Chapter 6: Ruckuses

17:51 PM (Japan Time), Wednesday December the 19th…

"… A~u~! I'll cut everything with my claws! I am Wolf Forest and I'll destroy all of you lowlifes!"

"Hah, hah, hah! We're Gemini Spark! Everything will end up destroyed by our power!"

"Buku! I, Cancer Bubble, will drown all of you! Buku!"

"IT'S ALL OVER!"

"You're troublesome, did ya know that?"

"Let's dispose of those guys."

Three enemies were raging around an avenue which had been deserted in hastily manner: several cars and motorbikes had been left there in a rush: Omega and the other two dropped there.

"Wolf Forest will mincemeat the crimson Demon!"

"Sure, sure."

Wolf Forest had a "humanoid" design but he had a more wolf-like shape although he did stand on his two feet.

White metallic armor formed around his neck and drew three slides on its rear heading for his back: the skin color was bluish.

A small shape colored yellow was drawn on an extension of the chest armor which ended before the waist: a thin orange stripe was drawn across the armor just before it ended.

His head was shaped like a wolf's with two spiky ears, ear-pads having claw-like extensions, fierce reddish eyes with purple irises and a black mouth with several teeth.

The shoulders were blue spheroids with an orange band around them, bluish skin for the arms, a bluish forearm and brownish armor for the rest of the hands: four white claws emerged from them.

A needle protruded of the knees while the leg and feet design were rather close to those of the arms and shoulders: the armor began on the knees.

A bluish segmented tail formed behind him too and two slides extended from the rear corners of his body.

"We'll fry up the black Giant! Let's go, White!"

"Yeah, Black!"

Gemini Spark were actually two opponents who had a similar design each and the only variations were their armor colors: one was black and the other white.

Their faces' skin had a dull olive green – like coloring and a faint black and thin line drawing of an electrical current's spectrum shaped like a triangle which formed on the SW and SE corners of their faces and climbed past the nose until they ended beneath the forehead's helmet's armor edge.

Their eyes, nose and mouth were normal enough and their eyes' irises were colored blood red.

Their hair was orange-colored and spread out from behind the helmet in a wild flock manner reaching until the base of their necks.

The helmet's design was peculiar: it had a form seemingly made out of a spheroid's upper half and its main color was black or white depending on which: the center of it had a drawing which could be interpreted as an arrow pointing downwards which also had two small triangles popping out of the sides: if seen from above and looking from north to south it could be a cutaway silhouette of a tree as well: a golden-colored plain horn formed on the middle of the drawing and aimed upwards.

The ear-pads had two parts: they began as simple gray metallic disks attached half-way between the upper helmet and the sides of the rest of the helmet: then a dome formation sprouted from there and had a small hole cut atop it.

The sides of the helmet included two slightly curved triangles colored orange spanning past the lower jaw by a few centimeters.

Their necks were protected by circular gray bands stacked one atop the other with a total of three plus a wider circle at the base of each guy's neck.

Regarding the chest armor, it could be described as simplistic: the colors of choice were black and white to tell them apart and the only noticeable things on it were two cavities cut on the center of it shaped after diamonds: they were red on the inside and there was a very thin black line cutting through them spanning half-way across the chest.

Their right and left arms, respectively, were covered by a peculiar golden armor which seemed to reinforce their strength: each guy's shoulder had a soup bowl – like shape along with the cover set over it: a golden horn spread from the center of the cover.

The armor then continued with a slight division drawn half-way the arm located between the shoulder and the elbow.

The elbow segment happened to have a circular piece from which a curved fin aiming towards the shoulder emerged: this elbow armor could be divided in four different segments: the first one was a little piece of golden armor in the form of a circle's lower half.

It was continued by a set of three half-circular metallic bands spreading downwards until the start of the wrist.

A screw bolt's head was set half-way between the lower and upper halves of the elbow armor: a black cross was drawn on it (or rather the grooves where a screw driver would be set at) and a straight black line travelled forward from the eastern edge until the wrist.

The last part of the complicated elbow armor included the aforementioned fin.

A small segment of golden armor covered the little space between the elbow and the wrist.

The wrist and part of the hand were encompassed by one featureless metallic black circle from which their usual five fingers (covered in golden "skin") came out.

The body below the chest armor was rather plain: a central vertical stripe which contained the helmet's pattern towards the end as it reached the waist spot: it was painted black or white expect on the outer edges where the color switched to purple and ran down the sides of the body including the inner surface of the legs: the outer surface was colored gray too.

Their peculiar boots began just at the knee's height and had a customized design which looked like some attempt at being "futuristic" for some reason or another and their colors changed between each guy.

The reason why their boots looked peculiar was because they had a descending triangle-shaped ramp running until the ankles and with three golden buttons set in a vertical manner one atop the other near the end of the piece.

The ankles' armor was built in the manner of three purple trapezes set one over the other.

The soil of the boots was also designed to have a trapeze form and painted gray.

Each one was past a meter and sixty in height.

"Buku! The mean read jerk's mine! Cancer Bubble: go!"

"… "Buku"…? Guess Water – Attribute Navis are fond of those mottoes, yeah… This guy could pass as a Bubble Man cousin even."

Cancer Bubble was the shortest of them, barely a meter and forty tall, but that didn't mean he was weak.

His design was simplistic: his main body color was a dull faded orange color and his head had partial armor over it but left the sides of it exposed: his eyes' irises were purple too and his nose wasn't visible while his mouth retained a normal shape.

Three orange extensions popped out at each side of the head and formed a set which seemed to be there for decoration: two small antennae with capsule-shaped bodies emerged from there too: the upper halves were colored yellow.

The main body had a thin metallic plate with black dots on it set there as protection.

The legs were unarmored until the knees and his boots were colored in two shades of orange: they looked like cylinders with a dome-shaped end to them and very simplistic.

"Moon Claws!"

Wolf Forest swung his claws horizontally to shoot three curved slices of energy at Omega which he blocked and then performed a vertical attack which left some cut marks on Omega.

"Sheesh! Fire Blade!"

His sword began to be surrounded by flames and he jumped towards his opponent only to be blocked.

"Gemini Thunder!"

Both Gemini Spark enemies fused their golden arms and shot a powerful electrical outburst at Sigma which was met with a dome-shaped rainbow-colored shield: it got cracked but Sigma suddenly bent the air around him before he warped with an effect of a circle shrinking and erasing his body until he was gone: both gasped as Sigma fell down from above and swung his sword to hit them.

"Groah!"

"Shit!"

"Cancer Wave!"

Cancer Bubble summoned a tall tsunami and it washed Blood Shadow again: he grumbled and ran towards the opponent.

"Custom Bolt!"

"Buku! Lightning Rod!"

Bubble Man formed the Lightning Rod and it shot the attack back at Blood Shadow: he snarled and focused.

"Wolf Horde! Au~!"

Four or five brown wolves appeared and jumped towards Omega: he calmly swung his sword in the correct angle to slice them and make them explode: Wolf Forest then swung his claws both horizontally and vertically but Omega didn't have any trouble stopping the attacks with his sword: Wolf Forest's claws shattered and he looked at them in utter disbelief.

"Vanish."

Omega's armor switched to an orange color and he dashed forward: he then jumped vertically while drawing a curve with his sword: Wolf Forest was set on fire and split into two.

"Gu… Guo~h!" He roared.

He blew up and Omega calmly jumped back: he looked towards the right to see Sigma smacking a gigantic black and fluorescent green sword into the ground around him, scaring the guts outta Cancer Bubble and making him run around.

"Buku~!" He cried, even.

"…"Buku"? That sounds like a rip-off of Darkloid Bubble Man's "puku" trademark speech… And it'd seem they decided to switch opponents around…" Omega lifted is eyebrows in surprise.

"Grah!"

Blood Shadow recoiled as powerful electrical blast hit him on the chest: the Gemini Spark twins had connected their golden arms and fused their power to shoot at him.

"Ugh… No joke…" He grumbled.

"Need a hand?" Omega asked.

"No, sir, thank you very much. I can handle this, sir."

"Oi! Ye jerk! You're over!" Sigma taunted.

"Cancer Wave, buku!"

He summoned the large tsunami which hit Sigma but he didn't even move from his spot: Cancer Bubble looked terrified and tried to run for it: Sigma jumped across the air and landed with force in front of him: he picked him with the left hand and glared at him.

"Talk!" He ordered.

"Gemini Thunder!"

"BUKU~!"

The attack hit Cancer Bubble and destroyed him due to its high power plus the elemental weakness: both Sigma and Omega turned to look at the Gemini Spark twins.

"Code 125: units are forbidden from surviving." They automatically announced like automatons.

"TOWAIRAITO~!" Omega growled.

"Charged shotgun shot!"

Blood Shadow snuck behind then and aimed the shotgun at close-quarters: the attack pierced through the black twin's body and Omega then jumped into the fray by plunging his sword into the white one's chest: they both roared and blew up.

"They wanted to die so badly…" Omega shrugged.

"I'm sure that even if we capture one, they've been equipped with a self-destruct program… Twilight and "KO" must be making sure we can't trace him. The bothersome jerks!" Blood Shadow grumbled.

"Yeah. We're going to beat 'em up once he find 'em!" Sigma grumbled as he looked at his sword.

"Our job is done. Let's go report." Omega commanded.

"Roger."

"Roger the Roger Dragon of Hell!"

"Oh come on!"

18:06 PM (Japan Time)…

"… I am Apollon Flame! Bow before my power!"

A Net Navi was standing in the middle of a vacated highway.

They stood at over 230cm tall from the look of it and his presence was imposing.

His main body color, as expected, was a shade of blood red.

Their helmet had a grayish medallion set on the forehead and a red cross which protruded atop it forming an Oriental – like symbol: two strings of bluish hair popped out from the sides of the helmet and extended until the upper torso: his eyes' irises were golden set against black eyes and his face's skin was grayish: his gaze was scary.

His upper body had red armor covering it and extending across the arms: he had no "spheroid shoulders" like most Navis did but more anatomically correct shoulders: some fins formed on the underside of his arms: black-colored diamonds with a golden interior were drawn upon the shoulders and two smaller black-colored diamonds were sketched below the main in each arm: thick black bracelets were set on the wrists.

The rest of the torso was black in color and included two parallel silver stripes running across the body which formed two cavities reminiscent of the "V" character in the front and the back: another set of them signaled the boundary between the torso and the hips.

The legs' design wasn't that much different from that of the arms, including the same rings on the ankles and a metallic arch over the segment of the simplistic "shoes" where the toe fingers would normally begin at.

A ring of reddish fire spread outwards from behind his shoulders and stood over his head while being inclined like a lid: two larger rings of golden flames were circling diagonally around his body and had intercrossed to form a barrier of sorts to impede approach to him or if to make it harder to hit his body.

"We won't let ya!" A voice rang out.

"Hmpf."

"CF" Netto jumped into the fray while having the Hyper Burst Program Advance ready to shoot.

"A brat? Hah. Die." Apollon Flame was unimpressed.

"Wrong. Take this! Hyper Burst!"

"Tornado Flare! Prominence Flare!"

Three thin columns of spiraling fire formed in front of him while some streaks of flame-like snakes travelled across the ground in diagonal patterns while warping: the Program Advance collided with the columns and bounced off: it hit a street light and blew it up.

"W-what?" "CF" Netto gasped.

"Crap." Saito muttered.

The three "Prominence Flares" suddenly showed up and began to coil around his body while growing in length and interconnecting: they began to spread flames across "CF" Netto's body.

"Gu… Gua~h! Grah!" He roared.

"Netto – kun! Quick! Battle Chip, Geyser!" Saito told him.

"Battle Chip…! Geyser…!"

The Geyser formed and it destroyed the Flame Snakes while causing a sudden evaporation of the water: "CF" Netto panted but then found one of the three "Tornado Flares" rushing towards him: he was hit and propelled backwards: he fell into the ground in a face-up position and panted while he tried to recover.

"S-shit! We lowered the guard…!" He cursed

"Heal!" Saito commanded.

"Y-yeah! Recovery 300!"

"CF" Netto managed to stand up and gasped: Apollon Flame had formed a gigantic spheroid of red fire on his hands and was holding it above his head: it looked like a miniature copy of the Sun.

"Sun Flare!"

He threw it forward and hit the ground in front of "CF" Netto: gigantic flames appeared and leapt into his Cross Fusion body while slowly damaging it and exposing his normal clothes beneath it.

"Gua~h!" He roared in agony.

"Hah! Feel the unending pain and incandescent flames of Hell, brat! You lowlife will be burn by them and turned into food for the Demon King within His land!" Apollon Flame boasted.

"D-damn! Battle Chip, Tornado!"

The flames leapt into the tornado and then dissolved: "CF" Netto panted heavily and tried to recover.

"Rock Man… Are you alright…?" He asked.

"S-somehow…! Netto – kun…! Finish it with a Program Advance!" Saito groaned.

"R-roger! Program Advance! Hi Cannon, Triple Slot In! Giga Cannon!" "CF" Netto announced.

"Tornado Flare!"

The blast shot forward but "CF" Netto had aimed for the little space between the tornadoes: the attack hit the left side of the enemy's body and made a large wound there: Apollon Flame stepped back and growled.

"T-this BRAT!" He roared.

"Chance! Let's go! Recovery 200, Slot In! Program Advance! Cannon, Hi Cannon, Mega Cannon! Zeta Cannon!"

The blast took out the left side of Apollon Flame's body and he roared as he was surrounded by fiery flames.

"Code 222 enabled! Go to Hell!" He roared.

"Netto – kun! That guy's going to self-destruct!" Saito warned.

"No way! Area Steal!"

"CF" Netto warped some meters away as Apollon Flame blew up in a brutal explosion which kicked cars upside down or burnt them on mere contact: it left a radius of destruction around 100 meters wide: "CF" Netto reappeared about 10 meters further away and looked around in a totally baffled and surprised manner.

"That guy…! What a thing!" "CF" Netto uttered.

"Yeah… Twilight must've wanted to prove he can be serious when he wants to, too." Saito grumbled.

"Netto, Saito! Are you two alright?" Vadous' voice rang out through the radio.

"Vadous – san! Somehow…" "CF" Netto admitted.

"Enemy destruction: confirmed." Saito reported.

"Good job. Take a rest: that guy was dynamite." Vadous told them.

"Roger."

The Dimensional Area was cancelled, so "CF" Netto reverted out of Cross Fusion and picked up the Link PET before placing it on its strap: Saito projected and "sat" on his right shoulder.

"Phew! I feel beaten." He muttered.

"No wonder… And I dunno what we'll have to face next!" Netto muttered.

"Mwah, hah, hah. Dragon Hell's "Hellish Curry"…"

"What the hell is THAT?" Netto groaned.

"Totally, absolutely and incredibly burnt CURRY!"

"WHAT? Oh damn! Dragon – san! Please snap out of it! At this rate Vadous – san will run out of patience and fire you…! Burnt curry…! GRAH!"

18:14 PM (Japan Time)…

"… Whose orders do you accept?"

"Need Not To Know, Net Savior. Sirius has spoken."

"Wrong. I ain't a Net Savior. But I guess you aren't programmed to spot the difference, anyway."

"CF" Charles had cornered an enemy in vacated soccer field: the enemy hovered over the ground in the field's center.

This enemy, Sirius, was a more "humanoid" design Net Navi who could be two to three meters tall and his design was rather outstanding.

To begin with his face's skin was colored blue and his eyes were closed: some blonde hair came out and extended towards the right.

A white helmet in the form of an arrow aiming upwards was built up around the head: it had an orange stripe over the forehead branching backwards: a stylized "S" was drawn slightly upwards too and another stripe formed an arch near the end.

His neck had partial black armor over it but some red patterns extended downwards along a gray mass surrounding it and the base of the neck: it looked like energy being channeled.

The shoulders were anatomically correct and consisted of a build of black and gray: a small segment of black-skinned arm was exposed before the forearms' armor came in: it had a mainly white body, a patch of dull brown over the hands and an orange "T" pattern: the hands were black-skinned and had five fingers each.

The chest had a glowing diamond with four spikes and four corners set there: the main body was white in color and had some faint hexagons drawn there while the sides were colored gray.

His legs had an inner white band with the same hexagons there and an outer gray armor: two hexagons with smaller hexagons insides had been built over the legs too: a small diamond cavity formed where the pieces of the feet combined with the front red piece of each foot.

Four sets of four golden pieces shaped in different manners and held in place by a floating grey diamond extended behind him and made them look like wings: a total of sixteen of them spread behind him.

"Disappear into the depths of the world. Satellite Laser!"

His four wings detached and formed a row in front of Sirius: he then shot a multi-colored large laser beam towards the left and began swinging it towards the right: "CF" Charles ignited his boots' jets and flew out while aiming for Sirius.

"Battle Chip, Bug Bomb!"

He threw the Bug Bomb at Sirius and some frizzling covered his body: he yelped in pain and struggled to regain control of his satellite-like components floating around him: "CF" Charles wasted on time on drawing his sword and plunging it into his forehead before jumping away.

"T-this…!" He cursed.

"Bite me." "CF" Charles taunted.

"Satellites! Punish them!" He growled.

The wing components flew out and began shooting small lasers from different angles to "CF" Charles: he dodged and bounced some off with his sword.

"Program Advance! Fumikomizan, Triple Slot In! Zeta Fumikomi!" "CF" Charles announced.

He warped and delivered three large curved sword slashes to Sirius from a close distance: the guy groaned and began to leak data while looking rather annoyed: "CF" Charles stepped back and assumed a standard pose to be ready.

"Die! Code 222!" Sirius roared.

"Area Steal!"

"CF" Charles escaped the explosion just in time and then looked at the destruction left behind.

"Man. We were lucky that Crown Thunder guy didn't get to do that: it'd vaporized us." "CF" Charles muttered.

"More like roasted us, Charleston." Davis joked.

"Who do ya think ya are today? David Foster?" "CF" Charles sarcastically asked him.

"Dunno: ask the half-eaten sandwich you left on the apartment's kitchen as we rushed to this warehouse where this guy appeared." Davis sounded amused.

"Jeez." "CF" Charles grumbled.

"Mwah, hah, hah."

"Sigma… What now?"

"Listen! Dragonius Hellius has descended!"

"That's a parody of his name you've made up here and now."

"Bravo, Charleston!"

"GRJTXH!"

"Did ya know? Bloody Shadowy~ has some looks!"

"Oh come on. Not the yaoi jokes again. You guys are robots! You can't do sex to begin with!" Davis groaned.

"So? Nokay got hooked by ya two?"

"No." They immediately replied.

"SIGMA~!" Omega roared.

"Yikes!"

"Move your legs! NOW!"

"R-roger, Commander Omega!"

"Sigma… Instead of pulling pranks on people try to figure out where the hell these guys are coming from!" Charles groaned.

19:08 PM (Japan Time)…

"… Sonic Boom!"

"Scope Gun!"

"Strong Swing!"

"Nadare Daiko!"

"CF" Blues and "CF" Laika were facing two opponents.

"I am Club Strong Ou - sama!"

Club Strong was a giant easily over five meters tall or more which towered over the rest of the group with his gray, black and greenish colors: he looked like some kind of statue even.

His face was covered by moss and he had the "Club" drawing on the stone gray forehead: his eyes were red and with black irises while his mouth was black in color: his whole face looked like a sculpted piece of stone given how part of his head extended backwards as a rectangular piece and across the body: the mouth had some kind of barrel inside.

His main body was a square split in two by a blue stripe: the upper half was gray and the lower black and moss covered the top of this piece as well.

The shoulders formed squares which had the "Club" symbol spun 90º to the left drawn there inside of blue edges: each had moss over them as well: the arms were gray in color and then gained thick bracelets with some moss and piece of stone aiming backwards: his fingers were made of stone and were gigantic.

A round stone linked with the waist-block and then with the legs: they began from gray stone blocks and ended in moss-covered boxes with a vertical stripe and a pyramidal body set in front of them.

He carried a gigantic blunt club with a metallic band on his right hand which was his default weapon: its mere size could easily crush any of the two fighters even.

"Mwah, hah, hah! I am Yeti Blizzard - sama!"

Yeti Blizzard, on the other hand, as the name hinted, was based upon the Yeti or the Abominable Snow Man: he seemed to be closer to three meters tall and a bit taller than his companion Apollon Flame.

His purplish gorilla-mask-like-face had a footprint drawn on the forehead, a cyan band over the nose and cheeks, and two teeth on his jaw: his eyes were colored purple and some purplish hair extended wildly from around the whole of his head.

His main body was colored white and it had a simplistic golden line drawn across the upper chest: bluish plating over the torso reinforced it from any incoming blows.

His shoulder spheroids also had a golden stripe on them and purple armor covered his forearms from which his bluish hands came out: another golden stripe circled the whole of the diameter close to the start of the forearms.

His legs were unarmored but covered in "hair" to give them a gorilla-like appearance: the boots' design was similar to that of the forearms and they included three blade-shaped cavities cut over the ankles: five thick toe fingers came out from there.

The scene of the fight was the docks next to the private docks where particulars docked their cruisers.

"Damn. That club makes the ground rattle and I can't keep my balance when he does that!" "CF" Blues cursed.

"And this guy's snow avalanches are always hitting me, too." "CF" Laika cursed aloud.

"Hah! No lowlifes can stand up to me." Club Strong boasted.

"Yeah! Let's defeat them!" Yeti Blizzard laughed.

"Battle Chip, Flame Sword, Flame Blade! Double Slot In!"

"Battle Chip, Custom Bolt!"

"CF" Blues jumped towards Club Strong but he swung his mace and some Wood Towers popped out: "CF" Blues crashed against one and was kicked into the ground.

"Grah!"

Yeti Blizzard merely grinned and ducked to then begin punching his chest and creating a drum melody.

"Nadare Daiko!"

An avalanche formed out of nowhere and hit "CF" Laika, pushing him back and making him fall off the pier into the wharf's waters: he quickly emerged and used his jets to fly out.

"Puah! Satellite Ray!" He spat some of the liquid out before announcing his next attack.

The attack hit Yeti Blizzard's forehead and he momentarily stepped back as it caught him off-guard.

"Program Advance! Vulcan, Triple Slot In! Mugen Vulcan!"

"CF" Laika bombarded the enemy with the multiple rounds of the Mugen Vulcan: Yeti Blizzard roared and recoiled as various wounds opened up on his body but it wasn't enough to defeat him.

"Ya wanna die so badly, I'll make that wish reality! Code 222!" Yeti Blizzard roared.

His body began to glow in a white light as he ran forward faster than one would expect for his size and wounds before jumping into the air and tackling "CF" Laika: a dummy showed up on his place.

"Scope Gun!"

The precise shot pierced through his body and he blew up: the explosion caused the wharf's waters to shake and some boats to tilt and hit each other for some seconds before calming down: "CF" Laika sighed in relief at having survived.

"Gra~h!"

"CF" Blues crashed into a small boat while Club Strong lowered his club.

"You lowlife's power isn't enough to defeat me!" He laughed.

"Battle Chip, Magma Seed!"

"CF" Laika threw at his feet while he was distracted and Club Strong quickly sand on it while catching fire: he roared and swung his club around while shattering the concrete.

"WHY, YOU~…! DIE~! CODE 222!"

His body glowed with the ominous white light and he blew up as well: his explosion managed to snap most of the boats' lines and they began drifting around in an unorganized manner: "CF" Blues managed to walk over to "CF" Laika before dropping down into a bench out of tiredness.

"What a nightmare! How many of these are left?" He sounded overwhelmed.

"Who knows?" "CF" Laika shrugged.

"Wait until you see the freak I battled." Charles told them.

"What, a giant 10 meters tall?" Enzan groaned.

"No. But he focused on using small enemies to distract you: his big laser gun was deadly: heck, it cut through the grass and hit the piping underneath the field." Davis sighed.

"Shit. What could be worse than these?" Blues growled.

"Dunno." Laika fumed.

"Twilight…! Damn you!"

They failed to see that a CCTV camera was spying on them and Darkloids Cloud Man and Swallow Man grinned.

"Heh! As long as it brings publicity to us…"

"Then we don't care who that brat is… Heh, heh, heh."

"Glory to "Neo Gospel"!"

19:44 PM (Japan Time)…

"… Bothersome Twilight! And you too, "KO"! You're some bothersome mice! But no one can escape forever!"

Vadous banged both fists on the armrests of his command chair after having gotten the day's list of incidents: the twins could be seen onscreen and looking calm.

"Now they kill each other, too, and self-destruct! Twilight must be making irony of the "friendly fire" topic!" He growled.

"So it'd seem…" Netto ventured.

"So? Was there anything left for analysis?" Vadous asked.

"No, sir. All of the data was annihilated and shattered." Saito politely reported.

"Sheesh! Bothersome mice! They've gotta be hiding in the Bermuda Triangle: no doubt about it!" Vadous growled.

"… The Bermuda Triangle, you say? Are you being serious or are you being sarcastic, Boss?" Omega walked in and he looked skeptical, for once.

"You know the answer!" Vadous fumed.

"Yeah… Maybe you'll even go swim at beach to cool off. And show off some looks to your fan-girl club along the way…" Omega sarcastically replied.

"Very original." Vadous grumbled.

"By the way… Boss. Could we install some kind of lock on Michelangelo's Room?" Omega asked.

"No. It'd ruin the point of it." Vadous dismissed it with the right hand in a sloppy manner.

"But it'd stop Sigma from unhooking the chain and programming it to run alongside the water tank." Omega argued.

"WHAT THE…!"

Vadous jumped off the chair and turned around: Omega stepped back and looked surprised.

"Sigma is using Michelangelo as if it was a toy?" He asked with obvious incredibility on his voice.

"That's right, Boss. I caught him red-handed the other day. That's the reason why…! Oi! Boss! Where are you going in such a rush?" Omega didn't get to finish his sentence: Vadous was already running out of the command bridge.

"I'M GONNA TEACH HIM THAT MICHELANGELO IS NOT A TOY TO PLAY WITH! SIGMA~!" Vadous roared.

He stepped into the platform and it descended along the shaft: Omega and the twins looked baffled.

"Weird. I mean… Vadous – san forgot about Michelangelo and all of sudden he acts like a parent punishing a child." Saito commented.

"Sigma must be about to run as far as he can." Omega muttered.

"Yeah. A raging Vadous – san is fearful." Netto lifted his eyebrows and sounded resigned.

"But… Boss….! I…!" Sigma's voice could be heard close by and it was echoing.

"SIGMA! MICHELANGELO AIN'T A TOY! DO YA GET ME?" Vadous' yell echoed into the command bridge.

"Eh… I know, Boss…! But…!" He was cut off.

"NO "BUT", EITHER! THIS IS AN ORDER! STAY AWAY FROM MICHELANGELO'S ROOM! ELSE I'M GONNA LOCK YOU IN YOUR CAPSULE FOR A WHOLE MONTH!" Vadous roared.

"It won't happen again, I swear!" Sigma quickly replied.

"Good!"

They heard a door slamming shut.

"Hum. He saved his hide this time around." Omega muttered.

The elevator platform hummed and Vadous walked in: he was hissing something under his breath.

"Merda!"

"Catalan, huh?" Omega wasn't surprised.

He drew breath and expelled it while cooling down before he sat back.

"Sorry. Michelangelo is important to me." He muttered.

"Eh… We didn't ask Vadous – san's reasons." Netto muttered.

"No… We don't need to know." Saito improvised.

"Come on! You two are 14 years old already: you can know some stuff already. We've known each other for over 3 years: it's to increase the trust." Vadous shrugged.

"We never stopped trusting Vadous – san…" Netto argued.

"You're starting to sound like lawyers…"

"Ah… But… Eh… Manners…" Saito defended himself.

"Give them a break, Boss. They don't want to know everything all of a sudden: all will be told over time." Omega told him.

"Can't be helped… See you later." Vadous shrugged.

"Good afternoon." Both replied.

"Boss. Charles contacted me: the salmons are in the net."

"I don't remember having requested salmon to Dragon." Vadous frowned.

"Operation: Jellyfish… It's ended." Omega told him.

"Ah… Good. Keep like this: we haven't seen the last of those Net Navis."

"I'd rather slice them up like Jack the Ripper." Omega grinned.

Omega… Now you can come up with sarcasm, huh? Jeez.