Ace Adventure

Ace Adventure is a game for RPG Maker VX Ace that is currently being designed.

#### **Characters**

*Ace Adventure* has four main playable characters: Ace, Gemini, Hunter, and Alpha. Ace is the main character

Gemini is the second main party member of the game, a young girl from \_\_\_\_\_\_\_. She was the first person to be experimented in Project: Fenrir to harness the power of psychic magic. As a result of the experiment failing, Gemini is split into two weaker magic users known as Gem and Ni. The two girls are imprisoned, but during an escape attempt, Gem frees herself while Ni is captured by the experimenters. Gemini has very powerful magical attacks, but is much weaker in her split forms.

Hunter, the third main character to join the party, is a young man who was hired as an assassin by Maverick with the objective of killing Ace. After being defeated by Ace, Hunter sees Ace's goals, and joins the team to get revenge on Maverick. His primary weapons are machine guns and long swords.

Alpha is the final party member. He is a young monk-in-training who has great magical and martial art skills as demonstrated by his ability to combine both techniques. He is the younger brother of the Chief Monk, Omega, and the uncle of one of Dr. Fenrir's experiments, Zeta.

Maverick is the main antagonist of the game. He was created by Dr. Fenrir when Ace was split into a being of light and darkness (Ace being light; Maverick being darkness).

Dr. Judas Fenrir is the final antagonist of *Ace Adventure*.

#### **Story**

The story begins with Ace dreaming and making his way to a temple within his dream and being warned by a mysterious voice that dark times are coming and he must acquire a team of four heroes and defeat evil, followed by his awakening. Ace, who is certain that his dream is a message from beyond, asks around his village about what the dream could have meant when he stumbles upon a monk who tells Ace that he must defeat the evil within himself by entering his own mind and destroying the evil from within. The monk explains the seven Sacred Pools, which contain the holiest of waters that, when combined, creates a potions that allows the drinker to enter their mind. Ace begins his journey by finding the first Sacred Pool within his own village, defeating the beast inside, and collecting the water within.

After visiting the first pool, Ace ventures to \_\_\_\_\_ village to find the second pool when he stumbles upon a mysterious figure who goes by the name Maverick. The strange figure tells Ace that he is not complete and that his journey is meaningless, before disappearing. Ace continues his journey and makes his way to \_\_\_\_\_ village where he meets a young psychic girl named Gem. POOL 2

pool 3

pool 4

After collecting the water from the fourth Sacred Pool, Ace and Gem encounter a young man named Hunter, who immediately begins to attack the two, but is defeated. After breaking from his mind-control, Hunter explains that he was possessed by a poison created by a scientist named Dr. Fenrir five years ago, and then hired by Maverick to kill Ace. \_\_\_\_\_\_ The three collect the water from the fifth Sacred Pool.

While on the way to the sixth Sacred Pool, Ace, Gem, and Hunter are ambushed by elemental martial artists who arrest the three and bring them to a mysterious land known as the Monk's Village. There, they meet the Chief Monk's younger brother, named Alpha, who says that he will free them if they travel to the village cave and defeat the monster within. They accept the task and defeat the monster. Afterwards, Ace explains the purpose of his journey to Alpha, who then decides to join the team so he can help Ace and also improve his elemental fighting techniques. Alpha leads the team to the village's Sacred Pool, and Ace collects the water.

As the party travels to find the seventh and final Sacred Pool, they stumble upon an abandoned lab called Fenrir Laboratory. Here, much truth is revealed. It is learned from Dr. Fenrir's hidden journals that Ace was split in two and that Maverick was his dark side, and that Gem was also half of a whole person when she finds the young girl Ni imprisoned in the lab. Gem reveals that she knew about Ni all along, but kept it secret because she thought she would never find her again. Ace tells the other three heroes that he has to explore the lab first to find more answers; meanwhile, Gem, Hunter, and Alpha explore other parts of the lab to find a way to rescue Ni. As Ace ventures the lab alone, he finds Maverick. Ace asks Maverick why he is even bothering to find these Sacred Pools to defeat the darkness within despite the fact that Maverick is Ace's darkness himself, but Maverick reveals that even though Ace is the light half, a being of light is more susceptible to dark temptation than a being of dark is to light righteousness. The idea of Ace having to defeat both the darkness within himself and his dark alter-ego is too much emotional pain, and he is almost killed by Maverick until Hunter and Alpha come to the rescue and stop Maverick, who then flees the laboratory. After Maverick disappears, Ace, Hunter, and Alpha make their way to the end of the laboratory where they meet up with Gem, who has freed Ni from her imprisonment. The two touch hands and recombine into a whole person again named Gemini, whose magic powers double in strength. Ace is happy that Gemini is back to one whole person, but all the truth revealed to him while at the lab discourages him greatly, but he continues the journey to find the last Sacred Pool.

Pool 7

After being brought back from the seventh pool, Ace and his team set up a camp to stay at while Ace went under as he drank the mixture of all the Sacred Pool waters and entered his mind. While in there, Ace explores until he finds his way in the same location where he was during his first dream before beginning his quest. This time, he is able to enter the temple that he previously could not enter. Inside, he meets the darkness of his mind, which he defeats. After defeating his darkness, his strength drastically increases and he gains a new power of light magic as he awakens.

Once awoken, Ace realizes that Gemini, Hunter, and Alpha are all gone and no where to be seen. He finds a note left at the camp that tell him to return to Fenrir Laboratory. Upon visiting the lab, Ace finds a secret passageway, which leads to an entire underground section of the lab, that was closed during his previous visit. After being ambushed by mercenaries, Ace defeats them all and finds his friends who are locked away in the lab. Upon discovering the heroes, Ace once again meets up with Maverick, who reveals that he was the one who sent the mercenaries to capture Gemini, Hunter, and Alpha, and he also stole Ace's Sacred Pool water and drank it to enter his own mind and defeat any hint of light inside himself, making him a being of pure darkness. Ace and Maverick have one final showdown before being interrupted by the arrival of Dr. Fenrir, who, up until now, everyone thought was dead. Dr. Fenrir reveals that after splitting Ace into a being of light and darkness, Maverick remained in his lab and worked for him and was ordered to create a grand army of darkness. After revealing that, Dr. Fenrir takes control of Maverick's mercenaries and turns them against him, capturing Maverick so that Dr. Fenrir can use his newest experiment to harness Maverick's dark powers. After taking out a few of Dr. Fenrir's mercenaries, Ace chases after Dr. Fenrir and finds the the jail cell Maverick is locked up until the dark-harnessing machine is fully powered up. Ace convinces him to team up and take out Dr. Fenrir together. Maverick agrees, and the two confront Dr. Fenrir to take him out. After a brief fight, Dr. Fenrir orders his mercenaries to take out Ace and capture Maverick and hook him up to the machine. Maverick get's his dark powers taken away, which are absorbed into Dr. Fenrir, who becomes the dark beast FENRIS, who then kills Maverick immediately after. FENRIS commands his army and flees into a dark portal.

Ace, Gemini, Hunter, and Alpha enter the portal into the Anti-Space for a final showdown with FENRIS. After much fighting, FENRIS is defeated and reverted back into the human form of Dr. Fenrir. Using all their combined strength, Ace, Gemini, Hunter, and Alpha cast a spell to seal Dr. Fenrir away for 1,000 years. After Fenrir is finally defeated, the four heroes are sent back to Earth where they return as heroes.

### Development

*Ace Adventure* began its development in August, 2020.