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Chapter 3- An exciting and dangerous day

Rei sighed a bit. It was lonely without Megaman or someone around with him. Dr Hikari had taken the day off to help plan Lan's funeral. Rei shuddered. The word 'funeral' itself was creepy.

Dr Hikari had taken Megaman with him. After all, he was Lan's navi. But Dr Hikari hadn't taken Rei with him because he thought it might be hard on Rei. Another reason is that Rei didn't have any sort of PET to be carried around in.

Rei groaned in boredom. What was an eager navi supposed to do at a time like this? Just wait around for who-knows-how-long? Rei thought about that for a moment until an idea came to his mind. What if he went and explored the net a bit while he waited? Maybe he could make some new friends! It would be like an adventure!

As Rei was about to leave, he made sure that he had the special program that Dr Hikari gave him. Because Rei had no official operator or a PET, he couldn't have battlechips downloaded to him. The program held the data of some battlechips. The program, well…it was more like a folder, acted just like a battlechip. One use of each separate data chip per battle. If he were to receive a battlechip from a virus, the chip would be converted into data and stored in his data folder. How Dr Hikari had created this, Rei didn't know and he wasn't about to ask either.

Rei set up a link and quickly followed it to Beach square. Of all of the squares in the net, this was his favorite. Everything was so colorful and bursting with life! How could anyone not like this place? Rei checked his zenny. He had about a thousand, to be used strictly for "Only when you truly need it" as Dr Hikari stated. Rei didn't really know what Dr Hikari meant by that, but knew that buying battlechips with it wasn't exactly what Dr Hikari meant.

'What if I earned my own money? Then I could buy that battlechip I've wanted for a while now!' Rei thought to himself. Rei had his eye on this one certain chip called the "Anti Damage" chip. It looked like a really good chip. The problem was that it was quite expensive. It was about 2500 zenny.

'Hmm…viruses drop zenny when they're deleted, right? So… its time to go virus busting!' Rei smiled and quickly headed to the warp link that would bring him outside the square and into the Beach areas. When the link was finished, Rei looked around. The Beach 2 area was really confusing. Rei hoped that he wouldn't get lost since he had nearly gotten lost a couple of times before.

So Rei started to walk around, looking for any scattered data or dropped zenny and mostly viruses. After looking for two minutes, Rei found a wide sword chip, and 300 zenny. Only a minute later, Rei ran into some viruses. The viruses were two Fishies and a Swordy. Rei realized that he should take out the Swordy first because they could invade his territory.

Rei quickly sorted through his data chip folder. He picked out a sword chip followed by two Attack 10 chips. The Swordy approached Rei, trying to hit him with its sword. Rei easily dodged the attacks and hit the Swordy with the powered up sword. The Swordy was deleted. Rei was feeling proud of himself for deleting a virus by himself, but was quickly snapped out of his feelings when he was nearly hit by one of the Fishies. The other Fishie followed right behind the first. Rei fired his buster at them, deleting them. Rei sighed in relief when their data disappeared. He looked down and found 700 zenny and a longsword chip.

"Wow…that's a lot…" Rei whispered softly. In this rate, he would have that chip easily! He already had 1000 zenny! So Rei wandered around, looking for any viruses or zenny. Rei noticed the farther from the square he wandered, the more viruses there were.

Rei found he had to run from several viruses. He wasn't too experienced in netbattling yet, so he had to take on only some of the weaker viruses.

While he was walking, a weird type of virus appeared and started to attack Rei. While dodging, Rei realized that this was no virus. This was a ghost navi! A ghost navi of Darkman! Rei was really nervous. This navi was was extremely strong and hard to beat. The navi had all forms of attacks, ranging from fire to electricity to water.

Darkman fired an attack where bats flew from holes in space(can't remember what its called). Rei tried his best to avoid them, but to no avail. Darkman was just too strong! Rei got hit by at least five bats before the attack ended. Rei was breathing deeply, trying to regain his breath. He quickly searched through his data folder, trying to find a helpful chip.

'Hhmm…why do I have three Spreader chips here? Oh what the heck! It can't hurt me!' Rei thought to himself and drew out the data for the three chips. The three chips, to Rei's amazement, melted into one chip called the 'H-Burst'. Rei blinked, but quickly fired it when he saw that Darkman was about to attack again. Thankfully, it did a lot of damage to Darkman. Just not enough to permanently delete him. Darkman looked very angry now. He started powering up for his ultimate attack. He was about to attack when a different navi intervened. Darkman's data scattered to the winds. Rei received a Darkman chip and 2000 zenny.

Rei was happy that he finally got enough zenny to buy the chip he wanted but focused on who the new navi was. The navi, obviously female, had blue eyes and short brown hair that went halfway down her shoulders. She was wearing a black jumpsuit that made her look dangerous. In a way, she seemed more like a human than a navi. It was very curious. Rei ran up to her, excited about meeting another navi.

"Thank you a lot! I'm Rei! What's your name?" Rei asked, wearing a big grin. The navi blinked in surprise at Rei's openness towards her, then smiled.

"I'm Adele.exe. I'm the ruler of the net." Now it was Rei's turn to blink in surprise.

"Ruler of the net? I thought the net didn't have any rulers?" Adele smiled kindly.

"Well, someone has to keep the net in order, don't they?" Adele pointed out. Rei nodded in agreement.

"Anyway, what were you thinking, trying to face off against Darkman? Don't you know how strong he is? And from the aura I sensing off you, you've just been activated recently." Rei's eyes widened at Adele's knowledge of him when he hadn't even said anything about it.

"I didn't want to! I was just looking for some weak viruses to get enough zenny to buy a chip I wanted! Darkman just attacked me out of nowhere! And how did you know that I was just activated?" Adele sighed in frustration. Why did everyone ask that question?

"Because I'm strong enough to sense things like that. Who's your operator? I'd like to have a word with them." Adele stated firmly. Rei suddenly found the ground very interesting and started staring at it. Adele raised an eyebrow in puzzlement at Rei's action.

"mumble,mumble." Adele rolled her eyes.

"I'm afraid I didn't quite hear that. Don't mumble."

"I don't have an operator." Rei whispered. Adele was shocked. Rei looked just like a regular custom navi and he didn't have any operator?

"You don't have any operator? Well, who created you then?" Rei fidgeted a bit uncomfortable.

"Dr Hikari created me. He's not in at the moment and I was bored so I left to explore the net." Rei said.

"That was very dangerous of you, Rei. You should not have done that. You seem to need some lessons in netbattling." Adele smiled, like she had something planned. "Why don't I teach you?" Rei beamed. The ruler of the net was offering to teach him how to netbattle! Rei nodded eagerly. Adele's smile grew.

"Alright then, our first lesson is about battlechips…"

Two hours later

Rei breathed deeply. Adele had pit him against several strong viruses after his lesson about battlechips and different types of viruses. Adele beamed at her student.

"Well done, Rei. You've completed my first lessons. Please return to your home. After you get your chip anyway." Rei smiled at his teacher.

"Thank you Adele-san!" He chirped and ran off to the Beach square. When he was there, he was able to see what time it was. It was 7 in the evening. Rei gasped, bought the Anti Damage chip and quickly headed back to Sci-lab. While running, Rei was thinking,

'Wait till Megaman and Dr Hikari hear about what I did today!'

Yeah!! Another chappie done! Please R&R and no flames unless you want a flame from my flamethrower!