Kevin was dead, flattened by the car that crashed through her house.
Her parents? The doctors told her that the car that killed Kevin had first slammed into his car with her parents inside, which caused the initial explosion, which then lead to the raging fire that injured her.
Speaking of which, she was lucky to be such a small girl, otherwise she would have been a larger target, and thus been more badly burned.
Third degree burns to over two thirds of her body, mostly on her back, legs and right arm. Part of her face had also been burned, so much so that her right eye was unable to even open enough for her to see. So, at the recommendation of one of the younger, more humourous doctors, she wore a black eyepatch over her right eye, since, in his words, "It was almost useless anyway."
The catastrophe was six months ago...
Even during her transportation to the hospital, the paramedics knew that the backpack she held was the last surviving piece of what happened. Even the doctors that had treated her were forced to tears when she cried miserably at the attempted removal of her grip.
In that time, she never let anyone near it, nor touch it. It was also the only way for the night nurses to calm her down after she had recurring nightmares about the fire. The backpack served as a safety blanket or teddy bear to her, silencing her sobs and lulling her to sleep, hugging the backpack in the exact same way she'd done to survive the flames.
One day, a visitor she wasn't expecting came to visit; a representative for a private school offering medical support for youth with various disabilities.
"What's the point? I'm not disabled." Amy glared at the suited man with her good eye, her precious backpack placed on her lap with her arms wrapped around it protectively.
"Sadly I must disagree. From the reports I've received in the past few weeks, it appears you've suffered a traumatic experience coupled with a severe and permanent injury. I'd say it's a life changing event. The school, though still a functioning institution of education, is staffed with medical personnel to ensure you recover well."
"If I'm supposed to be recovering, then shouldn't I be here in a hospital?" Amy continued to glare, her eye narrowing slightly.
"Recovery can happen in places other than a hospital." He replied. "Now, not going into particulars... There is another student at the school, a severe burn victim, like you. They're recovering quite well, both physically and psycholgically." He paused to consider his next words. "Would you at least consider it? I was simply asked to convince you to join the school."
"I'll consider it." Amy gave a single nod of her head, her tone making it obvious that the conversation was over.
"Thank you. Now, I'll give you my card, in case you ever need to contact me." He handed over a small business card, which she took without a word. "Have a good day."
With that, he left her room, closing the door behind him. Amy glanced at the card, then place it on the small shelf beside her bed.
Glancing at the clock on the wall, Amy bit her lip, thinking hard. She compared the pros and cons of attending this school, her fingers gently tapping the backpack in her arms. After several minutes, she made a snap decision.
Opening the backpack for the first time since the fire, she began to pull out her brother's laptop and everything it needed. Within mere moments, she had plugged everything in, and turned it on for the first time in six months.
After the normal startup process, she was met with her brother's desktop, a screenshot he took from one of his games, showing a beautiful forest landscape.
Examining the game icons on screen, Amy's gaze was locked onto one particular game, entitled Warframe.
Clicking the icon, Amy waited for the game to start, her good eye watching the progress bar. When it finished, a drum beat sounded in the headphones, indicating that it was ready. She clicked Play, and was met with a login screen.
At the realization she didn't know his password, she froze for a moment. This game had caught her attention, yet she was unable to play it!
But after a moment, the game seemed to automatically log in, rendering the need for a password useless. She was immediately met with a character that appeared to be wearing a strange set of armour, resembling a red lobster.
Tentatively controlling the character's movements, Amy realized that she was currently inside a small spaceship. She approached a ramp, descending into another room.
On the left of her character was a strange creature, slightly resembling a gray dog with long ears. Directly ahead of her was a strange looking machine. She approached the machine, and pressed the Interact button.
With a new screen activating, she realized she had entered the feature called the Arsenal. Amy perused the selected stuff her brother had last used: Trinity, Paris Prime, Bronco Prime, Dakra Prime, Dethcube, and Deth Machine Rifle.
None of the items seemed familiar, so she hovered her mouse cursor over Trinity, and a small list of options appeared; Equip, Upgrade, Appearance.
Clicking Equip, a new list appeared, replacing all of the other items. Several characters appeared; Ember, Loki, Trinity, Nyx, Vauban, Nekros, Mirage, Rhino, Saryn, Valkyr, Excalibur, Ash, Mag, Frost, Oberon, Volt, Zephyr, Banshee, Nova, and Hydroid.
Scrolling down the list, several additional characters appeared: Excalibur Prime, Frost Prime, Mag Prime, Rhino Prime, Loki Prime.
Confusion crossed her face at the odd suffix, Prime. Was it an upgraded version of those characters? She noticed that every single character was at Rank 30. Maybe that's max level?
Selecting the first one that caught her eye, Valkyr, she clicked Equip, and then Trinity vanished, replaced with an orange and grey female character with a strange set of metal armour on her arms and a matching collar on her head.
Scanning Valkyr's stats on the side of the screen, Amy realized that Valkyr was somewhat weird: low Shields, very high Armour, and pretty good Health. She remembered Kevin talking to a gamer friend on the phone, saying "Valkyr's an HP based tank, but she's quite hard to learn."
Selecting another character, the non-Prime Excalibur, she noticed that Excalibur was very... average. Decent Shields and Health, but low Armour.
Equipping Excalibur in place of Valkyr, Amy moved down to the Paris Prime, which appeared to be a bow in Excalibur's hands. Amy thought that the bow highly resembled a golden banana.
Doing the same thing as before, Amy selected Equip, and was met with a huge list of weapons, a few of which were the strange Prime versions: Braton, Latron, Boar, Paris, Boltor.
Two other strange suffixes caught her eye as well, Wraith and Vandal. The ones with Wraith were Latron, Gorgon, and Strun. Vandal was Braton and Snipertron.
Scrolling through the list of weapons, Amy recognized a few scattered ones from Kevin's phone chats with the friend. Phage, "Super high D.P.S shotgun." Soma, "The Crit King." and Vectis, "Bolt action badass sniper."
Deciding to equip the standard Braton, Amy scanned for the weapon, but noticed there was an identical one, the MK-1 Braton.
Noticing that it was the weaker one, Amy selected the actual Braton instead.
Next, she replaced the equipped Bronco Prime, scanning through numerous Prime, Wraith, Vandal, and a new one, this time a prefix, Dex.
Dex Furis, a strange pair of pistols that were apparently from an event.
Nodding her head at his Dex Furis, she decided to try the standard version of the Lato pistol, which also had a Prime and a Vandal version, plus the Aklato, which was dual wielded Lato's.
Finally changing the Dakra Prime, Amy was met with even more weapons than before, many Primes, a few Wraith, a Vandal, and finally two others that caught her attention; Sylvia & Aegis, and the Dragon Nikana.
Sylvia & Aegis was a sword and shield weapon made of fire, and the Dragon Nikana - the prefix Dragon was the reason it caught her eye - was a very powerful katana.
Deciding not to use such powerful weapons so early in her gaming experience, she selected the standard Skana, a single sword that slightly resembled a sewing needle in her opinion.
Finally, she realized that Dethcube was a small floating cube beside the Arsenal. She removed it from her equipped items, unsure of what it did.
Satisfied with her final selection, Amy made Excalibur wander around the ship, learning the various other functions at her disposal, including the strange dog from earlier, which was called a Kubrow.
Returning up the ramp, Amy realized that there was a mission selection function, so she activated it, searching for the lowest level planet to begin playing. Apparently Mercury was the lowest, so she selected a mission called Terminus, ready to begin her first mission.
A/N: For reference, Kevin owned EVERYTHING in Warframe, with one single exception... Check back to the Primes, then guess which one is missing ;)