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[a1enzo]

"Okay, I'm gonna use CORO to attack FTRIC," says Enzo, pushing two units along a line on the map. The random number generators click out the attack values.

The visit is now well into its second... second, and there's only so much you can do to keep yourself occupied around the house. Enzo has dug out some old circuit board games; they've already played Pixelnary, and now they're on RISC.

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[a1enzo]

"I don't know what to do!" wails Enzo. Despairing of the cheat, he readies the laser-sword.

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

"It's easy! You say Klaatu barada nikto!" came a voice off to the side, and the moment it was said, the gauntlet started glowing with arcane power, and all around them, skeletal creatures started clawing their way out of the ground.

"It doesn't work until you put in the code, but then you get your own zombie horde. They're all under your control."

And there Danny was, standing on the top of a nearby pile of rubble, in all his half-ghost, ninja glory.

[ami_imperfect]

"DANNY?!?"

Dani whirls around, unable or unwilling to believe her eyes.

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

"I respawned," he said, hopping down, ready to fight. "Waaay back at the beginning of the game though. I don't recommend it. It stings."

[ami_imperfect]

Choking back a laugh (or a sob), Dani dissipates her would-be plasma blasts and then zips over in his direction.

Better brace yourself, Danny, because you're gonna get glomped.

[a1enzo]

Enzo almost joins her in glomping him, but, oh yeah, User. Undead horde to control. The User's coming pretty fast; with a gesture, Enzo gathers his new minions into a bony wall in his path.

"Get the sides!" he shouts, grinning hugely. "Flank him!"

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

With the zombies grabbing the User and swarming him (or her), yanking him down and holding him helplessly in place, they had an easy shot.

"Dani, blast him!" Danny said, jumping up onto a car and then a nearby truck to divebomb him and go in for the kill when she did.

[ami_imperfect]

Okay, trajectory change. She can handle that. Dani performs a mid-air U-turn, flies in a little closer and then fires an ecto blast at the User.

But Danny's still getting glomped when this is over.

[a1enzo]

And, just to make sure, Enzo marches up, parting the skeletons to give himself access to the User (and shield himself from the incoming ecto-energy).

He's not ambidextrous like his sister, but he can still manage one good left-handed laser-sword thrust.

Vengeance. Such as it is.

The User explodes, leaving behind the rocket skates this time. Enzo turns off the sword and smiles.

Okay. Now it's glomping time. "Danny!!" Race ya, Dani!

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

Danny laughed as he was glomped. "Oof!"

Ow. Zombie-troll glomping hurt.

"You know, you're going to want to hug me even more in a minute. Though I don't recommend it because you'll possibly crush me."

[ami_imperfect]

"Hey, no fair!" Dani lands on the ground and pouts, folding her arms over her chest. She's his cousin; she ought to get first-glomping rights!

[a1enzo]

Hey, he was closer. "Sorry," he says without remorse, scootching partly aside. "Here, I'll hold him down for you."

[ami_imperfect]

In hindsight, it was probably better that Enzo got there first, because if Dani had glomped Danny first than there would be two half-crushed halfas instead of just one.

But Dani doesn't really give a whit now because hey, she's got an opening. And take it she does.

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

More laughter.

"I'm okay. Seriously. It stung like a--it stung a lot, but I'm okay. Only I respawned waaay back at the beginning. But I was thinking, if he's got so many lives that we can't kill the User, there's another way to win: getting all the Keys of the Apocalypse before he does."

[a1enzo]

"That's what we thought! But we're already halfway through the Game, it'd take forever to go back and get 'em."

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

"It'd take forever to get what? These?"

Jinglejingle.

There were all the keys they'd missed.

"I flew through and grabbed all the ones up to this point on the way back."

[ami_imperfect]

"You dork!" Forget glomping; that's earned him a punch in the arm. And she's got claws now, remember.

She's not crying, though she wants to so badly. Being without Danny - really without him, and not just 'separated-by-the-door-at-Milliways' without him - scared the living crap out of her. She's not sure she likes that feeling.

[a1enzo]

"Yesss!" Enzo hugs Danny around the neck. Add spiked wristbands to that claw-punch. "Danny, you are totally pixelacious!"

[goinghost.livejournal.com]

"Ow. Thanks? I think." Keys were safely put away. "Anyway, we have to get moving. We still have plenty of keys to collect."