O'Connell is sitting in his room, playing a video game.
"Major O'Connell, sir, Colonel Hermann wants to see you," Thomas Shubaltz says as he enters.
"Okay then. Thanks for the message, Captain," O'Connell replies, saving his game.
"What are you playing?" Thomas asks.
"Donkey Kong," O'Connell answers, turning the game off.
As O'Connell leaves, Thomas looks at the game cartridge. Suddenly, a small gloppy thing falls out of Thomas' pocket and lands on the cartridge.
"Oh no! I got that old core stuff on O'Connell's game!" Thomas cries, and quickly wipes it off. Soon, it looks like nothing has happened.
"Phew!" Thomas says, wiping his forehead. "I had forgotten that I still had that weird stuff. I had better go give it to Dr D before I get it on anything else!" he exclaims.
Thomas turns around, and gasps at what he sees before him.
"So this is the new update to the Iron Kong?" General Karl Shubaltz asks, inspecting his Zoid. It looked the same as it always did, but he knew that the scientists had tampered with its controls.
"Yes General Shubaltz Sir. The Iron Kong will be easier to manoeuvre due to the control upgrade," a scientist told him.
"I'll have to try it out. Oh, hello Captain Shubaltz," Karl says as his brother appears. He looked quite sheepish, and Karl immediately guessed that something was not right.
"What did you do?" Karl asks his brother after he dismissed the scientist.
"What do you mean?" Thomas asks.
"I know that look. What did you do?" Karl asks, raising an eyebrow.
"Well, sir, you're not going to like it. Or believe it. You see, I had this weird old core stuff, and I forgot that it was in pocket. I've taken it to Dr D now. But while it was in my possession, it sort of fell out, and onto a cartridge, and it had some… strange affects to the data contained," Thomas replies.
"Like what? OH MY GOSH WHAT IS THAT?" Karl exclaims.
"That," Thomas says, glad that no one else was around, "is the strange affect I was telling you about."
"What are we going to do with it?" Thomas asks.
"What do you mean we? You did it!" Karl exclaims.
"But you're my brother. You're supposed to help me," Thomas says.
"Um… why don't you go see Dr D. He might know about it. Take the cartridge too," Karl advises. So Thomas borrows the game off O'Connell, who agrees after being bribed by a lollipop, and takes it to Dr D. Following obediently behind him is the strange affect.