Hello fellow readers and authors. I'm Don Orbit and I welcome you to this ARK/AGK crossover. Now this story was requested from a certain someone quite some time ago and at first I had no idea what I should write into this. However after spending hours of scientific researchs (Google, ARK Wiki), countless Let's Play videos (by youtubers like Neebs Gaming) and months of intensive thinking and Dr. Kawashima's Brain Jogging (I really suck in this game) I suddenly started to get ideas in this summer for this fanfiction.

Though it isn't my first idea to make a Akame ga Kill! crossover, I think it could work out.

In any case let's get started.

Disclaimer: I do not own Akame ga Kill! or ARK: Survival Evolved. All rights of both Genres belong to their respective owners.

Chapter 1: Welcome to ARK

At first he felt nothing but himself. He didn't felt what was around him, nor did feel his own body. The only thing he registered was himself. Almost like a formless shadow without a real body. Here he floated in the darkness that surrounded him. A young man in his teens with short brown hair. He wore a beige shirt and grey pants. Short brown hair sat on top of his head. He was Tatstumi of Night Raid. Or rather that was who he had been.

Tatsumi was born in a small village in the north of the Empire. As he grew up with his two friends Isayeu and Sayo his village had to face high taxes which the village could barely cover with the little income that they had. The chief of the village had decided that the three teensagers as the village's best would travel to the capital of the Empire to make money and safe their home. Of course the three friends had no objections at this and were more than happy to help. However on their journey they got seperated and Tatsumi arrived a bit later in the Capital than the other two, however was unable to find them. As he wanted to sign for the army as a commander or even a general he was downright shut out and a short time later a busty blonde woman stole all the money the village had given him, leaving him with nothing but his sword.

He was stranded on the street as a young girl, the daughter of a noble had picked him up and let him stay ather house. However a day later the house of the noble was attacked by a group of assassins that had been a thorn in the Empire's side for long, Night Raid. In that night Tatsumi had to face the true nature of the Empire. The family that had given him shelter had done so many times with other people from the countryside and viewed them as lesser creatures. As such they took pleasure in torturing and slowly killing them for their own amusement. Tatsumi's friends had suffered the same fate. Isayeu had been infected with an incureable disease along many others as they were held in cages. Sayo had suffered even more as the young girl that brought Tatsumi to the house had tortured her until she died for the insanely stupid reason of having prettier hair as the young girl.

However instead of breaking down, Tatsumi avenged his friends by killing the girl as her parents had been killed by the assassins already. The woman that earlier had stolen his money simply took him with her and thus he became a recruit of Night Raid.

Slowly, but certainly Tatsumi became friends with the assassins and helped them to overthrow the corrupted empire. Many times he had risked his lifes along with his friends and suffered great pain, both physically and mentally, but he always overcame it. Even when the deaths of his fellows pained him to the point where others gave up, he had to move on for their sake.

In the end, he died as well after his fight with the emperor who was still a child. Makoto hadn't been the one responcible for the corruption of the empire. It had been his Prime Minister Honest, who had first killed both of Makoto's parents and then shemed behind his back and manipulated him as his advisor. The emperor's teigu, Shikoutazer, a titanic suit of robotic armor fell after the fight against Tatsumi. But as the young man saw it fall towards a group of survivors of the battle of the Capital that had cost countless innocent lifes. Acting on his ideals and beliefs Tatsumi did his best to stop the supreme teigu to crush the people as his beaten body was torn apart by the strain the battle pulled on him. Still he somehow managed to be conscious at this point. Perhaps it was his determination or just the last bits of his fading life that kept him like this. He still could see that he had managed to save the civilians as his friend Akame run up to him.

"I'm sorry... I guess... I got to go... back on my word..." Those were his last words as he was hugged by Akame and died in her arms. He still had heard her yelling and shouting at him. Her anger for breaking his word to survive this war, her sadness of losing another friend. Since then he had been like this. Without a feeling for either his surroundings nor time. He couldn't tell if it had been days or months already since he had died. The memories however kept him alive. He still saw in his head the deaths of the other members of Night Raid in front of him.

First was Bulat, the man who had been like a big brother to Tatsumi he never had and who entrusted him with his teigu Demon Armor: Incursio. He had died on a ship after being deadly wounded by his former superior Liver. Still Bulat somehow managed to encourage Tatsumi to take Incursio and defeat the last enemy on that ship. If it hadn't been Bulat that day, he wouldn't have survived for so long.

Then came Chelsea, a young woman who had always been cheerful. She got seperated from the others during a mission to kill general Esdeath's special force known as the Jaegers. After going into the capital again he found Chelsea's head put on a pike in front of everyone to inflict fear upon the people and to sufficate any kind of opposition before it could rise.

The next one had been Lubbock. Like Chelsea he had been a good friend, though he was a bit perverted. He died as he suddenly fell from the sky and was impaled by many guards of the Imperial Palace in front of Tatsumi's eyes.

Then Susanoo, a human teigu that mainly had been something like a butler to Night Raid's boss Najenda, however Susanoo was extremely rescourceful and had been a good mentor to Tatsumi. After he got captured his friends tried to break him out however on their escape Susanoo was left behind and ultimately killed by General Esdeath.

Mine died shortly after just a few minutes later. The young woman with pink hair had been deadly wounded in the escape as she killed General . Tatsumi had raced towards Night Raid's base to try and save her but in the end she died in his arms right after confessing her feelings to him.

And then he died. The memories of all the friends he had lost along the way were still haunting him and reminded him what he had failed to protect. And yet... somhow he felt glad. Not that they had died, but the fact that he had the chance to meet them and to be their friend.

Then there was suddenly something. Tatsumi felt a cool breeze washing over his body as he heard the crashing of waves against a shore. Slowly opening his eyes Tatsumi saw first everything blurry. After having his eyes closed for so long that was understandable. Slowly his eyes adjusted and he looked up to a clear blue sky. For a moment Tatsumi didn't know what to make out of this. Then he sat up.

'What the hell?' He thought as he looked down at the sand in his hands. Then he saw something. Lifting his left arm up he saw some kind of piece of metal being stuck in his arm. On instinct he panicked and immediately tried to scratch the thing out, but it was no use. The strange thing had perfectly fused with the flesh of his arm, leaving no chance to scratch it out.

"What is this thing?" He said to himself as he then looked around himself. He was at a sandy beach. It seemed to be early in the morning, judging by how low the sun hung in the air . Tatsumi sat up as he curiously looked at the environment. "This almost feels like back then when I was stranded with Esdeath..." He mumbled before a chill ran down his spine at the memories of his time together on the deserted island with the psychopathic woman. Quickly turning from one side to another he looked for any clue of the bluenette general only to find nothing but palm trees, small, brown birds and large lizard like creatures. Tatsumi sighed in relief as he couldn't find anything Esdeath related nearby as he froze. He looked again the animals. The birds were indeed brown in color, but their wings were very small and their beaks were curved in an odd way unlike that of a bird of Prey, but more like that of a parrot. As for the reptilian creatures they were huge. Legs like tree trunks supported the massive body which was balanced by a long whip-like tail and a long neck with a small head at it's end. Tatsumi had hunted Danger Beasts already when he had been in his village and later as training as he became better with Incursio, however these creatures were completely alien to him.

"Okay... just some weird danger beasts. Well nothing to..." Tatsumi stopped as he turned around and saw a massive mechanical construct floating in mid air. It shone in a bright light like a beacon. Tatsumi needed three whole seconds to voice out his thoughts. "WHERE THE HELL AM I?!" He shouted on top of his lungs. After that he had to take a few deep breaths to calm himself down as his optimism returned. "Oh well at least Esdeath isn't here." He said. "But seriously where am I? And what is this?" Tatsumi said looking at the strange Diamond shaped object in his arm. He turned his arm to get a better look on it as he touched the middle of it. Suddenly a blue light shone from it and a Screen materialised in front of him.

"Whoa what the hell?" Tatsumi said as he looked at the screen. There was an image of himself with 'Tatsumi-Lvl 1' written on top of it. On the left was a space with many square Areas beneath the letters 'Inventory Items'. There were also other fields with 'Drop Item', 'Use Item', 'Drop All Items' and 'Repair Item'. On the right stood 'Equiped Items' 'Tribe Manager' and 'Survivor Profile' as well as 'Character Stats' like Weight, Health, Stamina and others. There were also a clock and a region written on it.

However Tatsumi noticed in his inventory a symbol of a letter, which he pressed on wit his finger. With a light the sheet of paper materialised in his free right Hand. Shaking the startling Feeling off he began to read.

"Dear Tastumi,
reading this letter means that you actually found out how to use your implant. Congratulations for that boy. Most other people would have tried to get it out of their arm by any means. And I mean really any means. If you are wondering right now where you are and why you are here, I shall give you a shortened version. A certain being that exists outside of your universe has taken interest in you and your deeds during the rebellion. You are indeed dead or rather were, because you are now reincarnated with everything you had back in your final moments here.
The rules are simple here. You have to survive and can use whatever you want to do that. And you probably have to do that if you don't want to waste your second chance in life.

With introductions out of the way I welcome you on ARK.

Good luck, Z."

Tatsumi looked confused at the letter as he tried to make sense of what he just read. He didn't knew what to thnk in this very moment nor did he knew who Z was, but one Thing was clear. He was in serious rouble. But before he could examine his situation any further, the sound of footsteps close by tore him out of his thoughts. He turned around and saw a large bipedal reptile with feathers growing on it's head and arms. Powerful hindlegs held the creature in an upright position as one of the toes held a claw bigger than the others. Though it's jaws were closed the tips of sharp teeth were still visible for the assassin and given how long and sharp the claws on toes and fingers looked it was definitely a predator. Tatsumi had encountered similiar looking danger beasts and given his experiences with those he had a feling that this creature wasn't very friendly. Instinclty he reached for Incursio's key... only to find out that it wasn't at his back like it usually did.

"What? Are you kidding me? I'm pretty sure I had Incursio with me." Tatsumi exclaimed as the large reptile let out a hiss as it walked closer to Tatsumi, barring it's clawed hands. Seeing that he had no weapons nor a place to hide right now Tatsumi did the only reasonable thing in this moment. He ran away, but that only managed to awaken the creature's hunting instincts as it roared loudly and gave Tatsumi chase. "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THIS PLACE!" Tatsumi shouted on top of his lungs as he tried to outrun the predator behind him.

Meanwhile

A young woman laid on the ground close by to a shore as well, but a bit more hidden in the jungle behind it. She wore a black sleeveless shirt with a red tie around her neck, a red arm guard not much unlike that of a samurai and a black skirt while also wearing black shoes. On her hip were two swords. One was a long sheated katana with a red handle. The other was a steel grey shortsword with a red circular gem at the handle with a black cross on it.

The air was warm and moist, making it somewhat uncomfortable to sleep as the woman opened her red eyes and looked up, For a Moment she just looked up the clear blue sky as her mind tried to make sense of what had happened before. Her memories about how she got here and her last activities were Kind of blurry at the moment, but that was probably only because she had slept for who knew how long. She was Akame of Night Raid, one of the best if not the best assassin of the revolutionary army during the civil war. And together with her boss Najenda she was one of Night Raid's surviving members. Akame decided to sit up and look around.

"Where am I?" She asked quitely as she didn't recognized the landscape around her. Immediately she checked herself as she found everything in place. Which was Kind of strange since she remembered to be on the run after she took the blame for all of Night Raid's crimes during the civil war, forcing her to leave the newformed empire. She even had her teigu Murasame and the key of the teigu Incursio with her.

A look on the steel gray sword and it's chain gave her a feeling of sadness and guilt. After all it's former user had died right in her arms. Forcing down the Feeling before she could shed tears she looked around the area as her eyes fell on her left arm. A diamond shaped metallic Thing had imbed itself in it. Immediately Akame tried to get it out, but something in the back of her mind told her to stop. Also she had realized that the thing, whatever it was, was completely fused with her flesh. To get it out would mean to cut it out and in the worst case to chop her own hand off. Giving the device one last not-trusting look, she started walking.

Then her eyes saw something not far from her location. She couldn't out a finger on it, but it looked familiar to her. A single bit of dark grey clothes that peered through the leaves of the vegetation around her. Instinctly grabbing Murasame's handle Akame walked Forward as she came towards the treeline. When her eyes saw the object that got her attention she froze immediately.

Not even 10 meters from where she stood laid another girl on the ground not far from the shore. Wearing a black school girl uniform with a red tie, a black skirt and having a sheated katana laying next to her body she simply laid there and seemed to sleep. The hair was raven black and arranged in twin tails at the back. Akame knew her better than anyone else. And she remembered to have killed her. Her own little sister Kurome.

"Kurome..." Akame mumbled as she immediately ran to her. They might have been enemies in the civil war, but both loved each other like only they could. Quickly Akame put a hand on Kurome's neck to check her pulse. She felt a steady, slow and healthy heart beat. In this moment Akame couldn't help but smile as her eyes started to tear up. She didn't notice that her tears fell on Kurome's clothes, damping the fabric with tears as a groan came from the younger sibling. Opening her gray eyes she looked up to her crying and smiling big sister.

"Onee...chan..." Kurome said as she suddenly was pulled into a tight embrace by her sister, who buried her head in her shoulder.

"Kurome!" Akame cried. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry!" She kept crying. Kurome was a bit dazed from her sleep and had to take a Moment to regain her consciousness, but she knew what Akame meant. She remembered her death very good. However right now that didn't mattered at all. Here she was with her sister again, wherever here was. She did not care. She only cared for her sister that was crying on her shoulder. Kurome returned the hug and started to cry on her sister's shoulder as well, rambling apologies to her sister as well.

After a while both girls had calmed down as they simply sat down in the sand with their foreheads against each other.

*GGGGGRRRROOOOAAAARRRR*

This very touching Moment, however, was interupted by nothing else, but their stomachs, which grumbled in such a volume it resembled the battlecries of two fierce danger beasts, ready to tear eachother's throats out. Pulling away from one another and blushing in embarrassment they got up.

"We should look for something to eat soon and probably some shelter for the night." Akame said, trying to not look at Kurome.

"And wood for something to eat." Kurome added with a deadpan voice.

*GROOAARR*

Kurome's statement only made her own stomach grumble in agreement. Akame smiled at her sister as she ruffled her hair. The younger sister leaned into her Hand like a cat.

"Yeah that too." Akame said. Just as if whatever deity had heard their unspoken prayer suddenly something emerged from the treeline. Both Girls found themselves looking at a creature that they had never seen before. It looked like a rhino without horns, but long and thick legs and a thick long neck. It chew on a branch in it's mouth as it walked on the beach. Then however it stopped and looked at the two girls. The way they were looking at it made it feel very uncomfortable as it took a step backwards. It felt threatened by the two humans that were just larger than it's feet.

Both kept looking at the creature with their trademark stoic expression on their faces as suddenly both started to drool through their closed mouths. It might be comical to watch for humans, but it was a clear sign for any potential prey animal to flee immediately. They reached for their swords, which caused them to release even more bloodlust. The animal sensed this and bolted away as fast as it heavy body could carry it. Apparantly it wasn't that fast. In that moment both of them voiced out their thoughts in the same deadpan tone.

""Meat."" They said in unison as they gave the larger mammal chase with deadly intent.

Meanwhile

"Take this you shitty lizard!" A high pitched voice said as a loud explosion tore through the air. The scource of the sound was found rather quickly in this area which was a swamp. In the green of the plants and water the bright pink color of a short girl's clothes were rather obvious. She wore a skirt and shirt while her bright pink hair was tied in Long twin tails at the sides of her head. However, despite her rather childish attire and stature she held an item in her hand that wasn't fitting at all into the color scheme. A large metallic, futuristic-looking rifle, which emitted smoke from the barrel. The pink eyes of the girl looked at the now headless corpse of repitle that seemed to be a crocodile, but had much longer legs and purplish scales.

"Tsk, don't need to deal with that now." She said as she suddenly noticed that her foot was rather cold. Looking down she saw how she had accidentaly stepped into the murky water of the wamp, making her quickly withdraw her foot with an irked expression on her face. She had woken up about an hour now and also found herself in a very unfamiliar location. In her case even all alone safe for the implant on her right arm, her teigu Pumpkin (which was weird enough since she remembered it to be destroyed) and a letter like Tatsumi had receved it. Quickly regaining her composition she had set out to somehow leave this place behind.

However that was easier said than done. The swamp seemed to be endless. Left and right came insects like mosquitos to bite her and in the water she had already seen giant leeches as big as her own forearms, which was one reason why she tried to avoid the water. Not to mention the other creatures she had seen so far in this swamp. Giant dragonflies flew over her head, while strange amphibians with triangular heads crawled out the water from time to time to avoid something with many jagged fins on the back.

She could only guess as she was walking around looking for a way out of this green hellhole. Then there was the loud ripping sound of flesh being torn apart. The girl turned her head as she spotted the corpse of an elephant-like creature, which was barely bigger than a pig. Over this corpse loomed another reptilian creature with a large sail on it's back as it's head was currently sticking in the corpses open ribcage. It tore the head out as it revealed a lizard like head with big fangs and a big chunk of meat in it. Swallowing the meat whole it then set it's eyes on the girl and gave a warning hiss at her.

"Don't worry Mine. Just walk away." Mine said to herself as she walked in a wide arc around the creature, never turning her back to the animal as it followed with it's eyes and head the pinkette's movements. Sure she could use Pumpkin, but overusing a teigu even if you could wield it was taking a toll on the body, something that in this hostile area was like inviting death. Just as it seemed to be fine another creature butted in. From behind a large snake with frills around it's head hissed loudly at Mine, before lunging at her, only for her to dodge. However in the moment she had jumped backwards into the water. "Oh come on!" Mine groaned as she looked at her stained clothes. However her concern should swiftly direct itself from the state of her clothes to the large serpent which slid into the water and moved towards her. Mine quickly ran to the shore, the water slowled her down in her run.

The snake now was in reach and lunged at the girl. But when it's sharp needle like teeth were supposed to tear into the pinkette's flesh a large pair of jaws closed around it's Body instead. Mine, now being back on land, looked back at the loud splashing. A giant green crocodile, even bigger than the one from earlier bit down the snake which in return coiled it's body around the crocodile, trying to crush the crocodile.

"This place is so messed up." Mine said to herself as she ran through the swamp, trying to find a way out of the nightmare she had woken up to.

And that was it folks. Thanks for reading this very first chapter of this story. Please give me your opinion in the Reviews or PM me to tell me how I can make this story better.

Now for some potential open questions.

1. This fanfic takes place in the animeverse of Akame ga Kill! after the series' events. The manga ending of the series was awesome and I simply don't think it would be suitable in any way for this fanfic. Don't get me wrong I also liked the ending of the anime, but it was simply so sad to see all the characters you have grown to like to die one after another and hope until the end that at least the result would be worth the prize.

2. Obviously not every main character of Akame ga Kill! will be present in this fanfic. At first I had thought to put every member of the Jaegers and Night Raid into the ARK Project, but then I remembered unforgetable people like Bulat, Dr. Stylish and Bols. And I thought to myself 'What am I going to do with you. So I had to throw the idea of using everyone in this fanfic out of the window.

3. No I haven't played ARK myself. Yes I can hear you already mentally or openly yelling "Sacriledge!", but ARK is a relatively new game and still costs around 60 bucks where I live. Also my computer is not the newest one and it already couldn't deal the graphics of Evolve: Stage 2 so I don't really can play new games unless I buy a new computer. Not to mention that my time is mainly focused on studies so even if I had the required computer systems I wouldn't be able to play at all.

4. The pairings in this fanfic are decided already. The only Thing that could still Change them would be if I had to add another character in this Story. What I'm reveal now is just this. One of the pairings is TatsumixHarem. (Inception Noise)

5. Right now my Laptop somehow seems to hate me and makes trouble editing the documents in the doc manager. Tried 4 times to edit the new chapter for Nosferatu of Extinction and it crashed everytime I was writing in the process. And it were like 1000 words or so. (T-T) Half an hour...for nothing. I really wanted to upload it today. (T-T)

6. Critism, ideas and suggestions are always appreciated. So do not hold yourself back.

7. This is might be the first requested Story that I write, but that doesn't mean you don't have to like it or that I only write this to make that one person happy.

8. The question if I would put danger beasts into the ARK is not answered yet. Personally I really liked the design of some danger beasts like for example the Earth Dragon. So if you want them in this story or not is up to you.

9. There will be blood. Not just that of the creatures of ARK and not just that of the boss creatures. So I hope that will get your interest a little bit higher since early game of ARK is like all games at first. Gathering rescources, trying to not get killed and making progress at a snail's pace. Or in my case, dying over and over and over and over again until somehow managing to not get killed by the weakest opponent in the entire game. (I'm not really talented in survival games)

10. I'll try to keep make funny scenes in this story to lighten up the mood from time to time, but it will be serious for the most time as survival is not a walk through a park.

?: So then seems like everything went according to the plan.

Don Orbit: Yes, so far. But not all pieces have entered the field yet, Z. Speaking of which, did you put them on the field I told you to?

Z: Of course. But seriously do I really have to use this stupid nickname?

Don Orbit: Nope, but it makes things more interesting. Alright then boys and girls, I'll be off then. Until we see each other again. Oh and happy Halloween.