Why Me ?
Have you ever thought what would have happened if you suddenly wake up in a world that is actually your favourite game ? Well, it is not a nice experience that everyone thinks. Well, maybe it could be if it wasn't a sci-fi thirdperson shooter game called Warframe.
Chapter 1
"You want me to do what?" I asked as I looked at the human sized capsule and than to my friend Mark.
"I want you to get in the freezing contaiment capsule" said Mark.
"You mean your cryo-pod ?" I asked cheekily.
"Dude, not everything is Warframe" Mark said while looking at me with a sour expression.
"You literaly asked me to get in your cryo-pod for a science experiment Mark. I think I can relate this occasion to a sci-fi game" I said confidently.
"Whatever are you going to get in the capsule?" asked Marked as he opened the capsule.
"Sure. Is it safe to be in this cryo-pod?" I asked as I got in the capsule.
"Yes. The cyro-pod is –Dammit Berk!" yelled Mark as I laughed.
"Score!" I said.
"Whatever" rebuked Mark as he closed the top of the pod with me in it then went to the console.
"Commencing contaiment in three…two…one!" said Mark.
I felt relaxed then slept.
"…- iy poo keaty!"
What? I thought with my eyes closed. Every morning my mind wakes up at 10 and if I don't move even a bit I can still feel relaxed but I can hear everything around me.
That is totally normal for a lazy person such as I am.
"…-p kepe i japp po yee ip jipk yy ojp eyey" said a voice I don't know.
Maybe it is Mark and I probably don't hear him correctly …or I am not awake enough to process it I thought but then the capsule opened and a powerful flash of a light forced me to open my eyes.
"Mark what the hell!?" I yelled as I covered my eyes with one hand and used the other to get up.
"Kke peppo iy ajake!(The Tenno is awake)" said a slightly altered voice.
"Pook! kkiy iy pop a keppo, ip iy a... yokopiyp?(Fool! This is not a Tenno, it is a…colonist?)" said another voice but this one is more deep.
"Quip pkiy pookepy. Poj!(Stop this foolery. Now!) said a voice from the previous.
I opened my eyes to see three people staring at me. Two of them have rectangular shaped steel-looking helmets with visors. The taller one is wearing a orange jumpsuit and his visor is light orange. The other ones helmets visor is blue and he is wearing a dark blue jumpsuit and he is holding some kind of a rifle that is oddly familiar to me somehow. Actually as now I look around the room I am in, it is pretty huge and grey and… sci-fi.
The third person has a collar around his neck, no helmet. Has some tatoos on his face and wearing a blue suit. Not a body suit but a suit. He kinda looks like…
"Do…you understand me?" he asked as he took a step closer to me.
"Yes? I think so? " I said confused. It is English but then again, maybe the people that Mark works doesn't know English or more likely me.
"Ah good ,good. Now would you kindly tell who you are mr…"
"Berk" I said.
"Ah Berk such a …unfamiliar name. Perhaps there is a secret meaning behind it?" asked the same guy.
Now as I looked at him again, I realised he really looks like a person I know from… something I spent so much time for it. But I can't put the two and two together.
"Well it means tough actually. Also I didn't get your name mr… also I have to say you really look familiar" I said, finally putting the words together.
"Oh? I have to say I don't remember us meeting anytime" said the guy.
"Well, not exactly. I think I remember you from a… game" I said nervously as I finally figured out where I know this guy.
"A game? Now that is suprising. Say, what game is this?" he asked.
"Well the games name is… Warframe and you really look like Alad V. With the Zanuka control collar and everything" I said in a quick succesion.
The guys eyes widened and the other two guys wearing helmets looked at eachother.
"I see…" said the guy as his expression changed from a warming welcome to a stern one.
Then he made a gesture to the two other people in the room aside from me and they went to the big hangar-entrance shaped door and the taller one typed something and the blue control pannel turned into a orange one.
"What is-"
"Ok Berk, now I have a couple questions for you and I can't let you leave here until you answer them" said the guy.
"Wait what? Look if you offended because I said you looked like-"
"Oh no, you are actually correct in your assumption. I am Alad V and you know my Zanuka Project. The project that I didn't told anyone excluding my research team of course" said Alad V.
"Wait wait wait hold on! Am I in a cosplay or something because you said-"
"Everything I said is true I can assure you also what is a 'cosplay' and who is this 'Mark' you told?" asked Alad V.
"Mark you know, the head scientist at the cryo-po - the freezing contaiment capsule" I said quickly as I almost said another Warframe related word. One already put me at risk here.
"Are you going to say cryo-pod?" asked Alad V with a smirk. Uh-oh.
"You know warframe too?" I asked hopefully changing the subject.
"Ah well, I worked a lot of warframes. The technocyte on them is so well constructed, it made by job a lot easier for my Zanuka Project" said Alad V.
"Thats…nice?" I said hopefully not offended the guy.
"But enough about me. I like to know more about you and your knowledge on...warframes" said Alad V as he took another step.
"Okay look. I don't know why you are quoting Alad V or why the the hell this whole place looks like a floating mining station on Jupiter or why the hell the guy in the blue jumpsuit points me his fake flux rifle but-"
The guy in the darker blue jumpsuits flux rifle suddenly shot a blue beam near my feet and I quickly jumped back.
"Holy mcgrizzle!" I yelled.
"Kke opky pake pkipp kepe iy youp kepyopakipy yyuy!( The only fake thing here is your personality scum!)" said the crewman in the blue jumpsuit.
"Quip ip! pkap ko you pkipk you ape koipp?( Quit it! What do you think you are doing?)" said Alad V as he sharply turned to the elite crewman.
"Yoppy yip. Ke iy quipe yepyipite apoup kiy pup. Ke iy puyp kpoyopek.( Sorry sir. He is quite sensitive about his gun. He is just promoted.)" said the Corpus Tech.
"Kekk kiy po pekate pepope i pekuye kiy ippo a yopkye!( Tell him to behave before I reduce him into a corpse!)" yelled Alad V.
"Are you guys speaking in Corpus now?" I asked hopefully to break the tension.
"Well yes we are. After all we are corpus" excalimed Alad V gleefully.
This is getting out of hand. Either I am being pranked by proffesional actors or I am captured by Warframe extremists which is also not good. The flux rifle is also real so maybe I am-No!
"Well you got me with the language and the flux rifle but still I don't fall for it because…" I said as I keep walking to the side where the whole side of this room is glass.
I grabbed a chair.
"…I woudn't be seeing the blue sky!" I yelled as I hit the glass, shattering it completely.
The green-yellow sky is still green-yellow.
"What the-" I said as I waved my hand to the empty air and saw nothing changed.
I looked back to see the corpus tech has his supra ready and the trigger-happy elite crewman has his flux rifle pointed at me.
Holy-
I am in the Warframe world. My childhood dream. In a corpus base. Also my childhood dream.
And I just broke Alad V's big window. NOT my chidhood dream.
The person who captures and dissects invinsible space ninjas.
I am soooo screwed
But as I looked at Alad V, he just chuckled and put his hand on top of the elite crewman's flux rifle, indicating to stand down.
"Now Mr Berk. Now I am sure you believe you are in Jupiter, could you enlighten us with your knowledge or should I use more…un-civil ways to sate my curiosity?" he said, voice sickenly sweet.
"Nope! Ask me anything" I said trying to smile.
Why me?