The Rift - Chapter 2

Part 1;

I had arrived, still covered in jelly, I rubbed it off and tilted up my back, it appeared to be a sort of dungeon.

Well, I must have been dumb to think it would of took me home, this early? Anyway, someone left the door wide open; I hopped up and headed in the way of the door. There were a few steps, and then a little bit of tunnel, and then a ladder, but before I climbed the ladder, my Spy Phone went mad.

It kept scrolling random numbers, letters and symbols. It settled with a 11 digit code, I jotted this down, the code is;

12 – 9 – 7 – 8 – 20 – 2 – 5 – 1 – 3 – 15 – 14

It’s a big code, and it made no sense to me at this point. But you never know.

Anyway, I climbed the ladder; I was in a tiny circular room, with a metal door, with blurry glass so no one can see. There was a padlock on the door, and I entered the code I found earlier, humph.

Why would my Spy Phone tell me the combination to the door? Is someone setting me up?

I flung the door open, only to wish I hadn’t at such speed, I slid through the doorway and crept down the hallway that followed it, I lied flat against the wall and peeped round, I saw lots of bright light.

Then I heard someone speak, at first I thought they were talking to me.

‘I will make you pay! This is for my father! You murdered him!’ The Man said.

A harsh, deep growling noise followed.

Wait a minute, I heard that before?

Flaming Penguin in cave!

I also identified the man too.

Gary the Gadget Man.

Tune in next time!

Oh, and if your clever enough, you can figure out what the door combination means!

Part 2;

I turned my head round a bit further, and saw Gary stood at a big machine, with a sticker on it saying ‘Zappifier 3000’. I saw a chair near by, with that fire penguin, without the fire, he was black, with a white belly, but on his belly was a lightning strike logo, and two little suction cups with wires out of them, like heart monitors, were embedded in his skin.
A helmet was on his head, with a couple of circular discs on it, rotating around a pole out the middle.

Gary pressed a couple of buttons on the machine, I scratched my head and watched him.

Gary began walking towards me, no he could definitely see me, the big penguin hopped off his chair and walked towards me too, a cage began to fall down from above, I couldn’t move!

I was in a small black cage, looking at the head of the PSA, who had turned mad.

He opened his lips; I knew what he was going to say would be bad.

‘Intruding, killing Big Flipper here, need I say more?’ Gary said, in his scary, angry voice.

‘Buh, I didn’t kill him! He just fell to the floor, but he’s there! Look he’s alive!’ I replied, having that sinking, in trouble feeling.

‘Well, you killed one of his unlimited lives.’ Gary replied, sarcastically.

‘Well it doesn’t matter if they are unlimited do they?’ I tried to dig myself out of trouble.

‘Ack, I can’t even look at you, the amount of trouble you’ve caused me in the past, I’ve got the perfect place for you to go. And before you go, how long were you under that stone door? It was hilarious! How fat are you!’ Gary retaliated.

’40… minutes…’ I answered, feeling I had to.

‘Okay, thank-you! Take him away Big Flipper!’ Gary ordered.

That big guy pressed a button on his remote, and it lifted my cage, and a piece of the floor with it, straight through the roof. I sat down, and wondered what was going to happen to me.

I appeared to be in a massive room, with no doors, just loads of holes in the floor, and in the room were loads of cables, that these cages could run across, mine led me to the north west, well I think it was the north west, corner of the room. I had no choice obviously, I was in a cage. I gazed up, there was Gary, laughing at me, he wasn’t in a cage, he was on a sofa, just sat there, laughing.

I knew he had it in for me, so my idea was, to get out of here pronto.

Part 3;

At the north west corner of the room, my cage fell down a hole in the floor, I landed in a jail cell, and my cage’s floor detached and stayed on the floor, and the cage raised back up and zoomed somewhere else.

In this room were 3, basic metal jail cells, inside each one was a table, a little stool and a bed. Outside was a table with a few gadgets on it, and a lift. I was in the middle cell, to my left was an empty cell, to my right was a purple Puffle.

The Puffle was miserable, but before I could get a decent look at him, Gary arrived with 2 guards, he unlocked the door and the guards grabbed my arms and carried me in to a room, with the tag ‘Interview Room’.

I walked through, well I had no choice.

Gary sat on a chair, a table was in front of him, and I sat on the other side of the table.

‘Let’s start basic. Why are you here?’ He asked.
‘Because of my insanity. It got me here, and it can get me back.’ I replied.
‘What makes you think you’re going back?’ He continued.
‘Well, you wouldn’t ask me that question if I wasn’t.’ I pointed.
‘Okay then, if you don’t like that question, what are you doing here? What do you hope to achieve by raiding my Rift House?’ He questioned.
‘You’re the head of the PSA! Why are you doing this, I’ve helped you in every mission!’ I argued.
‘Answer my question. If you please.’ He replied, so calmly it really annoyed me.
‘Well first, fill me in on a bit of information, Rift House?’ I asked, not trusting him.
‘This building, stands split straight down the middle of The Rift. Where all of time and all the Penguins exist at the same moment, it is open, with my many manipulation machines, I can take, and put into this Rift. With my Rift Portals, I can travel to any area at any time in the whole of Club Penguin!’ He added.
‘But… That’s impossible! That’s like going back in time, and getting a Beta Hat, and going way in to the future where all the Betas slowly died out and showing off!’ I explained!

‘Precisely! And what have you go to stop me?’ He wondered.
‘But, why all the heavy machinery that you haven’t told me about?’ I replied.
‘Really want to know? Well, throughout history of Club Penguin, the Rift has been acting ever so violently, and I’ve noticed, very soon, it’s going to implode, sucking in everything it can, Town, followed by Snow Forts, Dock, Plaza, Beach, and soon it will all be gone.’ He replied.
‘How soon?’ I asked.

Gary Tilted his head and swayed it back to me.

‘Tomorrow.’ He murmured.
‘And you’re just going to sit here, drinking cups of Coffee and riding on your magic sofa?’ I asked, feeling mad inside.
‘What do you expect me to do? The Rift is violent, it could destroy this whole place, meaning destruction of the whole universe.’ He shouted.
‘In order to save what we love, we must risk loosing it. LET ME HELP YOU!’ I shouted back.

He thought about it very carefully, and smiled at me.

‘Your about to go on an adventure son.’ He rewarded.

Part 4;

I felt relieved that Gary had come round to my way of thinking, but he had one more question in store for me.

‘And before you go on your adventure, what is this PSA you talk of?’

‘Oh yeah, that… It’s some weird organisation on Club Penguin.’
I replied.

He led me to a large room full of gadgets, like the Gadget Room in the PSA which Gary seems like he doesn’t know what it is. I thought he could see all of Club Penguin History.

Anyway, in this room lay most of the gadgets in the Gadget Room, couple of different ones, including the Manipla-matic 3000 and a few were missing.

In the centre of the room, lay a table with several pieces of equipment on, including a rather snazzy wrist-band. He placed it on my arm, and when he clipped it together, it basically came alive, on the LCD it had, a green straight line ran across it, like a heart monitor, he flicked a button on his Manipla-matic 3000 and the line started moving up and down a little.

‘This indicates Rift Activity, when it goes mad, that means the moment when all of Club Penguin is destroyed is coming, pretty soon, now it isn’t moving much at all, meaning you have lots of time for your adventure. Well your all set, all you’ll need now is this.’ He handed me a piece of paper, with a few numbers on.
‘These are frequencies, I’ll explain them later. Your mission, is to complete all 5 Zulags. For each Zulag you will gain a Keycard, all 5 Keycards are needed to unlock the master cavern, which is hidden at the base of this building, once you are in there, you pull the master lever to activate the rift locking system.
On to the frequencies, the top one leads you back here, the second one leads you to the first zulag, and so on, and the last one leads you to the master cavern door. You type them in your wrist band and press Execute.’ Gary explained the whole situation to me.

On the piece of paper he gave me, it lists the following.

107.4 – Home
162.1 – First Zulag
162.2 – Second Zulag
162.3 – Third Zulag
162.4 – Fourth Zulag
162.5 – Fifth Zulag
238.1 – Master Cavern Entrance

Now, the whole of Club Penguin is in my hands! And I am ready to accept that responsibility! To the First Zulag!

Part 5;

Before I did however, Gary had one more thing in store for me, he took me to another room, seemed top secret and he had a retina (eye) scanner, thumbprint scanner, a jaw X-Ray scanner and 3 passwords.

When we got inside, a few of those black cylinders, with no wire frame, lay on the table, around us were loads of chemistry gear, and in one tube was that colourful jelly from earlier, and a few microchips on the table.

‘I need your wrist-band, I need to fit Chip 1’ He said.
‘Okay, but what’s Chip 2 for?’ I replied.
‘If you succeed in your mission, the gift awaits.’ He replied, speaking like a Wise Man.
‘What Gift? Who signed me up to all this?’ I asked.
‘You did, remember?’ He reminded.
‘Oh yeah’ I said.

After clipping the chip on to my wrist-band, he put my wrist-band back on me.

‘All set! Ready to save Club Penguin?’ He asked.
‘Ready as I’ll ever be!’ I responded.

We walked back in to the main hall, he pressed a few buttons and pulled a lever.

‘Remember, you want 5 Keycards, I expect you to return with all 5.’ He said.
‘Yes, Gary.’ I replied.

He pressed another button and got me all prepared.

‘Type in the First Zulag’s frequency and you’ll be away! I don’t want to see you back here without the Keycards.’ He said.

I typed in the frequency 162.1 and the colourful jelly stuff came out my wrist-band and covered me, and before I knew it…

First Zulag!