Chapter Five
I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Mecha Knight himself stood in front of us, looking for all the world like he had just stepped out of my universe into this one. He stood so still that he looked like a statue, but then his eyes darted down to us and he blinked.
“Mecha—” I said, but then Valerie elbowed me and hissed, “Shut up. It’s not Mecha Knight.”
Mecha Knight—or whoever he was—just stared at us for a moment, as if trying to understand what we were saying, before walking around us and onto the light bridge behind us. I knew I wasn’t supposed to, but I looked over my shoulder anyway as he walked past us, unable to believe my eyes, though Mecha Knight himself didn’t even look back at us.
I looked at Valerie again and said, in a low voice, “Valerie … what the hell?”
“
