Megaman Battle Network – Tournament

Chapter 3 – First Round

A/N: Just to remind you battle text is:

Ribitta's commentary

Higsby's commentary

Sarah's commentary

Anything else will be in normal text.

Lan moved quickly into the stands surrounding the arena to find his friends. Sarah had joined them after the match and they were all sitting together.

"Aren't you supposed to be refereeing Sarah?" said Lan sitting down and grabbing a soda.

"We've all got a ten minute break before the first round begins Lan," said Sarah, "I thought I come to give you lot some morale support."

Higsby walked up to the group that was gathered.

"Well done in your match Lan," he said, "The odds of you winning have this year have gone up."

"What do you mean?" said Lan.

"NumberMan predicts that at least you or Chaud will reach the final round. There's a 50% chance that both of you will make it again."

"Wow," said Mayl, "Another showdown between Lan and Chaud."

"Hopefully this time they won't literally bring the arena down around them," said Yai.

"And if they do they won't be stupid enough to fight till the end of the match again," said Dex, "Talk about stupid."

"You've some need to talk Mr. Attack without thinking," said Sarah.

"You'd been gone for a year, how was I supposed to know your NetBattling skills were as sharp as ever."

"Now, now you lot," said Ms. Mari, "If I remember rightly then Dex is in the first match."

"Oh yeah," said Dex jumping up, "We'd best go down to the arena."

Dex ran down into the arena 5 minutes before the match was due to start.

"Who's his opponent?" asked Lan.

"A navi called BlastMan," said Sarah.

"Hmm," said Lan, "Dex's folder isn't built to handle powerful elemental navis."

"That's true," said Mayl.

"I know that Dex will be happy whoever wins," said Sarah.

"How do you know that?" said Mayl.

"I know who the operator is."

Sarah went down into the arena and stood by her Jack In port.

"Welcome to the first match of the competition. Dex from ACDC town anxious for his first match arrived 5 minutes early."

"Yes, well Dex isn't exactly known for being the brains of the outfit."

"Hey," shouted Dex, "Take that back."

"Let's take a look at Dex's navi while we wait for his opponent to arrive."

"Not built for his brains, Gutsman relies on his brute strength to get the job done. Although slow, when he lands the punches you know they've landed."

"True, but Dex has proved to be an efficient Operator when he wants too."

"And what do we know about his opponent."

"The netop comes from Netopia, Blastman is designed to deal high fire damage quickly."

"Unfortunately we have very little data on his Operator apart from what Sarah just said."

"And here comes his opponent now."

The lights in the arena dimmed. Dex could tell nothing about his opponent except that he was small. Probably a young kid.

"This little brat stands no chance," thought Dex.

His opponent came up to the arena and stood in front of a Jack In port across from Dex. The lights in the arena came back on.

"You!" said Dex seeing his opponent.

Up in their seats all of Dex's friends couldn't resist a smile at the matchup.

A/N: I wonder who can guess the identity of Dex's opponent by the next update.