The world is a extremely cold place. The streets were almost empty and the few on them were hurdled together eating what seemed to be sticks of meat.
This was always the first sight that Blake saw every time he woke up and looked through his window. Blake has always thought lowly of these people. They were like rats in his mind who would chase after any piece of food they can get their hands on.
Blake started off his day like any other by heading straight to the bathroom to take a shower and relieve himself. Afterward, he goes to the mirror to do his hair. Blake sees his curly black hair, blue eyes, and his muscular body that he is very proud of.
"What a handsome man" Blake shamelessly says while smiling.
"Blake get your a** in here!"
"Coming father!"
Blake hurriedly puts on his clothes while mumbling curses to his father for interrupting him.
He gets to his fathers office and notices his father and his uncle chris sitting with some alcohol in their hands.
His father Alfonso has a huge smile on his face that makes his face even more handsome. The uncle turns around to look at Blake. He has an ugly expression on his face, which strangely matches his ugly face that has a couple scars and missing teeth.
The uncles mouth opens revealing yellow and his missing teeth, yelling "Brat! What took you so long to wake up. You should know today is the day we can finally leave this god forsaken sh*t hole."
Blake, who is currently leaning over and breathing heavily, replies with a finger in the air signaling to give him time.
His uncle turns around with a grunt and his father just sighs and says "the gaming pods are coming in approximately 10 minutes so be prepared because no one truly knows what will happen when we enter the 'game' of HOPE."
Blake finally catches his breath and asks the question he asks every time HOPE is brought up. "What's the point in playing a game when it's just a distraction from the real problem?"
Alfonso gets noticeably saddened by his question. "We don't truly know what these pods do, but it is said that they will show us a new world. Which will give humanity a new beginning... but we haven't heard about anything other than what the world leaders speak about it"
His uncles interrupts his father "you stupid brat, the leaders sending every human a pod regardless of them paying for one shows you just how important this is."
Blake and Alfonso both nod and put on serious expressions.
Alfonso says "I'm not sure what'll happen, but no matter what we all need to take this very seriously and try not to make any mistakes when we are there."
A thundering sound is heard overhead as many drones carrying pods fly by the house. The house starts shaking as the drones dropped the pods outside and flew away.
Blake, Alfonso, and his uncle Chris jump up and run outside along with many of their servants.
They see 8 black sleek gaming pods that have a countdown of 15 minutes on the side.
Blake goes up to one of the pods and notices a hand and pupil scanner on the side. He puts his hand and pupil up to the machine and it scans them for a couple seconds before opening.
"Welcome to pod #153823, I will be player Blake's system for his journey, please standby until HOPE is distributed to every player."
Blake and Alfonso both have shocked expressions while his uncle just snorts to himself. The servants even started to fumble around trying to get there own pod.
Of course after today they may no longer be servants and will be able to live there own life. At least, that's what they believe.
"Blake go ahead and get in the pod we might as well wait until the time goes down." Alfonso said
Blake nods and sits down inside the pod and the pod automatically closes.
Blake shuts his eyes and thinks to himself 'I hope this is truly a new beginning for humanity.'