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The White Rabbit/ Legendary Sidearm
Description/ Follow me down the rabbit hole.
Weapon Perks/ Outlaw, moving target, Kill clip.
Lore/
-from the philosophical archive of the Ishtar Collective
Author Name: unknown
How would Alice react if she ended up in her favorite childhood book?
Terrified? Overjoyed? No, she would likely feel very confused about her situation.
Would she set about making the world a better place, and instantly become friends with the fictional characters she always wanted to meet?
The answer is no, Meeting characters she read about would probably cause her to question her very existence. An existential crisis is bound to happen to her at some point.
Then, how do you expect a human to react if they were put in their favorite video game, fantasy world, or Sci-Fi adventure?
They would react very much different than what Japan and North Korean writers have theorized in Isekai Anime.
There are only so many leaps in logic that I can put up with and the way they portray what is supposed to be a normal human reaction is frankly absurd.
The rabbit hole only can go so far down after all.
The sunshine glistened off The Gigantoad as it basked in the Sun's warmth. It's golden rays pierced through the trees above him. hearing footsteps in the grass ahead of it, the large amphibian rolled over to spot a figure standing a short distance away. As the figure grew closer, the toad became more and more panicked. Deciding the best course of action was to squash it, the toad began to move quickly.
Rolling over quickly, the Gigantoad had only enough time to jump before a loud cracking sounding came from the human's rifle. Before he even had the chance to attack the beast was dead.
"Huh, 'Gigantoad.' Where have I heard that before..." Dodge tilted his head upwards towards the mountains.
Next, to Dodge, Sagira fizzled into existence.
"It was tagged that way by the light, that means it was registered as hostile to the light." Sagira rambled as she tried to make sense of what they just saw.
Dodge, however, turned his head towards the ruins laying in the middle of the forgotten pool.
"So, basically, this must be some sort of alien-battle-toad-thingy that must contain darkness within itself enough that it is registered as immediately hostile." Sagira rambled on, not noticing Dodge walk silently closer to the edge of the forest looking out through the trees and past the road.
"Hey! are you even listening to- Woah! what in the traveler's name is that?"
Towering over the landscape was a blue shaped crystal meteor, subtly shifting now and then. Dodge recognized this Immediately. After all, you didn't play a game for over a hundred hours and not remember a single moment of it.
"Eos... Were on Eos," Dodge muttered towards himself, which did not go unnoticed by Sagira.
"That game you used to play? what was it called, Final Franchise? "Sagira asked bemusedly.
"Yes, it is, and It was called Final Fantasy 15. great characters and world, sad ending though."
"What happened?"
"Basically? Everyone died. The main character, the sacrificial lamb, the romantic interest, the blonde comic relief, the blind man. Everyone. All as a sort of game that this world's reigning entity devised." Dodge bitterly explained as he turned towards Sagira.
"So basically, we're in a heavenly hell?" Sagira supplied with a twist of her shell.
"Yep, and I have absolutely no idea why Were here. That rocket blast didn't have enough power to throw me into another universe... but it nocked us of course? 'I'm confused." Dodge slowly began walking towards the road again, Sagira following behind him.
"So basically, we pulled a 'me'?" Sagira joked before pausing mid-flight as she thought of something.
"Yes, yes we did," Dodge turned around to notice she had stopped, "Something up?"
"Remember when we first met? Like you know the battle of Midland and Odesa?" Seeing Dodge nod at this, she continued. "Well, one of the first things I did was try and reach the satellites of Mercury. Instead, I found the, rather primitive, Sattelites surrounding your earth? If this world is advanced enough, maybe they have satellites too?"
Dodge nodded along with her as she explained this.
"well, If I remember correctly, the main character had a phone, so unless they communicate via magic, I guess they do," Dodge said, agreeing with Sagira.
Sagira, upon hearing this, expanded her shell to reveal a transparent blue orb of light surrounding her lens. "Boosting signal...and, got it."
Retracting to her typical look, Sagira shot out a small blue beam that shaped into a miniature globe in front of them both.
"It seems, we are in the southeastern edge of what is known as the 'Duscae' region. in the nation of Lucid."
"Lucis" Dodge interrupted.
"But their capital is named Insomnia, don't you think it would have been more fitting too actually call their nation' Lucid'?"
"True, they probably changed it so that other nations could take them more seriously." Dodge shot back with ease. "Plus that doesn't excuse you for deliberately mispronouncing their name."
"Eh, you have a point. Anyways, there's an outpost nearby; we could head there to look around, possibly earn their currency." Sagira told Dodge, who chuckled at the fact that she already had an idea on what to do in this world so fast.
"I sometimes forget you're a computer crammed into a tiny shell."
"well with a personality like mine, who wouldn't forget." Dodge chuckled at this.
At Dodge's amused chuckle, Sagira took that as his way of telling her to continue as they made their way in the direction of the Outpost.
"I mean, just look at the Guardians ghost. He was practically an Amazon Echo with a male voice actor."
At the bottom of the hill, they were on; a car turned onto the road they were on.
"To be fair, Nolan Norths ghost did have his quirks. He quickly got upset a lot and didn't-"*woosh*A car zoomed past them with little regard to their safety.
"Errr, that guy was in a rush. What was his problem?"
"You're askin' me," Dodge replied, his southern accent coming into effect.
The walk into Cauthess rest area was surreal. Seeing it on a Tv screen is one thing, but to actually be there? That was another thing entirely for Dodge.
'If I were my younger self, I'd be thrilled to be here.'
'Wait, you're not already thrilled to be in a game?'
'You of all people should know that I've changed from that excited nerd who got to save his home.'
'Define 'save.'
Dodge looked down for a moment, but then made his way over to the crow's nest, knowing from the games that there would be a tipster there.
On the way there, he noticed the residents of this small town begin to stare at him. Not that he blamed them of course if an armored man armed to the teeth walked into town without so much as a word of warning, he'd be staring too.
'It seems we've caught their attention.'
'I noticed.'
Standing in front of the Crow's nest, he almost burst out laughing at the sight of the Kenny Crow statue on the bench until he realized one thing.
'Im going to have to take off my helmet aren't I.'
'Well, it is the polite thing to do.'
Flipping back his red hood, Dodge began to try and unclip his helmet from his suit. After a minute or so of struggling, Sagira chose to pipe up.
'Need help there, cowboy?'
"*sigh* yes."
And with that, the clasps on his helmet all clicked open. With a twist, Dodge pulled the mask off.
Clipping his helmet to his belt, Dodge opened the glass door to the Crow's nest.
Inside was what one would describe as a typical 60's ere dinner. Red padded booths, black and white tiles, pretty much the whole shebang; The only thing that was missing was the waitress in a pink uniform on roller-skates.
Behind the stylish counter, was a man wearing a green shirt and an apron.
"Hello, and welcome to the Crow's nest, how may I help you?"
"I'm looking for a hunt," Dodge said, sitting down on one of the barstools.
"May I see your hunting License?" The man asked, looking down to check his roster of Hunting missions.
"I don't have one. I just need some col for food." Dodge said hopefully, Thinking back on the currency used in the game.
'Geez, I wish we could use our glimmer. Why don't they use the global currency, yen?'
'I forget.'
The man behind the counter seemed to size him up. Scratching his chin, the tipster looked deep in thought.
"You look like you can carry a good fight. So, I'll tell you what." The man pulled out a slip of paper. "Take these fellas out, and I'll pay you half the bounty that a licensed hunter gets. That's about 650 Col."
"Deal," Dodge said, holding out his hand.
"Great, show me their shells, and we'll be good."
'uhhhhhh'
'think we can find a way to save the shells?'
'nope, but I can record the fight.'
"Will a video of them dying do?" Dodge asked, tilting his head.
"Even better," The man said, cracking a small smile. "Those pests are more trouble than the Town Drunk."
And with that, they shook hands.
(Bartholemeow) How was that, any good? This chapter is a bit short, but don't worry, they will be getting longer.
(D-bot) if you are into long stories of course.
(Bartholemeow) And thank you to everyone who has followed.
*Chapter 2 over*
A/N fixed a few forgotten lines.
