Code: Glitch

Chapter 5: Glitch Uncontained, Demon Invaders

Miko was firing at full force towards the lightning cloud in the sky that wasn't too far from the place they found Mitch resetting the fast food worker, but on their way, Bergy and Five saw more mooks of their kind. Some were fire elementals, others water, earth, and wind, but lightning was the big one.

    "That thing from the sky is probably the boss. I don't think I'm ready for something like this!"

    Miko quickly turned back at him! "Quit acting like such a noob! You're a Glitch Tech, you and I are going to have to face bigger and better threats! Are you planning on just sticking to low level XP grinding all the time?!"

    Burgy shuddered. "Well not always, but-"

    "Then shut up and let's take this thing down!"

    "Okay amiga, calm down, that was uncalled for," Five jumped in. "Bergy has a point. This might be one of the most dangerous missions yet, and these mooks are spawning much faster than usual. We need to stop as much players as possible and take down the foot soldiers!"

    "We're wasting time! If this is our most dangerous mission yet, then we need to end this quickly!"

    Bergy raised his hand and adjusted to trying to be more confident. "Well with all these foot soldiers, the more we take down , the more XP we gain. Two of us can focus on fighting them off and the other stops the other players, while the third person clears the way until we get to the boss!"

    Five had a good idea of what he was thinking. "Then we head back to base, level up from all the grinding, and we'll have enough power and HP to take on the boss!"

    "And we might get more weapons to be able to beat these things!"

    "Beat em up quest?"

"Beat em up quest!" Five and Bergy cheered on the name, but this time, Miko wasn't joining in on the fun.

    "I'm not waiting on you too!"

    "No, Miko, you take on the ones in the way, we'll handle the cleanup and troubleshooting."

    "After all," Bergy posed with Five in an attempt to look cool, "that's why we're called Tech Support."

    Miko objected to the play, calling it ridiculous,

    "Besides, we always find a way to clear the game and beat the glitch!"

    Bergy spoke for Five. "True, but you usually have a plan too...that usually fails, but you two always come up with another solution, right?"

    Miko didn't answer, clearly not in the mood to debate it and drove through until as the guys predicted, a large horde of small humanoid demons halted the van from going any further. Shifting the gears to make it go faster only pushed it a few yards away as Miko's attempts to keep it going failed. Too many were blocking their path. Continuing to rely on action over analysis, Miko violently smacked one via a kick to the door, and jumped to the hood, summoning the hammer to smash them all down to bits, swinging it around like a flail and collecting demon body after demon body.

When one grabbed her weapon, Miko simply let her hand go and shot it point black in the face, throwing its head back at it's allies and shooting them with gauntlet blasts after gauntlet blast. Some attempted and got the jump on her, but she charged the blast like she was Mega Man and blasted it, firing a shockwave and blasting them all away, laughing maniacally as she began de-rezzing them!

"Bring it on! You're all getting KO-ed! MUHAHAHAHAHA!"

     Five would've checked on the sanity of his best friend, but Miko seemed to be using it as a form of anger management and chose to help Bergy, given that he was more skilled in glitch combat. Five used the Speed Boost and shield formation to create panels for Bergy to reach the nearby houses. Some of the demons went after him, but Five used the opportunity to use his whip upgrade and slice them up, taking the heads and using them as a flail to knock some of them away. Bergy gave him the signal that he got the person to stop playing and Five jumped on the hoverboard, slicing through body after body on the path to stop more from spawning.