Cabin Fever/Transcript

*[The mission starts inside the player’s safehouse, the next morning. James is sitting on the couch in the living room, watching TV.]*

**NEWS REPORTER**: Now, you say you saw this creature?

**WITNESS**: Yes, I was on the boardwalk when he appeared. It looked like he came from some sort of... portal, I guess. It was too bright, but yet, no one could look away. It was mesmerizing.

**NEWS REPORTER**: And then that’s when time stopped?

**WITNESS**: Well before that, James showed up. Then the entire portal thing exploded in a giant ball of light, and time stopped. Even though time was stopped, everyone was still able to witness what was going on.

**NEWS REPORTER**: And the time man, dubbed “Father Time”, spoke?

**WITNESS**: Yes, he said stuff to James but I couldn’t make it out.

**NEWS REPORTER**: Alright well that is some pretty freaky stuff. 2018, folks, there you have it. Will the world be safe, or crumble at the hands of this time manipulator? The answer to that is unknown but for now, we report back to the studio. Tom?

*[James shuts the TV off.]*

**JAMES**: Can’t believe this.

*[All of a sudden, James’s phone rings. He picks it up.]*

**JAMES**: Hello?

**CHRIS**: James! DUDE! You gotta help me!

**JAMES**: CHRIS! You’re alive! Where you at?!

**CHRIS**: I’m tied up in some sort of log cabin on Sinep Island! But it ain’t what you think, it’s reinforced inside, dude! It may look like some puny log cabin on the outside, but it’s pure steel in here! Father Time was experimenting on me in here! He teleported away but I need ya to come get me now! He could be back any minute!

**JAMES**: I’ll be there as fast as I can. *[hangs up]* I’m comin’, bro!

*[The player must get to the cabin on Sinep Island. It is best to use Water Run to get across the water to the island. Once the player reaches the cabin, a cutscene initiates which shows James rip off the front door of the cabin, but underneath the door is pure steel.]*

**JAMES**: Alright, I gotta get in there. I can do this.

*[The player must repeatedly tap both mouse buttons to fill up a meter. Once the meter is completely filled, James will hover in the air momentarily, build up all his aura energy and shoot it at the steel in the form of a giant beam. This blast is so powerful that it blows a hole right in the steel, allowing James to enter.]*

*[James enters and inside the cabin, the walls are pure steel. It is basically a laboratory with a few tables with experiments on them. Chris is tied to the wall with metal cuffs. He is struggling.]*

**CHRIS**: JAMES! YOU CAME!

**JAMES**: CHRIS! Got a case of cabin fever, eh?

**CHRIS**: Good one, but please help me, bro! We ain’t got much time!

*[The player must approach Chris and shoot each metal cuff (two for his hands, two for his feet) with three aura bullets, until each cuff breaks and Chris is free.]*

**JAMES**: Alright, we don’t have much time. We gotta...

*[All of a sudden, Father Time teleports back into the room.]*

**FATHER TIME**: Going somewhere?

*[Father Time closes off the hole in the wall that James made with a field made of blue energy. This field is impenetrable. Then, Father Time walks up to a hatch on a platform in the center of the room, opens it, and inside is a keypad. He types the code “1040” in the keypad and the entire floor opens up like a giant door, sideways, and James, Chris, and all objects in the room fall down into a larger chamber room below, Father Time still hovering in the air.]*

*[When James, Chris, and everything else fall down below and hit the ground, James almost immediately gets up, whereas Chris is weak and cannot. James attempts to help Chris up but Father Time shoots a bolt of blue energy at James, knocking him back, causing him to fail to pick Chris up.]*

**FATHER TIME**: Don’t worry James, Chris is a big boy, he can get up himself.

*[Chris is struggling to get up. Pockets of bright yellow energy can be seen glowing underneath his skin, all around his body.]*

**JAMES**: No, he can’t! What did you do to him?!

**FATHER TIME**: You see, James, I have more power than you ever will. I own Chris now.

**JAMES**: No, you don’t.

**FATHER TIME**: Yes, I do!

**JAMES**: SILENCE!

*[James dashes toward Father Time and jumps in the air towards him, his fist out and loaded with Aura energy. He’s about to attack Father Time but Father Time lifts his fist in the air and unleashes a force field before James gets to him, which immediately surrounds him. The force field knocks James back and he hits the ground hard on his back. We hear a slight snapping sound when this occurs.]*

**JAMES**: AAAHHHH!!!

**CHRIS**: NO!!

*[Father Time snickers. James is rolling around in pain, but all of a sudden, Chris rolls over, faces James—who is still down—and we see energy building up inside of his body.]*

**FATHER TIME**: Yes, it’s happening! DO IT, CHRIS! FINISH HIM!

*[The energy is still building inside of Chris. A few seconds later, when it reaches its peak, Chris jumps in the air, hands and legs out, and a bright blast of light energy is unleashed from his body, knocking everything back, even Father Time, but not James.*
Father Time actually falls out of the air and onto the ground from this blast. Chris has regained his health, but now, has Light Manipulation powers.]

*[Chris approaches James and summons some more light power from his body. He gathers this energy in his hands, touches James with this energy a few times, and after the third time, heals James. As this is happening, Father Time is watching with a grin on his face, as he thinks Chris is finishing James off. However, when James gets back up on his feet, Father Time realizes that Chris saved him, and is furious. James and Chris are now standing side by side, both with their respective power’s energy in their hands.]*

**FATHER TIME**: What is this?! The device was supposed to turn Chris BAD, not GOOD!

**CHRIS**: Yeah? Well it didn’t quite work out like that. C’mon, James, let’s finish HIM.

**FATHER TIME**: Oh, boy. You actually think you guys are strong enough to even TAKE ME ON? HA! I’m stronger than BOTH of you combined! Even with both of you guys taking me on, you have no chance!

**JAMES**: We’ll see about that.

*[In a split second, Father Time lifts both his arms and does a circling motion. As this motion occurs, a blanket of blue energy covers the room and in this second, Time Minions spawn around the room, and Father Time is vanished.]*

**JAMES**: Figures, things get too tough for him and he bails!

**CHRIS**: Yeah, what an asshole! But we got these things to deal with!

**JAMES**: Yeah, they’re Time Minions! We gotta take ‘em out, NOW!

*[There are about 20 Time Minions in the room, and the player must take them all out. The player is now able to switch to Chris, who possesses Light Manipulation now. This is similar in format to James’s powers, same controls, etc. However, Chris only has one power at this point: Projectiles. These function the same as James’s Aura Bullets, but in the form of light.]*

*[When all of the Time Minions are defeated, Chris and James sit down on a platform in the middle of the room, breathing heavily.]*

**JAMES**: Chris? Good work. I can’t believe you have POWERS! You’re like ME now!

**CHRIS**: I know! I never thought, the great James Derettas would one day be my friend, and one day I would have powers as he does.

**JAMES**: Believe me, this is news to me too. I still, to this day, believe that Erik and I were the only ones with powers. Even after I saw Father Time. I don't know, I guess it’s just burned in my mind. But now, I have to face reality and realize that this is NOT the case. I have to work with you, Chris, to beat this madman.

**CHRIS**: James? I can honestly say that I’m ready to accept this quest. I’m ready to continue this journey with you and beat Father Time.

**JAMES**: Can I ask you? What exactly happened while you were here?

**CHRIS**: Well, I woke up restrained against the wall in metal cuffs. Father Time was walking around and when I came to, he glanced over at me and asked me how I was doing. But I just, couldn’t speak. I had literally zero energy, like as if I was drained of everything.

**JAMES**: Yeah?

**CHRIS**: Yeah. But as this was occurring, I felt something, like, rising inside of me. Felt like energy. Which was ironic because I had none, I was too weak. And then, Father Time started to tell me to “get used to my new life” and stuff like that. He told me that right after we defeated Joseph Gray, he teleported and froze time and injected me with a device or something like that?

**JAMES**: Yes, that happened.

**CHRIS**: Yeah, that. I didn’t remember that. So HE was the one who gave me these powers?

**JAMES**: Yes. And we have to find out what that device is, how it works, where it came from and how Father Time got it, and used it.

**CHRIS**: Shit, man, that’s gonna take a while.

**JAMES**: Yes. But that’s our goal. But for now, we gotta get out of here. Father Time covered the walls with that blue time energy.

**CHRIS**: Shit! That’s impenetrable! I tried!

**JAMES**: Yeah, me too. But...

**CHRIS**: But what?

**JAMES**: We haven’t tried together.

**CHRIS**: Together?

**JAMES**: Yeah! Combine our powers, who knows what we can do!

**CHRIS**: Alright, let’s hit it! Literally.

*[Chris and James approach the wall. An on-screen message appears, saying: “Chris and James can occasionally combine their powers for more devastating combos and possibilities. The more powers James and Chris have unlocked, the more combos can be unleashed. The combination meter at the top of the screen must be filled to do this. Try combining powers to break through this energy wall.”]*

*[The player must do this. When the combo is unleashed, Chris crafts a ball of light energy in the air in front of him, which increases in size as it spins. As this occurs, James forms a large ball of aura energy himself, and pushes this into the light ball. The two forms combine, hit the wall, and break the energy and form a hole in the wall. Chris and James fist-bump and walk through the hole. They are now back outside on Sinep Island.]*

**CHRIS**: That was amazing, bro!

**JAMES**: I know! But this is only the beginning. I’ll keep digging for more info, if I find any, and contact you. Remember, we still have to get Pete back first.

**CHRIS**: Aight, bro, holla at me.

*[Chris gathers up some light energy and vanishes, teleporting back to the mainland. It is sunset now.]*

**JAMES**: Damn, wish I can do that. And he’s had powers for, like, an hour.