Part Four: We Could Be Heroes

Thanks to some convincing by Penn, Corona changed her mind about trying to be a part-time hero.

Know that Jane would definitely not approve, Corona would do this in secret.

As would be expected, Corona was nervous about her first mission.

"Don't worry Corona, you'll do fine" Penn reassured her

"I sure hope so..." Corona sighed.

The trio and Corona were sent into the universe of their mission.

The universe resembled a computer program. Each of them looked like some type of video game character.

Penn looked like a character from a game about vampire slayers, Boone looked like he was from a game about vikings, and Sashi was from a scifi game with laser gums. Meanwhile Corona looked like she belonged in some cutesy little kids game like Animal Crossing or My Sims.

"Oh my god Penn, look at your girlfriend!" Boone laughed

Penn laughed too. "I'd say this is a fairly accurate representation of how cute she is in real life." He smirked.

Corona sighed. "What is going on anyways?"

Sashi showed what the mission was on her specs. "We have to make sure the super power-up doesn't get in the wrong hands. The super power-up apparently has a glitch that could destroy the whole digital universe."

"Yikes." The other 3 said in unison.

"and the power-up is over there." Sashi pointed towards a floating, glowing plus sign.

"Do we take it...or...? What do we do exactly?" Corona asked

"Yep, we take it." Penn walked over to the power-up.

He was just about to grab it when Rippen showed up.

"Penn Zero. I bet you thought you were just going to take the power-up and protect it from me?" said Rippen

"Yes. Also in the time it took you to say that, I grabbed it and I'm already running away!" Penn, Boone, Sashi, and Corona were all running.

"The way they're running reminds me of the time I tried being a track runner!" said Larry "I was in first place and for some reason the other runners were shouting 'Sir put the penguin down! You can't take penguins from the zoo! Sir!' but I won the race anyways."

Rippen groaned.

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When the gang knew they had lost Rippen, they stopped running.

Penn panted loudly. He handed Boone the power-up. "Man, who knew being a video game characters was so tiring!"

"Same!" Boone also panted.

"We have to get the power-up to the safe before Rippen shows up." said Sashi

"And where's the safe, exactly?" asked Corona

"Somewhere in this area." Sashi replied. Sashi appered to be looking around. "Over there." Sashi pointed to a volcano.

"A volcano? What kind of safe is that?" asked Penn.

"The safest one?" Boone shrugged.

"Well, let's get climbing." Penn signed.

The four climbed the volcano.

At the top, unsurprisingly, Rippen and Larry were there.

Penn groaned.

"Give me the power-up!" Rippen shouted.

"Uh...No?" Penn replied

"Give me the power-up or your girlfriend will fall in!" Rippen nudge Corona enough that she tripped, and was now hanging off the ledge.

Rippen held his foot over her fingers, threatening to step on them if Penn didn't hand over the power-up.

"Don't do it Penn! I'll be...uh...I'll be fine..." said Corona, trying not to think about falling.

"Nah. I'm not giving you the power-up." Penn threw it into the volcano.

"UGH! YOU LITTLE!" Rippen stepped on Corona's hand, and she let go, and began to fall, screaming, closing her eyes.

"Corona, you can stop screaming, and open your eyes now." said Penn

Corona opened her eyes and they were back at the Oddyssey.

"I'm...alive?"

"Yeah...I'm guessing after almost dying you now no longer want to be a part-time hero..."

"No, actually that was really exciting! I can totally do this."

"Then welcome to the team, Corona."