Day 1 Part 1 - Overheated Core
"Ah man, does no one even bother to check this thing? I mean it not's like we haven't faced an attack here before, even though we didn't even know about it until after the fact but still," an orange navi grumbled as he walked into the Water Temperature Control Comp 1 space. The navi normally wasn't much of a complainer; but he was supposed to be on break by now and this network was not only still mind boggling as ever but the area in question was also completely out of the way. Still it was his job.
The navi skidded to a stop as he slide off the ice. He still never understood just why the Water Works network managers considered even allowing the hazard to exist over the entire cyberspace. It wasn't like they even had a water element navi to boss them around, but they still kept their "security" measures around. Frankfully, the navi merely thought other workers just liked playing around.
As the navi jacked into the Control Comp 2, his mind was distracted by the subtle heat wave that was warming the area. While he was glad that he wouldn't have anymore ice to deal with on account most of it had turned into sloppy mush, it meant that a virus had gotten into their systems after all. The navi stepped forward as a cannon replaced his hand. Hopefully it was just some Volgears, stupid furnace based viruses. It wouldn't take too long to dispatch them and then he could just get back to his break a lot faster.
"Ugh…" someone moaned. The orange standard navi tilted his head and began to look around. He couldn't really see anyone, but he had definitely heard a navi somewhere close by. From the sound of things, they were hurt too. Perhaps someone had tried to investigate the area too? But then again, from the sound of the request it seemed as if someone had just noticed this.
"Hello?" the navi yelled out, trying to get a fix on the other navi's location.
"He...lp...too...hot…" she called back, at least the voice sounded like a female's. Still though, the orange navi didn't really consider the area to being "too hot". A little warm, yes. But hot? Not by much. Perhaps he was just built with a better temperature resisting core? That would make sense since he had to deal with making sure that the pipes didn't overheat in the lower levels of the Water Works Main Control network.
The navi shook his head as a body came into view, "Hold on! I'm on the way!" He raced over to the downed navi. As he got closer, he realized the navi was blue in color. On her back seemed to be four electric cables only about three feet in length a piece. Her helmet was a dark shade of gray. Her eyes were closed shut as she shivered against the ground. Wait...shivered?
The standard navi barely had a moment to react before one of the cables grabbed him. A strong shock ran through his systems, "GAAH!" The orange cyber being brought his cannon and fired at the cable.
The blue navi on the ground suddenly sprang up to her feet. Her wires lifted themselves up like snakes as she snapped open her red eyes. In seconds, her irises were unable to be see as a red flame replaced them. She smiled sinisterly at the orange navi before her, "I honestly can't believe you fell for that. When I heard someone come in, I thought there was no way I would have the luck that it would be a navi so stupid, but perhaps it's just a good day for me," She mocked as she walked closer to the navi, "I'll be taking your Water Works ID code now."
The orange navi cowered, "And...why would I give you that? You would have unlimited access to the network. But why would you even need it! You're already in here!"
She smirked as she shook her head patronizingly, "Easy. Because all I have to do is to erase my little visit here and then the only other navi access number would be yours. But I need access into the system to get rid of my little visit, which needs an ID. So, care to be a nice little boy and hand it over?"
The navi pulled out a Bubbler, "Sorry, I don't believe in gifts on the first day! But you're right, it's time for you to leave!" He fired the shot quickly, wasting no time in case she would somehow have a plan to escape.
The wires sparked to life as an electric field came around the navi, shielding her from the hit as the bubbles fizzed out. But wasn't she a fire element? Although it would make sense for her to be an elec element too since she had does wires. Change of plans then, "Wood Tower!" The orange navi yelled as trees started to barrel straight forward at the blue navi.
She merely smirked and blew a stream of flames that melted the trees. The navi's jaw dropped flabbergasted at the predicament he was in. This custom navi was something serious, "You done yet? Because I do have a couple of appointments I need to make today. Many that don't involve you. So about this key that I need." She said sarcastically.
"What the heck are you?" The navi yelled as he started firing cannon and buster shots. The electric aura broke after the female navi seemed to unwillingly take an extra hit. However, she recovered quickly as she jumped back from the firing zone.
"Volt Tower! Inferno Blade!" she landed on the ground as a mix of lava and fire appeared on her hand in the shape of a sword and a tower of lightning struck the field continuously down a straight line. She surged forward as her navi barely dodged out of the way of the attack...and directly into her.
The blue navi smirked as she soon held the data that had been lost after the hit. Luck had been on her side after all. She had gotten his ID code. Now she could remove herself from the system. The navi smirked as she looked at the "security" navi before her. The navi winked for a second and then rushed him, gut checking the orange navi and throwing him to the side. He landed with a thud as she opened a window and began to modify the system's data.
When she was done, she looked at the groaning navi, "It would have been much easier on all of us if you had just complied. But you just had to be Mr. Tough Navi huh? I can respect that in some twisted way. But we can't all be winners."
She chucked the data at the security navi and walked over the control panel for the Water Temperature Control space. One of her wires hit the console and soon she was in control of the entire system. She shivered slightly as a rush of cold hit her systems.
Well, people liked warm water...right?
"Well...this is boring. Out of all the things we could be doing, we end up doing this. Got any sixes, Roll?" Saber asked as he took a look at his hand. In actuality, small games were programmed into the PETs for navis to entertain themselves while their NetOps were doing something that didn't require their services but many times navis didn't need them because they were busy on the Net. Today, however brought three navis to their knees in boredom.
Yesterday had marked a great day in the lives of Lan Hikari, Mayl Sakurai, and Saria Robinson. They had all graduated college with a Bachelors in Computer Science, Music, and Psychology respectively. It had been quite the day of celebration. Unfortunately, that meant that all their NetOps were still knocked unconscious at one in the afternoon the next day. Which meant that Roll, Saber, and Megaman all had nothing to do. Things got worse when they had all realized that their PETs were being updated meaning that they were all locked in Megaman's PC until further notice.
Roll sighed, "Nope. Go fish." Seriously, she was fairly certain that almost no one played this game anymore and here were three navis getting so close to the point of death by boredom that they were playing Go Fish to pass the time. To make matters worse, they for some reason seemed to attract the attention of a Mettuar who Roll was certain was hopping in the air when she wasn't looking and signalling to Megaman what cards she had in her hand.
The blue and green navi groaned as he drew another card from the pile. Megaman, despite the fact he was in the best position to win, seemed to be falling asleep. Noticing this seemed to be the last straw for the navi as he sprung up to his feet, startling both Megaman and Roll, and yelled, "Ah, come on! What did we do to deserve this?"
The other blue navi looked with tired eyes at the now frustrated blue and green one, back at the pink one, looked at his cards, and then back at the only other person who seemed to be in the game, "My turn?" Megaman asked, sleepily.
"You okay, Mega? You've been almost falling asleep all day," Roll asked. Sure the game was boring, but he hadn't seemed all too lively when they had shown up in the first place. She hadn't questioned it earlier because he seemed to wake up a tad after the first game and jokes at how highly advanced cyber beings were playing one of the most basic card games in history. But now, he seemed to tucker out again.
"Huh? Yeah, I'm fine," he yawned, "No one actually went to bed last night until a couple of hours ago, so it was a pretty late turn in. But I'm alright, I've run on less."
Roll gave him a stern look, "Yeah, but you had to run on less energy those times. You don't now. It's alright if you want to go to sleep for a while," She said concerned. She never did like it when he always seemed to stretch himself out more than he had to. It was going to hurt him one of these days.
"Nah, I think I'm good on the nap. It's probably just being trapped in this PC that's making it even worse," Megaman said, giving a tired smile to try and show just how awake he actually was.
In truth, he wasn't really sure what was up with him. He had woken up fine yesterday and then this morning he had felt like a total bug frag. Everything had hurt and it had taken at least an hour or so before all the pain had faded. He had been surprised he hadn't woken someone up in the house and even more surprised that Dark Hub hadn't tried to take advantage of the situation. He was certain that all that pained shouting would have caught his attention. Either way, by the time Roll and Saber had came over to see if he wanted to go with them to the ACDC Square, and conveniently got locked in, he had finally been able to move. It was safe to say he had been tired ever since.
DING! "PET UPGRADE COMPLETE." A voice said.
"YAHOO! About time!" Saber said dancing happily...for a few moments before realizing that he was the laughingstock of both Megaman and Roll. The navi gave the two a sarcastic look before deciding to roll his eyes and walk towards the link to the Net, "So, if you two are done laughing at my great dancing skills, we ready to leave or what?"
"Great wouldn't have been my first choice of words, Saber," Megaman laughed as he finally was able to reel himself in. He wasn't quite sure what that would be called, but he was at least happy that it had woken him up a bit. Amazing how laughter even affected the mood of navis.
Roll gave a glance over to her boyfriend as she stood up, "You sure you want to come with us? It's no problem if you stay here." She asked again, her concern showing.
"I'm okay; just a little sleepy. Besides, maybe all I need is some coffee." the blue navi said getting up from his place on the ground.
Saber gagged loudly at the sound of the horrible word, "Keep that demonic excuse of cyber liquid away from me."
Megaman cocked an eyebrow and looked to Roll. The pink navi shrugged, "My poor brother decided to try coffee last week, but went to the one group of vendors who sell it the strongest. It's safe to say that he sorta hates the stuff now."
Megaman winced, "Green Town?"
"Green Town." Roll confirmed as she followed him and Saber out of the PC. They each forwarded an email to their respective NetOps and soon were on their way to ACDC Square.
Ghost: I have never drank coffee in my life. I just never very much liked the smell of it. But I have hot chocolate. So...I guess I win. Maybe...I don't know. I'm just going to let you click the next button if you haven't already.