The Glitch is an old story written (never finished) by ambc
Here it is, enjoy:
Deep in the databanks of the Message Boards is a complete archive of all the users on the Boards. Posts and likes flew from user to user, all was calm and peaceful, except for one thing. A force that had been fighting against the databanks for all time, only escaping for brief periods before being tied down again.
"Must...keeep..fighting..." The force thought.
It could feel it's bonds weakening as it pulled, until. Crack! A user fell to the ground, his avatar made completely of shadow. He got up of the ground, revealing his glowing electric blue eyes.
"Finally, I'm free!" The user exclaimed. He looked down at himself saying "Ohh no. I can't have this avatar, it will give me away." He closed his eyes as his avatar shifted into wearing overalls and a red cap.
"There, that's much better" As he put on a dark pair of aviator sunglasses. The user coughed and wheezed as his avatar glitched, returning back to his shadowy form. After coughing the glitch disappeared as quickly as it had come.
"Now, to set the plan in motion!" he yelled as he forum jumped out of the databanks.
As the user landed he took a look at his surroundings. He had landed in the Message Board forum near Camp MB, and it was dark out. As he started walking towards Camp MB he passed another user.
Hey you. What's up with your profile? Asked the stranger
"What do you mean?"
"It doesn't have your username or your rank?"
"Hmmm, I didn't notice. I guess I'm just...a Glitch."
"Well no wonder you didn't notice, you've got sunglasses on at night! How can you even see?"
"Oh, forgot I even had these on." He said, reaching for his shades. Once again he coughed, his avatar glitching.
"Uhh, whuhhh -whh who are you? The stranger asked as he slowly back away.
"Like I said, I'm a Glitch." He said as he took of his sunglasses.
As the user looked into those glowing eyes his avatar froze, completely pixelated.
"Ahh the first of many." Said Glitch as he put his shades back on. Glitch walked forward, thinking about the next step in his plan.
"So I was thinking of heading over to the Creator forum. Wanna come?" asked Swimjb, as he walked through the Message boards forum, with Ambc.
"Wish I could but I gotta head over to HQ, those bugs aren't gonna blast themselves." Ambc replied.
"That's my friend for you, always on the front li--What's going on over there!" JB exclaimed! Both users looked over seeing a crowd near Camp Message Boards. When they got to the crowd they saw saw a user laying on the ground, his avatar pixelated.
"What happened to him?" asked Ambc. A user he recognized as Trident Legend answered him.
"Nobody knows. His avatar just completely froze, it's like some kind of glitch. The poor guy, he can't log out, can't move, he can't even refresh the site."
"That's horrible!"
"Yeah but the Mod's are doing all they can to help." TL stated as he pointed to a nearby Cocodeville answering questions from reporters.
"Let's go see if we can learn anything" Said JB as they pushed through the small crowd.
"Hi Coco, this is Fivepack01 from The Brick Times. What do you now about what happened to this user, and do you think it could effect anyone else?
"At the moment we don't know what happened here last night, but I can assure you the Mods will do our best to fix this problem. From what we know this is probably just a glitch in the programming, something that can be easily sorted out.
" Do you know will you fix the victim's avatar, and is there anything we users can do to help you fox this glitch?
"The only thing we have gotten out of the victim is one word "Glitch", which leads us to believe that this is just a problem in the program. The Paramedics from the City Roleplay are on there way to see if they can help this user. At the moment the most important thing the users can do is alert us Mods if they know ANYTHING about what happened."
"That's pretty spooky" said JB
"Naw you heard em' it's just a glitch in the site"
"Yes I'd like a chocolate, double dip please" Ambc told the cashier. He was trying to ask what kind of ice cream JB wanted, but his friend was too busy watching the TV in the corner.
"Wow, that's crazy!” JB exclaimed “ They say the glitch attacks are getting worse everyday. They've started havening Mods and Final Guard members guard forums. Whatever is causing this glitch seems to be attacking the least guarded areas. Ohh um I'll have a mint chocolate please."
“Yeah, I wasn’t too worried about it before, but now over half the users have been glitched. I know the Mod’s can fix the problem, I just hope they fix it before it’s, too late.”
Both users grabbed their ice cream and started walking towards the Ninjago forum.. They kept talking until they were less than a quarter mile away. As they approached they saw users running yelling” glitch”!
“Come on!, lets go!” Ambc yelled as he ran towards the forum entrance.
“What are you doing!” Jb yelled towards his friend.
-last edited on Mar 25, 2017 7:51:41 GMT by egorsmirnov
Post by egorsmirnov on Mar 25, 2017 7:51:18 GMT
Chapter 5 (part 1)
As ambc ran he grabbed his ban hammer out of the a holster on his waist. He didn't even notice that Jb had caught up with him, because he was too busy looking at his surroundings. The Ninjago forum in ruins. The few users who hadn't been glitched were running to exit of the forum, not to mention the buildings looked like they had just been struck by lightning. One of the monasteries was catching on fire. He saw a flash of blue lightning to the side, and as he was turning his head to the side he saw the lightning was coming from a shadowy figure. Right before he looked at the face he heard a someone yell.
Something big and cold had just ran right into him, sending him flying through the air. During his flight he slammed into JB sending them them both to the ground. Ambc felt as if he had just got hit by an icy freight train, and it didn't help that something had landed on top of him.
"Owwww" ambc croaked has he gasped for air. When he opened his eyes he saw a user in a white hood sitting on top of him.
"Are you trying to get yourself glitched!" The user asked. Ambc could tell the the user was a girl, but it was hard to see what she looked like with her hood on.
"Would you let me up, I have to help them!" he said as he struggled to get up.
Trust me, you can't help anyone. We have to get out of here.!" She got up off of him and helped him up. Ambc heard his JB moan and look down to see him lying on the ground, hair standing up on end. He grabed his friend's arms and started to pull him towards the forum exit. The users who had tackled them got out a reporting device, and started telling the Mod's to lock the forum. As they approached the exit Ambc couldn't put his finger on it, but felt as if he was missing something. Almost as if he had forgotten his-
"MY BAN-HAMMER!" he yelled! "I must have dropped it when you slammed into me!"
"I think the correct term is saving your account." The mysterious user remarked.
"Whatever, I'll be right back!" he yelled as he ran off in the opposite direction. As he ran he heard the user yell something about not looking at the eyes, whatever that meant. He saw his Ban-hammer, when he grabbed it and started running towards the exit he saw a metal wall lowering, the Mods were locking the forum. He wasn't going to make before the forum was locked, but he kept running. As he came close to the exit he slid under the wall just as it was closing.
She couldn't believe her eyes! That user was going back in there, just for a hammer! She took off her white ninja hood and pushed her brown hair out of her face as she watched the user pick up the dropped weapon. The Mod's had already started closing the forum and a large metal wall was lowering around her home. She heard a moan down at her feet, and she looked down at the user's friend who was finally coming to.
"Uhhg, owww. Who are you, and where's my friend? the user asked. She felt bad for the guy, she didn't mean to electrocute him. She was actually trying to save him.
"Wwel- hehe ummm- I- " She couldn't stop stuttering, she didn't have the heart to tell him. She could see the user running toward the exit, but by looking at the speed he was going along with the rate of walls decent, he obviously wasn't going to make it. As the wall was about to close she saw something sliding, it almost looked like a user. She was dumbfounded as his avatar slid under the wall, barely making it out.
"Hey JB, your alive!" The user said as he walked over, and helped his friend up.
"What were you THINKING!" She exclaimed! "You could have gotten trapped in there!" She couldn't believe it, he was acting as if he had just leisurely walked out the forum.
His friend apparently named JB said "He rarely thinks at all, especially when he does something stupid."
"Hey I survived, and whatever that was is locked in, problem solved." The user replied.
Just then a horrible sound came from the wall. The metal started creaking and pixels started showing up in the shape of an avatar. What ever had attacked them just walked straight through the wall, as if he were made of shadow.
"RUUUUUNNNN!!!" yelled someone from the crowd of surviving users. Ambc looked behind him and saw more Mods and Final Guard members running towards the shadow user. The girl who had tackled him looked at him and said
"Don't look in his eyes."
"What?" Ambc replied.
"The eyes, that's how he gets you."
"How are we supposed to fight something we can't see?
"We don't fight it, we escape while we can."
"What! We have to help them, they can't fight...well..whatever that is alone!" Ambc watched Miakittymoon throw a ban-hammer at the shadowy user. He watched as the shadow just stood there and the user's body became pixelated and the hammer passed right through it. Obviously mad about someone trying to ban him, the glitching user roared and blue lightning shot out of his hands, hitting the ground where the final guard was running forward. The shock created a small explosion, avatars flew through the air. As ambc was about to make eye contact with the shadowy creature, the girl next to him pulled on his arm saying
"Come on we've got to escape while we can." As they ran towards the woods they heard explosions behind them. When they got near the entrance to the woods a lightning strike stuck the ground just to the left of them. Luckily it didn't hit any of them, but it did knock them all down. Ambc looked back to see the shadowy user trying to follow them, but obviously to tired to catch up. He continued to send lightning strikes towards them as Ambc and the two users at his sides ran for their life into woods.
They ran and ran as fast as their avatars could move. She couldn't tell how long they had ran, she only knew that everyone was too scared to stop. Who knew saving these to users would get her here, running for her life. At least she wasn't glitched yet like most of the message boards.
"Ok...I..I can't run any further, we've got to stop." Said Jb
"Here there's a small creek up there, we can stop and get a drink." She replied. As they reached the creek she had collapsed in the grass. She watched Jb stand next to the creek trying to fix his blonde hair that was still standing on end. The other user sat down on a fallen log. She had not gotten a good chance to see what he looked like, but his avatar wore a ninja suit with armor over his chest. As he sat ther he took of his ninja hoood, reveling his messy brown hair and sea green eyes.
"Hey umm, thanks for saving us" he said.
"No problem. What was your username?" She asked.
"Ambc, and yours?"
"MasterOshawatt."
"Cool. This is Jbswim." He said gesturing to his friend. Jb was now walking back towards them asking
"So what are we going to do now?"
" I think we should stay here for the night. Whatever is attacking the boards looked too tired to catch up, but we should still keep watch. Why don't we take shifts, one keeps a lookout while the others rest and we'll take turns.
"Sounds good to me, I'll take first watch."
"Ok, when you feel yourself falling asleep, wake me up, I can take next shift." She looked up at the sky. It was already getting dark, and the wind had picked up making a cool breeze. She alway felt better in the cold, maybe it was the fact that her element was ice. She looked up at sky watching the stars as she fell asleep.
A shuriken flew past, hitting the monastery wall. MasterOshawott glanced at the weapon (that landed less than an inch away from her face) now stuck in the wall. She grabbed the weapon and jumped, throwing it flawlessly at her opponent. The shuriken hit straight on, knocking him to the ground.
"I finally won!" She thought. She heard a bird call and looked up to see Zane's falcon flying towards the monastery. As she was watching the beautiful bird fly something hard hit her in the back, pushing her to the ground.
"Don't let anything distract you in a fight" Said Zane, as the falcon landed on his arm.
"But I knocked you down, I won the spar."
"Just because I fell does not mean I was defeated. You had only taken one of my shurikens, with you looking at the sky it was an easy shot."
MasterOshawott was frustrated with her error. Only a rookie would make such a simple mistake, never someone like Zane. She heard someone call his name,
"Coming." he said. "Will you watch my falcon please." he asked as the bird flew over to her.
"Sure" she replied as he walked inside. The falcon flew of her arm and called to her, wanting her to follow. She figured Zane wouldn't mind and ran after the bird. After running for miles she stopped in the middle of the Forest of Tranquility. She couldn't see the bird anywhere. She heard a stick break somewhere in the distance.
"H-h-hello? Is anyone there? I-I'm warning you, I know spinjitzu."
"Oh you pathetic spinning will not help you here." A dark ominous voice stated. MasterOshawott turned around, finding herself face to face with the Glitch. She was looking straight into his glowing electric blue eyes, but wasn't getting glitched. She balled her fist but before she could attack He said,
"Don't try fighting, I'm everywhere - everywhere- everywhere-" His voice echoing has hundreds of him appeared surrounding her. Her vision became dark as she went unconscious.
Master Oshawott woke up screaming. She was covered in sweat and breathing hard. She looked over to see ambc carrying an armful of branches.
"Are you ok?" he asked.
"I-I-I'm fine. What are you doing?"
"I'm gathering wood for a fire. How are you not freezing?"
"
Are you crazy. you can't start a fire! It will give us away!" She watched him drop the firewood and sit back down on the log. She felt bad for him, he couldn't seem to stop shivering. She was used to cold weather, but it wasn't actually that cold. She got up and sat in the grass across from him.
"So what was your dream about?" he asked
"I-it was nothing."
"Come on, you can't call a nightmare about the Glitch nothing."
"Wait, how did you know what I dreamt about?"
"You talk in your sleep"
She told him everything in the dream, starting with the fight with Zane.
“That’s creepy. So are you really a ninja?” ambc asked.
“Yeah, I was trained by Sensei Wu.”
“C-could I ask you a question? Could you, umm…train me? You know, to be a ninja?
“What? I- I don’t know what to say, umm.”
“I always wanted to be a ninja, I just…never knew anyone who could train me.”
“I don’t know I’d love to I just don’t know that I’m the right person to ask.” She couldn’t tell him that she hasn’t even reached her true potential yet, she didn’t want seem weak.
“You could just teach me what Sensei taught you. Please, this really means a lot to me.”
“Ok, but It’s not that simple. If you want to be a ninja, you need to be “In-tune” with an element. There is definitely something different about you, but I never considered the fact that you could be a ninja. So the fist thing to do is find your element.”
How do we do that?”
“We’ll do it tomorrow. Now get some rest, it’s my turn to keep watch.” She watched him smile and lay down in the grass, quickly falling asleep.
Ambc looked down on the map MasterOshawott had drawn. It wasn't much and it probably isn't accurate, but it was all they had.
"Ok so we should be...about..here." Said MasterO while pointing to the map with a stick. "An the closest forum is the City forum, so we need to head...umm.,,that way." She gestured to a small path through the middle of the woods.
"OK them, let's go." Jb replied. Ambc watched the two users head towards the path and followed behind them. While they traveled the tried to find what he was.
"Ok, so far Lightning and Earth have been crossed off the list. I don't think you would be Ice either, you get cold too easily. Wait!" MasterOshawott exclaimed. She turned around to look at Jb. "Is he hotheaded?"
"Yeah" he replied
"What! I an NOT hotheaded! Where would you get an idea like that!" Ambc interjected.
"Extremely" Jb added.
"Ok so for the moment we will assume your element is fire." MasterOshawott concluded. They spent most of their travel time talking about Ninjago's history. When they stopped to take a break ambc learned some simple sparring moves. After walking for hours they finally reached the City forum. Ambc was terrified at what he saw. The entire City forum had been Glitched. Frozen users were everywhere, abandoned cars sat in the streets. The buildings even had cracks made out of glitched pixels. As they moved closer the three users kneeled behind a truck. Ambc couldn't shake the feeling that someone was watching them. After staring in awe, Jb finally broke the silence.
"What happened here." They all knew the answer, but a chill still went down Ambc's back as he heard the answer.
From the first word, Ambc knew the Glitch was standing right behind them. He had never heard a voice so evil and terrifying, it was like nails being slowly dragged down a chalkboard.
"It's alright I have my eyes covered, I just want to end this running nonsense." The Glitch said. Ambc looked at the hubcap on the truck they we're kneeling next to and saw the Glitch wearing a pair of sunglasses in the reflection. He and his friends turned around, finally getting a closer look at the user. He wasn't made of shadow this time, he was wearing a leather aviator jacket and standing in a small puddle of water. "You didn't really think you could hide forever did you? In the end you would have been captured, I'm just saving time."
"Vengeance. The members of the Message Boards only see me as a problem, a "disease" of sorts. I've been trapped ever since this site was created, and the few times I escaped I was locked back up again. I'll I have ever heard is insults. I'm just a minor issue to you, something easily fixed."
While he was explaining Ambc glanced at his friends. MasterOshawott looked as if she were thinking about thousand things at once. He saw her eyes light up as she looked in his direction. She mouthed something towards him that was either "I eat pancakes and reaction" or "I need a distraction." He was guessing it was the latter. Ambc nodded and looked back at the Glitch who was still explaining.
"I will not be walked on, and insulted any longer! I will be KING of the Message Bo-"
"Hey, sorry to interrupt you speech about finally accomplishing your life goal and all, but I was wondering is your voice naturally dark and ominous or..do you have to work at it.?" Ambc interjected.
"You will be the first of the three to have their account deleted, that way I won't have to listen to your annoying voice any longer." Ambc watched MasterOshawott focus as the puddle beneath the Glitches feet slowly start to freeze over his feet.
“How are you going to delete us if we’re not here? Because I don’t think you’re going anywhere.” Ambc replied. The Glitch looked down and roared in rage quickly turning back to his shadowy forum.
“Now would be a good time to RUN!” Master Oshawott screamed.
