Megaman Battle Network – Tournament

Chapter 28 – Friends to the End

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.

"Welcome to the final day of the N1 Grand Prix, with 8 competitors left anything could happen today!"

"If you remember our last N1 this is where we had the final confrontation between MegaMan and ProtoMan which resulted in the stadium being destroyed."

It had resulted in a lot more remembered Lan, Mayl, Dex, Yai and Chaud. The release of PharohMan, the deletion of MegaMan and a threat to the world when PharohMan took control over a satellite using SciLab. Hopefully this year wouldn't have as much work after as the last one.

"Well it's time for our first match, Lan and Mayl vs. Mamoru and Mary. After their matches yesterday we are expecting one explosive confrontation."

Mary and Mamoru stepped up to the console on the other side of Lan and Mayl. Lan and Mamoru eyed each other across the console as Mamoru gave Lan a sly smile.

"Ok then, Jack In!"

"Jack In, Ring Power Up!"

"Jack In, Serenade Power Up!"

"Jack In, MegaMan Power Up!"

"Jack In, Roll Power Up!"

The five landed and Sarah made sure she was the other side of the arena.

"Begin!"

MegaMan and Serenade wasted no time immediately charging at one another, Roll and Ring weren't far behind either.

"BattleChip In, Unite, MetalSoul Power Up!" said Lan.

MegaMan changed into MetalSoul and used his MetalPunch to hit Serenade.

"You know," said Serenade as they landed, "That actually hurt."

"AirShoes BattleChip In!" said Mary and Mamoru.

"What for?" said Lan, "There's no special panels."

"LavaStage BattleChip In!" said Mamoru.

"No!" said Lan deactivating MetalSoul, "BattleChip In, Unite, FireSoul Power Up!"

"BattleChip In, Element Change, Fire Power Up!" said Mayl quickly.

"Perfect," said Mamoru holding up a BattleChip, "Remember this Lan?"

"No," said Lan, "You both planned this!"

"BattleChip In, Download, IceBall Power Up!"

Serenade lobbed the IceBall towards MegaMan and Roll who moved quickly to dodge it. MegaMan moved a little too slow and got the full force of the attack knocking him out of FireSoul.

"Not good," said Lan, "We're out of options MegaMan."

"No we're not," said Mayl, "GrassStage BattleChip In!"

The lava disappeared to be replaced by Grass.

"Perfect," said Lan, "Now Ring's RingRang won't do as much damage and you can do twice as much."

"See," said Roll, "We aren't just a pair of pretty faces."

"Neither are we," said Mary, "Illusionist BattleChip In!"

"Unite, SearchSoul!" said Lan putting in a BattleChip.

MegaMan transformed into SearchSoul and fired at one of the three Rings. "Ouch," said Ring, "That's cheating!"

"Roll Arrow!" said Roll firing the arrow. It burnt up the grass as it headed for Ring.

"Hey!" said Ring, "Don't all gang on me!"

"And don't forget me!" said Serenade jumping up behind MegaMan who grabbed Roll and turned invisible.

"No fair!" said Serenade as he grabbed thin air.

MegaMan and Roll reappeared further down as MegaMan's Soul Union ended. Lan downloaded his ElecSword chip as Mamoru downloaded a CyberSword. Roll's Element Change ended too.

"BattleChip In, Element Change, Wood Power Up!" said Mayl inserting the chip.

Roll changed into her WoodArmour and went for Ring. Mayl downloaded a CyberSword which turned into a BambooSword. Ring had a standard CyberSword downloaded. The four navis clashed in the center of the arena, every so often they'd change opponents so everyone kept getting confused and having to change styles. Eventually the sword chips wore off and the four jumped apart.

"Any plans Lan?" said MegaMan as Roll healed him.

"None at all," said Lan, "Most of my plans involved winning by now."

"One hope then," said MegaMan, "Roll cover us."

"Right," said Roll nodding. She ran towards Ring and Serenade and caught their attention. Mayl started downloading defensive chips.

"I know," said Lan, "CyberSword BattleChip In, Download!"

MegaMan's right arm formed the CyberSword.

"WideSword BattleChip In, Download!"

MegaMan's left arm formed the WideSword and Mary and Ring noticed.

"Triple Chip!" said Mary downloading the chips for the program advance.

"Roll!" said Mayl, "Hit Ring with your HeartSlash." Mayl disabled her Element Change.

"Right," said Roll running at Ring.

"LongSword BattleChip In!" said Lan.

"Program Advance!" said Mary, Ring, MegaMan and Lan at the same time.

"Oh my!"

To be continued…