Chapter one: Going Digital
Floods, tornadoes, earthquakes he'd heard it all before, some disaster was always to be occurring now a days. The fact that banks were now mysteriously losing funds was new but yet unsurprising, Derrick chose to blame global warming for the disasters as did most people. Heck if global warming could cause natural disasters why not blame it for the bank's computers misplacing a decimal place too. It wasn't just banks computers that were going haywire though it seemed to be all technology, something was up Derrick knew it but what it was, was as mysterious as the banks problems.
In a way Derrick was almost excited about the problems the world now faced although it was thirty years ago last time this happened monsters attacked Tokyo. Sure he was only sixteen and far too young to have personally witnessed it but he'd heard the stories. However nothing that exciting was likely to happen to Derrick.
The news had cut to an interview with the CEO of GN (Global Networks) questioning him on how he made his business the largest technology based corporation in the world, last year beating Apple's net profits by about three million dollars. Derrick tried to be interested but the interview was dry, the CEO clearly had other things on his mind, he seemed distracted by the small laptop attached to his wrist. The he cut the interview short by saying he had to go as there was an emergency.
Derrick turned off the television and made his way to his bedroom, maybe a video game would be a better way to relieve his boredom. His parents were out for the weekend and as it was the holidays he had nothing to do. The PC booted with a familiar GN logo, and then as usual it loaded his desktop. This was new an egg icon was sat in the middle of his screen and it seemed to be bouncing slightly. Derrick's first though was that someone had hacked his computer and this was some kind of joke, but that was ridiculous why would someone add an egg icon to your desktop? At that moment a crack began to appear around the center of the egg, the crack slowly got bigger and bigger until the top of it had come clean off. As the lid of the popped off a small creature was immediately visible it too popped out of the shell and then began to bounce around the screen. After a few seconds a speech bubble appeared above the animal with two words in it 'Help Us'.
Derrick sat there and watched the creature for a few moments before having the sudden and inexplicable thought to press the enter key. His hand slowly started to move towards the button across the keyboard. Then is finger came down the press it in. The screen erupted into a vortex of binary that swirled around before plummeting into a bright white light, Derrick found himself being dragged towards the PC. No matter how hard he tried to resist it he was going in, he closed his eyes and pinched his arm hoping it was all a dream. When he opened them he was in the middle of the vortex, he looked behind him and saw his room through the screen he'd left it and reality behind.
Derrick didn't know where he was going; why he was going there, nor that had this happened before to others. However thing he couldn't have guessed it that it was also happening to three other people right now across Tokyo, Ashley, Mason and Cellia had all just witnessed the same thing but only one of them knew what was happening…
