"He does not exist. What's left of him?"I woke up on another isnd. Before I'm able to get up I see a rge object hovering over me. It looks like a rge cyan bident with Aeths face and eyes covered on the bde like some cheap toy. It has red, yellow, pink and red rings floating around it. It speaks while I'm still disoriented from that dream I had st… whenever. “Hello! Welcome to the Uber Superb Obby! I am thrilled that you are here to hone your skills at the obstacle course! Do you have any questions?” All i said in response to that was “Yeah, fuck off.”. “Good! 5 per entry.” it said. it then hovered over to the side and locked in pce and started to stare at seemingly nothing. I still wish I was in my dreams because I definitely do not want to stay in this hellhole forever.
I notice this is a much smaller isnd overshadowed by the rge floating obstacle course. There's a ticket booth in front of where the obstacle course branches off. I don’t know how this is even legal. The obstacle course looks like a floating death trap. I skip the nonexistent line and go straight to the vendor. He has a name tag that just says “Vendorling” on him and looks like a typical Uberling, the only thing distinguishing him from the rest of them is that he's wearing a “U.S.I” Cap. Uber Superb Industries? They made this death trap? I speak into the windows microphone. “Hey, why does every person here’s name end with ‘ling’? Actually, a more important question. What’s with the death trap to the right of me?”. He sighs and responds “Oh that? Look man. Do you think I care about that ‘death trap’ that you call? I’m just here to make the big bucks, alright? The CEO personally pays me to be here. And plus, It’s their will to do it so who cares? So like what my spear buddy was saying, 5 per entry.”
Before I make any mistakes arguing to some cretin like st time, I'm just gonna walk away but before I'm able to, I feel a hand press firmly on my shoulder.i turn around and see a visibly agitated Uberling with what looks to be a videogame logo on his chest. He’s wearing a hat with Aeths face on it. Before I’m able to introduce myself, a rapid fire interrogation begins:
AA Guy: “Aeths Adventure is on sale for an eight of the price! Are you up to the task?”
Me: “And if I don’t?”
AA Guy: “Then you’re missing out! They call me the AA Guy. I make sure everyone in this town gets a copy of Aeths Adventure! Including you, Vendor!”
He starts to stare at the vendor through the window, just for the vendor to raise his newspaper. I briefly see the words “MAYOR FOR UBER SUPERB CITY” Before the AA Guy Snaps right back towards me.
AA Guy: “Expert gamers have concluded that this game is a definitive 8/8!”
Me: “Ok. I don’t even have a console, or a phone, or a home or… anything for a matter of fact. I don’t really care about this. Did they hire you for this crappy game?”
AA Guy: Hired?! Crappy?! Yeah, you done did it now. I tried with you but now you're going to have to take your opinion to the grave!
Right after he says that he takes a swing at my skull, which catches me off guard and knocks me to the ground. He then grabs my leg and tries to drag me towards the edge of the isnd. “No Aeths Adventure hater is a friend of mine! You're going off the grid!” He decred. I think he's trying to kill me over a video game! I rapidly shake my leg to get him off me and I get up. We both began to circle each other on the small isnd while the vendor minded his business and the spear thing stood idly by. We began throwing fists at each other, either dodging it or nding the blow with me dodging the most. “You're not leaving this town alive!” The AA Guy yells. I tried kicking him to the ground which worked and knocked him down, hitting his head. I kick him while he’s down a couple times before he rolls quickly and gets back up. More punches and kicks occur until I corner him on the isnd. He’s visibly nervous and tries to offer a solution, “Look, I'm sorry. Got a little mad over your reaction. Can we shake hands and part ways?” He then raised his hand towards me. I was confused at first but then I thought that he really could be overreacting this whole time. Our hands connect and then suddenly, He pulls me towards him and he throws me off the isnd, Leaving me to hang onto the edge.
While I'm trying to hang he switches to a deep and disturbing tone and leaves a confession to the air “No one will remember you… so i will tell you this. When I was a little child, Aeths Adventure had just come out. It was the only thing that treated me right. No mortal could have made it. I was hyper-fixated on this game. It gave me the courage to stand up to my school bully. He insulted my beloved joy. So I searched for him… I found him… and I killed him… The Uber Superb Police didn’t care because It looked like I was too young to be a killer and all this time ter I'm still… at it. This game is all I have… No one but Artar talks to me anymore. They just think I'm a lunatic shill for doing what I love… Spreading the joy of Aeths Adventure… No one will miss you. You’re just a pgue on the earth who doesn’t want a mastercraft like Aeths Adventure for some twisted reason. Now go, join the rest of your kind.”
Afterward I heard him walk toward the vendor building and loudly bang on the window. It took effort but I managed to get back up back onto the isnd, I do not know how I managed to survive all that time. Filled with adrenaline. I notice a convenient floating weapon to the right of me, The Aeth spear. The AA Guy is too intoxicated in harassing the vendor to notice me. I slide the spear under the rings while it kindly requests me to let go of him and I take aim at the AA Lunatics egg head and unch the spear as hard as I physically can. The AA Guy notices the approaching sound of the spear casually talking and turns towards me, which the spear unches through the front of his head and into the window, almost hitting the vendor. A beam of light bursts out of his cracked skull which dissipates after a couple seconds. The spear then nudges itself out of the window and floats back into pce inside its rings, dragging the AA Guys corpse the whole time. Can’t say he deserved that death but he definitely had it coming. He could’ve been the murderer the mayor was talking about back at the museum.
I go to the vendor to apologize and he sees it coming already, “Look, I already know what you're going to say. Just pay the 5 and do the course. That's all that would matter to me”. There is literally no other part of this isnd in view besides the obstacle course, so it really does look like there is no other option but to do the course. I remark “You're just gonna ignore the- fine but I have no cash at all-” “Then find 5.” He raised his newspaper again. I begin to look for some money but in this convenient trash can I find something way better, a ticket. I go and present it to the vendor and hesitates before quickly leaning in towards the window to check if anyones watching him and he grabs the ticket and opens the gate to the death trap- I mean obstacle course.
