Crossover Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Sailor Moon Online ❯ Full-Dive into a Bunny’s Worst Nightmare ( Chapter 1 )

Since you are reading this, you are reading my first Sailor Moon crossover that doesn’t involve Naruto at all! However, this story idea was inspired by another earlier crossover fanfiction that involves both Sailor Moon and Sword Art Online along with a number of other anime/manga/whatnot, but while this story was inspired by that crossover work of mine, this story is totally different from that crossover! This story will start through the Aincard arc and as far as I know, it will go to the end of the Fairy Dance Arc of Sword Art Online storyline. However, from here, you are going to have to read and find out who is going to be the main characters and whatnot, folks! And I warn you, there are going to be plenty of OOC in this story too!

I DO NOT OWN Sailor Moon, Sword Art Online and anything/anyone that comes from these and other stories that end up in this fanfiction! Sailor Moon is owned/licensed by Naoko Takeuchi and its various studios and publishers and Sword Art Online is owned/licensed by ASCII Media Works, A-1 Pictures Inc., and its various directors/publishers including Reki Kawahara and Tomohiko Itô!

Warning: This story contains intense violence, blood, possible gore, death, mild to explicit suggestive themes, including mind-control and brainwashing, mild to explicit bad language, and mature adult themes/situations!

Second Warning: Some to a lot of OOC (Out of Character) actions and mannerisms in this whole story!

Sailor Moon Online

Chapter 1: Full-Dive into a Bunny’s Worst Nightmare

Crystal Tokyo, November 6, 2922

Inside of Crystal Tokyo, the capital city of thirtieth century planet Earth, we head into the crystal palace, home of the ruling family of this majestic world of beauty and peace, where we find a gorgeous woman with golden blond hair in two long pigtails with the buns of the pigtails looking like round meatballs, a golden crown on the front of her scalp, a golden crescent moon sigil on her forehead, blue eyes, lovely and full pink lips, and she is wearing a pearly white royal dressed with wing-like bow attached to the rear area of her dress. This gorgeous woman is Neo-Queen Serenity, wife of King Endymon, king of the Earth, and the rulers of what is known as new Silver Millennium in which people don’t know sickness and they live at least one thousand years. People still die since they are still mortals in which even the king and queen agree that people living forever will destroy the balance of the universe, but people live for a really long time and their bodies don’t physically age beyond their thirties in which they don’t suffer the ‘diseases’ of old age. It isn’t perfect since even the king and queen agree that perfection is a contradiction, but it is as close to paradise as possible while making sure that people don’t suffer through laziness or greed due to the excellent health, long lives, and peaceful time for the planet and its people.

While they live in the palace, the king and queen try their best to ‘rule with the people’ not ‘rule the people on a crystal throne’ since it is believed that it is a ruler’s duty to protect the people and their rights as living intelligent beings. Their duty is to their people and they rule only through the hearts, minds, and will of their people. And today, Neo-Queen Serenity remembers an event from her past as she watches a holographic screen showing a television with the words ‘Nine-hundredth anniversary of the SAO incident today’.

Neo-Queen Serenity thinks in her mind, “SAO… Sword Art Online… It was to be the start of the next generation of gaming: The VRMMO. The Full-Dive promised a new frontier for all of mankind! A brand new virtual universe where you can go and be anything that you only thought that you could do in dreams! Or that’s what I thought until THAT day, the horrible day when a family member that I so loved and trusted turned that dream into a nightmarish netherworld for me and nearly ten thousand other people! It was an ordeal that tested me like never before and my heart still feels the scars to this very day. It has been nearly a millennia since then, but I remember what happened as if it was just yesterday…”

November 6, 2022, Tsukino Family Home

Inside of the Tsukino family home, we find Serena Tsukino AKA Sailor Moon, age 16, laughing excitedly as she is holding a box containing a picture of a castle with the words ‘Sword Art Online’ with giddy look on her face.

Serena says, excitedly, “I got it! I actually got it!”

Serena’s talking Lunarian feline, a black female feline with a golden crescent moon on her forehead and ruby red eyes, Luna, responds, “Well, it isn’t surprising since you are the niece of Akihiko Kayaba after all, Serena. I was surprised to find out that your mother was the sister of the creator of the NervGear.”

Serena tells Luna, “Well, mom always said that Uncle Kayaba had the brains of the family.”

Luna asks, “What is your uncle like Serena?”

Serena thinks for a minute and she responds, warmly, “He is a bit strange, but then again, he doesn’t stray away from the typical genius. Mom said that he didn’t do social circles, but when I was with him, he always called me his ‘princess’. And he always dreamed about castles and floating castles and he showed me the development of Aincard, the floating castle in Sword Art Online. In fact, he and I always shared our ideas and in fact, I gave him the idea to make his game unique by not having any magic in it.”

Luna asks, amazed, “Really?”

Serena says, with a grin, “Yep! And in fact, I’m the first person ever to do a Full-Dive with the first completed NervGear!”

Luna asks, stunned, “Are you serious, Serena?”

Serena responds, with a pout, “Of course I’m serious, Luna!” Serena points to what looks like a helmet with a deep and smooth blue color with the letters ‘NVG’ with the word ‘NervGear’ below those letters.

Luna asks, “However, I wonder: Why did he make only ten thousand copies of the game?”

Serena replies, with a scoff, “A marketing gimmick, Luna. There are a ton of hard core gamers out there, including yours truly, who have been waiting for an awesome game like this one! To go into another world to meet people, have adventures, and enjoy yourself!”

Luna says, with a nod, “True. MMO are among the most popular video and computer games ever since the start of the information age and the twenty-first century. With the world wide web, the internet, wireless connections, satellites, and the like, people from different parts of the world can meet up, discuss, and even go into ‘different worlds’.”

Serena says, with a nod, “Yep! But this way, you don’t control an avatar that you make with a keyboard or controller. You become your own avatar! You are the one actually swinging the sword, talking to people face to the face instead of doing it like e-mailing or texting… It’s just so cool!” Serena says, with a sigh, “I just wished that Mina-chan and Lita-chan managed to get one and we could have gone adventuring together.”

Luna says, “Well, there were only ten thousand hard copies made, Serena. Since you are the niece of the creator of the game and the NervGear itself, it isn’t surprising that you managed to get one.”

Serena says, with a mischievous smile, “It pays to have friends in Argus, Luna.” Serena then starts to set up the game on the computer hard drive and such that she needs in which Serena then starts to undo her pigtails and lets her blond hair flow in which Serena says, “However, it is a real pain since I’ve got to let my hair flow free in order to fit my head into the NervGear.”

Just then a male voice says, “Your big meatballs would bust the NervGear that Uncle Kayaba gave you through I’m surprised that you didn’t already.” Serena then glares at younger brother, Sammy Tsukino, age 13, and Sammy says, annoyed, “I can’t believe it! This is the day that game goes official and I have to get a check-up.”

Serena tells Sammy, with a sly tone, “We’ve got to make sure that Uncle Kayaba’s NervGear didn’t mess up that mind of yours, but then again, you are already quite nutty.” Sammy sticks his tongue out at Serena and Serena retorts, “Don’t give me that Sammy! You got to beta test the game for two months and I couldn’t stand you bragging about it!” Serena says, with a grin, “Well, I get to play it on the first day that it opens! I can tell you that the final version rocks and I get to see it before you! Maybe I’ll make it to the top floor first!”

Sammy responds, “Ha! When I come back, I’m going to kick your Meatball Head butt! We’ll see who gets to the top first!”

Serena says, with a grin, “You are going to eat my dust, squirt!”

Ikuko Tsukino, Serena’s and Sammy’s mother, comes over to the doorway and she says, “That’s enough, you two. Both of you will be able to enjoy my brother’s game soon enough.”

Sammy says, “Yeah, yeah.”

As Sammy walks off, Ikuko tells Serena, with a warm smile, “Now, don’t stay in there too long, sweetie. If you get too immersed in the game, you could really get trapped in there.”

Serena responds, “Oh, mom, I’ll be fine. This is Uncle Kayaba we’re talking about.”

Ikuko says, with a sigh and smile, “He always tended to be a perfectionist when it came to his work. Despite him being famous as the first one to develop the Full-Dive system and creating this wonderful VRMMO, with yours and Sammy’s help, he has been quite humble.”

Serena asks, “Has he always been like this?”

Ikuko responds, with a nod, “As far as I knew him, sweetie. Despite him having such talent, he never was boastful or arrogant. He is always calm and soft-spoken, but despite his ‘calm attitude’, he never really got into social circles. Like many genius, he is your typical ‘book worm’ and despite him developing the NervGear, he wasn’t into computers or gaming in the past.”

Serena asks, “Really?”

Ikuko nods her head and she says, “Oops! We had better get going! We’ll see you tonight sweetie!”

Serena says, with a smile, “Bye mom!” Ikuko then takes off while making sure to leave Serena’s door open in which while Serena prepares to do a ‘Full-Dive’, Ikuko, Kenji Tsukino, Sammy’s and Serena’s father, and Sammy, get into a family car and take off for Sammy’s doctor appointment.

Luna tells Serena, “Anyway, I’m heading out. I’m going to meet with Artemis.”

Serena asks, with a sly grin, “Finally going out on a date?”

Luna responds, with a blush, “No! What gave you that ridiculous idea?”

Serena replies, with a grin, “Well, you and Artemis do have Diana in the future.”

Luna replies, with a blush, “That’s in the future, Serena!”

Serena tells Luna, with a sly grin, “You can deny it all you want, Luna.” Luna gives a pout while still blushing and she takes off out of Serena’s room in which she goes out the backdoor with a special ‘pet door’ installed for her. On the meanwhile, Serena has NervGear on her head and she lies down on her bed. Serena thinks in her mind, “Geez! Why did Uncle Kayaba make the NervGear so heavy? But then again, it is cutting edge technology after all.” Serena takes a deep breath, smiles, closes her eyes, and she says, “Link start!” Serena then goes into a ‘slumber’ as her mind is transported into a virtual world and after going through a check of the system and such, Serena creates her own avatar and gives it the name of Usagi. When she is done, the words ‘Welcome to Sword Art Online’ appear in front of her ‘mental eye’ and she sees herself in front of a large city in which more and more people are appearing in the squire of the large city. Serena’s current avatar, Usagi, is a young woman with short blond hair, brown eyes, wearing a simple red dress with the skirt going to just above her kneecaps, pink sleeves that cover from her wrists almost to the tops of her arms, simple brown boots, and a brown belt across her waist containing a small sword, one of the initial weapons for the players in the game. Serena or Usagi, as she is called now in SAO, says, with an excited tone, “Oh, wow! Hello, SAO, Usagi is in the house!” Our Moon Princess jumps for joy and sets out while a black haired young man who’s avatar name is Kirito and he is a former beta tester of SAO heads out in which a dark red haired young man wearing a bandana runs after him seeing that Kirito seems to know his way around. His name or should I say, his SAO avatar’s name, is Klein. What the three of them don’t know at this moment is their futures are going to be intertwined together with others in a nightmare for them an all of the players of SAO.

November 6, 2022, Around 4:00-5:00 PM, Cherry Hill Shrine

Inside of Cherry Hill Shrine, Serena’s friends, Ami Mizuno, Raye Hino, Lita Kino, and Mina Aino also known as Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter, and Sailor Venus are assembled together with Mina giving a pout.

Mina says, “Oh, man! I can’t believe it! Serena managed to get her hands on one of the copies of SAO!”

Lita says, with a grin, “She must be having a blast by now!”

Ami says, with a smile, “She must be, Lita-chan. I was surprised to learn that her mother is the sister of the creator of the first successful Full-Dive system and the first VRMMO to go with it. Not to mention that Serena was the first one ever to use a NervGear.”

Mina says, with a pout, “Must be fun to have a genius uncle.” Just then Raye gasps as images flow through her mind as she sees the city of the game that their best friend and princess just ‘dived into’, SAO, a large faceless red cloaked avatar in the sky, the players of SAO assembled together in panic, Serena, in her avatar of Usagi, but her face and body structure is exactly as she is in real life, is looking on from the deck of a inn, Serena’s real body with her NervGear attached to her head, and the massive floating castle that SAO takes place in: Aincard.

Raye gasps in shock and horror and Ami asks, stunned, “What happened?”

Lita asks Raye, “What’s wrong?”

Raye says, “I can’t believe it! I… I just had visions!”

Ami asks, surprised, “Without using the Sacred Fire of your temple?!”

Raye says, with a nod, “Yes, Ami-chan. I saw a huge city… a faceless… man… through I’m not sure… a huge group of panicked people… Serena was among… she had a look of horror and disbelief in her eyes… I saw Serena… with a NervGear on her head… and then I saw a huge floating castle…”

Mina asks, “A floating castle?”

Raye says, “A very huge castle… like it is whole other world… and I heard a name… Aincard…”

Lita asks, surprised, “Aincard? Are you sure?”

Raye asks, “Yes?”

Ami asks Lita, “You know something?”

Lita responds, “That’s the name of the floating castle that Sword Art Online takes place on! Serena told me about it! Her brother was a beta tester for the game!”

There are multiple gasps and Raye, realizing what the visions, meant, shouts out, “We have to get to Serena’s immediately! Transform and move!”

The other Sailor Scouts are shocked and Mina asks, “What?”
Raye yells out, “Meatball Head is in danger! Big danger! We have to go now! Now!” Raye takes out her transformation wand and the other Sailor Scouts do the same in which they prepare to transform and run to the Tsukino household as fast as they can.

November 6, 2022, Around 5:30 PM, the First Floor of Aincard

Back inside of the game, Usagi yelps as she gets injured by a weak wolf monster and she notices that it didn’t hurt as much she thought it would.

Usagi says, “Whoa! It didn’t hurt as much as I thought it would!” Usagi yelps as she dodges an attack from the wolf monster and she says, nervously, “I really should have read the manual more!” Somehow, she managed to defeat the weak wolf monster and she takes a deep breath. Usagi takes a look at the time and she says, “Mom said that after Sammy’s appointment, they would be going shopping and bringing home dinner! I can’t wait to see what they got!” Usagi licks her lips and with her right hand, she opens up her player menu to go to the options buttons that has the logout button, but when she gets to where the logout button is, she doesn’t find the logout. She asks, confused, “Huh? Where’s the logout button?” Usagi pushes what should be the logout button, but nothing happens in which she asks, “Is this some kind of bug? No! No way! Not after the beta testing! Uncle Kayaba was so through with this game! He took every detail SAO personally! Not even a minor bug would pass under his watchful eye of the game code especially with the beta testing to make sure that nothing went wrong!” Usagi becomes nervous and concern as a horrible feeling creeps up and she says, nervously, “I… I don’t like this. Something’s wrong. I can feel it.” Just then Usagi hears the bells in the Starting City, the starting area for all of the players in SAO, ring and Usagi then gasps as she is covered in a bright light. And the next thing that she knew is she was inside of a building and she asks, “Hey! What’s going on?” Usagi tries to exit out of the building, but she can’t. Usagi says, nervously, “Okay, I seriously don’t like this!” Usagi looks out the window in which she sees the ‘sky’ of this virtual world become filled with panels that either say ‘Warning’ or ‘System Announcement’ and Usagi says, “I can’t see!” Usagi then sees a stairway, runs up the stairs, and out onto the balcony of an building some distance from the starting plaza in which she witness a massive red robe figure without a face in the hood of the robe. Usagi says, “Hold on! That’s… That’s the clothing of a SAO GM! Sammy told me about them!”

Just then the massive avatar says, in a male voice, “Attention players! I, welcome you, to my world!”

Usagi thinks in her mind, recognizing the voice, “Wait! Uncle Kayaba?!”

The massive avatar says, “My name is Akihiko Kayaba and as of this moment, I am in control of this world.” Usagi wanted to call out to the avatar, but something in her gut told her not to and the massive avatar says, “I’m sure that most of you have noticed something missing from your main menus: The Logout button.” The massive avatar creates a player menu in front of him and he says, “Let me assure you, this is not a defect in the game. I repeat: This is not a defect. This is how Sword Art Online was designed to be.”

Usagi gasps in shock and she thinks, stunned, “Uncle Kayaba, what are you saying?!”

The massive avatar says, “You cannot log yourselves and no one from the outside will be able to remove the NervGear from your head. If anyone attempts to, your NervGear will discharge a microwave signal into your brain, destroying it, and ending your life.”

Usagi becomes completely horrified and she thinks, shocked, “No! No, uncle! What are you saying? What are you doing?!”

The massive avatar then says, “Despite my warning, the friends and family of some players attempted to remove the NervGear and as a result, the game has two hundred and thirteen less players. They have been deleted from both Aincard and the real world.” Usagi gives a look of pure horror and the massive avatar says, creating dozens of holographic images of news reports from television, internet, and print showing reports about what’s unfolding in the ‘real world’, “As you can see, there is round the clock news coverage including the deaths. At this point, the likely hood of a NervGear being removed is minimum at best. I hope this brings you a little comfort as you complete the game. It is important to remember the following: There is no longer any way to revive anyone in the game. If your HP drops to zero, your avatar will be deleted… and your NervGear will simultaneously destroy your brain.”

Usagi stumbles backwards, shakes her head in disbelief, and she thinks, completely horrified, “No… No! Uncle Kayaba, what have you done? Why are you doing this?!”

The massive avatar, supposed Akihiko Kayaba, then says, “There is only one way to escape now. You must clear the game.” The massive avatar then displays a hologram of the floating castle of Aincard and it says, “Right now, you are gathered on floor one, the lowest level of Aincard. If you get through the dungeon and defeat the boss, you will be allowed to advance to the next floor. Defeat the boss at one hundredth floor and you clear the game!”

Usagi thinks in her mind, “But… But how?! Sammy told me himself! The beta testers only managed to get to the sixth to tenth floors! I’m not sure with his bragging and teasing me during the beta testing, but I know that they didn’t even clear the first tenth of this game!”

The massive avatar then says, “And last, but not least. I have placed in the item storage of every player. Have a look.” Usagi goes through her player menu and she finds in her item area, there is an item that says ‘mirror’ in it. She gives it form and a small mirror takes form in her hand in which she looks inside to see her avatar’s face. Just then she gasps and yelps as she is glowing and the light is bright that she is unable to see for a few moments. When she opens her eyes and she looks in the mirror, she gasps to see her face in real life reflected in the mirror with her long blond hair flowing since she couldn’t keep it in her classic pigtails while using the NervGear. Usagi says, “That’s my face! What I look like in real life! But how?! I don’t get…!!” Usagi then gasps as she remembers a while ago when Ami explained about the NervGear and about how it has a powerful scanning feature which she didn’t play close attention, but she still remembers. Usagi says, “Okay, it explains how it knows my face.” When Usagi looks over herself and she sees that her body, under her current clothing, looks exactly like it does in real life, she asks, “But how can it get my body exactly as it does?” Usagi then remembers about when she used the NervGear for the first time and how the other Sailor Scouts, who also got NervGears before SAO came, also talked about ‘calibration’ and she thinks, “Does it means that when we touched our bodies, it got our physical data?! Uncle Kayaba is a genius, so, I wouldn’t put it by him to figure out a way to get every bit of physical data about the users of his NervGear!” Usagi shakes her head and she thinks, in complete disbelief, “But why? Why is Uncle Kayaba doing this?!”

As if to answer Usagi’s question, the massive avatar says, “Right now, you must be thinking: Why? Why would Akihiko Kayaba, developer of Sword Art Online and the NervGear do this? An act of terrorism? An elaborate kidnapping to exact ransom money? I can assure you that this is nothing of the sort. The answer is simple: I created Sword Art Online was control of a fate of a world of my design.”

Usagi thinks in her mind, completely horrified, “Do you how insane that sounds, Uncle Kayaba?!”

The massive avatar then says, “As you can see, I have achieved my goal. This concludes the tutorial phase of Sword Art Online. I wish you the best of luck dear players.” Soon after, the massive avatar turns into virtual smoke and fades into the virtual sky which returns to normal soon after and Usagi and all of the players in the main plaza stay their silent in disbelief, but Usagi knew that this was no joke and no gag. She was no technological genius to say the least, but she knew that her uncle, Akihiko Kayaba, was a genius of a level to do such a thing and she knew that everything that this avatar that was said to be her uncle is the completely and utter truth. She completely realizes that if she dies here, she will die in real life! Just then Usagi can hear massive screams and yells of horror, fear, anger, and disbelief in which she falls to her knees and her avatar’s eyes now flow with virtual tears.

Usagi says, weakly, “How could you? How could you, Uncle Kayaba?” Usagi then starts to cry and wail in which she screams out, “How could you do this?! How could you?! This was a wonderful dream that we were supposed to share with everyone! A new world for everyone to love and enjoy! A new frontier! And now… Now, you have turned it into a nightmare!” Usagi holds herself and she thinks, in complete disbelief and horror, “This has to be a horrible dream! A nightmare!” However, Usagi knows that this is happening for real despite it being a virtual world. She is trapped in a virtual world with close to ten thousand other people and over two hundred are already dead because her uncle, Akihiko Kayaba, who had turned this, the first VRMMO, into a ‘death game’. She collapses to her knees and she thinks in her mind, pure fear and horror on her face, “Mom… dad… Ami-chan… Mina-chan… Raye-chan… Lita-chan… Amara-chan… Hotaru-chan… Michelle-chan… Trista-chan… DARIEN-KUN!!! Someone help me! Save me! Please! Someone save us! Help us, please!” Usagi then falls into a fetal position and cries her virtual eyes out while Kirito leads Klein and tries to convince him to come with him, but Klein declines since he has a group of friend that also brought game and joined him in it. Kirito feels that despite his beta tester experience, he won’t be able to help Klein and his friends, however, Klein, knowing what Kirito is thinking, tells him to go off alone and he and his friends will be fine on their own. Kirito, very reluctantly, leaves Klein and it is a regret that will always haunt him. However, what Kirito doesn’t know that he and our Moon Princess along others will be crossing paths as this nightmarish ‘death game’ starts in chaos.

November 6, 2022, After 5:30 PM, Tsukino household

Sailor Mercury, Sailor Venus, Sailor Mars, and Sailor Jupiter arrive at the Tsukino household and kick in the back door in which they rush into the house.

Sailor Mars yells out, “Serena! Serena!”

Sailor Jupiter shouts out, “Serena!” They rush to Serena’s room and they gasp in horror as they see Serena’s motionless form with the NervGear on her head on her bed.

Sailor Venus says, shocked, “Oh no!”

Sailor Jupiter steps forward, but Luna leaps onto the bed and she screams out, “No! Don’t touch it! Touch that NervGear and it may think that you are trying to remove it! If it does, it will send out a microwave that will fry Serena’s brain and kill her instantly!”

The Sailor Scouts gasp in shock and Sailor Mars says, shocked, “No way!”

Sailor Mercury responds, “I believe that’s possible, Sailor Mars. The NervGear uses microwaves and if the safeties are disabled, it could create a microwave that could damage the human brain and it has the power to do it since it has an internal battery. A third of the NervGear is a battery!”

Luna says, with a nod, “That’s right! Over two hundred people are dead when family and friends of the players of SAO attempted to remove the NervGear!”

There are more gasps and Sailor Jupiter asks, “What’s going on?”

Luna responds, with a sneer, “Akihiko Kayaba has started his game.”

There are more gasps of surprise and Sailor Mercury asks, “Serena’s uncle? The creator of the NervGear itself?”

Luna says, with a nod, “He is claiming reasonability and there is nothing that we can do. Serena is trapped in SAO.”

The Inner Sailor Scouts gasp and Sailor Venus says, horrified, “No!”

Luna tells them, “Transform back! By now, Serena’s family have already seen the news and they must be on their way! Call the emergency services and get them down here immediately!”

The Inner Sailor Scouts transform back into their ‘civilian forms’ and Mina says, with a nod, “Right!”

As Mina runs out of the room, Luna tells Ami, “Ami, start scanning the NervGear! We need to find something… anything that could allow us to bypass the ‘traps’ that Kayaba set up in the NervGear that could activate the trap that could kill Serena and free her from the NervGear and SAO! We need to work fast!”

Lita asks, concerned, “Why?”

Luna responds, “I managed to get information from all over the world and Central Command! From what I know, if Serena ‘dies’ in that game, her virtual avatar will be deleted and the NervGear’s ‘kill switch’ will be activated and killing her instantly!”

There are gasps and Raye yells out, “Are you saying that if Serena dies in that game, she will die right here and now?!”

Luna says, with a nod, “Exactly, Raye.”

Raye tells Ami, “Hurry, Ami!”

Ami gets out her computer and she responds, “Right!”

As Ami is typing and scanning the NervGear, Lita says, in a fearful tone, “Hold on, Serena! We’ll get you out of there! Just hold on!” But deep in their hearts, Ami and Luna had a horrible feeling that it won’t be that easy since they know that Kayaba is an incredible genius and Ami feels that he rivals her own intelligent.

Ami asks, “Why? Why would Serena’s own uncle do this?”

Raye responds, with an enraged expression, “I don’t know! And right now, I don’t care! If I ever find that son of a bitch, I will fry him, Sailor Scout rules or not, Luna! He is a dead man!”

Lita tells Raye, “If we find him, beat the information on how to get Serena and everyone else out of there first and then kill him!”
Raye responds, with a snort, “Fine!” Raye says, looking at Serena with pure fear in her eyes, “Don’t you dare die on us, Meatball Head. Not after all that we been through! Don’t you dare Serena!” As they can look at their leader’s motionless form, they can only hope and pray that she will survive in that virtual world without them until they can figure out how to set her and everyone else trapped in SAO free through Ami and Luna have a horrible feeling of helplessness in which they fear that they can do nothing for Serena.

November 9, 2022, Aincard First Floor, Town of Beginnings/Starting City

Within the Town of Beginnings, our Moon Princess, known as Usagi in SAO and looking like her real self, is sitting down on a bed in an inn in the starting city of SAO known as the Town of Beginnings. But unlike the joyful and bubbly Moon Princess that she usually is, her blue eyes are filled with sorrow, despair, and guilt. Her own uncle, the creator of SAO and the NervGear, has trapped her and nearly ten thousand other people inside of a virtual world where death here will mean your death in real life too. A virtual world that should have been a new frontier in game and adventuring was instead turned into a nightmare by her own uncle. She didn’t want to believe it! She hoped and prayed that it was some kind of nightmare, but the cold hard facts quickly caused to accept the truth that this is really happening. And it became even clearer at what she found at Blackiron Palace.

Within the building in this city, there was a chamber known as the Chamber of Resurrection, the area like in regular MMO where a character that dies is revived, in which it was the same for the beta test, however, now, there is a large metallic epitaph known as the Monument of Life where the avatar name of all of the players of SAO including her own were etched. And if a person dies, his name is crossed out and the player’s time of death and cause is printed on it. The first person, three hours after the official start of this ‘death game’, came when a person, unbelieving of what Kayaba said, jumped off the edge of Aincard where he vanished into the world below. His name was crossed off and the words ‘fell from a great height’ were etched by his crossed out name. The other players didn’t know if he was dead or not, but Usagi knew better. She knew that genius that’s her uncle, Akihiko Kayaba, and she can feel it deep in her heart that player was truly dead. Dead by her own uncle’s hands and dead from a game that she helped create with him when she was a child. And now, every single day she is hearing of more and more people dying in this ‘death game’ and it tears her to her very being.

For the past three days, she had hoped that her friends, the Sailor Scouts, especially Ami and Trista, would find a way to free her and thus, free everyone from this nightmare, but she also knew better. She knew that her uncle was that rare one in a million genius. She remembers conversations with Ami and Trista about how complex the NervGear was to them and she knew that her uncle would prepare for every ‘trick’ in the book. She knew that by now, her body, her real body, had been transferred to the hospital, since Kayaba sent a message where he informed the other players about the ways that NervGear’s ‘kill switch’ will activate and those situations will allow their real world bodies to be taken to hospital for long term care, where nutrients and liquids can be safely ‘forced’ into her body to keep it working and keep her alive in the real world, but even with her powers as a Sailor Scout and the Silver Crystal supporting her body, she knew that she couldn’t stay like this for long.

She was trapped in a prison and a nightmare made by a member of her own family. A member of her own family that she beloved as a children and called her ‘his princess’. She couldn’t understand it at all! Why would her own uncle do this?! An uncle, in her mind, was calm and quiet yet so gentle that he couldn’t hurt a fly! Was someone making him do this insanity? Was an evil force controlling him like Hotaru’s father, Doctor Tomoe, and Hotaru, in the form of Mistress Nine? Nothing made any sense to her! All she knew that her uncle has trapped her and nearly ten thousand other people in this ‘death game’ and she had no one! No mother. No father. No brother, which now she was glad that Sammy had that appointment and he wasn’t trapped with her in SAO, which is the only comfort that she had right now. No Sailor Scouts, her best female friends in the whole world. And finally, no Darien… his warm touch… his loving kisses… Gone! She was trapped and completely alone!

Usagi sheds a few more tears and she says, weakly, “Girls… Darien-kun… I need you…”

November 9, 2022, One of the hospitals in Tokyo

Inside one of the hospitals in Tokyo, there is a hospital room where Serena’s real body, still connected to the NervGear, is lying motionless where it is made sure that it is connected to a network and power is constantly supplied to make sure that the ‘kill switch’ in it doesn’t active and destroy Serena’s brain as well as various tubes with needles poking into her arms to ‘force’ water and nutrients that her body needs to survive as well as monitoring equipment. Assembled around Serena’s motionless form is Darien Shields, age 20, who is interning at the hospital, by Serena’s side and a look of pure horror and disbelief in his eyes and the Sailor Scouts, in their civilian forms, all of them with horrified, disbelieving, and other sets of emotions including anger and rage on Lita’s part as she paces around the room.

Lita yells out, “I hate this! I hate this! We’ve got to do something! Anything!”

Amara shouts out, “Don’t you think that the rest of us feel the same way, Lita-chan?! But we can’t! That thing is a booby trapped electric chair and one wrong move will turn our princess’ brain into burnt toast!”

Hotaru asks, in horror, “Why? Why would our hime’s uncle do this?”

Michelle hugs Hotaru and she responds, “I don’t understand either, Firefly.”

Darien looks at his love’s motionless form and he says, weakly, “Serena… Meatball Head…” He can only remember when he had come back when he heard about this and he remembered about Serena talking to him playing SAO.

Flashback; November 7, 2022

Rushing through the streets of Juuban and Tokyo is Darien Shields, wearing a motorcycle outfit and riding a motorcycle in which he is racing through the streets as fast as he can with a look of pure panic in his eyes. After Sailor Moon freed Sailor Galaxia from the wicked entity of Chaos and dispelled all over the universe to seal it away, Darien spent time with the others before deciding to go to America for a year, but only for a year or so. He had recently come back and gotten within the best college in Tokyo in which he left on a ‘field course’ to study all of Japan’s hospitals and ‘medicine practitioners’ as part of his studies at his college. But now, he is racing back into the city after learning about what’s being described as the ‘SAO incident’ and he remembers talking with his lover, his princess, Serena, about Sword Art Online since her uncle, Akihiko Kayaba, was the creator of the game and the NervGear. While not as much a gamer as his beloved, Darien had respected Kayaba since he knew that he had created a revolution not just in gaming, but a new frontier for humans to explore: The virtual and digital frontier.

But right now, he has just heard that same name has trapped around ten thousand people in that game and programmed their NervGear to destroy their brains if they died in that game or anyone attempted to remove the NervGear itself in which he had just heard that 213 people had already died on the first day alone when their family and friends attempted to do so. Knowing that Ikuko Tsukino is the sister of Akihiko Kayaba and her children are his niece and nephew, in which Sammy was a beta tester for the game, Darien knew that it was easy for Serena to get a hard copy of Sword Art Online and she had told her himself. As he races through the streets, he hopes and prays that for some reason… any reason, she didn’t put on the NervGear and is trapped in that ‘death game’.

Darien thinks in his mind, “Please… Please Meatball Head… Please be okay!” Soon enough, Darien arrives at the hospital in which if Serena is one of the victims, which Darien hopes against hope, she would be taken here due to the conditions set up by Akihiko Kayaba to allow the transfer of his ‘victims’. After finding a place to park, he rushes into the hospital proper and finds a doctor that he is a good friend with. Darien screams out, “Doctor Namishima!”

The doctor looks at Darien and he asks, surprised, “Darien?”

Darien runs over and he says, his voice full of panic, “Doctor Namishima, are the SAO victims being brought to this hospital?”

The doctor responds, a bit nervously, “Yes?”

Darien asks, hoping that the answer to this question is ‘no’, “Was a girl that goes by the name of Serena Tsukino admitted?”

The doctor asks, “Why do you ask Darien?”

Darien yells out, “She is my girlfriend!”

The doctor’s eyes widen, his expression becomes solemn, causing Darien’s eyes to widen, and the doctor says, solemnly, “I don’t know how to say this Darien… But yes, your girlfriend is one of the ten thousand victims of this horrible incident.” It was like a bullet was shot straight through his heart as his worst fears were confirmed and the doctor tells Darien, “She was just admitted. Actually, she is one of the first ones admitted when we learned how to transfer them without triggering the sequence that causes the NervGear to destroy the brain. She is a special hospital room under guard.”

Darien asks, “Under guard?”

The doctor responds, “She is the niece of Akihiko Kayaba, the man behind this madness. And right now, more and more people are dying every day and it is for her own protection in which the government is doing its best to make sure that the relation between Kayaba and the Tsukino family aren’t found out.” Darien realizes that it is for good reason in which they might take out their rage against Kayaba against his helpless beloved despite her being a victim of her own uncle’s madness.

Darien tells the doctor, pleadingly, “Namishima-sensei, please! I need to see her!”

The doctor responds, with a solemn nod, “Follow me, Darien. Her family and friends are already there and when they confirm you are her boyfriend, I’m sure that they will let you in.” Darien nods as he follows the doctor to a wing of the emergency treatment area of the hospital where there is a room with two military/police guards in which Darien is admitted into the room where he finds, much to his horror and disbelief, Serena’s motionless form on the hospital bed, the NervGear attached to her head, and her body connected to various sensors with needles connected to bags to put water and nutrients that her body needs to survive and stay functions. Surrounding her are the Sailor Scouts, all of them having looks of horror and disbelief on their expressions, and her family with her mother crying by her bedside, Sammy, a look of horror on his face with tears streaming down his cheeks, and Kenji, with a look of pure rage in his eyes.

Raye notices him and she says, weakly, “Darien…” However, Darien could only look in disbelief as he sees the love of his two lifetimes lying in that bed, motionless, and he stands there before he stumbles forward in which Amara stops him.

Amara tells Darien, “Easy, Darien. We don’t know if anything could set off that thing on her head.” Darien nods his head weakly and he is sat by Serena’s left side on the bed.

He holds her motionless left hand and he says, tears in his eyes, “Serena… Sere…”

Ami says, weakly, “She can’t hear you, Darien. She can’t hear anything of us. Her mind is trapped in SAO.”

As Darien starts to shed tears, Sammy says, in disbelief, “Why? Why is Uncle Kayaba doing this?! I don’t understand!”

Kenji says, in a calm tone, but his rage evident in his voice, “I don’t know, son. I just… I just don’t know! And right now, I don’t care why!” Kenji bangs the wall with his right fist and he yells out, angrily, “We believed in him! He betrayed us! All of us! He betrayed our princess most of all! We thought that he was creating a brand new world… A new frontier! I didn’t care much for the games, but even I knew that the creation of the Full-Dive could bring humanity into a new age! And now, he has turned it into a nightmare! He has betrayed our trust and he has betrayed my girl’s trust! He believed in him most of all! And now, he has taken her away from us! When I find him, he is going to wish that he was never born into this world!”

Ikuko says, weakly, “Kenji, please don’t… this… this isn’t helping our girl… our princess…” On the meanwhile, Darien is thinking about all of his memories with Serena, in their past life as Princess Serenity and Prince Endymon, and today, from their first meeting and all of their adventures after Serena became Sailor Moon. After Galaxia, he thought that he and his lover could finally enjoy a time of peace before they had to become Neo-Queen Serenity and King Endymon of Crystal Tokyo, but he always knew that future could always be destroyed at a moment’s notice since Trista always said that ‘the future is like molding clay and can shift forms at any time’. Now, the love of his life is trapped in a virtual world and could die at any time at the hands of her own uncle, a member of her own family that she beloved which was evident in the way that she talked about Kayaba in her own worlds. The knowledge of this turned Darien’s sorrow into anger and rage and he quickly gets up from his seat and starts to stomp off.

Lita says, stopping him, “Darien, where are you going?”

Darien responds, pure rage in his voice, “Where do you think, Lita?! I’m going to Argus right now!”

There are gasps and Michelle says, “There are police and government agents already there! You won’t be able to get in!”

Darien yells out, enraged, “I don’t care Michelle! I’ll find a way in and I’ll make them tell me where Kayaba is! And when I find him, I will force him to release Serena-chan and the others from this nightmare immediately even if I have to beat him to an inch of his life!”

Raye stomps over to him, slaps him in the face, and she yells at him, “Idiot! Don’t you think that any of us don’t want to do the same?! But that’s not going to help Meatball Head right now! How do you think that she will feel if she knows that we let ourselves get consumed by anger and rage over her and do the unthinkable?! Do you?!” With tears in her eyes, Raye glares at him and Darien’s eyes widen in which Raye struck the point home as Darien turns to look at the motionless body of his lover.

Kenji says, with a serious tone and the look of rage in his expression still evidence, “And even if you do find him, I doubt that there is anything that you can do. The bastard is a genius and knowing Kayaba, he has trapped himself in the game to make sure that no one can make him tell how to stop this ‘death game’ of his, but then again, he could have made it that he couldn’t stop it even if he tried.”

Trista says, solemnly, “Those are distinct possibilities.” Darien lowers his head knowing Kayaba, being as smart as he is, had taken steps, even with himself, to make sure that no one outside would be able to stop his ‘death game’ and now, he, along with everyone else in the room, are helpless to do anything to help Serena on their end.

End Flashback; Return to the Present

Later on, a hastily formed organization, the SAO Incident Victims Rescue Force, the people helping the ten thousand victims to have their bodies moved safely to hospitals to prevent their NervGears from killing and trying to find a way to help and save the victims, led by Seijirou Kikuoka, a former SAO best tester that didn’t move onto the full version and who is a member of a new government organization known as the ‘VR Division’, visited the Tsukino family to learn all that they can to find a way to get Serena and the other victims of SAO released from the ‘death game’ as it is was being called now.

They quickly realized that not even members of his own family, the Tsukino family, had any idea that Kayaba was even capable as such an act which made plenty in the group hate him even more seeing that he would trap even a member of his own family and risk her life as well. These people did their best to comfort the family and used all of their resources to make sure that no attempt of retribution by the other victims’ family and friends, living and dead, were taken on the Tsukino family just because of their relationship to Kayaba. The government, quickly realizing that Serena’s family had no idea that Kayaba was going to do this, felt that they are completely innocent of his actions and also worked to protect them. However, they gathered as much information on Kayaba from the Tsukino family as they could feeling that there could be clues left in their memories with Kayaba.

Kenji, as a magazine editor, had plenty of connections in which he worked with the government task force in order to find Kayaba, Ikuko, showing technological prowess though nothing at the level of Kayaba, worked with Ami and Trista with the government task force and scientists to figure out some way to free the victims or at least, make sure that the NervGear couldn’t kill them when they tried to remove it or they died in SAO, and Sammy, out of fear of his relation to Kayaba getting out, was taken out of school and moved to live with relatives out in the country.

Right now, Darien and the Sailor Scout are looking at their Moon Princess’ motionless form and Michelle is using her Aqua Mirror to see if she can ‘look into’ the world of the game through her magical talisman which doesn’t seem to work at first and then an image of Serena, in her SAO avatar of Usagi, appears in her mirror.

Michelle says, shocked, “I can see her!” There are multiple gasps and they assemble around Michelle in which they see their princess’ SAO avatar inside of the inn.

Mina says, “It’s her!”

Raye tells Mina, “Quiet, Mina! My spells scrolls can keep things down for only so long!”

Ami asks, “Is that the inside of the game?”

Michelle says, with a nod, “I believe so. It was shockingly hard to get into. It might be a ‘man-made world’, but it is another world.”

Lita asks, “Can we communicate with her?”

Michelle responds, solemnly, “No. My mirror can only show things.”

Hotaru says, “She is so sad.”

Amara says, “Her own uncle betrayed her in every single way, trapped her and nearly ten thousand others in that world, and she is all alone in there.”

Mina says, solemnly, “Serena…”

The images fades in and out and Michelle says, “It is hard to maintain a visual on Serena for some reason.”

Lita says, “I just hate this! We can see her, but we can’t do anything for her!”

Darien goes over to Serena’s motionless form, touches her hand, and he says, “Serena, I’m here. We’re here with you. Please don’t give up. We need you. I need you.” Just then a golden glow comes over Darien’s hands as he closes his eyes and the others are surprised.

Amara asks, “What?”
Raye says, “He… He is trying to communicate with Serena with his heart.”

Hotaru then gets an idea and she asks, “Maybe we can too, right?”

Mina asks, “Is it possible through our powers?”

Trista says, with a nod, “It is possible since we are all joined together in so many ways.” The others nod their heads and put their hands over Serena’s and Darien’s hands in which they focus their powers and a rainbow of colors form over Serena’s and Darien’s hands as the Scouts attempt with Darien to send their feelings to their trapped princess and give her strength to survive.

November 9, 2022, Town of Beginnings, Aincard/SAO

Back inside of SAO, Usagi is just so sad, but she then has a warm feeling in her heart and she looks at herself to find the area of her avatar where her heart is in real life glowing.

Usagi asks, “What’s going on?”

Just then Darien’s voice calls out, “Serena!”

Usagi gasps and she asks, shocked, “Darien-kun?!”

Just then the Sailor Scouts’ voice ring out in unison, “Serena!”

Usagi leaps to her feet and she shouts out, “Girls! Girls, is that you?!”

Darien’s voice booms, “Serena, we’re here for you! We’re right here! Please don’t give up! I need you!” Usagi then gasps as images fill her mind as her real world body in her hospital bed with the other Sailor Scouts and Darien come into her mind.

Usagi thinks, “Darien-kun… The girls… They are… They are with my real body… They are… They are sending their feelings to me!”

Raye’s voice booms, “Don’t you dare give up on us, Meatball Head!”

Hotaru’s voice booms, “We’re with you, hime! Please don’t give up! You never gave up on me even when I was possessed by Mistress Nine! You didn’t care about who I was or what possessed me! You never gave up on me no matter and I won’t give up on you!”

Usagi thinks in her mind, “Hotaru-chan…”

Lita’s voice booms, “You can’t give up now! Not after all that we have been through! We’ve faced life and death together as Sailor Moon and the Sailor Scouts! You never gave up before and I know that you will get through this now!”

Usagi thinks in her mind, “Lita-chan…” Usagi then remembers her days as Sailor Moon starting from the first day to the end of the Galaxia and she thinks, “They’re right! As Sailor Moon, I’ve always faced life and death and in fact, I actually died at least once, which is a memory that I wish to forget, but I’ve faced down Beryl, Metallia, the Doom Phantom and Black Moon, the Heart Snatchers, the Dead Moon Circus, and Chaos when it possessed Sailor Galaxia. I’ve fought against the worst that the universe has to offer and as long as even my friends’ and Darien-kun’s spirit were with me, I never gave up and I never lost to anyone! I can’t just give up now! I can’t just wait here to die! They need me! They are waiting for me! Everyone is waiting and hoping for my return!” Usagi’s face turns into one of determination, she gets to his feet, and using the game system, she rearranges her avatar’s hair to look like her hairstyle in real life, her classic pigtails. She then uses as much as her remaining ‘game money’, Cor, to buy as many supplies as she can and she goes to the edge of the Town of Beginning and looking towards the fields. She draws her sword and Usagi charges into the open fields and out of the town, which is a ‘safe zone’ in which a player’s HP won’t go down by any means at all. A wild boar monster appears in front of her and she hesitates for a moment, but she then charges in for the attack and she thinks, “I won’t let this game beat me, girls! I will return to you no matter what it takes! I will survive and I will win! And Uncle Kayaba, I don’t know why you’ve done this or even if you are doing this of your free will, but if you are, I will stop you! I will end this madness and save everyone! In the name of the moon, I will stop you, Uncle Kayaba!” Usagi then uses a basic sword skill to strike hard and fast and kill the boar instantly as she rushes into the world of SAO with renewed spirit and determined to get back to her loved ones and end this ‘death game’ once and for all.

November 9, 2022, Serena’s hospital room

Inside of Serena’s hospital room, the others are assembled around Serena and ‘transferring’ their feelings to princess in which they hear her voice ring in their minds, “I will never give up, everyone!” Everyone gasps, the glow around Serena’s hand stops, and they leap back a bit.

Mina asks, “Was that…?”

Trista says, with a smile, “Yes, it was.”

Lita says, with a smile, “I knew that she would never give up.”

Raye says, with a grin, “She had better not.”

Hotaru asks, “What can we do now?”

Amara says, solemnly, “There is nothing that we can do, Firefly.”

Michelle says, “All we can do is hope and pray.” As Michelle looks into her Aqua Mirror, an image of Usagi appears on the mirror as she battles through one monster after another in her new ‘quest’ to find her uncle, figure out what’s going on, and stop this madness in which to save as many players as she can while ending this ‘death game’ once and for all.

End of Chapter 1

And that’s the end of the first chapter of this Sword Art Online/Sailor Moon crossover! You see that I have modified my writing style a bit due to the way that Sword Art Online anime/manga/light novel plays out and I want to make sure that I fit in the two stories with as little ‘holes’ in the plot as possible, folks. Anyway, the main couple is obviously Kirito/Asuna and Serena/Darien, but there is going to be little romance, at least the chapters containing the Aincard arc, since Serena is the only one of the Sailor Scouts and Darien that are trapped inside of SAO in this story. Later and best wishes, Crossover Fans!