A Phoenix From The Ashes
By Majin Magus
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Chapter Three
The virals shot at the rebels and had taken care of most of them. Matrix, though, was blasting virals left and right. AndrAIa was speeding towards the fight, followed by Bob and Mouse.
A small 1 deleted a 0 and proudly turned around…
And crashed right into Megabyte.
"Megabyte!!" he cried, looking up at Megabyte. The girl the other virals had been talking about was here too, her right hand on the hilt of her sword.
Megabyte glanced at the viral. "Continue fighting, but we shall join you now," he ordered. Even though this was an odd order, the 1 nodded and rushed back to the battle. The rebels had just been joined by about fifty more fighters, and we pushing back the virals.
"Let's go," Phoenix said, her large sword in hand. With an evil grin directed at the rebels, she jumped forward into the battle. After a few nanos of watching Phoenix shove her sword into rebels and jerkily pull it out while they screamed in pain, Megabyte too leapt into the fray.
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"God damn it, get that Window of the battle up NOW!" Dot barked, eager to watch the battle if she couldn't fight. She had to stay behind in they didn't make it back, but she still wanted to know firsthand if they won or lost.
A window appeared. They battle in font of the Principal Office was portrayed in amazing detail, and Dot and the rest could see every inspiring or horrible detail.
Worried murmurs were exchanged as the 1s, 0s, and Dot watched the battle. When Bob and Mouse entered the battle, though, the virals were torn apart.
One of the 0s jumped. "What're those?" he asked, pointing at two blurs that were jumping around on the screen. One was a neon blue and the other a mix of yellow, brown, and a steely gray. Every time one of the blurs touched a rebel, the rebel was either painfully diced up or converted into a viral.
"Shit…they need help!!" Dot exclaimed, although she couldn't leave to assist them. She watched sadly as their forces were chopped down or turned into virals.
The 1 that was the technician cleared his throat. "I've been able to slow down previous data from the fight. Now we can see what these two dancing blurs are," he said, hitting a few keys. A second and third Window popped up.
In the Window to the left, a slowly moving girl was in mid-slash. Her sword was halfway through a 1, and he had shock look on his face. There was a malicious smile on her face as she cut him. After a few nanos of watching this painfully slow image, they saw the girl, whose eyes flashed from black to green for a moment, jump onto another 0 and stick her sword into him.
Dot shut her eyes and softly mouthed 'no.'
And in the other window, with a series of gasps, was Megabyte. He had an evil smile on his face as he slashed his extended yellow claws into a binome. This was a very unusual sight, because Megabyte never took part in many fights.
"I wonder why…BOB!!" Dot started, then screamed. Bob was featured in the fast moving fighting with the girl. He looked into the Window and then dodged a sword swipe from the Guardian.
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Phoenix grinned again and stabbed her sword at Bob. The Guardian dodged, flying up on his zip board. Phoenix frowned, then threw out a zip board and followed him.
"Why are you helping Megabyte?" Bob yelled as he tried to steer Phoenix away from the battle. He narrowed his eyes and went faster. If she wasn't in the fight she couldn't delete as many binomes.
"Simple: the infection he gave me that day has distorted my programming, and now I don't have to follow my Guardian protocol. That, and I think Megabyte should live. That may be the viral part of me talking." Phoenix snickered. "And I go by 'Phoenix' now!! I escaped Daemon's lair, you know!"
Bob's eyes widened for a nano, but then he regained focus as Phoenix chopped at him with her giant sword. With a grin, Phoenix leapt off her zip and at Bob. He didn't move for shock and they were both knocked into empty air. They were both many feet above the ground.
The good Guardian turned around as he fell and looked at Phoenix. "You'll delete us both!!" he yelled, as the air whistled around them. Phoenix turned with her back to him and the ground and laughed.
"I don't think so, Guardian," she said, glancing to her right. Bob followed her eyes and saw two viral 1s flying towards then on zip board. One threw a zip board at Phoenix which she hopped onto, and the other shot Bob. He blacked out and remembered no more.