Soul Destroyer (Completed)

Kupo.EXE · Darkloid Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 537

Hello, I have finally worked up the courage to post this so please tell me what you think. I live for cunstructive criticism so just any response will help. This is only chapter one so I will post chapter two in a few days if anyone wants me to. Or not, I really don't care this is my first fan fic so I guess all press is good press. Anyway on with the show!

I deleted this because of the edited version below. Lan meets his equal, and when nebula attacks a strange mystery reveals itself causing the odd clone like person to break apart the space time continuem

moocowbob44 · Posted: Mon May 30, 2005 7:03 pm Post subject:

I didn't know that PETs were heavy enough to stub you toe on?
And I didn't know that Maylu cussed?
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Kupo.EXE · Darkloid Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 537

I am an original person and therefore I cannot duplicate peoples exact personality, so if you feel it helps then think of them as different charcters with the same name.

Kupo.EXE · Darkloid Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 537

Im back and I have had time to work on this so here is chapters 1,2 and three all redone. But you may hate me because crossfusion is required to fill plotholes.

Soul Destroyer

Chapter 1: Meeting

Lan yelled, he had stubbed his toe on something and began jumping around holding his foot. He and Maylu were walking threw Dentech city on the way to Electown to buy some new programs for Yai’s birthday.
Maylu picked up what Lan had stubbed his toe on. It was a PET, but not a current PET but a plug in PET.
“Hmmm odd.” Maylu thought aloud.
“What?” Lan asked while still jumping around holding his foot.
“A plug in PET, these were disbanded. They don’t sell them anymore but this doesn’t look old.” She replied while examining it. Maylu looked at the symbol and compared it to symols in her library. No match, this symbol was very odd indeed. It looked almost like Lans yet it had three triangles connected in the middle rather than two and the colors were not red, yellow and black but green, yellow and black.
“What a pickle.” Lan said rising from the ground where he had fallen over.
“Yes it is a mystery.” Maylu said deep in thought.
“No not that, this,” Lan said holding up a pickle, “is one remarkable specimen.”
Maylu rolled her eyes and started walking away. Lan chased after her to the bus station. When he finally caught up to her he got on to the bus to Electown.
He tried to talk to her but she was focused on the symbol on the PET. She was so transfixed she didn’t notice Lan until they got to Electown.
“Lan? Oh ya sorry I am just so confused, I have seen this symbol before!” She told him.
“Me too.” Lan said examining the symbol.
“Do you remember where?” She asked.
“Yep!” He said happily removing his face from the PET.
“Where?” She asked him anxiously.
“Over there!” He said pointing at a boy standing by a pole. She could see him but not very clearly, but the symbol was on the back of his shirt. She rushed over to him but the doors were opened and he was lost in the crowd.
“Damn it!” She said.
“If it is any consolation I got a picture of him, nut it is of his back and it’s blurry.” Lan said and opened his PET showing her the picture.
It wasn’t very clear but she knew that someone would have to know who it was, Chaud.
“My library does contain this symbol but no information on it.” Chaud said. It was Sunday and Maylu had found the time to show the PET to Chaud. “I will try to recover navi data from it but it will probably show up as a holographic image of a norm-navi.” He plugged it into his PC and recovered the information on his PET. He opened it and a hologram of a navi came out. But it was incomplete, large gaps were missing. The head, legs and small amounts of the left arm were gone.
“I will do some work on this, thanks for the heads up Maylu.” Chaud said politely.
Maylu left and began her week as usual. She did all her homework and made her lunches for the week. She left time for some good old-fashioned fun as well. She had plans to go to a movie with Chisao and Lan.
“Hey Maylu, we were begging to think you weren’t going to show.” Chisao said to Maylu at the movie theatre.
“Hey guys, miss much?” Maylu asked them squeezing into her seat and taking some of Lan’s popcorn.
“No, the advertisements are about to start though.” Lan told her. Maylu nodded to show she understood and looked around. She was shocked to see that the boy from the train was above her but she couldn’t see his face due to the lights dimming. He was holding his PET and Maylu saw the symbol and realized that the PET she had must have been and old one of his, but why then would it have been on the ground? She felt like telling him but the movie had started and it was the fifth in her favorite series. She was thinking until the title “Mostly Harmless” came up on the screen and she started watching.
At the end of the movie she was so in awe about the movie that she forgot entirely about telling the boy. She began to walk home with Lan but he was walking behind while a boy who looked similar walked beside Maylu.
“Great movie hey?” He said to his friend who was walking beside him. Maylu looked at him and thought that he was Lan because he was wearing very similar clothes and he looked a lot like him. Maylu looked around and she saw a sign in the Jomon electrical store window.
“Hey Lan, look a sale on battle chips!” She said exitedly and grabbed him and pulled him into the store. His friend along with Lan and Chisao ran after them. Lan and the boy both tapped Maylu on the shoulder. She was looking at chips and when she turned around she saw two Lans.
“Wow, deja-Lan!” Chisao said awestruck.
“Freaky.” Maylu stuttered and passed out.
When Maylu awoke she saw that she was in her bed and Lan and the boy were watching her from the other side of the room.

Chapter 2: Deja-vu

“So you’ve finally come to.” The boy said.
Maylu blushed and asked him.
“Who’re you?”
“I am Joseph Garabaldi, but you can call me Joe or Joey.” Joey told her.
“Joe and I were just getting to know each other, he is the new student in our class.” Lan told Maylu, “He is from Canada.”
“In Canada Advanced PETs are a new innovation, but you have had them for some time.” Joe observed.
“Ya they were made here.” Maylu told him, still blushing.
“Cool.” He said.
“So we’ll get going now, see you on Monday Maylu.” Lan told her and they both left the house.
“Where do you live?” Lan asked Joey.
“In that house over there.” He said and pointed at a house down the block.
“That means you’re my neighbor.” Lan said happily.
“You want to show me around the neighborhood?” Joey asked.
“Sure thing.” Lan replied.
They walked through the streets and since the sun was setting, Lan decided to cut the tour short and go sraight to visit Dex.
“Hey Dex.” Lan said to him as they reached his house. Dex was gardening with Chisao and when he saw Lan and Joey he marvelled.
“Wow, has your dad made a cloning machine?” Dex asked Lan.
“Not quite Dex, this is Joe he is the new student in our class.” Lan told him.
“Pleased to meet you.” Joey said Politely and stuck out his hand for Dex to shake.
“Great fresh meat!” Dex said eyeing Joey’s green PET, “Wanna netbattle?”
“Do you greet everybody like this?” Joey asked him.
“Probably, why?” Dex asked with even no clue how obsessed he sounded.
“I accept,” Joey said ignoring Dex’s response. “Let us see how people in this country play the game.
They three of them walked into Dex’s room.
“Jack into the Gamecube.” Dex told him.
Joey agreed and did so, Dex also did and they began.
“Let us see how strong you are, Wind use the buster!” Joey told his net navi: Wind.
The navi was about the same stature of Megaman but had armored legs and a sight on the helmet; the navi was green except for the gray armlets he had on either arm.
Wind obeyed his operator, at once his armlets rose to his hands where they screwed into place and became busters.
“Rapid fire!” Wind yelled and began dousing Gutsman with hundreds of shots. Immediately he jacked out.
“Wow I thought it would be harder than that.” Joey told Dex.
“Don’t worry, Dex is a pushover if you want I can show you some first class battlers tomorrow.” Lan told him. As soon as Lan looked out the window he saw the sun was already set.
“We should get going, its dark out.” Lan told Joey.
“You are probably right.” Joey said and they both headed home.
The next day Joey got up and went to visit Lan.
“Hey Lan!” He said to Lan when he opened the door.
“Oh hi Joey.” Lan said, “we are all on the net, come join us.”
“Sure thing.” Joey said and Jacked onto Lan’s PC. Roll, Gutsman, Megaman, and Glyde were there. Wind entered the server they were on and introduced himself.
“Hello, to those of you that do not know me I am Wind; Joey’s personal net navi.”
The rest greeted him and began a conversation, but Roll saw Wind’s symbol. That was the symbol on the PET Maylu found. She jacked out and told Maylu who immediately went to find Chaud. He wasn’t at blazequest headquarters, or at Jomon. She checked everywhere nut he wasn’t anywhere to be found. She finally decided to head back when she passed Higsby’s chip shop. Chaud was inside checking with Higsby about the navi.
“Have you seen this navi before?” He asked holding up the holographic image. Maylu couldn’t see it but knew what it was.
“Yes, actually I saw that navi several years ago.” Higsby told him. “He was a big chip collector and was looking for some new ones from my store in Net City.”
“What did he buy?” Chaud asked.
“He put Super vulcan on chip order.” Higsby explained. “But never came back to claim it.”
Makes sense. Maylu thought. The advanced PETs were a new innovation in Canada so it makes sense that it would look new. But why? Maylu was perplexed, why did he drop the PET and why did he never pick up the really expensive battle chip.
“Thank you for your help.” Chaud said politely and turned around. The navi image was close to finished but the face was still missing. Maylu saw that and didn’t need the face to see that the navi wasn’t Wind. She was so in shock she almost forgot to talk to Chaud but she remembered.
“Chaud, I know who the operator is.” Maylu told him.

Chapter 3: Mystery

“Really, who?” Chaud asked almost as though he didn’t believe her.
“Joseph Garabaldi.” He is a new student at Dentech academy.
“I have heard of him.” Chaud confessed. “But this is not his navi.” He held up the holographic image.
“That is not his navi, but I know what is.” Maylu told him trying to imitate his mysterious act.
“I know him and he has done nothing wrong, if this is his PET then I will give it to him myself.” Chaud told her, aggravated at her imitation.
Maylu was put down but continued her walk down the road. She decided that it was no longer her business and so she would get to know Joey. But without noticing it she had spent the entire day on an endless search. The sun had now set and night consumed Dentech City, all slept except the darkloids.
“Dr. we have finished our work, the new generators are up and running.” The voice was bubbleman’s. He was talking to someone in the real world.
“Very well, commence stage two.” The voice was a human, deep and foreboding.
In Dentex city it was about three am when a large dimensional area generator materialized beside sci-lab. It attached itself to their generators to create a huge dimensional area. It covered the entire city with a colorful cloud.
In three separate houses two young warriors awoke and ran outside surprisingly at the same location. Immense amounts of darkloids were materializing in front of them. Bubbleman, Savageman, Shademan and many others started to charge into the city being lead by Lazerman.
Lan and Chaud knew what to do. They both slotted in the most powerful battle chips they had into their PETs along with one more extremely useful chip.
“Synchro chip in download!” They both yelled in unison. Immediately parts of their net navis flew onto them and they began to fight the navis.
Chaud took Savageman. He activated his hero sword battle chip and began firing shots at him. Savageman dodged them all, so Chaud decided to get creative and used variable sword. He fired two shots at the same time, which immediately made Savageman disappear.
Lan however decided to get bubbleman with charge mega buster. He left as well.
The two continuously fought for hours untill all that was left was Shademan and Lazerman.
“Geyser!” They yelled together and two bombs appeared in their hands. They shoved them into a hole in the ground and Shademan was thrown upward by a rush of water causing him to leave as well.
Lazerman launched a crosslazer at them knocking them backward.
“I have no battlechips left.” Lan told Chaud. “And I am so exhausted I don’t think we could fight him anyway.”
“We have to.” Chaud told him.
“You are right.” Lan said and pictured all he had to live for in his mind. Dex, Chisao, Mom, Dad, net battles, Maylu.
With this surge of confidence he sprang foreward and prepared to hit lazerman with all he had when he was hit by another crosslazer. Something very similar rushed threw Chauds brain as he rushed towards him only to be knocked back by Lazerman. Both of their crossfusions were terminated with such stress on their bodies.
Lazerman prepared to finish them off, he fired.
Lan’s mind went blank he saw nothing he felt nothing all he did was breath. He knew he was dead but he kept having the urge to open his eyes. He couldn’t resist very long, so he did but he was surprised to see that he wasn’t dead. Someone holding a giant shield had saved him.
“Don’t think so.” The person said and launched themself at Lazerman hitting him with a barrage of punches.
Lazerman fired again. The person easily dodged it and landed on its head.
“Kazumheit.” The person said to it and kicked it hard in the stomach.
The battle continued but Lan wasn’t paying attention he looked over at Chaud who was buried in rubble. He checked his pulse, he was still alive but unconscious.
Lan looked back at the fight, he wanted to help out but he was too worn to help.
The person was winning by a long shot. If lazerman punched, they dodged. If he defended, they would penetrate it.
Lan was regaining his vision and the first thing he saw was the person fighting Lazerman. It was Joey, this raised many questions in Lan’s head. How did he get a synchro chip, why did he help, who was he really?
Joey was looking to wrap up the fight, he took his very large shield and threw it like a Frisbee. It cut right threw Lazerman causing him to jack out.
Joey jumped over to Lan.
“Are you two alright?” He asked him.
“I am fine but Chaud is down for the count.” Lan told him pointing at Chaud.
“Ok I have two chips left, recover eighty.” He said and raised his hands over Lan. Lan instantly felt better, his wounds healed and he had the strength to stand up. “Recover one-fifty.” He said and raised his hands over Chaud. Chaud’s heart rate instantly jumped and he sprang upwards.
“What did I miss?” He asked looking at Joey and Lan. They both laughed and fell to the floor, Joey terminated his crossfusion.
“Lan, more darkloids are coming.” Maylu told him rushing from the hospital where darkloids were appearing out of nowhere.
“Come on people, let’s make like bananas and slip right through those darkoids!” Lan said dramatically. “Was that as cheesy as it sounded?”
“Cheesier!” Maylu, Chaud and Joey all said together.
“Four way crossfusion?” Joey suggested slotting some battle chips into his PET.
“I can’t crossfuse.” Maylu confessed.
“Doesn’t matter, here.” Joey said handing her a synchro chip.
“Thanks, but how will this work?” She asked suspiciously. The rest of them slotted in some battle chips.
“It has all the compassion and friendship that is needed for crossfusion possible.” He explained quickly enough for it almost not to be heard, Maylu didn’t really need an explanation as long as it worked which she desperately hoped it did.
All four stood back to back and slotted in their synchro chips.
All at once the parts from their navis flew onto them.
“Now here is the plan.” Joey said and began whispering into their ears.
“Good plan, but why must we whisper.” Maylu asked.
“Its more dramatic!” Joey said annoyingly.
The four hid behind a trashcan and began the plan, they all jumped into the air except Maylu.
“Heat spreader!” Joey shouted and a heat shot gun appeared on his arm.
“Bubble spreader!” Chaud shouted and a bubbler appeared on his arm.
“Spreader!” Lan shouted and a spreader appeared on his arm.
“Attack plus thirty!” Maylu shouted and fired a pulse at the three
“Fire!” They all shouted together and fired hundreds of shots in ever direction. Darkloids were being deleted rapidly, although most survived they had left leaving only one navi. Bubbleman was edging away from them trying to remain hidden.
Lan fired a sand ring at bubbleman, it hit him and created a vortex below him. Joey jumped over and began questioning the strange navi.
“Why are you here?” He asked angrily.
“I will never tell!” Bubbleman said annoyingly.
Joey sighed, and activated three chips cannon, cannon, and cannon. He merged them with a program advance and aimed the resulting giga-cannon at bubbleman’s small, oddly shaped head.
“Ok, ok Shademan told us that we needed to find the destroyer of souls and capture him. But he would not tell us why.” Bubbleman confessed.
“Why is the dimensional area around the entire city?” Joey asked angrily.
“Shademan doesn’t know who he is, but he has the technical specs of the navi. He didn’t share them but I heard him call the navi Mirageman.” Bubbleman explained while he tried to struggle, which was quite obviously futile. Joey looked very shocked at the information he was receiving. But his open mouth quickly changed to a twisted smile.
“Very good bubbleman, I’d let you live but you are so damn annoying!” Joey shot bubbleman with the full force of giga-cannon. He was not deleted but he logged out before he could have been.
The darkloids were gone, but the dimensional area was still standing.
Out of nowhere more darkloids materialized and most of them the same ones. Among them was bubbleman. Joey searched him out with the sight and began blasting away with the giga-cannon.
Chaud and Lan went close range with custom swords and Maylu shot coverfire with roll arrows.
Joey walked over to Maylu and transferred the giga-cannon to her.
“This will work better, trust me.” He said calmly. She nodded and began shooting the cannon. The results were incredible, she had never felt such power before and in her hands it was even better.
Joey jumped into the crowd of darkloids, which was growing by the minute.
“Super vulcan!” He yelled and a yellow vulcan appeared on his arm. Maylu marveled, that chip was mega class and almost impossible to get. But she also remembered Higsby’s story.
“He put a super vulcan on chip order, but never came back to claim it.” Higsby’s voiced rang through her ears. This puzzle was growing even more perplexing every second.
Joey continued to fire but he was running out of ammunition fast. Eventually the vulcan ran out and dissipated.
“Wind buster!” He yelled as his armlets rose up and slid into position making a buster. He jumped over to savageman and began charging a charge shot. Savageman ran at him and slashed with his claws. But Joey jumped and shot him into the ground from above. Savageman jacked out, but as soon as Joey landed he was hit from the side by a giant bowling ball. Bowlman was standing there with another bowl-boomer. Joey jumped but was hit in mid air by a crosslazer. Lazerman was shooting from not far away, Joey charged but was hit by swordman’s sonic blade. He charged at Swordman but was foiled by another bowl-boomer.
Joey was getting kicked around, when he attacked one he was hit by another. Maylu was getting fed up with shooting at less-than-powerful darkloids, but she didn’t notice that Joey was getting kicked around until they were the only darkloids in her immediate vicinity. When she finally saw it she ran over and blasted swordman with the giga-cannon. She put away the giga-cannon and healed Joey.
“Two left huh, how ‘bout attack pattern beta?” Maylu said casually.
“Attack pattern beta it is.” Joey agreed.
The two ran in opposite directions and two to opposite darkloids. They ran up the darkloids and kicked off them. They both went flying towards each other, they pushed off each other and flew directly into the darkloids. The darkloids both jacked out leaving the city relatively clean.
“Shademan, you will die!” Lan had been yelling at shademan for the past ten minutes. He couldn’t seem to get a hit off him. Chaud went up to him and tried his last battlechip, wideblade. Shademan knocked it away with ease, and walked towards them menacingly.
“I am going to enjoy gutting you.” He said pleasantly.
Just then a giant beam of green light pierced him leaving a giant hole through his stomach.
“Oh dear, it appears I have been shot. Tally hoe!” He fell to the ground and jacked out revealing Joey holding up one of his busters.
“Boo yah.” He said to himself.
“That’s the last of them… again.” Lan said.
“The dimensional area is still up so it looks as though we need to disable the generator or they will keep coming.” Joey said.
“I suppose, you have a plan.” Lan said irritably.
Chaud and Joey looked at each other and grinned.
“I meant good plans!” Lan yelled at them as they threw Lan at the generator.
No effect. Lan got up and dusted himself off.
“How wonderful.” Lan said.
“Well duh, you have to hit it, not soften the fall with your back.” Chaud retorted.
Joey and Chaud grabbed his legs, and spun him around. Lan thought it through this time and he would blow himself away. He charged his mega-buster and when they threw him he shot at the generator. But they had thrown him so hard that his fist made contact with it before he was stopped entirely.
Success, Lan had blown a hole right through the generator. He threw a nasty look at Joey and Chaud. They slowly backed away.
All fours crossfusions were terminated leaving behind their PETs.
“Spill it.” Maylu said calmly to Joey.
“I assumed as much.” Joey said. “It all started in…” he ran away.
Chaud grabbed him as he ran past and shoved him back to his original position.
“Fine.” Joey said. He pulled out his PET, and pressed several buttons. A net-savor ID came out leaving the others in awe.
“I am a net-savor, a Canadian one. But since there is no problem there, they sent me there for back up to you guys.”
“But how did they know?” Lan asked.
“I’ll field that one.” Mr. Famous said from inside Lan, Chaud, and Joey’s PETs.
“We heard that nebula was going for a straight on attack against Lan. And so naturally we sent Joey to help.”
“Hold on Mr. Famous…” Lan started but was interrupted by Mr. Famous.
“Famous just Famous.”
“Ok, ‘just famous’ we need to talk privately.” Joey retorted. Mr. Famous disappeared from Lan and Chaud’s PETs. Joey walked away.
“They were after me.” He told Mr. Famous. “And you knew!”

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Wow, this shows promise. I like it.
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Kupo.EXE · Darkloid Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 537

Ok here is chapter 4, I will start posting slower now so I don't catch up to myself. I like to stay ahead of the readers.

Chapter 4: Tournament

“You are wrong on both accounts. One they are not after you, they are after Lan. Two since I did know they were not after you I couldn’t know what is not to be known but what is to be known is what’s real, that is known, you know.” Mr. Famous replied.
“Wrong,” Joey yelled at him. “You found Bubbleman and got the information then Shademan found out and planted Bubbleman to be found and reveal it to me. You sent me here not to protect Lan but to be protected by Lan!” Mr. Famous tried to reply but was interrupted by Joey. “Why though, why didn’t you tell me?”
“Here is the kicker, we have a leak in our intelligence.” Mr. Famous explained although he was still bewildered by Joey’s reaction. “As soon as we sent you here someone alerted the darkloids about you. So now we tell everyone but our highest and most trustworthy personnel that you are here because Shademan is on a rampage to kill Lan.”
“One problem, you have a leak in intelligence but its not the companies, its yours.” Joey stated mysteriously. “You told the highest trusted personnel, right? Its obvious that it is one of them!”
“You watch too much TV.” Mr. Famous replied as though Joey was a little kid.
“Really!” Joey yelled at him loudly. “Shove it!” He hung up.
Joey walked over to Lan and the others with his head hung low.
“What was that about?” Chaud asked.
Joey’s head rose revealing a frown, his headband was taken off and his long brown hair covered his eyes. He etched his frown into a crooked grin and began laughing insanely.
“Dude.” Lan said to Maylu, “he has issues.”
The sun had risen now and they (except Chaud) walked to school. Joey walked behind he was a mess. His hoody was once gray, now it was a dull brown from the dirt. His pants were once long and baggy but now they were like long shorts.
“I am so tired how am I going to explain this to Ms. Mari.” Maylu said patting dirt out of her skirt.
“I guess you could say that you spent all night battling giant net navis that materialized in the real world.” Lan said.
“What?” maylu said angrily.
“I jest.” Lan replied, “jeez Maylu take a joke.”
When they arrived at the school, or what was left of it, they found that is was deserted.
“Where is everybody?” Maylu asked a kid who was running by.
“They are having another net-battle tourney.” He said quickly.
“But why?” Lan asked.
“Why, to drag attention away from the wreckage.” The boy replied. But before they could continue to question him he had ran away.
“Yes, I will definitely win!” Lan said confidently.
“Don’t rule out Joey, he could be a major competitor.” Maylu said.
“Are you going to…” He stopped, mainly because Joey wasn’t there but somewhat because he had forgotten what he was asking. They assumed that he had left to sign up and followed him.
Right now I believe most of you are wondering why a kid was running by the school for no apparent reason and at the exact right time and that the school was closed for a net-battle tourney. The answer will be available as soon as I think of that, don’t wait up.
This net-battle tourney was organized for the same reasons stated by generic kid number forty-two. It was ready at that exact time because Higsby had been suggesting it for months. Those tournaments were always great for attracting battle chip consumers. This was going to be a tournament to remember and not just because the snacks were imported from France.
When Lan and Maylu got to the stand where they were accepting entries they saw that they were no longer open.
“Oh no, now I will never get to win.” Lan said sadly.
“Don’t bet on it.” Joey said from on top of the stand. He jumped down in front of them and handed them entry papers.
“Boy it is amazing how much you miss on rooftops.” Lan observed.
“But I thought that only the entrant could obtain papers.” Maylu told Joey.
“Not a problem.” Joey said and began rearranging his hair. He turned his headband backward and shoved his PET in his pocket. “Tada! Instant Lan.” It was true he looked exactly like Lan only he was wearing different clothes, you would think someone would notice that considering Lan always wore the same shirt, vest and shorts.
“But what about Maylu?” Lan asked.
“You don’t want to know.” Joey replied.
“Bu…” Maylu tried to say.
“You don’t want to know.”

Kupo.EXE · Darkloid Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 537

I know I said I would post them at intervals farther apart but I did quite alot of work and I am almost halfway done writingwise so here it is, CHAPTER 5 duh duh duh DUUUH!

and alert me of errors because I think I made quite a few on this chapter and it wont get very good until chapter 7/8 which I have finshed already.

Chapter 5: Preliminaries

The tourney started with a bang as most do. Higsby announced in front of the entire city that the preliminary round was beginning.
“As of now, the tournament is officially open!” Higsby yelled over a megaphone.
Higsby made sure his message was heard and then entered the stadium. Inside were all the net-battlers from Dentex City. Among them were Lan, Maylu and Joey who eagerly awaited the conditions.
“Hello.” Higsby said into the megaphone but due to talking he was not heard. “Um, hello may I have your attention please?” He tried again, no dice. “QUIET!” That got them they all looked at Higsby.
“In this tournament we will try something a little different, we are going to have a scavenger hunt.” Higsby announced. Everybody was confused about the preliminary round.
“You will all get into groups of three, you will have to take one clue on your way out and find the other five clues.” He continued. “The first eight teams to obtain all five clues come back here and have one final test. This will begin the second round, it will be a fight with teams of three which will be the same teams you used for the hunt. All further details will be revealed to you if you make it to the next round, or if you don’t then it will be revealed when the second round begins on TV.” There was an awkward silence where no body moved.
“Any questions?” He said at last having just realizing it
“I have a question!” Yelled a boy in the back of the stadium. “What is this tournament being called?”
“Good question, the tourney is called the N2 grand prix, just because the N1 grand prix was such a success. Except for the stadium collapsing.” He told the boy.
“What is the reason for the break in tradition?” A girl from the middle of the crowd yelled.
“Just to shake things up.” Sal said coming in from the door behind Higsby. “This years event will be better than ever, lots of new twists and turns that you will have to overcome have been introduced and are waiting for you. And of course I will commentate the event.”
“Umm, any more questions?” Higsby said, he was still a little shocked from Sal’s unexpected and well-timed entrance. “None, ok BEGIN!”
All the while, Lan, Maylu and Joey were watching from the stadium and began conversing.
“This is rather unorthodox.” Joey said, it was easy to tell that he was not confused but rather apprehensive about the change in tradition.
“And very coincidental.” Lan pointed out. “Three people in a group and we have three right here.”
“We might as well get going, it’s not as if the judges are going to let us in without the preliminary round completed.” Maylu said hurriedly. Lan and Joey nodded and they left with their first clue.
“It says ‘The kids enjoy it, the adults sometimes do. Jack in here and have your next clue.” Maylu read aloud.
“That is obvious, the net-battle machine.” Lan told her confidently.
“He is right.” Joey said mysteriously. Lan and Maylu both shrugged and began walking away.
When they arrived at the arcade they found that the net-battle machine was out of order.
“Great, now what are we gonna do?” Lan said disappointedly. Maylu and Lan thought hard. Joey rolled his eyes and jacked into the machine anyway. Lan and Maylu didn’t notice that until they saw the stream coming out of his PET.
Inside the net-battle machine cyber-world Wind found an official tournament navi.
“Fix the machine and you will get your next clue.” The navi said happily. It then released hundreds of viruses that attacked Wind. The navi closed his eyes and began chuckling to itself until it heard a massive explosion. When it opened its eyes a mettaur flew through the air and landed in front of him. A small blast hit it and it was deleted.
“What next?” Wind asked sluggishly.
Wind jacked out and found that Lan and Joey were having a civilized conversation, which to Wind was highly unusual.
“I suppose that it had its moments.” Lan said to Joey.
“I thought that you could hardly spent five minutes before laughing. I hardly had any bones left when I left the theatre.” Joey stated.
“Back.” Wind told Joey. Joey picked up his PET and walked over to a printer coincidentally on a nearby shelf. He imputed a code that the navi had given Wind. Instantly it printed another clue.
“Great job Wind. I don’t nearly say this enough but you are the best damn navi I have ever had the pleasure of operating.” Joey told Wind. Wind smiled and gave Joey a thumbs up.
This struck Maylu as abnormal, she expected Joey to be one of those operators who has developed absolutely no relationship with their navi, but if that was true how could crossfusion be possible? This raised even more questions to the getting rapidly more perplexing pyramid of lies. Wow that is a mouthful, try saying that three times fast.
When the printer had stopped printing, Joey took the piece of paper.
“You must not scream, you must not shout but it’ll be loud when you jack out.” He read aloud.

Kupo.EXE · Darkloid Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 537

Sorry it took so long but my interweb was down for a while and I had no way to post it so here it is anyway chapter 6. This one is long and boring with little funny bits but I don't expect much appraisale because its kind of boring and unoriginal. The good stuff is yet to come.

Thanks to Danny Boy (not a user) for Beta reading it.

Chapter 6: Solution

“That is hard.” Lan pointed out.
“No, you think?” Maylu said to Lan sarcastically.
“But wait.” Lan said. “Ms. Mari has mentioned this kind of thing. All we need to do is find simple solutions to complex problems.”
“Good plan, but what is obvious about that?” Maylu said pointing at the piece of paper in Joey’s hand.
“It means that you have to be quiet but whatever you have to do it will be loud so where is a place you need to be quiet.” Lan pondered.
“The school?” Maylu suggested.
“Sure.” Lan said.
So the group walked over to Dentex academy and into Ms. Mari’s classroom.
“Maybe it wouldn’t be a good Idea to hide it here, this place is rubble.” Maylu pointed out.
The group all pondered this for a moment and all seemed to get the same answer at the same time. I know what you are thinking and I can counter it with four words: dude it is fiction.
“The library!” They all said together.
And so our heroes walked to the library unbeknownst to the danger that lurk ahead. Yes I know that was cheesy but it was true.
Unfortunately Joey was busy looking through the science fiction section and did not notice Lan and Maylu were attempting to get the clue.
“Alright time to get the clue, jack in Megaman power up!” Lan jacked in.
“I help to Lan don’t forget it, jack in Roll power up!” Maylu jacked in.
In the library server Megaman and roll soon found an official tournament navi. He challenged them to a two on one net-battle that they would never forget, but there was a condition only five chips were allowed per player. This didn’t seem to bother Lan as he was used to having battle chip limits due to crossfusion.
“This is going to be fun, battle routine set.” The navi said.
“Execute!” Roll and Megaman yelled at the same time.
“Let’s start big, Roll soul!” Lan yelled, he slotted in the Roll chip so Megaman could soul unison.
“Wait,” Maylu said suddenly remembering something, “Attack pattern gama!”
Lan knew what she was onto and prepared his chips.
“Dash attack, long blade battlechips in download!” lan and Maylu yelled together and slotted in, you guessed it, dash attack and long blade.
Megaman and Roll activated dash attack creating two bird-like creatures that flew through the air allowing them to jump on them and fly around.
The navi countered with a hi-cannon, Megaman and Roll were prepared and activated long blade. They began slashing at the shots erupting from the hi-cannon rendering them useless.
Megaman and Roll then flew directly at the navi and slashed both the arms off in unison and let the dash attacks hit him. He stumbled backwards but was attacked by the two navi’s who had jumped off the dash attacks at the last second. Lan could see that the navi had minimal health and decided to stop Megaman from deleting it.
Roll seemed rather angry at this and deleted the navi anyway. She picked up the mystery data which contained the code and jacked out.
“Roll?” Maylu asked with the same tone that someone would say. Why the hell would you do that? “You deleted that navi!”
“What else is new?” Roll said rebelliously. It was apparent though that she was not really paying attention as she was looking at where her fingernails would be if she had them.
“But… oh never mind.” Maylu turned and printed the code on a conveniently placed printer.
“What’d I miss?” Joey walked in with a wheelbarrow full of books.
“Mmm… unexpected!” Lan said comically.
Maylu backed away in hopes that Roll’s sudden change in personality would go unnoticed. But someone did notice, Roll.
“Is there a problem May?” Roll asked loudly. “A little guilt perhaps?”
“Roll what is happening to you?” Maylu asked rhetorically. Normally rhetorical questions are meant to go unanswered, like what is the meaning of life? Or what is blue in the winter brown in the summer and smells like cheese? This time however it was answered by none other than Roll herself. Bet you weren’t expecting that, wink, wink.
“Something wonderful darling, ha, ha!” Roll said in a very fake British accent.
“What is up with Roll?” Lan asked.
“Programming error I think.” Maylu explained far too quickly to be believable. Yet Lan and Joey both did not investigate her honesty.
“I can fix that!” Joey said unexpectedly.
Most of the time when someone says I can fix that, it is going to lead to serious problems for the protagonist. But Joey was not a moronic sidekick like those stories.
Joey grabbed her PET and began pressing buttons.
“Hmm, it seems you were correct, your undershirt program is above the command line and…” Joey cut himself off and connected his PET to hers.
“A few minor changes and… voila!” Joey exclaimed. “Instant Roll.”
He gave back the PET.
“Roll are you ok?” Maylu asked slowly, as though Roll was going to attack her.
“Better!” Roll said loudly.
“Never doubt my programming skills, I programmed Wind remember and he is one of the best navis in the world.” Joey said confidently.
“I like pointy things!” Wind yelled. Lan and Maylu laughed heartily.
“Aren’t you guys forgetting something?” Megaman said from inside his PET.
“No I don’t think so.” Lan said.
“… The tournament!” Megaman yelled at him so loudly that lan nearly dropped his PET.
“Oh crap!” The green and pink navis both yelled in unison.
“Oh crap indeed.” Megaman said quietly.
Joey read the paper and immediately knew where to go.
“Go into the future and bring back some pie, maybe then will we say ‘hi guy’.”
“Boy, that is not hard to figure out at all.” Roll said sarcastically.
“Right you are Rolly polly.” Megaman joked.
“Call me that again and the antenna will say the rest.” Roll threatened. But as the navis were arguing they did not notice that the operators had already reached the destination.
“Sci-lab.” Lan observed. Lan had been there many times but most of the time it was to visit his dad who was there sometimes when he was not in another country.
The three of them walked inside only to find that it was completely torn apart. Books were scattered along the floor, equipment was lying on the ground most of it destroyed. They walked through the battlefield that was sci-lab finding nothing but wreckage. They all walked towards the only sound, the constant clap of a hand hitting the keyboard of one of sci-labs hundreds of computers. The sound was traced to a desk with papers fluttering off it and a man sitting at a chair typing away. Lan recognized him as Mr. Famous
“Mr. Famous?” Lan asked slowly. Mr. Famous did not respond, Lan decided to tap him on the shoulder. Mr. Famous grabbed a nearby pole and swung at Lan. Joey walked forward slightly with his eyes closed as if he was bored and grabbed the pole with his left hand.
“Careful with that.” He said quietly. Mr. Famous immediately dropped the pole and stumbled backward.
“Sorry about that.” He said. “We had a break in and I am on high alert. So how are my three, I mean two net-savors and friend.”
“Tell us more about the break in.” Joey said.
“Someone broke in through the window and looked through our data files, the damage upstairs was caused by our incompetent night watch.” Mr. Famous explained.
“But what about the damage down here?” Maylu asked.
“We had a staff party.” Mr. Famous told them. The three rolled their eyes. “Oh, we got a video of the break in.”
“Let’s see it then.” Lan said.
Mr. Famous typed for a few seconds until a video of someone breaking into sci-lab appeared. Lan and the others watched over the shoulders of Mr. Famous’ white lab coat.
A dark figure punched through the window and sat at a nearby terminal. They watched for several minutes as the person accessed data regarding the leak and downloading it to a plug in PET. After a while security attacked, several attacked directly but were thrown to the ground with relative ease. Others attacked from behind but were kicked in the stomach.
“This is the best part.” Mr. Famous told them, he was munching popcorn and Lan was trying to get some but Mr. Famous kept batting his hand away.
The figure stepped backward toward the window, it eyed the three remaining guards. They charged but the figure jumped in time for them all to fall through the window. Then the figure grabbed the PET and jumped out the window.
“The only thing we have been able to deduce is that the person was crossfused because of the added agility and strength and because there was a dimensional area around the entire city at the time.” Mr. Famous explained while he threw his popcorn that had appeared out of nowhere in a garbage can across the room.
“That is it?” Lan said in a confused tone.
“Lan is right, haven’t you noticed the plug in PET?” Maylu inquired.
“We did notice that but pushed it aside, the person was crossfused and therefore could not have used his or her own PET.” Mr. Famous told them returning to his position at the terminal. Lan couldn’t see his eyes due to the very cool sunglasses but knew that if the laws of physics were still in effect Mr. Famous’ pupils would be so square they would get pay-per-view wrestling twenty four seven. But after much internal dispute he decided not to press the matter. However he did wonder whether lumberjack had beaten man-woman the previous night.
“What I meant was have you checked the symbol for reference?” Maylu said in a very agitated tone.
“Yes but the symbol was erased from the logs along with the data on the leaks.” Mr. Famous explained with his eyes still firmly planted on the screen. He typed rather rapidly while the rest watched. He was going to analyze the data for the next PET which he had a revolutionary idea for, but he decided to put on some light music instead.
“But have you checked it for personal references?” Joey asked.
“Yes but since it is so blurry it is hard to make out.” Mr. Famous told him. Lan walked to another monitor and accessed the program. He fiddled around with it until he saw it clearly and he stepped back in shock.
“Maylu… have a look at this.” He stuttered. She walked towards the screen and saw what Lan had found. She turned around and pointed at Joey, she was so shocked she could hardly speak but when she reached inside herself she knew someone had to say it.
“It’s… it’s you!” She stammered.
Joey was surprised at this but he shook off his emotions and walked towards the monitor. Joey watched the screen for several seconds, Lan watched his expressions change from surprise to a frown and finally to a smile. He began laughing maniacally, Mr. Famous, Lan and Maylu stepped back.
“Maylu you are so naïve, don’t you understand?” Joey spat out through the laughter. He waited for several seconds for his laughing fit to pass before continuing. “I was with you guys the entire time plus I got rid of that PET months ago, I left it with commissioner Kifune to study after what happened to that.”
“Umm, Joey?” Wind interrupted.
“What.” Joey responded quickly.
“You’ve said to much.”
“Right you are.”
Megaman had been knocking on the glass of the PET for several minutes now because of impatience. But now he was fed up and decided to take action.
“Hey guys aren’t you forgetting something?”
“No I don’t think so.” Lan replied.
“The tournament.” Megaman said.
“The tournament?” Mr. Famous said to himself. “Oh that’s right, here.” He handed Maylu a clue.
“Thanks, see you Famous!” Lan called from the door.
“That’s Famous- wait you got it right!” Mr. Famous yelled back.
Maylu read the hint aloud.
“I sell you power I sell you fun, but I cannot sell you a good pun.”
“Bet you that Sal wrote that one.” Joey said happily, eagerly trying to hold in his laughter.
“At least this one is easy.” Lan observed.
And so they all pranced away hand in hand, singing the wizard of oz theme.
“The final clue is here.” Joey told the girl at the counter. They had arrived at Higsby’s chip shop and were rather aggravated by the girl at the counter who had no idea that there even was a tournament.
“But what is it huh?” She replied.
Joey sighed and pointed at a sheet of paper on the cash register that had a picture of Higsby’s head and below it was a handwritten note to the girl. It read the tournament clues are in the mailbox.
“What mailbox?” She asked.
“Tell you what, if we find it can we use it?” Lan asked trying to hold back his frustration with the girl at the counter.
“I am afraid that I cannot let you take it, it might be important.” She said in a harsh scolding tone that Lan’s mother might use.
“Listen here and listen good!” Joey had been overloaded with frustration and couldn’t hold it in any more. “It’s important to us and we are not leaving here without it so we will sit here and see which one of us decomposes first and we have a good four years on you ma’am!”
She was so overwhelmed with the shear volume of what he said that she just said three words.
“Just take it!”
Joey found a mailbox with a logo for the popular reality TV show The Amazing Face on it. He took a clue from the five that were there. He grabbed Lan and Maylu and pulled them toward the stadium.
“Aren’t you going to read it?” Lan asked him, he was still shocked at Joey’s display of anger and his eyes were too dry to close so he had to wedge them shut with his fingers to blink.
“It just says come back to the stadium and I don’t have anything else to rhyme so just come back.” Joey replied. Lan had finally shaken off his surprise and looked over at Maylu, she knew a thing or two about letting your emotions get the best of you.
The rest of the walk was silent, everyone knew what the other was thinking, except for Lan who knew about as much about what was going on as my cat Professor whiskers knows French.
When they made their way back they saw that several teams had already finished. Lan deduced that they would have beaten them to the clues while they were talking to Mr. Famous. However they were not aloud to see the other competitors until round two began. Several hours followed where the three sat in a tent outside the stadium waiting for the other groups to finish, these three hours were not silent however Lan had remembered what Wind had said earlier and spent some of the time there getting him to fess up.

Kupo.EXE · Darkloid Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 537

Finally it gets slightly better, well thats my opinion. This and the next chapters become more confusing so those who read this prepare to have a serious meltdown. And any feedback at all would be nice I feel like Im talking to a blackboard here, throw me a bone or some other inanimate object that would show that people actually know I exist. Whatever off with the oddly long winded jokes from a twisted mind thjat is my own. And note that these chapters kep getting longer so be prepared for some not so light reading.

Chapter 7 Collapse

“Ok, fine.” Joey had finally given in to Lan’s demands. It had been several hours now and Lan had shown no signs of stopping. “My previous navi was in that PET for two years, our bond grew strong and we became the best of friends. However sometime along that line a darkchip entered his body. After that I became a top net-battler, he slowly drained the good from me until I became a servant of Nebula.”
“Nebula existed then?” Maylu pondered.
“Yes they did but they did not become active until not long ago.” Joey replied. He continued. “Eventually a good friend of mine deleted him and thus releasing the evil. I became a net-savor, like my friend before me. But the next time I slotted in a battlechip the data was reversed and it became this.” Joey held up a battlechip, Lan recognized it as a navi chip but the metal was bright white and the picture was a mirror. “This chip is all that was good inside him, I have never used it and never plan to but I will keep it forever.”
“But then why did I find the PET on the ground?” Maylu inquired.
“I don’t know.” Joey replied after several seconds of piecing together what Maylu had just said. “How would it have gotten on the ground?”
“Don’t ask us we just found it.” Lan said this very clearly as though he was forced to say it; no one seemed to take notice though.
“Have…” Maylu started to say but she had noticed that Joey and Lan had both left the tent.
She decided it was best to leave the tent in case she was missing something important. Outside she found that Higsby was announcing the tournament pairings.
“And the fourth and final pairing is the Scheme Team vs. Team Aspen.” Higsby announced via microphone. “Participants in block A please follow me.”
Lan and Joey both followed Higsby into the stadium and as soon as Maylu saw them she followed.
Inside the stadium there was a giant netbattle machine and surprisingly a very large audience. Maylu rushed after Lan and Joey who had sat down in folding chairs by the south wall.
“Hey Maylu pull up a seat.” Lan had just noticed Maylu coming and interrupted his conversation with Joey to say that. “We were just thinking of team names.”
“What do you think of CF revolution?” Joey asked Maylu.
“It’s… good, but I heard you interrogating Bubbleman and you mention a destroyer of souls. How about Team Soul Destroyer.” Maylu suggested. Joey frowned, he didn’t want to refuse but he didn’t want to accept. This name hit close to home but he let his feelings get the best of him and he nodded.
“Ok then, from now on we are Team Soul Destroyer!” Lan yelled out dramatically.
“Good then I’ll write that down.” Higsby yelled back from the net-battle machine. The battle had started it was the net agents against a team known as Flotsam.
The battle raged on between the net agents and the unknown team. The battle was fairly short, the net agents were very confident that victory was at hand and nothing could be closer to the truth. They ripped through the bundle of norm-navis with poor chips like paper. It wasn’t long before the match ended abrubtly with the net agent’s navis hardly having broken a cyber sweat.
Higsby then announced the next match. “Team Soul Destroyer vs. Team WWW!”
Lan, Maylu and Joey took their positions at the machine, at the other side Maddy, Mr. Match and Count Zap Stood at the other side.
“You are never going to take us down!” Maylu yelled at them confidently.
“Oh really? We’ll take you down just for saying that!” Maddy yelled back at them. She expected Maylu to flinch but Maylu stood her ground. Lan sighed, this fight was between Maddy and Maylu but they were dragging the rest into it. Even Joey took it for what it was; two women fighting for superiority in a world ruled by the male species.
“Ladies please calm down.” Higsby said to them but it was apparent that he was shy around women and his voice was too quiet to be heard.
Lan and Joey looked at each other and nodded, they both knew what the other was thinking. They both jacked in to the machine and their navis took their positions.
Higsby saw this and knew what to do.
“Let the match begin!” He announced.
Maddy and Maylu immediately desisted and jacked in hurriedly.
When Roll arrived in the cyber world she saw that the battle was already commencing. Wind was dodging fire-towers and Megaman was hacking away at Elecman with an elecblade battlechip along with Protosoul equipped.
She was going to help Megaman but was hit by a Wackoball while she ran. Wackoman was pelting her with balls from across the server. Maylu handed her a barrier but it didn’t last long. The shear force of the balls made the barrier buckle like a twig with a rhino on it.
Wind had just forced Torchman to log out and in turning he saw Roll getting hammered.
“Roll!” He yelled, but half way through his voice changed. He put his hand to his mouth but he saw that his hand was human. He looked around, he was no longer in the cyber world he could see that much. But the only thing in the room was a girl who looked strangely like Maylu backing into a corner. He couldn’t see very well and no colors were showing up but from what he could see she was covered in blood. A figure stepped in from the darkness of a blood-splattered doorway.
The room was becoming clearer it was a high tech room like a lab, but that was impossible there were no windows and no computers. Wind was gaining a better view of the figure but all he saw was a silhouette against the wall. The silhouette walked over slowly and grabbed the girl by the neck and lifted her up. Wind tried to run over to help but he couldn’t move his legs. He could only watch the girl struggle for her life as the figure just stood there.
When she finally stopped moving the silhouette materialized and looked over at Wind. The only feature of the face that was visible was large menacing red eyes. This was the only color he had seen in this hallucination and thought it might have signifigance, but that was the navi logic preogram his real mind was screaming its head off. Before Wind could react to the figure he realized he was back in the netbattle arena. Yet nobody was there, the only sound came into play gradually getting louder.
“Wind? Wind? WIND?” Joey was yelling at him. Before Wind knew it he was getting the jack out command from Joey so he obeyed.
“What happened?” Joey asked desperately. “You disappeared and then reappeared after several minutes.”
“Joey,” Wind responded, “I need to talk to you now so can we leave.”
“We do have a while before the next match so lets.”
Joey walked out of the stadium with his PET in hand.
“The darksoul virus affected you?” Joey asked him.
“Yes, the vision was of the annex room.” Wind explained, he was regaining vision of colors, which he noticed from the green of the grass. He felt comfort in knowing the vision was over and that he would never experience it again.
“Who were you?” He asked.
Wind whispered to Joey.
“That means that whoever has the vision is a different person but why were you him?”
“Joey the next match is against the net-agents and they are going to start early!” Maylu was running towards Joey with the force of seven elephants. Joey looked up at her. “Lots of people forfeited and now they have to skip to the next round.”
“That’s odd.” Joey observed.
“Some of them claimed their navi’s disappeared and reappeared in a strange area of the net and are not able to jack out.”
“So the virus is contagious.” Joey said to himself. He pondered this in his mind, if Wind had the vision and reappeared in the same place then they must have… He realized what was happening but knew that he must continue so he followed Maylu back to the netbattle machine.
Joey, Lan and Maylu all jacked in in unison but the net agents jacked in one at a time. Commander Beef then Black Rose and Mysteriyu. Although they jacked in separately they all arrived in the cyberworld at the same time.
Wind explained this to Roll as a desperate attempt to alter the flow of time so they could show all of the jack in animations without having to see all of them at once.

The problem with spontaneous flashbacks or flashforewards is that none of them stop time to happen. This can lead to the person having the flashback or flashforeward stop doing what they’re doing and stay where they are, perfectly still. However in this case I have added a twist, they disappear when they have the visions, which in turn allows them safety but also provides a healthy dose of confusion to the people they are around. But this brings up another case and point. What happens causes something else to happen and what happens then in turn causes something else to happen which happens to cause something else to happen, it doesn’t necessarily have to be in chronological order though. You may think what I just stated is a joke but I stand by my logic.
At any rate, the battle had begun. Megaman and Roll were firing spreaders at Sharkman and Wind was blasting the hell out of Skullman and Woodman with a bubble V gun but Woodman was not being affected. Skullman logged out but woodman went in for the kill with a wood tower. Wind was heaved up into the air by one right below him. The large amount of hangtime allowed Joey to send a big-bomb battlechip, which Wind used to make a hole where he was going to land. Woodman expected something like this and used a woodtower that spread horizontally across the hole.
“Yo-yo battlechip in, download!” Joey sent a yo-yo battlechip. Wind did not use it right away, he fell through the hole and contorted himself to miss the tower. He then used the yo-yo as a grappling hook to swing himself up using the same woodtower. He went in for the kill, he prepared to punch Woodman but while he charged him a megabuster shot knocked him away. Megaman was firing rapidly while running towards Woodman. Wind stumbled while trying to stop himself from running. Apparently Megaman hadn’t noticed his shots had inturupted Wind, but Wind -being the polite navi he was- didn’t mention it.
“Mega, let’s try attack pattern alpha!” Wind suggested emphatically.
Roll ran up behind Megaman and Wind who at the moment were preparing to attack. Woodman took the opportunity to run away and prepare a counter attack.
Wind was the first to notice this and opened a window to talk to Joey.
“We need a good chip of any kind!” He said hurriedly. Joey obeyed and slotted in a hammer chip.
Wind knew what he was thinking so he grabbed Megaman who was conversing with Maylu through a window. For a moment Wind’s and Maylu’s eyes met and Maylu saw that they were no longer green, they were deep red.
Then she was thrown into a dark hallway, she was running but she stopped as soon as she saw no point. The only light was coming from a door in front of her, a sign on the door read ‘Annex room”. She was going to open it but she realized that someone was behind her, it wasn’t a noise or a light but a cold shiver of a dark presence. She turned around to see deep red eyes coming from the darkness. She didn’t need a second opinion so she ran into the annex room. It was a dark and foreboding room but it was better than with the red eyed evil thing. She locked the door and searched for another exit, no such luck. She looked at her body and realized that not only was it covered in blood, it wasn’t hers. Pain hit her hard, her wounds were infected but that was not serious compared to the red eyed “thing” that waited her outside the small insignifigant room. She sat in a chair as far away from the door as possible and considered her present situation. “I was in a netbattle and Wind looked at me. No before that, Megaman was sharing his opinions? No, Roll fighting Sharkman? Wait ROLL!” She realized that she had a PET in the holster on her waist. She removed it and looked at it. It had a strange symbol on it, similar to hers but just noticeably different. The difference was like Lan and Joey’s symbols it had four triangles in the same shape as hers but they were spread where the horizontal and vertical boundaries crossed with the end of the symbol. She looked at the navi and realized it wasn’t Roll.
Before she could get a good look at the navi the figure slammed against the door causing Maylu to drop the PET. She attempted to force it shut with the chair but the door gave way knocking her to the ground. All she could do was back into the corner while the dreadful figure came slowly towards her. Fear consumed her and she couldn’t move, the PET lay there on the ground. She moved into the corner as though trying to make the room bigger. With this last ounce of movement a synchro chip fell out of her pocket.
She didn’t care if no dimensional area was there she wanted to slot in but she couldn’t move. The PET lay there and she could not move her arms to get it. As that happened the figure came ever closer. She couldn’t see the figure and now she knew why, the figure was a shadow, a silhouette if you will, it wasn’t a person. This little complication eased her mind slightly because she knew that it could not harm her but she still could not move away. No matter how much fear she pushed away it would keep flowing back as though she was moving smoke with her bare hands.
The figure moved in on her and grabbed her neck. She was both scared and puzzled, she couldn’t figure out how it could grab her if it does not have physical form. Fear was all that she could feel and no matter what she tried to do she could not move.
The figure lifted and squeezed her neck, he was killing her. At the last moment of life she saw a person standing in the shadows watching her but not helping. And then… she died. The abyss hit her like a pole. She was dead and she knew it but she felt as though she was alive. Maylu stood up, she marveled. She could stand up (the afterlife seemed good so far except for the darkness). Perhaps the voices randomly yelling through her mind were the reason but for the first time in a while she felt that the world no longer made sense.
Back at the stadium Maylu had disappeared at the moment of truth, Lan and Joey watched as the PET in her hand dropped to the ground with nothing to suspend the gravity pulling it downward. Lan hadn’t fully grasped the concept yet, Maylu had disappeared. Lan had seen weird but this was just as far out as Naboo. Joey knew what was going on but fought the urge to explain to his dim-witted compatriot. Megaman just fell over in shock, perhaps this was too much too early for Roll but she suddenly felt her power output drop like a rock on Jupiter. Roll collapsed, the support and kindness her net-op usually handed her had left.
Wind realized what had happened and found the courage to tell Roll what was happening and walked over to her. Roll was in a little ball and the only sound she made was a dull whimper. Wind kneeled beside her and lay his hand on Roll’s pink shoulder.
Roll felt the warmth of the green navi’s hand, she saw the opportunity to do what she needed and deactivated her navi customizer. Free of the shackles that had kept her secret from escaping she stood up. Tears slid down her face as she walked toward Woodman, she held out her hand and quietly ordered Wind. “Weapon.”
The one word could bring down an army if used correctly. Wind had seen navis break loose from their operators before and knew what she needed to do to overcome it. He uploaded the hammer and handed it to Roll.
She stood there for a second quietly, her head was hung but her mouth was visible. Her expression was of pure sadness but that slowly turned to a maniacal smile.
Roll ran straight ahead so fast that if you had blinked it would have looked like she had transported herself to Woodman where she took a horizontal swipe at him. Woodman dodged backward but Roll countered with a vertical strike.
Woodman used a woodtower but they kept popping up behind Roll as she ran towards Woodman. When their paths crossed time seemed to stop and Roll kissed Woodman on his wooden cheek as she ran by. Woodman was expecting a hammer stroke so he paused for several milliseconds in shock. This was cut short by woodtowers that followed, they had followed Roll all the way to Woodman. He flew into the rafters and landed on his back about three cyber-meters from the power hungry pink navi with the giant hammer.
“Now how about attack pattern alpha?” She stammered to Wind who had just ran over.
Wind nodded and got down on one knee with his hands together in the shape of a plate. Roll Ran at him with the hammer at her side, Wind pushed her up with his hands into the air.
Woodman tried to run but was bound to the ground by some unknown force.
Roll did a series of flips in the air while trying to get into position. She struck the ground with enough force to delete Bass, but it was irrelevant. Woodman jacked out before she hit him and all the power hit the ground.
It cracked. Roll was suspended in midair due to the hammer being wedged into the ground.
The hammer buckled, it left Roll hanging in midair but she fell down into the crack. The final push caused complete entire shut down of the system or in other words extended it to the point of no repair. It got larger and larger until the entire server was cracked. Then it shattered, no one thought it possible but the entire server shattered leaving nothing but Roll falling into the darkness.

Kupo.EXE · Darkloid Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 537

Well here is chapter 8 its better but still I can't tell whether anyone is paying attention. I wouldn't care if you said it was a piece of crap. GEEZ! I will keep posting anyway so here is chapter 8. Its kinda short but its getting up to where I am now in chapter 11

Chapter 8 Function

The anger spreading through her body suddenly subsided leaving a sad weak pink navi who finally felt that it was no longer necessary for her to exist and so as she hurtled down into the far reaches of the net she felt no resistance.
The other two falling navis would not accept this, Megaman sped up his fall by diving and grabbed Roll. Lan jacked him out, hoping they would both come but at the last second Roll pushed him away.
Megaman swore loudly, he was back in his PET but having the only navi he could really talk to delete herself was the worst punishment he could imagine.
Wind was watching this and did the same but instead of jacking out he just forced himself in front of the helpless pink navi.
For the final seconds of the fall he felt that he would be remembered for this. Yet the only thing he cared for more at that moment was having Roll survive in time to return to her operator who was not as dead as most people thought.

They fell for what seemed like hours but in reality it was about two seconds, but for Wind it was the best two seconds of his life. That moment right before impact was in all honesty was the most emotion poured out by any navi in existence even if it was for a very limited time.
After that was a very loud crash followed by frequent sobs. Tears flew from Roll’s eyes, not from pain but from sorrow. Wind had cushioned Roll’s fall by letting her fall on his stomach.
She pounded her fist on the ground but instead of hitting ground she hit Wind.
Euphoria flew through her mind, Wind was still alive!
She screamed at Joey to jack him out, he agreed and jacked Wind back into his PET and Roll into hers. He then ran faster than he had ever ran (save once) to Sci-lab. He passed many people and animals, they all stared at him as he ran by. Nothing could stop him he ran past cars and buildings inserting recovery chips every few seconds. He passed Maysa who offered him fish as he passed, Joey took a raw fish without stopping and shoved it into his mouth.
As he entered the lab his legs buckled, his PET went flying and a chip flew out of it.
Mr. Famous who had just turned a corner got a face full of PET.
“Navi recovery, NOW!” Joey stammered from the ground. He then threw up and passed out.

Life is a curious topic, for life to exist we must rely on more life but you have to consider that if the life you rely on is gone then how do you live? Also consider this, if or when time travel becomes a reality how can we use it without tearing the fabric of space-time. For example if you went back in time and killed your parents then you would have never been born, but if you were never born then you would never have gone back to kill your parents and therefore have been born but if you were born you would have killed them. This kind of logic defines that it is impossible to travel back in time. But consider that if you went back in time but not in the sense that you could do anything because whatever you do has already happened.
Logic dictates that for every choice that is made by anyone an alternate dimension is created in which you had made a different choice. If it was possible to go back in time then you would have to create an alternate dimension that is exactly the same as the one you are in and when you are finished you have to destroy it before the tear in the space-time continuum envelops the entire universe. This information will be useful in the future when I get more philosophical.

Maylu had been sitting in the void for several minutes now and started to wonder. Is this it, is there nothing more? Ultimately the answer was very complicated.
She took her hand and rubbed her forehead, she had a migraine. This led to more questions but the only answer she came up with was that she wasn’t really dead.
She put her hand down, but as she put her hand down she saw something; or rather she didn’t see something. Her hand wasn’t there, this was followed by the answer that she no longer had physical form. But then she realized that she had rubbed her head and therefore it was there but she couldn’t see it.
She decided to muse out loud in case she had just gone blind.
“Am I dead?” She asked aloud. “Is this heaven and why can I not see?” She asked. Surprisingly she received a response.

Kupo.EXE · Darkloid Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 537

yep I am not very inspired because nobody cares about this but screw them I keep posting. So here is chapter 9 the chapter thats very benign. HE HE I made a joke. Aw watever here it is.

Yet another chapter all very confusing. Maylu having beem transported to the world of the dead meets her dopelganger: Amyl, She will introduce maylu to Hub Hikari, well known brother of Lan Hikari. Ya perhaps that counts as a spoiler, can someone tell me if Hub is still a spoiler?

Chapter 9: Death

“Yes, no and it’ll wear off.” The voice was female, very soothing yet a lot of attitude. It reminded her of herself but deeper.
It was true she was regaining control of her vision. The first thing she saw was a girl, a year or two older than her standing above her with her hand outstretched. The first thing to cross Maylu’s mind was that the look of this girl was very similar to her own. She had dark brown hair but she had the sane build and wore similar clothes and had a different symbol in her hair. She grabbed her hand and heaved herself to an upright position.
“Why-” Maylu started to say but was interrupted by the girl.
“Do I look so much like you?” The girl asked.
Maylu nodded, she wondered how this girl knew her question but she settled herself with the theory that she would find out eventually.
“We came from alternate universes but we are ultimately the same person.” The girl Explained. “I’m Amyl but you need not know my last name, in here we are all friends.”
“Alternate universe?” Maylu asked, this situation was very weird but even weirder was the world around them. It was like a small gathering in a prairie.
“For every choice anyone has ever made there is an alternate universe, one for every option and those options are the difference between us. They have decided to number them by using the Greek alphabet for the main groups.”
“The main groups?” Maylu asked.
“The ultimate decision of the first living being. I don’t know the exact question but I know that each answer leads to a completely different universe. We are both carbon based so we are from the delta universe. I am from Delta 02, but you are hard to place. You see we all live in separate planets for every number but you arrived in 02 but you are not from here so you must have been in that universe when you died.”
“But I was in my own universe.” Maylu commented.
“Strange… Hub!” Amyl called out and a boy about Lan’s age walked over. Maylu received a very awkward feeling, the boy in most respects was Lan. As he walked by she stared openmouthed at the very odd child.
“Yes?” The boy responded to Amyl.
“This girl is me but she is apparently from this universe, how is that possible?” Amyl inquired.
“This is in no way possible… unless.” He got lost on the catwalk that is this situation.
Maylu finally spoke but it came out as several words strung together using a wrench, a screwdriver and a lemon pie. How is that possible? It isn’t.
“But…you…alive…insane…pie…cheese…dead…Lan?”
“Wait, did you just say Lan?” The boy asked.
Maylu nodded but as she did so drool came out the mouth she had not yet closed.
The boy looked both ecstatic and confused at the same time.
“I know where she is from.” He said quietly. He walked several meters away and held up his hand. Instantaneously, three rings materialized around him and flew up past his head. But as they moved up the body parts they passed disappeared.
Amyl grabbed Maylu and did the same.
Maylu was hurtled back and forth through the vast reaches of space and time, the only thing keeping her from flying into the abyss was Amyl who seemed to be able to sustain flight. Maylu felt like she was going to puke but what she assumed was that the universe was expensive and she shouldn’t puke on it because it may lower it’s value. Perhaps it could still fetch a number on E-bay even if it’s covered in puke.
She arrived at another planet a few seconds later, they then hit the ground at full force. Fortunately none of them were harmed, although Maylu didn’t think they would be hurt considering the fact that she was already dead.
It looked as though it was the ring that was taking them there and that she did not regain physical form until the rings flew down from Maylu’s head and down to her trembling feet.
In the place they had entered they walked over to the boy who was kneeling at a tombstone.
Confusion ran through Maylu’s mind, and judging from Amyl’s expression so was she.
“Why are you looking in the files of the dead and why are we in Delta 389?” Amyl asked the kneeling boy. He ignored her and turned immediately to Maylu.
“Maylu Sakurai, age 11, gender: female, location Dentech city, status: alive!”

ChibiForte · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 11:26 pm Post subject:

Wowie wow wow, FEEP! I love the way you write! It just flows smoothly through the entire story! More More! More, feep! *gets bricked* You're sense of humor and creativity are astounding! I especially like the part where you wrote that thing about Netto(Lan, whatever) and the pickle! My sense of humor is similar to yours, feep![/quote]
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I really appreciate that Ms. ChibiForte ma'am I need at least someone who can actually tell me something about this.

Kupo.EXE · Darkloid Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 537

Thanks to Ms. ChibiForte I am going to post this early, here is number ten. The only words to describe it are long and very philisophical. Here I try a new tecnique, please tell me what you think of my more emotional perspective of this complex and confusing tale.

Chapter 10: Emotion

Joey looked up, he had awakened from his unconsciousness only to find Mr. Famous and Dr. Hikari standing over him. He got up and rubbed his aching head.
“What? Where?” He stuttered
“Wind is going to make it, but we still have a problem.” Mr. Famous explained. “Maylu is still missing.”
“Still!” Joey yelled as he jumped to his feet.
“Yes, did you expect otherwise?” Mr. Famous asked suspiciously.
“Well… no, but-”
“I understand.”
How, how is this possible? This never happened before, why now? These and more questions ran through his no longer enlightened mind. He checked his watch, she should have been back hours before.
The only thing he could do now was be patient and hope she was no already dead.
Joseph Garabaldi, is this the end for him is he all washed up? Joey thought to himself.
He walked to a terminal and checked the status of Wind, he was no longer fragmented but he still lay there motionless. Joey felt himself drift back to a time a year or two previously when he had been in this same spot staring at the same terminal but looking at a different navi. This had never happened before to Wind, while they fell he had saved Roll. He had seen times like this before but he had never intervened this seriously. Perhaps Roll reminded him of someone else, someone he cared about very dearly and was struck down by his hand.
A soft yet audible sob came from the room next to him. Joey sighed, he knew the pain that came from losing a friend and was not surprised that when he opened the door and walked into the room he found Lan huddled in a dark corner of the depressing room.
Joey turned the florescent lights on and sat down beside Lan who was desperately trying to contain his sadness.
“Lan, I know what you are feeling and I can relate.” He said softly, Joey was a kind-hearted person although most people only take notice to his dark and angry side. He once had many friends and lived a happy and carefree life.
“No, you don’t… YOU CAN’T!” Lan finally released all of his emotion at Joey. He then got up and punched the wall that had supported his back several before, he hit it with such force that it cracked. He then shouted at Joey again. “HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY UNDERSTAND?”
Joey closed his eyes and contained his emotions, Maylu was his friend too and he was as angry as Lan was but he had trained for weeks to be able to contain his emotions. He then spoke to Lan in a soothing tone that he had used before only once.
“More than you know.”
“NO!” Lan yelled, “I CAN’T ACCEPT THAT!”
Joey focused on his code of ethics, he could not do what he felt he needed to. The stakes were too high and if Nebula obtained the information then the end of all things mortal would be imminent.
Lan pounded the wall again and began pacing around the room. This punch caused a shock wave that forced the lights to shatter.
Joey brushed glass out of hit thick brown hair and realized that this hit closer to home then he had previously believed.
Tears flowed from Lan’s brown eyes as he paced the dark room. Glass had sliced through the skin on his face, leaving it bloody and unclean.
Joey opened his eyes and started to speak words he knew he would regret.
“Lan, I know more than you think.”
Lan had started to calm down now, he had been considerably affected by Joey’s words.
“Like what? The meaning of life?”
“Actually it’s-” Lan put his hand over Joey’s mouth.
“I don’t want to know.”

“If you look back in history you will find that someone did something and that something caused something else and when that happened it was passed on and on until eventually it was written on an old piece of paper and left in a museum somewhere in the far corners of Katmandu. Many philosophers look back at this later and realize that it has no significant value. When this happens they send it to a dump somewhere of the coast of Turkey. This is a clear example of human stupidity, the people who have died all have realized that and decide that in the next life they will not pay attention to every little story that pops up. If you look at Joseph Garabaldi’s story than you will realize that even the dead ignore it. Nobody writes his legend down and puts it in a museum in Katmandu even though his story is the most interesting true story in about 34857320503438347806248762 universes in Delta alone (about forty thousand years ago). What Joey told Lan at that time changed the laws of reality for the worse. But it did have a pleasant side effect. The reason that this is being spoken is only so you understand that the logic of this world was warped and therefore no longer plausible. All references from now until the end of this gruesome tale will be rooted in the theory that when you die you are dumped into a virtual trash bin and that there are so many of them due to the number of alternate universes. Perhaps that confused you, if it did than you best slam your head into a wall before continuing this story.

At any rate Joey and Lan had been thrown into a deep and perplexing conversation.
“Lan, if you want to know everything then you are going to have to calm down and accept the fact that patience is our only weapon now.” Joey tried to explain this to Lan but Lan wouldn’t accept this.
“Joey I have been your friend for only a few days, how can I trust you.” Lan explained, he was still pacing the small room.
“I have only known you a few days also.” Joey said softly. “But I think of you as my brother.”
“I still cannot trust you no matter how much we have in common, trust is earned, not enforced.”
“Brave words, spoken by a brave man.” Joey told Lan. “If you listen to me I can help.”
“Alright.” Lan spoke bravely. “Fire away.”
“For a long time now I have been just a wanderer but for better or for worse I have stuck by my personal philosophy.”
“Which is?”
“When all else fails… Brute force.”
Lan stumbled backward, Joey was not one to go into battle without a strategy.
“I developed this theory a long time ago when I ruined my life.” Joey explained.
“Yes…” Lan said impatiently. Joey sighed and began his story of love and hate.
“… I had a friend, very much like Maylu. And I felt… close, to her. We were in a tournament just like the one we’re in now. But during the final, we were attacked and I was captured.”
“By who?”
“Whom!” Mr. Famous corrected from another room.
“Nebula.” Joey said softly.
Lan sat down beside Joey and put his hand on Joey’s shoulder compassionately.
“She tried to come after them, but they had inflicted me with a virus.”
“A disease or a computer virus?” Lan asked.
“Both… it took over me and I… I… I killed her.”
“WHAT?” Lan jumped to his feet and stared at the crouched figure of Joey. Lan then saw Joey’s face, tears were flowing down his rough dry skin. Lan sat down again so not to upset him. Lan thought it over thoroughly and decided he must ask.
“What was her name?” Lan asked softly.
“Her name was… Amyl.”

Hatsuya Kanzaki · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 6:05 am Post subject:

"Haru! Rockman! Saki! Elie! Initiate fusion!" Hatsuya and Netto shouted.

(Rockman has a white hair, with bluish goggles, his buster changed into Saki's rifle, his stripes turned red and his suit became much like a plated knight! He called it: "Rockman EXE Terminator Mode")

Oooops! It seems that on the first chapter, there's an error there!

Fires his .44 Magnum and showed the error:

threw - through (it's ok. I'm also used to rush my workings)
interweb - "you may call it as ISP for lay terms."

I love your fic too, you used NT Warrior names and terminologies. It would be slightly wise to italicize one character's sentence so that it won't cause confusion...

Fanfic Rating (rated by Hideaki Matsumae): 9/10

(Terminator Rockman EXE fired the S-Rifle with a Star bullet to your fic as a sign of approval...)
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ChibiForte · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 2:11 pm Post subject: WEEEEEE!!!

Yay! A very touching story if ya ask me! If I worked for a publishing company, I would scream, "OHMIGOD THIS STORY IS FREAKIN AWESOME AND I NEED TO PUBLISH IT!!!" *gets bricked*

Saito: You still scare me.

ChibiForte: Oh shut up puppy.(it's a loooong story. Less talking more reading my fics.)

*ChibiForte gets bricked*

Saito: Heh heh, moron.

*Fuyuki comes up behind Saito with a blowtorch*

Fuyuki: Heh heh, moron!

Saito: Shit. Before I die, I want to tell everyone to READ KUPO.EXE's FANFICS!!!

*Fuyuki burns Saito badly before walking away*

[spoil:014711cf6b]FEEP![/spoil:014711cf6b]
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Kupo.EXE · Darkloid Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 537

Alas Ms. ChibiForte ma'am I will never get tired of your... INSANE sense of humor. I thank you for your support, nothing like a good review to get the creative juices flowing. *stabs the cat* BAD KITTY! Sorry about that where was I? Oh yeah, YOU SUK! Just joshing I'll post chapter 11 very soonicus. So be cowfo be vewy vewy cowfo.

Kupo.EXE · Darkloid Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 537

This one makes even less sense and it is very stubid and boring, so be patient Im working of twelve as we type. Hee Hee, joke. *Gets Bricked* Sorry Ms. ChibiForte ma'am I couldn't resist.

So I added a little joke from chapter twelve to this post.

“What do you have in this thing? Bricks?”
“Yes.” Joeys said tentatively.
“Who keeps bricks in their PET?”
“Apparently me!”

Its quiet, TOO quiet...
FEEP!
damn it Ms. ChibiForte ma'am. Im hooked.

Anyway off with the long winded jokes, and on with the insaneness of Chapter 11!

Chapter 11: Inquiry

There is only one concept on the earth that is nearly impossible to explain. It is an emotion felt by all at one point of their life. Many think of it as just an accident in the making, these people have had this be their downfall. A great number of punk or ska bands insult this frequently, but others who have felt the true pleasure have ended up as happy people. But to some of them it is only temporary and they end up feeling worse than those who never experience it. This emotion is called love, it can make or break a persons future. This topic is a familiar one in this case and ended up seeing the wrong side of the story. For children who learn this the wrong way it often leads to the never-ending feeling of contempt towards love. I guess what I am getting at is Joey, he spent years after the emotion tore him apart turning himself into a robot. He used the example of Data from Star Trek although he had the opposite goal. Data yearned to be human, yet Joey yearned to be a robot, or rather an emotionless blob. Surprisingly he had no regrets of letting them go without a trace. However many times they did resurface briefly, he was able to control them but still he was forever a slave to the concept of inner conflict. However after reliving his experiences through spoken word made it flow back like a waterfall. The only other person who could possibly know the pain that he had shared was the only other person to experience it… Amyl.

“Alive?” Amyl yelled loudly. “But how?”
“She came from Delta 389, my world, the resting place of my brother and the record says that she is alive.” The boy explained bluntly.
“Then that means…” Maylu trailed off.
“I am Hub Hikari.” Hub Hikari said enthusiastically.
“But you’re… dead!” Maylu commented. Amyl and Hub both shot Maylu a stare that only said “Holy crap you’re stupid!”
“And where do you think you are?” Hub said sarcastically. Maylu quickly shook her head and replied.
“What I mean is, you died when you were young.”
“Yes, but I asked The Man to let me age as Lan does so that I may relate to him when he dies rather than showing up as a little child when he is eighty years old.” Hub explained.
“Wait, wait time out!” Amyl cut in. “If she is alive how is she here.”
“I have a theory.” Hub turned to Maylu. “What is the last thing you remember?”
“I was having a netbattle but when Joey’s navi turned to me-” Maylu started but was interrupted by Amyl.
“Wait, did you say Joey?”
“Yes.”
“Wait, never mind,” Amyl quietly retracted her statement.
“Anyway,” Maylu looked at Amyl, “I somehow was transported to a black and white world while some silhouette chased me, I escaped into a room called the annex room and boarded it. But the silhouette got in and somehow he… killed… me.”
Amyl stared at Hub who smiled knowledgeably.
“So she isn’t really here, but then why can I feel her?” Amyl asked.
Hub walked over to Maylu and placed a hand in front of her face, and then he pushed it through her head. Maylu stared cross-eyed at the hand, which went through her like Lan goes through curry. But this did not hurt her, it merely went through her like a ghost would.
“Because she was playing you in the vision she is sharing your physical form. All we have to do is wait out the storm now.” Hub explained.
“Makes sense.” Amyl commented.
“I’ve got to go. A sigma broke the barrier and is trampling Delta 42 and you know them.” Hub explained. He then held up his hand and the rings carried him away. As he drifted he said to himself. “Stuck up jerks think they’re so cool cause they have the meaning of life as their organizational number.”

If you have ever been in a situation where you had to many questions to ask and not enough brain capacity to hold them then you know that sooner or later you will end up finding out you forgot to ask a really important one. If you ended up being a projected image of a brown hared version of an alternate you then you would probably forget at least one of the googolplexes of questions.

“Amyl, what was your version of Lan like?” Maylu and Amyl were back in Delta 02 lying on the lush grass of the small logically impossible town.
“He was great, all you would want in a guy really, he was smart funny but at times he was a little dim-witted.”
“I hear that.” Maylu said to herself.
“Well he was until it happened.”
“What?”
“Well I don’t want to ruin your timeline but what the hell. He was one for heroics.
“Again, I understand.”
“Well he was captured while trying to protect me during the N2 grand prix.
Maylu flinched, she implanted that into her mind to protect Lan.
“I found where they had taken him, it was a space station that had been abandoned. There, he killed me.”
“Wait, I thought that you were killed by the silhouette person.” Maylu commented.
“Who do you think the silhouette person was?”
“But that makes no logical sense.”
“You will soon realize that logic is nonexistent.”

STOP! Amyl is saying this out of pure, unimportant contempt and does not describe my feelings towards life the universe and everything. LOGIC RULES! Amyl has been torn apart limb from limb starting with the heart. Her and Joey’s story is a simple and effective tale that can make a person behave as though they are mindless blobs. Although this story happened in a universe about 83745 differences away it still contains some aspects of the world that are very possibly going to happen in our world.

“But was he self aware?” Maylu asked.
“I never found out, only the living person (well not living but you know what I mean) who can see beyond the dead zone is The Man but he is omnipotent and doesn’t care much for the emotional wants of the people. The only good that he sees is the ‘greater’ good.” Amyl responded.
“Who is this ‘Man’ that you speak of.” Maylu asked.
“The Man, he could be what Christians call God.” Amyl explained. “He watches over your world and does what is necessary for humans to thrive. But the funny thing is, humans are priority number two.”
“What?” Maylu tilted her head to Amyl whose calm expression gave her the feeling that perhaps even in death, happiness could be achieved. With this calm feeling she felt no need to return the world of the living.
“He loves animals and plants, and he taught us all that we could too. Now he makes sure that trees are not torn down as fast and animals aren’t exploited for human benefit. He returns to the world of living as a normal person, but when he is there he forms protest groups.”
“He sounds better than I expected.” Maylu blinked. She looked around at the beauty of the world she was in. Rabbits ran free and flowers bloomed freely in endless meadows. She could even see children playing with a cat. She wondered to herself whether it was a genuine paradise. Life had gotten complicated for her in the past few months and this world felt like an escape from it all. No worries and all the time in the world, this was what she believed. She decided to ignore the bad things she had done and believed that if they lead to the death of innocents, they would be lucky to be in this beautiful world. But then as she sank into the peace and serenity of this paradise she wondered and then asked.
“Why is there so few people in this town, and why are they all children?”
“Well as the Christians believe there are two worlds of death, well in this case, two classifications. America and Europe, we named them this because of the differences. In Europe (here) we are free and able to be and say what we want, but in America there is war and problems like they face in the world of the living. As you can probably guess many adults are there but some more enlightened ones live here with us so they may live in peace.”
“But what about aliens?” Maylu asked curiously.
“Same deal, but we cannot meet them because technology is forbidden here, so we cannot fly there.”
“But your rings…”
“Only allow flight between dimensions.”
The next few minutes were spent in complete silence, Amyl petted a nearby cat and Maylu just sat there. She knew that there must have been more questions to ask, but the only one she could think of was rather stupid. Then she got it Hub had said he aged as Lan does but Amyl didn’t age as Maylu did. Although this was a simple question it had enough merit to ask of an immortal being in a world with no pain, wait that didn’t come out right.
“Amyl,” she asked quietly, “if Hub ages as Lan does then why don’t you age as I do?”
Amyl chuckled quietly before responding.
“Maylu, you will never be able to absorb all the information in this world in one day. But I guess this is simple enough. My world was farther forward in time then yours, it varies you know. Didn’t you guess that when I warned you about the future?”
“I thought that it had already happened and didn’t in my world so I wouldn’t have to worry.”
“We are only 387 differences away, most of them were basic things but small amounts changed names, looks, and even the shape of the planet.”
“Kind of oddly specific changes if you look this much different.”
“Actually no, if one change causes another to happen then that doesn’t count as a change although it does make two dimensions.”
“…This is odd.”
“Consider this, our worlds are different in a lot of ways, but if you look at Delta 385 you can see they are mostly the same as yours.”
Maylu sat up and look at Amyl who opened her eyes and saw Maylu’s dissatisfaction with this answer.
“Alright.” Amyl got up and grabbed Maylu’s arm, she then stuck up her arm and both of them flew away using the rings. This flight was much more pleasant than the previous one, she no longer felt like she was going to puke but felt happy to be floating above the far reaches of a perplexing reality. For the first time in a long time she felt happy, she had felt happy before but that was not as real as she wanted. Amyl was calm considering her situation, the person she cared most dearly about killed her and yet she put on a happy face. But she felt even worse for Hub who was waiting for his brother for years, the brother he had never really known.
When they arrived Maylu found a world that was almost the exact same as the one Hub had brought them to. It was full of life, animals and people walked flower covered lanes, old men telling stories to the young children and a very large variety of fudge. This town was different from the one she had encountered before, it was probably a different location because it was on a large cliff face from which you could see hundreds of acres of grassland.
But there was one person who stood out, Hub.
Maylu looked him but something was different about him.
“Hey Sai!” Maylu called out to him. He walked over to Amyl.
“This is Maylu, Maylu this is Saito, Hubs opposite.”

Kupo.EXE · Darkloid Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 537

Further delays but chapter 12 will be up and running in a matter of days, its almost done but my Beta reader hasn't seen it yet and I have to go to camp right after the stampede so I'll try and get 12 up before I have to leave.

Kupo.EXE · Darkloid Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 537

Well chapter twelve is delayed more because I could not finish it in time, so it will not come up until sunday or monday. Its fairly long so you might want to bring a raincoat. Well I guess a little bit of it wouldn't kill me*gets bricked* or maybe it will but here is another little joke that is suposidely very unoriginal.

“SuperHikari AWAY!” he jumped through a nearby window.
“And his faithful sidekick Famouslad!” Mr. Famous followed suite.