Ralph trudged forward to Hero's Duty, battle armor equipped. The game was about to begin & he had his heart set on a shiny gold medal, not for a dust collector, but as a ticket to acceptance. Ralph found himself in a plane with a dozen other soldiers preparing to fight, as Seargeant Calhoun deliverred her motivational speech.

"Mission: destroy all Cybugs.".

The hatch opened & all of the soldiers leapt out into harm's way. Ralph, being from an old-fashioned game, was expecting gameplay similar to Centipede or Asteroids. Instead, he found a large, HD battlefield with soldiers shooting at mutant insects. That certainly caught him by surprise. He began firing his gun at the Cybugs like everyone else. One Cybug came by & ate Ralph's gun. To Ralph's dismay, lt harnessed the gun's properties & grew guns for arms. Nobody ever mentioned that part to him. Not knowing what else to do, he ran from the Cybug which was now shooting at him,
as he searched for a spare gun. Suddenly, he rememberred the one thing that he is good at, his one speacial talent: wrecking. He dodged the bullet stream &
two other Cybugs before he began smashing Cybugs with his fists. It was working & he destroyed some twenty Cybugs, allowing the FPS to advance into the mountain. A door opened, introducing a hundred more Cybugs that charged at the soldiers. Ralph wasted no time & pulverized them all to the ground,
ensuring that none of them get their teeth on anything useful all the while.
Now they were climbing the mountain, while a few troops remained on the ground to cover them. Ralph was behind the FPS, who was behind Calhoun & Kohut.
Meanwhile, in Niceland, a new game was starting. But Ralph was nowhere to be found. Felix called Ralph's name, but to no response. He ignored Moppet Girl's commands to search for Ralph.

"Where did he go?".

It then occurred to him where.

"He went to get a medal.", Felix said in a shocked tone.

"I didn't think he was serious.", said Gene.

Things got worse as Litwak put up a defection sign on their game.

"I have to go find him & fast.".

Luckily, Q*Bert came by & informed him that Ralph was in Hero's Duty. Felix set out to bring Ralph back. Back in Hero's Duty, they made lt to the top unscathed & were now in a room litterred with Cybug eggs. Ralph spotted the medal & knew he had to do something; or else the FPS would take his medal. He,
'accidentally', kicked an egg, causing a Cybug to hatch early. Nobody noticed this & he quickly got out of the way. With Ralph out of the radius, the FPS was the first person the Cybug spotted & thus attacked. Ralph was hidden behind a wall, where nobody would notice him. Calhoun & Kohut heard shooting &
turned around to see the Cybug attacking the FPS. They took care of lt & Ralph growled disappointedly. Quickly thinking, he grabbed a nearby Cybug egg &
threw lt near the FPS as lt neared the medal. It hatched in mid-air & latched onto the FPS. It finished the FPS off & the game ended. All of the Cybugs returned to their places as Calhoun & Kohut descended the mountain back to base. With everyone gone, Ralph went for the medal. Being careful not to touch any eggs, he took the medal whilst being praised by the General. Calhoun heard the General speaking & came back.

"Markowski, what do you think you're doing?! That belongs to the player!".
"It belongs to me. I earned lt. And you know what else...".

It was then that he saw the egg he stepped on. A baby Cybug leapt up & latched onto Ralph's face. He was stunned & unknowingly stumbled into an escape pod,
thus triggerring lt. It all happened too' fast for Calhoun to do a thing about. One thing led to another & Ralph was now flying past her, down the mountain & out of the game. The pod flew through Game Central Station & into Ralph's neighborring game of Sugar Rush, the Cybug along for the ride.