Human VS

by DubleTruble96

Smile.pny

Arena: Abandoned House, Unknown, Earth?
Challenge: Open the file. Survive the program. Delete the virus.
Danger Level: Moderate to Severe

Match beginning in 3.....2.....1.....

Austin spawns in a dark room. He feels around for a light switch. Finding one, he flicks it to the ON position. The lights flicker on.

"Huh. So the power still works. That much is apparent."

He turns to the lone set of furniture in the room. A single folding chair, a simple table, and a lone computer. Well that, the monitor, the mouse and keyboard. I looked around, then saw a note beside the mouse.

"Turn on the computer." He read aloud. "Alright! I'll always mindlessly follow a mysterious anonymous note's instructions!"

He sat himself comfortably at the computer. He switched it on, then saw that he was using Windows 98 version, however the logo and text held a red tint to it. He sat back, waiting for the computer to boot up. Finally, it whirred to life and he saw the background of the computer was a blood-red-tinted version of the default Windows background. There was a lone file that was called "smile.pny". He glanced at the note, which was now changed.

"Open the file." He read. He shrugged then moved the cursor to the file, which appeared to be a video file, and double-clicked it. Windows Media Player opened up and started to automatically play the video. However, there was no pause button, no rewind, and no fast forward. He glanced at the corner. The Close, Minimize, and Restore Down buttons were also missing. He glanced at the note.

"Watch the video." He muttered. "Eh...I'm gonna get some popcorn. This looks like it's going to be a long one."

He got up, turned around and went into the kitchen, pulled an unpopped bag of popcorn out, put it into the microwave, turned it on High, then put it in for 2 minutes.

2 minutes passed and the microwave opened up automatically. He pulled it out, shook it vigorously, then opened it up before going back into the room and sitting at the computer. Oddly, the video didn't play anything yet. Just a black screen. Finally, something started to happen. The borders of the video started to turn red, and soon a strange pony-like figure became evident. The pony was snow white, minus the multiple cuts, wounds and blood stains in her fur. Her mane and tail were jagged and messy, red just like the blood staining her coat, and her right ear appeared to be missing and covered in dried blood. Her eyes were jet black, with red irises. And her face was stretched into an unnatural grin. She opened her mouth to say something, but all that came out was static. Suddenly, a piece of popcorn it her in the forehead.

"Ack! What in the-"

Her voice was raspy and demonic, but obviously female.

"Booooo!" Austin threw more popcorn through the computer screen. "That was a terrible movie!"
"Insolent mortal! How dare yo- Ack! Stop doing that!"
"Okay you got mute now."

Austin muted the computer, and the pony grinned.

"I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Austin. Smile for me."
"Nah."

Austin got up casually and walked away from the computer. Smile.pny stepped out from the computer and started her song.

"Hush now, smile now. Know that I will find you. Hush now, smile now. Be scared of what I'll do to you..."
"Nah."
"Whuh...what do you mean 'nah'?! Be scared!"
"Nope." Austin tossed a piece of popcorn into his mouth.

She growled audibly, then did a few breathing exercises.

"Stick with the song, stick with the song..." She muttered to herself. "Ahem....Hush now, smile now. Pained screams are music to my ears. Hush now, smile now. I am but all your fears..."

Austin suddenly stopped and ran right over to her, stopping in front of her.

"Oh reaaalllly?"

Surprised by his sudden appearance, Smile.pny blinked at first, then opened her mouth.

"Yes?"
"Okay, Miss Know-it-all. What's my favorite colour?"
"Er..." Smile.pny frowned, however her sharp teeth were always visible. "Blue?"
"EHHHHH!" Austin imitated a buzzer. "Wrong! What's my favorite food?"
"Umm....Chicken?"
"EHHHH! Wrong again! Who married Marcy the Cow?"

That one really stumped her. She looked at the floor, deep in thought, unaware of Austin going up behind her.

".....I....don't know!"
"Charlie Horse!" He kicked the back of her forelegs hard, causing her to reel forward and topple down the nearby staircase.

She got up, screaming in frustration. She stopped soon after and did some more deep breathing.

"Stay calm! Stay calm...he's only trying to psyche you out...Ahem.....Hush now, smile now. Don't bother trying to run from me. I, will, track you down and kill you, don't you see?"

Austin suddenly ran right over to her again.

"So you will track me down? How? With who? With what? TELL ME YOUR SECRETS!" He grabbed onto her shoulders and shook her back and forth, hanging off her with an anxious expression.

"Demon magic?" She shrugged.
"But I thought you were a computer virus."
"A demonic computer virus."
"I don't understand, what's the diff?"
"Well....one could be a simple trojan, the other will crawl out of your computer and kill you."
"That sounds....kind of silly."
"Yes, but....UGH! You're doing it again! You're supposed to be hiding from me!"
"Okay okay! Fine! Geez pushy!" He turned around and walked away, then into another room and hid in the pantry.
"Come on, don't be shy, I only want to be your friend. Happiness and friendship is all I want to send...."

Austin suddenly came back out looking frustrated.

"Okay now you're sending me mixed messages."
"Huh?"
"Go hide, but no, come out, don't be shy..Like seriously! Hide, or don't hide?"
"I...you....ugh...Just go hide!!"

Austin turned and walked back into the kitchen, then hid in the pantry again. Smile.pny continued her song.

"Hush now, smile now, the taste of tears is really sweet. Hush now, smile now, tears make for a good treat......Hush now, smile now, your skin, it tastes like chocolate. You're like, the mouse in this chase and I'm the cat."

Austin stepped out again before she could continue her slow advance and song.

"Ooookay I'm sorry."

She huffed and rolled her eyes.

"What now?!"
"First off, tears are gross, salty waste products that is expelled through our tear ducts to help expel salt, as well as to express sadness or fear. So they are NOT at all sweet. Secondly, Chocolate and cat are not rhyming words. They're not even like...family rhymes. Unless you pronounce chocolate really weird...like chock-o-LAT and CAT. But I pronounce it the way it should be said as: chock-o-lit."

She groaned and face-hoofed, then looked back up at him.

"GO HIDE!!"
"Okay okay..."

He went back into the pantry while Smile.pny started her slow advance towards the kitchen again, singing all the while. Austin soon saw a faint red glow under the door of the pantry as she approached.

"Hush now, smile now, I only want to give you a hug. Then, I'll, spill your blood and drink it from a jug."
"Okay, one last thing, then I'll shut up: That sounds disgusting. Seriously, there's so much iron and other grossness in blood...I mean I could have like...AIDS or something...seriously, why would you drink that? I mean, I don't have AIDS, but I'm just saying, I could! And you'd be drinkin' it! Sorry! Shutting up now!"

Smile.pny was finding it really hard to smile at this point. She groaned a bit and continued her song as the glow got more intense under the doorframe.

"I know, where you are, and I just really want to play. I, can, smell your fear from one hundred miles away..."

She was about to turn and leave to add to the creep factor, but she stopped when she heard some strange crinkling noises from inside the pantry. Her eye twitched and she spun around again, opening the door wide, huffing angrily. Austin froze and without moving his head, looked at her. He was holding a bag of chips up and tilting it into his mouth. Slowly he chewed a bit and brought the bag down, then spoke with a mouthful of chips.

"Oh I'm sorry....did you want some chips?" He offered her the bag. Smile.pny looked like she was seconds from tearing her hair out, but then suddenly smiled again, unusually calm.

"No thaannks....Why don't you go hide in the upstairs closet?"
"Okie doki loki. Lemme just finish these chips." He finished the chips, threw the bag aside and walked upstairs. Smile.pny waited until he was out of earshot, then screamed to her hearts content.

Soon, after venting her rage, she sighed heavily, then started her song up again.

"Hush now, smile now, you know you cannot hide from me...Hush now, smile now, you know you cannot flee..."

Austin suddenly ran up to her and wrapped his arm around her, holding out a smartphone.

"Yeah but first...let me take a selfie~"

The smartphone flashed as it took their picture, then Austin ran off into the closet again. Smile.pny growled.

"....huff.....I know, you will run but you will not escape my grasp. I know, your last breath will likely be a gasp."

Austin rolled his eyes. This was getting boring. He stepped out and walked past her.

"Yeah yeah yeah, this is getting stupid." He stood near the edge of the stairs. "Look if you're gonna kill me, just kill me...This is getting late."

Smile.pny finally had enough, then lunged at him, shoving him down the stairs violently. Austin tumbled and fell, rolling head over heels down the staircase until he landed at the bottom with a painful SNAP. Smile.pny grinned.

"Awww...did we fall down and hurt ourselves?"

She chuckled evilly as she approached and finished her song.

"Hush now, smile now, your life is now behind you. Hush now, smile now, no need to feel blue..."

Suddenly Austin got back up without a scratch and grinned.

"Nah I'm fine. A couple of bruises, but no biggie."

Smile.pny frowned in shock, then anger and lunged for him, but stopped when they heard the doorbell ring.

"Oh! The pizza's here."
"Pizza?"
"Yeah, I hope you like pepperoni..." he opened the door and a man wearing black and yellow coveralls was standing there with a strange device that looked like something out of Ghostbusters. "WITH A SIDE OF NORTON ANTI-VIRUS!!"
"WHAT?! NO!!" She cried. She turned and started to run to get back to the computer, but Norton fired his beam at her. The strange lazer coiled and tangled her up, causing her to scream loudly as she was sucked into the strange device. Austin highfived Norton, then went over to the computer and turned it off.

Coins Collected: 0 Bits
Computer: No viruses detected!
Smile.pny: File deleted!