Note: This story takes place mainly after SuperS but there will be flashbacks to earlier seasons. Also a lot of the way things happen is AU (Maybe not completely but a lot of it).
The rain was coming down hard as Ami slowly walked down a hall towards her next class. But something was bothering her, she felt as if someone was watching her. Quickly shaking her head she made her way down the hall and into the classroom as looks around. 'No one else is here, yet maybe that's because I am 30 minutes early.' She thought as she looked around the room slowly before spotting a familiar red hair head, sticking up from the other end of the classroom.
'I stand corrected. Serito Threy is here early as normal today. He's the only other person who can match my knowledge, but he never looks like he's trying. And he's so quiet, he looks my way every so often and I get this feeling that I have met him before I started college. I just can't put my finger on it, there is something about him. Maybe I should try to talk to him today.' She finally decided as she walked over sitting in the chair next to him, as she glares at his laptop screen.
'Dimensional Portals? His math and physics concepts are out of this world. I shouldn't be reading this, but he seems to be staring into nothingness. He's in all my advance classes but some of this stuff is off the charts.' Ami looked at Serito carefully before he blinked and seemed to come back to reality, as he turns and looks at her. "Hello Miss Ami, early for class again today?" He laughs a bit before shaking his head. "If you keep doing that, people are going to think you have no life like me. So did you finish the assignment?"
Ami just nodded slowly, blushing a small bit. "Listen Serito, why don't we check over each other's work?" He seems to think for a minute and then nods. "Good idea." He slowly puts a couple of pieces of paper on the desk in front of her so she can look at them, as he looks over his slowly. Ami checked each problem very carefully and shook her head. 'How in the world can his answers be this correct? Even down to the last decimal place. He's something else, but why am I thinking about all this? I should be focusing on school not him!'
Serito slowly looked over her work, checking a few problems over twice. 'Very nice, she only missed one. The same one that I had to think twice about, she almost had it right but she didn't see the simpler solution so she lost track. Even in working out the problem she lost track. But she is still very smart and bright, the guy that marries her will be very lucky indeed.' He smiles and puts her paper down. "You only missed one, the very last one. It was a trick problem."
Ami nodded slowly and smiled. "I figured as much, I thought their had to be a simpler answer to the problem." He smiles and speaks, "There is, it looks like you saw it but second guessed yourself. But other then that you did pretty good." Ami blushed at his praise as she was going to say something, before his voice was heard again. "You know, you are a very bright and nice person Ami. You should have lots of suitors after you, but I see you always in the library or with that group of girls studying, why is that?"
Ami looked at him and wondered how to answer his question. "I..I..." Suddenly a voice saves her as another girl speaks out. "Leave Ami alone! You have no right to ask any type of personal questions you pervert!" Serito just turns and looks at the voice. "If you say so Miss Rei. Anyway, I have to get to my seat." He stands up and shuts the laptop case slowly as he looks at Ami and slowly takes his papers back from her. "I am sorry if I offended you, I was just curious. But what I said was true."
He simply looked at Rei and was about to speak before he saw the rest of their friends coming as he just walked higher up into the seating and sitting at the top all alone in a corner. "Ami, I get a bad vibe from him. I would be careful around him." Rei says, casting a glare towards Serito who has sat down and is back to typing on his laptop. "Rei, I think he's a nice guy, we were just checking over each other's assignments. I mean he's the smartest guy here at this school."
Rei sits down next to Ami and sighs softly. "Ami, I don't think he's as smart as he gets people to believe, I think he's creepy and I get bad vibes off of him." Ami says nothing as the other girls take a seat next to Ami and Rei. "Hey guys, was Serito being his normal quiet stuck up self?" Lita asked as she sat next to Rei. "He's not that bad. I saw him outside helping the kids across the street get there cat out of a tree a couple of days ago." Mina says sitting at the very end.
"Better yet did he make it moves on Ami?" Serena says while looking at Ami wanting to get all the information she could out of the poor girl. "No we just checked each other's work. I thought it would be a nice break while we waited for everyone else to show up." Ami says as she looks at Serena. "Besides, I am still having dreams about him." Ami says looking down at the table. Serena looks at her friend sadly before speaking. "I am still so sorry about that Ami, he was protecting us and I couldn't heal him afterwards. My Silver Crystal just wouldn't work."
Ami just nodded slowly, "It's not your fault Serena. He knew what might happen, so he gave his life to save us. It was my fault, if I hadn't tripped and misfired my attack, then he would still be here." Ami wiped a few tears away before looking straight ahead. "Ami, we don't even know who he was, all we know is he showed up in the Jet Black Armor and with that Black Sword to help defend you. But he always showed up when we needed him most like Darien does."
The girls all share looks at how depressed Ami had become and they decided to cheer her up. "Hey I have an idea! After class why don't we all go to the new technology exhibit they are having downtown. I heard it should have a lot of new and neat things." Lita said while looking at Ami. Ami just nodded weakly and smiled softly at her friends attempt to help cheer her up as more students began to file into the class room. Soon after the bell rung as the instructor came in and started his lesson for the day.
Later that day
The girls walked into the exhibit and were shocked at how packed it was. "Wow, I can't believe this many people came to check out this exhibit. It must have some cool toys or video games!" Serena said looking around before dragging Ami with her as she ran off. "Well it looks like they are going to go hunt games, should we go see what we can find to do?" Lita asks. "Sure why not. Maybe they have a program that can build the perfect boyfriend." Mina says as she gets starry eyed. The other two girls she sigh and walk away to explore the exhibit.
Serena drags Ami to where they have the new video games sitting around. "There should be lots of fun ones here!" Serena said as she looks around slowly. Ami looks ad spots a sign talking about a VR game and points the way. "Serena why don't we go check out the VR game, it sounds nice." Ami states, Serena quickly nods as they both head to the VR room where monitors show the action from inside the game going on. Ami looks at the action as she watches one character on screen destroys two more yokua without even trying.
"Wow whoever that is playing him is good." Serena mumbles out, as Ami pauses for a few minutes before answering. "Yeah you should think so, he moves the character so flawlessly. Almost as if he was used to fighting, I wonder who is controlling it?" Suddenly the crowd begins cheering as a fast beat of music starts to play as the character on screen is fighting hard and fast, almost as the game sends everything it has after him. 'Amazing, whoever is controlling that is a very good fighter. I mean there combat form even in a virtual world seems to be almost perfectly in sync.' Ami thinks while still watching.
The other three girls made it into the VR room as they watched with the crowd the screen. As a voice announced over a voice system, "Is anyone brave enough to step into the arena to help the Champion? Any takers?" Lita nods at Rei as they both push to the front and get one of the guys running its attention. They both sign up and are soon in the VR world as the other person runs past them after a yokua. He simply runs up a wall before pushing himself off and grabbing the yokua by the head before throwing it up against the wall very hard before it disappears signaling death.
He just looks at the two new arrivals and points behind them as there is a huge army of yokua. He just walks up to them and drops into a fighting stance as they get the idea and do the same. "This will be fun." Lita says as the Yokua charge them and the fighting starts. They seem to be doing really good as the guy saves both of them a couple of times as he seems to be almost inhuman with the way he fights. He stands in front of Lita and Rei as the groups of Yokua are defeated as he smirks.
"Amazing! They have managed to defeat the mighty Yokua army! Now only one last fight awaits them! The Yokua boss!" Someone says over the voice system as the screens show a huge red beast, with black wings, slowly pulling itself out of the ground. "That thing is the boss?" Rei asks looking at it as the guy just nods and smirks. He suddenly charges towards it as the two girls follow behind him as they begin to fight with it. The boss manages to grab Rei and tosses her to the ground pretty hard as she bounces a couple of times.
"Take this!" Lita says as he manages to knock the boss over with a kick to the head, but it quickly shakes it off and gets up charging her. It makes contact with he, sending her sliding next to Rei. "For a VR monster, this thing is tough." Rei spits out as it charges them. Suddenly the boss is hit in the stomach up a fist from no where as the man stands there as he smirks. He then pulls his fist back as he hits it square in the face. The boss stumbles back a few steps as Rei and Lita charge it together and deliver a double kick to it's face as it falls off the end of a huge platform as the environment around them vanishes, signaling their win.
They both stand up as the VR stuff is removed from them as Ami and Serena clap and cheer them on. "Amazing! The Boss was defeated with the help of our Champion and his two defenders! Everyone give a hand to the two defenders!" The voice says as spot lights shine on Lita and Rei as people are clapping like mad. "And now then, for our Champion." A slick black enclosure is pushed up as it slowly opens as a nicely dressed man in a business suit steps out, the VR helmet on his head.
"Give it up for your Champion, the hero! Chairman of The Sertye Corporation and Creator of this VR Technology." The voice says as lots of people were clapping as the voice picked back up, as the man slowly pulled off his helmet. "Serito Threy, Founder of The Sertye Corporation! Your beloved Champion!" He puts the helmet down as lots of people were cheering about the show as soon the lines where opened for anyone to try as he walked over to a booth to help answer any questions.
Lita and Rei say nothing as they walk back over to their other friends. "Wow, he's amazing! How in the world did he learn to fight so well?" Serena says while looking at the others. "No clue, but I guess he's not the nerd everyone thinks he is." Lita says softly. They just look towards him as he talks to a few other people who ask him questions about it, as suddenly there is a loud scream from the crowd as a monster seems to be attacking.
"What in the…" Serito gets cut off as the monster begins to destroy stuff as everyone panics and begins to run off as the girls disappear into a backstage setup area, making sure no one was around as they transform. While they where transforming Serito was helping get everyone out of the area as suddenly the monster knocks him flying through two walls as the Scouts run in catching the end of the hit. "No! That monster!" Mercury spits out.
"Worry about him later, let's just take out this monster!" The others say as a battle was about to begin.