The Cryopod to Hell Classic is the original version of TCTH, written based on the original writing prompts, expanded into a full series, with 490 chapters of fun adventures. However, it is extremely flawed, with paper thin characters and plotlines that don’t resolve properly. It abruptly ends at the finale of Route C, and was never finished with a proper ending. Classic is best read after Refresh so you can appreciate where the story came from. As its own story, Classic has too many flaws for anyone to recommend reading first.
Aboard the Dolfraxis, energy was high as the crew felt the anticipation of arriving in a new star system. For thousands of years, they had traveled in search of planets in the habitable zone of varying stars, but all had turned up empty. Still, it was normal to feel a sense of hope as they…
Amy sat on the couch watching her favorite TV show, Dora the Explorer. As she watched Dora going on an adventure, she wobbled her legs back and forth, trying to touch the floor. While she watched, the TV suddenly changed to a different channel, something about an open room filled with lots of people. "Mommy!…
Representative Saburo sat atop the highest seat facing the other varying nation members of the new WCN, the Worldwide Cooperative of Nations that had replaced the United Nations from a year before. Ever since the riots and uprisings around the world in the previous year, several key figureheads of the world’s top leaders, senators, and…
Uzziel gasped audibly as she saw the incredible sight in front of her. Even Gabriel, shrunken down to a ‘normal’ sized angelic form, was impressed. "These are machines for war? How powerful are they?" Gabriel stared in wonder at the varying assortments of robots, auto-piloted armors, and armors that a rider would step into. He…
"Activating primary protocols. Initialized. Activating secondary protocols. Initialized. M.I.N.D. engine online. Beginning preliminary scans. Hello, Doctor Nikolin." The female voice chirped mechanically as she analyzed the usual stores of data the ‘doctor’ had uploaded. To be clear, he was not a legitimate doctor, and had no formal college training, but he was renowned as one…
"Time to arrival: One hundred seventy nine standard time units." The AI on board the scouting ship Dolfraxis counted down the time until they arrived in Sector 16, Point 402 space. Preliminary scans had shown a possibility of life on board this planet, though the great majority of other such planets had found no other…
Uzziel smiles as she steps away from me and does a quick bow. "Thank you for your efforts, Jason." I return the smile and perform my own somewhat clumsy but earnest bow. "No, thank you for bringing me up to Heaven. I was given two precious gifts that I won’t soon forget. Knowledge, via the…
"Golly, we’re finally in the place I should have gone when I keeled over!" Harold seems almost excited by the fact that we’re in heaven. I’m not particularly emotional one way or the other. I am however shocked by how many angels there are all over the place. Millions? No, billions. Tens of billions. Far…
"Heyyy! You’re back!" Harold greets me as I teleport back into my bunker. Harold sits on a little pedestal in front of a big TV, since he has awareness of the immediate area around himself as well as anything I can see, I figured it’d be nice for me to let him watch TV all…
Sarah and Ivan stared at the scanner. "He was there a moment ago, then he disappeared." Ivan, as usual, stated the obvious. "No shit he disappeared. You’re a real Ken Jennings, you know that?" Gerald rolled his eyes. "Find him. The wide frequency scanner shows he’s still in the area. He appears to have some…
