Ethan was surprised when Alias came back, he knew Alias usually liked to surf the net longer, getting some solo training against viruses. He was even more shocked at the two injured navis that came alongside them. "What happened? Who did this he asked his navi?" he asked, while starting to boot up the repair programs on his PC. Alias looked up through the screen at his Operator, his body starting glitching, " Don't know, we just ran into each...other...nee-eed...de-bugg-er." he responded before passing out. Ethan panicked, upon seeing the three netnavis unconscious. Wasting no time he booted up the repair program on his PC and put the two netnavis Alias brought, into them. Inside the PC the two navis were immediately surrounded by a green energy field as there body was scanned, and analysed for repairs. Ethan immediately loaded Alias into his PET and began the debugging program. After making sure all three navis were secured, he got up and paced back and forth in his room, pondering what to do next. He looked over the two navi on his PC wondering what did that to them, and was silently praying the same was not going to happen to Alias.
He looked back at Alias's unconscious form, the debug program had finished and now he was running the auto recovery file. Within minutes Alias began to stir.
"Hey...Ethan, why so glum?" the navi asked weakly, a faint smile appearing on his lips. Ethan was caught between violently shaking the circuits of the PET and being relieved that Alias was alright. He sighed and decided now was not the time to deal with this. Alias's health had reached its max, before the Navi spoke again. "Are they alright?" he asked.
Ethan looked back at the PC, the monitor kepting say searching for errors and repairing. Ethan looked more closely at the Navis to see the cracks in their armor disappear. Ethan looked back in the menu of the repair program. Apparently the frame work for the navis had sustained tremendous damage, whatever caused it must have really wanted these navis gone.
"There stable, at least on the outside, I have no idea what might be wrong with there core programming though." Ethan spoke to Alias as he began fiddling with the program trying to find any problems. Alias on the other hand was a bit unsure of what to say or do next. He logged back into the PC and stared at the Navis recuperating. He looked over at the turquoise Navi observing the repaired armour. It looked off for some reason. The program had repaired the unconscious Netnavis, but had not been able to properly restore their bodies. These guys were seriously customized, Alias thought looking at whatever original armour was intact. The program could not recognize to custom armour they had so it instead opted to replace it with the standard Navi armour. The Navi crest were the only things left untouched, but were still broken. The girl navi seemed to have been in better shape than the guy. Her armour was not so badly damaged that it was easy for the program to figure out what it may have originally looked like. The surprising thing was that her helmet was not replaced. Instead she had long light brown hair that fell just beneathe her shoulders. She opened her eyes slowly and stared at Alias. She opened her mouth to speak but no words came out. Alias looked at the way her lips moved, it looked like she was saying ' I'm sorry '. Alias was intially confused and looked back at his Operator.
The expression on Ethan's face was one that literally said " I have no idea what is wrong." The sixteen year old's brown eyes were scanning over layers upon layers of code, trying to find out what was bugging these guys out.
"Awwwwhooooo" the speakers blasted full volume in his ears. He almost fell out his chair. Alias heard the noise too, realizing it must have originated in the PC. He looked back at the turquoise Navi seeing him awake and struggling to get out the repair program. The Navi let out a mighty war cry to the surprise of Alias and Ethan and broke the green energy field around him.
" NOT AGAIN, I WON'T BE TRAPPED AGAIN!" the Navi yelled as he leaped into the Net. Alias and Ethan both stood there gaping at the scene. Alias was the first to recover. " I have to go after him, his repairs weren't finished"
"Are you insane?" Ethan asked his Navi. Alias looked back at his Operator, "I think whatever happened to him has him spooked. Let me go talk to him. Maybe I can calm him down." Alias countered. Ethan looked at Alias and realized it was no use arguing with him. " Okay, go find him, Alias, time to ride. " Ethan called as sent Ethan through the Net.
After Alias left the PC, he looked back at the girl Navi that remained. "You're awake," he asked her. He got no response. He asked her what her name was and still got no response. Ethak started to think that maybe the girl navi was afraid like the previous one decided not to press her further. He decided to get his battle chips out in case Alias got into a fight and needed extra fire power. The girl navi noticed his actions and seemed even more anxious as he lined up the battle chips. "What are you going to do to us?" she asked, her voice not betraying the fear she had.
Ethan looked up at her, while lining up his Spreaders in case Alias needed a Program Advance. "Well, to be honest. I haven't git the slightest clue what to do with you guys. My Navi found the two of you unconscious and barely moments away from breaking down into bytes and bits." he responded. The girl navi looked around confused. Ethan seeing her confusion lifted up his PET, displaying an image of Alias. The netnavi looked like a human teenager in armour. He was as tall as a standard Netnavi, but was no way standard. Alias's armour, which consisted of his boots, gauntlets, chest plate and helmet, were all coloured black. His jumpsuit was a kind if greyish white complementing the armour he wore. His helmet had three spike, one on each side and one in the middle all pointing up towards the background.
"See this is my navi, he's the one who found you." Ethan mentioned to the girl navi, " he's not here right now, he went after your friend in the blue -green armour." That last statement made her eyes open wide. Ethan looked at her noticing her expression, " I have a bad feeling about this." he thought.
Meanwhile...
Alias had logged in to the Net and was trailing behind turquoise Navi. As he zipped through, he saw various scratch marks and scorch marks in the road. "For a Navi that had been nearly seconds away from deletion je sure was doing a good job of destroying the place. He made his way through the area blasting away viruses with his buster, he was so glad, the turqoise Navi destroyed most of the stronger ones. When he eventually found the Navi, it had just finished deleting a couple of Boomers.
"Don't you think you're going overkill?" Alias asked the Navi. The navi turned to Alias and looked at him with blood red eyes. If looks could kill, Alias was sure he would have been dead by now. "I will not be a prisoner anymore!" he shouted before lunging at Alias. Alias barely avoided the attack, sliding underneath the enrage Navi. "Ethan I found him!" he yelled to his Operator.
"Alright Alias you ready?" Etham asked his Navi, "Locked and coded," was the response he got.
Alias vs ?????
Alias's arm transformed into the bister as he began shooting at his opponent. The Navi narrowly avoided most shots before one finally connected to his left shoulder. He screamed in pain as fell on the ground. " Your starting really tick me off " the navi screamed.
"Me... You're the one that started this fight." Alias countered. The Navi's arm warped into buster like Alias's before firing with speed of a machine gone at Alias. Alias braced himself to take the blow. "Barrier chip download, Area steal download." Ethan called out. Alias was surrounded by a cyan shield, before teleporting across the field, right behind his opponent. "Now's your chance." Ethan called, slotting in a cannon, a vulcan , a 10 damage and a white capsule. Alias loaded the cannon and took a steady aim at the navi. Said navi recognized what he was trying to do and lunged at him before he could attack, umfortunately for him his body glitched and he temporarily froze mid attack. Alias fired the cannon and countered him immediately. The navi's body flashed yellow indicating a counter strike was made. Wasting no time, Alias let loose the vulcan hit the navi 3 times with each shot deallingbthe equivalent to one cannon strike. The bugged Navi finally fell to the ground on all fours breathing heavily. " I won't go back" he muttered under his breath. Alias approached him, cautiously hoping he would jot attack him. "Listen, I don't know where you came from, and I have no interest in sending you back, just calm down and come with me so we can help you." The navi looked at Alias with a puzzled look on its face or what one would assume to he puzzled. Alias sighed befire explaining to him what had happened before now. The navi seemed to habe eased up first, before approaching Alias, so you and your Operator, are friends. Ethan was surprised at how calm and reasonable the navi turned out, (discounting the fact that he and Alias just knocked him down a few moments earlier). The two Netnavis were about to leave, before a wheel of dark purple fire shot past them. Ethan looked at his PET as the screen blacked out. He called out to Alias but received no answer.
The girl who had been listening to Ethan, started to tremble in fear, he had found them and neither she nor her friends could stop him.
Meanwhile, Alias and the turquoise navi turned around to see there attacker. A Navi in a brown cloak with orange fins portruding from his head. "At long last, I have finally found you...GREGAR, now prepare to be absorbed." the new comer called as he got into a fighting stance.