Edited on 8/10/18
"Alright Alias, time to ride!" a voice called as the dark red and black PET connected to the computer. Inside the computer a blue light flashed briefly revealing a male netnavi. The netnavi, Alias walked away from the warp point to survey the area. Alias looked around the computer, his blue eyes scanning for the viruses that caused the malfunction.
"Ethan, I don't see any viruses." the navi, Alias called out to his NetOp. Ethan looked at the screen of the PET and sighed. "There has to be something wrong, I tripled checked all the hardware and nothing is out of place." Ethan assured him.
"If you say so." Alias respond. The navi knew better than the question Ethan when it came to checking the physical aspect of things, so he continued to search. As he walked through the area the panels beneath him started to crack. Realizing what was happening he jumped back to firmer ground, landing with a thud. The ground where he was previously collapsed and twelve yellow mettaurs jumped out of the holw.
"Ethan I think I just found our problem." Alias yelled to his NetOp. Ehtan looked at the screen to see the twelve yellow hard hat wearing virus.
"Okay twelve that's not too many." Ethan responded.
"Speak for yourself!" Alias yelled as he dodged a shock wave.
"Alright, Alias you ready?" the NetOp asked
"Locked and coded!" the navi responded.
Alias's right, black armored arm transformed into a small cannon as he began shooting at the Mettaurs repeatedly. Some of the viruses staggered back from the shots but two were able to launch shock-waves at Alias. The navi was too slow to react and was struck by both attacks. Ethan looked at Alias's health, which had dropped to 80 HP.
"I could really use some battle chips here!" the navi called out. Ethan responded immediately and loaded in three standard cannon battle chips into the PET. Alias arm once more transformed this time into the standard cannon. Looking at the viruses that attacked him he fired two shots, destroying them instantly. He saw another virus preparing to strike but shot it before the pickaxe touched the ground, the Mettaur was paralyzed,before it disintegrated into ones and zeroes as he countered he failed to notice another six mettaurs launching another series of shockwaves at him.
Alias was thrown back to edge of the Comp. His health had dropped to 20 HP. Ethan eyes widen has he scrambled through his battle chips looking for a recovery or a barrier to help Alias. "Ethan, DO SOMETHING!" Alias screammed has he took another two shockwaves further draining his HP to 1. Thank God he was wearing an undershirt.
Ethan looked at his hand at the chips he had before slotting them in "Spreader L,M,N battle chips in." Ethan called.
"Program Advance," Alias called out as he held his arms together as a new weapon formed, " H-buster." wasting no time Alias shot the H-buster effectively destroying six of the viruses. He started panting as the H-buster started dissolving from his arms. The remaining three viruses saw this and attempted to delete him in this vulnerable state, what they didn't expect was him raising the dissolving H-buster again as it reformed looking brand new. "Program Advance, H-buster" he called once again firing at the viruses. The remaining three viruses stared wide eyed at the navi before being deleted. Alias collapsed shortly afterwards before logging out.
Meanwhile in the real world Ethan stared at the PET as Alias re-entered it.
"You alright?" Ethan asked as he activated the PET's navi recovery program.
"Well apart nearly being beaten by a swarm a viruses, I am pretty good actually." Alias responded looking back at his Operator.
"Hey you're the one who wanted to work overtime." Ethan retorted.
"Ah forget it," Alias sighed in defeat, looking back at his NetOp another thought came to mind. "Is it working now? " he asked.
Ethan survey the machine he and Alias was repairing, an old stereo system. Ethan looked over to his Navi,
"Whatever site this dude gets his tracks from must be piracy at its finest." He then pressed the power button, the stereo immediately came to life and started playing some rock music."Okay it works, now turn it off!" the navi screamed. Ethan switched the device off.
" Alright let's get this to Uncle Miles." he lifted the stereo and left the room.
After giving it to his Uncle, Ethan left for home. When he arrived home he was greeted by his Aunt Amy. He told her about his day, working at Uncle's repair shop and about the system with the virus swarm. "I warned Miles about letting you and Alias help." his aunt muttered, "When he gets home I am going to give him a piece of my mind. What if Alias had gotten deleted?" she said in a worried tone looking at Alias.
"I find your lack faith disturbing Aunty. I wouldn't get deleted by a bunch of Mettaurs." Alias responded trying to assure her he was alright.
"You were at this close to being deleted," she spoke pinching her fingers for emphasis.
"We'll be more careful from now on Aunty, don't worry." Ethan assured his Aunt as he left the table.
When he got upstairs he took a shower and got into some more comfortable clothes. Putting aside his greasy overalls from work, Ethan was now dressed in white t-shirt with black short pants. His black hair was still a bit wet from the shower but he could care less. Looking down at the PET he saw Alias looking lost in his own world. "Are you alright Alias?" Ethan asked his Navi.
"For the thousandth time, I am alright Ethan." Alias told his operator. "I've been practicing the P.A.R. for quite sometime now. I can practically do it in sleep mode now." The navi continued.
"If you say so." Ethan responded."I have been looking over Mom's notes and says that you should be able to use the Program Advance Recall more than twice once you've gotten enough practice with a single advance." The Netop was currently organizing some books near his desk, next to the PC.
He looked over at Alias who had been stretching, making sure all his systems were online. "You wanna do a little net surfing before bed?" he asked his navi. Alias smirked, he was hoping Ethan would asked that. With even exchanging anymore words, Ethan jacked Alias into his PC and on to the Net.
As Alias was zipping through cyberspace, two figures collided into him throwing him and themselves off opened his eyes and found himself lying on the floor in Digit city. Looking around he founded the cause of his crash. Two netnavis were glitching out in front of him. He looked at the Navis closely, before noting how damaged they were.
The first one was male netnavi. He had turquoise armor with yellow highlights, but it was cracked in several places. The cracks that ran along his arms and legs were practically oozing out data from him. His navi mark was all buggy and was rapidly flickering on and off without Alias even seeing what it was. Behind the turquoise navi was long stream of data coming from the base of where his tail bone would have been if he had one. His helmet was badly damaged and the navi's face was nothing but a bugged picture. Looking at the second navi, he saw that she was shorter than the male. Her armor was a bright red with yellow highlights just like the male navi. She was not as badly damaged as the male navi, but her armor also had cracks in it, thankfully no data was flowing out. As Alias tried to hoist the turquoise navi onto his shoulders, various visions of a large red eyed green beast roared in his mind, causing the black armored navi to shake a little. Alias felt as if something in him had change and when he looked at his health he realized something did happen, he was now being bugged by the navi. Alias wasted no time in moving to girl navi even as his health started to drop ! point after another.
As Alias moved to grab her, her eyes shot open. Alias and the red navi stared at each for a moment, Alias could see the fear in her eyes, no doubt cause by whoever did this to her. Alias continued to hold out his hand, a task that was starting to feel increasingly difficult as the bugs increased. "Trust me." He told her. The girl reached out her arm almost hesitantly before grabbing Alias's own.
The moment she grabbed Alias's arm, he felt a shock run through his body, just like the first one, only this time he was seeing a red eyed crimson bird screeching. The black navi could only describe what he was feeling as a whirlpool of emotions surging with him. He looked over the girl navi and noticed two streaks going down her back. Without wasting another moment Alias logged out of the Net with the two navis in tow.
"Ethan's going to love this." Alias mused as traveled back to the PET.
A.N. I have edited this chapter. Hopefully this version is better than the previous one. Also i am currently going to be editing the other chapters as well. These edits can range from changes in the writing, combining chapters or shifting scenes to other chapters. Either way, please follow, fav and review. The reviews help a lot in knowing what to write and how to write future stories.