Megaman Battle Network – Tournament
Chapter 36 – Battle Style!
"Now she's dealt with," said Scyler turning from the explosion that had been her Darkness Wave, "Who's next?"
"Who's dealt with?" said Empress smiling.
"What?" said Scyler turning to where Sarah had been, and still was, "What navi did you drain that data from?"
"None that I know," said Sarah as surprised as everyone else. Her armour had turned white and her helmet had disappeared, covering her left arm was a large flexible shield even covering her hand and ending in a rounded point, her right hand contained a sword which glowed the same white colour as her armour. The gash in her armour that Scyler had sliced into her had also disappeared.
"It doesn't matter anyway," said Scyler, "A weakling is still a weakling no matter what style it's in."
"You should know," said Sarah charging with her new sword in hand, Scyler responded with her DarkSword which was sliced straight through by Sarah's blade.
"What?" said Scyler jumping back, "I must not be at full power yet."
"Lan," said MegaMan weakly, "Phone call from Dad."
"Patch it into the system MegaMan," said Lan, "Roll, can you do something about that wound?"
"It's taking all mine and Empress' power to keep him alive Lan," said Roll, "If we try to heal that wound now he could die."
MegaMan patched the call into the system and Dr. Hikari's voice came through the system.
"Lan, can you hear me? Sarah isn't in a navi style right now, she's gone into an emotion style like HubStyle."
"No way," said Lan.
"Anyway," said Dr. Hikari, "It's called BattleStyle and has two main attacks, the BattleSword and the BattleArrow. The BattleArrow apparently uses the shield as an arrow, I think it does anyway."
"What do you mean Dad?" said Lan.
"The details are too sketchy for me to say much more," said Dr. Hikari, "It was never used and all as we have are predictions on what should happen. It's her only hope right now."
Sarah was parrying with Scyler, Scyler's DarkSword wasn't much good and she had to keep jumping back to activate a new one every few slashes.
"You can't beat me by destroying all my DarkSwords you know," said Scyler.
"You're right for once," said Sarah, BattleSword, Full Power!"
The BattleSword suddenly started to glow and crackle with energy, Scyler suddenly remembered her DarkAura and raised it. Sarah brought the BattleSword down and hit the DarkAura, the DarkAura crackled and then suddenly broke, fortunately for Scyler the DarkAura had absorbed most of the damage, unfortunately it still hurt a lot.
Sarah looked at the panic on Scyler's face, Scyler had never had to deal with emotions like this before, but Sarah also knew she couldn't use the Sword at full power for a bit, at least not until her DarkAura was restored. It was now or never.
Sarah jumped into the air and held her left arm at the near cowering Scyler, "BattleArrow!" she cried.
The shields rounded point suddenly became a lot sharper and shot out on a chain Sarah held and headed straight at Scyler. Scyler dodged as the arrow ploughed itself into the floor where she had been standing moments before. She looked shocked as Sarah gave a gentle tug on the chain and it flew back to it's resting place on Sarah's arm.
"I can't win now," said Sycler under her breath, "And I was hoping to save it for later but…" she looked up at Sarah who was falling back down, "Like to see one of my new abilities sister?" she said
Sarah began a new charge with her BattleSword, Scyler dodged it and risked a glance at the group around MegaMan, she focused on one and smiled.
"Oh sister," said Scyler, "DarkSoul Beam!"
"No!" yelled Sarah as the beam headed towards it's target.