It was July 24. I woke up at 1:45 p.m. when I looked at my phone and saw that I had gotten a notification that read, "Vincent Benedict, 1:15 hours till the next shift". I immediately started to panic, and I ran to the bathroom for a quick shower. After the shower, I brushed my short brown hair and put on my glasses. Right after I put on my clothes and ran for the next train. After a very hard jog, I managed to reach the train just in time, but due to the combination of my larger build and the sunny weather, I was drenched in sweat. After a short ride, I reached my destination, the KFC. While walking to the workers entrance, I saw my good friend and coworker Blaise eating a gyro on his break. Blaise is a fairly tall individual with an olive-white complexion and short black curly hair.
"Sup Blaise," I said to him with a depressed tone.
"Nothing much," Blaise replied with a full mouth. After swallowing, he continues. "Alex didn't do jack shit as usual, so I had to do everything by myself. Also, there were a lot of customers, and we ran out of meat in the middle of rush hour,so yeah, the usual."
"Nice, at least is there any meat marinated?" I ask with dwindling hope.
After a few seconds of silent staring, Blaise replied," No."
After the crushing conversation, I went into the changing room to switch to my work uniform. After I checked in, I met with Alex, and after a handshake and some small banter, he left.
A few hours later, we were struggling to keep up with the customer demand, especially with the original recipes. We were in the later part of rush hour when a customer ordered a 30-piece bucket of Chichken drum sticks, and we only had about 10 of them. When our manager told us the order, we said a few curse words due to the stress we experienced during the whole day. Due to our rushing of the cooking process, we were careless in the closing of the pressure cooker.
"Fucking pieces of shit" muttered Blaise. "I hope they fucking die."
"I can agree with that, I hope they choke on a thigh too." I replied with some anger.
"Lets just get it over with." said Blaise with resignation.
When I was about to reply to Blaise, we both heard a weird hissing sound coming from the pressure cooker. We both looked at each other and went towards the pressure cooker to investigate what was making the hissing noise. But when we got there, the hissing changed to a higher pitch, and all we heard was a loud boom, and everything went black.
Then I woke up, and all I saw was a room full of nothing but pure white nothingness stretching on endlessly. It took me a few seconds to gather myself and look around. When I looked to my right, I saw nothing, but when I turned my head to the left, I saw Blaise face down, ass up, laying on the floor, still in his KFC uniform, covered in a small dusting of flour.
"Hey Blaise, are you Gucci?" I asked with a miniscule amount of concern, "What happened, and where are we?"
Blaise, at first, didn't say anything, he just groaned and got up from the ground. Upon hearing this, he opened his mouth and said, "How the hell should I know? I just woke up here too." with a small tinge of annoyance.
And then It appeared. First, It appeared as a blinding flash of light before It turned into a humanoid shape. Its form was that of an outline of a person, all we could see was that It was shaped like a human of average height and build, with the exception that It had no defining features. Then It spoke for the first time. " Hello there, guys. I hope you had a very fulfilling life because you guys became the Kentucky Fried Humans HA HA HA ... Get it?"
"Bruh" said both of us. "What do you mean?" Blaise asked with a confused tone.
"Zip it." It told us with a commanding attitude, "You humans have a lot of names for me, but for simplicity's sake, just call me God. You must be so confused with your puny ape brains. So as to show that I am a great god, I will be explaining to you what has happened and what will be happening to you from now on." He told us with a haughty tone. "You see, unfortunately, you have died. Bru hu, very sad. I was and am still very bored right now, so when I saw you explode, by the way, that's how you died, I thought, why not have some fun by grabbing two humans and throwing them into another world with some powers and watching the chaos and fun unfold. But to make it very fun for me and not so great for you, I decided to have some restrictions onto the two of you."
Upon hearing all this, I became very confused, and as he went on, I became very concerned. In my mind, I had a lot of questions forming, and I am sure Blaise is in the same boat too. But there was only one question I truly needed answered. "Excuse me, but what do you "
"And let's start the list now." It cut into my words "First off, the dungeon, and yes, there will be a dungeon, will treat you like the top priority and will be extremly hostile towards you. Secondly, everything good you do will be attributed to another random guy until I get bored of that. And thirdly, you will be permanently homeless, which entails that if you spend at least twelve hours in a building that is not the dungeon or a basic shelter, so tents, cardboard homes, or a wall-less cover, it will collapse completely. But do not worry, I am not that cruel, so it will be reset every day. So any questions?"
"Yeah, actually" both of us spoke up.
"Nah, you thought I was serious?" God asks while cackling, "Get out of here." He told us, and with that, a giant flash of light appeared around us, and darkness enveloped my eyes.
Then we woke up in a dimly lit corridor full of crystals that emitted a pale blue light, highlighting the stone walls like those of a cave.
