The Grid 1 by Paul Teague

Author:Paul Teague [Teague, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Clixeo Publsishing

Hidden Assassins

Hannah was taken aback by the speed of it all. There was no standing on ceremony here, she’d been greeted and introduced, then it was straight down to work. She liked it that they referred to her by her Gridder ID – Janexx2 – that was respectful, and they were all clearly impressed by her performance in the competition.

She hadn’t expected to get to make a start immediately, but they’d had a new intake that morning, and there was no better way to learn than on the job. Hannah wouldn’t participate in the trial, but she’d get to create zones and present them for review. They’d assess her performance and give feedback to her. Depending on how fast she learned, she might get to construct a zone soon.

This was the closest Hannah had ever got to The Grid. She’d seen it on the screens, but there was only so much you could surmise from that. It was smart, the gamer in her loved it, but she knew not to become distracted; innocent people were being killed in these trials, they had to find a way to stop it.

On her console was the guide, the full rules for the trials that took place in The Grid. She read it quickly, feeling both amazed and horrified about what had been conceived.

The Grid was a huge hangar, the size of a small town. Its walls were flat, its ceiling domed. The perimeter, roof and floor were coloured blue, and close yellow lines ran along and across, creating a grid pattern throughout. This was an artificially rendered environment: anything that the Gridder team modelled on their consoles would be immediately generated in the arena. Entire environments could be created or destroyed in a moment, traps and hazards deployed, and food and water supplied – or denied. The Justice Seekers were at the whim of the Gridder whose job it was to do everything possible to stop them reaching The Core, the circular dome right at the centre of the hangar.

If they reached The Core, they got to walk away and make The Justice Walk. Not one person had ever made it to the centre before.

‘This thing is amazing,’ Hannah whispered to the Gridder seated behind her. ‘No wonder nobody ever makes it out alive.’

‘That’s just it.’ The Gridder’s name was 97TRaider. ‘If it were left to us, they would make it out of there.’

‘What do you mean?’ Hannah asked, intrigued by the answer she’d just received to an innocent question.

‘Well, the Justice Seekers have been improving, they’re getting harder to beat. We don’t know if they’ve just seen the trials so many times on the screens or if something has changed, but we’ve had several recently who almost reached The Core.

‘That guy Jay, for instance, he was minutes away, we thought we’d lost it. I’d have taken the rap for that, it was my zone. I’d glitched it, missed something obvious with all the pressure.’

‘It’s easily done,’ Hannah offered, figuring that it would be best to make friends here rather than enemies.

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