Disclaimer: I don't own SAO, belongs to Reki Kawahara, A-1 Pictures and Bandai Namco Ent.

SAO: Fatal Bullet – Dissonance of the Core

Chapter 3 – The Start of an Adventure

AN! – Remember to vote in the poll on my profile for Kaito's "harem" members before reading this, if you're a fan of my Infinite Stratos story be on the lookout for that poll too! Thanks Again! :)

The Next Day

Kaito woke up the next day to a bright sunny day, looking at his clock it was 7:00 AM. He was always an early bird as a kid, so he loved waking up early to enjoy all of the day.

"It's Sunday, maybe I should tell Kureha that I'm getting on in a while. I'm sure she'd love to catch up again." Kaito said to himself as he walked over to his laptop.

Opening the PC, Kaito opened his files and a specific one was opened title: Investigation into Seed Nexus and Cardinal System:

"During the course of the SAO and ALO incidents, the agency has continued to monitor the system of the Seed Nexus that was released just after the system was manipulated into by the talents of Professor Nanairo Arshavin to use in the form of an 'emotional control mechanism' making players bend to whatever emotion she felt."

"Despite her well-placed intentions, the way in which the Professor used this method however would include the very software that was involved in the SAO incident beforehand, although the AmuSphere had much greater security than its predecessor, Nobuyuki Sugou's experiment only proved to further that a type of 'mind control' was possible."

"The Professor's experiment would rob the players of ALO of their own free will, which in turn could possibly mean their outside actions in the real world. Therefore, if a player was stuck in-game there would no way for the player outside to remove the AmuSphere and leave, posing a severe risk to safety and security of potential hundreds of thousands of players."

"We contemplated sending in agents to investigate; however, it would seem a concerned group of players banded together alongside the Professor's sister, Karatachi Nijika, known as Rain in ALO. Therefore, due to their intervention the potential criminal case against the Professor was halted and eventually dropped."

"After lengthy consideration we contacted the Professor and the University, and she agreed to discreetly not join any VR games for a set time frame until she showed no signs of experimenting any further."

Follow-up: After considerable debate and surveillance we have decided to end the Professor's house arrest and have allowed her to rejoin the VR world. In about a months' time she will be allowed to join GGO, as she has pointed out to us.

Signed,

Director D.C.; Office of National intelligence

"I see so she wanted to use the system to stop the game's function of PK-ing, despite the fact ALO's system is built for it, counter to its predecessor. But why this way, why not do something more in-game such as a peace summit or a coalescing to the point of peace being made?" Kaito thought to himself as he finished the report.

"Ha, another time. Huh…?" Kaito sighed and then say he had received a new message.

"Oh, it's from Kirito?" Kaito immediately was curious and opened the message as it said,

"Hey Kaito, I know everything was hectic last time we met, and I know you met everyone, so we were wondering if you, Kureha and Arfa-sys were willing to talk with us about something today, I promise it'll be worth it." The message ended.

"Huh, could this have something to do with that 'Gold Rush' update that Kureha told me about. Sounds, interesting, I should message Kureha and met her there, I should also find that costume I got with my copy as well. Besides, I know Yuzuki is probably dying to see me." Kaito said as he walked over to his AmuSphere and laid on the bed. Turning on the hand-held he said those simple two words…

"LINK START!"

After going through the diving process Kaito found himself in his room and it was unchanged from last time, finding himself in his default costume and gadgets he had previously attached, and when he looked towards his bed he saw that Yuzuki was taking a nap, walking over he started to shake the AI awake, but she proved to be stubborn and rolled over taking the covers with her.

However, when she did the covers went a bit farther than and she threw them off herself Kaito saw she was undressed partially on her was white bra along with a pair of black sweatpants covering her legs.

Kaito blushing slightly embarrassed at his discovery decided to let the android sleep a little longer, covering her up he smiled and went to the table across the way. Feeling parched Kaito brought up out some tea from his inventory along with some cookies as well.

Deciding for a little more ambiance, Kaito also brought out some headphones and put on Elsa Kanzaki's 'Pilgrim', after eating Kaito simply laid back and almost felt like going back to sleep when he remembered that he was going to meet with Kureha and Kirito's group later today so fought the urge to.

After a few minutes, Yuzuki stirred awake she rose up to see her master on one of the chairs near the large table and was excited, "Master! Your back already?" She exclaimed wrapping her arms around her master's shoulders.

"Oi, Yuzuki don't you think you should get dressed first, if someone saw us like this…" Kaito began to explain. "What do you mean, Master?" As Yuzuki asked that question the front door opened and Kureha stepped introducing herself, "Oh, Kaito, Kirito and the others wanted to…" She stopped seeing the sight in front of her.

Yuzuki pressed up against her friend's back with her breasts up against him. Only half dressed in no shirt…

"OI, Kaito, you pervert!" Kureha yelled as she slapped her best friend on the cheek, hard.

After clearing up the misunderstanding, Kureha and Yuzuki both had sad looks on their faces and both apologized for what happened; "Master, I'm sorry I should have been more careful walking around like that." Kureha joined her, "Yeah, I'm sorry to I should've thought you couldn't act like that."

"It's alright, okay both of you have nothing to be blamed for, now hen if you don't mind I'm going to change really quick…" Kaito then began looking through his item box looking for his specific costume.

"What do you mean, change?" Kureha inquired. "Oh, yeah I forgot to tell you the game would give me a special costume based on my choice of role I picked… oh that also reminds me I need to put in my extra points."

Opening the Status menu, Kaito looked at his base stats and thought quietly to himself as an Engineer what he would want his spread to be.

'If it were me, I would put more points into INT, VIT, and DEX. I'll put in some for STR and LUC for better carry strength, item luck and defense.' Kaito thought to himself as he inputted his new stats.

"Alright that's done now for my skills, hey Kureha?" He asked his friend. "Yeah?" She asked. "Do you know what kind of skills are used by engineers?" He inquired.

"Well from what've I seen most of them use support and engineer skills which either pass on status ailments or buff team members. If I were you I would buy those types of skills, of course this is your build, do what you think is right." She replied as she waited on her friend.

"So, to start we'll go with…" Kaito whispered as he looked at the various options on screen.

Kaito bought the following skills:

· Power Field Shot

· Guard Field Shot

· Healing Field Shot

· Healing Bullet

· Armor Break Shot

· Power Break Shot

· Electrodynamic Stunner

· Toxic Gas Blast

· Concentration

· Gunstinger

· Blazing Blast

"Alright those should be enough for now." Kaito finished, he headed over to the item box and reached in finding the costume he purchased with his special copy.

It was a costume like Leon's police uniform in RE2 Remake, however this one had many pockets on the belt and vest for storage of ammo and gadgets, a leg holster came with it, it even came with a shoulder-mounted radio for communication.

"Huh, even has RPD on the vest, cool." Kaito whispered.

Taking it to a small dressing station in the corner of his room near his bed, Kaito put on the special costume he finally made himself known, "Alright I'm ready let's get going."

Both girls were impressed by the costume's appearance and look, "Wow, Kaito that look suits you it really does speak 'Engineer' when you look at it. Kureha replied. "Master, you look amazing and cool with this you're bound to get stronger." Yuzuki replied as she had a smile on her face.

The three immediately left for the 15th floor and headed for Kirito's room there they knocked and were welcomed inside by everyone.

"Hey." Everyone said in unison. Kaito and his group bowed in respect and replied, "Thanks for the invite, so what was it you wanted to talk about Kirito."

"Well, I wanted to ask you something, but first I got to say the new costume you have is impressive where did you get it...?" Kirito asked the newbie.

"Well… it's a long story." Kaito then started going into detail about when he bought the system and game he entered a raffle for a new AmuSphere 2 that wasn't slated to be released til that coming Christmas and a special copy of GGO with extra content.

"Wow, that's either really luck or your just OP in real life and in-game dude." Klein replied in shock at the extreme amount of luck Kaito had.

"You uh… don't mind if I could shake your hand do ya…?" He asked with a suspicious tone. Kaito immediately got suspicious.

"Enough, Klein you won't pick up any girl if you keep acting like this, Rei-chan wouldn't want you to be its master and you need stop harassing that Type-B." The pink engineer, Lisbeth chided the soldier in red.

"Never, the war for love shall never end!" Klein was just as energetic as could be. "Just ignore him, he gets like this sometimes he'll be back to normal in a few hours." Kirito replied insuring the newcomers about their new friend.

"Lisbeth, why did you call her Rei?" Kureha asked her fellow pink player.

"Oh, we were thinking after you guys left about what to call her, since she won't let her call her the name she let Kaito make for her. So, we took the last 00s in her name and came up with the name Rei. See?" Lisbeth responded.

"I see, I think its cute, what do you think?" Kaito asked his android. "Yes, I love it, so in private only master ay use my name, but everyone can call me Rei, please take care of me." Rei bowed to everyone in the room respectfully.

"Like I was saying, we wanted to ask you, have you heard of the SBC Flugel quest?" Kirito inquired the newbie.

"No, but I did hear that not only where the Type-X's being introduced, but that a large quest was being added to it as well, is that it by any chance?" Kaito replied, deducing what this Flugel quest could be.

"Yep, you'd be right. It's supposedly the home of all the Arfa0sys units we see today. There's even said to be an extremely rarer one more impressive than even Type-X's." Kirito said, however this rubbed Yuzuki the wrong way.

"What do you mean, Kirito-san? I've never heard of anything passed the Type-X units?" She asked the black swordsman.

"Well… that's only a rumor at this point, but I'm sure its probably nothing." Kirito assured the Arfa-sys unit.

"but I guess what I'm trying to say is… would you guys like to join us?" Kirito came out and asked bluntly.

"Hmm, fight our way through monster and robot infested dungeons and fields to find out what's in inside an alien ship? Sign me up!" Kaito responded in joy, as his fellow compatriots smiled seeing his response.

"Oh, that reminds me we'll send you our friend requests this way we can stay in touch with each other and when were playing, I'll tell the others to send theirs as well." Kirito replied.

"Well, I know its exciting and all, but Kaito and Yuzuki are still low leveled so we'll have to take on a lot of quests to catch you guys up." Kureha brought up the concern.

"Don't worry I think we'll find plenty to do here. We'll get there in not time," Kaito responded with a look of fire in his eyes.

"Aha, I'm sure you will…" Kureha replied seeming unsure of herself.

"Actually, master there are a few quests I think you'll find rather important." Yuzuki responded. "What do you mean, Yuzuki?" He inquired.

"Well, during our crash landing, I lost some of my parts to my systems, so I'm limited in what I can do to assist you, I used to be able to understand certain things and had additional functions, but I don't have them without their respective parts." Yuzuki began to explain how her internal systems worked.

"Let me guess, there spread around the dungeon's throughout GGO?" Kaito inquired. "Yes, master I think with finding my parts and partaking in quests you'll be more than strong enough to finish the Flugel and be the best player in GGO!" Yuzuki responded in confidence.

"Well, there we go we have our objective, if you don't mind we'd like to join you." Kirito asked the newbie.

"Of course, what are friends for? Now though, with so much ground to cover its probably better to play in groups of four, I'll probably take Yuzuki with me on mist quests since getting her parts is important, but I think she'll understand if I party without from time-to-time." Kaito began.

"Is that okay, Yuzuki? He asked his AI partner. "Of course, master I don't mind if you want to play with your friends, I understand." Yuzuki took the decision well in everyone's eyes.

"Alright then! With this we can finally start on beating quest and being the first ones to finish it, let's do our best everyone!" Kaito then began to pump up everyone.

"YEAH!" Everyone cheered in unison.

AN#1 – So begins our hero's quest to conquer the SBC Flugel and become the greatest player in GGO. So, what do you guys think about this chapter, leave your thoughts in a review.

What do you think about Kaito's costume idea, would you like to wear something like it if it was in-game?

On the mystery of who Kaito works with in the government, I hope the clues I left are helping you guys, but if you need more just ask.

AN#2 – Remember to Favorite, Follow and Review. I wouldn't be here without you guys! :)

AN#3 – I have made an executive decision on the poll about Kaitos harem. Since I'll be taking out Bazalt Joe, Itsuki and Eiji's 'sleepover scenes' that leaves three new slots for new choices.

I've decided to go with the original cast of girls that like your MC in-game, so you guys will vote for who fills those three empty slots.

Here's the new harem: (You guys have two slots left make your votes count!)

· Kureha

· Zeliska

· Yuzuki

· Philia

· Strea

· Premiere

· Rain

· Seven

· Yuna

· Yuuki – (New Member!)

· ?

· ?