Crystalism Survival Ark

Last thing I remember was clicking [YES] on an email from the Developers of 'Ark Survival' , my favorite pastime game away from work! It had asked me if I wanted to Beta Test a new DLC they were making, trying for realistic Virtual Realm Gameplay!

Me, thinking nothing of it besides the word [Free Download] and [Beta Tester] like c'mon who doesn't want to Beta Test something right?!

After clicking it, my Xbox hummed with the downloading sound that was taking forever when there is usually a lot of content. So nothing out of the ordinary. 

[Do You Wish To Continue?]

[YES] [NO]

Finally! Sending a game invite to my best gaming friend I clicked [YES] and light filled my vision as everything began to spin, I felt numb as if paralyzed by something. As my gaming instincts didn't let me close my eyes in case I missed an important dialog…

Then I wouldn't have seen what I saw!

The blinding flash teleported me as my xbox blew up to cover up evidence, the G-force increased as I was stuck to a bed which felt like a cloud with a device strapped to my dominant right wrist, others soon appeared but they were knocked out with delirious faces also with a similar device on their dominant wrist. 

I mumbled as a tall creature bypassed me checking my abnormal vitals, "I don't see him… sadness."

It mumbled in its language and noted something in my chart before injecting me with a stronger dose to knock me out. As it took longer for me to lose consciousness I heard chuckles from beyond the one next to me as the device activated earlier than the others as a translation matrix kicked in,

"I like this one! Give her extra points to use as she deems fit and administrative access!" 

"But Sir!"

"No Buts!" The voice's sternness silenced the room, "Do you know of another's who stayed conscious during the transfer?"

Noone dared to answer as it was evident that the answer was a no, no they have not known any other species to stay conscious for as long as they've been doing the experiment. 

"Then do as I say!" As he walked or shuffled out of the room he quietly added, "Maybe, she can open what we cannot!"

As I drifted away I missed the only specimen to walk in on their own. With an afro and skin mixed between a black man's and Chinese origin stopped at the foot of my bed as the technician sighed in relief,

"She's finally asleep!"

With a smile tugging at his lips, 'Of course she would be here causing trouble!' as he got on his own cot and slid his wrist in getting adjusted when a dark figure came up to him.

"Change of plans! Assist that woman as much as possible! She might be the Key we've been looking for!"

"Her?" he verified pointing to the one next to him, "No problem! It's been a while since we last saw each other!" 

As they administered the serum and he fell asleep quickly, joy quietly filled the room as this might be the last batch if she was the missing one!

The most relaxing sleep ever was interrupted by cold metal and screaming humans who weren't where they last were.

A large mix between men, women, and drag queens from all nationalities filled the large spacious metal room with a ceiling more than ten feet high. 

My wrist felt itchy as I noticed a moderate sized blue gem embedded under the skin and felt like the majority of the gem rested between the two major bones. Testing my motor ability distracted me as many others blamed the other as kidnapping or part of their nation's plan to attack America without nukes and vice versa.

Many scoffs came from what seemed like trained soldiers who either sat or wandered around looking for a way out.

"No nation could enlist a translator this refined without missing words! No! This is something else!"

"We've been abducted by Aliens!"

"Are we going to die?"

"I don't Wanna Die!"

"Did we get transmigrated? This might be quarantine?"

"System!"

Everyone fell silent as if waiting for a floating screen to appear. 

As I turned my wrist just right a large screen popped up from my arm like a data pad. Startled, I said out loud, "WOAH!!"

Many heads whipped in my direction with gasps as they finally noticed a gem embedded in their wrists as well.

"What. The. Hell." Echoed around the room.

A soldier asked sharply, "How'd you do that?"

With a slight tremor in my voice I replied, "I just wanted to get a good look at the gem."

With curiosity he looked at his gem which was on the outside of his wrist, instead of like mine on the inside, and a screen popped up as well.

"Look Directly At Your Gem!" He called out as the others did so. 

Looking back at mine I saw it was a Character Creation page. Curiosity got me as I changed my hair color to something like bright pink.

Only for my actual hair to become bright pink and others loudly took notice of it.

Then, like excellent timing a voice came from overhead.

"Welcome Beta Testers! It seems like you all found your status screen!" 

I recognized that voice; it was one of the ones who put me to sleep!

"You have one chance to change your physique to one that will aid you in survival! As you level up you will get points to allocate your status to survive! This is Not a PvP! Other Survival Players are not your enemies though some think that they can respawn!" A dramatic pause as everyone came to realize that this was real, "Other Species are also Players! But the indigenous life is Hostile and Tameable! This is Not a game show! We will Not come to your rescue! Yes you are still on Earth! You have to go down to go back up! Once you are done with your customized new bodies we will show you your new home!" 

As the intercom clicked off many became buffer or more agile, some became smaller and dwarf like, while the Drag Queens turned into the other gender and their ideal form of 'One with oneself' as they all found the clothing section.

I stayed still checking that I was the only one with my gem on the inside of my wrist and afraid that my screen wasn't the same as the others. 

I could not alter my body like the others, I could only change my colors or length of hair. I changed my eyes to be golden and picked a white hair color with a red-gold glow and length down to my butt.

As my bust was already robust and my booty was already a bubble butt and was already firm. My legs and arms felt like they had more muscle in them and felt less broken. Unable to change anything about my physical situation, I stayed five foot three inches.

Checking the clothing tab I noticed it only had a small selection and chose a tank top and cargo pants with combat boots and fingerless gloves that covered my wrists as it wouldn't let me do anything else besides enter my name.

Naming myself Zara in case anyone else I used to game with was here. An American soldier noticed I didn't change much and his towering body came closer to me, his now ideal supersoldier form crouched down to my level as I hadn't stood up yet. He whispered, "Is something wrong? Your placement is different." As he held out his hand to help me up as other soldiers gathered around us.

Once our hands touched a screen popped up asking for a friend request. Accepting it I sent a different request, one I figured out didn't cost me anything to make or was Level Caped.

[Join Clan: Shadow Crafters]

He raised an eyebrow as he accepted it and his friends also shook my hand and joined the Clan as well. As they looked into the now unlocked sections of the Clan Tab I waited for the other humans to finish up.

The same towering soldier positioned himself as my bodyguard asked again, "Soo, why didn't you change?"

"I can't! It won't let me!" I sighed in defeat. 

The soldiers now grouped as [Beta] [Charlie] [Delta] under the Clan Tab spread out and tested various communication options and shook other hands making friends and a few requests to join. Accepted the requests and they stayed out of the other groups as they probably didn't know how.

Giant doors hissed open as the last name confirmation was made. Everyone filed out into the next corridor as multiple hand insignia appeared on the tempered glass walls.

Curiously I placed a hand on the wall first as a mechanical voice sang, "Congratulations Zara! First To Sign In" played over the loudspeaker, "Choose Your Avatar To Meet You Below!"

A screen of my many survival avatars appeared as I flipped through them to my most leveled up, eight foot tall male chiseled buffed character with dark hair and light tanned skin who looked like he was asleep.

[Deleting All Others]

His eyes slowly opened to reveal deep sea blue colored eyes with golden Irises, the same as my gem and eyes. 

Locking eyes quickly he looked me up and down and gave a curt nod as my hand still pressed on the glass as it turned black as his pod primed to plummet down below.

[Thank You For Choosing: Shadurel]

[Shadurel Is Being Sent Down First]

[First Mission: Find Your Avatar]

[Reward: Their Undying Loyalty And Durability Increase]

My hand finally free I looked around as the others also scanned their hand and picked their persons. As I was done I headed down the hall as the others of my clan soon followed to the next room which had a large map on the floor with spawn circles indicating the temperature below.

"Anyone else notice that wall?"

"Ye! If ya glanced off center you'd see what I saw!"

"So many are being made or discarded! Now I feel bad about my characters that got deleted!"

"Hey Boss! Since there is the word Crafters in our clan name, I take it we build things?"

Looking at the soldier clan mates I replied, "I'll make the stuff if y'all gather the supplies to make them."

"Sounds good!" Another replied.

"You know what these gems can do then?" Someone in the back had asked.

"It's similar to the game Ark, I think. I haven't tried it yet since we aren't down there yet. But it showed me my Ark avatars… so the concept should be the same. You grab or make a grabbing motion with the gem hand and can store things or hit things with that hand with a weapon and it will dismantle and store the material."

Taking a breath I continued, 

" You should up your weight capacity, melee damage, oxygen, movement speed, and the thing that looks like a hard hat more so than your health or stamina. How you do so is how you want to but it will come in handy later." Speaking as I studied the map I noticed it was similar to The Island yet it held multiple layers beneath that made me suspicious of how we were still on Earth.

 Desert merged with dense Forests Swamps merged with the Icelands and the Plains merged them all to the Volcanic corner. Yet they seemed to be larger biome sections as it was stretched over planet wide.

walking over to the Plains meeting the Forests section as others followed suit I heard a familiar voice,

"Zara!"

Turning to see who called me as the last person stepped on the map triggering the teleportation. Light flashed everyone as the hard metal floor became grassy and a force field appeared around me as some random people oddly dressed and designed spawn near me also became disoriented. 

Quickly hiding my name and clan just in case there were grouchy people, I noticed a familiar dark afro atop a tall chiseled light black chinese built for speed and scouting.

"Kevin?"