Bass's Assault! The Chaotix Vs. The Pirate Ghosts!
Characters of "The Sonic the Hedgehog" by: Yuji Naka of SEGA
Characters of "The Slayers" by: Tsuguhiko Kadokawa
Characters of "Rockman Exe." by: the people of Capcom.
Story Written by: Maurice A. Nigma
Note to Readers: This is the first time that I've put up any characters from the Rockman Exe. series into one of my stories. In fact, I've done things that I thought that I never do. I guess that another one wouldn't hurt. Anyway, this story takes place right after Shadow's Passion. It also has the four SEGA characters that nearly everyone forgot: the Chaotix. I've put up a small story called Bloody Dreams and Torment Souls: A Dreams Meaning a while back. It takes place right before the events of Dreams and Memories: Hellmaster Returns. It also possesses a special appearance made by the Black Shadow Navi himself: Bass. If you read the story, then you would know what I mean. I'm planning to make another one after this one. However, it would be in the making for the time being. I would like to thank the guys at Geneo-A for supporting me through some tough times in my life. I would also like to thank Anime Master Zero for the inspiration that I need to continue on with my stories. For all of you MegaMan Fans, please be honest with your opinions and let me know if I made any mistakes. I would like to point out that this story would take place right after Stream of the Rockman Exe series. I did the best that I could and I hope that it's enough. Thank you for all of your attention and now, as I've said before, enjoy!
Part 1
On one peaceful and yet active afternoon in the local public park which is in the city of Dentech, Lan Hikari was roller skating his way along the street while starting his usual argument with his Net Navigator (Net Navi) who happens to be inside his P.E.T. (Personal Terminal). It has been a half a year since the asteroid's near collision to Earth has been avoided as well as the fall of Neo World 3 and its team of operators that controlled the powerful Asteroid Navis. But things seemed to return back to normal ever since then. However, that didn't improved the head-banded netbattler's ability to wake up in the morning nor did it help his focus daily routines like trying to get to a meeting with his friends.
"Oh, man!" Lan shouted as he tried his best to increase his speed in his roller blades. "I'm so going to be late meeting the guys at the school to plan for the Halloween Horror Night Party that Ms. Mari suggested that we do for the school!"
"Well, then you should've been focusing more on what we've been planning for the Halloween party than on that Net Battle that was going on at the arcade!" Mega Man responded with a stern and annoyed tone of voice. "I mean, not that it wasn't fun or anything, but if you weren't so distracted in that Net Battle that guy just challenged you to, then you wouldn't be in such a hurry to get to the meeting!"
"Hey! I didn't want to be rude to the guy by just going off his challenge!" the boy said as he was passing by the Mr. Higsby's Battle Chip Shop. "Besides, I had plenty of time for just one Net Battle and I just couldn't say no to an adoring fan!"
"An adoring fan that just got his butt whupped by the person that he's looked up to so much!" Megaman replied back with small smirk coming from his face on the screen. "I swear, Lan, you could be such a bad winner at times! I think that the thought of taking down World 3, Gospel, Nebula, and Neo World 3 as well as nearly taking the Championship Net Battle Title has finally gone to your head!"
"Well, it's not like that you weren't there to fight in that Net Battle, you know, Megaman!" Lan fired back as he was approaching the school gates of Dentech Academy. "You are as much to blame and is interested in fighting those past battles as I am! If you weren't so...!"
That was when Lan began to cut off his voice for when he suddenly started to notice an unusual green glow starting to shine from out of the school's alley way where the lunch ladies would usually throw away the leftovers. He then began to approach the large alley as the green light started to grow brighter as he got closer to its source. That was when he finally started to notice the words of his Navi friend as he was nearing the source of the emerald-colored light.
"Lan! Hello! Earth to Lan Hikari!" MegaMan shouted as high as the P.E.T. 3 would allow him. "Are you even listening to me! Where are you going that's more interesting than getting to the...?"
"Sorry, Megaman," the boy said to his Navi as he got closer to the green light's source, "it's just that there's a green light that's being emitted from the back way of the cafeteria's building. I'm just going to see what's causing it."
"Just be careful not to do anything that's...to...dangerous for...you...to..handle..," the blue Net Navi warned his operator as his voice began to break up by a bit of static. "Whatever is...causing...it...is creating an...electro magnetic field that's...breaking...up my...communications link with...you..!"
"Don't worry about it, Megaman! I'll be careful!" Lan replied to the blue Net Navi with a smirk on his face as he stopped near a huge pile of trash and approached it carefully. "Phew! Of course, with this much garbage around, I'll need to take a bath after this!"
The boy carefully approached the source of the green light as he kept on getting closer to the huge pile of garbage. As he was about five inches close to the garbage pile, Lan started to hold his breath and dig through the trash pile. While trying to ignore the slimy feeling of the content's juices within his hands, he saw a sight that was more magnificent than anything that he had ever seen or experienced in his life. What the boy saw among the trash heap was a shard of a green gem, but it wasn't just any stone. This jewel shard was shining with a brilliance that's almost as beautiful as any kind of jewelry that he remembered what his mother wore once.
"Wow! That gem's amazing! Or at least part of it anyway," Lan thought to himself as he reached his hand in order to touch the gem shard that's in the garbage pile. "But what in the world is a jewel piece like this doing in a garbage pile behind the school's cafeteria? Maybe I should take this to the others and let them check it out so that..."
Lan's thoughts were soon cut short for as soon as his hand made contact with the jewel shard, it soon started to glow brighter than it had did before he found it. Before he knew it, Lan was becoming blinded with the light of the green gem's brilliance.
While in their detective office which is located on the floating tropical paradise called Angel Island which is located in the skies of the planet Mobius, three friends out of their group of four, who call themselves the Chaotix, were waiting in a small room patiently to listen to the phone that's on the wooden desk of their office to ring. It has been months since they had a real case to handle and the pay wasn't bad. Right now though, it is almost as quiet as a wake for someone's departing spirit. A moment later, the green crocodile wearing a set of head phones named Vector, decided to break the long silence by opening his huge mouth as he slammed his fist impatiently to the wooden desk just before he spoke.
"Man! This bites!" Vector shouted as he shook his gloved fist to the air while at the same time breaking the long silence, "There hasn't been any action around in this island since we've been to that other world that Knux and his other friends have been to last time!
"I mean, there's been more action on that world than on this island! Not to mention the fact that it's far more interesting than what's been going on this rock! Plus, there was that human babe we saw for the first time! The one that has the long hair and tender body. Mmm-mmm! Now she's something to look at!"
"Whoa! Take it easy, Vec!" the orange and black armadillo Mighty said to his friend as he got up from his chair and tried his best to calm the croc down while chuckling softly at the same time. "I feel the same thing about being bored out of my skull as much as you do, but yelling like this isn't going to force something to drop out of the sky and give us a great adventure."
"I agree with Might on this one, Vector," the purple ninja chameleon Espio said along with his armadillo friend as he stood near the wall of the office quietly with his arms folded and with a arrogant sigh. "All you have to do is have a little patience and something will turn up sooner or later. Hee! Who knows, it might come to us by flying through the window and give us something that could..."
As if responding to the chameleon's last sarcastic words, their small bee friend, Charmy, suddenly flew from the window of their detective office and landed on the floor while holding what appears to be a huge green glowing stone shard around in his arms. When Vector, Mighty, and Espio saw their friend with the green stone, they immediately started to rush towards Charmy's direction and checked up on their friend. They could tell from how he's breathing that the small bee was exhausted from carrying the gem shard that he worked so hard to bring as well as trying to fly back towards the office.
"Yo, Charms! What's up?" Vector asked Charmy as he then started to take notice of the green gem shard. "Why are you carrying that green jewel shard as if your life depended on it? What's the big deal? Come to think of it, where did you get it to begin with?"
When the bee finally caught his breath, he soon started to turn his attention towards his friends and began to say to them as he held up the green jewel shard, "That shard that I was carrying is a part of a Chaos Emerald that I've found while I was traveling around the island looking for a case for us to work on! I then decided to pick it up and bring it here so that all of us could try to figure out where it came from! Besides, I didn't want it to fall into the wrong hands where anyone could get to it!"
"Now that has been clear, what do we with it now, guys?" Mighty started to ask the group as he picked up the little bee and helped him to sit on one of the chairs of the office. "We can't just sit by here and do nothing."
"Well, one thing's for sure, Might, we can't just keep this emerald shard here in the office so that one day some creep might show up and attack from behind while he snags away the emerald shard," Espio responded to the armadillo as he took a look at the shard that Charmy was holding. "In the wrong hands, it could become dangerous."
"Then why don't we just take this emerald to Knux's place?" the green crocodile said to his friends as he snagged the emerald shard from the young bee and held it up in the air for a better look at it. "I mean, the homeboy does know more about the Chaos Emeralds better than we all do and, besides, he might come up with a clue as to why an emerald shard like this one is just stick'n around the ground for any goon to get it to began with."
"Well, for once I have to agree with you, Vector," the purple chameleon said to the Vector with a amused chuckle. "Knux is certainly the guy to turn to for whenever a Chaos Emerald shard has suddenly appeared out of nowhere without any explanation."
"Then what are we all doing here just standing around here for?" Charmy began to say as he soon started to become enthusiastic about the idea while getting up from his seat. "Let's get going so that we could get this case underway!"
"First things first, Charms," Mighty said to the small bee as he gave his young friend a play slug on the arm, "we need to get one of those boxes that Knuckles has sent us from Tails's workshop so that the energies inside it wouldn't grow out of..."
Before the armadillo has the chance to finish his sentence, the Chaos Emerald shard that's in Vector's hand started to glow brighter with emerald-green light without warning. "Yo! What's up with this?" shouted the green crocodile as he started to become blinded along with his friends.
"Vector! Drop that emerald before it's too late!" shouted Mighty as the light continued to grow brighter and brighter by the minute.
"Charmy! Vector! Mighty! Where are you guys!" Espio yelled as the emerald light engulfed the chameleon's entire form.
"Guys! Where did you all go!" Charmy shouted in response before he along with his friends were engulfed in a sea of emerald colored light unaware that their next adventure is about to begin.
While walking in the abandoned streets of the city of San Fernando that's on the planet Earth, Miguel Angel Arias, in his casual type of clothing of a white shirt along with black pants and a dark blue sweater, was just admiring the victory that he just had against a gang of teens who were trying to steal money from a small family of four. He then held up a huge green emerald shard, which he had gotten from the leader of the gang, out of the box that his two-tailed fox friend Tails given to him for the storage of Chaos Emeralds and smiled proudly to himself as he thought about his short exciting but yet dangerous encounter with the group.
"This Chaos Emerald shard that those punks had shouldn't be in their hands to begin with," he thought as he looked closely at the emerald while making sure that no one from the gang who managed to slip away is following him from behind in order to get some payback. "Besides, that gang of hoodlums was picking on a helpless family for their money and there's no way that I could just stand there and do nothing.
"It's a little punishment for their crime. Good thing that I've covered up my face with my favorite blue sweatshirt so that no one would know who I am while I was using my powers before the police arrived. Those guys wouldn't be able to move for a while thanks to my Mind Hold technique which grants the officer enough time to call for backup to put them behind bars. I'm just glad that I was able to help that family out like I did.
"Now back onto how this Chaos Emerald shard managed to be in the hands of those guys in the first place. How is it even possible for it to be in this dimension to begin with? Well, whatever it is, it's probably best if I just go straight home, get to my computer, and tell the others all about it. But, I'm too far out of reach from the nearest bus stop in order to get to it on time. Which means that there's the power of the Chaos Control to use."
While looking around one more time to see if anyone was watching him, Miguel sighed with relief and held up the gem shard in the air. "Besides, why bother to use the bus to get home when I could just warp there in less than one second for free?" the young man thought to himself with a smile as he held up the emerald shard and started to shout out the name of the time and space warping technique, "Chaos Control!"
As he was being engulfed by emerald green light, Miguel soon started to notice that the brilliance started to grow to out of control for him to control. "What in the world! What's happening! Nothing like this is has happened to me before while I used the Chaos Control! Just what is going on!" he yelled as his eyesight was soon blinded by the light and found himself traveling helplessly in a bright green tunnel of light while crossing between time and space towards his unknown destination.
While traveling alongside the road back towards her uncle's home, Sylphiel Nels Lahda was the bright day sky after finishing her monthly prayers that she made to her father and the rest of the people who perished along with him in her former home: the city of Siaraag. She would always arrive at the aquatic ruins of the city, she usually finds it very peaceful for when she needed to be alone to do her prayers. It was easy since she was able to use the power of the Chaos Control ability that she gained from watching Miguel do it about three months ago for when she toured his world to see what it's looks like. It also gave her all the time she would need to speak to her perished father about what she's experienced with her new friends Miguel along with the four Mobians, as her young male friend would call them as well as help others in need of aid.
After she's finished with her prayers, she was about to head back towards her uncle's home for when she soon started to sense the power of a Chaos Emerald near the watery ruins. Ever since coming in contact with the mystical gem, her own natural and magical senses have been enhanced and increased in order to sense energies that she would never be able to see with her normal powers. When she was near a stone pillar impaled in the water of her former home, the shrine maiden flew to the top of it and found what appears to be a huge green gem shard. After she got the jewel shard off the surface and examined it more closely, Sylphiel soon found that it was definitely a piece of the most powerful force that she'd experienced before: a Chaos Emerald.
"But why would a shard of a Chaos Emerald be lying in the ruins of Siaraag on a place where just about anyone or anything could get to it?" she thought to herself as she continued to look at the Chaos Emerald shard that's now in her hand. "For that matter, just how did it arrive in this world? I should contact Miguel and the others to let them know about what I've found. But, I have to go back to my uncle first to let him know that I'm going to be away for a short while so that I don't have to get him worried about my safety."
That was when Sylphiel soon started to notice that the sun in the blue sky is on top of her, which means that to her that it's already noon. The trip to the ruined city from her uncle's house alone was a week and a half journey from where she is and it would be a little longer before she could actually arrive there. Then the shrine maiden started to have a thought in her head that nearly caused her to slap herself on the forehead for when she realized that she could get home in far less than it would take by walking on foot alone.
"If I use the power of the Chaos Control like I did the last time for when I was in Miguel's world as well as in this world, I would be able to get home much faster," Sylphiel thought to herself as she looked at the green emerald piece along with a smile on her face. "I could have myself lunch and then use the emerald shard in my red pendent to signal Miguel so that he could come and investigate the matter. Hee! Then maybe I could invite him over for some my cooking if he's a bit..."
The shrine maiden's thoughts were cut short for when the Chaos Emerald shard suddenly started to glow with a green brilliance that is brighter than the sun itself. "Whaaaa! What's going oooonnn...?" she shouted as she was being engulfed by the light the emerald light coming from the light and fainting from the sight of the overwhelming brilliance that she saw as she was being carried away from her world to another plane of existence.
From deep within the network, in the bottoms of the Cyber World's Undernet sector, a cloaked Net Navi sensed something that he hadn't felt before. Something strong yet strange. As soon as the tremendous surge of power fade, Bass soon found himself curious as to where it came from.
"This power that I'm sensing...it isn't like anything that I've ever felt before," the Black Shadow thought to himself as he looked around the dark Undernet area to see if anything else have felt the surge of power as well. "It seems that the viruses in this area must have fled for shelter after feeling this power. It's so incredible that it could be even greater than that of that blue Navi, MegaMan. It also feels as if it were from another world. I must know where this energy is coming from. It could be the very thing that I need in order to conquer both the Cyber World and the Human World as well as defeat that blue little MegaMan once and for all."
With those thoughts done in his mind, Bass transported himself out of the Undernet area and began his search throughout the entire world's network in order to look for the power that he felt in order to obtain it.
When the emerald-colored light began to fade from his sight, Lan started to blink both of his eyes in order to get them properly focused in order to see what just happened.
"Lan! What in the world is going on out there!" the boy heard his Net Navi friend suddenly shouting out to him with concern as he continued to try to get eyes focused. "There was this huge magnetic disturbance being emitted from around the area that you're in that's causing me to lose contact with you and then it suddenly disappears without any further explanation! But what really concerns me is that the field didn't erase my data or cause the P.E.T. to explode like it would any other computer appliance! Just what's going on around here?"
"I don't know, Mega Man," Lan responded to his friend as his eyesight began to return to him, "but I think that it might have something to do with that gem shard that I tried to pick up!"
"What gem shard!" Mega Man replied with a confused tone of voice. "Just what are you talking about, Lan?"
"The one that I've saw in the garbage pile while on the way over here!" the boy responded as he started to sniff the faint fumes of the suddenly disappeared garbage and tried his best to hold back the smell in his nose. "Pee yew! What I want to know is what is a gem stone as precious as this one doing in a stinking pile of garbage that's near the back of the school's cafeteria to begin wi...?"
Lan's words were soon cut short for when he started to noticed that the gem shard that he was holding was a bit more complete and larger that it was before. But that wasn't the only thing that surprised him. What surprised him the most is that a group of hands was touching his own for when he was about to regain his eyesight. When the boy finally regained his full sight, he then looked at what was holding him and found the most extraordinary sight that he has ever seen.
What Lan saw was an unconscious teenaged boy that was wearing as clean black pair of jeans along with a clean looking white shirt and navy blue sweater with brown hair and looked a bit too tall for a teenager. The girl that the young net battler saw him with has a long and beautiful mane of dark violet hair that he has ever seen. The purple clothing that she wore looked almost like that of the middle ages of England that he'd heard about during one of his teacher's discussions of world history in class.
But what surprised Lan the most is the bizarre human-like animal creatures that were lying on the floor of what once where the trash pile was and looked at each of them carefully. One of them looked like a little cute but oversized bumble bee that looked as though it were dressed to be a fighter pilot. Another looked like a purple chameleon with a yellow horn on its forehead which has white spike glove that looked as though they were used for fighting of some sorts. The other next to him had an orange shell on his back to his head and was a bit black too. The last of them, which was continuing to hold onto his hand looked like a huge green crocodile with sharp teeth that looked as though it would chop off his hand at any moment. The only thing that made this croc out of place, besides the same type of white gloves that the other creatures were wearing, was the fact that it was were a pair of head phones over its head and a gold chain around its neck.
When Lan finally managed to free himself and the emerald from the weird-looking reptile's strong human grip, the young man then looked at his hand with the gem shard and found that the green jewel fragment that he was holding now looks like a near completed emerald that sparkles like a precious jewel. When the boy tried his best to back away from the strange group, he soon found the green crocodile yawning while its mouth opened wide enough to almost fit his entire head.
"Al...al..alligator!" Lan screamed as he pulled himself away from the strange group and back away only a few feet.
"Lan, what are you talking about?" Mega Man asked just as the head-banded boy pulled the P.E.T. away from his side pack and faced its screen towards the strange group. "There are no alligators that inhabit the areas near Dentech City or places that would be suitable for them to live..."
The Net Navi's words were soon cut off for when he was looking at what was Lan was starting at. That was when Mega Man started to say to his Net Operator with a surprised voice, "Lan! Am I seeing what I think I'm seeing or am I just having a system malfunction! Are those guys some sort of mutant aliens from another world or something! What's...!"
That was when MegaMan's words were soon cut short for when the Lan heard the crocodile beginning to open its mouth and started to say, "Awww, man! Just who would have the nerve to wake me up? I was just having the nicest dream! They'd better have a good excuse for...!"
Just before the crocodile could have the chance to finish his angry sentence out of its huge jawed mouth, Lan soon found himself screaming his head off shouting in fear along with his Net Navi friend as he put his P.E.T. back in its holding place while skating away from the alley and into the school unaware that he was still holding the huge near-completed emerald in his hands.
"Ahhhhh! Everybody get out of the area!" the two of them screamed in unison, "Mutant animals have landed and are going to take over the world! Run for your lives!"
After awaking from what appears a long unconscious sleep by the sound of two people yelling something about mutate animals, Miguel soon found himself getting up from the ground and tried his best to shake his head back into order while ridding himself of the headache.
"Man! Now that was the weirdest experience that I've ever had," he thought to himself as he continued to shake his head as he tried to steady himself with his feet while regaining his eyesight little by little. "That had never happened before for when I've used the Chaos Control while holding a Chaos Emerald in order to use it. Could it be because that what I was using could be only a part of the Chaos Emerald which could explain why it went hay-wire and..."
When he fully regained his full eyesight, Miguel looked around to look where he is and the young human was surprised for when he saw who was with him. Lying on the ground unconsciously of the alley that he saw that he was in is the shrine maiden Sylphiel Nels Lahda from the four universal planes called the Four Worlds. But she wasn't the only person who caused Miguel to become surprised with her appearance. The other group of people that surprised him the most is a group that he thought that he may never get a chance to see again ever since their first encounter in his world: the Chaotix.
"Vector? Charmy? Espio? Mighty? Sylphiel?" he began to say to all of them while the young man saw the shrine maiden beginning to awaken from her slumber at the sound of hearing her own name being said to her. "What are all of you doing here?"
As she tried her best to get herself off of the ground, Sylphiel started to notice that her head was starting to feel a bit light and empty as she got herself onto her feet. Her vision was a bit blurry from being blinded by the intense rays of emerald light that the gem shard that she once had in her hand gave off. The shrine maiden then felt her feet beginning to give out as she soon found herself starting to fall to the ground of wherever place that she was sent to. However, the shrine maiden didn't feel herself hit the hard ground for when she felt the arms of someone catching her just before she could fall to the floor. That was when she started to hear familiar voices saying to one another as each of them started to become clear to her.
"Yo, man! What's wrong with the chick?" asked one of the persons as Sylphiel tried her best to regain full use of her eyesight. "Is she going to be okay?"
"Never mind that, Vector," added another voice with a surprised tone. "What I want to know is how we all end up here together in one place and figure out what just happened to that emerald shard that you were holding before."
As she tried her best to regain her eyesight while trying to get herself free from whoever was holding her, Sylphiel soon began to hear a familiar voice of a young man as he said to her, "Whoa! Take it easy, beautiful. You don't want to over strain yourself and try to make whatever is making you feel sick worse. Just let me help you back on your feet, okay?"
With those words finished, the shrine maiden suddenly felt a familiar warm feeling that was being emitted from the young man's body. She have felt this sort of emotion before for whenever she was near the boy Miguel Arias. The same loving and caring feeling that she had felt for when she and her father, Eruk, hugged while enjoying each others embrace. As she started to regain her eyesight little by little, she turned to the direction of where supposedly the young man's face was suppose to be. When the shrine maiden finally regained her full sight a moment later, she soon found herself looking at the face of the human that became a dear friend to her ever since her battle with the creature called Nightmare Parasite: Miguel Angel Arias.
"Miguel, is that really you that I'm looking at right now?" Sylphiel asked with a hopeful look on her face. "Or are you some sort of illusion?"
"Well, who are you expecting to look at, Sylphiel? Lina Inverse in Angry Mode? Please!" responded Miguel with a playfully smart aleck tone in his voice as he sighed with a pretend tone of annoyance.
As an answer to his question, Sylphiel soon found herself wrapping her arms around the young man and hugged him with joy filling up within her heart. "Oh, Miguel, I'm so happy to see you again!" she said to him as she enjoyed the warmth of his body while squeezing him tightly. "I thought that I was in some bandit gang's hideout being held captive, but now I understand that it was only you who's trying to help me for when I..."
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Take it easy, Sylphiel. I get the point," Miguel responded to her with a sort of uneasy tone while patting her on the back in order to calm her down. "Sheesh! You think that by the way you act and say around me, you might start to think that a pretty young girl like you wasn't going to see me ever again. However, now is not the time to start a happy reunion. What's really concerning me right now is how did we all...?"
While blushing at what her friend just said to her, Miguel's words were cut off by the voice of someone with a bit of attitude and jealousy too. "Yo! Did you already forget all about us, babe? How is it that you are able to remember that guy and forget to say hi to the four of us!"
"Vector, you're being rude!" said another voice who's tone is rather serious but not too much. "Do you think that putting on that sort of attitude of yours, that you might get Sylphiel's attention? Sheesh!"
"I have to agree with Might on this one, Vec," Sylphiel heard another voice who gave off a soft chuckle with a little tone of arrogance in it. "Your way on how you act in front of a pretty girl is just too..."
"Guys! Guys! Let's try not to start an argument about this right now!" said a young and high voice. "We should be concentrating on how all of us managed to get to this place to begin with and about that Chaos Emerald shard that was in Vector's hands a moment ago!"
That was when the shrine maiden finally began to recognize the voices of the group who were talking with one another as she said each of their names one at a time while trying to suppress an embarrassed red shade of color on her face. "Vector? Espio? Mighty? Charmy? Are you all here too?" she began to ask the figures as she turned and saw that the group that was about to argue with one another was none other than the same group of friends that appeared Miguel's world while she was in it for the first time that she toured herself around in it with him: the Chaotix.
"Oh! Well, how about that, ya guys? She remembers us!" responded the green crocodile while pretending to have a sarcastic tone in his voice.
"Vector! Quit playing around and get serious for the moment!" the purple chameleon Espio said to his friend with a serious tone in his voice along with annoyed expression on his violet face.
"Espy is right, Vec!" added the black and orange armadillo Mighty. "There's the fact that all of us were transported into this world that, I assume, is caused by a shard of a Chaos Emerald that each of us found in each of our worlds."
"The Chaotix as well as Miguel have each found a shard of a Chaos Emerald like the one I had in my hand a moment ago?" Sylphiel thought to herself, instantly forgetting her embarrassment and became interested in the subject while at the same time beginning to notice that the emerald shard that she once had in her hand is now gone. "If that were the case, then what has happened to the emerald shards that we all had that caused all of us to be here in this place?"
The shrine maiden's question was soon repeated by the small bumble bee named Charmy who asked, "Um, guys? Speaking of how we all got here, just what exactly happened to the Chaos Emerald shards that we all had?"
"Yeah, come to think of it," Sylphiel heard the voice of Miguel finally starting to say as she felt him releasing himself from her embrace and looked around the area that they were in, "just what exactly happened that caused a Chaos Emerald to break apart into the pieces that we all once had in the first place? But what I'm most concerned right now is what world that we've been transported to and who or what has gotten a hold of the emerald shards now?"
The question that the human named Miguel Angel Arias caused the Chaotix to wonder all about the sudden disappearance of the emerald shards that all of them had before they were all transported to the world that they were in now. That was when Vector started to remember about the cause of his rude awakening before he could see who was it that called him a mutant alligator.
"Guys, I think that I have an idea about just what took the shards," the croc said as he tried his best to control his temper while shaking his fist, "or rather, who took them. Just before I woke up, I heard the voice of some punk kid who had the nerve to call me a mutant alligator! Not only that, but he and some other punk had the nerve to call me that name as well! Why of all the things to call me, it's...!"
That was when Vector's voice was cut off by Mighty for when he said to his friend while trying to calm him down. "Whoa! Easy, Vec!" the armadillo said while he started to have a firm grip on the crocodiles arms. "Going postal all over the place isn't going to help solve the situation that we're in right now!"
"As much as I would like for you to have a fit over it, Vec," Espio said while still keeping a serious tone in his voice, "I'm going to have to agree with Might, on this one. So I suggest that you save all that anger of yours for the one who took the emerald shards and calm down."
"Might is right on this, Vector!" Charmy respond as the little bee flew up to his green friend's face. "We have to stay calm and figure out what to do next otherwise things are going to get a little hectic!"
"Listen to what your friends are saying, Vector!" Miguel's voice began to say to the group with a calm tone in his voice. "If you don't start thinking with a cool head and if that Chaos Emerald gets into the hands of some evil nutcase, then trying to impress a pretty young girl and getting your revenge on the kid will soon be the least of your worries."
Vector then began to breathe and counted to ten so that he could have the chance to calm himself. He felt the armadillo releasing his strong hold of his arms and that was when he said to Miguel while turning his attention towards the human's direction, "You're right, Homey. Sorry for losing my cool like that. It's just that the words that the kid said about me got to me and made me snap like..."
The croc's words were then cut short by the human girl named Sylphiel saying to him, "It's alright, Vector. There's no need for you to explain. We all understand what you're feeling right now. Just try to be a bit more careful with your temper, okay?"
"Okay! Now that you're all calm and cool now, Vec," Miguel said with a serious tone in his voice while getting everyone's attention, "let us all get back to how are we going to get the shards of the Chaos Emerald back from whomever took them. But we also have to find out where we all are in order to avoid any unnecessary looks from the people here because I have a feeling that this world is not going to be anything like my world."
"Well, if that's the case," Espio started to say with the same tone of seriousness as Miguel has, "then I should be the one to go and look around the area that we're in so that I could check out exactly where we are. I do have the ability to turn invisible and could blend in with any surroundings. So I have less chance of being noticed by the people of this world and won't be able to attract any unwanted attention by the local authorities."
In response to the purple chameleon's words, Charmy started to fly towards his friend and say with enthusiasm in his voice, "Hey, yeah! Espy, does have a better chance of checking the whole place out than any of us could and he might be able to find the kid who took the shards of the Chaos Emerald! We could also increase our chances of finding the guy if we all split up! I could fly around the city high enough without any of the people here to notice."
The Chaotix soon started to hear the voice of Miguel soon started to give out an uneasy shrug as he began to say, "Well, I don't know this, guys. I mean, it sounds a bit too risky to even consider splitting up and if..."
His words were soon cut short by the voice of the beautiful shrine maiden Sylphiel as she said to him, "Miguel, please give the idea a try. If we don't at least try something to look for the shards of the Chaos Emerald, then who knows what might happen if they ever fall into the wrong hands."
The Chaotix then heard Miguel started to give out a defeated sigh and responded to the young lady by saying to her as he faced her direction, "(Sigh) Alright, Sylphiel. You win. I guess that it wouldn't hurt to at least let Espio and Charmy take a look around the area so that we could know exactly where we are and find the emerald shards. It's not like that we have any other choices at the moment."
"Score!" the four friends shouted in unison as they all gave out a high five towards each others hands, giving out a loud slap being given off a moment later.
"But..." the human suddenly started to say as he paused for the moment and turned back towards their direction before he could continue, "the two of them would have to meet us right back here so that all of us would know where the others are in case something weird should happen and with those shards of the Chaos Emerald being anywhere at all in this world, anything could happen."
"Well, then let's get our rears in gear and get going!" Mighty began to say as he soon waited for a plan that anyone in the alley that they're in could come up with.
"All right, then here's how it'll go," Vector soon began to say to the entire group while clapping his hands in order to get their attention. "Espy will go into his Stealth Mode and scope things out from in the shadows on the ground while the Charms Man will fly up into sky and cruise around in the air to get a bird's eye view.
"Meanwhile, me and Might will stay here with Miguel and Sylphiel to act as extra muscle while the two of them are trying to detect the powers comin' from the shards. We'll wait ten minutes in order to see if there are no suspicious looking characters around the area and once that's been done, the four of us could try to scope out the 'hood from the ground so that we could find the kids who took the shards of the emerald. But all of us would have to try to meet back here in about two hours so that we could rap to one another about what we have learned about the emeralds' whereabouts as well as the area. Does anyone understand what I've just said before we split from here?"
No one had said a word to the crocodile as they all nodded their heads towards him as a response to his question. All but Sylphiel who, with a blank look on her face and shaking her head while asking the crocodile, "Um, only that I wanted to know what exactly do you mean by for when you've said the words 'rap' and 'split.'"
That was when each of the members of the Chaotix started to look at the long-haired girl while each of them looked at her with a cocked eyebrow. That was when Miguel, while trying to conceal the slightly embarrassed expression on his face with his hand, started to say to the slightly confused young woman as he turned her away, "Um, Sylphiel. Perhaps it's best that you hold onto that thought for when after both Espio and Charmy are out of here, okay?"
While still seeing her wearing a confused expression on her face, the Chaotix saw Sylphiel nodded in response to the young man's request. That was when Espio started to walk up towards Vector and whispered as he tried to avoid being heard by both Miguel and Sylphiel, "That girl really is from another world, isn't she Vec?"
The green croc only nodded in agreement with his purple friend before he turned his full attention back to the group again and said, "Okay! Now that it's settled, let's put the plan into action and try to our best to find the little creeps that took the emerald shards!"
"Right!" everyone shouted in unison before the little bee Charmy started to fly up into the air at top speed while Espio vanished from sight into thin air.
Both Might and Vector both just stood there along with both Miguel and Sylphiel as they waited for the ten minutes to pass them by. That was when the black and orange armadillo broke the silence by saying to the crocodile, "So, Vec, what are we going to do here in the meantime? It's not like we have anything else to do."
In response to his friend's question, Vector started to walk up towards both Miguel and Sylphiel and that was when he began to ask the young man, "Yo, Miguel. If it's alright with you, do you think that I could talk to your beautiful friend here for a moment about what she asked a few moments before?"
Mighty was surprised for when the armadillo heard the voice of Miguel respond to the green crocodile's words with a cool and yet normal tone of voice, "Sure, Vector. It's fine by me. Just try to make your lecture with Sylphiel short so that we could get on with our mission of finding the kid with the emerald shards."
While seeing his green friend giving a nod of his head, Mighty saw Vector immediately starting to turn his attention towards the purple-haired human girl named Sylphiel and began to say to her with his usual cool and natural tone of voice, "Okay, babe. Now listen up and listen up good 'cause Professor Vector here is going to give you a lesson on the phrases that I use for whenever I want to act cool in front of a huge crowd of people or to my friends."
"Oh joy, this should be good for a laugh," Mighty thought to himself with a soft sigh as the armadillo sat by and listened in on the lecture that the crocodile was giving to the human girl, who was listening very carefully to what Vector has to say.
As he searched the entire Cyber World without any of its inhabitants noticing his presense, the feeling that Bass once felt within his body suddenly disappear without a trace.
"What? The power that I've once felt within my body has just disappeared," the Black Shadow thought to himself as he scanned the entire area in order to once again find the energy trail that he was following. "An energy source that powerful could've just vanished out of sight! It would be impossible for any type of high level firewall or security program to hide from me! It shouldn't be possible unless..."
That was the cloaked Navi came up with a thought that he didn't have the time to think about up until now. "That incredible power source that I've felt is within the world of the humans!" he thought in frustration as he felt his entire body being tensed up with nothing but rage. "The greatest source of power that I have ever felt has eluded my sights only to leave me with the thought that it could possibly be in the human world! Now how am I suppose to...!"
As if to answer his very question, he then sensed another power source that seemed to be different from the one that he felt before. He would never allow himself to admit it, but for when he felt this power flowing through his body it's as if he was trembling with nothing but fear and panic across his body. A cold chill suddenly went up his spine.
"Whatever force that I've just sensed, it's gone now," Bass thought as he tried to regain his usual and quiet composure. "It's strange, but it's as if the very presense of this power is strong enough to bring over billions of humans into a state of fear. Not only that, but it also seems that the very fabric of space and time itself is starting to break apart because of this power."
The Black Shadow then looked around and saw that all of the Navi's around the area that he was in didn't seem to notice the powerful force that he just felt before he thought to himself again. "These foolish Navis didn't seem to notice the incredible surge of power that I've just felt. I'm not so sure if I want to find out or not. But, I must continue my search for this great power if I'm to get my revenge on the humans of this planet! I'll destroy anything that gets in my way, that includes any foolish human that dares to get in my way."
With those thoughts done, Bass began to once again scan all around the world's Cyber matrix in order to find the strong power source that he sensed without any of the local Navis ever noticing his presense.
End of Part 1