The programmer's game

The Shut Down

Well today is a good day to work, right?

Let me start from the beginning, I'm an employee (if you couldn’t tell. probably not), But no any employee, a game programmer, What? Not impress? Yeah i see what you mean.

I’m just a guy who… well sort of: put the code in place and make sure it works or you’re fired, yeah, if you also couldn’t tell my boss is a “big meanie” as my brother like to call him (not AT him, but you understand), said boss is the owner of this game company: JOYMAKERS.

boy that guy must had thought MONTHS to come up with such a lame name.

Right now we are (or were, because people is starting to either get fired or just abandon the job) in a game based in a manga that my boss has “gently” spend %30 percent of the company’s profit to buy it (that guy must be swimming in money), the game is called like in the manga: The Gamer, right now my co-worker (and friend) and I are working on the graphics,

And yes a can do that kind of stuff too, but my friend literally obliterated me when comes in character design and today we make good progress, though there is always a “but” , and that is:

Today wasn't a good day.

How many times have we said that in our lives?

Far too many times to feel like it makes some sort of sense, and i don't blame anyone, in fact, i accept that part of life.

But losing my job is NOT one of the things i would like. (except if my job sucks, then I'll be happy if that happens.)

But let me ask you something.

Have you ever lost any progress by a blackout?

You know how this goes: Raining outside, finish this job, BUM, the electricity goes out, along with ALL of your progress, all because you didn't hit that miracle maker called "save", Seriously it's the worst feeling.

yeah, you know where this is going, don't you?

Just to put it simple, I'm not the only guy in my team who is mad because of this.

"GOD DAMMIT!"

"Warren, for the love of god, shouting at the computer isn’t going to fix it"

If you're wondering who shouted to the sky (or computer), is Warren A. Baldwin my co-worker.

Warren wasn't too happy about my reply though.

"Freddy, do you even know what this even means?! We’re going to lose our jobs!" warren shouted at me.

"No, we are not, the electricity was out of our reach, there was not, in any way, shape or form, knowledge of this happening" I told him.

Shit, did I forgot to introduce myself? god dammit.

Anyway, my name is Freddie N. Eaton, weird name isn't it? I think my parents picked my name out of a stupid name generator or something, every-single-one i meet in my life just calls me "Freddy" because it's "easy" or "more charming".

THEY CANNOT FOOL ME! I KNOW WHERE THAT NICKNAME COME FROM! I WILL DEVOUR THEIR FACES!

Anyway, where was I?

"Yeah, sure everything is alright, no problem, we are not talking about ONE GODDAMN WORK AT ALL!, A WEEK'S WORTH AS A MATTER OF FACT!" shouted Warren.

Well, shit, dealing with a mad Warren is the worst.

"Don't worry,I have a stupid habit of pressing "save" every minute" I said.

And no, that wasn't a joke.

"Wait... really? Since when?" Warren asked.

"Since... probably the first time I touched a Bethesda game." I said.

.....

"... are you okay Warren?" I asked him.

"God bless Bethesda" Warren said.

Well that was unusually Quick, Yeah, thank my sister for that habit...that was a weird childhood.

"So now what we should do?" I asked

a speaker sounded. "ALL WORKERS CAN GO HOME FOR THE DAY, THE ELECTRICITY ISSUE WON'T BE SOLVED UNTIL TOMORROW."

"Seriously Freddy, you always call for it every single day." said Warren.

"Yeah, somehow..." I said.

"Anyway, wanna go to the bar?" Warren asks me, as he gets up from his seat.

"Again? We went yesterday you alcoholic" I said, as I, as well, get up from my seat.

"Wait... did we?" he asked, as we walk to the elevator.

"The "special knock-out" beer?" I counter the question.

"Wait, I don't remember anything, like... at all" Warren said.

"That's because you just drank one half of a tiny glass and blacked out, right in that instant" I answer.

"Holy Shit, that explains the terrible hangover" he said.

"No shit, dude" I said, suddenly I notice something,

“Didn’t we passed over this section before? Wait, Are we in the same place?” I thought as we passed the same place.

"Well, not drinking that shit again, that was like... five liters of water wasted, hey what's wrong?" Warren ask me, looking at my confused face.

"Well, shouldn't we be already at the elevator?" I asked.

"Uh..." Warren looks around "you're right, for the first time, where is the elevator?" he asked.

"Shit, seriously we been working here in this game company for five months, how did we miss the elevator UNTIL now?" I asked.

Warren and i look around the area until I notice something.

"Dude, I take that back, where the fuck are we?" I asked, looking at the unfamiliar work area.

"God, is this going to be like those really bad horror games?" Warren asked.

"Don't even bring that up, this is getting bizarre" I said.

"Indeed, seriously the elevator is supposed to be right  here, the next thing we should expect is a goddamn monster popping out of nowhere" Warren said.

"Do you really believe in those fanfictions?" I asked.

"HEY, they are a great way to get ideas" he said.

a computer screen Suddenly turns on, we slowly turn our head to it.

...

"Nope, no fucking way, let's get out of here" Warren said.

"I agree let find an exit before-ahh! shit" I said as I trip.

“weird… i didn’t feel ANYTHING at all, what was that?” i wondered

I look at my leg.

...

A fucking tentacle,transparent with the interior of star and not the ones you draw, the ones from space, grabbing my leg.

"Oh shit" only manage to said as I'm pulled out of the ground.

"AH FUCK!" Warren shout's I'm getting pulled to the screen.

"Don't just stand there! Help me already!" I yell as I grip in the computer's table for dear life.

"Hang on! I-" he said as he was interrupted by me getting sucked in the computer with a table-piece and all.

The screen suddenly get colorful images and start swapping REALLY fast, While it shakes like an earthquake.

The it explode in Warren face, taking half of the floor with it.

MEANWHILE: outside

Every single employee was out of the JOYMAKERS game company, everyone was going home, until there was an explosion in the Building, everyone started to run as the explosion ends, the building is still stable, calls to 066 were already made, as the cop arrive They proceed to the explosion site, they find Warren fainted and with a head wound.

They find the area of explosion, there was nothing there.

"Sir, we may have a little mystery, probably a terrorist, but there's no bomb, change" the cop said.

"Wounded?" it answered.

"One man, but it doesn't seems responsible, unless he "somehow" manage to fucked up a fucking bomb" the cop answered.

"Send him to the hospital, we'll begin the interrogation when he recovers, we might find answers from him" it answered.

"Understood, copy and out," the cop hangs up "this doesn't make sense, but it's not my job to find it".

MEANWHILE: with Freddie

Pain

I feel like just someone just launched an atomic bomb to my face.

Wait, i take that back, to EVERY part of my body.

And suddenly *pop* nothing, no pain, no bleeding, it just vanish.

I suddenly got up from.... whatever i was sitting on, and looked around.

I'm not going to lie, i did drugs before, and let me tell you, this is probably the most amazing shit i would totally take.

If it was the effect of a drug.

SERIOUSLY this seems like a galaxy of sort, i look at myself.

My body was still the form, there was one little detail thought.

MY FLESH WAS LITERALLY STATIC!

"Oh shit! what the fuck! am i inside of the computer?!" i shout.

I looked around in the storm of stars for any orientation, anything that would tell me where am i.

A while of looking around i see a world but it was all... glitchy?

All right Scott Cawthon it's this your work or something? because is not funny.

"Alright, just, calm down, i'm just dreaming..... am i?" i thought.

I tried to walk towards it, it turns out to be easier than i expected, when i reached the sphered like world, i found out that the world was of the size of my legs, i tried touching it, yeah "tried", i was terrified of something would just pop out it, when i touched it nothing

literally happened.

I was just there, looking at it speechless of what to think of myself.

"Fucking serious?" i thought.

Suddenly it was all white.

MEANWHILE: everfree forest city approx. 1000 years Before season 1

Night spear was a bat pony, simple messy hair, gray fur with an unnatural pink hair (for bat ponies),she was 5 feet tall, she was wearing a simple t-shirt and rather simple pants, she also have an unusual light blue eyes unlike the common topaz like color.

Night spear was on her free day and she was just taking a stroll in the market to buy the groceries just like everypony, after buying all her "to-buy" list, the was an explosion in the center of the market, everypony was surprised by this, some of them ran away, other were calling the guards, the bravest (or the most stupid) look the source of the explosion, she's the first one to see the creature that caused the explosion.

"A biped-monkey?" Night spear thought.

She shakes her head and approach the human, a 6 foot monkey of sort, with no fur except for his head, five fingers instead of 4 like a normal pony, it's feet ends with five toes, it was wearing a unlikely work suit, which it was covered in dirt, blood and looks like is going to be torn apart, the face was the most bizarre, it was flat, no eyes, no nose, no mouth, no nothing, but it was some sort of colorful veins all over his face... and body.

in closer inspection she noticed that the creature was, in fact, bleeding from the suit, in an attack of panic she yells

"Stay back! this... creature needs medical attention!" while she start lifting it up the ground.

She went running to the nearest hospital, so the medics can fix this creature... whatever it was.

Everypony was surprised by the running batpony, to question the situation.