"Are you sure you know the way to Central City?" DG asked Glitch after hours of wandering the woods.

"The shining city on the hill, sure," he answered. "The shining city on the hill, sure. The shining city on the hill, sure. The sh—"

"You're glitching," DG laughed lightly.

"Oh." He seemed down by the fact that he'd, once again, been on a loop. "My noggin wasn't always this way, you know. In my heyday, I was government advisor and numero one. I was the top dog's…" He held his hands out in front of him trying to figure out his next words. "Right hand man. It would have all been fine, but her…" Glitch stared down at the ground, his words gone from what was left of his mind.

"But her…" DG tried to pull from him.

"But her…" Glitch started again before his mind track jumped. "I would love a fresh ear of corn with some butter right now, wouldn't you?" Glitch tripped over a log, and I looked down at it confused before looking behind us and groaning.

"You said you knew the way to the old brick route," DG pointed out.

"Well, of course I do," He boasted. "It's only the main thoroughfare in all of the O.Z. Why?" Glitch turned to us with a pained expression.

"Cause you tripped over that log hours ago," I pointed out annoyed.

"We've just gone in a big circle," DG added.

"In a circle," Glitch mumbled turning from us. "Not again." DG and I walked up to him. "The road is around here somewhere," he insisted. " know it." I heard someone calling for help and I looked around the forest we were in. "You look familiar. Have we met before—"

"Shut up," I told him quickly as we listened to the distant screams. "Did you hear that?"

"Yeah," Glitch confirmed. "No."

"This way." I left them both behind and ran towards the screaming.

I got to a house in time to see a man wrap a ribbon around his fist while two others were holding a man and punching him in the face. A woman was being held back from going to him and screaming at them. The soldiers were laughing at the pair as DG and Glitch joined me.

"Those guys are everywhere," DG pointed out. The guy with the ribbon around his fist walked up to the guy being held and punched him with his wrapped fist making us all flinch.

"Yeah, that's life in the O.Z. these days," Glitch told us. "Tough and tougher." The man being held roared in pain that was clearly more emotional than physical.

"Not Jeb, leave him alone!" the woman ordered as two men came out with a young boy between them. "No! Leave him!" The head guy grabbed the boy by the collar of his shirt and back handed him making him fall to the ground from the force.

"But even with half a brain, I can tell that we've got to get out of here." DG and I ran towards the family in trouble, DG picking up a large stick while I grabbed a rock as we ran.

"Stop it!" DG shouted at all of them.

"Hey!"

"DG! Rose! This isn't your fight," Glitch called out after us.

"Leave them alone!" I shouted throwing the rock and hitting one of the guys as DG got to them. The strangest thing was, my rock and DG went right through them and they all disappeared.

"What just happened?" DG asked as Glitch and I caught up to her. We heard something whirring and looked around to see something stuck to a post. Glitch walked up to it and we followed him to look at the machine. "What is it?"

"A T.D.E.S.P.H.T.L.," he answered.

"And that would be…?"

"A Tri-Dimensional Energy-Stored Projected Holographic Time Loop." Glitch stared at the device in wonder.

"Did he just say a really long name for home movie?" I asked DG quietly and she shrugged her shoulders.

"Nifty little thing. Hey, I think I invented it," Glitch said mostly to himself in wonder at finding out his piece of information.

"So, it was all fake?" DG asked him.

"No. It happened," he corrected. "Sometime or another."

"Why play something like that over and over if there was no one here to be tortured by it?" I asked before looking around

"Well, I think it…"

"Guys." I called to them as I moved towards what looked like the outline of a human made of iron with a glass bowl window where the face would be. We moved towards it and DG knocked on it and someone inside answered.

"There's someone in there." DG went to find something to get the person out while Glitch stared at it uncomfortably.

"Or something."

"DG, you see a hammer or a rock?" I asked her.

"Got it!" she called out and with hammer in hand we went back to the iron box. DG hammered the nails holding the left side of it together and we opened the front, but quickly stepped back cause of the smell. The man in the suit was gray. His long hair and beard, skin, and clothes had all taken on the color as a statement to how long the man had been in there. A man stood in the frame of it and just stared at nothing before trying to move forward. He fell and I ran to catch him so he just fell on his knees instead of his face.

"Are you okay?" DG asked him and I just gave her a look.

"Do you want to try and stand?" I asked.

"Where are they?" he whispered roughly.

"They aren't here," I answered. "It was a hologram." I helped him stand and walk before he pushed me off him and he moved to the home movie thing. He stared at it for a second before gripping it and ripping it from the post.

"I'm going to kill him."