Cry Hovic

BY: Penmaster Cole.

A/N: hello one and all to my new story, for those that have read my two others dont fear I haven't left them, just trying to get my thoughts on paper is the real problem. anywho this stiory is a thought that ive had on my mind for a good minute. As always before I begin I do not own anything from the franchises except this idea and a copy of the anime which I thoroughly enjoy.

The setting sun was just setting over the Port Royal Sound as the men and women of MCRD Parris Island wound down for the weekend, one of these Marines was climbing into his truck and turned on the Radio.

"well folks of the gamer world its finally here!" said the radio host "the creators of Battlefield and the Nerve Gear system: War World Online have the final net release in as little as two hours! to the fans all over who managed to get a hold of a copy of the first edition some ten thousand in the United States alone, I wish you happy hunting!"

War World, the most highly anticipated game of the decade was to set a universal launch for world play at 19:00 (Eastern Time) was set in the event of a total war scenario with an almost all human player army against a CPU controlled enemy, with an international team coming in and with the help of many outside companies as well as historians, allot has went into the game from weapons to vehicles to your clothes everything in the game could be customized.

Climbing out of his truck he hears his name being called, Looking up he grins as he sees one of his friends "Coleman, you lucky bastard whats up?" said a marine sitting on a stone chair smoking. the Marine identified as Coleman chuckled "'bout to go inside and play the game you lost in a coin toss" smiling his friend shook his head "figures the one man with no luck what so ever actually wins a coin toss to play a video game" laughing the two friends departed one to finish his smoke while the other wen to his room to get ready and play.

1 hour 55 min later

Climbing onto the metal framed bed in his Barracks room Coleman slipped the helmet on to his head, to the side his phone was hooked into the jack, a special on the NerveGear sets was the ability to hool up your phone so you could respond to things that happen in real life like phone calls you can and also any friends made ingame you could save their contact data and stay connected in real life, once everything was hooked up and he was situated, a quick "Link Start!" Later he started logging on.

Coleman, or as he was called in game Draugr looked around at all the sights and sounds of the world around him as he took in the starting city for the east coast of the United States: D.C., for countries that was considered to have one starting place it was broken by time zone, Houston T.X and San Diego being the other two places for the United States.

Draugr looked around and started heading to one of the weapon stores, as to seeing how the game gave you just enough for one starting weapon and your secondary already being picked out (combat knife) he went and got his first weapon, a M1 Garand. quickly running out to one of the outer areas and to the fighting to begin playing.

Once out and into the fields he watched as several of the "grunt" types of npcs were facing off against some of the human players, quickly getting behind a tree he started helping pick off the grunts off, these "grunts" as they were called by the beta players were the normal everyday bad guys that you'd find from earlier games, though at the moment better armed than the human players who just had the starting equipment, Namely AK-47's.

"Hey you in the trees" came a voice from the group, walking over he came across one of the players, who was wielding a Thompson sub-machine gun, "thanks for the help" he said as he grinned and offered a hand, "I'm Lone_Star" he said as he gestured to his gamer tag, then to his "Dragger? is that how you pronounce it?" shaking it the other gamer said "nah its pronounce Draugr, from Norse Mythology" then gesturing to the group "Y'all would have had them but if they had tried flanking you, you'd have been in a pinch, mind if i Join ypur group?"

Smirking and looking at the others the man known as Lone star racked the slide of his gun and said " I think we have room for one more."

A few hours later and alot of dead grunts later the now group of friends were heading back to the capitol, after receiving a message via their cellphones (if you hooked it up) was one of your items in game, in a short amount of time the opening festivities for the game would begin, if you weren't their you'd be force warped into the square. Once getting their with a minute to spare they started to see people appearing in a flash of light. soon the sky grew a red haze as a screen appeared over the sky with the national anthem playing (unknown to the Americans at the time but in other countries the same thing was happening with their nations anthem playing in place).

Soon a man appeared on screen wearing a suit the man had the appearance of a older man with graying hair but with a grim face all the Beta's knew this guy as the had bad guy in the game "Greetings!" said the man on the projection "I'm Akihiko Kayaba, the creator of this game! and I welcome you to it!" getting a few polite claps and screams of approval he continued "now to business, as some may have noticed you cannot log out of the game, this is no error on the developers part but built in, for you see you are trapped here, stuck inside till the game is beaten" the crowd was dead quiet at this, Draugr was quiet as this news washed over him trying to figure it out. "And on another note in this game, if you die here, the microwave impulses in the Nerve Gear will relase a controlled blast to your brain, effectively making you brain dead and killing you in Real life, also if someone were to say try messing with or taking the Gear off the same thing will happen." Stopping to let that sink in "also before you start panicking the Nerve Gear Corporation have released an announcement to the press to keep from any accidental killings, and as for right now Special teams are moving around the Country picking up your real life bodies and bringing them to our Complex's to be monitored till the game is completed or for when you die." soon after completing this statement the cry of "you won't get away with this!" Chuckling and seeing a screen popping up showing a "terms and agreement" form the man began again "I am sure all of you are aware of what this is? after all all you here had to agree in order to play this game and quite literally in the second Paragraph it states: I hereby willingly agree to having my self being put into WAR WORLD where i will not take any legal action against the corporation or any person attached to said game." As you can see all of you Agreed to this." he finished.

Draugr clenched his hand tightly as he looked at the screen like everyone else he just clicked "agree" and didn't think of anything about it now he was stuck in this game. all of a sudden his inventory menu popped up showing a new item "Mirror?" he questioned as he pulled out the item.

Kayaba continued "by now all of you are receiving my final "gift" now to let some fun happen" and soon their was a flash of light as all the gamers were turned from there avatars to what they looked like in real life! "I've vanished away your ego's and replaced it with how you truly appear" while he was saying this their were screams of "Your not a girl!" to "your not nineteen!" and all sort of things of that nature. If Draugr wasn't so shocked he'd have laughed at the scene.

"Now to my parting" Kayaba said as a giant globe appeared with question marks all over it "to actally beat this game you must be able to find and unlock all the watchtowers in the game, which is a total of one hundred and fifty, also with these are a hundred and fifty false watchtowers that will increase the difficulty in the game, or add a touch of realism in the game, like just ask Hans Joule of Germany who unlocked a False tower right before being teleported, he unlocked the Real pain for all of you isn't that nice? now when you take damage in the game you will feel it like it was real. Isn't that neat?" Soon the screen was dispersing and his words started fading "Good luck!"

Turning to his new Friend and seeing that he hadn't changed drastically he started pulling him along "Come on!" running through to an ally he started explaining "soon their will be a Riot or a giant breakdown in communication" he began after they stopped "If we can get to the next safe zone and unlock it we can get better gear before others get to it and not be fighting each other over resources" looking at the other man in the eye he stopped "you're not coming are you?" shaking his head the other man began "Draugr, Let me tell you something, I'm a Marine Officer and those guys back their are some of the guys of my platoon, I just cant leave them." the other man smirked and saluted him "Corporeal Coleman from Parris Island, at your service," quickly going serious he told him "listen if you need another set of eyes or any map data shoot me an email or text and I'll help you Sir" Nodding they both went back to the area where all the people were only to hear angry chatter "We're the Beta's?" "they should have warned us of this shit" and so on and so forth, turning to Draugr Lone spoke "were you a Beta Tester?" getting a nod the Officer sighed "Get out here and hurry, your not safe here." If he had looked he'd have seen that his friend was already running for the exit.

*Hope you enjoyed this, I know I did, also if anyone caught the "Terms and Agreement" That was from another author from the story "Ragnarok VR Online" by Zephryc. A great Story, also if you have any O.C.'s just shoot me a message okay?