Step-Chrome I'm Stuck Loading

CHAPTER 3: Search Algorithm Training

"Today, I'm gonna turn yall into fighters. No going back from here." Opera sniffs menacingly as she points at the first course.

"You will use your logo to roll on these glowing hot coals."

"But what if we don't do that?" Edge remarks.

"Then you will suffer, as you will be punished in the ways of the 5 old gods. That means you will be forced to eat pineapple pizza." The group screams in fear as they rush towards the coals. Safari is first to try the hot coals. She clenches her teeth together and pulls through.

The group looks in awe as Safari brushes off some coals sticking to her legs. Edge is next. He looks at Chrome with puppy eyes but a tap from Opera makes him realise that his baby daddy isn't gonna save him today. He sets his first foot onto the coals, and yells out the names of the father, the son and the holy spirit. But before he realises he is on the other side. Guess he really dislikes pineapples that much.

Next is Tor, who walks on the hot glowing coals without flinching, he must be using console hacks or smth. Brave comes afterwards and uses their intelligence and heat recognition to step only on the cooler coals. Chrome can tell Opera is looking especially at these two. He guesses they were doing the best of them all.

Firefox is going next, and then it's Chrome's turn. She uses her acrobatic skills to do a 360 spin and noscope a nearby crab, meanwhile jumping on the coals to get to the other side. Now everyone's done, and only Chrome's left.

Chrome looks at the coals. How warm must they be if they're literally glowing? He's not as intelligent as Brave so he doesn't know. He's also not as athletic as Firefox or as cute as Edge. He starts to feel useless as Opera starts ticking on her clock. She asks if Chrome would rather want the pineapple pizza. Chrome shrugs his head. Chrome tries touching the coal but is immediately repelled by the extreme heat. A small coal keeps clinging on and he almost falls over trying to get it off of him. The others giggle.

Chrome looks at Opera. "I can't do it." Opera shrugs her arms and says: "Guess it'll be pineapple pizza for you later. But first, we have to go through the other obstacles." As they walk to the new location, Edge starts comforting Chrome in a subby way. "It's alright bb uwu" Chrome can't help but feel embarrassed. Is he even good enough? Does Edge really not care? What if he thinks Chrome's weak?

Before he can come to an answer with himself, he finds himself at an airport along with the rest. The airship is overshadowed by large airplanes that dot the parking fields. Opera points at the airplanes. "To become stronger than the kidnappers of Jungkook, you guys are going to need to become strong enough to lift up this plane.

Chrome pulls up his sleeves and lifts up the biggest plane just like that. Brave feels weirded out. "Why do I need pure strength when I can use my intelligence instead?" Opera blushes and agrees with Brave. "I know you're extremely intelligent, maybe i'll give an exception just for u uwu." The other web browsers look at Opera and the blushed browser looks back up at the rest. "Alright alright, this test doesn't count for anyone."

They walk back around the island. They see big palm trees and crabs crabbing around. They come back to their original camp. They stop to take a break and watch MrBeasts newest upload.

As they get ready to walk to their new obstacle, suddenly government drones swarm in like bees from the sky.

"THEY FOUND US! who did not put their VPN on?" No-one gives a response.

"We'll figure that out later. For now, we have to flee!"

The group runs back to the airport. On their way, they come across the sea of coals once again. The drones are forming a perimeter on the other side.

"We're cornered in!" Safari remarks. Tor is trying to hack the system that controls the system.

Edge starts crying. "We are going to die like this! if we cross the sea of coals the drones will kill us all!"

Chrome looks at the coals. He knows what he has to do. "Follow me." he demands to the rest. They look in awe as he sets his feet on the glowing hot stones. He shrieks in pain as he starts to walk on the coals. Opera looks surprised. "guess no pineapple pizza for you anymore." she says as he reaches the other side.

Chrome grabs one of the drones and uses them as a bowling ball. Streak! new drones fly in as he grabs another drone ball. This time there are more. He reminds himself of the strategies he used in bowling with his dad. Three fingers in the, err, plug? He gets a slight shock as he launches the drone forwards, hitting a perfect line going towards the middle drone. They all fall over and the crowd cheers. Another streak! Edge remarks Chrome might need to attend a world championship of drone-bowling.

More drones fly in. "We can't survive like this for long, even with the bowling they're just going to keep pouring in!" Opera remarks.

"We'll be fine. I got this." says Tor calmly. "I'm into the mainframe already. It should take 2 minutes max. Do you have this until then, Chrome?" "No." Chrome responds. "Not alone. But together, we can fight these drones off for hours if we need to." The rest blushes and Edge blushes even harder. He gives Chrome a big kiss.

The team continues to fight the drones off with some of the best teamwork ever seen in history ever ever. Tor manages to hack the system and puts all drones on standby. The team cheers and that evening they go out drinking and cheering, even Opera is participating.