Rain was present during that night, ambulance alarm flaring at a deafening noise and a group of people whispering about the situation.An unknown yet familiar masculine voice called out to him, reaching him in a hope to wake up him
???:Peter!
He falls to the sky, air waving at his ears and smash to the ground.Then everything goes black
Suddenly, Peter woke up in shock with coldsweat.He breath heavily, his heart pounding as fast as possible until he finally calmed down.After regaining composure, he stood up slowly as his body seemed to be tired and sluggish that was from that fall.He felt this perplexed feeling of what kind of place he is in but tries to analyze what's going on
Geometric green hills, floating hourglass, a clear reflective Blue lake and a sky mixed with blue and yellow.However the most striking thing in the environment was the colossal gray huminoid figure all the way to the back.It must be gigantic to be seen from that distance.The gray figure posture look like a person desperate? Glorifying? Horrified? Many endless possibilities for that kind of posture
He noticed his police uniform has a phone in his shirt pocket.He immediately grabbed the phone and opened it.Luckily, it stayed the same state as before and when he looked up at his social media's or phone number, hoping for calling someone but instead it led to a black screen with a single white message;
"Errør 4∅4 nøt føund "
Peter put back his phone at his pocket and his posture stiffen to low.His stomach sank as he is perplexed by the current situation.He fell and sat on the ground with a feeling of confusion and hopelessness
Peter:No way..NO WAY! No way.No way this cannot be happening! I must be dreaming of this! This must be fake! Ugh I better not be in some sort of drug world or something else!
He slapped himself at the check with full force and pulled his orange hair and short beard but unfortunately to his realization, it was real.His emerald, deep green eyes become pale as he realized the situation he is in.Distraught, confusion and wonder
Peter:Great..(tch) Not only I woke up in this other world but I can't even contact the people if there were any people in here..What happened before I woke up here? What.. Actually happened?
Peter's mind couldn't remember or visualize what actually happened but his mind replayed that noise, the ambulance, the crowd whispering, the rain, the fall to this world and blacking out from hitting the ground.Perhaps hinting what actually happened but is to be vague
Peter thinks for a while as the clouds go by before standing up again but this time with some mixture of determination, curiosity and need for answers of why he's here
Peter then began to walk as he put his hands at his pants pocket.He walk by the lake which emits an ethereal yet eerie aura, the reflection almost feels wrong and the fact the water is completely still with no movement is unnerving
He thought of himself and asked questions in his head
Peter mind:How the hell did I survive that fall? I vaguely remember it but I was high up at the clouds.I'm sure it would have killed any normal human being.I guess the physics in the world doesn't work"
As he walked constantly, he entered a gap between the two geometric green hills and found a river albeit strange.The river itself resembles a flowing stream of python codes, Black liquid and pythons symbols scatter as the flow forming a code.The river emit a glitchy and distorted aura and a strange glitch noise from the river and..A scream?
Peter immediately looked up and saw someone falling from the sky just like him previously.He immediately moved backward before the person fell to the river and completely submerged in it
Peter mind:(Huh so that's how deep it is)
Peter immediately rushed to the river and looked everywhere for the sight of the person.The person bodies float but then flow with the river to the east.Peter hesitate of what the river could do but immediately jumped it to rescue the person
Surprisingly, the "liquid" in the river doesn't actually wet him.In fact, there is no subjective or objective sensation of wetness nor it has some of the properties of liquid.The only thing it has common was it float him and the person like a liquid and that's it
Peter tried to swim to the person as the river flows but noticed he actually got far from the person.Confused and disoriented, he attempted to understand what the situation was but suddenly when he pushed his legs Infront, he managed to get close to the person
Peter:Wait what's happening, wait is the physics of water reversed!?
Peter wastes no time and takes this as an advantage, kicking his legs at the front which allow him to swim closer to the person.He manages to grab the person by the neck and kick his legs back which allow him and the person to swim closer to land
After getting too close, Peter grabbed the land and dragged himself and the person to land safely.Exhausted and disoriented from that, he can finally take a break and breath.After some time, he took a closer to the person and what we found was shocking
The person's head resembles am one of those 1970s TV that his Grandma own back at childhood.His clothes was long-sleeved,light green-colored shirt, his pants were dark blue with black sneakers but his striking feature was this wavy scarlet scarf around his neck at extend to his left arm
Curious, Peter taps his fingers at the person TV head to wake him up but to no avail.He decides to wait for the TV headed person to wake up
One minute passed and then he heard a flicker.He immediately took a closer look at the screen and saw a light trying to flicker.Ghe entire screen flashed a blinding white light which hurt Peter's eyes and made him back away
The light vanished but Peter needed some time to recover his eyes before looking at the TV headed person.The person slowly sat up from the ground, its screen still flickering static but his hand reach out and knock his head three times till it work again.Its screen showed a white screen with two black dots appearing as it's eyes and a black line acting as it's mouth
The person looked around and looked at peter.Perplexed, wary, tired and scared
???:W-where am I? Who are you? I was...At my school and..OH GOD, I CAN EVEN REMEMBER WHAT HAPPEN AFTER THAT MOMMENT
The person's breath grows heavy and faster, he grabs his hand as a way to cope with the situation he's currently in
Peter:Woah woah woah! Calm down okay? Like..Uuh..Jeez how do I explain this..Everything seems confusing but I can tell you what's going on
???:W-who are you?
Peter:Okay..How about this? We introduced each other by one, okay? How about you?
???:Me?
Peter:Yeah you, I'm talking about
???:I guess my name is Tabias as the name given to my parents and my peers and friends called me that
Peter:Okay, Tabias.Can you like...You know..Talk about before waking up in this world?
Tabias:Welll..I was in school studying colonization in history but then..
Peter:Then what?
Tabias:..That's all I remember unfortunately..
Peter:W-wait, just that?
Tabias: Yeah, sorry for that..Is that my memory beyond that moment went blank
Peter:Mmh.. Interesting..
Tabias:Okay how about you.You are wearing a police officer outfit so you obviously must be an officer before getting in here right?
Peter:Yep
Tabias:So what did you remember before getting into this world?
Peter:I...Well..Just like you..I don't remember that much but all I heard was an ambulance siren, people whispering and commenting on the situation and then a..
Tabias:A what?
Peter:An familiar voice,.Yea.And it's masculine yet I can't recognize or remember who's voice is that..I just know it's familiar
Tabias:Mmh..So how did you enter?
Peter:I was falling from the sky.So you do
Tabias:...What?
Peter:Yeaaah..When I entered the place, I was falling from the sky and hit the ground.I was high up at the air to see clouds tho
Tabias:T-then how did you even survive that!?
Peter:I don't know actually kiddo, guess the physics in this place don't work the same way as our worlds.Plus, I watched you fall from the sky into the river
Tabias:I was what?!
Peter:You fall from the sky, I came to rescue you and boom, were here
Tabias: Shouldn't the water become like hitting a brick wall from that height distance?
Peter:Just like what I said, physics don't work the same way in this world
Tabias:Mmmh..Are you sure this isn't a dream?
Peter:Try it for yourself
Tabias punched his hand and it hurt as much as real.He slowly realized this is in fact, real, which left a bit of surprise and distraught of his face
Peter:..Hey, I have a question for you
Tabias:What is it?
Peter:Why is your head a tv? Is everyone from your own world like that?
Tabias points his finger at his head like he is surprised
Tabias:Oh, yeah.Everyone has their head as an object.
Peter:How the hell do you people even survive?
Tabias tilted his TV head, tapping the glass in confusion and embarrassment
Tabias:It's… Well hard to explain. Back home, people aren't born with something you. We're objects—TVs, lamps, clocks. Something called an identity vector keeps us alive, lets us think. Without it… Well we'd just be junk on the floor
Peter:Jeez, that's some complicated stuff
Tabias:Does your world not have those things?
Peter:Nope, we instead have intrusions in our face that allow us to live
Tabias:I guess it makes sense..
Tabias decide to scoop a "liquid" from the river near him with his left hand.The liquid slowly seep and escape from his hands as it glitched out and emitting an distorted aura before returning back to the river
An awkward silent consume that moment with the only noise coming from the river.Peter stand up and Tabias look up at his
Tabias:What are you doing?
Peter:Gonna explore this place to see if we find any answers
Tabias:Explore this place? What if there are some creepy dangers?
Peter:Eeeh there's a fifty-fifty change we may encounter an eldritch monster or not
Tabias:Well, can I join you?
Peter:Of course you can! We're like the only two people currently in this world.Plus, I'll be lonely and confused as hell while exploring this place
Tabias stands up slowly and adjusts his TV head
Peter:Ready?
Tabias:Yep