Not far away from our heroes, another group were preparing an assault on the Help and Suggestions Fortress Forum. MiaKittyMoon had to be saved. They had been send by the only organization still out there, the organization that guarded the Message Boards. The Final Guard.
"Should we jump?" asked Bobbywan, looking down the cliff at the Help and Suggestions forum.
"That is the best way down." said Hani.
"Agreed." said MichaelThomasME.
They all glanced at their leaders, who were deep in conversation.
Cat nodded, and turned to the group.
"Yeah, jumping downs the best way. Are all your weapons ready?" said Cat, who was pulling out a rough blaster shaped weapon.
"Yeah, all Ban Guns ready." said MichaelThomasME.
"And disguises?"
They all pressed a button on their harnesses, and they began to glow. They were all wearing goggles, which darkened, and soon, unless you looked extremely closely, they looked infected.
"Good." said Cat, glancing back at the other leader.
"Go on."
Cat nodded, and he, MichaelThomasME, Hani, and Bobbywan turned to the edge.
"Ready?" said Cat.
All the group nodded, but shifted nervously.
"Right, jump." said Cat.
Bobbywan jumped, and so did Hani. MTM shifted forward, and fell off as well. Cat glanced back at the other leader, and then shrugged and jumped.
Starwarsgirl walked over to the edge, and looked down. She could see them at the bottom now, joining the throns of the infected, guarded by gear she feared wouldn't work. But they had to. They weren't showing any physical changes, so she assumed they were fine.
She was walking over to the edge when there was a shout, and a user charged out behind her, roaring and swinging a ban hammer. She spun, twin ban guns raised, and the users stopped.
"Who are you?" she asked, aiming her blaster, and then she froze. Pacman was holding his ban hammer up, and
dropped it in shock too.
"P-Pacman87." said Pacman, staring at her.
"What did you find, Pacman?" yelled another user, stumbling out of the forest. Starwarsgirl recognized him as Dude.
"Dude!" she cried.
"Starwarsgirl?" he asked, and then grinned. Starwarsgirl walked over, sharing the grin, putting her blaster away. Dude held out his arms for a hug, and she started punching him,
"Where-have-you-been-I've-been-looking-for-you-everywhere-since-I-saw-you-run-from-the-Cafe-three-years-ago!" she yelled, punching him with every word. He fell to the ground, winded.
"Im sorry! Ive been travelling around, searching for survivors."
"And? Pacmans the only one you found?" said Starwarsgirl, shocked.
"No!" wheezed Dude, sitting up. "There is Indy, Zapty, Tigger, Big_Reece, and Sku-" he said, and his voice trailed off.
"Skul?" said Starwarsgirl, her face brightening.
"No-He was...infected." said Dude unsurely.
"What?" said Starwarsgirl.
'Yeah...happened yesterday..." said Dude.
At this point, Tigger and Big_Rece ran out, who then called Zapty and Indy.
"Starwarsgirl-are you alone?" asked Indy, after they had all sat down.
She froze, and facepalmed, and ran to the edge, and Indy and Dude jumped up.
Tigger, Big_Reece, and Zapty were the first to run. The others were still staring at the vast army of their friends, their aquaintances, and their enemies, all infected, charging at them.
"Run!" screamed Dude, who then began walking backwards and tripped when he turned to run. Pacman dragged Dude to his feet, and began to run after the others.
Starwarsgirl raised her blasters, but Indy shook his head.
"We can't fight. We have to run."
Starwarsgirl stared at them, now charging straight at them, less than 100 meters away. They began roaring, they were shooting spam arrows at them, just missing them.
"Right." she said, and turned and began sprinting, followed by Indy, Cat, Bobbywan, MTM, Mario, Brickgirl, and MJ.
Indy passed Starwarsgirl, and then realized the others were gone.
"Where are they?" he yelled over the roaring of the approaching infected.
"They've got into the forest!" said Starwarsgirl.
"Should we?" he yelled.
"Sure!" she said, and they all turned to go into the forest.
"We have to split up!" yelled Indy, as an infected spam arrow hit the tree beside him.
They were all bunched up now, making them an obvious target. Starwarsgirl realized this too.
"Run! Meet up in the LEGO Universe Stories forum!" screamed Starwarsgirl.
"What?" screamed Indy, but a ball of spam came down from above, and smashed between them, destroying trees and making a crater.
Indy began running diagonally away from where the spam were, followed closely by MTM. They kept running, and soon the sounds of roaring and screaming and explosions in the distance dulled, and they were alone.
"You OK?" panted Indy.
"Yeah." said MTM.
"Right. We have to go to LU Stories. Lets find the classics forum, we have to meet up with them there.
***
Tigger, Zapty, and Big_Reece were too close to the spam creatures.
One fired an arrow that almost hit Big_Reece, and Big_Reece dived to avoid it, but hit a tree. Zapty stopped, turning, horrified, as a spam creature reached Big_Reece and jumped on him, and Big_Reece began transforming. Tigger, grabbed Zapty and kept running.
"We have to get out!" he yelled.
"But Big_Reece-"
"I know."
They weren't safe yet. But they kept running. Spam arrows were narrowly misisng them. They turned suddenly, throwing off the spam beasts, but it wasn't working. Then they heard a roar, a roar not like the spam beasts, but...
A red car spun around a corner, twisted, and stopped in front of them. The side doors opened, revealing Starwarsgirl in the drivers seat. There was a fake face on the front, but most of it had been peeled off.
"Found it. Somebody must've been driving it. Theres a truck with a face thats been totally peeled off, Dudes in that one. Anyway, sorry I couldn't get a racer, but get in!" she yelled, and Tigger and Zapty dived into the backseat, and spam arrows rained agaisnt the windows but didn't pierce the,.
"Right. Drive." said Tigger, and Starwarsgirl followed his orders for once.
The infected were faster and stronger than them, while they had to dodge around trees, they smashed through trees. They were still running, when a truck spun around the corner.
"We're saved!" yelled Bobbywan, as the door swung open and he dived in. So did Cat, but MJ and Brickgirl froze.
In the front seat, instead of a driver in the front seat, was Dude. Dude turned to them, his eyes black, with a malicious grin on his face. His skin was glowing black, and there was a spam arrows that had obviously come through the window.
"Bobbywan! Cat!" screamed MJ. Brickgirl, Mario, and Pacman all kept running, but the doors slammed shut, and Dude closed his eyes inside. He opened his mouth, and a strange dark gas like substance came out, spreading through the car. Cat and Bobbywan had realized what had happened and began banging on the doors. MJ jumped onto the car, running around it, and looked back just as the gs dispersed. The dark eyes and glowing Cat and Bobbuwan opened the doors facing him. They raised their arms to shoot Spam Arrows, and MJ ran after the others.
They were standing, finally, in the LU stories forum. Everything seemed contaminated with spam. Indy had no idea why Starwarsgirl wanted them here-it looked so contagious. But there was no one left.
"Indy, we're here?" asked MTM from the ground.
"It looks like it." said Indy.
He sat down, staring around. The whole forum was just spam infected stones. Indys eyes hurt from scanning it, just endless destruction. Then he noticed it.
"MTM, look." said Indy, getting up. MTM glanced up but didn't move.
Indy was limping across the rocky, spam infected rubble covered, ground, towards something glinting. His leg had been injured when he had fallen from the MB forum onto the Classics forum. He hadn't landed it right. But he could walk.
He reached the metal. It was just visible underneath some rocks. Indycarefully pushed them off, and stepped onto the metal circle. He kneeled down, and began looing around it for a latch, or something to lift it with. Because it reminded him with a trapdoor.
He stood up, and turned to MTM.
"MTM, I've found som-"
And suddenly the plate dropped down and Indy fell.
"I found a car!" screamed MJ, diving over the windshield and pulling the door open.
The others didn't even comment. They were so worn out Pacman had had to drag MariothepurpleNinja across the ground. Pacman opened the door, and threw Mario in, then jumped in. The Blue Car looked knew, but he didn't recognize it.
MJ and Brickgirl were in front, and MJ hit the gas just as the first Spam Arrows hit it.
They began thundering through the forest.
"Where are we heading?" asked Pacman from the back.
"Where they're going." said MJ, pointing ahead.
There was a torn up track ahead of them, with leaves broken, and trees smashed. In the distance, near the exit of the forest, a car was just visible. It suddenly turned off, and disapeared, and MJ drove faster.
"Exit." said Pacman happily.
'And people to follow." said MJ.
And they continued driving, accompanied by the distant roars and screams of their infected friends and foes behind them.
"Right." said Starwarsgirl, in the middle of what now looked like a wasteland.
The light from the Message Boards Logo was beating down on them like a ban hammer, and Tigger was lying on the car, wearing sunglasses.
"You know, an infected could come for you at any time." said Zapty, leaning against the car, while Starwarsgirl paced around angrily, looking around.
"Yup." said Tigger, still staring up with his hands behind his head.
"And that I wouldn't protect you." said Zapty.
Tigger groaned, and swung his feet over, and slid off the roof of the red car.
"Well, we are just waiting for her to finish whatever she's doing." said Tigger, glancing at Starwarsgirl.
Zapty looked up, pondering, then glanced at her.
"What is she looking for?" asked Zapty.
"Good question." said Tiggerjake, turning to Starwarsgirl. "What are you looking for?" he yelled at her.
"I told MTM and Indy to come herE-MTM!" she screamed, pulling out her blaster.
Tigger and Zapty ran over instantly. Standing, in the wasteland of sand and infected rubble, 100 meters away, was MichaelThomasMe, his skin dark and his eyes glowing. He roared loudly at them.
"Well, there goes one." said Starwarsgirl unhappily.
"He was a friend of yours." said Zapty.
"Right." said Starwarsgirl, who opened fire, and MTM roared and began running at them.
He was getting closer. 90 meters....80 meters...
"We should go." said Tigger, stepping backwards, edging slowly towards the car.
Starwarsgirl stood there, both blasters aiming, straight ahead of her, aiming at the roaring and snapping MTM.
"We should totally run." said Tigger, now jogging backwards at the car. He spun, and dived into the open door of the car.
"Chicken." said Zapty.
"Oi, im a Tiger!" yelled Tigger from the car.
50 meters....40 meters....
"Maybe we should go in the car." said Zapty, now stepping back. Starwarsgirl didn't say anything, her blasters were still aiming forward.
We should totally-RUN!" screamed Zapty, who ran at the car, while MTM pounded through the sand.
Starwarsgirl pulled the trigger on the blasters slightly, and slowly pulled tighters. He was only a few meters away, and he leaped straight above, roaring and flailing above Starwarsgirl. She pulled the trigger, and the blasters both caught him on the chest and he went flying back, and landed in the sand, melting into it, a pile of sludgy spam.
She turned slowly, keeping her cool, to see Zapty kneeling covering his head quivering on the sand. Slowly, unsurely, he turned his head and opened one eye, and saw her standing there, staring at him in amusement and disbelief, and he quickly spun, jumping off, shaking off the spam.
"Right." he said, running over to to her, and began looking around.
"We better find Indy." he said.
At that point, a pile of sand next to them burst open with Indy bursting out, and next to him another user. They both jumped to their feet, and saw Starwarsgirl and Zapty.
"Starwarsgirl!" said Indy happily, beaming.
"MTMs gone." she said.
The smile slowly erased.
"Oh...well....I...found....someone...." he said, "This is JackieTimmins." he said.
Starwarsgirl nodded at him, and Zapty extended a hand.
"And he created the virus." said Indy, wincing.
Quick as a flash, Starwarsgirl was holding a blaster aimed at Jackie, and Zapty was stepping backward.
"Yeah." said Indy, looking at the wasteland.
"Give me one good reason not to smash him right now." said Starwarsgirl, pratically growling.
"He knows how to cure the virus." said Indy.
Suddenly, another blue car appeared of nothingness, and appeared. Instantly they all recognized MJ and the others.
Starwarsgirl glanced loathgingly at JackieTimmins, and started to walk over to greet MJ, Brickgirl, and the others.
"That was one good reason." she muttered resentfully as she walked away.
"So, are we the only ones left?" asked MJ, sitting in his car.
The infected, as soon as it had become dark, had slowly risen out of the sand. They couldn't get in the cars, and they didn't want to move at that time, so they had simply sat inside the cars, and tried to sleep, as the infected bloast and scratched and clawed at the cars.
"Yeah. You, Brickgirl, Mario, Zapty, Tiggerjake, Indy, Pacman, JackieTimmins and I." said Starwarsgirl.
JackieTimmins was in the blue car with Zapty, Tigger, and himself in the back, Starwarsgirl and MJ in the front. The othered were in the red car.
"So how did you start the virus again? It looks like Indy is telling the others in the other car." he said, glancing out the window as the infected slammed into it again and again.
"I was looking for a cure for spam. There was a 89.7% chance that it would've worked. It didn't. It caused more spam. I was in the MB forum, testing it out on the topics there, and instead of curing it, it spread. I retreated back here to my bunker and just...lived for the last few years." said JackieTimmins.
Starwarsgirl shook her head, even though she was pretending to be asleep.
The next day, they were preparing to leave. JackieTimmins was storing any of his remaining equipment in the cars, and the others were simply sitting around, waiting to go. Starwarsgirl was keeping watch, refusing to go near JackieTimmins.
Indy was sitting with JackieTimmins on the hood of the car, tired. The others had been pestering him about the cure for spam all night, and he knew JackieTimmins had been put through the same. But they wouldn't tell anyone, because if they did, it was mean a war between them.
There was a loud crack, and everyone turned to look out across the wasteland. There was a figure in the distance, moving towards them.
"Who is that?"
"Its an infected." said JackieTimmins.
"How can you be sure?"
"The way it moves." said JackieTimmins, still staring out, "And there is 99.9% chance another one is about to infect Mario this second."
Indy suddenly jumped up to see another group of infected grabbing Mario, who was on the other side. He cried out, but he disapeared into their hands, and was gone. The other infected began moving towards them.
There was another crack, and someone, Indy couldn't tell in the chaos, threw him into the blue car.
People were running everywhere, the infected coming after them. Indy pulled the door shut, and looked out to see the others diving into the other car. He heard someone get in the back and saw JackieTimmins and Brickgirl. Brickgirl was closing her door, but an infected grabbed it, and they struggled with it half open, half closed.
"No! Brickgirl! Shut it!" screamed MJ, who was now driving the other car slowly past, as Tiggerjake dived in. Brickgirl struggled more, but the infected hand of Mariothepurpleninja grabbed her, and she screamed, and froze, her skin darkening and her eyes beginning to darken, and was pulled out of the car.
Indy glanced at the driver, realizing he hadn't checked who he or she was yet. He was wearing a cowboy hat, and cowboy clothes, and suddenly he realized who it was.
"SKUL!" he yelled, and Starwarsgirl suddenly jumped in the back, looking around. Skul glanced at him, sighing, and drove straight through the endless sand, and disapeared out of the forum. They were driving between forums now, and spam was everywhere, seeping in the ground. There were roadblocks everywhere, infected guarding them all.
"Hiya, Indy," said Skul, and he rammed through a roadblock of spam.
Indy glanced at the driver, realizing he hadn't checked who he or she was yet. He was wearing a cowboy hat, and cowboy clothes, and suddenly he realized who it was.
"SKUL!" he yelled, and Starwarsgirl suddenly jumped in the back, looking around. Skul glanced at him, sighing, and drove straight through the endless sand, and disapeared out of the forum. They were driving between forums now, and spam was everywhere, seeping in the ground. There were roadblocks everywhere, infected guarding them all.
"Hiya, Indy," said Skul, and he rammed through a roadblock of spam.
