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“Come on, come on, come on! Keep pushing them!” Hana ordered into her microphone firing and blowing up another player. “We got this!”
“Right side! Right side! D.Va?” Someone asked over the audio feed.
“On it!” Hana grinned already blasting the threat away. The countdown was up, only thirty seconds remaining and they would win. Her phone vibrated and lighted up next to her three computer screens.
“Twenty seconds. Keep it up!” Someone cheered when she peeked down to her pink bunny themed phone and saw Lúcio’s name flashing with the little frog emote besides it.
“Shit! Overtime overtime! Don’t lose focus. Get them off point!” Someone cursed on the audio feed right into her headphones.
“Nerf this!” Hana grinned unleashing her ultimate move and getting the enemy team off the point and securing her team’s victory in a single blow. The screen darkened and a flashing victory showed over the last moments of the game. Cheers and claps rang on her ears as her teammates celebrated from their own sides of the screen.
“GG people.” Someone cheered over the feed and Hana leaned back on her chair stretching. She picked up her phone to check on the text message she had received, folding her legs on her chair and letting her loose pyjama bottoms cover her feet.
“Still up?” Lúcio asked with a winky face beside a silly little emoji with it’s tongue out. She had to look up to see that it was already four am. Time travelled too fast whenever she was gaming.
“Top score again D.Va. Congrats.” Someone on the game feed congratulated, and when Hana looked up to her screens she saw she had gotten player of the game again, along with most kills.
“I play to win.” She answered into the microphone getting a few chuckles on the feed, like her team didn’t already expect that answer. “Anyway, I’m going AFK for a bit. GG people.” She sighed closing the group chat and leaving the game on it’s main screen, she wasn’t tired, maybe another match before calling it a day. She didn’t feel like streaming or recording another game for her channel though, so maybe something more light hearted. It was a Friday, technically Saturday now but the point was she didn’t have classes and could keep gaming all night without anyone complaining.
She looked back to the phone starting to text Lúcio back. “What’s up?”
His answer came quickly. Probably was at some party being a DJ. “Remember a month ago when you were whining about wanting actual game weapons on real life?”
“No. But continue.” She pouted slightly curios. She whined about of lot of things when it came to gaming. She remembered complaining about wanting to buy actual swords and weapons designed like the ones from her games with him last time they had been out together dancing, but that happened a lot. She had seen an awesome blacksmith doing the Zelda sword and shield on Youtube before going out that night so she had probably talked about it, but the price of those things where out of question with her lousy allowance. Once she had her own place, she would make her gaming heaven.
Lúcio sent a link to a video. “You are going to want to see this.”
She frowned, curiosity getting the best of her. She opened the video up on her phone and propped her legs on her desk besides the keyboard, shoving the empty Dorito bags and sodas with her feet. It was a Youtube video called “Mario Bomb goes boom” so she was sort of expecting a game screen to show up, she got an animated rat logo giggling instead.
“Junkrat primed and ready!” Came a high pitched voice from the giggling animal. “So a bloke came over on the comments the other day talkin’ ‘bout videogames, and ye mates know that I don’t got time for that but he kept on talkin’ and I started ticking.” The voice giggled. “See, the sod went on ‘bout swords and guns and I couldn’t give a shit arse about those ‘cause we know those are crap bound to turn to scraps but the mate wanted a personal touch on his junk.” Another giggle and Hana was starting to wonder what the hell she was watching and why had Lúcio sent her the video. “So today, my fellow anarchists and freedom fighters, we are going to blow shit up video game style. This bomb’s for you.” The giggling animated rat threw a yellow bomb at the screen, and the video changed showing a large bob-omb from the Mario Brothers’ games made out of what Hana assumed was metal. There was some sort of remix music of the game’s theme song playing as whoever held the camera turned around to show the rather large sized bomber on a work bench. Then the video went to an open field, and she kept watching as whoever was holding the camera winded up the key behind the metallic mascot with his left hand, lighting up the fuse on top of it. She was somewhat impressed that the little mascot started walking straight ahead. If this was a prop channel then this guy was good, not everyone managed to make moving props like that. Then came the blast and Hana didn’t know what had happened until she realized that the bomb had actually gone off. Dirt and grass flying once again in slow motion as the bomb actually blew up in a replay. Whoever was behind the camera was laughing like a maniac.
“ Surprise! ” the voice laughed, delighted by the explosion. “It’s the little things, ain’t it right, mates? Oh, but wait! I got more!” And then the camera turned and Hana gasped as five other Mario bombers were shown. “Let’s see which of my new babies get the biggest boom!” the voice crackled and Hana wasn’t sure why but she watched the other bombers walking and blowing up with twisted fascination. She was getting on Youtube on her computer to check out more of the lunatic’s videos before the end of it. The channel was called “Junkrat” and there were several videos of things being blown up, she recognized the most common themes like blowing up watermelons or water balloons in slow motion. But the guy also taught how to make homemade bombs. She saw another video game themed one and clicked on it.
“Junkrat primed and ready!” Came the high pitched voice from the giggling rat logo once again, it seemed that this was his intro for the special bombs he made. “Never knew what a bunch of nerds ye all were.” The rat laughed. “So someone out there sent me an email with a picture of this bomb from some video game. Fallout or somethin’. That’s crap, if you want mayhem and apocalypse go watch Madmax, ye bunch of dweebs. But the bomb seemed simple enough so I figured ye nerds would like to see it blowin’ up. Someone better get a firey, cause I’m on a roll!” he laughed, just as the animated rat threw it’s yellow bomb and the camera started showing a blue Fallout4 bomb on the workbench.
Hana picked up her phone again texting Lúcio. She could go back to gaming later. There were about four other video game themed bombs in this lunatic’s channel and it was fun to watch them blow up. “Where did you find this guy?”
“The dude uses my remixes in some videos. Links back to my channel and everything. I met a bro tonight who became a fan after hearing my remixes mixed with Junkrat’s explosions.”
Hana hummed, scrolling around Junkrat’s videos a bit, clicking around and finding a compilation of explosions that indeed went off to the rhythm of one of Lúcio’s tracks. Whoever owned this channel was crazy. “Maybe you should add more booms in your music. Junkrat’s remix is better.” She typed on with a winky face, teasing Lúcio.
“Girl, you hurt me sometimes.” Lúcio texted back, adding a few crying and laughing emoji, playing along.
“I’m gonna subscribe. Dude seems like a lunatic.” She grinned, clicking on the big red button of the Rat’s channel and starting to comment on the videogame bombs. If the guy was taking requests maybe he could make a meka bomb. It would be cool to watch.
“Knew you would be into it.” Lúcio texted back with a laughing emoji.
Hana sent another emoji and started watching the videos and commenting. Watching things blowing up on screen when playing games was fun and all but the things this guy did on his videos were next level. She wasn’t even sure if it was legal to do something like that. Who in their right mind built bombs on this level? She browsed over the other bomb types. Junkrat apparently knew how to make all sorts of explosives. Fireworks, smoke bombs, acid bombs Molotovs, scrap bombs, etc. The crazy man would blow stuffed animals, fruits, wooden houses, thrash cans and all sorts of junk. By the time she felt like sleeping it was already six am and she had commented in a lot of the guy’s videos. She shared the ones with Lúcio’s remixes with him. Who knew his music matched with explosions? It was amusing in a way.