Why hello there, if you're reading this then you probably tried to read the original DBA and your eyes bled from how badly it was spelt so you're here, at the recap chapter.

Or you know, you're just reading the second chapter.

But before we get into this recap, let's start with a brief introduction to the world.

Not the world of Monster Hunter, if you don't know for that there's a wiki or two somewhere out there.

But this one. Basically, this a fair few decades into the future after wherever the games take place. Time has passed, everyone you ever met on your journey as a hunter is either dead, dying or Wyverian.

The world's advanced a little, but not too much for plot reasons.

Though for some reason there are no new Monsters or weapons until they appear in the games in the real world just don't question it it's science.

But, monsters have moved to different places around the world, hence why there was a sort of ecosystem surrounding Loc Lac.

There's also a lot more people, so jobs can be difficult to find. This leads to a lot of people becoming hunters, so jobs for hunters are fairly difficult too.

Now you may find yourself asking "What kind of fic needs a recap chapter in the second one?" Well the answer is this one, apparently.

So this version will be slightly changed in places to make sense and accommodate for the split in timelines.

So the story began with a Nibelsnarf hunt with Zach, Joseph, Ben and Callum.

Then in the next two chapters Riko joined the group and Callum was written out of existence.

Then there was an onsen chapter that spent like a paragraph in the bath before Zach and Joseph got bored and attacked people with smoke bombs.

Then Zach became harem MC for the day and accidentally fell onto Alexandra who was joining the group because coincidences **** you.

Then Anthony was there. He called himself Banthony but I changed it because that sounds retarded. Wave appeared, having a noticeable scar on his tail, and didn't listen to him because comedy.

There was a Deviljho there. It killed the Crimson Qurupeco dead. Poor thing, it had a sore throat that day.

The Deviljho then noticed the hunters and they started to run in the other direction.

Then fire hit it and died until it was dead.

Then for some reason the narrative switches to Sean.

Alicia was there following him around and then he leaves on a hunt to hunt something or other.

He saw a Deviljho and was all like "Oh no bro" So Azure hits it with fire and it died until it was dead.

Then Alicia appears with a Pink Rathian and it's there at that moment that them there writers change.

Now from here what happened might change slightly so it actually makes sense.

So now Joseph becomes the main character and goes to the Deserted Island.

Then there was a Deviljho and the Deviljho talks because. But the Deviljho was pretty cool and got him something to drink.

They talked for awhile and Joseph mentioned that he recognises this. It's basically an evolved form of the frenzy virus that makes the monster more intelligent and they can talk wyverian for some reason.

Then the Deviljho mentioned the monster has to die for it to take effect and wondered where the hunter that killed him is. Joseph randomly speculated they'd be in Tanzia.

The Deviljho decided to go destroy Tanzia but Joseph replied "Can't let you do that, Star Fox." To which the Deviljho tries to kill him. Joseph then realised his mistake and started running.

A pointlessly drawn out running scene that lasted an entire chapter later Joseph ended up being chased by the Deviljho while approaching Tanzia.

Guards shot at the both of them, Joseph almost got taken out by an assassin.

Lots of explosions happened but Joseph dodged that shit with the help of a giant ally crab.

People on the wall used a cannon that uses spirit energy (it's the future don't question it) and can fire off a really strong beam with this, though it does kill the user. But the Deviljho regenerated, making it not very effective. The Deviljho then broke down the wall, killing a lot of people.

Then Joseph ended up the town and Sean and Alicia are there by coincidence.

The assassin from earlier started attacking everyone and that's a bad. Her name's also Viridi which was there. For some reason her weapon was able to change into every weapon, which would be questioned if the Deviljho wasn't back.

The Deviljho was there, it broke the weapon and disrupted everyone.

Then everyone was separated for most of the remainder of the arc.

Also Joseph had his bow broken somewhere along the line and picked up a long sword.

Some fighting happened, Viridi left the battlefield. Now at this point in the original story, Daimyo kind of died. But in this timeline, no.

Then a Rajang entered. It and the Deviljho started fighting until a Zinogre appeared.

Then some mysterious dude who talked like this appeared on an airship and did some shooting.

The fighting continued and the Zinogre retired, before encountering the mysterious dude, called the Director, and got retired in the Jojo context (dead, for those who don't worship our immortal time travelling overlord Hirohiko Araki).

Then the protagonists took out the Rajang, before moving onto the Deviljho and just barely finishing it by stabbing it and having it regenerate around the space laser cannon soul thing.

Then after two months waiting around trying to rescue survivors, there was a boat that would take them to the port nearest to Dundorma.

So after a few days walking (or Monster riding for our lazy protagonists) they arrived in Dundorma, where the recap tragically has its life cut short.

Zach excitedly ran forward into Dundorma, followed by Joseph, Riko and Ben.

"HOLY SHIT WE MADE IT." Ben yelled.

"LOOK! THAT'S A THING! IT'S A THING, GUYS!" Riko yelled, pointing at something.

"Hey, focus!" Alexandra yelled "The Guild's welcoming the new inhabitants of the city in the middle of the town."

They made their way there and saw people on a stage.

Callum started excitedly screaming, looking at them.

"They're the guild leaders!" He yelled.

There was a man who was of around average height, had a lance strapped to his back and had curly brown hair as well as very shiny glasses.

"Leader of the Science division, Roy Tanner!"

The fair haired hunter's glasses continued to reflect light as he adjusted them, blinding multiple people with their brightness.

There was a tomboyish young woman with long multicoloured hair, black with multiple streaks of pink, blue and white in it. She had a hunting horn on her back.

"Leader of the expeditions division, Hitoiki Costelli!"

She started playing her hunting horn, but also attempted to mix in heavy metal, most of the lyrics ended up incoherent. Something about dolls laughing and marriage registrations in blood.

There was an incredibly buff man who was bald. He was buff. That's all there was too him. He was eternally buff. He could never escape buff. On his back he had dual blades, which was odd considering his buff nature.

"Leader of the combat division, Muskular Musculoso!"

He was still buff. He flexed his muscles and his muscles flexed their muscles, creating an infinite cycle of muscles flexing muscles, eventually reaching a molecular level.

He was buff, at the end of the day.

Finally, the leader of the Guild. She was a tall woman, like the other three a wyverian. Her hair was chin length, not falling anywhere near below that level. She didn't need an introduction, it was well known enough who she was.

Fallon Bachika.

Her weapon preference wasn't known. She had appeared out of seemingly nowhere and taking the hunting world by storm, being given the status when His Immenseness finally gave into old age despite only having been a hunter for five years at that point.

Zach, Joseph and Ben watched Callum announce all off this while being excited.

"Seriously?" Asked Ben "Getting all excited over Guild leaders like that?"

"What is he, ten?" Joseph joked

"No one like that could ever become a pro hunter!" Zach exclaimed.

They all started giggling until Sanchez hip checked them and they were killed instantly yet still incredibly painfully, but were revived because Sanchez.

"Ladies and gentlemen!" Fallon began to announce "Welcome to the hunting capital and home of the Guild, Dundorma! While the incident in Tanzia was tragic, we hope that you will be able to begin new lives here in this town. If you don't wish to stay here, there will be details on relocation in the tent to my right! If you are looking for a place to work and a place to sleep, please go to the tent on my left. If you are a hunter, remain standing until the others have cleared out."

In about five minutes, all the people that were left were hunters.

Fallon thought of what to say what for a minute.

"I'm going to be honest… The incident in Tanzia was a near-absolute failure. Unless you can prove yourselves competent, all hunters from Tanzia will be given a ban on any quest involving threats to any village, town or city. However, I will acknowledge that it wasn't just you. The Deviljho was brought to Tanzia by an unconfirmed hunter."

Joseph sweated nervously

"When that hunter is found, he or she will be executed for suspicion of plotting to destroy the town."

Joseph sweated more, thinking of what he was going to write on his last will.

"Unfortunately, the culprit has not yet been discovered. There were no witnesses of them, but that will not stop investigations."

Joseph's sweating eased off slightly, but he was still trying to work out his last will.

"In summary, you are all still allowed to hunt, but for the time being, you are banned on taking on any major threats, such as Elder Dragons."

All of the hunters walked away, feeling kind of "meh".

They didn't expect it to be as good as it was, but not as bad. Some yelling maybe a temporary hunting ban, worst case permanent and they'd have to get other jobs somehow. Instead they got no yelling an a temporarily permanent ban.

Which was okay.

They still had jobs and Joseph's head was still safely attached to his shoulders, for the time being at least.

The hunters made their way to their allocated houses and dropped off their stuff.

Joseph had picked up a bow since his last one broke. Right now the only one he had was a Diablos Horn Bow, thrown together from bits and pieces he had lying about from the multiple painfully slow hunts he'd done.

After sleeping a few hours, Joseph went outside and found his way to where the others where.

After Anthony finally arrived, they had no real idea of what to do.

"Wait wait wait!" Zach said "What if we made the two hunters from earlier with the Raths join our group?"

"They're not in this group?" Riko asked "I just kind of assumed that they were."

"...We haven't interacted with them for three months."

"IT'S BEEN THREE MONTHS!?" Riko exclaimed in surprise.

"But where are they?" Ben asked

"No idea, but Sanchez can certainly locate them."

Sanchez pulled them through time and space to Sean and Alicia.

They were both confused.

Zach broke the silence that had broken out due to the rip in space-time caused by the immortal Jaggi overlord.

"Join us."

Alicia loaded her bowgun, ready to shoot them down, before Sean stopped.

"Why."

"Well you seem strong and you have monsters. By coincidence, we too seem strong and have monsters."

"Do you have money?"

"Yes."

"A lot of money?"

"Yes."

"Are you sure of this."

"Yesh."

"Entirely sure."

"Ye."

Sean paused for a second

"Okay then might as well."

Then they ended up going to the center of Dundorma, leaving behind all of the severely confused and traumatised people who were now incredibly afraid of the true power of Great Jaggi.

"Huh…" Joseph thought aloud "What now."

"Well I know a place where we could get some drinks." Alexandra pointed out.

They walked into a tavern, relatively busy.

There was an older woman present, looking around 40. Her hair reached around her neck, with pale grey eyes.

She spotted Alexandra and paused, appearing confused.

She rushed forward and asked "Is that you, Alexandra?"

Alexandra replied "Yes."

Suddenly the woman gave her a bear hug, lifting her off of her feet.

"I was so worried about you with everything going on in in Tanzia! Thank goodness you're okay!"

Alexandra couldn't breathe "Z-Z-Zenya-" was all she could manage.

Zenya then realised that she was cutting off the poor girl's oxygen supply and let her go.

Anthony was confused "So… What's even happening anymore?"

Alexandra managed to recover her breathing "This is someone I know, Zenya Witherell. She owns this place, and just accidentally made an attempt on my life."

Zenya ignored the others and continued her conversation

"So… You're finally back here, then? You planning on staying, or are you leaving with the rest within the next week or so?"

"No, no, I might as well stay here now. Val Habar, Minegarde and Bherna are the only other places I'd consider, I don't really want to be based in some village in the middle of nowhere."

Zenya finally started to acknowledge the others "So then… Can I get you something to drink or are you just gonna keep standing around doing nothing?"

So, after sitting and having a drink or two, they overheard that there'd be fireworks just outside of the city to welcome the survivors of Tanzia.

After paying , having heard from Alexandra that they wouldn't survive if they didn't pay, they went there.

And it was expensive as hell.

On that day, humanity remembered a valuable lesson.

Dundorma wasn't some innocent place like Tanzia, it was out to get their money.

"Um… What now?" Joseph asked

"I have an idea." Sean told everyone.

So Sean ended up going just outside Dundorma, everyone following.

They rested on top of a hill, their monsters with them.

The walls in Dundorma were incredibly high, enough to keep out any larger Elder Dragons like a Gogmazios.

Over the top of the wall, they could just about see the top half of the explosions of some fireworks.

It wasn't exactly the most ideal situation, but sometimes a firework soared past the wall, giving the hunters a true spectacle of colours.

After about thirty minutes, the fireworks stopped.

But still, they were certainly enjoyable while they lasted.

Ben sighed, picking up his Switch Axe.

"Come on, we should probably go do whatever quest we're here for, now."

Alicia looked at the sheet "According to this, kill 20 Konchu."

"Huh? Wuzzat?"

"No idea."

Anthony heard this and started smiling "This'll be fun."

"Well… that's ominous." Riko remarked, also walking off.

The group then accidentally walked straight into a Konchu ambush.

It was a hard battle and many lives were almost lost, the cart felynes having to work overtime.

But in the end, Zach managed to become the last one standing through pure luck alone.

He was murdered two weeks later.

To be continued

Yay recap chapters.

So yeah, the decision to give side characters last names but not my main characters kind of surprised me.

My reasoning for doing this would be that while a side character's relatively unimportant, they can exist upon the author's impulse, the main characters are way more important.

If I gave the main characters last names now, I'd have to go into detail making sure that every single one matched them and wasn't out of place and compare it to other potential last names.

My plan is to get a better understanding for what works and doesn't work for them as I write, so for the time being at least they don't have last names.

In other news, this chapter was originally just supposed to be a recap. But as can be guessed that lasted no time at all and would've been a boring second chapter, so have this out of place slice of life exposition dump.

I'm unsure of when the next chapter will be, but I've at least got a basic outline of it, unlike this one, so I'll ideally see you then.