Megaman Battle Network – Tournament
Chapter 35 – Time
"Not again," said Scyler almost bored, "Don't you know that you can't do this properly?"
"Maybe it's because I tried it with Bass," said Sarah, "This time the navi I'm going to do it with is my brother."
"Very sweet," said Scyler, "But you forget one thing!" She swung with the DarkSword and struck the figure MegaMan and Sarah had summoned in the side, MegaMan and Sarah screamed in pain as the figure dissipated and they fell to the floor clutching their sides where Scyler had struck the figure. The force of the pain had knocked them out of the soul unions as well.
"If I hurt the Double Soul," said Scyler, "I hurt you both! Now who's next?"
"Me," said Sarah struggling to her feet. She moved her arm from the wound and they noticed the gash in her armour.
"You," said Scyler, "You can barely stand never mind fight."
Straining as though each move was a great effort Sarah activated her DarkSword. "I can fight well enough to beat you," she said.
She ran in and swung her DarkSword above her head and went to bring it down on Scyler's, Scyler caught it between her hands and wrenched it from hers onto the floor where it clattered a good distance away from the pair of them before it was deleted. She threw Scyler aside and turned on the group that had gathered in front of MegaMan.
"What a pathetic last stand," she said, "Three on me, I'd rate your chances at zero."
"I wouldn't," said Sarah, Scyler turned around to see her climbing back to her feet, "Because if you even touch them before you delete me then I will delete you."
"Don't you ever learn?" said Scyler, "You won't ever delete me."
"Maybe," said Sarah, "But someone has to try, maybe if I don't and you do then someone else will try until you are finally deleted."
"Optimistic aren't we?" said Scyler sarcastically.
"Maybe," said Sarah charging with the DarkSword again only to be knocked away as easily as the last time.
"Sarah!" yelled MegaMan.
"Pathetic," said Scyler, "Human weaknesses like love and friendship get you nowhere, pure power is the only way to succeed."
"Wrong," said Sarah getting up again, "It's because these are my friends that I can keep coming at you."
"Take a hint," said Scyler firing a Darkness Wave at Sarah.
The wave struck and Sarah felt herself fall into the darkness.
"Come on Sarah," said Dr. Hikari watching the events from SciLab, "You can't keep fighting like this." He turned to his navi in which was in SciLab's main database. "Found anything that could help yet?" he asked.
The navi shook it's head, "All that I could find that could help is that file on Sarah that we can't unlock, the rest we either know or was deleted during the attack on SciLab last month."
Dr. Hikari looked at the file his navi held, it was his father's work alright, three locks and each one intricately linked into Sarah's data. He'd tried everything to open that file but he knew it would only open when Sarah's data structure underwent certain changes.
"Dr. Hikari!" said the navi bringing Dr. Hikari from his thoughts, "The first lock is opening!"
"What!" said Dr. Hikari looking at the screen.
"I can read part of the file," said the navi, "Something about a closed project, tested on Sarah but was never analysed because she couldn't use it."
"What was the projects name?" said Dr. Hikari.
The navi scanned the file.
"Impossible," it said scanning the file a second time.
"What is it?" said Dr. Hikari.
"You won't believe this," said the navi, "The program that they ran on Sarah was used as an attempt to stabilise her, but it wasn't designed for that, it was designed to increase the power of a navi without BattleChips, a program that built on something that Sarah already had, a program we thought she had only recently gained, the Ultimate Program, she's going into true style change!"