Today Drabble Wednesday goes back to the virtual world
with the duo of Frankie and Joni…
Hologram
Horror
“The quiet lays on me like a shroud, an ominous
portent of the creeping night.” My words echoed through the VR chamber.
“Okay, fine and dandy, but are we going to do with
the sea ghouls?”
“I was setting up a mood here, Frankie! Sheesh.” I sighed. “I don’t know. Stick
them in the sky, hovering.”
“Um, that’s not what I meant.”
Uh oh. “What did you do?”
“I didn’t mean to. But we have extra ghouls.”
“Extra ghouls?” I looked up. Red eyes looked back
at me.
“Frankie?”
“Yeah?”
“I think we should run.”
Then the surplus ghouls chuckled.
~*~
Ghouls
vs. Zombies
The door slammed shut just in time. I leaned
against the titan-steel door listening to sea ghouls shrieking on the other
side. Frankie stood next to me, wheezing.
“How did we get those things in the program?”
“Probably—wheeze—from
the hidden—wheeze—file.”
With dread I asked, “Hidden file? What hidden
file?”
Frankie took a deep breath. “The one marked
Thursday. I opened it.”
“Why would you do that?”
Frankie shrugged. “Curiosity. But don’t worry. The
zombies will take care of the ghouls.”
“Zombies? What zombies? And who will take care of
the zombies?”
“The flying monkeys, I imagine.”
~*~
How
to Solve Your Flying Monkey Problem
“Are they still flinging their feces?”
Frankie stared at the screen. “No. Now they’re
throwing ghoul bits and zombie heads. Told you they’d take care of the
zombies.”
“Yes. And the ghouls and half the VR equipment!” I
resisted the urge to punch him. “They’ll destroy the whole chamber, heck the
whole complex, if we can’t stop them!”
“I’d send them away first.”
“You can send them away? As in get rid of them?”
“Yes. Figured it out yesterday.”
“Then why are they still here?”
“I like them. They’re cute. We needed new
equipment anyway.”
“Frankie! Send them home. Now!”
