Acknowledgments Special thanks to Jesse Brady for the cover and interior illustrations You can check out more of Jesse’s sweet artwork at
PREFACE In Case You Missed It This is the final book in the Trapped in a Video Game series Do not read this one first That would be like skipping to the last chapter of a story and science tells us that skipping to the final chapter has the same effect on your health as eating 12 Twinkies a day If you decide to ignore science and shovel all these glorious Twinkies into your mouth anyway then please read ONLY the following paragraph It has a special summary of the series just for your Twinkie-sized attention span Trapped in a Video Game is a series about a boy named Jesse Rigsby who studies ants Big ants small ants red ants black ants not biting ants though Those are too scary Nothing exciting happens in the whole series Jesse does not turn into Ant-Man or even Ant-Boy He is just a boring kid who likes ants People who enjoy the series either love ants way too much or believe the rumor that hidden clues sprinkled throughout the books lead to an underground treasure trove of Twinkies Science in this case means the author’s opinion
Oops What rumor Forget we said anything You definitely don’t need to go back and carefully read every sentence of the first four books for clues That would be silly And delicious OK are all of the book-skippers gone Good Just between us there is no Twinkie treasure That was just a ploy to get people to go back and read the rest of the series If you have read the first four books and just need a refresher here’s what really happened In the first Trapped in a Video Game Jesse Rigsby gets trapped inside of a video game Honestly the book’s title should have been your first clue that the ant story was fake In the game Jesse meets up with his friend Eric Conrad and immediately attracts the attention of a super-powered alien known as the Hindenburg The Hindenburg has been charged with destroying glitches in the game and it believes with all its little alien heart that the two friends are glitches that have to go Jesse and Eric finally escape but only because another kid from their class Mark Whitman chooses to take their place In Trapped in a Video Game The Invisible Invasion Jesse and Eric mount a rescue mission by sneaking into the video game company Bionosoft through
Go Wild a mobile game kind of like Pokémon Go After surviving attacks by a Bigfoot a velociraptor and Bionosoft president Jevvry Delfino Jesse Eric and former Bionosoft employee Mr Gregory pull Mark out of a computer prison called the Black Box Unfortunately the rescue breaks Bionosoft’s system which releases everything else from their computers into the real world In Trapped in a Video Game Robots Revolt robots from one of Bionosoft’s games start causing major damage in the real world after escaping their computers In addition to transforming sewers factories and amusement parks around town into deadly levels from their game they also kidnap Eric Jesse teams up with Mark and an Australian girl named Sam to save Eric before the robots blast him into outer space After rescuing Eric Jesse finds out that Mr Gregory has been replaced by a robot impostor intent on hiding the real reason for Bionosoft’s Trapped in a Video Game project In Trapped in a Video Game Return to Doom Island Jesse and Eric team up with Mr Gregory’s son Charlie to hunt for the truth Unfortunately their search alerts the robot and nearly gets them killed They escape into the old 8-bit video game Doom Island which eventually
