This is the bonus chapter of Commander, and the mark of the completed story, so read it or not, I thank you for reading Commander and get ready for Captain soon...
Soon after Geo returned to school, Alex returned as well and resumed his tier of work, but those closest to him started to notice him writing strange formulas and methods before Mega caught on to what it was as he pulled Geo to the side after school one day to explain. "Kid's somehow creating the FM-ians here to fit their new status, since they were destroyed on the station, his small scanner must have copied them down somehow again."
"Are you sure that this isn't like Cancer, Wolf, or Crown?" Geo asked as they faced off with the three FM-ians remaining on Earth before Crown headed home with the spirit of some dead king, his card power in their hold while Cancer and Wolf were still with their respective humans.
"I'm sure, I can also bet that the gang noticed as well and could be seeking to confront the guy." Geo sighed a bit as he nodded to the AM-ian.
"Well, I guess we should check it out, just to make sure that Alex doesn't get too ahead of himself." They headed out to his house, lucky to not have a small following behind him as they went home prior before he stopped, noticing two people in front of the house, a similar-youth that looked like he worked out a great deal and a girl about Chaud's age who looked to be an artist. But he also stopped as he pulled down his Visualizer and saw two FM-ians hovering close to them, one was a gladiator in armor or something like that while the other was a pair of fish, like koi fish, swimming about as Geo paused in confusion. "What the...?" His distraction just served to pull him in as the youth turned and noticed him before he smiled and waved.
"Hey, you got to be Geo!" The girl turned as well with a smile as the bruiser strolled over, hands in his hoodie pockets. "Alex told me quite a bit about you." He rubbed the back of his neck as he continued. "Hey, I'm sorry for your dad, it must have been hard going on without knowing what happened."
"Yeah... it was actually rough." Geo shook his head as he turned the chat around. "By the way, who are you guys and why do you have FM-ians? I thought they all went back to Planet FM when the FM King Cepheus headed home... except for a few I know about."
"Well, yes, the big guy kinda called all of his buddies back." The girl ran a hand through her hair and pulled it forward to stroke it. "But ours said something like 'we need some time here adjusting right, so we are staying', they don't talk to us much which is kind of weird, since you and Alex seem to talk to your guys so easily."
"Oh, I nearly forgot." The bruiser said as he started again. "My name is Kentur Boreal, I am an orphan that Mr. Boreal, well, my dad took in to give you a friend or two if we ever actually met, Alex was actually the first person I ever made friends with." Kentur turned and gestured to the girl who bowed with respect. "This is Sapphire Boreal, my 'sister' and one heck of a artist."
"Cool." Geo said as he shook the outstretched hand and spoke. "Just a question, why are you two just out here instead of...?"
"It's Alex..." Sapphire said as she continued. "He sent us a text to meet up here and, since he hit a breakthrough, he wanted us to drop by to see how it turned out."
"It?" Geo asked as the door opened and they stepped in, the interior in a mess, but a orderly type before they spotted a small passage under and headed down through a case of stairs before they were standing before a series of capsules, Geo's eyes widening as Sapphire huffed. "Do we really have to do this, where is Alex in the first place?"
"Maybe, he is already in or something, let's just see what these capsules are all about..." Kentur answered as he walked over and pushed one open, Sapphire shrugging as she tapped on another and it opened before both slipped in and seemed to lay down before the capsules closed, Geo jumping before Mega hummed.
"This is a strange setup, what exactly did they get into...?"
"I don't know, but the likely thing is to check it out and see what is happening." Geo opened one and slipped in, the capsule closing before he felt something plastic land on his face and he dozed off as Mega started to shout before he too dropped in his Transer home...
Geo stirred before he sat up, jumping as he found that he was Mega Man and Mega started off in shock. "What the heck is...!?"
"Oh, you are awake." Geo turned to find three new figures, their presence that of humans holding the power of the EM Wave Change, the armor-clad soul the one speaking as the other two seemed to dance in the air, trails of water and droplets falling to their every move. "As you can tell, or not, I am Kentur, partnered with Perseus, to become Voltaic Demi, and Sapphire has become Pisces Tide, the way to tell them apart from their joyful behaviors and movements is a tricky one, can I..."
"That's enough, Kentur, you don't want to spoil the surprise." All four jumped as the Pisces Twin grappled each other in surprise as a familiar figure formed before them, strolling on in as Mega started.
"Alex, what the heck are you doing in here?"
"I am glad you asked, Omega-Xis, I think you will love this very deeply for its use." Lieutenant gestured to the wide open space that he had brought them to. "Welcome to the Holodrome, a arena that takes on active viruses and traps them here for the fighting pleasure, time within this place is calibrated down to a minute for a hundredth of a second on the outside world. It also serves me as a suitable and more stabilized environment for Conflict games, so that is also a plus."
"Wait..." Mega started again as he asked. "So we can just fight viruses within this place, no shortage of malfunctions, no problems with the software, and we can also play your crazy games in this place as well!?"
"Bingo!" Alex started to float as he continued, folding a leg as he explained it more. "I will involve the others slowly into this Holodrome for the ease of knowing how to face more viruses and what they look like, they can even go head-to-head with the more powerful forms to understand what the threats of uncontrollable power and emotions would look like, a safety measure, but this is not perfect, it must be purged every two weeks before it starts to malfunction, but with anyone using it, it will be a excellent experience, I'll keep the others at ease with you guys and your locations, just don't stay too long here, reality is not found here, but in the real world..." He disappeared just as quickly to let the viruses in, leaving Mega Man, Voltaic Demi, and Pisces Tide to ready themselves to fight and engaged, keeping Geo's skills sharp as the others learned how to fight to help keep the ways clear and peaceful...
Within a few minutes of hours of the simulation, Geo felt that he got the handle on it and lightly smiled to the fact that his Conflict name of 'StarMagnus' was apparent over his head, meaning that 'AvianStriker' was somewhere in the domain too before he paused. "Hey, Mega, Alex said that this world is continued to Conflict, are there any others that could have been on as well?"
"Sure, let's see who else has Alex roped into this crazy thing." A menu opened before Geo and he strolled through the stats that he had with Mega, their currently locked-down User Folder, and a number of settings that looked like environment requests and elemental changes to themselves before he opened the page that said 'Player Logs' and found several as Mega spoke. "Yep, Alex is still in here, we are sitting here, so I am guessing that 'Tourney' and 'RiverMuse' must be our little friends." Mega commented, but Geo was more interested to who 'CrownRule' and 'StarDust' were, he didn't recall anyone else in the game other than him, Alex, and his two friends. He could have just sat on before a voice spoke, a familiar voice.
"Are we sure that he has actually worked out the bugs thoroughly enough that we won't faint from fantasies again?"
"Oh, darling, I am sure that he would not do that to us again, he did explain that we were the fault for that." Geo jumped to his feet as the air started to digitize someone in and they landed on their feet as she dusted herself off, the second voice continuing. "Now then, let's..." It paused as the figure looked up as well and Geo stared back at the greens of his first Brother who looked as shocked as him before a smile emerged and she shouted, leaping for him.
"GEO!" He caught Sonia as she hugged him in her Harp Note appearance. "I didn't know that you play this game too!"
"Y-Yeah, it actually was the thing that connected me and Alex." Geo spoke before he released and looked about in puzzlement, having noticed that Sonia's name was 'StarDust'. "What I don't get is why did he make this huge thing, just for what...?"
"Yeah, it's weird..." Sonia spoke as she rested a hand on her hip and hummed. "He was secretive about it as well as Lyra felt that he was hiding something, even said that Borealis was rather quiet about it, even when he had regained the ability to talk normally."
"I wonder..." Geo hummed before a display appeared before them, both reading it as it showed off something. The words of 'Rampant Bull' read out and their eyes opened as Geo started. "Taurus... Could Alex be...?"
"Only one way to find out." Sonia pulled off her guitar and strummed, conjuring a note to ferry them as she leapt on. "Get on!" Geo joined and the note took off, zooming toward the placement that Taurus could be found, dodging downward as they rolled and found themselves before Taurus, his green gazing back at them as he commented.
"Oh, I get it now..." The fire-elemental FM-ian said before he laughed heartily. "The young man said as much, but I should explain this out, he wanted me to be put through my paces in this digital world." He laughed once more as flames consumed him before he towered over them as Taurus Fire. "And as a added bonus for this, I will also showcase the 'User Program' he wanted to imply as well, not bad for a bull-headed warrior, eh?" The flames persisted before both gasped as Jammers stumbled out, their appearance turning red with bull horns growing from their skulls before they stood up as Taurus continued, the green glimmering. "A special quality to the User Program allows any summoned EM viruses to take on similar traits as their master, so let's burn!"
"Okay... now I am deeply concerned, Taurus-empowered viruses..."
"We can take them, Mega." Geo stated as the both of them readied before he charged with Sonia behind him. "Let's put these guys down and deal with Taurus quickly before more come." The tag-team fought against the fire-empowered Jammers and their master...
(-At a long distance from the battle-)
"Shouldn't you tell them that Taurus is right now bound to Bud?"
"I should..." Lieutenant smiled as he leaned back some as Queen Ophiuca or rather Luna Platz in her EM Wave form continued to observe the battle occurring from a invisible spectator platform rigged to preview the battles and the settings that had been engaged. "...But I will tell them later, I need to make sure that the system is functioning right." He tapped across a dashboard as Luna watched the fight going down and hummed with some displeasure.
"I just hate to see fighting, even if it is needed, I just dislike it rather than hate."
"I know, but you also need to understand how the User Program operates before I can install it into your Transer, though if we often deal with new tech, I will adjust the settings to match, both in the Holodrome and for our devices." Luna nodded as she coiled and conjured a mini MopLance before running her hand through its grassy mop of hair as she hummed.
"Still, are you sure that you want to involve us with this, I am not going to imagine how much this whole thing is going to be and I would hate for you to be so driven by this that you lose it all."
"Don't worry about it, Luna." Alex chuckled as he continued. "Mr. Boreal takes any repairs that I make back with him and splits the cut with me at a forty-sixty divide and I have a hand in the average business practices with your folks to guide them through and advise them on appropriate measures and plans. That ensures that I keep them in line and keep money on hand before all this business with the EM Waves, now I am actually profiting from both the Real World and the Wave World from how much Zenny I obtain, besides it helps sharpens my skills as well as Geo." Luna nodded as she turned back to the battle that Taurus was putting up, Alex having explained that he was in his SP Wave form which makes him the strongest right now.
"...Are you sure, Alex...?"
"Of course, Luna, despite how Sonia interact with Geo, he is rather dull, so keep close and give him a reason to REALLY like you." He laughed as she swatted the back of his head and she pouted like a child as he continued to work on the data, pausing for a moment with a smile as he found his father... the folder's name being 'The Cunning Engineer' before he poured into the data a bit more, collecting the battle data that Geo and Sonia were displaying and adding in the data for the User Program for further reference and details...