Hello all! Yes, I know it's been a while... Okay, I'm sorry... I got busy. I'll try to update as much as I can... But if I can, at least make it up to you all with an epic update that's worth waiting for? Lol, that's up to your interpretation. Let's get the normal garbage out of the way first...

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN MEGAMAN BATTLE NETWORK! ALL RIGHTS GO TO CAPCOM! (While some OCs' names belong to Capcom, this AU version is mine, and all OCs are mine)

Okay, here we GOOOOOOOOOOO!


An hour after Dex got severely scolded by Yai, Lan decided to have the group play volleyball. The obvious teams were Lan and Maylu against Zeke and Yai. Zeke was up first as server, and looked carefully at his opponents. Maylu was focused on where the ball was going to go. Lan on the other hand, was apparently more interested in Maylu's butt instead of the ball. He smirked when he came to this realization as he served the ball straight to Lan's face, which was turned at Maylu at the time. The ball smacked Lan right on his right cheek, taking him down to the sand. The ball rolled off and into the sand. Zeke and Yai then had a huge laughing fit.

"Hey Lan!" Zeke taunted, "You might not want to stare at your girlfriend for too long, it might hurt after a while!" Lan supported himself on his arms and glared at Zeke.

"Yeah shut up!" Lan retorted, "At least I have a beautiful girlfriend TO stare at!" Zeke was displeased with the comment.

"Uh-huh, you're cool, our serve buddy," Zeke dismissed the offensive comment and the game continued. Zeke served the ball again, and Lan was totally focused this time around after being slammed by the ball. A few volleys went back and forth until Yai set the ball and Zeke jumped high above her to slam the ball straight down between their opponents, thus another point was scored. The game continued for hours while Dex sat under an umbrella motionless and appeared soulless. The game ended with Lan's team at 17, and Zeke's team with 25. "Total landslide!" Zeke exclaimed as he gave Yai a high-five, "just, totally demolished!" Lan unburied himself from the sand and marched up to Zeke.

"That game was totally rigged!" he challenged, "We could have totally crushed you!" Zeke just chuckled

"Spoken like a true sore loser and yes, it was rigged, by your own distractions" Zeke replied with an insult. Lan became extremely furious with this comment, and was going to continue the argument when Maylu hugged him from behind, forcing him to stop. Lan sighed.

"Good game man," Lan finally said as he stuck his hand out, "You were right about me; I was too busy looking at my piece of heaven that's hugging me right now." Zeke shook his hand while Maylu let out a moan.

"Aww, Lan you're so sweet!" she cooed as she nuzzled her head into Lan's back. Zeke sighed and looked out at the sunset.

"Hey, it's getting kinda late guys," Lan commented, "Let's get on back to the hotel." Zeke stood motionless staring at the sunset.

"…You guys go, I'll catch up, you do have that tiki to worry about," Zeke said, the 'tiki' referring to Dex, who was still sitting motionless and soulless. Lan and Maylu looked at Dex, then back to Zeke. "I just have something to do here first…" Lan and Maylu nodded and proceeded with Yai to move Dex back to the hotel, while Zeke walked closer to the shoreline in the direction of the sunset. There was a mild breeze that flew against him as tears formed in his eyes. "Irene… I can't wait… to see you again…"

[A few days later, back at DenTech City]

Zeke woke up at 11:00 on Thursday morning, though he remained in his bed for a few minutes longer until his PET beeped by the PC.

"Zeke," Zero called, "It's an alert forwarded from Lan; you might want to get up." Zeke groaned and got up to sit in his chair and took up his PET to read the alert, forwarded from Lan, originally from Chaud. It read:

"The target has been captured and is en route to Electopia. ETA is about 2 weeks."

The message, as short as it was, brought Zeke to tears.

"Irene…" he said. Zero simply went back on standby to allow the news to sink in. Megaman appeared on Zeke's PC screen.

"Zeke," Megaman began, "You got the alert, right?" Zeke quickly wiped his eyes.

"Y-Yeah, I did," Zeke replied.

"I sent you the alert, because Lan is still asleep," Megaman explained, "just so you don't' misplace credit."

"Oh, he's asleep for once?" Zeke jokingly asked.

"Haha, Zeke, normally I can't get him up on time!" Megaman laughed, so did Zeke and Zero. Megaman returned to his PET while Zeke jacked Zero into the Net to bust more Zeta viruses. An hour or two later, Zeke heard the doorbell ring, and decided to get it.

"I got it!" he shouted as he opened the door to see Maylu, "Oh, hey Maylu, what can I do for you?"

"I'm here for Lan… he called me over…" she replied. Zeke immediately caught on and allowed her to go to Lan's room, where she was quickly sucked into by Lan and the door shut. Zeke sighed.

Soon, I can be alone with Irene…hopefully… Zeke thought, sighed then shouted, "Mrs. Hikari! I'm going out!" He walked out of the house when bleeping occurred from his PET.

"Zeke, you have a call," Zero informed as Zeke took out his PET, "it's Dr. Hikari."

"Hello?" Zeke answered the call.

"Zeke? Ah thank goodness," Dr. Hikari said from the other end, "I couldn't get a hold of Lan, is he okay?" Zeke tried not to look disgruntled.

"Oh, he's better than okay," Zeke replied, failing to hide the disdain in his voice, "he's just a little 'indisposed'."

"Oh, I see," said Dr. Hikari, "well, I need at least one of you to come to SciLab; we're in our final stages of building our Anti-Zeta weapon."

"I'll be there," Zeke responded and ended the call. He then ran to SciLab with some spring in his step. It's all coming together… Irene… I can't wait to see you again, but I don't think you'd like to see the final battle… it's going to be gruesome even with this weapon…

[SciLab]

Zeke entered SciLab and was greeted by Dr. Hikari.

"Ah, Zeke, thanks for coming," Dr. Hikari gave his usual greeting.

"It's not a problem," Zeke replied, "so what's the weapon supposed to do?" Dr. Hikari scratched his head.

"Well," he began, "The Anti-Zeta as we call it, is supposed to emit what we call, an Alpha Pulse, which is an area of the cyberworld actually becomes the Alpha Net for a set period of time."

"Hmm…" Zeke processed the information.

"Zeke," Zero informed, "I am recording this conversation so Lan and Megaman can review it later."

"Alright Zero," Zeke acknowledged and turned his attention back to Dr. Hikari, "Continue."

"So," continued Dr. Hikari, "when a part of the cyberworld becomes the Alpha Net, most data can still survive in it except for viruses and NetNavis."

"Navis can't survive in there either?" Zeke questioned.

"Nope, not unless they can escape before they are deleted," Dr. Hikari grimly replied.

"Hmm…" Zeke processed the information, "what about Darkloids such as Zeta? How is he going to fare?"

"I do know," Dr. Hikari said, "that Zeta isn't going to like it, and is significantly going to weaken. Best case scenario is that we can delete him with it."

"…Worst case scenario?" Zeke asked.

"Worst case scenario, is that it will paralyze him, weakening him for the duration of the effects of the Alpha Pulse," Dr. Hikari answered then changed the subject, "We also have created it to have a targeting system, so we can pinpoint where Zeta viruses are running amok and smash them with the Alpha Pulse." Zeke nodded in understanding.

"How soon can this system be put into effect?" Zeke asked.

"Very soon, we're still in the finalization process, but if it is needed to be used now we can fire it right now," Dr. Hikari replied, "in fact, it might be ready in a few minutes, if you could stay for the first firing I would appreciate it."

"Sure," Zeke shrugged, "I don't have anything better to do today." It'd also be best to essentially leave the house to Lan for a while; I don't think they'll be done for at least a few hours… He took a seat in the entrance hall before Dr. Hikari shooed him over to a chair placed next to where he'd stand.

"Dr. Hikari!" someone called, "Finalization is complete!"

"Excellent," Dr. Hikari said, and sure enough, an alarm sounded for viruses.

"Dr. Hikari!" someone else called, "Zeta viruses are attacking Den Area 1!"

"Ready the Anti-Zeta Emitter!" Dr. Hikari ordered as a core-like object appeared on the main view screen, apparently the emitter. The emitter had a silver circular base with another circular offshoot coming up from it, a gelatinous orange orb levitated above the base that had four silver rings in a line and greatly spaced, creating a tube-like structure around the orb. Levitating above the rings was a silver funnel-like structure, and levitating above that, a silver spire-like structure ending in a blue bulb. Levitating and revolving around the entire structure were eight boxes with two spikes on the top of each. Four of them levitated at the height between the rings and the funnel with the spikes facing up, while the other four were levitating at the height between the base and the rings, the spikes facing down, and revolving in the opposite direction. The boxes moved faster as the emitter generated energy.

"The Anti-Zeta Emitter is charging!" someone shouted, "Power levels are normal and steady!" Lines of what looked like orange electricity flowed between the funnel and the base, sometimes through the orb as it began to glow. As the emitter charged the electricity became more violent and the orb began to glow brighter. Then, the electricity poured into the spire, and an orange ball began to form at the bulb. The ball continued to grow until it was ten times the bulb's size.

"All set!" someone shouted in finality.

"Fire!" Dr. Hikari ordered, and the orb shot upwards at high speed. Then the view screen changed to a view of Den Area 1. When the orange orb landed in the middle of Den Area 1, an orange ring erupted and expanded throughout the area , leaving an orange wake. Within the wake were Zeta viruses, appearing to have seizures before being deleted. After a minute or two the wake subsided as the area returned to normal. Not one virus remained.

"Whoa…" Zeke gawked, "that was… like testing the atomic bomb…" Dr. Hikari then turned to Zeke.

"Thank you for coming Zeke," Dr. Hikari thanked Zeke.

"Not a problem Dr. Hikari, now I shall take my leave," Zeke said as he got up and left SciLab. "My mind has just been blown…" he said still gawking at the new weapon Dr. Hikari and his team had made, "No ProgramAdvance I know can have that kind of power…" He continued to walk to Lan's house, taking out his PET while doing so. "Zero…"

"I know, Zeke…" Zero said, very much aware of what Zeke was thinking, "This'll be over soon…"

[Later…]

Zeke was relaxing on his bed, more like dozing off, when his PET bleeped.

"Zeke!" Zero called out to him, "It's Bass and Zeta! Their battle's getting close to SciLab! And Bass is having trouble!"

"Huh?!" Zeke said, startled, "It is time…then…" Zero nodded.

"Let's go, and we better grab Lan." Zeke did so, yanking him away from his precious bed.

"Aww, what?!" Lan groaned in extreme disgust.

"Lan, being late for school is one thing, but this is different!" Megaman scolded. After some deliberation, Lan and Zeke finally left for SciLab, to await, the final battle.

[SciLab]

Upon arrival, the team was obviously frantically scrambling to make last-minute adjustments and improvements to the weapon due to the urgency of Bass and Zeta's battle.

"Lan! Zeke!" Dr. Hikari exclaimed, obviously under extreme stress, "Bass and Zeta are not far from SciLab's server, we're trying to get Bass out of the way of the blast."

"I doubt if that's working," Lan mused, "it'd take quite a bit of convincing."

"We're still trying," Dr. Hikari said firmly, "Bass will want to get out of the way knowing the power of our weapon."

[Cyberworld]

The conversation between Bass and the SciLab team quickly turned sour. Bass was indeed having a hard time fighting Zeta at this point due to having fought him for a long time, for at least several weeks.

Grrah… Bass thought with fatigue and disdain as his fight with Zeta continued, this one is strong…perhaps I should back off for now… His tone quickly changes to realization and affirmation, yes, I think doing that will work out much better than what I originally intended… With that, Bass evaded a SonicSword attack frenzy from Zeta and left the area.

Huh…? Zeta thought, caught off-guard, What was that all about? He didn't have time to think, as an orange beam shot down from above behind the compilation of DarkPower, which emitted a powerful orange wave that filled the area, catching Zeta within it. Zeta screamed in sheer agony, for what would be instant deletion for normal Navis, was utter torture for someone like Zeta. He felt as if he was being deleted over and over and over again, constantly without it actually happening. His deep violet crystal developed brighter shading at a snail's pace during the effect. After it finally stopped, which was several minutes, Zeta had a long moment of disorientation when familiar crimson and cobalt figures appeared.

"Zeta!" the cobalt figure shouted and brandished an arm cannon, "Time for you to go, for good!" Zeta scoffed at this, despite his weakened state. Even being weakened, Zeta thought that he was more than adequate in taking the two figures down.

"We'll take him together, Megaman," the crimson figure said calmly but firmly, bracing for combat.

"Right, Zero…" Megaman said in agreement and popped into stance. Zeta laughed, not allowing his fatigue and agony to faze him.

"Then come, you fools!" Zeta challenged haughtily, "Come to your deletion!" He laughed boisterously and arrogantly as he brandished his ZetaSword.


Like? Yes, epic build up, and I will ensure to not disappoint with such a build up! When will it come out? I don't know, because I'm awfully busy. I do know for a fact how this will end up. Just throwing that out there. I really don't need to say this, but for kicks and giggles... Up next: The final battle! Zero and Megaman VS Zeta!