An interplanetary stream

September 12th 2175, Earth's moon

A young woman completely devoid of hair scowled as she stared at her smartphone. "Streama festivalen... I heard about it. It was going to be the biggest streamer convention ever. And I would have punched my ticket to it after getting big, but some fucking elf from another world just had to delete my video. My video... THAT FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT!"

The young woman was Cindy Cinders, an aspiring Ewetuber that had decided to grow her hair down to her ankles in order to shave it all off for clout. It was a project she had invested years in, and on August 29th, 2024, it all came to fruition, or so she hoped.

Despite streaming and recording the entire makeover from start to finish, all of Cindy's hard work was thrown away thanks to an elf from another world named Muntly R. Cholange. Muntly claimed to be the servant of an elf princess that was offended by Cindy's video, and as a result, he not only deleted Cindy's video and channel, but also destroyed all the SD cards that contained footage of the video.

Enraged that all her hard work had been for naught, Cindy killed Muntly, which led to her being arrested and imprisoned in stasis for over 150 years on the moon. While she hadn't aged a day, she was semi-conscious for all those years, which took a great toll on her mental state. She likely would have remained imprisoned for the rest of eternity though, had she not been rescued by a mysterious woman known as Vermillion Wiedergänger.

Vermillion claimed to be a vampire queen from her world that had been reincarnated in the body of an android. Together with her servant, whom she dubbed "Fetish man", she proclaimed her intent to take over the world as well as her own original one.

Since the elf princess responsible for Cindy's misfortunes was seemingly from the same world as Vermillion, Cindy had agreed to join her in her conquest.

"Bald girl, come hither! I have procured a delightful chariot!" Vermillion declared.

Cindy gazed up to notice a rocket ship parked at a nearby port. "So where will we take it?"

"To the world of course! My database claims the land we stand on now is the moon of the world, thus we must take that chariot back to the world below!"

"Back to Earth... No ones gonna remember me. Heck, I doubt I'll even recognize the world below. I wonder if my old place even exists..."

"Hmm? WHAT art thou mumbling?"

"Oh nothing, let's get off this rock. I don't wanna end up in prison again for 150 years."

...

Back in the present at Streama festivalen, the match had reached it's final 5 turns. Harumi was in 1st, but Iori was in close second. Sakura was in 3rd while Emeri was in dead last. Emeri had been in 1st, but thanks to everyone mutually ganging up on her, she was now dead last with little to no chance at winning.

"Ugh, no crowns, no gems, and if I don't get lucky, no hair. Worse that bitch Iori-chan is probably going to win, even though auntie's currently leading. That Sakura girl is also widening the gap, meaning I gotta turn things around somehow if I don't want to be a walking advertisement for that bitch Iori-chan," Emeri thought.

While she was given an item that would take her directly to the crown, the problem was that she had no gems to buy it. Not to mention, the map worked in a way where the more gems you had, the more crowns you could buy when you reached the top of the tower.

In the audience, Serika began to tear up a bit as Yuni rubbed her head. "There, there, onee-chan. I won't tease you for your foolish bet.

"The hell you calling things now for!? She could still get 3rd!"

"True, but Sakura winning all her gems in that minigame will make things hard, especially since she'll be able to buy at least 2 crowns if she reaches the top. Then she'll have a 3 crown lead over Emeri, and there's only 2 bonus crowns awarded."

The commentators also echoed Yuni's sentiment and believed Emeri was likely headed for a 4th place bald makeover. As for the predictions on 1st place, Madoka believed her mother would hold off Iori, however Kumi was quick to point out that Iori was guaranteed to steal a crown next turn, and that Harumi had already passed the crown space and was back at the bottom. What's more, Iori had an item that allowed her to select the number of spaces she moved, meaning she could avoid both the oni-space and the space that sent you back to the bottom of the tower. Harumi at least seemed to be guaranteed not to get last though as even if Iori stole a crown from her, she'd still have more than Emeri, even if Emeri swept the bonuses.

Sure enough, Iori did in fact take the lead, and looked to have everything in the bag. However, an unexpected twist came at the end. Rather than stealing a crown from Iori, like everyone thought she would, Sakura stole a crown from Harumi, bringing her down to just 2 crowns. This gave Emeri a renewed chance at getting out of 4th, and thanks to her getting enough gems to buy a crown, all she needed now was to get lucky in the bonuses.

"Welp, even if Sakura sweeps the bonuses, Iori-chan's winning it, meaning whoever gets last not only goes bald, but gets her logo inked on their head. The unknown, Sakura seems to be in the clear, but it's all down to these bonuses for last place. Rolly Polly needs to sweep, otherwise she loses. Will she do it?" Astrid grinned as she hyped up the crowd.

Everyone held their breath as the results were announced. And in dramatic fashion, Emeri swept the bonuses, meaning Harumi finished last and would be subjected to the punishment.

Serika began to cheer loudly as did Emeri, however, both went silent after being reminded that there were still punishments for 2nd and 3rd place.

The punishment for 2nd place was eating a large bowl of nothing but wasabi, while the one for 3rd place was eating a bowl of wasabi ice cream with ghost pepper spice.

First up was the 2nd place punishment. Sakura happily gobbled up the wasabi in seconds, much to everyone's shock.

"Wow, that was delish. We got more?"

"YO! We got a wasabi sister in the house!" Leona grinned.

A new collab appeared to be in the works. In terms of the audience, barely anyone had bet on Sakura meaning only a few people were called up to the stage to fulfill their batsu.

"Huh? Why aren't ya comin' up, Vinny?" Sakura called out.

"Cuz I didn't bet at all," Vinny replied.

Once the 2nd place punishment was done, it was on to 3rd place. Poor Emeri might have been spared a humiliating makeover, but the wasabi ice cream with ghost pepper spice was arguably just as hellish. Worse, she ended up throwing up live too.

Next it was the audience's turn. While they had been given vanilla ice cream instead of wasabi ice cream, the experience was still just as hellish, as the ghost pepper spice stuck to their tongues.

Serika ended up trending thanks to her screaming and flailing, much to her dismay.

"Welp, at least Emeri won't suffer alone," Yuni smirked as Serika groggily returned to her seat.

"Muh tun iz il ber-ing [My tongue is still burning]," Serika grumbled as she sat back down.

"Now time for the big punishment... My bald makeover," Harumi cried as stagehands wheeled out a salon chair.

But before Harumi could sit down, a loud rumbling rang out. Sensing danger, Madoka immediately grabbed Leona and Astrid and dove out of the way as Kumi suddenly turned into lightning and zapped away, just as a rocket ship crashed down where they had all been seating.

"THE FUCK WAS THAT!? You trying to kill us!?" Kumi shouted as she rematerialized.

Madoka, helped Astrid and Leona up before going on guard as the door to the rocket ship began to open.

"Um auntie, was this planned?" Emeri whispered.

Harumi nervously shook her head no, as a woman with red hair emerged riding atop a man in bondage attire.

"World citizens! I am Vermillion Wiedergänger! Vampire queen of the world! I have come to declare that you are all now under my reign of terror! Now kneel and worship me!"

As everyone stared in confusion, Cindy emerged from the rocket and froze in shock. "Hold on! There's Ewetubers I recognize here! But there's no way they should all be alive 150 years later- ...!?"

As she noticed the banner displaying the event name and date, Cindy went pale. "I- It says it's the 1st one and it's September 5th, 2024! D- Did we go back in time!?"