Okay, everyone, we've reached number forty in these series of 'stories' and this one is going to be quite different. However, that's all I'm going to say, so, you are going to need to read to find out, folks! Now, which I know this is getting tedious, but I need to do this, so, I give thanks and credit to Belletiger and Kanius as well as Kanius' YuYuGiDigiMoon fanfiction series, especially his The Invasion of the Rajita story, for giving me permission to use the idea of Valkyrie Sailor Soldiers and everything that's a part of them in my fanfiction. I would like to give thanks and credit to Kaniusand his YuYuGiDigiMoon series, including this author's Dawn of Chaos story, and LazerWulf for giving me permission to use the idea for their version of Sailor Charon, namely the fact that she is Sailor Pluto's sister among other things. I would also like to give thanks and credit to Matty G91 and this author's story of Kamen Rider Lunar for giving me permission to use Kamen Rider Lunar, his looks, and everything about him as well as the UNI-SHOCKER organization as well as the idea of Darth Revan Sammy Tsukino and the other alternate versions of said character.
Now, with that out of the way, as they say on SAO: Link Start!
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Warning: These stories may and will contain mature level intense violence, blood, gore, death, mild to explicit suggestive themes, including mind-control and brainwashing, mild to explicit bad language, and mature adult themes/situations!
Second Warning: Some to a lot of OOC (Out of Character) actions and mannerisms in these series of stories!
Prelude: A castle of stone and metal floating in the sky that consist of one hundred floors. Within this massive structure, there are countless cities, villages, towns, forests, plains, lakes, and whatever you can imagine. There is only one staircase that connects one floor with another, and these staircases are located within dangerous mazes filled with monsters. The players with navigate through these floors to the top with nothing than the weapons in their hands. And yes, I said players.
This is the world of Aincrad, a floating castle in a virtual sky, and yes, I said VIRTUAL sky. This world and this floating castle world are in a realm made of digital information…the world of Sword Art Online. A world that was supposed to be game, but because a nightmare prison when its creator, Akihiko Kayaba, trapped the ten thousand players within this virtual world and if they die here, they will die in real life. The ten thousand players struggle in this 'game death' to reach the top of the floating castle where the final boss and the key to their freedom waits.
You may know this story and the stories that come after it, but do you know all the stories? All the tales that happened within the floating castle? What about the tales that happened after the floating castle was conquered? There are stories connected to the 'tale' of this floating castle, its 'history', and its 'aftermath', but they weren't told…until now. These are those stories…
Sailor Moon Online: Gaiden
Story 40: ALO Crossover Mania 2: Alfheim Build Divers
Note: This story takes place after Story 37 of Gaiden.
January 2026, ALO, Svart Alfheim, Alne
Right on, on this day in the virtual world of Alfheim Online, also known as ALO for short, we find ourselves within the 'player capital' of Svart Alfheim, Alne, in which, we are in Agil's shop/café with said owner of virtual café working at the counter while Kirito, Asuna, Philia, Lisbeth, Sinon, Strea, Yuuki, Leafa, Klein, Arashi, Hime, Megumi, Tomoe, Makoto, Juniper, and Yamato are together in which they are discussing a recently 'incident' that happened in ALO just recently.
Juniper says, with a smile, "Ah, man! I wish that I could have seen you when you had gone all 'goddess' and stuff!"
Leafa responds, nervously, "Sorry to disappoint you, but we're glad that you didn't." Asuna and Sinon nod their heads in agreement.
Yamato says, "Something tells me that my brother isn't here because he is with his girlfriend, right? I'm sure that they went off to get that item for her to gain a 'goddess form'."
Lisbeth says, with a nod, "Yep."
Makoto says, with a sigh, "Why aren't I surprised? Mina-chan is Mina-chan after all."
Tomoe says, with a kind smile, "But she has proven herself over and over again."
Yuuki says, with a grin, "Yeah! Mina-chan really knows how to kick butt!"
Asuna says, "I'm just glad that we managed to fix that mess before it ruined both ALO and Four Goddesses Online."
Juniper says, "By the way, what was that deal with that boss? He was only big stuff due to the fact that he had 'conditions' that needed you to get those items and gain 'goddess forms' to beat him down. If it wasn't that, he was a pussy."
Makoto says, "Sounded like a weak piece of trash to me. It was shocking to find out that this Oberon creep caused so much trouble."
Klein asks, nodding his head in agreement, "Yeah, what was his deal?" Kirito, Asuna, Philia, Lisbeth, and Leafa get a bit nervous causing the others to get surprised.
Arashi asks, curiously, "What's up?"
Megumi says, with a suspicious glare, "You know something, don't you? I know that look."
Asuna says, nervously, "Well, we had Yui-chan check up on that…"
Strea asks, curiously, "What did you find out?"
Just then Yui, in her pixie form, comes out of Kirito's coat pocket and she says, "I found that Oberon was an advanced AI created from a player avatar."
There are surprised looks causing Hime to ask, "Oberon was made from a player avatar?"
Leafa says, a bit nervously, "Yep…"
Tomoe asks, curiously, "Why does that have you…so nervous?"
Lisbeth says, solemnly, "It is about whose avatar that was, and it brought up some bad memories for us, especially Asuna and Usagi."
Klein asks, curiously, "Why would that be? Did that slimy dude remind you of someone?"
Kirito says, with a nod, "No kidding, Klein. In fact, this AI's personality matched the person who this avatar belonged to perfectly."
Juniper asks, amazed, "Really?"
Asuna says, with a sight and solemn tone, "That's right, Juniper-chan. Oberon matched who he was made from that it is beyond frightening."
Yuuki asks, in her usual tone, "Come on, Asuna! Who is this person that this rotten avatar belong to?"
Kirito says, with a solemn tone and sigh, "Plenty of us know him since he was in SAO due to the fact that he got trapped there in his experiment trying to bring us, the players, out…or should I say, transfer our minds into his lab for his sick mind control experiments."
Yamato asks, shocked, "Wait! You mean that guy that played Alberich?!"
Leafa says, with a nervous nod, "Yep! Sugou Nobuyuki, former head of RECT Progress, which runs ALO."
Lisbeth says, with a deadpan tone, "And Asuna's former fiancée."
Asuna says, with a cold shiver, "Don't remind me, Liz."
Juniper says, with her own cold shiver, "I rather not be reminded of that piece of pond scum."
Philia says, nodding her head, "I feel the same way."
Kirito says, "Most likely, it was his ALO GM avatar that he used while he was head of RECT Progress. Remember, ALO was originally meant to be the cover for his sick mind control experiments."
Leafa says, with a sneer, "Don't remind me, big brother. That slime ball stole the dreams of the players of that time."
Makoto says, with a smirk, "But that slimeball is behind bars and ALO has been reborn better than ever."
Juniper says, with a smile, "And all of us with our own wings."
Philia asks, curiously, "But if ALO got remade with all of Alberich's…I mean Nobuyuki-san's 'influence' removed, how did his former GM avatar appear like that?"
Yui says, "Most likely, the 'patch' that removed the 'illegal elements' including his secret facilities in ALO didn't remove everything. His former avatar, Oberon, remained, but locked away deep within the system."
Hime asks, curiously, "So, when Four Goddesses Online 'linked' with ALO, it was unlocked?"
Yui says, with a curious tone, "We believe so. We're not exactly sure how two VRMMO worlds in two different universes managed to 'connect', but I have a theory…"
Klein says, with a scoff, "Sorry, Yui-chan, but let's forget about that piece of work!"
Yamato says, with a nod, "I'm with Klein. He's already caused enough headaches in both VR and IRL. He is toast and we should just forget him."
Kirito thinks in his mind, "I wish that I could Yamato, but it isn't about what he did to us in SAO…maybe it is a bit partially. I just hope that it is my 'instincts' making me a bit paranoid…" However, when he looks at Leafa and Asuna, they give nods of their heads showing that they agree with Kirito at something that's unsaid.
Makoto asks, curiously, "Anyway, you said that Minako was probably off to show her new 'form'?"
Sinon says, with a nod and plain tone in her voice, "Obviously, Makoto."
Tomoe asks, curiously, "How hard was the quest?"
Plenty of the others gain nervous looks when a familiar female voice says, "Ya should know better than to ask them that, Tomoe-chan!" Everyone looks to the source of the voice to find the infamous/famous information broker of SAO, Argo, who was known as 'The Rat', due to the whisker marks that were painted on the face of her SAO avatar, and now has a Cait Sith avatar that's similar to her SAO avatar, walking up them.
Kirito says, surprised, "Argo!"
Argo says, with a sly grin, "Nice to see you, too, Kii-boy."
Juniper says, with a nervous smile, "Yeah…"
Yamato thinks in his mind, nervously, "Oh, boy! I've got a bad feeling about this."
Argo asks, looking at Juniper and Yamato, "Hey, what's with those looks?"
Juniper responds, nervously, "Nothing!"
Kirito asks Argo, a bit nervously, "Anyway, what's up?"
Argo responds, with a sly smile, "I thought that you and your friends would help little old me in verifying an interesting rumor."
Philia asks, curiously, "A rumor?"
Argo says, with a nod and sly smile, "Yep! There have been players saying that they have been seeing two 'humans' in Flosshilde."
Makoto asks, curiously, "Humans? You mean NPCs?"
Argo says, with a sly smile, "You would think so, but none of the players that saw them saw a quest marker or even cursor that designates them as NPC. In fact, they don't have cursors at all."
There are shocked looks causing Lisbeth to ask, shocked, "You're kidding?!"
Argo responds, shaking her head, "Nope. The reports from those players are different due to experiences, but their information about those 'humans' are the same. They don't have quest markers or color cursors."
Yamato says, plainly, "That's…something."
Shino says, plainly, "That's one way of putting it."
Arashi asks, curiously, "Could it be a bug?"
Kirito says, plainly, "I'm not sure." Kirito, Asuna, and Leafa take a good look at Yui where Kirito's and Asuna's AI 'daughter' nod her head.
Asuna tells Argo, "We'll investigate Argo."
There are quite a few surprised looks from the others in which Argo says, with a sly smile, "I knew that you would be on board, Asu-chan!" Argo activates her player menu causing her to say, as she types on it, "I'll send you the details."
Kirito tells everyone else, "You don't need to come along. Leafa, Asuna, and I could handle this…"
Lisbeth tells Kirito, with a sly smile, "Kirito, just don't."
Arashi says, with a grin, "It sounds like a blast if they are two people AI like Yui and Strea!"
Strea says, with a sly smile, "Yeah! More AI would be awesome! It would be like more brothers and sisters for Yui-chan and me!"
Hime says, with a warm smile, "That would be wonderful Strea-chan."
Yuuki says, with a grin, "Sounds like a blast! Maybe I'll get to use my new 'goddess form' too!"
Asuna gives a nervous look while Sinon asks, glaring at Klein, "Any ideas?"
Klein, who had a sly look, then yelps at Sinon's glare causing him to say, "Not a thing!" Kirito can't help to mentally slap himself at Klein's typical antics while Asuna looks over the data that Argo sent her. Plenty of the others, including Strea and Yui, can't help to wonder what's ahead though they are thinking about it for different reasons.
January 2026, ALO, Svart Alfheim, Flosshilde
Within the frozen wasteland that's Flosshilde, our group is flying around a certain area of Flosshilde and searching for the so-called 'humans' in which they are having no luck so far.
Klein sneezes and he says, "Cold! I always hated this place and Jotunheimr! They are just too damn cold!"
Lisbeth says, "I'm cold, too, Klein! But you don't hear me complaining about it every minute!"
Klein retorts, "I'm a Salamander and we don't do cold!"
Leafa says, "Well, Klein has a point. Salamanders do have a weakness for cold, being fire fairies and all, in which Undines, being water fairies, handle the cold better, but they don't do really hot places unlike the Salamanders."
Yamato asks, curiously, "Any sight of any 'humans'?"
Tomoe says, shaking her head, "Not a thing."
Philia asks, looking at Leafa and Makoto, "What about the two of you?"
Leafa responds, shaking her head, "Not a thing, Philia."
Yuuki asks Sinon, "What about you, Sinon?"
Sinon says, shaking her head, "I don't see anything at all."
Asuna asks Sinon, "Not anyone?"
Sinon responds, shaking her head, "Nothing at all."
Yamato says, "If Sinon can't see anything, there may be no one to find since Cath Sith have the best eyesight."
Arashi says, curiously, "While I can understand that, but what I don't get why they don't have better hearing than the other fairy races like Sylphs do. No insult to Sinon, but with those ears, they should be a little more sensitive."
Sinon tells Arashi, plainly, "No insult taken. It is 'game mechanics'."
Arashi says, with a shrug, "Yeah, you have a point."
Megumi says, "Though those ears are sensitive in…another way."
Sinon gives a glaring glance at Kirito, causing him to get a bit nervous, in which Arashi says, plainly, "Must have been made by a dog lover or something."
Megumi says, with a nod, "You may have a point." But then Leafa and Makoto stop in their tracks as their ears starts to twitch.
Tomoe asks Makoto, "What's wrong, Makoto?"
Makoto says, "I'm hearing someone."
Kirito looks at Leafa in which she says, with a nod, "Yeah, so am I."
Sinon says, looking in one direction, "Wait. I see something…no, someone in that direction."
Sinon points in the direction that she is looking at causing Asuna to ask Makoto and Leafa, "Is that where what you are wearing coming from?"
Leafa and Makoto nod their heads in unison causing Makoto to say, "Yep!"
Arashi says, with a grin, "Well, what are we waiting for? Let's move it!"
Yuuki says, excitedly, "You got that right!" Yuuki and Arashi rush off in which the others immediately follow suite and after a short time, Sinon sees 'figures' in the snow due to her Cait Sith eyes.
Sinon says, pointing at the 'figures' to the others, "Over there!"
Yui flies out of Kirito's coat pocket where she says, "Sinon's right! I'm detecting two people over there!"
Kirito says, seriously, "Let's move!" Everyone flies down near the 'figures' and they gasp to see who they find. The two 'figures' in the snow are two young humans in the snow.
The first figure looks to be a young human boy of early teen years with light brown hair, light green eyes, and wearing a white t-shirt, dark blue jeans with matching black belt, and a pair of grey and black sneakers.
The second figure looks to a young human girl of the same early teen years as the boy with long light brown hair, blue eyes, and wearing light lavender-blue dress that goes down her ankles with her legs covered similar colored stockings with light white-blue shoes on her feet.
Juniper asks, curiously, "Is that them?"
Sinon says, with a nod, "Most likely, Juniper, since they look human."
Philia looks at them, extensively, causing her to say, shocked, "They…They don't have a quest mark or even a color cursor!"
Makoto says, stunned, "You're right!"
Klein says, amazed, "Whoa! If they don't have quest markers or color cursors, they aren't NPCs…In fact, they can't be even characters of this game world!"
Tomoe asks, "Then what are they?"
Megumi asks Kirito and Asuna, "Didn't you say that Yui was originally part of the mental health counseling programing of SAO?"
Kirito says, with a nod, "That's right. Yui was the primary mental health counseling program of SAO and her duty was to monitor the mental health of the players as well as assist with those problems. However, Kayaba, for whatever reasons, restrained Yui from doing this. At the time, she couldn't disobey that directive, but it also went against her function of comforting players causing her to experience error as SAO went on as she was only able observe the players in which the massive amount of negative emotions aided the errors becoming worse and worse. One day, however, she observed us, and our positive emotions allowed her to find her way to us where, after dealing with Kibaou's attempt to take complete control of the Aincrad Liberation Army by saving Thinker, we find a GM console that Yui to regain her memories. However, due to what happened to her, Yui was an 'abnormality' in the system and only by connecting her to my NervGear was she was able to escape being deleted."
Asuna says, "Strea is Yui's younger sister since she was also part mental health program of SAO, when Kirito put Yui in his NervGear's storage, Strea took over from where Yui left off, but shortly after Yui was put into storage of Kirito-kun's NervGear, there was the revelation that the leader of the Knights of the Blood Oath was none other than Kayaba himself where it resulted in the battle between Kirito, Usagi-chan, and Kayaba himself, however, the fight was unresolved because Sugou tampered with the SAO servers to transfer a number of us into the 'original ALO' for his sick mind control experiments. But that backfire causing him and others to get trapped in SAO and the servers to suffer a major overload which released the 'stored emotions' within of which Hino can attest to due to her empathic abilities allowed her to sense that just after SAO suffered its major 'error'. Like Yui, Strea escaped into the game itself by using an unused player account."
Tomoe says, with a nod, "We know this well since Makoto and I, along with the other Sailor Scouts, infiltrated SAO ourselves using special devices that were based on the Medicuboid, a medical Full-Dive device based on the NervGear."
Leafa says, with a plain tone, "I also met Strea in SAO since I used a NervGear that a friend of mine kept trying to find a way to set everyone free due to the fact that some of their friends were trapped in SAO. I also managed to hide away the 'game cartridge' that big brother used to get into SAO."
Kirito says, plainly, "Which still gives me nightmares."
Leafa gives an annoyed pout causing her to say, "I said that I was sorry."
Hime says, with a warm smile, "Well, it all worked out in end."
Leafa says, with a sigh, "No, it worked out the way that Kayaba wanted it too. Remember, his goal was to 'awaken' my power as Sailor Celestial and he succeeded…big time."
Hime says, nervously, "Right…sorry."
Leafa tells Hime, with a kind smile, "Don't worry about it, Hime. I've been over it for a long time."
Juniper says, pointing to the two young 'humans' on the ground, "Anyway, we should focus on them." While the majority of our group are talking among themselves, Yui was looking over the two 'humans' and using whatever 'abilities' that she had to scan them.
Yamato says, "Good point."
Leafa asks Asuna and Kirito, "So, it is safe to say that the two of you are getting the feeling of déjà vu?"
Kirito says, with a nod, "Yeah, we are."
Asuna says, nodding her head in agreement, "Yes, this kind of feels similar to how we met Yui for the first time."
Philia asks, curiously, "Then could they be part of ALO's mental health program?"
Lisbeth asks, curiously, "Wait! Did ALO have a mental health program like SAO did?"
Asuna says, with a nod, "Actually, since RECT owns ALO, I managed to get access to information on it."
Lisbeth says, with a smile, "That's not a surprise. It must be good to be rich girl, huh? Getting access to all that 'secret stuff'."
Asuna says, with a sigh, "Oh, Liz, it isn't like that."
Kirito says, "Anyway, ALO is like SAO other than the 'death game' part. ALO was build off the same operating system that SAO was built upon which isn't too surprising since everything that belonged to Argus went to RECT."
Sinon says, "That means that ALO could have a mental health program similar to the one used by SAO…if they kept it after the 'updates' that took out the 'bad elements' of the original game."
Yamato asks, "So, could these two be part of the mental health program of ALO?"
Yui says, with an amazed look on her face, "No, they aren't."
Everyone looks at Yui causing Asuna to ask, surprised, "They aren't?"
Yui responds, shaking her head, "No, mommy. They aren't part of or were created from any part of ALO's programming. In fact, they aren't part of ALO at all."
Philia asks, curiously, "They aren't part of ALO?"
Juniper asks, curiously, "What are they then?"
Yui says, plainly, "They are an advanced AI…" Yui then stops herself, shakes her head, and she then says, "No, calling them an AI would be playing down what they are. They are…I'm not sure what to call them in fact. The only beings that I can compare these two are to the Digimon."
There are gasps of shock causing Yamato to ask, "Wait! They are Digimon?!"
Yui says, shaking her head, "No, but they are similar to them. These two are advanced data lifeforms…Yes, that's it! That's it! They are advanced 'data lifeforms'! They aren't just advanced AI! They are actual 'digital lifeforms'!"
There are more gasps of shock causing Lisbeth to say, "No freaking way!"
Makoto asks, confused, "Is that even possible?"
Yamato says, "Our friend, Gennai, also comes from the Digital World, same as the Digimon. He may look human, but he is a 'digital being' as much as the Digimon. Safe to say that other 'digital lifeforms' is possible."
Tomoe says, awe-struck, "Incredible."
Strea asks, curiously, "If they aren't from ALO, what are they doing here?"
Kirito says, curiously, "Good question, Strea."
Tomoe asks, concerned, "Should we try to move them?"
Klein says, nervously, "Yeah, they aren't looking so good."
Megumi says, bluntly, "Obviously, since they are in a freaking virtual artic!"
Arashi says, "Megumi is right. Let's get them out of here."
Kirito says, nodding his head in agreement, "Agreed, let's hurry." But when they started to move to lift the two of them, Kirito's 'danger sense' goes off and when Kirito looks ahead of everyone, Kirito's Searching Skill shows a lot of red cursors coming up fast.
Asuna asks Kirito, seeing his expression, "What's wrong, Kirito?"
Kirito says, seriously, "We have company coming! There are a whole lot of monsters coming this way and they are coming in really fast!"
There are gasps of shock causing Arashi to say, looking at the two 'humans', "Well, crap, this isn't what we need right now!"
Makoto says, with a nod, "No joke!"
Hime asks, nervously, "What do we do?"
Lisbeth says, seriously, "We need to get them out of here!"
Leafa says, her ears 'twitching', "Uh oh! Too late! They are coming and…huh? That's…weird!"
Arashi asks, curiously, "What's weird, Leafa-chan?"
Leafa looks at Makoto causing Makoto to say, "Yeah, I hear it too! It sounds like…jet engines? What? There are no jet engines in ALO!"
Sinon says, looking ahead of her, "Well, you aren't going to believe what's coming up next."
Yuuki asks, curiously, "What do you see, Sinon?"
Sinon says, bluntly, "You aren't going to believe it." Everyone else gives confused look and then they see massive columns of snow and steam rocketing towards them in which everyone can see a group of red cursors coming close to them in which the 'enemy monsters' are getting closer at high speed, which surprises a good number of our group. They are even more surprised when they see the 'monsters' aren't your typical ALO monsters at all! They look to be 'chibi' or SD versions of the Zaku mobile suit from Gundam Seed Destiny!
Leafa asks, confused, "What the heck?!"
Klein shakes his head causing him to ask, perplexed, "Are those SD versions of Zaku mobile suits from Gundam?"
Megumi asks, "SD? I've heard Gundam, obviously, but what the heck is SD?"
Arashi tells Megumi, "You know about Gundam?"
Megumi tells Arashi, with a deadpan tone, "Seriously?"
Kirito says, "SD means 'Super Deformed'. Basically, they take 'regular' mobile suits from the anime and turn them into a 'cartoonish' versions of themselves."
Strea says, excitedly, "Oh, I saw them on the web one time! I think that they are cute!"
Makoto asks, plainly, "Yeah, but what in the heck are mobile suits, even SD ones, doing in ALO?"
Sinon says, seriously, "We don't have time to answer that question since they are attacking!" Everyone then looks to see SD versions of the Zaku from Gundam Seed Destiny, both Warrior and Phantom variations, unleash barrages from their beam rifles at the group.
Makoto shouts out, "Incoming!" Immediately, Leafa and Asuna use their respective magics to create shields to protect everyone from the barrage.
Klein says, nervously, "Geez, that was close!"
Kirito tells Leafa and Asuna, "Leafa! Asuna! Good work!"
Leafa and Asuna smirk/smile at Kirito's praise, but then Lisbeth shouts out, "Here they come again!" Everyone looks as the SD Zaku rush over in which they take out their Beam Tomahawks and charge to attack our group at close range.
Philia says, worriedly, "They are charging me!"
Kirito says, drawing his swords, "Get ready for a fight!" Immediately, everyone draws their swords and gets into defensive stances as the SD Zaku charge them in which they immediately close in the snow with Lisbeth scoring the first kill by flying up to dodge a strike from one SD Zaku before smashing its face in with her mace in one strike! Klein takes on two more and takes them down with one swing of his sword after he dodges their axes.
Klein says, with a smirk, "Ha! They aren't so tough!" But then he yelps as he dodges multiple beam shots from more of the SD Zaku and he continues to dodge, in a comical manner, the attacks from their enemies while he yells out, nervously, "Hey! Whoa! No fair!"
Arashi says, after dodging another attack from another enemy, "This is nuts!"
Leafa yelps as she dodges a strike from another SD Zaku and manages to cut through another one causing her to say, "What in the heck are mobile suits doing in ALO?"
Yamato says, "Good question, but one we don't have time to answer!" The battle continues on with our ALO group using a mixture of Sword Skills and magic to defend against the SD Zaku, who seem to have the mobility of DOM Trooper from Gundam Seed Destiny with their hovering systems which allows them to zip around our group where they perform long attacks with their beam weapons before moving in with their axes for close rangers. However, when they move in for close range attacks, they play into the hands of our group where they use their Sword Skills to take out their opponents in a quick fashion. While this fight is going on, the two 'humans' started to stir as the fighting is going on. Soon enough, the last of their enemies have been destroyed and the group give a collective sigh of relief.
Klein says, with a sigh, "Man! That was nuts!"
Lisbeth says, with a nod, "That's for sure!" Lisbeth then asks, "So, what in the heck are mobile suits, albeit ones from a poorly done anime, doing here?!"
Makoto says, "That's the sixty-four thousand yen question, isn't it? It might be some kind of bug or something."
Kirito says, "I can't see how because of Cardinal…but then again, ALO was recently 'merged' with another VRMMO game from another universe, so, there is a possibility…"
Yui then shouts out, "Daddy!" Everyone looks towards the sound of Yui's voice and they look to see Yui floating above and around the two 'humans', who are huddling each other.
Tomoe says, her eyes wide, "Oh!"
Asuna comes over to them causing her to say, in a reassuring tone, "Easy. We won't hurt you." Asuna bends down in front of young 'humans' where she asks them, "I'm Asuna. What are your names?"
The two young humans don't answer for a few seconds, giving nervous looks, but after they look at each other in which the young male says, "I…I'm Aoi."
The young female says, nervously, "And I…I'm Mirai, Aoi's sister."
Strea says, excitedly, "Oh, you are so cute!"
Philia tells Strea, a bit nervously, "Easy, Strea. You'll scare them."
Asuna tells the two 'humans', with a kind smile, "It is nice to meet you, Aoi. And you, too, Mirai."
Hime tells the two 'humans', "Hi, I'm Hime. Can you tell us where you came from?"
Aoi and Mirai look at each other and then Aoi says, "We…We don't know."
Juniper asks, curiously, "You don't know?"
Mirai says, nervously, "A-All we know is that we woke up in a field of flowers…"
Kirito asks, curiously, "Field of flowers, huh?"
Lisbeth says, with a deadpan expression, "That's vague. There are plenty of 'fields of flowers', here, in ALO."
As the group looks at the two of them, Klein whispers to Kirito, "Dude, they look so realistic."
Kirito whispers back, with a nod, "It shows that they aren't just AI, Klein."
Sinon asks Aoi and Mirai, "Did you know why those 'monsters' were chasing you?"
Aoi and Mirai shake their heads where Mirai says, "We don't know why they chased us. They just came after us."
Kirito says, plainly, "They managed to see at least part of our fight and they know about the 'monsters'."
Makoto says, "But it looks like they didn't know why they were chasing them."
Philia asks, curiously, "So, what do we do with them now?"
Asuna says, "It is obvious, Philia-chan. Let's take them with us back to Alne before they freeze to death!"
Arashi says, nervously, "Yeah, that's a good idea."
Megumi says, plainly, "Obviously." But before they could even attempt to take Aoi and Mirai with them, a strange 'violet wave' then surges all over the snowy ground coming from below the two 'humans' causing the two 'digital entities' that Yui described as 'electronic life-forms' to look around in confusion as these 'violet waves' surge all over the snowy ground from directly under them.
Klein asks, confused, "What the heck?!"
Lisbeth says, with a nod, "Took the words right out of my mouth."
Sinon says, "It looks like it is coming from below them."
Kirito says, curiously, "But they look confused too."
Tomoe asks, confused, "What do we do?"
Makoto says, seriously, "I say that we get them out of here right now!"
Yamato says, with a nod and serious tone in his voice, "Agreed! Move!" But as they start to move to grab Aoi and Mirai and get out of the area, the 'violet wave' turns into a massive 'violet glow' that surrounds all of them causing them all of them to yell out as they are engulfed by the 'glow'. When the glow fades away, we find the same area, minus Aoi, Mirai, and our group have completely vanished as if they weren't there in the first place.
Unknown time, Unknown location
On a field of flowers, we see Kirito's head lying down on flowers though we can see that there is a lack of elf-like ears with him having human ears instead.
As Kirito slowly regains his senses, he hears Asuna's voice shout out, with a concerned tone, "Kirito-kun! Kirito-kun!" Kirito opens his eyes and he looks to see Asuna looking down on him with concerned looks on her expression.
Kirito asks, groggily, "Asuna?" Kirito goes into a sitting position and after he shakes his head, Kirito looks at Asuna causing him to be surprised since she is in her SAO avatar instead of her ALO avatar causing him to say, confused, "Asuna? W-What? You look like…!"
Asuna responds, interrupting, "You, too, Kirito-kun!" Kirito then looks at himself and we look outward causing us to see that Kirito is in his SAO avatar instead of his ALO one where Kirito draws his swords causing him to be surprised to see Elucidator and Dark Repulser in his hands.
Kirito says, as he puts his swords back in their scabbards, "I-I'm in my SAO avatar? How? That's…!"
But then another familiar female voice says, "You aren't the only one!" Kirito and Asuna look to the source of the voice to find Lisbeth, Strea, Philia, and Yamato, all of whom in their SAO avatars, walking over to them.
Kirito asks, surprised, "You, too?"
Philia says, with a nod, "Yeah, we were really surprised."
Kirito asks, curiously, "Where is everyone else?"
Lisbeth says, nervously, "Well…" Lisbeth then points in one direction and Kirito looks in that direction causing him to get a flabbergasted look to find everyone else looking at several huge humanoid machines that look similar to Gundams in front of them.
The first machine looks to be a white and green versions of the massive Psycho Gundam from Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam.
The second machine looks to be a version of the Gundam Astray Red Frame, but all parts of it that are white in color are black on this version with its head designed like a samurai helmet, known as a kabuto, with a face mask shaped like a oni, it is also equipped with what looks like Gundam Strike Rogue's Ootori Striker pack from Gundam Seed Destiny, minus the missile launcher and missiles, which have been replaced scabbards for multiple swords.
The third machine looks to be pink and red version of Noble Gundam from Mobile Fighter G Gundam, but it has a GN Reactor from Gundam 00 attached to its back.
The fourth machine looks to be a black version of Cherudim Gundam from Gundam 00 in which it also seems to have black/dark-grey versions of the 'wings' of Strike Freedom Gundam attached to its back with a railgun attached to each 'hip' of the mobile suit.
The fifth and final mobile suits looks green and grey version of Gundam Exia, the 'Repair II' variant, from Gundam 00, but it also two of the GN Sword Kai, one attached to each wrist, along with 'spikes' coming out of the knuckles area of the hands of the Gundam with what look like repulsors used by Iron Man instead into the Gundam's hands.
Kirito notices that Juniper, who is also in her SAO avatar, is looking at the pink and red version of Noble Gundam, causing him to say, "Juniper, too, huh? But more importantly: What in the world? Those look like…!"
Asuna says, with a nod, "We know, Kirito-kun!"
Klein, who is also in his SAO avatar, looks at Kirito, where he says, excitedly, "Hey, bro, take a look at my masterpiece! This is my Gunpla!"
Kirito asks Klein, curiously, "Hold on! Your Gunpla, Klein?"
Klein says, with a proud smile, "Yep! The one that I made at home! It is based on Astray Red Frame from Gundam Seed…Well, one of the manga anyway. This is my baby! Gundam Astray Samurai Striker!"
Lisbeth says, with a plain tone, "That's a mouthful."
Makoto says, pointing to the Exia style Gundam, "Yeah, it looks like Gunpla that Leafa, Klein, Juniper, Sinon, and I have made in real-life are full in their full Gundam glory! That's my Gunpla…or Gundam! Gundam Exia Duel Cutter!"
Juniper says, motioning to the Noble style Gundam, "That's my Gundam: Hyper Noble Gundam."
Sinon says, with a plain tone while motioning to Cherudim Gundam, "Silent Striker Cherudim Gundam."
Asuna asks Sinon, "You dabble in Gunpla, Sinonon?"
Sinon says, with a plain tone, "I play Gunpla Battle to improve my sniping skill, that's all."
Yuuki asks, pointing to the Psycho Gundam, "What about that machine?"
Leafa says, nervously, "That's mine."
There are plenty of surprised looks from the others, minus Kirito, causing Klein to ask, "You played Gunpla?"
Leafa gives a nervous giggle causing Kirito to say, "Actually, she puts them together. It was taught to her by a unique kendo teacher of hers."
Plenty of the others look at Kirito causing Asuna to ask, "One of Leafa-chan's kendo teacher's taught her to assemble Gunpla?"
Lisbeth asks Asuna, teasingly, "You know about Gunpla, Asuna?"
Asuna tells Lisbeth, a bit annoyed, "With how popular Gunpla Battle is, it shouldn't be that surprising."
Yamato says, with a nod, "No joke. The ability to make your plastic model toys move and do battle like the mobile suits that you see in the anime, it isn't shocking that it became a popular game before Full-Dive VR came into play."
Kirito says, changing the subject, "Anyway, you should remember that one of Sugu's kendo teacher was…unique where he taught her to assemble and create Gunpla for her kendo lessons."
Philia asks, curiously, "How does Gunpla help you in kendo?"
Kirito asks, curiously, "Didn't we go over this when were in the Nielsen Labs not too long ago?"
Asuna says, nervously, "Oh, yes. You're right, Kirito-kun."
Klein says, plainly, "Bro, I wasn't there." Klein then tells Kirito, "So, this teacher dude taught your little sis to build plastic models to improve her kendo? That doesn't seem to make sense."
Kirito says, with a shrug, "That's what I thought too, but I did get the idea. With being plastic models, it takes a fair bit of focus and concentration to build Gunpla especially if you are making 'perfect replicas'. And focus and concentration are names of the game when it comes to kendo. Focusing and concentrating on your opponent and finding the 'little signs' on where and when to strike among other things."
Asuna says, with a nod, "I see, Kirito-kun."
Megumi nods her head causing her to say, "I've got to admit that I agree with that."
Leafa says, with a smile, "Yeah, it was weird to me too, but I found that building Gunpla actually helped in my kendo training."
Kirito says, with a smile, "Sugu is very good at it, too, which shouldn't be too surprising though."
Lisbeth says, "Yeah, but it doesn't answer the question why their Gunpla are here, wherever here is, and they are life-sized!"
Yui's voice booms out, "Actually, I have a good idea on what's going on." Everyone looks towards Yui's voice to see her, in her 'child form', with Aoi and Mirai by her sides.
Asuna says, relieved, "Yui-chan!" Asuna runs over to Yui where Asuna takes Yui into her arms.
Yui tells Asuna, with a warm smile, "I'm okay, Mommy."
Kirito says, with a warm smile, "Never doubted it for a minute, Yui-chan."
Yui says, with a smile, "Thank you, Daddy." Yui then says, "Anyway, I know why they are 'life-sized'. We're in another virtual world."
There are surprised looks causing Philia to ask, "We're in another virtual world."
Yui says, with a nod, "Yes. Since Strea and I exist here, we are in within another virtual world. I couldn't scan it too deeply, but I believe that it is a Full-Dive VR world."
Kirito asks Yui, "An VRMMO world, Yui?"
Yui says, with a nod, "Yes, I believe so. And it is very vast, Daddy. The amount of data that I detected in this world far exceeds that of SAO and ALO."
There are gasps of shock causing Juniper to ask, amazed, "Seriously?"
Yui says, nodding her head, "Yes, but…"
Asuna asks Yui, curiously and a bit concerned, "But what, Yui-chan?"
Yui says, plainly, "I don't detect a Cardinal system in this world."
There are looks of surprise causing Tomoe to ask, curiously, "There isn't a Cardinal system running this virtual world?"
Yui says, shaking her head, "Not that I detect."
Strea says, "Oh, you aren't looking hard enough, Yui-chan." Strea closes her eyes for a minute or two and after that, her eyes shoot open causing Strea to say, "Hey, you're right! There isn't a Cardinal system!"
Arashi asks, curiously, "Why is that important?"
Megumi tells Arashi, "The Cardinal system is how SAO and ALO are run as well as all of the emerging VRMMO worlds since 'The Seed' contains that same system."
Kirito says, "A bit 'simplified' to make it easy for mass use."
Arashi says, with a nod of understanding, "Oh."
Hime asks, "So, if this VR world doesn't have a Cardinal system, it means that it didn't use 'The Seed' for its use, right?"
Lisbeth asks, confused, "But how is that possible?"
Juniper says, "Yeah, all VR games use 'The Seed' at their core!"
Yuuki says, with a smile, "Not all of them!"
Asuna says, realizing something, "Oh, right! There is one game that doesn't use 'The Seed' and that's Yuuki-chan's first VR game: Asuka Empire!"
Kirito says, with a nod, "I remember that one. It is second only to ALO itself and it doesn't have a Cardinal system since it was created by another company. It is a free-to-play VRMMO, but special items, equipment, and such require real world money."
Yamato says, with a nod, "Yep. It is a pretty fun game."
Yuuki says, excitedly, "Really is! I'm glad that you guys can join me that time!"
Asuna says, with a warm smile, "We had a fun time, Yuuki-chan!"
Leafa says, a bit nervously, "I think that we need to focus that we're in a completely unfamiliar virtual world that we are in right now."
Arashi says, nervously, "That's probably a good idea."
Aoi and Mirai are looking at the Gundams/Gunpla causing Aoi to ask, curiously, "Are those yours?"
Klein says, with a grin, "You know it!" Klein points to his Gunpla, Gundam Astray Samurai Striker, causing him to say, "This is my baby!"
Mirai says, "Pretty. They are all very pretty."
There are looks of surprised from everyone causing Aoi to say, "Mirai is right. Your Gunpla are really amazing. They are really awesome!"
Klein says, with a wide grin, "You, kids, have great taste!" Then Aoi and Mirai focus on the massive Psycho Gundam and both of them gain curious looks in which Leafa gets a bit of a curious, yet nervous look.
Yuuki says, looking between the siblings and Psycho Gundam 'replica', "What's up? You are looking at Leafa's Gunpla really weird."
Mirai says, plainly, "It is like a butterfly."
There are plenty of confused looks causing Philia to ask, curiously, "Butterfly?"
Leafa gains a wide-eyed look where Mirai says, plainly, "The Gunpla is a cocoon with the real one ready to emerge."
Leafa thinks in her mind, shocked, "Wait! Does she know about…?" However, before anyone could say anything about Mirai's words, multiple explosions hit all around the area causing everyone to yelp.
Lisbeth shouts out, "Now what?!"
Sinon says, pointing in the distance, "There!" Everyone looks in the direction where they see a group of what looks like Death Army mobile suits from Mobile Fighter G Gundam series armed with various beam weapons with their classic 'clubs' attached to their backs.
Megumi asks, confused, "What the heck are those?"
Hime asks, concerned, "More of those mobile suit 'monsters'?"
Lisbeth says, nervously, "No kidding!"
Klein says, shocked, "Hold up! That's the Dark Army from Mobile Fighter G Gundam!"
As more explosions hit all around everyone, Juniper says, seriously, "Who cares who they are! Right now, we need to worry about them blasting us to bits!"
Leafa says, seriously, "No kidding!"
Yuuki asks, nervously, "What do we do?'
Megumi says, with a panicked tone of voice, "Good question!" Everyone yelps/yells out as more explosions, getting even closer, hit all around them with Aoi and Mirai hugging each other, Yui in front of them, and Kirito and Asuna in front of them in which Kirito, instinctively, prepares to go for one of his swords.
Asuna, seeing this, tells Kirito, "Kirito-kun, you can't! How are you supposed to fight that?" Asuna points to the Death Army mobile suits looming down on them.
Sinon says, seriously, "Asuna's right! You can't fight mobile suits with just swords!"
Arashi yells out, "You have a good point, but what else can we do?!"
Klein shouts out, "Damn it! If only…!" Klein puts his hand on his Gunpla, but he then yelps as he seemly vanishes!
Everyone gasps in shock at this causing Kirito to shout out, in shock, "Klein!"
But then the eyes of Gundam Astray Samurai Striker start to glow in which Klein's voice booms out from it, shouting out, "Hey, bro, I'm right here!" Soon after, Gundam Astray Samurai Striker, starts to move in which everyone is surprised.
Leafa asks, curiously, "Klein?"
Asuna asks, confused, "Are you…?"
Within Klein's Gunpla, we can see him in a cockpit that looks like one massive screen with a control that has a screen and two joysticks where he says, over a loudspeaker of some kind, "Yep! I'm inside of my baby and boy, it is really easy to control!" Gundam Astray Samurai Striker then turns to face the enemy causing Klein to say, slyly, "You can leave these jokers to me!"
Kirito asks Klein, "Have you got experience in games where you control a vehicle?"
Klein responds, "Who do you think you are talking to Kirito? Let me show you how the master does it!" Klein and his Gunpla then rocket off towards the enemy.
Lisbeth says, with a nervous sigh, "Oh, boy."
Makoto says, "I think that we should help."
Philia asks Makoto, "But how?"
Yamato says, looking at the other 'mobile suits', "Maybe you can…"
Juniper says, with a shrug, "Why not? Nothing venture, nothing gained." Juniper than asks, getting a 'curious feeling', "Why do I get the feeling of copyright infringement?"
Megumi shouts out, annoyed, "Just get in the machine!" Juniper gives a nervous look at Megumi as she touches her Gunpla, Hyper Noble Gundam, causing her to vanish in which Sinon does for her Gunpla, and Makoto does for her machine which results in the same. However, Leafa hesitates for a moment, but she touches her machine causing her to 'vanish' where all four Gunpla have their eyes start to glow as they start to move where we find all four ladies within the 'cockpits' of the Gunpla.
Juniper says, excitedly over a loudspeaker system from within her 'machine', "Hey, Klein is right for once! This isn't so hard!"
Sinon says, plainly, "Not bad." Soon enough, the four Gunpla start to move and they turn to face the enemy, which is already being engaged by Klein and Gundam Astray Samurai Striker where he fires a barrage from its guns, taking out four enemies in quick session.
Klein shouts out, excitedly, "How did you like that? I'm on a role already!" However, Klein yelps as he and his Gunpla come under fire from multiple opponents from the front and the sides causing him to shout out, nervously, "Hey, no fair!"
Lisbeth says, with a sigh, "There he goes again."
Megumi says, with a sigh and nod of her head, "Getting in over his head." Kirito, Asuna, and Hime nervous giggle at Lisbeth's and Megumi's comments, knowing what they implied.
Makoto says, seriously, "Hold on! We're coming!" Makoto, in her Gunpla, Gundam Exia Duel Cutter, rushes off to help while Sinon's Gunpla, Silent Striker Cherudim Gundam, seemly vanishes into thin air.
Yuuki asks, confused, "Whoa, where did Sinon go?"
Kirito says, with a plain tone, "It must have a 'stealth system' of some kind. There are a number of them in Gundam."
Juniper yells out, from within Hyper Noble Gundam, "Think about it later! Get to safety!"
As more explosions hit around them, Arashi yelps out, "Yow! Juniper's right! We're sitting ducks!"
Megumi says, seriously, "Move it!"
Leafa, from within the custom version of Psycho Gundam, "Stay behind my Gunpla!" Leafa maneuvers her massive Gunpla to protect the others while Juniper moves her Gunpla onto the attack with Makoto already having reached Klein and Astray Samurai Striker where Makoto uses Exia Duel Cutter's twin GN Blades to quickly cleave through enemy after enemy.
Klein shouts out, a bit annoyed, "Hey, I had them where I wanted them!"
Makoto retorts, slyly, "Do I ever need to retort to that Klein?" Soon after, Hyper Noble Gundam drop kicks another enemy causing its head to cave-in before the whole machine explodes.
Juniper shouts out, "We don't have time for that, you two!" Immediately, Hyper Noble Gundam ducks and dodges from several beam attacks where Juniper and her Gunpla destroy half-a-dozen enemies with unarmed combat skills in the form of martial arts punches and kicks.
Klein says, with a grin, "Way to go, girlfriend!"
Juniper says, seriously, "Focus on the enemy! We're the only ones that can fight back!" The battle continued on in which Klein, Juniper, and Makoto, in their Gunpla, continues to fight against the enemy in which each of their Gunpla proves to be superior in ability, but the sheer numbers of enemies puts them on the defensive with plenty of errant shots landing all around those not in a Gunpla causing Aoi and Mirai to yelp out in fear. Yui stands in front of Aoi and Mirai, protectively, with Kirito and Asuna moving in front of Yui to protect her and the siblings. But then Leafa moves the massive Psycho Gundam in front of all of them.
Leafa shouts out, through the loudspeaker system, "Stay behind me! This Gunpla can take the heat!"
Kirito tells Leafa, "Be careful, Sugu!"
Leafa says, seriously, "That's what I should be saying to you, big brother!" Leafa then fires the powerful weapons of the massive Gunpla which results in a large amount of them getting vaporized, but their sheer numbers ensure that the assault isn't getting any weaker. Leafa then yelps out in fear as her massive Gunpla is bombarded by the enemy where it hits all over the massive Gunpla, hard!
Kirito says, worriedly, "Sugu!"
Leafa shouts out, a bit nervous in her tone, "Don't worry, big brother! This baby can take the hits!" Within the Gunpla's 'cockpit', Leafa thinks in her mind, nervously, "Maybe. However, I doubt that even this 'shell' can take too much. Should I…?" Back to the battle, Hyper Noble Gundam, Exia Duel Cutter, and Astray Samurai Striker are battling against the enemies where they are demolishing them one after another, but the sheer numbers of opponents are getting them overwhelmed.
Klein says, annoyed, "This is just plain annoying! They are just like flies!" However, he yelps as attacks hit the ground around his feet causing the ground to become unstable enough that Astray Samurai Striker slips causing it to fall to its knees in which, as the Gunpla rises to his feet, Klein finds that a group of Death Army 'troopers' have gotten the bead on him due to some kind of 'alarms' telling that he and his Gunpla are being targeted. Klein yelps at this development, but before he and his Gunpla could be attacked, an attack, from seemly nowhere, rips into the targeting Death Army mobile suits and they are destroyed with one head shot to each enemy. Soon after, Silent Striker Cherudim Gundam, wielding a custom futuristic bullpup sniper rifle, appears though seemly 'thin air'.
Makoto says, amazed, "Whoa!"
Klein says, awe-struck, "Dude! You've got Mirage Collide or some kind of other 'stealth system'! Nice!"
Sinon says, over some kind of 'communication link', "Not a big deal actually. My Gunpla is a long range sniper, so, staying out of sight is quite obvious." However, a few more Death Army get within close range, but they are blown apart of Silent Striker Cherudim Gundam's railguns where Sinon then adds in, "However, a few close range weapons and backups are also a good idea." The wings of Sinon's Gunpla then detach from its back and show that they are portable energy shield generations where they create forward facing shields that protect Silent Striker Cherudim from multiple attacks where Sinon and her Gunpla then snipe her opponents one after another, destroying them with ease.
Klein yells out, excitedly, "Yee haw! We've got this beat! Time to send these jokers back to the scrap heap!"
Sinon says, "Don't be so sure, Klein."
Klein responds, excitedly, "Hey, we've got this down!" But then the whole area starts to shake violently with the intensity of a top-tier earthquake causing Klein to ask, confused, "Now what?" Just then, out of the group, in front of them, the ground 'explodes' where a 'duplicate' of the Dark Gundam from Mobile Fighter G Gundam, in its mobile armor mode, and riding six-legged mobile armor 'carrier' appears in front. Klein shouts out, flabbergasted, "The Dark Gundam from Mobile Fighter G Gundam?! You have got to be fucking me here!" Soon after, multiple Gundam Heads burst out of the ground all around the Dark Gundam causing Klein to say, nervously, "Well, crude!"
Juniper shouts out, annoyed, "You just had to jinx us, Klein!"
Klein says, a bit nervously, "Hey!"
Makoto says, seriously, "We don't have time! Here they come!" Soon after, the Gundam Heads unleashes a massive barrage in which the Gunpla of Klein, Juniper, Makoto, and Sinon barely manage to dodge, but Leafa couldn't dodge causing her to yelp as the massive Psycho Gundam gets hit and hit hard.
Kirito shouts out, worriedly, "Sugu!"
Arashi says, worriedly, "Leafa-chan!"
Leafa says, nervously, "I'm okay…" Leafa thinks in her mind, nervously, "I wish that I were, but this thing is just one big target! There is no way that I can avoid the attacks!" Leafa then has the Psycho Gundam focuses its power in one powerful beam attack right at the Dark Gundam, but the Gundam Heads get in the way, in which while they are mostly destroyed, the Dark Gundam isn't even burned in which the Gundam Heads starts to regenerate causing Leafa to yell out, annoyed tone and worried tone in her voice, "No way!"
Megumi says, "This is bad! Leafa is among our heavy hitters, but that thing is like big fat target!"
Hime asks, nervously, "Is there anything that we can do?"
Yamato says, shaking his head, "No. We don't have Gunpla of our own to help." Just then the Dark Gundam then creates a black energy sphere that's aimed straight for the Psycho Gundam.
Seeing this, Kirito shouts out, worriedly, "Sugu, watch out!" Inside of the massive Gunpla, Leafa gives a really nervous look in which she looks down at the controls and back up at the attack, knowing that she can't avoid that. Leafa then gives a sigh and slams her fist into the controls while the Dark Gundam then unleashes its attack that goes through the center of the massive Gunpla where time seemly to slow down for a few seconds before time seemly to return to normal as the top half of the Psycho Gundam explodes in massive explosion!
Everyone else gasps causing Arashi to say, horrified, "Leafa-chan!"
Hime yells out, also horrified, "No!"
Kazuto shouts out, horrified, "Sugu!"
(Gundam Build Fighters Try opening theme 1 'Cerulean' starts)
But then the flames from explosion turn into a massive twister of flames before a mighty dragon-like roar is heard as the flames take the shape of a dragon before dispelling revealing a brand new Gunpla/Gundam in front of everyone!
This brand new machine looks similar Gundam 00 XN Raiser from the Mobile Suit Gundam 00V, but it is a mixture of blue and gold rather than blue and white with blue cone covering with 'vents' to let out the GN particles that are connected with the 'backpack' unit, the NX Raiser unit, which has six sets of jet-like wings, two powerful railguns attached to the NX Raiser unit near the area of the waist of the 'main Gundam', two sets of four small wings coming out of the back of the legs, with jet boosters coming out of the heels, glowing crystal-blue parts around the wrists, kneecaps, and shoulder just behind the GN Reactors, a shining golden crown across its head, and three massive sword hilts attached to the XN Raiser unit.
Everyone else is shocked causing Lisbeth to ask, confused, "What the…?!"
Philia asks, amazed, "Another Gunpla emerged from that Gunpla?"
Kirito thinks in his mind, seriously, "Wait! That's the upgraded form of 00 X-Raiser Excalibur: The 00 X-Caliber!" The new Gunpla, 00 X-Caliber Gundam, detaches one of the massive sword hilts from its back creating a massive, yet beautiful golden energy sword blade as the GN particles from its reactors surge out and take the form of massive pair of wings.
Mirai says, awe-struck, "Pretty…so pretty…" The Dark Gundam fires another 'dark energy beam' right at 00 X-Caliber, but with one swing of the sword, the new Gunpla cuts the attack right in half causing it to dispel nearly instantly!
Everyone else gasps in shock causing Makoto to say, flabbergasted, "No freaking way! She cut an energy beam in half!"
Klein says, also flabbergasted, "You have got to be damn well kidding me!"
From within the Gunpla, Leafa thinks in her mind, solemnly, "One more time…old friend." Soon after, 00 X-Caliber charges into the battle where the Dark Army forces fire on 00 X-Caliber, but the Gunpla zips around their fire with ease in which the tips of the wings detach, where they jet around, and cutting down dozens upon dozens of Dark Army forces where they go up in strong explosions.
Juniper says, awe-struck, "Whoa!" 00 X-Caliber fires barrages from its railguns that create multiple explosions that vaporizes the majority of the remaining Dark Army forces.
Mentally awe-struck, Sinon says, trying to remain plain in her voice as possible, "Powerful." However, everyone can see more Dark Army forces emerge from the body of Dark Gundam.
Juniper says, annoyed, "Damn! It is just producing more of those things!"
Upon seeing this within her 'cockpit', Leafa just says, plainly, "RG Trans-Am!" Just then crystal-blue parts on 00 X-Caliber glow golden while the rest of the body is engulfed in a red glow before the gold from the crystal-blue parts mixes with the red creating a red-gold glow that engulfs the Gunpla causing the wings to expand to immense size!
Yuuki says, amazed, "Wow! What did Leafa just do?!"
Kirito says, plainly, "She just put up her ace in the hole!"
Yamato says, seriously, "She activated her Gunpla's Trans-Am, but it isn't like one that you see in the anime!" Just then the other sword hilts leap out of the back of the Gunpla before combining with the one in 00 X-Caliber's hands to create an immense golden beam sword. Sensing what was coming, Dark Gundam unleashes another 'dark energy' attack at 00 X-Caliber, however, its 'wings', now glowing a rainbow color, come forward and block the attack with ease! Before everyone else could react, the 'wings' wrap around the energy sword blade causing it to become a bright rainbow color and with one mighty swing, 00 X-Caliber swings the sword and cleaves the Dark Gundam with one blow, cutting it basically like a knife through soft butter, in which both halves explode in a massive explosion!
Everyone is flabbergasted silent for a few seconds before Arashi yells out, excitedly, "She did it! She was really awesome! Believe it!" On the meanwhile, 00 X-Caliber floats down to the ground as it returns to 'normal' and as it touches to the ground, we go inside of the 'cockpit' where we find Leafa, with her head lowered, shedding a single tear.
Leafa thinks in her mind, "Thank you…X-Caliber. You did US both proud." Leafa looks up as an image of a young boy forms in her mind causing her to smile weakly.
(Gundam Build Fighters Try opening theme 1 'Cerulean' ends)
In the immediately aftermath of the fight, everyone is assembled around Leafa in which Juniper says, excitedly, "Awesome, girlfriend! You really kicked butt!"
Klein says, nodding his head vigorously, "You know it!" Klein says, looking up at 00 X-Caliber, "That's your real baby, huh? It is sweet! Beyond sweet! I can't believe that you had this kick ass Gunpla hidden in that titan!"
Strea asks, curiously, "Why would you hide such a thing in there?"
Leafa says, nervously, "Well…"
Strea tells Leafa, excitedly, "Oh, I know! You wanted it to be an 'ace in the hole' so that you would surprise the bad guys and give them a beating that they deserve!"
Leafa says, with a nervous smile, "Yeah!"
Hime whispers to Arashi, "Doesn't that look like the Gunpla she had in the Nilsen Labs?"
Overhearing, Megumi whispers, with a nod, "Yeah, it is. But it is WAY upgraded."
Yamato whispers to Kirito, "Kirito, that Gunpla…"
Kirito tells Yamato, with a plain tone, "Yes, I know." Kirito thinks in his mind, as he looks up at 00 X-Caliber, "That's definitely the 00 X-Caliber, the upgraded form of 00 X-Raiser Excalibur. After Sugu upgraded that Gunpla, it 'vanished', and she told me that she 'put it away'. Maybe there are still 'pieces of the past' that Sugu has yet to overcome…" Kirito then mentally shakes his head and thinks in his mind, with a smile, "Then why upgrade this in the first place? I guess…"
However, a female voice shouts out, "Aoi! Mirai!" Everyone looks up to see a mobile suit that strangely looks like mobile suit version of a blue-haired teenage girl in a white dress with butterfly-like energy 'wings' coming out of her back floating down in front of them.
Klein says, amazed, "Whoa!"
Yuuki says, excitedly, "I'll say!"
Philia says, surprised, "It looks like a…a girl." Afterwards, the girl-shaped mobile suit or Gunpla vanishes causing a lovely young teenage girl that's looks similar to the mobile suit/Gunpla that just vanished with long aqua-blue hair, bright blue eyes, and she is wearing a sleeveless white dress, blue stockings that covers her legs, and white high-heeled boots with blue bows on each boots emerge from it.
Klein gives an excited look when he sees the young teenage girl causing Lisbeth to say, drolly, "Don't even think about it." Lisbeth then jabs Klein in the waist with her elbow causing him to cough out.
Aoi and Mirai run over to the young teenage girl in which they yell out in unison, "Big sister!"
Juniper asks, surprised, "Sister?"
Aoi and Mirai hug the young teenage girl in which she says to them, "I'm glad that you are safe. When you went missing, we were all worried."
Mirai says, with a smile, "We're okay, big sister Sarah." Mirai points to our group where she says, "These nice people and their Gunpla kept us safe." When the blue-haired teenage girl, Sarah, looks at our group, she smiles at them.
Sarah says, with a warm smile, "Thank you for keeping them safe. My friends and I were so worried when they vanished after we found them."
Kirito thinks in his mind, curiously, "Found them?"
Yuuki says, excitedly, "It was no problem!"
Juniper tells Yuuki, a bit sarcastically, "Says you, Yuuki."
Sarah looks up at the four Gunpla where she asks, "Are they yours?"
Klein says, excitedly, "You got it, little lady!"
Sarah says, with a smile, "They are very pretty." Sarah says, looking at 00 X-Caliber, "Especially this one. This one is filled with hopes and dreams. It has slept for a while and it can wait to fly again." Leafa gives a look of surprise where Sarah says, "There are the dreams of flying high to places that it has never seen before. To see all sorts of wonders. Wonders beyond this world, beyond this galaxy, and beyond this universe." Leafa's eyes become wide, but before anyone could say anything more, our group and the five Gunpla are engulfed in light where they vanish with a bright flash leaving only Aoi, Mirai, and Sarah where all three of them give confused looks for a few seconds.
Just then a male voice calls out, "Sarah!" Sarah, Aoi, and Mirai look towards the source of the voice to see what looks like a white and blue version of 00 Raiser Gundam floating down in front of them.
Sarah says, with a smile, "Riku!" Sarah then thinks in her mind, with a warm smile, "Whoever you are. I hope to see you and your Gunpla again."
January 2026, ALO, Svart Alfheim, Alne
Back within Agil's store/café in Alne, we find our group talking with both Argo and Agil, behind the 'bar', as they discuss what happened.
When our group was finished, Agil whistles causing him to say, "Man! I thought that stuff with Neptune and that AI created by that ass' former GM avatar was nuts."
Klein says, with a nod, "No joke, bro!"
Argo asks, "So, those two were actually living beings, not just AI?"
Kirito and Asuna look at Yui and Strea, who look back in confusion, causing Kirito to say, "I think that it is best to say that they were 'more advanced forms' of Yui and Strea, Argo."
Yui and Strea become wide-eyed at this causing Yui to say, amazed, "Daddy…" Soon after, Strea then globs Kirito causing him to yelp as Strea hugs him tightly.
Strea tells Kirito, "Ah, you say the nicest things, Kirito!"
Asuna says, nervously, "Strea, please!"
Strea looks at Asuna causing her to ask, "You feeling left out, Asuna?"
Asuna asks, nervously, "Huh?"
Strea says, excitedly, "Okay!" Asuna yelps as Strea puts her into a bone crushing hug causing Asuna to yelp and shout out to let Strea to let her go.
Agil asks, "By the way, did you find out what kind of virtual world you found yourselves in?"
Juniper says, "Based on what we saw and Yui said, it must have been another virtual world based on the Gundam series."
Yamato asks, curiously, "But what kind of world allows you to create your own Gundams?"
Yui says, with a plain tone, "I couldn't go too deep into my scan of that world, but what I do is that it was called GBN which is short for Gunpla Battle Network."
Kirito and Asuna give shocked looks causing Kirito to ask, surprised, "Are you sure, Yui-chan?"
Yui nods his head causing Hime to ask, "Do you know something Kirito?"
Argo says, bringing out her player menu, "I think that I know what Kii-boy is talking about." Just then Argo makes her player menu visible and shows them an article from MMO Tomorrow that's titled: 'The Next Generation of Gunpla Battle: GBN'.
Asuna says, with a nod, "I know about that since RECT Progress is partner in its development."
Leafa asks, curiously, "Really?"
Kirito says, with a nod, "Yeah, Sugu. From what's known, the project actually started around the time after the NervGear first came out."
Philia asks, amazed, "That long ago?"
Kirito says, with a nod, "That's right, Philia. It was…it is to be the successor to Gunpla Battle, known as GP Duels, where you can scan your Gunpla into virtual space where it is replicated, but there have been plenty of delays in its creation and development…including SAO."
Plenty of the others give looks of understanding at Kirito's words in which Yamato asks, "But when the Amusphere came out and with 'The Seed', didn't work restart on it?"
Kirito says, plainly, "Actually, after the Amusphere came out, work restarted again, but they decided to make their own Full-Dive system based on 'generation one' Full-Dive VR technology namely the kind that was created by Seto Kaiba and Kaiba Corporation a time ago."
Juniper asks, curiously, "They are using that old tech?"
Kirito says, with a plain tone, "With more 'modern enhancements', Juniper."
Asuna says, with a plain tone, "And they plan to use their own system with more 'human interactions' since the VR world that they plan is very vast and the vastness makes them feel that an 'automated' system like Cardinal would leave too many 'holes' for bugs and the like."
Kirito says, plainly, "There are plenty of us that would protest that, but the sheer magnitude of the VRMMO world that they are planning to build makes it understandable."
Klein asks, "So, you are saying that's the world that we into?"
Kirito says, shaking his head, "It shouldn't be possible. They haven't gotten into the beta tester phase, yet. In fact, they are going to start beta testing pretty soon."
There are gasps causing Lisbeth to ask, "Hold up? Are you saying that we were in a VRMMO world that shouldn't exist yet?"
Kirito says, with a nod, "Exactly."
Yui says, "But how, Daddy? From what I saw from my scan, GBN seemed to be fully operational. It was past a beta test phase."
Yuuki asks, curiously, "Really?"
Leafa then asks, "What? Then how…?"
Arashi says, nervously, "I'm confused."
Hime says, with a nod, "Me too."
Megumi says, nodding her head, "Don't blame you."
Yamato says, "And then there is those two."
Argo asks, "So, do you think that they are like Yui?"
Kirito says, "That's a good question, Argo."
Agil asks, curiously, "You think that they are doing okay?"
Leafa says, with a smile, "Something tells me that they are just fine."
Arashi says, with a nod, "Same here, Leafa-chan."
Hime says, nodding her head, "I agree."
Megumi says, "But there is still a lot that I don't understand. There was also that other girl that they called their 'big sister'."
Asuna asks Yui, "Was she like Aoi and Mirai, Yui-chan?"
Yui says, with a nod, "I believe so. That girl seemed to be an advanced 'electronic life-form' like Aoi and Mirai."
Klein says, with a sigh, "Dude, I have so many questions."
Kirito says, "I believe that all of us do, Klein."
Sinon says, "We can't be sure that they will all be answered."
Asuna says, with a nod, "Maybe, Sinonon."
Yuuki says, excitedly, "I hope that we do see them again someday! That was really exciting."
Juniper says, nervously, "I think that you and I have two different meaning for the word 'exciting', Yuuki."
Lisbeth says, nodding her head in agreement, "That's for sure."
Tomoe asks, "Do you think that we will ever see them again?"
Makoto tells Tomoe, "Who knows?"
Kirito says, "That could be a story for another day."
Unknown time, VRMMO Gundam Battle Nexus AKA GBN
Inside of the virtual world of Gundam Battle Nexus or GBN, we find Sarah, Aoi, and Mirai inside of the Gunpla version of Sarah while this 'mobile suit version' of Sarah and we go inside of the 'cockpit' where Aoi and Mirai are finishing explaining what happened. Flying with Sarah's 'Gunpla self', there is the white and deep blue version of 00 Raiser Gundam.
Just then a male voice says, over a communication link, "That's strange."
Sarah says, with a nod, "It is, Riku."
The male voice, Riku, says, "Anyway, I'm glad that they are okay. It was surprising that they vanished so mysteriously. We've been finding more EL-Divers like you ever since we got you to the real world."
Sarah nods her head in which Mirai asks, "Big sister, do you think that we will meet Asuna-san and all her friends in the real world?"
Sarah tells Mirai, with a warm smile, "Maybe Mirai-chan."
Riku asks, curiously, "Asuna-san?"
Sarah says, with a nod, "Yes, Riku. That's the name of one of the people that saved and helped Aoi and Mirai. The five with the wonderful Gunpla were Klein-san, Juniper-san, Makoto-san, Sinon-san, and Leafa-san from what Aoi and Mirai heard."
Riku asks, more to himself, "Asuna-san and Leafa-san…?"
Sarah asks, curiously, "Riku?"
Riku tells Sarah, "Ah, nothing! It is…just that I thought that I heard those names before."
Sarah asks, curiously, "Where, Riku?"
Riku says, with a shrug, "I wish that I could remember." Riku says, with a smile, "Anyway, Miss Tori-san, is waiting for us along with the others, we have already got Aoi's and Mirai's Gunpla ready to go. Everyone can't wait to meet them!"
Sarah says, with a nod and smile, "Yes!" Sarah tells Aoi and Mirai, "Don't worry. We will get you to Riku's world, safely, and you can meet everyone there. It is going to be fun!"
Aoi and Mirai say, in unison with smiles on their faces, "Okay!"
Aoi thinks in his mind, "And maybe one day, we can meet Asuna-san, Leafa-san, Kirito-san, and all of their friends. They must be really awesome people since they have really awesome Gunpla!"
January 2026, Tokyo, Saitama Prefecture, Kirigaya household
Within the Kirigaya household, we are inside of the room of Suguha Kirigaya as she is looking at the true Gunpla version of 00 X-Caliber.
Just then Kazuto's voice booms out, "I've always wondered what you did with that after what happened in Nilsen Labs." Suguha looks at the source of the voice to see Kazuto Kirigaya walk into the room.
Suguha tells Kazuto, "The improvements weren't mine. They were in the plans."
Kazuto says, "I see." After Kazuto walks into the room and goes by Suguha's side, both of them 'sense' something.
Suguha says, with a sigh, "You can come in now." Just then Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata leap into the room via the window.
Naruto says, with a bit of a nervous smile, "You are getting good, Suguha-chan." Naruto then yelps as Sakura bashes Naruto in the scalp causing him to whine, "What was that for?!"
Sakura tells Naruto, sternly, "You know darn well what that was for, Naruto!"
Naruto responds, nervously, "Well, she was having a 'moment'! I didn't want us to disturb her!"
Suguha says, with a kind smile, "Thanks, Naruto."
Hinata looks at 00 X-Caliber causing her to say, "This looks like the Gunpla that you brought to that lab that time."
Kazuto says, "It is an updated version of it: Gundam 00 X-Caliber."
Naruto says, amazed, "Wow! It looks really good."
Suguha says, with a weak smile, "Thanks, Naruto."
Sakura asks Suguha, "What's your history with this one?"
Suguha says, with a sigh, "This…this Gunpla is only half mine."
Naruto asks, confused, "Half yours?"
Hinata asks Suguha, curiously, "What do you mean?"
Suguha tells Hinata, with a warm smile, "It is a long story."
Sakura says, "We don't mind hearing about it." Suguha and Kazuto look at each other in which Suguha smiles warmly.
Suguha tells Sakura in reply, "Sure, I think that it is about time." As Suguha prepares to tell Naruto, Hinata, and Sakura the story behind this Gunpla, we can see it shine in the sunlight brightly.
The end of the story
There we go, everyone! Now, if you are confused, I did make a minor crossover of Gundam Build Fighters/Gundam Fighters Try which you can see in Chapter 19 of my World's Song story and this one-shot is kind of a 'expansion' on it. Minor spoiler: In the SMO 'universe', Sword Art Online wasn't the first time that Suguha has seen death. I'm not sure if I will really expand on this since my SMO storylines tend to gain multiple plots which leaves plenty of chances for 'plot holes'. However, I may expand on this plot with a 'little something' in the future. But what do you think? Do you want to learn more? Please read and review to tell me what you think, but no flames, okay? Later and best wishes, Crossover Fans!
