REFERENCES IN CHAPTER 1:

Mat Doreninino is an anagram of Mario Nintendo

Louis sounds like Louie

Young Cricket is practicing the Kamehameha

E3

Miyamoto

Disco Dance Revolution is an easy-to-find reference to Dance Dance Revolution

On the same grounds, Synthetician is a reference to Synthesia

The Sherry-gan eye is a direct reference to the Sharingan eye in Naruto

The Dopple-ganger art is also from Naruto

The 'something strange in the neighborhood' is part of the Ghostbusters theme

(Woot finally learned how to use line breaks)

What?!

How?!

Mat was thoroughly shocked at the face looking down at him. It was 5-Volt, for god's sake! What happened? He looked around and noticed the area around him. It was the unmistakeable scene of Diamond City, from the stadium to Wario's house to Club Sugar. Even turning around, he noticed that the house he was next to was 9-Volt's! This was all too much to take in. He just wanted to lay back in the grass and hope a Dodongo appeared and swallowed him up. But, dazed, he stood up and spoke, albeit nervously.

"H-Hello Miss." he stuttered, the strangeness of the situation manifesting in his mind and slowing his thoughts.

"Hello there." she said, her voice warm like a flaming barman. "Do you not have anywhere to go?"

"Well, I guess not." he managed to choke out. Suddenly a helmeted young boy's head poked out from behind 5-Volt. Mat couldn't believe it. It was 9-Volt! His personal favorite character! Their eyes met, and Mat saw the same calculating, planning, yet unmenacing look of another gamer.

"Mom! Who's he?" the young gamer asked. "If he doesn't have anywhere to go, I'm fine with him bunking here."

"But sweetie!" 5-Volt turned to her son. "You don't even know them!"

"I can see that he means no harm. Plus, I can tell that he's a gamer too! And it's dangerous to go alone." replied the boy. After a long period of consultation, 5-Volt finally relented and let him in. Mat was surprised. 9-Volt was nicer and smarter than he thought.

Once inside, he immediately felt the warmth of the heated room and smiled. He had not been so comfortable in hours. Inside the house, three people were sitting on the couch; 18-Volt, Kat, and Ana. This only confirmed Mat's worries: He was inside the game. Kat jumped off the couch.

"Who's he?" she asked. The others had a look on their faces that showed they were wondering the same thing. Mat cleared his throat.

"My name is Mat Doreninino. Dunno how I got here, but I have to thank you for your hospitality." he said, as the others looked up at him curiously.

9-Volt shook his hand. "Nice to meet you! I'm 9-Volt." Mat looked down at him.

"Nice to meet you too." he replied, then looking up at 5-Volt. "Am I interrupting anything? I would hate to intrude."

"Well, they were all in the middle of a sleepover, but 9-Volt thinks you should stay." she said, going back to the phone to order a pizza at 0800838383.

Upstairs, Mat looked around. Everything was arranged neatly and there was a keyboard and DDR machine in the corner. 9-Volt had a look at Mat's bag.

"What's in there?" he asked, giving it an experimental poke. Mat suddenly froze, and checked if everything was intact. Everything was, from his Wii U, to his headset, to his timer bomb! Okay, there wasn't a timer bomb, but he made sure to shuffle the Wario games to the bottom.

"Well, um, I work at this game creation company, and I'm in charge of testing new equipment so, um, I'm testing it. You can try it out." The kids' jaws dropped as Mat pulled out the Wii U, setting it on the floor with the Gamepad and Wiimotes.

"Is this a Nintendo console?" 9-Volt excitedly stammered out, with 18-Volt nodding furiously. Mat nodded, and 9-Volt looked like it was his 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th birthdays all at once.

LEL I forgot 18-Volt existed.

"Where do these plug into the console?" asked Ana, picking a Wiimote up and giving it a shake experimentally. Mat chuckled.

"Nowhere. They're wireless." he told her, as 9-Volt plugged the Wii U into the wall next to his gamecube. Her eyes widened.

"That's amazing!" beamed Kat. Mat picked up the gamepad, turned it on and pressed a button. Suddenly, the TV blared to life, causing 9-Volt to jump back in surprise.

"Woah! What just happened?" asked 18-Volt. Mat started. He hadn't heard 18-Volt's voice yet. Either way, Mat showed everyone how the Gamepad could control the TV.

"Phew! I thought it was Poulter or something." sighed 9-Volt.

Mat shuffled through the games to find one the group would enjoy.

"Pikmin 3, hard to get into but maybe, Splatoon, no, Nintendoland, not sure, DKC TF, no- Ah-hah!" He pulled out a case and turned back to the others. "This is a 4-player game for this console. Quite fun." 9-Volt studied the case.

"Super Smash Bros? I know there was one for the N64, but I didn't know there was a sequel planned. Still, can we try?" Mat nodded and slotted the disc into the slot on the Wii U, while humming. Seconds later, the Smash Bros logo appeared on the screen. 9-Volt took the gamepad, while the others took the Wiimotes. After a short tutorial, 9-Volt picked Mario, 18-Volt picked Link, Kat picked Lucario, and Ana picked Megaman. 9-Volt turned to face Mat.

"What about you?" he asked. Mat shrugged.

"I'm fine, I'll just find a nice indie-horror game, get some hot chocolate, or something. Don't worry about me." he said, walking back downstairs.

On the screen, the four players spawned onscreen, at the GAMER stage, stock set to 1. The announcer counted down, and the game begun. Mario jumped at Link, waving his cape. Link blocked it with his shield and swung his sword, while Lucario jumped in for a sneak attack and Megaman picked up a bat and threw it at Mario. Mario was hit, but recovered and threw some fireballs at Lucario, while Link was hit by Megaman's blaster before grabbing him and performing a down-throw. Everyone was quite even, but then Link threw a bomb and spin attacked Lucario, who was sent into the bomb and took a lot of damage. Megaman came to Lucario's rescue, using an aura sphere to knock Link back. However, Lucario soon turned on it's helper with an up-B attack. Mario attacked Link with a super jump punch, knocking him off the map, while Megaman threw off Lucario. Now it was down to 9-Volt and Ana. Mario jumped and used F.L.U.D.D to dish some damage, but Megaman quickly recovered and used a leaf shield. Mario dodged and threw fireballs, but Megaman used the saw blade attack to knock Mario away. The battle seemed to be leaning towards Mario, but all of a sudden, the smash ball arrived, very close to Megaman. Mario leapt at it, but Megaman was the one to grab it. After half a second of button mashing, Megaman's final smash occurred and blasted Mario off the announcement for game went up, and the winner was Ana! 9-Volt turned to her and smiled.

"Well done!" he said. Ana blushed slightly.

"Thanks!" she replied. They all heard someone clear their throat and turned towards the doorway, where Mat was leaning.

"You all did good." he said.

"Did you finish your horror game?" asked 9-Volt.

"Yeah. It was only 7 nights long. 5 nights my face. Anyway, pizza's still 5 minutes away, so is anyone up for a round of DDR?

At the duel machine, Mat and 9-Volt scrolled through the songs while Kat, Ana, and 18-Volt discussed theories about their new mystery guest. Mat pointed to a song titled "Forest Rawest."

"Can we try this one?" he asked. 9-Volt reluctantly nodded.

"(Wow. He's going to try the hardest song right off the bat?)" he thought.

As soon as the song started, it was a maelstrom of arrows. 9-Volt was already having trouble keeping up. However, Mat seemed to be performing flawlessly. 9-Volt put more effort in, and soon they were nearly even. However, when they got to the part with the rap, Mat zoomed ahead while 9-Volt fell behind quickly. Mat was performing extremely vigorously, as if he had trained his entire life for this one song. The song ended on a flash of beats which Mat copied with a pose. Everyone clapped, and 9-Volt stood in awe.

Then there was a knock on the door and a voice announced "Pizza!

Chapter 2 done. Yeaaaah!

Thanks to everyone who reads this.

10 references, find em all!

Also, there is one massive flaw in the story. Shout out to the first person who gets it!

Bye!

-TF