They managed to get out of the house without anyone stopping them, only to stare at their surroundings, which looked like they were made out of pixels.

"This is so focking weird." Jack muttered before Chaos frowned and she tugged on his sleeve. "Jack, can you hear music?"

"Nope, I can't hear a focking thing, why?"

"Because, I think I can hear something playing in the background, something that sounds familiar, like I've heard it before, somewhere, but I can't remember when..."

Chaos closed her eyes and she started to hum, tapping on her lower arm with her fingers as she recreated the song that she could hear.

"That sounds like a song that I heard in a game but I can't remember which one..." Jack was confused, he couldn't figure which game Anti had chosen.

"Jack." Chaos said. "I think that I know where we are but there's something that I need to see to confirm my idea."

"Okay Kid!" Jack said before he started to laugh. "I'm definitely going to be calling you that from now on!"

Chaos giggled as they walked down the path, passing by other houses until they reached a two-storey building. Chaos looked at it and she gasped. "Oh my god! I know where we are, this is a Pokémon Mart! We're in the World of Pokémon!"

"Why is it so quiet?" Jack asked. "And where are the Pokémon? We should be hearing the cries of Pokemon so, where are they and how did you figure out that we're in the World of Pokémon?"

"Because of the music, I remembered what it means. It's the music that plays when you're in Lavender town, the town of the dead Pokémon and it's the town where Lavender Tower is located."

"Then that means..." Jack started to say before he looked at a building that they could see in the distance. "To beat this game we need to escape from this town."

'But how are we going to do that Jack? I don't see a way out."

"Most of the chase scenes that you see in a horror game have a trigger." Jack frowned. "I have a feeling that we need to trigger one if we want to beat this game. We didn't trigger one when we left that room and we didn't trigger one when we left the house, so we need to go inside that tower. It's the only other building in this town that's big enough for people to run around in."

"But what about the Pokémon Centre and the Pokémon Mart? Shouldn't it be possible for chase scenes to be triggered in them too?"

"They're too small and too open, this is a game to Anti, he wants to be entertained and a chase scene in a small room? It's not entertaining to him, but a chase scene in a Tower with several floors and places to hide, along with obstacles and enemies? That's the sort of chase scene that he likes to watch."

Jack opened the Mart's door and they stepped inside. The place looked like it hadn't been touched, apart from the aisles where the milk and other fresh items had been ransacked and emptied. Jack shook his head and he made his way over to the backpacks, tossing the black and yellow one over to Chaos before he grabbed a black and green one for himself.

"Jack?" Chaos watched as he opened it and he started to remove the paper packaging from his new bag. "Are you sure that we are allowed to do this? I mean, we're taking items that don't belong to us..."

"I don't like to do this but sometimes, a bag filled with useful items could be the difference between life and death here."

"Okay, but I don't like it."

"Hey, if I could pay for them, then I would but right now, I can't and neither can you, right?"

"No, I can't. I don't even have my shoes! Anti grabbed me before I could grab anything that could stop him or help me! And I know that I don't have anything that could stop him or help me... we're stuck, aren't we Jack?! And the only way to get out..."

Chaos tried not to show Jack the tears that was starting to fall down her face, she was trying to wipe them away with her sleeves but Jack grabbed her hands. "Save the tears for when this is over, we will escape from this game, I promise, because this isn't the first time that Anti has done this to me, and if I can get out of his games, and if Mark can do the same thing, then you can do it too! We can't let the pressure get to us because if we do, Anti wins."

"Then, what should we do? What can we do?!"

"We start by taking what we can use from this place. Food and Medical Supplies."

"Can we grab some blankets and pillows too?"

"What?"

"Because from what has happened so far, Anti could do something to change the weather and when he does this then, we could be in trouble, because we aren't wearing any clothing that can withstand stand the cold for a long time, we could probably survive the cold for a short amount of time, but if we think about it long term, we're screwed, so it would be safer for us to find somewhere that we could use as a shelter, until the weather clears up, and we can move around without worrying about the fact that we could freeze to death, thanks to the weather."

"You're right about that." Jack said. "We need to have plans to counter a situation like that, even if we don't get to use them, and we will need to sleep eventually. I can deal with sleeping on hard ground but while we're here, in a shop that has blankets and pillows, it would be a good idea to get some."

"So, does Anti put you through one small game or several of the small games together or a big game?"

"It's a mixture of all three, it can be a few small games, a few big games or just one really big game that takes a while to complete. We are lucky that time in a game is slower than time in the real world, it may feel like a few weeks to us but it will be a few minutes in the real world, so we don't have to worry about being declared missing and being thrown into an asylum when we get back, because who would believe us if we tell them that we spent the past few weeks stuck inside a game?"

"You can name a few people that would."

"Yeah, I could." Jack said before they split up to find what they needed.

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Jack found Chaos by the exit door of the Mart, she was humming the song as she tamed the laces of of her new trainers. Her backpack was next to her, with two bundles of blankets, wrapped up with straps.

"So, you have a thing for lightening bolts?" He asked as he kneeled down to attach his blanket bundle to his bag, grinning at the mini green eyeballs on it.

Chaos nearly jumped into the air from the sudden question, she looked around, trying to find out who was talking to her, only to relax when she saw that Jack was the one who had been talking to her.

"Yeah." She scratched the back of her head. "It's like you and the symbol on your channel, it's something that just stuck with me and it never left."

Jack chuckled as Chaos attached her blanket bundle to her bag. "Are you ready to end this?"

"Yeah, let's finish this."