Level 1: All the Single Ladies

FEET OF RAMPAGE
20XX SIDEQIX LTD.Aka Nishin escorts you to the balcony. What you see is chaos and destruction! There are panicking crowds fleeing as a skyscraper starts to crack… crack—CRACK! Black jagged lines zigzag all over the concrete structure, expelling rubble. Windows spiderweb and burst! The 14th floor collapses to the 12th floor, the 47-story building becomes 45 stories tall, 39… dust billows as the whole thing comes crashing down!

Through the haze, you see it. You see him. A kangaroo standing several stories tall, eyes glowing metallic blue. Behind him, a wake of destruction. You can only see what’s left of broken buildings.

Aka Nishin says to Pira, "No taxi is crazy enough to take you to Kanga-Roy." How the master already knows the bad guy’s name and why it isn’t Kill-Roo, which sounds better, is best left unasked. "You must travel on foot."

A street lamp topples, the light bursting into shards and sparks as it collides with the temple rooftop. Pira, Thundra and Kurumi can slide down the metal pole——from the street, you can see the tromping feet up ahead, and through the dust clouds, the shadow of the colossal mechanized beast! As it thrashes about, there are panicking crowds. And among the screams, you hear cries for help!

A woman’s voice is coming from within the smoky cracked windows of a flaming car! Its hood is mashed against the corner of a building that’s on the verge of collapse!

A man with a tire iron is trying to pry open a bent door, but he drops his tool as he is pelted by rubble raining down from above!You’re several blocks away from the metal monstrosity! You somehow get the feeling none of the innocent people will die if you dash past them to the enemy… but isn’t saving the innocent what heroes do?

Kurumi and Thundra save the innocents at ground level. But suddenly there is another yelp from high above!

You all look up to see a carpenter in red overalls. He’s clinging to a purple girder protruding from a broken building—but his white gloves don’t have the best grip.

He falls, arms flapping wildly as he screams,

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Pix swoops into the air and catches the rotund little workman!

"Oh! Thank-a you!" he says in a bizarre accent. His bushy moustache perks to match the shape of his smile as the fairy carries him off to safety!

Pira contemplates her teammates’ heroic efforts. It is a very real possibility that, if nobody finds a safe route to the gargantuan laser-eyed robo-monsteroo, well… that’s how heroines get laser-eyed.

But then, they’re heroines! Saving people is the bandwagon a hero should jump on. So, Pira taps that Jump button, and with all the people on the block already rescued, she finds the next-cutest victim: an arm fulla kittens!

The lady in the car, the guy told to go home, and the crazy cat lady give three cheers for our three heroines!

"HIP HIP H🩷❤️R🩵Y!!"

Unfortunately, this draws a lot of unwanted attention from the aforementioned laser-eyed kanga-bot!

It shouts,
"TASTE A RAINBOW OF PAIN."

It then fires lasers from its eyes, and they are entirely fuchsia, which is not anybody’s idea of a rainbow. Kanga-Roy might have been a lot more accurate about the pain part. Dodge lasers to not find out!

Thundra’s charge nearly draws laser-eyed wrath from Kanga-Roy—but Pira’s taunt prompts the giant robot to turn its gaze to her.

"FAIR AND SQUARE IS THE PROBLEM… I ONCE HAD AN UNBLOCKABLE FULL-SCREEN ATTACK. I HAD A DOUBLE JUMP WITH A TRIPLE AERIAL FIREBALL. AND THE SHIN-KANGA UPPERCUT…

"IT WAS NERFED.

"WHY?"


The giant robot kicks a taxi cab in frustration.

The cab twirls through the air and is headed straight for Thundra!Nothing is stopping Pira from charging straight at the enemy, and Kurumi managed to sneak up on the mechanical menace! Maybe our heroines can topple Kanga-Roy before it destroys the city! (Or what’s left of it.)

Every strike makes a dent in the oversized opponent! Thundra’s super strength knocks a screw loose!

"‘BABY’ YOU SAY... I WILL FINISH YOU WITH MY BABAL I TY."

The cityscape darkens like a moonless night. Kangaroo-Roy’s glowing eyes illuminate its target.Apparently, Pira’s taunt reminded Kanga-Roy of a promise.Thundra and Kurumi might surmise that the monster is more Kanga than Roy at the moment, and whatever it wants to do to Pira is probably really bad!

What can they do?

"FRIENDSHIP? FRIENDSHIP?!"

The unfashionable smash-bot is flustered by Pira’s retort. Its eye-beams melt steel and shatter glass as it fires through three skyscrapers. Its Kanga-Box Combo bursts a water tower and topples twin smokestacks from the Steel Factory! It Reppa-Headbutt-Mashes a rooftop seconds after Pira leaps to safety! And its Combo Finish, Babality Breath, simply transforms a tree in the central park. It shrinks to become a healthy little sapling.

Thundra shatters her spiked club over Kanga-"Boy’s" metal head! Kurumi spin-kicks it in the teeth! And Pira adds injury to insult—only striking once, because one hit is all she needs…



There’s a deafening crash! The ground quakes! Our heroines instinctively bolt to safety…

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…somehow they know the people of Neo Kobe were safely evacuated. And they made it out too, though they don’t recall running very far.

Kurumi, Pira and Thundra can feel cool grass at their backs. The air is pleasant, the fresh scent of spring blossoms in a gentle wind. Sunbeams dance through a misty mid-morning sky.