Hunter grunted as he looked at the tablet in his hands, his finger to one side of the screen as his little weird spaceman walked across the gray metal ship floor, a tink-tink sound coming from his headphones with every step the armless yellow blob man took. He had just finished scanning himself in the medical room and was on his way to slide his keycard to complete another task.

Normally the teen wouldn't waste his time playing video games and this was the longest he had spent on any electronic device. There were much better things to do with his time than dead scrolling through Mewtube or one of the other social media platforms that the people of the human realm spent hours on. Heck, back on the Boiling Isless he didn't even have his own Scroll or Penstagram account! He was always busy training or going on various missions for his Uncle Belos. Well until he met Willow, then he finally got a Scroll. Not that he got it for the sole purpose of talking to a girl, but there were other things that he could use it for. Or that's what he said to justify him getting on anyways.

But when Luz found a game called Faker that had come out while she was in the Demon Realm she started asking around for people to play. The human quickly got hooked on the game and learned that you could play with friends, thanks to a tip Vee gave her. The Basikilas had already played the game and was the one who introduced it to Luz. So with a new game, she could play with her friends Luz was practically begging everyone to play with her. Well specifically had to beg him to play since everyone just agreed to play it with her. And with how much he did not want to play the game, he couldn't come up with a really good reason to not play with them. He was busy, with what? It wasn't like he had any ties or duties in the human realm. Oh, how about he didn't have a device to play it on? That may have been true for what it was worth, but when he tried to use that very valid reason and not excuse, he was handed an old tablet to play on. The screen was cracked and had a few inches of dust blanketing it, but it still worked. He could always tell the human he wasn't interested but she had done so much for him and he couldn't repay her like that. Luz had saved him from the Emporoer's grasp and her mom had given him a place to stay. So refusing to play a game with her seemed like a crummy way to show how grateful he was. So yeah he agreed to play the dumb game. At least it took place in outer space, which was really the only thing that made him say yes. If it would have been some weird human farming game he probably would've said no despite wanting to seem grateful.

In the game Faker there was a group of people on a spaceship that the blond had no idea was allowed to even leave its dock or whatever the space version of a dock was. The ship was practically falling apart as they traveled. Wires were loose, vents clogged, and a multitude of different problems. So as a crew member, you had to run around the ship and fix things so you can continue your journey. But while the loyal crew members are busy fixing the ship so you all don't die, two people are trying to kill you. They don't want you to fix the ship and Hunter didn't understand that at all. If they were traveling on the ship too, wouldn't they want it to be fixed so they don't die? But with logic out the window, these two are called Fakers and they are trying to kill all the actual crew members before they can fix the ship. So to win the game the real crew has to do a list of tasks and to lose the Fakers have to kill most of the crew.

"Ok," Hunter sighed as he entered the room that was an ugly vomit-green color with a brown table in the middle of the room. Walking up to the table the option to 'Swipe' showed up in gray text at the bottom of the screen. Tapping on it his screen changed and an ID card was pulled out of a wallet, the idea had a picture of his character, a round yellow blob man with legs. The man didn't have any arms, so how he pulled the card out was beyond Hunter's understanding and a pair of white goggles for his eye. Now all the teen had to do was swipe the card through the scanner and the task would be over. Easy, right? So Hunter used his finger to slide the card from one side of the screen to the other

Buzz

The screen flashed red as the machine failed to scan his card. Making the blond take a deep breath in and hiss. Why did the easiest task in this game have to be the most annoying and required the most effort?

Slide… Bzzz

Slide… Bzzz

Slide… Bzzz

Slide… Beep

"Dear Titan, finally!" The witch exclaimed as his screen returned to the ugly green room. But now there were two other blobs in there, standing on each side of him. A light blue blob, a color Hunter learned was called cyan, with the nametag "theGusinater" above him and a dark purple with the nametag "TheDarkOtter" above it. With his sharp abilities of deduction, Hunter guessed it was Gus since the boy's magic course used that color and Luz had that dark purple and white shirt. He figured the pair was there to try and scan their cards as he was.

"Gooooood luck! If it gave me trouble then you two have no chance." He muttered to himself, though his microphone on the pair of yellow headphones hugging his head. Or at least he was sure it, the switch he had to push back and forth to turn his mic on or off was shown a picture of a microphone crossed out, so he was sure his mic was off. So no one could hear him as he started to walk off to go do his last task. He had to go destroy some meteors and that task took place on the complete other side of the ship, so he had quite the trek in front of him. But as he walked past Gus the purple blob teleported to the cyan one. His head immediately disappeared as his plump body dropped to the ground, a white bone sticking out of the body.

"Bah-ga?" Hunter babbled as his eyes went wide like an owl and his mouth dropped open. The two cartoonish characters on the screen just stared at each other. "W-why you little!" He huffed glaring at the purple blob, fairly certain that he had been the target. He had just happened to move at the right time.

Noe below his character an air horn appeared and "REPORT" in bright red letters appeared. Which the teen immediately pressed making all the crew members appear at a dark blue table in the ship's break room. Red cans of soda, blue bags of chips, and yellow candy bars littered the table. Out of the six characters that had started the game only four of them remained. It was Luz, a pink blob named Mittens, and a green blob called TheThorn. Gus was missing as was Vee, who had an orange blob with a pumpkin on her character's head. She had Vee as her gamer tag, not that Hunter could see it now. "I saw Hunter vent!" Luz immediately yelled through her mic as everyone turned their mics back on to discuss who was guilty and would be tossed off the ship. The sudden accusation against him made Hunter freeze as his mouth dropped open once more, revealing the missing tooth in the middle of his top row of teeth.

"S-silence witch!" The blond snapped, shaking his head as he snapped back to reality. "I saw you kill Gus right in front of me! It's clear that you are the faker!"

"Well, Amity was with me the whole time," Luz said smugly and Hunter could see the girl doing that dumb cat face thing with the curving lips. "Did you see me kill Gus, Sweet Potato?" She asked her girlfriend, who was staying quiet through this conversation.

"I-I didn't see anything." The girl finally squeaked out after a solid minute of silence.

"WHAT?!" Huster yelled, Luz's mom yelling up the steps they needed to calm down it was just a game, and his face turned beet red hearing Amity was siding with Luz. Which he figured meant that the purple-haired witch was the other faker. Or… No, she wouldn't betray the crew on a simple crush. Would she? "Y-you're just saying that because you like her!" He accused, tightening his grip on the tablet, risking getting cute from the cracks or adding more cracks to the screen.

There were four people left right now, two of which were crew members and two were fakers. If one more crew member got ejected the fakers would win. But if they ejected one of the fakers they still had a chance to run and finish the remaining task and win the game!

"Willow, you believe me, right?" He asked, almost in a pleading tone.

"Finish him," Willow said, her voice low and deadpanned. Like a heartless queen commanding the execution of a simple villager for looking at her wrong. The words echoed in his head as he watched two dots appear under his character, one purple and the other green showing Luz and Willow voted him out. He quickly pressed Luz's purple blob and voted for her to be kicked off the ship. But a pink blob appeared in the undecided area, and if it would've voted for Luz it would've ended in a tie and no one would've been kicked off. But since it wasn't that meant Hunter had gotten the majority vote.

The screen in his hands went black as the yellow blob went flying across it. The text Yellow Was Not The Faker and the screen tinted red as Luz and Willow's blobs were standing in the middle of the screen. FAKERS WIN appeared in red text as high pitch cheers of the girls threatened to shatter all the glass in the house, Luz's mom shouting up a second warning.

Hunter's mouth dropped open in shock for a third time as the tablet slipped from his hands onto his lap. This felt like a rigged game with the two fakers and a crew member not willing to vote because she liked one of the traitors. How is anyone supposed to survive a game stacked like that?

"There there, I feel you, man." A voice said, making Hunter look down, seeing two mini allusions of his dark-skinned friend Gus dressed in a blue shirt and gray shorts, a light blue glow around the allusions. They were trying to console him by patting his shoulder but as they were just allusions their hands just went right through him. Leaving Hunter to sit in shock as he looked down at the screen, another match being set up.