My Life As A Teenage Robot Porn Story: Reality Bytes Chapter 4

Reality Bytes

A My Life as a
Teenage Robot Fanfic

Chapter Four Coming
Apart At The Seams

Every light and appliance in the house was off.P Drew and Tuck stared in disbelief at the
pitch-black TV screen.P Brad and Jenny
had been mere seconds away from escaping the virtual reality world and
returning to their own physical bodies.P
But now

Tears started to roll down Tucks cheeks.P Are they gone?

Drew snapped out of his state of shock and tried to focus
his attention inward.P I run on my own
internal power, Tuck, so I theyre not gone.P
But the game doesnt man, things are really messed up in there.

There was a quick flicker of light in the room, then the
power came back on to stay.P Look, the
game is restarting!P Tuck said
hopefully.P Everythings going to be
all right!P Isnt it?

I dont know, he said, frustrated.P Arghh, I cant do anything from the
outside!P Ive gotta try something
dont even know if this is going to work.P
Tuck, try not to get too freaked out by this.

Drews head flowed into a silver liquid, and collapsed into
his neck.P His torso and legs went
liquid too, and his android form started to melt away.P With a soft schhlloorrrrp, Drew
flowed into a simple cone-shape next to the TV, still connected to the VR
helmet, Jennys pigtails, and the GameStation.

Tuck stared silently for a few seconds, then he managed to
get his mouth working again.P No, why
on earth would I get freaked out by that?

The universe exploded into a billion different shapes and
colors.P Brad was sucked down into an
dark abyss, and floated lazily through infinite emptiness.P Then he felt himself yanked in one
direction, as if hed been hooked on a fishing line.P He hurtled towards a shining point of light.P Blizzards of green flecks trillions of trillions
of them screamed past him like miniature comets, all rushing towards the
light.P It grew, to the size of planet,
shimmering with a faint silver color.P
Brad could do nothing to slow himself down, and he closed his eyes just
before he slammed into the spheres shining surface

His body shivered, then he felt solid ground underneath his
back.P Excited voices were talking and
shouting all around him.P Brad sat up,
blinking his eyes, and saw another copy of Drew kneeling beside him, wearing
a white doctors coat.P Ozzie the
operating system was standing next to the doctor, talking to four more
copies of Drew, who looked like carpenters.

All right, ya got one of them back, Ozzie shouted at the
doctor.P Get to work on the lady!

Brad tried to make sense of what was going on.P The world seemed to have gone insane.P Hills and fields rolled and heaved like
ocean waves.P Chunks of landscape
evaporated into colored polygons.P Trees
sprouted from the ground and grew to full height in mere seconds.P The sky crackled with a reddish-orange
glow.P The laws of physics and
perspective seemed to have been turned off at the moment, and he felt like he
was sitting in some weird modern painting.

Brad got to his feet, and patted himself to make sure he was
actually there.P He was a bit surprised
to hear the clank of metal, then realized that he was still wearing the
Exo-Suit 500-D from the previous game world.P
And other than being weirded out, he felt pretty good.P Wow, that beats a roller coaster any day of
the week, huh, Jen?

There was no answer.P
Hed just assumed that she was there too but he didnt see her.P He approached Ozzie, who was still busy with
the other Drews.P Hey, wheres
Jenny? he interrupted.

Shes right over there, mostly.P Ozzie looked stressed.P
Now if yas dont mind, were trying to rebuild the universe here!

On the ground, a few yards away, the doctor was hunched over
a pale, motionless figure.P Brad ran
over with a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach.P The figure was almost too ghostly to identify, but a flicker of
light highlighted its outline.P There
was no mistaking it it was Jenny.

Oh, no! Brad shouted.P
Whats going on?!?P Whats wrong
with her!?

The doctor was working feverishly, looking very
concerned.P Please step back, sir.P Her core patterns seem to be fine, but Im
having trouble re-integrating her it looks like her interface was corrupted
by the power spike.

Whatever that means.P
Youve got to save her!P Do something!P Let me help!

Im doing everything possible to P The doctor froze, and snapped his
fingers.P Are you serious about helping
her?P Youre fully re-integrated and
stable now.P I can do a health
transplant from your body to hers.P You will
lose half of your health and she might experience some unusual side effects.

Brad nodded enthusiastically.P Just do whatever it takes, Doc!

With a flash, a giant syringe manifested in the doctors
hand.P He surprised Brad by plunging it
into his chest, right through the armor.P
Oddly, it didnt hurt it didnt even feel like a needle.P The doctor pulled it back out, and the
syringe was filled with a glowing blue liquid.P
He lowered it to Jennys ghostly figure, and injected it into her
body.P It spread along her torso to her
head, arms, and legs, and she gradually solidified, until she was all the way
back.

Jenny sat up, propping herself up with her arms.P Wow, she moaned, I hope I never have to
do anything like that again hey, this doesnt look like the living
room.P She looked around at the bizarre
condition of the world around her, and rolled her eyes.P Brad was standing over her, still in his
robotic exo-suit.P Oh, great.P Were still in the game, arent we, Brad?

Brad stared back at her, dumbstruck.P J Juh

Jenny got to her feet, and brushed off her arms.P She was feeling a little odd.P What just happened?P We were on our way out, and

And there was a wicked huge power outage, is what
happened, answered Ozzie, walking over to join them.P You two are lucky Im such a perfessional.P The whole place nearly got wiped out.P I gots Construction working on repairs but,
eh, you can see for yourselves, things aint lookin so good.P Ozzie lifted a walkie-talkie to his
mouth.P I dont care what he says, tell
that lazy subroutine if the terrain aint done in the next twenty nanoseconds,
Im gonna delete his sorry butt!

Millions of polygons dropped out of space above, and locked
together as if completing a giant jigsaw puzzle.P The landscape was still rolling and heaving, but started taking on
the appearance of a forest of evergreens.P
Tree-covered hills stretched towards the horizon, where a single,
snow-capped mountain was rising into a screeching green sky.

Ozzie shook his head.P
The only world we could salvage without a doing a full reboot was
Mountain Assault the final game world.P
And Im not sure how long were gonna be able to hold it together.P Its not real stable.P Then he scratched his head, studying
Jenny.P You do somethin to your hair?

Brad was still staring at Jenny, stone-faced.P J Juh Jen

Jenny rolled her eyes now neither of them was making
sense.P Look, can you make another one
of those exit portal thingies? she asked Ozzie.

Ozzie clutched his hat in his hands.P Its gonna be even tougher to hook up dis time
around.P The exit port has gotta go at
the end of dis world on the top of dat mountain.P Im sorry.P Now I gotta go
things are still screwy in the central simulation algorithm.

With that, Ozzie, the carpenters, the workmen, and the
doctor all faded away into green photons.P
Brad and Jenny were suddenly alone in a deceptively peaceful meadow.

Juh Jenny, Brad finally said.P Do this.P He wiggled his
fingers in front of his face.

Jenny didnt understand.P
She raised her hand to her face and wiggled her slim, pink
fingers back and forth like Brad did hey whats the deal with this?
P She tried to deploy a mirror to look
at herself, but it wasnt working.P
Jenny looked at her elbow to see why it was malfunctioning, and saw that
it was a pinkish color, too.P An
impossible color.P The color of human
skin.

Brad could barely believe what he was seeing.P Jenny looked like a tall, slim and attractive
teenage girl, with real blue hair done up in two pigtails.P She was wearing an icy blue halter top, a
short blue skirt, and tall blue boots that came up to her knees a close
approximation of her robotic coloring.P
But everything else was skin, not metal.P The doctor had restored Jenny as a human player.

Stunned, she reached up and ran her fingers through her
hair.P This is so totally bizarre.

Jenny, I I mean Jenny, you look incredible.P I wish you could see yourself.

Wow, this is pretty cool, she smiled.P The game put some kind of wrapper on me,
like my moms exo-skin.P And its a
really good fit.P She ran her hand over
her arm, and felt her cheek.P It feels
real.P It feels warm?P Her eyes grew wide in surprise, and she lost
her breath momentarily.P Wait a
second lost my breath?P Im breathing?

She slid her hand down over her chest.P B-Brad, she said with a shaking voice, I
I have a heartbeat.P Im really
human.

Brad slowly raised his hand, and gently poked Jennys
arm.P It felt like a human skin and
human tissue.P Thats some side
effect, he said.P I guess you really can
be anything in virtual reality.

Jenny patted her hips and legs, in a wonderful state of
shock.P Sure, the rational part of her
electronic mind knew that it was all just a simulation.P But like everything else in the virtual
world, it felt real it felt convincing.P
This is amazing I can feel weird sensations in my arms and my legs
that Ive never felt before!

Umm, I hate to rain on your parade, Jen, said Brad, but I
feel something weird too.

The ground started to rumble beneath their feet.

From over a rise, a few hundred yards away, they saw a dozen
dark, menacing machines silhouetted against the sky.P They had huge, armored cockpits, and stood thirty feet in the
air, balanced on two monstrous mechanical legs.P Appendages stuck out from either side of the chassis, covered
with guns, cannons, rocket pods, and flamethrowers.

Oh, boy, gulped Brad.P
On the very last level of this game, you fight with mechs.P Big, giant war robots.P And the one that we should be riding
in is on the world before this one.P
You get it as a reward for finishing that level.

Well, the bigger they are, the harder they fall.P Jenny stuck out her arm, ready to deploy her
phased electron cannon from her elbow P
Uh-oh.

Brad raised an eyebrow.P
Oh, no.P Let me guess.

Jenny smiled nervously.P
It looks like the game made me very human right down to not
having laser guns in my arms.

Quick, said Brad, try to lift me over your head.

Jenny grabbed the exo-suit by the chest plate and
nothing.P She strained and grunted, but
Brad didnt budge an inch.

Okay, I propose a bold plan of action.P Brad deployed two large rocket engines from
the back of his exo-suit.P I propose we
run away really, really, really fast.

The enemy mechs broke formation and started to run across
the field, straight towards them.P Brad
and Jenny struggled to keep their balance as the ground shook from the
lumbering war machines.P Four mechs
fired a volley of missiles towards them in a flash of flame and smoke.

Jenny wrapped her arms around Brads neck.P Running away sounds really good!P Brad held onto her with one arm, and ignited
the suits rockets.P They shot into the
sky with blistering speed, just as the enemy missiles slammed into the meadow
behind them.P They outran the billowing
cloud of flames from the explosion, and leveled off to fly straight for the
mountain.

As she clung to the front of the exo-suit, she looked
backwards over Brads shoulder and cringed.P
The missiles had blown a huge crack in the ground.P The crack grew, and suddenly a section of
the earth the size of a football field gave way.P With a shrieking, hissing sound, it fell down into an infinitely
inky blackness.P The virtual world had a
huge piece ripped out of it now.

Ozzie wasnt kidding when he said this world wasnt stable,
she shouted then Umm, did you know those mech-robots behind us can fly?

Yeah, he groaned, so can those mech robots in front
of us.P Hang on.

Two dozen mammoth war machines were converging on Brad and
Jenny, a dozen from the front, a dozen from behind.P It wouldve been a challenge to take them on even if Jenny
still had her robot super-powers.P
Brads exo-suit wouldnt be able to do it alone by using brute
force.P The only important thing was
getting to the mountaintop somehow

The river! said Brad.P
It runs down from the mountain.P
We can dive down and fly right up the river, nice and low!

That sounds like it might work, added Jenny.P She tightened her grip on the armors chest
plate flying as a passenger was tougher than it looked.P Theyre gaining on us!

Brad wrapped both arms around Jennys back, and rolled over
into a dive towards the forest below.P
He dodged a few branches and tree trunks, then turned to fly upstream,
just a few feet above the waters surface.P
Hopefully, they were now hidden from the scanning eyes of the enemy
mechs.

Hanging upside-down below Brad, and with her pigtails
flapping in her face, Jenny couldnt do anything but hang on tight.P Zooming along just above the rolling,
frothing river, cold mountain water was splashing on her back against bare
skin.P Yikes! she squealed into Brads
ear.

He rolled back and forth, then regained control,
laughing.P So, how does it feel to be
rescued by a super robot?P Wow, it sure
would be nice to have a pair of rocket engines attached to your head right now,
wouldnt it?

Im never going to hear the end of this, am I? she
groaned.

More splashes of icy water jumped up and hit them large
splashes of water.P The river churned
with fountains of white foam.P They were
being fired upon.

Uh-oh my radar display shows three enemy right behind
us, Brad said glumly.P And were not
even halfway there …

A long-range shot from one of the pursuing mechs caught
Brads left rocket motor.P The impact
spun them around in the air, and the motor started to sputter and die.P Brad flipped over so Jenny would be
protected from the impending impact.P
They hit the water, skipped once, and plunged beneath the surface.

Jenny twisted in every direction, and lost track of which
way was up.P It was a completely new
sensation for her and not a pleasant one.P
Once the shock faded away, she realized just how cold the water
was.P And there was a horrible, burning
feeling gnawing at her chest.P Oh,
right.P The oxygen thing.

She felt something grab her arm, and was relieved to see
Brads face.P Thanks to a propeller in
the exo-suit, he was maneuvering with ease underwater.P Jenny pointed to her chest, frantically.P Brad shook his head, gesturing towards the
mechs overhead.P He swam them both back
downstream, doubling back to confuse the enemy robots, and popped back to the
surface behind a large rock.

The sound of the rushing river drowned out Jennys gasps, as
she filled her lungs back up.P Brad
propped her head clear of the water.P
Jen?P You okay?P She coughed, and nodded.P I never realized that breathing was so inconvenient,
she panted.

Brad looked at some numbers hovering on his visor and
frowned.P More bad news.P This exo-suit isnt going to last much
longer unless I can find some energy packs.P
And I dont think the rockets work anymore.

Well have to go on foot then, heaved Jenny.P They snuck up the riverbank, and climbed
onto dry land.P Brad tried to walk as
quietly as possible towards the forest, despite the whining and clanking of his
armors hydraulics.P Jenny followed,
trying to wring out her limp, sopping-wet pigtails.

Just as they got to the first line of trees, they were
startled by a horrific shredding sound that seemed to resonate from the earth
and the sky itself.

Back at the meadow, the hole in reality had continued to
grow.P More chunks of the earth had
broken off and fallen away.P Now a huge
swath of sky simply ripped away, as if it were a poster on a giant wall.P Instead of crystal blue, a huge piece of the
sky was now inky black, with a hint of green circuit patterns.

Normally, shuddered Brad, I would say that was the
coolest thing Ive ever seen in my life.

The whole world is falling apart – literally.P Jenny nibbled at her fingernails.P I have to admit, thats freaking me out a
little, too.P Lets get out of here!

They started running through the forest, in the direction of
the mountain.P It seemed to be miles
away but it was their only hope.

A loud pair of shrieks zoomed by overhead.P Brad looked up to see two mechs roar through
the sky, in a searching pattern.P Theres
no way they saw us, he thought.P But
his spirits sunk when the huge robots slowed down, turned back in their
direction, and dropped down to hover just above the trees.

We cant outrun them, he groaned.P Ive got an idea.P Help me get out of this suit, Jen.P Brad twisted a release catch, and Jenny helped him wriggle out of
the armor.P Brad wedged the exo-suit
against the thick trunk of a giant pine tree, over a hundred feet high.P He picked a small remote control off of the
chest.

Now we get their attention, said Brad.

What?!?P She was
shocked at first, then Oh, I understand.P
Like I said, the bigger they are!

Brad and Jenny started jumping up and down, waving their
arms.P The two war robots couldnt miss
them.P They landed on the forest floor
with a resounding thud, and started slowly lumbering towards them, making their
way through the trees.P The first mech
opened fire with one of its small lasers.P
They dove behind a fallen log for protection.

Brad peeked over the log, and saw that the first mech was
just about next to the giant pine tree

He mashed the button on the remote control, and the exo-suit
self-destructed.P The explosion rocked
the huge pine tree, shattering its massive trunk.P It slowly started to lean, and then tipped over and rushed
towards the ground.P The tree came down
on top of the war robot, crushing it like a soda can.

Brad and Jenny were thrilled but they got more than they
bargained for.P The crushed mechs fuel
and ammunition exploded in a huge fireball, blasting out a concussion wave that
knocked over several nearby trees.P
Instead of carving out a crater, the explosion ripped a new hole in
reality itself.P The flaming mech, and
its intact partner, slid through the hole in the world, and tumbled down into
eternal nothingness below.

They stared with satisfaction for a few moments, then they
sat down on a log and wiped off the forest debris.P And so we say goodbye to the Brad-inator a moment of silence, please.P It sure was fun while it lasted.P He sighed, and turned serious.P Jen, this is farther than Ive ever gotten
on this world before.P Were out of
weapons, and Im out of ideas.

A hissing growl erupted from the hole in the forest
floor.P The rim of the hole started to
send cracks shooting outward, and more chunks of the world started to tumble
down the abyss.P It was as if the entire
world were made of thin ice.P The hole,
only a hundred yards away, started to grow.

They jumped off the log and into a sprint.P Even without the exo-suit, Brad made good
speed through the forest.P And Jenny was
running almost as fast as she could as a robot.P The hissing sound of the reality hole faded into the
background.P But a more ominous sound
rumbled from the sky in front of them.

Brad stopped in his tracks, and stared at the sky with
slumped shoulders.P Three more mechs
dropped towards the forest, riding jets of flame from their huge rocket
motors.P The game-controlled war robots
must have talked to each other when they first sighted the players.P Soon even more mechs would be right on top
of them.P There was no place to hide, no
way to outrun them, no way to outfight them.

The mechs lumbered towards Brad and Jenny, and armed their
giant proton cannons.P He suddenly
realized that he wasnt about to lose a simple video game.P He might be about to lose his thinking mind.

They heard the whistling sound of missiles roaring through
the air.P Well, this ought to be
quick, cringed Brad.

But the missiles came from the wrong direction and they
werent heading towards them at all.P
Four missiles slammed into the cockpits of each of the three lumbering
war robots, rocking them backwards with colossal explosions.P They dropped onto their backs, and columns
of smoke poured out of their chests.P
Brad and Jenny couldnt believe their good luck.P Where in the world did those missiles
come from?

With a flaming roar, another mech dropped down into the
forest, landing a mere fifty feet away from Brad and Jenny.P It didnt look like the game-controlled
robots it was highly customized, with extra weapons pylons, and bigger rocket
engines.P And it was painted a
flamboyant crimson red, with spectacular orange flames painted on the sides of the
cockpit.P Parts of the legs glistened
with sparkling chrome.

Wow!P All right!
beamed Jenny.P That must be Drew!P He found a way to create another player and
put it in the game to help us!

I dont think so Ive never seen anything like that in
the game before, gasped Brad.P What a
sweet ride!P Check out the paint job on
the side.P Hmmm.P There was a name painted just underneath the
cockpit

Brad slapped his head in disbelief.P Mech Commander Johnny Zoom?!?

With a hiss of compressed air, the crimson mechs canopy
opened, and pivoted up to reveal the cockpit and the pilot inside.P It was a short little fellow with jet black
hair.P He waved, and laughed at Brad and
Jenny.P I figured that my doofus
brother was going to need some help.

Brads jaw dropped.P
I dont believe it!P Tuck!P How did you Where did you What did you
.. ?

Jenny ran up to the mechs open cockpit.P Tuck, are we ever glad to see you but you
shouldnt have come in here!P Now youre
in danger too!P Wait a minute just how
did you get in the game?

When Jenny looked closer, she realized that the pilot of the
mech didnt quite look like Tuck he was a little older, and a little more
muscular.P Dont worry, Jenny.P Im not inside the game I just plugged
another controller into the back of the GameStation!P I customized my player I think its a stunning likeness.P And I dug around in the other Christmas
presents, and found a microphone headset.P
Thats how come I can talk to you on the TV.P Pretty cool, huh?

A series of lights and buzzers started to beep in the
crimson mechs cockpit.P Hold on
sensors show five enemy bogies inbound from the east!P Tuck sat back, and grabbed the controls
with a cocky grin.P Things look grim,
but the enemy pilots are no match for Commander Johnny Zoom!P With battle-sharpened reflexes, Commander
Zoom unleashes a withering barrage of firepower!

Weapons pods extended from the crimson mech, and a deafening
volley of missiles screamed into the sky.P
Tucks attack went on for a full sixty seconds, filling the forest with
a thick cloud of missile exhaust.

Brad wiped his eyes, coughed, and motioned for Jenny to
climb into the mech cockpit with Tuck.P
They groped their way in through the smoke, climbed up one of the legs,
and finally dropped inside the cockpit, exhausted.P As soon as they were inside, Tuck closed the cockpit, and
prepared his war machine for takeoff.

Jenny wiped the smoke out of her eyes.P Tuck, weve got to get out of here!P The whole game world is disintegrating!P Theres a big hole in the ground back there
thats getting bigger every second!

Im way ahead of you, Jenny.P Tuck tapped a few buttons, punched the throttle, and nudged the
control stick forward.P The massive
crimson mech lunged into the air, and climbed above the tops of the evergreen
trees.P Well seeing as how I am the only
person in this house who has actually completed the whole game, I figured you
two could use a little help.P Could you
use some help, big brother?P Why, if you
asked nicely nicely Id be happy to help.

Brads teeth were grinding together.P Tuck grrr would you please fly
us to the mountaintop base?

How is Tuck playing so well?P All five enemy mechs were destroyed Tuck
had attacked them with sixty-two missiles.P
Sixty-two!!!P He looked at
the weapons readout in front of Tuck.P
The status indicator read Lasers infinite.P Missiles infinite.P
Shield infinite.

Suddenly, Brad got furious.P
Why, you youre using cheat codes!!!P
Thats why I havent seen this mech before its a cheat code too!P You rotten little cheater!P You only finished the game because you had
infinite weapons!P And invulnerability!

Cheat codes? smiled Tuck.P
Such an ugly word, cheat.P I
prefer the term secret codes.

I knew you were up to something funny!P Why, you little

Tuck smirked.P Fine,
then.P I can always drop you off and let
you walk.

Jenny jumped in and stopped them.P All right, boys, maybe we could focus on something a little more
important?P Like saving our lives?P Brad, maybe its actually a good
thing to be sitting in an indestructible flying machine, dont you think?P Who cares if its cheating?P Its not like youre keeping score.

Of course were keeping score, said Tuck.

Brad pointed a finger in Tucks face.P Well finish this back in the living room.

Tuck grinned, and nudged his war robot up to full flying
speed.P For the first time, Brad and
Jenny were starting to feel a little optimistic.P They were approaching the foothills of the mountain, and just a
few thousand feet up, on the summit, was the enemy stronghold, and the portal
back to the outside world.

What am I supposed to be looking for, guys? asked
Tuck.P Somebody want to give me a
little help here?

Jenny thought for a second.P
Well, on the last game-world, the operating system had to actually put
the exit portal inside the enemy base.P
So he probably had to do the same thing here, too.

So youve got to get inside the enemy fortress on top of
the mountain.P Thats not going to be
easy.P Its heavily defended, and once
you get inside, there are a whole bunch of enemy troops.P Normally, I just blast em all I dont
bother going inside.P Well have to
improvise once we get there.

A hail of plasma bolts screamed down towards them from the
mountain top.P Just below the summit,
huge gun turrets unfolded from the mountainside, and opened up with withering
defensive fire.P Dozens of energy blasts
rocked the crimson mech, and although the infinite shields protected it, they
were stilled being tossed around inside the cockpit.P Tuck landed the mech behind a large boulder, giving them a
breather so they could stop and think.

Brad lifted himself up off the floor.P Man, if Jen and I take one step out of this
cockpit, those guns will turn us into toast!

Well, I can take care of those guns no problem!P Tuck keyed another special command into
his command stick, and a large red X appeared on the windshield.P I think thirty missiles should make short
work of those guns!

Tuck centered his sights on the gun placements, and pulled
his weapons trigger.

Jenny had a sudden, horrible thought.P Tuck!P
Stop!

But the missiles were underway.P With a blinding flash of rocket motors, one massive wave of
missiles jumped out of the weapons pod and weaved their way up the mountain
towards the enemy guns.

Tuck and Brad looked at Jenny, confused.P Whats the problem?

Thirty missiles is an awful lot.P What happened the last time we made a really big explosion?P Jenny fidgeted with her pigtails.P I sure hope Im wrong.

Thirty missile contrails converged on the gun placement, and
impacted at the same time.P A mammoth
orange fireball ripped out the side of the summit, sending a shower of rocks
and wrecked machinery cascading down the side of the mountain.P The hail of plasma fire from above came to a
stop.

See? grinned Tuck.P
Jen, in a video game, theres no problem that cant be solved with
firepower.

The devastation from the explosion rumbled through the
mountainside, like a small earthquake, shaking the three players in the cockpit
of the crimson mech.P But instead of
fading away, the earthquake continued and started to get stronger.

The mountain shook, and shook, and Jenny could plainly see a
large crack making its way across the width of the summit.P The earthquake grew stronger still, and soon
they had to brace themselves against the inside of the mechs cockpit to keep
from being thrown to the floor.

Then there was a horrific shredding sound.P The sound of reality being torn into pieces.

The entire top of the mountain the top five hundred feet
broke free of the base with a crack like a hundred thunderbolts.P Jenny, Brad and Tuck stared, in
astonishment, as the mountain summit started to climb into the air.P Millions of tons of rock sailed upwards,
faster and faster, a completely impossible sight.P It rose a few thousand feet into the air, and then shattered the
sky, like a rock through a giant plate glass window.P A huge, black hole formed in the sky from the impact.P The mountain summit, and the chunk of sky,
splintered into billions of colored polygons, and was sucked upwards into an
endless, coal-black void.

The crimson mech braced itself as the wind started to gust,
then pick up steadily into a hurricane-force gale, sucking plants, rocks, and
stray bits of game reality upwards into the black hole.P Brad and Jenny stared at each other,
speechless.P The only way out of the
game had just disappeared, before their eyes.

CONCLUDED in Chapter
Five