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terratasha: Well...it's not happening this episode...but next week will have the first interaction between Dark Navi and NetOp! So stay tuned!

MWSeraph: Yeah, may Alpha have mercy on their souls. They WILL need it. Kehehehehe...I'm evil.

Roll Merge Contest: Aug 30

Ghost Announcement! I'm now on Tumblr! mcghost501 . tumblr

DN Announcement: So after some long talks between the three of us, the decision has been made to move DN3.5 to after DN5 and not in between 4 and 3. Which means that the next DN release will be 4. Note, the story hasn't been canceled; but we're going to have to move it so that the timeline and event line remains intact (so pretty much delayed). Sorry bout the run around and the ups and down. But yes, it will be done. Just not until after the mainstream stuff is done. Kinda like the actual BN title except the crossover events actually happen after 5.

Since I feel bad about this, I will go ahead and release the title to the next DN to you guys (I would give you part of a chapter but it's not finished in that regard yet...). Next DN title is Megaman Double Network 4: Corrupted Sickness. Release Date, sometime in the fall. Once again, sorry. It's not completely bad since the story is only being pushed back...but still. It's not my favorite thing to do since I feel like I may be playing with some people's feelings a tad.

Episode 10: I've Got 99 Problems and You Ain't One!

"Looks like today is going to be one hell of a day," Ghost said as he walked into the Undernet. He and Tox were following behind Colonel who lead the direction to Black Earth. The other navis were setting up the other locations that Dr. Robinson had directed them too. The two Dark Hunters were fairly certain they knew where the main entrance was but had decided to let the swordsman take the lead. After all, as they later realized, the officials had put up some security around the area overnight which would have been annoying to get through on their own.

"Yep, I can't believe it. Our goal could be reached as today!" Tox said excitedly. Ghost smiled, it wasn't too often that Tox got incredibly happy like this. Normally, she went for a bit more of the tough girl approach, but two years was a while to be doing something like this.

"Yeah…" Amber said, somewhat happily. She could still hear her father's voice in her head from the night before. Geez, now she knew how Emerald felt.

"Ah come on, sis. Telling the old man couldn't have been that bad," Emerald responded rolling her eyes.

"You weren't there when he threatened to ground me for the rest of my natural life," she said dryly.

"Aren't you going to college in like a few months? It's not like he can do anything to you if your not even in the house." Emerald noted.

"It's the thought that counts!" Mayl laughed softly in the background as she, Lan, and Chuad were watching the navis from a monitor. The two girls reminded her of another certain other sibling pair. She looked over at Lan who was staring intently at the screen. Hopefully today would be the day.

"Easy you two. There's no more time for games," Baryl scolded. Both girls looked apologetically as everyone refocused their attention.

"Hey what about those other two navis? I thought they would've track Regal down by now." Ghost said as they started to branch off into a deeper part of the Undernet. C-Sliders appeared in front of each of them as they continued their trek.

"They should've tried to free him by now. They'll be with us soon," Colonel replied.

"It's the soon part that worries me. We do not have enough people, even with all these extra navis, to take on an army of the dark navis. We've deleted some, but there's always more where that came from and then there's Drusk, Slur, Megaman, and possibly Roll," Tox looked down on the ground as the reality of the situation began to set in. Sure, Slur would have been weakened by now but she had still gotten trounced by the white navi. This was not going to be easy at all. Then again, when was it ever?

"Geez," the girl navi looked back up at her friend who was holding his hands behind his head, "From happy to sad in 2 seconds. Bad timing for ya, Tox?" the navi asked.

The comment almost passed over her head…"YOW!" Ghost said nursing his head from the blow as an embarrassed and blushing Tox refused to look at anyone. It hurt more since he actually didn't have a helmet to shield him from the girl navi's blow. She was happy that he was back to normal compared to the more brooding one yesterday, however that normally meant he was in a more joke cracking mood, "Alright, alright; bad joke. Bad joke! All I was trying to say was that we don't need all this negative realism crap. Today is going to go just as planned. We're going to storm Black Earth. I'm going to delete Drusk and you'll take care of Slur. We'll save Protoman, Roll, and Megaman. And then we will destroy all traces of darkness on the Net."

"Hmph, that's quite a change from threatening to delete anyone who got in your way yesterday. You're actually thinking about the whole picture," Chuad commented, his eyes closed.

"Hey!" Ghost snapped back, "I can think about the big picture…." he grumbled as he stuffed his hand into his windbreaker's pockets and they continued walking.

Emerald merely smiled before looking back over at the red haired girl. Everyone seemed a lot happier compared to yesterday. Hell, even she felt better than yesterday. Sure, her heart was racing in preparation for her revenge, but her anger really wasn't blocking her judgement this time around. In fact, it was helping it. Emerald smiled as she remembered her conversation with Ghost last night.

"When we fight Drusk, I don't want you to fight with me," Emerald said to Ghost in the confines of her room. Amber said she would take responsibility for telling the officials and go tell the old man herself, leaving the raven haired girl alone with her navi. What Mayl and Amber had told her was beginning to get to her. She wasn't going to be able to fight with Ghost. Not the way she did earlier today and in Kotobuki.

"Huh? What the heck is that supposed to mean?" Ghost said back, completely confused. This was new.

"I mean," she took a breath, "I don't want you to fight completely on my behalf."

Ghost raised an eyebrow, "I'm still not following. I thought we both wanted revenge on that creep."

"I know. And I do; but...I've already hurt you once. I'm not going to make that mistake again." The girl said putting the PET on the stand next to her bed.

"Look, I already told you I don't care about the fact my emblem is cracked and I don't have a helmet anymore. My System Core is moved away from the symbol to the base of my neck so that even if someone hits it I won't die. And plus, I like the jacket." he said, sticking his hands in the pockets for good measure.

"I know, but if I hadn't pulled that chip out early; well, maybe all of your data would have recovered. Instead, you have that jacket that's keeping you safe when you're capable of defending yourself." Apparently, her father had made a failsafe feature in side of the program in case all the data could never be recovered. It would create some kind of apparel that would help the navi out. In Ghost's case, his battle function was screwed up. His default weapon was gone and he had a hard time switching weapons, causing them to glitch and stick around to be used multiple times. They had managed to use the latter to their advantage with the Program Finisher, but still it was the fact that he was still scarred because of her. The jacket allowed the Clear Battle Chip to remove previous chip data and thus allowed Ghost to use more chips.

"Yeah, but this thing is like...the hardest material on the Net. Nothing damages it! I'm just happy it doesn't feel that way. It's not like it slows me down any. Plus, there wasn't anyway you could've known that your dad put a chip in your pocket. You weren't thinking when you put it into the PET, but I'm glad you weren't."

Emerald nodded slightly, "Same, but that's why I don't want you to fight with me. I want to fight with you."

"And...now I'm lost again."

"We're both angry, but somehow you've managed to contain it a lot better than I have."

"Some may argue that point, me included," Ghost said back.

"Well, who's idea was it to put a firewall around the Net area?"

"Who went along with it?"

"Who's the operator?"

"Who's the Net Navi?"

"Who's-"

"Alright, just stop. This is getting us no where. Look, we're both equally wrong for letting our anger stop us from fighting Drusk. So next time, let's just promise to check each other," he smiled, "Instead of one of us fighting for the other, let's just fight. The revenge is the main course of course, but let's just make sure we remember that there a whole meal to eat out there."

Emerald smiled back, "Sure. Promise," her stomach rumbled, "And now you made me hungry."

"Hey at least you can eat. The only thing I have around here is coffee and bug frags."

"How do those taste?"

"Let's just say I've had things that make the old man's meat loaf pie look and probably taste like heaven."

Emerald held back a noise and the bile that was trying to rise up in her throat. That was almost her non-existent lunch, "Don't joke…" She moaned as Ghost laughed from the safety of his PET.

Emerald turned back to the monitor as the three navis were approaching the dark hole. This time, they were ready.

"And all the preparations have been made?" Hub asked as he prepared to leave.

"I checked with Slur and Drusk today and both of them said that they were ready to go. They'll distract them while we head over and collect that program," Reina said following close behind him.

"When we leave Black Earth, I need you to go and start rebooting some of the systems. It will take a while since the place hasn't been used in years, but-"

Reina silenced him with a fast kiss, "Just leave it to me." Hub smirked as he hugged her. Reina rolled her eyes, "And I thought I was the one with problems with acting nice."

"You are, but maybe I have some too." he said as he and Reina walked towards a newly forming dark hole, a new back door. One that no one would no about until they had already fled to coop.

Outside of Black Earth 6, dark navis were lining up. Drusk sneered. Sparkman at least should've been back by now. He had received the report that Regal had started working faster than ever after Videoman had a chance to show him his world. In fact, he had been almost close to done. So then, why weren't they here?

Slur walked over next to him, "With the exception of that latest and main exit, they've got all of them covered. And it won't be long until they learn of the King's and Queen's exit either."

"Then, we'll just have to kill them quickly," he growled, more irritable than ever.

Slur looked at him, "Still couldn't recover from that crack could you?"

"It's not important."

Slur watched him as he walked away to go address the other dark souls, "Sure it isn't." Though she understood the sentiment. The purple one's poison was even worse today, almost as if it was adapting to all the measures they had taken to slow it down.

Drusk walked ahead of her and stopped in front of his troops. There were a few Heel navis still in the ranks that really only did small tasks, but any help would be better than none, "Today is a good day...to kill. Your mission is to destroy any navi who dares to step foot on these unholy grounds. Remind them that we dark navis are superior to them in every way. Remind them that there precious bonds to mankind are nothing more than the fairy tales that we shall read to the future generation of dark souls. Corrupt! Destroy! This is your purpose as dark navis! This is the purpose of the dark soul! This is-"

He almost finished his speech as the room suddenly began to turn hot. Dark navis jumped back as more and more fire was begin to swarm around them. They got into a huddle. Drusk was aware of Slur on his right and Protoman on his left. His eyes narrowed as the flames died down to reveal many many standard navis. In the front were three customs, the two Dark Hunters and the one known as Colonel . EXE.

"Knock knock!" the purple one said, her burner morphed back into her buster. The one holding all of the poison needles…

"Surprise, bug frag!" Ghost smirked still holding his Hell's Burner, though he gave a quick sneer to Drusk.

"Today is a good day," Colonel said, pointing his sword, "Which unfortunately means a bad one for you. Surrender now!"

"I'll be damned before I let you overtake us!" Drusk growled stepping forth.

"Good. Then I'll personally send you to cyber hell," Ghost said. He nodded to Colonel and Tox.

Tox shot him a thumbs up, "Do what you have to do. We'll take care of the rest."

"Darkness! Attack and show them we shall always overtake the dark!" Drusk roared as his battalion began to move forward.

"Let's knock him down a peg, partner! Battle Routine! Set!" Emerald said as she inserted two battle chips and Ghost started running.

"Execute! Air Blade!" Ghost said pulling out the blade.

He wasn't sure if he and Drusk started the fight that erupted after. He was well aware though, that Colonel had taken on Protoman and Tox had engaged Slur. He was also hoping that they wrapped this up before the dark souls realized that half of their "force" was in fact a punch of cleverly coded V-Dolls.

Ghost raised his blade, slashing Drusk's own, "I must say, out of everyone I've killed you've been the most annoying I've ever been able to not kill."

"Glad to be," he parried the strike, pushing him back as Emerald downloaded the Holy Blade. The yellow blade glowed brightly in the dark atmosphere in Black Earth, "Just as long this tale ends with you deleted! How's that crack treating ya?"

"Don't feel a thing!" Drusk roared as he started swiping madly. Who did this navi think he is? He damaged perfection! He was a dark navi! The pinnacle of fighting combat and yet this little navi cracked his emblem with one attack! Granted he hadn't been expecting anything much from the navi, but still.

"But I know you do! How'd it feel to know that you couldn't do anything as the roof collapsed on your NetOp? You know, I stuck around a bit to watch him suffer," Drusk jeered. Ghost roared at him as he fired a wave of holy energy from his sword.

"Ghost!" Emerald said, trying to calm down the navi, "We're in this together. Don't let him get in your head!"

"Just one punch. That's all I want right now," He growled quietly.

"Then let's give him one! Data Clear! Ice Glove! Elec Glove! Download!" the two swords disappeared as the gloves appeared on Ghost's hands.

"Emerald...what about the finisher?" Ghost asked.

"Relax, I've still got chips left. Besides, you wanted to punch him right?"

"Man…" he said as Drusk charged forward. The electricity crackled in his hand, "I love being your Net Navi!" Ghost dodged the attack and sent the punch right into his gut. Drusk coughed as he staggered back before Ghost delivered a cool left hook, freezing the navi's face. Drusk staggered back as the block of frozen water tempted to tip off his balance.

However, the navi punched at his own face, destroying the ice. He gave Ghost a cold look with his dark eyes. He had never hated a navi this much before. He had destroyed this navi and yet he had come back to life. Thus insulting him by saying that these normal navis could do the same that a dark soul could. Then he had cracked his navi emblem. And now he was punching him! "Tell me Net Navi, what's your secret? How are constantly coming back to give me grief when you should be nothing more than a fragmentation of my memory!"

Ghost merely laughed as his battle function was cleared again and a purple-orange Custom Blade appeared on his hand, "You should really stop leaving the job half done, Drusk. You get repeat business in your line of work."

"What do you mean half done! I cut you into data streams!"

"Yeah and by the way, that actually hurt!" Ghost swung the blade hard, cracking it against the navi's own Dark Sword but broke both weapons in the process, "You destroyed my frame data but Drake had already jacked me out! My System Core was still intact and dying when it got back to the PET. That's when Emerald found me. Dazed, she put in the only chip that could save my core from falling apart. But your Dark Power had already tainted some of it. The program rejected the data as corrupted and was working on correcting it when Emerald took the chip out."

"And let me guess, your memory was still intact…" Drusk grumbled.

"What was your first guess?" Ghost asked as his data was cleared once more and his hand changed into a buster a fired a spread shot, "Anyway…" he said as he watched him dodge the attack and sprint for him, "It makes no sense explaining stories like this to you because you just won't get it!"

Ghost disappeared before Drusk could swing with a newly made Dark Sword and impact the ground, "And why wouldn't I? What is so great about you that it trumps me? A dark soul?"

"Easy…" Emerald started, "Your only goal is to destroy and proclaim that darkness is the most perfect thing. You perfected using it and destroyed anyone who threatened that perfection. But you forgot one thing. When you start looking towards the clouds in the sky, you tend to forget how close you are to the edge! Data Clear! Aura! Download!"

A silver aura surrounded Ghost as he grabbed the Dark Sword in his hands. It was then that Drusk could see the faintest of rings around him. He growled as he recognized the tint. So many times navis had tried to activate this power to beat him and now this ghost of the past was actually using it, "You've….you've been fighting in Full Synchro this whole time!" Wait, every time he was took on a new chip when both hands were full his data was cleared by his NetOp. Did that also apply to his Full Synchro?

"Hey, no one said anything against it," Ghost said, kneeing him before throwing him into another dark navi. He looked behind him to see Slur behind him. Apparently she too was being given a hard time by her opponent. He could see several needles embedding themselves into her body. The navi's poison was wearing her down. He turned back to Ghost.

No...kill him first. Then help Slur. As he got back to his feet, a silver blade appeared on Ghost's hand, "SonicBoom! Download!"

"Dark Blade! Shadow Blind!" the whole area was engulfed in thick darkness. As he charged, Ghost blocked the hit.

"I thought you realized this," his gray eyes glowing, "This darkness doesn't affect me. I should let you know, my own power as a Dark Hunter is different from Tox's. I don't kill you with a default; my ability is my vision. I can see fine in both light and dark. Blinder and invis chips of any sort don't work on me!"

Drusk's eyes widened. He had assumed the first time had been a lucky block. Ghost shoved him back, "Time yet?"

"Yep, time to go all out! Program Finisher! Invis! Program Advance! Dragon's Blade!" a fierce red and blue blade on Ghost's hand as he swiped in front of him, some of the dark fog moving out of the way.

"How...you…"

"So, you remembered my original blade? I lost it after being recovered but the old man managed to upgrade it and turned it into a Program Advance. I don't need the Midnight Blade to delete you. This is all I need to kill you!" Ghost said as he charged forward.

Drusk laughed as the navi came to "end" him. He would just reform back in a few moments after he cut him. It was pointless! And when he came back, he would seek out this navi and kill him right in front of his NetOp. He was tired of this insolence! Just like the doctor! All these humans believed he was wrong! But he was perfect! He was death incarnate! And one day, when his back was turned, he would kill the King and throw that useless Queen down into the pit of the legendary Cybeasts! He would stand alone as ruler! All he needed was the chance!

"You forgot one thing! I have a stake in this too! Holy Stage! Dark Trap! Download!" Emerald yelled as the ground glowed yellow. Drusk eyes widened as he felt something weird creeping into him. These weren't holy panels. No...they were some kind of...conversion panels! Drusk yelled as the Dark Trap activated. He could feel his Dark Core turning into a System Core. The Holy Stage was keeping him from reaching the infinite source of darkness while the trap was changing the very way he lived. No...no! If this continued he wouldn't be able to reform!

"This is for Drake, Dr. Flights, Emerald, me, and everyone else you've hurt! Prepare to be deleted once and for all!" Ghost yelled as he brought the blade back and punched Drusk straight through with it. When Ghost struck, he had stabbed the navi straight in his System Core. Drusk screamed as his data fragmented and disappeared into nothing. In one foul swoop, he had been disgraced and forced to become a fallen angel of death. And fallen angels didn't come back...ever.

The dark mist dissipated seeing that its master was no longer present. Ghost smirked as the Full Synchro disappeared and he fell to his knees. Staying in Full Synchro that long had taken it completely out of him. They had only guessed that would work. But hey, didn't know until you tried right?

"Emerald!" Amber screamed as she watched her sister slump against the wall.

Mayl came over, concerned, while Lan and Chuad looked on. Baryl gave a glance but was more concerned with the ongoing fight between Colonel and Protoman. "I'm fine," Emerald mumbled tiredly. She had been as much affected by the energy drain that Ghost had been. It was a few moments before she started laughing. A few seconds later, she looked up at everyone wearing a smile. She looked exhausted and her face was wet, but Amber smiled back. Emerald was happy. Really happy, "It's over." Amber hugged her sister tightly as her euphoria became her own.

Emerald had asked Amber to punch her if she even thought that she was losing her cool earlier that morning. Of course, the request lead to her finally telling Amber the full side of the story. Amber had tearfully agreed. Her sister was a lot stronger than she thought; and she was right, she wouldn't have understood her. Amber had been more optimistic about her parents' divorce. Granted they had both lost a parent, but maybe that's why they both melded together. Still though, Amber was glad that Emerald could finally be at peace.

"I'm impressed," Ghost heard as he saw a purple hand in front of him. He smirked and grabbed it as Tox hoisted him up to his feet, "Staying in Full Synchro for that long and on your first go. I'm highly impressed."

"What can we say; we're rebels. So what happened to snow flake?" Ghost asked. Tox gestured to groaning navi behind her. Slur looked so bogged down it surprised Ghost that her data hadn't already collapse, "Too many Tox Needles. Though she did get in a few good hits."

Ghost raised an eyebrow as he looked at how battered she was, "If that's a few then did you go into a washing machine before you walked over here?"

"Ha. Ha. Ha. Alright, so she gave me a beating. The point is that's another one down. Tomahawkman and Knightman should up just in time to take some of the pressure off of us. The other Dark Hunters are beginning to poor in. They surprised me; never seen them fight so hard."

"They can fight?"

Tox shrugged, "Maybe all they needed was positive reinforcement. Then again, when you have a royal knight charging into battle for you, it changes things."

"Don't tell me you're crazy about him already? Geez, first the mood swings and now the attraction. If you don't stop, someone is going to think you're-"

"Finish that sentence and I'll be sure to take that element out of your code myself."

"Alright fine," he said looking away, "Just tell me if it's a boy or a girl."

Tox blushed furiously, "You!"

"HEY!" Colonel roared, snapping the attention of both Dark Hunters. He had barely gotten Protoman into a headlock and the struggling navi was making hard for him to hold him, "If you two are done, I'd like some help curing Protoman!"

"Oh right, that is still happening. Sorry, just killed my greatest enemy. Not quite sure what to do with myself yet. I'm sure I'll be back to normal in a couple of minutes," Ghost said as Tox rolled her eyes and fired a yellow needle into Protoman. Dr. Robinson had managed to give her a type of weapon that hopeful should reverse the effects of the dark soul this morning. However, it would only work on navis with a backup version of them saved in a PET device. In other words, it was only for Protoman, Roll, and Megaman.

Protoman slowly stopped struggling as his color began to lighten. In a few moments, he had gone from a crimson red to his normal shade, "What? What happened? My head," Protoman groaned as Colonel released him. Out of the corner of his ear, Ghost could hear Slur snarl. Good, she needed to be knocked down a peg or two.

"Protoman!" Chuad said, relieved that his partner was back.

"I've got this," Ghost said before anyone else could speak, "You got knocked out, turned into a dark navi, almost strangled, and now you're back to normal."

"...You need therapy," Tox grumbled as she facepalmed herself.

Ghost narrowed his eyes as he shook his head and turned his attention to the white navi. Tox's poison looked pretty close to deleting her as it was already. Ghost walked over, "Hey what's up? Care to tell us where your boss went to? About this high? Used to call himself Megaman?"

"Screw off…"

"What a bad choice of words," Tox said, pulling back out her buster, "You know I'm the only one who can possible get you fixed right? You really don't want to tell me what I don't want to hear. You know Ghost, I'm beginning to wonder why we didn't just do this sooner. The other dark souls fell because they were weak. Though it's not like we let most of the navis have a one use battle chip with a Tox Needle for everyone." she smirked. Ghost scoffed. So that's how the standard navis won. Tox Needles, effective for putting any dark soul down. Though, he didn't imagine that every navi had managed to hit their opponents on the mark. Still though, he was a little jealous. He couldn't poison dark soul. He could only see in the dark and light. Not all that impressive.

"Your armies have been weakened. They can't fight no matter if they reform and neither can you," Colonel said, "It is best for you to give up now."

"Plus, I mean wouldn't you like to do something good before you die?" Ghost chimed in.

If she wasn't so weak, she would have wrapped a wire around everyone's neck. Curse this poison and it's effectiveness. "You can forget me talking," she said painfully, "Just know that the Dark King and Queen have already gone and you'll be under our rule before you know it." Slur groaned.

"Thanks. That was all we needed," Tox said as she watched the navi dissipate. A few seconds later, a loud explosion was heard throughout the area, "Good they set the minibombs. At least they won't be reforming back."

"Wait, you destroyed them spawning without deleting their core? But how?" Colonel asked.

"Each charge was made out of the same material that created the Holy Stage. Each area is now scattered with enough of that power to distort the darkness. Pretty much, it'll be really hard for them to reform and impossible in a few minutes. That was just the first round. We may not delete this place, but by the time were done this place won't be called Black Earth anymore." Amber said proudly.

Emerald staggered back to her feet. The Full Synchro had taken a bit more out of her than she thought, "Now we just need the old man to find out what link just opened up and track the dark energy. It'll lead us right to 'em."

A few seconds later, Emerald got an email, "He found it. What? That doesn't make any sense." She turned to the screen showing the three navis, "Did Tomahawkman and Knightman find Regal?"

"Yeah, he wouldn't stop typing! It was like he was hypnotized or something," a green navi said, a tomahawk on his shoulder, as he walked forward. He nodded to Colonel, "Knightman's clearing out the rest of them. Have to say, whatever you gave those standard navis really packed a punch. Dark Navis started to lose a lot of their power within five minutes!"

Tox blushed, "Happy to be of service!"

"Again with the mood-OW!" he said hopping on one foot with a still sweetly smiling Tox.

"Huh it still doesn't make any sense," Emerald continued, "According to the old man, one of them went to Kotobuki while the other went to some farther away location. Um...the Nebula Area?"

A stillness ran across the room. Tox was the one to break it, "Did anyone ever check to make sure that Soul Net was destroyed?"

"The volcano erupted; nothing was left." Colonel said.

"And you're sure? This is Regal after all. I don't think he's that dumb to put everything he owned into a volcano," Ghost questioned as he put his foot back on the ground, "Maybe something underground or underwater. The place was known for storms or something right? What if there was a backup somewhere close by where he could grab the data and reactivate Soul Net."

"With the Sync Program, that kind of broadcast…" Chuad murmured, not liking the results.

"Then we'll have to cut them off," Baryl said, "Colonel and Ghost will head to Kotobuki while Tox will head over to the Nebula Area."

Emerald shook her head, "Cutting them off won't do a thing. We already know who the Dark King is. And we only have a hunch about the Queen. However, do we really want to put either of them into a corner? I think Ghost and Tox should go to Nebula Area. Colonel, Tomahawkman, and Knightman should run interference at Kotobuki. That'll buy us some time to deal with the threat at the Nebula Area. We don't want them together but we don't want to go head to head unprepared."

Baryl looked hard at the girl. He really didn't like the idea of using his navi as a decoy; then again, she probably didn't like her sister's navi in that role either.

"I like the idea," the room's attention was brought to Lan. The teen had been pretty quiet for the whole fight, "It's crazy. Crazy enough to actually work. After what Tox and Ghost did, I'm sure they can beat whoever they want together."

"Don't give him a bigger head than he already has," Tox chided.

"Oh really Ms…." Ghost's insult died down as Tox gave him a harsh stare, "Alright, fine. Done for the day."

Baryl sighed, "Fine. But we have to make every second count. Chuad, I know you just jacked out Protoman but can you keep watch over the standard navis in Black Earth."

Chuad nodded, "Roger."

Baryl turned back to the others, "Alright everyone, go to your places. The world and," looking at Lan and Mayl, "The fate of the very people in this room are relying on us. Let's make them proud."

Ghost: *dancing around* What? It's not me but I'm glad Drusk is dead. One of the most unlikable characters I think I've thought up. At least Mortis is jealous driven. Drusk is just insane. Anypanel, Ghost and Emerald win all and it's time for the end phase. So, anyone else want to see some more Dark Hunter fights?

Update: Friday

*Yells* Sorry, everyone! I've got a thunderstorm of acid rain over me! So, I have to cut it short and see you guys next time on MMBN5 Disconnect: Dark Empire, Episode 11: Rolling Out A Problem! Anypanel, Ghost501 logging out!