Captain's Log: Net date, 44 micro cycles
Megaman's entry:
"Nothing sited since cycle 32. The Fire Wall is now up and running with peak efficiency. I have still requested that Protoman and the other security Navi's patrol the outskirts up to the Digi-Desert. He still hates that I was chosen as Captain, Haha…"
End Entry.
Captain's Log: Net date, 56 micro cycles
Megaman's entry:
"Fire Wall is still operating up to specs. Trace viruses were found near the Digi-Desert, Second-in-Command Protoman (I told him he'd get that promotion.) eradicated the minimal threat before it reached the Fire Wall. Net City has been given new residents, specifically those from the human's popular recreational activities and music. So far they have adjusted well to the new location, odd Programs though, I would know, I WAS one of them, Protoman too."
End Entry.
Captain's Log: Net date, 88 micro cycles
Megaman's entry:
"An unusual amount of viruses appeared near the Fire Wall. Navi Police and Second-in-Command Protoman disposed of them, though with some complications. Some of Navi Police became infected with a strange virus that rewrote or destroyed they're programming. We will mourn their loss…"
End Entry.
Second Log: Net date, 92 micro cycles
Protoman's entry:
"Another large mass of viruses. We've lost more Navi's due to the strange virus strand. Today, however, they were not destroyed, they were rewritten. The pain of having to fight one of my own was, and still is, unbearable. I will truly miss them."
End Entry.
Captain's Log: Net date, ?
Entry:
"Mass outbreak of viruses…Can-…Protoman…Rewritten…Emergency Wall is up…Net City…Can…Not…Know…"
Program has initiated a Force End.
Rewriting all Entries…complete.
Log Deleted.
Net City was always a bustling city, and still is. The many Programs going about their daily business, while others hurried to their workspace to start their Function. Families out to see the sites of Net City and the Net Zoo. Mother's carried their baby Programs, child Programs following shortly after. Everything was alive with color; reds, blues, greens, oranges, purples, any color imaginable. One Program dashed through the colorful crowd, his electric red circuitry disguising him as a literal blur of red. He stopped before a highway of speeding vehicles and began jogging in place, his wild black hair tinged with the same electric red on the ends bounced with each step. "C'mon c'mon! Hurry up and pass!" He hissed. The vehicles came to a sudden stop as Programs filled the crosswalk; the boy became a red blur as he charged down the streets, "Maybe I can try that thing he showed me…" The boy thought as he ran. He tapped on a button on the gauntlet he wore and watched as his circuitry changed from red to a deep pink, two orbs of energy began to float around the boy, his face broke into a prideful grin before he leapt off the ground to an impossible height. "YEAH-HA-HA! This is awesome!" the boy dashed off the side of a nearby building to gain more speed before catching a post and began swinging. He swung around for a bit before leaping off of the post and grinding off of a rail. The boy leapt off the rail before it came to its end and jumped off another building before dashing off to another. "This is great! It's one heck of a-What?!" The boy began to fall at a terrifyingly increased rate. "This is it! Goodbye world! Wait, NO! THIS CAN'T BE IT! I NEVER HAD MY FIRST KISS!" The boy shouted. The ground rushed up to meet him faster and faster still before he felt a tugging. He looked up to see that his shirt had gotten caught on a nearby sign. "Phew! That would've been messy!" He unhooked himself from the sign and landed swiftly onto the ground. He patted his electric red circuit lined shorts and tightened the gauntlet on his left arm. "Must not have enough power yet…" he then began running at a faster speed than before. "Gotta…make it!" He said through his teeth. Soon the boy came to a halt near a large expansive building. He hurried inside and made a beeline for the front desk. "I'm…I'm here!" He gasped out.
"You're late…Again Mister Masaomi. Chief won't be happy."
"What do you care? You're a Receptionist Program."
"And you're a Word Program." The lady countered. The boy faltered before scowling.
"I'm a damn good Word Program!" he said as he stormed to the elevator. He slammed the button marked "4" and waited for the doors to close. Before they closed completely, he stuck his tongue out for the lady to see. She made a face and the doors shut. The boy giggled at this and awaited the arrival to the fourth floor. "Stupid lady. As if being a Word Program wasn't as bad as it already was. I'd rather do what those New Programs do…" The boy thought. The elevator dinged and the doors opened up. The boy walked to his workspace and flipped a switch. Four cables appeared and attached themselves to the boy's arms and legs.
Enter ID…
"I.D. 25967. Ichiro Masaomi." The boy groaned.
Checking… I.D. Recognized.
Welcome Ichiro.
"Status report."
Eight new documents have been added. Three require spelling checks.
Incoming call from Mr. Hidane…
"Patch it through…" The boy, Ichiro, sighed. He knew where this was headed.
"ICHIRO! Why are you late again!?"
"S-sir, I had a slight technical malfunction this morning…"
"Where you messing with those new Programs again?!"
Uh-Yes sir…"
"What have I told you? You aren't to speak with them!"
"But sir..!"
"If you won't listen to that while I'm your boss, then maybe you will while I am your father. I don't want you hanging out with those Programs. You have your Function and they have theirs. Understand?"
"Yes Dad…"
"Good, now back to work son."
Call ended.
"This sucks." Ichiro said to no one in particular. He began scanning the three documents that his station mentioned and started making corrections. Hours ticked by before Ichiro's shift ended. "I.D. 25967 Ichiro Masaomi. Work Status: Complete." He said to his station.
Recognized.
Have a nice day Ichiro.
"Like it could be…" He mumbled. He stopped by his father's office and bid him goodbye, something Ichiro regretted because of the long boring speech he was given about not talking to the new Programs. Minutes later, Ichiro stood outside of the large building where he worked. He sighed and decided that the best place for him to go at the moment would be Net City Park. On the way he passed many of his New Program friends, including a boy with brown spiky hair, another with long silver hair, and a girl with auburn hair, he stopped to briefly speak with a girl with two long green ponytails, and bought some food for two blonde haired twins, one girl and one boy. Finally Ichiro reached Net City Park. "What to do now…"
"Ichiro! Hey!" A voice called out, Ichiro turned to see a girl of about seventeen years of age, and she wore white shorts that had royal purple circuitry on the edges, a loose-fitted tank top with the same circuit coloring on the edges and simple looking tennis shoes. Around her neck bounced a pair of white headphones. She stopped near the bench that Ichiro had decided to relax on and brushed some of the extremely dark brown hair out of the way of her eyes, leaving just her side-swept bangs.
"Hi Isabel, what brings you to Net City Park? I thought you'd still be working?"
"Nah, something's caused the Media Tower to fail, Repair Programs are there now, but they told us to leave so we don't get whatever's wrong with the Tower." The girl, Isabel explained. "So why are you here? Shouldn't you be hanging out with your New Program friends?"
"Dad's not letting me. So here I am. Hey, where's Kaname?" Out of the blue, a small hand had smacked Ichiro on the back of his head. Ichiro grabbed the back of his head where a knot began forming. Isabel began laughing at Ichiro while the small girl walked over to her and kicked her sharply in the shin. Isabel gasped out and began rolling on the ground. Ichiro saw this and busted out laughing.
"Stop laughing, both of you." The small girl said, she ran her small hand through her medium length pale gray hair and let the ends fall into small curls. Her pink skirt was lined with bright white circuitry, just like her sleeveless turtle neck and pink boots. She tightened her fingerless gloves and pulled her white leggings up a bit more. "And what are you two doing here anyways? You," She jabbed a finger at Isabel, "are supposed to be working. And you," She jabbed her finger again, but this time at Ichiro, "should be with your New Program friends."
"Media Tower failed."
"Dad's not letting me." They said simultaneously. The trio then engaged in a long conversation on whether or not boys could handle the jobs that most female Programs did: Appliance Shopping, with it being two versus one, Ichiro was losing without any effort, despite all the energy he was putting into the argument. The conversation then jumped from topic to topic before it was interrupted by a loud explosion. The trio looked to see the Media Tower on fire, the crater that had appeared belched out black smoke.
"Aw man…That's where my work station is…" Isabel said, clearly depressed about the state of her work place.
"C'mon, let's check it out!" Ichiro said, not waiting for an answer, the young teen dashed to the Tower. He looked back to see Isabel following not too far behind, "Where's Kaname?" he soon felt a sudden weight on his back as he turned to come face to face with the same girl.
"Running isn't my thing." Was her only response, soon the three arrived at the Media Tower. The ground level was in total chaos, Programs were running as if their very lives depended on it. Kaname jumped down and grabbed one of the running Programs.
"What are you doing?!"
"What happened here?" Kaname said, clearly unfazed by the male Programs harshness.
"There's a monster infecting the Media Tower, it's a large writhing mass of numbers, and the eyes…the eyes were a piercing red that seemed to stare into your very SOUL. Some guy tried to fight it, but he was erased the moment it touched him!" The man explained. Kaname nodded and let the man resume his screaming panic.
"This is so cool! But, where are the New Programs at? This is in some of their programming, so shouldn't they be fighting?" Ichiro questioned no one in particular.
"Come on, I know a back entrance." Isabel said, gesturing to the back of the large building, the others followed her to a sealed door where she placed her palm onto the locked scanner. "I.D. 23869. Isabel Namagishi."
Checking….Confirmed.
WARNING!
Worker Isabel Namagishi's work station is corrupted, any use will result in infection. Continue?
"Yes." The door then opened with a mechanical whir and the three dashed in and began to climb stairs.
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.
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"Kaname, get off me…you're making this harder than it usually is!"
"It doesn't matter, I can see it up ahead, and I think it knows we're here." She replied. Once the trio got to the 40th floor, they saw what the male Program from earlier mentioned. A large mass of squirming numbers, two sectioned seemed to form tentacles, and the two piercing red eyes. The thing roared before striking at Isabel, but before the tentacle made contact, she was thrown aside by Ichiro, who took the brute of the attack.
"NOOO!" She cried, Isabel ran to find the young boy unconscious, but not fading, instead he began to glow with a dark aura. She reared her fist back in an attempt to strike at the creature, but was caught off guard by the second tentacle, which had gotten her between the shoulder blades. She too, crumpled to the ground and gave off the same dark aura.
"You're not getting me too!" Kaname said with defiance, the creature roared again before lashing its tentacles at the small girl. Her stature gave her an advantage in dodging the attacks, but she too was soon caught across the hip by one of the deadly tentacles. She hit the ground and gave off the same dark aura. The creature roared once more before attempting to finish the three unconscious Programs.
"Battle Card: Break Saber!" Came a voice, the tentacle that had lashed out was soon met by a beige colored blade surrounded by a blue spiral, the hilt was a bolted down gray cuff and seemed attached to the figure hold it. The figure himself was clad completely in blue; the helmet he wore allowed four spikes of deep blue hair to jut out from behind. His green eyes shone with anger and hatred.
-M.E.G.A.M.A.N-
(A famed Net Navi that once served with his handler Lan Hikaru, now deceased, Megaman heads the Net Security as Captain and has fought for his city since the death of his handler.)
"You're not getting these three as well! You've already taken Protoman…" he said the last sentence to himself, his voice quivering with anger. The creature struggled against the blade on Megaman's arm. The two continued their power struggle before Megaman finally turned the tables. "Kick, get them out of here!" Out of nowhere a small child burst through wearing a white jumpsuit lined with red and a white helmet also lined with red.
-K.I.C.K. B.U.T.T.O.S.K.I-
(Mellowbrooks own Suburban Dare-Devil, Kick has performed many insane stunts with the help of his best friend Gunther. Kick now serves Net Security to help eradicate the new virus threat.)
"You got it!" The small boy replied. He conjured a blue skateboard and dashed over to the three unconscious Programs; he piled Ichiro and Isabel over his shoulders and placed Kaname on his skateboard before skating off to an unknown destination, leaving Megaman and the creature alone.
"Now that they're gone, let's get serious! Style Change: HUB Style!"