Megaman Battle Network – Tournament
Chapter 37 – Choices
WB: No Sarah can't go into DarkSoul.
Sarah virtually fell from the effect of the anger being replaced by fear knocking her from her BattleStyle, she ran towards the fallen figure of ProtoMan who had fallen to his knees after Scyler's DarkSoul Beam had struck, she knelt down and looked into the struggling ProtoMan's eyes.
"Listen to me," said Sarah, "You can fight this ProtoMan, just do as I say."
ProtoMan looked into Sarah's eyes, she could see her fear reflected in them as he shook his head.
"Don't give up," she said nearly crying, "We can fight this together, side by side, just don't give up."
"Delete me Sarah," said ProtoMan hoarsely, "It's the only way, I'm still too weak from ShadeMan's attack to fight it. Use the DarkSword, the weapon she wanted me to use to delete you."
Sarah shook her head but stood up crying whilst she activated the DarkSword, she pulled up the DarkSword and brought it down on ProtoMan's head, the other navis and the ops looked away.
The DarkSword clattered on the floor, as the navis and ops looked back they saw ProtoMan and Sarah kneeling on the floor, Sarah's face was facing the floor as she cried, her hair covering most of her face.
"I can't," said Sarah, "I'm sorry ProtoMan, but I can't delete you."
"It's ok," said ProtoMan, "I understand, now leave before I try to delete you."
Sarah looked towards where Scyler had been but she had escaped in the confusion, her navi reconnected the body and of the five navis in the system, four logged out. ProtoMan remained, he fought the DarkSoul to the end before ProtoMan DS logged out into the net. The four netops left with Sarah using her strength to let them make it out of the arena, they made it to the other side of the bridge as it collapsed and the second floating arena crashed into the ocean next to the first.
It was about an hour after the floating arena had finished it's descent to the bottom of the ocean, most people had only been given a cursory check but Lan, Chaud and Mayl were admitted to the hospital for examining to make sure they were ok as they'd spent the longest in the arena. Dr. Hikari had arrived and used some of the hospitals tools to check Sarah's body over to make sure there was no major damage. After the tests, Lan and Mrs. Hikari as well as Mayl and her parents sat talking about the events. Sarah and Chaud were giving reports to the officials and information on BattleStyle to Dr. Hikari.
"Impressive," said Dr. Hikari, "But this DarkSoul Beam, are you sure ProtoMan went into DarkSoul Sarah?"
Sarah nodded, she didn't want to talk too much about it, even her navi Scyler who was usually talkative was silent for once.
Dr. Hikari looked a little downfallen, "This is dangerous Sarah," he said shaking his head, "I'd prefer it if you stayed out of it but you and MegaMan are the only ones who even stand a chance against her."
He walked away leaving Sarah and Chaud alone, Sarah turned to Chaud, "I'm sorry about ProtoMan, Chaud," she said, "I'll try to get him back for you."
"Don't bother," said Chaud, "I can always program a new one, he was just a netnavi after all."
He turned to see Sarah's look of disgust. "I thought you were different Chaud," she said, "But Yai was right, your just a jerk to other people and their navis, you are rich, but you will be lonely if you keep this up." She walked off down the corridor.
"That could have gone better," said Empress from the PET on Chaud's waist whilst he banged his head on the hospital walls.
"Keep that up and they'll have to admit you again," said another female voice. Chaud turned to it to see Mayl.
"How much of that did you catch?" said Chaud.
"Most of it," said Mayl, "You do know she likes you Chaud, don't you?"
"I keep forgetting," said Chaud, "I keep forgetting she's a navi."
"Most of us forget she's a navi most of the time," said Mayl, "Hell, I forget whilst she's in the system sometimes."
"I didn't know she cared so much about ProtoMan that much," said Chaud.
"He's her friend," said Mayl, "She cares for all her friends."
Chaud looked downfallen.
"Stupid," said Mayl walking off.
"What's that for?" said Chaud.
"Don't worry," said Mayl, "You'll find out."
"I hate it when girls go all mysterious like that," said Chaud.
"Get used to it," said Empress.
"Do you know what she meant?" said Chaud.
"Yup," said Empress, "But you have to figure this one out for yourself."
"You're evil," said Chaud.
"Thank you," said Empress giving a little curtsey.
"Girls," said Chaud walking off.
"Wherever you go," said Empress, "I follow remember." She said this before Chaud disabled the PETs speakers.
Sarah stood on the top floor of the hospital watching the sun set as she lent on the Tree of Life.
"I'll get you back ProtoMan," she said, "I won't sit by and let Chaud make a navi to replace you."