Megaman Battle Network – Tournament

Chapter 14 – Burning Rubber

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 was moving quickly through the stands to his friends.

"Hey Lan!" yelled a voice, "Nice announcing back there."

Lan turned to see Kai running up towards him. Sarah wasn't far behind.

"Hey Kai," said Lan, "Why are you here?"

"I have a match today," said Kai.

"And you're coming with me to that match," said Sarah, "It starts any minute now."

"Gotta run Lan," said Kai, "I'll see you after the match."

Kai ran at breakneck speed down into the arena.

"Glad to see he hasn't really changed much," said Sarah, she hadn't seen much of Kai since she had started school again.

"I don't think he ever will," said Lan. Sarah walked off in the opposite direction from which Kai had ran and made it down to the arena before Kai did.

"Sorry," said Kai breathless, "I got a little lost."

Lan found his seat and sat down. Looking into the arena he nearly stood up again.

"Hey," said Lan, "Is that Kai's opponent?"

"I think so Lan," said Mayl, "Why?"

"That's Arashi," said Lan.

"Arashi?" said Yai.

"The Gospel agent who tried to gas you out Yai," said Lan, "What's he doing here?"

"He's probably gone straight like Maddy, Mr. Match, Count Zapp and Yahoot," said Mayl.

"Maybe," said Lan.

"What's his navi anyway?" said Mayl.

"AirMan," replied Lan, "He specialises in forcing opponents either closer to him or away from him."

"Should be fun," said Dex.

"And welcome to match two on day Five of the tournament. Our first match was Higsby vs. Mitch which resulted in a great victory for Higsby, our second match is DenTech Academy's Kai vs. former Gospel member Arashi."

"AirMan specialises in keeping a large gap between him and his opponent, can TurboMan's TurboWheel be enough to blow him away."

Kai and Arashi eyed each other across the arena.

"Ok then, Jack In!"

"Jack In, TurboMan Power Up!"

"Jack In, AirMan Power Up!"

The three navis landed and Sarah declared the match had started.

"TurboMan," said Kai, "CyberSword BattleChip In!"

The CyberSword formed on TurboMan's arm and he ran in for the attack.

"I'm gonna blow you away!" said AirMan activating his giant fan and blowing TurboMan to the other side of the arena.

"TurboMan," said Kai, "The TurboGun!"

TurboMan powered up his buster and fired into the wind, however the bullets came straight back at him, he managed to dodge most of them but the a few hit.

"AirMan just made TurboMan hit himself with his own bullets."

"All's I have to do is keep you there until the match is over and I win," said Arashi.

"TurboMan, Full Throttle!" said Kai.

"Full Throttle," said TurboMan running the wheels on his feet in order to try and move forwards, for a moment nothing happened when…

"Are my eyes deceiving me or is TurboMan moving?"

"She's right," said Lan, "TurboMan's moving forwards faster than AirMan can blow him back."

"Blow him back AirMan," said Arashi.

"I'm blowing at full power," said AirMan.

"BattleChip In, LongSword Power Up!" said Kai as TurboMan inched closer.

"New tactic," said Arashi, "Reverse the fan."

Instead of sending TurboMan away they began to bring him closer. Arashi hoped the extra speed would mean they miss.

"TurboMan," said Kai, "Hold the sword out to your right."

TurboMan brought the sword to his right and slashed straight through AirMan at about 100mph.

"Log Out AirMan," said Arashi.

"Yeah," said Kai, "We won!"

Lan smiled, all his friends had made it to the second week but one, even those who had lost wished the victors luck. Even with one more day in the first week he wasn't bothered. Anyone could win or lose tomorrow, all that mattered was that his friends were through and he stood a good chance at facing them in the tag team rounds.