*Facing the Wind from Namco X Capcom plays*
Byako:Are the others okay there, Urashima?
Urashima:Well of course. No one isn't harmed while that thing's operational. Xiaomu:That's a relief.
Urashima:While you guys got sucked up in that Cross Gate, I forgot to mention I brought Ciel's people to a better safe zone.
Zero (Z):That's good.
Sanger:It seems all kinds of folk are causing a muck since the last time I witnessed this.
Kaguya:Oh it's more than that, Commander.
Haken:A whole mess of baddies. More than we can count.
Sanger:What concerns me now is those two.
Katee:Sanger I assure you we are not part of the enemy.
Fiora:I can sense that. I think they are good if they helped out with those evil mechons that work for Ouma.
Byako:Funny enough, those guys were my brothers. We were yes once of Ouma's creations. But now we fight to stop this whole thing.
Ayame:I thank you for keeping your promise, Katee. Now I can return the favor and drive Ouma back from once they came.
Amazona:I agree. Using us as puppets is nothing short of low.
Ogami:We will get revenge in due time.
Sakura S.:We are finally relieved to see you free of the Kouma's Influence.
Ayame:I agree.
*Ayame gets closer to Ogami*
*Sunlight Seasons from Project X Zone 2 plays*
Ayame:We have a LOOOONG time to make up for lost time, Ogami~san.
Ogami:A-ayame!
Sakura S.:A- Wha-!
Erica:Ayame. I know it's great for you to be free of the shackles of evil. But If you forgot Ichiro is mine.
Sakura S.:Yours! I will not have this at all!
Ayame:I should at least spend some time with him after all this.
Segata:Here we go again.
Shinjiro:This always happens back in the day.
Gemini:Do they ever stop fighting?
Ogami:Come on, girls! That hurts! Stop pulling me please!
Vashyron:Ah, young love. To be young again.
Chun-Li:I honestly feel bad for Ichiro.
Cammy:Must be harder for him to now keep three ladies in line.
Gemini:Oh wait until you hear about the rest of the girls in the Imperial and Paris Revues. Oh the stories they could tell.
Shinjiro:I'm not different from them.
Byako:As charming as this is, we do have a job to get back to. Let's all regroup inside.
*The group head into the DragonTurtle*
Reiji:Have we received any word from some of our allies from the future?
Fox:No word so far from Peppy.
Megaman:Dr. Light or the other scientists have contacted us lately either.
Protoman:Something doesn't seem right. Usually we get word from them.
Tails:Well I have tried to communicate with them, but nothing. It seems something must be interfering with our communications.
Byako:Well that's no good. We better go ahead and check up.
*The group overlook the screen within the DragonTurtle, only to see a black screen with the words "Press Start"*
Urashima:Huh? Press Start?
Xiaomu:Doctor, have you been bored and decided to play a game while waiting for us?
Urashima:Like hell that's the case. No way am I just twiddling my thumbs waiting for my rescue or progress. This can't be right.
Shion:Is it some sort of error?
:Or maybe it's viruses again.
Urashima:I don't know. I'm hitting my usual commands and sequences but nothing!
Byako:Damn it. Just what we need. I guess the only thing now is to teleport us out of here.
*Byako goes outside only to see nothing.*
*The Gates of Resolved Fates from Namco X Capcom plays*
Byako:WHERE THE FUCK IS EVERYTHING!
Reiji:What! Xiaomu:I thought we were still in the Endless Frontier!
Haken:Well that isn't good.
*Byako heads back inside*
Byako:Just what we need. I can't seem to teleport us out of here!
Mii:Maybe I could do it.
Palutena:We can't. Our magic doesn't seem to work in this space.
Pit:Is it really possible to stop something like your powers, Lady Palutena!
Shion:So what should we do!
Byako:Only one way to find out.
*Byako heads to the controls and presses the Enter Key. The screen changes the Press Start sentence into "Loading Game". The whole vehicle starts to shake, as the group sees outside and changes before them. The DragonTurtle now stands in a large grassy plain, across a large wooden bridge walkway. There are hills that rise up towards a wooden fort. While the whole place is surrounded by hills. The group head out of the DragonTurtle*
Byako:The hell? What the heck just happened?
:Is this the "Game" that screen was telling us?
Blackrose:What a weird game this turned out to be?
*The Screen then goes blank and turns off*
Commando:Wait this place? It looks so familiar.
X:Now that you mention it.
Hiromi:No wonder this place is familiar! We're in!
*Suddenly. Tribal man with Archer bows and Spears appear all over the map*
*Title Call from Project X Zone plays*
Chapter 69:Gain Grounds Stage 1 *Origins - Awaken Theme of Heroes from Gain Grounds play*
Toby:The Gain Grounds Battle Simulator!
Urashima:Don't tell me that's what the screen was on. Did we get sucked into a futuristic battle simulator?
Baby:It's the only explanation. But this was shut down years ago.
Dante:Figures. We got into this thing long ago.
Trish:So you know how it works at least.
Reiji:Just who or what put that into the DragonTurtle.
Xiaomu:Well we might get our answer once we progress further. It seemed to work like last time we got trapped into this thing.
Byako:So get to the end. Seems easy enough.
MOMO:Just who are these guys though? I've never seen them before.
Arthur:Right. They weren't here before.
KOS-MOS:I have scanned the area. Those are enemies created for this simulator. They were the first stage enemies used for training. This area is designed during war between natives and colonizers.
Ken:So what? Are we the cowboys then?
Haken:Guess I just make sense being here.
Arthur:I am thankful this place did not force me to be trapped like last time.
Dante:Yeah you and Lady were in quite the fine pickle.
Katee:Then let's go ahead and get through that gate over there. It should lead us to either the next level of this simulator or possibly out of this place.
Byako:I'd say we eliminate the scum first so we can get the DragonTurtle through.
Urashima:Are you sure my transport can even fit through that thing?
Byako:I could just teleport you through it.
Urashima:Oh right.
Reiji:Well let's get to work.
*Urashima retreats into the DragonTurtle*
*Victory Conditions:
Defeat all enemies*
Defeat Conditions:
Allies are defeated.
Any enemy reaches the DragonTurtle*
*Origins - Awaken Theme of Heroes will play for the remainder of the map*
*After defeating a few enemies*
*The world glitches for a bit,as strange painted tribal men, with spears and machine guns appear to the middle area that is between both the gate and bridge*
*Poop Deck Pursuit from Dynamite Cop plays*
Bruno:Huh, this is weird. The world went all staticy and now members of the Bermuda Gang suddenly appear?
Byako:Just what is happening? Is this sim somehow breaking?
Haseo:Or is something trying to break in. Is it just me or do you sense a familiar energy?
Kite:Now that you mention it.
Katee:Something must be happening outside this realm. But what.
*Close to the gate, Small and Large boars appear*
Toma:Boars? How'd they get here?
Cyrille:Could this place be linked with our world?
*The world continues to glitch out,as Tri-Edge appears in front of the gate*
Tri-Edge:...
*Bug Born Alphas,Bug Born Queens, , appear around him*
*Gentle Hands from .hack/G.U. plays*
Kite:AIDA!
Haseo:I knew it. AIDA is infecting this simulator. And Tri-Edge brought some friends too.
:There's no such thing as friends if it's viruses from the NET :We better get rid of them before they cause more tech problems than before.
Tri-Edge:Gaaaah….
Haseo:Just what is your angle at, AIDA. Are you really going to get away with this? Because I'm not standing by for that!
Tri-Edge:...
?:No need to waste your breath with this human.
* appears*
:Just continue to spread the viruses around. Once we get this old piece of hardware up and running. We can generate as many soldiers as we can muster. But in order to keep these people at bay.
*Some of the Tribal Soldiers from Gain Grounds start to glitch out, and are replaced with AIDA Annas*
Tails:Incredible!
Baby:So even a virus like him can change and alter npcs from this world.
:What is your plan now! Creating an army to rule the NET and the World! Is this plan really for the sake of all Net Navis!
:It will be enough. That is all you need to know. Humans are dangerous. You should know from thwarting Wily all the time.
:True. But he never did anything like this.
:He, like you humans, will only cause more trouble for all Net Navis. Allow me to eliminate the main cause that will bring us to new heights.
Tri-Edge:Uuuuh…
*After crossing the Bridge*
:Seems these humans are very persistent to die. Then I shall make it their only option.
*Raxine Bombs appear near the DragonTurtle*
Xiaomu:Wah!
Axel:Raxine bombs!
:It seems this simulator has just about anything.
Segata:How dare you! Gain Grounds is supposed to challenge the senses and make the player figure what is the best move! How dare you make it into a death game!
:It is to ensure you won't get in the way of our plans. And in order to give you more motivation. Our ally, X has given us extensive data on how to stop you from disabling them.
*A large flaming purple-esc green skull appears. But the skull is covered in a purple like field*
*Orne from Kid Icarus Uprising plays*
Pit:GAH! AN ORNE! RUN!
Palutena:Hold on, Pit. I think it's not moving.
Medusa:It seems those fools somehow are able to make it stationary.
How in the world did they get access to those creatures? Not even me or Hades could tame them.
:Since AIDA's flow into this world. We have full control of what we wish. But it still has limits. You can't touch those bombs until you defeat us. That is, if you can reach us in time.
Byako:I can tell from the scream, if we try to even think of disabling those bombs, that thing is giving us instant death.
Palutena:Essentially yes.
Byako:Figures. Better get to them faster before those bombs burst.
*Updated Victory Conditions:
Defeat before 12 turns*
*Updated Defeat Conditions:
12 Turns are up*
*After defeating Tri-Edge*
Tri-Edge:...aaahh…
*Tri-Edge teleports out of the area*
Haseo:Just where are you holding Skeith?
Kite:Do you think he has him?
Haseo:Most likely. He was with them last time.
Blackrose:If what you said is true, we better find him so you can get him back as your avatar soon.
*After *
:Grgh! So you beat me. I still have more than one way to end this whole thing.
*The Orne and the Raxine bombs disappear. But the area in which the DragonTurtle starts to expand.. Suddenly the area that is expanding is filled with roads, rocky mountains, black buildings, and what look like small military barracks. Out of the barracks, strange space suited soldiers come out, some with rifles, others with rocket launchers.
Along with that some road in tanks and stranger than that, orb shaped tanks with unusual treads.*
*Black Hole Theme from Advance Wars 2:Black Hole Rising plays*
Commando:What are they!
Volnutt:I've never seen those designs before?
Segata:These aren't enemies from Gain Grounds. What are they!
:Interesting, isn't it? I found what seemed to be a similar simulator and with AIDA, merged its capabilities with it. This simulator was refer to as Advance Wars.
Zelda:Advance Wars? Now why does that name ring a bell?
Palutena:I think I may have the idea. It's a grid by grid strategy game. It seems what they have summoned is units from the Black Hole Army.
Pit:Wait, how do you know of this, Lady Palutena?
Palutena:Did you not forget those little soldiers and tanks we fought against within those assist trophies.
Marth:Right! Those tiny soldiers, right?
Samus:Guess that makes sense on how we feel like we heard the name.
:I think it's about time I take my lead. You humans won't be able to know what is beyond this gate. Because I know that is no way out of this realm.
* Retreats*
Xiaomu:Dang it! We cross this bridge, and now Urashima's ride is going to be obliterated from the field!
Byako:Better teleport it out of here.
*Byako Tries to activate,only to have interference.*
Byako:It seems this simulator won't let me until we beat them. So how the hell can we get over there.
Segata:Then we will make a way!
*Segata grabs half of the group and flies them over to the Advance Wars side of the stage*
Byako:You know a bit of warning helps along the way, Sanshiro!
Segata:No time for that! Stop those troops or we risk losing more than a vehicle.
*Updated Victory Conditions:
Defend the DragonTurtle*
Updated Defeat Conditions:
Any enemy unit reaches the DragonTurtle*
*After Six Turns*
Reiji:This is getting us nowhere! They just keep coming!
Medusa:Any idea on how to beat them, Palutena.
Palutena:Oh now that you mention it, There is!
Byako:Explain why you didn't have this thought earlier?!
Palutena:Must have slipped my mind. The way to stop this is mainly by capturing those Barracks over there.
If you simply stand on them, it won't belong until you capture them. If anything, That might actually make those barracks under our control.
Commando:So you're saying if we just take control, we would have troops fighting them.
Baby:Incredible. We must try out this simulator some time.
Hiromi:Hopefully it is not as dangerous as this battle.
OgamI:I wouldn't try this if I ever had the chance.
*Updated Victory Conditions:
Capture all the Barracks*
*After capturing a Barrack*
*A small version of the DragonTurtle appears*
Urashima:*Through Communicator* Oh my goodness! Isn't that just adorable!
Xiaomu:Didn't expect to have tiny DragonTurtles helping us today. But we'll take what we can get.
Urashima:*Through Communicator* I might want to make one of these things one day.
*The Mini DragonTurtles will head and attack any enemy troops*
*After capturing every barrack*
*Go Next! From Project X Zone plays*
Reiji:Alright. We are finally done with that.
Segata:Stage Complete!
Ayame:Uh, Segata?
Erica:It's just a habit.
Ayame:I know.
*The Gate at the end of the Gain Grounds stage opens up.*
:What did Bass meant by there is no way out of this realm?
Katee:Could mean that what's next could very well be stage 2 of Gain Grounds.
Valkyrie:Strange… Is it just me? Or do I sense a familiar energy coming from beyond the gate.
Gilgamesh:Is it by chance connected to your world, Lady Valkyrie?
Valkyrie:I am certain of it.
Byako:If that's the case, then we would be fine. I doubt the morale for Druaga's forces diminished when we freed Amazona and Medusa joining our motley crew. Katee:You know saying that doesn't always mean that we are going to get it easy from here.
Byako:I'm at least trying to be optimistic.
Xiaomu:Sounds to me like you are being a bit less cautious. Like an idiot.
Byako:Oh shut it! Let's just go.
*Byako Fires a Teleportation orb at the DragonTurtle.*
Byako:Urashima should be on the other side. Time to move.
*The group moves forward and heads through the gate, as it slowly closes once they are inside.*