SZ: *sighs as he burned the last of the scripts for the old version* There...that's the last of them.
GammaTron: It stinks that it didn't do good. I thought we did a good job with it, too.
SZ: Yeah...I guess people didn't like how we approached it in the first place. But...I still have the casting notes and such, so we can rebuild the story from scratch...though I think another reason why it did so poorly is because of where I tried to place it...couldn't' decide on either the Megaman crossover section, or the regular one.
GT: True. Well, hopefully, they'll like this improved one better. And if not? Well, someone go get Sly Cooper.
SZ: Yeah...in any case, let's start this off. Like last time, this story will take place a year or so after the events of Starforce 3, and will take place in the same universe as Gt's HeartdotBatch story.
GT: And, now this is important, we altered the timeline for the three games since, well, it felt like tech evolved too quickly for how old they were. I mean, they were just starting to use that solid denpa tech in Star Force 2 and all of a suddenly in 3, they've got AI named Wizards and all kinds of new stuff that wasn't in the other games or were too quick to have been made in such a short period of time between the two games.
SZ: That is true.
GT: Exactly. If I can set up a theory; I would say that the events of 2 and 3 are around four years apart while the events of 1 and 2 are canon in time apart, being a few months apart after the end of 1 and the start of 2 though...if Star Force 2 takes place during the summer, that means that this was one of the fastest games in terms of how long in-game time is compared to other games in the other games.
SZ: Yeah. One last thing, while we'll use some of the english names and such, there will be some japanese dialogue in here and such
GT: We'll try to add translations at the end of the chapter for people who want to know what we mean with those words.
SZ: Hai. But before we finally begin, disclaimers. Neither of us own the Megaman series, or the series we'll be using in this. We do though own any OCs and OC EM beings that'll appear in this story.
GT: Right. So let's start!
SZ: Yosh!
It was a calm, quiet day within the city of Echo Ridge, a cool calming breeze blowing through as a few clouds floated within the clear blue sky. On the Wave Road above the city, a pair of teenagers around 16 were sitting on it.
"So they're not renewing 'Lyrical High' for another season?" Megaman asked.
"Nope," Lyra Note replied, "And I'm kinda glad that it isn't. Never say that working on a TV show is easy, because I'll kick you to the curb after all the stuff that happened off-set. And I thank Lyra every single day for deleting any bloopers."
-...Ugh...bored-Omega-Xis muttered to himself.
"When there isn't a virus around for you to fight, you're always bored," Lyra rolled her eyes.
-I'm serious, you out of tune harp! Me and Geo fought world destroying entities before, and now normal Virus busting just seems so...boring now these days!-Omega-Xis complained before materializing by him, "Seriously, I don't even feel like I'm getting the equivalent of beating up a punching bag when it comes to 'fighting' those stronger G Viruses anymore."
"Maybe if you'd try to limit yourself, like use only one theme of BattleCard like Sonia and I do at times, instead of just going all out, you'll have more excitement."
"No way! I go all out no matter what!"
Megaman and Lyra Note rolled their eyes as they started to ignore the two before Megaman spoke up, "So, what do you plan to do now that you don't have to deal with television anymore."
"Well...I was thinking of just spending a year traveling Electopia," Lyra Note shrugged, "Maybe see some places I haven't really seen when traveling on the Wave Road."
"Ahh...I see," Megaman noted.
"Yeah," Lyra Note nodded, "Though...Even with Lyra, it'd kinda be lonely."
"Really?"
"Yeah," Lyra Note replied, "Maybe...Do you think you'd like to come with us?"
"Oh hell no!" Omega-Xis's bark made the two look at him, "Ever since the kid's secret got out-even though it was for a good reason-, no luck for privacy outside of the Wave Roads! It's been six months, dammit, you damn paparazzi!" he shook a fist at the sky, "I WILL FIND YOU ALL AND MAUL YOU TO DEATH, YOU VILE SPIES!"
"He hasn't been able to sneak into the lawnmower for months now," Megaman whispered, "Last time he tried, tabloids were all over it with those weird ones saying that he's a servant and not my partner...or that he's secretly a girl using a tough guy persona to hide 'her' love of gardening."
"...Snrk."
"You even laugh one time, I will personally pluck every one of your damn strings out, you damn out of tune harp," Omega-xis growled in annoyance as he glared at Lyra.
"Aw~ What's wrong? Mega can't tend to her little garden?" Lyra asked, holding back another bit of laughter.
"...okay, that's it! Come here, you harp-y!" Omega-xis snapped as he chased after Lyra, the guitar/lyre bouncing out of Lyra Note's hands and down the Wave Road, laughing loudly.
"...Why does she keep antagonizing him like that?" Megaman asked as he and Lyra Note watched the two run across the Wave Road.
"I'm not sure," Lyra Note replied, "Though… 'Harp-y'? I don't think he's trying anymore."
"I was just thinking the same," Megaman admitted.
"He must really be bored if he can't think of anything better," Lyra Note said.
"Get back here, you damn out of tune harp! I-!" Omega-Xis began before something blurred by him and Lyra, "...What the crap was that?"
"I'm not sure," Lyra replied.
"...Dibs."
"What?" Lyra looked at Omega-Xis.
"I called dibs on beating it up!" Omega-Xis declared before zipping after the blur.
"Ugh! Dumb mutt," Lyra sighed as she made her way back to where Lyra Note and Megaman were, "Omega-Xis just ran after a blur!"
"Huh? A blur?" Megaman repeated as he and Lyra Note stood up.
"That's what I said, now come one. Let's hurry after him before he ends up doing something stupid."
"..."
"..."
"...Correction: Let's hurry after him before he ends up doing something else stupid."
"Agreed."
"Alright...where did you go?" Omega-Xis muttered as he looked around for that blur, "Where are you?" he sniffed the air, "Eugh. Ech. That way!" he zipped off, "Ah-hah! There you are!" he tackled into the blur, sending both tumbling along the Wave Road, "RAWR!"
Whatever the blur was, it zipped right out of Omega-Xis grip before dodging a round of plasma shots.
"Mega!" Megaman called as he and Lyra Note skidded to a halt beside the AM-Ian.
"I have no idea what it is. It smells like ashes, soot, blood, and brimstone. ...I love it!" Omega-Xis grinned, his body twitching, "An unknown opponent...Finally, some excitement! Like that weird transmission wave I found last week said…" he shot off at the blur, jumping on it, "IKUZE! IKUZE! IKUZE!"
"...Okay, we have got to make him see a doctor," Lyra Note sweatdropped.
"Agreed," Megaman nodded slowly as the blur zoomed past them, almost crashing into them before it came to a stop.
The blur turned to be a strange looking pitch black sphere that seemed to have some crimson-red data lines on it with black flame-like denpa floating off it as it hovered. Behind it appeared to be a small cube that was covered in the same flames, some of them dripping onto the Wave Road, almost like ink. All the while, Omega-Xis was clawing and biting on the sphere, attempting to break it open. It spun around like a top, sending Omega-Xis crashing into the Wave Road.
"WHOO!" Omega-Xis whooped, "Come on! Come on, you stupid beach ball! Bring it on!" his jaw dropped as he watched the sphere fly off, "HEY! GET BACK HERE! I HAVE SIX MONTHS OF REPRESSED ANGER TO SHED AND YOU ARE MY VENTING BALL!"
The sphere seemed to ignore him as it zipped off through the Wave Road, leaving black trails in its wake as it zoomed off. Omega-Xis shot off after the sphere with Megaman and Lyra Note quick in pursuit.
"Grr...come here, you…!" Omega-Xis growled as he inched closer to the sphere before grabbing, "Gotcha! Now you...something's burning…" he sniffed the air before looking down, a burning sensation in his hands as the flame-like denpa the sphere produced seemed to flare a bit, "...Hot...hot! HOT! HOT! HOT!" he threw the sphere onto the ground and began to blow of his claws to try to extinguish the fire on them, "Why you…! Hm?" he looked down to see the small cube that had been covered in flames, "...Ah...I see now." The sphere lunged for the cube only for Omega-Xis to bat it away, "Hah! Now you've gotta fight me!" the sphere slammed into him as it flew after the cube, "Oh come on!"
"I think we lost them," Megaman noted.
"Ohh...That mutt…!" Lyra growled in annoyance before the cube landed in Lyra Note's hand, "...Where did this come from?"
"I...don't know…" Lyra Note replied, blinking a bit as she looked at the cube in her hand, "...I think th-"
"Uh...Sonia?" Megaman spoke up, catching her attention as he pointed forward, causing her to look to see the sphere Omega-Xis was chasing charging right at her, the lines on it reforming into a single, glaring 'eye' as the black flames flared off it.
"What is that?!" Lyra Note yelped, jumping out of the way of the sphere's tackle at her.
"I don't know, but it looks mad!" Lyra shouted as Lyra Note quickly rolled out of the way, causing the sphere to miss again.
"Predation: Cannon!" Megaman declared before his left arm/hand shifted into a cannon and fired at the sphere. However, much to his shock, the blast bounced off the sphere before disintegrating, "What the...?!"
The sphere began to spin in place rapidly, the flames surrounded it shifting into a semi-large saw as it charged right at the two, cutting up the Wave Road as bits and pieces of it burned away from the black flames. The two jumped out of the way and onto separate parts of the Wave Roads.
"...Maybe some water will put those flames out," Lyra Note guessed as she pulled out a chip, "Predation: Aqua shot!"
The sphere stopped spinning in place as it quickly turned around, seeing Sonia fire of a blast of water at it. However, once the water seemed to get close, it began to evaporate as the black flame-like denpa surrounding the sphere flared a bit.
"What the...not even water works on it?" Lyra pondered.
"Just what is this thing?" Megaman pondered as Omega-Xis finally got over.
"You stupid thing!" Omega-Xis shook a fist at the sphere, "You're pissing me off!"
The sphere ignored him as it glared at Sonia and charged at her again.
"Hey! Don't ignore me, you…!" Omega-Xis began before he noticed the cube in Lyra Note's hand when she charged the sphere's charge again, "Hey! That's the cube I threw!"
"You what?" Megaman looked at him.
"I thought it'd fight me if I threw it away," Omega-Xis replied.
"So you're the reason why it keeps aiming for us?!" Lyra snapped as Lyra Note dodged another dodge from the sphere, "I….you...mutt….!"
"Man...That thing really wants that cube badly," Omega-Xis noted, "..." he began to tap his jaw in thought, "..."
"You are not eating it!" Megaman bonked Omega-Xis on the head.
"Ow! Fine…" Omega-Xis muttered as he rubbed his head, "...Still...why the hell is that cube so damn important? ...I betcha there's something in it or something."
"Probably," Megaman nodded.
"...Only one way to find out," Omega-Xis said as he turned towards Lyra Note, who was yelping as she kept dodging the sphere, "Oi! Try and break that cube in your hand!"
"What?" Lyra Note blinked before jumping over the sphere, "This cube?"
"Yes! That damn bowling ball is hellbent on getting that thing for some reason, and I bet there's something important inside! So again, break that thing open!"
"Lyra?" Lyra Note asked.
"This thing is rather insistent on getting it back," Lyra noted as the two jumped over another attack, "Best listen for now."
"Right! Predation: Break Saber!"
The sphere 'growled' as the flames grew and charged right towards Lyra Note, intent on taking the cube back.
"Sonia...Hurry," Lyra whispered to Lyra Note as the sphere came closer and closer to her.
Lyra Note swung down and struck the cube with her sword. The cube cracked where the sword hit, releasing a light that made the sphere move away quickly, smoke coming off its body.
"...This light… What is…?" Lyra Note began as the cube started to crack more, causing the sphere to 'hiss' as it dashed off into the distance, just barely avoiding the exploding flash of light that followed once the cube shattered.
"Sonia!" Megaman grunted, blocking the light as best he could with his arm.
Lyra Note winced as she was engulfed by the flash of light, shielding her eyes as it engulfed the entire area around her and Megaman. She was barely able to crack an eye open to see bits of red mixed in the blinding light, almost as if it were trying to compliment the pure white. Another thing she noted was the light...it felt...warm, calming...soothing, almost like a mother's touch. She reached out and her hand touched a few of the red lines in the light. The lines swirled before bits of the white light and the touched swirls suddenly swirled and shot at her right in the chest. She gave a cry of surprise as she fell over as the remaining light split up into different directions. By the time the rest of the light had faded away, Lyra Note groaned on the Wave Road, her head feeling as if something had hit her with a jackhammer.
"Sonia! Sonia, are you alright?!" Megaman called out as the light began to slowly fade.
"Ugh…" Lyra Note moaned.
"She doesn't look too good," Omega-Xis noted as he floated over.
"Yeah…" Megaman nodded as he picked her up, putting a hand on her forehead, "...She's burning up."
"Yo, Lyra, you okay?" Omega-Xis asked.
"Ugh…"
"Yeah, she's okay," Omega-Xis nodded before Lyra Note split into Sonia and Lyra, "What the-?!"
Megaman barely caught Sonia before she could fall all the way through the Wave Road. He managed to get her into both his arms and felt her body was warmer than normal.
"...Let's get her back to my place," Megaman suggested.
"Right," Omega-Xis nodded, picking up Lyra, "Wow. Even Lyra's burning up."
"Ugh...hot…" Sonia and Lyra moaned quietly as Megaman and Omega-Xis carried them off.
Elsewhere, within a dense forest like area, a fox-like EM being hovered within the mist that covered the area. The radiation of its body was a darker shade of red-orange while black armor shaped like a fox covered it.
"Ugh...stupid planet...can't even look straight without hitting something," the fox muttered in a female voice as it tried to swat the mist away from its face, "Damn that Megaman..changing our King like that...I've been stuck on this stupid planet for...3-4 years now!" she sighed, "Oh, how our King has fallen. We were fine the way we were, but he just changed! Now he wants to make peace w-"
Just then, she barely noticed something hovering above at high speed, the fox faintly noticing what look like black flame-like denpa. She narrowed her eyes as she began to follow it, feeling something...familiar with it. As she followed it, the mist seemed to get denser and denser, the fox like EM-Being determined to figure out where that thing was heading. As she kept going deeper in the fog, it started to grow darker and darker, the mist starting to die down a bit as dead trees were slowly revealed one by one.
"...Now where am I?" the fox asked herself quietly as she looked around, "This place looks like it's devoid of any life." she giggled, "Ah...I hope to see what caused this. Such a lovely thing I could use as an illusion."
It was then she heard it...faint growling coming from the distance. But it wasn't like that of a lion or bear...more like that of a dragon...or a demon. As she skidded to a halt, she could see it...a large cave-like shrine, faint trails of dark denpa (at least she assumed it was denpa) flowing out from the entrance. It reminded her of when she first saw Andromeda...but far more...darker ...more...powerful than Andromeda had been.
"..." the Fox gave a slight gulp, the EM-Being wanting to leave and get far away from this place, but...something was calling out to her in that cave. Was it that thing that owned those black-denpa like flames, or was it something else? "...I can't believe I'm doing this…"
Taking a long deep breath, the fox floated into the cave-like shrine, the EM-Being feeling more of that dark 'Denpa' floating within it.
"...blinded…"
The fox froze as she looked around. W...Was that the wind just now?
"...rage…"
The fox froze once more when she heard it, feeling intense amount of malice and darkness within. She shook her head and went in deeper.
"...delusional…"
She shook her head and kept pressing ahead. It was just the wind...it was just the wind…
"...lust...greed…"
"It's just the wind, Vulpecula….it's just...the w-" the fox began with a whisper, trying to calm herself down before she bumped into something.
She moved back and looked at what she had run into. It was a tombstone made of pure obsidian. Looking around, she saw she had reached the end of the tunnel, revealing a massive chamber with the broken ceiling exposing the darkened skies and the barely visible moon above, giving a dark illumination to the chamber. Moss and fungus had overgrown what had once been a wrecked shrine of sorts behind the tombstone. Looking at it, she could make out faint markings of eight snakes intertwined with one another...no, wait. It wasn't eight snakes, but a single body with eight heads and eight tails. She looked at it and saw pure white ropes wrapped around the tombstone, looking as if they had been made that very day, a soft glow coming from them.
"...What is this?" the fox whispered as she looked at the tombstone and shrine before reaching to the ropes and yelped as something from the ropes slammed her into a wall, "Gah!"
A faint chuckle came out of nowhere, yet everywhere, "...those like we are unable to touch something so 'holy' and 'divine' as these ropes."
"?!" the fox tensed as she looked around for the voice, "Wh...who said that?"
"We who...are considered 'impure'...to be 'taint' on existence…" the voice continued, "We who embrace what...existence...truly is…"
"...I-I'm serious! Who said that?!" the fox demanded, though in truth...she was scared to her very core just from the voice alone.
"Even if you try to lie to yourself...you know what I speak of...what it truly is out there…"
The fox couldn't say anything further...or rather, she couldn't. The voice...that black 'denpa'...it was truly full of malice...darkness...alluring.
"It would seem...I've driven you...into silence...kitsune..." the voice noted, "...So much within you…"the fox blinked, "Perhaps….we could help….each other out…"
"..."
"You...have been slighted," it continued, "Your cause taken from you."
"...I...It was not supposed to be like this!" she finally spoke, "We were in the right! We were the strongest and they were and still are a threat to our home! But...But our king was blinded! Those things...those humans... changed him, blinded him to our greatness! Abandoned our old way, the true ways!"
"Such strong malice towards those beneath you…"
"Of course they are beneath me! None of them can touch me nor truly fight me," the fox growled, a fire in her eyes, "But I could hurt them and give them a taste of my kind's true glorious ways instead of the 'new' and 'better' ways our king has been blinded by!"
"And yet, you are unable to do so. They have surprised you with their power over the last decade since your kind has first learned of this place."
The fox clenched her fists, her thoughts flashing to a human wearing what she considered a freak of nature and actually sending her into a retreat the one time she tried when she managed to get to this planet.
"...Quite interesting how they've come so far. Humans are far more dangerous than one could believe, but they are still meager pests…interfering with what is true..."
"That thing he used on me… That 'Wizard' was nothing more than a pathetic and disgusting mockery of my kind and yet…"
"Such malice in your voice now…" the shadows seemed to flicker, "For so long, you must have held it all in, unable to fully release it, even with your attempt to prove your glory."
"...It's true," the fox frowned, "All this rage...all this hate...I'll do anything to get back at the ones who blinded my king...to destroy those 'Wizards'...to show those humans their place!"
"Very well…" the shadows shifted about, earning the fox's attention as they became an island, "Upon this land, beneath its crust, another shrine such as this lies. Go to there and receive a blessing from me."
"...If this will help me in my goal, then of course," the fox nodded as the EM-Being flew off.
"...Soon...this world will see darkness once more...the Sun Goddess is weak, and the Fudegami remain asleep unaware of my emissaries corrupting them…" the voiced growled as the sphere Megaman and Lyra Note faced flew into the area, delving into the shadows, "Hmm..." the sphere suddenly shot out of the shadows and slammed into a wall, a piece of the 'ceiling' landing on it, "YOU FOOL! WHERE IS IT?!" the shadows seemed to dance in a frenzy, "YOU HAVE ONLY BROUGHT ME THE ARTS, NOT THE ARTIST!" the shadows died down, "...Do not fail me again when the artist returns. Obtain the artist at all costs, even your very essence is laid upon succeeding."
"A virus that looks like a sphere?"
Hope looked up from putting a cold cloth on Sonia's forehead as she laid in the guest bed and at her husband and son.
"Yeah. It...It was strange," Geo replied to his father's question, "Nothing we tried was working on it. We tried water attacks on it since we assumed it was a fire type virus, but the water just evaporates on contact."
"I think I've got blisters from grabbing it," Omega-Xis noted, "And I can't even develop blisters."
"Must have been some intense heat that virus was generating," Kelvin noted, "And it was carrying a little box?"
"Yeah. I kept trying to wallop it good and then it dropped the box and started chasing it all over when I threw it away," Omega-Xis snorted.
"Uh-huh…" Kelvin nodded slowly as Hope gave Omega-Xis a disappointed look, "Keep talking, Geo."
"Right...and this is the strange part. When Sonia managed to open the box...it released a bright light, causing the sphere to flee like it was being burnt."
"...So it was some sorta vampire only to extremely bright lights?" Omega-Xis scratched his head before flinching at the glare from Hope that had evolved from the disappointed look.
"So what happened when the light faded?" Kelvin asked, "Well...aside from the obvious with your friends."
"Well...They collapsed and lost their wave change," Geo replied, "I caught Sonia before she could fall through the wave road we were on while Omega-Xis picked up Lyra and we came here as fast as we could."
"I see…" Kelvin noted as he looked over at Sonia, who was panting heavily as sweat poured off her face.
"Hot...ahh~ hot…" Sonia panted.
"The cloth's already dried," Hope realized.
-Hot….really hot~- Lyra panted heavily from the VG Hunter.
Kevin held a hand to Sonia's VG Hunter on the nightstand before moving back, "Yow. That's a strong heat coming off that."
"Sonia…" Geo whispered in worry as he looked at the panting redhead.
"I'll go call Dr. Goodall and see if she can take a look at the girls," Kelvin noted as he went out, "She knows more about Wave Change than I do and I'm half EM radiation."
"Geo, can you get me a large mixing bowl of cold water and ice from the kitchen?" Hope asked as she looked at the empty small bowl by her side and the cloth on Sonia's head, "We need to break her fever."
"Got it," Geo nodded as he hurried downstairs to the kitchen.
"And I'll go check on the out-of-tune h-" Omega-Xis began before getting a stern look from Hope, "...Lyra."
"Make sure to eat some ice-themed BattleCards before you do to try to cool her down," Hope ordered.
"Yeah, yeah," Omega-Xis waved her off while swiping the offered cards from her and eating them, "?!" he held his head with a shudder, "Brain freeze…"
"Get going!" Hope ordered.
"Yes, ma'am!" Omega-Xis yelped as he went into Sonia's VG Hunter -Feels like that time I skimmed the sun near Planet FM in here, only without any plasma and fire-
-How do you...think...I feel~?- Lyra asked with a heavy pant.
-No idea. Now hold still and let me burp on you-
Hope resisted the urge to facepalm as she pulled Sonia's hoodie off. She was about to move some hair off of Sonia's face before she let out a small whimper/moan, the redhead starting to toss and turn a bit.
-Oi! Stand still you...huh?- Omega-Xis barked before stopping -Uh...are you evolving or something?-
"Evolving?" Hope repeated, looking over at the VG Hunter.
-Well, when we're able to handle enough energy, AM-Ians and FM-Ians have a rare, rare, rare chance of changing in some way- Omega-Xis replied. -And right now...it's happening to Lyra here...though I don't understand why it's so goddamn hot in here! In fact, I think it's getting hotter!-
"Hotter?" Hope repeated before Sonia let out a loud gasp, earning her attention, "Sonia?" she moved over to her and noticed something, "?"
Sonia panted, her eyes squeezed shut as she was grabbing the sheets under her tight. A small glow was coming off the middle of her chest, directly over her heart. Hope opened her white buttoned shirt to see a heart in the shape of red swirls appear on where the light was coming from.
"Hot-hot-hot-hot-hot-hot-hot!" Omega-Xis freaked as he jumped out of the VG Hunter, his armor steaming, "Too hot in there!" sparks came off the VG Hunter, "And it's getting too hot for the VG Hunter, too!"
"Did something happen to Lyra?" Hope asked.
"You mean aside from her emanating the heat of a dwarf star in there? Yeah, she's gone pure white in color," Omega-Xis replied.
"Pure-white?" Hoep repeated.
"Yeah," Omega-Xis replied before looking at Sonia, "...Wait. Can humans evolve as well? Because I never saw that on her before. Then again, I've never seen her without that hoodie on or in something that covered the upper half of her body, even at the beach."
"That just appeared on her while you were in there," Hope explained.
"I've got the iced water and…" Geo began as he came before blushing and looking away from Sonia and her exposed pale-blue bra, "My, this is a new painting, mom."
"Geo, focus!" Hope ordered, picking up the mixing bowl filled with iced water and began to dunk the cloth into it before putting it on Sonia's head, "She's still burning up."
"So's her VG Hunter," Omega-Xis added as he pointed to the semi-melted VG Hunter, "...In fact, I think she may need to get a new one."
"Lyra's that hot?" Geo asked.
"...I didn't know you swung that way," Omega-Xis joked before Hope and Geo glared at him, "...Okay, okay. In all seriousness, I had to get out because she was burning up like a dwarf star." he turned to the VG Hunter before inhaling and letting out a loud exhale, freezing it in a block of ice as big as the bedside table, "There we go. That outta cool her off for a bit."
"Ahh….ahh…." Sonia panted.
"Geo, go get me a few more rags," Hope ordered.
"On it," Geo nodded as he rushed downstairs once more.
"Should I burp on her?" Omega-Xis asked.
"Omega-Xis…" Hope gave a warning voice while pulling a stylus out of her pocket.
"Okay! Okay! Light breeze!" Omega-Xis held his hands up with wide eyes before lightly blowing on Sonia, the ice BattleCards still in effect, before he rushed for the window and opened it.
Sonia gave a small gasp when she felt the cold air touch her skin, her hands gripping the sheets tightly once more as her legs squirmed a bit. Hope began to lightly clean the sweat off Sonia with a wet cloth, quickly dunking it back into the cold ice water and then put it on her forehead again once she was done.
"I'm back…" Geo panted as he came back into the room, holding a few rags in his arms, "These were all I could find."
"Good. Now help me lay them on her after dunking them into the water," Hope ordered.
"Wh-What?"
"She says she wants you t-" Omega-xis began.
"I heard what she said, Omega!" Geo argued, a bit of a blush on his face.
"Geo, focus! I-" Hope began when she reached for the cloth on Sonia's forehead, her eyes widening in realization, "...it's already dry again. Omega-Xis, keep the cold on her. Geo, come here and help with the cloths."
"Right/Gotcha," Geo and Omega-Xis nodded as they followed Hope's instructions.
"Good. Geo, take care of keeping the one of her forehead cold and wet," Hope ordered, giving him the dry cloth before she began to apply the others on various parts of her body once she dunked them in the water.
"MMff~ Ahh…" Sonia gasped out once the wet cloths made contact with her, a bit of steam starting to come off the moment the cloths touched her.
"Sh...she's that hot?" Geo asked.
"I would suggest we take her to a hospital, but…"
"Yeah. Bad idea with all those paparazzi still out and about," Geo frowned.
"He's not joking," Omega-Xis spoke up, pausing from blowing cold air on Sonia, "The moment we step out, those vultures will be on us within an instant."
Hope nodded.
-Ugh...get...me outta here!- Lyra's voice shouted from the VG Hunter, the ice around nearly completely melted as the EM Being floated out of it, the VG Hunter melting into a puddle of sparking liquid metal, "Ugh...finally...some air."
"Huh...She's not burning anymore," Omega-Xis sighed in relief.
"Uh...Lyra? What happened to your color?" Geo asked, re-wetting the cloth and putting it back on Sonia's forehead.
"Hmm?" Lyra blinked as she looked in a nearby mirror, blinking as she noticed that she was no longer her usual baby-blue color, but now a pure white, "Did I...evolve?"
"Seems like it," Omega-Xis noted, "Though...It's kinda weak. I mean, I was expecting something...you know...more than a pallet swap." Lyra punched him, sending him out the open window and into the distance, "GAH!"
"...I was going for a light punch," Lyra admitted as Geo and Hope looked at her with wide eyes, "...No, seriously. I did not expect that to happen."
"...Uh…" Geo began before Sonia let out a really loud gasp, getting everyone's attention as the redhead tossed and turned on the bed, "Sonia!"
Sonia grit her teeth as her entire body felt like it was on fire, like she was standing on the sun itself. Hope reached to wet the cloths only to realize they were out of water. She scooped some of the ice into one of the cloths and tied it before putting the makeshift ice bag on her forehead. Sonia panted as she felt the ice sorta relieve the heat, but...her body still felt like it was on fire..like it was changing in someway.
"..Uh...should that be doing that?" Omega-Xis asked, pointing to the 'heart' on Sonia's chest as it glowed a bit.
"She has a tattoo?" Geo asked, finally noticing it.
"It appeared while you were downstairs getting me some water," Hope explained.
"Uh...The ice evaporated," Omega-Xis noted, "She's not going to get as hot as a dwarf star, is she?"
"How is she still alive?" Hope whispered, "Her body must be well over the fatal 108 degrees."
"Sonia…" Lyra whispered in worry before she quickly noticed something, "...Is she...getting taller?"
"Taller?" the others repeated.
"I'm...not sure," Hope replied, "Go get me a measurer."
"Huh?"
"Remember the last time Sonia visited before that last crisis happened?" Hope reminded.
"Oh yeah. Before she started her TV career," Geo recalled, "You and her went out for a day and came back with a lot of bags."
"We went out shopping thanks to that raffle I won and I remember just how tall she was when we had to get measured for this one store that did custom outfits with customer secrecy," Hope explained, "Now hurry and get me a tape measurer. Omega-Xis, stay here and keep up the ice themed BattleCards."
"Right," Geo nodded as he handed Omega-Xis a folder filled with the ones they collected virus busting.
"Got it," Omega-Xis replied, taking out most of the ice themed BattleCards and ate them before he resumed blowing cool air on Sonia.
"Just hang in there, Sonia," Lyra encouraged.
"L...Lyra…" Sonai panted before grunting a bit, feeling her arms and legs strain a bit, as if they were stretching out.
"I'm right here," Lyra assured, "Don't worry...everything's gonna be okay…"
"...L...Lyra…" Sonia panted, managing to open one eye to look at her friend, "Y...you look...different."
"Yeah...I've noticed," Lyra gave a small forced giggle.
"H...hot….tight…"
"Hmm? Tight?" Lyra repeated.
"My clothes...starting to feel tight..."
"Oh," Lyra blinked twice.
"I am so glad she doesn't wear any metal materials on her clothes," Hope muttered as she managed to pull off all but Sonia's bra and panties.
"I've got the ta…" Geo began as he ran into before turning around and out, tossing the measurer to Lyra, "I did not see anything!"
"Woah!" Lyra yelped as she caught the measurer, "...Uh, here ya go, Hope."
"Thank you," Hope nodded.
"You sure it's a good idea right now? I mean, she's giving off a ton of heat," Omega-Xis warned as he floated back in, "Even with me blowing on her."
"Which is why I'll wait once the heat finally dies down," Hope responded.
"Ahh…" Omega-Xis noted, "Right."
"Ahh….ahh…" Sonia panted.
The glow faded from the heart-shaped tattoo on her before her body slumped. Omega-Xis stopped his breathing and Hope quickly checked Sonia's temperature.
"...Oh thank goodness," Hope sighed in relief, "Her fever broke." she proceeded to measure Sonia, "Oh my...She's as tall as me now!"
"Huh?" Lyra and Omega-Xis questioned.
"When we went out, I had a good two feet above her and last time we talked, she was just a foot and a half," Hope noted, "Now we're the same height."
"Wh...what?" Sonia asked as she managed to sit up, opening her eyes to look in a mirror, "?! What happend to my clothes?!"
"I don't think they'll fit right now," Lyra noted.
"I'll go get some spare clothes I have," Hope ran out, "Geo, don't go in there."
"Not a problem," Geo replied, keeping his back to the door while focusing on just the picture of the wall.
"Okay...I tried to get a hold of Dr. Goodall a-" Kelvin began as he walked back upstairs, blinking when he saw Geo's back against the door, "...Is everything okay in there?"
"Yeah. Yeah, everything's fine. Just, uh...Just don't go in there," Geo replied.
"...o...kay…?" Kelvin raised a brow in confusion at that.
"EEK!" Sonia screamed before Omega-Xis screamed as he phased through the wall and then the next wall.
"...Guess Lyra remembered Omega-Xis was in there," Geo noted.
"You didn't peek, did you?" Hope asked as she ran by and into the room.
"Nope," Geo replied.
"No," Kelvin replied before Hope closed the door, "...Did, uh, why was your mother carrying some of her spare clothes?"
"I dunno!" Geo quickly replied, a blush on his face.
SZ: Hoo...this chapter is finished finally, but...wow.
GT: Eeyup. A lot happened for a good new beginning.
SZ: Yup.
GT: Well, this does seem like a good first chapter, though I do wonder if someone was able to make sure her info was saved before the VG Hunter melted.
SZ: I hope so too, and I hope this will do much better than the first draft of our story.
GT: Agreed. Who knows? *shrugs* But still, I hope that we get some great reviews on this story.
SZ: I hope so too. Anyways readers, we hope you enjoyed this chapter and such, and stay tuned for the next chapter of Rising Sun!
GT: Until then, I am GammaTron…
SZ: And I am Seanzilla115, and we bid you all a good day.
GT: We bid you adieu. *bows*