The ARKS: Scorched Earth. SE0.5

Dave was having a blur, coming into this land after a basically haven back at the other "island" place, he really knew that it wasn't an island, but not a SPACE STATION in ORBIT AROUND THE EARTH. But it's not warm anymore... it's freezing, really. His eyes start to clear up, his vision starts to focus. No wonder he was cold, he was in the middle of space traveling at hypersonic speeds through rings and debris. What he could also see while traveling this fast was the Earth was not what it looked like. Instead of a lush, green, blue landscape, it's covered in a layer of desert and scarred sand, much like a war-torn desert. But there was no war though, from not what he could see. It was too late now, as his vision started to fog up again and his focus turning back to a blur. He was starting anew...

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He found himself somewhere, he couldn't see, he could barely feel anything, his appendages were numb after that experience, but he still felt "something". His heart was beating, but barely staying stable. Was he in Purgatory? Did he die for real? Nope. As his vision begins to clear up and focus for the second time he remembers at this moment. He sees a screen. Small hexagonal holograms drifting in the background. He's somewhere not on the surface, but perhaps, suspended in the air. He looks around, nothing holding it up, like it weighs nothing, there's sky all around, it's a frightening yet intriguing sight. But he was getting a little distracted, so he turns his energy back at the screen, it looks basically the same as the one on the Island, so he tries poking it. It has a surface, so it's not a weird ghost screen. Then, it pops up a new yet familiar interface, a Spawn Screen, he was greeted with these many times back there at the other space station. He is hesitant. Does he even know this place at all? For a chance, he could even be back on the Island. But he decides to pick M3, cuz why not. He stops again, at the Respawn sign. It's a hard decision, either spend his time up here by himself, or spend days and days on a ruthless, toasty desert. But he's probably going to get bored up here really fast, so Dave chooses the Respawn icon

The floor disappears. Dave is suddenly now in free-fall. He never really went skydiving, aside from that weird dream where he was in this "The Survival of the Fittest" game thing in his dream, but he tried nonetheless. It didn't really go so well since the ground was significantly closer than what Dave had thought of and smacked straight into the ground.

Dave woke up on his back, even though he clearly-ish remembered that he fell on his chest. His senses came first, then eyes, ears, then nose. The senses were overwhelming. The scarring heat of the sand and sun beating down on him. The flashbang in the sky covering his view. The weird buzzing and war cries of many different creatures in his vicinity. And the smell of... sweet cactus? Oh and some oil, and sand, of course, and the tiniest molecule of water. Oh man was this going to be EXTRAORDINARILY harder for this lone survivor (give or take a couple)

~ CPG, this is probably just another little side thing I do until like the 10th installment and abandon it