Disclaimer: I do not own any anime, games, movies, or books, nor do I own the world that this fanfic takes place in. I have no money, so suing me is a bad idea. This fic is written for enjoyment reasons only, not profit.

Author's notes: Right. This fic will not be, on Fanfiction.net anyway, an interactive fic. If you wish to have a character in this fic, go to mediaminer.org, and submit it there. If any characters are submitted to me to use on Fanfiction.net, they will not be used. I apologize for any inconvenience. Also, the author's comments at the end of every chapter may sound weird. If they do, they are written for when I posted on mediaminer.org, and I was just too lazy to correct if for Fanfiction.net.

Prologue: New world, better than old.

The computer shop was empty, with the exception of the single employee who had the boring job of closing in an hour. At the moment, he was sitting in a chair behind the counter, playing solitaire on the computer he could use.
The bell's hanging from the door jingled, and the man looked up to see who had entered.
A young man walked over to the computer's open for use. After dropping the correct amount of money into the computer, it started, and he waited for it to boot up.
The man behind the counter returned to solitaire, putting the new entrant out of his mind. For several minutes, nothing happened.
CRASH!
The man's head shot up, and he rushed into the storage area of the computer shop. What he found caused him to curse creatively. It seemed that a monitor hadn't been totally stable on the shelf, and had eventually slipped and fallen. The monitor now lay in pieces, clearly unsalvageable.
The man turned and left the storage room in search of a broom, his mind fixed on how much that monitor cost, and how much of it would come from his paycheck.
The man didn't even notice that the computer that the young man had been using was now off, and that the young man was gone.
Indeed, the man had totally forgotten the young man had even entered the shop.

-Author's Note- I know I know, that's not really a chapter. That's why I waited till I had written the first chapter before posting it.