A/N: Thanks for the positive feedback. So I guess it isn't so secret, but yeah, Zombies4Life is directly based on the zombie-shooter Left 4 Dead, while MAD is based on AMD, NVIDEO to NVIDIA, EasternDigital to Western Digital, and Gigabit to Gigabyte. Just thought you'd know =). Anyway, the story isn't really that long. That said, I also don't want it to be cut-throat short. Plan to finish everything within the Christmas break. Anyway, thought of releasing chapter 2 a little early, so enjoy =).

Chapter 2: Bolt tries out the new game

Bolt and Mittens were outside playing around the grassy fields. It felt good for Bolt to feel the open air rushing through his fur. Mittens played the usual fetch the stick to Bolt. Bolt never seems to get tired of this, though. Bringing a stick back, only to be thrown away again. It was the simple life, but something was bothering Bolt. Bolt looked at the house, specifically at window of Penny's room. Bolt could see the faint lights of the new computer. Could Rhino still be there? It was already afternoon and Rhino still has not gotten out of Penny's room. Mittens noticed Bolt looking at the house. "Something wrong, Bolt?"

"It's Rhino. He hasn't left Penny's room."

"What's to worry about? We never worry about him when he's on the television. Why should we worry about him on the computer?"

"I'll just check on him, just to be sure." He swiftly went on his way to the house.

At the second floor, Bolt slowly opened the door and peeked through Penny's room. "Rhino?"

"Hey, Bolt." Rhino did not even look back to Bolt.

"You still playing that game?"

"Uhuh."

Bolt then jumped to the chair then unto the table. "Looks like you got the hang of this game, huh?"

"Uhuh."

"Rhino?"

Rhino just looked at the monitor, his hands and legs swiftly moving the keyboard and mouse that it wonders even Bolt how he managed to do it with short hands and legs. Bolt then waved his hand right in front of him.

It obstructed Rhino's view and he gave out a negative reaction. "Hey, quit it. I can't see what I'm shooting. I need to see those zombies so that I can headshot them in the face."

"Rhino, will you look at me for a sec?" He then grabbed Rhino and started shaking him. He left control of the keyboard and mouse, succumbing to being zombie-eaten. The game was over and the level restarted.

Finally, Rhino snapped of his game. "Bolt, what's the matter? I'm just trying to enjoy a good game here."

"Rhino, there is more to life than just computers and the magic box."

"You don't understand. I know. You should try it Bolt."

"Nah, I really don't want to get over-obsessed with…"

"Come on here." Rhino, handed the mouse and keyboard over him.

"I really don't want to."

"Come on. Just try one game for me, please..." He then tried to do that puppy face he saw Bolt always do. It was not as good, but it seemed to convince Bolt.

"Alright, Rhino. Just one."

"Yes."

Now, Bolt was in control. He moved his character forward and pretty soon, a zombie horde started running toward him. Bolt panicked. "What should I do?"

"Switch to your shotgun!"

"My what?"

"Press the 1 key!"

Bolt pressed 1 key and pretty soon a shotgun popped up. "Now what?"

"Hit the left mouse button."

He left-clicked the mouse and a big boom from the shotgun blasted the zombie hordes away. He kept blasting the shotgun until the zombie horde was no more. Bolt paused the game. His fur was raised, his heart pounding fast from the tense action that he just witnessed before him.

Rhino looked up to Bolt. "Well…?"

Bolt looked down. "Rhino, I can't lie. This game is… is… is awesome!" Bolt quickly unpaused the game and continued to play.

Rhino was pleased. "I knew you had it in ya' Bolt. You are after all, the legendary hero."

"Uhuh."

Rhino looked at Bolt. "Okay. So, my turn?"

"What's that?" Bolt murmured. His eyes focused directly on the screen.

Rhino wanted to play, but he did not want to disturb his hero. "I guess I won't disturb you." He came back to his ball and jumped to the floor. "I'll be downstairs watching some toons."

Rhino was now back at the sofa. He missed being a good old couch potato and now, was back to just watching. Soon after, Mittens arrived in the living room and spots Rhino on the couch. "Hey Rhino, where did Bolt go?"

"Oh, I just let him play around the computer."

"I don't believe this. You finally poisoned his mind, didn't you?"

"Poisoned his mind with sheer awesomeness!" Rhino exclaimed.

"Uhh… whatever. I guess I'll check on him to see if he's okay." But as soon as she said that, Penny arrived in the house. "Guys, I home."

"On second thought. I think I'll just laze around and let Penny do the work."

Penny came close to her and lifted Mittens to her arms. "Hey Mittens. How's my wittle kitty. Say, do you know where my Bolty-wolty is?" Mittens just gave a meow. "What? Oh right, I forgot to close the computer."

She rushed her way upstairs and hurried to her room to find that it was on the way she left it. "Okay, then. It's time for some zombie-action." Little did she know Bolt sneaking out of the room.

Mittens and Rhino were now on the sofa watching… something. "So what's on?" Mittens asked.

We're beginning to see some showers and thunderstorms across Central US with slight chance of…

"I don't know."

"So what else is on?"

"Hang on, let me change the channel."

Pretty soon, Bolt had come downstairs and entered the living room to which Rhino notices. "Hey, so how's my zombie-kicking partner?"

"Rhino, that was the most intense thing I've ever done. I've never felt so alive, even back when I was starring in my own show. I can't wait to play it again."

"Uh. Wags, I don't know how to tell you this, but Penny's gonna notice that you played on her computer."

"Nah, I made sure I left it just the way it was."

Back at Penny's room, Penny finally finished the whole campaign, but things seem kind of whack when the game statistics went out.

Number of times incapacitated 26

Number of deaths 17

Number of times restarted 17

"I don't remember dying that often."

Mittens was a bit worried to where this was going and approached Bolt. "Bolt, come on. That's just a game. Don't take it too seriously."

"I know Mittens. I'll try not to."

Later that evening, Bolt was wide awake in front of the computer playing on Penny's new computer. Penny and Mittens were sound asleep and he made sure he did not wake them up. His eyes focused on the monitor. Eyes just focused on killing zombies. "Must kill zombies." He pointed the mouse over some zombie's head and started blowing it away. "Must… kill…" The night went on with some high-octane zombie shooting.