AN: I do not own Touhou Project, Madoka Magica, OR Sword Art Online
Hello everyone! I am back after about literally a day or two I think. Yes the third component of the crossover is SAO! To be more specific Sword Art, Alfheim and Gun Gale, it should be easy to guess how we have a couple thousand humans trapped in each one but I'll leave that for you speculate until it's time. Now without Further ado.
Let the gates open!
Apud Tempore Anni
(In Years Time)
(Stage Start)
BGM: [Touhou]-Meiling's Theme: Shanghai Alice of Meiji 17 ~ Remix
Two Years Later
Meiling stretched her arms before leaning back against the stone wall of the mansion gate, cracking her stiff neck as she heard the ever constant explosions from inside the mansion. 'Has it really been two years now? It feels like nothing's changed.' Meiling thought. She wasn't wrong as in the past two years nothing had really changed other then the girls from Mitikihara joining Gensokyo. Each of them carving out their own lives in this fantasy world.
Omega E The Reader: Seriously? NOTHING changed during the last two years?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: So NO INCIDENTS have happened since then?!
Omega E The Reader: Nope! No Incidents took place during that time.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: After the rapid-fire Incidents without care of how much time there was in between them in canon, this is straight up nonsensical. What's the point of a two year time-skip if NOTHING happened in between?!
Omega E The Reader: Let's see how many incidents were skipped shall we?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Well in the first fic, we had EoSD, PCB, IaMP, IN, MoF and SWR in the span of about a full year or a little more, with PoFV being completely skipped over.
Omega E The Reader: And what events/incidents were skipped over?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: As I said, Phantasmagoria of Flower View. But now we have two years of NOTHING?!
Omega E The Reader: Well the other incidents blatantly skipped over are SA, Hisoutensoku, UFO, and TD.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: They weren't skipped. They just didn't happen at all.
Omega E the Reader: And that's the problem. They DIDN'T happen. You're telling me that Kanako just sat down for the last 2 years doing NOTHING?!
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: With what happens later, I highly doubt it.
Omega E The Reader: If this was the actual Kanako. She would have caused all of those Incidents to happen.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Already.
Omega E The reader: But yes we should think of the first sins for this fic.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: I'd say as many sins as days who were skipped for absolutely nothing. I mean, it could've been two months, two weeks, two days or even two hours and it would've changed NOTHING! ! !
Omega E The Reader: We should however ask what Wildmath55 and his fellow author thinks about this. Perhaps they can also decide on the sin count.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: He said that he was gonna sit that one out until a later arc, though.
Omega E The Reader: Oh right. But yes we shall add many sins in correlation of the Incidents not happening during the past 2 years.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: I'd say as many sins as days who were skipped for absolutely nothing. I mean, it could've been two months, two weeks, two days or even two hours and it would've changed NOTHING! ! ! And since we've wasted two years, that's two times 365, so 730.
Sin Count: 730
Stretching once again she heard foot steps behind her, looking past the gate she saw Momiji walking out yawning. "Is it your shift already?" Meiling asked, she didn't know what time it was. "Yeah it's my shift, now you might want to get in there before everything goes even more to hell." Momiji muttered as Meiling opened the gate, the two girls passing each other as Meiling went inside and Momiji took her place.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Why is she guarding the SDM gate?
Omega E The Reader: Are you referring to Momiji?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Yes. WHY is she here?! She's supposed to guard Youkai Mountain!
May 3Omega E The Reader: She is directly going against her orders.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: She shouldn't be here!
Omega E The Reader: I can agree on this as well.
Sin Count: 740
Inside everything had already gone mostly to hell. Marisa was, as usual, flying about the place with her ill gotten gains as Flandre and Cirno fought with their swords above the library, near the center was the now standard magic shield to protect those in it from the chaos. Currently inside the shield as Patchouli, Vaati, Remilia, and Sakuya watched the chaos unfold. Vaati's outfit having been changed over the years as now she sported a robe that went over her pajamas, a lighter purple then her pajamas. And even to this day she still forgone any form of footwear.
Meiling just straight up walked in on the conversation taking place at the table, sitting down and listening in as Remilia spoke. "So she wants to investigate the ruins of someplace called Kawagoe city, something about Komachi complaining about trapped souls or something. I don't understand how those two get along without the Yama noticing." Remilia complained childishly. "Let me guess, place is irradiated and she wants the normal group to do the investigating." Vaati muttered quietly before taking a sip of her tea and waving at Meiling, who waved back.
"You think she would want anyone else?" Patchouli muttered before coughing a bit, Vaati getting up and floating out of her chair at that. "I suppose, I'll get Marisa and Nitori and we'll be off, it's be faster that way." Vaati muttered before flying out from behind the shield to get her friends. "What is this about souls?" Meiling asked, confused. "Komachi said something about a large quantity of souls being locked up in three different areas in the same city. How this is possible I got no idea." Patchouli muttered. "That's not like you Patchouli, you seem to know everything." Remilia said, Patchouli shaking her head. "I specialize in elemental magic, and while I do have almost every book on magic within these walls magic of the soul is highly regulated, considering how dangerous it is. If you recall we meet a small team of Shimigami once that took all the books I had on that subject around fifty years ago." Patchouli said, Meiling rubbing her back at the memory of getting her ass handed to her by those shimigami.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Wow. Mispelling Shinigami as Shimigami twice in a row.
Sin Count: 742
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Also, how did a bunch of nameless Shinigami successfully take away those books? Komachi has shown that Shinigami are wimps in this continuity, and she's a NAMED character and Eiki's PERSONAL SHINIGAMI! If the author wanted some "elite Ministry troops to enforce their laws who are superior to Komachi", then he could've just had Kishin Chiefs take those books away. So because of the nonsense regarding power dynamics (when the usual dynamics was CRAP and SINFUL) and completely missing out on a species that would've worked, twenty sins and the return of an old favorite.
Sin Count: 762
Stupid Power Level Count: 1
"So it's should just be a routine gathering mission?" Meiling asked, Patchouli shaking her head. "I highly doubt it, odds are we are going to have something to do if… actually when they find out what's going on." Patchouli said, Meiling sighing before laying her head and arms on the table, bending over in her seat. "And I was looking forward to my break today." She complained as patchouli smiled a little bit as Remilia giggled.
BGM: SWR Pre-Battle Theme: Usual Days
Yukari hummed as she sat at the chair on the porch of Reimu and Suika's house, the former Hakurei shrine having been changed heavily over the past two years by Reimu and Suika to better fit their needs as a house. Reimu and Suika themselves currently out… somewhere, she didn't bother to check as she looked to her left, Renko leaning in the other chair on the patio snoring as Komachi and Kyoko leaned against different sides of the house as they wait for the rest of the 'scavenging crew' to get here.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: So we're not gonna get any details regarding what the former shrine looks like? This is like the only true significant change in between those two years and we DON'T get a precise description? What a waste. Fifteen sins.
Sin Count: 777
The sudden cackling that was Marisa's trademark entrance quickly woke everyone up as Renko shot up in her chair and looked around blinking as Kyoko opened one eye like this was a normal occurrence… which it was as Komachi yawned a grabbed her scythe, the girls walking over to the front of the house as Marisa landed, followed by Nitori in her armor and Vaati behind floating behind her.
"We have arrived! Did you miss me?" Marisa declared before laughing as Vaati sighed and Nitori chuckled, Yukari rolling her eyes as she started talking. "You all know where you are going, right?" Yukari asked, the girls around her nodding as Renko sat back in her chair. "Just try not to get irradiated Marisa." Yukari muttered in annoyance, last time this group had been sent out Marisa had come back glowing and had to be treated by Eirin… how she knows about how to cure nuclear radiation she just didn't ask and didn't want to know.
Omega E The Reader: I am pretty sure Marisa would have been dead if she was affected by radiation.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: I dunno. Canonically, Marisa is immune to all kinds of poisons...
Omega E The Reader: Wait really?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Her constant usage of poisonous components, instead of making her sick like Patchouli, have actually rendered her IMMUNE to things such as mercury poisoning!
Omega E The Reader: So Marisa would be outright immune to radiation then? Well at least it isn't as BS with Marisa not being screwed over by radiation…
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: So no sins, then, I suppose. Not for this, at least. Because you went over the REAL problem here. The fact that seemingly the ONLY THING they did in two years was RENOVATE A HOUSE! ! !
Omega E The Reader: Oh! Yeah that is idiotic!
Sin Count: 850
"I keep asking Nitori to just build me my own suit, but no!" Marisa complained, ducking under a blow from an irritated Nitori at the same time. "Unless we have to send you into hell you are not getting your own suit." Nitori said, Vaati just shaking her head. "Fine, get us out there." Marisa muttered as Yukari opened a gap in front of the Hakurei House, Marisa running through followed by both shimigami, Vaati and Nitori. "We really need a way to clean up all that radiation…" Yukari muttered in an annoyed tone.
BGM: Sword Art Online Original Soundtrack Vol 1 04 Quiet Strain
The girls all landed in the middle of an abandoned street, the small remains of green clouds floating like a mist under their feet as Marisa hopped up on her broom to avoid it, Vaati just plain didn't care, Nitori protected in her suit and Kyoko and Komachi also not caring. "So… Where are these souls trapped?" Vaati asked quietly, looking around at the various window of the empty stores on the streets. "Underground, and in this city." Kyoko said. "That's very helpful, yes bravo." Marisa said condescendingly, leading her to get smacked by Komachi. "You would rather loot this place before looking anyway, we all know it." Komachi said, stretching a bit as Marisa smirked.
"That's Marisa for you, all play and no work." Nitori said, her voice distorted by her suit as she walked over to a shop door and punched it off it's hinges, Vaati peeking behind her and smiling at the sight of what was inside the shop. "I think we can afford a detour or a few… not like they are going anywhere." Vaati said, smiling happily as she floated past Nitori and into the shop, casually make several barrels of pretzels from the market float behind her as she browsed, Marisa laughing her head of as Kyoko also started looting. "Yeah I think we can afford a slight detour." Marisa said as she flew up and down the rows of food and supplies, looking for anything of interest.
"I'm not complaining…" Nitori muttered as she looked over a gift card counter, before grabbing all the cards she could that were worth something and reading the backs before going over the the register. "These will be much better in our hands." She muttered, holding a stack blizzard, steam, Nintendo, apple and PlayStation cards. "You need to stop messing with that television Nitori." Vaati chided as she floated past, still followed by several barrels of pretzels. "Shut up." Nitori shot back before using the register to ring up the cards for later use before stuffing them in her bag.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Wouldn't that food be radioactive? Not everyone is like Marisa.
Omega E The Reader: I mean, SURE, the food in Fallout was irradiated, but WASN'T radioactive enough to kill you on the spot, but it would still give you radiation if you kept eating.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: But in Fallout, everyone was in "survival mode" and they had no other options, these girls have no excuse.
Omega E The Reader: These girls have an ENTIRE land full of non irradiated food so no excuse.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Exactly!
Sin Count: 865
BGM: Sword Art Online Original Soundtrack Vol 1 Survive the Swordland
Kirito looked on at the virtual setting sun as he held his fist tight, his eyes closed as he looked on at the prison that was his and the remaining survivors home. SAO had started with ten thousand players, and cut down to less four thousand by the time they had reached the eightieth floor. It was then the horror truly kicked in. He could still hear the screams as players died left and right to the bosses of each floor, until only a mere thousand remained at the ninety-fifth floor.
Nearly five months ago they had reached that dreaded floor and at the boss room he had betrayed them all… with a smile on his face Heathcliff reveled himself as Kayaba… and betrayed them all. Morale had dropped to an all time low… but the survivors pressed on to the hundredth floor… with only a hundred fighters remaining.
It hadn't even been a challenge… Kayaba had sat upon his pure white throne, blade in hand as he watched all hundred of them pour into his throne room two months ago. Kirito at the lead of the party with his wife Asuna, his friend Klein by his side as Agil backed them up, with Argo, Silica and Liz thankfully staying outside the boss room.
It had been a massacre. Kayaba had just started the fight by not even granting them a chance to attack, paralyzing them all as he began his speech…and dropped the ultimate bombshell on the poor survivors of SAO… if they could even be called that anymore.
*Flashback: Two months ago. *
BGM: Sword Art Online Original Soundtrack Vol 1 17 Confront Battle
Kayaba sat on his white throne, light shine from above, giving him the glow of a figure of divine power. By his side his shield sat, and he was still in his red and white armor from his time as the leader of the now disbanded… and dead Knights of the Blood Oath, with Asuna and Kirito as the sole survivors.
In front of him every last player in Aincrad stood before him, frozen thanks to paralysis inflicted by the system, three other players outside the door watching in horror as Kayaba stood up from his throne and approached the lead player, Kirito. "Well then… here we are. The final floor of my world… my castle in the sky, I must commend you all on surviving this long. Even I am surprised that we all still stand here after our bodies have perished." Kayaba said, three gasps… the only ones that could be made, heard outside the hall.
"You all must be wondering what I am saying right?" Kayaba asked, putting his armored hand on Kirito's chin. "Well… I received one last message nearly two years ago now… only two months until the two year anniversary of our demises. The world outside is gone… if anything it has been reduced to rubble and fire. All of who stand here today are just the minds and souls of our former selves… for once this game is over, it is our final departure." Kayaba said philosophically as Kirito struggled to try and move, Klein as well as several players had already given up now, just waiting for their demise.
"So why still fight… I desire one last dance… and I must assume you all do as well. So just for this… I ask that all of you fight with me, in a dance…" Kayaba said as the players unfroze as he drew his sword. "To the death."
Omega E The Reader: So first things first…
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Oh boy...
Omega E The Reader: So Kayaba reveals that everyone is dead on the outside...
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: When there's only like around a hundred left.
Omega E The Reader: I know, right?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: He should've done that when there were more people left to save.
Omega E The Reader: Would Kayaba actually do that?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Wait for so many to die before telling them? I don't think so.
Omega E The Reader: Didn't he hold everyone hostage in a game where death was real?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: For reasons he forgot. Which, well, was dumb.
Omega E The Reader: We'll what would he have reasonably done?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Well considering how absurd things can get in SAO, I'm pretty sure he would've somehow PREVENTED IT in some confusing way.
Omega E The Reader: We'll okay…but…it could be much more funnier if it was SAO Abridged.
May 4Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: I know, but sadly, this is not. So...
Sin Count: 895
BGM: A Fight to the Death [Armored Xemas 1] – KINGDOM HEART HD 2.5 ReMIX
Omega E The Reader: Again, really? Why is this song being used for fighting against Kayaba?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Haven't got a clue.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Other than "idiocy".
Sin Count: 900
Kayaba had to raise his shield as he instantly had to block Kirito's fierce strikes, not even recoiling as tears of data streamed down his face in anger, swinging his blade in retaliation the Black Swordsman retreated, his two blades at the ready as behind him very few players even dared to try. For what was the point if he was right.
Asuna had her rapier drawn as Klein held his katana. "Dam you… YOU BASTARD!" Klein yelled as he ran at Kayaba, Katana in his sheath as he sped past Kayaba, pulling the katana out in one clean motion and spinning it back into it's sheath with anger on his face, cuts of red appearing all over Kayaba as Klein turned around.
But Kayaba didn't even flinch as he marched forward, advancing on the despairing players as many had turned their swords on them selves, prepared to commit suicide in a hopeless battle. "Is this truly what you want… your final legacy to be that you died like a dog?" Kayaba asked condescendingly as many swords entered bodies, ninety two explosions of light as they sealed their fate, unable to fight neither the truth or go one against the man that held them here.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Really? Have everyone not among the main cast commit suicide like that? And I'm absolutely certain that Klein's Guild (or what was left of them by that point), Fuurinkazan, was among them. This is an absolute DISSERVICE to Klein! His guild was one of the VERY FEW to canonically have a 100% survival rate, with not a SINGLE confirmed casualty! And to just WIPE THEM ALL OUT WITHOUT A CARE is UNFORGIVABLE! ! ! ESPECIALLY since they don't even get NAMED! The only HINT we have of their deaths is Klein's reaction bellow. I can't believe I have to bring up THIS type of sin on the FIRST CHAPTER! Look at me, this fic is so bad it's making me give an Unforgivable Sin for DISRESPECTING SAO! ! !
Sin Count: 1092
Unforgivable Sin Count: 1
Turning around Kayaba looked at the last four players in the room, three still standing outside as he held his sword at his side. "So this is how it ends… Ten thousand lives lost in the pursuit of a goal that due to the evils of men is no longer achievable… something I myself am guilty of being… just a man with selfish dreams." Kayaba said. "Shut up you bastard!" Klein yelled in rage, holding his katana over his head. Kayaba took a breath he no longer needed as he closed and opened his eyes. "Then permit me one last selfish wish… do not lose against me." Kayaba said as he once again drew his sword, the last four fighters in Aincrad standing together in near shock and despair as Kayaba looked upon them without emotion.
Kirito started by charging at Kayaba in rage, swinging his two swords in tandem as Kayaba blocked them with his shield, only for Asuna to come in from below, stabbing at his exposed flank from dealing with Kirito. But the damage was minimal as Kayaba moved his shield to block Agil's axe, Klein, Kirito and Asuna attacking him all at once out of sheer rage and sadness.
Kayaba was a good player… one of the best in terms of pure skill and refined movements, but even he could not fend off an assault by four players at once from several angles. The battle field was silent, with all it's contenders focusing on winning… except for one. Kayaba standing surrounded by the four remaining players of Aincrad.
Asuna, living up to her name of 'Lightning Flash' struck quick, stabbing at Kayba's side, only to be blocked by his sword, Kirito's one handed swing being blocked by his shield as his other sword hit Kayaba's back, Agil swinging his axe at Kayaba's front as Klein hit his behind.
From behind the door Argo grabbed her dagger, holding it as she peaked out at the fighters, running out from behind the door silently as she tried to get a stab in on the distracted Kayaba. The stab connected with the distracted 'King' of Aincrad's back, dropping his health by a reasonable margin as the other attacks continued to distract him. Kayaba had never intended for his final battle to be more then a one on one, but even the greatest swordsman can be overwhelmed by numbers and skills.
It was a slow grind as Kayaba was kept on the defensive, unable to attack… or rather just not attacking at all as his health slowly dropped from the combined assault of now five players, his health bar dropping below twenty percent as he dropped to his knees in defeat, just allowing the last twenty percent to dissipate as he looked up at his killers… those he had held trapped in his floating castle for years. "You win… and your prize is to live on… in my floating castle." Kayaba said as his dissipated into sparks, Kirito looking down at his sword before growling in rage and planting the sword in the stone… they had won the death game… but now they could still never leave it.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Now that's basically just an elaborated suicide.
Omega E The Reader: I can see that…
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Kind of a let down.
Omega E The Reader: What should have happened was Kayaba deciding to perhaps lead everyone?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Probably.
Omega E the Reader: Either way, this is dumb.
Sin Count: 1125
*Flashback End *
BGM: Terra – Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Kingdom Hearts music again.
Sin Count: 1126
Kirito had cried that day… now he would never see his sister again… only the consultation of Asuna and the others had brought him back… they had each other… and that's all they had left. "Hey Kirito!" Agil called as Kirito looked off the balcony of the second floor of Agil's shop, seeing the large man walking up the street waving as he walked in the door, Kirito entering the door behind him and walking into the living room of the second floor of Agil's shop.
Asuna was nowhere to be found, but was most likely in the kitchen if the lovely smell was anything to go by as Silca and Argo sat on the couch, Argo snoring away as Klein tended to his sword, making sure it was spotless as he inspected it. "Klein I don't understand why you keep tending to that thing, not like you need it." Liz said from her seat in one of the chairs in the room. "Says you, this is all I got left of my guild." Klein muttered darkly. His entire guild having died during the final twenty floors.
"Lighten up you guys, not like we are going anywhere." Agil said as he walked up the stairs. "We're just shades Agil, we've been dead for almost two years." Klein said, the formerly boisterous young man having given away to a dark and pessimistic person. "Now now, we're still here Klein." Asuna said as she walked into the room and set the pot of food she had on the table, Argo blinking her eyes open and stretching. "Gee what's with the racket?" Argo asked, not caring about the argument that had just taken place as Asuna started handing out bowls of the soup she had made.
"Thanks Asuna." Kirito said as he smiled accepting the bowl and bringing a spoon out of his inventory and sitting down to eat. The group quietly eating as the virtual world around them went by.
BGM: Ventus – Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: And again.
Sin Count: 1127
Leafa, formerly Suguha Kirigaya sighed as she sat stood outside the council room, where the current meeting between the remaining three race leaders was taking place. Alicia Rue, Mortimer and Lady Sakuya, the leaders of the Cait Sith, Salamander, and Sylph races respectively… if what had happened two years ago was the only thing to get the three of them to sit down and have peace talks after players that died… stayed dead, and no one had been able to log out in that entire time either.
"This is boring." Leafa muttered as she leaned against the wall, the Salamander general Eugene sitting in the room. After Sigurd had died during a raid, no heeding the warnings that had been put out, Leafa had ended up field promoted to being Sakuya's general by her own personal merit. "This is just anouther peace talk, as usual. With the Cait Sith, Sylph and Salamaders the only races left with any form of population and civilization besides to odd colony of Undines or Gnomes, there is little reason to do much more then talk, it's less dangerous." Eugune said, Leafa huffing as she crossed her arms over her chest. Nearly two years ago they would have tried to stab each other to death, and now here they were waiting for the last of the faction meetings to end.
"So… what's the headcount…" Leafa asked grimly as Eugune's expression hardened. "Not good, we are down to only around three hundred players, around two hundred and fifty of those from the main three races, and only Undines and Gnomes make up the rest." Eugune said. Leafa looking down as she closed her eyes and clenched her fist. 'Recon…' He had been one of the first to die, to a Spiriggan mercenary she had killed in return. 'And how many bandits have I had to kill over the years…' Leafa thought as she looked at her hands… her blood stained hands.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: RECON WAS KILLED?! OFFSCREEN AND MEANINGLESSLY?! OH COME THE F*** ON! ! !
Sin Count: 1196
Unforgivable Sin Count: 2
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: I can't believe I'm putting TWO of those on the FIRST chapter!
The doors to the meeting hall finally opened as the leaders walked out, Sakuya, Alicia and Mortimer walking out of the room as Leafa and Eugene stood at attention. "How did everything go?" Leafa asked. "It's fine… instead of dealing with any excess in supplies, with such a low count of players left we have an excess to be honest… but mental health of players has been deteriorating as thoughts of suicide have been cropping up again." Mortimer said, responding to Leafa's question.
"With how lower the population is we can't afford to lose anyone else, so we've decided we need to relocate everyone to Arum, it's the most centrally located area, and the best to use as a town for all races." Sakuya said as Alicia yawned in boredom. "Yeah, yeah enough with the boring stuff, I just wish we'd see some excitement for once." Alicia complained. "It's excitement or death Alicia." Sakuya rebutted, Alicia huffing but not saying anything as Sakuya stood tall again. "Get the citizens ready for the relocation, and have the army be ready for anything that could try and attack us." Mortimer said as Eugune saluted, Leafa nodding as the leaders took their leave. "Shall we get to it?" Eugene asked Leafa, who nodded. "What even you say." Leafa responded quietly as they left to go prepare the troops.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Also, the author misspelled Eugene's name as Eugune THREE times!
Sin Count: 1199
BGM: Roxas – Kingdom Hearts II
Omega E The Reader: This is SWORD ART ONLINE! NOT KINGDOM HEARTS! Play a SAO theme song for f*** sake!
Sin Count: 1200
Shino looked over the wasteland she was watching as she sat in her tower, holding her Hecate sniper rifle she looked through the scope over the wastes, seeing little more then the normal mobs that roamed the wastes of Gun Gale online… or just Gun Gale after the incident two years ago.
Once people had started dying and not coming back things had gone to complete and utter shit, with PKing becoming even more common then it was before hand as players started to go mad from both isolation… and the power they had to end each other's lifes with the pull of a trigger. Shino had fled to the outer wastes to live in relative piece after having used all her credits to buy supplies. Raiders having heard about the 'Hecate Sniper' being the only people who bothered her.
And for two years they had never found her, and she had never had to fire a shot. She didn't understand why people kept killing each other, but soon enough factions had broken out over pretty much anything and wars began. Sometimes the battles were so large that they could be seen from her perch on the opposite end of the game map. But for the past three months she hadn't seen any human players, just mobs mobs and more mobs.
'Maybe they all wiped each other out…' Shino thought grimly as she peered through her scope again, spotting a small group of figures over the horizon. Zooming in with her scope she could see that they all had the skull and bones motif of the Rival Gunners. 'So they must have taken over, but what are they doing out here?' Shino thought as she looked at their equipment as they walked. They were all armed to the teeth with what appeared to be live ammo guns, one of them carrying a minigun if the giant size of the person was anything to go by.
'They must be after me.' Shino thought grimly as she aimed at the minigun user, aiming up her shot so that the very first bullet would put him out of commison. 'I've had over two years of practice shooting mobs and players before this death game, this is easy.' Shino thought as she took her shot.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Her online name is SINON!
Omega E The Reader: Well besides that what do you think of what Shino has been doing?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Not much to write home about. As I said, the misnaming is the main problem of this.
Sin Count: 1230
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: And from now on, every time the fic says 'Shino' instead of Sinon, I will add one sin.
BGM: Sword Art Online – Sinon Theme
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: The BGM is LITERALLY titled "Sinon Theme", so calling her Shino is THAT much more jarring.
Omega E The Reader: Misnaming for stupidity.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Shino is her real name. And unlike Asuna, she did NOT use her real name as her in-game name!
Sin Count: 1235
The bullet flew through the air fast and true, planting itself between the eyes of the large player, his body dissolving into sparks as the other gunners turned and started firing wildly at her perch, the bullets not even reaching the top of her tower as Shino lined up her next shot, the bullet lines lining up and taking her shot, hitting the next player and causing him to shatter, leaving only five left.
Sin Count: 1236
The five gunners scrambled for cover as Shino took her third shot, killing another gunner and leaving only four. One of the gunners making a break from the bottom of her tower as she took a shot, killing a fourth gunner as a loud bang resounded from the bottom of her tower, the rumbling of the tower alerting her to her trap having gone off, killing the fifth gunner and leaving two.
Sin Count: 1237
One of the gunners panicked and started running away, Shino not caring about him as she shot her final bullet, killing the last gunner as one escaped, leaving her alone once again. 'Simple…' Shino thought as she closed her eyes and held her head. She had just basically murdered and bunch of psychos. 'Please just let this nightmare of a game be over soon… please.' Shino thought grimly, preparing for the inevitable attack that would most likely be coming for her.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Three times in one paragraph? Wow.
Sin Count: 1240
BGM: Fallout 4 OST – Wandering, The City
The group of five wandered the city, Komachi leading them somewhere as they looked at the desolate landscape around them, the supplies that had looted stuffed away for later in magic compartments. "This place gives me the dam creeps." Marisa complained, Nitori silently agreeing with her as they looked around the destroyed city, buildings standing broken and battered just from the force of the bombs that had hit.
Their first destination was a large tower, the rubble piling up near it's base from loose stones and stuff that had fallen off the outside of the tower. "Keep your eyes out… I don't think we're alone." Kyoko said suddenly, having stopped at the same time as Komachi. "One of those radiated beasts again?" Vaati asked, almost sounding bored. "More then likely… about fifty meters behind us." Kyoko said, the girls all turning around and looking behind them, seeing little more then destroyed buildings and rubble.
"Leave it, we have things to find." Komachi said, turning back around and walking towards the building again. "Alright… I just hope it isn't something big." Vaati muttered as she floated after her, Kyoko and Nitori following as Marisa scanned the buildings for but a moment longer, her eyes flicking between buildings as slight shifts in the rubble and falling rubble from the buildings being the only movements she could see. 'I hope this isn't a stupid choice.' Marisa thought as she turned her broom around and followed the other girls inside, the rubble shifting as a pair of eyes blinked open from the darkness of a building, a low growl unheard to all but the beast itself as it waited for what it thought would be it's prey.
Inside the building lights were flickering on and off as the girls looked around the lobby, several vending machines laying in their sides with their contents spilt inside, Kyoko using her spear to smash the glass and start grabbing snacks as Komachi chuckled, looking down at the floor. "They're down there." Komachi said, Vaati floating up behind her. "Then make way." Vaati said, preparing to use some earth magic to rip through the ground until Komachi stopped her. "No, I don't want to risk anything, we'll take the long way around." She said as she started walking towards a hallway. "Which means it's time to explore." Komachi said smirking as Kyoko snacked on a pokey stick she had just looted from the machine.
Vaati however decided to open a random door and look inside, before slamming it shut as both what she saw, and the smell assaulted her mind and nose. "Don't go in here." Vaati muttered as Marisa pushed her out of the way and opened the door anyway, before doing the exact same thing as Vaati while shutting the door slowly. Komachi smirking as she knew what they had probably scene wasn't anything pretty, served Marisa right.
Nitori however was looking around the rooms, opening doors and scanning the rooms with the night vision goggles installed in her helmet, finding nothing more then cleaning closest and empty rooms until she found a room filled with boxes that all had the same design of a helmet on them. Picking one up she held it up and looked for the name, finding one on the side with a slightly different kanji then she was used to. "Nerve… Gear… Huh." Nitori muttered as Marisa walked up behind her and grabbed the box, ripping it open and pulling out a helmet, dropping several wires onto the floor as well.
Holding the helmet in her hands Marisa inspected it closely, smirking as she took her own hat off and stuck the helmet on her head. "Look at me, now I got Nitori's helmet!" Marisa said laughing as her yellow eyes blinked behind the gray glass that covered her eyes, the metal helmet not covering her back length yellow hair all the way as it was flattened in the back slightly. "Knock it off Marisa, if you want to kept the toy you can keep it." Vaati said quietly as Marisa pulled the helmet off and shoved it into her hat, before sticking her hat back on and smiling.
The group continued it's journey through the halls of the building as they went deeper and deeper underground, eventually coming up to a steel door with some sort of keypad. "Steel reinforcement… how much you want to bet something that was not meant for people is behind this door." Kyoko joked as Marisa pulled a small bottle out from her pocket with a fuse, using a bit of magic to light the fuse and running away as everyone followed her and covered themselves, the bomb bottle going off and blowing it's acidic contents reducing the steel door to a melting goop, the walls and ground around the blast also melting.
"I think you over did it Marisa." Vaati said in a complete deadpan as she floated over the melting goop, the others following her as they entered the dark room. Inside was a large room filled with metal boxes and beeping lights. Komachi walking up and down the aisles of metal boxes as she focused on one in particular. "Found them." Komachi muttered as she looked at the box, Marisa moving to try and grab it as Komachi slapped her hand, pointing the many, many wires connected to each box. "These things are being powered, if we pull it out we risk killing them." Komachi said, Marisa making a huff as Vaati started talking.
"Yukari, I know you're watching, any ideas?" Vaati asked to thin air as a gap opened beside her, Yukari walking through with a huff. "Always ruining my fun aren't you." She pouted, Vaati smiling slightly. "It's what I do, any ideas?" Vaati asked pointing at the metal box Komachi and Marisa were standing in front of. "That's a server, a sort of online computer world for multiplayer gaming." Yukari said as she walked up to it. "Yeah can I have that in standard Japanese please?" Marisa asked, confused and scratching her head. "It's a world people can hook themselves up to to enter, putting their minds and souls inside to play and returning them to the body after they are done." Yukari said, Marisa nodding as Komachi looked at it. "But let me guess, body expires while mind is still in there, we end up with trapped souls and minds." Komachi said. Yukari shaking her head.
"Normally that would not be the case, the mind would expire with the body… but I believe with the advent of the apocalypse anything has become possible." Yukari said. "So basically it's like the fallout games?" Nitori asked, having gone through and messed with literally every game she could get her hands on for ideas. "In a sense, yes." Yukari said. Vaati had to scratch her head at that one, how did Yukari know about those? "So can we enter the dam thing and pull them out into the real world? I wouldn't put it past you to just bend reality and get them out with the bodies they have in this thing." Komachi said, Yukari chuckling. "Since when have you, or I preferred anything the easy way?" Yukari said, gesturing to everyone but the ever lazy Komachi. "You're going to send us into this thing, aren't you." Kyoko said, Yukari smirking. "There are two other server worlds with people inside besides this one, and it's up to you who you want to bring with you for this." Yukari said cryptically as Komachi sighed. "Count me out, I just want to go home, leave the exploring to the heroes." Komachi complained as Kyoko shrugged.
Omega E The Reader: So does the idea of the minds of the SAO characters being trapped in the NerveGear work or not?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: MAYBE with the Underworld Arc.
Omega E The Reader: Why in that arc specifically?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Things get REALLY crazy in that arc.
Omega E The Reader: How crazy?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Entire AI world with it's own magic system and composed of sentient AIs. Minds being, well, trapped inside the VR world, with the implication that it is no longer connected to the body.
Omega E The Reader: Okay? But is it possible WITHOUT that happening and it is currently happening in this fic or not?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: With only the NerveGear? I don't think so.
Omega E The Reader: So that's a no then?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: That's a no.
Omega E The Reader: So basically this all shouldn't be possible.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Pretty much.
Sin count: 1251
"Do we get time to get ready?" Nitori asked, Yukari nodding. "Well then, let's assemble the team before we do anything stupid." Marisa said, wisely for once. "You're still going to do something stupid." Vaati pointed out, Marisa smirking. "Is there any other way?" She asked before walking through the gap Yukari opened up. "No I suppose not when you are around." Vaati complained quietly before floating after her, the others following as they left the server room, the lights flickering as usual as they planned their 'rescue.'
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Oh it's gonna be stupid, I promise you.
Omega E The Reader: Yes I can agree.
(Stage Clear)
AN: The apocalypse is a still ass place, just place any Fallout game and… you know what I mean. Now we have the SAO survivors, which is Yui, Kirito, Asuna, Klein, Argo, Silica and Agil… sad I know, and in Alfhiem we have the largest population of survivors… at about three hundred with only five surviving races. And in Gun Gale it's more like your standard Fallout game, with Shino/ Sinon as our hero. So yeah challenges ahead for our heroes of all shapes and sizes, and death is a permanent issue to anyone who is not Cirno, Vaati, or Mokou in this story… as it has already claimed poor Recon and Sigurd, also Oberon/ Sugu isn't around so F**k him.
Omega E The Reader: You know for an arc involving the souls of people trapped in a game…why hasn't the Ministry gotten involved?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: You'd think they'd at LEAST send Komachi or something...
Omega R The Reader: Komachi is known for being able to see and interact with souls.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: And she was the key player in the Madoka arc.
Omega E the Reader: So there's that to take into account…
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Yet now she's back to doing absolutely nothing.
Omega E The Reader: Alongside Eiki and the REST of the MINISTRY OF RIGHT AND WRONG! Do you REALLY think that an organization who's main role is to judge souls to where they go would ALLOW trapped souls to still live on in those NerveGears or something?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Absolutely not.
Omega E The Reader: And also…I found it odd how the Ministry HASN'T been shown doing anything with the souls of those killed in this Great War of sorts.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: Does the author really think the Ministry is just twirling their thumbs all the time?
Omega E The Reader: No! They aren't some random organization. They are important in maintaining the basic cycle of life, rebirth and death! They would go out of their way to make sure all of those killed in the war are sent to Hell or Heaven!
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: So they'd be OVERWORKED.
Omega E The Reader: Yep! Because of all of this war and destruction!
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: You'd THINK that would be a major point.
Omega E the Reader: But it's not!
Sin Count: 1260
Omega E The Reader: Also really? You REMOVED a MAJOR ANTAGONIST from this story because you hate him? Love or hate a villain, that doesn't give you the right to completely write out a major antagonist as Sugou is IMPORTANT to the second arc of SAO. So I think I can chalk to you removing him for the simple idea that you bash him. But what do you, Lunatic, think of Vaati's reasons for removing Sugou?
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: I'd say it's wasted potential. He could've been using his Administrator Privileges to rule ALO as a God and give the heroes a powerful antagonist to fight. Just imagine, Sugo, as Oberon, ruling ALO with an iron fist and actually give Recon and Sigurd's deaths more meaning by making HIM directly responsible for their deaths and give Leafa and the others a personal grudge against him (in fact, I wouldn't have put that Unforgivable Sin if Sugou had killed them both in a meaningful way (like Recon dying heroically to save Leafa's life), as this would've made his threat REAL, but I most definitely would've put an Unforgivable Sin if they allowed Sugou to get away with everything). And then the "Diplomacy Team" (what the author calls those Gensokyo sent to ALO in the next chapter) arrive and unite the ALO players to form an army great enough to challenge Oberon and bring down the mad tyrant. Such potential for a great story arc...wasted. Forty sins for that waste.
Sin Count: 1300
Stupid Power Level Count: 1 (unchanged)
Unforgivable Sin Count: 2 (unchanged)
So yeah the first arc, of this story is the Vitrual World arc, featuring all three virtual worlds as our heroes progress through them and save people… more like save Alfheim and the Sao survivors and literally only Shino from Gun Gale.
But yeah, I want YOU the views to review this first chapter, WHO DO YOU WANT AS THE HEROES! Yeah, it's up the the views who the party of heroes is for this arc, but let it already be said that Vaati, Marisa and Nitori are already included, and no one who hasn't been meet yet can't be included, so make your reviews and I'll pick the party from there.
Lunatic-Over'9000'Lord: I'd say sword users.
Omega E The Reader: Definitely…But it's not what it was shown instead. You'll see…