Vyser D: And now, its time. I don't own anything.

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Chapter 25: Justice Will Serve

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The crowd was in an uproar, which was making the only net battler at the net arena pretty nervous. People were either booing or asking each other what the delay was. The young net battler raised his PET to his face to get an answer. His black hair matched his black leather jacket.

"Sorry Kenny, but there's nothing I can do," the navi from the PET stated as Kenny placed his PET back into its holster.

"I guess, I'll have to find my partner then." And on that thought, Kenny ran off the net arena and towards the hallway. "Thanks Shade."

Meanwhile, in Bit's spectator room, things were in chaos.

"Dang it!" Bit roared while shattering the glass of wine in his hand. Sangre sighed at the sight of the alcohol.

"I'll get a sponge…and the first aid kit," Sangre sighed as he walked off. Rex was also in the room and was watching the crowds starting to get up from the seats.

"Not good…not good at all!" Rex panicked as he pulled his hair. "Not only are the net battlers late, but DJ's not here to at least delay the crowd!"

Bit just coughed which caught the attention of Rex. "Then why don't you get out there and keep the crowd entertained?"

Rex turned back to his boss with a ghostly look on his face. "Sir…I get stage fright, sides if I announce that the net battle is null and void…those people will come after me!"

"I guess the real question is this then," Bit said as Sangre entered back into the room with a box and sponge. "What are you more afraid of? The crowds and stage fright…or me?"

"You?'

"Correct! Now get down there!" Bit shouted before Rex ran from the room. Bit then turned towards Sangre who was finished wiping the wine off the carpet. "…You got those bandages?"

"Sir, you really need to learn how to control your rage," Sangre sighed before pushing the first aid kit towards Bit.

"I know! Anyway, send someone out to try to Bit and those net battlers!" Bit announced as he quickly wrapped his hand.

"Rufus will do, he's able to track almost anyone down," Sangre suggested as he lifted his PET. "And since Mace has been equipped with powerful new upgrades, he'll more than a challenge."

"Fine, fine! Just go get him on the case!" Bit ordered as Sangre ran out of the room. "And bring me a hot dog!"

Sangre popped his head back into the room. "You want me to put mustard on it?"

"It's not going to put mustard on by itself," Bit chuckled.

"Getting on it," Sangre growled going back into the hall.

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"How'd he do that?" Flashman asked as Justice sheathed his swords.

"Must be an instant shield system," Airman suggested as Justice smirked.

"If only it were that simple," Justice replied.

Lan awed with amazement at the strength of DJ's net navi. "That was so cool!"

Arashi and Rei didn't think so, and they proved that by taking more battle chips and sliding them into their PETs.

"We'll delete this navi right of the face of this net!" Arashi yelled he finished sliding the last battle chip into the PET. "Go! Storm Blitzkrieg! Battle chips in and down load!"

"Spark arm and Spark cannon! Battle chips download!" Rei announced as powerful auras appeared around his and Arashi's navis. "You're nothing but a rookie."

"Hey Lan…" Justice muttered as he watched three tornadoes appear around Airman and powerful cannon emerged on Flashman's shoulders with his arms feeding electricity into it.

"Yeah Justice?" Lan replied as Justice smirked.

"You got some mini boomer battle chips?"

"As many as you need," Lan replied as Justice's smirk widened.

"Good, then when I say so…load five into the PET," Justice stated as Lan nodded. "Now…watch this!"

"Spark cannon!" Flashman announced as Justice began to run towards the two navis with exceptional speed.

The cannon fired a large powerful blast of electricity towards Justice. With an amazing jump Justice managed to dodge the powerful electric attack. However, that's when Airman decided to strike.

"Let's see ya dodge while in midair! Triple Storm Blitzkrieg!" Airman shouted as he fired the three small, yet powerful tornadoes towards Justice.

The three tornadoes flew immediately towards the flying black navi. "LAN! Now!"

"Right! Mini Boomers! Battle chips download!" Lan announced quickly sliding the five battle chips into the PET.

The five blue bombs appeared before Justice just as the three tornadoes were about to crash into him. Five large explosions caused a large amount of cyber smoke to appear in the net system as a single sword fell to the ground.

Airman chuckled as he walked over to the blade. "There he wasn't tough enough to beat the likes of us."

"And now, since we won…we get your navi!" Arashi laughed before a powerful force from behind Flashman caused him to crash into Airman.

"What is this?" Rei asked as the smoke dropped to reveal Justice with a smirk. "He's still here?"

Justice just grinned as Airman and Flashman stood up on their feet. "What's wrong? Feel a little out of your game already?"

"Sweet!" Lan announced as Justice smiled some more.

"Hey, thank yourself Lan, you provided the boomers," Justice thanked as Rei growled loudly.

"No one mocks Flashman! Elec Sword! Slice and dice this fool to pieces!" Rei ordered as a sword made of electricity formed on Flashman's right hand.

"It'll be my pleasure!" Flashman announced as he charged towards Justice who just stood there with his arms crossed.

"You need anything Justice?" Lan asked as Justice rubbed his chin.

"Nah…you just relax on this one, I'll let ya know," Justice replied just as Flashman appeared right in front of him.

Flashman first tried a horizontal slash at Justice's legs, but Justice simply jumped into the air dodging the slash. On instinct, Flashman then tried a cross slash to get Justice while he was in the air, however, Justice managed to fall back to the ground on his back to dodge the slash. Flashman, now irritated, went for a stab this time, only to have Justice slam his hands on the cyber ground to make him flip backwards.

"Hold still!" Flashman ordered as Justice landed on his hands.

"Nah…I prefer to move," Justice replied before Flashman charged in again ready to slash his annoying opponent.

With a quick slash, Flashman thought he finally got his opponent. However, when Flashman looked again, his eyes bulged at the sight of his elec sword caught simply between Justice's feet. "Impossible!"

"Is it my turn yet?" Justice asked before he moved his legs to snap the elec sword in two.

As Flashman watched his weapon derezz, Justice took his opportunity and used his hands to spin his body around. Then with amazing speed, Justice rapidly kicked Flashman in the face and torso. Flashman staggered back holding his torso before Justice pushed his hands into the ground to send him into the air, which he immediately kicked Flashman another time in the face sending the electric navi flying into some box like data.

Airman watched his partner fall at the hands…er, feet of Justice so easily. "Arashi! Hurry while he's still air born!"

"Right! M Cannon! Battle chip in!" Arashi announced sliding the battle chip into his PET and immediately, a red cannon replaced Airman's right hand.

"Take this! M Cannon!" Airman announced firing the cannon; the energy flew directly into the chest of Justice sending him flying back into some of the box data.

Flashman walked from the box data and next to his companion. "We finally got him."

"What's this 'we' stuff?" Airman asked.

"I distracted him!" Flashman shouted as justice slowly emerged from the box data.

"Really? From where I was standing you really just looked like you were being paid to be his kicking bag!" Airman shouted back while Justice was dusting off his armor.

"Lan, I think we show these two jokers some real power…don't you think?" Justice suggested as Lan raised a battle chip into the air.

"Way ahead of you! Dream Sword battle chip download!" Lan announced sliding the battle chip into DJ's PET.

As the golden blade appeared in Justice's hands, Airman and Flashman turned towards him with huge eyes. "How does he keep getting up?"

"Pure power!" Justice roared as he began to run towards his adversaries.

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Rex stood on the stage like a deer caught in headlights; you could literally hear people tapping their feet on the ground as Rex tried to summon his courage. "Say something stupid! Can't look like a fool in front of Bit! I'll lose my job."

With a quick gulp, Rex raised the microphone to his mouth. "H…hey there everybody. Anyone from Den Tech city?"

"Get on with the match!"

"Where are the net battlers?"

"How come DJ's not here?"

Sweat started pouring off of Rex's head as he pulled on his collar. "Um…well, the thing about that is…"

"Dang it Bit! What am I supposed to say? I can't even find the right words to sing karaoke," Rex finally struck an idea. "That's it…"

"Alright! You want a net battle? Then you're about to get one!" Rex announced as he held up his PET. "Today we're going to get someone from the audience to Net Battle me! Now then…stage lights! Select our lucky contestant!"

"That was actually a good idea," Sangre stated a little surprised that the idea came from Rex.

Bit was also a bit surprised. "I'll have to agree with ya on that. Not only will it calm the crowd, but if we're lucky we'll get a powerful navi to scan."

The lights finally focused on a young man in the crowd. "And there's our lucky contestant! Come on down!"

The young man just sat in his seat with his arms crossed. Rex was confused on what to do next…till his second best idea came to him. "Come folks! Let's cheer him onto the stage!"

The crowds cheered loudly, the young man didn't look pleased at all. But eventually, the young man stood up and began to make his way to the stage. "Alright! Looks like the young man is coming down!"

A few minutes later, the young man was on the stage and Rex walked up to the man. "What a great sport! So sir…Can we get a name?"

The man scratched his stubble on his chin. "…Baryl."

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"H…he's too strong," Airman panted as he managed to jump from Justice.

"We just need to charge him at once!" Flashman announced as the dream sword disappeared into pixels.

"Huh…wonder what their next move is going to be?" Justice thought as he drew his other sword. "Bring it on you two!"

Rei and Arashi raised two battle chips into air at the same time. "Its time! We must use our most powerful chips! Deux Upgrade!"

As the battle chips snapped into the PETs, two powerful auras appeared over Airman and Flashman. Justice watched as his opponent's began to heal whatever damage that was incorporated by his previous attacks. "Now that's just not fair!"

"All is fair in love and war…and in the net!" Airman announced before he and Flashman ran towards Justice with incredible speed.

Justice just blinked before Flashman and Airman both punched Justice in the face at the same time sending him to the ground with a huge skid mark following. "Justice! Those battle chips must make their navis stronger and faster added to healing them."

"I can see that just fine," Justice stated as he stood up rubbing his jaw. "Dang, they got good punches."

Flashman immediately appeared before Justice, surprising the black armored navi. "Then have a taste of my foot!"

With a powerful kick to the jaw, Justice went flying into the air. However, Flashman immediately grasped Justice's right foot and began to spin him around before he threw Justice into the air. As Justice flew through the air, Airman appeared in front of him and immediately slammed his clasped hands into Justice's torso, sending him streaming into the ground. "See ya next fall!"

Cyber dust threw into the air as Justice tried to stand up. Various parts of his body were beginning to derezz as he held his damaged right arm. "Dang it…wh-why am I having so much trouble with these guys? I was just in control of the battle."

"Hold on Justice! Here comes Recovery 120!" Lan announced as he slid the battle chip into the PET and a small light aura appeared over Justice and his derezzing began to come to a halt.

However, before the healing was complete, Flashman and Airman appeared right in front of Justice. Flashman's right hand was charged with electricity while Airman held a mini tornado grasped in his hands.

"You don't think we were just going to allow you to heal that navi now did you?" Rei asked as Flashman slammed his electrified hand into Justice's chest.

"We're determined to win this match at any means necessary!" Arashi yelled as Airman slammed the tornado right into Justice's face.

Justice was sent flying back and crashed on the ground a couple times before coming to a complete stop. The derezzing was now affecting his face and torso. As Flashman and Airman began to walk towards him, their auras disappeared. "Look like the chips wore off at the end of the job."

Arashi slid another battle chip, and a small sword appeared at Airman's right hand. "It matters not. We've got this in the bag. Finish the job Airman."

"Justice!" Lan yelled as Airman pointed the sword right at Justice's neck.

"Time for deletion!" Airman yelled as he pulled back the cyber sword.

"CHARGED SHOT!"

Two powerful blasts of energy slammed into Flashman and Airman sending them skidding backwards. As they looked up to where the blasts came from, their eyes widened once more.

"MEGAMAN!" Arashi, Rei, Airman, and Flashman yelled at the same time as Megaman jumped in front of Justice.

"Hey Lan!" Lan turned his head just in time to see DJ jump off the side of the girders and land right next to Lan with a familiar blue PET in his hands. "Guess who I found!"

"Just in time too," Lan and Justice sighed as Lan and DJ exchanged PETs.

"Man, am I glad to see you Lan," Megaman stated as Lan looked at his PET.

"Same here old buddy," Lan replied as DJ took battle chip and slid it into the PET.

"You took quite a beating there Justice, here this Recovery 300 will do the trick," DJ stated as a bright aura appeared around Justice who was being repaired.

"This can't be happening!" Arashi yelled as he began to pull his hair.

"Oh it is! And why don't we even out the playing field!" DJ announced as Justice stood up fully healed.

"Let's show these guys how to really net battle!" Megaman announced as his buster shifted back into his hand.

"I'm with you on that Megaman…I still need to get my other sword as well," Justice stated before the two navis began to run towards Flashman and Airman.

"We'll still win!"

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Meanwhile, outside the warehouse Rufus walked towards it with his PET raised to his ear. "This has got to be the place…right Mace?"

"I believe so sir," Mace replied from the PET. "I am getting multiple navi signatures from Lan, DJ, Arashi, and Rei's navis in there."

"Then why don't you jack in and have some fun before we go in," Rufus smirked as he spotted an outside jack in port.

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"Mega buster!"

"Blade of Justice!"

"Spark arm!"

"Tri Twister!"

The four navis clashed against each other. None of them willing to accept defeat. Three twisters that Airman shot towards Megaman were easily subsided by Megaman's precise shooting. Flashman threw another electrified fist towards Justice who managed to dodge and counter attack with his remaining sword. And with a powerful charged shot, Megaman blasted Airman in the chest sending him flying. Flashman was propelled by the strong slash attack sending him with Airman.

"We make a good team," Justice admitted.

"I'll say," Megaman replied as Flashman and Airman began to weakly stand up.

Flashman began to surge with electricity. "We're still here you know…"

Airman began to spin the fan in his chest with great speed. "And we're not going to let our masters down."

Just as Megaman and Justice were about to ready themselves for another attack, a huge spiked mace appeared and crashed into Airman and Flashman. "MACE CRASHER!"

As the mace disappeared, Flashman and Airman turned into the LOG OUT symbols. Megaman and Justice turned around to see the heavily armored navi known as Mace standing on top of another level of the net. With a powerful jump for his size, Mace crashed to the ground causing a huge shockwave to pulse through the entire net arena.

"I knew I'd find you here!" Mace laughed as a screen with Rufus's face appeared next to his navi. "Told ya they'd be here!"

"Good now…have some fun!" Rufus ordered as the two maces on Mace's shoulders shot out.

"Mace Tornado!" Mace yelled as he grabbed the chains of the maces and began to spin around till he himself looked like a black tornado.

"RUN!" Justice yelled but it was too late.

The powerful attack slammed directly into Justice, however, Justice managed to push Megaman away from the attack. Justice's other sword flew into the air and amazingly landed next to his other blade. Megaman stood up to see Justice become the Log Out symbol as Mace stopped his spinning, allowing the maces to fall to the ground. "Guess he wasn't that tough."

"You'll pay…he was weakened from out previous battle!" Megaman yelled as DJ growled loudly.

"Lan! Use this!" DJ growled as he handed Lan a special battle chip. "Take this joker out! For Justice's memory!"

"Uh sir…I was just logged out, not deleted," Justice pointed out as DJ scratched the back of his head. "But it still hurt! Make him pay for the cheap shots!"

"You got it," Lan said before he looked at the chip. As Lan gazed at the new battle chip his eyes widened. "This battle chip?"

"Yep…and when this is over, you can use it," DJ stated as Lan slid the battle chip into his PET.

"Thanks! Now here it comes Megaman! Dual Flux Blades!" Lan announced as Justice's swords appeared in both of Megaman's hands.

"This is for Justice!" Megaman yelled as ran towards Mace.

"No attack can help you against me! MACE TORNADO!" Mace roared as he began to spin at an extreme speed again.

Megaman just ran towards the tornado, Justice's swords glowing with a powerful aura. "DUAL FLUX BLADES!"

With a huge clashing sound, Megaman and the Mace tornado passed each other. Megaman lowered to his right knee as the two swords disappeared. Mace halted his tornado with a sly grin on his face. Just before he could talk, two slash marks appeared on his chest which derezzing data began to surge out. "NO!"

"And now…charge shot!" Megaman announced before he fired a powerful blast of red energy directly into the damaged slash area on Mace's chest.

"Mace…deleted." announced the cold computer voice as Mace derezzed completely.

Rufus watched his empty PET state that his navi was no more, and with swallowing his pride, Rufus ran off to the huge city behind him.

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"Dang it! This guy is too much for Tyrano!" Rex thought as he watched Tyrano get slashed repeatedly. "Crunch down hard on that dog of the military!"

Just as Tyrano was about chomp on his attacker, a long sword pierced his mouth and the back of his head. As the sword attack returned to pixels, Tyrano began to derezz immediately.

"Log out Tyrano!" Rex ordered as he pulled the plug on this battle.

The crowd cheered as Baryl immediately disappeared from the stage. Rex took a minute to register what had just happened, but snapped back to reality. "And there you have it! I…I was demolished. And now…"

Before Rex could continue with his announcement, DJ jumped onto the stage and kicked Rex off…literally! As the microphone spun in the air, DJ quickly caught hold of the device and held it to his face as the crowd went wild. "I'm back everyone! And now to bring out our net battlers!"

"First off! A young man who's caused quite a stir in our tournament, give it up for Lan!" DJ announced as Lan walked from the hallway with the spotlight over him.

"Next his partner, another promising net battler, show some appreciation for Kenny!" DJ announced as the lights emerged over the next hall…but no one came out. "Let's try this again! Show some appreciation for Kenny!"

Still nothing. "Okay then…let's welcome Arashi and Rei!"

The next two lights hovered over the opposite halls, but no one emerged from them. "Okay…since they're not here…I guess we'll have to go with the team with the most players here! So congrats Lan! You win by forfeit!"

Lan scratched the back of his head as an embarrassed smile appeared on his face. "That's not how I wanted to win. But I guess a battle is a battle."

"So what you're saying is that you failed," Bit growled as Rufus lowered his head.

"But sir! They cheated by combining their powers!" Rufus defended.

Bit just snapped his fingers and Sangre appeared behind Rufus. "I'm sorry, but if you couldn't win with those upgrades then we'll have to let you go."

"But I need this job!" Rufus shouted before Sangre placed a hand on his shoulder.

"I don't think you should really complain…we're letting you leave with your legs intact," Sangre stated as Rufus gulped.

"I'll leave," Rufus said before he made his way to the door.

As soon as Rufus left, Bit smirked at the sight of his crimson and black PET. "Thanks to that last battle, we now have enough data to ready our final plan.

Sangre smirked as he imaged at the new world that was going to be created. Bit stood up with his eyes closed. "The N.W.O. will make the new world order, injustice will be a thing of past. Can't you see the applications that we'll be able to embark now Sangre?

"All we need is the right moment," Bit finished as he walked over to the mini bar. "And that moment is drawing ever closer and closer."

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Vyser D: And that's the end of that chapter. And before I truly wrap up this chapter I'd like to say that I won't be able to use all of the navis that people request of me. And that when this story does end, I hope you all will check out the new fiction that won't be up for some time. Still coming up with a title, all I'll say is that it will star two of the characters you've seen in this chapter. I think its obvious as to who they are.