Megaman Battle Network- The Data
By Dragon-Knight
He then face the class and in a clear voice he said
'My name is Duo, It's a pleasure'
The boy seemed to give off an odd feel of confidence, almost like a chill. His eyes searched the classroom, cold and calculating. But most of this was lost on some of the more dense pupils. His British accent has caused some people to put on shocked faces.
'Why don't you take a seat behind Lan' said Ms. Mari already moving in with her usual cheerful dispostion. Duo took the desk behind Lan sat down. While Ms. Mari started the Chemistry lesson Mayl started to get the feeling that she had seen Duo's face before, it was rather perplexing but she quickly dismissed it as nothing more then a sense of deja vu.
Ms. Mari began to explain about ionic Bonding and how molecules joined together to form Ions. Dex's and Lan's eyes soon began to drift as their concentration vanished and soon turned to drawing pictures on their note pads. Soon the work turned to Net Battling. At the mention of this Dex and Lan perked up almost at once.
'This week we will be looking at an aura viruses, now these viruses are extremely rare and powerful so don't upset if you lose to these viruses. The times will be posted the board.' Said Ms. Mari setting up the board by using her pet. The rest of the class jacked into their terminals.
In the cyber world Megaman, Gutsman, Roll, Glyde and the rest of the regular navis had entered the teaching room and stood waiting for the viruses. Mega took a look around to find the navi that belonged to Duo. The navi at the Duo's terminal was just a regular yellow work navi. Before he could think about this the viruses were released.
The 3 by 6 field was set out before him and staring at him was a wood based aura virus, a floating head and shoulders surrounded by a green energy field that protected it from attacks. Megaman had spent some time on the Undernet and these viruses were easy to beat by now. The Aura3 moved right in front of him and launched its head at him. He dodged to the left and began to charge his buster to full. The virus moved left then right then fired its head at him once again. Mega released the charged plasma shot at the head it collided with a crack. The blast had hit home cracking the viruses head and lowering its defences. The head then retracted to the body at a noticeably slower speed to last time.
'Hey Lan how about some chips?' he asked in an almost bored voice showing his confidence in beating his virus. Lan checked his folder and chose two chips to use.
'M-cannon slot in' he said as his slid the chip into the compartment on his PET. Megaman's arm transformed into a large red cannon. Megaman then spaced his feet out to stop him from being pushed back so much. He lined up the virus and fired. The cannon gave a soft whine as it charged and then discharged the energy. The blast hit the virus's aura making it shatter like a green glass bottle. The Aura3 was now defenceless against his next chip.
'Gutsman3, slot in' Megaman felt his arms change once again this time both of them changed into huge bronze metallic hands, he smashed them into the cyber tiles and watched as a shockwave ripped thought all 3 panels towards the aura-less virus. The wave hit, smashing the virus into digital particles. Just as they were about to fly off they stopped and began join together but not to form the virus again to form some chip data. The blue navi picked it up and checked the label; it was the wood aura chip. The battle was over so Lan had him jack out.
Back in the real world the listings went up on the board. Ms. Mari began to read out the best times. Dex place 3rd in the class with 00:10:78. Sadly Mayl and Yai didn't make the board due to the fact that they had lost to the viruses.
'and the best time in the class was…' said Mari trying to hold some suspense. But it didn't hold because Lan then shouted out
'Me. Thank you my adoring fans….'
'Lan it wasn't you so you can sit down and stop making a fool of your self'
Almost everyone gasped at this. Lan being told off by a teacher was nothing new but this was. Lan was the best battler in the school and one of the top ranked in the world.
'Who was it then?' asked Mayl
'It was Duo' answered Ms. Mari 'He beat Lan in time'. The times came up on the board.
Duo-00:00:46
Lan-00:05:89
Everyone turned to Duo expecting an answer from the new comer. All he did was stay put in his seat still wearing the same set face. Lan was about to ask him how he did it but before he could the bell rang though out the school signalling the end of the day. Everyone left save for Lan. How had someone with a regular navi could beat him was beyond impossible. It didn't make and sense. However if he stood their all day he would be late and worry his mom so he left.
Outside of school in the park Duo was having a conversation with his navi.
'Do you think we over did it a bit?' asked the navi from the pet.
'Maybe just a bit' chuckled Duo.
'So how long do I have to stay in this body?'
'Until I get the battle system working perfectly'
How long will that take?' gasped the navi sounding like he was already bored of his regular navi body.
'about a week' Duo replied 'the sword program isn't working yet and I haven't got to the shield yet'
'I guess I can wait for it, so how about we go home and get some work done'
'OK, the board meeting will be expecting the new fire wall program'
'let's go then'
Duo set his PET to stand by, strapped it to his belt and headed off towards his home.
He had just moved to ACDC from Den city. His Mom had wanted to be in a more open area, Duo had agreed seeing as his was getting very tired of the city. He walked at a slow pace towards his new home. The house was a very modest one considering the amount of income that his family had. After he entered he took of his shoes and started to head up to his room but he noticed that there was a note stuck next to the phone. It said that his Mother had gone shopping for food and would be back soon. Duo just shrugged it off and headed upstairs.
His room was what looked like a very bare one. His room had a bed, TV, Game cube, desk but the odd thing was that their was no computer in the room. The desk was bear, except for a few sheets of paper used for drawing. He then casually threw his coat onto his bed and closed the door behind him. He then headed to the real treasure of the house which was upstairs in the loft.
The entire place had been transformed into a shrine to computers. There were PCs, desks, servers and some equipment that only the SciLab should have. This is Duo did all his work. A kid he might be but his skills at programming was used throughout the world.
He sat down and jacked his navi into the main computer. The inside of his network was huge. The place that his navi appeared in was called the index. It was called that for a good and obvious reason. On That level there was nothing but warp terminals, leading to every point of his house network. The navi headed for the one in the top left hand corner. He was then transported to the development area. This pace had little green programs running around the place in a frantic attempt to keep up with the work set them by Duo.
'Go and check the log program to see what the progress is on the data gathering' Duo said while he began to type away at the keyboard.
The navi confronted the log program to get the report. While the program went on with the days report he couldn't help himself from letting his eyes drift to the centre of the room. There stood a glass tube filled with green liquid; the liquid was in reality a nano-program. Designed to build highly complex pieces of data. Inside the tube stood a navi's body. This body had no OS system (by biological standards a brain) but the body would soon be active and in use, very soon.
Back at Lan's house his was lying on his bed feeling about as frustrated as a person could be.
'How could someone be better then me with a regular navi!' He cried out trying to vent some anger.
'You should try and calm down' said Megaman from his pet trying to comfort his operator. Lan picked up his PET and began to talk to megaman eye to eye.
'Well how do you feel that there is a better navi then you out there?'
'I don't mind.'
'How can you say that?' Asked a shocked Lan. He had been expecting that kind of answer from his navi.
'Because if you try to be the best someone will always be better then you no matter how hard you try'
'I guess your right, I shouldn't be so beaten up about this'
'That's better; now how about some fun on the net before bed'
'Great!'
Lan Headed to his PC and jacked in Megaman. The blue bomber was soon in the cyber world of his owner's computer. After heading thought a warp point he was on the internet.
The glittering sky of the net always amazed him no matter how many times he saw it, but this feeling of wonder soon vanished and he began his way to the ACDC square. The road had some scattered navis here and there but except for them the place was nearly deserted. ACDC being a small town had almost no cyber buildings or attractions of any kind so the place was pretty much open space.
As Megaman raced though the roads leading up to the ACDC cyber square He encountered a few viruses, but they were mostly weak one and he no trouble blasting them into digital pieces. He finally reached the square and Lan decided to take a look at the notice board. There were only two new ones. The first one was asking for help getting an IceBall chip, the next one however was slightly more interesting.
Candy: - The other day me and my friend were looking round the Undernet; I know that it is dangerous but I needed some rare chips and my friend came along. Anyway we were ambushed by three really odd viruses that looked like little bugs and they were all surrounded by these weird glowing bubble things. Me and my friend were completely over powered by these buggy jerks and were about to be deleted but then a odd navi appeared. It was wearing a cloak and a hood-thing making it look like a shadow more then anything else, and deleted those things with no effort. Then it just disappeared. Very weird.
'You don't think he meant Bass do you?' asked Lan sounding more then a bit scared.
'I doubt that, Bass was swallowed up by Alpha remember, the only way that WE could get out was by me self-destructing' replied megaman
'Don't remind me' said Lan, the thought of his navi's near deletion still made his heart fall to a slight degree.
'even if it was Bass he would just deleted this Candy guy too, he isn't the kind of person to go around saving people' Pointed out Megaman.
After thinking for a few seconds Lan formulated an idea 'Maybe we should ask around to see if anyone else knows about this?'
'Good Idea, I have a look around the area' so Megaman set out to find any sort of information of this 'shadow'. After about an hour of ceaselessly searching the ACDC area, they weren't having too much luck. The only time anyone had heard about it was from the posting that Candy made. The search was beginning to look useless. Until Megaman was struck with an idea
'Hey Lan, how about we check the Undernet area, that is where that navi said he saw it?' the navi asked opening a video connection to Lan.
'I don't know about that, I mean a doubt if anyone there would help us with this. Almost everyone there would either run from us or try to delete you'
The blue thought for a while before replying with an answer.
'How about we use the BlackMind program that Chaud gave us, everyone there would think that we were from the Undernet'
'Good idea, but the Undernet is a huge area and I doubt that we could search the whole network in one day'
'We'll just have to do it another day' Said Megaman sounding quite disheartened by the fact that they wouldn't find more on the shadow. Soon their Mum came up and told them to head to bed. Lan had Mega jack out and put the pet in the charger. They would have to continue their chase later.
The next day was Saturday so there was no school and Lan and Co were free to play. They had decided to head to the park to mess around. While they were on the monkey bars Lan told them about the shadow he had read about. They all seemed surprised about it.
'Well I have never heard of this shadow' Said Yai
'Me neither' Added Dex.
'I'm telling you that is what the post said' defended Lan.
They went on like this for a few minutes until Mayl spotted something.
'Hey guys look who's here' she said pointing to an approaching figure.
'Who is it?' asked Dex, everyone by now looking in the direction that Mayl had pointed to. It was Duo.
'Hey guys, what's up?' he asked sounding much more cheerful then he appeared in class. Before anyone could answer Lan jumped down and stared straight at Duo.
'How did you beat me in school the other day, tell me!' Lan shouted sounding very aggressive. Duo silently laughed at Lan's response to a simple greeting.
'Calm down' Duo replied placing both his hand up to his chest in a defensive manner 'It was just some silly test, it meant nothing'
'You're probably right' said Lan calming down now. He started to think about the stupidity of his reaction. But part of him clung to his resentment.
'But...' Duo said letting it hang in the air waiting for Lan's response.
'What'
'If you want to prove yourself you could always net battle me' answered Duo producing his black Pet from his belt.
'You are so on' Lan also prepping his PET.
'Then let's get it started!'
Duo's eyes glinted with success, 'this is just what I need' he thought to himself. Lan had just walked right into his plan.