Nep A Live

Chapter 2: Tutorial Level


"Um sister? We appear to be falling really really far!"

"Shut up Rom I know! Just try and look cool!"

"How will looking cool help us not die?"

"We'll be like that Hero from the leanbox game Master Captain! He keeps getting thrown out of spaceships and stuff and he's always fine! Just pretend this is the start of Circlet 3 or that spin off about those ODSS guys!"

Ram and Rom held on tightly to each other as they fell through the sky towards a city below. Against the backdrop of the blue sky they could see signs of battle with plumes of smoke marking where robots were exploding by the dozen as two large airships did battle with laser cannons.

"What's going on? Why is there a fight going on Ram?"

"No idea but someone is getting their butts kicked that's for sure!"

"Are we going to be ok? We've been falling for a long time now!"

"Like I said just relax! As long as it's not a bottomless pit between moving platforms falling isn't that dangerous"

"Where are we going to land?"

"Probably the intro cutscene"

"Ram does that look like a mall?"

"Huh?"

Rom pointed towards the ground she and her sister were plunging towards head-first. Sure enough the two of them appeared to be falling right towards a mall of some type.

"Brace for impact Rom! We're about to hit like a bad launch title!"

"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Crash!

Rom and Ram came crashing down though a ceiling skylight and impacted the ground floor of the two story mall like a pair of meteors. Both girls believed they were goners but had been saved by an amazing stroke of good luck in the form of a giant pile of stuffed animals located in the toy story they hit.

It still hurt like hell but a pile of fluff and fabric was much better than the solid ground that was their only other choice of landing pad. Ram shook off the impact and clambered over the mountain of plushies to see her sister splayed out on top of a giant stuffed panda.

"Rom you ok?"

Her sister opened her eyes and looked around in disbelief "We're alive?"

"Ha ha! Yup! We rule! Next time let's put on some white hoodies and aim for a bale of hay!" Ram sounded as though she was enjoying this.

Both girls lept off the pile and examined their surroundings.

"An empty mall? In the middle of the day?"

"...that seems weird sister"

"Wow there is like totally no one around!"

"Ram that big flashing sign up there says evacuate. It looks like everyone left"

All around the mall electronic signs displayed warnings of a mandatory spacequake evacuation.

"Sweet a whole mall to ourselves! We may have wrecked the toy store but I bet the candy store is ok! Lets go Rom!"

"Um sister? Maybe we should be more worried about where we are? I don't think we're in our world anymore…."

"Wait a sec! Fell from the sky...new world...just us...a fight going on outside…!? Rom! Do you know what this means?!"

"Um, I should cry?"

"No! We get our own game!"

"...Our own game?"

"Yes! Neptune is the main character and she falls from the sky all the time into new worlds! If we fell from the sky into a new world that means we're the heroines this time!"

"Wow! Really?" Rom's eyes were sparkling along with her sisters "We get to be the main characters?"

"Yup and it's totally awesomesauce! Ram&Rom the game! Suck on that Speedy&Fists!"

"What type of game do you think it is?" Rom puzzled "We're in a empty mall but there's no zombies around so it can't be Dead Uprising"

"Hmmm" Ram's hand went to her chin in thought "It's dark around here so maybe a stealth game? ! If so then…."

Ram reached into her bag and pulled out a eye patch "I always wanted to use this thing that guy in the cardboard box gave us! There!" Ram covered her right eye and stood up proudly "All set to sneak!"

"Um...I don't like stealth games either….they never let you run away really fast if you get caught"

"I got just the thing then!" Ram pulled out yet another item from her bag and placed it on Rom's head

It was a pair of bunny ears attached to a headband that managed to fit perfectly just in front of Rom's blue hat. "Sister...didn't that man from the happy mask shop tell us to give this to the running man in the field?"

"Nah! It's fine! Now you should move twice as fast!"

"Rom I think you're thinking of the one from Super Smash Sisters…."

"Never mind that! Let's go find the first level and the supporting characters! I wonder what our IF and Compa will look like?"

"What will we say if we run into them….?"

"Oh! Good question! Better pretend to have amnesia!"

"Why would we do that?"

"Isn't it obvious? Neptune lost her memories after falling from the sky and ended up with a franchise! If we pretend to not remember anything we'll get, like, 11 different games including a few spinoffs!" explained Ram with a clever smirk

"Wow! Ram is soooooooooooo smart!" said Rom in awe of her sister's wisdom

"Of course! Now then..."

Smash!

"Sister! Bad guys!"

From in front of the twins came a series of strange looking robots who crashed through a wall and turned to face them menacingly. They walked on two legs, had a head, and had a pair of wicked looking claws with laser guns on them.

While Rom was frightened Ram was a bit less intimidated by the metallic death machines

"Yeah! Our first trash enemies! I should take a screenshot! They look way cooler than the Dogoos!"

"They look high level Ram...what if this is a forced loss tutorial?"

"Eh, I'm sure we'll be fine! They look though but they don't look any worse than mid-game mobs! Let's get em Rom!"

Ram charged towards the bots with her staff out and charged with Ice magic with her sister following close behind.

"...O-ok Ram….I'll do my b-best!"


Author Note: Short one today since I have a party to go to. I'm gonna try and keep this story short, simple, and funny so don't expect anything complex. Also it will mostly be focused on Ram and Rom.