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Day 7 Part 2 – Prove Your Worth

Before Roll could even get a word in edgewise, the fined navi pulled out his buster. The weapon glared angrily at Roll…well it would have if it could. Bass wasn't in the mood to negotiate right now. He was already getting over the fact that he was saving the blue navi from his death bed. However, he was somewhat enjoying himself. He hadn't remembered the last time he had fought an onslaught of navis like that. They were all pathetic and really not worth anyone's time, but still a small warm up for what was to come.

He had come to SciLab for the same reasons that Roll had, information. He had no idea where to begin the search for these files and had decided that the local SciLab branch was a good place to start. Plus, surely someone at the main location had heard of the noise at this branch and would no doubt hurry to increase their power. Something that he would hope would prove a small challenge if at all to make this worth it. He had a lot of aggression he needed to get out of his system. He placed his hand with a document file he had gathered from the data. It had been relatively easy to shift through the data and find the location. Now, he just needed to get it.

Roll put both her hands up, trying not to seem like a target or rather an awaiting victim from the looks of the place, "What are you doing here Bass?" The pink navi asked as she slowly walked forward. However, the green light from the buster caused her to keep a step back.

Roll's green eyes flicked to the data behind his back. He was holding a document file, "Are you looking for something?" Roll asked again as Mayl kept quiet. Bass hated humans and with their current position was probably only looking for a reason to take a shot at Roll. However, her finger itched for a battle chip. But she couldn't even download anything. Bass was a navi that seemed to shoot first and ask questions later. He only cared about power and the destruction of humanity according to Lan. Which once again begged the question, why was he here?

"You ask a lot of questions for a dead navi. I would delete you; in fact I probably should so that Megaman will have a reason to fight when he awakens. But I've already have had my moment of deleting pointless navis. I'll give you a warning. Stay away and live to fight another day." Bass said with finality.

Roll swallowed her pride at the moment of being called pointless. She had thought that she had done at least somewhat better over the years. However, her attention soon went to the earlier half of his sentence. He too was here to get the data to help Megaman. How had he heard about the deal?

The pink navi shook her head. Useless questions later, "Bass, I'm here for the same reason. I need to get that data to Void and I believe it's that document in your hand with the SciLab location right? Why don't we both go together to get the data? Even if you got it tonight, you would still have to wait a day before Void bothers to show up. It would make sense to team up, if…only…for a…day right?"

Roll's voice trailed as Bass lowered his buster. His shoulders were shaking. Not from the laughter that Roll had initially expected out of the navi, but of rage. He glared at her with his dark eyes. Roll winced; she had struck a chord.

"Are you…suggesting that I cannot hold off SciLab or the officials by myself? Do you think you can do a better job," the navi sneered as his hand switched from a buster to holding green pulsing energy.

Oh boy…

"Shoot, Mayl!" Roll said, realizing that asking the most independent navi of all navis to team up wasn't such a good idea after all.

"Right! Battle Routine, Set!" Mayl said, bringing her chip folder onto the screen.

"Execute!" Roll jumped back as Bass smashed the ground with an Earth Break.

His eyes almost seemed to twitch, "You and your human both dare and mock me! Only one human and navi have ever dared to try what you have attempted. And I swear I will kill them too. All you useless humans will die! After I defeat Megaman, there will be nothing left to stop me!"

As soon as Roll landed on the ground, she noticed Bass's Life Aura flare to life. He must have just activated it. She would have to get rid of it first before she could attack him directly. Although, she was more going for just trying to get him to calm down.

Mayl shifted through her chips. She didn't think she had anything powerful enough to take out a Life Aura in one go. She'd have to buy time until a Program Advance bothered to show its face.

"I was going to let you go, but now I'm just going to delete you insolent navi. Dark Aura Blade!" The black blade that appeared on Bass's hand was intense. In fact, the very appearance of the blade was causing her our dark soul to react.

The pink navi barely registered Mayl downloading a Bamboo Blade and had almost been sliced because of it. Luckily, she caught of herself and brought her blade up to guard. The result was the crack that spread throughout the sword.

'Morning already?' a tired voice commented. Great, now Dark Roll was up. The Dark Energy given off by Bass was enormous. He hadn't been putting out this much power when he was fighting Megaman. So why now?

'No. Go back to sleep!' Roll countered as she jumped back.

'Life Aura? A Dark Aura would be better. You could get rid of it if you gave me control.'

'Shut up! I told you no!' Roll shook her head. She needed to focus before her dark soul actually got her deleted.

'Ah come on. You see how pointless this is right? Bass will keep attacking and you can't last long against this kind of power. Plus, I can already tell you have nothing in your chip folder to take care of that aura. You're hanging on a prayer for a Program Advance. You could just let me have a little fun and then I'll give your body right after I shove a Dark Sword into the shark's belly? Sound like a deal?'

"No, it doesn't! Now just leave me alone and stop trying to make things easy!" Roll yelled out annoyed. Mayl almost dropped a chip. Not only had she not been expecting such a response out of Roll, but considering who their pressing company was.

'…Now, you've done it. Just couldn't use your inside voice, could you? Well…have fun dying.' the dark soul commented exasperatedly as Roll began to shirk back. At least Dark Roll knew when to leave as the dark soul preferred to not be awake when the blast would delete her. The aura around Bass was beginning to flare even more now. His eyes were wild with anger. He would not be the recipient of such blasphemy.

How dare she think she was better than him? How there any of them! This was why Megaman had to die by his hand. Once he was gone, then he would be the strongest navi that existed. There would be no other who could stop him. No human nor navi. The upstarts like the one in front of him would no longer exist because without their blue bomber, they were nothing!

"Very well navi…you've sealed your own fate!" The navi hovered far above the ground as his green orb began to shine even bright, becoming borderlined white, "This is your end. But don't worry! Megaman will soon join you! Now die! Cyber Break!"

"Roll! Get out of the way!" Mayl screamed as she tried to find a chip, any chip, that would be able to save her navi from the attack.

Roll's eyes went wide as he launched the enlarging white ball at her. Mayl didn't have any Auras and by the looks of things, couldn't find her other chips. Maybe the impromptu battle had caused her to select the wrong chip folder. No Merge could get her out of this mess. This was it…that was until someone had found their way in front of her. The navi was a silver or gray color. However Roll couldn't tell as the impact blasted them both.

As the smoke cleared the destroyed path, Roll picked up her head. She was hurt, pretty bad too. But she was alive. All thanks to the person who had saved her. Her eyes widened as a mix between a groan and a laugh caught her attention. Rolled over on his stomach, surrounded by pieces of destroyed iron, was Saber.

"You just…had to…try and put me to sleep. By the way…I'll get you for that," he mumbled as Roll managed to pick herself off the ground and run over to him.

She slid to her knees as the blue and green navi craned his head to see her, "Saber…how…why?"

"You're my sister. Couldn't let you die. Not like Tox." he mumbled. His back was really killing him.

"How did you…" Mayl started, quickly cut off by Saria, who really wasn't happy at the moment.

"Iron Body. Bought 4 of them too. Took forever for me to find them. The blast hit his back so it doesn't seem like he suffered any core damage luckily, but I need to jack him out now," her friend said as Saber was jacked out. The blue navi gave her a thumbs up before dissipating, "I know you're tied up right now, but when you get out of this you both have got a lot of explaining to do! I'm coming over and don't even think about trying to run!"

Mayl laughed nervously. Well there went that plan. Saria could be downright scary when she wanted to be, "Okay…" She said as she diverted her attention to a stunned Bass. The navi probably didn't expect his attack to be blocked so easily.

His eye twitched. They were everywhere. Megaman followers. NO! He charged another Cyber Break. He could defeat the other blue navi later. Right now, the pink one needed to die!

Roll's hands balled into a fist. Even after everything, Saber had not only tracked her down, but risked his life to save her. He had managed to save himself by his or Saria's own quick thinking. However, she couldn't let things go on like this. No, not after he had committed himself to her finishing this fight. She wouldn't let his actions be for nothing. Roll's bodysuit began to glow. As the light faded, her ponytail had been split as her bodysuit turned into light gray. Her new outfit seemed almost feathery over top her black underlying suit.

Mayl smirked as another Merge added itself to the list, "Aura Merge!"

Roll stood up as Bass prepared his attack. She was weakened; she wouldn't survive the next hit. Roll stared back up at Bass before waving her arm, "Gale Push!" She called as a wind blew through the field.

As he launched the attack, it impacted the ground. However, it had missed. No…she had disappeared! As he looked at himself he also realized, that his Life Aura had been blown away. When had that happened?

"Roll Whip!" He hadn't noticed Roll use her air shoes to jump up to his height as he was intercepted in the back by her antennae. Going with the flow of things, "Gale Push!" The wind blew Bass back down to the ground, although he had caught himself before impact. This little navi seemed to be full of tricks. Just like Megaman. Despite his hate for the blue navi, his interest in the pink one was beginning to peak. He was wondering why Megaman had allowed himself to be surrounded by weakling such as her—granted that everyone around him was weak, but she took the cake in that category.

"Anti-Damage! Invis! Download!" Mayl said as her navi disappeared from view again. As Bass looked around the field, waiting for the attack, his thoughts continued to make parallels to Megaman.

Working as a team.

Believing or taking honor for the weak who had fallen.

Being capable of extreme annoyance.

'Not as strong,' he thought as he grabbed the arrow that had sped towards him, 'but just as annoying'. He took a guess and shot at where he believed…Roll, that was her name, was. Roll had barely dodged out of the way, not ready to have the Anti-Damage being used yet. She wasn't sure why, but she could feel like something was…off. She could tell like something wasn't complete. Something that needs to be finished. She felt some of her own power beginning to burn, cool, and electrify her while her vision tried to blur itself. Why was she acting like she was blinded? Or rather…why wasn't Bass!

"Hey Mayl, you have another Anti-Damage and Invis?" Roll asked, as she used another Gale Push to keep back Bass who had tried to fire his buster at her. The wind had caused his aim to be messed up as he stood his ground, barely moving an inch.

"Yeah?" she said, not fully understanding.

"Use them, put Element Trap and Blinder in that order into the PET," Roll said, as she caused another wind to stall for time. Bass, however, had decided enough was enough and pulled out the head of Gospel. After the wind died down, he was going to fire.

"Right!" Mayl said, not bothering to question how her navi knew a possible Program Advance combination, "Anti-Damge! Invis! Element Trap! Blinder!" The PET rang as Mayls eyes widened, "Program Advance! Master Merge! Go for it, Roll!"

Roll's eyes seemed to be even greener as her body suit started become hotter, switching from Aura to Pyra. The burners lit up hotter than ever as the ground underneath them began to turn to lava panels. Bass jumped from the bubbling ground as Roll knelt down. As the lighters kicked in, the lava flew up into the air. As Bass tried to shrug off the burning material on him, Roll once again in her Aura Merge had popped up in front of him and blasted him with a gust of wind. While the lava was gone, the ground was still hot to the touch. Though in a few seconds, the air began to get cold as an igloo appeared around him.

Glacia Merge shifted to Voltra as Roll's hand hit the small dwelling and a sound blasted inside. Bass gripped his head as the horrible noise continuously bounced off the walls. Though, his torment only lasted so long before the igloo fell on top of him. Vines sprouted from now open panel holes and began to wrap around him. Bass was midway through the process of slashing out of them as Terra Merge soon became normal Roll and her visor came down and a multicolored arrow appeared in her bow. She locked on and fired.

Bass pulled out his buster and fired several shots at her, however time was moving slower for the pink navi. The arrow became energy and she fired it. The bolt ricocheted off of every shot Bass had made, diverting the hits from her, and knocked the navi back. Bass coughed as the attack hit him. She had damaged him. Actually hurt him.

He looked disbelievingly at the pink navi as Roll soon fell to the ground. She had exhausted herself in that last attack and wasn't used to power it took to switch from all those forms. Bass glanced at her as he coughed again; this time a bug frag came out. So, he had been bugged. But since he had thrived for so long by absorbing them, an attack that was supposed to bug him wasn't effective. They would have to actually bug his systems directly and there was very little possibility of that.

Still…she had done what no one other than Megaman had done before. Granted that in her state, she couldn't continue the fight. But, she had indeed proven what a threat she could be. Not enough to be worrisome to a navi like him, but enough to be watched.

Bass turned around and prepared to leave. His work was done here, "If you want your precious data, then meet me at the rendezvous spot at the meeting time. I have no business to see this transaction, but I'd rather not leave such a job to you to screw up. Farewell…Roll."

As he jacked out, Roll was left stunned. He…he had said her name. She didn't even know that he knew it, "Our lives just got more complicated didn't it?" the pink navi asked.

"Yeah, I believe so. Come on, you heard him. Plus, the camera programs are still down. Let's leave before anyone sees us." Mayl said jacking her out of the network, "By the way, you did great today." She said as the navi came back into the PET.

"Thanks. So ready to face, Saria?" Roll asked as an email came in. The navi's face paled as she read it, "Okay Mayl, I've got good news and bad news. Which one do you want?"

"Might as well have the good first," she grumbled.

"Good news is that no one did see us. After the firewall went down and Bass came through, all the security navis got deleted and the Mr. Programs are too confused to know who was there. Even the navi logger was down so there is no trace of us even being at SciLab today."

Mayl smiled, "Well, that's goo…how'd you know that?"

"Bad news is that Lan knows…he's also coming down here. I'm not entirely sure how he had that figured out with all the systems down, but..." Roll answered sheepishly.

Mayl laughed nervously, "Think we can make it out the window before they get here?"

"MAYL! OPEN UP!" Saria yelled from outside the door.

"Answer to that would be no…" the pink navi sighed, "You want me there to take the heat too?" Roll asked, gesturing to her copybot link.

"If you wouldn't mind…" the red haired woman said as she left the PET on the counter and went to open the door.

Roll nodded as she took the link into the copybot. It would only be fair. It was her idea. She smiled as the machine let her into the real world. At least though she would get the data. If there was anyone who could get the job done, it was Bass. And at least now, no one would be in trouble and she wouldn't have to leave. Bass had been under the eye of many for years. If anyone knew how to avoid trouble and get himself out of it, it was none other than the God of Destruction.

'Just hang in there Hub. It'll be over soon. Promise,' she thought as she ventured down the stairs to see Mayl already on the receiving end of Saria's scolding. She had half a mind to just walk back up the stairs at the rate the red haired woman was going. However…

"OH! Good! You can be here too!" Saria smirked evily, not bothering to ask about the copybot. Roll made a nervous smile. There went that idea.

Shoot…

Update: Monday

Ghost: I can't do this Merge justice in describing it. It looks awesome, but...I just can't put it into words well enough so here is the pic! animegirl257 . deviantart art / Aura-Roll-498974754. Oh, and uh...next week this story ends. Not gonna lie, this kinda surprised me to and I wrote this thing. Ghost501 logging out!