I hate Best Buy.
Those bastards kept my computer a week, then told me my data was irretrievable, "probably" because the hard drive is shot.
I don't even want to talk about the tech support hell I've been through tonight. Tomorrow I'll be taking the laptop in to someone who hopefully knows what they're talking about. But I'm not too optimistic about saving my data.
So basically it looks like, barring a miracle, the end of the Xom might be lost forever. And that I'll have to rewrite it. All more-than-4000-words of it.
This pisses me off.
So here it is, the rewritten end of the Xom, for your enjoyment.
***
Dom stands in the lab, watching Willow and Wesley and Fred try to figure out what might be wrong with Xander, if anything is.
Then Xander turns into a dragon, unfurls his wings and eats all of them, with big chomping bites.
"Ouch," Dom thinks, as dragon-Xander chews through his torso. "This sucks."
Dragon-Xander burps, and wanders off to go eat the rest of the world. He gets through most of Los Angeles before the National Guard is even called, and then he gets through most of the National Guard before the army is called, and then he gets through all of the army and half the midwest before they send in the nukes. But the nukes just mutate dragon-Xander so that he gets bigger and bigger, and finally he gets so big that he swallows the whole world. Everyone dies.
THE FUCKING END
***
Now if you'll excuse me, I have some bitter muttering and possibly some wall kicking to get in before bedtime.
(And I hope that all of you are learning a valuable lesson about BACKING UP YOUR FUCKING DATA.)
I don't even want to talk about the tech support hell I've been through tonight. Tomorrow I'll be taking the laptop in to someone who hopefully knows what they're talking about. But I'm not too optimistic about saving my data.
So basically it looks like, barring a miracle, the end of the Xom might be lost forever. And that I'll have to rewrite it. All more-than-4000-words of it.
This pisses me off.
So here it is, the rewritten end of the Xom, for your enjoyment.
***
Dom stands in the lab, watching Willow and Wesley and Fred try to figure out what might be wrong with Xander, if anything is.
Then Xander turns into a dragon, unfurls his wings and eats all of them, with big chomping bites.
"Ouch," Dom thinks, as dragon-Xander chews through his torso. "This sucks."
Dragon-Xander burps, and wanders off to go eat the rest of the world. He gets through most of Los Angeles before the National Guard is even called, and then he gets through most of the National Guard before the army is called, and then he gets through all of the army and half the midwest before they send in the nukes. But the nukes just mutate dragon-Xander so that he gets bigger and bigger, and finally he gets so big that he swallows the whole world. Everyone dies.
THE FUCKING END
***
Now if you'll excuse me, I have some bitter muttering and possibly some wall kicking to get in before bedtime.
(And I hope that all of you are learning a valuable lesson about BACKING UP YOUR FUCKING DATA.)