Reborn Days

Reborn Days

Chapter 8

The First Synchro

I woke up suddenly lying in my bed. "What happened anyway?" I asked myself. Then that was when I remembered what had happened. "I remember I was fighting with Aile and Vent." I told myself "Then I think I used that battle card." The card that doubles the power of an EM Navi but can cause the user to go berserk and summon the Overload attack, the attack that consumes all the energy of an EM Navi and forcing him or her to log out. I quickly got out of bed and changed.

Pretty much, it was almost 9 am. I ran downstairs and went to the cafeteria to eat. I suddenly realized it was the weekend so I didn't rush anymore. By the time I came down, I saw most of the students eating. I quickly lined up to get my breakfast then looked around for a table to sit on. Moments later after hunting for a table, I found a table good enough for seven people. I quickly occupied the whole table and waited. It was almost like a coincidence that Kumiko and Hanako were also claiming the table. We laughed. Then we just sat down, ate and chatted at the same time. A couple of minutes later, Aile and Vent came to the table. I noticed that Hanako was blushing when she saw Vent. I just wondered. Later after Aile and Vent sat down and started eating, Robzy and Sky came in with big grins on their faces. They rushed to the table and Robzy did the talking. "The circus is coming!" he exclaimed "They'll be here tomorrow and tomorrow is also our day off!" Kumiko laughed and said "Do you want to see it, Hanako?" Hanako was jumping up and down saying "Yes! Yes! I wanna see it!"

Since majority wanted to go, I just went along anyway. The next morning, we were up and early. We went to the meeting spot: outside the school. I went there but when I arrived, Robzy was there. "Your early today." He muttered as he yawned. "Here take this." I handed him a small box. "Use this only when needed." Robzy just started at me. A few minutes later, everyone was there and ready.

We arrived at the circus, waiting in line for the tickets. It took a while before all of us had tickets. We were all waiting for the door to the circus to open so the staff provided Netbattling Machines for all the audience members outside. I thought Maybe I can battle Phantom or Harpuia. "Hey Andre" Hanako called to me "let's battle!" I was surprised and replied "Sure why not?"

We both were in front of the Machine and some strangers were also watching. I stared at her with determined eyes. Then we both took out our PDA's

I shouted "Jack-in! Double Beast, Power Up!"

Then Hanako did the same "Jack-in! Phantom, Power Up!"

Both Navis faced each other. Neither of them was giving a single motion.

Hanako suddenly shouted "Battle Chip Wide Sword, slot in!"

Phantom's arm turned into a wide sword and he started dashing towards DB. I smiled and took out a battle chip "Battle chip Anti Sword, slot in!" DB waited in an odd position waiting for Phantom to strike. Just before Phantom slashed, I launched three sonic booms at him directly at his chest damaging him terribly. "So" Phantom said "this is a challenge of wisdom." Hanako looked worried as she checked Phantom's status. The status seemed ok but the body blinked with red light. The blinking of a red light symbolizes that a part of the Navi is damaged; the faster the light blinks, the worse the condition of that part. Right now, it was just slowly blinking. Hanako sighed in relief but she didn't know that I had slotted a chip. I secretly slotted a chip. DB just waited in silence. Hanako, going headstrong, slotted one of her strongest chips

"Battle chip Raining Shuriken, slot in!"

Then Phantom disappeared and reappeared in the air launching loads of shuriken daggers at DB something almost like Green Shinobi's special attack. I laughed at her and said "I slotted a battle chip for DB." She looked shocked "You didn't say anything!"

I smiled and said "There isn't a rule about that in the rulebook."

Kumiko looked surprised "That's true. I read whole rulebook overnight."

Robzy stared at Kumiko who just shrugged and said "I was kinda bored anyway."

It was getting out of hand already and the battle almost had both Navis deleted. I grinned and said "This seems tough." Hanako smiled "So I am getting good." I shook my head "You forgot something." She looked at me questioningly until she realized that DB still looked strong despite the black marks on his body.

Without a question, another Navi appeared in the battlefield it looked pretty fat and resembled a clown. DB looked shocked and said "Clownman?!" "Ahoohoo" Clownman laughed "That's right. I'm here to settle things with you."

"There's a battle ongoing here, you know." Phantom said. Clownman turned and sent three lions straight at Phantom who just dodged the lions easily but he didn't see the hands coming his way. Just when things were getting worse, TryMega came and pushed Phantom aside taking the damage for him. TryMega raised his Fire Buster and shot three big fire shots at him. Clownman was too fast for him and took a lot of damage. Robzy tried healing TryMega but the effects weren't too effective. Then he remembered what I had given him earlier. He opened the box with haste and saw a small chip inside. "TryMega" Robzy said "I'll upgrade you now!" Then Robzy slotted the chip in and in the Arena, TryMega started to shine brightly. Then appeared in his place was a newer version of TryMega. He had turned orange and had a pair of Fire Knuckles at his back. He still looked a bit the same but the Dino head on his right arm had disappeared. His armor seemed to look like Fefnir. TryMega smiled "What power! I feel like I can destroy a train in one blow." Then Clownman sent three more lions at TryMega. TryMega took out his pair of Fire Knuckles. Then with a little strike, he hit the lions squarely at the chest sending them backwards and slamming Clownman.

Meanwhile, DB went to help Phantom. "Are you okay?" DB asked. Phantom grinned "I guess I am okay." DB smiled and said "You were pretty strong in that battle a while ago. I like your skills. I wish I had them too." Then a white light surrounded the two of them. "This power feels familiar." DB said "Feels like more power in me."

Back in the human world, I saw one of the empty chips glowing in my pocket. I took it out and there was a symbol of Phantom on it. Then I got an e-mail which said:

"Use the chip to utilize DB's special power."

-Unknown

Then another e-mail came and it said this:

"I see that you have unlocked DB's new power. I am guessing that this is the power that was transferred from Rockman's data that was also placed into DB's data: Double Soul. Slot the chip in to activate the Double Soul effect."

After reading that, I told Hanako "I need you to send Phantom a Recovery chip now." So Hanako slotted a Recover 300 chip in then Phantom stood up. "DB" I said "time to activate your new skill!"

"Double Soul: Phantom Soul, Activate!"

Then a white light surrounded DB and reappeared as a look-alike as Phantom. Then they both nodded at each other and jumped into the air raining hundreds of shuriken daggers at Clownman. Clownman took too much damage since the shuriken daggers were unavoidable. Then Clownman logged out in a hurry.

Later, we all were in the circus watching all the amazing acts like the lions each on a big ball, acrobat tight walking, clowns juggling random objects, and the like. I just watched and didn't try to remember what had happened but all I wanted to remember was that I had finally found out the special ability of DB: Double Soul. Questions still wandered in my mind like "Who is Rockman?", "What did that mean by Rockman's data?" and "Who created DB in the first place?" The last question is not a compliant but a question that needed to unlock its truth.

Chapter 8…end