Stephanie drops me off at "Gerada Aus". Standing outside of the front door are three body guards, wearing jet-black uniforms with thick bullet-proof vests, large helmets, holding large rifles in their hands, black pants tucked into their thick black leather boots, loads of ammunition strapped to their bodies, more weapons on their belts, and hard-to-see-features. They are ABSOLUTELY HUGE, TALL, and well-built. Two have pale golden hair, one seeming to be very long. Another has almost white hair, short and messy. I can't see their faces, but they appear to be clean-shaven.

I glance back at Stephanie, who will stay parked until I enter the building. I then approach the guards, backpack slung over my right shoulder. I say as clearly as I can in German, "Hello, I'm Marzia Louberg. I'm a tester."

One of them, the short-gold-haired one, says in German, "Sehr gut. Do you have the paper?"

Actually, I clutch it to my chest, afraid of losing it. I hold it out, and he takes it from me. He inspects it. It is the return-paper that I had to bring to be able to be a tester. He seems satisfied, handing it to me, and says, "We hope you will enjoy the game."

They open the door, and the white-haired one says, "Go straight down the hall, and you'll find a fellow tester down there. A game designer would meet you, but our top designers have been editing the game. After all, it is only a work-in-progress."

"Vielen Dank," I say and walk past them. I walk down the hall, not looking at anything for fear of an evil ghost attacking me-I played a game once where I was told, "Don't look back" and when I looked back, a ghost killed me and I had to start over from the beginning.

In all honesty, I don't know anything about this game. It is incomplete, it is about war, I have to end the wars, but...that's all. I don't know about the setting, if I stop the war from happening or ending or change who won or whose side I'm on in what war or if I can die or...I just don't know.

At the end of the hall, I see a familiar face. For a moment, I think that it is the dim lighting, but as I get closer, I recognize the writing on the shirt that looks like aged stone. I gasp, asking breathlessly, "Tobuscus?"

The guy smiles at me and says, "Ahahah, no, I'm Steven."

"YOU ARE TOBUSCUS!" I exclaim, clasping my hands together by my heart in admiration, "I was told that there would be other testers, but Tobuscus? Is UberHaxorNova here?"

"Totally, man," Toby says.

"Is PewDiePie here?"

"Poo-hoo?"

Heart breaking, I start to hang my head, and he says, "Haha, sorry, man! I didn't mean it! He's here, come on, follow me to the Online Room."

My heart warms up again. PEWDIEPIE IS HERE! I follow Tobuscus, feeling my insides tickle all over. Man, I'm a fourteen-year-old-girl surrounded by my adult YoutTube crushes, and we're all paid to play video games! This is a dream come true!

I follow him into a large, nearly empty room. The room only has a single, large thing in the middle, which appears to be lumpy; it is covered by a black tarp which is connected to some pullies on the ceiling.

To the left of the room is a steep metal staircase that I follow Toby up. He talks to me cheerily, saying, "Soo, you're the new YouTuber chosen? Totally cool-I guess that you're a part of the Braudience?"

"Totally," I say breathlessly, staring into space, thoughts wandering. Toby, Pewds, and Nova! Could Cry be here?

A voice I recognize as the Faceless One comes from the top of the stairs, saying, "Hey, it's the new tester, guys~!"

His voice is so adorable, calm, serene, welcoming, lovable...I lift my head up to see him, and the guy wears a funny bunny-rabbit mask with eye holes showing blue eyes. I gasp, saying, "Cry?! You-you-you!" I have now lost my breath, feeling like those nerdy girls that have crushes over anime characters and get excited when they see cosplayers.

(Author's note; I just insulted myself there ;_;")

The guy takes off the bunny mask, now wearing a circular, white mask with a "pokerface" look on it, and he asks, "How'd you know?"

"Your voice!" I exclaim, finding breath again. "Awahah~hahah~aww" the inhuman sound comes endlessly from my voice. I'm sure that both Cry and Toby know that I must have a crush on them-wait, I do not! Do I? Crushes are for dummies! I want to get a career and a life before I get a crush! So many men and women have terrible financial problems because they moved out with their crushes after highschool and avoided getting real lives outside of The Notebook and Titanic!

At the top of the stairs, I see two more guys coming from around the bend out of another room. I see a Hispanic-looking man with a very pretty face and a blonde guy wearing a striped shirt with wavy blonde hair.

My eyes widen, and I am breathless again. Tobuscus says, "Guys, this is the new tester!"

The guys all hold out their hands to shake my hand, which I force myself to do. PewDiePie seems so adorkable and shy, and when I clasp his hand, I feel that it is a little clammy. He's always a little shy in his Vlogs and such, and he claims to not deserve his fanbase, and he is, after all, Swedish, so he's so shy! That's adorable!

"I'm PewDiePie," PewDiePie says. I like that they're refering to themselves by their user names!

"I'm Nova."

"I'm Cry."

"I'm Tobuscus."

I introduce myself to all of them one by one by my user name, "I'm LewezBurger."

Maybe I would've introduced myself as Marzia Louberg, but PewDiePie's girlfriend is Marzia, so that would've been confusing. In fact, within moments, Marzia (CutiePie) comes walking out of the same room that they came from, looking even prettier than she usually does in the videos, and she says in her high-pitched, adorable squirrel voice, "It's the new tester! Hello," we shake hands, and she says, "I'm CutiePieMarzia" and I say, "I'm LewezBurgerMarzia..."

Everyone takes a laugh and Tobuscus says, "How ironic, we've got two Marzias!"

Cry says in his calm voice, "We're twice as blessed~."

After jokes go around concerning our names, they all show me to the Online Room, which is, what Tobuscus said, where they test the online-download version of the game.

"So," I ask shakily, trying to sound clear and composed, "How is the game, 'Axis of Evil'? I don't really know much about it..."

"We don't, either," Cry says. Nova informs me, "It's random clips they make us test out online, and it's not even like part of the game; we like go through trees and things like that."

"Oh," I say in such a soft voice that even I can't here myself.

Cutie tells me, "Dey have...beeg masheen" she points over her shoulder, "um, down sair...where we weel all test" she holds her hands on either side of her face like the five-dollar-foot-long-commercials, "beeg versin of game, where we wear goggles and, um..." she looks at Pewds and asks, "Can you explain, please?"

"Sure," he says, turning to me, and says, "It is a big machine you stand in and it is like you are in the game, and you walk around in it and grab things and stuff, like in real life. They make us design characters before getting in there, though."

Nodding, I say, "Wow, that sounds really cool! Like Kinect?"

Cutie and Pewdie nod, and I say with a giggle, "I watched your videos where you played Kinect...it was so funny!"

The Italian and the Swede smile, looking at each other with a look of "wow" and PewDiePie asks sheepishly, "I hope that my stuff isn't too..." he scrunches his shoulders up, looking at me with a "forgive me" look as he says, "Innapropriate?'

"It's okay," I say, smiling, imaging all the funny jokes he made that should have been censored from the whole universe. "Really, there is a WHOLE lot worse, and you're really funny!"

"Thanks," Pewds says. We enter the Online Room where they show me the computers, machines, coffee machine-I deny because I'm LDS, which none of them know *teardrop* so I just explain that we don't drink coffee or tea. Well, I explain, we drink herbal tea.

Basically, all we do today in the Online Room is literally just update our YouTube pages and test the graphics and audio on the online version of AOE, or "BetaKrieg" or "Krieg Beta". I like "BetaKrieg" and "AOE".

Seven-thirty comes by relatively quickly because time flies when you're having fun with your role models, and I have to go downstairs to wait for Stephanie's car. I can't wait to tell her about PewDiePie and CutiePie and Tobuscus and Cry and Nova!

She never understood my love for video games or gamers, but she likes listening to me. I climb in the car, pouring my heart our as we drive back to her house.