Enter: Black Crescendo!

[Guardman.EXE]

Well, this is my Fanfiction. Megaman and Protoman have mysteriously disappeared. Yuuchihiro Hikari is dead. It takes place about 5 years after the very end of Megaman Battle Network 6. There won't be any spoilers seeing as how it doesn't have many of the official characters. To read future chapters before they're posted here go to http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3153828/1/
For reference, the characters I my friends and I's fannavis. I will have some more official characters later in the story. Please Comment.
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Disclaimer: All official Megaman characters and terms belong to Capcom.
Everything else belongs to me.





Chapter 1: Cut and Run!
Prologue: "Finally, our plan is nearly ready to be put into action. We have Megaman, and Protoman, and we've elimnated Yuuchihiro Hikari. Now that we have Gospel's and Dr.Cossack's research the time for our organization to rule this Earth has finally come!"

"Lord, please excuse me but there is one vital piece of the puzzle missing. Don't we need to capture **** to ensure the success of our project?"

"Yes, I know that we are missing the ****...but that will be fixed soon enough. Now, you have a job to do. I suggest you complete it."

Chapter 1: A teenage boy with semi-long, curly, brown hair yawned and arose from a bed. His blue eyes squinted at the sight of the bright room. He pulled on some black jeans, and a dark purple shirt and started out the door. He grabbed a deep black jacket, with a circular insignia printed largely on the back of it. The brunette was about an inch through the door when he heard a voice from his room.

"Good Morning, Blake. You sleep well?"Came the voice from a purple and black PET. On the screen was a NetNavi in a black body suit, with a purple stripe running down each side. Purple armor covered his torso, in the center was the same insignia on Blake's jacket. long silver blades rose from either shoulder. He had tri-segmented armor on his forearms and legs. In the center of each piece was another shining blade. His dark purple helmet had a spike rising up from the navi's forehead. Above each circular earpiece was a horizontal blade extending back behind his head. Bright blue eyes were visible under the rim of the helmet, which had long sides that extended halfway down his neck.

"Oh, hello Blademan. I'm sorry I forgot about you...I just woke up,"Blake replied turning around to get the Personal Terminal. "Anyway, we'd better get to Stephen's house. I wonder what he's been up to while I was in Electopia!"the brunette asked as he grabbed the PET and battlechip folder and headed out the door.

"You don't need to be in such a rush Blake, Stephen's probably not even awake yet,"the navi laughed. Despite the fact that the Blademan's information was probably true Blake hurried out the door, the black jacket waving behind him.

"Stephen, WAKE UP!!!!"shouted an orange, and yellow navi from a matching PET. Stephen jumped out of bed, "Blake will be here soon, you have to get ready Stephen,"said Fastman shaking his head at his NetOp.

"Oh no, you're right!" Stephen exclaimed, pulling on his clothes at record speed. A loud chime rang through the house, "Speak of the devil." said Stephen walking toward the door.

"Stephen! Aren't you forgetting someone!!!"Fastman shouted after him, of course Stephen didn't reply and Fastman sighed.

"Told you he woudn't be awake yet..."said Blademan, as Stephen's front door swung open.

"Guess again, Blademan,"Blake replied with a grin. The house had changed quite a bit since Blake had last seen it. Though the exterior was still the charming pale green. The interior also had some modifications, though since Stephen's parents were away it was pretty messy. Stephen had a knack for not being perfectly clean...of course Blake's room at the restaurant was a whole lot worse.

You know what they say about opposites attracting? Well for Blake and Stephen that's how it was. Blake was usually pretty serious, he kept cool and collect. Stephen was pretty crazy, and was always hyper. Though both of them had a sense of humor, and that's probably why none of their former fights had escalated that much. They had been best friends since 4th grade, and were in 9th now. Blake lived at his parent's pizza place, as well as worked there part time with Stephen.

Both excellent netbattlers, they had helped the net with it's share of problems, since Protoman and Megaman had been mysteriously captured away 5 years ago. Blademan and Fastman were a great duo, and often got asked to help Officials. Blake had just gotten back from Netopia, after spending a summer there with some officials, he was on the brink of finally becoming one. Stephen however, was more laid back and preferred to netbattle on his own accord rather than join the officials. He just settled for his City battler license.

"So Blake, how about a netbattle? I wanna see what moves you've learned in Electopia!"Stephen exclaimed. He hadn't yet realized that he had forgotten his PET in his room.

"Don't you need a PET to battle, Stephen?"Blake replied with a wide grin.

"Huh," Stephen replied looking down at his left hip,"What?! My PET is gone!"

"Actually it's in your room..."said Fastman, who had found his way to Blake's PET, angry at Stephen's clumsy mistake. A few minutes later Stephen finally had his PET and the four were ready for a netbattle.

"So, where should we have our little battle?"Blake asked Stephen,"the garden comp seems nice enough..." It was a nice roomy computer. Though that didn't really matter to them. Blake was sure he'd win with the new chips he'd acquired in Electopia. Twin beams of light shot down onto the green floor of the Garden Comp, They twisted into a humanoid shape, revealing Blademan and Fastman.

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"It's been a while Blademan!"exclaimed Fastman, who'd missed his friend. Fastman tried to give Blademan a hug, which the purple navi sidestepped, causing Fastman to fall down to the floor. "Ow! My face!"Fastman shouted.

"Apparently you're not ready,"said Blademan with a grin. Usually he would have been friendlier, but when it came to battling Blademan had always been extremely serious.

"Battle Routine Set, Execute!"Blake shouted,"Battle...Start!" The instant Blake finished Fastman became an orange blur, and disappeared. Most navis would have been confused at this trick. Though Blademan knew it quite well, he stayed perfectly still, waiting for Fastman to attack. Suddenly the orange blur reappeared behind Blademan. The purple navi swung around and braced himself for the attack, but then the orange blur came from the other direction with lightning speed and struck Blademan from behind, the place where Blademan wasn't protected. The purple warrior flew forward, but now he was ready for an attack. Once again the bright orange blur came at him from midair. Blademan deflected the kick with his armguard, then jumped up dodging a second attack.

The blade wielding navi held his arms in an X shape, and the blades on his arm guards began to glow a brilliant white. He flung his arms backward sending an X shaped blast toward the unexpecting Fastman. Once again the orange blur appeared behind Blademan, who spun around blocking a barrage of punches. Blademan's attack hit the ground causing a shockwave that blew the navis upward. The navis battle continued like this for a few minutes, the navis a perfect match for each other.

"Well if that's how it's gonna be then take a battle chip!"Blake shouted,"MegaBoomer battlechip in, download! A large boomerang
appeared in Blademan's hand, and was hurled at Fastman. The navi, once again, became a bright orange blur and dodged the boomerang. He wore a large grin on his face laughing at Blademan's faulty attempt.

"Fastman watch out!"Stephen yelled at his navi, who gave him a confused look just before getting swept forward by the powerful impact of the boomerang, "You can't even remember what a boomerang is?!"Stephen shouted, his neat brown hair becoming unruly.

Blademan caught the boomerang in a black gloved hand. The purple navi dashed forward and slashed Fastman with the long blade that extended from his arm guard. "Shouldn't let your guard down Fastman!"

"Neither should you,"said Fastman grabbing onto Blademan's arm with lightning speed. "Time for a special attack! Fast Tornado!" The two navis became a twirling purple and orange blur, as Fastman spun around creating a huge cyclone. "Now for some payback Blademan!"

"Tornado Battlechip in, double download! Fan Battlechip in,double download!"shouted Stephen slotting in the chips consecutively. The four chips materialized around the swirling vortex adding to it's fury, causing fierce wind to fly in every direction. With smaller tornados swirling around, causing a giant storm. "Fast Hurricane!"shouted Stephen looking proud, holding a fist in the air.

Fastman let go of Blademan who flew into the Garden Comp's wall with a bang. The purple navi tried to get up but the vicious cyclone just sucked him back up, he got caught by one of the small tornados, which damaged him even more. "We have to put an end to this thing,"he said under his breath.

Blademan used his VarBlade ability to make a sword on his left arm. He then mounted himself to the ground, just outside the hurricane.
"Dol Thunder battlechip in, download!"Blake shouted inserting the chips into a purple and black PET. "Time to end this!" Blademan's free arm transformed into a ScarCrow virus and a long bolt of lightning shot straight into the heart of the storm. It wasn't direct, but the electrical shot hit Fastman, stopping him in his tracks. Taking advantage of Fastman's paralyzed state Blademan made it to one of the fans and sliced threw it with the sword.

Fastman's paralyzation wore off, and he became a blur again. Both of the operators then took out a bomb chip, cross bomb. The navis took the explosive orb in hand and flung it at the other. The bombs hit each other with a fiery blast that caught both navis in it's grip. The entire comp became smoke filled, blinding the rivals.
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Salem Paroo, Guardman's roleplay character!
(Guess which one doesn't belong!)

[Midnight]

Okay, I've read it through, and I'm not too sure that I like it so far.

First off, the sentence at the start:

[Guardman.EXE]

The villain navis are actually a lot more powerful than the main character's navis. I try not to godmode, though the Navi Crosses coming up are kind of powerful. In the third chapter, Dr.Hikari (Lan) comes in. I actually started writing this a little while back so it's not as good as chapter 4 (that's one of the best so far. And if the main navis are two weak then they'd be deleted in this chapter)

Chapter 2: Burnin' Down the House!
"Hahaha,"the sinister laugh came from nowhere,"That battle was getting pretty hot, it's a shame I'll have to put this fire out." Blademan heard a the sound of fire, and a yell of pain from Fastman. Soon enough he was hit from behind too. "Haha, you looked like you'd be a lot tougher. Well on any note, time to burn this place down and your ops with it! The remaining fan blew away the smoke revealing another navi in the comp.

It's head was like a meteor, with evil glowing eyes. Swirls of red, and yellow burned upward from it. The only sign of any body was a dark outline of chest armor, surrounded by a raging fireball, much like his head. All that was visible was his insignia, a meteor shooting downward. His arms were also large meteors, like a Champy virus but bigger. The same for his legs. Upon further inspection it seemed that the entire navi was surrounded by a bigger fireball. "Hahaha, time to burn this place to the ground! Meteor!" He directed his arms downward, and in a few seconds a shower of tiny fireballs rained down on the Garden Comp.

"Who are you!"yelled Blademan struggling to get up. He slowly rose, struggling to lift the purple horn on his helmet off the ground.

"Ahh, I see you aren't finished yet. I was hoping for just as much!"the navi said with glee,"By the way, I'm Blazeman! Time to take you out!"

Suddenly the unexpected turned on Blazeman. An bright orange blur shot at him from nowhere, from behind. The fiery navi flew forward, and struck the ground.

"Thanks for distracting him Blademan!"Fastman said to his purple friend, who was off the ground now. Suddenly the living meteor's flames began to flicker faster. A tower of fire shot up from the ground in front of Fastman, who was caught in the inferno.

"Fools! To expect that I would be hurt by that..."Blazeman said, hovering over the two navis. "FireHit!" Blazeman's arms suddenly disappeared. The twin fireballs appeared in front of the two navis and struck them against each other. "Hahahaha! You two are so weak!"

"Think again! Wideshot battlechip in, download!"yelled Stephen, as Fastman's arm morphed into a large cannon. Fastman shot at the inferno of a navi. "That water chip will put you out Blazeman!" As the blue missle got closer to the giant fireball it began to disappear. By the time it got to Blazeman, it was just a ball of steam. "What?!The Wideshot was evaporated?!"

"The fire is too bright, we can't aim anything at him!"the orange navi replied.

"Well'll see about that!"yelled Blademan, as formed an X with his forearms. The twinblades on his armguards began to glow. "BladeCross!" The twin blades of light shot toward Blazeman, but proved useless as he blocked them with his arms. "Dang it! Nothing can through his flames...that's it! Fastman, maybe your tornado attack could suck away the flames!"

"We don't have any other ideas, Blademan. Let's try it! FastTornado!"With that Fastman begun to spin with lightning speed. He became nothing but an orange blur, and Blazeman's flames began to move toward him. "I think it's working!"Soon all of the flames were caught in the cyclone, and Blazeman was left as nothing but a dark red torso, and orange orbs as limbs.

"Ha, fool! You think that will stop me? Now you've just trapped yourself inside my flames!"Blazeman yelled with pride. He let out a maniacal laugh and began raining flames down on the comp.

"The heating system in the garden is being messed up!"Stephen yelled, as the heat began to rise. Soon a few of the leaves on the plants began to give off smoke, and caught fire."We need to finish him fast, or we'll be cooked!"

"Mwahaha! Nothing can stop me from burning this whole city to the ground now!"exclaimed Blazeman, as fireballs rained down from above him. Suddenly an X shaped beam of light struck him in the back. "Gah! What was that!"he shouted, turning around. He looked down and saw Blademan. An aqua sword extending from the end of his right arm. "Dang it! I forgot about you...Fire Hit!" Blademan expected the attack and jumped back, just in time to miss the fiery punch. He swung the aqua sword at the arm, and it split in two. "No, my arm! You think that can stop me?! Inferno Crusher!" Blazeman's remaining limbs began to infuse with his body, as he became a giant fireball that began to grow in size."You'll never stop me now!!!" The giant fireball shot down to the floor and hit the purple navi, like the sun hitting the moon. The attack left the computer covered in burning flames, and Blademan on the ground wounded. His armor was scorched, looking more black than purple. Meanwhile Blazeman turned back to his normal form.

"Get up Blademan!"Blake shouted to the wounded navi, but there was no reply,"Recovery 50, battle chip in, download!" but still there was no reply from Blademan. Suddenly the purple navi's arm began to twitch. He let out a pained sound and tried to get up, but it was useless. "Blademan!" the teen shouted once again. He began to download continuous recovery chips. None of them showed to have any effect though.

"No one...hurts...my...friends!!!!"came a voice from the twisting pillar of fire. Suddenly all of the flames spun the other way and shot outward hitting Blazeman. An orange blur appeared beside the fallen Blademan. Fastman had a fierce look in his eyes. Meanwhile Blazeman flew backwards slamming into a wall, after being suddenly hit by his own attack. "Stephen...it's time to use the new move we learned. Give me some battlechips, and let's take this guy out!"

"Cannon battlchip in, download, Long sword battle chip in, download, Zap ring battlechip in download,"Stephen said, while sliding the chips into his PET. "Now! Full Synchro!" The orange navis body began to glow slightly, as a few new markings appeared on his armor. A bright blue ring began to twirl around the navi whose thoughts were now in complete synchronization with the Net Op.

"Cannon!"the navi yelled, as his arm became a large gun. Blazeman tried to fire a meteor attack at Fastman, who dodged it and appeared behind him. "Lock on...Fire!"he shouted as a large blast was fired from the cannon and hit Blazeman"

"What's going on?! How are you so much stronger??"the confused fire navi yelled. Suddenly a glowing X shaped collided with his back. He flew forward right into Fastman who slashed him with a long, glowing sword. The giant fireball of a navi yet out a yell of pain that was cut off by an electrical ring fired at him. He was suspended in time long enough to be hit by Fastman once more, and turned around only to see Blademan standing with his arms crossed and a silver facemask raised over his mouth."W-w-what? You were dead..."the scared navi said.

"Never let your guard down, Blazeman"was the purple navis only replied. The two scorchmark covered navis jumped up toward Blazeman, swords extended.

"So you think that this move will be enough to beat me?"This time Blazeman wasn't simply gloating the fiery navi's eyes began to burn once again with anger. From small holes on his armor rose brightly burning twists of red and orange. Turning him once again into a giant fireball as his two opponents jumped toward him he turned to the side, launching one of his meteor-like limbs. They struck the navis hard, pinning them to the walls of the Computer. The sheer force of the attack knocked Stephen back as well, since he was in full synchronization. The two were seperated lowering Fastman's power once again.

Inside the garden, more plants began to catch fire. The smoke was growing thicker, limiting the Net-ops' breathing. They had to get out, slipped in a few battle chips each. They just hoped it would be enough for the navis to defeat Blazeman. Meanwhile inside the comp the battle was still heating up. Blazeman struck one of his meteors into the ground, and suddenly twisting pillars of flame rose from the floor chasing the navis. Fastman dashed between multiple columns of the swirling fire, and rescued the purple navi who was less than a second away from being roasted.

"Machine Gun!"Fastman yelled as he reappeared behind his enemy, firing rapidly at Blazeman. "Dang! Only a couple shots hit him!" While Fastman was attacking with his gun, Blademan was busy trying to get an opening to the giant fireball of a navi. A panel started to glow under him, and he just barely dodged the pillar of fire with a somersault.

"Air Shoes!"The purple navi shouted, as he began to float above the ground. He glided between the pillars of fire, and easily got closer to Blazeman. "Bubble Cross!" A mass of bubbles were shot from Blademan's arm, and enveloped the flame around Blazeman. "Fastman! Now!!" Fastman knew exactly what to do, or at least thought he did. The orange blur appeared next to the blinded Blazeman, and sent a fury a punches at him. Meanwhile, Blademan jumped up over the two navis and Fastman finished his attack. Ther orange blur appeared over the mid-air Blademan, grabbing his arm. The orange navi spun around with Blademan in hand, preparing a deadly catapult. Unseen by Blazeman, Blademan formed an aqua sword. "BladeSlingshot!"The navis yelled as a streak of purple flew toward the bubble covered navi.

Blademan knealed down with his back faced to Blazeman, his blue sword held back. Suddenly Blazeman split into two pieces, in a shower of pixels.

"Good job, Fastman,"Blademan told his friend." I couldn't have beat him without you."

"What do you mean YOU beat him?! I helped just as much!"The orange navi exclaimed. Then behind him Blazeman's remaining pixels began to burst into flame, and twist together upwards. They formed a giant fireball, that died down to reveal Blazeman. Looking as good as new.

"Haha, you didn't beat me at all, you fools...I think I'll spare you for now. Though next time prepare to be deleted."the fiery navi said to them.

"Wait! Who sent you here!"Blademan shouted after him, "And why!" All the two navis could hear was Blazeman's evil laughter, as he left in a red beam of light.

The fire quickly died down in the garden, as the temperature system cooled. All was at peace...or so it seemed.

"Well, we beat him,"said Blake, a concerned look on his face. "But...who was he? Just a random independent navi? Or the first attack of the next World Three?"

"I doubt that it could be as bad as World Three,"Stephen said trying to reassure them. Of course, he doubted that too. An average independent navi can't be that strong.

"Well...we'll just have to wait and see,"Blake replied, "I'll send an e-mail to Dr.Hikari." The teen took out a purple PET and began to write the e-mail, hoping it would get to the very busy Doctor. "Now all we can do is wait for him to reply. You might as well spend the night over at the pizza place since your parents are gone. Let's get going...it's been a long day." Stephen just smiled, as the two turned around and went home.

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"A job well done. Now we just need for the news of your attack on that computer to spread. Once it does fear will be put into the hearts of the citizens, and we can complete our job right under their noses!"
"Sir, we believe that **** may be in a remote sector of the Undernet. Our soldiers will continue to look for ****. What are your orders for now?"
"Tell them to keep up the search in the undernet. Once we have **** we shall be unstoppable. As for you...we are running short of funds. It's up to you to retrieve some. Good luck."
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"What?! We just got here and we have to work?" Blake asked, as his father stood over the two boys.

"You know that Saturday is the busiest day of the week, now get cooking you two! You're lucky I don't deduct your pay for arguing like that!" The moustached chef said angrily at the boys.

"Fine with me, sir"Stephen smiled. As he put on an apron. Disappointed Blake simply sighed, and followed Stephen.

The two teens jacked their navis in to the Restaurants computer, and then went to go make some pizzas. Meanwhile in the Kitchen's cyberworld the two navis also worked, organizing data, ordering ingredients, etc.

"It's a shame we just have to do this. I'm still sore after Blazeman, I can't believe a navi with no op can be that strong."Blademan said, shrugging,"All the heat in here just makes it even worse, huh?"

"Well, about him being an operator-less navi,"Fastman replied,"I'm not so sure anymore. It seemed like it at first, but almost all of his attacks were attacks from battlechips. No one ever said the op had to announce the chip when he downloads it. He may have one...but still he was powerful enough even when he used other attacks. I'm surprised we pulled through and beat him."The purple navi shrugged and got back to work. Hoping that what Fastman had deduced was opinion and not fact.




sorry about the badish title.
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Salem Paroo, Guardman's roleplay character!
(Guess which one doesn't belong!)

[Guardman.EXE]

I decided to go ahead and post the third Chapter. Now it's not just me and Stephen, they have a new friend, and Lan Hikari!!(he's not gone, just Megaman)




Chapter 3: Arts and Crafts!

"Hmmm, what's this?"said a cloaked figure, watching the many dark navis running around the undernet server. They seemed to be looking for something. Checking every corner. "Meddling humans, disrupting my solitude. They shall face the consequences soon enough," with that the mysterious navi disappeared from his view point, searching for a place to slumber.
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"Hey Stephen, you awake yet?"Blake asked Stephen, who was still somwhere in the twisted mound of blankets, that was a bed the night before. "We have to get going Stephen, Dr. Hikari wants to meet us at the Art Expo today, and we got hired by the officials to do a security check there anyway."The sheets ruffled slightly, and a moan came from beneath them. "Stephen? STEPHEN WAKE UP!!!!" Blake's yell woke up Stephen right away, and somehow he actually made it out of the blanket jungle within a couple seconds. "Oh good, you're awake!"

"Yeah...thanks to you,"he said in a slow, tired voice, "what was that about some official named Art Hikari on guard duty? Wait...is he related to Dr. Hikari?"

"Stephen, can I tell you something?" Blake asked politely. Stephen nodded, "You're an idiot. Now get dressed,"he said, as he grabbed his PET and walked out into the restaurant.

"Hey Blake!"came a voice from by the door, "I didn't know you were back from Electopia yet!" the voice was coming from A teenager with, semi-long, neat, dark, brown hair. He had a slight tan, and brown eyes. He looked to be about a year younger than Blake and Stephen,"By the way, is Stephen here? There's no one at his house."

The 13 year old, a childhood friend of Stephen's, was named Colton. A year before Blake's trip to Electopia, the two were introduced. Since then they two had been just as good of friends as their two navis.

"Yeah, Stephen's here. His parents are off for a few weeks in Jawaii,"the jacketed teenager replied," He's in the back getting dressed so in the meantime, how about we jack-in to the Kitchen Comp. I'm sure Blademan would want to see your navi after all this time."The two teens jacked-in to the Kitchen Computer. Twin beams of light swirled into the shaped of the two navis. Blademan stood facing the materialzing navi, who was still being from the shower of pixels. Towering over the small purple navi, was a Navi twice his size, it's armor covered with red scales. The giant navi had a red tail, and huge scaly wings. His helmet was like the head of a vicious beast, with long fangs, and horns. The tip of the helmet came down to his nose, and he had two visors, that looked like glowing green eyes. He wore a black body suit, with green stripes. The armor on his gloves and boots had long razor sharp claws.

"Fool, you may have defeated Blazeman. However, you'll never defeat me!"The large navi yelled, and roared loudly. He hunched over in a fighting position and began to slash at Blademan. The purple navi braced the attack, but it was inevitable. The large claws would easily tear him apart. The claws stopped a mere centimeter before impact, and the beastly navi began to laugh.

"Up to your antics as alway I see,"Blademan said acting cool and collect. He was to ashamed to admit how scared he'd been. "It's nice to see you again Dragonman."

"Guys, we need to get to the expo and see Dr.Hikari, now let's go!"yelled Stephen, now fully dressed,"but first...let's eat!" Everyone sighed at Stephen, and after a well-balanced meal they were ready to get going!
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The levbus soared across the city, until finally the convention center came into view. It was a huge dome shaped building, that reminded the group of friends (Colton had decided to join them) of something out of StarWars. The cohort started toward the sparkling silver building, which was a lot bigger from below.

"Sure is big, huh?"Colton asked, as the group stared up in awe. The two older members of the group just nodded, as they began their walk to the Center.

Finally they reached the entrance, and the the Freshmen showed their PETS, of course, with the confirmation E-mail. They finally realized that they had made one error. Colton had no ID. They pleaded that the dark haired teen was working with them, but the guard wouldn't accept it.

"Come on! He's our friend, why can't he come work with us? You guys don't even have to pay him! Besides Dr.Hikari wanted to meet with us anyway!"Blake shouted at the guard, twice his size.

"Yeah sure, that's what they all say." The bulky man said motioning Colton to leave.

"Of course, this time that excuse may be true,"said a voice from behind them. There was a tall, lanky adult standing there. He had nicely groomed brown hair combed back to the sides of his head. He wore black pants, and had a scilab jacket . Around his forehead was a blue bandana, bearing the same symbol as the jacket. The Hikari insignia,"Now if you'd please let the boy in, sir?"

The guard was bewildered that the excuse had been true, and quickly opened the gate for the group. The four walked into the large expo building with Dr. Hikari, who had now joined them.

"So you're e-mail says that you're the boys that fought that Blazeman navi. I've heard rumors about the attack, but not much. So what exactly happened?"Dr. Hikari asked.

"Well, I just got back from training with officials in Electopia. So I went over to my friend, Stephen's house to have a friendly netbattle,"Blake began to tell the story,"and then his shattered pixels reformed, and he left...We couldn't get any information from him. We thought that he was an independent navi at first. Though, all of his attacks could have easily been unannounced battlechip attacks. One thing's for sure. He was stronger than any average net navi, we think that he's probably part of a new organization, like WWW or Gospel."

"I think you're right,"the scientist said, with deep concern in his eyes. He opened his mouth to speak again, but before he could, the group heard people yelling a few rooms over,"Let's get over there quickly! It could be another attack, we can't let the opportunity pass!" The four, ran over to the room where all of the paintings were displayed. This high-tech expo center, had large, elaborate monitors displaying paintings...or what were paintings. All of the paintings were covered in doodles, moustaches drawn upon faces, etc. "What in Falzar is going on in here?"Dr.Hikari yelled.

Blake and Stephen wasted no time pulling out their PETs and jacking in. The two devices were aimed toward a jack-in port of what was once the Mona Lisa. The two navis began to enter cyberworld as Colton realized he should join them. He pulled out a Red and green PET, with that beared his insignia, a dragon claw.

"Jack-in, DragonMan Power-up!"Colton exclaimed, aiming the PET toward the jack-in port. A second later, DragonMan materialized behind the two smaller navis. The navis seemed to be frozen in time. Staring at what lie before them with bewilderment. There were thousands of viruses. Though they couldn't be considered normal viruses at all, more like imitations. They were in the shape of normal viruses, but they were just blobs of paint. A red mettaur shaped blob of paint swung it's pickaxe toward the navis, and a fiery shockwave erupted from the ground.

The three navis were caught off guard and were knocked down like bowling pins. The trio quickly recovered from the paint viruses attack, and got ready to fight back, against the countless viruses. DragonMan leapt up over the smaller navis, and blew a large blast of flame from his mouth. All of the green paint viruses were swept away by the attack, while the others weren't affected at all.

"Good job Dragonman,"Dr.Hikari said,"Apparently the viruses can only be defeated by their elemental weakness. Anything else is ineffective. I'd download your strongest elemental chips and take them out, so let's get to the bottom of this!" Blake quickly downloaded his Megaboomer battlechip. The giant boomerang appeared in the purple navis hand, and was flung at the viruses, destroying all of the yellow paint blobs. Meanwhile Fastman's Satellite chip deleted the blue ones. Finally, all that was left was the fire elementals. The three navis each downloaded a water chip, and fired at the sea of red blobs. A Bubble Cross, Wave, and Aqua sword quickly destroyed the remaining, leaving the Expo Computer empty. "Hmmm, that's odd. All of them are gone, but...the paintings aren't back to normal.

"Excellent deduction Dr.Hikari,"said a high pitched voice. Another beam of light shot down inside the computer, in front of the three navis. The navi standing in front of them was the strangest the trio had ever seen. It's body was a giant, navy colored paint brush. The metal rim, beneath the bristles, had two maniacal looking eyes. On the tip of the brushes was a dab of multicolored paint. Coming off of the paintbrush, were two ordinary pink erasers, acting as shoulder armor. It''s arms and legs, were folded piece of paper, each with a different art utensil on the end. His right arm, folded into the point of a pencil, while his left formed the other half and ended with an eraser. On it's left leg was an ink pen, and the other, a smaller paint brush. Around him were floating paintballs of various colors. "I must reward you for getting that much right, but I have a job to do. If you can please tell these navis to move aside, I'll take what I need and go. If not, they shall suffer the wrath of SketchMan!"

"I think we'll choose whether we get out of your way ourselves SketchMan!" Blademan said, standing tall with his arms crossed to the artistic navi. "And we're going to stop you just like we did Blazeman!"

"Ah, so it was you who fought Blazeman, just so you know. That pathetic navi is weak compared to me,"the navi looked into Blademan's eyes"And you didn't even delete him..."The purple navi got angry at Sketchman and ran toward him, a longsword extended. Just as Blademan was slashing one of the paintballs floating around him moved forward, and expanded into a shield. The paint exploded colorfully, and landed on the ground. Sketchman was gone. Screams of pain were heard from the other two navis, Blademan looked back to find Sketchman attacking the two. With each of his arms he had stabbed a member of the trio, and the two wounded navis flew forward and collided with Blademan.

Suddenly an orange blur appeared behind the artistic navi and tried to attack but the a red ball of paint, deflected the attack. One by one Fastman tried to get through to the giant paintbrush, but the balls of paint had a mind of their own.

"DragonFire!"a voice from the other side of the Computer yelled. Dragonman had ascended, and charged up an attack. The giant navi opened his mouth, and a wave of fire flew at Sketchman. All of the paintballs instantly responded trying to block the powerful attack, but it was futile. When the fire cleared, Sketchman was gone.

Suddenly A small black circle appeared behind the flying navi, Sketchman's torso rose out of it, and he swiped at Dragonman's legs with his eraser arm. As the eraser touched the navi, his legs began to disappear.

"Oops, looky what I did!"the paintbrush exclaimed,"We can't fight while you have no limbs, that just wouldn't be fair!"he said raising the pencil arm. Using it he drew giant weights on the winged navi. Sketchman disappeared into his hole again, and Dragonman began to be pulled down by the weights. Soon his wings gave out, and he had no strength left, with extreme speed he dropped down to the bottom of the comp, and he exploded into pixels, which spun around to form the words "Log Out".

"Dang, Dragonman's out! How can a navi be this strong?!"Blake exlaimed drawing a battlechip from his folder. "Invisible battlechip in, download! IceWave, battlechip in download!" Just as Sketchman rose out of another hole, Blademan became invisible. The giant paintbrush swung his pencil arm at the transparent navi, who became visible and flew backwards. "What?! His attack cut through the invisible chip?"
Blademan recovered quickly and shot a large snowflake at Sketchman. The artistic navi simply did a cartwheel to the side, and avoided it. The purple navi created a longsword, and charged toward Sketchman. The giant paintbrush countered with one his equally sharp arm.

The two navis exploded into a frenzy of swords. Blademan couldn't get an opening to the artistic navi. Sketchman kept blocking with his two arms. He had too much agility for the purple navi. Sketchman used a powerful blow to send Blademan flying backwards, the purple navi quickly recovered and ran toward the giant paintbrush. Before Blademan could get there the artistic navi used his paintbrush leg, to draw an icepanel in between the navis. Blademan slipped and fell backwards, and was no sooner stabbed by Sketchman. Blake logged him out, just before the inevitable deletion.

"Finally, I can finish my job,"Sketchman said, turning around. Suddenly an orange blur appeared behind him, and lunged forward. The giant paintbrush used his pen leg, to draw a black circle underneath him and Sketchman fell through it. Fastman was caught off guard and fell foward, and fell foward. Sketchman reappeared behind him, and gave him the same attack he did Blademan.

"Ha, your pathetic navis are nothing compared to my powers. Now I'll just be taking the money the Expo has collected today, and be on my way,"Sketchman said grabbing a piece of data. A blue light carried him away, as he logged out of the computer.

"Well, now we know that that Blazeman definetely wasn't an independent, but worse is that he was the weakest of the navis,"Dr.Hikari said,"though I do have some data that could help you defeat these navis. Just give me your PETs and you might be able to win." The three teenagers gave the Doctor their PETs. One at a time the devices were modified. "I'm sorry Colton, I could only make your navi a little stronger, I only had two copies of the data. As for you two,"Hikari continued, looking at Blake and Stephen,"I've given you some of my navi's old data. Since Megaman disappeared I've had no need for it. Though you two will need it quite a bit, if you want to take on this organization. And if you want to know what the installed data is...I can't tell you right now, I have to get to Sci-lab, but you'll know what it is when you see it."

With that Lan Hikari left the three teens, who could only wonder what adventures might come next.
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Please forgive Fastman, Plantman. I know him in real life and he wanted me to show him how to join the forums. He doesn't really know proper forum behavior yet.

Since I'm making a post I might as well add Chapter 4 to the list here.


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Chapter 4: NaviCross!

"You have done well once again, Sketchman. Now our operations will continue smoothly. I have another job for you, Dr.Hikari has given a very powerful program to the ones you fought. It was originally part of Megaman's data, and we will need it for our research. Now go find the boys' navis and take the data."

"Yes master,"Sketchman replied to the dark figure, and left.

"As for you Blazeman, go aid in the search for ****"

"As you command master."

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A yawn came from the backroom of the pizza place. Blake stretched his arms, and quickly got up, he sighed at the still sleeping Stephen and got dressed, a red shirt instead of purple but with the same old black jeans and jacket. He almost got to the door when he noticed something odd.

"What the,"the red clad teen asked himself staring at the alarm clock. Across the clock read the numbers 2:00 p.m. "Stephen. Get up..."

The messy haired Stephen slowly arose from the bed with a confused look on his face. Blake simply pointed at the clock, Stephen knew something was up.

"What the? Blake...why'd you put the clock forward like that? This really isn't the time for pranks,"Stephen said putting on his clothes, a pacman shirt and jeans.

"Exactly, I didn't,"the jacket wearing teen replied, reaching for his PET. He gazed into the bright blue screen of the terminal to find a sleeping Blademan,"What the?! Navis don't sleep!"the purple navi started getting up and waved to his NetOp. "What's going on?" Around that time quite a few alarm clocks around town began to go off, along with confused people waking up.

Stephen grabbed for a bright orange PET on the desk and looked into the screen as well. Suddenly a look of shock struck across his face, Blake peered over his shoulder to see an unfamiliar navi. Definetely not Fastman.

The strange navi was wearing a long, lavender nightcap with yellow polka-dots, and a matching ball at the end. A yellow stripe on the other end of the cap held a sky blue insignia, with three letter Zs on it. The navis face was a round ball hiding underneath the tip of the cap, his eyes were closed and his mouth was just a small dot. A lavender collar was below the neck, and below it a long lightblue nightgown. With another lavender ring at the bottom, and yellow stripes on either side. From the bottom of the gown, two slipper wearing feet were visible. His yellow and lavender, striped arms hung down to his feet. The PET intruder also had a large pillow strapped to his back.

"Get out of my house, you no good little navi!"Fastman's voice could be heard from inside the PET. The orange navi tried to attack the sleeping intruder but it was useless. The navi didn't respond at all.

"What do you mean your house?"the navi yawned,"I'm Snoozeman and Uncle Jared told me to come here..." The gown clad navi threw his arms back and yawned, hitting Fastman and sending him flying. "Anyway, I'll be living here from now on..."

"Jared sent you? You mean my Uncle who works at that pillow factory?"Stephen asked curiously.

"Yeah, that Uncle Jared,"Snoozeman's naturally slow voice said.

"Are you the one behind the alarm clock incidents and Blademan falling asleep?!"Blake exclaimed, as the sleeping navi nodded. Snoozeman snapped his fingers and immediately the purple navi woke up.

"Sorry, I forgot to wake the navis up...I thought that it would be better if everyone could get some more sleep..."the lavender navi said.

At this point everyone in the room besides Snoozeman was in utter confusion. How could a random navi have enough power to keep a whole city sleeping? There many questions bouncing around in everyone's minds. Though one stood out in the NetOp's minds. "Why did Jared send him?" Stephen finally asked.

"The factory is doing very well. So Jared doesn't need me anymore...he got a new navi model and abandoned me. 'Go to my nephew he'd love a navi like you' the oaf said...and here you are being all mean to me..."the sleeping navi started,"I have no other place to go...Why can I not stay here. I could teach you the art of sleep inside in out! Yes! How about that, I teach you and if you are happy with the results,I stay. If not, I go! That will surely work!"

"The art...of sleeping?"Stephen asked.

"Yes, yes! A fine art it is!"Snoozeman replied,"just jack your navi and I in to a computer. I will then teach you how to use the power of sleep to make your navi stronger!

"Well, while you're sleeping,Stephen. I'll be training with Blademan in Net City. You never know when Blazeman or Sketchman might attack again,"the amber haired teen told Stephen.
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"Hmmm, where are those children I wonder?"the artistic navi said, as he glided through the city's cyberworld,"surely they're around here somewhere."
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"Ok, Blademan time for some netbattling, but first head to the chip shop. After seeing Sketchman we should be able to have an idea of what to use,"the jacketed teen said, aiming a purple PET into the restaurants computer. A red beam of light shot through the small port, and the purple navi was transported into the Kitchen Computer.

A purple light spun around into the shape of Blademan. A few of the working navis greeted him from the stoves. He walked through the Computer over to a yellow glowing circle on the floor. The purple navi stepped on it and was carried from the red restaurant computer to an amazing sight.

Lying before Blademan was a huge city on the internet. Tall silver skyscrapers stood tall around a huge dome, modeled after the expo center. On ground level many navis went about business at the small shops, or resting at small public squares. Looming over the small purple navi was a large silver arch. On it was a marquee reading "Welcome to Netopolis".

"I never get tired of the view of this place..."Blademan muttered to himself,"Ok Blake, Where to first?"

"Let's head to the nearest chip shop, then to the arena,"his NetOp replied. Blademan started toward the giant city standing above him. "It's nice that we got the link to the city entrance, huh?"

"Sure is,"the purple navi replied as he entered the large crowd of netnavis. Finally the chip shop came into view. "Blake, should we check Asterland?" The operator nodded, and Blademan headed through the bustling sea of navis, over to the large green chip shop.

The blade covered navi headed up toward the Asterland warp pad and was teleported into the chip shop. It was a spacious computer tiled with green and orange. The walls were lined with shelves upon shelves of battlechips. The first time that the two had come to Asterland they were simply apalled at the gigantice selection. In the center of the computer there was a pair of spiral staircases leading up to a second floor, where even more chips were held.

Blademan started to head to a red colored wall of chips, when a hand grabbed his shoulder. He turned around suddenly, holding up his arms ready to fight off the attacker.

"Blademan! I haven't seen you forever! What can I get for you today?"a green and orange navi exclaimed. The navi was named Aster, after the shop's name. He ran the Netopolis branch, and had been a friend of Blademan and Fastman for quite some time.

"Hey Aster. I'll be needing some strong battlechips,"the purple navi replied,"don't let it leak out but some new netcrime organization is causing trouble. Fastman and I will need the help of your chips to beat their navis. And I know your chips are the best, Aster,"he said with a smile.

"They sure are Blademan. Come on, I have a better way for you to get some chips than looking around this place. Come on into the back with me, I'll show you the good chips,"Aster said, wrapping his arm around the purple navi's shoulder. The green navi led his friend up one of the spiral staircases, into the even larger 2nd floor. He started walking straight toward one of the walls, a bare spot with no chips.

"What will walking into a wall do for us, Aster?" Blademan continued following Aster toward the blank wall. The navi was confused as what was going on. Finally the green navi collided with the green and orange checkered wall, to Blademan's surprise Aster started to pass right through the wall. "I see,"the confused navi followed Aster's lead.

As the purple navi passed through the checkered wall he began to see a room on the other side. The room was much darker than the others, with a single lamp giving off light. There were many walls each with battlechips displayed on them, like the rest of the store. Each wall had a symbol displayed above it. One for each battlechip type. In the center of the room was a red warp pad.

"This is my special stash of chips. They're a combination of rare chips, and best to use in battle. The warp pad leads to a practice simulator. I'm going to go ahead and give you a link to this room from your PET. You can use the simulator anytime you want, "Aster explained," I know of your ability of being able to automatically create any sword chip you've used before. So feel free to try out all the sword types you want,"he continued pointing at the wall of sword type chips.

"Wow, thanks Aster. But first, I'll need some chips for my folder. I know for a fact it isn't strong enough to fight against the navis I mentioned earlier," the purple navi replied.

"Let me see the folder...Hmmm, I see. Yes you'll definetely need new chips. I think that I can build a folder for you, so go test out some sword chips while I create it.

"Ok, I'll be back!,"Blademan exclaimed, heading toward the sword chip wall.

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"Found you, little purple navi...and once I delete you I'll be taking the link that will lead me right to your little friend!"
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Blademan stepped out of the training area, with a new arsenal of sword chips. Standing before him in the secret chip shop area was Aster. He had a strange look in his eyes, and stood completely still. In his extended hand he held a chip folder, labeled Blademan.

"Hmmm, You Ok Aster?"the purple navi asked, taking the folder and installing it to his PET.

"Get...Away..."the green navi said softly. He sounded like he was lacking air...like he was dying. Blademan's eyes widened as Aster's lifeless body began to fall. Standing behind the body was a tall blue navi. With a paintbrush for a head.

"Looks like I've found you, little navi,"Sketchman snickered. "Now hand over the data Dr.Hikari gave you and your deletion will be painless.

Blademan looked from Aster's corpse back to Sketchman with a look of hate in his eyes. The purple navi backed up a step, right into the warp pad. The navi was transported into a vast green and orange comp, with the Asterland marquee in the background. Sketchman's body began to materialize on the warp pad, and Blademan quickly jumped back dodging a large pencil.

"You're gonna pay for what you did to Aster," Blademan said in a loathing voice, "Blake. Let's try the trick Stephen used." Blake quickly nodded. "Full Synchro!"the navi and operator shouted in unison. The purple navi began to glow with power, and a bright blue ring began to twirl around his body. "Let's see what this new folder can do Blake! Battle Routine Set, Execute!"

"Hmm, it seems you've gotten a lightshow since we last met. But that can't stop me!"the navy blue navi shouted, as he jumped toward Blademan with his arms raised. When the giant paintbrush got close to the purple navi, he swung his arms down at extreme speed at Blademan.

"Reflecter!"The purple navi shouted as a shield appeared in front of him. Sketchman's attack bounced right off the shield and back at him, but he quickly made a hole with his pen leg and disappeared through it. "Full Synchro is nice after all. And it looks like Aster had some tricks up his sleeve too! You may have deleted him, but his soul is in this folder and I will avenge him Sketchman."

By this time Sketchman had raised up from his hole, and was ready to attack. "You're not the only one with fancy moves!"the giant paintbrush shouted as the balls of paint floating around him came to life. They started shooting blasts of paint at Blademan. The purple navi jumped back and quickly countered by summoning two kunai. One by one he slashed down the paint blasts.

"Twin Fang!"Blademan's kunai were instantly replaced by two ivory tusks. The purple navi through them at the artistic navi, splattering the paint balls on the way. Sketchman responded to the attack by leaping upward. His feet landed on the fangs, and before they crashed into the wall he jumped off uninjured. "Katana!"A samurai styled sword appeared before Blademan, and he took it in his hands. "Time for a rematch Sketchman."

"Very well,"Sketchman replied holding up his sharp pencil arm. The two navis began to charge at each other, ready to strike. Suddenly Sketchman spun around using his paintbrush leg to paint multiple lava tiles between the two combatants. "Fool,"the evil navi grinned.

"You think that will work again,"Blademan smiled leaping upward,"Lava Cannon!" Taking the katana in his right hand, the purple navi's left arm turned into a mini volcano that sucked up all of the lava. "Take this!" Blademan aimed the cannon, and sent a blast of magma flying toward Sketchman. The artistic navi swiped at the blast with his eraser arm, "Step Sword!"the sword wielding navi shouted teleporting beside Sketchman. Holding the katana high Blademan sliced through the eraser, cutting it clean off. The purple navi was teleported back to his original location just in time to avoid a large blast of magma.

"Excellent work taking away one of my weapons. Though your lava cannon had no effect,"Sketchman said as the smoke cleared. Standing before Blademan was a red colored Sketchman! "You have forced me to use a powerful ability. No one has ever lasted this long against me in battle. This ability works just like the viruses you fought. Whilst red I am a fire elemental and can only be hurt by water, etcetera,"the tall navi began walking slowly toward Blademan. "You stand no chance against the power of Black Crescendo!"

"We can still take you down Sketchman. But tell me this, what's Black Crescendo?"

"Why it's the name of our organization you see, not that you'll be around to spread that information,"Sketchman replied.

"Of course I will,"the purple navi said throwing a piece of data down to the floor. Suddenly the data formed a circle with Blademan's insignia on it. The katana wielding navi stepped onto the pad, leading him back to his homepage. Sketchman quickly followed him through the warp pad.

The tall red navi materialized in Blake's hompage. Standing before him was Blademan and a sleeping Fastman and Snoozeman.
"What's this? Your sleeping friends are going to stop me?"the giant paintbrush laughed.

"Good, Fastman, Good. You're learning to sleep well,"Snoozeman said slowly. The two navis slowly rose up in synchronization. "Is this a friend of yours?"the lavender navi asked, pointing at Sketchman.

"No it isn't, it's an enemy,"Fastman replied in a slow voice like Snoozeman's.

Whilst the two navi's conversation continued Blademan's fight against Sketchman heated up. "Bubble Star!"the purple navi yelled, as a giant bubble appeared in his left hand. He threw the bubble at Sketchman. Before the bubble got to him, he turned into a light blue, and popped it with the sharp pencil arm. "Dang it!"Blademan shouted, as he charged at the blue navi with his sword raised high.

"This isn't good...You have to help him Fastman...but you'll need something. The power of sleep!"the lavender navi said, "Use my power!"

"I feel the power of sleep flowing through me!"Fastman shouted, his normal voice back. Blademan and Sketchman's battle came to a halt as they sensed the power from Fastman and Snoozeman. Both navis looked to see the two standing side by side. Fastman's color scheme was beginning to change. His orange and yellow jumpsuit began to change to a light blue gown, with lavender stripes. Meanwhile Snoozeman began to glow with resonating power. His nightgown began to glow a brilliant white, along with his head. His armor started to pixelate and reform around Fastman. Fastman's boot's began to be remodeled to a slipper-like design, while his arms turned blue and started stretching down to his feet. His gloves gained a blue and lavender colorscheme. Both navi's symbols started to glow with power, as Fastman's helmets dematerialized. A long nightcap, with a yellow striped formed around Fastman's head. Snoozeman's glowing body infused itself within Fastman's insignia, as a giant pillow formed on his back. Various yellow markings began to appear across his body, as his insignia stopped glowing.

"Navi Cross! Fastman: Snooze Cross! Now bring it on Sketchman,"the voices of the two navis resonated at once.

Sketchman charged toward Fastman, but in an instant Sketchman was being grabbed by one of the lavender navi's long arms. Fastman threw the defensless Sketchman to the side.

"Hmmm, so this is the program that Dr. Hikari gave you,"Sketchman said. He didn't look it, but the artistic navi was deeply frightened of the power coming from the navi's fusion. "Now that I know what it is, I can go. Until next time!" With that the light blue Sketchman disappeared in a beam of light.

"Dang it, he got away!"Blademan shouted.

"Yeah he did,"Fastman replied as the two navis seperated again,"Could you find anything out?"

"Yep. Sketchman and Blazeman are working for an organization called Black Crescendo,"Blademan suddenly fell to the ground, tears coming from his eyes," I couldn't save him!"the purple navi shouted.

"Save who?"Fastman asked hurrying to his friend's aid.

"Aster...he's dead. Sketchman killed him..."the navi said, his katana dematerializing."From now on...I swear, I will avenge him."The navi continued slowly rising up, his sadness turning into anger, "I will delete Sketchman!!!"

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"So it's the navi cross system. You have failed me by not taking the program Sketchman. Though I will give you another chance, seeing as how you deleted that pesky chip salesman who's been interfering in our affairs. We also have a direct link to their homepage now. "

"I am sorry for not being able to retrieve the program, my lord.

"I shall give you another chance, but next time you fail. You will not be so lucky.

"Thank you, master."
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(Guess which one doesn't belong!)