The world is not what many think it to be. For there is not just one world, instead there exist what you could call a multiverse. A near infinite number of worlds each filled with their own unique form of life. But within this infinite amount of life there was a problem. Worlds were disappearing. Consumed devoured gone Without a Trace. Such a massive events were also commonplace in the infinite multitude of Creation.

Even now such an event was taking place as multiple worlds were forcibly converged into one singular world to then be devoured. Such a horrific event would normally never be witnessed in the vast void of the multiverse. Except in this case as two being were finally able to observed this destruction of worlds. They watched through vastness and emptiness of creation from a simple yellow room. A space that exists outside of time in that room the two beings watched.

The first being stretched out along the room. Less a person and more a living shadow his head touched the ceiling and his body laid along the wall with his legs covering the floor. He was also entirely pink with bright blue eyes.

The second was a simple man figure in a tattered hooded cloak. The strangest thing about him was the cat ears sticking out atop his head and lizard like tail slipping beneath his cloak.

"Oh no, this is bad, this is really, really bad." The shadow man said, the fear in his voice clear for all to hear.

"Don't sound so scared, Prismo." The hooded man said cheerfully. "It's not as bad as it looks and early enough, I can handle this with minimal collateral damage." He raised a hand at the convergence of worlds, lights began gathering around his outstretched arm quickly turning into a gauntlet. It was unique as it looked as if several swords were smashed together to form the shape of a gauntlet.

"Okay no, just hold on there a second, Arc." Prismo reached out an arm and the screen in front of them disappeared. "You know if you do that millions of people would die."

"They're going to die regardless. Besides, you know if I get to close to this thing They would flee into the void and we'd never be able to track them down again." Arc sighed. "We were lucky enough to find them this time. And only a few million people will have to die."

"I know." Prismo said placating. "But the people of that world seem to have a plan to deal with it. So why don't we just let them."

"You sure? I mean if it was any nascent would-be god, we could have let the people of that world deal with it. But it's not and you know it's not." Arc replied eyes cold and voice unfeeling. "It was your mistakes that let this spiral out of control like it has and this might be our only chance at saving the rest of Creation. So, if only a few worlds must disappear to kill them all, then I'm sorry that is what I'm going to do."

Prismo knew that tone in his old friend's voice and knew few things would deter him. But he had a plan.

"Listen I have an idea. See, I know a guy that has a surprisingly good track record of stopping this type of thing. Just let me tweak one of their world's summoning rituals to bring him there. Then we just sit back and watch him work." Prismo said, speaking rapidly.

"When he fails." Arc spoke as if it was inevitable. "And your boss finds out we had a chance to stop them but didn't. The both of us are in a world of trouble."

"If my guy fails which he won't, then you can erase the world and him along with it. I'll even throw in a Wish to make it happen." Prismo said, his power as a Cosmic Wishmaster letting him perform all sorts of things, but only at the behest of others.

"You'll be risking that instead of millions dying it would be billions." Arc warned, but was already lowering his hand, the gauntlet disappearing in motes of light.

"I trust him, he never let me down before." Prismo said.

Arc looked back from the wall where the worlds were displayed to Prismo. They stared each other down then Arc sighed. "What's his name?"

"Finn Mertens you stop moving about this instant. You're going to ruin your new upgrades!" A stern and slightly electronic voice shouted aloud.

"But Mom, it's cold and I'm bored." Finn whined as he pushed his blonde hair out of his blue eyes with his left hand. Turning away from the harsh glare of light in front of him to a blond woman in the white lab coat and blue scrubs leaning over to the right of him. Finn in nothing but a pair of blue jeans relaxed as best he could atop the cold metal operating table he's been stuck on since the day begin. Looking away from where his right arm used to be. "How much longer is this going to take?"

His mother said nothing as she poked and prodded at Finn's right shoulder with a small flame emanating from her fingertip. Occasionally small sparks would fly from the metal covering most of Finn's shoulder, causing him to flinch as pain sparked through him with every tap.

To distract himself, Finn took some time they examine the lab was in. Large white room with various monitors each displaying information on some weird experiments or a strange observation lining the walls with a couple of tables in the center. Glass and Metal tubes filled with either a strange mixture or the body of a creature rested on one of the tables close by. Across another one sat a large chemistry set. Even though Finn's been around these types of things most of his life he still couldn't tell what any of this stuff meant. Several minutes passed without her saying anything irritating Finn who opened his mouth to ask again.

"As long as it takes to get this done." A third voice cut in. She unlike the other two who's skin was a pale white, her skin was completely pink her hair but in a darker shade. Dress in a pink turtleneck and jeans covered by a white lab coat. In her hands she carried a metal arm the same size as Finn's left one albeit a bit bulkier that she placed down next to his mother. "All finished, Minerva?"

"Yes, Princess Bubblegum, the new base seems to be functioning as intended. No undue stress on the body or any infection. I think we're ready for the next part. It's just such a shame that we had to cut off the remainder of his arm to make room for it." Minerva answered as she steps away from Finn to let Princess Bubblegum take her place.

"You can just call me Bonnie, Minerva." Princess Bubblegum said as she slowly lined up the arm next to Finn shoulder. She looked him in the eye. "This is going to hurt."

"Not the first time we've done this." Finn replied. He took a sharp breath as Princess Bubblegum pushed the arm into his shoulder. The click it made as a connected coincided with the sharp pain Finn felt as his nervous system connected to his arm. He clenched both his fist then let go as the pain subsided.

Pushing himself up to a sitting position Finn held his arm out for Bonnie as she made him move each individual finger and then form different shapes with his hand.

"Okay, looks good." Bonnie said as she poked and prodded Finn's arm. Stepping away Bonnie grabbed a handheld device. "That about dose it. Just have to run through a couple of things and then you're good to go."

"What things?" Finn asked as he put on a blue shirt sleeve shirt.

"I'm glad you asked, Finn." Bonnie held an elbow with one hand and cupped her face with the other. "You're first three arms, while they did do their job, there was nothing really special about them. Your new arm on the other hand has had functions added to it. This time I decided to really go all out when I made this beauty."

"Functions?"

"Onboard computer and, cross-dimensional communication device if you ended up on another dimension again. Also, a few minor weapons thrown in just in case of emergency. Honestly, this just might be the greatest thing I have ever made." As Bonnie spoke Minerva coughed loudly to get her attention. "Your mom helped to, I guess?"

"As you should know Finn, most of the technology Founder's Island is focused on is body modification for humanity to better survive this chaotic world." Minerva had a gentle smile as she stepped in close to Finn's side her hand dancing down his arm giving of a slight static charge as she did. "I built a design for your arm the same as the Princess but of one or the other we combined our designs. In a way your arm could be considered the first joint technological project between the humans and the land of Ooo. Fitting for you is it Finn."

Movement to the side of him caught Finn's attention.

"Is that supposed to be glowing?" Finn asked confused as lights appeared and began to dance around him.

"What!" His mom and Bubblegum shouted as the motes of light slowly started to swirl around him. His mom was at his side in an instant reaching from him. As she tried to reach Finn though the light as it became a cocoon around Finn. There was a loud tearing sound as Minerva's arm was torn off at the elbow.

This last thing Finn heard before the light completely consumed him was Princess Bubblegum shouting something about activation?

"Heroes, please save our world!"

It was that shout that woke Finn Mertens from his slumber. Pushing himself up, Finn found himself not in the lab. Instead, he was in a low-lit chamber with pillars surrounding him, standing atop an altar. The only light source were a few simple candles and magic circle he was in. He looked down at the people that spoke. They looked like wizards with their purple robes and hood that covered their faces.

Taking another look around Finn then realized he was in ritual room middle of a spell! In one single movement Finn was out of the circle and rushing towards the wizards. At his approach they backed away hands raised pleading for him to wait. It was only after realizing what the first words that they said that made Finn stop.

They wanted heroes to save them, even so. "You know it rude to just grab a guy all willy nilly. Give a guy some warning okay."

He waved his sword at them as he talked. Which was weird because it wasn't even the one, he usually slept with. With its white blade and hilt with a blue gem in the hilt, it reminded him of the Finn Sword.

The seemingly leader of the Wizards took a step forward and spoke. "We are sorry for the inconvenience we have caused you, Hero of the Sword. But our world stands on the brink of Destruction. To save it we need the help of the heroes you and your comrades fight back against the Waves of Calamity."

"Waves of Calamity? Sounds..." as Finn began talking voices from behind cut him off.

"Sounds dangerous think I'll pass." Said the man with a spear. He was dressed in a white shirt with a red striped jacket covering it and white jeans. He had blonde hair that fell to his waist and blue eyes like Finn but seemed a little bit older and a lot prettier.

"Bringing us here to fight your war for you? You must be insane!" The one that spoke this time held a bow. With wavy light brown hair and gold eyes he was dressed in what looked like a uniform like what the Princess would have him wear to special events.

"What the hell is going on!" the last one standing there had a shield on his arm. Black hair and blue eyes with a zipped up white and green hoodie with blue jeans.

"Great heroes, please I know you have questions but let us bring you to our king and he can answer all your questions!" The leader of the wizards yelled out gesturing towards the only exit.

"Fine, but any funny businesses and you'll have us as your enemy." The one with the spear said as he marched through the wizards. They all stepped away and cleared his way. As he passed by Finn could see that the man was smiling as he left.

"This king of yours better have answers, or a way home. I'm not risking my life for a bunch of kidnappers." The bowman said as he followed the spearman a smile on his face too.

As they left that just left Finn and the shield guy alone with the wizards.

"So that just happened, huh." Finn chuckled at the shield guy.

"What's going on? This is almost like a novel, but this is real right?" Shield guy asked nervously.

"Think we're going have to ask the king about it, shield guy." Finn said.

"Shield guy, not my name is Naofumi Iwatani. What's your name?" Naofumi asked again his worry disappearing as he talked to Finn.

"Nao... Naofumi." Finn spoke the name aloud committing it to memory. "Names, Finn Mertens." He held his out his arm for Naofumi to shake.

"Finn, you from America?" Naofumi asked as they shook hands.

"No, Ooo. What's America?" Finn asked.

"Are you joking? Wait? Your hand!" Naofumi shouted as he stepped away from Finn looking at Finn's right arm. "You have a metal hand! That's so cool!"

"Right!" Finn laughed.

Any other was cut off as the wizards called to them. "Please heroes, the others have already left. We must hurry not to be left behind."

"Right, coming." Finn said to the wizards, then turned to Naofumi. "Talk more later." As he walked through the tunnel.

As Finn made his way through the tunnel towards the throne room, he took a glance out of the many windows. It was a nice day out, sun was shining brought giving Finn a good look at the human kingdom he found himself end. It looked similar enough to the Candy Kingdom. Except instead of being made of candy and smelling like sugar, it was made of stone and smelled like nothing at all.

"Wow." Naofumi said as he leaned out the window quickly before heading further down the tunnel.

They quickly made their way to the throne room. It was ornate with balconies built inside the walls that had several people looking down at them. A red and gold carpet led to a golden throne were a grey hair old man in royal looking robes and a heavily jeweled crown sat staring down at them.

"Finally, the other two have arrived." The old man said annoyed leaning on the armrest of his throne.

All his life Finn had met and dealt with the many Kings, and Queens of Ooo. So, he knew immediately without a doubt that this one was the type of king that was worst kind to deal with.

"Sorry, got distracted." Finn apologized as he and Naofumi got in line with the other two.

"Hmm. "My name is Aultcray the 32nd. This is the land Melromarc of which I rule. You four Cardinal Heroes have been summoned to save not it but this world. Now heroes introduce yourselves!"

"Me first. My name is Motoyasu Kitamura. I'm 21 and a college student." The spearman introduced himself.

College, what's that. Finn wondered to himself.

"Well then. I'm Itsuki Kawasumi. I'm 17 and still in high school." Followed by the bowman.

High school? I wonder if you learn to fly there. Finn's mind wondered at the thought of flying through the sky on his own power that I took him a moment to notice the looks aimed at him.

"My turn, then. Finn Mertens, I'm 19 and I'm not in any kind of school." Finn introduced himself.

"American?" Motoyasu and Itsuki asked at the same time.

"Ooo." Finn replied, he turned to Naofumi. "Seriously, what's America?"

"Are you still joking?" Naofumi asked Finn. Turning to Aultcray. "Best for last, I guess. Naofumi Iwatani, age 20 college students."

As Naofumi spoke, King Aultcray glared at him with such hatred that Finn grabbed him by the shoulder. Pulling him a step away from the King, Finn stepped forward his gaze locked on the King.

Tension in the room rose noticeably as the King's glare transferred from Naofumi to Finn. As both stared at each other the room fell silent. The guards on the far wall reached for their weapons. As violence threatened to spill over, Aultcray sighed and lean further into his throne breaking eye contact with Finn. Everyone in the room let out a breath as Finn stepped back in line.

"Apologizes, I did not mean to offend." Aultcray said as he passed a considering look at Finn. "But it is commendable that you would rush to each other's aid after only just meeting each other."

"You said that you needed us right. But what exactly is in it for us?" Motoyasu asked, uncaring about what just happened.

"Exactly, you bring us here then force us to fight for you. Sounds like you intend to enslave us. If that is what you're after, then you will find us as your enemy!" Itsuki shouted at Aultcray.

"Let's just calm down a moment here." Naofumi said nervously, he glances at Finn who was saying nothing, but still razor focused on the King.

"Yes, calm yourselves heroes. You all will be rewarded richly for your efforts. But first let me tell you of the trial that awaits you." Aultcray said gently as he stood from his throne his staff slammed on the floor with a resounding bang.

The king explained the coming crisis.

There was a prophecy about the end of the world. Waves of Calamity would appear, each on bring entire armies of monsters with the only goal of killing every living thing they could get their hands on. Unless the waves were stopped and the monsters that have been brought forth killed, the world was doomed. The prophecy was from so long ago that the people of this world thought of it as a myth. That was until the large and ancient hourglass called a dragon hourglass that would signal the times, sand began to fall. The dragon hourglass predicted the arrival of the waves, and its sands began to fall one month ago. At first, they had thought it was a trick, or mistakes until the final gain of sand fell. The moment the sky around one of the many villages of the kingdom turned red as reality shattered revealing a hole to another dimension. Terrifying and horrible creatures crawled out from it in great numbers. At the time, the country was barely able to contain the onslaught, but at the cost of the many lives of the country knights and civilians. But, at the end of the wave the Dragon's Hourglass refilled itself as the countdown to the next wave began. It was prophesied that each wave would be even more terrible than the last. They stood no chance of stopping the next wave. So, at this rate, the country then the rest of the world was doomed. Considering the situation nearly hopeless, the king decided to summon heroes from another world to save their world.

"So, what say you heroes? Now that you know the fate that awaits us all! What will you do?" Aultcray thundered at them. Less asking for help but daring them to try.

"Okay, count me in." Finn said simply resting his sword on his shoulder.

"Truly?" Aultcray asked a grin on his face.

"Helping people, and killing monsters are what I do best." Finn said with a smile on his face to match the king.

"Hey, even if the American is fine with helping! Don't expect me to fall in line so easily!" Motoyasu said cutting in throwing a glare at Finn.

"Hmph. Don't expect us to throw our lives away for nothing like him." Itsuki added also glaring at Finn.

What did I do? Finn thought to himself at the looks he was getting from the other two heroes.

"As I said before. All of you will be rewarded for your efforts to save our world." Aultcray looked to be getting annoyed at all the back talk.

"Well, as long as that is settled then we got nothing to worry about." Motoyasu said pride in his voice.

"Now, Heroes, check your status and give me an honest assessment of yourselves." Aultcray asked as he sat back down.

"How do we do that?" Itsuki asked embarrassed.

Aultcray said nothing merely wave the person standing at his side forward. The man was dressed in purple robes and was completely bald.

"One of the most basic magic that any person can learn is Status Magic. With it you can see the basic power, or level of yourself. Once learned it can be used to observe the level of all living beings of the world. The Legendary Weapons that you carry already hold this magic. For each person it is different visual experience, but if you focus inward you should be able to see your level at least." The bald man said.

Finn tried to follow the man's advice as his focus channeled inward after a few moments' words began to appear in front of him.

Finn Mertens

Class: Sword Hero Lv 1

Equipment: Small Sword (Legendary Weapon)

Otherworld Arm

Otherworld Clothes

Skills: None

Magic: None

"Level 1?" Finn said aloud, nudging Naofumi he asked. "Is that good or bad?"

Naofumi quietly reading under his breath stopped and looked at Finn in complete disbelief. "Yes! Haven't you ever played any kind of game. Level 1 is where you start at."

"I've played games before." Finn said offended. "Just not anything that had this kind of thing."

"You never played like an RPG, or a MMORPG, things like that?" Naofumi asked.

"What do those letters mean? Why are you speaking gibberish?" Finn stammered confused.

"Any experience with RTS or FPS games?" Itsuki asked amazed.

"What!" Finn was beginning to panic at all the letters thrown around.

"So, you're just a Newb. Don't worry then, just stick with me and I'll show you the ropes. I'm a pro at this game.

Newb? Pro? What game is he talking about? All these letters and words being thrown around was giving Finn a headache.

"Heroes, I must cation against that." The bald man spoke up again. "Legends state that the four Heroes cannot travel together, or they would suffer terrible consequences."

"Really, are you sure?" Finn asked.

"Looks like it." Naofumi said. "Check with your menu, it should tell you the same thing."

"Menu?" at Finn's word a list appeared before him. Scrolling through it he quickly clicked on the bar that said, help. When he did more words appeared in front of him. Warning him that traveling and fighting with the other heroes would cause to many problems.

"So, we have to go it alone then." Motoyasu asked.

"Not at all." King Aultcray declared. "Give us the rest of the day and we will procure for you all companions to help you on your journey. Until then we have rooms prepared for you to rest for the night."

A second door to the side opened as a servant stood there waiting for us to follow them. The four Heroes thanked the king as they followed the servant to their rooms for the night.

As the four Heroes settled in the room they were provided. Each on began looking through the menus provided to them by their weapons. Well, most of them were anyway.

Finn reached over to the table that was placed in between the four of them and helped himself to the meat and cheese they were given.

"So, what exactly are we supposed to do anyway?" Finn asked through a mouth full if food. "The King wasn't clear on what he needed us to do."

"It's simple, level up, kill the monsters, save the world. Standard story in a game." Motoyasu explained leaning back into his couch a glass of wine in his hand.

"Okay see, I got the last two. I'm not clear, what dose level up mean?" As Finn asked, he could see the annoyed expression cross the Spear and Bow heroes.

"It's when you get enough EXP to reach the next level. From 1 to 2 then 3 and on and on." Naofumi explained.

Finn opened his mouth to ask another question.

"EXP is what you get for killing monsters and clearing quest?" Itsuki snapped angrily.

"So, all we have to do is kill monsters? That great, I'm a great at killing monsters." Finn cheered.

"No way, that is just the start. If you really what to get anywhere you're going to have to upgrade, you weapon properly. Just like in Emerald Online."

"Emerald Online, what's that?" Instead of Finn asking the question this time it was Naofumi.

"You don't know? I mean I expected from this guy." Motoyasu pointed at Finn. "But from you that's just disappointing, Naofumi. It's only the greatest online game ever."

"You wrong about that, Motoyasu." Itsuki cut in. "This game is more like the console game, Brave Star Online."

"Never heard of it. Most have been some minor title or something" Motoyasu said as he took a sip from his glass.

"Minor!" Itsuki shouted as he stood up.

Before an argument could progress, Naofumi spoke up. "How about Odin Online, or Fantasy Moon Online. You guys heard of that?"

"No."

"No."

"I have no idea what's going on anymore."

"This doesn't make any sense. I mean are we really in a game, and if so, how did we even get here?" Naofumi asked burying his hands in his hair.

"Maybe none of us are from the same world." Finn suggested.

"So, we weren't just summoned to this world, but from four different worlds as well. How would we even know, Wait!" Motoyasu snapped his fingers as he jumped up as well. "Who's the Prime Minister?"

The three heroes answered each with a different name, as Finn just wondered what a Prime Minister was. From there each one would ask a question only for the other two to answer in a different way.

"So, we really are from different worlds." Naofumi said shocked.

"Expect you didn't answer any questions, Finn." Motoyasu said.

"I have no idea what any of you were talking about but did any of you have a Mushroom War." Finn asked.

"Mushroom War, what's is that?"

"Well, it was a long time ago, but it was like everyone was mad at each other, so they fought. They kept fighting and fighting, until they dropped these bombs on each other. See, when these bombs fell, they exploded into theses mushroom clouds. So, after that the war ended because there was nobody left to fight. So, you guys got anything like that?" As Finn talked, he could see that the faces of the other heroes begin to pale.

"How..." Naofumi started then stopped for a moment to swallow nervously. "How long ago was that?"

"About a thousand years." Finn answered. "You guys okay? You look a little pale."

"Fine! Fine, I think that is enough talking for today." Motoyasu headed for the door not taking his eyes of Finn. "I'm uh going to bed. Need to be ready for tomorrow."

"Me too." Itsuki said following Motoyasu out the door.

Wordlessly Naofumi stood up. He looked at Finn as if wanting to say something but decided against it and left after the other two.

"Was it something I said?" Finn asked out load.