Kirito listened to the sound of the men's feet crunching the strange crystals that made the forest that surrounded them, they were deep inside of the alien si and there was still no sign of the enemy.

He ignored the looks that his men gave him when they noticed that he was staring at the strange crystal statues of the aliens, the statues looked unusually Human and yet there was something unnatural about them.

Kirito didn't know how to explain it, because the statues seemed to be alive, it was as if the alien's bodies had somehow turned into crystals.

The thought alone was ridiculous, but he had seen enough crazy things to know that even the possibility that his suspicions were true, was painfully high.

The room that he was in was filled with blue light, he didn't know where the light was coming from but he could feel its effects. He reached into his pocket and took out one of the magic crystals that he had used long ago.

The crystals no longer vanished after they were used, but they weren't useful either. Kirito looked at the crystal and felt it greedily drinking the magic that flowed into the lien ship.

'This is bad." Kirito says to himself as he sends the images of the recharged crystal to the guild leaders.

The sound of something hitting an invisible wall reached his ears and for the briefest of moments, Kirito would have sworn that the statue in front of him had glared at him.

He had seen enough crazy things to know that when he found something like this, that it was better to get rid of it before it was too late, so he raised his sword and removed the statue's head from its body.

The alien ship began to shake almost as if it was reacting to his attack, but it soon stopped moving when the chains that connected it to Aincrad forced it to stop moving.

"Sir, you need to come look at this!" one of the soldiers says to him.

Kirito follows the sound of the man's voice and he is soon standing in front of what looks like a blue portal, but it's too small for him or anything larger than a child to go through.

Kirito nearly stepped closer to it but the soldier's hand stopped him from doing it.

Kirito didn't bother to ask the man why he had stopped him, he knew that the soldier had more than enough experience fighting in this universe, so he trusted the man's instincts.

the two of them watched as the portal seemed to breathe and pulled itself into the alien ship and for a brief moment Kirito swore that he had seen an alien hallway on the other side.

"Ahhh!' Kirito heard the sound of something massive breathing, but the sound came from every direction, he looked around but he only saw his men aiming their guns at their surroundings.

The portal behind them pulsed once again and the crystal forest that surrounded them seemed to come to life once, gone were the crystal trees and plants they were now surrounded by natural vegetation.

Kirito raised the magic crystal in his hand but before he could activate it, the forest around him returned to its original state.

"We have to leave this place." he says to the soldiers, who immediately start walking towards the exit.

Kirito follows the man's lead, but he stops walking when he feels something underneath his boot, he lifts his leg and finds that he has stepped on what looks like the tip of a horn or maybe it's the tip of a spear.

It didn't matter because it caught his interest, so he decided to take it and quickly rejoined his men before they realized that he had stopped moving.

Elsewhere inside of the Craftworld someone quietly screamed.

Everything had completely changed, the vision of the Humans\ Monkye's pathetic imitation of craftwork burning in space was gone.

She could no longer see the Mokeys terror filled faces as they were being dragged into the dark city.

She could see something ancient, something that would have, should have been lost moving, but it was moving against her, against her kind, she breathed heavily as the vision of what could come made itself clear.

She searched for a future that favored her kind, but no matter where she turned she could find nothing.

Her heart beat faster as she dived deeper into what was, what could have been, and what had happened in another time. She briefly considered storming the Monkey's ship, but the visions showed her how that would end, so she was forced to look for another solution.

She forced her heart to slow down and used her years of experience to force herself to breathe slowly.

There it was small but she found it, a way to free the Craft World, but there was something else something that filled her with dread, it was as if she was exchanging one doomed future for another.

She felt the Webway gate pulse once again, she could feel it calling to her people, to those who had fled into the Webway when their home had been attacked.

it was only a matter of time before the barrier that was separating the craft world and the webway broke and when it did they would kill the Humans and set the craft world free.

She opened her eyes and found that she was covered in cold sweat. 'What is this?" she asks herself.

Her kind don't sweat, her people had long since overcome the need for something as primitive as this and yet she was covered in the foul-smelling thing.

She was about to stand up and stretch her feet before she removed the filth that covered her when her mind was assaulted by the image of the future that she had seen and she screamed at the horrifying realization.

"Nooooo!" she cried out, her eyes wide as she looked at the twisted mockery of the [][][] that the Humans would create, and worse of all, their creation agreed with them and happily did what the Monkeys asked of it.

She felt the ranger's hands on her as they tried to help her calm down. "We have to stop them before they bring him back." she says to them her eyes wide with panic.

'We have to stop them before they taint him." she says between breaths.

"We have to stop them before they break his last fragment.' she cried before she felt something hit the back of her head and she fell unconscious.