Gamers 2069 (13)

Trapped

"Get down on my knees and start begging for my life? Highly unlikely, you little ass," Cale, or what I call him, Minnie, scowled at me.
"Oh, well then I'll finish this quickly so I can go play my games," I mused arrogantly. I smirked at him again and lifted my hands.
He made the first move.
The first wrong move.
He ran at me headfirst, allowing me to easily dodge his attacks. I call him Minnie because he reminds me of the Greek monster the Minotaur. A being who's strong but once they're going too quickly can't change direction very easily. I spun around once and then lifted my foot, slamming it into his back and causing him to lay sprawled on the ground in front of me. I pressed my foot down on his back and sneered at him.
"I told you not to mess with me," I sneered at him. "And now you're doing it again? Did you already forget what happened last time?"
"No," Minnie said, trying to get up. I pushed my foot down harder and his arms sprawled out beside him as his face slammed into the ground, giving him a bloody nose.
"Release him! It's just you against us two! Give up!" One of Minnie's minions shouted at me. He came running at me with his fist swinning. I ducked underneath it and then grabbed it, flinging him to the ground, jumping into the air to avoid a low leg sweep from the second one, my foot coming down and pounding harder into Minnie's back as my hands gripping the kid's ankle and sent him flying into a brick wall. He'll probably wake up in a hospital with a broken ankle or leg. Oh well. It's his fault.
"Now, leave me and my friends and family alone. Do you understand that?" I scowled, my foot pressing harder into Minnie's back.
"Yes," Minnie muttered.
"CAN'T HEAR YOU!" I shouted.
"YES!" Minnie screamed.
I nodded, satisfied. "We better go before he calls his father. Head of the police, and yet he's stirring up trouble within the city." I sighed and shook my head, grabbing my VR helmet from Alek before picking up my pace and jogging towards my home, hearing their footsteps following closely behind me.
"You just had to beat the crap out of them, didn't you?" Aubrey said, shaking her head at me.
"Sure. I think that's the easiest way to get them to stop bothering us. You beat them until they accept defeat. Permanently," I said, a slight scowl on my expression.
"You're such a delinquent," Aubrey sighed.
"Maybe. Maybe not. Trouble and myths are the two things I know better than anything," I said. "I don't mind being called a delinquent if it gets me an exciting life."
"And if one of your 'friends' got hurt?" Aubrey said, using the tone that implied she was talking about Alek.
"Then I'd destroy the person who hurt them," I said. "But, enough talking about this. We need to go home to try out this new game. I mean, seriously. I've waited for this for over a month. They've had beta testers testing it for so long and it just got released to the public yesterday. It's a sick game about mythology. Appearantly, it's so realistic you really feel emmersed in the playing. I for one can't wait to test it out. You two will join me, right? After I just spent four hundred bucks on this equipment?"
"You're a pretty sucky little brother," Aubrey said. "But you know I can't resist testing new games. I hope you know what you're doing though."
"Trust me. I've done very thorough research on this game. For the past month," I said, smirking confidently at her.
"Count me in," Alek said, grinning as I turned to him. I beamed and then sprinted the rest of the way home.

I sat down on my rug beside my bed as I pulled out the game i had bought. I installed it into the VR headseats and then slipped mine on, a smirk on my lips as I navigated the controls.
"Let's go, Alek, Aubrey. Time to test this game out," I said, grinning widely as I sent the join link to the two of them. They entered my head space and I watched their expressions before clicking the start button and heading into the game.
My body seemed to dissolve in particles before I stepped forwards and was in the game.
"Holy shit!" I shouted as I looked around. Lush, rolling green hills of grass surrounded us, brick pathways lead in every direction and we spawned in the center of a town.
"No joke," Alek said, a hoarse laugh coming out of his mouth as he scanned the area. Marble and obsidian buildings surrounded us. There were temples everywhere and each one was dedicated to Greek and Roman gods, both the main ones and the minor gods along with important nymphs and demigod heroes.
"Spectacular," I said, my voice dripping with awe and wonder as I moved ahead and pressed a hand against a pure white, marble pillar. It's texture felt smooth and rough at the same time. Strange.
"This is AMAZING!" I shouted, lifting my arms to the sky and tipping my head back. "Amazing," I repeated, more quietly under my breath. Pillars towered over us, statues of different gods were constructed everywhere. The minor ones and the main ones. The demigod heroes like Hercules, Achilles, Perseus. So many demigod statues were here.
"Hey, you three. This game isn't available yet. How'd you get here?" A voice said behind us. I turned around to see a small teen with bright red hair behind us. "Only testers are allowed in the game right now. And it's obvious you're not testers by how you're reacting to this place."
"We bought the game. I read online that my favorite gaming store was selling it today, so I went and bought it. It said it was available. It's been saying that it's out since yesterday," I said.
"That's not possible. Kid, did you hit your head or something?" the lady said incredously.
"No. I'm not lying. It said that the game was available right now," I said defensively.
"What did you drag us into this time, Austin?" Aubrey said, sighing and pinching the bridge of her nose like she does everytime she's annoyed with me.
"I'm not lying! I swear it, Aubrey," I said loudly, my voice exasperated.
"I believe you," Alek said.
"We both do, Austin," Aubrey said. "It's just the fact that that favorite gaming store of yours is the worst one in the entire city. It might have every game available, but it also sells a bunch of unfinished games. And this game, if it's unfinished, is sure to have more than one glitch."
"Fine, fine," I said. "We'll just log out and figure this out at our house." I pulled up the menu and scrolled until I saw the exit button. I pressed it and a red error button flashed on my screen. I pressed the button again and it kept happening. I swear, I hit the button a hundred times.
"It's not working," I muttered. "The game's not letting my log out."
"You've got to be kidding me," Aubrey said, pulling up her own log out button and hitting it a few times only to see the same message that popped up on my screen. Alek tried to and he failed as well.
"Well, damn," I swore softly. "Seems like we're trapped here."
I glanced at Aubrey and Alek.
"Looks like this is going to be quite the adventure."