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The Awakening


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It is a glorious evening for Jack Kowalski. His beloved Vikings have won the Continental Cup and are having their victory parade down the streets of Stockholm. Fans are packed for blocks around the planned parade route. For any player of the Victory Hockey League, moments like these are why the game is played.

 

Kowalski is reveling in the moment with Lord Karnage, another hard-nosed player like himself. However, unlike himself, Karnage seems distracted, bothered by something else. Kowalski takes time out from celebrating to ask him what's wrong. Karnage simply turns at him, looks coldly and matter-of-factly states, "Jack, none of this is real."

 

In an instant, the euphoria has come to an end, for the parade is over and Kowalski finds himself in his bed, surrounded by darkness. It's 3:52 in the morning.

 

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"Damn, looks like I won't need the alarm again this morning," mutters Kowalski as he shuffles out of bed and onto the hardwood floors of his apartment... which didn't have hardwood previously. Startled, he leaps back, touching his polyester pajamas... which were most definitely fleece when he went to bed.

 

Something weird is going on here.

 

A dumbfounded Kowalski turns on the television, which illuminates the darkness in the room. It immediately begins blaring about the Riga Reign having completed a trade for a hard-hitting defenseman from the Toronto Legion. "Good," Kowalski thinks to himself. "They could use some toughness on defense."

 

But it never occured to him that he was that defenseman.

 

Kowalski turns off the television in a stunned silence, the room filling up with darkness, matching his current state of mind. "What in the hell is going on here?"

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