"I'll take the plunge and spin your wheel." Robert answered with caution, though the blue light his form gave off intensified from his excitement, creating some rather dark shadows offstage.

  "Well then, my show can now begin." Robert said as confetti cannons suddenly appeared on either side of the stage and fired, while a TV filming camera appeared in the center of the stage taking everything in.

  "What the!" Robert screamed in shock at the sudden confetti blast and the now rather large camera that was he looking at that was filming him.

  "Welcome back, folks, to the second chance show. I'm your wonderful host, Mr. . Dilas, and today I have a wonderful new contestant guaranteed to keep you entertained and the world safe from the maws of boring extinction. So will you tell our wonderful audience why you've agreed to be a part of the show?" Simon Dilas asked while presenting his mike to a rather flustered Robert, whose blue glow was flickering like an old light bulb at the sudden attention from the audience he could feel watching him through the camera.

  "Uuumm, while it seemed like a great thing to do." Robert answered softly, a little intimidated by all of the sudden lights and sounds going on all around him. After the many years of the empty void, he wasn't used to having so much sound and color happening all at once.

  "Altruism, truly, that's your only reason, is it? Just being a guy with a heart of gold, that's your final answer? You know you have a duty to the viewers to be honest now, so say what your real reason is. We only want to know about our new contestant; we're not here to judge." Simon Dilas said with a gentle but knowing smirk, clearly not taking Roberts first as the whole truth.

  "Okay, it isn't just that it's the right thing to do. While I've been waiting around to find out if I'm going up or down for a long time with no idea when my turn will ever come, this whole being reborn into the body of a lesser greater while being brought into a world of heroes seems like the greatest adventure ever. I don't think my family would forgive me if I didn't take it. I'm sure we'll meet up eventually, and I'll have so many stories of the real thing." Robert said while looking at the wheel, wondering where he'll end up and what stories of great heroics and dastardly villainy he'll tell his family when he sees them next.

  "Well then, that's quite the answer. Well, now that my audience has a feel for our contestant and has satisfied some of their curiosity, We can now stop the interrogation and see what you'll get by spinning the wheel." Simon Dilas said as he motioned Robert Lamb over to the wheel.

  "What! me? Spin the wheel, but right now I'm just a soul in the form of a blue candle flame. I can't even touch it, much less move it." Robert was confused about how he was going to spin the wheel in his current state; it's not like he could grab it with his blue candlelight.

  "Don't worry, Mr. . Lamb, the wheel has a few tricks to it. So all you need to do is reach out with your flames, and the wheel will do the rest." Simon Dilas said, Waiting by the wheel, waving Robert over.

  "Well, okay then, here goes nothing, I guess." Robert said as he cautiously approaches the wheel and begins to reach out with his flame. The wheel begins to glow when his flame finally touches and starts to spin rapidly as it absorbs a bit of Robert's flame while words constantly shift on its surface.

  "Well folks, it looks like we get to start with the world he's going to be born in." Simon Dillas said to the audience watching through the camera as the wheel begins to slow down.

  "Really!!!" Said Robert, excitedly waiting for when the wheel would finally stop and tell him where he would go. Robert was filled with excitement wondering where his adventure would begin, so much so that his blue glow started to pulsate.

  "Well folks, it looks like it's going to be the super world of wonders and the mad for our dear contestant!" Said Simon Dilas with a booming voice as it echoed across the stage. Robert just floated there a bit confused about what exactly wonders and mad meant. There were probably a few things to be inferred, but assuming would only make things worse if it turned out to be way off, Robert thought.

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  "Wonders and the mad What's that? That sounds kind of more like a band than a world of heroes." Robert asked in a confused voice while hovering next to the game wheel, hoping that Simon would tell him or at least give him a hint.

  "The name of your hero world will be based on the powers in it, how they are used, and how the people in the world view them. We feel it's much better then calling a world something boring like earth 6134." Simon replied, giving the barest information so Robert could try and guess with that context but not give away the game too early.

  "Okay, the mad part doesn't sound promising, but it'll be interesting, I suppose." Robert was a bit nervous about going to a world where powers and peoples views of them had made them involved in it.

  "Alright, with the world out of the way, that leaves the method and the form, so spin the wheel to give our audience their next answer." Simon Dilas said as he waved at the game wheel.

  "Okay, let's see what I'm going to be. I figure there are a lot of greater beings in the universe. Ooh, I hope it's something big. I want to be a giant." Robert said as he once again pushed his flames into the wheel. Before Simon could say anything, the wheel began to slow down and land once again on words Robert couldn't pronounce, much less read.

  "Well Robert, it looks like you got your wish and will be born as an atla. They are a race of giants that travel the cosmos using their power over gravity to pull asteroid fields together into small planets, but sadly you will be a lesser version of an atla. So instead of being skyscraper size, you will be only nine feet tall." Simon said apologetically to Robert.

  "Ahhh, well, I'll still be huge by my former human standards." Robert said he was still excited about just how big he'll be and that he apparently is a subrace of a people that makes smaller planets.

  "Well then, with your world and your form out of the way, that only leaves the method for how you'll influence your new world. So spin the wheel one last time and answer the final question for our audience." Simon said, motioning to the wheel once again.

  "Sure thing." Robert said excitedly as he pushed his flame into the wheel one final time, curious himself about how exactly he could influence an entire world. The wheel once again glowed and spun before finally stopping once again on unreadable words.

  "Well, it looks like game worlds will be how you influence wonders and the mad." Simon said as he waved Robert to go back to the podium.

  "Game worlds: What are those, and how do I use them to influence the world of wonders and the mad?" Robert asked, confused, as he made his way back to the podium.

  "Well, it's quite simple, my dear contestant. You will be combining your powers as an atla and gaming to be able to create artificial worlds that act as video games that the residents of the world could download themselves into. They will leave behind their physical selves as they do so. A cool bonus of your game worlds is that you can create in-game items that your players could bring back with them." Simon said

  "Really, that's amazing. I can create an entire planet dedicated to my own game, and I could create an awesome relic that players could bring back with them! Crap, you think I can create something worth having a whole planet dedicated to it? Robert said while staring at Simon in awe and concern if he could meet such lofty goals.

  "Hopefully, my dear contestant, but we will soon find that out, won't we, my dear audience, because, as you all know, now that the first show portion, the meet and greet, is now over, the second chance sitcom can now begin." Simon said as he gestured to Robert.

  "Wait! What does that mean?" Robert shocked and confused while looking at Simon for answers. at what exactly was about to happen.

  "It means bye-bye for now." Simon said as he waved goodbye. A trap door opened under Robert, and then he was gone as he fell through the hole that was suddenly beneath him.