"Okay once you see any indication of what we're looking at get ready to blast it!" a young man in black said as a smoke cloud appeared.
"Any time now Kirito!" a brunette said
"KIRITO!" a chestnut hair girl said
"NOW!" Kirito said, as several different monsters
"VOLCANIC STRIKE, SHOGUN SWORD, THUNDER BALL, CAT'S SNOWBALL, TEAR ARROW, NOVA BLAST, METEOR WING, HOWLING BLASTER, HAND OF FATE, ROSETTA STONE, HARPOON TORPEDO, ELECTRO SHOCKER, NEEDLE SPRAY, BLAST RINGS, GOLD RUSH, VEE-LASER, SPIKING STRIKE!" the attacks were called out impacting where the smoke cloud was.
"Did we get it?" a young man in samurai styled clothing asked nervously.
"I don't think so" the brunette from before said as something descended into their view.
"Oh no, it can't be!" a red hair guys shouted
"That's what was on floor 100!" the girl said from before
"What is that thing?" Kirito asked.
"That is Doom digitised" the brunette said
2 years ago
"Are you this is a good idea Davis?" a boy with wild and messy brown hair said
"Hey don't blame me, Izzy's the one who said we should do this, you know" Davis said
"I don't see why we should be playing a game online when we could be out there playing soccer" The brunette said
"Because Izzy thinks that Digimon could somehow infiltrate the game or something like that" Davis said
"Like that could ever happen" the brunette said as he arrived at his friends house, once he got in there the pair saw twelve areas set up, each one with a Nerve-Gear helmet to play the latest VRMMORPG: Sword Art Online
"Ah there you guys are, we're just about to get ready" Izzy said, a red haired young man with a high intelligence.
"So do you really think a digimon attack will occur in the game?" a blonde young man said.
"I hope not Matt, but we better be there just in case" Izzy said "Okay, time for the fun and games to begin.
"So how do we start?" Tai asked as he laid down on the bench between his sister Kari and his girlfriend Mimi.
"Just say Link-Start" Izzy said
"Okay, on 3" Tai said "1...2...3" he counted
"LINK START!" they all said as the login and starting screen appear. Soon all they saw was white.
Davis slowly opened his eyes and looked around, it was almost like he had stepped into the digital world, however there were no monsters only humans in a fantasy setting.
"Not bad, not at all" Davis said turning around to see his friends in light leather armour, with tunics the colour of either their D-3s or crests.
"This is intense, hey Izzy are you sure we're not in the digital world?" Tai asked pulling out a simple one handed sword and twirled it around
"Oh I'm quite sure Tai" Izzy said, "Anyway we better get some grinding done" he said
"Good idea Izzy" Sora, one of the female digidestined said. Davis looked around as he gripped his sword. He paused suddenly seeing a player with shoulder length black hair.
"No way, Hey Kirito!" Davis said running over to the new player.
"Hey Davis, I didn't know you were into SAO" the player called Kirito said
"Yeah, well my friends and I decided to try it out" Davis said smiling.
"Cool, come on I know a good spot for some basic grinding" Kirito said as he led the digidestined to a spot, along the way they met Klein who asked Kirito for some help figuring out the game. Kirito agreed and took his group to the wild where they ran into some boars. The girls laughed as Klein was knocked back by a boar, only to see Kirito take it down with a rock. Off to the side Ken and Izzy were checking their digivices.
"No sign of any digimon" Ken said
"Let's just hope we're that lucky" Izzy said "It's getting late, we should log out"
"HEY What gives?" They heard Klein said
"What's going on" Ken said
"The logout option missing" Klein said
"Are you sure its not a bug or something?" Kirito asked as all the others checked too.
"Izzy what do you make of it?" Tai asked
"I'm not sure, for all we know it could be one of those launch day bugs; better contact the system administrator" Izzy said
"Oh well, somebody will be along when they noticed we're missing for dinner and remove the headgear." Matt said
"But I live alone" Klein said
"My mum and sister will realise something's up when I'm not there for dinner
"Dude, you have a sister, is she hot?" Klein asked
"Could you um focus on what's important here?" Matt said
"I don't know, something doesn't feel right here" Cody said
"I Agree" Izzy said sternly as a bell went off in the distance
"Something tells me that's not the dinner bell Tai said
"Guys, we've got a problem! I just tried reaching the GM and nothing happened!" Davis exclaimed
"That can't be right, thgey should be!" Izzy said before everything flashed brilliant white
"There" Izzy finished seeing themselves in the town of beginning "How did we get here?"
"A mass teleport?" Klein asked
"Okay, now I know something's wrong Be ready for anything!" Tai commanded shifting into digidestined form with the others. Suddenly the sky was filled with red hexagons
"WHAT IS THAT!" Klein said pointing the bleeding sky which formed into a hooded figure
"Okay, now I'm officially freaked out" Davis said
"This can't be happening Yolie whimpered
"It can't be!" Izzy gasped
"You want to fill us in her Izzy" Joe said
"That has to be Akihito Kayaba!" Izzy said
"Attention players Welcome to Sword Art Online" Kayaba said "Welcome to my world"
"What does he mean by 'his world?" Kirito asked
"I am the only one who can control." Kayaba said "I'm sure most of you have already noticed that the logout button is missing from your main menus, this is not a bug or a glitch, but a feature of SAO" he said
"What?" Kirito asked
"No logout button, then how are we suppose to exit the game?" Yolie asked.
"I have a bad feeling that we're about to find out!" Tai said.
"You cannot logout out of SAO, and no one outside can logout you out by removing the headgear, for if they do so a transmitter inside the Nervegear will discharged a Microwave pulse frying your brain thus ending you life. " Kayaba said
"He's bluffing" TK said
"I don't think so, the Nervegear works on microwaves, and if the safeties were to be disabled then, they would fry your brains instantly" Kirito said
"But that's nuts!" Klein said
"And to those who think this is a bluff, I assure you its not" Kayaba said as several news screens appeared "Despite my warning several player's friends and families have done just that killing them in the process" he went one "As a result, 213 players have died while playing SAO!
"No, no it can't be" Mimi cried.
"Impossible" Joe said
"You monster!" Davis cried out
"As a result the news coverage has increased including the deaths, so take comfort in that while you are trying to clear the game no nervegears will be removed"
"YOu bastard!" TK snarled
"Please not that when you're life points hit zero, there can be nothing done to revive a player, for when you hit zero in SAO you will hit zero in real life
"NO!" Kari shouted
"That Son of a bitch!" Kirito declared.
"There is only one way for a player to escape now, attain victory. Each time you conquer a dungeon the next floor will open up, get to floor 100 and you will clear the game"
"IZzy, please tell me you know how far the beta players got in the month long beta?" Tai asked
"Floor 8 was the highest I got to" Kirito said
"Its impossible, not even the beta testers got to floor 10!" Klein said
"One last little thing, I have placed an item in your inventory, a little welcoming gift so to speak, please open it now if you would
"Please tell me something I can shove up his ass once we get to floor 100!" Tai said opening his menu
"Easy Tai" Sora said,
"A mirror" Kirito said as he opened it, soon the entire area started to flash white
"Are you okay Kirito?" Klein asked
"Yeah I am, but who are you?" Kirito said no longer seeing the long haired warrior, instead in front of him was a lanky looking man with spiked hair.
"Who am I, who are you?" Klein asked making Kirito look in the mirror to see himself instead of his avatar.
"Okay, this is weird" Davis shouted
"We look like our real world selves" Sora said
"The mirror must have made our avatars look like ourselves in the real world!" Izzy figured out. Soon everyone went from looking like all average fit adults to people with various ages, body types and genders
"But how could he figure out what we look like?" Klein asked
"There's a high density scanner in the headgear, that's how he got how we look" Kirito said
"As for height and body type, it must have been from the physical calibration where you had to pat yourselves down
"Why would he do this?" Kari asked
"Right now you are probably wondering why, why would Akihito Kayaba creator of Sword Art Online do this, well the answer is simple, I wanted to make a world of my own design and rule it." Kayaba said
"Kayaba" Kirito hissed
"As you can see I have achieved my goal, and with that the tutorial of SAO has ended and now players I wish you the best of luck." he disappearing
After moments of stunned silence a young girl cried out driving everyone into a frenzy
"SHIT!" Tai cursed
"What do we do now Tai?" Mimi asked
"I have no idea" Tai said "But maybe, try and control the crowd get them into groups and lead them into safer areas, after that we can think of something else" Tai said
"Alright" Sora said, Tai noticed Kari was afraid
"We will get through this, we should be better at this than everyone else, I mean we were in the digital world, okay so now things are worse, but hey they were back then too, so we can die in here, so what. We survived a giant metal seasnake, a vampire, we've seen and angel and devil fight to the point of deletion, we were chased by a skeleton, sunbaked and much more, and after all that we're still here and together. For we are the digidestined! And now instead of saving the real and digital worlds we have to save the Virtual World's inhabitants from death" Tai said
"No words could have been more spoken, so let's do our jobs and save the world" Matt said as he took off.
"All for one, and one for all" Davis said
"Its now or never!" Matt said
"LET'S SAVE THE WORLD!" they all cheered.
It wasn't long before over a month since the game started 2,000 players lost their lives, and the floor has yet to be cleared. But little did we know or anyone else that things would be getting more and more interesting. For the day Kayaba trapped over 10,000 people inside a VRMMORPG, a hooded figure stood outside the area, seeing several people glowing in his vision. The figure smiled before looking outwards and seeing a small green looking vortex.
"Things are getting more and more interesting" he said
DIGIMON SWORD ONLINE
Next time: Digidestined