All characters, places, and events in Virtual Reality are fictional. Any similarities with real life people, places, and events is purely coincidental.
Dan was sitting on his real world bed. He had only boxers on and he was writing in what looked like a journal. His clothes he had on yesterday was in the floor beside his bed.
Nia entered the room and looked at Dan.
“Is this a bad time?” She queried.
“Naw, your fine.” Dan replied.
“What’cha up to?” Nia queried.
“Nothing much, just journaling.” Dan said.
“When did you start doing that?” Nia queried.
“A long time, I write down everything so that I don’t forget anything, and if anything were to ever happen to me (like say I were to ride a bicycle up a mountain on the shore, fall off the bike, land on a dynamite barrel, get sent flying, smash my head and limbs on a wall, and fall in the ocean and drown) people would still have a part of me that lives on while I may be gone. Life’s short but written word survives long past the writer’s lifetime usually. At the end of everything hold onto anything.” Dan replied.
“Oh damn that was dark and then deep.” Nia said.
Dan’s phone started vibrating.
He pulled it out of his underwear and looked at his Revolt direct messages.
“Nia we’re going on a road trip. Digby is picking up his cousin. Digby’s also picking us up as well as Corey and Haddie. He’s also getting everyone a large pizza.” Dan said.
“I like Pizza.” Nia replied.
Dan pulled out a red guitar from under his bed.
Nia looked at the guitar and exclaimed “I didn’t know you played guitar!”
“Yeah, it’s fun! I also write some songs too! I also do covers as well! Not gonna lie I do better at making covers than original stuff.” Dan replied.
He strapped the guitar to his back.
There was a loud honk from outside that jumped both Dan and Nia.
“Agh!” Nia barked.
Dan looked out the window and saw a big red Ford Raptor parked beside Nia’s Audi. Corey and Haddie were sitting on the back of the truck.
He turned to Nia and said “I think Digby’s here.”
Suddenly a small rock smashed through the window hitting Dan in the back of his head.
“Oh my god!” Dan squealed in a high-pitched voice.
“Now that’s what I call smashing!” Nia barked.
Dan started picking up the shards of glass that came from the window and yelled “GAHHHHH!”
“We better not let Digby wait forever.” Nia said.
Dan tossed the glass shards into the wall right beside the window.
He and Nia went outside to where Digby parked. Digby was in the drivers seat and Sherry was in the passenger seat. The radio was playing Hail to the King by Avenged Sevenfold.
“Hail to the king baby!” Nia barked.
Dan nodded then looked towards Sherry and queried “Where do we sit?”
“The back with Corey and Haddie.” She replied.
Dan gave a thumbs up and he and Nia got in the back with Corey and Haddie. Haddie seemed to be dozing off. Dan set his guitar down beside Nia.
“Next stop the airport!” Digby shouted while starting to go down the road.
Haddie woke up and then stared at Dan and then looked at Dan’s hands.
“Why are your hands covered in blood?” She queried.
“Mate picked up glass shards with his bare hands. The window got absolutely wasted!” Nia replied.
“OK, also why are you outside in the winter while only wearing underwear?” Haddie queried.
“‘Cause he’s a weirdo. I dunno.” Nia replied.
Dan started shivering.
“This is why I brought a spare set of clothes and a jacket, there’s always that one person who forgets to put on clothes.” Corey said while handing Dan jeans, a white shirt, and a black biker jacket.
Dan stood up to put the jeans on.
“Careful Danny, you don’t want to fall off the truck. You don’t want to meet the reaper. Dude’s a creepy guy.” Nia said.
“While yes falling off the truck and dying is bad, it is however foolish to fear the reaper. He could be a chill chap.” Haddie barked.
“Dude’s got a huge blade and a Ghostface-esq outfit, what isn’t scary about that?” Nia replied.
“What’s your favorite scary movie, Haddie?” Corey said doing a Ghostface impression.
“First off I’m not scared of horror movies or the villains within. It’s just fiction on the TV screen. Second, to answer your question Corey, The Uninvited.” Haddie barked.
A tree branch slammed into Dan’s face knocking him over. Nia and Corey grabbed hold of Dan so he didn’t fall off the truck.
“See! Be careful Danny!” Nia barked.
Dan spat out some blood and a couple of teeth. He then put the shirt on and the jacket.
“How long would a trip to the airport take?” Dan queried.
“About thirty minutes.” Haddie replied.
“OK good, because I did not prepare at all.” Dan said.
Another tree branch slammed Dan in the face knocking him off the truck but e grabbed onto the truck’s tailgate and put on a pained face as his feet were being scraped by the road.
Nia and Corey pulled Dan back into the truck’s back.
“Shit!” Dan barked.
“Oh wow, uh, your getting blood all over us. OK next time take shoes with you.” Nia barked back.
Dan pulled out his phone from his underwear.
“Bro why keep that there?” Nia barked.
“Convenience.” Dan replied.
He opened Spotify and had B.Y.O.B. by System of a Down play from the phone.
“Bro, System of a Down is epic.” Nia said ecstatically.
After the song ended they arrived in front of the airport. Digby and Sherry got out of the truck and closed the doors behind them. After Digby did a beckon gesture with his hand everyone else hopped out of the truck back.
Everyone went through the airport entry where the lobby was crowded. Barely anything was visible amongst the crowd except for a couple steel benches, a hallway to the restrooms, the hallway to get in and out of flights, and the checkout desk.
“I’m going to go take a piss real quick.” Dan said.
“Got it, you are planning to use a public restroom that probably reeks after someone ate tacos.” Nia replied.
“….” Dan sighed.
He walked through a bunch of random people at the restroom area and went into the women’s rest room. The room was basic, it had five sinks, and five stalls.
He put his head to the ground to see if there was anyone in the stall he was about to go in. There was no one so he went inside the stall, shut the door, pulled the back of his pants and underwear down, and sat down.
Then he tried to get up but he couldn’t, it felt like the pants was keeping him down.
“What the…?” Dan barked.
He lifted his underwear back to the normal spot and tried getting up again. He then pulled one hairy leg out of the pants, and got the other one out. He kicked the stall open and jumped out.
He tried pulling the pants off the toilet but it was stuck.
“Oh I give up man.” Dan barked.
He walked back to where his friends were in the lobby.
Nia looked at Dan and chuckled. Then she said, “Did your forget your pants a second time today?”
“Naw my pants wanted to do something else.” Dan replied.
“That’s why you don’t use public restrooms. From my personal experience someone always sabotages the stalls with glue. I know because I lost five pairs of pants to someone doing funny business.” Corey said with a smirk.
Dan looked around and saw Digby was gone.
“Where the hell did Digby go?” Dan queried.
“He went to find his cousin Devin.” Corey replied.
“Alright, I’m going to go out to the truck and listen to some music.” Dan said.
“I’ll go with you!” Corey replied.
They both went out to the parking lot where Digby’s truck was parked.
Dan opened the drivers door of the truck and got in. Corey leaned against the same side of Digby’s truck.
Dan pulled out his phone then connected the car speaker to his Spotify. Dan raised the speaker volume up and set Spotify to play Farewell to the Fairground by White Lies.
Corey pulled out two cigarettes and a lighter from his jacket. He put a cigarette in his mouth and lit it. And then he extended a hand out to Dan with the other cigarette in hand.
“Yes please.” Dan said while taking the cigarette and putting it in his mouth.
Corey took a puff and then lit Dan’s cigarette.
A man came out of the airport’s entrance and walked towards Dan and Corey. This man had long black hair like Ozzy, they had Serj Tankian’s moustache and beard, a scar on their left eye, pitch black aviators, a jet black leather biker jacket, ripped jeans, and shiny black boots.
Corey looked at the man and said, “Damn you got that metalhead vibe to you! What’s your favorite band?”
“Avenged Sevenfold!” The man replied.
“Oh hell yeah!” Corey exclaimed.
“Avenged is epic!” Dan said.
“Are you by any chance Digby’s cousin Devin?” Corey queried to the man.
“Yes I am.” The man replied.
“Oh hey, since your Devin I got something for you at my house!” Dan said.
Nia came out of the airport entrance and came up to the truck.
She looked at Devin and barked “Who’s this guy?”
“That is Digby’s cousin Devin.” Corey replied.
“Ahh alright. Nice tattoo on the neck mate. ‘At the end of everything, hold onto anything’.” Nia said.
“Good taste in video games!” Corey shouted with a smile.
He then started flapping his arms wildly until he hit the drivers door mirror breaking it off.
He looked at the broken mirror on the ground.
“Digby’s so going to kill you.” Nia barked.
“Unless he doesn’t notice it!” Devin replied.
He pulled out a roll of gray duct tape from his jacket, picked up the smashed mirror, taped the mirror on backwards where the glass was facing the opposite direction of the window, and put the tape back in his jacket.
“I dunno what’s more noticeable, the fact that the mirror is broken, or the fact that you taped the thing backwards.” Nia barked.
Digby, Haddie, and Sherry came out of the airport entrance and came up to the truck.
“There you are Devin! I was looking all over the place for you!” Digby barked.
“Same.” Devin replied.
Iron Man by Black Sabbath started playing on the truck’s speaker.
Dan looked towards Digby and queried, “Can I drive?”
“Do you have a drivers license?” Digby queried.
“No.” Dan replied.
“Then no you can’t drive my truck!” Digby barked.
“Oh c’mon Digs let him cook.” Devin said.
“No.” Digby barked.
“Let him cook, let him cook, let him cook!” Devin started chanting.
“No.” Digby barked again.
Corey started chanting along with Devin, “Let him cook, let him cook, let him cook!”
“No!” Digby yelled.
Nia joined in the chanting with Corey and Devin, “Let him cook, let him cook, let him cook!”
“NO!” Digby squeaked in a high pitch voice.
Nia stopped chanting and walked up to Digby.
“I’m going to give you a choice. You can either let Danny drive, or I can take my crop top off in public make sound effects like a drunk sociopath so loud that people will definitely gawk.” Nia barked.
“You aren’t doing that.” Digby replied.
“I will!” Nia barked.
She then started to slowly take one of her arms out of her crop top.
“Alright! Alright! I’ll let Dan drive. Ugh.” Digby barked.
Nia stopped taking her arm out of her crop top and replied, “Now that’s what I like to hear.”
Devin went to the other side of truck and got in to the passenger seat.
Dan and Devin closed the truck doors while everyone else got into the back of the truck.
“Seems like he didn’t notice.” Devin whispered to Dan.
Dan nodded while he set the truck speakers to play By the Way by Red Hot Chili Peppers.
“Go fast!” Devin said.
Dan turned the ignition key and slammed the acceleration the speed pushing Dan and Devin into their seats.
“That is not how you start a truck!” Digby yelled.
“Oh shut up.” Devin muttered.
They were off the airport parking lot and now in the road.
“Ignore what Digby says. Drive fast!” Devin shouted.
Dan was swerving around cars at full speed.
They saw a road work sign and a stop sign ahead.
“Take a right into the alley.” Devin shouted.
Dan turned the truck to the alley where there was a wire fence ahead. He drove full speed into the fence smashing the fence of the walls it was attached too making the fence fly over the truck.
“Agghhh!” Nia barked.
Dan took the truck back on the road.
After a minute of driving full speed straight in the road they have arrived at Dan’s house.
Dan and Devin opened the truck doors and got out.
Corey, Digby, Sherry, and Nia hopped out of the back of the truck while Haddie stayed on the back facing the opposite direction of everyone else.
Nia’s upper half of her body was covered in blood while she wiped the blood off her face.
“That was insane.” She barked.
She then looked at Haddie and said “You ok?”
“Oh yeah, I’m totally ok. I feel like I’m going to throw up from the whiplash.” Haddie barked sarcastically.
Haddie got out of the back of the truck.
Dan pulled the cigarette out of his mouth and threw it into Digby’s truck. The inside of Digby’s truck lit on fire.
Nia looked at the fire and barked “Digby’s going to kill you.”
The fire spread to the trucks engine area.
“Get away from there!” Nia barked.
Dan looked at the fire and then stepped back away from the truck with everyone else.
The whole truck was now on fire.
“My… my… my… my… my… my….” Digby stuttered.
The truck suddenly exploded with a large fiery blast as they all watched.
“My fucking truck!” Digby screamed.
Devin pulled out a large stack of Canadian 100$ bills that were rubber banded together from his jacket and handed it to Digby.
“That is about 50K right there. Go get yourself something nice with it. If there’s any left over keep the rest.” Devin said while Digby blankly stared at Devin.
“How do you have so much money in your pocket?” Nia queried.
“I’m a multi-billionaire.” Devin replied."No shit Sherlock." Nia barked.
Nia looked around and saw Dan was gone.
"Where'd Danny go?" Nia queried.
“I saw him go inside of the house.” Devin replied.
“Ah alrighty. So uh what brings you to Canada?” Nia queried.
“Oh my. If you want to know; I wanted to get away from the US. If a genocidal maniac is getting more support than the civil rights activist in an election, I don’t want to stay in that country. I’m safer off here.” Devin said.
“Indeed you are.” Nia stated.
Dan walked out of his house holding a VR headset and a VR suit and then ecstatically said, “I’m back!”
“Fancy gaming setup!” Devin said.
“Well thank you! This is yours! Don’t worry I got fifty more of these stashed away.” Dan replied while handing the headset and suit to Devin.
“Fifty? Damn! That is a lot.” Devin replied while taking the headset and suit out of Dan’s hand.
“Yeah! I like tinkering around and working with high tech stuff. Especially the fancier stuff like VR headsets! In fact that headset right there I gave you is a modded headset. It teleports you to a whole new world! One that is unlike ours. One where anything can happen! One that bends reality’s norms! Magic, sci-fi, dimensions, art coming to life; have it all!” Dan rambled on ecstatically.
Dan looked to where Digby and Sherry were standing and noticed they were gone.
“Where’d Digby and Sherry go?” Dan queried.
“Probably went out to go find a new truck.” Devin replied.
“Ah alrighty.”
Corey spat out the cigarette that was in his mouth and stomped on the cigarette. He then pulled out another cigarette, lit it with Digby’s burning truck, put the cigarette in his mouth, and puffed a large cloud of smoke.
Dan sat lied down at the doorstep of his house and said “I’m going to take a short nap here since I didn’t really sleep well last night.”