Chapter 3 - Part 5

Jordan put a new game cartridge into his hand-held game system and stared at it intensely.  He had been doing it for hours and it was now well past one in the morning.  Still, it was definitely worth it.  Not only was he able to operate it without batteries, but he was getting better at it.

In fact, he could sort of play the games without actually pressing any of the buttons.  Granted, his reaction time was slow and he had to concentrate on one button at a time, but he was improving.  He had a hard time getting past level one when he could only concentrate on the ‘jump’ button, but it was actually a lot more fun than totally wasting through hard mode using both hands.  Easy and making the character jump with his mind was the best way he had ever played a game before.

He though briefly about showing Amber and Callie, but Jordan finally decided against it.  They would probably just think he had rigged a program or something.  He would have to show them when he was a lot better at it.  When he could do more than accidentally walk his character off a cliff because he could not mentally trigger the jump in time.

Jordan grinned as he enjoyed the feel of the electrical connection in his hands.  It was like he could see what part of the hand-held circuitry he had to connect to in order to simulate pushing a button.  It was a little exhausting, but Jordan loved it.

He had always felt alive when he was with electronics, but now he felt like he had a new purpose in life.  He had to beat this game on the hardest level, without physically pushing a single button.  And he was definitely going to ignore sleep as much as possible until he could pull that off.