Chapter 3: Crash Landing

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Due to the power outage, the airlock broke completely, letting air pressure change drastically. The oxygen masks did not drop as they were supposed to. Erica braced for impact, while Johan panicked. He was never so scared in his life. Suddenly, Johan grew dizzy. His body went red-hot. He could see himself glowing. He was sweaty. Things he saw only in games came to life. He thought he was hallucinating-but he wasn't.
The moment Johan saw the HP bar, he pinched himself to make sure he was awake. Then, he tapped the HP bar to make sure it wasn't a mirage or hallucination. It wasn't. He could physically feel the HP bar. There was also an Energy bar and a Mana bar. There was even a XP bar! When Johan saw this, his fear practically disappeared. This means I can upgrade myself!, he thought to himself.
He pressed the Inventory. Sure enough, his belongings in it. However, he was surprised to see his suitcase in it too. He then pressed the Skillset. He could see two skills:Gamer's Body and Fly.
"Erica! I found something cool!" Johan said, with the expression of a beggar who had just won the lottery.
"What?" she asked, while holding tight onto the seat in front of her.
"You'll find out!" he exclaimed.
Johan then grabbed Erica's hand and her suitcase. Afterwards, he kicked open the door and flew high into the sky.
     "Oh my god. You never told me you could fly, Johan!" Erica said, with evident shock in her voice.
     Johan simply smirked as his response. Erica, however, began taking selfies of herself levitating.
     Johan disapprovingly looked at Erica. "Why are you taking selfies at a moment like this? You should be doing something productive with your phone, like, I don't know, maybe call Emergency Services?!"
     Erica sighed. "Johan, no reception. Duh. So why not take selfies?"
     Johan shook his head, obviously thinking that Erica didn't understand what he meant. Of course Johan knew there would be no reception this far out at sea. Johan then proceeded to break into the cockpit of the plane. He saw the pilot there, trying to turn on reserve power to emit one distress signal, now that it had already crashed into the sea. Johan asked the pilot if he could try something. The pilot nodded. "I'm out of ideas here, so do whatever you can come up with."
     Johan pressed his hand over the controls of the plane. He opened his status page with his ability. It showed that he had 100 HP, 100 MP, 50 XP, and 100 EP. Johan applied one of the fundamental Laws of Physics-Law of Conservation of Energy. It went like this:

"Energy cannot be created or destroyed; only converted."

     With this principle, he figured that if he transferred his EP (Energy Points) into the plane's battery, he could transform EP (probably chemical energy from eating) into Electrical Energy. However, he didn't know how much energy 1 EP would provide. Also, he estimated that he would need at least 50 watts to emit one distress signal, and a similar amount to receive one.
     Johan surged all the EP into the plane's battery. He suddenly felt really hungry. Johan became confused. He looked around. The pilot was already gone, helping to unload the life rafts. He pressed the EP bar. It showed that he could regenerate 22 EP/hour (meaning he wouldn't have to eat).
     Johan was shocked. He found out that he could generate energy, defying the Laws of Physics! Suddenly, a new skill appeared:

SKILL GENERATED:
ENERGY TRANSFER (Lv.1)

Allows the user to transfer energy and convert it to another entity. Increasing the level will increase maximum EP, increase maximum EP transferred at a time, and increase transfer rate.
Current maximum EP:100
Current maximum EP transfer: 50
Current rate: 25/s
Johan then calculated that he had just transferred 4,184,000 joules of potential energy into the plane. This would be enough for about 1 day of distress signals. So, he invited the pilot over and then told him to make the distress signals short and quick. Then, Johan flew away with Erica, not being able to believe what had just happened.

Author's Note:After the second edit,
I made it so he can only transfer chemical energy ingested by food and electrical energy from the brain. Sorry about that.

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