Sword Art Online ALICIZATION- Reversal

Chapter 70- Beyond Time

I know this was very Abridged and much shorter than the last few, that's because I felt that everyone's favorite Terminator deserved his own chapter. And the sequel to this series will be it's own story because I'm sure you don't want this to go over 100 chapters. So, if you care about the content of this chapter, stick around and enjoy the show.

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Higa had successfully restored Kirito's Fluctlight to full function, but passed out from bloodlose. Higa was taken back to the Sub-Control Room. And when he awoke, Rinko-senpai expressed concerns that it might be too active. Then the Underworld started counting down to Max FLA, which Rinko wasn't too worried about at first until Higa said it was a 5000000 times time acceleration, which would make even 6 seconds approximately a year in Underworld. Someone volunteered to carry Higa down the later to disable the MFLA but Kikuoka shut him down and said he would do it. Then Higa mentioned that he established a communication channel with Kirito and Kikuoka contacted Kirito and filled the young man in. He was slightly surprised that Kirito knew what FLA was, until noticing he had Admin privileges of the highest order. This immediately made things clear to Kikuoka who ended the channel. 

Kikuoka carried Higa down the later while Rinko waited for Alice to be ejected and for Asuna and Kirigaya to log out. And with less than two minutes to max acceleration, Asuna contacted Rinko. Rinko walked Asuna through the Fluctlight ejection process as fast as she could, and it took Asuna a minute to fully eject Alice. When Rinko noticed the lightcube, she retrieved it immediately. "Alice has been safely ejected." Rinko said, doing her best to remain calm. "It's just you and Kirigaya-kun now." Rinko explained, having taken to using the 'kun' honorific since Kirito reminded her of her husband. "Hurry!" She exclaimed.

"I'm sorry, Ms. Rinko." Asuna said apologetically. "I'm staying here." Asuna finished. Rinko gasped, her eyes widening. "Wh-what are you doing?" Rinko questioned. "Alice, please, take of her. Alice is such a kind person. She's full of so much love and is loved by so many people." Asuna said with only 15 seconds remaining. "For the sake of all the souls who are gone now, and for Kirito's sake as well, please don't let the military use her... no matter what. Please, tell everyone I said that I'm sorry. Thank you, goodbye." Asuna finished as the Max Acceleration phase began. 

Rinko didn't know if she should laugh at the stupidity, cry at how romantic and tragic it was, or if she should just pull her hair out in frustration. Yet, this made Rinko wonder. If she'd been given the choice, would she have stayed with her husband? Would she have left the physical world for the digital with him? However, her husband was gone now and so such thoughts were pointless.

Rinko relayed the news of Alice's ejection and of Asuna and Kirito staying behind to Higa. Kikuoka carried Higa down the layer, and at the bottom, he sat Higa down to work with his laptop. Kikuoka then noticed an intruder at the bottom and fired down with his sidearm. He managed to take one out but was shot in the process. 

Rinko stared at the screen, Alice's Fluctlight secured in a briefcase designed to withstand extreme environments, one that was made specifically for carrying lightcubes. And Rinko saw they were over 10 minutes into the Max Acceleration phase. Which meant it had been over 95 years for Kirito and Asuna,  maybe even a century by now. 'The memory capacity of Asuna and Kirigaya-kun's Fluctlights will reach its limit soon.' Rinko thought. Then a security person told Rinko that the enemy was retreating but they suddenly found out the engine had been sabotaged and that the reactor was going to explode and destroy everything in nuclear fire.

The security person ran off to stop it and so did Kikuoka, who was wounded. While trying to reach the reactor, the security person was wounded. However, one of the robotic bodies came to his rescue. To the surprise of everyone, including Rinko, Niemon had activated. And as the droid marched into a hailstorm of bullets, a nostalgic voice sounded over the speakers. The voice was intellectual in nature, and while humbled, still retained a distinctive arrogant undertone to it. The voice had but one word to say. "Rinko."