Chapter 241: A Squirrel In The System

"You really know how to woo a girl," Iona complained from my arms, with her own wrapped around my neck.

"I am carrying you woman, and I thought this was cute? Would you prefer I carry you on my shoulder?"

"I want down!" Iona halfheartedly complained.

I wasn't playing this game, I had already tried to put her down twice now, and I got accused of abandoning her both times. I was considering just going into an alley and tossing her in the bin to wait for the next model to come in, but I would never hear the end of it. Maybe I could just give her the dick and she would go back to the Hall of Gods?

Ha! Hardley, since now she knew how to stay with me, and I would never be rid of her. I couldn't remember everything from before, but I did get flashes of times that I had spent with each girl in Second Life before starting the transfer. I had learned things about them to help with after the transfer was done, I wanted everyone to have things they enjoyed for the next foreseeable forever. Iona knew this now, she just chose to be difficult, but she had been one of the ones who had taken it the hardest.

"Stop being a little shit, or I will put you over my knee in public!"

"Stop threatening to abuse me!"

"Then stop acting spoiled! Also, why didn't you just use your Mage Cannon? Why did you call me?"

"I got lost."

"That answers a very small part of one of the questions I just asked you. Spill it, or you will be cleaning the bathroom! Ha! Better! Tell me or you can go unplug the lesbian neighbor's toilet!"

"Eww, I will not! I can't use it! It wouldn't work before when I was alone and I tried it!" Iona complained letting go of my neck and crossing her arms.

"Well, we will have to get that fixed. I am sorry for being me, I will try to make fewer threats to you."

"Or you could try following through with them every once in a while! You talk a lot of game, but I still have my pants on, so…" Iona gave me the Grace eyebrows and that reminded me, I wonder if any of the other girls would show up, like Tilly…

"Let focus here, Serina was just here, then we had sex and she was gone, back to the Hall of Gods. Are you really in that big of a hurry to get back?"

Iona stayed quiet for the rest of the walk back; I didn't want to try to use the portals with her in my arms. The class wasn't really a bicycle built for two, unless she rode backpack, hehe, yeah, okay. Walking was fine and my phone wasn't going off, no voices were talking, just a stroll through the concrete jungle.

The city was all tall buildings, there were stores at the bottom of some, but they all looked like series of geometric shapes. It was hard to imagine people even working inside some of the spaces. The buildings all had weird feelings to them like they were about to start moving.

"HEY!" Iona shouted at me, and I barely sidestepped a garbage can. 

I stopped and looked around, there were people, but they were all looking down. There was something seriously wrong with this city, I had been walking for over thirty mins and it should be back at the apartment, but I still couldn't see any of the front lawn grass or the statue I had connected with.

"Do you know anything about this city?" I asked, I was starting to get worried.

"Not really, sorry. This is my first time here."

'Tequila?'

'Even the normal System restricts us on updates about the game for this world. Just be careful.' -Tequila.

'Thanks.'

"There is something up with these buildings, can you feel it? Like they are...alive, I know that sounds weird, but that's what it feels like. I don't feel like we are getting anywhere, we should have been back by now."

I set Iona down, but when I looked up again, the streets were empty. Oh, this doesn't stink like a trap! I told myself that I shouldn't be surprised, but when the buildings started to unfold to block all of our escape routes, including above, I was very surprised. 

"Dave...what is the air doing over there?" Iona asked, pointing to the center of our prison.

The air was warping, and getting ready to split open for a summoning.

"Iona, get your gun out. Whatever is coming out of that tear is going to be something bad, so stay back and provide support."

"But, my gun…"

"You're with me, it will work now," I told her, but I was completely sure about it.

Still, this wasn't the time for second-guessing. Ahead of me, a large crab leg stepped out and I tried to throw the portals above and below, but I did it too quickly. The leg did fall in but the giant crab that was pulled out of the rift was way too big for my portal to take, and I couldn't make new ones. The rest of the leg was pointing up from the other portal, ugh new powers.

"Move!" Iona yelled at me and I dove to the side, letting the ink out.

A massive stream of water hit the crab and rolled it back from where it was stuck. Though, when it got back up the crab looked refreshed. Oh, so it likes water, great.

I tried to throw another pair of portals but the crab just dodged, then started to rush me. Fine, two can play at this game! I started the run at the charging monster, activating the Demonic Strike. I jumped, went to slam my expanding double hammers down, but was swatted into a building. 

As I hit the ground, I could only feel ribs and one arm broken, so I got up and ran after the monster. It was rushing at Iona, but it could watch both of us so I threw two portals under the crab's leg and opposite underside. This flipped the crab over onto its back and then I turned and ran sideways.

Iona had the pistol out and it was charged again, the three rings expanded and purple. I could see the lightning Rune being slammed together and the shot charged. I was able to make it out of range before the thunder crack went off and made the shell of the crab glow and smoke before it erupted in black particles.

The buildings around us immediately started to pull back together, folding back into the buildings they were. 

[Mission] Complete!

[Rank] B

[People saved] 1/5 

[Do you wish to continue?] Yes/No

'Tequila, can you tell me what the System means?'

'You want to continue until all the girls in this area are saved.' -Tequila.

[Yes]

[Random class reward] Activated!

What the hell is this? I don't want to keep on learning new classes! I just wanted the Mage Cannon!

[Cymantic Singer/Wall Crawler] Activated.

'Oh no! Looks like this is goodbye for now, but I'll be back…' -Jim.

His voice faded from my mind, but what was going on? I was a singer that could walk on walls? How was I supposed to keep the girls safe like this?!

"Dave? Are you alright?" Iona asked walking up to me.

"Yes, no, maybe, I don't know. You know I built this game, right?"

"Yes, I do have memories of why we are here and what you're doing, but what…"

"Why do you think I would make something like this so hard? I just got a reward that changes my Class on random. So now, I stick to walls and sing...what am I going to do?! Run away singing?"

"Can you look at the class? Maybe there is something good in them? Don't go to being a cry baby as soon as something doesn't go your way!" Iona said.

She was right, I shouldn't just dismiss the skills as they were, I would have to take a look at them. We found a bench to sit at and dropped down into it as the streets started to fill back up with faceless people. Well, maybe not faceless, but they all seemed to be looking away from us, which was awkward.

I sigh and tried to summon a class list and got it the first time. The list popped up and I chose the singer first to see what singing could do. Nope, at a low level, I could heal and give paper cuts, this was not helping my mood.

Next, I opened up the Wall Crawler tab and started to browse. I looked down at my wrist and noticed there was some kind of gadget, and in the abilities, it said I could use electro wrist darts. Great, more non-lethals. The last one looked useless at first, but then again, the skill Direct Insults would aggro a monster to me, and keep it focused and chasing me, while I sang.

Running away and singing priceless strategy. This is what real superhero morals are made of. This game hates me, but it had to be some messing around on Reginold's part, but maybe getting to MainFrame will let me fix things. For now, I was stuck with being the rotating boy wonder, but I had dealt with worse problems in the past, and this was just another bump in the road.