"Where… the hell am I?" I asked out loud to seemingly nothing, looking around the alley that I had appeared in, frowning. I looked around and saw someone beside me who appeared to be passed out. The being was female with dark brown hair. She wore simple clothes as she layed there.

Frowning in concern, I walked over to her, gently shaking her shoulder. "Hey, you, wake up, an alley isn't the best place to sleep." I said. After a few times the person turned over and looked at me.

Then punched me in the face.

"AHHHHHHH! RAPE!" she screamed as I held my nose in pain.

"Lady, calm down, I was just waking you up!" I shouted, clutching my nose… but the pain had vanished, leaving me confused. I looked up and saw her standing in front of me in some martial arts stance.

"Don't come near me, I know Karate," she looked like she was now thinking about something. "And Boxing and kickboxing, and Taekwondo, and Judo and-"

"Stop!" I yelled. "I get it, I won't come near ya." I assured.

"Well good, because I would mess you up!" she said as she finally started to look around. "Hey! Where are we?"

"No clue, lady." I said, shrugging. She looked around a bit before kicking the wall.

"Nope, it's solid." she said cheerfully.

"So, we seem to be lost and have no idea why we're here… this sounds like the start of a fanfiction." I said.

"Something like that, say who are you?" she asked me.

I was about to answer, but then saw a mirror, and frowned heavily again. "I didn't look like this before." I said. I had purple hair, a heavy black patch over my left eye, and a right blue eye, with some of my hair covering the left eye. The woman came looking in the mirror as well.

"Hey! I didn't look like this as well!" she said until she looked at herself a bit more, her dark brown hair that looks like chocolate and her green eyes looked back at her. After doing a few posies she tilted her head. "I look better than before."

"I'd say you look good." I agreed. She looked at me with a frown.

"Easy pal, I still don't know you so I got my eyes on you." she said as she made the gesture of her watching me.

I chuckled, holding my hands up. "That's fine, but since we're in a… similar situation, we should probably stick together." I said.

"Fine, but if you try something I'll mess you up." she said as she went to another fighting stance.

I shrugged. "I promise to not try anything if you don't." I told her simply.

"Deal, so what's your name?" she asked, going back to her chipper self as if what she said before never happened.

"Roxo Gris." I decided on the spot. "Yours?"

"Ummm… Aub." she said simply as she pointed to her hair.

"Fair enough." I said, slipping my hands into my hoodie pockets. "We should explore, get a layout of where the fuck we are."

"Okay!" Aub said happily.

"You can follow me, so I don't do anything to ya." I said, smirking at her as I lead the way out of the alley, absentmindedly grabbing a backpack that looked like it was just left there. I looked out of the alley way and saw that there were others going on with their business. The two of us walked out of the alley and headed in a random direction.

"So, do you seem to have anything… strange, about you? I mean like feelings and stuff, you might have powers." I whispered to her as we walked.

"Umm no, I don't feel anything different." she answered. She walked beside me as if there wasn't a care in a world for her. "What about you?"

"I feel… something." I mumbled. "It feels small, like there will be more of it, but I don't really know it's status." I said, before a menu appeared in front of me, making me stop, causing her to bump into me.

"Hey! The hell man, why did you stop?" she asked me.

"Can… you not see this menu?" I asked, gesturing to the menu that she evidently couldn't see.

"Menu? No, I don't see one does it have food on it?" she asked me.

"No, it appeared when I said status." I told her, causing it to disappear, and me to facepalm.

"What now dude?" she asked me, now standing in front of me.

"Wait… if I have what I think I have… we need to get somewhere private." I said, grinning, an idea forming in my mind. Aub looked at me for a moment before looking around.

"Does that bag of yours have money in it?" she asked me.

"Lemme check." I said, sliding it in front of me and checking inside, seeing some strange bills I felt like I should remember. "Yes." I told her, zipping it closed and back onto my back.

"Great! So we can go in there." she said as she points to what looks like a hotel.

"Cool, let's go in." I said, walking towards the hotel. We walked in and I saw that the interior was plain and simple. I saw a man reading a book at the front desk with weird cards behind him.

"Hey." I said, walking up to the dude. "I need a room, please."

The man looked up at me and at Aub. He raised an eyebrow at us.

"Aren't you a little young for this kid?" he asked me. I frowned at him until I felt Aub elbow me.

"Show him the money." she whispered. I nodded, slipping my hand into the bag and grabbing some with large numbers, holding three up for him to see. He looked at them for a moment before reaching for one of the cards. He took it and hands it to me.

"First floor, fifth door to your left." he said before looking back to his book.

"Thank you." I said, taking Aub with me into the room he instructed, locking it behind me. The room was simple and I didn't have a problem with it other than one thing; it had one bed. Aub went over to it and sat down on it.

"Comfy, so what's with this menu thing?" she asked me.

"Well, I think I know what my ability is, it's something called 'the gamer'." I said.

"Okay…" she said as she stared at me. "What's that?"

"Well, you know RPG games, where you do stuff to get skills and levels?" I asked.

"Yeah, who doesn't?" she asked me crossing her arms.

"I can do that now… in real life." I told her. She blinks at me.

"So you can do that, can I do that?" she asked. Before I could answer she turned away from me. "Status!" she waited for a few moments. "Nope, I can't do that."

"And I got an idea… games usually have cheats." I said, grinning. "So I think I can quite literally, cheat at life."

"Cool… I think? What does your stats look like as is?" she asked me.

"Stats." I said, bringing my stats up.

Name: Roxo Gris

LV 3

HP: 30/35

MP:150/150

AURA: 100/100

STR: 10 (bonuses: +0)

DEX: 12 (bonuses: +1)

CON: 16 (bonuses: +3)

INT: 15 (bonuses: +2)

WIS: 18 (bonuses: +4)

CHA: 18 (bonuses: +4)

I told her what my stats were. "It looks like they're going by DND rules, for these." I added.

"Sweet! Wait so your health max is thirty five?" she paused as she mumbles to herself, it sounds like she was doing math. "That would make you more of a fighter with a high intelligence so maybe a mage warrior or something."

"So brains and brawn then? Nice." I said, before thinking. "You know, in the GAMER, I should be able to get skills by acquiring skill books… we should find a library."

"Eldritch knight! That's it!" she yelled happily. "Huh? Oh right library to find skill books, got it does it have me in there?"

"Let me see… no, but it said I should be able to do this." I said, tapping a couple 'buttons' and sending her a party invitation. She blinked a few times before a window appeared, saying 'invitation accepted!' on it. A new window opened up to the side that says 'party'.

I opened up her stats, reading them out to her.

Aub

Lv: 3

HP:32/32

MP: 175/175

AURA: 100/100

STR: 10 (bonuses: +0)

DEX: 18 (bonuses: +4)

CON:15 (bonuses: +2)

INT: 16 (bonuses: +3)

WIS: 18 (bonuses: +4)

CHA:15 (bonuses: +2)

"We have close stats kinda." I commented. I looked over at her as she did more math.

"From what I can tell… I'm more dex and wis base so more of a ranger than a rogue… also if you had brains and brawn than your strength would be higher but we have the same, so you can take a few hits and blast them with fire so something." she said as she looked at me. She blushed a bit. "Yes yes I know it sounded nerdy but I was a bit of a tabletop gamer back then."

"I like nerdy, relatable." I told her, giving her a charming narrowed her eyes at me but didn't lose her blush.

"Right, so you can see stats for yourself and me, what else can you do?" she asked me.

"Well, if I do this…" I mumbled, staring at a table, before I got a notification.

Through careful observation, you have developed the 'observe' skill! You just had to, didn't you?

"I now have the 'observe' skill… should give me good reads on anyone not too much of a higher level than us… so anyone not trained too much." I told her.

"Neat, is that the only skill you have?" she asked me.

"I appear to have some cooking, reading, gaming, a little drawing and writing." I told her, shrugging. "Never did much other than those things… probably why my WIS and INT are so large."

Through deductive reasoning, you have gained +1 WIS

Through a smart observation, you have gained +1 INT

"Huh… seemed I don't need to level up to gain INT and WIS, good to know." I said, smirking.

"Neat, so you can gain points by doing stuff." Aub said as she looked around the place.

"Well, it's getting late." I said, putting the backpack in my INVENTORY. "We should go to sleep."

She looked at me and slowly at the bed. She sighed as she stood up.

"So, you want right side or left side?" she asked me.

"Don't care which… I'll sleep on the floor even, if you want. I'm used to sleeping on hard surfaces." I said, smiling at her.

Due to certain circumstances, your relationship grows with Aub from 'Ally' to 'Friend'.

I pointedly ignored the notification, since said friend was speaking. "Fine, I'll take the right side." she said as she looks at the bed.

"You sure you're okay with it?" I asked gently.

"Yes I'm fine with it, I used to sleep with my brothers when I was younger," she paused for a second. "We were poor, had few beds to use until I was old enough to work."

"I thank you for your kindness." I said, giving a overly dramatic bow, before walking over to the dresser and checking inside. "Huh… good luck, the last tenants seem to have left their pajamas."

"Is there some in my size?" she asked. I turned to tell her but stopped as I saw her already in her underwear. "What?"

I blushed a little, looking away. "I think these should work." I mumbled, tossing her a overly large t-shirt and some shorts.

"Thanks." she said. I looked over the other clothes for a moment before something hits me on the head. I pulled it away and saw that it was the shorts that I gave her. I looked back at her as she was in bed already.

"Don't need them, the shirt is fine." she said looking at it. "It's like a robe on me."

"Alright… look away, please." I said, gathering a grey shirt and purple pajama pants. I looked back to see her not looking my way, she had a pillow over her head to give me privacy.

I quickly removed my shirt, hoodie, and sweatpants, sighing as I looked at myself. There were a few scars over my chest and sides, and I didn't really look like either gender, so I never bothered with buying more than underwear.

Even that was neutral, just grey briefs.

"Wow, at first I didn't think about it but you don't look like a boy or a girl." Aub said. I looked back and saw her staring at me.

I yelped, blushing and quickly throwing my clothes on, pointedly looking away from her, my purple hair covering my face as best it could.

"What's wrong with you?" she asked me

"I… don't like people looking at my scars." I said, in a near whisper. "It… brings back bad memories." I added, choking up a little.

"Huh, sorry but I was more pointing out the fact that I can't tell your gender, like hell at first I thought you were a girl then when you talked I thought you were a guy." she looked away with a frown. "This hurts my head."

"It's fine." I mumble, getting into my side of the bed, turned with my back to her. "I'm use to it." I said in a sad tone.

"You sound like my sister, oh well." she said as she turn the light off. "Night."

"Night…" I said in a depressed tone, closing my eyes and falling asleep.

Aub PoV

I laid in bed for a few minutes awake as I listened to Roxo breathing. I thought back to when I met them and tried to figure it out, were they a he or a she?

'Ugg, I shouldn't be thinking this, it's dumb.' I thought as I looked back at them. Slowly I got a closer look at them, from just looking at them I could see Roxo as a girl but I couldn't tell really by the way they spoke.

I groaned as I turned over and looked out of the window.

'Is this some sort of character thing that if they do one thing they would move to either sex?' I thought. 'I have to keep that in mind.'

I sighed and closed my eyes, falling to a dreamless sleep, like always.

Roxo POV, the next morning

I felt something warm on my back. It was soft and comfy. I opened my eyes and looked down to see arms wrapped around me. I looked back and saw Aub hugging me from behind. She pulled me closer to her, her breasts pressing onto my back as she muttered something.

I blushed furiously… but I was a little starved for this kind of contact, so I simply looked forwards and closed my eyes, a blush on my face as I stayed there.

I heard her mumbled something as her arms pulled away as she sat up. I opened my eye a bit and saw her sitting up and looking at me half asleep. She shook me a bit.

"Sis… wake up… time for school or something." she said as she got out of bed.

"Aub, I think you need to wake up." I told her, still blushing as I sat up myself. She looked back at me before rubbing her eyes a bit. She looked at me with a head tilt.

"Really dude, it's so hard to tell you from a guy or a girl," she said, now more awake. "Right now you look like a girl."

"It doesn't help I don't really sound like either." I mumbled. "And I'm not a dude, not a girl." I added.

"Whatever," she said as she turned to the dresser and pulled the shirt off, leaving her in only her underwear. She looked around on the floor for a bit. "You see my clothes?"

"I inventoried them so no one would come in and steal them." I told her, blushing and looking away as I held her clothes out for her.

"Thanks." She said as she took them. She started to put them on as she looks at me. "What's with the blush?"

"You're attractive, and your underwear doesn't cover much." I said bluntly. She slowly looked at me with a blush.

"DANG IT WHY DO YOU LOOK LIKE THAT!" she yelled before stomping around with no pants on. She stopped and looked at me. "And there's no other room here as well."

"I know… you could warn me so I can turn away thought." I said, before blinking in realizations.

"Also, I just realised… I can do this." I said, equipping my clothes from yesterday with my inventory.

"Well that's just handy." she said as she turned away and put on her pants while muttering to herself.

"So, library?" I asked, standing.

"Yeah, sure…" she muttered, sounding a lot calmer than normal, even shy like. Her body seemed to reflect that, her hair was covering her face a bit.

"You alright?" I asked, concerned. She shifted a bit.

"Yes… no… I don't know," she mumbled before looking away.

"Do… you want to talk?" I asked, patting the space next to me as I sat down on the bed again. She didn't move from where she was standing. I was about to ask her again until she spun around.

"SO! Library right?" she asked me, much more happier than before. "Well, let's go!"

I watched her turn and started skipping out of the room. Shrugging, I walked with her, passing the person at the fist a small tip on the way out.

"Thanks- wait weren't you a guy before?" the man said.

"Nope!" Aub said hooking my arm but for pulling me out of the building humming happily. We continued on as Aub asked a few people were the library is located. As she did this I noticed a few things, one is that when she woke up she was all angry, then shy, and now happy. It's as if her emotions were all screwy.

"You're ever so slightly bipolar, aren't you?" I asked, an amused tone in my voice.

"Just a bit!" she said happily.

"I used to be to, had a trick for it to keep it in control." I commented as she continued to drag me along.

"Does it have anything with you being neutral?" she asked.

"A bit." I started, shrugging. "I try to look at everything as 'I don't care' and it works… except for the occasional, like every two weeks or so, bursts of just pure emotion I get."

"I see, well I'm not going to do that, hey! We're here!" she said as I looked forward. I saw a large building with the words 'library' at the front. Aub just dragged me inside and now we're standing in front of a librarian. She looked at us with a tired smile.

"Hello, how can I help you?" she asked.

"We're just here to browse, for now." I told her, before my eyes wandered a little to my right, and I froze, seeing something that made me smile widely.

"I see, well I hope you find something… miss?" the librarian said confused.

"Don't worry, me and my sister will!" Aub said quickly and pulled me along happily.

I grabbed the thing I saw as she dragged me, mildly irritated now. "Still not a girl." I said, frowning a small bit.

"Hey, I feel off if I called you 'they' or 'them' so I'm going to call you how I see you." she said in a more calm tone.

"Alright, fair enough." I said with a sigh, smirking. "Look at what I found." I said, bringing the book up. It was titled 'Undertale'.

"Neat." she said.

"And it's a skill book." I told her, smiling widely.