NEW YORK CITY
"Now, we have a very devastating news. Almost the city's population play the popular game War Legends. Players of the game were starting to disappear and cost 90% of the city's population. Now, policemen were still finding all of them but...there are still no evidence. Goodnight." the mayor of New York City sadly said for his goodnight message.
Welcome to New York 2016, quiet streets roam unusually and was declared as the most quiet city in the whole world since 2013. The other 10% of the population was left and most of them are senior citizens.
Then one day-
TAN RESIDENCE - New York City
"Honey, you barely touched the pasta." Angela Tan said in great concern to her husband, James Tan as their children, Vexy Tan and Drake Tan focused their eyes to their father feeling unusual.
"I'm full. I'm going to the bathroom." James said as he stood up walking towards the bathroom while tapping his SmartWatch in his left wrist.
In his SmartWatch-
____________________________
Pamela Wright:
Come to the HQ. I have a new assignment regarding to the mayor's goodnight message to the city.
Me:
I'm coming.
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He opened tye bathroom door and closed it. But he didn't get inside the bathroom, he sneaked to the kitchen, removed their large framed family picture and a sneaky door was exposed. He opened the door, returned the frame into the wall and closed the door.
Later-
"Thank you for coming here, agent Tan. I got a new assignment for you." Pamela said giving James a folder.
James scanned the folder and silence started roaming.
"So you want me to play War Legends?" James said to clarify.
"Yeah. But that doesn't mean that your assignment is to play. The point is the missing players. We have to find them. I've sent 10 agents for this. And you're the eleventh." Pamela replied.
"Right. I'm going out." James said as he stood up from his chair amd returned home.
He returned the frame gently to cover the door and he slowly walked to the bathroom. He opened the bathroom door very slowly that no sound was produced. He went inside, and got out and acted neutrally to the table.
"Honey, my manager called me to go to work right now." James said wearing his jacket and carried his suitcase.
"Work on the night?" Her wife said as she stood up from the table feeling like she thinks her husband is hiding something.
"I'm not going anywhere, honey. It's just that my manager wants to see me at his office." James said to calm her wife.
"All right. Just make it quick." Angela said as she sat down.
"Bye. Love you guys." James said as he hurried on closing the door.
He ran through the sleeping streets of New York City. He ran directly ran to an internet cafe. He made an account to War Legends and played for three hours. After that, he ran home.
"Honey, *yawn* you gotta get to bed before it's late." Angela said.
"Why are you waiting for me?" he asked before closing the door of their bedroom. Then the lights of the Tan rescidence began to shut off.
3:00 AM
Angela could not sleep on her busy mind thinking of something on what to do. She woke up and looked at her husband snoring. She went to the kitchen, grabbed a knife and carried it to her and her husband's room. She started aiming to stab her husband on the neck. She was very sweaty and started to cry.
James woke up holding her wrist with the knife.
"Angela, what are you doing?!" He asked surprisingly.
Angela cried...
"I'm sorry.." she cried for forgivness.
"This is for my father." Angela said angrily as she punched her own husband that James fainted and fell to the ground.
Inside James, he was dreaming of his previous work as a lawyer. Many of his clients say James Tan suck on being a lawyer. So he moved to call center. But her wife and children doesn't know that it was all his cover.
***
He soon woke up on a dark room with no source of light.
Where am I?
He said in his mind.
He realized his mouth was covered in cloth and his body was tied in a wooden chair.
A few minutes later of James trying to escape, he overheard a voice from someone...
"Crahan, will you please give me that mask?!"
Then keys cling as they unlock the lock. Light shines in the room as a man on a mask opened the door.
"Agent Tan, I am very disappointed on you. And...after all those years looking down thinking about revenge behind bars and security stuff, I have the time to destroy you." the man said as he was walking all around the room facing every direction.
"Who are you?" James asked amgrily.
The man punched him hard that James fell into the ground with his nose bleeding.
"No, no." the man said with his index finger moving left to right repeatedly showing him denial. "Don't talk when the boss is talking, my friend." he said correcting James from his mistake.
"You're no boss to me." James said bravely as blood streams down from his nose tp the ground. The masked man kicked him and a scream of pain followed.
"You listen to me! I'm not wasting any time here but marky words, I will see you again and kill you." he said leaving James behind.
It took many hours of James escaping but as the the hours pass by, he was massively confused on what was going on. When he got home on the morning, he didn't feel weary, he was all up to get to the bottom of it.
He slammed the door that serves as a knock of an angry man. Nobody answered.
"What the freak? How come nobody answered?!" he asked to himself.
A man opened the door.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?!" he asked.
"No, the question is, who are you?!" the man said with half of his face is a robot with a red eye.
"I am James Tan and I am the owner of this house." he answered quickly.
The man carried James by strangling him to the living room. He saw more men with half of their faces were robotic with red eyes.
"What are you guys?" he asked scared.
"We are now the new owners of this house. Not even those two little people screaming like rats!" a man said.
James was shocked and asked-
"Where are they?"
"Only in one condition." a guy replied.
"What?" he asked back.
Then another guy got the hands of James by locking them with handcuffs. "Hey! What are you doing?!" James yelled.
"No moving of hands when we get there." a guy said.
Then they carried him into a closed trunk in a car with his mouth covered with cloth that was wrapped around his jaw. James barely breathe.
As light travel to his body, he yelled with his voice without the use of words. They carried him into a vast building. When they entered the building, many screams were heard and unusual-looking people were all around them dancing or doing things that is only done by crazy people.
"Welcome to the Asylum! You're new home. And in here, you won't be worried about your stupid house because in here you'll own your own room and everything will be 'perfect'!!!" a guy carrying James said that made James worry. They unlocked the handcuffs of James as he tried to escape from them but he was unsuccessful. They threw him into a wide room with one bed, an open toilet, a cup with a toothbrush with bristles of cockroaches.
The walls of the three sides of the rectangular room was painted in white and the other said in bulletproof glass. James saw men with half of their faces were robotic teasing him. He hear no sound and found out the glass was made soundproof. He walked around the hot room ignoring the faces of men teasing him outside of his room. He tried opening the door hard but alarming red lights with an alarming awful sounds was all around the asylum.
Then he turned around and faced the wall with his back facing men teasing him. He turned on his SmartWatch and sent a voicemail to Pamela Wright. Then minutes later, Pamela replied with a voicemail too-
"Agent Tan, I have listened to your voicemail and we'll be there to rescue you. But promise me something, after you'll be rescued, continue the current assignment right away. Pamela out."
Then hours pass by and it was dinner time. James slept in his bed and was awaken by the strong yell from someone.
"Hey idiot!" a guy yelled.
"It's James, idiot." he said in return.
"I got your meal. You ain't fighting me because if you do, you ain't gettin' any food forever and you will die from hunger!" he replied with a weird accent.
"Then a slot opened in a wall and threw a dirty sponge-like meat. The meat was hairy, most of the meat was dark and worse, the meat smells like it was cooked since the 18th century.
"What is this?" James asked with disgust.
"It's what we call pork...with dog poop and I think someone peed in the canteen a while ago." the guy replied in a snubby feeling.
"Really. I think it's what we call YOUR FACE!" he yelled.
"Nice joke, horse-head. Now, you'll be eating that forever." the guy said in return to make feel James hopeless.
"I got a joke for you too, Barbie. I will be getting out of here." James said to make the guy angry.
For the half-of-the-face-is-robotic guy, he unexpectedly got hit by a powerful kick of a man named Francis Jefferson or Agent Francis, the bestfriend of James. More secret agents came armed. Gunfires were all over the place and James was successfully rescued. They left with their enemies to the ground bloody. Their red eyes in their robotic parts of their faces were black after the rescue.
"Game over." James said looking back to the bodies of their enemies. Then, they soon left the building.
But they didn't notice that a man again, with half pf his face robotic, moved his hand and woke up. As he woke up the other men again, with half of their faces robotic woke up and their robotic black eye, turned to red again...
