"Is it almost off Kakarot?" Vegeta yelled from Goku's room, playing Mario Party 3.

"Almost!" Goku replied.

He had spent almost now half an hour cleaning the black gunk from the chip, but the more Goku removed it, he saw the chip was red with black rectangles along the surface.

"Huh, this is weird . . . none of my other cartridges have this." Goku raised an eyebrow and walked back to his room and greeted Vegeta with a warm kiss.

"Is it off?" Vegeta asked afterwards.

"Yeah, it is, but the chip is weird."

"How so?"

"All my other game cartridges have a light brow, golden-ish chip, but this one turned out to be black and red . . . "

Vegeta's eyes widened as he took a look at the cartridge's chip.

"The Nintendo Seal is also missing and the seizure message thingy."

"Strange." Vegeta whispered out.

Goku's nostalgia coming back into play, he spoke out, "Eh, I bet the game's alright though."

"Right . . . let's try it out?" Vegeta looked up at Goku.

"Yes." Goku replied, "But first, you'll have to quit the game."

Goku's eyes darted to his Plasma TV which displayed Mario Party 3.

"Ah, right." Vegeta smiled and finished up the level, quickly ejecting the cartridge from the system's slot and inserting the red, Pokemon Snap one. Turning the system back on with the Pokeball, Pikachu's cheeks lighting up, Vegeta sat down beside Goku and took the controller, the Nintendo Seal popping on the screen.

"Childhood." Goku smiled, but not for long.

Camera flashes and upbeat music came out of the speakers as the couple sat together.

Goku's eyes widened, "HUH?! There's no continue option?! But how?!"

"It might have been that goo thing."

"Ugh, damn it. All that hard work for nothing." Goku grumbled and pouted, attracting Vegeta's attention.

"Hey, it's alright Hubba Bubba." the prince chuckled and kissed Goku's pout away, "We can start the game all over again and finish it off together. Sound good?"

His eyes down on Vegeta's, Goku's lips began to shape up to a smile, "Right."

Vegeta smiled and looked back to the screen, Goku's expression turning into a worried one. Vegeta being new to this game, hadn't seen the other distortions on the screen. There were three purple lines going down the screen that were a few inches wide, two on each side, one in the middle, the middle one was darker though.

Vegeta smiled and selected the "New Game" option as the screen went black. Goku closed his eyes and tried to relax.

"It's just a game . . . everything will turn out alright."

The screen went white as Professor Oak was shown . . . but not the usual one . . . this Professor Oak's eyes were all black with no pupils, with a stern look on his face. The middle purple line going over his left side made him look much more disturbing.

"Kakarot?" Vegeta looked up to his lover.

"It's ok Veg, it's just a game." Goku smiled and kissed the saiyan prince's forehead, looking over to the disturbing Professor Oak. The text dialogue came upon the scree and to Goku's surprise, it was perfectly normal . . . but something about Oak's choppy voice . . . it seemed deeper and demonic.

Vegeta then selected the first route, the beach as the screen went black then lit up with the level. Goku's eyes widened as he saw more visual distortions. The Pokemon also had all black eyes with no pupils, and the sky was a light green with no clouds or sun.

"Phaha, this reminds me of Namek." Vegeta spoke as he began to take pictures of the Pokemon on screen, and to Goku's surprise, some of them disappeared off the camera screen. Vegeta, now looking over at Goku with a confused face, asked, "Does it do that usually?"

"Yeah . . . " Goku lied.

Vegeta shrugged and went back to the game, Goku speaking up, "Don't take pictures of Snorlax or Chansey, they won't count until later."

Vegeta nodded and went along with the game, taking picture after picture of the cold, unnatural Pokemon. They were afraid of something . . . but what?

At the end, Goku couldn't help but to notice a purple circle following him from behind. Asking Vegeta to snap a picture of it, the level ended with Todd taken back to the lab. With a Pokemon Report at the end as usual Professor Oak then took over the screen and spoke.

"Nice work . . . harvesting." with a pause at the end.

"You let it in . . . didn't you? Well you know what that means, go to the tunnel." the professor spoke as chills ran down Goku's back.

Something was definitely wrong.