My name is Dan and recently my friend Sarah has been bugging me about a game that has just been released. It's supposed to be the biggest thing to ever hit the gaming world since World of Warcraft 2 and it's massive amounts of players. The game is called Bioshock Online where people all get into a server and play online. Now, I've never really been a gamer myself, but I do know enough about it to know the storyline of the first two Bioshocks so I'm not completely left in the dark aboutwhat is going on as I watched Sarah play this game plenty of times.

"What's the rush!" I asked while being dragged down the street towards who knows where by Sarah.

"I just got the money for the animator for Bioshock!" Sarah shouted as she dragged me into the game store.

"What is an animator?" I asked.

"An animator is a system where you are transported into the game!" Sarah shouted.

I guess this would be a good time to tell what we look like. I'm 19 years old, 6.1 feet, lean build and white. I have brown hair and brown eyes. Sarah is 18 years old, 5.8 feet, skinny build and also white, but has a tan. She has blond hair and blue eyes.

"That's all well and good, but why are you dragging me along?" I asked.

"Because I said so!" Sarah shouted as by this time everyone was staring at us.

"Um... how can I help you?" the cashier at the store asked.

"Two Bioshock animators." Sarah said with a bright smile.

"Wait! Who said I was going to buy one too!" I shouted.

"Oh shut up! You're playing too!" Sarah shouted as I sighed in defeat. There was no way to out argue Sarah.

"Fine how much are they?" I asked in defeat.

"$700 each." Sarah said in a sweet tone. I stared in petrified shock at the girl that stood before me.

"$700 dollars?!" I said in shock.

"Well looks like you guys are in luck," the cashier said as he walked back from the backroom. He was holding two boxes, "We only have two left."

"Yay! Now cough up the money." Sarah said sweetly to the cashier and in a demons voice to me.

"Fine, fine, there goes that trip to Europe..." I mumbled to myself as I gave her the money for my game. We paid the money and left the store. Sarah seemed happy as she skipped and hopped in front of me.

"Hey Dan." Sarah said to me. I looked once I heard my name.

"What's up?" I asked.

"Thanks for buying the game with me." Sarah said.

"Like I had a choice." I mumbled.

"What the fuck did you just say!" Sarah shouted as she hit me over the head.

"Sorry! Sorry!" I shouted as I covered my head.

"It's just that I hate playing scary games by myself. That's why I was always at your place when I played them." Sarah said.

"Is that also why you made me buy an Xbox 720?" I asked.

"Yup! I'm too lazy to carry mine over to your house!" Sarah chimed as I sighed. I swear I spend way to much money because she wants me to.

"Is it okay if I spend the night?" Sarah asked as we walked up to my apartment door on the eighth story. I live on the top story of an apartment because one, it's cheaper, and two, I go to college away from home and right now we are on break.

"Sure, it's fine with me." I said as we walked into my apartment. My apartment was just like any other apartment. One bed, one bath, small kitchen connected to a living room where I have two TV's. Sarah hopped onto the couch and started to open our boxes.

"Want something to drink?" I asked.

"Water is fine." Sarah said as I got two glasses of water. I came back to see her Xbox hooked up to my second TV and both animators hooked up to there respective Xbox's. Mine was on the start screen while she was looking through the servers. I sat down and put the drinks on the coffee table. Sarah picked her drink up and took a sip without taking her eyes off the TV.

"So, what are you looking for?" I asked.

"I'm looking through the servers to find the... found one!" Sarah shouted. I looked at her screen to she what she found.

"Lets join this one."

"But that one doesn't have a lot of people in it." I said.

"I know! That's why I want to join it. There aren't that many people in it which means things wont be over populated, but enough people so that we can ask for help." Sarah said.

"I suppose." I said as I selected the one that she selected. A screen popped up asked for us to stand on the animators.

"Ready?" Sarah asked.

"Ready." I said as I stood on my platform as she stood on hers. We disappeared from the room, shot into the world of Bioshock.

XxXxX

I went through a swirling vortex until finally appearing in front of what looked to be a tower. The moon was shining its glorious light down across the never ending sparkling water. I was surprised at the beauty that the graphics designers made. Not being able to fathom the days upon days that it took to make such an extensive project. It was amazing!

I turned and walked towards the door. I stepped inside and lights began to turn on as I walked down the rugged steps. You could tell that this place has been eroded by the years that it has been sitting in the salt water of the Atlantic. I finally made it to the bottom and turned into the pod that would send me down into Rapture and guess who was sitting in a seat waiting for me.

"What took you so long?" Sarah asked. She was wearing old rugged dress that you would see a women in the 1960's wearing. She looked exactly like she did in the real world except with a dress. I looked down at myself and found myself wearing a pair of dress shoes, dress pants, a button up shirt, and a vest.

"Just getting used to everything. I seems that it takes our real life image and puts it into the game." I said as I sat down.

"It does from the looks of it." She said as she was about to pull the lever, but stopped when a voice cried out.

"Wait! Hold the pod!" I young womens voice cried. Sarah and I looked at each other and shrugged. We waited until the person that stopped us made it down the steps. She entered the pod heaving. The girl was 5.4 feet tall, black hair, brown eyes, white skin, and had the same dress as Sarah. The only thing was that she looked a little bit young to play this game.

"Thank you." the girl said as Sarah pulled the lever. The pod then started to fall into the water.

"So, what's your name?" Sarah asked the girl was now sitting next to me.

"My name is Alice and this is my second account on this server." Alice said sweetly.

"Second account? What happened to the first?" I asked.

"Do you guys know how this server is ran?" Alice asked. We shook our heads.

"Is this your first time playing this game?" Alice asked,

"Yeah, why?" Sarah asked.

"Well you guys are in for some trouble then." Alice said grimly as their pod soared threw the water.

"Why's that?" I asked.

"This server had a black text font, which means for elite expert players only. If you die five times then you are forced to restart your player over again. Also everything is smarter in this server so they will be sneakier and do more damage if they hit you."

"Well this sucks."

"You haven't even heard the worst of it. There is said to be a super powerful player that lurks in the dark that has completely finished the game and has reached the top of Rapture. He is said to have every upgraded plasmid and some that are unknown to the rest of us. Why do you think there is only one server with black text?" Alice said as their pod stopped and they could look out over Rapture. In the center of the underwater city was a extremely long tower that went up very high.

"Amazing." Sarah said as a board popped up in the center of the pod.

"How do we access the main menu?" I asked curiously.

"It is all done in your head. Just think menu and a menu will appear in your head, you can log out there, but you have to be in a safe zone."Alice said.

"Just out of curiosity how old are you?" I asked.

"15." Alice replied.

"How did you get this game? The rating is M." Sarah asked.

"My parents bought it for me." Alice replied again.

"Wish my parents bought me stuff." I mumbled.

"Well, whatever, I still haven't got your names." Alice said.

"My names Sarah and this is Dan." Sarah said.

"Yo." I said.

"Ok, you guys want to be friends?" Alice asked.

"Sure." Sarah said.

"Ok, add me to your friends list then." Alice said as she pressed a button and shot off from a tube beneath and into Rapture. A voice then made itself known.

"Please choose your destination." the pod speaker said. The board in the center of the map had a list of names to which to choose from.

"Want to start on the west side?" Sarah asked.

"Why not?" I said with a shrug as we pressed the button for the west side.

"Please pick up your radio." The speaker said. We looked to the side and found two radios. We both grabbed one and placed it somewhere where it wouldn't fall off and we could easily talk through it.

"Thank you and have a nice stay in Rapture." the speaker said as tubes appeared below us and shot us through the water and into the world of Rapture.