode and, within seconds, regular members were starting to log in and wander all over Raccoon City as if nothing was going on.
Almost immediately, Kira, Miles, Matty, and Mikey ran into the staff room. While Mile’s face had a look of pure anger, the others looked just as shocked and horrified as I did. Without thinking, Matty gave a mad dash for the spider in front of us with his laser gripped in his hands. It was a really stupid idea, considering the fact that he is the smart one of the group. The spider made it even more clear of how stupid the idea was when it back-handed Matty with enough force to knock him into one of the television screens on the walls. Matty always claimed to be thickheaded and this attack seemed to prove it. He wasn’t really hurt although his cranium managed to damage the screen used to watch the downtown part of Raccoon City and have shards of the screen in his fauxhawk.
As Matty started to stand up, the remaining staff attempted to fight back with our lasers. One of the large, mechanical legs swung at me and threw my laser ten feet to my left. When I attempted to rush towards it, the spider swiped at me and knocked me away. My butt ached as it slid across the now-dirty floor.
I had only one laser left and I was stuck using it to hit the legs that swiped at me. Miles, Matty, and Mikey were also being swiped at by the spider’s legs. Like me, whenever they ran towards it, they were swiped at and used their lasers to hit back the legs.
I turned to look at Kira. Though her body was just slightly overweight, she was able to dodge the attacks of the monster. Her body shook. Beads of digital sweat rolled down her cheeks and into her brown hair. I knew what the frightened look in her hazel eyes meant. She wanted to go home. We needed her to fight but I couldn’t stop her from leaving while the exit was still free. “Kira,” I told her as calmly as I could, “If you want to go home, go through the exit while you still can. I understand your fear and it might be a little too much for you, but if you think you can handle it, please stay and fight. We could use all the help we can get.”
Kira nodded, but stayed put. I knew what that meant. As frightened as she truly was, she wasn’t going to leave. Not without me. She never wanted to leave anywhere without me. She was too much of a loyal friend and a good person to abandon me in my time of need.
While the creature attacked the five of us, I quickly knew what its main target was as soon as it started heading for another part of the room. To the right of Miles stood the control board, where we held all of our information and controlled all the places to the site. That was the perfect target for a malicious monster and, sure enough, that’s exactly where the Eliminator was heading.
Miles quickly exchanged his laser for a handgun similar to a Beretta from the early Century and pointed it at the monster. I knew what it was. The gun was created by himself and two often-absent staff members from Russia and China. Xiros and Alyssia created the special bullets to freeze the target, whatever it was, momentarily with a virus in its tracks. It was a very useful weapon, but even with Mikey attempting to protect both the administrator and the control board, the Internet Eliminator was attacking them with its legs. Miles couldn’t even get a good aim at it.
Mikey and Miles kept on taking beatings as they attempted to protect the control board. I could see cuts and bruises forming on their legs, arms, and cheeks, but they remained tough. I just didn’t know how much they could take. I rushed towards the spider and slashed it with my laser when I managed to duck underneath the arms. The armor was too strong. I couldn’t even give a dent. Even when Miles was able to freeze the monster in a mysterious golden light, Kira, Matty, and I were unable to cause any damage no matter how much we slashed.
I had an idea to cause some damage. Standing above the spider was a mirror Mikey talked Miles into installing to play practical jokes with a laser pointer on other members. It was also used for Miles to watch the other staff’s hands during a meeting to see if they were really paying attention. Perhaps I could attack it with the mirror, but I needed a boost.
“Chibi, what the hell?!” Matty protested when I climbed up his back and sat on his shoulders. Matty was having problems holding my body up, but I had a better look at the top of the spider. I had to laugh on the inside. The stupid person who created this monstrosity put a hole in the very top, a hole that was just wide enough to fit my laser.
I hurled the laser like a javelin at the mirror. The laser reflected off the mirror and landed straight into the hole…at the very second the virus on the spider wore off. The spider began to shake madly, as if it was about to explode. One-by-one, parts of the top of the creature fell off to the side, a mechanical orange being peeled by an unseen force. What was left of the creature were the legs, a bottom floor, mini-control panel, and an angry blonde woman dressed in a lacey black lingerie top and a matching mini skirt.
My eyes widened and I could tell that the rest of the staff were surprised too. The Internet Eliminator, our main enemy, the one that tried to kill everyone in sight, was one of the staff members of Resident Evil Evolution RPG, a watchman named Paulina.
Paulina looked angrier than she had been when I saw her earlier at the staff meeting. I knew she was still bitter about being demoted from a Moderator, or third-in-command like Mikey, to a normal watchman with almost no authority six months ago because she abused her authority, but hurting thousands of innocent people was just cruel.
“Paulina, what the hell?” I asked surprised. I never liked Paulina in the beginning. Aside from the fact that she called me “Chibi” in an insulting voice rather than the playful one the other staff used, she was a complete snob who constantly tried to bully everyone. I remember one time the two of us got into an argument over another member’s question that escalated into a real catfight. We went together like cats and dogs. The other members felt the same way.
“Shut up!” Paulina screamed in her horrid screechy voice. There she was trying to order me around again. Paulina pressed a few buttons and turned some dials on the control board in front of her. The legs of her mechanical spider swiped at random staff members, this time faster than before. It was nearly impossible to dodge the swipes. Most of the time, when I stood up after being hit, I got knocked down again.
We seriously needed more help. I never realized how strong Paulina actually was and we had nothing to trap her in if we got around to dismantling the creature she created. Thankfully, Kira made an excellent move. She ran to a nearby wall and slammed her hand down on huge yellow button three times. The yellow button was an instant call for the Internet Police, who came to help an emergency like a virus, much like the real-life police. Every website had one. Pressing once meant that there was a slight emergency so the police came at a normal pace, but three times meant that there was a real emergency and they would come running. Paulina was not at all pleased, especially when Miles was able to get a slice at her with his laser.
“You’ll pay! Every single one of you will pay!” Paulina screeched. The legs stopped moving in random directions. Paulina’s next attack would be the worst one yet. The legs straightened and the little part holding the legs, started moving to the left very quickly. The force of the turning legs helped Paulina float into the air. She looked like she was standing upon a floating buzz saw. It was frightening when she started hovering towards the rest of the staff. It was official: she was strongly intent on getting rid of us.
There was no way we could fight the buzz saw with our lasers. It was too strong and we all knew it without even trying to fight it. There wasn’t anything we could do except for to duck to the ground and stay there. Paulina wasn’t flying fast enough to sink to the ground to crush us nor was she able to tip diagonally. In a way this was good, but it also really wasn’t good. She hit the walls a few times and managed to carve into them. It would only be a matter of time before she headed for the control board.
“What do we do?” Kira asked fearlessly. I could only shrug. There was nothing I could think of that would do some damage.
Mikey crawled over and poked me sharply in the side. I snapped my head in his direction with a glare. Underneath his hands he had a little board with wheels on it. It was a useful little item that the staff and Internet Repairmen used to fix wires underneath the control board. When Paulina was heading after Matty, Mikey picked my body an inch off the ground and laid me face-up on the board. He gave me his laser and instructed me on what to do with it. “When she comes towards us again, I’m going to roll you towards her, attack her from underneath. You’re the lightest one that can do it…oh, wait. Here she comes. Good luck, Chibi.” He whispered.
“Wait, what?!” I squeaked, but it was too late for him to answer. I was being rolled at a fast pace towards Paulina. I barely had time to make a five inch long dagger out of the laser and shove it into a hole underneath Paulina’s monster. I was lucky enough not to continue rolling and that Paulina stopped heading towards the other staff. When I rotated Mikey’s dagger in a circular motion, I heard parts of the blades start to fall apart and Paulina scream in rage. I must have been attacking the wires for the monster she created.
“Freeze!” A loud, male voice shouted. It sounded a lot like my dad when my brothers and I angered him. The voice was followed by stomps and guns reloading. A few bullets were fired and Paulina’s monster stopped moving and fell to the ground with a loud crash. The ground vibrated when it fell to the ground.
“Chibi!” Miles, Mikey, and Matty shouted.
“Farah!” Kira screamed.
“I’m okay.” I shouted back. I was lucky. Before Paulina fell to the ground, I was able to roll out from under her. When I stood up from my spot, I saw that Paulina was trapped in neon-colored webs that prevented her from doing anything more than fidget and scream obscenities and death threats. Fifteen men in blue body suits, matching helmets, and handguns ran into the room, part of the Internet Police. My own father was amongst them and he was not at all happy to see me. “Hi, Dad.” I said sheepishly.
Dad’s stern blue eyes stared into my own blue ones. “Farah, what happened?”
“We got the Internet Eliminator.” I answered simply. It wasn’t exactly what Dad wanted to know, but it was the truth.
The death threats and obscenities Paulina was screaming didn’t help prove her wrong. The police went to Paulina and carried her away. She didn’t stop screaming and fidgeting the whole time.
As soon as Paulina and the Internet Police were gone, the staff that came to fight looked at each other and collapsed to our knees with smiles on our faces. We couldn’t believe it. The five of us defeated the one thing that killed thousands and we all made it through with no real injuries. We survived and would live to role play for at least another day.
Kira and I turned our heads to look at the clocks on the wall. The farthest left had the time of 1:02 A.M. Pacific Standard Time. The fight against the Internet Eliminator had lasted two hours. Kira let out a gasp, “Farah, we have to log out or we’ll get caught by the campus security.”
I smiled and nodded. She was right. We needed to log out quickly to avoid getting caught. “Okay.” I said. I turned to Mikey, Miles, and Matty and waved good-bye. “I’ll see you guys later.” In unison, Kira and I walked through the entrance to the sight and back into the real world.
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Paulina’s ISP was followed to her original body in her Switzerland home. The Swiss police promptly forced her to log out of the Internet and threw her in the largest maximum security prison in the world. When asked why she would do such a heinous crime, she admitted that she was mad at the staff of Resident Evil Evolution RPG and bored with the rest of the Internet. I’m sure there were other reasons that she kept to herself, but it didn’t really matter. The Internet Eliminator would not be able to harm another person again. She was thrown in jail five months ago. Almost all of the injured people of the Internet have healed.
Kira and I didn’t log out quickly enough and were caught by the campus security as soon as we logged out of the computers and were promptly arrested. I’ve been out of jail for three months. Naturally, since Kira and I were caught inside the school after hours, we were both arrested. Originally, our jail sentences were set for six months each, but I managed to shorten Kira’s sentence when I admitted that it was my idea to go into the school. Our sentences were shortened again when the police found out that it was thanks to the help of Kira and myself that the Internet and possibly the world was saved. Kira only had to serve two days while I served nearly one month.
The Internet is now safer than it’s ever been. The world government created barriers for viruses on the Internet to block off the original Internet Eliminator if she got a hold of a computer or any copycats of hers. Miles, Mikey, Kira, Matty, and I earned metals of heroism for stopping the reign of terror of the Internet Eliminator who, had we not tried to fight, would have added at least 20,000 casualties to innocent people. Xiros and Alyssia earned metals of heroism too for the attack against Paulina.
Everything’s changed now. It’s weird not to have Avery to role-play with Kira and me. Resident Evil Evolution RPGis now currently the most popular website online, but people are trying to rebuild the three sites destroyed by Paulina. Kira’s gotten a little braver and I’ve matured ever since the battle. I’m still surprised that I was able to live through the battle. It’s hard to believe what could have happened had I not done anything. My siblings would end up dying because of the Internet, the casualties for the world would be in the billions before the Internet was shut down, and….
“Hey, Farah.” A calm voice says from my left.
I turn my head and ask, “Yeah?”
“Mikey sent a group of zombies into ‘Apple Inn’ and ‘Captain Matty’ is requesting for Chibi to take care of them.” Kira tells me.
I pull a Beretta out of my jeans pocket and tuck some of my hair behind my ears. I smirk and say gleefully, “Let’s go.” I then dash towards the inn in Uptown Raccoon City with Kira coming right after me. I laugh as I run passed and fire bullets at the random zombies and monsters created by staff and other members of the site.
Well, not everything’s changed.
So, what do you guys think?