Chapter 2
I'd risk my life
I didn't care what Vaughn said, I'd do anything for her.
I'd risk my life.
"I'm going." Denny said firmly.
"What?" Vaughn looked at him like he was crazy.
"I'm going to leave the game." Denny looked at Vaughn. "I'm not letting her go."
"Are you crazy?!" Vaughn quickly approached Denny and stared him right in the eyes. "We don't even know if it's possible! Besides, you can die out there!"
"We can be deleted in here." Denny pointed out. "And it's worth a try."
Vaughn shook his head. "But it's much easier to die than to be deleted. You're crazy!"
Denny looked back up through the prongs on the cartridge. "I'm crazy in love."
The boy took a breath, closed his eyes, and then leaped up, flying out of the cartridge and converting into a data stream. For a moment he felt weightless as he left, and wondered how long it would take for him to convert into physical matter. Just as a tingling sensation began, he felt himself being sucked somewhere else. Am I being sucked back into the cartridge? He wondered. Suddenly, bright light flashed into his eyes. Denny raised his arm to shadow his face for a moment until his eyes had adjusted. He was in a small, grassy town with trees everywhere.
A little blond puppy approached him, glaring, and said, "What do you think you're doing here? We don't get this sort of download content."
"Huh?" Denny looked surprised, and he understood almost nothing that the puppy had said.
"You're a virus, aren't you?" The puppy's eyes grew wide. "Get out, get out or I'll call the anti-cheat on you!" It screamed.
"Hey, calm down! Just tell me where I am!" Denny cried, panicked.
"Get out, get out!" The puppy continued to yell.
"Look, I'll leave if you can tell me what game I'm in!" Denny had figured that much out. He definitely wasn't in Mari's world.
The puppy quit screaming and eyed him for a moment before finally replying, "You're in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Now get out, get out!"
Denny obeyed and ran across the grass until he found where the program connected to the system. Oddly enough it wasn't a cartridge, but Denny didn't have time to think about that. He dived out of the game and to his surprise found himself in a huge chunk of code. This wasn't a DS, or a DS Lite. He knew that for sure. The wide open space was white, with many roads leading in all sorts of different directions, some horizontal and some vertical. Thousands of programs rushed by at once.
One green one flew right past him screaming, "StreetPass coming through! Get out of the way, StreetPass coming through!" Denny had to leap out of the way of the program, and it missed hitting him by only a byte.
The view was breathtaking, but Denny still didn't know where exactly he was. He began to walk down one of the less crowded streets until he bumped into an odd looking person.
"Excuse me," Denny said laying his hand on the program. "Would you mind telling me what system I'm in? I think I got transferred to the wrong place."
The person smiled before responding in a cheerful voice. "Oh, you're in a 3DS." It giggled as if Denny was stupid for not knowing that. "This one is owned by Marithepowerful."
Denny couldn't help but chuckle at the nickname Mari had given herself. He may not have made it into her world, but he was still with her at least.
After a few minutes, the lights began to turn off and one program yelled, "Everyone, return to your games! The system is shutting down." Over and over, the program yelled.
Denny panicked. What would happen if he was caught outside a game after the system shut down? Denny ran through the streets until he saw a cartridge. He dashed into it just as the last of the lights in the system turned off.
"Well, hullo!" A voice behind him said. "You're most definitely not a Pokemon."