Megaman Battle Network – Tournament
Chapter 32 – Shades of Darkness
"ShadeMan!" said ProtoMan, "So Nebula is behind all this!"
"Yes," said ShadeMan, "And our precious leader wants you all gone."
"Everyone!" yelled Sarah, "Leave now, the tournament is cancelled!"
"Oh, I don't think anyone wants to leave," said ShadeMan, "I hope not anyway, I've already locked the doors."
Sarah dived at him with the DarkSword and was thrown away.
"ProtoMan!" said Chaud, "CyberSword, WideSword, LongSword Download! Program Advance!"
The LifeSword went straight at ShadeMan and struck bathing the arena in light.
"Yes!" said Chaud and ProtoMan.
The light cleared to reveal ShadeMan standing as if nothing had happened.
"Fool," said ShadeMan sending a flurry of Bats out at ProtoMan, "Don't you know that no attacks can harm me!"
"Really," said Sarah, "I'd like to test that out!"
"What?" said ShadeMan looking at where he had thrown her moments before. She was gone, turning he saw a sight that would have made most navis log out straight away, "Two of you!"
"You ok Scyler," said Sarah.
"Didn't even hurt," said Scyler, "Let's go!"
ShadeMan again knocked the two aside but stood over one of the pair.
"Now I'll delete you!" said ShadeMan, "Darkness Beam!"
"No!" yelled ProtoMan diving in front and taking the full force of the attack. He fell back into her arms.
"ProtoMan."
"Don't," said ProtoMan, "I, I think I love you."
"Really," said Scyler.
"Ahem," said Sarah, "If you two are done with the mushy stuff, we have a navi to delete remember!"
ProtoMan looked from one to the other and realised what had happened.
"Scyler!" said ProtoMan, "I thought you were Sarah!"
"Forget it!" said Sarah grabbing ProtoMan and nearly throwing him away, "Scyler, let's go!"
"Can't we help them?" said Roll.
"Only DarkChips can even touch him," said MegaMan, "They are our last hope."
"I hope they're up to it," said Roll.
"They'll be up to it," said Empress, "Those pair can do anything if they wanted."
ShadeMan had his hands full, the pair were coming at him with perfectly timed attacks, he had to block them both at the same time, and they kept on coming no matter what he did.
"Got you," he said throwing Scyler aside, "Now to delete you!"
He hovered over Scyler and activated his DarkSword.
"Bye bye," he said, "Argh!"
The others watched as Sarah drove the DarkSword through his back, she pulled it out and sliced straight across him with it.
"ShadeMan Deleted," said the computers calm voice.
"You ok," said Sarah holding out her hand towards Scyler, "How about you ProtoMan?"
"I'll live," said ProtoMan, "If you keep her away of course."
The six looked down at the junk data that ShadeMan had left.
"It's over," said Sarah, "Let's go."
They turned from the junk data and went towards an emergency exit.
"It's not over yet sister," said a familiar voice, "In fact, I'd say it's just starting."
The six turned back, although they couldn't see who the voice had belonged to they all knew who it was.
"1.0," said Sarah.