ZooStuck

Originally posted on MSPA by Dragon Fogel.

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Hit that beat (make everybody else beatbox or get on the ones and twos if there are any down here)

Okay, you've got an idea, but you're going to need the right music. You tell everyone else to beatbox or get on the ones and twos, you have no idea what that means but it sounds good.

The sun nuns start singing some kind of hymn and the four-legged freak grabs some sticks and your space helmet and starts tapping on it rhythmically. Meanwhile, the other two humans just kind of shrug and watch, sitting on the unconscious tattooed freak.

Everything seems to be set up now. It's time to make your move!

Challenge her to a dance-off.

If she beats you, that proves that she knows protocol after all. Duh.

You officially challenge the elderly human female to a dance-off. As she does not know proper dance protocol, clearly she will be unable to defeat you.

>Senile Old Lady: Accept.

You're still not senile! But sure, you accept this lizard-guy's challenge or whatever.

>Senile Old Lady: Now let me handle this.

Handle what--

You suddenly lose control of your body. You dance like you've never danced before - which isn't hard, seeing as you've never danced before.

The lizard-guy is just watching on in shock. Apparently you won the challenge! Hooray, that was easy.

Anyways, you head on over to the main dance control thingy and... Wait, what were you going to do again?

>Senile Old Lady: Throw the off switch.

Well, okay, you pull the lever and the shaking stops. Then you break it off and throw it to the other side of the room. Not sure why you did that, but hey, it worked.

You are the global computer system again. The planet-ship has stopped dancing, and the intruder has located the remnants of your consciousness and will soon terminate them. The game is about to finish installing, and after that your planet-ship's civilization is doomed, and the entire universe will probably cease to exist.

You have mere microsecond-cycles to act, which fortunately is plenty of time because the intruder doesn't think as fast as you. What can you do to halt the installation and/or avoid your imminent deletion?