Tokyo, Japan July 1st 2022

As the kid with the dark green hoodie walked of the plane with his luggage he decided to go to the house he would be staying at for the foreseeable future.

There, he met his exchange parents, I say exchange because he and group of people from the United States of America had been selected for exchange program for the H.S students of the U.S and Japan to trade parents to improve relations with the countries. 'What a load of bullshit'. The teen thought.

'This was just an excuse, my parents don't really care that much'. As he was walking to the room he'd be staying in, his Japanese parents decided to communicate with him in… Broken English? "Town-San would you like some tea, and….when were finish, we could show you our Sochi's…. Video game?"

Deciding to appease them because its not there fault, Japan just wanted to maintain relations with the U.S. "h-hai" He said timidly.

House before school, August 15th, 2022

Taking a look in the mirror he decided to frazzle his hair with some gel before setting it its spikey afro. His dark skin looking as smooth as ever, buttoning up his required school shirt and putting on his shades over his green eyes. Slipping on his tan trousers and and light blue slacks, he began to walk out the door down the street to his school,as he did, his Japanese pops or otou-san as he liked to be called, said " Good luck Orbit-chan".

"Thanks pops!" Orbit said as he started to walk, waving backwords.

Homeroom

"Hello class" the teacher said when he walked in

"Today going to be discussing the class room procedure and learning each others names".

After a class yes, he began roll call after. As he drones on peoples names in the class full of exchange students, Orbit decided to take off his shades, and dig in his book bag and take out his video game magazine, not really reading as much because well its in Japanese 'thanks mom and pops for giving me a run down'.

"Orbit Towns"

"Here"

"Tessa Vegas

"Here"

"August Hunter"

"Here"

"Well looks like we're all done with roll call I'm going to go to the teachers lounge and grab some things to help you throughout the school year." The teacher starts to leave but then adds "please don't make a ruckus."

Orbit turns from looking at his magazine to feast his eyes upon the light skin goddess beside him she had brown-sweet god they were almost pale-eyes, with black hair, and the way the outfit hugged her figure, mm. But her hands…..'wait hands?' He never saw em coming as the small and supposingly delicate hand crashed into his arm. He winced as he wasn't bracing himself, and fell off his chair causing a small commotion. "Hey Numnuts I know I'm beautiful but you don't have to stare" the girl-he assumed was Tessa- said with a small blush on her cheek. The boy on the other side of her-assuming he was August- with blond hair and gray eyes, was just chuckling at him.

"Man oh man, bro did you just put on your ass by a gir? Ha!"before he starts full on laughing Tessa shoots him a warning glance, which he heeds fully, ceasing his laughing. Deciding to try and save some face and points with the girl, "well its not my fault this Bomb decided to explode" pointing at the Tessa, who's face start get even more red. August, who toned down his laughing decided to slap Orbit a high five. "Killer".

"I know right".

August 30th 2022

Orbit after about two months of living in Japan, experiencing its culture, could honestly say he enjoyed it. Especially after he met his new best friends over this time on August and Tessa. At this point in time, the trio of pals are in Tokyo's shopping mall when they saw a poster for Akihiko Kayaba's newest system and game, NerveGear & Gun Gale Online (respectively), with flyers talking about the game. Orbit while his friends where talking decided to grab some and take it back to where the trio was sitting.

"I'm just saying by the time we go back to America, I'll be ready to enter the NBA" August said confidently.

"Well not when you keep getting beat by a girl in 21"Tessa smugly replied. August just put his head down as a storm cloud just floated over him. Orbit had just comeback to this amusing scene with a smile on his face, sitting down on the chair next to Tessa.

"Hey I never asked you guys, but do y'all like video game?" Orbit siad , berating himself for letting his southern accent come out, he had practicing getting rid of his little quirk.

"Oz, didn't know you were into video games like that, bet you can't beat me in Madden or 2k?"

August said , his cloud disappearing.

"Well I mean, im not much of a video game nerd, but ever since I came to Japan, I've heard people talking about this upcoming game GGO!" Stated Orbit excitedly

At this, the resident female decided to hop back in the conversation. "Wait GGO, I heard that its supposed to be the top game within the last 2 decades!" She Exclaimed and continued on with a little less "Tess". "Well are you guys going to get it? Because I already asked my 'otou-san' and he said yes" she finished

"Well I guess I could ask my pops it wouldn't hurt. Right August?"

"Yea sure, might be fun to get out of Japan for little bit." August grinned as he said that. With an unspoken agreement, the Trio of friends went their separate ways. 2 went to ask their parents for the game and 1 into a clothing store.

November 20th 2022 12:57

At home, in his room, Orbit places the NerveGear on his head while laying down on his bed. As he does this he begins to reminisce about the time they've spent preparing for this game

Flashback

"Hey guys I brought stuff for us to practice for ggo." His dumb ass brought black colored Nerf guns to school, as soon he said that, Orbit swore he could hear some German police whistle as 6 security guards tackled him and dragged out class room while he was just screaming "its just a Nerf gun guys!"

Flashback end

Chuckling to himself as he layer on his bed, Orbit decided to text the 2 friends a message in their group chat, "hey guys what your game name going to be?"

2 minutes later he got a message from August stating "How about how about our nicknames me and you Oz, while I doubt anybody in Japan have the name Tessa?"

Instead of Orbit reply it was Tessa who beat him to it

"That's actually not a bad idea. I'm game."

"Same here"

"Ok. See you guys on the inside"...

Little did they know, they wouldn't see the outside for a long time.

"Link Start!"