*Jonathan's P.O.V*

Ross had just came back from a long scavenge and as usual kept his kittens close to him.
Ross said: "Did you see the news? There are so many places to scavenge. I'm planning to set out on a new expedition and I want you to come with me cause you're an expert at equipment, especially weapons. We can collect tons of items and they'll sell for plenty on the market!"

"Sure, why not." I replied.

I went into the base where Emile, Danny, Jimmy and Wesley were chatting and said to them.

"Ross just came back from an expedition and we're planning to go on a trip for a few months, perhaps a year."

"Sure, there's not much to do anyways. Make sure to bring back a bunch of equipment, weapons, credits and supplies." said Emile.

"Alright, I'll get going now." I replied back.

I waved goodbye as I followed Ross and went through the portal.

*Wesley P.O.V*

I remembered something as I said: "Danny, don't you have some kind of camping program soon?"

"Oh yeah, I won't be able to get on for a few months. That's sad. I should get going and start packing and preparing for this."

Danny then signed out and left.

The room was now quite lonely and Jimmy, Emile and I were the only ones left. I decided to head to the armory to check out new weapons. I ended up adding a spear axe along with my bow and katanas. I replaced my robe with Light Armor from Skyrim called Nightingale armor. It's a very good armor for sneaking around and black is my favourite color. It has a black hood and some armored plating and would certainly serve stronger and more durable than my previous Robe.

I exited the Armory and couldn't see Emile or Jimmy anywhere so I went towards the Kitchen and opened the cupboard and brought out a fruit. I was casually eating it to replenish my hunger bar when I suddenly heard a noise about me and saw that it was a Symbiote. It suddenly charged at me trying to grasp at me but I activated an ice spell and froze it and made a run to try and alert the others. Too late. Venom and Carnage were already blocking the exit and I brought out my Speared Axe immediately. Carnage being more ruthless lashed out first and I cut down the red symbiote he launched at me. Venom then attached his arms and started to pull me towards him. Panicking, I used my Bow of Ra from Assassin's Creed and used flame arrows and fired a couple at Venom, severely damaging him. Sound and Fire are the weaknesses of Symbiotes. Although I'm guessing they probably developed a weakness for it. It's still the best chance I got. "Hyper Voice." I shouted as loud as I can as the entire base shook and the floor started to raise up.

Venom and Carnage were being pushed away due to the sound and it was working. Now I know how it feels like to be Black Bolt. Once I ran out of breath, I started launching flaming arrows again that kept them away but I was then kicked back and I crashed into the ground. I turned my body to look at what just hit me and saw that it was The Five Symbiote standing there. This was really bad. A Seven against One match seemed impossible to win. Luckily, the Venom and Carnage were just holograms but it was still going to be hard.

"Shadow Clone Jutsu."

I created four other clones of myself and we all wielded our axe and ignited it with flames. The five of us charged forward and attacked. Dodging and Parrying, I tried my best to defend against the five savage creatures and get out of the plight I had been put into. My Clones proved no help as they instantly got taken out that left me alone once again. I decided to take the high ground as that seemed to be the best option. I quickly opened my inventory and mixed my Hyper Voice Spell alongside my Fireball spell and that created the Blaze Scream Spell. I used it as the noise shattered everything in the large room I was in as well as spit flames. Through the smoke, I could barely see a thing. Suddenly, I was latched on by Scream's Hair and pulled towards. I struggled but her hair bind was too tight. I couldn't move a muscle as Phage prepared his arm into a sharp blade and motioned to stab me before a purple beam hit him.

Suddenly, a gunshot was heard and Scream was hit. I managed to get out of the bindings and got my weapons ready. Adrian apparently had finally come online and Emile and Jimmy were just talking with him again. Crashing in, Jimmy came down from the roof and fired a massive volley of bullets swarming down on all the symbiotes with his machine gun. Adrian activated his Power Stone Gauntlet and kept on firing beams as the Symbiotes backed off and struggled to fight back. Jimmy switched to flaming bullets and did the same.

I gave Emile my bow and he equipped Sonic Arrows and launched a few that injured them. Screeching, the Symbiotes laughed and now it seemed not to affect them at all. It was likely that they had built an immunity. This was bad. Emile returned my bow and grappled himself onto a nearby balcony and began Sniping trying to provide us cover. Adrian powered his Gauntlet and with Jimmy started fighting Scream, Agony and Riot. Jimmy used his blades that cut through the Symbiotes like nothing but due to regeneration, it deemed useless. He was cursing with some colorful language but due to the malware that I had downloaded onto my OASIS account for security reasons, it was automatically blocked but I could guess that it wasn't colorful. I, on the other hand, was struggling to fight against Phage and Lasher as they were fairly ruthless. Lasher kept on trying to hit me from a range as I had to also deal with Phage trying to cut me to pieces.

I used my speared axe and trying to use a simple parry and strike technique. Lasher decided to also engage in close combat as I was forced to switch to my Katana's so I could deal with them both.
"DUCK!" Emile warned.

I did so as Emile's Penetration Bullet Spell fired off and pierced through the Symbiotes and stunned them giving me enough time to use "Sonic Flames". Somehow, this worked and the two dissolved into ash. Adrian's Gauntlet had managed to defeat Agony, but Riot and Scream still remained. Scream was yet again trying to bind them but I wasn't going to allow that. I gave her a taste of her own medicine and used a spell "Holy Magic: Divine Bond" as I trapped the two symbiotes still standing.

Jimmy started firing fire bullets again and Adrian used his Gauntlet Beam which did the trick. We were celebrating as we didn't know what had happened to Emile. The Five Symbiotes were all bonding with him as he struggled and kept firing his gun at the symbiotes. He pulled out his Electrical Scepter and started stabbing them but was soon engulfed by the Symbiote.
"NOO!" I screamed.

I rushed forward and released the loudest sound attack from my hand as possible but that was no use. Their colors mixed as the Symbiotes that we were fighting were now unseen. The figure that stood in front of us was simply an Almond Frost colored Symbiote that stood still. Emile's Body was free from the Symbiote and Jimmy asked:
"Emile? Are you ok?"

Emile said in an unusual intimidating voice: "Emile is no longer… I AM THE NEW AND STRONGEST SYMBIOTE LOCKON. Just know that I never miss."

"Nani?" Jimmy protested. "Is that even fair?"

"No" I replied, shaking my head. "Nothing is fair in this world"

"Yeah, I guess… wait, duck!" Jimmy said before yelling all of a sudden.

My instincts kicked in and I ducked down for some odd reason that I haven't been able to see at the current moment[sucks being unable to have three-sixty degrees vision]. My avatar's eyes glanced up and saw a blast of Almond Frost symbiote goo that burnt away one of the walls that I had been facing with my back.

A loud hiss filled the room and I cartwheeled out of the way with my agility perks that I had been able to collect through a round of hunger games in the Hunger Games sector which was Sector 24. The now corrupted Emile blinked once in anger before his eyes turned bright white and they blinded my vision with some sort of invisible attack. I couldn't see anything, much less my health and mana bars that I always kept on the side of my screen's vision. It was just all white and I felt like I was in a pure white room similar to heaven through the myths but in reality, I was in a battlefield.

"Dude, I can't see anything" I said like it wasn't the most obvious thing in the world.

"Yeah… I can see" Jimmy said sarcastically. "I can see a faint figure but nothing else, you?"

"Nothing except pure white" I replied, rubbing my eyes to see if the effect would go away. "What about Adrian?"

"Adrian!" Jimmy yelled.

An awkward silence filled the room except for the laughter of Emile who was probably standing right next to me and I couldn't even detect him. I had no detection abilities and I had the worst scent tracking perks. At least Jimmy had an advantage with his furry snout. Gods, I got some of his fur on my bed and trust me, he didn't act so carefree after what I did to him as revenge. I had a bad feeling of this, there was no reply of Adrian and I could assume that he died, I think.

I was proven wrong once again because of Karma and I heard his voice from the outside world. Well, the sound of the toilet being flushed. I shook my head mentally, he logged out and went to the bathroom in a middle of a battle. After the whole "Easter Hunt" incident, Parzival removed the sixty-second log out timer so people could instantly log out and their avatar would vanish, I wasn't so sure if this was a good thing or a bad thing.

My ears rang and I could hear the sound of fallen gravel before I was punched right in the stomach with a hard blow to the rib, some blood leaked from my mouth and I collapsed to my knees. Emile must have struck and I couldn't see him due to this blindness that I couldn't get how to counter. Using any sort of magic would be useless as most of the magic that I could use needed sight for them to work, close combat was not an option and using a bow was definitely not an option. I could risk shooting Jimmy right in the head or bringing the ceiling down with us. Actually, that might be a good idea after all. I got back up and got into a fighting stance that Goku used, it was a defensive kata and it was designed for people to be able to block hits easily but with my blindness active, I wasn't so sure.

Truthfully, I had no idea what to do now and the smarter option would be to log out but that would mean allowing the corrupted Emile to run around destroying everything and the planet itself.

"YOU SEE HOW PATHETIC YOU ARE? NOTHING CAN SAVE YOU NOW" Emile cackled before charging a spear of some sort judging by the noise that he made.

"Jimmy" I said desperately. "Any ideas?"

"First off, we'll have to get rid of this blindness and fast" He drew his sword from its sheath.

I drew my own sword out, "How do we do that?"

Jimmy seemingly blocked a fireball and rolled to the side with more walls being demolished, "I can predict that this is some sort of magic. There is no other explanation for it. If we combine our mana together, maybe we can overload the evil magic through us"

I protested, "Won't that blow us to bits?"

Jimmy responded with a slight embarrassment to his tone of voice, "Maybe"

"How is that a good plan then!"

"I don't know. Might as well take your chances."

"Fine." I sighed.

Jimmy started transferred his mana and even though it was half of mine. It helped a lot.

"Full Body Echo!"

I started releasing sound evenly throughout my entire body. The deafening sound was unbearable for all of us but the Symbiote would be damaged the most. After a while, the blindness was starting to fade as I saw the Symbiote slowly separating from Emile. I focused once more trying to direct my spell just on the symbiote. The sound waves started getting quieter. When Jimmy and I could see once again. The symbiote was already trying to control Emile once again. I warped to the symbiote and hit it with a full power "Sonic Palm".

Flying, the Symbiote hit the wall and was burnt to a crisp by Adrian who had just randomly ditched us in the middle of battle. There wasn't time to complain however as Adrian's reckless beam had destroyed a pillar that was supporting the unstable building that we were in. How Unlucky we were. The beam had cut through the platinum base and hit a energy generator. Exploding, we had to duck for cover and the symbiote was presumably caught in the blast. If the sound didn't destroy the building enough. The ceiling was truly going to collapse.

Summoning a car, I told everyone to get in and started it. A rock landed right in front of us and due to luck we managed to dodge it. Exiting the entrance, the building exploded and collapse as the rubber on the back of the car wheels were burnt off and it was starting to get uncontrollable. I accidently tried to turn as that strafed us into the arm causing our car to flip over. This might've seemed a bit cliche but it was a videogame afterall. Anything could happen.

The scent of burning metal hit me as we had to get out of this car fast. I used my Katana's and cut open the doors before pulling Emile and Jimmy out. Adrian was thrown out of the car and low on health so I started healing him before remembering that we were still way too close to the car. I put the 3 into a sphere before launching it far away and following it. Landing, my surroundings and terrain didn't look familiar anymore as I made clones and tried my best to heal them with whatever remaining mana I had. A few minutes later, Emile, Jimmy and Adrian had lost their knock out effect which made the game all too realistic. It would basically shut down your screen for a certain amount of time depending on what injury you suffered it could put you out for hours or days.

Luckily, it lasted a few minutes. We were in a bad position. Our base had been taken down, everything gone except for our credits, resources and our two eggs that were close to hatching. We lost all our weapons. Emile finally woke up and his left arm had started hurting. It was apparently broken and that was the last thing we needed. Jimmy and Adrian also woke up a few minutes after this and didn't feel much pain. We were clueless on what to do. We guessed that we would start using videogame alloys to create a new base. I took out my axe and started clearing the trees. Maybe a mountain base would be cool.