~Games~

Callie was looking through the album overnight, some photographs she remembered being taken, both old and recent. She smiled to herself. Metal had definitely turned into the robot he used to be before battling Sonic. After having a good look at the pictures, she closed the album, put it under her bed and fell asleep.

…

The next morning, Callie was having a shower. Metal and Sniper, however, were in the Polishing Room – which also had showers – cleaning themselves.

The two brothers were in the shower area, watering themselves down beside each other, but under different shower heads.

"Are you sure that there is no device inside of you that will kill you by making you self-destruct?" Metal asked.

"I'm positively sure," Sniper answered. He didn't want to tell Metal that GUN knew where they were.

"Good," Metal responded.

Sniper then reached up for the shower head, pulling it from its holder while it was running, then turning it up to full blast while pointing it at Metal.

"Hey!" Metal reacted, trying to guard himself from the water.

Sniper laughed as Metal fell over. However, he was so distracted by his laughter that he didn't notice Metal grab his shower head, too, turning it up to full blast while aiming it at Sniper. Sniper instantly fell backwards.

Metal chuckled.

Sniper got back up. "It's on!" he announced, firing the water from his shower head towards Metal while Metal fired his towards Sniper.

…

Callie had decided to try on Maria's dress, which was bound to fit her by now. She put it on, expecting it to be itchy and uncomfortable, maybe different. However, it was not. It felt exactly the same as her black one, despite the fact that it was almost fifty years old. She even tried on the shoes, which fitted just like her black ones, and the hairband, which was a new feeling to her hair.

Callie looked in the mirror to see what she looked like. Surprisingly, she looked just like Maria, only with green eyes and brown hair. She imagined herself with blonde hair and blue eyes for a minute, and as shocked at the fact that she was practically Maria's twin.

After time, Callie decided to get changed back into her regular dress and shoes, putting the other clothes back in her drawer. She then headed out of her room to see what was going on. It seemed… oddly quiet.

That was, until she walked so far and heard Metal and Sniper laughing.

Realising that the laughter was coming from the Polishing Room, Callie decided to leave the two robots to it, going into her Games Room and playing on 'Crash Bash'.

…

Sometime later, Metal and Sniper left the Polishing Room, the two of them very shiny.

Callie saw the two brothers. "You sounded like you were having fun," she stated with a smile.

"We were having a water fight~!" Sniper chirped.

"I could tell," Callie laughed. "Let me guess, was it you who started it off, Sniper?"

"You guessed right," Sniper replied.

"I thought so," Callie smiled. "Oh, and I've left 'Crash Bash' on for us to play. Wanna game?"

"You bet!" Sniper answered, running to the Games Room.

Metal chuckled at the sight of his little brother. "Alright, let's give it a go," he said, walking to the Games Room.

Callie walked beside him.

…

Arriving at the Games Room, the three sat down and each held a controller.

Callie chose her favourite character from the series, who was of course, Crash Bandicoot himself. Crash was a failed mutant bandicoot experiment by Doctor Neo Cortex, who turned out quite cute.

Metal chose Doctor Neo Cortex. He was the main villain of the series, who was an evil genius. Metal's favourite character was always the bad guy.

Sniper, on the other hand, chose Coco – the sister of Crash who was also a failed experiment by Cortex coincidentally. Who knows why Sniper chose a girl.

The three played the game for an hour, before Metal stood up. "Why play these Earth games when we have our own personal games?" he asked.

"We have our own games?" Sniper asked, confused.

"Oh yeah, father and I made those when he was teaching me to edit and program!" Callie remembered. "Then I started making my own. Hold on, let me get them all and we'll choose which one to play!"

Metal and Sniper just waited, occasionally saying something to one another. It was mainly Sniper asking some random question like "Do you like shoes?" or "Metal, what's a mermaid?" and Metal giving the answer. The answer to those two questions were "No," and "A human-looking female creature with a tail that swims in the sea. In other words, what Callie made me in one of her fairy tales as a little girl – along with many other strange things."

Callie came back with the games. "I'm back!" she announced.

"Cool," Sniper responded.

Callie put down the pile.

"Okay, let's take a look at these games," Callie said, putting them all down one by one so they could be seen.

"We could go on Slink the Weasel: All-Out Battles," Metal suggested.

"Yeah, that one looks fun!" Sniper agreed.

"Alright, we'll go on it," Callie chuckled, putting it in the PlayStation.

"Did you make this one?" Sniper asked.

"I made the whole series, silly!" Callie responded. "Some help from my father, of course. And some from Emmi when she was still alive…"

"It's actually a pretty good game series," Metal complimented. "What happened in the first one, Callie?"

"We finished that one a while back, Metal," Callie reminded.

"I know, but my memory is not as good as it was," Metal replied.

"Okay, here's a reminder," Callie sighed. "In the forest two twins were born with 'the lightest blue eyes', but it was foretold that one would join the polecats, who in the game are the villains. The mother of the twins assumes it is the twin born first, who she names Slink, and names the slightly-different looking twin, Salvador, which means 'saviour'. However, by the age of three, the twins leave the boundaries of the forest and into the fields. Slink remembered that he had to clean his room, but when he returned, Salvador was gone. When the game officially begins, you play as a fourteen year-old Slink, with his little brother Tyrone, and his friends. Later he is tricked by villain Pike the Porcupine, and ends up fighting another weasel his age. After the fight, he realises it is Salvador, who is now working for the polecats. At the end of the game Slink battles Spike, the chief polecat, and defeats him. As for Salvador, he just leaves, ready to jump back as a villain in the trilogy."

"Well, you just spoiled it!" Sniper said.

Callie laughed. "I know," she said. "But the other ones are much better. Alright, let's have a game of this!"

The game was only for two players, so Callie went against Metal and Sniper, who were switching places every now and then. Callie was playing as Salvador because he was badass, while Metal and Sniper played as Tyrone. Callie won most battles, winning all of them against Sniper. Metal, however, managed to defeat her various times.

"Good game," Metal said, holding his hand up for a high five.

Callie high fived him. "Indeed it was," she agreed, smiling. "Feel like playing the series itself?"

"You're on," Metal replied.

…

Random chapter? I know. But it was fun to see Metal and Sniper fighting in the shower. If you want to know what Slink the Weasel is, it's a game I came up with when in Year 5 (Grade 5 in USA, to you). I might write it up on FictionPress, but it might change a bit (or a lot), and I'll write the entire series. In fact, my previous name on it was actually Salvador the Weasel.

It's nearly the end. Just a few more chapters. I reckon about… wait for it…

Mephiles: One… two… um… four…

Never gets old for me! Okay, what I reckon is about five or six chapters, maybe. Including the Epilogue. We'll see very soon. Bye for now, readers of the Earth! (Wtf?)