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
My point is if 10 minutes is not even enough time to do something fun it’s CERTAINLY not enough time to save the world Unfortunately that’s exactly what Mr Gregory was asking us to do A billionaire named Max Reuben had built a video game universe and was about to use Mr Gregory’s technology to suck every human on Earth inside That includes my baby cousin Olivia who can’t even hold up her own head yet my Aunt Dianne who HATES video games and my 88-year-old neighbor Mrs Gardino who leaves her house exactly once a week to go to church Max actually stole the name for his event from church He was calling it The Reuben Rapture It was going to be bad And according to the calm Siri-sounding lady counting down as I teleported back to Mr Gregory it was going to happen real soon Ten minutes to Rapture I finally landed in Mr Gregory’s lab on the 56th floor of Max’s office building What happened I asked as I rubbed my head HE STARTED THE COUNTDOWN AND LOCKED ME OUT AND I DON’T KNOW HOW TO STOP IT Mr Gregory shouted as he typed like a maniac on one of his five keyboards
Huh Who How At that moment Eric appeared on the ground What happened AHHH I DON’T HAVE TIME TO EXPLAIN AGAIN I tried to get more information Mr Gregory are you saying that Max found a way to start the Rapture on his own THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT I’M SAYING How do we stop it Mr Gregory took a second to breathe then turned to face us From the inside
