Trapped in a Video Game: Book One by Dustin Brady

Author:Dustin Brady [Brady, Dustin]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2016-07-05T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Speed Run

Here’s the complete list of things that are creepier than hearing aliens say your name in a dark swamp:

1. Nothing.

That’s it. Nothing can ever be creepier than that.

yyyyyessSSSSSssssseeeeeeee.

EEEEErrrrrrreeeeeeeeek.

yyyyyessSSSSSssssseeeeeeee.

EEEEErrrrrrreeeeeeeeek.

Eric panicked and started blasting wildly ahead. It did no good. If anything, the voices only got louder.

yyyyyessSSSSSssssseeeeeeee.

EEEEErrrrrrreeeeeeeeek.

yyyyyessSSSSSssssseeeeeeee.

EEEEErrrrrrreeeeeeeeek.

I put the tank in reverse, and we started slowly backing up. Both Eric and I remained silent as we drove back toward the boss area. Soon it was almost completely dark, and the voices sounded closer than ever.

yyyyyessSSSSSssssseeeeeeee.

EEEEErrrrrrreeeeeeeeek.

I felt Eric’s hand on my shoulder. I tried to comfort him. “I know, buddy. We’re going to figure out a way out of here.”

“But how?”

Eric’s voice sounded far away. Not like he was lost in thought or something, but actually a couple feet farther than I remembered. I looked down at the hand on my shoulder. My eyes had started getting used to the dark, so I could just make out that this hand was bigger than expected.

“Eric?”

A face leaned in real close to me. An adult face. Making a “shh” motion with his finger to his mouth.

I did not shh. I did quite the opposite of shh-ing.

“AHHHHHHHHHHH!”

Suddenly the voices stopped. Then two eyes from the swamp lit up. They illuminated our tank. They illuminated me and now Eric screaming like a chorus of small girls. They illuminated an angry man tearing me away from the steering wheel. They illuminated an army of aliens blocking our path out of the swamp. And they illuminated their leader — Mr. Gas Mask.

Our tank thief slammed the vehicle into drive and took off toward the army. The glowing crocodile ahead opened its mouth to swallow us whole.

“Hold on!” the man yelled back at me and Eric. A nanosecond before the crocodile could chomp down on us, the man pressed a series of buttons, and our entire tank did a barrel roll away from the mouth.

“You never told me we could do that!” I yelled to Eric.

“I never knew we could!”

Now that we had narrowly avoided the glowing crocodile, we found ourselves plowing through the army behind him.

“Don’t shoot anything!” the man yelled back to us.

That seemed hard to do, since aliens were now grabbing onto the tank and trying to climb up. Before any of them could get too far, our driver found a log, used it as a ramp and hit the thrusters in midair to turn our tank into a flying missile. As we soared over the heads of our attackers, the driver did another barrel roll to shake the remaining aliens off our tank. We landed with a splash behind the alien army and tore back toward the beginning of the level with the aliens behind us.

While Eric and I had driven with all the grace of a dizzy cow, this man handled the swamp like he was born there. Every time a new crocodile jumped out of the water, he was ready with a zig or a zag or a flying barrel roll. Unfortunately,

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