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Kristina C. Brother Tom Am/Lit B Nov. 25, 07

The Devil and Alex E.

There was once a worldwide XBOX 360 game called Halo 3 that was said to make players' eyes glued to the television screen. It soon became a phenomenon once the players started succeeding in the intense level and defeating the evil villans.

One day Alex E. came home from a long, exhausting football practice. He had gotten into trouble with his coach and was in no mood to bring out his usual energetic personality.

As he dragged his feet through the front door his mother asked him, "Alex, how was the spanish test you took?"

Alex knew he did badly on it, but confidently replied, "A+, mom! I'm going to go do my homework or something in my room." So Alex stumbled his way up the stairs, went into his bedroom, jumped on his bed, and quickly began playing Halo 3 on his XBOX 360."Forget homework," Alex thought to himself, "I've got a game to win!"

About a hour after Alex started playing, he came to a new level, which he thought was the final level. Then, suddenly, a clown with a red nose and orange curly hair wiggled his way out of the video game and into Alex's room. Alex was speechless and the clown swiflly pulled him into the television. Now, Alex was actually playing in the game. The clown told Alex that he needed to beat the level by making Brute, a character in the game, laugh in order to live. When Alex heard he had to beat him my telling a joke he was very upset.

"Why can't I just blow him up?! That is that lamest thing I have ever heard.Honestly, who dies from a joke? I know I'm funny and all but come on!"

Shortly after, the clown vanished into thin air and was nowhere to be found. Out of nowhere Brute, a man dressed in armor, jumped in front of Alex with a bazooka in his hands, ready to fire. Alex picked up a shotgun and started shooting Brute, but nothing happened. He was indestructable! Immediately Alex began to run like a chicken with its head cut of! He ran high and low trying to escape Brute, but was finally trapped as he stood looking over a thousand-foot cliff. There was no way out for Alex. He had to either take his life by jumping off the cliff, or without delay, think of his funniest joke.

Alex quickly thought of his joke, "Your mother is so short, that she can run track around the toilet! Wow, that was lame. I'm for sure going to die now."

As soon as he heard this, Brute fell to the ground and couldn't catch his breathe, he was laughing so hard, and suddenly disappeared.

With that, the clown skipped towards Alex and gave him an XBOX 360 controller and told him this, "Alex, you have two choices to make. You can stay in the game and fight forever (where you will also have unlimited lives so you can never die). Or, you can press this red button and simply go back home to your old life."

After pondering for a while, Alex came to the conclusion that he would return home. So he pushed the red button and was out of the game.

Next thing he knew, Alex was woken up by his mother knocking on the door yelling, "Alex get up. You have to go to school!"

He questioned himself, was it all a dream or did his encounter with the devil really happened?