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A/N: Be sure that if you haven't already, you read the other four stories, and if you want, you may read the story for Wolf's character on Dark Wolf Knight3's profile, and the story for Oblivion's character on Urolutze's profile.
May 18th 2032
Caleb's House
"The V-Sphere? Another fucking full dive rig, how many of these things are people gonna make?" Caleb said. He was looking at a site, which advertised a new full dive rig called the V-Sphere and a new game called Fate's Hand. The game was somewhat like SAO, only it allowed magic and the weapons have no stats, and you can level up from PK'ing. The map was a big landscape with many biomes from the real world, and also custom biomes created by the developers. The only thing that was very new was that the game had a build engine, and you could build cities and towns, and there were already a few NPC towns to start.
"Another one? How much will it cost?" Suguha asked, who was making breakfast.
"¥60,000. You know, this seems a little suspicious, the rig is a helmet much like the Nervegear and the game reminds me a bit of SAO, though, it's much different at the same time. I'm a little concerned." Caleb said.
"Don't worry about it, why would they make another SAO?" Suguha asked.
"I don't know, and that's what I wanna know. I'm gonna pre order a V-Sphere of my own, and one for everyone, and we'll see what this whole fuss is about." Caleb said.
A week later
The door rang and Caleb opened the door, and all the V-Sphere's have arrived. Caleb signed his name and he had brought them all into the house.
"Hey Sugu, I got all the V-Spheres, I'm gonna call everyone and give them to everyone." Caleb said.
"Okay then." Sugu said, who was in their bedroom.
Caleb then texted everyone to come to his place and soon, everyone came and saw a bunch of boxes on the ground.
"You guy's are moving? Or what is this?" Kazuto asked.
"A gift for everyone, though, I need everyone to have one of these anyways, as I want you to check this out with me." Caleb said.
Everyone sat down. Caleb gave everyone a box and turned on his TV and opened up a web browser and showed everyone the site advertising the V-Sphere.
"Another full dive rig. I want everyone to check it out with me. We will wait for the launch date and we will all log on. Though, I want everyone to transfer their save files from ALO to the new game FHO, or, Fate's Hand Online, the game contained in each of those boxes, and as well as the V-Sphere." Caleb said.
"Why do we all have to check it out at the same time? You aren't concerned that this might be another SAO do you?" Owen asked.
"That's what I wanna find out, though, even if it's not, I still want to be sure the game isn't dangerous." Caleb said. "Well, I'm sure you guy's have shit to do at home, so take those home and log in when the game is launched."
Everyone left, and he had an extra box on the ground, and he realized that was for Yuuki, who was fast asleep. Caleb walked upstairs and opened her door and said, "Hey, I got you something."
Yuuki woke up and asked, "What would that be?"
Caleb then gestured her to come downstairs and she saw a box on the ground, and Yuuki looked to the TV and saw the site Caleb kept open. "Another full dive rig? Is that what's in there?"
"Yes it is. We're gonna wait until the game launches and we're gonna log on." Caleb said.
"All right then, what game?" Yuuki asked.
"Fate's Hand Online. It's kind of like ALO, but no flying, so more like SAO, though, the game allows magic too." Caleb said. "Aren't you hungry? Sugu made some breakfast earlier today, and there's still some leftovers if you're hungry."
Yuuki said she was still hungry and the two walked into the kitchen and got her some food. Yuuki's AIDS was cured a long time ago and she's been able to live a normal life, though she has to take medication everyday.
June 1st, Launch Day
Caleb opened the box containing his V-Sphere and the game. He got his save files from ALO from his Nervegear onto a memory drive and transferred it into the V-Sphere. He then put on the V-Sphere and once it was ready to start, Caleb said, "Link Start." Soon, Caleb saw lights flashing towards his face.
Artemis spawned beside a town and there were thousands and thousands of people in the town, or outside fighting monsters. Artemis checked his friends list and saw everyone on there, he messaged everyone to meet him at his current location and soon, everyone came. Kirito, Asuna, Wolf, Sinon, Oblivion, Lisbeth, Nero, Leafa, Yuuki, Klein, Agil, Roxas, Arthegus, Silica, and Fiana, who all gathered with Artemis.
"Well, here we are, Fate's Hand Online. I'm not sure if this is exactly what Kirito ends up playing at this time in my original world, but here we are, playing FHO. So, there are some things I want everyone to know, our weapons don't have stats, the game allows magic, and the Map is a huge landscape full of biomes, and there is a build engine in the game so we could build a fucking empire if we wanted." Artemis said.
"Ooh, a build engine? Good, It shouldn't cost us much to build our own houses, unless this build engine requires us to pay using the game's currency, rather than gathering resources." Oblivion said.
"We gather resources, so we don't have to worry about money when we are building. The only thing we have to worry about is one thing." Artemis said.
The group looked at him, confused, and Artemis opened his menu, and the group soon knew what he was checking, the logout button. Artemis checked to see where the logout button was, and he found it, though when he clicked it, it just disappeared, scaring the group.
"Another death game!?" Artemis asked.
"What!? That damn logout button is there right?" Kirito asked.
"It was, then I clicked it, and it just disappeared right off the bat." Artemis said.
"Dammit!" Kirito yelled. The group looked at him scared and confused, until Kirito said, "Asuna is pregnant! What's gonna happen to the baby while we're stuck here!?"
The group gasped, except for Asuna, whose eyes widened as she remembered. Kirito and Asuna had been married and Asuna was pregnant, though now they are stuck in another death game.
"They'll have to surgically remove the baby while you're on the V-Sphere." Artemis said, "This is terrible, I hope this is just a bug this time."
Asuna started crying and Kirito went to comfort her.
"I can't believe this shit, another SAO." Nero said.
"Well, let me check my level real quick." Artemis said. He saw his level was the same as it was from ALO, being level 126. "Well we have somewhat of an advantage, as our levels are the same from ALO, and we have our weapons, though people might look at us like this and wonder why we have this stuff. And then if this is a death game, then people might look at us in shame, or jealousy, though, I'm not sure about that, we'll have to see later."
"This is ridiculous, I'm a 32 year old man, I don't wanna be stuck here playing games all the time." Oblivion said.
"Same here." Wolf said, laughing.
"I'm older though, but by one day." Oblivion said, laughing, though, he stopped soon after and remembered this wasn't a time for laughing.
Artemis signed, and just then, the group was teleported to the plaza of the town. Soon after they teleported, the group knew exactly what was happening, and it was then they knew it was a death game. The sky turned blood red and the clouds were black, and a shadow emerged from thin air above a pillar in the middle of the plaza and formed a shadowy figure.
"Welcome player's. You are all on an international server with 100,000 player's, on Fate's Hand Online, as I am sure most of you know, however, what most people don't know is that this game is inescapable." The figure said.
The plaza was filled with 'huh's' and 'what's' as everyone in the plaza was confused, except for Artemis and the group.
"You see, the V-Sphere is actually a Nervegear rig with a different look. So if you die in here, you die in the real world. If one tries to take the V-Sphere off, the V-Sphere will kill you, like the Nervegear." The figure said.
"What kind of bullshit is this? Like the Nervegear?" Oblivion said.
"And yes, the team that made SAO made this game as well, with the ultimate goal of making another SAO." The figure said. "You know the drill, open up your inventories."
Everyone did and they saw a mirror, and those who were from SAO knew not to take it out, because their real life looks would come into view, though, the game forced them to take the mirrors out this time and everyone's real life looks came into view.
"Now was that hard? The only way out is to defeat a boss slowly roaming around the map, and it is powerful. Good luck player's." The figure disappeared, and the sky flashed a bright white color, and soon faded back to a blue color, and the clouds became white again.
"So what do we do Artemis? You may not know what's about to unfold anymore, but I still see you as a leader, and most importantly, a friend. So, what do we do?" Oblivion asked.
"We need to reform the SWC guild and either buy or build new headquarters. I say if we build new headquarters, we have a chance at making a better headquarters, in fact no, scratch that, we'll build an empire." Artemis said. "For now, let's focus on getting a place to stay in town, and tomorrow, we start building."
Artemis and Leafa went ahead and found an Inn, and everyone bought their own rooms to stay in for the night, and they would wake up the next day to learn how the build engine works.
The Next Day
"How was everyone's nights?" Artemis asked everyone.
"I heard noises coming from upstairs." Fiana said, innocently.
"Um, oops." Oblivion said.
"Dammit you two!" Artemis said to Oblivion and Lisbeth, laughing. "Ah well whatever, once we build some houses for ourselves, we won't have to worry about noise. So, Yui, where are you, if you're there."
Yui then came out from Kirito's pocket and said, "Where are we?"
"Uh oh, we forgot to tell you, we're in a new game, and we just found out we got trapped and we can't come back out until we beat this boss that's roaming around. The game has a build engine and I want you to teach us how to use it." Artemis asked.
"I can check, let's go outside first then, because we'll have to get some resources first." Yui said.
Artemis nodded and led the group outside and walked out to a forest. "All right, it seems like you'll have to, punch the tree?" Yui said, confused by the logic.
"Oh my gosh, if that's true, I'm getting déjà vu already." Oblivion said.
Artemis then proceeded to punch the tree and it broke, and Artemis didn't feel any kind of pain. Artemis continued and then the tree glowed and formed into a pile of logs, which Artemis picked up.
"Ah, so many memories." Artemis said.
"Okay, now go to your menu, and their should be a section for crafting materials. You'll see that you can now make 5 planks out of one log, so make all the logs you can." Yui said.
Artemis did as Yui said and he had 20 planks now. "Now create a workbench and we can continue from there." Yui said.
Artemis then created a workbench and placed it down on the ground. He then saw once he approached it, a menu popped up, and it displayed all the crafting recipies for materials, and he also saw that there was an instructions menu, which taught him how to build houses, defensive mechanisms, traps, and many more.
Yui flew back into her pocket and Artemis said, "Well, we're gonna build a house for everyone here, and then…"
"And then what?" Wolf asked.
"We build a wall!" Artemis said.
10 Minutes later
The group split up into teams and started building their houses, but eventually, other player's saw this, and they curiously walked over to see what was going on. One of the player's walked to Artemis and asked, "How did you figure out how to do this the second day after the launch?"
"Well, I punched a tree, and bam, now I got logs, and then I made planks, made a workbench, and now we got houses being built. But If you really wanna know, ask Yui over there, she's a helpful and adorable little thing." Artemis said.
"Um, is that true, you punched a tree, and you got logs?" The man asked.
"Well, there's this one fucking game called Minecraft, have you ever heard of it? Because I fucking love it, and they pretty much took the build engine from and put it in here, but the materials in MC were blocks, but here they aren't. It takes no effort to build in this game, try it." Artemis said.
The man went over to Kirito and asked him about Yui, who she taught everyone how to build, and soon they had a huge team of builders building with them, and soon, they had built a nice, quaint town.
"Wow, good job everyone, and to everyone who helped, you are free to join a guild that I will form eventually, though, you might not like the idea of the goals I have in mind." Artemis said.
"And what would that be?" One of the young men asked.
"To become a mercenary and wipe out any PK'ers in this game, as there were many PK'ers who killed many people in a game called SAO, and we want that threat gone." Artemis said.
"Wait a minute, I remember you." One of them said. "You're Artemis, I remember you from SAO."
"Well, what a surprise. Then I guess you knew why I am going to form this guild." Artemis said. "Look at the time, let's get some shuteye."
Everyone went into their new houses, and heck, even Kirito and Asuna built a copy of their log cabin from SAO, and it looks almost identical. Artemis made a big house for him and Leafa, and he helped Yuuki make a nice three room house, which she was going to share with Silica and Fiana. Oblivion and Lisbeth made a three room house that they would eventually renovate, and Wolf and Sinon made a two room house. Klein made a two room house, and Agil made a house that he would soon turn into a bar, and Nero made a two room house. Roxas and Arthegus made their own two room houses. Everyone else who joined in made their own small houses, and they had put together a nice town, and soon, Artemis would turn it into an empire.