Heading toward the stairs with her horde of skeletons, the Horrors and Abominations sticking out of the crowd like a sore thumb, Bug is pleased as a peach as she looks them all over.
Her skeletons all look much more intimidating than a shambling horde of zombies. And best of all? They don’t smell anymore!
Before leaving the spring, Bug had made sure to order all of her units to dunk themselves in the spring and wash off all the gore that was still left on them after shedding their meat suits. Even the nasty clothes and armor that they are still wearing got a bit of a wash with them, so now her horde is smelling much less disgusting.
Progress!
So, making her merry way through the Dungeon, Bug walks with a skip in her step as she heads for the stairs leading to the Boss Room.
Taking that last corner, Bug notices some figures up ahead and sees that they are some wandering Goblin zombies.
When they notice her, they make a dead sprint for Bug and her group, but she just simply points at them and say, “Turn Undead.”
The charging zombies come to a grinding halt before their new master and Bug simply waves with one of her new wings. “Be gone. Go find something else in the Dungeon to kill.”
The zombies simply turn without a word and wander off. Once they are out of sight, Bug cancels her control over them and moves on towards the stairs.
“Hmm, if I am already running into zombies, then I must have already killed most of the stuff on this floor. Meh, not like it matters. I’ll be leaving soon.”
Heading down the stairs with her personal army, their bony digits and claws clicking against the stone of the stairs, Bug looks into the Safe Room as it comes near.
Appearance wise, the room is the same as all the other Safe Rooms that Bug has seen. In the center of the room is a burning hearth for people to warm up by and cook food. Off to the side of the room is a fountain pouring fresh water into a basin for drinking and washing up. And finally, the back corners have some raised areas where the floor has been leveled and set in layers. Maybe a spot for sitting down? Bug doesn’t know.
Checking the room over, she finds some trash littering the floor. Food wrappers and stuff. And finally, in the corner, it looks like somebody took a crap before leaving…
“Lovely… just lovely… You could have dug a hole or something first. Nasty humans…”
It looks like someone was here not too long ago. Hmm, more than one person going by how much trash is still laying around. Maybe three or four? They haven’t been gone long; the Dungeon has barely started to eat their trash…
“Wait, earlier, when I found the stairs. Were the humans still in here then? Darn, they must have left while I was in the bath. Well, that sucks.”
Selling all the trash and getting slightly closer to earning another point for the Item Store, Bug ignores the steaming pile of shit in the corner as she leaves the room and heads downstairs to the Boss Door.
Standing before the ornate carved doors that depict images of boars in the woods, Bug looks it over and takes in the beautiful artwork before eventually gazing up at the big glowing stone, set just above the doors.
“Why is it glowing red now? Wasn’t it green earlier? Hmm, does it mean something?”
…
Tapping her feet while she thinks with all of her arms crossed, Bug eventually just give a shrug. Walking over to the wall and digging eight pairs of clawed limbs into the rock wall, Bug quickly climbs up and over the door until she reaches the glowing stone.
Doesn’t matter why it changed colors. I want it!
Once Bug has herself above the door and perched on the molding, she uses her wings and three arms to try and pull the glowing rock out of the wall, holding herself to the wall with her last arm.
“Come on out of the wall! You’re my shiny rock now. Come on, come on! Pull!”
The rock refusing to budge, Bug looks over her shoulder and waves for some of her skeletons.
“Flyers, get up here and help me pull!”
But, alas, even with some extra sets of hands helping her out - the flying skeletons giving their everything to pull on it as they beat their bony wings- the shiny rock simply refuses to budge even so much as an inch.
“Ah! Damn Dungeon! Give me the shiny rock! I want it!”
Bug continues to pull and pull at it desperately. Even working herself around it and trying to grab it from different angles doesn’t do any good as the rock just won’t move. She may as well be trying to move the entire Dungeon for all the good she was doing.
Eventually, something happens with the rock.
It doesn’t move or even shift slightly. No. Instead, it turns color and becomes green again. Just like it was when Bug had first spotted it from upstairs.
“Ahhhh!”
Startled by the sudden change in color, Bug lets out a cry and loses her grip on the wall. Panicking from suddenly falling, Bug tries to flap her wings and fly.
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Her instincts help by whispering how to do it, but with no practice and suddenly falling to the ground from a fright, Bug ends up panicking and screws up horribly.
One of her wings ends up smacking her flying skeletons, which sends her careening off to the side in a spiral. Smacking into a wall with her back, Bug loses even more control and starts to fall faster as her wings and limbs flail about in a desperate bid to catch anything.
“Catch me!”
Down below, Shield skeleton runs over and reaches out, catching Bug’s little body with two of his massive hands, slowing her fall as he lowers his hands and kills her momentum. Bug, with her limbs all splayed about and her wing still flapping in a panic, finally relaxes as she realizes that she is not going to hit the hard stone floor anymore.
“Ahh, uhm, thank you… Mmm, I haven’t named you yet, have I? Hmm, I’ll call you… Sam the Shield Man! There we go. Thank you, Sam. Now please put me down, you are very cold…”
Sam follows her orders, and Bug alights to the floor while trying to make herself look completely in control, and not like a jittery mess from her fall. Straightening out her clothes and her hair, Bug wraps her wings around herself like a cloak and tries to stand tall and brave.
It takes her a few moments to realize that no one is actually watching, and that her skeletons aren’t going to judge her…
“Right… Ok, Identify…”
Looking up at the still glowing green rock, Bug gives it a scan.
‘Vacancy indicator. A part of the wall for a Boss Room’s entrance. Green = vacant. Red = occupied/restocking.’
A part of the wall… Damn, so that means that I can’t steal it! I… I probably should have used Identify on it first… I’m just going to pretend that that never happened…
Giving up on stealing the glowing rock, for now, Bug looks to the massive doors.
“So, when it was red earlier, that means that the people that were in the Safe Room were probably in there, right? I wonder if they won…? Well, I guess it’s my turn to go in.”
Pointing to the door with a wing, Bug orders Sam and Zax to open the doors for her. The doors look like they both easily weigh a ton each and are a little over four times her size. Bug has no hope of actually opening the doors herself and she isn’t even going to bother trying.
Without a word, Sam and Zax move forward and press themselves against the doors as they try to open it. It doesn’t budge…
“What the hell!? How am I supposed to get in if my biggest guys can’t even open it?”
Looking around while the skeletons keep pushing, Bug eventually find a panel on the wall that is glowing green, just like the big stupid glowing rock that won’t let her…! Just like the vacancy indicator…
Walking over to the panel, Bug finds that it has a cut out for the palm of a right hand on it. She gives it a scan.
‘Boss Door Switch. Use to open the Boss Door. ‘
“Oh… Ok then.”
Reaching up on her tippytoes, Bug stretches out her topmost right arm and places it against the panel. Holding it for a second, it eventually flashes red and a message pops up on her HUD.
‘Access Denied!
As a Rogue Entity, you have been denied access to all Boss Rooms and Back-Stage Access Tunnels.
Advisory: Turn Back.
Advisory: Kill yourself.’
“Eh… Fucking DUNGEON! How dare you lock me out!? Are you seriously going to be like this!? So, you’re not going to let me kill you, huh?! You’re not going to let me fight your Bosses!?!? Fuck you! You, get over here and let me stand on your back!”
With one of the Goblin skeletons now acting as a stepstool, Bug stands before the switch and repeatedly smashes her hand against it. Over and over again, the same message pops up until it is practically flashing on her Hud.
‘Advisory: Kill Yourself.’
‘Advisory: Kill Yourself.’
‘Advisory: Kill Yourself.’
“Go-“
‘Advisory: Kill Yourself.’
‘Advisory: Kill Yourself.’
‘Advisory: Kill Yourself.’
‘Advisory: Kill Yourself.’
‘Advisory: Kill Yourself.’
‘Advisory: Kill Yourself.’
“Fuck-“
‘Advisory: Kill Yourself.’
‘Advisory: Kill Yourself.’
‘Advisory: Kill Yourself.’
‘Advisory: Kill Yourself.’
“Yourself!!!”
‘Advisory: Kill Yourself.’
‘Advisory: Kill Yourself.’
‘Advisory: Kill Yourself.’
‘Advisory: Kill Yourself.’
‘Advisory: Kill Yourself.’
‘Access Granted!’
…
The panel flashes green and from behind Bug, the grand doors start to open. Sam and Zax, who were still pushing on the door, end up falling over and tripping on each other as the door finally moves.
“What the?! Huh?”
Checking her feed and ignoring all of the kill notifications still coming through from upstairs, Bug finds a few lines of text.
//Admin Override Detected.
//User’s Dungeon Access Permissions Changed.
//All Boss Room Access = y
//** Have a good one cute little bug <3**
//Admin Override Retracted
…
Looking over the notifications, Bug can’t help it as a big smile spreads across her face.
“Thank you, Admin! Or was that you REDACTED? Still, thanks!”
Hopping off the skeleton’s back, Bug runs over to the doors where Sam and Zax are busily picking themselves up off the floor.
Turning back towards the panel, Bug points and laughs with both of her right hands. “Hahahahahaha! Screw you, Dungeon! Haha! The Admin like me better than you. Now watch while I kill your Boss and break all your shit! Ha!”
Turning away from the panel and pointing towards the now open doors, Bug gives the order. “Charge my minions! We shall conquer this Dungeon whether it likes it or not. Kill the Boss!”
The skeletons charge. Sam and Zax at the front with their giant frames, a horde of Goblins pouring in behind them, with the Horrors and Abomination mixed in. Flying in though the top of the doors, the Flyers soar into the Boss Room and immediately claim the sky. Charging in from the rear is Bug with Bob and his support team of Billy the Retriever and the two rock throwing Goblins.
Inside, the Boss Room is a large round arena that is currently pitch black, draped in a curtain of shadows. Off to one side, a torch lights itself, shortly followed by another and another as the lights are turned on around the room in a counter-clockwise pattern.
In the center of the room, still a dark shadow as the central hanging brazier has yet to be lit, the Boss stands and waits, menacingly, the red glow of its eyes being the only sign of its presence as it waits for all the lights to come on so it can make its big reveal…
The charging skeletons ram into the figure and bring it down with the sounds of a squealing pig and clattering bones.
Skeletons don’t need light to see and nor do they care about proper Boss Battle etiquette.
By the time the lights from the torches and the hanging brazier are all turned on, the giant boar is already on the ground. Its legs kicking as it squeals in outrage and pain. The skeletons that are swarming it are already tearing its flesh open with their claws or stabbing it repeatedly with their weapons.
To make matters worse for the pig, many of the weapons are coated in deadly poisons or with layers of freezing frost.
The poor Boss monster hardly has a chance to fight back and only manages to kick away a couple of skeletons before it all simply becomes too much for it to handle.
The cold, the poison, the blood loss, the pain and absolute shock of just getting jumped out of nowhere…
It starts to slow. And eventually, it stops.
With the strength to live failing its body, its legs go limp and its massive head, with its giant tusks and sharp teeth, slumps to the floor. The red light of its eyes fades with its final breath as the skeletons continue to tear the flesh from its bones.
By the time that Bug reaches the Boss. It is already dead…
…
“Huh… Well, that was easy.”