(Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy X, its storyline, or any of the characters. Only six of the characters in this story are mine. I also do not own the things that i've obviously taken from other shows/games.)

Prolouge: The Real World

Three friends sit down at their usual table in the lunch room. "Man, that Trig test killed my grade, I just know it." Vince, a guy of seventeen, with neck length black hair, wearing a GWAR t-shirt, and blue jeans, says worrying.

Dave, a tall guy of seventeen with short blonde hair, wearing a red t-shirt, and blue jeans, sighs and picks up his sandwich. "Chill out, dude. You probably did fine, and if you didn't, oh well."

Vince shakes his head in worry. "Yeah, oh well, I'll go ahead and tell my mom 'oh well' and watch as she hands me my ass before biting my head off."

Dave shakes his head with disapproval and looks over at Steve, a large guy of seventeen, both vertically and horizontally, with short black hair, wearing a hawiian button down shirt with red leaves on it, with camo kahki pants. Steve's head was facing the other side of the cafateria, looking at a table full of girls. Particularly a girl, about Vince's height with neck length black hair, wearing a Metallica t-shirt, and brown kahki pants. "Come on dude if your that interested in Carrie, ask her out."

Steve turns his attention back to Dave and Vince and sighs. "I don't know, I have the feeling that she'd just laugh in my face."

Dave shrugs. "Big whoop. We laugh at your face all the time. Oh, you said 'in your face'. Oops."

Vince looks over at a different table. "Just ask your brother, DJ, he's dating a sophmore, and he's a senior. Dude, why don't you just ask Carrie out. The worse thing she can do is say no."

Steve sighs looking down at the table. "That's what I'm afraid of. I guess I'm just scared of rejection. And if theres people around, God, I'd want to die of embarassment."

Vince looks at Steve with a smile. "Can I have your Playstation then?" Steve answers with a death glare. "Geez I was only asking."

Steve looks at Dave. "If I die I want buried with my Playstation."

Dave nods before taking a bite of his lunch. "Noted."

The bell then rings, as the lunch room begins to empty. "Remember, meet me by my locker after school. We'll walk to my house. You guys are staying the weekend right?" Steve asks. Dave and Vince nod. "Good. We'll just walk home with DJ. Later." They go off seperate directions, to finish off the Friday.

After school Steve walks to his locker, getting out the books he needs and putting in the books he doesn't. He pulls out his backpack as he heard Carrie and one of her friends talking nearby. Steve ignores them and continues to pack his bag.

"Hey, I'll talk to you later. Theres something I need to do real quick." Steve heard Carrie say from behind him. His heart beat began to race but he acted normal, continuing to pack his bag.

"Good luck. Like you'll need it." Carrie's friend said sarcastically before walking down the hall.

Steve then hears footsteps coming closer to him from behind him. "Hey, Steve, can I talk to you for a minute?"

Steve immediately stops and silently gulps. He turns around and sees Carrie's smiling face looking at him. Steve returns the smile. "Yeah, sure, whats up?"

Carrie continues to smile her beautiful smile. "I was wondering if you wanted to hang out tomorrow? You know, catch a movie, go get something to eat, that kind of thing."

Steve's eyebrow raises. "Hold on a second. Are you asking me out on a date?"

Carrie shrugs. "Yeah, I guess I am. Unless your busy, I'd understand."

Steve shakes his head. "No thats not it, I was just confused there for a second. I'd love to hang out with you."

Carrie returns to her smile. "Great, pick me up around eight?"

Steve gets a big smile on his face. "Sure, I'll pick you up at eight." Carrie nods and then walks off, to catch up to her friend. Steve finishs packing his bag with a look of great joy on his face.

Vince and Dave then walk up and each pat Steve on the back. "Well, well, well, who was right all this time? Who was right? Thats right, we were. Suck it Steve." Vince says leaning up against the lockers beside Steve.

Steve keeps his big smile and sighs. "Like I haven't been wrong before."

Dave just laughs. "Its about damn time you get off your ass and get a girlfriend. Well, you didn't get off your ass, this one just came to you."

"So Steve has a girlfriend, huh?" DJ, Steve's older brother, like Steve is large both vertically and horizontally, short black hair, ICP t-shirt, and black pants, says walking up to them. "About damn time, little bro. Lets get going, the school is pretty much empty now."

Steve nods and follows DJ, Dave and Vince following behind Steve.

On the walk home they were discussing their weekend plans. "Okay, we'll take you guys to go grab your tvs and Playstations. Grab some movies too, we'll have a movie marathon tomorrow." DJ says as they walked.

Vince chuckles. "Steve can't do it tomorrow. He has a date with Carrie tomorrow night."

DJ smirks and nods. "Alright then, we'll have it Sunday before you guys go home. We want to make sure Steve is all nice and clean for his date tomorrow."

Steve was still smiling. "Oh shut up you guys...seriously your treating me like-" The scream of a girl stops Steve from finishing his sentence. "That sounded like...OH SHIT!" Steve yells dropping his bookbag and running towards where he heard the screaming.

Steve turns down an alley and sees Carrie surrounded by six big guys."Hey babe, your cute, why don't you hang out with us? We'll show you a good time. Well, you'll make a good time for us, ain't that right boys?" The group starts howling like wolves looking at Carrie with hungry eyes.

Steve runs at them. "LEAVE HER ALONE!" He goes to punch one of the guys, but another one clothslines him, knocking him to the ground. Three of them begin to kick and stomp at Steve.

The three beating Steve stop and pick him up, holding him so he couldn't move. "Well, well, well, if it isn't fatass, I mean Steve, or should we call you 'hero' now?" The guys begin to laugh. "Well, we'll show you what happens to heroes in the real world." The guy knees Steve in the guy then punches him in the face.

Carrie tries to run, but the other two hold her still so she can't run. Steve feels blood running down from his nose. He spits it at the guy beating him. "Pick on someone your own size, you pathetic litTLE PRICK!" That comment gets him a huge punch to the gut, making Steve cough up some blood.

The guy laughs and nods to the guys holding him. They let Steve go just in time to avoid the round house kick that hit Steve on the side of his head and sent him sprawling to the ground. "Like I said, I'm going to show you what happens to heroes in the real world." He pulls out a switchblade and turns to Carrie. "And you're going to watch." He says as the blade shoots up from the hilt. He then turns back to Steve and walks over to him. He kneels down and holds the switchblade above him, turning it to a stab position. Then he brings it down, causing Carrie to scream and turn away.

Steve's hand shoots up and grabs the guy's wrist. Steve's eyes open, showing unspeakable rage. The guy grunts as he tries to free himself, but Steve's grip is too tight. Steve gets up, still holding the guy by the wrist and once Steve was on his feet, the guy falls onto his knees. Steve tightens his grip more and more until he heard the crack and snap of the guy's wrist. Steve knocks the knife out of the guy's hand and kicks him in the chest, sending him flying past his friends and several feet beyond.

At this time DJ, Dave, and Vince come running around the corner and stop. Being distracted by Steve's kick, the guys grip loosens on the Carrie, and seeing DJ, Dave, and Vince there make her break away from her captures and head towards them. They begin to chase her but Steve grabs them and throws them into the garage door, sending them through it. Steve turns and ducks dodgine a swings from a guy with a crowbar, but catches the second swing. He rips it from the guy's hands and hits him on the side of the head with it, knocking him out, then drops the crowbar. Steve then turns and hooks a guy's flying hand under his arm then uses his other arm to forearm him in the face, making him collapse to the ground. Steve bends down quickly, plants his hand on the ground and, lifting his lower body from the ground, kicks the guy coming up from behind him into a telephone pole with enough force to crack the telephone pole.

Steve then turns and sees the guy beating him before with the switchblade in his other hand. "You...freak...are going to die...you broke my wrist!" Steve's rage filled eyes show a hint of amusement as he holds up the switchblade along with a finger. The guy looks down at his hand and sees that the switchblade and his pinky are gone. "NO WAY! H-HOW DID YOU DO THAT?!" He screams, not feeling the pain through the shock. Steve drops the switchblade and walks over to the guy. The guy throws a punch but Steve easily brushes it aside, then he grabs the guy by the throat and lifts him off the ground with just his one arm.

Steve's grip tightens around the guys throat. Steve just smiles as he chokes the life from the guy. Carrie runs from DJ, Dave, and Vince and runs to Steve. "Steve, its okay now. We're safe. Calm down." Steve turns and looks at Carrie. She gasps looking into his faintly glowing red eyes. He then looks back up at the guy. By that time the other guys were getting up.

Steve lowers the guy he was holding up and tosses him at the guys effortlessly. "I never want to see you guys again." Steve says, his voice sounding deeper than normal. They nod, picking up the unconsious guy and running from the alley as fast as they could.

Steve's eyes roll up into his head and he falls backwards onto the ground, passed out. Carrie kneels beside him as DJ, Dave, and Vince rush over to them. "He's okay, just passed out." Carrie says relieved, placing Steve's head on her legs.

Vince, shaken, looks down at Steve. "I've never seen him do that before. Never seen him that mad."

Dj sighs in relief. "I've only seen him like that once. With our Uncle. He's the reason why we live alone instead of with that dickhead."

Dave looks at DJ in shock. "I thought you said you had an agreement?"

DJ nods. "Thats how we got the agreement. He wanted nothing to do with us, just our inheritance from our parent's deaths. When he said he was taking it and shipping us off to the orphanage, Steve lost it like he did here. Made our uncle beg to live and set up some rules."

Carrie looks at them shocked. "Thats crazy."

DJ nods. "Crazy, but true. I never wanted to see him like that again. I'm just glad that it happened when we needed it again."

Steve starts to come to. He slowly opens his eyes and looks up at his friends. "W-what happened?"

Dj looks at the others. "He never remembers what happens when he's like that. It's like he completely blacks out."

Steve shakes his head. "I blacked out? Is anyone hurt?"

Carrie sighs a laugh. "Yeah, but only the guys who hurt you and were going to hurt me."

Steve smiles and cringes as he tries to move. "Thats good. At least I didn't turn on you guys."

Vince shakes his head. "We could probably have taken you."

Dave laughs. "Yeah right, did you see what I see? I saw those guys, who could probably kick our asses easily, get their asses handed to them by Steve. Then I saw you shaking in fear and a small puddle by your feet. Now thats a first, you being afraid of Steve."

Steve's eyes widen. "Damn, didn't know I was that scary." Steve says in a grunt as he sits up.

Vince looks back where he was standing. "You dick, that puddle was there before we were."

"Maybe you shouldn't move yet. You were getting beat pretty bad." Carrie says seeing Steve's difficulty to just sit.

Steve scoffs and slowly gets to his feet. "I'm fine. Let's walk you home, don't want anymore incidents."

As they turn to leave, a old television set on a empty trashcan flickers to life, making everyone jump. The screen shows nothing but static. Vince walks over to it. "Someone probably just turned it on. Let the power of the remote overwhelm you all." Vince turns the dial to turn it off but it stays on. "Damned knob is broken." Vince bends down to unplug it. He stands up holding the plug, looking at the screen, seeing it's still on. "Thing was never plugged in. Then how the hell is it on? TV's this old didn't have batteries."

The television starts to clear, but the picture still doesn't resemble anything recognizable. Dave walks up to Vince and taps him on the shoulder. "Dude, look around."

Vince looks around, but doesn't see anything unusual, until he looks up at the top of a power pole and sees a bird completely still in midflight. "What the hell?"

Steve looks at the television again, the picture is becoming clearer, and this time he can make out what the picture is showing. A beach. "Why's that beach look fimiliar?"

Vince gets up and walks back to the others still looking around. "This is some crazy Twilight Zone shit here."

Out of nowhere a voice echos through the alley. The chosen ones gather. Their journey begins. Will you bring the peace or leave the world in Chaos' hands? The television completely clears up, the beach clear as day. The television then gains a vaccum effect, sucking in everything it can. Steve, Dj, Dave, and Vince grab onto the power pole, but Carrie could not. She disappears into the tv.

"No! Carrie!" Steve Instinctively lets go and jumps into the television after her.

DJ sees his younger brother go in and lets go, running to the television. "Like I'm going to leave you go alone!" And with that he jumps into the television after them.

Dave lets go and follows them. Vince growls for a moment. "Damn it all, why do I have to hang around with the stupid ones?" Vince lets go and jumps into the television. After Vince jumps in, the TV shuts off, and the bird frozen in time flies off like it was. Time starts again.

They fall through the sky, falling towards that island that was on the television. Steve puts his arms to his side and legs together and starts to close in on Carrie. Once Steve was infront of her, he quickly grabs hold of her and holds her tightly to him. He switches his position so he would be the first to land, protecting her. Seconds later they hit the ground making small craters where they land.

Carrie slowly lifts herself up and looks around. Dave, Vince, and DJ were already starting to stir, but no sign of Steve. "Steve? Steve! Where are you?" Two hands reach up from the sand and wave around franticly. Carrie jumps back two feet, screaming, then looks at the arms. "Oh my god, Steve!" Carrie rushes back to him and unburies him.

Steve instantly sits up and takes a deep breath then starts beathing heavily. "Couldn't...breathe."

DJ, Vince, and Dave walk up to them and help Steve and Carrie to their feet. "Where are we? This place looks fimiliar, but I can't really place it." Dave says looking around.

Steve looks around and just shakes his head, trying to rid himself of the confusion. "I think...I don't know, it'll just make me sound stupid. I-" Steve was saying, but Carrie interupted him with her thoughts.

"Besaid. It looks just like Besaid Island. The dock, the tent, the path into the mountain, this has to be Besaid." Carrie says pointing at the objects as she stated them.

Steve stares all around. "I can't believe what I'm was seeing. We just got sucked into my favorite video game. Wow, it sounds really weird saying that. See why I was so hesitant to say it?" Steve says looking around, marveled, by the sight.

From the path comes two figures running towards them. Vince elbows Steve and points to them. Everybody looks at them. Steve realizes who they are almost instantly. "Wakka and Chappu. Wow, we're way before the storyline."

Wakka and Chappu stop in front of them, then look at the dock. "I don't see the boat or any other passengers, ya? Did you all come on the boat? What was that screaming?" Wakka asks them curious.

Vince shakes his head. "No, we just fell out of the sky."

Steve elbows Vince and chuckles. "Sorry, my friend is a little saurcastic. We really don't remember how we got here. The last thing I remember is seeing this big whale like creature, and here we are. Excuse us for a moment."

Wakka and Chappu start chatting to themselves. Sin was mentioned in their little coversation while Steve took everyone back a few feet to talk to them. "Look, we're going to look like lunatics explaining how we got here. So theres no need to explain, lets say we got too close to Sin. The toxin should give us the good excuse. And as long as we're here lets try not to screw up the story line too much. Don't want anything to change, it might mess up the outcome of the game."

DJ nods in agreement. "Lets just try to blend in. We got a rare chance to actually live a game, how many people can say that?" DJ then looks at Steve. "Lets see if we can stay in the village. Take jobs, do what it takes to try to get out, if we can. We'll do what we have to do to get out, but lets have some fun with it. Think about it, we're in a completely different world right now. We have a clean slate, and we all have a basic knowledge of things that go on here. I think this will be a good experience."

Vince just sighs looking back at Wakka and Chappu, who were still talking to themselves. "Alright, I don't know about you guys, but since we're in a new world where no one knows us and everyone has a screwed up name, I'm changing my name."

Everybody's eyes widen in thought. Steve just smirks. "Alright. Lets talk to them before they get too suspecious." Steve turns and walks back to Wakka and Chappu. "Sorry, we were trying to think about how we got here so we didn't sound like complete idiots. But, unfortunately we can't remember a thing. Only our names and that big thing that we remember was Sin."

Wakka nods in thought. "Well we pretty much figured that out with memory loss, ya? So you don't remember where you came from or anything?"

Steve shakes his head. "Nothing, just our names. So we were also talking about staying in the nearest village. Where would that be?"

Chappu takes a step foreward and then turns slightly to the island. "You're on Besaid Island. The village is on the other side of the mountain, we'll take you there."

Carrie walks up beside Steve. "Are you sure? We wouldn't want to get in the way with anyone. We'll probably be here for a while until we figure things out."

Wakka raises his hand and shakes it dismissively. "Don't worry about it. We have plenty of room. So what are your names? Mine is Wakka, and this-" He pats Chappu on the shoulder. "is my little brother Chappu."

Steve smiles at them. "Nice to meet you Wakka and Chappu. My name is Evan."

DJ smirks. "Savailo."

Vince steps up on the other side of Steve. "Ezriel."

Dave walks up beside Steve. "Spaz."

Carrie a place beside Vince. "My name is Kyri. Nice to meet you Wakka and Chappu."

Wakka nods with a smile. "It's nice to meet you all. Now follow us, we'll get you proper lodging and food, and if you're going to stay for an extended period of time, we'll have to get you all jobs. So think about what you want to do."

Wakka and Chappu start walking the way they came. Everyone follows behind thinking of what they want to do. Only Vince was dead set on what he wanted to do right away. "I'm going to be a Blitzball player. I've always wanted to do that." Vince mutters to group, excitment was evident in his voice.

After a two hour hike, they enter the village. It was exactly like the game. Wakka turns to them just inside the village. "Okay, have we made a decision?"

Everyone nods, Vince spoke out first though. "I want to be part of the village Blitzball team." He glances at Steve then back at Wakka. "If you have one, that is."

Wakka smiles at Vince. "We do have one. We'll see if your Auroch material later."

Carrie looks up at Wakka. "I want to be a temple Priestess. I pretty much know all the teachings of Yevon. I just want to stick with something I know."

Wakka nods at her. "We'll take you there once we find out what the others want to do."

Dave cracks his neck, looks at Steve, then back at Wakka. "I'll be a Temple Knight."

Wakka nods at him too. "We need plenty of them. Most of the fighters just want to join the Cruisaders. See the world and alot more Action."

Dave just smirks. "I don't mind staying in one place."

Wakka looks at DJ, DJ looks up at the Cruisader's lounge, then back at Wakka. "I wouldn't mind being a Cruisader."

Wakka smiles. "The Cruisaders are always welcoming new, determined people into their ranks. I'm sure they'll be glad to have you."

Steve then looks up at Wakka as Wakka looked at him, just now making his decision. "I want to be a blacksmith."

Wakka's eyes brighten and he smiles. "Well, your just in luck. Our blacksmith is retiring here soon and he's been looking for a student. Not alot of people are up to his standards though."

Steve just smirks, delighted by the news. "I'll try my hardest."

Wakka turns to Chappu. "Why don't you take Spaz and Kyri up to the temple, talk to the head priest, he'll give them rooms and food."

Chappu sighs looking at the ground. "You never let me go meet old man Marcus."

Wakka grunts looking at Chappu. "That because he always fills your head with nonsense about joining the Cruisaders to fight Sin. Your too young for that Chappu, plus that will almost garentee you'll get killed. Now take them up to the temple. I don't want to argue about this again, ya?"

Chappu sighs in defeat, waves Dave and Carrie forward. "Come on. Lets see what we can do for you."

Wakka turns to Vince and DJ, then points to a big blue tent. "Thats the Cruisader's lounge." Then he turns his attention to Vince. "Go wait there for me. We'll see what kind of skill you have with Blitzball as soon as I show Evan here where he'll stay."

Vince and DJ look at the blue tent, nods and runs for it, excited.

Wakka laughs at Vince's enthusiasum. "He's really excited, ya?"

Steve nods looking as Vince disappears into the tent. "Blitzball was something he was always good at."

Wakka nods and turns to Steve, with a serious look on his face. "Old man Marcus is a very strict man. He only expects excellence out of anyone. He'll want more out of you since you're going to be his student."

Steve nods again. "I wouldn't expect anything less."

Wakka starts to walk, Steve follows close behind him until they come to a shaggy red tent. Wakka holds the flap open for Steve. Steve nods and walks in, followed behind by Wakka.

Sitting on the cot was an old man, somewhere in his sixties, reading a book. He places a mark in the page and closes the book, looking up at them. "Wakka, this is a surprise. Whose your friend?"

Wakka pats Steve on the back. "This is Evan. He got too close to Sin and can't remember a thing from his past. So he's staying here in the village and he wants to be a blacksmith, so who better than you to teach him, ya?"

Marcus gets up and walks up to Steve looking him over. "I don't know. You seem different from the others who tried to be my student. I'm have high expectations."
Steve just smiles. "And I'll meet and exceed them all."

Marcus smiles and laughs. "Thats what I want to hear." Then his face got serious. "I just hope that you mean the words you speak, boy." Marcus then turns to Wakka. "Thank you Wakka." Wakka bows to Marcus and leaves the tent. Marcus then turns back to Steve. "Well, you better get some sleep, you're going to need it for tomarrow. We get started bright and early." Marcus walks past Evan and clears off several swords from another cot and places the swords on a shelf.

Steve nods and bows. "Thank you, master. I really appreciate this chance." Steve then walks over to the bed and covers up.

The day was long, starting out as a normal friday. It was hard to believe that Steve's main worry this afternoon was asking Carrie out on a date. But now everything was hard for Steve to believe. He was now living in his favorite game, begining work that he's always wanted to do. His life has changed forever, hopefully, for better.