This story is an in depth look at the life of Asashin Yobuu, black opts leader and top marksmen for the MINE.

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THUD!

The shot had hit home, and the black cloaked NAVI lay painfully on the ground. I engaged the Level MAX Invis3 and dropped to the ground. I approached the NAVI with painfully careful movements, if he discovered where I was, he could still get a shot off and delete me. "You have been targeted by the Assassin of Honor. You have been perceived as a threat, and you will cease all offending operations. This is just a warning, should you continue, I will be forced to delete you." And with that, I activated Get Away! and Jacked-Out.

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"Sir!" I saluted the commanding officer, known as Seradau, he was firm, but knew of my accomplishments. "I have delivered our message, and I am fully prepared to delete the offender at will!"

"No, that won't be necessary. We've recently received word from our Recon group that the installation has been destroyed." He cracked a smile, he couldn't contain his happiness. He had been personally targeted by this psudo-millitia and was quite pleased to see they no longer existed.

"Good. I await my next orders!" I smiled as well, it was hard to contain yourself when you have affected someone's life like I had.

"All right, willing as ever I see." He paused, "You are to track and locate the NAVI known as Shogokuso.Exe. Reports say he is targeting our NetBase, and Memdo Island Main Square." A picture of the NAVI to be targeted flashed on the large screen across from me. "This is Shogokuso.Exe, be aware, he is very powerful and possibly may be in control of two Supreme Level Chips. Be careful."

"As always, I will search and disable the target, and he will begin to see things our way." I chuckled.

"No, not this time. You are to delete this NAVI. He poses to great a risk to leave running around." Seradau turned to leave, "And I don't have to remind you, but as always. If you are caught, we deny any knowing of your existence."

"Of course sir. I will begin at once!" I was confused, "This is odd. I've never been ordered to delete a NAVI on the first run...I wonder...No, it can't be!" I thought, I shook off the sneaking suspicion I had and went to work. "Jezter.Exe, JACK IN!!"

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Well, right off the bat, I instructed Jezter on what and who we would be looking for this time. It was nothing new to him, up until I informed him that we would delete this NAVI on the first pass. He reluctantly agreed, he never liked deleting a NAVI without giving them a chance, but Seradau thought that he had already given up that right. Oh well. Jezter set off on the recon portion of the assignment. During the recon, Jezter will attempt to find out any and all information of the NAVI we are tailing. We determine who he/she works for, what they do and where they are now. I usually let Jezter do this on his own while I prepare a battle strategy based on the NAVI's strengths and weaknesses.

"Well buddy, I've got the intel!" Jezter beamed when he arrived, it was something good, I could tell. "Shogokuso is a leader of sorts to the net gang Kimori. They have mostly been involved in petty theft and some unauthorized deletions now and then. Until recently they were content with what they had been doing, but Shogokuso made a big discovery." Jezter's voice dropped low, "He found an EMP from before the net revolution..."

"No, it's not possible, all of the EMP's were destroyed or deactivated!" I was quite worried, if this were to be unleashed, it would mean the end of all the electronic data within Monitor Island.

"That's what I thought too. But, apparently, not all of them were destroyed. His operator, a Shugo Kimori, installed the pulse in Shogokuso's internal programming. In essence, he is a walking bomb. Add that to the risk of the bomb going off when we delete him and this is one risky situation."

"Yes, this is going to be quite challenging, and I understand why Seradau wanted him deleted in the first pass...By the way, did you discover where he is right now?" I needed to know this now, we had to act fast.

"Yes, he is in UnderDen, he currently should be involved in a round of Kimori recruitment's, so there will be plenty of opposition. Oh yes, did I mention Shogokuso and Shugo have an unusually high Synch rate? They can activate PA's." Jezter was worried, but ready and raring to go.

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After Jezter made the short trek to UnderDen, via our many links, I engaged his disguise program. This would mask his appearance, thus lessening the chance we would be exposed as the Assassin's of Honor. We had to be careful, because Shogokuso could activate a PA, or the EMP at any time. "Jez, I have a plan. Since he is going through initiations, he will of course be injured a bit. We need to utilize 'Plan C'." I had a thing for covert names.

"Hmmm, that's pretty risky, but I say go for it!!" We had never used it before, and Jez was excited.

"All right. Ready? Here we go!!!" I exclaimed, "Battle Data TowerStage, Activate!!!" And with that, the immediate area around Jezter filled with high columns. Jezter quickly hopped on a budding column and rode it to the top. Once there, he entered a classic sniper position. "Just wait, he's coming this way. Battle Data, Level MAX LaserShot3! Support Data, Level MAX SniperPlus. ACTIVATE!!" This was our opening, almost every time. The MAX LaserShot3 enabled Jezter, who already was an experienced marksmen, to further target an individual body part. We always took out the legs, thus making the target immobile. The MAX SniperPlus added another 40 damage to the attack.

"Good to go, let's rock!" Jez whispered, and Shogokuso moved ever closer. He was alone, thankfully, and Jez had a clear shot. He took aim, and began the shot. All of a sudden we heard "Split Shield, LEVEL MAX!!" It was too late to call off the attack. The LaserShot ripped forwards and hit the shield, bouncing harmlessly off. And that wasn't even the worst of what was to come.

"Huh! Huh! GRENADE THREE, LEVEL TWO!!" Then we saw Shogokuso. He lobbed a giant grenade up, to our exact position. The resulting blast knocked Jez way back, and he fell to the ground with a mighty thud. "Well now, if it isn't the Assassin of Honor..." Shogokuso smirked.

"Damnit. Jez, you have to delete him now, and fast!!" I was panicked, we had been discovered. "Use this, Battle Data MegaGun3, Activate!!!"

Jez shook his head, getting rid of the pain. He took sluggish aim and unleashed the stream of 200 bullets that was MegaGun.

"No, that won't do against me!!" Shogokuso laughed, he raised his hand, "Huh Huh Huh, BUSTERBOMB3, LEVEL MAX!!" He began shooting bombs in a massive stream, almost minigun like. The bullets from the MegaGun struck the bombs and none hit Shogokuso.

"Oh shit...we need to get out of here. And fast, Battle Data Get Away! Activate!!!" I yelled.

"Good, that'll do." Jezter activated Get Away! and escaped near death, a bomb exploding right where he had stood the second before. Thinking quickly, he jacked out.