"Well, I guess not seeing the looks on your face"
Their parents had worried faces but not the sort of delight that you would normally have when someone wakes up from a coma
which would mean last night was also real, wait it is last night right? so thought the siblings
"Laura, Alex could you explain why you both passed out for an entire week?"
"Weeek? what!!"
"Focus dear."
"Yes mother."
They explained the events of the night choosing to not tell them they thought it was just porn but they forgot that when said conversation started the parents were there, A.K.A they already know about it.
"Well there are some pornographic details that are missing but, I see, The choker like tattoos are explained then. We had you guys tested for numerous things while you were sleeping but none of them came back bad, your bodies are healthier than a comatosed patient should have at the same time they were breaking themselves down which was weird, perhaps its some new form of disease?"
"Mother, Could you not skip over the tattoo bit, brother there really is a choker shaped tattoo on your neck! Can it be taken off?"
"Yes Laura you have one too, its not important anymore. Whats important is what the chip has done to us"
Laura still reigning in from the shock of perhaps having been given a permanent tattoo without her consent, or perhaps the unreal event where a thin chip just disappeared inside them, Maybe they would die? How could they know anything. With fear and panic consuming her she just stared at her brother as if everything depended on him.
"Well, for starters we can atleast say the chip wont kill us or it would already have, secondly our body which should have died considering it was breaking down feels awfully healthy, I feel lighter than ever despite just waking up after a week although famished. I think at the very least we wont have any harm done to us for now"
Putting calming down his sister as a priority he carefully explained his thoughts to the too confused to think Laura, after all she collapsed before Alex and couldnt see the situation as much as him even if what he saw was something he couldnt explain well.
Alex also felt that his muscles grew denser than before but hunger and a 'grrr' sound from his stomach interrupted his thoughts
"Shall we have food then? Oh my in my excitement I forgot to call the doctors, wait here!"
Said the mother hearing the sound. While the father got busy with the documents he had to fill for fees and discharging
"Laura can you feel it?"
"Yes brother, Father and mother seem worried, I wonder how much this week cost us"
A week in a hospital would be very costly especially when you have every sort of test available done on two people no less, Doctors being the money oriented occupation it turned into today the siblings figured the doctors also made them pay for unnecessary procedures and medication they probably werent even given.
"Brother, I wonder what that thing was"
"A chip, I had a good look at it before it pounced us"
"Brother, wouldnt that be a novel like devlopment? Would it make us superhuman?"
"Hmm?"
The brother could only let out confused sounds to such a remark. Before Laura could answer the doctor came in and seeing the two healthy as an ant which isnt crushed by children or had its limbs severed as a childish experiment or just picked up and put down far away from its initial position, oddly specific yes. The doctor came up and gave the two a rough checkup
"Well your bodies are certainly healthier than before, In a way this is pretty miraculous a week of sleep made you two healthy"
"Doctor is there anything wrong with our bodies?"
Laura remaining quiet since the doctor came in extended her hand to hold her brothers
"Well it was breaking down in a very odd manner when you were sleeping but, That seemed to have stopped. So yeah healthy as a lawn mower straight out of the factory"
Breathing a sigh of relief Alex then asked the doctor about discharging them as soon as possible as they were healthy, the doctor wishing to research the peculiar body breakdown and get more fees for it tried persuading them but when he claimed they had no more money to spare and that if they are healthy they shouldnt take up his time, Having been used to taking responsibility alone and doing everything by the parents checked up on them again they were informed they would be discharged once the paperwork is done
When they got home Laura finally began speaking again and the siblings went to her room to figure out what the tattoo really is, wishing to seriously find out what the chips truly were and whether they could help them or not
"Dont get too rowdy children"
And so died the seriousness.RIP 2019-2019. Ignoring the parents the siblings made their way to Lauras room considering it was closer than Alex's
"I wonder if you hid porn magazines somewhere too"
"Brother not you too, stop teasing me this is a serious crisis"
"So you said something about a novel but what exactly do you mean"
"Well, in novels such chip embeds itself into the 'host' and helps them become superhuman in everything, usually the chip recognizes voice commands such as 'status' or 'install' just mental commands such as 'open store'"
And as the flag was set up, so shall it be raised. A blue screen popped up like it was waiting for this moment since ages ago and informed Laura
["Welcome to the immortal technologies store, we offer bother methods to immortality, food for the apocalypse, weapons from the future, Please deposit an item to convert to Martial or Apocalyptic points, based on your current era and location these two will be useful for you!"]
A small box popped up with 'Point to object and say deposit' written on it
Telling her brother about the change, he told her to feed it some snack lying around, apparently only she could see the box so as she fed the box some chips she had lying around her brother too took a packet and it disappeared. Apparently she couldnt see his box either
["Congratulations, for blindly trusting a chip which could have very well ended your life just now you get! nothing! this is a pre-recorded message for the first deposit by any user, ending pre-recorded message, please choose whether you wish to convert 1 small salted chips pack into 2 Martial points or 200 Apocalyptic points, points aquired multiplied by 20x for the first deposit"]
"What is the difference?"
["Apocalyptic points can be used to buy high tech items from your distant future while martial points can be used to buy immortal goods"]
For some reason shutting down her capability of reasoning and asking such an obvious question Laura could only reprimand herself, without noticing the note at the end in her excitement and confusion. Having such a weird thing happen to you can be pretty mind breaking
"I meant to ask, why is there such a difference between alloted points"
["Value of an item is respective to the buyer, immortals do not feed while the apocalypse lacks any sort of luxury food"]
While Laura was experimenting with her chip Alex had already started browsing the goods in the markets before deciding which side to invest in first, The martial store was filled with techniques such as ying yang breathing technique or a magicians guide for dummies, as well as immortality and power fruits and stuff of myths and fantasy. The apocalyptic market had a scifi feel to it. It had advanced weaponry such as a plasma hand cannon or nano armor. Seeing their price Alex opted to first invest in the apocalypse and asked the chip to show items he could afford which can help him protect themselves, with slight regret at not depositing something with more base value he looked at the list which popped up
[ Apocalyptic Marketplace
Excluding Non Defensive items
Home defense shield: 150Apts A small force shield perfect for protecting a single house, The quality of this item is enough to protect the house from a blast of 200 KG of TnT, Will automatically detect intruders and permissions can be customized, used by low class families before the war
Individual security shield: 40Apts A small individual sized force shield, Can protect the user from any anti material bullets, rarely used preward for its low shielding capabilities it can protect the current host from most tank fire and artillery provided the explosion does not exceed 20KG of TnT focused on the user
Security Drone: 40Apts A Home security drone capable of shooting 20 .75 bullets/second, used as a study material by robotics students due to its inefficiency
Look alive soldier: 200Apts A personal handgun used by military officials before the code revolution, the target is slowly turned into atoms by destroying the molecules themselves causing a chain reaction in the body useful for torture
Digital gun: 100Apts Turns the targets energy into digital waves and disperses them, the larger the target the more shots they take
Skeletor skeleton: 160Apts A skeleton armor based on an ancient animation known as cartoon, The skeleton offers protection for your babies and adds 100KG to their strength, Perfect to protect your babies from falling, one of the first models so it has some antique value to it
Gene modifier: 150Apts Can multiply your stats by 10x, please refer to your statistic measuring device.]
"A statistics measuring device?"
[Host can not afford it, cost is 2000Apts as there are no older models]
"I cant tell whether the items are useful or useless consdering how the chip describes them 200KG of TnT basically means its safe from most things under a nuke or natural disaster right? Better search about it"
"Brother, what should I buy"
Only then did Alex realize that his sister probably got the same points and could help him as the 20x bonus was only for their first deposit.
"What did you invest in?"
"Apocalyptic points"
As expected of his sister she realized that chips were more valuable to the starved than the immortals after all you couldnt eat technology.
"Alright lets compare our lists and see what we should get"
The lists were pretty much the same expect Laura got 3 more points for some reason.
After a while they decided on what they wanted and bought them