Sword Art Online: American Edition
I do not own any characters or anything that belongs to Sword Art Online. I am just a kid who loves this story. I wiill be adding a kind of side story line that involves myself and my girlfriend also being stuck in the game. It will not souly be about Kirito and Asuna. All though everyone will be friends at one point. So please, enjoy.
Chapter 1
The front door burst open and a man with a mustache walked in. Short, black messy styled hair. Metal band t-shirt with tight jeans. He placed the mail on the table and walked back out the front door. He returned moments later with a huge cardboard box.
"Bailey! Bailey hurry! Our game came in!" He yelled through the house. Light footsteps were heard from the other room as a young girl came running out. Long red hair. Light green eyes. Freckles all across her face. High cheek bones making her face look beautiful. Orange belly shirt with light blue jean shorts to go with her white sandals.
"No way!? Then let's hurry up and plug it in. The game has already been live for a couple hours now, Dante." She replied.
"Well help me open the box and set everything up." He responded. She nodded and started ripping the box apart.
"So tell me again how you got this game that's exclusive to Japan and only has japanese servers? And how, if we even make it on the game, will we be able to communicate?" Bailey asked skeptically.
"I had to write a japanese email and send it in to get 2 of the 10,000 first copies. We made it and they sent the NerveGear and Sword Art Online over. I was also able to find a language translator patch. It only affects us. Any words we say will be translated to the first or dominant language of the receiver. And vis versa. Anything they say will be heard in english. Pretty cool, huh?" Dante explained as he set up the head gear and systems in the bedroom. He plugged in the head sets and downloaded the language translator program.
"Wow. That's amazing. Your ridiculous, you know that?" Bailey said kissing him. He smiled. His hand reached out to her holding her head set.
"You ready for a whole new experience?"He asked. She grabbed her NerveGear and nodded.
"Let's do this."
Floor 1: Town of Beginnings
Dante and Bailey materialized in the middle of the first floor town square. There were a lot of people there. It almost looked as if the entire 10,000 first copy players were in the same place. Dante turned to Bailey. She looked completely different. Two braids of hair lay down her shoulders. She had a short skirt on and a barely covering shirt. She looked beautiful. Dante looked through his HUD and saw that her username was Kumiko. He smiled.
"Kitsu? Ha. Shoulda bet money on that one. You're always Kitsu." Bailey laughed as she stared at the new Dante before her. Long hair back in a ponytail that went to the middle of his back. Red eyes with a scar across his left cheek. He had a grey t shirt on with what looked like low level armor. They both laughed, but that's when they realized the sky was covered in red and a huge hooded entity was floating above the town while every person in SAO watched in awe.
"I repeat... This is not a defect in the game. It is a feature of Sword Art Online." Said the hooded mask while demonstrating with his menu.
"Not a defect? What's he talking about?" Dante asked. The player to his left whispered.
"There's no logout option in your menu." He never took his eyes off the hooded figure. Dante's eyes widened. He motioned his right hand and opened his menu. He pushed a few buttons and froze. The player was right. There was no logout option.
"You cannot log out of SAO yourselves. And no one on the outside can shut down or remove the NerveGear. Should it be attempted, the transmitter inside the NerveGear will emit a powerful microwave destroying your brain and thus ending your life." Said the hooded mass. Bailey laughed.
"Yeah as if. We'll just respawn back in town. It's not like this is my first RPG." She snickered quietly. A couple tried to leave the town square but hit an invisible barrier.
"Hey, I can't get out!" He yelled as he began to bang on the barrier holding everyone captive. Dante scanned the place. Everyone was looking up, except two. A black haired boy and a red haired boy. Dante grabbed Bailey's hand and made his way through the crowd to get closer.
"He's right that the transmitter's signals work just like microwaves." Said the black haired boy. "If the safety were disabled, it could fry a brain." Dante's heart skipped a beat. Bailey held on tightly to Dante's arm. They couldn't believe what they were hearing.
"Unfortunately, several players' friends and families have ignored this warning, and have attempted to remove the NerveGear. As a result, two hundred and thirteen players are gone forever, from both Aincrad and the real world." The hooded entity spoke again.
"Two hundred and thirteen?" Stuttered out the black haired boy.
"That's unbelievable. There's no way that many people are gone for good. I don't buy it." Dante protested from behind him. Little hologram windows started opening up and floating around the hooded man.
"As you can see, news organizations across the world are reporting all of this, including the deaths. Thus, you can assume that the danger of a NerveGear being removed is now minimal. I hope you will relax and attempt to beat the game." Bailey tightened all her muscles as she tried to fight back the tears.
"But I want you to remember this clearly. There is no longer any method to revive someone within the game. If your HP drops to zero, your avatar will be forever lost. And simultaneously, the NerveGear will destroy your brain." Everyone froze. Just shock and awe was plastered to everyones faces as they blankly stared up at the hooded harbinger of death. The thought of losing a fight and dying in this world and the real one was racing through Dante's head. His heart was pounding. He hadn't even played the game yet and he's expected to beat it in one go?
"There is only one means of escape. To complete the game. You are presently on the lowest floor of Aincrad, Floor 1. If you make your way through the dungeon and defeat the floor boss, you may advance to the next level. Defeat the final boss on Floor 100, and you will clear the game."
"Dante, I'm scared. He's lying right?" Bailey said cutting off the circulation of blood flow to his left arm. He didn't know whether to nod or shake his head.
"Y-you're just making that up!" Yelled the couple in front of the magic barrier. Lots of gossip and side talk aroused from this statement.
"Finally, I've added a present from me to your item storage. Please see for yourselves." Dante quickly opened up his item storage in his menu. The item was labeled 'mirror'. He tapped it and it materialized in front of him.
"Wow, that's amazing."He said while he looked in the mirror. The red haired boy yelled as he materialized away. Then slowly everyone started to materialize. Dante felt it happening and turned to Bailey before she started to glow. Then everything went white. He opened his eyes to see he hadn't moved. But something was different. He turned to Bailey and jumped.
"Bailey? You look like you." Dante said. She looked in her mirror and yelled. He too looked in his mirror to see his messy hair and thick mustache. Gaged ears and all.
"How in the hell-?" Bailey asked. Everyone was who they were in real life. All of them broke out into small banter. The two against the barrier turned out to be both male, and of the basement dweller variety. Bailey turned to Dante. "How did it get our height and body shape? It's just a helmet."
"When we first used the NerveGear it had us calibrate it, right? We had to touch our body all over." Said the transformed red haired kid.
"Oh- that's right. That must be where it got the data." Said new form black haired kid. Dante backed up near Bailey.
"What is going on? This is insane."
"Right now, you're probably wondering , "why? Why would Kayaba Akihiko, developer of Sword Art Online and NerveGear, do all this?" My goal has already been achieved. I created Sword Art Online for one reason... To create this world and intervene in it. And now it is complete. This ends the tutorial for the official Sword Art Online launch. Good luck, players." And just like that, Kayaba glitched out and dissipated into the sky. In an instant, the sky was normal as the sunset it was before Kayaba came. Nobody moved. Everyone stayed motionless for what seemed like an eternity. The sound of broken glass was heard and turned a few heads while the animation for item use was seen. The little girl who dropped her mirror started to freak out. This naturally and slowly caused complete and utter pandemonium within the town square as everyone started yelling and screaming about what they had to do later that day or how everything he told them was a complete lie. Dante looked up and saw that the black and red haired boys were gone. He franticly looked around and saw them exiting from behind.
"Bailey, come on." He said grabbing her arm and running after them. He pushed and shoved his way through everyone and tried to follow them, but it was no use. He had never played before. He didn't know the town map at all. But he ran like he did. He must have been a beta tester.
"Why were we chasing them, hon?" Bailey asked. Dante looked at her.
"Because they knew something about this game. The one had to have been a beta tester. And the other..." He trailed off as he heard footsteps coming from outside the town square. It was the red haired kid.
"Excuse me. " He said as he ran by. Dante reached out and grabbed his wrist.
"I'm sorry to be rude, but where did you're friend go?" Dante asked while letting go of him.
"He's off to the next town. I'm getting my friends and we're going to do the same." He answered.
"Interesting. And have you played this game before?"
"Not aside from just now. But he taught me a lot of stuff today. I got a pretty good grasp on how to do it. He was a beta tester in the lucky 1,000 who got to do that. His name was Kirito." Dante smirked. 'Kirito, huh? I knew he was a beta tester.' He thought to himself.
"Well then do you mind if we tag along to the next town? Maybe teach us a couple things too? We logged in literally 10 minutes ago." Dante pleaded. Bailey reached out and rested her hand on his shoulder. He sighed.
"Hey, what the hell? We all gotta beat this game anyway, right? I'm Klien." He said extending his right arm. Dante met his and shook.
"Mine is D...Kitsu. My name is Kitsu." Bailey pushed forward to greet the new friend.
"I'm Kumiko. A pleasure." She bowed slightly. Klien's face turned beat red. She just laughed.
"I don't think so buddy." Then he just got embarrassed. He cleared his throat and spoke.
"Ok then, let's go find my friends." They both nodded and they walked back in to the crowd.
"Bailey."
"Call me Kumiko. That's my name." She said. Dante nodded.
"You're right. I apologize. It's weird though. We are our real selves but we have to use our usernames. It's like literally living a different life, with basically the same rules." Klien agreed.
"You're right. Both worlds we look exactly the same but with different names. Yet in both worlds if your HP hits zero, you're dead. No resurrect. No second chance. No respawn."
"Kumiko, we have to be extremely careful. We have to survive to win this game."
"No worries Kitsu. We will beat this game. It's gunna be you and me at the end." She smiled light heartedly. He smiled back.
"Hey! Guys! Over here. " Klien yelled to a group of scared individuals. "I want you to meet some friends."
"Are you read for this?" Kitsu asked. She nodded.
"I'm ready to do this with you. To the end." He smiled and fought back tears. She hugged him and kissed him. He held her tight as the sun started to set over Aincrad. 'Let's do this together.' Kitsu thought.
So that's that. I'm pretty much going to be following the anime for plot devisors until Flor 76. Each chapter will be an episode. I will be having Kitsu and Kumiko run into Kirito and Asuna from time to time. Hope yoyu guys are liking the twists 'll be throwing in. Stay tuned foor rthe next one.