Sailor Moon Fan Fiction / Digimon Fan Fiction / Crossover Fan Fiction ❯ Sailor Moon Online the Movie: Alternating Scales ❯ Memory Faded to Darkness ( Chapter 9 )

Okay, everyone, we’re back and things are starting to heat up! Embryo has made quite a few attacks on our heroes and heroines and causing them plenty of headaches in all sorts of the word. The people of the ‘dragon world’ have revealed themselves and explained the truth of what’s happening the ‘war’ between her Earth and Ange’s Earth, but it looks like there is still quite a bit of friction due to what happened between the ‘dragon people’ and Ange and her comrades back on her Earth. Before we start this next chapter, 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. However, most of all, I would 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 organization UNI-SHOCKER and everything about them, but most of all, I would like to give this author EXTRA thanks and credit for being the inspiration for this story and helping me form it as a co-writer and beta in the first place.

 

Now, it is time log in everyone and I hope that no one will hate for this, but…LINK START!

 

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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!

 

Sailor Moon Online the Movie: Alternating Scales

 

Scene 9: Memory Faded to Darkness

 

April 24, 2026, Moon Kingdom

 

Within the rebuilt Moon Kingdom castle, Serena is lying on a bed and she starts to slowly open her eyes in which she gets into a sitting position while holding her head.

 

Serena asks, trying to get herself focused, “What? Where…?”

 

Just then a familiar female voice says, “Serena, you are awake!” Serena looks towards the source of the voice to see Molly running over to her.

 

Serena asks, weakly, “Molly?”

 

Serena prepares to get to her feet and Molly tells Serena, “Easy, Serena. You’ve had a nasty shock.”

 

Serena asks, “W-What happened?” Serena then holds her head in pain and she says, with a yelp, “My head…!!”

 

Molly tells Serena, “Whoa, Serena! Easy! You’ve been through the ringer.”

 

Serena asks, confused, “The ringer?”

 

Molly asks Serena, “You don’t remember?”

 

Serena then says, “I…” She then yelps as the memories of what happened and Serena says, “Oh, crud! It…It…!!”

 

Molly tells Serena, “Whoa, Serena! Easy! It’s okay! You and Darien got out of there! We rescued you!”

 

Serena asks, “You did?”

 

Molly tells Serena, “Yeah, you’ve been out for about a day.”

 

Serena asks, shocked, “A day?!”

 

Molly says, with a nod, “That’s right. You got hit by some kind of synthetic form of the energy of the Black Crystal used by the Doom Phantom.” Serena gasps in shock and surprise and Molly says, with a smile, “However, Kari and Suguha managed to purge it from your body.”

 

Serena says, with a sigh, “That’s a relief to hear, Molly.”

 

Molly says, “Yes, we already know what that stuff did to Rini.” Molly asks, “However, how are you feeling?”

 

Serena retorts, sarcastically, “I’m not feeling taking unnecessary revenge against people that I love or wanting to blow up the world.”

 

Molly says, with a giggle, “That’s good.”

 

Serena asks, looking around, “Wait! Where are we Molly?”

 

Molly responds, “We’re on the Moon Kingdom.”

 

Serena asks, surprised, “The Moon Kingdom?”

 

Molly says, with a nod, “As I said, you were out for a day, but during that day, Embryo attempted to kidnap you.”

 

Serena says, annoyed, “Why aren’t I surprised? Jerks like him would love to take that chance.”

 

Molly says, with a nod, “I know, Serena. Thankfully, we were there to stop him. However, it was quite a fight. He brought some ‘big guns’ to the fight and that’s being nice about what he did.”

 

Serena says, with a nod of understanding, “It must have been.”

 

Molly says, a bit nervously, “However, the thing is…”

 

Serena asks Molly, “What is it?”

 

Molly says, “For some reason, Embryo wasn’t here just for you. He wanted to take Sammy too.”

 

Serena asks, shocked, “What?!”

 

Molly says, “We figured that it is due to his alliance with UNI-SHOCKER.”

 

Serena asks, “Why would someone like him honor something like that?”

 

Molly says, with a smile, “That’s a good question.”

 

Serena asks, “Is Sammy okay?”

 

Molly says, a bit nervously, “Oh, he is just fine, but…”

 

Serena asks, curiously, “But…?”

 

Molly says, “It is going to take a few moments to explain.” Serena shows that ‘she is listening’ as Molly starts to explain what happened while Serena listening in intently. Elsewhere in the Moon Kingdom palace, Sammy is standing up as he is being scanned from head to toe by Ami.

 

Sammy asks, annoyed, “How long is this going to take?”

 

Ami responds, “A bit longer, Sammy.”

 

Salamandinay says, “I must say that this civilization must be quite amazing to build such a place on the moon of this Earth.”

 

Naga says, amazed, “They must be a great civilization with the ability to terraform such a place as the moon itself.”

 

Trista says, “Yes. The Moon Kingdom was a great kingdom.”

 

Asuna goes over to Kazuto, who is with Izzy, in which they are looking at holographic screens filled with lists, and she asks Kazuto, “Any luck, Kirito-kun?”

 

Kazuto says, shaking his head, “Not really, Asuna.”

 

Izzy says, “I’m amazed that you were able to gather all this information.”

 

[Sammy] says, “Plenty of it is out of date, so, it won’t be useful.”

 

Kazuto says, “True, but it might give us a clue.”

 

[Sammy] asks, “How do you think that?”

 

Kazuto says, “Their past actions and plans might have led to what happened to our Sammy.”

 

Davis says, “Dude, I think that you are more worried about our ‘other problem’.”

 

Suguha’s voice booms, annoyed, “Don’t remind me.” Everyone looks to the source to see Suguha in another medical scanner similar to the one that Sammy is in, but we find that she is a pair of short wolf-like ears coming out of her scalp and a black fuzzy wolf-like tail coming out of her tailbone area.

 

Matt says, “You know, I stopped being surprised by this stuff a long time ago.”

 

TK says, with a nod, “Ditto.”

 

Patamon says, nodding his head, “No kidding, TK.”

 

Asuna says, with a sigh, “I don’t get how this could happen.”

 

Kari says, “I don’t think that any of us were expecting this to happen. We just starting to head back after our battle with Embryo and rescuing Serena in which we were going to examine Sammy after that ‘artifact of power’, what Trista called that strange dagger that controlled that giant dragon robot, went into his body.”

 

Flashback; Some time ago, Juuban District

 

It is the aftermath of the battle with Embryo, our heroes and heroines are assembled a good distance away from the battle in which a few scouts are looking around while Ami is using her computer to scan Sammy in which he has his arms crossed in front of him.

 

Sammy says, “I’m just fine.”

 

Kazuto says, “Maybe, Sammy, but we can’t take any chances.”

 

Tai says, “Yeah. A flute-like dagger that can control a massive robot dragon sending energy into you isn’t normal.”

 

TK asks, “When has our lives been ‘normal’?”

 

Veemon says, with a nod, “Good point.”

 

Darien, who is holding the still unconscious Serena in his arms, tells Sammy, “We have got to make sure that whatever that dagger did to you hasn’t have any side effects.”

 

Sammy says, “You know what that dagger is.”

 

Davis says, “Yeah, we do. And that’s what we are worried about it, bro.”

 

Mina says, with a nod, “You know what the Green Ranger is all about, right? His power originally didn’t belong to the good guys and gals.”

 

Sammy says, pointing to his counterpart, “Neither is his power.”

 

[Sammy] says, “While I was made into a Kamen Rider thanks to UNI-SHOCKER technology and science, it was MY Sailor Moon, who snuck in, that gave me my powers add to the fact that MY universe’s Silver Crystal provides a good portion of the ‘fuel’.”

 

Rini says, “Doesn’t mean that the Silver Crystal can’t be corrupted, Sammy. If the ‘core user’ of the Silver Crystal, like me for example, got corrupted, it could get corrupted too since the crystal is most bonded to that Lunarian royal at that time.” Rini says, with a sigh, “Like per say, a certain future Moon Princess that absorbed said crystal into her body.”

 

Hotaru tells Rini, “Rini, you shouldn’t beat yourself over it.”

 

Rini says, with a smile, “I know, Rini. Mom always said that too. Just can’t help kicking myself a bit over that or letting that dumb jerk, Doom Phantom, warp my mind. But he’s blasted into moon dust and I’m now a Sailor Scout, who helped my Meatball Headed future mom save the world a few times, so, it’s okay.”

 

Kazuto says, with a nervous smile, “I’m not sure what to say to that.”

 

Asuna asks, with a nervous smile, “Does Serena-chan let you get away with saying stuff like that?” Rini just replies with a strangely innocent smile which gets the others quite nervous at that.

 

Molly says, nervously while trying to change the subject, “Anyway, let’s make sure that Sammy…OUR Sammy is going to be okay.” Ami nods her head as she continues the scan, but Kazuto, Davis, and Suguha start to look around as their ‘danger sense’ starts to ‘perk up’.

 

Rika says, “Uh oh. That’s usually trouble.”

 

Tai asks Davis, “What’s wrong?”

 

Kazuto replies, “We’re not alone.”

 

Plenty of the others gasp in shock and Ange asks, “What did you say?”

 

Davis says, “We’ve got trouble.”

 

Tusk asks, looking around, “Are you sure?”

 

Suguha says, “Trust in big brother’s ‘danger sense’, Tusk.”

 

Darien says, with a nod, “Davis’ and Suguha’s ‘danger sense’ is also well-developed.”

 

Amara says, taking out her transformation wand, “We had better transform.”

 

Michelle asks, “Do you or Raye sense anything?”

 

Raye says, shaking her head, “No, we don’t.”

 

[Sammy] says, “They could be carrying devices that negate ‘sensory’ abilities.”

 

Mina asks, “Then why does that ‘danger sense’ work?”

 

Davis says, “Not right now! We’ve got company and I don’t think that it is the good kind!” Just then out of the shadows, there is a hooded cloaked figure that emerges and start to bound around our heroes and heroines.

 

Mimi asks, “Who is that?”

 

Palmon asks, “What is that?”

 

Amara says, taking out her transformation wand, “Let’s find out.” The other Sailor Scouts of the group also take out their transformation items to prepare to transform, but then the hooded figure then attacks Suguha from behind and bites into her shoulder.

 

Suguha yells out in pain and Kazuto shouts out, shocked, “Sugu!” Kazuto kicks at the figure, but he leaps away, however, the figure’s hooded falls out to reveal a male with black hair and red eyes in which he seems to have a pair of wolf ears coming out of his scalp.

 

Upon seeing this, Yolei thinks in her mind, “What the?!” At incredible speed and agility, Suguha’s attacker leaps onto the rooftops and bounds off.

 

Mina asks, confused, “Okay, what the heck was that?”

 

Lita responds, confused, “A werewolf?”

 

Hotaru asks, confused and nervously, “Werewolf?”

 

Amara yells out, “No way!”

 

Trista gives a look that says ‘Well’ and Davis yells out, seeing this look, “Hold up! Don’t tell that werewolves actually exist?!”

 

Trista says, “Not exactly werewolves as the legends go…”

 

Sammy asks, curiously, “Is this normal for you?”

 

Matt responds, “Define: ‘Normal’.” Suguha holds her shoulder and she groans out as she starts to feel woozy in which she then collapses to the ground.

 

Kazuto says, worriedly, “Sugu!”

 

Asuna says, worriedly, “Suguha-chan!” Soon enough, everyone assembles around the fallen Celestial Princess as her face becomes flush and her breathing haggard.

 

End Flashback; Return to the Present

 

Back in the present hour, Suguha explains, “And the next thing that we knew, I had these on my head.”

 

Izzy says, “It turns out that Suguha’s attacker comes from humanoids known as ‘Lupins’, a humanoid wolf-like race. They have wolf-like tails and appendages on the top of their heads that are wolf-like ears, but they really aren’t ears.”

 

Cody says, adding in, “They are some kind of sensory device and they have human-like ears, but like members of the canine family, Lupins have hearing and smell that are better than humans…By at least ten times.”

 

Trista says, “Actually, Lupins hearing is ten times better than humans. Their sense of smell is one hundred times better than a humans.”

 

Serena asks, “So, they are like a combination of humans and wolves?”

 

Trista says, “Crude terminology, hime, but not exactly wrong.”

 

Darien says, “However, they can’t turn humans into members of their kind.”

 

Serena asks, surprised, “They can’t?”

 

Trista says, “Normally, no. They are indeed the source of the werewolf myths of old and today, but the werewolf myth of being bitten by one and turned into one of their kind: ‘An old wives’ tale’.”

 

Sammy says, pointing to Suguha, “Explain her.”

 

[Sammy] retorts, “Does the name ‘UNI-SHOCKER’ mean anything?”

 

Tusk asks, “What’s the point of turning Suguha part wolf?”

 

Ange says, “Got me, Tusk.”

 

[Suguha] asks, “So, is she…me…I mean…?”

 

Ami says, “Our Suguha seems to be just fine. In fact, other than the Lupin sensors and tail, she is just like us. In fact, she isn’t showing any of the enhanced smell or hearing of a Lupin.”

 

Serena asks Suguha, “You aren’t?”

 

Suguha says, growling as she pats her scalp, “Nope. All I got is these ears and tail.”

 

Kazuto says, “They must have had that Lupin infect Sugu with some kind of ‘mutagen’ or something.”

 

Mina asks, nervously, “Does anyone know about an America manga known as ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’?”

 

Lita says, nervously, “I think we get it, Mina.”

 

Ami says, “From what I can scan, Suguha is not suffering from any more ‘mutations’.”

 

Rika says, “That’s good news.”

 

Ami says, “However, I would like to keep her up here for a while.”

 

Darien says, “That’s a good idea, Ami. We need to make sure.”

 

Cody says, with a nod, “I agree with Darien. That Lupin was indeed attacking Suguha. He could have gone after any one of us if it was to inject with whatever ‘mutagen’ was the goal, but he headed straight for Suguha.”

 

Amara says, nodding her head, “Agreed, Cody. There was a reason for it.”

 

Suguha says, annoyed, “Don’t I feel special? This is getting annoying.”

 

Mina tells Suguha, with a grin, “That’s the life of a Sailor Scout, girlfriend.”

 

Suguha sighs and she says, annoyed, “I know. I know.” Suguha says, “Anyway, the rest of you should get back ‘downstairs’. I’ll be fine up here.”

 

Serena asks, curiously, “Is something up?”

 

Plenty of the others, especially the SAO survivors of the group, look a bit nervous and Suguha says, with a sigh, “Yui said that another SAO boss will be appearing in Ordinal Scale.”

 

Serena asks, surprised, “Another SAO boss in Ordinal Scale?”

 

Kazuto says, with a nod, “Yeah, Serena. There have been more SAO bosses appearing in Ordinal Scale than the one that we fought.”

 

Asuna says, “We’re going to investigate.”

 

Serena says, with a determined tone, “I’ll come too.”

 

Raye says, “No way, Meatball Head! You just recovered from a ‘nasty shock’ and that’s being nice on what happened to you.”

 

Rini says, “No kidding, Serena! You got infected by energies similar to the ones that twisted me into Wicked Lady! They were purged from you, but we can’t be sure that you aren’t still suffering from the effects!”

 

Serena replies, calmly, “I’m just fine, squirt.”

 

Rini yells out, annoyed, “I’m not a squirt, Meatball Head! Look at me! I’m grown-up!”

 

Serena retorts, with a grin, “Really?”

 

Rini glares at Serena, annoyed, and Lita says, with a smirk, “It seems Serena is fine to me.”

 

Davis says, with a grin, “No joke.”

 

Darien tells Serena, “Are you sure about this Meatball Head?’

 

Serena replies, with a smile, “I’ll be fine, Darien-kun. Promise.” Serena then kisses Darien on the cheek and Darien can’t help to sigh at his girlfriend as well as lightly smile at her.

 

Tai says, “Might as well take her along. If we try to leave her behind, she is going to sneak off to join us.”

 

Plenty of the other sigh, knowing that Tai is right, Matt says, with a nervous smile, “Plenty of us would do the same.”

 

Raye says, annoyed, “Okay, fine! But we’re keeping a close eye on you, Meatball Head!”

 

Serena says, with a sigh and smile, “Fine, Pyro.”

 

Kotone asks Suguha, “Are you going to be okay?”

 

Suguha says, looking up at her scalp, “Other than feeling like a ‘shaggy girl dog’, I’m just peachy, Kotone.”

Keiko gives a giggle at Suguha’s sarcastic remark and Ange says, “Anyway, I’m going to stick around with Tusk, Vivian, and my Suguha to make sure that nothing is tried. Thankfully, our Ragna-Mail are close to being repaired and they are up here.”

 

[Sammy] says, “I’m going to stay up here just in case too.”

 

Serena says, with a nod, “Thank you.”

 

[Sammy] tells Serena, “It is nothing, Meatball Head. I’m just ‘doing my job’ same as you and the others.”

 

Serena says, with a smile, “Whatever you say.”

 

Suguha tells Kazuto and Serena, “Be careful out there.”

 

Kazuto says, with a nod, “We will Sugu.”

 

Suguha responds, with a smirk, “How many times have I heard that before?”

 

Kazuto gives a nervous look and Asuna says, with a sly smile, “She has a point, Kirito-kun.”

 

Kazuto yells out, with a blush of embarrassment, “Hey!” Plenty of the rest of the group giggle at Kazuto’s embarrassment as the majority of our heroes and heroines prepare to return to Earth to continue their investigations.

 

April 24, 2026, Earth, Tokyo, UNI-SHOCKER headquarters

 

Deep within UNI-SHOCKER headquarters, we find ourselves looking at a large computer server, there is a middle-aged male with short brown hair, square-glasses in front of his brown eyes, and wearing a white lab outfit with a tablet in his hands.

 

Just then a male voice calls out, “Shigemura-dono?” The man looks to see a tall young man with short brown hair and bright brown eyes walking towards him.

 

The middle-aged male says, “Eiji.”

 

The young man asks, “Is it time, Shigemura-dono?”

 

The middle-aged male responds, “It seems like their plan to temporary put Sailor Celestial out of action has worked.”

 

The young man says, with a smirk, “I have to ask: Are they truly just cousins? They seem more alike based on what I remember about the Black Swordsman.”

 

The middle-aged male replies, “They say that she is supposed to our universe’s greatest swordswoman. She inspired the Duel Wielding technique found in SAO.”

 

The young man says, with a nod, “Yes, I know.”

 

The middle-aged male says, “Their plans to keep her temporary ‘out of action’ assists us in our plans. We aren’t ready for her yet.”

 

The young man says, “But we need him.”

 

The middle-aged male says, with a nod, “Yes, Eiji. I know…”

 

The young man says, interrupting with an intense stare in his eyes, “Yes, Shigemura-dono. Whatever it takes…for Yuna.”

 

The middle-aged male responds, “Thank you, Eiji.”

 

The young man, Eiji, says, “Shigemura-dono, you don’t need to thank me at all. For Yuna…I would do anything. I also pay for my sin to you and to her for failing to protect her. She…She’s a hero and I was a weak pathetic coward, but now…Now, I have the power to save her.” The middle-aged man, Shigemura, see the very deadly determination in Eiji’s eyes.

 

The middle-aged man, Shigemura, says, “While that may be true, your fear was understandable, Eiji. But now, you are doing the bravest thing possible. You know that you may go into the deepest darkness with me.”

 

Eiji responds, “As I said, Shigemura-dono: For Yuna, I would do anything.”

 

Shigemura says, with a nod of understand, “Then you know what to do.”

 

Eiji says, with a nod, “Right, Shigemura-dono.” Eiji then walks off into the distance and he attach an Augma to the left side to his face.

 

April 24, 2026, Tokyo

 

With our heroes and heroines, they are assembled together in Tokyo with the members of Klein’s guild of friends from SAO, Fuurinkazan, are assembled together with a lot of other people all around them in which all of them are wearing Augmas.

 

Kotone asks, “Is this it?”

 

Kazuto says, “Based on Yui’s information, it is, Kotone.”

 

Asuna asks, “Ready, everyone?”

 

Davis says, with a grin, “You know it!”

 

Matt says, “Let’s go for it.”

 

Our heroes and heroines, along with everyone else, say in unison, “Ordinal Scale start!” Their Augmas are activated and to all of the players, the area ‘transforms’ into a more ‘digital area’ in which all of them are in their Ordinal Scale ‘outfits’ with Ryoutarou’s outfit being a samurai motif for example in which they have all range of weapons, ranging from swords, spears, daggers, and the like to firearms of all sorts, ranging from rifles to rocket launchers. Shortly thereafter, there is a bright light and a figure seems to come down from that light.

 

The figure seems to be a young lady of around 17 years of age with long flowing blue hair that goes to the end of her waist with some of it tied up in two buns in which there is a red ribbon wrapped around each bun, chest long braids just behind her ears, chin long bangs, one on each side of her face, ruby red eyes, and wearing a black and dark violet dress, black fingerless gloves, and black thigh-high high-heeled boots.

 

Serena asks, curiously, “Who is that?”

 

Mina asks Serena, surprised, “You don’t know?”

 

Serena asks, curiously, “Should I?”

 

Darien tells Serena, “That’s Yuna.”

 

Serena asks, curiously, “Yuna?” Just then Serena’s eyes widen and she thinks in her mind, “That name…why does it sound so familiar?”

 

Darien asks, seeing Serena’s eyes widen, “Serena, is something wrong?”

 

Serena snaps out of her thoughts and she responds, “No! No, it is just that her name sounded familiar.”

 

Kari says, “She is supposed to be an AI idol.”

 

Serena asks, surprised, “She is an AI?”

 

Izzy says, with a nod, “Yes, she is. A very advanced AI. She appeared in Ordinal Scale and when she appears and sings causing all players nearby to gain status boosts.”

 

Serena and Kazuto become interested at those words and Kazuto asks, “She boosts the players’ stats with singing?”

 

Asuna says, with a nod, “That’s right, Kirito-kun.”

 

Serena thinks in her mind, “The ability to enhance players with singing? Where have I learned this ability before?” Images flash through Serena’s mind and she thinks in her mind, “Those memories…” Serena looks at Kazuto and he nods his head at some kind of understanding. Just then there is a large mass of flames and out of the flames, there seems to be a large demonic-looking samurai coming out of those flames.

 

Serena and Kazuto widen their eyes when they see the demonic samurai and Lita asks Serena, “Is that…?”

 

Serena says, with a nod, “It is. Kagachi the Samurai Lord: Boss of floor ten.”

 

Davis says, “Nasty.”

 

Yolei says, annoyed, “Tell me about Davis.”

 

TK says, with a nod, “He was a real pain in the neck.”

 

Mimi asks, “You fought him before?”

 

Cody says, “Tai and the others told us that early on in SAO, they managed to join the ‘top players’, who would be called ‘Clearers’, after the third floor was opened.”

 

Just then a familiar female voice says, “That’s right. Our first-floor boss that we helped clobber was that overgrow weed.” Everyone looks to see Jun Motomiya, Davis’ sister, wearing something to Kazuto and Serena, in their Ordinal Scale ‘avatars’, and having a mace and shield in her hands walking up them.

 

Matt asks, surprised, “Jun?”

 

Jun responds, with a smirk, “Why do you seem so surprised sweetie?” Jun goes over and kiss Matt on the lips causing him to blush in embarrassment and stumble back.

 

Matt tells Jun, “Jun…”

 

Jun responds, “Matt, we went through two years of surviving in a ‘digital world’ where dying in there means dying in real life. You really think that I would be scared of something like this.”

 

Davis tells Jun, “Hey, zit face…!!”

 

Jun tells Davis, with a stern tone, “And SAO wasn’t a game either, squirt.”

 

Matt tells Jun, “We know, Jun. But whatever they are planning involves these Augmas.”

 

Jun says, with a smile, “And yet, you are wearing them and playing this game.”

 

Tai tells Matt, with a nervous smile, “Don’t bother, Matt. She is Davis’ sister after all.”

 

Jun and Davis yell out in unison, annoyed, “And what’s that supposed to mean?” Tai and Matt give nervous looks and a few of the others giggle at this.

 

Just then Yuna shouts out, “Is everyone ready? Then the fight will start! Music start!” Soon enough, music starts to play and Yuna starts to sing in which a little fairy that’s nearby rains ‘light’ on the players in which all of them get an attack up buff sign. A distance away, a ten-minute timer starts and Kagachi the Samurai Lord advances off in which some of the Ordinal Scale players move up to attack in which Kagachi defeats them with a single swipe of its large kitana.

 

Serena says, nervously, “Oh, man…”

 

Amara asks Serena, “Just like you remember it?”

 

Serena says, with a nod, “Unfortunately, yep.”

 

Mina says, “Makes you wish that our little ‘ace-in-the-hole’ was here now, huh? Guess we’ll have to have all the fun without her!”

 

Raye says, annoyed, “Cut it out, Mina-chan.” After Kagachi takes down another player, a group of gun wielding players attack from an elevated position, but Kagachi creates a ‘white snake whip’ and lashes out with it taking out the four players in which our heroes and heroines yelp as they leap away from the attack.

 

Mimi says, nervously, “Wow! That was close!”

 

Ryoutarou says, “By the way, if your HP reaches zero, you will get punished.”

 

Kazuto says, annoyed, “We already know that!”

 

Ryoutarou says, with a sly grin, “Well, we’ll be taking a lot of the bonuses!”

 

The rest of Fuurinkazan reply in unison, “Yeah!”

 

Jun says, with a grin, “It seems like Klein-san and his group haven’t changed one bit.” While one member of Fuurinkazan blocks with a sword, Ryoutarou and another attack with their swords slashing Kagachi in the chest.

 

Ryoutarou says, “Nice save!” Ryoutarou and his friend run away in which a shield user of Fuurinkazan blocks another attack from Kagachi with another Fuurinkazan hitting him hard causing Kagachi to be flung into a wall.

 

Amara says, with a nod, “Not bad.”

 

Michelle says, with a smile, “They are best friends after all. It isn’t too surprising.” Hotaru nods her head in agreement and Jun starts to head off.

 

Matt says, “Hey, Jun!”

 

Jun says, with a grin, “We can’t let them take all the glory! Let’s go!”

 

Jun races off to assist Ryoutarou and his friends and Davis says, with a sigh, “Oh, geez.”

 

Yolei tells Davis, “Don’t bother, Davis. When she has her sights set on something, she goes for it.”

 

TK says, with a smile, “We should know. We’ve been with her for two years.”

 

Davis retorts, “Try being with her for nearly two decades of your life and we’ll see if you are going to be smiling, TC.” Plenty of the others smirk at this as they head off to assist Jun and Fuurinkazan, but what they don’t know is that Eiji is watching from an elevated position in which we can see the game display in front of his eyes is running a ‘special program’ looking for SAO survivors in which Jun’s and Fuurinkazan’s SAO avatar names are being displayed along with the SAO avatar names of other SAO survivors in our group of our heroes and heroines. Serena, Kazuto, and Asuna dodge another attack from Kagachi’s ‘snake whip’.

 

Serena says, “That was close.”

 

Kazuto has a grip on his ‘sword’ and he says, “This is really different.”

 

Serena says, “Well, it isn’t surprising. We are kind of still in the ‘real world’, Kazuto.”

 

Just then Kagachi charges right for the area that Kazuto, Serena, and Asuna are at and Ryoutarou shouts out, “Here he comes!”

 

Asuna says, concerned, “Kirito-kun!”

 

Serena says, solemnly, “Well, here we go.”

 

Kazuto says, with a nod, “Yep.” Serena and Kazuto charge in for the attack in which Serena and Kazuto focus on Kagachi, but Kazuto trips on a bump causing him to slam and start to skid on the ground.

 

Upon seeing this, Serena says, shocked, “Kazuto!” Serena then suffers something akin to her own ‘klutz attacks’ in her days before SAO causing her to slam into the ground in which she and Kazuto slid in front of Kagachi’s feet in which, when they see this, Serena smiles, nervously, before both of them roll away from Kagachi’s attack that slams into the ground where they were. Serena goes over to one side while Kazuto runs away with Kagachi following him.

 

Kazuto says, “This is more difficult than I thought.”

 

Asuna runs over to Kazuto and she says, “That’s because you don’t do sports or anything like that.”

 

Asuna says, “I’m just getting started.”

 

Ryoutarou and the rest of Fuurinkazan give anime deadpan looks and Ryoutarou asks, “What did he do?”

 

Serena says, nervously, “We’re just not used to this.”

 

Darien and Lita run over to Serena and Lita says, “And yet, you fight in the ‘real world’ so well.”

 

Serena yells out, annoyed, “You know that’s different, Lita-chan!”

 

Lita says, with a smirk, “Sure.”

 

Serena gives an annoyed glare while back with Kazuto and Asuna, a player using a humanoid tiger avatar with a rocket launcher runs past Asuna and he yells out, “I’ll get the last attack bonus!” He fires the rocket launcher in which Kagachi bends his head out of the way in which the shot is heading straight for Yuna. The player yells out, in a panic, “Oh no!” However, Eiji, wearing a black bodysuit with glowing dark violet lines, and with a sword appears and knocks the attack back into Kagachi causing the boss monster to get hit hard. Eiji stands in which a display shows his ‘rank’ in Ordinal Scale to be number 2 just below the top rank in the game.

 

The ‘tiger player’ says, amazed, “Incredible!”

 

Asuna asks, amazed, “Rank two?”

 

As the others assemble, Kari says, amazed, “He is the second strongest player in the game!”

 

Davis says, annoyed, “He doesn’t look like much.” Kagachi gets back to his feet and he then produces a second sword in his hands.

 

Eiji says, as he charges Kagachi, “He is going to attack again. Fix formation and follow me!”

 

Tai asks, a bit annoyed, “Who put him in charge?” Kagachi unleashes two shockwaves at Eiji and he easily and with great agility, dodges the attacks and slices into Kagachi’s side.

 

Mimi says, amazed, “Whoa.”

 

Yolei says, with a nod and amazed expression, “Whoa is right.”

 

Ryoutarou yells out, “Way to go!”

 

Fuurinkazan charges in and Jun shouts out, also charging in, “Not without me, pal!” Plenty of the others sigh in which they head off to assist while the clock hits the one-minute mark. Asuna and Ryoutarou get in their shots while the shield bears do well in protecting them from Kagachi’s slice and shockwaves in which Jun bashes him on the head with her mace. Eiji then comes with another series of attacks that forces Kagachi to his knees.

 

As Serena is watching the battle with Kagachi, she thinks in her mind, “Why am I getting that déjà vu feeling?” She looks at Eiji while Asuna joins in the attack and when Asuna passes by Eiji, Serena notices that his lips move causing her eyes to start to widen while Asuna unleashes her final attack on Kagachi causing it to shatter into hundreds to thousands of data pixels in a massive explosion. Afterwards, there are a lot of cheers from the players that didn’t fight against Kagachi and were only watching from the sidelines.

 

Yuna shouts out, “Congratulations for you that defeated the boss. Enjoy the service point.” Asuna turns towards the walking away Eiji while the scene returns to the streets of Tokyo and Yuna says, “This time, I will give extra gifts to the most hard-working players.” Yuna then leaps down in front of Asuna and kisses her on the cheek much to the shock of the others especially Kazuto and Ryoutarou in which Yuna says, “The MVP is you! Congratulations!” As plenty of players give ‘oohs’ and/or looks of shock, Yuna says, “Okay, see you later.”

 

Yuna vanishes in a ‘pink light’ and Mina asks, with a sly grin, “She is quite the vixen, isn’t she?”

 

Raye bats Mina in the back of her head and Raye says, “Don’t compare her to you, Mina-chan.” On the meanwhile, Serena is busy looking at Eiji, who is glancing at Serena’s direction, and he gives a smirk in which Darien, who is by Serena’s side, picks up on this and his eyes narrow as Eiji walks until he is out of sight of Serena and Darien.

 

After a minute of silence, Serena asks, “Darien-kun?”

 

Darien asks, looking at Serena, “What is it?”

 

Serena asks, “Can you help me in some ‘grinding’ in order to ‘rank up’?” Darien gives a look of surprise and he then remembers what just happened causing him to nod his head. Serena thinks in her mind, with a serious tone, “Who are you?” Serena remembers what happened when Asuna passed by Eiji and the word from his mouth was ‘Switch’.

 

April 25, 2026, Tokyo, Kirigaya residence

 

Back inside of the Kirigaya home, we find Kazuto and Suguha together with Suguha looking like she is back to normal and the two of them are discussing something.

 

Suguha asks Kazuto, “And you’re sure big brother?”

 

Kazuto says, “That’s what Serena and Asuna told me. The ‘switch’ tactic was developed in SAO due to the way that we fight the monsters in SAO and we used it to counter their attack patterns. While ALO is based on SAO, especially with Sword Skills becoming part of it, but while the switch tactic can be used in the same manner in ALO as in SAO…”

 

Suguha says, “Only SAO players would know such a term and while SAO switch tactic has become more prominent in ALO due to our ‘ventures’ in New Aincrad since a group of SAO survivors have joined you and the others in ALO…”

 

Kazuto says, with a nod and finishing, “The term hasn’t become too prominent other than those that of the ‘New Clearers’ of New Aincrad…yet. Only someone like you, Sugu, or those our closest friends, like the rest of the Scouts and the Digidestined that weren’t trapped in SAO, would be well-versed in the tactic.”

 

Suguha says, with a nod, “Since it came from you and others of our friends that survived SAO.”

 

Suguha’s eyes narrow and Kazuto says, “And Eiji-san timed it when Asuna was passing him like he stopped attacking to let Asuna ‘switch’ with him.”

 

Suguha asks Kazuto, “Do you have a hint of ‘déjà vu’?”

 

Kazuto says, with a sigh, “I…I feel something, Sugu. Something about him…”

 

Suguha asks, “Something like…Death Gun?”

 

Kazuto says, shaking his head, “Nothing at that level, Sugu. But…there is something of familiarity. THAT familiarity.”

 

Suguha says, “Personally, even if it is a ‘glimmer’, I think that we should take that ‘feeling’ seriously, big brother.”

 

Kazuto says, with a nod, “Yeah.” Kazuto asks Suguha, “How are you doing, Sugu?”

 

Suguha responds, with a sigh, “Fine, considering…”

 

Kazuto says, “Ami did say that she would be able to reverse the effects.”

 

Suguha asks, annoyed, “Yeah, but why did they send that guy to infect me? Is it just to piss me off?”

 

Kazuto says, with a serious expression, “That’s a good question.”

 

Suguha says, “Well, hopefully, by the end of the day, I will get rid of the ears and tail and not have to use my disguise magic anymore.”

 

Kazuto says, with a smile, “It really works, Sugu. It is like nothing really happened.”

 

Suguha says, “Yeah, but this is ‘illusion magic’, big brother. If I get ‘whammed’, it would be like…the Shadow Clone Jutsu from the Naruto anime…One hit and it dispels.”

 

April 25, 2026, Tokyo, Unknown location

 

Somewhere within Tokyo, there is a loud sneeze heard and we see someone with familiar spiky blond hair wiping his nose.

 

April 25, 2026, Tokyo, Kirigaya residence

 

Back in Suguha’s room, Kazuto tells Suguha, “That never happened to Serena.”

 

Suguha replies, “She didn’t suffer a good enough hit to dispel her disguise pen’s power.”

 

Kazuto says, with a nod, “Good point, Sugu.”

 

Suguha says, with a sigh, “This is a real pain.”

 

Kazuto says, “It is going to be okay, Sugu. Ami said that it is going to be easy to reverse the ‘transformation’.” Kazuto thinks in his mind, “Maybe a bit too easy.”

 

Suguha says, with a plain tone, “Well, it is annoying. I never missed a single kendo lesson.”

 

Kazuto says, with a smile, “I know, Sugu, but you said it yourself. One hit and everyone is going to see that you have a new pair of ‘ears’ and a tail.”

 

Suguha crosses her arms and she says, annoyed, “Remind me to bash those UNI-SHOCKER dorks in the face if we ever meet.”

 

Kazuto thinks in his mind, “That’s a good point, Sugu. IF we ever meet. I can’t help to wonder what they are thinking.” Kazuto then looks at Suguha’s bed and sees [Suguha] lying down in the bed with Suguha’s Amusphere around her head. Kazuto asks, “How is your counterpart doing?”

 

Suguha says, with a smile, “Probably having the time of her life.”

 

Kazuto says, “Sugu, she is another version of you.”

 

Suguha says, with a smile, “And that’s why I’m okay with it. If my version of Leafa can help her remember, I’m glad to help and plus, I think that it is the best way to help her.”

 

Kazuto says, “Remember, they did say that a lot of her memories have been removed from her mind.”

 

Suguha says, “True, but she still has some left that are buried in her mind due to the trauma of Embryo trying to get his hands on her power.”

 

Kazuto says, “Which is the same power that you have, Sugu.”

 

Suguha says, “Don’t I know it, big brother.” Suguha and Kazuto look at [Suguha], who is lying down on Suguha’s bed and using Suguha’s Amusphere to Full-Dive into ALO using Suguha’s Leafa avatar.

 

April 25, 2026, ALO

 

In the virtual skies of ALO, we find Suguha’s ALO avatar, Leafa, flying through the air, but it isn’t our Celestial Princess that’s inside of the virtual avatar, it is her alternate counterpart that’s trying to ‘awaken’ the memories that haven’t been taken by Embryo. Suguha’s Leafa avatar, who will be called [Leafa] when it is used by [Suguha], flies through the air and [Leafa] closes her eyes in which she remembers a ‘sensation’ or ‘feeling’.

 

[Leafa] thinks in her mind, “This feeling…it feels…so familiar…” [Leafa] performs all sorts of aerobatic tricks and when she stops, she looks over herself causing her to think, “This virtual avatar…this body…Leafa…it feels so familiar…so…so natural to me…” [Leafa] then looks up to New Aincrad and she gives it a curious look before she holds her head in pain as image flash before her mind including [Leafa] facing Kirito, Asuna, and Usagi in their SAO avatars and Heathcliff fighting against Sailor Moon, Kirito, and Sailor Celestial with Sailor Moon and Sailor Celestial going from their Eternal forms into their Valkyrie forms. When the ‘images’ stop, [Leafa] thinks in her mind, “What? What was that?”

 

April 25, 2026, Tokyo, Juuban District, Tsukino household

 

Inside of the Tsukino household, Sammy Tsukino is looking quite cross as he eats breakfast that his mother, Ikuko Tsukino, is serving him.

 

Sammy says, annoyed, “I’m just fine!”

 

Ikuko says, with a smile, “We know, sweetie, but your sister and her friends don’t want to take any chances.”

 

Sammy says, “I’m not a little kid! I’m also a Signer too!”

 

Ikuko says, with a nervous smile, “Yes, we know. It is…”

 

Sammy says, with a sigh, “I know, mom. I know. Ever since SAO and what u-Kayaba did to our family, there are a lot of reasons to worry for our family.”

 

Ikuko says, “It is because of the government that no one knows that Kayaba was my brother, Sammy. And with what happened due to the Sword Art World incident, the government has made sure that we have a plan to ‘evaporate’ just in case.”

 

Sammy says, with a sneer, “That stinks.”

 

Ikuko says, with a nod, “I know, sweetie, but this is for our safety. My mother and father had to be already evaporated shortly after SAO started with the danger to their lives.”

 

Sammy slams his fist onto the table and he says, angrily, “All this just because of some ‘power’ that my Meatball Headed sister’s ‘royal sister’! And he knew about their ‘royal connection’ when Serena was starting as Sailor Moon! Piece of filth! I can’t believe…!!”

 

Ikuko tells Sammy, concerned, “Please, Sammy!”

 

Sammy says, calming down, “I’m sorry, mom.”

 

Ikuko says, with a nod, “You have a right to be angry, sweetie. I’m angry too. I guess…I guess I never really knew my brother. Never knew him at all.” Ikuko sighs as she continues her ‘motherly duties’ while Sammy continues to eat breakfast, but they don’t notice a pair of eyes watching them from the window before ‘vanishing’ as if that figure wasn’t there at all.

 

April 25, 2026, Tokyo, Juuban District, Outer Scouts’ mansion

 

Inside of the Outer Sailor Scouts’ mansion, Amara, Michelle, and Trista are assembling together and they are discussing something important.

 

Michelle asks Trista, “How is he?”

 

Trista responds, “Physically, there doesn’t seem to be anything wrong other than bruises and black and blues from a beating before Hotaru healed him…”

 

Amara tells Trista, “There is a major ‘but’ in there and I’m not surprised there is.”

 

Flashback; The previous evening

 

It is the evening of April twenty-fourth and it is the aftermath of the battle with Kagachi in which Amara, Michelle, Trista, and Hotaru are walking down the streets as they are talking.

 

Hotaru asks, “So, the two of them were looking at each other?”

 

Amara says, “Yep. That guy smirked at Kitten and she had a look that said, ‘I think that I know him’ especially when she read his lips.”

 

Michelle asks, surprised, “Serena read his lips?”

 

Amara says, with a nod, “Yep.”

 

Trista says, “Darien told me that our princess gained ‘skills’ that don’t belong to SAO during her time there.”

 

Amara says, with a plain tone, “You can’t exactly be too surprised on that on the way that she survived during those two years not to mention that the fights that she fought.”

 

Hotaru says, “And it shocks me to the core that people could be so twisted.”

 

Trista says, “Unfortunately, that’s the cold reality of any world with humans, Firefly. And that means ANY reality.”

 

Just then they find themselves passing by a parking lot, Hotaru’s eyes widen when she sees something, and Hotaru says, pointing into the parking lot, “Look!” The other Outer Sailor Scouts look towards where Hotaru is pointing to see an unconscious member of Fuurinkazan.

 

They run over to him and Michelle asks, “Is he…?”

 

Hotaru says, with a nod, “Yes, he is one of Ryoutarou’s friends. He is a member of Fuurinkazan.” Amara, Michelle, and Trista examine him and Hotaru asks, “How is he?”

 

Michelle says, “He’s breathing, Firefly.”

 

Trista says, “I see numerous bruises and black and blues.”

 

Hotaru says, “I’ll heal him.” The other Outer Sailor Scouts nod their heads in which while they keep a lookout to make sure that no one sees Hotaru’s healing powers in action, she uses her healing powers to heal the minor injuries of the Fuurinkazan member.

 

When he is healed, the Fuurinkazan member wakes up, he sits up and Amara tells him, “Easy, buddy.”

 

Michelle asks, “You are Dynamm, right?”

 

The Fuurinkazan member responds, “Yeah…”

 

Amara asks, “What happened?”

 

The Fuurinkazan member, Dynamm, replies, “That Eiji guy…He attacked me.”

 

Michelle asks, “The second ranked Ordinal Scale player?”

 

Dynamm replies, with a nod, “Yeah.”

 

Hotaru asks, curiously, “Why?”

 

Dynamm responds, “You got me.” The Outer Sailor Scouts look at each other and wonder about their next move.

 

End Flashback; Return to the Present

 

Back in the present, the Outer Sailor Scouts are discussing after what happened when they found Dynamm and Amara says, “Turns out that he isn’t as okay as we thought.”

 

Trista says, “His memories of SAO are missing. Or more precisely, they were taken.”

 

Hotaru asks, “Like Suguha’s counterpart?”

 

Trista says, “The method is different, but the results are very much similar.”

 

Michelle asks, “And you think that his Augma was responsible?”

 

Amara says, holding up an Augma, “It is the only way, Michelle-chan. The only thing that could have done it.”

 

Trista says, “I returned to the Moon Kingdom to use the scanners to see if any ‘strange electronic transmissions’ happened last evening and there was one exactly in the area that we found Dynamm-san.”

 

Amara says, “We can say that somehow his Augma extracted his SAO memories from him.”

 

Trista says, with a nod, “Yes.”

 

Hotaru asks, curiously, “But how?”

 

Michelle says, “That’s a good question, Firefly.”

 

Amara asks, “How is Dynamm-san?”

 

Michelle says, “Sleeping peacefully thankfully.”

 

Just then a male voice says, “No kidding. He sleeps like a log.” Everyone looks to see [Sammy] coming into the room and he says, “I think that you should contact his friends.”

 

Amara says, “Yes, we should. But he needs to recover. Trying to recall those memories caused him psychological shock by overdoing it on the attempted ‘recall’. Right now, he doesn’t need anymore ‘shock’ that could cause him mental and emotional harm even if it unintended.”

 

Trista says, “Remember what we found out about the counterpart to our Sailor Celestial? The trauma having her memories removed caused whatever memories remained to become seriously suppressed and attempts at recall are quite painful for her.”

 

Amara says, “He is a strong-willed guy. Heck, anyone that goes through SAO without going insane or living in fear of VR technology is strong willed, but there are limits to all kinds of strength.”

 

[Sammy] says, “Point taken.”

 

Hotaru asks, “What shall we do?”

 

Amara says, “What we do know is that whatever plans that are being used for the Augma and Ordinal Scale have started and we need to figure out what they are and fast.” Everyone else in the room nods their heads in agreement and Amara asks [Sammy], “Do you have a plan?”

 

[Sammy] replies, “Possibly.”

 

Amara asks, curiously, “Possibly?”

 

[Sammy] says, “There are a lot of ‘factors’ that are running about and we have two of our enemies allying with each other.”

 

Michelle says, “Embryo and UNI-SHOCKER.”

 

[Sammy] says, “And knowing ‘evil villains’, their alliance is shaky at best.”

 

Amara says, with a nod, “No joke.”

 

[Sammy] says, “We need to figure out a way to turn that to our adventure. While you are far stronger than the Sailor Scouts from my Earth, UNI-SHOCKER has experience against Sailor Scouts and you saw that’s no joke.”

 

Hotaru says, with a nod, “They have technology that can counter our powers despite us being stronger than our counterparts and we have a Sailor Scouts that they never faced in your world: Sailor Celestial.”

 

[Sammy] says, nodding his head, “That’s right. But why that’s true, it doesn’t mean that they don’t have the means to counter her. They must have been studying her for quite a bit and enough for whatever sick plans that they have for her.”

 

Amara says, “Despite us have several Valkyrie Sailor Scouts, they still are a tough nut to crack.”

 

[Sammy] says, “No duh. They have perfected their ways that got them far in my world for a good long while and they have been in here long enough to establish themselves making it hard to go after them.”

 

Trista says, “Let us go over the information that we have gathered so far and see if we missed something.” The others nod their heads in agreement and they start to move onto their plans in which they hope what they are doing doesn’t cause any ‘problems’ for their comrades/friends/allies.

 

April 25, 2026, Earth, Tokyo, UNI-SHOCKER headquarters

 

Back within UNI-SHOCKER headquarters, Embryo and the Diamond Rose Knights are walking into a meeting room and discussing something.

 

Salia says, annoyed, “I can’t believe this!”

 

Embryo tells Salia, “Calm yourself, Salia. As I have said, we only need one of the two Suguhas and the only that has her memories and ‘full power’ comes from this universe after all.”

 

Salia says, “Yes, I know, Master Embryo, but I don’t get what the whole point of turning her into a ‘werewolf’.”

 

Embryo says, “To keep her ‘out of the way’ for a short while.”

 

Chris asks, curiously, “Out of the way?”

 

Embryo says, plainly, “The mutagen that they used is easily reversible and within a day or so, this Earth’s Suguha will be cured.”

 

Ersha asks, “Then why do it anyway?”

 

Embryo says, “To cause her ‘troubles’ that will force her to remain out of the ‘public eye’ for a day or so. She is most liking using ‘illusion powers’ to keep her alterations secret from the public, but she can’t keep her ‘illusion’ up without focus, so, she is being forced to stay out of situations that would ‘negated’ that ‘focus’, my dear Ersha.”

 

Salia says, “Knowing Suguha, she is pissed by that.”

 

Embryo says, with a smile, “Most likely.”

 

Chris asks, “Why do they want her out of action temporary?”

 

Embryo says, “To prepare for the first phase of their plan with the Augmas and the game that they have a part with it. I believe it involves the SAO survivors.”

 

Salia says, “Because all of the people in that ‘SAO survivors school’ were given free Augmas under the pretext of promoting it.”

 

Embryo says, with a nod, “Exactly. And Doctor Shigemura’s first phase needs those memories, so, he needs to start gathering them.”

 

Ersha asks, curiously, “Why?”

 

Embryo takes out a computer tablet and he says, handing it to Ersha, “I believe that this is the answer.” When the Diamond Rose Knights look at the tablet, they gasp at what they see.

 

Salia says, “Master Embryo, this is…!!”

 

Embryo tells Salia, interrupting, “Correct, my dear Salia. What true loving parent would do anything to get their precious daughter back after she was taken by the ‘wicked plans’ of a student that was like a son to them?”

 

Chris says, “This is why that UNI-SHOCKER made sure that all ‘connections’ between Shigemura and Kayaba remained secret.”

 

Embryo says, “Indeed. If that fact became known, people would become suspicious especially if that fact about Shigemura’s daughter become known.”

 

Salia says, “Then the heroes and heroines of this world would have been on UNI-SHOCKER and its plan like bees to honey.”

 

Embryo says, with a nod, “Correct, my dear Salia. While they know that UNI-SHOCKER is their enemy, thanks to one of their enemies following them to this Earth, they aren’t sure of their plans enough to take action…much less the correct actions.”

 

Ersha asks, “What shall we do next, Master Embryo?”

 

Embryo says, with a wicked smile, “I believe that the next move is up to them.”

 

The Diamond Rose Knights are confused and Chris asks, “Up to who, Master Embryo?”

 

Embryo says, “Them, my sweet Chris.” Embryo creates a holographic screen and shows Ange attacking some kind of facility.

 

Salia says, with a glare, “Ange.”

 

Salia prepares to run off and Embryo tells Salia, “Wait, Salia.”

 

Salia asks Embryo, surprised, “Why, Master Embryo?”

 

Embryo says, with a wicked smile, “I want to see what she is up to.”

 

April 25, 2026, Earth, Tokyo

 

Within some kind of high-tech warehouse, Ange, Vivian, and Tusk are together in which Tusk is looking at a laptop.

 

Tusk asks Ange, “Are you sure about this Ange?”

 

Ange responds, “I’m sick and tired of pussy footing around. We need to go with the more direct approach.”

 

Vivian asks, “So, what are we doing here?”

 

Ange says, “Simple, Vivian. Finding an ‘ace-in-the-hole’.”

 

Vivian asks, confused, “Huh?”

 

Ange asks Tusk, “How is it going Tusk?”

 

Tusk says, “Not easy. This is really high-tech stuff and while I have experience with this before due to my many missions from Jill, these people don’t fool around.”

 

Ange says, “Not surprising since they have interdimensional experience, Tusk.” Just then Tusk, Ange, and Vivian hear footsteps and Ange looks to see several squads of UNI-SHOCKER Combatmen coming this way. Ange yells out, “Move it, Tusk!”

 

Tusk inserts a flash drive into a slot in the laptop and he says, as he is typing on the computer, “I’m moving as fast as I can!”

 

Ange says, taking a defeated guard’s assault rifle, “Move faster!” Ange then uses the assault rifle to try to fend off the Combatmen, but they easily dodge the rifle fire and they get close real fast.

 

Vivian says, “Here they come!”

 

Ange shouts out, “Vivian, find a weapon!”

 

Vivian replies, with a nod, “Right!” But just then there is a loud ‘crash’ and everyone looks up to see Kamen Rider Lunar dropping down from the ceiling and slamming down on one of the Combatmen causing everyone else to stop fighting.

 

Kamen Rider Lunar says, “We had a feeling that you would up and do this.”

 

Ange says, plainly, “I don’t need your permission to do anything.”

 

Kamen Rider Lunar says, “True, but you are ‘guests’ on this Earth and your best bet of protection is the Sailor Scouts of this world after all.”

 

Ange says, annoyed, “I don’t need protecting.”

 

Tusk says, “True, Ange, but we are going to need their help. Remember Embryo has allied with UNI-SHOCKER.”

 

Ange says, “I know.” Soon enough, the Combatmen start to engage Kamen Rider Lunar, who easily fends them off, while Ange goes over to ask Tusk, “Is it finished?”

 

Tusk replies, “Just about Ange.”

 

Just then a male voice yells out, “And so are you.” Vivian, Tusk, and Ange look to see Kamen Rider Terra in front of them and he asks, “Do you really think that we would allow you to hack us so easily fool?” He then fires a beam ray that destroys the laptop causing Tusk to yelp as he stumbles back into Ange causing both of them to fall into the ground. Kamen Rider Terra says, slowly walking towards the three of them, “Since Embryo has been looking for you, I’ll get one up on that pompous ass and bring you to him. Just to see the look on his face.”

 

Just then a familiar female voice says, “Don’t count on it!” Everyone looks to the source of the voice to see Sailor Uranus, Sailor Neptune, and Sailor Pluto walking out of the shadows.

 

Kamen Rider Terra says, with a sly tone, “Is that all? Just the three of you? You should really know better.”

 

Sailor Uranus says, with a smirk, “And you shouldn’t underestimate us, pal.”

 

Kamen Rider Terra says, with a sly tone, “Actually, it is the other way around. You are comparing me to my weak counterpart, here, in your Earth.”

 

Sailor Neptune asks, slyly, “Physically, maybe, but spiritually, you are nothing more than a child compared to our Earth Prince.”

 

Kamen Rider Terra asks, annoyed, “What was that?”

 

Sailor Uranus says, “You heard us, pal. Your version of Kitten just got a little worried about what that power could be doing to you and you cried like a little baby. You are pathetic!”

 

Kamen Rider Terra snarls and he says, with a nasty tone, “I’m going to enjoy ripping you apart and bringing you to your version of Meatball Head.”

 

Sailor Neptune tells Sailor Uranus, with a sigh and smile, “You have to do this, Uranus-chan.”

 

Sailor Uranus says, “Guys like him piss me off.”

 

Sailor Pluto says, stepping forward, “I’ll hold him off. Uranus, you and Neptune help Ange, Tusk, and Vivian.”

 

Sailor Uranus asks, surprised, “By yourself?”

 

Kamen Rider Terra says, “Seriously? I had fought my Meatball Head with her Eternal form and she was WAY more powerful than you. You must be crazy.”

 

Sailor Pluto says, with a sly smile, “I believe that you should know that I have an ‘ace-in-the-hole’.”

 

Kamen Rider Terra asks, confused, “What?”

 

“Valkyrie Pluto Power, Make-up!”

 

Sailor Pluto is engulfed in a bright light forcing everyone to stop fighting and cover their eyes as a giant clock appears behind Sailor Pluto and she goes into it in which the clock face spins around and around before shattering causing a massive dark violet and black twister to emerge in which a brand new Sailor Pluto emerges from it!

 

Sailor Pluto’s new form consists of her head being inside of a dark silver Ancient Roman Galea style helmet with a statue of Dark End Dragon attached to the top of the helmet, her tiara remains the same, but she has deep and gorgeous shimmering dark violet-red lips, she has a black metal choker around her neck, her cloth fuku has been replaced by an armored one with a heart jewel in the chest area of the fuku, the heart jewel, which deep dark rosy red in color, has The Suppression Pluto and Raviel, Lord of Phantasms in the center with a clock and scythe in-between them, eight white feathered wings are attached to the sides of the heart jewel with four wings on each side, she has dark green version of the Armor of Inferno’s shoulder pads with the sigil of Pluto in dark silver engraved on each one, her arms are covered in black armor that’s connected to the armored fuku and shoulder pads, her lower armored arms also have gantlets similar to Black Heart’s Next Form gantlets, she has an armored version of her mini-skirt with the skirt’s colors are black, dark green, and rosy violet-red with a black and silver version of the Mighty Morphin Green Ranger’s Dragon Dagger with the insignia of Pluto, in gold, on the hilt attached to the right portion of her skirt, a dark green version of the Lightspeed Rescue Titanium Ranger’s Titanium Laser attached to the left portion of her skirt, and a black version of the Ninja Storm Thunder Rangers’ Thunder Staffs attached to the rear of her skirt, and she has black armored knee-high high-heeled boots that cover her kneecaps and have four inch stiletto heels. Finally, there are eight huge and fluffy white feathered wings coming out of her back and her Garnet Staff remains in her hands.

 

When the light dies down and everyone is able to see Sailor Pluto’s new form, Sailor Uranus asks, shocked, “What the?!”

 

Sailor Neptune says, stunned, “You…You are a Valkyrie Sailor Scout!”

 

Sailor Pluto says, with a smile, “Just recently ascended, Neptune.”

 

Sailor Uranus starts to ask, “Why didn’t…?” Sailor Uranus says, with a grunt, “Never mind.”

 

Sailor Neptune says, with a smile, “Good idea, Uranus.”

 

Kamen Rider Terra says, “It doesn’t matter if you have that ‘Valkyrie form’ or whatever. You can’t win.”

 

VALKYRIE Sailor Pluto says, “That’s left to be seen.” As Sailor Uranus and Neptune leave the assist Ange, Vivian, Tusk, and Kamen Rider Lunar, Sailor Pluto and Kamen Rider Terra, who just brought out a sword, go into defensive stance and after several seconds, they attack each other with incredible speed with Pluto’s Garnet Staff clashing against Kamen Rider Terra’s sword in which every clash causing the whole of the building to shake with terrific force.

 

Tusk says, shocked, “Whoa! They are shaking this whole place!”

 

Sailor Uranus uses her Space Sword to cut down several Combatmen and she says, “That’s the power of a Valkyrie Sailor Soldier.” Valkyrie Sailor Pluto and Kamen Rider Terra continue their clash with every time that Pluto’s Garnet staff and Terra’s sword clash the building shakes with great violence.

 

Ange yells out, “Damn! They are going to bring down this whole building if they keep this up!”

 

“Neptune Deep Submerge!”

 

Sailor Neptune fires her classic attack that takes down several Combatmen that are near Ange and Ange tells Sailor Neptune, annoyed, “I had them.”

 

Sailor Neptune says, with a smile, “I know, but it is what I do.” Ange gives an annoyed shake of her head as she continues to use the assault rifle against the Combatmen with no success while Kamen Rider Lunar, Sailor Uranus, and Sailor Neptune have more success with their powers, abilities, and/or weapons while Sailor Pluto and Kamen Rider Terra continue their intense and powerful fight.

 

Kamen Rider Terra says, “You seem to be a bit more powerful than my Sailor Pluto.”

 

Sailor Pluto responds, “It is a probably because you didn’t have the chance to stab me in the back as you did her. The tactic of a weak coward.”

 

Kamen Rider Terra yells out, angrily, “I’ll kill you wench!” Kamen Rider Terra then starts to wildly swing at Sailor Pluto and since she is calmer and collected, Sailor Pluto starts to take the advantage in which Kamen Rider Terra grunts as Sailor Pluto hits him in the knees and arms causing him to flinch in pain as well as make him even more enraged. Kamen Rider Terra shouts out, enraged, “You want this place so bad? Take it!” Kamen Rider Terra then opens a panel on his left wrist armor, pushes a button, and the whole of the building starts to shake as explosions are being heard.

 

Sailor Uranus asks, “What the?”

 

The Combatmen start to retreat and Kamen Rider Lunar yells out, annoyed, “Coward!”

 

Kamen Rider Terra says, with a sneer, “Blame ‘Miss Time Wizard’! Goodbye and good riddance!” Kamen Rider Terra then teleports away as the building starts to collapse as more explosions are heard.

 

Tusk says, “We’ve got to get out of here!”

 

Ange says, “No kidding! Let’s go!” Just then Ange’s ring glows and Villkiss, in ‘Flight Mode’, appears in front of her causing her to ask, “Villkiss?”

 

Sailor Uranus asks, “How did you do that?” Ange doesn’t answer in which she leaps onto Villkiss.

 

Ange says, “Vivian! Tusk! Let’s go!” Immediately, Vivian and Tusk get onto Villkiss with Ange and Ange says, “Let’s go!”

 

Tusk yells out, nervously, “Wait! Ange!”

 

Ange shouts out, strongly, “There is no time!” Ange then uses Villkiss to blast out of the building with the three Sailor Scouts and one Kamen Rider following as the buildings that they were in collapses and implodes from explosion that weaken the structure causing the complete collapse and destruction of the building. On the rooftop of one building, they assemble in which they look at the smoke and dust coming from the remains of the building.

 

Kamen Rider Lunar says, “Well, that was a bust.”

 

Sailor Pluto says, with a smile, “Not exactly.” Sailor Pluto asks Tusk, “So, how did the worm go?”

 

Tusk, Ange, and Vivian give looks of surprise and Sailor Neptune says, with a grin, “Something told us that you weren’t going to try to hack directly into the mainframe since that’s what they were expecting.”

 

Sailor Uranus says, “And since you were an ‘intelligence agent’ as well as knowing how to maintenance these machines, you would know your way around a computer.”

 

Tusk says, rubbing his scalp, “Guess I’ve been found out.”

 

Ange slaps him in the back of the head and she says, annoyed, “You gave in too easily.”

 

Sailor Pluto asks, “So, how did it go?”

 

Tusk takes out a hand-held computer and he says, with a smile, “Let’s see.” Tusk looks at the hand-held computer and after a while, he says, with a nod, “It worked.”

 

Vivian says, “Cool! We bugged them!”

Kamen Rider Lunar says, “Don’t be so sure. UNI-SHOCKER aren’t cheesy villains from anime or manga. They didn’t get where they are by being stupid!”

 

Tusk says, with a smile, “I know! That’s why I put in about a dozen ‘dummy viruses’ with the ‘worm’ as well.”

 

Ange says, with a smirk, “Color me impressed, Tusk.”

 

Tusk says, with a grin, “Thanks, Ange!”

 

Sailor Uranus says, “The computer back at the base at the Crown Arcade will help us decode any information that we get and make sure that it is authentic.”

 

Sailor Pluto says, with a nod, “I believe so.”

 

Kamen Rider Lunar says, “Let’s go.” Soon enough, Kamen Rider Lunar uses his abilities to bring out a hover biker in which our group flies off to the Crown Arcade and the Sailor Scouts’ ‘base’ in it in order to see if they can get anything from Tusk’s ‘worm’ that he put into UNI-SHOCKER’s computer network.

 

April 25, 2026, Earth, Tokyo, SAO Memorial Academy

 

Inside of the SAO Memorial Academy, also known as the ‘SAO Survivor’s School’, Serena is sitting class with her classmates, who are also fellow SAO survivors like her, is in deep thought about what happened yesterday.

 

Serena thinks in her mind, “Eiji…Yuna…Why do those two seem so familiar to me? Why do I feel that I know them?” Serena is nervous about those feeling because the last time that she felt that ‘familiarity’, it was back in SAO when dealing with Heathcliff, who she found out later that Heathcliff was the player avatar of her uncle, the one who started the ‘death game’: Akihiko Kayaba. As Serena thinks about it, an image of a young lady with a white feathered cape, white cape, and white lute come to her mind causing her eyes to widen.

 

The teacher shouts out, “Miss Tsukino!”

 

Serena is snapped out of her thoughts and she asks, nervously, “Y-Yes?” Serena then sees the teacher looking at Serena with a cross look on her face and she lowers her nervously as she is getting silently scolded for not paying attention in class. Serena tries to pay attention in class, but those images…those memories are on her mind and she can’t help to wonder if they have some kind of important meaning to what’s happening now.

 

April 25, 2026, Earth, Tokyo, UNI-SHOCKER headquarters

 

Around the same time, [Darien] is heading for elsewhere within the headquarters of UNI-SHOCKER in Tokyo in which he is passing by Embryo.

 

Embryo asks, “Hard day on the job?” [Darien] glares at Embryo and Embryo says, “You didn’t expect another of the Sailor Scouts to gain these powerful ‘Valkyrie’ forms.”

 

[Darien] says, “She just lucky.”

 

Embryo says, “Luck wasn’t a part of it.”

 

[Darien] asks, annoyed, “What?”

 

Embryo says, “You didn’t plan for every possibility and she also ‘played you like a fiddle’.”

 

[Darien] yells out, annoyed, “What was that?”

 

Embryo replies, “Am I wrong? She managed to rely you up and take the advantage forcing you to blow up that facility to make sure that they didn’t get their hands on it.” [Darien] snarls at Embryo, who just smirks.

 

[Darien] says, “Next time, there won’t be any surprises.” [Darien] stomps away in anger and Embryo just smiles at him.

 

When [Darien] is gone, Embryo says, lowly, “Now, it is time for the next players to make their moves.”

 

April 25, 2026, Earth, Tokyo

 

Mina, Lita, Raye, Amara, Michelle, and Trista, in their ‘Ordinal Scale avatars’, assembled together as they were discussing something.

 

Raye yells out, annoyed, “And you didn’t bother telling us that?”

 

Amara says, “We couldn’t be sure what happened to him and having him try to recall his memories sent him into shock.”

 

Michelle says, “We believed that it is for the best. We had little to no proof since our earlier examinations of the Augma didn’t find anything sinister about it.”

 

Trista says, “It could be possible that we were looking in all of the ‘wrong places’ or just focusing on one part of the Augma alone.”

 

Lita says, “I wish that Ami was here.”

 

Amara says, “Right now, she is working on antidote of the mutagen that they infected Suguha with.”

 

Mina says, with a smile, “If anyone can help, Ami-chan can do it!”

 

Michelle says, with a smile, “Yes, she can.”

 

Amara looks in deep thought and Lita asks, “What’s up with you?”

 

Amara responds, “Nothing really.” Amara says, “Our main focus should be this Eiji character. Something about him…doesn’t feel right.”

 

Mina asks, with a smirk, “Maybe because he looked at Serena the wrong way?”

 

Raye says, “It isn’t just that Mina-chan. Meatball Head had a feeling of déjà vu from him and her having that kind of ‘feeling’ makes me feel uneasy.”

 

Amara says, with a nod, “Same here.”

 

Just then a familiar female voice asks, “What are you doing here?” Everyone looks to see Asuna, in her ‘Ordinal Scale avatar’, running up to them.

 

Mina asks, “Asuna, what are you doing here?”

 

Asuna replies, “Klein told me that an SAO boss monster would come here.”

 

Amara asks, curiously, “Wait! Klein is here?!”

 

Asuna says, looking around, “I don’t see Klein and his friends anywhere around.” The Moon Kingdom Sailor Scouts look at each other and Asuna asks, curiously at this, “Is something wrong?”

 

Michelle says, with a smile, “No…Not really, Asuna.”

 

Mina says, with a smile while trying to sound calm, “They are probably lost. We’ll go find them.” Immediately, the Moon Kingdom Sailor Scouts take off leaving a confused Asuna in their wake as a large griffon monsters appears in which Yuna appears soon after as she starts her performance as the battle starts. After a good while, the Moon Kingdom Sailor Scouts are looking around for any signs of Ryoutarou and his friends.

 

Amara asks, “Do you see any sign of them?”

 

Lita says, shaking her head, “Not one lick!”

 

Michelle then sees something off the corner of her eye, gasps, and she yells out, pointing to a location, “Over there!” Everyone else looks to see Ryoutarou and the remaining members of Fuurinkazan in front of a large flaming humanoid beast monster with someone holding Ryoutarou by the back of the neck as the monster takes away his HP.

 

Amara yells out, “Hey!” The person holding Ryoutarou looks to see the Sailor Scouts heading towards them in which he drops Ryoutarou and heads off which the Sailor Scouts quickly defeat the monster which was already weakened most likely by the currently unconscious Ryoutarou and his friends.

 

Lita asks Ryoutarou, “Are you okay?”

 

Amara immediately notices Ryoutarou’s right arm in which she gently feels it causing him to grunt out in pain causing her to say, “His right arm is broken!”

 

Lita says, looking in the direction of Fuurinkazan’s assailant, “Damn it!”

 

Amara says, seriously, “We don’t have time!”

 

Raye says, seriously, “Amara’s right! We need to get them medical attention now! Prepare to transform and head out!” The others nod their heads and prepare to transform into their Sailor Scout forms to get help and treatment for Fuurinkazan while we switch back to the battle with the griffon boss monster in which it has been just defeated by the Ordinal Scale players helped by Asuna’s leadership. Asuna stumbles back before the AI idol, Yuna, could give her another kiss and Yuna teleports away.

 

Just then a familiar male voice says, “Asuna the Lightning.” Asuna then looks in the direction of the voice and she looks to see Eiji looking at her before he takes off as he does so, an image of someone like Eiji wearing a KOB uniform comes to her mind.

 

Asuna thinks in her mind, “I…I know him…He’s…” Before she could say or do anything else, Eiji is out of sight.

 

April 26, 2026, Moon Kingdom

 

On the Moon Kingdom, Sailors Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are looking at the members of Fuurinkazan, minus Ryoutarou and Dynamm, as the rest of our heroes and heroines rush into the room where they are.

 

Kazuto yells out, “Klein!”

 

Sailor Saturn says, “Kazuto.”

 

Serena asks, concerned, “What happened?”

 

Sailor Jupiter yells out, angrily, “That jerk, Eiji, attacked Klein and his friends.”

 

There are gasps of shock and Kotone asks, concerned, “Attack?”

 

The members of Fuurinkazan, with angered looks on their faces, nod their heads and Sailor Uranus says, “They were late to the battle with the Storm Griffin.”

 

Serena asks, surprised, “The Storm Griffin?”

 

Asuna says, with a nod, “Yes, Serena-chan. The boss of floor eleven appeared last night.”

 

Sailor Mars says, “Well, it looks like it isn’t just floor bosses of SAO. Klein and his friends were attacked by Zehghi the Flame Caller.”

 

Kazuto says, shocked, “That’s the field boss of the same floor!” Kazuto asks the members of Fuurinkazan, “Are you sure?”

 

One of them replies, “Yeah, but we were doing well and we just about defeated it when that guy came out of nowhere and beat the crap out of us.”

 

Sailor Uranus says, “And broke Klein’s arm in the process.”

 

There are gasps and Asuna asks, worriedly, “Klein’s arm is broken?”

 

Sailor Saturn says, with a nod, “It was, but my healing powers healed it right away. He is okay…physically.”

 

Kazuto asks, curiously, “Physically?”

 

The Sailor Scouts look at each other and Sailor Pluto says, “After Firefly healed Klein, physically, we found that he is suffering from specific kind of memory loss.” There are looks of shock and Sailor Pluto says, “His memories of Sword Art Online are gone…No, they have been TAKEN.”

 

There are looks of shock and Yolei asks, shocked, “His memories of Sword Art Online have been TAKEN?!”

 

Rika says, shocked, “No way!”

 

Sailor Mercury says, “I wish that I could say that we were wrong, but Klein hasn’t lost his memories of SAO…They have been somehow removed from his mind.”

 

[Suguha] asks, curiously, “Like me?”

 

Sailor Pluto says, “A different process, but the results are pretty much the same. Klein’s memories of SAO have been removed from his mind.”

 

Sailor Uranus says, “And he isn’t the only way. Back after the battle that overgrown samurai, we find another of Klein’s friends have been attacked by Eiji and he lost his SAO memories too.”

 

There are gasps of shock and Kazuto asks, shocked, “What?!”

 

Sailor Pluto says, with a nod, “It’s true. And it is pretty much the same way as what happened to Klein.”

 

Davis yells out, “Hey! Why didn’t you say anything to us?”

 

Sailor Uranus says, “When he tried to recall those memories, he panicked and went into shock.”

 

Sailor Neptune says, “We managed to calm him down and felt that he needed to rest.”

 

Sailor Pluto says, “Plus, while we have theories and clues about what happened, we had no hard evidence on what removed his memories.”

 

Sailor Uranus says, “However, the obvious is clear. This Ordinal Scale player, Eiji, seems to be attacking SAO survivors that are playing Ordinal Scale and when he attacks them and depletes their HP, they lose their SAO memories.”

 

Serena asks, “You confirmed this with Klein?”

 

Sailor Neptune says, with a nod, “Yes, but we didn’t want a repeat of what happened, so, we forced him not to try to forcibly try to recall those memories. Klein’s okay. But in order to make sure, we put him to sleep in order for him to get rest. Also, Firefly did heal his arm and while her healing is usually excellent for ‘regular injuries’ like that, we want him to rest the arm before starting to move it again.”

 

Sailor Mars says, “And we may have a reason on why this guy is doing this.”

 

Darien asks, curiously, “You do?”

 

Sailor Mercury says, “I used the computer to tap into vast databases to get information and I, along with the others, were shocked to learn this. His name is Eiji Nochizawa.”

 

Sailor Venus says, “And the twist is that he is an SAO survivor!”

 

There are gasps of shock and Matt asks, surprised, “He is an SAO survivor?”

 

Sailor Jupiter says, “No doubt about it. Mercury tripled checked and he is a confirmed survivor of Sword Art Online.”

 

Kotone asks, realizing, “Could that mean…?”

 

Sailor Uranus says, glancing at Serena, “Whatever this guy is doing…involves Sword Art Online.” Serena can’t help to stumble back at that statement from Sailor Uranus, but Darien gently holds her.

 

Sailor Mercury says, “It is the only logical conclusion based on the evidence we have.”

 

[Sammy] says, “And most likely, UNI-SHOCKER is taking advantage of since the only thing that I can see taking anyone’s memories is…”

 

Sailor Uranus says, displaying the Augma, “This.”

 

Keiko asks, shocked, “The Augma?”

 

Kotone asks, curiously, “Didn’t you check the Augma a lot and didn’t find anything?”

 

Sailor Pluto says, “Maybe anything obvious, but we can’t rule out anything because we doubt that Eiji, himself, took the memories directly based on what we saw last night.”

 

Sailor Mars says, “I didn’t sense any ‘dark magic’ or whatever from Eiji to show that he was the one that extracted the memories from Klein.”

 

Sailor Uranus says, “But we can’t rule it out since UNI-SHOCKER did develop tech to block our sensory abilities.” Sailor Uranus then says, “However, I get the feeling that possibility of Eiji using some kind of ‘power’ to remove those memories is remote because of what he did. He had the monster attack Klein in order to drop his health to zero.”

 

Kazuto asks, plainly, “And that leads to the question: Why?”

 

Cody says, “There had to some kind of ‘condition’ for the memories to be extracted.”

 

Sailor Neptune says, “We believe so. We think that the Augma and Ordinal Scale are connected to this because why wait for Klein to get defeated in Ordinal Scale to extract his memories if you can do it yourself.”

 

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

 

Yolei asks, confused, “But why?”

 

Tai says, “That’s a good question, Yolei.”

 

Ken says, “All that we do know is that it is connected to SAO.”

 

Darien says, “With the fact that UNI-SHOCKER might be taking advantage of all this.”

 

Asuna thinks about her ‘meeting’ with Eiji last night and what she remembered in which Kari asks, “Wait! Doesn’t that mean that the creator of the Augma and Ordinal Scale…?”

 

Cody says, “We can’t rule out the possibility Kari.”

 

Sailor Uranus says, “Agreed. I doubt that someone involved like Professor Shigemura and based on what we know, he was involved with the Augma and Ordinal Scale as…”

 

Everyone looks at Serena and she says, finishing for Uranus, “…As Kayaba was for SAO.” Serena looks at everyone and she says, “I know what you are going to say, everyone. I know what this could really mean and you know how I’m going to feel about this. You know what I had promised.”

 

Suguha then says, stepping forward, “What we promised, sis.”

 

Serena smiles at Suguha and Rika says, with a grin, “Yeah, no kidding, girlfriend! We’ve always been through ‘thick and thin’ together and you must be nuts if you think that we are going to let you do this alone!”

 

Keiko nods her head in agreement and Sailor Neptune says, with a smile, “It seems their loyalty is absolute.”

 

Sailor Uranus says, with a sigh, “No kidding, Neptune.”

 

Molly asks Sailor Pluto, “By the way, when did you become a Valkyrie Sailor Scout?”

 

Sailor Venus says, “Right? I was shocked when I saw her the first time! It is so not fair!”

 

Sailor Jupiter says, with a sigh and smile, “Come on, Venus.”

 

Sailor Mars says, annoyed, “Get over it already.”

 

Suguha says, dispelling her disguise magic to show her current ‘condition’, “By the way, I hope that you have a way to get rid of these.”

 

When Suguha points to her new tail and ‘ears’ on her scalp, Sailor Mercury says, “Actually, I do. I already have the anti-mutagen ready to go.”

 

Suguha asks, excitedly, “Really?”

 

Sailor Venus says, with a grin, “Yep! You are going to be back to normal in no time! Well, as ‘normal’ for us, Sailor Scouts.” However, Sailor Uranus gains a curious look and Sailors Saturn and Neptune notice this.

 

Sailor Mercury says, “It was pretty easy for me.”

 

[Sammy] thinks in his mind, eyes narrowing, “Easy, huh? That doesn’t sound good to me.” When [Sammy] glances at Sailor Uranus, she gives a slight and silent nod in which [Sammy] knows that Sailor Uranus is agreeing with some kind of unsaid ‘thing’ in which Ange takes quick notice of.

 

Kazuto asks Sailor Mercury, “When can we get started?”

 

Sailor Mercury says, “It will be ready, today, but…”

 

Rika says, interrupting, “Oh, boy!”

 

Sailor Mercury says, ignoring Rika, “…The anti-mutagen is very ‘potent’ and I’m going to need to put Suguha in a medical sleep due to the process might overload her pain receptors.”

 

Plenty of the others flinch from that statement and Davis says, nervously, “Yipe! And ouch!”

 

Yolei says, with a nod, “No joke!”

 

Suguha gives a shrug and she asks, “How long before we can start?”

 

Sailor Mercury says, “A while. I’ve been focused on what happened with Klein and the others that I haven’t gotten started on the setup.”

 

Suguha says, “No problem, Ami.”

 

Kazuto says, with a nod, “We understand.” Kazuto says, with a sigh, “I’m very worried about Klein.”

 

Asuna says, comforting tone in his voice, “Us too, Kirito-kun.”

 

Kazuto says, “What I don’t get is Eiji. He is an SAO survivor, but what happened in SAO to make him that way? What is he getting out of this by stealing the memories of fellow SAO survivors? And…”

 

Serena asks Kazuto, “You are getting the feeling that you met him before?”

 

Kazuto tells Serena, “You feel the same way. I caught you and him sharing a ‘look’.”

 

Darien says, with a nod, “Serena and I went gridding to bring up her rank on Ordinal Scale because she had that feeling of ‘déjà vu’ with Eiji-san.”

 

Kazuto says, “And now, this confirms it for both of us. Eiji is a fellow SAO survivor and whatever he is doing with UNI-SHOCKER with the Augma and Ordinal Scale, it involves Sword Art Online.”

 

Tai says, “And we need to figure out what before there is big trouble.”

 

[Sammy] asks Tusk, “How is the worm doing Tusk?”

 

Tusk responds, “Their attention seems to be still be focused on the dummy viruses that I included with the worm and they seemly haven’t detected it yet.”

 

Sailor Mercury says, “However, it isn’t easy to get through their defenses despite the great work on Tusk’s infiltration program. I must say that I am impressed.”

 

Ange says, with a smile while looking at Tusk, “He can do something useful if he puts his mind to it.”

 

Tusk says, annoyed and embarrassed, “Hey, Ange!”

 

Ange says, with a smirk, “Just pulling your leg.”

 

[Suguha] tells Ange, “Wow, Ange. I never knew that you could tell a joke.”

 

Vivian says, with a smile, “Yeah, you are so serious all the time!”

 

Ange says, with a flush on her cheeks, “Don’t get used to it, Vivian.”

 

[Suguha] gives a sigh and smile and Suguha asks her counterpart, “How are you doing? Any memories come back?”

 

[Suguha] replies, shaking her head, “Not exactly. I see it, but it…”

 

Sailor Uranus asks, “Just out of your reach?”

 

[Suguha] says, with a nod, “Yeah.”

 

Ange says, “Don’t worry. Once we beat the crap out of that pretty boy, we’re going to rip your memories from him and get them back to you.”

 

Tusk says, nervously, “I’m not sure that it won’t be that easy, Ange.”

 

Joe says, “This is tough.”

 

Matt says, “We have several enemies to deal with Joe. Embryo, UNI-SHOCKER, and Eiji in which all three of them may be working together, but on their own goals.”

 

Sailor Pluto says, “That’s a very good theory, Matt.”

 

Serena thinks in her mind, “Who are you? And what do you want? What happened in SAO that could make you do this?” On the meanwhile, Asuna is also thinking about Eiji and she focuses her mind on an image of someone that looks like Eiji in a standard ‘uniform’ of the Knights of the Blood Oath in SAO.

 

April 26, 2026, Earth, Tokyo, Juuban District

 

Speaking of the second-to-top ranked player in Ordinal Scale, Eiji is some distance away from the Tsukino household in the Juuban District and looking straight at the house.

 

Eiji thinks in his mind, “Soon, Yuna-chan. Just wait a little longer. You will return to us. Your father is almost there, and this member of that man’s family holds that key. The brother to the ‘White Valkyrie’ herself…The one that failed you.”

 

Scene 9 End

 

Now, the second-to-top ranked player of Ordinal Scale has come out and made his move in which he is starting the plan that he and Shigemura have formed, but what does their plan have to do with Sammy? Stay tuned and keep reading everyone! Later and best wishes, Crossover Fans!