Into the Game

Being sucked inside a video game was pretty cool, though ending up as the game’s sole female character was a little awkward for Jake. He was sure he didn’t select her; he never played as her. She was so obviously the weakest character. And yet..

She may have been the game’s weakest character, but this body was certainly significantly stronger than his original body. When he kicked the wall, it caused the concrete to crumble. He began to think this might not be so bad. Plus, as he looked down, it might be fun to have a woman’s body for a while.

Of course, he didn’t have too much time to enjoy it. Another fighter soon appeared, ready to challenge him. He didn’t really want to fight, but it also seemed he didn’t have a choice. And while the fight wasn’t that bad, he imagined it was only going to get a lot more difficult from here.

Partners

“That’s quite the wild story, young lady,” Officer Mike Jabowski lamented.

Gus took a deep breath. He was worried he wasn’t getting through to his partner. Trying to explain who he really was despite the body he now had; attempting to tell him it had something to do with some low-level criminal they apprehended the other day; he could tell Mike was dismissing all of it in his head. Gus made one last go at it, “I don’t expect you to believe me. Hell, if our situations were reversed, I wouldn’t believe it either. But I’m not even asking you to believe a crazy body swapping story; I’m just telling you to watch your back from now on. Whoever is actually in my body can’t be trusted. I don’t want to see you get hurt, okay? I took a lot of risk tailing you both just so I could wait for him to go to the bathroom to tell you this as soon as I could. If I’m still here when he gets out, I don’t want to know what he’ll do. So I’m going to bounce, okay? Just promise me you’ll watch yourself, okay?”

Mike still didn’t want to believe this woman. She was crazy, right? And yet there was just something very familiar. Maybe his partner had been acting off this shift? He looked at her square in the eyes, “I’ll watch myself. Now you get out of here, okay?”

Rerun (Part 1)

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“How can you be so calm about this, Jenn?” Nick asked, “We’ve literally been sucked into a rerun on the television.”

“You’re just mad because I’m in the body of the main character, a preppy popular boy! And you’re stuck in a supporting role as one of the teachers, a loser woman who settled for that job!” She retorted.

“No, I’m worried because this is really weird! Are we just running through the series? What happens if we break from the script? And most of the teachers were written out after the first season to focus on the kids. So am I concerned about being a supporting character? Sure, but that’s because I have no idea what happens to me if we don’t find a way out of this before that point!”

“Why can’t you just let me enjoy myself for a little while? I loved this show growing up!”

Nick sighed, “Okay, fine. Whatever episode we’re stuck in, we finish it -- do whatever we need to do based on what we remember about the plot -- but then we try to find a way out of this, okay?”

Amongst It All

At least amongst all the chaos of all this body swapping, Evan figured he could at least figure out whose body he was now in. He opened up the purse he was now holding and began poking around inside, eventually finding an ID.

And there was a name and an address, but he still craved to know more. Sure, he was a woman now, but what was her story? What sort of life did he inherit thanks to this “Great Shift?” And who knows what sorts of biological things he has to deal with now. Period, yes, but does she have any genetic disorders he should know about? Family history? These felt like things he should probably know.

Flicking the Switch (Part 2)

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Annabelle pounded on the door with no answer.

“Maybe they aren’t home,” Caleb suggested.

“They have to be home,” Annabelle firmly stated, “We literally just walked by and some sort of energy came out and swapped our bodies. I’m not exactly planning on running around with this itchy hair on my face; I won’t even explictly mention the other explicit thing.”

“But no one is answering...”

“Then I’ll pound until your knuckles are bloody.”

“Please don’t...”

Jonathan and Minh simply couldn’t hear the doorbell or the pounding on the front door from inside the garage. And while Caleb and Annabelle were the first ones to arrive with their bodies swapped by Jonathan’s careless switch flicking, they were certainly not the last as a small crowd was soon gathering...