Overwatch: The Nightmare
It was July 16th. It had been some weeks ever since one of the playable heroes, Roadhog, was changed by the developers...
Roadhog was my favorite hero. Not only did I like his backstory and design, but his playstyle was easily the most appealing to me. Whenever I thought of playing Overwatch, he came to mind. After this change, though, Roadhog didn't feel right anymore. It wasn't that he wasn't useful anymore, or that I wasn't used to him; He just didn't feel... I don't know, lively anymore? I could still use him, along with other players, but something felt wrong with the character himself after this. Anyways, on this day, I decided to go into a match against AI to hone my skills with another hero.
After I queued, I was loaded into an A.I. match on Nepal, but there was something odd. Instead of being the normal map, it had somehow loaded the map as the night version, instead of the daylight version. This easily could have been a glitch, however; the game itself has a night version of the map, so it's not like I immediately thought it was going to be spooky, or whatever you would think. The match played as normal, and after it ended, I decided to play a competitive match after practicing. After I got ready and finished my bowl of my favorite snack that you should totally try, Doritos™, I had no idea what I was getting into...
As soon as I clicked the button to start searching, I was immidiately placed into a match. The map was Dorado, but what was weird was that the players in the match were only me, and my team, who were all bronze, against one player named Satan, who was marked as the #1 player from their rank. They also had no picture. I had assumed that this was another glitch, and mildly annoyed because I could not see who I was fighting, but I continued. Very strangely, everyone on my team abandoned the match without a word, one by one, and I had assumed that they had also saw the glitch, and decided to leave. However, right before the last one left, they said something that... Unnerved me, to say the least...
"OH GOD, PLEASE NO!!!!! DONT DO THIS"
[SmoacPaat] left the game.
The fact that he had time to type that before he left made me think that I was safe from whatever happened, but still... What had happened? I pressed tab, and I saw that it was only me and Satan, still marked as the #1 player. I was Mercy, the hero I played the second most, and I wanted to change heroes, but the game would not let me. I wasn't worried about losing anymore, actually, so I went on, because I knew I could report this to Blizzard if it was a real hack or glitch, and get my hard-earned rank back. But as soon as the round set-up ended, I was teleported to a huge, grey platform in a black void, and this is when I knew that the game was no longer just glitching...
Music, if I could call it that, started. I heard a constant sound, like a truck horn, made quieter, and low pitched. About fifteen seconds later, after looking around me, I heard a sound clip from the announcer, saying "Run." I was unsure of what this meant, but then I saw a wave of pure BLOOD coming from behind me! I tried to run, but I was just too slow. When the waves got to me, my screen changed to pure BLOOD red. My game, and also my entire computer, froze too, but the sound was still playing, but I decided to wait. I waited for about 18 picoseconds, and then a cutscene loaded and started, which is weird, because this game doesn't normally have them...
It was Roadhog, walking alone on a sidewalk, in what looked like real life. He looked like he was tired, but I couldn't tell if it was just because he was fat. This lasted for two minutes, until he reached a wood, spooky house. He went inside of it for some reason, so I thought it was his own, but I was wrong... I couldn't see anything in the house, and a voice, which was similar to my own, started talking. "Sixteen. You have been summoned here by us..." A light came on in the house, and I saw that it was none other than SATAN THEMSELF! HOLY DOODLE! Sixteen, as we shall call him from now on, did nothing... Then, none other than SATAN THEMSELF, instantly stabbed Sixteen with a line, and BLOOD went EVERYWHERE as he let out a scream so loud that my ears stopped working for an entire 10 seconds! During those 10 seconds, Satan said something, but I could not hear him or read their mouth... The strangest thing about this cutscene is that after I went deaf and came back to my senses, I completely forgot what Satan looked like, and how their voice sounded, except for that it was like my own...
After this, however, the cutscene ended, and I spawned in on this setting, as Mercy, like a long time ago before nothing crazy happened. All of the information dissapeared, and I couldn't walk anywhere except the path where Sixteen walked, so I went and found the house in only thirty seconds. I prepared to meet Satan again, and went in the house, but nothing happened. I was able to see everything, so I looked for something, and found an open door that lead to darkness, so I went inside, and was instantly teleported to the platform before again... But, things were different.
I saw Roadhog dead and the words "SATAN IS HERE, YOU WIL DIE" on the platform, which startled a little bit of poop out of me, but not too much. Then, in the most epic encounter in the history of mankind, Satan themself appeared on the screen, surrounded by fire. My own voice played, saying "■■■■■, Roadhog is dead. I'm Satan, and I killed him... And now, you're going to die, and go to HELL!!!!! MUHAHAHAH!!!!!!!" I took out my pistol, knowing that everything in my entire life has led to this. The coolest song ever, the One Punch Man theme song except it was a dubstep remix, started playing, and we started the most epic battle in the history of mankind! Satan's attacks were very difficult to dodge, and I got a hit a lot, but thanks to my own health regeneration, I managed to beat Satan themself after two hours...
After this, I fainted, because I was so happy that I had triumphed. One hour later, I came back to my senses, again, and the match was over. I was now marked as the as the #1 player in Overwatch, presumably because I had beat Satan, but the creepiest thing about this all was that I had saw on the news that five people went missing after playing Overwatch, completely dissapearing from reality... And then, I noticed a piece of paper on my bed...
"YoU hAvE bEaTeN mE oNcE, bOy, BuT yOu WoN't Do It ToNiGhT..."
It was 9:07, and after I read that I heard something outsid
