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It was a normal sunny day as always, Tree played games on his computer, whilst arguing with his brother about said game. Tree argued it was a super good game, filled with lore, intense gameplay, complex characters.. his brother snapped back mocking him, saying Counter Strike 2 was better. Tree just scoffed, turning back to his game called “Pressure”. He was prideful of his skill in the game, after all, he did have over 6700 hours on the game.. he continued playing it, flashing an in game NPC for fun, which made the NPC react badly back, hitting him across the map.. Oops.
Purrito sighed, he had nothing to do this bright day, he definitely did not feel like going out. He thought for a while, maybe a little too while, before finally deciding upon playing a game on his phone, a game called “Pressure”. Sadly, a day prior as he was out, his phone fell so he had to use a smaller, weaker phone. Oh well, what can he do? He joined the lobby, but today he just felt like playing alone.
Rade plays his favourite visual novel game named "The Freak Circus", trying to get the "Good Ending" with his favourite character named Pierrot. He accidentally ate food at the circus which caused him to get drugged, but he didn't mind getting changed to the bed (skull emoji) as the game finally starts getting interesting he gets to day two, whilst the game is still DEMO so its the furthest he can go. He sighs & decides to hop on ''Pressure'', he has not played it almost at all but he believes it would be an interesting change for once.
"I'm going to get a win! I WILL!!"
Rade talks to himself proudly, imagining himself getting the crystal & becoming a professional Expendable.
Nikitaa sweat, using all his thoughts to pass the next map,! oh-oh he was stressed, something kept coming up at him,, Dread, Mime, Slight, Heed, Goat man,, everything went by so fast, but by now he was fully trained into playing the game “Grace” for a while without dying. He finally got to the door 5900 he cheered, before getting slaughtered by Sorrow because he dared blink a second longer than he should have. He cursed, holding his head in his hands.
After a moment had passed he decided to clear his head from “Grace”, opting to a more calmer game he enjoyed a lot. “Pressure”.
Cat sighed, flicking his pen in class, bored out of his mind just waiting for this class to end. Eventually, it rang, & he sprinted home, joyus of the idea to play his boat game where you,, well,, build a boat. He sprinted home, excited to play it. Before he got on the game, he loaded his soundboard, making sure its set to annoy someone by spamming it, he laughed at the thought of that. As he proceeded to load his game, something went wrong. The game was updating & you could not log in. He groaned, annoyed that he could not play his new favourite game. He bored’ly scrolled his recently played.
“Played it yesterday..”
“Too intense for right now..”
“Too boring..”
“Already completed it twice..”
He finally stopped at one game he liked to play, “Pressure”. He shrugged, oh well might as well win a round for fun.
Emil is chilling in his room, listening to his favourite music artist ((insert music artist)) as hes playing his favourite game, Pressure. He just recently made an outfit based on one of the characters called "Eyefestation" & he was as proud as ever for himself, he got circled one, then twice by a random Goku avatar, then a random avatar with wings on its head & a suit. He did not think too much of it as he continued thinking of what badge he should try to get next up in the game. He decides to grind for the obvious, ''Glutton for punishment''.
Shadow lays on his bed, scrolling “Vinted” on his phone, he smiles,
“A 4 star Alastor trading card for only 420 euros?! That is such a steal”
He giggles, automatically buying the trading card. He continues scrolling through his phone, nothing interesting.. he already bought all the other Hazbin Hotel trading cards & felt content for now. Closing Vinted, he went on his PS5, looking at what game to play. He decided to go on Roblox. He thought about playing “Doors” but he beat it so many times by now, he could probably do it blindfolded. He thought for a little while, before finally settling on the game “Pressure”.
Mazda groaned, trying to finish writing her final homework for the end of the school, it was extremely complicated, at least to her abilites. She kept reading over & over, not understanding anything. Even Chat GPT was loosing patience with her.
“Oh forget it! I’m taking a break.”
Mazda said out loud, saving the file & closing the document, going on her computer to relax on her favourite game “Pressure” & possibly beat it without a glitch again, hoping to get good RNG & possibly get some badges she was missing in game.
Mork ate breakfast with his family. Whilst everyone ate normal food (mashed potatoes, cooked meat, salads) Mork ate a carrot. A singular carrot. It was so common that nobody really questioned it anymore at this point. Whilst eating, Mork scrolled his phone through “TikTok”, getting videos about a game he often played. “Pressure”. He thought about it & smiled, he had plans on what to do after he was done eating his carrot.
Goofy sat in silence in class, finishing his last test of the day. He sighed, exhausted by the whole day. School is tiring in general, let alone adding 4 tests into the question! He finally had a 45 minute break as he scrolled a little on “TikTok”, liking every edit he got if the characters “Metal Sonic” & “Cell”. After a while he got bored of that too, deciding to hop on Roblox to play a little gaming session, he hopped onto “Pressure”,, deciding to attempt a short solo run to the end.
Unc was already on Roblox, making himself a cool new outfit with the Robux he just bought. He made his avatar fully black, with green, sort of like tiger lines, all around. Of course he added a little bit of fur to the neck & a tail of course! The finishing touch, a white face with green eyes & big green teeth. Wow, he finally managed it, he made a Pursuer cosplay on Roblox & he loved it! He bought the outfit without thinking twice, being overjoyed by his dangerous yet fluffily-cute new outfit. He decided to go on his favourite game to show off his new outfit, “Pressure”.
Nachos sat in their bedroom & looked down at his game, they was in another world (ifyk what I mean) & decided playing a round of “Pressure” would seem interesting, even when they were not thinking straight at all.
As everyone goes their own way, they all pass each other at one moment, but none of then taking in the other, not really thinking about it all, either. Only Goofy spots Nikitaa as he looks at his avatar. Nikitaa is wearing a Goku cosplay as his avatar. Goofy thinks about saying something, but decided to pass on it, rather staying further in the lobby & waiting to see if someone will call for a “This Badge Sucks” or a “Group of Sweets”.
Purrito & Unc missed each other by mere seconds. They both had the exact same Pursuer outfits, only Purrito had a blue cap turned backwards on his head. He was at the 50P Submarine as Unc moved into Endless, seconds before Purrito teleported back to the start. Shame, they had missed each other by a black hair.
Mazda was in the lobby at the railing, she was not even looking at her screen, but Calibrating her screen on her computer to see better. In the meantime, Tree stood next to her, not on purpose. Mork passed them both, going on the car nearest to the lobby spawn & emoting on it, he also waiting for someone to start a “TBS” or “GOS”
Cat went to the 1Player Submarine, he was about to enter it before something changed his mind, he is not sure what or why, but he decided for the time being to just stand in front of the submarine, thinking about maybe joining a 2Player one actually.
Shadow entered the game, he did not really know how to play the game the best, as he was much more used to “Doors” so he walked around the lobby more than anything, checking out everything & noting some avatars he found looking good, there was not a whole lot of players, 20ish or so?
Along with all the named were also Blur, Cosplayer, Billy, Spider, Ascend,,, & so on.
Suddenly something went wrong. The game completely froze for everyone, but it was not a normal freeze, everyone looked at their respective screens, some annoyed by their internet, some confused.
Then, it all went black. Everyone vision went black, like they all passed out in the exact same time.
Eventually, some woke up, but oh, they wish they hadn’t. They looked around themselves, they were laying on a cold grey floor.
They were in the Hadal Black site, themselves, their bodies had been put into their Roblox avatar & they had been teleported into the Hadal Black site.
This was bad, yelling was heard from the doors, it were soldiers, yelling at the ones who awoken to get up & get moving, they got forced into Submarines in groups, guns pressed against their backs. A shot was heard, one of them tried to fight back, got shot quickly after.
Others stared in disbelief, terrified. Some frozen in fear, some still on the floor unconscious, others getting beat to the ground for disobeying.
This was Hell.
It had to be, why else would they be here, for what they know, as Expendables?! They did not do any crime deserving of such punishment to be thrown into the Hadal Black site, never did they write that they wanted to go.
But that did not matter, they were here now, & they could not change it now, it was real.
Tree woke up jumpy, scared almost to death by everyone else laying on the floor, he looked down on himself, white paws. He eyes widened as he stifled a scream, his clothing pink & white, exactly like he was in game. He even had a tail! Though he did not know how to control it at all. He completely forgot he had ears as well, still processing his big soft hands that replaced his real, skin ones.
He looked around, most were still unconscious on the lobby ground. Tree heard a yell
“OI! GET HERE RIGHT NOW!”
The soldier yelled, his gun pointed slightly upwards, but still not directly at anyone.
Tree froze in fear, before finally daring to move. He glanced down, people were all around him. Everyone unconscious in their own perspective form. He only did not understand what he was looking at when he saw a big jumble of black fluff near the exit of the spawn area in the lobby.
he slowly got up, almost loosing his balance as he walked over the others whom were unconscious. He looked closer to the pile of black, with a hint of green, fluff. He realized it was not a person, rather two of them bunched together. The only different being one wore a dark blue cap turned backwards & was slightly smaller than the other one.
As he got to the soldier, he got grabbed roughly be the back of his jacket collar & pulled towards a submarine, there stood two others.
Mork, a white Protogen, his fur & tail extremely similar to that of Trees, but his head was a screen.
& Emo, a tall, humanoid looking person, who seemed to also have ears of a cat, or wolf possibly? but they were black in colour. His outfit was complex, yielding some sort of dark magic that circled around him? It seemed to just be uncontrolled smoke, it did not smell bad, if anything, it had the faint smell of a perfume. He wore a bandana, cargo pants & black boots, all matching very nicely with each other.
Tree was pushed by the barrel of the gun to continue forward.
“You will be entering the Submarine to go to the submarine dock inside the Black site. There you will have a mission.”
The three of them listened closely, passing glances by each other in worry.
“Retreat the Crystal, no matter what.”
The soldier said roughly, before signing them to go inside the submersible. They complied, quickly going inside & sitting down, typing the belt around their hips. The soldiers looked at them from the entrance, pointing them to the button.
Emo was the closest to the button, he stretched a little from his seat & clicked it.
The others in the lobby have eventually started getting up, all of them forced into small groups & into the Submarines, being told nothing more & nothing less than have the first three.
It was a scary experience, well, scary would be an understatement.. it was horrific. Nobody knew each other, everyone was a stranger to everyone. Who could you trust in such a place? What should you expect? Will it be the same as the game? Will it be different? So many questions, absolutely no answers yet.
Shortly after others were waking up. Goofy got up, rubbing his eyes. Wait. It hurt to do so.? He looked down at his hands.
Metal. They were metal hands were stared in shock, everything was so strange, he felt heavy, but very light in the same time. It was a nauseous feeling. He looked around, seeing Son Goku himself sit up, holding his head as if he had a headache. The Goku turns to Goofy, his eyes wide in disbelief as to what he's seeing, a Metal Sonic in front of him.
As they stared at eachother in both confusion, awe & terror, someone behind Nikitaa, who was the embodiment of Goku, got up, screaming.
“WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?! This trip was WICKED!”
Nachos yelled as they quickly got up & tried to run past the other whom were still in the floor.
As they attempted to do so, he tripped over Nikitaa, hitting him in the head & falling face flat in front of Goofy, who was by now standing up.
Goofy looked down at Nachos & noted how they look, noting that they had a thick cap with the writing “SWAG”, & shirt brown bacon hair. Their body was in colour, well, all his body parts were in different colours.
Their hands were grey, their legs were white, & their face & full body were pitch black. It was kind of strange honestly.
As Nachos held their nose, Goofy offered his metallic hand to Nachos. Nachos looked up & took it, getting pulled up with ease. Nikitaa got up as well, holding his head where he got hit.
Nachos turned to him.
“I am SO SORRY MAN-!”
Before they could finish apologizing, a soldier spoke up, yelling at them;
“YOU THREE, GET HERE RIGHT NOW!”
The three of them turned quickly, noting the big gun the soldier had. None of them wanted to fight with the soldier.
Nikitaa has not even noticed how he looks, neither how anyone looks, he was in such shock from the whole situation (& the hit on his head by Nachos) that he simply did not process anything at all.
In the meantime, Shadow woke up, along with Purrito, Unc & Cat.
As Purrito started waking up, he woke up Unc whom he was bunched up with. They made brief eye contact at their situation (mostly the abundance of black fur everywhere.) & screamed as they flinged each other away, Purrito falling on his own back, & Unc slipping, falling on his stomach. The commotion woke up Cat & Shadow, who stared.
Shadow looked down upon himself, his hands black, his coat red, with a bowtie. No way.. he thought as he looked around & realized something. It was extremely hard for him physically to stop grinning. He realized what had happened.
He had turned into Alastor, the same one he cosplayed in Roblox.
He looked around, noting Purrito & Unc. They looked basically identical. Only thing parting them was the size difference, the latter being shorter with a blue backwards cap, & the other being more lanky & tall, supporting a wider more blood-thirsty smile.
Cat was terrified, he saw what had happened to them & he looked down upon himself.
Cat was just a human, just as was his avatar, a person in blue with a blue cap. He, between all others excluding Alastor, Nachos & Emo (who he had not seen, noting that Emo & Nachos were already far gone in the submarine before Cat had woken up) was the most human of them all.
The same happened to them as did all the others, they got ushered to the submarine by 3 soldiers, considering the 2 Pursers sizes. They struggled to all fit in the submarine, considering their size.
Cat sat next to Shadow, terrified of the 2 black creatures sitting opposite of them, staring into their soul.
As they got seated & clicked the button, it all went dark, suddenly Cat saw a face etching closer in front of him, if was Uncs, the taller & more lanky one.
“Hello”
Said the pursuer just as the light became pitch black, & Cat started screaming out of fear, it was honestly, a terrifying vision.
The last that was heard before the submarine closed was Cats screaming as he held onto Shadow, gripping onto the shoulder pads of his suit.
In another submarine, Emil woke up & rubbed his head. He could see all around him. He jumped as he looked around, crawling backwards until he bumps into someone on the floor. Rade opens his eyes & looks up at the humanoid Eyefestation that lies above him, he jumps up, almost loosing his sick sunglasses as he gets used to everything around him.
"Sorry!"
Eyefestation cries out, his hands in the air in embarrassmentas his 27 eyes focus upon Rade.
"its okay... man..?!"
Rade says, confused by his own sentence or what to think about the Eyefestation. They dont have much time to chat as they are forced up & put into a submarine with two others, someone named Blur & Ascend. They keep close, not trusting anyone around them, not even each other, though they don't have much of a choice but to stay close.
Mazda, Cosplayer & Spider still have not woken up, dead asleep on the cold floor. Mazda was laying face flat into the floor.
After a while, the soldiers grew impatient, picking up the three of them & carrying them on their shoulders, putting out down into the submarine.
“Well, hopefully you three wake up in the meantime.”
The soldiers gave an awful chuckle, before pressing the button in the submarine & going out, leaving the three of them to go into the Submarine dock unconscious inside the submarine.
Alastor had put his hand to Cats mouth to shut them up, their loud scream being amplified by the small submarine they were in already. When Cat screamed, Uncs eyes widened, he pulled back quickly & looked towards Purrito, whose eye was twitching from the screams.
They all stayed quiet, Shadow & Cat not very fond of Purrito & Unc due to their intimidating nature.
Mork, Tree & Emo stayed quiet, only sometimes glancing from one to the other. They were all too shocked by whats going on, along with their appearance, to speak much.
“Pull my fur.”
Suddenly Tree said.
“What?”
Mork replied, kind of put back by the question
“Just do it!”.
Tree barked. (Tree bark? No, they dont)
Morks digital face shifted to one of worry as he he put his own paw to Trees forearm, before pulling harshly on his fur, pulling some fur out.
“OWW”
Tree yelped, pulling back quickly to rub the area where his fur got pulled by Mork
“SORRY!”
Mork cried out, quickly throwing the fur he ripped out to the floor.
“This.. this is actually my.. fur..???”
Tree said in awe, looking at himself, Mork looked down at himself, tugging as a stand of fur & it felt just as real as when he were a normal human.
Emo watched them with concern, a hand on his mouth like the statue “The Thinker”, trying to process what is going on, he did not say anything, just taking it all in for now.
Nachos, Nikitaa & Goofy had already basically became sort of allies, already talking about he whole situation, their looks, & everything.
Nikitaa was overjoyed to hear he was literally Son Goku, without the powers, of course.
Nachos stayed neutral about their looks. What can he say? They were just an average person with a less average skin condition apparently.
Goofy was looking himself all around, noting his metallic new look.
Emil, Rade, Ascend & Blur talk with eachother, learning eachothers names & a little backround, Rade worried as he seems to be the one with least knowledge of the entities in the game, or well... real life now. Emil gives him a playful hit to his shoulder with his elbow, assuring him it will all be alright.
The three of them talked about the game they just got teleported too, worried for all that will come. They knew the game very well, all three of them. But they knew this was different. Much different.
Were there even revives? How would Sebastian react? How does one beat Abomination or Jet suit course? Its all questions came to their mind as they talked, discussing possible plans.
Mazda, Cosplayer & Spider still stayed unconscious, nothing else to add here.