Traped in 'The Game'

by Tundra Moonlight

A new room

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As I pull the door open, finally being stuck in some sort of apocalypse, has paid off. This room is where they stored all of the hospitals medical supplies, such as cloths, gauzes, band-aids, and the gowns. I grabed a on-the-go med kit and pack it with 10 band-aids, 2 cloths, 5 gauzes and a bunch of other stuff. I waas in the middle of dressing my wound when i heard yet, another moan. I may have been mistake now i here two, now three, the building must have more of these ,zombies, than I thought. I look for a weapon then I see, yet another note. I quickly grab it and run, the room started to be filled with them. I run through a door thats lable was so messed up it read "stf brek rom" witch I thought must of been the staff break room. I open the door to another room, this room was empty, so I start searching the room for any food or sign of communication. After finding a can of beans I ate them then started reading the note: "Congratulations you have passed my death tiles! Well now I guess you should patch up before the biters find you! P.S- inside the closet next to this note is a bunch of guns and weapons! well I guess that the fact that you have probably took this note and ran, you don't get weapons!- P.P.S biters can smell blood from 2 miles away!- The Puppetmaster." I look at the note in anger "I should of searched the room more then just focus on packing bandages!" I said in an angry hushed tone. It looks like its too late to go sback  o I decide to search a little more, then i find it -A radio!- I turn it on and-

"Well, hello there! I was beginning to think you'd never show up." A sweet and cute filly's voice chipperly came out of the radio, along with some static.

"Who are you?" I asked.

"Me? Oh, I'm the Puppetmaster." Whaaaat?

"Are you serious?" I asked.

"Well, considering it's just you and me here, yes." A pause of silence.

"Well, not counting the corpses of the other ponies who never got out." She said, with a bit of menace. The Puppetmaster's voice, once sweet, now seems a little creepy, like the voice of a doll you'd imagine that'll kill you one day.

"Why have you put this radio here?" There must be a reason.

"Oh, I decided to test how stupid you are." Gee. Thanks.

"I have 2 riddles for you. If you solve both correctly, you may pass on to the next room. However... miss one riddle, and the biters will get in." She paused and something banged on the locked door.

"Okay." I said. "Do your worst." Bracing myself, I listen closely to the first riddle.

"I can be the sun. I can be the sand. I can be a bird. Tell me, what am I?" After a loong silence, she sighed.

"You really do need some help. Okay stupid, it's either a clock, a mirror, a statue, or a paper and pencil." Well, that certainly clears thing up. A mirror can reflect all of those, but it isn't exactly those, Just a reflection. A statue is only one solid thing, so no. A paper and pencil? Well... you can draw those things.. Maybe that? Or... the clock. Uh, the sun...a sundial? Sand... the sands of time? A bird.. can be a cuckoo clock. After reflecting on each of those, I make my choice.

"The clock." I say, assuredly.

"Nice choice. Next riddle." She says meanly, as if she expected me to get that wrong.

"I have a mouth, but I cannot speak. I can run, but never walk. I have a head but I cannot weep. I have a bed but I cannot speak." Oh, this is easy, I heard this as a filly.

"A river." After a moment's hestitation, the Puppetmaster sighed.

"You win. But, I have one more challenge. I love riddles. So, give me a riddle. If I can't solve it, then you can go ahead. If I can, I will let in only 5 biters, seeing as you have solved those two. Sound fair?" No. But she's the one with my life in her hooves. I think of a good riddle.

I was always very good at solving riddles but never good at making one. I try to remember all the riddles my friends told me, but I could only remember 3.

“Oh well” I mutter “If I tell you everything is a lie am I telling you a truth or a lie?”  I said.

“Easy” the Puppetmaster says “if you say everything is a lie then that means you are lying!”

I hear a click then I turn around to see 5 biters walking into the room. I start panicking, I scan the room for any sign of weapons but the biters are already on me. I grab a chair and throw it down on the first biter- a nurse that didn’t make it- the head of the biter was smashed open from the leg of the chair. 4 more biter started trotting at me, their facial expressions looked like they were begging to be freed, or to eat me. I break the legs of the chair and then I feel a sharp pain in my arm. The biter –a male patient- was on my arm biting down, I shrieked at the pain, but thrusted the leg of the chair straight at its head. The biter immediately fell down and, I guess died again, my arm was bubbling up whatever the biters were infected with had now spread on me. The remaining 3 biters started slowly approaching me 1 by 1 and with my limb badly wounded I couldn’t go anywhere. As the 3 biters go in punching range I stabbed all 3 right through the chest with the other leg of the chair. I thought I killed them, but no I didn’t apparently the biters didn’t die after being struck through the heart, but then I remembered that in the movies the only way to kill a zombie is by hitting it in the head “Stupid me” I muttered under my breath. I grab one of the 2 chair legs remaining and struck all three in the head.

“Oh good finally you got rid of them!” the Puppetmaster said in a bored voice “now time for you to tell me another riddle!”

Okay I can do this I just need to remember a good riddle,

“okay ‘Puppetmaster’ a pony is trapped in a room with nothing but a table and a mirror, how did he escape? I asked

“hmm let’s see, Oh I know! The pony broke one of the legs off the table, broke the mirror, grabbed a large piece of glass from the mirror attacked it to the leg, made an axe and chopped his way out!” The Puppetmaster said in a gleeful voice.

“no” I said happily “the pony looked in the mirror, sees what he saw, grabbed the saw, cut the table in two and two halves make a hole and he jumped through the hole.”

“Clever” The Puppetmaster said harshly “ I guess you can advance to the next room, but remember to take this radio with you!”

The door in front of me made a beep then opened, I looked into the room and-

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