Author's Notes.
Jill, Chaud/Maylu? Well, I have been settingthis up for quite a while now…
S. H. Fire, BreakMan blind? Not that I know of…
ElementalMan, Maybe…
Begin Chapter!
"Here we are…"
"Netopia, it's been a while hasn't it?" Lan glanced around the airport, not a lot had changed since his last visit. "Hey, I wonder if we've got time for a dance lesson?"
"Lan, don't you DARE bring that up." Chaud shot a withering look at the brunette, who just grinned at the kid's consternation.
"So why do I get the feeling that there's a story you two haven't told me?" Maylu spoke her thoughts aloud as she followed the two Ops through the airport.
"It's nothing." The double-haired kid muttered, "Just a side note on the major plot line."
"Chaud got Raoul to come up to Den Tech to Netbattle me." The brunette plunged into the history lesson in spite of Chaud's angry look. "Because he thought I was getting too full of myself. Well, long story short, Raoul got Chaud to Disco with him."
"What?!" The redhead stifled a laugh as she tried to picture the reserved Chaud Blaze performing Disco moves.
"You are dead, Hikari." The official seethed silently, of all the times for Lan to bring THAT up… just when he needed Maylu to think of him as a calm unimpulsive person.
ProtoMan remained silent, although he made a mental note to bring the subject up again later. It might have been his limited imagination, but he sensed that Chaud had secretly enjoyed the experience… and enjoying himself was something that didn't come naturally to Chaud… especially since it had happened…
"Oh, so now we're back to formal names?" The brunette didn't seem the least bit concerned over the death threat. "Of course, it doesn't really bother me, 'brotha'."
Chaud sucked in his breath through his teeth as he tried to retain his self-control. However, he did allow himself to start working on ways to make Lan's life miserable, and it wasn't long before he had hatched a plan that could be called downright dastardly. All he had to do was wait for the correct moment…
"Hey, you'd better back off, Lan." MegaMan decided to reign in his comical Net Op, before he wound up with a dead comical Net Op.
Lan appeared to sober slightly at his Navi's words.
"How come you never told me this before?" Maylu couldn't shake the crazy images out of her head; it was almost as good as ProtoMan's impromptu haircut during the Tag Team Tournament.
"No reason." Chaud pushed open the outside door and allowed the other two to exit the building.
Maylu just shook her head, Chaud really needed to relax around them more, it was almost like he had some deep dark secret he didn't want anyone to find out about.
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Once again, the shadowy form of a female was slipping unnoticed into the Netopia Netbattle coliseum.
The form crept up to the first doorway, and connected her P.E.T. to a nearby terminal. At her command, the Net Navi overrode the lock command, and allowed its Op to enter the building undetected.
The shadow slipped down the halls and stairs, heading for the mass of computer banks located in the basement.
Abruptly the figure stopped as she caught a hint of voices, quickly the form rushed over and hid inside of a nearby closet. Just as three security guards entered that corridor.
Oblivious to the Nebula Agent hiding a few short feet away, the trio continued on, and disappeared from sight without so much as a suspicion of what was coming.
The shadow sighed slightly, as she crept out of her hiding place, and proceeded to dash over to the stairwell. Once there, she flew down the staircase, emerging in the grim dusty underground basement.
"This is almost too easy." The form grinned as she moved over to an obscure Jack-in terminal located in a side wall. Without a word, she connected her Personal Terminal and transferred her Net Navi into the Network. "Disable the security system."
"Done."
"Alright then…" The shadow recalled her Navi, and then disconnected the P.E.T.; things were all set for her to finish her mission.
Without wasting a second, the person rushed over to the massive computer bank, and began disassembling the mainframe.
In almost five minutes, the form had the main computer system stripped of its hardware, except for what was absolutely necessary for it to function. That done the person produced the small rectangular box that it had stolen in Sharro before connecting it to the computer's ROM data storage.
"Once more," The person connected her P.E.T. to the black box, sending her Navi into the device.
"How much time?" The Navi inquired.
"Make it… two hours." The form replied with a chuckle, "How I wish I could see Blaze's face when that thing goes off…"
"Yeah," The Navi agreed, "They think that this tournament's helping them, when in reality they're playing right into our hands. What could be better?"
"Just turn the box on."
A small digital clock face on the black box flared to life, and began counting backward fromone hour and fifty-nine secondstowards zero seconds.
"Jack out." The shadow retrieved her Navi, and then reassembled the computer as fast as she could. That done, she rushed for the stairs and headed for the exit.
She didn't want to be anywhere near this building when that box finished its deadly work.
End Chapter.
Next: Round 1 of the Netopian division. GutsMan vs. MagicMan!