'It is going to be yet another bad day' , Atar thought as he looked out of the only window in his small apartment. The sight was anything but pleasant,the tin cans which the federation liked to call housing quarters, were stacked upon each other like a pile of legos , sewage water overflowed on to the roads which were already almost non existent, cables and wiring created an enormous spider web which almost blocked the sun .

His thoughts were Broken as he received a text on his phone,it was a text basically telling him he no longer had a job and he can fuck off.

"A great fucking start to this awful day" he swore loudly as he smashed his phone onto the ground but the phone luckily managed to survive .

the world was going a downward spiral ever since the The great war, which everyone thought was a necessary evil back then which will unify the world, but alas nothing good came out of the war, the world was divided into 3 parts , 90 % of the population was struggling to eat a decent meal, most of the jobs were snatched away by the ai's and bots , it really wasn't a world he wanted to live in anymore .

Finally after getting his thoughts together, he decided to venture out of his tin can , after climbing down many ladders and sliding down roofs he landed on the ground and was immediately greeted by a familiar face .

"Well,well,well if it isn't, Atar the barsmaid " Cika said with a chuckle as he pulled Atar into an embrace

"You gotta stop that nonsense dude or I'll have to smack some sense into that ant Brain of yours" Atar threatened Cika as he returned his hug "When did you return from Paltrion?,i thought they were going to keep you in that hellhole for a while ".

"Well,what can i say, i was also a bit shocked when they said I can have a few weeks off" Cika replied ,

Cika was a childhood friend and also the bestfriend of Atar , both of them had been through a lot of shit together,both of their parents were either never present or didn't care about them, Cika was among the few people Atar truly cared about these days.

"What the hell have you been doing man, you're looking great" Atar said as he eyed Cika, gone was the scrawny little kid with wide eyes and instead a man was standing in front of him, tall , with a muscular frame , deep blue eyes , blonde hairs with a matching beard and a naturally handsome face bastard was ready to pick all in ladies in the downtown.

"Nothing special, just Good ol' military stuff" Cika said with a wink . "I guess you aren't doing as well though" he said amused,and that started the long conversation about how fucked Atar's life was which ended with a few bottles of whisky a bar fight and a broken nose on atars end, but both of them managed to crash in Atar's apartment by midnight.

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"What the hell is going on" Atar groggily thought as a weird monotonous voice started announcing even weirder stuff in his head."I shouldn't have drank this much last night" he thought as he slowly remembered about last night.

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"I think I'm losing my sanity right now" Atar thought, something weird was going on and he didn't know what to do, was this a prank or something, or maybe it was a dream, it must be something like that, he was too sleepy to give a damn about this shit was about to try going back to sleep when Cika started cursing from the couch in the living room.

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"Atar, let me sleep peacefully you bastard" Cika yelled at him with some more artistic curses.

"What the hell are you on about?" Atar asked a bit annoyed.

"What is this bullshit , i just heard in my sleep and what the hell is a system?"

"Wait, you heard that too?" Now Atar was wide awake and his peanut brain was trying to understand what the hell was going on.

"Ofcourse I heard it, stop doing that shit" Cika replied.

Atar jumped out of his bed and practically sprinted to the living room , "I'm not doing anything dude , I thought I was the only one who heard that" Atar told Cika hurriedly. Cika slowly woke up and sat on the couch,

"What do you mean that wasn't you? , How am I randomly hearing weird things ? " Cika asked groggily,

"I donno mate, but either someone is playing a prank or some wierd shit is going on right now" Atar told Cika with a serious expression on his face

"Nah man.. we just drank too much last night"

"No listen to me , that doesn't make any sense, this is something else" Atar told Cika, his brain was now working overtime to decode what was going on. Just as Cika opened his mouth to say something, they heard a commotion going on in neighbourhood, both of them rushed to the window immediately what they saw was a complete pandemonium, some of the neighbours were gathered on the streets and were arguing about something

"This is just some new shit the government made up " someone said

"What is even the point of that?" Another lady asked,

"I'm telling you this is some voodoo stuff "

"This is the end of the world, it's apocalypse " a teenager yelled in the midst of the commotion and a silence followed him.

"Bullshit, you watch too many damn movies Ian" the lady admonished the kid "Go home and look after your sister I'm coming in a few moments"

"But...mom" the kid urged but was threatened by his mom and scurried away quickly .

Atar moved away from the window and sat down on the couch, he didn't believe this was a prank or something the government would because from the looks of it, this wasn't an isolated event and there was no gain to anyone whatsoever if this was someones doing, he took out his phone and started going through the news and found out that, almost everyone in world was in a similar state as them, no one knew what was going to happen and everyone was in a panic right now .

Even though he didn't look like , Atar was actually too damn smart and quickly figured out that something major was going to happen and quickly started to think about what he can do about the situation, which he figured that he knew way too little to jump to a conclusion. But he knew they had 3 hrs to prepare for whatever was going to happen

His musings were interrupted as Cika said "Well, doesn't look like only we're the only ones experiencing it" Atar could tell that Cika was also tense now, Cika's millitary training was probably starting to kick in , from the looks of it Cika had also decoded the same things as him.

"So,what do we do?" Cika asked Atar with a serious expression.

"I may be wrong but I think this calls for a 'Sunkenship'" Atar finally said with a long sigh.

"You're joking right, firstly we created 'Sunkenship' for apocalypse type scenarios and secondly i thought it was a dumb high school joke between us" Cika questioned him with an expression of disbelief.

"Yes we created it as joke, but I have a gut feeling, this thing going on is some major shit and we'd better be safe than sorry" Atar replied,

Back in the school there always used to be talks of another war or AI going out of control , scientists creating zombies and all kind of scenarios, so one day out of boredom he and his friends decided to create a code for when the shit hits the fan, called 'Sunkenship' it was basically what they should do if they get a headstart and what items should they pack and were to regroup and all kinds of stuff, He never in his lifetime thought he'd use that stuff.

"Call them and tell them it's 'Sunkenship' and tell them it's serious I'll try to think what we else we can do" Atar told Cika to call other members of their group and he himself took out his phone to make few calls.

"But , you do know that I don't talk to Amy and Denji anymore and I also think you're overreacting to stuff maybe nothing as drastic as you're suggesting will happen , I think you should think things through" Cika told Atar sounding a bit annoyed.

"No, I know it in my bones that this is some serious business and I really dont think this is the right time to let the past get in the way of things"

"Fine, I'll do it,but it's on you if this is nothing but some global level prank and it's just a false alarm"

"Sure,sure" Atar waved him off as he started preparing for what was about to happen , he was also trying to come with a decent plan but it was really hard without knowing much about what was about to happen.

Finally after what seemed like an eternity the voice returned.

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"This is it mate, remember whatever happens I love you"Cika said with a pained expression

"Fuck you bastard" Atar chuckled , this guy really was trying to be funny at such a time

"Here have this" Atar handed Cika a bagpack that he'd prepared already and strapped the one he had on his back unfortunately they didn't have any guns on them but both of them had baseball bats with them.

"You remember where we'll meet if we get separated" Atar asked , Cika answered with a nod "good, hopefully it's nothing and we'll b..." Atar didn't get to quite finish his words as the world turned dark.....

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