Preview of "My Own Reality" · 9:30pm Jun 8th, 2018
I've completed most of Chapter 1's conversion to original fiction. Take a look at the draft below. ^_^
My Own Reality
Everything seemed so real. The people, the places, the experiences, all nothing more than a simulation. With the abrupt severing of a single connection, it all comes crumbling down. Now, it's up to Lisa Garnet to find her way back, and along the way remember who she is... and who she was.
1 – Wake up.
Bright rays of sunlight flooded through the window as a cheerful voice pierced through Rebecca Waterman’s shell of blankets.
“C’mon, sis!” Caleb yelled as he pounced on his older sister, “Wake up! Mom left your breakfast on the table like, an hour ago!”
Rebecca groaned, waving a groggy hand in the air. “Go away, Caleb.” She turned in her bed, drawing the blankets even closer. “Just lemme sleep a bit longer, will you?”
“Aw, come on.” The boy complained, tugging at the blanket burrito around his sister. “It’s already ten. Wake uuuuu…uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…”
Abruptly, Rebecca threw off her blankets, glaring at her little brother. Strangely, Caleb appeared to almost be… frozen in place, his voice still trailing on, unable to finish his sentence. “Caleb?” The girl frowned, reaching a hand towards her sibling. “Are… are you okay?”
“…uuuuuuu…u…p.pp…” The boy finished, his face stuck in a continual blur of motion.
“Caleb.” Rebecca repeated as she grabbed her brother by the shoulders, “This isn’t funny. Stop it.”
An ear-piercing screech tore through the room, the girl cringing as she clenched her hands over her ears. Just as suddenly as it began, the noise halted, replaced instead by strange, floating text that seemed to follow Rebecca’s vision.
“Connection lost. Please try again later.”
The girl furrowed her brows, waving aimlessly at the words with a scowl. All at once, she felt herself lock up, frozen in place like her brother. Her eyes sat locked in a gaze towards Caleb.
What… Rebecca thought, her mind racing at the impossibility of the predicament, What’s going on?!
Bit by bit, the world around her vanished into bits of blurred texture. Pieces of furniture flashed in and out of existence, wavering on the line between physical and illusion. The blinding morning sunlight flickered rapidly, before abruptly dying out.
One final flash of light illuminated Rebecca’s final glance at her room, and just like that, the world went dark.
Lisa Garnet jerked awake with a heavy gasp, her vision obscured by an unwieldy object strapped to her face. Frantically swatting at it, the girl yelled one word over and over.
“Help!”
She blindly clawed at the object again, her fingers catching onto a strap of some sort. With a resounding grunt of pain, Lisa tore the object from her face. Now, she sat silent on a cot, cradling the strange device that had formerly been strapped around her face.
“Hello?” The girl murmured, her gaze flitting about the barren room. “Is anybody there?”
Lisa turned her focus back to the device- a headset of some sort. She blinked, realizing the existence of an irritating low hum that echoed all throughout the room. Turning around on the medical cot, her eyes were met with an unsettlingly large machine, its loose wires feeding into the headset. The girl narrowed her eyes, turning the headset slowly in her lap before noticing the heavily worn, but still-readable text imprinted along one side.
Reality2TMvirtual reality device. Pat. Pending. Manufactured 12/10. Prototype model 9M-24. Property of TechSIG.
With a frown, Lisa placed the headset back over her face. Immediately, she was plunged back into the darkness, her limbs instantly going numb.
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