A Fate Worse Than Deaths

~~~ SHADOW TRAILER ~~~

It is night within the city of feudal Japanese look. On top of all of the roofs around the place, a black-clothing figure stands still on one end of a roof, showing his back toward an oncoming group in the same colour scheme.

The front part of the group nearly reaches him, jumping far toward them with a katana each, gripping tight as they are ready to strike him down.

But it is all for naught as soon as the blades reach him. What they see is nothing more than an illusion. Their swords just phase through the mirage, hitting the roof instead.

They realized how their blades have struck upon a shadow, which frighten them as the figure emerges out of it, pulling the blades deep into the shadow and proceeds to give them a beat down, pushing them back onto the ground.

One of those people in the groups that are still did not strike him down lands nearby him on the same roof, with him shouting at the lone wolf, "Mirai Yamano, you are under arrest for stealing the emperor's imperial jade! Surrender now and your punishment will be less painful."

"You mean, this one?" the lone figure, Mirai, pulls out an emerald object in the shape of a badge, "Sorry, but this is now mine. I'll be safekeeping this, promise."

"Quite stubborn, eh? Then, you shall be executed right here, right now! All of you, strike him down!"

The rest of the group starts jumping onto him, with a huge puddle appears below him, immediately strike them down with tendrils, pushing them off the stage.

The puddle soon disappears with Mirai starts jumping onto one roof after another, leaving the scenery.

The leader of the group quickly does the same action, running toward the targeted man. He also starts throwing stars toward him, with each of them seem to be homing toward him.

But then Mirai turns around toward the stars, shoving his right palm forward. Blue circle appears before him, with a bigger black star flies out of the circle and goes straight toward the smaller stars, crashing and deflecting them away as it goes straight toward the chaser, exploding into black smoke.

The smoke soon enveloping him, causing the chaser to stop and looks around the place, grunting in frustration, "Light Eater Technique!?"

The smoke disappears, and the man is back on the rooftop, but the one he is after is no longer there, "Damn it, Mirai!"

The said man is inside a forest, looking around as a bright circle appears before him. He takes a deep breathe, whispering slowly, only for him to hear, "A new life…"

He then walks toward the circle, entering it as the circle disappears.

NAME: MIRAI YAMANO
SPEC: MAGIC-BASED NINJA
WEAPON: KAGE SHURIKEN

~~~ HUNTRESS TRAILER ~~~

BANG! BANG! BANG!

A young female is seen kneeling on top of a hill, holding tight a rifle with a scope as she goes for a quick reload before pulling the trigger once more.

She seems to be focusing on the incoming wave of black creatures with white heads, with most of them being in the form of a pack of wolves.

Although her aiming skill is incredible, the sheer number of the enemies are overwhelming enough that the plain field is soon overrun with said creatures.

But it seems she is not alone in this one. Alongside her are people with variety of weapons of their own, each goes for an attack toward the creatures, culminating in an all-out war.

She finally stands up, revealing herself wearing a black dress with a flowing skirt underneath, even having a hood from a scarf behind her. The clothing she wears currently also has a red accent in it.

"Ruby Rose, let's get going," another female appears besides her, wearing a red sleek dress with orange, sparking lines of light around it.

She jumps down onto the hill, carefully levitating herself close to the ground before joining the fight. The woman seems to be able to generate flames all over her, as she skilfully burns the enemies into ashes one after another.

"Hey, wait up, Cinder!" Ruby screams in excitement. The rifle she is holding as of now is then reconfigured into a huge scythe.

She then jumps off the hill, with herself suddenly being enveloped into a wind and goes straight toward the enemies, turning into a blur of red clothing as the creatures are entrapped inside the tornado around her. She quickly makes a sudden halt of her own movement, as the wind and its content still moving, now away from her and goes straight forward while hitting everything in front of her.

A group joins her, with the one with a really long curly blonde hair taps her shoulder, "A little overkill there, sis."

"Still a child, I see," a middle-aged man carrying a sword smirking, ruffling her hair, "A huntress should never simply charge ahead. You may risk yourself the next time you act like that again."

"I am not a child anymore, old man!" Ruby pushes his hand away, looking pissed at him, "I am now 25, thank you very much!"

Cinder simply chuckles, "Well, your ability to not die is as impressive as ever."

"That's a lot, coming from someone like you!"

"That is a compliment."

"Doesn't sound like that!"

The old man quickly breaks them apart, "Well, you two lovely ladies might as well stop fighting. We are still in a war after all."

Everyone nods in agreement, running straight away as to engage in the upcoming enemy.

The old man is the last to run, but then he realizes that he is not the last one, "Ruby, is anything wrong?"

The girl looks a bit sad, looking at her scythe and turns toward him, "I have made my mind!"

"Owh, is it important to talk about that now?"

She nods in excitement, "Uncle Qrow, I've decided that I am not gonna be a huntress!"

"Wh-what!? But… that's…"

She holds the scythe in one hand, slowly breaking it away and throws it to the side. Ruby then pulls out a small red baton out of her back as the baton grows in size into a pole. At the tip of the pole far from her, a blue neon light appears out of it, looking a blade of a scythe, "I am going to be something bigger; something better!"

Screaming out, she charges forward, running toward the enemy with her laser scythe with her, shout out loud, "New life, here I come!"

NAME: RUBY ROSE
SPEC: ALL RANGES COMBATANT
WEAPON: MOONLIGHT ROSE

~~~ PRINCESS TRAILER ~~~

CHING! CHING!

The sound of metals clashing is heard in this strange dimension, a dimension filled with techno colour that blinds anyone who had their first time reaching here.

In the middle of that dimension is a rather big yet plain and boring piece of circle land with nothing else around it. On the land are two figures fighting against each other, clashing weapons against each other.

A young blue-haired female in warrior-looking garb holding a golden sword with a hole in the middle of it is fighting against another female. Her opponent is instead of looking like a different human, having her appearance instead but with black-coloured scheme along with black hair.

The two keeps on engaging against each other, evenly matched to one another, but it seems the black one is stronger, able to overpower the bluenette female onto the ground.

She tries to stand up, clenching her teeth in pain while pulling herself with the help of her sword. Her eyes somehow being distracted with her surroundings.

Around the perverse sky, she can see numerous holes floating far from the land but close to each other. Each of the holes depicts different scenario with similar theme; a skirmish between warriors of many appearances. There are even holes with her faces, but having different colour on their hairs and their garments.

She turns her attention back to this enemy of hers, pulling the sword up and charges forward, gripping the blade tight as she uses every single ounce of her strength to push forward.

At that very moment she stands up, a rainbow-colored shining ball appears out of nowhere, floating around close to her enemy. The doppelganger notices of it and quickly strikes upon the ball several time, causing it to explode and disappears. What happens next is her being enveloped in a rainbow-colored aura, turning back her attention toward the bluenette.

In the midst of her stab, she notices of the change happens on the black-haired opponent of hers as the doppelganger goes for a powerful strike, an attack she didn't even see it coming and seemingly unblockable by the looks of it,

The hit quickly hits her, pushing her far off from the land, pushing her to the sky.

The female is now waiting for her demise. It's her loss after all, though she felt a bit unfair. This is wrong, is what she thinks inside of her mind.

These stupid rules… it's just an inconvenient toward everyone here. We have all been fighting for ages, and some of us are even veterans in war and something greater. Yet we were all held by rules that stating on how a win is determined by the numbers of time they have been flown to the sky away from there…

Maybe it's time for her to move on?

She pulls out a bow, out from her back and setting an arrow onto the bow as she pulls rope as far as she could, she releases the hold on the rope, letting the arrow flies far onto the land. The arrow seems to be tied with a different rope, one that is connected around her waist as she is pulled across the sky back onto the land.

Upon reaching the destination, the black-haired one is shock to see the bluenette's appearance here, "Wha- what are you doing here!? You are supposed to be knocked out at this point! And what are those thing you used!?"

"I've decided…" the bluenette stabs her sword onto the land once again, "I will no longer abide by the rules. You can suck it up all you want!"

She then pulls out a different sword, one with white crystal colour and seems to be broken, having no blade except the circle near the hilt.

Or maybe, it is meant to be that way, as the woman swings the broken blade to her side, a golden brilliant light shoots out of the circle, forming a blade in its place.

"Th-that is not Falchion!" the black-haired female is startled by that weapon, "What about the one on the ground?"

"I have no use of such thing! This time, I will decide what my Final Smash will be!" she screams as she runs forward, grabbing the arrow with her.

The bluenette stops suddenly in the midst of her running, throwing away the arrow toward the black-haired female, causing her to dodge out of the way. At this moment, she steps forward once more, getting the distance between those two lessening.

The crystal sword has its blade shine even brighter with her rapidly striking the opponent down repeatedly, not giving any indication of stopping anytime soon. She then goes for one final strike, grabbing the sword with both hands, spinning around and smashes her to the side, throwing her off the land, "I am not gonna be defeated by someone dresses like that yandere who creepily sneaks around my father's best friend!"

The black-haired female disappears from the sight, indicating that she loses in this match, followed by a voice announcing, "DEFEATED! AND THE WINNER IS, LUCINA!"

Breathing heavily, she kneels onto the ground while trying to breathe in and out slowly, trying to stay in that peaceful situation.

Unfortunately someone has the nerve to disrupt the quiet moment, "What was that, Lucina? Did you just cheat to win?"

She quickly turns around, seeing a lot of pe- creatures standing opposite to her, with only few of them are human by nature, looking at her in shock and disgust.

The black-haired female is also with them, looking like a spoil child and grabs a white-haired man's right arm close to her, "Robin~, she cheats in our fight! She uses a bow to save herself from being flown away~! She even uses that strange sword and discard the Falchion!"

A blue-haired man shakes his head in disappointment, "This is the most unforgivable act done by someone within the exalted lineage. That sword bears a great power and you should have feel so proud and honoured to be able to wield such sacred weapon."

"Shut up, Marth!" bluenette Lucina screams toward him, "That power only works with you! You get to slash anybody who reaches the tip of your blade with style! Mine don't work that way and I am only allowed to have a similar fighting style as yours for no reason! I have my own fighting style, thank you very much!"

"And you!" she stares at the black-haired of herself, "Stop acting like that with my face! You are just a clone of mine with different colour scheme. At least wear something else for a change, like Cloud!"

A spiky blonde man just looks away from there, muttering, "Don't lump me into your problem."

A blue-haired man with one arm uncovered walks forward, looking worried, "Lucina, the important matter we are conversing right now is about you using a bow and a strange laser sword. You are permitted to only use Falchion, remember?"

"No, I don't remember saying yes to that stupid regulation! We are in a tournament along with two furries that can shoot laser and summon tanks, a man with laser sword that can do a lot of stuff than just slashing, a bounty hunter with awesome boots and a gun/whip, an elf that literally carries everything inside his bag and our own tactician that uses magic books AND a magic sword. In fact, we are going to have a friend that can turn into a freaking dragon! Compare to them, some of us doesn't seem to fit anywhere in this!"

"But-"

"AAHH! Screw all the rules, screw everything in this world! I'll be going away from here, far away from here and have a new life in a different world!"

She walks away from them with a blue circle appears nearby her, seemingly waiting for her.

"Lucina, wait!" a blonde man with a magenta sword behind his back calls her out.

She quickly turns toward him, "Shulk?"

"You'll visit us anytime, right?"

She shakes her head, "Nah, but maybe I'll be visiting your world, just like you promise me before!"

She waves at him and enters the circle, disappears from everyone's sight.

The blue-haired man simply shakes his head, "She must be in her rebellious stage…"

"I'm pretty sure she has already passed that stage," the white-haired man beside him chuckling slowly.

NAME: LUCINA
SPEC: ITEM VARIETY HERO
WEAPON: FALCHION CHROMA

~~~ HYBRID TRAILER ~~~

Thunder strikes anywhere on this land of ruins, with many people running all over the place, searching for a place as shelter.

On the sky, flying creatures swarming the land from all the corners of the land, assaulting any living creatures down below, even if it is one of their own.

Among all of those creatures are giant machines, flying all over the place as they try to shoot down any of the creatures down onto the earth.

On the ground where a town is located, a young female riding a bike speeds through the buildings, going across the town. Some of the creatures start swarming over her, but is quickly shot down by a gun used by her, holding it with her left hand as she focuses on riding the bike.

A dragon suddenly appears from a corner of a building, halting her movement by letting the bike hits its head, causing her to be thrown away. She quickly lands perfectly onto the ground and takes off her leather jacket and rips the right sleeve of her turquoise shirt, revealing a metallic arm underneath.

"Take this, you beasts!" she aims her right hand onto the sky as the arm quickly opens up, reconfigure itself into a shape of a rail gun, which she proceeds to shoot down any incoming creatures.

She then runs forward and enters the biggest building in the town through the front door.

"Sera, where have you been!?" a man inside the building sees her and shouts at her, "The Wylhelm has already swarming this place!"

"I know, it's obvious even to baby's eyes! By the way, nii-san, it's a girl!"

The man is startled by this sudden news and smiles at her, "How about her? How's my wife?"

"She's just fine. Now, how about we go and kill these fuckers!?"

"Let's!"

The two run deeper into the building and going downstairs to an underground base, with him asking her, "Have they prepared the final weapon?"

"The Orbital Cannon is still charging up. They are going to blow that planet down!" she quickly responds, followed by a question from her, "Are we gonna use that?"

"Of course, we are the only two people that can use that."

"So, it has been authorized?"

"Yes, so make sure to go all out! I have a daughter to play with after this."

"And I have a niece, so we are even in this one."

The two finally reaches a hall with so many giant machines there, seemingly repaired by so many people.

A man reaches them, "Shraffe Q, Sera Q, BMM-010 is prepared for sortie."

"Good, then let's suit up," he nods, looking at her.

She nods back at him.

The two are now wearing a white pilot suit each, running toward a huge aircraft as they climb onto it and jumps into their own seats, each separated from each other.

They flicks the switch around, lighting up their front view which appears to be dark to show up a full view of the hangar outside of the machine. Shraffe then speaks up first, "BMM-010a ready!"

Sera follows him suit, "BMM-010b ready!"

A voice speaks to them from an intercom, "BMM-010, move to the gate."

The aircraft then moves slowly toward what appears to be a gate, with a light that says 'PENDING' above it.

The voice is heard once again, "Lieutenants, there are disturbance right outside of the gate. The Foxtrot Team will be taking care of the problem. Please be on standby until further notice."

"Noted," Shraffe responds, getting ready in his place.

Sera's face appears on his view, "Nii-san."

"What is it?"

"I have decided on something."

"On what?"

"What I will do after this war."

"Oh? Will you finally get married?"

"No, silly. I am going to do something awesome."

"Am I allowed to know what that would be?"

"I am getting a new life!"

The voice speaks up once more, "The disturbance has been taken care off. You are now clear for the take-off."

Shraffe smiles, speaking up to her, "I hope you will be happy with your new life. But first, we shall eliminate them all."

"Okay!"

Both of them then shouts in unison, "Q Team, Asphalt; ready to launch!"

The gate in front of them opens up, with the gigantic plane flares up on the engine, moving forward into the battlefield with Sera shouting out loud, "Let's create a path for tomorrow!"

NAME: SERA QUETZAL
SPEC: CYBORG MASTER PILOT
WEAPON: INTERCHANGEABLE ARMAMENT

~~~ KING TRAILER ~~~

It is in the middle of a city. A lone man walks through the land that is in ruin as of current, slowly pulling his long sword through the dead bodies, looking tattered and almost withered.

Two man jump onto him as he sees them and drops down the sword, pulling out a katana from a nearby body and slashes them right at the stomach, letting them fall onto the ground.

He then throws the katana and slowly proceed to drag the sword through the street.

"Majesty!"

A female with red fox ears appear down from the rooftop, looking worried as she tries to help him lifting the sword, asking him, "You're Majesty, why are you insist of lifting this sword? Let us, your loyal retainers help in this one!"

"I can't let you do that," he mutters out loud, letting them all hear his words, "This is my country, and all of this is my fault."

She quickly responds, "Your Majesty, none of this is your fault!"

"But it is, and I shall take my responsibility…"

"But, Your Majesty…"

"SHUT UP!"

The fox girl can only be silenced by his scream as he keeps on pulling the heavy sword slowly toward an altar not far from there.

More people come to him, calling him out, "Your Majesty!"

The man just ignores them, lifting the sword high on the altar and stabs it down into the ground, letting the sword to shine in a crystal clear.

He then pulls out a normal-sized sword as he points toward the front, "It is time to finish this fight."

"YOUR MAJESTY HAS SPOKEN! LET US DEFEND THIS KINGDOM!"

All of those people scream, wielding their respective weapons and charge forward, leaving the king alone at the altar.

Almost alone.

"Kyu, are you feeling okay?"

He looks around the place, looking for the source of the voice, but only sees a red fox walking toward him, looking directly at him.

He smirks, muttering in silence, "What do you want, Ahri?"

The fox slowly turns into a beautiful young black-haired female in a quite skimpy red clothing with red fox ears and a red bushy tail behind her, kneeling down and sits across him, "What's with the attitude? You used to be a lot more carefree than today."

"We are in the middle of the war. Not to mention I am the one that starts all of this."

She looks at the sky and turns back at him, "If only you didn't be such a chastity. You don't even bat an eye on my daughter."

"I am in no mood for a lust-filled conversation. This kingdom still needs to be govern with people in its mind. Well, I broke the alliance, so I guess at this point I am no longer a ruler. Exile will be my fate. Not suit to be a king after all. Might as well pick a different career."

Ahri moves herself closer to him, speaking up to him, "Well, I have a suggestion on that."

"Well?" he looks at her, expecting for something.

"Have you ever heard of Iliarde Verse Security?"

"Sounds suspicious."

"It is a place for rejects like you and me, an organization that governs throughout the world, taking care of any mishaps or any threats of different worlds and realities."

"Sounds like an urban legend. Where do you heard of such thing?"

"Why do you think me and my daughter are the only gumiho around?"

"Ah, point taken then."

"Interested?"

He gives it a deep thought for a while, taking a look at all of the buildings around in ruins, burning up with so many dead bodies and people creating more of them. He finally sighs, thinking of the consequences of this horrifying action and turns back toward the fox, "A great way to start a new life."

"Your Majesty!"

He turns toward the front of the place, seeing the same fox female at the front, calling him out, "Your Majesty, your service is needed at the fourth district."

He then stands up, turning to his side and sees the red fox looking at him as she scratches her right ear, before going back to staring him.

Kyu smiles, kneeling down and gently rubs the fox. Finally done with it, he stands up, looking at the sky, "Don't worry. I'll be picking that for my next career. It is for a new life, after all."

He looks back at the nearby female, speaking to her, "Let's go!"

She nods at him happily with the two run out of there, as he pulls out a golden sword, charging through the battlefield.

NAME: KYU ARC DE ARANZO
SPEC: SWORD-BASED MAGICIAN
WEAPON: CURSED DESTINY

~~~ PROLOGUE ~~~

THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!

"Owh, shut up already!"

The door of a room opens up with Kyu, in a grey shirt with a blue short pants stand inside the room, looking straight toward whoever was knocking on the door with a pair of sleepy eyes, sighing as he greets the intruder, "Good it's-still-2-in-the-morning guys…"

The door closes immediately, causing the intruder to knock onto the door loudly again, making the door opens up once more, "Is there anything else important than a good night sleep?"

"Of course there is!" Ruby pushes him deep into the room, forcing her, Lucina, Sera and Mirai into his room. All of them are wearing a pajama of their own each. Kyu is unable to contain the force that are being put onto him, making him tumbling onto the floor, hurting his back in the process.

He quickly stands up in anger, shouting at them, "You have three seconds to get the fuck out of my room or I-"

"Is that a fanfiction about us?" Lucina points out, pointing toward a computer on the desk near the bed, staring at him, "Am I really that much of a sore loser?"

He casually responds to her words thanks to his absent state of his mind, speaking up to her, "That's not the point of that story. It's just about stupid rules that people have to fol- WHY ARE YOU READING THAT!?"

Sera looks at all of the stuff inside the quite huge room, seeing a lot of figurines, manga, comics and even video games, smirking at their sights, "Otaku room, huh? This is quite fun to see…"

He heard those words, "That's not a compliment, isn't it!"

Kyu turns around and sees Mirai is staring toward an object known by all as Nintendo DS, speaking in a calm voice, "Wow, didn't know Lucina is your waifu… You decided to marry her in this game?"

Lucian suddenly turns red, holding her cheeks in embarrassment. Smiling wide as she speaks in a rather cute manner, "Th-that's just the game, Fire Emblem, right? I-it's not like that's going to be t-true, right?"

Sera just stares at her, "You… didn't actually meant that, aren't you?"

Mirai then continues his words, "Owh, you seems to have so many game saves here. Completionist, much? Ah, you married to Cordelia to? And Cherche? There's even one save with you and Tharja, Tiki, Anna, Cynthia AND Sumia? Don't you think that's a bit overkill?"

Lucina quickly turns into a state of a scorned woman and grabs him by the collar, showing a demon face of hers, "What kind of a pervert are you!? You wish to be with so many ladies!? Even with my sister AND my mother? Have you wrote your will?"

"Th-that's just a game! I was just wanted to experiment with stuff, to see which unit is stronger and-"

"AH!" Ruby screams, making all of them looking at her as she seems to be scared of something, "Why is this thing even exist?"

Sera walks toward her, looking confused as she sees her holding a book tight to her chest, not wanting to look at it and pulls it away from her, "What are yo- a hentai!? RWBY's nonetheless!?"

Ruby screams at Kyu in anger, shoving her arms all over the place, "Why did you even have such disgusted item with you!? Dear god, Monty Oum and Rooster Teeth did not made this greatest web series ever known to man to be exploited by perverts like you! RWBY didn't even have gory violence, nonetheless sex appeal for you, you freak!"

"Yang killed Tifa…"

"Shut up, Mirai! That's not canon! It does not count! Besides, Yang will never do such thing to anybody, ever!"

"AH!"

Sera looks to the owner of the voice, "Lucina?"

"A hentai of me!?" she shows a book with her face on it, having her own face turns bright red, "Have you been secretly jacking off to this too!?"

"WHAT DOES THIS GOT TO DO WITH ALL OF YOU!?" Kyu screams out to their ears, filling the room with his loud roar, "WHY ARE YOU GUYS EVEN HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE!?"

Ruby jumps onto his bed, posing with her left feet on top of books with her right hand points to the front, "Today is finally the day we have been waiting for, my leader!"

"What day? What did I miss?" Kyu looks at them all, looking confused and dumbfounded, "Is there anything important today?"

"IMPORTANT!?" Sera is in rage as she is the one that grabs his collar now, "WE HAVE FINALLY GRADUATED FROM BEING TRAINEES TO BEING A FULL-FLEDGED OFFICERS OF IVS! WE ARE NO LONGER BEING TOLD OF WHAT MISSION TO UNDERTAKE! NOT TO MENTION, WE MAY CHOOSE TO BE STATIONED AT ANY LOCATION!"

"Owh, that," Kyu pulls their hands off, rubbing his head as mutters, "But I thought that choice is only for any team that ranked A in both academic and practical results."

"That's why we are going stay up at the registry hall to get our result paper. Once we have confirmed it, we should go and register the station there."

Lucina moves close to him, "I don't think we should waste any more time. We should be getting that paper as fast as possible before anyone else does. This year this place only accept one team. The place opens up at 7 in the morning after all."

He nods in agreement, but ended up realizing something, "But we are all wearing pajamas…"

"I have all of your uniforms right here," Mirai puts his right hand onto the desk, creating a white circle where light brown-colored uniforms appear down onto the designated location, "We are going to change right here right now."

"Right… here?" Kyu looks at them all, pointing his finger in that room.

"Problem?" Ruby glares at him, as everyone follows suite, glaring at him as if he has done something wrong.

"You do realized that there are like, two men and three women in here?"

"So?"

Lucina scolds him, "Geez, put your mind inside the gutter. Bear with this for now. We are in the state of emergency. After this we are going to have an office of our own with rooms close to each other. No need to run through the corridors just to get to each other."

Mirai looks at him, "I can turn my body into female if you want to."

"That just going to make it even worse!"

Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Despite his protest, they still changed to their brown uniforms with Kyu's face seems to be filled with hot sauce, metaphorically.

Right after the fiasco, all five of them run through the corridors, out from their huge building of dormitories, going straight through the dark garden. They keep on running in that incredibly huge facility, reaching the biggest building there and goes straight into it without stopping and reach a huge hall.

Their jaws are now open wide.

In that one huge hall, there are so many tents all over the place, with so many people hanging around the place. That place seems to be filled with so many noisy sounds out from each of those people.

A man in golden uniform yawns as he pass through the hall, noticing them, "Ah, team Ginga Luxuria, right?"

All five of them sees the man and quickly saluting them, calling him out, "SENSEI!"

"Please, just call me Saito-san. I am not going to be your instructor anymore. No matter what result you will have, you are now the officers of IVS. I will be your superior, especially if you work here in headquarter."

"Yes, Saito-sensei!"

"You guys are really stubborn…" the middle-aged man sighs, walking away from there, mumbling, "Good luck in getting a good spot. Man, I really need some rest. I have been working non-stop from the day before yesterday. Wish there are harem with me… Imagine all the fun I can have all night. Pretty sure all my energies will be rejuvenate in no time."

The five just looks at him, with Mirai mutters slowly for him not to hear, "I hate it when he said pervert stuff like that…"

Ruby turns her head toward the hall and quickly filed with grief and despair, "G-guys… the space near the register has been occupied!"

"W-we are too late!?" Lucina screams, horrified as she quickly grabs Kyu's collar, "This is all your fault!"

"M-me!?" he pulls her hands off from him.

"You are our leader! You should have known of this!"

The rest of them nod in agreement, glaring at him with dark aura filled the air.

Kyu sighs, scratching his head as he calmly mumbles, "Being close to the counter won't give you an advantage, but rather an annoyance to the staff that will be working early in the morning. Just pitch up the tent for now and wakes up before eve-"

"AH, I'VE FORGOT ABOUT THE TENT!" Mirai screams in shock, shouting on top of his lung as he scrambles through magic circles he made all around him, "I swear to god, I am so sure that I've kept the tent inside one of these containment jutsu!"

Lucky for him to not notices of his teammates for they are now glaring at him, giving off the same aura onto him, now with shiny red eyes with darker light upon them.

Ruby kneels down, started to draw circle on the floor, "I guess we might as well sleep on the wall… with cold air and stuff…"

"I have extra blanket…" Lucina mutters, with all of them shout at her, "YOU BRING THAT AROUND?"

She just shrugs, "It's useful, right? I mean, I love to carry this around just in case we have to combat against any rampaging bull creatures…"

'That's crazily prepared', thought the rest.

Kyu looks around and turns toward the lobby nearby, seeing an empty couch as he points toward them, "Guys, let's sleep over there."

The girls notice the couch, quickly run toward it excitedly, "I CALL SHOTGUN!"

The couch pointed only available for three people, and all three of the ladies able to sit on it before the boys do.

"GOOD NIGHT~!" the three shout as they wrap themselves with the blanket, quickly fall into a deep sleep.

Kyu just chuckles as he turns toward Mirai, "Where are you sleeping tonight?"

But he's not around, startling Kyu. He then turns his head onto the floor, seeing a black puddle at the spot where Mirai last stand, whispering to himself, "You just gonna sleeps there, huh? At least make one for me…"

Sighing again, he walks past the ladies and sit at stairs a bit far from there, yawning and gets ready to sleep.

But before that, something hits his shoulder, causing him to turn to his side, seeing a female of white, long hair waving at him, "You here for the result too, I presume?"

"Yeah," he slightly nods, nearly succumbed into his sleepiness.

Kyu looks at her for a while, realizing that he did not recognize this female. He's pretty sure he will remember her somewhere, even if it is a small detail. There's not much of the new recruits after all for this year.

She smiles at him, wanting to shake his hand, "Erin; Erin Arusel."

"Kyu Aranzo," he shakes her hand, "Where's your teammates?"

She quickly looks around, seeing a man sleeping on the floor under the stairs, pointing at him, "There's one there."

"The rest?"

"There's only two of us."

"Only two?"

"Yeah, we are the special case."

"Ah. Well, good night."

"Night-night," she closes her eyes, sleeping beside him with head rests near the railing.

Yawns once more, Kyu rests his head on a wall near him, closing his eyes and succumbed in his deep slumber, not letting himself to think of anything else…

Except…

Each team has at least five people in it, no less than that. Any excess of trainees will be put with other teams, making a team of six instead. Then why are those two…

"KYU! WAKE UP, KYU!"

He quickly opens up his eyes, shaking his head and tries to relieve his eyes, looking at Ruby in front of him, "What is it?"

He also sees Sera, Lucina and Mirai standing nearby. All four of them seem to be looking at him with a worried mixed with another feeling that he couldn't properly read.

"You have to see this!" she pulls his right hand, forcing him to follow them as they run toward the hall.

Lucina quickly points toward the hall, "Did you see that?"

"I see people are still sle- shit…"

Kyu then notices at the clock nearby, showing the longer hand at 12 and the shorter hand at 8, "It's already 8 o'clock."

"That's the point!" Sera shouts, looking straight at his face, "Did you see that!?"

"N-nobody's around… Where are they? Where are everybody?"

Mirai mutters, "That's what we tried to figure out. All of us were overslept and I was the one that woke up first. I goes to look at the watch and it's already 7.15 but nobody is seen around, not even the janitors."

"Sh-should we check on the officers' building? Maybe Saito-sama is there?"

"Great idea!" Lucina points out.

All of them quickly run out of the building, running through the garden which is now filled with a bright light shining upon them.

The group is actually being watched by Erin and her friend from afar.

"Strange," she whispers to herself.

Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

They are still running around the facility, now toward another huge building at the front, entering the yard around it.

But their movement is halt suddenly, as they see something that forced them to stop suddenly, unable to move forward.

Right in front of them, the place suddenly being surrounded by creatures of various faces, particularly of three different groups.

One group looks like a pack of wolves with black body and white head, which Ruby refers them as, "Grimm!"

One group has humanoid appearances, each holding different weapons with them, but what differs them from human are their dark looking body with light brown mask that has two shiny red eyes with them, which Lucina refers them as, "Risen!"

The last one are a bunch black creatures looking like hyperactive, intelligent creatures with antennas and two yellow, soul-piercing eyes, which the last three refers them as, "Heartless…?"

The three look at each other, somehow realizing that something was off about the appearance of the creatures there before turning back at these newly appeared enemies.

"What are they doing here!?" Lucina shouts, looking at them all as all of them are being wary of this situation.

Mirai turns toward the leader, "What's the plan here?"

"I am no Robin, so the only thing I can think of here to escape from this place and search for a better place to make up a good plan."

"Sounds good enough to me," Sera mutters as they started to back away from there, yet something just wanting to step them from doing so.

The front door of the building opens up, with Saito runs out of there and goes to slash down a group of Grimm with his own golden long sword, striking them down as he pulls out a golden pistol and points toward the nearby Heartless, shooting them down as their 'hearts' fly toward the sky and disappears.

He then sees them, shouting at them, "Ginga Luxuria! Over here!"

The five quickly notices of him, shouting back at him, "Sa- SAITO-SAMA!?"

"All of you, get over here, quick!"

They look at each other, hesitate to even enter the battlefield, but Sera finally rolls her eyes, "Argh, let's get to it already! He must have something good to tell us about! We might as well know what happened here."

"Then, let us start this fight."

Mirai creates a black circle in front of him with a black giant shuriken flies out of it, levitate above the ground before moving toward him, letting him grabs it, holding it close to his back.

The baton falls down out from Ruby's right sleeve as she grabs it, twirling around as it turns bigger before being grabbed by both of her hands. The baton reconfigures itself, making itself presentable to be held with the neon scythe appears at the edge of the stick.

Lucina pulls out her sword's hilt out of nowhere, slashing the air several time before shoving her hand to the side, having its golden laser blade to appear out from the weapon.

Sera simply unbutton herself, pulling out right hand from the jacket, showing her cyborg sleeveless hand, with her hand from the wrist to the figure opens up, turning into a mini chainsaw.

Kyu wears a pair of silver gloves, tightening his grips as he moves his left hand around. A silver claymore appears in his hand, with some crystal effect sparks of the blade.

He then points his blade toward the front, shouting out, "Ginga Luxuria, strike!"

Readying in their stance, all five them charge forward toward the enemies, clearly getting aggro on themselves as the monsters are now fixated on assaulting them.

It's not like they actually care though.

Mirai jumps over a Grimm and lands on the ground, with the wolf explodes as he throws the shuriken to the front, letting the projectile weapon to hit any enemies at the front. Even when himself being without weapon, he is not truly in danger as he creates a yellow circle underneath, with an explosion happens on the ground, pushing him up to the sky. He then shoves his two arms to the sides, creating a red circle and throws them toward the enemy below, shooting a stream of flame onto the enemy down below.

Ruby is rather reckless as she spins around, splitting any enemies that run into her blade easily. She then stops spinning and starts smacking the front of the baton, having the blade part to be broken as she puts the baton onto the ground. She then grabs the blade, splitting it into two, gripping onto them with her hands each, now holding a pair of gauntlet as she goes and hit the one in the front before following her attack toward others nearby. While that happen, the baton starts having a leg on its own, reconfigure into a quadruple machine that starts barking at them and shoots tons of lead onto the enemies at the front. She nearly finishes with her attacks, running back at the machine and puts the blades at the front, gripping the side of the machine that seems to have a scope on top of it as she starts spamming bullets around the place.

Lucina halts in the middle of her run, throwing the sword upward slowly as she starts grabbing the hilt in a reverse position and pulls his arm away before throwing the blade straight to the front, stabbing one Risen on his head, sticking onto the ground. She then pulls out a bow, starting to fire some arrows while she runs to the side, evading any possible attack. But then she stops once again to roll to the side away from a Grimm, pulling out a steel spear from somewhere around her, hacking the wolf away before proceed to hack some more onto any nearby enemies, making herself forward as she is getting closer to her sword. Once it is within reach, she pushes her right palm onto the end of the hilt, pulling herself upward and grabs it during midair, striking a group of jet black creatures with a single downward slash before throwing a white circle wave around her with a single spin.

Rather than running like the rest, Sera simply walks slowly with her left hand is holding a black pistol, shooting down any enemies within her sight. Her right chainsaw-hand can be seen charging up, with the chain part spins around while emitting heat signature of orange around with. She then stops and takes a look at it before smirking, charging forward and jumps onto a Heartless, stabbing one as she continues her rampage, dragging the chainsaw on the floor before whacking two Risen, with the blade rips off from her, landing into a bush with the bush itself shreds into pieces. She turns to see a wolf getting close to her, but she quickly puts the holed part of her cybernetic hand near it, emitting strong electricity current onto the creature, burning it into burned wolf, moving the hand back to where the blade is. The blade seemingly returns to her, as if there is a string between them, slashing any of those on its path.

Kyu is the one closest to Saito, as from the start he has been running forward. As he runs forward, he drags the tip of the blade along the ground, with blades spike up off the ground, impaling any on its path. He then stops moving, focusing more on his melee in eliminating them closely with several slashes and strikes all over the place. At the same time there is another sword, red in colour flies all around him, striking any enemy where his sword cannot reach. With the enemy within his vicinity clears up, Kyu twirls the blade above him and slashes sideway toward his front, pointing at the front of the building as some enemies are eliminated by flying red swords appear out in ghostly forms out from his own.

The five finally reach the building, as they soon become outnumbered and are forced to make a hasty movement, running into the building along with Saito as the man closes the door in a hurry.

"What just happened!?" Ruby asks in a worrisome manner, "Why all of those creatures appear here!? They are not belong in this world, right?"

Saito looks at them, responding to them all, "I'm afraid we have reached the worst crisis ever happened in the history of IVS."

"What crisis? What is going on here?" Kyu demands for an answer.

"This world has now been invaded by an unknown enemy. They are the one that controlled these creatures, including any others, each from different worlds. Follow me, I'll explain everything on the way."

The five just follow him on his sides, with him going his way toward somewhere unknown to them. None of them has ever enter this part of the building before, as this is the building only for the personnel of IVS.

Saito explains to them all, "Recently we have been getting reports on strange incidents regarding all of the multiverse around the megaverse of Iliarde. You know about how in one megaverse, there are tons of multiverse and on each of those multiverses are alternate universes, worlds that are similar to each other in term of people living there but differ in term of history and/or the current setting itself, right? Well, we found reports on how each of those multiverses somehow ended up having only one universe each. We are calling this weird phenomenon 'Sakugen' and till this day none of us know anything about this incident."

They are getting into a garage where Lucina asks him, "Is this Sakugen has anything to do with these creatures?"

"It is highly possible. There are three different HQ of IVS, guarding three different universe including us as one multiverse connected to others. Yesterday and the day before, we have received distress signals coming from both stating that they were under attack by something unknown. They have also mentioned on how people seem to be disappearing one by one without any reason. When we arrived in that universe, the two worlds disappear."

""D-disappear?" Kyu stutters, "H-how?"

"Pitch black. Nothing else in there. The same thing happens here. Everyone disappear from their trace. You guys will probably disappear too."

"H-how are we going to not disappear."

"I have a theory."

He then stops, holding a door from opening as he looks at them, "It is time for you to graduate."

The five are now silenced, looking at him with any ability to respond.

Saito pulls out a paper, handing them the paper itself, "Congratulation. A's for both practical and written test. You guys are truly a great team from before, and deserve a spot here."

Sera pulls the paper toward them, looking at the paper, still unable to speak up.

The man continues, "Now, let's start your very first and only mission."

He pulls the door knob, opens up a path into a huge garage. But the main focus for them is not the size of the nearly emptied hall.

It is the giant white spaceship in the middle of it, looking like a four-legged beast not known to man with machine looks, appear as menacing as it is dangerous. The beast itself looks like a crossbreed of a tiger, a dragon and a shark, having the paws of a tiger with wings at the side of the body and a fin on top of it. The head is clearly a machine with dragon's head, but without any facial features, only apparent on the shape.

Saito points his hand toward the ship, "This is the newest model for the use of any elite team, the Excavarn, based off the animal of the same name from one world. For now on, this will be yours."

"SO COOL!" all five of them shouts, running into the ship and goes to check the place out.

They move straight into the bridge of the ship, with Kyu quick to notice of any big problem, "But there's no crew here."

At the big screen in front of the bridge, Saito's image pops up, speaking directly to them, "The ship is capable of autopilot in time of need but that's not going to be a problem if you need to have an emergency piloting since one of you is already capable of doing so, right?"

"Now, here is your main objective. You will go and investigate every single one of the worlds you can find and see if you can find any clues of the conditions of those worlds and the identity of our new enemies. You are permitted to have any contact with people of those worlds and you guys are encouraged to gain as many allies as possible."

The ship starts to shake with each of the computers within the ship starts up. Ruby even shouts out loud, directing their attention toward her, "The gate has been closed!"

Sera quickly runs toward the nearest computer, pressing something as fast as she could before reacting to something, "It's useless! I can't override this system! This ship is being controlled from outside."

Kyu takes a look at the outside view, seeing Saito standing in front of the ship before looking toward the door. He can clearly hear banging noises toward the directions.

Using his instinct, he presses on a button on the computer, shouting, "Sensei, you are not pulling the heroic sacrifice trope, aren't you!? Sensei, answer me! We can escape from here together! We're just graduated! We still need a guidance on how to properly do our mission! Sensei!"

Saito just chuckles, looking at them through the screen as he mutters, "Sorry to say, but it looks you won't be getting any empty spot in this place. At least you have that cool ship as an office. Not to mention you will be commanding the Iliarde Verse Security from now onward. Make sure you guys be a bunch of heroes and defeat whoever is behind this threat. Also, make sure to have a harem each. Trust me, it's going to be useful in the future."

The screen turns off, with him pressing some more onto the keyboards before letting the computer go, equipping himself with the sword and the pistol once more.

At that very moment, the Grimm, Heartless and Risen overflow into the hangar, with him charging straight toward them.

Behind the ship, a gate opens up, with the ship is pushed onto a rail before being launched out of there, having the g-force against them all inside the ship as they watch the view slowly turns from the view of the facility of IVS into the city they reside in, the whole area where the city is located and now seeing the area getting smaller and smaller, seeing a huge circle at the end of it, with black surrounding with some bright spots around.

In just that few moment they watch the view, everything just turn pitch black, with the circle is no longer in their sight.

The next thing they see is themselves outside of various dark bubbles. Anything between them are dark blue area with nothing else on it.

Sera stand up, looking at the whole place, whispering toward everybody, "This is… the area between the multiverses. This is at the edge of the megaverse itself."

Kyu gives a deep breath, moving toward a high seat at the middle, sitting on it as he looks around the place, "Guess from now onward, all of us are the only officers of Iliarde Verse Security. Might as well take control of the whole command of this place."

Ruby nods, leaning nearby the seat, smiling at them all, "We… are gonna make it through this, right?"

"We should," Lucina responds, "We are the only hope this megaverse has to offer. It is our responsibility."

Mirai sits on one of the chairs available, looking at the outside view, "To review our mission: Investigate each of these multiverses, get some intels in there, recruit more allies and have a harem of our own."

"What?" he notices from the window that all four of his friends are staring at him, looking mad at him, turning toward them, "That's what he was saying."

They just nod and shrug, with Sera mutters, "Sure, let's go with that."

Kyu stands up, crossing his arms as he shouts, "Then, shall we start our mission?"

"LET'S!"

"Ginga Luxuria, create the path to victory!"

Introducing the first chapter of this story I am going to invest on from now onward. Yes, there will be tons of crossover with so many stories from different forms of media. Not to mention, each of those worlds are not going to be similar to the original sources, but alternate universes where they never found any conclusion within each of those stories, even to the point where the villains nearly won. Not to mention, each of those worlds have the characters most likely having different histories and roles. Think of this as Kingdom Hearts in bigger scale.

The idea to this story came from me roleplaying on how I want to make a game of my own that heavily features on many characters of different franchises. But then I realized, if I even want to make a game like this, a story is must. Think of this as a scripted version of the said game. I even planned on the mechanics of the would-be-game, which I will implemented into this story starting from the next chapter.

Next: Into the world of Tales of Zestiria! Half of the world seems to be constantly under the dark sky and the team is forced to fight this unknown smoke that are able to hurt them so bad!