Hello peoples. For all those interested, this is actually a fairly early update. Sorry if it's really boring, but I needed to get the majority of the explanations done and out of the way BEFORE the action starts which is next chapter hooray D. So, I present you with the second chapter of Darkness Falz...wait, Darkness Falls.
Disclaimer: I do not own Phantasy Star Online if I did, it'd still be up and running, nor do I own Sonic X and all related characters I won't have TOO many references to Sonic X, so for all those chris haters/lovers out there, he won't be in this fic much more. No, I'm not going to kill him off..
Chaos. That's the only word to describe it. They had watched in fascination as two beams of 'photon' combined with one another, one blue from the Pioneer 2, one red from the Pioneer 1. When these lines combined, they had created an enormous amount of energy. Sonic's spines spiked up a little bit, and almost turned a bit yellow, but it was hard to tell, so it might've just been a trick of the light.
There was no shortage of light. It seemed only Chaos and Tails managed to still see clearly, which is why they saw what really happened.
The two lines combined, creating a single green line between the two ships. A faint outline of a massive creature on the surface, and finally.
A giant explosion. One that rivaled that of the once proud Death Egg's explosion, or the ARK's Eclipse Cannon. There was no sound, but to Chaos and Tails' mind, they could hear the faint screaming of those far below.
Something was there. Something that was unwelcome. Something that had managed to completely annihilate Pioneer 1.
A state of arms appeared, with the call for all available hunters to appear at the Hunter's guild. Or to appear directly to the Principal. Chaos, Seraph, MRU, and Suikoshi were among the latter, and thus Sonic, Tails, Amy, and Chris went with them. When they got there, the state of affairs was even worse than at the observatory.
The principal was practically screaming at the hunter's there, to go down to Ragol and find the source of that explosion. If possible, tame it. If not, kill it. A resounding chorus of "Yes sir!" sounded as all that were gathered left, leaving just eight. Namely, the eight this story has been following.
"Is there anything we can do to help?" asked Tails. The principal looked at them.
"Are you willing to become hunters? You'll be freelance hunters, of course, you're on your own journey as well. But you can help us by becoming hunters. You may talk amongst yourselves to see what you decide."
Tails turned around, and immediately the five gathered to talk. "Ok, should we stay, become hunters, and help them?" he asked.
Chaos butted in, "Of course you should! It'd be freaking awesome!" MRU at this point dragged Chaos out of their huddle and proceeded to backhand him. Laughter echoed throughout the Principal's office.
"Ok, ignoring him, what do you guys think we should do?" "I say we stay here and help! You never know when they might need some super sonic speed!" "I don't know Sonic, these guys seem really strong in their own right, even Chaos." "Calm down Chris, I'm sure that with their training we'll become just as strong. Then the Metarex might actually go down faster."
"If you say so Sonic…" "So Sonic's for staying, I'm all for staying, Chris votes let's just go, and Amy? What's your opinion on this?" "If my Sonic's going, then so am I!"
Tails turned around again and faced the Principal. "Ok, it's decided, we'll help!" he announced.
"Great! You four, escort them to the hunter identification barrier, once there we'll give them their mags." ordered the principal.
Sighing, the four already made hunters escorted the other four to a room where almost no human traffic was located. In it, a green room with a sort of bluish ring was in the middle.
"Just go on through. It'll tell us what you are, hunter, ranger, or force. Also we'll give you either basic mags or mags that are ready to evolve. Also on the other side we'll tell you why mags are important. So just step on through!" Chaos said, running through the scanner.
Sonic went up first. He just calmly jumped through going at a good speed; about one hundred twenty. The readout from the scanner then simply put: "Hunter Name: Sonic. Hunter Class: Hunter. Section ID: Bluefull."
"Ok Sonic…You're a bluefull Hunter. Put this suit on, we'll give you your id later." Seraph said, handing Sonic a suit unlike any of the others had.
Tails went next. He stepped over into the scanner, and quickly jumped back out the other side. The scanner readout printed "Hunter Name: Tails. Hunter Class: Force. Section ID: Purplenum."
A complaint from Sonic's side. "Hey, do I have to put this suit on?"
"I guess you don't if you don't want to, since you're already blue that'll serve as your ID. Just wait here for the others. I guess you don't either Tails…but here take this." Seraph said, as he gave Tails a small emblem that had some purple symbol in the middle.
Before he could ask what it was, the scanner printed another readout. Chaos grabbed it. "Ok…Let's see, Amy jumped through after Tails again, she's a hunter, and she's a greennill. Let's see you guys do that faster!" he said as he threw another emblem thing towards Amy. This one had a green symbol in it though, rather than a purple one. Another printout. "Wow, you guys are going fast…uhm…Chris, Hunter, Viridia. Whoo! Four different Section ID's!"
"Ok, so then…MAG's. Mag's are mechanical 'creatures', for lack of a better term, that aid their owner out in battle. They take a shared percentage of damage, and they can make or break a hunter in some cases. Now, occasionally your mag will get hungry. To feed it, you simply hold out an item, such as this monomate, and it'll eat it. It can eat three times with each feeding, and it's levels will grow. You see that emblem we gave all of you? That's a Section ID. It's also a mini computer that's hooked up to your current mag.
It'll tell you what levels your mag has, and what items it likes, and what items give it the most stats. Every now and then, it'll evolve. It evolves once at level ten, again at level thirty five, and finally at fifty. Very rarely will mags evolve at one hundred, but it's possible. We have yet to find out why. A mag can get up to 200 levels."
"What do mags do for us besides take some of the damage?" Tails asked. A mechanical being that ate and evolved! The sheer genius of it all!
"Well, a mag's stats often supplement that of the hunter's. Take Chaos' mag, an Ila. It has ten defense, five power, thirty dexterity, and sixty five mind. Defense, Power, and Mind get multiplied by two and added to a hunter's stats. You can see your stats on your section ID. It'll also analyze another person to see their 'level'. Dexterity though, is divided by two and added to your accuracy. Seraph and MRU over there have mostly dexterity on their mags. I have mainly power. You see?" Suikoshi explained.
"And what do these stats do for us?" Amy asked.
"Yours stats determine the damage you do to either humans or other creatures. They also determine what weapons you can wield and other such important things."
Seraph went up and collected the four basic mags. He handed out each one to everyone that didn't already have one, and gave one to them. Sonic's was a light blue, Amy's a yellow, Chris's a dark red, and Tails'…a silver.
"So, how often are we supposed to feed these things?" Amy asked, pointing to her mag.
"Well, just about every time you yourself eat. That would be enough to satisfy it." Seraph answered.
"So, what'd we do now? We have our 'mags' or whatever they're called, we have what we are, come on let's go out there already!" said Sonic, impatient to get this thing over with.
"Hold it Sonic, we have one last thing to cover. Actually two, but one doesn't have to happen for a long time." Suikoshi said, holding Sonic down, or at least trying to. The hedgehog was just a little too 'quick' to catch.
"Fine. But man, once we get down there, I'm gonna go for a run!" Sonic said, running in place as Suikoshi kept trying to catch him.
"These are your weapons. You can find better ones just about anywhere, but we think the best ones are going to be on the ground. For hunters, you get Sabers, the basic of the basic one handed weapon. It's green because the photons aren't stored as securely as in some of the later models, where I think red is the best, right MRU?" Seraph said, handing out the Sabers to Sonic, Amy, and Chris.
"Negative. Pallasch is only the second best of the commons. Unknown as to what is first."
"Translation please?" Chaos said, completely confused. The feeling resonated with the four anthropomorphic creatures.
"MRU's saying that red isn't the best, we don't know what is." Seraph explained. Chaos sighed, an expression of understanding on his face. The four others were still confused. Colors? What did this have to do with colors!?
"You'll find out later." Chaos said, pulling out his own saber type weapon. Seraph pulled out what looked like a massive gun, and strapped it to his shoulder. Suikoshi unsheathed her weapon, a bright red saber. MRU on the other hand, simply undocked his gun, a small handheld pistol weapon.
"What about forces?" asked Tails, once he realized he didn't have a weapon. Chaos looked around, and figured it would be up to him to adequately equip his new 'protégé'.
"Forces, use canes. They base their attack power of our mind power, but aren't so good. You'll want to switch right away once you find out how useless they are. Our main weapon on the other hand, are the elements themselves. Here have this!" Chaos said, talking fast. As he said the word 'here' he threw what looked like a cd to Tails.
Chaos may not look it, but being a melee force, he has quite a bit of power into his throws. That's why, even when Tails did catch the disk type thing, his hand hurt for a bit afterwards. Seraph and Suikoshi, seeing the throw, held out what seems like signs with numbers on them. Seraph's had a five, and Suikoshi had a three. MRU just stood there.
"What!? I only get an eight!? Gah!" Chaos said, suddenly turning from very happy to sad in a couple of seconds.
"Is he bipolar or what?" asked Tails, wondering if that was just Chaos' thing, or if he would randomly turn bipolar too likethat someday. This brought an almost disturbing image of Tails randomly crying and then being extremely happy during his flight simulator on the typhoon as he crashed…not a pretty sight.
"Nah, we call it Force Syndrome. Nobody knows how to cure it yet, nobody truly knows why. Chaos here used to actually be the leading scientist on it but for reasons unknown built MRU here and suddenly turned this way when he landed with us." Suikoshi said.
"Oh. So this might happen to me?" he asked.
"Possibly."