Me: "Well, I had a great break. Now it's time for chapter 11 of Dimension Invaders. Sorry about keeping you on some cliffhanger or something for the next part. If you have any god forsaken questions of why I've been absent all this time, well, I've been working on something else in the mean time. Either way, it's great to be back to this story. I shall start on this. There won't be much action (unless I'm bored) but mostly no action, as this is pretty much a prepare-for-certain-doom chapter. Enjoy this chapter."
Chapter 11: Calm Before the Storm
Pac Plains. 2:05 P.M. 2 days later.
Pac was just sitting in a plain, alone. He couldn't take much more of this situation; everyone hated him, and with an army after him, he just had to go away from the city for a while. He knew there wouldn't be another invasion in the city because it would be useless, but everything was out to get him. It's been nine days, and the Noob Army was almost everywhere. Pac looked around, unsure of whether or not something followed him. He was separated from his own friends in an ambush, he didn't know if they were still alive. He knew his own doom would come, the day he had to finish this fight.
Not without his friends. He knew they were still alive.
Everything was going so well that day before he had to leave the city… yet…
It hurts him when he tries to remember it.
New Pacopolis Construction Zone (Flashback). 9:03 A.M.
Like Pac promised, he would stay to defend the city from any more carnage. He didn't have a weapon, but he had his friends with him.
Although… that's when he turned around.
An angry mob was there.
Giving Pac and his friends death glares. Angry about the enemy army always attacking him and his friends, and the city itself.
"Uh. Should we run?" Pac said.
Cyli just nodded and started running away, Pac and his friends start running as well.
Pac's friends had joined him (except Spiral who was elsewhere) after Cyli joined him in staying at the city.
Everyone was running (Pac and his friends running from the angry mob) through the center of the construction zone when a giant TV screen on a building that was finished suddenly blared to life, showing the image of the spear-wielding scoundrel that was now in control of the enemy army.
"So, it seems you all hate Pac and his buddies now, hm?" The person said.
Everyone was just staring at the screen.
"Well, I have some GOOD news and BAD news for ALL of you tiny circle people. Also some stuff to tell you idiots."
Everyone was listening.
"I think I should tell you who I am. I am the true leader of the army that's been on your behind all these days. I am Lord Noob. And yes, why have another leader when you already have an idiot being in control of all these freaks over here." He said.
Everyone looked at each other.
"Now, here's your BAD news." He started.
Everyone was STILL staring at the screen.
"Well, I just placed a bomb at the center of your stupid little planet." Lord Noob held a trigger handle in front of his face, then moved it a little to his right. "This is the thing-a-ma-jig that will start the timer of the bomb. You all have only 72 hours to live." Lord Noob said. "The good news. Well, it's actually for me. You're all going to die." He finished, giving a maniacal laugh before turning off the camera that was recording his ranting and the giant TV broke.
Everyone looked at each other.
"72 hours to live?!" Someone yelled.
"We're gonna die!" Someone else yelled.
"Calm down! We're gonna find that bomb and stop it." A cop said.
"How?! It's at the center of our planet!" Someone said.
Joshua and his friends then arrived to the heart of the city.
"Uh. We heard someone ranting on the giant plasma TV screen. What happened?" Joshua asked.
"Some guy named Lord Noob said he was gonna blow us all up in 72 hours…" Pac said. He turned to the TV screen, and it blared to life once more, however this time it only showed a counter that said 72:00:00 instead of somebody on the screen. Everyone's electronic device had a window that showed the same counter. Someone hacked the timer onto all electronic devices in PacWorld.
"Isn't the center of PacWorld basically the Netherworld?" Cyli said.
"The Netherworld? Why would they place it there?" Someone said.
"Unless they took over the place and planted the bomb in there." Sir C said.
"How are they even able to take over the Netherworld? PacWorld can't stop ghosts…" Blinky said, who arrived with the rest of the Ghost Gang.
"You keep forgetting the enemy army has weapons that we are too inexperienced to create." President Spheros said.
"We're gonna have to go to the Netherworld and stop the bomb from going off, then. We only have three days to stop the bomb from going off." Pac said.
The timer on the giant TV screen suddenly started.
"Then we better not waste any time. Every second counts." President Spheros said.
"How about Sir C gets everyone into a giant rocket to blast off into space while Pac tries to stop the bomb?" Pinky suggested.
"That is a good idea, but I don't know if Sir C can make the rocket before the timer goes to 0…" Pac said.
Pinky just smiled and rolled with the idea.
"Well, WE'RE not going back to the Netherworld." Blinky said.
"How come?" Cyli asked.
"The Netherworld got trashed by those guys that are hunting you all down." Blinky said.
"And they even captured Betrayus and took him somewhere that we don't know." Clyde said.
"… that's impossible." President Spheros said.
"Well, it's possible. We think he's hiding in their secret base and we even went there, but we don't know where the entrance is." Blinky said.
"Let's get started on finding that bomb, then. Do we still have Power Berries?" Pac asked, turning to his friends.
"Well, we are probably foreseeing certain doom. That bomb is putting a hurt on the Tree of Life, so we don't know if the tree is still making berries." Sir C said.
"So basically, the bomb is a jammer in a nutshell for the Tree of Life and is killing the berries." Cyli said, with a groan.
"We better hope there's still some berries left that haven't rotten yet. Let's go." Gandalf said.
All of Pac's friends then made a dash for the Roundhouse, hoping they haven't lost hope.
Me: "At least I got this out. Sorry for the short chapter. And the cliffhanger. Next chapter's name will be Deliver Hope as the rush to find the bomb starts. Note that this is all a flashback, and you'll know why it hurts Pac to try to remember this flashback soon enough. See you on the next chapter. And you'll probably find out what I'm working on later. -SuperNoobGalaxy