posted July 27, 2003 12:22 AM            

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Bang.... Bang Bang!!!!!

Jake suddenly woke up in a dark dark area. A strange place of horrid horrible darkness... almost like a coffin.... The unknown possibilites.

Jake: "Hello...!"

Bang Bang!!!!!

Jake countinues to bang until suddenly a bright source started to glem from his pants. Jake tilted his head up and looked down towards his pants. Oh the horror of it! His Man-gina is glowing! Jake started to stroke the object but in a way to protest he pulled out a strange gem.....

Jake: "..... The PS20!... It's... still here... and it ... brought me back alive! No more boredom of Diablo 2... take that evil Taiyon. I swear when I get out of here I'm going to kick him in the pants and make him say my name.....

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2003 Proposal!
Make Jake Moderator!

posted July 27, 2003 02:27 AM            

David walks into the store "hows it going"

fat and geeky are talking to shawn while shawn is beating jakes (still)comatose body with a chair several times...

posted July 27, 2003 03:11 PM            

Jake slinks down into his chair and turns his head slightly to look at Carl. "I'm not trying to start anything! It was all THEM! They're the one that started it! And for that... I will halve them! I should destroy them and then hear the lamentations of their women!!!"

"Dude, first off, it was cooler when Conan said it. You just sound like a paranoid dork. Second, you don't need to try and 'get revenge on them' or whatever. They did bring you back to life, remember? Even though we weren't able to find that stupid gem again ever since Tom started working here, Fat and Geeky were able to wire that GameShark to you so that you had 'infinete health' and came back to life."

Jake looks down into his lap. "Yes... I'm grateful to them for that, but you will never know what it's like, Carl. You will never know what it is like to... to die..."

"JESUS! How many times do we have to tell you?!", Carl says as he grabs his face in frustration, "YOU. NEVER. DIED. Not for real, anyway. That whole Diablo 2 thing was thanks to the 'reality immerser' or whatever the hell those guys called it. It just put you into a strong coma for a while, and hell, that was over a year ago anyway. You're all better now."

"Am I? Am I really, Carl? Look at me! I'm working at Game Hits again! I had the chance to finally be happy and live my life in the only place that would have acepted me, the world of Final Fantasy 7. But once again, I was screwed out of it by those bastards...."

"How many times do I have to tell you, Jake? Shawn and Taiyon are in jail paying for their crimes of trying to kill you, so don't worry about them. Oh yeah, you think you're the only one who's miserable? You're not the only one working at Game Hits, in case you forgot!", says Carl pointing to the black shirt with the sharp "GH" logo on the chest he's wearing. "The dance studio Russ and I owned in Japan was a bust when our new girlfriends stole it right out from underneath us, so both of us had no choice but to come back to Lansing and beg for our old jobs back from Tom after he had to rebuild the store."

"Perhaps, Carl. But one of these days, the world is going to know the name Jake and they WILL FEAR IT!!!"

"Ok, whatever. Look man, there's a line of customers. Just take care of them first before you try and destroy them..."

It's a Saturday afternoon, almost time for the weekly tournament! Carl and Jake are working at the newly built Game Hits Gamestore in Lansing, Michigan. Months ago, the original store was destroyed by an F16, piloted by Russ, The Reverend Mofat Jones himself. Everyone thought that the legacy of Game Hits had ended there, but soon after that, a rather large, but equally as mysterious, Mexican man named "Tom" had appeared and rebuilt the store from the ground up literally. Nobody really knew what Tom's agenda was. All anyone knew about him was the fact he was sent by Lou, since Lou was busy filming the new Super Mario Bros. movies and their sequels. And since Shawn and Taiyon were still in jail, Tom needed people to run the store so the newly revived Jake was called back into action, along with the freshly down and out Carl and Russ. It was like the good old days.

As Carl and Jake are taking care of customers, Russ, Geeky, and Fat all come into the store. "Hey, you two. What's going on with you fellas?", Geeky asks.

"Oh hey. Nothing much. Oh yeah, I heard a little bit earlier that Kevin and Chris both came out of their comas last night, at like the same time! Weird huh?", Carl says.

"Yeah, it is. By the same token, Matt Keast popped up on ICQ telling me all about ICO or whatever. He was talking about how he loved it so much, but then last night he was thrown out and back into the real world, I guess. It sounded weird when he was telling me about it.", Geeky says.

"Sounds messed up with Matt, Kevin, and Chris all coming back at around the same time...," Russ says. He looks around and whispers to the group, "You don't think it might have anything to do with the PS20 gem, do you?"

"Eh, I doubt it. I thought you guys said that the gem disappeared shortly after Tom started working here anyway.", says Fat.

"Yeah, it did. Nobody really seems to know what happened to it. But I wouldn't discount the fact that maybe it still has something to do with all this...", Carl pipes in.

"But guys," Jake interupts, "We're the only ones who know anything about it. If it is the cause of this, who's going to believe us that it is? I think maybe it's better that we all forget about this..."

"Ugh, speaking of that, here's someone that I would just love to forget all about...", Russ says as a familiar white Camero pulls up into a praking space in front of the Game Hits store. Out steps the one, the only, Dayne.

"Wait, that reminds me. I never got this. So Dayne actually SURVIVED that sidewinder missle you used to blow up the other store, Russ?", Geeky asks.

Russ sighs. "Yeah, he did. But you know how lucky that bastard is. Not only did he survive the missle's explosion, but he survived when the blast sent him through a hidden wall in the old store and piles of stockpiled money, gold, and jewels hidden behind it cushioned his fall. And then, he found out he was supposed to be the next king of England somehow and then he dated Shakira for a while. I hate him."

Then the man with the all too familiar cheesy grin walks in the door and lets out his famous tagline...

"Hey, wuddayaguystalkinbout?"

(Gah, I'll let someone else take it from here... Someone else, keep it goin'!)

posted July 28, 2003 01:14 PM            

Meanwhile....

The scene is the Saginaw Game Hits store, the way it used to be. It's fairly busy, with a number of customers browsing through the vast selection of titles on the shelves. Some of them were holding as many as 6 games to purchase. Shawn is standing behind the counter, with a wide grin on his face, and a steel chair in his hands. Fat and Geeky are hanging out behind the counter with him, talking and looking on as he repeatedly bashes a comatose figure on the ground with the chair. It's a bright, sunny day outside, the air smells of boneless BBQ KFC wings, and all seems right with the world....

When suddenly, the prone figure's left arm snaps up with lightning speed, stopping the descent of the chair. The seat is wrenched out of Shawn's hands and flung away, smashing through the window front of the store with such tremendous force that even the steel bars blocking the windows are shattered along with the glass, and the chair itself.

Shawn looks on with shock as the formely comatose Jake slowly rises to his feet, his body wracked with chair marks and bruises, his eyes smoldering with seething hatred. The bright mid-day sky eerily darkens as he rises, the customers stopping what they were doing to stare at what was happening. Jake quickly glances at them, and with a single stroke of his right arm, dispacthes them all with a laser-thin light streak that resembled the tip of a long, glowing sword.

Dazed by Jake's revival and his actions, Shawn stared dumbstruck and Jake turned his attention back toward him. Fat and Geeky were still talking behind him, apparently oblivious to what was happening.

Standing in front of Shawn seemingly glowing with an evil power, Jake spoke: "You...you tried to kill me...beating me senseless with that chair...you...and Taiyon..will pay DEARLY for your actions!" The tattered, chair-beaten Game Hits shirt and jeans Jake was wearing began to change into a black and silver, almost military looking uniform. Jake's hair began to lengthen and turn a silvery white, and a sword began to appear in his right hand, stretching longer and longer until it was almost 6 feet long. A sinister sneer appeared on Jake's....now Jakeroth's...face.

Shawn was rooted to the spot, unable to believe that this was happening. He began to come to his senses more when he saw Jake begin to swing his long sword back, cutting through anything in it's path around the crowded counter area. "Wait...wait a minute!" Shawn yelled as Jake veered the sword back, preparing to strike....when suddenly a loud sound interrupted the action.....

BRROWWWT!

Jake stopped and looked at Shawn, curling his nose..."Farting in the face of death...you disgust me".

"It wasn't me!" Shawn answered, looking behind Jake at Fat and Geeky. Jake turned around and looked at them as well. They both simply shrugged. "If it was me, you guys'd be passed out by now..." Fat said.

BRROT...BREEEWT! More loud noxious flatulence woke Shawn from his dream turned nightmare, as he quickly sat up, breathing heavily, and in a cold sweat. Looking at his surroundings, he saw that he was in his prison cell. The foul eminations were coming from his cellmate, Bubba Bob. "Mmmmm biscuits...." He muttered as he passed a few more.

Shawn laid back down with a sigh of relief. His parole hearing was happening today, and because of the high-powered law firm Dayne was able to get with his newfound fortune, as well as the fact that Jake turned out to be comatose, and not dead, it was pretty likely that Shawn would be released very soon. Now he could get out this hell-hole of a prison, get his store back, and set things right. That was the plan...

posted August 09, 2003 11:06 AM            

A guard approaches. "Yo Game master" A nickname Shawn picked over the last year, "its time."

"Great," Shawn thinks again, "remember not to mention anything about the PS20. They wouldn't believe me anyway."

The parole hearing went smooth, and considering Shawn's role model behavior we was released. Before he left though he did put in a good for for Taiyon. After all he did save Shawn's life.

posted August 10, 2003 12:59 AM            

Carl: HEY EVERYONE, SHAWNS BACK!!

Jake turned around quickly.

Jake: h-hey shawn.....

Shawn:.........

Russ: I feel some tention going on here, can't we let what happened back then go, I mean, jake, you didn't really die, and shawn, you didn't really kill anyone..

Both shawn and jake did not respond...

Carl: well, I guess everyone who's gonna be here is here.

Just then, bobby, sam o., and d. pitty walk into the store...

Bobby: I hate my dad, he won't ever get up and do anything, we were almos late

Sam O.: well, this tourny is gonna suck, adams not here to make fun of....

at this, adam enters the store, w/ a backpack that he useually doesn't have....

D. pitty: hey, chicken F****er, whatcha got in the bag, or did you set up a hidden camera in melinies house so you can stalk her while anywhere!!

everyone laughs very hard, so hard that jake offers david a hand shake.

adam: (rather quickly and defensively) uhh, I just got my ps2 and gitaroo man in here

bobby: ok adam, whatever you say...

Meanwhle, the tournment, ultimate muscle, is started after a few more familier people show up.

During the a match between adam and carl (a match in which adam is getting his ass wipped on the floor), adam starts to mumble to himself, which at the moment appeared to be in fustration, but he suddenly stopped. At that moment, he came back and handed carls ass to him on a silver plater.

Carl:WTF!!!!!!

Adam: (in a whisper): that actually worked..

Carl: what do you mean that actaully worked? it seemed like you figured out how to be good halfway through our match!!

Adam: oh, y-yeah, I meant that I remebered about a combo I read about...

Sam O.: Dude, adam, what's up w/ your bag...

posted August 11, 2003 01:16 PM            

I had tried to stay away from the store for awhile after 'the gem' incident. In fact today would be only the third time I had come to the store since it was reconstructed. I was primarily coming to see Shawn today, since I had only seen him in one visitation with some of the Game Hits crew since he had been incarcerated. It would be good to see him behind the counter again.. perhaps it would be the 'return to normalcy' I needed to put the happenings of the gem behind me once and for all.

For the past year, Nate and I have been scouring the internet, technical journals, the library of congress, any Japanese gaming or technology articles we could find...any place we could think of for information on the PS20. Both of us came up with nothing. We still have no idea where it came from, or what it really is. I sure wish I knew what happened to it. I'd like nothing more than to destroy the damned thing. Sure, it was an amazing piece of technology..or arcane magic.. but it could really wreck havoc with people's lives, as it had done to all of us before.

This is what I was thinking of as Nate and I entered the new store. We were somewhat later than usual today, so by the time we got there, the Ultimate Muscle tournament scheduled was in full swing. "Heeeey!" Shawn greeted us as we entered. A lot of the usual crew was there: Russ, Carl, Jake (who was kind of keeping to himself stocking shelves at the other side of the store), and a bunch of the regular teenage kids that hung out there....including one I didn't expect to see... Adam Nevins.... I couldn't put my finger on why it was so weird that he was there....but something was definitely wrong...

I started talking to Shawn, trying to strike up a conversation to subdue this forboding feeling of dread that was gnawing in the back of my mind....

"So...the store looks pretty good..." I mused..

"Yeah.." Shawn answered. He seemed a bit distracted as well. Could it be that he was picking up on the same thing I was? "..yeah, I gotta admit...Dayne and Tom took pretty good care of the place..."

We were both looking at Adam. He was talking to some of his friends, carrying his usual stupid laptop full of Bemani crap (my POV, my opinions, live with it y'ass... ) and his backpack. It all SEEMED normal enough...but something wasn't right....

"Pretty good turnout for the tournament..." I continued.

"Yup." Shawn answered. The previous match between Russ and Dylan had just finished with a close victory by Russ, so it was time for Shawn to announce the next match. Shawn looked at his quickly written tournament graph to see who was going next. "Ok people..." Shawn raised his voice to get everyone's attention.. "The next match will be Carl and......Adam...."

A lot of us sort of did a double-take at the mention of Adam's name.... it seemed quite a few people were sharing the same dark feeling I was. Still...I couldn't figure out exactly what was wrong with this picture....

We looked on as the match began. Carl was a regular player of wrestling games with the Aki engine, so he was able to take control of the match quickly. Suddenly something happened mid-match, and Adam turned it around...suddenly beating Carl as badly as Carl was beating him only a moment before. I saw a familiar dim glow coming from Adam's bag....it was as if all of the light in the room dimmed to allow me to see it...it was at that moment when it hit me....

"Shawn!" I blurted suddenly... I startled him a bit, knocking him out of the trance that him and seemingly everyone else in the store was in, watching the match.

"Geez, WHAT?!"

"Isn't...Adam...." I stopped. Almost everyone in the store stopped and looked at me. The match was just finishing up, with Adam as the victor. Carl stood up and looked over at me as well.

"I mean...isn't he...." It seemed like everyone knew what I was going to say, but didn't want me to say it. I didn't want to say it either. The feeling of utter terror that had enveloped before had amplified tenfold. Still, since the last experience with that damned gem, I had often been questioning the reality around me. Everything from it seemed so real.... so I had to know....

"Isn't....Adam......dead?"

A swirl of crimson mist began to flow out of the backpack....

posted August 11, 2003 04:28 PM            

*looks at adam*

"holy sh*t im outta here"

posted August 14, 2003 02:36 PM            

Anyway back to the story.

Suddenly like a rip off of the Matrix two men in black suits appear from the mist. How perciptive of you. Adam was indeed dead. However we brought him back to life in order to use him to find the gem. Now that we have your attention where is the gem.

posted August 15, 2003 09:32 PM            

adam went to his bag to get the gem, but shawn stepped in his way....

shawn: YOU HAVE THAT THING!!! adam.....

jake: Shawn, no!!

shawn: what??

jake: I've been whating for this my whole life....ADAM, YOUR BANNED!!!

shawn: ok....adam give us the gem!

adam: no!! I've been the center of ridicual for so long, but whose laughing now!!

carl: dude, this makes you more gay

*please note that this is for story purposes, I'm not trying to call adam gay just for fun*

carl: who are you guys anyway?.....

posted August 16, 2003 03:14 PM            

Adam: No Jake! You don't understand! I need this gem, not only for life, but for my future career move as a Asian porn star! I need this to make me more attractive to the opposite sex damn it! I want a bigger General! A BIGGER GENERAL!!!!!!!!

The room stared at Adam...... strangly arroused. A few laughs broke out within the room...

Shawn: Adam! Give us the gem, you will never have sex, you know this! Just give us the gem and walk away, you will be happier, there will always be porn for you, why have a women please you when you can have the full fingered ride!

Adam: NO SHAWN! You don't understand! I need this gem, it's my beauty, my precious!!!! I will never let it go, you will have to attack me in order to get it back... you will have to take it from my dead cold fingers, so step off bitch!

Jake: Fine then Adam, I will accept that challenge! Lets Duel!

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2003 Proposal!
Make Jake Moderator!

posted August 17, 2003 02:26 PM            

Taiyon: "NO! i want kick adams a** for hacking into my ebay account!"

Carl: " no! i want to kick adams a**......just because hes adam!"

Matt C: "NO! screw you all! i want to kick adams a**"

* everybody in the store thinks of a reason to kick adams a** (i mean EVERYBODY)*

*every body jumps on adam kicking him while he is on the ground*

*adam lays there not even being hurt by all the punching and kicking*

and then all of a sudden adam says:

"You Are Making Me Angry,You wouldnt like Me When Im Angry" AHHHH!.............

(to be continued)

posted August 17, 2003 11:39 PM            

Sam O. and Bobby: WTF?? how's he do that??

Shawn: it's the red gem, try to get it, quick!!

of coarse shawn knew the power of the gem, and he figured that if one of the two tried to retrive it, they would mot likely die...

Sam: ok.......NO ONE LIVES FOREVER!!!

at this he charges at the pumped up adam. adam took a swing, wick sam dodged, but on the second swing, he hits him smack in the jaw, sending him trough the wall in the bathroom, were carl is revealed having his own "carl quality time".

shawn: CARL, WHAT HAVE I TOLD YOU ABOUT THAT AT WORK!!

carl: hey, the whole crap w/ the gem was tensing me up, I needed to release the stress....

fat: hey, where's the gem!!!

everyone looked over at adam, but he was no longer holding the gem, just then, something started playing through the speakers...

CAN YOU DIG IT........SUCKA?

just then sam reappeared from the broken wall, but now he had dred locks. he ran to adam, kicked him in the gut, stepped back then did the sciccor kick, followed by the spinarooni. the ps20 was on the ground, on top of a copy of smackdown, shut your mouth.

after the spinarooni, and after carl cleaned up, both adam and sam returned to normal.

shawn: quick, grab the gem!!

jut then, a strange light appeared outside the store, followed by two men in jumpsuits walking into the store.....

gay looking new guy: quick give us the gem!

gay looking agent rip-off: no, give it to us!!

jake: who are you gay looking guys??

new guys: we're from the future, that gem is a weapon that belongs to us....

jake: no!! adam is suppose to win and everyone in the future are his spawn!!!