Nick's Welcome-Back Party

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Three days later at Cleveland's HQ: The lead scientist stands in front of a large liquid filled tub. "Most of the combinations have failed miserably, but one has shown great promise." Cleveland rubs his chin. "I was hoping to have 3 or 4 viable candidates by now. Why is it there is only one that is ready to move forward?" "The matrix holds together for simple subjects, but to get the qualities you asked for we need a specific combination," said the scientist. "I will need material from one more specimen to make this work." "Who is it"Cleveland snaps back. The scientist hands Cleveland a clipboard. "Well, this can be arranged. Demoner!"he yells. "Get in here! I have a special assignment for you".

NictheGreat is returning home from vacation. After flipping through a stack of mail and grabbing a Sprite from the fridge, he sits down to his computer and prepares to upload a premade video. The upload fails. He tries again and again it fails. "Hmm,that's odd", he thinks to himself as he grabs his phone. "Hey Otto, it's Nick. Have you guys been having problems with YouTube? What?... What do you mean weird stuff?... Look, I need do you to take a look at my computer and we need to go over next weeks schedule... Ok, ok. We can talk about it when you and the rest of the team to get over here. See you in a few. Bye." He hangs up and turns his attention back to the computer. He clicks on a video from Markiplier. After watching for a few minutes he realizes there is something wrong. "This sucks" he thinks to himself. "Why is he changing his format? It's kinda boring". He continues watching, resisting the urge to close his eyes and let his mind drift away. The video ends and auto play makes the next selection. "This is even worse. What's going on here?" Just then there's a knock at the door. "Thank goodness. Now we can...". The knock changes to a heavy THUD. Then another. "Someone is trying to break in!"he realizes. He can hear the door cracking with each blow. It won't last much longer. He opens a window the ducks into a closet. Hopefully they will see the open window and think he jumped out. If not, the baseball bat that he keeps in his closet will help even the odds. The apartment door explodes into splinters as Nick tries to steady his breathing. Heavy footsteps race into the room, passed the partly opened closet. "Looks like he went out the window" one of the intruders mutters. Nick peaks through the crack in the door to see 4 darkly clad figures with their backs to him. "It's now or never". He jumps from the closet and whines up with the bat yelling, "DIE YOU SCUM BAGS!" But before he can deliver the first blow, a 5th demoner appears behind him and grabs his arms. Two others then turn and join in, wrestling him to the ground and rip the bat from his hands.

"Well, that could have been messy"says the lead Demoner. "If you're looking for money its in the top dresser". Nick says bluntly. "Take it and we can all get on with our lives". "Ha! You think we came here to take your money?? No, Mr. Nick, we are here for something more valuable. We are here to take your mind". Nick squints his eyes in disbelief. "My what!?". The demoner raises his weapon and it begins to glow. Nick's vision starts to blur and becomes light headed. He feels his thoughts of aggression slipping away. Just then the Demoner lets out a grunt as a metal bat bounce off the back of his head. He crumbles to the ground dropping the mind control weapon. Nick immediately begins to come out of his fog as Otto and the rest of his YouTube team rush the other Demoners. "Tie them up!"Otto shouts as he helps a Nick to his feet. "You ok boss?" Nick rubs his eyes and blinks a few times. "I think I'm good" he says. "What is going on!?; What is this?!?; What do they want with me??.....and who are they?" "We're not sure but we gotta get outta here. There's probably more of these guys on the way." Nick pauses and stares blankly at Otto for a moment, then runs frantically around the apartment, stuffing items into a nap-sack. The last thing he grabs is the mind control gun as the group runs from the apartment.

Sorry for the long wait guys. I had my last week of school on the 15th of May. I had to finish all my homework. So I should be back up and running with the next chapters

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