Part 4
Note to readers: Sorry for the long wait folks. I've been busy trying to make this chapter as best as I could and I'm still thinking about the next chapters ahead. Now, for all of the fans of the Rockman Exe. series, I would like to point out that it took me a while to find out what to do about Chaud's(Enzan in the Japanesse version) name. At first I thought of using Eugene Chaud for the story(The one that's in the games). But then I thought, what about his name in the English anime? So then I decided to fuse the two names together into Chaud Eugene Blaze. I know that it's not much, but it's the best that I could come up with. Now, I would like to thank the group Generation-A for their continued support on my stories. As a reminder, the anime and game characters mentioned in this story do not belong to me and belonged to the owners described in Part 1. Now, on with the show!
As he continued to ride along the streets of Dentech City in his private limousine, Chaud Eugene Blaze was still in cloud of confusion and amazement about his discovery while on his way to one of his usual business meetings on behalf of his father's company, Blaze Quest. What he was looking at is a huge green shard of what appears to be a part of a large green emerald of some kind. But what puzzled him even more about it was the fact that it was able to emit a type of magnetic field that disrupted the screen of his advanced P.E.T. like it was nothing but static for when it emitted the powerful green light from before. The new advancements made on his personal terminal is suppose to help the device stand up to any condition, even in the worse of weather.
"Chaud, are you still looking at that green rock that you found?" he heard the voice of his crimson Navi Protoman asking him while his skunk-haired operator while he raised the screen towards his face in order to look at his digital friend. "You know that you have a very important business meeting with one of the most important executives from another company that has been lending its technical support to us since long before you were born.
"Now is not the time for you to start wondering about where that chunk of green rock came from within an alley that's probably filled with raw garbage. For all we know, it could just be another piece of glass and that magnetic field that disrupted the P.E.T. could've come from another powerful electronic device. We could file a report to Commissioner Kifune to have you investigate the matter if it..."
"As much as I would like to believe that, Protoman, but I'm afraid that I'm going to have to disagree," Chaud said while cutting off his Navi's words as he continued to look at the beautiful shining emerald piece in his hand. "The P.E.T.'s structure was made in order for it to withstand a large amount of magnetic disturbances no matter if it's from a nuclear warhead or a power plant. But when I was cut off from you within the P.E.T., I suddenly found the source of the problem.
"As soon as I had the driver pull over near the source of the pillar of light, I saw this emerald shard glowing with a light that's so strong that I wasn't able to see what was in front of me. Then just like that the light disappeared and all that's left is this green emerald shard in it's place. What's even more intriguing that everything went back to normal for when that light stopped and you were somehow able to re-establish your contact with me through the P.E.T. This just doesn't make any sense to me."
"Look, whatever that might have appeared to be, it's stopped," he heard ProtoMan responding to his operator/friend with a worried and serious tone in his voice. "What's done in the past is done. Now, let's try to forget about it in order for you to get ready for your meeting by watching the news. I'm sure that it would help you focus more on your duties."
"(Sighs) I guess you're right, ProtoMan," Chaud said to his Navi while putting away the green gem shard that was in his hand next to the side of his seat and began to turn on the nearby television set inside of the limousine's passager seat and checked on the current events that the news would offer. "I mean, I guess that I've been a bit little on edge lately since going out from one business meeting to another. Things have started to become even more busy these last two weeks since..."
Just before the white and black-haired Net Battler could have a chance to finish his sentence, his words were soon cut off for when he heard the loud and excited voice of DNN's Ribbita saying to the audience, "This just in! Just a few moments ago, two pillars of intense green light just erupted on two sections all over Dentech City!
"One that appeared over the elementary school of Dentech Academy and another that appeared right over the busy part of town. Eye witnesses reported that it looked as though that it was an explosion of some kind. Fortunately, the area where the explosion took place looked as though it wasn't ruined at all once our camera crews reached Dentech Academy. As the crew saw private investagators and Net Saviors looking into the matter, we were able to take a look into the security system's hidden video data.
"But from the footage that we were able to see, most of the data was either corrupted or destroyed by the magnetic interference that the explosions caused. However, one of the persons in charge of maintaing the system says that he could've sworn he saw a young man in his teens disappearing in a bright green light! The same light as the supposed explosions took place a while former...!"
That was all that the young Net Battler would want to hear after shutting off the screen of the small television and turned his full attention towards his red long-haired Navi and said with soft and yet sarcastic tone while rubbing onto the temples of his head, "Well, that was a brilliant idea, ProtoMan.
"First, a very important meeting with one of my dad's business partners is coming up. Then, this green gem stone shows up out of an alley without any explanation causing a magnetic field that temporarily disrupts electronical devices within its range, including the P.E.T.s with their new enhancements. Now, the local news on T.V. tells us that it could be possible that these two pillars of green light could somehow be connected with this person that they were just talking about.
"(Sighs) As soon as I get the business wrapped up and over with, I'm going to lock this gem shard into a safe place and have it analyzed by the scientists at SciLab in the morning. Then I'm going to take a nice long sleep and try to forget all about that craziness until tomorrow for when I'm up to investigate that rock further. Being stressed out about it right now would effect the way that I think as a vice-president of Blaze Quest. Besides, if the Net Police were able to see the news and are really concerned about it, then I'm sure that they would be able to call upon us right now in order to handle it."
"I think that it's a good idea, Chaud," ProtoMan with an even tone. "And you also made a good point. Worrying about what's happening to this city right now isn't going to help with your performance at the meeting. But if what the news said is true, then it would've probably been called off due to the magnetic disturbance. In any case, we should just get to the meeting and let things take their course."
"You've read my mind, ProtoMan," the skunk-haired Net Battler said to his Navi with a smile as he pushed the intercom button that connected towards the limo driver's seat. "When are we going to get towards our destination, Hawkins?"
"We'll reach the meeting place in a few short minutes, Mr. Blaze," said the male chauffeur through the limo's intercom system.
"Thank you, Hawkins. That's all that I would like to know," Chaud said as he released the button on the intercom system and turned his full attention back towards his Net Navi. "Well, as soon as this meeting is done and over with, I'm going to get some rest and get to the bottom of this magnetic disturbance that was going on around the city. Then perhaps, maybe we could send this green emerald shard to SciLab's research facility in order to see if it has something do with all this. I just hope that this isn't the start of something weird."
As he felt himself landing on the ground, Lan began to blink both of his eyes as well as listened to the numerous groans of his friends. Just before he could have the chance to fully regain his eyesight, he felt his collar being pulled on by someone with a good and firm grip. As soon as his eyesight fully returned, Lan found himself going face to face with the angry mutant alligator that he first saw in the allies of Dentech's Acedemy's cafeteria.
"Alright, you little punk!" he heard the green alien with the headphones saying to him as he felt his entire body being shaken by the alien. "Now that we're out of harm's way, I could take care of some business that I have with you and your little partner in crime that took that emerald away from us! Now, where is that little smart aleck friend of yours that you were with anyway? I want a piece of him too!"
"Uh, Vector, I think that you should let that poor little kid go before you make a bad impression in front of everyone here," Lan heard the voice of what appears to be his friend saying to him as the head-banded boy felt the grip of the angry alligator loosening as he tried his best to get himself out of his dizziness. "Besides, we have other things to take care of right now. Like how's Sylphiel doing after trying to warp a bunch of us to this place, wherever this place is."
As soon as he got his mind balanced and worked out, Lan suddenly heard a beautiful female voice saying while sounding as if she were really exhausted from a really long jog, "I'll...be okay...Mighty. Just a little...tired from...trying to warp...a large group of people at...once. I've only did...it for only myself...up until now."
When he turned his full attention towards where the voice came from, the head-banded teen saw the beautiful girl that was with two of the strange animal aliens panting for breath. From the way that he looked at her face dripping with sweat, she almost looked as though she just barely finished a lap around the whole school or maybe the city. As he took a further look at the young lady's clothing, Lan noticed that it looked like something from the Middle Ages that supposely has sorcerers along with magical creatures such as dragons.
"Oh yeah, like I'll believe something as weird as that!" he thought to himself as he continued to stare at the exhausted young girl that continued to breathe oxygen into her lungs. "No way that a pretty girl like her is a real live sorceress that came out of her time in order to fight some powerful monster. Then again, those green ghost pirates that we all saw didn't..."
"Oh my goodness! Everybody look around and see where we are!" his thoughts were cut short as he heard the voice of the small girl Yai shouting to everyone.
As soon as he did as he was told, Lan looked around and was in shocked for when he saw where the entire group were transported to. What he was looking at was the inside of the old tree house that's right near Yai's huge mansion. It has been years since everyone was in it, but it looked as though it were kept clean and well vacuumed since the last time that he was in here and that was about a year and a half ago.
Just as he was about to open his mouth to speak, the head-banded Net Battler heard the calls of his friends saying all at once about what they saw. Just before he could have the chance to say anything in calm everyone at once, Lan heard the voice of his blue Navi saying to his operator with a sort of worried tone in his voice, "Lan! Just what in the world happened to you guys that caused the P.E.T.s to loose their contact with you again?
"When I tried to ask about what happened, there was nothing but static. But like last time, the electronic field had no bad side effect what-so-ever. Not a bit of data from the P.E.T. seemed to be erased from it."
"Maylu! Are you all alright?" he heard the voice of the pink Navi Roll shouting out in worry as she too seemed to regain her contact with her operator through her own P.E.T. "This powerful electronic field seemed to block off all us from you! And it looks like Mega isn't crazy after all!"
"Guts. It looks like that story he told us is real after all. Guts. Look at all of the aliens in animal costumes," he heard GutsMan saying while at the same time feeling a bit amazed at what happened. "Dex, you okay? Guts."
"Well honestly, I almost feel like a cooked T.V. dinner!" Dex responded this his Navi while at the same time feeling as though he were shivering because of a cold rain storm. "I'm cooked on the outside yet still freezing on the inside!"
"Brrrr! Aup! Aup!" he heard the voice of the cyber dog Rush adding to the big kids words just before he saw the him creating a black hole and jumping into it.
"You could say that again, Dex!" Lan heard Tory's voice saying to the large kid while at same time feeling the same thing that Dex is feeling. "Just how in the world did that girl managed to transport us all here to begin with?"
"Well, I think that she just shouted out something called, 'Chaos Control,' didn't she?" he heard the voice of Ms. Mari saying to everyone while seeing her approaching the girl with the strange medieval garments. "Excuse me uh, Sylphiel isn't it? Well, do you mind...?"
"Hey, lady! I hate to put a hold on the introductions, but can't you see that the girl is too tired at the moment in order to speak? Look, just help me to get this girl towards a comfy spot and Mighty here would be able to fill all of you in on the details," Lan heard the voice of the green alligator-like alien saying to his teacher while at the same time watching the strange creature along with his teacher approaching the beautiful person and helped her to get off the ground. "Hey, babe, you going to be alright?"
"I'll be...alright, Vector," he heard the lady named Sylphiel saying to the huge green creature while at the same time amazed at the name he just heard. "Thank you...for...your concern. Just...give me...a moment to...rest. I'll be...alright. Thank you...too for...your help...um, Ms. Mari isn't it?"
As soon as he saw the creature named Vector and Ms. Mari placing the young girl on a nearby couch in Yai's treehouse, Lan soon began to turned his full attention at the armadillo-like creature that's approaching his friend, Ms. Mari, and the girl named Sylphiel. That was when he heard the black and orange alien creature saying to them with a polite tone in his voice as he spoke to everyone in the room, "I'm sorry for my friend's behavior, everybody. It's just that Vector gets offended and mad real easy for whenever someone mistakes him for an alligator instead of a crocodile. My name is Mighty the Armadillo and I guess that we owe all of you a good explanation for everything that's happened."
The head-banded boy was surprised at how polite and human-like the alien known as Mighty was being towards everyone. But his amazement was soon forgotten for when he started to ask the armadillo with a freaked out tone, "Okay, now is the time for you to start explaining to us about what just happened back there! Just what is that Chaos Emerald did that pirate just mentioned to us and why is it that all of you are here in this world to begin with? Just exactly what are all of you and where are the rest of your friends?"
"That's one thing that I would like to know myself too, Lan. Think that you could let me get a better look at them?" he heard his blue Net Navi saying to his Net Op while at the same time raising his P.E.T. towards the direction of the black and orange alien that was in front of him. "Well, it doesn't seem to me that these guys are as dangerous as we first thought they were. Just what in the world are you, Mighty and what are you and just what are those pirates that tried to get that emerald doing here to begin with?"
Just before he could recieve an answer to his question by either the ones called Vector or Mighty, Lan soon heard the whaling of a siren echoing all throughout the treehouse. That was when he heard the voice of Maylu asking while seeing her cover her ears with both her hands, "Yai! You even managed to keep your security system on all over this place the whole time that you were out on Creamland?"
"Of course, Maylu! My family never kids around for when it comes to our security! Especially when we're far away from our summer home," the rich girl answered while he saw her pushing the button on the nearby wall and before everyone knew it, the alarm turned off and a huge screen along with an advanced control panel in front of it. "Now, let's just see who's in my property without my permission! Now, Jack in! Glyde, power up!"
As soon as he saw a red beam of light going into one of the sensor of the main panel, he saw the huge image of Yai's butler Navi appearing before them in a holographic image. That was when he heard the one called Vector saying, "Whoa! Now that is some tight gear! It almost make the stuff at Tails's place look like a playground!"
Before he could have the chance to ask about the person that Vector talked about, Lan soon turned his full attention back towards the huge screen and heard Glyde saying to everyone, "Miss Yai! I would like to inform that there's an intruder that's been running around the premises of the mansion. It appears that he just appeared out of nowhere and the defenses just responded to the threat."
"Show the intruder on the screen, Glyde!" he heard the little girl's voice saying to her Navi as he turned towards the main screen and saw another holographic screen appearing right next to it.
Just as he was about to look at what Yai's camera's have picked up through their lens, Lan heard the voice of Vector saying to everyone with a shocked tone, "Yo! That's no intruder, girl! That's our friend Miguel that it's attackin'! Call it off right now!"
As soon as he heard those words, the head-banded boy soon turned his full attention towards the other screen and saw what the green crocodile meant. What he saw was the same teenaged boy, the one who gave them all of the time that they need to escape, being attack by Yai's ridiculous and yet ruthless security system as he ran for his life. He even tried to say that he wasn't an intruder of the house and yet the system attacked him anyway for trespassing.
Just as he was about to say thing about the situation, Lan started to hear the voice of the young lady named Sylphiel beginning to shout out with a bit of worry and shocked tone, "Oh my...Miguel!"
As he tried his best to avoid the numerous obstacles that were being bombarded at him, Miguel ran as water guns that were hidden in numerous places. He was also being attacked by several mechanical attack dogs that look as though they were about to rip him to shreds with their strong metal teeth. As soon as he found a place to hide, the teen began to breathe in some oxygen into his lungs while at the same time trying to regain his strength.
"What did...I do...to...deserve this!" the teen said to himself out loud while he was doing his best to keep himself from collasping on the ground from the lost of energy before starting to think to himself. "Man, now I know how Lan and Dex feel for when they have to deal with Yai's security system for the first time! Nothing like experiencing the real thing for yourself!
"Now, how am I suppose to get out of this one! I'm too weak use the power of the Chaos Control again since I've already used most of my energy to use the Ra-Tilt to get rid of those green pirates. Now what I don't understand is that how come that I've managed to sense where Sylphiel's own Chaos Energy is and yet be in a place that she's not in. I thought that I should be able to get to..."
That was when his thoughts were cut short for when he suddenly heard the male mechanical voice of the defense system saying to him, "Intruder, there is no escape! You are trespassing on private property! You have until the count of ten before the local authorities arrive! Now what is your response?"
Miguel was a bit afraid for when he heard those words come out of the security system's voice. That was when he began to saying while at the same time continuing to put some oxygen into his mouth, "Hey, wait a minute! This is some...sort of mistake! I was...just lost and came over...here by accident! Now, just let me go and I won't be...!"
That was when his words were cut short for when he heard the voice of the security system responding to his words with a panicked tone in its voice, "Intruder is responding with a threat! Local authorities will be arriving here with heavily armed forces! A squad will be here in ten minutes to apprehend the thief!"
As soon as he heard that, the teen was soon in a panic for while he tried his best to convince the security system that he's not an intruder, "Hey, wait a minute! I'm not a thief! I just came here by accident and was looking for someone who could help me to...!"
Just before he could speak any further, Miguel soon found himself surrounded by a pack of wild-looking robot dogs that look like that they could attack him at any moment. The teen looked around the pass the robotic attack dogs in order to find some means of escape from them as well as the security system, but he found none.
"Great! I'm going to get attacked by an advanced security system that was designed in an anime cartoon!" he thought to himself as he continued to scan around the area to look for some means of escape from his predicament. "First, I'm going to be sent to a jail cell and then I'm going to be taken in for questioning about what's happened just before I get shipped up the river! How long before..."
Just before he could finish the rest of his thoughts, Miguel suddenly heard the voice of Yai saying to him with a loud voice through some hidden speaker, "Hey you! Your name is Miguel, isn't it? There's someone who would like to speak to you!"
As he was confused about what the rich girl was talking about, the teen suddenly heard the voice of Sylphiel Nels Lahda saying to him with a nearly exhausted tone in her voice through the speakers, "Miguel! Use the Chaos Control in order to get out of there!"
"Sylphiel! Just where are you!" the brown-haired teen responded to the voice of the shrine maiden as he looked around the area in order to see where it came from. "Never mind that! Anyway, I'm too tired to use it now! All of my energy is spent doing one of the most powerful astral spells in Shaman magic. If only..."
Before he could finish the rest of his sentence, he started to hear another voice appearing from within the speaker. This time, it was the voice of Vector that spoke to him, "Yo, dude! Just use that Chaos Control of yours again and you'll end up where we are! You're not too far from where we are and it'll only cost you a small amount of energy! Just do it before your dog chow for those metal muts!"
"But Vector, I..." was all that Miguel could say before he turned his full attention back towards the huge pack of wild-looking robot dogs that bared their teeth towards his direction, getting ready to attack at any moment.
"Well, I guess that I have no other choices to go with anyway," the teen thought to himself as he looked all around at the mechanical dogs that were about to attack him. "Seeing as if that I'm about to be attacked by vicious mechanical robots and police that are going to follow, I have no other choices. I just hope that there's enough strength left within me to do one more leap through time and space before I become dog food for these robo-canines. Well, here goes nothing."
Just as he saw the dogs beginning to advance towards his direction at a faster pace, Miguel started to concentrate on finding Sylphiel's own Chaos Energy being emitted within her body. As soon as he finally found it, the teen started to shout out the time and space warping ability just before the robot dogs could leap at him, "Chaos Control!"
Before he knew it, Miguel was being engulfed by green light just before he found himself traveling through a tunnel in between both time and space towards his destination. After what he'd been through, he at least deserved to rest a bit before explaining about his presense towards some anime characters that haven't seen creatures like the Chaotix or humans like himself and Sylphiel.
As she did her best to keep herself on her feet, Sylphiel watched as the ghost-like monitor in front of her displayed her friend Miguel being engulfed in emerald-colored light before the screen went into a haze of some type. Before she could hear the reactions of everyone around her, the shrine maiden suddenly saw an eruption of the same light coming from within the room as she covered her eyes from its intense brilliance. As soon as the display of lights vanished again, Sylphiel soon found herself looking at the actual body of her friend Miguel landing on the wooden floor that looked as though it were carpeted with a nice green rug.
"Miguel! Are you alright?" the shrine maiden said to the nearly unconscious body of her friend as she got off of the soft couch and went over to him weakly. "Please say something!"
As soon as she was near enough towards Miguel's tired body, Sylphiel started to feel energy starting to flow within her body as she approached her friend's body. That was when she soon realized that she still held the near-completed Chaos Emerald in her hands. As she felt the gem's mystic and limitless energy flowing through her body, Sylphiel was starting to becoming re-energized and refreshed for as she rushed over to Miguel's side and looked over him. That was when she started to gather a huge amount of the Chaos Emerald's energy within her hand and started to place the orb of green energy over his body. Just before she could receive any comments about what she's doing, Sylphiel saw Miguel starting to get from where he was laying on and started to get on his own two feet.
"Whoa! What a rush!" she heard him saying while at the same time stretching his arms and legs just before he turned his full attention towards her direction. "Sylphiel, what you did for me was a load of help! Just exactly what did you do?"
"To be honest, Miguel, I don't know," Sylphiel responded to the brown-haired young man's words with a confused and amazed tone in her voice. "I too was feeling a bit drained of my own energy for when I've tried to get over to you to see if you're alright. Then all of a sudden, this Chaos Emerald seemed to responded to my suffering by giving me some of its powerful energies into my body and re-energized me. There was also more than enough energy for me to give to yo in order to restore your own."
Just before she could hear a type of thanks coming from Miguel, the shrine maiden soon found herself turning her full attention towards the boy named Lan shouting out very quickly while at the same time feeling confused about what he and his friends just saw, "Alright! Would the two of you mind telling us about what just happened now? I mean, both me and MegaMan just saw you both lying unconscious on the alley along with four of your animal-like friends! Just what in the world would those pirates want with that Chaos Emerald that I've just had in my hands a while ago? Let's not forget the fact that the two of you...!"
Just before either she or Miguel could have the chance to answer the young boy's question, Sylphiel started to see Vector marching up towards Lan's direction while at the same time feeling a bit annoyed for as he said to him while cutting his words short, "Look, homeboy! Miguel and Sylphiel were just spent trying to save our hides from those weird ghosts in the pirate costumes! Just try to fight a pack of wild ghost with a powerful magic spell and warp all of us to this place using an ability that drains all of the strength in your body and see how you feel! Now where is that twerp of a friend of yours that was with you for when you took that Chaos Emerald from us?"
As if to answer his question, the shrine maiden heard the voice of another boy saying to him in order to try to be the voice of reason, "Excuse me, uh, Vector! But I'm afraid that I'm the one that you're referring to! Lan, just hold me up towards this guy's direction and let him see what I mean!"
As soon as she heard those words, Sylphiel was a bit surprised for when she looked towards the boy's direction and saw him holding up a blue and strange device towards Vector's direction. From her experience of seeing devices that are far more advanced than the ones that she saw on her own world. The blue device looked as though it could be one of those games that she saw once being held in the hands of a small boy that she saw playing while she was on a tour on Miguel's world the first time that she went there.
As soon as she got a closer look at the device that the boy named Lan was holding, the shrine maiden saw a face of a young boy appearing on the screen. She saw that the boy on the screen is wearing a costume blue along with a blue helmet. She also saw a some blue hair coming out of the back of his head as she watched with pure amazement. Sylphiel turned her eyes towards Vector's direction and saw his entire lower jaw drop for when he looked at the device in his hands.
"Yo! What's that thing!" she heard the green crocodile saying to the young boy as he continued to look at the screen of the blue device with both shock and confusion in his voice. "And what is a little boy in blue doing in that video game! It almost makes Sonic want to look for a new trademark color!"
Just before she could hear either question or answer being spoken by the either side of the group, Sylphiel heard a loud whistle that came from Miguel's direction. When she realized that the loud whistle was actually coming from her brown-haired friend's mouth, the shrine maiden then turned her attention back towards the entire group of people's direction. She saw them frozen in their places just before she heard Miguel speaking to everyone.
"Alright, everyone! I think that we all need to calm down here!" she heard him saying to everyone in the room while at the same time using a calm tone in his voice. "Now that I got your attention, I think that we all need to think about things calmly.
"Now, to answer some of your questions that you have in your heads, my name is Miguel Angel Arias and the pretty young lady right next to me is named Sylphiel Nels Lahda. The green crocodile with the headphones is named Vector and the black, yellow, and orange armadillo friend of his is named Mighty. Those two are a part of a group that are known as the Chaotix. They maybe a bit weird, but they're really nice people once you get to know them."
The shrine maiden waited a moment for everyone in the group to respond to her friends words as she blushed at what he said, Sylphiel started to hear the one named Lan saying, "Well, I think it's only fair that I should introduce myself and my friends since now that we've found out that you're not really life-threatening aliens. But first, I would like to say something to that green friend of yours named Vector."
As soon as she heard those words coming from the young boy, the shrine maiden soon saw him beginning to have the courage to walk up towards Vector's direction and starting to gulp to himself as he faced the crocodile's direction. That was when she heard him saying to Vector with a nervous tone in his voice while extending his hand towards him, "Um...I don't know how to say except that I'm sorry about what both MegaMan and I said about you earlier.
"It's just that the way that you and your friends just appeared right before us is so surprising to us. That, and the fact that we didn't know the difference between both a crocodile and an alligator. I hope that we could still be friends and let bygones be bygones. So no hard feelings?"
As she continued to watch the young boy keeping his hand extended towards Vector's direction, Sylphiel soon saw the green crocodile grabbing Lan's throat and was got him in a head lock. Before she could have the chance to stop his action before he went to far, the shrine maiden started to take a closer look and found herself giggling at what she saw. What she saw was Vector rubbing his knuckles towards the very top of the young boy's head playfully like they were brothers. That was when Sylphiel heard the green crocodile saying to Lan in his cheerful tone of voice, "It's alright, little dude! I always get mad for whenever someone mistakes me for an alligator instead of a croc. In any case, I'll be glad to be your friend along with Might here!"
"Well, kid! I guess that means that Vec has finally cooled off and forgives ya!" she heard Mighty saying to Lan with a friendly tone as she saw him moving towards their direction and saw the Vector releasing his hold on the young boy and was given a pat on the back by the armadillo. "You know, not many people would have the guts to stand up to Vector like the way you did for after they tick him off. He even threatens to bite the guys head off for when..."
That was when his words were cut off for as Sylphiel heard the voice of the woman with the bun-shaped hair saying, "Okay, Mr. Mighty! We get the point! By the way, has anyone notice where Mr. Higsby went?"
As soon as they both heard those words, both Vector and Mighty began to wonder about what happened to the nerd-like person that they met a while ago.
"Yeah, come to think about it, where did that guy Honey Bee go to?" the green crocodile asked with a confused tone in his voice.
"His name is Higsby, Vector," said the boy named Lan as Vector saw him pointing his index finger behind him and saw the body of the nerdy person that bumped right into him a while ago lying on the floor unconscious. "I guess that ride that girl Sylphiel gave us must've caused him to faint. He'll be able to get up in about an hour or so."
"You could say that again, Lan," said the very large kid with a weird shark-like hairdo as he approached the body of the guy named Higsby. "Boy, he looks really out of it."
"Probably because he couldn't deal with the stress of going through that tunnel of green light like the rest of us did, Dex," said an approaching boy with brown hair and yellow hooded sweater as he joined his large friend to look at the unconscious nerd.
"Higsby must've been this way for whenever he goes to the roller coasters as amusement parks," added a girl with reddish pink hair as she too watched over Higsby's body with a smile on her face as she giggled.
"Well, I have to agree with her on this one too," Mighty began to reply as he was starting to give out a small but friendly chuckle right before he realized that he was being a bit rude. "Oh, sorry for being rude about the guy! I only thought that it...!"
"That's alright, Mr. Mighty," said the woman with the bun-shaped hair as she cut off his words with a sweet tone in her voice. "I know that you didn't mean to be rude. It was kind of funny for when Higsby fainted like that!"
"(Ahem!) I hate to be rude at a good moment like this, but I think that we are still trying to introduce each other," both Vector and Mighty heard Miguel saying to everyone in the room as he managed to get their attention as he turned to face Lan direction. "Now, Lan, I think that you should introduce yourself and your friends to us before we could get into the details of where we come from and why we're here."
"Oh, right," the two members of the Chaotix heard the young boy saying to their teenaged friend with a sort of sheepish tone in his voice. "Sorry about that. Now, as for who we are, my name is Lan Hikari and the woman with the bun-shaped haired is our teacher Ms. Mari and the guy that you're seeing on the floor is Mr. Higsby. But I'm sure that you already knew that."
That was when the young girl with the pinkish red hair began to speak as she approached both of the two Mobians, "My name is Maylu Sakurai and it's nice to see aliens from another world. Even though that they're a bit weird."
That was when both of them heard the voice of a the small blonde girl speaking to them with a sort of annoyed tone of voice, "And I'm Yai Ayano. One of the most prettiest and brillant child in the Dentech Academy and all of Kingland."
"Well, gee thanks for that bunch of info, little girl. I think," the green crocodile responded to Yai's words with a sort of nervous chuckle in his voice just before both he and his armadillo friend were approached by a boy wearing the yellow-hooded sweater.
"My name is Tory Froid," the young brown-haired boy said to the two Mobians as he extended his hand in order to shake theirs. "I must say, for animal-like creatures from another world, you both act like human beings."
"Well, we're not exactly like the animals that you guys are used to seeing, Tory," Mighty responded to the boy with a friendly tone as he shook his hand. "It's still nice to hear something like that from someone who's not too freaked out by our appearances."
"Don't you all forget about me! My name is Dex Oyama," both Mighty and Vector heard the large kid saying to them while at the same time posing in a proud pose. "I'm one of the best curry chefs in all of Dentech City and the best for when it comes to Netbattling."
"Netbattling? What is that?" both of the Mobians asked in unison as the words came from Dex's mouth.
"That's something that I would like to know myself," they heard the voice of Sylphiel suddenly saying with a curious tone. "While Vector was being confronted by Lan, I saw him holding a small device that has the image of another young boy with blue hair and wearing a blue suit."
That was when both of the Chaotix heard Lan giving out a nervous chuckle just before he spoke to them while at the same time putting up the small blue device that he held in front of Vector earlier, "Oh, you must mean MegaMan! Sorry for not introducing you four to him earlier.
"You see, he's sort of a computer program that possesses artifical intelligence that are similar to humans that could help us look for information throughout the internet. The people of this world call them Net Navigators or Net Navis for short. As for the Navis themselves, their data is safely stored within these devices called P.E.T.s or Personal Terminals. We can use them to either to into the internet for us in order to make some friends to talk to or use them on devices that had a bad case of viruses in them."
After they both hear him pause for a moment, Mighty and Vector heard the voice of the older woman named Ms. Mari saying to her student with a surprised and yet smug tone in her voice while smiling, "Why, Lan Hikari, of all the things that I've tried to teach you in my class while you were sleeping, that was the only thing that you remember? Why couldn't you remember things that I told you the other day while we were discussing our math problems?"
As soon as she finished those words, the two Mobians saw Lan beginning to blush with a shade of embarrassment on his face just before he spoke, "Hey, I was tired that day, Ms. Mari! How was I suppose to know what kind of problems there are going to be on the test!"
"Yeah, that and the fact that you always seem to do something else other than what Ms. Mari gives out," said the computer program named MegaMan with a smark alect tone just before they both saw the young headed-banded boy raising the screen of the blue device towards his face with an annoyed expression on his face.
Just before they could hear an arguement ensue between the struggle against both man and machine, both Vector and Mighty heard the voice of their friend Miguel saying to the both of them as he cleared his throat to get their attention, "(Ahem!) Um, I hate to be the one to cut in, but I think that we haven't been introduced to those Net Navis that you just mentioned before, Lan."
As soon as the two Mobians heard those words, they both saw Lan turning his full attention back towards their direction and said with a sheepish tone in his voice, "Oh, sorry. I sort of forgot to introduce our Navis to you. In any case, you've already met my Net Navi MegaMan. He could be a bit of a smart aleck at times."
"Well, at least that I don't sleep in and get late to school like some people!" they both heard the little human-like program saying to his operator while speaking at a tone that makes him sound like an older brother to Lan.
Just before they could hear the young boy say a comeback to his digital partner, both Mighty and Vector heard the voice of the girl named Maylu saying to her friend, "Now's not the time for both you and MegaMan to start going over that again."
That was when they both say her turning her own P.E.T. device, which is in a pink color, towards their direction and a saw a young girl wearing a pink outfit with a pair of antennae on her helmet. Maylu spoke with proud tone in her voice, "This is my Net Navi Roll. At first sight, she may not appear to be much, but she's tough for when it comes to Net Battles. She could also heal the bodies of other Navis as well. Oh, and the little dog that's almost looks like a cartoon is named Rush. He's a virus program that could be real helpful in tight situations."
"Aup! Aup! Aup!" both Vector and Mighty heard the voice of the cute and yet strange image of a dog barking towards their direction in order to greet them.
"Hey, don't forget about me!" the two Mobians heard the voice of the huge boy named Dex saying while holding up the screen of his own yellow P.E.T. revealing huge yellow and red Navi that looked like he could be a body builder. "This here is GutsMan and he could pound any opponent into a pulp if anyone gets in his way!"
"And this is my Navi IceMan," they both heard the boy Tory saying to the two of them while at the same time facing his own light-blue P.E.T. towards their direction revealing a small but cute little Eskimo-like Navi on the screen. "He's mostly an ice Navi that was created by my father in order to check the systems of the Water Treatment Facility."
"Let's not forget all about my Navi Glyde," the two Mobians heard the little girl Yai saying to them while facing the screen of her own brown device towards their direction revealing a Navi with wings on his back but also looked like a butler of sorts. "He may not look like a really strong Navi like the rest, but when I supply him with some of my most powerful and expensive battlechips, he can be quite fierce."
"Well, that's also good to know, little girl," Vector said to her while at the same time both he and Mighty giving out a nervous chuckle.
"Okay, now that the introductions are done, I think that the four of you owe us an explanation," Ms. Mari said as both members of the Chaotix saw facing their direction with a serious tone in her voice as well Miguel and Sylphiel's.
"Hey, yeah! Come to think about it, where are the other two friends of yours that both me and MegaMan saw just before you came to?" they heard Lan saying to them while facing his direction. "From what I saw, they were both a cute little bumble bee in a pilot's suit and purple lizard that looked like he could be a ninja."
"And let's not forget about those creepy ghosts, Lan!" Mighty and Vector heard the electronic voice of the Navi MegaMan saying to his friend while at the same time sounding scared. "Just why are they dressed up as pirates and how...?"
Just before they could hear the little blue program finish his question or hear anyone else cut in with a question of their own, the two Mobians heard the voice of their friend Miguel whistling in order to get their attention just before speaking, "Whoa! Whoa, everyone! Before anyone could have the chance to ask questions of their own, I would like to point out that we could only take one at a time. So, to make things easier, I would like to be the one to tell you all about everything that's happened that's got the six of us into this world to begin with. Now, before I could begin, would someone mind waking up the guy named Higsby?"
As soon as he heard those words come out of Miguel's mouth, Lan gave off a mischievous grin for as he spoke, "Allow me to do the honors."
Just as he approached the sleeping body of Mr. Higsby, the head-banded NetBattler heard the voice of Maylu asking him while using a curious and worried tone in her voice, "Lan, what are you going to do? You're not going to scare the living daylights out of him like you did last time, are you?"
"Of course not, Maylu," Lan answered to his female friend with a smirk on his face as turned his attention towards his friends direction. "I'm only going to say something to him that's about the only thing that could wake him up."
"Oh, I know what's he's going to do," he heard the voice of MegaMan saying to everyone, "He's going to do the same thing that I did to him whenever I tried to wake him up."
"Quiet, you!" Lan hissed at his little blue friend as he finally reached the unconscious battle chip owner and shouted out, "Hey, is that a rarity level ten battle chip that I saw right on the floor?"
As predicted, he saw the battle chip geek finally coming to life with the words that he spoke. For when he saw Higsby coming out of the floor and searching around for the chip that Lan spoke of. "Where's that rare battle chip!" the messy haired adult said as he continued to search all around the floor.
"Well, judging from the way that Higsby looking for that battle chip, I'd say that he's alright and didn't suffer any brain damage," he heard the voice of Dex saying to everyone as Lan turned and saw him wearing a smile along with his friends. Even Ms. Mari was giggling a bit about the behavior that Higsby was displaying in front of them.
Just before he could have the chance to talk to the collector of battlechips, the head-banded boy suddenly heard the voice of the green crocodile speaking to the bushy-haired adult with a concerned tone, "Yo, man, are you alright? You were out cold for when you were ridin' along with the rest of us."
"Oh, I'm alright," Lan heard Higsby saying to the Vector just as he adjusted his glasses and turned towards his direction. "I guess that what I just saw about that ride down a green tunnel of light was nothing but a..."
The moment that the head-banded boy saw the rare chip collector setting his sights towards the green crocodile's direction, he suddenly saw the bushy-haired adult suddenly starting to run around the room like a crazy person on a rampage. He was yelling out things that didn't make sense to anybody else as he screamed like a manic.
"Higsby! Higsby! Please calm down!" Lan heard the voice of his teacher saying to the Higsby with a calm and yet worried tone as she tried her best to calm him down. "These animal people that you are seeing are visitors from another world and they really aren't as harmful as they both appear to be."
"Well gee, I guess that would really help with the situation a lot, Ms. Mari!" the young boy heard the voice of the teenager named Miguel saying to Ms. Mari with a sarcastic tone of voice just as he turned and saw the young man starting to go over towards the treehouse kitchen and pouring himself a glass of water. "Now, all of you just stand aside and watch how I deal with a person who's going through a mental episode."
"Miguel, just how are you planning to do so while getting yourself a glass of water?" Lan heard the voice of the pretty young lady named Sylphiel asking the brown-haired with a sort of surprised tone while at the same time watching him taking his glass of water over to Higsby.
At first, the head-banded NetBattler thought that Miguel was going to try to calm the panicking chip collector by having him to sit down at a chair, get him to breathe in and out, and then drink out of the glass of water. But what he saw the older teenager do wasn't what he thought about at all. What he saw was Miguel suddenly splashing the water out of the glass and onto the panicking Higsby's face. Lan heard everyone gasp with both surprise and shock for when he saw the stranger from another world do that to the bushy-haired chip collector's face. Whatever he saw the older teen did, Miguel was able to calm Higsby down without much trouble at all. That was when he heard three of the voices of everyone saying about what just happened.
"Whoa! Now that's something that I didn't even think about doing before," said a rather amazed Dex as Lan saw his big friend's face staring in wonderment.
"You can say that again, man!" he heard the voice of the strange armadillo creature named Mighty saying while speaking in a similar tone as Dex. "I've never thought that Miguel could be so aggressive for when it comes to dealing with a guy nearly flipped his lid!"
"Well, at least he didn't inflict any real harm on," said Sylphiel as Lan heard her giving off a cute but nervous giggle for when she saw what happened.
"I'll say, Miss Sylphiel," he heard the voice of his childhood friend Maylu saying to the young teenaged woman as she chuckled nervously.
Before he could talk to the others about what just happened, Lan suddenly saw Miguel extending his hand out towards the now wet chip collector and said to him in a friendly tone, "Now, are you calm and better now, Higsby? If you are, then I could start to explain to you and everyone else about everything that's happened to you all so far."
While still feeling a bit surprised about what just happened, Lan saw the his strange adult friend accepting Miguel's hand and said to him while getting on his feet as he dripped water all over Yai's carpet, "Well, that would be good considering that I'm now all calm and wet! Care to tell us what's been going on here!"
"Well, all of you better sit down and listen for what I'm about to tell is going to be a really long story," Lan heard Miguel saying to Higsby as well as the entire group of his friends in order to hear what the outer-worldly teen had to say.
It soon began for when he heard Miguel talking to them all about the Chaos Emerald that both he and MegaMan once had. Apparently, it was no ordinary gem. What Miguel told them about it was that it was one of the most powerful natural forces in the universe. It possesses an unlimited amount of energy that could not only power an entire city, but a large continent as well. But not only that, it could also give a person an unlimited supply of cosmic energy and immortality.
"I don't believe that a small and beautiful gem like that could have such power," Yai said to Miguel as she looked towards his direction. "How could we be sure that what you're saying is really true?"
"Well, Miss Yai, it would make sense when think about what happened to our link with the P.E.T.s," he heard the voice of the butler Navi Glyde saying to his operator. "I mean, the electronic disturbance that we've just experienced from within our P.E.T.s emitted a large amount of energy that would be enough to cause them to over load."
"Well yeah, that's the downside with trying to use the power of the Chaos Emeralds on machines, Glyde," Miguel responded to the butler Navi as the young boy turned back towards his direction. "On regular machines like cars, phones, or other devices like them, they couldn't handle the stress when dealing when the limitless power of the Chaos Emerald.
"That's because of all of the extra energy that the emerald puts out. It's just too much to handle. You see, regular devices could drain only a little of the emerald's power while leaving out a lot of its energy behind. All of that energy wouldn't have anywhere to go and as a result of all of the excess energy being contained, it could cause a major explosion that could destroy an entire city block."
"Well gee, that's a good piece of info that we should know," he heard the voice of Tory saying with a sarcastic tone. "Now, is there anything else that we should know about the emerald that you forgot to tell us?"
As if to respond to his question, Lan saw the outer worldly teenager do the strangest thing. What he saw was Miguel extending his hand out towards the nearby glass cup on the table of treehouse and it soon glowed with a powerful white light. Before he could konw about what was happening, the head-banded boy soon saw it starting to levitated up from the table's surface and moved up towards the brown-haired teen's hand.
"Uh, could someone please tell me what just happened right in front of us just now?" Lan heard the voice of Ms. Mari saying while at the same time feeling a bit flabbergasted about what just happened.
"Well, if you're talking about the boy named Miguel just lifting a glass of water from the table to his hand with his mind, then you're not the only one who's seeing it," Maylu responded to the teacher with the same tone. "Just exactly what was the point of doing that?"
"Well, that's another effect from the powers of the Chaos Emerald, Maylu" the strange teenager boy responded while at the same time putting the glass in his hand back the same way he did the first time. "Whenever a living being is exposed to a large amount of Chaos Energy that's caused by touching an object called the Power Ring, it could enhance that person's natural abilities for a short while. In mine and Sylphiel's case, a person who's been using the powers of the Chaos Emeralds through the use of Power Rings or the emeralds themselves for a long time, it increases our natural abilities and strengths permanently."
"Speaking of which, just where is Sylphiel from anyway?" Lan heard the voice of Dex asking while he continued to be amazed at the what he just saw. "From the way that she reacted towards our P.E.T.s and how she looks and dresses, I'd say that she must've come from another time or something."
"You could say that again, Dex," Yai said the the large boy as the young blue head-banded NetBattler saw her feeling a bit jealous about the young woman that she's looking at. "From the way that she's dressed, I'd say that she were a type of priestess or someone like royalty from the Middle Ages. I must say that I'm a bit jealous about just how beautiful she is."
Just before Lan could have the chance to ask a question of his own, he heard Miguel saying to the beautiful girl named Sylphiel while also seeing her face blushing red and feeling a bit embarrassed about what they just said, "Why don't you tell them about where you come from Sylphiel? You could tell all about your world better than I could."
"Well, I'll try to do the best that I can, Miguel," he heard the pretty young girl saying to her friend just before she turned towards everyone in the room and spoke while clearing her throat. "Now, I should start by saying that I'm..." That was how her own explanation began.
From what he and his friends could gather, it seems that Sylphiel came from a world where magic exists. It's also filled with creatures that are thought to only exist in the fairy tales that he heard once in kindergarden. Lan and his friends also know for a fact that in the world that she lives in, there was a war going on. A war that was between the beings of light known as the Gods and creatures of darkness known as the Monsters. The leaders of these two forces are known as Ciephied the Red Dragon God and the Dark Lord named Ruby-Eye Shabranigdo. She also said that there was a battle between these two beings that was so fierce that it split her worlds continents into the seven that she herself didn't know that existed.
"Now, as for the outfit that I'm wearing right now, it's actually a part of what I do in my world," Lan heard Sylphiel say just as he saw her twirling herself around like a model and showed what looked like a staff in her hands with a crystal ball on its top before speaking again. "You see, I used to be a holy shrine maiden in a city called Siaraag. A shrine maiden like me is a lady who specializes in using only white magic, which is used to treat the injuries of a person who's been in a accident or is falling ill."
"Well, if that's the case, then could you maybe help heal this headache that I'm having?" Lan heard the voice of Higsby asking Sylphiel while seeing the bushy-haired adult rubbing onto his temples in order to sooth the pain in his head. "I mean, this pain just won't stop bothering me since I've woken up and that sudden bath that your boyfriend gave me didn't help much with it as it did with my panic attack."
A long sigh of annoyance can be heard from the entire group. All except Sylphiel that is for as Lan saw her going over to Higsby and place one of her hands over his head. Just before the boy could have the chance to ask about what she was doing, he suddenly heard her speaking these words for as he also saw a white light enveloping her entire hand:
"Oh, blessed and humble hand of God,
life and breath of Mother Earth,
come before me and show your great compassion and deliver us.
Recovery!"
Just before he ask about what she just chanted, Lan saw the white light that was all around her hand suddenly jumping off of it and starting to surround Higsby's entire body. After a moment of silence from everyone, the white light disappear from sight and he saw the beautiful young woman starting to back away from the bushy haired adult just before speaking to him.
"So, how are you doing now, Mr. Higsby?" Sylphiel asked the rare BattleChip collector with a sort of concerned tone of voice. "Is your head all better?"
"Well actually, yes miss," Higsby responded just before starting to feel a bit more cheery than usual. "As a matter of fact, I'm feeling much better than I have most of these days! The pain within my neck is gone and now I'm filled a new energy that I haven't felt in years! Yahoo!"
With those words said and done, he suddenly saw the bushy-haired adult starting to jump and run around the entire treehouse like a little kid. Lan sweatdropped at what he saw just as he spoke, "Well, it looks like Higsby's back!"
"But not to normal," he heard the words of his entire group of friends saying in unison as they continued to watch Higsby jumping all around the inside of the treehouse.
Just before he could have the chance to tell Higsby about what just happened, he heard the voice of the crocodile named Vector saying to him, "Tell me something, little homie, does that guy Hugsbee always act like this?"
Before he could have the chance to answer his question, Tory spoke up by saying with a curious tone, "So is that how a shrine maiden like you heals a person's injuries, miss Sylphiel?"
"Well yes, Tory," Sylphiel said to the brown-haired operator of IceMan. "The powers of the Recovery spell could only help to speed up the healing abilities of that person that I'm using my magic on. Usually, it could cause that person to become exhausted, but in Mr. Higsby's case, he seemed to be experiencing a lot of energy flowing through his body and..."
Before she could finish the last words to her sentence, Lan heard the voice of Higsby voice saying to everyone while at the same time pointing his index finger towards both Vector and Mighty, "Hey, could we talk about that later? Right now, I'm more interested to know about these two named Vector and Mighty! Just what in the world are they and where do they come from?"
That was when a thought occurred to Lan that he never thought of asking himself before he spoke to everyone, "Yeah, come to think of it, when I've first saw these guys the first time, there were four of them in the group. One looked like a small bee while the other is purple lizard with a golden horn."
"Oh, you must mean Charmy and Espio," he heard the response coming from Vector as the young boy saw the green croc with the earphones starting to walk up towards him with a friendly smile on his face. "I wouldn't worry about those two. They are able to avoid being spotted by anyone in this city using their own unique abilities. As a matter of fact, I think that the four of us better get back to the meeting place to see if they've found any clues of where the final shard of the emerald went."
"(Ahem!) I hate to be the bearer of bad news, Mr. Vector," Lan heard the voice of Glyde saying to Vector in a polite manner while turning towards Yai's direction as he saw her raising her P.E.T. to see what was going on. "But I've just received some news coverage about what's happened within Dentech Academy and some of it may be rather shocking. Perhaps if I show you all, then you'll see what I mean. Miss Yai, if you would be so kind as to turn on the Television?"
"Certainly, Glyde," was the rich girl's response as she grabbed a random remote from on top of the table and switched on the flat screen T.V. on the wall. Before he could ask about what was happening, the head-banded boy soon found himself looking at the new shooting live footage of his school being surrounded by police cars, Net Saviors, and news crews all around it.
As soon as he turned his eyes towards the huge flat screen of the treehouse that he was in, Miguel listened in as Ribbita made her appearance at the scene in Dentech Academy with her professional new reporter attire, "Hello, everybody! This is Ribbita from DNN here live at scene that just occurred here at Dentech Academy to bring you some breaking news.
"Just about an hour ago, two pillars of green light appeared right out of two parts of Dentech City. One appeared right out of the busiest part of town while the other came from right at this spot. But what we just heard from eyewitnesses a few moments ago really takes this story right to a new level. One man reported that as soon as he saw the green pillar of light disappearing from the building, he suddenly saw a person dressed in a werewolf costume leading a gang of what he reports to be pirates.
"A woman who was just on her way home from the market also reported seeing the subjects going into the building while holding rather strange swords and weapons. She claimed that she thought that it must've been something that would soon at the school for this upcoming Halloween. However, she then reported on seeing large amounts of silver light enveloping the school in its brilliance. But the strangest thing is that nothing, not even one, trace of damage was sighted in the school for when she called the local police.
"As both the police along with the assistance of the local Net Saviors tried to look through the school's surveillance cameras for evidence on who or what was responsible for the great disturbance, all they've found is nothing but corrupted data. It seems that whatever caused the phenomenon, it disrupted all of data recorded within the devices. However, we were able to find this piece of footage amongst the data."
As soon as he heard the female reporter finishing her sentence, Miguel started to look at what appears to be a whole bodied fizzled out image of himself standing and looking around the area that he was in before seeing it pause in place.
"What you're all seeing is the image of a young man in the middle of one of the rooms. We can't seem to get a good image at the moment, but this footage is the only piece of evidence leading to who was responsible for the huge disturbance that nearly sent the people of Dentech in a panic. We'll..."
That was all that Miguel could hear from the female reporter before the huge T.V. screen was turned off by Yai. Before he knew it, the teen had everyone turning their full attention towards his direction and looked at him with surprised expressions on each of their faces. Ms. Mari was the first to speak her mind as she turned her attention towards both Mighty and Vector.
"Well, it would seem that two of your friends named Espio and Charmy aren't going to be there after all, Mr. Vector," the bun-haired teacher said to the crocodile as she started to think about what she and her students just saw. "From what the news report said, it seems that they are likely to be anywhere else. Otherwise, we would have heard about people reporting strange animal creatures by now."
That was when Miguel heard MegaMan speaking up by saying, "Well, I have to agree with Ms. Mari on this one guys. I mean, if what both Vector and Mighty said is true, then both of their friends could almost be anywhere in the city. Now, the question would be where those guys went?"
As soon as both he and Charmy reached the human woman's home, Espio expected the inside to be like the home that Miguel lived in his world. But to his surprise, the purple chameleon saw that it was a very neat and nicely kept home. The living room, the kitchen, the dining area, just about every part of the house that both he and his small bee friend were in was nice and clean.
As soon as both he and Charmy were at the edge of kitchen that was also near the dining room, Espio soon heard the woman saying to the two of them, "Alright, while I fix up dinner for the famliy tonight, the two of you could go to the living room and make yourselves right at home. You could watch a little T.V. if you like. The remote is on the couch. It'll take a while for me to get dinner ready so please be patient."
"Well, don't worry about us, miss! We could wait for your delicious meal to be ready! Thanks for inviting us to your home!" the ninja chameleon heard the voice of his young bee friend saying to the woman that kindly invited them into her home with a loud and yet polite tone of voice.
"The two of you could call me Mrs. Hikari if you wish, Espio," he heard the woman's voice saying to Charmy's words with a soft giggle as Espio heard the sound of the stove starting to sizzle as a sign that she's cooking. "Most of the adults around he call me by my first name, Haruka."
"Well, in any case, thanks for allowing us to come into your home, Mrs. Hikari," the purple chameleon said to Mrs. Hikari with a polite tone in his voice as he turned towards his small and young friend's direction and saw Charmy starting to make himself comfy on the seemingly comfortable and large couch in the living room before thinking to himself. "I just hope that Vector and the others find the kids that took the emerald shards and get back to the meeting place without having any of the people here to see them and getting suspicious about their appearance. I just hope that Vec won't plan on biting our heads off once he finds out that both me and Charmy having dinner with a human woman that just invited us into her home for dinner. Well, I just hope that wherever they are, they are at someplace safe."
Just as he thought these words, Espio heard the youthful voice of his bee friend saying to him while turning to see the young Mobian on the soft couch, "You've got to sit on this couch and relax a bit, Espy! It's the softest thing that I've ever sat on! I wonder what kind of cartoons or T.V. shows do they have in this wor...!"
Just before Charmy could have the chance to finish those words, the purple chameleon started to quickly cover his young friend's mouth and spoke to him in a quiet and yet serious tone of voice, "Shhhh! Easy with what you say around Mrs. Hikari, big mouth! Don't forget that she still doesn't know about us being from another world or about our abilities and powers and would think that we were either crazy or just freak at the idea! So let's just play the parts of being harmless kids and keep our mission about finding the last piece of the Chaos Emerald to ourselves. You could play around and relax as much as you want, but keep quiet about us being from another world. There's no need to cause any panic towards this nice woman. Is that clear?"
As soon as he saw his bumble bee friend starting to nod in order to respond to the purple chameleon's words, Espio heard the worried voice of the woman named Haruka Hikari starting to say to the both of them as he released his hands from over Charmy's mouth, "Is everything alright over there, you two? Is something the matter?"
Before he could have the chance to explain about what was happening, the purple chameleon heard the voice of Charmy saying to the beautiful woman as he spoke with a sounding innocent tone, "Oh, it's nothing really, Mrs. Hikari! My friend Espio is just being his usual serious self for whenever we talk about our business! No big deal!"
As soon as he heard those words come out of the young bee's mouth, all the ninja chameleon wanted to do to his young friend at the moment was bonk him over head for what the young Mobian just said. But before he could do so, Espio heard the voice of Haruka Hikari saying, "Oh, well just be sure that the two of you don't playing too rough with each other! The two of you could help me out in the kitchen if you like."
"Well, no thanks, Mrs. Hikari," the purple chameleon responded to the woman's voice with a friendly tone while at the same time forgetting all about bonking Charmy on the head with this fist. "The two of us are rather lousy cooks and I think that we might be only in the way of your cooking! But thanks for offering us to help you! We'll just watch some T.V. a bit while you get the food ready!"
"Well, suit yourselves, boys!" said Mrs. Hikari just as the two Mobians heard her starting to put some food into the stove of the kitchen.
"Good! Now let's just see what's on the tube!" Espio heard the voice of his young bee friend saying as he turned as saw Charmy picking up the remote on the couch while sitting on top of it with a smile on his youthful face.
"Well, like they say, 'If you can't beat them, join them.'" the purple chameleon thought to himself as he gave out a sigh of defeat and started to sit along with his small bee friend as he turned his full attention towards the T.V.'s screen in the living room.
As soon as the decent-sized screen of the television set came to life, both Espio and Charmy saw it coming to a news report. The person that they saw on the screen of the flat wall bound T.V. was a young woman in her early twenties wearing a hat that seems to resemble a frog's head. The rest of her attire however, is a green professional suit that describes her job. Just then they heard the woman saying while at the same seeing a picture of what appears to be the same building that both he and Charmy left the others at.
"Good evening folks! This is Ribbita from DNN News here live at Dentech Academy continuing to bring you coverage of what just happened a few moments ago. There was not only one but two powerful bursts of green pillars of light appearing right above two parts of Dentech City. This area being one of the sources of the huge disturbances of the green pillars of light, Dentech Academy seemed to emitted a powerful electric field that disrupted any electrical devices near the area. Not only that, but most witnesses that were in the area at the time claimed to see the entire building of Dentech Academy being engulfed in a blanket of white silvery light. The strangest thing about it is that whatever caused the large explosion of light, it didn't seem to cause any amount of damage what-so-ever.
"What you're seeing on the screens of you television sets is our news equipment experiencing technical difficulties for there is still a rather large field of great energy still present in the area. At the moment, our news crew as well as numerous amounts of police and Net Saviors on the scene are still trying to gather evidence about what was the cause of the huge disturbance that occurred in our beloved city. But what they could gather so far from the security of the school camera's are nothing but corrupted data. Our crew has only managed to get this one piece of footage from the Net Saviors and is only piece of evidence that we have at the moment."
As soon as he heard those words coming from young woman's mouth, Espio saw what appears to be a digital picture appearing from all over the screen of the television set. From the way that purple chameleon looked at it, the picture looked as though it were ruined somehow. But as he took a closer look at the picture that the television set was showing to the two of them, Espio realized that what he was looking at was their human friend Miguel standing in the middle of the image. Despite the fact that the picture was a bit scrabbled and fizzled, the shape and form of the young man in front of his eyes was unmistakable.
"What you're seeing right now is a young man in his teens standing in the middle of one of the room of Dentech Academy's class rooms," the woman named Ribbita said as the image of Miguel's fizzled form continued to remain on the screen just before the reporter spoke again. "However, because of the large amount of electronic interference this area is emitting and how corrupted the data is, the image of the person is a bit fuzzy. Therefore, we cannot identify exactly who this young man is. However, some the Net Saviors in charge of the investigation say that they'll do what they can in order to restore the data in order to identify..."
That was all that the purple chameleon could hear just before the T.V. turned off leaving nothing but a blank screen. That was when he realized that Charmy was the one who shut off the television set as he turned towards his direction and saw his young friend's face filled with both shock and surprise at what they saw.
Before the two of them could respond to one another, Espio heard the voice of Mrs. Hikari saying to the two of them while having a curious and worried tone in her voice, "What's the matter you two? Couldn't find the channel that you wanted to watch? Just exactly what did the news say about...?"
Just before he could allow Mrs. Hikari to finish the rest of her question, the purple chameleon started to say to her by saying, "No, it's nothing, Mrs. Hikari! It's just there's nothing good on T.V., that's all! I think that both me and Charmy will go to the kitchen and help you with making that dinner after all! Just tell us what we need to do and we'll get right on it!"
"Well, that's just generous of you boys!" the woman responded with a happy tone in her voice as both he and Charmy looked at one another while letting outs sighs of relief. "The two of you could start by helping me chop up some vegetables for the curry that I'm making. They're right on the table and be careful for when you use the knives. And don't forget to wash your hands before you do."
"Oh, don't worry about us, Mrs. Hikari!" Espio heard the young bee friend saying to the woman in the kitchen. "We're both skilled at handling knives and my mother always needed help in the kitchen for when it came to chopping or peeling the vegetables."
"Well, that's real sweet of you!" the purple chameleon heard Mrs. Hikari saying to the young bee with a sweet tone in her voice. "The bathroom's down the hall that's near the living room and it's on your right for when you go by the hallway."
As soon as she finished her instructions about how to get to through the house, Espio then started to speak to Charmy as the two of them walked towards the entrance of the hall of the house that the woman mentioned while keeping his voice as quietly as possible so that no one unexpected would hear, "Did you saw that I think you just saw on the T.V., little guy?"
"Of course I did, Espy!" Charmy responded to him as both the purple chameleon and the bee found the door to the bathroom. "Miguel was caught on video from one of the security cameras in that building that we left them in. But from the looks of it, I'm relieved that they didn't get a clear picture."
"Well, that's not what worries me, little man," Espio said to the small bee as the two of them entered a very clean and well-kept bathroom and walked towards the sink. "What I'm more concerned about is where all of the guys have went. From what that reporter said, They didn't seem to find any trace of their existence anywhere."
"Well, if that's the case, then they could be anywhere in this city," Charmy said to him as he hovered himself over to the sink and allowed the running water to go over his hands. "Both Miguel and Sylphiel have the power to use the Chaos Control to warp anywhere in this large city without having to be spotted by the locals around here. Those two, along with Vector and Mighty, could be almost anywhere in this world. For all we know, they could all be somewhere on a deserted island about a million miles from here."
"Well, wherever they are, I hope it's somewhere out of sight from the people of this world," Espio responded to the small young bee as he to rubbed his hands along with soap and water in his hands just before he started to towards a pair of clean and dry towels. "I don't think that the people of this world is ready to set their sights on looking onto beings from another world. We get enough of that from Miguel's world as it is."
"You could say that again, Espy," Charmy replied to his words as the purple chameleon watched the bee flying over to where he was and grabbed a dry towel of his own. "I still remember the time about how the people reacted to our appearances saying that we looked like the real thing for when we first appeared in that world. The most surprising thing about it is that we're nothing but cool fictional characters to the people that saw us."
"Let's just forget about that memory for now, Charmy and let's focus on trying to help Mrs. Hikari," Espio said to his bee friend while finishing drying his hands. "We don't want the nice lady to think that we would want to avoid helping her with the curry. Besides, we could worry about finding out where the others are after we finished eating and regaining our strength."
"You're right, Espy," he heard the bee saying to him while finishing drying his hands and landing his feet on the floor of the bathroom and beginning to head towards the door. "We could worry about finding the last emerald piece right after we regroup with the others and we can't do that on an empty stomach. So, let's go and help the pretty lady with her dinner."
With those words said and done, Espio saw Charmy starting to exit the room by foot, he started to think to himself as he too exited the bathroom, "Well, let's just hope that once we do get our strength back, both me and Charmy would be able to find the others with no problems. But right now, I just hope that wherever they are is someplace safe and out of sight of this world's local authorities as well as the people. Now, the thought that's been bugging me since we arrived here is that if we may have ruined this world's natural balance by just setting foot here?"
End of Part 4
