Glocken
Glocken the main hub for all players in a FPS VRMMO Gun Gale Online, otherwise known as GGO. A seemingly new player logs in. They were 185 centimeters tall and had a skinny build. They had fair skin, a blue right eye and red left eye, and black hair with cobalt blue highlights. He looks around seemingly in awe as he takes in the sights of the amazing world of GGO.
(???) "So this is GGO... its amazing... now where is she?.. she said she'd be around here..." (???) "Hey over here!" A girl with pink hair and a matching outfit runs over to the boy with a smile. (???) "I see you logged on alright, good to see you Austin! You remember me right!" The player named Austin nods as he shows a small smile. (Austin) "Yeah... it's nice to see you again... if my research was right... your name is Kureha in this world right?" (Kureha) "Yep! Now let's get going! There's a very special tournament happening with a super rare item hidden on the battlefield!" (Austin) "Won't I just slow you down?" (Kureha) "I'm fine with carrying you for your first VRMMO! Come on it'll be fun!" Kureha drags Austin off to sign up for the tournament.
After a while they two continued making their way to sign up but spot a well known player on the way. (Kureha) "Hey it's Itsuki!" (Austin) "Who, the guy surrounded by girls?" (Kureha) "Yeah that's him, he's one of the top players of GGO and leader of the Alphard squadron! They're well known for their strength" Itsuki spots the two and walks over after the group of fan girls leave. (Itsuki) "You guys entering the tournament?" (Kureha) "Uh... yes! Yes we are!" (Itsuki) "Hey your Kureha right? I heard about you, always wandering between squadrons, but your reliable and have good battle analysis skills" (Kureha) "Uh... Y-yeah! That's right!" (Itsuki) "And who's this? By the look of your gear... your a newbie huh? Going into a tournament right off the bat huh? You must really want a challenge" (Austin) "I'm Austin and yes I started today... and I suppose a challenge never hurts to do..." Kureha buts in as she sees Austin starting to become nervous. (Kureha) "He's also my childhood friend! I introduced him to GGO, and it's his first VRMMO" Austin nods as he looks at Kureha who knows she's being thanked as she can read Austin's face. (Itsuki) "well see you both on the battlefield, that is if you both survive" (Kureha) "we'll be fine! I won't let anything bad happen to Austin" (Austin) "I can handle myself..." Itsuki smiles and walks off as Kureha drags Austin off again to sign the two up for the tournament.
Tournament Battlefield
Austin and Kureha spawn into the battlefield and look around. Austin checks the gun for a moment and everything for him goes silent for a moment. Kureha waves her hand in front of his face as he comes back to reality. (Kureha) "Hey don't space out like that in the battlefield! We gotta go if we want to get the rare item! I'll teach you the basics on the way" Austin nods as he enters through the next doors with Kureha. Austin learned the ropes of the game pretty quickly especially the combat part. (Kureha) "wow your a nice shot! Faster reaction time than most players, especially in the aim mode" (Austin) "I guess I'm just good at it, shall we go?" (Kureha) "well yeah, but I'm sensing other players, not too high a level but still a bit difficult for you" (Austin) "both of us can do this, let's go..."
Austin and Kureha enter the next room after preparing for a fight and see 3 players, two with pistols and one with a SMG. (Enemy Player1) "Hey we got some other players! Get them!" Austin immediately takes cover as bullets flew towards him due to his weak level. He takes a few shots at the SMG user hitting headshots. (EP1) "Shit! Cover me while I recover!" (EP 2 and 3) "Right!" Kureha takes care or one of the players while Austin waits for the other. (EP2) "What's the matter? Out of ammo newbie?" As soon as the enemy player rounded the corner of Austin's cover, he gets punched by Austin leaving him disoriented a bit. Austin aims his gun and stares as he covers the blue eyed side of his face making him look slightly menacing. (Austin) "Checkmate..." Austin fires about half of his gun's magazine into the head of the player putting them into the downed state. Austin looks at the SMG user, who was slightly stunned from the display, and finishes them off as well. He puts away the handgun and looks at Kureha who was inbetween shock and awe at his performance. (Kureha) "Damn you were merciless there, where'd you learn those moves?" (Austin) "I learned self defense IRL, I thought maybe I could replicate it here as I can control the character itself..." (Kureha) "nice job with that, also love the pose before you killed the guy! It looked cool!" Austin turns red a bit as he continues to advance, Kureha laughing as they moved on.
The two advance till they are stopped by Itsuki and his teammate. (Kureha) "If the opportunity arises, run..." (Itsuki) "planning on running? You know we'll just start shooting the moment your backs are turned" Kureha curses within Austin's earshot as she was hoping to find another way through this. (Kureha) "I'll make a deal with you though, there's a challenging enemy up ahead and I don't know if there are any traps, mind checking the out for me?" (Kureha) "we got no choice in the matter do we? What happens if we survive?" (Itsuki) "then you two are free to go, we won't attack you" (Austin's Thoughts) ["I'm calling bullshit right now... no ones that nice... except Kureha"] Austin looks at Kureha as they both nod to each other. (Kureha) "fine we'll do it, but you keep your end of the deal" Itsuki nods as he acknowledges Kureha.
Entering the room Austin and Kureha both see a crab like machine with a under mounted minigun. (Austin) "aim for its eyes, the weak spot is there" (Kureha) "you identify those quick huh? Regardless I'll do just that! Be care Austin!" Austin and Kureha both split up to confuse the enemy. It works with Austin firing shots from behind while Kureha kept aggro and leads the shots away from Austin. The machine starts firing wildly towards Kurehas direction making hard for her to dodge. Austin runs and jumps ontop of the machine and empties his gun into its weakpoint making its stagger. Kureha takes out a rocket launcher and aims. (Kureha) "Move out of the way!" She fires as soon as Austin jumped off and the machine gets hit with the blast, having no time to react, and gets destroyed. Both players high five each other as they move on. In the next room Itsuki and his partner catch up with the two. (Itsuki) "You both survived, I'll keep my end of the promise. Now it seems we're at a cross roads" (Austin) "I'm going right" (Kureha) "shouldn't we think about this?" (Austin) "I'm. going. right." (Itsuki) "I was gonna have you go first but I guess this works" Austin takes the right path with Kureha following. The two enter a control room looking area. (Kureha) "Hey a teleporter! Maybe we can use it if we mess with the controls over there we can get to the room the rare item is in" Austin shrugs as he walks onto the teleporter that was inactive, until Kureha activated it and it started sending him somewhere. (Kureha) "Whoa! Hey try not to move around too much! I'll follow behind after you finish teleporting!" (Austin) "if this kills me you owe me!"
Austin appears in the center of a room with control panels and a pod at the center of one of the ends of the room. Austin walks up to it and examines it, inadvertently activating it. (System) "Player authentication... starting master registration..." (Austin) "what?.." (System) "User name: Austin... registration complete..." The pod opens up revealing a girl that's 145 centimeters tall, with fair skin, average build, and brown hair with red highlights. Their eyes were closed. From a far side of the room a gun was aimed at Austin. The girl that was in the pod starts falling which prompts Austin to catch them, at the same time the one aiming the gun at Austin fires and misses. (Asuna) "Ah Sorry Kirito!" (Kirito) "It's fine Asuna don't worry about it" Austin turns to see a photon blade user in all black prepare to attack him. He shields the girl and takes out his handgun and aims it at Kirito. Before Kirito strikes Austin the girl looks up with gold eyes. (???) "master?..." Kirito and Austin both freeze up as they look at the girl. Kureha runs in and aims her SMG at Kirito. (Kureha) "Hey! Put down your weapon!" (Asuna) "You put down your weapon first" Kureha looks at the orange haired AR user behind her. (Kureha) "huh?! When did you get there?" (Kirito) "We don't want to fight, besides, it seems we didn't make it in time, unfortunately" (Austin) "Make it in time for what?" (Kirito) "It seems the ArFA-sys decided to pick you as its master" Austin looks at the girl with a perplexed look as he holsters his gun and thinks about the situation.
After a quick explanation of what's going on Kureha looks at the girl. (Kureha) "this person is the rare item?" (Kirito) "it's a player support AI. A ArFA-sys. They were implemented in the latest big update. They're so rare that there's no info on them. Aww man, and I thought this was the best opportunity to get one." (Asuna) "That's too bad Kirito, guess it's back to grinding high level enemies till one drops" (Kureha) "wait Kirito!? As in the one who got to the top of the GGO rankings in one month?! As in Kirito 'The Photon Sword Wielder'!? That Kirito!!" (Kirito) "That's right, and this is Asuna, in other games she's known as the 'Lightning Flash' or the 'Beserker Healer'" (Asuna) "Come on Kirito! You don't need to tell them that!" (Kirito) "Sorry... ahem... Anyway this is Asuna my partner" (Kureha) "I seen your name tons of times! To think I almost shot someone so famous!" Austin just stares at the two as he stays silent. (Kureha) "Hey Austin something wrong?" (Austin) "Ah... it's... nothing... I'm fine" Kureha turns to the AI with a smile. (Kureha) "Anyway, ArFA-sys! I'm your master now!" (Austin) "about that..." (ArFA-sys) "I am the ArFA system type X A290-00. Master registration has already been completed. Austin you are my master" (Kureha) "Wait what?" (Austin) "I kinda already registered it to me... accidentally of course... please don't be mad..." (Kirito) "just as I suspected, and I don't think it will change even if we defeat you" Kureha storms over to Austin with a slightly angry look on her face. (Kureha) "hey what's the big idea!? Why'd you register it without me!?" Austin crouches onto his knees and covers his head. (Austin) "Sorry, sorry sorry! I didn't know..." Kureha looks down at Austin and sighs. (Kureha) "no im sorry, I forgot about how you act, I'll let it slide, but you got to share the AI with me" Austin stands back up and nods. (Kirito) "well it seems you two are fine here, time to get back into the action, see you two later!" Both Austin and Kureha wave to Kirito and Asuna as they left.
Now the two alone with the newly awoken AI they both turn to it. (ArFA-sys) "all functions are at 100 percent. Systems check... all clear. Start up complete." The AI then bursts into a cheerful voice that surprises both Austin and Kureha. (ArFA-sys) "Master! You can name me. Names are changeable but don't name me anything weird or I'll explode!" (Austin) "Why so cheerful all of a sudden?.." (ArFA-sys) "The type X androids are superior models which come with their own personalities!" Kureha stares in awe as Austin thinks for a moment. (Austin) "let's go with... Chelsea... that's your name" (Chelsea) "Registration complete master! I'm glad to know your sensible!" (Kureha) "that's a good name" Chelsea smiles as she takes out a weird device. (Chelsea) "since your my first master I have a gift for you! It's the best weapon I can create for you!" Austin takes the device that seems to go on the arm and equips it. (Austin) "what is this Chelsea?" (Chelsea) "it's called the Ultimate Fiber Gun! But that's too long so let's call it the UFG for short!" (Kureha) "I never seen a weapon like that before" (Chelsea) "I don't have enough information on master yet so I gave him a unknown weapon but not a experimental" (Austin) "doesn't that mean..." (Kureha) "you have him a unimplemented weapon? That's rare even for a super-rare item!" (Chelsea) "X Types are awesome right! Anyway master shall we go and test out the UFG?" (Austin) "might as well..." The group enters an area made for the UFG training. Austin tests out the UFG and seems to get the hang of it. By the end of his training the tournament ends with Kirito and Asuna at the top of the leaderboards. (Kureha) "I knew they could get to the top!" (Austin) "they seem like the capable sort, im not surprised.."
Glocken
Austin and Kureha return to the lobby with Chelsea and see Itsuki standing around. They all walk up to him. (Itsuki) "I see you survived the tournament. Unfortunately for me I wasn't so lucky. My friends and I got into traps and got wiped out, except for me that is" (Austin) "well we struck good..." (Itsuki) "What's that suppose to mean? Did you find the rare item?" (Chelsea) "Yep! And it's me!" (Itsuki) "hm? Who are you?... wait your not a player... your a ArFA system!?" (Austin) "guess I got lucky..." (Itsuki) "Why is it that when I drop bread it land butter side down?" (Kureha) "Ah well, better luck next time Itsuki" Kirito and Asuna walk into view and wave to everyone. (Kirito) "Hey your back. I knew we'd see you again if we waited here" (Asuna) "we were wondering if you two would like to join us for a party" (Kirito) "it's more of a gathering of friends. I'd like to ask you some things. What do you say?.. oh hey, your that guy we fought before" (Itsuki) "and I would've been a goner if the timer hadn't stopped, regardless, it's an honor to fight the Photon Sword wielder. Wait Austin... are you a friend of Kirito?"Austin stays silent as he spaces out then gets smacked on the head as Kureha drags him out of his thoughts. (Austin) "what? Oh... no I just met him..." (Itsuki) "I see, not only did you get a ArFA system but you also caught the attention of the top players... Austin you may be the luckiest player ever" (Kirito) "Anyway would you like to join us Itsuki" (Itsuki) "no thanks I have things to do with my friends who helped me in the tournament" (Kirito) "fair enough, Austin, Kureha, what about you two" Kureha and Austin nod as Chelsea seems extremely happy. (Chelsea) "My first party! This is gonna be exciting!"
Kirito's Room
The room was filled with other players of varying looks. (Everyone) "Kirito, Asuna congratulations... on being the top players of the tournament!" A small girl smiles at Kirito and Asuna. (Yui) "Congratulations mama and papa!" (Kirito) "thanks everyone but we're not the ones we're celebrating for today. You all should be congratulating the newbie here, he got a rare item" (Austin) "[so many people] correction, rare items... I got another one... Chelsea, please introduce yourself..." (Chelsea) "I am the ArFA system type X 290-00, but do call me by any nickname if you wish" (Austin) "is there something wrong with Chelsea?.." (Chelsea) "The name you gave me is super duper extra special so only you can refer to me as that!" A Female blonde haired ponytail player with the name Leafa thinks for a moment. (Leafa) "if your name is zero... then how about zero in Japanese, Rei?" (Chelsea) "Rei, understood I think it fits me perfectly!" Everyone congratulates Austin for him getting the AI. A guy with red hair and seemed to be a womanizer fawns over Chelsea (Klien) "man if I had a cutie like Rei I'd never let anyone near her!" Multiple players sigh and cringe at the guys attitude. (Agil) "That's why you have such terrible luck with women. Even in a different game your still the same Klien. Anyway it seems the newbies accomplishments haven't gone unnoticed, everyone is talking about how a noob got a rare ArFA system" (Leafa) "Even Argo the infobroker is paying top credits for any info on the newbie" Everyone seems to be in a happy mood as they continued the party. Austin talks to some of the people around till a tall, dark skinned, muscular man noticed the device on his arm. (Agil) "what on your arm newbie?" (Austin) "please call me Austin... it's the Ultimate Fiber Gun... UFG for short... it's unimplemented and allows me to move around in new ways and pull flying enemy's to the ground... Chelsea gave it to me" (Sinon) "An unimplemented weapon?" (Yuuki) "Whoa! That's awesome, can all ArFA-sys do that?" (Chelsea) "It's an ability that a Type X can do for one time! I have something that is based on master's stats" (Agil) "so anyway, maybe you and me can make a-." (Austin) "before you say it sir... N.O. No... I already know when someone's looking to strike big... not happening" (Lisbeth) "shot down quickly Agil! Looks like he's a tough one to crack" (Agil) "Sorry as a merchant I couldn't help myself" Agil let's out a laugh as Leafa sighs then looks at Austin. (Leafa) "regardless that's some luck. It's pretty close to a miracle" (Silica) "I'm a little jealous actually. Do you have some sort of lucky charm?" (Austin) "no... the odds always seem to be in my favor" Kureha starts chatting with everyone. Kirito taps Austin on the shoulder and motions him to follow him outside while everyone is talking.
Austin and Kirito stand on the roof of Kirito's room and stare off for a moment. (Kirito) "Sorry for dragging you to the party, it's pretty loud isn't it?" Austin shakes his head as he looks at Kirito. (Kirito) "I know my friends can be abrasive, but their hearts are in the right place. Anyway I'd like to introduce myself properly. I'm-." (Austin) "No need Kirito... or shall I say Kazuto?" Kirito looks with a shocked look as Austin muttered his real name. (Kirito) "how did you?.." (Austin) "I know many things, I'd like to talk about them more but not right now, besides you've been near me IRL before but no one pays attention to the shut in..." Kirito seems a bit tense while Austin just stares blankly at Kirito. (Kirito) "How much do you know?" (Austin) "Enough... shall we talk about something else, I promise not to share anything I know... I'm still pretending to Kureha so she doesn't have anything to think about" Kirito looks at Austin then shakes his head as he tries to shrug off the situation. (Kirito) "Zero friends huh?... though I'm sure your easy to get along with, but you prefer the solo route." (Austin) "Yeah... guess you can say that... not too different from you huh?" Kirito nods as he stays wary of Austin. (Austin) "Well... if you have nothing more to talk about... I shall be going... it was nice meeting you again... good bye Kazuto" Austin walks back inside leaving Kirito to think about him. (Kirito) "Who could he be?..."
Authors note: Hello everyone and thank you for reading the first chapter of GGO Fatal Bullet: New Horizons. I hope you enjoyed the first chapter and I wonder who can guess what secrets are being hidden. This story does differ greatly to the actual story of the game due to factors but I will try to make it as enjoyable as possible. Well have a nice day or night and see you next chapter!