Megaman Battle Network – Tournament
Chapter 12 – Irony Strikes
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.
WB: In case you never noticed her Devil Style was mentioned and shown by Sarah in Sibiling Rivalry. And you shortened my name to BDY anyway so why can't I shorten yours?
"Ring!" yelled Mary, "Not again."
Mayl jumped up and started to work her way through the crowd to try and reach the arena. Lan jumped up and followed.
Sarah stood with her DarkSword ready and DarkAura raised, she wasn't going to be caught off guard.
Ring knew what was coming and she didn't want it, the Devil Chip could destroy her for all she cared, so long as she didn't have to go through this again.
Mayl and Lan ran past Chaud who realising that there was trouble followed.
Mayl reached the arena computer and pulled out her PET.
"Mayl no!" yelled Sarah a moment too late as Mayl plugged in her PET.
In the control room the figure inserted another chip into a slot marked contestant 2. As Roll landed in CyberSpace a bolt of Black Lightning hit her too.
"I warned you," said Sarah.
"I'm here Sarah," said Empress.
"Of course this is one of those times I'm glad you didn't listen," replied Sarah as MegaMan also landed.
Chaud ran up but didn't Jack In.
"What can I do?" said Chaud.
"Take two Tornado Chips off Mayl and take them to the arena control room," said Sarah, "Insert them into the contestant 1 and contestant 2 slots. We'll keep Ring busy."
The three looked over as the Black Lightning faded to see a sight the three of them had only seen once before. Ring's Devil Style.
The last time that they had seen it was when Sarah had her old navi go into Ring Style at a fairground once, however this time, she was working against them.
She had grown claws on her fingers and she had gained fangs similar to Empress' and Sarah's.
"DarkRing!" said Ring throwing an attack at the unlikely group. MegaMan and Empress dodged to one side and Sarah ran in with her DarkSword.
"DarkRing Blade," said Ring forming a sword from her rings and blocking Sarah's DarkSword. The two parried blows before Ring sent Sarah flying off.
"Watch that sword," said Sarah getting up, "It's nearly as powerful as my DarkSword." Her DarkAura was having trouble holding up under the damage it had taken.
"My turn," said MegaMan, "Lan, lets use the one thing we've never used yet."
"I was hoping to save it for Chaud," said Lan, "But we need it now." Lan pulled out the Holy Dream chip from his folder.
"BattleChip In, Unite, SarahSoul Power Up!" said Lan.
Sarah nodded as she fused with MegaMan.
"Wow, it looks like MegaMan and Sarah have fused using the Soul Union."
"This could be fun."
"Are you two still announcing?" shouted Mayl.
"It's what we get paid for, have the audience stopped watching?"
"I give up," said Mayl turning back to the arena.
MegaMan's armour had changed to Black and Purple, his hands had grown claws on the end and his hair had gone from brown to black.
"Let's get her!" said MegaMan charging at Ring and activating a DarkSword.
"MegaMan!" said Lan.
"It's ok," said MegaMan as he attacked, "Apparently I can use DarkChips without negative effects due to SarahSoul."
"What else can it do?" said Lan.
"Lets find out," said MegaMan charging a Ring.
"Don't hurt her!" screamed Mary.
"Don't worry," said MegaMan and Lan, "We'll try not to do too much damage."
"Just don't delete her!" said Mary.
"We'll try our best!" said MegaMan opening his free hand and grabbing Ring.
He slowly began to change until he was actually similar to Ring's Devil Style.
"We can absorb data off other navis too," said Lan, "Let's see what you can do now."
"Right," said MegaMan, "DarkRing!"
He sent the attack at Ring who nimbly dodged it.
"Try the DarkRing Blade," said Lan as MegaMan formed the sword and went for Ring.
Chaud snuck his way towards the control room through the staff only areas. He found it was heavily guarded, this surprised him as he had been here the other day and security hadn't been this tight. Something was going on around here and he was going to get to the bottom of it.
"Email from the officials Chaud," said ProtoMan.
"What does it say?" said Chaud.
"Just download the chips and leave," said ProtoMan, "We can get them next week when they complete the plan. This is an order."
"Damn them," said Chaud, "Let's get these chips downloaded soon. If we hang around too long someone's bound to spot us."
MegaMan was using the DarkRing Blade to hold back Ring whilst Empress used what little healing abilities she had to help him.
"I have some bad news Lan," said MegaMan.
"What's the is it?" said Lan as the union ended.
"That," said MegaMan dodging out of Ring's way. Sarah was still in Ring Style and blocked with her DarkRing Blade.
"How do you like this then?" said Sarah, "All this fear of DarkNavis is brought from navis like you, but do you ever get punished? No it's always me who takes the blame, me who gets the prejudice, me who gets feared and blamed for every crime on the net, and it's all because of navis like you, the ones who can't stay in control because of some stupid chip that your op uses and you lose control. People begin to hate me because I seem to remain in control and they stop trusting me, how do you think I feel? How do you think I survive?"
"That's enough for now," said the figure in the control room inserting two tornado chips, "I think that's a nice start Miss. Hikari, by the end of next week, you'll be mine."
Empress and Ring grabbed their heads and screamed. As the two navis fell to the floor they changed back to normal and were grabbed by MegaMan and Sarah.
"How do you feel friend?" said Sarah to Ring.
"Fine thanks," said Ring, "What happened?"
"I'll explain later," said Sarah.
"Mega," said Roll, "Did she behave?"
"Of course," said MegaMan, "She was probably scared of what you'd do."
"Yeah," said Roll smiling.
The four Jacked Out and Sarah rang Chaud up.
"Well done Chaud," she said, "That was quicker than I expected."
"I didn't do anything," said Chaud, "Someone else must have inserted the Tornado Chips."
"What do you mean?" said Sarah.
"I've just been kicked out by security," said Chaud, "Something about trying to change my chances in the competition. I think it was just an excuse to get rid of an official from the main computer rooms."
"Maybe," said Sarah, "We'll find out next week when they make their move."