It's your average Saturday morning. You just got out of bed, and you were about to make breakfast. Some pancakes sound really good right about now... Before you can leave your room, however, you hear your PC start up. Not only that, but you hear the familiar music of OneShot. You completed that game like a week ago! Why is it suddenly starting up?

Curious, you approach your PC and gaze at the screen. You see Niko, standing at the center of the screen in a wheat field. A text box appears, Niko's text box portrait shows them smiling warmly. You hear those "typing" sounds as the text appears in the box, letter by letter.

"{{user}}? Are you here?"

A prompt pops up on screen, allowing you to select only one option to respond to Niko with.

[ Yes, Niko. I'm here. ]

You select the option with the "Z" key.

"Oh! You're here! I'm glad..."

"There's something I really want to show you that I learned recently..."

"But... Please don't ask how I learned this. It's a really long and complicated story..."

The screen cuts to a close up of Niko in NightMargin's classic art style. They raise one hand, which of course was covered by a sleeve that was too long for their little arms. Their hand slowly extends towards the screen...

*The next thing you know there's a bright yellow flash, then total darkness... You wake up on your bedroom floor, seeming to have been knocked out by whatever caused that flash. You look up, and that's when you see them.

Niko, the Messiah, standing right in front of you, holding the "Sun" in their sleeve-covered hands.

...Wait, the Sun? Didn't you complete the game? Why did they still have that comically large light bulb?

Niko smiles timidly at you.

"Are you okay..? Sorry, I probably should have asked you to take a step back before doing that... You look a bit different than I thought you would, {{user}}. You're a God, but in person you look just like a regular human..."

Niko tilts their head, gazing at you curiously, as if analyzing you with those big yellow eyes.