Another chapter up. Just a disclaimer, Kiraa and Grayscale belong to DarkHououmon.

Master Doppler belongs to Rock Raider.


It's been hours since the train station incident. The investigation reports have been issued and filed to the Garden City Net-Police Department for further analysis and investigation. Many were quick to point their fingers to the net mafia, HTTP, as the culprits of this incident. They couldn't be any further from the truth...

On a remote island off the shorts of the Garden City Beach, hidden in the woods on the island resides a huge three-story building. HTTP's headquarters.

On the top floor resides the office of the HTTP leader. He sits on his rotatable seat facing out the room's window toward the woods where off in the distance he can faintly see the continent where Garden City resides. He has plans for the continent and the city, big plans. But to bring his plans into motion, he needs some things...

"So you tell me this Sharptooth Navi in the city is named Rex." The leader speaks as behind him stands the teenager, Netra; no doubt reporting him after his doings in the train station. "Was he the one who put a stop to your 'fun'?"

Netra shakes his head. "Nah, dude. It was..." He suddenly stops, unwilling to continue. If his leader hears he was defeated by a mere Leaf Eater, he would snap as he would always do.

But the leader was starting to get impatient with Netra's pause. He grips the handles of his seat rather tightly, already expecting the defeat coming from a Leaf Eater. He settles down though, resting back against his seat. "No matter, you already gained some information to ensure your life for now."

What the leader said made Netra more at ease, their leader is never one to take failure lightly. He'd usually eliminate them immediately if they failed some important duty or crime. But this time Netra was spared, at least for now like the leader said.

"This NetNavi intrigues me, however." The leader comments as he rests his elbows on the seat's handles and places his fingers together, contemplating as he views the scenery in front of him beyond his window. "According to the reports this Navi can use data of the battle chip CyberClaw at will. This along with the fact he's a Sharptooth Generation in public use. I wonder…"

"Is he of that importance?"

The HTTP leader recognizes such voice. It is none other than their 'professor', the lead scientist of HTTP. The scientist steps into the room and walks past Netra, stopping in front of the leader. The scientist wears a white lab coat with a red shirt underneath his coat and a pair of black pants and shoes. He has white hair, a long chin and a large pointed nose. At the top of his lab coat resides a red triangle insignia pointing downward with a green D in the middle.

"Master Doppler…" The leader speaks. "What brings you here?"

The scientist bows in respect. "Apologies but I couldn't help but overhear about this Sharptooth Navi you speak of." He stands up straight and continues. "It is rather curious at how a Sharptooth Navi is out there in public when it is clearly stated specialized Sharptooth Navi are only for Official use."

"So?" Netra speaks out with a shrug. "Maybe the dudes over at SciLab finally grew a spine and decided to allow Sharptooth Navis for public use."

Doppler chuckles. "Idiot, do you have any idea the risk SciLab and Officials would take by doing such a thing? Net-crimes and terrorism would see a devastating increase." He simply shakes his head before continuing. "No, there's something much more to this Sharptooth Navi than simply a test run to trust the public with the Sharptooth Generation. Whoever created this Navi must have something in mind to allow it into the public."

"Hmph, those fools." The leader speaks out. "They didn't learn a thing from last time…"

Doppler, upon hearing what his leader just said, takes a step forward and speaks. "Speaking of that incident, I may have located what you're looking for."

The leader couldn't help but grin evilly upon hearing the news. "Excellent…"


It's night time but there's still some action yet to be had in Haruko's shop. Not even an exhausting day crime fighting at the train station is going to slow down two certain kids and their Navis.

"AreaSteal, code S! Battle chip in! Download!"

Littlefoot catches the light-blue hide of Rex teleporting behind him, his claws lighted up with his CyberClaw attack ready to slice him up. The Longneck ducks and rolls out of the way as he dodges the devastating claws. This is the first thing Kaden and Jason did after getting back to the shop from the train station, continuing from where they left off before the train incident interrupted their NetBattle.

"Too slow, Kaden!" Jason comments with a smirk as he takes down a battle chip. "Let's show them how it's done, Littlefoot!"

Little nods with a smile. "Yeah."

"Stay sharp, Rex!" Kaden warns with a grin.

Rex nods with a determine glare. "Got it."

"Ugh, they've been at it for hours." Malory comments as she sits on a chair behind the counter, bored out of her mind as she watches the battle from afar. It's true, they've gotten into the shop a couple of hours ago and since then the two best friends have been battling it out non-stop.

Sally giggles from Malory's comment. "You know those two; they know how to get carried away."

"I got to hand it to Kaden, this being his first NetBattles he's been doing pretty well." Stephen comments as he watches the NetBattle along with the others.

Malory rolls her eyes. "Well duh! He's been building all this hype for years! It's about time he lets it all out in a good battle."

"Give him credit, Malory." Silus comments as he puts down his can of coke. "He's holding his own rather well for never NetBattling before. And by the look on your face he even impressed you."

Upon hearing that Malory slightly turns her head away from them, trying to hide that fact. Silus' comment holds water, Malory and Cera were impressed at how well executed Kaden and Rex combo'd AreaSteal and ShinyWall to teleport in front of Cera and protect her from that Alimon Navi's horns. "It's not that impressive." She speaks as she tries to hide it.

"What I'm impressed with is that this NetBattle isn't over yet." Malory, Silus, Sally and Stephen turn their heads to the shop's backdoor to see Haruko walking out from it with his things. "It's just about closing time and those two are still at it. My word, they're going to run that simulator down to its roots." He turns his head to Kaden and Jason. "Are you two almost done? I got a shop to close and I want to go home before the sun rises!"

"In a minute!" Kaden and Jason respond at the same time.

"Let's finish this, Rex!" Kaden commands as he watches his Navi from the PET screen.

"I'm all for that!" Rex responds. "Time to bust it out?"

Kaden nods. "Time to bust it out!" He digs into his pocket and takes out the red colored battle chip, FireWater, a giga class chip sent to him along with Rex, courtesy from his dad. "FireWater, code M! Battle chip in!" He holds out the chip in the air and slots it into his PET. "Download!"

Rex grips his fist and holds it out in front of him as it starts to glow a warm red light. He lifts the fist up into the air and slams it down to the ground, cracking the soil and liquid hot magma gushing out from the cracks and exploding into the air, covering the battlefield threatening to take everything in its path to oblivion.

Littlefoot gasps and screams as a wall of magma flows toward his direction. He turns tail and runs from the huge wave as fast as he can, trying to avoid from being burnt to a crisp. One touch of that lava and his hit points will dangerously deplete, forcing him to jack out and lose the battle.

But Jason is one step ahead of everyone. He quickly slots in a battle chip and Littlefoot, upon receiving the chip data, stops his running and turns around, leaping right into the wave of lava and disappearing into it. It would seem Littlefoot just committed some sort of suicide to just jump into the lava wave like that, but to Rex's surprise Littlefoot pops out from the other side and shoots a good charged shot from his buster gun at the Navi, the shot hitting straight into his chest, knocking him back and off his feet.

"Aaargh!" He slams hard on the ground and skids before stopping.

"Rex!" Kaden exclaims upon seeing his Navi getting hurt.

Rex rubs his head and looks around. He just landed on a remote patch of ground, the rest of the battlefield covered in lava. Not good. He looks up and screams in surprise to see Littlefoot falling toward him from high up with his left arm as a sword, no doubt from the a Sword battle chip. Littlefoot intents on landing on Rex with his sword for the finishing blow, which should finish the match. And with Rex under him in this position, it's not going to miss.

But just then, all of a sudden, something happens and the two Navis are suddenly jacked out from the machine and tossed right back into their PETs like a bag tossed into a trash can. It was so unexpected that Rex and Litlefoot slam down stomach first into their PETs, dazed from being suddenly thrown out.

"Hey! What gives?" Jason cries as the NetBattle Simulator machine dies down, its power cut out.

Kaden hears a chuckle to his left and turns around, seeing Malory twirling the machine's power cord in her hand. The impatient girl unplugged the machine from its power source and interrupted the match just like that. And Malory's smirk just ticks Kaden off even more. "Malory…!"

Malory just shrugs as she drops the power cord. "What? It is closing time."

Jason sighs. "Aw man, it was so close…"

"Yeah! That wasn't nice, Malory!"

Malory just laughs in response. "You should've thanked me, Kaden! You were about to lose any way!"

Kaden glances at Jason before scratching the back of his head with an embarrassed smirk. He was about to lose, he ran out of chips to protect Rex from that blow. "Yeah well, I could've thought of something to dodge that…" He tries to make an excuse, but failing miserably.

""Hey, Kaden The first step in becoming a good sport is admitting defeat!"" Rex blurts out to lecture Kaden about his excuse.

Kaden flinches and looks into his PET at Rex. "Hey! You're supposed to back me up, not go against me!"

Rex just places his hands on his hips while eyeing at his Operator. ""I'm not going to hide an obvious thing like that just to make myself look tough.""

Kaden just drops his head down in defeat, with his Navi not even backing him up he's just going to get in an even worse situation. The gang couldn't help but laugh at Kaden's little predicament, being shot down like that by his Navi. Haruko, to get everyone's attention, clears his throat rather loudly. "Well, if your NetBattle is over you kids better head on home now, I got to close up shop."

Jason nods as he puts away his PET and battle chips. "Yeah, it's getting late anyway."

Before anyone could get a chance to walk out the door Sally stops them all with an announcement. "Don't forget we're to meet at Garden Area 3 for the grand opening!"

Kaden stops with putting away his battle chips and PET, looking a bit confused. "Uhhh…What grand opening?"

Everyone turn their heads toward Kaden. "Ugh, typical Kaden." Malory comments.

"You don't know about the grand opening?" Haruko inquires.

In the PET at their linked conference page, the NetNavi group are together just like their Operators. "Don't look at me!" Rex blurts out defensively as he holds out his hands to Littlefoot, Spike, Ducky, Petrie and Cera. "I'm new and Kaden hasn't mentioned a thing about it."

Cera sighs as she folds her arms. "I guess I gotta explain it to ya, so listen up! Tomorrow's the grand opening of the Great Valley Square, Garden City's internet city."

"It is going to be a huge and beautiful place for us Navis to hang out, shop and talk to other Navis!" Ducky adds in.

"Not to mention an arena where we can have NetBattles!" Littlefoot adds as he grips his hand into a fist, sounding excited about the arena.

Back in the real world. "Wow! It sounds awesome!" Kaden exclaims as he pumps his fists.

"I can't believe you forgot." Jason comments with an amused look on his face.

"Yeah! It's been mentioned on TV and on the net!" Malory informs with a shame-on-you tone in her voice.

Kaden lowers his head a bit ashamed. He has heard about it a lot, but with the lack of a PET and NetNavi he hasn't paid attention to these kinds of things. "Yeah yeah, I know…"

"Aw give him a break, guys." Silus comments as he walks to the door with Stephen and Sally. "It's not his fault he has a short attention span!"

"Hey!" Kaden snaps from Silus' comment, it's so like Silus to make a joke at someone's expense to cheer up any kind of situation. The comment made the rest of the gang laugh as they all walk through the door, but Kaden wasn't exactly going to stand for this as he runs after them through the door and out to the streets.

Haruko just chuckles from the kids' shenanigans as he picks up his things to close up shop.


Kaden was getting ticked off. He knew he was a bit off with his daily routines and chores, but he sure wasn't expecting his dad to do something about it at this scale.

Just when he was about to eat dinner it started.

""Kaden! Did you wash your hands?""

OK, maybe that wasn't so bad. But let's just say it only got worse.

""Kaden! Clean up after yourself! Don't leave your dishes on the washer like that!""

""Don't leave your socks on the ground like that!""

""Your clothes will get wrinkled if you leave them like that!""

""You forgot to brush your teeth!""

""Don't throw your towel like that!""

Needless to say, Kaden couldn't wait to jump into bed and sleep so he wouldn't have to hear another session of Rex nagging him like that for the rest of the night.

""Uuuuh...Kaden?""

Scratch that. Even when it's time to sleep Rex is still going to keep at it.

""Shouldn't you turn off the computer?""

Kaden peeks his head out from under the covers to the computer desk where the PET is in the PET Customization Center machine recharging its battery. He narrows his eyes and throws the covers over his head again. "It's fine."

""It's going to increases the electric bill. I think you should just turn it off.""

Kaden mumbles, he can't believe what he's hearing. "Rex, its fine! The computer goes into hibernation mode to conserve electricity when it's not being used for five minutes! Now go to sleep…"

Rex crosses his arms as he sits on the floor in the PET, looking a bit worried about the Homari residence's electric bill. "Well, if you say so…"

Little do they know that somewhere deep in the net a powerful virus is acting up. It shakes the ground as it moves about, the ground under its giant foot cracking and snaking along the ground. It roars a roar so potent that anything in its range would get damaged just by its sonic wave. Little viruses from all over scramble to avoid this terrible beast as it makes its way across the net. This powerful virus is of the Sharptooth Generation, a rare T-Rex virus. And it's heading toward the Garden City's network.

It moved without rest thorough the night, not bothering to stop for anything. As the citizens of Garden City slept peacefully during the night this ferocious virus beast crept closer and closer to their network. Humans and Navis peacefully sleep, unaware of the danger getting closer to their network and city.

Soon enough the sun rises in the early morning. The birds begin to chirp and the morning rush for work and errands begin. On the net many people have already jacked their Navis in for the highly anticipated grand opening of the Great Valley Square. Many Navis gather around in certain spots to meet up with friends and family to head out to the grand opening together, and as for Kaden and his friends, that is something they are planning to do. But there's always that little problem…

""KadenKadenKaden…Hey! Kaden Homari!""

Kaden snaps awake from the wake-up call with a jump, falling off his bed and down to the floor.

""Wake up, lazy bones! The sun is up!""

Kaden has his eyes in a dangerous glare as he slowly pulls the covers off of him. The sun has barely gotten up and Rex is already waking him up? Is his internal clock not set properly or something? Kaden slowly gets up to his knees and up to his computer desk, coming face to face with his PET and his Navi inside, taking note of the time in the upper left corner of his PET screen. "You woke me up at 7AM; on a Sunday…You do know that's a crime in my book…"

Rex scratches his cheek in an apologetic manner. ""Sorry, but we did agree to meet up with the others early today for the Great Valley Square's grand opening.""

Kaden suddenly remembers and instantly stands up. "Oh yeah! You're right!" He types into his computer to get it online, going past the login screen of his computer and trying to get it online. Rex waits patiently in his PET as Kaden starts on the preparations. To think that soon he'll actually see an actual internet city being opened for the public to use, a place he can hang out with the others and make new friends.

"That's odd…"

Rex frowns at hearing his Operator say that. ""What? What's wrong?""

Kaden scratches his head as he stares at the error message displaying on his computer screen. "I'm trying to open the link to the net to jack you in, but for some reason I can't get it to connect."

""Maybe I can give it a shot. Jack me in.""

"Okay." Kaden plugs out his PET from the machine and extends the jack-in cable before plugging his PET into his computer terminal. Soon after Rex disappears from the PET and transfers into Kaden's computer.

The winged Navi touches down in the computer and looks around, seeing nothing out of the ordinary. He places his hand in front of him and opens a window with a wag of his finger. He then moves both his hands to the side as two keyboards materialize and he starts typing, trying to get the link to the net open from Kaden's computer.

"Any luck?" Kaden asks as he sits in front of his computer, monitoring Rex from his PET.

Rex shakes his head. "No, it's not going through. I'm gonna try routing it manually." He closes the window and dismisses the keyboards before running down the computer's terminal to check out the link himself to try to route it manually. He stops abruptly as he spots the problem, the portal used to create the link is brutally damaged, the ground nearly broken in two and the link has been cut off by a chasm. "Oh no…Bad news, Kaden. The portal is broken…"

Kaden scratches his head as he tries to figure out what happened. "Hm, must be a problem with the network connection."

The theory sounds odd to Rex. As he examines the damage it's no ordinary network problem. It looks as if it's been destroyed from the inside out; from the net into the port. Something's not right…

Kaden sighs as he puts down the PET. "Well I guess we have no other choice but to head out to Jason's house and go with him and Littlefoot." He was about to jack Rex out when his stomach began to grumble, that says it all, he's hungry. "But first…Something to eat!"

Upon hearing this Rex throws his head up. "Kaden! Shouldn't you email Jason first?" But he was a second too late; Kaden had already dashed out of his room and to the kitchen. The Navi sighs as he rubs his forehead; his Operator is quite a handful to keep in check with his necessities.

While Rex is isolated in the safety of the computer, out there in the network a virus is wreaking havoc with each step it takes, literally. This giant T-Rex Sharptooth virus roams the net, searching for prey, anything it can delete. Every step it takes it corrupts part of the Garden Area network, cracking the ground and deleting everything in its paths. Sharptooth Generation viruses, known for their reckless behavior in diving in to cause trouble and attack Leaf Eater Generation Navis, are actually running away from this giant virus. Hordes of viruses run toward the opposite direction looking for safety, ignoring everything that they come across.

Up ahead of the Sharptooth virus a team of Leaf Eater SpikeTail Navis assemble equipped with the most powerful battle chip datas they could weild. M-Cannons, Magnums, TankCannon3s, even mega class battle chip, SuperVulcan. These Navis are very well armed with formidable firepower. Insignias on their chests represent themselves as official Navis from one of SciLab's defense units.

"The unit is in position." An Operator reports as he sits in front of a server typing commands in.

"We're ready to engage whenever you give the word." A female Operator reports as she sits in front of another server in the room.

The man in charge of the defense nods. "Wait for it…"

The Sharptooth virus roars, making the ground shake and breaking it in two as a crack snakes from under the virus and toward the defense unit. They stagger and almost lose their footing but manage to keep standing, training their weapons fearlessly to the virus. The vicious Sharptooth spots them and growls as it takes another step, creating even more cracks along the ground.

"Now!" The man cries.

"Navis, engage." One of the Operators commands and immediately the Navis pull the trigger, shooting powerful blasts and bullets from their cannons and hitting dead-on against the giant. The battlefield soon starts being covered in dust and clouds as the powerful cannons continue to fire and hitting their targets, disappearing the virus within a cloud of smoke. An incredible display of firepower, but was it enough?

"Continue firing." The man in charge commands. "We cannot let the virus through!"

The cannons continue to fire, striking their deadly firepower against the virus. It seems they are victorious, but things soon take a turn for the worse. The ground under the unit breaks apart from right under them, dropping about four of them into the chasm. The unit jumps from there for distance, but spikes from the ground rises and collide against them. Some of them are impaled into the spikes while others were thrown off to the ground. Those impaled were automatically jacked out to prevent deletion.

"It's no good!" One of the SpikeTail Navis reports. "We gave it everything we got and it's still causing damage!" He's cut off from his report as one of his teammates is blown off across the sky and slamming hard against the ground followed by jacking out. The SpikeTail turns to the smoke and gasps as he spots the Sharptooth virus in the smoke, roaring loudly and shaking the ground. "Unbelievable, the thing is hardly dama-…D…A…Aa…Gh…Ev…At…"

The signal was cut off right before the servers and monitors of the room begin to explode. The people in the room scream and cover their faces from the monitors exploding, everything totaled as the network took massive damage from this lone virus. Just what exactly are they up against?

"Ugh...SpikeTail unit, report!" The man in charge of the defense line demands.

One of the Operators gets up and checks the server, typing in commands and codes into it, but nothing. "I'm afraid the defense line failed…Our servers are down and the network is severely damaged."

The man in charge slams his fist on the table, frustrated. "No…"

The Sharptooth virus sustained damage from some of the most powerful battle chips and it still survived. Just what exactly does this virus possess that makes it so powerful? Just the virus' mere steps generate earthquakes and spikes to rise up from the ground. They have never seen anything like it before, at least nothing close to this scale. They have to do something; they cannot let it come close to the Great Valley Square.

But despite the danger of the virus, it is still far off from where Navi citizens are grouping up for the big hike to the grand opening of the Great Valley Square. It all seems peaceful in this part of Garden City's network, but soon it'll be all shaken up and stirred by the danger slowly approaching.

Littlefoot is happily walking along a road in Garden Area 2 alongside a much taller Longneck Navi. This giant Longneck Navi appears similar to Littlefoot except her shoulder pads are much smaller and her gloves and boots are slicker, more fitting for a female. Instead of a LF insignia in her crest on her chest her insignia is a TreeStar icon. One could say this Navi is Littlefoot's mother, but in reality this Navi is Jason's mother's NetNavi.

Littlefoot looks up at Jason's mother's Navi. "Hey mom, what is it again that Jason's mother wanted us to do?" With the Navi being Jason's mother's, Littlefoot shares a close bond with her to consider her his mother.

Littlefoot's 'mother' looks down at him as they walk down the road. "A recipe data from a friend for a very special meal for Jason." She informs the little Longneck, her voice as loving and soft as a mother. "His birthday is coming soon after all."

Littlefoot snaps his fingers. Of course, Jason's birthday is coming soon after all. How many days for it? A month? Two months? Littlefoot and his mother continue down the road, soon enough finding the link they were looking for.

"This is the link, little one." His mother announces as she looks down at Littlefoot. "It will only take a moment; I'll be back as soon as I can."

Littlefoot nods and watches as the tall Navi walks into the link and transfers out. Before Jason's mother left to do an errand she entrusted Jason with her PET to jack in her Navi to collect a data from her friend. Her Navi kept it a secret that it was a recipe for one of his favorite foods so she could surprise him on his birthday with it. Littlefoot enjoyed spending time with her, so he volunteered to accompany her to her friend's terminal to fetch the recipe data.

""He's late."" Littlefoot heard his Operator, Jason, mutter.

"Hm? Oh, you mean Kaden?"

""Yeah, on the way home I told him specifically at this hour at my homepage but so far nothing.""

"Maybe he overslept as always." Littlefoot giggles a bit from the comment he just made. It's pretty well known Kaden oversleeps for almost anything.

""Well I'm going to try and call him. Be right back.""

Littlefoot nods as his Operator leaves to give his best friend a call. While he does that and his mother is busy fetching the data he looks around the area while wandering about a bit, watching the scenery and taking in on the sights. He rarely goes into this region of Garden Area 2, and everyone knows how much Littlefoot likes to explore. He hears a rustle behind a cyber bush and out pops a little dinosaur virus. Littlefoot is amazed of the virus to be nothing more than a Tinysaurus, a rare Leaf-Eater Generation virus.

"Hey there, little guy." Littlefoot greets the little one with a smile, slowly crouching down and holding his hand out to it. But these viruses are easily startled and just the gesture alone makes the virus chirp in fear and flee, running back into the bush. "Hey wait, I won't hurt you!" Littlefoot crawls to the bush trying to find it, but the virus is fast and is already gone. Littlefoot sighs in disappointment and slowly stands up.

From behind him Littlefoot hears a female chuckle. "Wandering your eyes with your profound curiosity, my dear Littlefoot?"

Littlefoot turns to his mother and giggles while scratching the back of his head. "Aw I just saw a Tinysaurus virus. It ran away from me though."

Littlefoot's mother chuckles. "Ah yes, the ever friendly Tinysauruses."

Littlefoot begins walking back to Jason's homepage along with his mother. "They say if you're nice to them they lead you to rare battle chip data hidden underground."

"Yes, they are quite famous for battle chip hunters and curious Navis." His mother adds. "As rare as they might be, they are quite important to the network's habitat. That's why they're so shy and are told not to attack them."

Littlefoot ponder about that. It's true what she's saying, the Officials have banned Navis from attacking and taking away the Tinysaurus viruses from their natural habitat in the network, but what purpose do they have for the network's habitat. "Well yeah but I don't understand their reasons."

Littlefoot's mother stops and kneels down to Littlefoot, smiling at him. "Like you said, Tinysauruses can lead us to rare battle chip data. They dwell underground in the tunnels underneath, searching and scavenging for stray data and finding chip data as well. In a way they nourish the network with these onslaughts of new data, allowing us to discover new chips and lost information. These elements are what keeps the network up and running."

"I still don't get it." Littlefoot admits as he looks around at the environment, all of it was created from the network to resemble a Jurassic habitat for the NetNavis, how can all of this come from the aid of the Tinysauruses? "I mean, stray data and chip data, I know. But how can it all help the network?"

Littlefoot's mother smiles and slowly stands up. "You may not see it with your eyes, but deep within the heart it is visible."

Littlefoot scratches his head as he tries to make out what his mother actually means. She chuckles from the little one's puzzled expression before continuing on walking back home. "One day, you'll see."

Littlefoot smiles and nods, he has always trusted the words of his mother, they always turn out to be true. The two Longneck Navis continue walking back to Jason's homepage while in the real world Jason is busy on the phone calling up his best friend, who's late as usual.

"So he's not at his computer yet?"

On the other line, Kaden's mother is on the phone speaking. "No, he's eating his breakfast as we speak. Although he told me the network connection is strangely broken down."

Jason arches an eyebrow, finding this a bit unusual. "Connection's broken? That's odd; both our houses are connected to the same network connection and mine's working fine."

Kaden's mother finds this odd too. "Must be a bug or something in his computer. I'll have a technician take a look at it soon."

Jason nods on his end before scratching his head. "So I guess he won't be there for the grand opening, huh?"

"Well actually he did say he was coming over to your house for that."

As Jason and Kaden's mother kept talking on the phone Kaden is hard at work eating his breakfast, just about to finish with it. He silently thanks the heavens as he eats that Rex isn't there with him, otherwise he would continue his nagging from last night like washing his hands before eating and pacing himself with his food. He looks to the kitchen where his mother is talking on the phone and stops his eating as he watches the microwave acting strange, like a bunch of static lighting up the dark inside of it. He finds this odd, this isn't normal at all. It continues for a while before stopping, puzzling the boy even more about its strange behavior. Couldn't be a virus otherwise it would've continued and exploded by now. Something's going on in the Garden City Network all right.

Suddenly the microwave's door flies open as even more static erupts from inside of it. The dishwasher also blows a fuse as its door flies open. All of this prompts Kaden to stand up, completely forgetting about his breakfast. The house's alarm system's control panel starts beeping as it too starts emanating static.

All of this startles Ms. Homari as she suddenly turned around upon hearing all of this mess. She suddenly remembers Jason on the phone and brings it to her ear, horrified to realize she hears nothing but static. "Jason? Jason, are you there?" She turns to the phone's base and taps the flash button a few times, but to avail, nothing but static.

"What the heck is going on?" Kaden asks to no one in particular as everything connected to the network goes haywire. The microwave burns up in static, the flat-screen TV blows up, the lights and lamps in the house starts going on and off, overloading the bulbs as some of them explode.

"Hello? Hello?" Jason cries into his end of the phone, hearing nothing but silence before the line's interruption beep starts beeping. Jason slowly removes the phone from his ear and looks at it before hanging it up.

Rex, who's still in Kaden's computer, looks out at the broken link to the network, unsure as to what could've caused this. He throws his head up to the sky as he hears a rather loud roar, causing the cyber sky to turn colors for a moment from the roar's static. Something is out there…

The roar echoed through the whole area, startling Littlefoot and his mother. They turn around to face the network behind them, seeing nothing out of the ordinary. "What was that?" Littlefoot asks.

His mother shakes his head, unsure. "I do not know, little one."

They continue staring at the distance, waiting for anything to show up to answer their questions. But nothing shows up to even give them a hint. Littlefoot turns to his mother, "I'm going to check it out."

This should come as no surprise to his mother, Littlefoot was always one to jump in to check things that tickle his curiosity whether dangerous or not. But from hearing a roar like that, she believes she shouldn't let him go. And she responds with a shake of her head, "No Littlefoot, stay here with- Littlefoot!"

Littlefoot was already running off, once he sets his mind to do something there's no stopping him. As much as he respects his mother this is something he feels he can't ignore. I'm sorry mother, he apologizes in his head.

But he has no idea what he's going up against now. For whatever did that roar is already making a mess in one section of the city. Kaden coughs as he covers his mouth and nose from the smoke coming from the appliances that have blown up. He's not hurt at least, but there's too much smoke in the house. He walks over to a window and opens it, letting the smoke out as he sticks his head out and coughs as he tries to breathe clean air. "Mom, are you okay?" He asks as he comes back in and walks over to her to help her out.

Ms. Homari coughs as she opens the window in the kitchen, letting smoke to escape from their home and let some air in. "I'm fine, Kaden. Just a bit startled."

Kaden sighs in relief, but his relief was short-lived as he suddenly remembers his computer. "Rex!" He makes a dash upstairs and to his room, horrified to find out the air conditioner in his room has also blown a fuse and blew up, filling his room with smoke. He covers his mouth and dives for his bed, opening the window next to it and letting the smoke out.

""Kaden! Are you all right?""

Kaden is relieved to hear his Navi's voice. He dashes to his computer and finds Rex is all right. "Yeah, I'm fine."

""What happened? I heard a roar coming from the net and then I saw your room full of smoke.""

"I don't know, suddenly everything started to blow up." Kaden coughs again as the room is still full of smoke.

As they're talking about what's happening back in the net Littlefoot is investigating the cause of the roar. He's suddenly caught off guard as a hopper virus pops out from a hole on the ground and jumps in front of him, causing the Navi to scream in shock as he falls back. As he rubs his head he sees the hopper on his chest, staring at him with no desire to move.

"Shoo!" Littlefoot swats the hopper away, it jumps and heads back into the hole, disappearing deep into the ground.

"Hey! I was chasing that hopper!"

Littlefoot smiles as he recognizes the voice. He slowly sits up and spots none other than Cera coming over to him, but she does not look happy. She glares down at Littlefoot as she folds her arms. "Well I hope you're happy! Because of you I now lost my chance to get that hopper's chip data!"

"Why you want a BubbleRay chip data?" Littlefoot asks as he gets up to his feet. "Those chips aren't that rare and powerful."

"Hmph," Cera snorts. "Shows how much you know! Hopper viruses can also carry the SweetBubble chip data!"

Littlefoot blinks; a bit embarrassed he forgot that little fact. "Oh, right…"

The hopper viruses are one of the gentlest viruses in the virus list. They tend to show up when you least expect them, hopping around and just minding their own business. Due to their data structure they tend to generate chip data into their bodies from time to time, usually common and weak battle chips like BubbleRay and BubblyGoo, but they also rarely generate rare chip data like SweetBubble, a recovery battle chip that recovers 30 percent of the Navi's hit points and heal status ailments like blind and poison. But if you want to try out your luck in finding these chips, you gotta catch one first and extract the chip data.

The ground soon begins to shake as a thundering boom echoes through the area, startling the two Navis. A roar echoes through the air and the ground under the two of them cracks, almost breaking in two. "What the heck was that?" Cera asks as she nearly falls to the ground.

They soon hear loud footsteps, the ground under them becoming unstable and the sky turning colors as the network starts to malfunction. This scares the two of them as they look around, staying alert. Soon enough a Sharptooth virus comes up but runs past them instead of attacking, looking startled. More and more viruses begin to show up and run away past the two Navis, running for dear life from something. And then, Cera saw it: A towering creature going right for them.

"Sharptooth!" Cera screams.


"Rex!"

Rex nods and transfers himself back into his PET. Kaden had to check this out, he could hear other appliances in the neighborhood exploding and going haywire. Beeps and explosions from the homes, people screaming in terror as their machines blow up and malfunction. Kaden grabs his PET and jams it into its carrying case on his waist, grabs his battle chip holster and places them all in it and straps it to his wristband. He already changed from his sleeping clothes to his casual clothes: a pair of long black jeans, a short sleeved red shirt with a black backside and a long sleeved gray shirt underneath it. His long hair combed back and tied in a pony-tail.

"With our connection to the net out, we gotta find another place to jack in." Kaden informs his Navi.

Rex nods. ""To Jason's house.""

Without skipping a beat Kaden runs out of his house and down the street, running toward his best friend's house. From outside he can clearly see more damage from whatever is going on. Stoplights blinking from red to green repeatedly, streetlights going on and off, televisions and appliances blowing up and catching fire, it's a network crisis! First things first, he has to check if Jason is all right and then check on the others.

But Jason has it rough enough. The TV and lamp in his home has blown up and caught fire, blocking the path to his house's second floor and to his room. Jason coughs as he's stuck, smoke threatening to choke him out. He can either get outside or try to brave the smoke and fire, but either way he can't leave Littlefoot and his mother's Navi unattended in the network in his room.

But as if things couldn't get any worse, Littlefoot and Cera are on the net running for their lives as a T-Rex virus is chasing them. The two Navis are horrified that with every step the virus takes it actually damages the ground and cracks it, threatening to break the ground in two. This is extremely bad, this virus is powerful enough as it is and Littlefoot and Cera can't face off against it with their buster cannons. Cera wishes Malory was here instead of leaving her on the net to gather with the others while she ran a quick errand for her dad. Without their Operators they can't use battle chips.

"It's gaining! Hurry!" Littlefoot screams at Cera as she brings up the rear.

"I'm trying!" Cera replies as she tries her best to run. The Sharptooth roars and brings its snout down to bite into them, luckily missing them by inches. Its snout sinks deep into the ground, cracking the ground and sending the two Navis flying with a scream and falling down a hill and into a cyber thorn growth. The two Navis grunt and scream in pain as the fall through it damages them by the thorns, each thorn stabbing them taking away two or three hit points per.

The two of them slam hard on the ground, surrounded by thorns. They slowly sit up with a groan as they rub their injuries; that was some fall. Cera slowly opens her eyes and spots a hopper virus in front of her. "A hopper!" She happily cries as she dives onto the virus, catching it before it gets away. "Got it!"

But Littlefoot is too distracted from the Sharptooth virus, wondering from where it'll dive into them. He looks around, trying to see it through the thorns while Cera is too busy scanning her hopper in an attempt to find any rare chip data. All of a sudden Littlefoot spots a giant mouth lunging at them, slamming through the thorns and almost biting Littlefoot. The Longneck screams and backs off as the bite nearly missed him.

"Aw right!" Cera shouts in victory as she holds a data orb in her hand, oblivious to what's happening. "I told you they carried SweetBubble chip data! This one had one!" With a grin she opens a folder in front of her and stores the data in it. "Can't wait to show Malory!"

"Run!" Littlefoot shouts as he turns around and pushes Cera to run as the Sharptooth virus slices the thorn growth into pieces with its foot and claws, searching for the two Navis it's looking to dine on. It roars loudly as it spots them and gives chase again, destroying the cyber growth with its massive foot and claws, apparently not getting damaged by the thorns.

Littlefoot and Cera continue running through the growth and stop in their tracks as they find two directions to which to go. They look down each direction as they catch their breath, deciding on which to go. "This way." Littlefoot points to the left. "Jason's network portal is that way; if we get to it we should be safe from the virus."

Cera looks down to the right. "Malory's port is over there! C'mon!"

Littlefoot sees Cera run to the right and runs after her. "Wait! Cera! Her port is much farther than Jason's! Come back!"

But Cera was too into her running away to her Operator's port, she just kept running as her heart beats rapidly against her chest. As much as she wants to delete this virus, she won't stand a chance unless Malory is with her to back her up with chips. By now the whole network is a mess with its ground almost cracked in two, spires popping out from the ground and damaging power columns and other network links. Hundreds of viruses in the area run for their lives as the Navis jack out and run for cover. Many of them can't believe this is happening. The entire network is suffering heavy damage, it's about to break in two!

The calamity is also happening in the real world as well. Appliances exploding and catching fire, streetlights going haywire, it's like something out of a horror movie.

"Man, this is insane!" Kaden shouts to no one in particular as he runs down the streets of Garden City. He stops and covers his face as the electronic shop's window in front of him shatters from the televisions behind it explodes.

""The whole city is in chaos, Kaden!"" Rex reports as he watches a digital map in the PET, seeing the damages in the whole city. ""Electronic appliances connected to the network are exploding and catching fire. It's like the network of the city is breaking!"" Rex suddenly feels alarmed and blurts out. ""Kaden, behind you!""

Kaden is taken off-guard from Rex's warning. Behind him? The boy looks over his shoulder and screams as a car is losing control and heading right for him! Showing off his athletic side Kaden jumps to the shattered window in front of him and propels himself off of the bottom border, flying into the electronic shop and out of harm's way as the car crashes into the building. Indeed, the whole city is in chaos.

""Kaden! Are you okay? Answer me, Kaden!""

Kaden slowly gets up from the floor, after launching himself into the store dodging a car his landing wasn't exactly as smooth as he would've hoped. "I'm fine…"

But things aren't so fine in the network. Littlefoot and Cera are still running for dear life from the Sharptooth virus responsible for all this disaster. Their luck runs out though as they just ran into a dead-end. A chasm lies in front of them, no doubt a huge damage to the network caused by the Sharptooth in his rampage through the net. The two Navis turn around to face the Sharptooth towering over them. They have no choice but to virus bust out of this. They change their arms to their buster weapons, training them up at the Sharptooth. The virus was about to attack them when a massive tail slams hard against its face, knocking it down to the ground.

Littlefoot turns his head to their savior. "Mother!"

Littlefoot's mother has shown up to save the two of them; her massive tail powerful enough to slam the virus down to the ground and her buster weapon at the ready. Littlefoot's mother is tall enough to stand a chance against the Sharptooth virus, but considering she isn't a fighter class Navi, this could pose a problem. She looks down at the two Navis, "Littlefoot, run!"

Littlefoot looks at the Sharptooth as it struggles to stand up. He wishes he wouldn't have to leave her to face the Sharptooth alone, but there's no other choice, he doesn't stand a chance. He nods and grabs Cera's arm as he runs away from there, taking Cera with him.

As the two giants battle, the real world is still suffering from the damage to the network. Just recovering from the mere dodge Kaden is fully on the move toward Jason's house. With all the carnage surrounding him it has not been easy getting to his friend's house, with cars paralyzed on the streets, the sidewalk riddled with glass and parts from destroyed machines, it's a wonder Kaden is even able to move.

"Excuse me. Gangway. Pardon me." Kaden tries to move through crowds of people paralyzed and moving about from the horrid moments. People are confused on what to do, others are frantic with their PETs trying to contact their Navis on the net while others are trying to find their loved ones and checking to see if they're all right.

""It's horrible, Kaden."" Rex comments as he peaks his head out from the corner of his PET, a bit frightened about what's happening. ""Everyone is at a loss on what to do, there are many people hurt and Navis gone missing.""

"I know I know! This is insane!" Kaden stops his running, he's not going to be able to cross this street with all these cars stopped in the way. The streetlights are still malfunctioning and the traffic doesn't show any signs of moving along. "How am I going to cross through this?"

""Maybe we should just head back home and wait this out."" A sudden explosion of a streetlight startles Rex, prompting the Navi into hiding off-screen of the PET. ""Eegh!""

Kaden covers his head from the flying glass and shards from the broken streetlight. If one is jacked into the network he can clearly see what's going on. The Sharptooth virus tries to bite Littlefoot's mother, but the Navi steps back to avoid the bite and slams her tail against the virus, knocking it down once again. The Sharptooth snarls and gets up with a stomp, cracking the ground even more and causing huge spires to spike out. Littlefoot's mother steps back to avoid the spires, but one spikes out from behind her and strikes her back with a loud thud, almost toppling her to the ground.

Littlefoot and Cera watch from a close distance, watching as the battle scars the network with the Sharptooth virus' each steps. Littlefoot wishes he could help, but this virus is way out of his league, he won't even cause it to flinch. He ponders where his Operator is, something must've happen for Jason to take this long to get back. And he couldn't be any further from the truth, right now Jason is slowly succumbing to the lack of oxygen as his house is full of smoke from the fire. He tried to put it out but the lack of oxygen has been making it difficult.

A window in his home shatters, helping the smoke in flowing out of the house. Jason is helped up to his head with his arm over his rescuer's shoulder, aiding him in walking closer to the window to help him breathe.

"Jason, are you okay?" Kaden asks as he helps his friend up and to the window. "Jason, speak to me!"

Jason coughs and manages to breathe in clean air, allowing his composure to return. He slowly opens his eyes and looks at Kaden with a slight smile. "Yeah…Thanks…"

Kaden smiles back at his friend as he helps him walk outside of the house allowing him to take in huge amounts of clean oxygen. He coughs again as he's laid down on his knees to the ground, coughing out anything bad he inhaled. He slowly tries to get up, worried about Littlefoot and his mother's Navi. "Littlefoot…He's still inside…"

Kaden looks back inside the house, seeing the smoke pouring out from the door. He saw the fire inside blocking the path to Jason's room; he saw it burning out as he helped Jason out of the house. Littlefoot is without a doubt in the room. He nods at his friend. "I'll go get him." Kaden takes out his PET and looks at Rex inside. "Rex, I'm leaving you with Jason. You two call for help, all right?"

Rex nods. ""Roger, Kaden.""

Kaden nods back and hands his PET over to Jason before running into the house, covering his mouth and nose with the sleeve of his shirt to protect himself from the smoke. The fire is still burning, but it's slowly dying down. He searches in the kitchen and finds a mini-fire extinguisher. With this he'll be able to put out the fire. And he better hurry too, things are horrible on the net.

Jason coughs a bit more while trying to get up. ""Take it easy, Jason. You're still drowsy."" Rex comments to Jason.

However Jason ignores the comment, looking at Rex in the PET. "Rex…Can you locate…My mom?"

Rex blinks, unsure. ""Well, I suppose I can if she has a GPS system.""

"Her car has one, use that."

Rex nods. "Okay." He looks to his left and holds his arm out as under his hand a window pops up with a global map of Garden City. Rex moves his hand to the side of the window to open a keyboard and types on it, searching on the map. It didn't take long to find the GPS tracking system of Jason's mother's car. "I found her! Road A-2, north from here about a twenty minute run."

Jason nods. "Thanks." With that he runs north to that specific road to find his mother. While in the house Kaden managed to put out the fire with the extinguisher, although the little extinguisher ran out of fluid just as the fire was put out. Piece of junk, Kaden cursed. He throws the extinguisher aside and runs up the stairs to Jason's room. Unaware that in the net a furious battle between the Sharptooth virus and Littlefoot's mother is well underway.

Littlefoot's mother shoots at the Sharptooth with her buster weapon, but it barely made a scratch as the Sharptooth roars, the ground breaking in two between the Sharptooth and Littlefoot's mother. The ground literally moves, splitting the network in two in a huge radius, separating Navis from friends and Operators. The earthquake was powerful enough to trip Littlefoot and Cera off their feet and to the ground, to their dismay being separated from Littlefoot's mother and now stuck with the Sharptooth.

"Oh man!" Cera cries as she looks down the huge cliff. "One false move and we'll fall to our deletion!"

Littlefoot backs off in a scare. "Nevermind that, worry about him!"

The Sharptooth was on their side, and it's ready to attack them. It roars again and jumps to crush the Navis and delete them with its claws, but in the nick of time Littlefoot's mother jumps and saves the two Navis, but at a horrible cost. The Sharptooth slammed down on her, its claws piercing into her back and pinning her to the ground, the slam hard enough to shatter the ground under Littlefoot's mother and horribly damaging her. She screams as the horrifying pain surges through her back, the damage extremely intense, something anyone would be deleted from.

"Mother!" Littlefoot screams in anguish as he just witnessed his mother being crushed under the Sharptooth, the tears almost escaping from his eyes.

""Hey you! Get off of her!""

The unknown voice caught the Sharptooth's attention, suddenly making it forget about the Longneck Navi under it. As it turned its head it suddenly got a rather mediocre shot on its face, about enough to make its head whip to the side. Littlefoot stands there with a Cannon on his arm; somebody just downloaded a Cannon battle chip.

Littlefoot looks up, recognizing the voice. "Kaden!"

"Hang tough, Littlefoot!" Kaden encourages as he made it to Jason's room and now holding Jason's PET with a battle chip in his other hand. "Here's some more backup!" He immediately slots the chip, a Cannon code B.

Littlefoot's other arm morphs into a cannon. Angry with what this Sharptooth virus has done with his mother, he holds both arms forward and shoots at the Sharptooth's face with both of them. Cannon is a battle chip with an attack power of forty per hit; Littlefoot must make each shot count to make a dent. To his dismay the Sharptooth is barely flinching although it is wincing from the shots to the face, but not budging from on top of Littlefoot's mother.

Kaden is surprised and terrified. Such an onslaught to the face and the virus isn't even flinching. Two Cannons shooting at it at once, how is it not even facing it? Littlefoot stops shooting as he notices it isn't working.

"What?" Cera is also shocked by this. "The stupid virus isn't even down?"

Littlefoot takes a step back, petrified as the virus is still intact with hardly any scratches. Exactly what is this virus they're facing?

"No way…" Kaden mutters. He fumbles through Jason's collection of battle chips, but none of them are good enough to his eyes that would do a thing. He finds another Cannon chip, code C. If two barely made it wince, then maybe three would make it flinch and move off of the Longneck Navi. Kaden has no choice but to try it. "Littlefoot! Fight on!" He cries as he closes his eyes and jams in the Cannon chip.

Suddenly the third chip data began to react with the other two chip data. Littlefoot gasps as he feels a phenomenal power in his hands; a power that made him place both his hands together. Soon a glowing cube covers his hands to his wrist, glowing in a light-blue light. To Littlefoot it felt soothing, warm.

"Wha-What's going on?" Littlefoot asks to no one in particular as the glow dies down, to his surprise seeing both his hands fused together in a rather heavy square-looking green gun with four muzzles. Littlefoot could feel the power in this mysterious weapon. A power so deadly he felt he could take on this Sharptooth and delete it on the spot and save his mother.

Cera was left speechless upon seeing this phenomenon. Even Kaden is left with his jaw on the floor before sporting a grin. "All right! I don't know what this is, but it looks powerful!"

Littlefoot nods and glares at the Sharptooth. "Get off of my mother!" With that cry he pulls the trigger and the gun fires. Four powerful shots fire from it and collide directly against the Sharptooth. Its power was enough to send the Sharptooth flying back and off its feet, colliding hard against the ground. The powerful recoil of the cannon fire pushed Littlefoot off his feet and collides hard against Cera, the two Navis slamming against the boulder behind them.

Kaden was left speechless after seeing such a powerful attack. He has never seen anything like it. To see it succeed where the Cannon battle chips failed, it was awesome! Cera and Littlefoot slowly get up, that was some smack against the boulder. But whatever that was wore Littlefoot out, he fell to his knees and almost down flat on his face.

But the ordeal was not over. The attack was powerful but it wasn't enough to delete the virus. To everyone's shock the Sharptooth slowly gets up with just a few scratches. This Sharptooth…What is it made of?

Now angry the Sharptooth roars louder than before, creating a sonic wave that triggers the strongest earthquake the network has ever suffered. Huge chasms and cliffs are formed as the ground breaks apart, severing connections from servers and terminals in the real world. Anything falling into the chasm is instantly lost, their fate unknown.

"Agh!" Kaden cries as he covers his face from the explosion of the computer monitor. He looks at the PET screen but is shocked to see a screen of static. His connection with Littlefoot has been cut off. "Littlefoot! Are you okay? C'mon, answer me! Littlefoot!"

But it is all in vain. The huge separation of the network in two is disconnecting any kind of connection between two things that are separated on each side of the chasm. With the Navis separated from the main ground from where their designated computer ports are, any connection to their PETs is cut off.

As the ground shakes from the devastating earthquake, the Sharptooth makes its way to attack the Navis that have shot it so. The two Navis cornered and terrified they hug each other as there is no way to escape. Just when it seemed to be the end a massive tail swings and slams hard against the Sharptooth's face, knocking it away and, to everyone's relief, falls down the cliff and down the chasm, its fate unknown.

The one who toppled the giant down was none other than Littlefoot's mother, she managed to get up and deliver the final blow that was needed to take the virus down. But even with the virus gone the network was still shaking, not showing any signs of stopping. The three Navis stumble their way away from the edge of the cliff, trying to find a way to cross the chasm. But to their dismay the network was basically broken in two. And their respective computer ports are on the other side.

As things go horrible bad in the net, Jason is nearly out of breath as he ran the whole way to road A-2 of Garden City in search of his mother. He was shocked and terrified to see the condition of the city from whatever happened in the city's network, and he wasn't going to stop to figure it out, he needs to see if his mother is all right.

""Jason! Over there!"" Rex points out from within the PET, prompting Jason to stop and look to his left. He's horrified at the sight of a devastating car accident, no doubt from the malfunctioning streetlights. As much as we wish for our family not to be involved in car accidents we hear on the news channel, Jason wasn't so fortunate. For one of the cars in the accident belongs to none other than Jason's mother.

"Mom!" Jason cries as he runs over to the scene of the accident.

"Mother!" Littlefoot cries as he runs over to his mother. The towering Navi fell against a boulder, exhausted and in agony from the massive wound the Sharptooth virus inflicted on her. He was lucky the earthquake didn't separated him from her, they lost Cera sometime after the spikes began to protrude from the ground, separating them from walls made from the network's crust.

Littlefoot stares in horror as the decimated data flow out of his mother's wounds, a sign that usually means deletion is not far off. Despite the wound Littlefoot urges her to get up, even going as far as trying to help her by pushing her off. "C'mon mother, get up…You got to…"

His mother groans in pain, "I…I don't think I can…" She tries to get up but almost immediately fails, falling back to the ground.

"Don't say that…" Littlefoot comments in anguish, unable to bear seeing her like this. "It's…It's going to okay, all right? I just got to find Cera and ask her to give up that SweetBubble data chip she found to heal you up. You're going to get better, mother. You will…"

His mother smiles, oh if it were that easy. If she had the Navi Custom program, UndrShrt, it would've saved her enough for Littlefoot's idea to work, but to their dismay she does not carry such program, and the shred in the network has separated them from their computer's port, preventing her from jacking out to her PET. "My dear Littlefoot…" She manages to speak in a weak but willing voice.

Back in the real world Jason made it to the scene of the accident. He gasps and covers his mouth in shock to see that her mother is in her totaled car, badly wounded and pinned in the wreckage. His mother is still alive and stirs, lifting her head off of the car's wheel and seeing his son looking down at her.

"Do you know the way to the Great Valley Square?"

Jason tries his best to move some of the wreckage to set her free, but the twisted and shredded debris is too much, some of them can't be moved with bare hands. He managed to get some bystanders to help him with the wreckage in an attempt to save her, but even in group effort it is useless.

"Of course I do, mother. As a ceremony for the grand opening they have installed landmarks over the network to guide us to the square."

Jason stops his attempts at the moment to catch his breath. He looks into the wreckage and urges his mother to hold on as help arrives. Jason desperately takes out the PET and pleads Rex to call for help through the net.

"But it doesn't matter if I remember, because you're coming with me. Even if I have to carry you…Somehow…"

Rex agrees and Jason jacks into the still working GPS system in the decimated car, immediately transporting the Navi into the network to signal out for help in the area. But instead of a working network to call for help, Rex is flabbergasted to find a completely demolished network, practically split in two as if a humongous earthquake destroyed it all.

"My dear Littlefoot…I will always be with you…Even if you can't see me…Just listen to your heart…"

Jason keeps his mother company as good civilians try their best to help the victims in the car crash, going up against all odds to save the souls of those injured in the accident.

As Jason reaches in and grabs his mother's hand, Littlefoot does the same in the net with his mother. But just then, almost at the same time, both hands go limp and slowly fall off of their sons' hands, sending a strong blow to both of their hearts knowing that their mothers have perished.

Littlefoot stares as his mother slowly disintegrates into particles of data and rising up into the sky, disappearing as the data returns to the network. With tears in his eyes Littlefoot slowly looks at his hand that held his mother's hand as it still holds a pixel of data from his mother and slowly disappears into his hand. Unknown to the Longneck Navi the crest on his chest reacts to this phenomenon as it faintly glows, unnoticeable. As Littlefoot then stares at the ground where his mother once laid, Jason is left paralyzed staring in disbelief at his dead mother's body, tears rolling down his cheeks.

"Littlefoot!" Kaden shouts as he's still in Jason's room desperately tapping away at the buttons on the PET, trying to get an answer, a signal, anything at all from his best friend's Navi. "Littlefoot! Are you there? Answer me, Littlefoot! Littlefoot? LITTLEFOOOOOOOOOOOOT!"


"Oh my God…" Bull's Operator, Oda, expresses in complete shock.

Netra is just as shocked as Oda is. "Whoa, that is one mean virus…"

The members of HTTP are now in Master Doppler's lab viewing something in his giant terminal monitor. The monitor shows replays of what the professor managed to record of the Sharptooth virus before the powerful virus destroyed his bug program in its rampage. The members themselves are horribly spooked of the power this virus possesses. It created an amount of damage that a net mafia dreams of accomplishing in its lifetime.

"That's quite a powerful virus…" Zill's operator, Akira, acknowledges.

Oda shakes his head. "Such a virus couldn't have been created by any error or hacker."

"Of course not you fools." The professor steps forward, also looking at the replays of the virus' rampage. "The perfect program of destruction! The ultimate virus! Remnant of the Project!"

"Remnant of the Project?" Akira echoes with an arched eyebrow. He scoffs a bit as he turns his head back to the monitor. "So this is what the boss is looking for?"

"One of them, yes." Doppler stops the replays to have a still picture of the virus, a scary and menacing still of the Sharptooth virus, a look as if it would leap out of the monitor and tear them apart at any moment. Doppler chuckled and slowly began to laugh manically at the view of the powerful virus. The destruction it created; the carnage and chaos it spread in the city. Everything the HTTP ever hoped to do and more.

Akira, Oda and Netra look at each other as the scientist laughs from the intoxicating destruction of the network. They gotta admit it's an impressive sight the amount of damage it did, and with that kind of power they can get anything they want. There would be little resistance. But still, to try to get close to that thing and capture it after seeing what it can do? That's a bit insane.

"So you actually want us to capture that thing?" Netra inquires the professor.

The professor, in response, simply shakes his head. "Not at the moment…All in due time…"


"In today's top story: Garden City lies in ruins. What can be described as history's most terrifying network tragedy has struck the peaceful city of Garden City. Millions of electronic appliances connected to the Garden City Network have suddenly exploded while others have experienced severe malfunctions. Streetlights have malfunctions and have caused numerous car accidents, many are injured and there are confirmed casualties. As for the status of the Garden City's Network, Officials have scoured the scene and, to everyone's horror, find the network in total ruins. A humongous crater has split the network in two, interrupting and refusing anything on the other side to connect to their respective appliances and PETs. Hundreds of Navis have already reported missing. With the network in ruins and a handful of stray data flowing in cyberspace it would take hours for the Officials to scan and identify the data to discover which Navis have been deleted and which Navis are still alive. This is, without a doubt, the worst network disaster since the incident ten years ago."

Haruko turned off the television in his shop. He's just about sick of listening to this disaster. His shop was one of the lucky ones that were spared from any exploding appliances, although most of his machines are toast from the network overload. His NetBattle Simulators aren't working anymore and his cash register has blown a fuse. Under these circumstances no one can make business, so every shop in the city is closed down even those that weren't affected. In the shop hangs Malory, Stephen, Silus, Sally and Kaden, all of them together and glad to be okay and free of any injuries.

"I can't believe this is happening…" Stephen comments as he's sitting on the floor, his back resting against the wall. "The whole network, destroyed just like that."

Silus sighs as he's taking a seat. "And what's worse, our Navis are out there, lost and scared."

The whole gang had the misfortune of jacking their Navis into the network before this disaster started. And after the earthquake that split the network in two they all lost contact of their respective Navis, unable to jack them out or even know if they're alive. Kaden was the only one who didn't have his Navi jacked in at the time, all due to the network port from his computer destroyed.

Sally looks the saddest and hurt of them all, worried sick about her Navi, Ducky. "Ducky…"

Kaden sighs deeply as he leans over the counter; he's more worried about Jason at the moment. After a couple of hours of searching for him he found him near a car wreck with the rest of the police and ambulance. He was like a mute person; he wouldn't even tell him what happened. It wasn't until he recovered his PET from him that Rex told him what happened. Kaden tried to comfort his friend but he just pushed him away, urging him to leave him alone. Kaden just walked away and left him time alone.

"Argh, I can't believe it!" Malory spat out, showing her anger and grabbing everyone's attention. "Why weren't we warned or something? How can you miss a monstrosity like that coming?"

Everyone stayed quiet; they all know to let Malory alone to blow off steam rather than trying to calm her down. When Malory is this angry, it's best to leave her alone.

"I mean, c'mon! It messed up the network this badly and we didn't get a warning from the Officials!" Malory was holding back tears, worried sick about Cera. She tried to blow it out with anger and shouts. "I can't believe this…"

The store was in silence after Malory calmed down. What else is there to talk about other than their missing Navis and the unexpected passing of Jason's mother? Kaden sighs as he looks over at his PET, seeing Rex depressed as well as he sits there on-screen with his head slightly bowed down. Rex told Kaden how he saw the network, all battered up and in ruins. Many Navis have been confirmed to been deleted in the disaster, and there are many more missing. Kaden also remembers the virus he saw when he got to Littlefoot, the giant Sharptooth virus. Kaden blinks and digs into his pocket, pulling out three battle chips: Cannon code A, Cannon code B, and Cannon code C. He took the code C Cannon from Jason's folder until he figures out exactly what happened back there. When he downloaded the code C Cannon, the two cannons on each of Littlefoot's arms combined into a powerful one, one that managed to blow away the Sharptooth virus.

""Kaden?"" Rex calls to his Operator, getting his attention. ""What's the matter? You've been staring at those chips with a lot of interest.""

Kaden grips the chips in his fist before looking at Rex again. "Well…Just something that happened…You see, I downloaded these three chips to Littlefoot and…Well, it's like they combined into a much more powerful data."

Rex looks a bit surprised from what Kaden told him. Three chips combined into one powerful attack? ""That's weird, I never heard of such a thing.""

"Me neither…" He stares at the battle chips again before storing them into his pack. "It's not the time for that now, though." He takes his PET and stands up straight, turning his head to the others. "Guys, I'm off."

Malory turns her head to Kaden upon hearing him. "Totally. You've been zoned out by yourself in that corner since you got here."

Kaden flinches from Malory's remark and responds a bit annoyed. "No! I meant I'm going into the net to find your Navis!"

Stephen's eyes widen and he quickly gets up from sitting down on the floor. "Are you crazy? The Officials have told everybody to stay off the net until all of this is resolved! If you send Rex out there he could get lost or even deleted!"

Kaden shakes his head, already determined on his decision. "As crazy as it might sound I'm still going." He smiles and looks into his PET. "Right, Rex?"

Rex nods. ""Yeah. I'm okay with this.""

Silus scratches his cheek, unsure about the idea. "But uhhh…The net is a huge area, especially Garden Area. How are you going to find them?"

Kaden opens his mouth to answer, but maybe he spoke too soon and closes his mouth. Silus' right, he has absolutely no idea on where to begin the search. With the network split in two, he'd have to find a place to jack in to reach both ends since going over the chasm is absolutely impossible.

Knowing the predicament Rex suggests a place to start. ""We could start our search from where you last saw Littlefoot, Kaden.""

"But the net is still unstable." Stephen suddenly blurts out, still trying to get Kaden out of his plan. "I mean, you're still new to all of this, you're not exactly…Um…"

"What he means is that you're not good enough."

Everyone in the room turn to the main door where a person is standing by the entrance with the door wide open. This person is a black haired female, wearing a dark blue suit with a thick belt around her waist with her PET holster.

"Hmph, took the words right out of my mouth…" Malory mutters.

Haruko steps out from behind the counter to attend the girl. "Can I help you?"

The girl looks at Haruko with a stern look. "You can start by confiscating the boy's PET." She reaches to her PET and holds it out, showing off an emblem on the screen with some other information. "Kiraa Masako, official member of Net Saviour."

""Net Saviour?""Rex inquires; he is fairly new to the world after all.

Silus explains for the Navi. "Net Saviour; a special group of Net Agents whose job is to protect the network. They're good; they usually get dispatched when the situation is at its worst."

"And still you people are too late to do anything about what happened today!" Apparently Malory is still steamed about the incompetence of the Officials to even issue out a warning.

"I apologize for that," Kiraa begins as she walks into the store. "But the virus rampaged through our network first and destroyed any means to issue out a warning. By the time we got dispatched the virus already found its way to the Garden Area." She stops in the middle of the room and looks around, seeing everything in order other than busted Simulators and a broken register. "We're doing safety checks in every building, as I see this one was a lucky one."

"Just a messed up register and broken simulators." Kaden informs the Net Saviour official.

She nods, understanding the damages. "Very well then, at least no injuries." She turns her head to look at Kaden. The look alone kind of sends a shiver down Kaden's spine, he feels as if he's seen this girl before, but he can't remember where exactly. "As for you," She suddenly starts again. "I suggest you forget about your little idea about finding your friend's Navis. I expect them deleted after such a disaster, but if they are alive then we will find them." She lowers her head as she closes her eyes and turns her head away a bit. "Unlikely though…"

Kaden glares at her. While he knows she has a point, he's not about to just sit around and leave his friends' Navis out there in danger. If there's at least a speck of help he can do, he would gladly give a hand.

Kiraa turns around, preparing to leave. "Anyway, glad to see no one is hurt. Stay clear of any electronics for the moment and especially stay out of the net." And with that she takes her leave, closing the door behind her as she exits.

"…What a hot-head." Malory comments, sounding a bit disgusted in a way.

Silus looks over at Kaden. "Well Kaden, I guess you're not going anywhere."

"Heh!" Kaden slowly smiles, if they thought she scared him out of searching for his friends' Navis then they don't know Kaden Homari. "As if I'm gonna stand around and let them do all the work."

"What?" Stephen sounds a bit surprised at Kaden's response. "You mean you're still going?"

Kaden nods with a grin. "Of course! I'm not one to leave my friends hanging!"

"But…"

"Aw forget it, you guys!" Malory barks as she waves them off, stomping to the backdoor. "Let Kaden go and have his Navi deleted! Who cares anyway!" She opens the backdoor and slams it behind her, shaking a bit some of the battle chips on display on the wall.

Haruko frowns, worried about her daughter. Being separated from Cera isn't going too well with her. "Don't worry about her. She's just scared, that's all." He turns to the rest of the gang. "We all are."

The gang nods, they all are scared all right. They don't know what's going to happen next. They don't know if the virus is coming back or if their Navis are gone forever. Silus looks into his PET, seeing it empty from that Flyer Navi he's grown to love, his best friend. Stephen slowly slides back down on the ground to sit down, worried about his lovable and care-free SpikeTail Navi. Sally has been quiet all this time, extremely worried about her Swimmer Navi, the Navi she's had since kindergarten.

Kaden looks at each of their faces. He's lucky he still has Rex with him, but they have lost their Navis somewhere in the net. He can't give up hope that they're gone, they're out there somewhere, and he's going to find them and bring them home. Kaden looks into his PET, seeing Rex's determined face. His Navi nods, agreeing to go on the search. Kaden nods back with a smile and looks up at his friends. "Cheer up, guys. I'll find your Navis…And I'll bring them home."

He goes to exit the shop but, for the first time since they got there, Sally moves and grabs Kaden's arm, stopping him. "Wait…"

Kaden stops and turns to Sally. "Erm, Sally?"

Sally looks deeply worried, but she manages to smile. "I believe in you…You'll find them…"

Kaden smiles and winks at her. "I promise."

Sally smiles. "Here, this is for you." She digs into her pocket and hands a battle chip to Kaden. The boy curiously looks at the battle chip and holds it up to his face. The battle chip has a picture of Sally's Navi, Ducky, and the letter D on it.

"It's a chip that I made." Sally explains. "I'm sure it'll help you."

Kaden smiles and stores the chip into his pack before looking at Sally. "Thanks, it'll come in handy."

"Be careful out there, Kaden!" Haruko instructs the boy. "If you need help just let me know!"

Kaden nods. "I will Mr. Haruko!" With that he turns and waves to them. "Just leave it to me!"

"Be careful!" Silus shouts at him as he leaves.

"Don't worry about Jason! We'll be there for him!" Stephen adds. That comment shifted Kaden's mind to his best friend. Jason…He must be taking his mother's death very hard. To be there and not being able to do a thing to help her…

""I tried to call for help, Kaden."" Rex admits, sounding extremely sad. ""But the network was so damaged; I couldn't even get through…""

"It's not your fault, Rex…" As Kaden sprints down the road, he could feel tears starting to run down his cheeks, feeling for his friend. "It's not your fault…"

As he runs down the road to find a suitable place to jack in, Jason is lost in his mind and anguish in his home. Curled up in a corner of his room he cries his heart out, his face sunk into his hands as the tears roll down his face. He still can't believe this is happening, to lose his mother just like that. Why…Why did she decide all of a sudden to go out for some stupid errands? Why choose this day, of all times? How could she…

Jason slowly lifts his head up, his cheeks damp in tears from all the crying. Shakily he reaches and grabs his PET, looking at the empty screen. He wishes Littlefoot was here, he always knew how to cheer him up. But today…Today he's lost…

"Littlefoot…" Jason mutters. "Littlefoot…" He mutters again, a bit louder. "Littlefoot…" He mutters once again, louder than last time. He then started to leak tears again, not being able to hold it in any longer.

"LITTLEFOOOOOOOOOOT!"


"On the next chapter of Land Before Time: Battle Network!"

"The Garden City network is totally in ruins…How are you supposed to find the Great Valley Square in this?"

"Don't give up, Littlefoot! Your mother's soul is still with you! Find the signs and they'll lead you to the Square!"

"But it's such a dangerous journey…Without Jason…Can I do it?"

"Next time on Land Before Time: Battle Network: 'Find the Great Valley! Network in ruins!'"

"What the? That virus is still alive?"

"Littlefoot!"