INTRODUCTION
By Harry's request, I'm posting a very old (11 years old in fact, we still used the word "pwn" back then!) URPG Story Contest winning entry that features madcap mayhem, goofy PE2K members, and cheesy-pizza comedy and catastrophe. Also, thank Google cache, as this story was on the brink of being lost forever, but I'm now able to repost it for future IQ loss.
You probably won't recognize most of the characters in this story, but they were all PE2K members (including me as Neo Pikachu, back before they conceived the awesomeness known as Emolga!) So here's to memories, mayhem, and maniacal madness. Cheers.
WARNING:
Neo Pikachu is being legally held responsible for:
PE2K WARS
If your name happens to appear in this story (very likely will) and you feel offended by some of the material presented, or feel it is malicious in any way, cOmPlAiN tO sOmEoNe WhO cArEs!!!
Chapter 1: Hardcore Ditty of ESPN's Half Time Report
Sitting at his computer console aboard the Starship Enterprise was none other than the ingenious Harry Kim, moving his mouse left and right and clicking furiously while his eyes were set on the screen. His other hand was pressing keys all over his keyboard in an insane rage.
“NOOO!!!!” He screamed, shoving the mouse forward and banging his fist on the table.
Bron suddenly enters, wearing his tuxedo with a martini in his hand.
“What’s the matter, losing at Counter Strike again, Harry?” Bron asked, almost finding it amusing.
“No…” Harry replied, grabbing a jelly donut and taking a bite of frustration out of it.
“Halo?” Bron asked, sipping his martini.
“No…”
“Half Life?”
“No…”
“Okay, I give up.” Bron replied, looking at Harry, “Just what are you losing at?”
There was silence…
“Solitaire...” Harry replied, “Microsoft’s cruelest invention. That does it! We’re switching all the onboard computers to Apples! Nah ha ha! What are you going to do now, Bill Gates!?”
“So what if the Starship Enterprise is no longer his customer?” Bron shrugged, “He’s got so many millions more…”
“Not if I can do something about it.” Harry replied, tearing another bite out of his donut, “I got it! We’ll head for their headquarters, and demand the instant removal of Solitaire from all Windows operating systems! And while we’re at it, we’ll get rid of that hideously frustrating Minesweeper game as well! I’m sure they use that game as an ingenious form of torture in some South-west Asian country!”
“I never could get past the expert mode…” Bron recalled, thinking to himself for a moment.
“Well, neither could I.” Harry replied, grabbing a can of Pepsi and guzzling it furiously, “But that’s just my point! I swear the mines moved around just when you were about to click one of those gray squares!”
Just then, Harry brushed away the thumbtacks, Better Homes and Gardens magazines, the pumpkin pie box, the cell phone with the annoying I Love Lucy theme for a ringer, the Green Bay Packers football helmet and the half eaten box of marzipan off his desk and then pressed the shiny red button that was finally revealed underneath. Suddenly, an alarm went off, one that sounded very similar to the one used in that movie with John Candy, the Schwartz thing and… yeah you know the one I’m talking about.
“To your battle stations, crew!” Harry shouted, his voice booming all over the space vessel, “We’re headed for silicon valley! Time to put you away, Gates. For good!”
“You know…” Bron told Harry, putting aside his martini, “You could always play Oregon Trail if you’re…”
“Battle stations, soldier!” Harry shouted at Bron, quickly interrupting him, “Or you’ll get extra duty with a 30% reduction in glazed, chocolate, and powdered donuts.”
“But sir…” Bron protested.
“And no apple fritters either!” Harry shouted, “That’s an order, soldier!”
“Yes sir!” Bron replied and saluted quickly before turning to his side and then heading to his computer console.
Shortly after the crew had arrived, Harry quickly performed a quick head count and system check.
“Ace, status report our weapons control!” Harry shouted to the left side of the room.
“The Egg launchers are ready and waiting sir.” Ace replied, taking a sip of his Tall sized Vanilla Latte, “Just give me the ring and we’ll make them look worse than The White House on Mischief Night. And the flamers are ready anytime, just let me know and I’ll let Fat Harvey turn on the gas.”
“Heh heh, death via flaming fart.” Harry snickered, “Cat, what about shields?”
“The Ultra Turbo Mega Giga Shield of Fancy Shiny and Sparkly White Light is up and operational.” Catriona replied before taking a sip from her chocolate milkshake.
“What about rations, Bron?” Harry asked another side of the room.
“We have enough Dunkin Donuts and Krispy Kremes to last us approximately 14 days, 4 hours, 17 minutes and 29 seconds and counting.” Bron replied, looking at his monitor, “That’s as long as everyone limits themselves to five donuts and two lattes a day.”
“Will do, Major!” Harry Kim replied, “Are we ready for Lightspeed!?”
“Ready and waiting, sir.” Satou replied, looking at her hand of cards while playing a game of poker with Steven, Finch, the mysterious Ninja Emperor, his son, his two nephews, John Travolta, the Kool-Aid Man, Bob Barker, and the entire Adams Family.
“Then off we go!” Harry Kim shouted with glee, “Engage!”
Then, Satou took three seconds of her time to press the initiate button before returning to the poker game, and then the Starship Enterprise suddenly took off, heading toward Silicon Valley, straight for Microsoft’s headquarters.
But then, suddenly out of the blue, an explosion blasted out, and the Starship Enterprise was rocked from the tremor. Ace fell out of his chair, Harry’s face slammed right into his latte, and Bron quickly lost at Snake as his cell phone flew out of his hand. Instantly, every computer screen was flashing, and then Harry’s Solitaire game was quickly replaced with a “Warning, this program has performed an illegal action and will be shut down” window.
“What happened!?” Harry asked with creamy latte dripping down his face.
“Someone set up us the bomb.” Bron replied as he looked at his flashing computer screen with the laughing skull on it.
“We get signal.” Ace replied, seeing a new AIM message from “DarkLordKamon” came up on his computer.
“What!” Harry asked, finishing off his jelly donut.
“Main Screen turn on.” Ace confirmed, turning on the main holographic image display.
Suddenly, the imposing image of the Dark Lord Kamon had appeared, with his fiery red hair, dark eyes, black jacket, and a sinister smile on his face had appeared in the hologram.
“It’s you!” Harry shouted though a bullhorn, recognizing Dark Lord Kamon.
“How are you gentlemen!?” Kamon asked, smiling at the frantic Team Trainer, “All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction.”
“What you say?” Harry asked while trying to click all the X buttons on every one of the five pop up ads on his computer screen.
“You have no chance to survive make your time.” Kamon replied with a dark smile, “Ha ha ha!”
Just then, the holographic image of Dark Lord Kamon had faded, and the main computer turned off. And then, suddenly, all the computers started flashing “All your base are belong to us!” in orange and yellow and started playing the Benny Hill theme music.
“Team Nox will pay for this!” Harry shouted in anger, “Once I have them at my mercy, they’ll be the ones to deliver pizza to my front door from now on! And I’ll only give them a 10% tip!”
“Awesome!” Ace shouted in glee.
“What!?” Harry asked, looking over to Ace.
“I just saved hundreds on my car insurance by switching to Geico!”
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