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cascading down over her blue-skinned shoulders and the low-cut gown that revealed the swell of her breasts.
    “Lord Captain,” she began breathlessly, indicating the stone temple before them. “Our laws forbid us from entering the Temple of Dakara, but it is said that the force you Earthers call Prometheus lurks within. I grant you passage into the holy spaces, so that you might deliver us from the space brigands who come to pillage our world.” The Queen waved her scepter and the mystic force wall crumbled. “Enter, hero, if you dare.”
    The warrior began to move, but the Omegusi ruler had one more thing to say. “Warrior. If you do this, I will give you my hand in matrimony. All that I have will be yours. I ask only that you give me your true name before you embark on this final test.”
    The Phoenix Brigade warrior paused before answering. “Oh, yeah, right. My name is, uh, ELIsDaMan .”
     
    “ That is a sucky handle, though ,” said the tinny male voice in the headset. “ It doesn’t have…whaddayacall, dignity.”
    Eli paused, lifting his hands from the keyboard of his computer to reach for the open can of Mountain Dew at his side. He snorted into the microphone at his mouth. “Oh, right. And I suppose Babes_DigMeee is a noble and heroic name?”
    “ It’s an accurate one, ” came the reply, winging its way across the continental US from Kansas, where Eli’s gamer buddy Josh was busy fighting hordes of Vacuum Dragons instead of working his night shift at the local branch of Buy More.
    “In your dreams.”
    “ Yes, ” agreed Josh, “ Frequently, in fact. ”
    Eli sipped his Dew and rolled his eyes, before hunting out a slice of cooling pizza from the box at his feet. As he went for it, his gaze passed over the clock atop his bookshelf and he very carefully ignored the fact that it was past two in the morning. Instead he drummed his fingers in time to the opening riff of Van Halen’s ‘Atomic Punk’ as it issued from a well-worn iPod.
    “ How can you listen to that dinosaur rock, man? ”
    Eli made a face. “You have no appreciation of the classics. No wonder you keep getting ganked.”
    He heard Josh cough out a denial. “ I’m not the one wasting my time. That puzzle, with the Queen and all? It’s a fake-out. ”
    “Beg to differ with you.” Eli squared his shoulders and leaned in, hands dancing across the keyboard. On the screen, the noble warrior ELIsDaMan stormed forward and vaulted into the Temple of Dakara, toward a wall covered with heavy buttons made of stone. “It’s just a question of figuring out the code sequence. Get it right and you win. The core of the planet is the power source. You have to channel it into the weapon to destroy the enemy command ship.”
    Each of the buttons bore a set of symbols; some of them were blocky shapes that resembled letters, while others were strings of lines and circles. The latter reminded Eli of old Morse Code dot-dash notations.
    “ Can’t be done, dude. ”
    Eli thought otherwise. It all came down to math, and numbers spoke to Eli Wallace in a way that he couldn’t really articulate, even if he tried. It was just a thing that he did. He could see the figures strung together, even when they were cloaked under funny-looking symbols like they were right now. Get them in the right order and they fitted like the parts of a well-oiled machine. It was something he’d been able to accomplish ever since he was a kid.
    He tapped the keys and used the mouse to start his computer game avatar working at the stone buttons. “I’m doin’ it,” he reported. In moments, he’d unlock the game’s big prize, blast the bad guys and get the alien space babe.
    Josh’s confidence in him was underwhelming, however. “ It’s one’a those programmer’s jokes. It can’t be solved. They just put it in there to mess with your head. Nobody has ever beaten it. ”
    Eli felt a grin cross his lips. He saw the solution in his mind, plain as day. “Already