Penny had been working late. 18-Volt’s
work computer had broken and he needed to finish his games, so she had
agreed to fix it. But this was hard work. How the heck does someone
manage to get bubblegum inside a computer?!
She noticed how late it was, so she decided to finish for the day and get some sleep.
Then she heard some music playing.
Someone was here. She immediately ran towards the testing room and noticed the strange ink-looking guy at the end of the room.
“Hey! Who are you and what are you doing here?” she asked.
The Repairman jumped about three feet off the ground as someone called out to him. He nearly dropped the controller as he did so.
He turned around to find a girl looking at him in alarm. He started to sweat, unable to think of a lie that could get him out of this without making his job harder. Finally, he cleared his throat.
“I’m the Fourth Wall Repairman,” he explained. “I…wasn’t sure if I should count your games here, and was trying to figure it out…”
He glanced back to see the GAME OVER.
“…Keyword being try. And, uh, who are you?”
Penny examined the room. It didn’t look like he was doing anything too bad, so she decided to let it slide, but remained slightly suspicious.
“I’m Penny. Penny Crygor.” she introduced herself. “In case it wasn’t obvious, I work here.”
She looked around, checking to see if there was anything missing. It looked perfectly fine.
“You’re lucky my boss isn’t here or he’d be pretty mad at you.”
“Oh, yeah,” the Repairman nodded, embarrassed. “Pretty lucky that you didn’t kick me out right away, aren’t I?”
Was he really becoming so careless that any middle-schooler could catch him?
“…Yeah, sorry ‘bout all this,” he said, “but I gotta figure out if any of these games break the Fourth Wall.”
…And then decide whether a Fourth Wall break in a piece of fiction within the fictional world actually counted. Gah. He got a headache just THINKING about thinking about that.
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