Casey's eyes opened and he saw the huge city standing before him. New players kept connecting and connecting till they hit the max of 30,000 players. Casey, Tori, and Joe met up at the local Kecleon shop. The sun shined over the city and the town was bountiful of life.
"Oh ,hey guys, I gotta go pick up a pizza I ordered. I will be right back" Joe beamed. Tori and Casey would kill for some pizza especially pepperoni. "Oh and did I forget to tell you It's pepperoni?" he teased.
"I want to play the game but you're making me hungry" grumbled Casey. Joe went to hit the logout button but it had disappeared. Casey and Tori quickly looked at their menus to check if their logout buttons were gone and they were.
"Hmmm. Thats strange. Maybe because we are right near a shop?" Tori questioned. They all agreed to walk towards the fountain to try out the menus but to no luck. They all tried to contact a game developer but none of them answered.
"I'm.. I'm sure it's ju… just a bug right?" Casey stuttered. The sudden realization came to his head. What if he was stuck in this Holy Hell? He decided not to panic and waited for anyone to respond. The sky suddenly turned red.
"SERVER ANNOUNCEMENT" shouted the announcer.
Everyone was teleported to the fountain. All the players looked around in confusion. An Arceus with the title "Game Creator" came before everyone.
"Hello and welcome to Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Online. You may have noticed that the logout button is gone. This is not a bug for in fact you cannot log out." The Arceus boldly stated. Everyone's faces were horrified. They were there an escape? Would they be stuck in the digital universe forever unable to say bye to their loved ones? "The game cannot be exited until the game has been beaten." Arceus continued. "Your avatar represents your life. If you die in the game... You will die in real life." Arceus finished. Emotions flew everywhere, a cesspool of fear, worry, and horror tainted the air. People hit the ground bawling like newborn babies. Casey's ears drooped and his tail went under his body. What was he going to do? He wanted to go home and tell his mom one last time that he loved her. He was suddenly picked up by Tori. She held him close to his shoulder
"We are going to get through this. We are going to survive." She bawled. Her tears started to hit Casey's scruff. Joe had his chin held high.
"Let's go. While everyone is freaking out we can go farm monsters at first main town. Joe commanded. Even though Joe was being stern on their way he tried to brighten the mood. Tori was still carrying Casey to the next town when the found some rogue monsters. The rogue monsters had a red crystal floating above tMhem.
"I've got this!" Tori shouted. Casey used helping hand while Tori ran towards the rogue and dashed at it, hitting it hard in the head using quick attack. It tried to retaliate but Joe ran and bit the rogue on the neck. Crystals oozed out of the rogue. It screamed in pain and it eventually exploded into shiny crystals. Menus appeared before the group with xp.
"I got an Oran Berry!" cheered Casey. He put the item in his inventory and they continued their journey to their first town.
"Hey Tori..." Casey squeaked.
"What's up?" Tori replied.
"Thanks for that back there. At the beginning town. I'm still scared but I know that our little group can get through it." Casey smiled. Tori picked him up and laughed.
"I still can't get over how tiny and cute you are" Tori giggled. Casey started to blush, his manly hood had been breached but he decided to let it pass and let her carry him along the way. His ears perked up and his tail stopped drooping. Tori was right. They are going to get through this. They continued their journey on Aincrad, the floating hunk of land they resided on. As the walked towards the town, except for Casey as he was being carried, they spotted a group of players.
"Aaaahhh. Help!" a Fennekin screamed out while be pinned down by a rogue Scolipede. The players scrambled to get the Scolipede off but it wouldn't budge. The Fennekin's hp slowly dropped.
"No! She is going to die! Someone help!" yelled another player. Casey quickly rushed with his oran berry to the Fennekin but it was too late. Her eyes rolled into the back of her head. Blood leaked from pores all over her body and she shattered into the crystals, but these crystals were red. They were filled with her blood. She faded away while everyone looked horrified. The players looked at each other in horror. Casey dropped the oran berry from his mouth.
"She.. She is gone" the players said in unison. They started to ponder why would someone create this death game?
"I can't live without my sister" a player said as he jumped into the abyss. Most of them jumped off the side of the world.
"Please. Don't jump!" A Marill shouted
"There is no point anymore" the other players stated in unison. They couldn't take losing the Fennekin. One after another they all jumped. The Marill started to cry.
"You... You alright?" Casey asked. He approached slowly. She kept crying and eventually she finally turned around.
"Why. Why do we have to die in this game?" She sobbed. The poor Marill was alone in the world blood crystals still shattering around her.
"Look. It's gonna be tough going through this world but don't give up. You wanna join us" Casey stated. The Marill looked up at Casey she wiped her tears from her eyes.
"Sure… My name is Katie." mumbled Katie. Casey held out his paw and helped Katie up. They encountered other rogues but Katie showed the gang their attack pattern. Everyone leveled up.
"Hey I learned Tail whip!" Katie shouted with delight.
"Nice!" replied Tori. They continued on their path to the first town. Katie bounced the whole way, Casey was still being carried Tori, Tori trotted along while occasionally calling Casey cute and making him blush, and Joe led the group not losing sight of their goal.
"Casey would it be alright if I got a purse and carried you around like a little dog?" Tori giggled. Casey looked at her horrified.
"No! I don't want to be the laughing stock of this century!" Casey replied back.
"Alright. How about I get a backpack and you can pop out whenever you want" Tori smiled.
"I will think about it… After all you are kind of the mule of the group" Casey teased. Tori put on death stare and Casey retreated into his scruff.
"You guys are cute and all but you might want to look ahead" Joe roared. The group looked ahead to see a group of rogues ahead of them.
"Alright me and Casey will take the two on the right and Tori and Katie will take the left." Joe commanded. Joe roared a rogue Pichu into Casey's headbutt and the creature instantly vanquished into crystals. Casey used helping hand while Joe bit into the eye of another Pichu instantly killing it also. Katie used tail whip on the enemy squirtles while Tori quick attacked them both in quick succession.
"Hey! There is the next town!" shouted Tori. The group started to sprint to the next town when bundles of gold and other items to prepare for the first dungeon.