Connected Hearts

by KT-Variant

One becomes two... and both are in danger... After the trials on both worlds, only Netto, who's now Axl, Saito, who's now Rockman.EXE and Sora can save both worlds from evil. Rockman.EXExMMX crossover! REVISING!

10. You're my friends

:::^*^:::

Connected Hearts

You're my friends

Silver: Chapter 10 revised! With more Spider scene! YAY! Sorry if I have to remove Colonel for majority of the scenes... the Space Navi saved him! I also added a secret aid for Sora and the Net Navis, can you guess?

(Disclaimer: Again, I do not own it's theme songs or MMX, if I do Megaman would still exist and is helping X out. XD)

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You're my friends

:::^Sora's P.O.V.^:::

Hi! I'm Hikari Miriku Sora, a Net Saviour in my home world.

Let's have a quick recap on what happened.

Enzan, Laika and I were sent on a mission to retrieve a bunch of government equipments that were stolen, but it turned out to be a trap and it only got me. However, the trap is a portal of some sort and transported me in another world, and there I met up with Colonel Barrel and his Net Navi, Colonel EXE again. Unfortunately, our reunion was cut short when a pair of mavericks came, and took Barrel away, leaving me and the Net Navis to fend for ourselves.

A few days later, we found where the truck that has taken Barrel and managed to perform the Cross Fusion with the help of the new version of Synchro Chip that my dad made. The new version allows us to Cross Fuse without the Dimensional Area, which will remove it once dad finds a way to stabilize the new Cross Fusion.

Yeah, Rouge doesn't want me to use the new version of Synchro Chip, since it is not fully approved yet. But it's either use it or get yourself killed by mavericks...

Then I met a group of reploids, the three of them are Mavericks Hunters and they are agents or soldiers of this world's government, whose duty are to stop Mavericks. Kinda like the Net Saviours in my world, only it consists of reploids. They are X, who resemble my older navi brother only older, Zero, the blond one who have a very serious attitude and Axl, who is the teenager of the three.

Anyway, I joined the group with 3 reasons: One, I have no knowledge of this world, except for Colonel who knows a few details. Two, highly advance, self-aware robots infected with viruses are very dangerous. And three, It's safe to go with them for some what reasons...

I dunno if it's a bad or good decision, but I became friends with those reploids. And I make things even more complicated, when both Cinnamon and Marino found out that I'm a human. But things turns out to be… well, fun? Okay, I'll admit that it was good decision. I mean, it's not like everyday you make friends with the reploids, it's quite a different but similar experience as they are almost like the Net Navis. After we defeated Epsilon, Colonel Redips, who gave the mission to X and Zero and the real guy who's behind all this, suddenly appeared. And he nearly gave me a heart attack, or in reploid term, a reboot. He compliment us on defeating Epsilon and told us that a ride home will come soon.

But I can't go with them since I have to find my way home. Barrel became the least of my problems since I guessed that he was saved by Duo.

Once we arrived back to the base, I quickly went back to the tourist spot and decided to leave the group. But before I even left, the newly-born Net Navi, Spider, woke up. What happen to him? Someone tried to destroy him but I manage to get his core program out and turns him into a Net Navi. And we, Cinnamon, Marino, the Net Navis and I discovered who's behind all this… Redips!

But bad things went to worse when the ship that Redips sent attacked the base, and cause some debris to fall into the tourist spot. I almost fell but managed to grab on the railing... however, Colonel's PET slip out and both Rouge and I witnessed it being transported out.

I knew Duo is behind this, and I was right that Barrel was saved by that space navi... I'm so going to give him a beat down, and I don't care if he got god-like powers!

Anyway, it got worse for me when I found my Synchro Chip broke and I couldn't perform Cross Fusion anymore. Both Marino and Cinnamon decides to drag me out of the spot and so see what's going on. There we saw the ship deploying mechaniloids and shooting at our friends. We took cover behind some crates and Rouge quickly instructs me to tell Marino to lead the others to safety, as she calculated an escape route…

But X and the other saw me without my CF Form.

Then they placed me in a room for my safety... or more like a house arrest to me, with Prof. Gaudile acting as the caretaker. But since some of them didn't know anything about my Net Navis, I made my escape and grabbing weapons along the way. When I found the dock, I started to feel the guilt of not helping my friends and hesitates on taking a ship. It's strange... I guess that's what happen to you when you made a bond with them... Oh what the heck, I consider Net Navis as friends, partners, and families. And Reploids are no different either.

I decided to go after them by getting the platypus reploid to give me some additional weapons and equipment, and then I took the Air Bus to the said Far East HQ... and then, I got myself into this mess!

:::^Normal P.O.V.^:::

"HIIIIEEEEE!" Sora shrieks, as she runs across the bridge and is being chase by a pair of mechaniloids called Red Hubcaps. These type of mechaniloids are the said to be one of colonel's guards, they resembles shrimps but their faces are on the back and have a pair of two small machine guns. They can also use elemental attacks like Mega Ice, but that is the least of her worries as she takes cover behind a corner. On arriving at the bus stop of the Far East HQ, these mechaniloids were the first to greet her as she stepped out.

"Well, this is not the worse welcome I encountered." She said to the two navis, as she takes out and charge her Buster Pistol. The brunette then releases it on one of the Hubcaps, which is hit head on and explodes. Realizing that the human is armed, it cast an elemental attack on her. Seeing the ground glow, she quickly scrambles away from the corner as a Mega Fire hits the area where she is hiding. Seeing her in the open, the remaining Hubcap takes aim but the brunette releases another charge shot. But it tilts away, only hitting it's side and machine gun. The Hubcap tries once more to shoot her down, only to get hit by rapid shots from the gun and explodes.

The brunette sigh in relief, as she waves the slightly hot gun to cool it off when- "Whoa!" she yelped, as a shot misses her side and turns to to see another type of mechaniloid attacking her. Avoiding another shot, which reminds her of a Cannon Battle Chip, she charges he buster once more and fires at the mechaniloid. The shot connects but the machine didn't go down, and continues to shoot at her. Taking out her shield, she moves out of the covers and shoots at the mechaniloid till it is destroyed.

"Hot! Hot!" she juggles the pistol, quickly places it back into the holster and strapping the shield on her back.

"Sora, are you okay?" Spider asked, as his hologram pops out of his PET.

"Yeah... but I knew I should've taken a beam saber instead." She joked as she walks back to the said HQ, seeing that the area is mechaniloid-free.

"But that thing is dangerous and I doubt that you might take it home." Rouge said, as Sora spots a vent not far from the main entrance of the building.

"But I'll be careful." Sora pouts as she walks towards the vent.

"Sure... then you'll ask mom to help in the kitchen and use that thing as a kitchen knife?" the female navi said with a bit mocking tone in it.

"OKAY! I got the point! Geez... you remind me of Erica." the brunette miffs, as she stops in front of the vent and take out her tools she always carries. All while both Spider watched their exchange in amusement.

"Are you guys always like this?" Spider asked, them as the brunette unscrews the vent.

"Sometimes." Both Sora and Rouge replied, as the brunette pulls the vent to get it off the wall.

:::^*^:::

Getting inside is the easy part, but confronting a bunch of mechaniloids while looking for the group is kind of a pickle. "Man... I'll never catch up with them at this rate." She said, as she catches her breath and Rouge sighs. The navy blue navi knew that she might end up like this.

"Sora... There's an elevator on the right you might use and it is also much quicker if you go that way." Rouge said, after scanning the area. Sora looks at her partner with a curious look. "Hey, I'm an Internet Navigator or Net Navi for short, that's what I do." Rouge said in defense.

"Thanks." the brunette said with a smile as she followed Rouge's advice.

'Like I have a choice anyway... then again, with her stubbornness and confidence, she always saved the world in the end.' Rouge thought, as her partner hops on the elevator. Once it reaches another floor, she makes her way thru the hall. And on entering an the area, the Net Saviour and the Net Navis saw an almost destroyed reploid.

"That's Wild Jango!" Spider said out of shock, as he remembered confronting the said reploid with the blue hunter, back in Central Tower.

"Wild who?" Sora asked, as she kneels down to look at the reploid.

"Wild Jango, X and I fought him before we met the others. He also was a Rebellion lackey." Spider said, looking at the dead bobcat-like reploid. "But why is he here?"

"I can't sense his system anymore... His core program is gone." Rouge said, after scanning the reploid.

"You mean his control chip is destroyed." the black navi asked, thinking that the Net Navi's core program is equivalent to the reploid control chip. The brunette nods to confirm it as he looks at the destroyed reploid. "But why would Redips revive a Rebellion member?" he asked, before turning to his companions. "He never met him at all."

The Net Saviour thinks about it for a while, then looks back at Spider. "Maybe... maybe when he did that fake suicide, he went off looking for their leftovers upon learning about them." she stated out. "I think he wants a good security measure, to make sure that any Rebellion or Resistance survivor wouldn't reach him."

"I see... he must have copied a part of my memory banks, the ones with the Rebellion Army encounters in it."

"Then catching up with the others is not going to be that hard after all." as she stands and continues on her way. She runs down the hall, then enters another elevator and goes up. As they go up, they discusses about the difference on reviving a reploid and a navi.

She then wonders why it is illegal to revive the reploids, when the control chip survived the destruction of their bodies. It turns out that when either the generator, fuel tank or a combination of the two explodes, it damages the data in the control ship, if it did not destroyed it. The system and it's data is quite delicate, a sudden shock of power or heat is enough to put the programs in disarray, and damaged programs corrupting itself to survive. But then... it just change when Sora saved him, but transforming him into a Net Navi.

Both NetOp and Rouge explains that they only took two specific programs from the core program or the control chip, which is the memory and personality data. They don't need any other programs than those two, but they keep in mind of what the reploid's looks and it's main weapon. But before they make the frame, the two checked on both programs and find all of the data still intact. This made the black navi relief as the damage inflicted by his brother, only caused a power failure thus shutting him down. The brunette then programmed and built a frame out of a generic navi, the ones most people who are new in using PET starts with. Pretty much, Spider's navi body is now like any custom navi except she removes his weakness and immunity, making him a balanced navi. On the other hand, the downside, he lost most of his skills and he can only perform Standard Strike, his most basic attack which he throws cards at his enemies.

Arriving on another floor, there are three ways to go... To the right is a transporter and to the left is a room with a pair of reploids in it. Both reploids are surprise on seeing a human girl, but nevertheless they are friendly to her. She asked if they seen X and the others, both reploids told her that they did see them enter the elevator at the far end of the longest hall. Thanking them, she exits the room and proceeds to the elevator, despite the two warning about enemy mechaniloids. On reaching the elevator, she finds it lock and as she is about to plug-in Rouge to see if she can hack it open...

"Sora." Spider said in alert, as he heard something or someone warp in the far end of the hall. Not sure if it's her friends or an enemy, she silently hides in one of the three open rooms and peeks out... to see a certain pink reploid with a whip as her weapon, Ferham.

'Yipes, I'm going to be dead meat when she sees me.' Sora thought nervously and remains hiding, but she heard the reploid groan in pain as she struggles to enter another room. "Oh, why me?" she cursed herself.

"Be careful, Sora." Rouge said, as her partner approaches the remaining Cadre. The brunette nods back at her partner, as she carefully nears her. Seeing that her body sparked and her energy is slowly getting low, the brunette decide to throw the caution in the wind and helps her up.

Ferham did notice that she is not alone but have no energy to retaliate, as the fight before nearly drained a lot of her strength. But to her surprise, the person decided to heave her up and drags her to a room, near the transportation area she exited. And to surprise her even more, the one who's helping her is a human girl.

Meanwhile, Sora is quite surprise on the reploid's weight as they enter the said room. Without the wings, the dark pink reploid would have the same weight as a human woman of her physique. Once she got the nurse reploid to heal her, the pink Cadre looks at the human girl as the nurse refills her Sub Tanks. "What's a human like you doing in a place like this...?" Ferham asked with some coldness and curiosity in her voice, as she remembers her commander have banished all of the humans from Giga City.

"Ummm... That's a bit of a long story..." She replied as she looks at her PETs. Apparently, they agreed not to appear out of the PET, unless they are alone or with their friends. "What am I gonna do?" she asked silently at them.

"I dunno, but if I were you, I might as well tell the truth." Rouge said with honesty, as Spider also have no idea.

"Gee, that was helpful." The brunette said sarcastically.

"And why did you bothered helping me? A reploid?" the dark pink Cadre asked, she rechecks her equipment as she remembers how humanity fears their kind.

However, unknown to most reploids and Spider, the Net Saviour does not belong in this world. The concept of self-aware robots seems similar but quite new for her, as she and Rouge have their run-ins with independent navis. Add to the fact that she sees artificial beings as a part of life, and she shares one or two views about it from her brothers. "Well... I'm not the heartless." she quips.

Ignoring that a human helped her, Fehram stands up and makes away to avenge Epsilon and Scarface's death. But the Net Saviour decides to follow her, just in case.

However... the remaining Cadre couldn't help to think that she have heard that line before.

:::^*^:::

After beating some mechaniloids on the way, they enter the only room with a pinkish-purple barrier-like door. Inside is another transporter, which looks less impressive from the one at the other hall. The dark pink reploid steps on the transporter and disappears. Seeing that she'll return at the other transporter, she turns to exit the room... only to hit herself on the purple barrier.

"Ouch..." she winces as she rubs her nose.

"I guess the only way out is thru that transporter." Spider said, seeing the barrier prevented the brunette from leaving.

"It seems like it." Sora replied, as she turns around and hops on it.

"Ah wait-!" but he is cut off when the transporter activates and warps them to where Ferham is. Arriving at the other side, Sora couldn't help to feel sick again as she stumbles off the transporter. "Ugh... this didn't happened much in my CF Form." she groans.

"Ahou!" Rouge states as she pops out of her PET and face her partner. "You're expose, of course it will hit you hard."

"What do you mean?" the black navi asked. Rouge explains to him that Sora was using the transporter with her CF form on, which they eventually got used to it. But since she lacks protection from it, the effects are repeated once more.

"Rouge, have you forgotten about the Cache incident?" the brunette reminds her that, as she have ease her nausea and stands up.

"These warps and that are entirely different, Sora!" her female navi retorts, as being transformed into data and transporting from one place to another is different.

"Cache?"

"Long story, Spider." As the Net Saviour quickly follows the dark pink Cadre. It didn't take long for her to spot the Cadre down the halls and runs to her side. Once more, the female reploid is surprise to see the human girl have followed her.

"Why are you following me, you're suppose to stay behind where it's safe?" Fehram asked coldly, while wondering why a human like her is wandering around this building.

"Sorry, but I want to find my friends." Sora said, as she shifts her shield and bag on one shoulder and takes out her Buster Pistol with her left hand. Because her R-Buster is adjusted on the left arm on both navi and Cross Fusion, she is better at shooting by the left while her right is good at throwing.

"You'll just get in my way." Fehram said, as she destroys a Redips Guard that came into her sight with her whip.

"But I won't." the brunette answered back cheerily.

'More likely she will...' Rouge thought with a sigh and dropping her head on her hand. 'But my partner is definitely no foot-stool.'

Still her partner follows Fehram thru the door and there they saw...

"What the-! It's Mach Jentra!" Both Sora and Spider yelped, and then they look at each other.

"You know him?" she asked.

"Once, I was pretending that I was looking for a bounty hunting gig, but I was investigating my brother's Copy Chip if there's anything wrong with it. It was manufactured there." he replied, as the said former rebellion soldier laughs evilly and attacks the two.

"Whoa!" the brunette yelps, as she and Fehram jumps away and the dark pink reploid arms herself. Pretty much his attacks are the same, summoning Preons, Fire-type attacks... the only difference is that he is twice strong, mindless and Sora lacks her Cross Fusion form. Right now, she only got her shield, gun, the anti-Force Metal suit, some mega elementals and the cards that Spider requested to Prof. Gaudille to be made for her.

Charging her shot, she digs in her bag to throw a Mega Ice while the dark pink Cadre attacks him with his whip. Firing at one of the Preons, she takes out a Mega Ice and a Mega Fire as the shot hits the said target and it loses it's saber. The said Preon puts up it's defense as the brunette ignores it for a while and throws the Mega Ice at the fire-type reploid. However, it misses the target as it avoids the whip, and froze the wall instead. Then she quickly arms her shield, to block an attack from a Preon Hybrid and moves back as she shoots at them.

The reploid-navi watches in awe as Rouge navigates her human partner and Sora can fend the two mechaniloids, while assisting Ferham. Although the human girl is in high-risk of getting killed, she does not stand in one place and moves. He thought that the main reason that she is able to fend and survive, is due to her experiences with the Cross Fusion. So even without the said form, her awareness in the battlefield is still sharp and is able to avoid getting hit at all.

Once getting rid of the Preons with her Buster Pistol and the cards, she then throws Mega Ice at the mindless reploid. Causing him to be grounded and allowing Ferham to strike him down with Sonic Blizzard, as the brunette blocks the wide attack with her shield and winces at the force of it. Then she hears an explosion and peeks out to see the mindless reploid have been destroyed. The dark pink Cadre rolls up her whip before looking back at the human girl, who flinch at her cold stare.

'Oi! What's up with the stare?!' Sora thought, as she looks away from her and place her gun back in her holster.

"Stay here." The dark pink Cadre stated firmly, as she walks out of the room.

"Eh? Wait for me!" the brunette shouts, as slings her shield and briskly follows the Cadre. However. the doors quickly closes and then she hears some electric crackles... and that is not a good sign. Skidding to a stop, the door did not open in response and she tries opening it by pulling it apart. "Hey!"

"This is not your fight to begin with." the Cadre states calmly, as she brunette hears her walking away from the door. "You're staying here." and then she hears a faint noise of the warp.

Sensing that the dark pink Cadre have left, the brunette sighs in annoyance and looks around the area. On the other side is another door, she went there and finds it lock. Both navis appears on her sides and looks at her with concern as she looks at the door. "Rouge, can you open this door?" she asked as she picks her partner's PET from her shoulder holster.

"Roger that." she said with a nod.

"Plug-in! Rouge! Transmission!" and a red beam hits the door panel's port. Inside, the navy blue navi makes her way to the lock's program mechanism, but there are a few security programs in the area. Unlike the security navis in the Net Saviour's world, these programs would stick to her like leeches and attempts to delete her. But they are easy to get rid of, as Rouge uses her chain to delete most of them. Once she arrives at the lock program, loads a file in her PET and unlocks the door, she is then plug-out back to her PET. "Great job, Rouge. You don't need any Battle Chips at all in that one." her NetOp teases her.

"The security there is pretty low, if you asked me." the female navi replied with a shrug, as her partner enters and looks around the new area. "Anyway, we better find our way back to that hall."

"Right... now are there any vents in this area?" the brunette mutters as she looks around.

:::^*^:::

It didn't take long for her to find the said vent and uses it as a way back to where the transporter is. Rouge took the chance to download the blueprints of the building in her PET, when she was unlocking the door. They found out that they are in the Training Barracks, far from the main building where X and the others are.

Arriving in the area, she kicks the grate out of the way, crawls out and makes a beeline for the transporter. Warping back into the halls, she recovers a bit before heading for the elevator. But she still find it lock and the rooms have their barriers up. "... Okay, last time we're here those barriers were not there." the brunette said, pointing at the three rooms which now have barriers similar to the one she and Ferham went to.

"Hey, you're right." Rouge said as she looks at the rooms. "But why are they back up?"

"Well..." Spider said, jumping out of his PET. "That's how the locking mechanism works for this elevator."

"You mean those four warps acts as locks for this elevator?" the brunette asked the reploid-navi.

"Yep, and it seems Ferham has used this elevator." he said, as he looks at the rooms. "This elevator can only be used once after defeating the mavericks in those four rooms. So if this elevator closes and you're late, you have to go beat those four mavericks to get it open."

"Oookay... that sounds crazy." Rouge stated, as the fact that mechanism of the lock is quite ridiculous. 'Beat four mavericks just to use it, sounds suicidal or murderous if you think of it.'

"I know, but I'm pretty sure that this type of lock mechanism was recently installed. Otherwise, the other hunters would have quite some hard time heading for Redips' office to report or something."

"True."

"Anyway, back to the point." Sora states, as she places her hands on her waist. "We need to catch up with X and the others fast."

"Aye, and the fact that Ferham broke one of the doors in that Training Barracks."

"So there's only one solution to this." the brunette then takes her PET and is about to plug her partner in...

"Oi! Don't forget about me!" Spider shouts, as he place his hands on his hips and looks quite miff at them. "I'm getting bored in here, let me help you." as the reploid-navi does not want to be a foot-stool and do nothing at all.

Both girls looks at one another, then Rouge shrugs a bit as her partner smiles and takes Spider's PET off the holster. "You sure about this?" she asked, as the navified reploid have no experience on being a Net Navi and this will be his first operation with a human partner.

He nods. "Yeah, I don't want to be a spectator in this fight. Uh... can you operate two navis?" he asked.

"Yeah, I have some practice." she quips, as she takes out extra Battle Chips from the bag. Sora have experience on double operating or operating with two navis. It is due to the fact that back in her world, her dad would lend her Rockman in missions that requires two navis but one operator. Right now, she is setting a few Battle Chips that suits the reploid-navi to use. 'I hope I haven't rusted.' she thought and then she plugs both navis in the panel.

:::^*^:::

A pair of lights landed on the platform system and the two Net Navis takes form.

"That's... kinda new." Spider utters, as he shakes his dizziness away.

"Well, plug-ins are different from warping." Rouge states, as she pats the black navi on the back to ease his dizzy spell.

"Ugh... Are we in the lock mechanism?" as he recovers a bit.

"Yep." she points at the distance of what looks like a building just a mile away from them. "But this system looks different from the other door I opened before."

"Different?"

"You mentioned that the four warps acts as locks and the only way to open them is to beat all four mavericks." She explains as she looks around, she spots four links connecting to what looks like four red, data towers. "If those tower serves as links to the Training Barracks and the elevator, all we have to do is to change their codes." She then turns to see a confused black navi. "Or in better term, we make them think that we beat all of the mavericks."

"Ah, so we're going to cheat."

"Well, somewhat like that too."

"I'm starting to like this Internet Navigation thing."

"Hey." Sora calls as a small screen appears on their side. "Rouge can you teach Spider how to change the codes?"

"Sure thing!" her partner replied as Spider looks puzzled. "Your programming is still the same, Spider." she explains and he seems to accept that as he is programmed to be a fighting reploid. So pretty much, he have no idea on complex programmings and the likes, he mostly leave those to the scientists, programmers or navigators.

Both navis makes their way to the first tower... and both NetOp and her partner receives a surprise on seeing the security program.

"No way... Laserman!" Rouge shouts and Sora is even bug out on hearing it. There just beside the data tower, is the familiar navi with a huge arc on it's back and guarding the tower... with four more versions of the said Darkloid.

"You know it?" Spider asked, as both girls recognizes the said security program.

"Huh... yeah, Laserman was one of our enemies. He and his operator tried to take over the DA project which causes the viruses to materialize back in our home town. Also, he does not have much of a personality." the female navi explains... once again, a half-truth. It is true that they were their enemies and it was their dad who created the Dimensional Area, but it was Laserman's operator who was the first one to make a stable Dimensional Area... by using the Net Navis' life as batteries.

"In other words, he's like a puppet on strings." She nods back.

"I don't think that's Laserman, if I remember correctly he have legs." Sora states and it turns out to be true. The said security programs looks quite different from the Darkloid. Like what the brunette said, the programs lacks legs and instead it's waists are sitting on glowing orbs. It lacks the navi icon and the arc on the back seems to vary from size or it was flip upside down. Rouge seems to be thankful that it is just a security program and not an alternate version of the Darkloid.

'Oh wait... Laserman should be a reploid.' she thought, as she remembers that Net Navis don't exist in this world. She arms her buster as Spider manage to call out his cards. "Ready for your first Net Battle?" she asked.

"Hey, this is what I'm program for." he replied.

The two charge at the lock system, as the security program spots their presence and moves to delete the intruder. Both navi strikes first, but the security programs would move up to the walls or set a barrier to protect themselves. Sometimes there are stray viruses getting in the way, but they ended up getting deleted by either the two navis or the security programs. Still, they are initially no match to the two, as their attack patterns are repetitive and they just attacks them head on.

'Well... this is an improvement in security, but still this is so low leveled.' Both Rouge and Sora thought, as the female navi shoots one of the security program and Spider released a rapid fire of cards on another.

After the fight, the navy blue navi shows Spider how to change the code. She place her hand on the tower and data flies up the tower, her eyes flash with data and codes. Then the black navi watches as a few screens with other data opens and closes in rapid speed, the brunette also takes a look on the said lock program. 'I wonder if the lock programs are these big a long time ago, in our world?' the brunette thought, as her partner changes some codes and the tower turns green.

"Sora, we got the first lock open!" Rouge said, as she removes her hand.

"Okay, make way to the other three." Sora replied, then looks at Spider. "Did you learn how to hack like Rouge does?"

"Uh... no" Spider confessed, as he is actually stumped on watching all of the gibberish characters fly up and flash around. He have no idea what to change and what not to change, and seems to decide to let Rouge do the code changing. 'Okay... maybe Net Navigation does not have all of the good perks.' as he rubs his eyes from seeing a lot of gibberish.

"Sorry, I thought you could learn how to hack since you are a navi now." the brunette said, with an apologetic tone and smiling a little.

Then, as they make a quick change of plans and is about to make their way for the next tower... the two towers suddenly turns green, and the ground shakes on the last tower near them. Bewildered on the cyber quake, both navis then hears sounds of attack from the remaining red tower. "Is there anyone else who can hack?" Spider asked the brunette as the ground shakes again.

Both girls could think of one, but he is with Duo and Barrel now... yet still possible.

"Well... there is only one way to find out, let's head for that red tower."

With a nod, both navis makes a beeline for the last lock.

:::^*^:::

Skid to a stop with a bit of distance from the tower, both Rouge and Spider sees a glowing orb fighting against a very huge security program. "Wait... there's a bigger security program?" Spider asked, a bit surprise on seeing a gigantic program defending the last tower.

"Well, there are times programs merge into one when the threat is that high." the female navi said, as she observes the fight. "But this is the first time I see the security programs merging together, usually it's the viruses that merge and turn into giants."

"Head in the game." Sora said, as a screen appears beside them. "Spider, I want you to stay put."

"Eh? Why? Is it because the program is too dangerous?" he asked, the brunette sense the unhappy tone in it.

"No, not that. I just don't want you to get in the way of what we're going to do."

"Oh, so we're busting it out with a bang?" her partner asked.

"Yep."

"Okay then." She shrugs and nears the tower, then she looks back at Spider. "Stay here, you don't want to get hit with this."

'Hit with what?' he thought as the navy blue navi calmly walks toward the big security program. That's when he witness another ability of the Net Navis. He watches as Rouge stops not too far from the target, and then this happens...

"Spread Gun! Triple Slot-in!" the brunette said and then two busters appears on the female navi's arms. Then she raises both arms up, which both resonates at one another and seems to merge. "Program Advance!" both NetOp and Net Navi declare, as the light dies down revealing the new but stronger arsenal. "Hyper Burst!" the said weapon looks bigger than the normal Spread Gun, it have some rods, exhaust ports on the sides and have a long rifle-like barrel. The navi blue navi aims at the security program and fires a very powerful laser, it hit's the target and is deleted from the system.

The navified reploid gapes at that attack. 'Holy crap-! I- Wow... I take back what I said, I'm liking the Net Navigation!' he thought as he quickly closes his mouth and jogs to his friend's side. "Rouge! That is really impressive!" as her buster disappears and looks at the black navi. "Is that programmed in you?"

"That... is called Advance Program." Rouge explains. "It is a combination of three or more Battle Chips, also it's need the synchronization of both Navis and Humans... otherwise, it'll just break up or blow up on someone's face."

"... So I need is an operator who's in sync with me?" he asked.

"Yeah." and he face faults on that as she smiled sheepishly on his down mood. "Ahaha... gomen."

'Then why did you even bother showing that to me?!' he thought, agitated before they turn their attention at the orb which is changing the code of the tower. "Is that thing on our side?"

"I have no clue." the brunette replied as the small screen appears beside them. "But on the bright side, it's opening the elevator."

"Sora, is there anyone who's beating the mavericks?" The navy blue navi asked,

"No... there's no one here with me. And if there is someone trying to beat the mavericks, I would've heard the warp or a reploid would be asking me on how I got in this place. Also, if that is part of the lock program, then why is it being attacked by the security programs?" she points it out.

"Then, is there another NetOp or it's a Net Navi?" the black navi asked.

"Possibly." the brunette quips. 'It could be that extraterrestrial navi, but I don't think he would have an orb as a probe or an assistant.'

But as the orb changes the tower's code... Spider suddenly moves and blocks an attack that is aimed for the orb, before striking back at the assailant . "Spider!" Both Rouge and Sora shouts, as the female navi runs to his side with her buster arms and shooting that the viruses. Due to the two disabling the security program, the viruses gathered around on the last tower and waited till the last anti-virus program is deleted. The female navi got rid of a few viruses, Sora quickly use the Recovery Chip on Spider to fix his damaged side. He recovers a bit and he too retaliates at the viruses, as the orb changes the codes. After getting rid of the viruses, the tower turns green.

With all four of the tower green, the building that they first saw turns white and in the real world, the elevator opens. "Nice job." the brunette quips, then she notices Spider's damaged side. "Ouch, that side of yours still looks bad."

"Don't worry about it, I'm sure you got some Recovery Chips to help." Spider quips, as the Net Saviour is about to tell him the difference between the chip and actual repair... the orb suddenly attaches itself on the black navi's side. "What the?! Get off me!" he yelps, before he burst into laughter as the orb tinkers with his programmings. "Argh! Get off! Get off! Get off!"

Both girls watches with amusement as the navified reploid tries to get the orb off from his damaged side. "Is it dangerous?" Sora asked her partner.

"... I can't tell." Rouge stated truthfully with a light scratch on her cheek, as the black navi tries to yank the orb off his side. "Might as well help him?"

"I guess so..."

The female navi calmly walks towards the frantic navified reploid, still yanking at the orb. But she notices something different on the position of the orb... 'Wait, that was on his side, now it's near his- Oh crap.' and she quickly makes her way to the black navi. "Hold on, Spider!" she she quickly grabs hold of the orb... only it manages to touch her icon.

Then the next thing they know, the orb shines way too brightly and sets an alarm off the NetOp's head. Suddenly, the two were suddenly push off by a strong force, and the orb disappears. "Rouge! Spider! Are you okay?" the brunette asked worriedly, as the black navi winces and sits up.

"Ugh... What the heck is that?" he asked as he holds his chest.

"How's your icon?"

"Huh... still intact." seeing that there's not a scratch on it and sighs in relief. But he is surprise to see his side completely recovered and patch up. Then he looks at Rouge, who's not far from him and sees her entire body glowing. "Is she okay?"

"Actually... Huh?" the brunette watches as her partner's form changes. Then several small screens appears and circles above her, then one more appears as the navy blue navi returns back to normal. On Rouge's PET, Sora watches as screens open and closes and then her navi's special program opens, showing a newly added item in it. 'Wait... Did that orb just...?' he thought is cut off when she heard her partner groan. "Rouge, are you okay?"

"Ugh..." the female navi wince as she sits up. "What rammed on me?" as Spider makes his way to her and helps her up.

"Are you okay?" he asked.

"I'm fine." as she looks at herself and then checks on her programmings... and there she spots the said item. "Huh?"

"Is it bad?"

"Not exactly, it's more like..." as she looks at her partner and she confirms it with a smile. "Oh wow. It's seems I gain something new." Rouge said and looks at Spider, who seems confuse and worried at the same time. "Don't worry, it's quite of an odd way on how I gain friends."

Seeing that she's still okay, the navis returns to their PETs and Sora congratulates Spider on his first net battle. In respond, the reploid-turned-navi blushes at it and thank her as they board the elevator.

Meanwhile...

"Someone like her shouldn't be involved in this war... Then again, I've seen how her determination and trust overcome all the difficulties." The orb floats a bit in the system, watching as both navis plug out before taking shape of an armored figure and smiles. "Don't goof off this time, partner."

The figure then looks up at the system's sky. "I'm trusting your judgement on this." as the figure dissolves into data, knowing that the brunette and her partner have the ability to stop this fight.

:::^*^:::

Arriving at the new floor, she runs down the corridor and then grabs her shield to block an incoming attack, it's a pair of those cannon mechaniloids... or Cannon Drivers as Spider identified. She charges her buster and takes aim, as she takes an item out of her bag. Thinking she'll strike them with a charge shot, the Cannon Driver charges at her… Only to get hit by a pair of Mega Thunders in front of them, and released the charged shot to finish them off. The navified reploid eyes widen quite a bit by Sora's action, she just threw a bunch of explosives at them and a full charged shot.

'Holy crap… I'm glad she's on our side.' Spider thought out of surprise, seeing that she is capable on fending against mechaniloids. Now, he wonders how strong she'll be if she manage to fix her Synchro Chip and Cross Fuse... they'll become scrap metal for sure.

Meanwhile, Rouge is less surprise at this since her partner did gain those skills out of the Cross Fusion. Then she detects an item and spots weird-looking like buster on the floor that the enemy dropped. "Sora, there's a buster on the floor." she notifies her NetOp, as the brunette place her gun back on her holster.

Sora looks at the said buster and picks it up. She finds it familiar looking and spots the engraved letters inside the arm slot. "X-BUSTER MK-III..." Sora states as she recites it from the label.

"Then that's a buster upgrade is for X." Rouge said, appearing on her NetOp's shoulder with Spider also looking at the buster. Nodding at her friends, she then packs the buster and then sets off to find her friends, hoping to reach them in time.

Unfortunately, they run into some bad luck once more as they encounter more mechaniloids and Redips' personal guards.

"ARGH! Back, you stupid thing! Back I say!" the brunette shouts as she eliminated another Cannon Driver with the cards. "Dang... And I think I overused the pistol and the shield is... totally mutilated." She added as she noticed that the gun is still hot in her holster, and the shield is somewhat twisted and bent thanks to several attacks that it blocked. Also her suit got burn marks on some places but it seems to be okay. And so she throws her shield away and hopes that there are no more maverick popping out to kill her.

As they make their way down the hall and is about to enter the next room...

Crash!

Thud!

BOOM!

Both NetOp and Net Navis jumps on the noise in the said room, they look at one another before opening the door.

"Whoa!" Sora yelped and ducks an incoming lightning attack. "What the hell is that?" Then she flinches when something lands way too close on her side, but she relaxes a bit and worries on seeing who it is. "Cinnamon!" she exclaims

Hearing that familiar voice, the blonde nurse reploid quickly sits up and sees the human girl. "So-sora?!" she gasped out of shock to see her here.

"Yo... Um, is it a bad timing?" the brunette asked casually, as she gets up and helps the blonde. Looking at the fight between Massimo and Marino against a huge fish mechaniloid, with a half knight body on the back and is able to cast lighting on them. 'Who the heck made this thing?' she thought at the mechaniloid's odd design.

"Uh, well yes... But what are you doing here?" the blonde nurse reploid asked, as she makes sure any stray attacks does not hit her friend.

"Duh, aiding you guys and kicking maverick butts? You know I don't like to be left behind." Sora stated, as Rouge appears from her PET and scans the enemy.

"Oh... X is not going to like this." the nurse reploid whined a bit, as she shakes her head while the Net Saviour smiles sheepishly on that. Then Sora notice that X, Zero and Axl are missing, she asked about that and her friend just told her that they went off to face Redips by themselves.

"I see." The Net Saviour utters, as her partner finishes with her analyst. The female navi states that their foe is weak against fire, and she asked if they have any fire-type weapons. The nurse reploid states that only Marino have her Twin Fire sub weapon. Seeing that they can fend against the fish maverick, the brunette gave most of the Mega Fires to Cinnamon. "Take these, I'll be heading off to find them."

"B-But!" Cinnamon protested, as the fact that the brunette lacks her CF form.

"Don't worry." the brunette said, holds the nurse's hand for reassurance and smiles at her with a pair of cards glowing on her other hand. "I'll be fine, okay?" With that, she dashes into the fray and threw the pair of cards at the side of the enemy. Both Massimo and Marino are surprise to see her, as the nurse reploid throws the Mega Fire to distract the enemy away from the brunette.

'Good luck, Sora...' Cinnamon thought, as Sora enters the elevator.

"Don't tell me that's Sora." Marino asked the nurse reploid, as she is quite shock to see their human friend. But all the nurse reploid could do is to smile sheepishly and shuffles nervously. "Oh dang it." realizing that their human friend is either that confident or an idiot.

:::^*^:::

The door opens and it didn't surprise her on the corpses of the mechaniloids, littered in the halls. She notices that there are lack of enemies in area, but she keeps her guard up with her gun and carefully walks thru it. As she cautiously walks and make sure that there are no security cameras, they first check the halls on the side and only sees dead ends.

Then she hears something...

"Huh?" She utters at the noise, then she sticks herself to the wall and creeps slowly to a open room to takes a peek. And there she finally saw X, Zero, Axl, and a slightly beaten Redips in a wide office. "Great, I made it." she whispered, as they remain on guard in case the colonel does something off.

"Yeah... should we enter and tell them the whole truth?" Rouge asked and the brunette thinks.

"Hmmm... I think I got a better idea." Sora said and takes Spider's PET off it's holster. "Hey, are you ready to face your brother?"

And Spider just gave her a look of 'How-can-you-do-that?'.

:::^*^:::

"Who could've guess that Colonel Redips was a Maverick." Axl stated, guns ready and pointed at the colonel.

"Damn it." Zero snarled, taking a few steps forward. "What were we fighting for?"

"For everything, my Maverick Hunters." Redips answered, as his body sparks and his repair system works on overdrive. "For your new ruler."

"No." Zero shouted, "We lost R... and Spider... for this lousy creep!"

The Hunters looked at Redips as he laughs, wondering what was so funny for him. Unknown to them, a small thing rolls into the room and stops behind the Hunters. "Ah Spider." the colonel sighed, and then he glows brightly, identical to when Axl glows when he uses his Trans Ability.

"Wha-" Zero's eyes widen in shock. "This... this can't be real!"

"My ears are burning." Spider-Redips said, standing before them in Redips' place as the three hunters froze in shock at this revelation. "You're talking about me?"

"I-Impossible!" Zero shouts, as he takes a step back.

"Not impossible at all." Spider-Redips lifted a card. "Here I am-ARGH!" Another card is thrown at his card in his hand and explodes. He held his injured arms as the hunters turns to see... shock and surprise came to their faces once more, to see another Spider by the doorway.

"You know, you're a real lousy brother, killing and stealing my DNA just to fool them?" the Other Spider said.

"Huh?" Zero said in confusion as X and Axl looks back and forth, incredulously, at the two look-alikes. But they now know, that Spider is related to the former colonel and he is not happy with the latter's stunt he pulled.

"Impossible, I thought I already disposed of you." Redips said as he transforms back in his default looks.

"Well, let's just say, lady luck is on my side." Spider stated and tilts his head a little to take a glimpse of his human partner, stifling a laugh.

"I must say," Redips said, clearly is displease that he didn't do a through job of ridding his nosy brother. He then ignores him and looks at the Hunters. "It's been exhausting playing buddy-buddy with you dumbasses. And I'm surprise to know that you still live, brother." he mocks at his Spider, who kept his cool but his guard is up. "All these was needed for my ideal, for Supra Force Metal. I'm not a bad actor, eh?"

"That ability is the same as mine." Axl shakes his head, he didn't found what he is looking for but he found someone like him. The bad news was that he was a Maverick, and Spider hears Sora muttering about crazy obsess, Hitler, megalomaniacs and so on, thru his PET.

"You foolish Maverick Hunters didn't realize it." Redips turned and headed to an emergency transporter. "But Supra-Force Metal can boost my shape-changing abilities...and increase my power to unimaginable levels, taking me beyond all others!"

"No!" X shouts as the device activated and Redips is warped away. They ran after him but stopped when they notice Zero and Spider wasn't coming.

"Hey, are you okay?" Spider asked the red hunter before he turns and reels back his fist.

"Don't you know how much we grieved for you!" the blonde hunter shouts as he punch at the bounty hunter... only to phrase thru and fell flat on the floor.

"What the?" Axl said in shock as he and X saw how the punch passes thru him like a ghost, and Zero is equally freak out.

"Ummm... Yeah, I can explain that." Spider said and looks at the door. "You can come in now."

The three hunters are quite shock when the brunette, human girl that Marino rescued, came in the room with a small device on one hand. X and Zero are shock to see her here, while Axl is quite surprise to see her armed with equipments like the gun on her side.

"Um... Hey." Sora said sheepishly as Spider chuckles at the awkwardness. "Not funny, Spider."

"Sorry." he apologizes as she kneels down and picks a round thing, about the size and thickness of a hockey puck. She points an odd device on it and Spider disappears, then a smaller and sleeker version of him jumps out of the said device. "Hey! I'm here!" he shouts, as the brunette turns the round thing off.

'Looks like this mini projector did the trick.' she thought, as she packs it back in the bag and place the PET on the holster.

'H-holy fish sticks!' Axl thought in amazement, as his two comrades are quite speechless on seeing their friend like that. 'She turned Spider into a net navi!'

"Sp-spider?" X stutters on finding his voice, as Sora keeps herself from laugh out loud on his reaction.

"What's going on?" Zero demands and looks at the human girl. "And why is she here? It's too dangerous for a human to be here."

"Huh..." Spider said, knowing he'll get quite a 'talk' from the red hunter.

"Hey, I'm the one who decided to come here to help you guys on beating that jerk." Sora said, as her eyes narrows with displease at the blonde, who is quite surprise on seeing such determination in her eyes.

"But it's too dangerous, you might get hurt or worse killed." Axl said, he then looks away when his sister looks at him.

"Hey, I manage to get here right?" She asked, a bit cheekily as she walks around them and stops near the transporter where Redips escape. She looks at it and then at the three. "I'll see you guys on the final stage!" she said cheerily and jumps into the device.

"Ah! Wait!" X shouts, but he is too late to stop her as she is transports to the new area.

:::^*^:::

"That... that was kinda mean, Sora." Spider said as his friend runs down the hall and shoots at the mechaniloids in the way.

"Well, someone has to tell them that I'm not that helpless... it's kinda annoying, mind you." the brunette replied, before she sees a bunch of mechaniloids in a room she just run in. "Well, your brother is off his rockers, like some others I met before."

"Eh?" Spider said as an incredulous look is etch on his face.

"Don't mind it." She replied at him and aims her gun as she charges it. Then she releases a charge shot and throws a few cards at them. They got destroyed in a explosion when the cards and charged shot connects, which built quite a thick smoke. Sora then runs out of it while covering her face from the smoke. "Well... that did it." She said, while coughing.

"Did it? Sora! You almost got yourself killed!" Rouge shouts at her NetOp, visibly upset at the stunt her partner did.

"Sorry! Sorry!" Sora yelps, as she takes her PET from her armlet."But on the bright side: card and charge shot, not a very good combination when you don't have a shield."

"Sora..." the female navi grounds out, still upset with her arms cross. "I may support you, as that is what Net Navis do. But when there are things that can endanger your life, that's is when I draw the line!"

"Oh great, have you turn into my aunt lately?" Sora said with a bit of act to add with the drama.

"Oh ha, ha, now can we go? We might not stop that jerk on his evil plan if we're late."

"Okay, okay, we're going." Sora said lightly as she snap her PET back on her holster. She then came into a room where there is a transporter, she have Rouge scans the warp device and came back positive that Redips used this. The thing is... it is set on a space station in space. "Oh wow... I guess I should be thankful that Gaudile informed me that this suit made to endure deep ocean pressure."

"Meaning?" Spider asked, as she rummages in her pack and takes out the collapsible helmet and a small oxygen tank attachment to it.

"It means, I can breathe in space." She tucks the long hair tail while putting the helmet on, as the navified reploid could only gawk.

'What the hell is that damn duck thinking?' the black navi thought in shock as it was Prof. Gaudile who gave her that suit, but he eases up a bit. 'But it seems a little reasonable... as we're going to fight against my brother. But I didn't expect him to take it up a notch by setting the stage in outer space.' She then jumps into the transporter when she hears some voices.

:::^*^:::

She blinked...

She does it again and looks around.

"Huh... Sora, you realized that this is outer space, so it is a bit dark." Rouge points out. The brunette turns to find some windows showing Earth and the dark outer space with a few star. "Also, it seems there is no security in this place." after scanning the area, as the brunette moves to look at the view of the Earth.

'... So similar.' she thought, before looking around for the said comet of the alien navi.

"And my idiot brother is just straight ahead." Spider quipped, after making a scan of his own and crosses his arms.

"I see... And you're learning fast Spider." the brunette said, as she turns to looks at the black navi with an encouraging smile. "Now let's-" but she is cut off when something blue appears from the transporter followed by a red and dark blue.

"Sora!" X shouts as he and his friends quickly makes their way to her. "Are you okay?" he asked, obviously nervous and worried about her.

"Yeah, I'm fine." She replied and decided to head down the hall, when Zero quickly blocks her.

"That's enough. This is strictly Maverick Hunter business and I can't let you pass." the blonde said sternly and she just look at him. "Axl!" the young hunter almost rebooted on the sudden snap from the red hunter. "You'll stay here and watch her."

"Eh?" Axl whined loudly. Although he didn't mind watching his sister, he really wants to get back at that maverick. "But-"

"No buts, kid. That maverick have to pay for fooling us, but we can't do it when-"

"Ack! Sora! Stop!" the blue hunter yelps and the two quickly turns their attention back at the human girl, who is about halfway down the hall. How she manage to go pass them, they have no idea.

"Sora... If X is human, you're going to give him a heart attack." the black navi states out, as she smiles sheepishly at that.

"What is wrong with this girl?!" Zero shouts, as they chases after her down the hall, then they climbed the hatch that she climbed into. Inside is a circular yellow room, and not far from the hatch is Sora with her Buster Pistol out and charging. Her eyes are glaring on the figure above, integrated into a big machine with the two Supra Force Metals just right above him in a dome.

The hunters takes a better look on the figure... it's Redips, he is out of his armor and installed himself in the mechanism.

"Sora..." Spider states, sensing the energy being emitted by the two Supra Force Metals above them. "I think we should let them handle this, those Supra Force Metal are too dangerous."

"Spider is right." Rogue whispered, also sensing the energy. "Let them handle this and we'll just provide back-up instead."

Sora looks at her PETs and smiled. "Don't worry, I'll be extra careful." she whispered back, but that didn't put them at ease.

"Sora, we should-" X said, then the hatch closes, shut tight. The Hunters tries to open it but it wouldn't budge.

"Too late." Spider said as he appears out of his PET.

"Kneel down before your master." Redips commands.

"Redips." X shouts as he moves the girl behind him, not wanting her to get hurt. "You manipulated us so you can get your hands on Supra-Force Metal, didn't you?"

'Um... duh?' Sora thought of the obvious as her partner scans the machine Redips is attached to.

"You're right." the former colonel confirmed. "You know how well Epsilon hides things. So I took advantage of your top notch abilities as Maverick Hunters."

Axl and Zero takes a step forward at that while they shield the human girl. "Epsilon's ideas were dangerous." X states. "He knew all along that the use of Supra-Force Metal involved the possibility of turning Maverick. But at least he... was better than you! At least he wasn't a Maverick from the start! Redips... You're crazy!" and aims his buster at him.

"Didn't Epsilon tell you?" he chuckled. "Only future generations will judge whether we are Maverick or not. It is only natural that reploids seek to evolve by improving their abilities. Evolve to rule the universe."

"Oh wow... megalomaniac to the high degree." Sora mumbled, the two navis can't help but to nod at that. 'Still he is nothing compare to a certain extraterrestrial navi... And I still don't like him.' as she shiftily looks away.

"The universe." the blue hunter exclaims, then the room began shaking as the maverick laughed.

"Surprised?" he asked. "But why should you be, my young subjects? You'll be the first to witness the divine miracle, even that pathetic human behind you." he laughs as the Supra-Force Metal shot a bolt of golden energy down, right on Redips and covers him in a white glow. The Hunters and Sora covers their eyes as they heard explosions and then felt something cold. The young reploid quickly grabs hold of his sister and made sure that she is not blown off. Once the light died down and lower their arms, Zero and Axl took a step back at what they saw. Even Spider and Rouge nearly floated off, if it weren't for the Sora holding on his PET tightly and for the holster.

"Frankly, I kinda like to see the Earth in space view... but without the fighting." Sora said to the navis, once she did went into outer space when chasing Dr. Regal and it was thanks to Yaito. Although... she disliked her back when they were in elementary, and it was out of a mutual agreement to give the Nebula leader a payback for killing Netto.

Floating above the destroyed room stood a large reploid with only an upper body, the lower part nothing but a spine/cord-like tail. The upper half was huge with large, long arms and claws and a golden circle on its backside. It had little arms close to its chest and it had a long neck, with the face of Colonel Redips on it. On his shoulders are the two huge pieces of Supra-Force Metal, glowing brightly and rotating slowly around. X aimed his buster at him as the Maverick flared out his arms menacingly.

"I shall rule over all." Redips shouted. "For I am invincible. MORTALS!"

"Time to fight, give me aid you guys." Sora said and charges her gun.

"Try not to get yourself killed." her partner replied.

"Ditto." the black navi quips.

The huge maverick lunges that them and the four avoids it quick, but X screamed when he was hit by an electric attack.

"X!" Sora shouts and release a charge shot at Redips, it hits but it did not do much damage at all. "What?"

"Sora! The metals have come to life on their own!" her partner shouts in alert. "They can literally protect and attack for him!"

"Oh! Of all the..." but she is cut off by Spider.

"Sora! Plug me in my brother's system!" he shouts and she looks at the navified reploid. "Trust me! I've learned a lot and I have a plan!"

"... Okay, but come back intact, okay?." She said as she takes the black PET off it's holster. "Now for the plug-in port..." she looks around as she avoids getting hit from the attack, ducking into a debris for cover. She had Rouge scan for the port, and she finds it... right in the eye of the maverick. "They never made it easy do they?" she asked as Spider shrugs at that.

She needs a temporary distraction, so she can get her friend into his brother's system. That chance came to her when Zero manages to slam his head down, hard. She quickly jumps out of her cover and quickly points the PET at the said port. "Plug-in! Spider!" she shouts, a red beam hit's the eye of the maverick and successfully transported him in.

"All right!" Sora cheered.

"Look out!" Axl shouts and pushes her out of the way, he then receives the electrical shocks and fell on his knees.

"Axl!" she shouts and takes out her card... only to find a few remaining as she have used some of it on mechaniloids, in order not to overheat her gun. "Crap, again with the all or nothing." she muttered and throws them one by one at Redips, who merely laughs on her attempts

:::^*^:::

Inside, Spider landed safely in the system and he stand to see the whole system of his brother. The place is in deep purple color and has a lot of jagged data, way too dangerous if one falls. But Spider felt an intense energy and nearly kneels down when the floor shook.

'Redips' Spider thought and he runs deeper into the system. He plans to get the Supra-Force Metal off him and the only way to do that is to hack into his brother's system. Still, he have no idea on how to change the codes, but it wouldn't hurt to try instead of being stuck in the PET. Rouge already got a job of guiding her partner thru this fight already.

'Stop this already, you're not like this before.' As memories of their past came playing into his mind.

He began remembering the time when he first met him, for a new born he is quite smart. He spends his time with him, learning, improving and copying other reploids. He constantly worries for him when he was tested and experimented for the Force Metals. Then Spider left to explore the world and make it big... that's why he took the bounty hunter occupation, only hunting mavericks for quick easy money. He rarely have any contact with his family and Spider has no clue on what's going on, that's probably the thing the former bounty hunter realizes and regrets...

He wasn't there for his family, he wasn't there to draw the line when he went too far.

'I'm so sorry...'

:::^*^:::

"Guys!" Sora shouts as Redips laughed at the Maverick Hunters, who either laid on the ground or were on their knees, their bodies sparking a bit. She rushes toward them, skids to a stop between them and points the gun at the maverick.

'Sora!' Axl thought painfully and tries to stand to get her out of the way. Not only the maverick have gotten stronger, they also have to keep the brunette girl safe and sound. Thus their focus are divided.

"Weaklings." Redips states with glee, as the brunette just glared at him with her buster pistol charging. "Do you feel it? The ultimate power. The power of creation!"

"More of the power of subjugation, you dumbass." Sora snarled as X slowly got back to his feet with a groan as the Federation traitor laughed some more.

"That's because we're reploids, far more superior to humans like you and those ancient relics behind you." he stated smugly, before turning his head to the blue planet. "And this very Earth is nothing but a tiny speck, one which I shall rule with an iron fist!"

"Not if we have something to say about it." Sora stated as she shoots while Redips laughed at her futile attack. He then lifts a hand and fired a laser beam at her.

"Look out!" X shouts and quickly covers her. He is hit on the back and fell back onto the ground, while making sure the human girl is okay.

"X!" Sora shouts in worry, as she crawls out of his grip and looks to see if the azure hunter is okay.

"Bow down feeble subjects." Redips ordered, as he smugly looks down on them.

"Huh?" Zero heard something and looked up to see Ferham just behind Redips shoulders, right on one of the Supra-Force Metal. She tries to pull the Force metal off but it is extremely attach to his shoulder. She is spotted and Redips knocks her to the ground with a laser... which also knocks the Supra Force Metal off him. Ferham clutches on the metal tightly to her as she falls to the ground and endures the pain.

"Why you!" Redips roars but as he tries to reach her, someone threw a Mega Ice right on his face.

The pink reploid's eyes widens when she saw the human girl, again aiding her. "You..." she said and Sora smiled at her.

"Hey, I'm not that heartless at all." she said, Ferham's eyes widens as she realizes who Sora is and smiled. Then they turn to see the huge hand is about to hit them when... "Ack!" the brunette yelped, when the pink reploid grabs her, throws her along with the metal aside and receives the hit.

"No! Ferham!" Sora shouts. The hunters eyes widens upon seeing the female Cadre's self-sacrifice for the brunette. But she just smiled and looks at the brunette, then mouthed something to her.

"Thank you, Rouge." She whispered as her whole body glowed and explodes. Sora rolls on the ground before laying flat on the floor while the hunters falls flat down to avoid the shockwave. After the explosion, Redips did not get much damage but is still angry on losing the other Supra Force Metal. He sets his sights in the brunette girl who still have it.

"No way." Sora whispered as the maverick regains his balance from the blow. "Ferham... you're welcome."

"Sora, the metal." Rouge said, appearing on her shoulder and points at the huge thing. "We better do something before it affects you."

"Right." she replied and got up, she then heads to the hunters to see if they are okay but... "Guys, are you- ACK!" she yelps when a laser beam almost hits her.

"Sora!" X shouts in alarm and quickly dashes to the human girl. He quickly carried her out of range... but he sees a small hologram of their friend on her shoulder, looking frantic and worried for the girl. "Rouge?"

'Oh... crap.' Rouge thought, forgetting about the fact that they met them in their Cross Fusion mode and the only ones who knows about this is Cinnamon and Marino. "Um... hey?" she greeted them with awkwardness.

'Shoot.' Sora thought, as she notices a warning blaring in her helmet. 'Oh crap-tastic, my oxygen is getting low!' Then she saw something else... on one far corner, just near the edge, she saw the cloak man just standing right over there. She is not surprise that he's in outer space, still thinking that he is one of Duo's probes. 'Oh great, if he's here, then is this the final test for these guys?' she thought, but he points at the Supra-Force Metal. Wondering what he's indicating at, as he once more points at the metal... then points at one of her pockets.

'What?' she thought as the man sternly points at the pocket. Getting the message, she fishes in her pocket to pick out her broken Synchro Chip. 'What is he...?' she thought, when... she yelps when the azure hunter suddenly threw her away from getting hit by Redips' attack. "X!" she shouts in alarmed, as he barely dodge it.

"Sora!" Axl shouts, as he catches and carries her as far away from the maverick... but is hit by the shock. Both screamed in pain and the maverick laughs as he reaches for the other metal.

"No! Sora! Axl!" Zero shouts and attacks the arm before it could reach them. It stops... Redips began feeling something really weird inside.

:::^*^:::

"Damn it!" Spider shouts and deletes another anti-virus program. "Stop hurting them!" and throws a royal flush at some data above him. He then jumps inside and dashes to find the lock program for the metal. Right now, he's going for the only option that the female navi recommend only to use as a last ditch effort...

Deleting the programs.

While looking for their friends, Rouge did mention about it. But the chances are 50-50 as it will either glitch or shut down.

And right now, it is the only option he got.

:::^*^:::

Bubbles erupts from a strange material that laid under the ocean. It then moves, slowly floating up from the ocean floor and then it shot itself out of the water.

:::^*^:::

Then... it happen.

The Synchro Chip and the Supra-Force Metal glowed at one another, as if they are familiar to one another. Unknown to the others, a symbol glowed on Sora's and Axl's chests. Strings came out attaching themselves to one another as the Synchro Chip attaches itself on the metal.

And then a bright light erupts when the chip and metal merges. X and Zero yelps at the sudden brightness and covers their eyes, as 'Great' Redips just stared on what's going on. When the light slowly disappeared, Sora and Axl are still there like nothing happened.

"What was that all about?" Zero asked, as he tries to remove the brightness in his eyes.

"Man, that was bright." Axl mutters, a bit sore and seeing spots but thankful that his sister is safe and unharmed. As the brunette shakes her head a bit and blinks her eye to get rid of the spots, she suddenly notice that the Supra-Force Metal is missing in her arms. She looks for the said metal, when she felt something small in her hand. She then looks at her fist hand and opens it, she almost squealed... almost.

In her hand is the fixed silver-white chip with a blue, no longer red, orb on it.

It's the Synchro Chip.

'The Synchro Chip... is fixed.' She thought with shock and joy. Now she got the means to fight back but that would risk revealing the other half of her identity. 'Meh, they already know me as a human, X also have seen Rouge with me. So I got nothing to hide.'

"Are you guys okay?" X asked and then looks at Sora with a stern concern. "You have done enough now, find a place to hide and leave this to us."

"I don't think so, X. I'm still helping you whether you like it or not." Sora said with determination, as she places her bag down and picks her partner's PET out of the armlet. "Synchro Chip! Slot-in!" Sora said, slotting in the fixed Synchro Chip and her partner sensing the fixing chip can't help but to smile with relief and excitement. "CROSS FUSION!" Both Sora and Rouge shouts, as a light wraps around her and causes them to the raise their arms to cover their eyes once more.

"Sora!" X shouts in alert and tries to reach for her.

'The Synchro Chip is fixed?' Axl thought before he realizes that she wasn't carrying the Force Metal. "Could it be...?" he whispered as X tries to reach for her and he manages to grab her arm.

When the light faded, X lowers his arm, refocusing his optics and looks to see if the girl is okay. To his surprise, he is holding the arm of their friend, CF Rouge. "Rouge?" he said and let go of her arm. "How...?"

CF Rouge just chuckles a bit before taking in some air from her mask, then she removes it to reveal her face to them. "Actually, Rouge is the name of my partner." She corrected the blue hunter who is in shock to see Sora in Rouge's form. "Sorry guys, that I didn't tell you about this. I have no clue on how you'll react, you know." She then gazes at Redips as seeing the light did not faze him and attacks them with Deus Ex Machina.

Seeing this, she quickly grabs her bag, X and Axl, and uses Area Steal to avoid the debris being thrown at them. 'Whoa! The chip response is faster! And it reacts without me saying the name out loud!' she thought, as they reappear just beside Zero, who is surprise to see the navy blue reploid here with them. "We'll talk about this after we beat him." as she looks in her bag for the said buster part she found for X.

"Rouge..." the red hunter said but he stops in shock when he saw her face.

"It's Sora, Zero." she replied with a smile, as she puts her mask back on to breathe. Even though X wanted to protect the girl, he still can't believed that Sora and Rouge are the same person. "Oh, by the way, I got this for you." CF Rouge said, handing the blue hunter the X-BUSTER MK-III. X gave her a look that says 'don't jump in, this fight is only about reploids', but CF Rouge ignored it and helps X equip his new buster. They then looked at the maverick, who looks like he's going to be sick.

"Whoa, I bet that was Spider's doing." Rouge said and her partner smiled, before they quickly dodge an incoming arm at them. "Still, he's not that completely weak because of that."

"True." she replied.

"By the way, do- Sora! Incoming!" her partner shouts in alert, and the brunette looks down to see the glowing ground. Immediately she jumps out of the way of a Mega Fire... only to be grabbed by the maverick himself.

"Sora!" Axl shouts in alert, seeing his sister being grasp by the maverick's giant claw-hand.

"I'll take back what is mine!" the former colonel shouts and crushes the girl in his fist, sensing the energy of the Supra-Force Metal is still with her.

"NO!" X shouts and quickly shoots at the maverick, only to be block by the barrier the other Supra-Force Metal provided for the former colonel.

The maverick merely laughs at his attempts to save the girl, as he tightens his fist more to get the other Force Metal out of her... Only to yelps in pain, when a blue energy beam erupts from the said fist and then it slice the claw fingers. He grits his teeth as the girl stands up, armed with a beam saber, on his hand, while the hunter are surprise on her new weapon. She gave him a look and then arms her saber but to Axl's knowledge, it's actually the Dream Sword. She then throws the said energy beam slash, but he barely avoid it and got the ring on his back cut. The Net Saviour activates her boosters and flies off, before the other hand slams on her like a bug swatter.

'Sugoi!' she thought at the chip's upgrade.

"Sora, do you remember the odd feeling that replenish our CF form? It's the Supra-Force Metal!" Rouge states as her partner flies away from the maverick. "It seems the Cross Fusion is able to turn and use it's energy to substantiate without the Dimensional Area."

Landing back on the ground have a bit of difficulty, mainly because they are in outer space. But she manage to get her footing down, when the young hunter moves and helps her. The other two hunters rush to CF Rouge's side and to see if she's okay, which she replies that she's fine... but then she pauses for a moment and then is talking to herself?

"Yep, but it's really a waste to use that Dream Sword there... Hey, it's a point-blank range... I'm reserving those for later... Okay." she said as she is looking away from them.

"Uh... Sora, are you damaged?" X asked with concern.

"No, why do you ask that?" she replies to him.

"You are talking to yourself." Zero points out as he keeps an eye on Redips.

"Oh you mean that, well..." then an idea came to her, she first discusses it to Rouge to which she agrees to it. Meanwhile, the hunters looks at her with concern once more, except for Axl who knows how the Cross Fusion functions. With a nod, the brunette then looks at them. "Can you you guys stand still for a second?" then she taps on the their crystal on their helmets, which glows a for second in contact.

At first, they wondered what she did when... "Hey, can you hear me?" a unfamiliar voice is heard thru their com links.

"Huh?" the red hunter said in confusion, as he have no idea who this is.

"Sorry about that, but I'm Rouge, Sora's partner and her net navi." the voice explains.

"Wait, so you're the real Rouge?"

"Well... it's hard to explain while we're here, Zero." she replies, then. "But we'll explain it after this and DUCK!"

Hearing that, CF Rouge quickly grabs the shoulders of X and Zero and pushes them down to the ground. The young hunter also follows the Net Navi's warning, as he sees the incoming claw and immediately avoids it. Then they jump away from being hit by an arm, the one which CF Rouge cut it's fingers off, and the Supra-Force Metal's Mega Thunder. They land not too far from the edge of the station, and then immediately set their guards up. "Okay... you've heard my partner, explanation later, fight now." the Net Saviour stated as her arm forms into her chain whip, to which the red hunter nods at.

"Okay, but you have to explain yourself later." X reprimands the brunette, as he points his buster at the former colonel.

Battle starts once more and this time, they got an advantage. Firstly, they got a navigator which analyzes and alerts them on incoming attacks. Then X and Zero uses their second Hyper forms, Ultimate Armor and Absolute Zero, they didn't use it on the first fight because of it's high energy consumption and the Supra-Force Metal is constantly healing Redips. Axl is also in his hyper form, Stealth Mode, while CF Rouge is using every battle chip she got and the Program Advances if she gets the chance. But it seems they can't get a clear hit because of the barrier or he manages to avoid their attacks, still there are chances they manage to hit the Supra-Force Metal which causes the maverick to lose his shield. Also only time the maverick manages to land a hit on their teammates is on X, who took the hit for the Net Saviour. But the 'Great' Redips is getting frustrated and uses an attack called Codebreaker, it's a powered-up swipe that inflicts DOA.

"Area Steal!" CF Rouge said, and she vanish from sight. X and Zero only got a damage but a not a serious one, due to their Hyper forms. Axl manage to evade it, since he is in Stealth mode and give cover fire for his friends.

"Are you guys okay?" she asked the two with concern.

"Yeah, we're still fine!" X replied back as he shoot back and the blonde hunter charges at the maverick, only to meet with a barrier which the Supra-Force Metal revive once more.

"Oh come on!" Zero yells as he begins to hit and slash at the barrier, out of frustration.

"Sora! Rouge! Are you both okay?" Spider called by using the net, as he is busy fighting his way to the program that holds the Force Metal.

"Yeah, we're fine, Spider... and are those fighting sounds?" CF Rouge asked, as Redips seems to stagger a bit. X, Zero and Axl returns back into their normal armors, since they have reached it's limits.

"Uh yeah, I'm trying to reach for the Force Metal lock program, so I can release that thing from him." Spider said and she hears a loud bashing sound. "And apparently, his security program are annoying me!"

The female Net Savior just chuckled with amusement, before avoiding another Codebreaker and jumping away. "I'll talk to you later, I'm a little busy too, ya know?" she then cuts off the communication and does the Program Advance. "Wide Shot! Triple Slot-in!" CF Rouge said, as a wide and semi-circular buster forms on her left arm.

"Super Wide!" she said and shoots a shot at 'Great' Redips, which is impossible to avoid due to the width of the shot. Unfortunately, he tilts to the side, misses the body by just a few inches and shot one of it's big arms off. "I miss." She quips in annoyance and jumps away from an incoming attack.

"Sora, I think we only have three battle chips remaining." Rouge noted, as CF Rouge grunted at it but suddenly remembers something. "Hey, didn't I gain a new armor from Spider?"

"... Wait, that's it! Thanks Rouge!" CF Rouge cheers and took a deep breath, as holographic screens appears around her and chooses one of them. "A.R.M.O.R. Change! Gamble Armor!" she said, and a light wraps around her and when it died, she appears in a tuxedo-like armor suit with a red tie, a tall top hat and a long dark blue tail. "... To be honest, this looks like..." She said, looking at her new armor that fits on her body.

"Wow... well the power is normal and so is defense, but the speed, agility and accuracy is really high." Rouge said. True, both girls feels it to be a lot more different from the usual armors they get, a little stronger and more durable since she inherit this armor from her reploid-turn-navi friend.

:::^*^::::

Spider is has reached the program that locks the other Supra Force Metal on. He then proceeds disabling the lock by attacking it, which alerts some security programs and immediately went there to protect it. But the black navi continues to strike the lock mechanism down, while avoiding or deleting some of the security programs. As he does so, he takes a glimpse on the battle outside...

His mouth just fell on the sight of a female brunette version of himself, throwing cards and using a lot of arsenals on Redips with the hunters. "W-wait a sec, that looks like..." he stuttered at the sight. 'Wait, then the orb just...?'

:::^*^:::

"Eat this!" Axl shouts, as he and X fires at him and Zero dashes forward to deliver an uppercut slash.

"Three of a Kind!" CF Rouge shouts and threw three powered cards of the same suit with two more cards following behind. As they hit his face, she runs around to and takes cover behind some rocks… when she notices that the remaining Metal is slightly wobbling.

"Hey..." she said with a smug smirk behind her mask.

"Spider got it." Rouge said and she knows what her partner is thinking.

:::^*^:::

"Almost there..." Spider said, as he kept attacking the program and with one last strike, the lock broke into pieces and a sign of delete appears. "I got it!"

:::^*^:::

As 'Great' Redips is distracted on the fact that the other Supra Force Metal falls off his shoulder, CF Rouge quickly takes out five cards. In her hand is a Spade 10, Jack, King and a Heart 3, and 8. She remove the two hearts and prays for lady luck to give her Spade Queen and Ace.

And it did.

"All right! It's a Royal Flush!" she said and uses the RSF (Royal Straight Flush) attack on him. This manage to destroy the shell that is protecting the vital parts and X finish him off with a Charge Shot. Redips screams in pain and frustration at his defeat, as his body causes small explosion. With his power gone, he reverts back his original form and lays on the floor, his body sparking.

"Are you happy now, X?" he asked with much venom and pain in his voice, as X approaches and kneels by his side.

"Redips... What made you maverick?" the blue hunter asked. The Net Saviour picks up the other Supra-Force Metal, which rolled to a debris to the right.

"Maverick? You seem more Maverick to me, with all your stubborn nonsense about friendship and your unwillingness to evolve." Redips said and the hunters remained silent, as the girl walks back to them. "Stay in our place, be friendly to all, decade after decade, indefinitely... Is this all Reploids will ever be? Some day, you'll see... we'll... change the world..." he spats.

Then CF Rouge came, kneels down and smacks his forehead with the back of her hand, which made the others stare at her incredulously. "Don't say that to X. And do reploids have to hurt others just to evolve? To destroy a life or one another?" She asked sternly, as she shift the metal in her arms and looks at fallen colonel. "That's seriously a lonely way to advance and I don't like it."

"Like you human could understand." Redips spat one last time before his eyes loses it's glow.

"... I can..." she said silently as she stands up and her form returns into her default armor. She then walks back to the three hunters. "Hey, uh... what are we going to do with this?" she asked them, as she looks at the metal. Right now, she knows that the Supra-Force Metal can be contain in the new Synchro Chips and become the energy provider for the Cross Fusion. But she only have one of the new version of the new Synchro Chips, and keeping the second Supra Force Metal with no protection is out of the question.

The three looks at one another, then the blue hunter moves forward and place a hand on her shoulder. He gives her a look which relaxes her a bit. "Well, we'll have to find a way to seal or rid of it, so the mavericks wont get to it." he states as he removes his hand. "Still, you've got an explanation to do."

"Ugh... Forgot about that." she wince as she slumps a bit, but then she remembers... "Ah crap! I forgot about Spider!" she yelped and runs back to the body.

"Spider? Wait, what happened?" Zero demands.

"I plugged him into his brother's systems!"

"What?!"

"Guys! Look out!" Axl shouts in alert

Suddenly a ball of light, came out of nowhere, and hits the station. It destroys the whole station in one blast.

:::^*^:::

CF Rouge groans and opens her eyes, only to see the starry filled dark sky and looks around. 'What hit me?' the brunette thought weakly, as she gets up and spots something not too far from her. She makes her way to the said figure and gasps on seeing it close. "No way..."

"Ugh..."

"Rouge, are you okay?"

"Yeah, what happened?" then she sees what her partner is seeing. "Is that Spider?!" Her partner nods as she kneels to the black navi's side and shakes him to wake up. Still, both girls wonders how he manage to materializes out of his PET, then his body moves and she backs a bit.

Spider groans as he push himself into a sitting position and holds his head. "Ow..." he winces, as he remembers destroying the tower, the Hunters and the girl throws one last strike on him, then data rapidly moving and pushing around and lastly, a black out. Looking around, it's pretty much the same except for the stars around him.

"Spider, are you okay?" he hears a familiar voice and turns to see the brunette beside him.

"Yeah... but, where are we?" he asked

"Within my domain." A booming voice said and the two quickly scrambles up to see who it is... they see a gigantic, white being with huge horns and a statue-like face. The navified reploid have no idea who it is, but the brunette does and is not that thrilled to meet him at all. "It's been a long time."

"Duo!" she shouts in alert, as her buster immediately forms and points at the huge being.

"At ease, young ones." he states calmly. Then suddenly both Sora and Rouge are separated from Cross Fusion and allowed the female navi to have a physical body. But both girls are still unease, Sora quickly takes out her Buster Pistol while Rouge points hers are him when...

"At ease, girls." A familiar voice states and they turn to see an elder man with Colonel EXE just behind him. "Duo have not pass his judgement on this world, yet."

The brunette looks at him, then at the huge white navi and back at the elder. "I knew you'd rescued him." Sora states flatly, as she face palms and the elder just smiled at her. But then, she quickly removes her hand and looks around the area. "Wait... where's X, Zero and Axl?" as she could not find the three hunters.

"You don't have to worry about them." Duo states, as a light shines on a ground not far from them and there they are. The three hunters are on the ground and seems to be sleeping, completely unaware of the meeting going on. "They are safe."

"Thank goodness." she sighs in relief.

"But why are they knock out?" Rouge asked, as she slowly lowers her buster and her partner holsters her gun.

"It's because I want to talk to the three of you, privately."

"Us? Even Spider?"

The huge navi nodded and looks at the navified reploid, who was just observing by the side and wondering if the brunette knows more than she let on. "I believe you have a friend waiting here." the huge, space navi said.

"I have a friend? Here?" Spider asked, looking at the huge navi and wonders who is is and if that friend is revive in a similar way as he is.

Then he heard a familiar voice, the voice he never thought he would hear. "Really? You got yourself a new partner and forgot about me?"

Immediately, he looks at the other side... "Aile!?" he exclaims, on seeing his friend who's smiling back at him. He looks the same as his reploid form, only he is now a navi like him, got his legs back and his id is replaced by a navi icon with an image of a white plus sign on it.

"It's been a long time, Spider." Aile said, as the black navified reploid quickly makes his way to him.

"Did... you revive him?" the brunette asked, as the two navified reploids are happy to see each other again and the black one looks like he's going to cry.

"Yes... when I sensed your presence in this world, I decided to give you a guide." the huge white navi said.

"Although, the timing is a little bit late... But he did helped you in some ways." Barrel explains, as Colonel moves to the huge navi's side.

"Helped us?"

"The four locks on the elevator."

"Wait, you mean you're the one who clung on me?" the black navi exclaims, as the peach navi smiled sheepishly, apologizes and explains that he was just repairing his damaged side.

As both girls watches the two bicker with amusement, Colonel takes the Supra-Force Metal from Duo's hand. Noticing it, she then looks at the huge navi with a stern look and hands on her waist. "By the way, Duo, are you the one who sent the Force Metal into this world?" she asked.

The extraterrestrial navi confirms that he did send the said meteor to the world, as a test to see if the world is worth surviving or not. The brunette is not pleased on the fact that he instigated such trouble in that world, but it is not the worst compare to Slur who was deem as the actual threat to life itself. 'I really hate that navi more than Duo. Why the heck does she view life as self-destructive?' she thought in annoyance as she notices something. "Hey Duo, what happened to your other probe?"

"What do you mean?" he asked, as the military navi walks towards her. She then explains about the cloaked man she just met back in the docks, which transformed the laptop into Spider's PET. But he didn't replied and seems to be thinking about it, when Colonel stops by her side.

"Sora, here." he said and hands the Supra-Force Metal to her. But upon touching it, the metal glows and transforms into a Synchro Chip like the one she have.

"What the?" Rouge asked, as she looks at it.

"That metal now belongs to you." Duo states.

"Congratulation Sora." the brunette turns to see Aile giving her a smile as he praise. "And thank you for saving and being my friend's partner."

"Seriously? The Supra-Force Metal is hers?" the black bounty-hunter navi asked.

"Well, out of everyone, she can use the metal in a more positive way."

"... True."

"By the way, so what do you think of traveling thru the universe sounds?"

"Hmmm..." the black navified reploid thinks about it, but it didn't take long for him to give his answer. "What heck? At least it beats paying the traveling bills." as Aile, Sora, and Rouge laughs a bit, while Barrel and Colonel EXE just smiles.

"Wait, what about the three hunters?" Rouge asked.

"Yeah, and what's your verdict on this world?" the brunette wince on saying that.

"This world... " Duo said and looks at the world, where the lights are quite visible even in out space. The Net Savior and her Navi looks at the world, where almost everything is artificially made and only a rare few natural wonders still exist. "Is on the incorrect technological path." Both Sora and Rouge react to that and looks at white navi with worry and dread for this world. "The path this world chose is different from ours, it chose the path towards robot civilization. While this world flourish in advance machinery, it also will lead to it's doom."

Then several screens appears around the area, each showing a different situation of the world.

"Human's hatred and ignorance... discrimination... the desire of freedom and growth... these will allow their end to come early. Therefore, the path this world has chosen is the incorrect technological path and must be corrected."

"Hold on! Don't tell me that you'll destroy this world because it chose the wrong path!" Rouge shouts at the white navi, both she and her partner already see where this is going.

"Destroy the world?!" Spider shouts incredulously, looking shock and disturb on hearing that.

"Is there anyway to save our world instead of destroying it?" Aile asked, looking at the huge navi with hopes he got a different solution.

"There is..." they turn to see Barrel, with Colonel by his side, who spoke and he looks at the extraterrestrial navi. He then looks at the two girls. "Sora and Rouge will stay in this world and they'll correct the mistakes."

"Wait... us?!" they both shouts in shock.

"I apologize, if you cannot go home right now." the extraterrestrial navi said as both girls looks at him. "You have the most potential to persevere in this world. Also, you see reploids similarly to how you see Net Navis: friends and family. And what you've lost in your world, can be found here."

"What I lost is here?" Sora asked, wondering what it it and she thought it could be her fellow Net Saviours. Then Duo just picks her and Rouge and places them in between the sleeping Hunters.

"Don't worry about Spider, we'll explain the situation for him." Colonel states loudly, with a light smile on his face.

"Both of you, take good care of yourselves and watch your backs." his NetOp added as the floor where the girls and the sleeping hunters are suddenly glows.

"Hold on!" she yelps as a light cocoons her, her navi and the hunters.

"You'll find your way back." the extraterrestrial navis states calmly with reassurance, as the orb of light floats off. "But for now, this world needs you."

And the orb makes it's way down to Earth.

:::^*^:::

The orb dissipates once it touches the ground. The Net Saviour quickly gets up and finds her Cross Fusion back on, and then she finds herself and her friends in a grassy plain. Although different, she recognizes the area on seeing the deactivated signal jammers. Looking at Hunters, who are still unconscious but they're okay. Then she caught a glimpse of light in the sky and immediately makes her way on the top of a jammer, which weeds and vines grows around it. There she watches as the comet streak across the sky, both she and Rouge give their silent goodbyes to their friends.

'Take care of them, Duo.' the brunette thought, as it vanishes over the horizon. 'Have a safe journey.'

"Ow... what the hell was that?" she heard Axl as he sits up and rubs his eyes.

"Ugh... Was it a dream?" X asked groggily as he holds his head, not noticing their new friend jumps off the jammer and is walking towards them.

"I think so...?" Zero groan, not bothering to get up as his system makes some quick check for anomaly.

"Or not." CF Rouge said as she steps in front of them and they quickly sit up by surprise. "I think we need a proper introduction in place."

And then her Cross Fusion removes itself like glass breaking gently with ribbons flying out, it then morphs together into a PET and she catches the device in the air. She then place her PET on her shoulder holster, as Rouge appears on the brunette shoulder as she clears her throat.

"It's nice to meet you." She stated with a smile. "I'm Hikari Miriku Sora, a Net Saviour, and this is my partner Rouge EXE, she's my Internet Navigator or Net Navi for short."

"Nice to meet you, Maverick Hunters." her partner greets them politely.

The blue and red hunters are stunned while the dark blue couldn't help but to smile a little. 'I get to spend a bit more time with her! But I need to be more careful with my identity though.' the auburn teen thought, feeling that it is not the right time to tell her who he is.

As Sora giggled a bit, she looks at her namesake. 'What I lost can be found here. Perhaps... But, oh well, might as well join the Maverick Hunters, as it is close as I can get to my occupation... if they accept human that is.' she thought. And so she follows the three hunters and telling them their modified story, as they head back to check on Giga City and their friends.

X's journey ends for now, however Sora's journey is just beginning...

But there is another mystery that's been bugging the Net Saviour a lot... 'What just happen back there? Who was that man that transformed the laptop into a PET? The Supra-Force Metal suddenly merged into Synchro Chip? And the other turns into another one too...? This is just too weird. And... what I lost is here... maybe it's connected on the way back to my world...' Sora thought, as she followed her friends back to Giga City, to where their other friends are.

And unknown to her and her friends, the unknown symbol that glowed on Sora and Axl has disappeared completely... for now.

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Silver: Oh gawds! Almost 18,000 words! Ow! My hand! And please give it up for Spider, for having the better role than last time!

Spider: (bows at the audiences) Thank you! Thank you! I finally got a better role!

Silver: And Ya did! (cheers) And I hope you all like it! Today's special, a short look of Sora's profile!

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Character Profile: Hikari Miriku Sora

Age: 15

Gender: Female (Sora: Duh! That's pretty obvious!)

Eye color: Brown

Hair color: Brown

Birthplace: DenTech Hospital, Japan

Nationality: a Quarter American-three Quarter Japanese. (It is due to Yuuichiro's mother, who's an American in my story. Which also makes Rockman and Netto a Quarter too. X3!)

Current Residence: Akihara, Densan City, Japan.

Family: Hikari Tadashi (Grandfather), Hikari Lyra (Grandmother), Hikari Yuuichiro (Father), Hikari Haruka (Mother), Hikari Rock Saito or Rockman (Older triplet brother, net navi) and Hikari Alex Netto (Younger triplet brother, reploid, new gen.)

Occupation: Student, Net Savior and sometime takes a few part-time jobs.

Relationships: Ijuin Enzan (her boyfriend), Laika (best friend), Dekao, Tohru, Annetta, Pride and Yaito (friends) Erica, Ciel, Triela, Ron, Mile and Miley (American friends)

Hobbies: Skateboarding, pranking (although she stopped along while ago, she resumes it after meeting her younger brother.) and fixing stuffs.

Skills/Talents: Singing, magic tricks, robot making and net battling.

Likes: Curry (like her younger brother), Horror and scary stuffs (much to Rockman's dismay.) and Robots

Dislikes: Cockroaches (she finds them disgusting), people conquering the world, evil and doing chores (she's kept jinxing it with no reason.)

Personality: Sora is a benevolent, cheerful yet free spirited girl, who values freedom and life in many forms. She share some traits from her two brothers like responsibility and the love of fun and adventures. But she have her own like her love on horror/scary movies and is not very smug like Netto when the fame hits. Also when she is culture shock, she becomes cautious and hesitates on acting until she learns about the area and bounce back. Unlike her grandfather, she does not see progress as a threat and should be balance with recession, as life never stop moving but finds a moment to rest.

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Silver: Done! For questions about the grandmother, feel free to ask! Read and review!