Littlefoot slightly trembles as he keeps his buster cannon trained at the Sharptooth Navi, Drone. As usual Littlefoot is slightly scared as he faces a Sharptooth by himself. Without Jason there to aid him with the battle chips, it's going to take every ounce of skill in him to take this Sharptooth down all by himself. He slightly flinches and grits his teeth as his tail brushes up against Ducky, who's standing right behind him for protection against this Navi. He has to remind himself Ducky is also with him, and she's not really a type of Navi who's really suited for battle. Of course, Littlefoot's not really known to be the bravest Navi of the gang of five when up against a Sharptooth this big and tough. But he'll gather his courage and stand up to them if he has to.
"Hmmm, interesting." Netra acknowledges as he stands there by himself in the train station's warehouse, watching these events through his PET. He thinks to himself the ways he and Drone can waste this Navi as he taps with his fingers his favorite tune the machine that he's leaning on. "We got ourselves a Leaf-Eater dude on our hands here."
Drone scoffs and charges with a cry. "You're dead!"
Kaden and Jason are on a race against time. Going by what Ducky said, the trains are going so fast it's ridiculous. Any sudden turn with that such a speed they could derail and cause a massive disaster! Or worse, crash into another speeding bullet and double, maybe even triple, the casualties. They had no time to spare; they just have to get to the station, fast!
""Kaden, the trains are being clocked at extremely over their speed limit."" Rex informs his Net Op from his PET, going over updates and information about the train situation. ""If they continue to escalate, this is going to end up in a disaster!""
"I know! I know!" Kaden stresses as he keeps his legs going and his arms pumping as he races down the Garden City streets alongside Jason. "I just can't believe someone would actually do such a thing! What are they trying to prove?"
Jason growls as he keeps up the lead. "Nevermind that! We gotta get to it as fast as we can! Littlefoot and the others need us!"
They quickly turn a corner and continue on down the street another block before making a right and seeing the station in front of them a few feet away. They race down to it but immediately stop at the base of the stairs. To their dismay they find the station crowded, many passengers who were waiting for their train are sitting on benches and crowding the security booth to learn what's going on and what the technicians are doing to fix things. Some are trying to lend their hands to help them while others are demanding the technicians to fix the problem quickly, worried about the passengers stuck in the run-away trains.
"Please calm down!" One of the security personnel attempts to bring the peace to the concerned crowd. "We are doing our best to resolve this problem and save the passengers in the train! Please remain calm and let us do the work! We assure you the safety of the passengers!"
Just as he finished the ground slowly began to shake, getting violently each second until one of the run-away trains zooms by the station, startling the immense crowd at the station. Some scream in horror as they noticed for that split second passengers in the train that just zoomed by while others shout at the security personnel to work faster.
"Stop the trains!"
"Save the passengers!"
"Disaster will happen soon!"
"Please remain calm!" The security personal shouts once again.
The scene is chaos. Jason and Kaden are overwhelmed at how badly the situation is. Just how many of those trains are full…
"This is insane…" Jason whispers just loud enough for his friend to hear.
"Well we can't just stand around here!"
Jason flinches and looks at Kaden, seeing him running off in one direction. Baffled, he follows his friend away from the station and around it near the station's cement fence, running down in an alley following the fence. Jason finally stops at spotting a metal door with a sign saying employees only. Jason gulps, catching up to his friend's idea. "Kaden…Please don't tell me you're…" Kaden nods at him, which causes Jason to gulp again and shake his head. "Are you crazy? We could get in a lot of trouble!"
Kaden inspects the door's lock; a simple one, non-electronic. "Well we can't just sit around when Littlefoot and Ducky are in there going up against who knows what! We also got friends in a train!" Kaden lifts a foot and kicks at the door, failing in his attempt to break down the door.
""Naturally I would agree with Jason, but you're right. Our friends are in there."" Rex speaks out. ""And whether or not the officials are doing something about it, we can't just sit around!""
"But…" Jason just gives up; it's useless to try to talk Kaden out of it. As far back as he can remember Kaden was always the kind of person who would dive head-first into his plans to help others. That's just the kind of guy he is. Jason jumps a bit at a beeping sound coming from his PET. He gasps and whips it out, noticing the status of his Navi, Littlefoot. It clearly shows he engaged something strong; he's taking a good deal of damage and dishing out attacks as strong as he can. "Littlefoot!" Jason cries out. This was the last thing Jason needed. He looks at Kaden and nods. "All right, break the door down."
Kaden rears back and kicks at the door again, this time managing to kick it open. Quickly they both run through the door and into the station's area. The area is pretty spacious, a few warehouses here and there and train station equipments for maintenance and repairs. The two Net Ops slightly splits up in search of any electronic equipment with a jack-in port, but they fail to find any. "Shoot! I don't see anything to jack into!" Jason cries in frustration.
Kaden looks around for a bit. There's nothing much to this area of the station other than warehouses and train equipments. "Maybe inside one of the warehouses; you try searching them for a jack-in port and find Littlefoot while Rex and I try to find a way to stop these trains!"
Jason nods. "OK, just please don't get caught and start anything."
Kaden chuckles a bit. "Aw c'mon Jason, you worry too much."
""Umm hello? Trains on a crash course with each other if this keeps up!"" Rex roars at them from his PET.
Kaden flinches a bit and nods. "Erm right, let's go!"
The station's mainframe is in peril. The mainframe is riddled with Sharptooth viruses wreaking havoc as they tear their teeth and claws into the mainframe's main circuitry, damaging the data and the information needed to run the station perfectly. Compsognathus and Velociraptor viruses are present along with another virus. This Sharptooth virus is three feet tall with a tanned skin color with a lighter-tan color tone on its underbelly. The virus has two brown crests on its head and tough scale-like armor on its feet from the ankle down and on its arms from the elbow down; its eyes are yellow slits with a black outline, along its back to its tail it has brown stripes along with some cybernetic spikes here and there, its tail as pointy as a knife and its claws on its hands and legs are of pure cybernetic energy like Rex's CyberClaw technique. It screeches as its retractable frill from around its neck opens and out of its mouth spits a gooey poison substance, hitting a power column from the mainframe and it melts through it like a hot knife through butter. These viruses are categorized as the Dilophosaurus viruses, a dangerous virus with poisonous spitting abilities and razor sharp claws.
Compsognathus viruses hack and slash at the columns with their sharp beaks while the Velociraptor viruses shoot at other columns with their icy blue feather projectiles, the damage rapidly increasing. If this keeps up the mainframe will be damage beyond repair and the train station's computer system will be lost.
Three Dilophosaurus viruses screech as their retractable frills open up, ready to spit more venom to the power columns. But before they even get to the chance to cough up a good one a sudden slash goes right through them and cuts them in half, deleting them on the spot. Some Velociraptor and Compsognathus viruses react by turning their fallen comrade, and just then a figure zooms toward them, biting into two of them and whipping the rest of them away with its tail. The remaining viruses screech at their attackers as they witness their comrades, still in the attacker's jaws, screech in agony before succumbing to its sharp teeth and begin to delete.
The attacker is none other than a Sharptooth, much like the viruses themselves. However the difference is painfully apparent for them, for this Sharptooth is none other than from the Alimon series from the Sharptooth Generation.
She's a good sized Alimon, standing around 8 ft tall with her neck held all the way up. Her skin's a sapphire color, with sunflower yellow masking the tip of her snout and coloring her lower jaw, which stretched down her neck, chest, and underside. A dark violet could be seen on the top of her head, down the back of her neck, and along her back with her mane, which goes down from the back of her neck to her shoulder, is a slightly darker shape of purple. Her large paws each ended in four large talons, coated in light gray. Her ankles bore gray bands of cyber-metal with black spikes sticking out. Her tail is completely armored with cyber-metal sections stuck together, first starting in black and then turning into light gray. The tail itself ends in two long blades, one red and the other gray. The scleras are black and the left pupil is orange while the other's yellow. Along her head she wears a black helmet with openings for her eyes and nostrils. Two red cyber-gems are embedded on both sides. Four red spikes grow out of the top of the helmet that touches the top of her muzzle while two long horns, blood-colored, jet out from behind the helmet. Attached to both of her sides are metal bands, light gray with gray spikes sticking out, that attached to a bit of black plate armor attached to her back, which connects to the tail. Three red cyber-gems are embedded on both sides. Around her neck she wears a thin light gray metal necklace with three yellow lightning-shaped cyber-gems dangling from it. Her chest has a yellow circle crest embedded onto it, but no symbol. Her name: Grayscale.
"What do we have here…?" Her Net Op speaks as she surveys the mainframe's situation through her PET. She press a few buttons on her PET before continuing. "Looks like we have a herd to rally up…"
Grayscale stares at the viruses, seemingly uninterested. A Compsognathus virus screeches and charges right at her, ready to slice the Alimon Navi up. Instead the Alimon jumps to the side dodging the slash and grabs the virus by the head. She squeezes and her long claws quickly thrust through the virus' head, not allowing it to even screech in pain before it deleted completely. She calmly turns her attention back at the viruses, who are just screeching at her ready to spring. "Quickly or slowly?" She inquires her Net Op.
"To your liking." The Net Op simply replies.
Grayscale nods and leaps at the viruses. She quickly charges in and leaps, slashing at the viruses she comes across and deleting them on the spot. She stops in the middle of the crowd and does a swift 360 degree, her axe-like tail slamming hard against the viruses that stand in its way and slicing through them, cutting them in half. The victims screech in agony before exploding into data particles as they delete. Her paws skid as she comes to a stop, seeing distant viruses charging for the offense. One Compsognathus virus jumps for the attack with its sharp beak, rearing its head back and then down as it descends to make the stab. Grayscale simply jumps out of the way and swings her tail at the virus the moment it touched ground, slicing it in half vertically. Two Velociraptor viruses screech before lowering their heads, the feathers turning into sharp projectiles and shooting out at the Alimon. But Grayscale simply jumps and the projectiles fly by under her. She does a front flip after curling up into a ball and uncurls as she descends, slamming down on the two Velociraptor viruses, crushing them under her weight and devastating them with her dangerous claws, deleting them.
This is nothing to them, but they were growing bored. "Hmph, Alimon Claws." Her Net Op announces as she takes out a battle chip and slots it into the PET. The Alimon Claws is an enhanced stronger version of the Cyber Claw battle chip, which elongates Grayscale's claws with pure cybernetic energy; longer, stronger and deadlier than the Cyber Claws.
Grayscale flexes her claws and charges. She swings her claws toward the viruses, impaling at least three of them in her now longer claws before slashing two viruses in half. She smirks a bit as the viruses impaled in her claws screech in agony before being deleted; she always knew how to have fun with these claws. She glances to the left to spot two viruses leaping for the attack. She jumps to dodge them and turns in mid-air, her axe-like tip of the tail slicing into them and deleting them. She lands just in time to spot a Dilophosaurus virus opening its retractable frill, ready to spit some of its poison at her. Grayscale simply scoffs and dashes to the right, completely dodging the spit and charges right up to the virus, slamming her Alimon Claws deep into the virus' face, deleting it without it getting a chance to screech in pain.
With that virus done and gone, she slowly turns around to face the last remaining virus. The poor thing is looking around and trembling as he realizes he's the last one left alive. Grayscale smirks as she narrows her eyes. "Boo."
The poor critter did the smart thing and took off, leaving the mainframe.
Grayscale's Net Op scoffed a bit. "Well that was amusing while it lasted…21 deleted viruses in under 5 minutes." She presses a few buttons on her PET. "Mainframe damage isn't devastating, but pretty heavy…"
"And where are the Officials?" Grayscale inquires as she looks around the damaged mainframe.
Her Net Op keeps pressing buttons on her PET as she scans and surveys the mainframe's connected links and computers. "They're busy with the other mainframes of the other stations. We're just fast in our work, as usual." She continues pressing and manages to hack her way into one of the run-away trains' motherboard mainframe. "Now, let's see what we have in the trains' controls…" She enters a specific train and her eyes slightly widen, amused. "What do we have here…?"
Intrigued by her Net Op's tone of voice, Grayscale access the streaming surveillance link of the train's motherboard mainframe to see what her Net Op is seeing. Immediately she catches the figure of a Leaf-Eater NetNavi running down the mainframe in battle with two other Leaf-Eater Navis. Grayscale growls as she sees this. "No surprise there…"
Her Net Op slightly closes her eyes, closing the streaming link from her PET. "We found the troublemakers…Grayscale, you know what to do. Show no mercy."
"Wouldn't do it any other way…" Grayscale closes her eyes and disintegrates into hundreds of purple particles of cybernetic energy, transporting herself to the train's mainframe.
"Nope! Not in here!"
Kaden was barging into the numerous warehouses in the station trying to find what he was looking for, but every warehouse he gets into there's nothing but a mere little computer and a bunch of equipment lying around. He runs to the center of the area and looks around, panting to catch his breath while holding his PET in his left hand.
""No luck?"" Rex asks.
"Nope, nothing." Kaden shakes his head as he looks around, unable to tell the difference between the warehouses, worried he must be going around in circles checking the same warehouses over and over again. He looks up and barely looses his footing as another train zooms by the tracks above him, causing the ground to shake and his ears suffering from the extremely loud noise from above.
""That didn't sound good."" Rex comments, concerned. ""Time's running out!""
"Argh! I know that!" Kaden shouts in frustration. His head goes back and forth trying to find something. He continues to run down the huge area to explore again, this time making a left where he took a right. He stops running after turning another corner and looks to his right as he catches his breath, spotting a shack; a nice change from the usual warehouses.
"Maybe in there…" Kaden tells to himself. He runs toward it and peeks through the window, spotting a teenager wearing a green sweatshirt and a spiky hairdo inside the building. Kaden crouches low as he keeps looking into the building as to not get noticed.
"Heheh, doing bad things…" The teenager says in a sing-along voice.
Kaden blinks, managing to overhear him through the glass. "Huh?"
"Gonna give these people a ride they won't soon forget…" He continues in that annoying sing-along voice. "And then they will all go boom! Heheh, I love this."
Kaden's eyes widen as he gasps. This must be the guy who's responsible for all of this! Although, his gasp was a little too loud and got the guy's attention, prompting Kaden to duck under the window to hide. He curses under his breath, believing he was caught. But as he waited, nothing; maybe he didn't saw him after all. Just when Kaden was about to take another peek he hears the shack's door opening, making him get back down and hold his breath, praying.
"All right. Now that should take care of the whole train system's mainframe. Oooh the fireworks are gonna be awesome!" The teenager began talking to himself, bragging about what he's doing. "So Drone! Are you having fun with that Long-Neck?"
Kaden arches an eyebrow. Drone? Must be his Navi. And as for that Long-Neck…It's got to be Littlefoot! Kaden had two options here: Either take down the culprit right there and then or let him go and save his friends by doing something about whatever he did to that control room in the shack. Needless to say, friends win hands down.
"Heheh, all right." Drone talks again, must be directed to his Navi. "You do that, I'll just mosey on over to the last computer mainframe and work my magic."
Ugh. Mosey on over? Work his magic? Kaden just felt a huge urge to just punch him in the face. The guy was just so…So…So lame!
""Kaden! What are you doing?"" Kaden snaps out of it upon hearing his Navi's voice scold at him. ""He just left! He's the one behind all of this! We gotta go after him!""
Kaden peeks out, seeing that the culprit really did left. Rex does have a point to go after the guy, but he can't just forget about the trains. Every second he gets off track is another second the trains are closer to crash or derail. Kaden shakes his head as he gets up. "No time! We gotta do something about the trains!" He dashes toward the open door as he reaches to the strap and takes out his PET, sliding down its cover and extending out the jack-in cable. "I'm jacking you in!"
"Gah!" Littlefoot falls and skids on the ground after being knocked down for the third time since his NetBattle started with the Deinonychus, Drone. The Longneck has been tackled, bruised and slashed during the course of the battle, but despite all this punishment he insists on continuing the battle. While the fight raged on Ducky was hiding behind one of the mainframe's power columns, hoping and praying that Littlefoot will pull through and come out on top.
"Nnngh…" Littlefoot grunts as he slowly picks himself up, training his buster at Drone as he huffs and puffs for breath.
"I'd say, you're pretty persistent…" Drone smirks as he flexes his claws, slowly lifting his arm and aiming his claws at the Long-Neck Navi. "I guess I should be thankful for that, it makes me much more entertaining for me."
Littlefoot gulped as he trains his buster at Drone, a bit shakily. His eyes narrow and he shoots a shot, which Drone easily dodges as he jumps over it and charges at Littlefoot. The Longneck ducks to avoid a slash and jumps to the side in a roll, dodging a sudden kick from the Deinonychus. He quickly gets up on one knee and shoots at Drone, not letting up in his offense. But the bullets seem to be going in slow motion for Drone as he dodges each of them with little effort. Littlefoot growls and continues firing, unable to believe just how fast this Navi can move.
"Hahah, pathetic twerp!" Drone taunts with a malicious grin. "How can you believe you can stop me if you can't even touch me?" He jumps over a shot and stops right in front of Littlefoot, startling the Navi. He rears his arm back and sends it down against Littlefoot's chest with an uppercut punch, knocking him up into the air and away onto the ground again a few feet away.
"Aaagh!" Littlefoot cries as he lands hard on the ground, static emerging from the striking away on his chest as the crest which resides there has cracked from the force of the blow. He painfully clutches the striking area as he slightly picks himself up to eye at his opponent. The Sharptooth Generation is really something else, it's a reason why Leaft-Eater Navis fear them and prefer to keep away from them, usually wanting to run away from them and hide and only fight them if they have no choice. They are fierce and powerful, often overpowering their victims before ripping them apart. Survival of the fittest…
""Wassup, Drone."" A voice rings out from nowhere. That's when Littlefoot notices the crest on Drone's chest light up for two seconds before dying down. No doubt: Drone's Net Op has jacked in again to rendezvous with his Navi. ""I see you've been having fun without me, as usual.""
"Shut your pipe-hole!" Drone snaps at his Net Op as he folds his arms. "I've managed to save some meat for you to waste too. So be grateful!"
""You and your attitude."" His Net Op comments with a sour attitude. ""But whatever, I've had my share of fun. And soon, this train station will be ground zero for our most devilish netcrime yet!""
Littlefoot's eyes widen. No! The others! They're gonna die just because of these two monsters! Littlefoot closes his eyes as he pushes himself to get up to his feet; his limbs are bit shaky from all the damage he's suffered as he picks himself up. "I…Won't let you get away with this…!"
Drone smirks. "Heheheh, this just keeps getting better and better!"
""Now I can have some fun with him too!"" Drone's Net Op exclaims with excitement. ""Slice him up with some Cyber Claws, Drone!""
Littlefoot gasps in horror as Drone's already lethal claws grow longer and even more dangerous. Being hit by those from a Sharptooth is just asking for deletion. Drone smirks and charges, rearing his arm back for a slash at the Longneck, marking his neck as the target. Littlefoot shook away his fears and aims at the incoming Drone, who easily runs aside and dodges the shot. He looks around trying to find his opponent when he feels a presence behind him. He turns around and gasps to see Drone standing behind him and, with a malicious grin from Drone, takes a nasty slap to the face, knocking him away and down to the ground. Littlefoot grunts from the hit and slowly gets up on his hands and knees, but as he just picks his head up he sees the tip of a cyber claw in front of his face. He slowly looks up in fear to see Drone, towering over him and aiming his claws down at his face.
Drone smirks upon seeing the Longneck's face filled with terror. "I wonder if I should make you scream in agony before tearing you apart, limb by limb…"
""Ho-ho! I vote a yes to that!"" His Net Op adds with glee. Drone just grins at his Net Op's approval and lifts his arm as high as he could, prepared to delete the Navi.
"No no no! Stop!"
Drone flinches and almost loses his footing as a certain three foot tall DuckBill Navi has jumped onto his back and placed their hands over his eyes, blinding him and burdening him. Drone shouts as he trashes around, trying to shake off the interrupter from his back. "Aaargh! You little twerp! Get off of me!"
Ducky just hanged tight as she keeps her eyes closed. She couldn't just stand there hiding in fear and let Littlefoot get deleted. Granted she wasn't created with a buster to defend herself since her short build and status could allow her to easily hide under water and into small caves. She didn't bother to answer as she held on with her hands over Drone's eyes, grunting in fear as she holds on in an attempt to save Littlefoot's life.
""Hey you stupid Swimmer! This isn't some sort of rodeo!"" Drone's Net Op curses. ""Shake him off, Drone!""
Littlefoot watched in fear as Ducky risked her neck to save him. He gasps when Drone manages to reach behind him, grab Ducky and yank him off of his back and throws her against a power column, the impact slightly crooking the column as Ducky slams onto it with a yelp. Littlefoot slowly gets up, "Ducky…"
Drone angrily growls at the down DuckBill, bearing his razor sharp teeth at her. "You…pathetic DuckBill!" Drone flexes his cyber claws and rears back his arm for the kill. "I'll kill you!"
Ducky gasps and closes her eyes as she curls herself up, cowering as her end seems to be at hand; but not if Littlefoot has anything to say about it. The Longneck quickly aims his buster and shoots, hitting Drone's back head-on. The shot was enough to power Drone down, making him scream in pain before falling to his knees in pain. Littlefoot quickly went in and grabbed Drone's tail. With all the strength he could muster he pulls on Drone's tail and circles around repeatedly until he gathers enough momentum and releases him, whipping him away and against a power column, denting it from the blow. "Aaagh!" He cries out in pain as he slumps down the column.
"Ducky!" Littlefoot cries as he runs up to his Duck-Bill friend after throwing Drone away. "Are you alright?"
Ducky peeks out and uncurls as she sees her Longneck friend kneeling down to check on her. She sighs in relief and nods. "Oh yes, I am all right. But I am more worried about you."
Littlefoot smiles and wipes his forehead with a sigh of relief. "I'm alright, the damage isn't severe."
"It will after this…"
Littlefoot and Ducky gasps at hearing the voice, unable to believe how fast that Navi recovered from a shot to the back and being thrown against a power column. Littlefoot looks over his shoulder to see Drone up on his feet, his teeth exposed as his lips are curled back in anger, his claws exposed as he flexes his hands. Drone snarls and holds out his arm, his hand changing into a bulky red cannon with a yellow circle on each side and underside. His Net Op downloaded an M-Cannon chip when their backs were turned.
"A Mega Cannon?" Littlefoot points out.
"I do not like this. No no no!" Ducky comments as she shakes his head.
""Blast them to pieces, Drone! Waste them!"" Drone's Net Op demands.
Drone grins. "For once I agree with you." His eyes narrow and he shoots, a humongous plasma shot erupts from the cannon's muzzle and flies straight to the Longneck and Duck-Bill. Littlefoot and Ducky stare in horror as the shot flies toward them, eager to land smack onto them and disintegrate them both within its blast radius. Just when things were looking horrible for them littlefoot's cracked crest suddenly glows. And barely a second later has a miracle happened.
An invisible barrier forms in front of Littlefoot and takes the shot, protecting Littlefoot and Ducky as the shot blows up on contact with the barrier and engulfs them both in a huge cloud of smoke. As no moment stirs in the area Drone and his Net Op considered those two Leaf-Eaters deleted, but it all came crashing down when the smoke screen cleared. "What? No way!"
Littlefoot stands there along with Ducky just as the smoke screen clears, not a scratch on them from the shot. The cracked crest on Littlefoot's chest is repaired as it glows for two seconds before dying down. Drone growls, this punk's Net Op is here.
"Good timing, Jason." Littlefoot comments with a smile.
"Heheh!" Jason chuckles as he's now in a two-story warehouse on the second floor, his PET's jack-in cable plugged in the warehouse's main computer. "Better late than never, I guess!" Jason puts away his used Barrier chip and takes out another. "I brought you a little something! TreeStar, code T! Battle Chip in!" He immediately slots the chip into the PET. "Download!"
Littlefoot looks up and holds out his hand as above him a small blue cube shows up and materializes what looks like a leaf in shape of a star. Its texture moist and juicy as the leaf seems damp in water. It gently floats down onto Littlefoot's hand before he grabs it and looks at it, seeing the leaf's water drops sliding down onto the center, creating a little puddle where he can see his face on its reflection. With a smile Littlefoot bites into it, eating it up in three quick bites. He giggles and wipes his mouth from the leaf's water as he's suddenly surrounded in a green aura, recovering fifty percent of his HP and damage. "Ahhh, that's some good TreeStars!" Littlefoot comments with a smile. "Thanks Jason!"
Ducky giggles and looks at Littlefoot. "No TreeStars for me? You are mean, Jason!"
This comment made Littlefoot laugh, even Jason can be heard laughing through the PET. However, this just angered Drone as he snaps at them. "Hey! How dare you take a lunch break on us!"
"Yeah! That's just not cool!" Drone's Net Op shouts, gripping his PET tightly and slamming a fist into the metallic wall of the warehouse he's in. "You're going to pay for that with your lives!" He takes out a battle chip and slots it in. "Shred them, Drone! LongClaws!"
Drone slightly lowers his head as he holds out his arm to the side, his claws turning into Cyber Claws, but the difference with Long Claws is the length, now being twice as long compared to the CyberClaws.
"We'll match them!" Jason cries as he takes out a Battle Chip of his own. "CyberSword, code S! Battle Chip in!" He immediately jams the chip into the PET. "Download!"
Littlefoot holds out his arm to the side and his hand changes into a round base which from it protrudes out a sword made of cybernetic energy. Littlefoot has the advantage here. CyberSword differs from CyberClaws in the length and handling. CyberClaws changes the claws of the Navi into cybernetic claws, a bit longer than normal claws and are pretty dangerous when used by Sharptooth Navis. However, CyberSwords are much longer and can easily outmatch CyberClaws. But in the right hands, CyberClaws can outperform the CyberSword and beat it.
Drone smirks, not being faced by the advantage the Leaf-Eater has. "Come Longneck, and face me!" He brings back his arms and charges.
Littlefoot takes a deep breath and charges, holding out his CyberSword to the side. "Fine! Here I come!"
As they near Littlefoot swings his CyberSword up and swings it down to Drone, who brings up his arms and catches the sword with his CyberClaws. As they engage in this lock static begins to start at the grip, showing the raw power between them both as two chips engage.
Cera and Spike run down the deepest part of their train's mainframe while Petrie followed them from the sky. They have taken out many viruses along the way and are now heading toward where they are coming from. A Compsognathus virus screeches as it jumps to attack Spike, but the gentle giant growls and rears back one of his massive fists and punches the virus down, deleting it with little effort.
"So many Sharptooth!" Petrie complains as he flies. "Me don't like this!"
Cera roars as she rams into a gang of Velociraptor viruses, deleting them with her horn. She skids on her feet as she stops the charge and looks up at Petrie. "Aw quit your whining! At least you're not down here having to smell their icky breath!"
Petrie shudders and flaps his wings to get a bit higher. "No thank you! Petrie fine up here where sky is nice and clean!"
Cera snorts and looks ahead as screeches pierce the air. A band of flying white Sharpteeth is making their way toward them, at least four. These viruses look roughly the size of a medium-size modern-day bird, at least 2 feet in body length. Their wings, which have bone-like frames around light-blue cyber-energy wings, are rounded at the ends with three little grey fingers armed with sharp claws. Their long, bony tails have distinctive grey pointy feathers which they could shoot as projectiles like the Velociraptor virus' feathers on the back of their heads; it also could be used to whip at their victims, using those same feathers to damage. Inside their mouth they have small teeth, perfect to give little but numerous damage. They have some grey-yellow lightning-like designs from their eyes down each side of their body and to the tail, their eyes are circular of bright yellow color, and their beaks are slightly blunt but they make up for it with their teeth. These viruses are classified as Archaeopteryx viruses, but they're mostly called as BluntBeak viruses to avoid such a mouth-full name.
Cera gasps but keeps her cool. "Petrie, look out! BluntBeaks!"
Petrie looks up ahead and screams upon seeing them. They may be small, but they can be fast and deadly. "Oh no! Not them!" Petrie quickly flaps his wings and turns around to get away from them, but BluntBeaks are known for their speed, they were quick to catch up to Petrie and block his path. The flyer screams again and turns around, but getting away is going to be impossible.
"Petrie!" Silus cries from inside the train.
"He's going to be toast if he keeps trying to run away." Malory comments as she watches the action from her own PET.
"No, Petrie!" Sally cries as she watches through Stephen's PET.
Silus watches in fear as his Navi tries to flee from these viruses. Silus wasn't too into NetBattling, he was mostly the pacifist one along with Sally. He would always choke when Petrie comes across a virus, which is why he avoids getting into the net without anybody along with him.
"Stupid flyers! Shoo!" Cera shouts as she jumps into the air trying to swat the BluntBeaks away, trying to save Petrie. But the viruses screech at Cera and fly circles around her, avoiding her noble attempt. One of them does get hit, but clings to life and doesn't delete. One of them takes offense of this and screeches, its wings glowing as it charges. When Cera notices it's too late, the virus flaps its wings and an energy beam fueled with electricity shoots out from the wings, hitting Cera head-on and shocking her with thousands of volts of electricity. She screams from the shock and falls out of the sky, slamming onto the ground.
"Cera!" Malory cries as she witnesses her PET's Limb Damage Meter program come up on the upper left corner of her PET screen, showing Cera's torso in the meter flash red before showing Cera's torso's current status: still green.
"Aaaaah!" Petrie screams as he still has the viruses following him. "Help Petrie! Help Petrie!" He screeches as he flies circles around Spike and hides behind him. Spike moans a 'huh?' as he looks at Petrie hiding behind him before looking in front of him and seeing the viruses flying right for him. He moans a scream and covers his eyes. Despite everything they go through they're still programmed to be kids.
"Spike, look out!" Stephen cries as he takes out a Battle Chip. "Spiketail Guard, code S!"
A shield materializes in front of Spike, a dark-green shield with a thick line in the middle from the top down with 3 plates on each side of the thick line, resembling a Spiketail's back. The viruses were going at such a high-speed they couldn't stop in time and, with a sickening crash, they all collide against the rock-hard shield. One of them deletes while the other three slide off and down to the ground. Spike slowly uncovers his eyes, wondering why the viruses haven't collided against him. He's confused at the sudden darkness in front of him, but he notices the handle in front of him and he grabs it, moving the shield aside and noticing the dazed viruses on the ground in front of him.
"Phew," Stephen sighs in relief. "That was close…"
Spike looks curiously at the viruses on the ground, but he gasps in surprise as Cera jumps in and crushes them all with her strong front legs, grinding her foot down onto them and deleting them. Petrie, who was shaking hiding behind Spike covering his eyes, slowly moves his hands from his eyes, noticing the viruses have been dealt with already.
With a glare Cera gets up on her normal stance. "I HATE BluntBeaks…"
Malory shakes her head and looks at Silus, who's looking down at the ground shakily, ashamed. "I-I'm sorry, guys…I…Just froze there…"
Stephen and Sally look at Silus sympathetically. They know about his phobia of the viruses and NetBattling. Ever since that first virus he encountered with Petrie, how it almost deleted him. And when he witnessed Cera's deletion a few months ago, that sealed him with this phobia.
Malory sighs. "Then why did you jacked-in in the first place?"
It was during this second of distraction that it happened. Spike groans a scream as a sharp blade pierces through his back, almost going through his chest. Cera swirls to face Spike while Petrie screams. This prompted the Net Ops back to their PETs. "Spike!" Stephen screams. Spike drops his Spiketail Guard shield and slowly drops forward, the damage was too much and he was forced to jack out to avoid deletion from any further attacks. Cera stands there in shock while Petrie took flight and flew to Cera's side.
The creature that attacked Spike holds her tail up behind her as she stands there on all four. She stands there with a cold glare at the two remaining Leaf-Eaters, a glare of hatred. This is a Sharptooth Navi from the Alimon series. And from the looks of it, she doesn't look too happy to see them.
"Sharptooth!" Petrie shouts in fear as he dives behind Cera to hide. The Alimon slowly lowers her head, exposing a sight of her horns to them. She doesn't seem interested in dialogue; she just wants to fight them.
Malory glares at the Alimon through her PET screen and looks at Silus. "Jack Petrie out, now! We'll take care of this!"
Silus silently nods. As he reaches out to the cable to jack Petrie out, the flyer looks up at Cera, "Ooohh…Be careful, Cera." He tells the ThreeHorn before jacking out of the system.
Cera glares at the Alimon. "You're gonna pay for hurting my friend!" She drops down on all four and charges at the Alimon with a roar, her horn aimed right at her. The Alimon snarls and charges, lowering her head for the ram. Their skulls collide with each other, and to Cera's surprise her horn didn't even put a dent on the Alimon, her skull-like helmet seems to be protecting her head from her horn. Cera shoves the Alimon forward trying to overpower her, but her paws merely kicks up dirt and skids as the Alimon doesn't budge.
"No way! That guy's as tough as Cera!" Malory spits as she notices her Navi isn't budging the Alimon.
"Hmph, this guy's a she…" the Alimon speaks for the first time before rearing back and shoving Cera with a powerful force, pushing her away and turning her over, slamming her down on her back.
"Gah!" Cera grunts as she slams down on her back. With a growl she turns herself over and up on all four. "Well lady, you better leave before I hurt you!"
The Alimon just glares, unfazed by Cera's comment. "Hmph, you best worry about yourself Leaf-Eater scum…"
Cera growls. "What did you called me?"
The Alimon slightly grins, amused. "You heard me."
Cera growls as she kicks up dirt with her front paws/hands. "That's it! I'm gonna shut you up!"
"Show that Sharptooth what you got, Cera!" Malory cries as she takes out a Battle Chip. "CyberHorn, code C! Battle Chip in!" She jams the Battle Chip into her PET.
Cera lowers her heard as her horn begin to glow as they slowly grow. When the glow dies down her horn is now longer with a now menacing glow from the horn's cybernetic energy structure. Now the Alimon's helmet can't protect her from this. With a smirk Cera charges with her horn aimed at the Alimon.
"Gore her, Cera!" Malory cheers.
The Alimon shakes her head with a frown; this won't end well for the ThreeHorn. She waits for the precise moment and, almost at the last second, she jumps over Cera, leaving her charging at nothing. Cera growls as she realizes the Alimon just dodged her and she stops with a skid. But the Alimon is just getting started. She gasps as she felt her tail being grabbed and suddenly pulled off her feet, falling flat on the ground on her stomach. She then felt herself airborne and thrown away, brutally slammed against a column of the mainframe, denting the column and nearly cracking it in two. "Aaarrgh!"
"Whoa!" Silus exclaims after seeing such a move through his PET. Despite having his Navi jacked out, having the jack-in cable still connected to the computer can allow him to see what's going on in the mainframe. "That Sharptooth is fast!"
"I've never seen anything like it…" Sally comments. "This is bad…"
Malory just watches through her PET, biting her lower lip as dots perspiration riddle her forehead. She has never gone up against a Sharptooth like this, and Cera is getting clobbered badly. The fight just started and Cera's torso in the Limb Damage Meter is already yellow. She tries to keep her cool as she tries to reach for a Battle Chip, but even a cool-headed arrogant NetBattler like her knows when she's in trouble.
Sally takes her eyes off of Malory's PET and looks into her own. She hasn't heard a word from Ducky nor Kaden and Jason, and quite frankly this is starting to get her nervous. Gravity suddenly shifts and pushes Malory, Silus and Sally to the left, almost making them lose their footing and fall to the ground as the runaway train takes a hard curve. They manage to grab onto the train's poles to keep them from falling, but for how long they'll be able to endure this. The train is apparently taking up speed as it goes, and it'll be a matter of time before two trains collide or they go off the railing. They're puzzled as to why they haven't done so already.
"Argh! This is ridiculous!" Malory shouts in anger as she takes out a Battle Chip. "We gotta stop this stupid train! Out of our way, you stupid Sharptooth!" She curses at the Alimon through her PET as she slots in a Battle Chip.
Sally couldn't bear to continue watching. As she grabs onto the pole to keep herself from falling in the shifting and trembling train she looks around the cabin, noticing Stephen sitting on one of the chairs pressing buttons on his PET. She recalls how badly Spike got attacked from behind, causing him to jack out. Trying to keep her balance she walks over to Stephen and sits down next to her brother. "Stephen? Is Spike OK?"
Stephen gives a slow nod. "Yeah, he's just heavily damaged, but nothing a good rest won't fix." He continues pressing a few buttons. "Man, one hit and his torso area went up to the red and the program just shut down, it was too much…"
"Agh! No!" Malory shouts in frustration, causing Sally and Stephen to look at her. She previously slotted in a SkyPuffy chip to blind and disorient the Alimon so Cera can stealthfuly charge up to the Alimon and knock her with her CyberHorn. But this plan failed as the Alimon saw her coming and avoids her, using her own chip against her and pounce Cera to the ground, tearing her teeth into the side of Cera's neck.
Cera hollers in agony as the Alimon's teeth sink into her neck, light-blue sparks and static emitting from the area as the Alimon's teeth grind against her skin. She's lucky her Navi Customization is top-notch with some defense; otherwise this would've been the end of her.
"Cera!" Malory shouts in despair, but once again the train takes another turn and throws both Sally and Stephen off their seats and to the ground, while Silus and Malory loses their grip on the pole and fall to the floor, Battle Chips strewn all over the floor from Malory's pockets. "Agh! Dang it!" Malory curses as she tries to get her Battle Chips together from the ground.
She manages to get her hand on a Vulcan1 chip and slotting it into her PET, which changes one of Cera's hands into an orange buster with three gatling muzzles. She struggles and presses the buster against the Alimon's chest and fires, hitting her and getting her off of her while giving her slight damage.
The Alimon back flips in the air and lands on her feet, glaring at the ThreeHorn Navi. "Hmph, stubborn fool…" She speaks while watching the ThreeHorn rub her wounded neck and slowly get up on her hands and knees, one of her hands still as the Vulcan Buster. Cera growls and aims at the Alimon with her Vulcan Buster, shooting 6 bullets per second to strike the Alimon. But the Alimon proves to be faster than the Vulcan Buster as she runs, dodging each and every shot with a good speed.
Malory scrambles around the floor grabbing her Battle Chips. She finds one of her chips, Mega Fist, when she notices the Alimon getting closer to Cera. She immediately turns over onto her back and jams the Mega Fist chip into her PET. The Alimon lunges at her by the time Cera's other arm turns into a giant orange fist. By that time it was too late to dodge. Cera rears her huge fist back and punches the Alimon head-on, knocking her far back and against a column. Unfortunately this victory was short lived as the Alimon quickly jumps from the rubble and charges at high speed as a red aura surrounds her. Her Net Op downloaded an Alimon Rage chip, a chip for exclusive use to the Alimons, which increases the Alimon's speed and strength for seven seconds.
Cera had little time to react when the Alimon collided head-on against her, headbutting her with tremendous force. "Agh!" Cera skids and bounces across the mainframe as the Alimon doesn't let up and catches up to her, slashing her from the stomach up to her chin during one of her bounces, knocking her up into the air for her to land hard onto the ground. It took the Alimon seven seconds to completely own her in such a manner.
"Cera!" Malory shouts through her PET upon seeing her Navi being thrown about like that. The Limb Damage Meter proved just how fatal the attack was, changing the torso damage to a blood red and the head area to a dark yellow. "Cera! C'mon, get up!" Malory pleads, horrified by the fact that this Sharptooth will delete her.
"Hmph, you're finished!" The Alimon shouts as she charges, jumps and points her tail down at Cera as she descends. "Dagger Tail!"
"Malory!" Silus cries as he reaches into his pocket for a Battle Chip and throws it to Malory, who in turn catches the chip and immediately slots it in. As quickly as she did Cera disappears from her position, letting the Alimon's attack slam down onto the ground. The Alimon growls a bit as she looks down at her tail, the axe-like tip of it encrusted into the ground. She raises her head and sniffs the air, then quickly looking over her shoulder finding Cera a few feet away from her. They downloaded an AreaSteal chip to save her life. "Persistent…" She mumbles. "I must delete her soon or else this train madness will continue…"
The gang in the train sighs in relief, but then the train takes another quick curve and knocks them all back to the floor, a sickening screech is heard just as the train takes the turn. The gang groans as they're in a dog pile; Silus at the bottom, followed by Malory, Sally and Stephen. Stephen slowly picks himself up and looks out the window, managing to see the rails which they are headed for. He suddenly screams upon seeing it. "Aaaahh! Guys! A train is headed this way!"
The gang gasps and jumps up to their feet, looking out the window to see that Stephen is right! A train is coming this way at high speed! At that speed they're gonna be killed for sure in the crash! The gang screams as the two trains come closer and closer. It appears like the end for them…
Until the train takes a sudden jerk to the right, throwing everyone to the ground with a yell and rolling to the right, crashing against the wall on the right side. Silus slowly sits up rubbing his head. "Ow…What the heck…?"
The train suddenly changed rails and completely avoided a crash with the other train. But with the system offline and haywire, how was that manageable? Let's step back a bit in time to another person who, like Malory and Jason, is bent on saving them…
"Jack in! Rex! Power up!"
Rex touches down inside the main computer mainframe system of the train station. He opens his eyes and gets up, walking a bit forward and leaning on a railing to look at the bottom level. He's currently standing on the third level of the mainframe. Down on the second floor there's a simple path which stretches to numerous paths. He takes note of levers strewn around the area, around twelve or so at least. The bottom floor is what intrigues him the most. It's like a giant miniature version of the Garden City Train Station, like a toy train station a few times bigger which the trains are about 4 feet tall. There are about six of them, and if Rex is right that's the same amount of trains the Garden City Train Station owns.
"Wow." Rex comments as he sees all this. "The bottom floor is an exact replica of the train station."
""Keep an eye out, Rex."" Kaden warns. ""We don't know what that guy did in here. We might find viruses.""
"I'll be careful." Rex turns to the right and sees stairs headed for the second floor. Without fear he runs to it and descends the stairs, stopping at the base to look around the maze of paths. Each one are connected to each other, but he doesn't have a clue at what to do. Plus the levers strewn around this floor have his curiosity. He walks down one path and leans against a railing to look down at the miniature train station below, seeing the trains zooming by the paths and taking the turns at deadly speeds. Rex looks at the lever close-by, then back at the rails below. He spots an alternate path on the rail which seems to lead to another path which leads to a long path and ends with a curve and onto another long path before it reaches a dead-end. There are about ten of these dead-ends.
"Take a look at that." Rex starts. "I bet those tracks are where they keep the trains for maintenance and overnight."
""Yeah, I've seen those tracks in the real one."" Kaden adds.
"So this train station replica is a link to the computers in the trains. And the train programs down there imitate the speed, direction and situation the real trains are in." Rex looks at the lever close by and then glances down at the tracks. "If I guess right these levers changes the directions on the tracks to the alternate tracks the lever corresponds."
""Which means…"" Rex looks up as he hears Kaden gasps. ""If the train programs crash with each other, that means the trains actually crashed! Rex! You gotta pull the levers to change the trains' direction and stop them from crashing!""
"Yeah. And if the train programs are linked to the actual train's mainframe, that means I can transport myself to them if I get in contact with the corresponding train's program!"
""They're all counting on us, Rex! We just can't fail!""
Rex nods and runs to the lever, already seeing a train coming to its corresponding alternate path. He grabs it and pulls it, changing the tracks below the lever. Just as he suspected the train took the alternate path, now heading down the long track to the dead-end while in the real world the change reflects and the actual track changes route, the real train taking the alternate route just like the train avatar in the mainframe did.
Now Rex has to prove his next theory. He runs after the train in the path and jumps off the platform and to the floor below, landing right on top of the train program. Immediately to the touch he disintegrates and teleports into the train program, wirelessly transporting to the corresponding train's mainframe in the real world. He touches down in the actual train's mainframe; in front of him the train's brake system. With a smile he runs up to it, but as the distance closes between him and the system a BluntBeak virus jumps out from the system and attacks Rex.
"Agh!" Rex falls back as the virus flies close by his head, taking to the skies and dive-bomb down toward him. Rex immediately changes his arm to a buster and shoots, hitting the virus and deleting it, screeching as it dies. Rex immediately turns around and rushes to the braking system. "OK, found the trigger." Rex informs his Net Op as he grabs onto the huge switch and pushes it down. The mainframe suddenly shakes as he did so, the hum that was sounding in the mainframe slowly coming to a complete silence.
""Hey! I just heard a very loud screeching sound!"" Kaden reports to his Navi.
"Hahah! It worked!" Rex cheers as he pumps his arms. Suddenly he disintegrates and moves out of the mainframe and touches down on the third floor of the station's mainframe. He slightly shakes his head from his disorientation. "Whoa…"
""Rex! You OK?""
"Yeah, I'm alright." Rex shakes his head again and looks around. "I'm back at the mainframe. I must've gotten transported back when I finished with the train program."
""Well that's one down, five more to go. Let's hustle!""
Rex nods and runs, already going down the stairs to the second floor and down a path. While running he keeps looking at the giant station below, keeping an eye out for which train to take on next. To tell the truth all of them were going at a very fast speed, it'll be a disaster if Rex spots two of them going on a collision course and he'd have to pull a Sonic to run to the correct lever and change the routes. And he can't actually jump down onto a train to get to its brake system to stop it in the middle of the tracks; it'd be a sitting duck for a collision. Rex just runs to a lever and grabs onto it, stopping and waits for a train to come by. Luckily one didn't take long to take a turn at a deadly speed to his tracks. With a quick pull of the lever the track turns to the alternate one, the train going along to the alternate route.
Rex did the same thing he did for the last one. Run after it and jump onto it, the simple touch to it disintegrating him and wirelessly link him to the train's mainframe. Learning from the last one, Rex has his arm as the buster already as he runs to the train's brake system. Just as he suspected a virus came out of the brake system, which Rex just lifted his buster and shot at the virus, deleting it. Not wanting to waste any seconds he runs up to the huge switch and pulls it down, activating the train's brakes and getting the train to a slow stop.
"Heard this train's screech as well, Kaden?" Rex asks for a confirmation.
""No. But I noticed the train was around the Business District when you went after it in the main mainframe so I couldn't hear it from way out here. I'm sure it stopped though.""
Rex nods. "Alright, that's two down, four to go. We gotta hurry before we miss one of them and crashes into another!"
Like last time an automated program transports Rex back to the main computer's mainframe. He didn't waste time in waiting for the disorientation to go away, he runs down the stairs and down the paths again. He spots a train close-by and he follows it, managing to outrun it to an alternate route. He quickly grabs the lever and pulls it, changing the direction and getting the train into the alternate route. After doing so he quickly dives down onto the train head-first, teleporting to its mainframe with just one touch. He appears in the train's mainframe in the same position, diving head-first to the ground and instead of doing a face-plant he tucks his head in and rolls when he touches ground, immediately springing to his feet after the roll and runs to the train's brake system.
"CyberClaw!" Rex cries as he taps into his Chip Memory Navi Custom program, slicing in half the virus that pops out from the train's brake system. He immediately grabs the switch and pulls it down, activating the train's brakes and slowly stopping the train altogether.
""Alright! I heard that one's brakes screech! Three more to go!""
Rex sighs in relief as he pats some dirt off his chest. "Yeah, I hope we're not too late for the others."
The automated program teleports Rex back to the main mainframe. He thinks of the remaining three trains as he heads his way down to the second floor. Just as he touches the second floor he's startled as one of the trains zooms by under him, making a loud sound as it passes by. He looks at the train and gasps, noticing where it's headed.
""Rex!"" Kaden cries as he too saw that through his PET. ""That train is gonna crash with that other incoming one!""
"I know! I'm on it!" Rex dashes down the path toward the train, hoping that he would get there in time. He spots a lever up ahead, now all he hopes is that the trains haven't already passed the alternate route. He looks down at the train and then at the path he has to run to get to the lever. He won't make in time; at least, not on foot. Rex spreads his wings and takes flight, flying over the gaps between paths and cutting some precious seconds off of his travel distance.
""Rex, hurry!"" Kaden cries desperately.
Everything seemed to happen in slow motion, but Rex manages to get to the lever first. He lets himself drop and grabs onto the lever as he drops, pulling it down with his weight as he falls. Whether it was a close-call or just in time is unsure to the Navi, but when he gets up after the fall one of the trains takes the alternate route, avoiding a collision. Rex sighs in relief as he leans onto the railing, but this time of relaxation was short-lived as he realized the alternate path leads to a dead-end and he has to stop the train immediately anyway. With a grunt he dashes down the path and down the one above the alternate track route. He catches up to the train and jumps down to it, teleporting to its mainframe in a second.
Rex lands on his feet in the train's mainframe. To his surprise this place looks like a battle broke out, a lot of the columns are damaged and stray data can be seen floating about. "Looks like something came down here." Rex points out.
""Hm, I don't like this."" Kaden admits. ""Be careful, Rex.""
Rex starts running forward to the train's brake switch. He's uncomfortable at the sight of stray data and damaged columns, believing whatever did all of this is still around. He finds the brake switch ahead, but another thing caught his attention. Unlike the others, no virus came out of it to attack him. It's as if the virus that was in here abandoned its post to go after something else.
""Rex? What's wrong? Pull the switch.""
Rex looks around. "Something's not right…I feel something, but I can't see anything."
""Is it that important?""
Rex nods. "Yeah, whatever I'm feeling it's quite powerful." Suddenly a huge explosion is heard, and a figure is seeing flying toward him. Startled, Rex jumps out of the way as the figure flies toward his direction and slams down where he was standing just a millisecond ago.
""Rex! You OK?""
Rex shakes his head and looks over his shoulder to what landed. It was a Navi, an orange one, quite beaten up and seriously damaged. Rex gasps and turns around, recognizing who this is.
"Hey! That's Cera!" Kaden points out as he closes his PET to his face. "What happened to her?"
Rex runs to Cera's side, kneeling down next to her and gently shaking her, examining her pulse and data structure. "She's alive, but pretty hurt."
"Don't touch me, Sharptooth!" Cera hisses as she slaps Rex's hand away. "Touch me again and you're as good as deleted!"
Rex rolls his eyes. "Well, excuuuuuse me, princess…"
Cera rubs her head and growls under her breath. "I must've lost contact with Malory! Stupid runaway train and its curves!" She looks up to glare at Rex, ready to say something to him but something in the sky gets her attention. She gasps, "Look out!"
Rex quickly looks up after the warning, spotting a blur approaching them at a high speed! With a scream Rex grabs Cera and jumps out of there, evading the approaching attacker and saving Cera. He lands on one knee and looks over his shoulders as he gently sets Cera down. The attacker jumps out from the smoke screen it created from the landing and stands on all four in front of Rex.
"A…An Alimon?" Rex gasps.
The Alimon takes a step forward. "What do we have here…A Sharptooth, saving a Leaf-Eater's life?"
Rex slowly stands up and faces the Alimon. "Who are you? Don't tell me you're the Navi behind all of this."
"Me? Behind all of this?" The Alimon couldn't help but chuckle at Rex's ignorance. "Don't be an idiot. The one responsible for all of this is the one you just saved."
Rex blinks and looks down at Cera who's at the moment glaring angrily at the Alimon as she slowly tries to get up despite her wounds. Rex shakes his head. Impossible, he thought. This guy…Err, female is just trying to frame another for this. Rex's eyes narrow and he turns back to the Alimon.
"Of course, all Leaf-Eaters are the same." The Alimon continues. "Heartless creatures, all of them. You turn their backs on them and they'll betray you, destroying you and cause disasters. Wreaking havoc around the net, they all disgust me…" Her eyes narrow even more, intimidating Rex. "And that Navi behind you…She fuels me with a lot of hatred…Her attitude…Just like that one who…"
"Huh?" Rex tilts his head in confusion. Just what is this Navi on? Leaf-Eater Generation Navis are the good Navis; companions of humans and the ones who contribute for the Network Age to prosper; the lovable and gentle Navis who share a bond with their Net Ops and help them when in need. What is she…?
"What are you talking about?" Kaden inquires through his PET. "The Leaf-Eater Navis are the good guys. How can you say they're the evil ones responsible for disasters on the net?"
""If that's so, then how is your Navi a Sharptooth type?"" An unknown female voice inquires; the Alimon's Net Op.
Kaden stammers as he scratches his head, trying to come up with a comeback for that one. Unfortunately she caught him in a corner; he can't exactly say he couldn't afford a Leaf-Eater Navi, which would contradict his ownage of Rex in her eyes.
The Alimon takes another step forward, starting to growl. "When a disaster in the net emerges, it's always up to the Officials to take care of the crime. The Leaf-Eaters run to safety while they risk their lives. Tell me, how can we be sure a Leaf-Eater itself didn't start the crime?"
"As if the viruses aren't proof enough!" Rex hisses.
"Viruses are everywhere, what's not to stop Leaf-Eaters to learn to control them?" The Alimon's growl gets louder as her hatred to Leaf-Eaters become even more apparent. "The perfect disguise for them…All of them…"
""Enough wasting our time, Sharptooth."" The Alimon's Net Op speaks. ""Stand aside and let us do our job or be deleted as well.""
Rex growls and changes his hand into his buster cannon and aims it at the Alimon, his eyes glaring. "Forget it! The only way you're getting to her is by first going through me!"
Cera, who's on one knee already, looks up at Rex with an eyebrow arched. This Sharptooth, who came out of nowhere at the most suspicious moment, is standing up against one of his own to save her hide? That's impossible in her thoughts, all Sharptooth are the same; vicious, cold-blooded, heartless, hell-bent on destroying the Leaf-Eaters. The Alimon's views on Leaf-Eaters could jump down a ditch for all she cares, but her views on the Sharptooth Generation are justified and entirely correct…Right?
""Hmph, consider yourself a traitor to us."" The Alimon's Net Op announces.
"Hah, we're not afraid of you!" Kaden cries out as he gets ready with his Battle Chips. "Let's rock, Rex! Battle routine, set!"
"Execute!" Rex finishes.
"Prepare for deletion!" The Alimon announces as she charges.
"Haaaa!" Littlefoot cries as he drops from a high jump, his CyberSword arm held up high as he brings it down on his opponent, Drone. The Deinonychus holds out his CyberClaws and clashes Littlefoot's sword with his claws, sparks flying from the collision between the two cybernetic energy-made weapons. Littlefoot and Drone both jump for distance before charging again, holding their Cyber weapons back for another swing.
"Let's show him what we can do, Littlefoot!" Jason announces as he takes out a Battle Chip. "MiniBomb, code L! Battle Chip in!" He whirls it in his hand so the chip's reader faces away from his wrists and slots it into his PET. "Download!"
A mini bomb forms in Littlefoot's free hand and chucks it at Drone. The Deinonychus couldn't help but smirk, this is pathetic! He swings his CyberClaws at the bomb, cutting it in half, the two pieces flying to his sides as they blow up. However the joke was on him as the smoke of the explosion was big and clouded his vision, disorienting him. He snarls as his vision got blocked and how he got tricked by a kid. This was their strategy. Drone stops his charge but takes a hard slash to his chest, knocking him back and down to the ground as very damaging slash wound resides on his chest, static emitting from the wound. "Graaah! Lucky shot, punk!" Drone shouts in frustration.
"Luck had nothing to do with it." Littlefoot grins as he turns to face Drone as the smoke clears, the CyberSword still intact on his arm. "With Jason on my side, you can't win."
"Oh shut it, you're making me sick with that kind of talk!" Netra says in disgust as he's sitting on a rotatable chair in a building somewhere in the train station. Apparently he's not showing any signs of fear of getting caught. "Drone, break his teeth out!" Netra takes out a chip and slots it in: a Club Tail chip.
Drone gets up and looks at his tail, the chip's effect taking place as a light-blue data cube forms around the tip of his tail. When it disappears, a massive bony club is now present at the tip of his tail. With a grin Drone smashes his new tail on the ground, cracking the ground.
"Uh-oh," Littlefoot mutters as he takes a step back. "Now he has a Spiketail's tail."
Drone charges and swings his CyberClaws at Littlefoot, who jumps aside to dodge it. But the new tail isn't for decoration. Just as Drone passes him he swings his tail, the club on the tip of his tail smacking hard against Littlefoot's face and knocking him down hard. "Gaagh!"
"Littlefoot!" Jason cries as Littlefoot's head in the Limb Damage Meter flashes; still green.
Littlefoot rubs his cheek with a groan as he sits up, that strike could've cracked anybody's skull if done in the real world. He gets up and screams as he spots Drone already coming at him with his claws. He ducks to dodge a slash and swings his CyberSword at Drone's waist, but the Deinonychus Navi jumps over him and once again uses his tail to smack Littlefoot right in the head.
Jason closes his eyes from the strike his Navi just suffered. "Ooohh…That's gotta hurt…" He opens his eyes and notices Littlefoot's head area in the damage meter just went to yellow. He has to do something about that tail. He looks at his chips, catching one he loves using. "Alright Littlefoot, heads up!" He calls out as he slots in the chip.
Littlefoot slowly gets up and rubs his head. He opens his eyes and notices a shadow over him. With a blink he looks up and screams, seeing Drone dropping to slam his club tail right on him.
"Heh, he's toast." Netra smirks as he kicks back and drinks a soda he had with him.
He throws himself aside and rolls out of the way, Drone's strong tail slamming hard on the ground.
And with quite an unsuspecting surprise, the moment his tail struck the ground, he blows up.
Netra spits out every single drop of soda he had in his mouth as the explosion rings out from his PET. "What the heck? How did that happened?"
Littlefoot couldn't help but smile. Jason used a Mine chip and planted it right underneath him so Drone would land right on that one! Drone's scream of pain as he's blown up into the air is Littlefoot's cue. He gets up and jumps at Drone, cutting Drone's club-tailed tail clean off with a swing of his CyberSword, the dismembered tail disintegrating into particles of data.
"Don't let up! TankCannon1, code V! Battle Chip in!" He whirls the Battle Chip's reader to face the PET and slots it in. "Download!"
Littlefoot's CyberSword disappears and turns into a buster, although this buster is much more different than the others. This cannon is much longer and bulkier than the others and colored green. Littlefoot moves the giant cannon toward Drone and fires. A huge bang booms as a gigantic shot erupts from the giant cannon's muzzle, exploding in a huge puff of smoke. The shot strikes Drone head-on, exploding in a huge and painful explosion.
"Graaaaaahhh!" Drone screams in agony as the shot engulfs his body and explodes him away, crashing into a column and breaking through it and crashing through three others before finally hitting solid ground and creating a huge crater, millions of particle of data flowing up into the sky and floating about from the destroyed sections of the column and ground.
"Aagh!" Littlefoot slams hard on his back on the ground, the shot's recoil knocking him down from the air. He turns over and gets up as the buster's muzzle smokes before turning back to his hand, such a powerful shot is a one-time deal per chip recharge.
"Great job, Littlefoot!" Jason congratulates his Navi. "That guy's toast!"
Littlefoot slightly turns around upon hearing someone running up to him. He smiles as he sees Ducky run up to him with a smile. "Littlefoot! You did it! Yup yup yup! You beat that mean ol' Sharptooth!"
Littlefoot giggles. But when it looked like he could put his guard down a total of three screeches break the silence in the air. Littlefoot freezes in place and suddenly screams in agony. Ducky stopped and screamed as three Velociraptor viruses leaped out of nowhere and sank their teeth into Littlefoot's legs and arm, immobilizing him.
"Littlefoot!" Jason gasps.
Littlefoot screams in agony as the viruses' razor sharp teeth grind into his skin, static and blue sparks emitting from the wounds as they grind deeper. Ducky shivers in fright but gathers her courage. She runs up to the suffering Navi and swats and punches at the viruses. "Stop! Let my friend go!"
"Hahahahahah." Netra manages to laugh; a laugh which scares Ducky. "I guess you amateur haven't heard of the FastRunner Lunge chip, huh?"
"Fast…Runner?" Ducky slowly repeats. She has already had a fear to these fast running viruses. She gasps and looks up at Littlefoot as he once again screams in agony and slowly falls onto one knee, the Velociraptor viruses still sinking their teeth into Littlefoot's limbs while making a purring-like sound as they have their sickening pleasure of shredding this Navi apart.
"Littlefoot!" Jason cries out. He looks at his chips, trying to think of a strategy; four Mini-Bomb chips, one AreaSteal, AirShoes, Vulcan1, MachGun1 and a WideSword.
Netra grins as he leans back on his seat and takes out a chip, slotting it in. "I know you're trashed, but come out and waste that Navi."
Drone weakly picks himself up from the rubble he's in, static emitting from him as he's heavily damaged, his crest cracked and a gash on his shoulder where particles of data is rising out of. He snarls as he clutches his shoulder, "Oh with pleasure! This punk is getting on my nerves!"
Jason's eyes narrow upon seeing Drone charge up to Littlefoot again. "Ducky, step back! I'm gonna blow him free!" He holds out his remaining four Mini-Bomb chips inbetween his fingers. "Mini-Bomb combo! Battle Chips in!" He tilts his hand and jams one chip into the PET and does the same with the other three in quick unison. "Download!"
Ducky looks above her and notices four balls materializing and immediately she steps back and flees from the area. These balls take shape and reveal themselves to be the Mini-Bombs. These explosive critters drop and explode on contact to the viruses, exploding dangerously near Littlefoot but accurate enough to not scratch him and strike the viruses. These viruses screech as they let go of the Navi before breaking into particles and meet their deletion. Littlefoot gasps in relief and drops onto his hands and knees, relieved to be out of such a painful bind. But Drone is still headed his way!
"AreaSteal, code S! WideSword, code S!" Jason announces as he holds out the two chips. "Battle Chip in!" He whirls them about and jams them both into his PET. "Download!"
Drone roars as he brings out his claws and sends them down upon reaching the Longneck, but to his dismay the Navi disappears and he jams his claws into the ground.
"No way!" Drone and Netra screams in frustration, unable to believe this. Drone viciously slashes his claws out of the ground and snarls, his head turning this way and that trying to locate the Navi. His eyes settle on the DuckBill Navi with a snarl. "Forget the Longneck! I'm tearing this DuckBill apart!"
Ducky gasps and backs away as the Deinonychus Navi slowly stalks toward her, his claws ready for the clawing. "No, stay back!" Ducky pleads as she backs away. Without Sally, she doesn't have any means to defend herself.
"Shut it, twerp!" Drone hisses as he flexes his claws, ready to delete. "I'm gonna shut that beak of yours permanently!" Drone rears his claws back with a roar for the kill. Time seemed to have slowed down for Ducky when the Deinonychus Navi reared his claws back to delete her, she feared this was it for her and she would never see Sally again. But she suddenly remembered Littlefoot is still out there. And then it happened…
"Ha-yah!"
Drone froze in his tracks as his eyes widen, his mouth hanging open to scream, but no voice could come out of it. Ducky's eyes widen as a WideSword is sticking out of Drone's stomach. Littlefoot has reappeared behind Drone and impaled his WideSword through Drone's back, the tip coming out through his stomach.
"Gah! No waaaaaayyyy!" Netra screams through his PET.
Jason couldn't help but smirk when he heard that scream through his PET. "Way."
Drone uttered one gasp before his strength left him. His HP is done and he suffered too much damage. He disintegrates into particles of data and beams out of there. He has jacked out of the system and back into his PET.
Rex aims and shoots with his buster cannon as he jumps through the air, trying to hit the speedy Alimon from down below. The battle started with the Alimon trying to ram him down with her tackles while Rex kept his distance with his buster cannon.
"Take this!" Rex shouts as he keeps on shooting with his buster.
The Alimon though kept dodging the shots, not missing a beat and showing little effort to jump out of the way. "Hmph, how dull…"
"Agh! We'll show you!" Kaden grits his teeth as he takes out a Battle Chip. "Mini-Bomb, code B! Battle Chip in!" He holds it up in the air and jams it down into his PET. "Download!"
A Mini-Bomb forms in Rex's free hand and chucks it at the Alimon, who simply jumps to the side and dodges the bomb. However at the moment she dodged a shot came by and got her right on her shoulder, pushing her back with little damage.
"Got her!" Rex cries triumphantly despite the shot giving little to no effect on her.
Kaden is very into the battle as well. He has never gotten up against a Navi like this one, and to be frank it's quite exciting. However, this sudden challenge made him forget about the train until he caught a glimpse of the train's brake system. "Uh-oh!" He gasps. "Rex! The train! We forgot about the train!"
"Huh?" Rex blinks, but then he suddenly remembers. "Oh snap! You're right!" He turns his back on the Alimon and runs to the system, but before he even got close the Alimon caught up and tackled him down with tremendous force. "Aargh!"
"Hey!" Kaden barks. "What's your problem? We're trying to save the trains here!"
"Hmph, that's our job." The Alimon's Net Op informs them. She calmly taps a button on her PET and takes a view of the area, immediately spotting the brake system. "Ah, I see. So the Leaf-Eater was aiming to destroy this…" She told to himself as she closes her eyes. "Grayscale, stop the train."
Grayscale nods and jumps up to the brake system, landing right onto the switch and pushing it down with her weight. Soon enough the humming sound in the mainframe slowly dies down as the train in the real world slowly comes to a stop.
Rex, who was slowly getting up after being knocked down, looks up as the hum dies down. He sighs in relief and sheds a smile. "Phew, that's four down, eh Kaden?"
"Rex, look out!" Kaden barks.
Rex gasps and rolls out of the way as an axe-like weapon slams down into the ground he was lying on. Grayscale just tried again with her Dagger Tail attack to smite Rex. The Sharptooth growls as he gets up, glaring at the Alimon as he gathers his courage and strength. "Why do you insist on fighting us? All we're trying to do is help!"
The Alimon hisses at the Sharptooth. "You stay out of this, kid! You may have interfered before but I'll let you off this time." With a glare she turns to Cera, who was on her hands and knees recovering from the punishment she had earlier. "As for you…" She fully turns to her, her eyes on fire.
"You are hereby sentence to deletion!" Grayscale's Net Op takes out a HornThrust chip and slots it in.
Grayscale roars as the horns on her head are engulfed in a light-blue glow, the length of her horns increasing as they curve toward the opposite direction, perfect to charge and skewer her victims. The chip also has another effect. With another roar Grayscale charges, her charging speed and power increased just for this chance to impale and delete Cera.
"No, stop!" Rex pleads as he holds out a hand to Grayscale.
"Rex! Don't give up!" Kaden cries out as he takes out two chips. "AreaSteal, code S! ShinyWall, code S! Battle Chips in!" He holds them up in the air and jams them both into his PET. "Download!"
Rex has to move fast. The AreaSteal takes effect and he disappears. Just when Cera stood up to defend herself Rex reappears in front of her. This startled her, again the question arising of why a Sharptooth would bother to put his life on the line for her. "Re-Rex?" She stammers, confused.
Rex didn't answer however. He holds out his arms as the ShinyWall chip takes effect and a wall of ice erupts in front of him, standing between them and Grayscale. But despite this the Alimon didn't stop. She just continues until her horns rammed into the wall and break thru…
"No! I lost my PET!"
Malory immediately sat up upon noticing her PET wasn't in her hand anymore. It must've slipped out of her grasp when the train took the sudden turn to the right, barely avoiding a collision with another. She jerks her head back and forth, but unsuccessful in finding her PET. She looks down at Stephen, who's lying on her lap which was his landing point when they all got jerked off their feet from the turn.
"Stephen, get off!" She hollers as she shoves him off. She turns over onto her hands and knees and searches the ground around her, trying to find her PET. "Shoot! I can't find it!"
Sally, who fell in-between the seat row behind the gang, slowly got up to her feet, rubbing her shoulder. "Ow…What? Can't find what?"
"My PET!" Sally hollers. "I dropped it and now I can't find it!"
"What? What do you mean you can't find it?" Silus panics. "Cera needs you and it's lost?"
Malory shoots a glare at Silus. "Well it wouldn't be lost if you guys help me find it!"
The gang looks at each other and nods. While this cabin isn't too big there are places where a PET can slide under and can be easily missed. They got to find it fast and get back on Cera before that Alimon deletes her. "OK. I'll check the back row." Sally informs. "Stephen, check the right front row. Silus can take the middle rows."
They all immediately scrambled to their designated areas. Sally searched the back area of the cabin while Stephen went down on all fours looking under the front row seats to try to find the lost PET. Silus was just about to check his row when the runaway train suddenly took a dive down, slightly making the gang feel weightless before running on ground level again.
Upon noticing this, Malory got up on her knees addressing to the others. "What the heck was that?"
Silus had a bad feeling about this. He looks out the window realizing the train descended from the elevated rails and down to ground level. This confused Silus. The train doesn't run on ground-level rails, only when…That's when it hit them. The turn the train took was just the beginning of their worries; this train is headed to one of the train's storage warehouses! Those rails lead to dead-ends, which means…
"Yikes!" Silus yelps. He quickly drops down to the floor and desperately looks under the seats.
"What? What?" Malory cries.
"No time! Just hurry up and find your PET!" Silus informs desperately.
Sally is confused. "What? Why?"
Stephen, being the curious one of the group, looks out the window on his side. He too notices the train running on ground level. And, to his dismay, he can see from his side just where the train is going. Sometime up ahead the train is going to turn right, and it's going to head to those warehouses he sees where they store some of the train equipment and where they keep the trains for maintenance. "Aaaaahh!" He screams before turning to the group. "Dead-end up ahead!"
"What?" The girls cry out at the same time. Now they have to find Malory's PET. Cera is their only hope to stop the train. Spike is still too hurt to fight the Alimon, and Petrie doesn't sound much like he's willing to face a deadly Sharptooth.
From his PET Silus could hear Petrie freaking out. ""Aaaah! Dead-end no good! Silus and others must hurry!""
"We're trying!" Silus responds to his Navi as he keeps searching. He reaches under one of the chairs and feels around, feeling something underneath a blind spot. He smiles and grabs the thing, pulling it out. "Yes!" He jumps up to his seat and holds the item up in the air. "I found i-Waaah!"
The train took the right turn they were dreading, knocking Silus against the wall and Stephen off his feet and unto the floor again. Now it's just a simple run forward and they're going to crash into a dead-end, probably taking their lives away in the accident. The knock against the wall made Silus drop the lost PET, falling back onto the ground. It seemed hopeless to them until two seconds later when the train started to slowly lose speed and coming to a stop, just seconds away from zooming through the warehouse and into the dead-end.
Stephen rolled onto his stomach and rubs his aching back. "Nnngh…Man oh man…What happened now?"
Sally, who was holding onto the seats tightly, slowly opened her eyes as she looks out the window. "We…Stopped?"
Malory is just as confused as they are. She looks under the seats and spots her PET where it landed. Immediately she grabs it, extends the cable as she gets up and plugs it into the computer terminal, regaining her contact and visual with Cera. "Cera? Are you there?"
A couple of seconds of static later, a clear visual of the area came into her PET's screen. Suspense began to build as the gang huddled around Malory to look into the PET, hoping and praying Cera was still there. They all sighed in relief when they got a visual of Cera, but the next thing they saw made them all gasp in unison.
The Alimon was still there, and she just had a victim. But it wasn't Cera the victim. It was someone else…Sort of.
Cera is standing there, a look of disbelief on her face. In front of her stands her savior, Rex. The Navi used a ShinyWall chip to make a wall of ice between him and Grayscale. She tried to skewer Cera with her longer horns from the HornThrust chip, but all she managed to accomplish was running into Rex's ShinyWall. Her horns managed to break through, but the ShinyWall stood firm and stopped Grayscale from charging any further in. The wall needed Rex's support to keep from breaking down; he needed his hands placed firmly on the wall. One horn managed to touch Rex, skinning and slightly impaling through his side.
Cera stands there; slightly trembling as her eyes are fixed on Rex's impaled side, particles of data emitting from the wound. "…W-Why…?" Cera stutters as she slowly looks up at Rex.
Kaden, who is watching this through his PET, couldn't help but answer for her. "Cera, don't you see? Rex is your friend. He wants to help you, not chase after you with an everlasting appetite to tear you apart."
"Hm, interesting…" Grayscale's Net Op mutters as she watches through her PET. "A Sharptooth being friends with such vile Navis…"
"Rex." Kaden smirks as he holds out a chip. "Let's show that Alimon we mean business in our friendship with Leaf-Eaters!"
Rex, with a grunt of pain from the wound, nods with a slight smile. "Yeah. We'll show her Leaf-Eaters are not evil!"
Grayscale, still holding her position with one of her horns still skewered in Rex's side, dangerously narrows her eyes. "Abominations of the Network! How can you defend such corrupt pieces of trash!"
"Easy! Like this!" Kaden smirks as he holds up the chip he was holding. "MegaFist, code B! Battle Chip in!" He immediately jams it into his PET. "Download!"
Rex takes one hand off the wall and holds it back as it transforms into a giant fist. "Grrraaaaahh!" He screams as he quickly pulls the punch in and toward the wall and straight onto Grayscale. Both she and her Net Op were taken by surprise as the wall shatters and the giant fist connects against Grayscale's skull, delivering huge damage as the Alimon is flung back and into the air, her horn pulled out of Rex's side as the Alimon flies back. She flies pretty far back and slams hard onto the ground, bouncing once as she flips onto her stomach and skidding along. She slightly opens her eyes in a dangerous glare as a crack is formed on her helmet and gradually gets bigger, some pieces chipping off in the process.
Kaden's eyes are now in a glare as he's focused, almost as if he was one with Rex. "And now…" He starts as he takes out his two Cannon chips along with his FireWater chip, ready to pull a combo with the cannons and finishing it off with the FireWater. He was about to slot in the cannons when the sound of two loud screeches break the silence in the air. Kaden blinks. "Huh? That couldn't have been…"
Grayscale's Net Op also heard the screeches from the control room she's in. She looks outside of the window next to her to see one of the runaway trains stopping just a few feet from where the control room is. "The trains stopped…" She told herself. She then hears a beep coming from her PET, alerting her of two new emails. One informed her of the trains stopping. The other told her about finding the one responsible and the location…
She closes the windows on her PET. "Grayscale, we're done here."
"Hm?" Grayscale hums as she picks herself up, some pieces of her helmet fall off as she does so. "What about the Leaf-Eater?"
"Leave it be." Her Net Op replies. "Jack out."
Grayscale nods. "Understood." She glares at Cera and Rex. "We'll meet again…" And with that, she disintegrates into a purple beam and jacks out.
"Stop! Come back here!" Cera cries as she starts to run to the spot where Grayscale once stood. She growls under her breath as she looks up where Grayscale jacked out.
"Aarrgh! No way!" Netra was furious. He thought he had it all planned out. He thought he took care of every detail of the plan. He thought no one could stop an entire station of runaway trains in time. But somehow they did. All because of a stupid Longneck and DuckBill came along and bested his Sharptooth Navi.
He flung the chair away; he slammed his fists on the machine and cursed every name in the book. Netra may be a cool, ridiculous teenager but when he faces defeat he takes it hard. He looks into his PET, which is still connected to the machine, and watches as the Longneck and DuckBill celebrate their victory. How could they have defeated his Navi. A Sharptooth! How could he have lost to Leaf-Eaters?
"No! No!" He screams in frustration as those two find the main control in the system, which makes all of the trains in the station stop. It's all over. And his boss will not be happy about this. And to make it worse, the Sharptooth Navi he was ordered to find hasn't shown its face!
""We did it, Littlefoot! Yup yup yup!"" Netra overheard the DuckBill cheer through his PET. How he would love to shut that stupid Navi…
""We sure did!"" The Longneck replies to the DuckBill. ""Now let's go find the others! I'm sure Sally will be happy to see you in one piece.""
""Oh yes! I am glad that they are going to be OK! Thanks to you and Rex!""
Rex? Netra blinked at the name. That's kind of a strange name for a Leaf-Eater Navi. It sounds more like a Sharptooth-oriented name. That's when it hit him. The Sharptooth Navi his boss told him about. Jackpot, he thought. With a smile he unplugged his PET and ran off, fleeing from the scene…
The whole ordeal lasted hours. The sun was already high in the sky and ready to take its plunge for the evening.
As Kaden descended a flight of stairs he taps away at buttons on his PET. The upper left corner of his PET says 3:45PM, but he felt that the whole incident lasted days. It was so intense it felt like time was moving five times faster.
"What a day…" Kaden comments as he stops just after going down the stairs and looks back at the station, recapping everything they went through to stop the trains. He managed to stop most of them until Jason and Littlefoot found the main switch and turn them all off, saving countless lives from the remaining two.
""You can say that again…"" His Navi adds.
Kaden turns back to his PET. "You're all right?"
Inside the PET Rex is slightly clutching the wound on his side. He's slowly recovering while inside the PET as particles of data are slowly covering up the wound and repairing it. He still has some injuries here and there from his battle against Grayscale, but nothing a few hours in the PET won't heal. ""I'm hanging on. We showed that Alimon, huh?""
Kaden chuckles and nods. "You bet we did! Although too bad she left before we could really show her just how wrong she was about the Leaf-Eaters."
Rex nods. ""Yeah, I wonder what happened to her that would make her and her Net Op believe that the Leaf-Eaters are evil…""
Kaden shrugs and looks up ahead. Jason emailed him about figuring out the train in which their friends were and went up ahead to the train. The train was close by one of the station's warehouses, where the workers of the station managed to get there after the incident and notify the others about their whereabouts. The gang chose Jason and Kaden for the workers to notify and give them permission to get to the train to help them out.
The workers stand by the train's doors, aiding the passengers in getting out of the train. Silus and Stephen were already out of the train when the workers helped Sally in getting out. She brought up her eyes and smiled as she saw Kaden and Jason waiting for them. With a big smile she ran up to them. "Kaden! Jason!"
The two boys smiled upon seeing them, happy to see they're all right. Sally ran up to them and quickly hugs them, smothering them both. "Jason! Kaden! I'm so glad to see you both!"
"Agh! Sally!" Jason cringes as he gets crushed. "You're crushing us…!"
"Choking! Not breathing!" Kaden complains.
Sally lets them both go, smiling from ear to ear as some tears start to form in her eyes. "I knew you two would come and save us…I was so scared…"
Jason blushes as he scratches the back of his head. "Heheh, well we couldn't just stand around knowing you guys were in trouble."
Kaden grins. "Hahah yeah. Besides, Jason bolted out of the door when he heard you were in dang-Ack! Hey!" He was suddenly grabbed in a headlock by Jason for teasing him about the supposed interest between Jason and Sally.
"Don't you even dare finishing that sentence, punk!" Jason playfully threatens as he noogies his childhood friend.
"Hahahahah!" Rex and Littlefoot laugh from inside their PETs. To them their PETs are connected as one huge area, a benefit PETs gain from being close to other PETs that are in their Friend List. This way Navi friends can spend time together just like their Net Ops do.
"Littlefoot!"
Littlefoot and Rex turn around, spotting Ducky, Petrie and Spike running up to them. Littlefoot laughs with a grin as they run up to him and almost tackle him down to the ground. "Hahah! Guys!" The gang happily grabs hands and hop around in circles, their laughter filling the rather silent area.
"Hahahah!" Rex laughs as he sees the gang together again. But upon another look he stops laughing, noticing they're one short. He turns around and is startled to find Cera standing there. This event makes the gang stop their laughing, they too noticing how their ThreeHorn friend is looking at the Sharptooth.
Cera folds her arms with an 'hmph', an action which made Rex flinch. But along came the unthinkable. Cera lightens up and sheds a smile as she closes her eyes. "All right, you got my respects."
"What? Really?" Rex beams upon hearing that.
Cera opens her eyes. "Well you did defend me from that Alimon and took the blow for me. So yeah, I guess I can trust you."
"Ahah!" Rex grins. After such a cold beginning with her the ThreeHorn opened up and she's now willing to trust him. Rex smiles warmly upon being fully accepted into the group. "Thanks, Cera!"
Kaden watches with a smile through the PET. He couldn't be any happier for his Navi. His first day out in the world, first time in a NetBattle, first time against a real net crime and socializing with other Net Navis, everything went perfect. It was a rocky start for the both of them, but they managed to come out on top in the end. And the day isn't over yet.
Kaden catches something in the corner of his eyes and looks up from his PET, spotting someone standing on top of one of the upper ledges of the train station not too far ahead, the sun hitting the figure perfectly to have a good look of who it is. The figure is wearing a dark blue suit with a dark blue hat, its black hair swaying in the wind. Despite having a good look of this person from afar Kaden doesn't recognize who it is.
The person turns out to be a female with dark brown eyes and a scar across her face and down between her eyes and ending at her jaw. She slowly turns away and walks away, off to her next assignment.
""Shouldn't you go arrest him?"" A female voice asked. ""After all you saw him coming out from one of the station's electronic warehouses.""
The female takes out her purple PET and looks at her Navi. "I'll let it slide. After all, he was mildly responsible for stopping the trains." She stops and presses a few buttons on her PET, going through some work. "Anything to report from the mainframe where the incident originated?"
""Nothing."" Her Navi responded. ""The perpetrator made a clean getaway. Although we found traces of his data and managed to identify him. Guess who.""
The files open up in her PET. "Netra and Drone. Those two again." She couldn't help but smirk with a shake of her head. "Make sure the Rock Rangers Unit gets this notification, Grayscale."
Her Navi, Grayscale, nods. ""Understood. And I believe it's best for you to head back as well, Kiraa?""
The female, Kiraa, nods and puts away her PET. She looks back, her thoughts going back to the kid who owned the Sharptooth Navi. "You better come to your senses before those Leaf-Eaters betray you too…They're nothing but corrupted waste of Navis…"
"On the next chapter of Land Before Time: Battle Network!"
""Hey Kaden, have you heard the news?""
"Erm, what is it, Rex?"
""Tomorrow's the grand opening of the Great Valley Square!""
"Oh, that's right! We better go check it out with the others tomorrow!"
""Hey, did you just hear a very loud roar just now?""
"Aaah! The components in the real world are going crazy!"
"Next time on Land Before Time: Battle Network: 'Internet calamity! The first arc!'"
"Cheer us on!"
