Well... this story was an experiment. I liked how it turned out. Hope you did too! Thank you SO much for reading. :)


Fili and Legolas shared an uneasy glance when their names were spoken over the comm. requesting them to come into the character hall. The other characters glanced over briefly in mild interest before going back to lounging. Fili took a deep breath before standing slowly and making his way over to the lone door, Legolas right behind him.

Standing in the door-lined hall, flanked by two robotic creatures, was a lean, clawed man, a ready grin on his face and a sinister gleam in his eye.

"Fili of the Hobbit. Dwarf. Brother of Kili." The man grinned. "And Legolas of the Hobbit. Elf. Suitor of Tauriel." His smirk widened. "Terribly sorry to disturb you both from your relaxation, but the two of you are needed for a little task."

Kili breathed heavily, trying to keep up with the others. His height was really becoming a disadvantage with all this jumping and scurrying around they had to do.

He, Tauriel, and Rin followed the strange women through the junkyard, heading into a long tunnel formed out of lifeless bodies and nets to keep out the sentence stones. This, in turn, opened into a large cavern. The walls were covered in wiring and metal plating. Kili stared up at the ceiling above him. An emptied out robot stomach is what it looked like, though he doubted such a thing was safe. Then his attention turned down as he surveyed the place he had just entered. There were over a dozen characters of various races and worlds. They were almost extensively female. Kili met one's gaze, who quickly looked down. There had been a hopelessness in her eyes and Kili noticed the girl was looking a bit faded around the edges.

"She's beginning the disappearance." Kili jumped as one of the three they had met topside appeared next to him. She was about his height… at least… Kili thought it was a she. It was hard to tell. "That's the fate all of us will reach eventually." That would explain the gloom of the place. "The name's Ibûn." The OC offered a hand. Kili shook it hesitantly.

"Kili, from the Ho-"

"I know who you are." Ibûn nodded. "My story was from the Hobbit too, until it was deleted of course. You, your brother, and myself were good friends."

It was strange. Kili had to admit. This stranger was at ease with him, though he had never met them before. "I see… who… which of us were you paired with?" Kili asked hesitantly, unsure if he really wanted to know.

Ibûn chuckled quietly. "Neither. I'm not a girl you know."

"Well that doesn't really mean much I've found." Kili sighed.

"True." Ibûn nodded. Her face had not changed nearly at all throughout the entire conversation. "Perhaps that was why the story didn't work out. Maybe because the beginning was a piece of crap."

"Ibûn! Canon! Keep up, will you?" The one called Bom Bom called from ahead of them. Ibûn nodded to her and quickened pace, dropping the conversation completely.

Kili turned his attention to Tauriel and Rin. The elf was looking around in quiet shock, just as he had. Rin was trembling nervously. "Are you alright?" He asked.

"No, yeah, I'm…" Rin frowned for a moment before covering it up with a smile. "I really am dead, aren't I. Dying anyway." She looked around at the other OC's in the room. "All of us are." Kili could find nothing to say.

"The drones won't find you in here." The seeming leader called to them as she relaxed against a wall. "Figure out whatever you're trying to do and do it. There's no point trying to change anything."

"What do you mean by that?" Tauriel asked in annoyance.

The leader unslung the ray gun from her back and dropped it next to her crossbow. "You think she's the only one who's tried to escape?" She nodded towards Rin and laughed. "Not even close, my friend. Not even close."

"What happened to the others then?" Tauriel continued to question.

"This, that. They all got burned in the end. Bom Bom over there tried to start a rebellion about four months ago. She got a bunch of techies from the Matrix and busted everyone out, taking out all the coding that kept the characters dormant." The leader shrugged, smirking fondly at the memory.

"And?" Tauriel prompted her to continue.

The woman looked up at her with a strange look in her eye and snorted. "You were there."

"I think I'd remember… oh."

"Exactly." The leader relaxed back again. "They actually had to bring in the moderators for that one, but once they did, it didn't last long. I'm Little Red Riding Hood by the way. But you can just call me Lil." She introduced herself then began pointing out some of the others. "Bom Bom's second in command, the Matrix. Ibûn's the one talking to your friend over there, the Hobbit. Cool dude, didn't get a good story though. The one in the corner's Gillian Jones. Supernatural. She's part demon or something I think. Never really here, she was terminated pretty early. Almost gone at this point. She's become incorporeal." The introductions went on.

"So what are we supposed to do?" Tauriel asked as Kili and Rin came over.

"Nothing." Lil shrugged. "There's nothing to do. You all will sit down here till you decide to try some stupid plan to free everyone, then you'll get captured and you'll forget everything."

"And I'll stay here?" Rin asked.

"Until you disappear." Lil nodded. Rin's face dropped. Kili watched her in concern.

"No…" he shook his head. "No, there must be a way… We can't give up this easily!"

"Do what you want." Lil shrugged. "We've helped all we can. You're just prolonging the inevitable."

"You can't honestly believe that." Tauriel said. Lil just closed her eyes and pretended to go to sleep. The three looked at each other in fear and confusion. "Now what?" the elf shrugged.

"We aren't going to give up that easily, are we?" Kili asked, nudging Rin in the shoulder. The green haired girl looked up in surprise.

"…Right!" A small smile returned to her face. "We've still got a shot."

"How can we do anything with just three of us though?" Tauriel frowned.

"Not much." Rin nodded in agreement. She took off without warning, sprinting to the center of the room and shouting so everyone could here. "We're off to change this twisted system! And we could use all the help we can get!"

Not the most inspiring of speeches, Kili had to admit. But the silence was truly deafening.

"I know it seems hopeless!" Rin continued to shout after a moment. "And it won't change your fate. We're all going to die. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't keep living while you have the chance! There's no point to siting around here, waiting for death to come! We may fail, but we've still got to try. And the next time some idiotic idealist comes along, you've got to help them too! Again, and again, and once more after that! Because they may fail every single time. But if you don't try… then there's no way it will ever succeed." She beamed widely. "So if they want to kill us off… it's out duty to make as much noise as we possibly can before we go." Rin finished with a firm nod, feeling awfully proud about herself. Everyone was staring at her, unblinkingly.

"Mahal, that was a good one." Ibûn said evenly.

"Damn that was actually pretty moving." Bom Bom agreed begrudgingly. The others murmured to each other in agreement.

"What do you think guys?" One of them spoke up. "Shall we try once more? Just for old times sake?"

There was a chorus of approvals as one by one, the OC's rose to their feet, a hopeful smile on their faces. And the planning began.

"My plan was a good one before," Bom Bom said from the tight ring they had formed, standing around a crude drawing of the website's floor plan. "But we had nowhere to go once everyone was out."

"Yeah, just a lot of lasers and running if I remember correctly." A Doctor Who OC nodded.

"You should have felt right at home." The Star Trek OC smirked from next to her.

"Girls." Lil groaned.

An Indiana Jones OC stood up, finished etching the map into the steel they stood on. "If we want an exit point, there are a two access points. The Sign in and the Guest. Both gates are heavily guarded though. We'll need a massive force to break through that."

"It didn't work last time." Bom Bom shook her head, remembering the carnage.

"There must be some other way out." Rin peered at the map. "What if we were to… make our own exit?"

"I don't know…" The IJ OC looked at the map again. "From the sound of it, the walls are pretty thick." Something changed in her face. "But…" she started towards the map, eyes widening.

"Well spit it out!" Lil commanded anxiously.

"The External Links wall." The OC pointed at northwestern edge of the map. "All links out of the website are routed through here. If there's one place to hit, this is it."

"Right." Lil nodded. "We've got a game plan people."

The group was split up. A small group of OC's, lead by Bom Bom, would head to the control center, sneaking through the air ducts, and disable the door systems and coding as before. The OC's with explosive and highly dangerous powers would head to the External Links wall. Together, they might be able to breach the wall.

"You two canons should go with them." Lil told them. "It'll be the safest job and we need to keep you two safe. As soon as you two get captured, it's all over."

"Right." Kili and Tauriel nodded.

"The rest of us, we have the most important job." Lil addressed the remainder of the small group. "We're the distraction. Our goal is to target the main power cell. And to be as loud about it as possible for as long as possible. You got that?" There were several loud cheers as evil grins appeared on each of their faces.

"Get yourselves armed and move out!" The once quiet room burst into life, full of voices and the whirring of weaponry.

"Here." Kili looked over in surprise to see Ibûn handing him a sword and Tauriel bow and arrows. "You'll need these."

"Thank you." Kili nodded, accepting the sword and twirling it around experimentally. It had good balance.

"Good luck out there." Ibûn gave him a pat on the back. "We'll all need it." The two gave each other a meaningful nod and turned away.

"Ready for this?" Kili smirked as Rin came over to him and Tauriel.

"Are you kidding?" Rin grinned the widest she had yet. "I was born ready!"

Kili laughed. "Good to hear!" His smile died, as he looked at the girl in front of him. "Rin… thank you, for everything." Rin looked at him in surprise. "You've changed my life so much since you entered into it. Maybe… if things had been different we-" A hand appeared in front of his face, stopping him.

Rin removed her hand once he had stopped talking and shrugged. "Sorry to disappoint, but I prefer older men and incest." Then she smiled sweetly. "Besides, that was leftover feelings from my author trying to work in a love triangle between Oin, you, and I. You don't actually like me." Kili blinked at her for a moment before looking at the ground.

"Your right." He admitted blankly.

"Of course I am." She smirked.

"ALL RIGHT LET'S GO PEOPLE! GO GO GO!" The three groups started out immediately, each breaking off to go to separate locations of the junkyard.

Since pretty much half of the OC's could fly, they carried the other half, traveling up into the bright sky above until they reached the glowing ceiling.

"Bombardo!" One of the Harry Potter OC's shouted, exploding the roof loudly. Kili flew through the hole on the back of an Iron Man knock off, thinking to himself that sometimes, overpowered OC's weren't so bad after all.

"Alright!" Rin shouted from somewhere at the front of the group, consulting the map drawn on her palm. "Three more floors up and take the corridor left!"

About two floors up, a huge explosion shook the whole place from somewhere closer to the websites center. Sounded like the distraction was going well. The group of six broke through the last floor and immediately swerved to the left, following down one of many long halls. Ahead of them in the distance, Kili could make out a wall of glowing blue boxes. The External Link wall.

The distance closed quickly and soon enough the six of them were landing in the long room, facing the impossibly large wall.

"Alright, let's blow this joint." One of the girls smirked, explosives suddenly crackling in her hands.

"KILI!" The dwarf's eyes widened. That voice… he turned in alarm, as did everyone else. Standing at a distance behind them was Rules and Guidelines, claws outstretched to rest underneath two necks. Fili and Legolas were held fast on either side of him by drones.

"Thought I wouldn't notice you?" RG smirked. "I am head of security. I see all."

Kili's teeth gritted. "Let them go!"

"Oh no, that's not how this works." RG shook his head. "You come along quietly, and everything ends happily ever after. No more struggle, no more death."

"Kee! Don't lis-" Fili started, but a claw pressed closer to his throat silencing him. Legolas and Tauriel were merely staring into each others eyes, having a silent elf eyesight conversation.

"Kili don't let your emotions get to you." Rin warned from behind him.

"What would you know?" He snapped at her. "That's my brother!"

"Calm down!" Rin snapped back. "He can't harm them. Not for real! They're essential characters Kili, they need them."

"Oh ho?" RG looked slightly impressed. "The girl speaks logic. Shame it's not true." Kili's eyes lingered on Fili in horror. "Glitches happen. The writers will survive."

"He's bluffing." Rin repeated. Kili's teeth grinded together even tighter. He didn't know what to do, who to believe.

But before he could make up his mind, Tauriel flashed forward, shoving Fili and Legolas backwards from RG's claws, and knocking them into the drones holding them.

Kili watched in horror. RG was smiling.

Just as quick as the red haired elf had been, RG grabbed Tauriel and stuck claw into the back of her neck. Her eyes went wide before fluttering shut as she went limp. RG dropped her to the ground and turned back to Kili. "One down, one to go."

"TAURIEL!" The dwarf screamed.

"She's not dead." RG rolled his eyes, waving his claws around. "That's how I administer the dormant code. She won't remember a thing when she wakes up. And neither will you."

Kili snarled at him. "You bastard!"

"Stop him!" One of the OC's jumped in front of him to keep him from charging, releasing a burst of energy towards RG, while pushing Kili back towards the others.

"Hurry, let's bust this thing!" Rin and the two other OC's turned quickly to the wall. Rin and one of the girls were standing still, energy charged and crackling. The third had spent the whole time piling explosives against the wall.

"On my mark!" Rin called loudly. "Two! One! NOW!"

White light flashed, sending a wave of energy and sound exploding forth in a burst of conflicting energy. Kili was knocked to the ground, struggling to see through the smoke at what had happened.

There. He could see it. A large hole crumbled away and brilliant sunlight shone through. Stretching out for miles upon miles was a huge, colorful city, constantly moving and changing, buzzing with energy and opinionated jerks. Tons of buildings large and small covered the landscape for as far as the eye could see. And Rin stood before it all, trembling from exhaustion.

A hand grabbed his scalp roughly, pulling his head up as something sharp pierced the back of his neck.

His eyes began to close, darkness quickly closing in.

The last thing he saw was Rin. She turned around, smiled, and dropped out of sight.

Then all went Black.


Tanks sat in rows upon rows of green liquid. Each one held a different version of him. Kili could not help but feel his skin crawl at the sight. He'd never get used to this. Even after the thousands of times he had done it, the process still unnerved him.

Only Thorin seemed to have more copies of himself than Kili did. He didn't know how his uncle could stand it.

"Ah Kili! There you are." The young dwarf jumped, as the white-coated girl appeared suddenly a few feet away. The programing for story creation.

Kili didn't know why, but there was something very unnerving about the girl. Her eyes were so large and full of dreams. It was hard to pay attention to any features besides those eyes. It was like she sucked in all the enthusiasm and dreams of grandeur from the naïve authors siting in front of their computers or phones. Huge grins on their faces as they considered all the possibilities of how their peers would respond to their own piece of work.

"We won't need much this time. It's another one-shot." New Story walked up to Kili, bringing out a handheld device with a nasty looking needle on it. He hated it every time. The needle hovered over his extended hand as he braced for the quick but sharp pain that was soon to come. "Nope, they've changed their minds." New Story's eyes widened even more. Kili was sure if they got any larger they would pop. "It's another chapter story."

Kili sighed. "What's the summary this time?"

"They keep changing it." New Story replied, changing the settings on the device. "Probably they'll end up deleting it soon enough. It's actually a story of what's going on here."

"Really?" Kili made a face. "Who would want to read about that?"

"Most likely, no one." New Story smiled pleasantly. "As I said, it'll most likely be deleted soon enough. Alright, here we go." Kili gritted his teeth as the needle inserted into the top layer of skin. The smallest bit of blood filled the tube at the other end. New Story removed the needle, pocketing the blood in one of the many pockets on her white lab coat.

"Thanks, for this. I'll call you again as soon as another story calls for you. Have a nice day!"

Kili couldn't leave fast enough. The large metal door slammed shut behind him as he left the dark, tank filled room. His name sat in black letters upon a plaque on the door. Forty-eight other doors lined this hallway.

A door sat on either end of the long hallway. One was the employee door. Kili knew on the other side, the door was labeled with the name 'The Hobbit'. None of the characters were allowed through that door unless on special occasions like crossovers.

But that was mostly back in the old days. Now a days, with the recent technology advancements, characters just met each other through video chat. Too many escapees and security breaches back then.

Caused unreliable performance for users and the site overlords had to shut down progress until the characters could be caught and returned to their proper place.

Kili broke his eyes away from the door and walked glumly in the other direction. Walking through the door to a large lounge area. The summer resort was plush beyond reason. And there was an air of content over the place. Dull, bored, content.

"How'd it go?" Fili called to him lazily from where he was relaxing on a floating chair.

"Like any other time." Kili grumbled. "Someone's writing a story about this place."

"Hey, maybe something interesting will happen." Fili shrugged. Anyone within earshot snickered. Nothing ever happened here.

The End