Prologue-Aincrad, a Prison
No One's POV
He didn't know what happened, his memory was jumbled and were in pieces. The last 24 cycles were lost to him. His eyes shuttered open to a dusk or dawn sky, he couldn't tell. But something was off about it, there just above the clouds was a faded structure, like a ceiling.
He turned his head to see it went on until he could see faint outline of towers that touched it, holding it there in place.
He sat up immediately, this wasn't the Earth he remembered. Then, something caught his attention. He looked down and stared in horror and shock,
He was human.
There was a still pool near where he sat, scrambling, he made his way to the edge to looked upon his new form.
He was a male human in his early twenties with grey-silvery hair that came down in a bob as humans called the style, with clean cut edges. His eyes were amber, not the red he remembered. He was taller than your average human and built proportionately. He wore leather armor, and grey and purple shirt and pants with black boots.
On his side was a simple short sword and shield.
His scars still remained, leaving permanent reminders of all he did in the War.
Megatron, looked to the sky once more. He needed to find out where he was, and just how he got here. Some of his senses seemed muddled for some reason, but it was enough to hear someone approaching from behind him.
He quickly spun, unsheathing his sword and pointed at the figure.
"Whoa, someone's quick on the draw." A female's voice broke out, as the figure with her hands up stepped from the shadows.
She was a tall, yet built women with white hair and vibrant blue eyes. She wore the same basic armor as he did, with a black and purple tunic instead. And across her back was a bow and quiver of arrows.
"No need for player on player violence here, I'm not one of those assholes." Megatron was confused, player on player violence?
"Then don't sneak up on me." He growled back at her, today just didn't seem to be his day.
"Sorry, but you looked like you needed help, I know when I see a noob." Now he was doubly confused.
Putting his sword to her throat he growled, "You are going to tell me where I am or I will mount your head on my wall."
"Wha?" She seemed confused, but what surprised him was she was scared of his threat whatsoever.
"Tell me, now!" He bellowed.
"You're in Sword Art Online, the newest and biggest game out in the world." He pulled back, a game? He thought it was ridiculous.
"How?"
"Using the Nerve Gear, this is virtual gaming at its best. How could not know that? You had to put the whole thing on, right?" His sword went to his side as he turned from her.
"No, I didn't." There was a bead of silence as those words sunk in the women.
She stepped up a little, "You mean, someone forced you into the game without your knowledge?"
"It would seem. But the fact that the last few...hours are gone in my memory only enhances my suspension." He turned to her.
"Well, guess you're stuck like the rest of us." She looked back to the sunset, her pool like eyes staring into the distance, as if the sun had done her wrong by going down.
"W-What do you mean?" He forced himself through the stutter, unsure where it came from.
She gave a tsk, "Guess you don't know, the Creator of SAO just made a announcement, saying that all players that logged in today are trapped. If we die here, we die in the real world with the Gear frying our brains. Several hundred are already dead from family members trying to pull it off, less than 10,000 people now remain."
He stared at her, then back at the sunset. Less than 10,000 humans were trapped in here, including him. Most if not all have ever tasted life or death battles before, but he had. He survived a million years war with greater technology then this world.
To say the least he was amused, this would be a cake walk compared to the war.
He stood to his feet, dusting the grass off of him, the girl looked to him.
"Hey, since you know nothing about these types of games, do wanna join forces?" She asked, her deep sapphire eyes bore into his dull amber's.
"Hm, it would be most beneficial." She smiled and swiped her hand making a screen appear. With a quick few taps a screen popped up in front of Megatron which read; PRIMROSE HAS INVITED YOU TO JOIN HER GUILD, YES OR NO?
"Primrose?" He looked at her.
"It's my avatar's name, we don't use our real names here." He took that into consideration before he press YES.
He now noticed a bar in his right hand corner vision show a HP Bar and his name, but it wasn't his name. The name inscribed there was Cadmus, he knew he would need a different name when Primrose had told her about names here but he guess the system read his mind and did for him.
He liked the name.
"Cadmus, cool name. It's nice to meet you." She extended her hand, he grasped it.
"You as well, Primrose. I believe this is a start of interesting partnership."