(I said I was done with writing overly long fan-fiction… this excludes short one-shots, and two possible collabs though.

Thankfully, remaking the three-years old fan-fic is not terribly long. There are only about 9 or 10 chapters, and a vast majority of them are already finished, only needing to be edited.

I'll be honest, the original Newcomer's Journey? It was a flimsy mess, as was just about all of my PSAS fan-fiction. I'm not too proud looking back on it, other than most of my dedication at the time. I know people liked those old fan-fics though.

And since PSASBR's fourth anniversary is coming up, along with the idea of remaking this floating around in my head for a long while… I thought "why not?" Everyone will be a lot more in-character this time to do them justice, the elements won't feel too tossed together, hopefully less typos.

Basically, all of the problems with the original? I'm going to fix here, to show how far I've come.)

PROLOGUE

"Have things started over?"

The purple head floated around his crystallized domain, pondering his surroundings. "No, no, it can't be. I just simply lived after the All-Stars attacked me. It couldn't be anything more. Now let's see!"

Glancing over the worlds he knew, he saw more and more worlds being locked off. Protected, from someone like him to try and mess with. "Blast it! There's no way for me to reach the bandicoot, or anyone of value at this rate! What am I supposed to do!? Try and take control over someone—"

He cut his sentence off and smirked. "Less valuable…? Hm, now wait a moment." Opening up maps and charts, using the crystal blocks like a monitor, the Polygon Man saw smaller dimensions, unprotected.

"That's it!" He exclaimed, "I need to focus on smaller places, yes, bring in a newcomer! One who is weak, and the others can focus on. But which ones first?"

His attention snapped to one screen, which showed off a town.

"What might this one be, now?" Polygon Man chuckled, "Sorcery Saga? This will be very interesting, indeed."

He had to lure them, and Polygon Man knew exactly how to do it.

Pupuru, a young sorceress, stepped through each corridor. Behind her was Kuu, her gluttonous companion.

It was so sudden, but there was some kind of power radiating in the Oboro Forest. Almost a magical kind, and having a blue aura. Pupuru, being confident as she always was, just had to look into it— even if she was worried about running into someone on the way.

"Do you see anything weird yet, Kuu?" Pupuru asked.

"Ku-kuu?" The white creature replied, digging through his pouch for no apparent reason.

"Why we're doing this? I guess it's my curiosity. Maybe it's a new magic power? A good kind, we can benefit from, or a bad kind that must be stopped? Or it's something related to the Curry God, that can benefit Nicholi's restaurant? Or maybe even restore the curse on Etanya?"

"Kuu," he groaned at how many possibilities Pupuru was tossing around, until she stopped suddenly.

A blue, glowing pentagram was on the ground. "Is this…? It has to be the magic source, Kuu!" She exclaimed, examining it. "What if it's dangerous? Should we go for it anyway, and step into the circle?"

"Gu!" He then quickly hopped over, Pupuru wincing, until she saw that Kuu was unharmed.

"Wait for me!" She followed Kuu into the pentagram, and unlike him, suddenly felt a rush of power enter her body. "Ah! I suddenly feel a new power! Was I right!?"

Her thought was interrupted by them both starting to vanish. "W-what's going on!? This is all happening so fast!" Pupuru tried to hold onto Kuu, who for once, was equally worried. "Hold on, Kuu! We'll be alright!"

The both of them cried out one last time, as they were both gone within a flash of light.

The pentagram was no longer there as well, meaning there was no turning back, for now…

CHAPTER ONE

Becoming an All-Star

"Miss?"

After what seemed like a good three minutes, Pupuru opened her eyes, as did Kuu.

A white cat, about half the height of Pupuru, was standing before her, looking confused.

Pupuru didn't freak out about it, she had seen much weirder things, but both her and Kuu were still confused as ever. Looking around, they soon realized they were in a dojo of some kind… filled with living, 2D-looking onions that had almost human bodies.

Kuu had a look on his face like he suddenly hungry, in which Pupuru knew he had to hold onto him for a little while longer, so he wouldn't run off.

"W-where are we?"

"Chop Chop Master Onion's Dojo." The cat mewed, "I am Toro Inoue. Who are you, miss? You just suddenly materialized here, while I was training."

Materialized? Inside of a dojo? Obviously she was warped here, and while she didn't know this cat, he seemed to be polite, unlike most people Pupuru ran into.

"I'm Pupuru, and this is Kuu. We were searching for some kind of magical energy, and found the source of it! We took a risk, and stepped into a pentagram, and we were warped here suddenly it seems."

"Oh!" Toro meowed, suddenly changing his expression from curious to surprised. "You were brought in to be the next PlayStation All-Star!? That's wonderful! It's been getting kind of quiet recently, we were supposed to get two newcomers a long time ago, but… anyway!"

Toro backed away, and got into an adorable fighting stance. "I am going to teach you how to fight amongst the All-Stars!"

"Fight? What for?" Pupuru asked.

"Well, for one thing, with some of the All-Stars and other things that go on, you have the power to be on their level! You need to learn to defend yourself against some of them, who will want to pick a fight," he then shifted his foot, "and helping others may help me become a human!"

She wasn't going to question any more of this, putting Kuu down as the fight began.

"Now! Try using that sword on me!" Toro suggested to her, while Pupuru was confused yet again. "I'll be fine, so don't worry!"

Slashing at the small white cat with her sword, Toro mewed in pain and was knocked back. Pupuru looked concerned at first, but he just smiled back. "Good! Now, um, is that a wand you also have?"

Pupuru nodded, while Kuu just looked bored. "It casts magic, why?"

"Go ahead and use that next!" Toro replied, in which Pupuru followed through, using fire and ice attacks, spinning around in one of them for a combo of some kind.

She was didn't understand how that happened, but Toro just jumped, looking joyous. "Great! Now, what else do you have?" Pupuru hesitated, pulling out the first thing she had in her bag, which was a pot.

Putting it away, she then pulled out some pouched spices, bottles, and some other assorted items.

"I think those are all good options—"

Toro was then cut off by Chop Chop Master Onion himself knocking down all of the walls of the Dojo, revealing a giant machine approaching the city, and a black cat wearing a bow tie about to step in, only to see the place fallen apart.

"Geez! How many times does this place gotta fall in disrepair!?" The black cat hissed, walking into the Dojo. "Who's this girl, Toro?"

Pupuru and Kuu remained shocked at the sight of the large war machine attacking more 2D-looking civilians. "Kuro, this is Miss Pupuru," he explained, "also, don't worry about that. It happens all the time here. Master Onion will take care of that MAWLR. No one is ever harmed by that thing."

Toro then held up his paws. "I'm going to teach you how to block now. As in, I'm going to attack you, and you'll have to find a way to prevent me from gaining AP!"

"AP?" Pupuru asked, but soon saw Toro about to kick her, in which she quickly pulled out the shield strapped to her back.

Toro noticed his attack was successfully blocked off, and he smiled yet again. "Great! You're getting the hang of it! Oh, and AP, is All-Star Power! Now, with me going over all of that… let's fight for real! I'll be easy on you, though!"

With that, Pupuru was put up to the real challenge. She figured out what to do with the other items rather quickly. Mainly the pot made for a good, heavy-damage, single-hit.

Toro was certainly going easy on her, not even changing his costumes like he normally would against an opponent, but he wasn't taking all of the hits either. He made sure Pupuru was paying attention by trying to land a few punches and kicks, which she blocked off, or jumped away from.

That was when Toro noticed missiles from the MAWLR being launched at them. "Dodge! Block and then roll!" He meowed, doing exactly that. Pupuru followed through, narrowly avoiding the missiles targeted at the center of the dojo.

Relieved, Toro noticed the blue glow that he had along with Pupuru.

"Oh! You have enough AP to use a Super Attack!" Toro then backed away, Kuro sneaking up behind him. "We're both at a Level One Super, so… I'll show you mine, just to show you how to pull it off, and then you can use yours on me!"

Getting his distance, Toro prepared to unleash the built up energy…

Which involved Kuro kicking him across the floor, to where Pupuru was. Even though she was far enough, Pupuru rolled out of the way, while Toro got up.

"You dodged? Very good! I had plenty of distance for you to survive that, but you didn't want to risk it!" Walking up to Pupuru, Toro braced himself. "Alright! It's your turn!"

"Uh, how do I…?" It took a few seconds for Pupuru to try swinging her sword around, but it did nothing, as neither did her wand. She then noticed Kuu, who looked antsy. "What's wrong Kuu?"

"Gu!"

With a burst of energy and the blue aura erupting for a moment, Kuu jumped at Toro Inoue, holding a frying pan and smacking the cat with it, causing him to explode into symbols.

"Huh!? Kuu!" Pupuru gasped, walking over to where Toro just was. "Y-you made him disappear!" Right after she said that of course, Toro respawned on the other end of the dojo, and waved, surprising Pupuru and Kuu.

"Kick!"

Their attention then snapped to Chop Chop Master Onion, kicking down the giant MAWLR that was terrorizing the city. Pupuru was distracted by the sight, in which she wondered if this happened on a normal basis…

The fight continued, the MAWLR no longer being a threat, as a crowd formed around Pupuru and Toro. Managing to sneak in another Super Attack one last time before the match ended, Pupuru had gotten accustomed to the All-Star way of fighting in just a couple minutes.

"Great job!" Toro exclaimed, shaking Pupuru's hand. "It feels good to help someone get used to this, you know."

"That was fun! And you do fights like this a lot? It's so much more enjoyable than the tedious ones at home." Pupuru giggled, while Chop Chop Master Onion somehow returned to normal size and made his way back to the dojo.

"You learn very fast, newcomer." Pupuru's attention turned to Master Onion, as did Kuu's, whose stomach began growling at the sight of him. "I apologize if this is sudden, but I have a request for you. My student, PaRappa, has not returned when he was supposed to have a session here originally with Toro, and a young woman. Someone else barged in, but I still have not seen him yet today."

"I don't see why not," she replied, "since I'm here anyway. What does this PaRappa character look like?" Pupuru asked, before looking at the totaled war machine. "Also, what the heck was that thing!? I'm sorry if that's unrelated!"

"He's all two-dimensional looking like Master Onion, looks like a dog, wearing an orange beanie." Kuro explained, while eating a burger, which Kuu was attempting to steal. "That thing is from those Helghast weirdos and— Hey! That's my food!"

Both of them laughing at the situation, Pupuru and Toro said goodbye to each other, as Pupuru began to move on, before finding herself in a completely different, crazy area.

(A chapter will be posted once a week, every Sunday, until November 20th, when PSASBR will have it's fourth anniversary.)