G.U. The Challenger: Part 1

By Layne Franks

It sprayed out its fire from its opened mouth, I twisted my avatar around to let the back of my armor take the beating since I had no time to take cover. Since noise is not allowed to come out of the speakers when playing games in the GT room, a close up of my poor characters face filled the screen, blood tears ran down my avatars face and into her mouth, as the armor slowly melted off my avatar’s body, the camera refocused on the whole seen, my avatar was found face down, I had five hearts at the bottom to show my health, all of the hearts except a quarter of one was still left red, I wasn't dead yet but it was going to take a while for my character to move. Good thing I didn't have my sword out it would have probably melted away. My axe was nowhere to be seen, so it must have melted with my character’s armor.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Layne Franks
• Release date: Nov 11, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370383436

Layne Franks

Layne Franks has been trying to catch a readers attention, his first kids story was called "The Magnificent Mask" it had won second place at a county fair, ever since then he has tried to re-create his world and start fresh, Wattpad and Smashwords has made it so-far successful!Layne lives in Mountain Home, Arkansas, with his parents and his little brother.Kaleb Franks lives in Antioch California with his family, usually you can find him outside riding his scooter, or playing basketball across the street. On his free time both him and Layne write stories together for hours on the phone.

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G.U.

The Challenger

Part 1 of Book 1

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By Layne Franks

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CHAPTER 1

To the kid reading these uncontrollable words I write down at this very moment (BEWARE!). So, just a fair warning to the person that’s reading this, this story can end up in a totally different place from where it started off, all that your about to read is true—or use to be any ways—right now, I live in an underground city, under another world that I was told from a very young age, that the world above us, the people who live there, never liked us, and so, all of my kind all helped make a city underground. This is not a City of Ember story, I promise you, we are way over there kind of technology. We live in a city where every one I know plays these video games. Video games are our life and our only way of living like the people above us.

From the very beginning, when I could learn to think straight, all I wanted to do—see or think about was the world above us. I wondered what the people would think of us now, it’s been sixteen years since our city was built, maybe they changed there attitude about us. The only thing I didn’t really get was, we don’t look any different from the people above us, we look exactly like them, we talk like them, and every thing else. I guess the only reason was because we were known as aliens to them. We never did any harm to them, there the ones that made fun of us, making up these weird stories about us taking over there planet, and our bodies were these ugly green creatures with two big black eyes and an antenna on our heads as we talked like robots saying Take me to your leader. Come on people!

Your probably also wondering, do aliens have genders, and if I’m an alien writing this what gender am I? Well, we do have genders, just like humans, male and female, I (if your all wondering… probably not) am a fifteen year old girl, my name is Halo, and yes I am named after my dad’s favorite video game in his days. Almost all of us are named after video games—or video game characters. But since my dad and mom were born in the world above us, they kept regular names, my mom, Tina, and my dad, Carl. We don’t have a last name, that’s another thing about us aliens we don’t have last names.

I am an only child of the family, and since I am an only child, I can choose to be anything I want to be—job wise—we all start at the age of fifteen, or depending on if our parents want us to start a little earlier, fourteen.

Examples of what jobs to choose from:

(If you’re an only child.)

Game Watcher (GW) Game Tester (GT) Game Makers (GM) Game Seller (GS) and a Game Actor (GA).

There are rules for what your children can do, depending on how many you have, a first or second child gets to choose from the ones above I have just given you, a middle child gets the lowest jobs,

Examples: Librarian or Plummer—and if you had really high grades—a School Teacher

And if you were the fourth, fifth or sixth child you had to do what your parents wanted you to be. One time someone had asked in my class about if someone had twins, what jobs would the twins get, but the teacher had replied, that for some reason, our race (us the aliens.) can’t produce twins.

Some day, The Challenger, will come out (I was so excited then!) I wanted to be a GT (Game Tester) the only problem was; only the best of the best of the GT’s were chosen to play the game.

The Challenger, is a virtual reality game, and its not the first time someone made one either, actually it’s the third game like it, only one person has been able to figure how to do it, and that’s the king of all of us, his name is, Aladdin. His first virtual reality game came out three years ago called, Knights Quest, where you got to choose to be a knight and fight off the dragon keeping the princess in the castle, then killing the evil king and queen, and all that other fun stuff.

Then his second game was, Robo Quest, where you were a regular human trying to survive the robot apocalypse, and find the scanner to shut off all the robots for good.

Then finally, The Challenger came was soon to be released. The game was unknown of what you had to do, the only thing that’s making me all crazy over it is because, there are only a handful of GT’s picked for the game, and the ones who finish the game, complete it, you can be the first in sixteen years to see the world above. And I want to be one of them—

Halo! a voice yelled from downstairs, it was my mom, and I was so engrossed in writing in my journal that my pencil had snapped right in half from gripping it so hard, I shouldn’t be serious when writing, but whenever I talk about the game, The Challenger, I am always into deep thought, I wanted be one of those handful of people so bad, and see the outside world, that’s all I have ever wanted.

Finally after gritting my teeth from frustration, I yell back Yes mom!

You need to get ready for work! my mom yelled back,

I lied that I had already gotten a job, another rule for the alien families was the kids don’t have to tell there parents where they work, but that doesn’t mean parents cant know, they could fined out easily, but today I wouldn’t have to lie any more. I was going to finally get a job.

Ugh- I groaned, the rolled off of my Hover Bed until I collapsed on my back, I was still in my pajamas and my hair was probably in a mess, my eyes were bloodshot from staying up all night as I wrote in my paper journal. I look up at the light above me—a naked light bulb hanging from the cement wall. I didn’t want to got to work today once I choose my job, why even go?—wait, that’s right, I need to earn my ticket to get to be one of those people who get to be in, The Challenger.

After I got up and done my long blonde hair in a pony tail, washed my face with cold water, and changed into my work cloths—which was a one piece silver suit with a zipper in the back that went all the way to my chin—I went downstairs to meat my mom at the table where my breakfast was waiting for me, which was a cereal that always tasted like sour apple when the milk was added.

I think I’ll pass on breakfast. I said as my mom looked up from her bowl; she had dropped her spoon on the table.

Ar-Are you sure, Halo, I mean, today can be a longer day for you. she said, picking her spoon back up and wiping it with her napkin.

I nodded and placed my palm on the door, after a second a scanner scanned my hand, the door clicked and opened outwards, I’m fine, if I’m hungry I can just eat at the cafeteria.

Oh ok, have a goo- her voice was drowned out be the door hissing and shutting closed behind me. I took in a deep breath of fresh air—or underground air—which wasn’t really that bad, the world above us might have better smelling air, but for today, today was a perfect day.

As I skipped across the street with a bright smile on my face, kids played with baseballs and threw them across the street as the kid in the middle tried to catch it. The school bell would be ringing pretty soon, I was so glad I didn’t have to go to school any more, I had a job—was going to have a job soon—and soon someday, I can buy my own house and live any way or any where I wanted to.

The place I was heading for was actually the place where I got to pick where I wanted to work. It was a big silver building that almost blended in the cement wall in back of it, and in the front it was a tall sign that read, Job Applications.

As I walked inside the building, into a bright silver room with a pearl white floor and a cement ceiling, almost right in front of me was the lady in a one piece silver suit like me, her black hair was done in a bun, and her teeth were perfectly straight as she smiled at me, as I walked up to her, I thought to myself, if she lost the makeup she would look prettier.

Hello Halo. she said with a slight giggle, making little dimples show on her cheeks, Ready to pick your job finally?

I nod smiling widely, Yes ma’am, I would like to be a GT.

The lady—Zelda was her name, she was one of the few people who wanted to change there name that had to do with a game, and this is kind of ironic but the boy she dates is named, Link, and no he didn’t change his name like Zelda, he had this name in the above world—since she was behind a desk, she opened a drawer and pulled out a GT fill out sheet, she handed it to me with a pen and closed the drawer back to home.

The fill out was almost like a contract, but asked me to fill out my height, weight, eye color, male or female, and a bunch of other stuff I don’t need to mention.

As I filled this all out, Zelda said mentioned, You know, you’re the third person today in a row who wanted to be a GT.

I look up from my work, Really? Were they from my class? Zelda use