Rising

On the sun-warmed asphalt of the street, I lie a truck about to crush me and my face shredded from the impact on the rough asphalt, now holding my breath awaiting the inevitable and then finally...

Nothing, no pain, no loud screaming, no white lights, and apparently not the end of my life.

As it turns out, I lay just in the right position for the Truck to simply roll over me, with me laying safely between the three rows of tires.

"Rise Up, my loyal zombie servant!", Sid lightly jokes as if nothing happened and offers me his hand, "But man I already thought I'll see you squashed to toothpaste, you luck is unbelievable."

I look up at him and gladly take his offer, suddenly Sid frowns, "Man your face looks like you have french kissed a face-crab, we should go to the hospital." Thinking that my face can't look so bad, I take out my phone and activate the front camera to get a look at myself. My formerly, I have to say so myself, pretty handsome face has been shredded from the asphalt. Just wanting to cry I answer, "Yeah, I don't want to have a big scar on my nose for the rest of my life, I am to handsome for this. Also, where's the driver?"

At this moment I realize that the truck has escaped the scene, "I can't believe it, this f*cker escaped, I know it's my fault for running on the street, but couldn't he at least stop and ask for my wellbeing?"

"Sadly you can't really do anything about it. I already called a taxi, it should be here in a while", Sid argues while looking concerned at me.

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-1 hour later

"And how's your face? Do you need plastic surgery?", Sid's sitting on a bench just outside the Hospital.

"Nothing concerning, I just have to use this disgusting stuff on the wound every day.", I show him a little tube filled with some toxic looking creme.

"Ueewh"

"Let's just go to GOS I wanna play some VR with these new pods", I suggest in a slightly better mood, trying to forget the accident. Sid now less worried excitedly shouts, "Counter Attack I am coming!"

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-Inside the Game-Center GOS,

loads of people are playing all possible games from the old gen hmd VR, based on these huge Screens on your face, to the new deep dive VR games, the ones with pods and brain interfaces. Surprisingly many of the old hmd based VR games have been updated to support the new deep dive VR pods. The same applies to Counter Attack, a VR MMO shooter including many play modes and a gigantic open-world. The game is actually pretty old, its development started with the release of the first hmds, the game itself was released a few years later and it was a gigantic hit since then the game has only kept on expanding its player base and features.

"What does hmd even mean?", an elderly man asks, probably, his grandson, both of them are standing beside one of the old VR headsets. The kid answers, "Head-mounted-display, but these are boring, let's go to the deep dive VR section!", the kid drags his grandparent away.

"I have waited so long, finally I can feel the weight of my sweet little Usp-S Sweet-Dreames!", Sid cheers as he runs happily to one of the pods, he loves this weapon so much he's given it a name, "What are you waiting for?"

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-At the same time

Deep beneath, only held from colliding with earth through the fourth dimension of space, the last dimension Humanity doesn't know about, lies Hell, it actually lays in the same dimension as all other supernatural things and beings.

Inside the personal Palast of Satan, one of his hellish employees speaks, "Your unholy excellence as you have ordered me, I tried my very best to kill this boy with reincarnation scenario number 665 also called truck accident 13. Sadly the boy unpredictably fell and escaped reincarnation scenario number 665 mostly unharmed". "Why are you bothering me with this. *Sigh*, have you tried again?", Satan asks his employee slightly annoyed. "...no", these words silently escape the employees' lips, he realizes his mistake as suddenly the whole room bursts into flames. "THEN TRY, TRY AGAIN!", Satan roars furious, the employee flees the room while Satan has lost all reason.