Megaman Battle Network – Tournament

Chapter 27 – Ribitta Roulette

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.

"Well with Chaud and Empress' impressive win over Commander Beef and BlackRose we only have one match left for today, but to do that match we now have to roll the Ribitta Roulette."

"Yes and if all you unlucky losers are ready then two of you will get a return ticket into the Tag Team rounds."

The Program appeared on all the screens in the arena, three drums, two with NetNavi symbols on and the third with Ribitta's smiling face.

"Spin those wheels!"

"Hey that's my line!"

The three wheels spun and the middle finished. After about halve a minute the first one slowed down, Lan and Mayl could hear hundreds of whispering voices, each one wanting that second chance or to see their favourite fighters come back.

"And our first lucky loser is…"

The wheel finally stopped.

"Dex and GutsMan!"

"Yahoo!" yelled Dex jumping into the air, "Oh yeah, who's the best!"

"Not you," said Yai, "Now could you please sit down and see who your partner is?"

"The wheel appears to be slowing down."

You could have heard a pin drop in the arena, everyone was waiting with baited breath but no one more than the actual winner.

"I don't believe it, Dex's partner in the match is none other than his little brother Chisao with his NetNavi BlastMan!"

"Double Yahoo!" yelled Dex lifting Chisao into the air and squeezing him near to death, "We lost but we're still partners bro!"

"Again with the brotherly love," said MegaMan smiling, "Kind of makes you feel jealous doesn't it Lan?"

"Yeah," said Lan, "But at least we're together hey bro."

"Yeah," said MegaMan, "And we have Sarah as well now, both of us."

"We must be the luckiest family in the world," said Lan.

"Maybe," said MegaMan, "But maybe each family feels like that, just look at them pair, just over three years ago they hadn't seen each other for nearly five years and now you rarely see them apart. Maybe each family has something that makes them feel like the luckiest family on earth, even if it's just to wake up as a family everyday."

"Maybe," said Lan, looking over at the hugging brothers he realised something, "You pair are due in the arena now!"

"Opps," said Dex, "Come on bro lets go beat those idiots we have for opponents."

The pair ran down to the arena.

"You do realise that if they win they face Chaud and Empress next," said Mayl.

"Yup," said Lan, "I'd love to see how long Dex and Chisao last against that team."

"Lambs to the slaughter," said Mayl shaking her head.

Dex and Chaiso arrived in the arena and looked across at their opponents.

"Looks like we got the free pass," said Kai.

"Hey!" said Dex, "We may have lost our last matches but that doesn't mean you'll have it easy."

"Yeah," said Chisao, "Me and Dex are going to take this tournament and even beat Lan and Chaud."

Kai and Tamako thought about this for a moment then fell down laughing along with everyone else in the arena.

"You pair beat Lan," said Kai, "I bet you pair couldn't beat a standard navi if it had one arm tied behind it's back."

"And Chaud," said Tamako, "If you pair have trouble taking on MegaMan on his own how can you beat ProtoMan and Empress?"

"Chisao," said Dex, "What have I told you about thinking before you open your mouth about beating Lan?"

"You should be able to beat that wimpy MegaMan easy," said Chisao.

"Ok, let's end this argument and Jack In!"

"Jack In, MetalMan Power Up!"

"Jack In, TurboMan Power Up!"

"Jack In, GutsMan Power Up!"

"Jack In, BlastMan Power Up!"

The five navis landed and Sarah signalled the start of the match. BlastMan started to throw MiniBoomers like crazy and GutsMan charged in through the smoke to take MetalMan by complete surprise.

"Wow, GutsMan uses his partners abilities as a smokescreen for his attacks!"

"For him that is quick thinking!"

"I agree with Higsby there," said Lan as Mayl and Yai did their best to stop themselves laughing.

TurboMan sent his TurboWheels through the smoke at BlastMan. The wheels connected with no visible effects.

"Let me try!" said MetalMan rushing up and hitting BlastMan with a MetalPunch, the BlastMan copy exploded and sent MetalMan flying. The real BlastMan suddenly came out from the smokescreen and used a GoldPunch to land TurboMan next to MetalMan.

"See why I was keeping my distance," said TurboMan as he got up.

"I hate that stupid attack," said MetalMan, "Why can't he attack directly anyway instead of hiding?"

"You want direct," said Chisao, "CrossBomb download!"

MetalMan and TurboMan moved quickly to dodge the attack but and were knocked down when GutsMan and BlastMan rushed in with a GoldPunch each.

"MetalMan go for GutsMan," said Tamako, "TurboMan stay at a distance and attack BlastMan."

"Right," said the two navis. MetalMan started to use his MetalPunch against GutsMan's GutsPunch and TurboMan fired his TurboBuster and TurboWheels at BlastMan from a distance. Until they both realised that BlastMan had snuck up behind MetalMan whilst using one of his body doubles to fool TurboMan.

"Oh no! The real BlastMan has grabbed MetalMan and is using him as a shield!"

"No he isn't," said Chisao as MetalMan managed to hit BlastMan, it did get him off, but he doubted his original plan involved being flung across the arena.

"This is getting real old real fast," said TurboMan trying to find the real BlastMan, "If I could find the real BlastMan there's no way I could hit him with all this smoke."

"Here," said Kai, "You need a few fans, fan viruses of course."

Kai downloaded the chip and a fan virus appeared that blew away the smoke allowing TurboMan to make out the real BlastMan for the first time.

"Got him," said TurboMan firing his TurboBuster, "He's that big that I can't miss."

"Yes," said Chisao, "But he's so big your peashooter won't do any damage to him."

"He's right," yelled TurboMan after his shots hit without doing any actual damage, "Hey, how's that kid so smart anyway?"

"I guess he's the natural out of him and Dex," said Kai, "We can't use the TurboWheels against an explosive opponent either can we?"

"In a singles I'd recommend the risk," said TurboMan, "But not when we have MetalMan to worry about too."

"Hey," said Kai, "How is MetalMan Tamako?"

"Not to good I'm afraid," came the reply, "Another hit like that and he risks deletion."

"Now would be the best time for any plans you have," said TurboMan, "I've just discovered something else, you know those clones, they don't just stand around and do nothing."

"What!" said Kai looking back at the match and seeing all the clones that they'd left shrink and start to head towards TurboMan and MetalMan.

"Those are viruses?" said Kai confused.

"Leave them long enough and they become Bomber viruses," said Chisao, "They explode when they reach their targets."

"We're too close to deletion," said Tamako, "We'll have to pull out."

"We can't take them all on our own," said Kai, "Log out TurboMan."

The two netnavis logged out and the viruses were deleted.

"The winners are Dex and Chisao!"

"Ever get the feeling that Chisao was holding back in his match against Dex," said Lan to Mayl and Yai.

"Yup," replied the two girls.

"And with that match our matches for today are over. Join us tomorrow for the final day of the N1 Grand Prix where we finish the tag team rounds and hold the match for the Grand Prize of a Million Zenny!"

"Our first two matches tomorrow will be Lan and Mayl vs. Mary and Mamoru and Chaud and Empress vs. Dex and Chisao. Then the winners will face each other and the wining team will battle for the prize."

"So tune in tomorrow for the final day of the N1 Grand Prix."