Strange New World

Crynn POV

God! I screamed in my heart as I got teleported across time and space to a desert, a darn desert. But, oh what did I see? Some dry green vegetation and cactuses which could only mean, this is not just any desert, it's not a desert in the Sahara nor in Asia or Africa, but it's in the United States of America or at least some where in the continent of America, somewhere that's surely not Canada or Alaska.

"Where are we?" Aria's voice is heard from right next to me, the problem to that question is, I don't know where the hell we are. "We're in the desert, facing quite the tall canyon, got any guesses cause I absolutely don't," I'm racking my brains for any technology world that might look like it's situated in a desert.

"Not that I know of," she shrugged, even then, why must we land in a desert, like what's up with that? "Flippin' crap!" Did I just hear a some guy's voice shouting 'flippin' crap' right next to me... I looked to my side and well indeed! A very fashionable young man with quite the dashing persona just simply appeared out of nowhere.

And what became the shocker to my heart is a sudden opening of a black void, depositing a beautiful lady as well looking very ready to deliver iron-fisted justice towards drug lords, she might as well be a SWAT member. "Who might the both of you be?" I cleared my throat loudly to indicate my presence at the site.

"Who are you?!" The man shouted, is it me asking the question or is it you asking the question? "What I want to ask is, where am I, I was just there and now I'm here?" This woman looks extremely concerned and confused, not like that other guy looking like he'd lost his mind or something, his sanity really needs to be checked, insult intended.

[Calm down all of you] The voice sounded in the surroundings or is it just in our heads? [I'll let the both of your teams introduce yourselves later, I'm just here to brief you all of what you're going to do. Now, I'm the supervisor to team Christian while the supervisor to team Olympian is... as usual playing around somewhere and so, nowhere to be found]

[So, the mission all of you will be collaborating together in this time will be a chain mission. Chain missions are missions that are like chains, you start from the first chain link and end with the last chain link. We'll designate you the tasks and once you complete a task another task with show up directly after, simply like a chain]

[So, the first mission is...]

{Chain Mission:}

{1. Find out what world you're in and where you currently are.}

[There it is, also a few other features of this world including a 95% reduction in the use of any magical or supernatural powers, also the shop will always be available in this entire mission and the both of your teams will get a total of 50000 Mission Merits for mission funds which means the funds can only be used for essential items to complete this mission]

[I think that's all, enjoy the stay and do work together, I personally have a bad hunch about this disturbance but we'll see how it turns out later on] And... he left, great, so... teamwork, I can definitely work with that, I've done some team heists in the past even though I felt that I did overall everything but... teamwork sure does help a lot.

"Introductions?" Aria shrugged as the man dressed in a modern tuxedo squinted his eyes as he looked at us, he does have a very nice looking silenced submachinegun which could be meant as a threatening gesture but after all, we're not working together so threats shouldn't happen, I wouldn't want to fail a mission which the voice personally thought to be bad news.

Wait wait wait just a second! 95% reduction in the use of magic?! That... that can't happen! How the f*ck did the happen! Argh... It's pretty obvious actually, this is a technological world! A technological world without the supernatural! There's no Force, no magic, no vampires, no qi, no aura, no chakra, full on realism, which sucks for me.

I guess I can sort of work with that, I mean, I did live for over 20 years without magic so... yep. Don't worry too much about that, my shooting skills are excellent, swordsmanship even more, and I still a have rather a lot more abilities hanging around to rot since I neve rot to use any of them in the recent worlds.

"My name is Crynn Avter and my companion here is Ariane Veil, who might the both of you be?" I stretched my hand out, trying for a handshake. "Hmm... Sorry for that unsightly display, my supervisor never said a thing and just lobbed us off without an explanation, I hope you can understand. By the way, my name is Calian Otho Aurelius," the man shook my hand.

That's understandable, also such a gallant name, 2 Roman Emperors in one, and generally speaking, middle names are stereotypically often used by noble families, not sure he's one though but his name is already quite aristocratic. the more impending question is, they don't know anything, then does that mean they haven't an idea what's going on?

"Ooh! My name is Jill Valentine," the cool SWAT girl enthusiastically introduced herself while also taking my hand and shaking it, regardless of it, I can't help but notice that the letters on her bulletproof vest seem to not be SWAT but STARS which made me wonder what that really is all about.

"Jill Valentine? Seriously? You look like you've walked straight out of Comic-Con wearing an entirely wrong set of cosplay for Jill Valentine, you changed your name or something? Cause that just can't be a coincidence," Aria slowly said, but whoa whoa whoa, don't antagonize them! We've only just getting to know each other, don't push sarcastic remarks like that!

"She is not a cosplayer, she genuinely is... Jill Valentine," the guy, I could start calling him by his name, Calian said with his hands rubbing and covering his face in cringe. And Aria's face looks priceless as well. Now, is Jill Valentine someone famous or... what?