Crystal:... you know when I said I'd post this on Friday? Well... I got impatient! I wanted to post this sooner but anyway, we got a new person with us. Hello, Jason.

Jason: Um... hi.

Belle: Nice to see you join us.

Jason: we're not going to do much here are we?

Crystal: well no but I want to do something different soon and I will post up ideas at the end of the chapter so look for that. Anyway to the disclaimers!

Disclaimers: I do not own SAO. I only own the OCs. Now please enjoy and if you do not like the story, the back button will take you back in time... but it's not a TARDIS.

Chapter 1: Possibilities

Jason's POV

"Hey, Jason, how's your sister doing today?"

"Same old stuff, going to classes, still in recovery and testing, and locking herself in her room and making a list of things she's planning to do once she gets the okay to join F.R's ALfheim group. Kind of glad she's at least getting used to living in the dorms though." I sighed as I walked with my friend, Katrina, through the F.R building to one of the labs.

It's been more than two years since I saw my older sister, Isabelle, got sucked into her computer and brought into the actual world of Sword Art Online. I remember that day since I remember calling the police department and them scolding me for abusing the 911calls but then gave me an apology when they realized I was telling the truth since Isabelle was one of the few who disappeared in California. In fact, Isabelle was I think 1 of at least a hundred or so players that were taken from the U.S. Many were also from other nations around the world, making this almost like an international kidnapping mystery and thus getting the entire world researching on technology and the game to get those taken players back.

Still, I will admit, my sister never learned that saying 'yes' to stuff on the Internet was a bad thing. Since the kidnapping though, many groups have been trying their hardest to get the players out of the games. One branch of this operation is Fire Revolution, which my father, a group of her friends, and I joined to find Isabelle. Thankfully, when Dad found her, Isabelle was alive… and then she married Kirito of all people. To be honest, I nearly choked on my drink when I first heard Isabelle was getting married to the main protagonist, that and I was kind of annoyed at Helen when she was dancing around shouting about how Isabelle's romance was like a fan fiction. Sorry, but I don't really like to think about my sister's love life, kind of weird if you ask me since she's dating someone who is never meant to exist… that and I always thought of Kirito more from the abridge series and being a total a-hole. Maybe that's the first sign the world is going to end.

Currently, we're on our second month of ALfheim Online, one month after my sister and Kirito beat SAO so we're ahead of the series by one month. So far things have been relatively okay, aside from the fact that each race thinks we don't support their cause to getting up to the world tree with race pride. Most of the members from the F.R in Aincrad are in ALfheim but there's only a few of us who are commanders of our own branch of the guild, me being one of them and I take kind of pride in that seeing as I was one of the first people to try the F.R's version of the full dive system, of course under the watchful eye of doctors but hey, better to be safe than sorry. I don't want my brain to explode.

"Thinking of doing physical harm to the rapist guy?" Katrina asked, with a knowing smirk on her face.

"Sort of, I'm just worried about the remaining players trapped in the game… and what rapist butterfly king id doing to them." Katrina is my partner in all of this. When I need backup she's usually there to help me out so naturally she's my second in command in ALfheim. If it weren't for her, I wouldn't have been able to work with F.R since I'm still really young and I could only work with the group if I had someone as my assistant. Then again, most of the volunteers working in the virtual world are near end of high school or in early college; that and we get paid and many people want their money. Using technology already being developed, we were able to get a fully functional dive system running that we've been using for ALfheim to help get used to flying, though our health is constantly monitored.

This weekend though, we're getting more volunteers to help with our job in ALfheim though it's not as popular as SAO. Mostly because the possibility of detection from the rapist butterfly king I can never take seriously. There is a huge risk for the special betas still missing and we can only guess they're in the game because… well… plot of Sword Art Online, what else do we have to go on? But the thing I know Isabelle is looking forward to is to join the new group this weekend and finally log in to save Asuna. Isabelle kept telling me a lot about Asuna and it's only natural for Isabelle to save her friend, heck I want to save her too. She seems nice… I guess. Again going by the abridge version and I don't want to accidently piss her off and have her stabbing me in the eye.

Today's plan is a little different. Katrina and me were called in by Mr. Travis, the leader of F.R in our area and also was in charge of testing new equipment. He is also the one who made the full dive system that brought the players into SAO in our world, but none of us are willing to die a bloody death in ALfheim… especially since in fairyland players are encouraged to kill each other. We walked into Mr. Travis's lab to see what looked like one of those full body scanners you see in airports, you know those kinds you have to stand in for a minute as they scan your entire body, except this one only had one entrance and even has a door to close. So I guess you could call it a shower or something… no that's a little weirder since it's in the crazy guy's lab. But he's not always crazy, once we're on a major mission or topic, he'll go into serious mode. Shame he's not like that all the time.

"Ah, there you are." Travis said, greeting us with a huge grin on his face.

"Hey, Doc." Katrina said, as Travis sighs in exasperation.

"I told you not to call me that."

"Sorry, but you look like the stereotypical mad scientist." Katrina pointed out and I have to agree. He wore one of those lab coats and his dirty blonde hair was a mess and his chin was covered in spikey bits of hair. Some of the other volunteers joke that the reason why his hair is such a mess is because he lives in the F.R building and he doesn't realize he forgot to brush his hair. I can honestly say… they might actually be right.

"Anyway, I need to ask you to help me test something. It's for my pod project to improve interactions with the other world."

"You mean you want us to be your test dummies." I answered, rolling my eyes. Here we go again. Another down side to being a kind of volunteer that gets paid as well, we're human test dummies for people like him. Imagine me in a little rat suit running in a maze to find a huge chunk of cheese…. Or a plasma screen TV with a PS4 and Netflix with a giant version of Travis watching me with a clipboard and writing notes. That's kind of my life no matter how much my Dad and Isabelle protest. At least I help pay for the food on the table in my own way… and I don't think he's trying to kill me… I hope. As for the other world project…. I wonder how many Star Trek jokes I can make about that.

"Okay, yes. But it's something I've tested on rats and other smaller creatures."

"That doesn't make us feel better." I sighed, not liking that he was being pretty vague.

"And how well did that work out?"

"The rats came back once…. And the second time, they didn't return back to the check point." Travis said and Katrina and I looked at each other nervously. "Oh, they left willingly. I didn't have any way to control them to get back that time."

"Great… why couldn't it have been to test the full dive system for Five Nights at Freddy's? At least then I got a chance at living for another twenty years." I groaned. "So what do you want us to do?"

"Well, for one thing you're going doing the test I sent the rats on. I got someone else doing that… and he hasn't come back yet."

"Joy, and when you get his body back let us know so we can kick you." Katrina growled crossing her arms. "Really Doc, don't you worry about the human lives you're testing?"

"I do, but they're willing."

"Can we get back to the subject at hand? Is this test going to kill us?" I asked and Travis's eyes were instantly trained on me. Oh god, where's an adult…

"Well, more you, Jason." Travis said, grabbing me by the shoulder with a mad look in his eyes that he called 'the look of a genius' as he was nose to nose with me. I call it the 'I NEED AN ADULT!' look. Why? BECAUSE I REALLY NEED AN ADULT! "I need you to speak to someone in game."

"Okay, first, what are you talking about? Second, GET THE HELL OUT OF MY FACE!" I shouted as I pushed him off me and he fell to the ground. "Seriously, man. Personal space!"

"Sorry, I got really excited."

"Clearly." Katrina said, her bored eyes looking at a spot on Travis's body.

"Not like that!"

"I know, just making sure I didn't need to call security. So what's this about talking to someone in game?"

"Actually, it's best if I show you." Travis said, getting up and moving to his large monitors and started typing. Instantly the scenery of ALfheim appeared on each monitor, mostly focusing on the base of the world tree. But on each screen were different navigation pixies, each having a blank look on its face but I realized what they were.

"Are these the you've been coding?"

"Yep, but they're not for navigating, they're for communication."

"Communication? We already send messages in the game." Katrina asked, actually looking interested at what Travis had planned.

"Yes but this is a communication that you can hear the voice of the actual person in real time. Think of it as a cell phone system in game." Travis said and I have to say, I'm kind of impressed.

"Can they record talks as well?"

"Yes, just in case something happens it can record on command and I was hoping to add the feature to your program, Eve." Travis said and I thought for a moment. Eve is a program I helped make that turned into my navigation pixie in game… though isn't as annoying as Navi. "This way we can communicate to you in the real world without waking you up and taking you out of the game."

"Okay, that's even better." Katrina said, not looking very pleased.

"Cool it, sweet heart. There's more to it than that." Travis said, looking at us with a serious look. "Our plan is to get one of our pixies into the World Tree and scout for us within it to find the missing players."

"What?" The two of us said, looking out the scientist.

"Um… Doc? Did a computer fall on you this morning?"

"I would've been dead if it did."

"Not if it was a Mac."

"Just hear me out." Travis said, looking to us. "We created the pixies with the same type of Cardinal System used in ALO."

"Well, an adaption of it, yes." I admitted.

"Then, it should have some bit of way to access the system to get in. And as long as it's not a player, it should be able to get through without letting the system admins know." Travis pointed out, before looking back at his computer. "At least, I believe it will work. Once the pixie is inside, we'll be able to see more on…. Sorry, I don't know the guy who's running this plot."

"Nobuyuki Sugou." I say, sighing. Having been forced to watch Sword Art Online, I also had to see the ALO part and saw how creepy this guy was. How Asuna's parents didn't see this guy was a creeper, I'll have no idea. I mean, he tried to marry a girl when she's in a coma! Then again, her parents agreed to it so maybe they're just as messed up… or blind…. Or deaf…. Or all the above.

"Yeah, Butterfly King." Travis said, shrugging. "We hope to see if we can locate the missing players using this system and confirming our beliefs the missing players are in the World Tree." I thought for a moment, on the one hand, it's not a bad plan but on the other hand this could blow up in our faces if the Navi Pixie gets caught. But then again, if we can get Mr. Travis's other project to be completed, with the info we may get, I hope to use it to get the sex offender in prison here in America and if TV has taught me anything, he's going to have a role reversal on what happened to Asuna… and I can't wait to see that day he gets to wear a wig and pretend to be someone's sweet heart.

"Okay, I'm in. What do you need?"

"Do you have the software for Eve?"

"Yeah." I take out my external hard drive and handed it to Mr. Travis.

"Okay, I should be able to install the program in her and another navigation pixie will be sent to your inbox. We'll be ready for this operation tonight." He looked to Katrina and me before beginning his work. "You're going to need to get people together if you want to make a run at the World Tree tonight."

"Okay, so Operation Pixie is a go?"

"Think of a better name, please." Mr. Travis said, rolling his eyes. Yep, he's in serious mode. "But yes, we're going to get this done tonight and see what we can do."

"Okay, um… is that it?"

"Yep, just get here at eight o'clock tonight so we can start the plan."

"Got it."

We left the room and I couldn't help but grin. What better way than to show my sister what I do in my job here. I think I'll invite her to see. Her last physical exam is today so she can be in the command room when we begin. That and she can see the safety precautions we're doing so that we don't end up dying IRL. Hopefully things turn out well tonight and we don't see anything too… freaky. Okay never mind, we're dealing with the rapist butterfly king with an inferiority complex the size of the Pacific Ocean and who is experimenting on people's minds. It's not going to be freaking. It's going to be disturbing as all hell and more. 'I just hope we don't find Asuna while Sugou is trying to molest her. I think Isabelle is going to flip off the screen if she sees that.'

Crystal: well, we got chapter one done, I'd like to ask you guys something. While working on this and during my long hiatus due to school, many one shots came to my mind and I'd like to do a vote on that. These one shots will be posted later but I will make the vote when I post chapter two... probably next week but I wanted to get this one out since I've been excited for ALO. Why? Because I'm going to add more to it since Belle and Jason go into the game a month before Kirito does.

Belle: a month without Kirito... I think I'll enjoy this.

Paris: aw, you miss your boyfriend.

Belle:... Helen, don't talk right now. I'm enjoying the silence.

London: just wait, you'll be happy to see Kirito again.

Belle: I won't deny that but let me enjoy my freedom, damn it!

Crystal: anyway, join us next time in Chapter 2: Inside the Fake World Tree. See you soon!

Katrina: Operation Pixie!

Jason: when the hell did you get here?!