"Okay, class! The test is over! Please hand your tests to the person in front of you!" Our teacher announced the end of our math finals. The whole class sighs with relief. It's the last day before summer break! I think to myself. Of course everyone wants to get out of this class as soon as possible; because why not?
My name is Hiroshi. Hiroshi Fujita. I'm a student at your typical high school. I have the messy, black hair of a cliche protagonist, light blue eyes, and I'm around 5'10. Although I am still a freshman at Ksugakari High, there are currently less than four hours of school left before summer break.
I pass my test to the person in front of me as I watch the rest of the students hand in their papers. The bell rings and our teacher, Mr. Jameson, announces our lunch period. Everyone rushes out of the classroom except for me and a couple other people-my friends.
A short brunette walks up to me and sits across from me, setting her lunchbox in front of me. "Hey, Hiroshi, how do you think you did on the test?"
This is Azuki. I guess you could say the she's that popular girl at school that everyone likes. Although she's only 5'3, you shouldn't underestimate her. She can beat the whole football club without breaking a sweat- she also broke the record of most laps ran under 3 minutes with 16 laps. She's also a straight A student, acing every class she takes, no matter the assignment.
"I'm not sure. I doubt I'm gonna get an A like you. I'm not very good at math," I say with a sigh as a blonde guy pulls me into a playful headlock from behind.
This is Kazumi. Kazumi is your typical athlete who's literally as skilled as a pro athlete. Although he excels in athletics, he fails miserably in every other class. One could call the three of us the "Stereotypical Characters."
"I bet I'm gonna get an F, because I'm horrible at all subjects," Kazumi groans as I laugh.
Azuki, on the other hand, furrows her brow in response. "Kazumi, that's a big no-no! You can't fail this class! Come to my house after school; we'll study more there!"
"What!?" His face scrunches up and he begins to pout. "I'm not gonna waste my summer break doing that bullshit! Let's do something else!" Azuki puffs out her cheeks in annoyance to Kazumi's complaint.
"Can we go to the cafeteria now?" I interrupt the two from getting into a fight, half choking as Kazumi's grip tightens up at Azuki's comment. The athlete loosens his grip, allowing me to rub my sore neck. I get up, and the others follow me out the door.
We enter the cafeteria and find an empty table. As we start eating our meals, a girl approaches our group. It was our student president: Sayaka Hiroma.
"Hiroshi Fujita, the headmistress requests for your presence," She says, looking at me with a smile.
"O-okay…" I stutter and follow her out of the door.
Walking outside, we start to make our way to the headmistress' office. Personally, I have never been inside her office, but I've heard from rumors that the inside is classified as "very interesting".
Turning towards Sayaka, I glance towards the big building; the headmistress' office. "Hey, I haven't done anything wrong this year. Why are you bring me here?"
She shrugs and glances at me. "You're not in trouble, so don't worry. The headmistress just asked me to bring you into her office, that's all I know. It seems like it's something that's top secret and only you are allowed to know about."
"Alright, thanks for letting me know." She nods and takes her leave, leaving me in front of the door to the headmistress' building. Opening the door, I step in.
Taking a deep breath, I look around the room, immediately thrown off by the organization of the office. It looks just like an ordinary room, except that everything that you'd find in a house... was all compacted into the same room. It truly was quite the interesting design.
From my right, I hear a voice call out to me. "Do you know why I called you here?" I shook my head, not moving my lips, simply because I wouldn't dare say the wrong thing.
The headmistress stands up and walks towards me. "I just had you come to give you a letter that came in from someone who goes by the name 'Noire'." I give her a blank stare and she pulls out an envelope to prove her point.
I take it and look at her. "Why couldn't have you just give it to me after school?" She picks up what looks like a note and she hands it to me.
On the note, it says, "Give this to Hiroshi Fujita immediately". Other than that, there's nothing else.
"When should I open it?" I ask her, turning the letter over in my hands for any recognition. Nothing.
"Who knows?" She smirks. "You can figure that out on your own. Don't rely on me too much, Hiroshi."
Exiting the office, I hear the headmistress quickly add, "Earlier, I had gotten a message from an unknown user, and they said it was a very valuable letter, so I wouldn't suggest opening it during school hours." I thank her and head towards my last class of my second year at Ksugakari High.
"Holy crap! That was, like the longest school day ever!" I groan as Azuki, Kazumi and I walk out of the classroom.
Azuki looks at me with a grin. "Hey, at least it's the end of the school year! That's probably why you felt it was a pretty long day. Or week. Or month. Or yea-"
"Okay! We get the point Azuki! Let's go do something to start the break off with a bang!" Kazumi cuts her off, running down the steps, officially starting our break.
~Meanwhile~
Dear Hiroshi Fujita,
I am Noire, CPU of Lastation, or I should say, Ruler of Lastation. I come from a dimension called Gamindustri and we have been under attack by an evil force that goes by the name, 'the Seven Sages'. I found your world, the so-called "Earth", and I have been researching to see if there would be anywhere that would be safe in that dimension. With enough research, I had managed to find your high school, Ksugakari High, and I have appointed you to be my guardian. I know I might not be able to transform, knowing that I will probably be thrown into a different dimension, cutting off the source of power to let us transform in the first place, within the next few days you read this. Therefore, if I end up going to Earth, I grant you the authority to be my guardian.
I look forward to meeting you,
Noire Blackheart
I set the piece of paper down, rereading my letter again and again, making sure I didn't messed up on my SOS. I really hope this works. If what Kei said was true, then the concoction that she made for us should work. I pull out a vial that had an orange liquid in it from a cabinet and swirl it around, recalling what had happened a couple of days ago.
~ Flashback ~
"Hey, Kei! I have a request for you!" I call out to the Oracle of Lastation, walking into our basilicom.
"What is it, m'lady?" She turns to me with a smile as she puts down the papers she had been working on.
"How many times do I have to tell you not to call me m'lady!? That was not my question!" I shake my head with a sigh. "Anyway! So recently, I've been talking with Histoire about if there possibly could be different dimensions besides this one and today I just got a message from her saying that there are, in fact, different dimensions outside of Gamindustri. She says that there's a dimension that has almost the same exact lifestyle our our dimension is called, 'Earth.' So I was wondering, since you specialize in crafting elixirs, if you could make Uni and me an elixir to be able to go to Earth."
I wait patiently for Kei's response as she furrows her brow, putting a hand to her chin, probably thinking about some chemical equation for how to create the elixir.
"Sure, I'd be happy to do it. You just need to get me the material to make it," She says and I nod, pulling out a notebook and paper.
"What would you like me to get for you?" I pull out a piece of paper, my pen in hand.
~After collecting the ingredients~
"Gah! It's even harder to get to the destination than it is collecting the items!" I groan as I slump down on a chair in the basilicom, taking the ingredients out of my inventory and setting them down on the table.
"At least you got them before sundown. Now I can finish this by tomorrow!" Kei says, happily taking the items and rushing off into her lab.
Before she closes her door she looks back at me, "In order to successfully use the ability of the potion, chant the words 'Bring me back to reality.'"
~ End of flashback ~
"Hey, Sis! Do you have your work done for today?" Uni calls out to me, almost making me drop the precious vial in surprise as she interrupted my thoughts.
"Y-yes I am finished for now," I stutter, folding up the letter and place it in my drawer. Getting up, I help her carry the heavy stack of papers to a filing cabinet.
Uni is the CPU Candidate of Lastation-my younger sister. I'm doing my best to help Uni become an independent, hard working girl so that she can take care of herself if I'm ever on a mission without her.
Uni, like me, is a pale-fair skinned girl with long black, almost light blue colored, hair with most of it worn down reaching her chest. Some of it worn in pigtails held with light blue and black ribbons. Her eyes are red like mine but are darker in comparison. Uni's color scheme consists of black, milky blue, and white/silver. She normally wears a black dress with milky blue lining, an odd belt like piece with a bow behind it and a big circle with white lining connecting the dress to her collar. She wears long fingerless black gloves with milky blue coloring at the top and similar colored short boots. Unlike me, who wields a rapier, Uni uses a long sniper rifle in combat.
Suddenly hearing a buzz from my desk, I quickly file the papers in my hand and head over to the phone.
Picking up the phone, there was a message. "Everyone! Come here quick! There's trouble here in Planeptune! It's the Seven Sages again!" Damn it. It's them again. I hope we can finish this off quickly enough that I can finish my work. I clench my teeth, hooking the belt carrying my rapier around my waist.
"Hey, Uni, it looks like the Seven Sages are back in business so we're gonna head over there now. Go grab your rifle and we'll head out," I call out to Uni and she nods, quickly setting down the papers before rushing to her room to get ready for battle.
The Seven Sages are a group of evildoers that have only one goal: To make Gamindustri a land where only there's one ruler, and one land. Since there's the four nations, Planeptune, Lastation, Lowee and Leanbox, with each a CPU, Console Patron Unit, the Seven Sages have been targeting us and trying to eliminate us. This war started decades ago, and yet we still have been fighting back and forth, improving our powers and skills each time we fight.
"Make sure you pack some revival potions and healing potions! This could get pretty rough since we saw what happened last battle," Uni says, slinging her rifle around her shoulder. I nod and quickly pull open a cabinet, pulling out enough potions, elixirs and scrolls for each of our comrades to have two.
"Hey, Uni. Drink this too before we go. It's a very important elixir that Kei crafted for us." I hand her the elixir, which held the special orange concoction in it, and we both drink the liquid. Closing my inventory screen, I toss a teleport scroll at Uni, who catches it and we both teleport to Planeptune.
"Is everything alright!?" I call out into the battlefield to see blasts and flashes across my field of view. I notice Nepgear running towards us in her HDD form and I wave to her.
"Everyone else is here so don't worry! We've already taken out two of the seven!" She shouts as another blast makes the ground shake.
"Let's not waste anymore time talking, Uni! Let's go!" She nods and we both rush into combat.
The first of the Sages that we run into is Copypaste, the giant mech. Transforming into my HDD form, I summon my sword and besides me, Uni glows a bright white and turns into her HDD form.
"Well if it isn't the Lastation sisters." Copypaste turns his tracts towards us and his eyes flash a bright red with a cackle, "You're never going to beat me with that toothpick and that nerf gun of yours. All it takes is a hit to the head and you guys are down!" He taunts us but we pay no attention to him as we give each other the signal to start the attack.
"Defeating us won't be that easy, you clump of metal!" I shout as he reaches out to grab me but I dodge his hand and stab my sword into his arm, dragging it up his metallic arm as I get closer and closer to his core.
"Gah! Like that puny sword will ever kill me!" The giant robot shakes it's arm, flinging me off of him. I quickly regain my balance and jet back towards him as Uni takes a few more shots at his face throwing him off guard.
"Infinite Slash!" I chant the skill as my blade glows a bright white. I dash around him, taking wide slashes at Copypaste's body, hearing him creak and limp forward as oil spurts out of each gash I make. From behind me as I put away my sword I hear the mech's parts fall apart and crash to the floor with a loud "thud!"
"Three down, four more to go!" I exclaim, summoning my wings, flying deeper into the battle.
"Foolish CPU's! You'll never be able to beat me at this rate!" A woman cloaked in pitch black smoke and red lightning cackles as she shoots a bolt of anti-CPU energy at one of our comrades, Neptune, who had fallen unconscious somehow, most likely from the attack from the woman. That wasn't good at all because she was the most powerful out of the eight of us. We find everybody fighting Arfoire, the most powerful of the Seven Sages. Although it was eight against one, it didn't seem like we, the eight, were going to win against the powerful enchantress.
Vert and Blanc, a spear wielder and a hammer user, had been flung back into a building, snapping their spines as they attempted to gang up on Arfoire. As Neptune was lying on the ground, immobilized from a black bind, her sister, Nepgear, takes the front and defends her fallen comrades.
"Don't hurt my friends, you evil woman!" Nepgear slices her way through the dark matter and takes a stab at Arfoire. The powerful enchantress barely has to move a finger before delivering a powerful wave of dark energy at Nepgear, sending her flying into Ram, knocking the two CPU candidates unconscious.
Uni jumps onto the branch of a tree and takes the chance to shoot Arfoire in her blind spot, shattering a segment of her wings, disabling her ability to fly. Before Uni can even react, Arfoire appears in front of her with a smirk, stabbing her right through the heart with the fallen Neptune's sword.
I watch in horror as the scene unfolds. Uni's bleeding body falls out of the tree and onto the ground, Arfoire laughing like a maniac, Nepgear and Ram unconscious on top of each other, Neptune struggling to move her body to protect the others. I quickly turn back into my CPU form and dash towards Uni, quickly picking her body up, knowing that if I waste time, it could be the end for all of us. Hoping that Arfoire didn't notice, which wasn't likely at all, I dash towards an abandoned shelter that had some of the roof torn apart due to the our fight. The light in Uni's eyes was slowly fading as I shakily pulled out a flask from my inventory.
"Come on, Uni... Please stay alive! Please!" Popping the cap off, I quickly make Uni drink the remedy. I sigh with relief as Uni's unnatural colored skin slowly goes back to its normal color along with the giant gash in her chest. Pressing a finger to Uni's lips, we sneak outside to find Arfoire waiting in front of the building with a smirk on her face.
"Are you two ready to have your lives end here!?" She cackles as I see a pitch black ball of energy forming above her head as she starts chanting a spell. I dig my heels into the ground as Uni hides behind me, her gun ready.
"Although this might not be perfected, I will show you my new power! Behold!" She continues to chant the spell and a dark purple, almost black, circle appears beneath Uni and I. My body freezes, Uni's grip against my clothing tightens and I grit my teeth in fear.
"Oh? Are you giving up? Well, then goodbye CPUs and Gamindustri!" Arfoire cackles loudly and the two of us start falling into the mass of dark energy below us hearing the last of the Seven Sages walk off, cackling even louder as she walks away, leading us to our doom.
"Bring me back to reality," I mumble and a white light suddenly fills my vision, making the two of us pass out.
~Author's Note!~
Hey, everyone! Thanks so much for checking out this first chapter of my first fanfic! How'd you like it? Was it good? Was it bad? Thanks again for supporting me by reading this story; it means a lot to me even if you aren't interested in reading the next chapters. Anyway, have an amazing day!