Note to Readers: I'm sorry that it took me so long for me to update my story, but it's getting a bit harder for me to do so as of late. Now, I would like to say that I'm going to change this story to the anime section of Also I would not only would like to say thanks to the group Generation-A for their continued support, but I would also like to tell them that I hope that they're going to get better from their stress soon. I would also like to thank the one named Lil' Samus (sorry that I've misspelled your name) for making those cute fics of hers. I would like to say that I'm very impressed and that I hope that you make some more soon. Oh, and I've also added some more characters to this fic so that it might be a bit more interesting. One more thing, then next chapter would probably have some scenes and references to SEGA's new game: Shadow the Hedgehog. Now, I'm going to say this again like I have previsely: I only own the story, not the characters. Period. They belong to they're rightful owners mentioned in the first part. So see ya later and enjoy!
Part 10
Just as both she and Shadow were causally crossing in the new forms, Mana was amazed for when she behold her eyes on the very city itself. The buildings that surrounded them were taller than the ones that were in Miguel's world. Not only that, but the technology that she saw this world's people using or displaying right now is a bit more advanced than what her love's human friend had in his world. But besides the fact that it was a bit futuristic, the young woman could clearly see that it was like a modern day world.
Mana was still a bit amazed that the spell that she had been working on since five thousand years ago was able to work at all. She had only been able to try it a few times for when she was playing with her monster companions back on her world and this was the only time that she had to use it in order to keep her appearance a secret. Her form looked like the one that she once had for when she still a young mortal back in Ancient Egypt. Only now the form that she took on has longer milk-chocolate brown hair than the one that she had for when she was younger. The modern clothing that she wore consists of a pink cotton sleeveless shirt along with a part of blue shorts that matches along with a pair of pink and baby blue sneakers that have sort of cute hearts and mice designs on them.
Just as she turned her eye's full attention towards the black hedgehog, who she saw was no longer in the form that he used to appear in, she saw that the boy that she was hold onto looked nothing like the black hedgehog that she fell in love with. The boy had long, smooth, and yet spiky hair that's colored jet black along with crimson streaks on the tips of the spikes. She also saw he has tanned but light skin for as he continued to scan the area that they're in with his crimson-colored eyes. Other than the same type of shoes that he wore, the clothing that she saw Shadow wearing in his human form was a bit rough and somewhat mysterious. The huge amount of black leather that he was wearing would make him look as though he were someone rebelling against society or something. The metallic spiked accessory that he was wearing looks a bit too danger for him to be wearing in the middle of the streets of the city they're in. The black leather jacket that he's wearing looked a bit loose and it matches along with his pitch black leather pants.
"But despite the way he looks with those weird cloths, Shadow still looks cute even as a human," Mana thought to herself just as she continued to walk in the streets with the self-proclaimed Ultimate Life Form while continuing to hold onto one of his skinny and yet broad arms. "I would never have imagined that my spell would be able to transform him into such a handsome young man that I'm seeing right now. That gentle smile on his human face right now is something that I've rarely get to see on him as well as seeing him blush for when he saw me in my present form. I wonder how his human friend Miguel would take this for when he see Shadow like this? Hee! Hee! Hee!"
As she continued to snuggle up towards Shadow's human arm, the female magician in disguise began to sigh in complete bliss for when she felt the the warmth that's being radiated from his sleeve covered limb. Just when she thought that she was the luckiest girl of all time, Mana heard the once black hedgehog saying to her with a rather flustered and yet serious tone in his voice as he tried to keep his voice low enough for only her ears to listen, "M-M-Mana, as much as I would like for you to hold my arm like that, we still need to find where my friend Miguel and the Chaotix are in this world."
The young magician girl let out a soft disappointed and yet playful sigh for as she said to him while also sounding childish, "Aw! You're such a meanie, Shadow! Why can't you just enjoy being here in this world with me?"
As soon as she said those words, Mana saw the once black hedgehog's face beginning to flush even more that it did before. She soon giggled cutely to him for when she saw the look on his face. Just as she was about to say something sweet to her love, the female magician heard a sudden rumbling being emitted from Shadow's stomach.
"Hee! Hee! Hee! Looks like someone is hungry despite claiming to be 'Ultimate Life Form' in the world," Mana said to her love with an impish grin on her face just as she saw Shadow's own face becoming more embarrassed with what she just said just as she spoke softly enough for him to hear so that she wouldn't allow anyone from the crowd to hear. "I may not be able to know anything about the Ultimate Life Form, but I do know that you don't usually eat much or get tired very easily like everyone else. I guess that spell that I've casted on the both us is stronger than I thought. However, we both could still freely use our powers freely without anyone from this world noticing what we really are."
While hearing him sighing in defeat, the female magician heard the hedgehog in disguise saying to her with a rather flustered tone, "I guess that we have no choice but to rest and get something to eat. Thanks to this form that you've given me, I now have to depend on the food I eat in order to survive now. But, what I would like to know is where are we going to eat and how are we going to pay for it?"
That was when the female magician began to giggle softly for just as she said to her black-haired boyfriend while at the same time randomly pointing at a restaurant sign that said 'Number 1 Curry' on it, "Well, fortunately for the two of us, I was able to conjure up some income that would be able to spend on in this world. That restaurant over there seems like the place that could serve great and delicious food. Hee! Hee!"
"(Sighs) Then I guess that we might as well go to that place," she heard Shadow saying to him while seeing him turn his full attention towards the restaurant that she was pointing at. "Besides, the smell being given off at that place is just too good to pass up and I would need the energy."
As soon as she heard those words come out of his mouth, Mana began to smile with the knowledge of knowing that she managed to get her boyfriend to agree to eat with her in a restaurant. She did managed to hear him mumble with a bit of embarrassment in his voice while trying his best to surpress it. Just as they've headed towards the entrance of the restaurant, the young female began to hear sort of a ruckus coming within it but soon ignored it as a bit of her imagination. When both she and Shadow entered the building, Mana soon saw that both she and the hedgehog in disguise were in a rather popular and lively place.
They both saw that the restaurant is really crowded and full of life as people and kids of all ages sitting in different table and eating some sort of spice of sorts. "Whatever the smell is, it's certainly delicious!" the female magician thought to herself as she took a whiff of the wonderful scent that was surrounding the room that they were in. "Whoever is making this type of food really has a good taste in what to put in it. I've never smelled or even tasted anything like this since my time in Ancient Eygpt!"
"Mana, I think that we ought to find a seat and wait for our order," she heard the voice of Shadow saying to her while at the same time snapping out of her dream-like gaze. "If we don't then we might not have a seat to sit on."
The young female soon noticed that what Shadow said to her wasn't on lie. She saw that most of the tables and seats of the place they were in are starting to become occupied. But, as miracle would have it, there was one seat in the place that had two vacant seats free from anyone who would be fortunate to get them before either she or Shadow would. Before she could have the chance to tell the now black-haired human boy about the empty seats and table that she saw, Mana felt the hand of her love beginning to gently tug her towards the direction at where she found their table.
Just as soon as the two of them arrived at their table and sat at their seats, the young female began to turn towards the once black hedgehog's direction and looked at him with a cute smile spreading across her face. Mana chuckled a bit for when she saw the red blush starting to once again crawl all over Shadow's face. Just before she could have the chance to say something to make the disguised hedgehog blush even more, the female suddenly heard the voice of a young boy saying to them in a happy and polite tone, "So, what could I get for you two? Is there anything that you would like to eat?"
This immediately got Mana to turn away from him and look towards the direction at where the voice was coming from. But just as soon as she stared at where the little boy was suppose to be, the sight that the young female saw was enough to make her squeal with delight. The little boy that she saw looked like he was a cute doll of sorts. The chef's clothing that he was wearing is rather adorable along with his little notepad and pencil. His face filled with the innocent look of a child that out of his eight years of age along with two pink adorable spots on his cheeks that would make him like a cute creature of sorts back in her world. His short high was only able enough to allow him to reach either her waist or Shadow's now visible knees. To top it off, his hair style was rather strange but cute in its own unique way. The one spike that's on his brown hair sticked up towards sky almost like a nail or needle.
Just as she was going to say something to the little boy or even have the chance to hug him with delight, Mana heard the voice of her black-haired boyfriend saying to the child with a startled and yet composed tone, "What is it that you want, little boy? Are you lost or something?"
Just as she was about to tell Shadow not to be rude, the young female began to hear the little boy saying to the disguised hedgehog with a rather annoyed and angry tone, "Who are you calling a little boy! I'll have you know that I'm the little brother of the one person that could make great curry! He's also one of the greatest netbattlers that I've ever seen and he could kick you so hard that it would take you to the moon!"
Just before she could have the chance to intervene with the situation, Mana saw the face on Shadow's face beginning to turn from embarrassed to just plain confused and calm just as he said to the boy, "You're kidding, right kid? Look, I may not know who this brother of yours is or what these netbattles are, but I would not like to cause some trouble with you that would most likely get me or my girlfriend kicked out of this place. Now, what is that you want?"
As she was shocked at the calmness that her love just displayed right in front of the boy, the female magician heard the boy saying to him while using a rather miffed and childish tone, "Well, for your information, I happen to be one of the waiters in this restaurant that just wants to give you your order so that it would allow my big brother make it for you. The menus are on the tables, you know."
As she looked at the table for what the little boy was talking about, Mana saw two menus on the table right near the salt and the napkins just as he said it would. Before she could allow Shadow the chance to speak, the female said to the little boy while trying to calm his annoyed face with one of her bright and cheery smiles while at the same time still delighted to see him, "Well, the two of us have just arrived here and we really don't even know what we want at the moment. Isn't that right, dear?"
Just as soon as she said those words the boy, Mana immediately saw the little cute child beginning to blush with a red shade all over his innocent-looking face. Not only that, but when she turned her full attention back towards Shadow, she saw him giving her a rather confused look just as he said to her quietly so that she would be the only one to hear him, "'Dear'? Since when did we become a married couple?"
Just as soon as she heard those words, the female magician began to blush furiously with delight and giggle cutely for as she turned away from him while covering up her face. The thoughts that were circling around her head were imagines of herself in a beautiful white wedding along with Shadow in a black groom's suit while holding out his hand towards his bride-to-be while still in his handsome human form. As soon as she snapped herself out of her dream state, Mana turned to see her black-haired love looking at her with a confused expression on his face while cocking one of his eyebrows. She then turned her full attention back towards the little boy and saw him still blushing like mad with both embarrassment and shyness as he said to her before beginning to walk away, "W-W-Well then, I'll just go take care of some of the other customers that are around here. Call either me or Count Zap for when you've finally decide on what you want. Bye!"
Before she could even have the chance to ask about who this person named Count Zap was, the female magician saw the little boy hurriedly rushing back towards the other costumers where they were wait for their own orders. She then turned her full attention back towards Shadow just in time to hear him saying to her with a rather flushed expression on his face while speaking in a low tone of voice, "Mana, I think that we ought to look at the menus right now and see what we would like to eat. Just why are you staring at me like that anyway?"
"I wonder what was it that Mana was thinking about for when I asked her that question?" Shadow thought to himself just as he saw the little boy who was blushing towards Mana's words going away from their table in order to take the orders from the other costumers in the restaurant they're in. "I mean, it's not I didn't enjoy the love and affection that she's giving to me. It's just that being in this human body is still sort of foreign to me along with feeling embarrassed and flustered for when Mana was talking rather sweetly to me like a cute little kid.
"(Sighs) I guess that my own physical appearance isn't the only thing that's changing. I should just find out what I really want to eat and finish it so that we could continue our search for Miguel, Sylphiel, or either of the Chaotix so that I could have some more help with looking for the Chaos Emerald that landed in this world. If that kind of power were to fall into the wrong hands, who knows what might happen?"
As soon as he finished with those thoughts, the disguised black hedgehog looked back towards the female magician's direction and saw her looking at him with a sort of cute and admiring expression on her face. The kind of face for whenever a crowd of girls see a young man who they find incredibly handsome. Shadow blushed for when he saw the beautiful smile beginning to crept all across her face.
"Mana, I think that we ought to look at the menus right now and see what we would like to eat," the now black-haired human said to his now brown-haired female while whispering to her in a low voice so that only she would be able to hear and also trying to maintain his usual cool tone but failed to do so. "Just why are you staring at me like that anyway?"
"Oh, nothing Shadow darling. Just simply adoring you in that form that you're in right now. I just couldn't help it for when I find you attractive!" was Mana's reply as she gave him a wink of her eye along with a cute girlish giggle that caused him to blush even more.
Just as he grabbed one of the menus from on top of the table's surface and covered his now embarrassed face while making it look like he was searching for something to eat. "Man, this is really starting to get to me!" the black hedgehog in disguise thought to himself just as he did his best to calm himself from the embarrassment that he had to endure as he heard the female magician continuing to giggle cutely from behind his menu. "I mean, ever since having met Mana and...kissed her, I started to feel different. I start blushing and acting like an idiot for whenever I'm around her and it makes me think silly thoughts like seeing her in a bathing suit or...seeing her in a bathing suit! What the hell was I thinking that for! Just where in the world did that thought came from anyway?"
Just before he could continue to argue with his own thoughts, Shadow soon stopped for a moment as soon as he remember that he wasn't alone in the table that he was on and turned his attention back towards Mana's direction. As soon as he laid his eyes on her, the black hedgehog saw that the female was already starting to scan through her menu in order to look for something that would be appetizing to her. The Ultimate Life Form soon sighed with relief and began to calm himself down for when he saw that he wouldn't be teased by her anytime soon. "I guess that I should look for something to eat as well," Shadow thought to himself just as he started to scan words through the menu in order to see what he should eat. "Hmmm. This is a rather interesting selection for a place like this. Curry Udon? Pork Curry? Vegetable Curry? Is that how this restaurant serves its costumers? I guess that I have no choice but to pick one out and eat it before I lose consciousness from energy loss."
With those thoughts done in his mind, Shadow began to scan through the menu in order to decide what he would like to order. Just as he thought that he had found something that he thought would be appetizing and enough to fill him up, the disguised Mobian soon began to sense what appears to be a chill coming up his now human spine. "What is this feeling that I'm getting?" Shadow thought to himself just as he look up from his menu and began to scan his surroundings in order to see where it came from. "This is the sort of thing that I should only be feeling for whenever I'm sensing an enemy nearby. But the question is, where did it come from?"
As the black hedgehog continued to scan the restaraunt in order to find the source of the disturbing feeling that he's sensing, he soon rested his eyes on someone that he thought would be suspicous. Who Shadow saw was a man that's dressed in some kind of outfit that someone always wears for when he or she decides to take up on ninja training. He also noticed that the man possesses a rather noticable and yet tough-looking scar that has been gashed right all across the right side of his face that also went across his eye. The expression that the Ultimate Life Form noticed on his face almost made him appear sinister. The symbols that he'd seen on the man's were almost identical to that of ninja stars that he's seen Espio thrown once.
Just as he thought that the man wasn't a threat by himself, the black hedgehog suddenly heard the voice of Mana saying to him with a worried tone in her voice, "Shadow, is something the matter? Are you feeling alright?"
As soon he heard those words coming out of the young woman's mouth, Shadow began to turn towards her direction just in time to see a worried expression all over her face. The black hedgehog began to lighten his face from a shocked and frighten expression to a smile as he spoke to her with a reassuring tone, "I'm alright, Mana. It's just that I've felt a chill all around my body from the air conditioner here, that's all. I guess that it came from..."
Just before he could have the chance to finish the rest of his sentence, Shadow began to hear what appears to sound like frightened and manic screaming coming out from behind what appears to be the restaurant's kitchen.
"What was that, Shadow darling!" he heard the voice of Mana saying to him with a rather panicked tone just as he turned towards the direction of where the entrance of the kitchen would be. "Do you think that this place could be attacked by robbers?"
Just as the black hedgehog in his human guise was about to go see what the noise was all about and take care of whoever was unlucky enough to cross his path, he was suddenly stopped by a hand in front of him as he heard the voice of a man saying to him with a calm and cool tone, "Don't you and your girlfriend worry about it, boy. This type of behavior is normal for this restraurant's employees. Especially in a place like this."
After noticing how cool response is, the Ultimate Life Form began to turn towards the direction where the voice came from and saw the man in the ninja outfit staring back at him as if he were not concern about what just occurred. "What do you mean by that, old man?" Shadow responded to the odd stranger with a threatening look on his face that told him that if he tried anything funny or suspicious, it would be wise not to mess with him.
"What I'm saying is that this type of thing always happens for whenever their delivery boy, Dingo, is always late on one of his deliveries," the man said to the disguised hedgehog with a cool and yet rather suspicious look on his face. "Just take a look around where you and your girlfriend are now and see what I mean."
As he did what he was told, Shadow saw that the mysterious man wasn't lying. The Mobian saw that everyone in the restaurant was as calm like it was a regular day or something. Just before he could have the chance to ask or even reply to the strange man's words, Shadow suddenly heard the commotion of what appears to be a large gang coming in through the restaurant's enterance. What he didn't expect was that the gang in question were wearing glowing green and identical pirate outfits that made them feel like spirits or something. The weapons that they were holding looked as though that they could either by decades or centuries old.
Before he could have the chance to do anything, that black hedgehog saw who looks to be the leader of the pirate gang appearing from within the group of green goons. What he saw on the leader was something that he thought would only get to see in the horror stories. The pirate that he saw had a really atrocious sight that he's ever seen since confronting the power mad sorcerer named Ixis Naugus. Besides the fact that he wore an eyepatch on his right eye, the face of the leader looked as though he'd suffer many cuts and slashes by someone with a knife. As for the rest of his body, the black hedgehog was only able to make out that it looked as though he were a walking dead body that's suffered through a horrible accident.
"Arr! I'm Captain Blood and anyone who dares to try to be a hero would pay the ultimate price! Understands?" he heard the leader, now known as Blood, saying to everyone in the room while at the same time sounding as menacing as he looks while turning towards his group of seemingly near identical companions. "Har! Har! Wouldn't you all agree with me fellas?"
As a response to their leader's words, Shadow heard the large group of pirates all beginning to cackle evilly towards their captives. Everyone in the room began to panic as he saw each of the pirates beginning to block all possible means of escape for anyone. That was when he also heard the voice of Mana saying to him with low tone while also sounding a bit frightened, "Shadow, I'm sensing a very powerful spiritaul energy coming from those creatures. They're not human, at least not anymore."
When he heard those words coming from the young woman's mouth, the black hedgehog was about to ask her something just before he heard the voice of the strange robed man saying to the large group of green characters with a rather calm and yet seriously dangerous tone in his voice, "I would suggest that you and your little band of pirates get out of here before you wound up getting yourselves hurt."
As soon as he heard those words coming out of the strange man's mouth, Shadow was about to protest about his defiance towards the group for when he heard them starting to emit an evil and yet hearty laugh as they stared at him with a rather confident expressions on each of their faces. "Well, it looks as though we have a hero on our hands, fellas," the black hedgehog heard the one called Captain Blood saying to his green companions. "What do you all say that we send this fella with the gown to the bottoms of hell! Arrrr!"
Just before he could even make an attempt to keep any of the pirates from advancing towards the unfazed man with the scar, Shadow suddenly heard the voice of a man with a Scottish accent saying while sounding pretty confused and annoyed, "Hey! Who's causing all this ruckus all around here! If anyone around here breaks anything, they'll be the ones to buy it!"
As soon as he heard those words, Shadow began to turn his attention towards the source of the noise and saw a group of people that were shocked at what they were seeing. Other than seeing the same cute little child with them, the black hedgehog saw a man with long and flaming red hair along with a short beard of sorts along with an outfit that seemed to reflect his personality. He also saw another man with blond hair dressed in a rather strange and yet not so unusual suit that he soon noticed that lightbulbs are attached and connected to each other like wires. He soon noticed that the young female of the groups dressed like a regular teenaged girl and has a bit too much make-up on her face. The only thing that he did notice irregular about her is the fact that her pink hair was designed like that of a french poodle that he sworn he saw once. The final adult male of the group didn't have much hair on his except the amount that he'd used to form a ponytail. He also looked as though he had been in the sun for too long in the beach and from the way that he was build, he could've sworn that he hadn't eaten for about a week.
As soon as he surveyed the rest of the group, Shadow saw a huge kid in a chef's outfit with a rather strange shark fin-like hairdo on his head that appeared to not have much hair left in it. He then turned his attention towards another kid who wearing a black-hooded sweater of sort. He also noticed all of the kid's face was painted a bit but not entirely. Just as he was about to do anything that would be able to take care of the situation in less than a minute, the black hedgehog in disguise was soon dragged under the table by the arm just as he looked to see Mana with a rather surprised and shocked look on her face.
"Mana, what's the matter with you?" Shadow asked the female magician with both a worried and serious tone in his voice but kept it as gentle as he could without hurting her feelings just as he was under the table by the hand of the young woman. "You looked as though you've seen a ghost. Well, despite the fact that what we're seeing right now are actually ghosts."
"It's not that, Shadow darling," he heard Mana saying with a rather surprised tone just as he looked at her straight in the eyes for whatever answer she was about to say. "The boy that I've seen with black sweater and the paint on his face is the very same boy that you've attacked while you were still not fully conscious."
Dingo was a bit surprised and frightened for when he heard those words coming from outside of Yahoot's office. He couldn't believe that what Maddy said about a group of ghost pirates coming in the restaurant came true. As soon as he, Dex, and his little brother, along with all four former members of World Three, got to the front register in order to see what was going on, the Indian boy soon found himself becoming rather frighten for when he laid his eyes on the sight before him.
"Oy! Dingo! What's going on out there!" he heard the voice of TomahawkMan saying to him with a rather worried and yet anxious tone in his voice while at the same time trying to get his Net Op's attention. "I thought that I've heard some guy with a sort of frog in his throat shouting out to...!"
As if to respond to his digital friend's question, Dingo began to raise his P.E.T. towards the direction where he was looking at so that he would share what was the source of the disturbance. What the boy saw was a group of identical looking people in wearing what appears to be green pirate outfits. Not only that but the green light that they're emitting made them look as though they were ghosts. But that wasn't what nearly frighten him the most is the supposed leader of the group. Dingo would've screamed right there and now for when he saw what the leader looked like. It was almost as if he were from a sort of horror movie that he'd watched once just before arriving to Jawaii Island and meeting up with Lan.
Just as he was about to say something, he suddenly heard Dex shouting out while at the same time seeing him quickly ducking out towards the front counter of the restaurant along with his little brother, "Ahhhh! Pirate ghosts! Everyone duck!"
As soon as he saw the large kid and his tiny sibling vanishing into the bottom of the counter, the Indian boy turned their full attention towards everyone else had quickly ducked underneath their tables for safety and covered. The only people that seemed almost to be unfazed by the announcement were himself, Mr. Match, Count Zap, Maddy, Yahoot, and, much or little to his surprise, Dark Miyabi: the mysterious ninja operator of the Navi ShadowMan. Before he could have the chance to join Dex and Chisao under the table, the Indian boy began to hear the voice of Miyabi saying to the leader of the group with a non-fazed tone in his voice, "Pirate ghosts? Hmph! Looked as though that large kid has spent way too much time in the kitchen or watched too much horror movies because all I see are nothing but a group of petty thieves dressed in cheap costumes for this coming Halloween. Now that's just pathetic."
Dingo was suddenly shocked for when he heard those words coming out of the scar-faced ninja mouth for as he faced the terrifiying group with no signs of fear whatsoever showing on his face. Just as he was about to say something, he suddenly heard the leader of the pirate-themed group beginning to laugh at the ex-mercenary very loudly and rentlessly. Soon, the Indian boy heard the entire gang of pirates joining in with their leader's laugh just as he heard their laughter turning into an echo all over the building.
Just as soon as he heard them finishing their chorus of joined laughs, Dingo heard the leader of the group saying to Dark Miyabi while at the same time pointing his seemingly sharp and dull blade towards his direction, "Har! Well, it looks as though this guy has a lot of guts, gang! We originally came here because we smelled the scent of great Chaos Energy from within this place, but this gown dressin' land lober here sounds like he would want a fight with us. What do you all say that we all teach this fool a lesson that he won't soon forget?"
After hearing a united "Har!" from the rest of the pirate group as a sign of approval, Dingo watched silently as he saw dark ninja bringing out what appears to be a shuriken from beneath his sleeve and struck it at the weapon that the leader had pointed at him from before. As soon as he saw the long and huge blade drop to the ground, the boy watched, along with his Net Navi, Miyabi threw three more along with the one in his hands towards the other pirate in hopes of ensnaring them from the loose cloths of their costumes. Just as he or the former members of World Three were about to cheer for the ex-mercenary on the capture for when something shocking and unexpected happened.
What the boy saw was the projectile weapon that the Dark Miyabi threw at the pirates had seemed to went through them as if they were made of nothing but thin air. As soon as he saw the shurikens hitting the wall and sticking there, Dingo wore a now terrified look on his face. "D-D-Did you three j-j-just saw that!" he heard the frightened tone of Yahoot saying while at the same time turning to see him along with his companions scared-stiff like display dummies.
"I-I-If what you mean is t-the fact that Miyabi's ninja stars flew right pass those pirates like holograms, then that's what we just saw," he heard the voice of Count Zap responding with the same frighten tone as the former Yoga master while at the same time seeing the electric operator chattering his teeth together with fright.
"I thought that ghosts were only suppose to be nothing but a silly superstition that MegaMan is usually afraid of!" Maddy added to her electrified friend with the same scared tone as the rest of her friends just as he saw her hair becoming stiff with fear.
"Aye! You've got that right lassy!" Dingo heard the voice of Mr. Match saying while at the same time seeing him becoming as frighten as the rest of his companions.
Just as he turned towards Dark Miyabi's direction to see how his reaction, the Indian boy soon began to see a slight hint of fear being shown on his usually stone cold face. Before he could have the chance to think of anything that might be of some help against this unusual sight, Dingo begna to hear the voice of TomahawkMan saying to him while surprisingly maintaining a cool tone, "Dingo! Don't just stand there! Call Mr. Famous and have him send over a Dimensional Area! We still have the Synchro Chip to fight these things back with, remember?"
With those words said by his Navi, the young boy immediately reached his hand in his pocket and felt the object that he hadn't used since being able to fused with TomahawkMan: the Synchro Chip. Just as he was about to use his P.E.T. to contact Mr. Famous from Sci Lab to create a Dimensional Area around the area they're in, Dingo suddenly saw the door of the restraurant starting to open all of a sudden and saw a barrage of what appears to be small barrage of yellow energy spears striking themselves towards a few of the pirates causing them to vanish out of existence. It all happened so fast that the Indian boy didn't have the time or even made an attempt to move for when he saw some of the pirates vanishing out of existence. "Arrgh! Who did that! Who's the land lover that dared to strike me and my crew?" he heard the angered tone of the leader of the ghostly pirate gang shouting out loud as he and along with his companions turned towards the direction of where the spears of energy were shot from.
As soon as he began to turn to look at what the band of pirates were looking at, Dingo was suddenly shocked and frighten for when he saw the sight before him. Just as he was about to say something or stutter even a word about what he saw, the Indian boy suddenly heard a familiar voice saying to the group through the entrance of the door, "You fools are nothing but a bunch of cowards that would capture innocent people just to get what you want. Heh! Well, you're all going to have to take on the Ultimate Life Form if you want to prove me otherwise."
After hearing those words, Dingo was now reassured that the owner of this voice was none other than the black creature that he'd seen from before along with the blonde girl in the magician's outfit. The creature whom was referred to the girl by the name of Shadow. "That's it! That's the creature that I was talking about from before!" he shouted out to everyone in the room while at the same time pointing his index finger towards the entrance of the restaurant with a rather frightened and shocked tone in his voice. "I told you all that both me and TomahawkMan weren't crazy! That black and red hedgehog is the real thing!"
Just as soon as he said those words, the young boy began to see the black and crimson spiked hedgehog beginning to enter the restraurant like he were on a casual day. Before he could have the chance to make a sound or even say a word, Dingo began to hear Yahoot saying outloud with a rather confused and yet amazed tone in his voice just as he was beholding on the sight right in front of him, "Then w-w-what Dingo said a-a-about the black and red creature was true a-a-after all!"
"But what kind of creature is that black and red hedgehog!" he heard the shocked voice of Maddy saying to her companions as he turned to see her along with both Count Zap and Mr. Match staring at the creature with amazement on their faces. "Is it some kind of alien being from another world?"
Before he could have the chance to speak, Dingo suddenly saw the black hedgehog-like being starting to snap his fingers just as he heard the creature speaking rather calm tone while at the same time snapping his fingers, "Chaos Nightmare."
Suddenly without warning, the Indian boy saw a sudden burst of mult-colored energy beginning to appear out of nowhere and saw the group of spiritual green pirates shout out with pain and anguish for when the attack collided. Dingo then saw some of the intruders begin to disappear from sight just before the electrical storm of multi-colored energy ceasing. "Argh! The Chaos Energy that's comin' from that black and red creature be great!" the boy heard the voice of the leader saying with a angered tone just as he turned his rusty looking blade towards the black hedgehog's direction. "Forget all about these land lovers in this crapshack and get that black animal, you green fools! He may possess that Chaos Emerald that Master Dilgear and Lord Shade wants!"
After hearing the entire group of what was left of the green spectral pirates responding to their leader with very angered voices, Dingo began to see the black hedgehog creature hovering over the ground that he stands on with the help of the weird shoes that it's wearing on its two feet. Before he knew it, the boy saw the black and red creature starting to retreat out of sight at a great speed. Then soon after, Dingo began to see the entire group of what was left of the pirate ghosts beginning to exit the restaurant through the front entrance.
Just before he could have the chance to register what just happened, the Indian boy began to hear the voice of Dex saying to him with a rather unusually serious tone in his voice just as he turned to see the large kid looking over him while at the same time climbing out of the table that he and Chisao were hiding under, "Dingo, just where in the world did you see that black and red hedgehog thing! This is very important! I have to know where you saw this guy because it may have something with those green pirates appearing as well as the Chaotix!"
Just as soon as she finished speaking about the boy that she saw from before, Mana began to hear the ruckus that was coming from above caused by the green group of spirits. She shuddered as she continued to sense their evil energy starting to surround the room with its invisible presense. That when she heard the voice of Shadow saying to her with a rather surprised tone in his voice, "What! You mean to tell me that the kid with the paint on his face is the one that I've thought was an assassin?"
As she heard those words come out of the black hedgehog's mouth, the female magician began to nod her head in response to his question just as she spoke again, "I'm afraid so. From the way that kid was running away from you for when you attacked him with your Chaos Spear, I'd say that you've managed to scare the living daylights out of him. You won't be able to make any friends if you attack them like that."
After she had finished talking, Mana saw the young human face of Shadow beginning to blush at what she just said to him before saying to her with a rather flustered voice, "I didn't know that he was just a human kid that only wanted to help out. So sue me!"
The young female began to giggle cutely for a brief moment at the signs of embarrassment that she saw on her black and red haired love's face. But that was when the chill of the evil energy reminded her of the situation that they were in as both she and the Ultimate Life Form were still hiding under the table in order to keep from confronting everyone along with the green ghost spirits that are right before them. "Shadow, those spirits that I'm sensing from those people in the green costumes are emitting a rather large amount of that Chaos Energy that you've once mentioned to me before," she said to the black hedgehog before she continued with a shudder to her voice as she shaked her body while fending off the coldness that she's feeling at the moment. "Not only that, but it feels too...brrr! Evil. We can't just stand around here and do nothing about it."
As soon as she said those words to the black hedgehog in his human guise, Mana began to see his face starting to turn entirely serious for as he said to her, "I agree with you, Mana. We can't just allow these humans to get hurt by these foolish spirits. But if we were to reveal ourselves to them, then that would mean some very unwanted attention from the people of this world."
"But we can't just let these people get hurt while we just sit around under this table and do nothing about it," the young female magician replied to Shadow's words with a sort of worried tone just as she continued to feel the evil energy from the ghost pirates all around her body. "These things seem like that they wouldn't hesitate to attack these innocent people without a second thought! Just what are we going to do about it?"
After she finished speaking, Mana suddenly saw the gaze of the Ultimate Life Form's human face beginning to look thoughtful about what she had just said. While feeling like time around them have passed for about a few minutes, she suddenly heard the black hedgehog speaking. "Mana, I think that you should return me back to my regular form," she heard Shadow saying to her with a serious tone while at the same time looking at the scene developing from above them. "People might start to get suspicious if I use any of my powers while I'm in this human form that you gave me."
"But then that would get the people in this place to start noticing your very existence as well as that boy," the young female said to the black hedgehog while at the same time beginning to worry about his safety. "He knows who you are and is still frighten of you thanks to that attack that you've unleashed upon him a while back. Not only that, but I think that the scarred-man is starting to get a bit suspicious about you for when I saw you two looking at one another like common enemies."
"Please, Mana, now's not the time to start arguing. Just release the spell on me and I'll lead them away from here as fast as I can," she heard Shadow saying to her with a rather begging sounding tone of voice while at the same time seeing his crimson eyes staring at her own. "There's no other choice but for me to get their attention and lead them away from here as fast as I can so that I wouldn't put innocent people in danger. Once that's done, I'll come back to get you and we'll both continue our search for Miguel and the others. Please?"
Mana was a bit flushed a bit for when he stared at her irises like that. She could feel both her cheeks beginning to turn pink and warm for when she saw the desperate look on his face. Then that was when she finally gave up and began to say to Shadow, "Oh alright, Shadow darling. It'll just take me a minute for me to undo the spell that I've placed on you. But there's something that I'm curious about. What are you going to do in order to get out of here? People are going to get a suspicious for when they see you come out from under this table in your normal form."
"I wouldn't worry about that, Mana," she heard the black hedgehog beginning to say to her with a calm and soft tone in his voice just as she saw him turning his face away from him and watching the scene that was developing from above the table they are under at the moment. "I would be able to use the Chaos Control without having to cause a huge commotion or disturbance as long as I keep a close range within the area that we're in right now. So we won't have to worry about us, 'Being caught with our pants down,' as I heard Sonic once say. Of course, when the time comes for you to actually meet him, please don't tell him that I've said that to you or I would never hear the end of it."
The female magician began to give off a cute giggle for a bit for when she heard the humor that rarely ever came out of Shadow's mouth. She then calmed herself down a bit and then began to focus her mind on making her magician's wand appearing on her hands. As soon as she felt the surface of the wand touching her hands, Mana began to search her mind for a way reverse or undo the spell that she casted upon the Ultimate Life Form.
"It shouldn't be too hard for me to undo," the female magician thought to herself just as she finally found a way that would reverse the spell that she placed on Shadow. "(Sighs) It's such a shame. I was beginning to like Shadow as a human right now. But I guess that somethings can't be helped with the way things are right now. Well, here it goes."
As soon as she finished with thinking about the words to cancel the spell, Mana began to wave her wand around a bit despite the fact that it was a bit crowded from under the table that they're under in. For when she finished silently reciting the words quietly to herself to cancel the spell, the female began to place her wand over her black-haired lover's head and before she knew it, she saw white but not to bright light beginning to envelope his entire being. When the faint but bright light faded from her view and she soon found herself looking at the true form of Shadow the Hedgehog.
"Okay, now that that's been taken care of, I could finally show these foolish green ghosts in pirate's clothing what this Ultimate Life Form could do," she heard the black hedgehog beginning to say to her while continuing to keep his voice low so that no one else would hear. "Mana, I want you to stay in your human form so that there would be a less chance of you getting spotted and recognized by that boy and those people as well as getting caught by those pirates. I should be able to take care of those things by myself as well as get them away from this city as best as I could. I'll be able to contact you through a psychic link using the power of the gemstones that we both have in case I can't handle them by myself."
"Just promise me that you call for as soon as you feel that you are in trouble," she spoke to Shadow with a rather worried and concerned tone in her voice. "I can't bare to think about what would happen if anything bad were to happen to you."
"Don't worry about me, Mana. I'll be just fine," she heard the black hedgehog saying to her with a rather confident tone just as he stared at her with a smile on his face. "These green pirates won't know what hit them for when they feel the power of my Chaos Nightmare. I just want to be sure that these people don't get hurt for the battle that's about to ensue around here...along with you."
As soon as she heard those words coming from his mouth, Mana began to move her face towards Shadow's and planted a gentle kiss on his cheek. She then saw the black and red hedgehog beginning to blush at the gesture that she gave him. But that was when she saw him leaning his face towards her own face and kissed her on her now tanned cheek. The young female then began to feel flushed before hearing him saying quietly to himself, "Chaos Control."
Before she knew it, Mana saw the the black hedgehog vanishing from her sights without emitting the emerald-green light that he usually gives off for whenever he uses his teleporting technique. She then turned her full attention back towards the scene that was developing and soon heard the voice of the ghost pirate leader named Captain Blood crying out in both anger and pain, "Arrgh! Who did that! Who's the land lover that dared to strike me?"
Just as she looked over to the scene, the young female saw the green ghost leader as well as the rest of his comrades looking towards the direction of where the entrance of the restaurant is. What she saw was her love Shadow staring down at the green ghost pirate group as if they were nothing more than bothersome flies or something. But that wasn't what got her attention the most. What Mana saw was the look on the kid's painted face was a bit frighten and yet shocked for when he saw Shadow once again entering the building that they were in while saying to the ghost, "You fools are nothing but a bunch of cowards that would capture innocent people just to get what you want. Heh! Well, you're all going to have to take on the Ultimate Life Form if you want to prove me otherwise."
As soon as she heard him saying those words, Mana began to hear the surprised voice of the young boy saying to a the older adults, who appear to be the real owners of the shop, while at the same time pointing towards the black hedgehog's direction, "That's it! That's the creature that I was talking about from when I was talking about from before! I told you all that both me and TomahawkMan weren't crazy! That black and red hedgehog is the real thing!"
For when she heard the boy finished with his words, the female magician began to hear the man with the dark colored skin saying with a rather shocked tone in his voice, "Then w-w-what Dingo said a-a-about the black and red creature was true a-a-after all!"
"But what kind of creature is that black and red hedgehog!" she heard the response of the young woman with pink hair resembling that of a poodle saying to her older companion with the same shocked tone. "Is it some kind of alien being from another world?"
Before she could have the chance to hear a response coming from the three older males, Mana saw Shadow starting to snap two of his fingers just as he spoke with a rather calm tone in his voice, "Chaos Nightmare."
As soon as she heard those words come out of his mouth, the female magician saw what appears to be the black hedgehog's Chaos Nightmare attack. She saw mult-colored electricity beginning to engulf the group of green ghost spirits within its presense. Mana saw that some of them began to vanish out of existence for as the attack continued its onslaught. After what appears to be an hour of watching the mult-colored electical storm pounding against most of its prey, the female saw the attack beginning to cease and found that most of the pirates still remained while looking rather mad as well as injured.
She heard Captain Blood beginning to shout out while saying to his crew with a rather demanding tone along with anger in his voice, "Argh! The Chaos Energy that's comin' from that black and red creature is great! Forget all about these land lovers in this crapshack and get that black animal, you green fools! He may possess that Chaos Emerald that Master Dilgear and Lord Shade wants!"
As soon as she heard those words come out of the leader's mouth, Mana saw Shadow giving a rather arrogant smirk on his face just before seeing him beginning to run out of the scene with the help of his special shoes. When she saw the remaining group of the green spirits beginning to give chase to the black hedgehog, the female started to take herself out of the table that she was in and began to see if everyone in the restaurant was okay. After seeing that most of the terrified people beginnig to come out from under of the tables, Mana suddenly heard the voice of what appears to be a rather large and tough-sounding boy saying to his friend with a rather serious tone in his voice, "Dingo, just where in the world did you see that black and red hedgehog thing! This is very important! I have to know where you saw this guy because it may have something with those green pirates appearing as well as the Chaotix!"
As soon as she heard the name of Shadow's friends, the female magician began to turn her head towards the direction to where she heard the voices from and saw the boy that she saw from the first time speaking to a rather large kid with a strange hair-do. However, she didn't have the time to catch the rest of their conversation for while she began to scan her mind in order to look for a spell that would knock out everyone from within the building that she's in. "I should just focus my attention on focusing my spell on just the rest of the people of this place rather than the boys that are arguing right now," Mana thought to herself just as she once again ducked under the table to grab her wand and began to wave it around the air. "From the way that the large boy mentioned the name of Shadow's friends, I'm sure that he must know where they are as well as Miguel."
As soon as he finish speaking, Dex waited a moment so it was to find out what answer that Dingo had to give him. But that was when he heard the voice of his little brother Chisao asking him with a rather excited tone, "Dex, did you see that! That awesome black and red hedgehog just came out of nowhere and showed those green pirates that he means business! He's so cool!"
"Chisao! Now is not the time to be impressed with that...whatever just came through the front door!" he heard the voice of TomahawkMan saying to the little boy with a rather annoyed tone in his voice before seeing his entire image pop out of Dingo's P.E.T. "And to answer your question, we just saw that thing back at the beach where Dingo got himself lost again."
"Hey! And what does that suppose to mean!" he heard Dingo responding to his Navi with a rather miffed tone while holding his personal terminal towards his face. "I'll have you know that I usually get to where I'm going by throwing that...!"
"Um, I hate to break this little arguement up, but I don't feel like playing referee with the two of you for when there are more important things that we ought to be focusing on!" Dex said to the two arguing friends while at the same time cutting off their arguement with a rather annoyed tone as well as get their full attention. "Now, what is the name of that creature? What about this girl that you saw? Was she like that black hedgehog-like thing too?"
After saying those words to his indian friend, the large kid saw him turning his head towards his direction while saying to him with a thoughful tone as he tried to think back to where he had his recent encounter, "Well, from what I've heard from that magician girl, his name was Shadow. As for the girl herself, she's actually pretty human the first time that I've checked. But the strangest thing about it is that she seems rather fond of that black hedgehog thing. Almost like a boyfriend of sorts. Well, judging from the way she said it anyway."
"Heh! GutsMan don't believe it! Guts!" Dex heard the voice of GutsMan saying to him with a rather scoffing tone in his voice just as his image too floated up from within his own P.E.T. just as he raised his Personal Terminal in front of him. "No way pretty girl like that fall for a black weirdo like that."
"Well, I have to agree with GutsMan on this one, Dingo," he said to his friend with a rather thoughtful tone in his voice just as he began to image Maylu in a cute magician's outfit. "I mean, what would a beautiful babe like that find in a black hedgehog like that?"
"Uh, Big bro, I think that you should look around the place and see what's happening," the large kid heard the voice of his little brother saying to him with a rather frighten and nervous tone in his voice as he felt the small arms of Chisao beginning to wrap themselves around one of his legs.
Just as soon as he turned to face the direction where his little cute brother is facing, Dex was suddenly both either shocked or embarrassed for when he saw the scene in the front of his eyes. What the large kid saw was that everyone, including Mr. Match, Count Zap, Maddy, and Yahoot, were fast asleep as if they were knocked out by Knockout Gas. He even saw both Count Zap and Mr. Match were sucking on their thumbs like little babies. Both Maddy and Yahoot were able to sleep just like regular people other than the fact that they were both drueling. But what got Dex wondering the most is the fact that only he, Dingo, and Chisao were about the only ones that weren't effected by whatever caused everyone to fall asleep all of a sudden.
But as soon as he started to look around the area to see where he could find the source of theh disturbance, the large kid soon found himself looking at a rather pretty tan-skinned teenaged girl with brown long hair holding up a rather strange and unusual stick of sorts. After taking a closer look at the object in her hands, Dex soon saw a rather strange and yet pink aura being emitted all around the girl. Just as he was about to get Dingo and Chisao's attention in order for them to look at what he seeing, the huge kid heard the Indian boy saying to him with a rather flushed and yet surprised tone in his voice, "Look over there, Dex! That pretty girl is casting a spell of sorts on everyone around here! But why would...?"
Just before he could heard Dingo finish the rest of his question, Dex heard the voice of his little brother saying to him with a rather amazed tone, "Wow! Did you see that, big bro! That girl who I was talking to earlier can use real magic! That's about the coolest thing that I've ever seen!"
The large kid was both relieved and surprised at what he just heard Chisao said about the girl with the pink energy surrounding her. But he then just decided to just push that thought aside and began to walk over towards the unknown girl's direction. As soon as he was close enough to the female's direction, Dex kept his distance so that in case if she turned out to be like one of those frightening green pirates that he saw, he would be able to run as fast as he could so that he would be able to get himself, Dingo, and Chisao to safety.
However, just before he could have the chance to even speak to her, the head strong kid suddenly saw her turning her pretty face towards his direction and said to him with a rather calm and friendly tone in her voice, "I'm very sorry for doing this to everyone as well as your bosses, but I really have no choice but to knock them out with my sleeping spell so that no one in this area would think about following my darling Shadow. Believe me, it's for their own safety."
As soon as he heard those words, Dex found himself becoming dumbstruck for when heard those words come out of the young brown-haired girl's mouth. Before he could have the chance to say anything about what he just heard, the large kid heard the voice of Dingo saying to the rather strange teenaged girl with a rather surprised and shocked tone in his voice while pointing his finger towards her direction, "W-W-Wait a minute! I know you! You're that strange magician girl that came to into this world along with that black and red Shadow creature that tried to murder me! But just how in the world did you manage to change your looks? You now look like a regular pretty teenaged girl to me."
After hearing those words coming from his friend's mouth, Dex saw the pretty girl beginning to twirl the baton-like object around in her hands. Just before either he, Dingo, or Chisao could have the chance to ask about what she's doing, the large kid's sight was suddenly blinded by a small and quick flash of bright pink light. As he did his best to regain his full eyesight back form the scene, Dex was able to make out the full image of what the girl is really like. What he saw was that the girl who seemed to be normal is wearing a pretty and cute magician's outfit of sorts with a mix of blue and pink on it. Her hair is now golden as the gold bars that he once saw in Yai's mansion a few years back and, in his opinion, was the cutest girl that he'd ever seen next to Maylu and Jasmine.
Before he could even have the chance to give the girl a comment on how she looks, the large kid heard his little and younger brother saying to the girl while at the same time feeling a bit amused with what he saw, "Wow! You're the most prettiest girl that I've ever seen! Not that, but you could actually do real magic! What else could you do?"
Just before he could allow the strange magician girl to answer, Dex began to say to Chisao with an amazed and shocked tone in his voice just before turning his full attention back towards the magician girl, "Now's not the time to be impressed, Chisao! Now, as for you, just what is the meaning of you casting that sleeping spell of yours all over the place so that no one would follow that creepy black hedgehog thing!"
Whatever the large kid thought that he said must've really offended the girl that was in front of him for as he saw her face turning rather mad and heard her saying to him with a rather miffed tone in her voice, "How dare you say that about my darling Shadow! I'll have you know that 'black hedgehog' has suffered way more than anybody in this entire world could ever endure! He happens to be one of the most gentlest creatures that I've ever had to fall in love with and I doubt that you would ever understand that!"
Dex was feeling a bit frighten for when he heard those words coming out of the magician girl's mouth. Not only that, but he also felt a bit dumbfounded for when he heard her calling the hedgehog creature her 'darling Shadow.' Just before he could have the chance to talk about what she's talking about, he heard the voice of Dingo saying while at the same time trying to change the subject, "Can we all maybe talk about this later? We have other things to worry about like who this girl is and why she and this Shadow are here in this world to begin with."
"For once, I happen to agree with Dingo on this one," the large kid heard TomahawkMan saying to everyone while at the same time feeling a bit surprised about what just happened in front of his eyes. "If both you and this Shadow aren't here to try to conquer this world, then why are you here in the first place, miss...?"
"Mana. Just please call me Mana," he heard the female magician responding to the Net Navi with both a polite and yet confused tone in her voice. "Well, and to answer most of your questions, both me and Shadow came here to find his friends who's group goes by the name the Chaotix as well as his two human friends. A young man named Miguel and a beautiful young lady named Sylphiel. But..."
As soon as he heard the name of the Mobian group, Dex began to say to Mana with a rather surprised and worried tone, "Wait! Your black boyfriend knows Miguel and Sylphiel as well as the Chaotix! If what you're telling me is the truth, then we might be in more trouble if anyone were to find out where you two really came from or finds a piece of the...!"
"Speaking of which, where's that guy Dark Miyabi?" he heard the young voice of his little brother asking everyone while at the same time interupting his words while the large kid turned to the seat to where the ninja was once sitting. "He sort of vanished into thin air for when those scary ghosts went after that black hedgehog thing appeared."
"Now that I think about it, he was giving my darling Shadow some odd looks for when he was in human form," said the female magician with a thoughtful tone in her voice. "Do you suppose that maybe that he saw through my little spell and went after him?"
"Uh Oh!" Dex thought to himself just as panic was beginning seep throughout his entire large body. "If Miyabi is planning on following those that black creature along with those green pirate ghosts, then we're in for a whole lot of trouble in our hands!"
"Dex, do you know something about those green ghost that you're not telling me?" the large kid heard Dingo saying to him with a rather suspicious tone in his voice while staring at him in order to get the answer out of him. "If so, then does Lan and the rest of the guys know about this too? Just what in the world is going on here and who or what are these Chaotix?"
Before he could have the chance to even speak to his Indian friend, Dex heard the voice of Mana saying to all of them with a rather stern and serious tone in her voice, "We could talk all about it for once we find every one of Shadow's friends. Now, Dex wasn't it, do you know where Miguel and the Chaotix happen to be at this very moment?"
Right before he could give his answer to the female magician, the young curry chef heard the voice of his Navi answering her question while sounding thoughtful, "Urr, GutsMan knows that they're in Yai's treehouse right now stayin' for the time being so that they could find the remaining pieces of a green rock called a Chaos Emerald. Guts. Glyde told me that she and Maylu are takin' the pretty girl to a outlet store or something like that. Guts. Guts."
As soon as he heard those words come out of his digital friend's mouth, Dex began to shout out to the strong Navi with a rather panicked tone while at the same time shaking the device furiously like a turkey, "Then why didn't you say that to begin with, you bolt brain! For all we know, Maylu and Yai could be in trouble right now!"
That was when he felt someone's finger beginning to tap on his huge shoulder for while he continued to shake the living daylights out of GutsMan like he was a rag doll. The large kid soon found himself staring at the face of his friend Dingo while at the same time looking a bit flabberguast and dumbfounded for as he asked with a rather annoyed tone, "Dex, don't you think that you should save some of that energy for later and focus on what's important?"
"Dingo's right, big brother!" he heard Chisao saying to him with a rather enthusiastic tone in his young voice while at the same time looking up to him like a small mouse. "Shaking GutsMan around like that isn't going to help us! Isn't there something that we could do!"
As if to answer his question, the beeping of his P.E.T. suddenly erupted like a huge siren just as he ceased his torture on his Navi and answered the message. Before he knew it, Dex soon began to hear the frighten shriek of his childhood crush Maylu saying to him while at the same time looking around to see if there was anyone else in sight, "Dex! You guys got to get Miguel and the Chaotix and get them here as soon as possible! Miss Sylphiel is being attacked by those green pirate ghosts and she'd just given us the Chaos Emerald in her bag! Get over here before they could catch up and tell Miguel to...!"
That was all that the large kid heard before he saw nothing but static on the image screen of his P.E.T. as a sure sign that it was the end of the transmission. Before he could allow his mind to do some of the reasonable thinking, Dex suddenly went by his own natural instincts and went running out the door while at the same time shouting out these words, "Don't worry, Maylu! The brave and powerful Dex is on his way to the rescue!"
While continuing his searching throughout the Net City in order to find source of the enormous amount of power, Bass was beginning to feel his temper reaching its limit. Surges of his own great power began to erupt from his body and unleashed is fury towards anything that was unlucky enough to get in its path, Navi or otherwise. That was because of all of the leftover data and power that he'd absorbed from the once unstopable program of light and darkness: Nebula Grey. It was also the very thing that gave the cloaked Navi the power he needed in order to defeat his outer space rival Slur and erase her from existence.
"Damn! Just where the hell is this energy source coming from!" the Black Shadow thought to himself just as he felt his anger starting to erupt from his body and caused the city from below to tremble. "It feels like that the great power that I'm sensing from either that human and the Chaos Emerald is everywhere at once! If only I could get into the real world! But those inferior humans have taken that robotic body that I've once had before I've faced off with Slur. Even with the power that I've absorbed from Nebula Grey, I'm still trapped in the Cyber World with no access what so ever to the human world!"
Just before he could allow his frustration to take over and even attempt to power up an attack that could wipe out a good portion of Net City, Bass suddenly focused his full attention on a clan horde of viruses of all kinds that seemed to be heading towards a one direction. Feeling like the deletion of this huge group would ease his anger a bit, the cloaked Navi was soon calm enough to notice the bright green rip-like light that he saw them heading towards to. As soon as he got a close enough to see what attracted the viruses to the bright green light, the Black Shadow soon found himself staring at what appears to be an entrance to the human world. A menacing grin soon crossed his face for when he saw the opportunity openned up right in front of him.
"It looks to me that I wouldn't have to resort to using Sci Lab's own Dimensional Area Generators in order to get into the human world," Bass thought to himself while at the same time watching the numerous amount of viruses vanishing into the human world through what appears to be his only way in. "Whatever force is causing the barriers between this world and the human realm to break apart is sort of blessing to me. Heh! These viruses don't even know how this mysterious phenomena that just occurred just now. Now's the time for me to take this opportunity to take my revenge on the humans who would dare to oppose me and enter into their world. But in order to fully become the most powerful being in the world, I'll have to get that Chaos Emerald first in order to do so."
Just as the cloaked Navi approached the dimensional rip in front of him, the viruses that were gathering there trembled with fear and panic and soon began to run for their very lives for when they realized and sensed who they were up against. As soon as he reached hole that's between both the Cyber World and the Real World, the Black Shadow began his inspection on what appears to be a doorway to his very freedom. But just before he could have the chance to peek what's on the other side of the dimensional hole, Bass's body soon began to surge with unidentified and great power that was being emitted by the hole between time and space. Not only that, but it was also causing him great pain. Pain so great that he couldn't believe that he himself was about to experience it.
"Just what powerful force have made all this pain for me?" the cloaked Navi thought to himself just sas he tried his best to understand what just happened to him as well as seeing the portal to the human world disappearing before his eyes. "Damn it! The only doorway to the human world is starting to seal itself! It appears to now only allow those small viruses to enter the real world without much difficulty! There has got to be another way for me to...!"
Before he could have the chance to finish the rest of his thoughts, Bass suddenly felt another surge of energy beginning to erupt at a different location. This in turn allowed him to think to himself with much more clearer thoughts, "Hmmm. So it seems that there's more than one of these dimensional gateways that are opening. I don't know what's causing all of this to happen, but I have to take this opportunity before it disappears! I won't allow anyone or anything to interfere with my revenge! Not even MegaMan and his dumb NetOp as well as that human, Miguel!"
With those thoughts done in his mind, the cloaked Navi began to fly towards his destination towards what appears to be another gateway to the human world before he could feel it closing like the first one.
End of Part 10