"… I hope that you will be able to accomplish this mission, old man. You fail, I kill. Got that?"
Chapter 4- Battle 1- The Fight for Living Rights
"Here is one person that killed 3 of our top agents, one being my last partner," informs Ari to Enzan. She took in a deep breathe and continued to show him each of the windows for each of the select people. One of the windows, on the computer screen, is a teenage girl with violet hair and deep blue eyes. Ari points to that picture with her index finger and says, "She was my last partner. Her name was Misha, otherwise known as Agent Violet. We don't know what happened to her, but we are assuming that she is dead, for the safety of her cover if she really isn't. If one agent is absent after a mission has ended, we consider him or her dead. We didn't find a body so I still have hope that she is still out there. She might just be hiding out somewhere," Ari says. She then changes her tone to an annoyed voice and finishes her sentence. "…out there… relaxing…" She glares at Violet's picture.
Enzan points to a shadowy picture on the screen and questions who that person was. Someone walks up behind them and pokes Ari's shoulder making her jump from her seat and scream. The person laughs as she jumps. "You should be agent an Mew Mew!" comments the person. The person continues to laugh and walk away once Ari and Enzan turns around to see who did that.
Ari grimaces her face and mouths out the letters, "W-I-T-C-H." Ari sits back down and whispers to Enzan who that person, more specifically an older girl, is. "Her name is Agent Petite. She is no petite, though. She is so mean to me because she is older then me in age and in years, serving COO. I only served for a few years. I think I served for one year less then her? I don't remember. All I know is that she wanted my position and she got a position that she didn't like, so she picks on me for it. She better not forget her place though. I won't forgive her if any of my agents get hurt because she still hold a grudge against me." Enzan looks at Ari with a questioning look on his face; he doesn't ask about where that response came from though. "Well anyway," she continues, "Here are some more statistics that we have. Let's look at them before…"
A loud buzzer sounds off as Ari speaks and Enzan stares at the statistics of everyone that COO has encountered from Dark Reflection. Blues speaks out loud to Enzan as the buzzers and alarms sound off. "Enzan-sama, it seems I have an e-mail from 'Boss.' He is assigning us for this mission and Ari seems to be our assistant and head for this mission. He also says that Netto will be there to assist us, too. He should be heading straight to us right now for more instructions."
"Thank you, Blues," thanks Enzan. "Ari, what is the mission?" he asks to Ari.
In mid transmission, she continues to nod and say her yes sir's. Once she finishes up, she turns to the hallway and waves her hand out to notify that they are waiting for netto to come.
Netto continues to wander the building and walks right passed Ari and her waving hand. "Argh!" yells Netto. "He didn't tell me where to go! Where are they!" He begins to tug his hair as Ari, with an annoyed look on her face, walks over to Netto and taps his shoulder twice.
"Over here," she says in a monotonous voice. She waves her hands and motions for him to follow her to the room that Enzan and she were in. "Never, EVER ignore a lady. Understand?" she roars to Netto. Netto backs away for a moment and just nods his head.
Once they reach the room, Netto and Enzan walk up to each other and greet each other. Enzan starts off by saying, "Hey Netto! It's been a while. How have you been?"
Netto replies to Enzan by saying, "I'm doing fine. I just keep upsetting every girl I run into though." He chuckles and drags Enzan to the corner of the room rapidly. "God, Enzan! She almost as bad as Meiru! What am I gonna do!" whispers Netto to Enzan. "Help me!" An overcast shadow hovers over Netto as he continues to speak. Netto takes no not to it but Enzan can see who is listening on to him speaking. "Enzan!" continues Netto, "They are like…demons! And dragons! They are both so ugly when they are mad and they yell like there is no tomorrow!" Enzan tries to point up to the figure behind Netto but Netto continues to talk. "She's going to eat me! I have to see demons everyday now!" Suddenly, something huge and unbreakable smashes against Netto's head.
"Hmph! Now! Let us talk about the mission! NOT ME! We have to head off to the Elec Town Radio Tower. If you want to make it home to eat your dinner and go to bed to wake up for summer school, you had better listen well. We have to head there now. I will explain on the way."
Ari dashes out of the room and down a few corridors within the building. "Ok! We will be head off and pretend we aren't doing anything important. It is 6 o'clock in the evening now so we had better finish this mission fast. I want to eat dinner and go home and be able to sleep tonight. Now, we are just kids and we are chasing after each other, literally. Enzan, you are 'it'. Catch one of us once we get to the tower and that person will make a bet saying that the first to jack in to the tower will win. Just jack into the dial on the radio tower and we can make up whatever on the way. Got that?" She didn't stop to hear their response and rushed out the door. "Tag! You're it!" She laughed and ran towards the Metro.
Netto just ran and looked at Enzan, blinked a bit and laughed. "Ha! You're It! Can't catch me!" yelled Netto. He then dashed out of the building and headed towards the Metro, too, thinking "I think I'm going to like this job."
"Oh my God…" sighed Enzan. He runs out and trying not to seem like he was acting. He absolutely thought that this was ridiculous.
As they expected, there is someone else walking towards the tower 5 minutes later. He is wearing a brown trench coat and a matching hat. Hidden under his hat his is silvery hair. He walks up to the tower and stares at it. He sighs for a moment then stops after hearing children come towards him.
"Ha ha ha!" I'm going to win!" yells a girl. He can hear and feel two more footsteps pursuing her. He is able to see a young 14 year old girl, with brown hair neatly tied in a low ponytail, running towards the radio tower. Suddenly, the elderly man could see two more boys running towards him, one with black and white hair and one with brown hair.
The man can't stop panicking as he worries about what might happen to him or what he might have to do to those children. He turns away from the children and walks at a faster pace to the tower speakers.
Ari notices this and accelerates as much as she can to try and catch up to the old man. Ari waves her hands and tells them to move in faster. She stands by the gate surrounding the tower and points her red and yellow PET, the advanced PET model, to the dial of the tower and yells, "Flare. Plug in, transmission!" A red laser beam hits the dial and Flare, a mainly red navi with a yellow band around her torso about an inch apart and yellow stripes running down her legs to her pointed-top boots, is sent into the tower computer. Following her is Netto then soon after, Enzan. They both plug in their navis, Rockman, a blue navi, and Blues, a red and white navi. Ari raises her eyebrow for a second and says loudly enough for the man to hear, "I win."
The man looks in horror at the control panel takes out a gray model PET, the PET with the one screen and the plug and cord. "Jack in, Mono!" yells the man. He inserts the plug into a slot. "Finish mission and don't harm anything. They need our help and we can't let my daughter die."
"Hey, Mister! Stop right there!" yells Ari. "Flare! Prevent him from damaging the tower or inserting any data!"
In the cyberworld, Flare materialized in one position, keeping her eyes out for anything unusual. Rockman then "Blues, Rockman, I want you guys to look around, I want you to stop any navi that seems suspicious, got that?" commands Flare in a firm and strong voice.
"Yes, ma'am!" replies Rockman. "Are you ready Netto-kun?" he asks.
"Let's do some net saving, Rockman!" responds Netto. Rockman nods while thinking "I have a very brave and valiant NetOp" until Netto continues to speak. "You better hurry Rockman! I need to get home and eat!"
"I anticipated too much…" Rockman murmurs as he walks to the left of his position and observes the area before him.
Blues did the same as Rockman and checked on his NetOp. "Enzan-sama, are you prepared?"
Enzan simply nods and says, "Do what you need to do to finish up this mission quickly and smoothly.
Blues nods in return and dashes off to look for any navi that is out of place.
Flare, without checking on Ari, follows the directions given to her. She walks straight a head and looks in all directions around her. Everyone else does the same. She walks all the way to the end of the area and stops to report to her NetOp. At this point, she does not see anyone else from her crew.
Meanwhile, Ari and the others approach the old man. The old man begins to mumble and babble on about how "nothing is going the way they had planned it" and that he "can't afford for this mission to become a failing mission."
"Old man! Stop right there!" orders Ari. "Under government orders, I place you under arrest for suspected sabotage. Now come nicely and recall your navi. Your sentence and judging will be short and easy on you if you do this in a peaceful…" As she is speaking to him Netto notices something sparkling from the old man's face.
Netto walks up to Ari as she speaks and whispers in her ear, "Ari, this isn't right. Let's see what is wrong before we arrest him."
"Sorry," Ari responds. "I can't afford to let him get away." Ari, after taking note of the tears screaming from his face, walks up to the man. "Who is ordering you to do this?"
The man turns around and shoves everyone away, his yelling filled with emotion and pain. "Stay away, little children! Go away!" With those forced screams from his lips, he continues to direct his navi. "Insert the data and we can go back!"
In the shadows of the upper level of the tower, two figures, a tall slender body and a smaller body being held to the taller mass. A grin and a low volume chuckle emits from the taller person. "Keep it up old man… hehehe."
"Ari-sama, I don't see anyone here," reports Flare from the cyber world. "I will proceed to find the others immediately…" Suddenly, an incoming message came. "Wait incoming e-mail from Rockman. It seems that he found someone who seems to not want to cooperate with us. I'm checking on it now." She rushes to Rockman's position with great speed. Side by side with her is Blues to her left. He seemed to have had the same message delivered to him. They rush to the left corner of the area, to where a rather large control panel is.
In sight, are a blue navi and a green navi. They converse in loud tones.
"My NetOp needs my help or else his family will get killed! You have to let me finish up my mission!" screamed the green normal navi. "If you don't go, I-I have to t-try to h-hurt you! St-st-stay back!" He points a normal buster towards Rockman; the normal navi then proceeds to get closer to the control panel.
"Oy!" yells Rockman in fear. "You can't mess with the tower! Many people will get hurt!" he holds his hands up in front of his face and steps back slowly.
Gaining distance towards the two are Blues and Flare. Flare then gives orders to Blues to assist Rockman in any way he can. Flare then, while still dashing ahead, spins to the right and disappears. Blues spins and disappears; he reappears in front of the green navi and slashes once. This blow to the green navi sends him back to his PET.
"Mission accomplished here, ma'am," informs Flare to her operator.
Meanwhile, after Mono is sent back to the PET, the man stares at his PET in horror. "No! This can't be happening! Elisa! I won't let you down! You can't take away my right to save my grand daughter from living!" He then immediately takes out, what looks like a battlechip. He is about to insert it into the tower until Netto runs in and knocks the old man over.
"Hey! We said we would help! Stop that!" urges Netto as he reaches for the chip.
Ari, without notice, takes out a long, 5 yard piece of black string with the diameter of a quarter of an inch. She tries the rope a bit by tugging on both ends of it. She looks at the old man and whiplashes. The whipping piece of string shoots in the direction it was shot towards and wraps around the leg of the slimmer figure above them. Ari, without hesitation, looks at the figure and tugs really hard. "Enzan, catch."
Both figures drop from the air. The sunlight revealed the younger and smaller figure to be a little girl around the age of 7 with blonde and curly hair falling with flowing hair. Her mouth, arms, and legs were duct taped to restrict her voice, and movement. The Slimmer figure was revealed to be a female with black hair and black clothing to allow her stealth. As they both dropped, the person in black releases the little girl in mid air and aims her PET at the tower controls. A red beam fires from the PET and into the tower.
Enzan catches the little girl in the air; the face of both of them terrified. Enzan then shifts his attention to the other woman. She lands on her feet and knees and laughs maniacally. "Ha ha ha ha ha! You can't stop us! If you stop one person, there will always be another person to back them up! Besides, we only wanted that old bag to do our dirty work 'cause we were all too lazy! He isn't worth a thing to us. But since he didn't get the job done, I'll do it for him… he he he he heh." She stands up and holds her PET out in front of her. "Agent 57 of Dark Reflection! Miaka Suni!"
Ari looks at the screen with a stern face. Netto and Enzan get up and look at their screens, too. "Get ready for some trouble, guys," announces Ari to her crew.
Everyone that has a PET and a navi jacked into the net, look at their and yell out, "Battle routine, set!"
"Execute!" yells Netto.
"Wipe them out!" shouts Enzan.
"Rip them to pieces!" yells Suni.
"…go…" says Ari with a monotonous voice.
Back in the Cyber world, a new navi appears inside a circle of three navis, Flare, Blues, and Rockman. Its form is based on a werewolf. It is black and has yellow claws. His eyes are scarlet and his chest is a shade of a darker colored gray. He stands and looks into the face of all his enemies. He growls at each and roars. He then faces in a nutral direction where he can see all and know where each person's position is.
Rockman, Blues, and Flare all look at him. They get themselves in a battle-ready stance, legs spread apart and aiming themselves towards their target. Rockman is aiming his buster towards the new enemy; Flare aims her left forearm towards her target; Blues readies his cyber sword.
BATTLE ROUTINE, SET! EXECUTE!
The werewolf-like navi leaps into the air and seemingly rips the air, continuously, with his claws by cross slashing downward at the circle of navis below him. His loud grunts and growls follow each and every slash he makes.
Rockman runs away from the slashing blades of wind, and he begins to blast at his target. Netto inserts a Spreader and Rockman uses that to also fire at the beast. He, as he runs, continuously dodges the blades and stays in motion. "Netto-kun! Soul unison!"
While Rockman is running from and returning fire, Blues slashes through each as if they were nothing then begins to launch himself up towards the werewolf as he continues to slash and defend and himself.
Flare flips backwards and straight up into the air. She forces herself to do a moderate speed spin and fires wideshots of electrically charged fire towards the enemy.
Suddenly, the werewolf shrieks an ear piercing shriek. This forces everything away as he lands on the ground. Blues flies through the air after being knocked away by the force of the sound waves. These sound waves paralyze everyone and keep them at their place. Once the wolf navi lands, he races after Blues with amazing speed.
"Blues!" yells Rockman as he stands helpless to assist Blues.
"Blues-sama!" cries Flare as she, too, falls from the air.
"Blues!" yells Enzan. "Barrier 100!" This battlechip helps to defend against any damage that could possibly come from that attack. A strong, circular, and light blue barrier is raised around Blues.
"Not today, babe! Urufu, Bronze fist!" yells Suni. She loaded the battlechip Bronze fist and Urufu broke the barrier with his right fist. This punch allowed him to wind up his left hand. This winding of his left arm rises up the attack power of his slash. Urufu ended his screech and slashed Blues right away, slamming him down and causing great damage to Blues. This immediately caused him to plug out.
"Ho ho ho ho ho! One down and two to go Urufu!" updates Suni. "At this rate, we'll take over this city! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
Ari grits her teeth as Blues is eliminated from the fight. She continues to consentrate on the battle before her. Netto grits his teeth in anger and takes out a soul unison chip. "Rockman! Soul unison, Blues soul!" Rockman transforms into a form that closely resembles Blues. "You won't get away with doing that to Blues!" he screams in anger.
"We won't let you get away with hurting Blues!" yells Rockman. "Sonic Boom!" He slashes once, creating a rushing blade, at the beast and rushes towards him. "HAAAAAAAAA!"
Urufu chuckles motions himself to the left to dodge the Sonic Boom attack then rushes forward towards Rockman with his claws ready for another attack. Rockman's blade now makes contact with Urufu's claws. They force out every bit of their energy to repel each other and knock each other away.
As they confront each other, Flare gets up and rushes in behind Urufu by using an area grab or area steal. They are too involved with each other to notice that she appeared there. Urufu's Netop shrieked his name to warn him and plugged him out.
"Cheap Netop and your cheap tactics. I'm gonna enjoy this battle. Dimensional Area! Now!" yelled Suni to a mini microphone on her collar of her shirt.
A beam from an unknown location shot out towards the area. Ari quick yelled to her team mates back at the base. "I need a Dimensional Breaker! I repeat, Dimensional Breaker!"
At the base, Agent Petite and her gang are at the station which was assigned the duty to use the mechanism called the Dimensional Breaker. It is a radio dish that shoots out a particle beam of the opposite charge compared to the Dimensional Beam. It is used to counter the Dimensional Beam which causes the Dimensional Area to form, an area where the internet world and the real world collide and unite.
"Oh look! Ari needs our help. Should we help that little "squash"? Nah…" Petite mumbled to herself. Her friends just laughed and nodded their heads as Ari kept yelling for their help.
Ari, as a desperate measure, told everyone to get away from the Dimensional Area that is to be formed. "Get out of here, everyone! Enzan, Netto, we have to retreat! Let's move!"
"Ari, you can go," ordered Enzan. "Netto and I can take this freak."
"Yeah! Rockman! Are you ready to take this person down?" asked Netto while knowing his reply.
"I'm right with you, Netto-kun," replied Rockman.
Ari helped the child and the old man get away and took Netto and Enzan away from the area by dragging them away by holding at a pressure point in each of their hands. Ari yelled out to them, "You guys have no idea what you are up against! Let's go back and regroup!"
As they run away, The Dimensional Area envelops the tower. Inside the tower, the figure of a girl holding her PET is still inside. Her laugh is as loud and as piercing as an off tune piccolo. She continues to laugh as Ari drags away Netto and Enzan.
"Let me go! I said, let me go!" scrambles Netto as he tries to wriggle out of Ari's pressure point grab. He twists his wrist and hand and breaks free of the grab and Enzan does the same.
They both roar at her with great rage. "Why are you stopping us from beating her and stopping us from protecting the tower? Isn't that our job!" They both grabbed at her collar and looked at her with great and fierce rage. Ari's head hung low. She didn't dare look them in the eyes.
"Head off to base… That is an order…"commanded Ari.
The took their hands off of Ari's collar and headed off the base as fast as they could. Netto mumbled to himself. Enzan, however, thought many thoughts to himself.
"Why did she call us off like that. I know we can beat her," thought Enzan to himself, "Is there something she is hiding from us?"
His thoughts were interrupted by Rockman's and Netto's voices.
"Netto-kun! Mom wants us to go back home. It's night time and dinner is ready!"
"But...But… The mission!"
Netto continued running and struggling to decide. Ari then ran up and spoke up to him. "Go home. We can meet up tomorrow. Our back-up crew will hold off and the police can assist us, too. Go home to your mother and tell her nothing of this. As far as she is concerned, this is another one of your net-savior Missions." Netto nodded and ran home.
The sun has already set and the moon's luminosity is the only light in the sky besides the blanket of stars.
5 minutes afterwards, Enzan and Ari finally reached the base. Ari shoved Enzan to the wall and kept him pinned there. She looked him straight in the eyes and spoke to him softly and in the most eerie tone, she said, "I don't need you two to die. You guys can die on your own time. If I were alone, I might have stayed and died, but I can't have two of the newest temporary members dead. You guys don't know what you are up against. I do, however. Once they trap you into that Dimensional Area, they won't let you go alive. Our best member was killed that way. Dimensional Breakers only work on the beam, not the dome itself. I can't afford to have any of you hurt." She moved away from him and walked over to the station controlling the Dimensional Breaker Beam. She punched the first girl she saw, which ended up being Agent Petite.
She got herself ready to punch Petite by hovering over Petite's fallen body. "Who the heck gave you the right to endanger new recruits from my team! Huh?" cried Ari, "Can you tell me that?" Petite stands ups and pushes Ari away.
"I don't gotta Listen to a little pip squeak like you," responded Petite to Ari's comment. "Let's fly girls." The girls from the group that hang out with petite walked away with Petite as Ari glared at them all. She blew out hard through her nose and plodded out to see Haxor. Enzan watched the whole incident and decided that he should head back home.
"Haxor!" cried Ari in an urgent voice. "I need a new…" She struggled for a word to insert into her sentence. Then she continued to speak. "…SOMETHING! I can't always watch after those rookies! And I can't risk them being … well in danger!" Ari messed her hair up a bit as she tried to keep her hands occupied and to keep herself from bursting into complete madness.
Haxor then held her hand and said, "I think I got something for ya. Just made it today. It's called the Dimensional Breaker chip. Very original I know. But, lemme tell you what it can do. Slot it in and you can get out or into the dome."
"We'll be needing that a lot Haxor," sighed Ari. She had a worried face on her. "We'll really be needing that to reclaim that tower area again…"
Later as Enzan and Netto were getting ready for bed, they began to think about how drastically their lives had just morphed. They discussed their thoughts with their navis and went to bed.
The next morning came and the sky was dreary and humid. The rain poured down from the gray sponges in the sky and the sound of the quiet summer Sunday never ceased to end… until…
"DOOM! BOOM! CRASH!" Something in the distance had suddenly crashed. Enzan and Netto both looked out their windows and in the distance, they could see a Dimensional Area, the same one that had surrounded the Tower last night.
"Netto-kun! Ari-san sent us an email saying that we should head off to base. Something is terribly wrong!" informed Rockman
"Let's check it out!" replied Netto as he rushed off into the rain in his skates.