Trapped in a Video Game: Book Two by Dustin Brady

Author:Dustin Brady [Brady, Dustin]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2016-10-20T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Ground Control

The flaming lasted ten full seconds before the bat paused to reload.

“VINNIE!” I yelled.

The bat looked at me.

“Get out of there!” Mr. Gregory said.

I turned and ran as the bat started another death screech. “Can you bring Vinnie back?!” I asked.

“I’m sorry, that’s not the way it works,” Mr. Gregory said.

“Bring him back!” I yelled while fighting back tears. “You made this game, you can bring him back!”

“I’m sorry, I really am,” Mr. Gregory said. “But we need you to refocus.”

“But…”

“Mark needs you to refocus.”

I slowed down and took a few deep breaths.

“That’s it,” Mr. Gregory said. “Now I need you to walk straight down the hallway you’re in. At the end of the hall, you’ll find an elevator that goes all the way to the basement.”

Sniff, sniff. “OK,” I said as I wiped away tears and started walking. The hallway had just as little personality as the outside of the building. The walls were white, the floor was white, even the overhead fluorescent lighting provided a perfectly white light. “So Mark’s down in the basement?” I asked.

“Well, that’s complicated…”

Just then, a guy glued to his phone walked out of a door. There was no way to tell whether or not he was playing Go Wild, so I dove through a wall just in case. “Do you think he…” I looked around the room. “Whoaaaaa.”

Inside the room I’d crashed were rows and rows of people watching computer monitors. Other workers wheeled around small projectors that displayed Star Wars-level holograms. Up front was a gigantic screen showing all sorts of numbers and moving charts. The whole thing looked like a NASA ground control room from the future.

“Is this where they make the video games?”

“That’s not safe!” Mr. Gregory yelled. “You need to get out of there now and run to the basement.”

“Definitely,” I said, moving to the door at the other end of the room. “Let me just make sure that the guy’s gone.”

“It doesn’t matter if he’s gone or not,” Mr. Gregory said, a little panicky. “You need to get out now!”

“OK, OK, I’m…” I stopped dead in my tracks. At that moment, I happened to glance at a computer screen and catch a familiar sight — the Statue of Liberty taking off like a rocket ship. “What is this?”

“Jesse! Out! Now!”

Two small figures jumped out of the crown. Two figures that looked just like me and Eric.

“Are they… Are they watching us?” I asked.

“This isn’t safe!”

I looked at another screen. It showed me and Eric blowing through a dark swamp on a hover tank. Another screen — Eric blasting me in the Rocky Mountains. Another — me flying through Hawaii with a jetpack. In fact, Eric and I seemed to be on dozens of screens around the room.

“Mr. Gregory, if they knew we were in the video game, why didn’t they get us out?”

“Go to the basement!”

Was Mr. Gregory trying to hide something? I continued walking down the row of computers, every one displaying a video game.

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