King's Comeback - An Alan Becker Fan-Fiction

Chapter 2 - Battle Prep

King headed out of the Bastion and towards the portal Purple made. Purple thought King wouldn't notice it but King went inside and put a portal to the Interspace there. Successfully retracing the steps to access the mountain base, he step foot in the portal room, where the Interspace portal sat. Duller than he remembered, but it was there regardless.

King hopped in. He blinked and found himself hurdling towards a river. Luckily he landed in, not dying to a long fall. He remembered a supply storage he left somewhere in the Interspace, and by the surroundings he analysed, it was close by. King moved through the bamboo stock, across some hills and found a small orange painted stick in the dirt.

It was mostly buried, probably because it was left so long, but King dug down. After 10 minutes of straight digging, he hit a metal box. He dragged it out of the dirt and found some medical supplies, and applied bandages to his wounds. He carried the box with him as he moved to a weapons cache he remembered leaving behind.

After a longer journey than he expected, King made it to the weapons cache. An abandoned shack he thought nobody would look in. He eagerly opened the door and...

Scraps. There were no weapons.

"...aaaARGH! DAMMIT!
His only backup weapons, now gone. Whether they were disassembled or stolen, it didn't matter. However, he spotted a lever on the wall. Even King forgot about this lever, it led to a hidden underground workshop where King could craft and build all he wanted without drawing any attention.

He pulled the lever after taking the scraps and was pushed down into the workshop. The floor, now above him, closed after him. He landed with an "Umph!" and observed his surroundings. He smiled, remembering his old days before finding Minecraft. He moved to the corner of the room was where there were a set of drawers. He opened one, and found 3 blueprints of old projects he never started.

One for a sniper rifle that had a large blade as a barrel, a plasma cannon that would attach to his back, and a wrist-mounted laser cutter. He smiled, but he looked back at his scrap pile and realized he couldn't make all three. He had to ditch one of the ideas.

He considered his options.
"The sniper would be really good to have, but if there's nobody on his computer or if I don't need to engage in combat, I won't need it. The plasma cannon would be very useful to make distractions, but it's large and heavy, and takes a while to recharge."
He paced around the room.
"And the laser cutter is a no-brainer to have, gotta cut through the gateway to the computer. That is if I even make it..."

King knew in his weakened state it would be hard to cause a good distraction to get up to the gateway and successfully enter the computer, fight off whoever's there and steal the Minecraft Block. After 15 minutes of carefully considering his options, and doing a few calculations, he figured that the sniper rifle and the laser cutter were the best options. He also figured, with the spare scrap, he could make a simple bomb and a grappling gun.

King got to work, making sure to carefully ration his remaining food. After roughly 4 hours of crafting, welding and double- no, triple checking he'd followed the blueprints exactly, he was ready with a laser cutter, sniper rifle, bomb and grappling gun. He headed out into the nearby city, trying to scout the tallest building he could blow up. Turns out, in a city with a lot of skyscrapers, this was very difficult.

He finally found the building he was looking for, which was a weapons trading building. He came into the city, making sure to face down so people didn't recognize him. Right next to the building there was a convenience shop, so he headed in. He was quite hungry. After shoplifting a chocolate bar and an apple, he stopped to eat, before heading into the main building.

Pulling out his sniper and going to the receptionist, he said,
"Hey there. I made an online trade 3 days ago and was informed to come here to collect a 'Sword of Wisdom'. Any chance that came around recently? I-uh, am trading this sniper for it."

The receptionist spoke back.
"Oh, sure thing sir. Uh, what would your account name be?"

"Uh.. Memer, 421."

The receptionist typed at his computer, before saying,
"Your name isn't here on our database."

"Oh, uh, perhaps the data hasn't saved correctly on this computer?"

"Ah, I get ya. I'll check in one of the offices."

"Thanks." King replied. He didn't like small talk much but this was necessary. 

As soon as the receptionist turned the corner, King hopped over the desk, pulled out the bomb and wired it to the security button. He fired a shot in the air and quickly ran out. He heard people screaming. The receptionist came back, hearing the gunshot and pressed the security button, but as soon as he noticed the bomb it was too late.

The bomb went off, but at this point King had already ran halfway down the street and was in the process of climbing on top of a gas station. The building began to crumble as glass fell from the upper floors of it. King ran and jumped across from the gas station onto the convenience shop, and climbed up the building. One pillar holding up the building crumbled and everything shook, King almost lost his grip but he clung on, and started to use the grappling hook to scale the building.

By the time the building started to topple over, King was at the top of it. Helicopters started to come in from the direction of his shack and people on the ground pulled out their phones, recording what was going on. King's cover was definitely blown but by the time the news made it to the major news outlets, he'd already be back in hiding. He jumped as high as he could, shooting the grappling gun at the faint panel in the sky saying "Memer421".

The hook managed to connect right as he started to fall. He pulled himself up as helicopters tried to cut the wire, but they were too slow. He pulled out the laser cutter, getting through the first gateway to Memer's computer. The hole was too small for the helicopters to fit through, and below he could see the building fall. It crashed into the city, leaving a large smoke cloud.

King breathed heavily as he flew to the computer.
"At least that receptionist was nice."

He hit the second gateway to the computer, and used his laser cutter to cut through once again.

The machine army was growing, but it was nothing in comparison to what his new wristband was going to be.