Note: This is an on going fanfic of PSO (Phantasy Star Online). When the word hunter comes up in the story, capital H means it's the class of hunter. If it's a lower case H it's the pioneers who are the first to go down to Rangol and explore. The team name was inspired by my Online guild's name and characters in the fic were also inspired by real life people, namely, my close friends. If you would like to be a side character for one of the quests, please IM or PM me.
Main characters:
Ryan, HUmar, Viridia: Ryan is the most overlooked member in his group of hunters, The Twilight Four. Ryan is one of the two physical attackers in the team and takes most of the hits for the team. His sister Kate was a famous HUmarl on board the Pioneer one. She taught Ryan everything he knows and he has a strong connection with her.
Steven, HUcast, Whitill: Steven was a top class mech warrior and top scientist in the past but he lost his physical body in battle. Top scientists implanted his brain into the body of a robot. The only reason Steven became a hunter was to earn some money and to collect a horde of massive guns (Which he never uses).
Spencer, RAmar, Viridia: Spencer and Ryan were good friends when they were kids so they have known each other for a while. Spencer is the leader of the Twilight Four and is the only ranger on the team. He and Ami became hunters to raise enough money to get married.
Ami, FOnewearl, Whitill: Ami's and Spencer's parents were life long friends so naturally they met because of their parents. They were childhood friends and later became lovers. They became hunters to raise enough money to get married. Ami is kind and warm hearted and would never let any of her friends down. Ami plays a vital roll in the Twilight Four, she provides the support magic, like healing and first aid.
IC
The Team Meeting
The pioneer project- a plan born of desperation conceived in response to the imminent destruction of their worlds. Unmanned space probes were sent out to find an inhabitable world. A suitable planet was found and the Pioneer one was sent out to begin cultivating the world for the main wave of refugees starting with the central dome. Seven years later, the Pioneer two completed it's long voyage with the main wave or refugees onboard. But only moments after opening commutation links with the central dome on the planet, a massive explosion rocked the planet causing Pioneer two to lose contact with thousands of men and women who were on Pioneer one.....
BEEP, BEEP, BEEP! "ugh..." Ryan got out of bed. "Is it already 6:00 AM already?" Ryan got out of bed and looked down beside his feet. His Hunter clothes were on the floor. They were like any other Hunter's suit besides the color. The color consisted of mostly darker green and blue. Attached was a small box on the belt of the suit. This was his "Pack box." It could hold up to 30 different items at a time no matter how big or small. All hunters had one.
Ryan looked at his calendar. January 5, 7004. In the date box something was written in red ink. b Start of new hunter job /b "Oh ya that's right, the Principal made a public announcement two days ago saying he needed some people who would explore the new planet." Ryan had been drafted for the job like all of the other hunters and was assigned to a team. They were to meet in Sector A-51 (ship's sector letter- area # of the sector), or as the people called it, hunter street. Ryan got dressed with some difficultly, being only the second time he had put the suit on. Ryan then noticed that also attached to his belt was a metallic handle sort of thing. Ryan remembered that it was the weapon that had been assigned to him. It was a Saber.
Ryan went out side his apartment door and closed it. "lock room door 333" A robotic voice came from the wall. "Room door 333 locked." Ryan walked down the steps to the ground floor of the cement walkway. "Now which way was it to the transporter again? Oh ya." Ryan walked off to the northeast until he got to a number of circular phone booth looking machines. He walked inside one of them. "Transport to Sector A-51" Another robotic voice came out of the wall inside the machine. "You have chosen to go to sector A-51, for this you must have a hunter's ID number. Please input hunter ID number now." Ryan cleared his throat and clearly stated, "Hunter number, one zero zero zero three six." The machine took a while to register the ID. "Thank you Ryan Tippet, have a nice day." I "Ya, you always say that. Every day, the same stupid thing. That's one of the things I don't like about this. It's so monotonous." /I A bright light appeared over Ryan's head. "Here we go again." The light surrounded Ryan and in a few seconds, Ryan and the light disappeared.
Ryan reappeared inside a similar looking machine. "Have a nice day." Ryan walked out of the Transporter to a circular room with sound proof booths scattered about. He spotted a desk that he had been told was called the Hunter's guild front desk. He walked over to the desk and was surprised to see a real human at the counter. I "Wow, no robot! Yay!" /I It was a woman at the desk with many different monitors behind her. She was dressed in a blue, one piece uniform like an air carrousel (a medium sized pod ship that could carry about 200 people that transported people to sectors that couldn't be reached by transporters. Kind of like the airplane in the 5th element) stewardess's uniform.
"How may I help you today sir?" The attendant asked Ryan.
"Um, I'm supposed to meet my hunter team today."
"What's your hunter ID number doll?" The attendant pushed a button on her side of the counter and a transparent screen came up. It was a computer.
"One zero zero zero three six" The woman typed in the number.
"Looks like your with the Twilight Four. Oh... Says here you almost got into the famous Twilight Knights team. That team is in the top 5 hunter teams list! Their leader Azian thought you really have some talent. I "Ya probably cause my sister was in the Twilight Knights" /I Well anyway, Your team is in Booth 12."
"Which one is that? The one on the right." She pointed to a glass bubble. (the booths look like the ones in the first episode of samurai Jack)
"Thanks." Ryan walked over to the booth and sighed. I "I hope I didn't get a bunch of losers for a team. I really wanted to be with the Twilight Knights and Kate's Boyfriend DA..." /I Ryan pushed the opening button on the side of the dome. The glass slid down for Ryan to see his new team...
Meeting the members"Yes I know that, but what I'm saying is we should split the income equally! It's not fair that you get all the mesta and we get almost nothing!"
"You still don't get it! I need more mesta than you two lovesick idiots cause I have to buy robotic battery packs every 6 months! Do you know how much those things cost?"
"Yes I do, 900,000 mesta, but we also need money! Getting married isn't cheap ya know!"
Ami sighed. Spencer and Steven had been at it since they first met in the little bubble room. She was just glad that they were sound proof!
"Screw getting married! Love sucks! Besides, I'm also a top scientist! Would you want me to die anytime soon?"
"If you're a top scientist like you claim you are, then why weren't you on the pioneer one?"
Ami was getting angry. Another ten seconds of this and she was going to go berserk on them both.
"I had to stay on the pioneer two because they needed some scientists to stay behind and help the rest of the people! They even left behind that famous scientist prodigy, Dr. Montoge!"
"THAT'S BECAUSE HE DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH EXPERIENCE, YOU ROBOTIC MONEY MONGER!"
"I NEED THE MONEY TO STAY ALIVE YOU STUPID LOVE SICK ASS!"
"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Ami yelled at the two boys. "ARE YOU GOING TO KEEP ARGUING ABOUT THIS CRAP WHEN OUR FINAL MEMBER GETS HERE?" Ami looked at them, they had sunken back into the sofa. "Well?" She got no answer. "WELL?!?"
"No ma'am." They both said at the same time.
"Good, that's better." Suddenly, a side of the dome started to slide open. Steven and Spencer rushed to get into natural looking positions. Ami kept looking on at the glass sliding up. I "I hope they aren't like Steven or Spencer. We already have enough loud mouthed boys here. What we need is another girl." /I
The glass finally had slid completely back for all three of them to see. It turned out to be a HUmar wearing a green and blue Hunter suit. He had messy brown hair with brown eyes. His face showed a kind of sad determined look. "Ryan? Is that you Ryan?"
"Spencer? I haven't seen you in a long time! What has it been, 10 years?" The guy Spencer had called Ryan jumped into the bubble and the glass slid back down. "So you guys are my hunter team? Who's the leader?"
"Spencer is." Ami told Ryan.
"Yep, I am." Spencer leaned back in the couch. "Let me introduce you to your other team mates." Spencer pointed to Steven. "That's Steven, our HUcast." Steven looked away. "I'm a RAmar, and..." Spencer scooted closer to Ami and put his arm around her shoulders. "This is my girlfriend Ami and she is also the FOnewearl for our group." Ami squirmed out of Spencer's arm. I "Sometimes you can be a real jerk Spence..." /I
Ami looked again at Ryan. "By the way you're dressed, I'd say you're a HUmar, am I right?"
Ryan looked over at Ami. "Yes, that's right." Ryan looked down then his head snapped back up again. "By, the way, what are your hunter ranks? I'm a 18 since I used to help my sister with jobs when she was in the T-knights."
Spencer suddenly got up. "Kate was in the Twilight Knights?"
"Yep, she was."
"Wow. Well, I'm only a 2"
Ami spoke up. "I'm a 5."
"What? How?"
"During the hunter training on Rangol, my training instructor, Kireek, kept finding Al Rappys. He let me kill them, and you know how Al rappys are hard to find? Well they are also worth a lot of hunter points."
"Oh..."
"What's yours Steven?" Steven had folded his arms and was now looking down.
"I'm a 7. I did some mock quests yesterday."
Spencer's eyebrow raised. "What are mock quests?"
Steven didn't look up to answer Spencer. "Their virtual reality quests and you control your character with your mind but you can only go as far as your physical body allows, so their pretty accurate."
"I didn't even know there were such things!" Spencer folded his arms and leaned back.
"heh, idiot." Steven said under his breath.
"Well, I guess this means that I'm the best hunter in the group!" Ryan smiled.