Chapter 9

A large scream escaped his lungs. He felt woozy, almost like he was going to pass out. When he looked at the zombie again, it was a little girl. She giggled and then ran away. He decided to follow her, intrigued by what just happened.

He turned the corner and found an abandoned laboratory. There were cages everywhere. Most of them contained skeletons of animals, but one had a stuffed monkey in it. He went up to it and found a key to turn it. He decided to turn the key. As he cranked it, he thought to himself, "This must be ANCIENT. Nobody uses these things any more. I wonder how it got here?"

The monkey started playing a song. It sounded like a German polka. "Obviously," he said to himself. "This is Germany; what did I expect? Ragtime?"

The monkey's eyes suddenly turned red. The monkey suddenly screamed and yelled, "YOU'RE NOT SAMANTHA!" John, being frightened by the monkey, sprinted as fast as possible away from the monkey. He heard an explosion behind him and turned around. The monkey was gone and there was a smell of smoke.

"Well then, I guess I won't go playing with random monkeys anymore." He turned around to report back to the captain and tell him what he found. Then he heard a mysterious jingle. He followed the noise, his curiosity getting the best of him, and was in a room with a box.

There was a light surrounding it and it was glowing. Beside it was a switch with a sign reading, "To use the box and start the experiment, flip the switch."

"Pfft, I've been bitten by a zombie," he said. "Found my brother's reanimated zombie that then disappeared, and almost been blown up by a monkey. Might as well do this too." He flipped the switch. Suddenly his vision was altered. He saw in the distance, through the wall, writing that said, "Captain Charlie." He also saw 10 or 15 0's in the bottom left corner of his sight.

"What is this?" he yells in confusion. "What does this stuff mean?" As he finishes there is a deep voice that talks.

"The game has begun."