Chapter 3: Mona versus Kristen

Both girls stood at the platforms where they faced a game system that seemed to be a cross between the Gamecube and an Xbox. Both continued staring at each other as the announcer droned on about the new features of the game and how it was worked.

"Are you ready!" The announcer shouted.

"But-I don't want to fight Kris!" Mona stuttered.

"I don't want to beat Mona!" Kris wailed.

"Well...if you two don't play against each other, then you won't recieve the full editions of the game and the first runners up will get to play it before it comes out in stores..." The announcer replied.

"And...How long will it take for the game to be in stores?" Kris asked. Mona blinked and felt sweat run down the back of her head.

"Six weeks..."

"SIX WEEKS!" Both girls yelled causing the whole auditorium to fly up and land with a crash. Fortunately, nobody was actually hurt from the landing...

"MY LEG!"

...well...someone had to be used as a pillow for some fat lady in the audience...

Mona and Kris looked at each other and back at Annabelle and Astrid. A pause ensued before both girls got at the controls.

"Alright girls! Now choose your characters!" The announcer shouted as the crowd cheered. The huge monitor on Kristen's side showed Sephiroth ...however... Mona was still looking at a whole bunch she was having a hard time to choose from.

"Now let's see...no...uh...maybe...nah..." Mona paused before moving her pointer finger over the screen. "Eenie...meenie...miney...moe...catch…a...tiger...by...it's...toe...if...it...hollers...let...it...go...eenie...meenie...miney...MO!" She paused and looked up to see the whole audience was staring at her in a confused manner. Mona paused before pressing the (A) button on the controls and...

Nobody said a word as Kristen had fallen over in anime style out of trying to conceal her laughter of mass hysterics. Mona stood there with a stunned look.

"What?" She asked as the monitor showed a certain water monster from the Sonic Adventure 2 Battle mode of the game. "I like Chaos! He's cool! Well…I think he is…"

"And...It looks like the two contestants are ready to duke it out with these two tough customers! GAME ON!" The announcer yelled as the screen had a picture of Chaos-0 and Sephiroth facing each other with a "VS" sign in the middle of the two.

No sooner had the match started, Kristen had Sephiroth summon Leviathan. Mona countered by having Chaos use his Chaos Bind attack which cancelled out Sephiroth's attack before having it give a hard punch to Sephiroth, sending the silver haired bishounen crashing onto the ground. This drained a lot of HP from Sephiroth.

"Yaay! Go Chaos Zero! Go Chaos Zero! Go Chaos Zer-" Mona stopped cheering once she saw Sephiroth had broken free from the Chaos Bind and had sent Chaos-0 flying into a wall with a swift strike from his Masamune sword. "Ooh crap..." Mona cringed when she noticed Chaos Zero was lingering a lot of damage from that sneak attack.

She had Chaos recover and dash towards Sephiroth. Kristen got Sephiroth to summon Hades and Mona desperately tried to have Chaos avoid getting poisoned despite its slow status.

As the two had their chosen characters battle, they didn't know that Annabelle had other ideas. She had snuck under the stage and got to the plugs.

"Those two aren't good enough to get the video game before me..." She hissed before grabbing a whole bunch and giving it a fierce tug. All the plugs were pulled out of their sockets but that caused a really strange power surge to fly in.

Mona and Kristen were both sweating in front of the consoles as Chaos-0 had started aiming a strong Chaos Strike and Sephiroth was about to use Supernova when the power suddenly shut off.

"Huh!" Kristen and Mona's eyes widened as the screen fizzled out before flashing a bright white. Both girls yelled as a strong wind suddenly pulled them inside the game system before diminishing. The power suddenly turned back on and everyone stared at where the two girls were standing.

"What the heck just happened!" One of the judges shouted.

"We don't know...but we just found the cause..." One security guard announced as he held up Annabelle whose hair was standing on end as she had a goofy grin plastered on her face.

"Did I win?" She asked.

At the back door of the game convention, the door suddenly opened and Annabelle was flung out before falling into a dumpster.

"And don't come back!" The security guard shouted as the door swung shut. Annabelle looked to see a tabby cat looking at her.

"What do you want?" She asked bitterly before the cat slurped up some of the cooked rotten Chinese food that had fallen on her head earlier.

Meanwhile...Kristen and Mona both had landed on a grass terrain. They got up, ignoring their aching joints, and looked around in confusion.

"Mona...where are we?" Kristen asked with a slight nervousness in her voice.

"Well..." Mona paused and spotted a herd of Chocobo walking past them in a carefree manner before continuing. "...we're definitely not inside a video game convention at this moment..."

TBC...

A/N: I kind of made a typo on this chapter when I first put it up. Don't worry! I fixed it!