Continuation from 'Vac Online' comic series! I finally hit upon an inspiring idea that I hope will become something huge and fun for people to get in on! I'll also be using this to conclude the 'Nexus Vac war' storyline from before!

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Part 1.

The hole appeared at mid-day.

It was at the city street crossing of North and Shrewberry in downtown. The hole was as first noticed, about the size of a golf ball. Cars easily passed over it. It then grew. The first car to get stuck in the hole happened two hours later, the front wheel getting lodged inside. Two more hours later, and that car fell into the hole and disappeared. By this time evacuation crews and emergency services had gathered. Going beneath the city streets there were initial attempts to plug the hole and begin repairs on the city. It was only then that the crews realized the hole went beneath the streets. It was deeper than the underground. It was deep and darker than anyone had thought a hole could be. And it was growing.

Meanwhile across the nation people had been trapped inside the 'Vac Online' game for what seemed like ages. One by one people woke from the game world though. One by one those who awoke from the game came to realize they had not just returned to reality as they were, but they had retained their spells, skills and powers. The world was rapidly changing in response to something that was happening, and these people who returned from the game were among the first ready to face the next challenge. The next challenge would demand everything from these rising heroes.

The hole grew. It eventually swallowed up the street crossing of North and Shrewberry. Eventually the fathomless pit began to not be so quiet. It started with vines and roots that sprung from the dark pit in the heart of the city and began to cover the buildings, cars, roads, everything they came across. Eventually 'things' began to come out of the widening pit, dark monsters made of a glossy shiny hide with malevolent intent. Rubber beasts and demons that corrupted and encased and bound up everyone and anyone they came across. Children were sealed in pods, but everyone else was not so lucky.

There were victims. Men and women were attacked and transformed. Most were turned into demonically empowered encased minions. Bat creatures, spider hybrids, burly gargoyles, naga beasts, encasing silkworms, mer-creatures. Those that were captured but refused or were unable to be transformed were made into batteries to be milked and drained for the evil roots to grow and consume the world further.

There were desperate heroes. Technologically equipped with Dohl battle suits used in the recently lost war against the villainous and now elusive Vac, some brave souls were sent in to battle this threat. Others just started with basic firearms and built up their arsenals of destructive weaponry as they went, intent on fighting this treat the traditional way. One monster at a time.

There were adventurers. Awoken from the dream of the online world they had played in, now granted powers earned through their second lives as brave adventurers in a twisted land. Here was a second chance to battle the evils of a world that was clearly infecting their own. Paladins, Knights, mages and warlocks. Some used the power of divine magick, others turned the twisted growing rubbermancy of the growing Hole in the world on itself, battling the dangers head on.


As all this happened, a hole grew in the world. One that threatened to keep growing, one which no one knew what lay on the other side of it, for no one had returned from it. The mystery of who or what created this hole in the world needed an answer, as did finding a way to stop it.