“Dead!” I yelled. Well now that I looked back on it, it makes sense that I died. I mean was was laying on the floor in the hospital room waiting for my death. But I guess I was expecting it to be painful or something more ummm.....spiritual I guess. I wasn’t expecting to just be here in a sort of waiting room type scenario. “So AVA, where am I at? Since you know...I kicked the bucket and all.”
“You are in Limbo, to put it into terms you would be able to understand.” Ava replied
“Limbo!” I said shocked. “So I guess I really am going to the underworld it seems” I said to myself.
“Well, no” AVA said, “you are being processed from one......”
“Wait” I said cutting her off mid sentence, “so what about the Gods, Zeus, Odin, shivaand Buddha, which god is real?”Ava stood quiet for a bit as if she was thinking...or processing something.
“Well, they are all real.” She replied. I sat there with my mouth opened thinking, “How could they all be real?”
“They are the constructors, or in terms you can understand they are the programmers of your universe and life as you know it. They are the ones that maintain balance and make sure everything is working smoothly and efficiently. As long as everything is moving within the bounds and laws that they have set, they do not interfere. The constructors or GODS as you humans say, is a team of programmers that work on this simulation that your consciousness existed in”
“What” I said in awe, “So what about hell or the underworld, is that real?”. Again there was a pause, the Ava began to speak again.
“We have an uh.... I guess to put it into terms you’d understand, we have a trash bin that we empty from time to time”. I sat there dumbfounded.
“So then what about me, where am I going? Am I going to heaven or am I going to the trash bin?” I said mockingly.
AVA bluntly stated “The trash bin is currently full and needs to be emptied, that is why I am here. The constructors are too busy with more pressing matters and can’t stop what they are doing to deal with one single consciousness. You are....again to put into terms you can understand, your document doesn’t have a home and needs to be processed. You have two options. Option 1. Wait for the trash bin to finish being emptied. Or option 2. I can transfer your file to another simulation where you will experience life there as you have here on earth. Of course the new simulation will have different laws as to what is possible” I sat there thinking as I put my head down onto the table and felt the rough grain on the wood pressed against my forehead. I wasn’t sure what I wanted, not because of the choices. I mean option 2 is obviously the better option but I mean, I just had so many questions I wanted to ask. “Time is running out” AVA said.“The trash bin is almost empty and if you don’t make a choice then you will be put into the trash bin to free up space.”
“Ah shit” I said “ok ok ok, I choose option 2 but I have some questions first.”
“Ok, perfect I will begin preparations for the transfer, while it is being processed I will answer your questions.” Ava said.
I smiled to myself and thought “perfect, second chance, here I come!”.
“Ok question 1. Do I have to be born again or can I start as someone older? Idon’t want to go through school again, it sucked and I don’t want to deal with kids anymore. Question 2, Am I special, do I have some sort of gift that allowed me to be here? Question 3. Can I get some sort of skills or extra brain power to get an advantage in this world?” The liquid that filled Ava’s ball of light started to swirl more, then she spoke
“Question 1. No, you don’t have to be born again, you may start at whatever age you like. Question 2. You.......are not special, like I said earlier, the trash bin was full and you were taking up space. I am here to deal with the inconveniences and you were well......an unsightly document on the Home Screen of a sort of desktop computer with no home”. That hurt me, my pride was hit hard, I thought my whole life that I was meant for more, but I guess in the end I was a just space in a computer.
“As for question 3. No, you may not. As I said, you are not special, I will help where I can during the process but once the process is finished you will be on your own.”
“Damn” I thought to myself, “Ok I want to start at 19 years old, I don’t want to have to learn how to walk again, or go through the whole school thing. I was always a loner and never had a date to the dances and don’t want to experience the shame and embarrassment again.”Avas light flashed twice and then she spoke.
“Ok you will start at 19 years old, the language that is spoken there isn’t something you are familiar with, I will load the language into your consciousness, you will hear and speak everything as they do since you won’t be going through the birthing process. You will retain your memories from your world. Although I don’t believe they will be of any use to you there. Preparations for transfer is complete and will begin in 5 minutes.” I was ready, rubbing my hands together like an evil villain. I’m ready to start my new life, I’m gonna do everything different, I’m going to have cars, money and tons of women. I’m going to be a playboy here and live the rich life, eat at all the finest restaurants, penthouse suits, mansions and everything I didn’t have in this life but wanted.
The lights started to fade and I felt like I was free falling, my stomach was turning like if the speed was pushing my stomach to the back of my spine. I shut my eyes in attempt to avoid what I thought was going to be an impact onto a new world. I pictured myself hitting the world like an asteroid as I instinctively braced myself for impact onto some unknown world. Then I realized there was no impact, my stomach wasn’t turning anymore and I felt as if I wasn’t even moving. I opened my eyes and I was standing on grass in an open field. Trees were placed sparingly, separated by lush green grass. I then heard a sort of ring. “You have arrived Mark” Avas voice came out again from all directions.
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“Hey Ava”. I said “I was expecting to be thrown like a meteorite towards this world, I didn’t expect to be just.....well....uh....teleported.”
“Oh, I apologize Mark, let me fix that for you”. Then the world suddenly disappeared and I was falling from what I figured to be the blackness of space being hurled at the new world. My stomach began to turn again and I thought to myself “ah shit, I should have kept my dam mouth shut”. As I gazed at the new world in awe and wonder I noticed that this world didn’t have the colors I was used to seeing in a picture of the world, I mean ya there was some blue colors that I assumed was water or the ocean, there was a yellow sand color that I figured was a desert. There was green and a light green that was a normal representation of land but there was also an intense red and orange colored area of the world that looks like it was on fire. That was pretty strange as I thought to myself “Ya I’m not going to lava land, screw that”. The weirdest part of it was there was a bluish green haze or mist that was swirling around the world in multiple rings. I had a sense that the mist had some sort of life to it but couldn’t exactly pin down what the feeling was. But looking atthis new world as I was hurling towards it, I have to admit, it was an amazing sight to see, I had a vision of myself flying toward the world below and crashing with the destruction on the same scale as the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, or at least I think that’s what happened. “I’m going to have to ask Ava if I ever get the chance” I thought to myself.
As I started getting closer to the world I didn’t sense myself slowing down, it’s like gravity grabbed hold of me and I started to gain a bit of speed. The world was getting closer and fast, i whizzed through the clouds, sped through a flock of birds and the ground was getting bigger and bigger. I closed my eyes and put my hands in front of me to brace for impact, tensing my whole body in hopes to arrest the fall with my arms, like that would even work. I thought to myself. Then I stopped, I opened my eyes and my body way floating parallel with the ground about 2 inches from the grass. The floating abruptly ended and my face crashed into the grass. “Ow, what the hell AVA! I yelled out. AVA spoke again and said
“Was the new entrance to your liking mark?”.
“No!!....no it wasn’t, I could have died.” I replied with anger. Then she said
“Well if you died you would be processed into the trash bin”. Geeez I’m starting to not like her, I thought to myself and said
“Ok I get it, I won’t complain about the entrance anymore”. She then said
“Good, My time here with you is running out, I will give you the basic outline of what I did for you, the rest of the world is up to you to figure out, like I said you don’t get any special perks or boons to give you an edge over the rest of the population. The general language here has been injected into your consciousness, meaning that you understand and can speak it. Any other languages you will need to learn on your own. Since you did not go through the birthing process here and are not 100% native to this world you can’t access the scans that natives here are accustomed to using, You just need to think “scan” and it will show you the info of what are scanning. Other than that, your body has been given the basic template for this world. To understand exactly what that means you will need to “scan” yourself. Like the last world, you have one life, well I guess you may not depending on the path you take here but you will need to figure that out yourself. My time here has run out and we will not be in contact again until this life is over. Even then though, you will be going to the trash bin, so please enjoy your new life. “Wait Ava!” I shouted, but didn’t get any answer. Well, I guess thats the end of my communication with her, or it, or whatever Ava was. “Hmmm, Ava did say to scan myself” I thought. Well might as well try it, no time like the present. I thought “scan” and suddenly a transparent window popped up in front of me.
Stats:
Name______
Class: common
Rank: none
Alignment: neutral
Strength: 6
Dexterity: 6
Mental: 6
Health: 90
Mana: 108
Stamina: 12
Skill: None
“Wait a second” I thought to myself, am I in a freaking game or something? I mean if this is real then hell ya I’m in. Who wouldn’t want to be in some sort of fantasy world like this. There are tons of books and anime where the main character gets reborn, but this seems almost to good to be true. Then I thought “well I guess I don’t get the penthouse suit, the mansions, the money and girls. But this is way better than that”. As I looked back at my stat screen I noticed that I had no skills, and my stats were pretty dam weak, “ughhhh, if I would have known this was what the world was maybe I should have gone through the birthing process. Then at least I would have some sort of specialization in skills rather than my normal, spread into everything and suck and everything type build.” Well there’s no turning back now, I have a chance at a new life and I’m going to make the most of it. I continued looking through my stats and noticed the “Alignment” section and wondered “I guess that means I can be good or evil, or whatever this worlds equivalent of it is, I’m going to be a hero in this world, yup, that’s my choice I going to be the damn hero and a good one at that. As I pictured myself if some blue tights and red underwear over them with a matching red cape like a certain comic “super” hero from my world” I laughed at the thought of myself dressed like that. Then my eyes were drawn to the “Name” section of my stat screen. “Why is my name blank?” I thought to myself “well I guess it would make sense that this is a new life and a new life deserves a new name”. I sat on the grass and thinking about a name I should give myself for this new life. “I can’t choose a dumb name, it needs to be something cool that would sound heroic, something that would inspire people when they hear my name.” As I sat there racking my brain, grabbing handfuls of blades of grass and throwing them up in the air letting the wind take them a couple feet away and repeating it. Then a name came to my mind, “ I got it!” I said out loud. I stood up on my feet, rested my arms on my waist puffed up my chest in a super hero pose and said “My name is....Hiro, Hiro Wolfe!” I shouted. I felt a tingling sensation surge through my body and a breeze picked up around me, then under my “Name” section on my stat screen the words “Hiro Wolfe” filled in. I was expecting some sort of notification or pop up to show but I guess this wasn’t a game after all so there was nothing beside the breeze and tingling sensation. “I need to remember this isn’t a game” I thought to myself. Now, I have everything I need to start my new life as I turned to look at my surroundings, “Get ready world, your Hiro (with an I) has arrived!”