The Test

"You have a visitor!" an integrated house system began to alarm the entire mansion. Joseph took a quick glance at the system and through its screen saw a red haired man standing outside the gates. Interestingly his appearance was similar to the DPS he played against except of course, that this was now reality. Joseph ignored the cries of the alarm at first, but he could no longer do so after the intermittent beeps that grew ever so urgent. He walked out through his mansion front door, going past a luxurious water fountain surrounded by marble tiles that had sculptures of doves on a tower made out of steel. His surroundings greenery could only do so much to cover the black steel fences that serves to protect the mansion from intruders.

Joseph sauntered to his main gate without a hint of consideration towards the impatient man, he even took the opportunity to glance around his walkway, seemingly looking for imperfections. "Hey your finally here after so long." The man started with a hint of displeasure in his voice. "What do you want?" Joseph replied. "I'm Oliver from Full Force Anti-Cheat department, we suspect that you might have used an aim bot in our game 'All Fight'." "I only just played my first game yesterday, and it was a casual one, how do you even track me down from a café?" Joseph questioned . "Casual or Competitive, we take it very seriously and have our anti-cheat system running to detect the presence of any potential cheats. We tracked down your IP address and located it to that internet café, following which we just needed to look at their records and we pinpointed it to you. " Oliver said sternly. "I'm just gonna ignore this, take your time driving back." Joseph gave a quick reply and turned back heading towards his grand mansion. Oliver raised his voice and said "You know that we can't just let this go due to the newly implemented legislations towards competitive gaming, any signs of using a cheat or developing one is an offense that can be taken to court."

Joseph halted immediately upon hearing that, he felt uncomfortable and troubled by such statements, enough to hear Oliver out more. Oliver explained : "I will take you to our headquarters nearby and test your skills through a series of aim testing modes involving flicking, tracking and others." "Do I have a choice on this?" Joseph asked, Oliver shook his head and gave a reply "This can affect your criminal record in the future, you just have to show a decent level of skill, I will have you know that we have tested over 5 million players around the world and some of them are even future professional players."

Joseph sighed and could only follow along helplessly. They drove in a decent SUV back to their headquarters. Along the way Joseph asked : "Were you in that game I played yesterday? I hope that this is not based on what you saw yesterday.". Oliver replied : " It was out of coincidence that I was in that game, I'm of course the red haired DPS guy you played against, who would have thought that the records of that game would show up later that day on the anti-cheat system." Oliver recalled that he was fatigued from all the paperwork he had to do that day, so during his rest time he played a casual game just for fun, that game would unknowingly end up being part of his work.

Upon arrival at their headquarters, their reception area has a Full Force logo placed on a wall that faces the entrance, greeting visitors before engaging with the receptionist. "Hey Sarah, I'm back!" Oliver declared with a jovial expression. "I'm glad your back, do you know how much I missed you?" Sarah replied back. Joseph inferred that their relationship goes beyond just friends and did not try to interrupt this lovely moment. "Hook me up to the fourth floor, we are going to the testing facility." "Sure! Go ahead and enter the lift". Upon gaining permission to enter the lift , they went up to the fourth floor, and was greeted by a heated argument.

"Ellie, you have to understand that your positioning is unnatural! We have to test if your using wall hacks." A flustered well dressed female employee pleaded. "Those fools were predictable, how could I not exploit the peeker's advantage on them? Its their fault for reporting me." The Ellie in question had hazel hair that were not long with bangs, the female employee was astounded by the attitude that has been shown by Ellie and felt that the situation is hopeless. They were distracted by the lift opening and glanced over, Ellie's attention was immediately caught by the dashing Joseph with white hair and mesmerizing black eyes. She began to compose herself upon realizing the presence of two other people and requested : "Fine, I will play a game with you all but I request that the both of them joins us in 'All Fight'." She demanded as she pointed at both Oliver and Joseph who were rather taken aback by their sudden involvement in the situation.

The female employee went over and pleaded with the both of them to help resolve the matter, "Ahh alright, fine, you will agree to it right Joseph?" Oliver glanced over to Joseph who was already signaling all sorts of rejection to him. "It could be part of the test, I will remove the later sections of the aim test and replace it with an actual game." Oliver suggested. Joseph went along with it after hearing that, he probably had no choice but to accept his proposal anyways.

Oliver asked the female employee to call up the e-sports team that is currently using their facility for Ellie's test. In the meantime, he would conduct the aim test with Joseph.