Harry Potter Battle Network
Disclaimer & Author's Note: I do not own Harry Potter or Mega Man, the worlds of Harry Potter or Mega Man, or any and all official characters from the Harry Potter and Mega Man series itself. J.K Rowling, along with other companies and whatnot that help make the Harry Potter series into movie adaptations, have ownership of this series. Whereas Capcom for the creation of the popular video game franchise, own the popular video game series. All I own is this idea of a plot, the alternative universe adapting the Battle Network series into the HP world, and my Original Characters.
I depend on music as it sometimes helps get the flow of things working for me. But, when your computer's internet gets cut off because you forgot to make the latest payment that can put such a damper on things. But I simply went to my fathers and got on his internet, and went to Mediacom's online website to get that payment sent in. As soon as I did, my internet started working again, thankfully. Of course, I never knew what the hell was wrong until I called Mediacom Customer Service and waited for TWO HOURS until someone finally picked up my call; granted the time was 4:23 AM CDT when I did, but I got my internet back... it's troublesome... -.-
Sorry for the mini-rant. Here's the story.
Oh, and I do not own this song of Hatsune Miku's. :^D Yes... Miku...
Chapter Three
It was the dead of night, and in the distance, one can hear a howling wolf calling to the moon. However, in this sleepy town somewhere in Scotland, a cloaked man was traversing through the back alleys of the town. However, it would seem that several robed people were quietly following him, and were holding what looked like polished sticks. Soon, the man stopped in front of a building which was currently closed. It was a trinket shop which held all sorts of random junk you could pawn for some quick money.
"Plug in... transmission," the masked man from Cairo whispers, as he points a light brown and sandstone-colored PET towards the sensor on the box in the wall over the door.
"Freeze! Aurors! You are surrounded, Death Eater!"
The cloaked man did nothing as several wizards and witches suddenly threw off their invisibility cloaks, and pointed their wands. The dark-clad man then spun around. His cloak whips into the air, as a dark purple smog was released from underneath. The Aurors were surprised as the gas quickly spreads, covering the area in a wide margin. They all choked and coughed as the gas was inhaled. They even tried to use charms to blow the smog away, but the poison easily went to work. It paralyzed their nerves, and locked their muscles in place, one by one collapsing to the cobblestone street.
One of the Aurors, a woman with vibrant bubblegum pink hair, weakly looked up, and watched as the man in the dark cloak turned around, showing not a Death Eater mask, but a sand-colored one; a mask that had a strange eye-like shape on its surface. From under the cloak, he draws forth... a polished black stick. He points it at her fallen form as the smog slowly begins to dissipate into thin air.
Damn it! He IS a wizard! Tonks screamed in mind, if only I can alert the Order!
But before the masked wizard could say anything, the sound of a light buzz is heard, and the red light turns green, the steel shutters rising off the ground. He turns around, casts a charm on the door using his wand, and then opens it.
"PharaohMan, keep an eye on them," he says in a soft, but gravelly voice.
Inside the system, through a screen he generated, the former WWW NetNavi that was once thought to be dead floated there with his two sarcophagi at his sides.
"Yes, Master Mahaad."
Inside the shop, he scans the junk lying around, before he spots something. It was an aged chest. He walks up to the chest, putting his wand in his inside pocket before reaching over, and grabs it off the shelf.
"This contains what Master Shadow desired..."
He opens it up, expecting whatever Shadow desired from the place, and takes out a steel case. Easily slicing the lock with a hand-held bolt cutter, he found the prize. Inside were several Dark Chips from the days of Nebula. He takes it, closes the chest and puts it back onto its shelf before exiting the store. He made sure the door was locked, before taking out his PET, and logging the Navi out of the system after it was reset. As the shutters close over the door, he turns around just in time to hear the cracks of Apparition. But green jets of light greeted the Death Eaters that arrived to destroy the town. All twelve Death Eaters were picked off by Mahaad's Killing Curse. And in his eyes behind the mask, he took notice that the twelve Death Eaters couldn't be any younger than twenty.
"We should leave before more magicals arrive, Master Mahaad," the Egyptian-themed Navi tells his Net Operator.
"Yes," the man whispers, before glancing down at the pink-haired Auror who grabbed onto a pendant of a soaring phoenix in a pained manner.
She has spunk... for a witch, that is, he thought, before walking away.
Before Tonks passed out from the pain, she saw the masked man vanish in what looked like a whirlwind of sand that engulfed his body. A minute after Mahaad vanished, cracks echo as the Order of the Phoenix appeared. Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody, Hesita Jones, Minerva McGonagall, Albus Dumbledore, Remus Lupin, and Sirius Black, were shocked to seeing Death Eaters, and fallen Aurors.
"They're dead," Moody said when he looked at one Death Eater.
"They're still alive, but it looks like they were poisoned," Remus said, examining one of the Aurors.
"Let's get them transported," Dumbledore commanded, ushering the Order into action. He walked away a bit, before stopping at a disturbed pile of sand in a rough ring.
=0=0=
In a swirl of sand, Mahaad emerged, and sets down the steel container full of Dark Chips. "The old Dark Chips, the ones that Dr. Regal first made using the stolen Synchro Chips as the base. Great work." A hand reaches over and pulls the case off the table, which then disappears in a swirl of data.
"Thank you, Master," the man says.
In his large throne resembling the vampire bat and skeleton motif, Shadow's eyes glowed sinisterly. "You are the only wizard within the ranks of the Maverick Organization. That means you will know much about this Voldemort person I have heard on the cyber grapevine."
"Yes. He claims to lead his agenda in the name of blood purity, and elimination of muggles, squibs, muggleborns, and half-bloods; however he is nothing more than a lying hypocrite as he himself is one of the so-called disgusted half-bloods. However, his power, and numerous unknown magical rituals to change himself completely left him less than human and more of a demon in human skin. Ruthless, unforgiving, quick to anger should his human name be mentioned, which is Tom Marvolo Riddle, and claims to be invincible since a child who was said to have killed him the first time is nothing more than a Squib."
Shadow nodded, as he gently taps his chin with his finger.
"Yes... I heard a bit of it... how these wizards believe in prophecies and what nonsense."
"Yes... there was supposed to be some sort of magical prophecy where the man can only die by the person who killed him in the first place, which turned out to be an infant."
"Let me guess: the majority of these fools believe that a child has this power to kill him a second time?"
Mahaad nods.
Shadow cackles. "What utter backwatered fools! And they don't even know that the world around them has ever changed more?"
Again, the masked man nods.
"The wizards and witches stuck in the old ways refuse to believe the muggle world can be more advance than theirs. They believe that they are silly creatures trying to build a lifestyle without the precious magic that makes most of the Wizarding World lazy and heavily dependent. Most of them, mainly those who are purebloods, believe muggles to be ignorant cave men. I'm a pureblood, and yet I have skillfully grown into my magical roots and still follow along the rest of the evolving world."
"Well... we can't have that, hm?"
Mahaad merely stares ahead through his mask. "Master Shadow... Voldemort will surely wonder what had happened to the terrorists he sent to the town where I acquired the chips, once he discovers the fact."
"Let him," Shadow says, dismissing the obvious worry, "even if he has such dark and terrifying powers, the poor bastard and his merry band of lowly terrorists will suffer under our power. He's never met such a creature like I; one who has the power of Dark Matter..."
=0=0=
"Number Tembou Battlechip in, download!"
A kid with his Navi sent data, and the Navi obtained what looked like a white yard stick with a red dot on both sides in the center. The "handle" was flat with a rounded edge, but the tip of the "sword" was at a sharp slant.
"Ha! What kind a funky chip is that?" the kid's opponent taunted.
"I got this from Higsby at an online chip trade!" the kid whined, "Show them how it's used, Kentaro!"
"Roger that!" Kentaro, the white and green-themed Navi said, as the fin-like crests on his helmet, arms, and legs take on a faint luminescent green glow. He wore a large black visor over his eyes that show his opponent's reflection on its surface. On his chest is a green circle with a white horizontal lightning bolt mark surrounded by a gold ring.
"I'd like to see you try, punk!" the opponent taunted. He had large black and red forearms and metal-plated gray fingers, and large black boots with the front portion made of a translucent glass that was filled with what looked like magma. The forearms and lower legs had glowing red-orange lines in the black armor which makes it resemble cracked lava rocks. His upper black torso had a right breast plate made of the translucent glass, revealing the flowing magna within, and wing-shaped shoulder pads with three yellow ribbons flowing down. On the left breast was the symbol of an orange cloud with the fire hazard symbol in the cloud. The bodysuit is red, with yellow zigzags running down the front. The Navi's head resembled a Volcano virus, only it had a human enough face with a big nose.
The red, yellow, and black Navi sneers as he brought his hands together, and formed a ball of magma. "Magma-" All of a sudden a sarcophagus emerged behind the Navi, and swallowed him, lid slamming shut.
"MagmaMan!"
"Kentaro! Look out!"
But it was too late, as Kentaro too was captured. The last thing the two boys heard was an evil laugh before their PET connections broke.
Over the past few weeks, ever since the mysterious break-in at a pawn shop in Glasgow, around the world NetNavis have been disappearing off the internet. People would report that strange-shaped sarcophaguses would suck their Navis in, and then vanish by sinking into the ground. There were few reports of NetNavis fending off and successfully escape via log out, but it was a great deal of concern, that most governments sent their Officials to find out what was happening, and who was doing such a thing.
Hoshi zora watashi wo tsutsun de
Ikitai koko kara dokoka tooku he
Mada shiranai basho
Kaze ni fuwari yurare
At the Granger Residence, Harry was singing to one of his favorite Miku songs.
Hondana no ni danme no
Migi kara go banme no honni
Sotto fureru
Himitsu no jumon ni kai tsubuyake ba
Soko wa mou shiranai basho
Massuguni hiroga tteru sougen wo
Zensokuryoku kake nuke tara
Takai oka kara
Tooi umi made miwataseru
*Beep* *Beep* *Beep*
Harry stops singing, and grunts as he pushes his chair across the floor of the bedroom and grab his PET. Fortezero was jacked into the computer at the moment so the device was unoccupied.
"Hm... Net-Battlers Monthly... spam, spam, more spam... a subscription to a hentai magazine?" He decides to save that email for later viewing, "and an email from Lan... wait, what?"
He opens the email.
Harry!
Damn it! MegaMan and I were on the net when all of a sudden a coffin rose and snatched him! GutsMan managed to escape, but he, Roll, Glyde, and IceMan were caught by those coffin things that were stealing Navis all around the world. I managed to contact Chaud and told him what happened and he's coming to Den City. I asked him to go and get you since I know you'll be a great asset to rescuing our stolen Navis. Please!
The doorbell rang.
"Shit," Harry cursed.
He rushed downstairs, knowing he was in his sweats and a buttoned shirt, and opens the door.
"Chaud!"
"So, I take it Lan sent the email telling you of the situation?"
"Yeah," Harry said, inviting the teen into the house.
"Harry dear, who's at the door?" called Mrs. Granger from the living room.
"Mum, it's my friend."
"Hello Mrs. Granger," Chaud greets the woman.
"Oh, I know you. You're Eugene Chaud of IPC! What are you doing here? I didn't know you and Harry were friends."
Chaud smiled a bit. "Harry and I encountered one another through our Navis. He's a good guy to hang out with when I'm not swamped in my work at IPC and at Euro Official HQ."
"Hey, good guy? I'm the greatest here," Harry said, faking the insulted voice.
"But other than that, I need Harry's help concerning the case of the missing Navis around the cyber world."
Emma took a deep breath. "I don't know... it sounds dangerous."
"But mum, one of my friends needs my help in Japan. Lan's Navi got kidnapped!"
"Well... I guess, but only if you take Hermione with you. You know how worrisome your sister gets when you run off without her."
"Yeah," he said, looking towards Chaud.
"Fine. Your sister can come with us too. Where is she?"
"I believe Hermione will be back soon from the local market down the street," Emma answered the skunk-haired Net-Battler.
Just as she finished her sentence, Hermione walks into the house with some groceries, but behind her, Sean entered.
"Sean?"
The red-eyed teen blinks, as he recognizes Chaud.
"Chaud! What are you doing here?"
"Enlisting Harry and Hermione's help to help Lan in Japan."
Hermione blinks, setting the paper bags down on the ground. "Wait, Lan's in trouble? What happened?"
"I'll explain on the way, Hermione," the teen responds.
"I'm going too. It's been a long while since I last seen Lan," Sean said.
Chaud nods. "Fine. Let's hurry."
After Harry and Hermione got themselves properly dressed, and gathered their things, they left with Chaud, with Sean following after he told Axl what was going on.
=0=0=
"So, you moved to Europe, huh?"
"Yeah. After awhile of living in Japan, I decided to leave and go to Europe with my adoptive mom. I met Harry and Hermione, and we became friends. You heard of Dr. Faust, right?"
"Yeah. He was an expert Navi researcher like Lan's father, but then he died when some thugs decided they could make a profit off his stolen research," said Chaud.
"He created Axl for me."
"I see," he nods.
Inside Chaud's laptop, Fortezero, Marino, Axl, and ProtoMan were together. Currently, ProtoMan and Fortezero were in a sword-only duel.
"Your stance is slipping," ProtoMan comments, before exploiting that weakness. The white Navi counters with a block to cover the slip.
"It's been awhile since I last fought against a sword expert Proto. You'll have to forgive me," the White Shadow says with a grin.
"Sure," the red Navi responds.
They break form, leap back, and then clash again in the center with their swords.
=0=0=
The cloaked man did nothing as several wizards and witches suddenly threw off their invisibility cloaks, and pointed their wands. The dark-clad man then spun around. His cloak whips into the air, as a dark purple smog was released from underneath. The Aurors were surprised as the gas quickly spreads, covering the area in a wide margin. They all choked and coughed as the gas was inhaled. They even tried to use charms to blow the smog away, but the poison easily went to work. It paralyzed their nerves, and locked their muscles in place, one by one collapsing to the cobblestone street.
Dumbledore and the rest of the Order of the Phoenix were watching the memory of Tonks replay itself in her view.
The man in the dark cloak turned around, showing not a Death Eater mask, but a sand-colored mask that had a strange eye-like shape on its surface.
Dumbledore recognized the eye on the mask as Egyptian in origin.
From under the cloak, he draws forth... a polished black stick. He points it at her fallen form as the smog slowly begins to dissipate into thin air. But before the masked wizard could say anything, the sound of a light buzz is heard, and the red light turns green, the steel shutters rising off the ground. He turns around, casts a charm on the door using his wand, and then opens it.
"PharaohMan, keep an eye on them," he says in a soft, but gravelly voice.
This confused them, as they wondered who this Pharaoh Man person was. The mysterious man walked inside, where he took something from a chest he found, before placing everything back the way it was. They also questioned who this Master Shadow was the man whispered quietly. Using that strange muggle device in his hand, he had re-armed the muggle security system before pressing a button on the device. A bema of red light shot from the device on the top of the door and enters the muggle device.
As the shutters close over the door, he turns around just in time to hear the cracks of Apparition.
Dumbledore and the others were horrified at the blatant disregard for human life, as all twelve of the arrived Death Eaters were shot down with Killing Curses. The masked man stood there staring at the fallen, before he responded to what looked like an unheard sentence. This is where he looks at Tonks who was grasping the phoenix pendant tightly. The masked man simply stores his wand away into his cloak and walked off. The memory ends with the cloaked wizard vanishing in what looked like a whirlwind of sand eating at his body.
When everyone exited the Pensive, they were in mixed states of shock, horror, and disgust. Shock and horror because the man almost killed the Aurors with the poison and then the brutal slaying of the Death Eaters when they popped in, possibly to terrorize Glasgow, and disgust because by the man's body movements, he didn't care what he did.
"Obviously, this dark wizard isn't what we suspect," Dumbledore says wearily.
"You're telling us," Moody said, "he has those things that most muggles nowadays have."
"You know what they are, Alastor?" Dumbledore inquired.
"The muggles call them Pets or something, and it holds artificial life inside. I wouldn't know much. They seem too damn complicated."
Many of them wouldn't ever know what to do in the muggle world. Ever since the Second World War, the muggles have started becoming interested in their own creations and technology, and what they called internet. Half of the muggleborns at Hogwarts would express general dislike at how most of their muggle technology wouldn't work at the school, since the age-old castle is just heavily saturated in magic, and of course there was two Leylines that ran through the school which also plays a contributing factor that the muggleborns are forced to leave their muggle devices at the start of each school year. He had seen one or two of those weird devices that still worked regardless, but then over the days they would disappear; he assumed owled back to their homes for better keeping.
"Severus... does Voldemort know of this night?"
"Since I have not been summoned lately since his last potions make for his cannon fodder, no," the bitter man said, having a general dislike at having to play this game of spy works, "but it's only a matter of time before he does when the men he sent out never return. And before any of you idiots ask: no, I do not know who this person is, nor is he in the services of You-Know-Who."
Sirius was about to say something had Remus not so subtly kick him in the shin.
"I see... all of you keep your guards up. It's only a month before Hogwarts is let out for the summer. Afterward, ward your places, and keep your loved ones safe. Sirius-"
"I know Dumbledore. I know the plan," the man said.
"Very well then. The meeting is adjourned."
The Order members all got up and left, the Hogwarts Headmaster and Professors McGonagall, Flitwick, and Snape returning to the school in Scotland, while the others took Portkeys once they left the house, or just stayed which in this case would be Tonks' parents, still worried the poison Pomfrey managed to flush form her system didn't work well enough.
"Moony..."
"Yeah, Padfoot?"
"Do you ever wonder what Harry is up to?"
Remus sighed a bit. While the majority of the Wizarding World had forgotten about Harry Potter because he was a squib in their eyes, the two men didn't. There was a few whom were best friends with the Potters that still desired to know if their son was living a peaceful enough life in the muggle world.
"Hopefully not being targetted by You-Know-Who... that madman may still decide that Harry should be killed because of that thrice-damned prophecy."
Sirius sighs again.
"Remus, old friend... I don't care what Dumbledore says. I don't care what the rest of the Wizarding World thinks about our godson. I'm going to try and find him."
As it was night when they left, it was nearing the noon hours when Chaud's private jet arrived at Tokyo International. The four teenagers have gotten what sleep they needed, as they embarked the jet, and took a limo straight to Den City, and therein, SciLabs.
"Been so long since we last came to Japan, and that was when the N1 Grand Prix was held," Harry whispered.
"Yeah, but I heard it was but a mere trap by a World Three operative," Sean said.
"DesertMan's operator," Hermione confirmed.
"Hope Lan's okay. You know how close a bond he and MegaMan share..."
"We'll figure out what happened when we get to SciLabs."
Eventually they arrived, and the group exited the limo.
"Lan!"
"Harry! Hey dude!"
The two ran to one another. Hermione just smirked as the two did some sort fo weird manly handshake or something.
"Sean? Is that you?"
"Hey there Lan. Long time no see."
Lan grins. "You haven't changed much."
"Yeah... except getting a Navi for myself."
Chaud decides to but in. "It's nice and all, but Lan... you need to tell what happened to MegaMan."
And like that, the mood turned solemn.
Everyone walked inside, and into Dr. Hikari's office, where Dr. Hikari wasn't the only one there. Lan's friends where there, too. And they were also surprised at seeing Sean again.
"So, from the beginning Lan... what had happened?"
"Well... it started when we all decided to just hang out for a day of fun, just like we used to do when we were younger. We went to Yai's place, where he all jacked our Navis into the net through her 60" plasma flatscreen television."
"Sixty inch TV?" Harry asked, looking at Yai.
The youngest teen just smirked. "It wasn't easy, but the cost was worth it."
The Granger siblings just look at one another for the moment, before looking at Lan again.
"Then what?"
/FLASHBACK/
The calm town of Akihara saw little activity, unless there was some sort of bad criminal organization acting up again. In the town, there was a very large landscape, with an equally impressive mansion. Inside the mansion was the home of one Yai Ayanokoji. Today, was a nice day, and for a fun day, what better than to hang out with your close friends? In the internet, several Navis deposit down onto a warp leading away from the new PC, which was a very large television.
"Well... the updates did the areas of Akihara well," MegaMan comments.
Clung to his arm, Roll agreed. "Yeah, it's so nice here."
Akihara Area of the town's space had a revamped work. Some of the internet paths were demolished and new paths were put in place.
"Hey, is that water in the distance?"
Off in the distance, where the real world location of the park was, the internet version was a large space where a cyber idol of the famous duck statue was, next to a cluster of cyber trees.
"So, what do you guys want to do?"
"Let's just go explore the areas, and then we could head off through the new links that's supposed to take us to Internet City," Glyde spoke up.
"I heard they reinstalled the Cyber Metro, guts," GutsMan said.
MegaMan, Roll, GutsMan, Glyde, and IceMan all wandered Akihara Area, meeting the locals. There was a new Internet Shop established near the Cyber Park, where MegaMan purchased some Battlechips that were recent imports from Europe mixed in with the normal chips such as Cannons, Swords, or the occasional last generation Battlechip like a Side Lance. Even Lan was ecstatic as he happily paid for the chips, which got Dex to have GutsMan go and check out the wares himself.
"Man, these are cool chips," Lan said, downloading the data to blank chips, which Yai had a plentiful supply at hand.
The first three chips Mega purchased was a Beam Shot, where the chip image was a green spherical-shaped gunarm, with a needle-like barrel that has a red thin beam firing from the barrel's muzzle. The second two chips were called Long Snap. The chip's image had what looked like three viruses. Green roots embed the ground, had a discus yellow body and a long metal coil-like stem with violet fanged clamps on the end. The last three chips was Blaze Shot (the image is a HeelNavi firing a black ball from a purple and gray cannon), Drill Shot (the image had what looked like a pink and blue mole with a silver drill in mid-launch for a face and two yellow beady eyes), and Iron Mace (the image has a spiked ball and chain swung from what looked like a green and red Navi clad in a blue cape, armed with a green shield).
"Hey MegaMan, let's go and check out the other areas."
"Great idea. Anyone up for exploration?"
Roll smiles. "I wouldn't mind, Mega."
"Yeah! Maybe we can have Net-Battles at Cyber Stadium," GutsMan says, lumbering over from the Net Dealer.
Glyde walks over when a couple of Navis from Singapore asked directions to getting to the local Net Square of Internet City. This is when a coffin grew from the ground, lid open and scoops the butler off his feet. His startled yelp alerted the others before the lid slams shut and vanishes with its captured target.
"Glyde!"
"MegaMan! Roll!"
GutsMan shoved the two aside as a coffin came up, but the burly Navi easily held the coffin back with his strength. IceMan screamed as he and some others got sucked in, and vanished. By now, other Navis in the area were running away. The Net Dealer ran as well.
"Damn! What's going on? Lan!"
"MegaMan!" Roll yelled, as a coffin slams in between them. The lid swung open smacking Roll in the head. She groaned as she was knocked out, and MegaMan jumped, however a wind pulled him in.
"MegaMan? MEGAMAN!" Lan yelled, as the yells of their Navis caught their attention from the dining room (where ice cream was served).
Another coffin emerged from the ground and scoops Roll before vanishing. Three came for GutsMan, but the burly Navi easily punches them away.
"Dex! Log me out! Quick!"
Dex fumbled for his PET, but managed to log his Navi out.
/END FLASHBACK/
"That's it," Lan finished.
"Well, it's not hard to notice when Navi disappearances get mentioned on the news," Harry said, "the question is... who would want to kidnap random NetNavis for? Ransom?"
"Considering there was no statements put out using the captured Navis, I would say not likely," Chaud told Harry.
"We should figure out WHERE the Navi goes to after being kidnapped... the question is that using a decoy Navi may not work as the thief may take notice if the decoy willingly gets captured."
"I'll do it," Marino spoke up.
"Wait what! Marino! I won't let that happen!" Hermione yells.
"But I'm fairly strong in my own skills alone Hermione," Marino explained, "I'm a ninja so I'm fairly capable of handling myself. Of course... I can always wear a bug or tracer that Mr. Famous can track."
"It's just Famous, and I believe it will work... Miss Granger?"
"'Mione... Marino will be fine..."
She crossed her arms, but relents to the plan. "Fine, but I want her to be armed with some chips she can hide on her person."
It was agreed, and Marino logs online. Famous sent one of his Navis in too, which turned out to be GateMan. GateMan summoned one of his little soldiers, before it transformed into a hair clip using a program Famous used.
"Now remember, when you're captured, you should release the soldier and it will go to a place wherever the captured Navis are at, and then I'll be able to find a link using my Remote Gates."
"Of course," Marino replies, "Hermione?"
"Here Marino."
Hermione selected a few chips, which she took and stored on her person, before leaving the computer and exited into the cyber world. She took a deep breath, before walking off to her fate. She went to Akihara Area 3 after going through the SciLab Areas, the last place where MegaMan and the others were caught with GutsMan luckily being able to escape. Marino's hands edge to her Laser Knives, as she heard footsteps. She turned around, and saw three NetNavis. They were Skull Navis from the Undernet around the Central City areas.
"Skull Navis?"
The lead NetNavi, who had a black and red color scheme, and what looked like a scar over the right eye, chuckles.
"Lookie boys... we found someone who has some Battlechips on her person."
"Why don't you bozos buzz off before you get hurt," Marino threatened.
They laugh however, before they each form swords. But Marino was in no mood. She charged them with a quick burst of speed, swinging her weapons over their necks. Data sprays like blood effect before with shuriken, their icons were impaled.
SKULL NAVIS DELETED
"Idiots," she grunts, before a coffin emerged quite suddenly, and darkness was granted to her.
"Marino," she whispered. Harry hugged his sister however.
"There. The tracer works."
"Don't worry... Marino will be okay by herself. She's a tough girl."
"I know... just still... I wish she didn't have to use herself as bait."
Famous uploads the coordinates, and they were surprised.
"Isn't that where UnderKoto used to be?" Lan questioned.
"Yes, but ever since the Gospel incident, when the internet got a world-wide update, UnderKoto was cut off from the cyber world."
"Hmm... so how will we get there?"
A glint flashes off Famous's sunglasses.
=0=0=
MegaMan and the others looked up when a portal opened, and a familiar pink ninja unceremoniously drops onto her butt.
"Ow... damn it," she hisses.
"Marino!"
"Huh? MegaMan!"
She got up as Mega and the others rush up to the female ninja.
"Oh no! You got captured, too?"
"Willingly," she said. This confused them before she removed the hair braid. The hair braid then transformed into a familiar tiny soldier.
"Wait, isn't that one of GateMan's summoning soldiers?"
Marino nodded, as the tiny digital warrior gives a thumbs up. "Yeah. I baited the trapper, and now that I'm here, I can free this guy, and then the rescuers can arrive and save all of us."
She sets the little guy down, and it runs off, easily squeezing past the electrical barriers that kept all the captured Navis in the rooms.
"So Fortezero is here too?"
"Yeah, and Axl."
"Axl? Who's he?"
"Sean's NetNavi," she says with a grin.
=0=0=
"There we go... my soldier found an empty area."
Fortezero grins. "Good. So, you going with us GateMan?"
"Unfortunately I can't. However, Famous has another Navi who I believe can be of great help," GateMan said.
In the real world, Mr. Famous reached into his coat and pulled out another PET. Its color scheme was royal purple and white with gold accents. Harry noticed the Navi Icon on the PET resembled one of those Bombu creatures from the Metroid video game series, colored green with white smaller sphere.
"Alright now! Jack in! Ballade, power up!"
In a stream of light, another Famous Navi emerged, and stood the same height as GateMan.
His helmet was rounded like MegaMan's, with the most top part white with a red triangle crystal set in the center. Sprouting from the sides lining the edge of the helmet were two long golden horns like a long claw, and gold crests line along the front and reach towards the back. The bodysuit was dark green on the front and blue in the back. He wore purple boots with white diamond-shaped knee pads, and the feet were white with gold rings set in the ankles. White gloves with gold bracelets cover the hands, with equipped purple armor gauntlets around the forearms which have a concave buster barrel fused to the backs of the arms, with white diamond elbow pads. Three gold triangles line the sides of the arms, and the shoulders were globular, white on the top and dark purple on the bottom, with gold rings set on the fronts with embedded green spheres within. The upper torso is encased in purple armor with gold crests lining around the curving edges, gold neck brace and a gold ring around the bottom of the torso armor. The accents arc up in a triangle pattern, which connect to the Navi's icon set on the sternum; they were also displayed on the sides of his helmet. His green eyes were filled with determination, and he gave a grin almost mimicking BurnerMan's crazed grins.
"Yo, the name's Ballade."
"Ballade here will go with you guys while GateMan mans his Remote Gates. We have to make sure that the Remote Gates don't get heavily damaged that they get destroyed. At least, until we're able to find a reliable exit from the former UnderKoto area where our tracer is located..."
Famous then looks from the monitor to Harry and Sean, tossing the two a FullEnergy Subchip.
"Keep those. And make sure your Navis are prepared, understood?"
"Right."
GateMan then summons his gate, which opens. Inside the gate, it revealed a desert-like world on the other side. The three Navis jump right inside, and the gate doors close shut.
Surprised, aren't you?
You see, I learned through the Wiki for The Megaman Network that in EXE 1, the creators of the game had originally planned for a Net-op for PharaohMan. He was supposed to be a cloaked being who wore a mask with an odd eye-like shape on its surface (Egyptian-based I guess) however in the end the creators decided to scrap that idea, and thus PharaohMan becomes nothing more than a secret boss fight in the post credits until his minor plot in the WWW Areas of EXE 2. I believed that PharaohMan would be a nice old Navi to bring back...
And another twist... there appears to be a wizard who DOES follow with the rest of the ever-changing world, but uses his magic for foul deeds. O: New NetNavi is a familiar one from Rockman World IV so once again, Mr. Famous has another Navi to his collection, next to Gate, Punk, Kendo, and Foot.