Day 6 Part 3 - Pyra
At that moment, Mayl didn't even know what she had pressed on her PET. During the battle, her PET had opened a weird window. She had no idea what was in it, but there was only one option on it. When Protoman lunged for her navi, she pressed it. Praying that somehow, it would give her the answer she so desperately needed.
Roll eyes snapped open. Protoman was coming for her. A sudden calm came about her, "Blaze Circle!"
Fire suddenly surrounded the pink navi, making her inaccessible to attack. The fire was about as hot as Heat Shot battle chip, but it was enough to make the red navi lose his focus and waste his attack. When the flames died down, something about Roll was different. Very different. The pink parts of her body suit had changed into a red color while her black lining was now a burnt orange. Even her hair had become a bit shiner, almost like a goldenrod yellow. Crimson lines were now on the sides of her orange body suit. The lines themselves seem to carry her very data, almost lava lamp like. Little burners were now on the sides of her hip, back shoulder blades, wrists, and on the clamps which held down her antennae on her helmet. Her pink heart became more redish over an orange background.
"Roll! What happened to you?" Mayl asked in awe of her navi's sudden transformation.
"I don't know? I just did stuff! What did you do?" the navi looked at her appearance shocked.
"Lucky shot," Chaud growled. Though if one looked carefully, you could see the smirk of emotional betrayal on his face, "Protoman!"
The red navi nodded as he drew his cyber sword and once again rushed the navi. Roll quickly jumped out of the way and avoided the attack. Protoman wasn't going to be stupid enough to fall for the same attack twice in a row. Even with her new powers, she wasn't going to be able to defeat him in an outright brawl.
What would distract him long enough for Roll to get off an attack? Wait, he believed that she was a weak nobody. While the thought completely demoralized her self-esteem, she realized that his mentality would be the only way she was going to win this fight.
"Roll Arrow!" She sent off another of her heart capped weapons at the red navi. Protoman drew his shield but forgot one little fact; it was still damaged from the first onslaught! The arrow of the arrows broke his shield and struck him.
Roll gaped as she saw the navi move back. Number one, when did her arrows become break element? Number two, when did they start getting that fast? Roll shook her head; she would have time to think about that later. She took aim again, charged, and fired again. She just needed to keep him thinking that she was being repetitive.
"Roll! What are you doing? We need to get you out of there before he deletes you!" Mayl whispered quickly.
"I know; I have a plan. I just need you to trust me. Do you have our back up trick?" Roll asked.
"Um, yeah. But I really don't think we should be tempting fate with this."
"Do you trust your best friend?"
"Completely."
"Okay, then be ready to activate it on my mark."
She focused her attention back on the navi. She needed to be ready for whatever happened next. If she messed up, it was going to be her head. The red navi once again ran for her with his cyber sword. One...Two...NOW!
"Blaze Circle!" She yelled as her burners kicked in and ignited flames around her. The blaze wasn't really hot to her, but more of a comforting warmth, "Now, Mayl!
"Let's finish this fight, Protoman! Aqua Sword! Program Advance! Fire Sword! Aqua Sword! Elec Sword! Bamboo Sword! Element Sword!" Chuad ordered as Protoman's blade changed to a a blue blade with a container of water attached to it.
"No, you don't." Mayl readied the first combo that Lan had taught her, just in case she ever got in a pinch when he wasn't around, "Program Advance! Anti-Sword! Anti-Recovery! Anti-Damage! Bodyguard!"
As Protoman, not fooled by the same attack, ran though the fire and slashed. The fire hissed as the power of the Aqua Sword caused it to turn into steam. Before Chuad could call off Protoman, he slashed at Roll with a white blade that surged with the power of the elements. A second before she got hit, Roll's spot was replaced by a dummy doll. She jumped up into the air and proceeded to fire ten shurikens at the red navi. Protoman wasn't expecting such an attack and took each strike dead on. The navi stumbled backwards as Roll landed right next to him. She thought the fire was nice, but something told her that he wouldn't think so.
"Blaze Circle!" The ports opened up and engulfed her surounding area with flames. Protoman jumped back, despite having been burned a bit by the fire. He wasn't one to go down by a couple of sneak attacks, but the Bodyguard Program Advance wasn't known as one of the more powerful Advances should one take the full force of it. As the flames died down, Roll couldn't help but smirk. Despite not really fighting she had to admit, on some insane level, this was actually kind of fun.
The firewall went down as Protoman slowly got back up to his feet. He had to admit, it had been a good move. A very good move...even for a rookie, "Well, well. Someone has learned well." He said smoothly as he was jacked out of the network. However as he jumped back to his PET, he took a breathe. Despite having well than enough skill to take down the navi within a couple of moves, she had still surprised him. She had taken three-quarts of his energy before he left. Rookie or not, that was a rare enough occurrence already for most navis.
"Good job, Mayl. You passed the test." Chaud said, a hint of shock in his voice. Not that he had been almost beaten, but that he was caught by one of the oldest tricks in the book.
"What? What test?" the red haired teen asked, completely confused.
"I guess I should explain from here." A voice said.
"Dr. Hikari!" Roll exclaimed as the doctor appeared on a screen.
"Hello again, Mayl, Roll. I can take it from here, Chaud," he said before the dismissed teen left, "I'm sorry for what just happened, Roll. This whole situation wasn't meant to hurt you, but we had to push your buttons a bit to see if this would even work," he made a tiny pause as Roll looked down to the ground and mumbled something about Protoman not having to be that mean, "Yes, this was all a test. You two already have a high sync level, it'll probably only be a while before you begin to take on Full Synchro. You already know that Megaman has been able to use abilities such as Double Soul and the Cross System. So far, he is the only navi able to do so.
"But he's not the only special navi in this world. When Dr. Itumi created you Roll, she knew that you battle skills were limited. That's why you're so quick and have the ability to severe chip connections. It was the only the only way she knew how to protect you. As a backup plan design, she put in place a method for you to gain more defensive capabilities, Merge. BAT. But she could never figure out how to make the code work. After you were told the truth about your origins, she gave me the code to see if I could fix it. It took a while, but I had managed to tweak it enough so that it worked.
"As you may have noticed, your arrows are faster and are even break element now. Their download disruption abilities have been kept in place, but your virus summoning and Roll Dance abilities are gone. It was unfortunate that this program had to work as a give and take one. However, you do have a new ability. I like to call it a Merge. The form you're in right now is called the Pyra Merge. It allows you to use fire to cut yourself off from enemies. It's not a powerful shield, but it's good to at least keep your enemies on their toes.
"As you and Mayl fight, you may acquire other merges. However, it seems as though the program is only designed to activate whenever you in a case of distress, almost like the human's body flight or fight reaction. That's why Protoman had to jeer you on so; once again I'm sorry about that. However, once you discover a merge, you'll be able to use it at will. I hope you'll use this ability well."
"Dr. Hikari. I don't know what to say." Mayl said as the Merge logged itself in the PET's memory and the window closed.
"Just tell me that you'll save my son. That's all the payment I could ever want." the doctor asked.
"We'll do it!" both operator and navi said, nodding their heads.
"Thank you. You know, my sons made a wise choice in dating you two, both of you."
"Mr. Robinson," the mechanized voice said, "I'm afraid I have no need for your services anymore."
"What about our deal? What about my daughter?" Jason yelled into his PET. His body went cold. No more than cold. He was dead. Dead to the world. He couldn't just back out of this deal now. Not while he still had her! It told him it would give her back to him!
"Oh yes, she would like to speak with you." The voice said. The line went dead for a while. For fifteen painful seconds, all Jason heard was the sound of static. His heart hammered in his chest. He hadn't spoken to his daughter ever since she had been taken from him. What type of condition would she be in? Please don't let her be on her dying breath? Please let her be alright. Suddenly, the video scene—which was normally blank—showed a young woman, only about eighteen, with red hair and…red eyes?
"Hello, father," Saria Robinson said coolly, "I guess you've heard the news."
"Saria, are you okay? What happened to your eyes? They're red." her father asked quickly, though still sounding somewhat numb and shocked.
"Just a little experiment I'm trying. You know us teenagers. Anyway, I'm afraid I can't stay long. World to conquer you know?" Saria's face turned into a scowl and she ended the call abruptly.
Jason stared at his PET for a while. The feeling of being dead was creeping back into him. No…what happened to her? It was that Voice's fault. He knew it. But he couldn't do anything about it. And that was what hurt the most. His daughter was that thing's test subject and he couldn't do a damn thing about it. He was powerless and could only watch as his daughter was trapped in an unfair game. It took a while for him to realize that Tox had been trying to get his attention, "Jason?" She asked.
"It's done something to Saria. It's done something to my little girl!" Jason yelled.
"Oh my…I'm so sorry. It's all my fault! If I had just grabbed like that program like I was supposed to none of this would have happened. Shoot, if I had just done my job to begin with we wouldn't even be in this mess. I'm so stupid!" she cursed as some tears began to spill out of her eyes. This was almost enough to make her forget what she had been trying to tell him earlier. However, after she regained her composure, she spoke, "But I think I've got so good news."
Jason gave the navi a second look, "I figured out what the programs that I downloaded into the SciLab project were. But we need to go see Dr. Hikari right away."
"What? How did you…I thought they were deleted after you received them?" Jason asked, curious.
"Well, nothing is really deleted forever. So, I uh…I may have used some of my data to restore the email's components," the purple navi said sheepishly.
"Tox! Are you crazy! Don't you know how dangerous that was? You could've been…"
"Deleted;l I know. But I just thought I had to do something to save Saria. The programs aren't completely pure because they have some of me in them, but I think that the doctor should be able to make sense of them if we let him scan my code so that he can ignore it."
Jason let go a breath, "You're really something Tox. Either way, thank you. I cannot thank you enough. We'll head out first thing in the morning. Now get some rest, you'll need it to recover some of your strength."
"Okay. I will." The purple navi yawned and went into sleep mode.
*walks around dark studio* Stupid power outages. *lights come back on* Finally, got the circuit breaker back on. Gav?! - Ghost
*crickets*
Huh, must have left when the power went out. Well, I guess it's on me again! So item 2 from last week is what I'll be talking about today. Originally, well, Roll had Change. BAT. Which meant that she would have Style Changes. Idea seems cool at first, but then you have to consider what kind of position that puts Roll in.
She's not a brawler, no matter who wants her to be. Thus she was given Merge. BAT (at least that's what I think I called it) instead. It's a defensive program. So in the end, Roll gets a brand new power and Tox and Jason (who have popped back in out of nowhere) now have information...hmm...what happened to Lan?
Wait...what happened to Joe? *Looks outside to see a Spikey deleting Joe* Oh, this is going to be hard to explain next week. Anyway, see you guys later on Day 7!
Update: Monday
Yes, I know that the form itself is a little underwhelming in terms of design but I was out of idea about how to customize her at the time I wrote this (I don't mind ideas if you guys can think of better designs. Preferably leave a comment in the forum). Yep, this is all pre-recorded. That's why the commentary keeps on saying next week, I just forget to take those parts out; which is why I do the little update note at the bottom. Anyway, that's why the updating is so consistent.)
Empress Roll: I would love to talk to you about the whole PA thing...but I can't. There's a reason I'm doing it this way, but I can't say it without spoiling the story. Also, yeah I agree with you. The whole ending of the BN Series and Graveyard Area thing seemed like a massive cop-out to me (That's actually one of the major reasons I started writing DN). Fact for the Day: MMBN 6, especially the not-Japanese versions, are nerfed. MMBN6's coding showing that Dark Chips may have been planned to put into production but never followed upon. So, they were never put into the game. With the exception of probably the Bug Giga Chips (Bug Thunder and Bug Sword...yeah, we all know what you meant Capcom...)
Edit 5/20/14: Pyra Merge changed style to fit Main Winner's specifications. Added attack on Protoman with an extra Blaze Circle cause he deserved it. Added some detail into Jason's and Tox's scene.
