Say, have you ever been to another country in the world? Another state? Or even to another state? I have traveled over many places during my time as a free being. Sometimes, I would bring back trinkets from my travels to remind me of my time. Others... I would rather not speak of, not because it was bad, good lord! It's only because it's quite embarrassing to even mention during conversations with my friends and family. In any case, my time traveling around the world has taught me many things and I had fun during my travels!

However, there was one thing that I didn't expect happen to me when I taking a break from my travels. It began like an ordinary day for me as I was finishing up my morning routine and opened up my laptop. As I opened it up, I saw that I got an email from one of my friends and clicked on it. When I clicked on it, the message started off with a greeting and asking how has the day been treating me. The message then continues on about how they're doing and what they've been up to until it said something about a game being immensely popular from where they come from. They wanted me to try it out and see if I liked it. At the end of the message was a link that brought me to website called 'Steam'. On the webpage, there were showcasing different pictures and videos of what the game is and on the right side of the slide, it reads 'OneShot'. Looking through the slides, I thought I might as well give it a try since my friend went through the trouble getting this for me. I downloaded it into my computer and played it. Suffice to say, the game has really taken me for a ride.

If I can recall what the game is about, it's about you guiding a lost child through a lost world of sorts and the world knows that you exist, therefore, the game would do all sorts of things when you least expect it. It takes the 4th wall and crushes it, leaving you wanting to help out the main character and the world that you're in. However, the game lets you know you only have one shot at this, hence the name of the game. Eventually, I reached the end of the game with some difficulty and I was presented with two choices to make. One choice was to restore the world but the main character wouldn't return home and the other was to destroy something to let the main character to return home but the world would die. Naturally, I wanted the world to see the sun one last time, but I also wanted the main character to return home. Morbid curiosity got the better of me and I told the main character to let the sun die as I can tell that the world was already starting to die on me. They did so and I was greeted with a black screen. Worried that I might've crashed the game, I panicked and frantically was frantically clicking on the game window to see if it had any reaction. A minute or two passed by and the main character has shown themselves on the screen. Giving out a sigh of relief, I watched as the main character seeing a way out and walking towards the edge of the screen. They then said their goodbyes to me and promptly watched them walked past the screen and onto the edge of my laptop screen. From there, the credits roll and the game closed itself off.

That ending was... bittersweet, so to say. On one hand, I helped the main character leave the world and brought him back to his own world. On the other hand, the world that we were in has now died and everyone that resided in it. It didn't sat well with me as I shut off my laptop and and walked off to clear my thoughts. I knew that the game was just a game in general, I can't help it but getting mentally pulled into the world. Everyone wanted the world to die, yet I wanted to live so that I can experience it firsthand. I couldn't help but imagine what would the world inside 'OneShot' be like and how I would like to travel in it alongside the main character. Sadly, it's only a game to the real world. It's the sad truth, but one I could live with.

If only that had stayed true to begin with.

Because as of right now... the world that was once a game is currently the world that I'm in.

000

Once was the world a bright place filled with life. Now, it was a decrepit wasteland where the only light they have is the light they accumulated over the years. The story begins in a dark house where it once housed the people who lived there and where the light would shine. In one particular room lies a small figure, sleeping in one of the beds. They then woke up with a startle and sat up straight from the bed.

The figure had yellow big eyes with the pupils being thin, an orange cat-like hat, a purple scarf around their neck, an orange shirt with the sleeves too big for their hands and two light orange stripes and purple hair. They looked around the room, but they couldn't see clear in the dark. From their perspective, they can only see a window shining a glowing light into the room.

"H-Hello?" The figure called out. No one responded to the figure, so they got out of the bed as to take a better look around the room. As they did, they came across a computer that was placed on one of the tables. Besides the table was a dusty bookshelf. They couldn't make out on what's in the bookshelf and when they tried to open the computer, it showed a screen with a 4-digit number code on it, each being a different color. They tried various of different combination, but to no avail. They gave up on it for now and continued searching through the room. They searched high and low, looking for a clue to the computer and looking for the way out of the room. They ended up at a door and tried to open it. The door handle move from its position and they tried again. Realizing that the door was locked, they went back to searching through the room again and upon searching the room, they came across something shining in the light. They went over to take a better look at it and saw that it was a remote of sorts. They held it out into the light and from there, they could see that it was a television remote with all the buttons except for four buttons. The buttons being colored with different numbers on them. They remembered the computer having a code like that and went back to the computer to input the code.

When they entered the code into the computer, it showed a message 'ACCESS GRANTED' in green color and led them to the home screen of the computer. Few seconds went by and an error message popped up with "..." being the first error message to pop up. Multiple error messages then popped up after one another when the first error message was closed.

"You found me."

"...Why?"

"You're already too late. Not much of the world remains."

"This will go apparent once you go outside."

"This place was never worth saving."

"...Do you still want to try?"

"Then remember this:"

"Your actions here will affect Niko."

"Your 'mission' is to help Niko leave."

"And most importantly..."

They waited for a few seconds for another message to pop up. Then another minute passed by. Then another, then another. Five minutes passed by and no more error messages popped up. Suddenly, a loud click can be heard from the opposite side where they are currently standing. Thinking that it was the door they checked earlier, they went back over to see what had changed. They tried to the door again and it turns out the door was unlocked. By what, they don't know. In any case, they cautiously headed out the door while looking around the room. "Heeeellllooooooo?" They called out into the room, but like last time, no one responded to him.

The room was like the room they were in, but instead, from what they can tell in the dark, this room had a fireplace at the end of one wall, a television that had seen better days was right next to the fireplace, an old couch was in front of the television and it it looked worn out and the floor had multiple holes in between the creeks.

"Urrrggghhhh..."

Suddenly, a voice came out from the darkness and startled the small figure. They stood there in fear for a full minute, thinking that they were not alone in the room and that person could harm them. On the other hand, they were also relieved that somebody was with them, making the darkness less scary. Sounds of footsteps can be heard coming towards them from the other side of the room. "Hello? Anyone here?" The voice called out into the darkness.

"Hello?" The small figure called out to the voice.

"Oh, thank god! I thought I was alone here. Where are you? I can't see anything in the dark."

"I'm over by a door! I think I'm right by a television as well!"

"Okay! I'm coming over!"

The sounds of footsteps then sounded a lot closer then before. Although, it wasn't without trial and error as the voice grunted in pain as they accidently hit some parts of the wall and slipped onto the holes on the floor. Soon after, the footsteps stopped right in front of them and the small figure somewhat tell that the figure standing in front of them was tall, to say the least. "Hey there." The tall figure said to the small figure as he crouched down to the small figure's size. "Do you live in this house by chance?"

"No, I just woke up here. How did you get here mister?" The small figure asked the tall figure.

"You know it's rude to ask someone a question without letting them know what your name it."

"Oh, hehe..." The small figure sheepishly scratched their cheek. "I'm sorry, my name's Niko. What's your name?"

"Hello there Niko. My name's Paul. Please to meet your acquaintance."

Lately, I've been going on Youtube and watching some videos to alleviate the boredom and the writers block that I'm having when I saw one of my favorite youtuber upload a video about a game called 'OneShot'. Naturally, I watched the video and I have to say, the game itself was really good. It broke down the 4th wall itself and it made the player a god of sorts that was to help guide the character through the world while they themselves have absolutely no idea on what the hell is going on. What makes it even more interesting is that the main character has place their trust in the player when they don't even know half the stuff that's been going on since they just launched the game.

I've played similar games like that and ever since I saw that video, I've been a fan of the 'breaking the 4th wall' genre type game and I've always wanted to see if there were any other games that were like 'OneShot'. As I was looking through the internet to find said genre, I though to myself, 'Hey, if there are other games like OneShot, then maybe there are some fics that are like that as well! And if not, then I'll be the one that'll do it!' Thus, this fic was born from the recesses of my mind. This chapter is only a prologue, but in time, I'll add in more chapters in due time. I do want to warn you that there will be spoilers in the near future. If by chance you don't want to wait around, then my doors open.

Also, my first fic 'I'm not a Hero!' is still going on, but I'm having a writers block at the moment and as soon as I saw the game, I... temporarily started writing this fic. In hopes that I can use this as an idea pool of sorts, I mean! This writers block thing is a serious deal to me. Hopefully, the block in me has receded for now and I can focus.

Well, with that said, I hope that you enjoy the prologue and I would like to thank you for taking the time to read this fic of mine. I would also like to take the time to say thank you for reading my other fics as well.

See you guys later!