Beta Tester

As neo entered his hypersleep pod he heared the onboard ai.

[Neo Voxford, identity confirmed, are you sure you wish to enter hypersleep now ?, all humans are allowed three months to explore the ship or prepare before entering hypersleep.]

"I didn't know about that, but i still wish to enter." Neo said with improved vigor.

After that the system provided neo with a lot of terms and condition, neo skimmed through it without thinking much.

[User has selected optional memory scan to find hidden qualifications, proceeding to memory scan in ...3...2...1, scan initiated.]

"..wait what?" Neo immediately regreted not reading the terms, as he felt all his memories where refreshed including some he deliberately tried to forget.

[Memory scan complete, Comensing hypersleep.]

Neo sudenly felt a heavy sleep took over him and woke up shortly after but when he woke up he was standing in a white space and there was only the sound of the AI.

[Player Neo Voxford, member of starfleet13, Welcome to Frontiers of Federation.]

[Please use the interface to slightly alter your characteristics as you please while the system identifies all qualified professions for player.]

Hearing this neo looked around and like the system said, he could see a slider and on the augmented screen where, his look's can be slightly adjusted, it felt more like fine tuning.

[....]

Leo was adding finishing touches to his avatar when he heared system notification again.

[Hidden qualification 'beta tester' aquired.]

[Does player Neo Voxford Agree to participate as a Beta Tester on the Intergalactic Federation Network.]

[Yes./No.]

Neo was baffled by this.

"So, even aliens consider me a beta tester?, well I'm in." Neo mused

[Please be advised that if you discloses any information related to beta features to anyone, you will be sentanced to life imprisonment, the only being who will know of your identity will be you and the intergalactic ai 'The Supreme Inteligence Proxima' and in return, you can have everything you will aquire through the beta test when you arrive at your designated planet.]

"Hmm, normally after the beta, the account is reset!, its different here and the rewards condition is good, but, ..a life imprisonment, isn't that a bit too much?."

[Agree/Cancel]

Neo didnt want to loose such an opportunity, and since he is a lonewolf he wont be telling anyone anything, thus he Agreed to it.

[Congrats to player Neo Voxford for becoming the only Beta tester on IFN]

[As a beta tester, you have access to all Professions, Please choose one from the list.]

[Engineer]

[Doctor]

[Soldier]

[Captain]

[Outlaw]

[Chef]

[Cleaner]

[Patrol Unit]

[Gambler]

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[Bounty Hunter]

[Dancer]

[Musician]

[Polititian]

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Neo was presented with a long list of all possible professions but when he saw one in particular, he felt like he should choose it, therefore out of all the options, he choose

[Bounty Hunter.]

[Congratulations for player Neo for choosing Bounty Hunter.]

[Sequencing Real world Counterpart...]

[Please Prepare for Consciousness Transfer.]

"...Sorry what?"

[As explained on the T&C for Beta Tester, Player Neo will be Detached from 'Frontiers Of Federation' and instead, the Consciousness of the player Neo will be transfered to an Omega Level Cybernetic Organism resembling your avatar in the Real World, Your actions will have Consequences, it will be like you have already arrived on the Federation.]

"Wha... What?, when was there a t&c, why have i never seen it?, ....Abort, abort, i want the game world, not like this!."

[Negative, As a Beta tester, you are obliged to test this new technology developed by IFN.]

[Initiating Consciousness Transfer....]

Neo immediately lost consciousness. When he woke up he was laying in a hovering chair, with a lot of monitors and robotic mechanisms all around him.

Neo felt lost, he could feel touch, hear the beeps of the computers, see the flashes of red blinkers and holograms, he could feel his body, the weight ..like he was made of metal, and he was right, his body was an experimentally built omega level cyberbetic organism, his body may look and feel like his real living tissue but they are all made of nanites that are 100 times smaller than a regular human cell.

Neo's state of mind became clear, he remembered what he heared from the supreme inteligence, it basically means he is not playing the same thing as others, they are in a game where as he was in the real world.

"So, this is the feature they wanted to test and i choose to become a tester for it." Neo mumbled under his breath.

As Neo Contemplated it, he understood the difficulties he might be facing. He wont be able to do some of the things in the game that the commander anounced, like, in the game players could instantly teleport and has inventory function, shop function, etc. But he would needs to physically do all this with his real world counterpart. But above all, the biggest issue is that he couldn't afford to die, if he dies, he will loose his real world cybernetic counter part for real and he don't know what that means for his real body. And at last, if he discloses any of this to anyone he will be sentanced to life imprisonment.

waking neo from his predicament is a sudden augmented reality pop up window in front of him.

[First Quest]

[Escape from the Explosion]

[Info : this facility is an off the books fully autonomous facility only accessible to Supreme Inteligence, now its purpose is fullfilled, it will activate Self Detonation. Please get to a safe distance of 1000 meters from the Facility within Five minuites.]

[4:58]

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[4:57]

"OH MY GOD, WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK"

Neo yelled out a curse before running frantically towards the exit markings. As he pushed open the exit mechanism, his sight is filled with large purple mushrooms, it appears the exit leads through the side of a mountain with large purple mushrooms everywhere, Neo couldn't enjoy the scenery as he could see a realtime countdown timer on his screen, he ran with all his might and soon in the clearings he could see a cyberpunk like cityscape appearing larger and larger.

What he didn't understood is that in his panic run, he has already covered morethan 5 kilometers as his speed was incomparable to an average human, but the perception of the cybernetic body allowed him to feel like he was slow., at the end of the forest, there was a large wall seperating him from the city, neo jumped with all his might aiming to grab on to it, but he was already above it and he was offbalance suddenly being in air, he crash landed on some benches on the other side of the wall into hard concrete. At that same time, the timer hit [0:00] and a loud explosion is heared.

*BOOM*CRACKLE*CRACKLE*

With the sounds a large fiery mushroom cloud is formed above the mountain in the forest.

Due to this happening at the same time, nobody saw neo crash land.