Sailor Moon Fan Fiction / Digimon Fan Fiction / Crossover Fan Fiction ❯ Sailor Moon Online II: SAO Shippuden ❯ Arc I, Chapter 2: The World of Guns ( Chapter 2 )

Well, we have arrived at the second chapter of the first arc of the sequel to Shadow of Aincrad and I believe that I have set the tone right. Personally, in my mind, if Kirito/Kazuto saw what happened on that day when Death Gun ‘shot’ XeXeeD, he would realize that ‘Death Gun’ knew that something would happened to him after he ‘shot’ him through he would have no clue on how he did it or at least that’s what I think, so, that’s how I made out his reaction in this fanfiction. Now, I know that you hate me constantly doing this, but I would like to give thanks and credit to Belletiger and Kanius and Kanius’ YuYuGiDigiMoon series, especially this author’s 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.

 

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Warning: This story contains intense mature violence, blood, gore, death, mild to explicit suggestive themes, including firearms usage, 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!

 

December 7, 2025, ALO

 

Within one of the fields in ALO, Leafa, Silica, Lisbeth, Strea, and Philia are together as they fight Venus Fly trap like monsters in which we get a full view of Philia’s and Strea’s new ALO forms.

 

Philia’s ALO avatar is a female Spriggan with black hair, blue eyes, and wearing an outfit like her SAO/SAW outfit.

 

Strea’s ALO avatar is a female Gnome with violet hair, red-brown eyes, and wearing an outfit similar to SAW avatar.

 

On the meanwhile, Kirito and Asuna are relaxing on top an earthen platform connected to a ground by a long thin base and Kirito is looking into the sky in which he is thinking about the video from GGO that Davis and Kari shot in the game on the day that XeXeeD was seemly shot at by the mysterious Death Gun. When he saw the scene, Kirito realized, from the way that ‘Death Gun’ was acting, it was no coincidence. Kirito knew that ‘Death Gun’ knew that when he ‘shot’ XeXeeD that he would suffer such a ‘fate’. However, what Kirito can’t figure out is how he did it. For the most part, Kirito believes that there has to be some kind of trick, but in the back of his mind, there is a fear that ‘Death Gun’ knows a way to disable to the defenses of the Amusphere and while Kirito knows for certain that no one can ever make an Amusphere kill a person like with the NervGear, but there is a way that ‘Death Gun’ could have found a way to ‘fool’ a person’s mind and body that they suffered some kind of lethal injury and cause some kind of ‘over stimulation’ or something causing the heart to collapse or something. With Kirito’s rational mind, he feels that such an idea is silly, but he has no other clues for any other theories and what he saw happened on that day in GGO, Kirito is 100 percent sure that ‘Death Gun’ did do something to XeXeeD since Kirito KNEW from what he saw is that ‘Death Gun’ knew that something was going to happen to XeXeeD when ‘Death Gun’ shot him in that manner. Memories of Kayaba and Sword Art Online also come to his mind as well as Sword Art World in which while it doesn’t seem possible, a ‘bad feeling’ in Kirito’s heart makes him feel that somehow and in some way, despite Kayaba being truly gone from both the physical and virtual worlds, he is somehow having a ‘hand’ in this. Like it or not, in his heart, Kirito knows that he has to help both the Sailor Scouts, especially our Soldier of the Moon, and Digidestined solve this mystery to make sure that the legacy of Sword Art Online never takes away another life.

 

Kirito then says, “Asuna.” When Asuna and Yui, in her pixie form, look at Kirito, he says, “There is something that I need to tell you.”

 

Asuna asks, “What is it Kirito-kun?”

 

Kirito tells Asuna, “Don’t be alarmed, but I need to transfer my avatar to Gun Gale Online for a few days to help Usagi with something.”

 

Asuna gasps and was about to yell about Kirito leaving ALO, but she then quickly remembers mentioning the name of Serena’s ALO avatar and Asuna asks, “Usagi-chan? Wait! Do you know why we haven’t been seeing Usagi-chan often lately?”

 

Kirito says, with a nod, “I do. It has to do with a job that Seijirou-san asked me to do.”

 

Asuna says, with a nod, “Oh, I see. If Seijirou-san asked you, too, you don’t really have a choice especially since he knows about Usagi-chan and Leafa-chan being Sailor Moon and Sailor Celestial. However, I really don’t trust him.”

 

Kirito says, nodding his head, “You and me both Asuna.”

 

Asuna and Kirito share a giggle and Asuna asks, “What does this have to do with Usagi?”

 

Kirito says, with a sigh, “You know how she has been with our lives ever since SAO and after we rescued you from the original ALO.”

 

Asuna says, glancing at Leafa, “Yeah, it has been tough on her and on you. We escaped SAO and the original ALO, but the legacy of those continue to haunt us.”

 

Kirito thinks in his mind, “No kidding. I’m not sure if I can handle Sugu getting trapped in a virtual world for the third time and mom and dad are at a real ‘knife’s edge’ with seeing their two kids trapped in VR three times during these past three years. One more time could break their hearts.”

 

Asuna says, with a smile, “Leafa-chan has mainly readjusted and Philia and Strea have joined us, here, in ALO. We are like one big family.”

 

Kirito says, “Yeah…Quite a bit of a dysfunctional family.” Asuna playfully smacks Kirito and Kirito says, “Anyway, you already know that Usagi has a GGO account of her own because it is a ‘shady’ VRMMO due to the real-life money conversation system.”

 

Asuna says, with a nod, “That’s right.” Asuna says, with a sigh, “I wish that Usagi-chan wouldn’t do this.”

 

Kirito says, “You know how she can be, Asuna. Kayaba really struck her as he struck my sister one thousand years ago in the Silver Millennium and several months ago. Anyway, with what happened in Sword Art World, she is taking no chances and neither is the government. After what happened, the government especially the VR division took a big hit.”

 

Asuna says, “I’m not surprised Kirito-kun. The commander…Kayaba basically announced to tens of thousands of players that he escaped justice and people are looking for someone to blame despite it was a one in a thousand chance that he could digitize his mind. With what happened with Future Divers, it looked like the that government ministry especially the one that Seijirou worked at really dropped the ball especially since a report that he made based on what research that he did after Leafa-chan got trapped in Rainbow Gardens for a month.”

 

Kirito says, with a nod, “That didn’t help the government all too well. This is getting conspiracy theorist plenty of ‘fuel for the fire’ in which a few nuts saying Argus wasn’t the blame for SAO…It was the government and Argus was the government’s scapegoat.”

 

Asuna gives a few giggles at the idea and she says, with a weak smile, “Well, Argus was a scapegoat for someone, but it was Kayaba and not the government.”

 

Kirito says, “Yeah.” Kirito tells Asuna, “Anyway, with the government, especially the VR Division, under close watch of the ‘public eye’, they can’t get away with one ‘screw up’ at this time or they are in trouble.”

 

Asuna says, “So, Seijirou-san wants you to assist Usagi in whatever she is doing in GGO.”

 

Kirito says, “That’s right, Asuna.”

 

Asuna asks, “Why do you need to convert?”

 

Kirito says, “She is going to do major research into GGO’s big event known as the ‘Bullet of Bullets’ that determines the strongest player of GGO and to keep up with her avatar in there, I’m going to need my avatar from here.”

 

Asuna says, with a sigh, “Okay, Kirito-kun. Just come back soon, okay? There is only one home for us.”

 

Kirito says, with a smile, “Okay, Asuna.”

 

Asuna tells Kirito, “And tell Usagi-chan to also come back soon. ALO is a bit lonely without her. As well as try to explain to her that it isn’t her job to ‘police’ the virtual universe.”

 

Kirito says, with a smile, “I’ll try, but you know how she is.”

 

Asuna says, with a smile, “I know, Kirito-kun. One day, I hope that she will be free from the legacy of SAO.”

 

Kirito thinks in his mind, as he looks at Leafa, “I hope so too, but even now, I can see Kayaba’s shadow on Serena, Sugu, and I.”

 

Sailor Moon Online II: SAO Shippuden

 

(Sword Art Online II opening song ‘Ignite’ starts)

 

In the starting scene, we find Kirito and Usagi, in their GGO avatars, standing back to back as they look in the direction that Kirito is looking, then it switches to Sinon, with a determined look in her eyes, and finally, there is none other than Death Gun and he fires his gun creating a bullet hole through the ‘screen’.

 

We next see Kazuto and Asuna sitting down in front of a table outside of a café in which images of Kirito’s SAO and first ALO avatars are walking down the street and the scene then switches to see Eternal Sailor Moon flying through the air with a plain look on her face as images of Usagi, in her SAO and ALO avatars appear by her sides, in which all of them look to see the shadow of Heathcliff/Kayaba looming over them in which the images of Valkyrie Sailor Moon and Usagi’ GGO avatar then appear.

 

The next scene shows Shino Asada sitting down on a swing as images her 11 year old self and Sinon appear and she then looks to see Kyouji Shinkawa in front of her, but he is then engulfed in flames where the infamous Death Gun appears from those flames.

 

Death Gun’s face is seen with Kirito and Usagi, in their GGO avatars, fighting back to back against ‘ghosts’ of SAO while the next scene shows Sinon being dragged into darkness.

 

The next scenes show Asuna, Leafa, Silica, Lisbeth, Klein, Strea, Philia, and Yui in ALO watching something and Asuna and Yui praying in which it switches to the Juuban Sailor Scouts, including Nebula and Neo Moon, watching and motioning from their secret base at Crown Fruit Arcade, then our Digidestined, minus Davis and Kari, and their Digimon partners also watching something, and from a room within GGO itself, Mamoru, Dai, and Akari, in their GGO avatars, are looking at the same thing with Mamoru praying in his own way.

 

Then Usagi and Kirito leap onto the battlefield in which they work together, using their photon/light-swords and guns, beating their opponents one after another with Sinon, using her Hecate II, taking out another opponent from a long distance.

 

Next, it goes into the main city of GGO itself where Kirito and Usagi are fighting against Death Gun himself where the deadly player is beating them off with an estoc and his ‘Death Gun’ with Kirito and Usagi fighting back against him with their guns and swords in which Kirito and Usagi seem the images of Laughing Coffin, the murder guild of SAO, as they charge him for one final attack.

 

On the meanwhile, Sinon snipes one opponent causing him to ‘explode’ and when she turns, she faces a barrage of bullets, but she leaps and starts to fire a submachine gun at her unseen enemy while the image of a mysterious Sailor Scout forms behind her.

 

Finally, Kirito, Usagi, and Sinon walk towards each with Kirito’s SAO and original ALO avatars behind him, Usagi, with images of her SAO and ALO avatars along with Eternal and Valkyrie Sailor Moon behind her, and finally, Sinon, the image of the mysterious Sailor Scout behind her, before all of them start running towards each other and it ends with all of them massed together.

 

(Sword Art Online II opening song ‘Ignite’ ends)

 

Arc I, Chapter 2: The World of Guns

 

December 7, 2025, Gun Gale Online

 

Within the vast wasteland/desert-like areas of GGO, there is a group of players, known as a squadron, which is GGO’s equivalent to guilds in other MMO, the current set of this party is five males and one familiar female.

 

This female of the group looks to be a teenage with pale blue hair that’s short with short tuffs of hair tied up on both sides of her head, indigo/blue colored eyes with a feline-like pupils in them, and she is wearing a desert colored military jacket, her bulletproof and combat boots are of the same type and color, and she has a white muffle around her neck. Nearby this young woman, there is a large fifty caliber sniper rifle which is known as PGM Ultima Ratio Hecate II, which in the real world is an anti-material rifle for attacking and destroying military vehicles and structures and not used for anti-personal reasons. In the world of GGO, this is one of the rarest guns of the game and one of the most powerful.

 

As the group waits, one of them, a guy with goggles and messy Mohawk cut asks another player in the group, “Hey, Dyne! Are they coming or not?”

 

Another player, the leader of the group, wearing a cowboy hat, responds, “They’re coming all right! I checked out the route myself, so, relax. I bet that that are hunting big ass monsters, so, your cut will be bigger this time, so, no complaining.”

 

The Mohawk player responds, “Dude, no one is complaining. But aren’t these the jokers that we hit last week? They could have changed routes.”

 

The cowboy hat leader, Dyne, responds, “All that squad cares about is hunting monsters. They don’t care how many times they are hit. They will make up in their next hunt. They make the perfect target for us, the player hunter squads. They move like monster algorithms. They are weak losers and they have no pride at all. They are equipped with optical weapons for fighting and as long as we have our shields, they are easy targets.”

 

The Mohawk player responds, “What if they got smart and prepared for us this time?”

 

Dyne retorts, “We hit them not too long ago, right? I doubt that they got their hands on live ammo guns in that short of a time. By now, they should have one firearm for support, but that’s about it. And besides, we have the best sniper in GGO watching our backs.” Dyne looks at the female of the group and he asks, “We got all our bases covered. Right, Sinon?”

 

The blue haired female member of the group responds, stoically, “Yep.”

 

The Mohawk male player says, with a sly smile, “Guess I can’t argue with that. With a crack shot like Sinon, things are looking good.”

 

Dyne clears his throat and he says, “It is better than good.”

 

The Mohawk player says, “If…A BIG ‘if’…But if she misses, I would be cool with that. It will take them a minute to realize where the shot came and by then, I’ll be in position and goodbye. I’ll hose them down a rake in the money.”

 

Sinon gives a mental groan of disgust and Dyne says, “Easy, cowboy.”

 

The Mohawk player crawls over to the blue haired female player, Sinon, and he asks, “Anyway, doll face, I was wondering what you were doing after this. I know a good gun shop that we can go to, huh?”

 

Sinon gives a mental groan of annoyance and Sinon says, stoically, “I don’t know what you are talking about and there are things that I need to do when I logout, Ginrou.”

 

The Mohawk player asks, “Come on, doll face. Oh, wait. Are you still in school? Well, that’s kind of hot. You have got a report to do, huh?”

 

Sinon responds, plainly, “Yeah, something like that.”

 

Another player says, “Come on, Ginrou. Don’t put her on the spot like that. We’re working so don’t bring up the real world in here.”

 

Another player of the group says, “Yeah, man! This isn’t the time for you to get rid of your ‘solo status’.”

 

The Mohawk player, Ginrou, yells out, annoyed, “Like you guys had a date in years!”

 

Sinon thinks in her mind, “Someday, I’m going to destroy your avatars with this gun. Will you still be laughing and bothering me then?”

 

Dyne says, annoyed, “Okay, you jokers, knock it off!”

 

The fifth player of the group, looking out with binoculars, says, “Got them!”

 

Dyne says, taking the binoculars and looking through them, “About time they arrived to the party. Yep. Hmm, they have seven members this time. That’s one more.” As Sinon looks through her sniper rifle’s scope, Dyne says, “We have four with optical blasters, one large caliber laser rifle, and…Ah, a Minimi. He has to go down first. The new guy has a cloaked and hood covering him so I can’t see what he is carrying.”

 

Ginrou asks, “A cloak, huh? You think it is that ‘Death Gun’ guy?”

 

Dyne scoffs and he says, “No way. You believe in fairy tales now? It looks like he has a strength build, but he is just a carrier by the looks of him.”

 

Sinon isn’t sure and she says, “I’m getting a bad vibe from him. I think that we should take him out before anyone else.”

 

Dyne responds, “No way. He isn’t carrying any weapons.”

 

Sinon replies, “Maybe he is and maybe he isn’t. The cloak makes it hard to tell. I don’t like unknown factors.”

 

Dyne says, “I hear what you are saying, but there is a guy with a Minimi and he will be a problem. If he gets off and those blasters move in, it is going to get ugly.”

 

Sinon responds, “Understood. I’ll take out that one first, but my next bullet has that other guy’s name on it.”

 

Dyne says, with a shrug, “Okay, Sinon.”

 

The player that spotted the other group says, “Hate to interrupting, but they are getting close to us.”

 

Dyne says, “Okay, we are sticking the usual plan. Sinon, call out if the situation changes. Wait for my order to fire.”

 

Sinon replies, plainly, “Roger.”

 

Dyne says, “All right, move out.” Dyne and the other male players leave with only Sinon remaining at the spot and on her sniper rifle in which she puts on a radio receiver and speaker over her left ear. After a while, Sinon hears Dyne’s voice on her earpiece’s receiver say, “All right, we’re in position.”

 

Sinon says, speaking into her earpiece’s speaker, “Roger. Targets haven’t changed their course. They are four hundred meters from you and fifteen hundred from me.”

 

Dyne asks, “Pretty far. Can you make it?”

 

Sinon responds, stoically, “No sweat.”

 

Dyne responds, “Okay. Fire when ready. I’m counting on you, Sinon.”

 

Sinon replies, plainly, “Roger.” Sinon focuses her attention on the person with the Minimi and the game’s offensive aid, the ‘Bullet Circle’, appears and pulses by expanding and contracting in which she thinks in her mind, as she falls into her ‘personal world’, “This pressure…this anxiety…this fear…fifteen hundred meters? It’s nothing! Like throwing a wad of paper into a trash can. No way! This is nothing like it felt on that day.” When her ‘Bullet Circle’ shrinks over the player’s head, she fires her shot and before the male player knew what hit him, he turns into hundreds of red data pixels while his weapon clatters to the ground. Sinon then pulls the bolt back on her sniper rifle, fixes the barrel towards her second target, and she fires, but thanks to the game’s defensive system, the ‘Bullet Line’, the burly cloaked player easily step out of the way of the attack where the bullet crashed nearby. Sinon looks around and she thinks in her mind, “Can’t change position.” Sinon then says into her earpiece radio, “I cleared the first target, but I couldn’t pop the second one.”

 

Dyne’s voice responds over the radio, “Roger that. Sit tight, you hear? Go! Go!” Sinon looks through her scope to see the battle between the members of her squad facing the opposing squad, but she then sees the cloaked player throw off his cloak to show that he is wearing a pair of goggles over his eyes, earmuffs over his ears, short spiky brown hair, and a huge GE M134 Minigun strapped to his back!

 

Sinon says, shocked, “That’s a…Minigun! They weren’t late due to their hunt being long, it was due to the movement penalty of the Minigun.” Sinon then watches Ginrou and another player attack in which they fight two of the laser gun wielding opposing players in which their fields negates while Ginrou shoots back and takes down one of them. He goes to cover to reload, but then Minigun unleashes a storm of lead through the wall and taking out Ginrou, who shatters into hundreds of data polygons. The player that holds the Minigun has his expression change as his stoic look gains a deep smirk on his lips. Sinon gives a look of surprise and she then starts to run carrying her sniper rifle in her arms which due strength stats due so. Sinon thinks in her mind, “What was that? If he could smile on the battlefield, he must be pretty brave and confident…or crazy. Either way, he’s mine.” On the meanwhile, Dyne and the rest of the squad, minus Ginrou, are dealing with the opposing force in which the Minigun player is forcing them completely on the defensive.

 

Dyne shouts out, “Damn! Don’t let him get closer! Fire!”

 

One member of the squad responds, “Right!”

 

As the rest of Dyne’s squad fires to suppress the Minigun player, Dyne asks, “We need to find cover! But where?” Dyne is then shocked to see Sinon running up to them and he asks, surprised and wide-eyed, “Sinon?” Sinon dodges two laser blasts and she then sees a massive red line from her ‘Bullet Line’, obviously the vast area of the Minigun, and she leaps high into the air in which she barely manages to dodge the assault causing her to slide to meet with the rest of the squad.

 

One of the group asks, “Sinon, are you hit?”

 

Sinon doesn’t reply and Dyne says, “Bastards. They teamed up with a freaking bodyguard.”

 

Sinon asks, “Bodyguard?”

 

Dyne says, “The guy with the Minigun. He is a macho jerk that calls himself Behemoth.”

 

Sinon says, “We can’t just sit here because they are going to wipe us out. That Minigun has only got so much ammo. If we attack him at once, he’ll panic and burn through the rest of it.”

 

As Sinon barks orders, Dyne says, “That’s crazy. What about the guys with the blasters? If we rush them, our shields won’t be enough.”

 

Sinon says, “Right. Their blasters aren’t as fast as a live ammo gun, we can just dodge them.”

 

Dyne responds, “Screw that! If we go charging out there that Minigun will turn us into confetti! Sorry, but it is better that we logout and get away.”

 

Sinon says, with a snarl, “You don’t get away from things by logging out.”

 

Dyne says, “Are you nuts? This is a game for crying out loud! Think about it! If we just charge them, we would die!”

 

Sinon grabs Dyne by the collar and she yells out, angrily, “Then die! It is a game, so, you should have the balls to face death rather than just whining!” Dyne and the other players look at Sinon’s fierce and angered look with nervousness since no one wanted to argue with a look that could kill if looks could kill. Sinon releases her grip from Dyne’s collar and she tells the other members, “If you can keep that guy occupied, I can take him out.”

 

The other members of the group, minus Dyne, reply nervously, “Right.”

 

Sinon says, with a nod, “Good. Then we will split up and take him from both sides.”

 

The other members of the group, minus Dyne, respond, more confidently, “Right.” Soon after, it is quite for a while and Sinon makes a signal in which they make their move and the battle continues in earnest in which at point, Sinon puts her sniper rifle on her back and takes out an MP7 Personal Defense Weapon which she is able to carry due to it being light and similar to a sub-machine gun. When she fires the weapon, the twenty round magazine is out in just a few seconds. She manages to get to the flank of Minigun player, Behemoth, and fires a round from her rifle from what should be point blank ranger, but since she took it in haste, she only destroys his goggles. He turns to gun her down, but before he can fire, he gets hit in the shoulder and throwing off his aim.

 

Dyne yells out, “How do you like that punk?” However, Dyne has to get to cover in which Behemoth just looks at his shoulders in which he looks to see Sinon out of sight. Sinon looks to see Dyne’s shield lose its effectiveness and Dyne charges in which he gets shot up causing him to turn into hundreds of data polygons, but not before he throws a plasma grenade that takes out the other two.

 

Sinon says, “Nice going.” Sinon then takes off and goes to tall abandoned structure in which she thinks, “Bullets are flying and he has got the guts to smile. Maybe I will too when I kill him.” She gets to a window overlooking where Behemoth is, but she gasps as Behemoth is aiming for where she just took position showing that he is a veteran of GGO and anticipated her move excellently. All Sinon could do is jump as Behemoth fires and unleashing a barrage that destroys the left leg of Sinon’s virtual avatar as well as covering her in the smoke from ‘explosion’ created from the impact of the sheer volume of bullets. Behemoth laughs at what he thought is his latest victory, but he gasps as he sees Sinon, her avatar having just lost her left leg, spinning down towards her in which he tries to bring the barrels of the Minigun up towards her, however, she stays above the bullet stream in which she aims her sniper rifle at him. Sinon says, plainly, “The End.” She fires at close to point blank range and the round goes through Behemoth in which his avatar shatters into hundreds of data polygons as Sinon rolls to the ground with a fierce look in her cat-like eyes.

 

December 7, 2025, Tokyo

 

Within a plain apartment room in one of the many apartments in the vast city of Tokyo, we look at a plain bed where we find a young teen girl of around 16 years of age with short black hair with small ribbons hanging on each side of her face, dark eyes, and she is wearing plain grey pajama shirt and shorts in which she has an Amusphere over her head. She takes off the Amusphere and moves her right hand in which she makes a motion as if she is pulling some kind of trigger in which she struggles.

 

The young teen girl says, “Damn it. I need to get stronger.”

 

December 8, 2025, Tokyo, Odiaba District

 

Within the Odiaba District of Tokyo, the Digidestined of Odiaba and their Digimon partners are assembled together with the Motomiya household as they discuss the current situation.

 

Tai yells out, “What? So, Kazuto is joining us?”

 

Davis says, “Yeah. Moon girl said that Seijirou got in contact with him and told him about the whole situation.”

 

Yolei says, annoyed, “Ass.”

 

Hawkmon says, “Now, Yolei…”

 

Yolei tells Hawkmon, annoyed, “Hawkmon, don’t! We have no idea about how this guy is doing what he is doing! He has just put him in danger!”

 

Kari says, “Yeah, but Kazuto insisted on joining our investigation.”

 

TK says, “He saw the footage.”

 

Davis says, with a nod, “Yep.”

 

Matt says, with a sigh, “Can’t exact blame him.”

 

Jun, Davis’ big sister and an SAO survivor as well, comes into the room and she says, “No kidding, Matt-kun. He also must have ‘sensed’ what I did. When I saw that stuff, I get a real bad familiar feeling.”

 

Sora asks, “You mean from SAO?”

 

Jun says, with a nod, “Yeah.”

 

Yolei says, “It shows that I’m not the only one paranoid.”

 

TK says, “We, all, got that feeling, Yolei.”

 

Tai says, “This player…This person wasn’t role-player. I could tell that his voice held real malice and real intent to kill.”

 

Matt says, “Got that right, Tai.”

 

Kari says, “Based on what Serena told us, Seijirou-san wants Kazuto only to use his ‘detective skills’ to figure out ‘Death Gun’.”

 

Davis says, with a sarcastic tone and snort, “Yeah, right.”

 

Tai says, with a nod, “I agree with you there, Davis.”

 

Matt says, “The guy knows that once Kazuto sees that footage, he is going to get himself more involved that.”

 

Davis says, with a sigh, “Probably why Kazuto is transferring his ALO avatar into GGO for this mission.”

 

There are gasps of shock from everyone, minus Kari, Yolei says, slapping her head, “Oh, boy.”

 

Ken says, “We need to figure this out before ‘Death Gun’ kills again.”

 

Cody says, “Let go over what we know so far.”

 

Izzy then goes over to a computer in the room and he says, connecting his laptop to the computer, “I’ll bring up our information.” As both screens light up displaying information, Izzy says, “So far, we know that ‘Death Gun’ appeared on the day of MMO Stream interview of the top two players from the last Bullet of Bullets event of GGO, XeXeeD and Yamikaze, in which he fired into the screen and then shortly thereafter, he got disconnected in which he looked like he suffered a heart attack. Five days later, the body of the person that played XeXeeD was found at his apartment and he suffered a heart attack. It looked similar to the cases about players that dive too long and don’t take care of themselves properly, but the time of what happened in GGO and his most likely time of death was too close and from the look of what happened, ‘Death Gun’ knew that XeXeeD would suffer a heart attack around the time that he shot him.”

 

Tai says, with a nod, “That’s what I got from what I saw.”

 

Jun and the SAO survivors among the Digidestined nod their heads in which TK says, “That’s right. Our experience ‘in there’ taught us to see those kind of things.”

 

Yolei says, “And his actions and the way that he spoke…It was no ‘role playing’.”

 

Ken says, with a nod, “It is an intent to kill.”

 

Matt says, “Of which both Serena and Kazuto can agree with us on that point.”

 

Izzy says, “On November twenty-fifth, a similar ‘shooting’ in GGO happened in which ‘Death Gun’ attacked Usujio Tarako and three days later, the person that played that character in GGO was found dead in his apartment in which he has been dead for several days and his time of death can be agreed was on the day that ‘Death Gun’ attacked him in GGO. Now, we need to figure out similarities between them and we can figure out ‘Death Gun’s’ next target.”

 

Davis says, “It is pretty obvious, Izzy. Both of them are well-known and famous GGO players in which XeXeeD was the winner of the last Bullet of Bullets and Tarako is one of the top ranked players in GGO in which got a high ranking in the last Bullet of Bullets. He also had the largest squad in GGO.”

 

Veemon asks, “Squad?”

 

Ken says, “They are similar to guilds in other MMO, Veemon.”

 

TK says, “That means he is targeting top players of GGO.” TK says, looking at Davis and Kari, “In which you qualify since you are former Bullet of Bullet winners yourselves. Both of you tied for first place in the first ever Bullet of Bullets.”

 

Kari says, with a sigh, “Making us prime targets for ‘Death Gun’.”

 

Tai says, “And this is why I don’t like you using yourselves as bait.”

 

Davis says, “I know, Tai. And the two of us just got back from Sword Art World and all…”

 

Mimi asks, “By the way, do you know what happened to that ‘Queen’s Gate’?”

 

Kari responds, “The Queen’s Gate is a very powerful temporal artifact, but the Keyblade is able to open and close any ‘door’, however, we were only able to close the ‘door’ to where Kayaba wanted to go, so, it doesn’t mean that the Queen’s Gate can’t be reopened to anywhere else.”

 

Davis says, “Because of that fact, Trista took it and the three ‘control keys’ that Kari and I along with Suguha sealed in our ‘star seeds’ back in the Silver Millennium back to the rebuilt Moon Kingdom and sealed it deep within a sacred tomb within the Moon Kingdom palace with Suguha, Kari, and yours truly using our new Keyblades to ‘lock the door’ tight.”

 

Tai says, with a sigh of relief, “That’s good.”

 

Matt says, “Back to ‘Death Gun’…”

 

Kari says, “Well, I did notice something. Both XeXeeD and Tarako didn’t have AGI builds in GGO in which XeXeeD was strength and vitality build.”

 

Davis says, “Remember, he was the one that started the whole ‘AGI fad’ in order to get ahead of everyone else because it was a scam to make sure that he got his hands on rare guns and armor that require strength style builds. That was a dirty trick. However, he didn’t deserve to die because of that. He was just playing the game.”

 

Cody asks, “So, it could be that ‘Death Gun’ is a person that might have something against non-AGI builds because of XeXeeD?”

 

Ken says, “Maybe, but there is too little evidence to show that. We have to wait until another victim comes up and we don’t want that to happen.”

 

Patamon says, “No kidding.”

 

TK says, with a nod, “I agree, Patamon. Two people that are dead are two people too many. However, there is no proof of any wrong doing and all the evidence that we have circumstantial. We can’t prove that they didn’t die from going overboard in their Full-Diving.”

 

Izzy says, “That’s true, TK. However, what we saw in what happened with XeXeeD shows that ‘Death Gun’ knew that something bad was going to happen to XeXeeD the instant that he shot at his image.”

 

Tai says, “We need to figure out his ‘trick’ before another person dies and he causes another incident like SAO, ALO, and Sword Art World. The session of these ‘incidents’ is causing public out roar after another and I doubt that ‘gaming community’ which has mainly uses Full-Dive technology and the console and PC games are becoming something of the past can survive another ‘incident’.”

 

Joe says, with a nod, “We know Tai.”

 

Cody says, “Thankfully, Sword Art World didn’t damage the reputation of VRMMO too much.”

 

Davis says, “That’s because the government took the ‘bomb’ this time, Cody. They are blaming more on the government than Future Divers in which the club members are really pissed off at this happening. I heard that plenty of club members are filing suits against the government for their ‘inaction’.”

 

Patamon asks, “Really?”

 

Gatomon says, with a nod, “Yep.”

 

Veemon says, “Yeah, they are mad.”

 

Izzy says, “Unlike what happened in SAO, the Sword Art World players and Future Divers members remain firmly VRMMO supporters in which plenty of them decided to transfer to ALO or other VRMMO games.”

 

Tentomon asks, “Speaking of which, hasn’t ALO gotten a recent upgrade?”

 

Davis says, with a grin, “Yeah. They took elements of the new Sword Skills and such from Sword Art World and added them to ALO including the quest to gain Duel Wielding for example.”

 

Tai says, with a glare, “Ironic that your Sword Art World avatar data got transferred into your ALO avatars in which you and Leafa are the first to have the Duel Wielding Sword Skills for ALO.”

Sora clears her throat and she says, “Speaking of ‘Death Gun’, Tai…”

 

Tai gives a nervous sweat drop and Kari says, with a sigh, “Dai-kun and I may know a target for ‘Death Gun’ other than ourselves.”

 

The others are surprised and Jun asks, “Really?”

 

Davis and Kari look at each other, Davis goes to the main computer, types a few keys, and images of Sinon appear on the screen in which he says, “This is Sinon. She is a top player in GGO. We met her before you managed to get us out of Rainbow Gardens.”

 

Mimi asks, “Really?”

 

Gatomon says, “Remember, in Rainbow Gardens, you are allowed to visit other VRMMO ‘worlds’ once you get to a certain level in Rainbow Gardens.”

 

Davis says, “She is a good ‘associate’ of ours. She wields a rare gun in GGO. It is a Hecate Two.”

 

Cody says, “Hecate Two, huh? That’s an anti-material sniper rifle.”

 

Everyone looks at Cody and Yolei asks, “How do you know that Cody?”

 

Cody responds, “My father was a police officer and with the situation in the world at the time, he had to know his weapons or at least that’s what Grandpa told me. My father studied weapons from all over the world to prepare for them just in case monsters like the one that took him from my family would wield them for sinister purposes.”

 

Kari says, “All the live ammo guns in the game are based on firearms in real life and that sniper rifle is rare in GGO. One of ten anti-material sniper rifles in the game and she got it by beating a powerful boss monster.”

 

Davis says, “It caused her to gain the name ‘Hecate’ after her weapon.”

 

Izzy says, “Hecate is the Greek Goddess of the underworld.”

 

Davis says, “It seems like the perfect name for Sinon due to her reputation as a top notch sniper. A sniper is the most difficult role to play in the game as in real-life since they made sure that the same factors that firing weapons in real-life are very similar in the game like having to control your heart rate.”

 

Cody says, with a nod, “Since that could change where you bullet ends up, there are many factors that make a bullet hit where it hits including a person’s heart and a difference of one millimeter could be what it takes for a hit or a miss.”

 

TK says, with a whistle, “Wow.”

 

Patamon says, with a nod, “Yeah, TK.”

 

Tai asks, “What ‘type’ is she?”

 

Davis says, “That weapon is heavy, but Sinon has a sufficient strength stats to allow her to carry it without any movement penalty. And she is known never to miss the first shot ever.”

 

Matt gives a whistle and he says, “She has to be famous with that kind of skill. Most likely, she is already quite known since she must be one of the few female players of the game. Unlike ALO, GGO is hard and tough ‘elite’ VRMMO with elite ‘pro players’ and while I’m not saying that there aren’t female ‘pro players’, since the live ammo guns are based on real life weaponry, I’m willing to bet that a lot of the players are ‘gun addicts’.”

 

Davis says, with a nod, “It is a bet that you would win Matt.”

 

Kari says, with a nod, “No kidding.”

 

Ken asks, “Is she a top contender for the next Bullet of Bullets event?”

 

Davis says, with a serious tone, “You got it, Ken. And the next one starts on the thirteenth and that means we need to move fast.”

 

Mimi asks, “Why?”

 

Tai responds, “Remember the first two attacks, Mimi? ‘Death Gun’ attacked them where a lot of players were watching and he turned it into a ‘big production’. This sicko wants people to see him kill these people and know that he is truly killing people.”

 

Matt asks, “And what better place to get people seeing this than the biggest event in GGO which is shown even in another VRMMO worlds?”

 

Jun says, with a snarl, “He is like those twisted serial killers.”

 

Yolei says, “He probably is and he feels oddly familiar which gives me the shivers.”

 

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

 

Joe asks, “Do you think that this ‘Death Gun’ can be in that event?”

 

Davis says, with a plain tone, “Something tells me that there is plenty ‘substance’ to go with that ‘style’, Joe.”

 

Izzy says, “Then we had better make a list of those favored to get into the Bullet of Bullets finals and those favored to win it too.”

 

Kari says, “You should add Sinon to that list since she is a top player in the game.”

Izzy nods his head and Mimi says, “You seem concerned about her.”

 

Davis says, “Yeah…”

 

TK asks, “You and Kari seem well acquainted with her?”

 

Kari says, with a sigh, “We think…No, Dai-kun and I know that Sinon is just like us. She went through the same thing as us and she is in GGO for the same reason that we were, TK.” The others, minus Davis, gain wide-eyes knowing exactly what Kari is implying.

 

December 9, 2025, Tokyo, Juuban District

 

Within the Juuban District of Tokyo, Sailor Neo Moon and Sailor Nebula are meeting on the rooftops of the buildings within Juuban and they are discussing about something.

 

Sailor Neo Moon says, “I’m getting worried.”

 

Sailor Nebula says, “I think that Pluto is sensing this too.”

 

Sailor Neo Moon says, “That man…His legacy is haunting Meatball Head so much.”

 

Sailor Nebula responds, with a nod, “I know, Rini. I don’t like it either. Even through Kayaba is truly gone, his legacy seems to continue on, but then again, since the Amusphere was developed from the NervGear, there is maybe no ending his legacy unless Full-Dive technology is gone.”

 

Sailor Neo Moon says, “But that’s not possible! VR technology is vital to the future!”

 

Sailor Nebula says, “Maybe that’s why we can never completely escape Kayaba’s legacy and it will always haunt us.”

 

Sailor Neo Moon says, “Anyway, Serena and the others have to solve this mission.”

 

Sailor Nebula says, “That’s right. And I fear that the legacy of Sword Art Online is involved in this.”

 

Sailor Neo Moon says, “I’m getting that bad feeling too Nebula.”

 

December 9, 2025, Neo Domino City

 

Inside of Neo Domino City, we find ourselves within the mayor’s office where Lazar is talking to cloaked figure on a view screen via a telecast.

 

One of them asks, in a male voice, “The new Star Dragon King grows in strength?”

 

Lazar says, “Yes, but he has yet to achieve Accel Synchro Summoning.”

 

Another one says, in a male voice, “Well, we know that we have four Signers in which two of them are also Duel Priest and Priestess…”

 

A third one says, in a female voice says, “You are wrong about the number of Signers…There are five Signers.”

 

Lazar asks, surprised, “Five Signers?”

 

The third figure says, “Take a look at this.” Just then another screen shows a video chip of a duel in which Red Dragon Archfiend is seen with a mystery duelist.

 

Lazar yells out, shocked, “That’s Red Dragon Archfiend! That means…!!”

 

The female figure says, “Correct, Lazar. Jack Atlas’ successor and holder of the power of the Legendary Signer has been chosen.”

 

Lazar asks, curiously, “Who is it?”

 

The female figure responds, “Unknown, Lazar. We fear that another ‘force’ might have found this Signers and it is a situation like Akiza was with Sayer and the Arcadia Movement.”

 

Lazar says, with a snort, “Just what we need.”

 

The first figure says, “Right now. Your main objective is to observe Sailor Celestial as you are testing her.”

 

Lazar asks, “Testing her?”

 

The first figure replies, “She has the power of the Aesir, but she has gained a power that may be even stronger.”

 

Lazar asks, shocked, “What? A power even stronger than the Aesir?!”

 

The first figure responds, “That’s what you are to find out, Lazar. As the Sailor Scouts and Digidestined are focused on ‘Death Gun’ and GGO, we will be able to move mainly undetected by them for the moment.”

 

Lazar says, with a snort, “Death Gun…”

 

The first figure says, “Don’t be so quick to write it off, Lazar. The legacy of Sword Art Online may be at work there.”

 

Lazar says, his eyes widening, “Well, that’s interesting.”

 

The first figure says, “It is not your concern. We have ‘other assets’ keeping an eye on them, but I doubt that ‘Death Gun’ will keep them focused for too long.”

 

Lazar asks, “What’s makes you say that?”

 

The first figure responds, with a sly tone, “Call it a feeling, Lazar.”

 

Lazar gives a confused look and he responds, “Okay. I will proceed immediately.”

 

The first figure replies, “Good. We shall continue to find information on who the new Signer of Red Dragon Archfiend is and keep you updated.”

 

Lazar responds, “Thank you, sir.” When the transmission is cut and the screen is turned off, Lazar says, with a nod, “Something tells me that things are going to get more interesting.”

 

December 10, 2025, Kirigaya household

 

Inside of the Kirigaya household, Suguha Kirigaya AKA Sailor Celestial walks into her room in which she sees a glow and when she looks for the source of the glow, she finds that it is coming from her Duel Monsters deck.

 

Suguha asks, “My deck?” Suguha goes over to it and takes three cards out from it: Odin, Father of the Aesir (4000/3500) Synchro Monster, Black Rose Moonlight Dragon (2400/1800), and finally, the new Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon (2500/2000) Pendulum Monster card, but then Suguha’s mind is bombarded with visions including images of GGO, multiple dragons including Red Dragon Archfiend, Ultimaya Tzolk’in, Legendary Dragon Critias, and so much including a pair of sinister slit-like red eyes. When the visions stop, Suguha jumps back as the cards stop glowing and she is breathing heavily as she nearly drops the three cards, but manages to hold onto them. Suguha asks, stunned and look like she has been through a war zone, “What…What was that?!”

 

December 13, 2025, Juuban District, Crown Fruit Arcade

 

Inside of the Sailor Scout’s base within the Crown Fruit Arcade, both the Sailor Scouts and the Digidestined, human and Digimon, are assembled together in front of four stations that look like four robotic massage chairs with small tables by each one containing an Amusphere.

 

Tai asks, “So, Kazuto is going to the same hospital where he got his rehabilitation?”

 

Serena says, with a nod, “That’s right.”

 

Davis says, “We’re going to meet him in SBC Glocken.”

 

Raye asks, “Do you think that we can trust that guy?”

 

Matt says, “I trust him as far as a can spit at him.”

 

Darien says, “It is why we’re ordering Raye and Lita to keep an eye on Kazuto.” Darien takes out a letter and some papers and he says, “This is where Kazuto will be.”

 

Lita says, with a nod, “Got you, Darien.”

 

Serena says, “Make sure that he is okay.”

 

Raye says, with a grin, “No problem, Meatball Head. He is your family after all and we’re charged to protect all members of the Moon Kingdom royal family.”

 

Serena says, with a smile, “Thank you.”

 

Raye and Lita take off on their mission to keep an eye on Kazuto and keep him safe in which Yolei asks, “Do you really think that Kazuto needs to be watched?”

 

Darien says, “Let’s just say that we don’t believe in what this ‘Death Gun’ is trying to imply.”

 

Tai says, “If he is using some kind of trick, we don’t get it.”

 

Ken says, “However, I have a feeling that as long as Davis, Kari, Darien, and Serena remain here while they are Full-Dived in GGO, there is nothing that ‘Death Gun’ can do them…physically anyway.”

 

Tai says, “Well, I don’t want to take any chances. Remember what happened with Sword Art World? I’m not going through that again.”

 

Davis says, with a smile, “Don’t worry, Tai, we’ll be just fine.”

 

Veemon says, “We know, Davis.”

 

Ken says, “Just be careful.”

 

Kari says, with a nod, “We will.” Soon after, Serena, Darien, Davis, and Kari sit in the chairs, put on their Amuspheres, and when they are ready, the four of them activate them, one at a time, to head into the world of GGO.

 

December 13, 2025, Tokyo, Chiyoda Ward

 

Within the Chiyoda Ward of Tokyo, Kazuto is going through the hallways of the hospital that he was in while he was going through retaliation after he returned from SAO along everyone trapped in SAO, minus Asuna and around 300 players that were trapped in the original ALO, in which he, Serena, and Serena’s beloved and friends, the Juuban based Sailor Scouts, helped rescue a few months afterwards. Kazuto believed that ‘Death Gun’ couldn’t actually kill a person in real life with a ‘virtual bullet’, but he was sure that he was the reason behind the deaths of two of its players, XeXeeD and Tarako, after he had seen the footage that Davis and Kari shot in-game when they witness what happened to XeXeeD back on December 9. Kazuto believed that ‘Death Gun’ had some kind of ‘trick’, but with no evidence to work with, Kazuto could only think of random theories with quite a few making as much sense as ‘Death Gun’ actually killing with a virtual bullet.

 

Kazuto thinks in his mind, “There is only one way to figure out this mystery. I have to go into GGO and face this ‘Death Gun’. Maybe if I see this player personally and figure out his motives, I could figure out how he is able to pull off the murders of XeXeeD and Tarako. Is it possible that Kayaba left something in ‘The Seed’ that even Ami and Izzy couldn’t find that could allow this ‘Death Gun’  to fool a person’s body that they have suffered a fatal wound and cause that to kill them? It shouldn’t be possible! However, this is Kayaba that we are talking about. And I haven’t forgotten what happened to Sugu, Davis, and Kari on Sword Art World. Asuna is going to pissed at me and Serena, but I’m sure that she will understand…in due time.”

 

Soon enough, Kazuto enters the room where he will be diving into GGO and a female voice shouts out, “Hey, Kirigaya! Good to see you again!” Kazuto yelps as he sees a pretty young woman with long brown braided hair, glasses in front of her brown eyes, and she is wearing a blue and white nurse’s outfit where there a name tag with the name ‘Aki’ on it.

 

Kazuto says, a bit nervously, “Hello, Nurse Aki-san.” The lovely nurse goes over to Kazuto and he yelp as he squeezes his shoulders and sides.

The nurse, Aki, tells Kazuto, “Well, it looks like you have meat on your bones, but you don’t have enough yet. Have you been eating properly?”

 

Kazuto responds, “Yes, ma’am, I have. But why are you here?”

 

Aki replies, “I got the story from Seijirou-san. You are here on some kind of research thing? It hasn’t been a year either. Anyway, since he said that since I was in charge your rehab, I was to be the one to monitor your condition. Cleared it with the head nurse and everything. So, here is more time together, Kirigaya-san.”

 

Kazuto shakes Aki’s hand and he replies, nervously, “Nice working with you, Aki-san.” Kazuto looks around and he asks, “So, Seijirou-san isn’t here?”

 

Aki says, taking out a letter, “He said that there was a meeting that he couldn’t skip since he is so busy with what happened with those Future Divers people.”

 

Kazuto thinks in his mind, “Yeah, I’ll bet.” Kazuto takes the message and in which the letter says: ‘Send your report to the usual e-mail address. Be sure to expense all costs incurred as you will be reimbursed along with your payment when the operation is complete. P.S. Don’t let your hormonal urges get the best of you while you’re alone in the room with a pretty young nurse.’ Kazuto then rips the note to pieces with an embarrassed blush in his cheeks. Kazuto says, a bit nervously, “Anyway, let’s get started.”

 

Aki responds, “Okay. It’s been all set for you.” Aki then shows Kazuto to a gel bed with all sorts of monitoring equipment with a brand new Amusphere and Aki says, with a smile, “Now, out of your clothes, Kirigaya!”

 

Kazuto asks, stunned with a blush of embarrassment, “Huh?!”

 

Aki replies, “I’ve got to pop the electrodes on. No use in being shy: I saw it all when you were hospitalized here.”

 

Kazuto gives a major blush of embarrassment and he asks, nervously, “Is just the top okay?”

 

Aki gives a look of thought for a moment and she says, with a nod, “Well, all right.” Kazuto gives a mental sigh of relief as he takes off his shirts and jackets before lying down on the bed in which Aki puts the electrodes over his chest. When she is done, Kazuto puts the Amusphere over his head and turned it on.

 

Kazuto tells Aki, “Ready to go. This might be a five to six hour dive.”

 

Aki responds, “Don’t worry, I’ll be watching your body, so, you don’t have to worry about anything here.”

 

Kazuto says, with a sigh, “Thanks a lot.” Kazuto then takes a deep breath and he says, “Link start.” As Kazuto goes into the virtual world of GGO via this place, what Nurse Aki doesn’t know is that some distance away, Sailor Mars and Sailor Jupiter are observing with Sailor Mars holding onto Sailor Neptune’s Aqua Mirror.

 

Sailor Jupiter says, “Good thing Michelle gave us her mirror.”

 

Sailor Mars says, “She thought that it would be a good idea and I have to agree with her.”

 

Sailor Jupiter says, with a grin, “Kazuto isn’t too bad.”

 

Sailor Mars responds, with a glare, “Do you want me to tell both Meatball Head, in her current state, and Asuna?”

 

Sailor Jupiter says, nervously, “Just kidding.” Sailor Mars gives a sigh and Sailor Jupiter says, “You think with Kayaba truly gone, you think that Serena would start to get back to normal.”

 

Sailor Mars tells Sailor Jupiter, “Jupiter, what Meatball Head went through, like with other SAO survivor, was like being in a war zone for two long years and when you have been through war, the ‘scars’ from it may last a lifetime.”

 

Sailor Jupiter says, with a sigh, “No joke. And now, this comes up.”

 

Sailor Mars says, “Hopefully, one day, Serena will regain some sense of the ‘normalcy’ that she had before SAO, but she won’t be the same person that she was before. She will NEVER be the same person thanks to Kayaba.”

 

Sailor Jupiter says, with a nod, “No kidding, Mars. I’m just wondering if he may have a hand in this despite being gone for good.”

 

Sailor Mars says, “I really have a bad feeling that he may, Jupiter.”

 

December 13, 2025, GGO, SBC Glocken

 

Within SBC Glocken, the ‘capital city’ of Gun Gale Online AKA GGO, Dai and Akari, in their GGO avatars (A/N: Refer to Shadow of Aincrad Chapter 3 for details.), are walking along when Dai gets an unexpected smirk on his lips in which Akari notices.

 

Akari asks Dai, “What’s up, Dai-kun?”

 

Dai responds, “I have no idea, Akari-chan. The funny thing is that I have a feeling that something embarrassing happened to a friend of ours.”

 

Akari asks, curiously, “Really?”

 

Dai replies, “Yeah, Kari-chan. It’s weird.”

 

Akari tells Dai, with a smile, “You are probably remembering something funny that happened.”

 

Dai says, with a smile, “Yeah, you’re right. Anyway, we had better keep an eye out for Kirito.”

 

Akari says, “I know, Dai-kun, but there is a problem. He might be using the character transfer, but it doesn’t mean that he is going to look the same. It’s his stats that are going to be the same as long as they are compatible.”

 

Dai says, with a smile, “True, but Moon girl doesn’t that look much different between avatars and they are two different accounts.”

 

Akari says, “I’ve always wondered about that.”

 

Dai says, “Anyway, you have a point, Kari. Kirito has no idea how to get around this place, so, let’s find him before he gets himself into trouble.”

 

Akari tells Dai, with a grin, “Kind of like what you do, Dai-kun.”

 

Dai yells out, “I don’t do that all the time!” Dai says, with a blush, “Anymore.” Akari giggles as she kisses Dai on the lips and the two of them continue on. Elsewhere, we find Kirito in his new GGO avatar wandering through the city.

 

Kirito’s GGO’s avatar looks feminine with long black hair that goes down his shoulders, pale skin, crimson lips, shinning black eyes, and he is currently wearing grey shirt, black pants, and plain brown shoes.

 

Kirito wasn’t happy with his avatar, which is a rare type in GGO which plenty of male players wish to have, and he is currently lost in which he thinks, “Oh, great! I’m totally lost! So much for my shortcut. Maybe I should have waited by where I got in for Dai and Akari.” Kirito then notices a player, he rushes to that player and he says, “Excuse me, can you tell me where…” He then yelps in surprise at the player that he called up to, who is none other than Sinon, who is wearing a simple green jacket, black pants, white scarf, and brown boots. Kirito thinks in his mind, realizing that this player is a female player, “Uh oh! She thinks I’m hitting on her.”

 

Sinon looks at Kirito and she asks, plainly, “Yeah, what?” Sinon says, with a smile, “First time in the game.”

 

Kirito thinks in his mind, nervously, “Oh my god! She thinks that I’m a girl too.”

 

Sinon asks, “Where do you want to go?” Kirito wanted to correct her, but he decide to ‘roll with it’ for a moment through he knows that once he meets up Dai, Akari, and Usagi, he is going to be for a major migraine with Dai probably laughing his butt off and Usagi probably shaking her head at ‘tricking’ Sinon in the first place. In front of the regent’s office, there is a familiar looking player standing in front of the office.

 

This female player has silver-blue hair in a familiar set of two pigtails with the buns of the pigtails looking like meatballs with the pigtail are just above the ground, she has light violet-blue eyes, deep pink lips, black leather choker around her neck, camouflage tube top under a desert colored jacket, camouflage shorts, and black combat boots.

 

The female player says, in a low voice, “I hope that Kirito will get here okay.” The female player then gets a ‘shiver’ in which she looks around and she thinks, “What was that? I only got that kind of ‘feeling’ back…Better not go there. It must be me and this whole ‘Death Gun’ thing. Anyway, they had better get back soon. The Bullet of Bullets preliminaries are starting soon and if ‘Death Gun’ is going to be there, we need to be there and we need to stop him. In the name of the moon, I won’t let anything like SAO happen again.” As this player walks away, she doesn’t notice that some distance away, she is being watched by two other players.

 

One of them says, in a male voice, “I guess that’s her.”

 

The other player says, in a female voice, “What gave her away? The pigtails? Geez, N-I mean Menma!”

 

The male player says, “Sorry, Cherry. I’m still getting used to this whole ‘virtual world’ stuff, believe it. It also feels kind of weird not using chakra.”

 

The female player says, “I know what you mean, but this is…I don’t know how to describe it. It is so incredible. It is because we can’t use chakra that we know that this is ‘fantasy’. If we were like them, we would have to remind ourselves well that this is a man-made world because the electronic signals sent to our brains made it so real.”

 

The male player says, “No joke. It is like you can become another person in here! Almost to start another life!”

 

The female player says, with a nod, “Yeah. This world is amazing…But even this world has its dangers.”

 

The male player says, with a nod, “Believe it! That Kayaba guy was nut and I think I’m being nice!”

 

The female player responds, “In my book, you are being nice with that…that fiend, Naruto. Even our world, it would have been unacceptable. War is one thing, but that was cold hearted imprisonment and murder.”

 

The male player says, “I know, Cherry. But shouldn’t the Amusphere not allow such things like that sicko used with his NervGear technology? And plus, these guys died of heart attacks which is quite common due these people overdoing it.”

 

The female player says, “True, but you saw the footage taken by the agent that we have in the game at what happened with Tarako.”

 

The male player says, with a nod, “Freaky, believe it.”

 

The female player says, “Anyway, we’ve got work to do.” The male player nods his head as the two of them take off while the female player with the familiar hairstyle walks into the regret’s office hoping that Akari, Dai, and Kirito will arrive in time to register for the Bullet of Bullets in which they are sure that ‘Death Gun’ will be there for his ‘murderous game’.

 

End of Chapter 2

 

(Sword Art Online II ending music ‘Startear’ starts)

 

As the scene starts, we find Shion Asada looking around and then an 11 year old Shion Asada looking solemn with dark shadows looming all around her.

 

The next scene shows the teenage Shion running from some kind of unknown pursuer.

 

She is then in a school classroom looking out the window, looking bore sitting in front of a school desk, and walking away from a chalkboard.

 

Shion is then wrapping a long scarf around herself and she is joined by her child-like self in which they look to see Sinon, Shion’s GGO avatar, looking at them.

 

Sinon, wielding her large sniper rifle, is in her hands and the unknown Sailor Scout with a compound bow that transforms powerful futuristic sniper rifle aiming at some kind of unknown foe.

 

Shion then looks at the unknown Sailor Scout in the eyes as she extends her hand to her and she takes it into her in which Shion gains a pair of huge feather wings with the image of the unknown Sailor Scout behind her as they look to the skies as a group of people including Dai and Akari extend their hands to them.

 

(Sword Art Online II ending music ‘Startear’ ends)

 

Preview (Usagi’s voice)

 

“Next time: Ice Cold Sniper and Killer.”

 

Well, that’s the end of that chapter, everyone. Well, we have started the venture through Gun Gale Online and as you can see, there is going to be plenty of foreshadow of future arcs in this story in the upcoming chapters. While you have an idea on what may happen in the previews at the end of Shadow of Aincrad, you may be surprised at what could happen, but you are going to have to read and find out, folks! Later and best wishes, Crossover Fans!