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The Crab - black king - 16-05-2026
A story by BK, who can't write for crap but insists on doing so anyway.
Tr0nic woke up to the sound of his alarm going off. He sighed as he hit the button on his clock, wishing he could sleep in a bit but duty called. He'd received a message through Praying Mantis's computer from Dirty Duck to meet him at the MGF staff office at 0800. Couldn't have scheduled it a bit later?
Tr0n got dressed, picked up some breakfast from the Mantis cafeteria and stepped outside. Cloudy day he thought as he started the walk to the MGF staff office. It wasn't far; few blocks and that was it. He saw a few other members out and about. Most were still getting ready or probably still sleeping. One had an animal they'd freshly caught in a cage from one of the habitats.
Tr0n arrived at the door and went in. Their was a woman behind a nice desk typing away at a computer. "Hello, Maxine," Tr0n said, doing his best to not sound tired. "I have a meeting with Duck at 8. Do you know where at?"
Maxine stopped typing and glanced up for a second, "They're in meeting room 2. Down the hall on the right. You can go on in." She continued typing away at whatever Duck always had her working on.
They? Duck didn't say anything about anyone else....
He made his way down the hall. Nice building, but a little earthy for his tastes. Duck had picked dark green for the wall colors in the hall and a faux wood paneling on the bottom half. He came to the door with MEETING ROOM 2 on the sign next to it. He twisted the knob and went in.
Dirty Duck was sitting at the head of the table with Null, Gene, black king, and Nate sitting around him. Duck noticed tr0n enter, "Ah! Good, you're here. Take a seat tr0n."
Tr0n took a seat next to Gene. "Offer you some coffee or caffeine, mate?" Gene asked.
"I'll pass, thanks," tr0n replied. "I will admit I'm surprised. I didn't know you'd all be here."
"Yeah sorry about that. Null asked me to be discrete." Duck replied as he sipped something out of a cup. "I'll let him take it from here."
"Tr0n, myself and other old admins from MGSF have noticed something odd. The site has been sending an odd transmission to prominent old members asking them to return."
"Strange," tron replied, "I haven't noticed any messages."
Nate chimed in "Yeah; Henry, Fluxe, and the other old admins have been containing it from the their accounts logged in here."
"What we want to ask is a little...unorthodox" Duck started, "But with you being a private investigator I figure you might be able to help us figure out what's going on. Technical malfunction is most likely. Old site is falling apart."
"We need The Crab back on the case" black king added.
Tr0n was surprised. It had been ages since he'd been on MGSF after Tappa ruined it. Even longer since anyone had called him The Crab.
"The old forums shouldn't be too dangerous," Null said, "Mostly just bots roaming around selling lord knows what."
"Spells and potions last I checked." Duck said in an annoyed tone. "Still, we'll pay you and arm you accordingly. Nate?"
Nate reached down and pulled out a leather case and slid it over to Tr0n. He peered inside and saw a firearm with two boxes of ammo.
"Those are special bullets." Nate explained.
"Yeah, they instaban anyone they come on contact with. You shouldn't really need them unless they have some aggressive advertising going on." Gene added.
"We'll of course also support you by codec if needed." black king said.
Tr0n looked at the bad and inspected the bullets. They had a faint orange glow to them.
"I'm guessing the banning power came from Null?"
Null and Duck smiled. "Your eye for detail doesn't disappoint." Duck said.
Tr0n nodded and thought for a moment. He reached into his coat pocket, took out a brass lighter and flicked it open and closed a couple times. "Alright. I'll take the case. Be interesting to see the old stomping grounds again. Even if it is in ruins."
Duck gave an einthuiastic nod "Glad to hear it! I make a monthly pilgrimage, but don't go past the entrance. The memory is definitely better than the reality I'm afraid."
A few minutes of well wishing later and tr0n was heading towards the MGF Station. Every site had a station that led to every other site on the internet. A lot were in disrepair or abandoned anymore. Places like Reddit or Facebook seemed to hold all the traffic. He hopped on and set his destination as MGSForums.com and took a seat. The trip would take a bit so he pulled out his old iPod. He'd been wanting to try disconnecting from his phone more often and figured the train heading towards a relic of the 2000's would be an appropriate place to see if it still worked. He clicked to a song he'd downloaded after a recommendation from black king as the train went off to his assignment. The Crab was on the case.