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Chapter 11: The War Begins: Part 1-Meeting the Mentor

The boy that had been standing at the door looked in horrible shape. His clothes were torn, his eyes had bags under them, and he looked as if he didn't know what food was. "That scythe," he gasped, " It…holds…" he gasped again, "Tremendous power…" He fell over, unconscious. Alex rushed over, "He's out cold."

"That isn't good," said Mae, "Tim, get him some water."

"Yeah, got it," said Tim.

"Is he gonna be okay?" asked Maylu uncertainly.

"Yeah," responded Alex, "He just needs rest." Alex looked out the window. He wasn't really looking at anything, he was thinking, a few days ago, things were carefree, but since EvilMan appeared. 'EvilMan…' thought Alex.

In the cyberworld, Kirby was doing worse. After his initial happiness, he was very, very angry.

'That motherfucking, cocksucking bastard," he thought venomously. 'He deserves to be split in half and thrown into fry oil piece by piece.'

Kirby stamped his foot on the ground in anger, and broke the floor of his homepage. Shade looked over concernedly.

"Kirby?" she asked quietly.

"WHAT?" snapped Kirby.

"Whoa…I'm-I'm sorry, I didn't know that bothered you," she said apologetically.

"Oh, I'm sorry Shade, it's just, you know, I'm mad at EvilMan and myself for almost killing you and Blademan, as well as everyone else," said Kirby apologetically.

Outside, the boy at the doorway was doing better.

As the young boy ate large amounts of food, and drank large amounts of soda, it became clear he had had a rough journey.

"So…" asked Alex, "What's your name?"

"Trigo," he replied, "Trigo Nefarious."

"Trigo the evil?" asked Tim.

"No, I was just unlucky enough to have that last name," replied Trigo.

"So, why are you here?" asked Mae.

"Simple. You three," he said, pointing to Tim, Mae, and Alex, "Have equal rivals." Trigo turned to look at Lan, Maylu and Chaud, "As do you three."

"Huh?" asked Lan.

"Simple. I hail from a village deep in NetFrica known as Nefarious Portal. Our village is built over a shrine that seals away the evil souls within our Earth. Unfortunately, one day, while I was reinforcing the virus mechanisms to protect the shrine, a lock broke, and my navi, Darkness, was possessed by an EvilSoul, thus he became EvilMan," said Trigo, "It wasn't fun, he proceeded to destroy the shrine, semi-unlocking the evil souls in every navi on Earth. EvilMan is possessed by a soul that can fully unlock the evil souls, but he hasn't had much luck because most navi's are still weak, even with evil souls."

"Alright, this can only mean one thing," said Chaud, "I heard that an organization is forming know simply as ESU, EvilSoul Unlockers. We have no chance against them…Life as we know it is about to change."

"Wrong," said the computer.

Alex looked at his homepage. He saw Kirby standing in the center, staring at the floor.

"What Kirby?" asked Alex.

"Someone can help. My mentor," said Kirby.

"No, Kirby, it's too dangerous, the navi's can't risk it, one of them is already on his bad side, don't make it…" Alex was cut off.

"NO! WE NEED TO! HE TOLD ME ONCE! "I am not evil, I am just dark." WE NEED TO STOP THE SPREAD OF EVILSOULS! WE MUST EMBRACE OUR DARKNESS IS WE ARE TO STOP IT!" yelled Kirby, staring at Alex.

Alex sighed, "Alright. We'll do it."

"What?" asked everyone.

"Let's go meet my mentor," said Kirby.

The navi's followed Kirby wordlessly, there was great tension in the air, and as they traveled, the net around them grew darker and more ominous. Soon, after half and hours walking, the navi's stopped in front of a large door, with a symbol of a circle with a gash going across it at an angle.

"Darkness embrace,

Unlock thy locks.

Darken my soul.

Blacken my heart.

Chill my blood.

Numb my body.

O great seal,

Open soundlessly,

Showing,

The darkness of my mind…" said Kirby chanting.

The seal, which had been dull, and nearly invisible, glowed brightly and the doors parted. Megaman recognized the symbol. 'Oh no, Lan…'

Lan sensed it as well.

When the doors stood fully open, a lone figure was seen floating silently in the middle, the brown cloak around him torn and battle worn.

The floating body's head turned to see what was behind it. A star like symbol on its forehead.

"I don't believe it…" whispered Megaman.

"Kirby's mentor," said Protoman.

"Is…" Trigo was cut off.

"Bass, I require your assistance yet again," said Kirby, "I have come…"

"To embrace your DarkSoul," said Bass quietly.

"Yes."