The New Adventures of TunnelVision: Reloaded

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Jason was fast asleep. His mother called him, "Jason your friend Markus is here to drop something off for you!" He could hardly open his eyes, he was still half asleep. Markus opened his door, "Yo dude I got the shit, Text me when you wake up. I'll be on with the crew" Exiting and closing the door, Jason fell back asleep.

An hour later he woke up again, this time for real. He got ready for the day and went back to his room, he read the instructions Markus gave him to set up the headset and game. After half an hour and cable managment, he was ready to boot up the game. Texting Markus that he was joining the game, Markus texted him back that they were all waiting for him.

Jason booted up the game and put on the headset, he was greeted with a black void. In front of him stood a mangled engine, it's face was covered in cracks. Jason was frightened.

"Jason is it? You're the one who's friends with good old Markus, the filthy brat who destroyed everything I had" The engine said, Jason was ready to take the headset off in a shaking sweat, "Oh no no no, I explained this to Markus too. I wouldn't take that headset off if I were you" The engine continued, "Who the fuck are you and what do you want?" Jason asked, "Who I am is not important, but what is important is my deal. So it looks like you and Markus seem to be close friends, hmm?" The engine asked, "Y- Yes that's correct, what are you getting at?" Jason said, "Well, if you work for me. We can stop this brat and his merry misfits on their conquests to topple this whole operation. Your little court case only took us out of the public eye and got our head honchos arrested and put on death row for what we've done. If you work for me as a spy for those little assholes, we can stop this for good and we can return back to normal. Now do we have a deal?" The engine finished, "You have to be fucking stupid to think I would do such a thing, Markus will stop you! He'll do it again a thousand times over!" Jason shouted as the black void dissapeared along with the engine.

Jason's surroundings transformed into a gorgeous garden all around with a large industrial railyard in the middle. Markus rolled up to him asking what was wrong, Jason said that the first thing he saw was a dark void and a scary looking steam engine covered in cracks and shards tried striking a deal with him. Saying the engine wanted to use him to get to Markus and kill him. Everyone including Markus was concerned, looking around at eachother with worry. "Well he dissapeared and went away along with the void after I told him off, he's gone right?" Jason asked worriedly, "Yes, however it seems we have new foes to face. Thanks for warning us Jason, now come on take a load off and hang with us! I'll teach you how to drive yourself"

Markus then proceeded to teach Jason on the workings of a locomotive and how to drive his digital train self, Jason cheered with excitement as he began to roll for the first time, "That's it, you've got it! Now learn to brake" Jason applied his brakes, but kept rolling with a screeching sound, "Jason release your regulator, you can't brake while under power" After coming to a stop. Jason and the others cheered for him. "I think you're ready" Markus said. Jason was then told to practice moving trains around the yard to get a feel for stopping and starting.

Markus and his crew were looking at a giant screen by their refueling shed. "Computer, show us what's happening in realm 2 today" Tyler shouted. The screen broadcasted footage of what appeared to be a garden themed railroad, Jason caught eye of it and was curious. Rolling over to the crew, "Is that a, garden railway?" Jason asked, "That's Floral Fairgrounds" Tyler said, "Also known as realm 4. That's our next realm to liberate from TunnelVision's control, We've captured realms 2 & 3. And now we've got to take back realms 4-8" Markus added, "Hope you don't have any pollen allergies Jason, you're coming with us on our next trip haha" Michael laughed.

"What time are we going?" Jason wondered, "In 5 minutes. you, me, Henry, and Jonas will scout the area and look for the players, we need to find all eight of them and free them" Gregory explained. "So new guy, you ready?" He asked, everyone agreed. Jonas and Jason were lifted onto flatbeds and coupled up behind Gregory, "Save your steam, we'll haul you two until we reach the destination"

The four rolled up to a split track, it had 8 paths all towards different Tunnels. Three of them were blocked off with the words "Free" being plastered all over the barricades, "We want the one there that says 'Floral Fairgrounds' you see it Jason?" Jonas asked, "I do, let's get going!" Jason said excitedly. So the four set down the track through the tunnel.

The interior of the tunnel was all black, they couldn't see the light behind or in front. When they finally saw the light, they saw vines and flowers. Jason was glad his pollen allergy didn't carry over to the digital world. Off to look for players they went as they heard a voice coming from an unknown source, "Breaker one breaker one this is Markus calling in, is my crew there?", "Yes Markus this is the leader of the train Gregory calling back to affirm we are on the move", "Very good Greg 10-4, is everyone else there do your comms work everyone", "Our comms are good Markus 10-4, wait hold on how are we communicating?", "I worked with Greg a couple weeks ago on a proxy chat, you all have radios in your cabs that can be toggled on and off", "Thanks Markus, we'll keep in touch as we move", "Thanks Jason, I'm heading out for now. But I can see you guys on my monitor in the real world, call me when you need me. Markus out"

With that, Jason yawned as he turned off his radio and fell asleep on the journey. Nobody noticed because he wasn't prone to snore, they just assumed he was being quiet.