[ Tutorial Start? Y/N?]
I look around me and take in all the sights, or I guess I should say the lack of sights right now. Man why does this shit have to happen to me? I'm just sitting here in a void floating, there's not even any gravity here! I tested it out by going and spitting, all that ended up happening was me and my spit went in opposite directions.
At least physics works right? Means I'm not royally fucked even though I've been here for… actually I can't tell how long I've been in here for now that I think about it. My watch conveniently isn't working, huh.
I guess this is some sort of afterlife then? Well I guess it would make sense that the afterlife would have a way for people to figure out what to do, and hey a pro I just noticed! If I'm dead at least I don't need to deal with being alive anymore! No more shitty parents, no ex-girlfriend, and no general breathing down my back!
I let out a smile and spend a bit longer going and enjoying being weightless, I had to do some training for this back in the day but it's been so long, and it's so much damn fun. Bastard teaching wouldn't let us do anything but the approved exercises. Wanted to float upside down? Nope, wanted to float sideways? Nope. Had to float right side up. Bullshit is what that is, I mean how can you even know which way was straight up. That went and earned me a few hundred push ups.
Well that's enough bad memories, I'm going to embrace death with a smile! I reach my hand out and tap the yes button on the screen that was about a foot and a half away from my face no matter where I had happened to move. I wanted to close my eyes and relax after pressing the button, but less than even a second after pressing it the scenery changed around me slightly!
I looked down at my feet and saw an odd black metal floor with futuristic patterns spreading on it leading towards the center, I also noted that I was apparently on the edge of this platform that seemed to be about 15 meters long by around 5 meters wide, the entire left side had odd protrusions that reminded me of weapons I had seen in a science fiction movie.
After looking around for a moment to gain my bearings I realized where I was, it was something I had played on hundre- no thousands, of times. It was the stage in super smash brothers Final Destination! Man, what a joke. Is my test for getting an afterlife really going to be me testing out my super smash brothers skills? Well let's see what it is that they'll throw at me then.
Nothing, that's exactly what they threw at me. I've been sitting here for what I swear is half an hour and there's nothing here. I ended up just going and walking around the stage randomly and trying to stay on while it goes and jerks around suddenly for it's scene transitions. I am actually pretty amazed by the fact that the temperature doesn't change here, it just stays the same and quite comfortable at that.
After wandering around for a good bit longer another screen appeared in front of me.
[ Defeat the Digital Creatures]
Immediately after that a voice suddenly shouted "3! 2! 1! GOO!" Knowing full well that is the announcer for smash and that the things I needed to defeat would appear soon I looked around desperately, but don't see anything else around me. I try to move towards the wall of futuristic looking shit when suddenly something hits me in the head knocking me to the ground.
I pushed myself up to my feet almost immediately after I fell and finally noticed something, I'm way fitter than I was before! Almost like I was in the service, but now wasn't the time for that, I look around the ground and see that there around 50 small dogs surrounding me, all foaming at the mouth. I've heard of these dogs, but I've never actually seen one, these are called… chihuahua's? Well I don't care about the name too much right now, I'm more worried about them going and moving closer to me.
Is this why they're called rat dogs? Because Jesus Christ they are surrounding me like I'm a piece of cheese that fell in the sewer. Uh, so since this is smash brothers do I need to… defeat them all? Well this will piss off PETA if that's the case, but they aren't too strong in my country so oh well I guess. Though I guess I should try and be nice since that should be the human thing to do right?
(A/N: I clearly made the dogs fake based on the Digital creatures statement, I don't condone animal violence and it's pretty much implied that the dogs are rabid. So if you are the kind of person who doesn't like to see an animal get hurt skip this part and come back at the next authors note.)
I reach my hand out to pet one, but the little son of a bitch decided to lunge at my hand! Negotiations broke down! Mr. Dog, meet Mr. Foot! I pull my hand back while it lunges and go and kick the dog as hard as I possibly can, making it explode into a mass of colorful lights. Well at least I know that it's easy enough to deal with the dogs right?
Well not really, they decided to take advantage of me kicking their friend and bit my left legs ankle a shit ton making me actually cry a little bit. Why are their teach so fucking sharp? My old golden retriever that bit me one time didn't hurt as much as this does! I rip the 2 dogs that are sinking their teeth into my ankles and barely manage to pry them off without dragging any flesh of mine along with them. I then threw them off the ledge while trying to avoid the tide.
I kept running and kicking a dog every so often, but I fucked up. I accidentally tripped on one of them and almost went tumbling off the ledge, however in both luck and severe unluckiness, several dogs jumped onto me and bit into me, but that extra weight kept me from teetering into the void which is especially comforting since I don't have any stocks that I know of, so if I lose I may very well lose everything.
I pushed myself up and bit back the tears while ripping the dogs off my body, and then in a fit of vengeance I used one to knock 5 more of the remaining 20 into the pit. At this point it would be a piece of cake, especially since I am so close to the edge so I would kick a dog and jump over it, the first time I did this I actually slipped and fell, but decided to use the momentum to plant my elbow into the dog, this apparently counted as a smash move as I saw it take off like a firework into the distance. Once there were about 5 dogs left they all tried running away which made me feel like a monster, but seeing that these things were taking chunks out of me with no remorse I decided to pay it forward.
I had to get each dog into a corner to get them into range for me to do anything, however it was depressing at one point, the last dog I cornered decided to jump off with his own free will. I mean, I can't blame him but he attacked me with his friends first. Now that the battle was over though I sat on the floor and leaned my back against the wall. Fucking dogs are evil apparently.
This is why I prefer cats over dogs, if a cat were to attack me I would be fine, I could pull it off easily enough but dogs, man dogs are an entirely different animal. Bad jokes aside I'm being serious, I remember seeing people get torn to pieces by an untrained dog.
(A/N: For those that don't like him fighting the animals come over to here, If you didn't read it he won long story short, but got bit a lot by the dogs that seemed to be rabid.)
What was going on? Oh yeah, before I started going off on the tangent, I had just finished the task and well a doorway? Can I call it a doorway?
No, I don't think I can really, it's more so just a white 2 dimensional rectangle in the middle of the arena. I guess I'm supposed to walk into it? Man this afterlife shit better have all the hookers and games a man could want. Well or I just die forever in oblivion via this door.
Huh, you know it sounds a bit more attractive know, I should probably work on being able to convince myself to go off to my death that easily, but well I honestly just don't care at this point so fuck it am I right?
Yeah I'm right. Well forward unto dawn! I step out with my foot, but as soon as the tip of my shoe hits the wall of light I get pulled into it rather quickly so it doesn't even give me a chance to fight the pull... or the whiplash for that matter.
When I had stopped vomiting from the sudden motion I noticed that I was back in that black void, however the screen in front of me now said something new.
[Beginners gift!
Contains- 1x basic room, 1x F-rank System Integration, 200 credits, 1x F-rank rusty sword piece, 1x F-rank random world entrance ticket, and 1 full recover(Used as soon as gift is accepted)
.
Press button to accept gifts!]
Are… are they really going to dark souls me like that? Giving me the hilt of a sword? I sigh and accept my fate by pressing the button. After pressing it, there was suddenly a floor below me! Granted it's just grey, but still! There's a floor and I'm standing on it! Oh now there's walls around me! Wow, less than 10 seconds and… I'm in a concrete box with a single metal door. Lovely. Well at least I can leave to go to the void whenever I want right?
[Initianting F-Rank Connection to system servers! …
Connected!
Greetings Insert Name and welcome to the Server!
As a first connection reward at- F Rank - You have been gifted- Stat increase: Minor.
]
Well there's another gift I guess. Oh, and there's the rest of the things on the ground. A sword hilt with about 10 centimeters of blade, but it doesn't stop there. It's so freaking rusty that you'd swear it was made of glue and rust. Well at least if I have to fight a horde of animals I can give them tetanus. So pros and cons am I right?
There's also a card on the floor, looks like a credit card. Must be that currency. Wonder what I can buy with it? Well guess I'll find out later, or it gave me a bogus gift. Welp either way what happened happened. The last thing on the ground is a small ticket, looks like one that you get from a movie theater actually.
"System.... Show screen… menu options stats status, oh there we go."
[Pete Stilgrin
System Ranking: F
Level:0
Title(S): <Newbie>
Instructor(S): None
Stats- (Average for -Human- is 10)
Strength: 6.5 (Muscle: 9, Control: 4)
Constitution:9 (Vitality: 10, Endurance: 8, Health: 9)
Dexterity:6.5 (Balance: 7, Flexibility: 3, Hand-Eye Coordination: 8, Reflex: 8)
Intelligence: 7.3(Learning: 5, Reasoning: 8, Tactics: 9)
Wisdom: 9.6 (Willpower: 11, Perception: 9, Intuition: 9)
Charisma: 8.5(Courage: 9, Persuasiveness: 7, Leadership: 10, Appearance: 8)
Note: Wow you don't have a single stat at the average of your species! Go you!]
I mean I know I'm not the best at really anything, but fuck you system, that hurts a bit. Like damn. Well I guess I can't complain too much, I mean they trimmed all the fat that I built up off, so it wouldn't be too hard to go and get my muscle back. Maybe a week or 2? The rest of the shit though, well I guess I can try stretching at least, don't really know about the rest though.
Oh wait, there's a plus button another small segment below the Note, oh it's the Stat increase: Minor! Whatever it is that is, I guess it will make it so that one section of those stats will be increased?
I click on it and see that every sub stat is available for me to upgrade, well my lowest one is flexibility, and honestly it has always kind of limited me in aspects so I guess I should put it into there? I click on Flexibility and then a message appears in the screen.
[Due to low stat, effect increased!
Status- Flexibility- is now 6]
Really? That easy? I mean I don't think I feel that different? Maybe it's because of how low it originally was I guess. Or well this is complete bullshit, I mean I can hope for this kind of an afterlife, but really would it be that far fetched for everything in my life to be shitty?
Well I have had enough of this bleak and depressing room, I'm going to go through that metal door and hope to whatever god above there may be that this is not going to go to a horror game. I'll be fucked over and have next to no chance at survival if that happens. Well maybe if it was a resident evil type… no wait, lickers and tyrants are a thing. Yeah no I'm screwed no matter what if the other side is like a horror game.
I put my hand onto the handle and breathe in a bit, it's okay Pete, you got this. I then turn the handle and open the door, revealing the abyss on the other side and a screen.
[You Currently have access to:
-The Crossroads
Select destination!]
I guess I only have one choice then? Well whatever I guess. I press the button and that white doorway appears again, taking the initiative this time though I step into it while I am still braced for whatever it is that the world may throw at me on the other side.
Hey guys! Here with a new story that I feel is fresh, at least for me. This idea was originally recommended to me by Trollyrant(shout out to him real quick) so thank you! I have since adapted it to be something that I think fits how I write and how I think though, and I'm excited to see where this story goes!
Not dropping the other story, I put that it is on hiatus due to it draining my creativity, so while I do that I will work on this when not busy!
Sweet jesus, right after stepping out of the door I'm in the middle of a plaza full of people walking all over the place. I take a moment to try and ignore the people around me moving about, but god they are all being so loud, and it's congested here to the point that I'm legitimately being shoved every which way.
[You have been given temporary directions to -World Access Redeeming and Purchasing- Follow the system directions!]
I guess it's time to pretend to be a functional human being and blend in with the crowd. I gently integrate myself with one of the streams of people that seem to be heading in the same direction so I hopefully can get there, I try to keep track of the buildings and scenery that surround me, but I find myself pushed deep into the crowd of people.
After a few minutes, I suddenly hear a voice speak to me, "Hey, Listen!" I look up and see the very familiar glowing blue ball with wings, making me reflexively wince. I then see a gap in the crowd and work my way out as easily as I can, thankfully without hitting anyone with an elbow. After it saw me get out safely it went up into my face, "Hey! Listen to me!"
Where's my gun at? If this is going to be how it's going to be here then I want a gun, any gun that way I can take as many mother fuckers out with me and then myself. "I'm listening to you, what do you want?"
The little bastard just scoffed at what I said, "I was sent to go and direct you to WARP, but you decided to go off on your own, well I guess it's not too bad since you were going in the right direction."
I put my hand up, "Hold on, warp? What's warp?" Is that what those glowy white door things are? Warping?
Navi then sighs and responds to me, "WARP is short for World Access Redeeming and Purchasing. It is supposed to be straight forward for an acronym, but well there are a select few people that don't get it right away."
I can feel my eye twitch. All my years playing games online has not helped my temper, and to think that I used to be so passive. "Alright well can you lead the way?" The sooner I can get away from this guy the better for me and my mental health.
It bobs up and down before responding, "Sure can! Also, stay close to me if you want to get there faster, the way you were doing it, well it wasn't bad but they would have eventually turned right up there instead of left so they could get to... you know what forget about it. Follow me!"
I begin following Navi who actually seems to know how to maneuver me around all this foot traffic, which is surprising given that she is like the size of the palm of my hand. While walking around I couldn't help but be amazed at everything around me, things I've seen in videogames, anime, and movies were here. I've seen Leon Kennedy, Edward Elric, and I saw a few different versions of Bruce Willis. This is one weird ass heaven. Like who would willingly make themselves look like Bruce Willis?
I mean I'd go and pick someone like Ryan Gosling if I had the choice... speaking of which there's a Gosling! Oh shit and there's the Iron Giant working in the distance, he's making... pancakes? He seems like he's a kilometer or so away, the only reason I can actually see what he's making is because he's so damn big. Like jeez, I'm pretty sure he's bigger here than in the movies. Actually thinking about it, all these buildings I'm walking by seem like they were ripped straight out of movies, games, and anime then just kind of stapled together or like the pieces of a puzzle were cut so they would fit together.
Like I just passed Soma's diner (From Shokugeki no soma) and am currently walking in front of the ghostbuster's firehouse. There's just no real consistency here, but well I guess at least the ghostbuster's can get a good meal after they're done busting some ghosts right?
Wait, does that mean that there are ghost's in heaven if the ghost busters are here? Man that's a trip to think about. While I was busy contemplating ghosts existing in heaven, Navi informed me that we were here. I looked up and saw that it was that bank from that Deus Ex Mankind Divided game! The only reason I remember it was because holy shit, it was so well designed. I have replayed that game a few different times, and while the story was mediocre at best, the level design and powers were so interesting for me, especially that bank.
I start walking in when Navi suddenly calls out to me, "Alright, well my job here is done. Hope you do well on your world!" I reach my hand out to try and stop her because I have no clue how to get back to my room void thingy. Seeing her just take of without a care makes me sigh, I may as well just go into the building and see several receptionists, Smithers from the Simpsons helping someone out, Kenneth from 30 rock just standing there with a smile on his face, some anime girl I can't recognize talking to some guy, Cortana from Halo, and a few other people.
I don't feel like dealing with too much crap so I go to Kenneth since I know at the very least he'll be friendly to me. As soon as I step up to his podium he grins at me with a big ol' country smile, "Why hello there sir! How can I help you today?" I put on my fake smile for interacting with people and hand him the ticket thingy I got. He then smiles and his eyebrows raise, "Oh wow! A random world ticket, my my, let's hope that you get a doozy of one so you get some good missions! Oh but first, is it fine if I access your system? It's a legal thing don't worry."
I just nod to him and he responds quickly, "Alright... Mr. Stilgrin. Ooh what a neat name, I wish that I had that name but well mine is kenneth, love my momma for giving it to me though! Alright, well looks like you are new here... and you don't have a world registered! Congrats you get to redeem it! Anything you'd like to say for luck beforehand? I'll tell ya, I usually like to pray to god even if I've never met him. Heard he's a great guy though!" I just smile and respond to him with a no. I really just wanna get the world and get it over with.
He smiles and inserts it into some huge machine with a bunch of balls in it. I guess it works like one of those gumball machines maybe? Or maybe like the balls from the American lottery?
After a few moments a ball rolled out like this was the Lottery or a on of those cages for choosing the numbers for bingo. Kenneth then quickly grabbed the ball and smiled at me, "Oh wow! You get the Aliens world! I bet it'll be fun to go through! Well if you don't want it then we can get you a re draw for 150 credits!"
I grimace slightly, really? Aliens? That old movie from the 80's? God, it has been years since I've seen the movie, but really they're going to throw me into there? I sigh and tell Kenneth it's fine and I don't want to redraw. He smiles and types on the keyboard a bit then looks up to me, "Since this is your first world we have a one time deal, for 50 credits you can get the basics of that world as a bundle. This includes an identity so you don't need to explain anything to anyone! Are you interested?"
I raise my eyebrow at that, well that would be helpful, and right now I don't exactly know how much a credit is worth so I don't want to spend them willy nilly, but I do trust Kenneth to be honest to a fault as well, it's one of the reasons I came up to him and not Cortana. However I still need a bit of convincing so I ask him what is in the package.
He then replies almost instantly, "Well that all depends sir, like for me I went to a world called who framed roger rabbit, and I have to say it was a lot of fun! Oh yeah, but I got the package and what I got was an ID from there, about 100 dollars which got me a lot of food, oh and a Camera! It was really useful for the missions they had me do! One of my friends that got the package after starting in the pulp fiction universe and he got a pistol and a bulletproof vest. That was it! It really helped with his missions though he said! So everything you get is supposed to be useful! Not to mention skills and items that you can find or earn in each world that are usually really useful and earn you bonus credits as a hidden objective! I actually once heard someone found a tracker that can find every item no matter the world unlike the treasure maps everyone else has to use. Oh but look at me babbling on!"
I smile and tell Kenneth I'll get the thing for 50 credits and hand him the credit card thingy that fell on the floor earlier. After finishing up I ask Kenneth about some of the rules and workings, "So Kenneth, how do I get back to my area? Also, from what you are saying it looks like I can go to new worlds, can I bring stuff to them or am I stuck carrying nothing in each time?"
He puts his finger to his chin for a moment to reply to me, "Well, I would say the best way to go home is to link a gesture to it, that way you can call the door at any time. I'd recommend a rare gesture so that if you do it on accident you won't have any problems. To link it just think about that white door while doing the gesture! As for the items, well it depends. You can bring all items you get from there back to your area and you can bring them back where you got them from. You can't bring them here or any other worlds though, however anything you get here can go in any world! Oh and all the secret items you get in any world work the same way! I've heard though that some things will be useless if you take them certain places! Like if you take a laser to where the cowboys age is then it will be turned into something like a cannon! It doesn't work backwards though, so if you take a revolver to a world where there are lasers it won't work as well!"
You know, I actually hate one less person now. Kenneth is just too cheery that I just can't help but feel like I should smile. I couldn't keep him too long though, but I thanked him for his time. As I was walking away though he called over to me quickly, and when I walked back he mentioned a bit more that he missed earlier, "Before you go, I forgot to mention that you can only leave the world you go to within a certain time limit. If you stay after that time limit the next mission will automatically start and you need to complete it before you can go! Oh also, time is paused in the other place so nobody will notice you left and for some reason don't notice if you bring back new or repaired stuff, so keep that in mind! Last thing! New worlds that can be added to your list cost 300 credits and double each rank increase, but in order to get the next rank you need to get a random draw ticket for that rank from the world you are in. Before you ask, yes you can get higher than a 1 tier up ticket, it is very rare though and only 20 people have gotten it, and all of them have the luck stat. That's it friend, so good luck on your adventures!"
I smile and thank him for his time, thankfully he had saved me from a lot of worry since now I know what I can and can't do in regard to how the worlds work at least for the most part. I'm sure I need to figure stuff out more, but for now I think I can at least go to Aliens and... maybe not die. Well as with everything else, fuck it! If I die then I die. Don't really care too much either way. Well for now I guess I should set my home return movement. What is easy enough to remember but not something that I would go and do that often?
I've got it! I think of going back to that room and do president skroob's salute from spaceballs. After I finish though, nothing happened so just to double check I go and do it one more time, and lo and behold! The door appeared! Wow this is going to be hilarious and a pain in the ass to do, but well at least it's not me going and pretending to jerk myself off which was a close second, and while it would be funny I wouldn't want the door to activate while... something was happening.
Content with what I learned though I step into the door and find myself pulled into the bleak and grey room again. There's nothing here for me though so I immediately turn around and pull the door open and see the message presented to me as it swings open.
[You currently have access to:
-The Crossroads
-Aliens
Select Destination! ]
I smile and press the button for aliens, well I'm at the very least going to see something cool, now whether I die or live is left to debate. Steeling my resolve I am reminded of how I used to be when I was in the military, bringing both a sense of longing and happiness to me simultaneously.
As I step through the portal I find myself in a futuristic looking apartment and on the bed there is a knife, a see through card about the size of my thumb, some sort of thing that I put on my wrist, I think like a PDA deal, a credit card looking thing, a letter, a backpack, and a thing that looks like a briefcase. When I open up the briefcase it is full of little tubes that look like toothpaste, when I examine one I read 'Apple Pie.'
Oh god, something tells me that these are going to be worse than those MRE's that I don't remember too fondly, but I guess when you need nutrition you need nutrition. I pull the letter open and read it, thankfully it is in English, one of the languages I can understand. The letter was a bunch of legal bullshit, but in essence I am being paid to go on an expedition with the Marines from the movie to rescue the colonists. It seems though that they are leaving a week sooner which confuses me. I remember the Marines being too late, or maybe they are still going to be late?
[Mission Received-
Get to LV-426 with the expedition.
Rewards-100 credits, Standard Marine gear(Usable only in given worlds instance),+1 to any single stat below 10 (value increased due to values being below average)
Fail conditions- Do not join expedition.
Penalties- Removal from world, 100 credits lost, world restarts.
]
Well no matter what way I look at the PDA I can see that the day they are going to get me is in fact today and they(the system thing) will supply me with all of my gear. I decide to take a shower before I change into the military crap that I apparently had in one of the drawers. I actually also found a pistol which makes me feel much more comfortable, but it probably won't help too much against those bastards.
Anyways, taking a shower helped me feel refreshed, especially having new clothes. By the time that I finished up getting everything set I hear a knock at my door, on the other side are 2 marines and one man in a business suit. They shoot the shit a little bit as I grab the backpack and other items, I then walk with them to the ride they had acquired, an aircraft that I don't know how to explain. Maybe as a VTOL? Maybe? If that. I don't really know.
In less than 5 minutes we were apparently in space and docked inside of the ship. In less than an hour I was apparently ready for the deep sleep and promptly put inside. It was an odd sensation to say the least, and I feel like I had only slept for the night, not like it had been several years... actually thinking about it, how much time passes outside when I'm in here? Hopefully not years since if I go see Kenneth it'll be weird being like 'Hey been 7 years bud!' then him looking at me wondering who the hell I was. Well that's probably just my social anxiety getting to me since I haven't had a friend in a long time. Maybe.
Well point of this whole thing is that I'm orbiting the moon and we're prepping to go down.
So I'm going to have to re watch the aliens movie now. Also for those upset that I picked aliens over something else 2 things, 1 I felt it an F ranked world, and I don't care if there's no waifus or whatever in it, this is to show the Mcs background. 2, get over it. I'm writing the story how I feel it should be, now I'll take suggestions for world but I won't write specifically for one person (If I ever do then I would make that story private and/or a one shot +paid)
Comentario de párrafo
¡La función de comentarios de párrafo ya está en la Web! Mueva el mouse sobre cualquier párrafo y haga clic en el icono para agregar su comentario.
Además, siempre puedes desactivarlo en Ajustes.
ENTIENDO