Here is my 1800 word story, enjoy ;)
“You know what would be funny? If we replaced all zombie models with chinchillas.” @Greggy G said.
*One week later, after his AO promotion*
Greggy walks over to me, a small smirk on his face.
“Remember when I was talking about chinchilla models in zombie escape?” I shoot him a look of annoyance, knowing that he could actually make that happen with his new rank. “Well then,” his voice seemed to amplify over the server, “WELCOME TO CHINCHILLA ESCAPE!” I suddenly feel light headed, and faint at my seat, all the while constantly hearing those same words, ringing throughout my head on repeat.
I wake up almost instantly, in a very large room with bright orange walls and hundreds of sleeping… creatures everywhere. I noticed a plethora of anime girls, military men that seemed to be straight out of CS:GO, and many other things scattered throughout the room. I begin to step forward, feeling weighed down by weird appendages on my back. I look down at my feet, being careful to avoid any sleeping people, when I notice something, very odd. Why are my feet large and orange? I look at my hands to see they are a similar color, but with large white claws on each finger. To test my suspicions, I unfold my wings and look into the large mirror on the wall to my left.
“Huh. Cool.” I admire my new body, testing different muscles and slowly getting used to this welcome change. Just then, I hear slow footsteps approaching me from my rear, and I step to the side so I can see the source in the mirror. Behind me is a giant chinchilla, about half of my side, and walking on two legs.
“Hi Charizard, I see you made it safely,” a familiar voice says.
“Greggy??” I exclaim, completely caught off guard.
“Welcome to chinchilla escape,” he says. “On the ground are all of the SG regulars, who also faced the same fate as you.”
“Wait so, it was you who caused me to faint and come here?” A voice calls from my lower right. I look right to find the source of the voice, and see a 002 standing next to me. The voice belonged to none other than @Venom™ . I notice everyone else starting to stir a bit in their sleep, signifying that they will wake up soon.
“Once they all wake up, I will do what I’ve wanted to do ever since I became an SA,” Greggy says, a bit of a sinister undertone showing through his voice. He pauses for about a minute, and by that point people are freaking out, talking with each other, or doing other things but everyone was awake. Greggy clears his throat.
“GREETINGS SG REGULARS”
“AHHHHH!” Everyone screams as their ears start to bleed.
“Oops sorry, my mic was too loud. Let me try that again.” Greggy grins sheepishly at the reaction. “Greetings everyone! As you can see, I have taken you into this world for one purpose, to begin the chinchilla war against humans! Humans have been the dominant species for far too long, and we chinchillas deserve that spot!”
“Woo!” One guy in the back with a PETA shirt cheers. He cowers back as soon as he notices all the glares from everyone in the room focused on him.
“So my plan is this, to turn you all into chinchillas! But unfortunately, I don’t have the admin powers to do that right now, so instead, I made a game out of it, chinchilla escape! I will slowly hunt you all down and turn you into chinchillas, on the map of your choosing. Once I catch you and infect you, you will turn into a brainless chinchilla ready to serve me and infect more non-believers! HAHAHAHAHAHA!” Everyone stares silently at his antics, questioning his sanity. “Oh, you don’t believe me, let’s get started!” I notice everyone around me starting to collapse, as I feel light headed.
“You won’t get away with this,” I say as I collapse, following everybody else.
I wake up once again, and take in the surroundings. Floating islands, lots of grass and some trees and rocks, and a giant tower in the distance… Wait a second. This is ZE_Rizomata, my favorite map in zombie escape! I look around, and see everyone panicking and running in circles, and notice a 10 minute timer in the sky, counting down until “first infection”.
“Everyone listen up!” I yell, hoping to get everyone’s attention, but gaining no success. I gather heat into my throat and blow out a large stream of flames into the air. Silence. All eyes are now on me.
“If we want to get out of this alive, we will need to work together, and not panic, because the more we panic, the harder surviving will be!” Murmurs of approval surround me. “Luckily as a dedicated ZE player, I know this map like the back of my hand, and I have the ability to lead us through this maze so we can win!” More murmurs, louder this time, as well as a few soft yea’s. “So who wants to win!” Everyone starts cheering, calmed down and psyched for the upcoming challenge.
“This is basically ZE, so where do we buy guns?” A small voice asks. I look down to see a small bulbasaur, clearly @Cept For Her .
“You can’t buy guns, I restricted them!” Greggy’s voice rang through the sky. Well this complicates things. I glance at the timer, and see 0:10 left.
“New plan, just run!” I yell. “Follow me!” Everyone once again starts screaming and running in all directions, except in mine. “No! Wrong way!” I scream at all of the non-ZE regulars who haven’t played rizomata before.
“Small trim,” an anime girl says behind me.
“Shut up @Xstrikerkiller ! This isn’t a joke!” I glare at him. Once again I look up to where the timer was, and see two numbers in its place, a 999, and a 1. The 1 was clearly the amount of chinchillas, just Greggy for the time being, and the other number signified the amount of humans/non-chinchillas left. I notice about 100ish people following me, and brace myself, knowing that everyone else would end up falling to Greggy’s army due to turning the wrong way.
My group reaches the end of the cave and out into the light.
“Wow, it’s even more beautiful in person,” I say, as many others marvel at the surroundings. We continue running, but as we run up the hill in notice almost all of my followers gasping for breath and extremely tired. I wasn’t tired at all, but that was probably because of my newfound pokemon endurance, as well as wings to help me up the hill. However, I took everyone into consideration and decided that now would be a good time for a small break, especially now that we have to wait 30 seconds to ‘defend’ the spot anyway. I look up again, and cringe at the numbers, 97:903. Almost everyone was infected already, and we barely even started! I look down the hill, and notice hundreds of chinchillas of all sizes slowly making their way up the hill.
“GUYS, we have to go! They’re already too close! GO!” Some of the more fit people got straight up and ran, while others tried their hardest to keep moving but were failing to do so. I ran up to the chinchillas and started spewing flamethrowers on them with no mercy, only stopping to take a breath. It didn’t slow them down too much, as there were too many to keep under control, but it did enough to save many of the slow humans from being overcome. I notice another timer appearing for 30 more seconds, which means they triggered the next defense. This is bad news. VERY bad news.
“GO GO GO! WE WILL TP IF WE DON’T MOVE NOW!” I sprint at the fastest I can go, easily outrunning everyone else, and pass by that fatal tree as everyone else behind me is warped into it. 32:968. At this point I was losing all hope, but we kept going.
The next defense required us to take two paths evenly, so I prayed that the other path would make it out safely. They didn’t. 15:985. Many difficult jumps killed off most of our very small numbers remaining, which left us with 4. As we ran to the last platform, the chinchillas were not too far behind us. ‘Defend for 45 seconds.’ 45 seconds. There was no way we will ever survive 45 seconds purely on my flamethrowers and Cept’s razor leaves. We back up to the very edge of the ground, far behind the glowing final platform. 3, 2, 1… The platform starts to rise, but the four of us left, Vonem, Striker, Cept and I were not on it.
“We have no choice, we have to jump. We can’t let them take us and turn us… wait a second...” I slowly flap my wings and rise off the ground, and mentally facepalm at my stupidity. “Climb on…” The three remaining people climb on my back and I quickly flapped my wings to get a good boost into the air. I fly the four of us on to the final platform, which was chinchilla-free.
As we rise, we start cheering, because we had just saved not only SG, but the world.
“Nice job, but now you need to beat level 2, HAHAHAHAHA-” he is cut off by a female voice.
“GREGGY! I GO SHOPPING FOR JUST A FEW HOURS, AND YOU DO THIS??” @Black Rain yells. Suddenly, the four of us feel light headed once again, and fall asleep.
I wake up, once again in my bedroom in front of my computer. I see my phone on my bed, with dozens of texts from my parents, asking me where I was. I see the date, April 2nd, 2018. Seems like 3 days have passed.
“Mom! Dad! I’m back!” I call down the stairs into the room that my parents are watching TV in.
“Drake??” They both exclaim. I run down the stairs and peek into the room, and on the TV is a familiar story of 1,000 people going missing on the same day. “Where were you…” my parents both cry, “what happ-” They both go wide eyed as they turn around.
“AAAAAAH!” They both run out of the room and out the front door. I notice they left the TV on, and my dad hates when I waste electricity, so I turn the TV off… ‘oh, that’s awkward…’ in the blank TV screen, I see the reflection of a charizard.
