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.
"I met Steven Feldmann during a lunch-hall meeting. I walked in to get myself a nutrition bar, and to my surprise, the Supreme Commander’s son was standing with a group of miners, listening respectfully to their complaints. I’ll spare you the boring details, but after I walked over and talked to him, I could tell…
"Mister Feldmann can be a bit eccentric." Amy mutters the cautious warning as we approach the door to a rooftop elevator. Amy landed her ship on the landing pad several dozen feet behind us, and now this small building, back on Earth, is the place that will take me to whoever calls the shots. ‘Mister…
I move the file across each nail slowly, deliberately, each pass a work of art, every movement done with purpose. I am a beautiful, divine being, and performing even the most menial task must be done with dignity and grace. When it comes to my personal hygiene, no expense must be spared, no amount of…
"King Zeus has returned!" I look up from a weekly report and listen as a palace guard yells out. All around me, other angels jump to their feet and bow at the waist, while I take a few seconds to stand up from my chair and bend only slightly. Zeus marches through the doorway, his…
Ben and I arrive on a spaceship he owns, and after twenty minutes, we soon start cruising down to Earth’s lower surface. The sun begins to darken as we pass through a thick haze that hovers over the ground. Ben flicks a dial and the screen changes from a camera-based display to a wire-frame mode…
The texture of the bland nutrition bar crunches in my mouth tastelessly, like the thousands of others that came before it. I never counted how many I’ve eaten; they just became a fact of life at some point. By the time I was barely out of diapers, around age thirty or so, I had consumed…
I walk up to the door at my suite and pause to reflect on the day so far. Marie is gone for a little while, though to where, I don’t know. I have free reign to change things as I wish, and she thinks she’s going to bring back an elite squad to take me…
" Locate. " Marie’s location doesn’t come to me as I had hoped, but that’s okay. I assumed it wouldn’t. Ben and I finish riding the hover-shaft out of Marie’s red-level facility and step off after a quick surveillance check to make sure nobody was outside. He taps some buttons on the wrist-communicator he pulled…
The feeling of the ship’s sonic shower washes over me, and I rub my skin slowly to get the blood off. For over an hour I’ve pummeled my body with waves of sound to wash the smell of death away, but even after scrubbing my skin raw, I barely feel any cleaner than before. I…
"Actually, I would suggest starting a little earlier, Master Hiro." Gyro’s blank face hums around in front of me and stares at me with his soulless eyes. "The formation of the United Earth Federation came during turbulent political times and was part of a genius plan executed as a joint operation between yourself and Miss…
