I returned to the others, and allowed Captain S to return us to the real world. He had to fight it out with Captain N first, but eventually the Happy Nerd decided to draw straws. So we returned to the real world, somehow ending up in what I recognized as the Angry Nerd's room.
"You wanted to come to this loser's room?" Captain N asked.
The Happy Nerd couldn't understand: "Why is he a loser to you?"
"Well, lemme put it this way..." Captain N explained, "What if you, like myself, go through all the most dangerous things, trying to save two worlds, then return home, tell your dad about them, who then decides to have these adventures turned into a TV-show, which that Critic criticized, and then this Nerd could never beat him to death, wouldn't you call him a loser?"
"Beat him to death?" Ana started, "Just for not liking some show?"
"For not liking MY show about ME!" Captain N exclaimed.
"Alright, you don't have to shout like that." Ana told him.
"Don't feel too bad about it." Captain S assured him, "My show isn't exactly selling either."
"Alright, let's not discuss any of that right now, okay?" the Gamer said.
"Not?" Captain N sounded somewhat anxious.
While they were talking, I noticed something flying into the room. I don't know what it was. Best way to describe it is that it looked like a flying fireball, giving off a white light rather than yellow-red-ish type.
"Er... guys." I told everyone.
Everyone stopped talking and looked at me. They must have noticed that I was looking at something else, as they looked in the same direction as I did.
"Er... what are you seeing?" Captain S asked me.
"You're not seeing that?" I pointed to the ball of fire and looked at everyone, who merely nodded.
Upon that, I don't think I really heard anything, but I somehow knew that the fireball asked me: "You can see me?"
This is when I realized, again, that I'll never get used to this eye-sight of mine. Should you remember, during my trip around the world, I died once, but was brought back to life. I don't know how or why, but for some reason, since my coming back to life, I started seeing things no one else could see. This way, I saw a shinigami in Japan, and a few ghosts in some of the old buildings that my job has been taking me to.
"Maybe, this would work better." the fireball said.
At that point, it changed into a more recognizable form. And somehow, ever since then, everyone else could see it too.
"Meh..." the more recognizable form spoke, "... What's up, Doc?"
"Bugs Bunny?" Captain N was amazed.
"He still looks like a guy in a suit." I said.
"Sorry, doc." it said, "How's this?"
It then changed into Spider-Man. But not unlike Bugs Bunny, this too didn't look real in any way. Still, the fact that Bugs Bunny could appear out of nowhere, and suddenly change into Spider-Man, did capture everyone's attention.
"Who... or what are you?" the Happy Nerd asked.
It took the form of... just some kid, who then explained: "Unlike you, I don't have a corporeal body. And whatever body I do posses is not... well usually can't be seen by your eyes."
Everyone then looked at me. I can only assume they wanted to ask me why I could see it, which made me think that they didn't read my journal, which in turn made me wonder how any of them could even know about me at all.
"So how come can we see you now?" I asked him.
"Because I'm in your heads now." he explained, "I'm making you see, hear, feel, smell, whatever I want you to."
"Wait a minute." Razmere had another question, "You're the one we've been seeing in those videos then?"
"Not only in this Nerd's videos." he answered, "I've also been playing Nightshade in your video."
He pointed to the Happy Nerd when he said that: "As well as yours (points to the Gamer), that Critic's, Linkara's, Little Miss Gamer's,..."
"Wait." there was something that Captain N didn't understand, "If you're in our heads, then how could you appear in those videos?"
"Well, if you think about it, pictures are made out of pixels, chemicals, and whatnot." I explained, "So if something is powerful enough to make a projection of itself in our heads..."
"Who knows what it can do with camera's and videotapes." Ana finished my sentence.
"Okay, but that doesn't explain one other thing." the Gamer wondered, "Why?"
"I was bored." he answered.
There was a moment of silence, which I then interrupted: "So, er..."
I didn't know his name, so it said: "Call me Mike."
"Mike." I replied, "Since you're so powerful, why didn't you do something to stop the Nerd, or anyone else from doing anything?"
"I'm not that powerful." Mike explained, "I might be able to show myself to all of you, but that's it. I can make two, maybe three of you feel pain if I wanted to, but now that I'm appearing before all of you at once, I can't even touch anything."
"So he won't be much of any help." the Gamer deduced.
"Depends." I stated, "We can't take on seven people at once either."
"Speak for yourself." Razmere stated.
"Yeah, sure." I retorted, "Anyway, I'm sure he can help us, as long as we don't demand any more from him than we'd demand of ourselves."
"Sounds fair to me." Ana agreed.
"I don't..." Captain N started.
"Me too." Captain S interrupted.
Captain N, looking as though he changed his mind: "Me three."
"Don't try to prove something." I heard Ana say.
"He must see him as competition." I replied.
"What are you talking about?" Ana asked me.
I turned to the only ones who hadn't said anything: "What do you guys think?"
Razmere seemed to think about this before answering: "Alright. This should do."
The Happy Nerd and the Gamer looked at each other, then nodded. They both agreed.
This is when my phone rang. I answered: "Yes?"
"You found your guy?" Hana asked me.
"We have." I answered.
"Good." Hana said, "By the way, remember that place you wanted me to send everyone?"
"Yes?" I replied.
"I manage to find people who know the place. They can be your guides." she told me.
"Great, where are they?" I wondered.
"Already there, waiting for you and everyone else." she answered.
"That was quick." I remarked.
"Their names are Gold and Kris." Hana added, "I'm telling you, because they wouldn't."
I wasn't sure what that was supposed to mean, but I thought I'd find out one way or another. I wanted to say something else, but she hung up. I sighed as I put the phone away.
"Who was that?" Razmere asked me.
"Wish I knew." I replied, "We need to go to Whirl Islands."
"Whirl Islands?" the Happy Nerd sounded concerned.
"Isn't that near Japan?" the Gamer asked, "Coz last time I checked..."
"The people like us, the government doesn't." I interrupted him, "If you actually read my journal, you'd know that."
"Alright, genius." the Gamer sounded somewhat agitated, "And how do you expect us to get there? Do we wait for Superman to drop us off? And don't try to tell me HE is still alive."
That was a great point he brought up. I should've asked Hana about that too. But that's when it hit me. Last time I saw Marco, he was in the Pixel Palace's bar. With any luck, he's still there. Hopefully sober enough to still be able to teleport us anywhere at all.
"I think I got something." I told him, "But we'll have to go back to the Palace first."
"Say no more." Captain S said.