Sword Art Online Alicization: War Of Underworld
Raids
*Let's Continue Where We Left Off*
Amayori was taking both Alice and Sonic to the village that was on fire while wearing cloaks, Minutes Before they headed towards the village, they heard a loud noises coming from the burning village. Inside the house, Kirito slowly crawled his way to his sword. He try getting up but fell down.
"Kirito. It's all right. Sonic and I will go. After we resue the villagers, will come right back. Kirito!"
"Come on, let's hurry!" Sonic said
Minutes later, the two arrived at the village and they noticed goblins and orcs walking.
"That's..."
"Advance! Advance!"
The Villagers tried to fight back but they were outnumber.
"Why don't they flee south where there aren't any enemies? Amayori, wait here until I summon you! Let's go, Sonic!"
"Got it, Alice!" Sonic said
Alice and Sonic had their armors on as they both jumped off Amayori's back and both glided down to Rulid village.
*At The Village*
"If the enemy breaches our line of defense, use lethal force!"
"Listen! Don't let a single one get this far into the village!"
Moments, Alice and Sonic both landed behind the civilans, causing a green and green explosion. Once the smoke cleared out, they noticed that it was a blue animal with blue spikey quils behind his head and a blonde girl who landed behind them.
"That's..."
Alice and Sonic turned around and walked toward's the civilians.
"We can't possibly against them here. Please have everyone take the south road to evacute!" Alice said
"That is an order from us." Sonic said
"Don't be ridiculous! Abandon my mansion- no, I mean the village and run off?"
"If you leave now, you can get away without being caught by the goblins. Your possessions of your lives, which is more important?" Alice said
"Form a circle in the plaza, and tighten up our defenses." Those are Chief Man-at-Arms Zink's orders. In a situation like this, even I, the village elder, must follow such orders. That is imperial law."
Let's do as Sister and Sonic says. Father."
"Selka."
"Thank you."
"Father. Have you ever once known Sister to be wrong? No, even I can tell. If we don't do something... we'll all be killed!" Selka said
"Flee? You're just a child, so stay out of this! The village must be protected!"
Mr. Barbossa had a sense of Alice and Sonic starring at him with pissed off expressions.
"I-I see. I get it! You're the ones who let those monsters from the land of darkness into the village, aren't you, Alice? Years ago, when you crossed the End Mountains, you were tainted by the power of darkness! You're a witch! This girl is a fearsome witch! Along with her animal friend brat!"
"As knights, we hereby revoke Chief Man-at-Arms Zink's order. I order all villagers gathered in this plaza to evacuate to the forest south of here, with those who are armed in the lead." Alice said
"K-Knights? What are you talking about? There's no such Calling in this village! Claiming to be Knighys just because you can somewhat handle a sword. What would happen if the knights in the capital heard about this?"
Alice and Sonic removed their cloaks as they revealed themselves wearing their own armor.
"My name is Alice." Alice slamming her sword on the ground
"My name is Sonic." Sonic summoning his helmet and slamming his sword on the ground as well
"I am the overseer of the capital city of Centoria. An Integrity Knight... of the Axiom Church. Rakned third! Alice Synthesis Thirty!"
"I am the one who saved a Kingdom from darkness. The true king of the World Of Camelot. Sonic The Hedgehog!"
Everyone was shocked to see Alice and Sonic.
"I-I Integrity Knight? K-King of... Camelot? What is he talking about?"
"Sister, Sonic, you both..."
"Sorry for not telling you about this earlier." Sonic said
"I'm also sorry I kept it from you all this time? This is the true penalty I was given, and my true duty." Alice said
"No, I always believed! That there was no way you could be a criminal." Selka said
"I shall follow both your commands, Lady Integrity Knight and King Arthur. Those of you who are armed, take the lead and guide the villagers to the south gate! Once you've left the village, evacute to the forest south of the clearing!"
The people followed the order as they all started to leave.
"Leave the wounded and the elderly to us!"
"We'll lead the others out! Follow us!"
"Father, please take care of everyone, and of Selka and Mother." Alice said
"Make sure you all take good care of the innocents." Sonic said
"Lady Knight. King Arthur. Take care as well."
"Sister, Sonic, don't push yourselves, okay?"
"Amayori!"
Later, the goblins were able to take down the wall and continuing to take down Rulid Village.
"What a horde! Retreat! Retreat!"
"Burn them all!"
A large beam fired at the goblins, killing them instantly.
"N-No way."
"I-Is that Sister's..."
"A dragon?"
The goblins were about to kill one of the civilians until Alice and Sonic stopped them of them by grabbing the goblin's sword with their hand.
"Wh-What are you doing here?"
"There's no time to explain. Please evacuate with the others. Hurry!" Alice said
"We got this." Sonic said
The civilan then take's off running.
"L-lum woman and animal! I'll kill and devour you!"
Alice and Sonic both crushed the sword in pieces. The two then took out their swords and stabbed the goblin threw the stomach. The two saw more Goblins and Orcs coming towards them.
"From now on, we're going to fight for what we want to. To protect my sister and my parents. And... we will fight to protect the people of the Human Empire Kirito, Sonic, and Eugeo tried to preserve."
Alice remove's her patch as she open's her eyes and her right eye was red.
"Let's do this."
The Goblins and Orcs all charged at Alice and Sonic.
"Thank you, Kirito. I'll be fine now. I'm sure I'll still hesitate, but I'm going to move foward. For you, and for what I seek."
"I am Alice, knight of the Human Empire! As long as I'm here, you'll never find the blood and carnage you desire. Return through the cae to your homeland!"
"Or else."
The two raised up their swords.
"-Enhance Armament!"
"-Enhance Armament!"
Alice's sword turned into flowers while Sonic's Excalibur sword started glowing brigther and brighter.
"Out of my way!"
"If it's just two little people, I, Morikka the Foot Harvester, will- Wh-What?"
"Storm and churn... my flowers!"
"Relase!"
The flowers came down and pierced the Goblins while Sonic fires a huge yellow beam at the Goblins. Turning them into ash. The Orc bleed out and fall's on the ground.
"This is the wall separating the Human Empire and the land of darkness! Even if you u seal the caves, as long as we knights exist, we will never allow you to corrupt this land! Make your choice! Either advance and fall into a sea of blood and ash, or retreat and escape to the land of drakness!"
"Well, make a decision."
The Goblins all escaped Rulid Village. The civilians who were escaping all cheered for both Alice and Sonic.
*The Next Day*
The civilians were rebuilding their homes after the attack from the Goblins and Orcs.
"I'll make you a new doll!"
"Yay!"
"I think deep down, Father wanted to come and see you off."
"I know. Someday, when I've fulfilled all of y duties, I'll come back here as plain Alice Zuberg. I think that's when I'll be able to say... "Father, I'm home."
"And once everything is all solved. Kirito and I will finally return to the place we both came from." Sonic said
Soon, Alice flew away with Sonic, still in his Excalibur armor flying aside her with Amayori. Selka was chasing after them saying her goodbyes to Alice and Sonic.
"I'll definitely return to this village one day. Even if I fall on the battlefield, my heart definitely will."
*Monday, July 6, 2026 2:07 PM Ocean Turtle*
Under neath the ocean, a submarine was rising up to a complete stop. Once the submarine came to a stop, the lever opened up as soldiers came out of the submarine and entered the building as the soliders attacked the whole inside of Ocean Turtle.
*Main Control Room Ocean Turtle 33 Minutes After The Attack*
"Hey! It's deserted."
"Looks like they ran away."
"Where are they?"
"My guess would be... in the Sub Control Room."
*Sub Control Room Ocean Turtle 23 Minutes After The Attack*
"We're connected to the backup power now! Now we can use the Sub Control Room." Higa rebooting the whole system
Asuna grab's Kikuoka's clothes and pull's him toward's her.
"If Kirito nor Sonic regain consciousness, I will never forgive you as long as I live!" Asuna said
"I know that. I'll see to it that Kirito and Sonic recover, no matter what."
Asuna let's go of Kikuoka.
"It'll be all right. I promise you it'll be all right. They'll definitely come back to you." Dr. Kojiro cheering Asuna up
"Yes, of course. I'm sorry I overreacted."
Lt. Nakanishi enter's the Sub Control Room.
"Reporting in, sir. Confirming that the primary and secondary bulkheads have been completely sealed, and that all noncombatants have been evacuated to the bow block."
"Good work. How long will the bulkheads hold?"
"The enemy could break through with explosives, but that's unlikely. Near the primary bulkhead...
"Is the Lightcube Cluster, right? All right. Let's sum up the situation here. Lt. Nakanishi, please report the casualties." Kikuoka said
"Yes, sir. Minor injuries to three researchers on the civilian block team. Two heavy injuries and two minor injuires to the Self-Defense Force. None of them are life-threatening."
"Any damage to the ship?"
"The bulkheads in the passageway from the bottom dock to the Main Control Room can't be controlled remotely. Even worse, now that the main power line has been cut, even though the auxiliary line is providing a stable power supply to all areas, we can!t rotate the screws without rebooting the control system."
"Just like a sea turtle without its fins, huh? Plus, it's got a shark latched onto its belly."
"Yes. Sectors 1 through 12 in the Lower Shaft... have all been completely taken over."
"So they've seized the Main Control, STL Room One, and... even the nuclear reactor, huh? I guess the silver lining is that their intention isn't to destroy. The question is, who are these guys? Higa, do you have any thoughts?"
"Well. Let's see. (Check's The Security Cameras) Going by the color and specs of their gear, they don't belong to any official army. And from their average size, we can assume that they're not Asian."
"So at the very least, they're not with a domestic special forces. How lucky for us, huh? And there's one more thing we can say with certainty These people know about the existence of Project Alicization." Kikuoka said
"Yeah, you got that right. I mean, they went straight to the Main Control Room. Which means their goal is the true bottom-up artificial intelligence. To seize A.L.I.C.E. Luckily, we were able to lock down Main Control in time. So they can't interfere with the simulation or eject Alice's Fluctlight from the cluster." Higa said
"But the same goes for us, right?"
"Well, yeah, that's right. It's no longer possible to use commands to eject's Alice's Lightcube externally. But Mr. Kiku, at this point, wouldn't you call this a win? I mean, they can't access the cluster by physical or informational means. So now if our escort ship sends some reinforcements, I'm telling you, it's game over. Game over!"
"Not that we know what kind of game is this. And that's the problem. Tell me, will the Asahi take action?"
"Well, about that... The Asahi was ordered by Feelt Command in Yokosuka to stand by and maintain its current distance. They've determined that we've been taken hostage by our attackers, it seems."
"Most likely, those men in black have a back channel to the top brass in the SDF. There won't be an order for the Asahi to attack until after Alice's Lightcube has been secured."
"Meaning that those guys aren't just terrorists? This could be bad. If they have any experts on their side, they might figure it out."
"An operation within the Underworld, huh? Now that they've taken control of STL Room One, they can certainly execute commands via the virtual console installed the Underworld."
"What will happen if they do?" Dr. Kojiro said
"The target cube will be extracted from the LightCube Cluster in the center of the Main Shaft, and transported via air tube to the chosen control room. There's an extraction hatch there. And of course, there's one in the Main Control Room, as well. We're going to retrieve Alice's Fluctlight from the Underworld before they can. The only ones who can do that is both Kirito and Sonic. In other words, our last hopes rests on their shoulders. Higa, tell us. What's Kirito's and Sonic's condition?"
"To be concise... Kirito and Sonic's teetering on the edge if the worst-case scenario. The assault by the last Deatn Gun member left Kirito and Sonic with damage to their neural network, and to treat him, we blocked their memories and had them dive into Underworld like before. But for some readon, their memories didn't get blocked. Kirito and Sonic were plunged into the Underworld as Kazuto Kirigaya and Sonic The Hedgehog, their real-world personas." Higa said
"W-Wait a second! Then they been living as themselves in the Underworld, where time's accelerated, for how long?" Dr. Kojiro said
"About two years. That's how long Kirito and Sonic had been interacting with the artifical Fluctlights of that world. Knowing the entire time that they'll all be destroyed at the end of the current simulation. That's probably why they went to the console in the Central Cathedral to contact the real world. To ask you, Mr. Kiku to protect all of the Fluctlights. And I'm sure it wasn't an easy thing for them to do. But they did make it. Since we were under attack, I couldn't check the logs, but it seems like they lost some allies in the battle against the Axiom Church. That's why, when they managed to get in contact with us, they were berating themselves harshly. To put it another way, they were attacking their own Fluctlights. At that moment, the men in black cut the power line, which caused a short circuit, and the ensuing surge cause the STL to spike momentarily. As a result, only Kirito's self-destruction impulse was actualized ahd his ego was deactivated. But with Sonic, he managed to keep his memory after that happened. I don't know how but somehow he's being controlled by someone or something that I can't bring myself who actually is toying with Sonic's memory and keeping him from loosing his memories like Kirito. But I do know for a fact that it's not those Men in black causing Sonic's memory to stay with him. But soon, I'll find out who is causing this."
"Ego... deactivated? What does that mean?"
"Take a look at this. Normally, where this black hole is, what you'd find is, to be precise... the self image."
"Self-image. One's conseption as determined by the self, you mean?"
"That's correct. Apparently, all our decision making passes through a "Yes/No" circuit inside our Fluctlights that asks "Should I do this under these conditions, or not?" For example, Rinko, have you ever orderd a second helping at a beef bowl place?"
"I haven't."
"Even if your mind is like, "I want to have more. I could eat another bowl"?"
"That's right."
"So in other words, that was the result of your self-image circuit processing. In Kirito's case, his Fluctlight is largely unscathed, but because the circuit in question is non-functional, all he can do in his current state, most likely, is reflexive reactions triggered by deely ingranied memories. I don't think he knows who he is, or what it is he needs to do, and he can't speak voluntarily. I believe that's his current state. But Sonic somehow still having having his memories and being a kind person, he is probably taking good care of Kirito at the moment. He wouldn't let Kirito be on his own. Wouldn't he?"
To Be Continue...
The soilders were searching something on the Monitor. Project Alicization and A.L.I.C.E.
"Next Time: The Final Load Test." Alice and Sonic as narrators
The person keeping Sonic's memory stable will be revealed in the later chapters.