The convention was today and I couldn't be more excited. Me and my friend have been waiting forever it would seem. I decided to make my own cosplay for the convention while my friend just decided to wear his regular clothes. The cosplay I made was based off the game Blinx the time sweeper which was a character I created on the second game. I named him Jasper.
Jasper is a simple black and white anthropomorphic cat who works at the facility known as the Time Factory. His job is to fix glitches and corruptions in time that are found. If left unchecked, temporal glitches can manifest themselves into malevolent time monsters which then roam freely among the dimension, distorting everything in which they come into contact with. His job is to go in and destroy these glitches or else the world becomes unstable. Which happens to be pretty much it Josh now get out of my room, I need to get dressed into my cosplay, so we can head out toward the convention.
When we got there it was pretty damn crowded with all sorts of people outside waiting to get in while others simply took pictures of cos-players hanging around outside. We came to a halt across the street and got out of the car about ready to head toward the entrance when my mom stopped us. She informed us that she would be back here around 6:30 to pick us back up. We both gave her a nod and headed out toward the long line to enter the building.
It felt like hours we waited in line while the crusaded sun made it that much more unbearable with its ray of light beating upon us. Finally after the painful voyage of standing in line we made it inside and I have to say that I was pretty surprised with how many gaming studios that we're here even the entrance was damn impressive with the statues they had lining the room, but the conker statue from live and reloaded took my breath away. Still had another 3 or so months before it came out though. After the breath taking scenery we decided to head over to the merchandise floor to browse around before we made our way over to the gaming floor since most of what we wanted to checkout happened a hour or so later.
Having browsed the vendors stock selection for a while I was unable to find a single sweeper vacuum to go along with my cosplay, but on the off hand I did take a couple of photos with people which turned out to be quite fun. The last row of vendors we're all that was left for me to checkout; hopefully having what I was looking for then I would join up with my friend to get some grub. About half way through the vendors I spotted a women cos-playing as Madam Charmaine and the selection she had was damn impressive with all sorts of in game prop items displayed beautifully. Making my way over to check her selection was at the moment in time my eyes made contact with the sole item I was looking for "The Sweeper TS-2000," tucked in a black case seemed to be waiting for the right person to purchase it and for some unknown reason I got this spine chilling feel of the sweeper calling for me.
When I got there the atmosphere seemed to have became heavy and for some ironic reason there was no one else here except myself. It seemed like people didn't know this place existed, but all I wanted was to get "The Sweeper TS-2000," and be on my way to get some food with Josh. So I just cut to the chase before my stomach decided to eat itself.
"Pretty neat cosplay you got there, Madam Charmaine from Voodoo Vince right?" I spoke when trying to engage in small talk.
"You would be correct Time Sweeper, I'm quite surprised that you even knew of the character. Fan of the game I would presume...?" The vendor spoke.
"Nah, pretty much in between about the game since the difficulty of it all and the funky controls. Still enjoyable nonetheless." I answered back.
"Yes I would agree with you on that. Now what is it that brought you by to my humble stall time sweeper." The vendor's eye glimmered with having yet another victim.
"Well I couldn't resist passing up on checking out your impressive weapon props and that "Sweeper TS-2000," you've got displayed behind you. So I had to have a look at it and possible purchase said item if I have the cash on hand." I said eyeing the Sweeper.
"Ah Yes, I thought that would be the case since your cosplay is pretty splendid, but it was missing the iconic Sweeper to finalize your character. So would you like to have a closer look to inspect the prop before purchasing it." This person seems to fit the bill, but I have to make sure that he is actually the one before I sell it because I still have a quota to fulfill.
After being handed over the Sweeper by the vendor I felt this slight warmth coming from the prop and this strange since of wholeness like having a piece missing to the puzzle. "I quickly asked for the price of the prop with burning passion of needing to have this badly."
"Well time sweeper seeing as you having such a splendid cosplay and knowing the character I dressed up as I'll let you have it for a solid 250 dollars. Now before you question why I'm asking so little for it is because I am just about ready to pack up my stall and I would hate it to be stored away gathering dust. So it would be better if you take it with you." That seemed to have done the trick and the quota for this convention is fulfilled. Time to move on to another.
I pulled 250 dollars from my wallet and handed it the vendor before heading off to meet my friend Josh with my new Sweeper TS-2000 slang across my back also giving the vendor a small wave. About a couple minutes later I arrived at the food court seeing my friend in the distance waiting for me to arrive it would seem, so I was about to wave to get his attention until my back started to feel warm all of a sudden seconds later the warmth started to become hotter to the point I started to sweat. My friend seemed to have finally noticed me about 10 feet out about ready to make a snide remark before seeing my appearance of looking like a sick dog.
I collapsed onto the ground trying with all my strength to lift my hands towards my back to get the sweeper off, but no matter what it felt like it was glued on my back. Then out of nowhere a sudden light consumed my vision. The last thing I could remember was my friend running toward me before unconsciousness took over.
What felt like forever I finally awakened from my unconsciousness and I regretted doing so since I was free falling in the sky with the ground slowly getting closer and closer each second. I was flinging my arms around while screaming a girly high pitch scream. My mind kept repeating"It's Game Over Man, Game Over," I quickly shut my eyes bracing for my doom of being splattered on the ground like a pancake, but nothing came instead when I opened my eyes the time space around me seemed frozen and I was merely being suspended 5 feet from the ground wondering what the heck was going on, that's when the Sweeper slang across my back spoke monotony counting down while adding a word for me to do which was "jump."
Doing a double jump in the air I landed firmly on the ground freaking confused as hell while the space time slowly started to collapse before time resumed. I started to shake my head from the time crap and decided to give my surroundings a look around hoping to see anything familiar, but instead I seen miles of grassy hills, mountains in the distance, and a bright blue sky. Well shit I have no f'ing clue where here is and the air is by far the cleanest I've breathed so I'd guess I'm nowhere near civilization.
Done with my observation I was about ready to do a check on my inventory before I could I saw black and white fur covering my arms while my clothes seemed different then the ones I wore instead I was now wearing my cosplay clothes with no signs of where my previous clothing were and turning my head to the side to look behind me I seen a actual tail swaying back and forth. I was at this point reaching my breaking point for what little sanity I had I mean like come on: I'm in the middle of nowhere, I have a freaking real Sweeper from the game that can stop time, and now I have to deal with walking around as a anthropomorphic cat. What more is there for me to deal with!!!
I exhaled a long breath before I could hyperventilate. Ok, Your a anthropomorphic cat now so learn to bare with it because we ain't going to learn anything by losing your head or finding answers, Now what we need to do is find some sort of help to hopefully learn where we are or finding civilization. Whatever comes first I told myself while dusting myself off before pulling out a monster to take a drink. This could have been worse for all I knew.
I started to head toward the mountains hoping I'd run into someplace along the way. While walking for awhile my mind started to get bored so I decided to un-sling the TS-2000 and began to inspect the vacuum curious of how it saved my life and the artificial monotone voice which told me to jump, along with being able to stop the flow of time. Hmm, Now what secrets do you hold vacuum right before I could investigate further the voice sparked to life.