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c. Striker Hutassa: Another faithful fan who's not been around as long as LuvrO'Pokemon but still a great fan to have.
d. AerionsRealm: One of my most recent fans, one of the most matured writers I've seen. Even more thankful, the one who sent me his chapter via PM so I could take a look even though I couldn't be a beta reader. Thanks for the honor!
e. hunter415: One of my newer readers, but one who I admire for his strong faith in God. I love that you are strong in your faith and for sharing that message on the devil (located at the bottom of my profile).
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Now then, I don't want to bore you with my thanks (except for maybe the people I am thanking), so let's get on to the story! *hoots and hollers again*
Hello, this is Pastrinator64 with another chapter from THE GLITCH. Last time on THE GLITCH we watched a very comical scene of Norman and the gang fighting the Zombie Clan's mutant: Zombulk. Norman had to use food items as weapons while being swung at by giant drumsticks. At the end of the battle, ESMERALDA came back as a zombie and defeated Zombulk with Raspberry Ketone Dietary Supplements that made him too skinny to live. Now we watch as Norman and the gang have to fight off the army of the Zombie Clan itself in an equally comical battle.
Now, let the story commence!
Chapter 25: Norman Takes to the Air
Norman yelled at everyone to back up. He bought them some time by rolling the giant Raspberry Ketone pill right at the giant wave of zombies. He thought they might all be plowed through, but the zombie in front stopped it with his hands and then pushed it back. Norman was waiting to see what the zombies were going to do since they were part of the Glitch's work, but they didn't seem to do anything that wasn't natural. Esmeralda came forward and headed right toward the zombies' ranks.
"I can't die from these mobs' attacks. Maybe I can talk to them and convince them to let us go; I speak Zombese very fluently." she declared.
When zombie Esmeralda was standing close enough to the zombies, all the sounds in the vast room ceased. The leader of the zombies came forward and crossed his arms.
"Ungh gungh arngon dfa?" said the zombie.
"Grund unghi endkaa mugn." replied Esmeralda.
"Bukg gklid mundugh!"
"Gunkfae eoga moanaghe. Modgg mogdg."
The leader balled up a fist and then smashed it into Esmeralda's skull. This sent a large portion of skin and rotted brain splat onto to the floor, but being a zombie Esmeralda could not even feel the hit. With a piece of bloody rotting flesh hanging over her eye Esmeralda replied with,
"Grunk moaghwia iejagh somaj! Groaknem!"
A lot of zombies gasped. Someone in the back belched. The room was silent. Then, the leader zombie said,
"Grunk mamwojha isognjam! WUAHF! AEIOUYMAGH!"
Suddenly, all of the zombies started moaning and gurgling and grumbling, all moving restlessly. Norman wished that they would become interested in some other food in the whole room, but brains turned out to be the zombies' only desires. Norman looked over at Bailey, and for some reason she was taking something out of her pocket. She pulled out the mini metal cube that was Blackberry, and Norman realized what she was doing. Bailey set the mini cube on the ground and then backed up. He and Bailey watched as the mini cube started clicking and clanking, and the metal plates around it shifted, and parts began to expand from underneath. The noises grew loud enough where everyone else started watching. Within about twenty seconds, Blackberry had turned into the full-sized Mechacreeper.
Blackberry looked at the zombie army and hissed. Then he looked down at Bailey. Bailey responded by jerking her hand at the zombies and saying,
"Blackberry, TAKE 'EM OUT!"
Blackberry looked back at the zombie army made a buzzing sound. Suddenly, grenades began to launch, exploding at random in the zombies' ranks. The leader in front raises his arm and screams,
"WOGHARAK!"
All of the zombies in the army yelled in Zombese with him, and they all started running towards Blackberry and everyone around him. Norman backed up and ran, but Blackberry stayed, shooting grenades. Blackberry targeted the leader—who was identified by his blue skin—and shot out a charged creeper that blew up on the spot. The leader dodged and kept running. The zombies were getting closer, and even all the explosions from Blackberry couldn't keep them at bay. Norman felt someone grab his arm and he found himself positioned on Butterball's back with Bailey in front. They zoomed backwards and Bailey started plowing through zombies fast enough to avoid being eaten. Norman looked back at everyone else behind Blackberry, and he saw them trying to fight off all the zombies at once. Esmeralda was doing the best, and she didn't even get a scratch—then again, she had her Capsule Cannon.
Blackberry couldn't seem to target the leader well enough, so he shot an explosive disk. The disk tracked the zombie leader and flew quickly, zooming over the heads of all the other zombies. The leader looked behind him at the disk, which was merely ten blocks away. He jumped up into the air with just the right timing and instead of being blown to bits he was riding the explosive disk. While riding, he bit through the hard metal and reprogrammed the code flowing inside to track Norman. While Bailey was plowing through zombies, Norman looked back and saw the zombie leader zooming towards him on the flying disk. He tapped Bailey on the shoulder and said,
"Bailey, we're being tailed! That zombie is riding an explosive disk!"
"Ok! You know how to ride a Creeper, right?" she replied.
Bailey turned around and fell backwards to where Norman was sitting while Butterball was still running, and Norman was pushed into the front where some small leather reigns were.
"WHAT?! I CAN'T DRIVE A CREEPER!" he exclaimed while he barely managed to keep Butterball from tripping over.
"You can now!" she replied.
Bailey whirled around and balanced herself on Butterball's back. She targeted the zombie leader in the air and shot at him with a diamond arrow. It whizzed right past the monster, so Bailey shot another. She kept shooting, but all of them kept missing. The leader was closing in now. Norman steered Butterball through another line of zombies, and then he noticed another flying explosive disk heading towards him from the right.
"BAILEY, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE OVER AGAIN!"
As soon as he was within reach he jumped up and grabbed onto the edge of the flying disk—so the zombie leader began to track Norman's disk instead. Before he could run into something, Norman climbed up onto the surface and ripped off the metal with Shatter's end. He looked at all the complicated white numbers and letters of code flowing through it and muttered,
"Uhhhhhhh... Um, let's try... This."
Norman pinched a whole line of code in between his two fingers and broke it in half, then placed it in between some other nearby numbers. Suddenly, the disk started making explosion sounds rapidly without actually exploding.
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Norman moved the code around the edge and moved it counterclockwise into the three lines above. The explosion noises didn't stop, but instead the disk lurched forward and went into hyperspeed. He screamed as he felt his face practically peel off and he flew around in random scribbles in the air. With him screaming and the explosion noises and the flying around like a crazy person.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!"
He was sure that everyone must've been staring at him. Norman grunted and grappled onto the edges of the flying disk. With immense difficulty he put a hand into the code and pulled out just one little number and placed it somewhere near the center. All of a sudden the explosion noises stopped and the disk itself froze in midair, which sent Norman flying into the air, landing face-first in a giant bowl of cold gravy. The zombie leader hadn't expected this to happen, and he tried to reprogram his disk to stop tracking Norman's disk, but it was too late and the two disks collided in midair, killing him in a ball of fire.
After the last of the flame had disappeared, the remaining 27 zombies fell silent. Then they all looked at Blackberry. Blackberry sent them a threatening message by opening up his grenade launchers again with a menacing CLICK. After that all the zombies fled into the darkness beyond. Norman emerged from the cold gravy and swallowed a mouthful of it. He climbed out and Hilary gave him a sponge to soak up all the slimy gravy on him. He looked towards where his group was and saw them all cheering. Some were bumping chests, high-fiving, etc. But Norman wasn't ready to get excited. Most of their team was missing, and they needed to find them. In the meantime, Norman made his way over to the zombified Esmeralda. She looked at him and said,
"Norman! Yes, I know, I'm a zombie. I'll explain. When I was deep-fried in that lava, I went up to the Aether. But when I got there, I was standing on a cloud in the middle of nowhere, and Notch appeared to me. He said that the palace was being attacked by the Glitch, so he sent me back down here for safety, but I had to be turned into a zombie. Oh! Where is Jeff? I have to see him!"
Norman frowned and sighed at the same time.
"I don't know. Most of our group is missing, and we need to look for them. They have to be around here somewhere, Lizzy said that they all came down after me and Stephanie. They must be in some of the giant foods around here. I'm gonna need some help looking, though." he explained.
Norman and Esmeralda gathered up the others and they all started searching. Norman himself headed towards a giant cheeseburger nearby. He lifted up the bun, but there was no one there. He moved on to a giant pig with an apple in its mouth. He sliced open the apple, but there wasn't anyone buried inside. He moved aside the apple and shoveled out a bunch of stuffing and meat inside the pig until it was hollow. He was relieved when he found Danny lying underneath a blob of pig fat. He was sleep eating, gnawing on a piece of pig meat. Norman kicked him and Danny awoke with a start. He grimaced when he saw Norman standing there and said,
"Come on! I was in the middle of an awesome dream. I was in a big field full of hundreds of pigs! I was in meat heaven, idiot!"
"You're inside a giant pig, Danny." replied Norman.
Danny stood up and grumbled as he walked outside. Norman followed behind, and as soon as he was out he saw Danny with his face buried in the side of the giant pig's cheek, consuming meat by the ton. Norman rolled his eyes and looked around for another food to explore. After about twenty minutes, everyone who had been trapped inside the different dishes was brought into the group. When Norman found Jeff stuck inside a giant cherry atop a hot fudge Sunday he helped him down and brought him over to Esmeralda—she was being avoided by people since she wasn't exactly the most cleanly person there being a zombie. When Jeff saw Esmeralda waiting there for him, he ran to her and kissed her on the lips. He could've cared less that she was a zombie. When the two were done drowning each other, Jeff pulled away and gasped for breath.
"Esmeralda! Why are you a zombie? How did you get here?" he murmured.
Esmeralda repeated the same story she had told Norman. When she was finished, Jeff smiled and kissed her again.
"Zombie or no zombie, you're coming with us! Oh, I'm just so happy to see you!"
Without warning, Norman felt as though someone had dumped cold water down his back. Just as suddenly he heard a deep voice echo from somewhere in the darkness.
"Ah, what a sweet moment. I'm sorry to interrupt, but Esmeralda will not be going with you."
Norman knew that the only thing that voice could've belonged to would be the Glitch. He whirled around, brandishing Shatter with an intense feeling in his gut. Suddenly, he looked and saw a great mass of droopy black plasma lurch out from the darkness. He dodged the attack, but it went right past him and grabbed Esmeralda, who screamed and smashed the plasma with her fists. Norman was extremely confused, because plasma was a hot gas, not a solid. He ran forward and swung into the plasma mass near Esmeralda, but instead of slicing right through the plasma sliced through the shovel's blade. Norman gasped and backed up, staring at his former diamond shovel that was now a mere stick. He could see inside of the diamond shovel where the code flowed, and it was looking blurred and full of errors. Norman looked around at the virus's drooping limb, brandishing his stick. The Glitch let out a long, deep, evil laugh.
"Norman, Norman, Norman. Don't you know that I am made of viruses? These viruses inside of me can erase the code of anything it touches, so you might as well throw out that stick of yours, because its data is gone now." muttered the Glitch.
Norman threw the useless stick aside, knowing that it would just be another thing he'd have to carry. Esmeralda was lifted up into the air, and she struggled to free herself. She kept ascending up towards the darkness above, and there was nothing anyone could do except watch in terror. Esmeralda stopped above twenty blocks off the ground. The Glitch's voice began to fill with static.
"This w-woman has not helped the m-m-matter, either-r-r-r. She must be d-d-d-deleted."
The Glitch's plasma limb curled around Esmeralda until only her head was showing. It crushed her underneath all the plasma and she dissolved into a swirl of jumbled code. Jeff stared with horror at the Glitch's limb as it dissolved itself. The Glitch's tone had even more static than before.
"I c-c-c-c-c-cannot s-s-s-s-s-stay l-l-l-longer. My p-p-p-prison is k-k-keeping me f-f-f-f-from staying t-t-t-t-t-t-t-to kill you-ou-ou-ou. I w-w-w-will b-b-be back, N-N-N-Norman..."
The voice echoed for a few seconds, but then faded away. The chill in Norman's spine disappeared, but he was still chilled by the memory of the Glitch's voice. He had never seen the Glitch before, but just seeing part of it made him feel hopeless and scared. He didn't want to see what the rest of the Glitch looked like. He had never had such an urge to get away from somewhere as he did then.
Oh no! Why does Esmeralda have to be banished from complete existence? Will Jeff be plunged once again into sorrow and anguish? And how will they get out of the giant kitchen/cave? Find out next chapter in THE GLITCH!
*everyone finishes their bakery goods and then stands up to leave*
*no one really wants to go, but mostly everyone has places to be*
"I've got to go to Ireland and find my buttery baked potato bomb, otherwise my rivals there will use it for evil! I MUST DO IT FOR ALL THAT IS CREAMY AND YELLOW!" screams butterbrine.
*butterbrine opens the window next to him and then jumps out, landing on his butterghast and riding away*
"TALLY HO!"