Me, myself and I

It was a day like any other.

I was playing LordsVsLords online, and I was at war.

"Soldiers march!" I practically scream at my Ai troops.

I was playing a game developed by the eras genius aptly named James Luther, the `God of virtual reality`. He was a noble peace prize winner and a leading figure who led humanity's revolution into virtual reality.

One of the most popular VR games was called LordsVsLords online, which was a kingdom builder which mainly focused on wars and commanding. You would play as a Lord of a new country and would have to fight your way to supremacy on the planet of Malum.

I was a fairly successful lord who was especially good at warfare, sadly, I was half as competent in economics and how to actually run an army, thus leading me to only be a Diamond rank kingdom.(Order of rankings goes: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond and Orichalcum)

Back to the war at hand, I had completely demolished this scrub who thought he could attack me.

My army, once they had completely finished off their opponents, started to march home. All were both happy and sad at the same time. Happy because they had won, sad because we had lost a few men.

Sadly, death was inevitable in wars and the only thing I could do was give them a good pep talk.

Leaving my character on auto, I logged off for the day. The march home would take 2 hours, because I had purposefully placed my troop in a good ambushing position beforehand, such to reduce casualties on my side.

After climbing out of my VR pod, I decided to have a bit of lunch.

As I was searching my cupboards for food, my brain decided to reflect on itself.

I was always an average child.

I would always get a B or on the off chance a B+ in my school tests. My intellect never really shined in modern day subjects.

I was born into a wealthy family, so wealthy in fact, I did not have to work a day in my life.

"Lucky you", you may say, but working hard because of financial needs gives people much needed motivation and because I lacked that I didn't have that motivation.

I did not try in school because what was the point?

Why learn something if I was never going to use it?

At least that's what I thought at the time.

Now I realise I lost out on a plethora of opportunities that I will never get back.

The one thing I am happy I did in school was pick up chess.

Chess was the first sign of my talents, and I must say it felt natural from the moment I played over the board.

Learning what my pieces did and their moves, to the gambits and the variations I learned online, I was enthralled in it all.

The idea of sacrificing for a better position fascinated me and because of that I studied up a lot on the art of war.

After a few successful seasons of chess with me as the main player, our school won the national cup.

The second school stopped though, was also the day I stopped playing.

After that, I kind of wandered in life with no purpose. I had no job as I had enough money. Eventually I just ended up a neat, who was into web novels and all that jazz.

When news broke out of the revolutionary new game I was brought back to life. I bought the latest pod immediately, using my parents' money, and booted up the LordsVsLords app for the first time.

Needless to say, in the beginning I did amazingly, I rose up to become the top player in the European server.

My skills in early game warfare shone tremendously. After a couple months of steady growth though, problems started to occur.

And after some economic theatrics, my empire fell.

I still lived, as they could never completely destroy me. Tactical retreat upon tactical retreat slowly whittled down my large army until I was left with an only a small army and a fraction of the land I had before.

"Oh well" I sighed as I got out some Cheeria's.

As I was munching on my new full bowl of cereal, the news changed to an emergency warning.

A fully red screen with the easily recognisable red triangle with the red ! was used as a back ground as words started to show up on screen.

"Emergency, Emergency, an asteroid has been detected 1 month away from Earth. If you are indoors, please remain calm and do not panic. The government recommends that everyone make peace as the asteroid is already too close for any method to stop it.

Human Extinction is inevitable, and you must make peace as you only have 1 month left to live."

The tv stops and returns to the previous channel.

"The ****."

Sorry, is this a prank?

Yeah, it must be. No way an asteroid is going to hit earth, plus we could probably deflect it or something.

Also who wrote that, did they want people to panic or something.

Later that day...

Oh no.

It's real.

I thought as I looked out the window to see a massive lump of rock ominously approaching.

Getting bigger and bigger, the asteroid rocky surface was a sight to see in the sky.

At this point, I kind-of broke.

This is how I die.

Really?

no, I refuse, I want to live.

But what do I do?

I think, but the inevitable death is just as described,

Inevitable.

I had no escape. No matter what I did in the next month would change the outcome of me dying.

It was a horrible feeling that: the feeling of having no control.

Your fate being spun by the natural forces of the universe.

What do I do?

I have no family; I had lost my friends and overall, no one really mattered to me anymore.

I wandered round my house in thought for the rest of the evening, until I finally collapsed on the bed.

I was distraught. My whole life was pointless.

Every chess game I played, every novel I read and every subject I knew was pointless.

Nobody would ever remember me.

3 days later, I finally decided what to do on my final days.

I was going to study how to do economics.

It was the final piece that would have made me complete as a player and if anything, I was already doing so part-time, anyway.

I had discovered that weakness weeks before my fall, but I couldn't get it right for some reason.

The idea of give and exchange just didn't suit me.

Why did they not just take it? Was my immediate response.

My muscle head strategy had led me to being an outcast in the game with no allies or even trading partners.

Kind-of like real life, actually.

Anyway, I wanted to be more economic and to perfect myself in a certain sense.

27 days later, I finally completed my last book on economies.

I had studied up a lot in the last month and realised that just summing up economics in just give and take was completely moronic.

Economics was the cycle of goods and services from manufacturer and producer to consumer.

A kingdom was just a mini microcosm of the circle and needed both trade and stimuli to keep it afloat.

Enough of that, it was death day today.

I felt as though I had grown more than I ever had in my entire life in this single month.

I had come to regret my solitary lifestyle.

I missed my parents even more as well, remembering them before they died was still hazy as I lost them when I was 7 but I still remembered their smiles and laughs.

I had begun to drink wine as well. Don't know why, a month ago I would have called myself a poshy toshy. I was such a child back then.

looking up at the millions of scattered rock flying towards Earth gave me a certain sense of admiration.

It was the best sight I had ever seen.

Humans shot thousands of nukes at the asteroid, yet it continued forwards, only splitting apart a few times.

I admired its endurance and commitment even though it was just a big space rock.

A loud boom sent shockwaves across my house, breaking all my windows.

It must have been the first impact.

The next impact sent me flying into my wall as glass cut me everywhere.

It hurt.

I hated the pain.

I hated the fact I was helpless.

I hated the fact I was lonely.

I hated the fact I would never live to see another day.

I died, filled with sadness and regret.