MegaMan Battle Network – Time
(AN: This is set shortly after Tournament Time.)
Chapter 1 – The Day the Net Stood Still
"This is serious," said Mr. Famous to the group in his office, he had requested that Sarah bring a team to deal with the current problem and Sarah had brought a team, more specifically she had brought Lan, Dex, Mayl, Yai and Chaud, "As you are all aware, nearly every navi on the net has either been forced out of it or frozen along with it, the only navis capable of moving are DarkNavis and some of the more powerful solos."
"Bass and Scyler then," said Sarah.
"Them included," said Mr. Famous.
"What about us?" said Mayl, "I don't want Roll to get frozen."
"I understand your concern," said Mr. Famous, "Dr. Hikari assures me that the program he developed will prevent this, but if not we have our backup plan."
"I'm guessing this involves me and Empress," said Sarah.
"Moving swiftly on," said Mr. Famous, "We will supply you all with a copy of the program then send your navis to where we believe the freezing is coming from, it should be a simple go in and unfreeze the net mission but because the computers are frozen, we can't scan to see if any active navis or viruses are in the area."
"So basically what you're saying is that when we go in we could be assaulted straight away because the security on the official's computers isn't working?" said Yai, "Great."
"We will be using a newly connected computer to jack your navis straight to the source of the problem," said Mr. Famous, "It should be able to do it but be careful."
"How do we find it?" said Mayl as Dr. Hikari and Rush walked into the room.
"Does this answer your question?" said Dr. Hikari.
"But he'll freeze," said Mayl.
"No he won't," said Dr. Hikari, "I've installed the program into him and tested it, and he doesn't freeze on the network."
"So the only ones who we know won't freeze are me, Rush and Empress," said Sarah.
"That's about right," said Dr. Hikari as he gave Lan, Dex, Mayl, Yai and Chaud a data disk each, "This is the program, Sarah doesn't need it so we should be all set."
"Yeah," said Yai, "All set to lose our navis."
"What is it with you just lately Yai?" said Mayl, "You've become really cold since the tournament."
"Nothing," said Yai.
"Suit yourself," said Mayl.
They loaded the programs and went down to a computer lab where the new computer was being set up.
"Should be done in a minute Mr. Famous," said one of the technicians, "A bit more to install and it should be up and running."
"Let me handle it," said Dr. Hikari moving to the computer, "Hmm, looks like you have aboutten minutes before the computer freezes, after five minutes the navis will be on their own."
"Great," said Yai, "How can they expect to win on their own without Chips."
"Don't forget to activate a Style Change before the five minutes is up Lan," said MegaMan.
"I guess that'll be my queue to release Empress," said Roll.
"Just smash and bash GutsMan," said Dex.
"Don't worry about me," said ProtoMan.
"I guess everyone else is pretty confident," said Sarah, "Don't worry about Glide Yai, we'll keep an eye on him."
Sarah turned before Yai glared at her.
"Ok then everyone," said Sarah, "Jack In!"
"Jack In, MegaMan Power Up!"
"Jack In, Roll Power Up!"
"Jack In, GutsMan Power Up!"
"Jack In, Glide Power Up!"
"Jack In, ProtoMan Power Up!"
"Ok then," said Sarah as they landed in net city, Rush wasn't soon after and Sarah turned to look around.
Navis had been fighting viruses, she could see loads of mettaur viruses around but what was worse was that she could hear more.
"Freeze," said Sarah, immediately the six froze and stood still as a load of black mettaur viruses passed by.
"No," said Sarah as they moved again after the viruses had disappeared.
"What were they?" said Roll.
"DarkViruses," said Sarah, "I see someone's gone a little crazy with her new toy."
"You mean," said MegaMan, "Those were mettaurs in DarkSoul!"
"Just means we'll have to be extra careful," said Sarah, "You lot stay here, ProtoMan with me!"
ProtoMan and Sarah quickly scaled the one of the buildings and looked around.
"Pretty well organised," said Sarah, "Six mettaur groups, each focusing on a different area, you see the square?"
ProtoMan nodded looking at the giant device set up in the square.
"That's our target," said Sarah, "There are some Alerters there so we have to be careful, we set one off and we're dealing with at least a hundred DarkMettaurs."
They went back to the others and told them about the situation.
"What can we do?" said MegaMan.
"Use SearchSoul," said Sarah, "You should be able to sneak you and me past them and I can disable the freeze program, once that's done we'll have to log out and let the officials take over."
"You sure?" said MegaMan, "Sounds complicated plus the invisibility won't last forever."
"It appears to be the only way," said Glide.
"Empress says to take it," said Roll, "And I agree."
"We'll try and stop the DarkMettaurs," said ProtoMan, "Set one off and we can get at least a hundred of them destroyed before they even hurt us."
"Let's go for it," said Sarah, "But don't underestimate DarkViruses you lot, they're more powerful than they look."
The six navis and Rush moved towards the square, Sarah and Rush alerting the group against DarkViruses when they rounded the corner and rush directing them through the city as the data had become to corrupt to pass over in some areas and it looked like Scyler had been doing some remodelling of her own.
"That wasn't there last time I checked," said Roll pointing at a giant purple and white navi symbol on the side of a building.
"You've seen that symbol before," said Sarah, "Why does it worry you?"
"Because it belongs to you and Scyler," said Roll.
"Don't say you didn't expect it," said Sarah.
"I can't say that," said Roll, "It just came as a shock, that's all."
"Lets keep moving," said Sarah.
They reached the square and Sarah looked around the corner.
"What the…" said Sarah, "Why's he mixed up in this? And how?"