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Chapter 26: Plan DSP…Phase 1

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"This is pathetic…" Bit sighed rubbing his forehead. He had gathered the top members of the N.W.O. in front of him in his office. The early morning wasn't the best time. "Okay then, now then I believe you all know why I called you all here?"

Rex just raised his hand into the air. "I don't!"

A harsh punch was then delivered to the back of Rex's head, courtesy of Randy. "It was a hypothetical question…why must I have a dunce for a brother?"

"Yet another hypothetical question," Tiffany sighed as a blood vessel appeared on Bit's head.

"People…"

Raioh held his head, as if he was in pain. "My brain! Too many big words!"

"I must say, I'm not surprised how he's getting headaches," Mr. Con stated, as the blood vessel grew larger on Bit's head.

"…This is annoying," Kane stated crossing his arms.

Ben just sat in the corner not even paying attention to what the others were saying.

"Come on isn't this meeting getting on?" Jack moaned as Paul also moaned loudly.

"I'll agree to that," Paul added as Bit started to shake violently.

"Enough!"

Everyone turned his or her attention to Bit; Sangre just stepped in front Bit with a huge box in his arms. "You heard the boss! Shut up!"

After watching his employees straighten up, Bit cleared his throat and calmed himself. "Now then…I have assembled you, the ten best of the N.W.O., for this meeting. We finally have acquired the final keys to our operation!"

"Really? You got… 'it' done?" Raioh asked with a brightened look on his face. Bit just nodded and Raioh began to smile with a shine in his teeth. "This calls for a celebration!"

"You start dancing Raioh and I'll personally throw you out the window," Ben stated as Raioh lowered his head.

"I never have any fun…" Raioh sighed.

"Continuing…you ten have been selected to lead the rest of the N.W.O.," Bit spoke, confidence filled his voice as he began to walk in front of the ten he had selected. "Our plans…this tournament…everything we've done up to this point is finally before us. All we need to do is open the final door.

"But in front of that door, is one final obstacle…the N.P.A., as long as they exist our ideals will be nothing more than a fantasy. However, when our plans are put into motion, not even they will be able to handle us.

"…Yet, I will require your loyalty and your cooperation. I cannot force any of you to do this, if you want to leave, you may do so as you please. But know this, in the new world order, do not expect to be given credit or mercy. Now then, if you wish to stay, take the supped up Synchro Emblem that Sangre is passing out."

Slowly one by one, each of the ten N.W.O. members took one of the Synchro Emblems and held them into their hands. Bit just smiled at the sight of his top ten holding onto the powerful Synchro Emblems. "Excellent…now then, here's how the operation will go…"

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Days passed since the last tournament match occurred, everything in the city had quieted down. To Lan…this was the most boring time he had ever had, even his appetite had quieted down, all he could do was stare at his curry.

"You might want to finish it before it loses it zing," Megaman stated as Lan sighed loudly.

"Megaman…I know."

"I know you're bored…but maybe you should probably start on your summer homework?"

"I'm not that desperate."

"Yeah…you're a procrastinator…"

"Did you just say something Megaman?"

"…Nope…"

With a quick scoop, Lan just placed the cooled off curry into his mouth and simply savored taste, before a familiar person just sat across from him. Lan looked up and glared at the person. "What'd'ya want Zeek?"

Zeek just shrugged his shoulders looking insulted. "What? I can't enjoy a some good curry and talk to an old member?"

"Not really," Lan replied taking another spoonful of curry.

"…I guess you're lucky," Zeek replied taking out his silver PET and placed it on the table. "The NPA requires your help…"

"Well, maybe I don't want to help," Lan interrupted as Zeek slammed his fist onto the table.

"Let me finish! Now then, the NPA requires your help, however, we can't force you to do anything," Zeek stated looking down. "So Lan…will you hear me out?"

"…Lan, Zeek seems to really serious," Megaman whispered from the PET. "Maybe you should listen to him."

"I know…I guess its really serious," Lan whispered back placing his spoon into the curry. "Alright Zeek…what is it?"

"Thank you Lan, now then…" Zeek started before a small shockwave began to rock the entire restaurant, however there was little damage when it stopped. "Uh oh…"

Lan noticed the look on Zeek's face, something was up. "Zeek…what in the world was that?"

"Duck and cover!" Zeek shouted grabbing his PET before sliding under the table.

A huge sweat droplet appeared on the back of Lan's head at Zeek's behavior. "Okay…"

Shaking his head, Lan just lifted the spoon of curry to his mouth when the shaking rocked the entire restaurant once more, this time everything seemed go flying. Lan didn't even have a chance duck before his curry slammed into his face.

Even though his eyes were currently covered, Lan could determine that outside the restaurant people were screaming loudly. When he managed to wipe the food from his face he saw Zeek run outside the door, Lan immediately followed.

Outside the restaurant, Lan's jaw dropped at the sight of the inverted colored sky.

But that wasn't the only thing that got people running through the streets…

"This is a dimensional area!" Lan exclaimed looking around the entire street to see multiple Navis walking around.

But they weren't the most friendly navis you would see.

"Lan maybe now would be a good time for the Synchro Emblem!" Megaman shouted from the PET.

"Right!" Lan announced as he reached into his backpack.

"NOT SO FAST!"

Lan looked upwards just in time to see the familiar synchronized Dilgear diving from the sky. At the last moment, Lan jumped out of the way of Dilgear's claws. "Dilgear!"

"You no think I never show me face again, ya did?" Dilgear growled removing his claws from the concrete.

"I see you still have the bad grammar thing going on," Lan commented as Dilgear growled even louder into the air.

"This time, me make sure that I no let you be able to use Synchro emblem," Dilgear chuckled raising his claws. "I'll slice ya, dice ya, and river stomp all over your remains!"

Without warning, Dilgear jumped into the air towards Lan. Lan closed his eyes waiting for the pain to arrive.

"DRAGON CRASH!"

Opening his eyes, Lan just saw a synchronized version of Dragoon crashing directly into Dilgear. With the force, Dragoon sent Dilgear into an alley's trash dumpster. "Whoa…Thanks Dragoon!"

Dragoon walked over to Lan and opened his mouth guard to reveal Zeek's face. "No problem there my friend."

"Zeek!" Lan and Megaman stated as Zeek's eye narrowed.

Turning towards the somewhat dazed Dilgear, Zeek growled loudly. "Dang it…I didn't expect them to start their plans this early.

"Lan! You may want to go and check on your friends. We've got multiple members stationed over the city but this is too much!"

"Zeek! What in the world is going on here?" Lan asked as Dilgear howled loudly into the air.

"It must be the N.W.O.'s final plan," Zeek replied covering his mouth with Dragoon's mouth guard. "When they prolonged the tournament for a few days I thought something was up. It's a good thing that our inside man gave us the heads up."

"Who's the inside man?" Lan asked before Dragoon Zeek jumped towards the charging Dilgear.

"Lan I don't think that's the right time to ask! We need to find the others!" Megaman shouted.

Lan nodded to the PET's screen and immediately equipped his rollerblades to his shoes and started to skate through the streets.

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"Man, I'm starting to take in some of Tidalman's personality," Kane sighed looking at the crowds. "Ooh…some many pretty girls…"

With a quick slam to the head, the synchronized Tidalman Kane was sent to the park ground. The synchronized Crystal raised her fist. "Yeesh, I never thought that Kane would be this pathetic."

Tidalman quickly jumped to his feet with his a blood vessel pulsing on his face and huge bruise rising from the back of his head. "It's Tidalman! The special synchro emblem actually combines our personalities! Right now, the Kane side of me is losing to Tidalman's lady manliness."

"Whatever, at least we've managed to get a lot of hostages in this area of the city," Crystal sighed looking over the huge crowd of people being kept in a circle by multiple grunt navis. "...Despite your flirting."

"How many times do I have to tell you that it's Tidalman?" Tidalman pleaded with streams of tears pouring from his eyes.

Meanwhile in the crowds…

"Come on people! Just relax and we won't lay even a finger on ya," said the synchronized Violiman stated lifting his violin. "If you all stay quiet, I'll entertain you all with my good classical music."

"Classical music stinks!"

Narrowing his eyebrows at the crowd, Violiman growled at the comment. "Who said that? If you come out right now I won't hurt you…much."

From the crowds, Dex gulped for having such a big mouth. "Not good."

"Great job Dex," Maylu sighed loudly lowering her head.

All the while Violiman's anger just kept rising and rising and expressed it with a blood vessel appearing one the top of his helmet. "Fine! Be that way! I'll just have to give you all a taste of my great musical abilities!"

The crowds screamed in terror causing Violiman to sigh loudly. "I'm not horrible!"

Just as Violiman was about to lift his bow, a familiar black and red hand grasped his arm.

"This has go on for long enough!"

Violiman turned around to see the synchronized Protoman, his right hand already a cyber sword. "NOT YOU!"

"You don't really think you can get away with a thing like this now did you?" asked Protoman as Violiman narrowed his eyes.

Then, Violiman began to smirk. "You know what they say…the show must go on."

"JESTER TOP!"

Protoman jumped from Violiman at the last second to dodge a colorful cybernetic top that spun extremely fast underneath him. However, from the top shot out two extremely long arms that managed to clamp onto Protoman's biceps.

As soon as the top ceased spinning, Jesterman smiled widely before using his arms to slam Protoman into the ground. "We're not going to let anyone screw up our plans! And I'm going to enjoy torturing you!"

Violiman sighed loudly as his comrade began to laugh loudly. Just as Jesterman was about to lift Protoman…

"VULCAN!"

Multiple streaming shots landed directly into Jesterman's back, causing him to shout in pain. When the shots stopped a powerful kick to the back of his head sent him fly over Protoman.

Protoman held his held up and growled. "You…"

"What! No thank you? Yeesh, I save ya and that's what I get."

Jumping to his feet, Protoman got a better look at the person who saved him…it was a synchronized version of Pixel, which meant that Protoman/Chaud was saved by Pixel/Len.

"Where in the world did you get a Synchro Emblem? Did you steal it?" Protoman asked as Violiman tried to get the two's attention.

"Why would you think I'd do something like that? I just took the specs and created my own," Pixel defended as Violiman's blood vessel grew.

"That's still stealing the blueprints!"

"ENOUGH!" Violiman catching the attention of everyone in the area, after doing so, he raised his bow to Protoman and Pixel. "I want half of you henchmen to take them out!"

With their backs together, Pixel and Protoman looked at all of the henchmen navis. At a good estimate there looked to be at least 75. "Care to put our differences aside till we deal with these guys?"

"That's the smartest thing you said…" Protoman commented as a loud explosion from behind the henchman navis sending quite a few flying.

"What the?" Violiman questioned as the cyber smoke began to dissipate.

From the smoke emerged three extremely familiar navis performing extremely familiar poses.

"SOUND OFF!"

"Harddrive!"

"Spectre!"

"Breaker!"

"And together we are the synchronized Delta Brothers!" Harddrive, Spectre, and Breaker announced showing off their new synchronized navi forms.

Protoman just slapped his forehead while Pixel just looked confused. "Are they you're allies?"

"Yes…though sometimes I wish they weren't…" Protoman sighed before he shook it off and ran towards some of the henchman Navis. "But now's not the time!"

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"This is insane!" Lan shouted skating away from multiple henchman navis. "Where do they keep coming from?"

"Lan just get the Synchro Emblem out!" Megaman shouted from the Pet.

Just as Lan was about to slip the Synchro Emblem on, a powerful sonic blast sent quite a few henchman navis into the air.

"How'd ya like my Sound Disrupter?"

"That's nothing! Check out my Flame Breath!"

Lan turned around just in time to see an extremely large flame engulf a huge number of henchman navis. What got Lan really surprised were the people who launched the attack…

"Flame Stag and Hybrid? Man I haven't seen you guys in quite a while!" Lan shouted as the synchronized navis turned around.

"Yep! It sure was a long time!" Hybrid chuckled. "And we've got these jokers!"

Speaking of jokers, at that moment Jesterman fell from the sky and crashed in the pavement between Lan and the two synchronized friends. As he stood up he looked around and saw his new surroundings. "Dang it…that cheap shot sent me this far? Huh?"

"Lan! Go we've got this joker!" Flame Stag shouted as his body became engulfed in flames. "Come on you jerk!"

"I'm not a joker! I'm a jester!" Jesterman shouted as he pointed towards the navis. "Destroy them!"

"We have to go Lan!" Megaman shouted from the PET.

Lan looked down, but then skated off into the streets while his companions continued to fight against Jesterman and his henchmen navis.

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"For a goofball, you don't fight all that badly," Dragoon complimented as he stared at the tired Dilgear.

"You watch just yet," Dilgear chuckled as he snapped his fingers. All of a sudden two figures began to materialize in front of Dilgear. "Bubblecrab and Scannerman, deal wit him! I got a schedule that needs to be kept!"

As the two solo-navis appeared, Dilgear jumped into air towards one of the buildings. Then with a quick jump off the building he flew into the air deeper into the city.

"This is going to be fun, blub, blub," Bubblecrab cuckled as he lifted his claw into the air.

"Probability of enemy's success now only twenty-five percent," Scannerman stated as he readied his cannons.

Dragoon growled at the sight of the two new enemies. "Dang it, I don't have time for this!"

"AQUA CANNON!"

"M-CANNON!"

Just as the two attacks were about to collide with Dragoon, a fast red blur speed through and bounced the attacks back at their owners sending them both to the ground. The red blue appeared before Dragoon.

"Excellent timing Zero," Dragoon stated with a loud sigh of relief. "Now then, can you handle these jokers?"

"Yessir!" Zero shouted as Dragoon flew into the air.

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"We've got to hurry!" Lan shouted still skating through the streets.

"M-Cannon!"

A powerful red blast crashed into the ground before Lan sending him back into pavement.

"Nice try mister Hikari."

Lan turned his head to see a synchronized Daeman jumping from the top of a building, while his right hand was transforming back from a cannon. "Daeman!"

"I see you still remember me…it has been a while since we've seen each other," Daeman chuckled landing on the ground. "Cause I haven't forgotten the multiple losses you handed me."

"I don't have time to deal with you Daeman!" Lan shouted as he jumped to his feet. "So get out of my…you're not going to get out of my way are you?"

Daeman just lifted his claw that was glowing black. "You better believe it…I'm not going to let you leave here without your blood spilling to the ground!"

With a quick slip, Lan managed to get the Synchro Emblem on his chest. However, before he could even get Megaman's PET into the emblem, Daeman had ran directly in front of him and quickly punched Lan in the stomach sending him flying backwards.

"Don't think that I'm going to give you a chance to use that emblem," Daeman chuckled as slowly walked over to the injured Lan. "I plan on slowly torturing you, then I'll make your last breath quick and painless."

"Hey Daeman!"

Just as Daeman turned his head, he received a heel to the face sending him flying backwards a few feet.

"What the?" Lan questioned as he looked up to see Justice standing in front of him. "Justice? Now I'm really confused! I didn't know you were part of the NPA."

"Yep! I was the double agent to get info all about the N.W.O.'s plans," Justice answered while holding his head. "Though, mine and DJ's personalities are really clashing. We're never doing this again…"

"I'll teach you fools to not interfere!" Daeman shouted as he stood up.

"Lan! This is your battle! I've got to help the others!" Justice shouted as he ran towards Daeman.

"You can't take me down again!" Daeman roared as he slashed his claws towards the running Justice.

However, at the last second, Justice managed to jump over Daeman's attack and behind Daeman. "Trying to run you traitor?"

"Nope! Just creating a distraction!" Justice shouted running off.

"What!" Daeman shouted as a bright light flashed behind him.

Just as Daeman turned around, he received a powerful kick to the face that sent him directly to the ground. As he stood up, he saw the crossed fused Megaman landing on the ground.

"And now we can finish this!" Megaman announced as he ran towards Daeman at a great speed.

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Vyser D: And now the stage is set…soon…