--- Dragon Ball Z Shin Budokai 9 Ppsspp File -

It was his bedroom. Rendered in low-poly, PS1-style graphics. His posters were blurry textures. His bed was a brown rectangle. And standing at the foot of the digital bed, wearing a crooked Saiyan armor recolor, was a character labeled — but the character model had Leo's face. His actual face, as if someone had taken a photo of him sleeping and stretched it over a mannequin.

The download was suspiciously fast. 847 MB. No password. No virus warning from his half-dead antivirus. --- Dragon Ball Z Shin Budokai 9 Ppsspp File

Now Goku was facing him. His face was the same—that familiar, cheerful grin—but his eyes were hollow. Not white. Hollow. Like someone had scooped out the insides with a melon baller. In his hands, he held a PSP. The screen on the in-game PSP showed Leo's own bedroom. His own face, staring back. It was his bedroom

The fight began.

The cutscene ended. The stage loaded.

Player 2 charged a Kamehameha. The light grew brighter. Leo's laptop screen began to physically glow, casting strange shadows on his walls. His bed was a brown rectangle

Then, the PSP boot sound crackled through his laptop speakers—but wrong. Slower. Lower. Like a vinyl record played at half speed. The usual white "Sony Computer Entertainment" logo appeared, but it was bleeding. The letters dripped down the screen in watery, pixelated tears.