- One tower challenge later -

"I call dibs on the loot!"-bot¹I'll give them a nickname like this so it's easy to tell who is talking but only if there are no clues on who's talking

"hey, no fair no dibs!" I gave up and sneaked a look at Neko. But she caught me and stared back, I quickly looked away

"What?" She asked bluntly, I was about to answer but Bot's voice interrupted me

"hey, guys check this out!" As we turned around there was an ominous shift in the air accompanied by a popping sound and Bot was no longer there

"hey, bot? you there?" We got a text from him

"touch it! trust me" I reached for Neko's hand without thinking but she brushed past me and didn't look back

"Here goes nothing" she hesitated for a second and then touched the glowing cube she disappeared and the room started to pop again but more aggressively and all the textures slowly turned black. I scrambled to touch the cube when the color sped up, quickly engulfing the rest of the room into the void and the world went dark

Thankfully I teleported at the last second. I looked up to see two girls and a forest around us. The first one looked annoyed, I stared at her for a while because of how pretty she looked. The second girl waved her hand in front of my face to get my attention.

"Panda?" She weirdly sounded like Bot

"What?" I reply

"Hmmm you never used VC so that doesn't confirm anything" she mumbled deep in thought. I wanted to get it got of the way so I bluntly asked

"So who are you?"

"Oh yeah you know me as" she had a sly grin "I look more like a girl right?"

"Is it wrong of me to think that?"

"Nah trust me I get it a LOT and plus if you fall in love with me you'd be gay" He gave me another grin that pushes me over my self-control

"yeah, right I already like someone!" I realize what I just said and snuck a look at Neko. It seemed like she was blushing but it could have been my wishful thinking. Bot ignored me and switched the topic onto the more pressing matter

"soooo do you guys have any idea where are we?" Neko turns to face us

"Looks like earth" Bot grinned again.

"The Queen Speaks!" Neko cuts me a look and sighs

"I can't stay mad" she gestures to the area around us "Especially in our situation. it looks like we teleported into the real world" Bot drops the smile and plays with her hair in thought and starts mumbling. I pick up the conversation

"Yeah we need to figure out what's happening" Bot perks up

"We can still use the game system!" I quickly whispered various keywords to check everything and she was right. But one tab caught my eye

"uh oh" They both looked over in worry

"What?"

"Open your maps" They did and saw what I did. This world was nowhere near like ours

JustAWeeb

jeez this almost didn't come out in time. Procrastination was WAY stronger than it usually is but thankfully I got it out of the way and am now waiting for tomorrow (today for you guys) anyways as you could probably tell Bot is the cause of the gender-bend tag tho there might? be another character, dunno right now and if you don't get it I'll explain it in a bit but for the people that want answers now read the spoiler

Spoiler

So as I mentioned in the character development spoiler tab Bot was born with a disease that lets her change gender and other that the times her wants it the show the change(she glows briefly)she has almost no indicators that she became a he. Except for Panda, he can somehow see the changes subconsciously and because this is first-person. That means you see what they see. which in turn means basically Bot's gender terms will change from time to time but only he and a few others will be able to tell. Also, I don't think I will put a penalty for her changing. if you don't understand please comment I seriously don't mind schools boring anyway

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Anyways looking at the poll this has story has a strong lead. So this will be posted on Wednesday as planned so if anyone wants a particular story you gotta vote but please do it BEFORE Thursday night because I don't have drafts for everything I need to have at least a couple hours(4ish?) to be able to do it. But a cup of coffee will be done soon(2 more chaps? tho I will have a poll to see if you want it to continue) and unwilling healer is becoming a main(I just like writing it). So of now, this and healer will definitively continue for sure. But unless you guys say otherwise the other two are heading to hiatus after the smut scene ends