Sorry for the long wait, here's the next chapter
Author's note:
You know, I always forget about one thing when writing a fan fiction. No need or NEVER wrote the full explanation of basic things that were similar and already explained in the original series. People have already watched them many times and even read them at the respective wikia unless it is a new fact that was not even explained by the company.
Also I might interchange the word 'world' and 'dimension' a lot at times because I still have not decided yet which one is the better term. However, I do not mind making one of the terms uniform throughout this fan fiction. One more is that some obvious conversation has to be omitted (ignored) as that is not needed and causes the written plot diverge from the actual planned plot.
In here I will write a bit about 'Overload', the ability that was introduced in Wars. Unlike the fan fiction 'Danball Senki W: Wars of the Liberators' where the author mentioned that a few of the characters have some knowledge about it, I will assume that none of them know about it in this fan fiction.
Summary (with Ran speaking):
When we came searching for Hiro in this world that evolved on network, we learn that LBXs are appearing and wreak havoc in this world. According to Laika, one of the people that we met in this world, he said that a young boy called Regiudea was the person responsible for it.
Also, we were a lot horrified when Laika claim that Hiro was Regiudea as the two of them appeared exactly the same. As much as we deny this fact, he and Meiru had proofs that the person responsible was Hiro, in this case they called him 'Regiudea'.
He had been targeting people who were trying to stop the LBX rampages and challenge Netto and his friends. It was definitely tough for Professor Oozora Haruka to accept the fact that her own son, Oozora Hiro has now become an enemy.
Laika suggested that we, NICS have to work together in order to stop Regiudea's scheme but Professor Yamano requested some time for us to think about it. In return, Laika approved Professor Yamano's request for us to consider this until tomorrow evening.
From that night until tomorrow noon, Professor Yamano, Takuya and Otacross have been trying to figure out what is Regiudea's goal. Unfortunately, they had no idea who and where Regiudea might target next.
Luckily, thanks to Professor Oozora, she figured out all the victims that Regiudea had been targeted were the Cross Fusion members. Therefore, we depart to Choina because the last Cross Fusion member was Jasmine, together with her net navi, Medi live there.
When we arrived there, another surprise was waiting for us. Hiro was there as well and for some reason, he have not become evil like we thought. Professor Oozora was elated by this and gave her son a welcome hug. Then, the person we were seeking for, Jasmine came afterwards when Hiro was about to explain what happened to him.
According to Hiro, Jasmine and Medi found him lying unconscious in the forest and have been under their care until we arrived. Just then, without any warning, Laika, Netto and Enzan, who apparently followed us here came to take Hiro into custody. Before the net saviours' trio could do anything, 4 Killer Droids suddenly came out of nowhere and everyone, including Enzan, Laika and Netto were trapped inside its field.
The battle was quite tough for two reasons. First, all the Killer Droids were in the same diorama so we had to split into four teams. Second, there is a Killer Droid Hydra, one we never faced before, quite strong, very difficult to hit it and its attack rendered Hiro unable to control Achilles D9.
Luckily, Jasmine noticed that the diorama had a plug in port, she plug in Medi into it and the net navi saved Achilles D9 with her healing ability. Together with the other net navies plugged in by Netto, Laika and Enzan, the tide of the battle have changed.
At some point, the Killer Droids combined to form a new monster and it defeated almost everyone before capturing Medi to torture her until she was deleted. However, Hiro had managed to use his new Hissatsu Function named 'Burning Falcon' to finish the monster off and save Medi.
Then another unexpected thing happened right before our very eyes right after the battle, another young boy who dresses and look like Hiro have appeared a few metres away from us. What is the meaning of this?
Summary end.
Chapter 1: The Hiro from the future
After defeating the Killer Droids, another person dressed and look like Hiro appeared at a distance in the very eyes of everyone. Everyone were horrified and left speechless.
There is another Hiro? What is going on here? "How can there is another Hiro? If the one with them just now is the real Hiro, who is the one that appeared right in front of them? Which Hiro is the real one? These questions have been in everyone's mind, including the net saviours.
"Who the heck are you?" Ban questioned. "My name is Oozora Hiro…." the young boy introduced himself in a deep voice. "No….Perhaps you might just called me Regiudea instead, Ban-san. It might be a lot easier for you guys to differentiate me and Hiro" the boy corrected. "Regiudea?" Ban echoed.
"Oh, and nice to see you again, Net Saviours" Regiudea greeted as he turned to Laika, Netto and Enzan after noticing them. "I never thought that you guys would appeared here. Are you guys hoping for me to give you guys another pounding?" he added sarcastically.
"Don't mess up with us" Netto growled. "You were targeting the Cross Fusion members from the start, aren't you?" Laika deduced in anger. "That's right" Regiudea confirmed before turning to where Jasmine is right now. "And my last target is that girl, Jasmine"
"Why do you target us the Cross Fusion members?!" Enzan demanded. "Because it will be a nuisance if you all get in the way of our world...no... Universal conquest" Regiudea told them.
"Universal conquest?" Yuuya echoed. "That's right" Regiudea confirmed. "It means ruling every single world, or in this case stars out there including Earth". Everyone were quite horrified as they knew their enemy's true goal.
"Why Hiro?!" Ban barked, referring to Regiudea and angered with his arrogant attitude. "Why someone who wanted to protect the world from the likes of evil would become an enemy and do something like this?"
"I do not need to explain any details to you! What can you people understand if I explain it to you?!" Regiudea retaliated. "You people are not me to begin with!"
"Don't mess around!" Hiro suddenly shouted angrily out of the blue, which totally startled almost everyone. He then stepped forward and gave a glare towards the guy who look like him.
"Who do you think you are to act so high and mighty?! STOP using my look and my voice to do things that you want, IMPOSTER!" Hiro roared and demanded an order to Regiudea.
"Imposter?! How mean of you..." Regiudea retorted before he sniggered a bit. "I guess I should prove to you that I am not an imposter". Regiudea then took out a black card with patterns of electric circuits, white dots and a mathematical symbol 'ξ' inside one of the dots from his left side pocket on the pants.
Then he moved the card to his right, sliding it to his left and in an instant, Regiudea's immerse himself in a blue light. A moment later after that Regiudea's appearance has utterly changed, in turn leave everyone flabbergasted.
He still retain a bit of Hiro's face but have become a bit older, taller that is approximately 20 cm higher than Hiro's mother, and wear a dark blue robes that reaches his feet.
"Surprised?" Regiudea guessed everyone's reaction. "Of course you would. This is my true form, Hiro. I am your future self in 5 years from now if I haven't lost track of time" he told them.
"Y-You are...my future self…?" Hiro stammered as he still quite horrified that the person he saw right in front of him is not an imposter at all but was really another of himself, except he was from the future.
"Correct but before that look at this" said Regiudea as he took out an LBX from inside his robe. It was the same LBX that he showed to Laika and Enzan the other day. "LBX?" Ami muttered, stating the obvious.
"This is the strongest LBX I have ever wield and it shares the same name as me, D Regiudea" Regiudea told them. "D Regiudea…." Gouda echoed. "It look strong…." Asuka commented.
"Well it is still too early for you people to be amazed" Regiudea notified them. Suddenly, the LBX glowed in purple light for a while and then it splits into two equal yellow lights before they each land beside Regiudea.
The two lights revealed themselves to be humans, a male and a female that is about Hiro's age. The male has medium length light blue hair styled into a bob cut, blue eyes and the female has long pink hair almost styled into a 'hime cut' due to the side locks & bangs, with a yellow hair clip and yellow eyes.
Both of them wear a knight armour that covers most of their bodies except their heads. The colour of that male's armour is majorly blue with shades of black and wields a pair of purple knuckle claws while the colour of that female's armour is majorly red with shades of white and wields two straight and slightly curvy, wooden swords wrapped with white bandages on the grip.
Both of them each also have some sort of emblem embedded on their chest. The male had an emblem with a yellow coloured capital 'A' surrounded with black background inside a pink, circular frame and the female had an emblem with a blue coloured capital 'E' surrounded with white background inside a purple, circular frame.
"Who the heck are you two?" Enzan asked the two figure that had just appeared until Blues, who had just regained his consciousness from his suddenly intervene. "Enzan-sama! These two are the one that attack us back then at the airport's cyber world" said Blues.
"What did you say? How did you know?" Enzan questioned as he took out his PET to check on Blues. "The aura that they emitted without a doubt is the same from when Searchman and I were attacked back then by the two unknown figures" Blues explained.
"Searchman, are you sure these two are net navies?" Laika asked when he is checking on his net navi who just told him that the two figures that had just materialised were net navies. "Yeah, there is no mistaken it" Searchman confirmed before both Laika and Enzan look back at the two figures that had just appeared.
"Long time no see…. Haruka-san" the two figure that had just appeared greeted. Their voice sounds quite familiar, especially to Professor Oozora. "That voice!" Professor Oozora exclaimed, recognised the voices of the two figures very well. "Adam and Eve?"
"Adam and Eve?" Ran repeated. "Congratulations, Professor Oozora" Regiudea praised, no longer calling her as his mother. "As I expected from their former creator. You can easily recognise them"
"My name is Adam" the male figure introduced himself. "My name is Eve" said the female figure. "Hiro! What's the meaning of all this?!" Professor Oozora demanded after giving some thought, a bit horrified with the sudden appearance of the AIs that she formerly created.
"These two are my net navies or I would say they are the heart of the LBX, D Regiudea that you people saw earlier" Regiudea explained.
"Regiudea recreated us to assist him in creating a future that is far better for the world, with our memories of wanted to survive in this twisted, cruel world still intact" Adam told them. "We were grateful for this and decided to take him as our only human son" Eve added.
Everyone once again were horrified, but a lot more with the last statement told by Eve. Adam and Eve are now respectively the father and the mother of Hiro's future self? Just how mad can things be that a human would called computer programs their parents?
"Son? Hiro, how could you forget your true mother, Professor Oozora Haruka?" Ran asked angrily, "What is wrong with you?"
"Shut up, you little girl!" yelled Eve as she pointed her left wooden sword towards Ran, startling and cause her to shut up. "How dare you said that to our son?!"
"Anyone who try to insult our son will have a taste of our wrath, even if it means their death" Adam declared as he pointed his right claw towards Ran and the others. "Settle down Dad, Mom" Regiudea halted Adam and Eve s' behaviour as he extend each of his arm towards the two of them before stepping forward. "There is no need to rush for such things. They have already exhausted from the fight against the combined Killer Droids, Akelon. It will not be exciting if we eliminate them now"
Adam and Eve glanced at each other for a while before nodding and turned back to their son. "All right" Adam and Eve replied together. "Let's go back" Regiudea ordered and both of them nodded before they started walking away from Ran and the others.
"Wait!" Hiro shouted, making Adam, Eve and Regiudea to turn to him. "Let's finish things here and now, Regiudea!" Hiro bring out his CCM, getting ready to challenge Regiudea, his future form while breathing heavily.
Adam and Eve just keep quiet while Regiudea step forward with a smuggling face. "I love to be your opponent, Hiro. However..." Regiudea told him before giving off smirk. "I just wonder if you still have the strength to fight after forcing yourself to use the 'Overload' in that last fight"
"Overload?" Ban echoed, didn't get what does the term Regiudea just mentioned mean. Just then, Hiro suddenly collapsed to his feet and drop his CCM while holding his chest with his left hand, which everyone noticed.
"Hiro-kun!" Yuuya called out in concern as he and the others went to check up on Hiro. Then much to everyone's shock, Hiro suddenly spew red liquid which anyone would know it is blood, in a high quantity that spills to the ground. "Blood?!" Ran exclaimed in horror, unknown why it suddenly happened to Hiro as he still continue to spew out blood even though he covered his mouth. "But how?!"
"You guys knew what happened to him in the last fight with that red monster, Akelon?" said Regiudea as everyone's attention now turned to him. "He used an ability called 'Overload' which allows a human to become one with their LBXs, engage in high-speed combat and see his/her surrounding in slow motion. This ability should it be possessed, the player itself can change the tide of the battles, especially when fighting with a stronger opponent. What happens to him right now is just one of the few worse side effects that rarely could happen to the user for the first time, especially if their own body was weaker than a normal human. The effect gets even worse most of the time for every time a player uses it" he continued.
"Are you implying that Hiro could lose his life if he uses that often?" Jin guessed, somehow have a rough idea what Regiudea just told to them. "That is right, Jin-san" said Regiudea, confirmed that Jin's guess is correct. "If I may add, I also possessed the 'Overload' and have used it just like Hiro did more than once within the previous years compare to the other users"
"Then, how come you are still alive? Didn't you just said that the user could die from using that ability often, should that applied to you too?" Ban argued.
"Not exactly" Regiudea corrected him. "I am different from the other Overload users. With a little bit of training and an LBX with the right specs, nothing is impossible. However, let me make one thing clear. These conditions may NOT be applicable to others, even if it is me. The chance was like 1 in an infinite possibilities for anyone but I was lucky enough to gain that rare possibility as my body can withstand the repeated usage of 'Overload'. Therefore, I have mastered it completely with my LBX, D Regiudea and was able to use it to the ultimate level that none others have ever done. No LBX players will be able to defeat me that easily, even if it is you guys..." he gloated before leaving a pack of laughter.
"Regiudea!" Eve cut in. "It is time for us to return" Adam reminded. "There is no need for us to waste time here anymore"
"Very well... I guess we will meet again later" Regiudea replied before turning back to Hiro and the others. "However, your friend right there may have a chance to take me down, IF he can survived and reached to my current level of 'Overload'." he told them, referring to Hiro. Then each three of them transformed into a green orbs and leave from the mountain.
"Wa-wa...it..." Hiro stuttered, whose face is quite messy with blood that spills from his mouth as he extend his right arm forward. However, his vision started become very blurry before he collapsed and unconscious.
"Hiro!" "Get a hold of yourself!" "Hiro-kun!" everyone called out repeatedly to Hiro who was hurt from the side effect of using Overload but he could not hear them at all.
Chapter 2: A short visit from a mysterious woman
About some time later inside Jasmine's home...
Hiro was put on the same bed as when Jasmine first found him unconscious in the forest. Now the same situation happened again except that he suddenly become injured all of a sudden because of using an ability called 'Overload'.
Fortunately, Hiro's friends and even his mother are there to look after him. The three Net Saviours Netto, Enzan and Laika are also there as well.
Currently, Jasmine and Medi are checking on Hiro's condition using some sort of medical machine that she had in her house while everyone else watch from outside so that the two of them won't be disturbed as they examined him.
Medi is inside the cyber world of that machine, performing the examination as Jasmine put on a white circular headband that connects to it around Hiro's head. "How is he, Medi?" Jasmine asked. About 5 minutes later, Medi told her operator about what she found out on when Hiro was examined using the machine.
At the same time outside the room where Hiro was put on bed...
Everyone was wondering what is going on with Hiro and especially his mother worried the most on her son as they watch Jasmine and Medi perform a check-up on him. However, they could not hear anything that were discussed by Jasmine and Medi since the two of them speak in a low voice.
"Everyone" Netto who was watching what Hiro's friends were doing with Enzan and Laika called out to them, which they turned afterwards. "I wanted to apologise for suddenly blaming your friend for what we thought he would be. Looks like we got the wrong person to blame with" he expressed his regret.
"I also like to say the same" Laika added while Enzan gave a sad nod. "Don't worry..." Ban assured them softly. "None of us knew what actually happened until that guy show himself in front of us. Who would have thought that there are two Hiro and that Hiro who called himself Regiudea came from the future of 5 years later?"
"Still, I couldn't believe from your story earlier that Shademan was still alive and he was the one that kidnapped Hiro to this world" said Enzan in disbelief. "Anyway, what are you three going to do now that you guys discovered the truth?" Jin asked.
"Now that things have turned out this way, I think the three of us will return to Japan and explained to Professor Hikari, the Net Polices and the other Cross Fusion members about this. They all must know what is truly going on before anything else could go wrong on your side" said Laika.
"Please do, Netto, Laika, Enzan" Takuya implored and they nodded. Just then, everyone noticed that Jasmine with Medi's tiny holographic figure on her left shoulder, came out from the room to tell them something about their examination on Hiro. Both of them look quite sad when everyone saw them.
"Jasmine, Medi. How is Hiro's condition? Is he going to be okay?" Professor Oozora quickly asked in concern the sooner she noticed the two of them.
"Sadly to say, not good at all in our opinion" said Jasmine in regret after some thought, which horrified everyone. "What do you mean by that….?" Ban asked. "A lot of Hiro's body cells, including his brain were badly damaged and have become quite weak" Jasmine answered.
"Damaged?" Ran echoed. "Yeah, it is probable that the brain was damaged due to the sudden and extreme increase in its activity, which in turn weaken and damage the other body cells. Plus, like Regiudea said, Hiro-kun's body is very weak compare to that of a normal human usually have before using Overload. After using Overload, his stomach lining become extremely weak and it allows digestive juices to damage and inflame it. That is why he suddenly gag blood from his mouth" Medi explained.
"So this is the effect of using Overload, huh?" Jin muttered. "However…" Jasmine abruptly continued. "It was quite surprising that Hiro is still alive until now even having a weak body and getting an internal injury like this. A normal human, regardless whether their bodies were trained or not, wouldn't have survived in any of these situation this long. Still, I do not know how long he can hold on as all his body cells are dying a lot faster than they could be build with time"
"Well, what do you two did when you discover this?" Takuya asked.
"Just in case, we have injected a new drug which Jasmine and Cardamom-san recently developed into his body. That drug would encourage the human cells to be build and grow quicker than usual while slowing the cells dying process. However, its effectiveness mainly depend on Hiro-kun himself. At this moment, the medicine somehow have a positive effect" Medi told them. "If nothing goes wrong, we predict that he will regain consciousness in two days time"
"All right everyone, we will return back to Japan now to get things right" Netto declared. "We leave Hiro to you guys". "Okay. We're counting on you" said Ban. Netto, Enzan and Laika then walk away from the Jasmine's home, departing to Japan.
At night…..
Everyone except Professor Oozora and Jasmine sleep at Duck Shuttle, with the former sleeping beside Hiro's bed in Jasmine's home which was shined by the moon light through a window, looking after her son. Then suddenly a shadow approaches the Hiro's left part from outside where the window was located, which Professor Oozora did not notice because she is sleeping like a log.
The shadow reveal itself as a woman when the light on the moon shines on her. She had a pale skin, long blonde hair while half of her hair is tied, green eyes, wear an indigo cloak that falls to her feet together with a hood. She puts her right hand on Hiro's chest without touching him while holding his right shoulder with her left for quite some time at the sleeping bluenette boy.
"This is bad, his life is slowly fading away. At this rate the Earth's medicine may no longer be able to save him" the woman spoke softly so that Professor Oozora would not wake up. The woman then let go of Hiro and spin her hands in circle for a while before aiming her palm towards him.
In the process of spinning, her hands and whole body glows a yellow light before it forms a white circle, fading slowly as the new shape move itself towards Hiro. "Hiro, I will grant some of my life to you…." the woman muttered and many tiny white particles of light appeared from her palms before they went to Hiro, making his body glows in the same colour as that woman.
After giving enough of those light for Hiro, the woman suddenly collapsed to her feet and still unconscious before started gasping for air. Luckily for her, Professor Oozora did not woke up because of that.
Little by little Hiro's eyes started to twinkle a bit as he slowly opens them and somehow by instinct turned his head to his left. Hiro notices the woman who is breathing heavily. However, he could not see that woman clearly as his vision quickly started to become very blurry until his eye was shut by force.
The woman then slowly stand up and went to the boy. "Don't worry Hiro…." The woman assured him with a smile as she whispers to his ears. "We will meet again". The woman then kisses Hiro's forehead before the wind started blowing on the outside and she disappears without a trace.
Chapter 3: Regiudea's new goal
Meanwhile, inside a forest of an unknown mountain….
Hiro's future self, Regiudea is resting his head at one of the open spaces located around the mountains, gazing at the beautiful stars in the night sky. He was wondering how it is possible that his past self was with Jasmine. Plus his former friends during his youth were also there as well.
"Just how the heck those guys got involved into this mess? I thought only the Cross Fusion members were …"Regiudea muttered as he could not think of a logical reason how his past self and the other LBX players from that time got involved. "Anyway, I hope Mom and Dad figured out something when I send them to investigate on Erai-sama and Shademan. They are hiding something from me" he thought to himself.
About half an hour later, two shadow slowly approaches Regiudea from his back. It was Adam and Eve, in their usual armour suits. Regiudea notices their presence and sit upright, facing them. "How is it going? Did Dad and Mom figured out why those LBX players got involved into this mess?" Regiudea asked.
"Yeah, it seems the world that was assigned to Shademan and the Darkloids by Erai is our world that have just started year 2052" Adam answered. "Our world, 2052?" Regiudea echoed, find it quite unbelievable.
"Yes but that isn't all" said Eve. "The reason those LBX players got involved into this mess is because Erai assigned a mission to Shademan to bring your past self for him".
"Even this mountain that we are standing now is our world from that time but it was separated away from the public by a dimensional area" Adam added.
"I knew it. I knew Erai-sama and Shademan are hiding something from me" said Regiudea in angered while gritting his fists hard, confirming his deduction. "However, the mission that was assigned to Shademan ended up in failure" Adam told him.
"How come? I thought that the humans in our world at this time have no such way to fight Shademan and those Darkloids, even the LBXs are helpless in this case" Regiudea argued.
"While turning ourselves into LBXs, we overheard the conversation between Shademan and Bubbleman regarding that. It seems like a trio clad in indigo, purple and fuchsia armours were the ones interfering but Shademan himself said they were no match for him at all" Adam pointed out.
"The reason why Shademan failed the mission was because another person clad in red armour appeared and defeat him while he was carrying Hiro into the other world where those Cross Fusion members live" Eve added.
"Red armour?" Regiudea echoed, somehow feel familiar with that term. "It couldn't be that…?" he guessed. "Yeah, the one with a Sagittarius mark on its chest. He also interrupted our fight against Jasmine using Cross Fusion on two days ago" Adam confirmed.
"What do we do now, Regiudea? Things have become a lot messier than it should be" Eve asked. Regiudea hold his chin with his right hand, thinking of what they should do from now on.
"Anyway…." Regiudea started speaking after a moment, releasing his hand from his chin and face the two of them. "The one to take down those LBX players shall be the three of us whether doing through LBX battles or real fight. Just us" he declared. "But what if Erai send Shademan or anyone else to kidnap your past self again?" Eve argued.
"If that happens, eliminate those who try to get in our way, whether they are Cross Fusion members or those Darkloids. Just in case, I want Mom and Dad to keep an eye on those Darkloids' activities" Regiudea ordered. "Roger" Adam agreed and Eve nodded.
Chapter 4: An astounding news
The next morning at Jasmine's home…..
Professor Oozora is still sleeping near the bed in the room where her son was treated by Jasmine and Medi. The sound of birds chirping can be heard from inside the room. However, Hiro was no longer on the bed while she was still asleep.
Then Professor Oozora slowly get up, rubbed and stretched respectively her eyes and arms before she woke up, looking around right and left. When she look at the bed in front of her, her eyes suddenly become wide and quite horrified. Her son, Hiro is no longer there on the bed.
"Hiro?" Professor Oozora muttered as she quickly get up and search for her son. She look everywhere inside the room but could not find him. While Professor is searching for him, she heard the sound of someone entering the room.
"Jasmine?" Professor Oozora called out as she turned and saw that the person that entered the room was Jasmine. She is wearing a white pyjamas with many blue dots and holds a red long pillow on her arms.
"What wrong, Professor?" Jasmine asked as she rubbed her own eyes, still feeling a bit sleepy. "Hiro is not on the bed" Professor Oozora told her. "Have you seen him?"
Jasmine sleepy face quickly went away and her eyes become wide as she turned to the bed where Hiro was supposed to be sleeping. Like Professor Oozora, she saw that Hiro was no longer there.
"No…..way!" Jasmine exclaimed with the last tone become quite louder. "There's no way this could happen…." she said as she started searching around the room too. Then Jasmine's net navi, Medi tiny holographic form suddenly appeared on her operator's right shoulder.
"What's wrong, Jasmine?" Medi asked. "Hiro is gone, Medi" Jasmine told her. "Eh!?" Medi exclaimed. "But there's no way Hiro-kun could have regain consciousness this early. Even the medicine we injected into him will take a least two days, considering how worse his injury was"
"Maybe…. someone broke into the house and kidnapped him?" Professor Oozora suggested. "No way, this place was guarded by the adult pandas at night. Unless the pandas are familiar with the people they met and didn't feel those people are evil. Otherwise, we would have heard the adult pandas causing riot" Jasmine argued.
Then suddenly Professor Oozora's and Jasmine's started to itching as they sense some kind of smell. "What is this good smell?" Professor Oozora asked. "It's coming from the kitchen" Jasmine deduced. "Let's take a look" Medi blurt out and Professor Oozora and Jasmine started to make their way to the kitchen.
As they arrived at the kitchen, the trio saw something that totally leave them astonished. Hiro has already woke up, wearing a white apron outside his orange shirt and have just finished preparing food on the table. The food he prepared were steamed rice, grilled fish, fermented soy beans, 'tamagoyaki' (egg omelette) and steam, filled buns called baozi.
Hiro noticed the trio and gave a smile to them. "Good morning, Mom, Jasmine-san, Medi" Hiro greeted happily. "Hiro-kun….. You're awake?" Medi asked. "Sure, why?" Hiro responded but got startled as his mom suddenly hug him out of the blue and started to shed tears.
"Thank goodness… You're okay…" Professor Oozora sighed in relief as she hugs her son even tight, which Hiro noticed and leave him a bit uncomfortable. However, he did not mind about it and hugs her back. Medi and Jasmine could not help but feel happy for both of them as a slight grin were formed on each of their faces.
"Umm…." said Jasmine abruptly after a minute, which caused the Professor Oozora and Hiro to end their family consolation. "Forgive me for interrupting your family hugging and being rude, but do you two mind if we can have breakfast now?" she requested as she points her head towards the food on the table. "The smells leave me famished"
The mother and son look at each other and gave a nod to Jasmine. Then Jasmine, Hiro and Professor Oozora take their seat and started enjoying the food that Hiro prepared.
2 hours later at Duck Shuttle…
Hiro, Professor Oozora and Jasmine went to the Duck Shuttle as they were about to depart to the Science Labs as soon as possible. Right now, they are inside the briefing room together with the other LBX players and adults too. Takuya is currently talking to someone on his CCM.
"Hiro, we're all glad to hear that you are okay" Ban expressed his feeling of relief. "Thank you. Well, Jasmine-san and Medi insisted that they wanted to examine my condition first before coming here just in case to see I'm fully okay" Hiro replied.
"Jasmine, are you sure that you can come with us? Wouldn't your Jii-chan be worried when he gets back and finds out you're not at home?" Ran asked. "Don't worry, Ran-chan" Medi's tiny holographic form who suddenly appeared on Ran's left shoulder assured, which startled the latter a bit. "Jasmine have told Cardamom-san that she's going to Japan with Hiro and his friends"
"Plus, Jii-chan got some work to do and he won't be returning anytime soon" Jasmine added. "Well, if you say so" Ran replied. Then the conversation was discontinued as they saw Takuya have finished talking with the person through his CCM and walk towards them.
"Everyone, Netto have just contact us" Takuya announced. "Since Hiro have wake up earlier than expected, the Net Police and Professor Hikari wanted us to come to the Science Labs as soon as possible. Its time for us to depart"
"Understood!" Everyone responded and they all went to the passenger section, each taking a seat with Jasmine sitting beside Hiro at the front near the cockpit. "Duck Shuttle, launch-mo!" Metamo-R cried as Duck Shuttle launch itself into the air and fly straight to Japan.
Chapter 5: The interrogation by the Net Police
A few hours later…..
Duck Shuttle have already arrived in Japan and landed at an open space inside a forest near the Science Labs. Right now, everyone from the Duck Shuttle are inside the Science Labs' control room together with Professor Hikari, Netto, Enzan, Laika, Meijin and two other adults, a male and a female.
The male adult is known by the net saviours as Commissioner Kifune Seishin. He is quite a big, old man with grey hair and partially bald except the sides and back, thick moustache, and wore a black sweater with purple stripe at the middle inside an asparagus coloured jacket with avocado coloured lapel.
The female adult is Kifune's assistant, Superintendent Manabe Rin. She had artichoke coloured eyes, pansy purple hair tied in ponytails, wear a white shirt with short blue tie inside a pink jacket together with short skirt which has similar colour to her pink jacket.
Professor Hikari, Meijin, Rin and Seishin were in the middle interrogating and hearing everything related to LBXs, Regiudea and the events that they have gone through from the people who came using Duck Shuttle including Jasmine.
Although the Net Saviours have already explained a lot to them, the reason they did this again was for understanding about the new people they met better. First, they start off with Jasmine, followed by Professor Yamano, Professor Oozora, Takuya, Otacross and finally the LBX players.
The interrogation was quite short for Jasmine, Takuya and Otacross. However, for Professor Yamano and Professor Oozora, they were interrogated for a longer period as they had to explain a few things which the people in this world do not understand.
As for the LBX players, they started off with Ban, followed by Yuuya, Sendou, Kazu, Jessica, Ran, Asuka, Ami, Kirito, Jin, Gouda and finally Hiro. Before it is Hiro's turn to be interrogated, like Jasmine, Takuya and Otacross, most of the LBX players get short interrogation though Ban was got interrogated a little longer than the rest. Currently, they were in the middle of interrogating the last person who they wanted the most which is no other than Oozora Hiro.
"I see" Professor Hikari replied, holding his chin after the four of them interrogating Hiro for about an hour, which is quite longer than everyone else including his mother. "Who would have thought that your future self was behind all this?" said Kifune. "What a twisted turn of event..." Manabe said sarcastically.
"Still, who would have thought that your future self can use Cross Fusion, Hiro-kun" Meijin commented with a slight smirk. "Although I still got to admit that it is quite weird that you did not have a net navi at this time"
"Um..." said Hiro abruptly, which caused the four adults interrogating to pay attention to him. "What do you people will do now that things have turned out this way?" he asked.
"Well for starters, the LBX that appeared rampaging around the world have yet to decrease" Kifune started after some thought. "The Net Police have tried their best but it seems like the fight with those LBXs is endless, whether it is in the real world or the cyber world" Manabe continued.
"So we thought the battle against LBXs will end if we can find and defeat Regiudea. After that we can start assisting you people with dealing against the Darkloids again" Professor Hikari deduced.
"However, we will need everyone's cooperation in doing so, including you Hiro-kun" Meijin stated. "Very well, we'll cooperate Professor Hikari, Meijin, Commissioner Kifune, Superintendent Manabe" Takuya declared while the rest of LBX players nodded, agreed to cooperate with them. "Thank you very much, everyone" Professor Hikari expressed his gratitude.
"Well then Uzaki Takuya, what is the current situation in your world?" Kifune asked. "Unfortunately we don't know, Commissioner Kifune" Takuya answered in grief. "We have lost the way to communicate with and return to our world. However, I can only say this. The situation may be a lot worse than what is going on here as our world have no such way to fight those Darkloids, even the LBXs are helpless for this"
"I see, Meijin!" Professor Hikari replied before turning to and called his assistant. "Yes, sir?" Meijin responded, waiting for Professor Hikari's order. "Start scanning the whole world for any sign of electromagnetic anomalies immediately" Professor Hikari ordered.
"Yes, sir!" Meijin responded in agreement. "Professor Yamano, Professor Oozora, Uzaki Takuya, Otacross, please help us in this" Professor Hikari added further. "Roger!" the mentioned four responded.
"Um..." Hiro said abruptly again, which have everyone's attention towards him again. "Excuse me for interrupting again but do you mind everyone leave Regiudea's matter to me?" he requested, which got everyone astound. "Hiro?" Ran mumbled, finding his behaviour quite unusual.
"Why, Hiro? Everyone already knew that you're not the one doing all this" Professor Oozora argued. "I know, Mom. However, it still doesn't change the fact that I'm the one responsible for doing all this because it is highly possible that I will do the same thing in the future to everyone here. It is only a matter of time that I will be considered guilty by the worlds involved. This is my problem. That's why it is natural that I must take responsibilities and settle things right using the chance I had right now" Hiro explained.
"Hiro. I understand how you would feel about this but this is not just your problem to bear. This is our problem" Ban corrected him, and the rest of LBX players nodded. "But..." Hiro hesitated, feeling that his friends should not interfere in this problem.
"Hiro-kun" Kifune cut in, calling him. "Let me make you clear about one thing. You're currently dealing with someone who is better in terms of experience and in this case, it is your future self" he reminded.
"He knows how your friends would act and most of all he knows very clear on every of your own attack patterns in LBX battles. Such enemy wouldn't be easy to be beaten especially he knows all about you, Hiro-kun" Meijin added. "How do you plan to defeat someone like that on your own?" he questioned.
"Wouldn't Overload might have a chance against him? I mean Regiudea said that himself we have a chance to defeat him if I could master this ability. I just need to practice it starting from now" Hiro suggested.
His tone was somehow almost close to a happy go lucky person, having no worried and did not care about any consequences that would occur for his/her reckless action.
"STOP!" Professor Oozora scolded in a loud tone as she came closer quickly and slapped Hiro on his right cheek, which utterly horrified her son and the others, leaving them speechless.
"ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL YOURSELF?! THAT ABILITY IS A DOUBLE EDGED SWORD! DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT USING THAT ABILITY AGAIN!" she ended before turning around and stormed off the room, refusing to say anything further to Hiro as she was quite furious with him.
Everyone else didn't say anything as they were still a bit horrified with what just happened until Hiro slowly walked away, leaving the room as well. No one dares to talk anything about this after that.
Chapter 6: Following Hiro
Tomorrow morning at Science Labs...
Oozono Yuriko, Tesla Magnets, Charlie Airstar and Dark Miyabi have fully recovered from their injuries and got released from the hospital yesterday. Today, they were told by Professor Hikari to come there as they had not yet known the truth about Regiudea.
The reason the four of them did not know yet is because Commissioner Kifune suggested that the Net Police wanted to confirm whether what the Net Saviours told him and Superintendent Manabe by confronting the LBX players face to face. Throughout the explanation, the 4 Cross Fusion members met Hiro too as he came too apologised for what he did to them, at least he thought so.
Currently, they are hanging at the roof after hearing the explanation for about an hour. Charlie and Tesla each are sitting down at one of the base of the satellite dishes used for deploying a Dimensional Area. At the same time, Miyabi is standing near the wide balcony and Yuriko is standing in between the two satellite dishes where Charlie and Tesla are sitting.
"Who would have thought that Regiudea was Hiro's future self...? To be honest, I feel quite sorry for him" Yuriko started spoken a bit loudly that Tesla, Charlie and Miyabi can hear. "Who cares!? I still need to make him pay for insulting me last time" Tesla growled in anger. "How dare he called me a 40 year old lady?! I am STILL in my 20s!" she shouted, releasing her stress.
"Calm down, Tesla" Charlie told her. "That boy already apologised for what he did to us when we met him within an hour ago. He even went as far as to contact Princess Pride who was still hospitalised and the other Cross Fusion members, with the help of the Net Saviours. In addition, he corrected himself by honestly telling that you look like a young lady at the age of 25. At least you could forgive him and allow him to take responsibility"
"I don't care!" Tesla huffed. "I never forgive anyone who tried to insult me, especially about my age. Even if they change their minds by complementing me, I won't listen to that easily, except my father maybe"
Meanwhile, Yuriko realised that Miyabi kept quiet and ask him. "What's wrong, Miyabi? You seem awfully quiet" she pointed out. "It's that boy, Oozora Hiro" Miyabi answered, looking down across the balcony. Yuriko turned her sight in the same direction as Miyabi and saw Hiro on the ground, walking out of the Science Labs main gate, going somewhere alone.
"That boy, where do he think he's going out all alone?" Yuriko muttered, unsure what Hiro is thinking. "One way to find out is to follow him but we better not let ourselves get noticed" Miyabi suggested. "I'm with that" Yuriko agreed before turning to Charlie and Tesla.
"Charlie, Tesla, are you two coming?" she invited. "Spying huh? Count me in" Charlie volunteered in carefree tone. "I don't really like spying very much but I'm coming too. I got a score to settle with that insulting boy "Tesla added.
And so the four Cross Fusion members get out from the Science Labs and try to follow Hiro without being seen. Charlie and Tesla followed Hiro on foot while keeping their distance. Yuriko and Miyabi decided to follow the boy by using the roof of the buildings.
Where is Hiro going on his own? That will be known in the next chapter.
Well, what do you guys think of this chapter?
Hiro's attitude somehow was a lot arrogant and completely got caught in his own pride. I mean it is only natural for us to take responsibility for our own mistakes. However, we may not be able to correct some of those mistakes individually because not every human is perfect enough to deal with their own problems.
Also, I always thought that I wanted to see Adam and Eve having a human like appearance. There is actually some people draw them in pixiv website but I preferred having both different hair colour.
In addition, regarding Overload, I just wondered if people could almost die from using it instead of getting their mind exhausted.
Finally a few spoilers regarding the next chapter that I have planned:
1. Hiro will meet a man who is actually his missing father and his mother's husband. However, he would not know until that man revealed a big secret relating to Hiro and the LBX players at some point later.
2. There will also be real world fights against the Darkloids.
3. The Cross Fusion members that will involve are Charlie, Miyabi, Yuriko, Tesla, Jasmine and possibly Meiru too.
4. The opponents are Shademan with two or maybe three of his Darkloids follower. My current candidates now for those Darkloids are Flashman and Beastman. Maybe I will include Bubbleman as well.
5. In addition, Adam and Eve will appeared interrupt in between the fights.
6. Moreover, Hiro will awaken his new power and join the fightat in but I preferred as the fight becomes too tough for Jasmine and she is in trouble.
Anyway, have a good time reading and leave comments