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Short Stories for Kids: Bedtime ~ Car Time ~ Downtime

McCauley turns in to his favourite video Game Character! ๐Ÿ˜ผ๐ŸŽฎ

Short Stories for Kids: Bedtime ~ Car Time ~ Downtime

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Education For Kids, Stories For Kids, Kids & Family

4 โ€ข 2.3K Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 23 August 2024

โฑ๏ธ 14 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back friends to Short Stories for Kids. The game's console blipped and beeped as Macaulay guided the character across the screen. He was playing Chaz the Cheat. the various levels collecting gold nuggets and battling the bad guys.

0:35.3

It was Macaulay's favorite game and he was good at it too.

0:39.6

He charged through the jungles and the grasslands, dodging traps, solving puzzles, and completing

0:46.3

levels as he went.

0:48.1

He just defeated the end of level boss, Randolph Rhinoceros, in a circle of towering stones.

0:55.0

This was something Macaulay had been trying to do for some time now.

0:59.0

And he'd finally done it.

1:02.0

Instead of going on to the next level, nothing was happening.

1:05.7

Chas the Cheetah was just stood motionless in the center of the screen. Macaulley quickly discovered he could still move Chaz with the controller, but move him to

1:17.5

where?

1:18.5

He set the cheater character moving out of the stone circle and away to the right of the screen.

1:24.4

This is weird, said Macaulay out loud.

1:28.0

There were no gold nuggets to pick up and no baddies to defeat, just a long path through the tall dry grass, marked occasionally with small rocks.

1:40.0

Maybe it's glitching, wondered Macaulay.

1:43.0

Suddenly, a stone arch appeared at the right side of the screen

1:48.0

and a message flashed up.

1:50.0

Macaulay brought Chaz to a halt and read the words on the screen.

1:55.0

Bonus level, defeat the big bad boss.

2:00.0

Oh yeah, grinned Macauli. Let's do it he raced Chas the Chita forward to the arch

2:07.2

But as he went through it McCauley felt a strong pulling motion dragging him towards the screen and the whole world exploded in a cloud of pixels.

2:20.0

What happened? McCauley said a moment later, blinking his eyes quickly.

2:25.7

He could feel the sun on his face.

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