Chapter 3: Start Up
"Today Rolendgia has finally captured an ENTIRE DA including a TP officer at DA 132582. After TPHQ thought briefly, they decided to nuke the DA. They did not warn their officers and completely obliterated the DA and the epidemic spreading around there. So expect another ashy filled sky for about two weeks and cooler temperatures…."
Rolendgia…nasty stuff. It's the most dangerous virus going around and has killed well over a thousand in the first two days after it started spreading. There is no cure since scientists and or doctors are unable to get a hold of a sample due to the lethalness of this virus, and all the Thought Police can do is nuke the infected DAs before it can spread to others, which brings up the next subject, DAs. DAs, or Designated Areas, are said to keep us protected from harm and keep us safe but it's a lie, it's to keep us people separated so we can't bring down the Thought Police from their power, think of a concentration camp but a thousand times worse…
Like the news said, the sky had a dark gloomy look to it, no sun anywhere. I snapped the television off and got dressed and grabbed the letter from yesterday and stepped out of the house and shut the door behind me, locking it securely as I began my walk to the South gate down the long abandoned dirt road. It took a good twenty minutes to reach and looked up at the two massive towers that overlooked the open hole in the wall, the door slide back. I stopped when I realized a man fighting two of the officers at the gate and luckily and miraculously broke the officer's grip and ran through the hole and away from the DA.
"FINALLY! I HAVE ESCAPED! WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT BITCHES!" He screamed and continued to run towards the hill in the distance. Quickly one of the ground officers ripped a radio off his side and spoke into it.
"We got an escapee, out of distance to capture"
"LTK, LTK" Screeched out of the radio as the officer clipped it back to his belt and ran to the wall and picked up a massive rifle and turned on the scope as it zoomed in on the man. I stepped back in horror as I watched the rifle's tip explode then shortly after a massive spray of blood in the distance as the man fell headless into the grassy hills and started rolling backwards to the bottom as the officer waved up to the towers and they started up massive energy gattling cannons as they fired towards the body as it was torn to shreds. I slowly walked up the head TP officer as he stared down at me with cold dead eyes and I handed him the letter as he scanned over it. He gave no emotion which made me a bit nervous then finally thrusted the paper back into my chest as I stumbled back slightly.
"That way, follow the road. If you are gone longer then twenty-four hours we'll be after you" He said as I nodded and slowly walked out the gate and patiently walked down the path. I slowed down even more as I passed by the smoking corpse of the man. All the blood was boiled from the cannons so the body was unnaturally clean with huge massive holes and no blood. I slowly went over the hill and once the gate was out of sight I ran, ran as fast as I can as I saw a massive building in the distance and I ran for it. I finally reached the front door and slammed up into it and sighed as a man dressed in white opened the door.
"Ah Josh, come in! Come in!" He said as I looked at him oddly then followed him in.
"I am Dr. Zaparuk, the host of this little experiment, and now since you arrived we can begin!" He said as he led me into a room with five others and then shut the door behind him. Seven computers were neatly lined up in a row, a helmet sitting at each and odd symbols scrolling across the screen. They looked just as confused as me as I stepped over with them. "Choose a computer and sit down!" He said excitedly as the six of us sat down at a computer. "Now, welcome, to a NEW revolution to this world, and you six are going to be the official beta testers AND moderators of our new little world here, excuse me, LARGE world. A world that expands if it needs too. Grows larger and larger as more and more players come. You can walk in one direction and this world will make sure you NEVER hit the end, even if it means generating new terrain-"
"What the fuck are you talking about?" Suddenly somebody said as Dr. Zaparuk went silent and picked up a helmet.
"Shut the fuck up and listen. I spent years working on this and I am very excited to share all this with you and you treat me like shit, I don't like it, you can leave if you want Brian," Dr. Zaparuk said as Brian went silent and Dr. Zaparuk continued, just not with what he was saying. "Fifteen years people. Ten years and I solved it all. This helmet does everything. Once you put it on it is claimed yours and can't be used by anybody else. When you put your helmet on it will use advance technological scanners built in to scan the layout of your DNA to figure out what you look like then build your character inside the world. The best part. You can live in this world. You eat in the game, this helmet feeds the proteins and nutrients needed to survive into your body by an altered radiation wave that my team has built over the last twenty five years. You sleep in game; the helmet uses the scanner technology built into it and triggers your body to go to sleep. You feel pain in game, you are definitely going to feel it, yes, the good thing, is, if you die in game, you won't in real life, but you will experience all the pain. I actually didn't plan to do that, but it was kind of a side effect that I just couldn't help and had to leave it in. Now without further ado, put on your helmets and I will see you there" Dr. Zaparuk said as he sat down in the comfortable seat of the last unoccupied computer as slipped the helmet on as he suddenly went silent and his body slumped back into the chair and the screen stopped scrolling symbols and displayed stats and other info. Then, the six of us looked at each other and put the helmets on. The whole process didn't feel right at all. It felt like a knife was hacking away at my head and brain as I felt the scanners scanning my entire head and it burned like hell, then it stopped and I found myself standing on a grassy plain, Dr. Zaparuk standing only a few feet away, except he had street clothes on and a holstered weapon strapped to his belt as he turned and faced me just as the other five fuzzed in nearby.
"Hehe," Dr. Zaparuk chuckled as he looked at the six of us standing in front of him naked. "A MINOR setback…" He whispered, but we couldn't tell what he was talking about because we couldn't move what so ever. "Ok, before you start yellin at me, this is why you are called beta testers….your all naked," He said laughing.
"That's nice shithead…I WANT SOME FUCKEN CLOTHES NOW!" Brian screamed as Dr. Zaparuk pointed to a rack.
"Go ahead and get some…oh wait, you have no fucken idea how to move do you?" Dr. Zaparuk said smirking as Brian glared at him. "If you haven't noticed, I didn't hand you ANY sort of controller what so ever in the real world, you move by thinking. Just like you tell your leg to move forward. And don't worry, just walk like you would in the real world, trust me, you ain't moving at ALL out there" Dr. Zaparuk said as the six of us started moving like zombies at first then began to speed up as if we were back in the real world. We finally got dressed in clothes and lined back up as Dr. Zaparuk pointed out a city.
"Central City 0001. The very first city of the world, go ahead and explore it," Dr. Zaparuk said and just as we began to head to the city he spoke up again. "Wait! ONE more thing! There is NO way you can leave the world except by death…or checkout points which look like phone booths but with a computer in them and all you do is go in, shut the door behind you and press the button on the screen and you will log out. Once you log back on you will spawn right outside the booth. So when you, which I think you will, buy a house you might want to purchase a checkout computer for it so you can log out and in from it, now, go have fun" Dr. Zaparuk finished up as the six of advanced down into the city. It all seemed so real. I ran my hand along a brick building then it slipped to a window as I felt the different textures. I glanced around then suddenly realized the other four vanished and I was stuck with Brian as he walked into a grocery type store and I followed him in. He smiled as he pulled a candy bar off the shelf and ripped it open and started eating it.
"Fuck man, this thing tastes just like the real damn thing!" Brian said then suddenly there was a roar from behind the desk.
"Your going to pay for that" A heavy set man said as Brian continued to eat the candy sitting on the shelves.
"Fuck you" Brian said as the man grunted and came out from behind the desk and walked towards him.
"What did you just say?" He asked as Brian turned and faced him.
"I said fuck you bitch" Brian said as the man nodded.
"Oh, ok…" He said as Brian nodded.
"That's right, just keep walking away asswipe" Brian said as the man walked into the back. I was completely puzzled. Who was that? This world is only a beta, so there is only seven of us in this world right now…that means- I couldn't finish thinking as the man returned and shot Brian square in the chest from a foot away as I saw gore splattered out of his back, his spine bending outwards in an unnatural way as blood poured from his twitching body as the man turned to me and fired. It was the worst experience ever. I felt the pellets push all my organs out of my back as I fell backwards and suddenly everything went black.
I suddenly realized I was back in the room from before as Dr. Zaparuk already had his helmet off and was staring at Brian as he pulled his off.
"YOU SIR ARE NOT GOING TO MOD MY WORLD! YOU CAN'T GO AROUND SCREWING WITH THE NPCS LIKE THAT! THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT IS HUMANE AND WHAT ISN'T! THEY ARE A WIP!" Dr. Zaparuk screamed at him as Brian jumped up and gripped him by the neck. Dr. Zaparuk panicked briefly just as something unfolded from the roof and spun up and instantly Brian realized it was a turret. "Mr. Brian…we aren't in the game anymore…" Dr. Zaparuk whispered with a smirk on his face as Brian let go of him and stepped back. "GET THE FUCK OUT NOW!" Zaparuk screamed suddenly as the turret began to fire BB like pellets at Brian as he rushed out of the building. He turned back to us and smiled. "Disconnect those helmets and take them home and hook them up to your computers. It self installs itself so all you have to do is put the helmet on and your set go to. So tomorrow get on at five o' clock pm SHARP. And don't try to get on early; the server will be down for bug fixes that were discovered in today's test. Anyways tomorrow we will deal with moderation powers and then hopefully we can move you into houses" Dr. Zaparuk said as we disconnected our new helmets and were escorted out of the building and from there I walked home extremely excited for tomorrow.
Hope you like it, tune in next week for the next chapter