1 Ch.1: Problematic weaponry
Normal people would never hold a gun, at least not where I come from.
Anyways I really love guns, both from a mechanical perspective and from a gaming perspective.
I'm Eric Randal Weston, an engineer, at least that is what I want to be. I'm a student. I was never too big on the gaming thing, but I play games to relax sometimes. Mainly FPS games, though I do not have much time nowadays as I am in high school. Right now I, am on the roof of my high school, normally it would be a restricted area. But I am allowed, I'm meant to be making sure none of the students get on the roof. I don't really care though. Anyways, let's move on from that train of thought.
I check my phone in boredom, 7 minutes of break time left. I lean against the fence, looking through the Play Store on my phone to find something to play quickly. I scroll down and notice an app I had never seen before. "Contract Armory", that was the name. It had no reviews, but a fair amount of downloads, well quite too many downloads considering there was no reviews. I install the app. The app downloaded without issue, it was slow as hell though as the Wi-Fi is the worst I have ever seen. I open the app.
[Please input your credentials]
I, out of boredom input "Hitler Bitler"
[Please input valid credentials]
I input my information.
Then it asks for my preferred weaponry.
{Assault rifle: AKM}
{Battle rifle: Garand}
{Shotgun: Saiga-12}
{PDW: P90}
{SMG: MP5SD}
{Handgun: M1911A2}
I give the app that information about me.
The app finishes asking questions and gives me a small tutorial.
One thing catches my eye [User must finish a mission within the next 24 hours, failing to comply will result in termination.]
And with that it gives me the starter package, a black uniform, balaclava and a colt M1911A1, with a suppressor no less. I check the time and see that break time is almost over, I go to the bathroom. After that I attend the last class for today and head home, the class and the walk home were both rather boring. I enter our dorm, I open the app after taking a shower and take my first mission, who would've expected that I actually had to do them in real life, not in-game.
Anyways, the mission is this:
[Eliminate a gang leader]
A gang has been suspected to have illegal weaponry, your job is to eliminate the gang leader to disorganize them. The police will take it from there.
[Reward: 2000$, Rep 1]
[Accept Y/N]
When I accepted it, a new option on the UI appeared, the option to [Change Loadout]. I pressed it and I was suddenly in the black uniform and balaclava, with a holster for the M1911A1.
[Mission location set on map] the handy app pinged me with the message.
As expected, it was in the one place crime pops up the most. There is an entire section of the city that has little to no police presence at all, there was so much crime there that they just send in the military. What kind of bad luck do I have....
I tried to get to the location stealthily, it was night time so it was easier. I arrive.
The location looked like a medium sized house, two floors it also had a window next to the front door. The gate was easy to jump over. There were two gang members approaching the sound that came from me hitting the concrete path. I head to the left of the front door, the door opens and I hide behind it, I pull out my suppressed pistol. I'm left handed so this situation was rather annoying. The gang members went outside to check for any intruders, I shot the first one in the back of the head. The other one did not have a gun, I wanted to interrogate him. I shoot him in the knee as he turns to run at me with a bat, he falls and I beat his back with the bat while asking him questions. He gave away the exact room the leader was in, where they got the weapons from and I killed him with his bat.
He was of no use to me anymore.
I head inside with the bat and the pistol, a shootout occurs. Two people with guns were shooting at me, it seems that everyone here is equipped with very cheap guns. The type that would even put hi-point to shame. They fired 45 ACP, I don't know if I am lucky or not. Good thing they only actually hit me 4 times, 3 in the right thigh and one in the middle of the right hand. They did have some very simple medical stuff, most importantly, painkillers, disinfectant and bandages.
I dug out the bullets from my thigh, disinfected the wound and bandaged it. I'll save the painkillers for later. I avoid unneeded coflict, it appears to me that they just got a new shipment of ammo, they were unpacking it. None of them had their guns ready so it was easy shoot them in the heads, one of them did pull out their gun but they missed me. They really suck at aiming, huh. I arrive at the gang leaders office, on the second floor. The room smelled like cigarette smoke, and blood, but mainly cigarette smoke. The gang leader was....
Well one of the guards was alive, and shot me in the left shoulder, he was holding an FN Five-seveN. I shot him in the crotch, then the knees. He screamed out in pain. I noticed there was a book on the table of the gang leader, I took it. I started hitting the guard in the head with the book until he stopped moving. I took his pistol, it was of a superior caliber. I'll replace it later. I went behind the table of the gang leader. I thought to myself "Isn't this more of a mafia then a gang?"
I took the painkillers that I saved for later, I don't fell like absolute shit anymore so yay.
The gang leader was holding a bottle of vodka, he was just really drunk. I shot the dude in the head.
I exit the office.
Or rather, I was about to when I heard the sound of the window in the office breaking and someone's shoes hitting the floor.
I run, there is a window at the end of the hallway, I jump thrugh the window and land on a car. A really expensive looking car. I got off the car. There were glass shards stuck in my leg, I was limping.
I pull out the larger shards restricting my movement and sit down in a nearby bus stop.
Of course, no bus would ever come. I knew this was the case, I just needed to sit down for a moment. I took out the smaller shards as well. I can hear gunshots coming from the place I just raided. Probably the one who was behind me, was shooting the mafia-like gangsters. Let's hope that's the case and not the other way round. Either way the mission is done and I am no longer responsable for what happens with them.
I get up, I ran out of bandages so my shoulder is still bleeding, my legs were the top priority there.
I see a person exiting thrugh the door of the hideout, they had the same equipment as I did, but I did not have thick ass armour or an AK-103, it had an angular grip, an extended magazine, and a Barska electric sight. The magazine looked like one of those really bad 90 bullet banana mags, I chould not see the grip well enough to say what brand it was.
I continue walking and it would appear that they are following me. I continue walking, I chould not walk at a more speedy pace then I already was. My leg, and lead-related injuries were slowing me down quite a bit. They put the barrel of the rifle against my back, I can feel the gun pressing against me.
{Can you not shoot me, that would be unfortunate for me. And you would prefer to not waste ammo, right?} I say, turning to face the stranger following me.
{Also, was that fancy car yours, if so, normally you would hate to lose it.}I know I would.
[C'mon dude, someone is pointing a gun at you and that's what you say?] They said, laughing their ass off.
While they are laughing I just kinda.... shuffle away.
Upon exiting the danger zone I pressed the [Change Loadout] button in the app and I was suddenly in my casual clothing.
I head to the dorm, taking a stop at the pharmacy to buy some bandages. I go to the bathroom and bandage up the shoulder wound.
I arrive back at the dorm at around 3 in the morning. I head straight to bed.
