Disclaimer: I do not own and part of Ranma, any kind of Rockman from any series and I do not own anything from Digimon Tamers. I only own my own characters and the plot of a story.
Read this Goddammit: I need any kind of information on Axl and Forte. How they were made, when and their abilities. I mostly need information on Axl's Copy Shot from X7 since I don't know how he uses it. Does he destroy the enemy by using his Copy Shot to get the DNA core? Help please. I asked for information last chapter but did anyone even read it?
Also, I'm trying to use Japanese terms as little as possible but since I don't want to mess up anything from the Rockman. Exe line… I'll be using some once in a while like Sensei or Mariko-Sensei. Don't wanna call her Ms. Mari…
Wild Horse. Exe
Chapter 8: Virus Breakout in the Maze!
Takato and Ranma looked around frantically. Many people had already paired up with someone. No matter what, they did NOT want to get paired up with whoever the operator of Shiningman was. Soon enough though, Tom walked over to Takato.
"Hey Takato, umm… You want to pair up with me? Hurai said that you were a good Net Battler so that way, we can both have a partner we at least know and be sure their abilities are good…"
"Sure, no one else would ask me anyways." Answered Takato with a big grin.
Ranma pouted at Takato, "Damn you," whispered Ranma to Takato, "Who am I suppose to ask then?"
Takato whispered back, "You saying that like we're suppose to ask someone out…"
Ranma thought a moment before replying back with an evil thought, "Then you mean you're gay?"
"Ack! No way! I would never do that!" shouted out Takato drawing the attention of everyone.
"Umm… Sorry?" said Takato meekly.
"Hurry up Takato."
Takato glared at Ranma as he snickered at him.
"Ummm… Ranma…"
Ranma looked at the remaining kids. When he Niro caught his eye though, Niro merely sneered in a little kid kinda way and looked away. Before Ranma could have thoughts about beating him up as soon as possible, he felt someone poke him in the back.
"Erm… Ranma…"
Turning around, Ranma saw Evani behind him looking slightly shy.
"Ummm… Well…"
"Are you asking me to be your partner?"
Evani gave the smallest and briefest of nods.
"Okay."
"Yea!" suddenly, as if another person took her place, her shyness was over taken by her loudness as she dragged Ranma over to Mariko-Sensei.
As she dragged him over, she spoke over her shoulder saying, "You know, I didn't really want to ask anyone else since all the other girls have already paired up with each other. I don't like any of the other boys either because they're stupid and dumb but I like you and Takato and Hurai and Tom and Niro since you're my friends! But I wasn't sure if you thought of me as your friend but I asked you anyways!"
Ranma looked at her confused. One moment she was all shy but then suddenly… What the hell just happened?
Niro looked around getting scared. Still, no one had asked him and everyone else was now paired up but… Suddenly Niro saw who was left. He then started sweating. Everyone else was waiting in front of Mariko-Sensei but him and this other kid. He hurriedly ran over to where Hurai was and asked him if he could have his partner.
"Huh? Why?" Hurai looked around and saw who was left, "No. No way."
"Please! Come on Hurai! I'll do anything!"
"No."
After a few moments of please and no, Mariko-Sensei walked over.
"Your name was… Niro! Everyone else is waiting so will you hurry up and go with whose left?"
Niro giving up nodded his head sadly. The other boy walked over and grinned and idiotic smile.'
"Hi there. I know who you are. Your name's Niro right? I'm-"
Niro suddenly stuck his fingers in his ears and whistled a tune. When he took them out, he sighed in relief as he knew he didn't hear the kids name and ran over to the kids sitting in front of Mariko-Sensei waiting so he could get this over as quick as possible.
Tom, Hurai and Evani looked and saw who he was partnered with. They then quickly tried to stifle a laugh when Niro glared back at all of them. Takato and Ranma just didn't know what was so funny. They still didn't know everyone in the class. Waiting till later, they all listened to Mariko-Sensei's instruction.
"Well class, this is going to be like some kind of treasure hunt! It'll be anywhere on the school part of the building's grounds. I'll be giving you a couple of clues and you'll have to go over to that place and look around for it the next clue. Sometimes, it'll be hidden in the Net too. You'll get the next clue when you find the first and the third after the second and so on. Sometimes there'll be problems for you to solve so you and your partner must solve those problems before getting the clue! When you get to the last place, you'll know your there because it'll be a maze. There will be a couple of weak Viruses so your Navi won't get too hurt. Now everyone, please line up with your partner to receive your first clue and something else so that you all won't bump into each other and mess up."
With that instructions finished, everyone lined up two-by-two. Niro was trying to stand as far away from his partner as possible but kept getting pulled back into line by his partner with that creepy smile.
As they were in line, Ranma asked Evani who the kid with Niro was.
Evani giggled a bit and whispered back, "He's the operator of that Shiningman." With that, she tried to stifle another laughter.
Ranma looked back and whispered to Takato who was behind him the information. Takato looked dazed a moment before looking back at the end of the line where Niro was and also tried to stifle another laugh. Ranma just looked back and grinned knowingly at him. Niro just glared back as he was pulled back into line.
When the pair in front of him ran off to figure out where they had to go, Ranma and Evani stepped in front of Mariko-Sensei. Here's your first clue and then here's two adapters. Plug your Plug-In cords into it first before plugging it into where the clue should be first."
Ranma and Evani nodded and walked over to a desk and sat down and put the adapter on their Pet's cord. They then took the piece of paper with the clue on it and put it in front of them.
"All it says is… A wet place… Where would a wet place be?" said Ranma as he read from the paper.
Both kids thought a bit before Ranma took out his Pet and asked Axl.
"A wet place… Bathroom?"
"No way! There's only a boys bathroom and girls bathroom! I'm not allowed inside the Girl's bathroom and Evani isn't allowed in the Boy's bathroom!"
"But Ranma, we can't think of anything else either… So why not just try?"
"Fine. But I'm not going inside the Girl's Bathroom."
"I never asked you to. You go to the boys and I'll look inside the girls. Remember, look for a plug-in port!"
Both children ran off to the respective bathrooms beside the classroom. Finding nothing, they met up again outside the classroom.
"Nothing?" asked Ranma.
"Nothing."
Both kids thought a bit longer when suddenly Evani jumped up.
"I can't believe I didn't think of this earlier! The swimming pool!"
"There's a swimming pool?"
"Of course! Let's go!"
With that, Evani grabbed Ranma's hand and pulled him off in another direction.
"Hey! Evani! Do you even know where the swimming pool is?"
"Of course! I go there lots of times!"
Soon enough, they both reached the swimming pool and they both ran around the pool looking for a plug in port.
"Hey! You!"
Ranma looked around before pointing at himself while looking at the teacher.
"Yes you! Don't run around the pool! You might slip!"
Ranma yelled back a sorry before turning back and walking around hurriedly looking for the port.
"Ranma!" Ranma looked back and saw Evani waving at him to come over from the other side of the pool. Trying to walk as quickly as possible, he quickly got to where she was and saw that she already had her Navi plugged in.
"Hurry up and plug your Navi in too Ranma. Eau's already waiting inside."
Ranma quickly went and plugged Axl in who appeared next to Eau.
"Hi! You're Axl? I'm Eau, Evani's Navi."
Axl merely nodded his confirmation and looked around. The place was pretty simple, it was basically land and it looked suspiciously like the swimming pool in the real world only with a digital look.
As if knowing what he was thinking about, Eau explained.
"Most of the places around this building's Net looks exactly like the place in the real world. I don't know why but when Evani asked her teacher, she told her not to worry about it, it's just like that."
Axl nodded again.
"So Evani, where do you think that clue would be?" asked Ranma.
"I don't know, look around the place first."
"Umm… Okay."
"Hey, Axl." Above and to the left of Axl's left shoulder, a window appeared with Ranma's face on it, "Evani says to look around for something. Just look around for anything suspicious."
"Okay." With that, both Navis Ran off in opposite directions.
As Ranma's Digital window floated along with Axl, Ranma thought a bit before saying, "Axl, that person said not to run at the swimming pool…"
"But this is the Net. Surely you can't slip here… Whoa!"
Suddenly Axl slipped on a puddle of water and fell into the pool. As he was under the 'water', Axl saw a Data cube at the bottom of the pool. He then swam over to it, grabbed it and quickly swam up to the surface and grabbed onto the edge and pulled himself up. Suddenly Evani looked at him from the side and frowned.
"You're suppose to change your digital clothing program before going into the pool so that the water won't get dirty. Now they have to change the water here."
"Hey, I've never been to a place like this. Besides, how was I suppose to know that you could slip on water in the Net!"
"Well now you do!" snapped Eau.
"Jeez… Touchy…" mumbled Axl under his breath.
Quickly switching the topic so it wouldn't get out of hand, Axl took out the Data cube he found.
"So… Would this be it?" As Ranma from his window.
"I don't know…"
"Well you gotta open it first." Said Eau as she too looked at the cube in front of Axl and Eau.
Both Navis were silent for a few seconds before Axl looked up at Eau.
"Well?"
"Well what?"
"Aren't you going to open it?"
"You're suppose to open it."
Why am I suppose to open it?! You're the one that said we need to open it!"
"Well, obviously because you're the guy…"
"What kind of reason is that?! It's just a data cube!"
"Axl, just open it. You can't win…" Said Ranma.
Eau smiled a bit as Axl grumbled as he moved to open the cube.
"She's a girl. Everyone knows that girls are stubborn. So since she's suppose to be a girl, she'll be too stubborn to open it herself. Just open it so we don't spend the rest of the day here arguing."
With that Eau screamed, "What is that suppose to mean!"
Out in the real world, Evani was acting quite similar to her Navi only with some physical touches, "What do you mean by that! You jerk!" she yelled as she punched and kicked Ranma.
"Ow! Hey! Stop that! Sorry! Okay? I said sorry so stop it!" even though it didn't really hurt Ranma, it was quite annoying.
Evani then smiled and said, "Okay!" with that, she turned back to her Pet.
Ranma merely looked at her confusedly. This was different… But girls were girls and they were stubborn. This was probably just because she was just a kid.
Pushing the thought back, he turned back to his Pet to see if the data cube contained what they wanted… The second clue.
Suddenly the data cube was covered with a 3 x 3 blue cube with the image of the data cube on it. When the blue cube dissolved along with the data cube's image, what was left was merely a data packet the dissolved and flowed into Axl.
"Hey, what happened?" asked Ranma.
"I just took in the information. Look on the Pet. There should be some new information."
As Ranma looked at the information on his Pet, he read it out loud.
"A place to have fun…"
"A place to have fun? But the swimming pool is fun…"
"But that's probably not what it means. Hmmm… I got it! Follow me!"
With that, Ranma plugged-out Axl took off towards the entrance of the swimming pool.
"Hey! Brat! I told you not to run around here!"
"Sorry!" with that, Ranma settled towards a quick walk. Evani caught up quickly enough.
"Hey, where is this 'fun' place?"
"I don't know what it's called but I know where it is! Just follow me!"
"Okay…"
As Ranma and Evani reached the hallway, Ranma took off with Evani following him. They took many turns around the building when suddenly…
"Ranma! This is the classroom! The classroom is NOT fun!"
"I swear that I didn't mean to come here… follow me, I'm sure I'll get there."
With that, they both ran off again with Ranma in the lead. After a few more minutes of twists and turns, they finally stopped again.
"Ranma! This is the swimming pool! You said yourself that this wasn't what it meant!"
"Sorry! But I swear that last left turn would have gotten us there… Axl, bring up that map of the building we got last time."
When Ranma looked at the map a bit, he nodded and ran off again. Both kids ran off and turned left before running down straight down the hall and stopping.
"Here it is!" exclaimed Ranma.
Evani panted a bit before taking a breathe and looking up at the sign to the place. 'Navi Training Room'.
"Ranma… this wouldn't be what it would mean!"
"Huh? Why not? I think its fun. Right Axl?"
Axl started to respond when he suddenly received a message. Reading through it, he sweated a bit.
"Axl?"
"Ah… Er… I'm not gonna answer."
"Huh why?"
"Erm… No reason." Said Axl while hiding the message icon on the side of the Pet and holding the message itself behind him. A message that contained a badly drawn cartoon of a badly drawn Eau stabbing a badly drawn Axl many times over and over again…
Eau smiled at her success.
Evani smiled when Ranma's Navi agreed with her, "Come on, what else would there be?"
"I don't know…"
"What about the playground?" asked Eau.
"Playground. That would work!" exclaimed Evani, "Come on Ranma, follow me!"
"You know where it is?"
"Unlike you, I don't get lost here!"
"Well I have a map!"
"I don't need one!"
With that, both kids ran off again only with Evani in the lead this time. As both ran, Axl gave Ranma an interesting question.
"Hey… Doesn't this activity involve a lot of running?"
"Yea."
"How long do you think you two can run for?"
"Don't worry, I've just started loosing my breath. I'm not too sure about Evani though. She's probably gonna be too tired to continue when we get to that playground. So, I guess we'll rest there a bit."
"I'm sure everyone else is all probably tired from running around too, unless they know where to go and aren't wasting any energy."
"No problem, we'll beat them when we get to that maze Mariko-Sensei told us about. We're the best at Virus busting in our class."
With that, Ranma put his Pet back at his side and continued running with Evani who was slowing down. Soon enough, they reached the doors to outside and reached the playground. They quickly found the playground's plug-in port on the side of the slide. Quickly plugging-in, they found that many smaller Navis were running around and playing at the digital playground.
Taking a quick scan around, they found nothing. Suddenly Ranma heard a sound. Listening closer, he realized that… Someone was crying…
"Hey Evani. Someone's crying."
"So? Someone will take care of it. Besides, Mariko-Sensei might get mad if we take too long to do this."
"Fine, you and Eau keep looking. Come on Axl. We'll be right back Evani."
Ranma then plugged out Axl and ran off towards where he thought the sound was coming from without another word. Evani pouted a bit in annoyance before going looking back towards her Pet.
As Ranma ran around, he eventually found the child that was crying under a tree. He was holding his Pet and bawling his eyes out. Trying to keep himself from wincing at the loud noise, Ranma walked towards the child and put his hand on his shoulder.
"Umm, are you okay? Is something wrong?"
The boy sniffled and replied the best he could through his tears, "Today was my birthday and daddy gave me some money so I could buy some candy. But some virus thingies took it away!"
"Ugh… That's too bad…"
Axl nodded, "Yup… Too bad… Better make sure that doesn't happen to us..."
Ranma stood up and sighed, "I really feel for you…" before walking away a bit.
The child's eyes started to water before he started crying again. Ranma quickly turned back and weakly laughed a bit.
"Aww come on! I was just kidding! I'll help you out. Seriously!"
"Will you really?"
"Really! I will. Now come on. Show me where you lost the money."
"Okay!"
Immediately, the small boy stood up, wiped his tears and ran off towards the opposite end of the playground of where Evani was.
"Ranma, are you sure we should be doing this?"
"It's alright Axl, I'm sure this won't take too long. I mean, there's not going to be many viruses around here…"
"Okay, let's try to do this quickly."
The boy in front of Ranma then stopped and pointed towards the plug-in port that was on the swings.
"They appeared in there!"
"Alright then. Plug-In! Axl. Exe! Transmission!"
As Axl arrived in there, he as usual looked at his surroundings. There wasn't anyone there except for the program that ran things. On the ground, there were a few marks that would probably mean that a small struggle had taken place. Walking up to the program, Axl asked if it had saw anything.
"Umm… Yes, I saw them, they left a few minutes after the Navi who lost that Data cube of money. I think they left through that portal." Said the Program pointing to a circular base on the ground a distance off.
"Alright… Thanks."
As Axl walked towards the portal, Ranma curiously asked him what it was.
"That Ranma, is a portal. It can warp you to a different place. Either to a different part of the site, or a completely different site. Let's see where this one goes…"
As Axl stepped onto the portal, the circular platform glowed and Axl became in cased inside a see through blue cylinder that then divided into five and rose up into the sky leaving no trace of Axl. On Ranma's Pet, it read 'Navi not Detected'.
"Hmmm… What the hell?"
"Ranma." Said Axl's voice a bit scrambled
"Huh? What the hell? Axl? Where are you?" said Ranma speaking through his Pet.
"I'm on a different part of the playground now. It has a bunch of bars lines up in a row… I think your suppose to try and swing your way across…"
"Monkey bars!"
"Alright, I'll wait for you here and ask around."
Ranma then looked down at the kid beside him, "Come on, the viruses who took your money aren't here anymore. We'll look in another place."
The kid then nodded.
"Now follow me!"
Again, both took off towards the direction of the monkey bars.
"Okay then, let's see if Axl really is here."
"Ranma! They said they left through another portal!"
"Another?!" Ranma let out a sigh, "Okay, I said I would help, let's keep going."
With that, Axl stepped into the portal and was instantly warped to another location. Axl looked around.
"Ugh, I'll never get use to that… Where am I now?"
"Axl?"
"What?"
"Axl? What are you doing here? Where's Ranma?"
"What the… Eau? Great... I'm back at the slide." Axl then spoke to Ranma through the Pet, "Ranma, turns out I'm back at the slide where we left Eau and Evani."
"What? Great… Other side of the playground." Replied Ranma's voice, "I'll be there as soon as possible… Goddamn... So much running."
As Axl waited, Evani demanded an answer about what was happening. As Axl explained, Evani got more upset at Ranma wasting their time. When Ranma did arrive, Evani let him know just how much she was annoyed.
"Ranma! How long is this going to take?"
"Umm, I don't really know. It shouldn't be that much longer…"
"Well hurry up! I want to finish this already!"
Ranma sighed, "Alright… Axl, did you ask around yet?"
"No, there's no one that knows. They probably took the next exit out since there are only two portals here. The one connected to the monkey bars and the other to the next section."
"Okay, go through it. I'll meet up with you when you find out where it is."
"Alright."
As Axl stepped through, Evani immediately said, "Eau! Follow him!"
"Eh?" was all Axl said as Eau stepped into the portal next to him and they both were warped off.
"Ummm… Evani?"
"Eau couldn't find anything there, so I decided to follow you until you were done."
"Ranma!" said Axl from the Pet, "I found them. Seems like they're trying to get some more money. But I don't really see how they are even able to get it… It's only a bunch of Mettaurs…"
"Mettaurs? We've been looking for Mettaurs? Ugh... This is just great… By the time we get there, they'll probably been taken care of by you two. Come on Evani, we're going to the school gates."
"Okay!"
Inside the gate's network, Axl was easily diminishing the numbers of the Mettaurs with his gun along with Eau and her buster. Since they were all in a crowd, Axl was able to delete two or three Mettaurs in one shot. He had quickly discovered that he couldn't charge his gun when he wasn't in direct contact with his Pet. After deleting a few more Mettaurs, Axl saw a data cube in the midst of the Mettaurs.
"Eau! Be careful not to shoot that data cube. It might contain the money that the kid lost."
"Okay. I'll go get it!"
"Eh? How…"
Before even finishing, he saw Eau quickly dashing across the Mettaur's helmets to reach the data cube.
As Axl watched, he realized Eau was very fast. Faster than he had first thought after seeing her battle against Feuer. Before he had realized it, Eau had already grabbed the data cube to keep it safe and was dashing back towards where she first started. Suddenly, his head and chest crystal lit up as power was flooded into him and he felt his connection to his Pet come back on.
"Axl! Jeez, you still haven't finished? I thought you would be done by now… Why didn't you just charge your gun?"
"It turns out I can't charge it unless I'm in direct contact with the Pet."
"Ugh, that sucks… Well at least we know that. Now charge and blast away Axl!"
"Okay then…" with that, Axl pulled the trigger and held it there waiting for his gun to charge up. When he heard the click he quickly aimed and pulled the trigger again, "Woo! Eat that you goddamn Mettaurs! Charge Shot!" again, Axl was pushed back by the recoil as the gun let out a whine of power and shot a big shot crackling with power.
"Whoa! Axl, what was that!" asked Eau to Axl.
"Ranma… How did he do that? I didn't see you slot in any chips." Asked Evani to Ranma.
"That… Was my Charge Shot…"
"I don't need to slot in any chips since Axl's gun is his default weapon and not a buster."
That one shot flew into the midst of the Mettaurs destroying everything in its way as it touched or pulled the Mettaurs in.
Soon after the small battle, Axl turned to see Eau already opening the data cube.
"Hey… Eau…"
"Yea, what?"
"Didn't you say that I was supposed to open the data cubes?"
"… Shut up!"
"But you did say that…"
"Just shut up."
"Che, but you did say it…"
"Shut up! Hmmm… Let's see… Alright! The money is in here!"
Evani then turned towards the kid watching from behind them.
"Hey you, I'm sending your money back right now."
"… Yay! Thank you!"
"Your welcome. Just don't loose it again okay?"
"Okay! Yay!"
With that, the boy ran off with his Pet in hand.
"Hey… There's something else in here…" said Axl as he peered over Eau's shoulder. He then took the data and downloaded it.
"Hey! What do you know!" exclaimed Ranma, "It's the next clue we were looking for! Good thing I helped that kid, otherwise we never would have found it!"
Eau looked at Ranma's Pet in surprise, "So what does it say Ranma?"
"It tells us to go back to the classroom and that we've found the clues… We now need to show them to Mariko-Sensei and she'll let us into the Maze part."
"Alright! Lead the way Ranma!" said Evani.
Ranma stared at her.
"Oh yea… Fine, I'll lead."
As quick as possible, Ranma and Evani made their way back to the classroom. As soon as they entered the classroom they saw a few others had already finished and were sitting at their desk with their Navis plugged in. They walked over to Mariko-Sensei and showed her the Data of the clues they had found. Approving of their work, she gave them another adapter to put on their cords before moving them over to a pair of desks.
The two quickly plugged in to catch up with those already there. Appearing inside the Net through the adapter, Axl saw that the whole place was now made into a maze. Seeing as there was no sign of anyone being here before them, he determined that there was either many entrances, or that everyone couldn't see all the other Navis when they came in through the adapter.
Eau turned towards Axl, "So there's suppose to be a few easy viruses in here… That's no problem, you can just blast them all away with that gun of yours."
"Ummm no, it kinda uses my own energy so I can't use it that much."
Eau looked disappointed, "Oh, that means we have to actually battle them? That's not going to be any fun, it'll be too easy."
"Okay, go on Axl, Eau, let's get ahead of everyone." Said Ranma through his window.
The two Navis then stepped into the maze through the entrance and when they did, the entrance disappeared behind them and turned into another part of the maze's wall.
"Alright, go on Axl!"
Axl nodded and started to proceed through the maze when Eau stopped him. Turning to her in confusion, Evani explained from her window.
"If you keep your hand on one side of the wall, your sure to get to the exit without getting really lost."
"Wait a bit…" said Ranma, "Axl, see if you can blast through the wall, wouldn't that be easier?"
Axl thought a bit before nodding. He turned towards the wall and braced himself against the wall opposite to it and started firing away with his gun. As the dust kicked up, the view of the wall was blocked and they weren't able to see what damage the gun had caused. If there was any damage that was. When the dust cleared, all there was were a couple of dents in the wall.
"Well… I guess that rules out that solution…" said Axl as he slumped down.
"Well what are we waiting for? Let's go!"
Both Navis then quickly ran off sticking close to the right wall. After a while of running, the two Navis encountered a new thing in the maze. A wide open field. Suddenly the wall closed up behind them and they were trapped inside the rectangular field. Suddenly a bunch of Mettaurs appeared before them.
"These are our opponents? A couple of gay Mettaurs?!" said Axl a bit dumbfounded.
"Well, at least it'll be easy…"
As quick as a flash, both Navis had quickly taken out all the opposing Mettaurs with no problems. As soon as the last virus was deleted, the ground started shaking and the walls rose up inside the field creating another part of the maze. Continuing on in the same fashion, the again were confronted by more weak virus. A couple of Mettaurs, cannons and bunnies.
Quickly taking out the Mettaurs, Axl was suddenly struck from behind by one of the bunnies. Paralyzed for a few seconds, Axl was then struck by a Cannon's shot. Grunting from taking the brunt of the attack, he quickly searched for the bunny to take it out quickly. Suddenly he was struck from behind again and paralyzed then shot by the cannon.
"Goddamn rabbit…"
"Axl? What the hell are you doing? Hurry up and delete that rabbit!" yelled Eau who had no trouble in taking out the other quick footed rabbits on the other side of the field.
"The goddamn thing barely knows what its doing! I can't predict where it's going to move!"
"Just shoot one of your big blasts at it!"
"That's too slo- Argh!" again, Axl was struck from behind, "Goddammit!"
"Axl, screw the shots, the recoil makes our aim off, chuck the rocks on the ground at it!" instructed Ranma from outside.
"Chuck the rocks? How the hell is that gonna help?"
"Trust me, it's a lot easier."
"Okay…" hesitantly, Axl bent down to pick up a rock. Instead of staying on the ground, Axl opted to jump up.
As Axl was in the air, Ranma realized that through his Pet and Axl's eyes, he could see the whole maze.
Looking back down, Axl saw the rabbit virus jumping around. Gripping the rock in his hand, he threw it at the virus. Not being able to figure out where it came from, it started jumping around in confusion. Holding another rock he had with him, he threw it up into the air above him. He then aimed his gun at the rabbit. When the rock came back into his view, he shot the rock creating a make shift shotgun chip. Battering the whole place where the virus was, it struck the virus in the head making it a bit dizzy.
Axl then twisted in the air so he would fall back down head first. As he fell, he held his gun in front of him aimed at the virus. He then charged his gun. This virus would die for screwing around with him. As the gun finished charging, he landed on the viruses head with his gun pointed at it.
"Hehe, die." Axl then unleashed his blast utterly destroying the rabbit and at the same time flying back into the air. Seeing a few cannons still standing, he took aim and quickly shot a few down. Seeing he still hadn't destroyed them all, he jumped onto the head of one of the cannons and ripped its cannon head off. He then put away his gun and aimed the cannon he had taken.
Axl then scanned the cannon head for the trigger, aimed it at one of the remaining Cannons and pulled the internal trigger.
"Haha, it really works!" shouted Axl as he took aim again and shot another Cannon down one after another.
As the last cannons were destroyed, the walls appeared from the ground and rose back up. Still holding the cannon head, he disconnected with its network and threw it away.
As she approached Axl, Eau curiously asked him, "Axl? How did you do that with the cannon? I've never seen anyone doing that."
"Huh? I dunno, I just scanned it for some kind of trigger and used it." He answered.
"Okay then… Well, let's go." Said Eau.
Ranma quickly the said, "Wait, Axl. When you were in the sky, did you notice what I did?"
"What are you talking about Ranma?" said Evani confusedly.
"No not you, Axl. Is your name Axl? I don't think so."
"You mean that I could see the whole maze? Then yea, I noticed it."
"Great, go back up and see if you can find the exit."
A nod and a jump and Axl was gone from the ground. Taking a quick scan, Axl found the only exit quickly.
"Found it. It's a bit to the north east."
"The exit's to the north east? Okay then, let's go!" said Eau and quickly ran through the maze.
"Wait! You're taking the long way!" shouted Axl.
"What long way? There's only one way!"
"Are you stupid or something? It's going to be easier to run on top of the maze! We can make a straight line towards it."
"Top…" Evani and Eau hit their fists into their palms, "Now why didn't I think of that."
"Let's just finish it. Go on Axl." Said Ranma ignoring the girls knowing he would have said something stupid.
"Hey! Wait up!" shouted Eau as she jumped up onto the top of the wall. Not use to the feeling, she fell back down, "Ow…" taking another try, she jumped back up and quickly tried to catch up with Axl.
"Eau, hurry it up back there!" shouted Axl.
"Why don't you slow down?!"
"Why the hell do I have to?" shouted Axl over his shoulder.
Suddenly feeling an attack, Axl was barely able to dodge a flaming sword that came crashing down upon where he was standing a few moments earlier.
"Holy crap! What the hell was that?" said Ranma.
"Huh? What are you talking about?" asked Evani looking over to Ranma."
"A big flame sword attacked Axl. There it was again! Axl, do you know what it is?"
"It's another virus! I think it's called a Swordy or something. It looks like one of those medieval knights from castles and stuff." Replied Axl.
"What? That virus shouldn't be here. It's no problem for us but everyone else in this class is out of its league!" said Evani.
"A sword virus?" said Ranma.
"Ranma, give me a sword chip."
"Right away. Battle Chip! Sword! Slot-In!"
As usual, a sword appeared on Axl's right arm. Only this time instead of the usual blue sword he always had, it was tinted with a bit of black in the center and red on the outer edge.
"Ranma, what kind of chip did you give me?"
"What do you mean? I slotted in a normal sword. Why would it come out like that?"
"I dunno... But here it comes!" raising the new coloured sword up, Axl blocked the incoming strike from the Swordy Virus. As he blocked the strike, he took a closer look at the Navi. It looked like an ancient knight with a little tuff of red on its head. It was somehow floating and had a sword of flame held which was the one Axl was blocking. Axl then swore under his breathe. The sword it had was much longer than what he had.
Blocking a few more attacks and making a few attacks of his own, he was able to knock the virus back. Unfortunately, it was not able to feel the pain and was quickly coming back to Axl. Axl merely pointed his gun straight at the virus's head.
"I'm not a swordsman. And I don't really care for rules." Was all he said when the Swordy was deleted, "Now where the hell is Eau?"
Ranma looked over at Evani, "Yea… Evani, where is Eau?"
He then saw that Evani wasn't paying any attention on him but focused on her Pet watching Eau. Looking over his shoulder, he saw Eau fighting many viruses and was in major trouble. A giant wind was blowing on her hard and had pinned her to the wall of the maze. Then there were many rat looking things that were also blown by the wind and into Eau. As each rat thing touched Eau, they exploded in a fiery blaze.
"Evani, why don't you use an Area Steal?" asked Ranma.
"I already tried! But all those Wind boxes covers too much area! Why are there so many of these kinds of viruses? Mariko-Sensei said they would be easy!"
Right then Ranma realized that many other students had encountered these viruses and were cry out at their Navis. He looked around again and saw Takato and Tom sitting a few desks away looking quite concentrated on their Navis. Niro was… Sitting in the corner… his partner had… a bloody nose… Hurai was sitting with his friend a few desks away from where Niro was. Mariko-Sensei and his teacher were frantically running around trying to help out with everyone.
Ranma then finally looked back to Axl who was again fighting more viruses with his sword and gun.
"Axl, I don't think these Viruses are supposed to be here. Mariko-Sensei's acting really confused…"
"I figured." Axl pushed off another Virus, "But what are we suppose to do?"
"Go help out Eau, she's still in trouble. Then go finish the maze. That's probably where it's all happening."
"Okay. Now how do I find Eau?"
"Look for a giant wind. She's stuck pinned against a wall because of that."
"Okay."
Looking around for the wind while avoiding the Viruses attacks, Axl was able to find it and he quickly ignored the Viruses around him and ran off towards the wind. He then saw the source of the wind, a bunch of boxes with fans in them.
"Ranma, I need a Boomerang chip."
"Alright. Battle Chip! Boomerang! Slot In!"
Forming the boomerang on his left arm, Axl swung it forward and let go of the boomerang. The Boomerang was able to spin its way through the line of Wind Boxes and destroy a few other Viruses on its round back freeing Eau from the high wind.
"Axl, throw some rocks at those rats, they probably explode on impact!"
"Again with the rocks…" but not complaining completely, Axl bent down to pick up a few shards and throw them pretty accurately at the rats. Like Ranma had said, they exploded right away when they were hit.
"There's a few more viruses Ranma. They're kinda dog like and their really spikey… Whoa! They shoot fire too…"
"I think they're called Spikeys… Jeez, who comes up with these stupid names?"
"No idea…"
Using the Sword still on his right arm, Axl dashed into the ranks of Spikeys and slice and deleted many before they started retreating.
"I don't like being the one being saved… But… Thanks Axl." Said Eau as she came up holding onto her arm painfully from the explosions of rats.
"No problem, but how did you get caught by that? Wouldn't you have been able to dodge it?"
"I'm fast, but I can't cover that much ground that quickly when I'm surprised."
"Okay..."
Evani let out a sigh of relief as she watched Eau be rescued. A bit more damage and she would have plugged Eau out.
"Hey Evani, why didn't you just get Eau to use the Area Steal to get behind the wall? Wouldn't that have worked?"
"I… ummm… Uhh… Didn't think of that…"
"Oh… Okay…" Ranma then turned back to his Pet, "Axl, we've wasted enough time. Let's see if I'm right about the Finish being the source. Keep on your guard too."
"Okay Ranma." Axl turned away from the window with Ranma's face and then to Eau, "Can you move quickly with all that damage?"
"Yea, but not fast enough to really battle."
"Okay, that's fine with me. Come on." Said Axl as he jumped back up onto the wall.
Eau nodded and followed Axl as he ran front of her and cut down any viruses that appeared in his sight. With this method, they were quickly able to get their without getting in any more battles even though his Sword's time limit had run out.
"Anything Axl?"
"No… no… Yes!" exclaimed Axl, "There's a hole in the ground being held open by two needles…"
"Needles? Why would there be needles in the ground on the Net?"
"There was water that you could slip on." Pointed out Axl.
"Yea… But… A needle? Are you sure that's the cause?"
"Yes, because a few more Viruses just came out…"
The new viruses were all black and had a shiny surface. Their head were ball shaped and they were being held up by some sort of support. Suddenly one opened its head to reveal a mouth. Out of the mouth shot a shiny small cannonball. One that came right for them. The head then quickly shut back up.
"Crap! Outta the way Eau!" Axl pushed Eau to the side as he jumped to the other side. He then took out his gun and made a few shots at the cannon's head. He then mumbled a string of curses as he witnessed his shots bounce right off the shiny outer shell.
"Axl, if you can't hurt it from the outside, you can usually hurt it from the inside. Maybe it'll work if you shoot into its mouth when it opens up to attack. Use this, it might help a bit. Battle Chip! Cannon! Slot In!"
The usual Cannon appeared on Axl's arm. As he started to aim at the nearest cannon, another suddenly opened its mouth and closed before he could aim towards it. He ten realized that when its mouth had opened, it was attacking. Axl quickly jumped back as a cannon ball landed right in front of him breaking the ground. Suddenly another attacked. One after another, each cannon virus opened and closed its mouth to send a small cannonball headed for Axl. He was able to dodge every single one but it was getting tiring. Every few moments, another cannon would appear from the hole and add to the amount of cannons attacking him.
Ranma had already tried to send another Cannon to appear on the ground to repeatedly attack the many hard headed viruses. But it was quickly destroyed by a cannonball headed its way. When the cannon was destroyed by the cannonball, Axl had seen an opening and was able to destroy one of the many viruses. But it was quickly replaced by another virus leaving him no better than when he had started. Only he didn't have a cannon and whatever chips that Ranma didn't use yet were useless.
"Dammit, there's no way I'm running anymore. I've had enough of that!" shouted Axl as he suddenly stopped moving and stared down a cannonball heading right towards him. As the cannonball came close, Axl jumped to the side and held his arms to where the cannonball was landing. He then caught it and spun with the momentum and then released it was thrown back at the senders. He smiled happily as he saw one of the viruses was crushed underneath the weight of it.
Axl then looked back towards where he had left Eau to see if she was still okay. He was surprised when he didn't see her there. Suddenly he heard her voice from behind the Hard Heads.
"Axl! I've closed the hole. There shouldn't be anymore viruses coming in!"
Axl nodded his thanks before he caught another cannonball and swung it back towards is sender. A few more minutes and he had finished off the last few with a few well placed shots. Axl grunted as he fell backwards from the exhaustion. Catching the cannonballs with his bare hands hurt a lot.
"Well we closed that one up. But what about the other ones?" asked Eau.
"No worries, every single maze is connected to every other one. If you close one up, they all will close up. We're all basically in the same maze. But there's a program that separates us." Explained Axl.
"That's it? We're done?"
"Yes."
"Now what do we do?"
"Wait. This maze was part of a race. Even though all those viruses weren't suppose to be here. Now, I'm gonna take a rest…"
Ranma was glad that it was all over. He didn't know how much longer Axl could have done doing that. He didn't have a recharge chip on him either. He then heard Mariko-Sensei as for attention. As every turned to look at her, she then explained what had happened.
"I'm sorry everyone for what happened. But because of it, there will be no winner. I'm really sorry about your Navis too. Please forgive me?"
Ranma shrugged as many other people just yelled out 'Okay!'.Mariko-Sensei said her thanks and everyone plugged out. Some kids started to brag to their friends about how they weren't worried at all and were easily able to beat all the viruses with no problem. Ranma and Evani met up with their friends and they started to talk about what happened. After Ranma and Takato had shared their experience, it was Niro's turn. He was looking very annoyed.
"Horrible! It was horrible! He just kept singing on and on! I couldn't do anything about it yet because two people with that adapter thing plugged into the right place would have found the clue! Then his stupid Navi kept singing that stupid song! I actually had to plug out Feuer before he deleted that stupid Navi! But, I was able to take him out when we started the maze!"
"How so?" asked Ranma.
Flashback
Feuer growled as he heard Shiningman hum that same stupid tune over and over again. They were currently walking inside the maze and had finished a few Mettaur Viruses. He would get his chance so he was able to hold back a bit. They soon encountered many more viruses. Without thinking, Shiningman rushed right in as he sang his song.
"Shining… I'm Shining… If you shine I'll shine with you too…"
"Battle Chip! Shotgun! Slot In! Feuer, Fire."
Feuer gave an evil grin as he was given the chip and the order to fire. He aimed the shotgun right at Shiningman's back and the viruses behind him. He then used the shotgun. All the viruses were instantly deleted and Shiningman had too much damage to continue. He was then plugged out.
"Hey! Niro! What are you doing? My Shiningman!"
"Whoops, sorry. My mistake."
End Flashback
"That's it?" asked Ranma.
"What do you mean that's it?"
"I thought you would have hit him a couple of times too!"
"The teacher was watching us all."
"Oh, never mind then."
They all went about their things before going to bed. Takato once again took out his Digivice and look at it again like he did every night. He sighed as he once again didn't see any signal. It was so depressing.
"Guilmon…"
In Another Place
Black Guilmon was currently taking a rest. All those past people he had to fight kept getting weapons to use against him. Why couldn't they just leave him alone? He knew he was a virus, so why did they keep yelling 'Virus! Virus!' all the time? His companions were currently taking a scout around the place to make sure they were safe.
He still hadn't found Takato yet, but he still kept his hopes up. If something had happened to his tamer, then he would pay back whoever did something to him. Yes, he would get back to his tamer, if something tried to get in his way; he would go right through them. He would do anything it would take to get back to his friend. Takato… Where was he?
Author's Note
Read this Goddammit: I need any kind of information on Axl and Forte. How they were made, when and their abilities. I mostly need information on Axl's Copy Shot from X7 since I don't know how he uses it. Does he destroy the enemy by using his Copy Shot to get the DNA core? Help please. I asked for information last chapter but did anyone even read it?
Also, I'm trying to use Japanese terms as little as possible but since I don't want to mess up anything from the Rockman. Exe line… I'll be using some once in a while like Sensei or Mariko-Sensei. Don't wanna call her Ms. Mari…
KrayZi: Okay, don't even think for one second that Ranma and Evani are gonna be together or Axl and Eau 'cause they're not. Evani is just a lot like Akane only lightened up a lot and a lot more capable. Got it?
Kao: You do know what that Data cube is right? It's that green cube you always find inside the Battle Network games that you get chips from. People who play the game and not watch the anime can probably relate to this a lot. Run around… Talk to people… Run again… Plug in… Talk… Plug out… Run around…
KrayZi: Also, the reason why Guilmon was able to change his forms to a Navi was because of what he and Takato took back in chapter four. He also does not look like the way he imagined himself. 'Kay?
Kao: Sorry for those who wanted to see what happened with Takato and Niro. But this chapter was too long. Besides, a lot of people probably wanted him to bring it out already.
KrayZi: Well, on to the reviews.
Note: Why is it that the people who put me on their Author's alert only review one or two times? I haven't gotten anything thing else since that last review. Some haven't even reviewed me at all!
To: Patrick
Krayzi: Thanks for being the first reviewer for that last chapter and for giving me an answer to that 'Poll' kinda thing.
Kao: Thanks for reviewing.
To: Max Knight
Kao: Giant gun Mass destruction goodness.
Krayzi: It was funny? I don't think it was that funny… Bleh…
Kao: You might not believe this, but if you play the X7 game or read a script like KZ did, you might think Axl is a lot like Ranma only a bit fined up.
Krayzi: Thanks for reviewing. Looking forward to the next chapter of your story too!
To: needmore
Kao: Guilmon… There are enough hints as there is…
Krayzi: Well, there's always a drawback to something good. Just like there is with his gun. It's also very useful for dishing out frustration. Well, you're the second and last person to respond to Krayzi's 'poll'. I decided on going on what Patrick wanted. If this chapter wasn't so long, I would have written in how Niro's whole thing went along with Takato too.
Kao: Thanks for reviewing.
To: Silverscale
Krayzi: This time… I have no idea what you're saying… I understand about updating sooner, sorry about that but after that is pretty confusing.
Kao: Besides, there's no way anyone from Ranma's world can follow him without the help of either using magic or going through a wormhole or something. Other than that, it's impossible. The way Takato got to the Exe world is the exact same way that Ranma went through only Takato had to go through the Digital World too. Ranma was just barely conscious so he didn't know what was happening.
Krayzi: Well anyway, thanks for reviewing.
To: fatboy
Kao: Actually that gun is his usual gun from the X7 game…
Krayzi: Well Guilmon, more specifically Black Guilmon now, appeared this time too. If you don't know why Guilmon was able to transform, then read my authors note. I explained somewhere there.
Kao: Thanks for reviewing.
To: renzuko
Krayzi: Bingo! Got it right on.
Kao: Other than he's now a Navi and a few tweaks to his personality.
Krayzi: Thanks for reviewing!
To : Master Chaos
Kao: Well, actually he's now an exact copy of the one from X7 other than he's a Navi and his personality. Actually his personality isn't that far off either.
Krayzi: I have praise! I am great! Go me! As to who'll be with Ranma, that's not going to happen anytime soon. If it ever does happen I mean. There'll be hints or even maybe something that really does happen. But I won't be going too far off topic.
Kao: Thanks for reviewing.
To: Rodaiogin
Krayzi: Thanks!
Kao: Thanks for reviewing!
To: OmnicromXR
Krayzi: Yep, it is a cat as I had mentioned ONCE in this chapter. Not sure if anyone will actually catch it though. I added even more hints to help figure out who those two are.
Kao: Just to tell you, the ones attacking them are mostly the Navis and once in a while Viruses too.
Krayzi: Yea, I tried but that was the closest I could get. I didn't wanna bother myself by writing about him moping all the time. But I had mentioned in this chapter and BEFORE this chapter that he daily looks at his Digivice at night before going to bed.
Kao: Besides, all authors must have at least ONE OOC. He just couldn't help it. Right?
Krayzi: Yup, I'll try to keep it a one time thing though. Thanks for reviewing!
To: Firehedgehog
Krayzi: Damn right I do. Would be a pity if I didn't.
Kao: No really, it would be for him.
Krayzi: Oh yea, thanks for letting me rant out a few things about my story too. As to what I've got planned, I think I've found a few ways to mix in storylines too. Like the Zero series for example. His Recoil Rod sounds pretty cool.
Kao: Thanks for reviewing!
Last minute note: I need some biography data on Axl and Forte. I know there are some Forte fan girls or something out there. I'll need help especially from you too. Anything concerning Forte and Axl. Data of creation, their abilities, I also need to know how Axl uses his Copy Shot and Axl Trance thanks. Forte, all I know about him is that he was made by Dr. Cossack in the Exe series and he is the ultimate Navi and also has the Get Ability. I also know anything that would come from Ryouko's "Rockman Online" site. So please. Guilmon does NOT look like the way he imagined himself too. Okay? I've got a better look for him.
