Everyone saw the trailer and the hype was real. The team had worked on their coordination but only so much you can do when your using antique gear and your training facility was an empty warehouse because no one would touch the team. Whoever had set the butterfly effect in motion had done it so well this team couldn't even afford gear for everyone. All their gear suddenly had been made unusable and they found themselves all homeless living in a run down warehouse filled with vermin trying to listen to the boss. The boss knew he had to go back to his old friends, The Ragons, to get backing. He knew the truth about these three that they were the actual brains behind New life before a rogue AI and a few bad corporate thugs had banded together to trap him and exploit his system he had in the game. He also knew that because of him they had saved the company but not without having used it to force mergers with companies and the underworld. These brothers were implants much like himself placed here from different places and times to change a future no one wanted to see. A future where humanity would stumble upon the actual world from New life and set off a chain reaction that would alter the reality of humanity and the cosmos.
In the warehouse the wolf pack was lead by a quiet man named Vincent. He was the de facto leader of the group as he had been one of top solo players in New life until something caused him to leave the game. He didn't talk about his past but he was quick witted and a born negotiator. Most people just called him by his gamer name Silver. His right hand person was the only one who knew him before gaming. His childhood friend who he called Wolfy. She was the alt gamer girl who people flooded to watch play because she was unconventional. She had once killed a player in a competition using a teacup because the player wouldn't listen and caused a total party kill. She was deemed ruthless, cunning and brilliant. Her parties would come out of incredibly hard fights looking like it was a warm up. In a game like New Life she had taken it to heart and had rebuilt herself from the quiet and caring person she was in real life to the Wolf princess as she was called in the game. The other teammates were Peter and Barry along with the only other girl on the team named Amber Williams. Amber was older than the others and was said to be friends with the boss from inside the game.
They might never of won but this group knew how to play. The problem was more they didn't know how to follow commands and it's why as they waited for the boss to return they were discussing life inside New life or the upcoming New dawn. The information on New Dawn suggested that you could do something you hadn't been able to in New life. Design your own race and that it was going to be a classless. You could make your character how you wanted it but the information said that it would possibly affect you in game...
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In the ivory tower of Ragon international stood a middle aged man talking to three men who looked like bodybuilders. The middle aged man looked at them and said, " It's been awhile but you called me hopefully with news of our mutual friend. If not then I guess I will need to ask why you summoned me with an offer of help."
The three men looked at him and said, " We have actually asked you here because it seems our friend has been killed but his mind has been uploaded into the game. That's not the main reason we brought you here. We brought you here because we know you took over the team they built and were tasked with bringing back their former glory. To that end we were going to sponsor and train your team through one of our companies. The question is Are you ready to go back into the world? The competition will not be easy and you will have to face your demons once more."
" If that gives me answers as to who killed my family and trapped me in the game then so be it. I promised I would turn this team into a winner and I will. Now we are going to need a place for us all to stay and the new capsule machines you designed. If every other team has been given a beta testing slot I also request that. You pay for everything and give us a salary that befits us and I will gladly wipe the floor with the competition. We both know you three are going to use the competition as a way to consolidate your power so we will help to that end."
" That is easy enough go back to your team and tell them to get ready to move because in three days their lives will change." The room fell silent as the group looked at each other before leaving and getting on the phone.
After the meeting the coach known as Aiden Keyes returns to his team and gives them the news. They will be competing in a special beta test competition in the game and they will be moving to live in a new building with technology that hasn't been released yet on the market.
Vincent looks at their manager and shakes his head thinking about his past and what this new chance could mean. The others realize that gone are the days of being treated as sludge and disrespected by the gaming community. The boss had somehow worked out a miracle and it was their time to shine.
The days flew by as moving and setting up shop took place. The Wolf pack was now safely secured in their own building with armed security and each of the players had their own floor to live on above the floors dedicated to the training and improvement of their bodies.
They learned that they would have schooling in the world and how things operated beyond what they might of experienced in New Life. School and physical training would go hand in hand with team building training. They were introduced to the new technology capsules and taught that the supplements used in them required a specialized physique so it was why they had to train. What they didn't realize was with their managers past he knew the game wasn't a game so he had designed these capsules to alter the human body to survive in this new world.
The day after they moved in the group had a chance encounter where they were warned that their manager wasn't who he said he was and that the game New Dawn would change the course of humanity. Writing it off as the ramblings of a madman the team went back to celebrating their new luck.