Trapped in a Video Game: Return to Doom Island
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Trapped in a Video Game - Dustin Brady
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Andrews McMeel Publishing
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ISBN: 978-1-4494-9875-7
Library of Congress Control Number: 2018932210
Acknowledgments
Special thanks to Jesse Brady for the cover and
interior illustrations. You can check out more of
Jesse’s sweet artwork at jessebradyart.com.
Other Books
by Dustin Brady
Trapped in a Video Game: Robots Revolt
Trapped in a Video Game: The Invisible Invasion
Trapped in a Video Game
Superhero for a Day: The Magic Magic Eight Ball
Who Stole Mr. T?: Leila and Nugget Mystery #1
The Case with No Clues: Leila and Nugget Mystery #2
Bark at the Park: Leila and Nugget Mystery #3
Contents
Preface
1. The Zipper
2. Hide and Sneak
3. Raul Ludbar
4. Dead Drop
5. Reactovision
6. Blink and You’ll Miss It
7. Doom Island
8. BUM-BUM
9. They’re Here
10. Pee Butter Poopies
11. Lions’ Den
12. Marshy Mallow’s
13. The Safe
14. Spiky Dungeon
15. Glitchquake
16. Mr. Nice Guy
17. No More Mr. Nice Guy
18. Planet Bottomless Pit
19. The White House
20. Dodo Doody
21. Sparky the Squirrel Saves the Day
22. Escape
23. Code Black
About the Author
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PREFACE
In Case You Missed It
The only series anyone should ever start with the fourth entry is Star Wars. In fact, Star Wars: Episode IV is so good that you don’t even need to go back to Episodes I through III unless you really want to find out why everyone hates Jar Jar Binks so much. Trapped in a Video Game is not Star Wars. If you start Trapped in a Video Game with Book 4, you will be angry and confused and leave hurtful Amazon reviews. If it’s been a while since you’ve read the first three books, you can catch up by reading the following words scrolling through space:
A short time ago in this very galaxy, 12-year-old Jesse Rigsby got sucked into a video game. This was bad news for Jesse because he hated video games. Inside the video game, Jesse met up with his friend, Eric Conrad, and battled giant praying mantises, house-sized sand monsters, and a super-powered alien known as the Hindenburg. Eric and Jesse finally escaped, but only because another kid from their class, Mark Whitman, chose to take their place.
In Trapped in a Video Game: The Invisible Invasion, Jesse and Eric mounted a rescue mission by sneaking into the video game company Bionosoft through Go Wild, a mobile game kind of like Pokémon Go. After surviving attacks by a Bigfoot, a velociraptor, and Bionosoft president Jevvry Delfino, Jesse, Eric, and former Bionosoft employee Mr. Gregory pulled Mark out of his computer prison. Unfortunately, the rescue broke Bionosoft’s system, which released everything else from their computers into the real world.
In Trapped in a Video Game: Robots Revolt, robots from one of Bionosoft’s games started causing major damage in the real world after escaping their computers. In addition to transforming sewers, factories, and amusement parks around town into deadly levels from their game, they also kidnapped Eric. Jesse teamed up with Mark, a friendly drone named Roger, and an Australian girl named Sam to save Eric before the robots could blast him into outer space. After rescuing Eric, Mr. Gregory caught up to Jesse and asked if he’d said anything to anyone about men in suits working for The Agency.
That was strange, but not as strange as the information that Jesse got later from Mr. Gregory’s son, Charlie. That wasn’t Mr. Gregory, Charlie claimed. That was a robot look-alike. The real Mr. Gregory was missing.
chapter 1
The Zipper
You want to see me throw up, don’t you?
What? No! Come on, this is a fun ride!
I said as I pushed my friend, Eric, closer to the Zipper.
It’s definitely not fun, and it’s barely a ride!
Eric said as he fought me. It’s a throw-up machine! A machine literally invented to make people throw up!
Eric was right. The Zipper, if you’re not familiar, is a carnival ride that tries to answer the question, How many times will the human body handle being flipped upside down in a single minute?
Its two-person spinning coffins are rickety and unpredictable and full of hard metal to slam your face into on your flipping journey. It is not a fun ride.
I smiled as I handed two tickets to the disinterested teenager in charge of the whirling death machine.
Jesse! Are you listening to me?! Roger, talk some sense into him!
Beep beep bwyooooooop.
Roger is a drone from the video game Super Bot World 3. After he got sucked into the real world through a computer glitch, he helped me rescue my friend Eric from the clutches of an enormous robot called Goliatron. If this is the first you’re hearing of Roger, that sentence was probably the most confusing thing you’ve ever read, but I promise that it made sense at the time. Anyway, Roger got smashed to bits during the rescue, but our friend’s dad, Mr. Gregory, rebuilt him from spare parts. After that, Roger became our constant companion—always buzzing back and forth between my house and Eric’s, never letting either of us out of his sight for long. We became famous around the neighborhood for having a drone as a pet, and kids would travel from streets away to watch us do tricks with him. Roger was doing one of those tricks now: wobbling back and forth while making a scary sound.
See, Roger thinks it’s a bad idea, too,
Eric said, trying to turn around.
Roger, you hang out here. We’ll be right back!
I grabbed the back of Eric’s shirt and dragged him onto the Zipper. Eric tried to go limp, but it was too late. I’d wrangled him onto the ride.
Good luck,
the carnival worker said as he clicked our coffin door closed. Not enjoy the ride,
have fun,
or even be safe.
Good luck. I took a deep breath. We were going to need it.
The teenager returned to the control station and pushed the button to advance us upward and load the next coffin. Once we were in the air, I turned to Eric. The reason I brought you on this ride is that I have something important to tell you, and I needed to do it in private.
And you couldn’t have done it in my room or your room or literally anywhere else besides the puke machine?
Listen, do you remember anything being off about Mr. Gregory after the whole robot thing?
Eric wrinkled his nose. I don’t know, that was like two months ago. He’s kind of a weird guy anyway, right? Isn’t he always off?
Remember the first thing he asked us after we got rescued? He didn’t ask if we were OK or what had happened or anything. He asked if we’d told anybody about ‘The Agency.’
Yeah, so?
We didn’t even know what The Agency was. Doesn’t that seem weird when you think about it?
He was probably just trying to protect us from something.
But what if he wasn’t?
Eric gave me a