Chapter 1

"Boom! Take that Daein, maybe now you'll think twice before messing with the Greil mercenaries!" I shouted at my television as I beat level nine of Fire Emblem Path of Radiance for the umpteenth time, even if my celebration would be short lived due to my most hated enemy, level ten.

When I finally stopped dancing the standard save game text box was on screen, I eagerly answered yes so could be done with my nemesis, that's when things started flying far south of weird; in hindsight I probably should have just walked away when the Wii got all pixel y and reset itself instead of actually saving, but like every other gamer on the planet that just lost progress on a video game.

"What the heck, game! Oh no, don't you do this to me!" I groan in an overly dramatic fashion, trying very hard not to eject the disc and break it into several tiny pieces over my knee. I guess I should have tried that too, although it probably wouldn't have helped.

Heaving a heavy sigh as I sat back down on the couch, I waited for the Wii to start back up again although when it did I knew immediately that something was wrong with the console. How did I know? Glad you asked, I knew something was wrong with my Wii because in the short time it had taken to reset itself the Wii had somehow managed to go into debug mode, which was impossible for any number of reasons to do manually or automatically. Let alone have the Wii do without anyone telling it to do so.

Struggling to keep calm I did what I thought would be the best course of action, make a video of what the hell was happening on my phone so I could figure things out with my techie friends later. I deserve a Darwin for doing that. Cause this is what the Wii was saying.

Warning fatal system error … No operating system detected.

Entering freeboot mode … We're good to go.

Warning system is 78% Corrupt.

Warning … Cannot run Crysis … Core meltdown initiated Step 1/3 completed.

"What the …" I started to say but immediately stopped as more error text flooded the screen.

Deleting file cache … Done.

Step 2/3 completed.

You think your all that don't you?

"What in the?" I reiterated

Well I'll show you.

System Corruption is almost done … 98% … 99%.

Warning mass systems failure imminent … Corruption level has reached critical stages.

Step 3/3 completed.

It's Showtime, smell ya later looser!

"Wait what are you …" I began to say but was cut off when my gaming setup exploded sending shards of plastic and glass shrapnel flying at me from all directions. Then there was nothing but an all encompassing inky blackness.

"Where, am I? Am I, dead?" I thought aloud to myself not really expecting an answer. Boy was I ever wrong.

New user detected … Loading profile? … Done.

This profile has Level: 03 clearance is this okay?

{Yes} No

You have selected to permit this profile to have access to special privileges, Which may change due to the users performance. Is this okay?

{Yes} No

"Hey what's going on here? I'm not doing any of this, dang it why won't someone answer me?!" I cried in vain.

Would you like to continue from where you last left off?

{Yes} No

Loading world data …Done.

Placing user at its last known save.

Then I was alone with my thoughts in the nothingness that surrounded me.