I push my way through the crowd looking for any sign of Vanellope but I can't find her any where "where did Vanellope say she was going?" I ask Felix after a moment with no response I turn around to look at him but he's not there "oh come on Felix how hard is it to keep up" I say to my self as I head back in the direction I came from I jump up and see Felix with Ralph at the other end of the station "okay they found each other now I have to go find Vanellope" I say as I turn around head back in my original direction I get out of a huge crowd and finally get some breathing room.

"god this place is worse than game central station" I say to my self as I look around for Vanellope I see a blue light flashing around the portal station "I'd recognize that flash anywhere" I say as I walk over to her but before I get close she flashes into a portal I run over to see what game she glitched into I read the name above the portal "fallout 3" I sigh doesn't sound very interesting I walk into the portal and enter the game as I enter the game I am blinded by a light I blink as my eyes adjust to it I look around and see that I'm in what looks like a wasteland destroyed houses to my left I see a large dome to my front right side "well I better get looking" I say as I jump off the ledge I was on and down to the ground.

As I walk to the large dome I can feel the scorching sun slowly burning me it's boiling hot so I take off my jacket and wrap it around my waist I approach the front of the dome and see a robot standing in front of the entrance the robot slowly turns to face me "need a drink head to Moriarty's coldest drinks in the land" it says turning away from me again "uh no thanks" I say as I walk past it and enter the dome the there's a large door when I enter the dome so I open it and enter I look around and see that inside the dome is a town "well I'll be another new comer" I hear some one say I look down and see a large man with a cowboy hat and a long brown jacket "hello my names Lucas simms and I'm the sheriff of this town" he says stopping in front of me.

"hello my names Josh butterscotch" I say extending my hand to him he grabs it and shakes it "I don't know why but I like you kid" he says letting go of my hand "the same goes for me now a second ago you said another new comer was the other one a small girl with black hair and a green hood?" I ask him he nods "yeah she was looking for you a guy name Josh" he says "oh great where did she go?" I ask he gestures towards a building on the other side of the town "she went over to Moriarty's bar" he tells me I look at the building and nod "thank you" I say as I run to the bar.

I glitch to the bar and get to the door I open it and walk in a smile spreads across my face when I see Vanellope sitting on a bar stool spinning around she sees me enter and stops spinning she jumps off the stool and runs over to me I pull her in for a hug and she returns it "Josh I was looking all over for you" she says still holding on to me "really because a moment ago you were spinning around on that bar stool" I say squeezing her "well I've been glitching every where it gets tiring" she says letting go of me I shake my head and squeeze her again "well I found you let's go back now" I say pulling her to the door were about to leave when I see a guy sitting in the corner of the bar gesturing for me to go over there "just wait a sec I'm going go talk to that guy" I tell Vanellope "come on Josh we don't have time" she says trying to pull me to the door "we have a week I'll only be a minute" I say getting out of her grip and walking over to the guy.

"my my just when I had all but given up hope my dear boy it is a pleasure to make your acquaintance I am mister burke" he says gesturing for me to sit down I do in the chair next to him "okay Burke what do you want?" "straight to business I like that" he says leaning closer to me he places his elbows on his knees and clasps his hands together "you have no connections in this town you don't know these people" "yeah so?" I ask "well you see the undetonated bomb for which this town is named is still very much alive and what I want you to do is detonate it" he tells me I shake my head and jump off the chair "so you want me to blow up the town!" I yell trying to get everybody's attention which I do a man who looks very old walks over he has white hair and a white beard he's wearing a black vest and a white shirt underneath.

"Burke what's this I hear about you wanting to blow up the town?" he asks Burke stands up and straightens out his tie "I said no such thing" he tells the old guy very calmly I smile "yeah right you didn't say anything" I hear a lady say I look over and see a red headed lady wearing all leather walk over "you never liked this town Burke you always hated it" she says pointing a finger at him he chuckles lightly and reaches into his white jacket and pulls out a pistol and aims it at the lady "alright you caught me so what?" he says "I have this gun and if you don't let me leave I will shoot all of you" he says as he begins walking to the door I watch as they let him pass and sigh "why do I have to be so nice" I say as I get ready to glitch.

I glitch at Burke and hit him directly in the chest knocking him to the ground he drops his pistol and I pick it up and toss it to the old guy he catches it and aims it at Burke "well Burke looks like the tables have turned he says walking up to him Burke sits up and raises his hands above his head "alright Burke we are going to have a talk with Lucas" the old guy says gesturing for him to stand so Burke stands up and keeps his hands above his head as he walks to the door "thanks kid anything I can do to repay ya?" the man says I look around the room and I see a pair of goggles hanging up on the wall "I like those goggles" I say pointing to them "take em" he says as he escorts burke out of the bar.

I smile and walk over to the goggles I jump up and grab them I look them over and see that there's a small crack on the left lens I shrug Felix can fix them but other than the crack these are some nice goggles chocolate brown leather around the lens and a black leather adjustable strap I smile and place them on my head Vanellope walks up behind me and adjusts them for me "is that good?" she asks tightening the strap I nod "yeah perfect I say turning around I place the goggles over my eyes and look around "they could use a cleaning but I like them" I say as I place them back on the top of my head "okay great you got your goggles now let's go" she says pulling me to the door.

We leave the bar were back in the scorching hot town "I dislike the heat very much" I tell Vanellope she nods "yeah me too" she says pulling her hood off "well lets hurry up and leave" she says grabbing my hand and pulling me through the town "so we just go back the way we came?" I ask her she shrugs "I guess so I don't know" she says as we near the exit were about to leave when Lucas stops us "hey kid I heard about what you did at the bar and I would like to thank you" he says extending his hand to me I grab it and shake it with my free hand.

He rubs his chin with his hand "you know why don't you move in?" he asks I think for a moment but Vanellope punches me in the shoulder with her free hand "don't tell me you were actually thinking about it" she says squeezing my hand "what no never" I say pulling her to the door "thanks any ways simms" I say as me and Vanellope exit the town "okay this time I'm not letting go of you" she says tightening her grip on my hand I smile and shake my head "right because some one holding on to me always ends so well" I say rolling my eyes.

We exit the town and begin walking to where we came from were almost home free when a couple of people stop us one has a Mohawk and a tire wrapped around his torso he steps up pulls out a gun "alright pip squeak hand over any weapons caps and ammo you have" he says cocking his shot gun I sigh and pull out my pistol and wrap my arm around Vanellope's torso and squeeze she understands and glitches us past them when we appear on the other side of them I turn around and start firing my pistol at them after a couple second they have all fallen motionless on the ground.

I look over at Vanellope and she has covered her eyes I squeeze her torso again start pulling her towards the exit were close to the exit when I get hit in the back of the head and fall down I hold my head as I hit the ground and I hear Vanellope scream I look up and see a couple more guys like the ones I just killed I try and grab my pistol but one of them kicks me in the face knocking me onto my back again "oh you are just the worst type of people" I manage to say before I black out.

I jump onto Reginald's boat and look around for him I see him at the front cleaning his spy glass I tip toe up to him and when I reach him I grab his shoulder and scream I laugh as he jumps up and falls over the railing into the water I look down and see him swimming to the shore he reaches it and looks up and sees me smiling and waving at him he narrows his eyes and frowns as he stands up "that was not funny" he says as he crosses his arms "I don't know it was pretty funny from my point of view" I say as I lean on the railing he shakes his head and walks over to the ramp to board his ship he gets onto the ship and walks over to a small chest and opens it he pulls out the wolf blanket he made and starts drying him self off with it he finishes and puts the blanket away again then walks over to me "so my friend what are your plans for today?" he asks me I shrug and stand up straight "I was planning to go out and try and explore the arcade today" "what about Billy?" he asks.

I shrug again "I'll just try and avoid him" "well good luck with that from what I've heard he has it out for you" he tells me as he pats me on the shoulder "seriously what is his problem with me we've only been plugged in a few weeks how what did I ever do to him?" I ask Reginald shrugs "I don't know why don't you ask him?" I laugh and wave him away "no way am I going to talk to him I would rather just stay in this game my entire life" I say as I begin walking to the exit "well your going to have to face him eventually!" Reginald yells as I jump off the boat "and if that ever happens which I doubt it will he will destroy me!" I yell back I begin running and when I reach the tree line I jump into the trees, I jump through the trees as fast as I can making record time, I make it through the forest so I jump down and run up the path to the exit when I see Billy walking out of it I roll my eyes and slow down to a brisk walk.

Billy sees me and stops he crosses his arms and watches as I make my way up to the exit " hey kid where do you think your'e going?" he asks "just going to go look around" I tell him as I walk past him he shakes his head and continues walking down the path I walk through the dark tunnel making my way to game central station when I bump into somebody and fall to the ground "oh crap sorry I cant see a thing" I say as I stand up "no worries" I hear them say I squint my eyes to try and get a better look at who I bumped into and I recognize Sonjay "yeah well they really need to get lights in here" I say nervously while I rub the back of my head "Don't worry about it its not your fault" he says again as he walks past me "well okay I'll catch you later" I say as he walks away he doesn't respond and keeps walking I shake my head and continue walking to game central station.

I shake my head as I wake up again I look up and around and see that I'm in the corner of a plaza type place stuck behind a set of fences with a couple other kids I look down to my right and see Vanellope laying down on a bed next to me I see some sort of metallic collar around her neck "what the hell" I say as I lean closer to her "I wouldn't touch that if I were you" I hear a kid say I look over and see a kid leaning on the fence "why not?" "because we don't know how they work" he says I'm about to say something when I begin vomiting "oh crap" I say as I wipe the puke off my mouth.

"looks like you have radiation poisoning" the same kid says standing up and walking over to me "what?" I say he shakes his head and kneels down next to me "radiation poisoning you know being to exposed to radiation too much" he says I shake my head "I'm not from around here" I say standing up "well you must have been exposed at some point you've been out for a whole day" he tells me I shake my head "what bull" I say stepping back over to Vanellope I kneel down next to her and start shaking her "Vanellope sweet pea wake up we have to go now!" I say still shaking her.

Finally she opens her eyes and sees me standing over her she jumps up and hugs me "oh your ok!" she says I nod my head "yes I'm fine but we have to go" I say pulling her to the gate of the fence "okay if you guys are leaving we want in" I hear a kid say I sigh and pull Vanellope to the gate "alright you guys can tag along" I say getting to the gate "well we have to we need to find the remote that controls these stupid collars" a kid says tugging at his "why do we need a remote?" I ask "well to turn these collars off so they don't explode" the same kid says as he stops pulling at his collar I begin panicking "oh that's not good" I say as I start pulling at Vanellope's collar she pushes my hand away "okay I think I can get it off" she says she steps away from me and glitches she appears a foot away from where she was and the collar is off I smile and do the same with my glitching.

I look at the kids and they are all astonished by me and Vanellope "oh that's just not fair" one of the kids say as he crosses his arms I shrug "its a curse as much as it is a gift" I tell them "oh I'm so sure about that" a kid says sitting back down on the ground "alright guys Vanellope will stay here with you I will go and find that remote to turn off the collars" I say turning back to the gate I step back and try and grab my pistol I look down and see that they have taken my pistol and sword I sigh and jump up over the fence I land on the other side and stand up.

I turn around and look back at the kids "wait here" I say as I begin walking towards the building on the right hand side of the plaza "oh yeah because we really have a choice" I hear one of the kids yell I turn back toward the building and crouch down "alright this place first" I say to my self I step behind a car and look around the corner of it I see a couple guys wearing black armor and they're carrying large guns "oh great" I say to my self I look at the other side of the road and roll away from the destroyed car and leap around the corner of the building.

I lean on the wall and think for a second "what am I doing I could easily glitch my way through all these guys" I say to my self I stand up and glitch backwards through the wall I land on something soft I sit up and look around and see that I'm on a heart shaped bed I see a couple girls running out of the room I look to my right and see a guy sitting on the couch looking really annoyed he sits up straight and pulls out a pistol and aims it at me I look closer and see that he has my pistol I shake my head and glitch at him I crash into him and send him flying into the wall behind him he shakes his head and stands back up I walk over to him and pick up my pistol.

I glitch at him again and smash him into the wall again I grab him by the collar as he slides down the wall "what do you want from me?" he asks "I want you to tell me where my sword is and where the remote for the collar is" I say still holding him against the wall he points to a desk on the other side of the room I let go of him and glitch over to it I see my sword and holster and my pistol holster as well sitting on it I grab my pistol holster and wrap it around my waist and place my pistol in it I do the same with my sword holster except on my back I turn back and face the guy and cross my arms as he stands up coughing.

I'm about to ask where the remote is when I feel more vomit coming up I bend over and begin throwing up again when I stop I look up and see the guy limping to the door I pull out my pistol and am about to shoot him when some on kicks my pistol out of my hand I look at the person and see that they're one of the people that was standing outside I glitch at them knocking them down I run back to my pistol and grab it I turn around and shoot the black armor guy as he stands up he falls back down and remains motionless.

I look back to the first guy and see that he has fallen over he's now leaning on the door I walk over and aim my pistol at his face "now where is the remote for the collars?" I ask he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a small square remote with three buttons on it I grab it and look at it I press a button with an unlocked padlock on it "that better have worked or I'll be back for you" I say as I stand up and walk over to the hole I made in the wall I jump out and run over to the place where we were locked up I reach it and look in I see that the kids have taken off their collars and are now walking towards the gate.

Vanellope sees me and smiles she glitches through the gate and next to me "great you did it!" she says hugging me I nod "okay people let's get out of here" I say breaking the lock on the gate but when I do I hear an alarm go off I look back and see more of the black armored guys run around the pile of broken cars and straight for us "okay sweet pea get these guys out of here" I tell her as I guide her to a make shift wall of the plaza "what how am I supposed to do that?" she asks "glitch them through the wall" I tell her as I turn around and grab my pistol I begin shooting the guys and they begin falling one dives for cover and another keeps running for me while the rest lay dead.

I hold them off with my pistol an sword and when I look back I see Vanellope glitching the last kid out of here I smile an glitch over to the wall I stop in front of it and Vanellope glitches back through "Josh lets go" she says as she grabs my arm and glitches us through the wall I wrap my arm around her torso and pull her closer we begin running following the kids we freed "where are they going Vanellope asks me "I don't know but it must be safe other wise they wouldn't be going there" I tell her.

We catch up to the kids and begin running next to them "so where are you guys going?" I ask them "little lamp light" one of them says jumping over a rock "I don't know about this Josh" Vanellope says to me "well we don't have much options now do we" I say as I start slowing down I try to keep up but I keep falling behind "come on Josh" Vanellope says as she tries pulling me ahead "I don't think.." I cant manage to finish the sentence because I begin throwing up again I trip on a rock and fall to the ground I keep throwing up and when I finally stop I fall onto my back.

Vanellope kneels down next to me and tries helping me up even a couple of the kids stop to help me "come on Josh we have to go" she says pulling on my arm I sit up and hold my stomach "I'm not feeling so hot" I say "no Josh you have to be okay" Vanellope says at this point she's now dragging me across the ground I manage to get to my feet I use Vanellope to balance my self as we make our way through the desert "so how far to little lamp light?" I ask one of the kids "not too far" one of them says pointing to a hill in the distance "do you have a doctor there or something?" Vanellope asks them "well sorta kinda she's like a doctor" a kid says "what do you mean kinda like a doctor?" I ask through breaths.

We reach the hill and I see a door at the base of the hill "is that it?" I ask one of the kids nods and runs to the door "come on Josh just a little further" Vanellope says helping me to the door we get to it and some one opens it for us and we enter on the other side of the door is a little tunnel we walk through it on the other side of the tunnel is a large metal gate it opens for us and we enter "hey what's with the new bloods" a kid wearing a helmet and all green says jumping down from a platform "they helped us escape from paradise falls" one of the kids say.

The kid wearing green walks up to us and stops "is that so well they must be pretty tough then well the girl looks alright but the guy looks like hammered shit" he says looking at me Vanellope let's go of me and points a finger at him "you listen here bub Josh is tougher than all of you put together" she says angrily at him I begin falling "van sweet pea?" I say weakly I'm about to hit the ground when a couple kids catch me and straighten me out as Vanellope continues her rant "okay okay calm down there sweet cheeks" he says tapping her on the cheeks I try to say something but my vision becomes blurry and I start throwing up again.

The same green guy walks over to me and grabs my shoulder "what the hells the matter with you?" he asks "we think he has radiation poisoning" one of the kids say "well that's just perfect another body to take care of get him to Lucy" the kid in green says the kids nod and help me over to a small shack on the right side of the small cave we are in we enter the shack and I see that there are three rooms they take me to the second one and I see another kid standing in front of a cabinet rummaging through it.

One of the kids let's go of me and walks over to the girl "hey Lucy we have some one with radiation poisoning can you help him?" they ask her she turns around and walks over to a table and grabs a needle on it "alright sit him on the bed" she says gesturing to the bed at the side of the room they carry me over and place me on the bed Lucy walks over and grabs my arm she moves the bottom of my sleeve and places the needle in my arm and injects it "alright you should be fine just have some rest" she tells me making me lay down.

I push her arm away and sit up "I'll be fine we need to get home" I tell her as I try and stand up she places a hand on my chest and pushes me back down "no you need rest" she says walking back to the cabinet she grabs something from it and walks back over to me she tries to stick a needle in my arm but I shake her away I jump up and flip over her I land next to Vanellope and grab her arm and pull her out of the shack the guy in green is standing out side and he sees us running out "hey what are you two doing?" he asks "they are trying to make me rest but we need to get home" I tell him he shakes his head "Lucy knows what she's doing you should listen to her" he says crossing his arms.

I shake my head "no time for rest we need to go" I say pulling Vanellope to the gate "alright but you guys wont last ten seconds with out a scav team" he says walking away from us I sigh and keep walking to the gate "woah where do you think your going?" I hear Lucy yell "home!" I yell back they run up in front us and stop us "no you are in no condition to be going any where" she says pushing me and Vanellope back to the shack.

I try and walk around them but they just keep pushing us back "it's way to dangerous for you guys to be walking around out there" Lucy says as we reach the shack "okay so we get ambushed once and suddenly it's too dangerous to be walking around" I say as I pick up Vanellope and jump over the kids "it's like that all over wasteland" Lucy says trying to run in front of us again but me and Vanellope have already made it past the gate and are running through the tunnel "Josh do you even know how were going to get back to the Internet?" Vanellope asks me.

I shake my head "I have no idea" I tell her as we reach the exit of the cave I kick the door open and run out of it "get back here!" I hear Lucy yell "sorry but we have to get home" I yell back "we understand but at least let us send some people with you!" she says as she catches up to us I stop and put Vanellope down "alright okay as long as we get to leave" Lucy nods and turns to one of the kids "go get the scav team" the kid nods and runs back into the tunnel we wait a couple minutes and several kids come walking down the tunnel carrying guns "okay so what are we doing?" one of them ask "you guys are going to escort these two to the exit" Lucy says gesturing to us the kid nods and walks past us.

He stops outside the door and gestures for us to follow so we do we exit little lamp light and head to the right towards the exit I'm guessing we walk through the desert while the kids are formed in a circle around us "so if this place is so bad why don't you guys just leave?" I ask them the one in front turns around to face us and he starts walking backwards "well this is kinda our home if we leave we won't have any where to go" he says holstering his gun I turn my eyes to Vanellope and she does the same I raise an eye brow and she nods "well me and Vanellope live in a castle with lots of free rooms" I tell them.

They all look at each other and back to us "thanks for the offer but this is where we belong" the same kid in front says "so is it true that you saved all those kids from paradise falls?" one of the kids ask I nod "yeah we did" "really that's awesome!" another kid says I look around to see where we are I see a couple electrical towers to my right I look to me left and see some fences a couple meters away I see the kids duck down the one in front gestures for us to duck down as well "what is it?" I ask "that's fort bannister it's talon companies camp" he whispers.

I look at the camp and see some guys in black armor carrying some guns around "so are they jerks or something?" I ask the kid in front nods and starts moving away from the camp still crouched "well what do they do?" "they kill people for money" one of the kids tell me I shake my head "and people just let them do that?" I ask "well they have more guns and people then almost everybody and the people that can stop them won't" the kid in front says angrily I look over at the camp and sigh I let go of Vanellope stand up and pull out my sword.

I begin walking over when I feel Vanellope grab my arm "Josh you are not going over there" she tells me pulling me back "why not?" "Josh you cant help everyone" "I totally can" "look these people are surviving they'll be fine let's just leave" she says squeezing my arm I look back at the camp and then to the kids and sigh "fine" I say allowing Vanellope to pull me back "the suns going to set soon" one of the kids say "alright people double time" the kid in the front tells us we stand up and begin running "how long until we get to the exit?" Vanellope asks "well we passed fort bannister a while ago so not that far" the kid in the front says speeding up I look around as we pass a couple destroyed houses.

"you know I'm glad I declined Lucas" I tell Vanellope "why?" "I mean this place seems exciting and all but I haven't seen a good tree or animal since I got here" "why do you want animals?" "well I love hunting remember that deer in my game?" I ask she nods and is about to say something when one of the kids yell "brute!" I don't know what he's talking about but I pull out my pistol and let go of Vanellope and spin around to see a gigantic green monster I can see it's veins pressing against its skin I aim at it's head but it lunges forward at me I jump towards Vanellope and grab her and glitch us away.

I look back and see the "brute" grab one of the kids he brings the kid up to his head and bites he pulls back his head ripping the kids head off I cover Vanellopes eyes and run over to a rock I place her back on the rock and look over it "wait here" I tell her as I jump over the rock I aim my pistol at the brute and start firing at it's head but it has some sort of metal helmet on so my pistol isn't doing much I put my pistol back in my holster and pull out my sword.

I jump at it and start slashing away it backs away trying to shoot me but I'm jumping around too much for him to land a shot I spin around as I fly up towards his head and cut him on neck he drops his gun and clasps his hands around his neck "never stop us" he says weakly before falling to the ground and dying I sit down for some reason tired I look back at the kids and see them standing around the decapitated body of their friend I sigh and place my head on my arms and curl up into a ball I begin getting heated up even though the sun is down from my breath I feel some sweat go down my back I hear some one walking up to me but I don't look.

They place their hand on my shoulder and squeeze "Josh are you ok?" she asks I look up and nod "yeah just very tired" I say standing up I walk over to the kids some are kneeling and some are sitting around the body I place my hand on the leaders shoulder he looks up at me gives me a forced smile "thanks for killing that thing" he says I nod and kneel down "look we would understand if you want to go back to lamplight" I tell him "how would you guys get back?" he asks I shrug "you can point us in the right direction" I say standing up I stretch my hand out to him and he grabs it and I help him up.

He shakes my hand and let's go "well were not that far just head under that overpass" he says pointing to a broken overpass I nod and look back to Vanellope I hold my hand out to her and she grabs it "alright thank you guys" I say as I walk to the overpass "if you're ever around come for a visit!" one of the kids yell as we walk away "we will!" I yell back as I wave at them with my free hand we get to the overpass and walk under it "so we can finally leave" Vanellope says as she starts running for the exit dragging me with her we go around the hill and I see the portal to exit the game "hurry up Josh" Vanellope says glitching us to the portal we stop in front of it I look over at Vanellope and she's biting her lip and she won't stop bouncing on her feet I smile and shake my head as I pull her through the portal.

I blink as we enter the portal station the lights seem to have gotten brighter or I'm just losing it I look around and see that the station is still very full of characters Vanellope let's go of my hand and jumps onto my back "okay let's go find stink brain and the others" she says kicking me in side of my torso I sigh and enter the crowd "well the last time I saw Ralph and Felix they were sitting on a bench around here" I say jumping up finally I spot both of them walking in front of some portals I run over and reach them they spot us and run over as well "where the heck were you two?" Ralph asks as he reaches us "we got kidnapped in a game so we had to escape" I tell him as I put Vanellope down he picks us up and brings us up to eye level "Josh are you ok your not looking to good" he says while he narrows his eyes I nod my head and look around I notice Calhoun isn't with them "where's Sarge?" I ask "she went running around looking for you two she told us to wait here in case you got back" Ralph says placing us on his shoulders.

I jump onto his head and look around "so where did she go last?" I ask "she went into that game" Ralph says pointing to a portal on the other side of station I jump off his shoulder and run to the portal I'm about to enter it when I feel Vanellope jump onto my back "alright what's the plan?" she asks I shake my head and take her off my back "no you stay here with Ralph" I tell her nudging her back towards Ralph "what no why?" "well if this game is anything like the last one it will be faster and safer for me and Calhoun to handle it" I tell her as I pick her up and toss her to Ralph he catches her and wraps his fingers around her "okay I'll go get Calhoun" I say as I turn around and enter the portal to another game for hopefully the last time before we get home.