The sizzling of electricity grows then suddenly lightning comes crashing down on the house. We all shield our faces from the blast as it strikes. A few seconds later Ethan uncovered his face to see no damage to the house at all. As he slowly looks down he sees a portal-ish, rip thing above the LAN box. “What. The. Fuck.” The rest of us look up at the portal. “Ethan is this a prank…” Skuce said nervously. “C’mon! You know me, I ain’t THAT good!” he replied. “Yea Skuce” Lachlan says in a stuck up voice. “Shuddup! We gotta check this shit out” I say as I nudge up towards...

As we watched Lachlan scale the cliff we headed to the base. We stacked up behind some shipping crates and I pulled out my radio “Lachlan, are you in position?” “Yep!” “How many hostiles you spot?” “Ughh… four, you see em?” I peek out round the side of the crate, I spot one near a small crane, another in a watch tower and one pacing slowly. “Negative I spot three, not four” “Probably because one is behind that shipping crate near the main building” “Gottcha, ok ill take the guy in the tower, you snipe the guy behind the crates, Skuce take the guy near the crane and...

“Ughh… where am I” I sigh getting up. “Dude, you alright?!” Lachlan asked. “Yea I’m fine but what happened?” “Well after we got sucked through the portal we all landed on you and you got knocked out cold” Lachlan explained. “So where are we now?” I asked. “As soon as we landed we noticed you were knocked out so we didn’t really get to look around” he replied. I looked around and saw a small base and desert. I looked at my mates and noticed they were older and were wearing army gear! “What the hell!?” “Dude you’re in army stuff too” Ethan said. I looked...

“BRZZ BRZZZ” In the distance I could hear my phone buzzing. I get up off the couch and check the message ‘Hey Luke, just wonderin if u wanna come 2 my place and play some 4 player LAN with Ethan and Skuce? – Lachlan. I sent a quick reply, grabbed my LAN cable, my laptop, charger and shoved them in my backpack and head off. Lachlan’s house was about a 5 minute jog so I got going. While I was jogging I spotted some dark clouds in the distance. “Dammit! I forgot there was going to be a thunderstorm today!” I shouted as I cursed the sky. When I finally got there I banged on the door...