Hello to all my readers once again. I do apologize for not really updating anything. Most of the stories that I started on writing are probably not as well done the first time around. And I'm not talking about how the pairings are the problem (Looking at you NaruHina fans), but rather how I started off. This is actually one of the few things I have written on my own in a long time and I hope you appreciate them. I've been reading some 'Life is a Game' stories, and not the ones where a character realizes that their life is a game after death or completing the game, but rather ideas that are based on The Gamer. This got me wanting to do one myself, but just using The Gamer would be a little cliche. So I thought: 'why not just add another game element and make it more like a MMORPG'? And that's kind of how this story came around. Well, I could go on a rant or tangent on some things, but I think you just want to give the story a try. I hope you all enjoy it.
Disclaimer-I do not own Kim Possible, as it is property of Disney. Any game references are also not mine. In addition, this is a work of fiction, all characters, Kim Possible or fictional OCs, do not resemble any persons living or dead.
-You have rested in your bed: HP and MP restored-
That was the text Ron Stoppable woke up to as he thought to the last few days he had this text appearing, or the strange physical changes that no one seemed to notice. Ron Stoppable was, was being the key word, an ordinary guy with blonde hair, freckles, brown eyes, and lithe frame, the kind that would be described as wiry.
"Okay, Rufus, you know how many days it's been since I've seen this text box, and am I going crazy?" Ron asked his pet, a naked mole rat named Rufus. Said Mole-Rat just shrugged, not really sure how to properly answer the question that his owner asked, and for good reason: he couldn't see the text. Ron just sighed and figured he'd just get ready to go to school, since he was still barely able to finish some extra for a teacher named Steve Barkin, who seemed to have it in for Ron for some reason. He went towards the bathroom to brush his teeth, and that's when he noticed the features that came with the text boxes, after having a mini-freakout and panic attack. Two pairs of cat ears and a feline tail was growing from him, and there was a text box.
Ron Stoppable
[The Gamer]
Lv-1
He knew how to play games, but most of them were FPS. While did know a little bit about RPGs, he supposed it was kind of cool. He still didn't really know what to do, so he decided now is the time to try something out. At first, for the first three days before now, he tried to ignore it and hope that the boxes went away. When they didn't, he then thought about finding out what the power was, after two more days of trying to accept it. So now he wanted to know what this power was and how does he use it?
[Quest Alert: Learning the Ropes]
[After freaking out and accepting for five days, you have decided to learn about your new abilities.
Objective: Open the main menu.
Reward: Knowledge about the game, and access more basic toturials.
Failure: More reminders of how to open the menu.
Accept: Y/N
Ron wasn't sure what it was, but he figured he needed to know what on earth was going on. The fact that he had no choice but to accept was only part of the factor. He decided to use his finger to press the Y button, he assumed it was a button, that was when it came with more information.
Accessing the Menu: To access the main menu, you must only think 'Menu'. From there you can access the sub-menus.
'Okay, that's really convenient.' Was his thought as he then brought up the menu with his thought. The menu was a square shaped window that had different options: Inventory, Status, and so one were options that were there, and there was a flashing Help option. Before he could touch it, a ping and another window appeared:
[Quest Alert: School Yard Rush]
You're starting to run late to school, so you better get running, or face the consequences of your best friend.
Objective: Reach Middleton High in 10:00 Minutes or less.
Reward: +100 Exp, +Reputation with Kim Possible.
Failure: -Reputation with Kim Possible.
Accept: Y/N
'Oh crap I'm late!?' Ron had to rush to get to school, and he got Rufus and a little bit of food and ran off. He didn't know why he slept in in the first place, but he didn't care and was running off.
Things were still strange for Ron stoppable, as he still saw the names of various people floating above their heads, but as he sat down, curious on what was going on and observing everything he heard a ping and a box showed up.
New Skill: By examining and observing things closely and intently, you have created a new skill:
[Examine(MP-1, Level 0, SP 0)]: Allows you to see more information on people, objects, or creatures. Higher levels mean more detailed information.
Ron thought that it could come in handy, and decided to try it on his best friend that he met up with at school: Kim Possible. A lovely red head with green eyes that has been his best friend since Pre-K. Then came a thought that he didn't know how to actually use skills. Another 'ping' rang.
Skills and their use: Skills are special abilities that you can learn or create. There are a large number of skills, and many of them can be created by preforming actions or from Skill Books, this also includes magic. To activate a skill, you only need to think and focus on the skill. Voice activation will also work, but the power or quality of the skill will be less effective.
If Ron understood it right, and he prayed that he did, then it meant that all he had to do was think or focus on a skill to use, and it would be used.
[Examine]
Kim Possible
[The Impossible Girl]
Lv-14
Bio: Your childhood friend since pre-kindergarten. Always ready to rush in and help people, even if she doesn't always want to.
[Examine] Has leveled up!
'Okay, so my skills level up if I use them. This is kind of cool.' Ron decided that he had to look up the Help menu for more tutorials, ignoring most of the class lecture. First, he decided to check his stats. He accessed the main menu and tapped on [Stats].
Name: Ron Stoppable
Race:Felpier
Title: Gamer
Ex-100
HP-105/105
MP-35/35
STR-9
WIS-7
FAI-8
VIT-10
AGI-12
LCK-6
Attribute Points: 0
'Well, my stats seem okay, but I have to know what my skills are. I should learn more about the stats. I wonder why I wasn't freaking out as hard as I should have?' Ron thought as he was okay with the stats, and he did wonder why the changes? First he has to find out: what was a Felpier?
Felpier: One of the 10 sentient races of the world. A type of beast-man that is typically associated with cats. Mainly from the fact that they have the ears and tail of a cat and other feline traits. Many are often considered aloof or shy, making them seem standoffish or out of touch with society.
Well, that answered one question, but he still had to find out some things. He then pressed a stat.
Status Tutorial: As you have noticed, there are a number of status attributes, or stats. These influence different things about your new life. Now to go over the basics:
HP: This is one you probably figured out, but as a reminder, this stat indicates your life and Health Power(Points if you prefer). If this reaches 0 it's game over!
Ron gulped at the idea of game over. This basically meant that he'd be dead if his health reached 0. Something that he decided to file away as he looked to the other stats.
MP: Also easy to figure out, this is the amount of Magic Power you have. Many skills, magic or non-magic, will require magic points to use. Be careful, as you can tire yourself out using magic.
STR: This is a shorthand for Strength. This stat influences the amount of items you can carry, on an individual basis. As well as the amount of physical damage you can inflict.
WIS: This is a shorthand form for Wisdom. This is the ability to gain and understand knowledge and its use. While this stat can help in school, it mainly works with Magic Attack, Magic Accuracy, and the amount of MP gained.
FAI: This is a shorthand for Faith. While many don't believe it, there is always the need to have belief in something, even if that something is nothing. This usually is a given in religious areas, but influences Magic Healing, Magic Defense, and Resistance to negative conditions(Poison, Charm, etc.)
VIT: This is a shorthand for Vitality. All things require a bit of vitality, and for good reason. This stat influences the amount of HP gained in addition to boosting overall Defense.
LCK: Luck is the full name of this shorthand, and is a minor necessary thing. Sometimes people need a little luck on their side to get things going. This particular attribute increases the rate of Critical Hits, fortunate events, or the chance of item drops, especially rare drops.
Now Ron had a better understanding of the stats, and the species. That just got him wondering if there were others that were changed, and just what is the game about to begin with? He could ask these questions later, but for now, he had some skills to look at.
[Gamer's Body, Level-Max]
Allows your body to be the same as a video game character's.
[Gamer's Mind, Level-Max]
Allows you to calmly think things through, prevents most mental/psychological problems.
[Examine (Level-2, Ex-34%)]
Views the information on objects, people, or creatures. Higher levels mean more information.
Well, that solved the reason of why he didn't go full on freak out of running around like his head was cut off. But it didn't quite solve why people weren't asking why he had cat ears and a tail? Until he saw the next skill.
[Gamer's Glamour, Level-Max]
Creates an illusion that hides your new race, if needed. Does not work in dungeons, can be dispelled through magic or events. Other adventurers can see through the glamour.
Well, that answered that question.
"Mr. Stoppable! I hope you're paying attention." The teacher said as Ron was embarrassed. It was better to wait until later to find out more about the abilities as well. Maybe after school, as long as there wasn't a mission.
"Ron, are you okay? You've been spacing out for a while today." Ron's best friend said as she sat with him at lunch. Kimberly Anne Possible, Kim for short, is Ron's best friend, and an attractive one at that. Her red hair stood out with her emerald eyes, and her figure's also pretty good. The two have been friends since Pre-K, and it was a friendship that transcended time, as far as they knew, and social norms, considering that she's a popular cheerleader and straight-A student while Ron is considered to be at the bottom of the social barrel. However, they were at cheer practice, and the only reason Ron was there, reasons technically, were that he was going to wait for KP to finish up and head home, the other was that he was the Middleton Mad Dog, mascot for the team.
"I'm alright KP. Just playing too many video games." He noticed that some things were different about some of the girls when he answered. Mainly that they also had strange features, in addition to the floating identifiers.
Bonnie Rockwaller
[Level-3, Deimos]
Tara Williams
[Level-2, Elf]
Jessica Albert
[Level-1, Nephilim]
Hope Toujo
[Level-2, Felpier]
It wasn't just the floating IDs that had his attention. He was checking out the fact that each of the mentioned girls had an additional trait like him. Bonnie had a great figure, possibly better then Kim's, especially in the chest department, but in her brown shoulder length hair, were a pair of horns that curved upwards making it look like a crown, or something similar to a succubus, and she seemed to have fang-like canines, which were oddly attractive. These worked with her tanned skin. He then concentrated on Tara, Bonnie's best friend. Tara was fair skinned with wavy blonde hair and blue eyes, but Ron couldn't see anything really different about her.
'Wait, don't Elves have pointed ears?' Was Ron's mental reminder that [Gamer's Glamour] only worked if there was a need for it to work. This was the same with Hope, another member of the cheer squad. She was usually seen with Liz or Marcella, but she had a pair of the same cat ears and tail like he did, and was a bit of a contrast to the last girl Jessica. Hope had light brown skin and dark eye and hair color, possibly black hair that was silky straight, and dark brown eyes. Jessica, on the other hand, had fair skin, straight blonde hair, blue eyes, and was as slender as the rest of the girls but she was also taller then the rest, even if just a little bit, but the main factor that caught his eyes were the angel-like wings on her back.
"Alright, but we still have to do our homework after cheer practice. No Bueno Nacho today." Kim said getting him out of his observing with eyes as wide as dinner plates.
"Seriously KP?! I'm begging you we have to go! We can still do homework Bueno Nacho, and I need my Nacos!" Ron was practically begging as Kim held her ground.
"Sorry, but I don't want nacho cheese on the papers. We can go another time, promise." Kim pretty much ended it, and Ron had to accept it, even if he didn't like it. While they were talking about the changes in Ron.
"Why did he have to get that power as well?" Bonnie said as she was a little upset, and she was considered the popular student, but most of it was because seh followed the rules her sisters made about the proverbial 'food chain', "why did a loser get it in the first place?"
"Bonnie, I know there's a good reason for it." Tara defended in a pleasant manner, she had a crush on Ron since an adventure at camp Wannaweep, and she still has it. She just wished she could tell him, but it would upset Bonnie. The two were pretty good friends, and Tara was so far the only one that actually knew the real Bonnie.
"Maybe we should give him a chance? It could be fun, and he's not a bad person." Jess said as she was was being quite optimistic about it. It was scary at first, but it was pretty cool, since she picked up a few RPGs from time to time.
"I dunno, he's funny, and decent looking, but he I'm not sure we should hang around him. This isn't just me siding with Bonnie, but wouldn't Kim get jealous if we suddenly started hanging around him?" Hope's comment had a point. She knew Kim decently enough, and that Ron didn't have many actual friends. If Hope didn't know better, she could almost say that Kim Possible was his only friend in the entire school, even if most people were at least cordial to the goofy blonde.
"He's like us. We were transformed for whatever reason, and I think we should try to be friends with him at least. Besides, I like having wings, and I look like an angel." Jessica chimed, and while they appreciated her optimism, only Tara would take her side. Bonnie and Hope just sighed.
"As much as it would be to have another person like us, I'm not entirely sure. I don't like hiding what I became from Liz or Marcella." That was something Hope didn't like at all about what happened. How was anyone supposed to believe that they suddenly became something else? Before they could contemplate any more, Kim called the squad to practice once more.
You have slept in your bed. You Health and Magic are restored.
"Once more, I wake up to that." Ron said as Rufus also stirred from his place. One would be surprised by how clean Rufus was, but there weren't any complaints from Ron or anyone else. Side note aside, Ron once again got up, dressed, and groomed.
"Good morning Ronald." Came the voice of his mother, but he noticed that she, like he did, have the same cat ears and tail as she looked inside his room.
"Uh, morning?" He said, asked more likely, but he noticed the same thing that everyone else had.
Veronica Stoppable
LV-?
?
He was surprised that her level couldn't be seen, but then again he checked that his [Examine] skill had leveled up to 5, giving him more details, especially with those around his level. He couldn't examine someone that was at least 20 levels higher. Maybe, she had something like this happen to her.
"Ron, I know I haven't always been the best mother, but if you have anything you want to talk about, then I'll listen. Even if it seems crazy." His mother said, and it was definitely from her side of the family that he got his looks from. She was blonde and he was blonde. Both had freckles, but Veronica was definitely a MILF by some standards, a lot like Anne Possible, but he wasn't going into that territory.
"Um, thanks. I guess I should get going." He said and decided to bolt out with Rufus. Veronica Stoppable just shook her head a bit at her son's sudden escape.
"Good luck Ron. You're probably going to need it." Veronica cryptically stated as she too left the room, the tail lightly swinging from side to side.
Something felt wrong, very wrong. That was the first thought that Ron had as he left the house. He couldn't feel what was going on, but there was something there.
"Hey buddy, aren't there supposed to be people here?" Ron had to ask as Rufus also noticed the lack of people. What was weird, was that he felt that something was going to show up at any moment. That was when he noticed something or rather heard something.
"Leave me and my friends alone you creep!" It was Bonnie's voice, and she was not happy. That was when Ron noticed that the four girls were not alone. A man in a black suit with a pair of horns like Bonnie with white hair and a business suit.
Shi Ha-Yang
Lv-?
[Devil Summoner]
That didn't sound good, and he definitely looked like he meant business. Ron definitely didn't like what was going to happen, or where it was going.
"Look miss, for reasons unknown to me, the boss wants you brought in alive and unharmed. You're 'friends' are nothing. I had thought that you would want this chance to live free with the humans in their rightful place." Shi said as Bonnie, Hope, Jess, and Tara were on a rooftop, ready to run at a moment's notice.
"But we came from humans as well, does this not matter?" Jessica said as she didn't like this guy one bit.
"A child of the Heavens, a Nephilim, dare question a Deimos? Don't your kind enslave humans with empty promises?" Shi asked as Jess had a hurt look cross her face.
"Don't talk about my friends like that!" Bonnie demanded, but the Devil Summoner just watched.
"Jess isn't like that!" Tara said as she felt enraged at the man. Jess was optimistic, and to be called a liar and fraud was just wrong.
"Shut it Elf-whore. Go back to the forests and fuck a wolf."
"Hey! Leave them alone!" Ron yelled out, acting braver then he felt. He was getting pretty mad at this Shi guy for insulting his friends.
"Another dumb cat, why don't you go catch mouse or take a nap. That's what Felpiers are good for." Shi Ha-Yang said as he looked at Ron, getting everyone mad at the guy, but no one made a move. They new that this guy was higher in levels then they were, and it showed. It seemed that they couldn't see levels that are about twenty times higher then their own.
"DON'T INSULT MY FRIENDS! Even the loser over there! Now go away!" Bonnie threatened, but the guy wasn't even budging. Ron could have just said something with the loser comment, but that wouldn't really get them out of the situation. The man in the suit sighed for a moment.
"Well, if you aren't coming peacefully, then I'll just have to use force." That didn't sound good as a magic circle appeared and a dark crimson portal opened from the circle that floated above them, "Now come forth, Puppet Master!" That was when an entity fell from the vortex before it closed. It was definitely a monster that looked like it was crafted from a patchwork of wood with at least four arms attached to a face for a body, and with creepy red wooden eyes as it looked around.
"Bonnie, I think we should run." Bonnie agreed with Ron, as they managed to get off the roof and land with a rush.
"Puppet Master, capture the Deimos girl alive, but you can kill the rest. We don't need witnesses. Return to me when you have her immediately." Shi Han-Yang said as he left the puppet master to his own devices by teleporting out of here. That was when it seemed like the whole area shattered and the people returned, only to be sent panicking when a monster started attacking the crowds in an effort to get Bonnie.
"How are we gonna get out of here!?" Hope asked as she managed to barely dodge a swipe of that Puppet Master monster's hand. Ron decided to [Examine] it:
Puppet Master
LV-18
HP: 1800
"Crap, this thing's too strong to really examine!" Ron said as the crowds of people panicked as the summoned monster decided to try a different angle, only to seem to lose them in the panicking crowd.
"We need to get out of sight!" Tara said panicked and Bonnie knew that they had to as well. Then she noticed something, an allyway that was small enough to hide in, but that wasn't what had her attention.
'I'm really going to hate this.' Bonnie thought as she then decided that they needed to go there. "This way!" Was her hastened reply as the four others followed her into the ally.
"Um, this is probably a bad time to ask, but why this ally?" Jess asked, and she wasn't the only one curious about why they were taking this detour.
"Because we're going to hide down there!" Bonnie pointed to the partially opened manhole. Everyone knew where this is going.
"We're going to hide in the sewers?" Hope asked, hoping(no pun intended) that they weren't going to hide in the sewers of all places.
"You have a better idea? Let's just get inside!" Bonnie said as she headed towards it. It was the only choice they had, and they didn't have time to get help or anything else. Before they can even enter, a window popped open.
You are about to enter a dungeon. In dungeons, monsters gathered from overexposure to magic radiation, or other circumstances. Dungeons are also places where time and space are twisted, be careful.
At least the group of five got a heads up, but they needed to move on. As the window appeared again:
Middleton Sewer System
Recommended level-1
Enter? Y/N
They all hit the Y and quickly entered. The Manhole was covered just in time as the Puppet Master passed by them.