THE EARLY PEACE...

There was no way that it could fail now. His years of hard work and research had finally paid off. His only threat was taken care of. There was no way that he could possibly interfere.

"Hikari Yuuichiro cannot stop me once it is completed!" In a dark corner of the dark room, a massive machine can be seen. "I just need one last piece... I know he will come, I must be ready. Tonight, that boy will die!"

That night, in the far reaches of a very remote area of a dangerous desert, the most wicked cackles any is ever likely to hear erupted from a dark base.

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The night was extraordinarily quiet, or so the security guard would say when questioned in the hospital later that month.

Crickets were chirping away. Outside an old abandoned warehouse in the outskirts of town, it was so calm that the moon could have fallen asleep.

"'Eh, Taiman. I think I'm gonna' be heading on out. I got a little date with Ryouko tonight." Two security guards were sitting in their booth. One, nearly asleep, the other was equipped with a jacket and a pair of fashionable glasses. "Oh, that's okay. I'll finish off the shift. It's just as boring as always...", replied the man named Taiman who was most likely too sleepy to realize what he was saying.

As the second man began to leave, he suddenly was halted by Taiman's words. "Boken! Wait! You forgot your PET!" Boken quickly ran over and grabbed his new Advanced PET, "I would've killed myself if I had lost this thing. Just spent 100,000 zenny on this piece o' crap..."

Boken flipped open his PET and authoritatively commanded his navi to go on ahead and tell his girl friend that he'd be a little late. "Yes sir", replied the navi, an Alpha I to be exact.

Suddenly, the PET screen faded out. Just as quickly as it left, it returned however. "Master Boken, I'm very sorry for that. I seemed to be separated from the root directory of your PET for a short while.", the Alpha I explained very quickly. "God damn it! They pop out new versions of these PETs all the time, yet they are all filled with stinking bugs!Damn ICP with their milking the product for everything it's worth...", ranted Boken for what seems like hours.

It was no longer quiet. Instead of the original quietness of nature, it was now absolutely quiet. Boken felt his as if his mind had suddenly been transferred to another plane. Every color he saw was beginning to be distorted. He could swear the sky was becoming orange. No, maybe it was yellow. Or, maybe it was green. Either way, Boken thought he was sick, but he didn't feel that way. Something strange was happening that night.

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"Netto..."

"Netto, wake up."

"Netto-kun... There's a message from Meijin. Something has gone wrong."

"Unnnggg... Battle chi... Fumikimo... Zan... Fusion..."

"Netto-kun! Stop dreaming! It's urgent!"

"I'll save you... unnnggg... errrmmmm... Meiru... Chan..."

"NETTO-KUN!!! WAKE UP!!!"

A head popped out from the covers. Netto could sense it even before he saw it, Rockman was angry. He quickly got out of bed in a very apologetic manner. "Netto, you have a message from Meijin-san.", said the net navi. He was frustrated, but he was refusing to show it.

The human reached over and flipped on his PET. Instantly, he saw the video message from Meijin appear.

"Netto-kun. We have received word from our surveillance satellites that a dimensional area was created over this building not far outside town." The video zoomed in on the warehouse, it was surrounded by a dimensional area now. "We have no idea who made this, or even how it was made. Normally, there are dimensional converters nearby, but we have failed to locate them. You are the closest person we have, I want you to go check out the scene." The screen flicked off.

"We have to go. It's our duty.", instructed Rockman. "Yeah, yeah. I know, but it's so late..." "Let's go."

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Hakura woke up suddenly. She wasn't sure what had caused her to wake up. This didn't happen to her very often. She almost felt as if she had heard a door close.

Silently, Hakura slipped out of bed to go check things out.