'Shit.'
The only word running through his mind, at the moment he was in an unknown area of New York City due to aimless wandering. Unfortunately, he needed the toilet and was kind of in a residential district. Also lost, very, very lost.
Crap, the brunet couldn't hold on any longer, he was going to have to knock on someones door... The door of the house in front of him in particular. Knocking quickly, he listened to the frantic footsteps echoing behind the door.
"Just wait a moment! I can't find my keys! I swear I left them by the door..."
Well great, he'd chosen the lodgings of a scatterbrain. A male scatterbrain whose voice sounded familiar... Maybe he'd overheard this person arguing with a self-checkout machine? Seemed likely enough.
"Found them!" With a rattle the door was open, and the brunet came face to face with a red haired teen. "Uh... Do I know you?"
"Look, man, I'm Chris and I'm really sorry to bother you, but I desperately need to take a piss so can I borrow your toilet?"
"Oh! Of course! Its uh.. Second door on the right! But you should probably come inside first."
"Thanks man." Was the last thing Chris said before he headed to the bathroom, slamming the door and locking it.
"Thanks again for letting me use your bathroom."
"You're welcome dude! Hey... Do you know anything about computers?"
Chris raised an eyebrow, he'd never been asked a question like this after using someone's lav before.
"Yeah... I worked as an intern at a computing company for a while. Why do you ask?"
"Oh great! Thats awesome, look man, this is gonna sound weird seeing as we just met and all, but can you help me? One of my computer games got an update, but I can't download it for some strange reason... Would you mind helping me out?"
"Sure, I mean, I got nothing better to do." Chris nodded towards the laptop sitting on the table charging.
He was led towards the computer as the red head loaded it up, he then brought up internet explorer, then G Mail, then an email.
"Michael? You don't look like a Michael."
"Yeah, well, you don't look much like a Chris yourself."
"Whatever." Michael clicked on a link and then let Chris have access to the laptop.
"This is the part where trouble happens: I try to update it, but everything just.. Crashes! And I havta meet up with my friends on this game or else they'll get worried. Heck, my gir- my friend might even fly in from California if I'm offline any longer!"
"Don't overreact. Anyway, if it keeps crashing its because you have too much data on your desktop, I'd recommend removing some stuff."
"Like uh... Powerpoint?"
"Sure why not?"
"Oh gee man, thanks so much dude! Hey, its a little late now, do you want a snack? I have some cookies in the cupboard?"
"Dude, you had me at snack."
After Michael had fetched out the cookie jar, he opened up the app he had just upgraded.
"TOME? Seriously? Thats the app that needs updating? Well, I don't like to brag, but I dated one of the technicians who worked on the game."
"I've fought against a guy who works at Netking software and won." Michael blankly stated as he logged on, typing in his passcode quickly. "I'm in!"
What the fuck? Chris would recognise that spiky red-haired angel-winged avatar anywhere! But this guy... He couldn't seriously be Alpha right? Riiight? Well, they were both gullible idiots called Michael who had friends in California...
"Hey guys, I was having computer troubles! Are you ready for the mission?" Michael spoke into his headset, which had randomly appeared out of nowhere apparently.
'Well, Kirb hasn't arrived yet, and we reeeaally need someone with wind powers for this quest, y'know...' A voice came out of the headphones, how loud did this kid have his volume?!
'Oh! Tis a pity the Squire could not make it today! We shall have to postpone our valiant quest until Squire Kir-bopher shows!' Oh great. Chris, shush your face, you don't want him to-
"OH FOR FUCKS SAKE! ITS KIRBOPHER!"
"... What?"
Shit.
