Sword Art Online: Black Ranger

Chapter one: beginnings

A/N: I do not own Sword Art Online all material used from light novels/anime/manga is free from profit. This story is AU and will be a possible Kirito harem. Primary Kirito x Asuna pairing

Location/letter

"Thoughts"

"TV"

Please excuse any typos this was created on my phone with Google Docs

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"Today's the day everyones been waiting for... Sword Art Online is the world's first fully built dedicated VRMMO.

Is everyone pumped for this I know I am, those lucky beta testers say thats its amazing ...wish I had gotten one.

In just 6 hours Sword Art Online will go live and soon we will all see what the world is like"

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24 hours earlier - Final day of beta - floor 30 - carnage mountain

A loud boom followed by a noise of shattering glass was heard. As the shards floated towards the orange lit sky a lone figure appeared with a sword in hand.

"I guess we're done. Hard to believe we're going live tomorrow."

The figure had a structure of a man who wore a black coat that slightly blowed in the wind, his sword rested by him as he looked up watching the many shards float away.

Walking over to a stream that flowed downhill, the figure looked into the water, his messy black hair made him look like he'd seen many battles, his eyes looked stern but relaxed at the same time. Putting his sword away, he saw a flashing icon next to him.

Swiping his hand downwards a menu appeared, navigating to his messages the figure began to read:

Kirito,

Thank you playing the beta as a reward for getting to floor 30 your class at launch will also have the following:

- Dual wielding skill

- Archery skill

- two additional weapon slots

- 10,000 col

- Black knights bow (custom

- Flyswat (archery skill)

- custom cloak

- mystery gift x 5

- 48 hour xp boost

- enhanced tracking

- Enhanced mapping

Once again thank you for playing Sword Art Online beta and good luck

SAO development team

After reading the message the figure now identified as Kirtio looked at the time it was currently 13:00 in 24 hours the game was going live. In 5 minutes the server would reboot. To begin its preparations for the launch.

Swiping the menu, Kirito pressed the logout button and faded from view, as he faded from view the server began to start setup procedures and one line of code was rewritten.

A single piece of code that would transform the game...

Forever.

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Real life - 3 hours before launch

As the news networks continued to talk about Sword Art Online. A boy sat at his desk reading notes that he had made on the game. It may sound silly to you to make notes on a game like Sword Art Online but to this boy it was his life. The boy was interrupted by a voice from downstairs.

"Kazuto, I'm off to practice i'll be back later"

A slam of a door followed by running footsteps indicated that the voice had left.

Kazuto was 14 years old, currently he was in middle school and the schools had just broken up for winter break.

Kazuto watched from his window as his sister, no cousin ran down the street. Ever his he found out that they were second cousins, Kazuto had distanced himself from his family.

He had turned to the virtual world to escape, a world without boundaries. The world of Sword Art Online.

His character was called Kirito and the beta had ended 22 hours ago. He didn't look much different from his avatar, he was a bit shorter but the features were nearly all the same.

Looking around the room it was fairly big, his bed rested next to his desk as his virtual reality headset lay in waiting. A wardrobe was beside the door that was slightly open as it tended to stick if it was closed.

To the left of his desk was his pride and joy his games and anime bookshelf, he had games from a lot of different genres and Kazuto was gaming genius. His anime collection was equally impressive.

Suddenly the growl of his stomach was heard deciding that he had enough time to grab something to eat before the launch, he was just about to leave the room when his phone started beeping.

Walking over to his phone he looked at the caller ID it was his friend Emily, sighing he sat at his desk and answered it.

"Hey Emily…."

"Kirito you baka why didn't you tell me you were playing last night we could of met up and some final hunting."

"You know its rude to call me by my avatar's name when were in RL"

"So? We're going back in within the next couple of hours, to be honest i'm going to recreate my character…"

"Oh how come? i thought you made an excellent spear user" complimented Kazuto

"... Kirito could you maybe teach me to be a swordsmen…."

"Any reason why you wanna change to a swordsman?"

"I have my reasons…."

There was a long silence that was quickly becoming unbearable, sighing Kazuto thought about it for a second before speaking.

"Fine, at Launch i'll be waiting at the West Gate close to the hunting fields meet me there…."

"Great, thanks Kirito, see you then"

Emily then hang up, sighing Kazuto placed his phone on the desk and walked down to the kitchen.

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Argus Board Room - One Hour before Launch

Deep in the heart of Tokyo, stood the building of Argus the company who had developed Sword Art Online. At the top of the building an important board meeting was taking place the members were worried about one developer on the game.

"So gentlemen are we in an agreement, we remove Kayaba from the development team, he's getting far too attached to the game"

There was murmurs of agreement from other members of the board.

"Good, now Paul Johnson head of Testing and development has come up with this fantastic idea, Paul please take the floor and explain this to us"

The man known as Paul Johnson stood up and walked to the front of the room.

"Thank you… Now gentlemen I have come up with a system that will allow us to monitor the players in the game hopefully we can use this to…"

He was suddenly cut off by someone rushing into the room and the new arrival looked like they had just seen a ghost.

"Kayaba he's taken over the servers…."

A look of dread passed over Paul's face and he ran from the room into an office, booting up his laptop he frantically began to work he had to get some control back otherwise millions of lives were at risk….

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One minute till launch

Lying on his bed Kazuto began to countdown by watching the clock in his headset.

"Not long left... Not long till im back..."

30 seconds

"This time things will be different..."

As the clock changed to 13:00 Kazuto shouted: "LINK START"

The real world was left behind and Kazuto found himself zooming from the real world to the world of Aincrad also known as Sword Art Online.

Leaving his old name behind, he was now Kirito... As he zoomed onwards the tunnel between real life and the virtual world slowly began to take shape and a town began to take form.

The world looked just as good as it did back in the beta, a near realistic feel, the colours were bright and cheerful. The wind, the birds, the environment. It felt perfect, he was back and looking up Kirito clenched his fist and smirked.

"Hello world im back"

As he said those words millions of other players spawned in.

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A/N: Now tell me what do you think? Good, bad, ok?

Now it may seem silly to have floor 30 in the beta but in this story the beta was over 6 months.

Also i was sort of inspired by shattered chains a brilliant sword art online fic that i've been following.

Do tell me if there are grammar mistakes as i said this was created on a phone using Google docs….

Edit: corrected grammar and a few small changes