Trapped in a Video Game - The Invisible Invasion (Book 2)
1 chapter 1 The Ghost What did you do last night Sleep Hmm you don’t say Want to know what I did I talked to an army guy Not like someone from the real army trying to recruit me I’m 12 It would have been a short conversation The army guy I talked to happened to be six inches tall and made of plastic I don’t make a habit of talking to toys I’m not crazy but I had a good excuse This one talked to me first See I met this particular toy when he wasn’t a toy but a real sergeant in the game Full Blast Two weeks ago I got sucked into Full Blast with my friend Eric Conrad We flew around with jet packs and rode the Statue of Liberty like a rocket ship and almost got trapped inside the game for good by an alien who said our names in the creepiest way possible It’s a long story You should read it sometime Anyways in Full Blast we met Mark Whitman another kid from our class who had gotten sucked into
2 the same game Mark stayed behind so Eric and I could escape Now this army guy was telling me that I could go back into the video game to save Mark but I had to go back now Of course I wanted to go back I’d do anything for Mark The sergeant asked me if I was sure Yes I was sure let’s go I stared at the army guy waiting for him to I don’t know click his heels or open a portal in my closet or something Instead he stared at me motionless kind of like a toy would That’s when I started feeling stupid Hey I said yes I poked the sergeant He continued staring with his blank toy expression Do I need to press some sort of button I picked him up and turned him over in my hand No button At this point you might be thinking that maybe the whole talking toy thing was a dream And I would normally agree with you except for one very important detail The sergeant had actually woken me up from a dream Now have you ever woken up from a dream only to find yourself in another dream You have not That has never once happened in real life only in movies The talking sergeant was not a dream because this is not a movie and also I am not crazy
3 I spent the next several minutes talking to and poking at the army guy Then I got up and checked all the places where he might have hidden some sort of portal to the video game TV toilet wardrobe etc Nothing I crawled back into bed and spent much of the rest of the night convincing myself I wasn’t crazy and then I think I fell asleep Jesse Breakfast My eyes popped open Sunlight streamed through the window Monday morning Jesse my mom yelled up the stairs again Mmmf I replied I stumbled out of bed and plop plop-plopped down the stairs I took my seat at the table and waited for my dad to grab the cereal from the top shelf What kind do you want hon he asked Blueberry crunch my mom replied as she finished packing her lunch I’ll try that new chocolate one I said My dad grabbed the blueberry only Can I try the chocolate one I repeated a little louder My dad set my mom’s cereal box on the table and grabbed his bowl from the freezer Freeze the bowl first It will change your life he tells everyone who will listen Not true
