A/N Time warp!


Ain't no grave

Four days earlier

Brad keeps his eyes on Josh's download, making sure nothing goes wrong. "How is the body?" Brad asks.
"Everything is looking good sir." One of the scientists say. Brad nods his head.
"Download complete." A computer voice says. Josh blinks a couple times before sitting up. He rubs the back of his head and looks around.
"What...how did I live?" Josh asks.
"You didn't. You died." Brad says. Josh looks up at him.
"I died? But how did I get here then?"
"Well. It's simple really. When you pressed the prisoner of war option your coding got downloaded onto this computer." Brad says patting the computer.

Josh slides off the bed. He feels his body. His new body. "This is my body?" He asks. Brad shakes his head.
"No. This is your new body. Your old body got blown up. Along with anyone that was near you." Josh looks around.
"Am I back in your game?" He asks.
"Yep. Welcome back. You lasted a whole two hours out there with those bionics." Josh shakes his head. Brad pats him on the back. "Don't worry. You've lasted the longest with those things. Most people end up blowing up before they make it out of the game." Josh walks towards the door.

"Thanks for your help Brad. I have to get back to my friends...my friends. Vanellope, Ralph, Felix...and uhhh. Calhoun!" He says running towards the exit. He exits the website, back towards Litwak's laptop. He runs through the crowd, but runs straight into someones back. He looks up to see Chell. He smiles. Chell looks down at him. A large grin spreads across her face. She picks him up and crushes him with a hug.

"Hey Chell." Josh says hugging her back. She spins around. She pulls her head back. She mouths some words. Josh shakes his head. "I don't know what your saying." He says. Chell tilts her head. "I know you can't talk. Is there any other way you can...communicate?" Chell thinks for a moment. She puts Josh down. She reaches into her pocket and pulls out a pen. She grabs Josh's hand, pulls his sleeve down and writes on it. Josh reads what she wrote.

"I thought you died." He reads. Josh looks up at her and nods.
"I did. But Brad saved me." He says. Chell takes his arm again.
"That's great! Want to go to my game?" He reads.
"To Portal 2? Sure! I got time to hang." He says. Chell takes him over to her game.

Portal 2

Josh looks Chell's portal gun over. He puts his arm in. It's a little big, but Josh shoots it at a wall anyways, creating a blue portal. He aims the gun at another wall and shoots an orange portal. He steps through the orange portal, out the blue one. He smiles. "This thing is so cool." He says. Chell nods her head.
"Press the code download button." Brad says. Josh looks around, but can't see anyone. "On your wrist." Josh looks down at his right wrist, but nothings there. He looks at his left wrist and pulls his sleeve up.

A screen on his arm shows Brad standing there. Josh waves. Brad waves back. "Press the code download button." Brad says again.
"Where?" Josh asks. Brad presses a button from his side. Another screen pops up, showing a list of options. Brad scrolls through the list for Josh. Brad selects the upload button. Codes begin floating around Josh's arm. "Okay. Place your palm on the portal gun." Brad says. Josh does as he is told.

Codes begin wrapping around the portal gun. After a minute the codes go into Josh's arm. "What did that do?" Josh asks.
"You downloaded the portal gun. Just think portal gun and hold your arm out." Brad says. Josh holds his arm out in front of him and thinks portal gun. A wave of what Josh assumes is metal comes out of his wrist and builds around his hand, forming a portal gun fit to his hand perfectly. He smiles.

"That is so cool. What else can this do?" Josh asks.
"A lot. Just try somethings out. It's all touch screen. I'll check on you later." Brad says before disappearing from the screen. Josh looks up at Chell.
"I have a few more games I now HAVE to check out with this cool code download thing. Wanna tag along?" He asks. Chell nods her head. Josh turns and runs towards the exit. Chell follows him.

Team fortress 2

The heavy let's go of Josh, allowing him to drop down to the ground. Josh cracks his back. "That is great friend! Is good to see you alive and well!" He says. Josh nods his head. "It's great to see you buddy. Now about the mini-gun?" Josh says. The heavy puts his mini-gun down in front of Josh.
"What are you going to do with it?" The heavy asks. Josh presses the code download button and places his palm on the mini-gun. The codes enter Josh's arm, downloading the mini-gun. He smiles, holds both of his hands out, and thinks mini-gun.

The small metal pieces come out of Josh's wrist and build a mini-gun in his hands. He smirks. "That is so awesome." He says. A couple targets pop out of the ground. Josh takes aim and fires, demolishing the target. "What other weapons do you guys have here?" He asks.
"Many! Many my friend! Come with me!" The heavy says. Josh follows the heavy to their armory. The heavy opens the vault, showing Josh a huge assortment of weapons. Josh smirks. "This will do just fine." He says. Chell tilts her head. She kneels down and grabs Josh's wrist. She pulls his sleeve up and writes on his arm. Josh reads what she wrote.

"Why do you need so many weapons?" Josh shrugs.
"There was this guy. His name was Dave. He tried taking over game central. I had to stop him by blowing my self up...it's a long story." Josh says. He turns back to the weapons and enters the vault.

Three days later

After being trained with several different weapons he had acquired from the vault, Josh was pretty deadly. Sniper rifle, flamethrower, revolver, rocket launcher, a double barreled shotgun that the guy had called a scatter-gun, a gun that shot needles, and even a grenade launcher. Josh thanks everyone and is about to leave when an alarm goes off. His trainers run to the large metal door at the front of the factory. Josh follows them.

"What's going on?" Josh asks. The spy looks down at him.
"The robots have broken out." He says. Josh looks out the door as it opens. He remembers the robots. He and Ralph helped trap them their last visit here. Then it hits Josh. "My last visit here. Chell! My online game! Vanellope!" He yells. The guys look at him.
"What is it?" The spy asks.
"Don't you get it! I REMEMBER my last visit here!" He yells. All of them look at him weirdly. Josh shakes his head. "It's a long story...and I REMEMBER it!" He says.

The alarm goes off again. "We will ask later. We have work to do." The spy says running out of the door. Josh smiles and follows them. A blue metal tank breaks the rock blockage, allowing its self and the robots through. Josh holds his hands out to build the sniper rifle. He takes aim at the robots and starts taking them out.
"Be efficient." The sniper tells him. Josh nods as he shoots one of the robots in the head. The robots starts pushing forward, so Josh switches weapons. The sniper dismantles and forms the rocket launcher. Josh starts firing at the robots running forward.

One of the robots run at Josh with a bat. Josh builds the scatter-gun and fires at the robot, blowing its head off. Another robot runs at him with a bat as well. He shoots it in the leg making it trip. He picks up the bat and presses the code download button, downloading it. A robot picks Josh up as he's doing it. It tilts his head and aims the flamethrower at Josh's head. As the robots about to burn Josh's face off its head gets shot off by the sniper. Josh drops to the ground and rolls out of the way of the tank. Josh tries glitching to the top of the tank, forgetting that Brad has fixed his glitching. He hits the side of the tank and slides back to the ground. The bat finishes downloading, so Josh let's go of it. He climbs up the side of the tank, onto the top.

The spy passes Josh something. He catches it. "What does this do?" Josh asks.
"It is a sapper Like a mini e.m.p." The spy says. Josh nods his head and places it on the tank. Electricity runs through it, the tank shuts off. Josh takes the sapper off and passes it back to the spy. A rocket explosion knocks Josh onto the ground. He hits the ground face first, knocking him out.

A beeping on Josh's wrist wakes him up. He sits up and rubs his head. "Great you are awake!" The medic says. Josh looks at him.
"What happened?" Josh asks.
"A rocket knocked you off the tank, knocking you out. You will be fine." Josh nods his head. The beeping pulls Josh's attention to his wrist. He pulls up his sleeve. A little bubble in the middle of the screen tells Josh he is getting a call. He presses the bubble. Brad pops up on his wrist.

"Finally! A recon team told me your Litwak guy is back." Brad says. Josh nods his head.
"Thanks. I'll leave right away." Josh says jumping off the bed. He thanks the medic and runs for the exit. He passes all of the guys, saying bye, all of that. He exits the game and heads for Litwak's laptop.

Game central

Josh enters game central station, so he slows down to a walk. A large grin spreads across his face. "I'm back." He whispers. He turns right and heads down the station. He wants to go to Sugar Rush first.

Ralph and 643 run out of the tunnel. They see Josh walking towards the tunnel. "There he is! Get him!" 643 yells. Josh stops walking. He looks behind him, then back at the two. 643 jumps onto Josh and starts punching him. Josh uses his glove arm to push 643 off, surprisingly easily. "What was that all about?" Josh asks.
"We know you're not Josh, Cameron! Ralph yells. Josh shakes his head.
"Cameron? Who the hell is Cameron?" He asks.

643 lunges forward. Josh steps out of the way and pushes him away with his glove hand. "I'm Josh you morons!" Josh yells. Ralph crosses his arms.
"If you're really Josh, then tell us something only Josh would know." He says. Josh crosses his arms. "I hate your shack because it smells like a dump...no offense." Josh says. Ralph uncrosses his arms and smiles. "It is Josh!" He says picking Josh up. Josh pushes Ralph's head away.
"Okay! It's me! Where's Vanellope?" He says. Ralph looks toward Rise of a Warrior.
"Cameron took her. He's holding her in his game...it's a sequel to your game." Ralph says.

Josh looks towards the game. He jumps out of Ralph's hands and runs into the game. He steps into the game. As soon as both of his feet are in the game he's frozen in place. A green panel shines below him. "Uhh guys. What's happening?" He asks.
"I don't know. I've never seen this happen before." 643 says. A green pillar of light surrounds Josh and shoots into the air, almost blinding the two, but not Josh. He remains still, looking around. He's forced to inhale deeply. His fingers clench into fists, his eyes are shut, he begins floating into the air.

A whirlwind of electricity, fire, water, ice, and some rocks fly in circles around him. The pillar begins expanding, covering the land, before disappearing in a flash. Josh slowly floats down to his feet. 643 steps forward and places a hand Josh's shoulder.

Josh stands up and opens his eyes. Green fog like stuff emanates from his eyes along with his eyes glowing an emerald green, the same color of his eyes. He spins 643 around and yanks the hover board off his back. He throws it down and jumps on it. He flies into the air, towards Cameron's base. "Sheesh. What's his problem?" 643 asks. Ralph shrugs and follows Josh down the river.

Josh zooms through the air, blowing his hair back. "Hey Josh I just got a large reading of energy from you. I'm activating your armor. Protects you from a lot." Brad says. Black armor begins encasing Josh's body. He ignores it. His only goal, Vanellope. The castle comes into view. He sees Cameron standing in front of the window. He back-flips on the board, sending it flying towards the window.


A/N Yay! We now know what Josh was doing! I hope you liked the chapter.