Chapter Eleven

Sweet Madness

Blake was a mere spectator, he knew some of the outcomes that were going to happen because they were controlling the actions of almost everyone, they were deciding what rules to implement and what rules to twitch to obtain retains; at the end, Fortnite was a show made for the ratings, to bring the entire world together in a moment of hate.

The socio-economical climate during those days was extremely volatile, the world was again in a cold war and protectionism was in almost every country, borders were closed in theory but then from The Netherlands just after a little bit after the absorption the Flemish region to the Netherlands, DeMol Entertainment summited dignitaries from 35 different nations of the world in The Hague to reach a deal to please the population.

The deal was simple a death game that would be transmitted worldwide , the participant nations would send teams or single individuals to compete, each nation who would send individuals would receive a voucher of investment in which the DeMol Corporation would invest on their infrastructure with the price of them using the natural resources to feed the ever-growing population of The Netherlands.

Countries submitted to DeMol, as the different wars diminished the resources of many nations and people were starving but The Netherlands was striving, over the years more countries united into the deal with DeMol and the teams who joined Fortnite became more and more, making different cycles over the year to see who could compete for glory.

At first it was only a 100 player versus player competing against each other, then came the duos and lastly the teams. The registration was another story, each country held a 100 player versus player classificatory round on the different categories, making the survivors of their regional death games the ones who would compete on an international level every year.

Over the years several competitors went back and won the different games such as the Tomato Squad who each one of them became seasoned players.

Blake was bored as he was the only executive on the premises that year, everyone else only went for a day and eventually left so he was left to take care of the facility as well the staff that controlled the island outcomes.

Samara walked in the room and he automatically switched off the monitors.

"Have you seen Mako?" She asked.

"She want back to the cafeteria or to her room, I don't know"

"I just finished narrating the stream of the last 5 hours but she disappeared an hour ago with the excuse that she was going to the bathroom"

"Just go and find her"

He turned the monitors on again and tried to find Mako, assuming she was reaching Pleasant Park at that moment, to his surprise she was already there and she was creating a ruckus, he was wondering how many ratings they would get by let the co-host interfere?

Mako was excited, she has been obsessed with Alexa since seeing her profile in the classificatory, she always had a weakness for Hispanic women or at least that they look remotely. She approached with a big smile to the house and looked upstairs, she saw someone moving and aimed right away on the second floor, straight on the bathroom.

Souza panicked because wasn't expecting that someone could saw him really quickly, he was scared of going to the window or making any noise, Amalia and Alexa were near him, the three of them were hiding in the upper bedroom as they didn't know where to run or hide.

"Don't talk, don't say anything" Said Amalia to Souza.

He looked at her with fear, Alexa at that moment was hiding below the bed, they were panicking as they weren't expecting anyone approaching where they were.

"This person knows we were here, probably she's been following us since we landed in the island, we are going to barricade the door and we will try to leave to the roof, I don't think there is nobody here besides her" Said Amalia while looking worried.

"Then we are going to fight" Replied Souza.

Mako was walking so patiently around them, planting bombs around the house, waiting for the moment they would lower their guard. Blake activated some of the cameras that were in the house as well inside the room, he was curious to see the outcome. "Why Mako always react like this whenever she sees someone she likes? Maybe we abused her template on the experiments or we ignored something? This is going to be fun" He thought.

"Come on! I don't have all day! Alexa you are there!" Mako screamed from outside.

"I don't know her, I have no clue!" Alexa screamed to Amalia and Souza.

"Don't make any noise!" Souza screamed. A bullet went straight to the window. Amalia covered her teammates mouths and ask them to be quiet.

Mako was walking outside the house, impatient, stalking for any movement. Blake was watching her from the distance, he was wondering whenever the next clone would pop out what story would say? That the implanted memories were just a mere nightmare? He wasn't sure, every single time for the last 11 years all the clones where showing some problems related to neuromuscular coordination whenever they reached age 25, but in the process of aging all the clones showed some form of sociopathy which led the developers of the corporation to research for solutions, but there were none.

"This is the first warning, I am going to make the first shot!" Mako used the remote to explode the first bomb, the left wing of the house where the living room was located crumbled. Amalia gave the order to them to look carefully on the windows and see if she was walking or in the position that she could have an easy shot on the room.

"She is walking around the house, but not staying in one place" Said Alexa.

"On the count of three we will rush to the forest and change our destination of Tomato Town; the barrier seems inactive at this moment, so is a now or never moment I want all of us to survive as much as we can" Replied Amalia.

"I am scared" Souza mentioned.

"I am too, but we need to survive" Alexia replied while stuttering.

As soon as Mako walked to the back side, they started to run on the soccer field, running as fast as they could. A bullet went straight to them. "Souza!" "Souza!" Amalia screamed.

End of Part One.