I'm sorry. I have no excuses. At least this is the longest chapter in this story so far!

I also apologize in advance for the possibly not 100% accurate Spanish.

"¿Felix, estás vale?" a voice asked.

Felix sat up, rubbing his head.

"¿Que hiciste, Felix?"

Felix opened his eyes. The voice belonged to a monkey with a sombrero and a hat.

"I'm sorry, but I don't speak a lot of Spanish," Felix told the monkey. "And how do you know my name?"

"It's me, Amigo!" the monkey said.

"I'm your friend? What's your name?" Felix asked.

"My name is Amigo!" the monkey said. "You must have hit your head, we've been friends for years now!"

"I really hate to disappoint you, Amigo, but I have no idea who you are." Felix apologized. "Actually...Where am I?"

"You're at the Minneola Mall in the game Samba de Amigo," Amigo explained. "And you were

helping everyone evacuate it before it gets unplugged."

"I shouldn't be able to leave my game, I was a glitch, how did Turbo move me..." Felix's eyes widened. "Did you say this game was getting unplugged?!"

"Yes," Amigo frowned. "One of the mall patrons destroyed the maracas so our game is scheduled to be unplugged soon. How do you not remember any of this?"

Felix shook his head, dumbfounded.

At that moment, someone ran over a hill. "Amigo, este tiempo…" he stopped. Felix stared at him.

He was staring into a carbon copy of himself.

"Oh my land," both Felixs said at once. The other Felix however, followed it up with a "Holy Shit."

"Language!" Felix reprimanded his double.

The Other Felix laughed. "Sorry. I forgot I was programmed with such high standards." he held

out his hand. "You must be from a different Game Central Station. You can tell me how you got here while we leave the game."

Felix told him all about Turbo, his backstory, how he had taken over Sugar Rush and later, Fix-it Felix Jr. Felix also told him about how he had become a glitch and how he shouldn't have been able to leave his game. The other Felix seemed surprised at this news. "I've been around a while," he said, "But I have never heard of a video game character taking over another video game and becoming a character in it. That takes serious programming skills."

"I hadn't heard of that either, until about a year ago." Felix said.

The Other Felix smiled sadly. "Frank would've killed to learn how to do that."

"You have a Frank in your game?" Felix asked, surprised. "What is he like?"

"A Frank?" the Other Felix snorted. "He's your brother, don't talk about him that way."

"Frank is...my brother?" Felix was surprised. "I've never met him before Turbo took over. I thought he was just extra coding."

"I don't know why you never got to meet your in-game brother, but you missed out. Frank...he was smart, rational, calm, and amazing leader, everything I wasn't. We made the perfect pair." The other Felix dropped his expression to a frown. "Unfortunately, he's gone now, along with the rest of my game."

Felix was bemused. "How did that happen?"

The Other Felix glanced over at Amigo. "You tell him."

Amigo jumped, shocked. "Well, if you say so…" Amigo swallowed nervously. "It was a normal night in the mall. Felix and I were out having fun. I think we were at that one Super Man arcade game. But while that was happening, someone stole Fix-it Felix Jr."

"The whole system? Don't you need like a forklift or something to even lift one of those games?"

Felix asked.

"He was carrying it by hand," Amigo explained. "Not the best plan for a heist. Anyway, one of the security guards caught him and the thief accidentally dropped Fix-it Felix Jr. into a four-flight freefall. It burst into pieces on impact."

"Oh my land…" Felix murmured.

"The only good thing was that there wasn't a party that night," Amigo said. "Or that thief could've

destroyed every video game in the mall. As it was, a lot of games still were massively affected that weren't Fix-it Felix Jr. Road Blasters lost a few racers. Donkey Kong lost Mario and had to be unplugged the morning after the thief destroyed the machine. Pac-man lost a ghost and got unplugged a week later."

Felix was at a loss of words. "I'm sorry." I'm sorry didn't feel like enough to convey his sympathy, but it was all he had.

The other Felix nodded in acknowledgement of the apology. "Ever since then," The Other Felix continued the story, "I've set up a system so that something like that never happens again. A mall watch, if you will. I lead evacuations of games that will have their plug pulled, investigate reports of suspicious activities inside and outside the gaming world, and settle disputes between games so nobody feels the need to destroy another game for any reason."

"We have something like that at Litwak's," Felix told him. "Sergeant Calhoun has a perimeter check around the areas Turbo has been active and…" Felix rubbed his head. "I feel like Sergeant Calhoun is more than that, but my memory is fuzzy."

"I know a guy who lived there once," the other Felix told Felix happily. "His name is Jack. He'll be able to help you get back to your game!"

"I'll still have to deal with Turbo," Felix reminded him. "Do you have any advice on how to do that?"

"Not really. Maybe Jack will think of something." the other Felix pointed at the train station. "Here we are. Time to go."

Felix watched as Amigo looked around his game for the last time. He could only imagine how Amigo felt.

"It was a good 12 years," Amigo swallowed. "Okay Felix, I'm ready."

They got on the colorfully striped train. It chugged slowly out of Samba de Amigo for the last time. But as it got near the exit, the train stopped.

"What's going on?" asked Amigo. "They didn't pull the plug, did they?"

"I don't know," The Other Felix looked panicked. "Felix, use your hammer and fix it."

"I don't have my hammer, Turbo took it. Can't you use yours?"

"The coding in my hammer is breaking down. It hasn't worked in about five years."

"Seriously? Let me try." Felix went to touch the hammer when suddenly, his hand stopped.

The Other Felix waved his hand past where Felix was. "It's only stopping you…" His eyes widened in realization. "You're a still glitching." He turned to Amigo. "Felix and I are going to the control room. If we don't come back, you're in charge of the Mall watch."

"Wait!" Amigo exclaimed, grabbing The Other Felix's shoulder. "It's too dangerous!

"He's pretty much me," The Other Felix said. "I'm going to fix him, no matter what it takes. Fix-it is part of my name, after all."

"Alright," Amigo reluctantly agreed. "You've got five minutes. Run."

"Come on, Felix, Let's go!" The Other Felix was pulling Felix as they ran away from the train and towards a soundstage in the distance.

"Do you have a plan once we get in there?" Felix huffed.

"Sort of," The Other Felix yelled. "Does fiddling around and seeing what happens count as a plan?"

"It's a start," Felix was too polite to tell The Other Felix that the chances that random fiddling would fix him was about zero.

They got to the stage. "Help me pull open this hatch!" The Other Felix commanded.

Felix obeyed. They jumped inside the hatch into a white room with an NES controller. The Other Felix started pushing the buttons "Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start." he muttered to himself.

The door opened. The Other Felix grabbed a rope and tied it around himself. He offered a second rope to Felix. Felix took it and tied it around himself, making sure to double-knot it. Felix and The Other Felix lept into the void.

The first thing they noticed was the flashing bit of code in the corner. Fix-it Felix Jr. was written on it. The Other Felix turned to Felix. "Is that your code?"

"I guess so," Felix said. He reached out and touched the code. It flashed brightly and shrunk to the size of his palm.

"That was easy," The Other Felix said. "Quick, let's get out of here!"

The two Felixes ran. Felix was dragging his coding behind him with the red string. Felix could hear part of a conversation from the other side of the video game screen. "Yep, there's no way we can fix that. We're going to have to take it to the dumb."

Felix and The Other Felix ran towards the exit. Before Felix knew it, the exit was in view. The Other Felix was already on the other side of the exit. "Jump!" he yelled.

Just before the plug was taken out completely, Felix took a leap, his code trailing behind him. He passed through successfully, the code bouncing a few inches in front of him before stopping.

Felix and The Other Felix glanced at each other and laughed in relief, happy to be alive.