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// EXPOSITION!! 
// Story: The Equestrian Seed 
// by dowdlekid 
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	If you have never seen Sword Art Online, have a chapter of exposition!

If you have seen Sword Art Online then feel free to skip this chapter, also, if you do not want spoilers skip this chapter.  With the single note that I have not read the books and I will not be using any information from them in this story.

This story begins several months after the Second Season of Sword Art Online.

Sword Art Online is a virtual reality MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) made of 100 levels of dungeon and the world surrounding it.  Virtual reality games are games that the player plays by wearing a helmet that put his or her conscience into the game in order to give the player a virtual body to act in the world.  To beat this game a player had to beat all 100 levels.  This would not have been that bad, if it weren’t for the slight ‘problem’ with the game…  once logged in you could not log out…  until someone won the game, or the player died, which would cause the helmet to fry their brain and kill them.

Luckily our hero Kirigaya Kazuto, who goes by Kirito in game, beat the game at level 75 by finding the original creator of the game and defeating him in battle.  Sadly by the time the game was beaten 4,000 people had already died and the remaining 6,000 had lost over 2 years in the game.

After that game Kirito moved to a game his younger sister/cousin Suguha Kirigaya and her friend from school Nagata Shinichi played to save his girlfriend Asuna from captivity in the game.  The game was ALFheim Online.

When Kirito saved Asuna he found that ALFheim was a front for mind controlling technologies and tested on the players.  When the world found out the virtual gaming industry fell.  Luckily the gaming community did not want to die, so they created their own independent servers all over the world.  These servers used maps from the old games, and created their own maps.  These servers became integrated and could then link up the different virtual worlds and players could transfer their characters created from classes and stats in one world and literally walk, hop, fly, or ride a vehicle to another.

And without further ado… The Story!!