-One Year Before-
Kent's Pov:
When I woke up it was like any typical day, I got in the Insta-shower, and got dressed for my new job. When I got to the kitchen, I typed into Carbon-Printer the order for two plates of eggs and bacon the usual breakfast for me and my little brother Caden. Once I finished ordering the food, Caden came into the kitchen of our 941 feet apartment.
"Morning Bro" I called out
Caden rubbed at his eyes and yawned
"Morning," he said as he stretched
"so first day of work, how does it feel to be working for a big gaming company?" he asked
"Meh I'm just gonna be working down in the research area, I'm quite literally a test dummy for em," I replied with a shrug
"Come on at least it's a job that can pay for this dump," He said as he sat down near the island of the kitchen, as he made the motion to sit down, a platform floated up to act as a seat
I heard the beep of the Carbon-Printer to indicate that the meal was ready, As I got up to grab the plates I replied to him
"Hey, I know its not a lot, but it's good enough," I say that as I place a plate in front of him and tell him
"Eat up and get ready, last day of school today."
During breakfast I see Caden start to cry as he murmurs "I miss them"
"I know buddy I do too, but we are gonna survive," I say with a sigh as I try to comfort him
"Hey, maybe when I get off of work lets go grab a couple of movies and stay up on a marathon, sound good?" I say as I turn to him the usual bargain when either of us is feeling off
Caden wipes at his eyes then sniffles "ok that sounds good." as he tries to smile
-After breakfast and them getting ready for the day-
At the door I start to look at my outfit in the nearside mirror, what stares back at me is an is bright baby blue eyes with dark swirls connecting to the iris, a slightly curved jawline, a Quiff mop of black hair, an 6' 3" skinny figure in red polo and jeans.
"Nice look, Romeo" Caden scoffs as he comes into the room.
Caden was wearing a plain t-shirt with a red denim jacket over it with jeans. His eyes were blue shaded slightly purple with red and yellow spirals, every time I looked at him, I thought of a cosmos. Caden's hair was black with blonde streaks in a messy undercut.
"You're doing quite fine yourself Fox" I snickered at him when I called him Fox, He has always hated me calling him Fox, its been my nickname for him ever since we were kids, his look always reminded me of StarFox, so it just stuck.
"touche," Caden said as he glared at me, I almost could hear the grinding of his teeth
"Well let's get going, we both have big days today," I said as I gestured for him to walk out the door I held for him
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We started to walk down the rows upon rows of the same design of apartment complexes on the street as we headed for the Magnet-Way, we passed by a few kids playing with 3D chalk near 4th St, we lived about 2-4 blocks away from the Magnet-Way. When we arrived at the platform that went directly to the School Island, I split off from Caden, as I said
"Have a good day bud, remember to keep that school pass on you at all times, without it; you can't get into the school island!"
Caden just nodded at me as I walked off to the area where my platform was. The Magnet-Cart arrived right when I got to the platform. I hopped on quick before it left and sat down.
Twenty minutes later the cart arrived at my stop, and I started to walk towards FreeFounds Incorp, the corporation is the leading gaming company in the world, they were the first to crack actual virtual reality and are still the leading game producers for its market. As I arrived at the street that connected to its building, I looked up. The building was so elegant but so massive it had to have at least 500 floors on it!
I walked into the building and was greeted by a secretary,
"Welcome, what can I do for you today, sir?!" She said with an enthusiastic smile
"Hey, where do I go to get to Research and Development? It's my first day here on the job you see," I asked her
"Oh, you must be Kent Byent, Please follow me," She said as she got up
"Oh why thank you," I said as I started to follow her
"So welcome to FreeFounds, here we pride ourselves on our employees, so you must have been exceptional to get accepted here!" she said still with that damn smile, almost frustrating at this point
"Why thank you, I don't know what I did, I was called by them immediately when I placed in my application through IDCon," I said to her,
At the moment, we had made our way into an elevator. The secretary pressed down hard on the lobby button for some reason,
"Wh-" I was about to ask about it when she asked me
"Do you like games, Mr. Byent?"
I let the question sit for a second as I started to feel the sudden drop as the elevator sped down, Fast
After I got used to the feeling I replied,
"Well yeah, why do you think I wanted to work for FreeFound anyway?"
"Good Good" The secretary replied
We said nothing more for the whole elevator ride. We arrived at a floor with white marble tiles, white walls and glass rooms lining down a never-ending hallway,
"Right this way sir," The secretary said as she gestured for me to get off the elevator
I started to walk down the hallway with her behind me, right when I got to the first glass room, I looked inside, What I saw made my blood run cold, an Body, floating in a green liquid tube, wires connected everywhere, the machine was metallic and glass at the same time, it had some kind of VR helmet attached to the subject inside the liquid, wires flowing up towards the exit port into the machine, god knows what sort of submersion they put the test subject in or through on the side of the metallic side, a label red A#-0001 under the tag was an LED set up that red the words "FAILURE" Bellow the LED's was a sort of monitor that looked like an heart-rate set up but instead of the regular beat of the pulse the monitor was flatlined.
As I looked on in horror at the dead body of the shinbone form of a little girl in the tube. She had a bald head and a tattoo with the same label as the pod, on the side of her left temple. I was about to start to scream or ask the meaning of this to the secretary I felt a sharp jab on my neck. I turned to where I felt the pain. A needle was sticking straight out of my neck, a slight blood trickle from the injection started to fall down my throat.
I looked towards the assailant of mine, The secretary, a murderous grin on her face, her long black hair with a few strands slightly in her face, her dress was a little wrinkled from her sudden movement from jabbing the needle in my neck, her eyes were a deep jade they were looking on at me with an sort of feeling of pleasure from the attack. Black spots started to appear on the edges of my vision. I felt nothing as I fell, crashing loudly; my view started to close up. As the easiness of unconsciousness begun to take hold, I heard the secretary say something to me
"Welcome to FreeFound Mr. Byent, I hope your time with us is pleasurable for you, they sure are for me!" she says with a psychotic laugh as she stared down at me. The last thing I remember before I lost consciousness was that god damn Bitch pulling me down the hallway towards another glass room...
Note from Author: I know this is a short Chapter at the moment, but I'm trying my best hope you guys understand and like this chapter. Thank you for reading, please let me know what you thought of this chapter and what I should add to it! Have a good one!!!