Part 2
Note to Readers: Sorry for the long delay folks. It's just that I was celebrating my younger sister's birthday party this weekend and I ended up cleaning the entire back and front yards. That and I needed to study for my big exam. I tell you it's a tough one. AnywayI hope that you all understand the reason for my absense. I would like to thank the group called Generation-A for their continued support on the my stories. I hope that they continue to lend me their support. And for some of you wondering, I know that the title is a bit weird, but I'm not good with putting up names. I'm only good with making up names for my stories, not their titles. Anyway, I did the best that I could and I hope that you all like what I've put up and once again, I'm sorry for the delay. Thank you for understanding. Now, enjoy!
As he was continuing to run from the group of strange aliens that he saw, Lan was still screaming his warning about what he saw just before at the same time as he entered the school. MegaMan is also screaming along with his operator just before they both went through the halls of the school building. When they both finally made it to the class room where they were suppose to meet their friends, Lan soon found himself to be in a situation that's just as worse as looking and confronting mutant aliens from outer space: facing the expressions on his friends' faces filled with both annoyance and anger while looking at him for being late for their meeting. His long time best friend, Maylu Sakurai, was the first to speak a piece of her mind.
"Lan Hikari! Just where in the world have you been!" Maylu said to boy as she walked up towards him angrily and yanked his ear as hard she could. "Do you have any idea what time it is and how long have we been waiting! You'd better have a very good excuse for being late past six in the afternoon!"
"Ow! Ouch! It's not what you think, Maylu!" Lan said as he tried his best to free himself from his female friend's strong hold on his ear while forgetting about the huge near-completed emerald in his hand at the same time. "Please calm down! It's just that..."
"Well, come on, Lan! Spill the beans!" the big kid Dex said with an angry and sarcastic tone of voice. "We just can't wait to hear the excuse that you have this time before we know what just kept you busy for so long that had to be more important than trying to prepare for the Halloween Horror Night that we've all been waiting so long for you to show up! I had to shut down my restaurant and cancel this week's curry special just so that we could all wait for you to get here!"
"The same goes with me as well!" Tory said along with Dex as he looked at his head-banded friend with the same expression on his face as the big kid did.
"Arf!" said the barking voice of the cyber dog Rush while at the same time glaring at Lan with the same expression as the others.
Lan didn't say a thing as his friends Maylu, Rush, Dex, Yai, and Tory kept looking at him with those annoyed and angry expressions that each wore ever since he arrived. "Well, do you have anything to say for yourself, Lan Hikari!" the little blond girl Yai shouted to the boy as she ended the long silence a moment later. "What has got your attention so much that you have to get here so late!"
Lan closed both of his eyes and prepare himself for anything that either of his friends could shout out to him before he soon started to notice that every one of his friends were silent and didn't
say a single word to him. In order to find out the source of the silence, Lan started to open his eyes again and saw that each of his friends' gazes were drawn towards the huge glowing emerald that the boy had nearly forgotten about. The emerald he has in his hand ever since his encounter with the aliens. Lan then began to sigh with relief as he noticed that each of his friends had forgotten all about his tardiness and showed interest in the gem that he has in his hand.
"Whoa, Lan! Where did you get that gem?" he heard Yai saying as she kept her eyes on the sparkling gem in his hand with her eyes glowing with a sparkling light. "It almost looks like one of the gems that my mom has in her world wide jewelry collection at our home! Only, this one looks like that it has been broken."
"It's so pretty!" Maylu added as she looked at the shining emerald with amazement and awe. "It's the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen! Where in the world did you find a gem like this, Lan? It's so huge and pretty!"
"Hmph! That's what I would like to know myself, Lan!" Dex said with a jealous tone as the big kid kept both of his eyes on the green gem stone. "If a stone like that has managed to get Maylu's attention, then I would certainly like to know where you got it so that I could get something like that for..."
"Well, anyway," Maylu began to say as she cut Dex's words short and turned her full attention towards Lan while smiling at him at the same time, "as Dex was saying, where did get a beautiful stone like this that kept you late for so long? Is this the reason why you're late? Did you managed to find it in order to give it to me?"
Lan was so shocked at his female friend's words that it caused him to jump back and blush profusely as he began to say, "What the...! Are you kidding me, Maylu! I didn't bring this gem just so that I could try to impress you! I came here to...!"
"Oh, don't try to play dumb, Lan!" Dex said as he looked at the head-banded boy with an angry expression on his face like a bull. "You know as well as I do that you've had a crush on Maylu since we were little kids and..!"
"Dex! That is not the case!" Lan quickly responded to his big friend's words while cutting off them and tried his best to suppress the red color that was starting to develope on his face. "I've just found this emerald right...!"
"Oh! That's so cute, Lan!" Yai suddenly started to say as she began to look at Lan with a mischievous look on her face. "Trying to impress Maylu while forgetting about your tardiness is just so...!"
"Will all of you just please shut up and listen to me for a moment?" Lan shouted while cutting off the little forehead girl's words and turned to face his five friends while blushing and pointing to the green emerald in his hand. "I don't know what kind of ideas that you guys think you have about this gem, but I originally got it from a huge trash pile that's just behind the school's cafeteria where a group of aliens are right at this very moment and are trying to take over the entire world!"
As he tried his best to calm himself, Lan soon started to notice that each of his friends gave him a look of confusion on his or her face. Then that was when his group of friends started to break the long silence by giving out a huge laughter that's so loud that it could be heard from all around the neighborhood. That was when Lan started to become annoyed and angry by the reaction that his friends gave about his explanation.
"What in the world are you guys laughing about!" Lan shouted to the laughing group as he began to have an angry expression on his face. "Don't you all believe me!"
"Ha! Ha! Ha! Sorry, Lan...it's just that...it's just that..," Tory began to respond to his questions as the boy tried his best to maintain the breathing of his lungs before bursting out into laughter again. "Ha! Ha! Ha! But what you just said to us is so farfetched!"
"Ha! Ha! Ha! Is that the best explanation that you could come up with, Lan!" Dex added as he continued to laugh his huge guts out. "Ha! Ha! Ha! No one would be able to believe a weird and made up excuse like that!"
"Ha! Ha! Ha! I'm sorry, Lan, but I have to agree with Dex on this one!" Maylu said as she tried her best to control her breathing. "What kind of person would believe something like that anyway! It's the lamest excuse since you told Ms. Mari the time about when Rush ate your homework! Ha! Ha! Ha!"
"Arf! Arf!" added in Rush while at the same time snickering at what the head-banded just said to all them a moment ago.
"But what I'm telling you guys is true!" Lan shouted angrily as he continued to hold out the near-completed emerald in his hand towards his friends. "When I first found and saw this emerald in the garbage, it was just a small gem piece. That small gem then suddenly started to glow with a bright green light and, before I knew it, these alien mutants appeared out of nowhere and...!"
"Ha! Ha! Ha! Yeah right, Lan!" Yai responded to the boy while trying her best to contain her laughter as she cut off his words. "There's no way that an ordinary-looking and broken emerald like that is able to transport alien beings from another world! What are you going to tell us next? That the ghosts of pirates are coming to Dentech City in order to get it! Please!"
"But I'm telling all of you that this green emerald is the cause of all this!" Lan said while giving out a pouting and annoyed tone in his voice. "You could all ask MegaMan for yourselves! He was with me for when those aliens appeared out of nowhere while this strange emerald gave out the strong green light! It even caused my P.E.T. to have a static field which made MegaMan lose communication with me which is weird 'cause the P.E.T. 3 is suppose to be made to go with any condition!"
However, when Lan grabbed onto his P.E.T. that's attached on his P.E.T. holder on his waist, there's only a blank screen that read 'Not in Service,' on it. "Whaaa! You got to be kidding me!" the angry boy said as he shook the Personal Terminal furiously. "MegaMan! Where in the world could you be whenever I needed you the most?"
Meanwhile, while in their personal meeting place in the Cyber Network of Dentech Academy, MegaMan was just finished explaining his latest experience with his companions Roll, Glyde, Guts Man, and Ice Man. After giving them all of the details, the blue bomber's friends started to question their friend's story with confusion on their pixel faces.
"MegaMan, are you feeling all right?" the pink Navi Roll asked as she placed her hand over the blue friend's forehead and scanned his data for any signs of corruption that could be the cause of what the blue Navi saw. "You must've had some sort of malfunction for when both you and Lan saw the so-called 'aliens.'"
"That's what I thought too for when Lan told me about those aliens before I saw them with my eyes," MegaMan responded to the pink Navi's words as he pulled her hand away from his forehead. "I even gave myself and the P.E.T. a full virus and diagnostic scan and found nothing that has inhabited my systems! Not even one bug! I feel perfectly fine! What I saw was the real thing! The strange mutant alligator that we saw had teeth that are so large and sharp that they would make Shark Man want to go to the dentist for a check up! And it spoke too!"
"That not what we thinks. Guts," Guts Man said as he answered with a skeptical tone of voice. "Guts Man think that puny blue boy saw was just illusion of some kind. Guts."
"I hate to say this, but Guts Man might be right about this," Ice Man added while giving out a long and deep sigh. "Can either you or Lan prove that those so-called 'aliens' really exist? Do you guys have any proof at all?"
"Well, I must say, I that too would have to find this story rather outlandish, MegaMan," Glyde said as the buttler Navi looked at the Blue Bomber with a confused look on his face. "Is there any physical evidence that could help support you in your case?"
"Well, as a matter of fact, we do, Glyde," MegaMan with a serious tone in his voice. "While on our way here, Lan found this weird-looking green emerald shard that glowed with a green light and it suddenly became bigger. It was at that time for when the aliens appeared out of nowhere and the emerald shard suddenly became a near-completed emerald. I'm telling all of you that this jewel is no ordinary gem because it emitted a powerful magnetic field that blocked off my communications link with Lan."
"Oh, really?" Roll replied with a skeptical tone in her voice, "And where is this so-called strange emerald that emits the powerful magnetic field that you told us about? It doesn't seem to me that it would've erased your memory banks like it would an ordinary computer system for when I've scanned you before."
"Lan has it right now," MegaMan said to his female Navi friend, "He's talking to the others about what we've saw and is showing them the emerald even as I speak. Look, go back to your own P.E.T.s and you'll soon see what I mean. I'm logging out right now!"
As the blue bomber started to log out of the meeting area, his friends all gave out a huge sigh and started to talk amongst themselves.
"(Sigh) My poor misguided MegaMan," Roll said as she gave out a sigh of worry. "Both he and Lan believe that those aliens of theirs exist. It's almost like that time for when Mega was scared silly for when he once believed in those pirate ghosts that Lan told to him once for when he was telling ghost stories one night."
"Pirate ghosts? Guts?" Guts Man asked the pink Navi as he began to scratch his head in confusion. "What you talking about, Roll? Guts."
"Roll, you must mean ghost pirates," Ice Man said as the little Navi approached her while clearing his throat. "(Ahem!) You see, a pirate ghost would suggest that a pirate died and then became a ghost. But a ghost pirate would suggest that a person died and later made a conscious decision to become a pirate."
"But then that would make them pirate ghosts," Roll replied to the little Ice Man as she started to have an annoyed tone in her voice a little.
"I don't think that your still don't understand me, Roll. You see, there is no known evidence of pirate bodies or sightings to be found in or anywhere near Dentech City or any other country," Ice Man shot back with a louder tone of voice as he himself was starting to become annoyed with the Navi girl's argument. "So these must be ghosts that decided to become pirates after the fact. Therefore, that would make them ghost pirates."
"But then they would be known as pirate ghosts!" Roll shouted to the short Navi as she started to become angry with the growing argument.
"No! They would be ghost pirates!" Ice Man shot back as he started to become as annoyed and angry as Roll is now.
Before they could have the chance to launch each of their own attacks and start a Net Battle, both Glyde and Guts Man chose the time to intervene and they each started to hold back each Navi from attacking one another as the two other Navis began to say to each of their friends in order to try to calm them down.
"Roll! Ice Man! Calm down, you two!" Glyde said as he held the little Ice Man by the arms. "Now isn't the time to start arguing about this! Right now, that should be the least of our concerns!"
"Glyde right! Guts!" Guts Man said as he used his huge body as a wall in order to block Roll's view of her opponent. "Guts Man and others have other things to worry about! Like following crazy little MegaMan back to our P.E.T.s! Guts! Besides, my head hurts!"
Meanwhile, back in the world outside of the Cyber World, Lan started to turn his attention back towards his friends and started to become nervous for when he saw the suspicious and cock-eyed looks while continuing to have a smile on each of their faces. The head-banded Net Battler was still feeling a bit annoyed for when his friends laughed at his story. But he was also feeling a bit nervous about what they're going to say next. Before anyone could have a chance to say another word in order to break the long silence, MegaMan's voice suddenly started to shout out while startling his Net Operator at the same time as the boy looked at his P.E.T. with a annoyed looked on his face.
"Hey, Lan! What's going on around here? And what's up with your face?" MegaMan began to ask as soon as he reappeared back on the screen of the P.E.T. "It looks as though you were being accused of stealing chocolate brownies from the school cafeteria again!"
"Ha! Ha! Ha! Very funny!" Lan responded to his blue friend with a sarcastic and annoyed tone of voice before he started to speak again. "Well, while you were off meeting with your friends, I'm here trying to explain to the guys that I'm not lying about seeing those aliens that we saw!"
"Okay! Okay! There's no need for you to shout at me, Lan! I can hear you perfectly fine! Sheesh!" MegaMan responded to the boy while covering the places on his helment where his ears would be. "You're not the only one who's got problems trying to convince everyone that we saw those aliens! When I've talk with the guys about what just happened, they wouldn't believe me either! Now they think that I'm just plain crazy!"
When his Net Navi friend said those words, Lan started to hear his friends starting to comment about the situation.
"Lan, I think that maybe MegaMan might be suffering from a system error," Maylu said while a mutual tone. "Did you maybe, by any chance, dropped your P.E.T. that caused MegaMan to have a..?"
"No! I did not, Maylu!" the boy shouted to his female friend as he began to become annoyed by the question while pointing to the green gem stone. "For your information, he just happened to be with me, unharmed mind you, for when this emerald appeared from within the garbage pile of the cafeteria before the aliens appeared with their...!"
"Lan Hikari! Where in the world have you been!" the boy heard the voice of his teacher Ms. Mari shouting to from within the halls. "You should know better than to shout out loud in the classroom like that! Where have you been that took you so long that..!"
Before the woman with the bun-shaped hair could finish her words, the green near-completed emerald that Lan has in his hands suddenly started to glow brighter and brighter without warning as it blinded everyone from within the room. Everyone inside the room started to shout out loud as they continued to be blinded by the light that the green gem emitted.
While waiting for the ten minutes to pass by, Miguel listened to Vector give his lecture to the shrine maiden Sylphiel, who listened very carefully to the green croc's every word. The teen sweatdropped for when he heard the next words that the crocodile said next.
"Okay, babe. Now here's the next thing you should know," Vector said with a calm and cool tone of voice, "When you want to know whether or not the homeboy's trying to hit on you for the wrong reason, he should be saying something like 'Yo, girl! That's a nice body that you have there! Care to join me in my crib!' in a crazy tone of voice. Now, if you want to speak with any of your homegirls, you should be saying something like 'Yo, my home girls! How's it hanging!' Now, if a girl would try to say something like that to you, you should respond by saying..."
As the lecture continued on, Miguel began to chuckle a bit to himself at the thought of Sylphiel saying the words that Vector was explaining to her. He then looked at his watch and checked the time. It was only about five minutes since the green crocodile began his lecture with the girl and Vector was already at how to greet people in slang.
"Now that's a good title for Vector's new book. 'Adequate on how to Speak in the 'Hood.' he thought as he smiled to himself while he continued to listen to the green crocodile continuing to give his talk with the shrine maiden. "I wonder how Sonic and the others would take it for when they find something different about Sylphiel? Will they be in for a surprise for when they hear her saying, 'Waz up, my homies?' to them for the first time. I bet that they would be scared from the shock. Hee! I really can't wait for that to hap..."
That was when Miguel's thoughts were soon cut short for when he felt a sudden jolt of energy crawling up from his spine and spread throughout his entire body. The human teen then found himself scanning all around the area searching for the source of the great energy that he just felt.
"Guys, I think that we might have to cut these adequate lessons short and save them for later! Right now, I'm sensing a great deal of Chaos Energy that's coming from inside the building that we're close to!" Miguel began to shout as he finally recognized the energy that he was feeling while turning his attention towards Sylphiel, "Sylphiel, did you feel it too?"
He saw the shrine maiden responded to his question by looking around and gave out a surprised gasp for when she finally found what he was talking about. "I did, Miguel!" she said to him as she became as surprised and aware as Miguel was feeling now, "I've felt it from the direction that you said it came from! The Chaos Emerald must be somewhere inside that building!"
"Then what are we doing here just acting like a bunch of lumps!" Miguel heard the voice of Vector saying as he turned and saw the green crocodile starting to run out towards the entrance of the alleyway. "Let's go get that emerald before the wrong home boys managed to see it, not to mention get even with the twerps that called me a mutant alligator!"
"Yo, Vec! Wait up!" the human heard Mighty beginning to say to his green friend while seeing the armadillo chasing after him, "We shouldn't be going out on the open like that! What if..!"
Before the armadillo's words could set in, Miguel saw that Vector was already running out of the alley before his black and orange friend could finish the last words of his sentence.
"(Sigh!) Looks as though that there's no way that we could talk Vector on waiting for a plan," Miguel heard Mighty said with an annoyed sigh as he saw the armadillo walking towards the same direction as the green crocodile was heading before he was out of sight.
When they were all alone, Miguel started to hear the voice of the Sylphiel saying to him with a concerned tone, "Miguel, we have to follow them. You said so yourself that if we allow that Chaos Emerald to run loose, then strange and unpredictable things might happen that could endanger this entire world as well as the people in it."
For when he had heard those words come out of the shrine maiden's mouth, Miguel turned his attention towards her face and said to her with a nod of his head, "You're right, Sylphiel. Let's go and catch up with Vector and Mighty so that we could lead the way. We have a better chance of finding the Chaos Emerald than they do. Besides, we have to keep Vector from killing those kids somehow."
While seeing a smile appearing on her face, Sylphiel suddenly started to tug on Miguel's arm and said to him, "Well, what are we waiting for? Let's make like a tree and leave!"
As he was being tugged by the shrine maiden, Miguel began to chuckle a bit for when he heard those words come out of the priestess's mouth. "I guess that Vector's little lecture with Sylphiel actually worked," he thought to himself while being dragged on by the purple and long-haired girl's hands as a sweatdrop appeared behind his head. "Only that she was suppose to say, 'Let's make like bananas and split.' I guess that she's just not used to saying that kind of language to people in this world befo..."
Miguel's thoughts were then cut off for when he realized that he was inside of the building of where the Chaos Energy that he'd felt was being emitted. He began to look around and saw that the building looks to be like a junior high school with lockers down its hallways. Miguel then started to notice that the hallways were empty and deserted, meaning that classes in this school have ended long ago since they've arrived. However, that wasn't what got the young man's attention. One of the signs, that he soon began to read, said 'Halloween Horror Night at 8:00 p.m. being held at Dentech Academy Tonight.'
"Dentech Academy!" Miguel thought to himself as the realization of the thought hit him hard like a ton of bricks. "Holy crap! Then that would mean that this world is the home of...!"
His thoughts were soon cut short for when he heard Sylphiel's voice saying to him, "Miguel, I've found the place where the Chaos Emerald is being held at! We should hurry up and get there before something strange and unusual happens!"
Miguel gave out a nod in response to the shrine maiden and followed in the direction where she was running towards to. "If this world is the place that I think it is," he thought to himself as he followed Sylphiel up the a case of stairs, "then I wouldn't be the only person that would be surprised to see strange things that came from another dimension as well as other beings from another world."
While exploring the skies of the city below him, Charmy was carefully flying across the skies of the city that he was looking at. The young bee is also careful that he didn't attract any unwanted attention that he might get by the human people from within the buildings who might be watching through the windows by flying at a high speed and avoiding the windows on each of the buildings.
"Geez! This is like finding a needle in a haystack!" Charmy thought to himself as he continued to fly around the city while avoiding the windows of the buildings. "Those two kids holding shards of the Chaos Emerald could be anywhere in this huge city!
"I know that Vector said that we should only look around the city to see where we are, but this is just plain boring! I should've been better off staying with the guys. Man, I wish that a clue or something would just turn up and allow me to...!"
As if responding to the young bee's request, Charmy suddenly saw a bright pillar of emerald green light erupting from the direction that he just came from.
"What in the world?" he shouted as he saw the light continuing to shine with its green brilliance shooting from the window of the building like a laser beam. "That huge light is coming from a Chaos Emerald and its being emitted from the place where I left the gang last! I'd better get back there before...!"
Before the bee could finish the rest of his sentence, he suddenly started to notice another beam of emerald light shooting in the direction opposite from the one that he saw first. He could see that the second light that he saw is smaller than the first one that he saw from where he left the others.
"That beam of light is the same kind of light that I've saw coming from the place that Vector and the others are in now," Charmy thought as he looked back and forth, deciding which direction to go. "Judging from the size of the first one that I've saw, I'd say that it's where all the rest of the emerald shards are being held.
"Which means that the second beam must be another small fragment of the Chaos Emerald. I could just go to that place and check it out. But without either of the guys to help me out, I'm a sitting duck! I guess that there's only one thing for me to do!"
Finally making up his mind, Charmy decided to take his chances by going down to the ground nearest where he saw the weaker pillar of green light being shot out from so that way he could get a better look at what was really happening over the area.
While exploring the city streets while in his Stealth Mode, Espio carefully scouted the streets and the tall buildings in order to find information on what city that they were in. As the chameleon carefully explored the city while hanging on the walls of the huge buildings while not making a sound, he looked around and saw that the people of the city were as modern and normal as the people of Miguel's world. However, as he took a closer look at the citizens' activities, Espio noticed that the technology was a bit more advanced than Miguel's world would ever be.
As he sneaked pass the unknowing people of the city, the invisible chameleon thought to himself as he carefully snuck around the alleys in between the buildings, "Well, so far on my search is that I now know that the city's name is Dentech City. Secondly, I know that this city's technology is a bit more advanced than that of Miguel's world for when I saw it for the first time along with the guys saw it. Only thing left for me to do is to just get back to the others and..."
Before he could have a chance to finish his thoughts, Espio was suddenly startled for when he saw the appearance of a pillar of emerald green light appearing out and up towards the sky. That was when the invisible chameleon started to climb up a few more feet of the building that he was on in order to get a better look.
"That green pillar of light! It's coming from a Chaos Emerald!" the chameleon thought to himself as he watched the nearby people watching the scene developing in front of them. "It's also coming from the place where Vector and the others are still at and judging from the size of the light, I'd say that all of the shards of the Chaos Emerald are together in that place! I'd better get back before..."
That was when Espio's thoughts were interrupted for when he heard one of the voices of the citizens shouting out while the chameleon saw the woman pointing to the opposite direction, "Everybody look at those two twin green pillar of light! They're both emitting a powerful magnetic field that's messing with the TV screens of every one of the buildings! Look!"
When he heard those words coming from the woman's mouth, Espio started to look at the direction that the she was looking at and saw what she meant for when he saw that there was another pillar of emerald light.
"Whoa! Now I've seen everything!" the purple chameleon thought to himself as he watched the bright but smaller tower of green light. "If I didn't know any better, I'd say that the other pillar of light must be coming from another small shard of the Chaos Emerald. Perhaps I should go check it out and see for myself before anyone around this area decides to check it out for themselves. Besides, I'm sure that Charmy was able to see that pillar of light and would be curious enough to check it out."
With those words of his mind said and done, Espio started to leap from the building that he was on and clung onto the next one close to it. The purple yet invisible chameleon kept on leaping from building to building in order to get to his destination before anyone else could get there.
While watching the events of the alternate universe unfold from within a dimension between time and space, the powerful and liquified creature Nightmare Parasite sensed the powers of the Chaos Emerald flowing from within its red and black body.
"Hee! Hee! Hee! This has become very interesting!" the Chaos clone thought to itself as it watched the invisible chameleon leaping to the place that it also saw the small young bee flying to while watching the two humans, Miguel and Sylphiel, running after the armadillo and crocodile. "Both humans are running towards the location of the near-completed Chaos Emerald while two of the Mobian members of the Chaotix run around in circles while their other two comrades go towards the direction of the last emerald shard.
"Now would be the perfect time to release one of my resurrected minions to this dimension and show both the two humans and the Mobians, as well as the planet, one of my most unique and powerful special abilities: the ability to resurrect the dead at will just by taking a small sample of that being's DNA. Even a molecule of the being's entire genetic structure is enough for me to use to restore that being's body back to their former state as well as pulling their soul from the underworld to bring them back to life. Soon both that foolish human Miguel and his female companion, Sylphiel, will live to regret ever to have crossed my path.
"I will never forget that day: my first defeat at the hands of those two humans. But also on that day, just before my so-called death, I told those two that I'm a living nightmare that could never be destroyed and will one day return to have my vengeance. But now is not the right time for my reappearance for I am still not ready to face them. For now though, I'd rather send in one of Diol's experimental servants that I helped to bring back to life to go into that realm and retrieve that emerald so that it might be of some help with my plans for universal domination. I could also send him to that world in order to see how powerful a resurrected being could be for when its cells are infused with my own."
That was when the liquified creature began to call forth one of its minions by shouting out by its name, "Dilgear, former servant of the Red Priest Rezo, come to me!"
As soon as the Chaos clone had said that name, appearing out of the darkness came a werewolf-like man who wore clothing like that of a bandit of Earth's medieval times. When the part man part wolf creature finally appeared in front of the Nightmare Parasite's presense, gave him an annoyed look before he spoke.
"What do you want from me, creature?" said Dilgear as he mock bowed before the black and red liquid creature while showing the loyalty to it like that of a dog to its master. "Isn't it bad enough already for you to bring me back to life using my corpse and soul for your own purposes?"
"Hee! Hee! Hee! You're in a rather bad and arrogant mood, aren't you?" Parasite answered with its usual hissing voice despite while smiling to itself, "You dared to speak to me in that tone of voice of yours and yet I could have your resurrected corpse torn apart with just a single thought of my mind. But instead, just so that you might be a little more cooperative with me, I have a task that I think you might be interested in."
"Ha!" the werewolf replied to the liquid creature word while keeping the arrogance in his voice, "and why, I may ask, is worth bringing me back from the dead so that I could only live to serve you?"
"What if I were to tell you that your reward for doing this task is a shot at revenge at the one who had you executed by his servants, Zolf and Radimus?" Nightmare Parasite asked with a cunning hissing tone of voice. "The chimera named Zelgadis Greywords.
"The two that performed your execution were already slain by the resurrected piece of the Dark Lord, Ruby-Eye Shabranigdo. But Zelgadis still lives along with his two companions, Lina Inverse and Gourry Gabriev. Along in their travels, they've made friends with two female companions: Amelia Wil Tesla Seyruun, crowned princess of the Royal House of Seyruun; and Sylphiel Nels Lahda, former shrine maiden of the now destroyed city of Siaraag."
The werewolf man soon began to become interested in what the Chaos clone had said for when it mentioned the name of his former comrade and now enemy, Zelgadis Greywords. "Just tell me the task that I have to get done so that I may have my revenge on that worthless chimera," Dilgear began to say with a less arrogant tone as he started to show interest in the Nightmare Parasite's offer.
With an evil smirk on its face that the wolf man even didn't notice, the Nightmare Parasite began to say to the resurrected creature with its usual tone of voice, "Hee! Very well then, I'll get right to the point. I actually have for you two tasks: one is to retrieve a huge green gem stone that is called the Chaos Emerald from another plane of existence; and the other is for you to eliminate one of the two female companions that I've mentioned to you before, Sylphiel Nels Lahda.
"But don't worry yourself about having to find the Chaos Emerald, Dilgear. I have enhanced your body with a sixth sense that could help you hunt down and locate the emeralds with little effort by sniffing out its great cosmic power with your nose, thus allowing you to track its trail for when I've brought your corpse back to life. As for the second task, the young woman Sylphiel isn't alone in the place that she's in now. She has with her a group of companions that are from another world who are known by the name of 'the Chaotix'. The shrine maiden is also accompanied by a human from a world that is a bit similar to the one that I've brought you from, but a bit more advanced. A young male human that goes by the name Miguel Angel Arias. I want you to confront these fools and kill them so that way you could have a taste of the revenge that would be in store for Zelgadis and I would have nothing to stand in my way."
"What's there to be scared of a young human boy and the shrine maiden along with this group that call themselves the Chaotix?" Dilgear asked its benefactor with a curious look on his wolf-like face, "They sound like a bunch of weaklings to me. Those tasks sound like a piece of cake to deal with."
"Don't let their appearances fool you, werewolf," Nightmare Parasite responded to Dilgear's words with a harsh sounding tone of its hissing voice, "The shrine maiden herself has proven herself worthy and powerful in fighting me before alongside with the young male Earth human and is growing more powerful overtime. Miguel, who himself has a power beyond your imagination, has once fought and defeated my creator: the sorcerer named Ixis Naugus. Both he and the girl are responsible for handing me my first and only defeat. As for the Chaotix, these creatures have already proven themselves worthy in fighting beings that have powers that are almost awesome as that of Gods and Monsters themselves by defeating one of the pieces of my body.
"But to ensure our victory against them, I have resurrected and also enhanced your body so that you could be prepared and an equal match to face those fools in battle for if you've encountered them. You would have powers that are beyond the chimera methods and designs that your dead master, Rezo, has endowed you with. However, just to be sure of your victory, I have decided to take one of the myths of an alternate dimension's stories and bring in reinforcements for you just to even the odds."
"And just exactly what kind of reinforcements do you have in mind for this situation?" the werewolf asked with a skeptical tone as he waited for the creature to answer.
"Just wait and see for yourself, werewolf," answered the Chaos clone as it no longer spoke and it dropped about ten to fifteen pieces of itself to the dimension's hard floor. As its pieces hit the ground, the blobs of red and black liquid soon began to grow bigger and started taking human shapes.
When the once small pieces of Nightmare Parasite finally emerged in their fully formed bodies, their creator began to giggle a bit for as it spoke, "Now those fools, as well as the entire city of Dentech, will soon experience the true meaning of my powers for the first time for when I unleash it upon this dimension! If the foolish human boy as well as his friends want to see the ghosts of pirates, then that's what they'll get!"
The liquid creature then turned its three-eyed attention back towards the werewolf, who was staring at the human creatures that it created, and said to him, "Dilgear, I want you to go and lead my pirate ghost army into this dimension and seize the Chaos Emerald as well as eliminate my enemies! If anyone else ever tries to get in the way of your mission, then...Hee! Hee! Hee! Well, it's their own bad luck."
While snapping himself out of his surprised gaze, Dilgear finally responded to Nightmare Parasite by nodding his head towards its direction and walked out of the dark dimension along with the human-like ghosts that the creature had brought from the underworld. As soon as it saw the part werewolf and part troll out of its sight, the liquified creature heard the voice of one Shade the Red Shadow speaking to his creator with a calm and obedient tone.
"Master Parasite, are you sure that it's wise to let this first resurrected and enhanced beast to go to that world where both my genetic parents and their friends are? They could easily defeat him for if he fails in his mission as well as those ghosts of pirates that you've brought back. After all, he is the first successful minion that you've brought back from the void."
Instead of his master/creator answering his question, a voice soon erupted in between the two for when he realized that it was none other than the person that brought his two other brethren to life. "I wouldn't worry too much about it too much, Shade," Professor Diol said to the vampire as his short and old form appeared before his and Parasite's presense. "You see, just before Lord Parasite could bring that former werewolf of Rezo's back from beyond, it met me. I'd agree to help Parasite to maintain its body as well as gather all of the essence necessary to be restored to its natural state.
"Of course, right after Lord Parasite was able to grant me all of the knowledge as well as the power and equipment that I need, I did my best to gather some of the most powerful essences of Monster or Dragons. As it turns out, it was enough to restore it to nearly restore it to its original state, but not completely at the time. However, it was enough for Lord Parasite to be able to bring back one of the creatures that was recently slain by a sorcerer and a warrior. That creature was Dilgear."
"Hee! Hee! Hee! You are certainly right about that, my friend," Nightmare Parasite said to the old sage as it began to hover towards both Shade and Diol. "You see, Shade, right after my first battle with both you genetic parents, Miguel and Sylphiel, I was but a mere cell. But overtime, I was able to reassemble myself for when the cells of my entire body began to merge with one another like a mind-hive of a ant colony. Hee! Hee! Hee! You see, no matter how much those two humans try, I can never be truly destroyed. Even a molecule of my body is enough to allow me to come back to life.
"As soon as a part of my body was put back together, I began to search throughout the universe for the perfect person to help me to restore my body back into its former state. That's the time for when I've met Professor Diol and promised him anything that he would desire in exchange for helping me."
"But what does this wolf Dilgear have to do with anything, Master Parasite?" Shade asked his master with a curious tone just before he heard the old sage Diol answering his question.
"Well Shade, right after my agreement with Lord Parasite, we were both transported into the dimension that we're in now and then it began to infuse my very body with the powers of its cells. At the time, I had little time left before I could pass on to the next world, but Lord Parasite's powers changed all that. When I was infused with those cells that it gave me, I felt knowledge and powers beyond that of old ones passing through me as well as receiving an extended least on life.
"But as per the agreement, I had to travel through various continents and countries in order to find what Lord Parasite needed to be whole again. I was amazed at the creatures that I've encountered throughout my entire journey across the outer territories of my world. However, I was able to get the DNA cells as well as spiritual essences and powers needed in order to try to restore the Lord back to its former state. As time progressed, I felt that there has to be a faster method into bringing more DNA and spiritual essence for Lord Parasite to be restored. That was when I've stumbled upon Dilgear's dead and decease body lying in an old abandoned town that appears to be attacked about decades ago.
"When I've first presented him to Lord Parasite, it asked me why did I bring a carcass like his in front of his presence. That was when I've proposed the method of bringing not only his body back to life but to conduct an experiment that I've had in my mind since I was first endowed with the advanced knowledge of genetics and technology. That was when Lord Parasite took me into a the room where your two brethren generals Drakon and Shogar were created before bringing them into existence. With the equipment and knowledge, I was able to enhance Dilgear's natural and created abilities that even he was unaware of."
"You're correct about that, Professor Diol," Nightmare Parasite Chaos said to the aged sage for when it turned its full attention back towards the screens that's filled with the images of its enemies while talking to its vampire creation. "You see, Shade, just before Dilgear was even awakened, I allowed Diol to make a few...adjustments to his entire genetic structure thanks to the infinite knowledge and equipment that I've granted him. Without realizing it, Dilgear has become the first of one of many of the new Nightmare Soldiers that I'm building for my army! Are those fools Miguel and Sylphiel as well as the Chaotix going to be in for a surprise for when the face a terror far beyond their nightmares. Ha! Ha! Ha!"
As he continued to scan the cyber network to look for the energy source that he desired, Bass suddenly came to a stop for when he began to sense a huge amount of energy that was flowing all over his body.
"The energy has revealed itself once again!" the Black Shadow thought to himself as he was becoming curious about the energy's sudden reappearance. "This is very strange. Why would it suddenly reappear after disappearing from my sight a while ago? I guess that it doesn't matter now. What matters is that I track it down before it eludes my sights once again. It's coming from the Cyber Matrix of DenTech City. I better get back there before I lose the energy source completely."
With those thoughts done in his mind, Bass started to travel through the Cyber World's link. However, just as he was about to reach towards the source of energy surge that he felt, the Black Shadow Navi soon found himself coming to a stop for when he felt another surge of energy coming from out of nowhere. It was different from the one that he was chasing after.
"What was that energy that I'm feeling?" the cloaked Navi thought to himself as he was curious about what the other energy surge that he felt. "It's the same feeling that I've felt that for when I was trying to look for the great source of power the first time. It feels so terrifying and huge that it feels as though it could bend and rip the very fabric of time and space within this world to its purpose.
"Why am I feeling this way? I've never felt this horrified since I was defeated by the female Navi from space named Slur. Well, it doesn't matter now. All that matters is that I find that power source before it eludes me once again. Once I find it, I'll be able to face whatever was causing this horrifying force that I've felt. Nothing is going to get in my way from having my revenge! Navi or human, I will crush and destroy whatever gets in my way!"
With those thoughts done in his mind, Bass continued his way towards the direction where he sensed the huge amount of energy that he felt coming towards DenTech City's server.
While running around the inside of the school, both Mighty and Vector were searching for source of the emerald green light that they saw burst out through the window.
"Man, Might! We've got to get to that emerald and fast!" Vector said to the black and orange armadillo while running up the stairway, "The light that we just saw has got to be coming from those Chaos Emerald shards that those two punks have took from us! We've got to move fast!"
"Whoa! Wait up, Vec!" Mighty responded to his green crocodile friend while running alongside him, "Shouldn't we wait for Miguel and Sylphiel to catch up with us first! I mean, those two do have the ability to track down the powers of the Chaos Emerald as well as Knux can! And you need to calm and not spaz out! So why don't we slow down and...!"
The armadillo's words were soon cut off by Vector saying, "That Chaos Emerald is starting to grow out of control with Chaos Energy, Might! If we just stand still and just let this happen, then we're all going to be in trouble! Besides, those two look like that they could get to the place before we could and are able to handle somthing like this themse...!"
The green croc's words were soon cut short for when he, while not looking, suddenly bumped into something that's almost as skinny and hard as a telephone pole. When Vector fell to the ground on his tail and rear, he began to shout out, "Man! Who in the world just bumped into me like that! When I find out who, I'm going to...!"
"Whoa! Chill out, Vector!" Mighty said as he walked up towards green crocodile so that he could pick his friend up, "It's not like the guy would want to do that to you on...!"
Before the armadillo could have the chance to finish the rest of his sentence, both he and Vector started to hear the shouts of someone yelling, "Ahhh! Talking mutant animals! What would the people around here think of next for Halloween costumes! Talking chickens!"
When the two Mobians turned towards the person's direction, they both saw that he was a male human who probably didn't use any hair gel or dandruff for that matter. He is also wearing a pair of glasses that make him look like some sort of nerd. The clothing that the man is wearing also matched the nerd-like look that he had all over his face for when he saw the two Mobians.
"(Ahem) Excuse me, you two," he began to say to both Mighty and Vector with a stern tone in his voice as he cleared his throat, "but you're not suppose to be in here without the authorized permission from the principal or any one of the teachers of this school in order to be here! Are you some of the performers that Miss Mari hired to perform for the Halloween Horror Night? Well, you should watch out where you're going! Do you have any idea that...?"
Before the man could have a chance to finish the rest of his question, the green crocodile started to yelled to him while opening his huge mouth, "Yo, man! Who do you think you're dealing with! You're the one who bumped into me and should start runnin' for when..!"
"Whoa! Easy, Vec! Chill out!" Mighty started to say to his friend as the orange and black armadillo began to grip onto the green croc's arms in order to hold him back from attacking the guy that he bumped into, "It's not like that the guy did that to you on purpose! Besides, we have other things to worry about! Like the Chaos Emerald!"
"What are you two talking about?" asked the man in a confused tone of voice for when he heard what the Mighty said, "Just what is this Chaos Emerald that you're talking about? Never mind that, just don't you two think that wearing shoes and other accessories to go with those costumes of yours is a little much? I mean, a crocodile wearing a golden chain around his neck and earphones? Now that is something a little too farfetched for anyone around here to start believing!"
When Vector finally started to calm down a little bit and was released from Mighty's grip, he soon started to turn to his friend and whispered to him while making sure that no one else is watching and listening as well as the guy, "Yo, Might! Keep down the volume! Do you realize that you've just mentioned the Chaos Emerald in front of the nerdy dude?"
"Well, how was I suppose to know when I was too busy holding onto your arms as if you were a wild bull?" Mighty whispered back to the crocodile with a sort of annoyed tone in his voice, "You were the one who planned to go medieval on the guy for bumping into you like that!"
"Well pardon me for being myself, man!" Vector responded to the armadillo as he spoke to his friend with a bit of sarcasm in his voice, "I didn't know that I needed your permission in order to talk to the weird nerdy dude in the glasses who just bumped into me! What...!"
Before the green crocodile could have the chance to start another sentence, Vector suddenly felt the hands of the nerdy-looking guy trying to pull his head off as if it were a mask. "Look you two, I don't know what exactly is going on around here, but you need to take off those ridiculous masks and show me who...!"
"Yo! Yo! Yo! What you doin' with my head, Nerdo!" the green crocodile shouted to the person who continued to grip onto his head like a mask. "If you don't let go of my head, I'm going to bite that big pile of hair off of your head like a sandwich!"
"Not until I see who's really behind the mask!" answered the guy as the person continued to keep a firm grip on Vector's head. "And for your information, pal, the name is Higsby, not Nerdo! Now if you and your friend don't show me who you really are right now, I'm going to report you to the proper authorities! Boy, is this mask on your head secured tight!"
"Sir! Would you please let go of Vector's head right this instant!" Mighty shouted to Mr. Higsby as he did his best to convince the man to let go of the green crocodile's head. "He really doesn't like it if you keep tugging on his head like a..."
The orange and black armadillo's words were suddenly cut off for when a streak of blue light suddenly appeared out of nowhere and when he, Vector, and the person named Higsby stopped their fighting in order to see what caused it, they were both shocked to find a group of human pirates surrounding them at every corner that they look. They also noticed the way that the pirates were almost easy to see through, as if they don't possess any physical bodies at all.
"Guys, I think that we might be in for some trouble!" Mighty started to say to both Vector and Higsby as the two of them looked at the group of pirates in front of them. "And am I just seeing things or do the the two of you see a bunch of ghosts dressed as pirates in front of your eyes?"
"I think that you might be right about what you just said, Might," the green crocodile responded to his friend as he pulled the human nerd off of his back and readied himself for a fight. "Well, whatever they are, this is the sort of thing that I'm looking forward to since our last adventure on Angel Island. Now let's take care of these fools so that we could continue onto our mission."
"Vec, I think that this is one of those times that we should just back away and start running away as fast as possible!" Mighty said to his green friend as the armadillo began to tug at his arm, "Besides, these things look as those they might be too much for us to handle on our own! If we just stick around here, we could only end up losing our lives!"
"Could the two of you please tell me what's going on around here?" the two members of the Chaotix heard the voice of the man called Higsby asking, "First, it's the you two showing up in those weird costumes and now these people appeared from within a green light wearing pirate costumes! What in the world is happening?"
"Look, man, if you expect to live to get those answers from us," Vector said to the man as he saw the band of pirates charging towards them, "then I would suggest that you start running out of here and let the two of us to lead the way! Now let's get going!"
With those words said and done, they both saw the human man named Higsby started to run out of the developing scene as he began to scream for help. As the two Mobians saw the strange guy leaving the hall without any hesitation, they both began to sigh in annoyance and instantly began to follow the nerd-like person as the pirate ghosts began to chase them at full speed while not noticing they didn't once attract the large group of 'pirates'attention.
End of Part 2