On this hot, yet quiet summer's day, an ordinary teddy bear and his extraordinary friend are resting at their tree house.

SuperTed and Spottyman were sitting at their summer table on their tree house deck, drinking lemonade.

"This is the life, SuperTed!" sighed Spotty.

"Yes, Spotty," smiled SuperTed. "Although it has been rather quiet without Texas Pete and his friends lately. And there seems to be no trouble for quite a while. But still we need breaks like this for once in a while for our own health and good." Then the alarm wailed. "Even breaks like this must come to an end for our own good too."
The teddy bear ran to the computer and turned the video monitor on. It was a heap of people screaming.

"SuperTed, our children have been gone missing for a week," said a woman.

"My boys have been missing since they went to the Grapes store in New York," said a man.

"Save my children, SuperTed!" a lot of people would say before the screen turned off.

"What's going on, SuperTed?" asked Spotty, who had just come up.

"Something's going on at the Grapes store in New York and lots of children have been missing," replied SuperTed.

"I thought children hate grapes and all fruit and vegetables," said Spotty.

"No, Grapes Industries is like a factory that makes video games," SuperTed told him.

"Oh, I hate video games!" moaned Spotty. "And Grapes."

"All the same, we'd better get over there," SuperTed said.

Spotty put on his rocket-pack and SuperTed said his magic word, ripped off his skin and gained his scarlet suit. Together the two friends flew off to New York.

Meanwhile, in New York City...

The angry mob was outside shouting and screaming outside the Grapes Industries building, which was a big skyscraper. Some people had signs saying things like 'Give us back our kids!' and 'Stop the Video Games!"

SuperTed and Spotty arrived at the gate of the building. "People, please calm down!" the super bear cried over the crowd, which they did. "So what's going on?"

"Well, all the children in this big city have gone," said the Mayor of New York, walking to the heroic duo. "All the parents know is that the last time they saw their kids was when they were going to buy the new video game Past and Future and we have not seen them ever since. We come to an estimate of a hundred kids missing. We dare not go in that building just in case danger waits. That's why we brought you and your friend to see to it."
"And that's what we're here for," smiled SuperTed. "Isn't that right, Spotty?"

"Well..."

"Come on, Spotty." And the brave duo flew over the gate and landed at the door.

"Hello!" yelled SuperTed. "This is SuperTed. Open this door at once!" There was a long wait. Nothing happened.

"Try opening it," suggested Spotty. SuperTed used all his strength to throw a punch to the big locked-up door. And it worked! They all walked in.

"Oh, we've searched all forty seven floors, SuperTed, and we haven't found anyone yet," moaned the spotted alien.

"But everything appears to be clean and dusted," SuperTed said, as he looked around. "Everything is put away and shut tightly. Knives and forks in the drawers. Mops, brushes, buckets in the cupboards. They can't do this all by themselves, you know?"
"Can't they?" asked Spotty.

SuperTed rolled his eyes. He then looked ahead. "Look, there's the Chairman's office. Let's go!"

SuperTed and Spotty walked to the office. The heroic bear knocked on the door. It didn't open and there was no sound at all. SuperTed pushed the door opened and in they walked. It was the biggest room of the building. It covered the whole floor. It had a desk at the far end and a big table in the middle of the room with lots of chairs.

"Do they have their lunch here?" asked Spotty.

"No, Spotty," said SuperTed, searching the desk. "That's for board meetings."
"But I thought they work here, not go to school," thought a confused Spotty.

"No, not that type of board," chuckled SuperTed. "They have board meetings so the company can check on the progress they've been making." He finished searching the desk and found absolutely nothing at all.

"Well, that does sound boring," said Spotty. "I'm pretty bored myself."

"I know we've made no progress of all, but we mustn't give up on finding the missing children," SuperTed told his alien friend. He looked ahead and saw it wasn't just the children that were missing now. "Spotty! Where are you? Spotty!"

He looked around the room, but couldn't find his alien friend. Then he saw in a tiny room and it had a blue rocket-pack in there. SuperTed ran in and picked it up. Then the door shut behind him. The heroic bear looked around and saw nothing but white walls and a giant computer screen.

"Well done, SuperTed," said a spooky computerized voice. "You worked out how your alien friend and the missing children have disappeared."

"Who are you?" asked SuperTed.

"I am the Grapes Computer," said the voice. "Now, as a reward, why don't you check out my new game?"

"Wait! Who is your creator?" shouted SuperTed.

"You can meet him in the game," said the Computer. Then the screen shot up in light blue and light-blueness shot out! SuperTed screamed and tried to fly away, but the lights took over him.

SuperTed was lying on the ground. He groaned and picked himself up. The lightness became clear and he found himself on a rocky ground near a volcano. "Where am I?" he asked. "Where's Spotty? I must find him." He tried to fly, but he couldn't. He saw he wasn't in his scarlet suit. And if things weren't hard enough, no matter how times he said his secret magic word, it just didn't work.

"I don't know what to do now," the hopeless teddy bear moaned. Then something shook the ground. He looked around and found nothing but a large Tyrannosaur Rex! "Now I do: Run!" And that's what he did.

SuperTed kept running as fast and as far as he could. He kept running until he came to a dead end. He was blocked off by a big mountain. He tried to run back, but he couldn't, because the Rex had him completely trapped. The giant lizard beast went for him, but when it closed his mouth and opened its eyes, it saw there was no teddy bear in sight. It decided to move on. It had no idea there was a large crack in the mountain and, on the other side, stood an ordinary teddy bear, who was not alone.

"Thank you very much," said SuperTed. He turned around to see who save him, but soon he wished he didn't know.

"No problem," smiled Texas Pete who was in his original cowboy's clothes. Behind him was Bulk and Skeleton, dressed as cavemen.

"Why did you save me?" SuperTed demanded to know.

"Because I'd rather be stuck in prison than be stuck in this horrible video game," Tex confessed. "If anyone can get everyone out of here, it's you! And if you do, I promise I'll be a changed person."

"Well, you'll have to help me find missing children because I'm not leaving this game until each and every single one of them is found," said SuperTed. "Understand?"
"I understand and agree," said Tex, putting his hand out. After hesitation, SuperTed shook his paw with Tex's hand.

"All right, the sooner we find the kids, the sooner we can get out," said Tex. "Then he turned to his friends. " Come on, you two! Let's get out of here."

"Oh, great!" exclaimed Bulk happily.

"I'm not going out there!" protested Skeleton. "It's dangerous and dusty out there."

"Fine, lazy bones, stay here and get chewed on by dinosaurs," said Tex meanly.

"I'd like to see that," said Skeleton. Then he heard a large dinosaur roar! "Oh, wait for me, I'm coming!"

SuperTed, Tex and his gang was running like the wind.
"Spotty! Where are you?" cried SuperTed.

"SuperTed! Up here!" cried Spotty's voice.

The teddy bear looked up to see Spotty waving to him on top of the mountains.

"I can't come down!" cried Spotty. "I don't have my rocket pack!"

Skeleton looked at the mountains. "I can't climb up there!"

"Yeah, it doesn't look safe, Tex," agreed Bulk, looking up.

"Do you want to be eaten by the dinosaurs or not?" snapped Tex. "Because I don't." And he started climbing.

"Wait, Tex!" cried SuperTed. "There must be another way." Then he saw a game icon that looked like his scarlet suit nearby. He went to it and through it. He was now in his suit and he flew up, picking up Bulk and Skeleton and Tex who fell from failing to climb the tough mountains!

"SuperTed!" cried Spotty, who was wearing a caveman's spotted clothes. "What do you think? I made it myself." He turned to see Tex, Bulk and Skeleton standing next to his best friend. "What are they doing here?"

"Long story, Spotty," said SuperTed. "But we must find the children."

"What, these children?" asked Spotty. Everyone saw behind Spotty was ten kids.

"Good work, Spotty," said SuperTed. "Only ninety children left to find."

Then a loud screech came in the air. Everyone turned to see a pterodactyl flying towards them!

"What do we do?" cried Spotty.

"We must find the jewel to open this portal to get to the next level," explained one ginger-haired boy with glasses.

All Spotty could see was a golden frame that looked like a door frame. "How can we get through that door frame?" asked Spotty. "It doesn't even have a door."

"That's not a door frame, Spotty," SuperTed told him. "That's the portal. The magic teleport that will get us out of this dinosaur level. If we can find the jewel, that is."

"A jewel like this?" asked Skeleton as he pulled out a white jewel out of his body.

"That's it!" exclaimed one of the kids. "Give it here."

"No!" snapped Skeleton.

"Please," a shy girl with blond hair begged.

"No, this goes well with my body," Skeleton told everyone.

"Maybe that's why the pterodactyl is coming after you and your bones," said SuperTed.

Skeleton gasped. "Take it! Take it!"

A rough-looking boy quickly snatched it off the skeleton and put it in the diamond-shape hole for the portal frames. In the middle of the frame a light blue flash came.

"Come on, fellas, let's go!" shouted Tex, running through the portal. All the other kids followed.

"What's on the other side, SuperTed?" asked Spotty.

"I don't know, Spotty, but I'm sure it'll be safer on the next level," said SuperTed. "Come on." SuperTed pulled Spotty behind him through the portal.

When they stopped, they saw there was no portal behind or in front of them. "We're on level two," said SuperTed.

"Looks like we're in Ancient Egypt," said Spotty. And that's where they were. They were outside an old Egyptian forgotten temple.

"Why aren't you wearing your suit, SuperTed?" asked Spotty.

"It's how the game works," SuperTed told him. "I need to find those scarlet suit game icons to get it. Where are the children?"

"Where's Tex, Bulk and Skull?" asked Spotty.

"Probably in that temple," SuperTed pointed out. "Let's go." And in they went.

The temple was dark, dusty and dangerous-looking. SuperTed and Spotty took every step very carefully.

"Be careful, Spotty," SuperTed told his best friend. "Don't touch anything." Then SuperTed saw that he wasn't there. "Spotty? Where are you?"

Then he came across with three mummies. "Tex, is that you?" The lead mummy came closer to him.

"I thought we had a deal!" the teddy bear snapped. "Or did you just use me to get you out of that level so you could do all the levels and get out of the game just for yourself?"
All he got was picked up by the lead mummy.

Later, he was thrown into the dungeon. "Popping potatoes! What's next?"

"SuperTed!"

SuperTed turned around to see Spotty, the ten children from the previous level and ten more children next to him.

"Spotty!" cried SuperTed.

"What are you doing here?" asked Spotty. "Where are Tex, Bulk and Skeleton?"

"They betrayed us," answered the depressed bear.

"We're not on trays," said Spotty."

"They were stuck on the first level so they used us to get out of it so they could continue to get out of the game... without us," sighed SuperTed.

"There's got to be something you can do, SuperTed," said one of the children.

"Yeah, come on, SuperTed!" said another.

"Do something, SuperTed!" shouted a tough kid.

All the children were shouting and pleading to SuperTed.

"I don't know!" snapped SuperTed. "I just don't know."

Everyone went quiet.

Can SuperTed and Spottyman get out of the dungeon and out of the game? Where had Texas Pete and his friends gone to? Find in Part Two.

To Be Continued...