Chapter 12 - Margo (2/2)

"Good, see to it that each player has one in the morning!" said Edward

"Yes sir!"

Edward pondered for a moment. "Out of curiousity, how did the three players die?"

"One of them died from wild animals while climbing out of their mechs to search for food, the other two appear to have been killed by a rebel faction when they thought they could use their force to grind experience on."

"What animals killed the one player?" said Edward a little surprised.

"It was a bunny rabbit sir."

"Show me!"

A live capture of the game via satellite showed the location of the mech that the player who got killed by a rabbit was using. In front of it was a large ominous cave with a pile of bones and a single white rabbit sitting on the pile of bones.

"Is that the cave of Caerbannog?" said Edward "I thought I had instructed the team to remove it along with that killer rodent."

"They tried sir, but he's got huge, sharp..." said Margo while using two fingers to make it look like she has fangs.

"Did they forget the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch? Nevermind, just blast it with whatever we have available and recover the mech seeing as it is undamaged."

"Yes sir"

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Gray woke up refreshed the next day and was super excited to get back in to Alterra Online. He admitted that the game was not as fun as he expected but being one of only eight hundred players in the world able to play it was also very exciting.

A notification appeared on his HUD and he glanced at it and saw it was a message from Jono.

"Hey, tell me how it is sometime butt munch, I'll be joining in 6 more days when the general launch happens!" said recorded message from Jono.

"Oh, I don't know if I will have time, I'm going to be so far ahead of you by the time you join that you won't be able to even breath the same air as me!" said Gray with a smug expression in a recording back to Jono.

Gray knew this would rile his friend up, and frankly both Jono and Gray seemed to feed off of this as they spent more time name calling and insulting each other than actually talking. It's a guy thing...

Gray wolfed down a quick breakfast and quickly got back in to his VR bed to dive back in to the game.