Chapter VII - "Not Gonna get us"
The morning light had hardly broke through or the horrible beeping sound of an alarm sounded. Netto shot up, he knew perfectly well what that sound was. Rockman wasn't in the PET and there was a lot of hussle on the hallways. For a moment he stared outside as his stomache knotted.
An army of dark marine blue clad men walked directing their hideout. "WWW. here?", he felt his breath picking up pace and his body trembling. Then rose from his bed and ran out to the control rooms after putting on some clothes. After almost rolling down the staircase he reached the room where he say the crewmembers massivly getting their Navi's into their PETs.
"What's going on here?!", Netto suddenly bolted a bit irritated. Dekao turned around and stared at him as he plugged out Gutsman.exe. "Your 'saviours' program didn't only erase our enitre security system, but also half of our defense Navi's. the thing was virus infected Netto.", He looked back at the screens then walked past him coldly.
Netto felt his heart beat faster, that's why he saw the WWW-men nearby their base. 'Enzan. I have to find him!', he thought while running upto Enzan's room, when he threw the door open all he was surprised. No Enzan. He ran towards the open window and stared outside both ways. "Enzan?!" he shouted while climbing out of the window to the gutter.
Enzan stood on the roof, wind through his hair, an icy cold stare towards the center of the city. "Netto-kun.", he said completely monotome. Netto stared at him, narrowed his eyes lightly. "It didn't work. did you know that?", The younger boy tried to keep his anger surpressed. "I knew." he stared at him with the cold blue eyes suddenly. "I felt it yesterday night, very clearly. And something else."
Netto didn't exactly believe what he heard. "You knew?! And you didn't tell me?! What is this some kind of plot for the WWW?!", his mind raged, while his feelings cried out. Heart and mind in a painfull quarrel he found himself nearly crying. "I trusted you!", he cried out loudly.
Enzan's face stayed horribly emotionless, almost asif he couldn't care less. "Shut up, do as I say and we'll be allright." he said calmly and walked past him dryly, climbed back through his window and grabbed his PET. Netto stared at the place the blue eyes stared at him a minute before. Completely stunned by the daring act he just showed. "Why can't I understand you.", he sighed and followed him inside.
Enzan stood infront of the crew for the first time, he felt nothing. "Listen up!, I know I might have made some mistakes but I need you all to do exactly what I tell you to do, if not it will certainly cost you your life! I want everyone to evacuate and go to the smaller underground emergency base, set up all the firewalls that are not deleted yet and make sure not any Navi goes beyond the walls of the Firewall, Netto and I will take care of the WWW from inside out. Furthermore I wanna make up teams, 3 teams will opperate within the new base, Defense, Hackers and Backup, to your choice about who does what understood?". The crewmembers nodded understandingly. "MOST important of ALL is NOT to panic at ALL time, the WWW might be on their way here, but we're all gonna get out of this alive understood?!" The last words struck harder then he thiought they would. Dekao rose from his chair aswell as some others from the crew. "How can they know that we are here?!"
Enzan sighed. "I was shot in my upper leg by the leader, Gail. He made sure I could still walk on it, but it had to bleed badly, I found it out this morning, it bled horribly, so he'll use a trail of my blood to find the base. I'm sorry." Yaito suddenly rose from her chair and narrowed her eyes. "And how can we trust you now eh?!" she shouted out.
Netto walked up next to Enzan with a sad face and placed his hand on Enzan's shoulder. "You can trust him now. He went to the WWW to try to get the data to save us, he never ment to kill us.". The older boy stared at Netto, somewhat surprised the anger from before had just flown out.
"Thanks Netto-kun. As for the plan, I want it to execute right this instant!" he stared at Netto for a minute then at his PET screen and nodded at Blues.exe. Netto sighed deeply and stared at his PET. "Well Enzan, I'm ready to go." The crew allready scattered and formed groups as the first allready started to leave the base.
"This is it Netto-kun. Ready for victory or the ultimate defeat. your life?" Enzan said dryly as he grabbed something from underneath his pillow and put it into his backpack. Netto's eyes shifted from his PET screen to Enzan. "I think I am . besides, this life the way it is now. is just a nightmare, it's time to wake up."
Enzan smiled faintly at him and grabbed a gun from the backback and loaded it. "Ne, don't think wrong of it, but there will be some victims in this war, let's just hope the destraction group over here holds up most of the men, and the firewalls keep up the WWW hackers and virusses. then it shouldn't be hard to kill Gail."
Netto stared at him. "You're really planning to kill someone Enzan?". The older boy turned around and stared at him. "I don't think one will do.", with that as last words he threw the backpack on his back and walked out. "Coming or not?", he asked Netto, who still stood in the middle of the room, having his doubts about killing.
'I'm not sure if I can do this.', He thought while slowly following Enzan towards a car parked infront of the building. Enzan stared at the car then shot the window calmly, Netto startled and wrapped his arms around his own body defensively.
The rest of the car window fell out easily. The blue eyes searched for any alarm systems but found none, then he opened the door and stepped in while opening the other door for his friend. "Get in and hurry up, we have to get out NOW!" He hissed at the slightly scared boy who took his time to get in the car.
Enzan fidgetted with some wires as the engine stared and he stared at the road in front of him, turned the headlights on and narrowed his eyes as he saw a few men of the WWW heading their way. He fastened his seatbelt and signalled Netto to do so too coldly.
Netto's thoughts raced through his mind, it felt horribly wrong, but right at the same time. It just had to stop. Enzan's eyes seemed colder then usual as he suddenly hit it, the engine fired up and the car speeded up, the men infront of them startled as he closened into them gaining more speed.
The younger boy closed his eyes as tears ran down, a first shock to the car's bumpers startled him as he took a peek. Blood shedded the windshield, the wipers cleaning it frantically. He could feel his senses escaping him as he heard gunshots, fear overruled his being as he felt a second bump against the car. His sight drifted off to Enzan's face. "E-Enzan. you killed..p-people.", he stuttered softly as another tear ran down his face.
No reply, just a gun pointed at a man infront of them, a shot and another bump. "SHIT!" the only word he heard, a sharp turn then a full break. "Traffic Jam.", a sigh escaped his lungs as he stared in the rear-view mirror. "we lost them. for now. just have to get to the base, that's all that counts now." He stared at Netto's face, fixated on the bloodtraces on the windshield.
Enzan noticed the fear in his eyes as he paid faint attention to the road ahead of him, "Netto. ", he said softly, unlike his usual sharp tone when in danger. He smiled faintly when his eyes met the scared boy's. "We're gonna live through this, I can feel it, our gang will be ok, I promise you that!".
Netto stared at him, tears in his eyes and glass shards over his clothes, drenched in blood. "Our parents.", he stuttered, "Our parents were our only goal, we once decided that to save our parents was what we fought for, not to kill people so we can live, you didn't say we were going to kill people Enzan.", he added to it as he trembled.
The blue eyes fixated back on the road in front of them, he sighed then stared at Netto again. "Listen, Gail said. He said something that angered me while I was with the WWW, I don't have much time to explain now, but. Gail said he killed them all..". Netto's eyes widened, "KILLED THEM?!", he sudden cried out.
Enzan nodded slowly and stared at the rear-view mirror and startled. "SHIT!!" his eyes shot back to the cars infront of him and spotted an open lane, drove onto it and fired the engine up. His hands raced back and forth from the gears to the wheel speed gaining faster. Three motorcycles drove next to them as they reached the suspension bridge.
Netto covered his eyes as he felt a few loud bumps to the sides of the car. "They're Ramming us damnit!!", Enzan shouted out as he did his best to keep control over the car. The younger boy stared out carefully as clouds packed over them, rain starting to pour down at a crazy rate. He felt his stomache knot again, it hurted.
Enzan regained his cool over the car and his raging anger as he saw something on the bridge in their way. However Netto couldn't sit still as they enclosened the tilt oiltruck on the bridge. Instead of slowling down he speeded up as the motor cycles lessed speed. An almost demonic smirk crossed Enzan's face as he drove into the oil and speeded up the ramp made out of crashed cars.
Their small flight didn't take longer then 5 seconds, but he did make it. A fast victorious laugh escaped his throat as he looked back for a second and saw a big explosion and a rapidly building fire. Netto took a deep breath after he reminded himself he had to continue breathing, he took that time to get to his senses.
"Enzan. where the hell did you learn to drive that way?!", he said completely out of breath. The older boy just smiled and stared in front of him. "I never learned to drive, it's called common sense Netto-kun.", his voice was cool and sly as usual. It somewhat scared the younger boy as he sat down normally on his chair and sighed relieved as he saw the end of the bridge closing in.
For a moment things seemed ok. The road in front of them was empty, the water at one side and the packhouses at the other side. He drove calmly and stared at the fire still heeding the bridge. "Oh god.. These guys don't know when to quit do they.", Enzan said softly while speeding up again and staring in the mirrors, another escort or motorcycles were after them again.
One of them speeded up and drove next to them while a person on the back aimed guns at them. Enzan noticed to late and the first shot was on the dashboard, nothing bad, but it did startle him, he gave a swift pull to the wheel clutching the motor between the car and the water, another push of the side of the car made them lose balance and land into the water. The other side was also swiftly overruled as a sniper on the back of the motorcycle on the right pointed a gun at Netto's head.
Enzan's eyes narrowed as he suddenly steered to the right and trapped the enemy between a wall, squishing them. Then fixated at the last behind him, an easy prey as he stod full on the breaks making them crash into the back of the car, speeded up fast and drove off into an alleyway intentionally crashing the car. He jumped out and over the hood of the car to Netto's side, pulled him out of the car and started running. "We're close now, we can run the last part", he said as he firmly held on to the younger boy's hands and ran into the direction of a huge complex.
The morning light had hardly broke through or the horrible beeping sound of an alarm sounded. Netto shot up, he knew perfectly well what that sound was. Rockman wasn't in the PET and there was a lot of hussle on the hallways. For a moment he stared outside as his stomache knotted.
An army of dark marine blue clad men walked directing their hideout. "WWW. here?", he felt his breath picking up pace and his body trembling. Then rose from his bed and ran out to the control rooms after putting on some clothes. After almost rolling down the staircase he reached the room where he say the crewmembers massivly getting their Navi's into their PETs.
"What's going on here?!", Netto suddenly bolted a bit irritated. Dekao turned around and stared at him as he plugged out Gutsman.exe. "Your 'saviours' program didn't only erase our enitre security system, but also half of our defense Navi's. the thing was virus infected Netto.", He looked back at the screens then walked past him coldly.
Netto felt his heart beat faster, that's why he saw the WWW-men nearby their base. 'Enzan. I have to find him!', he thought while running upto Enzan's room, when he threw the door open all he was surprised. No Enzan. He ran towards the open window and stared outside both ways. "Enzan?!" he shouted while climbing out of the window to the gutter.
Enzan stood on the roof, wind through his hair, an icy cold stare towards the center of the city. "Netto-kun.", he said completely monotome. Netto stared at him, narrowed his eyes lightly. "It didn't work. did you know that?", The younger boy tried to keep his anger surpressed. "I knew." he stared at him with the cold blue eyes suddenly. "I felt it yesterday night, very clearly. And something else."
Netto didn't exactly believe what he heard. "You knew?! And you didn't tell me?! What is this some kind of plot for the WWW?!", his mind raged, while his feelings cried out. Heart and mind in a painfull quarrel he found himself nearly crying. "I trusted you!", he cried out loudly.
Enzan's face stayed horribly emotionless, almost asif he couldn't care less. "Shut up, do as I say and we'll be allright." he said calmly and walked past him dryly, climbed back through his window and grabbed his PET. Netto stared at the place the blue eyes stared at him a minute before. Completely stunned by the daring act he just showed. "Why can't I understand you.", he sighed and followed him inside.
Enzan stood infront of the crew for the first time, he felt nothing. "Listen up!, I know I might have made some mistakes but I need you all to do exactly what I tell you to do, if not it will certainly cost you your life! I want everyone to evacuate and go to the smaller underground emergency base, set up all the firewalls that are not deleted yet and make sure not any Navi goes beyond the walls of the Firewall, Netto and I will take care of the WWW from inside out. Furthermore I wanna make up teams, 3 teams will opperate within the new base, Defense, Hackers and Backup, to your choice about who does what understood?". The crewmembers nodded understandingly. "MOST important of ALL is NOT to panic at ALL time, the WWW might be on their way here, but we're all gonna get out of this alive understood?!" The last words struck harder then he thiought they would. Dekao rose from his chair aswell as some others from the crew. "How can they know that we are here?!"
Enzan sighed. "I was shot in my upper leg by the leader, Gail. He made sure I could still walk on it, but it had to bleed badly, I found it out this morning, it bled horribly, so he'll use a trail of my blood to find the base. I'm sorry." Yaito suddenly rose from her chair and narrowed her eyes. "And how can we trust you now eh?!" she shouted out.
Netto walked up next to Enzan with a sad face and placed his hand on Enzan's shoulder. "You can trust him now. He went to the WWW to try to get the data to save us, he never ment to kill us.". The older boy stared at Netto, somewhat surprised the anger from before had just flown out.
"Thanks Netto-kun. As for the plan, I want it to execute right this instant!" he stared at Netto for a minute then at his PET screen and nodded at Blues.exe. Netto sighed deeply and stared at his PET. "Well Enzan, I'm ready to go." The crew allready scattered and formed groups as the first allready started to leave the base.
"This is it Netto-kun. Ready for victory or the ultimate defeat. your life?" Enzan said dryly as he grabbed something from underneath his pillow and put it into his backpack. Netto's eyes shifted from his PET screen to Enzan. "I think I am . besides, this life the way it is now. is just a nightmare, it's time to wake up."
Enzan smiled faintly at him and grabbed a gun from the backback and loaded it. "Ne, don't think wrong of it, but there will be some victims in this war, let's just hope the destraction group over here holds up most of the men, and the firewalls keep up the WWW hackers and virusses. then it shouldn't be hard to kill Gail."
Netto stared at him. "You're really planning to kill someone Enzan?". The older boy turned around and stared at him. "I don't think one will do.", with that as last words he threw the backpack on his back and walked out. "Coming or not?", he asked Netto, who still stood in the middle of the room, having his doubts about killing.
'I'm not sure if I can do this.', He thought while slowly following Enzan towards a car parked infront of the building. Enzan stared at the car then shot the window calmly, Netto startled and wrapped his arms around his own body defensively.
The rest of the car window fell out easily. The blue eyes searched for any alarm systems but found none, then he opened the door and stepped in while opening the other door for his friend. "Get in and hurry up, we have to get out NOW!" He hissed at the slightly scared boy who took his time to get in the car.
Enzan fidgetted with some wires as the engine stared and he stared at the road in front of him, turned the headlights on and narrowed his eyes as he saw a few men of the WWW heading their way. He fastened his seatbelt and signalled Netto to do so too coldly.
Netto's thoughts raced through his mind, it felt horribly wrong, but right at the same time. It just had to stop. Enzan's eyes seemed colder then usual as he suddenly hit it, the engine fired up and the car speeded up, the men infront of them startled as he closened into them gaining more speed.
The younger boy closed his eyes as tears ran down, a first shock to the car's bumpers startled him as he took a peek. Blood shedded the windshield, the wipers cleaning it frantically. He could feel his senses escaping him as he heard gunshots, fear overruled his being as he felt a second bump against the car. His sight drifted off to Enzan's face. "E-Enzan. you killed..p-people.", he stuttered softly as another tear ran down his face.
No reply, just a gun pointed at a man infront of them, a shot and another bump. "SHIT!" the only word he heard, a sharp turn then a full break. "Traffic Jam.", a sigh escaped his lungs as he stared in the rear-view mirror. "we lost them. for now. just have to get to the base, that's all that counts now." He stared at Netto's face, fixated on the bloodtraces on the windshield.
Enzan noticed the fear in his eyes as he paid faint attention to the road ahead of him, "Netto. ", he said softly, unlike his usual sharp tone when in danger. He smiled faintly when his eyes met the scared boy's. "We're gonna live through this, I can feel it, our gang will be ok, I promise you that!".
Netto stared at him, tears in his eyes and glass shards over his clothes, drenched in blood. "Our parents.", he stuttered, "Our parents were our only goal, we once decided that to save our parents was what we fought for, not to kill people so we can live, you didn't say we were going to kill people Enzan.", he added to it as he trembled.
The blue eyes fixated back on the road in front of them, he sighed then stared at Netto again. "Listen, Gail said. He said something that angered me while I was with the WWW, I don't have much time to explain now, but. Gail said he killed them all..". Netto's eyes widened, "KILLED THEM?!", he sudden cried out.
Enzan nodded slowly and stared at the rear-view mirror and startled. "SHIT!!" his eyes shot back to the cars infront of him and spotted an open lane, drove onto it and fired the engine up. His hands raced back and forth from the gears to the wheel speed gaining faster. Three motorcycles drove next to them as they reached the suspension bridge.
Netto covered his eyes as he felt a few loud bumps to the sides of the car. "They're Ramming us damnit!!", Enzan shouted out as he did his best to keep control over the car. The younger boy stared out carefully as clouds packed over them, rain starting to pour down at a crazy rate. He felt his stomache knot again, it hurted.
Enzan regained his cool over the car and his raging anger as he saw something on the bridge in their way. However Netto couldn't sit still as they enclosened the tilt oiltruck on the bridge. Instead of slowling down he speeded up as the motor cycles lessed speed. An almost demonic smirk crossed Enzan's face as he drove into the oil and speeded up the ramp made out of crashed cars.
Their small flight didn't take longer then 5 seconds, but he did make it. A fast victorious laugh escaped his throat as he looked back for a second and saw a big explosion and a rapidly building fire. Netto took a deep breath after he reminded himself he had to continue breathing, he took that time to get to his senses.
"Enzan. where the hell did you learn to drive that way?!", he said completely out of breath. The older boy just smiled and stared in front of him. "I never learned to drive, it's called common sense Netto-kun.", his voice was cool and sly as usual. It somewhat scared the younger boy as he sat down normally on his chair and sighed relieved as he saw the end of the bridge closing in.
For a moment things seemed ok. The road in front of them was empty, the water at one side and the packhouses at the other side. He drove calmly and stared at the fire still heeding the bridge. "Oh god.. These guys don't know when to quit do they.", Enzan said softly while speeding up again and staring in the mirrors, another escort or motorcycles were after them again.
One of them speeded up and drove next to them while a person on the back aimed guns at them. Enzan noticed to late and the first shot was on the dashboard, nothing bad, but it did startle him, he gave a swift pull to the wheel clutching the motor between the car and the water, another push of the side of the car made them lose balance and land into the water. The other side was also swiftly overruled as a sniper on the back of the motorcycle on the right pointed a gun at Netto's head.
Enzan's eyes narrowed as he suddenly steered to the right and trapped the enemy between a wall, squishing them. Then fixated at the last behind him, an easy prey as he stod full on the breaks making them crash into the back of the car, speeded up fast and drove off into an alleyway intentionally crashing the car. He jumped out and over the hood of the car to Netto's side, pulled him out of the car and started running. "We're close now, we can run the last part", he said as he firmly held on to the younger boy's hands and ran into the direction of a huge complex.