Megaman Battle Network- Data Gathering

By Dragon-Knight

'If you want to prove yourself you could always net battle me' answered Duo producing his Pet from his belt.

'You are so on' answered 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.

They both set up their PETs and entered and cyber world created by the two PETs just for their battle. The normal Floor appeared red and blue squares six by three. Megaman appeared on the blue side and waited for the other navi appeared. The body soon began to materialize on the red side. It was the same navi as the one he had seen in the school network. The same navi that had beaten him, but he wouldn't be beaten this time. The navi was a basic yellow and green one with a visor for eyes and no mouth. It clenched it hands and fell into a martial arts position. Megaman when into his regular form and waited for the 'bell' as it were. The words 'Ready' were floating in the air waiting for each operator to choose some chips to start with. It didn't take long for Lan and Duo to get the battle chips they needed set up. The words then changed from 'ready' to 'FIGHT!'

Lan made his move first. Megaman's arm converted to a red cannon to which the barrel was aimed directly at the navi. The discharge of the cannon pushed Mega back slightly but the blast headed right for the defenceless green navi, but instead of moving out of the way his just raised one hand and clicked his fingers. He began to fade out, like an old photograph ageing with time. Soon his entire body had disappeared. The energy went right though the air were he was standing and just kept on coming, right off the platform.

'He's using an Invis chip!' warned Lan sounding desperate knowing that his reputation was at stake. The blue navi began to look in all directions, seeing as his opponent was invisible this was pointless, but he needed to be ready for went the chip wore off. All of a sudden a blue ball was chucked from the red area, popping into sight without warning. He had barely enough time to move out of the way before the IceBall froze the panel he was standing on. That ball was followed by a second one; this time Megaman didn't have time to dodge the bomb. The ball hit him giving covering him in a blue smoke that soon became ice and encased him in a frozen body cast. The invis chip wore off leaving the green and yellow navi revealed. He moved inline with Megaman began to charge his buster up. Before the buster could finish charging the ice surrounding Megaman began to glow a deep red. The navi simply looked ahead quite curious as what was going on. Just then the ice exploded in a blast of red light destroying the frozen prison and blinding everyone. The commercial navi cringed at the blast but soon looked ahead to see just what had happened

Megaman was free but he had changed. His right arm was now much bigger; more armour had seemed to form onto his glove. The data converter on his back had also increased in size. His colour had also changed from blue to red. The air was shimmering around him as his power heated up the surrounding area. He then just slowly raised his now armoured arm in a fist towards his foe. The green navi didn't even have time to think about what had just transpired because at that moment Mega's arm morphed from his regular fist into huge buster cannon. He opened fire doing a great deal of damage to the regular navi. The buster shots were tearing down his HP. He could feel every shot tear at him, ripping though his armour. The Regular navi began to move out of the line of fire and into safety.

'What the hell was that?' Duo asked 'How did Megaman change?' Lan was looking rather happy with himself

'Megaman has the ability to change his form, at the moment he's using heatguts style meaning that he's more powerful and can generate heat energy to melt ice.'

'Very impressive' Duo complemented 'but this battle isn't over.'

At that moment Duo's navi moved to the center square of his side of the field.

'Let's see if you can stand up to this, Slot in PlanetMan ver3, download!'

The navi held out his arms wide and in one sweeping motion he smacked his hands together. The sound they produced was much louder then it should have been. The noise echoed throughout the cyber verse. Four different coloured planets appeared surrounding Mega. They moved together and in one bone shattering smash crushed him. The explosion they created a bright flash of light that forced both operators and the navi to look away. When the navi looked back at Megaman he found him on one knee trying to get up. His body had been crushed by the attack and the resulting exposition had cracked his helmet in several different places. Duo was impressed but not surprised, he had expected him to survive, but to see him on his feet already was quite remarkable.

'I should have seen that coming' grunted out mega though gritted teeth as he got to his feet 'I didn't expect to see a regular navi with such a rare chip'

'Never underestimate your opponent' the navi replied sounding very human for a regular navi.

'Don't get cocky, any novice can score a hit with a navi chip lets see how good you really are'.

The navi responded to this by morphing his hand to a buster. A softly growing whine began to form from the buster as it began to charge up. Mega just stood rooted to the spot but soon he began to change again, his arm shrunk back to normal along with the size of the data converter on his back and his blazing red faded leaving a sombre blue. Then he just slowly crossed his arms waiting for the move.

Duo's navi fired the steaming plasma shot straight at mega.

Before the shot could hit the blue navi, he blurred suddenly and disappeared from sight. The regular navi was confused to just what had happened.

'He's behind you' the urgent call form his operator brought him back to focus, just in time as mega planted his foot straight into his back. This set the helpless navi falling to the cyber tiles landing on his chest.

'That's why he changed' Duo thought 'in his original form he had far greater speed'. Back on the duelling field Megaman stood gloating over the body of the navi.

'Big mistake Lan' Duo shouted, sounding un-unnervingly calm as he picked up a chip from his folder. 'Long sword, Slot in!'

Duo's chip began to morph the navi's arm into a long beam sword, giving off a strange light blue glow. The spun around and swung the sword right at MegaMan, forcing him to doge out of the way. The navi slowly picked himself up; it seems the hits that megaman had given him were beginning to take their toll. Once on his feet he placed the sword behind him and his left arm out for balance. Once the makeshift battle pose was done he made a mad dash at megaman. Lan was quick to respond to this by inserting a knight sword battle program into one of the pets chip slots.

Megaman's arm also began to change into a sword, but this was much bigger and was giving off an eerie glow of green, illumining his face giving him an almost fearful quality. The two foes charged and their blades met with an odd metallic buzzing sound, the sound of cyber blades clashing. They stayed gridlocked for some time until Mega kicked his opponent back and jumped bringing his blade down right onto his helpless foe. The much slower navi didn't have the speed or the agility of mega, so with no other options he was forced to block and take the full brunt of the strike. The much weaker navi to lose his ground but once again the two navis were back in a stalemate. Duo knew that his regular navi wouldn't be able to hold up against Megaman for long so he had to make this quick and get what he had came for.

Outside of the battle field Dex, Yai and Mayl were watching with interest. Dex was a netbattler so he was expected to watch, but Yai and Mayl were quite a surprise. The battle was becoming quite intense. The whole thing had everyone griped to the screens of the two pets. Mayl as it seems wasn't watching the match at all, her attention laid somewhere else. She had her eyes focused on Duo racking her brain for the nagging in the back of her head that told her that she had seen him before, the feeling she had in class had no gone away. The whole thing seemed crazy, she knew that she had never met him before but where this familiarity was was coming from she had no idea.

Back on the duelling ground, the two navis were still deadlocked. However this wouldn't last long, the regular navi was about to lose his strength and any hope of winning. Duo knew this, but he had a plan.

'long sword, slot in!'

The losing navi's other arm also transformed into another sword, an exact duplicate of the one in his right arm. He brought the newly formed sword and slashed at megaman's chest. The blade streaked right thought his body leaving a blue blurred line in his chest. The blue bomber's eye closed involuntary as the blade slashed across his chest. He quickly forced himself to push him self backward before his opponent could strike him again. Megaman took a few steps back, as he did his repair algorithm started working. The odd blur across his chest began to replace itself with the normal colour. Although Megaman looked just tired he had lost almost all of his health. He had to think of something fast or he would lose. The regular navi speed towards Mega to deliver the final blow. Lan made one swift move and reached for three chips from his folder. Megaman understood what Lan was going to do and got ready for the surge of power. Then in totally synchronized they said

'program advance' together in one clear voice. Duo was intrigued by this, But it didn't matter he had told his navi what to do. Lan and megaman continued with their synchronized talking and went on to finish the advance.

'Slot in Fireblade, Aquablade, Elecblade'. The sword in megaman's arm began change into a thinner blade; the colour began to give out a bright white light.

'life sword3!'

With that said the sword wielding Megaman rushed towards the navi, his feet were a blur against the cyber panels as he ran. Then without warning he disappeared, moving so fast that the regular navi's ocular subroutines couldn't keep up with him. Then his blue body just seemed too materialized right in front of the navi and kept on moving. The blade slashed right though the yellow and green armour like it was nothing but air. The navi felt the searing pain in his chest as the blade destroyed what was last of his HP. He fell to the floor as his body gave into the lack of energy; his arm began to change from swords back to arms. He lay there for a few seconds before he was transported back to his PET. Megaman had his arm morph into his arm and then went back to his PET.

The Two net-battlers disconnected their PETs and hung them on their belts. The Battle had certainly boosted Lan's confidence about his skills.

'Well done Lan' Said duo chuckling as he disconnected the cable from the two PETs 'that was the best battle I've had in ages' This of course was the truth.

Duo held his hand out. Lan's face was slowly turning into a beaming smile. The frustration that he had been keeping inside him slowly began to diminish. 'Thanks, you were pretty amazing yourself' Lan said taking Duo's hand in a firm handshake.

'Well I've got to get home and do some work, nice meeting you guys' Duo said as he began to walk away.

'What! You just came to duel Lan!' came the annoyed voice of Yai.

'That sounds about right' Duo was now jogging backward while answering Yai, slowly turning around and continued jogging back to his house. The group continued to watch him till he turned into a corner and disappeared from sight. It was then that Mayl, who had kept quit during the duel between Lan and Duo spoke up

'Actually I think I'll head home too' She said pulling on her blue and pink backpack.

'What! Your going too' Said Dex feeling slightly shocked by this.

'well in that case' sighed Yai slowly getting up 'I'll be going home as well'

On that note the two girls left leaving Dex and Lan alone in the Park.

Duo uploaded his navi and checked on his programming to make sure that everything was in working order before activating him.

'That was NOT fun' the defeated navi said the moment his vocal subroutine came online.

'Sorry but we needed to lose in order to get what we want, so did you get it'

'Yep, I got all we needed on this guy, his data was very intense, I had to keep it from corrupting and fight off Megaman at the same time, not easy'

'Don't worry' said Duo trying to be as caring as he could be 'Once we get the data uploaded you'll see that It was worth the wait.' A demonic smile crept onto Duo's lips as the prospect of his greatest work coming true.

It was the longest ten minuet walk of his life. He felt like a little kid racing home to play on a brand new game. Duo rushed to his house not even bothering to take of his shoes or his coat and headed straight for his lab. He uploaded his pet into the main frame and waited for his navi to get to work.

In the cyber world the navi had entered the index and headed for the warp point were he would be taken to have Megaman's data downloaded out of his body.

He soon found himself in the familiar surroundings of the developing sector. He headed towards a set of large consoles next to the main tube with the new navi's body. A green program stood watch over the controls and their readings. The navi approached the program stood back and let the navi get to work.

In the real world Duo was working on the rest of the new navi's programming. He had finished the sword program, but the shield was being a hard nut to crack. He had gotten the defence subroutines from the Iron Body chips he owned and data from the Famous Protoman. The hard bit was trying to sort thought all the data and combine the good pieces of code together while removing or in some cases replace with more effective ones. Then he had to program the rest of the shield, and this was a very large pain. But it would be worth it, Duo had predicted that if the shield worked it should have more power then any other shield that a navi could hold. The prospect of this kept getting him excited and he made some very stupid mistakes but on the hole the project was coming along quite well. He had already finished the fire wall program for the company and delivered it, they said that it should be on the market by the next month. It was a silly thing really, no firewall or protection program could ever compare to the security he had around his house network. The houses cyber world was an impossible fort to penetrate and that is what he was very sure about.

The process of transferring the data over to the main system was about to begin. The navi held in its hand a small glowing chip, the data collected during the battle with Megaman. The navi inserted the chip into the main console and opened up a communication window to the real world.

A beeping sound began to be emitted from the computer that Duo was working on. A small yellow icon had also appeared on the middle of the flat screen. Duo clicked on the icon and a window with the face of his navi opened up into view.

'Have you uploaded the data yet?' He asked still felling a great sense of impatience. The prospect of looking at the data of the navi who took down the World Three and Gospel was almost too much.

'Yes, we just need to sort though the data and it'll be ready for the new system.'

'We have to be very careful' Duo warned sounding very grave 'No one has ever tried this before. We have to make sure that it doesn't blow up in our faces'

'Your right of coarse, I'll upload the data to you'

Duo cleared all of the windows on his desktop and waited for the data to come up. A new window popped up on the screen. Soon the data of Megaman began to scroll up. Duo stared at the programs with disbelief.

'That navi is far more advanced then I would have thought' Said Duo in complete awe over this. 'Whoever wrote this navi program was a genius'.

'But you can figure it out can't you?' asked the Navi over the speakers, a tinge of hope shining though his tone.

'I not sure if I can' Duo admitted 'These files are like nothing I've ever seen before'

Duo began to look though the masses of data shown on his screen, files upon files of data; each one was stranger then the last.

'These personality files are huge, and their structure looks very odd it almost looks like…… wait a minute what's this? Hub.bat?'

Back at Mayl's house both she and Roll were searching for why that boy Duo seemed so familiar. While Roll dashed though all of the internet trying to get connections, Mayl looked at all the magazines she had bought in the last few weeks. It was a slim chance that she had seen him in one of them. Roll had gone though all of the major city areas and checked all of the message boards and talked to all of the people she met. However all of the answers were the same, they had never heard of Duo. Mayl threw down the 'today' magazine she had been reading. She couldn't find a single reference or slight chance of mentioning Duo. 'Who the hell is this guy?' Shouted Mayl, beginning unable to find any information on this boy was beginning to wear her patience down to a dangerously low level. She went to her pink PET and began to look at what her Navi was up to. Roll seemed to have given up on the crusade as well.

'Any news?' She asked hoping that Roll had gotten any information on Duo.

'Not a thing I'm afraid, but there is a slim chance I know how to get some'

'How?'

'A program mentioned that a new search engine site had opened up in the Yoto region, they say that they could find anything or ANYONE' Said Roll putting emphasis on a certain word.

'Lets try that' Mayl ordered, her voice coated with annoyance with the almost impossible task. With that Roll headed off to the Yoto square. A single thought went though Mayl mind

'I WILL find out who you are Duo, I will!'