Megaman Battle Network – Tournament
Chapter 13 – Numbered Dance
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.
The next day before the arena officially opened.
"Hey big bro," rang a voice through the stadium that day, "Pretty boring yesterday apart from that Mary girls match wasn't it?"
"Mitch?" said Higsby, "What are you doing here?"
"I'm here to NetBattle bro," came Mitch's reply, "I'm in the first match of the day."
"I'm in that match," said Higsby, "Anyway, there were only two Netopians entering."
"Sorry," said Sarah, "Competition rules, you don't know who your opponent is until the match you know Higsby."
"Looks like it's time to see who the best really is bro," said Mitch walking off.
"Unresolved issues?" said Sarah.
"It makes the relationship between you and your deceased sister look calm," said Higsby, "We both specialised in BattleChips but he always claimed that the common ones were more powerful than the rare ones and…
"Hey, where'd you go?"
Sarah walked over to the announcer's booth where Ribitta was setting up.
"I'm going to head home to get Lan," she said, "We don't want him to be late today do we?"
"We'll be fine for another half hour," said Ribitta, "And if he's late today then the sponsors will kill him."
"Ok then," said Sarah, "I've already sent an email to tell him to get up so MegaMan should make a good attempt."
Sarah left the stadium and got onto the MetroLine. People were already queuing up outside the stadium waiting for today's matches. She got on and travelled to ACDC town and arrived home.
"Lan wake up!" said Sarah jumping on his bed like she had on her first morning in the Hikari house.
"I'm awake!" screamed Lan nearly knocking Sarah off the bed, "Aren't you meant to be at the stadium now?"
"So are you sleepy head," said Sarah, "You're announcing instead of Higsby remember?"
Sarah had never seen Lan move so fast, or pass up breakfast on his way out simply grabbing a piece of toast. Sarah walked to the MetroLine and sat next to him on the train.
"Sometimes I swear you do this so you can laugh at me," said Lan.
"Sometimes," said Sarah, "I think you oversleep to say that you just can't be bothered with life, but you don't find me complaining do you?"
"I hate you," said Lan.
"You ought to see Higsby and his brother," said Sarah, "Moan, moan, moan is all Higsby's done since he found out that he was his opponent. And I'll give you three guesses on what it's about and the first two don't count."
"BattleChips," said Lan.
"Bingo," said Sarah, "Apparently Mitch prefers to use common BattleChips rather than rare ones like Higsby."
Lan just laughed and Sarah started too.
"I can't wait to see that match," said Lan.
"How do you think I feel Lan?" said Sarah, "I'm down there with them."
"And I have the best seat in the house," said Lan.
"And every word is broadcast to millions Lan," said MegaMan.
Lan suddenly realised what he'd signed up for and sat bolt upright.
"Oh boy," said Lan, "I don't know if I can go through with this."
"You'll be fine," said Sarah, "I've done it for the last 6 days remember."
"That's you," said Lan, "I aren't that good at public speaking."
"You could've fooled me," said MegaMan.
Sarah just laughed as Lan went off at MegaMan, the train arrived at the station by the arena and the pair got off.
Lan ran straight up to the announcers booth where Ribitta was waiting.
"Just in time Lan," she said, "I hope you're up to this."
Sarah, Higsby and Mitch were all in the arena by the computer stands.
"Welcome to Day 5 of the N1 Grand Prix, as you can see my usual co-host is in the first match of the day so we have the temporary replacement of Lan from DenTech academy."
"Um, hi."
"Come on Lan, can't you think of something more to say? Tell us about the entrants in the match."
"Um, Higsby can be a great NetBattler using NumberMan to calculate the opponent's moves before he makes them. I don't know much about his opponent except that he is Higsby's brother Mitch."
"The two NetNavis are NumberMan and DiceMan, both of who have the potentially devastating DiceBomb attack. NumberMan prefers to use attacks where he can calculate the results without risk and DiceMan prefers the risk of a gamble attack like the DiceBomb."
"Still the DiceBomb is the most powerful attack in NumberMan's arsenal at times."
"Ready, Fight!"
"BattleChip In, Roulette Power Up!" said Mitch.
Suddenly beams of Light shot out forcing NumberMan and DiceMan to stay in place and a giant arrow appeared from nowhere.
"Higsby mentioned this chip once, apparently whoever the arrow lands on loses half there maximum health."
The arrow started to spin and spin, faster and faster until it started to slow down. Slower and slower until it stopped, on DiceMan.
"Bad luck to DiceMan today."
The arrow shot at DiceMan and sliced straight through removing exactly half his health.
"Oh no," said Mitch, "Our gamble failed!"
"Now NumberMan," said Higsby downloading a chip, "Muramasa Activate!"
NumberMan's right arm formed the blade and NumberMan ran in for the attack.
"Oh yeah," said Mitch, "GambleShield Download!"
A giant shield appeared in front of DiceMan.
"GambleShield may protect him from the Muramasa but then again it may fail."
"It looks like Mitch's entire folder is made of Gamble Chips where they can succeed or fail. If this fails then Higsby will win the match."
"Well I'm not taking the gamble," said Higsby, "AreaSteal Download!"
NumberMan disappeared and reappeared behind DiceMan and slashed with the Muramasa. DiceMan logged out automatically due to the heavy damage.
"And Higsby and NumberMan win the match."
"Well I'd best get moving before Higsby decides to come and take his seat back." Lan stood up and went to leave. He turned to Ribitta. "I guess I'll be back next week then?" he said.
"Yup," said Ribitta, "See you then."
"See ya," said Lan.