Ohayo! Just a few notes before I start the chapter. 1) Writers block
sucks. 2) Homework sucks. 3) Chobits rocks! 4) Sorry for the wait. And
finally, 5) I don't own anything. Nada. Nothing. Zip. Zero (bad pun). No
lawsuit. I own a story line that no one wants, but that's beside the point.
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Things were not going well inside the room where Lan and the others were trapped. Tensions were high, tempers flaring; everyone was at each other's throats.
"Gin! You suckers lose again!" Lan held his hand high, clutching three aces and four kings.
"Aw, JA! I can't believe I got rid of that ace!" Wily slammed his fists on the makeshift table, causing everyone to jump.
"Wily, you really need to calm down." Madoi's eyebrow twitched when Lan started to dance a merry little jig. "AND YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN TOO! We're all trapped in here, and all you can think of is your little victory against us in cards!"
The argument over the cards escalated when Shinji proposed poker. Vash didn't want to be involved, so he moved out of group and sat next to Kasumi. She hadn't talked much, so Vash was worried.
"Hey, you all right?"
"Yeah. It's just that... I'm worried about Zero and Iris. What if Zero has to delete Iris?"
"He won't have to. Zero can do anything he needs to."
"Do you really believe that Vash? Do you really think that Zero can do it?"
Vash looked her straight in her eyes. "Yes. I really do think he can do it. I know he can."
"Hey! What do you two think your doing over there?!?" Shinji flung a random card at Vash, which surprisingly smacked the bridge of his nose.
"OW! We're just talking dad! It's not like we were making out like you and mom!"
Everyone turned to Shinji.
"Umm..." He blushed and turned back to the card game. Finding HinoKen trying to steal a card, yet another argument ensued.
"Okay, so where were we?"
"I don't remember now."
"Okay. Hey, I forgot to ask you earlier. Why are you wearing a kimono?" Vash tilted his head to the left.
"A kimono? Oh!" She blushed, realizing that she was wearing one. "My family was having me try on this kimono for the spring festival."
"The spring festival?"
"Yeah. Its three days from now, silly! Speaking of the festival... Um... Vash?"
"Yeah?"
"I-Its nothing." She turned away and blushed.
'Ah-ha! I understand!' Vash mustered up all his courage before asking; "Will you go with me to the spring festival?"
"You... want me to go with you?" She turned around slowly. 'Is he serious?'
"Yes, Kasumi."
"I'll go with you, Vash. Thank-you!" She giggled and hugged Vash, who blushed in return.
"Hey! What did I tell you two before!"
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Zero walked down yet another long corridor of WWW's mainframe. Everything had started to look the same for some reason. At first he passed it off as his mind playing tricks on him, but soon he knew something was up.
"Okay, what the heck is going on here? It feels like I'm going around in freaking circles." Zero suddenly spied movement down the hallway, and it was getting closer. It was GeminiMan.
"Talk is cheap. Let's fight."
Zero happily obliged. With a flick of his wrist, he brought out the Z- saber.
GeminiMan split into two. One leaped over Zero, and landed to oppose his copy.
Zero shook his head. "People these days have no class."
The Gemini twins grinned, and the GeminiMan behind Zero charged. Zero whirled around and slashed at the copy, only to find his blade blocked. The other copy used its Gemini Laser attack, which Zero reflected with his Shield boomerang. The blast found its mark on the copy, deleting it. The real GeminiMan pulled away from the close combat, hoping to recharge his Copy ability. Zero switched to his Z buster and began blasting the Navi.
GeminiMan returned fire with his Gemini Laser, but each time Zero reflected it right back. It was a losing battle, and GeminiMan knew it. He tried for one last blade attack against Zero, but the blow was caught with the Z-saber. Zero shoved GeminiMan against a wall and jumped away. He charged his Z buster and switched his element to neutral.
"Here's a real laser for you. LASER SHOT!"
The green energy beam cut through GeminiMan, deleting the Navi. Before Zero could walk away, a small message window popped up.
-Adapt.dll update complete. Data recover. YamatoMan.EXE retrieved. GeminiMan.EXE retrieved. Data conversion complete. Triple Rod re-acquired. Gemini Form completed.-
"Huh?" Before Zero could say anything else, a swirl of data streams surrounded him. Moments later the data storm subsided, revealing Zero in a new blue and white form.
"That's odd. Just beating someone never gave me a new form before. Unless I beat them in large amounts... Ah, screw it." Zero continued his journey through the mainframe.
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MegaMan, Forte, and Roll stood at a three way cross section.
"So, which way now?" Roll looked down the hallway. It went on as far as she could see.
"I don't know." MegaMan shrugged his shoulders. "We really should stay together, but..."
"We will split up. If we keep in contact by constantly e-mailing each other, then we should be fine." Forte disappeared into the hallway on the right.
"Hey! Forte! Jeez. He never waits for anyone, does he?" Roll looked at MegaMan.
"No, he just does his own thing." MegaMan shook his head. "We really should stick together..."
"Okay. I'll come with you." She took his arm, and they walked down the center hallway.
Moments later, Zero appeared from the left hallway. "Great. Yet another split. Oh well, guess I could just keep going straight." He dashed into the right hallway. Soon enough, he stumbled upon Forte.
"Zero. Thank you so much for joining me. You realize that everyone else has already met up, and we split up just to find you?"
"No, I didn't know that." Zero shrugged his shoulders and walked on. Forte grumbled darkly and e-mailed MegaMan and Roll. Just after he did, Zero spied a familiar red Navi walking down the corridor...
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MegaMan and Roll reached the end of their corridor only to find a dead end. "Great! What now?" Roll frowned. She was about to e-mail Forte when he beat her to the punch.
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Zero found me. Meet back at intersection.
Signed: Forte
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"Well, that answers what we get to do next." MegaMan turned to walk down the corridor, but stopped when two Navies blocked him. One was blue, and had a spear. The other was green, and carried two blades. "Roll, get behind me."
Roll obeyed. The green Navi advanced toward MegaMan, but stopped a few feet away from him.
"You have nothing to fear, X. We only want Zero."
"True, we will need that chip fragment you carry, but that can wait." The blue Navi smiled sweetly at MegaMan.
"Hey, just who are you people? And who's X?" MegaMan leveled his buster at the Navies.
"Why, he doesn't even remember his servants!" The blue Navi giggled. "I am Leviathan."
"And I am Harpuia." The Navi bowed slightly. (Question: how the heck do you pronounce this guys name?!?) "And X would be You."
"My name isn't X. I am Saito, also known as MegaMan, the brother of Lan Hikari. And there is no way your getting this chip fragment!" MegaMan fired his buster while circling the two Navies. Roll followed him, always trying to stay behind him.
"Master X, if you do not stop firing on us, I will have to disable you!" Harpuia swung his sabers to deflect another barrage of MegaMan's buster shots, and then began to charge. MegaMan continued to fire shots at Harpuia. Just as Harpuia was about to reach MegaMan...
"Heat Guts Style!" MegaMan's body quickly made the style change. "Heat Guts Punch!"
Before Harpuia could react, MegaMan's fist planted itself in his face. The result was Harpuia flying into a wall. His data began to unravel. But instead of being deleted, he suddenly disappeared.
"Hm. Guess you knocked him all the way back into the future. I, however, will not be going back so easily." Leviathan smiled as she held Roll at spear point.
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"Wow. By the time we get out of here (if ever), I'm going to be a rich man!" Sitting before Shinji was a MASSIVE pile of battle chips. The group had resorted to betting battle chips in poker to pass the time. "All I have to do is sell these chips, and I'm made for life! MUWAHAHAH!"
"Aw, JA!" Dex flung his cards into the air. "I'm out! Vash, your dad cheats!"
"I told you he did! You're the only one stupid enough to play besides Wily and the others!"
"Hey! We were trying to pass the time. Besides, at this rate we won't NEED battle chips!" Elec glared daggers at Vash and Lan, who were counting their own battle chips. They simply stuck out their tongues at him.
Chaud and Yai were sitting together in a corner, secretly holding hands. Maylu and Kasumi were discussing the spring festival, while Tory and HinoKen were trying to get a computer running.
Lan looked through Shinji's pile of chips. They were all standard battle chips. "Sorry Mr. Shinji, but you aren't going to be getting rich off of these. These chips are all as common as pennies!"
HinoKen suddenly yelped from beneath a computer. Tory, who was checking on the monitor connections, was suddenly blinded by the screen turning on. With Tory covering his eyes, and HinoKen waving his hand around, they announced their success.
"We finally got a computer working!"
The room erupted in excitement. "Yeah! We can finally call for help!"
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With communications restored, Lan and the others are one step closer to finding out what's going on. But what the heck are Zero's enemies from the future doing here? More questions, I know. BE PATIENT (stupid computer! *kicks laptop*)! And please review while your here!
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Things were not going well inside the room where Lan and the others were trapped. Tensions were high, tempers flaring; everyone was at each other's throats.
"Gin! You suckers lose again!" Lan held his hand high, clutching three aces and four kings.
"Aw, JA! I can't believe I got rid of that ace!" Wily slammed his fists on the makeshift table, causing everyone to jump.
"Wily, you really need to calm down." Madoi's eyebrow twitched when Lan started to dance a merry little jig. "AND YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN TOO! We're all trapped in here, and all you can think of is your little victory against us in cards!"
The argument over the cards escalated when Shinji proposed poker. Vash didn't want to be involved, so he moved out of group and sat next to Kasumi. She hadn't talked much, so Vash was worried.
"Hey, you all right?"
"Yeah. It's just that... I'm worried about Zero and Iris. What if Zero has to delete Iris?"
"He won't have to. Zero can do anything he needs to."
"Do you really believe that Vash? Do you really think that Zero can do it?"
Vash looked her straight in her eyes. "Yes. I really do think he can do it. I know he can."
"Hey! What do you two think your doing over there?!?" Shinji flung a random card at Vash, which surprisingly smacked the bridge of his nose.
"OW! We're just talking dad! It's not like we were making out like you and mom!"
Everyone turned to Shinji.
"Umm..." He blushed and turned back to the card game. Finding HinoKen trying to steal a card, yet another argument ensued.
"Okay, so where were we?"
"I don't remember now."
"Okay. Hey, I forgot to ask you earlier. Why are you wearing a kimono?" Vash tilted his head to the left.
"A kimono? Oh!" She blushed, realizing that she was wearing one. "My family was having me try on this kimono for the spring festival."
"The spring festival?"
"Yeah. Its three days from now, silly! Speaking of the festival... Um... Vash?"
"Yeah?"
"I-Its nothing." She turned away and blushed.
'Ah-ha! I understand!' Vash mustered up all his courage before asking; "Will you go with me to the spring festival?"
"You... want me to go with you?" She turned around slowly. 'Is he serious?'
"Yes, Kasumi."
"I'll go with you, Vash. Thank-you!" She giggled and hugged Vash, who blushed in return.
"Hey! What did I tell you two before!"
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Zero walked down yet another long corridor of WWW's mainframe. Everything had started to look the same for some reason. At first he passed it off as his mind playing tricks on him, but soon he knew something was up.
"Okay, what the heck is going on here? It feels like I'm going around in freaking circles." Zero suddenly spied movement down the hallway, and it was getting closer. It was GeminiMan.
"Talk is cheap. Let's fight."
Zero happily obliged. With a flick of his wrist, he brought out the Z- saber.
GeminiMan split into two. One leaped over Zero, and landed to oppose his copy.
Zero shook his head. "People these days have no class."
The Gemini twins grinned, and the GeminiMan behind Zero charged. Zero whirled around and slashed at the copy, only to find his blade blocked. The other copy used its Gemini Laser attack, which Zero reflected with his Shield boomerang. The blast found its mark on the copy, deleting it. The real GeminiMan pulled away from the close combat, hoping to recharge his Copy ability. Zero switched to his Z buster and began blasting the Navi.
GeminiMan returned fire with his Gemini Laser, but each time Zero reflected it right back. It was a losing battle, and GeminiMan knew it. He tried for one last blade attack against Zero, but the blow was caught with the Z-saber. Zero shoved GeminiMan against a wall and jumped away. He charged his Z buster and switched his element to neutral.
"Here's a real laser for you. LASER SHOT!"
The green energy beam cut through GeminiMan, deleting the Navi. Before Zero could walk away, a small message window popped up.
-Adapt.dll update complete. Data recover. YamatoMan.EXE retrieved. GeminiMan.EXE retrieved. Data conversion complete. Triple Rod re-acquired. Gemini Form completed.-
"Huh?" Before Zero could say anything else, a swirl of data streams surrounded him. Moments later the data storm subsided, revealing Zero in a new blue and white form.
"That's odd. Just beating someone never gave me a new form before. Unless I beat them in large amounts... Ah, screw it." Zero continued his journey through the mainframe.
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MegaMan, Forte, and Roll stood at a three way cross section.
"So, which way now?" Roll looked down the hallway. It went on as far as she could see.
"I don't know." MegaMan shrugged his shoulders. "We really should stay together, but..."
"We will split up. If we keep in contact by constantly e-mailing each other, then we should be fine." Forte disappeared into the hallway on the right.
"Hey! Forte! Jeez. He never waits for anyone, does he?" Roll looked at MegaMan.
"No, he just does his own thing." MegaMan shook his head. "We really should stick together..."
"Okay. I'll come with you." She took his arm, and they walked down the center hallway.
Moments later, Zero appeared from the left hallway. "Great. Yet another split. Oh well, guess I could just keep going straight." He dashed into the right hallway. Soon enough, he stumbled upon Forte.
"Zero. Thank you so much for joining me. You realize that everyone else has already met up, and we split up just to find you?"
"No, I didn't know that." Zero shrugged his shoulders and walked on. Forte grumbled darkly and e-mailed MegaMan and Roll. Just after he did, Zero spied a familiar red Navi walking down the corridor...
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MegaMan and Roll reached the end of their corridor only to find a dead end. "Great! What now?" Roll frowned. She was about to e-mail Forte when he beat her to the punch.
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Zero found me. Meet back at intersection.
Signed: Forte
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"Well, that answers what we get to do next." MegaMan turned to walk down the corridor, but stopped when two Navies blocked him. One was blue, and had a spear. The other was green, and carried two blades. "Roll, get behind me."
Roll obeyed. The green Navi advanced toward MegaMan, but stopped a few feet away from him.
"You have nothing to fear, X. We only want Zero."
"True, we will need that chip fragment you carry, but that can wait." The blue Navi smiled sweetly at MegaMan.
"Hey, just who are you people? And who's X?" MegaMan leveled his buster at the Navies.
"Why, he doesn't even remember his servants!" The blue Navi giggled. "I am Leviathan."
"And I am Harpuia." The Navi bowed slightly. (Question: how the heck do you pronounce this guys name?!?) "And X would be You."
"My name isn't X. I am Saito, also known as MegaMan, the brother of Lan Hikari. And there is no way your getting this chip fragment!" MegaMan fired his buster while circling the two Navies. Roll followed him, always trying to stay behind him.
"Master X, if you do not stop firing on us, I will have to disable you!" Harpuia swung his sabers to deflect another barrage of MegaMan's buster shots, and then began to charge. MegaMan continued to fire shots at Harpuia. Just as Harpuia was about to reach MegaMan...
"Heat Guts Style!" MegaMan's body quickly made the style change. "Heat Guts Punch!"
Before Harpuia could react, MegaMan's fist planted itself in his face. The result was Harpuia flying into a wall. His data began to unravel. But instead of being deleted, he suddenly disappeared.
"Hm. Guess you knocked him all the way back into the future. I, however, will not be going back so easily." Leviathan smiled as she held Roll at spear point.
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"Wow. By the time we get out of here (if ever), I'm going to be a rich man!" Sitting before Shinji was a MASSIVE pile of battle chips. The group had resorted to betting battle chips in poker to pass the time. "All I have to do is sell these chips, and I'm made for life! MUWAHAHAH!"
"Aw, JA!" Dex flung his cards into the air. "I'm out! Vash, your dad cheats!"
"I told you he did! You're the only one stupid enough to play besides Wily and the others!"
"Hey! We were trying to pass the time. Besides, at this rate we won't NEED battle chips!" Elec glared daggers at Vash and Lan, who were counting their own battle chips. They simply stuck out their tongues at him.
Chaud and Yai were sitting together in a corner, secretly holding hands. Maylu and Kasumi were discussing the spring festival, while Tory and HinoKen were trying to get a computer running.
Lan looked through Shinji's pile of chips. They were all standard battle chips. "Sorry Mr. Shinji, but you aren't going to be getting rich off of these. These chips are all as common as pennies!"
HinoKen suddenly yelped from beneath a computer. Tory, who was checking on the monitor connections, was suddenly blinded by the screen turning on. With Tory covering his eyes, and HinoKen waving his hand around, they announced their success.
"We finally got a computer working!"
The room erupted in excitement. "Yeah! We can finally call for help!"
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With communications restored, Lan and the others are one step closer to finding out what's going on. But what the heck are Zero's enemies from the future doing here? More questions, I know. BE PATIENT (stupid computer! *kicks laptop*)! And please review while your here!