Chapter 3
Gary the Gadget Guy
The ship lands at Club Penguin's snowy beach. The door opens with a puff of hot air. Jeremiah grabs his jacket and zips it up before he walks out of the ship taking note of the beach's snowy environment as opposed to the usual sandy environment associated with beaches and he thinks to himself, "Penguins are weird."
As Jeremiah starts walking towards the Ski Village dead ahead, the pilot exclaims in his gruff voice, "Wait! Do you even know where you're going?"
Jeremiah turns around, looks at him, and assures him, "Yes, I know full well where I'm going. After all, I did make an online account on Club Penguin. What I didn't know back then was that I was making an actual life form. Which is kind of weird considering it's a computer game and by normal standards shouldn't even be possible without some sort of virtual reality materialization device. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Anyway, G should be in the Command Room."
"Can you repeat all that? I'm still trying to grasp the part about the doohickey," asks the pilot.
"What didn't you get?" inquires Jeremiah a little bit annoyed.
"Everything," answers the pilot.
Jeremiah curses himself, "Curse me being smart and Tech Boy and Tech Girl's detailed explanation on virtual-reality technology."
Jeremiah suggests not wanting to spend hours on end trying to explain the concept of virtual-reality materialization to some random guy, "How about I just go get G instead of standing here all day trying to explain this to you?"
"Good idea. Good luck with your mission," says the captain as he preps the ship for take-off.
"Alright, then. See you later," waves Jeremiah as he turns back around and continues walking towards the Ski Village.
"Alright, then. Bye," waves the captain before the door closes and the ship lifts off and goes off world.
As Jeremiah is walking towards the Ski Village, a gust of wind blows giving him a chill. He thinks to himself, "I hate the cold." It doesn't take long for him to arrive in the Ski Village consisting of an old wooden ski lodge and an odd giant monotone gray building called the Everyday Phoning Facility which looks severely out of place compared to everything else in sight. Penguins all around were staring at him and whispering stuff like "Is that a human?" or "What is a human doing here?" Jeremiah sinks deeper into his hood as he thinks, "Maybe I should have gone in penguin form." He walks into the Everyday Phoning Faculty ducking a bit in the doorway as it was designed with penguins in mind. Lucky for him no one was in there. The room inside was completely barren minus a phone booth and two cameras surrounded by four columns with a dark gray floor. The phone booth turns into a screen with text displayed on it, "Welcome Agent Manaphyguy." The column in the upper righthand corner rises up to reveal a secret elevator, which was a little small for him. Jeremiah walks into the elevator. It closes and descends down into the EPF (Elite Penguin Force) Command Room, that has a huge monitor on each side on the upper level along with a humongous table for meetings also with a giant display in front of it, and a virtual reality simulator in the very back of the room. In there, sitting down at the computer on the opposite side of the room, was a blue penguin wearing glasses and a lab coat. That penguin was G also known as Gary the Gadget Guy. He hears the elevator come down and looks over at Jeremiah, who instantly recognizes him thanks to a previous event where he was forced to reveal his human form to him at one point in time.
He turns his chair around, gets up, and questions Jeremiah while waddling, "What the heck are you doing in your human form, Agent Manaphyguy?"
"Umm…How to explain this? I got a new job at this one place called the Agency of the 5th World and they sent me here to recruit you," answers Jeremiah.
"I see. But still, you can't just come in your human form like this. People will get suspicious about Club Penguin being an actual world and if that happens, we're all doomed," lectures G.
"I'm guessing I should have thought of it more. But technically, it doesn't matter since this is only part of a job I'm doing," counters Jeremiah.
"You're wrong. It still matters. But we'll discuss that later. Right now, what does this 'Agency' want from me?" asks G.
"I have no clue. I assume they need your scientific expertise there or something," answers Jeremiah honestly.
"Okay. I'll join. However, you've got to change back to penguin form on the way there until we're out of Club Penguin," says G.
"Great. Just hold on a minute so I can shapeshift into a penguin. Then, follow me to the ship," instructs Jeremiah.
"Okay," replies G.
Jeremiah turns into blue slime and slowly shrinks down and molds himself in the shape of a penguin, the constant swishing of his being consistently audible. Once he takes the shape of his desired form, the slime begins to solidify as the more details begin to pop out such as the eyes, the slime turning into a lighter shade of blue. All this before a white line ascends from the bottom changing his color to light blue with a white belly giving him the properties and attributes as one of the inhabitants of Club Penguin. After Jeremiah finishes shapeshifting into a penguin, Gary and him waddle to the elevator and out of the Command Room. Upon exiting the door of the Everyday Phoning Facility, they still garnered the attention of nearby penguins, albeit to a lesser degree, because of the presence of Gary, one of the many mascots of Club Penguin. They waddle over to the beach and the ship lands making a small whine as it depressurizes. The door opens and the two penguins waddle aboard.