This surpringly hasn't been archived yet (as far as I am aware), this is a story written by skullduggery773 he wrote this I am just archiving it, but first some words from skull.
Hello. I will be arching the original spam virus in this topic. It is a topic with over 1,000 posts and the first post is the most liked story post of all time. I decided to do an archive.
Looking back on it, the story wasn't actually that good. The first chapter wasn't as well written as I liked to pretend it was, and the story was a bit...mediocre. This is unedited and is not a re-write, its just so users don't have to read 76 pages of spam with story sprinkled in between.
Please do not post in the topic while archiving. Comments are fine once archiving is done. =)
Dude, Legocityman, and Legobirth were chatting randomly in the MB Cafe, not bothering to look out the window outside.
"You want some tea?" asked Dude.
"Nah. Tea is sulphuric." said Legobirth, grinning and sticking out his tongue.
Legocityman started to laugh, when there was a bang, and the glass of the windows shattered. Dude dived to the floor, and somewhere legobirth screamed. Legocitymans chair fell, and he fell onto the ground, and hit head on the ground.
"What's that?" asked Legobirth, standing up slowly. Dude crawled to the window, and stared out, looking horrified.
The sky had darkened. and there was a purple glow. There were dark things come down from the sky, that looked like posts. Short posts. They could barely be seen, and the more Dude stared, the darker they became, and the harder they became to see.
"Its spam!" yelled Tiggerjake in the middle of the forum.
Legobirth and Dude walked out into the forum. A spam post hit legobirth, and Dude turned, saw legobirths avatar darkening, and ran. Legobirth's vision became darker and darker, and soon legobirth was gone.
By the time the infected legobirth looked back, Dude was gone.
The MB forum was in ruins. The buildings in pieces, the MB Cafe reduced to rubble, and there was dirt and posts lying all over the forum. It was empty.
There was a rumble, then a white light appeared above the forum. It disapeared as a user fell out and hit the ground.
IndyAJD was lying their his face on the ground. He managed to turn himself to look up at the sky.
"I think that is a user over there." said a voice that sounded vaguely familiar.
"Yup, it is." said another voice, less familiar.
"Well, what are we supposed to do now?" asked another, once again, familiar voice.
"Check him for spam." said the second.
"I doubt he's been infected. If he'd been infected, he'd be tearing us apart right now." said the first one happily.
"You are strange."
"They say that about me."
IndyAJD sat up and looked at the three users, causing them to jump back, and one of them pull something that looked like a hammer off their back and hold it in a two handed grip in front of him.
"Uh...." said Pacman, holding the ban hammer near Indy's face.
"Why are you swinging that at me?" asked Indy, shocked, but crawling back.
"He's talking. He's not infected." said the less familiar voice, and Magna walked forward and looked down at him.
"Well, in the friends forum last week one of the infected talked."
"That wasn't an infected. That was Dude sleepwalking." said Magna, sighing and looking down at Indy again.
"Oi!" said Dude, who was the third figure who had been standing back, "I don't sleepwalk."
Magna grinned, then looked back down at Indy.
"I doubt he's infected."
"You never know." said Pacman.
"Pacman, be quiet." said Magna, who was now extending a hand down to Indy. Indy accepted it and was pulled to his feet.
"What happened to this place?" asked Indy.
"'What happened to this place?'" said Dude, mocking Indy.
"Dude, be quiet. Indy, we'll talk about it when we find somewhere to hide for the night."
Skul jumped over a piece of rubble as spam rolled over it, infecting it, making it glow black.
He was in the middle of the Galaxy Squad Forum, which had been the last one infected with the spam.
Had been.
He rolled underneath a fallen building, passing assorted posters about Galaxy Squad.
He could see the last few users running towards the entrances to different forums at the end of that forum. Chima closed. A infected user came out of another, trying to block them off.
Skul was running at the MB forum gateway. He saw another user approaching it. Tahu.
There was an explosion, and Skul fell. He heard another crash, and the sound of smashing, and screaming, and roaring. He kept his head covered, as pieces of rubble rained down on him. There was another explosion, and he heard something fall beside him. He glanced up, into an infected users face.
He jumped back, and the user swung a fist at him, which was glowing back. Skul stepped back, as it got to its feet, roaring. Skul looked closer at it, trying to see if it was a user he recognized. He couldn't recognize it, and it swung another fist at him, and he jumped back again.
He began running away, hearing the spam-infected user roaring behind him. He saw Tahu pass through the entrance to the MB forum. He followed, as another user shoved him out of the way. He hit the ground and roleld, freezing for a second. Had he been infected? No. He didn't think so. He didn't feel like spamming.
Pulling himself to his feet, he dived through the entrance, as it closed behind him, sealing him off from the spam within.
"So, what exactly happened?" asked Indy, sitting in the remains of Camp MB. where they had run to.
He was sitting by the lake, staring at it. Dude had advised him not to step in, claiming the last user to step in had been infected by something underneath the lake, and Pacman had banned it into submission, making it-and the user-sink deep into the lake, and soon the lake had become completely untouchable.
"Well, we don't know fully. I was in the MB forum one day with legocityman and legobirth, in the MB Cafe, when all of a sudden there was a explosion, and everything broke. I ran outside, and small black posts rained down from above, infecting users. Legobirth was infected, and I ran. I found Pacman fighting off a bunch with a ban hammer, with Magna hiding behind him. We ran. Soon after, the posts stopped raining down, and the infection of spam just.....spread. It touches you, you become infected. Start glowing black, you can't talk, and generally its just creepy."
Pacman sat down on a log, sighing.
"Yeah. The mods fell. This Ban Hammer-" he said, tugging the ban hammer off his back and looking at it, "Was Mojo_Sansibar's. He fell the day the spam infected, I think he tried to mod through it. But it was too much. He became infected and just....disapeared. He dropped the hammer and I grabbed it."
Dude and Pacman shrugged, and Magna breathed out deeply.
"Well, Aguarios was in the lake at Camp MB. I think whats left of him is what got Obi, he was the one who fell in the lake. And...Coco was one of the last standing, trying to defend the Help and Suggestions forum. That place has been overrun. She was infected, and disapeared too. IrrationalSeagul, Keighlan, OceanBella, and Stevensbike. We didn't know what happened to MKM, Wildbunchz, or WhiteAlligator for a while."
Pacman almost let out a sob, but continued from where Magna had left off.
"Until we found a bunch of infected users. legocityman, michaelyoda, fighting against WA, infecting her. Pacman tried to help, but she fell too, infected. We have her ban hammer...."
He reached into a bag on the ground and brought out a small broken end of a ban hammer.
"It still works, but more close combat. I use it." he said.
"What about MKM and Wildbunchz?" asked Indy.
"Wildbunchz was the last to fall. She was trying to free MKM-" said Pacman, but he was cut off by Indy.
"So she's OK?" asked Indy hopefully.
"She was captured. Shes in the Help and Suggestions forum now." said Dude, shuddering.
"The Help and Suggestions forum? C'mon! We can save her!" said Indy, jumping up.
Magna dragged him back down, looking around.
"Be quiet. And no we can't. That place is like a fortress-thats where the infected go. Hundreds and hundreds of them. Nonstop. Constantly. If we tried to save her, we'd be infected. And that is not a way to go."
Skul coughed, walking towards Tahu, who was lying on the ground outside the exit to the MB forum. Night was falling, and Skul was tired. He had only just made it through-and no one else had.
"Yes?" said Tahu, slowly pulling himself to his feet.
Tahu glanced around the forum, and so did Skul. It was getting harder to see anything, and there was rubble everywhere.
"I don't think we should stay out."
"Are there any spam free places left?" asked Skul.
"I don't think so. I know Camp MB has been used a lot recently as a hideout. I heard from a friend who was...later...infected..." moaned Tahu.
"Which way is it?" asked Skul.
"I think forward..." said Tahu, looking into the darkness.
"Fair enough." said Skul, who then began jogging off.
Tahu glanced around, and followed Skul through the darkness.
They reached the end of the forum shortly after, both of them panting. The buildings were more destroyed here, but they could hear the sound of rushing water, which was a good sign. Skul was keeping a lookout while Tahu caught his breath.
"Stop!" said Skul quietly.
Tahu stopped breathing heavily, holding his breath, and looked around.
"I thought I heard something...." said Skul, as a user stepped into the light.
He was choking, and there were dark lines spreading across his avatar. His eyes were darkening, and he tried to speak.
"Run...." he said.
"Legochip?" asked Skul, stepping towards the user in the darkness. Tahu tugged him back, as Legochip coughed again.
"Spam...is...coming,.." he said, and collapsed, and was still.
"This isn't good." said Skul lightly.
"Understatement." muttered Tahu, who then started running away, in the direction of camp MB.
"Skul, c'mon!" yelled Tahu.
"Just a minute..." said Skul, looking down at legochip.
Legochip suddenly looked up at him, his eyes glowing back, baring his teeth.
"Right," said Skul, his voice more higher pitched than usual, "Coming!" he yelled.
He began running and the infected legochip gave chase.
Indy knew something was wrong when he heard the cry of pain.
He crawled out from underneath the remains of a hut in the camp where he had been sleeping to see two users running towards him. He recognized one of them. and the other he didn't know as well.
"Skul!" he yelled, as Skul dived and slid through the hole in the ground that led down into the small area Indy had been sleeping in.
He saw another user run out from a tree towards him. He recognized him as Legofan, who also dived down.
"Legofan?" asked Skul, looking at him, "What are you doing here?"
"I saw you guys here. Figured it would be te best place to hide-I've been hiding in the forest for a while with a few others."
"Others?"
There was another cry of pain as Tahu slid down and fell into the hole. There was a moan, and Indy glanced through the other hole in the hole they were in. Inside two figures were lying.
Skul jumped to his feet, grabbing a rock that was lying on the ground.
"Who is that?" he asked, "Infected?"
"No, Magna and Pacman. They're sleeping-"
"What's going on?" screeched Magna, who had jumped up and jumped in holding the broken ban hammer.
Skul jumped up, and Legofan jumped behind. Tahu moaned and rolled on the floor.
"Well, we were basing chased by an infected." said Skul.
"Wait, where is it now?" asked Magna.
Skul froze for a second.
"Ah, I forgot about that...." said Skul, glancing towards the hole in the wall as Legochip rolled down.
Magna instantly turned the broken ban hammer on him, and began hitting it, driving it back. Pacman, now awake, brought up his ban hammer and began hitting him too, driving him back.
"We need to get out!" yelled Indy, who was in the corner now, with Skul, Tahu, and Legofan.
Magna and Pacman were still driving it back, but it was fighting hard.
"Don't let it touch you!" said Skul.
"We know, Captain Obvious!" yelled Magna, hitting Legochip in the face with the hammer.
"Yes?" said Skul, who watching the battle carefully.
"We can get out!" said Indy.
Skul glanced back at him.
"How?" asked Skul.
Indy was about to reply but the infected smashed into Magnas hammer, and send Magna flying into Skul, and they both crashed into the wall, making the roof shake, and dust to fall. Magna moaned, and got to his feet
Pacman was now fighting the infected alone, but the infected legochip was obviously more powerful. He was now jumping towards Pacman, and Pacmans blows to keep it down were becoming more and more desperate.
"Finally!" said Indy.
Skul spun to see that a piece of wood in the wall had been knocked down, revealing another way up, that had moonlight glowing down it. Indy directed Legofan and Magna up, Magna limping slightly. Tahu was still on the floor, moaning.
"Tahu! Come on!" said Indy, trying to pull him up, and reaching down at him. Skul galcned at Tahu, and instantly dived, tackling Indy into the tunnel leading up.
Indy shoved him off into the wal.
"Skul! What are you doing? Are you crazy?" he yelled.
"No! Look at Tahu! He was touched by Legochip on the way here!" yelled Skul. Indy glanced at Tahu, and saw the dull black glow strengthening beneath him.
"Whats taking him so long to change?" asked Indy.
"Nothing." said Skul sadly.
"What do you mean?"
"He could've infected us anytime he wanted to. He thought the element of suprise was more important." said Skul.
"How do you know?" asked Indy.
"Just guessing." said Skul, as Tahu opened his now glowing, black eyes to grin at him maliciously.
"Right. Run." said Indy.
"Good idea." said Skul, as they half ran half crawled up the tunnel, and Tahu stood up slowly.
Magna and Legofan were now waiting at the top. Indy and Skul reached the top, and Skul shifted a large piece of wood over the entrance.
"What-wheres Tahu?" asked Magna, looking down the hole.
"Infected." said Skul, panting. There was a crash, the sound of someone scratching and biting and slamming in the piece of wood. It lifted up for a second, but Skul kicked in back into place. But it was splintering.
"Right." said Magna, "Run."
"Sound smart." said Skul, and they began running, lead by Magna, around the corner of the remains. They ran by the entrance down into the hole they had been in, and Indy, who was near the back, followed only by legofun, stopped to see Pacman rushing out.
"Pacman!" said Indy happily, as he ran side by side with Pacman away from the hole. But Pacman was staring back, and Indy looked back as well, and his heart skipped a beat.
Legofan had been running in front of the hole when Legochip had leaped out, slamming straight ontop of him. There was roaring, and soon Legofan was glowing, and his eyes were soon the deepest black.
IndyAJD and Pacman caught up with the others on the edge of the forest. They were catching their breath, and Skul was coughing.
"What-Wheres legofan?" asked Magna. He then glanced somewhere over Skul's shoulder, and muttered "Brick."
Skul was also staring at the two infected charging at him now, and he spun and disapeared into the woods. Magna glanced around, and sprinted after him. Indy and Pacman followed after them.
Tiggerjake was sitting next to his campfire in the edge of the Camp MB forest. Below him, sure enough, at the bottom of the ledge, was the Help and Suggestions fortress. They hadn't noticed his fire. They would soon, but he didn't want to risk entering the forest.
It was strange. The forest just...dropped off, suddenly,into a cliff, where at the bottom was a huge fortress, surrounded by the infected spammers. He could see them in the middle of the fortress, with guards all around, with newly infected users everywhere. Floating above the fortress, in the sky, was the number of users who were registered by the Help and Suggestions forum, who were and weren't infected. There had been 9,860 users on the MBs who were registered. Now, over 9,500 of them had been infected.
He watched the number of infected go up, and the number of regular users go down. It was sad, knowing that another user had lost their power to quality post.
"You should put out the fire," said Dude777477, who was now sitting next to him.
Tigger suddenly jumped up, holding a sword, and swung it at Dude. Dude jumped back, hands up.
"Move away!" said Tigger fiercly.
"You know as well as I do that if I was infected I'd be silent and possible just roaring, and would most likely have infected you by now." said Dude.
"What are you doing here?"
"I was with a group of friends, and I went ahead to scout. I saw your fire, and found you," he said, and thyen glanced down the cliff, "Spying on their fortress, are we?" he asked.
"Nah. Just sitting. We should put out the fire, but as soon as my friends get back, they're salvaging for food."
Then, suddenly as flicking a switch, night fell. The darkness spread, and the fire became the only symbol in the darkness. Tiggerjake saw Dude kick the fire out. He could still see, but very little.
There was tumbling in the darkness, and Big_Reece and Zapty stumbled out, with food.
Tigger grabbed the food and laid it out in the darkness.
"So, why is Dude here?" ased Zapty, sitting down.
"Because he was scouting ahead for his friends." said Tigger.
"Who are his friends?" asked Big_Reece.
'Magna and-PACMAN!" yelled Dude, jumping up, as a tired and panting Pacman came running from the forest, a look of terror on his face. Dude caught him just as he was about to run through the two meters of cleaing and fall straight into the forum below.
"Dude-what are you doing here-tigger-Big_Reece!" said Pacman, stumbling away, looking back through the forest.
Indy and Magna ran out, and stopped, looking over the edge. They froze, and moved away from the edge, looking into the forest.
"Magna-Pacman-Indy!" said Dude, watching them.
"We've got two infected on our tail, and no one knows were Skul went."
Zapty jumped up.
"Skul's still not infected?" he asked.
"Yeah, he brought Tahu in, but he was infected."
"What about Legofan?" asked Tigger.
Indy glanced at him.
"You were the people he'd been in the forest with?" asked Indy.
"Yeah." said Tigger.
"He's infected, and here he comes."
Legofan and Legochip were now approaching with their darkened avatars, and their now black eyes.
"Uh Oh." said Dude, and they charged at the group.
Pacman swung his ban hammer as soon as Legofan jumped, smashing him down into the ground, leaving an indent. But Legofan got back to his feet, and tackled Pacman, and Pacman was almost touched by the infected user.
Zapty, Tigger, Big_Reece, and Dude all dived into the forest and began stumbling away to get behind trees, and Legochip glanced in their direction, then turned back to Skul, Indy, and Magna.
"Well, this is going to be hard." said Skul, watching the infected Legochip.
"Understatement." said Indy knowingly as Legochip jumped.
Skul ducked, and Legochips flailing fingers almost brushed the back of his neck. But he flailed after that, realizing he was heading towards the egde, kicking the ground, and grabbing Magna. His legs fell over, but the infected hands stayed up, inches away from the now moaning Magna.
"No!" screamed Pacman, turning to see Magna frozen, a dark mark across his chest where the spam beast had grazed him.
Legofan roared again, and fuelled by rage, Pacman spun, smashing into him with the ban hammer and knocking him straight over the edge, and into the drop.
Pacman stumbled through the darkness over to Magna. He sobbed, and Magna groaned rolled over.
"Don't touch him." said Skul quietly.
"Why not?" asked Pacman, still sobbing.
"He's infected."
Pacmans sobbing was intterupted as the sound of Legochip scrambling back up. Pacman jumped back as Magna rose, his avatar darkening, and his eyes beginning to glow.
"Fall." said Pacman.
Legochip roared, and charged at Pacman, and Magna stepped in front of him, blocking him. Legochip roared, and tried to sidestep, still slashing at Pacman. They ended up pushing against eachother, and as Magna darkened, he pushed legochip back, and back. Step after step. They were at the edge. But Magna was still pushing.
Legochip stared at Magna for a few seconds, then, with Magna still held tight against him, jumped back, laughing, which sounded like nails being pulled down a chalkboard.
Magna struggled as they tipped forward, over the edge.
Pacman cried out again, still being restrained, by Skul and Dude, who were struggling against him. His ban hammer lay discarded on the ground.
Legochip fell, and Magna twisted, loosing him. His eyes were now glowing black, but as he looked at Pacman, his closest friend, his eyes lightened slightly. Pacman sobbed again as his friend fell over the edge.
Silent tears were rolling down Dudes cheek as Pacman ran forward. He could hear roaring at the bottom.
"Is he...smashed?" asked Pacman.
"No. Those who fall simply become part of that forum. He is now in the center of the Empire of Spam." said Dude, still staring down.
"Right. Moving on." said Skul, turning and looking up at the Classics forum, which was on a high ledge in the distance, marked only by a thin trail up.
"What do you mean, moving on?" said Pacman,.
"The Galaxy Squad forum was considered the "Last Infected.", right?" said Skul.
"Yes." said Pacman.
Dude was obviously fuming with rage at this point, at the loss of his friend and at Skuls apparent ignorance of that fact.
"Well, maybe it wasn't. Maybe the City, Cars, and Creator, and Welcome to the Community forums are still safe-the spam started in the MB forum, and moved up and down! The Help and Suggestions, now the CENTER of the spam, is at the bottom, right? Maybe the safe haven, the world of Quality Posting, is at the top!" said Skul, looking up the step mountain that was the MBs, now darkened, and darker because of the night. But at the very top, in the darkness was a light. A light that was shining.
"Whats that light?" asked Dude.
"It was clearer in the Galaxy Squad forum. I think its the beacon of light of Quality Posting-maybe there are more users!"
Pacman, Dude, Indy, Zapty, Tigger, and Big_Reece didn't seem to share Skul's optimism about the Beacon of Light.
"But the final mod is kept down here, isn't she-MKM! We can save her!" said Dude.
Skul suddenly turned on him, the argument that had been building up for days obviously about to appear.
They had been searching the MB forum for days, looking for the trail up, and searching for other users. There didn't to appear to be any others, and the other 330 users who were surviving seemed to be disapeared. And the users who had survived were going down. Pacman had just stumbled back in to say it had dropped to 232.
"Maybe they infected Creator and City, or Creator and Cars, so the users there were infected." Skul had said, but most of the others hadn't believed either.
Currently, however, a fight was breaking out between Skul and Dude.
"You just want more of your fans to be still around!" screamed Dude.
"Oh yeah, what about yours? You want all the others to be runaways like us?" screamed Skul back.
Pacman and Big_Reece were now standing beside Dude, screaming at Skul. Zapty and Tiggerjake were standing aside, looking tired and sad at the fight. Indy was trying to break it up.
"Guys stop-Skul, no-"
But Skul picked up the remains of Magnas ban hammer, and swung it at Dude. Pacman swung his longer ban hammer at Skul, barely missing him. Skul hurled the ban hammer at them, just missing Dude, and walked away. He stopped, a few meters away, and turned to look back at them.
"If you don't believe me, fine, ill go look for the others alone." said Skul.
"Skul, no!" said Indy weakly.
"Yeah, Skul, disapear." said Dude harshly.
Skul nodded, and closed his eyes. Suddenly, a portal of white light appeared around him, he faded away, and he was gone.
