PREVIOUSLY…

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It was a beautiful day in the city. People were hustling and bustling among the beautiful and lively high-tech streets. They were all tending to strange devices and whatnot, but this was nothing compared to what about to unravel.

"Che!", came from a silhouette floating in the sky, the only thing visible being his form, and spiky hair with tints of aquatic blue. "Look at this place. All this… cheeriness and whatnot. Makes my skin cringe. Why can't we just look for the next princess here, huh?"

A second figure's silhouette revealed itself behind the first facing the opposite direction. "Patience is a virtue, you know. Or have you forgotten?"

"Ha! Of course not, sir. Come to think of it, this is your world, correct…"

The second silhouette slowly took color, revealing a tan cloak almost completely covering his body, save his head above the nose level. The figure wore a helmet shaped with four yellow fin-like protrusions and a four-pointed aquatic-blue star adorning the center of the forehead of the helmet. Purple streaks were painted on the outer sides of its ruby red eyes.

"…Bass-sama?"

Bass smirked evilly. "So… Ojorojo… shall we commence Act II?"

"Yes…" The first figure, Ojorojo replied, a large fanged grin painted on his face. "Let's!!"

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Chapter 36: Ambidextrous

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"Damn it! Damn it all!", Ojorojo cursed to himself as he dodged plasma blast after plasma blast.

Apparently, dodging security NetNavi's attacks proved much harder than the Arrancar had originally thought. Especially due to the fact that it was SciLab, one of the most secure locations of DenTech City, that he was trying to invade.

"Stop, intruder!", one of the security NetNavi's yelled.

Spinning around and flipping double birds, he yelled back, "Ha! Kiss my ass!"

Angered, the screaming Navi fired a Buster shot, only for the Arrancar to backflip and kick the shot out of trajectory.

Frozen in shock of the previous action, the security NetNavis failed to see the Arrancar Sonido behind them and slice them through the backs with his twin Zanpakuto.

"GAAAAH!!" The NetNavis screamed in anguish as they were deleted.

"Now that that's been taken care of…" Ojorojo muttered as he walked onward, unaware that he was being traced by SciLab's Cyberworld cameras.

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"Dr. Hikari, there's been a breach in the central data networks!", a random employee of SciLab yelled.

"Say what?!", Dr. Yuuichiro Hikari asked back.

"But that's not all! The security programs and NetNavis stationed there were all deleted before they could fully report the damages!"

Mr. Famous, who was tending to the injured framework of the Cyberworld of that mentioned server began rapidly typing at the keyboard, looking frantically for some answers. Smirking, he slammed one last key, and a large window featuring security footage appeared. "Got it!... What's this?"

Dr. Hikari, looked over his shoulder, interested by Famous's sudden comment. "What's wrong?"

"Look at this; this intruder is not like any NetNavi or program I've ever seen. In fact… he looks human!"

"But that's impossible! The Human Pulse Generator units are incomplete worldwide! No human can get into a Cyberworld at all!"

"Whoever said I was human?"

That last quote caused the two scientists to freeze in place. Slowly they turned around at looked in horror as the culprit behind the infiltration peered his face at a Cyberworld camera linking to SciLab's office where Dr.'s Hikari and Famous stood.

"Know this name: Yo soy Noventa Espada: Ojorojo… del… Dordonii." After pausing for a moment, the Arrancar smirked evilly.

"I got what I came for, so I'll be taking my leave. I'll give Bass your hellos. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh… See ya." And after that comment, Ojorojo's form broke apart into nothingness.

Whipping out a phone, Dr. Hikari began to punch numbers into the phone and held it to his ear. "Who're you calling at a time like this?!" Famous asked, taken aback from the sudden action.

"Who else? My son. Gather all of the NetSaviors; we got bigger problems than a perplexing hacker now."

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Lan Hikari could not eat another bite. After eating several plates of the base's finest curry rice, he just couldn't find it in himself to stuff another bite.

However, he couldn't help but stare blatantly at Allen Walker's pile of finished platters of chicken, ramen, beef, pudding, ice cream, vegetable teriyaki, pasta, fish, pizza, sushi, rice, chili, baby-back-ribs, turkey, burgers, and shockingly much more.

"Holy crap! And you're still hungry?" Lan and Megaman, who was in Lan's PET, gawked.

Subaru, who was eating a bowl of ramen, could only watch as Allen began stuffing delectable pork buns repeatedly into his mouth.

"DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN!" Warrock gawked.

The fivesome would've continued, if not for Lan's phone suddenly ringing.

"Hm; wonder who that could be." Lan murmured. As he opened the pohone, he placed the phone to his ear.

"Moshi-moshi?"

"Lan, we've got a situation here! Someone has invaded SciLab and escaped!"

Lan's eyes shrunk. "What do you mean by that, Dad?!"

"What's wrong?" Subaru asked, still slurping on ramen.

"Someone broke into SciLab, and escaped! Not only that, but all of the security was completely eradicated!"

Subaru 'GAK!'ed as he began choking on his ramen, just for Warrock to slap Subaru's spinal cord to force out the succulent noodles. "You serious?!"

"If that's the case, Lan, then Dad'll need our help!" Megaman shouted from Lan's PET.

"Right! Don't worry, Dad! We're coming! I'll get Chaud and we'll come through L's Dimensional portal!"

"I've already set up for the other NetSaviors to arrive to SciLab! Just get here before something worse may happen!"

"Right! Let's go, Mega!" "Right on!" Megaman replied.

"We're coming too!" Warrock said as Subaru stood up.

"Hey, don't leave me behind! I always wanted to see a future world!"

"Then pack your bags…", came a voice. The group turned to see that it was L who was munching on a piece of strawberry shortcake that owned the voice.

"…'cause you're going to DenTech City.", he said with a smirk.

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At the entrance of SciLab's main building, the five heroes stepped out only to be greeted by Dr. Yuuichiro Hikari himself. There were only five of them because Chaud and Protoman were apparently going to come late due to something 'top secret'.

"Lan, Megaman, welcome back.", he said with a fatherly smile. His eyelids rose slightly as he noticed Allen, Subaru and Warrock. "I see you got some new friends. I'm Doctor Yuuichiro Hikari, Lan and Megaman's father."

Allen and Subaru were taken aback by the last bit, whereas Warrock asked. "Father to both of them? How's that possible?"

Dr. Hikari turned his head slightly, frowning just a smidge. "Well, you see…"

But just before he could start his sentence, an alarm went off across SciLab, catching everyone's attention.

WARNING! WARNING! INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER SPOTTED IN CYBERWORLD SECTOR 1-D-ALPHA-2!!

"1 D Alpha 2…… oh no!!" Yuuchiro cursed.

"What's wrong, Dad?!" Lan asked defensively.

"1 D Alpha 2 is the section of SciLab's information server that contains the framework data of NetCity! Without it, millions of NetNavis will be deleted instantly!"

"Is that a fact? Well, I never would have guessed that would have bee the end result."

Everyone's eyes visibly shrunk as they turned to see Ojorojo del Dordonni, the Noventa Espada, perched on the roof of SciLab's main building like a bird on an electrical cable.

He then jumped forward and surprised the group by landing gracefully on the ground feet-first. Dusting himself off, he murmured something that sounded like 'Tch, shouldn't have milked that landing…'

Turing his attention to the group, whom had all assumed defensive stances, including Dr. Hikari, he surprised them by beginning to walk towards them several steps, then stopped.

"I'm surprised that you haven't figured it all out, Dr. Hikari. Truthfully, I'm disappointed."

Taken aback, Dr. Hikari cocked his brows. "Just what are you hinting at?"

"Oh, come now, good doctor. I'm talking about how there's an intruder in your precious systems, yet I'm standing right here. What logical conclusion can you arrive at, if I may ask?"

Taking a second to absorb the words just uttered, he snapped back to reality by gasping loudly. "Oh my God! Bass!"

Lan and Megaman wasted no time in skating past the Arrancar at surprising speed, and skated towards the entrance of SciLab, only to find it locked. "Damn! In that case…"

Pulling out Megaman, he aimed the PET at the control box and 'Jacked In' Megaman into the door's servers, to find that viruses were corrupting the lock systems.

"NeoVariableSword, Battle Chip In! DOWNLOAD!" After materializing the sword onto his right arm, Megaman wasted no time at all to delete all viruses in his path.

Suddenly the doors swung open and Lan, Yuuichiro, Subaru, Warrock and Allen ran through the door, leaving Ojorojo to his own designs.

"… Fools…Such close-minded fools… Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh…"

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Bursting into the room, the group discovered that Maylu, Dex, Yai, Dingo, and Laika had already began fighting the problem by means of sending in their NetNavis and fighting off the offensive attack.

Inside the computer network, Roll, Gutsman, Glide, Tomahawkman and Searchman were seen fighting a silhouette of a strange being.

"Roll… ARROW!"

"GUTS HAMMER!!"

"Glide Cannon!"

"Tomahawk SWIIIIIING!!"

"Scope Gun!"

All five different attacks let loose with ferocious speed, yet the shadowy figure flashed away from the trajectory of the attacks, grabbed the flying Tomahawk Swing, and used it to slam into the three projectiles. Only the Guts Hammer's shockwaves remained, in which the figure jumped straight into the air, dodging it completely. The shadowy silhouette dispersed, revealing the evil figure of Ojorojo del Dordonii.

Oddly enough, he was giving off a creepily wide smile. "Heh heh… close but no cigar!"

"How did he--?!" Searchman whispered. The other NetNavis were in equal shock.

Suddenly Ojorojo's smile turned into an evil frown, pointing his left finger at the group. "Bala Doble."

"LifeAura, BattleChip in, Download!"

The suddenly voice caught the Espada by surprise as a shining barrier encased the group. As twin fist-sized bullets of energy collided with the energy, smoking clearing, it was revealed that it was Lan's quick thinking and Megaman's appearance that halted the Espada's attack.

"Megaman!" The four other NetNavis cried in joy.

"Sorry I'm late, guys.", he smiled. He then noticed that it was the guy outside that stood before him. "How in the world…?!"

"Doesn't matter now, Megaman! This guy's beastly strong! So we've got to be beastly back! Gregar Beast BattleChip in! DOWNLOAD!

In a massive pillar of blinding light, in which Ojorojo had to guard his ruby eyes from, Megman had transformed into his Greagar Beast form.

Growling, Megaman's emerald eyes locked onto the eyes of the teal-haired Espada, turning red as he leapt with incredible speed out of the LifeAura and jammed a clawed fist into the Arrancar's stomach, forcing the shocked Espada to step back and reel in pain.

Coughing violently, the Espada gleamed eviliy at the beastly hero. "Now that's power! Allow me to step it up a notch!", he yelled the last part as he kneed the wolf-like hero in the groin, that span around and roundhouse-kicked Megaman upside his head.

Stepping back, Greagar Megaman began to trade punches and kicks with his enemy, in which both competitors were evenly matched.

Grabbing Ojorojo's left arm, Megaman saw his chance. "YOU'RE MINE!", he yelled as drove a fist into Ojorojo's stomach.

What shocked the NetNavis and NetOperators alike completely was that instead of Ojorojo falling down, it was Megaman, with twin Zanpakuto daggers plunged into his back, with a second Ojorojo's foot on the back of Megaman's head, whom was facedown.

"Didn't see that coming…" The first Ojorojo retorted. "…Did you?", came the second.

"Waitaminute, there's two of 'em now!", Dex screeched.

"Impossible!" Yai yelled, who was right next to the fat child.

"Oh, but it's possible… when twin projection is a special ability."

"Say WHA?!" Warrorck, in the back of the room, yelled.

"How is that even possible to be in two places at once?!", Allen gawked.

"Allow me to answer your question with another one: How do you think I can be in the Cyberworld…"

"And the real world at once…?" came a voice.

The NetOperators, Dr. Hikari, Subaru, Warrock and Allen spun around and were shocked to see Ojorojo standing there with one Zanpakuto readied.

"The answer…", the real world Ojorojo sneered. "…Is spiritual pressure manipulation."

"Just what is that supposed to mean?!" Warrock yelled, fist pumped.

"I'll explain this in a way most of you… lesser minds can understand. You see…"

He began moving his hands around to mimic his words.

"I have the ability to step between dimensions, simply by dividing portions of my spiritual energy into several copies of my 'original form', down to 25%. In other words…"

Pausing for a second, he absorbed the heroes' silence as he smirked evilly.

"I can be up to 4 places at once."

"SAY WHA?!", Lan, Subaru, Warrock and Allen exasperated.

"Alright, that's it! I've had enough of this clown! Subaru! Denpa-Henkan!"

"Right!" Subaru yelled as he raised his Star Carrier. "Denpa-Henkan! Subaru Hoshikawa, ON AIR!"

In a blinding aqua-green light, Subaru and Warrock merged to become Ryuusei no Rockman; Rockman of the Shooting Star.

"Hmph. A 2-for-1, eh? Oh, well; it's all the same thing to me!" Ojorojo yelled as he charged forward towards Rockman.

"Famous, now!" Yuuichiro suddenly yelled. Mr. Famous, who was in the corner of the room, nodded. "I'm on it! Dimensional Area: ONLINE!"

Slamming his fist on a glass panel and pressing the button inside, several reactors throughout SciLab were activated, and a Dimensional Area surrounded the property.

"What the deuce?!", Ojorojo spat. When he realized that the outside perimeter of the building was surrounded by a Dimensional Area, he cursed to himself.

"Damn… guess I'll have to step it up another notch…", he cursed to himself.

The two clones in the Cyberworld suddenly disintegrated, and poured out of the computer screen in streams of light which absorbed themselves into the original Espada's body.

As he did so, a dark red aura pulsated around the man.

"Time to make some noise! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

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Outside of Scilab, a lone shadow was seen observing a burst of crimson light. The only thing seen was a pair of red eyes, and the tinges of blue, sun-yellow and charcoal fur.

"I must hurry… there is not much time…", the figure muttered. After that, he disappeared.

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Horror swept the heroes like liquid plaque on a paintbrush.

Ojorojo was standing merely 10 yards from them, but the very presence of the Espada felt like he was literally choking them all at once.

"Such… power…!", Laika barely managed to get out.

"So this is the power of an Espada…!", Warrock choked.

What was most surprising was that Allen Walker alone stood tall, unfazed by the mass reiatsu.

"Allen, how are you--?", Subaru before Allen turned around, his left eye turning black with a red iris, smirking softly.

"Save your strength, minna-san. It's my turn to fight."

Turning around back to Ojorojo's direction, he glared harshly at the Espada, his upper body covering itself in ectoplasmic white silk, and his left arm turning a metallic black with knife-like claws, and a silver crucifix embedded on the back of his palm.

Allen walker had assumed his battle form, the Crown Clown.

"So… shall we commence Act II?"

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Next Time: -Tune to the Death Note preview-

"I'll show you… what real power is… ALLEN!!!!"

-Sound of blades clanging dramatically as all sound stops-

NEXT TIME: "La Musicá Inutil" (Futile Music)