The Start

"...yup, I'm officially crazy..." I say, staring at the literal pop up window in front of his face.

"...what the fuck?" I say as I finish the prep for erasing the evidence of my presence here.

And it kept doing that whole 'ERROR GAINED' thing for a while until-

Then everything just...froze...the tinfoil ball I tossed into the microwave, the gas pouring onto the ground, even the fly that was in my face right before it stopped. "What the-!?!?" I yell as a blueish black doorway like portal opens up next to me and drags me in. *FWOOOM!- SWISH!- pop!*

A feeling on nothingness comes over me as I start to float. As I did I had the ever increasing fear that this would end up being one of those, sent to the void where you feel like eternities pass while simultaneously feeling like it was only seconds before- *pop!* I had feeling again...

"deep inhale...baahhh thank God!" I say in joy as I feel out my body, making sure everything is there.

'...Wait!- What am I doing!?!?!-' I shout internally as I jump to my feet and see...an alley? I take a look around my surroundings and see that there's a bag of stuff sitting next to me. It wasn't the bag that had all my stuff from before, but I could feel it. 'This is for me-'

"JESUS CHRIST!!!" I yell as I see another pop up appear in front of me.

"..." I just stand there staring at the space where the pop up disappeared from, wondering what my life has come to.

"...OK, I get you're new and all but come on, if you stand there all day you'll get a shit system and I'll have to clean up the mess!!!" Came another feminine voice inside my head, this one sounding more natural than the last. For some reason I don't flinch from this one. I bring my focus back in and see some more pop ups infront of me.

"...oooook...so, what do I do now?" I ask the person talking to me through my mind.

"For starters, you should get your new class to initialize the system functions in this world." She says as a black ornamental key pops into existence in front of me. As I look at it more closely I see gem on the end of it with a very familiar silhouette of a man's head with guns all around it.

"Keuanu Reeves? What the...?" I say to my self, wondering why he'd be involved in this in any way.

"No, John Wick-" Says the voice before I cut it off.

"You know what, I don't care. What do I do with it?" I say, resigning myself to just doing this and getting it over with.

"I don't know, all GAMERS are unique, how would you use a key that can give you literally anything If you had the right kind?" The voice questions, half sarcastically.

"..." I stand there, not shocked at what I heard, but at the thought that came to my mind after she said that- *snicker* the more I think about it the funnier it gets-

"Would you get on with it!!!" The voice yells, interrupting my snickering.

I shrug and lazily toss the key into the air and watch as the key cracks causing a rainbow of lights to come out of the cracks before it shatters, and an orb of light forms and shifts before collapsing into itself.

"..."

We're both silent for a while as a message pops up and I read through it.

"...I can not believe you just did that..." Come the voice of...Nex, I'll call her Nex...if she doesn't already have a name that is.

"Come on~! It was funny~!" I say in a sing song voice.

"Ugh, we just met and your already acting weirder than the rest." Nex says, exasperation evident in her tone.

"Come on~, I might as well have fun If I'm going to be here for a while." I say, grabbing the bag on the ground and looking inside.

Some of the things in her are meh, but the last one is just-

"HOLY SHIT! WHO PUT THAT IN THERE!?!?-" Nex says before cutting herself off and going silent.

"...Nex? You there?-"

"I'm back and I have info on the book you got-" Nex says before stopping abruptly. "...what did you just call me?" She asks, tone unreadable.

"OH, I called you Nex, as is Nexus. Since you sounded smart I thought it might be a good name, but after you shot off and back in no time to get information, it's just stuck in my mind for you now." I explain. We sit there for a few seconds, and I swear I can see a blush on the window in front of me.

"*cough* That's...an adequate name, I suppose." Nex tries and fails to say hotly.

<+5 affection with Nex for giving her a new name and an honest compliment>

"So~, the info on the book?" I ask the still blushing Nex. Causing the screen to go bright red.

"Eh! Ah! Yes! The info! Ummm, right! One of the people who was really pissed at the bounty target you killed decided to give you one of his own skills. He also happened to be an administrator, so..." She says, trailing off at the end of it.

"So he can just do it and no one can tell him he can't, right?" I finish.

"Yeah, basically."

<+1 affection with Nex for being able to keep up.>

"So, what now?" I ask, shaking the book in my hands.

"Here, I just have to do a few things and-"

"What will it do?" I ask warily as I eye over the the options.

"Put simply it'll just make everything you do with guns more easy." Nex clarifies.

"Sweet!" I say as I confirm the merging. As I finish the confirmation the book in my left hand starts to glow before flowing into my mind and body. "...I FEEL more confident in using my gun when up close but at the same time...not?" I say, flexing and stretching my muscles with the new muscle memory I gained.

"Well, yes, you'll feel that way when you have a skill like , since most of the instincts you have are telling you just how weak you are in comparison to most other opponents. You see, your class relies on the weapons you use and avoiding the attacks coming your way, so you could say you're like a glass cannon." Nex said, in a tone akin to one of a teacher to a curious student.

"Damn...will I always be like that to someone that's an equal to me?" I asked, really hoping that it's not the case.

"...No, no it won't be like that all the time, but most of the skills that you would be more proficient in with the class would be more advantages for you to focus on." Nex said after a few seconds of deep thought.

"Haaaaaaa...ok...well anyways~." I sing after a few seconds of feeling bad for myself. After that whole thing I ask, "What am I even supposed to do now? Kill some mobs, do some fetch quest, ugh...do a protection mission...?" I ask in sequence, falling into a dreadfull mood at the last one.

I tense as I see notifications pop up and am interrupted from asking Nex what it ment by the sound of multiple tires screeching oround the corner. Several black SUV's, cars, and motorcycles come driving towards me and before I can think about pulling my gun to fight or turn and run Nex tunes in.

"Don't worry, their not after you...their after the one next to you..." She said, making me turn to look next to me and see-

*WOOSH- BANG!*

A gun whizzes past my face and fires as im only barely able to move my head out of the way. The one whose responsible for it is...'a discount John Wick?' I think to myself. His face resembles John Wick if he was an anime character without the facial hair and an actual person. I'm brought out of my thoughts by Nex.

"No, well yes, but this one is another GAMERS spare body that broke loose. Your mission, is to survive its rampage." Nex informed helpfully.

"Why is this here! In a tutorial world no less! Just dropping the boss on top of a level one isn't good game design!" I shout as I keep dodging away from the husks grasp and shots at me. As I dodge and misdirect the strikes I realize- "It's so weak..."

"Correct, but don't forget that its still a GAMER body, that means it has some tricks up its sleaves that it can use if the sense to use them comes to its mind. Don't worry, the GAMER it is owned by didn't even remember it existed until it broke loose so don't fret over damaging it." She says, the words moving in an instant, yet I can understand it all.

After another misdirected of its right hand I grab its wrist, and twist its arm around and down onto my shoulder...only for it to move around it like I moved its body to the perfect position for- "GAH! Shit!" I yell as it's arm creaks around my neck, still backwards and shifts me into the path of the newly arrived assassins who already drew their guns.

'So that's how you wanna do this, fine, let's do this.' I think as I jurk my legs up and over to wrap around the things neck. Once I get that a wrench control of my head back to myself, forcing the thing to lean back a full 90°. "What!?! Need some more motivation!?!" I yell, drawing my pistol and proceed to dump rounds into the things lower spine. I barely feel this shaking until it finally get the idea of just... standing up.

"OH NO YOU DON'T!!!" I yell as I pull my Combat knife and stab it into the crevice between the things lower two ribs, causing howl to come from the things mouth. That seems to have jump started its memories its skills in full since I felt an insane shock of electricity pulse through me. That forced me to let go and roll away.

I look up, hoping to see it get riddled with bullets by the other assassins only to have my blood run cold as I see the bodies scattered about, and the husks eyes to lock on me as it finishes reloading. I can feel my skills kick in as I start to panic slightly.

I watch as that whole process happened in an instant and the result of it came just as fast. I felt...in tune with my body. Like I just realized how wrong I've been using it and it all just clicked. I inhale deeply before-