Sailor Moon Fan Fiction / Digimon Fan Fiction / Crossover Fan Fiction ❯ Sailor Moon Online: Gaiden ❯ After Fragments Final: Journey to a New Song ( Chapter 14 )

Surprise, everyone! This is a surprise Christmas gift from you to every one of my fans! I know that you weren’t expecting an update so soon and trust me, I worked hard to get it up for you. I hope that you like my gift, folks! Now, before I start this one-shot story, I must give thanks and credit to Belletigerand Kanius as well as Kanius’ YuYuGiDigiMoon fanfiction series, especially his The Invasion of the Rajita story, for giving me permission to use the idea of Valkyrie Sailor Soldiers and everything that’s a part of them in my fanfiction. I would like to give thanks and credit to Kanius and his YuYuGiDigiMoon series, including this author’s Dawn of Chaos story, and LazerWulf for giving me permission to use the idea for their version of Sailor Charon, namely the fact that she is Sailor Pluto’s sister among other things. I would also like to give thanks and credit to Matty G91 and this author’s story of Kamen Rider Lunar for giving me permission to use Kamen Rider Lunar, his looks, and everything about him as well as the UNI-SHOCKER organization.

 

Now, with that out of the way, as they say on SAO: Link Start!

 

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Warning: These stories may and will contain mature level intense violence, blood, 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 these series of stories!

 

Prelude: A castle of stone and metal floating in the sky that consist of one hundred floors. Within this massive structure, there are countless cities, villages, towns, forests, plains, lakes, and whatever you can imagine. There is only one staircase that connects one floor with another and these staircases are located within dangerous mazes filled with monsters. The players with navigate through these floors to the top with nothing than the weapons in their hands. And yes, I said players.

 

This is the world of Aincrad, a floating castle in a virtual sky, and yes, I said VIRTUAL sky. This world and this floating castle world are in a realm made of digital information…the world of Sword Art Online. A world that was supposed to be game, but because a nightmare prison when its creator, Akihiko Kayaba, trapped the ten thousand players within this virtual world and if they die here, they will die in real life. The ten thousand players struggle in this ‘game death’ to reach the top of the floating castle where the final boss and the key to their freedom waits.

 

You may know this story and the stories that come after it, but do you know all of the stories? All of the tales that happened within the floating castle? What about the tales that happened after the floating castle was conquered? There are stories connected to the ‘tale’ of this floating castle, its ‘history’, and its ‘aftermath’, but they weren’t told…until now. These are those stories…

 

Sailor Moon Online: Gaiden

 

Story 14: After Fragments Final: Journey to a New Song

 

Note: This story takes place in the time period just after Hollow Fragment to the start of Chapter 1 of World’s Song.

 

Early May 2025, ALO, Fields outside of Swilvane

 

Inside of the virtual world of ALO, we find ourselves within one of the fields within the territory of the Sylph players where we find Leafa and Recon together as Leafa is using her menu.

 

Leafa says, “Okay, there.”

 

Recon tells Leafa, “But Leafa…”

 

Leafa tells Recon, “No, ‘buts’, Recon! Just get out of here! I’ll be the main target since the Salamanders are really pissed at me for ruining their plans!”

 

Recon says, nervously, “But…!!”

 

Leafa yells out, strongly, “Move it, buster!”

 

Recon says, nervously, “Yes, ma’am!” Soon enough, Recon flies off at top speed while Leafa draws her sword and looks ahead of her in which a large amount of armored Salamander players, around four dozen in all, appear and nearly surround her.

 

One of them says, with a sly tone, “Look at what we have here.”

 

Leafa says, “You won’t be getting our haul! I’ve already give it to my last party member and we have it in an ‘insurance slots’ too!”

 

Another one says, “Like we care! We have you!”

 

A third one shouts out, “Today is that day that we defeat the infamous ‘Wind Valkyrie’.”

 

Leafa thinks in her mind, annoyed, “Great! I’m becoming well-known already. And that means that I have a major target on my back.”

 

A fourth Salamander player shouts out, excitedly, “We’ll be praised knowing that we took out the ‘Wind Valkyrie’!”

 

Just then a familiar male voice says, “Taking out one female player by ganging up on her? Yeah, that’s real special.” The Salamander players then look to see Kirito, Asuna, Usagi, Klein, Philia, Silica, Lisbeth, Dai, and Akari assembled together.

 

Klein says, “Yeah, no kidding! That’s so wrong!”

 

Lisbeth says, annoyed, “And just plain rude too!”

 

Leafa tells Kirito, with a smile, “Hey, big brother!”

 

The Salamander players gasp at that and one of them asks, “Big brother?”

 

Another Salamander shouts out, “Oh, shit! I remember! He is one of the new players that started to make a name for himself and he is supposed to be the big brother of the ‘Wind Valkyrie’ in real-life!”

 

Yet another Salamander yells out, “Oh, crap! That’s right! That’s him! The ‘Black Swordsman’!”

 

Kirito thinks in his mind, annoyed, “And I’m starting to get known by that name here too.”

 

One of the leaders of the group of Salamanders shouts out, “It doesn’t matter! We outnumber them!”

 

Klein says, with a smirk, “Maybe, bro, but numbers aren’t enough a lot of times.”

 

As the Salamanders draw their weapons, their leader says, with a smirk, “We’ll see.”

 

Kirito says, having his two swords out, “I guess that we will.”

 

Usagi thinks in her mind, having her two swords out as well, “Here we go again.” Soon enough, the battle of the Salamanders against Leafa, Kirito, and the others began where there is a lot of sounds of weapons clashing, magic spells being used, and players turning into Remain Light when their HP goes to zero.

 

Early May 2025, ALO, Swilvane

 

Within Swilvane, Kirito, Asuna, Usagi, Klein, Philia, Silica, Lisbeth, Dai, and Akari are assembled together within Lily of the Valley Pavilion.

 

Dai says, with a sigh of relief, “Man! What a fight!”

 

Klein says, with a nod, “You aren’t kidding, brother!”

 

Silica says, “That was pretty scary.”

 

Philia says, with a smile, “Well, it wasn’t surprising since they have to be been veteran ALO players, Silica-chan.”

 

Asuna says, with a nod, “I agree, Philia-chan. Even with our stats from SAO, it doesn’t mean that we have an overwhelming advantage over other ALO especially the veterans.”

 

Kirito says, with a smile, “Yeah. We’ve just started playing around one month in which we learned how to fly in ALO.”

 

Dai says, with a grin, “True, but plenty of veteran players don’t learn to fly without the ‘training wings’, Kirito.”

 

Akari giggles and she says, “Flying without the control shows that you are a real master of the flying system here in ALO.”

 

Usagi says, “Well, it wasn’t easy.”

 

Kirito says, with a nod, “Don’t we know it, Usagi.”

 

Kirito shivered when he remembered when he started to train on how to fly in ALO and Asuna says, giggling because she knows what her boyfriend is thinking about, “All of us had our struggles on learning how to fly without using the controller Kirito-kun.”

 

Lisbeth says, looking at Silica with a grin, “Some more than others.”

 

Silica blushes in embarrassment and Akari says, “Anyway, all of you learned how to fly without the controller shows that you are really good players of the game.”

 

Just then Leafa’s voice booms, “Hey, everyone!” Everyone looks to see Leafa rushing over to them.

 

Silica says, excitedly, “Leafa!”

 

Leafa says, with a smile, “Sorry, I’m late. I just got back from diving our earnings from our hunt.”

 

Kirito asks Leafa, “Anything good?”

 

Leafa responds, shaking her head, “Well, nothing that caught my fancy. I just took my share of Yrd for what we sold off.”

 

Klein says, “Combined that with what we took from those other players, you must be quite loaded now!”

 

Leafa says, plainly, “Not really.”

 

Usagi asks, curiously, “What was up with those guys?”

 

Dai says, “Probably trying to become stronger to prepare for the next ‘Grand Quest’.”

 

Leafa says, with a nod, “Most likely. Ever since the original ‘Grand Quest’ was revealed, in a way, to be one big fake, the nine fairy races are preparing to for the next ‘Grand Quest’ in their own ways especially the Sylphs, Cait Sith, and Salamanders.”

 

Silica says, with a smile, “That’s why the Sylphs and Cait Sith are good friends.”

 

Leafa says, with a smile, “They’ve always been good friends since the start of ALO, so, it isn’t surprising that the alliance has been formalized especially since the Salamanders became the most powerful group of players in the whole of the game.”

 

Asuna says, “It was quite a shock when we learned on how they did that.”

 

Leafa says, with a solemn tone, “Yeah, but it isn’t like they did anything illegal. PvP is a vital part of ALO. And as the leader of the lands, the fairy leaders’ actions effect all of the players of their lands, so, they need to be quite careful.”

 

Usagi says, “It must be tough being a leader here.”

 

Lisbeth says, smirking at Usagi and Lisbeth, “Well, you, two, should know.”

 

Asuna and Usagi flush with embarrassment and Asuna says, annoyed, “Liz!”

 

Klein says, “Hey, what am I? Chopped liver? I was the leader of a guild, too, over there and I can tell you that it isn’t easy!”

 

Kirito tells Klein, with a smile, “We know, Klein. And you did excellently. Your friends survived SAO under your leadership which shows that you are a great guild leader.”

 

Klein says, with a smirk, “Got that right, bro!”

 

A few of the others sigh and Lisbeth tells Kirito, “Way to go, Kirito. Now, he won’t stop being proud of himself all day.” Klein gives Lisbeth an annoyed look while Lisbeth just smirks at Klein.

 

Asuna asks, changing the subject, “Anyway, it has been quite a month ever since we started up ALO.”

 

Leafa says, with a nervous smile, “That’s one way of putting it.”

 

Kirito asks Leafa, “You are still sore about what happened during your birthday?”

 

Usagi tells Leafa, with a nod, “I know how you feel, Leafa-chan.”

 

Flashback; April 19, 2025

 

Kazuto and Suguha are standing together in the Juuban District in which they are looking around.

 

Kazuto asks, “So, this is the area that Serena and her friends live in?”

 

Suguha says, “That’s right.”

 

Kazuto tells Suguha, “Sugu, isn’t this your first time in Serena’s and her friend’s hometown too?”

 

Suguha tells Kazuto, “Outside of ‘uniform’, big brother.”

 

Kazuto says, with a nod of his head, “Oh, right.”

 

Just then a familiar female voice shouts out, “Kirito-kun!” Kazuto and Suguha then look to see Asuna, Rika, Keiko, Shion, and Kotone running over to them.

 

Suguha says, “Hey, everyone!”

 

Keiko says, excitedly, “Hi, L-I mean Suguha!”

 

Suguha tells Keiko, with a smile, “Guess that it is sit getting some used to.”

 

Shion says, “It isn’t surprising since the majority of you have only been back ‘here’ for a few months.”

 

Suguha says, with a smile, “Speaking of which, all of you very good.”

 

Kotone says, “You, too, but then again, you were only in there for several months.”

 

Suguha says, “Doesn’t mean that the first week or so wasn’t really painful add to the fact that my last battle ‘over there’ made feel like I was a punching bag.”

 

Asuna says, “I was shocked to learn that some of the damage was ‘transferred’ to your real body.”

 

Kazuto says, “It was basically Sugu’s mind was fooled that she suffered ‘real damage’.” Kazuto thinks in his mind, “Which I am so glad that her impalement wasn’t transferred to her real body.”

 

Suguha says, “And this is the reason that VR games have pain absorbers.”

 

Rika says, with a nod, “No joke, girlfriend.”

 

Suguha says, with a smile, “Speaking of it, all of you are adapting to flying in ALO.”

 

Rika says, with a cheeky smile at Keiko, “Mostly.”

 

Keiko says, with an embarrassed blush and tone, “Liz!”

 

Suguha tells Keiko, “Easy, Keiko. Even veterans of ALO that have been part of the game since its beginnings don’t learn how to fly without the remote control. With the way that you, Kazuto, and the others are progressing, you are going to master it in no time.”

 

Keiko asks Suguha, “Really?”

 

Suguha says, with a smile, “Yeah!”

 

Keiko gives a smile at this and then a familiar female voice booms out, “Hey!” Everyone then looks to see Darien and all of the Sailor Scouts of Juuban heading over to them.

 

When they come over, Asuna tells Serena, “Hi, Usagi…I mean Serena-chan!”

 

Serena giggles and she says, “I don’t mind Asuna.”

 

Mina says, with a smile, “All of you are looking great.”

 

Keiko says, with a nod, “We are. Thank you for saying that.”

 

Lita says, looking at Suguha, “You are looking good, birthday girl!”

 

Suguha says, with a nervous smile, “Thanks.”

 

Rika says, with a grin, “Yep. She has made it to ‘sweet sixteen’.” Rika then looks at Suguha’s *ahem* ‘assets’ and she says, with a sly grin, “Guess Lunarian royals are quite the ‘knockers’ when they reach their teenage years.”

 

Suguha and Serena give major blushes and Suguha shouts out, embarrassed while wrapping her arms around her body and chest area, “Cut it out!”

 

Asuna says, annoyed, “Liz, you are starting to sound like an old hentai.”

 

Rika gives a nervous giggle, Keiko nervously glances down at herself, and Mina tells Suguha, “Come on! You are a bountiful beauty just like your ALO avatar! You should really show it!”

 

Raye slaps Mina in the back of her head and Raye tells Mina, annoyed, “Cut it out, Mina-chan.”

 

Kotone tells Serena, a bit nervously, “Your friends are quite something.”

 

Serena says, with a sigh, “Yeah, don’t I know it.”

 

Kazuto says, “Just because they are superheroines, but it doesn’t mean that they aren’t like us. I mean, in anime and manga, magical girls are just regular human girls that are gifted with powers to help others.”

 

Lita says, with a grin, “That’s right. We’re just a regular bunch of girls given special powers due to our ‘past lives’ to help and protect people from evil forces.”

 

Mina says, “Speak for yourself, Lita-chan, I was a famous crime fighter before Serena became Sailor Moon.” Mina then says, with a wide grin, “Speaking of famous…” Mina takes out a magazine showing a picture of Sailor Celestial battling against a titanic youma and she says, with a grin, “Front page again!”

 

Suguha gives a blush and she yells out, “Put that away and keep it down!”

 

Mina giggles at Suguha and Raye smacks Mina on the back of her head in which Raye says, “Cut it out, Mina.”

 

Mina sticks out her tongue at Raye and she says, with a grin, “Come on, girl! You only made your grand appearance just several weeks ago or so and you have become center page!”

 

Amara says, “Well, that’s the fact that all of us have become ‘center page’ so to speak since the youma are now completely attacking people in the open with large crowds of people possibly getting caught in the crossfire.”

 

Trista says, “Even before we went into SAO to assist all of you, the battles were getting more intense.”

 

Molly says, “Probably the reason that I awakened as a Sailor Scout. The universe must have sensed the growing darkness, but I doubt that it could have sensed it would have come so far that it has.”

 

Trista says, “Or maybe it has. It has just gotten under ‘our radar’ as they say.”

 

Raye says, “Must have.”

 

Keiko says, “It must be rough.”

 

Rini says, with a nod, “It is.”

 

Mina says, with a grin, “But with two powered packing VALKYRIE Sailor Scouts, it isn’t too bad.”

 

Suguha says, glaring at Mina, “Hey, it isn’t easy for sis and me either, you know!”

 

Serena says, with a nod, “No kidding! Just because we’ve reached a legendary form of Sailor Scout power, doesn’t mean that we are invincible or anything.”

 

Suguha says, “And we’re still learning about our powers as Valkyrie Sailor Scouts since all we know comes from ancient Silver Millennium lore and whatnot.”

 

Just then a male voice shouts out, “Hey! Is this a private party or can anyone join?!” Everyone looks to see the Digidestined and their Digimon partners coming up towards them.

 

When all the Digidestined and their Digimon partners join up with the others, Yolei says, excitedly, “Hey, Kirito!”

 

TK tells Yolei, “Not Kirito, Yolei.”

 

Yolei says, nervously, “Oh, right! Oops!”

 

Rika tells Yolei, “Don’t worry about it. Kei made the same mistake.”

 

Keiko says, with an embarrassed blush, “Liz!”

 

TK says, with a smile, “I think all of us still need a bit more time back in ‘our home world’.”

 

Matt says, with a nod, “No kidding, bro.” Just then TK yelps as Mina latches onto his right arm.

 

Mina tells TK, with a smile, “Miss me?”

TK responds, “What do you think?” TK and Mina share a kiss and plenty of the others smile and/or giggle at this.

 

Lita says, “Get a room!”

 

Mina tells Lita, with a sly grin, “Jealous that I already have a boyfriend of my own, Lita-chan? And one that’s so cute?”

 

TK says, with an embarrassed blush, “Mina-chan…”

 

Davis tells TK, with a grin, “Man, TC! I never knew that you could be red as a beet!”

 

TK tells Davis, with a smirk and glare, “Very funny, Davis.”

 

Michelle tells Mina, with a grin, “You, two, have gotten quite close.”

 

Mina says, with a sly smile, “And why not? Takeru-kun has a person that’s the representation of the Goddess of Love and Beauty as his girlfriend.”

 

TK gives a nervous smile and Matt says, “Well, forgive me that I’m also worried about you, two, since that same goddess is also the goddess of something else.” Matt tells TK, with a glare, “Which makes me wonder if you haven’t gone ‘any further’.”

 

TK becomes red as a cherry, much like plenty of the guys and gals of the group, and Mina asks, in a sultry tone, “What if we have?” TK yelps at Mina before Raye bops her in the head again.

 

Raye yells out, annoyed, “I said to cut it out, Mina-chan!”

 

Mina says, with a pout, “Party pooper.”

 

Lita says, with a smile, “The only party we should be thinking about is the birthday party of our newest Sailor Scout.”

 

Suguha says, “I don’t think that it is a big deal…”

 

Mina tells Suguha, “Not a big deal! It is always a big deal when one of us reaches a birthday!”

 

Amara says, with a sigh, “Especially since it can usually end in disaster after you became a Sailor Senshi.”

 

Michelle tells Amara, with a kind smile, “Oh, Amara-chan…”

 

Amara says, with a plain tone, “Please Michelle, don’t try to dumb it down for Suguha-hime. I don’t want to remember any of our birthdays after we had become Sailor Scouts.” Amara tells Serena, “And I bet that you want to agree with me Kitten.”

 

Serena says, nervously, “Yeah.”

 

Mina tells Amara, “Geez, you are such a worry wart! You are going to ruin her big day!”

 

Amara says, with a plain tone, “I’m just saying that with our history, we should be a bit more cautious especially with increased youma attacks.”

 

Lita tells Suguha, with a smile, “Come on! Don’t listen to them! It’s your day! Let’s enjoy it!”

 

Davis says, with a grin, “No joke!”

 

Serena thinks in her mind, “I hope so. I just want to enjoy Suguha’s day and get close to my ‘royal family’. But something tells me that it won’t be that easy.” As our group starts to head out to celebrate Suguha’s birthday, Serena hopes that she is wrong about not having any ‘easy day’ during Suguha’s birthday.

 

Flashback; April 19, 2025, Tokyo, Juuban District

 

Inside of the Fruits Parlor Crown, our group is gathered as Andrew and Elizabeth Furuhata is serving them with specialty ice cream cups with an incredible off-the-top cup for Suguha.

 

Andrew says, “Here you go.”

 

Suguha says, amazed, “Oh, wow.”

 

Elizabeth says, with a smile, “Dig in!”

 

Rika says, excitedly, “Now, you are talking!” Rika immediately start to eat her ice cream cup right away with plenty of the others joining him.

 

Patamon says, “Thanks!”

 

Palmon says, with a nod, “Yeah!”

 

Darien tells Andrew and Elizabeth, “Thank you for allowing us to have this here.”

 

Andrew says, “No problem, Darien.”

 

Elizabeth says, with a smile, “We wanted to meet all of Serena’s new friends!”

 

Asuna says, with a smile, “It is nice to meet you, too, Elizabeth-san.”

 

Andrew says, with a smile, “Anyway, we’re thankful for befriending and help keeping Serena safe in there.”

 

Kazuto says, with a smile, “Well, to be honest, it is more like she saved us at times.”

 

Serena tells Kazuto, “No way! You and Asuna helped keep me sane in there!” Serena says, with a weak smile, “Even through I knew that Darien-kun and the girls were supporting me, it was you and Asuna that kept me from loneness during much of those two years.”

 

Asuna says, with a smile, “We helped each other, Usagi-I mean Serena-chan.”

 

Elizabeth says, with a smile, “I guess that it is hard since you went by your avatar names for those two years.”

 

Mina says, “No kidding! For a few weeks, Serena would only respond to her avatar name and not her ‘other name’ a lot.”

 

Serena can’t help to blush in embarrassment and Kari says, with a smile, “Well, it wasn’t just Serena.”

 

Plenty of the others that were trapped in SAO since its start give nervous looks and Shion says, “You can’t exactly be too surprised since they did that to ensure their own survival. They couldn’t be ‘who they were in the real world’. They had to ‘who they are in SAO’.”

 

Ami says, with a nod, “That’s a good point.”

 

Amara says, nodding her head, “Survival isn’t just physical. There is also a mental, emotional, and psychological ‘element’ to it too.”

 

Suguha looks at Serena and the other SAO survivors of the group and Yolei asks, “Can we not talk about…that?”

 

Suguha says, with a nod, “Yeah. Let’s not ‘dive down’ into that ‘territory’.”

 

Davis says, with a smile, “Yeah, time to party!”

 

Kari says, with a smile, “Yes, you are right, Dai-kun.”

 

Rika says, with a nod, “No kidding! Let’s not go into the ‘dark stuff’ and have a good time!”

 

Keiko says, with a nod, “Yes, you are right, Liz-san.”

 

Keiko yelps and Kotone tells Keiko, “Let’s take one day at time Silica…I mean Keiko-chan.”

 

Kazuto says, “All of us need to adjust back.”

 

Davis tells Kazuto, “Trust me, Kari-chan and I know how you feel.”

 

Kari says, with a nod, “Yeah.”

 

Matt says, “I think that all of us need to adjust back to life after ‘that’ even if we were ‘there’ or not.”

 

Plenty of the others nod their heads in agreement and they continue to enjoy their ice cream cups/sundaes in which Elizabeth says, “I have to say that I was surprised when we found out about you.”

 

Serena says, looking at Molly, “, I was shocked to learn that Molly was a Sailor Scout, too, and one of the Silver Millennium.”

 

Trista says, with a smile, “Yes. But due to her ‘special duties’, even I didn’t know she was one of us.”

 

Molly says, “I’m sorry that I didn’t tell you, but after I ‘awakened’, I had already important work to do.”

 

Mimi says, “That must have been tough.”

 

Joe says, “All of us were thrust into our ‘adventures’ and none of us were ready.”

 

Lita says, with a nod, “You got that right, Joe.”

 

Mina says, with a grin, “Well, let’s not worry about that today! Let’s party!” The others nod their heads in agreement and they continue to enjoy their ‘treats’ with Andrew and Elizabeth smiling at this, but what our group doesn’t know is that they are being watched and plenty of them don’t seem to sense, however, a ‘sense of foreboding’ comes to Suguha, Serena, and Kazuto. But the three of them ignore for the time being since they feel that it is just nerves or something like that.

 

Flashback; April 19, 2025, Tokyo, Juuban District

 

Now, our group are looking Juuban District as they walk through it.

 

Yolei tells Molly, “Your mom is great, Molly.”

 

Molly says, with a smile, “She is.”

 

Mimi says, “All those jewels are just beautiful.”

 

Molly says, with a grin, “They are, but these days, a lot of the people that visit us want to see where the legend began.”

 

Molly looks at Serena and Serena says, nervously, “I wasn’t aiming to be a legend. To be honest, my first night was far from heroic.”

 

Raye says, with a smirk, “Based on what Luna told us.”

 

Serena gives an annoyed look and Darien tells Serena, “You were just a normal girl and then given super-powers in which you were expected to fight monsters. Your reaction was quite understandable.”

 

Serena says, with a smile, “Thanks, Darien.”

 

Tai says, with a grin, “Yeah. We had similar reactions when we got throw into another world filled with monsters with similar monster becoming our best friends and partners to save two worlds from destruction.”

 

Joe says, with a sigh, “No kidding.”

 

Ken says, with a smile, “But we managed to learn and adapt as we continue as ‘heroes’ so to speak.”

 

Cody says, “Through it wasn’t easy.”

 

Matt says, with a nod, “No kidding. We had A LOT of ‘hiccups’ along the way.”

 

Raye says, nodding her head, “You can say that again, Matt.”

 

Serena says, “It was too bad that Jun couldn’t join.”

 

Davis says, with a smirk, “Jun had something to do today.”

 

TK tells Matt, with a grin, “Worried about your wife, big bro?”

 

Matt tells TK, “Jun and I were married in-game. Both of us don’t feel ready to go that far now that we are back here.”

 

Ken tells Matt, “Yolei and I understand that.”

 

Davis asks Yolei, “You do?”

 

Yolei tells Davis, annoyed, “Yeah, we would. Ken and I were married in-game too, remember?”

 

Davis says, nervously, “Oh, yeah.”

 

Kazuto says, with a smile, “I think that all of us are readjusting in our own ways.”

 

Asuna says, with a nod, “I agree.”

 

Tai says, “I think that we all are.”

 

Kotone says, with a smile, “As Mina keeps saying, let’s just enjoy Suguha’s birthday. It is her day.”

 

Rika says, with a grin, “Yeah, it is a big day for a big superheroine.”

 

Suguha tells Rika, annoyed, “Very funny.” The group continues on their walk, but Kazuto, Serena, and Suguha get a ‘chill’, however, it passes very quickly causing them to wonder what was that in which Serena glances at Raye and Amara. However, Serena sees that the two of them aren’t reacting to anything, so, Serena gets the feeling that it must be ‘nerves’ since she has been out of SAO for just ‘a brief while’, but looking at Kazuto and Suguha causes her to think otherwise.

 

Flashback; April 19, 2025, Tokyo, Juuban District

 

Next, our group is at the mall and they are having good times as regular teenagers as well as young men and women usually do.

 

Lita says, excitedly, “What a blast!”

 

Rika says, with a grin, “Yeah, I’ll say!”

 

Yolei says, excitedly, “No joke!”

 

The others are giggling excitedly and Michelle says, with a smile, “It is nice that everyone is enjoying themselves.”

 

Darien says, “After what many of them went through for over two years, they have earned it.”

 

Trista says, with a nod, “Agreed.”

 

However, as they are walking around, things in the mall start to get quiet and Molly asks, “Isn’t it getting quieter in here?” Everyone then starts to look around and they are starting to see less people all around in which Darien, Amara, and Raye narrow their eyes.

 

Amara thinks in her mind, “Uh oh.”

 

Ken says, a bit nervously, “This is getting weird.”

 

Gatomon says, “I don’t like it.”

 

Keiko asks, “What’s wrong?”

 

Darien says, “I think that we should…”

 

Suguha then says, interrupting, “Too late.” Everyone else, minus Serena and Kazuto, look at Suguha in which they see Suguha, Serena, and Kazuto have really serious looks on their faces.

 

Darien asks Serena, “Meatball Head?”

 

Just then Amara’s and Raye’s ‘spiritual senses’ go on ‘alert’ and Raye says, seriously, “Heads up!” Soon enough, a ‘dark mist’ starts to come into the mall and the remaining people around start to collapse.

 

Tai asks, shocked, “What the…?!”

 

Serena yells out, “Girls! Transform now!”

 

There are looks of shock from the Sailor Scouts of the group and Suguha shouts out, “Do it now!” Immediately, all of the Sailor Scouts of the group get out their transformation items.

 

“Valkyrie Celestial Power, Make-up!”

 

“Valkyrie Moon Power, Make-up!”

 

“Moon Eternal Power, Make-up!”

 

“Sun Eternal Power, Make-up!”

 

“Orion Eternal Power, Make-up!”

 

“Nebula Eternal Power, Make-up!”

 

“Mercury Eternal Power, Make-up!”

 

“Venus Eternal Power, Make-up!”

 

“Mars Eternal Power, Make-up!”

 

“Jupiter Eternal Power, Make-up!”

 

“Saturn Eternal Power, Make-up!”

 

“Uranus Eternal Power, Make-up!”

 

“Neptune Eternal Power, Make-up!”

 

“Pluto Eternal Power, Make-up!”

 

Soon enough, Suguha, Serena, Rini, Kari, Shion, Molly, Ami, Mina, Raye, Lita, Hotaru, Amara, Michelle, and Trista transform into Valkyrie Sailor Celestial and Valkyrie Sailor Moon along with Eternal Sailor Neo Moon, Eternal Sailor Sun, Eternal Sailor Orion, Eternal Sailor Nebula, and the eight Eternal level Moon Kingdom Planetary Sailor Scouts in which Darien quickly transforms into Tuxedo Mask.

 

Sailor Moon, using ‘SAO instinct’, commands, “Everyone, surround the others! Orion, I need you to remain back with Kazuto and everyone else! Celestial and I will take point!”

 

The others are surprised by Sailor Moon’s ‘commanding voice’, since it wasn’t her style BEFORE SAO, in which Tuxedo Mask says, “I have to say that’s a good idea.”

 

Sailor Orion says, “Not to argue with you, but Sun and I are our own Sailor Scouts not part of the Silver Alliance.”

 

Sailor Sun says, with a smile, “I say that we follow it, Orion.”

 

Sailor Orion says, with a nod, “No need to say anymore.” Immediately, the Sailor Scouts get into defensive positions as Sailor Moon ‘directed’ and an evil laugh is heard.

 

Tuxedo Mask says, narrowing his eyes, “I remember that laugh.”

 

Sailor Mars says, with a sneer, “So do I.” Just then a ‘dark gateway’ appears and Jadeite steps out of that gateway.

 

Sailor Jupiter says, with a glare, “Jadeite.”

 

Matt asks, annoyed, “Don’t they ever learn?”

 

Sailor Uranus says, shaking her head, “Not really.”

 

Tuxedo Mask says, “I shouldn’t be surprised by this. You would attack us on a ‘special day’ for one of us.”

 

Jadeite says, with a sinister smile, “Yes.” Jadeite says, looking at Sailor Celestial, “Happy birthday, your majesty. It is going to be your last.”

 

Sailor Celestial asks, sarcastically, “Where have I heard that before?”

 

Sailor Venus retorts, with a smirk, “Cheesy villain ‘one-liners’ dot com?”

 

A few of the others giggle at this and Jadeite says, with a sneer, “You won’t be saying when you are begging for death before I’m done with you.”

 

Sailor Uranus asks, with a smirk, “And why is that?”

 

Jadeite says, “One, you are obviously trapped.”

 

Sailor Mercury says, having her visor on and using her computer, “He’s right. Right now, all of us are in a separate dimension.”

 

Jadeite says, with a grin, “You and everyone else that’s in here. And that’s number two…” Jadeite snaps his fingers and all of the people that our heroes and heroines see collapse then rise to their feet in which they start to act like zombies in horror flicks as they march towards the group.

 

Yolei asks, nervously, “What the?!”

 

Mimi asks, nervously, “What’s going on?”

 

Tuxedo Mask says, seriously, “Jadeite is controlling them with his dark magic!”

 

Sailor Moon tells Jadeite, annoyed, “This is really old, Jadeite! You used this on me on my first day as Sailor Moon! You used your dark magic to drain people of their energy and then control them like puppets on strings!”

 

Jadeite says, with a sly smirk, “While not use an ‘old classic’, princess?! Plus, since they are innocent victims, you can’t truly hurt them!”

 

Sailor Orion says, “He is using them as weapons and hostages.”

 

Davis yells out, angrily, “Coward!”

 

As the controlled people get ever closer towards them, Sailor Celestial says, “Damn it! We can’t hurt them!”

 

Sailor Saturn asks, “What can we do?”

 

Sailor Neptune says, seriously, “That’s a good question, Firefly.”

 

Sailor Nebula yells out, “Cover your eyes!” Plenty of the others were surprised as Sailor Nebula holds up her staff, but the others immediately cover their eyes.

 

“Nebula Cosmic Flash!”

 

Just then Sailor Nebula unleashes a blinding flash of light that causes Jadeite and his ‘puppets’ to yell out and cover their eyes from the blinding flash and when the flash of light away with Jadeite able to see again, he is shocked to find our heroes and heroines are gone!”

 

Jadeite yells out, angrily, “Such childish tricks won’t save you!” Jadeite yells out to his mind controlled ‘puppets’, “Find them!” Walking just like zombies in a horror flick, the mind controlled people start to stumble off to find them and Jadeite says to himself, lowly with an evil smirk, “If you think that these peons are my only ‘trick’, you are wrong…DEAD wrong.” Jadeite then flies off into the distance and a bit later on, hiding within a clothing store, our heroes and heroines are assembled together as they remain hidden as best they can.

 

Palmon tells Sailor Nebula, “Nice one!”

 

Sailor Nebula says, with a smile, “Thanks!”

 

Yolei asks, “So, what do we do now?”

 

Sailor Mercury says, “For the moment, we can’t escape since we are in an alternate dimension.”

 

Sailor Uranus says, “Not like we’ve didn’t experience this before.”

 

Sailor Neptune says, “You think that Jadeite is the ‘generator’? Jadeite doesn’t seem to be the kind of character.”

 

Sailor Mercury says, “And you would be right. My scanners have detected the device that keeps this ‘pocket dimension’ intact and it is separate from Jadeite.”

 

Kotone asks, “What does that mean?”

 

Izzy says, “It means that even if we defeat Jadeite, we’ll still be trapped in this ‘pocket dimension’.”

 

Joe says, with a moan, “Just great.”

 

Davis says, “Dude, all we need to do is bust up what’s holding this ‘dimension’ or whatever together.”

 

Gatomon tells Davis, “Easier said than done, Davis.”

 

Sailor Mars says, “Knowing Jadeite, he has a trick or two up his sleeve.”

 

Sailor Celestial says, “Personal experience I bet.”

 

Sailor Moon says, annoyed, “No kidding.”

 

Sailor Celestial says, with an annoyed glare, “Well, Jadeite is going to experience my armored boot up his butt for ruining my birthday like this.”

 

Sailor Venus says, with a nod, “Yeah! You know it, girlfriend!”

 

Tuxedo Mask says, “Don’t underestimated Jadeite.”

 

Yolei asks, “Didn’t Suguha and Serena blow Jadeite away with ease?”

 

Sailor Uranus says, “That’s only because they got the drop on him at the harbor.”

 

Sailor Moon says, annoyed, “Thanks a lot.”

 

Sailor Nebula says, “They have a point, Sailor Moon. You and Celestial did have the drop on him in the harbor.”

 

Sailor Mars tells Sailor Moon, “In which I am still mad at you since you were still recovering at that time.”

 

Sailor Moon gives a nervous smile and she says, “Come on, Pyro! You think that I could stay around and let you get pummeled? Besides, everything worked out!”

 

Rika asks, annoyed, “Right now, can we focus on our situation right now?”

 

Sailor Orion looks ahead of them with a serious look and Sailor Sun asks, seeing this, “Something up?”

 

Sailor Orion says, “I think that we are being watched.” A lot of the others gasp from those words and immediately, they start to get ‘defensive’.

 

Sailor Uranus asks, seriously, “Where?” Just then Sailor Mars’ and Sailor Uranus’ spirit senses while Kazuto’s, Sailor Moon’s, and Sailor Celestial’s ‘danger sense’ immediately ‘perk up’ causing them to become REALLY defensive.

 

Sailor Celestial then yells out, “Below! Get back!” Just then ‘spikes’ seem to burst out from under their feet and a lot of the others yelp as they barely dodge them.

 

Davis asks, “Now what?!” Bursting out of the ground, none other than the infamous DD girls emerge from the rubble.

 

The Inner Sailor Scouts gasp in shock and Sailor Moon says, shocked, “You!”

 

The blue DD girl says, with an evil smile, “We’re back, brats!”

 

Sailor Jupiter shouts out, “We destroyed you!”

 

The red DD girl says, with an evil grin, “You did and allowing your wretched princess to eliminate our great queen, but now, we are back to return the favor!”

 

Sailor Moon says, “I won’t allow it! Not this time! You are going down!”

 

The green DD girl says, with an evil smile, “Ha! You remember last time! It took your precious guardians going kamikaze to kill us and you ran like a little dog!”

 

Sailor Venus retorts, with a smirk, “Ran like a little dog? Oh, yeah! Explain why your so-called great queen is moon dust and our princess is still here! It looks like the only major wuss is Beryl and she got what she deserved!”

 

The DD girls sneer at Sailor Venus and pink one shouts out, annoyed, “I’m going to enjoy ripping off your tongue, Venus! And personally, I’ve got a score to settle with you!”

 

Sailor Moon steps forward of everyone else and she says, “You aren’t settling anything. You want to get to the others, you go through me first!”

 

The Moon Kingdom Sailor Scouts are surprised and Sailor Mars asks, surprised, “Sailor Moon?”

 

The blue DD girl says, with an evil smile, “Is that a threat? Or is it an offer? Then let us take you on that offer!” All five DD girls transform their vines into deadly vines that come towards Sailor Moon causing plenty of the others to gasp in shock.

 

Tuxedo Mask yells out, worriedly, “Sailor Moon!”

 

Sailor Jupiter shouts out, “Get out of the way!” But just before the attack hits, quick as a flash, Sailor Moon lashes out with her two swords and cuts all of the vines at her once causing all five DD girls to yelp out in pain as they retract their vine-like arms before their arms turn back into humanoid arms and hands.

 

Tuxedo Mask and the Moon Kingdom Sailor Scouts are shocked and Sailor Mercury says, stunned, “Sailor Moon…”

 

Sailor Moon asks them, in a taunting tone that’s not like her before, “What’s the matter? You seem so surprised.” Sailor Moon tells the DD girls, in a serious plain tone that’s not like her BEFORE SAO, “I’m not the same Sailor Moon that I was back then. I’m not going abandon the people that I love and care about to die by scum like you. I’m not here to beg for their lives. I’m here to turn you into moon dust and make sure that you never hurt them again.”

 

The blue DD girl says, with a sneer, “Ooh, the little princess has gained a backbone!”

 

The red DD girl yells out, strongly, “Let’s break it!” The five elite youma prepare to charge, but much to their surprise and plenty of our heroes and heroines, Sailor Moon, with incredible speed, zips over to them and with one powerful kick, she kicks the blue DD girl right out of the store!

 

The Moon Kingdom Sailor Scouts are shocked, and Sailor Venus says, stunned, “Whoa!”

 

Sailor Saturn says, amazed and stunned, “Sailor Moon…”

 

The green DD girl says, with a sneer, “Think you are all that? You are…!!” However, she doesn’t get to finish as Sailor Moon unleashes a silver energy wave from her sword that sends the other four DD girls crashing out of the store.

 

Sailor Mars says, shocked, “No way!”

 

Sailor Neptune says, amazed, “Sailor Moon…”

 

Sailor Nebula says, “I’ve heard that the Valkyrie Sailor Scout powers are incredible, but I never imagined…”

 

Sailor Pluto says, interrupting, “Neither did I, Nebula.”

 

Sailor Moon walks forward and she says, “I’ll give these divas a taste of the new Sailor Moon. The rest of you find where that ‘generator’ or whatever is and blast to bits to get us home.”

 

Plenty of the others, especially Tuxedo Mask and the majority of the Moon Kingdom Sailor Scouts, gasp in shock and Sailor Jupiter shouts out, “No way!”

 

Sailor Venus says, “You can’t be serious Sailor Moon!”

 

Sailor Moon says, “Right now, my sister from my time as a Moon Princess just got her birthday ruined by that Nega-freak and I’m…annoyed right now.”

 

Davis says, a bit nervously, “More like testy!”

 

Just then a taunting female voice shouts out, “It looks like the princess is having a ‘temper tantum’.” Everyone looks to see the five DD girls, basically all right, and the blue DD girl says, with a sinister smile, “Your poor sister got her birthday ruined! Boo hoo! Oh, cry me…!!” However, all five DD girls yelp as they are impaled in their arms/shoulders by Sailor Orion.

 

Sailor Orion says, plain tone and annoyed expression, “You talk too much.”

 

Sailor Venus says, with a grin, “Nice one!”

 

The red DD girl shouts out, “How dare you?!”

 

Sailor Celestial yells out, strongly, “We dare! And we dare to do this!” Sailor Celestial’s Etherion Booster then has its railgun point at the DD girls and fire in which they scream as they are sent flying backwards.

 

Sailor Sun says, “I think that it is time for us to go.”

 

Tai says, “No kidding, Kari. That would have brought the police if we weren’t trapped in alternate dimension!”

 

Tuxedo Mask says, “Let’s move.” Soon enough, the group heads out of the store and nearly immediately, they are starting to get swarmed by the mind controlled people.

 

Palmon says, “They are everywhere!”

 

Gatomon says, “Well, we can’t do anything about it.”

 

Sailor Sun says, “They are innocent people!”

 

Sailor Uranus says, “Weapons and hostages at the same time.”

 

Sailor Jupiter says, annoyed, “Not surprising of the tactics of a coward like him.” Just then Sailor Moon, Neo Moon, and Sailor Celestial leap out of the way of another assault from the five DD girls.

 

Sailor Celestial says, “Damn! You, girls, are like weeds!”

 

The pink DD girl yells out, “We’re stronger than we were beating the crap of your sister’s Sailor Twerp!”

 

Sailor Venus yells out, annoyed, “We’re stronger too!”

 

The green DD girl asks, tauntingly, “But are you tough enough?” The five DD girls then dodge another series of arrows from Sailor Orion and the green DD girl says, tauntingly, “Not this time!”

 

Sailor Orion responds, with a smirk, “Think so?” Just then the mystical arrows spin around, and the five DD girls yelp out in pain as they struck in the back.

 

Sailor Jupiter says, with a grin, “Nice!” The DD girls, when they recover from the hit, turn towards the others to counterattack only to find Sailor Celestial coming down on them, Dark Repulser in her two hands, and with a kendo-style slash, she cuts the red DD girl in half causing her to scream before she explodes in which the other DD girls give a look of surprise.

 

Sailor Moon’s voice booms, “Forgetting someone?” The DD girls turn to the source of the voice only to have the violet and green DD girls cut to ribbons by Sailor Moon.

 

The blue DD girl says, annoyed, “You are getting…!!” However, she and the other surviving DD girl, the pink one, then yelp as they get a pair of ‘light arrow’, one for each DD girl, into the shoulders from Sailor Orion in which she smirks before the ‘light arrows’ explodes in a strong explosion and destroying the final DD girls.

 

Sailor Venus says, excitedly, “Great shot!”

 

Rika says, with a nod, “I’ll say.” Just then Sailor Celestial’s and Sailor Moon’s ‘danger sense’ goes wild and they leap away from multiple dark energy spheres and when everyone looks to see where they came from, they find Jadeite floating in the air above them.

 

Jadeite says, with a sneer, “Clever, but cheap tricks aren’t going to save you for long.”

 

Sailor Celestial says, “Then maybe this can!” Sailor Celestial unleashes an elemental blast from her sword and Jadeite manages to deflect it in which he creates a black crystal sword using it to clash with Sailor Celestial’s sword.

 

Jadeite says, with an evil smirk, “Ha! Just as pathetic as your sister!”

 

Sailor Celestial retorts, with a grin, “If sis is pathetic, then what does that make you? Worthless?”

 

Jadeite yells out, with a sneer, “I’m going to enjoy gutting you!”

 

Sailor Celestial replies, with a sly smile, “And I’m going to enjoy THIS!” Sailor Celestial then rams her armored kneecap into Jadeite’s *ahem* ‘private areas’ causing his face to twist in pain and plenty of the male members of our heroes and heroines to winch from that.

 

Asuna says, with an amazed look, “Oh my…”

 

Kazuto says, with a winch, “Sugu…is not one to do things lightly.”

 

Kotone says, nervously, “That’s one way of putting it.” Jadeite, after somewhat recovering from Sailor Celestial’s ‘assault’, glares at Sailor Celestial with intense anger while Sailor Celestial gains a big grin on her features.

 

Jadeite grunts out, “You…are going…pay for that!” Jadeite roars out as he attacks Sailor Celestial with dark energy blasts/spheres and Sailor Celestial flies off with Jadeite on her heels, but the others are left as the mind controlled people are surrounding them.

 

Yolei says, nervously, “Oh, crap!”

 

Hawkmon says, “Crude, but accurate Yolei.” Sailor Celestial then flies into a storage area and Jadeite follows her, smashing through the front door, and walking towards Sailor Celestial, who is seemly trapped.

 

Jadeite gets near Sailor Celestial and he says, “I have you now.”

 

Sailor Celestial responds, with a grin, “Funny. That’s my line.”

 

Jadeite laughs and he says, with an evil smile, “Ha! What makes you say that? You drove yourself into a corner!”

 

Sailor Celestial replies, with a grin, “Did you ask how all of us got away so fast?” Jadeite then gives a confused look as Sailor Celestial creates a small flame and flings into a pile of boxes in which Jadeite looks and gasps to see that they are containers for fireworks. Sailor Celestial yells out, slyly, “Enjoy the show!” Sailor Celestial then teleports away and Jadeite roars as he is the center of a massive fireworks explosion! When Sailor Celestial teleports back to the others, they are surrounded by the mind controlled people, but the mind controlled people then collapse to the ground.

 

Davis asks, confused, “What happened?” Just then they hear a loud ‘bang’ and everyone looks to see the area that the fireworks explosion causing cartoon-like multi-colored fireworks explosion from the distance.

 

Sailor Celestial says, with a smirk, “That’s just that jerk having a blast.” Plenty of the others look at her with smirks and/or deadpan looks causing Sailor Celestial to ask, with a grin, “What?”

 

Davis says, with a grin, “Someone had to say it.” Sailor Sun giggle and playfully slaps Davis’ arm.

 

End Flashback; Return to the Present

 

Back in the virtual world of ALO, we return to Swilvane and the inside of Lily of the Valley Pavilion where we find Leafa, Kirito, Asuna, Usagi, Klein, Philia, Silica, Lisbeth, Dai, and Akari are giggling at that memory.

 

Klein asks, “So, what happened next?”

 

Lisbeth says, “Well, we got rid of the thing that kept us in the ‘other dimension’ and we were there long enough to cause a fuss, so, Usagi, Leafa, and the other Sailor Scouts had to explain why.”

 

Usagi says, with a groan, “Don’t remind us.”

 

Akari says, with a smile, “Well, that’s not surprising since the Sailor Scouts are more in the public eye than ever.”

 

Leafa tells Usagi, “Ever since you, big brother, and the others were trapped here, the evil villains ‘sensed’ something was ‘off’ and knew it was the time to ‘go wild’. The girls had it quite rough.”

 

Kirito says, “I think nearly unbearable is a better way of putting it, Sugu.”

 

Usagi says, with a sigh, “It was a miracle that they survived.”

 

Dai tells Usagi, with a grin, “Come on! It isn’t your fault! Don’t go into that ‘pity party’ again or we’ll tell your hot head friend!”

 

Usagi yells out, nervously, “Hey!” Plenty of the others laugh at Usagi’s ‘nervousness’.

 

Philia says, “Anyway, your back in action and now, they have Kari and Leafa to help them as Sailor Sun and Sailor Celestial.”

 

Asuna tells Philia, with a kind smile, “Not so loud Philia-chan.” Philia gives a look of embarrassment and nods her head in which Kari and Leafa are smiling, but Leafa is mentally a bit solemn about the ‘help’ part of Philia’s statement for some reason.

 

Silica asks, as she pets Pina, “So, what should we do now?”

 

Philia says, “Well, I was hoping that you could help with this quest that I heard about.”

 

Asuna asks, “What is it, Philia?”

 

Philia says, “A treasure hunting quest for a rare ore…”

 

Lisbeth asks, with her eyes ‘shimmering’, “A rare ore?”

 

Silica, Kirito, Leafa, and Asuna nervous laugh and Leafa says, “And there she goes.” Usagi can’t help to smile at this and can’t help to feel happy that they are enjoying this world.

 

Mid-May 2025, ALO, Legrue Corridor

 

Elsewhere in ALO, an underground passage through the mountain range of ALO/Alfheim that separates Alne and the World Tree from the rest of ALO known as the Legrue Corridor, Leafa, Kirito, Asuna, Silica, Lisbeth, Strea, Sinon, Philia, Klein, and Agil are running down the dungeon passageways.

 

Klein says, “Man! They are really persistent!”

 

Lisbeth says, annoyed, “No kidding!”

 

Leafa says, “Sorry, everyone! It looks like they are still after me!”

 

Kirito tells Leafa, “It isn’t your fault, Sugu.”

 

Agil asks, “Aren’t they going a bit overboard here?”

 

Klein says, “No joke! That’s a freaking boss raid party!”

 

Kirito says, “They aren’t taking any chances. They know that Sugu is one of the elite players of ALO and after ruining their plans to attempt to disrupt the alliance between the Sylphs and Cat Sith as well as keeping their status as the top group of players in ALO, they would love a chance to get back at her. But they aren’t stupid. They know that she is one of the best of the best and they aren’t going to take their chances.”

 

Leafa says, “I don’t know if I should be honored or nervous.”

 

Sinon says, “Wouldn’t blame you if you felt both.” Soon enough, the group finds themselves on the bridge to Legrue, an underground player city in the center of an underground lake, and they are running across it.

 

Silica says, “I see it!”

 

Leafa says, with a smile, “Once we are in the city, we’ll be fine! Legrue is a player city and no battles are allowed there!” The group continues to move on, but then ‘streaks of light’ fly overhead and lands in front of the door causing a massive stone wall to appear in which Kirito draws one of his swords and leaps towards it.

 

Asuna shouts out, “Kirito-kun!” Kirito attacks the stone wall only for him to bounce off it when Kirito strikes the stone wall and lands on the ground with a loud ‘thump’.

 

Strea asks Kirito, concerned, “Are you okay?”

 

Kirito says, “Yeah, I’m okay.”

 

Leafa tells Kirito, “Big brother, you should know better. That Earth magic can only be destroyed by attack spells.”

 

Kirito tells Leafa, “A little more warning next time.”

 

Klein asks, “So, now what?”

 

Leafa says, “Well, we either pound it with attack spells which we might have enough of, but it would take too long…”

 

Philia asks, “What about the water?”

 

Leafa says, shaking her head, “Normally, I would say that would be a bad idea, but with Asuna, here, we might have a chance.”

 

Asuna asks, “With me?”

 

Leafa says, with a nod, “The waters contain high level monsters and a lot of players, even strong ones, would be lunch. However, if you are a strong enough Undine or have one as an ally, you might have a chance. Undines are the only ones that have an advantage against water monsters and they are experts in underwater combat.”

 

Plenty of the others look at Asuna and Klein says, with a grin, “Nice!”

 

Kirito says, “There is one problem. Our attackers must have already considered that possibility.” When everyone looks at Kirito, he says, “They are targeting Sugu since she belongs to the ‘Great Nymphs of ALO’, which is made of up Usagi’s friends, who are best of the best of the veteran ALO players, in which Michiru and Mizuno are both Undines. Also, we have been here for over a month now and we’ve started to gain ‘reputations’ of our own and not just because we are close to Sugu and Usagi’s friends. Our current avatars have a lot of our SAO avatar data and combine that with our experiences with our training in ALO thanks to Sugu and all of our friends who are veteran players, we made ‘quite a splash’ in ALO.”

 

Klein says, with a grin, “You know it, buddy!”

 

Agil says, “Doesn’t mean that it is a good thing.”

 

Asuna says, “By now, they know that I’m an Undine and they may be prepared to attack us while I’m leading the way through the lake.”

 

Kirito says, “Exactly.”

 

Strea says, with a pout, “That’s not nice.”

 

Agil says, “Just one way to play the game, Strea.”

 

Everyone starts to get out their weapons and Kirito says, “Our best bet is ‘door number three’.”

 

Lisbeth says, with a smirk, “Face our enemies head on.”

Klein says, with a grin, “Oh, now, you are talking my language!”

 

Kirito tells Asuna, “Asuna, you are top healer. Sorry…”

 

Asuna says, with a smile and interrupting, “I know. I’m ready.” Asuna steps to the rear and prepares to be the healer of the group.

 

Kirito then says, “Agil, I need you, Silica, Lisbeth, and Philia to remain back and protect Asuna and Sinon. Sinon is our longest range sniper here and while I trust her defensive capabilities, she is still valuable as our long range attacker without need of magic.”

 

Agil says, with a nod, “I got you, bro.”

 

Sinon says, with a nod and plain tone, “Understood.”

 

Kirito says, “Klein, you, Sugu, and Strea are with me. We are the damage dealers of the group and also, in this narrow bridge, I trust your ability to dodge Strea’s sword strikes.”

 

Klein asks, “Say what?”

 

Leafa says, pointing to the bridge, “We’re not going to have much maneuvering room, Klein, and Strea has that big sword. Not surprising since she is a Gnome and strength is their specialty.” Strea gives a cheeky smile at this and Leafa says, “She needs quite a bit of room to use her sword the fullest.”

 

Klein says, a bit nervously, “Good point.” As soon as our group gets into formation, they see a group of around 50 Salamander players heading towards them in which half of them are shield bearers and another half are mages.

 

Leafa says, nervously, “Uh oh.”

 

Kirito says, nervously, “I know, Sugu. This is going to be trouble.”

 

Klein says, with a nod, “No joke.”

 

Silica asks, curiously, “Huh?”

 

Agil says in reply, “That a raid party set up for bosses that give out high attack damage. The shield wielders are tanks there to absorb damage in which the mages can use long range attack spells against their opponent while also healing the shield bearers at the same time.

 

Kirito says, seriously, “Asuna!” However, Asuna is already starting a series of defensive spells to boost protection against magic based attacks to cast on all of her group.

 

Sinon says, “Then we should strike the first blow.” Sinon unleashes an arrow that goes over the shield wielding players and heads for one of the mage, but some kind of shield weakens her arrow and the arrow that the mage is wearing also weakens the damage that the HP loss is completely insignificant in which Sinon gives a look of surprise.

 

Kirito yells out, “Damn! They anticipated Sinon and they may have armor for magic attack resistance too!” Kirito says, “We need to break through the shield wall and now!”

 

Leafa says, with a nod, “Right!” Klein, Leafa, Strea, and Kirito charge in, but the tank half of the Salamanders immediately set up their ‘shield wall’ which goes the whole width of the bridge leaving no openings for the four of them to pass by.

 

Klein says, “Damn! They are covering the whole bridge!” The mage portion of the Salamander party then start to chant attack spells.

 

Leafa yells out, “Here come the attack spells!” Soon enough, the mages unleash a series of fireballs at Klein, Leafa, Strea, and Kirito.

 

Klein yells out, “Get behind me!” Kirito, Leafa, and Strea fall in behind Klein and they try to dodge the fireballs, but some of them strike home, however, they mostly hit Klein. However, due to Klein being a Salamander, a ‘fire fairy’, as well and Asuna’s earlier protection spells, the damage to Klein is very minimum. Klein yells out, excitedly, “Nice try! I’m a Salamander, too! Fire magic is nothing!”

 

Kirito says, “Be careful, Klein! Remember that wall? That’s a pretty high level Earth magic spell! They may have a strong mage in the group!”

 

Klein says, with a grin, “No problem, buddy!” Soon enough, Klein, Leafa, Kirito, and Strea race the tanker of the Salamander party and they attack hard, but due to their powerful armor and shields, their attacks don’t deal too much damage to the tanks in which the mages heal up soon enough.

 

Leafa says, nervously, “Uh oh!”

 

Klein asks, nervously, “Now what?”

 

Kirito shouts out, “Keep attacking! Try to force the mages to keep healing the tankers!”

 

Strea says, with a nod, “Okay!” Kirito, Leafa, Klein, and Strea continue to attack the tankers of their opponent’s group trying to force the mages to focus on healing them, but they only forced some of the mages to focus on healing while the others continue their long range magic attacks including against Sinon, Asuna, Philia, Silica, Lisbeth, and Agil with Sinon’s arrows proving ineffective against the mages since they have armor equipment designed against Sinon’s weapon as well as anti-magic defensive equipment on them as well.

 

Asuna shouts out, “Kirito-kun!”

 

Kirito thinks in his mind, “Darn it! Asuna is going to run out of MP soon!”

 

Klein asks, “Any ideas?”

 

Kirito then says, “I have one!”

 

Leafa asks, “What is it?”

 

Kirito says, with a grin, “You’ll see, Sugu. You just need to keep them off me for a minute!”

 

Strea says, excitedly, “Okay!” Kirito leaps back and starts a magic spell in which Leafa’s eyes widen as she hears it.

 

Leafa thinks in her mind, “Wait! That’s an Metamorphosis illusion spell, but that turns you into a weak mob! What is big brother thinking?!” Just then Kirito is engulfed in an energy twister and out of that twister, a Gleam Eyes style monster appears in Kirito’s place much to everyone’s shock.

 

Asuna says, shocked, “Kirito-kun…”

 

Silica asks, a bit nervously, “Is that Kirito?” The monster that Kirito transforms into makes a frightening roar and one of the shield users flinches backwards causing ‘Monster Kirito’ to charge him and he tries to run away, but he gets impaled by ‘Monster Kirito’ turns into a Remain Light immediately. This frightening sight causing the shield wall to break up and start to disperse.

 

The leader of the Salamander party, one of the mages, yells out, “Bakas! Don’t break formation! That’s illusion magic! Don’t break formation!” But then ‘Monster Kirito’ seemly eats another Salamander and slashes another one turning both of them into Remain Lights as well.

 

Philia says, amazed and nervous, “He is really getting into it!”

 

Lisbeth says, with a nervous smile, “That’s one way of putting it!”

 

The actions of ‘Monster Kirito’ has put the Salamander party in disarray and Strea says, pointing to its current condition, “Hey!” Leafa and Klein look at each other and they nod as they smirk.

 

The leader of the Salamander party shouts out, nervously, “Hit him with an Explosion spell!”

 

But before they could start the spell, Klein shouts out, “Not so fast!” Soon after, the mages of the group look to see Klein, Strea, and Leafa burst through the busted shield wall defense and Strea and Leafa crush two Salamander mages, since they aren’t equipped for weapons like swords, in which the two mages turn into Remain Lights nearly instantly.

 

The leader of the Salamander party shouts out, now in a panic himself, “Retreat! Retreat! Fall back!” However, it was too late in which ‘Monster Kirito’ and the others quickly crush them in which after all of them are Remain Lights, ‘Monster Kirito’ returns back to ‘normal’.

 

When the battle is over, Klein says, going over a screen, “Man! Look at all of the rare stuff that we got from those guys!”

 

Silica says, “I feel a bit bad about taking their stuff.”

 

Sinon says, “I don’t. It is fair game in here and while PvP is allowed here, ganging on players is bad manners and they got what they deserve.”

 

Lisbeth says, with a grin, “You said it!”

 

Leafa asks Kirito, “So, big brother, how was it being a monster?”

 

Kirito says, “Well, it was pretty cool being huge and I was chomping down on them. I was totally getting into the feel of being a monster.”

 

Agil says, a bit nervously, “You are scaring me, bro.”

 

Sinon asks, plainly, “So, what did they taste like?”

 

Kirito says, “I have to say that they tasted like grilled meat.” Kirito licks his chop and he says, “All crispy and…”

 

The others get nervous with this and Lisbeth says, nervously, “TMI!”

 

Leafa says, with a nod, “Big TMI!”

 

Sinon asks, plainly, “Seriously?” Sinon lifts her arm to dismiss Kirito, but he then bites down on her head causing Sinon to yelp out before attempting to scratch out his face. Sinon yells out, angrily, “Try that again and I’ll shove a fire arrow up your nose!” Plenty of the others, namely the females, just deadpan at this situation.

 

Early June 2025, Unknown location

 

At an unknown location, we look like we are inside of a high-tech facility where a group of figures are looking at a gateway similar to the ones found on Stargate universe and one of them looks at a Naruto manga book in their hands in which one of them smirks.

 

June 30, 2025, Tokyo, Kirigaya household

 

Inside of the Kirigaya household, Kazuto and Suguha are preparing to head out.

 

Suguha says, with a smile, “This is going to be great!”

 

Kazuto says, “I hope so.”

 

Suguha says, with a grin, “No kidding, big brother. My birthday had gotten interrupting by an ‘unwanted guest’…through he really did make a ‘blast’.”

 

Kazuto asks, with a smirk, “Seriously, Sugu?” Suguha gives a giggle as the two of them prepare to head out in which the phone rings in which Suguha answers.

 

Suguha asks, speaking into the phone’s speaker, “Hello?”

 

Just then a familiar male voice answers over the phone, “Suguha-san?”

 

Suguha asks, surprised, “Ryu-sensei?”

 

Kazuto’s eyes widen at the name and Ryu Hayabusa’s voice says over the phone, “It’s me.”

 

Suguha asks, plainly, “What’s up?”

 

Ryu responds, “As you expect, I’m not making a ‘social call’. I need your help.”

 

Suguha asks, her eyes narrowing, “What do you need?”

 

Kazuto’s eyes narrow and Ryu says, “I’m sorry to call you at this time, but this might be a ‘sensitive manner’. I had Kasumi investigate the area where you had found Kayaba’s body.”

 

Suguha yells out, shocked, “Wait! What? Why there?”

 

Ryu responds, “I had looked over the photos and pictures taken inside of the cabin in the aftermath of you finding him and Rinko-san in which I found something ‘off’. I couldn’t be sure. I had Kasumi to go investigate, but now, her communications have gone silent.”

 

Suguha says, “Well, she is out in the mountains.”

 

Ryu says, “You may be right, but she did have a special satellite phone among other various communication devices. I’m not sure that it is anything wrong. Kasumi was the heir to her clan and she is an excellent kunoichi…”

 

Suguha says, interrupting, “But you would feel good if someone of my ‘power level’ makes sure that she is okay and you can’t go since you have a mission.”

 

Ryu says, “And it is a special time for your ‘royal sibling’ and I don’t want to cause too much ‘heart ache’.”

 

Suguha says, “Well, you know I would like to be celebrating my ‘royal sister’s’ birthday too.”

 

Ryu says, “I’m sorry. I had nowhere else to turn to.”

 

Suguha says, with a sigh, “It’s okay, Ryu-sensei. I’ll head over there and see if Kasumi is okay.”

 

Ryu responds, “Thank you, Suguha.”

 

Suguha says, with a kind smile, “No problem. Stay safe, sensei.”

 

Ryu replies, “To you as well, Suguha. Farewell.” Soon after, Suguha hangs up the phone and she looks at Kazuto.

 

Before Suguha can speak, Kazuto tells Suguha, with a kind smile, “I’ll explain everything to the others.”

 

Suguha gives a look of surprise and Suguha asks, “Are you sure?”

 

Kazuto tells Suguha, “Well, I was pretty surprised to find out that you and Serena were training in a ninja village.”

 

Flashback; Early June 2025

 

Valkyrie Sailor Celestial is flying into her room and after she lands in which she hits her broach causing her to de-transform back into Suguha, but she is wearing a green version of Kasumi’s classic kunoichi outfit from Dead or Alive.

 

Just then Kazuto’s voice booms, “Sugu?” Suguha winches and she turns to see Kazuto looking at her from her room’s open door.

 

Suguha says, nervously, “Oh, crap.”

 

End Flashback; Return to the Present

 

Back in the present, Suguha rubs her scalp and she says, remembering that memory, “Yeah, I remember. Caught red-handed.”

 

Kazuto tells Suguha, “Personally, it makes me worried about you and Serena.”

 

Suguha retorts, “Can you really blame us, big brother?”

 

Kazuto says, with a sigh, “Not really.”

 

Suguha tells Kazuto, with a smile, “I’ll be back soon and we’ll have a fun time with sis for her birthday.”

 

Kazuto says, with a sigh, “I really hope so.” Suguha playfully punches Kazuto’s arm and she takes out her broach from her sub-space pocket in which she prepares to head off on her ‘mission’.

 

June 30, 2025, Japanese countryside

 

Within the mountainous Japanese countryside, Valkyrie Sailor Celestial is floating down towards the countryside cabin where Kayaba was staying and diving into SAO during the whole of over two years of Sword Art Online in which she then sees that it is in bad shape.

 

Sailor Celestial says, “That’s not good.” Sailor Celestial then rushes into the cabin to find that the inside has been trashed with burn marks, multiple holes, a lot of damage, and when she enters the room where Kayaba’s body was found, there is a massive hole leading outside in which Sailor Celestial says, “I seriously don’t like that.” Sailor Celestial then charges outside, and she then sees what looks like a series of explosions ahead causing her to fly off. After a good distance, Sailor Celestial looks to see what looks like a female humanoid creature that’s green and transparent is staring down a 19-year-old young woman with brown hair that reaches down to her lower shoulder tied in a ponytail, amber eyes, and she is wearing a dark blue, side-tie dress with short puffy sleeves, white trim, white stockings, and low-heeled sandals with a sheath for a short samurai style sword is attached to her back. After seeing this, Sailor Celestial leaps into action and charges in when the young woman is knocked to the ground. Sailor Celestial yells out, “Hey, freak!” The female humanoid creature turns only to be kicked in the face by Sailor Celestial sending the creature into the trees.

 

The young woman asks, surprised, “Celestial?”

 

Sailor Celestial asks the young woman, “Are you okay, Kasumi?”

 

The young woman gets to her feet and responds, “Yes, I am.”

 

Sailor Celestial asks, “What happened Kasumi?”

 

The young woman, Kasumi, responds, “I was investigating the cabin where Ryu-dono told me to look and I found something.”

 

Sailor Celestial asks, surprised, “You did?”

 

Kasumi says, with a nod, “Something very important. I was about to contact Ryu-dono until I was attacked by Alpha-One-Fifty-Two.”

 

Sailor Celestial asks, “That thing that I just kicked?”

 

Kasumi responds, with a nod, “It is an enhanced clone of me.”

 

Sailor Celestial asks, surprised, “A clone of you?”

 

Kasumi says, with a nod, “That’s right. She is an enhanced clone of me…” Kasumi gasps as she points behind Sailor Celestial and she turns to see green female humanoid, Alpha-152, and a whole army of Kasumi clones with red version of her outfit.

 

Sailor Celestial says, nervously, “Oh, crap.”

 

Kasumi says, “We can’t let them get their hands on Kayaba’s journals.”

 

Sailor Celestial asks, flabbergasted, “Kayaba’s journals?!”

 

Kasumi says, with a nod, “That’s what I found. We can’t let anyone get their hands on those journals.”

 

Sailor Celestial thinks in her mind, “No freaking kidding! Who knows what Kayaba put in those journals?” Sailor Celestial looks at Alpha-152 and the army of Kasumi clones, which are now charging them, in which she thinks, “I can’t fight and risk them getting those journals! I need to get Kasumi and those journals out of here now!” Sailor Celestial then grabs Kasumi and she yells out, “Hang on! We’re getting out of here now!”

 

Kasumi says, with a nod, “Right!” Sailor Celestial leaps into the air and prepares to teleport, but in a swirl of sakura petals, Alpha-152 teleports in and grabs onto Sailor Celestial as she teleports away.

 

June 30, 2025, Akihabara District, Tokyo

 

Over the skies of the Akihabara District of Tokyo, Sailor Celestial, Kasumi, and Alpha-152 appear in the skies above Akihabara and he starts to grapple with them in which all three of them are falling from the skies.

 

Sailor Celestial yells out, “Get off!” Sailor Celestial knocks Alpha-152 off her and she seems to vanish in which Sailor Celestial lets go of Kasumi allowing her to gracefully fall to the ground only to have Alpha-152 teleport above her with Alpha-152 sending Sailor Celestial plummeting into the street with a super-strong kick where Sailor Celestial slams into the street with a huge ‘boom’ causing dirt and debris high into the sky.

 

Kasumi yells out, shocked, “Celestial!” Soon after, Kasumi is staring down Alpha-152 and the two of them prepare for battle.

 

But then Sailor Celestial’s voice booms out, “Did you forget about me, goo girl?” Soon after, Valkyrie Sailor Celestial bursts out of the street and decks Alpha-152 right in the chin and sending her flying high into the sky. Sailor Celestial turns to Kasumi and she asks, “Kasumi-sensei, are you okay?”

 

Kasumi responds, “Yes, I…Watch out!” Kasumi looks ahead of Sailor Celestial and Sailor Celestial whips around only to get spin kicked in the face by Alpha-152 that she just sent flying into the air and right into the side of a car causing it to get seriously damaged with Sailor Celestial being stunned for the moment. Before anything could be said or done, Alpha-152 charges right at Sailor Celestial with the intent to destroy her, but Kasumi, in a swirl of sakura petals, manages to appear in-between Sailor Celestial and the creature in which she manages to block the blow from the creature. However, Kasumi gets kneed in the waist for her efforts.

Sailor Celestial, who has regained her senses, sees this and she yells out, “You bitch!” Sailor Celestial bashes Alpha-152 in the face and sending it flying, but Alpha-152 then teleports away. However, Sailor Celestial spins to her left and grabs the hand of Alpha-152 which has teleported behind her and to her left. Sailor Celestial says, seriously, “I won’t fall for that trick again, freak! You’re done!” Sailor Celestial then throws Alpha-152 away and freezes it with an icy wind in which, quick as a flash of light, she whips out Elucidator and Dark Repulser, slices the enhanced Kasumi clone multiple times, and the icicle glows before it explodes into nothingness taking Alpha-152 along with it. After sheathing her swords, Sailor Celestial turns to Kasumi, who is back on her feet, and she asks, “Are you okay?”

 

Kasumi responds, “I am, Celestial.”

 

Sailor Celestial says, with a sigh, “Oh, man. I’m glad that big brother and sis didn’t see this.” Kasumi then points over in the direction of the group and Sailor Celestial’s eyes grow wide when she sees her brother, her ‘royal sister’, and the rest of our heroes and heroines, Sailor Scouts, Digidestined and their Digimon partners, and SAO survivors, looking at her in which she says, slapping her head, “Oh, crap.” Soon after, Sailor Celestial and Kasumi join up with the rest of our heroes and heroines to inform them of the situation not knowing what to expect next…

 

(Sword Art Online: Lost Song opening theme song ‘Cynthia No Hikari’ starts)

 

The first scene shows the duel between Sayer and Suguha/Sailor Celestial in which she uses Pendulum Summoning for the first time.

 

The next scene has Sailor Celestial and the other Sailor Scouts meeting Naruto, Hinata, and Sakura for the first time as they escape their captors.

 

This next scene has our heroes and heroines meeting Serena’s XYZ Dimension counterpart, Tsuki, and then her Synchro counterpart, Serenity, along with their dragons, Dark Rebellion XYZ Dragon and Clear Wing Synchro Dragon.

 

And finally, we have Kirito, Usagi, and Leafa with Yui looking towards the floating landmasses of Svart Alfheim from a small floating island over Alne. All four of them then fly off towards Svart Alfheim for their adventures ahead in the virtual and real worlds.

 

(Sword Art Online: Lost Song opening theme song ‘Cynthia No Hikari’ ends)

 

The End…of After Fragments

 

To be continued in Sailor Moon Online Shippuden: Worlds’ Song.

 

Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope that everyone likes my present. And this is the concluding story to the After Fragments saga. But hold up! You are asking? What about Naruto’s, Hinata’s, and Sakura’s kidnapping from their world and the Leaf Village? Well, I had thought about it and I decide that’s going to be another one-shot story that centers around them. The After Fragments saga talks about what happened to our heroes and heroines during the time period after Hollow Fragment to World’s Song. So, what did you think of the saga? I hope that you liked it! And have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Please read and review and no flames as well as ‘useless commentary’, please! Later and best wishes, Crossover Fans!