Dustin Brady - Robots Revolt

Trapped in a Video Game: Robots Revolt copyright 2018 Dustin Brady. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of reprints in the context of reviews.

Andrews McMeel Publishing
a division of Andrews McMeel Universal
1130 Walnut Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64106

www.andrewsmcmeel.com

ISBN: 978-14494-9843-6

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018932210

Ackn o wledgments

Special thanks to Jesse Brady for the cover and
interior illustrations. You can check out more of
Jesses sweet artwork at jessebradyart.com .

Other Books
by Dustin Brady

Trapped in a Video Game: The Invisible Invasion

Trapped in a Video Game

Superhero for a Day: The Magic Magic Eight Ball

Who Stole Mr. T?: Leila and Nugget Mystery #1

The Case with No Clues: Leila and Nugget Mystery #2

Bark at the Park: Leila and Nugget Mystery #3

Contents

PREFACE

In Case You Missed It

Stop.

Do not read another word of this book until youve finished the first two Trapped in a Video Game books. Seriously. Dont do it. Throw this book in a trash can if the temptation gets too strong.

But what if I cant get those books?! you might be asking. Great question. And if you were as good at using Amazon.com as you are at asking questions, then youd have the first two Trapped in a Video Game books by now. But Im on a submarine, and Amazon doesnt yet deliver to submarines. Am I sunk? You are not sunk. (Also, nice pun.) Your best bet is to request a transfer to a submarine equipped with all of the Trapped in a Video Game books. In the highly, HIGHLY unlikely event that your request gets denied, you may catch up by reading the following summary of the first two books. Again, this summary is only for submarine-bound readers whove already submitted a transfer request and preferably two appeals. If thats not youtrash can.

The Trapped in a Video Game series tells the story of Jesse Rigsby, a sixth-grader who getsyoull never believe thistrapped in video games. His first adventure takes place inside a shooter called Full Blast , where he joins his friend Eric Conrad to battle man-sized praying mantises, angry sand monsters, and a super-creepy alien known as the Hindenburg. Halfway through the game, they run into Mark Whitman, a kid from their class whos been missing from the real world for nearly a month. Turns out, hes been trapped inside of Full Blast the whole time. Mark helps the duo escape by sacrificing himself and staying behind.

In Trapped in a Video Game: The Invisible Invasion , Jesse gets a chance to rescue Mark by sneaking into the video game company Bionosoft through Go Wild , a mobile game kind of like Pokmon Go . After surviving attacks by a Bigfoot, a velociraptor, and a few hundred vicious fur balls, Jesse learns that Bionosoft is trapping kids like Mark in their games on purpose to test some scary new technology. With the help of Eric and former Bionosoft employee Mr. Gregory, Jesse fights his way to the companys basement, where Mark is being held inside of a computer. The good news is that theyre able to pull Mark out of his video game before its too late. The bad news is that they have to break the system to do so, which releases everything else from Bionosofts computers into the real world. That includes kids, weapons, and thousands upon thousands of video game bad guys.

OK, thats it. Youre all caught up now. Happy submarining.

chapter 1

Mayhem

EEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

The vibrating in my chest grew as the sound got louder.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

It almost felt like a volcano could erupt from my chest at any second. Do you know that feeling? Its not a good feeling.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

Of course, the noise wasnt even the problem. The problem was the cause of the noisehundreds of
six-foot-tall computer towers all malfunctioning at the same time, spitting out video game bad guys at an alarming rate.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

Human-sized praying mantis aliens. Dinosaurs. Slime
blobs. What looked like a flame-throwing robot dragon.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

All of them seemed a little confused and a lot angry about getting transported from the comfort of their fake video game worlds to the very real, very loud basement of an evil video game corporation. I covered my ears, backed against a computer, and yelled for the only person who could do something. MR. GREGORY! DO SOMETHING!

Mr. Gregory kind of caused this whole mess in the first place by inventing a way to put people into video games, then breaking everything to get our friend Mark out of one. An arm cannon hit me in the chest just as a praying mantis noticed me.

Here! Mr. Gregory said without looking up from his laptop. Hold them off while I try to turn off the power!

Before I could remind Mr. Gregory about my poor aiming skills, the praying mantis screeched and leaped at me. I jammed my arm into the cannon, fell backward, and blasted up in the air.

SCREECH!

The mantis disappeared in a flash of light. I sat up and looked around me. Mayhem. Absolute mayhem.

After getting over the initial shock of transporting into the real world, the video game characters started doing what they do bestdestroying everything in sight. To my right, a rhino with a long sword-horn was impaling computer towers over and over. To my left, two slimy swamp things fought each other. And straight ahead, five oversized cockroaches were circling something. The circle parted just long enough for me to see what theyd trapped.

ERIC! I yelled. My best friend, Eric Conrad, was huddled on the ground, kicking his legs wildly. I got up and blasted five times, missing horribly each time. HEY! I blasted again and finally hit one. They all turned at once. I blasted again. That may have been a mistake, because as soon as I did, they all flew directly at me.

AHHHH! BLAST BLAST BLAST. AHHHH! BLAST BLAST

One of the cockroaches batted away my blaster, and then they all started circling and chattering. I tried raising my arms and yelling like youre supposed to do when you see a bear, but all that did was make them close in tighter and chatter angrier because cockroaches are not bears. One of them began feeling me with its long, creepy antennae. This was itI was going to be eaten alive by a giant cockroach in the basement of a video game company. My parents would be so confused.

ZAP!

The cockroach feeling me with its antennae suddenly disappeared. All of the others looked up. Before they could do anything ZAP! ZAP! ZAP! they all disappeared, too. Eric stood in front of me, holding what looked like the scepter thing Loki has in The Avengers only it was super high tech, so maybe if Loki was a robot, I guess?

This just popped out of that computer over there! Eric yelled. Im gonna take it home!

Wheres Mark?! I asked.

What?!

I got right in Erics ear. WHERES MARK?! The EEEEE sound had gotten so loud that it was almost impossible to hear anything that wasnt shouted directly into your ear.

Eric shrugged. Then his eyes got real big, and he pointed over my shoulder.

There was Mark, underneath a pile of fur balls from Go Wild . For every one he threw off, two more would jump on. Eric aimed his scepter and started zapping fur balls off the pile. After four or five, Mark was able to squirm out and take off. Eric and I ran after him. Were coming! I shouted.

Mark turned around and yelled something, but I couldnt make it out because of all the noise. He put his head down and sprinted as hard as he could through the computer towers. After 20 seconds of sprinting, Eric had fallen behind, but the fur balls and I were gaining on Mark. Suddenly, Mark threw a small metal ball over his shoulder. I slowed down. What was