Hollow Glitch
Chapter 8 New Players
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I don't own anything.
"So what exactly do you mean, you can give us a few extra hands to help fight Hollow Game Studios?" Asked Phil as Gustaf went over to his laptop.
"You remember that one episode of The Hollow where we said we brought in some digital copies of past constants to play against one of the player teams due to the other player team losing early in the game?" Asked Gustaf.
"Yeah I really thought that was a creative idea on Hollow Game Studios's part." Said High Five.
"Well that wasn't exactly our doing." Said Gustaf.
"What do you mean?" Asked Miko.
"Well you see, when we had people play The Hollow, there was a special program that scanned the brains of the contestants and used those to create full digital copes of those people. It was to be a part of another virtual reality game called Hollow Life. Basically it was a virtual recreation of the town the contestants came from and was populated by the copies and other programs. Everything was running normally in Hollow Life, until one batch of digital copies started to act preocular." Said Gustaf.
"It was Mira, Adam, Kai, Vanessa, Reeve, and Skeet." Said High Five putting some of the pieces together.
"Bingo! Yes during their game of The Hollow, there was a glitch that affected the copying process, so instead of the copies just acting like programs and NPCs, they actually acted like the people they were copied from and were fully aware of The Hollow, which all the other programs in Hollow Life had no knowledge of. The copies thought they were the real players and that they were still in The Hollow, so they sought me out through a connection between Hollow Life and The Hollow. Along the way, they lost Skeets, but they found me and proved they weren't normal programs. I eventually figured out what happened and explained to the teens that they weren't real humans. After a bit of programming and coding I helped disconnect Hollow Life from The Hollow and I placed the group in Hollow Life. They've been living there ever since and I downloaded Hollow Life onto my laptop before I left Hollow Game Studios." Explained Gustaf.
"So now you want to get them out of Hollow Life and bring them to the real world to help us." Said Phil.
"Exactly. Look Adam and the others are all incredibly skilled players, who have played The Hollow and survived it's challenges, plus they have powers that could be very useful to the fight against Hollow Game Studios." Said Gustaf.
"Ooo! We get new Techs with superpowers!" Said Miko with excitement.
"I suppose we can use all the knowledge and help we can get. Very well, will use our tech to extract Adam and the others from the laptop." Said Phil.
"Alright I sent a message to Adam and his friends explaining a little bit about what's going on and to gather together for extraction." Said Gustaf typing a few keys on his laptop.
"Alright let's get to it then." Said High Five.
The four of them left the office and headed down to one of the labs.
In the virtual world of Hollow Life, Adam, Kai, Mira, Vanessa, and Reeve were gathered together in Kai's room. They had all received a vague message from Gustaf on their cellphones telling them to gather together and that Gustaf had a way to get them out. The teens had no idea by what Gustaf meant by getting them out, but Gustaf had taken care of them, so they trusted him. They sat around the room wondering what was going to happen, when a swirling blue portal opened up a few feet from them. The five friends stared at the portal and exchanged confused and concerned looks. They've all had their fair share of dealing with portals. Portals usually took you to places full of danger.
"Should we just ignore it?" Asked Vanessa.
"I say we should just slowly walk away from it and hope it goes away." Said Kai.
"I think we should go through it." Said Adam.
"What for?" Asked Reeves.
"Well Gustaf must have sent this portal for a reason." Said Adam.
"I trust him." Said Mira.
"Well I guess we got no choice, but to go through the portal then." Said Reeve.
"Alright will step through the portal together." Said Adam.
The five friends stood side-by-side as they stepped through the portal together. Kai's room vanished to be replaced by a high tech looking white lab. The group looked around at their surroundings in confusion.
"Are we in another game?" Asked Adam aloud .
"This isn't game. Welcome to the real world." Said Gustaf as he stepped in front of the group and gave them a wave and smile.
"Real...world...?" Asked Kai as he and the others looked utterly lost and confused.
"Don't worry. I'll explain everything." Said Gustaf.
To be continued.
