Crossovers that Should Be: The Write Stuff

[drakensis]

Reincarnated into what appears to be more or less contemporary Japan, as a somewhat unfortunately feminine-looking boy. Naturally I have a nice, healthy habit of computer games and a Gundam VRMMO seems perfectly safe. How was I to know Akihito Kayaba was the lead designer. (Okay, I could have looked that up. Don’t judge me!) So within the first couple of hours every single player is brought together by Kayaba himself (wearing Gihren Zabi’s uniform) and told they can’t log out, that dying in the game means dying in real life… and the only way for us to log out is for us to win a Zeon victory. In a universe that includes not only the Earth Federation but also every other major faction in just about every Gundam sub-franchise.

 

Oh, and we’re starting off at the Battle of A Baoa Quo and the Federation has a minor little 200% buff to their numbers – which are already scaled against our numbers because we are the entire Zeon force. Let’s just remember that more than 90% of the players had barely even completed the tutorial… assuming they even bothered with it.

 

Half the player base died that day. And the rest are scattered, embittered and terrified. And if I’m going to survive this – to win this clusterfuck of a game (because that’s basically the one slim hope we have) – then I have no better option than to work with the most insufferable asshole in the game and his yandere girlfriend in the hope of uniting a computer simulation of humanity under the leadership of Char Aznable. Yeah. An escort mission. Truly, my luck is the worst.

Gundam Build Divers/Sword Art Online Abridged