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Max
I moaned in happiness as I very carefully set the CD in the disc holder before pressing the close button. This was it. Ever since Death Dfyer 3 came out I'd been almost drooling (OKay, maybe that one time in class I was daydreaming a little too much and made a bit of a puddle) over the thought of Death Dfyer 4. And finally, after almost three hundred sixty two days, and seven hours of waiting, I finally had it. It didn't matter that I had been waiting in line at Gamers R Us for almost twenty-four hours, or that I had a twitch from not sleeping; too afraid I'd lose my spot in line. All that mattered was that I had just pressed play and entered the game, hitting pause for a moment to put on my headset. I was gonna play live and show the ameateaurs how it's done, baby!Entering the game, I take in my surroundings. It looks like I'm in a tunnel of some sort, with stone walls covered in grime. There are three paths ahead of me, and after briefly debating which one to take, I go right. There hasn't been any sign of life so far, but I'm not counting on it staying that way for long.
When I come out of the tunnel, I'm in a large room. Unlike the one I just came from, it's ornately decorated, with fur rugs and a roaring fireplace. Also unlike the last room, in the middle of this one is a gamer. "Hey dude, wanna team? You can ride backstage if you'd like. I'll show you how to play!" I said, smirking to myself.
"Sure. To tell you the truth, I'm kind of lost..." The boy says.
I grinned. "I can tell, the action's out there, Let's go" I said and ran off, pulling out my hoverboard and taking off out of the room and down the tunnel, not waiting up for him.
"So," He says, catching up on his skateboard. "What's your name?"
"I'm Max, you might know me as MaximumRide on here. I'm the video game legend. So you should bow down before me now and shine my shoes before I decide to turn on you." I told the boy. "Oh, and who are you?" I added, wondering if he would be too in awe to respond. It seemed like he was, because it took him a moment to respond.
"Oh, I'm Sam. Just Sam, no fancy title or anything."
"Well Sammy Boy, I suggest you think of me as a shield because we got enemies coming in. Just aim at their bodies and shoot. And if you hit me you're dead!" I added as an after thought before getting out my machine gun with unlimited ammo. (That's right, I had look up all the mods to the game on my phone the other night and already entered a few)I can picture Sam's eyes widening as he takes it in. He pulls out his gun, which pales in comparison to mine. I sigh. Looks like I got stuck with a newbie. Groaning to myself, I hit my head on the arm of the couch and fired, barely paying attention but already I saw my score raising. That's what you get for playing these kind of games since you were four, I guess. Sam on the other hand, has barely hit three of them. I think about taking him out, making it easier for both of us, but decide against it. There has to be something about this kid that's useful.
I look back to the screen and see Sam firing and missing everything. Then again...I shoot the last one dead and walk down the tunnel, keeping my gun out in case I decide to kill Sam. Of course, I will explore his talents before doing so. I'm not utterly cruel. Just ninety five percent... or ninety six... or ninety- okay, you get the point! Anyways, we walked on for awhile before Sam finally opened his mouth. "So, Max, are you a dude with a girl's voice, or is that just static?" He asked and I snorted.
"I'm a girl, obviously. No guy could be this awesome." I say. When I'm met with silence, I continue. "What? Girls can play video games too, you know."
"Oh I know, It's just... you've been like my idol since forever... and now you're a girl? This day keeps getting better!" I could practically hear the smirk in his voice.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm awesome, I know. There's no need to swoon." I say sarcastically.
"Well considering you could take me out any minute, I'm not really swooning, more of staring at the gun in your hand." Sam muttered as we turned a corner, running into two players with pink and purple gear. Must've been a the girls spot us, one of them shouts, "Angel! People! Should we shoot 'em?" Then she lifts up her gun and is about to fire before the other girl tells her to stop. Smirking, I aim my machine gun. "You shoot, and I will too! And I guarantee I wont miss." I spoke into my headset as if I were the creator of the game myself. What can I say? I'm just that amazing
The girl I'm assuming is Angel apologizes for the other girl. "I'm sorry about her. She's new at this." I hear the other girl say 'ow!' and guess Angel hit her. "I'm Angel and this is my friend, Nudge."
I snickered to myself. "Alright girls, wanna team?" I know, I know, you're probably thinking 'what's up with the recruitment?' Max, well, I had planned to beat the game, and you need a team to do so. After We win I'll kill them all off one by one and listen to them cuss me out before catching onto the top spot for this game as well.
Nudge readily agrees, but Angel is more reluctant. "How do we know we can trust you?" She asks and I can practically see her narrowed eyes. I immediately like this girl more. Unlike her friend, she seems like a true gamer.
I thought about telling her who I was, but then decided against it. Real gamers do MaximumRide's strategy. Even Sam most likely new it and was only playing along to talk to me well. "Well because if you don't, I'll just kill you." I said in a cocky voice, switching from my machine gun to two handguns and locking in on my target- the girls avatar's heads.
Nudge starts screaming into the headpiece. "We're gonna die! I'm too pretty to die! There's so many things I haven't gotten to do, like, meet a unicorn, or take down the sporks and the toasters, and I've never even met Magnus Bane! Goodbye cruel world!" Angel on the other hand, stays calm.
I blink and stare at the screen. "You do realize this a game right?" I asked, a little scared. How could there be people out there more insane than me? Didn't think that was possible. "So, if you die, you're still alive, just not in the game." I pointed out.
"Oh... Psh, of course I knew that! Do you think I'm stupid?" I don't get a chance to answer because Nudge keeps talking. "Wait, so if you shoot us, we can't play the game, right?" I nod. "Shoot me! Shoot me! The ungirlyness of this place is terrifying!"
I laughed loudly and heard Sam's chuckle ring into my ears. "Don't shoot her. She's just wants to die because I got pink gear and she got purple." Angel insisted, causing both Sam and I to laugh harder
"I don't see how you guys are laughing." Nudge says, haughtily, and I can picture her scowl. "This is a major injustice. I mean, look at this place! What kind of abominations would think people would want to play a game here? I told Angel that we should play Mario but-" She suddenly shrieks. "Is that a rat?! Kill it, kill it! Hurry up and- geyouhanofme!" I sigh in relief that the girl has finally stopped talking.
"Wait, was there a rat in the game, or in wherever you're at?" I asked, suddenly looking around. Since most of the game took place in the sewers a rat was very possible, especially a demonic one that can kill players.
Angel scoffs and says, "It's nothing." Then her voice comes out muffled, so I'm guessing that she took the headset off. "Nudge, that's your sweater you left here last week." I can't hear the other girl's response, but I decide that we've spent too much time here, and that's never a good thing. The more time you spend in one area, especially with this many people, the more monsters you attract.
"Well, I'm gone, feel free to follow if you want." I said and took off on my hoverboard, Sam on his skateboard, and Angel and Nudge both got scooters out, but like the electric kind. Hmmm... Must be another mod.
Soon, I can hear two boys arguing, which means we're getting close to other players. "No, Gaz, we should go this way!" Another boy says, "I let you pick the direction last time, and look where that got us!" It went on and on, and frankly, it was getting annoying.
"YO! Ladies, please, y'all need to stop jacking around." I snapped, clicking a button on my controller and spinning around to face the open doorway that showed to avatars in green and blue gear.
They turn towards me, and one of them says, "Hey, Gaz, let's ask them. Which way do you think we should go- left," he says, and I picture him rolling his eyes. Then, in a suggestive voice, he continues. "Or, right?"
"Well, I'm going left, just came for right, nothing there but some newbs." I said loudly so Angel and Nudge would hear.
"Yeah, I have no idea how she found that guy. He just screams amateur." Nudge says, and I raise an eyebrow at the screen.
"Nudge, Darling, I bet Sam has better aim than you, and that's saying alot considering he obviously isn't good at shooting games." I said sweetly, as if talking to a very special Ed kid.
"Ha! In your face, Nudge!" Sam gloats, but then goes quiet for a minute. "Hey! I'm awesome at this game, for your information."
"Sammy Boy, look at your score, unless it's above 500, 000 you need to keep your trap shut." I told him
"Ha!" The first one says. "Dude, you just got burned!"
I snickered to myself as the second one agreed. This was going to be one fun game. "And what's your scores?" I asked, being defensive since Sam still hadn't said a word
I can hear the arrogance in his voice when the first one replies. "Almost six hundred thousand." I try not to snort. My score was way higher than their's.
"Okay, so your better than Sam, but try a couple mill, that's getting somewhere." I said, smirking, and could just picture his eyes widening. Considering the game had only been released for three hours, that was a lot.
The other one was not so easily convinced. "Oh, yeah? Why don't we all just bow down to you, since you're so high and mighty? What's your name anyway?" He asks.
I was going to make something up, until Sam opened his big mouth. "Maximum Ride. You should be bowing down and licking her shoes at this point." He added.
I face palm as Angel and the other two boys start freaking out. "Wait," Nudge says, confused. "Who's Maximum Ride. My headset goes quiet, besides the drip of water and echoes that the game makes.
"MAXIMUM FREAKING RIDE? I don't know whether to pee in my pants out of excitement or fear! Everyone knows her stategy!" One of the two boy's exclaims. "Gazzy let's get out of here!" Blue gear cried out, and began skateboarding towards the exit, but I was already blocking it, my gun aimed at his chest.
"And what would that strategy be?" I say, cocking an eyebrow, but then dropping it when I remember that they can't see it.
"Uh- um... er... I... Uh..." Was all the the guy managed to get out.
"That's what I thought." I say. "Now, we're all sticking together whether you want to or not."
"B- B- But I... um... this is not fair! Oh, and I'm Iggy!" Blue gear added peppily. Whoa, bipolar much?
"And, no he's not bipolar. Just an idiot. And I'm Gazzy, by the way." Gazzy said, as if reading my thoughts.
"Alright boys, well, that's Sammy boy, the one without any mods, Angel is the pink one, and Nudge is the purple, now let's keep moving.
We continue on our way, Nudge and Angel on their scooters the rest of us on hover boards. Nudge tries to make conversation multiple times, but each time we tell her to shut up. We go on this way until I hear something.
Turning a corner, I see Orange gear and a gun firing at enemies. Without hesitation, I pull my gun out and fire. Sam actually hits his target most of the time this round and I'm utterly shocked to say the least, but not complaining. After all enemies are defeated the person looks to us. "Well, look who I ran into, the seven dwarves." Sarcasm drips from her voice like venom.
I blink. "You do realize that there's only six of us, right? Or can you not count that high?"
"Pft, six dwarves... whatever. Does it seem like I care?" She snapped and I grinned to myself, instantly liking this girl.
"You should. We just saved your sorry butt." Iggy says.
"Well guess what? I could've taken them all on without your sorry excuse for guns- except that chick! What mod did you use for that machine gun?" The girl asked, sounding a little impressed.
"That's for me to know and no one to ever find out." I answer.
"whatevs, I'll find out. I'm JJ in case anyone wants to know." She added, as if she already knew she was going to be part of our merry little group.
"Well, it looks like we found our seventh dwarf. I guess you were right!" Nudge says, probably plotting to get this girl to shoot her, since neither Iggy nor Gazzy would.
"Don't shoot the purple one!" I said quickly, before Nudge could plead to be taken down.
I hear Nudge mutter curses, and JJ laughs. "Um, okay? Why would I shoot her?""She wants to die," I muttered. "But Angel wants her to stick around so she is."
Nudge sighs dramatically. "This is so unfair guys. I mean, isn't there such a thing as free will? If I want to die, I should be allowed to. This game is like, so not cool. Do you know how much violence this game is promoting? Angel, why don't we go play wii or something? Ooh, I just got this awesome new Mario game we could play. I'll even let you be Princess Peach! Wait... No, I won't. But you can be anything else you want! Ple-" Nudge's voice is suddenly muffled and I check to make sure my ears aren't bleeding.
"Nudge, shut up or I won't kill you!" I snarled.
"I thought we already established that she wasn't going to die." Iggy pipes up.
"Shut up! I'm trying to bribe her to not blow my ears out!" I snapped, irritated.
"Nudge, if you shut up, I'll buy you a pair of shoes." Angel says, exasperated. I hate to think of what one of Nudge's rants would be like in person and on a daily basis.
"Alright." Nudge grumbled and then stayed quite for the majority of our journey. We ran into enemies every now and then, which helped us all with our scores, but what I found strange was it always seemed like there was an extra gun for some reason. Though whenever I looked around, all I could see was the six others of the group.
We set off again, after dealing with a particularly nasty group of enemies. The extra gun was still there, though whenever I checked there was no extra player.
"Alright, who's using two guns?" I asked, turning to the group, who all stayed quiet. "Well?" I snapped, irritated by their lack of response.
"Uh, Max? Nobody but you has two guns." Iggy says.
I scowled at him even though I knew he couldn't see me. "Alright, we're not moving to the other person with two guns shows themselves." I growled, lifting my own up so they all knew if they moved they'd get shot. Maybe I was overreacting, but in this kind of videogame, when anyone but the leader has more than two guns it's a big problem."Angel, I think you're idol is going a little nuts." Nudge says. Although it's muffled, like she took her headset off, I can still hear it. But I can also hear Nudge's shriek and a thump, and I guess that Angel pushed her off the bed.
"Nope. She's pretty sane actually. And surprisingly observant." A smooth voice said. It didn't belong to any of the guys I knew immediately. It was a new guy. But I couldn't see him.
"Who's there?" Iggy calls, and suddenly none of them think I've lost my marbles. They all quiet down as the voice begins to speak again.
"Who me?" The voice asks innocently and suddenly an avatar appears right next to me in camo gear. I jumped out of chair and dropped my remote before picking it up and aiming both guns at him. "I'm Fang." He said and once again, I dropped my controller. This guy... he was a Legend! Gasps erupted from the other gamers and I struggled to compose myself and get back to the I'm-Better-than-all-of-you attitude.
"Oh yeah? Why have you been following us?" I ask.
"Well, you are the Great MaximumRide, aren't you?" He asked sarcastically and I felt a little offended by his tone.
Before I can answer though, Nudge does for me. "You bet she is! She's pretty awesome, but I wouldn't ask her to kill you, if I were you. She won't do it." Nudge gets quiet for a minute, but then seems to realize something. "Oh my god! Will you kill me? Not one of these sorry excuses for people will, and I want out of this game!"
Fang chuckled and I blinked. I never expected a gamer with a higher score than ME to find someone like Nudge amusing. "Now why would I kill you, Doll? And what's this about Max being so awesome? What's she putting into your heads?" He asked, as if he knew me. Jerk.
"Okay, listen buddy. I don't know who you think you are, but you're getting annoying. And you still haven't answered my question." I find myself glaring at the screen again, something that is becoming a habit.
"Well you see, I thought I'd see how good you really are. After all you do have the SECOND highest score in the US for almost every videogame I've played." Cocky jerk.
"Well, now that you've seen you can go. I'm pretty sure we have more than enough people here, right guys?"
Nobody answered for awhile and I could practically see the smirk on Fang's face. "Guess I'm sticking around, Babe!" He said cheerfully. "Come on guys, let's go this way." And not waiting for anyone, started walking off. I snorted, thinking nobody would follow. But within seconds the only one standing around still was Sam.I sigh. "Come on, Sammy boy. We might as well follow him."
"You don't sound happy about it." Sam noted, and I almost smiled at how well he caught on to me. He sounded like what my brother would sound like if I had one.
"No, I'm really not. To tell you the truth, Fang is kind of ticking me off." I replied.
"Yeah, he's a jerk. We'll kill him off later, but he could be a good shield until then?" Sam suggested.
Though the thought of Sam trying to kill off one of the best gamers in the US amuses me, I manage to keep in my laughter. "Yeah, I guess so." In my headset, I hear him laughing with the others and say, "We might have to start planning the assassination early though."
"Pft, with my aim he'll be gone like that." I heard a faint snap and couldn't help but laugh along with Sam at that. His aim was about as good as a Helen Keller monkey.
"Keep thinking that Sam. Well, I guess we should catch up to the others. Wouldn't want Nudge to convince anyone to shoot her."
"Course not." He said and he began to walk off too, with me in tow. Oh what a fun game this was!
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