"I can't believe you talked me into this.", I said to my friend who was currently eating a bag of chips. Good god, he was basically breathing the chips in, no wonder he's always salty."First of all, you're the one that suggested this to us. Second, stop bitching about this, you were the one that suggested doing this.", from the side, a cool reply from ex-girlfriend quickly shot towards me. How dare she call me a bitch, to think she'd call me, of all people, to be bitching! Surely she's lost her mind!
"Victor, I would like to point out that your lack of ability in applying common sense is truly problematic. I suggest you improve yourself by answering situational problems that the internet should be able to provide. I worry that you might cause complications to not only yourself, but everyone else around you.", said my favorite nerd. As usual, she's judging the hell out of me, telling me about the shit she's already told me many times before. Not like I can blame her for it, she's kinda right. "Eh, whatever. Let's just get this over with.", Martin, I mean I, replied. We were currently walking down a sidewalk, a surprisingly empty one. Empty because the sun hasn't even risen, and the stars were still visible. We didn't really need to this, we could literally just ask for a pick-up, but my favorite nerd woke us all up at 3AM in the morning, and basically forced us to walk outside. For someone who stays in the house a lot, she's actually quite physically fit. Imagine this, a group of kids just walking down a road they've never seen, in a city they just visited now, with not a single guardian to protect them. Kids isn't really the right term, considering the oldest among them, who was Captain Potato Chips over there, just reached 25 a few days ago. The youngest, which is 17, was currently grumbling about everything. Yep, I'm the youngest. Since I've said the age, might as well introduce the person.
Victor Sanchez, an amazing person that just graduated college, which was quite surprising by his age and personality. Who would have thought that an idiot like him would graduate, much more at such young age. As for what I graduated in? Doesn't matter, just know that it won't really help with how I live my life. I'm what people would call an immigrant, a legal one. I believe I need to make that point well-known. Being an illegal immigrant back then caused such a big controversy, and most people didn't get over it. I've lived my live mostly in South-East Asia, though living there was such a pain. I couldn't even speak my native language properly, the only part of my language that I'm proficient in is the cussing, English is what I'm best at though. I'm rather average in height, just 5' 5'', leaning on the chubby side of life with 154 pounds on me. I have the typical messy hair look that was such a craze back then, with eyes that ALWAYS look tired. My skin color? I'm fairly white, actually.
The one eating the potato chips is Theodore Clancy, born with perfect looks and a very imperfect attitude. Blond hair that reached around his shoulders, dark-blue eyes that can entrance most people if they look long enough, and a body that wouldn't lose out to a male model's. He's a slob, there's no other way to explain how he deals with his life. Doesn't help that he's rich and literally just relies on his family when it comes to everything, they own a very large company that deals with a lot of shit people use in their life everyday. You'd think he'll have paparazzi swarming his ass while bodyguards pushed them away, but no, he's actually a bastard son. He was accidentally conceived by his dad when he was on a business trip, which his bride didn't like much. His prospects of inheriting the company is basically nil, but he still gets advantages.
Now, my ex-girlfriend. Well, I wouldn't really call her my ex, heck, it's even harder to call her my girlfriend. Amanda Snow Lim. A half-american half-asian beauty that almost never smiles. Bright red hair that reaches her very wonderful ass, she's smoking. Literally. She's smoking a stick of tobacco right now, which is strange to see considering the fact that's what the elderly usually use to kill themselves. I can't really say anything too much about her, mainly because she's probably the most normal among us. She's lived her 19 years of life without too much problems, she's currently studying to get a degree in something that I don't really know nor care about, she has a loving family. One of her problems in life? Me. Let's just say me and her had a few swings together, and though they ended very well, it didn't really mean we were compatible for each other. Well, at least from my point of view.
My favorite nerd goes by the name of Nadine Johnson, she literally looks like one of those generic nerds that they show in shows. Thick-rim glasses, pigtails, and extremely beautiful looks when you remove her glasses and put make-up on her. Always the one with a soft expression on her face, her brown hair gives her the feeling of being the mother in our little group, which she basically is. 22. she's actually like me, someone who graduated way early. But she has the qualifications to be called a genius in the field she studied, unlike me. Always the most informed in our group, she's talkative, and always looks for ways to help us all. She's too kind, which is why she's usually the one that can rein me in when I have one of my episodes where I do the dumbest of things. Anyways, introductions are done.
Jesus, why am I so long-winded today. I never explain anything in such an expansive style."Victor, stop having mental monologues and look where you're going.", right after Nadine said that, I hit my face on a lamppost."CONFOUND IT ALL!", I scream quite loudly. I try to be creative in how I complain."We should have just called for a cab, it'd be easier.", grumbling, I walk while rubbing my now aching face. Eventually, we reached our destination. An exquisite building that rose higher than any other in vicinity, in front of us was the a sign that gave anyone passing through a very clear idea of what or who owned it. Mirror Fall.
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"Right this way, children. Again, we thank you for sacrificing yourselves for the sake of our research. It's quite hard these days to find people who're willing to leave their life that aren't suicidal, we can't really use those types of people.", a balding man was talking to us while he was reading a few sheets of paper, I could smell the thick scent of ginger spice on him.
"Sacrifice isn't really the best word to describe what we're doing right now, Mr. Burns.", Amanda was already being spicy, that's a good sign. We were all currently strapped down to metal beds, our limbs tied to our sides with an array of machinery and sharp needles inside us. Though this sounded ominous, it isn't really as bad as one might think. We all agreed to this, we've said our farewells to friends and family, most of the loose end in our lives have been tied together... We're basically ready for what's going to come now.
"I agree, Professor. Though the situation may count as us sacrificing ourselves for the sake of improvement, this is simply for entertainment reasons and we've already been notified that it'll pose no threats to our life. Rather, we should be thanking you for allowing us the chance to be the first testers of the concept of Full-Body Virtual Reality Immersion.", Nadine was being herself too, and she explained what's happening right now. We're gonna be testers for VR, but the catch is this'll be permanent. Technically. Once the research is done, it's our choice whether or not we'll return to reality or forever stay in the virtual one. Nifty, huh.
"I don't care, let's just get this over with. The faster the procedures go, the sooner we'll be 'reincarnated'. This'll be interesting enough.", Theodore with a very important word in his sentence. Reincarnation. What's also special about this is that we're all going to start as babies, or at least what equates to one in the world we're gonna dive in. It's a typical fantasy one, magic and all that. You must be wondering, why don't we sound afraid or excited of this? Well, we've been preparing for this for the last 3 years, and we had to be briefed a few times every week of what will happen to us. We're basically numb now.
"Quite so. What about you, Mr. Sanchez? Any comments of the situation?", he stared at me with a raised brow, with a look expecting a very stupid reply. And stupid was the reply.
"Can we stop this for a second? I forgot to do something important." (Victor)
"Reallly? And what is that, Mr. Sanchez." (Burns)
"I left the stove running. Literally. I'm sure that place you left us is burning." (Victor)
"Worry not, Mr. Sanchez. We were expecting such behaviors from you, and have prepared for it.", after saying that with a toothy grin, me and him stared at each other with squinted eyes. You could see the electrical sparks from where our gazes met."Anyways, you aren't going to get in the simulation just yet. First, we have to introduce something else. A portable AI system. When I say AI, I really mean you're going to have a new personality in you, and when I say Portable, what I really mean is we're going shove them in your brains. You will be kept safe, and we can assure you that it won't cause any complications."
We were quite surprised to hear that, to say the least. Me in particular, because I read a lot of novels as I grew up, so I'm the edgiest and most 'experienced' in our group when it comes to stuff like this."The AI will have very similar personalities with your own, to ensure that both you and the newly implemented personality don't have clash too much. As for why we're going to do this, it'll be a surprise. Now that that's done, this is good morning!", he then ordered a few of his assistants who quickly made quick work with the machines and fluids.
With that, we blacked out.
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Oh god. My head feels so heavy right now. I crack my eyelids open to see a bright light. God? Is that you? Wait no, that's just a normal light. Groaning, I raise myself up with great effort. I was currently in a white bed, in a white room, with a bunch of machines around me.
Initializing...
Normally, I'd be going apeshit if something like that popped up, but I was too befuddled at the time. Unknown to me, a very sexy nurse had already gone into the room and was checking the machinery beside me. She had such a fine ass. Wonder how it felt...? Without any warning from me and for her, I slapped that ass and gripped tightly. There was a few seconds of absolute silence.
*SMACK*
With that, I was slapped back to sleep. If I didn't do something as stupid as that, I would have had the chance to at least have a final talk with my friends before we were sent to the game. Unfortunately, while they were all judging and complaining about what happened to me, they were complaining how I shouldn't have been slapped strongly. They expected me to do something like that it seems. Regardless, thus started my journey to this new life! Unknown to me, the AI had already scanned my personality and basically mimicked it. Apparently, I pop-up would appear on how the AI would function depending on my initial desires, but being blacked out didn't help me with that.
So the better way to explain it, is thus started my journey in a new fantasy world with an asshole that constantly talked shit about me.