Me: Oh what fun it is to ride and sing in a one horse open sleigh and if Christmas was on a Thursday, this would have been a Christmas special instead.
Iman: We don't even celebrate Christmas.
Me: 'We?'
Iman: Muslims.
Me: Do I look like I'm a Muslim?
Iman: [observes me] Brown hair, brown eyes, and facial hair. If it weren't for the fact that your skin is whiter than Edward Cullen's, I'd say yes.
Me: Okay, Shadoween. [rolls eyes] On with the episode!

Shadoween's Dimension

"This is fun," Leech said, shooting a zombie in the head. He fired over his shoulder at another one and looked at Shade. "This is the best!"

"Yeah," Calico said, firing round after round at an oncoming swarm. "Although...I think we should be doing more progression rather than standing around at the starting area."

"Oh!" Leech shot several rounds at a couple of zombies and then discovered he was out of ammunition. "Uh-oh."

"I don't like the sound of that uh-oh," Multiple said, firing his last bullet. He threw his gun at a zombie and took several steps back, clapping his hands together but nothing happened.

"We're running out of ammunition," Calico shouted, throwing his gun at a zombie, taking its head off.

"We have no more capable ways of defending ourselves," Shade stated as he fired his last bullet. "We must perform the act of recovering more bullets or get out of here."

"I say we get the hell outta here!" Calico, Multiple, and Leech were all huddled up around Shade who touched them all, trying to Darkforce Teleport out of the dimension but it failed. "We need to beat the game," he stated.

"What!" Everyone looked at him and he jumped out of the center of them, landing his heel on the head of a zombie.

"I thought I said it clear enough," Shade said, round-housing a zombie and then thrusting the heel of his hand up it's nose as it got back up, knocking it's head off. "We need to beat the game." He looked back at them and his eyes went wide. "Calico!"

Calico spun around and landed a punch on a zombie's face and then took several steps back. "We can't fight them off forever," he said. "Leech, you beat this game before?"

"Yeah," Leech replied. "We need to get to the safe house." Everyone looked at him. "It's at the other end of the city over there." Leech pointed over the horizon and they could all see the smoky outline of a huge mega city. "It's hard to get to and I've only played this game on the WII which allows one player per controller used to play the game."

"How does that concern us," Multiple landed a few blows onto a zombie and then kicked it's head off, watching as it bounced off the heads of several other zombies. He looked at Leech.

"That means more than us four can play the game and it's actually recommended to play the game with at least six players," Leech stated. "Too many zombies to take out on your own or with four other players." He spun around and kicked down a zombie, stomping on it's head. "It was meant as a challenging interactive game for people but they weren't expecting it to need multiple players during the beta testing and because so many people liked it, they sold the ZombWii, just because of this game, which permits more than eight people to play together on one system."

"Keep me safe while I contact Ray," Shade stated, stopping his movements and placing his hands on his temples. "He is capable of transportation through electrical devices even if he doesn't fully know it yet."

"Gotcha," Multiple, Calico, and Dorian all said. They stood in a triangle around Shade and demolished several dozen zombies while Shade was concentrating.

Xavier Institute, Living Room

"It says this game is meant for six or more players," Ray said looking at the game in his hand. "Wonder how it plays." Ray put the game into the ZombWii and the game started.

"You've played House of Dead. You've played Parasite Eve, and you've played the Resident Evil Series. None of them have even prepared you to play 'Zombie Paradise.'" Ray watched as the system played through the cinematic opening which showed scenes from the games it had named off before the option menu appeared. As he did so, Sam, Roberto, and Bobby entered the room having heard the opening. "You better beware upon playing Zombie Paradise for this game is not meant to be played alone." Ray looked at Sam, Roberto, and Bobby and nodded towards the three other Wii controllers. "Now, beware and choose your options." When the start menu showed, the screen instantly flashed.

"Holy crap," Ray said, grabbing his head. "I think I here Shadoween's voice." Bobby, Roberto, and Sam all went to see if Ray was alright and then suddenly, when they all touched him, they turned into a bolt of electricity and were beamed into the television. Sooraya entered the room and stopped dead, looking at the screen.

Ray, Roberto, Bobby, Sam, Dorian, Jamie, Katida, and Shadoween were all on the screen wearing their mission uniforms and it looked like they had just started Zombie Paradise.

"PROFESSOR!" Sooraya was soon joined with the rest of the house.

"What is it Sooraya?" Charles looked at Sooraya who only rose his arm and pointed at the large flat screen television. Charles followed his finger and looked at the television. "Oh my. They got absorbed into the game. This must be that power Shadoween was trying to explain to me."

"Can't they just get out the way they came?" Logan was sipping a cup of coffee.

"I'm afraid not," Charles stated. "They are required to beat the game before they can exit the game."

"How long will that take?" Kitty was leaning on the back of the couch, watching as her friends were fighting zombies on the big screen.

"Guys, the case says it's an 80+ hour game," Anna said, holding the case and reading it's back. "They're gonna be in there for a long time."

Me: Well, we've only got like a few months left of season two! Yay!
Iman: Can we just go now?
Me: Oh, shut up. [walks away leaving Iman alone with audience]
Iman: See you next time? [leaves]