Controlled- A Video Game-Based Novel

Division 7

Except this isn't my home. What the hell---?

I walk slowly around the house and reach the living room just as I hear the lonely melody, signalling my Fecit has gone offline. Great. I'm stuck at some random sims place. Hopefully the owner is a set zim otherwise I'll have some real explaining to do if a real zim lives here.

I check out my surroundings.

The living room was mainly white. Couches and carpets were snowy white, a coffee table was in the middle, a pink bar was on the left side of the room, a porcelain pig was sitting on the floor and a blue penguin TV was in front of the couches.

I walked to the kitchen where the fridge is green and the microwave is pink. Whatever Fecit designed this house, loves their colours.

The dining room was a simple table with multi-coloured glass chairs all around it. Still adorable. Connected to it was a small room with, a table, a creatively cut Bonsai tree, an easel, and other bits and pieces around. I see a door and open it up. It leads to a small deck with a circular pool. IF you can even call it a pool, it's a fricken cylinder. It's so tiny that I would have to stand straight with my arms by my side and stay that way. Who built this pool? Seriously, it's pretty sad.

I walk back inside and see another door. I open it and it's a bedroom. Green sheets, like mine, green closet and green rug. Whoever this is, really loves colour. I prefer mine to be blacks, greys, and crimson colours but my Fecit decides the colour scheme without my input. Rude. I step over the threshold of the bedroom and notice a painting hung on the wall. 'Melapples' it reads. The painting is of a green melon and a couple red apples. Whoever named this picture had some sense of humor.

I walk out and, to my shock, see a zim sitting on one of the couches.

Shit.

I need to leave this house now.

Maybe the back door where the bucket of water, sorry I mean 'pool', is. Yeah I'll take that route. Just gotta sneak past. God please be a set zim and not a real one.

I back against the wall and strafe incredibly quietly and slowly.

I reach the dining table and take refuge there for the moment.

The dude zim has a pair of black bunny slippers, black t-shirt with a 'health' bar at almost empty and a 1 heart, to symbolize like a life in a videogame, and black skinny jeans. Simple character. Dammit I can't see his name from here.

What does it say? I squint, Dul? Del? Dol? Can't tell from this distance. I don't really care to be honest.

I think out my escape route.

Climb out from under the table, sneak around the chairs and then exit quietly through the back door. Sounds solid to me.

I count to 6 then peek out from under the table and still see the dude zim guy watching TV. The cooking show? Really? That's kinda lame. Maybe he's a chef as well. Whatever, time to get the fuck outta here.

I take a deep breath and crawl out from the table and crouch-walk around the chairs. I stand up when I reach the door. I'm glad I left it ajar as I suck in my stomach and squeeze through. I begin to run and eventually reach a river kind of thing just away from the house I just left.

I catch my breath as my phone starts buzzing.

"Hello?" I say.

"Emma! Thank god, I'm at your house but you're not home. Where you at?" Dean asks.

"You're at my house? Wow, this glitch is pretty weird. I don't know where I am dude."

"Huh? Where else could you be if you aren't at home, other than work?"

"I-I don't know. My Fecit dropped me off at some other zims' house then logged off. This isn't my house and I think I'm in Aqua Fountains."

"But you live in Cotton Valley. How did you get all the way over there?"

"I really have no clue so I can't travel unless my Fecit takes me back home."

"Maybe you can get back on your own."

"What? How?"

"How did I get to your house without my Fecit?"

I gasp then ponder the possibility of me just being able to teleport there.

"You know you're right, I'll try to find a way there."

"Let me come to you, I might be able to help. My girlfriend lives in Aqua Fountains so maybe I'll find her there."

"Alright then. I'll wait at the park."

"Okay then. Invite me to hang out first to see if that will work. If it doesn't then I'll try to travel myself."

"Okay, good luck."

"Thanks."

Then he was gone.

I started jogging to the park when a black hole, about the size of me, opens up before my eyes. 

I step back in awe, not fear. Black holes in the zims are a thing? Maybe a new type of transportation? That's how Dean was able to get around! Guess it wasn't a glitch at all! All those other weird other things from earlier must've been small bugs. I shrug my shoulders and step into the darkness, completely forgetting about the very real glitch.

Dean and his girlfriend round the corner and lock eyes with me just as I am gone. The last thing I hear is there voices shouting after me and their sound of their running footsteps.