Rockman.EXE – Advent
By Yami Jay
Note: The story is a new arc of the Rockman.EXE adventure. Since I haven't seen every episode of the show, I might do some mistake. I will use the Japanese names in this story. Also, I'm putting the adventure in the Axess / Stream time-line. As for the battle chips, I will use the English Battle Chips names since I don't know the Japanese names.
Disclaimer: I do not own Rockman.EXE, neither that Zero. I only own Zero's net op; Hikari Jayna.
Episode 2: All Another Story
Jayna had awakened up with a start; Netto had made a lot of noise this morning and she hated to be awakened by noisy people in the morning. Fifteen minutes later and Netto was gone, but sleep wasn't going to come back for her and she hated that. She finally decided to get up and dress for the day. She got Zero out from his sleeping mode.
"Already up?" he said, with a smirk.
"Netto is noisy in the morning" she simply said, using a tone that obviously told her NetNavi to not ask more about it.
"How long before your meeting?" he asked with a serious expression.
"An hour and a half" she said. "Well, I guess Netto waking me up had his good side."
Zero couldn't help to snicker at this; a minute ago, she was half-complaining about Netto being noisy and now she saw the good side for such a thing. This was going to be a typical morning after all.
At the Amusement Park
Netto was waiting with Meiru for the others to arrive. They had made sure that every one had to meet at the gates at 9:00 AM sharp. Minutes later, Tohru Yaito and Deako had shown up together with Chisao. The only ones missing were Anetta and Enzan.
"You guys arrived early" said Yaito, with a smile.
"Yes" said Meiru. "But I think Netto was even earlier than me… For once."
"HEY! I'm not always late you know!" said the genki boy.
The group started to laugh at Netto's indignation when the two last of the group arrived. Anetta was clinging on the Net Savior's arm, which made Enzan a little uncomfortable. Netto felt sorry for his partner; Enzan had recently told him that he was only considering the girl has a friend, but she didn't seem to get it.
"About time you arrived!" said Netto.
"Sorry, but I had a call from Kifune-san" he said. "Seems that we might have another Net Savior to team up with… He asked me to meet today, but you can guess my answer."
"A new Net Savior?" said Netto, slightly surprised.
"Yes… It seems like someone that would help with our recent problems" said Enzan with an indifferent voice.
"Guys! Can we not talk about this and have a nice day without mentioning Net Savior business!" said Meiru, pulling Netto's arm and dragging the genki boy to the gate. The group just smiled or laughed and joined the two of them to enjoy a day at the park.
At Net Police Headquarters
Jayna was waiting to meet with Kifune-san to give him her report. She had arrived five minutes early and now was waiting. It was getting boring for her. She heard foot steps and saw someone wearing a lab coat and sunglasses; he was walking toward her. She got up and looked at him.
"Hikari Jayna I presume?" he asked.
"You got it" she said with a serious expression that met she was all business. "And you?"
"Eguchi Meijin, one of you superiors at the Science lab" he said. "You have a meeting with Kifune-san?"
"Yes, but I've been fifteen minutes already…" she replied.
The office door opened and Manabe got out, holding a file in her hands. She looked at the two, showing that the commissioner was waiting for both of them. Jayna walked into the office, nodding her greeting to Manabe. She entered and saw a middle-aged man sitting at his office and looking at a file. Eguchi was next to her, waiting to be noticed as well.
"I'm glad you both made it today" he said, putting the file away. "I'm sorry to have made you waited."
"It wasn't that bad Kifune-san" said Jayna.
"Very well" he said. He looked at Eguchi. "As you know, Agent Jayna is newly assigned to this district. She will be working with Agent Netto and Agent Enzan." Now, he looked at the two. "But now, the reasons of this assignment will be put beside. Agent Jayna, I would like to hear your version of yesterday's attack at the museum."
She started to tell her report, the moment that she received her orders to the moment she had left, without being seen by the other two Net Saviors. Both of the adults listen carefully to what she had to say.
"Although we didn't see anything that would prove it, I might have an idea who's the culprit of the recent problems" she added at the end.
That got the attention of both of them. "You have?" said Kifune with a renew interest. "Who do you think it is?"
"So far, I have been collecting clues during my recent missions" she said. "But nothing directed these to organization that we know. I'm afraid that we are facing a new organization. I, unfortunately, don't know under which name they go, but I'm certain that they are planning to cause mayhem in the Net with new develop viruses."
The commissioner expression change to a solemn one; this was bad. Neo WWW was already a problem, but a new organization in the mix was making it worst. As for Eguchi, he was also worried; this meant that if new viruses were going to spread, they had to figure out a way to counter them fast.
"Alright… We'll have to brief Agent Netto and Agent Enzan about the situation as soon as possible. Possibly during the next briefing" said Kifune. "As for now, I think giving agent Jayna a tour of the Net Police Headquarter and the Science Lab are in order."
Both nodded and left the office with Manabe. The commissioner looked at the group leaving and took the file he was reading back; it was Jayna's data. He was hoping that everything would be fine between her and his other two agents.
Later
Jayna had seen everything in the Net Police headquarter and was now heading with Eguchi to the Science Lab. She was looking outside, pretty much thinking about how she was going to tell Netto the real reason why she was in town. Her PET bipped and she immediately got it out of her holder. It was Manabe.
"We have a problem at the amusement park" she said. "Go there immediately."
"Right away" she said, closing the communication.
Eguchi immediately turned around and change course for the amusement park. Zero had heard the conversation and was now more worried. "Jayna, was Netto suppose to be at the amusement park?" he said.
"Yes… And that worries me a little" she said.
"I wouldn't worry, but both Netto and Enzan have their day off" he said.
"That's exactly what I'm worried about" she said with a smirk.
That got both boys surprised; why would it worry her so much.
At the amusement park
Many manages had suddenly stop with people in them. It was the case of the gang; they were stuck in the Big Wheel, unable to even get out. Enzan and Netto were even more pissed because they were locked in, not even able to log their Net Navis in.
"That just sucks! An attack while we have a day off!" said Netto, really annoyed.
"Calm down" said Enzan. "It could be worst. Beside, I'm sure that we can figure something out."
"Like what? Wait for a dimensional area to appear?" said Netto, peeved.
Enzan ignored Netto for once and looked outside; He was pretty sure that the Net Police was already on the case, possibly sending the new Net Savior on this case. He suddenly noticed that a dimensional area appeared. He his PET out and slot in some Battle Chips in before getting up and opening the door.
"Are you nuts!" said Netto.
"Netto, I rather do something than stay here" he said, getting his Synchro Chip. "Beside, we don't know if the new Net Savior is here or even able to do cross fusion."
He just looked down and jumped down. "Battle Chip, Synchro chip! Slot in! Cross Fusion!"
He immediately fused with Blues and got on the ground. He heard a new thud and saw R Rockman beside him. He nodded to him and they looked around; no viruses there yet.
Suddenly, they heard an explosion; it was coming from the control building of the park. They both ran toward it. When they got closer, they did encounter some viruses and both of them started to destroy them. As more they got closer, the more viruses were there. They heard a second explosion; one of the building's area just exploded and another Net Navi seemed to battle a huge virus, which had caught the red Navi in his claws. R Rockman noticed that it was the red Navi from before. He fired at the virus and the red Navi managed to get out of the claws.
"Are you alright?" asked R Rockman.
"Yea! Thanks!" he said. "Can you handle the viruses outside? I'll handle the problem inside!" he added, leaving without getting the answer anyway.
R Rockman just blinked. "I guess we don't have a choice…" he said, loading again his Rock Buster and shooting other viruses. Blues was taking care of other viruses with his saber. Most of them were pretty easy to take down. But there was still be the big one to take care of.
"Battle Chip, Cyber Sword! Slot In!" said R Blues, changing is regular sword to the other. He jumped and tried to hit the virus, but only managed to cut one of the arms. "Darn it!"
"Battle Chip, Long Sword! Slot In!" yelled R Rockman, as he aimed to cut the legs. He managed and the huge virus felt down, deleted as he touched the ground. Both of the Navis were a little exhausted.
"We should go and joined him" said R Blues. "He might be in trouble."
"Agree" said R Rockman.
Both of the Navis started to run and managed to get in the building only to see a dozen of viruses being deleted by the red Navi, who was standing in the middle with his saber. He didn't look at the other two and started to run to the main area of the building. R Rockman and R Blues looked at each other and just followed the Navi.
The all entered in the main room; it was large and pretty much empty; nothing but the main computer of the amusement park was there. It was silent and all three Navis weren't having a good feeling about this. Even though they looked around to see any trace of an enemy, they couldn't find one. They all took a few steps and were welcomed with many bullets. They all quickly back off and took refugee behind pillars.
"I'm surprised that Net Saviors shows up" said the Navi.
"I should have known it was you…" said R Zero. "Vile! Show yourself!"
"Why should I? It's more amusing to see you torturing yourself to live than make it easy for you" said the Navi.
That royally pissed of R Zero; Vile.EXE was not an easy Net Navi to beat and right now, he didn't know where he was. Any stupid move could cost him a lot; like his own deletion. He shook his head; no time to deal with that kind of thoughts. He looked back at the main computer and he could see viruses now.
"He must really hate Net Saviors…" said R Rockman.
"No, he just hates me, but loves to see me struggle" said R Zero. "Darn it!"
"We have to figure out how to get to the main computer and reestablish it" said R Blues.
"That and not being deleted by Vile while doing it" said R Zero with a sigh. "I'll handle the viruses. That way, he won't pay too much attention to the one doing the computer maintenance."
"Then, I'll handle the computer" Said R Blues.
"Good" replied R Zero. "Ready kid?"
"Sure, but don't call me Kid will ya? It's Rockman!" he said, really annoyed.
"Whatever… Kid" said R Zero with a smirk.
R Rockman gave the other Navi a death glare, but that made R Zero smirked again. But the smirk disappeared quickly as he looked at the viruses. He readied his sword and gave a small glance at the other two; they both nodded. Both R Rockman and R Zero ran to the viruses, deleting a couple of them. Blues waited a little before jumping in and take care of the computer.
R Zero was constantly checking where Vile was while he was deleting some viruses. He maybe was paranoid, but he never really hurt to be careful. Suddenly, he heard a faith sound of thrusters coming from above. He looked quickly to see Vile fly to him. R Zero readied his sword and was about to attack when Vile was blast away by a shot.
"What the…" said R Zero. He looked and saw R Rockman holding his buster; he had actually shot Vile no problem. R Zero nodded to the Blue Bomber and look at Vile, only to see that he was up and was going to shot him.
"Oh no you're not! Battle Chip, Spreader! Slot in!" said Zero.
His arm changed to a buster and he shoot before Vile could do a thing. Vile logged out right after. R Zero was just relieved and looked around; a lot of viruses were still there. He got his sword out and cut most of them while R Rockman blasted them. Most of them disappeared when the Dimensional Area was gone. The main computer was safe.
The three Navis defused from their Net Op; Netto and Enzan looked at their Navis, they were really happy to have actually deal with that problem. They looked where the red Navi was and saw a teenage girl standing there, holding her own red PET, with a smirk.
"Jayna-nee-san!" said Netto really surprised. "No way! You're…"
"I'm the new Net Saviors" she said with a smirk.
The two boys looked at each other, not knowing what to say.
Later
They had talked to Eguchi before the three of them left to join the group, promising to report the incident first thing in the next morning. They were walking toward the Big Wheel, Netto asking a lot of questions, Jayna answering them and Enzan just listening. They finally reached it and saw the group waiting for the two boys. Most of them were surprised to see a girl with them.
"Who is she?" asked Meiru, looking at Jayna.
"Everyone, this is my cousin Jayna" said Netto with a smile. "She's gonna be here for a while because for a certain business."
The others all looked at each other and introduced themselves. By the time they had finish talking and done a couple of rides, it was time to go home. Jayna was amused by Netto's friends somehow; Deako was amusing, Meiru was really nice and yet not a push over, Tohru was really smart from what she could see and Enzan was the silent type. As for Yaito and Anetta, it was another story; she knew of Yaito because of her father, since he was doing business with Yaito's father. She had heard certain good and bad things about the young girl, but it seems that being around Netto changed her for the better. As for Anetta, she could see she was a nice girl, but was very obsessed with Enzan. And she did get death glares when Enzan talked to her.
"You're okay Jayna-nee-san?" asked Netto.
"I'm fine" she replied. "Just thinking."
"Okay" he said.
Most of the others were already back at their own places, so Netto and Jayna were walking to their own. Netto wanted to ask his cousin about Vile.EXE, but decided not too; it was obviously not a good moment, since Jayna seemed back in her thoughts.
Later
It was past 9 when Jayna had finish with her written report. She was really happy to have done it, but one thing still remained; Vile's appearance in this battle. She stretched and looked at the ceiling. If Vile.EXE was there, it meant that those three might also show themselves very soon. This really bothered her. She hated to admit it, but this was not going to be the funniest thing that could happen.
"Have you put Vile's appearance in the report?" asked Zero.
"Of course I did" she said, glancing at Navi. "I hate to say this, but I'm afraid will see the others soon…"
"Don't worry, I can handle them" said Zero. "Beside I'm pretty sure Rockman and Blues are going to help."
She didn't reply to that and looked at the ceiling again; Zero had a point, but both of the other Net Saviors didn't know about the four Navis and what they could do. She just sighed and took her previous position, looking at her Navi.
"I'm more worried about the virus" she said. "We know that one of them is infected by the new virus and the other one is working to make it stronger. The problem is what will happen? We don't know much about it except those facts."
"We will have to talk with the others about it" said Zero. "And we'll take everything as the time pass."
She sighed and got up. She bid her good nights to her Net Navi, tired to think about too much troublesome things and went to bed. Zero looked at his Net Op falling asleep and went to sleep mode to rest.
Tomorrow is another day after all.
To be continued…