Leo frowned. “Virus,” he muttered, reaching for the power button. But his mouse cursor had vanished. His keyboard was dead. The only thing responding was the Enter key. Against every instinct, he pressed it.

His screen flickered. Not the game’s intro with the soaring violins and the sound of waves. Instead, a single line of green code scrolled across a black terminal:

Except CJ wasn’t wearing his white tank top and baggy jeans. He was wearing Leo’s own hoodie, the one with the bleach stain on the sleeve. His face was a frozen, low-resolution mask of disappointment.