gonna_shoot_it | 1st Quarter Alert [Action/Video]

[When Calhoun awakes, she finds herself facedown on a table in what must be Tapper's. The wood is slightly sticky under her cheek and smells of root beer, although when she moves a hand around stiffly, there's no mug anywhere to go with it. Which is strange.

What's also strange is that she's in Tapper's when she's supposed to be leaving Sugar Rush. That was the last thing that happened, right? Wreck-It had finally gotten his butt moving and they were going back to where they belonged before...

Stiffly, Calhoun sits up and looks around. And her eyes narrow. This isn't Tapper's. Wherever this is, it isn't the familiar watering hole filled with other arcade citizens. There isn't a single familiar face anywhere. And her gun is nowhere to be found.

For that matter, her armor isn't anywhere to be found. This is a plain white dress. What in the seven levels is this dress.

Calhoun is not amused. With a low growl, she gets to her feet - hits her head on the low-hanging light over the table - and takes another glaring look around the bar. Definitely not in Sugar Rush anymore. This isn't saccharine pink enough. There is, however, a thick journal with her name on it. She knows better than to leave a key item like that behind. After flipping through it quickly and deciding it's infinitely TL;DR, she takes the impatient route and just pokes at the transmission options a few times before she finds the video function.]

Anybody care to share what the flying fairydust is going on around here? Short version. I don't have the time to go through this whole cheat guide here.

[Aaand end transmission.

Alright. Now. First things first. She has to find her scanner, then her gun, then her armor. Then she can figure out what happened.

And somebody is going to get smacked for this.

Calhoun can be spotted slowly making her way through the main part of the village, looking almost like a lioness on the hunt at first as she tries to sniff out any kind of threat. Once she's made her stops into all the stores and found what she's looking for, she'll be a little more at ease, but no less irritated-looking. She's still got this place to scope out and figure out.]

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And now you've lost me again. Why did you have to jump worlds to save an arcade?

Because if I didn't, the Cy-Bugs-- [Dammit this guy doesn't know arcades, how is he going to know that.] -- viruses would have spread to every game and destroyed them all. They came out of my game and went into another one. If we hadn't stopped them there, they would've kept going until there wasn't anything left.

Out of the game?

Wait.

So...

[Rubs his temples.] When we were talking about worlds, you meant game to game?

Of course I did. That's why I called it game jumping.

Wow.

How do we know that this isn't a game inside an arcade now then?

[She grins, a little wickedly.]

We don't, do we? It could be plugged in on its own, that would keep it isolated from the games around it. Or there might be a way out. Somewhere.

Excellent.

Not that I'm interested in finding it, but I'm sure there are others who'd appreciate such a thing. What would an exit like that look like?

[She shrugs.] It depends on the game. Some of them say "Thanks for visiting!" or something like that above the gate, but there's usually a small train to carry people back and forth.

[Although she's not sure you can hide a train, small or no. But she won't give up all the same.]

Even if something like that hasn't been spotted yet, we'll just have to keep looking.

It's been five years and a few of us can fly, I'm pretty sure we'd notice that.

I'll keep my eyes out either way, but don't get your hopes up, eh.

[Grim smile.] I'm not the type of person to just let something like that slide without a fight. Giving up ain't gonna find us a way out, sunshine.

I'm not looking for the way out myself though, but understood. Good luck, eh.

Right. [She gives the little image window an odd look.] Why aren't you looking for a way out?

My little brother can't go anywhere else, so I'm happy just to be here with him.

[His brother can't go anywhere else? Now that's familiar. She wonders if it's the same as Vanellope had it before or if it's something else, but doesn't pry into it.]

Ah. Well, I know how that is. He's lucky to have a dedicated brother with him.

Thank you. [Soft genuine grin at that.] I'm lucky to have found him, eh.

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