Chapter V - The punishment.

Most of the resistance members became tired of the constantly making sure things worked and were safe. Netto had given up encouraging, it didn't really work anyway, there didn't seem to be any sign of the WWW.

He leaned on an empty desk and sighed. 'Can't stop thinking about you. what is happening there.I need to know.' Rockman had just finished his last rountines and stared at him. "Netto- kun, don't you think it's best to get some sleep? I don't think they're gonna attack us anymore. "

"You never know Rock. they're evil bastards all of them.", he was overly tired and had trouble with keeping his eyes open. He kept staring at the screens in the hope to get a message from Enzan.

Glenn tapped his shoulders suddenly. "Netto. I don't believe Enzan is doing these bad things, the few says he's evil and stuff, but I don't believe it. he saved me!" Netto smiled faintly. "You're absolutely right Glenn. I see you healed" The young boy nodded and smiled. "Enzan will be back right? He'll save us along with you!" - "Yeah, never lose faith in the blue eyes.", his mood cheered up a bit.

The door got slammed open loudly, Enzan shot up and stared at the two tall big men in the dooropening. He narrowed his eyes as they slowly adjusted to the overdosis of light suddenly. The two men walked over to him and grabbed his arms tightly and roughly and dragged him out of the room.

"HEY What's the meaning of all this?!" he shouted as he was thrown into another room where Gail was waiting for him. Gail smirked and sat down on a chair. "Ijyuuin Enzan. young fool, to bad ne? you started pretty good joining us. I should've know the pretty blue eyes held deceit within. It's impossible to see any lively eyes in these times."

He snapped his fingers as Enzan suddenly got surrounded by a few big guys. It didn't seem to scare the boy as he kept staring at Gail dryly. "Imposating me isn't gonna work, not even the biggest warmachines will scare me Gail. I am not afraid to die."

A sudden grin overcame the demonic leader's. "Oh offcourse not, What do you have left anyway hmm?" once again he snapped his fingers as one of the thugs grabbed the PET from his pocket. "I heard you two talk over yesterday, great aren't they, those little spying gadgetry."

The boy's eyes narrowed a little. "You. " he breathed undertoned. Gail let out an icy laugh, "That expression is wonderfull, just like the Hikari boy's missing parents, just like ALL THE PARENTS!!" he suddenly screamed outloud laughing almost insanely.

"You are just so sad Gail" Enzan suddenly said dryly closing his eyes and pointing his head towards the ground. The man sat back and grinned enjoyable. "My dear boy, you're so unbearably wrong. and so incredibly naïve."

He switched positions and grabbed his chin and made him stare directly into his eyes. "You really think you're the one that can save them do you. and even though you know they wont accept you anymore, you lost Ijyuuin. the game is over." He pushed him back roughly into the arms of the thugs. Enzan didn't fight them at all, if he had to die it was that way, he wouldn't care.

"Kick his ass boys, maybe he'll talk if he's taught some dicipline!", Gail shouted smiling and sat back again grabbing the Enzan's PET from one of the men's hands and stared at the screen. "So this must be the legendary Blues.exe, the sword warrior" Blues looked away, he knew things weren't to good around. Gail smiled and plugged him into a battle arena with Shadow Stalker. "Why don't you two have fun there. Hehahaha!!"

Enzan dodged the first to attacks of the men but the second and the third came harder. He was thrown onto the ground and pushed down by his head. One of the men raised him by the neck and squeezed it tight shut. He smiled as he saw the boy's blue eyes fade slowly.

"Beautifull life escaping his young blue eyes"

He let go just before he would lose conciousness, threw him on the ground where he let him lie coughing. Another thug suddenly kicked him hard in the stomach. Enzan gritted his teeth, then saw something that had fallen from his pocket. "Ngh. no.", he tried to speak as his hands reached out to the disk. It wasn't to well for Blues.exe either. Though he was in advantage with speed, without any suited battle chips his normal sword attacks didn't break through the dark navi's black armor. "Enzan-sama. I can't hold on much longer", the tired Navi said hoping his also grounded operator would somehow gather the strength to egt him out of this mess.

He wasn't pating attention to his enemy as he suddenly got beaten down and kept down by Shadow Stalker. "Well well, Legendary my ass, you're not THAT good, not as invinceable as you thought you were eh?", Shadow smirked as a long black blade formed from his right hand and moved down to Blues' neck. "Get ready to be deleted", he said evilly.

A sudden electrical blackout made the room completely dark and somehow logged Blues out back to his PET as another dark Navi entered the Arena for him, "..It has to stop.", He said with a deep voice. Then aimed his buster on Shadow Stalker and shot him down easily, stared at Gail for a second, smirked and made all the computers explode, then dissapeared.

Panic filled the room as the thugs started running around trying to put out the fire in the machinery. Enzan took his chance and silently crawled to his PET, grabbed it and searched for the disk. 'Blues. he's in the PET. good. the disk.. where is it.. ah', he picked it up and tucked the disk away. He glanced around if no one was looking, but appearantly the men were to busy extinguishing the fire and Gail to busy getting his Navi back.

'Ok my last chance, I'm getting out of here!', he thought as he stared running a bit difficult towards the door, opened it and ran out. "HEY! THAT IJYUUIN BOY IS ESCAPING!! FOLLOW HIM!" Gail suddenly shouted as he heard the door. Enzan had difficulties running, his stomache hurted as well as the rest of his body. But the exit was near.

He ran out of the door onto the street, dodged a few cars and looked back for a second. Gail was right behind him with some other guys. Enzan swallowed and tried to run harder. 'I can't go to the base, I'll endanger the rest of the crew.', he bit his lip again, once again it started bleeding. Good thing he knew the city well, the Resistance Net had many hideouts. He'd be able to shake them off somewhere in one if the old mansions.

Gail suddenly drew his gun. "I have a better Idea" he suddenly said to his thugs as they continued following the closely worn out boy. "Act asif you can't run anymore. I'll tell the rest later.", he commanded his henchmen as he ran on speeding up and loading the gun. 'You're gonna get me to that base, no matter what Ijyuuin.', he grinned as he pointed the gun at the young boy's right upper leg and shot.

The stinging pain hit him faster then he noticed it. He cried out in pain and fell to the ground curling up, listening to the voices far away. "I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME IJYUUIN!!" Gail and his men stared at Enzan lying on the ground, hopelessly bleeding in pain. "Perfect sight isn't it.well this is the plan, he will try to get to the base right? And bleeding like that I'm sure he'll leave a nice trace of blood to the base, or atleast a long while in the right direction, if we don't find it exactly we'll burn the entire district down." His sickening laugh filled the area as they walked away.

Enzan stared at the asphalt road, his blood coloring it red slowly. 'Not this way., please not like this.let me see his face one again.', he closed his eyes as tears ran down his face. Blues finished the recovering programs as he noticed something was wrong. "Enzan-sama! What's the matter?", he asked worried.

"Blues. I need to get up and get them the disk.I just have to.", Enzan spoke softly as his placed his arms under his exhausted body and pushed upwards, he looked around, not far from the actual base, he should be able to make it. Slowly he managed to rise from the ground, leaning on walls he slowly walked towards the Resistance Net head quarters.

Netto was lying on his bed staring up, it didn't really matter much anymore, they lost anyway. The defense units worn out with watching great emptyness, if they'd attack now, they'd surely be done for. Softly he sighed and closed his eyes, the nightmares had kept him awake for 2 days now.

Rockman had been working on the defense untis, not there to talk with him. Netto could feel his mind slowly escaping him as the walls of the small room almost seemed to closen in on him. The lonelyness and solitude. his never ment insultments, the smile on his face when he won again, the always hopefull blue eyes, the gems that always kept him believing there was a way. "Without you I can't fight them. and with you with them. I can't fight at all." he mumered.

Enzan finally arrived at the door thanks to Blues' constant cheering. He knocked the door softly and leaned against it. The young voice sounded. "Password?". The blue-eyed boy sighed and murmured a soft, "Sukoshimo Nai."

The door opened, but the boy wasn't very happy with what he saw. "GUYS!! IT'S THAT TRAITOR!! GET HIM!!" the child cried out loud as other children ran towards him, pulling the wounded young man into the building without trouble. A child jumped on his back, allready grounding him, tired as he was. 'I deserve this. I deserve it.Just let me die.'

A few kicks followed, untill Dekao walked into the room and saw him lying there, at first he narrowed his eyes, then walked closer. "Why did you return?! You don't belong here anymore, you dirty traitor!" He kicked him hard into his left side, Enzan cried out with an almost deafening scream. Netto shot up from his half-sleep-state and stared at the door, jumped out of his bed and ran down, to his surprise his hearing was right, it was Enzan's voice, but the showing he saw was something he didn't want to see. "ENZAN!!" he suddenly screamed and ran over to him pushing everybody out of his way roughly.

He kneeled besides the bleeding boy and stared at him, tears whelming up, once so proud, now broken down to his last bits of energy. Disturbing. Enzan stared back for a second, the blue returning when meeting the warm brown eyes, for a moment time seemed to stop. A powerfull stare, untill he passed out.