RWBY/Sword Art Online (Discontinued)

Chapter 99: Alice's Past

David: That's fine if you slay us. I say that cause there's an order put inside of you that you're not aware of by someone else.

Jack: Wait. What exactly is going on?

Kirito: The Integrity Knights were summoned from the heavens to maintain order and justice by the surrogate of the gods, Administrator, the pontifex of the Axiom Church, or so that's what you and the other knights believe, Alice.

Adam: Summoned from the heavens by a person named Administrator?

David: And that Admin lady is bluffing.

Jack: Really?

David: Hey Alice, you don't remember who gave birth to you, nor where you were raised, right?

Alice: I was told it was because as soon as the Integrity Knights were called here, the goddess Stacia sealed our memories of the heavens.

David: Well it wasn't Stacia who did it. It was the pontifex herself. And it wasn't your memories of the heavens, it was your memories of when you grew up as a human in this world.

Jack and Adam: What?!

Jack: So she sealed the memories of the Integrity Knights and turned them into her own puppets?!

Adam: That Administrator's gonna be in for a world of pain!

David: You said it!

Kirito: Ahem. Anyway, Alice. Your real name is Alice Schuberg, and you were born and raised in a small village in the northern hinterlands called Rulid.

Alice gasps.

Alice: I was?

Kirito: When you were eleven years old, you and Eugeo went to explore the cave in through End Mountains, and you barely crossed the boundary between the Human Empire and Dark Territory. You basically broke the Taboo Index law saying not to cross into Dark Territory.

Alice puts her hand on her head.

Alice: Alice Schuberg is my name? Rulid... End Mountains... I can't remember any of it.

David: Wait! Don't force yourself to remember, or you'll end up like Eldrie!

Alice: Why would you say that now? I want to know everything.

Kirito: Ok. Your father is the elder of Rulid, Gasfut Schuberg. We don't know about your mother, but as we said before, you have a younger sister named Selka.

Alice: Selka?

Kirito: She's been worried about you ever since you've been taken away by the Axiom Church. We were told you were the prodigy of the sacred arts when you lived in Rulid, and she's been working so hard to become just like you, following your footsteps.

Alice: You both have told me this. That you planned this rebellion in order to correct the pontifex's wrongs and protect the human world. Yet it is a fact that the pontifex's primary order to us Integrity Knights is to defend against an invasion from the Dark Territory. Even if you do manage to defeat every Integrity Knight and slay the pontifex herself, who will be left to protect this world?

David: Ok. Let me ask you this. If you Integrity Knights counter the invasion at full strength, do you really think you can draw back the forces of darkness?

Jack: There's gonna be an invasion from the Dark Territory soon?

Kirito: Yeah. And we gotta stop that from happening. But first we need to stop Administrator.

Flashback...

Bercouli: Prime Senator, we need you to have a serious talk with the pontifex soon. The Dark Territory is steadily building up forces. There's a limit to how much we can fight back, if we're the only...