CHAPTER 7: It's All a Game (part 2)
*Globox and the four Teensies thud on the ground after falling through the trap door*
Teensie 2: Man, I hate falling from high places.
Teensie 1: Yeah. The last time I visited Rytus, he told me I was highly allergic to being splattered on the ground.
Globox: Splattered? You're barely even flattened!
Grand Minimus: Enough of that. Did anyone else hear a strange voice that said that it would tear us limb from limb and "then they'll see how it feels."
Teensie 3: Come to think of it, I think I did.
Globox: Oh come on! The only person here who has absolutely no limbs is.
All: RAYMAN!
???: That's right. But too bad I'm not him.
Grand Minimus: But who exists other than Rayman who has no limbs?
Globox: Hang on a second. Rayman told me once that back in his salad days, everyone had no limbs. I think it was called Rayman 1 or something, but to me, it's nothing but a fairy tale. Hey, you must be an enemy from 4-1!
???: Nope.
Globox: Uhhhhhhhhhh, how about 5-2?
???: No.
Globox: 1-3? 2-1? 4-3?
???: NO! And they're not just numbers, they have names you know!
Teensie 1: You know, this would be a lot easier if you could just tell us who you are.
???: I wasn't even supposed to be here. I was just added here for no apparent reason, so now I'm leaving. Bye!
*??? vanishes*
Teensie 3: Okay. That was weird.
Grand Minimus: So where's this final challenge you speak of?
Author: You'll see.
*A huge glass screen appears out of nowhere in front of the characters*
Teensie 2: A glass wall?
Author: Like I said, you'll see.
*The wall continues to move forward and begins to smush Globox and the Teensies against the back wall*
Globox: My poor liver.
Teensie 2: No! This wall is crushing me!
Teensie 3: Mmmmmhhmmmmmhhhhhffffffmmfhhhhhh!
*Just when it looks like the wall will crush them, they suddenly get sucked right into it*
Author: Good. I knew my ImperviMonitor 2.52 would work.
Globox: You mean we're not dead?
Author: You'll get out alive if you can survive for one day inside this thing!
Teensie 2: And what exactly is this thing?
*The glass wall suddenly shrinks, with the characters inside shrinking in proporiton. The wall then floats in thin air and attaches itself to a plastic box*
Globox: Why are we being shrunk and attached to a plastic box?
Author: This is no ordinary plastic box. You'll see. Now just to press this little "power" button.
*The author presses the button. The entire screen goes black*
Teensie 1: Hey, we lost the picture.
Globox: Nah, we didn't. Hey, look at the pretty gray letters and numbers!
Grand Minimus: 109404 KB Complete? Press DEL for Setup? What is all this?
*The screen suddenly turns bright blue*
Teensie 3: Wow, there's a flag with four colors in it. And look! Microsoft Windows 98?
Globox: Hey guys, you don't suppose we're stuck inside a computer?
Teensie 1: Well, all we've seen so far looks a lot like one.
*The screen turns black again*
Teensie 2: We lost the picture again!
Globox: No we didn't! Look at that floating white arrow!
Teensie 3: And there's this funny box down there that says "Start".
Grand Minimus: And why did a whole bunch of large icons just suddenly appear in the left side of the screen?
Author: You'll catch on soon. Now, to connect to the Internet.
*The mouse pointer double clicks on an icon and the computer connects*
Teensie 3: Well, nothing's changed.
Author: That's what you think! I'm off to the store to get the groceries. Have fun with the popups!
*the Author disappears*
Globox: *gulp* Popups?
*A pop-up window appears*
Teensie 1: Wow! Click here to receive your free gifts!
Globox: Don't! These things are always rigged.
Pop-up Window 1: GRR! POP-UP SMASH!
*The window suddenly splits its left side like a mouth and begins to chomp*
Teensie 3: Should we run?
Globox: YES!!!!!!!!!!!
Pop-up Window 1: EAT PUNY RAYMAN CHARACTERS! SMASH!
*The pop-up window starts to move towards the five. They take refuge in a nearby folder*
Pop-up Window 1: GRR! I NEED HELP! COME ON GUYS!
*Two other pop-up windows appear, both with mouth-like gashes. One says "Buy this super secret camera and spy on your unsuspecting victims!", the other says "Lose weight fast! Throw up!"*
Pop-up Window 2: YOU WANT OUR HELP?
Pop-up Window 1: YES! EAT AND SMASH PUNY RAYMAN CHARACTERS IN FOLDER!
Pop-up Window 3: Must we use caps?
Pop-up Windows 1 and 2: YES!!!
*The three pop-ups rip open the folder*
Teensie 1: CRAP! And we're in a dead-end, too!
Teensie 2: Globox! Give me something to block their path!
Globox: Hang on hang on, I'm looking!
*Globox rips a loose file from the folder, then hands it to Teensie 2*
Teensie 2: A file? What am I supposed to do with this?
Globox: Improvise!
Teensie 2: Uh, okay. Back you nasty pop-up windows!
Teensie 3: Hey Grand Minimus, you've been pretty quiet all this time.
Grand Minimus: *thinking* I must contact the Heart of the World, only it can help us now.
Globox: Hello? Anyone home?
Grand Minimus: *thinking* Into the deepest regions of my subconscious. I must contact Polokus.
Teensie 2: Hey Globox! Get me another file. They chewed through the first one.
Grand Minimus: *in his subconscious* Oh Polokus, spirit of this noble world! Send us assistance in this time of peril!
Polokus: *in his dream world* I sense your disturbance call, child. Fear not, I have sent assistance.
Grand Minimus: *in his subconscious* Please tell me oh Polokus, what assistance have you brought upon us?
Polokus: *in his dream world* That is for you to discover.
*While Grand Minimus and Polokus are still contacting each other, Globox and Teensies 1 to 3 are running towards a back room*
Globox: Man, they chewed through eight files???
Teensie 2: Yeah, and they wouldn't stop blabbering about smashing and eating us!
Teensie 1: Not to mention old GM here. He's stiff as a board!
Globox: There's the room! Get in and lock the freaking door!
*The door slams shut and is locked*
Pop-up Window 2: THEY LOCKED THE DOOR!
Pop-up Window 1: EAT IT! THEN SMASH RAYMAN CHARACTERS!
*The Pop-up windows bite the door into little pieces. Globox and the Teensies are cornered in the room*
Globox: This is the end!
Teensie 2: Well, it's been nice knowing you guys!
Teensie 3: Listen. I really didn't want it to end this way.
Pop-up Window 3: EAT NOW!
*Just as the three pop-ups are about to devour the characters, Grand Minimus awakens and the screen suddenly turns blue*
Teensie 1: Whoa! That was close!
Globox: And look! It says: WARNING! The program has become unstable and will be terminated. Fatal error in: C:/SYSTEM/POLOKUS.DLL
Grand Minimus: So it is done. The great Polokus has saved us all.
Teensie 1: Since when could you communicate with Polokus behind our backs???
Grand Minimus: Telepathy, I guess.
Globox: Just another thing. How are we gonna get out of here?
Teensie 2: And we have to do it before the Author comes back! Otherwise we'll never get out!
Globox: Hang on a second. *puts his index fingers on the sides of his head*
Teensie 3: Um, what are you doing?
*Murfy suddenly appears outside the monitor*
Murfy: You called?
Teensie 1: Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
Globox: I knew it would get us out of a jam sometime. Looks like your wing grew back, too.
Murfy: Yep. So let me see, you're stuck inside this computer, right?
Teensie 2: Yep.
Murfy: And I should get you out before the Author comes back?
Globox: YES!
Murfy: Hmm, I don't know a thing about making CPU characters into real life ones. And geez! This blue screen is really annoying! I'll just press Ctrl- Alt-Delete.
All inside the computer: NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*But it is too late. The buttons are pressed and the blue screen disappears, along with Globox and the Teensies*
Murfy: Huh? What? Oh no, I've lost them forever!
TO BE CONTINUED.
*Globox and the four Teensies thud on the ground after falling through the trap door*
Teensie 2: Man, I hate falling from high places.
Teensie 1: Yeah. The last time I visited Rytus, he told me I was highly allergic to being splattered on the ground.
Globox: Splattered? You're barely even flattened!
Grand Minimus: Enough of that. Did anyone else hear a strange voice that said that it would tear us limb from limb and "then they'll see how it feels."
Teensie 3: Come to think of it, I think I did.
Globox: Oh come on! The only person here who has absolutely no limbs is.
All: RAYMAN!
???: That's right. But too bad I'm not him.
Grand Minimus: But who exists other than Rayman who has no limbs?
Globox: Hang on a second. Rayman told me once that back in his salad days, everyone had no limbs. I think it was called Rayman 1 or something, but to me, it's nothing but a fairy tale. Hey, you must be an enemy from 4-1!
???: Nope.
Globox: Uhhhhhhhhhh, how about 5-2?
???: No.
Globox: 1-3? 2-1? 4-3?
???: NO! And they're not just numbers, they have names you know!
Teensie 1: You know, this would be a lot easier if you could just tell us who you are.
???: I wasn't even supposed to be here. I was just added here for no apparent reason, so now I'm leaving. Bye!
*??? vanishes*
Teensie 3: Okay. That was weird.
Grand Minimus: So where's this final challenge you speak of?
Author: You'll see.
*A huge glass screen appears out of nowhere in front of the characters*
Teensie 2: A glass wall?
Author: Like I said, you'll see.
*The wall continues to move forward and begins to smush Globox and the Teensies against the back wall*
Globox: My poor liver.
Teensie 2: No! This wall is crushing me!
Teensie 3: Mmmmmhhmmmmmhhhhhffffffmmfhhhhhh!
*Just when it looks like the wall will crush them, they suddenly get sucked right into it*
Author: Good. I knew my ImperviMonitor 2.52 would work.
Globox: You mean we're not dead?
Author: You'll get out alive if you can survive for one day inside this thing!
Teensie 2: And what exactly is this thing?
*The glass wall suddenly shrinks, with the characters inside shrinking in proporiton. The wall then floats in thin air and attaches itself to a plastic box*
Globox: Why are we being shrunk and attached to a plastic box?
Author: This is no ordinary plastic box. You'll see. Now just to press this little "power" button.
*The author presses the button. The entire screen goes black*
Teensie 1: Hey, we lost the picture.
Globox: Nah, we didn't. Hey, look at the pretty gray letters and numbers!
Grand Minimus: 109404 KB Complete? Press DEL for Setup? What is all this?
*The screen suddenly turns bright blue*
Teensie 3: Wow, there's a flag with four colors in it. And look! Microsoft Windows 98?
Globox: Hey guys, you don't suppose we're stuck inside a computer?
Teensie 1: Well, all we've seen so far looks a lot like one.
*The screen turns black again*
Teensie 2: We lost the picture again!
Globox: No we didn't! Look at that floating white arrow!
Teensie 3: And there's this funny box down there that says "Start".
Grand Minimus: And why did a whole bunch of large icons just suddenly appear in the left side of the screen?
Author: You'll catch on soon. Now, to connect to the Internet.
*The mouse pointer double clicks on an icon and the computer connects*
Teensie 3: Well, nothing's changed.
Author: That's what you think! I'm off to the store to get the groceries. Have fun with the popups!
*the Author disappears*
Globox: *gulp* Popups?
*A pop-up window appears*
Teensie 1: Wow! Click here to receive your free gifts!
Globox: Don't! These things are always rigged.
Pop-up Window 1: GRR! POP-UP SMASH!
*The window suddenly splits its left side like a mouth and begins to chomp*
Teensie 3: Should we run?
Globox: YES!!!!!!!!!!!
Pop-up Window 1: EAT PUNY RAYMAN CHARACTERS! SMASH!
*The pop-up window starts to move towards the five. They take refuge in a nearby folder*
Pop-up Window 1: GRR! I NEED HELP! COME ON GUYS!
*Two other pop-up windows appear, both with mouth-like gashes. One says "Buy this super secret camera and spy on your unsuspecting victims!", the other says "Lose weight fast! Throw up!"*
Pop-up Window 2: YOU WANT OUR HELP?
Pop-up Window 1: YES! EAT AND SMASH PUNY RAYMAN CHARACTERS IN FOLDER!
Pop-up Window 3: Must we use caps?
Pop-up Windows 1 and 2: YES!!!
*The three pop-ups rip open the folder*
Teensie 1: CRAP! And we're in a dead-end, too!
Teensie 2: Globox! Give me something to block their path!
Globox: Hang on hang on, I'm looking!
*Globox rips a loose file from the folder, then hands it to Teensie 2*
Teensie 2: A file? What am I supposed to do with this?
Globox: Improvise!
Teensie 2: Uh, okay. Back you nasty pop-up windows!
Teensie 3: Hey Grand Minimus, you've been pretty quiet all this time.
Grand Minimus: *thinking* I must contact the Heart of the World, only it can help us now.
Globox: Hello? Anyone home?
Grand Minimus: *thinking* Into the deepest regions of my subconscious. I must contact Polokus.
Teensie 2: Hey Globox! Get me another file. They chewed through the first one.
Grand Minimus: *in his subconscious* Oh Polokus, spirit of this noble world! Send us assistance in this time of peril!
Polokus: *in his dream world* I sense your disturbance call, child. Fear not, I have sent assistance.
Grand Minimus: *in his subconscious* Please tell me oh Polokus, what assistance have you brought upon us?
Polokus: *in his dream world* That is for you to discover.
*While Grand Minimus and Polokus are still contacting each other, Globox and Teensies 1 to 3 are running towards a back room*
Globox: Man, they chewed through eight files???
Teensie 2: Yeah, and they wouldn't stop blabbering about smashing and eating us!
Teensie 1: Not to mention old GM here. He's stiff as a board!
Globox: There's the room! Get in and lock the freaking door!
*The door slams shut and is locked*
Pop-up Window 2: THEY LOCKED THE DOOR!
Pop-up Window 1: EAT IT! THEN SMASH RAYMAN CHARACTERS!
*The Pop-up windows bite the door into little pieces. Globox and the Teensies are cornered in the room*
Globox: This is the end!
Teensie 2: Well, it's been nice knowing you guys!
Teensie 3: Listen. I really didn't want it to end this way.
Pop-up Window 3: EAT NOW!
*Just as the three pop-ups are about to devour the characters, Grand Minimus awakens and the screen suddenly turns blue*
Teensie 1: Whoa! That was close!
Globox: And look! It says: WARNING! The program has become unstable and will be terminated. Fatal error in: C:/SYSTEM/POLOKUS.DLL
Grand Minimus: So it is done. The great Polokus has saved us all.
Teensie 1: Since when could you communicate with Polokus behind our backs???
Grand Minimus: Telepathy, I guess.
Globox: Just another thing. How are we gonna get out of here?
Teensie 2: And we have to do it before the Author comes back! Otherwise we'll never get out!
Globox: Hang on a second. *puts his index fingers on the sides of his head*
Teensie 3: Um, what are you doing?
*Murfy suddenly appears outside the monitor*
Murfy: You called?
Teensie 1: Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
Globox: I knew it would get us out of a jam sometime. Looks like your wing grew back, too.
Murfy: Yep. So let me see, you're stuck inside this computer, right?
Teensie 2: Yep.
Murfy: And I should get you out before the Author comes back?
Globox: YES!
Murfy: Hmm, I don't know a thing about making CPU characters into real life ones. And geez! This blue screen is really annoying! I'll just press Ctrl- Alt-Delete.
All inside the computer: NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*But it is too late. The buttons are pressed and the blue screen disappears, along with Globox and the Teensies*
Murfy: Huh? What? Oh no, I've lost them forever!
TO BE CONTINUED.