Right after Minako came back home, she found a note lying on the dinner table. It was from her parents:
'Dear Minako, we're over at your aunt's place. We'll be coming late, so please don't cause any trouble. Dinner's in the fridge.'
Minako giggled. "Just what I needed! The perfect chance to invade a kingdom!"
"Are you thinking about playing that game again?" Artemis sweatdropped as he entered the room. "Don't you have anything better to do? Like, your homework, for once..."
"Hush, you spoilsport!" Minako growled. "I have a date with a brat."
Artemis shook his head. "I don't even want to ask..."
Back in her room, Minako excitedly booted up her computer and started the game. This was a good chance to pay Shingo back for what he said. With the 'Warcraft Maker', she was able to create a scenario about a country called 'Shingonia'.
That was what Shingo called his own virtual kingdom, back at his own computer... and she wouldn't really be able to affect something he created on his own PC. But still, she knew she would feel exceptionally satisfied after tonight's game...
She started her Map Editor and with a few mouse clicks, she created an additional, small kingdom at the Eastern side of Azeroth. She placed a town in it's middle, which she named 'Shingonia'. She gave the kingdom everything it needed to prosper, including a few farms and an iron mine. Finally, she put a skilled troop of guards at Shingo's side, so he had someone who protected his small kingdom.
When she was done with everything, she looked at her handiwork and chuckled. "Now for the main event... this is gonna be fun!"
"Whatever..." Artemis yawned and curled up on her bed. "Wake me up when you're finished..."
But just as Minako was going to start the game, she hesitated. True, she could have her little game of revenge on her own computer, but... now that her father wasn't home, the appeal of using her father's system once again was tempting.
When she used her own computer to play 'Warcraft Maker', it was just a very good game.
But when she used her father's processor and head gear, everything seemed so much more realistic to her. When using that computer, she kinda WAS in Azeroth.
She thought it over. True, she had promised her father to never use his computer again, but...
"Maybe... maybe only this once," she muttered.
She decided against it. Her father would find out right away and then she would be in big trouble.
But there was something she didn't promise him...
While Artemis kept on snoozing peacefully, Minako hacked her way into the mainframe of her father's company. Well, she didn't use her father's computer, but instead his entry code for using the company's system, which she managed to find out a few days ago. A few clicks later and she started the version of 'Warcraft Maker' which she had installed in a tiny corner of the mainframe's motherboard on that day. And the mainframe of COMPUTRON, which was the name of the company, was so enormous that no one would be able to find it where she had hidden it... or at least so she believed.
A few changes and Shingonia existed in this version of Warcraft Maker as well.
Before starting, she suddenly got a feeling of remorse... but only for a very short instance. Then she saw the smirking face of Usagi's brother before her, and with a dark frown, she started the game.
She would feel bad by using Lina Inverse to attack Shingonia, one of Azeroth's most renowned heroines, so she took a few minutes to create a new, high-leveled character... a dark general for the army she was going to use. She gave her general black hair and an even blacker armor made of metal and leather. She gave her two wicked-looking runeblades and an enormous Thunder Lizard as a mount.
After choosing a squadron of black knights as her storm troop, she grabbed the mouse... and started playing.
The first few defenders were no problem. She mowed down the small amount of soldiers in the frontal barracks effortlessly and moved on through the fields of Shingonia, hacking and slashing left and right.
Minako grinned. This was FUN!
In the end, she reached Shingonia's capital... and now the real fun started. The enemies seemed to appear everywhere at once, but Minako was GOOD tonight. Very good indeed!
SLASH! She was hacking into an enemy rider which foolishly came to close to her.
ZZZAAAAAAPPPP! Her Thunder Lizard spat a lance of electricity into a tower, where something exploded with a loud bang.
SPLURT! Her blades impaled the head of a soldier.
SMASH! BAM! SLICE! ZAP! BOOM! WOOSH!
KA-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!
Minako's face turned into an evil grimace. She knew she wasn't supposed to enjoy this so much, but the very thought of that brat being the emperor of the town she was just destroying was so satisfying that she couldn't stop herself. The strange fact that all of her enemies' seemed to have Shingo's face only stimulated her fighting spirit even more.
Finally, she arrived at Shingo's palace. Together with her Black Knights, she leveled the whole place until not a single opponent was standing, and the whole building was just a big pile of rubble.
Satisfied with the results, she turned around and rode back to her starting point, killing a few stragglers she had overlooked on her way to the palace. When she reached the point, a message appeared in front of her eyes:
'CONGRATULATIONS! YOU WON! Play again?'
She was just going to click on the 'No' button, when she decided against it and leaned back in her chair one last time. She looked at her score.
"316.400," she said with a proud smile. Almost as much as she managed to reach in her best playthrough yet. Although a tiny part of her conscience told her that it might not be a good idea, she ignored it and saved her result on the mainframe's hard drive.
Now all she had to do was to check out using her father's password, doing a few additional things, and no one would be able to find out what she had been doing.
When she was finished, she was in extremely good spirits. She shut down her server and even smiled as she pulled out her homework for today. She should do something like this more often.
The smile of her face didn't even vanish after she went to bed and fell asleep.
But while she slept, strange things were happening within COMPUTRON's mainframe...
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