The room behind him vanished. The smell of ozone and NYC smog filled his lungs. Leo looked down. He wasn't wearing his hoodie anymore. He was wearing red spandex, and he was clinging to a wall three hundred feet above Broadway.
When the 3DS home screen flickered to life, the icon appeared—a sleek, red-and-blue mask. But as soon as Leo pressed 'A', the console’s speakers didn't emit the heroic orchestral swell he expected. Instead, there was a low, digital hum that made the plastic casing vibrate against his palms. The Amazing Spider-Man 3DS ROM (USA) (Gateway/S...
Leo froze. He checked the file name again on his PC. It was a standard ROM. Or it should have been. He tried to Home-exit, but the buttons were unresponsive. On-screen, Spider-Man pulled off his mask. It wasn't the face of Andrew Garfield. It was a perfect, digitized reconstruction of Leo’s own face, captured through the 3DS's inner camera. The room behind him vanished
Suddenly, the 3D slider clicked upward on its own. The screen glowed with a blinding, rhythmic light. Leo reached out to turn it off, but his hand didn't hit plastic. It hit the cold, glass surface of a skyscraper. He wasn't wearing his hoodie anymore