Chapter 1: Vacation time
Time: Unknown
Location: Deep space, Voyager class rift jumper, code name: Avalon
POV: Third Person
It was a quiet day on the mobile city. It's ten plus inhabitants going about their daily routines, doing maintenance, or just relaxing or having fun. An average day for them when they weren't busy saving their planet, or the multiverse... or timeline, yeah, they get around.
One such inhabitant was currently sitting on the ships bridge looking over past battles they had fought. Her name was Sergeant Madeline Avery Rogers.
She looked to be around sixteen to seventeen, had auburn shoulder length hair that was done up in a ponytail, she wore a light green T-shirt with a thin black long sleeve shirt underneath, she also wore blue jeans, green high top tennis shoes, with purple stripes on the sides and white soles, she wore a necklace with a golden T shaped rune with a glowing green gem located at the base of said rune. Her emerald green eyes flicked back and forth as she studied and re-studied the information, a neutral expression adorning her face. She continued staring at the holographic data flashing across the screen for several more moments before she started to hear footsteps coming from the hall behind her.
Her hand instinctively reached for a large knife that was holstered at the bottom of the chair she currently sat upon, but realized that only the most powerful of their enemies could enter this ship undetected, and ninety percent of them were either locked away in a living Hell, or dead. She stopped her searching for a moment and turned as the door opened, revealing a boy that appeared to be around the same age as her. He is known only as Cole due to him not remembering the rest of his name.
He wore a blue zipped up sweat shirt with an orange chest and near the hands, black gloves with glowing orange spots on the tips of the fingers and on the back of his hands, black track pants with gray stripes going down the sides, blue high top shoes with soles glowing the same orange as the gloves, and a black and red one strap backpack. His slightly long dark brown hair was a bit messy and his electric blue eyes seemed to glow. As he walked in he looked at the girl just staring back at him before letting out a sigh and smiling.
"Come on Maddy, you need to relax a bit, you've been in here for hours already. You should go out and stretch for a bit." The boy chuckled.
The girl rolled her eyes and she reluctantly shut the console off. "Okay fine, but what else am I supposed to do Cole? It's been two years since Cinos sealed Eix and the rest of the Dream Stalkers in the Black, we've been just aimlessly wandering dimensions and helping where we can. All I can really do is look over our old battles and learn from them." Maddy grumbled.
Cole shook his head and chuckled at his closest friends answer. "You have to lighten up Maddy, there's been nothing on our level for ages, and I'm not being overconfident here, we both know how powerful the Aether stones have made us. We're basically immortal and just one of us has enough power to blow though an army by ourselves. When ya have ten of us... well, there's just no competing you know what i'm saying?"
Maddy sighed "I guess you're right... but what else can I do? I've already worked out several times just today, helped Zero do some maintenance, played football with my brothers, sparred with Kamacura, Percival, and Kathros, and looked over some of our old fights... and it's only a little past lunch time!" Maddy exclaimed
Coles eyes widened slightly "Dang girl!... well, we could go on vacation. You and I haven't even used any of our days off yet, and we've been at this for seven years now so we have quite a few stored up." Cole chuckled with a smirk.
Maddy raised an eyebrow "Vacation? Well where would we go? If you haven't noticed there aren't very many good spots left after what happened those few years ago." Maddy responded.
Cole rolled his eyes "Come on Maddy, don't tell me you've already forgotten that you can control Time and I control Space. With those two put together we can go wherever or whenever we want! And I know just the time!" Cole announced as he walked over to the console and turned it back on. It flashed across several different pictures and times before settling on one.
"2022? in this timeline? What's so special about this one?" Maddy questioned with a frown.
"2022 me dear Madeline, is when the ancestor of our training simulator was born. As you know I was created around a thousand years later but I'd always wanted to see just how all of this Virtual Reality stuff began. And what better way to do it than with the worlds first full dive Virtual reality video game!?" Cole replied excitedly. As Maddy leaned in closer.
"Sword Art Online huh? Seems interesting, but how long would we be staying?" Maddy mumbled as she rolled her eyes at her boy friends childish behavior.
"A few days, more if you get into it, but one way or another i'm getting you out of here. It's not healthy to stay cooped up staring at holograms all day" Cole warned, this time leaving all of his happy attitude aside.
Maddy once again sighed, but only seconds after she did she actually smiled.
"Alright, i'll get my things together and you can tell everyone where we're going and why alright?" The girl asked.
Cole did a mock salute and exited the room, possibly referencing the fact that Maddeline was a sergeant back on her home planet for the Xeno Defense Force. But Maddy smiled anyway before getting up and walking to her room to pack her things.
"He's right, I really should forget about it, I mean it's just a game, it's not like anyone's actually going to die or anything." Maddy thought to herself not knowing how far from the truth she was.