START ME UP

Author Notes
Hello all. my name is Hunter, and this is a genuine attempt to write a pasta. Wf72 (talk) 07:18, January 3, 2015 (UTC)

The Pasta
Hello. my name is Billy, and i would like to share you an incident that just went down. okay, so i just went into my basement and found my old Packard Bell Legend 1510 Supreme. back from when i was 6. i remember like it was yesterday. i was in my bed sick, with a stomach virus. my father left, without telling me why. it was raining badly once he got home, i was asleep at that time, as i just fell asleep. i woke up with i heard my father coming up the stairs. i didn't care, but after a while i got curious and walked to the dining room to see what he was doing. there i saw it. The Packard Bell Legend 1510 Supreme. he just finished plugging it in, and turned on. about 2 years later at a garage sale, we found a version of Office for Windows 95, but i also bought a CD with "START ME UP" labeled in midnight blue marker. all together it was about $10. we installed it later on in the day, but my cat knocked the disk and jewel case it was in behind a dresser. it remained until my dad found it in the spring of 2000. i don't know what happened. from what i could guess he went to the basement (where the Packard bell was functioning) and used what was on the disk. the computer was gone the next day. i didn't bother questioning it, as i was happy with my HP. but now i found it, in a box in the attic, tucked in the corner under tons of junk. along with the CD, all in the original boxes. i was so excited i went and installed it in my room, and booted it up. it started as i remember, with the desktop image of Sonic the Hedgehog, which was one i stole from Sonic CD on PC. there was the usual mess of icons, and one new one. START_ME_UP.EXE. This was the program! The icon was of a 3D character, smiling. i automatically started the program (pun not intended). it began with some legal jargon, which then sent me to a 3Dish music store. there was a large record in on the back wall and some NPC store employee's, all of which said when clicked on, "Did you find what you're looking for?", which then gave me a Yes or No box. if i picked no, the text would disappear and i was free to browse once again. if i said yes, it would appear with a text box in which i could enter any song i want, and then it would play. i could select whatever CD i wanted, so i chose random ones. listened to some Weird Al, but then decided to go to the section of the store labeled ROLLING, which there was only one CD. Start me up. i clicked and automatically the program closed, opening the media player which played the song. except it was odd, it had weird sound sprinkled throughout the track, kind of like someones coughing fit, but slightly different. i opened the program again, and this time all the CD's were start me up. i tried to exit, but it wouldn't let me. i shut down the program and took the CD over to my brand new HP Pavilion. to my horror as soon as i put it in i was back in the record store. except this time it seemed to be from the pits of hell. the store was crumbling, with fire encompassing a good chunk. all the CD's were horribly shattered, and the NPC's were now dead. chunks of body missing, eyes gouged out and beginning to decompose. ROLLING was also blocked off by a fire, but on the counter there was the damn disk. i clicked on it and then my character began laughing manically, while smashing the cd, when it was broken he began to mutilate himself with the broken pieces, then became consumed by the flames. i was horrified, and when i exited to the desktop, the link to the game replaced everything, and ill never forget the icon. my character with large gashes and a very happy evil face. and the start-up sound was the song. after fixing everything, i made sure to hid the CD in a place no one would find it. behind the desk, just where it lie so many years before. thankfully the 1510 Supreme was fine, and i promptly deleted the program. the 1510 is still hooked up, and i still use it to play games. but I'll never forget what happened that awful night.