This is a short little fanfic I wrote. I don't know how many words it was because I didn't count.

Not a Game Anymore

Mark was lying on the ground. Everything was fading. His eyes were closed and he could feel himself getting weaker. He'd given up trying to move what seemed like an eternity ago. Where was Ace? He should have been there by now. Mark had gone to the carnival because Ace had said he would be there. Instead he had found Googler. Googler's puppets had flown at him and bitten into his arms. He had tried to get them off, but they had hung on. They were determined little vampires, sucking the life out of him. He could remember Googler's crazy laughter as he'd fallen to the ground.
It wasn't supposed to be like this. Ace was supposed to come flying down at the last minute and save the day. He was the hero and heroes always did that. The bad guys weren't supposed to win. That was how it was in the game.
But this wasn't a game. Ace and the others might have been game characters, but this was real life. He had always wondered what would happen if the bad guys went too far and a human got hurt. How would they keep the secret then? Ace had said that it would never happen, that they would stop Lord Fear before it did. But it was happening now, and for some reason Ace wasn't here to stop it. He should have been expecting something like this. Of course Lord Fear would get him alone sometime, and of course he wasn't a Lightning Knight. He couldn't fight them! What had Ace been thinking involving him in this?
He couldn't feel anything anymore, not even pain. He was glad about that, though he knew it was a bad thing. He thought he could hear someone calling his name, but it didn't matter It was probably just Googler. Even if Ace had finally shown up, it was already too late. He didn't even know if he was breathing anymore.
The only voice he could hear now was his own thoughts.
Ace? Why didn't you come?

This is pretty good! :) I like your take on the very real possibility of a human actually getting hurt. Mark is in character, and this is so terribly plausible. Please write more fic! :P

(BTW, what happened to your other Acefic on FF.Net? :) It was nice to see it there!)

You killed Mark! You must have spent too much time with H. :P

Nice take on a very possible situation in Ace. It really is a miracle that no human got hurt (except for Duff, but he doesn't really count as 'human', right? :P )

Ace will be hating himself over this . . . :S

Holy Zoar, you killed Mark. Nice story though. :)

Dude, you all talk like nobody's ever killed him before :P

But you HAVE killed him very well, cat :)

o_O Eeep. Poor Mark. Poor Ace.

Very nice. ^^

Thanks. :) I'm not too sure what happened to the rest of my stuff. I'll have to see if I have backups somewhere.