Rockman.EXE Transference: WIP: Chap. 6

[Core]

I'm not sure how many may remember this two part fanfic that I wrote long ago, or how many may have not seen it since it appeared on the forum before a great deal of events that lead to the forums current appearance. For those that have read it, then you will be pleased to know that this is a revised version of the original. In any case, enjoy the read and as always, comments and critques are welcome.



Rockman.EXE
"Transference"
by: Cory "Core" Belote

Authors Note: This story is rated PG-13 due to its content, takes place sometime after the N1 Grand Prix, and is an alternate universe.


Chapter One: Doom Before Dinner

Netto walks off of the gated school grounds of Akihara Elementry School, dressed in his usual attire of a pair of black shorts with a yellow stripe down the sides, an orange vest over a long sleeved white shirt with black patches on the elbows, a blue bandana on his forehead with his net navi's icon and crest centered on it. His blue PET resting in a holster type case on his right hip, his net navi and digital twin Saito or better known as Rockman organizing a few files left open in the interior of the device. The brown haired boy stops to remove the roller blades hanging from the bottom of his black backpacks metal bottom, attaching them to his shoes with a solid click before starting to skate towards his home in the suburbs of the city.

"You would think Mariko-sensei would least give me some credit for winning the N1 Grand Prix. I'm still tired after that trip around the world that I got for a prize." The young boy says, as he idly dodges people on the street.

"Netto-kun." Rockman chimes from the PET, " You were late for class five times this week. I think that Mariko-sensei was right to give you detention, and she didn't have another option open to her with the super intendent sitting in on class today."

"I guess your right." Netto states with a sigh, a smile crossing his face as he has an idea, "Least I got my homework done. Now we can go netbattle!"

The small PET on his hip beeps loudly, calling Rockman over to part of the device that was summoning his attention. "Netto-kun, you have a video phone call from Yaito-chan."

Netto skates to a stop at a street corner and pulls his blue PET out, a small screen opening next to Rockman's head on the display to show a young girl in pigtails with a large shining forehead. "Hello, Yaito-chan! What's up?" He asks smiling.

"It's about time you got out of detention Netto-kun. Serves you right for battling all night." Yaito scolds her elder classmate, "I'm having a party and I would like you and Meiru-chan to come with me."

The brown eyed boy groans disdainfully, "Do I have to dress up for it?"

"YES!" Yaito's voice snaps back, a smile crossing her face as she looks at him, "But there will be a buffet and lots and LOTS of food. Including curry."

"FREE CURRY!" Netto exclaims, almost drooling at the thought as his eyes shine with joy. "I'll go get ready then, and pickup Meiru-chan when I'm ready. Should we meet at your place?"

"No, I'll pick you both up at her house and then we'll go to the party." The younger girl informs him, "I'll be there at seven. Bye Netto-kun!"

***

Later that evening, Netto steps out of his house after waving to his mother and telling her that he will see her later when the party is over. Netto stands on his doorstep for a moment, dressed in a formal black tuxedo with a blue cummerbund around his waist. His hair usually wild brown hair combed nicely into place and foregoing the usual bandana that held it back out of his eyes. The young boy looks down at his sleeves and the bouquet of white and pink roses in this left hand, blushing as he reaches into his coat and pulls Rockman and his PET out, starting the trek to Meiru's house located just next to his.

"I feel like such an idiot dressed in this." Netto whines to his twin.

Rockman smiles at the brown eyed boy, snickering "Suits you perfectly then."

"HEY! I thought you were my brother!" The boy shouts, stopping in his tracks and looking at the blue navi.

"I am." The green eyed navi states smiling still, "That's why I can say that. You look great Netto-kun, I was only picking on you. Did you bring the flowers?"

"Yes..." Netto replies, looking at the roses in his other hand and starting towards the house again. "Do I have to give Meiru flowers? I feel stupid already as is and..."

"And what?" Rockman questions his sibling, leaning in closer on the screen of the PET.

"... I just don't see the point in it since it is just a dinner with Yaito-chan." The boy finishes, looking at the flowers still.

"I see." Rockman says simply, scratching the side of his face in thought, "Well, I think its customary to bring flowers to a girl if you are to accompany her to something important."

Netto sighs as he reaches the door finally to Meiru's house, his finger hitting the buzzer to announce to anyone inside that he was there. After a few moments of waiting, the brown haired boy starts to knock on the door with no reply, his frustration growing as well as his concern, recalling the times that Meiru was in danger. He grabs the handle of the door, and gives it a turn, the door clicking open and swinging wide as if the house itself was welcoming him into it.Cautiously he enters the pink and red house, seeing no one on the first floor as he goes by room-by-room looking for his childhood friend. Netto slowly makes his way up the stairs and down a short hallway, finding Meiru's parents room empty, his friends parents always having seemed never present for their daughter or from anyone elses sight. The door across from the bedroom was closed tight, loud music pouring from the door of a type of remixed classical music to a techno beat.

"Meiru-chan, are you in there?" Netto calls, knocking on the door, "Hurry up so we gan go the the party, I'm starving."

Rockman covers his face with his hand, "... baka."

Netto strains to hear what Meriu's reply was, only picking up a bit of the girls voice over the loud music. "Huh? I can't hear you. Hang on."

Rockman bolts to attention at the sound of the door knob clicking, "NETTO-KUN! Don't open the do-!?!"

Rockmans warning comes to late as the door swings open, catching Meiru partcially dressed in her slip with her evening gown in her hands, the girl frozen in place and staring in wide eyed horror at the duo. Netto hears his brain screaming at him to turn and run, but his legs feeling many times heavier then normal and anchoring him in place as he stares with his mouth agap at the sight before him.

"EECHI!" Meiru yells out, her hand leveling Netto with a slap hard enough to cause seasoned professional wrestlers grimace in pain at the sound of.

The red haired girl stands over the fallen Netto, clutching her evening gown over her body, panting to catch her breath from the ear splitting scream. "Netto-kun, you pervert, I said not to come in here! Didn't you hear me?"

Netto twitches on the carpeted floor, about as conscious as a featherweight boxer after being hit by a sumo's punch.

"Meriu-chan." Rockman peeps from the PET now lying on the floor next to Netto, "Your music was so loud we couldn't hear you. I did try to stop him, just I wasn't fast enough. I'm sure Netto-kun is sorry."

"That is still no excuse." Meiru says, fuming as she shuts the music off and pulls her gown on, looking down at he boy now fully dressed, "What do you have to say for yourself Netto!. . . Netto? . . . Netto-kun are you okay?"

"Fiv- more minutezzz Roll ... I'm fightn' Sera." Netto replies in his dazed state.

Meiru blinks and kneels next to Netto and Rockman, "I think I hit him to hard."

"Nah, last week he hit his head and said something about fighting a guy named Copy X." Rockman states from the PET, "I think he's played to many videogames lately."

"Do you think that Netto-kun will be alright?" Meiru asks concerned, as she looks at the navi.

Rockman smiles and nod, "Yup, all you have to do is say the magic words and he'll snap out of it. . . NETTO-KUN! MAMA MADE CURRY!"

Netto sits up as if hit struck by a bolt of lightning, "CURRY! Where!?"

"Netto-kun..." Meriu says, giggling slightly with a sigh, "Are you alright?"

Netto rubs the back of his head where he hit the floor, wincing a bit as he does. "I-I'm alright I think. Where did you learn to hit like that?"

"I got a lot of practice with all the times Dekao hits on me for dates." Meiru says, helping the boy to his feet.

"Oh, yeah..." Netto recalls several of the incidents where she left the larger boy curled up in pain from one hit.
The red haired girl blinks as she sees the roses resting on the floor and picks them up gently, "Net- Netto-kun are these for me?"

Netto blushes instantly, looking at his feet shyly, "Y-yes."

"Aww, thank you Netto-kun." Meiru states, hugging the bouque and going over to her desk.

She removes them from their wrapping and places the flowers in a vase on her desk, plucking a pink rose from the grouping and tucking it into her hair where the her clip usually sits. Meiru smiles at Netto, leaning forward a bit with her eyes closed, the boy blinking at her till a car horn blows from outside.

"Ah, Yaito-chan's here! Free food here I come!" Netto says, bolting from the room and grabbing Rockman as he does.

Meiru falls back on her heels with a sigh, "That Netto..."

"Its alright Meiru-chan," Roll chimes from the desk before being put into a small pink purse and carried out of the house by her operator.

The two young students stand walk out of the house slowly, Yaito stands outside of a long black limo with darkly tinted windows. The younger girl dressed in an elegant yellow and white evening gown that makes her look somewhat older and taller then what she was. Netto and Meiru approach her confused by the angered look on their friends face.

"Its about time you two showed up." Yaito says, folding her arms over her chest. "I've been stuck with HIM for an hour."

"Who?" Meiru asks, blinking as she looks at the girl.

The door to the limo opens and a white and black haired boy steps out dressed in a custom made italian tuxedo and a red cummerbund. His crystal blue eyes staring at the others before him. "I believe that she is refering to me, and its not exactly a pleasure to be stuck with a third rate company like Gapcom as a date."

"Enzan!" Netto shouts, pointing at the pair. "Why are you to even sharing a limo to start with!?"

"Our fathers are making us go to this party together since they can't attend." Yaito sighs heavily, "Since our companies are working on a development project together, they thought that having the son of the President of IPC and the daughter of the President of Gapcom would be good for the press to see."

"In short." Enzan interrupts, "We were forced into dating each other for this dinner. I'd rather be attending this party alone, but I guess I can tolerate being with you all for the evening rather then the adults."

"HEY!" Netto yells out at the direct insult.

"Enzan-sama." Blues' voice cuts into the conversation, halting it. "We have to leave now if we're to arrive on time."

The four young people pile into the limo with each other, Netto and Meiru sitting across from Enzan and Yaito on the large seats as the driver pulls away from the house to start the journey towards their destination.

"Yaito, I thought you said that you said you were giving the party." Netto says, looking at the small girl across from him.

"Well... I kind of lied." Yaito blushes, looking down at her feet as they hover over the floorboard of the car. "I just didn't want to be stuck with just Enzan for company. So... I pulled some strings and my dad got two more invitations for you and Meiru."

"Oh..." Netto says as he sits back, "Well, least the food is free."

"Well it is..." Yaito says, lowering her head, "After you pay $10,000 zenny a plate."

Netto stares at Yaito blankly, "10,000... WHY!?!! Why do you curse me!?!"

" . . . Quit your wailing Hikari. I'll pay for your meal and yours as well... Hikari's girl." Enzan states as he looks at Meiru with disconcern.

"My name is Sakurai Meiru! Not Hikari's girl!" Meiru announces, her face becoming flush at being called that.

"Well Ms. Sakurai," Enzan starts, "just keep Hikari in line."

"Why you -!" Netto glares at Enzan in anger.

"Netto-kun! Please calm down." Rockman speaks from his PET, "You know how Enzan-san is."

Netto sighs as he sits back in his seat, "I know..."

The brown haired boy smiles as an idea comes to mind, "Say, Enzan. Why don't we have the rematch and really finish what we started at the N1 Grand Prix."

Enzan cuts Netto an annoyed look from his pools of ice blue eyes. "I'd love to, but now is not the time."

"Oh, is the mighty Enzan scared?" Netto says, making the same vocalization as a mother talking to small baby.

"Not even hardly Hikari." Enzan states as the car rolls to a stop, "We can't because we're here."

The door of the limo opens with the aid of a waiting doorman, photographers taking pictures with various types of camears as the four step out onto a plush red carpet leading to the latest fine dinning restaurant in the city. A large glass entry way flows into a several story tall building that closely resembled the type of structure reserved for royalty of foreign countries. The doors to the building open with the help of two nicely dressed doormen, a man in a tuxedo checking their invitations before showing the group deeper inside, leading them into one of the many ballrooms of the restaurant, which was converted to be a dinning hall for the evening. The tables arranged so that there is a large open area that would allow those that wished to dance to do so to the soothing live music provided by the house band, the music amplified by small but powerful speakers on the stage and built into the walls hidden from sight. The room filled of important looking adults from the higher upper class.

Meiru hooks her arm in Netto's, smiling as she follows Yaito along with Enzan, the smaller girl smiling as she spot two people standing at a long buffet table holding a pair of drinking glasses and looking a bit uncomfortable in their clothing. As Enzan breaks away from the group to mingle with some of the richest members of Japans society, Yaito leads her two friends up to the pair with a smile. A young woman dressed in a fine blue Chinese dress with gold sewn into the intricate design, a matching pair of blue high heels adorning her feet. Her dirty blond hair was braided in the back with two bangs coming down in the front, covering her elegant glasses and emerald green eyes. Her hands and lower arms covered with long gloves hold onto her small blue purse as she stands there. A man with his dark brown hair pulled back in a loose pony tail, with a pair of red smoke tinted glasses over his green eyes and dressed in a black tuxedo looks at the trio as they approach.

"Hello Ms. Kitsu and Mr. Folf." Yaito states before making a small curtsy before the two, "Netto, Meiru, I'd like you to meet the security agents that are here for the night. IPC and Gapcom hired them to insure that nothing happens."

Kitsu bows to the group and elbows her companion to do the same, as she looks at Netto, "Its nice to meet you at last Mr. Hikari. I've heard a lot about you and your navi."

"Uhm, thanks." Netto replies, blushing at the woman’s compliment.

"Maybe we can netbattle sometime." Kitsu continued, "I'd love to see how my navi stacks up against your Rockman."

Netto smiles at the open invitation for a netbattle, "That sounds like fun!"

The group stand there smiling at each other, their smiles fading as the lights of the room start to flicker on and off before shutting off completely and cloaking the room in an inky darkness. The emergency lights come on and paint the room in a pail red light, the party goers looking around them confused as large steel plates come down over the windows and doors, sealing them off from the outside world.

"The exits are sealed, someone must have planned this well." Enzan states, as he walks up to the group.

"What do you mean?" Netto asks, looking at the other boy.

"They've trapped us in here, so even if we did plug in the fix the problem they would be able to escape." Enzan explains, "Plus this didn't happen till after all the guests arrived and were well inside this room."

"Greetings ladies and gentlemen!" A voice booms out from the speakers on the stage, causing a few of the band members to fall back, and drawing the rooms attention. "I welcome you to the First Annual Fund Raiser for the Electopian Liberation Front! I'm sure that your companies, families, and various governments will pay handsomely for your safe return. But first, gather around in the center of the room and rest assured that even if you can't see me... I can see you."
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[Core]

I'm not sure how many may remember this two part fanfic that I wrote long ago, or how many may have not seen it since it appeared on the forum before a great deal of events that lead to the forums current appearance. For those that have read it, then you will be pleased to know that this is a revised version of the original. In any case, enjoy the read and as always, comments and critques are welcome.



Rockman.EXE
"Transference"
by: Cory "Core" Belote

Authors Note: This story is rated PG-13 due to its content, takes place sometime after the N1 Grand Prix, and is an alternate universe.


Chapter One: Doom Before Dinner

Netto walks off of the gated school grounds of Akihara Elementry School, dressed in his usual attire of a pair of black shorts with a yellow stripe down the sides, an orange vest over a long sleeved white shirt with black patches on the elbows, a blue bandana on his forehead with his net navi's icon and crest centered on it. His blue PET resting in a holster type case on his right hip, his net navi and digital twin Saito or better known as Rockman organizing a few files left open in the interior of the device. The brown haired boy stops to remove the roller blades hanging from the bottom of his black backpacks metal bottom, attaching them to his shoes with a solid click before starting to skate towards his home in the suburbs of the city.

"You would think Mariko-sensei would least give me some credit for winning the N1 Grand Prix. I'm still tired after that trip around the world that I got for a prize." The young boy says, as he idly dodges people on the street.

"Netto-kun." Rockman chimes from the PET, " You were late for class five times this week. I think that Mariko-sensei was right to give you detention, and she didn't have another option open to her with the super intendent sitting in on class today."

"I guess your right." Netto states with a sigh, a smile crossing his face as he has an idea, "Least I got my homework done. Now we can go netbattle!"

The small PET on his hip beeps loudly, calling Rockman over to part of the device that was summoning his attention. "Netto-kun, you have a video phone call from Yaito-chan."

Netto skates to a stop at a street corner and pulls his blue PET out, a small screen opening next to Rockman's head on the display to show a young girl in pigtails with a large shining forehead. "Hello, Yaito-chan! What's up?" He asks smiling.

"It's about time you got out of detention Netto-kun. Serves you right for battling all night." Yaito scolds her elder classmate, "I'm having a party and I would like you and Meiru-chan to come with me."

The brown eyed boy groans disdainfully, "Do I have to dress up for it?"

"YES!" Yaito's voice snaps back, a smile crossing her face as she looks at him, "But there will be a buffet and lots and LOTS of food. Including curry."

"FREE CURRY!" Netto exclaims, almost drooling at the thought as his eyes shine with joy. "I'll go get ready then, and pickup Meiru-chan when I'm ready. Should we meet at your place?"

"No, I'll pick you both up at her house and then we'll go to the party." The younger girl informs him, "I'll be there at seven. Bye Netto-kun!"

***

Later that evening, Netto steps out of his house after waving to his mother and telling her that he will see her later when the party is over. Netto stands on his doorstep for a moment, dressed in a formal black tuxedo with a blue cummerbund around his waist. His hair usually wild brown hair combed nicely into place and foregoing the usual bandana that held it back out of his eyes. The young boy looks down at his sleeves and the bouquet of white and pink roses in this left hand, blushing as he reaches into his coat and pulls Rockman and his PET out, starting the trek to Meiru's house located just next to his.

"I feel like such an idiot dressed in this." Netto whines to his twin.

Rockman smiles at the brown eyed boy, snickering "Suits you perfectly then."

"HEY! I thought you were my brother!" The boy shouts, stopping in his tracks and looking at the blue navi.

"I am." The green eyed navi states smiling still, "That's why I can say that. You look great Netto-kun, I was only picking on you. Did you bring the flowers?"

"Yes..." Netto replies, looking at the roses in his other hand and starting towards the house again. "Do I have to give Meiru flowers? I feel stupid already as is and..."

"And what?" Rockman questions his sibling, leaning in closer on the screen of the PET.

"... I just don't see the point in it since it is just a dinner with Yaito-chan." The boy finishes, looking at the flowers still.

"I see." Rockman says simply, scratching the side of his face in thought, "Well, I think its customary to bring flowers to a girl if you are to accompany her to something important."

Netto sighs as he reaches the door finally to Meiru's house, his finger hitting the buzzer to announce to anyone inside that he was there. After a few moments of waiting, the brown haired boy starts to knock on the door with no reply, his frustration growing as well as his concern, recalling the times that Meiru was in danger. He grabs the handle of the door, and gives it a turn, the door clicking open and swinging wide as if the house itself was welcoming him into it.Cautiously he enters the pink and red house, seeing no one on the first floor as he goes by room-by-room looking for his childhood friend. Netto slowly makes his way up the stairs and down a short hallway, finding Meiru's parents room empty, his friends parents always having seemed never present for their daughter or from anyone elses sight. The door across from the bedroom was closed tight, loud music pouring from the door of a type of remixed classical music to a techno beat.

"Meiru-chan, are you in there?" Netto calls, knocking on the door, "Hurry up so we gan go the the party, I'm starving."

Rockman covers his face with his hand, "... baka."

Netto strains to hear what Meriu's reply was, only picking up a bit of the girls voice over the loud music. "Huh? I can't hear you. Hang on."

Rockman bolts to attention at the sound of the door knob clicking, "NETTO-KUN! Don't open the do-!?!"

Rockmans warning comes to late as the door swings open, catching Meiru partcially dressed in her slip with her evening gown in her hands, the girl frozen in place and staring in wide eyed horror at the duo. Netto hears his brain screaming at him to turn and run, but his legs feeling many times heavier then normal and anchoring him in place as he stares with his mouth agap at the sight before him.

"EECHI!" Meiru yells out, her hand leveling Netto with a slap hard enough to cause seasoned professional wrestlers grimace in pain at the sound of.

The red haired girl stands over the fallen Netto, clutching her evening gown over her body, panting to catch her breath from the ear splitting scream. "Netto-kun, you pervert, I said not to come in here! Didn't you hear me?"

Netto twitches on the carpeted floor, about as conscious as a featherweight boxer after being hit by a sumo's punch.

"Meriu-chan." Rockman peeps from the PET now lying on the floor next to Netto, "Your music was so loud we couldn't hear you. I did try to stop him, just I wasn't fast enough. I'm sure Netto-kun is sorry."

"That is still no excuse." Meiru says, fuming as she shuts the music off and pulls her gown on, looking down at he boy now fully dressed, "What do you have to say for yourself Netto!. . . Netto? . . . Netto-kun are you okay?"

"Fiv- more minutezzz Roll ... I'm fightn' Sera." Netto replies in his dazed state.

Meiru blinks and kneels next to Netto and Rockman, "I think I hit him to hard."

"Nah, last week he hit his head and said something about fighting a guy named Copy X." Rockman states from the PET, "I think he's played to many videogames lately."

"Do you think that Netto-kun will be alright?" Meiru asks concerned, as she looks at the navi.

Rockman smiles and nod, "Yup, all you have to do is say the magic words and he'll snap out of it. . . NETTO-KUN! MAMA MADE CURRY!"

Netto sits up as if hit struck by a bolt of lightning, "CURRY! Where!?"

"Netto-kun..." Meriu says, giggling slightly with a sigh, "Are you alright?"

Netto rubs the back of his head where he hit the floor, wincing a bit as he does. "I-I'm alright I think. Where did you learn to hit like that?"

"I got a lot of practice with all the times Dekao hits on me for dates." Meiru says, helping the boy to his feet.

"Oh, yeah..." Netto recalls several of the incidents where she left the larger boy curled up in pain from one hit.
The red haired girl blinks as she sees the roses resting on the floor and picks them up gently, "Net- Netto-kun are these for me?"

Netto blushes instantly, looking at his feet shyly, "Y-yes."

"Aww, thank you Netto-kun." Meiru states, hugging the bouque and going over to her desk.

She removes them from their wrapping and places the flowers in a vase on her desk, plucking a pink rose from the grouping and tucking it into her hair where the her clip usually sits. Meiru smiles at Netto, leaning forward a bit with her eyes closed, the boy blinking at her till a car horn blows from outside.

"Ah, Yaito-chan's here! Free food here I come!" Netto says, bolting from the room and grabbing Rockman as he does.

Meiru falls back on her heels with a sigh, "That Netto..."

"Its alright Meiru-chan," Roll chimes from the desk before being put into a small pink purse and carried out of the house by her operator.

The two young students stand walk out of the house slowly, Yaito stands outside of a long black limo with darkly tinted windows. The younger girl dressed in an elegant yellow and white evening gown that makes her look somewhat older and taller then what she was. Netto and Meiru approach her confused by the angered look on their friends face.

"Its about time you two showed up." Yaito says, folding her arms over her chest. "I've been stuck with HIM for an hour."

"Who?" Meiru asks, blinking as she looks at the girl.

The door to the limo opens and a white and black haired boy steps out dressed in a custom made italian tuxedo and a red cummerbund. His crystal blue eyes staring at the others before him. "I believe that she is refering to me, and its not exactly a pleasure to be stuck with a third rate company like Gapcom as a date."

"Enzan!" Netto shouts, pointing at the pair. "Why are you to even sharing a limo to start with!?"

"Our fathers are making us go to this party together since they can't attend." Yaito sighs heavily, "Since our companies are working on a development project together, they thought that having the son of the President of IPC and the daughter of the President of Gapcom would be good for the press to see."

"In short." Enzan interrupts, "We were forced into dating each other for this dinner. I'd rather be attending this party alone, but I guess I can tolerate being with you all for the evening rather then the adults."

"HEY!" Netto yells out at the direct insult.

"Enzan-sama." Blues' voice cuts into the conversation, halting it. "We have to leave now if we're to arrive on time."

The four young people pile into the limo with each other, Netto and Meiru sitting across from Enzan and Yaito on the large seats as the driver pulls away from the house to start the journey towards their destination.

"Yaito, I thought you said that you said you were giving the party." Netto says, looking at the small girl across from him.

"Well... I kind of lied." Yaito blushes, looking down at her feet as they hover over the floorboard of the car. "I just didn't want to be stuck with just Enzan for company. So... I pulled some strings and my dad got two more invitations for you and Meiru."

"Oh..." Netto says as he sits back, "Well, least the food is free."

"Well it is..." Yaito says, lowering her head, "After you pay $10,000 zenny a plate."

Netto stares at Yaito blankly, "10,000... WHY!?!! Why do you curse me!?!"

" . . . Quit your wailing Hikari. I'll pay for your meal and yours as well... Hikari's girl." Enzan states as he looks at Meiru with disconcern.

"My name is Sakurai Meiru! Not Hikari's girl!" Meiru announces, her face becoming flush at being called that.

"Well Ms. Sakurai," Enzan starts, "just keep Hikari in line."

"Why you -!" Netto glares at Enzan in anger.

"Netto-kun! Please calm down." Rockman speaks from his PET, "You know how Enzan-san is."

Netto sighs as he sits back in his seat, "I know..."

The brown haired boy smiles as an idea comes to mind, "Say, Enzan. Why don't we have the rematch and really finish what we started at the N1 Grand Prix."

Enzan cuts Netto an annoyed look from his pools of ice blue eyes. "I'd love to, but now is not the time."

"Oh, is the mighty Enzan scared?" Netto says, making the same vocalization as a mother talking to small baby.

"Not even hardly Hikari." Enzan states as the car rolls to a stop, "We can't because we're here."

The door of the limo opens with the aid of a waiting doorman, photographers taking pictures with various types of camears as the four step out onto a plush red carpet leading to the latest fine dinning restaurant in the city. A large glass entry way flows into a several story tall building that closely resembled the type of structure reserved for royalty of foreign countries. The doors to the building open with the help of two nicely dressed doormen, a man in a tuxedo checking their invitations before showing the group deeper inside, leading them into one of the many ballrooms of the restaurant, which was converted to be a dinning hall for the evening. The tables arranged so that there is a large open area that would allow those that wished to dance to do so to the soothing live music provided by the house band, the music amplified by small but powerful speakers on the stage and built into the walls hidden from sight. The room filled of important looking adults from the higher upper class.

Meiru hooks her arm in Netto's, smiling as she follows Yaito along with Enzan, the smaller girl smiling as she spot two people standing at a long buffet table holding a pair of drinking glasses and looking a bit uncomfortable in their clothing. As Enzan breaks away from the group to mingle with some of the richest members of Japans society, Yaito leads her two friends up to the pair with a smile. A young woman dressed in a fine blue Chinese dress with gold sewn into the intricate design, a matching pair of blue high heels adorning her feet. Her dirty blond hair was braided in the back with two bangs coming down in the front, covering her elegant glasses and emerald green eyes. Her hands and lower arms covered with long gloves hold onto her small blue purse as she stands there. A man with his dark brown hair pulled back in a loose pony tail, with a pair of red smoke tinted glasses over his green eyes and dressed in a black tuxedo looks at the trio as they approach.

"Hello Ms. Kitsu and Mr. Folf." Yaito states before making a small curtsy before the two, "Netto, Meiru, I'd like you to meet the security agents that are here for the night. IPC and Gapcom hired them to insure that nothing happens."

Kitsu bows to the group and elbows her companion to do the same, as she looks at Netto, "Its nice to meet you at last Mr. Hikari. I've heard a lot about you and your navi."

"Uhm, thanks." Netto replies, blushing at the woman’s compliment.

"Maybe we can netbattle sometime." Kitsu continued, "I'd love to see how my navi stacks up against your Rockman."

Netto smiles at the open invitation for a netbattle, "That sounds like fun!"

The group stand there smiling at each other, their smiles fading as the lights of the room start to flicker on and off before shutting off completely and cloaking the room in an inky darkness. The emergency lights come on and paint the room in a pail red light, the party goers looking around them confused as large steel plates come down over the windows and doors, sealing them off from the outside world.

"The exits are sealed, someone must have planned this well." Enzan states, as he walks up to the group.

"What do you mean?" Netto asks, looking at the other boy.

"They've trapped us in here, so even if we did plug in the fix the problem they would be able to escape." Enzan explains, "Plus this didn't happen till after all the guests arrived and were well inside this room."

"Greetings ladies and gentlemen!" A voice booms out from the speakers on the stage, causing a few of the band members to fall back, and drawing the rooms attention. "I welcome you to the First Annual Fund Raiser for the Electopian Liberation Front! I'm sure that your companies, families, and various governments will pay handsomely for your safe return. But first, gather around in the center of the room and rest assured that even if you can't see me... I can see you."
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Interesting; is there a set time for the next part's debut or are we winging it?
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Need more Zero/X, Netto/Rock, Rock/Netto, Forte/Netto, & Blues/Netto. PLEASE!
Ano sa...could someone please make me a Zero/X, Blues/Netto, or Forte/Netto avatar/banner? I would greatly appreciate it...
Thanks for the avatar, Mandi!
People! We need more Blues/Netto & Forte/Netto on the net. Come on; help me out here! *gives everyone her Super-Adorable Irrisistable Sad Kitty Eyes(TM)*

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Oh yeah. This is a story I'm definitely gonna love. You are awesome, Core.
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[Core]

I don't have a set time for the next chapters release since I'm still revising it, but when I get it done I shall post it up here in this thread. ^n_n^
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[Core]

I don't have a set time for the next chapters release since I'm still revising it, but when I get it done I shall post it up here in this thread. ^n_n^
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[maverick_hunter_17]

i remember reading this on your site Core it was really good.. [with British accent] jolly good job
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[Core]

I took that one down since I'm revising it, hopefully it will be better then the first version. :D I'm glad that the first chapter is already getting a good resception, but I wouldn't mind some critques also on it.
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[Core]

I took that one down since I'm revising it, hopefully it will be better then the first version. :D I'm glad that the first chapter is already getting a good resception, but I wouldn't mind some critques also on it.
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[Core]

Whee, an update.

Chapter Two: The Battle of Terra

“Things are going exactly as planned." A dark figure laughs as he looks at the display of security monitors for the resturant. "Right now those fools are realizing that their phone function isn’t working. Oh, this is grand! All those fat cats, my little play things!”

“Uhm, sir?” A soft voice says from the doorway. “Are you sure that its such a good idea to hold two of the top net battlers of Japan in there?”

The dark figure turns to face his younger cohort, stepping forward into the only light for the room. His hair as white as newly fallen snow and combed back into what looked like swept back spikes. A ruby colored eye patch over his left eye causes his carasmaticly handsome features to be some what marred, his remaining cool gray eye looking at his accomplice. Clothed in a green militaristic styled uniform with a crimson stripe running down the legs of his pants, a short cape held into place by a gold clasp on the right of his chest. A black armband with red lettering reading 'E.L.F.' on his right arm matches a black holster with red trim for his PET.

“Worried Dyna?” The man asks, his cycloptic gaze falling on the accomplice entering the room.

The young teen lowers her head slightly, a lock of green hair falling to dangle in front of her face that was out of place with the silver of that adorn the rest of her head. Her blue eyes close for a moment as he crosses her arms over her chest, dressed similarly to the older man but without a cape.

“More concern, then worry Marshal Dekon,” Dyna states, as she walks forward with her eyes closed. “I’ll send my navi into the rooms network. He should be able to hold them for a while.”

“Your lack of faith amuses me,” The man, Dekon, smirks and waves a hand over his shoulder at her as he steps out of the room. “Go, send your navi into the network.”



Outside the restaurant the local authorities and the net police gather around the building, forming a tight blockade as is standard for a hostiage situation. Special teams scanning the building with equipment from near by buildings to locate those inside by their body heat, reporting information back to the Commissioner that had taken command of the situation for the moment. The bald headed man with his well trimmed mustash looking at reports coming in, adjusting his suit a bit as he does so, grumbling at the situation.

“What is the situation Police Commissioner Kifune?” A slightly deep voice asks, causing the man to turn around to face a man with an odd towel like cape and a red helmet with fish fins on it.

“Nice of you to join us Commander Beef." The Commissioner states, turning back towards the building. "We secured the area as soon as we got a call from the terrorists. Right now they have complete control of the building and the networks. They even changed the firewalls and set up additional ones to keep us from gaining access. But from what we can tell there are 120 hostages inside, and at least 50 terrorists."

“There are 50 of them in there!” Beef exclaims, “What are they demanding?”

Kifine grumbles, "Their leader is requesting 3.5 billion zenny for the release and well being of each hostage. If their demands are not met then they will execute them all."

“That is an outrageous amount of money." The helmeted man comments, "There are only a few in there that can afford such a thing. Are they armed?”

“Yes, heavily so, and thanks to the security system of this place, it is practically a fortress.” Kifune replies with a grunt. “They can’t leave and we can’t get in.”

Commander Beef looks at the building, the fullness of the situation sinking in. "I have two agents already inside, both of them are most likely with the hostiages right now. Hopefully they will be able to do something to aid us from the inside.”



“How the heck can they see us?” Yaito asks, the girl unknowningly clinging to Enzan's arm.

“Most likely there are cameras in this room that are hidden for the sake of the look of the place.” The skunk haired boy answers, trying to pry the young girl off of him. “If we can find them, we might be able to blind our captors to what is happening in the room. It might lure them down here as well for us to trap them.”

“The camera’s are located in the ceiling at the center of the room, they are part of the light fixtures in the chandelier." Kitsu states, "They allow for a complete 360 and 180 view of the room."

“How do you know that?!” Netto yells out, glaring at Kitsu as if she were to blame for the situation.

Kitsu crosses her arms over her chest, “I know because I was hired as security for this party, so I studied the security system along with Core.”

“Then you know where we can plug in to get access to the network right?” Enzan asks, looking at the two young adults.

“There is an access terminal on the stage that ties into the sound system. Since the band performs mainly in this fall it is piped through the network from there to the other areas." Kitsu's accomplice states, "But the security systems for this place are fairly tight, it took me 15 minutes to hack into the main network from here in a test run of the security system. All the holes that I exploited in the network have been removed or strengthened with further safe guards.”

“I’m sure that there is a backdoor that you left open for yourself isn't there.” Enzan says quietly, looking at the older boy as he shakes the blonde from his arm.

The older boy blushes and coughs into his hand, trying to look innocent as the group stared at him. His companion glaring at him with her emerald eyes, causing him to gulp in fear at the icy gaze.

“When we get out of here... we’re going to have a little talk.” Kitsu states, growling a bit at her elder party companion. “But right now we need to get to that security system access.”

The group of six move their way through the crowd, reaching a wooden panel just under part of the stage. Folf slowly runs his fingers around the edges of the panel, causing it to snap forward into his hands, showing that it was actually colored fabric stretched over a wood frame. The young man sets the panel to the side to reveal a hidden speaker with a plug in terminal used for maintenace work.

“Since these guys no doubt have installed a few new tricks, I think that we should all plug in." He informs everyone, pulling his PET out from his coat along with everyone else.

“Right.” Netto says, pulling the cord for his PET out. “Plug-in Rockman…”

“Blues.EXE …”
“Glyde.EXE …”
“Roll.EXE …”
“Xion.EXE …”
“Rockman X.EXE … “

“TRANSMISSION!” They all yell in unison, plugging there terminal access cords into the ports and sending their respected navi’s into the network. The already familiar navi's and friends looking at the two new, Rockman X and Xion, both sizing up the navi's in front of them as well.
A net navi slightly taller then Rockman steps forward, his blue chest armor shining in the networks light, as energy and light pulses through a red gem located on his chest. His dark body suit marked with a light blue 'X' pattern that crosses at his crotch. A red gem on his helmet glows similarly to the one on his chest, a pair of fins coming off his ear mounts with green network pathways in them. Green eyes taking in the group as a darker armored navi steps up next to him, a gray scarf covering the lower part of his companions white face.
Dark black armor covering his body along with a gray body suit, an animal like icon resting at the center visable through a sleeveless gray coat. A long white bushy tail with a slightly grayed tip sways slightly behind him under the cover of the coat, white fingers sticking out from black fingerless gloves. His helmet slotted to allow pointed canine like ears to show through, a blue gem resting on his forehead.

“I’m sorry that we can’t make proper introductions." The blue armored navi states, "Xion, can you do the honors and show us the way to the main computer core?”

The dark armor clad navi nods as he steps forward, raising an arm to point ahead of him as the gem on his forehead activates, a link opening in the network. “I left a backdoor hidden so that I could get into the network if needed to for... certain things.”

The opening hovering before them in the air shooting out sparks of electrical energy from the sides, a rush of air causing Xion's coat and Roll's hair to move.

“You can get access to the main computer core of the restaurant from here.” Xion states, smiling as he does. “But the link is set so that only one navi can go in at one time. A security measure that I put in just in case security navi's found it.”

Rockman nods as he steps up to the link, his body tingles from the energy of the gateway. “Are you sure its safe to use?”

“About as safe as using a regular link on the net.” The animal like navi replies with a smile.

“Well, I guess we should get going then.” Rockman says, turning towards the others, “Who’s going first?”

“I was wondering the same thing." A voice echo's through the air, "Only I was thinking along the lines of which one of you would be the first that I delete.”

The group of navi's turn and look around them, seeing no one standing close to them, their eyes wondering upwards to see a figure hovering in the air. His black body suit shows off his light frame and and blue armor, an upside down yellow triangle rests in an indentation on his chest, just visible above his crossed arms. His arms are colored differently from each other, the right seeming to be wrapped in metal up to a red orange forearm sheild that extended past his elbow and was a bit rectangular in appearance, his hand covered in metal like his upper arm. His other arm covered with the same black body suit as the rest of his body, with a blue armored forearm leading to a white gloved hand. A white strip runs down the back of the armor on his forearm with two green gems resting in it set equally appart.

Blue shoulder pads with white trim rest on his shoulders, a green gem sitting at the edge closest to his chest on each. Green hair flows out of his red orange helmet and down his back, the helmet devided into three ridges with the center one being the tallest and containing a green gem. His legs covered with a blue and white trimmed armor like the armor on his left arm, with white strip running down the center and a large gem located over his knees.

“It seems that you young navi’s are a bit lost, ending up in this territory.” The navi states, his blue eyes locking on the group.

“Who are you?” Glyde asks, stepping forward and trying to look imposing.

“Ah, forgive my rudeness." The new comer says, taking a short bow. "My name is Terra, the top navi of E.L.F.! Now, if you would hold still… I’ll make your deaths as painless as possible.”

“I won’t allow you to hurt Yaito-sama!” Glyde yells, his arm transforming into a cannon and firing at the other navi.

Terra smiles as he brings his left arm up, the gems glowing as a wave of energy forms before him, the blast from the Glyde cannon striking it fully and dissipating easily over the sheild. “Nice try, that was a particularly stronger attack then I expected from the likes of you. Allow me to show you my attack.”

He holds out his right hand, eletcrical energy dancing over his metal arm to form a ball in his hand. The ball of energy darts forward Glyde, dividing into two smaller balls of energy that twist around each other before flying off in two directions and slamming into Glyde from behind. The gold colored navi's eyes opening wide as he feels the energy over take him and explode, his body replaced by a logout icon. A pulse of energy running out of the terminal along with Glyde as he returns to the PET, causing Yaito to yell and drop the device as it sparks in her hand, the cord unplugging from the others in the group.

“GLYDE!” Yaito yells, returning to her dropped PET and seeing her navi inside badly hurt.

The group looks on in stunned silence of the attack, even Blues, impressed by the navi’s move. They watch Terra carefully as he floats to the ground, his feet coming to rest with a slight click as he sets his weight down fully on them. The green haired navi smiles at Roll, causing the pink and black navi to step back behind Rockman to escape his gaze.

“Well, that’s one down." Terra states coldly, looking at them. "Who’s next? I’m starting to get bored looking at you all standing there like statues.”

Rockman grits his teeth as he looks at the navi, the thought of his friend hurt causing his normally gentle green eyes to shake with anger. Blues steps infront of Rockman and brings his sword up, his visor covered eyes locking on the terroist navi.

“Rockman, you get Roll to the computer core." The crimson navi states, "I'll take care of this guy."

"Are you sure that you can handle him Blues?" Rockman asks, looking at his formal rival and now friend.

“You just do what you have to do, and leave this guy to me.” Blues replies, crouching slightly into a fighting stance.

X and Xion stand on either side of Blues, the three navi's blocking the way to the link and the two other navi's. Rockman nods in understanding as he leads Roll to the backdoor link, letting Roll go through first and giving one last glace at the others before stepping in himself. Xion growls as his right arm transforms into a bamboo sword, a red tinted visor forming over his eyes. Rockman X smirks as his arm changes into a buster, leveling it on Terra with careful aim, standing next to his friend and Blues.

“Down to three now.” The E.L.F. navi states, his arms resting at his sides as he leans his head to the left and right with a popping sound coming from his neck. “I think I shall end this quickly.”

Terra fires his attack once more, the ball of energy dividing into six smaller ones as they race towards the trio. The net navi's moving forward with their weapons at the spheres, only to have their weapons miss and the balls of light and energy fly past them. They stop in their tracks and turn, expecting the energy to come at them from behind only to see them continue on and fuse together before hitting the link. The energy expands around the open hole in the network, exploding as it reaches its critical mass. The three navi's are pushed back by the blast, smoke and debris flying past them dangerously, their weapons deflecting and deleting the fragments that endanger them. As the smoke clears they look in horror as the link to the computers core was gone, replaced with a hole in the floor leading to network path ways within the speaker system.

“DAMNIT!” Blues yells, turning to look at the Terra as the navi hovers in the air with his arms folded over his chest. "That was a smart move. I didn’t think that some lowly terrorist would be able to come up with that.”

“Well that just goes to show you that you still have a lot to learn Blues.” Terra smirks, floating higher. "I wish I could stay, but I have a date to keep with that young girl navi and her little blue friend. Don’t worry, you’ll be joining them shortly.”

As Terra finishes his statement his body is replaced with a logout icon, leaving the three alone in the network.


“Folf! How long till you can get that backdoor open again?” Enzan barks out the question at the older boy.

The boy grumbles as he looks at his PET, “From looking at the data that Xion is sending me, about an hour. But it looks like the chip pathway is still active so Netto and Meiru should be able to operate their navi's from here.”

“Don’t worry Enzan.” Netto smiles from his port, “Rockman and I can handle it from here.”


Rockman lays atop Roll on the other side of the link, his body shielding her from the blast that flew from the link shortly after he had made it through. He looks at the girl navi, seeing her blushing slightly as he gets up on his feet, helping Roll up as well.

“That really hurt.” Roll states, her hands holding her lower back as she looks at Rockman. “You didn’t have to shove me so hard. My butt isn’t made of pillows you know, and … I landed on my button.”

Rockman blushes slightly as he looks at her, “I’m sorry Roll-chan, but I didn't want you to get hurt by that blast.”

The two look ahead of them and see a series of four floating blue orbs with rings around them, a transparent firewall built around them for security. Roll nods at Rockman as she goes over to the firewall, her yellow bands on her helmet moving forward to interface with it, processing the data to deactivate the safe guard or find hints on how to. The blue navi stands guard next to her, his buster ready as his green eyes scan the area.

“Xion's link worked perfectly it seems." The azure navi states, "It got us past six firewalls in only moments."

“Yes, it did.” Terra's voice rings out clearly above them, "Sorry to keep you waiting."

The pair looks up to see the E.L.F. navi hovering in place, his arms crossed over his chest as he gazes down on them with a smirk. Rockman places himself between the navi and Roll, his buster aiming straight at him as he grits his teeth, emerald eyes locking onto his target.

“What did you do to Blues and the others?” Rockman shouts at the E.L.F. navi.

“Nothing, I could go back and delete them if you want.” Terra replies, shrugging his shoulders. “But I’ve spared them just so I could take the time to take care of you two.”

“Roll, I’ll hold him off while you get the firewall down and control of the computer.” Rockman instructs Roll, his eyes still locked on the other navi.

The pink navi nods as she continues to read and process the data, entering codes into the firewall quickly each time she gets a sequence finished.

“What do you think you’re doing?” Terra asks, as he raises his hand to launch his attack.

As he starts to charge his attack, Netto slots in two chips causing Rockman to vanish in and reappear before Terra to slam a Guts Punch into his jaw. The E.L.F. navi reels back, performing a flip in the air before landing on the ground to regain his balance, his blue eyes glaring at Rockman.

“That was a good punch kid." The green haired navi states, "Your operator is a bit better then I expected, but foolish."

Terra fires his attack at the blue navi, the sparking ball of energy diving down and racing along the network floor before splitting up and encircling Rockman. Netto slots in another chip as the balls of energy leap forward at his navi, a large Mettaur helmet forming over Rockman to protect him. As the sheild fades, a metal fist slams into Rockman's jaw to knock him into the air, Terra quickly catching his foot and driving him into the ground. Rockman winches in pain before his eyes open wide at the sight of a metal fist racing down at him, the ground exploding upward in a cloud of dust at the impact. Before the dust can clear a blast slams into Terra's back, knocking him forward and burning his green hair, the navi turning to see Rockman behind him with smoke coming from his buster.

"Area Steal." Netto chuckles, explaining to the other navi.

"Just in time, Netto-kun." The blue navi replies, keeping his buster trained on the other navi.

Terra smirks as he stand there, "You think you and your operator are a good team. Well lets see how he compares to mine. You and your operator aren't the only ones that can do that little trick that you pulled off at the N1-Grand Prix."

“What!” The brown haired boy yells as he sees the navi's arm change into a sword.

Rockman gasps in shock as he realizes what Terra is doing, turning to look behind him to see that Roll would be directly in the path of the attack if he dodge. The blue navi turns around to see Terra bringing a sword and wide sword up to complete the program advance. His body leaps forward as he feels a power activate in him, his body glowing as the E.L.F. navi releases the Beta Sword. Rockman thrusts his fist forward, his normal blue hand morphing into a large red one as the style change takes effect, the punch slamming full on with the attack. The beta sword sepparates and falls apart as the blue navi rushes forward still, advancing on the other navi.

Terra brings his left arm up quickly, an energy sheild forming just as Rockman's fist falls, the force knocking him back and leaving marks in the floor from his feet. "Where did he learn that!"

“Terra, the girl is almost done, stop her now!" A girls voice calls into the network to Terra.

"I’m on it Dyna!” Terra shouts, releasing a ball of energy at Rockman that divides and forms again as it passes the navi. “Say goodbye to your little girlfriend blue boy!”

“ROLL-CHAN!” Rockman yells, turning and running towards the girl in horror.

Time seems to slow down as Roll turns to see the energy blast coming at her as well as Rockman, her green eyes seeing more of the attacks forming behind her friend. Both net operators look on in horror as they realized they had used all of the area steal chips they had, their hands trying to log their navi's out before the attacks could hit. Rockman dives forward, his arms wrapping around Roll and knocking her clear of the first ball of energy, only to have it and the others change course, converging on the two. A wave of energy races through the network and into the PETs, coursing through both Netto and Meiru as they stand there, their bodies not responding and just reacting to the powerful eletrical energy.

Terra smiles as he fires a few more attacks into the growing mass of energy, watching as it balloons outward before exploding, causing the firewalls to collapse. "That should be the last of them. Now to deal with those other navi’s.”

"Terra, look out!" Dyna warns too late as a fin tears through the air, cutting his left arm off at the elbow.

"SHIT!" The green haired navi hisses, looking to see a shark navi standing on the network floor.

"The security system was knocked out thanks to that attack of yours Terra." His operator growls, "We're leaving."

Sharkman looks over at the spot where two navi's once stood, seeing a faint logout icon in the air through the smoke before it vanishes. Outside of the network, both young operators lay on the floor with their PET's gripped firmly in their hands, unmoving as smoke rises from their bodies. Enzan kneels next to Netto, pressing his fingers to the boys neck and breathing a sigh of relief as he finds a pulse. Kitsu looks over with a nod, her fingers against Meiru's neck doing the same.

“They’re still alive, but we have to get them to a hospital if we are going to keep them that way.” The skunk haired boy states looking at the others.



Several hours later the group huddles in the waiting room of the closest hospital to the resturant, located on Beach Street, their eyes locked on the room in which both Netto and Meiru were wheeled into after being taken by the staff. Haruka Hikari, Netto's mother, paces about the floor nervously as she waits for the doctor to inform her of news about her son and his friend, waiting for her husband to arrived after leaving word with him to come home as soon as possible.

“How could this have happened?” Haruka asks, sitting down finally after exhausting herself with pacing. “Everything was going so well today… I perfected my cheese cake recipe and was hoping Netto would be home in time to have some before bed, and now… he’s in the hospital, and Meiru too.”

The clicking of the door to the room draws everyone's attention towards a doctor, the group spouting questions at him about the condition of the children.

“Quiet down everyone! Please, calm down!” The young black haired doctor shouts over everyone, the group slowly quieting to hear him. "Now then, Mrs. Hikari, your son and his friend are going to be fine. The electrical shock caused them to lose consciousness, but there is no internal or perminate damage. They will recover in time, right now they just need to rest.”

“Well that’s good to hear.” Yaito sighs in relief, “So that means I won’t get sued for this?”

Enzan crosses his arms over his chest as he lowers his head, “I doubt that you or I would’ve been charged with anything. Since this was beyond our control. Please tell Hikari and Meiru that I hope they get better.”

“Where are you going?” Yaito questions, grabbing the boys coat as he turns to leave.

“I am the vice president of IPC, and someone has to talk to the press about this incident.” He answers, tugging free of the girl and leaving the room.


Rockman moans as he slowly opens his green eyes, seeing only darkness before him and feeling a stabbing pain in his head that causes him to closse his eyes once more. “Ow… my head…”

He places his hand on his head, his eyes opening wide in shock as he feels his helmet is absent, moving his fingers to feel the silken thread like material that was in its place. “Ha- hair?”

Rockman blinks more, trying to bring his surroundings into focus in the low light coming from a distant light source, hearing an electronic beeping. He sits up slowly to find himself sitting on a bed, confused as he sees a computer monitor showing blood preasure, heart rate, and breathing. His green eyes look down at his body to see his body suit replaced with a light blue gown that was tied on the sides with two simple strings.

“This… this is a dream right?” Rockman questions himself, pulling a sheet off of him slowly and swinging his legs over the side of the bed onto the floor.

The coldness of the floor sends a shock up his body, almost causing him to yelp in pain. He moves slowly, feeling a bit stiff and weak, noting that he most likely hasn't recovered from the attack and was inside some kind of new navi recovery program. His green eyes spot a mirror on the wall under a small desk, his legs and feet slowly guiding him to it under his command. Rockman stands there before the mirror, his hands finding a switch to turn on a light over the reflectic glass and switching it on. He stands there in shock as he looks at the image before him, slowly examining his face and looking at his pinkish colored hands.

“I… I’m in Netto’s body...” Rockman finally manages to studder, looking up at the ruffled and slightly burnt brown hair on his head.

“N- Netto-kun?” A voice calls from behind him.

Rockman turns away from his, or his brothers reflection in the mirror to see Meiru standing in a similar gown and holding onto a dividing curtain in the middle of the room. The navi confused and wondering how to explain what has happened to his twins childhood friend, without fully understanding what had happened himself.

“Meiru-chan… I-!” Rockman stops as he looks closely at Meiru, seeing a pair of green eyes looking at him filled with worry and fear. “R- Roll-chan?”

The girl nods and starts to cry, "Rockman..."

“Its alright Roll-chan." Rockman states, wrapping his arms around his friend, "I'm here."
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Chapter Two: The Battle of Terra

“Things are going exactly as planned." A dark figure laughs as he looks at the display of security monitors for the resturant. "Right now those fools are realizing that their phone function isn’t working. Oh, this is grand! All those fat cats, my little play things!”

“Uhm, sir?” A soft voice says from the doorway. “Are you sure that its such a good idea to hold two of the top net battlers of Japan in there?”

The dark figure turns to face his younger cohort, stepping forward into the only light for the room. His hair as white as newly fallen snow and combed back into what looked like swept back spikes. A ruby colored eye patch over his left eye causes his carasmaticly handsome features to be some what marred, his remaining cool gray eye looking at his accomplice. Clothed in a green militaristic styled uniform with a crimson stripe running down the legs of his pants, a short cape held into place by a gold clasp on the right of his chest. A black armband with red lettering reading 'E.L.F.' on his right arm matches a black holster with red trim for his PET.

“Worried Dyna?” The man asks, his cycloptic gaze falling on the accomplice entering the room.

The young teen lowers her head slightly, a lock of green hair falling to dangle in front of her face that was out of place with the silver of that adorn the rest of her head. Her blue eyes close for a moment as he crosses her arms over her chest, dressed similarly to the older man but without a cape.

“More concern, then worry Marshal Dekon,” Dyna states, as she walks forward with her eyes closed. “I’ll send my navi into the rooms network. He should be able to hold them for a while.”

“Your lack of faith amuses me,” The man, Dekon, smirks and waves a hand over his shoulder at her as he steps out of the room. “Go, send your navi into the network.”



Outside the restaurant the local authorities and the net police gather around the building, forming a tight blockade as is standard for a hostiage situation. Special teams scanning the building with equipment from near by buildings to locate those inside by their body heat, reporting information back to the Commissioner that had taken command of the situation for the moment. The bald headed man with his well trimmed mustash looking at reports coming in, adjusting his suit a bit as he does so, grumbling at the situation.

“What is the situation Police Commissioner Kifune?” A slightly deep voice asks, causing the man to turn around to face a man with an odd towel like cape and a red helmet with fish fins on it.

“Nice of you to join us Commander Beef." The Commissioner states, turning back towards the building. "We secured the area as soon as we got a call from the terrorists. Right now they have complete control of the building and the networks. They even changed the firewalls and set up additional ones to keep us from gaining access. But from what we can tell there are 120 hostages inside, and at least 50 terrorists."

“There are 50 of them in there!” Beef exclaims, “What are they demanding?”

Kifine grumbles, "Their leader is requesting 3.5 billion zenny for the release and well being of each hostage. If their demands are not met then they will execute them all."

“That is an outrageous amount of money." The helmeted man comments, "There are only a few in there that can afford such a thing. Are they armed?”

“Yes, heavily so, and thanks to the security system of this place, it is practically a fortress.” Kifune replies with a grunt. “They can’t leave and we can’t get in.”

Commander Beef looks at the building, the fullness of the situation sinking in. "I have two agents already inside, both of them are most likely with the hostiages right now. Hopefully they will be able to do something to aid us from the inside.”



“How the heck can they see us?” Yaito asks, the girl unknowningly clinging to Enzan's arm.

“Most likely there are cameras in this room that are hidden for the sake of the look of the place.” The skunk haired boy answers, trying to pry the young girl off of him. “If we can find them, we might be able to blind our captors to what is happening in the room. It might lure them down here as well for us to trap them.”

“The camera’s are located in the ceiling at the center of the room, they are part of the light fixtures in the chandelier." Kitsu states, "They allow for a complete 360 and 180 view of the room."

“How do you know that?!” Netto yells out, glaring at Kitsu as if she were to blame for the situation.

Kitsu crosses her arms over her chest, “I know because I was hired as security for this party, so I studied the security system along with Core.”

“Then you know where we can plug in to get access to the network right?” Enzan asks, looking at the two young adults.

“There is an access terminal on the stage that ties into the sound system. Since the band performs mainly in this fall it is piped through the network from there to the other areas." Kitsu's accomplice states, "But the security systems for this place are fairly tight, it took me 15 minutes to hack into the main network from here in a test run of the security system. All the holes that I exploited in the network have been removed or strengthened with further safe guards.”

“I’m sure that there is a backdoor that you left open for yourself isn't there.” Enzan says quietly, looking at the older boy as he shakes the blonde from his arm.

The older boy blushes and coughs into his hand, trying to look innocent as the group stared at him. His companion glaring at him with her emerald eyes, causing him to gulp in fear at the icy gaze.

“When we get out of here... we’re going to have a little talk.” Kitsu states, growling a bit at her elder party companion. “But right now we need to get to that security system access.”

The group of six move their way through the crowd, reaching a wooden panel just under part of the stage. Folf slowly runs his fingers around the edges of the panel, causing it to snap forward into his hands, showing that it was actually colored fabric stretched over a wood frame. The young man sets the panel to the side to reveal a hidden speaker with a plug in terminal used for maintenace work.

“Since these guys no doubt have installed a few new tricks, I think that we should all plug in." He informs everyone, pulling his PET out from his coat along with everyone else.

“Right.” Netto says, pulling the cord for his PET out. “Plug-in Rockman…”

“Blues.EXE …”
“Glyde.EXE …”
“Roll.EXE …”
“Xion.EXE …”
“Rockman X.EXE … “

“TRANSMISSION!” They all yell in unison, plugging there terminal access cords into the ports and sending their respected navi’s into the network. The already familiar navi's and friends looking at the two new, Rockman X and Xion, both sizing up the navi's in front of them as well.
A net navi slightly taller then Rockman steps forward, his blue chest armor shining in the networks light, as energy and light pulses through a red gem located on his chest. His dark body suit marked with a light blue 'X' pattern that crosses at his crotch. A red gem on his helmet glows similarly to the one on his chest, a pair of fins coming off his ear mounts with green network pathways in them. Green eyes taking in the group as a darker armored navi steps up next to him, a gray scarf covering the lower part of his companions white face.
Dark black armor covering his body along with a gray body suit, an animal like icon resting at the center visable through a sleeveless gray coat. A long white bushy tail with a slightly grayed tip sways slightly behind him under the cover of the coat, white fingers sticking out from black fingerless gloves. His helmet slotted to allow pointed canine like ears to show through, a blue gem resting on his forehead.

“I’m sorry that we can’t make proper introductions." The blue armored navi states, "Xion, can you do the honors and show us the way to the main computer core?”

The dark armor clad navi nods as he steps forward, raising an arm to point ahead of him as the gem on his forehead activates, a link opening in the network. “I left a backdoor hidden so that I could get into the network if needed to for... certain things.”

The opening hovering before them in the air shooting out sparks of electrical energy from the sides, a rush of air causing Xion's coat and Roll's hair to move.

“You can get access to the main computer core of the restaurant from here.” Xion states, smiling as he does. “But the link is set so that only one navi can go in at one time. A security measure that I put in just in case security navi's found it.”

Rockman nods as he steps up to the link, his body tingles from the energy of the gateway. “Are you sure its safe to use?”

“About as safe as using a regular link on the net.” The animal like navi replies with a smile.

“Well, I guess we should get going then.” Rockman says, turning towards the others, “Who’s going first?”

“I was wondering the same thing." A voice echo's through the air, "Only I was thinking along the lines of which one of you would be the first that I delete.”

The group of navi's turn and look around them, seeing no one standing close to them, their eyes wondering upwards to see a figure hovering in the air. His black body suit shows off his light frame and and blue armor, an upside down yellow triangle rests in an indentation on his chest, just visible above his crossed arms. His arms are colored differently from each other, the right seeming to be wrapped in metal up to a red orange forearm sheild that extended past his elbow and was a bit rectangular in appearance, his hand covered in metal like his upper arm. His other arm covered with the same black body suit as the rest of his body, with a blue armored forearm leading to a white gloved hand. A white strip runs down the back of the armor on his forearm with two green gems resting in it set equally appart.

Blue shoulder pads with white trim rest on his shoulders, a green gem sitting at the edge closest to his chest on each. Green hair flows out of his red orange helmet and down his back, the helmet devided into three ridges with the center one being the tallest and containing a green gem. His legs covered with a blue and white trimmed armor like the armor on his left arm, with white strip running down the center and a large gem located over his knees.

“It seems that you young navi’s are a bit lost, ending up in this territory.” The navi states, his blue eyes locking on the group.

“Who are you?” Glyde asks, stepping forward and trying to look imposing.

“Ah, forgive my rudeness." The new comer says, taking a short bow. "My name is Terra, the top navi of E.L.F.! Now, if you would hold still… I’ll make your deaths as painless as possible.”

“I won’t allow you to hurt Yaito-sama!” Glyde yells, his arm transforming into a cannon and firing at the other navi.

Terra smiles as he brings his left arm up, the gems glowing as a wave of energy forms before him, the blast from the Glyde cannon striking it fully and dissipating easily over the sheild. “Nice try, that was a particularly stronger attack then I expected from the likes of you. Allow me to show you my attack.”

He holds out his right hand, eletcrical energy dancing over his metal arm to form a ball in his hand. The ball of energy darts forward Glyde, dividing into two smaller balls of energy that twist around each other before flying off in two directions and slamming into Glyde from behind. The gold colored navi's eyes opening wide as he feels the energy over take him and explode, his body replaced by a logout icon. A pulse of energy running out of the terminal along with Glyde as he returns to the PET, causing Yaito to yell and drop the device as it sparks in her hand, the cord unplugging from the others in the group.

“GLYDE!” Yaito yells, returning to her dropped PET and seeing her navi inside badly hurt.

The group looks on in stunned silence of the attack, even Blues, impressed by the navi’s move. They watch Terra carefully as he floats to the ground, his feet coming to rest with a slight click as he sets his weight down fully on them. The green haired navi smiles at Roll, causing the pink and black navi to step back behind Rockman to escape his gaze.

“Well, that’s one down." Terra states coldly, looking at them. "Who’s next? I’m starting to get bored looking at you all standing there like statues.”

Rockman grits his teeth as he looks at the navi, the thought of his friend hurt causing his normally gentle green eyes to shake with anger. Blues steps infront of Rockman and brings his sword up, his visor covered eyes locking on the terroist navi.

“Rockman, you get Roll to the computer core." The crimson navi states, "I'll take care of this guy."

"Are you sure that you can handle him Blues?" Rockman asks, looking at his formal rival and now friend.

“You just do what you have to do, and leave this guy to me.” Blues replies, crouching slightly into a fighting stance.

X and Xion stand on either side of Blues, the three navi's blocking the way to the link and the two other navi's. Rockman nods in understanding as he leads Roll to the backdoor link, letting Roll go through first and giving one last glace at the others before stepping in himself. Xion growls as his right arm transforms into a bamboo sword, a red tinted visor forming over his eyes. Rockman X smirks as his arm changes into a buster, leveling it on Terra with careful aim, standing next to his friend and Blues.

“Down to three now.” The E.L.F. navi states, his arms resting at his sides as he leans his head to the left and right with a popping sound coming from his neck. “I think I shall end this quickly.”

Terra fires his attack once more, the ball of energy dividing into six smaller ones as they race towards the trio. The net navi's moving forward with their weapons at the spheres, only to have their weapons miss and the balls of light and energy fly past them. They stop in their tracks and turn, expecting the energy to come at them from behind only to see them continue on and fuse together before hitting the link. The energy expands around the open hole in the network, exploding as it reaches its critical mass. The three navi's are pushed back by the blast, smoke and debris flying past them dangerously, their weapons deflecting and deleting the fragments that endanger them. As the smoke clears they look in horror as the link to the computers core was gone, replaced with a hole in the floor leading to network path ways within the speaker system.

“DAMNIT!” Blues yells, turning to look at the Terra as the navi hovers in the air with his arms folded over his chest. "That was a smart move. I didn’t think that some lowly terrorist would be able to come up with that.”

“Well that just goes to show you that you still have a lot to learn Blues.” Terra smirks, floating higher. "I wish I could stay, but I have a date to keep with that young girl navi and her little blue friend. Don’t worry, you’ll be joining them shortly.”

As Terra finishes his statement his body is replaced with a logout icon, leaving the three alone in the network.


“Folf! How long till you can get that backdoor open again?” Enzan barks out the question at the older boy.

The boy grumbles as he looks at his PET, “From looking at the data that Xion is sending me, about an hour. But it looks like the chip pathway is still active so Netto and Meiru should be able to operate their navi's from here.”

“Don’t worry Enzan.” Netto smiles from his port, “Rockman and I can handle it from here.”


Rockman lays atop Roll on the other side of the link, his body shielding her from the blast that flew from the link shortly after he had made it through. He looks at the girl navi, seeing her blushing slightly as he gets up on his feet, helping Roll up as well.

“That really hurt.” Roll states, her hands holding her lower back as she looks at Rockman. “You didn’t have to shove me so hard. My butt isn’t made of pillows you know, and … I landed on my button.”

Rockman blushes slightly as he looks at her, “I’m sorry Roll-chan, but I didn't want you to get hurt by that blast.”

The two look ahead of them and see a series of four floating blue orbs with rings around them, a transparent firewall built around them for security. Roll nods at Rockman as she goes over to the firewall, her yellow bands on her helmet moving forward to interface with it, processing the data to deactivate the safe guard or find hints on how to. The blue navi stands guard next to her, his buster ready as his green eyes scan the area.

“Xion's link worked perfectly it seems." The azure navi states, "It got us past six firewalls in only moments."

“Yes, it did.” Terra's voice rings out clearly above them, "Sorry to keep you waiting."

The pair looks up to see the E.L.F. navi hovering in place, his arms crossed over his chest as he gazes down on them with a smirk. Rockman places himself between the navi and Roll, his buster aiming straight at him as he grits his teeth, emerald eyes locking onto his target.

“What did you do to Blues and the others?” Rockman shouts at the E.L.F. navi.

“Nothing, I could go back and delete them if you want.” Terra replies, shrugging his shoulders. “But I’ve spared them just so I could take the time to take care of you two.”

“Roll, I’ll hold him off while you get the firewall down and control of the computer.” Rockman instructs Roll, his eyes still locked on the other navi.

The pink navi nods as she continues to read and process the data, entering codes into the firewall quickly each time she gets a sequence finished.

“What do you think you’re doing?” Terra asks, as he raises his hand to launch his attack.

As he starts to charge his attack, Netto slots in two chips causing Rockman to vanish in and reappear before Terra to slam a Guts Punch into his jaw. The E.L.F. navi reels back, performing a flip in the air before landing on the ground to regain his balance, his blue eyes glaring at Rockman.

“That was a good punch kid." The green haired navi states, "Your operator is a bit better then I expected, but foolish."

Terra fires his attack at the blue navi, the sparking ball of energy diving down and racing along the network floor before splitting up and encircling Rockman. Netto slots in another chip as the balls of energy leap forward at his navi, a large Mettaur helmet forming over Rockman to protect him. As the sheild fades, a metal fist slams into Rockman's jaw to knock him into the air, Terra quickly catching his foot and driving him into the ground. Rockman winches in pain before his eyes open wide at the sight of a metal fist racing down at him, the ground exploding upward in a cloud of dust at the impact. Before the dust can clear a blast slams into Terra's back, knocking him forward and burning his green hair, the navi turning to see Rockman behind him with smoke coming from his buster.

"Area Steal." Netto chuckles, explaining to the other navi.

"Just in time, Netto-kun." The blue navi replies, keeping his buster trained on the other navi.

Terra smirks as he stand there, "You think you and your operator are a good team. Well lets see how he compares to mine. You and your operator aren't the only ones that can do that little trick that you pulled off at the N1-Grand Prix."

“What!” The brown haired boy yells as he sees the navi's arm change into a sword.

Rockman gasps in shock as he realizes what Terra is doing, turning to look behind him to see that Roll would be directly in the path of the attack if he dodge. The blue navi turns around to see Terra bringing a sword and wide sword up to complete the program advance. His body leaps forward as he feels a power activate in him, his body glowing as the E.L.F. navi releases the Beta Sword. Rockman thrusts his fist forward, his normal blue hand morphing into a large red one as the style change takes effect, the punch slamming full on with the attack. The beta sword sepparates and falls apart as the blue navi rushes forward still, advancing on the other navi.

Terra brings his left arm up quickly, an energy sheild forming just as Rockman's fist falls, the force knocking him back and leaving marks in the floor from his feet. "Where did he learn that!"

“Terra, the girl is almost done, stop her now!" A girls voice calls into the network to Terra.

"I’m on it Dyna!” Terra shouts, releasing a ball of energy at Rockman that divides and forms again as it passes the navi. “Say goodbye to your little girlfriend blue boy!”

“ROLL-CHAN!” Rockman yells, turning and running towards the girl in horror.

Time seems to slow down as Roll turns to see the energy blast coming at her as well as Rockman, her green eyes seeing more of the attacks forming behind her friend. Both net operators look on in horror as they realized they had used all of the area steal chips they had, their hands trying to log their navi's out before the attacks could hit. Rockman dives forward, his arms wrapping around Roll and knocking her clear of the first ball of energy, only to have it and the others change course, converging on the two. A wave of energy races through the network and into the PETs, coursing through both Netto and Meiru as they stand there, their bodies not responding and just reacting to the powerful eletrical energy.

Terra smiles as he fires a few more attacks into the growing mass of energy, watching as it balloons outward before exploding, causing the firewalls to collapse. "That should be the last of them. Now to deal with those other navi’s.”

"Terra, look out!" Dyna warns too late as a fin tears through the air, cutting his left arm off at the elbow.

"SHIT!" The green haired navi hisses, looking to see a shark navi standing on the network floor.

"The security system was knocked out thanks to that attack of yours Terra." His operator growls, "We're leaving."

Sharkman looks over at the spot where two navi's once stood, seeing a faint logout icon in the air through the smoke before it vanishes. Outside of the network, both young operators lay on the floor with their PET's gripped firmly in their hands, unmoving as smoke rises from their bodies. Enzan kneels next to Netto, pressing his fingers to the boys neck and breathing a sigh of relief as he finds a pulse. Kitsu looks over with a nod, her fingers against Meiru's neck doing the same.

“They’re still alive, but we have to get them to a hospital if we are going to keep them that way.” The skunk haired boy states looking at the others.



Several hours later the group huddles in the waiting room of the closest hospital to the resturant, located on Beach Street, their eyes locked on the room in which both Netto and Meiru were wheeled into after being taken by the staff. Haruka Hikari, Netto's mother, paces about the floor nervously as she waits for the doctor to inform her of news about her son and his friend, waiting for her husband to arrived after leaving word with him to come home as soon as possible.

“How could this have happened?” Haruka asks, sitting down finally after exhausting herself with pacing. “Everything was going so well today… I perfected my cheese cake recipe and was hoping Netto would be home in time to have some before bed, and now… he’s in the hospital, and Meiru too.”

The clicking of the door to the room draws everyone's attention towards a doctor, the group spouting questions at him about the condition of the children.

“Quiet down everyone! Please, calm down!” The young black haired doctor shouts over everyone, the group slowly quieting to hear him. "Now then, Mrs. Hikari, your son and his friend are going to be fine. The electrical shock caused them to lose consciousness, but there is no internal or perminate damage. They will recover in time, right now they just need to rest.”

“Well that’s good to hear.” Yaito sighs in relief, “So that means I won’t get sued for this?”

Enzan crosses his arms over his chest as he lowers his head, “I doubt that you or I would’ve been charged with anything. Since this was beyond our control. Please tell Hikari and Meiru that I hope they get better.”

“Where are you going?” Yaito questions, grabbing the boys coat as he turns to leave.

“I am the vice president of IPC, and someone has to talk to the press about this incident.” He answers, tugging free of the girl and leaving the room.


Rockman moans as he slowly opens his green eyes, seeing only darkness before him and feeling a stabbing pain in his head that causes him to closse his eyes once more. “Ow… my head…”

He places his hand on his head, his eyes opening wide in shock as he feels his helmet is absent, moving his fingers to feel the silken thread like material that was in its place. “Ha- hair?”

Rockman blinks more, trying to bring his surroundings into focus in the low light coming from a distant light source, hearing an electronic beeping. He sits up slowly to find himself sitting on a bed, confused as he sees a computer monitor showing blood preasure, heart rate, and breathing. His green eyes look down at his body to see his body suit replaced with a light blue gown that was tied on the sides with two simple strings.

“This… this is a dream right?” Rockman questions himself, pulling a sheet off of him slowly and swinging his legs over the side of the bed onto the floor.

The coldness of the floor sends a shock up his body, almost causing him to yelp in pain. He moves slowly, feeling a bit stiff and weak, noting that he most likely hasn't recovered from the attack and was inside some kind of new navi recovery program. His green eyes spot a mirror on the wall under a small desk, his legs and feet slowly guiding him to it under his command. Rockman stands there before the mirror, his hands finding a switch to turn on a light over the reflectic glass and switching it on. He stands there in shock as he looks at the image before him, slowly examining his face and looking at his pinkish colored hands.

“I… I’m in Netto’s body...” Rockman finally manages to studder, looking up at the ruffled and slightly burnt brown hair on his head.

“N- Netto-kun?” A voice calls from behind him.

Rockman turns away from his, or his brothers reflection in the mirror to see Meiru standing in a similar gown and holding onto a dividing curtain in the middle of the room. The navi confused and wondering how to explain what has happened to his twins childhood friend, without fully understanding what had happened himself.

“Meiru-chan… I-!” Rockman stops as he looks closely at Meiru, seeing a pair of green eyes looking at him filled with worry and fear. “R- Roll-chan?”

The girl nods and starts to cry, "Rockman..."

“Its alright Roll-chan." Rockman states, wrapping his arms around his friend, "I'm here."
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[Midnight]

Oh my. I remember this fic. It was one of the most unique I had ever read at that point. My memory is a little fuzzy as to the plot of the original version of this fic, but at this point, it seems to be of no matter.

Anyway...the progressive nature of your writing is still quite apparent, and quite unique as well--it gives an angle into the story that not many writers present. Good job.
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[Kitty-Chan]

Heheheheh. Switcharoo, anyone? Oh, this will be good.
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[Core]

I'm happy that you remember the original one Midnight, and of your review of the first two chapters. I know the plot doesn't seem apparent right now, but it will become clearer as with all things about this story. :P

Yes Kitty-chan, there was a little switcharoonie done that is all part of the story. ;) And now for the continuation of the story with the third chapter~

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Chapter Three: Digital Dreams, Reality Nightmares

“Netto-kun! Netto-kun!” Rockman yells, causing the brown eyed boy to stir, “Netto-kun please wake up!”

“Huh? Wha- what?” Netto replies, lifting his head slowly as his brown eyes into focus of the world around him.

The twin orbs slowly bring the blue world into clear focus of the large blue area around him, the floor a darker shade of blue with lighter colored paths resembling a large computer chip or circuit board. Netto looks up to see the green eyes of his brother looking back at him from a screen hovering in the air, his eyes opening wide in shock as he feels himself hovering in the air with blue rings moving up and down his body.

“R-ROCKMAN! What are you doing on the wrong side of the screen!?” The brown eyed boy yells, “Is this a dream?”

“No Netto-kun, its not. I wish that it was, but it isn’t.” Rockman replies, sitting down on his hospital bed and looking at the screen of the PET in his hand. “I have you and Meiru-chan in a repair cycle right now. I think something in the battle with Terra caused us to switch places.”

Netto blinks, stunned into silence for a long moment as he feels a tingling sensation from data being repaired on his body. “So I’m in your body and you are in mine… Sounds like some cheap movie by a family movie company.”

“It seems that way doesn’t it Netto-kun.” The green eyed boy replies, as he scratches the back of his head. “But unlike those movies I have no idea how to get us to switch back.”

“You mean I could be stuck in here!” Netto screams, causing Rockman to jump from the voice erupting from the PET’s speaker, realizing now what his voice must have sounded like when he yelled at his brother.

“For the moment at least Netto-kun. But you have Meiru-chan to keep you company.” The former blue navi replies, looking off to his right at Roll sitting next to him with her PET held in both hands against her chest with the gentle sobbing of Meiru inside from the news. “I’m going to see Papa as soon as I can. He might be able to help us.”

Netto nods his helmeted head in agreement, the rings around him vanishing and allowing him to step forward off of the repair terminal. “Rockman, do you think you can connect the PET’s so that I can see Meiru?” He asks sheepishly.

“I don’t see why not.” Rockman states, moving slightly to connect the two PET's through a link cable.

A small portal opens up into the air before Netto, rippling slightly like water. “Rockman, is this the connec-!”

Before he could finish his question, a pink and black body dives out of the portal and tackles him, almost knocking him to the ground.

“Netto-kun!” Meiru’s voice wails, wrapping her arms around her friend, clinging to him his dark blue body.

Netto looks into the brown eyes of his childhood friend, her eyes red from crying at the news of her situation still. He wraps his arms around her, letting her head rest on his shoulder as the two stand there in their new digital home.


In a dark and forbidding section of the cities industrial district, a group of six sit at a rectangular table in the old boardroom of the Kodaroy Chemical Plant. Dyna sits at the far end of the table to the right of the groups leader, Dekon, watching the news report by Midorikawa Kero of their failed hostiage plan.

“As you can see from the reports by the media, our operation was a failure.” Dekon states, “Not only were we unable to raise additional money for our cause, but also a number of our operatives were either captured or killed in the resulting gun fight with the police. It was only by my superior intellect, that I was able to escape along with Ms. Dyna here.”

“So what are the plans now Marshal Dekon, since we are the only ones left?” Ask a woman at the far end of the table, her face like the other four joining the two eclipsed in shadow. “Surely the police, or those net agents, will be able to get some of our operatives to disclose the location of our base and who we are.”

“I doubt that they will be able to tell them anything." The man states, smiling as he closes his remaining eye. "My power is far reaching, they will remain silent. As will those that shall oppose E.L.F."

“Speaking of those that oppose us." The third memeber in the room asks, her voice silken. "What of those net navi’s that faced Dyna and Terra?”

“Terra is fully repaired from his injury.” Dyna announces, “The ones that you are refering to shall be dealt with. That is why Marshal Dekon has called us all here.”

“Indeed, Dyna is correct.” Dekon interjects, “Thanks to a local hacker I was able to track down the personal information of the operators of the two navi’s that were instrumental in our defeat. Normally I would send only one person to handle such a task as eliminating this annoyance, but there seems to be a lacks in skills as of late.” He cuts his eye at Dyna, sending a noticeable chill through the room as he does so.

“But what of the hacker? He could go to the police if he starts connecting things.” A man asks from the shadows, "They are about as trusting as mercenaries."

“Oh I doubt that he will be speaking to anyone.” Dekon states, smiling as he tosses a broken PET onto the table, its case stained with a dark red splatter and a bullet hole through the center. “Any further questions?”

The room falls silent as they look at the PET, smoke still rising from the broken circuitry inside.

“Excellent!” Their leader snaps, standing and causing the others to rise with him. “You all know what you are to do. Now go forth and show those children and the world the merciless power of E.L.F.!”

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Rockman looks around at the world around him, having been released from the hospital by the doctors and telling his friends and mother of the situation, the group shocked but supportive of the navis turned human. The former navi dressed similar to his twin, only opting to go without the orange vest or head band, letting the crest on the upper left of his white shirt show. He takes in a deep breath of the wet air, still damp from a spring shower that had passed by earlier and leaving the grass and leaves of the trees sparkling as clouds roll past in the sky. His green eyes were wide with wonder as he looked out the minivan window at everything passing him by, his nose inhaling the smell of the worlds sweet perfume. Roll sits next to him, dressed in the same clothing as Meiru and taking in the sights as much as the other navi, while Haruka drives along the streets of the city, turning onto the road that would take them to their final destination.

“So this is what the world is like from your view.” Rockman says, sitting back in his seat and looking into the blue PET, “Its all so wonderful Netto-kun.”

“I would imagine it would be to you Rockman, but that’s just daily things for me.” Netto replies, as he pokes around off the screen of the PET.

“Uhm, Netto-kun what are you doing?” The puzzled green eyed boy asks his twin.

“Oh! I uh… was making a sandwich!” Netto says nervously.

Rockman looks at his brother with a worried expression, “. . . Netto-kun, what are you doing?”

“Alright, alright… I was looking through some files, and I accidentally deleted my homework that you had me do for the week when we were in detention. I was trying to recover them.” His twin answers sheepishly.

“NETTO-KUN!” Rockman yells out, startling Roll and Meiru. “What are you doing to my nice organized filing system!?”

Roll rests her hand on Rockman’s shoulder, squeezing it softly. “Its alright, Rockman.”

The boy calms down quickly, sighing as he looks at his mother driving. “I’m sorry for yelling Mama, I didn’t mean to distract you.”

“Its alright Net- Rockman.” Haruka corrects herself, “You didn’t distract me at all dear. We're kind of stuck here for the moment.”

Roll nods in agreement, looking at the gridlocked traffic ahead of them. "We have been sitting here for about an hour now. I wonder what’s going on.”

“Dunno.” Rockman says, shrugging his shoulders as he leans back in his seat comfortably. “You know, I’m amazed at how well Mama took the news about us. She didn’t freak out nearly as much as I thought she would.”

“Ah, here we go.” Haruka’s voice announces, her foot hitting the gas pedel and sending the car forward at a high rate of speed.

“ . . . Then again, maybe there are things about Mama that I don’t really know as well as I thought that I did.” The boy says, looking up out of the small moon roof over the seat he shares with Roll.

Haruka's fast driving makes short work of the distance to the turn off to the Science Labs, the minivan pulling into a parking space in an underground garage. The trio making their way through the halls of the main building as they stroll pass the security that was already familiar with them from either the kids visiting or pictures that Yuuichiro showed of his family when working in the building. Haruka carries a large covered basket, smiling as she accompanies the two into the scientists lab, seeing assistants and other scientists working on a project with the twins father.

“Netto! Hakura! Meiru!" Yuuichiro says in shock, turning his chair around to look at them, "What are you three doing here?”

“Uhm, dad… I- its me Rockman.” The green eyed boy states, blushing as he looks at his father for the first time without the aid of a computer screen holograms.

“Netto, what have I told you about lying?” His father scolds, before looking at the eyes of his son. “Did you get contacts?”

“Hikari-hakase, Rockman is telling the truth. There was an accident and Netto is now in the PET along with Meiru-chan.” Roll says, holding up the PET in her hands for him to see, Meiru waves shyly from the other side of the screen.

“H- how could this happen?” Yuuichiro asks, looking at his wife for an explanation.

“Well… it all started with a dinner party.” Rockman starts, telling his father the events of the night and answering his questions.

Yuuichiro stands up silently as he strokes the stubble on his chin from not shaving in a few days, "I'm sorry that I wasn't able to visit you when this happened. I haven't been to my office in a while and didn't get the messages."

He looks at the two young people before him, "I'm not exactly sure what happened, but I have a theory that the link between Netto and Rockman was so strong that when the power surge from that navi's attack hit it cause the minds of you two to switch. Since Meiru and Roll were with you theirs were also carried by the power as well, causing a transference of mental pathways. I'd have to do some testing to be sure however."

Netto sighs from the PET, "Testing, are you sure Papa?"

"Yes, its the only way to know exactly what happened and how we might be able to fix it." Yuuichiro states, "But first there is something else that we must do."

"What's that Papa?" Rockman asks, looking up at his brown eyed father.

The scientists smiles warmly, "I need some of Mama's famous Meat Spaghetti."

Haruka smiles as she raises the basket, "I came prepared."

Yuuichiro looks over the data of his sons body and brain waves, compairing them to others done in the past to the boy. His brown eyes studiing the results of the series of tests that he and other scientists had run on the operator and navi pair, looking up from the findings at Rockman and Roll, the two seated in comfortable seats.

"It looks like my theory was correct." The scientists states, taking off his glasses and pinching the bridge of his nose with his eyes closed, trying to cut off a headache brough on by not getting enough rest. "But, it seems that more then just data was changed out in that attack. Somehow it was powerful enough to cause your minds and bodies to switch, its impossible to tell exactly how, but it looks like everything about you two has changed and I think I am to blame for this."

"What do you mean Papa?" Netto asks, Yuuichiro taking a moment to realise the voice was coming from the computer.

"You don't have any memory of this Netto, but Rockman has known for sometime. In fact your mother and I were a bit startled when you said Rockman was your brother, then explained that you operate as such that you feel that way about him." The scientists syas, leaning forward. "The truth is that Rockman really is your brother."

"What? How?" The brown eyed navi asks, looking at his father on the other side of the screen. "I'm an only child, how can I have a brother?"

"Netto-kun..." Rockman says sadly, "Papa is telling the truth, we are twins. Its just that my body wasn't strong enough and I died when we were both only a year old. I'm not surprized that you don't remember."

Netto collapses in shock onto the floor of the digital world of the computer, "I don't understand..."

Yuuichiro sits forward in his chair as he looks at his young son, "I worked for years building Rockman using data from your brother, remaking him right down to his DNA. Initially I just wanted to make a navi for you as you wished, a custom navi all your own, but I knew that an operator and navi needed to work together and so I thought that the bond between brothers would be a good way to help with that. I didn't think that the link between twins would result in this however."

"So Rockman, is my brother Saito..." The brown eyed boy stammers, looking at his twin on another screen. "Some how... I always knew there was something else between us then just friendship."

Netto blinks for a moment and then looks back at his father, "That kind of explains what happened to us, but what about Roll and Meiru-chan?"

"By being close to Rockman during the attack it caused her data to undergo the same transference as with you two." Yuuichiro states, "I think it had to do also with the fact that all four of you were feeling the exact same thing at the same moment in time. The bond between navi and operator was at its strongest and acted as a conduit for your minds and bodies to cross."

"Is there any way that we can reverse it Papa?" Rockman asks, sitting forward with Roll expectantly.

"There is a way, but the risks invovled are to high." Yuuichiro replies, putting his glasses back on. "We'd have to repeat the incident again. But from your medical reports I can see that all of you almost didn't survive the first time, to try again would almost certainly mean your deaths."

"So you mean that we are stuck like this?" Meiru asks, the scientists nodding sadly.

"Its alright Meiru-chan." Netto says, going over to his childhood friend and putting a hand on her shoulder. "I won't let anything happen to you here."

"Netto-kun..." The brown eyed girl says, blushing as she looks at him.

Netto smiles, "I don't think that I'm Netto any more. Call me Rockman."

Rockman sighs as he scratches the back of his head, "Well... I guess that makes me Saito then doesn't it."

The new Rockman smiles and nods, "Alright Saito, teach me how to be Rockman!"
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[Core]

I'm happy that you remember the original one Midnight, and of your review of the first two chapters. I know the plot doesn't seem apparent right now, but it will become clearer as with all things about this story. :P

Yes Kitty-chan, there was a little switcharoonie done that is all part of the story. ;) And now for the continuation of the story with the third chapter~

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Chapter Three: Digital Dreams, Reality Nightmares

“Netto-kun! Netto-kun!” Rockman yells, causing the brown eyed boy to stir, “Netto-kun please wake up!”

“Huh? Wha- what?” Netto replies, lifting his head slowly as his brown eyes into focus of the world around him.

The twin orbs slowly bring the blue world into clear focus of the large blue area around him, the floor a darker shade of blue with lighter colored paths resembling a large computer chip or circuit board. Netto looks up to see the green eyes of his brother looking back at him from a screen hovering in the air, his eyes opening wide in shock as he feels himself hovering in the air with blue rings moving up and down his body.

“R-ROCKMAN! What are you doing on the wrong side of the screen!?” The brown eyed boy yells, “Is this a dream?”

“No Netto-kun, its not. I wish that it was, but it isn’t.” Rockman replies, sitting down on his hospital bed and looking at the screen of the PET in his hand. “I have you and Meiru-chan in a repair cycle right now. I think something in the battle with Terra caused us to switch places.”

Netto blinks, stunned into silence for a long moment as he feels a tingling sensation from data being repaired on his body. “So I’m in your body and you are in mine… Sounds like some cheap movie by a family movie company.”

“It seems that way doesn’t it Netto-kun.” The green eyed boy replies, as he scratches the back of his head. “But unlike those movies I have no idea how to get us to switch back.”

“You mean I could be stuck in here!” Netto screams, causing Rockman to jump from the voice erupting from the PET’s speaker, realizing now what his voice must have sounded like when he yelled at his brother.

“For the moment at least Netto-kun. But you have Meiru-chan to keep you company.” The former blue navi replies, looking off to his right at Roll sitting next to him with her PET held in both hands against her chest with the gentle sobbing of Meiru inside from the news. “I’m going to see Papa as soon as I can. He might be able to help us.”

Netto nods his helmeted head in agreement, the rings around him vanishing and allowing him to step forward off of the repair terminal. “Rockman, do you think you can connect the PET’s so that I can see Meiru?” He asks sheepishly.

“I don’t see why not.” Rockman states, moving slightly to connect the two PET's through a link cable.

A small portal opens up into the air before Netto, rippling slightly like water. “Rockman, is this the connec-!”

Before he could finish his question, a pink and black body dives out of the portal and tackles him, almost knocking him to the ground.

“Netto-kun!” Meiru’s voice wails, wrapping her arms around her friend, clinging to him his dark blue body.

Netto looks into the brown eyes of his childhood friend, her eyes red from crying at the news of her situation still. He wraps his arms around her, letting her head rest on his shoulder as the two stand there in their new digital home.


In a dark and forbidding section of the cities industrial district, a group of six sit at a rectangular table in the old boardroom of the Kodaroy Chemical Plant. Dyna sits at the far end of the table to the right of the groups leader, Dekon, watching the news report by Midorikawa Kero of their failed hostiage plan.

“As you can see from the reports by the media, our operation was a failure.” Dekon states, “Not only were we unable to raise additional money for our cause, but also a number of our operatives were either captured or killed in the resulting gun fight with the police. It was only by my superior intellect, that I was able to escape along with Ms. Dyna here.”

“So what are the plans now Marshal Dekon, since we are the only ones left?” Ask a woman at the far end of the table, her face like the other four joining the two eclipsed in shadow. “Surely the police, or those net agents, will be able to get some of our operatives to disclose the location of our base and who we are.”

“I doubt that they will be able to tell them anything." The man states, smiling as he closes his remaining eye. "My power is far reaching, they will remain silent. As will those that shall oppose E.L.F."

“Speaking of those that oppose us." The third memeber in the room asks, her voice silken. "What of those net navi’s that faced Dyna and Terra?”

“Terra is fully repaired from his injury.” Dyna announces, “The ones that you are refering to shall be dealt with. That is why Marshal Dekon has called us all here.”

“Indeed, Dyna is correct.” Dekon interjects, “Thanks to a local hacker I was able to track down the personal information of the operators of the two navi’s that were instrumental in our defeat. Normally I would send only one person to handle such a task as eliminating this annoyance, but there seems to be a lacks in skills as of late.” He cuts his eye at Dyna, sending a noticeable chill through the room as he does so.

“But what of the hacker? He could go to the police if he starts connecting things.” A man asks from the shadows, "They are about as trusting as mercenaries."

“Oh I doubt that he will be speaking to anyone.” Dekon states, smiling as he tosses a broken PET onto the table, its case stained with a dark red splatter and a bullet hole through the center. “Any further questions?”

The room falls silent as they look at the PET, smoke still rising from the broken circuitry inside.

“Excellent!” Their leader snaps, standing and causing the others to rise with him. “You all know what you are to do. Now go forth and show those children and the world the merciless power of E.L.F.!”

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Rockman looks around at the world around him, having been released from the hospital by the doctors and telling his friends and mother of the situation, the group shocked but supportive of the navis turned human. The former navi dressed similar to his twin, only opting to go without the orange vest or head band, letting the crest on the upper left of his white shirt show. He takes in a deep breath of the wet air, still damp from a spring shower that had passed by earlier and leaving the grass and leaves of the trees sparkling as clouds roll past in the sky. His green eyes were wide with wonder as he looked out the minivan window at everything passing him by, his nose inhaling the smell of the worlds sweet perfume. Roll sits next to him, dressed in the same clothing as Meiru and taking in the sights as much as the other navi, while Haruka drives along the streets of the city, turning onto the road that would take them to their final destination.

“So this is what the world is like from your view.” Rockman says, sitting back in his seat and looking into the blue PET, “Its all so wonderful Netto-kun.”

“I would imagine it would be to you Rockman, but that’s just daily things for me.” Netto replies, as he pokes around off the screen of the PET.

“Uhm, Netto-kun what are you doing?” The puzzled green eyed boy asks his twin.

“Oh! I uh… was making a sandwich!” Netto says nervously.

Rockman looks at his brother with a worried expression, “. . . Netto-kun, what are you doing?”

“Alright, alright… I was looking through some files, and I accidentally deleted my homework that you had me do for the week when we were in detention. I was trying to recover them.” His twin answers sheepishly.

“NETTO-KUN!” Rockman yells out, startling Roll and Meiru. “What are you doing to my nice organized filing system!?”

Roll rests her hand on Rockman’s shoulder, squeezing it softly. “Its alright, Rockman.”

The boy calms down quickly, sighing as he looks at his mother driving. “I’m sorry for yelling Mama, I didn’t mean to distract you.”

“Its alright Net- Rockman.” Haruka corrects herself, “You didn’t distract me at all dear. We're kind of stuck here for the moment.”

Roll nods in agreement, looking at the gridlocked traffic ahead of them. "We have been sitting here for about an hour now. I wonder what’s going on.”

“Dunno.” Rockman says, shrugging his shoulders as he leans back in his seat comfortably. “You know, I’m amazed at how well Mama took the news about us. She didn’t freak out nearly as much as I thought she would.”

“Ah, here we go.” Haruka’s voice announces, her foot hitting the gas pedel and sending the car forward at a high rate of speed.

“ . . . Then again, maybe there are things about Mama that I don’t really know as well as I thought that I did.” The boy says, looking up out of the small moon roof over the seat he shares with Roll.

Haruka's fast driving makes short work of the distance to the turn off to the Science Labs, the minivan pulling into a parking space in an underground garage. The trio making their way through the halls of the main building as they stroll pass the security that was already familiar with them from either the kids visiting or pictures that Yuuichiro showed of his family when working in the building. Haruka carries a large covered basket, smiling as she accompanies the two into the scientists lab, seeing assistants and other scientists working on a project with the twins father.

“Netto! Hakura! Meiru!" Yuuichiro says in shock, turning his chair around to look at them, "What are you three doing here?”

“Uhm, dad… I- its me Rockman.” The green eyed boy states, blushing as he looks at his father for the first time without the aid of a computer screen holograms.

“Netto, what have I told you about lying?” His father scolds, before looking at the eyes of his son. “Did you get contacts?”

“Hikari-hakase, Rockman is telling the truth. There was an accident and Netto is now in the PET along with Meiru-chan.” Roll says, holding up the PET in her hands for him to see, Meiru waves shyly from the other side of the screen.

“H- how could this happen?” Yuuichiro asks, looking at his wife for an explanation.

“Well… it all started with a dinner party.” Rockman starts, telling his father the events of the night and answering his questions.

Yuuichiro stands up silently as he strokes the stubble on his chin from not shaving in a few days, "I'm sorry that I wasn't able to visit you when this happened. I haven't been to my office in a while and didn't get the messages."

He looks at the two young people before him, "I'm not exactly sure what happened, but I have a theory that the link between Netto and Rockman was so strong that when the power surge from that navi's attack hit it cause the minds of you two to switch. Since Meiru and Roll were with you theirs were also carried by the power as well, causing a transference of mental pathways. I'd have to do some testing to be sure however."

Netto sighs from the PET, "Testing, are you sure Papa?"

"Yes, its the only way to know exactly what happened and how we might be able to fix it." Yuuichiro states, "But first there is something else that we must do."

"What's that Papa?" Rockman asks, looking up at his brown eyed father.

The scientists smiles warmly, "I need some of Mama's famous Meat Spaghetti."

Haruka smiles as she raises the basket, "I came prepared."

Yuuichiro looks over the data of his sons body and brain waves, compairing them to others done in the past to the boy. His brown eyes studiing the results of the series of tests that he and other scientists had run on the operator and navi pair, looking up from the findings at Rockman and Roll, the two seated in comfortable seats.

"It looks like my theory was correct." The scientists states, taking off his glasses and pinching the bridge of his nose with his eyes closed, trying to cut off a headache brough on by not getting enough rest. "But, it seems that more then just data was changed out in that attack. Somehow it was powerful enough to cause your minds and bodies to switch, its impossible to tell exactly how, but it looks like everything about you two has changed and I think I am to blame for this."

"What do you mean Papa?" Netto asks, Yuuichiro taking a moment to realise the voice was coming from the computer.

"You don't have any memory of this Netto, but Rockman has known for sometime. In fact your mother and I were a bit startled when you said Rockman was your brother, then explained that you operate as such that you feel that way about him." The scientists syas, leaning forward. "The truth is that Rockman really is your brother."

"What? How?" The brown eyed navi asks, looking at his father on the other side of the screen. "I'm an only child, how can I have a brother?"

"Netto-kun..." Rockman says sadly, "Papa is telling the truth, we are twins. Its just that my body wasn't strong enough and I died when we were both only a year old. I'm not surprized that you don't remember."

Netto collapses in shock onto the floor of the digital world of the computer, "I don't understand..."

Yuuichiro sits forward in his chair as he looks at his young son, "I worked for years building Rockman using data from your brother, remaking him right down to his DNA. Initially I just wanted to make a navi for you as you wished, a custom navi all your own, but I knew that an operator and navi needed to work together and so I thought that the bond between brothers would be a good way to help with that. I didn't think that the link between twins would result in this however."

"So Rockman, is my brother Saito..." The brown eyed boy stammers, looking at his twin on another screen. "Some how... I always knew there was something else between us then just friendship."

Netto blinks for a moment and then looks back at his father, "That kind of explains what happened to us, but what about Roll and Meiru-chan?"

"By being close to Rockman during the attack it caused her data to undergo the same transference as with you two." Yuuichiro states, "I think it had to do also with the fact that all four of you were feeling the exact same thing at the same moment in time. The bond between navi and operator was at its strongest and acted as a conduit for your minds and bodies to cross."

"Is there any way that we can reverse it Papa?" Rockman asks, sitting forward with Roll expectantly.

"There is a way, but the risks invovled are to high." Yuuichiro replies, putting his glasses back on. "We'd have to repeat the incident again. But from your medical reports I can see that all of you almost didn't survive the first time, to try again would almost certainly mean your deaths."

"So you mean that we are stuck like this?" Meiru asks, the scientists nodding sadly.

"Its alright Meiru-chan." Netto says, going over to his childhood friend and putting a hand on her shoulder. "I won't let anything happen to you here."

"Netto-kun..." The brown eyed girl says, blushing as she looks at him.

Netto smiles, "I don't think that I'm Netto any more. Call me Rockman."

Rockman sighs as he scratches the back of his head, "Well... I guess that makes me Saito then doesn't it."

The new Rockman smiles and nods, "Alright Saito, teach me how to be Rockman!"
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[Midnight]

Hmm...yes, this is all coming back to me. I recall reading this fic on your site some months ago, and I have to say that it looks better than the original. Other than that, there's really not much else I can say about this, unfortunately.
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Avatar by Spork. I very much appreciate it! <3

[DarkMega]

Mmmm, I'm liking this fanfic. I can't wait for Rockman to teach Netto about battling. It should be enjoyable. Nice work so far!
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Thanks for the siggy, Hikari Angel!

"I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before."

"He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot."

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[Kitty-Chan]

Intriguing; this promises to be most amusing.
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Need more Zero/X, Netto/Rock, Rock/Netto, Forte/Netto, & Blues/Netto. PLEASE!
Ano sa...could someone please make me a Zero/X, Blues/Netto, or Forte/Netto avatar/banner? I would greatly appreciate it...
Thanks for the avatar, Mandi!
People! We need more Blues/Netto & Forte/Netto on the net. Come on; help me out here! *gives everyone her Super-Adorable Irrisistable Sad Kitty Eyes(TM)*

[Core]

DarkMega, your comment is a carbon copy of one that I got at the end of that chapter in the past when I posted the first version of this story. xD When I read it, I laughed because it struck me as funny that years later someone would say the exact same thing. This chapter is a bit short, and for those that don't know Tabby Kitsu is an EXE character made by one of our admins here named Tabby, and you might have connected the first name of the character Folf already but the name shows up in this chapter. :P


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Chapter Four: Prelude To A Date

Tabby Kitsu sits comfortably at her desk located inside the headquarters of the Net Agents, the group formed as a separate division of the police force to enforce the rules of the net and society. The young woman out of her dress and now adorn with her usual clothing of a pair of jeans and a dark blue shirt over a light blue top. Her dirty blond hair pulled back in its usual ponytail with one lock of hair coming down almost over her eye. She looks at the data on her computer screen, studying information as part of her job in the small organization, her green eyes hidden partly behind her glasses to hide her tiredness.

“This data is so complex, it’s like they nothing I’ve seen before.” The green eyed woman states, rubbing her eyes to try and get the sleep out of them. “I need to stay awake, come on Kitsu stay focused!”

“Will this help?”A male voice cooes, setting a frosty bottle of NesTea next to her.

Tabby looks up to see her high school friend Core smiling at her, the older boy wearing a sleeveless vertically ribbed black shirt and a pair of dark blue jeans. His dark brown hair pulled back in a pony tail as well and green eyes hidden behind red tinted sunglasses. Tabby picks up the bottle of tea and twists the already loosened cap off of it, setting it down next to her keyboard as she takes a sip of the bottled nectar.

“It might, so what did Beef say about our performance?” The girl asks, taking another sip of her chilled tea.

“About his usual comments." Core replies, leaning back against a nearby desk. "But he did say that we did a good job at keeping the people in the room during the fighting between saying that we might do better with more calcium and practice in our techniques. Sometimes I think that he has a bit too much water on the brain, must be to support all the fish that he has.”

Tabby chuckles at the remark, sitting back in her chair and resting her arms on her chest. “That is true, he has been a bit odd lately. But I think its just the stress of not having enough agents for this sudden surge of net crime. So what do you think of this Core?"

The dark haired boy looks at the screen, his eyes darting across the lines of code and data that was scrolling on the screen. “I’ve never seen a code like that before. The pattern is different then any transfer data that I’m been able to recognize. Where did you get it?”

“One of the terrorists that was captured last night had it on him. Saloma gave it to me to work on while she and Miyuki are questioning the prisoners." She yawns, showing her sharp teeth. “It is some kind of program, but its been highly compressed and encoded that X and I are having trouble figuring it out.”

“Hmm, could it be mirrored and layerd a top itself?” Core asks, leaning over Tabby's shoulder.

She blinks for a few moments then starts typing in commands into her computer, watching as the lines of code seperate into six different layers. Tabby flips some of the layers around, shifting them either horizontally or vertically till they formed a backwards code and then mirrors it. The code announcing that it is now ready to be run on the computer without any problems.

“Damned hacker.” Tabby growls, looking over her shoulder at the older boy.

Core scratches the back of his head nervously, “Well… You all didn't give me the option to become a Net Agent for nothing.”

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Rockman looks around himself as he lands from his attack, his heart pounding in his chest as he searches for his foe with his brown eyes over the network. “I know he’s here… but here did he go off to?”

“Net- er- Rockman, I’m sending you a battlechip. It should draw him out.” Saito says into the PET, slotting in a battlechip and sending the data to the new Rockman.

“Thanks Roc- . . Saito!” Rockman replies, his arm transforming into large hammer. "Lets see how you like this. GREEDON!"

The brown eyed navi slams the hammer down on the network floor, sending shockwaves to ripple out as if it were a still pond having a stone dropped into it. The floor explodes upwards as another navi rockets out and into the air in a daze, the other navi landing on his feet and shaking his shark like head to clear it.

"Nice move, try this. Fin Cutter!" Sharkman yells, sending three blades of energy from the fin on his back towards the blue navi.

"Fumikomizan, slot in!" Saito yells, slamming the chip into the PET.

Rockman lets out a small battle cry as he charges forward, vanishing before the attack could hit and appearing in front of Sharkman. The blue navi brings his sword down only to have it captured by the fish navi's hand, Sharkman smirks as he headbutts the smaller Rockman, sending him flying back. Rockman spins in the air to land on his feet in a crouch, his eyes glaring at the shark. He rockets forward once more, his arm transforming into a sword as he charges at Sharkman.

"Fumikomizan!" Rockman yells, vanishing once more.

"The same attack again?" The red eyed predator navi says, catching the blade once more.

Sharkman watches as the smaller navi smirks and feels a slash knock him back, electricity racing over his body as he logs out from the battle. The brown eyed navi stands there proudly, his right arm a sword and left an elecsword. declared, before getting his eyes open. He is greeted not by the sight of Rockman standing on the ground but dashing at him, bringing out another chip at close range. Sharkman reels back in pain as the icy shock of the ElecBlade hits him, sending waves or pulsating electrical energy into his body and causing damage to his elementary design of an aqua type. Sharkman quickly logs out of the battle, defeated and damaged.

“Alright! We did it Saito!” Rockman cheers, turning to look at his twin on the other side of the dome covering the battlefield. The brown eyed navi finding it a bit ackward to be in the reverse situation now.

“Good work Rockman.” The green eyed operator states, smiling and feeling the same ackwardness as he looks at his brother in a new way.

“It was a pleasure to do battle with two, even given the situation." Commander Beef states, holding his PET and setting it so the mild damage to his navi can be repaired. "You are both as skilled in this new form as you were before, and you seem to have adapted to your new surroundings rather well also."

“Yeah! It’s actually kind of cool in here. I can do things that I never thought that I'd be able to do before.” The blue navi reples, as he transfers back into the PET.

Saito looks over at the other battle dome, seeing Roll battling against Tohru. “I wonder how Roll and Meiru are doing?”

Meiru jumps quickly to her right, avoiding the icy blast of Iceman's Blizzard attack, the new navi amazed at her own agility. The coldness of the attack catching her even as she avoids being hit, feeling the bitting cold air as it jets past her along with the mass of ice that looks like a bunch of popsicles launched from an ice-cream cart hit by at bus. Her brown eyes lock onto the smaller navi, watching as he turns to get another shot lined up.

“Not this time!” Meiru calls out, her arm changing quickly into a spread gun to fire at the parka wearing navi.

Iceman rolls backwards as the many beams from the cannon hit the floor, causing dust and smoke to fill the air before him. As he starts to get to his feet a pair of pink boots land in front of him, the smaller navi looking up to see a flame sword pointed at him and Meiru smiling behind it.

“Meep!” Iceman croaks, as he goes cross-eyed looking at the tip of the blade. “Okay, I give up.”

“Good work Meiru-chan!” Roll cheers, "We didn’t even have to hurt him to win.”

Meiru chuckles, “You don’t have to call me Meiru-chan anymore Roll, you are the operator now. Call me Meiru.”

“Okay, Meiru.” The green eyed girl states, smiling at the pink navi.

“It looks like you two are doing good together.” Saito says, walking up to the girls..

"Yes, we are." Roll nods cheerfully, sending blond hair wavering in front of her eyes.

“Its odd seeing Meiru’s body with blond hair.” Rockman speaks from the PET.

“I’ll say, that is my body after all.” The pink navi states, “But I think we got a fair trade.”

Meiru looks behind her partly to see the long dark red hair, with two parts sticking out on either side where it leaves her helmet.

“That was a good match, you both have some good moves.” Tohru says, walking up to the small group forming. "But it is odd seeing my friends switched with their navi's. This is going to take some time to get use to. I have to take Iceman to my dad, and then I have to do some homework so I guess I'll see you all later at school."

“Thank you Tohru-kun." Roll calls waving goodbye, as the boy leaves, turning to face Saito with a warm smile. “So would you like to go with me to the movies Saito-kun?”

The green eyed boy blushes as he scratches the back of his head, "Uhm, sure."

“Great!” The girl says, putting her PET in her purse before pouncing Saito like a cat to a mouse. “We can see “Love and Loss on the Net: The Motion Picture!”
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[Core]

DarkMega, your comment is a carbon copy of one that I got at the end of that chapter in the past when I posted the first version of this story. xD When I read it, I laughed because it struck me as funny that years later someone would say the exact same thing. This chapter is a bit short, and for those that don't know Tabby Kitsu is an EXE character made by one of our admins here named Tabby, and you might have connected the first name of the character Folf already but the name shows up in this chapter. :P


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Chapter Four: Prelude To A Date

Tabby Kitsu sits comfortably at her desk located inside the headquarters of the Net Agents, the group formed as a separate division of the police force to enforce the rules of the net and society. The young woman out of her dress and now adorn with her usual clothing of a pair of jeans and a dark blue shirt over a light blue top. Her dirty blond hair pulled back in its usual ponytail with one lock of hair coming down almost over her eye. She looks at the data on her computer screen, studying information as part of her job in the small organization, her green eyes hidden partly behind her glasses to hide her tiredness.

“This data is so complex, it’s like they nothing I’ve seen before.” The green eyed woman states, rubbing her eyes to try and get the sleep out of them. “I need to stay awake, come on Kitsu stay focused!”

“Will this help?”A male voice cooes, setting a frosty bottle of NesTea next to her.

Tabby looks up to see her high school friend Core smiling at her, the older boy wearing a sleeveless vertically ribbed black shirt and a pair of dark blue jeans. His dark brown hair pulled back in a pony tail as well and green eyes hidden behind red tinted sunglasses. Tabby picks up the bottle of tea and twists the already loosened cap off of it, setting it down next to her keyboard as she takes a sip of the bottled nectar.

“It might, so what did Beef say about our performance?” The girl asks, taking another sip of her chilled tea.

“About his usual comments." Core replies, leaning back against a nearby desk. "But he did say that we did a good job at keeping the people in the room during the fighting between saying that we might do better with more calcium and practice in our techniques. Sometimes I think that he has a bit too much water on the brain, must be to support all the fish that he has.”

Tabby chuckles at the remark, sitting back in her chair and resting her arms on her chest. “That is true, he has been a bit odd lately. But I think its just the stress of not having enough agents for this sudden surge of net crime. So what do you think of this Core?"

The dark haired boy looks at the screen, his eyes darting across the lines of code and data that was scrolling on the screen. “I’ve never seen a code like that before. The pattern is different then any transfer data that I’m been able to recognize. Where did you get it?”

“One of the terrorists that was captured last night had it on him. Saloma gave it to me to work on while she and Miyuki are questioning the prisoners." She yawns, showing her sharp teeth. “It is some kind of program, but its been highly compressed and encoded that X and I are having trouble figuring it out.”

“Hmm, could it be mirrored and layerd a top itself?” Core asks, leaning over Tabby's shoulder.

She blinks for a few moments then starts typing in commands into her computer, watching as the lines of code seperate into six different layers. Tabby flips some of the layers around, shifting them either horizontally or vertically till they formed a backwards code and then mirrors it. The code announcing that it is now ready to be run on the computer without any problems.

“Damned hacker.” Tabby growls, looking over her shoulder at the older boy.

Core scratches the back of his head nervously, “Well… You all didn't give me the option to become a Net Agent for nothing.”

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Rockman looks around himself as he lands from his attack, his heart pounding in his chest as he searches for his foe with his brown eyes over the network. “I know he’s here… but here did he go off to?”

“Net- er- Rockman, I’m sending you a battlechip. It should draw him out.” Saito says into the PET, slotting in a battlechip and sending the data to the new Rockman.

“Thanks Roc- . . Saito!” Rockman replies, his arm transforming into large hammer. "Lets see how you like this. GREEDON!"

The brown eyed navi slams the hammer down on the network floor, sending shockwaves to ripple out as if it were a still pond having a stone dropped into it. The floor explodes upwards as another navi rockets out and into the air in a daze, the other navi landing on his feet and shaking his shark like head to clear it.

"Nice move, try this. Fin Cutter!" Sharkman yells, sending three blades of energy from the fin on his back towards the blue navi.

"Fumikomizan, slot in!" Saito yells, slamming the chip into the PET.

Rockman lets out a small battle cry as he charges forward, vanishing before the attack could hit and appearing in front of Sharkman. The blue navi brings his sword down only to have it captured by the fish navi's hand, Sharkman smirks as he headbutts the smaller Rockman, sending him flying back. Rockman spins in the air to land on his feet in a crouch, his eyes glaring at the shark. He rockets forward once more, his arm transforming into a sword as he charges at Sharkman.

"Fumikomizan!" Rockman yells, vanishing once more.

"The same attack again?" The red eyed predator navi says, catching the blade once more.

Sharkman watches as the smaller navi smirks and feels a slash knock him back, electricity racing over his body as he logs out from the battle. The brown eyed navi stands there proudly, his right arm a sword and left an elecsword. declared, before getting his eyes open. He is greeted not by the sight of Rockman standing on the ground but dashing at him, bringing out another chip at close range. Sharkman reels back in pain as the icy shock of the ElecBlade hits him, sending waves or pulsating electrical energy into his body and causing damage to his elementary design of an aqua type. Sharkman quickly logs out of the battle, defeated and damaged.

“Alright! We did it Saito!” Rockman cheers, turning to look at his twin on the other side of the dome covering the battlefield. The brown eyed navi finding it a bit ackward to be in the reverse situation now.

“Good work Rockman.” The green eyed operator states, smiling and feeling the same ackwardness as he looks at his brother in a new way.

“It was a pleasure to do battle with two, even given the situation." Commander Beef states, holding his PET and setting it so the mild damage to his navi can be repaired. "You are both as skilled in this new form as you were before, and you seem to have adapted to your new surroundings rather well also."

“Yeah! It’s actually kind of cool in here. I can do things that I never thought that I'd be able to do before.” The blue navi reples, as he transfers back into the PET.

Saito looks over at the other battle dome, seeing Roll battling against Tohru. “I wonder how Roll and Meiru are doing?”

Meiru jumps quickly to her right, avoiding the icy blast of Iceman's Blizzard attack, the new navi amazed at her own agility. The coldness of the attack catching her even as she avoids being hit, feeling the bitting cold air as it jets past her along with the mass of ice that looks like a bunch of popsicles launched from an ice-cream cart hit by at bus. Her brown eyes lock onto the smaller navi, watching as he turns to get another shot lined up.

“Not this time!” Meiru calls out, her arm changing quickly into a spread gun to fire at the parka wearing navi.

Iceman rolls backwards as the many beams from the cannon hit the floor, causing dust and smoke to fill the air before him. As he starts to get to his feet a pair of pink boots land in front of him, the smaller navi looking up to see a flame sword pointed at him and Meiru smiling behind it.

“Meep!” Iceman croaks, as he goes cross-eyed looking at the tip of the blade. “Okay, I give up.”

“Good work Meiru-chan!” Roll cheers, "We didn’t even have to hurt him to win.”

Meiru chuckles, “You don’t have to call me Meiru-chan anymore Roll, you are the operator now. Call me Meiru.”

“Okay, Meiru.” The green eyed girl states, smiling at the pink navi.

“It looks like you two are doing good together.” Saito says, walking up to the girls..

"Yes, we are." Roll nods cheerfully, sending blond hair wavering in front of her eyes.

“Its odd seeing Meiru’s body with blond hair.” Rockman speaks from the PET.

“I’ll say, that is my body after all.” The pink navi states, “But I think we got a fair trade.”

Meiru looks behind her partly to see the long dark red hair, with two parts sticking out on either side where it leaves her helmet.

“That was a good match, you both have some good moves.” Tohru says, walking up to the small group forming. "But it is odd seeing my friends switched with their navi's. This is going to take some time to get use to. I have to take Iceman to my dad, and then I have to do some homework so I guess I'll see you all later at school."

“Thank you Tohru-kun." Roll calls waving goodbye, as the boy leaves, turning to face Saito with a warm smile. “So would you like to go with me to the movies Saito-kun?”

The green eyed boy blushes as he scratches the back of his head, "Uhm, sure."

“Great!” The girl says, putting her PET in her purse before pouncing Saito like a cat to a mouse. “We can see “Love and Loss on the Net: The Motion Picture!”
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[Plantman]

Yay for self insertion XD It's a short but interesting episode, I really liked the sessions to train Netto and Meiru about reacting to being the 'receiving' end in net battling.

Can't wait to see more, Core. XP
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Hecha en MÉXICO - Avatar by Me.
"Logic is the Ultimate Weapon."

[Plantman]

Yay for self insertion XD It's a short but interesting episode, I really liked the sessions to train Netto and Meiru about reacting to being the 'receiving' end in net battling.

Can't wait to see more, Core. XP
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Hecha en MÉXICO - Avatar by Me.
"Logic is the Ultimate Weapon."

[Kitty-Chan]

Heh, this is far too amusing. Anou, did their hair & eye colors change when they switched or have they dyed them?
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Need more Zero/X, Netto/Rock, Rock/Netto, Forte/Netto, & Blues/Netto. PLEASE!
Ano sa...could someone please make me a Zero/X, Blues/Netto, or Forte/Netto avatar/banner? I would greatly appreciate it...
Thanks for the avatar, Mandi!
People! We need more Blues/Netto & Forte/Netto on the net. Come on; help me out here! *gives everyone her Super-Adorable Irrisistable Sad Kitty Eyes(TM)*

[Midnight]

I think the transference switched them physically. Or, it could be a plot device used to differentiate between the navis and humans in their opposite roles.

Anyway...this is great. I remember the self-insertion, and if memory serves me correctly, this one turned out to be great, never teetering on the edge of Mary-sue-ness. Great job. ^_^
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Today, these three players are after Big Bucks! But they'll have to avoid the Whammy, as they play the most exciting game of their lives! From Television City in Hollywood! It's time to 'Press Your Luck!'--Rod Roddy

The Kingdom of Loathing: An Adventurer is You! // I ♣ Seals

Avatar by Spork. I very much appreciate it! <3

[Core]

The transfer switched them both mentally and physically to some extent, such as their eye color and hair color, as well as their voices. In Netto and Saito's case their hair color didn't change when they switched due to them being twins. Not all twins are identical, but they do share traits with one an other.

Now time for another chapter, that has some humor in it with movie names. xD

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Chapter Five: StarNavi's

The inside of the multiplex where the feature of "Love and Loss on the Net: The Motion Picture" is playing is filled to capacity with people buying popcorn, soda's and other treats before going towards the theater showing their movie of choice. A group of young children arguing over which new anime movie was better, that of a group of kids with computer monsters or a movie of a group of card players that summon monsters for battle. Saito stumbles along a bit as Roll drags him through the crowd, taking the brown haired boy away from any distractions that she felt would hinder their time together, and her search for the perfect seats for the movie.

“Roll-chan,” Saito says over the drone of other voices filling the space, “Don’t you think you are in a bit of a hurry? The movie isn’t going to go any where and we have plenty of time to see it.”

The blond seems to ignore him for the most part, diving through a pack of chattering children and young adults leaving a theater who's showing of a movie called “Jazzman and Snare: The Movie” just ended and the sign changed to the movie she wanted to see.

“I just want to get some good seats Saito-san.” Roll states, hauling the boy through the aisles towards a pair of seats in the center of the middle row of the theater.“These seats will do. We don't have to bend are next up to see the screen and we can see it clearly from here.”

The green eyed boy settles down in the seat, rubbing his slighty abused arm after being dragged for most of the way to the place. A chill runs down his spine, causing him to look behind him to see a blur of motion in the crowd of people moving into the theater. Saito writes it off as nothing more then just jitters at being out in a public place in his new enviroment and form, settling down into his seat next to Roll.

“Saito-kun, are you okay?” Roll asks, touching his arm lightly. “You looked like something was bothering you.”

Saito smiles as he looks at his friend, "Its nothing Roll, I just got a funny feeling for a moment that we were being watched."

A sudden rumbling sound causes both young people to jump in their seats.

“Wha- what is that?” The blond girl asks, looking around.

“I … I think it was me.” The green eyed boy states, looking at his stomach as the sound erupted again. “I know that sound. I could hear it when Netto was hungry. Guess it means that I need to eat something.”

Roll giggles, stopping as her stomach makes the same rumbling sound, causing her to blush. “I… think I need to also.”

“You save our seats, I’ll be right back with some food okay Roll.” Saito says, getting up from his seat and moving throught the ailse towards the doors.

The boy walks up to the conscession stand outside of the theater entrance ways for the different movies, looking up at he display of food and drinks available in wonder.

“I think that you should get a five no ten hotdogs, and a large popcorn, and an extra large soda!” Pipes Rockman from the PET at Saito’s side.

Saito sighs as he takes out his PET and looks at his twin, "Rockman, unlike you I am not a glutton or selfish."

The green eyed boy smiles at the attendent, “I would like to have a two small popcorns, two medium soda’s, and two hotdogs please.”

The attendant smiles as he places the order on a small tray for Saito, Rockman paying for the meal with the money in the account he had access to. The smiles vanish as the lights shut off in the theater for a moment before the emergency lights come on.

“What’s going on?” Saito asks, looking around him at the confused people in the lobby area and the thearter staff.

“Welcome to the Cinema-Plex, we hope that you have enjoyed your feature up to now because you are all in for a special treat.” A silken feminine voice announces over the loud speaker. “We are the Electopian Liberation Front, and we have laid claim to this installation of modern public brainwashing to issue a challenge towards two patrons here in attendance with us today. Netto Hikari and his little girlfriend Meriu, please report to the projection room immediately. As for the rest of you, don’t even try to escape, we have the emergancy exits wired to explode if anyone tries to flee. Don't attempt to call for help either, our navi's have already disconnected the lines outside of this wonderful establishment, and besides any interfenance may cause the explosives to go off that we have under your seats. If any of you trip an explosive... well I don’t have to tell you what would happen then.”

“Those guys again!” Saito and Rockman both state at the same time, seeing Roll exiting from the theater showing the movie they wanted to see.

“Saito!” Roll yells as she reaches him, “Do you think that they’re serious?”

Saito nods as he takes hold of Roll’s hand, “They were about the first attack, so I doubt they would pull a stunt like this without the means to pull if off. We have no choice but to face them, with a threat like that."

The green eyed boy takes hold of Rolls hand that the pair start running towards a door marked for employees only, the door swinging open as they near it to allow them access to the stairs leading up to the projection room. As the pair reach the top of the stairs they see a closed green door, Saito turns the handle and pushes the door open carefully, the room cloaked in darkness. At the center of the room sits a circle of monitors showing the movie that is playing in the different theaters, each one controling a different projector with the digital information for the movie encoded into it or being fed the information from discs and tapes in the main projection room they are in. As the pair get use to the darkness of the room the lights come on, blinding them for a moment as their eyes adjust to the new light level. Saito and Roll look at the four figures in the room with them, all but one of them standing with the hood of a cloak up.

“Its nice that you could join us.” The same silken voice from the loud speaker says, as she steps forward with a large brimmed hat on her head. The woman's hat and business suit as white as her pale skin, her lips covered with a purple lipstick, looking at the pair with a predatory smile.

“I am Ms. Alexandria, and these are my associates, Ms. Erreka-Mari, Mr. Each Uisage, and lastly but not least Mr. Wyvern." The woman says, placing her hand on her hips.

The woman next to her pulls her hood back to show her face, her raven black hair shining blue in the light of the room, and gray eyes sparkling as she look at the two young people like a raptor spotting its prey. The man standing behind leans against the back wall, a dark braided pony tail falling out from the clocks hood and down onto his chest, his arms folded over the solid form of his chest as stands with his eyes closed. The man on the right of the white clad womanhe looks at pair from behind a pair of sunglasses, the brim of his baseball cap sticking out from under the hood of the cloak as he smiles at the two kids.

“What do you want from us?” Saito demands, looking at the suited woman.

“Oh, nothing much really. We just want you gone so that our plans can continue unhindered.” Alexandria states coolly, pulling her PET from her cloak. “But before we get to the unpleasant business of eliminating you, I would like to challenge you both to a little game.”

Roll blinks, seeing the others pull out there PETs as well. “What kind of game?”

“We want to show the world that there is no stopping E.L.F.!" The woman says proudly, "And the best way of doing that is by deleting Rockman, the co-champion of the N1 Grand Prix. After your defeat, no one in the world would dare to challenge us.”

“Rockman can’t be deleted that easily!” Saito spats, amazed by his own statement, his heart racing. "We’ll fight you on one condition.”

“How dar-“

“What is your condition?” Wyvern says suddenly, cutting off Alexandria off and looking at the boy with cold blue eyes.

“That if Rockman and I defeat you, you deactivate the bombs and allow everyone to leave safely.” The jade eyed boy states firmly towards the man.

A long period of silence fills the room, making the tension even thicker, till Wyven nods and shows that he is the real leader of the small group.

“We will all plug into this station, the fight will be shown live to everyone in the theater so they can report to everyone that asks what they saw this day. That our power can not be matched by Japan's best.” The dark man states, pulling the plug in cord for his PET out. "Plug-in, Mercury!"

“Pluto!” Calls out Alexandria.
“Venus!” Erreka-Mari yells, throwing her hand out and plugging into the network as if she was throwing a knife.
“Neptune!” The man named Each cries as he plugs in also.

Saito and Roll pull out the cords to their PET's as well, plugging them into the network and sending their navi's into the network of the theater, the small navi's all appearing on the large screens and monitors. Rockman looks around at the other navi's around him that made up the E.LF. attack force, Meiru standing next to him as they study the group.

A female navi with feline features and white fur on the majority of her upper armor glares at them with slit pupils. Her light purple body suit showing her curves with white stripes on it like those of a tiger or wild cat. Her white armored gloves have a similar stripe pattern as her body only with purple stripes instead. The back of her hands have three violet gems that extend out as she smiles to form three nine inch long claws. Her tail, wrapped in purple tinted metal sways behind her as she looks at the pair.

Another female navi glares at them from behind a blue visor on her yellow helmet, a crimson 'v' on her helmet seems to form an arrow pointing down. The shoulder pads of her armor are capped with red curved blades, as well as her forearms. A cable attached to her armor runs down the center of her chest before splitting in two and framing a distinct female part of her body as it wraps around to connect with ports in her lower back. She crosses her arms over her chest as she looks at Rockman and Meiru, the blades on her arm extending a bit.

A rather large navi next to the yellow and red armored navi hisses, showing rows of sharp teeth in his mouth. His aqua blue armor trimmed with a dark green. A long fish like tail extends behind him covered with spines that run up his back and helmet to form a red fin. Black eyes with red pupils stare out from the helmet, a metal slotted guard covers his mouth that attaches to a silver trident like crest on his forhead. Red fins run on the outside of his arms, flexing as he opens and closes his hands around the trident in his grasp.

The forth navi of the team stands with his foot on a block and leaning forward, his earthy brown helmet cut to allow blue hair to waver a bitsays as he looks at the others. His helmet was an earthy brown and cut so that it allowed his blue hair to flow out of the top, his ear mounts covered by small coned spikes. The green armor on his body leaves only his lower torso and bicepts uncoverd, his shoulders coverd by a darker green armor that is studded with small silver spikes along the edge. A dark green stripe down his cheeks add color to his white face, as his crimson red eyes seem to look through Rockman.

"Well Rockman, I've waited a long time for this." The green armored navi states, "This shall be your final battle."

"Not likely." Rockman replies, looking at the four navi's and their identical icons on their right breasts of a star shattered into nine points.

“TIME TO DIE!!!” The feline navi yells, leaping at the azure navi with her claws out and brings them down.

Rockman raises his arm quickly as it changes into a sword, blocking the attack with his weapon. The blades spark and buzz with energy, casting both navi's in the light of their attack. The feline kicks Rockman back with a blow to his gut, breaking the lock and flipping backwards off him. As he starts to recover from the attack he sees the fish navi coming at him with the trident, stabbing it forward repeatedly till it looked almost like a silver blur. Rockman jumps back again and again to dodge the attacks and blocking with his sword those he couldn't move out of the way of.

"Neptune, let me have some fun!" The yellow navi calls from above, smiling as she lands a boot to Rockman's head, sending him flying.

The brown eyed navi rolls on the ground from the attack, kicking up dust from the network floor, dazed by the sudden impact to his skull. Rockman pushes himself up on his elbows, shaking his head to clear it only to see a shadow casted over him. The yellow females fist dives down towards his head like a rocket, the new Rockman seeing his head shatter like a dropped egg on a floor in his mind's eye. A blast sends the girl flying as the blow was about to hit, sending her flying to the right. Rockman looks over to see Meiru standing with a smoking mega cannon next to her, the pink navi smiling.

"Venus, are you alright?" The feline navi asks, looking over at the crouching yellow and red girl.

"I'm fine Pluto." The girl growls, looking up at Meiru with her visor cracked. "That was a cheap shot, now I'm going to make you pay Pinky."

“If you want a piece of me, then try and take it road sign!” Meiru yells, her arm changing into a bow.

Rockman looks at Meiru in shock, he had always known that the girl was a bit prone to violent action at times, but he sees a new time of anger in her now then before that scares him a bit. The usually calm and reserved girl that only acted out when provoked by something he had done now stands there in the full battle rage that she sports towards him at times. A sharp yell brings him back to the moment, turning and bringing up his sword to block the energy claws of the furred navi, this time breaking their locked weapons with a fist to her face that sends her back yowling in pain.

“Y- you punched me! You’re not fighting clean like you usually do! NO FAIR!” Pluto yells, hissing as she glares at him.

Rockman smiles and thumbs his nose. “Well, least I didn’t throw water on you kitty.” He retorts.

Pluto roars as she dives at Rockman with her arms held out and claws extended. The brown eyed navi jumps up into the air, as she nears him, bringing his sword down quickly only to hear it ring at the contact with Neptunes trident. The fish navi smirks as he pushes Rockman back, the azure warrior spinning around and kicking the trident to the side before completeing the the spin. Rockman thrusts his sword forward into the gut of Neptune, the aqua navi's eyes opening wide at the pain and letting out a choaked gasp.

Rockman changes his arm into a buster and fires into the wound he made, causing Neptune to fly back and into the feline navi as she charges in for another attack. Pluto watches as her comrade dissolves into nothingness, falling back onto her hand and flipping back to her feet to see nothing left of the fish navi.

“You deleted him!” Pluto cries, leaping at Rockman and slashing wildly with her claws. “I shall make you suffer for killing my friend you blue devil!”

The blue navi jumps back as Pluto attacks, dodging as best he can from her wild attacks, his brown eyes opening wide as she flips back and a blast fire from her tail. Rockman brings his arms up in front of him as he sheilds himself with a barrier chip, but the attack causes him to fly back and rolling end over end on the ground. As he rolls to his feet dazed, the claws of Pluto decend on him, slashing him across the chest and cutting through his icon and crest. The blue warrior clutches his chest as he falls to his knees, crying out from a pain unlike any he has felt before, the feline standing over him with a wicked smile on her face.

“Now Rockman, you shall die for what you did to Neptune.” Pluto says, raising her claws high above her head.

“I DON’T THINK SO!” Meiru’s voice yells out, causing Pluto to turn around just as a yellow form slams into her and knocks her to the ground.

The feline shakes her head and looks at the object atop her, seeing Venus with her armor broken and cables ripped out from her back to dangle from her chest. The yellow and crimson navi barely concious and trying to get to her feet dispite her wounds. Pluto sees three trident like spears in her friend, looking up to see Meiru standing a few yards away with a Posidon fish next to her, the other female navi looking like she had been through a catfight. Meiru smiles as she slams her hand on the network floor, causing the felines eyes to open wide in horror.

"Aqua tower!" The pink navi shouts, a wave of water rushing from between her fingers to form a tower that races towards the two downed navi's.

Pluto and Venus shout as the attack hits, the feline being electricuted by the other navi's exposed wires, the water adding to the conductivity and damaging both till they dissolve into nothingness. Meiru lets out a sigh of relief at having taken out two of the navi's with one attack, running over to the downed Rockman and kneeling next to him.

“Netto are you okay?” The red headed navi asks, looking at her friend and holding him up a bit.

Rockman pants heavily as he holds his chest, his icon still spouting energy, unable to speak as he feels an odd power and urge start to fill him. The hair on the back of his neck stands on end as he feels the presence of a powerful energy force ripple through the air. He starts to shudder as he looks up and past Meiru, struggling to string words together. The brown eyed girl looks up to see a cloaked figure floating in the air, looking down on them with a large black finned helmet that has gold on the front side of the fins. His ruby red eyes studying them carefully, turning slightly to see the green armored navi glaring up at him.

“I don't know who you think you are, but this is a private fight, and you just bought yourself a one way ticket to deletion!" The navi states, his arms changing into a large cannon, "Mercury Launcher!"

The cloaked navi closes his eyes and lowers his head as the attack is fired, allowing the green navi to hit him, causing a massive explosion in the air. The navi smirks as he looks at bits of torn cloth fall burning from the cloud of dust, his expression changing quickly as a white hand lifts out of the debris cloud and points its palm at him.

“You are a to weak to leave in existance.” The cloaked navi states, opening his eyes as a ball of energy fires from his hand and rocketing towards his attacker.

The green armored navi screams as he feels his data being torn apart, the floor lifting away from his feet as the explosion tears through the spot he is standing, sending him flying back. As the flash of light fades, Rockman and Meiru gaze at the long trench carved into the floor by the single attack, and watch as the cloaked navi floats down to the ground. The mysterious green navi limps out of the debris cloud caused by the explosion and staggers forward, his body missing parts and leaking data.

The navi falls to his knees before the cloaked navi, looking up with shaking eyes. “H- How can… did you….”

“Because you are weak.” The figure replies, pushing the other navi over with a finger and watching him break apart into nothing more then dust.

He turns and looks at Meiru and Rockman, his eyes locked on the pair as he steps towards them. Meiru stands up quickly and aims her weapon at the cloaked navi, firing and watching as her arrow do nothing.

“You are changing Rockman, I can feel it.” The cloaked navi states, looking down at the azure warrior. “Look at me… “

Rockman struggles to lift his head, looking up at the other navi, his brown eyes tinted red and jagged yellow streaks forming on his cheeks matching the purple ones on the other navi standing there. The red eyes of the cloaked navi watch as the streaks and eye color fades in and out, his gaze falling lower to see the slashed icon pulsing with energy and leaking data as well as taking some into it.

“I see…” The navi states, “You are becoming more powerful because of that, much like… You are still to weak to face me, I only fight those that are powerful. But I shall spare you both for now, since I would like to face you at your full ability."

"Who are you?" Rockman asks weakly, cringing in pain as he feels another surge inside of him.

The navi hovers in the air, floating backwards as he does. "They call me... Forte."

The pair watch as the navi vanishes from the network as quickly as he had appeared, Meiru moving back to Rockman's side and holding him, activating her healing program as she does.

"You may have won the game, but you will still lose!" Alexandria shouts, pulling out a detonator from her coat. "I shall blow this place to shreds!"

A bolt of energy rings out from the doorway, hitting the white clad woman and dropping her to the floor in a smoking heap as two masked women step into the room holding odd weapons that look like science fiction laser guns.

"By order of the Net Agents, you are all under arrest for terrorism." The woman with a deep red mask states, "Please don't make any sudden moves."
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[Core]

The transfer switched them both mentally and physically to some extent, such as their eye color and hair color, as well as their voices. In Netto and Saito's case their hair color didn't change when they switched due to them being twins. Not all twins are identical, but they do share traits with one an other.

Now time for another chapter, that has some humor in it with movie names. xD

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Chapter Five: StarNavi's

The inside of the multiplex where the feature of "Love and Loss on the Net: The Motion Picture" is playing is filled to capacity with people buying popcorn, soda's and other treats before going towards the theater showing their movie of choice. A group of young children arguing over which new anime movie was better, that of a group of kids with computer monsters or a movie of a group of card players that summon monsters for battle. Saito stumbles along a bit as Roll drags him through the crowd, taking the brown haired boy away from any distractions that she felt would hinder their time together, and her search for the perfect seats for the movie.

“Roll-chan,” Saito says over the drone of other voices filling the space, “Don’t you think you are in a bit of a hurry? The movie isn’t going to go any where and we have plenty of time to see it.”

The blond seems to ignore him for the most part, diving through a pack of chattering children and young adults leaving a theater who's showing of a movie called “Jazzman and Snare: The Movie” just ended and the sign changed to the movie she wanted to see.

“I just want to get some good seats Saito-san.” Roll states, hauling the boy through the aisles towards a pair of seats in the center of the middle row of the theater.“These seats will do. We don't have to bend are next up to see the screen and we can see it clearly from here.”

The green eyed boy settles down in the seat, rubbing his slighty abused arm after being dragged for most of the way to the place. A chill runs down his spine, causing him to look behind him to see a blur of motion in the crowd of people moving into the theater. Saito writes it off as nothing more then just jitters at being out in a public place in his new enviroment and form, settling down into his seat next to Roll.

“Saito-kun, are you okay?” Roll asks, touching his arm lightly. “You looked like something was bothering you.”

Saito smiles as he looks at his friend, "Its nothing Roll, I just got a funny feeling for a moment that we were being watched."

A sudden rumbling sound causes both young people to jump in their seats.

“Wha- what is that?” The blond girl asks, looking around.

“I … I think it was me.” The green eyed boy states, looking at his stomach as the sound erupted again. “I know that sound. I could hear it when Netto was hungry. Guess it means that I need to eat something.”

Roll giggles, stopping as her stomach makes the same rumbling sound, causing her to blush. “I… think I need to also.”

“You save our seats, I’ll be right back with some food okay Roll.” Saito says, getting up from his seat and moving throught the ailse towards the doors.

The boy walks up to the conscession stand outside of the theater entrance ways for the different movies, looking up at he display of food and drinks available in wonder.

“I think that you should get a five no ten hotdogs, and a large popcorn, and an extra large soda!” Pipes Rockman from the PET at Saito’s side.

Saito sighs as he takes out his PET and looks at his twin, "Rockman, unlike you I am not a glutton or selfish."

The green eyed boy smiles at the attendent, “I would like to have a two small popcorns, two medium soda’s, and two hotdogs please.”

The attendant smiles as he places the order on a small tray for Saito, Rockman paying for the meal with the money in the account he had access to. The smiles vanish as the lights shut off in the theater for a moment before the emergency lights come on.

“What’s going on?” Saito asks, looking around him at the confused people in the lobby area and the thearter staff.

“Welcome to the Cinema-Plex, we hope that you have enjoyed your feature up to now because you are all in for a special treat.” A silken feminine voice announces over the loud speaker. “We are the Electopian Liberation Front, and we have laid claim to this installation of modern public brainwashing to issue a challenge towards two patrons here in attendance with us today. Netto Hikari and his little girlfriend Meriu, please report to the projection room immediately. As for the rest of you, don’t even try to escape, we have the emergancy exits wired to explode if anyone tries to flee. Don't attempt to call for help either, our navi's have already disconnected the lines outside of this wonderful establishment, and besides any interfenance may cause the explosives to go off that we have under your seats. If any of you trip an explosive... well I don’t have to tell you what would happen then.”

“Those guys again!” Saito and Rockman both state at the same time, seeing Roll exiting from the theater showing the movie they wanted to see.

“Saito!” Roll yells as she reaches him, “Do you think that they’re serious?”

Saito nods as he takes hold of Roll’s hand, “They were about the first attack, so I doubt they would pull a stunt like this without the means to pull if off. We have no choice but to face them, with a threat like that."

The green eyed boy takes hold of Rolls hand that the pair start running towards a door marked for employees only, the door swinging open as they near it to allow them access to the stairs leading up to the projection room. As the pair reach the top of the stairs they see a closed green door, Saito turns the handle and pushes the door open carefully, the room cloaked in darkness. At the center of the room sits a circle of monitors showing the movie that is playing in the different theaters, each one controling a different projector with the digital information for the movie encoded into it or being fed the information from discs and tapes in the main projection room they are in. As the pair get use to the darkness of the room the lights come on, blinding them for a moment as their eyes adjust to the new light level. Saito and Roll look at the four figures in the room with them, all but one of them standing with the hood of a cloak up.

“Its nice that you could join us.” The same silken voice from the loud speaker says, as she steps forward with a large brimmed hat on her head. The woman's hat and business suit as white as her pale skin, her lips covered with a purple lipstick, looking at the pair with a predatory smile.

“I am Ms. Alexandria, and these are my associates, Ms. Erreka-Mari, Mr. Each Uisage, and lastly but not least Mr. Wyvern." The woman says, placing her hand on her hips.

The woman next to her pulls her hood back to show her face, her raven black hair shining blue in the light of the room, and gray eyes sparkling as she look at the two young people like a raptor spotting its prey. The man standing behind leans against the back wall, a dark braided pony tail falling out from the clocks hood and down onto his chest, his arms folded over the solid form of his chest as stands with his eyes closed. The man on the right of the white clad womanhe looks at pair from behind a pair of sunglasses, the brim of his baseball cap sticking out from under the hood of the cloak as he smiles at the two kids.

“What do you want from us?” Saito demands, looking at the suited woman.

“Oh, nothing much really. We just want you gone so that our plans can continue unhindered.” Alexandria states coolly, pulling her PET from her cloak. “But before we get to the unpleasant business of eliminating you, I would like to challenge you both to a little game.”

Roll blinks, seeing the others pull out there PETs as well. “What kind of game?”

“We want to show the world that there is no stopping E.L.F.!" The woman says proudly, "And the best way of doing that is by deleting Rockman, the co-champion of the N1 Grand Prix. After your defeat, no one in the world would dare to challenge us.”

“Rockman can’t be deleted that easily!” Saito spats, amazed by his own statement, his heart racing. "We’ll fight you on one condition.”

“How dar-“

“What is your condition?” Wyvern says suddenly, cutting off Alexandria off and looking at the boy with cold blue eyes.

“That if Rockman and I defeat you, you deactivate the bombs and allow everyone to leave safely.” The jade eyed boy states firmly towards the man.

A long period of silence fills the room, making the tension even thicker, till Wyven nods and shows that he is the real leader of the small group.

“We will all plug into this station, the fight will be shown live to everyone in the theater so they can report to everyone that asks what they saw this day. That our power can not be matched by Japan's best.” The dark man states, pulling the plug in cord for his PET out. "Plug-in, Mercury!"

“Pluto!” Calls out Alexandria.
“Venus!” Erreka-Mari yells, throwing her hand out and plugging into the network as if she was throwing a knife.
“Neptune!” The man named Each cries as he plugs in also.

Saito and Roll pull out the cords to their PET's as well, plugging them into the network and sending their navi's into the network of the theater, the small navi's all appearing on the large screens and monitors. Rockman looks around at the other navi's around him that made up the E.LF. attack force, Meiru standing next to him as they study the group.

A female navi with feline features and white fur on the majority of her upper armor glares at them with slit pupils. Her light purple body suit showing her curves with white stripes on it like those of a tiger or wild cat. Her white armored gloves have a similar stripe pattern as her body only with purple stripes instead. The back of her hands have three violet gems that extend out as she smiles to form three nine inch long claws. Her tail, wrapped in purple tinted metal sways behind her as she looks at the pair.

Another female navi glares at them from behind a blue visor on her yellow helmet, a crimson 'v' on her helmet seems to form an arrow pointing down. The shoulder pads of her armor are capped with red curved blades, as well as her forearms. A cable attached to her armor runs down the center of her chest before splitting in two and framing a distinct female part of her body as it wraps around to connect with ports in her lower back. She crosses her arms over her chest as she looks at Rockman and Meiru, the blades on her arm extending a bit.

A rather large navi next to the yellow and red armored navi hisses, showing rows of sharp teeth in his mouth. His aqua blue armor trimmed with a dark green. A long fish like tail extends behind him covered with spines that run up his back and helmet to form a red fin. Black eyes with red pupils stare out from the helmet, a metal slotted guard covers his mouth that attaches to a silver trident like crest on his forhead. Red fins run on the outside of his arms, flexing as he opens and closes his hands around the trident in his grasp.

The forth navi of the team stands with his foot on a block and leaning forward, his earthy brown helmet cut to allow blue hair to waver a bitsays as he looks at the others. His helmet was an earthy brown and cut so that it allowed his blue hair to flow out of the top, his ear mounts covered by small coned spikes. The green armor on his body leaves only his lower torso and bicepts uncoverd, his shoulders coverd by a darker green armor that is studded with small silver spikes along the edge. A dark green stripe down his cheeks add color to his white face, as his crimson red eyes seem to look through Rockman.

"Well Rockman, I've waited a long time for this." The green armored navi states, "This shall be your final battle."

"Not likely." Rockman replies, looking at the four navi's and their identical icons on their right breasts of a star shattered into nine points.

“TIME TO DIE!!!” The feline navi yells, leaping at the azure navi with her claws out and brings them down.

Rockman raises his arm quickly as it changes into a sword, blocking the attack with his weapon. The blades spark and buzz with energy, casting both navi's in the light of their attack. The feline kicks Rockman back with a blow to his gut, breaking the lock and flipping backwards off him. As he starts to recover from the attack he sees the fish navi coming at him with the trident, stabbing it forward repeatedly till it looked almost like a silver blur. Rockman jumps back again and again to dodge the attacks and blocking with his sword those he couldn't move out of the way of.

"Neptune, let me have some fun!" The yellow navi calls from above, smiling as she lands a boot to Rockman's head, sending him flying.

The brown eyed navi rolls on the ground from the attack, kicking up dust from the network floor, dazed by the sudden impact to his skull. Rockman pushes himself up on his elbows, shaking his head to clear it only to see a shadow casted over him. The yellow females fist dives down towards his head like a rocket, the new Rockman seeing his head shatter like a dropped egg on a floor in his mind's eye. A blast sends the girl flying as the blow was about to hit, sending her flying to the right. Rockman looks over to see Meiru standing with a smoking mega cannon next to her, the pink navi smiling.

"Venus, are you alright?" The feline navi asks, looking over at the crouching yellow and red girl.

"I'm fine Pluto." The girl growls, looking up at Meiru with her visor cracked. "That was a cheap shot, now I'm going to make you pay Pinky."

“If you want a piece of me, then try and take it road sign!” Meiru yells, her arm changing into a bow.

Rockman looks at Meiru in shock, he had always known that the girl was a bit prone to violent action at times, but he sees a new time of anger in her now then before that scares him a bit. The usually calm and reserved girl that only acted out when provoked by something he had done now stands there in the full battle rage that she sports towards him at times. A sharp yell brings him back to the moment, turning and bringing up his sword to block the energy claws of the furred navi, this time breaking their locked weapons with a fist to her face that sends her back yowling in pain.

“Y- you punched me! You’re not fighting clean like you usually do! NO FAIR!” Pluto yells, hissing as she glares at him.

Rockman smiles and thumbs his nose. “Well, least I didn’t throw water on you kitty.” He retorts.

Pluto roars as she dives at Rockman with her arms held out and claws extended. The brown eyed navi jumps up into the air, as she nears him, bringing his sword down quickly only to hear it ring at the contact with Neptunes trident. The fish navi smirks as he pushes Rockman back, the azure warrior spinning around and kicking the trident to the side before completeing the the spin. Rockman thrusts his sword forward into the gut of Neptune, the aqua navi's eyes opening wide at the pain and letting out a choaked gasp.

Rockman changes his arm into a buster and fires into the wound he made, causing Neptune to fly back and into the feline navi as she charges in for another attack. Pluto watches as her comrade dissolves into nothingness, falling back onto her hand and flipping back to her feet to see nothing left of the fish navi.

“You deleted him!” Pluto cries, leaping at Rockman and slashing wildly with her claws. “I shall make you suffer for killing my friend you blue devil!”

The blue navi jumps back as Pluto attacks, dodging as best he can from her wild attacks, his brown eyes opening wide as she flips back and a blast fire from her tail. Rockman brings his arms up in front of him as he sheilds himself with a barrier chip, but the attack causes him to fly back and rolling end over end on the ground. As he rolls to his feet dazed, the claws of Pluto decend on him, slashing him across the chest and cutting through his icon and crest. The blue warrior clutches his chest as he falls to his knees, crying out from a pain unlike any he has felt before, the feline standing over him with a wicked smile on her face.

“Now Rockman, you shall die for what you did to Neptune.” Pluto says, raising her claws high above her head.

“I DON’T THINK SO!” Meiru’s voice yells out, causing Pluto to turn around just as a yellow form slams into her and knocks her to the ground.

The feline shakes her head and looks at the object atop her, seeing Venus with her armor broken and cables ripped out from her back to dangle from her chest. The yellow and crimson navi barely concious and trying to get to her feet dispite her wounds. Pluto sees three trident like spears in her friend, looking up to see Meiru standing a few yards away with a Posidon fish next to her, the other female navi looking like she had been through a catfight. Meiru smiles as she slams her hand on the network floor, causing the felines eyes to open wide in horror.

"Aqua tower!" The pink navi shouts, a wave of water rushing from between her fingers to form a tower that races towards the two downed navi's.

Pluto and Venus shout as the attack hits, the feline being electricuted by the other navi's exposed wires, the water adding to the conductivity and damaging both till they dissolve into nothingness. Meiru lets out a sigh of relief at having taken out two of the navi's with one attack, running over to the downed Rockman and kneeling next to him.

“Netto are you okay?” The red headed navi asks, looking at her friend and holding him up a bit.

Rockman pants heavily as he holds his chest, his icon still spouting energy, unable to speak as he feels an odd power and urge start to fill him. The hair on the back of his neck stands on end as he feels the presence of a powerful energy force ripple through the air. He starts to shudder as he looks up and past Meiru, struggling to string words together. The brown eyed girl looks up to see a cloaked figure floating in the air, looking down on them with a large black finned helmet that has gold on the front side of the fins. His ruby red eyes studying them carefully, turning slightly to see the green armored navi glaring up at him.

“I don't know who you think you are, but this is a private fight, and you just bought yourself a one way ticket to deletion!" The navi states, his arms changing into a large cannon, "Mercury Launcher!"

The cloaked navi closes his eyes and lowers his head as the attack is fired, allowing the green navi to hit him, causing a massive explosion in the air. The navi smirks as he looks at bits of torn cloth fall burning from the cloud of dust, his expression changing quickly as a white hand lifts out of the debris cloud and points its palm at him.

“You are a to weak to leave in existance.” The cloaked navi states, opening his eyes as a ball of energy fires from his hand and rocketing towards his attacker.

The green armored navi screams as he feels his data being torn apart, the floor lifting away from his feet as the explosion tears through the spot he is standing, sending him flying back. As the flash of light fades, Rockman and Meiru gaze at the long trench carved into the floor by the single attack, and watch as the cloaked navi floats down to the ground. The mysterious green navi limps out of the debris cloud caused by the explosion and staggers forward, his body missing parts and leaking data.

The navi falls to his knees before the cloaked navi, looking up with shaking eyes. “H- How can… did you….”

“Because you are weak.” The figure replies, pushing the other navi over with a finger and watching him break apart into nothing more then dust.

He turns and looks at Meiru and Rockman, his eyes locked on the pair as he steps towards them. Meiru stands up quickly and aims her weapon at the cloaked navi, firing and watching as her arrow do nothing.

“You are changing Rockman, I can feel it.” The cloaked navi states, looking down at the azure warrior. “Look at me… “

Rockman struggles to lift his head, looking up at the other navi, his brown eyes tinted red and jagged yellow streaks forming on his cheeks matching the purple ones on the other navi standing there. The red eyes of the cloaked navi watch as the streaks and eye color fades in and out, his gaze falling lower to see the slashed icon pulsing with energy and leaking data as well as taking some into it.

“I see…” The navi states, “You are becoming more powerful because of that, much like… You are still to weak to face me, I only fight those that are powerful. But I shall spare you both for now, since I would like to face you at your full ability."

"Who are you?" Rockman asks weakly, cringing in pain as he feels another surge inside of him.

The navi hovers in the air, floating backwards as he does. "They call me... Forte."

The pair watch as the navi vanishes from the network as quickly as he had appeared, Meiru moving back to Rockman's side and holding him, activating her healing program as she does.

"You may have won the game, but you will still lose!" Alexandria shouts, pulling out a detonator from her coat. "I shall blow this place to shreds!"

A bolt of energy rings out from the doorway, hitting the white clad woman and dropping her to the floor in a smoking heap as two masked women step into the room holding odd weapons that look like science fiction laser guns.

"By order of the Net Agents, you are all under arrest for terrorism." The woman with a deep red mask states, "Please don't make any sudden moves."
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[Midnight]

Hmm. Still just as good as I remembered it. To tell you the truth, I don't really remember any significant changes from the original version to this revised version. What exactly did you end up changing, if I may ask?
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Today, these three players are after Big Bucks! But they'll have to avoid the Whammy, as they play the most exciting game of their lives! From Television City in Hollywood! It's time to 'Press Your Luck!'--Rod Roddy

The Kingdom of Loathing: An Adventurer is You! // I ♣ Seals

Avatar by Spork. I very much appreciate it! <3

[Kitty-Chan]

Yay! Forte yumminess! ^_^ Anou, can we have a lil ForteNetto? *uses the unbeatable power of Trill-kawaiiness*
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Need more Zero/X, Netto/Rock, Rock/Netto, Forte/Netto, & Blues/Netto. PLEASE!
Ano sa...could someone please make me a Zero/X, Blues/Netto, or Forte/Netto avatar/banner? I would greatly appreciate it...
Thanks for the avatar, Mandi!
People! We need more Blues/Netto & Forte/Netto on the net. Come on; help me out here! *gives everyone her Super-Adorable Irrisistable Sad Kitty Eyes(TM)*