Chapter 3: VR Is Cool
Starting Initialization;
Connecting to server;
Matching user with the database;
Entering personal home #2_3_5_7_11_13_17;
Rendering environment;
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Preloading nerve-stimulation-data-pack;
<Welcome to Counter Attack, GenE! Current Location: Personal Apartment | Current Device: Valvee Deep Dive Vr Pod ver 1.03b> the female mechanical sounding voice of my personal assistant greets me.
Pretty excited I open my eyes and promptly I get overwhelmed by a bazillion of messages, advertisements, and bug fix reports.
'...'
"Somehow I thought to enter the game in the new pod would be much more cathartic, what did I even expect", I sigh.
Looking around my personal home I can see on my right my comfortable couch with a 3D projection TV, to watch E-Sport events on, in front of it in the far right corner stands a lonely mini-bar, the rest of the room is littered with gun cabinets full to the brink with rare and unique weapons and on a pedestal standing in mids of the bunch there lies a legendary AK74, the whole gun covered by a sci-fi painting in neon colors with a young girl holding a katana in front of flying cars and open stores, the name [Tachi] is engraved in a plate hovering in front of the pedestal. Suddenly a voice, "Yo nice weapon mind if I yoink it?", remarks a guy standing in the entrance with the name Ziekl hovering above his head, the stature of the man is broad and muscular, compared to him my's character looks frail and slender, but I would never say that out loud. "Sid, how come you are in my apartment?"
"Just entered through the front door, you really should lock it, or someone could snitch your AK or worse your virginity, also don't call me by my name online, you know I don't like that"
"Normally I lock it, but I must have forgotten last time", I try to change the topic, not because I am embarrassed or something, "So Sid let's start with the tourname..."
"You F*cker I just said call me Ziekl", Ziekl lightly hits me on my head while laughing like some maniac.
"Ouch..."
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-half an hour later
"The bomb is on bombsite a, it's already planted! What are you doing?!", the teammate with the color yellow shouts angrily. The scoreboard is dominated by the counter-force, Ziekl replies simply, "On my way", and adds "GenE come with me".
We guarded the B bombsite up to this point and now start to rotate through the middle of the map, this is the final battle of the tournament and it will decide who wins the grand prize. The grand prize is a special Lootbox that can only be won once a year. It is guaranteed that the Lootbox contains a rank 7 Item or a special reward, though nobody knows what the special reward is, cause it was never drawn before. Rank 7 items are currently the highest-ranking items I know of, it's produced from the highest leveled Gunsmiths in the game.
The theme of the map is located in an overgrown city and it plays in a laboratory, the terrorists have to blow up the last medicine left by an old civilization, the counter-force (we) have to stop them. One team has to win 16 times in this game mode and we already won 15, but the terrorists haven't slept either, they are at 14 wins. "This round could be the last one and be our victory or it could mean a draw, so the two of you have to make it", the green player says while he inspects the scoreboard, "Three enemies remaining".
If the game would end in a draw that would be fatal, cause the Lootbox would be downgraded to rank 6 and both teams would get them. Of course, I can't let that happen.
"Ziekl, I'll go through the ventilation system, you try to throw the one-way smoke so I can cover the corners, then you rush out, ok?"
"Consider the smoke as good as done", Ziekl replies with a smirk.
"You in position?"
"Wait... Crap it's so narrow in here!"
"..."
"In position!"
Ziekl throws the smoke it bounces from a wall and lands on some weird pipes on the ceiling a few meters away from me, obstructing vision from the bomb site. With the cover of the smoke, I now push forward to the exit of the vent and peek a camping corner from where Ziekl could be ambushed. Suddenly bullets penetrate the thin metal from the vent in a place I was crouching just a few seconds ago. "One camping around the corner, almost got me, will eliminate him now", I furiously scream while peeking the camper and gunning the guy down with my AK Tachi, his body slides down leaned on the wall he hid behind, leaving a blood smear across its surface.
"Nice shot, now only two left", green now somewhat relieved compliments me, 'as he should' I think to myself.
"Ziekl, you can push now, once you're in I'll jump down and throw a Flash!"
"Roger that, now let's go we don't have much time left the bomb is ticking"
"The other corner is clear now flashing 3. 2. 1. FLASH!"
I immediately jump down, landing about 20cm in front of the flash, so I won't get blinded but my opponents will get blinded. The flash goes off behind me about ten milliseconds after I landed, blinding all enemies with direct sightline.
Unfortunately, the flash only got one enemy crouching atop a box made of sheet metal, on the bombsite are three boxes one with a dimension ratio of 1x1x1 units and the other two with a ratio of 1x1x2 units, though one of the larger boxes is rotated upright placed in the middle of the bombsite and obstructing the sightline from the vent. The enemy player is standing on top of the upright one. Currently he's holding his hands in front of his eyes trying to shield them from the blinding light, although it's already too late he just doesn't know it yet.
I hurry to aim my ironsight at the players head and press the trigger, causing a bloody hole to appear on the forehead where the bullet penetrated his flesh. His body tips over falling down on the backside of the box.
"OUCH!"
"Last player behind mid crate obstructed by corpse, fast this is our chance!" I inform Ziekl, who already started moving to the right side of the box while I move to the left one. Our tactic is simple: sandwich the motherf**ker.
Ziekl arrives a little bit earlier than me, he hurries around the corner but...
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PinkhRuby
PinkhRuby Hey continuing the novel, took me some time. But I think I can now manage regular updates. I am aiming at 3 chapters a week, planned releases are Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, this chapter is hopefully the only exception...
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I hope you enjoyed this chapter as much as I did writing it!
Also, please don't find any faults the current word count is just too perfect with 1111! :D
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