I’m currently on my way to Sam’s place. Jack dragged himself to his room as Claude took me here. I knew he wouldn’t take me there himself.  At Least Sam should be a little more active.  The Claude Family has a really interesting seat just for me in the car. It’s comfy, relaxing, and highly expensive. Thing is that with their family they can afford a ton of these cars. Being owned by a rich family is really nice. Sam is not a minor figure despite being a internet Lurker. He is one of the top Pro players Counter Strike New Dawn, and is able to take down a 30 Man team on his own. He’s known as the 4th strongest player in New Dawn. With incredibly good kill death ratio.

However do to his ability he isn’t actually a big person. He works incredibly quickly with his hands and his house is normally spotless. So It's a bit odd that he’d have rats but… I did hear from Jack that something really important was going on soon. Some sort of world wide event? I’m not very sure. These houses are really big…

“Your a pretty intelligent cat Shade. To the point of crazy. DId you know that a large amount of people are actually interested in buying you? We’ve refused them of course but still it's reached 1.2 million dollars. Quite amazing aren’t you Shade.” - Claude

… Why didn’t I hear of this before… Now I have to be careful that I don’t get kidnapped. Although that is unlikely with this world's tech. I got a tracker within me, and the cops of this age are very advanced. They can catch a terrorist a day after one plans a attack. They’ve also stopped thieves and robbers in the act. Plus murders are so low to be negligible. Even wars are rare, the government now relies on game to decide things, I believe it's called World Argument. It’s a RTS game that deals with politics, public view, and a good bit of war strategy. Claudes been talking this whole time during my thoughts. It’s very annoying. Hmm, we are almost there. I wonder, what about my abilities. So far what I’ve seen is Highlight, Radar, Will, A 2008 desktop screen in my head with the abilities of notepad paint and etc, and my combat sense. With the Highlight ability I can look at a person and mark him in my mind with Red, Yellow, and Green, when highlighted I can see them through walls and hills. With Radar I can mark dots with names and if they are a enemy or not. I can also sense hostile intent and when I do the person appears on my radar as a red dot. Will is basically Me. I can think, dream, and remember. The Desktop screen is pretty simple. I can play games, listen to music I’ve heard before, and I can write logs. I believe there is a way to connect to internet but I haven’t figured it out yet.

“Make sure to be careful here at Sams although he is a good person we have no idea how many people could be targeting you here.” - Claude

“Meerroww.” -Shade

The place we stopped at is a apartment area. I believe this place is called Game Time Plaza. Gaming is a huge industry in this world after all and this place caters specifically to gamers. Claude picks me up and we go into the building. There is a two ladies in the round desk and the walls were painted with chinese dragons. We head up to the desk.

“Welcome Sir, May I ask you what are you here for today?” - Desk Lady

“I’m here to see a Sam Claude.” - Claude

“Sam Claude is busy please come later if you want autographs.” Desk Lady

“I’m his uncle. I’ve come to see him.” - Desk Lady

“Achooo-” Other Desk Lady

“You should bring that disgusting animal out of here!” - Other Desk Lady

I feel hurt. I wanna scratch you evil desk lady.

“This is my cat,  and the rules of these apartments allows animals.” - Claude

“Not anymore! The rules of this place has changed. Now animals aren’t allowed inside the apartments!” - Evil Desk Lady

“Oh really?” - Claude

“Yes, really!” - Evil Desk Lady

Claude pulls out his phone and starts typing a number. The Evil Desk Lady is just glaring at me.

“Hey Rob, it's me Claude. Yes yes yes everything seems to be fine. Oh yeah did you put a rule that animals aren’t allowed into the apartments. You didn’t? This Lady say’s you did. Her name is Shima Reids. Oh ok” - Claude

You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author.

He hands phone to evil desk lady.

“Hello. But sir. No sir. I’m sorry sir. NO I CAN’T LOSE THIS JOB! BUT SIR!” - Evil Desk Lady

Hmm I don’t really feel sad for her. Especially in the current economy. Although if she loses this job she will never be able to get a job of the same level, but she can still get those 45000 dollar jobs. She just doesn’t want to leave 1.4 million dollars a month behind. From what I see she's only started here this month so she won’t obtain a full check. Probably at most ½  of 1.4 mill. The economy in this world is purely, insanely, high. The woman leaves out the door crying throwing her ID tag on the floor. She most likely knows she won’t be hired by a Corporations involved in Gaming. But she is guaranteed to get a job in other things thanks to the economy. Unless she offends the people there. The first Desk Lady sends a message to Sam and Sam replied “Send them up!” Then we hopped in the elevator and almost fall asleep on the way up. The elevator door opens.

“UNCLE!” -Sam

A young youthful golden eyed boy hugs Claude.

“Hi little Egg.” - Claude

“Its Sam not Egg!” - Sam

“Merrow!” - Shade

“Oh Hello little Shade!” - Sam

He reaches down picks me up and starts to pet me.

“You going to get rid of these rats for me today!” - Sam

Yep so let’s go!

“Now Sam here is Shades food, his bed, his tracker and a book on normal cat behaviors even though you probably won’t need to use it do to Shades peculiarities.” - Claude

“Yea, yea. Shouldn’t you get to the lab it's 8:20 in the morning you know.” - Sam

“Oh no I’m going to be late! I got to go see you tomorrow Shade!” - Claude

Claude runs back into the elevator then steps out and runs to the stairs on the opposite side. Too bad I can’t tell him he takes longer on the stairs. Sam picks up the Items Claude left with his other hand. We head to his room. We enter a Room 7. The top floors rooms are renumbered. Do you know there isn’t a number 7 room on the lower floors? Apparently all the lucky numbers are located here in the upper levels. The room is pretty normal. There is a bed on the side, some lamps, and 4 doors. This place is practically my dream house from my past life, a small area with a room dedicated to gaming. Plus it's hard for people to bug you… It really is my dream house… I was always told I need to have more goals though. I did try to be realistic in my ideas in the past though.

“Alright now Shade today you will be staying here today. I have a goal for you do you think you can do.” - Sam

“Merow.” - Shade

“That's the spirit! The objective is to get rid of the rats plaguing this building.” - Sam

I nod.

“Let's do this!” - Sam

Hmm why did he get his camera? Oooh He probably wants to upload this to Redemption. It's a site that was launched when youtube got obscure and irritating in this world. Now Redemption is the perfect example of the Old Youtube where people weren’t toxic and everyone wanted to have fun making videos. Youtube still exists but the people who worked on it wouldn’t budge on trying to change everyone's ideas so it only receives about 500 viewers a month now.

“Are you going to go Shade?” - Sam

I drag myself off the bed and then jump to our doors handle and open it.

“Wait where are you going!” - Sam

You don’t think the rats are in your room do you? The rats stay in the vents from what I sense and they come out when you sleep. Good he's chasing after me. I see the open vent and jump in.

“Wait Shade!” - Sam

Ok now this is where things get tricky. I run through the vents jumping, down, going around. I have to avoid the fans and the Cleaner bots in the vents. The rats most likely adapted to them which is why they didn’t get caught. I circle a area with a bot in it and go straight to one of the rat nests. I see approximately 5 rats and a few babies rats. I have a very dark history with rats. In my past life the reason I died was with rats. So I hold absolutely no qualms with going on a massacre of rats. They are the number one terrorists in the world! Delivering disease, biting innocent people, and tearing apart protective wear! I jump towards them using my paws as fast as I can.

*Swap Crack Swap Crack Swap Crack…*

I always aim for the instant death. I drag the nest to the closest open vent which is wear Sam is right now.

“He went in the vents! We need to save him!” - Sam

“Sir we don’t have a way to save the cat. No one can fit into the vents.” - Management guy.

I pop out of the vent dragging the rat nest behind me. They stare at me.

“Shade..?” - Sam

“Merow.” - Shade

“These are the rats that's been plaguing us!” - Management guy

Hes looking at me with grateful eyes huh. I’m sorry but there's more rats left. Here I go!

-As the day past the Management found several nests of rats near open vents. All dead of course. Then the people found out Shades past as the Rat Exterminator. A lot of Guests signed a petition to try to make it where the cat gets to stay in the hotel. But Sam Claude put an end to that by saying it wasn’t his cat and he asked to borrow it so he can’t give it away. On that day the price to attempt to buy Shade went up to 453 Million dollars. The sharpest increase in price to ever have been seen. The Claude family still refused to sell.-