My eyes opened to to find my self in a strange place. I was sitting high up in some sort of structure, strange spikes formations all around me, the floor had a chest board like pattern, and a clear blue sky above all things. While I had never been here I instantly recognized it a Black Rock Shooter's domain in the Otherwold.
Why was I here? Usually I would see this place in my dreams but the strong wind hitting my body clearly means that I'm in the Otherworld. I stood up in the strange structure i was sitting on and felt strange. My body shouldn't be this tall, and I could only feel my most of my body without clothing. I looked down at myslef and saw something that almost made me fall down.
I was wearing a string bra, small shorts, boots and a black overcoat around my back, and arms, only showing the front of my body. The clothes weren't what shocked me, it was my appearance itself.
I was Black Rock Shooter.
"What's going on!? Why am I in BRS body!?" Even my voice sounded a more mature, more fit for someone that's seventeen years old. I was starting to panic at this situation but then realized something. This wasn't my first time in her body. That's right, I was like this when I faced Insane BRS. I know how to use this body, I remember how to summon the rock cannon, transform it, summon the black blade,. I have to find out what's going on. Then, something popped up in my head. Black Gold Saw was capable of seeing everyone in the Otherworld if what Saya-san and Yuu said to me was true when we had a discussion about what I had to know of the Otherworld.
I pulled up my cloak's hood over my head to cover my face. It may have been for no reason at all, but I just felt like doing it, almost as if it's a habit. I jumped down from the structure and landed softly on the ground, then looked back to the structure. It was what looked like a cannon, but it was only sticking out of the ground like it was a natural formation.
I started walking down the closest thing to a path out of this place. I don't know where i can find BGS, but I just started walking in the direction where I felt was the right path, as if I already knew where to go.
Unknown to the girl heading for BGS's domain she was being watched by an unknown creature. It was completely made out of metal and mechanical parts, it resembled a wolf of some kind, and it was sizing up its prey getting ready to attack at any second.
Seeing that its prey was on high alert, it decided to follow her and attack when her guard is down. With that, the beast silently in the shadows.
It's strange, I've never felt like this before. Cautious, on high alert to danger, and ready to attack at any moment.
But.
It feels like I've been doing it for years. As I walk through this wasteland I feel like I'm being followed. The felling is there, but it's faint, so all I do is act as if I don't know of my stalker but keep my guard up just to be safe. I'm still walking in the direction where Black Gold Saw's domain is, hoping to find some answers there. There is a strange sound I've been hearing for a while now. It sounds like something heavy hitting the ground really hard multiple times, and for for some reason I'm suddenly getting a strange sense of dejavu, whatever that means.
There was another one. The beast silently left it's original prey to join it's kind to hunt a much weaker one. One that could not put much of a fight. But before it could get any closer the new prey made its way to where that other one was. The beast realizing this decided to wait and ambush the two of them, with luck, it will at least get one of them, and the other wounded enough to let it's kind finish her off.
"Doge it!" A voice screamed that made me do just as it said and rolled forward to doge a giant mechanical spider with wheels for a torso. It passed right where I was a few seconds ago and suddenly stopped after a few meters of distance. it turned around facing my direction to reveal a doll head at he front. I recognized it instantly as Kagari's Otherself's ride, Mary.
The monstrous vehicle suddenly raised its front side to reveal the seat behind it, and sitting in it a scared blond girl wearing a dress, her hands being savage metal claws and her legs were big mechanical wheels.
Chariot.
She looked scared, very unlike what an Oherself should be considering that all of them did not show emotion at the exception of Strength. Not only that but she also seemed to be looking at me with worry, witch was odd since as far as I know Black Rock Shooter is the least popular in the Otherworld. "Hey girl, you have to run!" The fact that she spoke caught me off guard, he fact that she called me girl made me realize that that was not Chariot. "Kagari? Is that you?" I asked, catching her off guard in return. "Who are you? How do you know my name? Where is this place? Why do I look like this? What's going on here?!" She then started to panic as I realized that this was her first experience with the Otherworld, and could not recognize me. I uncovered my head and let my pig tails to be seen by the world, my expression neutral as I looked directly at Kagari's shocked face. "Mato?" she asked with amazement at how different i looked form the short, happy girl that she knew.
She looked at me as if I was a stranger. I don't blame her even though I'm still myself, with all my memories and personality, though I've been feeling kinda different ever since I woke up in this place. Now that I think about it, I'm more serious, I'm more aware of my surroundings, and I haven't felt fear for a single moment in this world.
My train of thought was suddenly cut off when I heard a metallic sound from behind me. I kept my gaze on Kagari who hadn't moved an inch so that meant that she was not the one to make the noise. "Mato, behind you!" She creamed at me. I immediately turned around to see what looked like a mechanical wolf pounce at me. I reacted almost instantly and summoned the Rock Cannon, blue light emitting from my hand generating metallic pieces smashing against each other to form a giant barrel of a gun that was this creature's demise. I aimed it directly at it and with only one pull of the trigger, the familiar metallic bang exploded from the barrel while a flaming blue rock went flying in the creature's direction, destroying it in one shot, it's pieces scattered across the ground around me.
I then heard more mechanical notices coming and readied myself for a fight, crouching and holding the Rock Cannon with both hands for better recoil control. More of those creatures show up running straight at its and I just start shooting continuously at them, each shot landing on one of them making their pieces scatter close to where I stood. The massacre only lasted a minute, but during that minute I did not panicked like a normal person, nor was I even scared. I realised that not only was I in Black Rock Shooter's boddy, but she an I somehow became one.I wasn't Mato Kuroi or Black Rock Shooter any more.
I was a new self