A/N: The first chapter is setting up my OC so it starts slow but then it'll ramp up
"Professor, you're not taking me seriously," Eve Dixon slammed her paper down on the man's desk, her tone clearly flustered.
He looked up, visibly irritated, "Ms. Dixon, you are trying to get your PHd with a thesis revolving around a video game that supposedly sucks in it's players. What do you expect me to say to that?"
"I expect you to try and let me prove it," she replied, "This is my future on the line which means all you need to do is sit back and let me fly or burn. I have evidence of people remembering living up to twenty years in this game called Jumanji but there's no evidence they went anywhere."
The Professor sighed, pushing her paper back towards her, "Fine, write your insane idea but don't you dare get offended when you get laughed out of the auditorium when you present this," he warned, though he didn't care either way.
Eve nodded, "Thank you. I promise, you won't be disappointed," she said as she picked up her work and left the classroom, heading to her car to go to the city that had been the main source of Jumanji activity. She drove through the night because she didn't have much time left before her deadline and living the game out herself would be the best way to prove her thesis as fact.
Her last account about people being involved recorded that they found the game in an old classroom but it was also said that they destroyed it but Eve wasn't as worried about that because no one had been able to succeed in that task yet.
She pulled up to the high school just as dawn broke through the night and got out of her car to walk behind the school where they'd supposedly hid the remains. She krept underneath the school and found the old game system, to her relief, it was completely intact. Eve removed Jumanji from it's current gravesite and raced back to her car in order to find somewhere to hook it up and play the game.
Her research included interviews with a man named Alan Parrish who was elderly when she met him but he remembers spending over twenty years in Jumanji until he was released and played with two kids and an old friend, who'd originally started the game with him. When they completed the game's goal, he was a child again and had no evidence of the event. She tracked down the kids and their story was the same except for them, it had only lasted a day or two at the most. More recently, a young man named Alex who recalled spending twenty years inside the game, even noting living in Alan Parrish's hut, and he was too saved by four kids, the kids who thought they'd destroyed the game but it remained intact once again. Eve's goal was to go into the game and play through looking for evidence that corroborated their individual recounts of their time in the game in order to, hopefully, prove her thesis to be true.
Eve pulled into a motel and got a room where she took in her essentials and the game. Once she was inside, behind a locked door, she opened the box to reveal another change. For the first group, Jumanji appeared as a board game, the second had an old game system, but now, Jumanji was in the form of a handheld DS like form. Eve wrote down these changes and took a photo of the game with her cell phone before she turned on the 'on switch' starting the game and revealing a list of characters to choose from.
In previous recounts, the game always had at least one character marked as unavailable but this time, she wasn't able to choose any of them. Eve sighed in defeat as she was about to turn off the handheld game and get some sleep before trying again just as the game emitted a green glow and before she knew it, Eve was sucked into Jumanji as herself.