Helsin showed me around, letting me look at the monitors that the people were watching, and each of them was monitoring different things. I guess this was to help put my mind at rest, and it did for the most part.Regardless of my worries, this is what I had wanted but never dreamed that it could be done yet. I had written down my idea, but I was just a kid, and yet, here it was.I really wasn't sure what the future has in store for humankind, but I knew the world that I wanted to work towards creating. The thing that I didn't know was what use Helsin had for my research.Sure he could use it to put us in a game, but that meant that someone had to be in control, and that wasn't what I wanted."Mr. Zero, can I ask you what you plan on doing with this?" I asked as we left the chamber, and the blast doors were closed behind us."What do I plan on doing with this? Well, I am not really sure yet. There is a plan for the game, but it is really just a cover for our true intentions. I, like y
Harold followed him over and closed the door to the lab, and then turned back to me. He was still wearing the same serious look, making me frown at him."Really? How long are you gonna keep scowling? The Demon King is gone now; you can relax," I joked, but that didn't budge the expression on Harold's face."You know that he is lying to us about what he is going to do with this, right?" Harold demanded, but I didn't answer right away.I had my suspicions, but I had no way to prove it, and Mark told me to have faith. He said Helsin was a trustable guy, but there were things that he couldn't say because of the government.I never had a reason to doubt Mark, but Harold was right, and I was worried."I still don't know, but Mark says-," I started to say but was cut off."You are not that snake! You need to think for yourself on this one! You are not as stupid as you look, so stop trying to act that way!" Harold declared, but I threw it back at him."Oh? Then fine, let's say that I believe
Harold and I spent the rest of the day running tests until the evening, but they all returned the same. No matter how many times we ran the God Frequency, the results returned with two-thirds of the earth's population being deleted.There was no better term for what would happen to the people. The frequency would tear them apart at the atomic level, causing their bodies to explode in particles, but there was something.“The only thing that might be our saving grace are the ghosts that will be left. From what the tests show, there will be something left of each person who is deleted. I don’t know what we can do with that information since we only just discovered what this even is. There are too many unknowns and not enough time to test them!” Harold complained as I leaned back in my chair, scrubbing my hands over my face.“We just need to postpone whatever he is trying to do. There has to be a way that we can do something about the Ghosts they will leave. I will confront Helsin about t
I ran down the hallway from the research center and through the dorms with the girls running behind me. I ran as fast as I could and almost ran straight into Harold, who was stumbling out of his room.“What is going on?!” Harold asked as he pulled on his dress pants.“I don’t know, but I don’t think the flashing red lights are a good sign! What do you think would cause this, dumbass?! Come on!” I yelled and kept running to the main elevator.I was trying to run every situation I could think of through my head, but I wasn’t coming up with any solutions. I really had no idea how I was supposed to stop this from happening.“Do you think that we can even get down there?” Jilly asked, and I nodded, pulling out my lanyard with the black card hanging from it.“This is the same one that Helsin uses. I got it from him last month, so I could study how the Megatron Pulse activation would work. That was the final piece of the puzzle we needed, so I hope it still works. We literally just completed
Mark tried to get between us, but I shoved him out of the way like a sack of potatoes. I was going to stop this, but I had to time it just right, and the Megatron Pulse wasn’t ready yet.“What are you going to do? The game is programmed to me, so there is nothing you can do to stop this, no matter how violent you get,” Helsin said with a snide look that I wanted to punch off his face.“You think you can just toy with the lives of billions of people? Is this all you ever wanted?” I asked, trying to stall time.I needed to stay close to him and the button that was dark for now. When the system was ready, the button would light up.“You think I have always wanted to kill most of the world's population? This is something that has to be done! They were going to shut the project down, and the government funding the project made it this way! The funding has continued to get less and less over the years, and there is nowhere left to draw money from. The funding is why we had to push the proje
I was lifted in the air as the tentacles tried to crush me, but they had almost no effect on me as I scrolled through a list of the girls I had given Systems to. I had a new ability that I wanted to try out, but there were so many exciting choices.“If I can’t crush you, I will just devour you!” Thesta screamed, tipping her body to reveal a fleshy pit filled with pointy teeth.No part of me wanted to get tossed into this thing’s mouth. So, I decided that I would fight fire with a flamethrower and selected Tiga from my list, and my body started to grow and change rapidly.Thesta screamed as her tentacles were torn apart as I became a monstrous twenty-foot-tall male Mantiken.My hands were massive paws with razor-sharp claws four feet long, legs a mass of my tentacles that moved on their own but at my command. Massive wings sprouted from my back as my hair grew longer, and I could feel my scorpion's tail as well.“What?! Impossible! How is it possible that you can change your body like
Jilly and I took the elevator back down to the bottom level of the ship, and I held her hand the entire way down. I was feeling a bit strange, but it was hard to just get used to having a straight head. “Are you okay, Zack?” Jilly asked me. “You seem like something is bothering you.” “I wouldn’t call it bothering me. It is just nice to have all my thoughts free, and now I am trying to figure out where we should go first. We don’t have to go anywhere first, so I am just trying to figure that out,” I said, but the truth was I didn’t have a clue where I was going. “Don’t worry. Mex will be the one piloting us. Do you remember who he is?” Jilly asked, but I shook my head. “Not anyone that we knew. There aren’t going to be many people that we know. I think you will all be close to me because I was close to you girls in the development teams for the game. I am going to have to talk to everyone because many of them will be just getting some of their memories back,” I said, and Jilly leane
I focused back on the vast Hydrous ocean before me. I started thinking about how I could fix the problem that was central to all of this but gave my head a shake.“I have time,” I said with a sigh, but then I turned to the sound of the door sliding open.“Yes, you do. I am sure that you are probably trying to solve all the problems that you have in your head right now, but you should stop,” Lidy said as she walked into the room.“I know I should, and I am trying,” I said with a weak smile as Lidy walked over with her horns swaying back and forth.“You know, things haven’t really changed much since then. I am still preparing your meals, and you are still making me eggs,” Lidy said with a smile as she slipped her hands around my waist.Lidy Forester, my favorite cafeteria worker, always gave me extra servings in the back room. She was a relief from the constant stress I had been under while working on the God Frequency, but I have been intimate with many of the girls.Still, Lidy and I