He Who Bears the Scar
Chapter 2: The Four
Modern Day…
"You are all pathetic!" Bass yelled using his dark arm blades to carve through several Undernet navis, "Can none of you give me a decent fight?"
"Don't count us out yet!" An Undernet navi yelled hurling a cannonball at Bass, only to have him cut it in two followed by cutting the navi to pieces.
"Sir, we need to use the ultimate technique." One of the Undernet navis told the leader.
"You're right." The Undernet navis' leader said, "Gang, prepare for Hades Meteor!" Four other navis rushed to his side and summoned fireballs above their heads. The four fireballs merged into one above the head of the leader. "Say your prayers Bass!" The leader hurled the fireball at the rouge navi only to have him raise the life aura to protect himself.
"Finished yet?" Bass asked.
"The life aura?" The leader asked scared, "You were supposed to have lost that ability."
"I just lost the ability to leave it up permanently." Bass said as energy began to swirl around both hands, "But I still have it. As well as this one…Buster Rake!" Several energy bursts fired from Bass's hands and struck all the surviving navis. Unknown to Bass, four NetNavis were watching him from the shadows.
"It seems that your plan failed." One of the NetNavis said with a male voice.
"I never intended them to kill him." Another male navi said, "I was just hoping he would be to tired from the fight to fight us."
"The plan still failed." A female NetNavi said.
"Yes, I see that." The second male navi said.
"Just let me at him!" A third voice said, "I can take him!"
"No you can't." The first voice said, "He just killed twenty Undernet navis without breaking a sweat, even all of us together wouldn't stand a chance."
"At least, not yet." The second voice said.
"You say that like you have a plan." The female one said.
"Of course I do." The second voice said, "But let's retreats for now. I'll tell you my plan in the master's presence."
"BUT HE'S RIGHT THERE!" The third voice shouted, this time, the shouting was loud enough to draw Bass's attention.
"Who's there?" Bass asked summoning his two Dark arm blades. Before he was able to strike them, all four of the figures logged out as one.
Actual Cyberworld…
"Guts guts!" Gutsman yelled trying to catch Megaman under his fists.
"Come on Lan, have Megaman hold still." Dex complained.
"Oh come on Dex, where's the fun in that?" Lan asked, "Megaman, blast him!"
"Can do Lan." Megaman said as his arm changed the Megabuster, "He Gutsman, catch!" Megaman fired a powerful shot.
"Huh?" Gutsman asked as the shot hit him in the face, knocking him down and out.
"That makes this Lan's twenty-third victory today." Maylu said.
"And Lan's fifty second win this week." Yai said, "And it's only Tuesday."
"Ah shut up!" Dex said. Luckily, before Dex could continue complaining, a mass email was received by the gang.
"Uh guys, you'd better check that mail." Maylu, the first one to read the email said, "And Roll, you'd better jack out know." The others began to read the email. It said: Attention all netbattlers, recently, a vast number of unexplained occurrences have been occurring on the net. We are asking all operators to refrain from jacking in to any electronic unless absolutely necessary.
"Man, I can't remember last time the officials told us not to jack in at all." Dex said.
"We're going to have to talk to Chaud about it if we see him again." Lan said.
Meanwhile, NetCity…
A group of ten official navis corned a NetNavi that looked like Sage Harpuia with one of his head fins as his navi symbol.
"Freeze!" one of the guard navis said, "Give yourself up or we will be forced to use deadly force."
"You foolish navis." The navi said, his eyes clouding over, "You don't stand a chance against me." After he said that phrase, a massive windstorm began. In a few seconds, the windstorm changed into a tornado, scattering the officials. Meanwhile, another ten official navis surrounded a NetNavi who looked like Fighting Fefnir with an inverted red triangle against a yellow background on his chest.
"If you attempt to resist capture, we will use lethal force." One of the official navis said.
"I hope you'll give me a decent fight at least." The navi said summoning two arm cannons, "Bring it on!" He then started firing off fireballs like crazy, causing massive damage the city. Another group of ten had battle chips active around a pool of water.
"Stupid boys." A female voice said from the water as a navi who looked like Fairy Leviathan with a blue seashell for a navi symbol created an ice platform to stand on, "You really shouldn't pick a fight with me around water." With a wave of her hand, Leviathan sent spears of water flying at the official navis, followed by massive water spouts burst from the water and crash into the navis.
"Protoman sir, we can't seem to apprehend these navis!" One of the officials said rushing to a larger ground under Protoman's command.
"I'm going in." Protoman said, "I'll get them."
"Are you sure you can?" The Wind navi said as he, the flame navi, and the water navi appeared in front of him, "We did just defeat ten of your men each."
"Trust me," Protoman said activating his sword, "I'm in a much higher league."
"And I am in higher league then my siblings." A voice said from a tall building. A navi which looked like Hidden Phantom with a four point shuriken as a navi crest jumped down from the tower landing in between the three navis and Protoman, "Allow me to introduce myself, I am Phantom. The wind wielder is my younger brother Harpuia. The watery beauty is my younger sister Leviathan. And the hothead there is my younger brother Fefnir."
"He doesn't need to know who we are Phantom!" Fefnir yelled out, "He'll get deleted if he attempts to fight!"
"That's no reason the survivors shouldn't be able to spread our names." Phantom said, "So Protoman, how about a one-on-one fight?"
"How can I know you won't cheat?" Protoman asked.
"Huh, I guess you can't fully, but," Phantom said turning to his siblings, "Go back to the master, I'll handle him."
"Are you sure about this Phantom?" Harpuia asked, "I've heard he is incredibly strong."
"I'll be fine." Phantom said, "Now go, I don't want you three getting hurt."
"Very well." Harpuia said, "Be careful." The three other navis jacked out.
"You guys jack out too." Protoman said, "I don't want him to have hostages."
"Yes sir." An official said before they jacked out as well.
"Alright then Protoman," Phantom said, "Give me all you got."