The final bell ends the current lesson of the day as everyone gets out of their desks and heads to their lockers, ready to put their things away and go home. But not everybody was going home, no, for some people, today was a big day, because the release date of a hot new game was this day. That's right, the release of Kingdom Hearts: Unchained χ for the Virtual Reality Headset, which is a brand new console after years of studying, research, and testing, was today, a lot of people were anxious to get their hands on it, but no one wants as much as a certain boy.

Devin, A/B student, quiet, and the social outcast of Canterlot High School, was rushing to his locker to put away his books, ignoring the students' weird stares directed his way. He accepted the fact that he would never have any friends at CHS, not even the Rainbooms, who just give sympathetic gazes whenever they cross paths. Because after all, "When the world turns its back on you, you turn your back on the world," at least, so he tells himself.

He was in a hurry to get the aforementioned game before they sell out on the first day, he had taken up several jobs to save up the money to buy Kingdom Hearts: Unchained χ for the VRH his parents bought him for his birthday last week and he was convinced that it was worth every penny and every day that could've been used for fun. After he stuffed his books away in his locker, he slammed it and hurried out the door, he was lucky he doesn't have any homework for tonight, he did plan ahead and worked hard so he wouldn't have any today. Once he made it outside, he was on his way to the store to buy the game, he had his money prepped ahead of time before he left school today.

The game cost $19.99, which he paid for and left for home, ready to play it the first chance he got. He entered his house and greeted his brother, mom, and stepdad before heading up to his room to play his game.

"Except that mom didn't have high-tech video games back then." His brother added.

He enters his room, pops the game into the VRH, puts it on his head, and lays down on his bed. As he takes a deep breath, his data from his iOS copy of the game was being transferred to the new game, then saying two words that would unknowingly change his life forever.

A swirl of colors appeared on the visor as his consciousness enters the game's world.

After going through the tedious process of entering his information, he finds himself in the Fountain Square of Daybreak Town, he proceeds to the fountain in the center and looks at his reflection; it doesn't look exactly like him but it was close enough, his dark brown hair was feathered slightly as a pair of purple headphones adorned his head and he was wearing his Cool Red outfit since he likes the color red. Other players began to show up as he searched for his party members, but they didn't seem to be online yet, so he checked out his status; he was currently Lv. 193, his Starlight Keyblade equipped with its level at +19, the medals, in order, that were attached were 6 star KH II King Mickey, 5 star Xigbar, 6 star Mushu, 5 star Larxene, and 5 star Queen Minnie, his AP was at 98, and his HP is over 4,000. After looking everything over to make sure the data transferred, Devin closed his stat screen and walked around town.

He turned to see his buddy Roland, and the rest of his Harmonic party members; Jimmy, XANTHIA, Tarra, VANESSA, but not Devin's brother, who most likely didn't get the game for the VRH yet. Roland and Jimmy he knew from the internet after joining a fanfiction site, they've been close friends ever since. They approached him with big smiles on their faces.

"Sure! But, we have to start the quests from the beginning again for some reason." Jimmy answered.

"Seriously?!" Devin sighs, "Oh well, that just means leveling up more to fight the story bosses differently this time."

They all started off from Quest 1 and worked their way up to Quest 100, since the Heartless targets were lower leveled than them. Tarra and VANESSA left shortly after Quest 12, they were hardly ever around on the game, so they just let them go. After a while, and a bit of strolling around in Daybreak Town, the gang decided now would be a time to call it quits for the day.

"Well, I gotta get going, mom's making spaghetti and meatballs tonight." Devin said, getting ready to log out.

"Yeah, we gotta bail too, it's getting late." Roland, the leader of the party agreed.

"What's going on?" Jimmy asked no one in particular, tapping the "Log Out" button in rapid succession, "Why can't I log out?!"

Just then, everyone in the game was teleported to the Fountain Square of Daybreak Town, and the game's administrators came before them as Keyblade Masters.

"People of KHUχ!" The lead administrator spoke, "I assure you there is no need to worry! We are aware of the 'Log Out' button glitch, and we and our programmers are currently working on a way to rectify it!"

Everyone, including Devin and his party, showed signs of relief...but it was short lived, as the Union Masters appeared, whom of which struck down the administrators with their Keyblades.

"Please understand, we're doing this for your own good," Master Ava spoke next, "It was us who disabled the 'Log Out' button, and now, you all must decide the fate of this world."

"But do not be afraid, we are not your enemies, for we will guide you to this world's future." Master Ira, Devin's Union Master, said.

"You all will be the seeds of the future, for this world, and your own." Master Gula said.

"From now on, your fate is your own, follow the story to its climax, and show us what will become of this world. Do that, and we'll let you out." Master Aced declared.

"And just to give you proper incentive..." Master Invi waved her Keyblade and everyone felt like a part of them was stripped away, "There. Now if you die in the game without any jewels to revive yourself with, your body will perish in your own world."

"We wish you all the best of luck." Master Ava said, before they each called a portal of light and stepped through.

The silence was deafening. Nobody spoke a word. It had been a full minute until the crowd was leaving the Square in a crazed frenzy, desperate to complete the game while shouting words of fear.

"Okay, everyone, here's the plan," Devin began, "everyone's gonna be training to become stronger so they can beat the game, but let's face it, only a handful of the players are at a high enough level clear the first 400 quests with ease, so we have to level up our Keyblades, medals, and characters until we are ready to continue the rest of the game."

"I've never been more sure of anything in my life. Besides, you're the leader and my close friend, you should know that as a strategist, I take my plans seriously."

We all selected Special Quests and proceeded to use our AP to enter them to collect EXP medals. We fought Heartless, strays and targets, opened chests, and collect medals to level up our own while building up our Special Gauges to use our medal's abilities.

I won't let this game beat me! Devin shouted in his thoughts, I will survive this hellhole! I will fight to my last breath!!!

Equestria Girls RPG: Kingdom Hearts Unchained χ

Update

Over 10,000,000 players had logged into KHUχ during its launch.

Only 1,000+ had logged out soon enough to avoid the Union Masters' ploy.

2,000+ had lost their lives in game.

The first Story Boss has yet to be beaten.

Equestria Girls RPG: Kingdom Hearts Unchained χ

by Golden Flare

Chapter 1: Daybreak Town of Beginnings