Chapter 21 -- The Police-y Staff [Edited!]

Ryouki logged out after that. Somehow, I needed to get someone to deal with them… Shayla, or TSA, who was friends with Shayla too, meaning he could get to Marz and Murderface, claimed Shayla told him to… that would work, and throughout all my contacts, I’d get access to the staff’s MSN’s, now just to find out more about Kenji, wait, but Alex said it was all a lie. After that, I don’t know what to believe, I’m pretty sure that I could trust TSA, just not positively sure. Astrid was another person I could get help from, she competed a lot though, so I’m not sure… TSA agreed eventually, though he was hard to convince. Two others could help me, Went and Shika. Not exactly the best choices, but they’ll do. I asked Shika to send a PM to all the posters in the DCC. The reasoning was that the DCC seems/was the popular place of PC. Many famous PC names (well famous in their opinion) were there, such as FauxCivility, Jack O’Neill… and others. They all posted in the DCC, I mean, they all used to post there often. They have a good chance of knowing the staff, the the thing, I’m not sure whether they would help me or not. Because of this doubt, I told Shika to give them an excuse, such as “this is a survey, and I got permission/direct order from Drummershuff to do so”. That meant we would need to tell him, which wasn’t exactly hard. The fact was, some people didn’t realise he wasn’t a moderator anymore. Now, it was Went’s turn. I have no clue why I didn’t ask Matt at the time for his contacts, but that’s my usual stupidity. Anyway, back to Went’s part. He was to create a few private messages asking Marz only, there were about three sent “How did he kill Kenji?” The reply returned was extremely exciting, they didn’t kill Kenji… meaning somebody else did. Who else could have wanted him dead…? I think… it could have been Ray. The reason is because Kenji kept on reporting in the pixel art area, the one which Ray used to mod. Kenji got really annoyed when Ray was made super moderator, and flooded out Ray’s inbox, to take it out on him. Ray couldn’t ban him purely on that, but somehow, when Ray (like many others months ago) left the staff, he created a thread claiming revenge on Kenji. What I wonder is how he found out this was going to happen… … … I know! The one above. I remember I posted various things, which, anybody with an IQ over five could figure out. But who informed Ray about this? Wait, I have a feeling it was charizard_maa, a fellow One Piece fan, he would gladly give out that sort of information. But why did Marz and Murderface say that they killed Kenji? Were they working with Ray...?

Chapter 20 -- The Police-y Staff [Edited!]

They all blame me, yet I didn’t have much to do with it… Ryouki, who had lied about dying before… actually believed me. “Nica, I know you wouldn’t kill Kenji, he means a lot to you like Alex did. I believe you, now you just have to believe yourself.” “Well… I can’t gain any sort of access to PC, so how can I prove my innocence to everybody?” “Do what all the other banned people do… it’s hard to believe that the ban function was initially meant for suspicious behaviour, and now they’re blocking out your only way to prove that you’re not guilty… unless you can show them proof that you weren’t there, get Marz to confess first. Then, find a way to contact the staff of PC, perhaps some of your contacts can reach them. Just get anyone…” I had to reply back “But Ryouki… I can’t really get anyone… and now I don’t even know if I want Kenji back… because… he supposedly caused all this.” He replied back fast “Remember… you thought he was awesome and stuff WAY back… even in 2006.” “Yeah, but… okay, I have to get him back. It’s what must happen. Even though I have no clue how you know all of this.” “That’s great! Now find someone, fast.”

Chapter 19 -- The Police-y Staff [Edited!]

Celebrations was a pretty small section of PC, not that many threads, so less time it would take to look through every thread. I didn’t have anybody to really help me look through those threads. I did a search on all words that had anything to do with their usernames. I found a few posts; they were in a celebration thread for some moderator. The thread hadn’t died yet, so that confirmed that they did still exist, they just weren’t visible. I didn’t know what to reply to the thread, for one, I didn’t know the moderator, and second neither of the two remained on topic. “… Marz, Murderface, I need your help… to… kill Kenji. I know this isn’t something I’d normally want but…” I got a quick reply back from Marz “Sure, just tell Kenji to meet you at the closest shops to him, at midnight tomorrow, and we’ll do the rest.” “He knows I can’t get to where he lives…” “Just tell him a lie, we’ll talk about this later.” I knew Kenji would be online tomorrow, so I figured I would wait until then, that was when it was time for his demise… he killed Alex, so he is going to pay. The next morning I needed to tell Kenji to go to those shops, but how? I wasn’t really that good at lying, I tend to give out the truth in the end. “Kenji, hi, I just wanted to say, I won a trip to where you live, don’t ask how I know this, I just do, okay? I’ll speak to you at the shops at midnight tomorrow, and come alone.” I had no clue of what Kenji would think after this, whether he would even trust me, or whether Marz and Murderface knew what to do… afterall, they are criminals, so I had to trust that they knew what they were doing. Cunningly, they put a live stream of it on Youtube… Kenji did arrive, and I was stupid enough to watch it. The only thing was, well, they didn’t actually put the camera on themselves, and then, guess what they did? They wrote my name up on the wall… now everybody will think it’s me that killed Kenji. If they do think that… what could I do? Alex would be gone, and Kenji too… When PC loaded up, yes, it was still suffering database errors, I checked my inbox, I was sure somebody would have to blame me for that. As I looked, I was right; Macy and Shika sent me a private message, both pretty much the same thing “You killed Kenji?! O_o” Nobody would believe me, so I had to come up with some reason for killing him. “Um yeah, because he killed Alex…” ten minutes later I got a private message from Alex, I found that to be strange, well, strange when you consider the fact he was supposedly dead. “Hah, Nica, you actually got the blame? Awesome, now Kenji is killed, you’ll go to jail, and I’ll live happily ever after.” I was so… just annoyed. It’s obvious that Kenji was right for me, and not Alex… about an hour later, PC banned me, and it was an IP-ban too. Everyone was turning against me... I was regretting everything.

Chapter 18 -- The Police-y Staff [Edited!]

The enemies talk grew old fast, as I realised that they were talking about enemies in general and not exactly their enemies. Kelsey replied to my joining post, and then it became interesting. “Nica… this club is going to be closed, no point in you joining.” I was definitely being avoided… One thread where I normally wasn’t avoided was the count to infinity. At this time of night, I saw Macy and Went posting. At this point in time, I had known Macy for about two years or so, meaning I knew her well. A procrastinator and a user of “ish”, there wasn’t much else about her. That made me think… was Macy the person that Rene was talking about? It was possible. She was the only person that I thought I knew. She doesn’t seem to act like a staff member though… but, if it was her… she might have something to do with Shayla. I don’t get why Shayla was associated to the police though, unless she wanted to get something from Marz and Murderface and used herself as bait. That seemed a likely reason… everything seemed likely, but a lot of the things I think are likely to happen don’t actually happen. What would Shayla need from both of them? Maybe they hold a clue to something. Didn’t all three of them get along around the start of 2007? Well… back then I was too busy communicating with other people to notice. After all this thoughts, surprisingly, Shayla just signed on. “Okay Shayla, like, you have to know where Marz and Murderface are.” “I can’t help you… but, you know that dare thread? Check some edited posts, you could possibly find out something by those posts.” I got to the thread, too many posts. I just searched some certain keywords, one of them being ‘location’. The search came back with three results. All the posts were posted by Kyle. It was like he was talking to himself… except, his posts seemed to have some sort of pattern, they connected up with few others too. It was almost as if it was some code, but I didn’t understand it. On the last line of each of their posts, it had a verb. Not really something I would normally pick up on, but, it was bolded, italicized and had an underline. The first verb was “eating”, then “playing” followed by many other verbs you would expect from a child. There were twelve posts, twelve different verbs. Four of the verbs only had a few vowels in it… but who was I to try and pick up on grammar and spelling that differentiates slightly? The main theme of these words was that a child would use them… wait, I think I know where the missing two are… well at least where they are communicating from. Below the drop down menu at PC, after one would search for a post in a certain forum of PC, there was the option to search in child forums. The closest to this was the celebrations section of PC. They could be anywhere within that section, just, where was the question…

Chapter 17 -- The Police-y Staff [Edited!]

You know that forum idiot… yeah, that guy who seemed to have some sort of connection to Marz and Murderface… well, he could know where they are. The only problem was… he hadn’t been online for three days. I could ask Kelsey… since she was his pair at PC for a while. She was actually online MSN, so I sent her an IM “Do you know where Kyle, Marz or Murderface is?” “Well, that’s out of the blue, no, but Teresa could know, because she had been communicating with the three before… wait, Murderface and Marz are dead.” “Actually… that’s why we would need Kyle, he could help me find them two, as they might not be dead, anyway, I’ll go send Teresa a PM.” “Why not IM her?” she said. I replied in confusion “She’s not online.” Now I began to become confused, Kelsey could have been suggesting that Teresa blocked me… and even worse, Kelsey could be covering up for the whole four. Just then, I realised, there was another two that were involved in this. Shayla and Rene… Rene was feeding them information, asking basic questions, and Shayla… had been forgotten. If I can get something out of Rene, maybe I can get something out of Murderface and Marz. Rene had posted in my fanclub a couple of times today, so this was the time to ask “Rene, I’ve got a question, you know how… well, I know you’re feeding Murderface and Marz information. Now, I need you to feed me information, where did they go? I’ve concluded they haven’t died…” Rene didn’t take as long as I thought he would to reply. “Nica… okay, so I do admit I was acting really dumb, but, I really have no clue to the whereabouts of them…”Amazed, I replied “How about Kyle and Teresa?” “Nope, don’t know… but I do know that Kelsey is definitely covering for them two, Shayla is also involved in some way.” “How do you know that Shayla is involved?” “Well… I think you can answer that for yourself. Remember how, in your dream, her and Murderface stated themselves as police? Well… Murderface isn’t, but Shayla, she really is in training… meaning, yes, she is apart of the staff… your whole idea of Marz and Murderface being female staff is all but a dream, while you didn’t expect Shayla, yet she is the one you seek. Her username… well, she is either Cowrie, or Sammi, for sure, but, one of them is played by somebody else you think you know, but you don’t. For now, that is all I will say.” I didn’t know Rene had that much knowledge, all this time, trying to be illiterate, while he was really a different person. Anyway, who is this person that I so called “think I know”? I know lots of people, but Rene didn’t mention any gender, so I was stuck guessing whether this other person was male or female… It could be any of the females I know, Pinky, Saba, Cosmic… I don’t know them THAT well though. I don’t think I know anybody at PC really, well, to the point to determine whether they are a staff member. Though… together, Teresa and Kelsey do know something that I don’t. If I can get along with them better, they might give me details on Kyle, and which, in that case, I’ll find out about Marz and Murderface. Kelsey and Teresa were posting in Kelsey’s new fanclub, of which I hadn’t joined yet. A few minutes later, once I had joined, Teresa stopped posting in the fanclub… the last topic they were talking about were enemies, but which enemies did they have?

Chapter 16 -- The Police-y Staff [Edited!]

The PC police… was slowly decreasing, and now, even I doubted if they really were police… well, my friends even doubted me. As coincidence would have it, Alex and I never came on at the same time, but when my computer was supposedly not working, Alex wasn’t online either account. I began to get ignored by all my usual friends, for example, Macy, who would normally give some sort of response to me, ignored everything I said. Well, now it was nearly New Year and most people would be expected to be contacting me for screenshots, but instead, nothing… and my fanclub had no posts in a week. Something happened a week ago that made everyone ignore me… Shika was normally ignored… not me. This has to be traced back to the events of… 2007. Towards the end of 2007, something was put forward, and because of that, Marz most likely started to hate PC. Maybe because nobody except his friends backed him up… but somehow the staff knew all this, even though it was kept a sort of secret by everybody. Stuff was being said, and somebody was telling another source, maybe they expected I did it… but why? Alex wasn’t directly involved in this, but somehow, now he is involved in this ignoring. I got to the index… then I began clicking profiles. Most of my friends that had MSN didn’t have MSN/AIM/Yahoo. Infact, they had nothing of the sort. Neither did myself, which seemed the most surprising. PC took away our rights to have an instant messaging of our profile. Same with some other things we had an interest in, such as… the log out button. That was the strangest thing they took away. Did they not want us to leave? It was quite simple actually. A quick closing of the window, and we were gone… no, PC had a bigger intention. They wanted a complaint… something was happening… those people that had left, would they be returning? Anyway… PC also did something else which sucked; they removed all other formatting for posts. So PC’s was stuck in the plain, Tahoma font. I used that font as a default, so it didn’t affect me. An hour later, once I had somehow… logged off, and now back on, Alex sent me a private message… “Okay, so you know how I was acting mean, well, I was forced… by Kenji. He… never mind, just kill Kenji… he was the one who did this to me” That’s all he said. I found that strange. Ten minutes later, I received a private message from somebody else this time, it was Kenji. “Anything Alex tells you is a lie. The thing is, he’s jealous that I talk to you so much, oh, and Alex just died, so we won’t have to worry about him.” I sent back… “Wait, WHAT? How and why did he die?” I didn’t get a reply back. I knew that, I would have to avenge Alex’s death by killing Kenji, to do that, I would need the help of Marz and Murderface, though they were still assumed to be dead, I had to track them down, it was the right thing to do.

Chapter 15 -- The Police-y Staff [Edited!]

… And it was all true… wait, you don’t know what is true yet… okay, so, an hour ago I tracked down stuff on the internet about the ex -police of PC… they left but hadn’t disappeared from the internet. The truth is that The Prophet of Truth was connected to Murderface, his father infact. The father did not want his son involved in any internet activity, so he set a trap, supposedly scarring Murderface so bad that he left PC, of course, it was in his son’s best interest. The problem was, Shayla was meant to send Murderface an IM, which was given to Shayla by her parents, you see, Shayla and Murderface knew each other in real life. Instead, the IM was sent to Marz, which sparked everything Marz had did… which proved what I really thought was right, in a way. How I found this out… well… I’m not exactly sure… Anyway, a couple of days ago I had a conversation with Lumine, he said he met somebody of Alex’s description… last week, Lumine told me that he learnt that Alex wasn’t actually inactive, he had been on his other account the whole time. Anybody could have been the suspects… well… maybe not. Cowrie, Lightning, Arcanine, Hiroshi Sotomura and Sammi were the only types of administrator left. Finding out who he was proved to be an easier task than I thought… considering Arcanine, Hiroshi Sotomura and Lightning just de-modded themselves. Wait, that means he was either Cowrie or Sammi… that means, he made himself act like a girl? Another mystery was of Marz and Murderface, what really happened? But, somehow I was sure that they used the same trick as Alex, they were staff, either… oh, they’re Cowrie and Sammi, so Alex de-modded himself, why? The other four… which name is closest to Alex’s? None… I guess… except, one shares the same first letter as Alex. Maybe I’ll find out more about Arcanine. If anything he did resembled Alex, that would have been some sort of reassurance. But Marz and Murdeface. Marz and Murderface are connected to Alex I think, well, Marz at least, which connects Alex to The Prophet of Truth… I remember when Marz got demodded for crimes against PC… but he got depressed and the three staff… they were the only ones that weren’t hate-PMed… as far as the rumour goes. That means, he could have de-modded himself, which would explain why he got modded in the first place too. I’m starting to believe my theories now… I wonder what else I can figure out, why fun time in Pokéland is full of Hurt n’ heal… or why my friends are apart of the staff… no, why my enemies are apart of The Police-y Staff.

Chapter 14 -- The Police-y Staff [Edited!]

How could have he possibly said it without being forced? He still didn’t seem like that type of person. Okay, I’m still on about something that is over a week old now, but… I don’t know. I wish… I wish it all was how it was before. After having my daily complaints, I got back onto PC. The default skin was Midnight Misty. I’m sure I had set my settings to Blue Variant… oh well, I’m fine with that other skin anyway. The forum had been re-arranged, for example, Off Topic Discussion was up the top whilst Official forums and Creative discussion were last. They contained different forums within them too, Off Topic Discussion, for example, had a spam section in Other Chat, and Other Voting Polls had Pokémon Voting Polls. Then, finally, there was an extra one called “Extra” but the section wasn’t viewable… strange. There was no real reason to change the forum around like that. And, in the drop down menu, who’s online was relocated, to the bottom. I think PC’s stuffed up its most prioritised forums. Most of the memories of the past had now seemed improbable to have happened, since all these changes came in. New posts were fine though, no edits, no new announcements, but PC had this thing, where they just changed things suddenly, without consulting anybody. Unusually enough, I saw a post in a thread by Marz, and one by Murderface, but the database was stuffing up, even before I had left for a week. The count to infinity maintained activity though, aside from the continual database errors faced upon everyone. It almost seemed as if the count to infinity was too active, it reached nine pages over night, which was quite freaky, considering only sixty eight new numbers had been posted, which meant that unless my settings stuffed up bad, we’ve got a mystery. Even stranger, was that Ryouki, Shika, and Macy were posting over night… and they had about the same time zones as me. Did day change to night and night change to day? And, plus, they weren’t even normally active. Okay, now I’m exaggerating… I’ll just stalk people until I find something good. Suddenly then, I remembered that person who was on BF last year, The Prophet of Truth… I didn’t actually find out who the person was, but I found out enough that I could stalk with. All we knew then, was that the person was apart of PC… a couple of months ago though, we discovered that the person joined in 2005, AND had posted in the Daily Chit Chat many times. Oh, who could that possibly be? I had a few suspects in mind definitely, but I wasn’t too sure that it would be any of them… though; I did think that the person was involved in something important… now forgetting what this person intended to do, I decided to have a look at what Marz and Murderface supposedly posted. After a quick look, it was definitely database errors fault, the links were failures. Murderface and Marz were funny… after what had happened last year, just before Christmas… I think that’s why they both went to a life of crime. Kenji logged onto BF, with his usual complaints, except, today, it wasn’t about his life… it was about somebody else’s. The complaining was about rights… and what he didn’t deserve, well, what he did deserve in a way. Earlier yesterday, Kenji got banned from PC, the reason was because… at PC, he created a thread, simply complaining about the lack of any care for the members. This is because recently, since I’ve returned, people were getting banned for simple offences, such as breaking the four word rule. I had an idea who was in on this though, and it definitely wasn’t anybody who was actually nice. Within the next two hours, I actually could view valid posts of the two that were meant to be dead… complaining that PC sucked, and yet they didn’t get banned. Strangely, a staff member even posted in the thread created, agreeing with Marz and Murderface. The accounts could have been hacked though, so I didn’t completely rule out that idea yet… wouldn’t it be actually funny, if they both didn’t die in the explosion, and escaped, plotting something against PC? In that case I wouldn’t really care… I hadn’t cared as much as I did about PC before… something was about to happen to PC though, and they seemed to be the likely people that were involved. The only other person that could’ve plotted something was… Alex. But… the evil streak was only just shown, so maybe… wait! Murderface wouldn’t try anything because he would’ve known he was suspected, unlike Marz, who had a guilt free conscience. Then again, I forgot, he was only the dumb sidekick, not capable of anything… Murderface must have other friends though… and so must Marz. They each have a reason to hate PC, well, Marz does at least. Murderface… has been happy with PC, well, was… but he must’ve had something against the members, or some random reason to originally want to kill. Then again… there were many other people that had things against PC, maybe Murderface was trying to protect something at PC, then Marz got in the way… which, by taking the dumb sidekick role, Marz prevented any suspicions being laid on him… and then, Murderface took on the evil role because he didn’t want to get hurt, and he still wanted to protect a cause, while Marz was the real mastermind? But if that was right… they would have told me so… and then killed me. Actually, I don’t think I’d want to know what their intentions are.

Chapter 13 -- The Police-y Staff [Edited!]

After a week, this definitely wasn’t working; you know how addicts go back to what they just got off? Yeah, that’s how I felt… I went on PC like nothing had happened. My fanclub surprisingly wasn’t dead; it had made over nineteen pages throughout this week! It can’t have been the usual posters, as they were… well inactive. Murderface… he was dead and Marz… so was he… I think I missed them more than I did talking to Alex. I wanted it back to how it was before, though I still couldn’t believe that Alex never liked me. It was obvious that criminals wouldn’t like me, but… I just had to forget him. When I finally reached my active fanclub… all the posts, they were by inactive friends of mine, who had long ago lost interest in PC. I was surprised I had that many friends. No posts from Alex though, he hadn’t been online for a week actually, which most surprised me. I looked at his signature, it had… a blank quality to it. Well, it was dead, aside from what CSS had done to it. Shika posted in my FC still… he was a bit distraught about losing Ryouki a little while ago. At least, everybody assumed that he was dead, and he hadn’t been active from when we last saw him, so he was officially dead to us. I posted in my fanclub… “Um, hey guys, yeah… I’ll be posting again”. It took two hours for my inactive friends to finally reply. “Really? You’re back? Why’d you leave?” that was the reply I got from Saba, something that was like that followed when Rene posted. I didn’t really know what to say, there was only really one reason, and that was Alex. I was pretty sure he left PC… so I knew I could return without having to worry about him anymore. I wonder what happened to Shayla, since Murderface was dead, and Marz was too… I should stalk her down sometime. Besides, what harm could come from finding out how Shayla was handling this? Of course, I was a little upset too… they were both evil, but there were my friends at some time too, likewise Shayla, except she’s still living as far as I know. My buddy list was opened up minutes later, the easiest way to find links to your friends. I checked out her profile, her last activity was definitely over a week ago. She must still be grieving… I’ve got some spare time on my hands though, so maybe I could find out what happened to Ryouki. I went to BF and PC, no luck, so maybe Google had something that would be worth looking at. It took about ten minutes to realise that it had nothing at all on Ryouki. Aside from the private message, I received no other notification that the staff still were still at PC. I did find it strange that after the explosion, they deserted the forum they once occupied. In most cases, they would have spent more time at PC, to improve the forum, as it did have some criminals signing up. Oh, and yes, the “other” staff had returned to PC after the explosion… apologizing for the absence, but since then, no contact with PC at all. The section, MCG was feeling the heat, as a whole lot of new members, who had viewed the news story of the explosion began to come up with random topics… that made it one of the main reasons why the rest of the staff should maintain activity, or they could employ more moderators there. I would be really annoyed if Alex made moderator of MCG, he would be so mean! Nobody knew that Alex was possibly that mean, he was good as far as everybody knew… the nice guy that is always friendly. Well, that’s wrong, even though I wish he was nice again… Marz and Murderface too, they were actually nice people back before... As far as I know, Marz hadn’t killed anybody yet, but he was a bystander, though, each of them were good guys. Well, better than Alex at least, if he just took back what he said, I’d forgive him, but he’s disappeared. It’s not like he’s completely gone, nor is Ryouki… just missing. I’ve got to get over this somehow; maybe the count to infinity will have something. It was night time by now, which meant that a few members were posting in the thread. I told them I returned, they were actually not that annoyed, as the thread was dying. PC was soon motionless… so I logged off, the next morning my eyes just happened to scroll down to the bottom of MCG, they got a moderator, Alex. I guess his other account must have done it. So, now… something bad could happen, he might wreck the reputation of his - Flavaquil – account, and he would be banned from PC… meaning that nobody would suspect he had another account. I can’t think about it anymore… Unless, maybe he was forced to say what he said that week ago.

Continuation -- The Police-y Staff [Edited!]

… I received a PM, I wasn’t sure who from, and the sender was blurred. But it contained… terrible, terrible stuff… hours later, the truth was bound to be discovered. Alex and I were talking about the Police-y staff issue… “So, what else will happen now”… I replied “Yes, I wonder… oh, by the way, I received a private message from somebody… they said that police check was meant for you.” “Really?” “Yeah, they said like, you’re something, and you have a secret, I didn’t really pay much attention”. “Oh… well… the TRUTH is that OKAY… I am another member of PC… I lied about being police. AND THE STUPID STAFF BELIEVED ME. Anyway, I got upgraded on this other account, but, my pair on this other account, she… sucked. So, I put this whole plot together, just so you would be made out as a hero. Sure, a few people had died in the process, but that doesn’t matter anymore, does it?” “Um… I care, the guy that was employed to kill people… is dead” “Yes, EMPLOYED”… I replied once more. “But wait, they said you were meant to die… suicide or something”. “Just an innocent little white lie” I was just as confused “But they found traces of another persons blood there, meaning Murderface wasn’t alone.” “The person that died…” Alex replied “Was Marz. Shayla told me the whole story, so what happened was after Marz declared his love for Shayla, she rejected him. She was like saying that she loved Murderface over Marz. So Marz went off to kill Murderface, whilst Marz was there, stalking him down, the explosion happened and yeah, that’s basically what happened” “Poor Marz…” With no sympathy, Alex replied “Well, the world is at peace now. Though… I could kill the other person… then I’d go to jail… FINE, the truth is, I wanted you dead, this whole plan was to kill you, I didn’t like you from the start actually… so yeah” I walked off… this was it. I had to leave PC forever… and just forgive and forget.

Chapter 12 -- The Police-y Staff [Edited!]

The match dropped. I began to run as fast as I was capable to. My destination was to run to Alex, he was at a safe distance from the explosion so he would be sure to protect me. Just as the oval was about to explode I reached Alex, and he dropped the phone, then wrapped his arms round me which, in some strange had shielded my eyes from the bright fire surrounding the once beautiful oval. Once the oval had exploded with Murderface in it I glanced up at the sky above us. It was glittering in the colours of red and gold. Once I got my breath back I muttered "Do you think he’s really gone?" "It was an explosion, I doubt he’d survive it" "Yeah…" I replied, just then I realised that Alex was holding me. "Um… it’s true, I really do love you, and right now this statement would be followed by an XD" I said. "Yeah…" he replied. Then somehow magically we kissed and then slowly the mist of the evening was setting in. The time just flowed by while we were waiting for the dust to settle. We went inside to investigate and the first thing we saw was the scorched grass that was coated in now dry, and dull coloured blood. That was all the remains of Murderface left. Alex and I decided to take the evidence which was the video on the phone. About a week or two later, Alex had decided to move to Perth because we each received money because of the terrible events we had been through. But really, the events weren’t that bad. Sure, a little explosion, but I got to meet Alex, that’s actually worth more than the money I think. When we returned to PC everyone was freaked out that together we could foil a criminal. Both of us were happy… the world was fine, it was all going great… until…

Chapter 11 -- The Police-y Staff [Edited!]

I luckily had some money with me so I used it up on an internet café. I sat down on a computer and typed in the URL to PC. Alex was on, but as soon as I told him where I was he couldn’t believe me. Not that excited-ly, he gave me the directions to locate his house. He was still surprised that I’d be anywhere near him, and by taking a few buses I arrived at the house that was supposedly his. The first place he showed me was his blue-ish room. Murderface would track everybody, but I felt a little safer being with another person I knew. Somehow, as the day drew on, I could sense that Murderface would be coming to get us soon. We had to move on, be fugitives and take our other friends too. This is what we were planning to do, until Alex said "Why can’t we just blow him up?" As soon as he said that I received an idea. The idea was, that maybe if we can trap Murderface somewhere, use the petrol, then maybe we could kill him. We then had to plan out our location, escape route, and, have a camera in had so Murderface’s death is captured on film to prove he wasn’t coming back. My digital camera was back at my house, and I didn’t want to risk Murderface still being there, so instead Alex decided to take his phone as the camera. We now needed the location, we assumed that Murderface was still in Australia, so if the explosion was in a large hall of some sort maybe that might be enough for us to escape and Murderface to be killed. Our first thought was the Sydney Opera House, but, that’s too famous, and we’d need to pay a higher admission fee than if it was a sports oval or something. That then struck me that maybe if we went to the MCG. (No, not the PC MCG, the Melbourne Cricket Ground, AFL is played there) It was large, it had an easy exit, and plus the explosion would be enough to kill him. I couldn’t remember back to how I got to New Zealand in the first place, so it involved some time and thinking. While I was remembering back, Alex was conjuring up a plan which was to lure Murderface to where we wanted him. This whole adventure seemed supernatural more than real. I suddenly remembered, I tripped over, both of us did that and somehow we ended up at the MCG. We decided that if we just hung out at the MCG, he should be sure to find us since he was almost dying to kill us. We waited at the MCG for at least three hours and we began to give up hope. "Ugh, he’s taking almost forever" I said while Alex just stared at the tree in front of us. "I think… I think this tree has something to do with the tripping over" I looked at the tree as Alex said that and I felt someone was behind me. It was Murderface. He finally arrived; I needed to get him to the centre of the oval, so I called him names. He said to me ‘You, I’m going to kill you, and then you’ll be with all your other friends. Now, say goodbye to Alex as I prepare to kill you". I yelled “now” and Alex moved the crane conveniently above us, filled with petrol that would be ignited into an explosion. All I needed was the matches, and then I needed to run. Alex threw me the matches and in a Pokemon-like-pose I threw the now lighted match at the ground….

Chapter 10 -- The Police-y Staff [Edited!]

I woke up and a stench surrounded me, I blinked twice, just enough time to re-wipe my eyes as the horror began to set in. A guy that was as drunk as a hobo was staring down at me. The initial fright was his teeth, they were stained with blood, and each tooth was uniquely chipped, like there was an art to his chipped teeth. His hair was disgusting; this would have to be Murderface, who else is that just ugh… I had two choices, hurt him or try to reason with him. I never even got the chance to choose as he rummaged through a bag that looked to have been packed neatly once, until he got his hands on it. "Ah, here it is, okay, so like, I know you like Marz and all, but he’s just an idiot, so what I’m planning to do, is to kill him, tonight… WAIT, you’re not Shayla, sorry, wrong speech, anyway, I’m going to kill you now, I’ll make you suffer, you uncovered the truth… and if Shayla says anything to you, well, I lied, I wasn’t going to hand myself into the police, I’m not that stupid, Shayla thinks I’m leaving her on her own to fend for herself. WRONG, I am kinda bisexual… I like Shayla, a lot, even though I’ve had some history with some of the guys you know." He coughed. "Oh, and also my infatuation with Alex too… it didn’t last for long, until I realised what I truly am, DESTINED TO BE SHAYLA’S HUSBAND. Now, I’ll kill you, and make you suffer for what you have uncovered over all this time." He pulled out a knife and held it to my throat, as most people would do in this situation, I felt nervous and screamed for help. No help came, so I screamed and somehow locked him in my room. This wasn’t that much use to me so I began to run out of the house. During my running my thoughts were of my friends, would I escape? I didn’t know where I should go, but leaving Australia seemed a good option. I didn’t know half of my friends last names, so I couldn’t locate them, but how did Murderface get to Australia anyway? I tripped over after that thought and pieces of information flashed through my head. This information was how Murderface got to Australia, where Shayla was, everything, I don’t even know how it appeared in my head. This wasn’t a forum issue anymore; this was a life or death situation. Kill, or be killed. It was strange, I blinked, after the information was shown to me, and I wasn’t in Australia anymore, I was in some other country. The place I was in was in daytime too, so it must have been in the Southern Hemisphere. I saw a sign, it said something like "Welcome to New Zealand". I didn’t even know which half I was in, and because I only knew one person there, I had to track him down, and get him to help prevent Murderface’s killing.

Chapter 9 -- The Police-y Staff [Edited!]

I didn’t know which would be the best place for me to relocate to, while Shayla and Murderface were still on the loose. Who knows, the rest of my friends were probably in danger too, they lived all around the world, so I couldn’t help them, but there was one friend who was reasonably close. This friend was May, she lived in the same city, so it was just the matter of using the phonebook. I dialled the number and waited for a response. A loud screech flowed through the phone into my ear. It sounded abnormal, like a Pokemon, but they didn’t exist as far as I knew, so I wasn’t as scared as I should have been. May didn’t reply but somebody else did. "So Nica, one more friend down, the rest to go, it’s a race, a race to save yourself and your friends lives… bye" The phone started to beep and I knew that May’s life had been taken because I wasn’t prepared to stop Murderface and Shayla. The positive of this was that Marz had left Murderface and actually got somewhere, he got to be a clown at kids parties, but nobody cares about him anymore… I fell asleep once more and began to picture how Shayla and Murderface actually looked IRL. "Do you think they’ll ever know? I mean, that we are really the ones trying to protect them… from God. Because, Nica’s catching on quickly and I’m afraid that Rene, that guy who’s collecting our information for us might actually be well caught and reveal everything. Oh, wait, we don’t need to worry about that, I forgot, if Rene did reveal what we’re doing, God would surely kill him and send him to heaven. Ugh, that would suck for him… all these people that are trying to do good for the world… Do you think we’ll ever be um... good?" "Oh Shayla, you have no need to worry, Rene’s working for the police, remember?" "Um… last time I checked. WE WERE THE POLICE. I don’t know whether we can keep hiding their bodies though, they’re bound to reawaken and start screaming out the facts, and plus, well… I kind of like Marz." "YOU LIKE HIM?" "Um yeah, anything wrong?" "Oh nothing, aside from the fact we were meant to be together forever… as friends... Shayla, this is just the lack of oxygen talking, you mustn’t… ugh, that’s it, I’m going to do something I’ll eventually regret doing, but, I’m going to hand myself into the police, and Marz too, you’ll be without either of us. You’ll have to make the decision of what is right and what’s wrong by yourself". I woke up and couldn’t wipe the smile off my face, the prime suspect, not actually proven, would have to deal with the whole of PC by herself.

Chapter 8 -- The Police-y Staff [Edited!]

The DCC was a place of mostly spammy posts, even though the previous staff would have denied. It was more a giant IMing thread than one that was meant to carry about sensible discussion. Basing my thoughts on that idea, the main staff members could have pretended that it did contain spam, but instead contained something far worse that would not be right for viewing. The DCC did mean daily-chit-chat, which existed to be posted in daily, not whenever the staff did something about it. Since most of the members were complaining of lack-of-DCC an announcement was broadcasted to PC. "Okay, well, the DCC will be coming back in a week or less, just be patient, as we are remodelling PC’s outlook criminals/crime." Not like that’ll be possible, the outlook depends on the person, not the forum. PC could be changing it’s policies and how people bypass the rules to achieve the enjoyment they desire, such as swearing and having sexual references. That itself isn’t really sparking any criminal activity but that might be linked to Murderface, the criminal in some way. Shayla was online earlier than expected so I approached the issue with caution. "Oh, Shayla, um… do you know anything about the DCC?" "Of course, but why bother telling you?" "Because I need to know?!" I didn’t get a reply after that. I went to sleep that night wondering what Shayla was up to, she had to know something. I began to fade into a dream. Shayla appeared and started to post in the DCC "I know, that we were destined to be, but ever since the truth was released, I’ve felt our connection become greater. Of course, bubba115115 just had to post about all of this in the DCC, we shouldn’t have trusted him, and at least we get access when they don’t, so yeah, I guess this is a positive. Oh, will you back me up? When like, Nica discovers what we’ve done. WAIT, Nica doesn’t have to know, does she? The staff are going to keep it quiet, and this whole ordeal, way depressing, we’ll be together forever, stuff Marz, and you know he’s stupid? That’s why I left him, and I’ll stay with you instead." All of a sudden I woke up. I managed to remember everything, so I typed it out as fast as I could. I still didn’t know who else was involved in this, but I guess it’s mainly Murderface and Shayla… ugh, I guess I’ll have to access the DCC somehow. I thought that at school, there was always another way I could access a certain thread. I went into archive mode and clicked the DCC, all the posts were the same, and nothing had changed except for a distorted image of one of bubba115115’s posts. I could make out a few words, this is how it read. "Ooh, Shayla, I’m back to PC, back to reveal what you wanted to keep secret. And, if you kill me, I don’t care; it’s the safety of the rest of PC that we’re talking about, not your silly little game. To everyone: Shayla and Murderface are…" That’s all I could understand, it really sucked because it would’ve been enough evidence to bust them if it continued. "View full version- July [closed] DCC 2008" I clicked the button and surprisingly it worked, the posts were all in full view. Shayla and Murderface were behind this whole lot of events. I received a PM as I was about to tell my friends the good news that the case is solved. "Uh Nica… they didn’t do it, don’t believe them… seriously, I’m half dead now, so you MUST PM one of the ex moderators, they’ll reply to you with a letter, use that letter to find Murderface, he isn’t at the computer anymore, nor is Shayla, they know you’re onto them. So now, PM, and, goodbye" That was a PM from Ryouki… but is he really dying? Meh, I must go get that letter from one of the ex moderators before it’s too late. But one thing, how did Murderface track him down? Oh no, I had a feeling that I was about to get an unexpected guest, and Shayla would come later to finish off the job, I had to hide, immediately.

Chapter 7 -- The Police-y Staff [Edited!]

Murderface was online, which didn’t surprise many of us. Most expected that Murderface was a mod because he was a criminal and they wanted to keep an eye on him. Only the three staff and I could confirm that fact. Nobody bothered to have a conversation with Murderface because they feared him. Murderface had an ally that we weren’t sure of yet but was due to find out pretty soon. Coincidently, Murderface had always argued with Marz, since they were on, maybe their arguments had a connection to Murderface’s hatred shown towards him from others. A group conversation seemed most appropriate. "Hey guys" I said enthusiastically. "OMG, you’re like the only person that bothered to have a conversation with us since I was modded." "Well um… you’ve been spamming." "... and that’s why the modding happened? Wtf…" "Uh yeah" I replied, trying to sound as interested as I could be. Marz was staying quiet, so perhaps he knew something that I didn’t. “Um, I have something to reveal to you…” Murderface continued on without paying anymore attention to the modding topic. “Yes, it was me this entire time, I organized the crimes scenes, I was involved in the entire system... But you know what else? No one will ever believe you, the people you think are on your side in stopping this are actually tied deep into what is going on... People you might consider friends are just being used... to get information on you to hold against what you stand for... Muahahahaha." Marz replied to Murderface’s revealing news before I had a chance. "Oh great, now she’ll screenshot it and put it up to the big men in blue." "Um, yeah, no duh, you’re a little twisted in the head, remember?" Murderface and Marz were beginning to have their own little argument. "Anyway… I’m the leader of Muderhead, Marz just had to go ahead and spell it wrong." "HEY. It wasn’t my fault… I had to go to the toilet." "Great, she really wants to hear that, doesn’t she?!" "Yes…" "Nica, Marz is like my sidekick to murder people, it’s actually quite fun after a while, but, the fact is, I’m starting to doubt what gender I prefer… there is this really beautiful person at PC, and isn’t a male… that’s just for your interest by the way. Anyway, enjoy living, because your police-y staff aren’t there to protect you from danger anymore." Closing the window was the best option, and then I started to think two of the members, they were once mods, Signomi and Chi tried to keep their identities secret but for the safety of PC, they made their status public to the areas they used to moderate. I got John to ask the main admin to remod them. Occasionally, pretty much once a week, they revealed more about their identity, even Marz was smart enough to crack onto the fact that they really were police even though they were moderators. I wasn’t sure about the staff getting a firm grasp upon the screenshot, but after my shower, I felt rejuvenated and ready to face anything they dealt at me. I trusted Alex so I showed him the screenshot that would change everything. We decided that with that knowledge it was a good idea to show the staff or else we could be in danger. Two of the staff were on so I PMed them about the screenshot. They were both astounded that Murderface would reveal the screenshot to me but doubted it was the truth and that he might have been covering for someone else. I was beginning to feel like a detective, peering into my friends/murderers personal lives. I had a look through some of Murderface’s spam and decoded it with the spam-delete 2007. I found that he was really saying that Shayla, was about to return to PC and she would bring a secret with her. I needed to get to Shayla or else the secret of the criminals will never be uncovered. Confronting Shayla tomorrow would be something that might help the investigation further. I guess until then I would have to wait for a request or instead wait for the DCC to be open after its spamming. What happened, was that someone *cough* gave a certain n00b a link to the spam prohibited DCC. Suddenly the DCC’s post count was so high and spammed up that the staff hadn’t bothered to reopen the DCC to the public. Nobody really even saw the spamming, but the staff was sure that something was posted. Maybe the DCC may have a clue or three.

Chapter 6 -- The Police-y Staff [Edited!]

After reading the announcement I felt like maybe PC could be a spam free place. I turned on Johto journeys and kept on replaying where the song said "It’s a whole new world we live in". In reality, it was a whole new world now that the staff left the members of PC and everyone is all refreshed, plus ready to be the best members they could be. That theory only lasted ten minutes as PC was back to its usual slow speeds and bored exclamations. A new announcement was made "So, I’m the only admin now, and I’m choosing two new mods instantly; Ichaste Pekoni will take the TV forum and Nightofshadow will take D/P forums, incase you’re all wondering which staff member I am, it’s Hiroshi Sotomura, the only one willing to take over PC totally". One of my friends from when I first joined was online surprisingly, so I took the opportunity to have a PM conversation with them. While I was having the conversation with that person, various popups starting showing up… just as one of my contacts came online too. A couple of weeks later the popups were reappearing. The repetitive message of the popups was becoming extremely annoying and somehow they needed to be put to a halt. The popups were appearing as soon as a certain member signed on. PC seemed to act as if it was haunted… I decided to experiment what I thought about PC being haunted by a member or something and started to track someone down. The person with a username that even seemed remotely involving killing was Murderface, well besides him was the forum idiot, Kyle. The staff may not have completely left and wanted to continue protecting PC, but this was unlikely since Murderface was spamming. He had the most suspicious username afterall, the staff should have cared… maybe even considered banning that murderer. It could be though, that the popups happening being a coincidence when he was online, but because he was spamming, it seemed worse. I didn’t exactly stalk him; I just viewed most of his posts as I was on invisible. None of the members were reporting him, because he was a known member… for swearing, and his account was most likely hacked. I didn’t take the chance of his computer being hacked so I reported him. What I did notice, is that people like 22sa and Pinky hadn’t been on for a week, about when Murderface returned to PC from his mysterious absence. I decided to confirm the facts before I started making accusations and I did a bit of a background search on him. The only facts that returned to me was that he preferred guys company and that he had once killed a spider by accident and cried for months on end. I didn’t find any other facts about his killing record and which crime base he belonged to. I assumed that he had to belong to a crime base, so I got Shika to flirt with him and get the details I needed. Once I retrieved the right amount of information, I continued on my search to discover what this mysterious crime base was called, and who was apart of it. I got the results examined by the staff, since there were only three; they were in high-demand pretty much every second of the day. We all concluded that Murderface was one of the people that was apart of a certain crime base, instead of immediately banning him, the staff members made him staff too, if they could convince him that they didn’t have any knowledge of his murders, maybe he could help the staff get to the crime base. Even though only one member of the staff was a police person, it still payed to be cautious while dealing with Murderface, he was evil, and he could end up doing something if they didn’t prevent it.

Chapter 5 -- The Police-y Staff [Edited!]

The staff sure was happy even though the police-y staff may not have been real; they seemed to act like they actually did bust a criminal. As I was scrolling down the members list to find a member for the fun time game ‘Member Recycling’… at least two times over, I found that three quarters of PC members were banned. The more ‘Popular/known’ members were still apart of the community. The members who joined 2006 and onwards were decreasing and weren’t apart of the community anymore. The stranger thing was that my current account was activated in 2007, when I had originally joined in 2005. One of the higher staff members must’ve realised my previous username was from 2005 and decided not to do what they did to the others. Throughout the last year or so, no staff members had changed their positions on the staff, except a few from the staff had demoted themselves for reasons they weren’t letting on, and a few did join the staff too. Alex, May, Kimi, all the normal friends were still situated on the members list, so that didn’t worry me, at least not for a while. I felt like somehow I could get more involved than any of the staff are letting on. I turned off PC, bored of the usual confusion it caused and decided to partake in the watching of our TV. The news was on so I payed attention to a preview of a story that will be due to come tomorrow. The story before the previews just finished, now as the previews came up, it said "Major crime-bust around the world, online criminals captured for crimes against humanity and murder degree one. This crime base was beaten by a group of staff members on a Pokemon forum, pretending to be staff, while really police, that are more tomorrow". I thought to myself "Wtf… it couldn’t have been PC, could it? Meh, I should find out though, maybe online news will make a connection between these two events." I looked up ‘Pokemon+site+bust’ and Google search returned about fifty results. I didn’t want to take the time to look through all fifty, so because Wikipedia was the closest to the top, I clicked that link. Wikipedia stated "www.pokecommunity.com was one of the many Pokemon sites that had potential killers/actual killers online, using a fast action scheme ranging from 2003- 2008, the staff of Pokecommunity are glad to have thwarted the killers. This, of course, was a major risk to the staff of PC, if the criminals caught on; the staff were in risk of getting hunted down. Thankfully the crime spree is over and as far as we know, Pokecommunity is not allowing anymore signups until they have a 100% effective system to keep anyone else from that crime base out. Some of the members such as Nica-chan, - Flavaquil - and Poketrainer2004 started to catch on to the development but the staff grew weary of Nica-chan’s curiosity, after all, curiosity could have killed them if they looked into it further." I began to think… OMG... I was mentioned on Wiki, I feel famous, anyway, now all the world knows that the staff are police, what should I do, apologise for being interested, or beg for an explanation as of why I got involved? I guess I should try and get an explanation because these events link back to April 2006 and 2007 somehow. However, there were key factors in my PC journey since April 2008 that had contributed to why they treated my opinions differently, even though really, I was no different to the other guy in the thread." Now this was over, I had sometime to settle down and relax until PC’s announcement happened. "The police only had this site open to catch criminals and now they’ve been caught we have nothing else to do except close PC down until further notice." The announcement lasted for around two days, during that time many newer members to PC took this as an advantage to spam and the staff members didn’t do anything about it. It was up to us to save PC and take on roles as leaders so PC can go down with pride. The best option was spamming out their PM inbox. After we got our own spamming done, another announcement was put up a short time later. "The staff have decided to abandon PC and leave it in charge of you. We’ve made one staff member the main admin while the rest of us will most likely never return. Did you really believe that the older members of PC would still like Pokemon? Let me answer that for you, no. The one current administrator will be revealed soon, but we can tell you that he seems to be a person that knows a lot of the members, plus, is the only one who is stupid enough to still enjoy Pokemon. The administrators that had left previously were the ones who retired from the staff because they knew it would be dangerous, NOT, because they had a personal life, So now it’s up to you, the members of PC, to fix it up, we will not be needed for any further assistance as from now."

Chapter 4 -- The Police-y Staff [Edited!]

Muttering and the pain continued on for days as people got used to the fact that I didn’t have chance of returning and I still wasn’t accustomed to not being on PC, since they IP banned me, but I still had email notification… it was really sad. I got an IM from Alex which stated "Hey, all the staff members are are having a conference somewhere in Australia, wait, yeah, Perth. I think some mod is hosting it." I tried to reduce the numbers down to the ones only in Australia that was only about three that I was aware of. Though, surely there was no staff in Perth, was there? I needed all the moderators’ last names and luckily an anonymous person gave me the surnames, I grabbed a phone book and started to look up from A to Z until I found the name I wanted. There was only one family with that name so in an instant I started to dial the number. I still wasn’t sure as of to what I’d say and finally they answered. "OMG, I’m sure a big fan of your work, can I please meet you?" I gave out my address and I wasn’t sure whether I’d get a cop or some drunk guy with a bag over his head but I was willing to trust that it would be the former. I received a knock on the door and I knew it would be the person I was looking for. Hi, what’s your name I said to myself but it didn’t sound right, instead I was going to stick to a simple hey. I opened the door and a guy wearing a skirt and no top on faced me. ‘And you are?’ The person replied to me "Nica… I’m a sort of mod, no normal member but I just wanted to let you know that your theory on the staff being police is just a figment of your imagination." "But like… I’m banned." "Do we care?" "Yes, who are you though?" "Look at what I’m wearing, I’m sure you’ll figure it out sweetie... bye anyway" "WAIT... Where do you live?" "Everywhere." The words faded into blank space as the person began to walk away, I said to myself, I was right, and there was no doubt about the person being the latter. Somehow, when I tried to log back onto PC I wasn’t banned. Was the last two months a not a blur… but a dream? Nobody denied about knowing about the banning so it must’ve been real, but why would they lie about lying?

Chapter 3 -- The Police-y Staff [Edited!]

I snuck on the computer as fast as I could on Saturday. Everyone was online, which was a positive for me, who had not had a group conversation for at least a day. Pop was awake, which gave me even more sneak-on-MSN time, as he wouldn’t be walking out of his room any time soon. I was in 2008 but it seemed like 2007… many things seemed the same. Ever since Tali came back, PC, and BF even, was much better for us, oh wait! She only came back yesterday, and I haven’t told the readers already. Anyway, back to yesterday, after I got back from school I went on PC as soon as I was able to. All my friends were on except Tali, who I had long forgotten last December. I was having a group conversation with the usual people I normally have conversations with, plus three random staff members that just happened to enter the conversation... there are a few theories of how that occurred. Somehow, the conversation turned to our past friends. I began to start muttering about when I first joined PC, and the people who I thought I knew. The conversation drifted along fine until Tali got mentioned and it began to die. Since there wasn’t much help of saving the conversation now I refreshed the index of PC and I nearly jumped out of my seat when that small little popup said Tali’s name. I opened up that PM, still surprised as the coincidental circumstances of that appearing today. It read- "OMG. Hey Nica!! I’ve returned after that year or so inactivity, hope you missed me…. WAIT… TELL ALL!" I then just had to open up the group conversation and tell everyone. Nobody really cared, but Alex seemed to be excited. Out of all my friends, he was the most active, who possibly could be the most excited besides me at the thought of Tali. In ten short paragraphs I explained all that happened within the last year, from the April 2007 events to the ones of April 2008. About fifteen minutes later I got a PM back, she started to question what her understanding of April 2008 was, and, had Rene improved grammar/spelling dramatically or at all? I began of the PM "Yup, April 2008, I’ve got screenshots if you would like to see them. Oh, and Rene, yup, he’s changed alot. I shall show you a quote of Rene ‘Okay, and now XD is the best emoticon' strange yeah?” Tali replied back "Oh yeah, can I view your screenshot then? I’d love to see PC have such a minor amount of members. Rene… WOW, he’s uh… different". Since I was busy, I explained to Tali that I had to make banners for the fun of it and since I didn’t have PS they came out crap if I didn’t spend lots of time on them. I did though, have another program by then, it didn’t have a specific name, but God, it was good. Tali replied back to the PM and understood. Once I created the banners I applied the borders and logged onto PC… it did it again, there were no staff, no members. It freaked me out that Tali might actually get to experience it and not hear of it from me. BF was working fine so I went on there instead of worrying about PC and Tali. The plus side of this was that at this time Tali was on BF. I glanced down at the task bar and I saw that I still had the group conversation open. Jackpot, the staff members were still in there. I decided to quiz a staff member. "Um… is PC working for any of you?" John and Alex replied "DBE", while the staff members said, "Yeah, it’s a staff thing, only we can access it, even though it comes up as a DBE". I began to slowly reply and think of the words that would be best used in this situation. "Umm… it worked for me, but it only displays four members on the members list, plus, it says a police watch is currently in action." One of them replied "Uh-oh… crap, we’ll have you wipe your minds." I closed the window as soon as I could, logged off and began to write down everything I could remember about the staffs plot to catch criminals. As I wrote, I began thinking about what they said about the DBE’s. This must’ve meant that all the DBE’s that ever appeared were all a plot to make the members believe that it was a problem with the server and not that they were doing police checks on each members IP. As I realised this fact, I would have to assume that the server changes were to prevent any smart members from catching onto this development. What confused me was how I got access of this data without having to con one of the staff members into telling me. About a half an hour later I tried to log back onto PC and it said “Your username is no longer exists, thank you for your time at PC, but we’re sorry we can’t have you at our forum anymore. Goodbye.” I got onto MSN and asked Alex and John whether it was the same story and again, they couldn’t remember it, plus their usernames worked unlike my non-existent one. TO BE CONTINUED....

Chapter 2 -- The Police-y Staff [Edited!]

A brief time after the April fools event, I was getting along well with Alex. We were reminiscing the past we once involved in with our friends and began to talk about staff, plus, the one of the previous April fools events, back in 2006 of which Alex had missed. The staff played a hacker that pretended to be an admin and hack into PC. That was always a funny event to think back on, this was only because 2007’s version was full of nothingness. Not much happened, and most of the members were disappointed it failed. I felt like I was missing out on something if an April fools event hadn’t of happened this year, even though it was over, this got me thinking that maybe I didn’t imagine the event a couple of days ago, and that it was actually real. Alex and I continued talking about the issue for about twenty minutes of so and I thought it would be best if I dropped it myself. Alex initiated a group conversation between him, John, and myself. John was the only other person online, and well, I really like group conversations.

As we were talking I came up with an idea of PC having an affection contest. We all laughed and agreed it would be fun, John told us, he would contact a staff member to see if it would be okay. Success! The staff member replied to him and said it was fine except John would have to host the contest. He was fine with it because he had no current lover that anybody knew of, so it would be good for him. John set up the first page, with our help, and the contest was ready. The rules that were stated were “Only in this thread you’re allowed to display your affection, if it is anywhere else, you’ll be disqualified. Choose your partner and you’ll be fine.” I took this as a chance to get people together than were right for each other. First off, I PMed May, she was offline but she would soon be sure to reply. Many months ago, May and Jae were good friends but they didn’t decide to get together because of personal reasons with May. I entered both of them and I didn’t assume I needed legit permission from each of them so I decided to lie.

The next couple that should have been together were Shayla and Marz, even though Shayla would be absent from the competition she could still post and that via email. I also signed up Alex and I, but that was a no-brainer. A couple of minutes later after I entered a few more, a ‘n00b’ that just signed up decided to post in the thread under the name of ‘Noobsfromstaffluvz’. The person posted “Uh yeah, this’ll be great for the staff to catch a peda-um… don’t worry.” This surprised me, so I took a screenshot of his post before the staff decided to ban him. After a couple of days I forgot about that post and continued on with my life as usual. Despite some peoples’ disagreement of my entering of them in the contest, the contest was going along fine. May hadn’t been online since I PMed her, and two certain people decided to ignore me forever, but that was okay, you make friends, you lose them, and it’s all apart of life. I closed PC and reopened it. I had a PM from some random person. “The truth… the truth of April 1st 2006 and 2007… just keep looking and you’ll see it, but I don’t want to make it hard for you, Nica, so instead, I’ll show you the screenshot since you love them so much.” I slanted my head on an angle as I tried to make sense of the screenshot, it was black, pure black, and I didn’t understand one word. I highlighted it, and then suddenly I could see everything. My subscribed threads from April the 1st 2006 were in the screenshot! There was a link in the screenshot that could be clicked, so I clicked it. The screenshot was awesome, it was a total playback of everything I saw, and did on April 1st 2006. Once I got over the awesomeness of the screenshot, I realised that either a hacker/staff member did this. But the formatting and everything, the program this person used must’ve even been better than Photoshop itself. I saved the screenshot to my documents and started to think about that day.

The day began off as normal; I wasn’t expecting anything, when wham, the screen was black. I didn’t know what was happening until I highlighted the threads, but the skin couldn’t be changed. I did my daily posting, and when I got back from breakfast, I was keen to discover why the forum was black. Veering out of MCG, I lurked around new posts and while I was on invisible, I began to view the various question themes as of why the forum was black earlier. By that time it was back to normal and I had left my favourite skin. I was forced to use Blue Variant with a twist; it had a members name up the top in the main header. The staff members were posting in the many question threads asking the rest of the members to spam this hacker away. It was freaky when I originally thought about it, and a couple of hours later it had all calmed down. I began to then think about 2007’s April fools. Nothing much happened aside from a few DCC’s being deleted and then recovered, not nearly as exciting as the events of 2006. I then started to realise, it was real, it was a joke, yet somehow it was wiped from our minds. This got me thinking about most of my friends now, which had missed out on 2006’s events, and the fake bannings… It was like, in 2008, all the members who once were there, never existed.

Chapter 1 -- The Police-y Staff [Edited!]

The destinies meet… the events of the present and past combine. The journey of discovery awaits…
“Have you ever thought that PC’s staff could perhaps be police?”
“Nah, it’s… completely impossible.”
“I guess you’re right. Well, I better finish off creating this, so back to PC.”
“Yeah, I’ll PM you on PC.”

A quiet atmosphere swept throughout PC. The threads were all inactive, like the life had been sucked out of them and the same goes for the ones who once posted in those very same threads. New posts had no replies for more than an hour, plus, in all the posts that were previously posted there was no or little content available to be viewed. I scrolled down the active users list, to my surprise I was the only user online. I had to reach a decision within a few seconds, before another member managed to log on… this was assuming that this was a forum wide problem, and not just an issue with this computer. My mind’s first reaction was to take a screenshot, for further research if necessary. As fast as I could, I reached over to my computer’s mouse and frantically pressed it until the program paint opened up.

The screenshot was successfully pasted; next, I had to discover what happened to PC.
Without any doubt in my mind I clicked my fanclub and waited patiently for its deadly reality check to kick in. Nothing. The whole damn thread was equipped with nothing, aside from a few attachments, but that didn’t concern me at the time. I clicked each page, and to my surprise it was all me posting. My post count way over 100000 and I started to get the image that I adopted everyone else’s post counts. This didn’t scare me as much as the next thing that happened would. The creepy thing was, all the administrators’ posts were there, post counts, join dates, everything…. Except on every list on PC, I was the only member, there was no staff listed there. The one post that was visible from the administrators was the one that was announcing PC’s highest member count ever. I decided I might as well check it out, but like all the other threads, it too was blank, except from a post from me stating that I have been caught. This… this didn’t make any sense… of course I didn’t post that… though; I did have a rough sleep last night… so… maybe I sleep typed. Sleep typing would be interesting, if that WAS what happened. I still couldn’t figure out what I’d been caught for, so maybe MSN was able to help me discover the truth.

I signed in as usual, and at that point in time, Internet Explorer reset itself to its default website of Ninemsn. My heart started beating rapidly at that resetting because I had fear in my system now… I had an idea… no, I was sure… PC HAD NEVER EXISTED! All of my PC contacts who were once on MSN were gone, and when I added them, the system stated that those addresses didn’t exist and the same popup that normally appears when somebody adds me on MSN was different this time…
"Nica, you have been caught by the staff… HAHAHA!”

It really made me scared that MSN knew my nickname… but then something struck me; it could’ve been possible that someone hacked my computer and was able to delete all memories of PC… But who would want to do that? I had to contact someone, so I typed in all the ways to access PC. I went to my forum, I had zero members yet I had all the posts in-tact. I clicked the link from each post to the member but no luck, and when I pressed back on internet explorer all posts from that one individual were gone. There was only one left, this was Alex’s posts. I decided it would be in my best interest if I kept his there for future reference. There, of course, would have been another way which I could keep his posts, yet view his profile successfully; this would be the long method of writing it out by hand. I tried PC again and success, it loaded. But only two other members existed, which were Alex, and a random member that I hadn’t seen at any time before. It was blurred for some reason, so I tried to contact Alex instead. I chose the method of PM, because it would be most reliable. "ZOMGZ, PC ONLY HAS THREE MEMBERS, WHYYYY?"

Caps lock would be the best way to express my curiosity, and get Alex’s attention. To my disappointment, he replied back with little interest and I began to feel as if he didn’t care, though if you think about it, he should have cared. I thought of the best thing to reply back and sent it away to him. I got a reply back almost instantly and the computer began to slow as I opened the PM up.
"Nica… all this time, useless, worth nothing… the moderators, administrators… they have us on file, they’re going to catch us sooner or later". Without hesitating, I replied back "Wtf". I wasn’t sure what Alex meant by them catching us, so I read a book for the few minutes he took to reply. To my surprise he had written a paragraph on the true story of the staff. In short, he said that the staff were really police, and that since we were criminals they wanted to bust us. This made the whole situation even stranger; I’ve never committed a crime in my life -- since when was I a criminal? I needed the perfect reply but I couldn’t think of anything. I decided it’d be best if I went along with Alex until I get a proper understanding and some light is shed on this. "Um right, like… how can we escape from these killer staff members?" "We can’t -- they’ll haunt us forever unless we get a completely new identity.” We decided that we would sign up to a popular social site, Myspace was the best candidate because it was too popular to be able to track two people for reasons even I didn’t know of. I signed up as NicaZomg, and Alex as FlavaSpecial. It was what we liked so it could be easily identified without sending to each other in a way that PC could track. Now, once we were at a secure location, free from staff, we began PMing each other. “So, what are you on about? Seriously, I ain't a criminal!”

Alex replied back in an almost opposite attitude “So, what are you on about…Seriously, I am a criminal”’. I couldn’t believe what I was reading, my closest friend at this time was a criminal and I didn’t even know beforehand. Before I had a chance to think, he sent me another PM. Instead, this one was a more serious one "They must’ve gone by now. I’ll tell you the truth... we aren’t criminals, but PC is an organisation to catch criminals. The PC community supporters knew about it, and decided if they ‘donated’ the story would be more believable. The community supporters haven’t donated one cent! At least I can trust you with this information, oh, and by the way, John told me, but I wasn’t sure about believing him at first until he showed me an image of PC’s donating record. The only ones that donated were the moderators, and that’s the only reason they became mods. The strange thing was though, Matt hadn’t donated, yet he was apart of the staff at one point. John also showed me some members that actually did donate, but PC’s staff kept it quiet. These were: Shayla, Tali… and more. Could this be the reason that they disappeared? Ryouki’s theory is that the staff realised that they were getting closer to us, and that to keep the staffs secret a secret, they had to remove all the people that could potentially tell the truth. Oh, and incase you’re wondering how come Ryouki has a theory, it’s because he lied. I knew him in real life, we are really best friends. But, you have to keep that a secret, plus, don’t dare tell anyone else about it. Take a picture of this PM via camera and then delete it. The fact that we know could get spread out and that wouldn’t be good if we want to be able to stay on a computer that works. I’ll keep you updated, bye~".
I read through each line and examined what he was saying, it was all logical, it just needed to be proved. Somehow I needed another staff members’ input of this, just to make sure it wasn’t an April Fools joke, like other pranks the staff have been capable of pulling. This first of April 2008 was sure weird, of course, my initial thought was that it was a joke, but now with MSN and everything how it is, I’m starting to believe this.

Two to three hours later, I tried to get back into PC and everything was restored to its previous state. I saw that all the staff were on, but I was the only member visible. Was everyone else was all on invisible as a joke? I blinked twice and finally, half the staff members that were online were gone, infact, there was only three online. Chi, another mod and a SA were the only others besides me online. I thought it would be best to PM Chi, because she was about the only one I could identify without constantly refreshing the page. "Is this all true… are the staff members out to police people?" Her reply was quite simple, "No, you’re crazy~". I took that as either a real thought or that she was covering the real secret that she was really apart of the police... but because of the donating thing… maybe not. I decided to go along with that, and then signed onto MSN, Alex was on, so I quickly IMed him. "PC’S RETURNED TO NORMAL!" He came back with the simple reply of "When wasn’t it?" After ten minutes of wondering what had just happened I assumed I had imagined it… or not, could the staff members really be playing real members in a disguise, and acting ‘n00bish’. I guess I’ll just have to wait until any of this is confirmed as real…

Introduction to The Police-y Staff

Hi, well, I'm Nica, AND THIS IS THE POLICE-Y STAFF~ <3

This is a story written by me about the staff of a forum, PC [Pokecommunity] being police in real life. Throughout the story, there is tracking down the murderers that are out to kill members of this Pokemon site. This becomes a challenge for me, as I get involved with this, learning about everything the staff does, and explains why there are DBE's, etc. Oh, and big thanks to all my friends + others who've been apart of this story without complaining once... which makes the outcome all the better, this story isn't just a story anymore, it's almost reality for some...

Links to participants in The Police-y Staff:
Character:

Nica - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=37888

Alex - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=29491

John - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=6956

Matt - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=19798

Shayla - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=40015

Tali - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=24960

Chi - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=5287

May - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=11352

Jae - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=29080

Marz - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=39494

Murderface - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=40467

Kenji - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=22567

Kyle - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=29325

Signomi - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=14963

Scizz - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=6364

Kimi - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=11995

Rene - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=20093

Hiroshi Sotomura - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=3002

Pinky - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=11072

22sa - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=30

Shika - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=44175

Zet - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=61572

Kelsey - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=22195

Ray - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=27234

Nicole - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=60832

Lumine - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=50160

Blazichu - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=51772

Astrid - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=70820

Jack O’Neill - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=12701

TSA - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=45642

Went - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=42856

FauxCivility - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=151

charizard_maa - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=8788

Ryouki - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=40958

Macy - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=10933

Teresa - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=7046

Cowrie - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=7860

Sammi - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=9144

Saba - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=26631

Cosmic - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=36300

Lightning - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=31

Arcanine - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=3315

Hiroshi Sotomura - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=3002

The Prophet of Truth - http://xxbellossomxx.proboards101.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile&user=truth

raichuchika - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=40820

Scytheteen - http://www.pokecommunity.com/member.php?u=58522

Thanks for being loyal readers :D