"I know...And I'm sorry. It won't happen again," I said reassuringly. "Natalia said the mission should be over soon." And with that, the familiar relief from constant burning settled in, our timers had disappeared. "Well, look at that, all gone." I smiled once again. She looked at her palm, confirming what I had said. There was a familiar force in the air as everyone blinked back into existence and the day continued as if nothing ever happened. "Here, let's go." I held out my hand to help her up to prevent anyone from staring at us leaning against some strangers SUV.
"Don't lose me again ok?"
"You got it, Nadia."
~Mission one: Completed~
~Day 2~
Alternates in The Game?
I sat up slowly; yesterday had taken quiet a toll on me. Sunlight pierced the darkness that enshrouded my room. I took off the black blankets that I had unexplainably gotten tangled up in while I slept. I had fallen asleep in the clothes I wore yesterday: a black T-shirt with light gray markings on it, dark gray shorts, and a metal studded belt. I trudged downstairs, still clearly exhausted.
Mom was watching some morning television show and drinking coffee.
"Good morning son, how'd the mission go?" She asked. Normally regular people don't know about The Gap and the missions, but each team member is allowed to tell one person. This person will remain in a comatose state unless that person is around the teammate, in which they can provide information. Mom's helped me when the target would be on the move, you know, car chases? In addition to knowing what happens during the missions, they'll remember it even though they weren't around.
"It went well, for the most part."
"I heard you lost Nadia. You know you're supposed to stick with your partner son."
"I know that Mom, it was an accident, I don't even remember losing her though. It just sort of, happened you know?" I replied sleepily.
"I know I know. Oh, and Christian? Don't leave your 3.D.S. lying around, you never know when a mission will pop up." She said with a smiled. I nodded and picked up the black rectangle that was lying on the counter. Smiling, I got some clothes from the laundry room before going upstairs to change. I had finished and now wore a black shirt with white angel wings on the back, black gym shorts with a dark gray line going down the sides, and my black and red W.I shoes. I pulled my 3.D.S out of my pocket and flipped open the lid, immediately it flickered to life. I dug around and found the stylus that went with it.
The great thing about these is that they also double as video chat devices; I clicked on the chat icon and waited until everyone logged on.
"Is everyone online?"
"I'm here." The voice of my friend Alex said through the static.
"What's up everyone?" Came another one, this of my friend Brenda.
"I'm up I'm up…" Nick said through the speaker of his own 3.D.S.
"Yes?" Keya asked with a hint of sleep still in her.
"You rang?" Natalia asked. "Awake as usual." I thought.
"I'm here too." Nadia said. Well… She didn't seem TOO mad anymore. Soon Connor, Elizabeth, Maria, Dylan, Shae, Jenna, Hanna, Katherine, Jadai, and Janey had responded and were conversing with everyone else. With it being a Saturday, no one really had much to do.
"Dude I leveled up from that last mission!" Connor exclaimed proudly.
"I'm still five levels stronger than you y'know." I said, bursting his bubble.
"You don't count; you've been in this longer than most of us." Nick interjected.
It was true, I had stumbled upon this game during eighth grade, and after a year of doing this solo, I found it was easier to work in a Team. So I recruited my friends, and we had been doing this ever since. So it was natural that I was higher leveled. Nadia was second, Nick was third, Alex, Keya, and Natalia were all fourth, and then the list kinda got blurry afterwards.
"Say Alex, what was the target this time anyways?" I asked.
"Well, it called itself the "Aurum Brain". It was this big stationary thing, so I figured it'd be an easy fight. Turns out this thing controlled little monsters called Aurums. So it was sorta difficult, that is, until Nick noticed the floor change color. Curious as to what that meant, Nick uh…'tripped'-"
"You pushed me!" Nick complained.
"I'm still talking! Anyways, I found out through Nick TRIPPING, that the color change damaged anything that wasn't an Aurum. So, after watching out for Aurums and color changing floors, we finally defeated the Brain, effectively destroying any Aurum that managed to get away." Alex explained, soon Nick and her were thrown into a fierce debate on whether or not he 'tripped'. I watched, processing what Alex had said, if our enemies were the Aurum, then why we given pins? We should've been given Blades, Orbiters, Palms, Bows, Claws, Arms, Cannons, Clubs, or Staves. Why was the Noise there as well, did they send us the wrong mission? Was it for a different continent, or did they intend for this to happen?
"Alex, Nick, did your pins work against the Aurum?" I asked.
"Sorta, Force Rounds worked the best though." She replied.
"That and Psycho-kinesis." Nick added. I guess…The Aurum Brain was fused with Noise?
"That's odd, we should've gotten weapons suited to K.I., but we got T.W.E.W.Y. instead…You guys didn't notice that?"
"Actually, I did think that was a bit strange," Natalia added. "But we did encounter Noise too, and the only K.I. enemies were the Aurum. So, maybe they gave us weapons for the more reoccurring enemy?"
"That's a possibility." I said. The conversation didn't last much longer before the LED on the side of my 3.D.S. lit up green, indicating mission data. I looked at everyone else's face on the screen; they received the same stare they gave me. "All right guys, we have work to do!" I said, we all said good-bye and logged off. I clicked on the icon with a closed envelope on it; the mission sprang onto the screen.
DARK PIT HAS BEEN SIGHTED.
TAKE HIM OUT.
TIME: FOUR HOURS.
DO NOT FAIL.
"Dark Pit… isn't he a mercenary of some sort?" I said to myself. I soon felt the familiar Force of everyone blinking out of existence and felt the pressure of The Gap opening up. I ran outside and found my mom looking towards the sky, the techni-colored hole opening in the very space itself. A black object flew out and over to a nearby house, "It's him!" I thought. I flipped open the lid of my 3.D.S. and chose the icon with a small sword on it and started rifling through my available weapons. "Better go with speed this time…Ah-ha! Found'em!" I clicked on the icon labeled "Raptor Claws" and shut my 3.D.S., it started to glow with a blue color and spread to my hands. Automatically a pair of bird-talon, blue and white feathered claws flashed into existence onto my hands. "Mom, go inside, I'll see what he wants." I said, she nodded and went inside, I heard the door lock, "Good, if this gets ugly I wouldn't want her placed in danger." I dashed to the house he had landed near, as I got closer, I could see that his normally dark blue wings were starting to turn an ugly red color. "Pittoo, why are you here? Why do They want you gone?" I asked.
