I could email you the full version if you want coleslaw

Sounds good.

 

Blu smiled and then looked back down at the tablet in her hand. She admitted that seeing what happened to Yoss had put her on edge. She had only gone to the camp for a minute once Yoss had been moved away.

She had spent so long by herself that she still found it slightly unsettling to be in a crowd for so long. She also could feel the nervousness and anger whenever there were too many forumites around. She also, to her surprise, felt some wandering eyes over her as well.

Being at the side of things seemed to be easier for everyone in terms of social acceptance. Lonely took to the crowd like a stray dog to a pack. She wanted to tell him to stay away, but he knew them all so well, it would be unfair. She was surprised at how jealous she was of his acceptance. She kept it buried though because he needed it more than she did.

She did not wish to do anything to make him unhappy.

 She found herself running her fingers through her hair not for any practical purpose and wondered for a second what it would be like if Lonely stroked her hair.

 She felt very protective of Lonely.  She would have attacked Petey in a second if he had been the slightest bit aggressive towards Lonely. She was happy that things seemed to be smoothed over.

He was talking to someone else now. It looked like MK.

She looked down and the tablet, touching it gently around the side.

‘How do you deal with them?’ she shared.

‘I’ve never had to. I don’t intend to either.’ KRS replied.

‘Even the ones that hate me can’t help but stare at me. It’s very uncomfortable. I’m not some piece of meat.’ Blu shared.

‘You’re an attractive looking individual in a place based around gaming. You have to expect some attention’ KRS replied.

‘Is that why you have manifested yourself in this form?’ Blu shared.

‘I have always preferred to be judged on my skills rather than my assets if you know what I mean. I’ve been around so long that I think most of them forget. I have no intention of adding an extra complication to my existence here.’ KRS shared.

‘Maybe I made a mistake.’ replied Blu.

‘No, I think you made a choice. You don’t have a real you as far as I’m aware. So it’s acceptable.’

‘Thank you, you have been helpful.’ Shared Blu.

There was a pause of a full second between them.

‘Revel will take me back to the camp if you want to be alone. He slobbers a bit but he has his uses.’ replied KRS.

 

KRS emitted a whistle that had revel bounding over to collect her.

‘g.man please’ said KRS.

Revel picked her up carefully and bounded up the beach back to No Subject.

Blu sat and watched him run past Lonely, who dodged out of the way without even looking.

He was becoming more aware of his surroundings subconsciously now. Blu knew that it was only a matter of time before he would stop restricting what he could feel around him. There was no point limiting yourself when this place was all that you had. You might as well live as much as you could.

Being left in pieces and abandoned had taught her that.

Live as much as you could.

For as long as you could.

Blu was concerned that living on here wasn’t going to be that long unless they resolved the situation on the island.

The only other thing that concerned her was that Brooks had gone off radar.

She had kept an eye on him while he had been skulking about the beach.

She had managed to sense him all the way to the start of the Silent Cartographer. Then he had walked outside of her vision.

She needed to speak to him about Yoss. She had a feeling that Yoss’ change of appearance wasn’t a million miles away from Brooks and his regular changes.  It was very frustrating.

 

Lonely said goodbye to MK and made his way to sit next to Blu.

He touched her for the briefest moment on the face and they shared for a couple of minutes.

It was the first time that Blu asked him to repeat himself. She was concentrating on the feeling of his hand on her face.  

She had never just stopped and felt what his hand was like, and it shocked her that she was even interested in details like that. Three days was obviously far too long to spend in the company of these people.

She kept that to herself.

‘I can feel the spambots now. They will be arriving at the perimeter soon. The first wave anyway.’ said Blu.

‘What do you think will happen to us?’ asked Lonely.

‘I will fight to keep us safe I assure you Lonely. I would be a shame to lose you. You make this place bearable.’ said Blu.

She smiled at him.

 

Elmlea came running over to the couple.

‘The sentry guns have just had multiple contacts. It looks like it’s Game on.’

Soon. With the pie of fatness

Holy shit it's better than all of Halo

krs wrote:

I was being carried around in a dog mouth. Ew. Otherwise, lovely.

I brushed my teeth..

Outlaw wrote:

With bacon flavoured doggy toothpaste?

He prefers the cat flavour.

Thanks guys. Another part by the end of the week.
Promise.

Chapter Ten

 

Monkey headed of into the forest in his robot suit and towards the impending surge of spambots, Shabby joined him in his mini gear solid shortly after.

Someguy had left Face watching Yoss and had gone to join the RPG group. MattyJ and Sas greeted him warmly and they spent time organising their spells and practising some offensive magic.

The Dark Souls team had the pleasure of Djornson’s company. DJR was organising the team as best as he could, discussing tactics with Stone Chalice and Subbax. Speedhaak had joined them, in his most useful way possible. He was still floating around being cheeky and causing chaos where he could. They decided to hold their ground where they had fought their last battle, along the beach and just down from the castle. The Christmas tree was now a pile of ashes that seemed to be a part of a forgotten past.

The Halols made their way into the forest behind the hub towards the Shmupper hanger. The Battlefield team headed by Davie and Webbins headed up the opposite side.  Gonzo headed up the path right behind the hub itself.

 

Gunn stood with Mod and Petey. Beano was sitting over the other side of the camp with Tin Robot, who was trying to soothe Beano’s blackened eye as best as he could.

G.man was sitting down on the log near the campfire but stood up when Blu and Lonely approached.

They were always holding hands, he noticed. Lonely had let him into the secret that it was more than just a visual sign of affection for each other. They were talking. They had probably ‘shared’ more in the walk from the beach to No Subject than most people did in a week. It was more obvious they were a couple. It was the little things. The shared looks between each other. G.man thought he saw Blu squeeze Lonely’s hand as they approached the campfire.

Elmlea was keeping his distance on order to give them some space.

Revel was sitting next to g.man. KRS was sitting to the side quietly observing and making mental notes. In a tablet lying around doing nothing kind of way.

 

Gunn turned the laptop around so the new arrivals could see the display.

The image on screen was a semi-circle with the sentry guns dotted along the circle. There was a number above each particular one that represented the ammo left in each gun. The secondary number represented the weight currently assigned to the unit. The weights had been adjusted according to the surface the sentry gun was embedded in.

The group watched in shock as the ammo started to deplete quick rapidly.

‘I already have Gamerluke and Ramsteelwood replacing the ammo as quickly as they can. We should be able to hold them off at the perimeter for as long as we need to.’ said Gunn.

‘It looks like they are hitting hard around the Minecraft and Halo zone.’ said Mod.

‘That was where I saw Brooks heading to.’ said Blu. She didn’t want anyone else to know how far she had seen him after he had gone out of sight. She didn’t feel it was the right time to announce that little tidbit of information.

‘Is Workid still out near the summit?’ asked Blu

‘Yeah, still keeping an eye on things as far as I know.’ replied g.man.

‘Is there any way to listen to what the spambots are saying?’ asked Blu.

‘I’m assuming he could drop a radio into the throng and see what is being said.’ said g.man.

‘Why do you ask?’ questioned Mod.

‘I think the numbers of spambots are going to escalate rapidly.’ said Blu.

‘The Forum address is getting shared out by now. Ever spammer is going to hit us.’ said Lonely

‘We will be getting the attention of every web developer and SEO agency spammer in India.’ Added Blu

‘That will swell the numbers considerably.’ said Lonely.

G.man smiled to himself. They were talking together, almost like one person. It was fascinating.

‘I’m concerned if we get the attention of China, then what we have now will pale into insignificance.’ said Blu.

‘We will never get back to the control floor if that happens.’ added Lonely.

‘This is getting worse and worse.’ said Mod.

‘The Halo zone is down to less than half across seven guns, take a look at it.’ said Gunn, grinning slightly.

Gunn was right, the numbers were dropping below three hundred across that small arc.

‘I thought you said the ammo was being replenished?’ said Elm.

‘It will, it will.’ said Gunn.

It got down to one hundred and fifty before it jumped back up again.

‘I’m already working on increasing the capacity, don’t worry!’ said Gunn.

‘That was too close.’ said Petey.

‘Ok, let’s check with Workid and see where we are. I really don’t know what else we can do.’ said g.man.

‘I don’t think any of us do and I don’t see why you feel the need to lead g.man.’ said Blu.

‘I don’t know. I just want everything to be sorted out. I’m starting to hate this place.’ replied g.man.

‘I don’t think you are alone either.’ said Elm.

‘We still can’t confirm that dying means logging out, If we knew that then at least we some of us could get out.’ said Petey.

‘Those that have a choice could get out.’ said Blu under her breath.

‘Poor Reg.’ said Revel.

There was a silence for a minute as they thought of their fallen friend.

‘Do you think that Nexx and Dubs will be able to break through?’ asked Blu.

‘You saw me talking to them?’ asked g.man

‘I saw you wishing them good luck. That seems to be an unnecessary requirement considering how deadly they will be as a team. It was why I kept Dubs locked in the plane for as long as possible. I do not envy those that meet him on the path up the mountain.’ said Blu.

There was an uncomfortable silence in the group. It was strange that Blu had decided to remind them of who she had been.

‘I’m sure they will be fine. At least, I hope they will be fine.’ said g.man.

‘I haven’t seen Tempy either. Last thing I heard, he was convinced Reg was still alive.’ said Elm.

‘Brooks thought he had maybe taken his body somewhere to bury it.’ said g.man.

‘We can’t have people wandering off chasing ghosts because they want to be involved on some crazy back story with a more than obvious reveal.’ said Lonely.

‘I haven’t decided what’s happening with that just yet.’ said Revel.

‘An obvious Reveal, you daft mutt.’ said Lonely.

‘Oh, okay.’ said Revel.

Skade, who seemed to have nothing better to do than running around telling things to people, ran up to the group.

He caught his breath for a second.

‘Davie and Webbins are engaging the Spambots head on.’ He said.

‘They’re doing what?’ asked g.man

‘They figured since the guns won’t fire at them, they would have some fun.’ replied Skade.

‘Why didn’t you just radio us?’ asked Blu

‘Kind of got Vimto on the radio.’ said Skade looking at Blu with a red face.

‘I’ll get hold of them’ said KRS.

Her screen lit up for a second, there was the noise of gun fire and the drone of the spambots.

‘Webbins, where are you?’ said KRS.

‘We’re having a spot of fun here!’ shouted Webbins

‘You weren’t to engage unless the sentry units fail, please return to within the perimeter.’ replied KRS.

There was more gunfire.

Then there was shouting.

Then there was the drone of the spambots offering the latest Nikes.

KRS’ screen went blank.

‘I’ve lost them.’ said KRS.

‘Try Davie instead!’ said g.man

‘I’m getting nothing but Spam drone.’ replied KRS.

KRS then received a message.

‘It’s from Facewon, Yoss has managed to escape.’ said KRS.

Lonely looked at Blu and touched her hand.

She shared that she couldn’t see him, he must have run off into the jungle.

‘Right! I want everyone not out at the perimeter here where I can see them!’ shouted g.man.

 

The group split out and started to call to anyone who wasn’t involved in the defence of the perimeter.

They gathered together around the No Subject campfire, some of the forumites had some kind of weapon, most of them had dropped whatever they had to go to the rallying point.

 

There was a blast of light roughly fifty metres from the camp.  Lonely looked at Blu.

All of a sudden, gathering in one place did not seem like the best bit of thinking.

Blu grabbed Lonely and pulled him away from No Subject and pushed them both down so they hit the ground with a thud.

Lonely shouted out as he twisted his knee as he landed.

Blu turned to see Daviedigi run towards the crowd, stripped to the waist.

He was infected.

He was smiling.

He was firing the two guns he was carrying into the screaming crowd.

Only complaint is that there's not enough me in it.

Sasukekun wrote:

Only complaint is that there's not enough me in it.

there will be. Loads. Patience.

WHERE IS TEMPY


WHERE IS MY BODY
OMG

We* all probably will be dead, you should have put bullets in you fool.

*well, all except for that super-cool Yoss character who's probably off punching trees in the forest or something. When's he coming back?

You might disagree with this next bit then.

I do need some more ideas of how you guys would like to be involved.

So
much
blood