Inside The Game/Part 4

Empath had brought the Game Wand into Handy's workshop the first thing in the morning. He explained the whole situation to Handy while he was getting himself dressed for the day ahead.

"Hefty got smurfed into the game while he was playing it last night?" Handy said, sounding amazed by the whole thing. "That's real surprising, but then I'm still wondering where that game smurfed from in the first place."

"We were hoping to find out the answer to that, Handy," Empath said. "For now, we need to find out where Hefty is and if there's some way that we can get him back out."

"Okay, okay, let me get this thing smurfed up to the monitors and smurf out a few things," Handy said. He then plugged in a few wires to the Game Wand and turned on some window vision screens that he was using for monitors.

Empath watched the monitor readouts in the hopes of understanding exactly what he was seeing. "So anything wrong with the Game Wand itself?" Empath asked.

"According to these readings, everything smurfs out fine, Empath," Handy said. "All except for this, which indicates that something is in the Game Wand that doesn't belong in there." He pointed to a mark on one of the monitor readouts that looked different from what would be its normal readings.

"That 'something' could be Hefty, who somehow got transported into the memory of the Game Wand itself, or it could be something else entirely," Empath said.

"Whatever it is, it needs to be purged or else who knows what can happen," Handy said. "Are you sensing anything from the Game Wand itself?"

Empath concentrated his telepathic abilities to scan for any presence that was within the Game Wand. "This smurf can sense Hefty, who is trapped in a world that somehow exists in the Game Wand, but he seems to be so distant that there's no way that this smurf can directly communicate with him."

"I guess that means we can't remove the game from the Game Wand, or else Hefty will disappear along with the game, Empath," Handy said. "However, I'll work on a way that we can get Hefty smurfed back here, if there is anything we can smurf for him out here."

"This smurf appreciates your efforts, as this smurf is sure that Hefty will, Handy," Empath said before he left Handy's workshop. - Hefty was now taken to the transport platform outside the Beamcycle arena, where he saw his fellow cellmate Zeron along with another blue warrior. "Auron, this is the Game Warrior I've been talking about," Zeron said as soon as he saw Hefty.

The guard pushed Hefty toward the transport platform, where he got a good look at Auron up-close. "For a moment there, I thought I was smurfing at Empath being in here," Hefty mused.

"Who?" Auron asked, sounding confused.

"Oh...just someone I knew for somewhere else," Hefty said. "Not that I'd want to introsmurf you to him anyway."

"He got taken out of the game he was playing and was transported here, Auron," Zeron mentioned.

"So you're a Gametronian like the rest of us?" Auron asked.

"Actually, I'm a Smurf, and the only thing I want is to smurf back home, Auron," Hefty said. "This place may be great and all, but I sure don't want to smurf my entire life in here just playing games."

"Me neither," Auron said. "There's someone in the Factory Complex that I'm looking forward to meeting if we ever get out of this Arena. Her name is Yori."

"Yori," Hefty said to himself, wondering who she might look like. "Well, if we ever smurf out of here, I might help you smurf up with her again."

Soon the three blue warriors were transported from there into the inside of the Beamcycle arena, with three orange warriors appearing on the far side of the arena opposite from where they were standing.

"Game Warriors, prepare to enter your Beamcycles," a female voice announced. Then glowing batons appeared before each of the six warriors in the arena. They each grabbed onto the baton with both hands, and suddenly the Beamcycles materialized around them -- futuristic motorcycle vehicles in bright colors that left a wake of solid energy walls as the drivers of the vehicles moved forward.

"Ready, set, go!" the female voice announced. Suddenly all six Beamcycles moved forward, leaving solid energy walls in their wake. Hefty knew how to play the game: the object was to surround his opponents with energy walls for them to crash into while avoiding the same being done to him.

"Hefty, Zeron, split up and let's take them one by one," Auron said through his vehicle's communicator. Hefty and Zeron both turned off to the side, as did two of the orange warriors in their Beamcycles, while Auron raced straight ahead toward the orange warrior who was heading straight for him.

To be expanded on.