Jonnys day was a surprisingly good day.
He was just minding his business having a good day when a coworker invited him to drinks normally Johnny would have turned him down and then continue going about his day but his co-worker offered a bribe
"Its not technically a bribe!" His co-worker assured him "Its just.. I may happen to invite you to somthing really cool after this and i may accidently go by myself if you dont join me out drinking who can say."
"Huh" Johnny thought trying to remember if he had anything else left in the day
"Y'know I don't acually have anything else going on" Johnny spoke alound
"Sure im game" said Johnny
"I knew I could win you over!"said his co-worker the co-worker then turns tword the rest of the office and says to no one in particual
"hey guys I got him to join" he yells into the office witch is responded by a series of groans as a couple people walk out of their office cubicles and walk up the the co-worker give him money and walk away mumbling somthing about how Johnny never goes out and how this was the one time they bet on him not going and of couse he goes this time.
Johnny blinked slowly
"Did you guys have bets on me going?" said Johnny more suprised then anything
"Oh I thought you noticed the one last time" the co-worker spoke without any guilt
"The last tim- whatever lets just go out and see what this bribe is"
"I keep telling you its not a bribe!"
After that me and him got in a car and promptly got wasted
But the next day had some suprises in store
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Johnny woke up in his bed trying to remember wat happend yesterday
"OK" he thought "I went out drinking and then we just got drunk and now im here"
"But wait" he told himself "what was that bribe"
As he went about cleaning himself and taking a shower brushing his teeth and flossing he remembered his co-orker works a part time at the local geology muesum and they have a new exibit today so his coworker figured that he could get him to see it early if he joined him out drinking.
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So thats how he got here in front of the geology muesem with his coworker here to see the new exibit called the ruby of my eye for him it felt a bit on the nose it was a circular piece of quarts with a ruby in the shape of a eyeslit but he was here for free so he couldent really complain.
As he was walking up to the geology he felt a certain weight like the mueseum had its own gravity and was pulling it towards him he decided to chalk that feeling up to him being drunk the night before and the result of a hangover and promptly forgot about it as he walked up to the exhibit somthing felt off he saw that the exhibit door was open.
The general public wasn't supposed to even know about it till a few days later but again he dismissed it thinking a museum staff just opened it on accident but then they got to the exibit it was in a glass case and he could feel power raidating off of it as he got closer and closer his coworker spoke up saying "although usually your not supposed to touch the exibit if you wont tell I wont tell".
As he lifted the glass case he heard some noises ome from above them almost like glass breaking and all of a sudden he saw four groups of people repel down onto the ground and they subdue the co worker and before he knew it he was bound and gagged.
The one that looks like the leader judging by him ordering everyone else around said " well well well i can't belive my luck a couple people talk about a new exibit at a bar and they foolishly go there without any protection of any kind well i may as well be a bit nice to the people who made this possible."
As he is saying this a couple of the grunts get the Ruby eye and hand it to the leader.
"Well" The leader spoke without a hint of remorse or pity "Wich one should I do first"
The co worker seemingly signs and signals that he should go first because he figures that he got Johnny into this mess and sso hes getting him out of this place.
The leader speaks again "well isint that lucky your friend decides to go first but unfortunatly we are kind and have decided to give him a 10 second head start your time starts now"
As he says "now" the henchmen release him and he starts to run off but before he can do anything he gets shot and looks pretty dead.
"And then there was one" the leader spoke aloud barley moved by the dead body "and for you buddy" the leader looks at Johnny "i have somthing special"
The henchmen with the eye hand it over to his bos and he kneels down and starts jamming the ruby eye into the spot where his eye currently resides and through a bloody 10 seconds his eye is now on the floor and a new ruby one in its stead
He's seconds away from diying from blood loss when all of a sudden he sees in his working eye text pop up saying
SOFTWARE BOOTING UP.................................DONE
HOST LOCATING..........................DONE
INTAGRATING..................................................FINISHED
SUBJECT IS HURT
RUNNING DIAGNOSTIC...................CONSENSUS:LOSING BLOOD RAPIDLY
ACTIVATING EMERGENCY PROTOCOL......................................DONE
PLAIN JUMPING ACTIVATING
As he sees that final message he feels himslf get launched without moving to another plain of existance and then from the blood loss and going to another plain of existance.
He blacks out.