Trapped in a Video Game: Book Three by Dustin Brady

Author:Dustin Brady [Brady, Dustin]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2016-12-27T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Pringles and Piranhas

Don’t tell anyone, but I’m secretly afraid of spiders. I don’t really know what most of the poisonous ones look like, so I’m always a little nervous that every spider I see is going to kill me. It’s not like spiders make me scream or jump on a chair or anything, but any bravery you might see from me during a standard spider showdown is definitely fake.

This time there was no bravery, even the fake kind. There was lots of screaming. The robot spider in front of us was the size of an elephant and furious. So very furious. Also, it had a glowing hourglass on its back, which is the one poisonous spider symbol I know.

The THUD it made when it dropped to the ground caused a metal slab to fall behind us. “Get on that!” Sam shouted. We all obeyed.

The spider looked us up and down with all of its creepy robot spider eyes and jumped onto the wall to our right. It tapped on the wall a few times, then wound up and pierced right through it, causing water to start gushing out. Then the spider jumped across the room and did the same thing on the other side. Water quickly covered the floor and lifted our piece of metal. The spider worked its way around the room, poking holes in the wall and causing more water to flood the room. Soon, robot piranhas began shooting out of the holes too. One flopped onto our metal slab, and Sam smashed it with her fist. Others landed in the water and poked their heads out to watch us.

“I’ll take care of anything that lands on here!” Sam shouted. “Mark, use your boots to run onto the water and jump on the piranhas!”

“What do I do?” I asked. At that moment, Roger started beeping and squawking.

Sam looked up. The spider was resting on the ceiling, its hourglass glowing brighter than ever. “Use the boomerang! Now!”

“What, you want me to boomerang the spider?”

“Yes!” A piranha jumped onto our platform. BOOF! Sam clocked it. “Of course!” BOOF! “What else would you do?” BOOF!

I looked back at the ceiling, but it was too late — the spider had moved on.

“UNG!” Sam said. “NO DAWDLING!”

The spider continued poking more holes in the wall, which let in more water, which caused us to rise faster. After half a minute of poking, it jumped to the ceiling again. I closed one eye, squinted with the other and aimed the best I could. Finally, I threw the boomerang. Not even close.

“JESSE!” Sam yelled.

“I’m not good at aiming!”

More holes. More water. More piranhas. The spider jumped back to the ceiling. I aimed again, knowing that I was basically guessing. Then, just before I threw the boomerang, Sam took a quick break from smashing piranhas to throw me closer to my target with her robot hand. At the height of my arc, I let the boomerang fly. Direct hit! The spider beat on the ceiling a few times and jumped back on the wall.

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