POV: Aiwans Screuiundaz
Everyone suddenly disappeared. Even the corpses of those I killed earlier. Something's definitely wrong.
I entered an abandoned building which probably used to be a mini-grocer. I looked over the shelves hoping to find something edible. I found some packed snacks, but they were all already expired. As I tried to salvage the store, something caught my eye. It was a magazine rack. Among the torn and rotting articles, there was one magazine that seemed readable.
"What the heck is this!" I shouted in shock. The date on the magazine was wrong. I was pretty sure I was in the 31st century, but the year the magazine was published was 8089! This place also looks abandoned for quite some time, so the magazine should already be an article of the past.
"Just what's going on?" I thought as I sat down on some rubble. I was exhausted, my memories are in disarray, and the current situation doesn't help.
Suddenly, I heard a sound near the entrance. My instincts kicked in and I dived forward and rolled on the ground. Noticing that I was clearly visible from the entrance, I tried to make my way to the back of the store and hide behind the shelves, but the headaches attacked again and added to the exhaustion I was feeling, my knees went numb and I stumbled on the ground, rolled a bit, hit some shelves causing them to collapse. I accidentally dropped my gun and I was pinned down. I could force my way out with the help of the ArmS, but the intense pain boring through my skull made me unable to do anything.
"Uhhh... what are you doing?" A figure appeared through the entrance. It was one of those traitors from earlier! Are they using a stealth function? Damn! I let my guard down! Will this be how it all ends? I haven't exacted my revenge against the Fidmeialaths yet!
The figure approached me, then when I thought it was all about to end, it squatted in front of me. The gray visor on its helmet cleared and revealed a pair of beautiful emerald eyes. Man? Woman? It was hard to tell.
"How'd you manage to get yourself stuck in there?" it asked. Even its voice was androgynous. I have never met someone like this.
"What are you?" I asked under my breath. "You don't seem to be... human."
The eyes looked a bit surprised.
"That's right. I'm not human. I am a Newtype." It sounded strangely happy.
Newtype? Are they humanoid weapons developed by the Fidmeialaths? Or are they the ones who led the Fidmeialaths to Earth?
As I was pondering on what it said, it reached out to me. I panicked, uncharacteristic of me, but in my situation where a lot of things doesn't make sense anymore, I couldn't help but lose my calm.
I pushed it away with my free arm and screamed, "Stay away from me! Monster! Bane of Humanity! You should just go back to wherever hellhole you came from and rot!" That was a stupid thing to do. It got mad.
It stood up and aimed its two handguns on me and started firing.
"Gu--! Fu--! Sto--! Qui--! Ga--!" I couldn't get a word in as the impacts of the shots on my helmet rattled my brain. Surprisingly, they couldn't penetrate my armor, but the shock of the impacts reverberated in my head. After a while, the firing stopped.
"Shit, I just wasted a lot of money with those heatclips." It squatted again and said, "So are you a cheater? What hack are you using?"
You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author.
I couldn't hear what it said after that. The unbearable pain of my headaches and the shots had caused me to faint.
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POV: Dextrose
Did he log out? I thought as I expected his avatar to disappear. After a while, he was still there. What the heck?
"There's no use on pretending to be unconscious. The system logs you out if you become unconscious in the game," I said as I kicked his head. He was strangely limp.
"Heeeey!" I knocked on the helmet. There really was no response.
I tried to lift the shelf that had fallen on top of him. It was too heavy. Then I found the rifle he was using. I picked it up, and found that it was strangely heavy. Is the STR requirement high? But if it is, how could a Level 1 like him use it? So he must really be cheating. His equipments are probably late-game items which he got by hacking, then modified his character data so that he could equip them. That must be it.
I aimed the rifle at the shelf on top of him fired, hoping he won't get hit. The recoil of the rifle was strong enough to almost knock me back. As the surrounding dust cleared, the part of the shelf on top of him had already disappeared. It disintegrated. What the heck is with this overpowered weaponry?
I dragged him out of the remaining rubble and inspected the armor he was wearing. Both the armor and rifle wasn't in the item database released by the game management. Are these hidden items? Special prizes for future events?
Something felt out of place.
Oh, that's right. He's unconscious, but the game has not logged him out. A system bug? Probably because he was using a cheat, the system bugged out on him. Serves him right.
As I continued to inspect his armor, I found a small crack on the area near his butt. A thought came to mind involving the bathroom designs in the game, and I shook my head to remove the disgusting thought.
Suddenly I heard a small sound coming from him. Did he wake up?
"Fi...ii..." I strained my ears to figure out the exact location of the sound.
"Fiiii....iii..." It seemed to be coming from his butt. Don't tell, me he's farting in his sleep?
"Fiiii....miiiii..." The crack on his butt increased in size and a small egg-like thing rolled out. The egg had spider-like legs poking out from its sides. I picked it up, and thought, 'Did he just lay an egg?'
Then the egg broke and an insect that looked like the cross of a spider and a cockroach jumped out and tried to snap at my fingers. I immediately threw it to the side and point my guns at it.
"Feeeed Meeeeeeeeeee!"
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I was aiming for something like a mix comedy action story, but i guess i dont have much talent when it comes to comedy. Forgive my poor humor.
I just noticed that the Fidmeialaths are like cy-bugs in wreck-it ralph. It's a coincidence!!! They're just similar! They're not the same thing!