Cross-over AU, kinda. What if a group of testers found flaws in the game code for SAO, in turn finding hidden malicious coding deep within the games core. Set roughly 3years after what would have been SAO's launch. Follow a group of familiar faces find each other in a different world, a different time, with different friends, in a completely different death game!

A tale of how a chance meeting along a lonely road can lead to great things. Follow an unlikely pair fall in love and bring four heroes into the world, four heroes that could one day save all of Eorzea from utter destruction. The first of four tales based on the pasts of my in-game characters. This is my first ever story so all criticism is appreciated. Rating subject to change.