Megaman Battle Network – Tournament
Chapter 18 – Frog Song
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: Are you confused about the Ribitta Roulette, Lan and Chaud got a free pass to the Tag Team rounds remember. I have two other people in mind for the Roulette
"And Ribitta makes her way down to the arena and Mayl makes her return to the booth, how are you today Mayl?"
"A bit annoyed with Empress, since Sarah gave her a body of her own she keeps making demands."
"Sorry about that but although Ribitta hasn't arrived yet her opponent has. Welcome back Annetta, how are you and PlantMan today?"
"We're doing fine Sarah," said Annetta.
"And tell me, if you win the tournament what would you do with the prize money?"
As Annetta went on about her plans to build forests with the money Yai turned to Lan.
"I missed Annetta's match last week, you've fought her, what's her navi like Lan?" she said.
"PlantMan obsesses about his cyberplants, but in a battle with his poison plants he can be deadly," replied Lan.
"Wow," said Yai, "What do you rate Ribitta's chances at Lan?"
"Ribitta's too full of surprises to accurately predict her chances Yai," replied Lan, "She showed that last week remember."
Yai nodded.
"I don't see what's so great about a stupid tournament," said Dex.
"Aww," said Lan, "Is Dex upset because he lost to Higsby?"
"Shut up Lan," said Dex but the pair were already laughing.
"And Ribitta has finally arrived. So lets Jack In!"
"Jack In, PlantMan Power Up!"
"Jack In, ToadMan Power Up!"
They landed and Sarah changed to what looked like ToadMan style.
"What? I want to see what it looks like underwater."
Lan shook his head in the audience.
"You two ready?"
"Hang on a moment," said Ribitta, "Let's make sure the camera gets my best angle."
Sarah almost pulled her hair out at the cameraman moved the camera to catch Ribitta's 'Best' angle.
"Ribitta!"
"It looks like Ribitta's irritating Sarah and the match hasn't even started."
"I'm ready," said Ribitta.
"Thank you, begin!"
Sarah jumped out of the way as PlantMan decided not to wait for Ribitta to download the BattleChip.
"Melody ToadMan!" said Ribitta.
ToadMan used his Melody ability to lure PlantMan to sleep.
"Now ToadMan! BattleChip In, Download, AquaField Power Up!" yelled Ribitta ramming the chip home.
The battlefield suddenly changed into a lake as ToadMan and an unsuspecting Sarah fell in the water splashed and woke PlantMan up. Jumping up he realised his problem as he couldn't see ToadMan anywhere.
"I can just wait for you to attack ToadMan," said PlantMan.
"I'm afraid that if you don't attack now then ToadMan will win by default being the only navi to land an attack."
"Is it me or is PlantMan far too confident for this."
The water in the lake suddenly started to grow green. Sarah jumped out and changed to normal and checked a giant rule file.
"And PlantMan's latest move is ruled legal as the only rule covering it is the battlefield change rule which is ruled as legal."
A murmur started around the audience as to what PlantMan's latest move was exactly as suddenly ToadMan was forced to surface.
"You choked out my pond!" screamed ToadMan.
"What?" said PlantMan, "Alls I did was plant a few seeds in the water."
"Yes," yelled ToadMan, "Quick growing Algae."
"Some of you look confused, PlantMan used his unique green thumb to plant a load of Algae underwater to force ToadMan to come up above the water."
"Smart move, out of the water ToadMan is at a big disadvantage."
ToadMan was hopping mad, by now the pond was so full of Algae that even ToadMan could walk on it.
"Don't worry ToadMan," said Ribitta, "Geddon1 Download."
Suddenly the floor returned and the floor cracked. Sarah activated her airshoes to stop her from breaking them but ToadMan and PlantMan had trouble.
"Was this a good idea Ribitta," said ToadMan.
"It was at the time," Ribitta said as she realised she'd left her AirShoes chip behind.
"Any plans Annetta?" said PlantMan.
"Nothing for this kind of situation," replied Annetta.
"Ahh," said PlantMan as he nearly fell down a hole in the floor.
He stepped to one side only to fall down another hole. Sarah used the airshoes to hover around but made no effort to help.
"Help me here!" screamed PlantMan.
"I can't. You know the rules."
"Stuff the rules," said PlantMan as his grip started to slip. He sent his vines to find something to grip onto but Sarah moved out the way and the only other things nearby were the floorpanels he'd already cracked and he wasn't going to trust them. Then he slipped off.
"You need to lose some weight," said Sarah trying to pull PlantMan up out of the hole.
"I thought you couldn't help," said PlantMan.
"I shouldn't until you are in real danger. You'll automatically be logged out when I get you up though."
"Shame," said Ribitta, "I don't like winning like this."
Sarah pulled PlantMan up who was logged out. The floor panels were restored and Sarah announced the victory.
"Ribitta and ToadMan are the second contenders to advance. Have you already got a partner in mind Ribitta? If they win of course."
"He already has," said Ribitta, "The first team is me and Higsby."
"I'll confirm that."
"Well done to the pair of you anyway, and good luck in the team rounds."
"I'll second that, and I'd best get moving now anyway." Mayl left the announcer's booth so Ribitta could sit back down.
"Well the first team has advanced to the team NetBattles, who else will advance today?"