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terratasha: No problem, I understand! Review whenever you can! Well, I guess it's a good thing we have a villian's side in this story. Yep, the rest of this day is told in the POV of none other than Void and Mortis! I decided to try something new, especially since Void and Mortis are leaving the realm of interesting side characters to important main characters. Dark Hub is hanging around mostly for...well, you'll see. You guys kinda already know since it's what he wants every time he talks...but you'll see more Dark Hub soon. Terra, check out ShadowDusk's review for more info on Black Earth. One edit to it is that you actually get the Navi Cust ability Soul Cleanse and Hub. BAT I believe. You actually need to fight Bass to get Bass after getting all six evil chips. Ultimately, it's a testing grounds. This weird place pits Megaman against all of his Double Soul friends in their Dark Soul Forms in each respective game in BN4. In the end, you'll have to fight a shadow form of Megaman (for only like the umpteenth time in the game...yeah, not much of a fan of BN4's game play logic). Yeah, only took me to my third installment to realize, hey I haven't used copybots yet! Thanks for review! Hope your life clears up a bit!

ShadowDusk94: Dang, that sounds terrible! Yep, this is the point when you realize Dark Roll's been hanging around the whole game and subconsciously teaching Roll martial arts. I'm not going to lie, some of Dark Roll's fighting style is gotten from my memory of the Empress Roll episode in the anime. I occasionally get inspiration from certain scenes and episodes, but I'm still not sold on the series as a whole. Emotion scramblers? Similar? Hahahaha...Iwasn'tmakingareferencetoStarforce1withthewholeGeminiSparkdealwhatareyoutalkingabout? Even though that was exactly what was going through my mind when I made this. Huh...maybe that's why I was so interesting in getting help to make a crossover. Every now and again, I put in little Starforce throwbacks. Anyway, that's for answering that question for terra! I had to auto correct a bit, but for the general concept you were correct. I just went a little more into it. Thanks for reviewing!

May 10th midnight, submission deadline for Roll's Merge Contest!

Day 5 Part 3 - Void Breaks In

"You have who!" Dawn's mouth had almost dropped to the floor. She had been surprised to see Mortis crack an abnormally large smile when he jacked back in from the Net. However, she was more interested in the navi he was keeping behind his back.

"I have Roll, Ms. Dawn. She may not be exactly as you have previously seen her…but I'm sure fixing that little problem will be no problem for someone of your caliber," he bowed before her and walked to the side, revealing the purplish pink navi behind him. True to his word, he did have her…at least a dark soul form anyway. Dawn sighed; these navis were truly human like to a certain point, right down to stupidity.

"I don't need a dark soul, Mortis. If I did, I would have had you bring me an army of them. I was merely researching them to discover more about Megaman's recent performance. If you are done wasting my time, I must get back to my research," she stared back at a printed copy of some of Dr. Regal notes about the transferring of evil energy into a battle chip. His methods were actually quite genius.

"I guess I must show you what I mean. Void, can you help me? Make sure she doesn't run off," he said before turning back to the dark navi, "This isn't permanent I assure you," the dark soul shot him a look, "I know I just brought you back but I need proof to show Ms. Dawn. She's the one who can help you. Remember," he said as nicely as he could before putting a hand on her head and the navi seemed to drift off.

"You're comforting her?" Void questioned.

"You've met a denizen of the dark before Void. If you would like to see what only a fraction of that power does, then by all means allow her to think I'm betraying her," Mortis growled as the purple color drained from Dark Roll's bodysuit. In moments, Roll's green eyes fluttered.

The pink navi looked to her right and noticed that Mortis was next to her. She shrieked and turned to her left, bumping into a red navi behind her. His visor covering his face seemed even darker than Protoman's—which she hadn't even thought was possible. Roll bounced back only to have chains sprout up from the ground and encase her.

"HELP! MEGA! SABER! HELP!" she screamed.

"You could have just done that the whole time…" Void grumbled.

"I needed a distraction. You were the only one around." Mortis shrugged. He had never been extremely fond of Void. Mortis had been programmed to be his subordinate. When Dawn had put Void under and reassembled him, Mortis had somehow gone from second rate to fifth rate. Almost as if she considered him some kind of failure model. He knew what she had thought of failures. Her total disregard to Hypnia, Crystal, Lavaman, Solarman, and every WWW navi he brought in informed him of that.

"GET AWAY FROM ME! MEGA! SABER! HELP!" she yelled as Mortis covered the pink navi's mouth. He forced the navi to look him in his dark eyes.

"Didn't anyone tell you that you talk too much? Now keep quiet!" he yelled. Roll went quiet; her green eyes widened with fear. Oh how he loved those looks. He was a ghost reviver. He never got to see the true fear of people when they saw navis simply come back from the dead. He had always been told to leave as soon as the job was done and he had never had a reason to disobey those orders.

"Hmm…how did you manage to capture her and resurrect the dark soul?" Dawn asked curiously. Mortis had become full of surprises lately; once again, doing something she had never programmed the navi to do. What would she have to do to ensure things like this never happened?

"I dragged her into Black Earth and resurrected her dark soul. However, the data was too badly corrupted. I had to merge both of them together; it was the only way to preserve the dark soul," he explained.

"I guess I should have been more specific," she pinched her nose. Weren't navis supposed to be smart, "I didn't ask you to revive the navis in Black Earth because I know nothing about them. Therefore, why did you bother trying to raise a dark soul navi in the first place?"

Void merely smirked at the scene in front of him. Dawn had him now. Mortis steeled himself and continued, "If it is one thing I have learned during my time is that the wise warrior attack's his enemy's heart and not body. We can summon as many navis as we want to in order to get Megaman. But we have to key to his heart right here in front of us. If we use her, he won't be much of a problem to us anymore."

Dawn nodded as if agreeing with him. He almost had the chance to smile…that was before she spoke, "There is one flaw in your plan. The cornered viper is more likely to strike than an observed one. You may have stolen his heart, but you have only stoked his anger. The next time Megaman sees your face, well, I'm not sure if anyone may be able to save you. Also, you brought her here. Now I actually have to do work in wiping her memory of me without doing any kind of damage to her. Do you have any idea what you've just done? What's worse is that you've not only brought Megaman's girlfriend here, but a Black Earth navi! Do you have any idea how unstable they are?

"So, instead of taking the derailed train, here's what you'll do instead. You will wait while I scan the navi. Then when I'm finished, you will return her back to the Hikaris. This dark soul is not staying her a second more than she has to. Without Nebula Gray or even Regal, they answer to no one. After that, you will return back her for your decommissioning; I've had just about enough of your surprises. You've jeopardized a lot of work for your little stunt to work. I mean it, you're done. I don't need these ghosts of yours anymore. You understand, Mortis?"

And there it was. Finally, she had said it. After months of merely beating around the bush, she had finally said that she wanted to be rid of him. Perhaps she had gotten tired of the World Three navis being unable to properly power Void. Perhaps she had just gotten tired of seeing his gloomy appearance every day. He didn't care. All he knew is that she had finally said get out of my life. And he was more than happy to oblige…not.

The navi nodded solemnly and led the shaking pink one towards her. In seconds, she had been forced into sleep mode, leaving Mortis to stand guard and watch—or rather for him to be watched. After a few minutes, Dawn called Void over and talked to him. Mortis didn't really care what was being said. He had to plan out what he would do next. In hindsight, he had considered this being a possibility, but he thought that Dawn would see the sense behind his genius. Ah, well. He could still salvage something from this unfortunate turn of events.

"That was some stunt you pulled," Void said, calling him out of his thoughts, "I don't know if you have some kind of death wish or something, but you put yourself in the hot seat. I wish you a painless deletion."

Void walked past him and jacked into the Net. Mortis clenched his fists, "And I hope Megaman or Bass delete you one of these days…painfully," he growled. He would recover from this. All he needed to do was wait.

In truth, Void didn't feel sorry for Mortis. They had rules and he had broken them. Everything went by Dawn before they actually committed to it. As dictator-ish as that sounded, Void looked at it as nothing more and a true testament of Net Navi and NetOp cooperation. One party didn't do anything without another one acknowledging that it was indeed good enough to pursue. Void didn't pretend to understand why his NetOp had an obsession with discovering these facts, but he would gladly help her out.

Out of all the navis she had built, he had been the only navi she had ever called her navi. All the others were just that, other navis. In return for her favor, he never questioned her and did whatever she asked. If anyone threatened her, he would delete them. If she wanted him to destroy the world, well the humans were going to have to find a different place to live.

As he walked, he couldn't help but remember the voice of that purple street vendor from a few days ago. He had gone to him in order to find the location of Dr. Regal's computer. Laserman hadn't been too much help after he had absorbed him. His memory had been corrupted by space after he was deleted and there wasn't much hope for the recovery of it. Luckily, Nebula flunkies were everywhere.

"I don't know why you would want to go there…but I just have one thing to tell you. Any navi that goes into that man's warped space does not come out the same. It changes you. It makes you watch your shadow. It creates a fear that no navi was meant to understand. It creates self-fear and hate. You were warned."

Indeed the knowledge that was in Dark Comp was quite horrific. He actually didn't know how Dawn read the stuff with such a straight face. In the files of that computer, he discovered just how a dark chip overwrote the minds of navis. Prolonged exposure would even cause them to become a different person all together. They forgot their NetOps. They craved destruction. They lost their emotions. In the end, they had become zombies. Merely taking orders from whoever was at their command. It corrupted them and destroyed them.

The whole thing made even Void sick. He had been told little about the navis in Black Earth. How they had been used as tests for Megaman to see if he control his inner darkness before attempting to destroy his own evil. Dawn had told him that Regal believed that they were true dark navis. They hadn't been tainted by the dark chips. No, they had just been formed out of the evil energies in order to test a more powerful being. They had no master. They lived only to fight and create chaos. He shivered as he thought of the one he had just seen. Despite possessing power, even Void had become uncertain of the navi when he noticed her walk in.

He figured that if things went south, he would have been able to handle her. However, Dawn had informed him that he was missing just one thing, a complete battle routine. Sure they could go for their loved ones, but it would only add to their troubles since it would merely draw attention to them. She kept going on about how hard it would be to get a good scan of her opponents. Once she had Roll and Megaman, she would be able to complete his battle capabilities. Until then, he was to train and do her bidding. Like he was about to do.

He stepped into the Dr. Itumi's Comp. Now to find her work. Dawn had told him that she had noticed several notes in Roll's programming, included dates and printed signatures of a Dr. Itumi. The only one that existed in the area was a teacher at the Cyber City Community College. Dawn figured out where she lived and sent Void the coordinates. The security cube wasn't a problem to deal with; he just opened a Void Hole to send it through. Now, he was here and about to take her files. Everything Dawn would need to understand Roll.

His eyes glazed over as several security navis came at him. So, the woman was smart enough to carry a little extra heat with her. He dodged right as a cyber sword barely missed him. 'Too slow. Proto Cross would have gotten you.' He thought as he switched to a gray blade himself. He countered the navi and slashed forward. The navi parried and pushed him back. 'You're lucky this guy is just security. Slash Cross would have had words for you.' He growled again as his hand morphed into a Lava Shot and fired.

The unsuspecting navi took the hit. Void grabbed him and slung him towards the other side of the net area. As he continued, fire blazed around him. He noticed that a navi was using the Hell's Burner Program Advance. As the blaze continued, Void let himself get used to the heat. 'Either now or Pyra Merge later.' He grumbled before throwing an Aqua Tower straight throw the flames. The navi was completely washed up and laid on the floor groaning.

"Stop! Stop right now!" he heard as five navis showed up behind him. He frowned. He was hoping for a bigger bang.

"Void Hole," he said as a black hole appeared around the navis and sucked them in. In seconds, they were spit out again. They were worse for wear, but otherwise okay, "Begone…Void Hold." the navis were flung away as a homing shot blasted them. They landed on the ground hard. Hmm…so Gravityman and Elementman were good choices for his battle design after all. He couldn't wait until he had more. He walked up to the doctor's computer and before he got close enough to access the files, a firewall popped up in front of him. As he analyzed it, he realized it was a high grade one. The doctor had tried to be smart and hid her files in place not on her person and then protect it in a rarely used computer. But she didn't factor in one thing, him.

Void gathered a weird white orb in his hands and threw it forwards. The orb spread out and turned into a widespread attack, the Elemental Tower Program Advance. As the water, fire, and wood crashed into the firewall, the barrier weakened. Void's hand changed into a amplifier of sorts and he blasted at it again with an Elec Pulse 3. The waves disrupted the program even further and Void charged at it, punching through the barrier like glass. The navi smirked as he accessed the computer and stole the files. Well, Dawn did say make sure to leave them in a bind. As he walked away, his Void Hold struck the console. Leaving him with the only digital copy of Roll's programming, as far as they knew.

He smiled to himself. He wouldn't have to wait for much longer now.

Update: Friday

Bass: He's still not a challenge...

Ghost: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, a couple of things. One, remember that Roll is not a SciLab Project, so she doesn't have any record files there. Dr. Itumi does work at a college and specializes in navi development, not that unlikely she keeps a copy of her files in the place she works. Also, Void is getting an elemental bonus because of Elementman's ability. So, that's why he knocked down that firewall so easily. Oh, DN fact (cause it's not like I don't occasionally make quizzes for these things)... the following chapter and this chapter were originally called the Day 3 P1 & 2: Void and Mortis. After the remodeling and addition of the actual Day 3 and Day 4, the Void and Mortis chapters were merged with the actual Day 5 title line. Speaking of quizzes...

DN Quiz: What was the name of the Synchro Program in Day 1 that Lan, Megaman, and Dr. Hikari started to work on but ultimately never finished due to certain problems caused by the one and only Dawn?

Bonus: In DN1, who were the only three navis that Roll fought that she never deleted? One of these navis should be a dead giveaway. It's not like it's not mentioned in this story...

Get the bonus right, I post a preview of Day 6 which may or not include that ever so hilarious Dark Hub acting out again...Ghost501 logging out!