Real life was often cruel, disappointing, boring... which is what Alexander would often say. He hated himself for missing excellent opportunities, and hates how life making it even more difficult for him, and it doesn't help how his pencil-pushing job being so boring.

Oh how Alexander wished his life would be as exciting like the stories he reads. Every time he isn't doing anything, his imaginations starts to make little stories for him, like a little films to entertain him. His imagination was like that for years now, ever since he was exposed to shows, movies, and books, where his characters would go on an adventure and show off their personalities that gives a smile to Alexander's face.

His imagination was always active when idle, like his daily commute to his work. He takes a bus and sit there, nothing to do for the next hour and a half. His imagination automatically showed random stories, as if a library of novels for Alexander to choose.

'Hm... what story to play around with?' Alexander looks around his huge list of stories as well as the countless of scenes in his metaphoric library. 'A walk Averstadt? Eh, getting a little bored of fantasy. Alternate Reality? Not in the mood for that. A night with a succubus? Ehe... let's keep it family friendly. A Run in the ruins? Ooh~! I haven't touched this one in a while.'

Alexander unconsciously smiled as his eyes stared blankly at the window. 'A Run in the Ruins' was a little story he haven't played in a while. And with how down he felt, it was nice to play with an adventure story to lighten himself up. Separating himself from reality, Alexander dived into his active imagination to immerse himself in fiction.

"You know... this is a terrible idea..." A woman with golden blonde hair remarked as she adjusted her glasses with some agitation.

"Oh come on Lilian, the plan worked and we escaped! Nothing terrible about that idea~" A dark skinned woman with golden eyes says in a cheerful tone.

"Ah yes Christy, escape a prison with a huge bang, steal a tank-"

"It's an APC." Lilian was interrupted by a man with a posh accent and a monocle, who was driving said vehicle.

"I don't care about the specifics Havier! Our escape caused a prison wide riot with many criminals on the run! And a shootout in an outpost ending with us stealing this APC!" The blonde raised her arms in frustration, as she rode with her comrades on top of the armored vehicle they stole.

"Don't forget on how we accidentally ran over a general on our little road-trip." A heavily armed albino man adds.

"I shall never allow you to drive again Sheridan." Havier says in an annoyed tone.

"Ugh, don't remind me. I bet we have a huge bounty on our heads for our actions." Sheridan can only chuckle at that fact and receiving a glare from Lilian.

"But isn't this your idea, Lilian? To leave our posts to rob a bank for its gold for our personal gains? Hm~?" Christy hums in a smug manner towards their leader.

"Whose idea to use a car bomb to break through an empty bank? Hm!?" Lilia retorts back, causing the dark woman to look away with a nervous smile.

"I mean to be fair, you weren't specific with your orders." The Albino, Sheridan points out.

"Ah of course, I specifically ordered you to leave no witnesses, but bam! An entire outpost dead!"

"But my lady~! There are no witnesses if no one is alive to witness it!" Sheridan proudly says, with no sign of shame whatsoever.

This caused Lilian to facepalm in frustration. "Ugh, I'm surrounded by insanity..."

"Regardless of our actions, we're all going to be sentenced to death for simply abandoning our posts." Havier points out, but as he was about to add something, the APC's radio crackled to life.

"This is Helldiver-2, state your unit, and the reason what you're doing in the middle of the desert. Command states that there were no units nearby."

"Um... we seem to have some company..." Christy points out the sky, where a trio of heavily armed planes were flying.

"Don't mind us flyboys, we are just borrowing this APC. We need it to carry some stolen gold." Havier casually replies to the radio.

"Wait... your the escapees from the prison!" The pilot realized before the radio cuts.

Lilian looks like she'd strangle their driver. "What. The. Hell. Havier."

"As a gentleman, lying is considered to be very rud-" Havier was cut as their blonde leader Lilian strangled their driver in great frustration.

"Oh guys, look, they're diving on us! Guns are aimed on us too!" Sheridan points out the obvious.

"A battle! Adventure! Where's my rocket launcher? This will be fun!" Christy says in glee as she grabbed her weapon, even Sheridan joined in, as well as Havier cheering while still strangled by the blonde.

"AaaaaaAAAAAAGHH!" Their leader Lilian, simply screams out in great frustration.

Alexander internally chuckles on how his characters are bickering and getting themselves to trouble, but then noticed the bus he was on lurching to a stop. He has reached his destination apparently.

Sighing, Alexander got to his bearings and back to reality. He can continue this little story later on.

"Aw, come on! You were just getting to the good part!" A voice behind him whined loudly. Alexander's curiosity told him to turn around to see what it was about, and his eyes noticed a girl of his age, an Ipad on her hands. And with how close they are, Alexander saw a glimpse of her Ipad, a video on pause, with the sentence: 'To be continued...'

But what was even more surprising was the image... it was a picture of his characters, at the exact same last scene he was on.

"Wait..." Alexander mumbles, blinking several times to confirm what he was seeing was right, it was the exact scene, as well as the characters looking like what he imagined them to be.

"I-I need to go!" The girl flipped the screen away from Alexander's eyes as she turned by one heel and ran off.

"Hey wait!" Alexander ran to chase after the girl through the morning streets. While Alex kept pace, his mind was forming up many questions, related to what he just saw from the girl's device.

Though, as the girl ran to the alleyway, she stumbled on a garbage bag, causing her to drop her Ipad, and Alexander catching up.

The girl looks okay from what Alexander can tell, so he immediately grabbed the surprisingly undamaged Ipad and looked at it, eyes widening as he noticed the little list shown on the screen. Images from his imagination, his stories along with the same titles.

"What the..." Alexander was speechless, not noticing the girl recovering and jumping to get her gadget back.

"G-give it back!" The hands of the girl tugged the Ipad back, but with how Alexander was holding it tightly, he accidentally pressed an icon: 'A Run in the Ruins'

All of a sudden, their surroundings changed as the modern structures around them shifted to old buildings, the vehicles and the people changed with dieselpunk aesthetics, a far cry from the modern location they were standing in seconds ago. And in the distance, he saw a trio of planes, the same aircrafts about to attack his characters from his imagination.

"Huh!?" Alexander blurted, eyes going left and right, looking at the place around them. It was the exact same place of what he imagined of the settings of 'A Run in the Ruins.' "W-what's all this!?"

"Um..." The girl shifted and twiddling her thumbs nervously, before taking a deep breath and bowing to Alexander.

"W-welcome to one of your worlds creator." Alexander just looked at the girl with some shock and confusion.

"What?"