AllyahHabitica01-18-2021

< Written By: Allyah

Setting/Conflict - A bunch of friends are playing a game together and chatting on Discord, when the Internet suddenly goes off. One of them (the main character of the story) then finds out that the Internet was shut down by a hacker, and the Internet has also been shut down everywhere in the world by this same hacker. Include the government trying to find the hacker before 12 hours have passed and the Internet goes away forever.

“Dave, can you tank?”

“Sure, Alice.”

“Thanks. I need to practice DPSing.”

“You’re tellin’ me.”

“Very funny.”

Alice selects her character and watches the countdown start. The anticipation builds as the number gets smaller. She does her best to quash the jitters she’s feeling throughout her body. No good trying to play nervous.

“So, this time I’m going to try -” She stops talking when she hears the beeps telling her Discord has disconnected and looks at the loading screen in trepidation. Please, please, please don’t let it be the Internet.

Tab-alting shows her that the Internet is, indeed, down. ''It’s always something. I’ll have to catch them in the next round''. Sighing, she stands up and makes her way downstairs.

“Hun, the Internet is down.”

“That’s what the news is saying.”

“Huh? But that’s national news.”

“Why yes, yes it is.”

“You don’t find that a bit strange?”

“Not at all. Reporting the news is what they normally do. In fact, I’m pretty sure it’s their business.”

“Be serious! Why is the national news reporting about the Internet being down?”

“Probably because the Internet is down.”

“Nationally?”

“Yeah.”

“How?”

“A hacker, apparently.”

“And you don’t find that odd?

“Of course I do.”

“Do they even know how the Internet works?”

“I would wager a guess not.”

“Did 4chan successfully troll again?”

“Hard to say. It doesn’t really take a troll for the media to get it wrong. And since the Internet is down…”

Alice walks over to her phone and takes it from the charger. “No 4G either.”

“They’re saying the government has to find the hacker in 12 hours or the Internet will go down forever.”

Pfft. “Let the conspiracies begin.”

“Ain’t that the truth.”

“Smith, have you finished your assignment?”

“They’ll never know we were involved, Sir.”

“And they won’t notice when the Internet is available again?”

“No, Sir.”

“Dismissed.”

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