It was an average day in Miyako City. Men, women, children, bustling for here to there and back all in a random but somehow orderly way.

"Out of the way!" A voice yelled. A boy with long messy brown hair that got in his eyes ran past, his long purple and black striped hoodie and baggy jeans swaying in the wind. He had run through a puddle soaking his black and white high tops and the bottom of his jeans but didn't stop.

He ran through a group of people fixing his black goggles.

Finally after what seemed an eternity of this boy running had stopped as he turned into a building. the building he had stepped into was tall and very colorful with different colors ranging from bright yellow to dark black in a random arrangment. Different soungs echoed from the open door as sounds of gun shots and bubbles, bells and screams.

This was the arcade.

The boy had walked to the counter as a large teenage boy with black hair, a Black hoodie with red skulls on it, headphones, and a red visor on his head turned to him with a smile from behind it.

"Hey, Kaito." The boy greeted as he reached into his pocket,

"Hey, Conare what's up?" Kaito greeted as he took the money the boy had put on the counter, replacing it with a decent amount of gold colored tokens.

"Not much, just ran here as usual." Conare grinned grabbing the tokens and placing them in his pocket. Interesting... A voice said from inside Conare's mind. He blinked buit ignored it, putting it off as his imagination.

"Well, have fun." Kaito smiled as Conare walked away. "I know he's just a kid but there's something special about him..." Conare thought Kaito mumbled as he turned to the register. Conare shrugged and walked towards one of his favorite games.

Conare put a token into the coin slot of the game as he grabbed the controls. The game started and Conare entered his own little world.

Monster to the left. Gone with the click of a button. Monster to the left gona as well. Eventually Conare had beaten the game with only the use of one token.

This pattern followed him to the next game, And the next. And the one after that. Soon all the games in the arcade had been beaten.

Conare sighed as he finished the last game. "I need a challenge..."

I can give you a challenge.

These words appeared on the screen of the game he had been playing. Conare blinked.

I repeat, I can give you a challenge.

"W-W-What kind of challenge?"

Head to the elevator and look at the metal next to the buttons. Place your hand on it and the metal will slide revealing a secret button. Press it and you will have the most amazing expirience in your life. Goodbye.

Suddenly the game had turned itself off. Conare struggeled to make a decision. Should he go and find out what amazing expirience the machine had spoke of, or was it some kind of trap that could end in his doom? Conare weighed the pro's and Con's until he came up with the decision. He would go.

Slowly Conare walked to the elevator in the back. Nobody was supposed to touch it except employee's. Slowly Conare pressed the button.

The elevator doors opened to reveal a sliver elevator with a strange melody echoing out the door. Conare walked into it as the doors closed behind him.

Connor looked to see a row of elevator buttons with a strange metal panel next to it. Nervously Conare placed his palm and fingers on the cool metal.

The panel somehow changed color's then slid to the side making Conare retract his hand. A button different in size and shape then the other buttons was the thing the panel hid.

Slowly Conare moved his index finger and grazed the button.

"It's now or never,"

The button was pressed.

Slowly Conare felt the movement of the elevator as it slowly went up. Conare became more and more anxious to what was waiting for him at the top of this metal box.

Eventually the elevator slowed to a stop. The doors opened to reveal a large dark room.

"Come in Conare."

Conare's stomach scrunched a bit at the sound of his name but slowly entered the room.

"Conare, I've watched you today. Your agility, strength, coordination, and such is obvious in your activites. I believe you may be one of few people to be able to have this."

Conare blinked but suddenly he felt something, a tingiling feeling in his palm. He raised his hand to find a type of device somehow materializing in bits and pieces until it revealed to be a purple, lavender, and black device in his hand.

"Call it a Xros Loader."

"Xros Loader..." Conare said quietly to himself.

"I believe you have a chance to be great Conare do not dissapoint me. Welcome to the hunt. Time Shift!"

Suddenly three colorful rungs appeared in the room as a sihlouette of a man and some other creature ran into them dissapering.

Conare was finally able to breath again yet the voice's words echoed in his head. "Welcome to the hunt..." Conare reapeated the words. "What does that mean?"

He thought about it as he slowly turned and exited the room through the elevator.