Untoten Kreuzung
Chapter 2
With controllers in hand, they waited for the Playstation to boot up.
"You guys are gonna love this. It's called Call of Duty." Rune declared. The blank TV screen was replaced with the transparent stream of blue and a number of smiley face icons. Rune selected the first one on the list and scrolled over a few times and then down.
She selected the game disc and waited for the game to start.
"So vhat kind of game is zhis, und how do ve use zhese controllers." Richtofen asked skeptically.
"This is an FPS, or first person shooter for short. And you hold the controller with your thumbs on the analog sticks, index fingers on the top buttons, R1 and L1 which you also use your indexes to use the ones behind them." She explained.
Nikolai dropped his controller after struggling to hold it correctly. Rune sighed and faced the others.
"Like this." She said, demonstrating the proper holding technique. They all nodded their heads like something had clicked.
The intro was now playing on the screen. Flashes of different documents and videos went by until Rune skipped it.
"Sorry, I just can't stand going through that for the hundredth time." She stated. The menu screen came up.
"This is Call of Duty: Black Ops. I hope you guys don't mind if I take you through a quick tutorial."
She quickly scrolled down to the split screen option and waited for the next screen to show. When it did she switched the map to Nuketown and set the mode to free-for-all.
"Alright, now you guys press the button on the middle of the controller." She instructed. One by one new players entered the list. She hit the start match option and waited for the loading screen to finish.
It took at least an hour for the three to get into the rhythm of the game and soon they were playing pretty decently.
"Oorah! Take that Nikolai!" Dempsey hollered as he killed Nikolai with the M16.
"Ah c'mon Tank, I had to reload. It not even fair that way." Nikolai complained.
"Oh, Dempsey~ I found your little head in ze vindow." Richtofen sang, and he preceded to headshot the American from the other house's window.
Rune was in the backyard of the yellow house, prone on the ground. She had been observing them while they got orientated with the game.
"You think you guys are ready for a match with me?" she asked.
"Ready? Ha! I'll own you!" Tank laughed. Rune gave him a sinister sneer and ended the match. She changed the map to Summit and started another match.
The game started and they all chose their classes. Richtofen took the sniper class, Nikolai took the LMG, Dempsey took the assault class, and Rune selected her custom class.
"You never told us about customization." Richtofen commented.
"I'll let you guys customize after this match." She replied.
Rune started on the far side of the map and changed out to the M1911. She ran into the main building and jumped on the terminals and onto the catwalk. Then she switched back to her Famas and waited. After looking around his spawn area, Dempsey went into the main building only to get shot in the back by Rune, who laughed at his misfortune.
"What!? Where are you?" he raged.
"It's a secret." She replied deviously. Tank began his fruitless journey to kill Rune by constantly going into the main building, only to find that she'd moved to another part of the catwalk and got killed himself.
"I thought you said you were gonna own me, Dempsey?" Rune mocked.
Dempsey growled and tried to go in through the fenced way. This time instead of getting shot by the Famas, he was owned with the M1911, which caused Rune to laugh maniacally. Meanwhile Nikolai was not having a good time with Richtofen, who had constantly shot him with the L9A1 and moved to another location.
"I'm going to kill you Richtofen!" Nikolai shouted, after the fifth death he'd suffered from the German.
Suddenly Rune heard a click on her M1911 and then switched to her Famas only to find that it too was out of ammo.
"Oh dear," she mused, "it appears I've run out of ammo."
"Haha! You're mine now you little snake!" Dempsey laughed. He entered the building and scanned the catwalk where he expected to find her, but didn't.
"Where'd you go, you little bitch?" he growled. Rune had slipped out through the window and was now running to where Richtofen had marked his territory with littered bodies of Nikolai's character.
"Oh look, a lost little rabbit in my part of the woods. Nahaha! Die!" Richtofen screamed. He let loose a bullet which he thought for sure would kill her in one hit, but to his surprise he missed completely.
"Nope, I got Marathon pro. You're never gonna catch me, forget about it," Rune mused as she ran out of Richtofen's line of sight, "see ya'll next year!"
"Get back hier you little schwein!" he yelled.
"Okay you asked for it." Rune said as she went back, climbed through the window, which startled him and proceeded to knife him.
"Vhat!? You little schweinhund!"
She picked up Richtofen's L9A1 and went back to the main building. When she got in Dempsey came out from the catwalk and shot at her. Rune escaped with a severely bloody screen. She checked her score and realized that she needed one more kill to win. With a bit of luck and bravery she managed an amazing final headshot that ended the match.
Dempsey was speechless and the other two were disappointed that they didn't win. Rune sat back in her chair with her controller on her lap.
"Don't worry guys you'll get better." She encouraged.