ZooStuck

Originally posted on MSPA by Dragon Fogel.

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> Put a secret code in the game that burns its user and everything within 100 square miles.

Ah, of course. You have no programming knowledge whatsoever and no idea how to even access the game's code to make such a change, but you're not one to let such trifling details stop you. It's time to get to work.

All attention is on the game, not to mention that people are deliberately trying to keep their eyes of you and your thrusting. You quietly slip around the stage and make your way behind the monitor. This must be where they keep the computer code, clearly.

You press a button and a small screen emerges, along with a keyboard. You have no idea what to do, so you just type rapidly like a hacker in one of those movies. That should do exactly what you want.

But just before you press the Enter key, you hear a window dramatically shatter. Moments later, your archrival has you in a headlock and is breathing fire uncomfortably close to your head.

You press the button and laugh.

Except, something has gone wrong.

> Code: Don't work. Actually freeze everything within 100 square miles.

The air starts to cool. Your program is freezing everything! That's the opposite of what you want to do! Oh, and you're still in this headlock.

You are now some idiot. You've been chasing this enemy agent all day for reasons you don't even remember any more and you have him in a headlock. But now it's getting really cold in here.

There's a crowd gathered in the room, but they don't seem to have noticed your dramatic entrance or anything else you've done. They're all watching some video game or something. Whatever, that doesn't matter.

What matters is that you have this guy in a headlock and absolutely no idea what to do next. You should probably think of something.