Path to peril

In her room, Muki blinked in disappointment at her computer screen. "What the hell? Why'd all the views dip? Bad connection? No, says I'm still live, and there are still some viewers. Maybe I just gotta give it some time," she thought as she pulled out her phone and munched on a pocky.

A quick search proved nothing was wrong with the stream itself, but the massive amount of viewers that had once been watching never returned.

"The hell's going on? Whatever, I'll just post on Tuitter to try and get the word out," she thought as she logged into Twitter.

But a new problem quickly arose as Muki was unable to find any updated posts prior to 7:35 PM, the time the town was transported to another world.

"The hell is this? I clicked that link on the computer, so why's my phone acting weird too?"

To add to the mystery, other posts began to file in, but they all had a common theme.

"Aren't those all from people living here? Did the military base fuck shit up again?" Muki thought as she shut down her stream and exited her room.

Greeted with a long, luxurious hallway, she intended to reach a room a few doors down, but was stopped by a frantic servant.

"Madam! Terrible news!"

"I got the gist of it. Internet's wack, so-"

"No, it's your sister. She..."

Muki's phone fell out of her hand as her entire body began to tremble. "GET ME TO HER IMMEDIATELY!"

...

At the north edge of town, a pink-haired girl in a pink tracksuit and a blue-haired girl in athletic wear stared in confusion at the path before them. 

"Ah, we're lost, you idiot," the pink-haired girl groaned.

"Are not!" her blue-haired companion growled back.

"Then why's there a forest right here? This is supposed to be the way back to Usagi, but it just dead-ends into some forest."

"But this is the way we always go."

"I bet you clicking that link messed us up. By the way, your phone hacked yet?"

"It was legit! And my phone... My phone... has no signal- Nope, back up!"

The pink-haired girl sighed and shook her head. Her name was Pinky Rosa while her companion was Aoi Plav. They were residents of Usagi, the town right next to Ohana, but would frequently walk through Ohana as part of their exercise routine. Had Aoi not been distracted by the advert, perhaps the two would have made it back to Usagi, but now, they were stuck in Ohana and another world.

"We could just venture out?" Aoi suggested.

"No. I'm not a danger-prone dunce like you. We stay put until we find out what's wrong," Rosa glared.

The two looked to be in the midst of a quarrel until a rustling from the nearby trees silenced them. Slowly turning, the two noticed a wombat with bat wings on it's back, sliding down the trunk.

"Um, the fuck is- Mmph!?"

"Shh!"

But the wombatbat had good hearing and turned in their direction, opening it's mouth in a yawn. But this was no yawn as purple energy began forming in it.

"Run, run, RUN!" Rosa cried as she grabbed Aoi by the wrist and began running down the alleyway.

By the time the energy ball was released with a thunder-like clap, it was the size of a boulder. Worse, it flew fast like a comet and appeared to disintegrate all it touched. Metal objects like poles and trashcans that were outside it's main vicinity were also hit with singular beam blasts from it, sending them flying off like ragdolls in varying directions.

Aoi and Rosa just barely managed to find a side street in time, and dove out of the way as the energy ball hurled past them. They remained motionless until the whole earth shook to the sound of a mighty explosion. Slowly getting up, the two peered out to see a destroyed building with fire and purple lightning-like energy crackling from it's remains.

"What the fuck was that?" Rosa trembled.

"Gamer, that's what," Aoi grinned.

Slap!

"THAT COULD HAVE KILLED US!"

"Life's a thrill-ride. You gotta live on the thrill, otherwise it's not worth shit."

"I disagree!"

Now the argument that had been delayed was on with the two engaging in a verbal back-and-forth. Little did they know the wombatbat from before was still out for blood and had taken to the skies above. Noticing the two below it, the wombatbat opened it's mouth to begin charging up another blast, but it never got the chance as an arrow pierced it's throat and head, sending it falling to the ground before Aoi and Rosa, instantly halting their bickering.

"KYAAAAH! TH- THAT THING! IT'S-"

"-Dead? Damn, that's a clean shot. My kill," Aoi grinned as she picked up the dead wombatbat via the the arrow lodged in it.

"Put it down! We have no idea what it is or what it's carrying!"

"It's not carrying anything, unless you count the arrow."

"I meant diseases, you dolt!"

As the two began bickering once more, a hooded humanoid figure landed silently behind them. "Two pretty girls... Hehehehe," the figure thought as she tossed out two sets of rope and cloth into the air.

"People handle animals all the time and are fine," Aoi scowled.

"They're trained professionals!" Rosa clapped back.

"I'm a professional. I got a job unlike you."

"No you don't, you're unemployed."

"Just a temp thing. System's just too shit to handle my greatness."

"'Greatness'!? You call sending nearly every company you worked for to bankruptcy greatness!?"

"Sheesh, I only made a little numerical error and people lose their shit. Y'all need to chill."

But before the two could bicker anymore, the ropes and cloths the figure had thrown slowly fell down before the two.

"What the- MMPH!?"

In an instant, the two were bound like mummies with rope and gagged with the cloths. The dead wombatbat fell out of Aoi's hand with both Aoi and Rosa hitting the ground soon after.

"And what a hunt! Wives and meat. Couldn't ask for better," the figure grinned as she pulled back her hood.

Aoi and Rosa's eyes widened in shock. The girl had tan skin with numerous freckles on her face, long white braided hair, and long pointy ears.

"What- What the fuck is going on?" Rosa nervously thought.