Disgaea plays DDR!

Disclaimer: I do not own Disgaea, DDR, or any of the characters/DDR songs.

One day, Laharl, Etna and Flonne were sitting around in the Netherworld. The Dimensional Gatekeeper walked up to them and said, "There's a new gate open, going to Dance City."

"Dance City?" said Laharl, "I hate dancing! Let's just attack the crap out of it so I can rule it and turn it into something better."

"That sounds like fun," cheered Flonne excitedly.

"Someone's replacing all the songs on the DDR machines with slow, boring 1950's songs."

"What's DDR?" asked Laharl.

"DDR is a video game about dancing. They'll explain it to you in Dance City," said the Gatekeeper, "In this special area, you have to defeat the enemies in a game of DDR instead of fighting them."

"That's no fun, " said Laharl with disappointment.

"Yay, no fighting, " said Flonne, "We can spread love and peace all around Dance City!"

"Just press "Gate 100" at the Dimensional Gate to go to Dance City, "said the Gatekeeper."

All of a sudden, Gordon ran up to them and screamed "I, the Defender of Earth, will save Dance City."

"It looks like we can all go," said Etna, "There are 10 spots left in the DDR challenge."

The four of them, plus 6 others including a prinny, walked up to the gate. Laharl entered "100" into the keypad at the front, then they all stepped inside. About 10 seconds later, they arrived in a room filled with about 30 DDR machines, some computers, and several people that were practicing on the ground.

A man walked up to them and said, "I'm Kieran, a level 400 DDR player. Lately, people have stopped playing DDR as much because someone called "Mid Boss" messed up the machines. All the songs were changed to a bunch of crappy old slow songs, and many of our machines have been destroyed by his attacks. We have to defeat the enemies at DDR, then defeat Mid Boss in a battle to stop him from destroying our city and our DDR machines. People have been running away from here and now there's hardly anyone playing. You can help us, but first let me show you how to play. Follow me."

Kieran started walking across the room and Laharl and his friends followed him. They passed a bunch of DDR machines with nobody playing on them. One was playing a slow, boring 1950's song. Another was playing a "song" that sounded like a piano being smashed to death with a drum set.

"My ears!" yelled everyone, "What's that awful sound?"

"That machine!" said Kieran, "It was severely affected." Kieran walked up to the machine and switched it off.

They walked past some broken DDR machines, and there were broken parts of DDR machines all over the floor. Then, they entered a room with a single DDR machine in it. A ghost suddenly jumped out of the wall! Kieran was about to face them in a DDR match. The ghost floated over to the right side of the machine, and Kieran walked over to the left side. "This ghost were sent by Mid Boss," he said, "I won't let them ruin my last good machine!"

The ghost selected a difficult song called "Haunted Woods." It was a level 9.

"How can that ghost play DDR," said Laharl, "It has no feet."

Four arrows pointing up, down, left and right were in a row on the top of the screen. A Halloween themed song began playing. The ghost formed feet at the body of its body to be able to play. Arrows began to scroll up the screen toward the row of arrows at the top. The ghost seemed to be having severe difficulty with the game, as the word "Missed" appeared on its screen many times. On the other hand, Kieran was hitting every step perfectly. The word "Failed" appeared on the ghost's screen. The ghost disappeared, then Kieran hit a jump at the end of the song. Another screen appeared saying "AAA."

"That looks impossible," said Etna.

"Take that, you stupid ghost, "said Laharl.

"Now that the stupid ghost is gone, we can begin training," said Kieran, "The training room is upstairs."

To be continued...