"It's finally the day!" gleamed Casey with excitement in his hands he held the new game "Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Online." He ran home through the crowds to get home and start up the game. He opened up the game and decided to read the directions… for once. "What!" he screamed in terror. The directions read that you needed to use the VR-Helmet to work with the game. "I thought this was just a computer game!" he yelled to himself. Casey quickly grabbed his wallet and ran to the nearest store to pick it up. He saw just one system left in stock. He quickly sprinted to the VR-Helmet and as his hand was touching the box someone else's hand grasped the box at the same time. Casey looked up to see the neighborhood bully, Brett.

"Hey, beat it noob what are you gonna play some stupid kid game?" Brett replied sarcastically.

"All I want to do is play a game, Alright? You're not even going to use it!" Casey replied fiercely at Brett. Brett pushed Casey to the ground and triumphantly picked up the box and started to walk away.

"God dammit! I've had enough of your shit! Always pushing me around and I'm sick of it" Casey screamed in full out rage.

"What are you going do about it, squirt? Brett replied with a wide grin on his face. Casey started to run towards Brett while his fist shook in anger. Brett tried to dodge put it was too late, an uppercut hit him straight in the gut. Brett retaliated and hit him hard to the ground and started to pummel him. Casey jabbed Brett right in the throat. Brett tried to catch his breath while Casey gave him another uppercut to the gut. Casey continued the onslaught by kneeing Brett in the face over and over. Brett's face was bruised and bloodied and the blood splattered everywhere, luckily they were in an area right next to the changing rooms with no cameras. Casey dragged him into a changing room and bolted.

"This isn't over!" yelled Brett as he hacked and coughed up blood.

Casey made a dash to the register and quickly bought the VR-helmet and bolted out of the store to his house. He finally got home and took the helmet out of the box. He put it on.

A voice said "Please Calibrate" Casey read the instructions and calibrated the system. "Now please lay back into a comfortable position and relax, the worldwide release of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Online will begin in 30 seconds."

"The hype is real!" Casey's friend barged in cheering happily.

"Hey! It's about to start! Turn on your system!" he cheerfully replied back. Casey's friend hurriedly put on the VR-helmet and started to calibrate.

"Why does it want me to touch my boobs?" Casey's friend asked queasily.

"It's part of the process. You don't want your pokémon to have boobs do you?" Casey taunted.

"Haha. No." Tori replied while blushing.

"The Game will start in 5 seconds" the voice responded.

"This is it!" Casey thought to himself he had read every little secret and tip online anticipating the release, shortly after the screen turned white.

"Hello, I am the announcer, please select a username and a pokémon to use for the game." the announcer ordered in a calm tone. Casey looked over the options there were about 300 options for pokémon to choose from! He also noticed another obscure choice before the announcer began talking again. "You may have noticed the question mark option… This is the random button. If you press this button you have a chance to become a legendary or just a regular pokémon. The gender will also be random" she happily gestured.

Casey thought to himself "To choose? Or not to choose…" he finally decided on pressing the random button. The ground shook a little bit and a small tingle of pain hit him in the legs, his eyes suddenly closed, and when he looked down he had paws.

"Casey, you are…. A male shiny eevee! Congratulations!" the announcer cheered.

"Seriously? An Eevee? How cliche..." Casey shouted at the announcer but glad at the same time to be shiny. He wondered how rare of a chance was that.

"Will you please select a username? the announcer questioned.

"Sure! I want my username to be…" Casey stuttered his regular username was ShinyCasey ironically, but this game was different he didn't want people knowing his real name. He thought what would make a good username, a little bit later he thought of a perfect username, since his fur is silver he thought he would use the latin word Argentum alongside with his original username ShinyCasey. ."ShinyArgentum" Casey said gleefully. "Alright then, you will soon be connected please wait in the lobby while the world loads" the announcer finished.
Everything went white as Casey was transported to the lobby. Eventually the lobby loaded alongside hundreds of other people or should they be called pokémon? Casey started to trudge forward but had trouble walking on all fours.

"Huh. I never imagined how hard this would be." he remarked quietly to himself. Casey looked up to find Tori with her usual username.

"Hey Tori! Tori! Is that you? Casey barked. He was not use to his new voice. It had a higher pitch since he was an Eevee.

"Oh. Hello there. Who are you? Tori inquired.

"It's me! Casey! I chose the random button and now I'm a shiny Eevee!" Casey blurted out.

"Haha. Casey you derp. You could have been a Garbador or worse!" Tori worried. She wondered how their adventures would play out with a Riolu and a walking trash bag.

"Well everything worked out in the end, right?" Casey questioned. Tori pushed Casey to the ground as a joke, he fell and couldn't get up. They both laughed while Tori picked Casey up. Casey tried to push Tori down with his small paws but Tori moved and Casey fell to the ground again. Casey finally gave up and laid on the ground.

"You having a little trouble there Casey" Tori giggled.

"I never would have thought it would be this hard to use 4 legs." Casey sighed.

"You need some help there? Shorty? Tori chuckled. Casey started to stand up on his legs.

"I think I finally got the hang of... Wait did you just call me shorty? Casey asked in a stern tone.

"Hehe. I'm the tall one now!" Tori laughed uncontrollably. Casey thought about it and she did have a point. She was much shorter than he was in real life. Casey finally got up on his own and started to walk to the couch. Tori sprinted to his seat before he could get there.

"Hey that was my seat! What's the idea?" Casey whimpered. He was about to lay down on the floor but Tori picked Casey up and put him on her lap. "Wha.. What are you doing?" Casey asked but he got over it before long because Tori had started petting him.

"Oh come on there are no other seats let me just pet you." Tori giggled. Casey was going to object but her paw felt good on his fur. He rested his head on her lap. He felt right in this virtual world. Tori started to laugh constantly.

"What's so funny Tori? he asked while tilting his head to the side.

"You just purred! You do like me!" Tori blurted out while giggling.

"What no I didn't.. I.. Uh... Ok fine I purred. Your paw just feels really good on my back" he squeaked. They both sat waiting for the map to load. Tori looked down at Casey, he had fallen asleep, she smiled at the little eevee. The poliwag next to them eventually got up and walked towards another group. A Growlithe approached Tori still stumbling on it's own paws.

"He..Hello do you mind if I sit here?" the Growlithe stuttered.

"Sure you can! You need help getting up?" Tori asked.

"If you can lift me up... Then that would be great" Growlithe requested. As Tori stood up to help the Growlithe she woke up Casey and started to lift the Growlithe up.

"Huh? Did I fall asleep inside a video game?" Casey yawned. "Hey, who is the Growlithe?" Casey asked.

"My name is Joe." Growlithe responded. Tori eventually lifted Joe up onto the seat and they both sat back down.

"Hey Casey you need some help up? Tori jeered but before she could even get up to help Casey he jumped up onto her lap.

"Nah, I'll just rest here" Casey smirked. They all got to know each other very well. A countdown appeared on the screen in front of them. Everyone in the room began to shout and cheer. The official released was about to begin. Tom, Casey, and Tori added each other to their friend's list and promised they would meet up at the first town.