Terror Infinity Side B

Chapter 2 - 1, BTOOOM.

Aqua: Good, your abilities are quite capable. The four of us here have survived from the last mission given to us from God. I've lived through six missions and they lived through one so far. Though it seems like we miscalculated. We should had exchanged some limited ammo machine guns and other heavy weaponry since we have a top mercenary and sniper now, since those are rather inexpensive. Damm, it was my mistake to not suggest them because I haven't formed a team with other players since my first two mission. My mind set was stuck in stone as a loner.

Saki adjusted her glasses as she had a look of confusion. She kept going back between Aqua, me and the others for a while and then she pointed at me.

Saki: But why is he so strong? Next to Aqua, Shin is the next strongest, yet he is far more powerful then the other two who have been here just as long after surviving one mission.

In fact, I was already aware there were some newbies being wary of me. Zero and Kampa were paying close attention to me though they were silent this whole time.

Shin: That is easy to explain. You get 1000 points every time you survive a mission, that's a fixed basic reward. Other than that, God will issue you side quest. Completing these will earn you extra points. Look at the watch, it displays all the extra missions we can do for points and ranked rewards. I finished a tough side quest in the last mission as a new player and was rewarded extra points (More then a few), so I'm a bit stronger than Hikari and Misaki after spending my rewards on enhancements.

Saki was going to ask more, but the TV screen within the plane lit up with life. Everyone looked toward it and what they saw being displayed was a fat man in overalls and a cap. It was the game planner of the real life Btooom game of Tyrannl Japan, Gemu Shusaisha.

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Gemu: Ladies and gentlemen!! Good evening!! I'm the sponsor for this event, Gemu, Nice to meet you all!! We are honored to invite you all here in order to participate in this exciting game!!

Aqua: Everyone quite down. The mission is starting!

Aqua immediately took out her Auto 9 and kept it ready in case anything unexpected happens. Although no one dies in the beginning on the plane, the fact still remained that were were all surrounded by armed men with guns. In the manga they only had stun guns, but here they had real live weapons. If they decided to spray us with bullets all of us would die.

It really was best to be cautious here.

Gemu then began to explain what was awaiting us.

We were on a plane headed to an island in the Pacific. The island was an uninhabited to the south of a certain country. The island had no clean water or food, so it wasn't one of the paradise like islands that families dream of going to on vacation.

The he told us all to do our best in the game if we wanted to return alive and that none of us had the right to complain. Some of us didn't like that, still believing that this was the real world, but with the weapons being pointed at them quickly shut them up.

Next we moved on to the subject of BIM.

BIM were a special type of bomb found and used in the online game, Btooom. There appearance were of a dark metal with a futuristic design. They activate with a fingerprint recognition, so only the original player could use them, but if that player was defeated one could confiscate there BIM and use them as their own.

We were told to use these new types of bombs that they developed to battle other players. There were many as eight types of BIM available, but each player would only start of with eight of one type of BIM.

The types of BIMs were the following:

1. CRACKER - The Cracker BIM is the most common type of BIM. A simple bomb that will explode on impact, but has low explosive power.

2. TIMMER - The Timmer BIM will count down from 10, and at 0 it will detonate. The countdown of the BIM can be adjust, so it has high tactical value. Has moderate explosive power.

3. IMPLOSION - The Implosion BIM is a unique bomb that sucks in its surroundings before imploding. Great at destroying large, thick targets since the implosion ignores most physical resistance.

4. BLAZING GAS - The Blazing Gas BIM as the name suggest releases gas when it explodes. Specifically a toxic chemical gas that deterioratess everything that it touches. Has a large area of effect when thrown up high or when used with wind direction. Great at exposing hidden enemies and as escape cover.

5. HOMING - The Homing BIM locks on to targets and follows them with a small propeller, exploding within range of the target. It has very low explosive power, but it's lock-on function can be used to identify hidden targets.

6. REMOTE CONTROL - The Remote Control BIM can be detonated from a distance using the add on switch and pressing a numbered button for the bomb. Made with booby trapping in mind and has high eplosive power.

7. 1300°C FLAMMABLE OIL SPLASHING FLAME - 1300°C Flammable Oil Splashing Flame BIM separates and splits fire in four directions to corner a opponent or light them up.

8. BARRIER - The Barrier BIM is another unique bomb that instead of creating an explosion, summons a triangle shape barrier around the holder that can protect them from harm.

The eight BIM that we will all start out with will be soon handed to us in a bandolier case. It was then when the discussion was about to move on to the Chips that one of the newbies spoke up.

One of the two fat businesses claimed that this was all some elaborate prank and this wasn't really happening. This got the other newbies to jump on the bandwagon. From what I could see, they believed that they were being punk on some reality TV show or were going to be extorted for money in some scam ( If only ).

If only that was the case... Especially for the fat business man who got everyone going. He moved up closer to the screen to yell at Gemu, and that is when they moved.

On Gemu's signal, two of the soldiers stationed to the side of the cargo plane moved for the first time. They raised their guns and without any warning fired at the fat business man. Not one of the newbies moved after that. They just watched the the now dead body full of bullet holes drops to the metallic floor in a bloodly mess.

If anyone here were still under the assumption that this was all some prank... Then there was no helping them now. From here on out this could only be seen as the prolouge of what is to occur in this mission.

Saki: Something like this didn't happen in the manga, right? The soldiers on the plane were also only armed with stun guns.

Shin: It probably has to do witht the difficulty of this fifteen man mission and how God wants us to play along with his revised script. All of us veterans here are armed with handguns and Aqua and I have above human physical ability. Even if we are still forced to play this death game by God, if we could somehow defeat all the soldiers onboard the plane, we could attempt to hijack it.

Saki: You mean for our own use in the mission? That would be really helpful if that was a possibility.

Shin: It is. I have found that these worlds have a lot of freedom, so hijacking this plane is possible, but with over two dozen soldiers here armed with heavy weaponry... The only Player here who would come out alive here would be Aqua. The rest of us would be injured or dead.

Saki: Then God won't allow us too easy a time. Still, doing things that the characters in the manga didn't or couldn't do could come in handy in the future.

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Not minding the half panicking and half crying group of newbies, Gemu continued his explanation. The next subject was about the IC Chip.

The IC Chip is an oval glass that is embedded into a Btooom! player's left hand. When it is used, it shines a blue-ish green light. The IC chips are both radars and sonars used in the real life version of the Btooom game. Every Btooom player on the island will have one chip on them at the start of the game.

The IC chips are implanted in the player's left hand, and can only be removed when that player is dead or surgery... The latter of which will definitely not be available to them. The ultimate goal of the game is to collect 8 of these chips and only then will that player be allowed off the island.

The IC chips are mainly used for locating opponents. A player will need to put strength into their left middle finger, the IC chip will be activated. When that sonar detects the IC chip of another play, the user will get the feeling of that player's presence and know his location, but on the other hand, when a player gets detected, he feels this as well. So the located player will know that he has been exposed, so he knows that someone is trying to locate him.

Gemu then finally gets to the point that to win this game they must collect eight IC Chips or just Chips from other players during this seven day event on the island ( It wasn't till much later in the manga did they say that they had a time limit ). The seven days part wasn't there in the manga or anime, so I realized that God was capable of even changing a characters dialogue. Gemu then finished up by saying that we will be directly above the island in three minutes and should get ready to parachute down to the island.

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Gemu: Well then... Please have an exciting time playing our newest interactive game everyone!! Bye!!!

With everything explained the large TV screen was turned off, leaving all of us to process this new information, but there was something that I've noticed that needs to be said.

Shin: Hey guys, I know that there is a lot to be done in these three minutes and not a lot of time to do it, but there is a major problem that has to be discussed.

Saki: What? Do you mean the other players? The NPCs?

Hikari: I had an idea about that. My best geuss that they are already on the island or on another plane like us. With the exception of him signaling the soldiers to shoot that one newbie, the man speaking from the TV, Gemu wasn't specifically talking directly to any of us. It might have have been streamed to multiple locations at once.

Aqua: That sounds about right? God probably wouldn't want us to take the chance and kill the NPCs while they were in one place to steal their chips all at once. If we had the cover of over a hundred meat shield (This merciless woman means the NPCs), we could take our chances against the guards coming after us.

Shin: That is important too, but that wasn't what I wanted to bring up.

Misaki: Then spit it out already. We don't have much time.

Shin: ... Ok then. Where are our BIMs?

Hikari: ...

Misaki: ...

Aqua: ...

Saki: ...

Kampa: ...

Zero: ...

When Shin looked at the faces of his new and old comrades he realized one truth. Once again... God pulled a number on them and this time right at the start of this fifteen man difficulty mission.

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