Academy Chronicles: Rise of the Skylanders
Chapter 0: A Girl's Curiosity
Golden Skylands, Disciples Headquarters
July 9th 2015, Real World Time
Ding!
Metal doors slid apart as the opener steps into the room beyond. Before her stood a tall dome made of thousands upon thousands of square, steel panels. As she took her steps, the lights turn on as the once fully grey walls illuminate with a projection of space, filled with many bubbles surrounding the entire room with symbols adorned on them. It was a fantastical sight, even if the user has already been accustomed to this event for years now. To her, it's just as normal as having breakfast in the morning.
"Welcome back to the Portal Room, General Sayaka Miki," Says an automated message of what sounds like a man with a booming-deep voice from the room's speakers. "Which multiverse would you like to transport to today?"
A console complete with a keyboard appears from a hole in the floor as Sayaka walks towards it. She brushes locks of her short blue hair away from her eyes and removes her hands from the pockets of her navy and white hoodie. Sayaka turns to the watch strapped on her wrist and taps the screen, projecting a set of numbers and letters.
As Sayaka copies the coordinates onto the keyboard, the voice is heard again through the speakers.
"If I may ask, where is General Sonic? Is it okay for the apprentice of our leader to go alone?"
Sayaka looks up to one of the speakers. "It's just a small scouting mission, Teletraan. I'll be here and back before you know it."
Pressing enter on the keyboard, the coordinates were registered into Teletraan-1's systems. The sounds of whirring engines can be heard and the vibration of spinning gears can be subtly felt below Sayaka's feet.
"Result found. Multiverse located. Preparing Portal of Power," Teletraan-1 declares as another spot in the floor begins to open, "Multiverse Creation date: Very recent. Chances of potential anomaly: Low."
The whirring stops as a stone circle appears from the floor, each stone adorned with glowing runes. Filling the middle of the ancient looking rocks is a bright glowing light, changing colors every few seconds.
Sayaka's eyebrow raises. "No anomalies? That can't be right. I remember looking through recently written multiverses and this looked off!"
She points at the highlighted bubble on one of the steel panels, now glowing because it is the designated world inputted by Sayaka's coordinates. "State the franchises in there!"
Without a brief moment of silence, Teletraan immediately gives off an oral list. "Danganronpa, Ninjago, DC, Skylanders, Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Smash Bros, Persona, Hyperdimension Neptuni-"
Sayaka lifts her hand, signaling Teletraan to stop. "That's enough," She says. "See? There's no way one multiverse can contain so many franchises at once! I have to figure out what's the deal and set things straight before this anomaly becomes a problem!" With that, she walks towards the Portal.
"General Miki, if I may inform you abo-"
"No changing my mind, Tele. I need to prove to Sonic I can do this on my own."
"I believe it is in of great importance that you know that a case like this is nor-"
Teletraan's words are in vain, however as Sayaka vanishes into the Portal, to a whole new multiverse.
The steel panels turn off as the console sinks back into the floor.
"…This multiverse is a fanfiction."