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Sam to save Eric before the robots blast him into outer space After rescuing Eric Jesse finds out that Mr Gregory has been replaced by a robot impostor intent on hiding the real reason for Bionosoft’s Trapped in a Video Game project In Trapped in a Video Game Return to Doom Island Jesse and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
spits them into the office of billionaire Max Reuben At the office they learn that Max has been using Bionosoft and Mr Gregory to finish the Reubenverse a massive virtual universe ruled by Max When the Reubenverse is complete Max will suck every human on Earth into it through an event called The Reuben Rapture By using super-spy tactics Jesse and Eric destroy both Max’s company and his evil robot but not before Max escapes into the Reubenverse and starts the countdown to Rapture
chapter 1 10 Minutes to Save the World Ten minutes is not a lot of time Let’s say I order you to do something fun in the next 10 minutes Your life depends on it Time starts now What do you do You can’t finish a TV show in 10 minutes You certainly can’t watch a movie Ten minutes isn’t enough time to go to the neighborhood swimming pool round up all your Nerf guns or convince a friend to play Go Fish Also Go Fish is not fun Maybe you decide to watch something on YouTube Cool YouTube only has five billion videos Choose wisely your life depends on it Uh how about this one where a guy eats a ghost pepper OK you click on it A 30-second ad plays Then the guy starts rambling about his Instagram account You begin sweating because you’re not even close to having fun yet You click ahead oh no Too far He’s already screaming You try going back to the spot where he puts the pepper in his mouth but time’s already up You’re dead
