Two cultures in two different worlds from two different realms… one has control over magic, while the other has mastery over science… now the question is, what will happen if the two realms meet. Find out in this story, a Familiar of Zero Fanfiction story, magic vs. science! A lot of OCs plus a time difference, and don't forget to review.

Chapter 1: The Beginning

"If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the American Indians."

Stephen Hawking

Part 1: Prologue

Once upon a time, before a man can do anything, before man came into existence, before life ever evolved into the plane of existence, before the first nuclear reaction of a star, and even before the big bang, there was… nothingness. All that was there is a large hyperspace, so large it is deemed infinite in size. It was empty, but is it?

The law of physics that governs this place was far too different than the humans are familiar with. But it is not literally empty. Separated in trillion upon trillions of light-years in the distance, small clumps of super-condensed particles, smaller than an atom, smaller than a quark, and even smaller than the smallest sub-atomic particle were floating aimlessly in the hyperspace. Despite their sizes, vast quantities of forces surrounding these particles are keeping themselves away from each other until it happens. No one really knows how these particles were created, but one thing is clear, these particles were the seeds to the creation of a universe, a realm as what the ancients said.

Nine particles began to interact with each other. They bumped each other. They pushed, and they pull each other. Soon, these nine particles finally reach their limit. After that, the birth of the nine realms happened.

This was the start of a new era. This was the start of a new beginning.

Soon, years passed by, thousands – then millions and finally billions of years later, nine worlds began to sprout out of those particles. Many have different cultures, different rules, and different ways of living. Some indulge in the power of magic, while others strive to learn about science and improve their technology. Now the stage is set for the next chapter of history to unfold.

Part 2: Kadena Air Base, Japan (September 27th 2010) 0700H

China has never been this aggressive in its history. The US just deployed its AEGIS system to Japan, and missile defenses installed in Okinawa. Now, in response to Chinese aggression in the Daioyu/Senkaku Islands, Japan, along with the US, is performing military exercise near the disputed islands.

"Damn Chinese, they never give us a break, isn't it! I really hate those Chinese scums." A muscular man wearing a navy uniform said. He was Master Sergeant James McWalden. He was born in California, and now he was one of those men in charge of the missile defense.

"Yeah, yeah… and now we are working here again… I want to see some action. I want to go to the Middle East – Iraq, Syria… who cares as long as there is action… not on this Japanese Island doing nothing." Another American soldier said.

This time, he is Master Sergeant John Giles, a man from Texas. He is a hyperactive aviator and has brilliant skills when handling an aircraft, and yet he doesn't have any battle experience, however.

"Shut up, kid… and what will you do in the Middle East, crash a multimillion-dollar plane?" another man said. This time, the man that came into the room was Chief Master Sergeant Alberto Gonzales. He was born in California and has served the airforce for a long time. He was a veteran from desert storm and in the last stages of the war in the Baltic.

"Attention!" the veteran aviator made a loud noise.

"Sir!" the aviators inside the room stood up.

"OK! Listen up everyone, less than thirty minutes from now, the joint military exercise by the US and Japan will start, and I expect everyone to do his or her best. I expect that this squadron will be on top performance today or else…" the chief master sergeant takes a quick look at his airmen. "Do I make myself clear!"

"Aye, Sir!" and everyone answered.

"And before I leave, I have to inform you that a solar eclipse is going to take place today and is expected to last for more than 7 minutes. Don't let the eclipse hamper your progress. Do I make myself clear?" the chief sergeant loudly said to his comrades.

"Yes, Sir!" and everyone answered.

Part 3: Kadena Airforce Base – 1300H

The exercise has begun. Japanese ships have started moving through an island outside the disputed islands between China and Japan. A few hundred miles away, squadrons of the US and Japanese planes are warming up in the tarmac.

Moments later, a few airplanes began moving from the hangers. This one is the aircraft piloted by MSgt Giles and MSgt McWalden. Soon, they started flying through the sky, performing their missions, missions that are conducted in a military exercise. In this exercise, the Japanese and the Americans were trying to simulate a missile strike and hitting it or destroying it in mid-air.

Everything was according to the plan. The Japanese are successfully shooting down missiles while planes also have reasonable rates of success in evading dummy missiles. Everything was going fine, even though the eclipse is ongoing. And then while everyone was busy doing their 'business as usual. No one noticed that the eclipse was now nearing to its peak.

While the eclipse above them was taking place, a ship at sea fired a ship to surface missile. This kind of missile was the high-altitude one, capable of reaching heights of about 7000 meters. "Gazer, this is Chaser, missile target has been detected, type: Ship to Surface – Medium Range, moving in to intercept, over." MSgt Giles said.

"Chaser, this is Gazer, Roger that… moving to assist you, out!" MSgt McWalden said.

Soon MSgt Giles' F-15C began closing to its target. At first, the missile was about 20 miles from the plane. But because of its incredible speed of about 1000 mph, the plane covers the twenty-mile distance in mere seconds. The aircraft made a flyby on the missile, which is weirdly heading to the direction of the sun.

"Target lock… Fire…" MSgt Giles yelled inside his cockpit. Soon, one AA missile escaped from its plane and chased down the rocket. But suddenly…

"Where in the world did that missile go!" said MSgt Giles. Still, he pursues the trajectory taken by the missile. Without even thinking for a second, MSgt McWalden followed him to his course, directly to the solar eclipse.

In an instant, Giles noticed something is wrong. At first, all he knows is that he is confirming his hit, but now something very peculiar happened to him. He is in something like a tunnel, a green tunnel, moments later, he saw some white light and then…

BOOM!

The AA missile manages to hit the rocket. But something is out of order, and this is the question running inside Giles – 'what the… why was I in the blast zone? I should have hit the missile a few hundred meters away from me. This shouldn't be happening…" Soon, Giles's thoughts were disturbed when a red alarm fired up in his controls, one of the turbofan engines of the F-15C was severely damaged. "Damn, command, this is Chaser, I have an engine failure, repeat I have…"

When the smoke cleared up, he was shocked. He was so shocked that he was interrupted in his radio communication with command. "Hello… Chaser, do you copy over!" Command said to MSgt Giles.

"Command, this is Giles… you will never believe what I see right now!" MSgt Giles calmly said his report to his commander. Less than a minute ago, he was flying in an ocean, now he was flying in the middle of nowhere… and this nowhere happened to have a castle-like structure with some old fashioned houses along with it. He was now operating at a low altitude.

Soon, another plane came in from the green orb-like portal in the sky… it was MSgt McWalden's F-15C. "Chaser, this is Gazer, where the heck are we?" MSgt McWalden asked the other plane. I'm not sure, but I think we are somewhere in Europe or something like that." Giles said to his companion. "Command, can you pinpoint my location through RADAR. I don't know about architecture or any of it… but I do know one thing, Chinese, Japanese, nor Koreans build structures or a castle-like this… These are European designs, and it is old fashioned. Over!"

"Chaser, this is Command, I don't see you in RADAR, get your asses out of there and go back to base. We need to fix that engine of yours." The man on the radio said.

"Yes, command, we are going back to base, soon, If we manage to get out of here, and I think I have an idea." Giles soon made a U-turn to get back to that green colored orb. Then before he realized it, he noticed there are two moons, and he knows Earth only has one moon. Adding to his confusion, something is flying head-on to his direction, it seems to be hostile, and one thing is clear… they were not planes because planes do not flap their wings. Watching this, a drop of sweat flowed from Giles' goggles.

"Command, this is Chaser, permission to engaged incoming hostile over," Giles shouted on the radio, with his grip on the controls on his M61 Vulcan.

"Roger that, you are given access to intercept those incoming targets over," a man on the radio has answered him.

"Yeah, finally some action, are you ready Gazer?" MSgt Giles asked MSgt McWalden.

"I dunno about that, but I can only say I should kill some birds here before I die here!" McWalden activated his afterburner and launched one AIM-120. Then, the boogie exploded a fall down to the ground.

"Hey, I am here you know!" at a speed of 1000 miles per hour, Giles immediately pressed the button, firing out a few dozen rounds of ammo to the flying boogies.

"Ok, let's get our asses back home. I have a bad feeling about this." McWalden immediately flew towards the green orb in the sky. Seeing that McWalden's plane is heading close to the eclipse, he quickly followed him too. Then he entered inside the wormhole-like protrusion up in the sky.

And almost like magic, Giles and McWalden's plane is back on the sky above the sea. Then almost at the same time, the two pilots looked back at the green orb in the air. The orb slowly fades out, and later, it disappeared. After that, the solar eclipse finally is now on its closing phase.

"Command, can you confirm my present location?" Giles asked.

"You are now 30 miles away from Kadena Airforce Base. Get back to base that is an order," the man on the radio shouted and in a monotone voice.

"Say it again, Command. What is my present location, over?" Giles asked again.

"You are now 30 miles and closing into Kadena airforce. I say again, you are 30 miles and closing into Kadena airforce base." The man on the radio said.

"I see, and I can see Kadena Airforce Base now, landing in." Soon, Giles and his co-squadron made an emergency landing. He knows he was flying a few hundred miles away from the base, but it doesn't matter anymore, for he knows his ordeal is now over. In the end, the planes manage to land safely. After landing the plane, airbase personnel hurried into the site and immediately took care of the aircraft. Soon the two pilots emerged out of the hanger. They were MSgt Giles and MSgt McWalden.

"MSgt Giles, I think we have encountered something never before seen." MSgt McWalden said.

"MSgt McWalden, what we discovered out there, whatever it is, it is very awesome. But one question, did the solar eclipse caused it?" Giles began to scratch his head. Soon he turned his eyes on to the sky, looked at the sun, and moon, which is still visible in the air.

And his question was to meet with silence.

Part 4: In the other world

Martius 12th, 6077 AB (After Brimir)

It was a sunny day in a certain kingdom in a certain continent in a very different realm. What is this realm? No one really knows except that it is a world different from the other. But what is weird in this world is that someone from the other world is living in here. His name is Hiraga Saito, or should I call him Duke Saito de Ornelles de Hiraga. And where is he, he is in the middle of the capital of the Kingdom of Tristain. Along with him is his wife and, at the same time, his master, the crowned princess and one of the four now two void mages in the world, her highness Louise de la Valliere de Hiraga.

But the two of them were not alone in watching the solar eclipse and the spectacle unfolding before their eyes. The whole of Tristain, along with delegates from Germania, Romalia, Galia, Albion, and the elves were watching the event. Why is it that a lot of people were there? One answer. Because it is the first anniversary of their victory against the great black dragon.

It's been two years and 3 months since Saito last came into this place. However, there is one thing that anyone must remember; Halkeginian time and Earth time were very different. One Halkeginian hour is equal to two Earth hours. In other words, one year in Halkeginia is equivalent to two years on Earth. In other words, its been five years since Saito was summoned by Louise, in Earth time.

Now back to the scene, a great spectacle – and horror – had just unfolded before there very eyes. Two steel dragons just wiped out a squadron of ten dragons with ease. It even left Saito to asked a question for himself, 'What the hell are those two planes from my world doing here?'

Aside from the man from another world, his wife, Louise, looks at his husband's face.

The man who once faced an army of 70000 alone and take down a great dragon together with her.

And there she saw Saito's face, a face twisted in error.

And then the queen of Tristain approached close to Saito.

"Tell me, Saito, what just happened out there?" the queen asked.

Hearing the question of the queen who has some traces of worries in her tone, Saito replied, "Your highness, those planes are from my world. From what I have seen, those planes were not from my country since it doesn't have the sun emblem of my country. Rather those planes come from a more powerful country than my own. Using the blue-star emblem and its appearance as a point of reference, I can say it is an F-15 from the United States of America."

The queen barely followed up and understood what the boy said, but one thing is clear for her, something utterly wrong is happening here. Then the queen looks at the delegates of the other countries' reactions.

"Queen Henrietta of Tristain," the emperor of Germania called her, "Tell us what you know about the steel dragon that just attacked one of the best dragon squadrons of Galia and destroyed them in mere minutes as if they are made of paper."

"Your highness, I have no idea what to say, but one thing is clear for me, we are no matched against those dragons, and…" the queen was suddenly interrupted. It was Saito.

"What is it that you are going to say to me, Duke Hiraga?" the Emperor of Germania asked.

"Those steel dragons… I know them. They are planes from the United States! Those planes were known in our world as F-15s. Those planes are much better compared to what I used against the great dragon. Don't worry too much about them; those people were peace-loving and are the police state of our world, using their power to integrate peace into our world." Saito said.

"Are you sure they are not a threat. And if so, can we talk to them, will there be at peace between our nations and theirs, or will they use our weakness as an opportunity to strike us?" the elves asked the boy.

"I cannot say much about that. But as far as I can concern, there were many weak countries in our world, but these people didn't attack or enslave them." And then the entire collection of the most influential people in this world remained silent.

Between the Lines:

1900H

Back to the human world – near the Senkaku Region to be precise, the US and Japan were not the only nations that were observing the ongoing drama unfolding in the skies a few hundred miles away from Kadena Airbase. Another country, watching everything and had happened to record everything that happened in there, China watches the scene with prying eyes.

While the exercise was happening, in China, all available radio interceptors, and RADAR were spying on the Americans. Under the command of Chinese high command, the army base in Zhejiang province, near the city of Ningbo, a sizeable long-ranged RADAR as well as the radio interceptors were all tuned in to the exercise development. Leading this facility was Senior Colonel Zhe Jiang.

"Sire, we have detected a new RADAR anomaly, 213 nautical miles from our position." The officer in charge of RADAR detection reported to his commander in Chinese. Soon, the Chinese commander approached to his officer.

"What is it?" he asked.

"Here, sir, we have the Japanese ships," the commander nodded, "and here with the Americans," he nodded again. "And a little bit to the left, we have a squadron of what seems to F-16s or F-15s," now the attention of the commander began to fade away.

"And what am I supposed to see?" the commander asked with little interest.

"In a few moments from now, those planes will disappear. Here are the radio transmissions via emergency frequency and military frequency," the officer gave a small recorder to his commander. And then a time of almost seven minutes or more pass. At first, the general was skeptical about the radio transmission, but then his reaction changed when the transmission script, which was translated into Chinese, corresponds with the RADAR data.

"Officer, I think we have something in here." The general soon picked up a USB, plug it to the computer, and downloaded all the other data that was gathered. "I'll make a report about it," he added.

And soon, the general leave the RADAR control room and resigned himself somewhere in the base.

1800 H – Somewhere in the East China Sea

While both the Japanese and the Americans were having an exercise, another superpower was stalking on the military exercise. They were the Russians. As soon as the Russians learned about the military exercise near the Senkaku Region, the FSB (Federal Security Service), the SRV (Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki or Foreign Intelligence Service) and the Russian Navy made a cooperative espionage mission, using nuclear submarines as vessels to observe the drills and exercises conducted by two nations.

Somewhere stalking around inside the Chinese maritime border, a Russian submarine K-335 Gepard, an Akula – III class attack submarine, was sailing at periscopic depth. It is also the only submarine in the Russian Navy, which has an experimental submarine RADAR system, a technology still in its infancy.

"I wonder what the Americans are doing?" asked Capt. Karovy Sivylovsky. He is an experienced submarine mariner since the time of the cold war. Now his skills are being put into test. Because his submarine is sitting on an area tens of nautical miles away from the exercise area.

"Are we going to deploy Pogiyy?" the Russian naval officer asked. Llvidia is the codename for the RADAR system.

"Deploy Podiyy and fire 2 pings of the SONAR." The Captain asked.

"Yes, Captain," the officer responded.

After that, the Podiyy was launched into the surface. Attached to a cable wire fitted with wirings inside of it, the RADAR Podiyy floated in the sea like some sort of garbage, which is common in this sea area.

Soon, RADAR data began entering the sub. When the switch was turned on, a whole lot of targets appeared. There were a lot of commercial vessels as well as military ships in the area. Even planes were also detected. Everything was perfectly fine and normal. And then something came into the RADAR. It was two planes flying just 3 to 5 miles away from them, chasing down a missile that was fired from a ship.

"Sire, American F15s coming close to our position. Orders sire?" the officer asked.

"Just do nothing! That's an order. We are only here to observe, not to declare war." The Captain said.

"Affirmative, stand by,"

All crew inside the submarine feel the pressure that was the fear of the Americans sinking them down.

"Don't worry comrades, I bet those planes have never detected us yet," the Captain said with confidence. Three to five minutes passed, and still, there was little activity between the two vessels. But soon, when the eclipse was at its peak, something very different happened. And the Captain manages to get a sight of it, which is also recorded by a computer.

"Oh my god!" the Captain was shocked. He then moved out of the periscope, rubbed his eyes, and looked again on the periscope. "Man, try to locate the planes that we once saw in the radar." The Captain of the ship said.

Soon, all personnel on the radar begin scanning for any traces of the plane. And they found nothing.

"Did you find anything?" asked the Captain.

"None so far, sir!" the officers answered.

"Great, now try to tapped into all the communication channels in the area; emergency, military, commercial, civilian – I don't care." The Captain said in a loud voice. Soon, all radio personnel began scanning to all radio frequencies. Soon, two radio frequencies became apparent. It has a strong signal too.

"Sir, we have two channels online. Accessing the channel." One of the radio personnel said.

"Ok, and hurry up. Also translate it to Russian, ASAP!" the Captain yelled.

Soon, the radio operator began tapping into the radiofrequency. As soon as the radio started uttering English words, the Russian operator, who has some experience in English to Russian translation, began translating the English phrases into Russian. Almost eight minutes later, the plane was back to Kadena Airbase, leaving them in the middle of the ocean with some 100+ nautical miles from Okinawa.

"Commander, what was that?" an officer asked.

"I don't know, but I have a bad feeling that American ships will flock into this area. Comrade, get the Podiyy back, and dive into 300 meters, were going back to Vladivostok." The Captain immediately returned to his seat and observed as his men began preparing for diving maneuver.

-End of Chapter-

Ok, folks, here ends my first Fanfiction story about The Familiar of Zero. Well, this is my own-made sequel of the main story.

I'm changing the time difference. I'm going to make it equal with Earth time. And I'll be using the Julian calendar.

Another thing is, why F-15C when the US can use F-22 or F-18s, just to scare or boost to the Chinese in the exercise. The answer is, only F-15Cs are available for use by Air Wing 18 based in Kadena Airbase, which is located in the town of Kadena in Okinawa. Then about the 'Podiyy' system of the Russians, well, I just made it up, so don't worry, Russians don't have those kinds of equipment onboard in the K-335, which is an Akula III nuclear attack submarine, maybe. Also, about the Chinese, all those bases, and names are all made up.

Also, thanks for pointing out the F-17 mistake. I mean F-18 Super Hornet. Thank you for pointing that out kevinkocher1. And thanks for the review.

I also edited the story and added some on it. This is a rewrite of When Two Worlds Collide.

If any 'personal and true' names were somehow happened to be mentioned in those stories, this is just pure coincidence. All characters, events, and issues in this story, except the Japanese – Chinese dispute in the small island chain in the East China Sea, are fictional and have no bases of truth.

And last but not least, I am sorry for the bad grammar. It irritates me all the time. I hope you understand.

Thank you for reading When Two Worlds Collide.