A.N. I have updated...far sooner than I thought. I'll just warn you all now, the future updates for the next couple of months, may be very seldom, but it is only because I'll be preoccupied with exams and school and not going insane from all the school work, but do not fret my fellow netops, I will finish this story.
Alias was rather tense at the moment. Usually whenever he went to Seaside area, he usually hot to view the ocean to clear his thoughts and be back home before Ethan or anyone else even noticed he had disappeared. Now he was at the moment trying to fend off a crazed cult. Alias was shooting his buster non-stop as the cult encircled him and Flare. The two navis were left without much to defend themselves given the current situation, despite Flare herself being a very powerful being in the cyber world. Currently Flare was undergoing what Alias could only assume as a mental breakdown, her eyes were continuously changing from red to pink as did her body. She was currently only clutching her head and screaming for someone or something to shut up. Alias knew he should be worried, but not even he could take on an army, at least not without several giga chips and maybe a cybeast by his side. "Come on Gregar. Where are you?" He thought to himself.
He looked at his arms as he felt the chip data of the Hyper Burst, being recalled to him. While he may have been able to call on the power of three spreaders before, it wasn't exactly the same deal with most other chips. The hyper burst was an advance he had used so often, that he practically had the chip data embedded into his memory.
Alias felt another sharp pain run through him as he fell to his knees alongside Flare. He looked around and found that the cultist navis had begun there chant again. The burning sensation he felt when Flare had showed him the cybeast data in his body returned and it was even more painful a second time. As a matter of fact, the red pixel like data that flowed all over his body had also returned and they were even more of them flowing through him.
He looked over to see Flare struggling, gasping for breath. It appeared that she was struggling to contain herself from exploding, and that's when it him. She was going to beast over and from the way these cultist were behaving, he wondered if they knew what they were actually doing. Nevertheless, Alias couldn't allow Flare to beast over, at least not in a state like this. If she unleashed all her power in the kind of mental state Alias thought she was in, then the entire net was going to be screwed. Using whatever little resolve he had Alias forced himself over to Flare. He grasped her hand tightly and the unstable navi looked at him with a confused look before he started transferring the hyperburst data into her. Her eyes opened as she realized what was happening, but before she could even say anything, the cultist navis had jumped and grabbed her and Alias. Flare, in a state of panic, tried to fire the Hyper burst, not realizing that Alias was still holding her arms faced down.
The P.A. fired on the ground and the next thing Flare or Alias knew was the force of the blast throwing them high into the air alongside several of the cultist navis.
Flare only registered two words escape Alias's mouth before he aimed an airshot at her. "Get...help." He said, before hitting her point blank with the air shot sending her flying a good several feet through the air.
She landed a good distance away from the fight scene, her body very scathed. She didn't know if it was the P.A. , the rough landing or the fact that she had been distanced a good way from the chanting, bit she had finally been able to get her head cleared. However her joy was shortly outlived by the fact that some of the cultist members had seen where she landed. Flare didn't wait for the cultists to get close; she wasn't going to go through that mental torment again. The beast girl got to feet and tried her best to run away from the cultist; going deeper into the Seaside area while Alias was left at the mercy of the cybeast cult.
Alias collapsed after he sent Flare flying. He prayed that she had at least survived the fall and had recovered enough to run and get help. Hopefully in the form of the destruction incarnate he had come to know as Gregar or at least wake up Ethan. The black armored navi could only watch now, as the cult navis approached him, still chanting the same thing over and over again. The burning sensation in his core was back and was even more unbearable in his weakened state. Alias looked up as he saw the world around him fade to black, his last few moments being, of a cult navi, looking at him, before red pixels clouded his vision before turning to black.
The navis of the cybeast cult stared at the offering they had procured for their gods. They had originally hoped to obtain the girl as well, so that they could appease both their masters, but she had escape. No matter. The girl had been a fool; she had run deeper in the Seaside area. The only thing it had in that area was a shop and a large array of water viruses. It would only be a matter of time before they caught her. Wasting no time for the offering to wake up and try to escape, they bound him with chain data and began to carry him into their base of operations, deep in the under net. Still chanting 'ULA, ULA, ULA' in reverence of their deities. Unbeknownst to them, the offering navi's emblem was continuously changing between his original one, and the mark of Falzar, all while red data streamed across his body. The navis were also ignorant of the fact that a peculiar camera looking virus was surveying them. A red armored navi who was watching the camera feed in the other end looked rather ticked off and he had already gotten up from his web page and was beginning to track their locations when another feed opened up to reveal Bass heading toward the cultist. Cursing his timing the mysterious navi, summoned a large green blade in his hand before setting off, having chosen to go after Bass rather than Alias.
Meanwhile, Flare was running nonstop through Seaside Area. She had managed to shake off some of the cult navis, but it was only a matter if time before they found her. The cybeast girl had tried to jack out and return to Ethan's PC but whatever those navis had chanted was completely messing her up. She felt her connection to her PET severed and with that her hope of contact Gregar or Ethan. To make matters worse her powers were getting out of control. She could feel Falzar inside her, becoming more enraged and the blood lust for deleting Gregar had completely overtaken Flare's other half. While it was normal for Falzar to want to kill Gregar, this kind of blood lust only ever came when they were close to going berserk and it was that fact that made Flare terrified to beast out. If Falzar was already losing whatever reason she had left now, then chances are if they beast over there would be no turning back, they would rampage and hunt down Gregar and maybe Alias as well.
Flare quickly pushed those thoughts to the back of her mind. No. She couldn't be thinking like that. She still had more time. She wasn't going to lose it yet. It was those cult navis. They had said that stupid chant and it had messed up not only Flare and Falzar but also Alias as well. Flare needed to clear her head.
While lost in her worry about being captured and losing control, Flare had inadvertently run into a dead end in Seaside Area. The only thing there was a giant pipe, with water data continuously flowing out into a spring of sorts, but the spring never overflowed. Flare turned around to try and find another route, but froze in her tracks when she heard footsteps approaching. Realizing she had nowhere left to go the beast girl turned to the cyber spring. "I hope this works." She told herself as she dived into the spring, unaware that this was the very spring, whose water was used to cure Megaman during the time he absorbed Gregar.
Bass flew moved through the undernet destroying whatever viruses or navis that were stupid enough to get in his way. He had sense a familiar power enter the net, one similar to the power he carried. Bass smirked, Falzar had made a mistake of entering his domain and he was going to enjoy absorbing whatever remaining power she had. Once he got the full power of a cybeast, he would no doubt be able to defeat and destroy Megaman and prove once and for all that he was superior. Bass's day dream was cut short however as an orange buster shot exploded mere inches away from his face. Bass turned to meet a red navi, poised in a fighting stance. The navi's green energy sword glow with a desire to shred the data of one of the net's god of destruction. Bass smirked at the foolish navi opposing him. "Well, well. What do we have here?" He taunted the navi.
The navi's expression never faltered. "I know what you're up to Bass, and if you think I'll just let you go through it. Then you've obviously been hit in the head by Megaman too many times." The navi retorted.
To this Bass scowled, without warning he threw a hell's rolling at the navi. The navi however effortlessly dodge the attack, only to be knocked back by a golem fist to the face. The red navi looked up to see Bass glaring down at him menacingly.
"I'd watch my mouth if I were you, Zero." Bass threatened. Zero merely let what Bass assumed was a smirk form.
"Please Bass. You'd have to do better than that." Zero responded as he drew his sword once more. Bass summoned a dark sword as the two navis began to duel. Zero all the while hoping he could beat Bass and still save Alias. 'I won't fail you again, Ciel.' Zero thought as his sword clashed with Bass's.
A.N. So we have Zero added to the mix now as well as Flare being dumped into a spring of water that had affected the cybeasts before and Alias is now burning with Beast data. Stay jacked in for what happens next, and like always, fav, follow and review. Review especially it makes me feel warm and toasty inside.