Megaman Battle Network – Tournament
Chapter 22 – Big Shock
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.
"Is it me or are there a lot of former netcrime agents in this tournament?" said Lan.
"Look at the fact that the last time you fought any one of these was over a year ago Lan," said Mayl, "A lot of them may have gone straight like those four." She indicated the four former WWW officials.
"Still makes me nervous," said Lan, "What if one of them hasn't?"
"Lan," said Mayl impatiently, "You're acting as if you expect some netcrime agency to be behind this entire tournament or something. Relax, you aren't even battling until tomorrow."
Mayl walked off leaving Lan alone.
"And Ring and Roll were a mistake with the system or something hey Mayl?" he said, "Something's going on here and I think I know someone who knows more than they're letting on."
Lan walked up to his seat.
"You're getting better at spotting these things Lan," said Chaud walking around the corner and watching Lan leave, "I just wish for you're sister's sake, that there was some way to keep you three out of this."
"I agree," said ProtoMan, "But we should try and find out what they're planning shouldn't we?"
"No," said Chaud, "Our orders are to wait for them to make the first move. We'll follow them this time."
In the arena Mayl and Sarah were waiting for Mayl's opponent to arrive, Chaud arrived in his spot and stood to watch the match.
"He is cute isn't he," said a voice from Sarah's PET. Her dad had pulled the backup of her old navi off the system for her. (Scyler V5.0)
"Shut up," said Sarah quickly hoping Mayl hadn't heard.
Mayl had and smiled at Sarah.
"Don't you dare mention it to Lan," mouthed Sarah silently.
"Wouldn't dream of it," mouthed Mayl back as her opponent arrived.
"Terry," said Lan, "That cheating pain in the neck. I nearly forfeited because he cheated."
"What did he do Lan?" said Yai.
"During the Den Tournament he 'fixed' my PET and made it so that I had the worst folder ever equipped and I had to run round everywhere trying to fix it," said Lan.
"And his navi?" said Yai.
"SparkMan, he focuses on electrical attacks," said Lan, "I'm amazed he still has him, he wanted to get rid of it but his uncle wouldn't let him."
"Why not?" said Yai.
"Because he blamed his lose on him," said Lan, "His uncle said that he had to find out why he lost before he'd let him have another navi."
"Stupid," said Yai, "If he needed to cheat to win in the first place, why does he blame his navi?"
"And we are back for the final day of singles matches, Tory will be back from the hospital in time to battle later today and we are now ready for our first match of Mayl vs. Terry."
"Yes, and after Mayl's surprising victory against Miyu last week this should be an exciting match."
"If you two are ready then, Jack In!"
"Jack In, SparkMan Power Up!"
"Jack In, Roll Power Up!"
Roll, Sarah and SparkMan landed.
"Begin!"
SparkMan unleashed a barrage of SparkBolts onto Roll, and Sarah had to keep her DarkAura up to defend against them as well. Roll kept dodging as Mayl searched for a chip.
"Got them!" said Mayl, "You ready Roll?"
"Ready," said Roll.
"Double Download, Element Change Wood, GrassStage BattleChips In!" said Mayl downloading the chips and watching them take effect. Roll's armour changed from pink to brown and the stage changed to grass.
"Alright!" said Roll.
"His electric attacks should be easier to dodge now and you get even more healing power from the combination," said Mayl, "Let's show him what else we can do."
SparkMan charged at Roll with an ElecSword ready.
"CyberSword BattleChip In," said Mayl, "Download!"
Roll held her arm ready for the sword and it appeared.
"Hang on, she downloaded a CyberSword, not a BambooSword!"
"The combination of the field and element change must mean that her non elemental BattleChips automatically change to wood element! I've never seen anything like it and I designed the element change chips."
The two swords collided but the BambooSword having the elemental advantage cut straight through the ElecSword in a couple of slashes.
"AntiWood BattleChip In!" said Terry downloading the chip.
"Look out Roll," screamed Mayl.
The AntiWood chip took effect meaning that Roll's attack was turned back on her.
"No good," said Roll, "I can't even get near him."
"New tactic Roll," said Mayl as the chip ejected and the element change ended, "I forgot about that."
"Well there goes an advantage to both fighters."
"Yup now the AntiWood chip is useless too."
"It's ok Mayl," said Roll, "At least I can get near him now without the AntiWood turning all my attacks back on me."
"And his attacks should be weaker because of the grass," said Mayl, "We still need to think of something."
Empress appeared in Mayl's PET screen.
"How about going Empress Style?" said Empress, "It looks like the easiest way out."
"No good," said Mayl, "I don't have the chip and without you she can't do it naturally."
"Well think then Mayl," said Empress, "You'll come up with something."
Mayl looked at the chips in her hand and smiled.
"BattleChip In, Element Change Fire!" said Mayl. Roll's armour turned Red.
"Now what?" said Roll.
"Use your Roll arrow," said Mayl, "Because it's a fire element it should do double damage."
"But the GrassStage," said Roll, "At the moment it's the only thing stopping him from electrocuting me."
"We have to take every chance we have to win Roll," said Mayl.
"Ok then," said Roll, "Here goes nothing, Roll Arrow!"
Roll shot the Roll Arrow and used its power to heal herself a little. By now the match had been getting on and even with her natural healing power she was beginning to fade.
"Roll," said Mayl as Roll fell to her knees, "Are you ok?"
"I'll be fine," said Roll, she looked up and saw that SparkMan wasn't in much better shape, "I just need to catch my breath that's all."
"Roll," said Mayl, "I want to win too but not if it means losing you."
"Mayl," said Roll, "What now? This element won't last and I can't go Empress."
"We'll think of something," said Mayl, "We normally do."
"Yeah," said Roll.
"Reckon you have enough for a HeartSlash to get some health back?" said Mayl, "I have a small surprise here for him."
"Yeah," said Roll standing up as the chip ended. She ran at SparkMan and used the HeartSlash to drain some health and jumped back.
"I don't know why I didn't think of this before," said Mayl, "It worked for Tory so why not me?"
"You mean," said Roll, "That tactic."
"Yup," said Mayl, "AquaTower Triple Download!"
Roll activated all three chips sending them in from three different directions like FireMan did with his FireTowers against MegaMan in the last N1.
"Here," said Terry, "MiniBoomers Download!"
SparkMan tried to use the MiniBoomers to destroy the Aqua Towers and destroyed two of them but Roll jumped in front of the last one and caught full on. She managed to land just brushing the AquaTower on the way down. The AquaTower continued towards its target.
"Anymore MiniBoomers?" said SparkMan.
"I only have three of them," said Terry.
SparkMan managed to get out of the way of the attack before it connected and fell face first on the floor.
"Now Mayl!" said Roll, "I think his AntiWood has worn off!"
"Right," said Mayl, "Lets see if your practice with Empress has paid off. RoseWhip Chip Download!"
Roll laughed a little as the chip downloaded. Mayl thought she heard Empress laughing from inside the PET as well.
SparkMan was getting up from tripping as Roll brought the whip down on his back. The thorns dug themselves into his back and when Roll brought it back it nearly pulled off all his armour from his back.
"Argh!" screamed SparkMan.
As Roll brought the whip down for a second strike Terry hit the logout button on his PET and brought SparkMan out just before the attack would have connected.
"And Mayl and Roll take the match, with just three singles matches left anything could happen today."
After a quick congratulations from Sarah, Roll logged out and joined Empress in her PET.
"If I didn't know better I'd say you were enjoying yourself too much with that whip," said Empress.
"Maybe," said Roll, "I think some of you may be rubbing off on me Empress."
"I hope not," said Empress, "If I am then I'll have Sarah on my back."