OptimusPrime2017 presents to you,
A Morality Doctrine fanfiction;
The Code of Memories
Chapter 1:
The boy's eyes snapped open. His naked body was soaked in sweat. He looked around fearfully. He was in some kind of metal box. It was like a coffin. It was a Coffin, but not the kind dead bodies would be put it. Tubes pulled themselves from his side and retracted into the machine. He pushed the lid of the Coffin off of him and slowly sat up.
He didn't recognize where he was. Something told him that he should know, but he didn't. He didn't even know why he was in a metal box. He couldn't remember anything. Nothing at all.
A beep sounded and a technoscreen popped up in his face. He read the word Netscreen. Then the screen changed to some kind of a group chat. Two other people had been communicating.
Andrea23: That sucked.
Randy9.0: Yeah. No kidding.
Andrea23: You guys okay?"
Randy9.0: Just fine. Perfectly fine. I totally don't have a bruise on my shoulder.
Andrea23: Yeah, right. Ewan, you okay?
Is that me? He wondered, seeing a keyboard button on the screen. Assuming that it was touch screen, he tapped the keyboard. It opened up in front of him and he began typing.
Ewan76: Who are you?
Andrea23: Stop messing around, Ewan. Are you okay? You hit your head hard, remember?
Ewan76: I don't know you. Why don't I remember anything?
Randy9.0: You know he's joking, right Andrea?
Ewan76: Who are YOU?
Andrea23: I don't think he is, Randy. I think he's serious.
Randy9.0: Can a game do that?
Ewan76: Can a game do what? I don't understand.
Randy9.0: This is bad. This is really bad.
Andrea23: I told you. You saw the look in his eyes right before he died.
Ewan76: So...I'm dead? I don't feel dead.
Andrea23: No, no. You died in the Virtnet.
Ewan76: What's the Virtnet?
Randy9.0: Ewan, do you remember anything at all?
Ewan76: …
Andrea23: Obviously not.
Randy9.0: I hope it's only amnesia.
Andrea23: Hard to tell, but I doubt it. Someone could have manipulated the code to erase his memories or seal them off.
Ewan76: Code? Like rules?
Randy9.0: Computer coding-I mean, technology coding, man. It's everything in the Virtnet. In the Sleep, the code is life.
Ewan76: That...sort of clears things up on that part of what I don't remember. You never answered my question. Who are you?
Andrea23: Are you still in your Coffin?
Ewan76: This metal thing that I woke up in? Yeah.
Randy9.0: Lay back down, dude. Meet you guys in the usual spot, okay?
Andrea23: Randy, if he really doesn't remember anything, how's he supposed to know where that is?
Randy9.0: Oh...right. Forgot about that. We'll find you, okay?
Ewan76: Okay, find me somehow, sure. Got it.
Andrea23: See you two in a few minutes.
Randy9.0: Yeah.
Ewan found something in his ear and took it out. It was the technology displaying his Netscreen. He pressed a small button on it and the display disappeared. He read the word Earcuff on the side of it. Figuring that it was important, he put it back in his ear and lay back in the COffin. He pulled the lid shut over his body. The tubes reattached to him and he felt himself fade from the real world, into the Sleep- as Randy called it.
