Notes to readers: Sorry for the delay everyone, but I've been busy trying to overcome a weakness of mine that's was one of my greatest strengths: thinking. You see, I've gotten so many ideas within my head that I don't know what to do with the. They just keep coming to my head with a few more to take their place. Well, thanks to the advice that Lil' Samuu gave to me, I would be able to get them out of my head in no time. Thanks, Lil' Samuu (Sorry that I've got your name wrong). Now I would like to say thank you all for the support that you've given to me. Thanks Generation-A for all of the continued support as well as for the great stories that you've put up. Well, on with the fic and I hope to get honest and good reviews. Later!
Part 12
As he finally found another means to escape the Cyber world and enter the human world, Bass stared in fasination for when he saw the dimensional rip wide open for him to enter in. As it turns out, this gateway is near the deepest part of Net City that was the closest within the ranges of the Undernet. The viruses that were in a hurry to enter it in order to satisfy their own curiosity were soon frighten away for when they've felt the presence of the Black Shadow nearing them. "Well, at least those small insects know when to stay out of my way for when they know that they have no chance to defeat me. Pathetic," the cloaked Navi thought to himself while scoffing at the cowardice of the viruses just before he refocused his thoughts at the portal that lay before his eyes. "But it matters not. This gateway before me is the only passage into the human world. Once I arrive, I'll be able to search for that powerful gem that the human and those creatures have in their possession. As soon as that Chaos Emerald is in my hands, my power would be boundless. MegaMan nor his idiot of a NetOp would be able to stand in my way. Without the aid of a Dimensional Area to perform that Cross Fusion technique of theirs, they're nothing but helpless little rats for me to exterminate. Heh! Heh! Heh!"
With those thoughts done within his mind that caused a menacing grin to his face, Bass began to walk up towards the green rip right between the world that he's in and the human realm. As soon as he was within its range, the Black Shadow was able to look through it and saw where exactly in the human world that the dimensional rip would lead him to. "This is rather convenient," he thought to himself as the cloaked Navi kept both of this crimson eyes aimed at what appears to be Dentech City. "It seems that this gateway leads to the beach near the city where MegaMan's NetOp lives. This is just like taking candy from a baby, which is fine by me."
Finished with his thoughts, Bass continued to advance towards the energy rip in order to gain entrance to what appears to be his way into the human world. However, just as his hand was about to reach the dimensional phenomenon, a powerful bolt of golden electrical energy began to suddenly surround his entire body. While pulling his hand away from the gateway to his own freedom, the cloaked Navi felt his arm surging with pain as his attempt to go into the human world proved to be a difficult task.
"What the hell is this? Why can't I enter?" The Black Shadow thought to himself as his anger began to well up inside of him while also causing his own great power to erupt from within his body as a dark purple aura surrounded his body. "Those pathetic viruses were able to enter through those holes into the human world without any problems! But something is pushing me away from this portal, as if something or someone isn't giving me the chance to get in! When I find out who or what is the cause for this, I'll see to it that they won't be able to stand in my way! I swear it! I'll get through this gateway if it's the last thing I do!"
As soon as he finished with those thoughts, Bass's entire body began to erupt with powerful bursts of wild dark energy. While feeling his own rage rising to levels unknown, a dark silhouette of purple dark energy began to take a monsterous shape of a creature that looked huge and demonic. As soon as it fully appeared, the beast that erupted from within the cloaked Navi's body began to raise its huge fists and let out a mighty roar that shook the cyber buildings within range to shake violently with powerful negative energy erupting all around the area. If any Navi would've been unlucky enough to be within Net City's abandoned area for when it happened, he or she would've been deleted in an instant for as the eruption of dark energy that the huge entity caused was powerful enough to destroy or delete anything within it's range. It would've destroy about a city block's worth of Net City if Bass hadn't calmed his temper in the last moment.
As he became his usual calm and composed self again, the Black Shadow began to survey his surroundings. So far, all that he could see was that the great damage that his own power and anger caused was so severe that it would've caused the entire system that was keeping Net City running to crash. "I guess that the great powers of Nebula Grey is greater that I had anticipated for when I've absorbed its data back in the Undernet." Bass thought to himself as he turned his full attention back towards the dimensional gateway only to see the rip five times bigger than it was before. "What in the world! This dimensional rip is much more bigger than it once was for when I first saw it. Perhaps the eruption of my own increased power has something to do with it?"
While pondering upon the thought, the cloaked Navi extended his hand towards the dimensional hole and saw that his hand passed through it with no electrical field that would prevent it from doing so. "This is strange. The force that was once holding me back from the human world has suddenly ceased to be within this gate way," Bass thought to himself as he pulled his hand away from within the rip that it was in while at the same time feeling a bit confused about what happened as well as looking at his hand that appeared to be unharmed. "It seems that my sudden outburst of my own rage and power caused this portal to increase its size in order to accommodate to my own. Well, I guess that it no longer matters seeing that I'm now able to enter within the human world with nothing to stand in my way. Those humans had better prepare for their own worst nightmare because this dream is about to become a reality. Heh! Heh! Heh!"
With those thoughts done within his own mind, the Black Shadow began to walk up towards the wormhole that has grown in front of him and made his way into the human world with a evil smile all over his face.
As he watched the devastation taking place within the safety of the shadows on the roof tops of the city he's in now, Shade the Red Shadow began to feel a powerful and yet unidentfied presence beginning to cause his whole body to shake a bit, but only by a bit. He was blinded a bit by most of the sun's rays while trying to find the source, but thanks to his creator's own genetic tampering, his weakness to the light's harmful rays were now removed so that he could move about freely.
"Hmmm. This is certainly unexpected," the vampire creature thought to himself while at the same time scanning his eyes throughout his surroundings as well as the roofs in order to see what caused the powerful force that he felt. "This isn't the work of Lord Parasite's own servants. That would only mean one thing: someone or something has entered within this realm through other means. I'd better let Lord Parasite know of this sudden developement."
After finishing with his thoughts, Shade began to close both of his eyes and concentrated his mind on contacting his master from a world beyond the one that he's in now. As soon as he was sure that he'd felt his master's presence, the human-like aristocratic began to transmit his own thoughts into words just as he mentally spoke, "Lord Parasite, this is Shade. I have some news that I think that you might be interested to know about."
As he waited calmly for his master's response, Shade was soon rewarded for his patience for when he heard the voice of Nightmare Parasite speaking to him with its own powerful mental abilities that were able to cross and break the boundaries of time and space, "What is it, my servant? I'm waiting to hear what is it that you have for me to listen to. Does this have to do with Dilgear? Don't tell me that he's beginning to revolt against me."
"Not at all, Lord Parasite," the vampire responded to his master's own mental words through his own just as he continued to feel the powerful presence that's still around the air. "Dilgear and his men are still carrying out your orders like you told him to do. But it just so happens that someone or something has managed to get to this realm through a dimensional hole. Do you suppose that it has something to do with that large amount of Chaos Energy that I've felt a moment ago?"
"Hmmm. That might be the case, Shade. It just so happens that some of the creatures that have entered the realm you're in through the means of using a portal made by the piece of the Chaos Emerald," he heard Nightmare Parasite speaking to him mentally while at the same time continuing to survey the damage that he saw the werewolf and his ghostly army as well as the strange creatures that came from another realm caused from the streets below. "But so far, I was able to watch both the creature Shadow and his humanoid girlfriend of his enter that realm by some unknown means. Even I wasn't able to detect their arrival to this realm.
"However, this disturbance that you've just mentioned is different on how they've arrived. I want you to get a trace of the source of this great disturbance and take it out at once. We don't want anything that might decide to show up and interfere with our plans, now do we? So get over there and destroy whatever caused the phenomenon. Understood?"
"Understood, Lord Parasite," Shade mentally answered to his master with an obedient tone within his mind's voice while at the same time looking over the smoking streets that were filled with strange creatures that are of different types and variety attacking in both confusion and rage. "What of these beasts that are appearing in the streets of this city, master? Should I deal with them after taking care of the interloper?"
"No, don't waste your energy on them," he heard the voice of his creator mentally saying to him with a serious and calm tone within its mind's voice. "Just allow Dilgear and his forces to take care of the task at hand. You are to focus only on the mission given to you. Be sure that creature sees what's coming to it for when you find it. Also, avoid any confrontation with either of your genetic parents unless they provoke you to. Is that clear?"
While nodding his head as a response to his master's mental words, Shade once again heard Nightmare Parasite telepathic voice saying to him while at the same time hearing his creator chuckling, "Good. Oh, and Shade have fun with your new playmate. Make sure that the creature truly knows what it means to feel ultimate fear for when it faces you."
Those were the last words that the vampire heard from his master just before hearing nothing but the explosions and sirens coming from below. Shade let out a small grin for when he thought about using his own abilities for the first time on a creature that dared to cross his path. "But first, I have to find the creature in order to use them," were the vampire's last thoughts before he began to vanish out of sight in a haze of what appears to be white but non-detectable mist all over the skies and searched for his target.
While still trying to figure out what in the world was going on within Dentech City, Dingo along with the magician girl named Mana were in hot pursuit of a worried and hot-headed Dex in what appears to be a ravaged part of the City. "Dingo, what in the world is causing Dex to freak out like that for when he heard Maylu was in trouble?" he heard TomahawkMan saying to him with a rather confused tone in his voice from within the P.E.T. "I mean, I've noticed that both he and GutsMan has got a crush on both her and Roll for some time. But I didn't think that they would be crazy or stupid enough to go through the streets like this!"
True to his word, the Indian boy could see clearly what his Navi meant. The part of the city that they were all in was in pretty bad shape and most of the sidewalk that they were walking on were either cracked or damaged from whatever the green pirates were doing. "Uh, could anyone please tell me what is going on?" the young boy heard the voice of the young female saying out loud while at the same time turning to see her pretty face a bit confused by not only the sight before them but at the Personal Terminal that the was holding. "I mean, from what I could see, that device of yours seemed to be talking as if it there was a person in it. And what does he mean for when that large friend of yours if running like a worried mother? Who is this Maylu girl anyway?"
"It's really a long story, Mana," Chisao said to the young woman with a bit of a annoyed sigh while the three of them continued their hot pursuit of the large kid. "The short version of it is that my big brother has had a crush on the girl that he'd just mentioned ever since he, Maylu, and Lan were toddlers. Of course, he gets kinda jealous for when Lan gets glomped by her once in a while."
"We could talk all about that later after we catch up to him first, guys," Dingo said to both Mana and Chisao while at the same time keeping his sights set towards Dex while feeling his lungs almost deprived of oxygen as he ran after his large friend. "We have to get Dex to calm down first! Man, for a big guy, he sure does run fast!"
Just as he was about to hear TomahawkMan make a comment about what he just said, the Indian boy saw the large kid quickly stopping in his tracks as if something stopping him from making the rest of his way. Just as he reached Dex, Dingo began to ask his large friend while at the same time trying to catch his breath in order to put oxygen back into his lungs, "Man, Dex! For some...one as big as...you, you sure...do run fast! Why did...you stop?"
Before he could hear a response, the Indian boy heard the voice of Dex's little brother saying to him with a rather annoyed and yet childish tone of voice just as he saw both Chisao and Mana beginning to catch up, "Dex! Why did you always have to freak out like that for whenever you hear that Maylu's in trouble! You know that you get me all worried for when ran away from the restaurant like that! Now why did you stop, big brother?"
Just as he faced his big friend's direction in order to get his answer, Dingo saw that Dex had a frighten expression on his face. When he was about to hear the large kid say something to his young sibling for when he heard the voice of the strange blonde girl answering to him with a rather nervous tone in her voice just as she pointed what appears to be hear magic staff towards Dex's direction, "I think that the reason that your brother has stop is probably because of those things!"
As he was confused about what the mysterious female magician was talking about, the hatchet wielding boy turned to the direction where her staff/wand was pointing at. For when his eyes landed on Dex, Dingo soon saw that the large kid wasn't what Mana was pointing at. What he was looking at was a huge horde of viruses that appeared right in front of them and stared at them with a rather hungry and annoyed expressions on each of their faces. A horde of Bunny3s seemed to take full notice of their presence for when they've arrived. However, the electric type viruses weren't the only ones that they've saw. What they've also saw was a huge pack of Spikey and Spikey2 viruses beginning to appear out of the with their own fangs baring towards their prey. Not only that but a numerous amounts of Boomers and Mushies appeared from on top of the buildings that they were on and glared at them angrily.
The young boy saw the army of viruses advanced towards them as if they were woken up from a very good dream. At that moment, he didn't know what to do. Just as he was about to say anything to his group of friends that he has a solution to their current problem, Dingo saw what appears to be a ball of pinkish dark energy zooming passed him and launched itself directly towards the group of Spikey and Spikey2 viruses just before exploding on impact. As soon as the smoke cleared, all the Indian boy saw left was nothing but smoke and pixels left behind by the viruses' own deletion.
"What in the...!" was all that Dingo could saying before he saw Mana beginning to fly right past him by some unknown means and charged herself towards the huge army of viruses with her wand in hand.
Just as he was about to make a protest about the girl's sudden charge towards the viruses while flying at full speed, the young boy heard her saying to him along with his two friends, "Everyone get out of here! I'm going try to hold off these things while you three escape and make for cover!"
"But these viruses are too much for you to take care of, Miss Mana," he heard the voice of Chisao saying to the young magician while at the same time feeling a bit frightened about what was going to happen. "I mean, sure that you are a powerful magician girl from another world, but there's no way that you would be able to take all of them on without help!"
"If only there was a Dimensional Area around this place, then I would be able to Cross Fuse with my Navi in order to help you out," Dingo said out loud while at the same time pulling out the Synchro Chip out of his pocket and fiddled with it within his hands. "If these viruses were in the cyber world, then TomahawkMan would be able to take out these things would one blow!"
"Unfortunately, thanks to that powerful magnetic interference that's all around this area, I can't seem to establish a link towards SciLab," he heard his Navi saying to him with a rather serious tone while at the same time having his entire image appearing on a holographic screen. "It would take a miracle if Lan or Chaud was able to..."
As if to answer the Indian-like Navi's prayers, the young boy suddenly saw the entire area around the entire section of the city becoming discolored and out of order of sorts like a television set. After a moment of trying to figure out what was going on, Dingo heard the voice of Dex shouting out loud towards his direction, "Hey, it looks like a Dimensional Area is forming around here! That must mean that either Lan or Chaud must've called in SciLab!"
"This looks like it means only one thing, TomahawkMan!" the young boy said to his Indian type Navi while at the same time positioning his Synchro Chip towards the mouth of his own Personal Terminal's chip slot. "Let's get ready to take care of those viruses with the power of team work through the process of Cross Fusion!"
With those words said through his mouth, Dingo began to hear the voice of Mana saying to him with a rather confused tone while turning to see her putting up what appears to be a powerful pink crystal dome of energy around where he and the others have been standing, "Would you care to explain to me on why this entire area's color has become discolored? And just what are you planning to do in order to help me against those creatures?"
In response to the young woman's question, Dingo began to say out loud while at the same time positioning the device towards the mouth of his P.E.T.'s chip slot, "Okay, TomahawkMan, let's show Miss Mana how we'll be able to help her in order take care of these viruses that enter this world without a proper introduction! Synchro Chip in and download! Cross Fusion!"
With those last two words spoken in unison by both the Indian boy and his Navi, a bright light began erupt from his P.E.T. that surrounded his entire body in its embrace. After what appears to be a moment of being engulfed by the heavenly light's presence, Dingo soon saw the luminous curtain of white fading from his sight and found the eyes of everyone in the group as well as the viruses eying him as if he were an alien from another planet. While looking at himself to see the result of the Cross-Fusion, the young boy saw that he himself was transformed. The body armor that he was wearing was almost identical to the one that his cyber friend wore. Only that the structure of the suit that he was wearing was modified a bit to not only to look different from his Navi's but to fit with his entire body's size as well. Not only that but he also carried a hatchet that was almost identical to the one used by TomahawkMan while in a NetBattle.
As soon as he as became aware of the situation at hand, Dingo began to hear the voice of Mana saying to him while at the same time noticing her being a bit surprised at what she just saw, "H-How did you do that! First you were a normal boy that was holding a strange weapon and device and now you're fitted with the outfit of a warrior! Just what in Ra's name is going on!"
Just before he could have the chance to answer the young woman's question, the Indian boy heard the voice of Dex saying to the mysterious young girl while at the same time turning to see the large kid putting his arms around his little brother, "Dingo just Cross-Fused with his Navi so that he would be able to fight those strange viruses, Mana! But now is not the time for us to talk about this sort of thing! Especially with al of those viruses over there looking at us like some three course meal! I just hope that the two of you would be enough to take on those things without Lan or Chaud's help!"
"That's for sure, big bro," he heard the voice of Chisao saying to his brother while at the same time sounding a bit frighten for when a small group of Bunnies began to advance towards their direction with a predatory look on each of their faces. "Those things are creeping me out ever since I've saw those things appear in this world the first time!"
"Well, we could talk about that sort of thing later!" Dingo shouted out to them while at the same time beginning to leap behind both Dex and his little brother and ran towards the group of viruses that were threatenting to attack them. "Let's take care of those bothersome things that are near you guys first! Right now, they're just like a swarm of flys that need to be squashed! Tomahawk Swing!"
With those words said and done, the young Cross-Fused boy began to swing his hatchet and began to slice through the group of electrical element while at the same time seeing them becoming a show of pixels, deleting them instantly. As soon as he faced his two friends to see if they're alright, Dingo saw the expression on Chisao becoming more excited and bright rather than frighten for when he looked at his direction and said, "Whoa! Now that was neat! I can't wait for when I get a Net Navi of my own! That way, I would be able to kick butt with those viruses!"
"Can we maybe talk about this later, Chisao!" he said to the little child while at the same time beginning to rush himself towards a group of Mushies that appeared right out of nowhere and began to launch a large surge of water towards their direction. "For now, we have a huge problem in our hands right now and that huge tidal wave is going to wipe us all out if we don't do something quick!"
"Perhaps I could be of some help with our current predictament that those creatures are causing," he heard the voice of Mana shouting out while at the same time seeing the young magician girl beginning to conjure up a huge amount of energy while at the being able to somehow continue to maintain the crystal dome around them. "I don't know how long that I would be able to keep up my defensive spell for long, but I think that I would be able to get rid of some of the forces that these strange creatures are putting up against us. I just hope that it would be able help."
"At this point, I'm willing to try anything that would get rid of those things," he heard the voice of his friend Dex saying to her while at the same time seeing the huge kid staring at what appears to be another horde of what appears to be Kilbo all over the walls of the buildings. "From the way that those spiders are lookin' at us, I'd say that they're pretty hungry!"
"Well, then allow me to wash away those creatures from us with the use of their own attack thanks to those jelly friends of theirs," Dingo heard the voice of Mana saying to them while at the same time holding her magic staff up towards the air while at the same time facing the huge wave of water that the horde of Jellys have unleashed upon them. "Here it goes nothing!"
With those words said by the young woman, the Cross-Fused Netbattler began to charge himself towards the spider-like viruses with great speed just as his entire body became surrounded by a fiery red aura while saying, "While you do that, I'll provide cover fire for you by taking out these guys! Tomahawk Rolling!"
Before he knew it, Dingo found himself rolling in a huge ball of red fire towards the horde of Kilbos that landed from the buildings and mindlessly charged towards their direction. When his fiery red body collided with the huge group of spider-like viruses, the cyber creatures quickly became engulfed in the red flames that came from the flames of the attack. For when he finally stopped rolling like a huge bowling ball and stood on his own two feet, Dingo turned to see that Mana was able to redirect the huge wave of water towards the pack of Spikys that didn't look too thrilled with being washed away while being instantly deleted.
"Well, it seems that both Mana and I got things under control," he said outloud while at the same time seeing both Dex and Chisao giving the two of them blank but amazed expression on each of their faces. "What, you two? It's not like the two of you haven't seen the way both me and TomahawkMan fight together for when in..."
"Oy! Dingo! I don't think that they're looking at you," he heard the voice of his Navi saying to him with a rather annoyed and miffed tone while at the same time becoming confused at what his cyber friend was talking about. "Just look at where their eyes are looking at and you'll see what I mean."
While trying to figure out what his Navi was trying to say to him, Dingo saw both the faces of his two friends looking at Mana's direction with amazed and impressed expressions. That was when he began to sweatdrop at the scene that he saw in front of his eyes while trying to figure out what they ever saw on her. "Uh, could you two stop drooling over Mana and concentrate back on the matter at hand!" the Cross-Fused boy said to both Dex and Chisao while at the same time turning to see another horde of viruses arrive at the scene and advancing towards their direction. "Besides, we have other problems that we need to deal right now and I'm not too sure if both me and Mana are able to take care of them all without having to destroy the city in order to do so!"
"For once, I happen to agree with you on that one, Dingo!" he heard the voice of TomahawkMan speaking within his helmet while at the same time trying to hold onto the sides of his head in order to keep it from ringing. "Right now, I think that you should try to get out of there before things around there start to get worse!"
"I think that would be easier said than done, TomahawkMan!" Dingo said to his Navi while at the same time swinging his hatchet towards a pick ax wielding blue Mettaur2 virus suddenly jumping towards their direction and saw it being instantly deleted. "I don't think that both me and Mana would be able take on these things by ourselves without backup! I wish there was something that would be able to put a stop to these viruses!"
As if to answer his prayers, the Cross-Fused boy began to see some of the approaching viruses becoming a bit frighten about what they were seeing. While being confused about what caused the cyber creatures to become scared with fear, Dingo heard the voice of Mana saying to them while at the same time feeling as confused at the scene as he was, "Looks like that wish that you've made has just come true. But what I would like to know is who or what caused those things to become afraid all of a sudden?"
As she heard those words come out of the boy named Dingo's mouth, Mana turned towards the direction that the strange and unusual creatures were looking at. What she saw was a powerful pillar of crimson light being erupted from the direction that the creatures were staring at. Before she could have the chance to figure out what was causing the enormous amounts of crimson light to erupt like it did, the female soon found herself looking back towards the armor-clad boy with a bit of confusion written all over her face.
"Young man, just how was it that you were able to don armor like the one that you're wearing right now?" Mana asked the young man that she was staring at with a bit of confusion coming from his face. "A few moments ago, I thought that you were nothing but an ordinary young boy who wielded a huge hatchet that's used for chopping wood. Now, you could do things that no ordinary human would be capable of doing like rolling into a huge ball of red fire. Is this what your friends mean by that process that they called Cross Fus...?"
Before she could have the chance to finish the rest of her sentence, the young female magician turned her full attention back towards the group of strange creatures for when she heard their frighten cries begining to become more scared than they were before. Just as she was trying to figure out what was going to happen, Mana saw something that she didn't really quite expect. What she saw was that the animal creatures beginning to run for their own lives as if they were running from a horrible creature. Before she could have the chance to ask the three young human boys about what was going on, the female magician heard the voice of the boy Dingo shouting out loud to large cowardly horde while at the same time wielding his huge bladed weapon at them, "Hey, you little creeps! Get back here! Just what in the world is going on with those viruses that...?"
Before she could hear him finishing the rest of his sentence, the female magician began to see the strange creatures become more faint, almost as if they were ghosts. Moments later, what she saw the entire horde of the weird monsters starting to disappear from sight as if they were nothing but a bad dream. As she was becoming more confused than ever with what was happening before her eyes, Mana turned to Dingo's direction to see that he was just as confused as she was.
"Okay, now this is something weird," she heard the armored-clad boy saying out loud while at the same time seeing the expression on his face becoming more confused than what she's feeling right now. "Those viruses are starting to fade away from this area as if they were nothing but a mere dream...or just very realistic holograms. Just what in the world is going on around here!"
"You've got me, Dingo, let's just be happy that those viruses are good and gone!" she heard the large boy named Dex saying to his friend while at the same time feeling both nervous and relieved about what just happened. "Another moment with those things and we could've been a huge meal for them to snack on."
"Well, there are things around this city that are starting to become a bit too weird for me to understand here, big bro," she heard the voice of the cute little boy Chisao saying to his older brother while at the same time feeling as confused about the situation as the two other boys just before hearing his young voice speaking towards her. "Miss Mana, just how in the world are you able to do that spell that was able to wash away those viruses as if it were a cool movie effect? That was so total cool! Just..."
Before she could hear the rest of the sentence coming from the young child's mouth, Mana began to turn her full attention back towards the huge pillar of crimson light that she saw still hadn't dissipated one bit. While trying to figure out was going on, the female magician began to hear the voice of the armored boy Dingo saying while at the same time turning her full attention towards his direction, "Chisao I think that we should save those kind of things for later for when we have the time for it. Right now we have other problems. Like what's causing those things to appear in this world without the use of a Dimensional Area!"
"Well, we could figure all that out for once we get back with Lan and the others," she heard the larger kid saying to his friend while at the same time turning to see him facing what appears to be a huge amount of lights approaching them at a great speed. "Besides, if we don't get out of here before the police or news reporters arrive here, we're going to be in world of trouble for when they catch all here in the area asking us questions that I'm not too comfortable with answering!"
"Guts! Guts! GutsMan agrees with Dex! Guts!" Mana heard the voice of someone not too intelligent saying to the Dex while at the moment feeling confused at what she just heard talking to the larger kid. "Dex's parents is already mad enough for when he and Lan sneaked in Yai's house once! Guts! Just how in the world are we going to get out of this mess! Guts!"
"Well perhaps that I would be able to get us out of this little sitaution of ours by casting a spell of mine," she began to say to the three young boys while at the same time looking at the direction to where the huge sound is coming from. "It's been something that I've been working on since my days in Ancient Egypt. It would only allow us to become invisible for only a short time, but it should be enough for all of us to evade the sights of the local authorities. It would only take me a few moments for me to remember the words to incantation of the spell, but it should be enough time for me to get it right and maintain it."
"Wh-Wh-Whoa! Wait a minute! You're saying that you're a magician from Ancient Egypt! That really old place filled with nothing but sand that I've read about in my school!" Mana heard Chisao saying to her with a rather shocked tone within his young voice while still concentrating on the words to the magicial spell that she had been working on since she was back in her mortal state five millennia ago.
Before she could think about the words that would answer the young child's words, the female magician heard the voice of his friend Dingo saying with a rather impatient tone within his voice, "We'll talk about all that later for once we meet up with Lan and the others. As soon as we all do, I want to hear what they have to say about those friends, the Chaotix, as well as those green pirate ghosts that you've mentioned before, Dex. There's something that you've been keeping from me and I want to know what it is!"
"Okay! Okay, guys! I'll tell you everything that you need to know for once we get out of here and out of the news crew's sights!" she heard the voice of the huge kid saying while at the same time continuing to concentrate on the final words to the spell that would avert their own presence away from the local authorities of the world that she's in. "Mana, how are you doing with that spell of yours? Are you almost done?"
While almost feeling annoyed with the begging words of Dex, Mana was finally able to get the words of the spell within her thoughts all worked out just before saying to the large kid while trying to maintain a well-mannered tone, "I've just finished going over the words within my mind and I'm starting the incantation now. Every one of you just stay near me and wait until I've finished reciting it. Now get ready to experience something that you humans thought only existenced in fairy tales that you've read about while you were kids."
As he continued to try to subdue the huge legions of the viruses that swarmed all over him like giant killer ants, Lan brought his own Fire Sword down on a couple of KillerEyes that were able to attack him from behind and launch an electrical beam towards his direction. After recovering from the assault and ridding his presence of the pack of electric viruses, the blue-armored boy began to look back in front of himself while at the same time replacing his own flaming weapon for a different one while shouting out, "Okay, Bamboo Sword and Step Cross battlechips in and download!"
As he registered those battlechips within his own body, the flaming weapon that was on Lan's hand was soon replaced by a yellowish green blade and started charging towards the group of viruses at a tremendous speed. When he finally made a stop right in front of the electrical viruses and began to slash his new weapon at the horde in an X pattern formation, slicing through their bodies like butter. As soon as he saw the viruses being instantly deleted in front of his eyes, Lan shouted out loud while giving out a cheerful tone within his voice, "Booo yeah! Now that's what those things get for when they mess with the best!"
"Lan, now's not the time for you to get overboard with the battle," he heard the voice of his Navi scolding him through his helmet with a rather brotherly tone. "This isn't like the battles that we've have since that time with the Asteroid Navis! I mean, we don't even know about what the cause for this strange phenomenon. But I would bet money that it may have something to do with the Chaos Emerald that we've just saw. You heard what those guys said about it being too powerful to fall into the wrong hands."
"Yeah, like I don't need to be told about that twice already, Mega!" the Cross-Fused boy said to his digital partner with a rather annoyed tone within his voice while at the same time swiping his Bamboo Sword towards another group of shrimp-like viruses. "I mean, the Chaotix along with both Miguel and Sylphiel were pulled from their own worlds to this one because of pieces from that emerald that was somehow broken apart by unknown means. It's no surprise that these viruses appearing out of nowhere is the cause of someone unwittingly using it without knowing that something like this would happen."
"Well, for once, I would have to agree with you on that one, Lan," he heard MegaMan saying to him with a thoughtful tone about the what the young boy said to him about the situation at hand as he swipe his green sword towards the large group of Shrimpy virusesm deleting them one by one. "But right now, the only thing that we need to be concerning ourselves with is how are we going to get rid of all these viruses that are appearing around here like ants in a picnic."
"Well, whatever we do, we've got to do it without having to reduce this part of the city into rubble in the process," Lan said while at the same time making his free hand transform into what appears to be an electrical device with a built in engine. "ElecReel battlechip in and download!"
With those words shouted out from his mouth, Lan shot what appears to be a ball of electricity towards his opponents while at the same time seeing the viruses disappear in a shower of pixels. After seeing aqua elemental viruses vanishing out of existence, the blue armored boy began to look around the place and began to sigh with relief for when he saw that no other viruses are appearing out to attack him. "(Sighs) Well, it looks as though that's the last of the viruses appearing to this world. I'd say that it's a piece of cake!" Lan said while at the same time sounding confident with what he just did as he continued to look in front of him.
"Uh, Lan, I really think that you've just spoken too soon because some more are coming your way right now," he heard the voice of his Navi friend saying to him with a worried and panicked tone that caused him to become confused.
Before he could have the chance to ask what the Blue Bomber meant by those words, Lan turned behind himself to see that another large group of viruses coming towards his direction. What he saw was a group of blue Spikey viruses along with a group of the aquatic Swordy3 as well as a couple of their lesser companions the fiery Swordy2 and the original Swordy. Also, most of the groups of viruses also consisted of the common Mettaur as well as the Fishy2 and 3 viruses. Lastly, one of each of the elemental dragon-like viruses, a Lavagon, Bluegon, and Yellowgon, also appeared from within the skies above the city and started to roar at their prey.
"Oh, gimme a brake! As if I don't have enough problems to deal with as it is!" Lan said out loud while at the same time looking at the odds against him while at the same time discarding his two weapons, transforming them back to his blue-gloved hands. "Why is it that whenever I wipe out a few of them, a few more take their place along with re-enforcements to boot? Man, even with the Dimensional Area covering this entire place, I can't risk using some of my most powerful chips without having to blow the city apart along with anyone that might be still in the area in the process!"
"Don't lose your cool, Lan. There's always a way for us to get through this," he heard the voice of MegaMan saying to him with a calm and reassuring voice while at the same time facing down the virus army. "With our luck, maybe someone would come along to the rescue when we least expect it."
"Oh, yeah right! Like something like that's going to happen anytime soon at a time like this!" the blue-armored boy said to his Navi with a sarcastic tone as he kept both of his brown eyes towards the approaching viruses that looked like they were wild animals getting ready to pounce on their own prey. "I mean, just who would be capable of coming here at the right time for when we need help the most! Just who!"
As if to answer his question, Lan began to hear a familiar male voice shouting out loud, "Sonic Boom!"
With those words shouted out, the boy began to see what appears to be a barrage of golden waves of energy appearing right out of nowhere and colliding with most of the group of Spikeys and Swordys, deleting them instancely. Lan was staring at the scene with both a surprised and blank expression on his face for when he looked to see what was the source of his rescue. What he saw was a quick flash of crimson appearing out of nowhere while holding onto what appears to be an arrow-shaped golden blade. The mysterious figure in red then jumped out of the way of the legion of viruses and landed right in front of Lan with little effort. As soon as his eyes reached his savior's face, he soon recognized the familiar face of his friend Chaud now clad in in his own variation of his Navi's suit.
As soon as he recognized his comrade's face and form, Lan spoke to him with a rather irritated tone in his voice, "What took you so long to get here, Chaud! Those things were about to make me into one huge blue buffet along with one bite-sized blue Navi for dessert!"
"Well, geez, you're welcome, Lan," he heard Chaud saying through his mouthguard with a sarcastic tone in his voice while at the same time slashing his weapon once again and fired another golden wave of energy towards the direction of where the huge virus army was while at the same time deleting some of them in the process. "This is what I get for trying to be nice and help you for when you are in a tough situation! Maybe I should've left you to become food for those viruses to munch on!"
"Okay! Okay, Chaud! No need to bite my head off about it!" Lan responded to the dual-haired Net Battler while at the same time feeling more annoyed with what the Vice President just said. "We don't have time to argue about this right now! Let's get rid of these viruses first because it looks like that they're really mad at us and they're hungry!"
"For once, I have agree with you under these circumstances, Lan!" his long-haired companion saying while at the same time raising his own golden weapon towards the three powerful elemental dragons that roared towards their direction. "But for when this is all done, I would like to expect a full explanation from both you and MegaMan about the way that you've ran away like that! I mean, why did you call that green stone that I have a Chaos Emerald anyway?"
"We'll talk about everything that you want to know once we have the chance to talk about it, Chaud. Neo Variable Sword in and download!" the young blue-armored boy said while at the same time making what appears to be a weapon identical to the one that his friend/rival held in his possession. "Now, which ones do you want to start with first?"
"Now's not the time for jokes, Lan!" he heard his companion saying while at the same time keeping his weapon aimed at some of the approaching Mettuar viruses as well as some of the Swordys. "From the looks of things, we're both outnumbered and if we used some of our most powerful chips, then this entire section of the city would be reduced to rubble! Even with our skills alone, the two of us won't be able to do this alone. If only we had some of the other Cross-Fusion members to help us out!"
"If only Maylu and Dingo were in this area with us right now so that the four of us could take on these viruses together and delete them no problem!" Lan added to Chaud's words while still feeling a bit nervous about having to face a huge army of cyber viruses by themselves as he kept his golden weapon aimed at them. "Anybody would do just fine as long as they help us get rid of these viruses!"
As if to answer his own prayers, the young boy soon saw what looked to be a fast moving gash of dark purple appearing going right through most of the Swordy as well as most of the Swordy2 and Fishy2 viruses, deleting in mere seconds before any of the cyber creatures could even move. While trying to understand what was happening, Lan saw what appears to be a large shuriken heading towards the direction of the large red Lavagon. He saw the large red dragon quickly being erased out of existence for when the large projectile collided with its target.
"Just where in the world did that come from?" the young boy shouted out loud while at the same time seeing what appears to be the quick flash of dark purple landing towards their direction and saw a person that he hasn't saw in a long time: Dark Miyabi who's now Cross-Fused with his Navi ShadowMan. "D-D-Dark Miyabi! Just how in did you manage to get here! As a matter of fact, just how did you know that there would be a Dimensional Area would be around here anyway?"
"Ask questions about that later and be glad that he's here, Lan!" he heard Chaud saying with a annoyed tone while at the same time raising his sword towards the huge Bluegon that stared down at its prey with predatory eyes. "Both me and Miyabi would be able to take care of both the Bluegon and the Yellowgon in the sky while you take care of the ground troops. Miyabi, take the yellow one while I deal with the blue!
"I've got it," he heard the voice of the armored ninja saying with a calm tone while at the same time seeing him leap off with great height and speed towards the huge Yellowgon right above the city that roared right towards his direction. He then saw Chaud leaping off towards the Bluegon that did the same as its yellow companion.
"Oh, that's just great! Thanks a lot, guys!" Lan said while at the same time pointing his Neo Variable Sword towards the huge group Mettaurs, Swordy2s, Swordy3s, and Fishy2 that were coming towards his direction. "How am I suppose to take care of all those things by myself while you two get to take care of the two dragon?"
"Well, you should be glad that Miyabi was able to come to the rescue at the right time, Lan," he heard MegaMan saying to him with a somewhat nervous and exaggerated tone in his voice. "Unless you want to go face to face with those two dragons that are fighting both Chaud and Miyabi, I'd say that facing those viruses on the ground is the best bet that you have right now."
"Under normal circumstances, I would have to agree with you on that, but now's not one of those times!" Lan said to his Navi with a rather annoyed tone as he used his golden and arrow-shaped weapon to slice through most of the Fishys as well as four of the Swordy2 and 3s that attacked him using their own elemental weapons. "But right now, even with the so-called help, how am I suppose to take care of those things that keep popping up like unwanted roaches. At this rate, it would take an army to take care of those things right now."
"Well, if that's what it would take to get rid to them, then here comes the calvary, homeboy!" a familiar voice said with a rather excited and pump tone while at the same time turning to see who was the cause of it.
As soon as he turned his face to see who was speaking, Lan saw what appears to be a huge figure coming out of nowhere and using a large human fist to punch out a nearby Swordy3 virus that was about to slice its weapon from behind without him noticing. When he was finally able to take a good look at his savior, the young boy began to say with both surprise and shock for when he saw who it was, "Vector! What are you doing here and where are the rest of the guys!"
As both he and Miyabi were fighting with the two remaining elemental dragons at the roofs of the abandoned buildings, Chaud turned his full attention back towards the ground in time to see what had happened to his blue-armored comrade. What he saw with both of his sapphire-colored eyes was something that he did not expect to see. What he saw is a creature that appears to be a huge green crocodile with human-like arms and legs throwing its fist towards an incoming Swordy3 that was about to slash its blade towards Lan's direction. He also noticed that the creature sported a pair of shoes, gloves, along with wearing both a golden chain around its neck, and wore a set of what appears to be headphones on its head. Not only that, but what the young Vice President saw it being accompanied by a group of what appears to be humanoid animal creatures coming towards their direction and began to take on the viruses that were on the ground but he couldn't make out what they really look like at the moment.
But that wasn't all that he thought he saw. At that moment, the dual-haired boy could've sworned that he just saw Maylu in her Cross-Fused form and armor joining them in the fight against the viruses. Just as he was about to head towards the both Lan, Maylu, and the strange creatures, Chaud soon turned his full attention back towards the Bluegon that roared and fired a powerful blast of wind and snow towards his direction. But just before the attack could even reach him, the red-armored NetBattler began to shout out, "LifeAura Battlechip in, download!"
Before the icy attack could have the chance to collide with his body, a purple aura of energy began to surround his entire body and shielded him from the full assault of the blast that would've frozen him into a human ice cube. As soon as the attack ceased along with his defense, Chaud began to shout out loud while at the same time swiping his powerful golden blade towards the dragon-like creature, "Sonic Boom!"
With those words out of his mouth, he slashed his sword three times, thus creating three golden waves of energy charging themselves towards the blue dragon virus. When all three attacks collided with the huge Bluegon, the virus cried out in pain just before becoming a shower of pixels that soon vanished out of existence. "Well, that takes care of that little problem," the red-armored Netbattler thought to himself while at the same time turning his full attention back towards the ground where he saw Lan along with the crocodile creature. "Now to take care of some business with that crocodile thing as well as its companions. Whatever it is, I'm not too sure that I should be able to trust it to leave Lan and Maylu alone. And speaking of which, why is Maylu here anyway and why has she Cross-Fused?"
"Chaud, those creatures that you've just saw with both Lan and Maylu must be the ones that I've read about in the reports," he heard the voice of ProtoMan saying to him with a serious tone while also sounding as surprised as his NetOp was. "If that's so, then why is it that they're helping us out? Just what in the world are they?"
"I don't know, ProtoMan, but perhaps I should just drop in to say hello and ask them all a couple of questions," Chaud responded to his Navi's words just as he turned towards Miyabi to see that he was fairly dealing with the Yellowgon on his own while seeing him land on one of the rooftops of the city with his two samurai swords in hand. "Miyabi, I'm going to help Lan deal with the viruses that are still on the ground. Think that you could handle that big lizard while I'm gone?"
The only answer that he recieved from the ninja NetOp was a calm and unnerved nod of his head while at the same time aiming both of his swords's blades aimed at the Yellowgon for another attack. He looked downward towards the ground to see if Lan needed some assistance with dealing with the huge army of viruses as well as the green creature that he saw a moment ago. To his surprise, he saw that most of the viruses on the ground were nearly deleted. Some others that he saw were running for their lives as if they were running from an army of monsters. He also saw that neither Lan, Maylu, or the crocodile and its companions were nowhere to be found.
"This looks as though an army have just plowed right through there," Chaud thought to himself as he jumped from the roof of the building that he was on and easily landed on the ground while beginning to scan his surroundings to see what had happened. "But even with Lan's skill, not even he could take out a whole army of those viruses without having to level this entire section of the city. So it must have something to do with those strange creatures that I've saw with both Lan and Maylu a moment ago. Whatever they are, they sure did a number on those viruses that appeared out of nowhere. Now the question is where they went."
As soon as he finished those thoughts within his mind, the long and dual-haired young man began to look up towards the sky to see Dark Miyabi beginning to decend from the rooftops of the city and landed with his two feet very lightly skillfully like any ninja would. "Well, Miyabi, did you managed to delete that annoying yellow fly that was flying above the skies earlier?" he asked the dark ninja with a serious tone while seeing him put away his two swords back into their sheathes attached on the back of his armor.
Chaud soon received his answered in the form of the ninja NetOp shaking his head as he spoke with an emotionless tone through his mask, "No, I'm afraid that it managed to get away from my sights as it used its lightning bolts as a distraction. But it couldn't have gone too far considering the huge amount of damage I was able to deal to its body. There shouldn't be any further danger of it causing any damage this section of the city."
"We can't take any chances of that thing running around or out of this area so that it could take the time to recover, Miyabi. So it looks like that we'll have to split up from here," the Ace Netbattler said to his partner while at the same time staring at the damage that the area of the city has taken in the battle. "I'll go look for Lan in this area while you go look for that Yellowgon that escaped. From what I saw on the ground, he was being accompanied by some strange creatures that looked to me like they've just come from a petting zoo."
As soon as he said those words from his mouth, Chaud saw the usually serious looking eyes of Dark Miyabi becoming huge and wide with surprise that even amazed the dual-haired Netbattler to take notice. "What is it, Miyabi? It looks as though you know something about those creatures that I've just saw," he responded to his companion with a rather curious and serious tone as he continued to keep his blue eyes on him.
As he saw Miyabi's eye becoming their own size and serious appearance, he heard him saying to him while at the same time maintaining the serious tone within his voice, "It might probably be nothing, Chaud, but I think that those strange creatures that you were speaking of might have brought a companion along. You see, just before I Cross-Fused and ran into you two, I was in pursuit of a creature that was colored in red and black. It was being chased by a group of what appears to be like the green spirits of pirates."
As his bare feet touched the soft sand of the beach beneath him, Bass gazed all around his surroundings to see where exactly that he arrived in. "It seems that I've arrived in Dentech City's beaches like I thought I would be," the cloaked Navi thought to himself just as he turned his gaze towards both of his hands and looked at them with both amazement and wonder. "This is remarkable. Most of the scientists in SciLab weren't able to fully bring a Navi into this realm of theirs without the assistance of a Dimensional Area and a human NetOp. But I was able to enter into this world without the aid of those humans' technology. It seems that the energy within that rip to my own world seems to be the cause to my arrival."
With those thoughts done within his mind, the Black Shadow resumed his scanning towards his surroundings. It was true that he was in the shores of the beach near Dentech City. But what he also saw were old but yet sturdy looking buildings that looked as though they haven't been moved or even inhabitted for over years. However, that was soon forgotten for when Bass felt a powerful surge of power crawling all over his body.
"Hmmm, Strange. I could've sworn that I've felt a strong surge of power being emitted from within one of those old human structures," the Black Shadow thought to himself while feeling a bit curious about what he just felt just now. "It's not that of that human that I've saw from before nor is it from that Chaos Emerald that I've heard about. Just what or who would've been emitting this much power. Just what in the hell would've caused this incredible surge of great power?"
As if to answer his thoughts, Bass began to hear the voice of a male human speaking to him with a rather calm and yet heartless tone within his voice, "Heh! So you're the one that's been emitting that great and horrible energy that I've been sensing a moment ago. Well, it seems to me that you're hardly worth the effort of searching for if you're dressed in those tattered rags."
As soon as he heard those words, the cloaked Navi started to focus his now enraged thoughts on what or who would've managed to speak to him in such a defiant tone of voice to him. "What kind of human would be brave or stupid enough to challenge me like this?" Bass thought to himself while at the same time continuing to scan the entire abandoned area that he was in right now while feeling angered at the insult that was delivered directly to him. "Whoever that human must be, he's just asking to get himself killed by being in this area. Heh!"
"Show yourself at once, insolent human!" the Black Shadow shouted out while at the same time trying not to allow his temper to get the better of him. "If you have the nerve to talk to me like that, then you wouldn't mind showing yourself right in front of my own presence just before you get eliminated."
"Well, I would be more than happy to respond to those words of yours, creature," Bass heard the creature's voice with rather mockingly polite tone just as he continued his search for the intruder. "But I should warn you that I'm not like anything or anyone that you've ever fought with before. Heh! Heh! Heh!"
When he heard those words from his mystery visitor hiding in the shadows, the Black Shadow began to see a powerful crimson aura beginning to erupt from within one of the buildings that he was looking at from the distance. As he tried to figure out what was going on, the Navi saw the aura beginning to subside as if it were nothing but an illusion. While continuing to stare at the weakened crimson light with his usual calm and careful attitude that he developed over the years, he finally was able to hear the sound of careful and calm footsteps beginning to approach to the light that the sunset within the skies of the human world emitted. That was when he soon began to see a human shadow appearing from within the entrance of the doorway of the old building in front of his eyes as he continued to hear the footsteps getting closer. As soon as he began to see the human's own body becoming fully illuminated, Bass was able to see the entire form of the mystery creature that he was looking at right now.
What the Black Shadow saw at the moment was a well-built young human man in his late teens with dark scarlet and long wavy hair that reached his shoulders. The clothing that he wore would suggest that he's come from a very rich and old human family. His brown eyes looked like that they would be enough to pierce the soul of anything that would dare to get in his way. But there was something about the male human that he was staring at that he found strange. Something that wasn't exactly human.
After a moment of staring at the strange human, Bass was finally let out of his hypnotic trance for when he heard his mysterious visitor saying to him with a rather emotionless tone in his voice as he let out a bored yawn, "Well, what in the world are you waiting for, you pathetic creature? Aren't you going to start our battle by delivering the first blow? Or are you too much of a coward to even start, little-finned fish?"
As soon as he heard those words coming from human male's mouth, the cloaked Navi began to become enraged for what he had heard. Without giving a second thought to his actions, Bass began to gather a great amount of yellow energy within his fist as his rage grew along with his own great power within his body. While whipping his torn brown cape away from his now revealed black and golden-armored body, the Black Shadow suddenly began to leap into the air of the human world and dove his body towards the interloper that dared to face him. As he dove at the young human male at a great speed, he began to shout out in an angry tone as he collided his fist with his adversary, "Earthbreaker!"
For when his attack finally collided with its target, what Bass saw next was not the result that he wanted to see. What he saw was that the strange and unusual human that had the nerve and courage to face him grabbing the arm that held the energy to his Earthbreaker. Not only was he able to withstand and cancel the assault, but he saw that the attack didn't create a huge crater or any explosion like it usually did for when it collided with its own target.
As soon as the cloaked Navi began to move away from the strange human, he looked at him with a serious and angry expression on his face while at the same time feeling confused at what just happened. "Wh-Wha...how was it even possible for a human like you to withstand my Earthbreaker?" he said to the brown haired man with both confusion and anger in his voice as he tried to figure out what was happening. "There was no way that any human would be able to withstand the power of my attack without the power of a Net Navi! Just who or what in the hell are you! Answer me!"
As if to answer his question, Bass saw the strange human beginning to jump high up into the air skillfully without much effort or difficulty. Before he could do anything or think about what the human might be doing, the Black Shadow saw the strange male's body plummeting towards the ocean with both of his feet facing downward towards the water's surface. That was when he soon found himself faced with yet again another surprise that the strange male presented to him. What the cloaked Navi saw with both of his crimson eyes was that the human landing on the surface of the ocean without submerging into it like most humans would. It was as if the surface of the water to the human-like creature was like a solid stone floor.
When he took a better look at the human that he was looking at, he saw a couple of what appears to be sharp-looking and long fangs appearing out of the front of his mouth. That was not the only unusual trait that Bass noticed. What he also saw that the nails on his fingers were too long to be like that of a human woman's. He could've sworn that they resemble more like animal claws. Not only that, but the Black Shadow saw a powerful crimson aura being emitted out of the strange humaniod creature's body as if it were like a huge wild fire surrounding his very being.
"Heh! Heh! Heh! Well, if an inferior being like you would like to know so badly then allow me to first introduce myself," he heard the human male saying to him with a rather mocking tone within his well-mannered and calm voice as he bowed like a human gentlemen would. "You may call me Shade. Know that name well for it would be the last thing that you would ever hear, you foolish creature."
As soon as he heard those words, Bass became filled with a great rage and hate that he never felt in his entire life. So much in fact, that he immediately began to charge up a huge amount of dark energy within his own hands and shouted out loud, "Hell's Rolling!"
As soon as he those words shouted out by the strange caped creature, Shade saw it beginning to charge a huge amount of dark negative energy within his own hands. While continuing to observe what was going on, the vampire heard the strange life form beginning to shout out loud, "Hell's Rolling!"
When he heard those words shouted out loud, Shade began to see the unknown creature throwing what appears to be a horde of bladed wheels of dark energy speeding towards his direction. He the dark wheels of projectiles sawing themselves hard against the earth beneath them right before reaching the ocean waters. Before he could allow the rolling dark energy blades to reach him, the vampire creature began to react to the attack by creating a pair of small but sharp and powerful crimson energy blades from within his hands and held them as if they were like regular knives. Then, within one or two seconds to spare, Shade began to twirling himself around at a great speed while at the same time having both of his crimson energy weapons slicing and slashing through the sea air. A second before the bladed disks of dark energy could reach him, the vampire's own energy weapons began to collide and slice through the deadly projectiles of energy, cutting every single one of them in half while dissipating from existence. From the way that he used the crimson weapons to slice the deadly barrage, one would say that he would be an expert of knives of sorts.
After a moment of spinning and splashing his feet on the water beneath his feet, Shade soon stopped his fast movement just in time to see the angry and yet suprised expression of the humanoid creature that attacked him through the spray of water that he made. There was a long and dead silence that enveloped the area that both he and his unknown visitor were in. That was when the vampire decided to break the long silence by speaking to creature with his voice's tone not changing one bit as he twirled the crimson blades within his hands with a skillful degree, "It seems that you have very powerful and destructive techniques of your own, creature. For that, I'm impressed. But they are nothing when compared to mine. As for why I'm able to stand on the ocean's surface like I'm doing now, well let's just say that the buoyancy of the ocean doesn't apply to me or any of my kind. Now, how about telling me the name of the pathetic and inferior creature that I'm about to kill?"
As soon as he said those words, Shade saw the expression of the strange humanoid becoming angrier with each passing minute that passed by. Before he could do anything, the vampire saw the human-like creature beginning to manifest a huge amount of dark energy within both of his own hands. Then he saw it creating what appears to be dark and long energy swords out of his own grasps and began to charge towards his direction. "The name is Bass, you damn creature! And now I'm going to make you regret saying those words with your very life! Dark Arm Blades!" he heard his challenger shouting out while at the same time trying to slice his twin energy blades of energy towards their target.
"A head on attack with energy blades of darkness? Pathetic," was all that Shade thought to himself just before he intercepted the attack with his own twin crimson energy knives.
As both he and the black helmeted creature named Bass clashed at one another with their own blades of energy, the vampire saw his opponent beginning to increase the speed of his own assault while continuing slash towards him. While trying to increase the speed of his own blades, Shade began to feel a powerful aura of dark energy being surrounded around the strange human-like creature just as the two of them began to hover in the air. Before he could figure out what was going on, the crimson-haired vampire began to back away from his opponent while seeing the dark energy taking the form of a huge and powerful creature erupting from within his foe's own body.
Just as he saw the strange humanoid emitting the powerful dark aura all around his body, Shade thought to himself while at the same time pointing his two crimson energy weapons at his opponent in order to prepare for the next attack, "Hmm. This is going to be interesting. This Bass is powerful enough to charge at me at full speed with those energy blades of his while at the same time defining the very laws of gravity without the use of wings. This is going to be a rather interesting fight. Heh!"
With those thoughts done within his mind, the vampire creature began to once again charge at the one named Bass with both of his crimson energy weapons gripped within his own hands. As soon as he neared the black creature, Shade saw the huge creature that just emerged within Bass's body beginning to slam its enormous fists towards his direction. The humanoid creation of Nightmare Parasite began to move out of the way at a great speed as he saw the huge creature of darkness slamming its huge fist towards the ocean while causing enormous waves of water to separate and break apart in the process. As soon as he was a good distance away from his opponent, Shade heard the manifested dark creature beginning to let out a huge roar that's loud enough for the entire city to hear as well as cause the ground to shake beneath him.
"This Bass is certainly an impressive specimen," the vampire thought to himself while at the same time unnerved by both his opponent as well as the huge dark aura creature that he summoned just as he landed on the sea's surface like he did before. "He was able to summon an enormous creature of great power and darkness while almost catching me off guard. Heh! Well, as amusing as this is, I'm afraid that I must put this little show to an end."
With those thoughts done within his mind, Shade heard the voice of Bass saying to him while at the same time sounding a bit menacing as well as insane from the growing power that he's emitting and gathering within his body, "Heh! Heh! Heh! Do you see that, demon? What you just saw was the essence of the most powerful creature that once nearly destroyed this world with its great power: Nebula Grey!"
After hearing those words come from the black-armored humanoid's lips, the vampire began to put both of his crimson energy weapons away, causing them to disappear from existance. He then started to emit an even bigger crimson aura than he did before. The expression on Shade's face then turned from a neutral soulless smile to a menacing one as he let his sharp fangs fully reveal themselves. Not only that but he also allowed both of his fully developed wings to sprout out from behind his back and spread them wide with pride for the world to see.
"Ha! And what in the hell is this suppose to mean to me, demon! Are those wings of yours suppose to frighten me!" he heard the voice of his opponent saying to him with his demented tone as he continued to face him and the powerful dark entity that was dubbed Nebula Grey. "Whatever you're planning to do, it won't work! It's time that we put an end to this nonsense once and for all!"
As if to respond to Bass's words, the vampire laugh out a huge and evil laughter that would cause any human that happened to be nearby the area to have shivers on the skins or spines. After a moment of his evil cackle had passed, Shade began to speak to his opponent but using a more menacing tone of voice, "Heh! Heh! Heh! Foolish creature. Do you not know of the powers that I'm about to unleash upon you as well as this Nebula Grey that you speak of? What I'm about to unleash is a small portion of a powerful and destructive force that most humans feared because of how corrupting it was to their kind. It won't be enough to wipe out this city area, but it should be enough to wipe out both you and that huge beast of yours from existence. Heh!"
As soon as those words left his mouth, the crimson aura of red-haired vampire began to grow larger than it did before. Just as he could allow the armored creature named Bass to say anything from within his mouth, Shade began to gather a huge amount of the blood red aura within his hands and once again faced the black and golden-armored humanoid creature. "What the hell are you trying to pull, you winged-demon?" he heard the voice of Bass saying to him while seeing him glaring above his head as he also saw the large manifested entity growled towards his direction like a savage beast. "Whatever power you speak of is nothing but nonsense! Prepare to feel the power of ultimate darkness for when I blast you into oblivion with my strongest attack!"
With those words out of his opponent's mouth, Shade saw him beginning to charge up a huge amount of dark amethyst energy within the palms of his hands. As he saw Bass putting both of his hand closer together, the vampire saw the menacing grin that his strange humanoid was giving to him along with hearing a mighty and savage roar from the huge dark entity. But despite the fact that the energy gathering within his foe's body is strong enough to wipe out a whole city block, Shade was still cool and level-headed about what the situation as he kept his menacing grin on his lips.
"Darkness Overload!" he heard Bass shouting out loud with a tone of both anger and hate for him as he saw the dark energy that was within both of his hands began to burst from within his palms and let out a huge eruption of his power towards his direction.
As soon as he saw his opponent's attack charging itself towards his direction, Shade began to hold out both of this arms towards the dark energy's direction and shouted out with both of his hands aimed towards the assault's direction, "Crimson Nova!"
That was when a huge sphere of blood red energy began to form within the hands of the young vampire's hand and began to fire itself towards its target's direction. As soon as the attack was launched, Shade's evil smile soon grew larger for when he saw his crimson energy ball going right pass Bass's own dark energy attack and exploded for when it finally hit its mark.
End of Part 12