I am very sorry to announce this ladies and gentlemen but I am going to reboot "Intergalactic Effect". The reason is that I am not at all happy about the storyline as everything is far too easy for the main protagonist and the other characters. So to all my old readers, welcome to the new version of "Intergalactic Effect". And to my new readers, welcome to "Intergalactic Effect"!

Chapter 1: Awakening

Unknown time
Unknown place

From utter darkness I woke up. My head felt like somebody had taken a sledgehammer repeatedly to it and my mouth felt like it had been stuffed with cotton. When I opened my eyes, the sun blinded me, exacerbating my headache. I immediately screwed my eyes shut, then gingerly opened them again.
The next thing I see in front of my eyes was a gray box appear in front of me with the following words.

WELCOME BACK GIDEON.

Ok, I thought to myself, what is going on? And why don't I remember anything?

I stare across a vista of sand dunes I was sitting on, while the interface loaded up. I examined myself, clad in a black armour with dark blue highlights. In unsteadily stood up and ran my hands along my body and I noticed I had weapons.

Alright atleast I am not unarmed, I thought to myself as I systematically went over them. I had two pistols on my hips, held on by some kind of magnets. On my back, I had an assault rifle, a semi-automatic sniper rifle, a light machine gun and an assault rifle like shotgun. All except the shotgun were firing a simple steel dart. There seemed to be no bullet jacket around them. Except for the shotgun, the other weapons were suppressed, with both the sniper rifle and the LMG having a scope and the assault rifle with a holographic sight. The shotgun though seemed to be some sort of energy weapon as the magazine glowed a nice cool blue. All of my guns folded into compact boxes and would unfold immediately when activated. That was a nice touch.

The best was yet to come though, as I brushed my hand along my lower back, I came upon a pair of elongated cylinders. I brought them in front of me and began examining them. I noticed that there was a button on each of them, right under some kind of guard. I brushed my thumb and a blue energy blade sprang into existence from each of them. The shape was similar to a claymore.

No not an energy blade I corrected myself a hardlight blade.

So that meant my shotgun also was firing hardlight. Good for me, bad for any hostiles

The interface had booted up and I saw it had automatically marked objectives for me, atleast four of them, with three of them on the ground and one flying in the air. Two of the objectives were highlighted in red diamonds with the one closer to me marked as S-052 REQUIRES IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE AGAINST MULTIPLE HOSTILES and designated at 2.54 kilometers away from me. The second one was marked as DELTA DRAGON ENGAGED WITH MULTIPLE HOSTILES and located 2.65 kilometers away. The one in the sky was simply marked as ORGANIC UFO and the distance was atleast 10.92 kilometers away. But the one that worried me the most was marked with a red cross.

It simply said MULTIPLE FRIENDLIES WOUNDED, REQUIRE IMMEDIATE FIRST AID and the distance came up.

12.9 kilometers.

Oh great.

Well then, let's get cracking I thought to myself. I glanced at my interface, tagged S-052 position as objective 1, Delta Dragon as objective 2, and the injured as objective three, the reasoning being I would still have to fight my way to the injured, so might as well do it in such a way that I get it done thoroughly.

No time to waste, I thought to myself and took off at a dead sprint to objective 1.

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