This story will be very AU for both Jumsnji: Welcome to the Jungle and Easy A. A friend requested this and I thought it would be a cool story. Hope you all like it.
"No! No! No! Shield! Shield!" Olive Pendergast was in the middle of a game on her computer, trying not to die.
"Olive? Are you in there?" Her friend, Rihannon entered her bedroom, "Holy shit." She looked around at the mess, clothes and homework everywhere along with fast food garbage. Her desk was littered with crumpled up paper and empty cans of Mountain Dew and energy drinks.
"What up?" Olive said, nor taking her eyes off the screen, the redheaded gamer had but in a solid 1000 hours on this new rpg.
"Olive, didn't you get my texts?" Rihannon was trying to get around her friend's mess.
"Nah, sorry, I've been on a roll," she said, slamming back a can; she accidentally spilled the red liquid on her white t-shirt with the Zelda symbol. "Shit! Can you grab me some paper towel?"
Rihannon reluctantly fetched a half roll of paper towel not so conveniently left by some underwear on the floor. "There's a party tonight."
"Yeah?" Olive said, half paying attention, her character was getting the crap kicked out of it, "No! No! Son of a bitch!"
Rihannon handed her the paper towel and watched her with concern as she was more focused on this nerdy little game. "So are you coming?"
"Dang it, my favorite shirt!" Olive scrubbed at it hard.
"Olive!"
The high volume of her friend's voice scared her, "Shit! What?"
"Come to the party."
"Maybe, ok?"
"You might meet someone."
This made her laugh, "What are you talking about? I meet people."
"In the real world. All you do now is play on your computer."
"That's so not true," Olive scoffed.
"Yeah, right. You never want to hang out anymore. All you care about is your tribe of redheaded Amazonian women."
Olive razed, "Rih, that was so three months ago!" Olive had designed a whole tribe made up entirely of women with her colour red hair. She always wanted to design her own game and was an experiment with A.I. but she got kind of bored with it mainly because she couldn't really design the look of the characters that well; could never get the faces right.
"Whatever," Rihannon sighed, "I got you this." She handed her over a wrapped gift.
"Huh?"
"Happy birthday."
"Wait, it's my birthday? But it's only the 7th."
"It's the 28th."
"Wow, time really flies when you fight orcs and collect gold. Thanks." She opened it. A strange looking green CD case. In pen it said 'JUMANGI'. It must've been a bootleg from another country, Olive loved collecting those.
"You can probably meet a hot redhead with huge tits at the party."
Olive wasn't sure what she was getting at but she had this smirk on her face, "What do you mean?"
"Olive, you're a lesbian," she said bluntly.
Olive laughed this off, snorting like she did, "I'm not a lesbian."
"Then why is every character you play have red hair and tits bigger than my head?"
"Oh, come on, they're not all like that!" Only the Amazonian variety anyway.
Rihannon had questioned Olive's sexuality since they were very young, she never showed any interest in boys or much of the same things she liked or was interested in.
"Whatever. I gotta get my hair done before tonight. Later, nerd."
"Later, skank." Their usual nicknames to each other. While they had been talking, Olive hadn't noticed she was killed off in the game. "Well fuck you too!" The game was bugging her anyway. She needed a break, something different.
"J-u-man-ji," she said aloud. It could do. She put the disk in her drive and downloaded it. No telling if it would even worked. She tried looking up the name but nothing came up at least not with the right spelling and not a video game.
The download time wasn't too long. She clicked the icon of a rhino and a green screen popped up. Jumanji flashed on screen with a jungle background behind it, accompanied by a score of drums and roars.
"Hm. Maybe this is a game someone made on their own."
She expected something really pixelated like a side scrolling game, running from right to left. Then the intro. She was greeted with a 3D intro story that had to have been from a professional. The graphics were actually great and characters almost looked like real people.
A woman with red hair, dressed in cargo short shorts and a tank top did flips on screen and posed in rather suggestive poses.
"Is this a sex game?"
"Archeologist/extreme sports enthusiast/Adventurer, Ruby Roundhouse is on an expedition in the thick of the jungle. She will need a partner to help her reach the unknown temples and restore peace in Jumanji."
Olive's glasses were fogging up. "Dammit I am so not a lesbian...but she is very beautiful...I also think the creators of Tomb Raider should sue."
Other characters introduced were the villains including of all things ninjas and cannibals. The main villain, dressed all and black with a hideous scar on his face was Russel Van Pelt who was after some green glowing jewel to take control of the jungle. There was this big muscle, a real slab of beef named Quil Ryder.
Olive was unimpressed that she couldn't design a character, it must've all been POV. She had become an expert at hacking though and decided to try it on Ruby. "Let's see, redder hair...Mohawk? Nah. Hm. Boobs. Butt. Now we're getting somewhere."
She enjoyed how she could really shape her, it was an unnoticed gift of hers. Ruby Roundhouse's voice and personality wasn't all that appealing to her, "Are you ready to go on an adventure or what? I don't have all day!"
"Maybe tone you down a bit. Now you're perfect. Let's see if this game is a bang or a BUST," she laughed at her own joke and adjusted her glasses. She pressed start but nothing happened. She tried again but there seemed to be a delay. "What a piece of..."
The screen lit up impossibly bright. Olive had to cover her eyes. She heard the drums from the opening intro. They kept getting louder, as if the drums were right there in the room. A wind began to blow, the sound of a cyclone. Olive screamed. This was a nightmare. In a flash she was gone. The wind, the bright light and the drums were gone too.
Olive was free falling. She couldn't see anything. Then everything went black. She found herself lying on her back. Looking up she saw a shiloutte striking a pose. A familiar fingerless gloved hand reached out to her. She was shocked. Coming into the light she saw that it was Ruby Roundhouse in the flesh.
"Well, hi there! Are you ready for an adventure or what?" She said in a very cheerful and non-snarky voice.
To be continued!
