SOF sighed deeply as he dumped the rest of his water bottle all over his face. He lay his back against the back wall of a Best Buy. His work out was over and this is where the end of the final run happened to be. Today was a particularly hard day, as he knew it would be. They did about twice as much of a workout as the normally do. "My brother is usually here by now." SOF noted waiting for the only car his family owned. He grabbed his Ps vita something he just happened to have today. Flipping it off sleep he returned to the scene of Steins;gate he had been reading before the workout. "Right I was just before that happens." A sad smile crossed SOF's lips as he knew that the next few hours of the game were going to try their damnedest to get him to cry. "Okabe... you're acting weird." The Ps vita lurched to life. SOF maybe should have recognized that a game without an English dub was speaking English at him. Sadly he was far too exhausted to even get close to noticing. "You've been staring at your phone for 5 minutes now." The character's face flashed even more concern. SOF mechanically opened Okabe's phone and checked his text messages. "We're watching." Read the top text's subject. SOF knew what this normally was, So he thumbed X expecting a severed doll head. Instead a picture of himself popped up. His exhausted body flooded with adrenaline and he shot up and stepped forwards. An ominous feeling almost forced him to stare at the ground. What he saw sent him into a cold sweat. Being a super fan of a particular anime noticing a human transmutation circle was almost second nature to him. The one issue he found with it, was the simple fact that alchemy was fiction, and this circle was clearly glowing with power. His next step was blocked by a black tendril holding his leg. When he reflexively tried to pry the tendril off his arm was also engulfed by it. A large eye appeared under him and swallowed him whole.<br/><br/>SOF blinked his eyes open to the sound of a cute female voice "What are you doing? You said something and then stood there motionless for about 5 minutes now."<br/><br/>"S-sorry." Was what SOF mustered before looking up at the red haired girl his eyes widening. There was normally a ration part to his brain that went into overdrive thinking incessantly about every little thing. Right now it was as if someone turned that half of his brain off.<br/><br/>She glared "Sorry? Muster some of your singular brain cell. You were trying to warn me and it looked important by your expression."<br/><br/>"Warn? I don't..." He cut himself off as he went to put his hand to his chin. "M-metal?" He blinked at his dull grey hand.<br/><br/>The girl frowned "Clearly you're having a panic attack nothing here is metal..." When her eyes caught SOF's arm she became speechless. "T-this is still akihabara right?" Her eyes flickered around to the bustle of a busy Japanese city, and then to the blonde short man with automail. "Are you a foreigner, if so you speak great japanese."<br/><br/>"But i'm speaking english..." He mumbled idly opening and closing his hand.<br/><br/>Kurisu tilted her head, the frown on her face widening "I speak english and we are not speaking..." Her face suddenly filled with shock and then a bit of blush "When did we start speaking english!?"<br/><br/>SOF's brain finally kicked into gear as the memories of what brought him here flooded his mind and he suddenly reeled and flung his head from side to side observing the surroundings. It was akihabara but he could tell it actually wasn't. It felt like he was looking at the Cg in a game. He got a different more real feeling from the girl in front of him, so much so that he almost ignored that she looked exactly like Makise Kurisu from Steins;gate. He took a breath "For... most of the conversation... say do you not find anything around us suspicious?"<br/><br/>She squinted "What are you getting..." Her expression suddenly changed as she noticed faceless unnerving Japanese citizens surrounding her.<br/><br/>SOF could see the mix of anxiety and contemplative confusion on her face. At that moment SOF closed his eyes just to collect his thoughts.<span style="font-style: italic">I have a metal... maybe two metal prosthetics and i'm short, plus i walked into a transmutation circle to get here i think... None of this makes sense or is possible... But supposing it is that would mean i'm not in my own body... Maybe Ed's, that would make sense or at least as much sense as literally anything could make right now. </span>"In that case." SOF Spoke much to her heightened confusion. SOF put his hands together mimicking the show and then ran his hand over his arm. It had no effect. He clenched his teeth, alchemy was evidently something far more complicated than he thought. "At least its a fist."<br/><br/>Kurisu blinked "Are you going to hit someone..."<br/><br/>SOF's fist flew past her to hit the faceless man about to grab her. As soon as the metal connected the man turned into a shadowy figure. SOF didn't recognize it, but it looked like a cartoon.<br/><br/>Kurisu jumped back and basically into SOF guarding herself.<br/><br/>SOF looked down at her "This place isn't real right."<br/><br/>"How would i know i'm probably more confused than you are... though if i had to guess we are no longer in Japan." She said remaining at least a little calm.<br/><br/>"Not that i was... Nevermind... we should run."<br/><br/>She sighed "Agreed."<br/><br/>With that SOF motioned to the left plowing through one of the men and creating an opening for them both to run. Kurisu was not fast, Probably because her physical training amounted to high school gym. SOF took her hand a bit forcefully and drug her. It may hurt a bit but it would speed her up and slow him down so her didn't lose her. She let out a yip that sounded so pained it was painful to hear. It was not long before the run was cut short from SOF crashing through a glass barrier. To his credit all he saw was an empty intersection. The glass shards shown purple, blue and green as they fell all around. The weird part is that as soon as the shards hit the ground they dissipated. Suddenly The two found themselves in a dense forest, the trees around them oddly looking like modern Japanese business buildings.<br/><br/>"So where are we?" SOF asked with a dry laugh<br/><br/>"Took the words right out of my mouth." She said with irritation in her voice as she pulled her red hand forcefully from SOF.<br/><br/>"Er... Sorry about that, i just didn't want to lose you.<br/><br/>She gave a apathetic nod and rubbed her hand leaning against a tree.<br/><br/>SOF sighed and crouched against the tree opposite to her, intending to take a small break from everything.