Downloading The God Of Evil
Gualichu awoke full of rage and ready to sow discord throughout the land. But what land was this? Looking about, he saw a barren landscape, dotted with the wreckage of unfamiliar devices. He bent down to examine a pile of gray metal, trying to put the pieces back together in his mind. It could have been a wagon, but where were the wheels and what was that long tube protruding from the front of it? Full of furry, he brought his foot down upon it, grinding it into the sandy earth. As he did so, a pink heart fluttered up out of the wreckage, floated up to hover before his face, and vanished. Perplexed, he stomped on the wreckage again, hoping to squeeze another apparition from it, but no more hearts appeared.
Hearing a strange buzzing sound, he turned to see something flying toward him. As it grew closer he saw its body was silver, and its eyes glowed red. What kind of bird was this, he wondered as it circled him. How could it fly without flapping its wings? He noted that its tail was made of fire.
He clapped his hands together creating a mighty wind to knock the bird out of the sky, but it sped up and rose above it. Swooping down, it spit fire into his face, causing him to stumble back into a field of shining discs. As he stepped on the discs they exploded, throwing him up into the air. Landing on his back at the edge of the field, he realized he was growing weak. It took all of his effort to raise his arm. Fire shot from his fingertips, but the bird easily avoided the blast. Hovering over him, it unleashed a torrent of blasts directly into his chest. He screamed as he broke apart, disintegrating into a puff of smoke.
Rick pulled off his goggles, tossed the controller on the coffee table and glared at the lean young man standing next to him.
“That’s it?” he asked. “All of that money we spent on those old books, and I beat him on the first try?”
“Maybe we need a more powerful god of evil,” suggested the other man with a shrug.
“You think we have a surplus of demonic entities, Andre?” Rick shouted, jumping up out of his chair and giving it a kick. “We are supposed to go live next week! How are we supposed to find another demon to tie to the game by then?”
“I told you substituting a dog for a baby wouldn’t work,” Andre replied, stepping back out of range of Rick’s fists.
“I wasn’t going to sacrifice a baby!” Rick yelled. “Where the hell would we even get one?”
Andre looked down at his shoes, knowing anything he said would just make things worse.
“Maybe he is just out of practice,” said Rick. “After all, nobody has believed in him for a long time. If we play for a while, putting him through the paces, maybe he’ll get more powerful.”
Ten hours later, Rick was starting to feel challenged. Gualichu seemed to be learning. He was now taking out the drones without too much difficulty, and had even started to inflict some damage on the battle bots. As the sunlight started to seep in between the curtains, Rick nodded off.
Hearing the crackle of flames, Rick awoke with an ache in his lower back, and a neck that didn’t want to turn without creaking. Noticing the TV was still on, he pounded at the controller with numb fingers, but the image on the screen would not be dismissed. What the hell am I watching, he wondered, looking at the hellish landscape before him. Then he noticed he was still in the game. How long had it been? He checked his phone. It was 5PM. The game had been on for at least ten hours.
He put on the googles and logged on to the game. What level was this? Nothing on the screen looked familiar. Had Andre slipped in a hidden level when he was writing the program? Selecting the battle bot from the menu, he watched as it appeared on the screen, dropping down into what appeared to be a pit of flames. He moved the battle bot forward, his life bar growing shorter with each step.
From out of nowhere a huge hand appeared and wrapped around the robot’s head, flinging it into a wall of the rocky cavern. Lights flashed before Rick’s eyes, followed by bars of static. A gigantic shadow loomed up as Rick franticly pushed the buttons that should have made the battle bot rise. Suddenly, the leering face of Gualichu filled the lenses before his eyes. A metallic clang reverberated in Rick’s ears as he pawed at the sides of his head, trying desperately to yank off the goggles. There were no goggles! Rick was inside the robot!
“This one smells different,” proclaimed Gualichu, peeling off the metal shell. Seeing the squirming mass of flesh within, he stabbed his finger into it and licked the hot red liquid off. This was the best treat Gualichu had discovered since establishing his new kingdom. Perhaps, there would be more.
Picking up the goggles off the floor of Rick’s apartment, Andre shook his head. Rick had bailed on him again, leaving him to do all of the work. Oh well, he thought, he would just announce it as his creation. The game was supposed to go online in a few hours, and he planned to make the deadline, bugs or no bugs.
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