Bypass

They brought in a Questioner from a different planet in hopes her questions would be fair. When she first arrived she sat in the chair, but unable to see, she climbed onto the tabletop, “So you’re saying everything happened because of a faulty, rundown ship?”

Incapable of looking in her eye, I moved my eyes to three different corners and said, “Yes.”

What I didn’t tell her was that I made a mistake. You see, I was working on the wiring and getting frustrated with the lack of proper tools and parts when Budzet came and asked if I wanted to get a drink at the bar. I did. So, I rushed and bypassed the problem area thinking it would work. But boy did it not.

Tomzet discovered the results of my error when he walked into the teleporter room, and there stood a group of humans. They screamed so loud that Tomzet’s eardrums popped, and blood trickled out of his ears. When the humans noticed the orange blood, they collectively fainted. Tomzet locked the door then ran to the command deck to inform the Commander. That’s when everything became chaotic; they could not find him.

The whole ship went up in molten flamite. Zets running here and there, important rooms on lockdown, unnecessary Zets like me were sent to their quarters. Nightmare, I tell ya, a nightmare.

It turns out that when I bypassed the flyrite chip it turned the checkerboard into a teleporter. You see, the dots were either alien or Zet and when a player captured the other’s piece it teleported them in reality. So if an alien dot got captured, a human teleported from Earth to the ship. Because the aliens side captured one Zet dot, only the Commander died.

If only we were passing a different planet, he would have lived. You see, we can’t breathe the Earth’s atmosphere. Every time I think about it, oh man–I wiped a tear away from my middle eye–I cry. I killed the Commander.

Ryzet, who was playing the aliens, felt so bad because when he captured the Zet dot, he realized he sent the Commander to his death. He wished he had not gotten a single point. Tears rolled out of his eyes and over his rippled skin all the time, so they fixed him by placing him under psychmed.

Lucky for him he no longer felt pain, but I, because I was a coward and did not fess up, could not go to psychmed. Every day of my existence I have to live with knowing I killed my Commander. I can tell you now, I always do my work correctly and never play until it’s complete.