Chapter VI - The Mistake
Netto stared outside and sighed, he hadn't eaten in the last 2 days enzan left the group. His thoughts only focussed on the eyes and his heart on the voice. 'He'll be back I'm sure of it. he even said he will be.', Slowly he closed his eyes and leaned forwards.
Suddenly his door got thrown open, Meiru stood in the dooropening panting lightly. "Netto-kun. trouble. BIG trouble" she stammered. Netto looked up at her, she seemed really upset about something. "What is it?" he asked dryly.
She got back to her breath and leaned on her knees. "Enzan. was spotted with WWW members." Netto's eyes shot wide open. 'Enzan.' "Ok. I'll take a look!" he said and grabbed his PET from the computer and ran outside.
Outside it was a chaos, people ran away from gunfire, Netto tried to through the mass and when he eventually did he saw what Meiru described for him. "ENZAN!!" he suddenly shouted and wanted to run towards him but was stopped by Dekao.
"Netto! Are you crazy? They'll shoot you!" he said pulling him back in the circle of people. Dekao stared at Enzan in the group, threatening just as much people. "Netto. our hackers found out he joined WWW. he's against us now. come on, we'd better go before they find out who we are" he said softly placing his hand on Netto's shoulder.
Tears suddenly ran over in the brown-eyed boy, he pulled loose as he pushed himself through all the people in front of them. His shoulders hurt, but he made it. "ENZAN!!!!" he shouted as loud as he could to the older boy pointing his gun at someone's head. He looked up a bit hasty and stared directly into Netto's eyes for a second, startled and ran off suddenly.
"ENZAN WAAIT!!" Netto cried. He started running after him but was stopped again by some other crewmembers and pulled into the crowd with force, back to the headquarters. In the headquarters Netto ran to his room crying hard and jumped onto his bed.
"WHY.. Why do you have to do this.how COULD you join them against us. how could you just believe I could take a stand against YOU of all people. " He said outloud staring outside at the mass, now moving. 'And why did you run away when you saw me. why. I should've followed you, at all cost, no matter how many people tried to stop me. I needed to know.'
He stared at his PET and Rockman who was quietly organizing things, then it shot into his mind. Synchronisation.
"Rockman." he said softly staring at the screen. It didn't take long before the blue navi looked at him and smiled. "Hi Netto-kun! What can I do for you ?" he asked cheery as always. Netto whiped his tears from his eyes and smiled faintly. "Let's go do some serious net diving! Synchro Hikari style!"
Rock lost his words for a second or two, then stuttered something, "N- Netto. synchro and using a real Navi. is.. s-suicide." The boy smirked. "We've done so much things that could've killed us! How could this be a big problem!"
The Navi shrugged. "That smile. did you copy that from Ijyuuin? It's very familiar." Netto giggled. "Maybe. But come on Rock! Let's do it!" he said encouraging, but Rock wasn't completely agreeing. "Now.. Netto-kun for what would you risk your life. and mine so easily?", he asked dryly.
"Hmm. I think you know for who." The human said staring at the ceiling. "besides Navi's are supposed to do everything the opperator says!"Netto said cheery running towards the synchro room. Rock just shrugged again. "Ok, but I still think it's suicide."
The synchro room hadn't been used for 3 years now, not since two crewmembers died here. Netto felt a small shiver go down his spine, the two best hackers died here. He ignored the strange thoughts that entered his mind and sat down on a synchro chair, plugged in the PET and got ready for the process. "Well here we go Rockman.. PLUGIN!! Rockman.exe Synchro!" He pressed the button as soon a white flash took them to the net.
'Will you be there.?'
Enzan didn't stop running untill his legs couldn't take it anymore. He let himself just fall onto his knees, breathing fast and ragged. 'Netto. saw me. the thing I wanted to make sure didn't happen..', he closed his eyes tightly bolded his fists and squeezed hard.
'Netto saw me. the WWW-members will trace me down and asked why I acted so stupid.damnit this plan is failing even worse then I thought it would.' He slammed his fist into the ground hard then leaned on his now bleeding hand. 'Why did you have to see me. why do you have to make it so hard for me.' He bit his lip untill it bled, tears whelming up in his eyes.
"I HATE YOU!!!" he suddenly screamed outloud as blood dripped from his mouth. " WHY DOES IT ALWAYS HAVE TO BE YOU!! WHY CAN'T YOU JUST BE ON MY SIDE, WHY DO I EVEN DO THIS?!!" he added to it as tears flowed richely. 'That dream is only making things worse, that face of his. his eyes. ', he took a deep breath and whiped the blood from his mouth. 'If only I could tell you.'
Netto's Synchro trial went so good so far, he and Rock didn't encounter any strange things, nor signs of the one they looked for. No sign of Blues anywhere. "Hmm. it's to quiet here, and I don't think Blues is on this line at the moment."
Little did they know, a dark shadow in a corner watched them closely as he tried to figure out the acces where they came from. It didn't take very long untill he did. "Hey. you there, who do you think you are accesing the Global Line like, AND sychronized like that."
Rock turned around staring at the dark figure. "Ah oh. busted." The Navi laughed softly. "Stupid child, I know who you are, you're the Resistance Leader aren't you?", the soft laugh turned into a threatening icy laugh. "PREPARE TO DIE!!!" he screamed as he executed the battle routine.
Netto acted faster then the Navi could and plugged out fast. His breathing became ragged and his eyes wider. "We're. bust..ed.. It's.. over. the dream. every.thing." Rockman noticed how Netto's voice became higher with every word he said. Tears suddenly ran over. 'Enzan. why.'
"Netto-kun. maybe you shouldn't worry about Ijyuuin to much right now. I'm sure he's strong enough to take care of himself, we have to worry about the acces to our net." Rockman started carefully, not wanting to anger his twin.
The boy stared at the door. "Rockman, you're a navi. You wouldn't understand things like that I think." The navi stared at him. "Do you have any idea what you just said?", he asked softly. "No Rock, gomen ne." he sighed and grabbed his PET walking outside slowly.
Enzan's fingers hasted over the keyboard, it had to be done now and fast. 'Damnit copy faster. come on.' Blues.exe worked as fast as he could, copying the entire schedule of the WWW network, all the entrances possible.
The blue-eyed boy got a bit nervous as he heard footsteps on the hallway and the copying process was at 98%. "Come on Blues. hurry please.", he whispered to his Navi. The crimson navi finished just it time and got back into the PET. Enzan pulled the disk out and turned everything off and ran out of the room.
Unlucky as he was he bumped into the leader of the WWW, Gail, operator of the most feared NetNavi around, ShadowStalker, a costom navi, powered up to fight. "Well well, if it isn't Eugene.", Gail said dryly. Enzan stared at the ground, "Yes sir."
Gail laughed somewhat quirky then grabbed Enzan's collar and pulled him to 20 centimetres of his own head. "You know the leader of the Resistance Net. don't you." the man narrowed his eyes dangerously. "I tracked your data kid. your name is actualy Enzan Ijyuuin, former Official Netbattler. You used to be a member of the Resistance Net crew eh."
Enzan stayed unseemingly cool and just kept staring back dryly. Gail smirked. "You're gonna take me and the army to the Resistance Net nicely without any problems, and if you're good you might get a treat aswell." He threw him against the wall, walked over to him and cornered him between his arms. "So, where exactly is the Resistance hideout hmm?"
"I wouldn't know.", Enzan said dryly rolling his eyes. "and if I did, are you that stupid to think I would tell you?" Gail obviously didn't exactly like it. "WHAT?!" he snarled angry. "Oh and tempered too. some combination. stupid temper." Enzan said staring directly into his eyes.
The first blow was a hard one, it got him 2 metres from his original spot. Gail stared at him getting up and patting the dust from his shirt. He narrowed his eyes again and walked over to the boy threatening. "You sure have the guts for a 17-year-old BRAT!" He grabbed his neck and raised him by it.
"There. I'll torture you if necisary but you'll tell me where they are, they'll die. ALL OF THEM!" Suddenly Enzan narrowed his eyes, a sudden anger was sensable from his aura. "YOU will NOT touch ANY OF THEM!! NOT as long as I'M still alive to be there to protect them!!", he managed to get free from the iron grip of Gail and rolled backwards drawing his gun and pointing it at him.
"Now.. It wasn't exactly smart to anger me. I can get pretty nasty when I'm angry.". Enzan spoke a bit undertoned. He fastened his grip on the gun and loaded it. "Maybe it's time to join the spiritual wolrd mister, you don't appease me the last bit. Gail stared at him dryly. "Kid, you dun have the guts to shoot me.", he said signalling to someone behind Enzan subtilly.
Enzan narrowed his eyes more. "Die. WWW Scum.." Just as he was about to pull the trigger, it all turned black for him, the only thing he felt was a hard smack onto the ground. Gail stared at the unconcious body and smirked. "Well get him to that dark isolating room"
Netto's eyes drifted from screen to screen, no invaders to be seen. The Netkeepers of the security walls were working on it non stop but no invasion has been seen. "Best not to stop now, I'm sure they'll go and look for us soon." Netto said encouraging. 'I wonder how Enzan is now.'
He woke up in a dark room, no windows, and even the door wasn't visable. He sighed and checked his pockets, then sighed relieved. "Blues. you still there?" he wispered. Blues popped onto the screen, "I'm here Enzan-sama, is there som. hmm never mind, what happened?"
Enzan shook his head lightly. "I made a mistake. a terrible mistake", he sighed. "I just wanted to get the data and leave again. instead, Netto saw me in the WWW group and so did the rest of the crew, I'm sure everyone hates me now." Blues shook his long silver hair back and sat down. "Well everyone here hates you for lying to them and betraying them, but tell me, do you think that young Hikari hates you for this?"
The boy bit the wound on his lip open again. "Why wouldn't he, he's got every reason to.", he sighed and burried his face in his hands. The crimson Navi stared at him for a while. "Enzan-sama. you'll see him again, you'll see everyone again. We're gonna get out of this mess, like we always did ok? Don't be all down now."
Netto stared outside and sighed, he hadn't eaten in the last 2 days enzan left the group. His thoughts only focussed on the eyes and his heart on the voice. 'He'll be back I'm sure of it. he even said he will be.', Slowly he closed his eyes and leaned forwards.
Suddenly his door got thrown open, Meiru stood in the dooropening panting lightly. "Netto-kun. trouble. BIG trouble" she stammered. Netto looked up at her, she seemed really upset about something. "What is it?" he asked dryly.
She got back to her breath and leaned on her knees. "Enzan. was spotted with WWW members." Netto's eyes shot wide open. 'Enzan.' "Ok. I'll take a look!" he said and grabbed his PET from the computer and ran outside.
Outside it was a chaos, people ran away from gunfire, Netto tried to through the mass and when he eventually did he saw what Meiru described for him. "ENZAN!!" he suddenly shouted and wanted to run towards him but was stopped by Dekao.
"Netto! Are you crazy? They'll shoot you!" he said pulling him back in the circle of people. Dekao stared at Enzan in the group, threatening just as much people. "Netto. our hackers found out he joined WWW. he's against us now. come on, we'd better go before they find out who we are" he said softly placing his hand on Netto's shoulder.
Tears suddenly ran over in the brown-eyed boy, he pulled loose as he pushed himself through all the people in front of them. His shoulders hurt, but he made it. "ENZAN!!!!" he shouted as loud as he could to the older boy pointing his gun at someone's head. He looked up a bit hasty and stared directly into Netto's eyes for a second, startled and ran off suddenly.
"ENZAN WAAIT!!" Netto cried. He started running after him but was stopped again by some other crewmembers and pulled into the crowd with force, back to the headquarters. In the headquarters Netto ran to his room crying hard and jumped onto his bed.
"WHY.. Why do you have to do this.how COULD you join them against us. how could you just believe I could take a stand against YOU of all people. " He said outloud staring outside at the mass, now moving. 'And why did you run away when you saw me. why. I should've followed you, at all cost, no matter how many people tried to stop me. I needed to know.'
He stared at his PET and Rockman who was quietly organizing things, then it shot into his mind. Synchronisation.
"Rockman." he said softly staring at the screen. It didn't take long before the blue navi looked at him and smiled. "Hi Netto-kun! What can I do for you ?" he asked cheery as always. Netto whiped his tears from his eyes and smiled faintly. "Let's go do some serious net diving! Synchro Hikari style!"
Rock lost his words for a second or two, then stuttered something, "N- Netto. synchro and using a real Navi. is.. s-suicide." The boy smirked. "We've done so much things that could've killed us! How could this be a big problem!"
The Navi shrugged. "That smile. did you copy that from Ijyuuin? It's very familiar." Netto giggled. "Maybe. But come on Rock! Let's do it!" he said encouraging, but Rock wasn't completely agreeing. "Now.. Netto-kun for what would you risk your life. and mine so easily?", he asked dryly.
"Hmm. I think you know for who." The human said staring at the ceiling. "besides Navi's are supposed to do everything the opperator says!"Netto said cheery running towards the synchro room. Rock just shrugged again. "Ok, but I still think it's suicide."
The synchro room hadn't been used for 3 years now, not since two crewmembers died here. Netto felt a small shiver go down his spine, the two best hackers died here. He ignored the strange thoughts that entered his mind and sat down on a synchro chair, plugged in the PET and got ready for the process. "Well here we go Rockman.. PLUGIN!! Rockman.exe Synchro!" He pressed the button as soon a white flash took them to the net.
'Will you be there.?'
Enzan didn't stop running untill his legs couldn't take it anymore. He let himself just fall onto his knees, breathing fast and ragged. 'Netto. saw me. the thing I wanted to make sure didn't happen..', he closed his eyes tightly bolded his fists and squeezed hard.
'Netto saw me. the WWW-members will trace me down and asked why I acted so stupid.damnit this plan is failing even worse then I thought it would.' He slammed his fist into the ground hard then leaned on his now bleeding hand. 'Why did you have to see me. why do you have to make it so hard for me.' He bit his lip untill it bled, tears whelming up in his eyes.
"I HATE YOU!!!" he suddenly screamed outloud as blood dripped from his mouth. " WHY DOES IT ALWAYS HAVE TO BE YOU!! WHY CAN'T YOU JUST BE ON MY SIDE, WHY DO I EVEN DO THIS?!!" he added to it as tears flowed richely. 'That dream is only making things worse, that face of his. his eyes. ', he took a deep breath and whiped the blood from his mouth. 'If only I could tell you.'
Netto's Synchro trial went so good so far, he and Rock didn't encounter any strange things, nor signs of the one they looked for. No sign of Blues anywhere. "Hmm. it's to quiet here, and I don't think Blues is on this line at the moment."
Little did they know, a dark shadow in a corner watched them closely as he tried to figure out the acces where they came from. It didn't take very long untill he did. "Hey. you there, who do you think you are accesing the Global Line like, AND sychronized like that."
Rock turned around staring at the dark figure. "Ah oh. busted." The Navi laughed softly. "Stupid child, I know who you are, you're the Resistance Leader aren't you?", the soft laugh turned into a threatening icy laugh. "PREPARE TO DIE!!!" he screamed as he executed the battle routine.
Netto acted faster then the Navi could and plugged out fast. His breathing became ragged and his eyes wider. "We're. bust..ed.. It's.. over. the dream. every.thing." Rockman noticed how Netto's voice became higher with every word he said. Tears suddenly ran over. 'Enzan. why.'
"Netto-kun. maybe you shouldn't worry about Ijyuuin to much right now. I'm sure he's strong enough to take care of himself, we have to worry about the acces to our net." Rockman started carefully, not wanting to anger his twin.
The boy stared at the door. "Rockman, you're a navi. You wouldn't understand things like that I think." The navi stared at him. "Do you have any idea what you just said?", he asked softly. "No Rock, gomen ne." he sighed and grabbed his PET walking outside slowly.
Enzan's fingers hasted over the keyboard, it had to be done now and fast. 'Damnit copy faster. come on.' Blues.exe worked as fast as he could, copying the entire schedule of the WWW network, all the entrances possible.
The blue-eyed boy got a bit nervous as he heard footsteps on the hallway and the copying process was at 98%. "Come on Blues. hurry please.", he whispered to his Navi. The crimson navi finished just it time and got back into the PET. Enzan pulled the disk out and turned everything off and ran out of the room.
Unlucky as he was he bumped into the leader of the WWW, Gail, operator of the most feared NetNavi around, ShadowStalker, a costom navi, powered up to fight. "Well well, if it isn't Eugene.", Gail said dryly. Enzan stared at the ground, "Yes sir."
Gail laughed somewhat quirky then grabbed Enzan's collar and pulled him to 20 centimetres of his own head. "You know the leader of the Resistance Net. don't you." the man narrowed his eyes dangerously. "I tracked your data kid. your name is actualy Enzan Ijyuuin, former Official Netbattler. You used to be a member of the Resistance Net crew eh."
Enzan stayed unseemingly cool and just kept staring back dryly. Gail smirked. "You're gonna take me and the army to the Resistance Net nicely without any problems, and if you're good you might get a treat aswell." He threw him against the wall, walked over to him and cornered him between his arms. "So, where exactly is the Resistance hideout hmm?"
"I wouldn't know.", Enzan said dryly rolling his eyes. "and if I did, are you that stupid to think I would tell you?" Gail obviously didn't exactly like it. "WHAT?!" he snarled angry. "Oh and tempered too. some combination. stupid temper." Enzan said staring directly into his eyes.
The first blow was a hard one, it got him 2 metres from his original spot. Gail stared at him getting up and patting the dust from his shirt. He narrowed his eyes again and walked over to the boy threatening. "You sure have the guts for a 17-year-old BRAT!" He grabbed his neck and raised him by it.
"There. I'll torture you if necisary but you'll tell me where they are, they'll die. ALL OF THEM!" Suddenly Enzan narrowed his eyes, a sudden anger was sensable from his aura. "YOU will NOT touch ANY OF THEM!! NOT as long as I'M still alive to be there to protect them!!", he managed to get free from the iron grip of Gail and rolled backwards drawing his gun and pointing it at him.
"Now.. It wasn't exactly smart to anger me. I can get pretty nasty when I'm angry.". Enzan spoke a bit undertoned. He fastened his grip on the gun and loaded it. "Maybe it's time to join the spiritual wolrd mister, you don't appease me the last bit. Gail stared at him dryly. "Kid, you dun have the guts to shoot me.", he said signalling to someone behind Enzan subtilly.
Enzan narrowed his eyes more. "Die. WWW Scum.." Just as he was about to pull the trigger, it all turned black for him, the only thing he felt was a hard smack onto the ground. Gail stared at the unconcious body and smirked. "Well get him to that dark isolating room"
Netto's eyes drifted from screen to screen, no invaders to be seen. The Netkeepers of the security walls were working on it non stop but no invasion has been seen. "Best not to stop now, I'm sure they'll go and look for us soon." Netto said encouraging. 'I wonder how Enzan is now.'
He woke up in a dark room, no windows, and even the door wasn't visable. He sighed and checked his pockets, then sighed relieved. "Blues. you still there?" he wispered. Blues popped onto the screen, "I'm here Enzan-sama, is there som. hmm never mind, what happened?"
Enzan shook his head lightly. "I made a mistake. a terrible mistake", he sighed. "I just wanted to get the data and leave again. instead, Netto saw me in the WWW group and so did the rest of the crew, I'm sure everyone hates me now." Blues shook his long silver hair back and sat down. "Well everyone here hates you for lying to them and betraying them, but tell me, do you think that young Hikari hates you for this?"
The boy bit the wound on his lip open again. "Why wouldn't he, he's got every reason to.", he sighed and burried his face in his hands. The crimson Navi stared at him for a while. "Enzan-sama. you'll see him again, you'll see everyone again. We're gonna get out of this mess, like we always did ok? Don't be all down now."