This is my first time writing a fanfiction. I decided to write about my favourite character, Shizu. She is transported to another world and let's loose with guns galore. This fanfiction contains violence explained in relative detail, occasional coarse language, slight adult undertones that don't go in depth such as references to both the male and female body, does not contain anything too sexual however.

We do not know much about the character Shizu, so there is a lot of original content concerning her character.

Features, weapons and such that are original:

- Weapons explanation

- Some Automaton lore

- The player behind the character Shizu

- The farmer

- Various other OC minor characters

Things that are relatively kept the same:

- Shizu's personality

- Carne Village being attacked

In this alternate timeline, the guild Ainz Ooal Gown did not exist, as well as the character CZ2128 Delta not being an NPC, but an actual player who was max level. HOWEVER: (14/09/2017), to clear a few things up, all of the users that were in the guild, still existed in this alternate universe. They just never made a guild together.

Players of the longtime DMMO 'Yggdrasil' waved farewell to their companions, as the widely popular game came to a close.

Most met up in cities and held parties, reminiscing on their past exploits, discussing real life, meeting old friends that left a while ago.

22:34:56

As the timer ticked closer to the designated shutdown time, more and more players departed for the real world. Some fearing that if they stayed they would be stuck in an unconscious state without logging out once the time reached twenty-four hours, even if there was a stupidly low chance of that happening, most left early because they had to slave away at work the next day.

There was one who was determined to stay until the very end.

Her player name was CZ2128 Delta or Shizu for short, the race she chose was an incredibly uncommon one as she was an Automaton. Despite being an inhuman race, a heteromorphic race to be precise, she wasn't hunted down by lynching parties as much as fellow heteromorphics.

The reason was simple, she didn't look ugly, she looked pretty cool actually. It was pretty much universally accepted that Automatons looked badass, both inhuman and human races agreed on little, but this was something that both sides strongly agreed on.

Her appearance was that of a short girl with red-gold straight long hair. She wears a light brownish eyepatch over her left eye, while her right eye has an emerald crosshair on the pupil. While the technology of YGGDRASIL didn't allow for the emotions of the player to be displayed on their character, anyone who has seen the face of Shizu or any Automaton for that matter, would agree that Shizu was eerily emotionless.

Most races had pre-programmed emotions built into their character, for example, a devil would constantly have a grin during combat, even if the player behind that façade was shitting himself at the sight of a deadly beast. But this was not the case for an Automaton, they always wore the face that would be best described as a 'meh'.

There were more reasons as to why her specifically was not hunted that much, she was incredibly famous both in-game and on various forums and websites.

Usually being famous would be hell for a normal player. If someone had a world class item and was walking down the streets, many would give chase. If someone was a known PKer and was moving from place to place, members of a different race would give chase.

However, in Shizu's case, she was considered one of the top solo players in the game. Like many, she could easily be defeated if more than a handful of people charged at her, but people didn't do that.

Some might say it was because they had honour or chivalry, some would say it was because she was a girl but the reason for most was because they feared the wrath of Shizu.

Shizu was a level 100 player, being the max level was not a notable feat. Many could achieve this level if they put a lot of time into the game.

The reason they feared her, was because Shizu was known to always got revenge on those who ganged up on her.

Shizu specialized in range combat, even so, she was deadly with a pair of scissors. Her classes did not permit her to use anything that couldn't be considered a knife or a small melee weapon.

The strange thing was, she has used a pair of scissors to duel a player before.

She had killed a party of 4 level 80's a year ago while acting out an assassination order that she had been paid to do by a player in-game. She took them down from a kilometre away relatively quickly using her high-powered sniper rifle.

As she was walking back, a man approached her and demanded that she duelled him.

This man claimed that he had just received a message from his friends that they had been shot down by an assassin, Shizu was especially famous around these parts so that man knew who the assassin was instantly, and they told him he should go reclaim their items before others got to them, she had no interest in the items so she did not understand why he had confronted her.

'Was it because he was a fan?' was her first thought.

Many approached her asking for signatures. Those who knew her knew that she only signed a user's profile if they defeated her in a fair knife duel.

"You're the famous Automaton, right? CZ2222 Delta, right?" he said in a harsh tone. It was immediately apparent that this man was using a voice changer for some unforeseen reason, she thought it was weird but she knew that herself was no better.

"It's CZ2128 Delta and I am indeed the Automaton that you seek" she said in her best impression of a robot. Shizu liked to roleplay heavily as her character, so not only was her avatar emotionless, but she tried her best to sound emotionless too.

"So, you killed my friends and took their stuff?" he said yet again, if one listened closely you could still hear the occasional voice crack in his voice which got past the voice changer. He wasn't using a program or a conventional voice changer, within YGGDRASIL you could acquire a special enchant on your armour or a ring if you so desired which would change your characters voice as long as you wore it.

Shizu tilted her head to the side and calmly replied "What of it?"

His voice cracked yet again as he hesitantly said, "Duel me or give me back our stuff!"

Shizu tilted her head to the left from the right and sized the man up, his gear was nothing special, it was obvious that he was the weakling of his friends hence why he stayed behind at town while they were out completing higher level quests.

Shizu was wearing her signature Divine Class gear. At first glance, one could assume that the clothing she was wearing was hilariously weak, but, it was much more powerful than one would think.

Her outfit consisted of a rather unique maid outfit, it was unique in that her outfit sported camouflage patterns. She also wore a camouflage scarf around her neck, the scarf was no simple accessory, it was in fact a legendary-class item imbued with several specialized stealth and ambush-type spells. This item allowed her to cloak herself invisible for long periods of time.

She was also level 100, versus a target that was much weaker than those level 80's she had previously assassinated, there was no chance for a fair fight, this upset Shizu a little, she also pitied the man as his knees were trembling in front of her.

He also had no idea what the concept of a fair duel was as he brought out a golden sword. The sword was quite powerful, given the fact that the rest of his gear was terrible, it would be not be wrong to assume that he had stolen his mother's credit card and purchased the sword using real life money.

"Uwah"

"So, what say you inhuman fiend!"

This angered her a little, as she originally played as the human race before becoming an Automaton.

"I will duel you on one condition!"

"And that is?" He hurriedly replied, knees still trembling.

"You will continue to use that sword while I use this here pair of scissors!"

As she opened her inventory, she scrolled through and took out a pair of dull looking scissors.

His knees stopped trembling as he began to laugh. He had heard that she would only duel if both players used knives, but he did not expect this peculiar development.

"You think being famous means you can be rightfully cocky?"

"Ouch" She didn't actually want to be famous, in fact being famous hindered her in many ways, she was once lying prone waiting for her target to come out of a dungeon when someone approached her and asked for a signature.

'Being an assassin while being famous is agonizing.' She thought to herself, there were many assassins which sympathised with her, while some envied her. 'If only they knew what it was like…'

"Well, let us begin then, you are wasting time!" His words snapped her back into reality as he took a stance.

His stance was nothing impressive, he simply stood there and held the sword in both arms.

'Isn't that a one-handed weapon?' she pondered. "No shield?" she said, he ignored her, probably because her voice was too quiet for him to hear over his heavy panting

She also took a stance, she slid her right foot across the ground and turned it to face away from him, she then lowered her body. For extra effect, she spun the scissors around her right finger before returning them into her grasp.

To others, it was obvious she was a professional, some speculated that she was an assassin in real life. Which wasn't true at all, in truth she practiced swordsmanship in her back garden using a kitchen knife.

Not wanting to waste any more time, she had to meet her client to inform him that the assignment was complete, she was the first one to make the move.

She pounced forward and in a single slash, cleanly tore apart the body of the man that stood in front of her.

It appeared that her lowest level weapon was still too strong for her soon to be respawning opponent. Just to make sure, she opened a menu to have a look at the person she had just duelled.

She gasped in surprise.

'Level 25?' she glanced back at the remains of the man she had just killed and sighed.

23:34:56

She had spent her last hour walking through her favourite town, making sure to burn her favourite places into the back of her mind. This was the last time she would see this place, she had taken up her first assassination missions here as well as her last.

In truth, there were no better person fit for the job of taking down high-level players than her, she was in the upper echelon of the level 100s and was 2nd in terms of DPS dealt, her high-powered sniper rifle could hold 20 rounds in a magazine, it was a unique sniper rifle which did not exist in real life, in order to more closely follow the fantasy feel of the game. The limited selection of guns were incredibly expensive making them rare, the weapons could only be held by the sniper class or the gunner class, the sniper and gunner classes was also unique to the Automaton race.

The gunplay in YGGDRASIL was considered to be extremely realistic, to the point that wind actually effected the accuracy of the sniper rifle she shouldered around her arm. The wind mechanic was extremely forgiving however, as many complained in the past that it ruined the fun. The bullet would only move 10cm away from its target at most.

This would decrease as you would level up and increase as you used more powerful weapons. More powerful sniper rifles dealt more damage, but the accuracy was poor and the time that you could shoot after entering a bullet or chambering a round would increase. This was to balance out gunplay.

Many argued that guns should not exist in a game such as YGGDRASIL, however, the race of Automaton could only be achieved if you managed to obtain a special item and brought it to a certain NPC in a faraway laboratory. You had to play as a pure human and level up to 30, you also had to choose the Assassin job. These requirements were hard enough to achieve and required a lot of thought beforehand. If a player chose another job while levelling up, they wouldn't be able to transition over to Automaton

23:56:35

She sat down on a bench in the middle of the city

'I'm going to miss this world, maybe I should really become an assassin' she thought to herself.

She had always loved spy films, in fact the Jamie Bond series was one of her top picks. She loved stealth games, played fps games.

She had started playing YGGDRASIL because she liked the concept, but quickly grew bored of it as swords and crap weren't her style but when the update for Automatons came out, she got back into the game and rushed through level after level, dungeon after dungeon and grinded it up until she had met all the requirements to become an Automaton. Just from this grinding alone she learnt how even sword fighting could be fun, at first, she was doing it because she thought a game which allowed you to walk around with a sniper rifle shooting people with swords was fun but as time progressed she began to like sword fighting and the game in general.

As she was deep in thought…

A player hurriedly approached her begging for her to sign his profile before the game closed down. She accepted of course, she didn't want to turn him down because after all, the game was going to end and none of it would matter anymore. She brought up her menu and signed his profile.

Another reason was because she didn't want to tell him to duel her as not only was the game about to end, but he was only level 13. She didn't want a repeat of her previous duel with a pair of scissors.

He jumped up and down while cheering with all his might and then opened his menu and logged out.

She slumped back into the chair and gazed at the night sky. The skybox in this area of the map was different to the rest of the map, that was because of the volcano which bordered the town. The smoke from the volcano spread through the sky. Despite this, she could still spot the stars which littered the night sky. She had always thought that the developers should have put more effort into the skybox, after all, this game was meant to be realistic.

23:59:24

The streets were desolated, why had they not stayed until the very end?

Why had her fellow players decided that jobs were more important than something which they had worked hard on building up? Many communities and friendships were made here.

"Well this is goodbye world" She muttered to herself.

She wasn't roleplaying, nor was she putting any effort into her voice, after all there was no one around.

23:59:56

"It was fun"

23:59:57

23:59:58

23:59:59

The timer ticked down once more.

24:00:00

And then it went black-

The countdown finished, she waited for the curtains to fall on her imaginary world-

She waited for the automatic logout-

00:00:01

00:00:02

"…Huh?"

Shizu opened her eyes as she fell back onto an unfamiliar surface.

She had not returned to her familiar room, she looked around and all she could see was a wide field of grass.

What she expected to see was her array of cute plushies which littered her bedroom, what she was seeing however was anything but cute. She was in a farmer's field, she turned her vision to face directly behind her as a farmer walking along with a horse approached her.

She had many questions but for some reason she seemed unusually calm.

Confused, she ignored the farmer approaching her for now as she tried to open her menu, her menu wasn't there. Not only that, but her usual GUI wasn't here either. Instead there seemed to be a more advanced user interface in front of her.

"Hey strange woman, why are you sat in a field wiggling your arms around?" called the man who was on his way towards her.

"Greetings" she replied.

There were now more questions on her mind.

Firstly, she didn't change or alter her voice in any way, yet her voice seemed… different from her usual voice. It still was pretty similar, but now it sounded even more emotionless than when she tried to roleplay.

Secondly, was this NPC approaching me because it was programmed to? Normally NPC's would stay where they are and wait for someone to approach them.

She had replied with Greetings as that was one of the recognised commands that literally all human NPC's listened to.

If her guesses were correct, then she had joined the server of the sequel to YGGDRASIL, this seemed unlikely, but there was a possibility…

'If it is a sequel then maybe the technology has improved, hence why my interface is different from the old one' she wondered.

"Soooo, why are you in this field?"

She had answered him with a greeting, but nothing had changed, so she minds as well continue the conversation.

"I am not sure why I am in this field, it would appear . . . that I have been transported here by some form of magic" she replied in a friendly tone. She was incredibly surprised by her speech pattern; her voice was calm and kind too.

"Oh, I see, that is very unusual, well I can't let a girl sit around alone in a field unarmed, truth is, things have been very dangerous around here with bandits patrolling the fields looking to capture defenceless villagers."

She was in fact armed, in fact her weapons and items were still with her. She stood up and looked towards the farmer, she lifted the strap of her sniper rifle and picked it up from her shoulder, she rested the weapon in her arms.

"Affirmative"

Despite her speech pattern changing abruptly, she still had a lot of control over what she said. She did not understand what was happening, so for now she was going to play the character of an Automaton the best she could.

"You have an unusual way of talking there, lass."

"Where am I . . . right now?" she abruptly spoke after listening to him. If she could find out where she was in this weird world, it might shed some light on her current situation.

"You are currently in the fields close to Carne Village."

Carne Village did not ring a bell-

Wait a second-

Why could she smell?

In YGGDRASIL you couldn't smell anything, at first, she thought it was because she was an Automaton, but realised she couldn't smell anything when she was still human. But here she could smell, she also had a more sensitive sense of touch. It was strange for a robotic being like her to even have these senses lore wise, but none of the races had access to these senses because of legal reasons.

Also, why does her body feel more natural?

Even as a non-humanoid creature, you still felt like a human, most couldn't get used to this feeling of clashing appearances. Having a humanoid body but not having one at the same time confused a lot of players. So why did she feel robotic?

While she was thinking this, numerous equations started popping up in her mind, she was never any good at maths or any academical subject so why did she feel like a genius suddenly? It's as if someone injected her with liquified intelligence.

She had not thought of it before, but she couldn't log out, she simply could not access her menu.

Was she trapped in this strange new world?

"I will now be in your care" she finally spoke after contemplating this new world for a few seconds.

"Alright follow me lass, I'll take you back to our village, it's only a short distance away."

There weren't many other options, her best bet was to ask these villagers, they seemed quite smart and they dynamically replied to what she said. The technology has improved a bit.

"Could I ask you a few questions?" she asked in her usual monotone voice.

"…Uh? Sure?" he hesitantly replied.

It was almost as if the NPC's replies were life like.

"Do you have a name . . . for this world?"

She realised it too late, that question was pretty abrupt.

In the farmers eyes, it didn't make sense for her to not know what this world was. After all was she not from this world too?

She made a mental note: 'I'm stupid.' As she thought that, a notepad appeared on her screen and letters began appearing in front of her. The text stopped, she struggled to read it at first but as she looked closer she could clearly see 'Note 1 (00:02:50): I'm stupid'.

2 minutes earlier.

The morning sun spread its broad orange fingers across the sky as it rose over the horizon. The sky was clear and it was a perfect day to check up on the produce.

A man dressed in overalls and a brown plain shirt stood there observing his farmland with a broad smile on his face. The recent bandit attacks had decreased in size and number, so today was the perfect opportunity. He turned his head towards the grass plains which started a few metres out, checking up on them and confirming there were no bandits hidden in the tallgrass. He was a large distance away from the village and the farm fields. He had come all the way out here just to quickly check up on the perimeter of the village.

You can never be too careful.

His gaze once again swept back over to double check the grass plains when he noticed a figure slumped down on the grass.

He couldn't quite tell who the figure was or why it was just sat in the grass so he approached it with care.

As he got closer, he could make out certain details such as a black and white dress with some greenish brown accessories. Crossdressing was quite rare in this world, so he assumed it was a rich noble girl just lounging.

Normally he wouldn't approach someone who wanted to just bathe in the sun like this, he liked to leave people to their own devices, but it was dangerous around these parts. Especially seeing as Carne Village was a frontline village.

As he got closer he realised two things.

Firstly, she looked beautiful, he could only see the back of her head, but her body proportions screamed 'I'm well fed and incredibly healthy'.

Secondly, her clothes were completely clean as well. He was determined by now that she was in fact a noble girl who for some unforeseen reason was laying down in a field.

He called out to her

After a brief but awkward exchange of words, she followed him. As he was speaking to her, he noticed a few more things about her appearance.

The outfit she was wearing was obviously a maid uniform, the choice of colours was unusual and the scarf seemed out of place in this hot weather but below it was unmistakably a maid uniform. He had a few questions himself but he decided not to ask.

Her face was the epitome of beauty.

He felt something tugging in his underwear and silently scolded himself for being a pervert. He insisted in his brain that it wasn't his fault, after all he was sure her beauty could rival that of the Golden Princess, in fact he was sure that she probably surpassed her by miles.

He had not once seen her smile, her face appeared completely emotionless, it didn't detract from her looks but it did feel a bit creepy.

Her face looked incredibly delicate, her skin colour also seemed a few shades whiter than his.

"I will now be in your care" she abruptly replied. Her voice lacked emotion as well.

It was becoming easier to believe that she was from a different part of the world entirely, when she had told him that she was transported here by magic, he thought he had encountered a woman locked in the cages of insanity.

Everything about her was unusual, she was no ordinary person.

"Alright follow me lass, I'll take you back to our village, it's only a short distance away."

At first, he had thought of simply pointing the way and letting her walk there by herself, but if he accompanied her, perhaps he could learn more about her and maybe just maybe see her smile.

As he was imagining the looks of his friends when he had brought back this bombshell back to the village and befriended her, she asked if he could answer some questions. He snapped back to reality and quickly agreed to answer her quiz.

"Do you have a name . . . for this world?"

"What kind of question is that?"

"Oh sorry, it would appear that . . . my memory is hazy." She quickly said in an attempt to salvage the conversation.

She smiled back at him but it seemed as if her body could not show any emotion at all, you will have to make do with my imaginary smile I suppose.

"I don't think we have a name for this world." His face still showed signs of confusion.

She nodded back at him. She was never any good at talking to others, so this conversation was slowly grinding away at her mental health.

She chose her next words carefully.

"Do you know what a gun is?"

'Fuck my life', yet again a notepad appeared and jotted down another note. This feature seemed useful but she was accidentally using it for mundane crap like this. Why did she ask that of all things?

"N-no?"

She raised the weapon in her arms and it reflected the suns glare, it looked incredibly expensive but he had no idea what it was. It was quite a bulky looking firearm. If she handed it to the man he would probably collapse on the ground under its weight.

It was incredibly reflective and did not suit stealth well, this wasn't a problem as she had a special skill which allowed Automatons to dull the surface of their weapon if they so choose.

"This is a gun."

This sniper rifle was the second most powerful weapon she had in her inventory, it held 20 rounds and dealt an incredible amount of damage to any target it hits. The drawbacks to this weapon was that without a maxed-out sniper class, it was incredibly useless. This was not a problem for Shizu, as not only was she a level 10 Gunner but she was a level 10 Sniper as well.

Being a higher level in the sniper and gunner classes meant that the reload time was greatly reduced on all firearms. When she chambered a round into the sniper rifle she had to wait 2 seconds before she could fire the round off into the distance. A new Automaton sniper player would have to wait 10 seconds. Even with an incredibly high single shot damage number, skilled players would heal before a player could get a second shot off. This was not the case for Shizu.

This was not her only weapon, in fact the one she was holding barely resembled a sniper rifle and its long-distance capabilities were shocking. It was best suited for mid-range targets which is what she normally faced on her journeys around YGGDRASIL.

She had a variety of weapons, some were conventional firearms like the one she was holding. These guns used bullets, she also had a collection of 'laser guns'. They were in fact not laser guns, but they were guns which shot out pure magical energy. These laser guns were essentially the only way for Automatons to use offensive magic. Automatons in lore, had a magical core within them that allowed them to use defensive and passive magic but not offensive magic. One could enchant their energy weapon to fire off different types of magic.

There were also a third type of guns which were incredibly rare which allowed Automatons to do things like summon or cast traps and spells on the floor. If one was to shoot the floor with a special bullet, a spell would be cast there and so on.

These were incredibly expensive and not found in many stores, they were a must have for level 100's and one had to have maxed out gunner and sniper classes to use them. The magical spell infused bullets had to be purchased separately. Due to the usefulness of these weapons, Shizu had stockpiled an excessive amount. She could fire off those bullets for the next five days and still not run out.

Even so, she would not use them if she had other methods of defeating her foes. Especially in this new world she was now in.

She owned every single gun in YGGDRASIL: pistols, rifles, shotguns, machine guns, LMG's, HMG's, sniper rifles and even special weapons like railguns and Gatling guns.

'YGGDRASIL simulated recoil, so I wonder if that is the case here?' she pondered as the man looked nervously back at her.

She ignored him and looked forward. She had been walking for a few minutes now and she felt no exhaustion, she also didn't feel a need to eat anything, Automatons in YGGDRASIL also didn't need to eat or sleep so that didn't change here.

She spotted a few worn-down buildings in the distance and struggled to make out people among the houses.

As she was tried to focus her vision, her view suddenly rushed forward as everything in the distance approached her at insane speeds. She didn't feel as if she got any closer, as she stood still and peered into the distance, she realised what she had done.

'Did I just zoom in using my eye?' she wondered.

Her vision returned to normal as she imagined it doing so, she had full control over her enhanced eyesight.

And then she began to piece everything together using her newfound intelligence.

She was no longer in a video game, this was reality. When she took on this mindset everything began to make sense. The NPC's seemed too lifelike, the farmer next to her had an incredibly natural body posture, he jumped over ditches in the dirt and as he did the dirt kicked up off the ground.

She didn't know much about the technology in YGGDRASIL, but here the technology seemed too good for its time.

As her CPU fell into deep thinking, the farmer continued to stare at her every now and then.

She was used to people staring at her, she was famous after all, as well as being a female character with all the features that thirsty men liked.

She could clearly see that the farmer was looking down at her body every now and then. At first, she assumed he was helping her because she was an unarmed girl stranded in a new world, but as she realised why he had helped her, her opinion of him fell to depths of hell.

A few more minutes passed as they approached the village. The buildings looked rustic and worn down, smoke bellowed out of one of the cobblestone chimneys. There was no mistaking it, she was in a medieval world with her own character.

She had watched countless anime's with this sort of plot, person plays game and becomes trapped in the game world, person hates life and is bored so he is magically taken to a new world.

'But a person playing a game and the game literally becomes reality? Mixing these plots together would make for an interesting light novel in my previous world.'

As she was wondering about these things while walking down the dirt path, she scanned the surrounding terrain and buildings.

The outskirts of the village seemed rather empty, her enhanced hearing picked up on the screaming of an injured man as she turned around to see the man who was walking with her collapsing on the ground. The man was incredibly close to her so her enhanced hearing sent a pain travelling through her artificial brain as he continued to scream.

"Could you please be quiet?"

An arrow whizzed past her head and she made no attempt to dodge it, that was because she calculated the trajectory or the arrow as it came into her vision. She calmly crouched down and inspected the farmer as tears fell down his face, she had noticed the knight archer when she was walking into the village, but had assumed he was no threat.

She observed the wound and didn't even flinch despite the gory mess before her.

'I guess I have changed both mentally and physically.'

Despite not feeling anything for the man, she still pitied him even if he was a selfish fool who was helping her just for a chance to share a bed with her.

She didn't know if she could access her inventory, but the gun in her hands was by far enough to deal with some guy cosplaying as a knight.

She stood back up and chambered a round into her rifle.