A girl wakes up. She opens her big, blue eyes slowly. She looks at the ground, realizing how clean the floor is. Someone must have done a very good job cleaning this place. She has goofy thoughts like that sometimes. It's so clean, she can look at herself through it. She has a pink bunny cap on, and light brown hair underneath. She looks down at her pink princess dress. It has a pink bow on the stomach area of the dress. She takes a moment to stand, and when she finally does, she looks around. Right away, she can tell that it's a station of some kind. Seats are set up in the center, laid over a carpet labeled with JL. The girl wonders what that initial means.
"No one is even here." She thinks. Something suddenly interrupts her thoughts when they tap her on the shoulder.
"Hey, hey! Can you hear me?" A voice calls to her. She turns around to see a holographic blue character. He has wires for the little hair on his head, and wears a security monitor outfit. He wears glasses over his eyes with big bushy eyebrows. He has sideburns and a long, droopy nose. The nose is so funny, it makes the little girl giggle. The man looks at where she giggled, and rolls his eyes. "Like my nose?"
The girl was about to speak, but he stopped her. "Don't answer, that's besides the question. Name."
The little girl started to look around the room some more instead of answering him. She noticed that there are several entrances, each one with a name on it. She saw titles like Pacman, Sugar Rush, Hero's Duty, Fix It Felix Jr, Dance Dance Revolution, and many more. The man taps on her again to get her attention. She focuses back on the man again.
"Focus. What is your name?" He asks once more.
Surprisingly, the girl had to think for a moment before answering. "T-Tiana. Tiana Belle."
"Well Tiana-" This time, it's Tiana who interrupts him.
"Don't be rude. I learned that when you meet someone for the first time, you exchange names. So, what's your name?"
"It's also rude to interrupt someone, and my name is Surge Protector."
"Oops." She covers her mouth, and laughs.
Surge sighs. "Well Tiana, the Arcade has opened up, and you're not at your game. If you don't hurry up, you and the rest of your members could be in trouble. In other words, move quickly."
"Okay!" She skips away happily. She looks around at the game entrances again. "Which one should I go into?" She asks herself in her head. She finds the entrance to Dance Dance Revolution. And walks in. She finds the vehicle to enter in the game, and she boards on it. It starts moving and she enters the game.
As she leaves, Surge watches her leave. "Hold on, I don't remember a character named Tiana..." He looks down at his clipboard to look at the papers. "Oh, she doesn't have a game..." He looks up from his clipboard, but his eyes widen and he looks back down at the paper. "She doesn't have a game?!"
It looked like magic when she got to the other side. There was a giant dance floor, with glowing lights on each panel. There was two dancers on the floor, sweat going down their foreheads and dancing like there was no return. Above them, there were tons of falling arrows. When the arrows matched up with the arrow templates at the bottom, they either vanished, or it passed by, and text that either read "boo!" or "miss". An upbeat song was playing as they duke it out. She looks down at herself and realized that her clothes changed. Her princess dress with bows was replaced with a white and pink dance suit with a loose necktie. Pink stripes go down the side. She pulled out a mirror to look at her face. To her surprise, her bunny cap is still on, but she was more than okay with that. She really loved her bunny cap. By the time she was done looking at herself, and put her mirror away, she noticed that the two were done dancing.
"Player One Wins!" A DJ at a DJ Table declares.
"Beat that!" A teen in a sideways cap taunts.
"Put in another quarter to play again?" The DJ says to a big screen she didn't notice until now. A quarter insert sound is heard. "Who will you face?"
She didn't hesitate as she runs to the center. "I'll do it!"
Everyone gasps in surprise of the new girl. Everyone starts whispering to each other.
"Who is she?"
"She's not from here!"
"Is she Game Jumping? Is she crazy?"
"At this rate, we'll get unplugged!"
"Yo, quiet down!" The DJ says. He turns to the new challenger. "What's ya name?"
"Tiana Belle! I want to dance!"
"You should get-" The DJ says before getting cut off.
"Tiana Belle selected!" The game announcer exclaims.
"Too late."
The other characters wait until the song selection screen comes up to panic, that way the player can't see or hear them.
"Calm down! We... we might be okay if we stay calm." The dancer champion glares at Tiana. "Fine, you wanna dance? You got it. When I beat you, I'll send you back where you came from!"
"Well, that's a little mean. By the way, never caught your name. I would like to know the name of my competitor."
The teen scoffs. "Duncan."
"This is going to be fun, Duncan!"
"You won't say that for long when I beat you."
"Song Selected: Can't Hold Us, by Macklemore!" The announcer exclaims.
The two dancers get to their positions.
"You're about to get served!" Duncan says as his beginning quote.
"Time to hop to it!" Tiana winks and says her quote.
"Ready? Dance!" The announcer shouts, and after that, the song starts and the arrows start falling. Tiana starts by tapping her foot to the beat and swinging her finger to the song. Duncan smirks and starts breaking down by stepping, crossing his legs, and sliding. They both start to dance, and neither of them are missing arrows for the first half of the song. However, Duncan is busting out more moves, gaining more points. Taina starts spinning and twirling on her foot. The background audience starts laughing.
"Oh, I was just letting you have the lead. Makes it fun to get the comeback!" Taina suddenly starts doing flips and banging her head to the beat, stomping her feet all the while. Duncan tries to keep up, but Tiana just speeds up. She does a one hand handstand, spinning on her hand. The audience goes speechless. Duncan starts sweating more than ever, getting the floor underneath him wet and slippery. Tiana pushes off of her handstand into a spinning body dance, transitioning to a head spin. The audience finally starts cheering again, this time cheering for Tiana. She stands again after the head spin, and ends with a front flip, landing on her feet perfectly. As she lands the last dance, the song ends, and Duncan slips on his own sweat, shoulder hitting the ground on impact.
"Player Two Wins!" The DJ says in shock.
"That was really fun! Wanna play again?" Tiana says her victory quote.
They wait for a quarter insert, but there's no sound.
"Looks like he left. Okay, break time." DJ says, taking the records off of the scratching table. He jumps down from his ledge, and raises an eyebrow at Tiana.
"That was fun, thank you for the dance! You did well, too!" Tiana says to Duncan.
"How old are you?" Duncan asks.
"7 Years old!" Tiana smiles.
Duncan shouts. "I got beat by a 7 year old! How humiliating!"
"You didn't make the game crash or glitch out meaning we're safe from being unplugged. But, you aren't from here. So, who are you?" The DJ approaches Tiana to ask.
"I'm Tiana Belle. You're right, I'm not from here. But, I need a new home. Will you let me stay, please?" Tiana clasps her hands together to look cute. But, the DJ isn't persuaded.
"Listen, I can't let you live here. I'm sorry, but you're got to go."
"Oh... okay. I'll just have to find somewhere else to go. It was nice meeting you all!" Tiana says as she leaves.
"Good riddance." Duncan growls.
A teenager dances like crazy at a DDR machine, playing as Duncan. His friends are watching him as he hits the pads rapidly. He finishes the song with a slam on the pads.
"Player One wins!" The machine says as he finishes.
"Beat that!" Duncan taunts his opponent.
"Daaaang, Phil. You're good." One of Phil's friends says as he nods his head.
"I'm tellin' ya guys, I'm a pro at this game." The teen flaunts.
"Put in another quarter to play again?" The DJ asks him.
"You bet. I'll beat this game all day long." Phil puts in another quarter.
"Who will you face?" The DJ says. Phil notices that there's another slot for a character. He looks to see a little girl in a white and pink dance outfit. She's wearing a pink bunny cap. Her character tag shows "Tiana"
"I'll do it!" Tiana exclaims.
Phil laughs. "Guys look, there's a little girl in this game! She looks so ridiculous! I'm totally going to take her down, see her cry!" Phil selects her as his opponent.
"Tiana Belle selected!" The game announcer exclaims. "Choose a song!" The screen changes to a song selection screen, and Phil pauses for a moment.
"Dude? What's up?" One of Phil's friends asks.
Phil shakes it off. "I thought I heard something when it changed to the song selection screen."
"You're hearing things, man." Another friend says.
Phil nods, and turns back to the screen. He scrolls down and chooses Can't Hold Us.
"Song Selected: Can't Hold Us, by Macklemore!" The announcer exclaims.
The two dancers get to their positions.
"You're about to get served!" Duncan says as his beginning quote.
"Time to hop to it!" Tiana winks and says her quote.
Phil laughs again. "That's so corny, it makes me want to puke!"
"Ready? Dance!" The announcer shouts, and he starts dancing. At first, he starts winning. He stamps the foot plates and hits the arrows perfectly, as his competitor taps her foot and shakes her finger.
"That's her dance animation? This is going to be very easy!" Phil says as he continues to rank up points.
The The background audience starts laughing.
"Oh, I was just letting you have the lead. Makes it fun to get the comeback!" Taina suddenly starts doing flips and banging her head to the beat, stomping her feet all the while.
"Whoa, what?!" Phil's friends lean in closer when they see Tiana amp up her dancing.
Phil starts freaking out, and stepping his feet faster to the beat, trying to keep up. He starts missing arrows and his character on screen starts messing up as well. It's made worse when she starts spinning on her body and head.
"What... what the heck?" Phil wheezes as he tries to catch his breath.
Tiana finishes the song strong, and Phil is far defeated when he can't hit the arrows by being so tired.
"Player Two Wins!" The DJ says in shock.
"That was really fun! Wanna play again?" Tiana says her victory quote.
Phil's friends laugh at him. "You lost to a little girl in the game!"
"So much for being a DDR Pro!" Another friend mocks.
"Shut up! She was really hard, bro!" Angrily, Phil storms away from the machine, his friends still laughing.
