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Chapter 124: And You Thought it Was A Game
Pinkie, Shou and Emi were playing some video games in the Tendo Living Room.
Akane walked and stared at the three. Ranma was nearby watching them.
"I'm still getting used to you two knowing." Said Akane.
"That's what we get for keeping it a secret for so long!" said Shou with a shrug.
"What game are you playing?" asked Akane.
"Does it really matter?" asked Emi.
This just made Akane sweat drop.
"Pinkie! Get the golden hamburger!" yelled Emi.
"On it!" said Pinkie.
"You know hat I don't need to know…" said Akane with an even bigger sweat drop.
"Yeah I have no idea what this game is either." Said Ranma.
However what they didn't know was that Discord was watching them.
He always enjoyed tormenting the Anime club after all.
And it was time to step up his game.
Maybe it's time to use more power when he came to this sort of thing.
After all he was the embodiment of chaos. It was time to make things chaotic for that group of Otaku.
A couple days later in the clubroom…
Momo walked in and saw that there was a game Sysytem with a game on the table.
She saw it was a note saying it's from "A friend."
The others soon showed up.
"This screams some weird trap." Said Emi.
"I don't know… it could be real." Said Shou.
"I think Emi's right on this one." Said Shingo, "It seems like a trap."
"All right! Vote! Who wants to play it." Said Emi knowing it would be a good idea to do that.
Momo, Shou, Arashi, Hiro and Megumi all voted to play.
"Seriously!" yelled Emi and Shingo at the same time.
"Come on! Let's try it out." Said Shou.
"This is going to end badly." Sighed Emi.
They hooked it up to the TV and turned it on.
There was a brought flash of light. And they found themselves somewhere wearing strange outfits.
They heard laughter and everyone face palmed when they recognized the laughter.
It was Discord's.
"Seriously!" yelled Emi, "I warned all of you!"
"So where are we?" asked Momo.
"I belie the answer to that is very obvious.. .you're inside the game." Said Discord, "Wait did you ask for the sake of asking."
"Yeah… I mean someone had to ask." Said Momo.
Discord sighed and face palmed.
"Let me guess we're all members of a stereotypical party and we have to beat the game to get out of here or we'll be trapped in here forever." Said Shou.
"Of course." Said Discord.
The others just sweat dropped.
"We get you're trying something new… but this… this just feels kind of…" said Shou.
"Cliché?" asked Emi.
"Obvious?" asked Shingo.
"Trope ridden?" asked Megumi.
"Those things!" said Shou.
"Yeah, there was that weird sequel remake thing of Jumanji!" said Arashi.
"Also that show about those people in college." Said Megumi.
"Actually they were just playing an extremely sophisticated game." Said Emi.
"Look the point is this has been done before and we're going to beat this game and return to the real world." Said Shou.
"You'll understand this is a lot harder than you'll understand!" said Discord.
He disappeared.
"Yeah! See you as the final boss!" called out Shou.
That was when they saw Momo toying around with a menu.
"Figured out how to work the menu!" she called out.
"Okay!" said Emi, "How much money do we have?"
"Something called Tontons… and 700,000 of them." Said Megumi.
"That's 100,000 each." Said Arashi.
"What are our classes?" asked Shou.
"Well I'm a bard!" said Momo taking out a lute.
Hiro checked out his stats.
"I'm a brawler." He said.
"I'm a thief." Said Shingo checking out his stats.
"Dancer." Said Megumi with a shrug not really surprised.
"Archer here!" said Arashi.
"I'm the mage." Said Emi.
"Looks like I'm a knight." Said Shou.
"All right so what's the plan." Said Arashi
"Let's find the nearby town and see if we can get any information and buy some stuff." Said Emi as she was the president, "Because we are going to be here a while and we all know Discord is the final boss."
They headed down the road they were on when suddenly a monster popped up.
"Seriously?" asked Emi.
"Okay! So what do we do?" asked Shou.
The menu appeared.
"Looks like I'm going first." Said Emi who noticed it.
She chose and attack called "Fire Spell"
It only did a small amount of damage.
"Uh…" said Emi.
It was Shou's turn next.
He used and attack called sword strike.
It didn't do as much damage either.
After Arashi, Hiro, Shingo and Megumi didn't do much damage, it was Momo's turn. She didn't have any attacks but it was clear she was a support member. Which did make sense for a bard.
Which was doubly ironic as she was considered their strongest fighter under normal circumstances.
Even so after they beat the smother all of them were tired,… expect for Momo.
"Hey you guys okay?" asked Momo.
She was injured though not as bad the others.
Mostly because the monster didn't want to attack her due to not fighting back.
"We're fine Momo…" muttered Megumi.
"How much XP did we get?" asked Shingo.
"not much…" sighed Emi.
"Great…" muttered Megumi.
They continued on their way hoping to run into town.
They fought a few monsters and thankfully they did get to the next level but it wasn't much.
Thankfully they managed to get to town.
"Okay! Let's go look around and see if anyone has any information." Said Emi.
"And if there's a fat guy talking about technology tell me." Said Hiro.
Everyone looked at Hiro.
"What? It would be funny if they added him." said Hiro.
They went around town hoping to find the NPC who has information.
Of course they had to ask a lot of NPCs around town.
"Welcome to this town." Said one.
"Buy my bread!" said another.
"I hate socks they're uncomfortable and hard to wear." Said another.
However one of them did have some valuable information. It wasn't much though.
"It's said that travelers from another world can't leave unless they beat the Dark King Discord." Said the NPC.
"Really?" asked Megumi who got this information.
"It's said that travelers from another world can't leave unless they beat the Dark King Discord." Sid NPC said once again.
She groaned at this since that was all the NPC could say.
Another had other information that was troubling.
"It's said that all travelers from another world can't age or die… they will forever be in this world until they defeat the Dark King Discord." Said the NPC.
"Okay… that's creepy." Said Shou.
They all met up back in the tavern where Megumi and Shou gave them that information.
"Wait! What happens if we run out of HP?" asked Shingo.
"I checked, it runs on Pokémon logic." Said Emi, "We end up in a coma until we're healed… I don't know what happens if we all into coma but I'm guessing we all end up in a certain point with less money."
"So basically we're stuck here in a video game purgatory until sun explosion?" asked Shou.
"That's a weird way to put it." Said Emi.
"Oh come on! We can jut level up and make sure we can beat Discord. Maybe who knows he'll be a an anti-climax boss and be really weak because that's how he is." Said Momo.
"Maybe… but who knows." Said Shou.
"But we should level grind." Said Emi.
"All right! Let's go!" said Shou.
And so they began to level grind… however…
Two Weeks Later…
It took a lot of level Grinding… and they gained five levels!
And four what had to be the 20th time in the past week they had a total party wipe… which meant the fight didn't gain any EXP and they lost a good chunk of their cash.
They did gain more of it aid night and thanks to random totem drops.
But it had been two weeks and they were still stuck there and hadn't gained very many levels.
"This game sucks!" said Shingo.
"You know… I'm really close to giving up." Said Arashi.
"We'll never age and can't die which is pretty awesome… and sure we can't hold an normal conversation with anyone but we'll still have each other… so there's that…" said Megumi.
"All right! Vote… who's ready to throw in the towel." Said Shingo.
"No…" said Momo.
They all looked at Momo surprised.
"I haven't thrown in the towel yet! And I won't!" said Momo, "We have to find a way home! There's people who love us and want to see us again! We have to make it home! No matter what!"
Emi and Shou knew that Momo wouldn't give up… because she knew what she was talking about.
"Look even if it has been two weeks our families would know that we were stuck in a video game!" said Momo.
"Well by this point our families should be used to living with weirdness." Said Shou.
"She's a point… weird towers, gender bending martial artists, impossible Martial Arts." Said Emi.
"Plus not to mention I'm good friends with an honest to god magic user." Pointed out Shou.
"We can't give up! We have to keep fighting." Said Momo then she took out her lute and was about to sing.
"No! None of that! Shame on you!" said Arashi.
"You didn't have to put it that way." Pouted Momo.
"Even if your speech is working Momo, we can't handle on your weird Momo Mochi songs right now." Said Megumi.
"Fine…" pouted Momo.
"Is it just me though… but your speech it sounds like you have some experience with what's going on…" said Shingo.
"Oh no… that's all in your head!" said Momo trying to getting them to not think about it.
"Come on! Let's go on more level girding!" said Shou.
The other three members looked at each other and shrugged.
5 days later…
They had done a tone more level grinding, this time they managed to gain five more levels.
It helped that they got a very rare drop that let them afford a level boosting position and another for EXP Growth.
Which meant they managed out get to level 20.
"Do you think Level 20 will be able to beat Discord?" asked Megumi as they were outside the "Dark King's" castle.
"If not hopefully we can get another a rare drop within a month." Said Shingo.
The others nodded.
They entered the dark castle and found Discord. He was in all sort of regalia that showed he was the Dark King.
"I have been waiting for you brave adventures!" said Discord.
"And we've been getting stronger to face you!" said Emi taking charge since she was the president.
And soon the battle began.
Emi used a simple Lightning Spell.
When it hit Discord's HP went down to Zero.
"You have defeated me! You are able to return home!" said Discord.
The 6 out of 7 members gaped at Discord and then looked at Momo who wasn't surprised, after all she did predict the very thing so…
There was a flash of light.
And the members of the anime club were glaring at Discord.
"Of course a level 1 could defeat the Dark King… you just didn't realize it." Said Discord.
HE laughed and disappeared as 6 members of the Anime Club were sitting there in shock.
However Momo just checked her phone
"Hey! Only a few hours passed!" said Momo
"Of course! Barely any time passed!" said Arashi, "It just figures!"
"Club's adjoined for today!" sighed Emi.
And so all of them went home.
However Shingo asked to walk home with Megumi, Arashi and Hiro.
"Okay… this is going to sound really weird… but that speech that Momo gave… it got me thinking…" said Shingo, "You don't' think she's from another world do you?"
"What?" asked Megumi, "you can't be serious."
"It does make sense." Said Arashi, "She's weird, she had unreliable powers, her and friends solve all the problems, she was enemies with Discord before we even met him and I think I heard a rumor that she's a straight up magical girl…"
""It just sounds weird…" said Megumi.
"Aliens are real…" said Hiro, "And they live nearby."
"Okay… good point." Said Megumi.
"Why isn't Shou and Emi here?" asked Arashi.
"I think whatever is going on… they probably know." Said Shingo.
"They wouldn't…" said Megumi then realized.
"Yeah… they probably know what's going on…" said Arashi.
"Let's not ry." Said Megumi, "Whatever it is, Momo has a good reason for keeping it a secret… so let's just pretend nothing is going on with her."
"Fine." Said Hiro and Arashi.
"Whatever." Muttered Shingo.
"Anyways my house is this way." Said Megumi.
They waved at Megumi as they parted ways.
However they didn't know that Discord was watching them… and mentally put what conversation in a later folder for messing with them.
After all they were having their doubts about where she came from… but it wasn't really important and the anime club was just something he only occasionally messed with…
But next he did mess with them… he would pull something involing that… after all it would be more fun to let it sit and gain ideas for when he did pull it off.
Next Time: Those that live in the Tendo Dojo go on a beach vacation! however Kuno washes up on the same beach with no memory. Why did he lose his memory and how did he suddenly became so strong? Find out next time!