Heavily inspired by Kamen Rider Ex-Aid and Gaoranger!
Lincoln Loud, a mundane silver-haired boy in a quiet but dazzling suburban town discovers that Videogames are more than just graphics and data files! When game viruses and bugs leak out into the real world! His world gets turned upside down, as he becomes a Hero by the discovery of a mysterious portable gaming system!
What's your Game? What do you play? Enter the Game! Obtain the highest score! All with no Continues!
The Loud House...Power Gamers!
Chapter 1: From Crushing Defeats to Soaring Victories! The First Owner of the PGS!
The Arcade in town wasn't as bustling as it usually was, in most days, their would be at least a dozen kids coming in, playing the many games that the arcade offered and eat plenty of greasy but delicious food.
But not today it seems, the arcade machines were unoccupied, despite wanting kids to play them by showing off gameplay montages and demos, not one was being played for there was only one kid in the arcade that was focusing his entire supply of quarters to a single machine.
"GAME OVER! Want to try again?!"
The arcade machine asked the player in a courageous and energetic voice, without a second thought, the player inserted a quad of quarters into the arcade machine, giving him one extra life for the final boss.
"Dang It...Come on, you can do this." The Player self-bolstered, trying to give confidence to his well-being, his palms were sweaty and his nerves were racked as he was nearly done beating this arcade game, a rarity in the arcade for their difficulty and way of shredding down quarters like paper.
"GAME OVER! Want to try again?!"
"Dang it!" The gamer growled under his breath from his quick loss, it was the final boss after all so it wasn't going to be an easy task, despite the quick but ultimately painful defeat, he inserted another dollar's worth of quarters into the machine, hell-bent on beating this game, he's near the finish line! He just needs to cross it!
"GAME OVER! Want to try again?!"
The Arcade machine said, almost mockingly this time, the white-haired boy that was playing the arcade game sighed deeply as he scuffled through his jean pockets, ready to try once more, he wasn't going to give up this easily!, to bad his quarters thought otherwise.
The gamer felt nothing in his pockets, his eyes widened as he realized that this arcade machine ate through all of his quarters!
"Dang it...I was so close to beating this game on my first try..." Lincoln said aloud in frustration, he stared at the Game Over screen, the arcade machine was practically taunting the white-haired boy, showing off the main villain of the arcade game, laughing triumphantly and standing over the defeated player character, as his minions cheered him on with roars and howls and silly victory dances.
"See you next time then! On Action Adventure Plus!"
The Arcade Machine recalled with a chirpy and chime-like voice, before it reverted back to its demo state almost as if it knew that Lincoln didn't had any more quarters to give, showing off several still images as it tried to conveyed a story of a stubby-stunted and pink-tinted hero named Mite, as he attempts to thwart the hostile takeover of a evil empire, led by a evil and narcissistic king named King Salty.
It was very foreign for Lincoln Loud, most games he played wasn't as bright or as bubbly as Action Adventure Plus, it was definitely something from Japan, due to its bright colors and hyper-stylized protagonist, coupled with a strange title that technically doesn't really mean anything to the actual game, a stark contrast to the other arcade machines which feature gun-tooting muscle man and spaceships blasting aliens into smithereens.
'If it weren't for my favorite arcade game being out of order...I would've still had all my quarters!' Lincoln said in woe as he stared at the unplugged Arcade Machine, it was a very interesting stick shooter game simply called Guns of Glory, a very war-themed and gritty shooter that Lincoln would usually play, he was going to spend all of his quarters to beat the shooter but it was mysteriously decommissioned when Lincoln arrived.
Disheartened and defeated, the boy proceeded to exit out of the arcade, as the Action Adventure Plus arcade machine began to play extremely upbeat music.
'At least I got the high score, I mean, it just arrived yesterday and when Clyde was playing it he couldn't even get past the second level, so I at least have bragging rights!' Lincoln thought to himself trying to raise his spirits from his crushing defeat, he succeeded, his gait going from a whimpered sallow to a more composed and even proud stride.
'I'll go tell Clyde tomorrow, maybe even show him the high score screen.' Lincoln proposed internally, agreeing to such a plan with gusto.
It was a warm Saturday afternoon in the good town that Lincoln lives in, the birds were chirping, the sun was shining, so he felt that going outside and going to a arcade to play videogames was a great way to capitalize on such a beautiful day.
'Should really get home...Got plenty of weekend homework to do... I can do that first so I can have a free Sunday!' Lincoln insisted as he walked home with a small excited smile on his face.
He walked through the suburbs of his neighborhood, kids were playing outside with sports playthings and bicycles, it was a rather peaceful, if, a little hasty sight, Lincoln was closing in to his house, only mere yards away until at the corner of his eye, he spotted something rather peculiar.
In the smack-dab middle of the many houses of his neighborhood, was a garage sale right across from his house, he curved a eyebrow from the sight, the house across the street from the Loud Family was always deserted and always up for sale, most likely due to having to live right across from the Loud Family.
But now? The usually empty house was having a garage sale, it was definitely eerie for the Silver-haired boy.
'That wasn't there before When I left...' He said inwardly with a light tone of surprise, with a sense of curiosity within his mind, instead of going right to his home so he can get some homework done and over with, he walked into the garage sale.
The owner was nowhere to be seen, and the sale was more like a presentation of trash and garbage, splattered haphazardly across the tables of the garbage sale was worn and unkempt items that couldn't bear any real value even in a recycling plant, broken bottles, dented pots, dull kitchen knifes and hole-filled clothes were the things that were on sale.
Lincoln's interest started to deflate when he realize that the most valuable item on sale was an chipped flower vase and even then it wasn't really that well-kept.
"Looking for something...Kid?" Lincoln heard behind him, he turned to see a ragged and filthy-looking young adult, almost a teenager, while he was taller than a normal male adult, he was as thin as a stick, his hair was black like a crow but as dirty and smelly as a skunk, his clothes were stained with various colors and was gaped with holes, his mere presence made the trash that he was giving away more appealing, Lincoln was a little surprised by the sudden appearance of such a teen.
"Oh! Well...Not really, I mean, this house was vacant but now you're suddenly here...So I just wanted to check it out" Lincoln said truthfully, the poor teen's acme-ridden face nodded deeply as he sized Lincoln up, with a slow and somewhat painful-looking walk, the teen silently scrummage through a pile of poorly-kept clothes.
"Wait wait wait! You don't need to show me something...I don't even have any money." Lincoln insisted, not wanting to waste the destitute teenager's time, he didn't seem to listen, still scrimmaging around the trash until he finally pulled out what he was searching for.
"You like videogames right?" He asked, Lincoln noticed that his voice was naturally deep and dried, almost as if he nothing to drink for days, despite the odd question, Lincoln nodded earnestly, a small smile crept on the destitute teens voice, in his hands was something rather expensive-looking despite the stranger's garbage garage sale.
It was a portable gaming system, but it wasn't anything that Lincoln has seen before, looking akin to one of the earlier models of portable gaming than something like a 3DS or a PSP, the screen looked like it would show off pixels rather than graphics and the slot for the games were big and spacious, its colors were primarily bright green and light purple, it was the only thing that the destitute stranger possessed that wasn't damaged or even worn, looking like as if it was factory-new.
"Here...You can have this...I won't be needing it anymore anyway..." The Destitute said, Lincoln looked at the handheld system with a sense of wonder, never seeing such a portable gaming system before.
"Really sir?" Lincoln asked politely, not truly whether or not he deserved such a free gift, the stranger smiled and patted Lincoln on the hand, his dirty leather glove ruffling the boy's hair.
"Yeah...Its called, a PGS, I know, it looks like a shoddy rip-off of something more popular...But trust me, its more than meets the eye." The teen said while scratching at himself lightly.
"Yeah...Now get on home kid...And also have the game that comes with it..." He said in a almost ghastly voice, handing Lincoln a video game cartridge, he gasped in amazement, it was Action Adventure Plus! The same game that he was playing at the arcade, he didn't know that there was a portable game port, Lincoln with a quick nod of thanks walked away from the trashbag garage sale, unaware of what he was truly given.
Meanwhile in the now Loud-less Arcade, the Stick-Shooter game Guns of Glory was silent and still, unlike the many other arcade machines around it which was all bustling happily with life.
Almost as if the spark of life ignited the machine for it began to mysteriously come back on, despite still not being plugged in, it began to flash various images of game-play, almost as if it was envious of the fact that Lincoln decided to play Action Adventure Plus rather than his favorite game, the images began to flash even faster than before.
A figure came into the arcade, striding in with a cool and crisp walk, as he walked through the arcade, nearby machines began to emit static, their sounds becoming distorted and their frame-rate became jostled and muddled, as if his mere presence was giving the arcade machines various sicknesses and bugs.
"You seem jealous...Jealous that your favorite player didn't played you at all..." The figure said in the midst of the arcade walking up to the Guns of Glory game, cooing to the now-working arcade machine with a soft but calculating voice, the Arcade Machine seemed to agree, flashing images more so than before.
"Lets give you a fair chance to exact your envy..." The Figure said with a small smile on his face, searching through his black jacket pocket, he pulled out a quarter, it wasn't like any quarter, valuable but minuscule, shiny but dulled, it was black and littered with traces of purple-tinted rust, without another moment, the figure inserted the corrupted quarter into the machine.
At first, there was nothing, almost as if the coin wasn't even recognized, suddenly, the Guns of Glory Machine began to shake violently, as if a firecracker was lit up within, the figure smiled in delight as he took several steps back, the screen of the Guns of Glory machine was like a storm of static and colors...Before a arm came out of the screen first, then the leg, then the torso and then finally, the rest of the body.
The creature that came out of the machine looked like a monstrous version of an American soldier, his body being dark, rough, and rugged metal and his army uniform being a blood-stained mockery of a true american soldier, torn and drooping as the cobbled camo-fatigues barely covered the creature's muscular and savage metal body, a semi-automatic gun barrel as one hand and a serrated survival knife as the other, i for soldiers do not know when to lay down their arms, its eyes were fully red, representing its blind rage that war can bring.
The Guns of Glory creature started to growl, his bestial gutturals being muffled by its bullet-holed army helmet and face-wrap, the figure that created him simply stood back with a smile.
"Now...Go get the one who didn't want you to have your fun..." The Figure commanded to the monster, with a roar of agreement, the creature began to test out its weapons on the various arcade machines, especially Action Adventure Plus, firing its rifle-arm, creating a bulletstorm that torn every arcade machine into bits of scrap electronics and plastic, it was blooming with electronic life, but now? a wasteland of scrap and trash, the creature laughed in joy as the barrel of his rifle arm emitted a buffet of gunfire-inducing smoke, clearly enjoying this new form of sentience.
The Arcade was destroyed the creature treading out of the arcade with brutal efficiency for Lincoln Loud was next.