DEEP DRIVE ONLINE
How all began
It all started the day I bought myself a birthday gift... yes that’s right I had just turned 18 when my life as I know it got totally turned upside down. I had bought the new vrmmo that came out today, it was called Deep Drive Online and it was suppose to be a space exploration game. everyone had been following it for a long time now, almost about four years now which is almost unheard of in this day of age. I had just gotten the tank that was to connect your mind and body to the game hooked up and ready to go. I stepped into the tank and put the oxygen mask on before I pushed the red button that was below the green one to seal the door closed. the tank started to fill up with the green gel like substance. the gel felt kind of funny rubbing up against my skin too but after a while I was able to get use to it a little bit. When the gel was about ankle deep I looked up and out the glass of the tank and I see black smoke drifting up outside my window across from me. I started to panic and quickly started to pound on the green button to get out and after about hitting it ten times it started to drain the ankle deep gel ever so slowly. I started to pound on the glass door instead of the button cause it was taking its sweet time to drain. After about five minutes of this the doors finally started to open. But Sadly for me it was a little to late for me. When I was just about to rip off the mask and step out of the tank I hear a sound like the boards under the floor were cracking and then the floor seemed to just disappear and the last thing I remember is falling from the top floor of my apartment complex while inside the glass tank.
When I came to it was not gentle in the least, it was pure unadulterated pain. It felt like someone was holding a blow torch to my body and all I could see was a deep void, no light or shapes to speak of. I started screaming for a good ten seconds before I heard "SHUT THE BLOODY AIR CODITIONING OFF NOW!!!" the first thing I thought of after that was 'what does that have to do with someone trying to burn off my skin!'. After a while though I could feel the pain starting subside while the same voice just kept cooing at me like I'm some kind of infant. I so wanted to just tell the person to shut up because he or she was not helping in the least.
After a while I was able to finally stop crying and the first thing out of my mouth was "What the fuck happened to me?"
"Mr. Jackson I am sorry we did not think of turning off the air conditioning to your room. but to be completely honest with you we did not think you would wake up at all. Mr. Jackson do you remember anything at all before you woke up?"
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I shake my head and say "All I remember from yesterday is getting into my tank to play a game"
"well Mr. Jackson I am sorry to inform you that you were in a accident about four months ago" said the person in a very monotone voice.
'wait did he just say four months ago I thought I only was out for a day because a day would not be so bad but what about my apartment, my computer, or my cloths.' is anything left? "umm I'm sorry but I forgot to ask where am i...?" I seem to not be able to see at all or feel anything but dull pain right now but I'll take that over the sure hell that was only a little while ago. but I'm not to worried right now its probably just because something is covering my face.
"your in a private hospital right now Mr. Jackson, Oh that’s right I forgot to introduce myself. I'm sorry my name is Dr. David Lee and I am the one that has been taking care of you Joseph, do you mind if I use your first name? all this Mr. this and Mr. that just gets on my nerves and I prefer just David too. no Dr. or using my last name, just to formal you know?" said the person sitting next to me before I could even try to answer his first question not even mentioning the whole get's on nerves part...
'can't he stick to one thing at a time and not change the subject every few minutes or does he just like hearing himself talk' I wonder while saying "sure Joseph is just fine thanks David and I understand what you mean"
"thanks, now back to what I was saying... you were in an accident about four months ago. You were inside a glass tank when your apartment building caught fire and you were unable to get out before part of your floor collapsed and you went down with it... the glass tank shattered when you hit bottom and much of the glass got embedded into you while the flames gave you third degree full thickness burns all over your body" David says then in a quite voice he includes one last thing "including your eyes"
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That’s it for the prologue people. thanks for reading it and leave comments please it will help with my writing. I'll try to get at least one chapter out a week if you guys want to hear more so just leave a comment giving the go ahead as well.
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last but not least I give thanks to Viken who is the author of Universe Online and Ficfanatic with The Nebula for giving me what I needed to start writing again. this is my first time on royal road though so any advice is welcome.
Val