GREETING READERS!

So, as you may have seen from two separate sources in the review section, I have a few people who disagree with the way I made these two fight. Before anyone jumps on the bandwagon, I'll mention that I applaud the method that one of them handled his opinion and I'd wish not to offend him with the tone of my response. I'll leave his up, but the hater who rambled will have his review removed. I'd like to explain my reasoning as much as I can to re-confirm that this is my OPINION of who would win, as well as tie up some loose ends.

1: I wanted as even of a playing field as possible. No magic for Kirito and no Robot Master's weapons for Zero as both would require insane amounts of assumption that I really have no liberty to do. Zero is based off of the design from Mega Man X(the first), not Mega Man Zero. This allows me to use the standard X as a base and the upgrades for the armor(which are included) as the added advantage. I felt that it was easier to implement him into the world, but I wondered if having Kirito fight with an added risk of death would push his potential. The result? Yeah, it did.

2: I knew that Kazuto Kirigaya never could be this good in real life and Zero has the virus to him. My solution to have Zero fight? Have a copy of his program (FROM BEFORE THE MAVERICK VIRUS INTEGRATION) be a CPU OPPONENT or a ROGUE PROGRAM against him! I couldn't think of another way to get these two to battle with laser swords. I did not include the maverick virus for three reasons: a) I needed a level playing field. b) I was concerned what it could do to the server of GGO and how much collateral it could cause. c) It was Zero's undoing, it could ruin Kirito internally and externally, it could do a multitude of things to Kirito that are unknown possibilities.

3: I needed to apply some quick, on-the-fly battle tactics that Kirito might use if put in that situation. I admit that the FN-Five Seven is useless, but only if used as a killing/damaging mechanism. I only had Kirito fire it at one moment to try to distract Zero, which is arguably the reason he has the pistol in the first place. The small shard of metal was also a distraction, not meant to deal damage. Both types of projectiles Kirito had were there for distraction purposes only, even in SAO and ALO. Kirito prefers to have an illusion for a trick to give him an edge, not a trump card.

4: Note that this kind of match up would never happen if there was a true crossover with the worlds. I know that the characters are good enough at heart and smart enough to resolve the conflict through peaceful means before death was considered a solution.

5: No offense, but OPINIONS ARE OPINIONS, NOT FACTS! If you really want to use other versions of the characters or provide a deeper analysis than I did, submit it as a Death Battle on Screwattack where they spend months on research or maybe WRITE IT YOURSELF!

Man, comments are supposed to be there for criticism of the quality of the writing(at least on this site). I wanted a way to have Kirito beat another AI and describe an action sequence with lightsabers. I won't be implementing these into my story unless it calls for it, so I may not even get a chance to have two laser swords clash in combat again. Doesn't mean it won't, but I don't have plans for it, yet.

This chapter was not meant to put down the reviewers or to drive people away, I just wanted to keep these types of stories from becoming the Death Battle comment section: either suggestions or hateful trash. I admit that the review I'm leaving up was civilized in nature, to a degree, but it still won't excuse anyone from giving a creator a hard time. I'm grateful for his response(even though English was not his primary language, he did a really good translation) and I'd love to see him review another story, provided his civilized nature continues.

That being said, I have some better news to share: I'm planning on a surprise crossover that I'm writing and piecing together. I won't tell you what it is, but I will say I'll be doing a walkthrough on the game in the nearer future on my youtube channel. I'll let you know when that is up and running alongside the story's first release.

More good news, Kid Icarus: Grounded Awakening will have an update on April 28th at the earliest. I'm sorry that it is taking me so long to write another chapter, but I'll bring up that I had been working both a full time job at a local restaurant and a part time job at a nearby gamestop(which I am still working at). Now that I have started school, I'll be updating every once in a while, but I still won't have as much time as I would like. I'll let you know if it gets delayed, but it should be out April 28th. See you in the next chapter.