Hiding under the bed

Yuni, Serika, Carol, and Astrid all huddled together as Deep Diver hovered over to them.

"Wait! This guy isn't supposed to be hostile, right!? He should also be catchable if we log into the game and throw bed balls at him!" Astrid stammered as she whipped out her phone.

"Uh, it's still daytime even though it's raining, so not sure this guy's following the game's script. Heck, I doubt we're even in his damn game!" Serika fumed.

"I'm sorry. If I wasn't tired, we could run," Yuni trembled.

"We're all tired out. Wait! What if we try hiding under the bed covers!?" Carol suggested.

Everyone decided it was better than nothing and all dove towards the small bed, bunching up under the blanket. Astrid lifted up the blanket slightly in order to peak out, and noticed Deep Diver was still floating around, but now a periscope had appeared from under the bed and was aimed at the girls.

"Just like the game. Well, seems we're safe for now, so let's try and get some sleep," Astrid sighed.

"Some good night's sleep. Well, I'll take first watch then," Serika grumbled.

She said that, yet a few minutes later, was sleeping soundly with the others. Deep Diver gazed down at the slumbering girls and continued to hover around the room, menacingly.

...

"Lemme out!" Iori shouted as she kicked the walls of the barrier.

"Ugh, if we weren't trapped in this rubber hamster ball, O could bust us out," Kumi grumbled.

"At least the barrier was made of rubber," Madoka smiled.

"Yeah, I thought we were dead, but then we were bouncing," Leona dizzily giggled.

"You look like you're nearly dead, or about to hurl out an ocean! Lemme out!" Iori shouted.

After being dropped into the pit, the barrier had bounced into a jail cell. While Kumi would have easily been able to escape the normal jail cell, the barrier prevented her from doing so.

"EY! Quit da shouting!" A voice shouted.

Leona immediately shot up as she recognized the voice. "No way, it's Jabrono Marco!"

"Who?"

Leona quickly explained that Jabrono Marco was a streamer and friend of Valentino 512, a streamer she knew well.

"Yo, he's the guy that got cursed by a witch and got all his hair shaved off with an electric toothbrush!" Iori exclaimed.

"I thought the witch just made him bald and then shoved an electric toothbrush up his-"

"EY, I SAID SHUT UP!" the voice seemingly belonging to Jabrono Marco echoed as a little green goblin clad in a tattered tunic and fancy black dress shoes waddled up to the cell.

"And you are?"

"Me!? I'm Gobbaghoulsley, the jailer-butler round here!"

Everyone went quite as they realized this little goblin was the source of Jabrono Marco's voice.

"No way!? Did Jabrono Marco get cursed again!?" Leona gasped.

"Who da hell is Jabrono Marco!? I'm Gobbaghoulsley!"

"But you sound just like Jabrono Marco."

"I don't know who da hell dat is. I've been workin here for 69 years, and I ain't no jabroni guy."

Seeing the conversation was going nowhere, Madoka decided to poise the question if it was possible for Gobbaghoulsley to let them go. Unfortunately, he refused and instead began a long tirade about how they needed to shut up and respect the peace and quiet of the jail.

Suddenly, Gobbaghoulsey was engulfed in lightning and began screaming before losing consciousness and falling to the floor with a thud. Everyone turned to Kumi, yet she hadn't done a thing. But she did have a good idea who did.

"Ugh, you all really got into something troublesome," a young woman with short pink hair sighed as she adjusted her white cloche hat.

Kumi and Madoka both began smiling as they recognized her. "Yo, Nika. Mind busting us out?"

Nika was one of Kumi's identical older triplet sisters. Despite that, she and Kumi couldn't be any more different both in looks and personality. She did also possess a lightning-based power, but her's was known as "Spark of creativity", which allowed her to manifest drawing made of lightning.

"So did you come here after seeing my message?" Kumi asked as Nika began trying to break the barrier.

"What do you mean?"

"Back at the convention center, I blasted a help message into the floor before flying into the portal."

Nika shot Kumi a glare. "I was in the audience and got sucked up along with them. And you didn't even notice that!?"

Kumi thought back, and realized that Nika had indeed been swept up along with the audience.

"Whoops, guess you just blended in with everyone. Besides, you were fine, right?"

"I wouldn't call foraging around in the forests on my own, fine."

"So can you free us?" Madoka asked.

"Lucky for you, my Spark of creativity can," Nika huffed as the barrier suddenly vanished.

Now free, Kumi immediately busted the bars down. "And now, we get out of here and wreck this shithole of a town."

"It won't be easy, Girzzlar's in town."

Kumi blinked in confusion. "Uh, I can just fry that gluttonous polar bear with my lightning," she glared.

The others stared in confusion prompting Kumi to explain that Kody Grizzlar was an evil polar bear that ran a company known as Grizzlar enterprises. Grizzlar was obssessed with catching fish, all so that he could eat it. He also possessed the power to turn into water and manipulate it at will.

"Uh, manipulating water is HUGE! Blood's got water in it!" Iori cried.

"Yeah, but I'm made of lightning, so I can just fry him," Kumi replied.

"He has a metal axe though," Nika growled.

"So? I can avoid focusing all my power at it. I'm not mindless lightning, dammit," Kumi scowled ans she began storming away.