Just another player, the words had spilled from their lips faster than you wanted them to. Honestly? You didn’t want to be another player. It sucked. Being the new one gave you same grace.

You wanted to be in the limelight.

No matter how much you wanted to deny it, really.

“Oh, c’mon! New hire wants to train!” Pit had swooped in gracefully behind you, picking up your wrist and waving it around in the air with a squeal.

“Oh, I’m assuming the chip was finally in!” Bayonetta smiled, twisting on her heels and pointing her gun straight to your face.

The chip was spoken about, along with the rules and regulations handed to you on a whim the first day you got here. It was a device planted into you so you would use the ability to respawn when thrown around to deaths mailbox.

It made the daintiest of women and the most soft hearted people out there into seasoned veterans.

You did, in fact, not posses this chip yet.

So, when Bayonetta pointed this gun straight to you, you tried to side-step as a flight-or-fight response.

The witch?

Took it as a challenge.

With a rapid succession of clicking and reloading, the gun’s bullets had zipped to you and pierced your flesh. You collapsed to the ground, writing and bleeding across the ancient floor of the battlefield.

“…tsk-tsk. New hires can never take it.” She shook her head disapprovingly, clicking her tongue as she stood up to her full height.

“Oh, it’s your first respawn!” Pit smiled, hovering over you with his pearly wings poking in front of the sun in your face.

You laid there, your eyes blank and your hand slung across your heaving chest. Was this what it felt like to die?

“What is the new hire doing without a chip?!” A sudden, gruff voice called, and knees had slapped the floor when the figure bent down to you.

Oh, wow. It was Snake.

“Whaddya mean without a chip?” Pit hummed, bending down with his hands on his knees as he tilted his head in confusion.

“I mean, they haven’t gotten it, yet!” He barked out, grumbling as he didn’t even look over to him. “They’re actually dying!”

The silence was louder than you wished to know.