SmolNarwhalWrites

When the technology to revive fallen soldiers was invented early during the war, it gave one army a huge advantage. Or at least, that's what they thought.

When a soldier died in combat, they were taken to a "respawn station", where they were revived and sent back out to fight.

The enemy army got ahold of the technology later in the war, by the time the soldiers who had been revived over and over again were starting to go insane.

Oh, yeah, that was the kicker. Being brought back to life ripped away pieces of your sanity, little by little. How could a soldier die over and over again, only to be sent back out into endless death and destruction?

The enemy army didn't exactly "win." Rather, both armies just went completely insane.

Every time you go to sleep, you wake up in another world. The only problem is, you're not sure which one is real.

"Get out now," X read aloud.

You look up from the scanner you're holding in your hands, "What?"

X pointed at the wall, where blocky red letters were written. A chill went down your spine.

"Okay, I got the air converter from the shuttle," Y called from the entrance to the cave. They were pulling the cylindrical metal converter behind them. When they stopped and saw the text, they frowned. "Okay, what kind of practical joke is this? Which one of you wrote it?"

"It was already here," X told Y, their voice seeming small in the large dark cave.

Y rolled their eyes, scoffing, "Yeah, right. Next you're going to say it's blood."

You discreetly raised the scanner, taking readings of the note. Blood. Human blood.

"Maybe another expedition came before us?" You speculated. "The Chinese were working on coming here, too. Weren't they?"

"Don't be stupid," Y spat. "It's not--"

They broke off abruptly, eyes focusing on something behind you. Their face was pale behind the mask of their space suit, their mouth falling open in shock. "Don't turn around," they whispered.

After moving from place to place all your life, you expected this town to be the same as anywhere else. You'd been an outcast most of your life, never staying in one place long enough to make any proper friends. This place shouldn't have been any different. And yet, something about the town seems completely wrong. You go to your first day of school to find it to be unrealistically similar to something out of a movie. The quarterback is dating the head cheerleader, there are ridiculous cliques and the jocks really do pick on the nerds. It's so similar to fiction that at times you find yourself wondering if it is all real.

But when people start disappearing, no one seems to remember them. They vanish in the night and as soon as they are gone, everyone forgets. You find that you are the only one who remembers.

The last several days, you've woken up in different places with no recollection of how you'd gotten there. In every instance, you couldn't remember going to sleep, nor did you know where you were. One day, you decide to videotape yourself.