There's a slight fading humming in my hearing for a sec. It happened again for the second time, a little louder than the first time. Then, it happened for the third time, louder and my eyes snapped open wide, meeting with sight blinding lights. It took a moment to regulate my view with the light and when I finally got my body composed, I became aware of where I was, the strangest place I've ever seen/been.
"Wake up sunshine," I heard a voice say next to me. I don't conceded the voice at all, I have never heard such a grumpy voice before and I'm sure it was never Habib faking it. Who could it be?
I finally stood up from the floor I don't realize I was in the first place to have a better and clearer look of my surroundings. Behold! Before me were numerous people, but not just people, un-human as I could put it. The place I was was occupied with various races which I have no idea existed except in fiction walking up and down. I don't want to believe what I was seeing but my eyes weren't playing tricks, it was all real.
"Where am I?" That was the question that unintentionally slipped from my mouth upon registering everything in.
"No one knows." Replied, again the voice, the grumpy one from earlier. I turned to have a look at whose voice it was. My heart jumped right into my mouth and my eyes out of their sockets on what I saw. Behind me stood a very bulky guy, topless, with green lines like tattoos on his arms and what I mean was that this guy has four arms. I got lost staring at him not until I was distracted by him making 'snap out of it' coughing.
"You ok? You are staring, is it a bad habit of humans or do you like what you see?" He teased me, making me growl and pretended to be disgusted by his statements, but the truth was that I'd kill to have those muscles. Don't be weird Steven.
"Are you for real?" Another silly question slipped when not intended. "Where the f**k am I!" I exclaimed, drawing the attention of some.
"Take a chill pill human, this place isn't your mum's basement. Fragile being," I heard another unidentified specie say with a rude tone before walking past me talking.
Asshole, I said inwardly and I don't care about what any of these freaks think about being Human. These people I was seeing weren't supposed to be real to begin with or maybe the asshole was right, I've been stuck in Mama's basement (Earth) not aware of the existence of other lives outside mine.
Sensing my loss and confusion, the four arms dude placed a heavy arm on my weak tiny shoulder, I groaned.
"I am real. And we also don't have any idea where we are or how we get here in the first place," he affirmed. "Last I remember was wearing this charming bracelet then BOOM! Here I am," He mentioned. Then I had memories flushing at the moment he said that, making me recall what I did last before waking up here.
"As for me it was a fancy jacket, charming I'd also say," Another one commented, a lady with third eye on forehead with gray hair and pale skin.
Cruella. I thought and chuckled inside, but it seemed she could read my thoughts with the unpleasant face she directed at me, making me seized the laughter.
"For me it was a helmet, I thought it would be some sort of headache relief as I was having a serious headache in the morning." I explained when I my became wide in curious about a question. "Holdonasec! How long has it been?" I asked out of blue.
"How long has it been what?"
"How long have we been out, unconscious?" I asked no one in particular, but no one knows. "Whatever this is, it is not a good thing trust me."
"What makes you say that my friend? There is no sign of danger around here if you ask me," Four arms dude said.
"Think about it, we were brought here against our wish and will, through a painful process, I remember screaming my ass out before I went blank." I said and they were listening along.
"That is true, but what do they need us for exactly?" Another one asked when a voice started to speak through a speaker no one knew where it was making a static noise.
"I guess we are about to find out," I responded.
"ATTENTION ALL PLAYERS, THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS TO NOTIFY YOU THAT THE GAME WILL COMMENCE IN LESS THAN AN HOUR. DURING THIS TIME PLAYERS CAN EXPLORE AROUND BUT NOT BEYOND THIS AREA, FAILURE TO ABIDE BY THE RULES WILL RESULT IN THE PLAYER TERMINATION..." The voice addressed leaving all of us in total confusion and many questions.
Momentarily, where I was standing, lit up in a glowing light and transparent glass surrounded me in a circular form, same with everyone else. I have no knowledge of what was happening or what I should do, but I wait for further instructions when I see something popping on the screen. Different gears for fighting, it was like when you want to suit up for online games.
"NOW YOU EQUIP YOURSELF GEARS AND WEAPON OF YOUR CHOICE TO USE IN THE GAME.THE SUITS WERE BUILT TO WITHSTAND CERTAIN DAMAGE AND IT ALSO ENHANCES YOU DURABILITY,SPEED, FLEXIBILITY AND AGILITY. WHEN YOU GET IN THE GAME, I'D KNOW HOW IT WORKS. SO, SUIT UP, CLOCK TICKING," and the voice was gone after the instructions.
Without further Ado, we dive into preparation of what to come, picking what was best for us and suit our taste. I decided to go with black suit, shockwave repulsive gun, lassos glass, magnetic and levitation boots and other incredible gadgets, not overloading. When I was done, the glass sinked back to the ground.
"You sure do look charming despite putting on too much junk," A feminine voice spoke in my head. It was the Cruella lady from earlier.
"Are we also telepathically connected also?" I asked mentally surprised by the new experience.
"No, not at all. Telepathic is just my thing." She responded with a smile which I returned with charm.
"So you know what I was thinking some minutes ago when I called you Cruella, right? What if I had some dirty thoughts? You are going to puke."
"Of course not, I don't invade people's minds without their permission." She responded.
"But you don't ask for permission now before invading." I mentioned with an eyebrow raised in a silly way as I pictured in. She giggled.
"What can I say, you are too charming to ignore," she said and cackled. I wasn't expecting such response. "And if you were thinking dirty, you won't be the first to think dirty. That's the disadvantage of being a telepath. Many people are gross and that's why I don't hop into minds like that again." She elaborated.
"Why are you grinning like that?" Four arms dude asked, pointing to the silly expression I forgot still plastered on. "Do you have someone you're trying to impress already? That's so fast," Four arms dude said and he was giving a puppy eyes to force me to confess. I was about to deny his claims when another voice uninvite invade my head again, this time it wasn't the Cruella lady, it was a boy's voice.
"You don't have to answer him, he's always like that," the voice affirmed, making me search for who it might be when a boy that looks 12 showed his face from nowhere. I thought whatever we were about to do was only meant for adults, but it looked like age doesn't matter, meaning there would be children that need babysitting around.
"You are just a kid," Was my first statement to the boy, earning me raised eyebrows from the boy as if I was some kind of crabby man.
"Reece, did this man just call you a kid? Haha!" A girl around the same age as the boy but a little taller bursted into laughter.
What's so funny about it anyway? I thought.
The girl approached and stood at my front, stretching forth her hand for a shake which I refused but she insisted. She gave me a 'go ahead nod' and I finally gave in to her demand but to my shock, her hand transformed into tentacles making me retrieve my hand in a hurry. That was the last thing I was expecting despite witnessing the impossible today. Both siblings cracked into another laughter seeing my shock and terrified expression. They were really enjoying tormenting.
"Sorry, I don't mean to scare you," The girl apologized. Another way of saying 'I enjoyed the way I scared you, sucker!'
"I am Reecer and this is my twin brother, Reece," she introduced.
"Oh and I am whatever I don't give a damn," I responded in both sarcastic and hash tone before brushing them off, but the two monsters seemed to fuel on negative emotions and I was releasing the emotion in essence at the moment.
"And I see you have met our cousin, Pashina," Reecer said pointing at the four arms dude who waved at me as if both of us hadn't been discussing earlier.
"The four arms dude is your cousin? Wow! I guess half of your family get sucked into the suicide squad game. Haha, this is fucking Batman death in the family senerio, lot of funeral plan in advance," I said with humor, they seemed not to get my references. Anyway, they were dumb aliens.
"Four arms dude? Seriously?" Reecer murmured, showing off her front teeth like a horror doll.
"Wait, that's what you nickname Pashina?" Reece jumped into the discussion making everyone shifted their gazes at me, as if I've grown a second head.
"What? Staring is pretty a bad habit you know, your cousin taught me that. Alao I don't know his name that's why I referred to him as four arms dude cause you know... he has four of them" I tried to defend myself from these people that were burning holes through me with their gazes.
"He is race biased and xenophobic," I heard the devil boy whispered to his sister.
"That's not fair!" I heard Pashina exclaimed in a bummed out, taking me by surprise at the sudden change in him.
"What?!" I shouted. "I am race biased or xenophobic. I don't make up the nickname for your cousin to mock him or anything. Reece! You need to stop putting the false idea into people's heads," I yelled before Reecer slapped her brother on his head, stopping him with his mischievous tricks.
"Ouch!" He whined, rubbing the area where he received the slap.
"You're not getting into my head today brother," Reecer uttered.
Pashina snapped out of the mind manipulation, angrily grabbing Reece, "How many times do I have to warn you never to temper with my mind again!" He exclaimed with gritting teeth like he wants to bite his head off.
"I don't know... since we were children?" Reece replied with a pretentious innocent face, Pashina growl with annoyance, dropping the boy. "You really have some really defense techniques shielding your mind, it was impossible to invade," Reece referring to the other telepath Cruella lady.
"That's because I don't allow you to, I'm telepathic, too." She told the boy, making him beam with excitement.
"That's cool, that makes the two of us, right?"
"I don't go around forcing people to do my bidding."
"What's fun in that," He shrugged.
"ALRIGHT PLAYERS, THE GAME WILL COMMENCE IN 3... 2... 1..." And everything and everywhere vanishes like they were never there.