[IC] The Front Row (Play as Yourself)

[MikkishtheLeprechaun]

I drank too much.

That was my first thought as my eyes flicked open to the dark room. Damnit, I had woken up too early again, before the sun rose. That really messes with my sleep cycle.

The ground beneath me was cold. Cold and hard. I was laying on a cold, cement ground. Had I fallen out of my bed? No, this is not my room.

Bars to my left and right. I was in a prison cell?

"Fuck." I said quietly, as I processed what was going on "Fuck!" I shouted it.

I got drunk. Now I was in prison. What happened last night?

I looked around the cell. Who else was I with? There were no beds. And this cell seemed to be men and women.

An eerie felling washed over me when I noticed there were no windows in the cell.

[Eklispe]

Mikeal started at a loud noise and grasped for his blankets to pull them over him but was met with nothing but his clothes. "Hm?" he muttered sleepily as he opened his eyes and looked around. Well that was odd. This was not the same scene he'd fallen asleep to. Was this just a weird dream? Mikeal sat up and slapped himself quickly to test. A sound echoed throughout the area and felt too real for anything else. He'd been abducted then. How odd. Mikeal stood up, now fully awake due to the oddness of his situation. Some sort of prison judging by the bars. Mikeal looked for any windows and found none, then began looking for some form of escape. Imagine how hard it would be catch up on his classes if he was gone for much longer than a few days. He began jostling the bars and tapping the walls and floors to see if there was anything to help him. If nothing else the noise would get the attention of anyone else here, though that might not be a good thing.

[Nevix]

I woke up on a sparse bed in a dull grey room. I couldn't help but laugh, this was some rich shit. One of his friends went through a helluva lot of trouble to pull this off. After about an hour of thinking about revenge, it began to sink in. None of my friends were assholish enough to leave me locked up in a room for hours on end. I stood and began pacing. I started to panic, hot tears running down my cheeks. I wiped my eyes and stood, was that...tapping? I walked over to the wall I thought the sound was coming from.
"Is anyone there?" I shouted.

[MikkishtheLeprechaun]

I looked at the guy who had shouted. He seemed confused about what was going on. Just as clueless as me. Perhaps even moreso, considering I may have been taken to jail for public intoxication. Considering the things I've done while wasted, I was lucky this hadn't happened sooner.

I said nothing to him. In fact, I looked away fast. He could be here because of drug use, and his cluelessness could be the drugs.

Then, of course, there were a couple girls in the cell also. Or maybe cross dressing men, but pretty damn convincing. If men were with women in a cell, this wasn't a normal US prison or even holding cell.

Then I heard what sounded like a mix between footsteps and metal hitting against concrete. The sound was coming from a door outside of the holding cell. I stared at this door as the footsteps drew closer, but was startled when the door was kicked open from the other side.

And in walked men. Seemingly normal men, wearing big metal suits. Machine, metal suits. It was...power armor. Shit, just like in video games, but there was something familiar about these particular metal suits. The creepy kind of familiar.

[Eklispe]

Mikeal paused, someone else? "Yes, I'm Mikeal-" he was about to say more but he was interrupted by the sound of marching feet and a door being opened. Men with robot suits? That was odd. Not just any robot suits either, they looked as though he'd seen them before, though he couldn't remember from where. It didn't look like they were doing anything yet but doubtless that would soon change. Were they being moved somewhere? Well speaking up would probably be unwise, no need to aggravate his captors. Which meant waiting for his impending doom. Mikeal leaned against the back wall and waited. Yay.

[sakurasan]

Rena opened her eyes, staring into what seemed to be a cell and she just stared at the wall for a moment. "Bored." She muttered, beginning to look around and noticed that there were men and woman inside of the cell along with her. Ugh, my head feels like shit. She sighed, banging her head with her fist and flinching at the pain but quickly shaking it off. She was about to speak to them but decided not to and it was a good time too, since there seemed to be something coming near them. After a while, she saw that they were... Robots? No, men in robot suits. Her eyes widened a little bit but she still kept quiet, leaning forward and squinting. God damn it, where the fuck are my glasses now and anyways... where have I seen these creeps?

[MikkishtheLeprechaun]

"Alright assholes." Said one of the armored men "I don't actually know why you're in here, so shut up follow us, and don't think you can run off. Commander wants to see you." He said as he walked up to the cell and unlocked it.

"Come on, lets go!" He ordered as he opened the cell door. I couldn't tell where he was looking, so maybe he wasn't even talking to me. Maybe only a specific one of us. Regardless, I slowly walked forward out of the cell. Slow enough that one of the guys grabbed me and pushed me further along. I didn't say anything. I didn't want to get shot or something worse.

[sakurasan]

Asshole? Huh, rude isn't he. However, Rena's eyes glow as she realized where she was. An interesting place. A place where she knew no one and there were some guys in robot suits forcing then to go somewhere. Could this get any better?
She quickly stood up, recollecting herself and touching her hair. Whoa, my hair isn't frizzy today... That's weird. Rena walks over to the men and followed them, not minding how rough they were being. Staring forward and at their guns, she looked around the oddly familiar place.

[Eklispe]

Mikeal adjusted his glasses strap and silently stood, quickly following the other two people in front of him. He had absolutely no idea what was going on. He wanted to say something but he also didn't feel like getting beaten or shot so he vetoed the idea and instead followed silently. Just what kind of place was this? If these people didn't take them, then who had? So many questions and he had no idea how to get answers.

[MikkishtheLeprechaun]

"What the fuck are you looking at?" Said one of the men to Rena after he caught her staring at his gun "I'll show you a REAL big gun later."

The other men, hearing this, said nothing as they forced us along through more dimly lit hallways. I heard tortured screams coming from somewhere, and gunshots in another direction. Had terrorists captured us?

Then, I noticed something about the mercs. The power armor, despite the low levels of light, I noticed were white. And I saw the insignia on one merc's armor: A snake wrapped around a money sign.

When I first started role playing, I created a company of mercenaries and supernatural research. They had technological advancements nobody had as of yet figured out, such as power armor. They also had knowledge of, and even made deals with, mages and vampires, even allowing them into their ranks. A company called Maniacles Corporation.

And now I knew where I had seen these men before. I knew them when I envisioned them in my own head.

What the fuck? Was it coincidence?

As I came to this realization, however, just as we were coming into a room with who must be the commander. There was some kind of high tech computer embed in the wall, a map spread over a table, desk with a computer in the corner next to a water cooler, and the big snake and cash symbol on the wall opposite the computer.

"We have a new batch of idiots." Said one of the mercs to the commander, who was sitting at the table and drinking coffee. He was an upper middle aged man, though fit, with bigger arms than me back when I used to work out 6 days a week and drink creatine. He set his coffee down and walked up to us, giving a sigh.

"I swear, they get pussier and more out of shape every time." Said the commander "I don't know where any of you are from, who you are, and I don't care. This world is not what you remember, so I will be straight with you: you're being drafted. Don't bitch about it either, thats doing you a favor."

[Swagmeister]

Alex was tired. Not that it was a huge problem, as Alex always felt tired. Unless he was behind a screen, he was not, to his surprise. After looking at the room, Alex had tried to sleep again, as it helped him escape the world. Alex was woken up by the voices of other people. Oh right, he was in a prison. He followed the guards, and tried to make himself seem as small as possible, not wanting to be shanked, or unliked.
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Shit. Fuck. I love those words. I probably use them too much. Oh. He called me an idiot, I thought, when the guard spoke up. I noticed a cup of what i thought to be coffee, or a really strong tea. I could really use either of those things right now. I love coffee. I shaked slightly when a man, or a bear, started to talk. This really looked high tech. He said bitch. Rude.

[MikkishtheLeprechaun]

"Hell, I don't like it either, making men out of little girls like all of you. We're a bit short on choices. The whole surface is fucked up." Said the commander, before the sound of gunshots were heard, followed by a man screaming.

A look of frustrated confusion came over the commanders face.

"What the hell?" He said, turning in the direction of those noises: the door opposite the one we came in.

I was frozen, saying nothing, not willing to even flinch. It was too much, that we would be drafted, the sounds of gunshots. And I knew something was about to break through that door any minute. Something or someone than could kill me.

And just like I predicted, the door blew off its hinges, and in walked a metal...organic thing. It walked on four robotic spider legs which, while metalic, ratained a disgusting bug like appearance somehow. The torso of a slim man led up from there to arms with weapons at the ends. One some kind of gun, attached crudely to its organic arms, and the other armed looked like it had a chainsaw. Tubes ran out of thiz creatures back to its shoulders. And the face, it didn't look human. It seemed mutilated, mishapen, gritting itz teeth unable to close its mouth.

It charged ahead at once, followed by other disgusting things just like it. The room exploded into gunfire. The mercs, firing on the cyborg monsters, seemed to need entire clips of ammo just to take one down. Their armor held up well, but the commander was not armored, but began shooting with his pistol, as if that could hurt one of these.

Knowing I had to do something, I dove behind the desk near to my right, panting with fear of being shot. What the fuck was happening? These things....how can they exist?

[Eklispe]

I was mildly insulted by being called a little girl but it had happened often enough that it wasn't a big deal. What was a big deal on the other hand, was the weird spider metal thing that slammed through the door. Unfortunately it was also the door they'd come in through and seemingly the only way out of this room. Following the lead of the person who'd been in front of the line I dashed to the other side of the room as far away from those things as possible searching for another way out before those machine-hybrid monsters killed them all, as the soldiers seemed to be barely holding them off. I figured I should probably be panicking right now since my chances of living were pretty low at this point. Maybe playing all those video games would come in handy. Air vent? Secret wall or floor panel? Anything!?

[MikkishtheLeprechaun]

My head throbbed with pain. Past concussions and the sounds of desperate automatic rifle fire will do that to a guy.

But I couldn't help but notice another guy who had run from the organic-machine creatures. I could tell he was looking for an escape.

The door opposite of the one we came in had these fucking monsters coming through and attacking, but the one we had come in from was unguarded, with nobody to halt our escape as both parties were occupied with pumping each other with lead.

I made a beeline for the door we came in, dashing down one of the halls we had been marched down, but took an unknown turn. It waz a dark maze, and likely more mercs, or those cyborg things, would find us.

[sakurasan]

What the fuck? Dick, isn't he. "M-my bad." I whisper, looking straight forward. Why the fuck am I even here? Not that I care, it's more interesting if I die somewhere like here rather than where I was before. Once they came into the room, of course, the man on his period continued to insult us and I simply looked around a bit, not wanting to wander off. Drafted? Huh, but where have I seen them?

Then, some creatures came in and started attacking. Yay! More fun. Not.

I took a step back, surprised by them and not knowing what they were but having a familiar feeling towards them. Why? Slowly, I leave the room and notice that someone else had also left. Yeah... This doesn't look like a me problem. Leaving wasn't exactly the best choice. It was just a maze. And I wasn't good at mazes. At all.

[MikkishtheLeprechaun]

I didn't even look behind me. I just kept running. I heard more screams. More doors swung open or were blown off behind me as I ran past. But I didn't stop, and I didn't get shot.

I ran continuously until I saw a ladder at the end of the hallway. It was the only way to go. I heard screams and gunshots, and the scuttering sound of those monsters. This was the best way to escape that I saw.

It was likely there would be danger above, but I climbed right on up, opening a hatch when I got to the top, but seeing only desert, and a dirt road, around me. Immediately the heat hit me, already starting to cause me to sweat. I wondered if I would be wrong to leave the other people from my cell down there. But how could I get them out of that firefight shit? I was unarmed, never even experienced anything like THAT before. I would only get myself killed.

[Eklispe]

"You waiting for an invitation princess?" I asked the girl staring at the hallway as I exited the room full of screaming people, death, and bullets. It was a joke of course. Why was he joking? He'd seen someone die and the rest of the people in that room were well on their way. Guess it was the brain's way of dealing with things. I had little more time to see the girl's response or think about it more because I was sprinting for all I was worth from the living hell behind me. I followed the guy that had come out first but lost him after a few turns, still managing to follow his footsteps. Eventually a ladder appeared and I scrambled up it and was meet with a depressing sight. Area 52. All roads lead to Rome right? Where ever the road went it couldn't be worse than here. I gave the other guy up here a half hearted two finger salute and starting jogging down the road. I was probably going to die out here, that'd be very disappointing but likely inevitable.

[MikkishtheLeprechaun]

Good idea, I thought. I was startled, shocked, from all that was happening, but it was probably best to put as much space between myself and this place as possible.

I didn't know these people at all, barely spoke to them, if at all, and I wasn't sure if I could trust any of them. We were all in the same boat though. Even if these people were total scum, this guy, or maybe the others, might know a bit about the situation...and why those men in that power armor, Maniacles, who I made up for an rp and fit the exact description in my head and in my posts, had captured us.

So I ran after him, not knowing where he was going, but hoping for the best.

In the distance, a car was coming our way. I didn't know if it was a vehicle for those odd soldiers with the eerily familiar name, or just a regular ass car. Even if it was a vehicle for them, there was no escaping them anyway. I mean, here we all were, in a desert, nowhere to really hide, and on foot. So, I ran towards the vehicle, along the side of the road, of course waving at them.

And as the car, a jeep, was coming closer, I saw it was an odd shade of green, not camo. Definitely not a military vehicle and probably not a car for those mercs.

[sakurasan]

I turned to look at the guy that had just called me a princess. What a dick. I don't like being called a princess. I mentally sighed as I smiled at him and began to run as well. Finally, I spotted a ladder and began climbing up, opening the hatch and exiting to reveal a desert. OK then. Climbing out fully, I spotted the guy I saw run out a while earlier and went over to him. Then, I saw the jeep and automatically went over to it. It all linked together.
I was in an RP.

[Eklispe]

Well attempting to escape this dessert by his lonesome was just asking to die of dehydration or to whatever monsters were out here so his choices when he saw the car were pretty obvious. Like the other guy, I went towards the jeep, attempting to wave it down. Hopefully there weren't military guys inside, or worse yet those metal-flesh things from earlier. But when faced with certain death, or the chance of death, he choose the obvious option. I decided to take this time to introduce myself as we might be together for a while so I said to the other guy and gal who were also heading towards the cab, "Name's Mikeal, I assume neither of you have any idea whats going on as well?"