What Have I Done
Chapter Six
Lincoln waited in the dining area, but for some reason he just couldn't stop tapping his foot into the floor. Yes he was nervous, but he didn't think that he would be this nervous to this scale. He was scared about how this whole thing would turn out. Would she go on a rampage or would she want to be reasonable and try to talk to me.
In his pocket he had a ton of tokens so that they could play some games before they had get down to business. On the table he had a medium pizza with sausage and mushroom that was getting cold. He looked around and saw a couple of kids that were playing the arcade games. He saw the twins that were also playing a virtual reality shooting game.
They might be having a better day than he was having right now. He had a lot of things on his plate right now and he doesn't know if he is biting off more than he can chew, but it is too late now. He will just need to tough this through.
The storm outside didn't seem to lighten up at all and the sound of rain hitting the roof was easily heard. Then he heard the front door open up and there she was. Ronnie Anne came through the door with her hair soaked in rain. As she walked up to Lincoln she then started to look a little bit happy.
"Hey Lam-o, what do you have planned for today." She asked.
"Well I do have a pizza right here if you want some, and I also have a pocket full of coins as well, so we'll be able to go on a lot of games if you want." Lincoln responded.
"Cool, but I have to go to the bathroom right quick." She said while walking off.
Lincoln waited for her to be out of sight to to then talk to Lucy.
"Lucy are you ready? The time has now come." Lincoln stated.
"I'm ready!" Lucy said back.
Ronnie Anne then came back and sat down and started eating some of the pizza, "A little cold, but I can deal with it."
She continued to eat and Lincoln then took a slice as well.
"Alright try and lore her into telling you that she is moving because it will just be awkward if just ask her yourself all of a sudden." Lucy instructed over the mic.
"Ronnie you look a little stressed is everything okay." He asked trying to make her spill the beans.
She took a swallow of her pizza and answered, "Well my household has been chaotic lately, not as chaotic as your house, but things aren't really the same. We are trying to deal with some stuff right now. It kinda hard to explain."
"Ronnie, you know that you can tell me anything, right. I'm here for you."
"I'm really not in the mood right now to talk about it, maybe later." She explained.
"No pressure, tell when the time is right."
Lincoln let her eat the rest of her pizza, and while she did that Lincoln ate and started to think. He wondered why was she holding back on telling him. Was it because she was worried or did she not want to see me sad over her. Whatever it was she shouldn't keep it from him.
"Lincoln, I think it would be best if you try and soothe her mind with some arcade games. She seems a little tense." Lucy recommended.
"How about we go and play some games." Lincoln said while taking a handful of coins out of his pocket.
"Alright, where should we go first?" Ronnie Anne asked.
"There's a new Virtual Reality game if you want to try it."
"Sure."
They both got up and took the pizza box with them. They past by different type of arcade games. Some were co-op while others were solo. They then approached the Virtual Reality game. As they came up to the game Lincoln saw that the two boys were still there.
"Thomas you need to get your aim game up man!" The one on the right exclaimed.
"Says the person with five times as many deaths than kills Blake." Retorted Thomas.
Lincoln and Ronnie looked at the two play. They went back and forth with insults at one another. By them going back and forth caused Lincoln's and Ronnie's heads start to hurt.
"Hey could you guys turn it down just a little." Ronnie asked.
They ignored her and kept blabbering.
"I said keep it down!" She yelled louder.
They stopped and took off their gear. They turned and looked at her in disbelief. After a second of silence they started to laugh.
"Why do think we should listen to you?" They both said in unison.
She walked up to one of the boys and grabbed him the collar and threw him into an arcade game. The boys looked at her in fright and horror.
"Now get out!"
Both of the boys ran off and all Ronnie Anne and Lincoln heard was the front door of the arcade slam shut and some bystanders looking at her also ran off as well. Lincoln mouth stood wide open as he saw the anger in her eyes.
"Come on lam-o, let's play." Ronnie said as she put on her headset.
"O-okay." Stuttered Lincoln.
He then also out on his headset and what saw was that he was in a spaceship with one other character. It was most likely Ronnie Anne so he decided not to worry about it.
A voice them cam in through a speaker, "Alright soldiers get ready. We are approaching a hostile area with aliens that kill in an instant if you don't watch your back!" He explained.
Lincoln shook from that news. He hadn't played this game before and it seemed that it would be different than most of the games here.
"Your objective is to grab the crystal from the tower and get out as fast as you can, and if you can't do that then you may well tell your mommy to come and pick you up from pre-school. With nothing else to say pick up your weapons and get ready to fight." The instructor continued.
To gate of the ship then opened and guns appeared in their hands. When the gate opened they saw that the planet that they were in had a ships flying around and towers that went all filled the sky. On the screen it showed the tower where the crystal laid dormant.
"You ready Lincoln?" Said Ronnie.
"I guess so." Lincoln responded.
They then started to exit the ship and walked out into the field outside of the alien city that had many surprises waiting for them. As they walked more ships flew above their heads holding the alien army. Then one of the ships stopped and landed right front of them.
"We got company!" Yelled Lincoln.
The aliens then came out of the ship and held their weapons up and prepared to fire. Lincoln was the first one to fire and that caused a chain reaction of bullets that flew through the air.
"I'm taking damage!" Exclaimed Lincoln.
As he was he could see his health bar getting lower and lower, but before the bar went all the way down, the aliens started to retreat. As they did the game gave him 50 more hp.
"Why did they leave." Asked Ronnie (Who still had a full health bar).
The ground then started to rumble as an alien came from the city and into the field. It was at least 30 feet tall and had steel armor that protected it. The alien let out a loud yell as it ran toward them.
"Run!" They both screamed.
On the outside of the game little did they had now that they had gained some spectators. They could see a screening the game that showed what was going on in the game.
Back inside the game Ronnie Anne and Lincoln were trying to get away from the robot while also shooting at the giant. As Lincoln was running he noticed that when ran over the aliens that he had killed he saw that one of them had a rocket launcher. He equipped it and he started to aim. He couldn't really get a good shot on the giant because of it moving all over the place. He then just took a risk and pulled the trigger.
He watched the rocket travel through the air and it hit the giant right in the back.
"I hit!" He yelled.
The giant then slowly fell to the ground and when it did it made a huge thud on the ground causing the scream to shake. After they took care of the giant they then made their way to the alien city. As the hid in allies of the alien city they saw many hostile troops that patrolled the ground and were armed with weapons.
"Alright Lincoln I have a plan," Ronnie said, "There are least 20 troops on each side of the street we are on. There is a limited chance that we can do this stealthily. So I will take right and you will take right."
"Sounds good."
Lincoln came out of the alley and opened fire unto the unknown alien species. He did they tried to fight back, but they couldn't because they were taken by surprise. As he finished his side he looked at Ronnie's side and he saw that she was also done as well.
They continued their journey through the city trying to stay as quiet as possible and and not to alert anymore troops. There journey through the city then came to an end when they found the main building. Lincoln used looked at the top of the tower and saw a beam of light from the top of the tower.
"The crystal is up there!" Lincoln exclaimed.
He knew that the farther up it was means the more stairs and troops there would be to get there, and if you know Lincoln he was not the exercising type of guy. What made things worse I'd that the entrance of the skyscraper were troops and sentries armed with assault rifles. There were also sentry guns that guard the entrance as well.
"What do you think we should do now Lincoln?"
"I really don't know but look through your inventory and see what you have with you." Lincoln responded.
As Lincoln looked through his inventory he saw that he many different objects with him. He had a Alien heart and some little weapons, like some pistols, but one thing stood out when he was searching. He saw the he had a zipline with him.
"Hey Ronnie I have a zipline. If we get on top of a building we can zipline to the top of the tower." Lincoln explained.
"That sounds good, but where could we go to get a point to zipline?" Ronnie asked.
"There is a building on the far right of the tower that we can grapple from and plus it's the second tallest here."
"It looks nice, but it also looks abandoned as well."
"That would be a good and a bad thing, but it doesn't matter because most likely nobody is there."
They then made their way to the abandoned building while also looking out for troops near buy as well. At some points of walking they had to stop because patrol cars went by and inside were soldiers of the alien kind. After about ten minutes of traveling they finally made it to the destination.
As they entered the place they saw hanging wires from the roof. An the floor tiles were ripped off the floor. Liquid also dripped through the roof and leak onto the floor causing puddles of it on different floors. They then made travel up the many flights of stairs. When Lincoln walked up the stairs he realized that he was in a videogame and that he couldn't feel any real consequences from doing this.
After about ten minutes they finally made it to the roof and when they did the sight they saw was amazing. They saw the whole city along with airships flying through the air. The city had tons of lights that illuminated the sky.
"Lincoln I don't think we will be able to grapple to the top because we are too low." Said Ronnie Anne.
"Alright we'll just have to grapple to the floor that we are closest too on the other building." Replied Lincoln.
He then took out his grapple out of his inventory and he saw that it was really big in the game. He the aim at the most reasonable floor and then he shot when he found the perfect one.
"Alright here goes nothing," Said Lincoln in a rather worried voice.
He then grabbed onto the grapple and then pushed himself off the roof. He then traveled over the streets of the city that still was littered with soldiers. When he made it to the other side he came in a fast and busted through the window. It took awhile for his player to get up because he had just lost 20 hp because of what had just happened.
When he did get up he saw that the room he was in had a computer in it. He then approached the computer and when he touched the keyboard the Ronnie had just arrived causing him to jump out of fear.
"Hey Ronnie Look at this computer." Lincoln requested.
"Look we don't have time for that we have to keep going before some troops come and get us." Ronnie rejected.
"Alright."
They then made it out the room and went down a hallway that was filled with wires that ran across the walls. They did come across the occasional security guards that came up to them, but they were easily. After killing some aliens and climbing some flights of stairs they finally made it to the room with the crystal.
"Finally we can get this over with." Said Ronnie Anne.
She then walked up the crystal and reached out her hand to grab it.
"Wait Ronnie there has to be some other way to get it than just taking it." Said Lincoln.
"What do you think there will be a button or something else to get it." Retorted the hispanic.
"Well yeah! I'm what else do you think there would be."
"Well I'm going to do this my way."
Ronie then went to touch the crystal, but when she did, the crystal sent out an energy pulse that ejected Ronnie into a wall causing her to lose all of her health instantly killing her player. Ronnie then took off her headset and when she did she saw kids gathered up around the game, and at that moment she realized that they had saw everything that were doing on a screen that they were watching.
"Well I guess I will have to do this on my own." Lincoln said.
Lincoln then looked around the room, but he didn't see any type of button. After awhile of searching he aggravated, and because off that he threw his weapon at the crystal and when he did. The crystal fell out of its place and fell on the ground with a huge crash causing the crystal to shatter.
"Oops." He said.
The words game over then flashed on his screen while he had also took off his headset. When he saw that tons of eyes were watching him had a nervous sweat go down his face.
"Hi." He said.
Then everyone had dispersed, and him Ronnie were left. After what had just happened one thing came into mind, he needs to talk to Ronnie.
"Hey Ronnie let's go back to the dining area and finished this pizza. It might be cold, but i'm still going to eat though."
"Alright." She said.
Lincoln know knew that she was now in a good mood because of the game they had just played. Sure, they may have had a good time playing, but now it was time for him to get serious.
Lincoln then took the pizza box and followed Ronnie to the dining area where the unknown will happen.
A/N
Wow, that was a pretty big chapter to write and to upload. I know I did not make my deadline that was two weeks ago, but put that in the past. Some of the main reasons why it was so late because I was being lazy and also I had a few things going in my personal life at that time and I had almost thought about giving up on the story because I felt like I was being irresponsible for not uploading, but my uncle inspired me to keep going. Along with you guys. I read every comment you guys leave, so thank you guys for being there for me. Since it's summer time I will be able to post more often and have a good story planned, but for now that is a secret. Well thank you guys for reading.
P.S: I predicted the future In Mission Loud, but in way in vice versa.