NX Worlds: Dreams Of A Multiverse

Prologue Richard: Landing in the unknown

Richard's consciousness returned to him after a while since he was sucked through the portal, and he stirred, and then blinked a few times, as he tried to adjust his eyes to the bright lights in front of him, and after a while, his eyes adjusted to the atmosphere, and his vision was surrounded by blue lights. The entire area was violet, as if to imitate a child's perception of outer space, and he found himself, sitting on a platform made out of stone bricks, and there was a mosiac of round stars in front of him, not different to the ones that Kirby has.

"What...?" Richard murmured, before his eyes widened, as he then got up, and then swilled his head around. "Where am I? This place looks stranger than I have seen before..."

There were no dangers around, and he still had his equipment, his Heaven's Will still strapped behind his back, but somehow, he feels empty. He soon originated that feeling to his mind.

"Ares? Mimir? Fuxi? Anyone? Please answer..." Richard called out mentally through his whole mindscape. At first, there was only ominous silence, but after a while, there was the familiar sound of footsteps echoing inside his mind.

'I'm here, friend, what's the problem?' The Chinese-accented tone of Fuxi mentally rang out through his mind.

'Thank god... I thought that you were all seperated from me. Where's Ares and Mimir?' Richard mentally replied, relieved that at least Fuxi is still with him.

'I'm afraid that the problem. I can't seem to sense either of them.' Fuxi told Richard.

'You can sense them!?' Richard exclaimed, with a surprised tone.

'I can, but I can't seem to find them in your mindscape. To be honest, being part you, I can even tell that there's not even in this area.'

'Crap... Guess it's just you and me, the two-man army. Considering that you're part of me, your powers are limited to my parameters, with a few large boosts in your skills, being the god of experience...'

'You could say that, and I carry my own weapon. However, it's not time to talk about such matters. We are in somewhere unknown, so we need to search this place.'

Richard let out a 'tsk', and then walked to the edge of the platform, and then some rocks that are glowing with warm violet auras began to fly over where Richard was, and created a path for Richard to walk on. Richard didn't react to this, and stepped on the path and walked down it. After walking for a while, he made it to a small floating island, that had ruins of a ancient temples, with broken stone pillars and stairways that revolves around the broken temple. The air on the island is quite foggy, with a nearly transparent violet mist covering the area.

'Somehow, this feeling is like Dream Team of the Mario RPG series...' Richard thought. 'It feels famillar, being like the ruins that Wiggler made its garden in. but different at the same time... This place gives me a ominous feeling...'

Richard summoned Fuxi, using the same method as he used many times before, and the two of them explored the ruin, with Richard and Fuxi each drawing out their weapons, and Fuxi using a shining silver katana. Both of them took cautious steps, and they soon began to hear voices coming from in front of them, and some footsteps that are getting closer to them.

"This place seems to be off... I don't even know this place." A man's voice rang out through the area, bearing a slightly Japanese accent, and sounding shy.

Richard then suddenly jerked to a stop, and then motioned for Fuxi to hide behind some rocks, where they watched with intent, to see who was coming their way.

"Aw, who cares? After all, maybe we can find the exit out of this place. We still have the Nintendo World to save." Another male voice rang out, although it is more energetic and determined than the other voice.

'Nintendo World!?' Richard frantically thought. 'There's no such person who would say such a thing, except... No. That accent and that determined tone. There's no mistaking it. It's-!"

Suddenly, two young adults entered their sight, and one of them had spiky black hair that is combed up, and has black stubble on his face, and looked like half-Italian and half American-Japanese, wearing a dark green jacket with a mint-coloured checkered plaid shirt, and was also wearing faded jeans, and had bracelets of assorted colour on one wrist, and a blue bandanna tied into a nice bow on his other wrist, and had olive-green eyes, which shone with courage and hope. The other young adult has spiky blond hair, has a red blazer jacket over a white hoodie, and wearing jeans that are cut to where a boot would be, and was wearing red sneakers.

"Hey... Where are we exactly?" The man in the hoodie said. "Somehow, I have a ominous feeling here."

"Beats me... Hunt. I can't seem to point my finger at whatever is making it feel strange." The man with the dark green jacket replied.

Richard decided that it's time to show that they mean no harm, and walked out of his hiding spot, and walked behind the two adults.

"Sorry. That feeling was me watching you." Richard admitted, which surprised the two strangers, as they turned around to see Richard.

"What in the world of..!?" The now-named Hunt exclaimed, as he jumped a few feet into the air, spooked by the sudden response, and then turned around to see Richard. "Why is there a teen like you in this area!?"

"I should ask the same of you. If you aren't fakes made by this dimension, then tell me how you got here, Jace and Hunt." Richard replied, saying the last words with suspicion dripping out of them.

The reaction was instant. Hunt immediately ducked behind Jace, the man with the dark-green jacket, and Jace pulled out his 3DS, and reaching into it, before pulling out a sword that is almost identical to the ones that Mii Swordfighters are outfitted with.

"Who are you!? There's no way you can know our names from here! You can't be human at all, who are what are you!?" Jace demanded, pointing the tip of the sword at Richard.

Richard just scoffed at this and frowned, before drawing out Heaven's Will without any hesistation.

"Put. That. Down. Now." Richard spat seriously. "I prefer not to cut your head clean off with this, but if you try to attack me, I won't guarantee that you'll both leave here alive. I'm only being nice and asking you how YOU got here, but I have limits. Now do as I say, or this sword that I have been using for many wars in Hyrule will be your executioner's blade."

The very tone of Richard chilled Jace and Hunt to the core, and Jace reluctantly placed his sword back into his 3DS.

Richard's face lightened up with a smile, and said, "That's better, see? You don't have to cut every person that comes in your way."

"Now can you tell us why you're here?" Jace asked calmly, now thinking a little bit more rationally.

"Well, you tell me first, and I'll tell you how I got here, and how I know you two." Richard responded. "You can come out now, Fuxi, they're non-hostile."

Fuxi came out of his hiding spot, and seeing that Richard was identical to Fuxi, except for eye and hair colour, they were only a bit surprised.

"Go one, tell me how it happened for you, and you'll get what you want to know."

"It was like this..." Jace explained.

A/N: And that's the prologue of Richard's side of the story. From now on, I will now adapt the next few chapters of this crossover story to be first-person view, mainly for Richard, for my side of the story. If you want to see how the story progresses, follow both me and Epic Networks, and watch the story unfold in this unknown realm. Who knows what will happen here. Only time will tell...