Chapter 4. Doom

"Billy, out!!" Mrs Apple screamed.

On the class monitor, a video of Mrs Apple dancing in a rosy skirt with a rose in her mouth kept on appearing.

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"I have a great idea for our new video game."

"We'll create...the mightiest...

"Hero!" Shawn exclaimed.

Villain." Lance ended his sentence with such a word.

"Villain?" Everyone in the department glanced at each other.

"Yes, villain!" Lance clapped his hands.

"But, why?" Another member of the department, Jenny asked.

"Because, Jenny, Villains are awesome! What do you say, Kaleb?" Lance avoided answering Jenny and asked another lead member.

"For Lucifer, right?" Kaleb asked calmly.

Lance hurriedly walked away, "Everyone gets together in the Department Operation Office's Main room!"

Everyone hurriedly loaded their ideas and jerked their weak legs, "let's go!!!"

"Okay, boys and girls! A name for our villain?

We can't keep calling him the 'Random Idea Version One'? You know, we have to think of some promising name!" Lance leaned on the table and asked everyone who was sitting on chairs in front of him.

"Dracula!"

"No, no."

"Killer B! B is short for the boss!"

"Hey, guys! It's staring you in the face, our villain's name."

"What do you mean Jenny?"

Jenny walked straight to the door of the room, turned in a fashionable way and pointed to the sign hanging on the door,

-Department Operating Office - Main.-

"DOOM."

"Doom! Fabulous Jenny!" Lance shot to his feet in approval.

"Wild idea, I like Doom, it sounds very dangerous," Kaleb remarked.

Lance and his team got ready to embark on their new project, it was their last chance to save their department and job.

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-Few days into the project "Doom"-

"What's up?" Lance entered the testing field room and greeted.

"The hero must have a face, Lance." Kaleb showed Lance the latest progress and deadlocks.

Suddenly Kaleb blinked, "Your face, dear Lance, perfect. Jenny get our hero Lance to the face scanner room!"

Lance stared at the programmed Doom on the large screen in awe, they decided not to give a face to Doom, with red glowing eyes, it was a perfect villain, "He's spectacular, what a terrific smile!"

"I didn't program a smile?" Kaleb spoke while repairing the equipment needed to engage the events into reality.

"Didn't you? Why is he smiling..?" Lance looked at the eerie smile on Doom's face on the large monitor.

Is he learning things by himself? Lance worried to himself.

"Okay, everyone sits down! I have created the most crucial part of this game."

"The game's central role is the HERTZ." Shawn started to explain.

"As in heart?" Jenny asked

"Not heart!! Always thinking about romance Jenny!"

"Amplifying Resonance Transmitter. It gives the players their power, as the players go from level to level...the HERTZ's power increases, the colour intensifies and now..let me come to the most interesting part.."

"If the HERTZ's is not connected to Doom, you cannot destroy him. But if you destroy the HERTZ, he will die."

"Connect them to their HERTZs then destroy them, how? When does that happen?"

"Only on level three. The players get an anti-HERTZs gun with one bullet."

The first to hit the target wins, the player  who misses...will of course, die..in-game!

"So the HERTZ is their strength? And weakness?"