Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts or its characters. If I did, well, let's just say this game would be Rated T instead of E. I just own my OC's, the plot, and the Program.

A/N: Okay, talking about the Program really quick, if you think I stole it from something, please tell me in a PM and DO NOT review me about it. The information I want you to disclose in the PM would be: the story I might have gotten the Program from and who wrote it or made it. I will then put a disclaimer about it.

Anyway, official stuff over, I really hope you guys like this story! Because this is my fourth rewrite of it! Enjoy!

Chapter 1

The Day (Before) My Life Changed

Liz's POV

I'm just going to say this ahead of time: I swear to God I didn't do it. This time.

Okay, now that that's out of the way, let's get on with the story.

"Elizabeth Katherine Hamilton, get your ass down here!" a shrill voice interrupted me from my much-needed slumber. I groaned in response.

You know how most people have an alarm clock? I have my sister. Somehow, I managed to force my head up from the pillow and look at the clock. 8:54. I groaned and my head plummeted back into the pillow. It should be a crime to get up this early during summer vacation. I could hear the stomps coming up the stairs, but I didn't bother moving. I moved when a bucket of ice cold water splashed onto me. I knew it was coming, but that didn't stop me from getting pissed off.

"What the hell was that for?!" I cried as I rose up from my bed.

"Good. You're up," Tori said with a cheeky grin. I glared at her hatefully. "Get ready, Will's visiting today."

That's when I shot up like a rocket and hit the shower. How the hell could I forget about Will, my own brother, visiting from college? The minute I finished my five minute shower, I ran around my messy (using the word VERY lightly in this case) room to find half-decent clothes. Finally, I managed to dig up a somewhat clean shirt and a pair of old jeans. I looked to Tori again who shrugged in approval. I ran out the room and slid down the railing downstairs where my mother was waiting.

"Good, you're finally up. I'm sure you've been keeping Will waiting," Mom said.

"Don't bother trying to reprimand her, mother. She'll just do it again," Tori said at the end of the staircase. She was always so official and uptight, never bothered acting relaxed at home.

"Well, I'm awake and fully energized, so let's get going! Oh, and—" I started, reaching for the keys. But Tori grabbed them before I could.

"No, you will not be driving."

"What? C'mon, I have my permit and a license!"

"For a motorcycle, you still have yet to practice your driving on an actual car."

"And that's why I wanna try out on picking up our dear brother."

"No." Without another word, she handed the keys to Mom. I pouted, but I did get to ride shotgun as a consolation prize at least.

I should probably explain my family a little bit otherwise you'll be really confused. Victoria Caroline Hamilton, or Tori for short, is my younger sister. Yeah, you read that right, younger. And yet she's constantly surpassing me in something, she's the top student at our school (an elite private school at that too), is student council vice president, and is a teacher's assistant for half of the teachers in our grade. I, on the other hand, live in her shadow in all but one thing: sports. I'm one of the best sports players at our school and it's the only thing I'm good at compared to her.

As you can tell, we don't get along very well.

Then there's our mother, Anne Hamilton. Before you ask, our father left when we were kids. Yeah, kind of a dumbass move, but I really couldn't care less. I remember nothing about him, so I can't give any details. But our mom is a bit . . . flighty. She can space out for no apparent reason sometimes and miss out an entire chunk of a conversation. But, we love her regardless and she's the best cook in the house. Which isn't saying much since neither Tori nor I can cook. Hell, we can burn water for God's sake.

And finally, we have my older brother Will, short for William, as I have mentioned before. He's our supportive older brother who is also really immature sometimes. He managed to get into a good college out of state and he's pretty smart. But he's also a HUGE video game nerd. I probably shouldn't talk since he's the reason I got into video games in the first place. I blame him for completely destroying my eyesight to the point where I have to wear either glasses or contacts 24/7. I chose the latter since I have a reputation to uphold.

We all live as one big happy family in the lovely, peaceful city of Brooklyn, New York. Note the sarcasm. We aren't a dysfunctional family, I'll tell you that, but we aren't exactly all smiles and rainbows either. As I said before, Tori and I get along just about as well as ice and fire. When I say that, I mean we argue a LOT. Even over the smallest of things like who gets the last slice of pizza or something. Not to mention, our personalities clash constantly, so you can see how there's never a dull moment in our house.

Anyway, back on the story, we drove to the airport in silence and then waited for Will. It really shouldn't be too hard to spot a six foot tall twenty one year old with blue hair. Yes, he has blue hair, but he dyes it, so don't worry. He wasn't born with a weird pigment in his hair or whatever. At his graduation, Will dyed his hair pink and ever since it's been a regular thing whenever a semester ends, he dyes it a crazy color. In case you wanted to know, his natural hair color is dark brown, which is odd to say the least since I have bright Weasley red hair, Tori has inky black hair, and our mom is a blonde.

I had a conspiracy theory that we were all adopted from an orphanage when we were babies, but that theory was thrown out the window when Tori pointed it out that we all had the exact same eye color. So I came up with a new theory that the government did some weird testing on our DNA before we were born causing us to have different hair colors.

I'm still sticking to that theory!

After God-knows how long, a stranger appeared next to me and said in a really deep and scary voice, "Do you want some candy, child?" I nearly jumped ten feet in the air when he did that. I turned and saw a young man with dark brown hair and wearing a gray pinstripe suit and a backpack and having a roller suitcase on hand. It took me a minute to figure out who it was.

"Will!" I cried. I didn't waste any time tackling him to the floor in a huge hug. That's when I asked, "Why are you wearing a suit? And why don't you have weird hair this time?"

"That's because I have a surprise for you. Now, um, can you get off?"

"Oh, right." I got off of him and helped him up. And then it was my mom's turn to give him a bone-crushing hug.

Once my mother was done crushing Will's spine and ribs, Tori smiled and hugged him more gently knowing he was probably extremely bruised. When she was done hugging him, my mom started fussing over Will, asking him all sorts of questions, making sure he was doing well, if he was eating right, if he was doing drugs, etc. She kept going all the way back home.

When we got home, mom ran to the kitchen to start cooking dinner, leaving us three siblings alone in the living room. Will and I glanced at each other and started wrestling. Tori rolled her eyes, but was still the referee. Usually when Will and I want something and it happens to be the exact same thing, we wrestle over it. Tori eventually became our unofficial ref.

My mom came out just as I had pinned down Will with my leg and was tugging on his arm.

"One. Two. Three. Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner," Tori said in monotone.

"What were you two wrestling over this time?" my mom asked.

"The couch," Will and I said in unison.

"And I won!" I cried victoriously. Without skipping a beat, I jumped onto the couch.

Will glared in response, but sat on the floor regardless and turned on the TV. I grabbed a controller and we started playing Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep in the Mirage Arena. I was playing as Ven and he was up against me as Terra. Good thing too because when he was playing as Aqua last time, instead of playing, he just stared at her character model, practically drooling. How hopeless can he get?

My mom brought us a bowl of popcorn to munch on and said something about getting cake after dinner. We waved her off and continued playing for another half an hour until he beat me. My real world response was to punch him in the arm, which I did. He just laughed in response.

"Oh, hey? Did you hear about that new, free online game called the Program?" he asked. Tori and I shook our heads. "It's been around for a year in Japan, Korea, New Zealand, and several European countries, but it wasn't released in North America until a couple weeks ago."

"Really? Sounds interesting. Think you can help me download it?" I said. I forgot to mention, besides being a weirdo and a pervert, Will is also a computer genius, which is how he got into such a good college out of state.

"Sure, but after dinner. I've missed out on six months of Mom's cooking!" Will said. I shoved him onto the floor with my foot.

"Get real, I bet you've been having gourmet meals and fancy food this whole time," I said.

"Get your foot off my face! Your socks smell degusting!"

I rolled my eyes, but took my foot off his face nonetheless. He got up and coughed, "Peeeww! You're gonna kill me with your dirty laundry one of these days."

I grinned. While we ate dinner, I asked Will, "So what's this surprise you mentioned earlier?"

He smirked and took off his jacket and then his shirt and turned around. My mom and Tori gasped in shock, I just stared in awe. He got Oathkeeper and Oblivion crossed together in the shape of an X as a tattoo just under his neck. I grinned.

"Sweet tattoo," I said.

"Thanks, I got it last month," Will replied as he put his shirt back on.

"What were you thinking?! That's inked into your back forever, you know!" Tori cried.

"I know. That's why I got it in the first place."

"Buuuuuurn," I commented.

"Shut up, Liz!" Tori yelled at me.

"Well, your twenty one now, so I suppose you can do these things if you wanted . . . just please tell me before you do, Will. You know how easily worried I can get," Mom said.

"Mom!" Tori shouted.

"I will, mom. Don't worry," Will said.

"Well, now that that's settled, let's have cake!" Mom smiled. Will and I cheered and Tori sat down, fuming, knowing that she was wrong.

The minute we were done eating cake, Will and I bolted upstairs to my room. He showed me the website where I can download it from. It didn't take long to download the Program and pretty soon I was able to start playing. But before I could, there was a gigantic explanation.

The Program is a game system designed to allow anyone to enter a fictional universe and either play as one of the characters or design your own character to play through the story.

Rules:

Rule 1: You can only make one character at a time.

Rule 2: You cannot create two save files at once. You must finish the first save file in order to create a second.

Rule 3: You cannot create a crossover between two fictional worlds.

So, welcome to the game

I looked at Will, "Is that it?"

"Pretty much, yeah," Will said.

I clicked a few buttons and created a save file for Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, one of my personal favorite Kingdom Hearts games. I love Kingdom Hearts, though I have more of a passion for Legend of Zelda. I was going to make a save file for Twilight Princess, but Will convinced me otherwise. I was too lazy to make my own character, so I decided to play as Ven. I knew the story like the back of my hand, but the story was different from the original. A prime example: there was more cussing. I'm not complaining, I cuss like a sailor all the time, but this is a rated E10+, right?

But, I didn't take too much notice at the time. After a few more hours, everyone else went to bed, except for me. I kept going until I felt my eyelids drooping and I fell asleep at my desk.

A/N: And that is the beginning. Short chapter, I know, but it's only the beginning! Tune in next time! Oh, and remember: Reviews=Updates. Hoping to get at least five reviews!