Note: Cybersystem Gaiden is set to occur in the world of Cybersystem Chronicles, but entered on another character that is also in the Cybersystem Gaiden RPG.
Chapter 3: Netbattle! A Promise of Friendship
A month after getting his own custom Navi, Ryuu has already fought over a hundred netbattles. With the number of his wins somehow greater than that of his losses, Ryuu finds himself positioned among the upper ranked members of his class when it comes to netbattling. Constantly striving to give his all in getting better, Ryuu manages to find some time practicing with Gaius in his dorm room after school whenever he finishes his homework.
"Ryuu, don't you think you're being hard on yourself?" Gaius asked his operator after he deleted the last of the training dummy program that resembled the sword-wielding Fire Swordin virus.
"Iine, Gaius... I have to train some more if I want to keep my position in class..." Ryuu said as he leans back a moment to check Gaius' parameters to make sure that he could still manage, "You did see how the others fought really well, didn't you?"
".... Yes..." Gaius admitted to what his operator said. There are Navis that are probably stronger than he is by at least a fivefold, "But still, I believe that there are other things that you can do rather than practicing for netbattles every time... hmmm...?"
Looking outside the PET he is in, Gaius noticed that Ryuu is already asleep on his chair. Shaking his head, Gaius then performs a diagnostics check on himself to make sure that his systems are in good condition before switching to standby mode.
The next day, in netbattling class...
The class is in its usual lively mood as the students talk about their Navis, or what they have planned for this day. Ryuu simply listens to the conversations his classmates are having, thinking of what he can do to counter their tactics and strategies. It is only when the bell rang and the instructor came in that they finally quieted down.
"Listen up everyone!" the instructor said as he types something on the keyboard, showing on their monitors what seems to be a table with the standings of each student in class, "We're going to have the netbattling rules modified a bit to give others a better chance in the standings."
Whispers waft about the classroom as everyone wonders what the instructor meant. With a few button presses, the names of the students are matched to another student.
"We will have a student with a higher standing be paired with another student from the lower standings," the instructor explained as the new netbattling rules are displayed, "Netbattles will now be a two-on-two match, a pair will lose the match if one of the two netbattlers' Navi is beaten... This is in effort to help those in the lower rankings to learn a thing or two from those in the higher rankings."
Some complaints can be heard before the instructor raises his hand to silence the class, "This will promote a spirit of teamwork between those who are assigned in the pairings, and to better improve everyone's skills in netbattling. Now that's said, we shall resume from where we last stopped yesterday's lessons..."
Sure enough, the pairing came up in each student's monitors. Seeing who he is paired with, Ryuu looked to the direction of his partner and stood up to quickly follow the instructor. He then calls the instructor's attention about his assigned partner.
"Yes, Ryuu?" the instructor turns to look to him and considers his question, "What do you wish to say about your partner?"
"I do not fight well with a partner..." Ryuu said as he looks around, "My partner might just lose... and cause both of us to have lower rankings..."
The instructor smiled, putting a hand on Ryuu's shoulder.
"You'll figure out a way..." the instructor said while patting Ryuu's shoulder, "You managed to figure out how to survive all this while even with a Navi that is weaker in terms of speed... So I have faith that you'll pull through with your partner."
"You should try talking to her..." the instructor said as he looks to the classroom's door, "I believe that both of you will come up of something..."
As the instructor left, Ryuu looks to the direction of the classroom's door as well, seeing his partner standing there. Her brown hair reaches her shoulders and her eyes also slightly brown in color, a hairclip holds her hair up on the right side to keep it from falling over her eyes. She wears a white blouse with green trimmings and a knee-length skirt. From the way she is looking at Ryuu, it seems that she has heard the conversation as well.
"Gomen... Arisa..." Ryuu said as he looks away, realizing that his partner has heard the conversation, "Demo..."
Ryuu's explanation was cut short when a pair approaches them. Looking at the direction of the pair that approached them, Ryuu recognizes them as one of those in the higher rankings of their batch... as well as one of the students that is known for many underhanded tactics but never seem to get past the lower rankings.
"What's wrong, Ryuu?" the latter one mocked, "Got paired with a girl?"
"Urusai, Earl!" Ryuu retorted, "As if you have even managed to get off from the ranking position that you are in..."
"But that's going to change... now that I'm paired with Jian here..." Earl taunted as he took out his PET, "In fact, we can beat the two of you right here and now!"
"Ryuu... Chotto matte kudasai..." Arisa said as she tries to remind Ryuu about the new rules. Ryuu, however, is focused on taking out Earl as quickly as possible as he took out his PET as well. Jian took out his PET, seeing that a challenge has been made and accepted.
"Iyada desu..." Arisa sighed as she quickly follows and takes out her PET as the others plugged in to a nearby port to netbattle, being able to send in her Navi just a few seconds behind.
Gaius stands at a readied position as his two opponents stand before him. Earl's Navi is garbed in an all-black trench coat, sporting a hat that has a rim that covers most of the head and a mask with a sinister grin. Jian's Navi is close by, resembling some form of cyber swordsman in light armor. Arisa's Navi appears a few steps behind Gaius as well, somehow looking like Arisa except that she has longer hair that is tied to a ponytail and is wearing a green bodysuit with some protective gear and visors.
"Go, Shade!!" Earl commands as he slots in a Shadow battle chip into his PET, allowing his Navi to turn into a shadow and cross quickly along the ground and passing by Gaius and towards Arisa's Navi with an arm changing into a long blade. Jian's Navi follows its flank as it receives a Sword battlechip to use and charges at Gaius.
"Don't underestimate me!" Ryuu exclaims as Gaius brings his arms up to block the attack of Jian's Navi. Arisa let out a cry as she inserted a Barrier for her Navi to use, just in time as the Barrier forms around her Navi and protects her from Shade's attack.
"Ryuu, Shade is going after Arisa's Navi!" Gaius mentions as he pushes Jian's Navi away, bringing up a Sword to swing at Shade.
"He he... We have you where we wanted..." Earl mentioned as Shade dissipates into the ground to avoid getting hit by Gaius, reappearing beside Jian's Navi as the swordsman suddenly appeared before Gaius and Arisa's Navi to unleash the powerful Life Sword upon the two. While Gaius was able to survive the attack, Arisa's Navi could not stand up to the power of the PA (Program Advance) attack and was forced to log out.
"!" Ryuu gritted his teeth upon seeing that the two have managed to work together, Earl's underhanded tactics coupled with Jian's powerful sword battlechips and PAs formed a deadly combination that Ryuu cannot deal with under these rules.
"Ha ha ha! I told you that the tides are turned this time!" Earl gloated as he plugged out his PET from the terminal, "Well, Jian and I will be heading of to fight the others. So long losers!"
"Ryuu-san... I, I'm sorry..." Arisa apologized to Ryuu as she unplugs from the terminal as well, letting her Navi be repaired by her PET, "I wasn't able to help you at all..."
"... No..." Ryuu mentioned as he tries to clear his mind of the feeling of being defeated like that, "If I just paid attention to being able to help you when Earl did that, you would not have gotten into trouble..."
Silence overcomes the two as they find themselves having nothing to say, noticing that other people are surrounding them and saw what has happened. Somewhat embarrassed, Ryuu hurried along with Arisa outside. The two eventually end up in the park across the Academy.
"Hmmm... We should first compare our battlechips, " Ryuu mentioned as he brings up the list of battlechips he has set on the chip folder he equipped to Gaius. Arisa does the same as she brings up Iris' battlechips as she and Ryuu compares what they have. Starting that afternoon, the two begin to know more about each other.
"Ryuu-san, I think we should continue this tomorrow after class..." Arisa said as she looks up to the orange-red sky, "Arigatou again for helping me."
With a smile, Arisa waves good-bye to Ryuu. She then head back to the dormitory that she lives in. Ryuu waves back as he then puts his PET back into his belt strap, running back to the dormitory he is staying at as well.
Chapter 3: Netbattle! A Promise of Friendship
A month after getting his own custom Navi, Ryuu has already fought over a hundred netbattles. With the number of his wins somehow greater than that of his losses, Ryuu finds himself positioned among the upper ranked members of his class when it comes to netbattling. Constantly striving to give his all in getting better, Ryuu manages to find some time practicing with Gaius in his dorm room after school whenever he finishes his homework.
"Ryuu, don't you think you're being hard on yourself?" Gaius asked his operator after he deleted the last of the training dummy program that resembled the sword-wielding Fire Swordin virus.
"Iine, Gaius... I have to train some more if I want to keep my position in class..." Ryuu said as he leans back a moment to check Gaius' parameters to make sure that he could still manage, "You did see how the others fought really well, didn't you?"
".... Yes..." Gaius admitted to what his operator said. There are Navis that are probably stronger than he is by at least a fivefold, "But still, I believe that there are other things that you can do rather than practicing for netbattles every time... hmmm...?"
Looking outside the PET he is in, Gaius noticed that Ryuu is already asleep on his chair. Shaking his head, Gaius then performs a diagnostics check on himself to make sure that his systems are in good condition before switching to standby mode.
The next day, in netbattling class...
The class is in its usual lively mood as the students talk about their Navis, or what they have planned for this day. Ryuu simply listens to the conversations his classmates are having, thinking of what he can do to counter their tactics and strategies. It is only when the bell rang and the instructor came in that they finally quieted down.
"Listen up everyone!" the instructor said as he types something on the keyboard, showing on their monitors what seems to be a table with the standings of each student in class, "We're going to have the netbattling rules modified a bit to give others a better chance in the standings."
Whispers waft about the classroom as everyone wonders what the instructor meant. With a few button presses, the names of the students are matched to another student.
"We will have a student with a higher standing be paired with another student from the lower standings," the instructor explained as the new netbattling rules are displayed, "Netbattles will now be a two-on-two match, a pair will lose the match if one of the two netbattlers' Navi is beaten... This is in effort to help those in the lower rankings to learn a thing or two from those in the higher rankings."
Some complaints can be heard before the instructor raises his hand to silence the class, "This will promote a spirit of teamwork between those who are assigned in the pairings, and to better improve everyone's skills in netbattling. Now that's said, we shall resume from where we last stopped yesterday's lessons..."
Sure enough, the pairing came up in each student's monitors. Seeing who he is paired with, Ryuu looked to the direction of his partner and stood up to quickly follow the instructor. He then calls the instructor's attention about his assigned partner.
"Yes, Ryuu?" the instructor turns to look to him and considers his question, "What do you wish to say about your partner?"
"I do not fight well with a partner..." Ryuu said as he looks around, "My partner might just lose... and cause both of us to have lower rankings..."
The instructor smiled, putting a hand on Ryuu's shoulder.
"You'll figure out a way..." the instructor said while patting Ryuu's shoulder, "You managed to figure out how to survive all this while even with a Navi that is weaker in terms of speed... So I have faith that you'll pull through with your partner."
"You should try talking to her..." the instructor said as he looks to the classroom's door, "I believe that both of you will come up of something..."
As the instructor left, Ryuu looks to the direction of the classroom's door as well, seeing his partner standing there. Her brown hair reaches her shoulders and her eyes also slightly brown in color, a hairclip holds her hair up on the right side to keep it from falling over her eyes. She wears a white blouse with green trimmings and a knee-length skirt. From the way she is looking at Ryuu, it seems that she has heard the conversation as well.
"Gomen... Arisa..." Ryuu said as he looks away, realizing that his partner has heard the conversation, "Demo..."
Ryuu's explanation was cut short when a pair approaches them. Looking at the direction of the pair that approached them, Ryuu recognizes them as one of those in the higher rankings of their batch... as well as one of the students that is known for many underhanded tactics but never seem to get past the lower rankings.
"What's wrong, Ryuu?" the latter one mocked, "Got paired with a girl?"
"Urusai, Earl!" Ryuu retorted, "As if you have even managed to get off from the ranking position that you are in..."
"But that's going to change... now that I'm paired with Jian here..." Earl taunted as he took out his PET, "In fact, we can beat the two of you right here and now!"
"Ryuu... Chotto matte kudasai..." Arisa said as she tries to remind Ryuu about the new rules. Ryuu, however, is focused on taking out Earl as quickly as possible as he took out his PET as well. Jian took out his PET, seeing that a challenge has been made and accepted.
"Iyada desu..." Arisa sighed as she quickly follows and takes out her PET as the others plugged in to a nearby port to netbattle, being able to send in her Navi just a few seconds behind.
Gaius stands at a readied position as his two opponents stand before him. Earl's Navi is garbed in an all-black trench coat, sporting a hat that has a rim that covers most of the head and a mask with a sinister grin. Jian's Navi is close by, resembling some form of cyber swordsman in light armor. Arisa's Navi appears a few steps behind Gaius as well, somehow looking like Arisa except that she has longer hair that is tied to a ponytail and is wearing a green bodysuit with some protective gear and visors.
"Go, Shade!!" Earl commands as he slots in a Shadow battle chip into his PET, allowing his Navi to turn into a shadow and cross quickly along the ground and passing by Gaius and towards Arisa's Navi with an arm changing into a long blade. Jian's Navi follows its flank as it receives a Sword battlechip to use and charges at Gaius.
"Don't underestimate me!" Ryuu exclaims as Gaius brings his arms up to block the attack of Jian's Navi. Arisa let out a cry as she inserted a Barrier for her Navi to use, just in time as the Barrier forms around her Navi and protects her from Shade's attack.
"Ryuu, Shade is going after Arisa's Navi!" Gaius mentions as he pushes Jian's Navi away, bringing up a Sword to swing at Shade.
"He he... We have you where we wanted..." Earl mentioned as Shade dissipates into the ground to avoid getting hit by Gaius, reappearing beside Jian's Navi as the swordsman suddenly appeared before Gaius and Arisa's Navi to unleash the powerful Life Sword upon the two. While Gaius was able to survive the attack, Arisa's Navi could not stand up to the power of the PA (Program Advance) attack and was forced to log out.
"!" Ryuu gritted his teeth upon seeing that the two have managed to work together, Earl's underhanded tactics coupled with Jian's powerful sword battlechips and PAs formed a deadly combination that Ryuu cannot deal with under these rules.
"Ha ha ha! I told you that the tides are turned this time!" Earl gloated as he plugged out his PET from the terminal, "Well, Jian and I will be heading of to fight the others. So long losers!"
"Ryuu-san... I, I'm sorry..." Arisa apologized to Ryuu as she unplugs from the terminal as well, letting her Navi be repaired by her PET, "I wasn't able to help you at all..."
"... No..." Ryuu mentioned as he tries to clear his mind of the feeling of being defeated like that, "If I just paid attention to being able to help you when Earl did that, you would not have gotten into trouble..."
Silence overcomes the two as they find themselves having nothing to say, noticing that other people are surrounding them and saw what has happened. Somewhat embarrassed, Ryuu hurried along with Arisa outside. The two eventually end up in the park across the Academy.
"Hmmm... We should first compare our battlechips, " Ryuu mentioned as he brings up the list of battlechips he has set on the chip folder he equipped to Gaius. Arisa does the same as she brings up Iris' battlechips as she and Ryuu compares what they have. Starting that afternoon, the two begin to know more about each other.
"Ryuu-san, I think we should continue this tomorrow after class..." Arisa said as she looks up to the orange-red sky, "Arigatou again for helping me."
With a smile, Arisa waves good-bye to Ryuu. She then head back to the dormitory that she lives in. Ryuu waves back as he then puts his PET back into his belt strap, running back to the dormitory he is staying at as well.