Though previously quiet, Game Central Station suddenly burst into life as many of the games' gates became active as the arcade closed. Every day when Mr. Litwak's arcade's open hours ended, metaphorically speaking, the games' hours began. Technically, the games were always active, and they never really 'ended'. The games just spent half of the time differently. The daytime half always working, and their version of work was being in their games for the players to play with. A Quarter Alert always sounded so the characters in their game knew exactly when and where they had to be in their game, so the players could casually play the game to entertain themselves. If the players were entertained, they'd play more often. If a certain game got played a lot, it had a high chance of not getting unplugged. Getting unplugged is one of the worst fates a character could get. You either die inside the game before you escape into Game Central Station, or you escaped in time to find yourself homeless basically forever.

That was the poor unfortunate fate two twins, both wearing identical blue jumpsuits with square-like helmets with a single white stripe on the top, suffered. Their, and the main character Turbo's game TurboTime got unplugged many years ago. The siblings barely got out alive, both of them remembering that day like it was yesterday. Back then, when TurboTime was still plugged in, Litwak was a bit quicker to unplugging games that went wrong. That day Turbo, the main character of TurboTime, got jealous of a game called RoadBlasters that got plugged in and rained on his parade, him being the most popular in the arcade to be played by the players. RoadBlasters was a more modern game, to the players, it was a better and more engaging game. The twins both knew this, but Turbo was furious. He craved attention and he would not seem to tolerate some other "cooler" game stealing his thunder, and he did the unspeakable. Not long after RoadBlasters being plugged in, Turbo got in his car, which the twins remembered it to be named the Red Rocket or something like it, the car's name was fuzzy to them by now, and Turbo drove it over to RoadBlasters while it was being played, which is a really really bad idea, and the twins remember seeing him do it from their screen, he drove across the screen a few times and caused the RoadBlasters car to crash a few times. He was yelling his famous catchphrase, "Turbotastic!". The twins were horrified to watch when Turbo literally crashed his racecar into the Roadblasters one. The whole screen turned into a glitch, and Mr. Litwak set that game out of order. But, TurboTime got put out of order as well, because it couldn't be played without Turbo.

The twins both remember them running for their lives as the time to their unplugging doom came nearer and nearer way too fast. They had just gotten out of TurboTime and found themselves looking back into the tunnel that was once theirs as the colors and pixels and basically everything they had ever called home swirled into a black pit of nothing, and the Surge Protector shooed them away as they went into shock. He told them an empty socket wasn't the safest place to be standing around by.

The twins never forgot that day. And they both believed they never will, either. Ted, the more sensitive one, often cried when he thought about that day, but eventually, over the years he got over it. His brother, Teddy, was a bit tougher but would still get upset at the thought. They both haven't seen Turbo since. They always assumed he was dead, always assuming he went down with RoadBlasters. Going down with a game you hate must have been terrible, the siblings always thought. They missed Turboa lot, even though he had gotten their game unplugged, was a proud, bit arrogant guy sometimes, always boasting about his winnings, they still saw him as family. But they haven't seen him and forever and they both accepted Turbo as just a bitter memory now.

The twins rose from the seats they slept on. They were half tempted to sleep on the green motherboard-patterned rug beneath them yesterday, but they decided against it because they were always reminded how many feet stepped on this thing every single day. Yawning, Teddy gets up and stretches as his brother makes a pathetic attempt to stretch without getting up. Game Central Station was starting to get noisy as it always did after hours.

"Good morning, Ted," Teddy starts, rubbing his bright yellow eyes to wake himself up further.

Ted awkwardly seems to lay down and so a long stretch on the seat, putting his chin to his chest as he stretches his arm as far out as he can to the left. After he does that, he gets up and joins his brother, with a yawn for himself.

"Hey Teddy, have any dreams?" He sleepily asks itching at his arm, the one he slept on that night.

"Not really, you?" Teddy replies, facing his identical brother with a slight smile.

"I dreamt of TurboTime…" Ted starts, frowning and looking down. "And um, lets just say it was pretty nice until Turbo vanished…"

Ted awkwardly looks as his feet and shuffles them a bit. Teddy knows his brother well enough to tell he was bothered by that dream.

"What happened, Ted?"

Ted looks up, and the glisten in his eyes in his frown with a quivering lip told Teddy all he needed to know, it wasn't a good dream.

"You and Turbo were there, we just got done with a race, and Turbo.. I think he said something about RoadBlasters.. And then he just glitches really badly and vanished… A second later, our pixels are being ripped away from us as well as the whole game, and we get sucked into nothingness.." Ted awkwardly shudders, on the verge of crying but he stops himself by wiping his eyes. "I can still almost feel the pain…"

Teddy slowly nods. Ted sometimes had these nightmares about what happened. Teddy did too, but he handled them better and played them off a bit easier then Ted could. Teddy puts an arm around his brother's shoulders in an awkward side hug. That was all Ted needed, because he began to relax after that.

Not too far away from them, the four ghosts from Pac-Man float by muttering amongst themselves. Ted and Teddy overhear them say something they most likely heard from Tapper's

"I know, this is gonna be awesome. Gamecube characters this close to the arcade? Who knows what'll show up!"

"That kid who owns the Gamecube- man, did he choose a great place to live?"

"I heard from Tapper's he's got a Mario game. And we already have a Mario game, two Marios? That'll be pretty amusing to watch."

Perplexed, the twins find themselves staring at the ghosts until they're out of range. They both looked at each other, and practically read each other's minds.

"Gamecube? You have any idea what that is, Ted?" Teddy asks, going over the questions he has in his head.

Ted shakes his head, but they are both thinking the same thought, and together, they both say quietly to each other,

"We should go see Tapper."