My own Battle Network story.
My dairy.
The first day of school wasn't so bad. I finally met Lan and his friends. Some had a shocking first impression on me, but they were nice.
Of course, school time wasn't enough to talk about the stuff we wanted to talk about, so we're heading to the Square. A place for Navis to chat, shop and battle as Lan told be about it.
You'll be able to find Navis and people around who are friendly and big deals in stuff such as programs and files for your PET. But you also can find information and troubles, Lan also said.
Chapter 3. – The Square.
Lan and I entered in the house. Mr. Hikari was working, so the blue car wasn't there. Lan turned to the empty street wondering about his dad.
Lan: Looks like dad went to work again.
Aldo: Where does he work?
Lan: At Scilab. He's a top scientist.
Aldo: I didn't knew that… Oh! Lan! I forgot to tell ya something.
Lan: Yeah?
Aldo: Your dad is gonna be late for dinner.
Lan: No surprise.
Strangely anyone can think that kind of answer comes from a sad moment, but Lan was smiling.
Aldo: No surprise?
Lan: Yes. He works very hard to improve the world of the network. And he also gives Megaman and me power-up programs like the style program and the Navi customizer.
Aldo: Style program and the Navi customizer?
Lan: They improve your Navi abilities making it a lot stronger by default configuration without chips.
Aldo: Sounds pretty convenient.
Lan: Yes it is. Let's go inside, I bet Mom got the meal ready.
We went inside heading to the kitchen; Mrs. Hikari is always in the kitchen at that time making Lan's meal.
Lan: Hey mom.
Aldo: Hi Mrs. Hikari.
Mrs. Hikari: Hi Lan, hi Aldo.
Lan: Got the meal ready? I'm starving!
Mrs. Hikari: Yes. It is ready. Now Aldo, please take Lan to the table before he eats the entire kitchen.
Aldo: Sure. Come on! You heard the boss!
Lan: Ok, ok…
We went to the annex of the kitchen where a table was. There were three chairs surrounding the table. One for Mr. Hikari, one for Mrs. Hikari and one for Lan, I was going to need one…
Aldo: Hey Lan. Where should I sit?
Lan: Mom! We're going to the attic for a chair!
Mrs. Hikari: I almost forgot that! Thanks Lan!
Lan: Wanna check the attic? There's lots of neat stuff up there.
Aldo: Sure.
We walked up the stairs to the second floor. It was still the hallway leading to the rooms of the house. Lan stopped in the middle of the hall lifting his hand pulling a cord suspended from the ceiling. Stair descended leading to the attic.
We walked up the wooden stairs entering into a dusty looking room full of boxes and some big stuff. Some where mirrors, old clothes and personal stuff.
Aldo: What's this?
Lan: It's an old photo album. It was when I was a baby.
I opened the pages glaring at the photos inside. Most where of a young couple with a light brown haired baby in blue little clothes, others were just the baby and more the baby. The photos were in the order of age. Deeper in the album there were photos of Lan when he was growing up.
There was a photo of baby Lan using the toilet for the first time. Lan was looking for the chairs, I just turned to him and smiled because the photo.
Another photo was from Lan's fifth birthday. His friends were there. Dex was always a chubby kid and Maylu looked really cute in her pink dress. Yai and Thori still didn't moved to ACDC in that time. From all the birthday gifts that Lan got that day, the one he liked the most was his first PET.
There was the photo of little Lan's happy face when he opened the box. His dad was at his right.
He was happy that time.
Aldo: I see. And what's this?
Lan: Is my old collection of Netbattler magazine.
Aldo: And what's this golden cup?
Lan: That's the cup of the N-1 Grand prix competition. I earned it when I won the competition four years ago.
Aldo: Your dad told me. Hey look! Here it says, "This cup recognizes Lan Hikari as national champion of the N-1 Grand Prix of the year 2010" This is indeed your champion cup.
Lan: See?
Aldo: So where's the chair?
Lan: Oh! It's here. Lan lifts a dusty chair up. He turns the chair and swipes the dust off.
Lan: Ready. Let's take it downstairs.
Aldo: Sure.
We went downstairs as Lan carried the chair. When we were on the hall, Lan asked me to do something.
Lan: Can you close the stairs? I have my hands full.
Aldo: Ok.
I lifted the stairs closing the ceiling to the attic and I caught up with Lan. We took the chair to the table and settled it. Now there were four chairs surrounding the table.
Mrs. Hikari: Oh! There's the chair. Thanks both.
Lan: Sure.
Aldo: No problem.
Mrs. Hikari: Now sit because here I come with the food.
Mrs. Hikari was carrying a large plate of Fried chicken. It was obvious that it was Lan's favorite with his happiness.
Lan: Fried chicken! Thanks mom!
Lan grabbed a leg and ripped the meat of the bone easting real fast.
Aldo: You were right Mrs. Hikari. He eats like you said.
Mrs. Hikari: I know. I like to cook for Lan when he eats like that. That shows that there is people that likes my food.
Lan: (Muffled from food in his mouth.) Yeah! Mom is the woman!
Aldo: Excuse me?
Lan swallowed the food and cleared his throat.
Lan: I said, Yeah! Mom is the woman!
Mrs. Hikari: Thanks Lan.
We finished eating after some minutes. We excused ourselves and thanked Mrs. Hikari for the food.
Lan: The food was great mom!
Aldo: Thank you Mrs. Hikari.
Mrs. Hikari: You're both welcomed.
Lan: Can we go to the Net? We got a date with the others.
Mrs. Hikari: All right. Just don't get in trouble.
Lan: Thanks mom.
We turned to the stairs heading to our room. I turned to my room and told Lan.
Aldo: Well, my stop. We'll go together to the Square?
Lan: Yes. Just wait for Megaman and me at the house network exit.
Aldo. Sure.
Lan headed to his room and I entered mine. I opened my laptop already plugged to the net. I drew my PET. up and pulled the jack plug. When I was about to plug the cord, I heard a big scream from Lan's room.
Lan: Jack in! Megaman.Exe! Power-up!
Aldo: I think I'm just gonna plug my PET…………
The jack in signal turned on screen sending Frogashi to the Net. I was able to see the house network in the small screen. To improve it, I pulled the video signal cord out and plugged it to my laptop. The screen changed to the PET screen bigger of the size of the laptop monitor.
Aldo: Can you hear me Frogashi?
Frogashi.Exe: Loud and clear.
Aldo: Lan told me that we must wait for them at the house network exit. Now I think you must…
Frogashi.Exe: Look at the main network.
I was astonished that the house main network was a VR model of the actual house. There were different links scattered around the house to the different networks as the kitchen devices, TV, Video phone and other different networks.
Aldo: Well… Then go downstairs to the front door.
Frogashi walked to the hall, but someone rushing tumbled him down.
Frogashi.Exe: Hey! Watch it next time Megaman!
Megaman.Exe: Oh. Sorry Frogashi. Let me help you up.
Megaman help Frogashi to stand up.
Frogashi.Exe: What's with the rush?
Megaman.Exe: Lan thought that you guys might be in the exit already.
Frogashi.Exe: well, we had a little discussion about the network first.
Megaman.Exe: Sure. We better get going; Roll and the others are already there.
Megaman and Frogashi headed to the exit and the Dencity area network. It was part of hundreds of network connected worldwide. Megaman and Frogashi kept going until they found a Link. There was a big billboard that says, "Link to: The Square."
Megaman.Exe: Just hop on it.
Frogashi and Megaman hopped on the link transporting them to a server of multiple links heading to other networks. There were hundreds of Navis arriving and leaving the place.
The next part was like a shopping mall with many floors and places to visit.
Aldo: You weren't kidding! It is like a shopping mall!
Lan: Welcome to the Network Square. Navis and programs from the different Dencity networks come here to spend a good time. No viruses can enter here, so this is a safe place.
Aldo: Wow!
Lan: Come on. They should be waiting for us at the fountain.
After walking a few minutes, Frogashi and Megaman got to a fountain resembling the one at ACDC park, a big squirrel. Roll and the others were waiting there for us.
Megaman.Exe: Hey guys!
Roll.Exe: Hey Mega!
The other Navis looked weird too, but with a slight resemblance with their operators.
Roll.Exe is covered most with pink. Like Maylu she is pretty and kind, but sometimes her tomboy personality gets out of control.
Gutsman.Exe was a big strong looking Navi. Like Dex he's huge, but his brain is kinda little. He's still caring for the ones he loves though.
Glyde.Exe is a tall wise liking Navi. Like Yai he knows all about what's to know. As Yai has the stuff she has for being rich, Glyde is equipped with state of the art hacking programs.
Finally, Iceman.Exe is a tiny cute looking Navi. His physical cuteness can be described like Thori's, but his personality is very different from that.
Everyone sited of the benches nearby to the fountain.
Megaman.Exe: So what you guys want to talk about?
Roll.Exe: How about it Glyde? You always know the stuff.
Glyde.Exe: Well, I heard that there is a new exposition at the Den Museum.
Yai: We're going there tomorrow for field trip.
Maylu: A field trip? Sound good. Maybe we'll check that new exposition out.
Dex: What about it? We're gonna be away from school!
Gutsman.Exe: Yeah! Guts.
Thori: My father's division at Scilab is sponsoring the new exposition
Iceman.Exe: It's about the past of the Netnavis. A scoop at old Navis, Programs and old viruses detected mainly during the first WWW attack.
Lan: So there might be a section talking about Megaman deleting those viruses?
All: …………
Lan: Oh…
Aldo: Maybe I can take a look at that data and know about those viruses.
Lan: Good idea.
Aldo: Well, changing the topic, you told me that there was a battling ground here Lan.
Lan: Yes there is. You guys wanna come with us?
Everyone left the fountain spot heading to the battlegrounds of the square. It was like tennis courts, but with interconnected small battlefields. There were also links connecting with bigger battlefields for bigger battles.
Aldo: Are these he battlefields?
Lan: Yup! The perfect place for friendly battles!
Maylu: Remember that you owe me a battle Lan.
Dex: And I wanna battle Megaman in a while.
Maylu: Well. I know Megaman likes to battle with Roll, but with Gutsman we know who's gonna win.
Lan, Dex: Yeah…
Aldo: So who will win?
Lan, Dex: Me!
Lan: I'm gonna win!
Dex: No! I will!
Maylu: Here we go again…
Aldo: Does this happen very often Maylu?
Maylu: Yeah… But that's not important for now.
Thori: Yes. Besides, Protoman is battling over there.
Lan: Protoman?
Everybody turns to battlefield no. 4. There are two Navis battling inside. Protoman and Shinningman.
Megaman.Exe: Why is Protoman over here?
Roll.Exe: Yes. Chaud is very exclusive for these areas.
Aldo: Your dad told me about Chaud. Wasn't he your last opponent in the N-1 Grand Prix final?
Lan: Yes he was. That was the toughest battle I ever had…
In the battle, Protoman already defeated his opponent. Protoman stands close to the loser and passes his hand thru his hair.
Protoman.Exe: I already defeated this scum sir. What should I do?
Chaud: Well, he said he had information on the strange Navis. Now he's giving us that information.
Protoman.Exe: Yes sir.
Protoman stretches his arm grabbing the Navi's neck asking for the information they needed.
Protoman.Exe: Now you tell me about these strange Navis or I'll kill you!
Megaman.Exe: Protoman is gonna kill that Navi!
Roll: We need to do something!
Megaman: Yeah, we need to. Frogashi! Wait!
Frogashi rushed to the battlefield pushing Protoman back and grabbing the Navi. The Navi was recovering his breathing.
Frogashi.Exe: That's enough! Who do you think you are anyways?
Protoman.Exe: Looks like you got guts…
Megaman.Exe: What are you doing here Protoman? Here to beat weaker Navis and get their lunches?
Protoman.Exe: That Navi has vital information about a new enemy.
Lan: A new enemy?
Chaud: Looks like you still waste time with your friends and becoming even a weaker Netbattler due to that.
Lan: What's that supposed to mean?!?
Chaud: Look. A new enemy has appeared. Strangely, old deleted Navis are reappearing.
Maylu: And? That's normal when they return as phantoms.
Chaud: No. There are not phantoms. They're reappearing as Zombies.
Lan: Zombies?
Chaud: Yes. I been gathering information about this new virus, and this Navi has seen one of the Zombies. Tell them who you saw!
Navi: I… I saw… Airman…
Megaman.Exe: No way! He was supposed to be deleted!
Chaud: Is this new virus. And the level of the virus shows that he's just a minion.
Lan: A whole new enemy?
Chaud: Exactly.
Aldo: The art of bringing dead from death is called necromancy, right?
Chaud: Yes. We can say that this new virus is a necromancer. Be on you guard Lan. Protoman!
Protoman.Exe: Yes sir.
"Protoman.Exe logging out"
Lan: A necromancer virus?
Aldo: That's what he said.
Maylu: But who can be resurrecting deleted Navis and with what purpose?
Aldo: I got a feeling that we're gonna find out soon…
Who can this new virus be? And who can the leader be? Thousands of questions rush in my head. But it's already dinnertime.
Lan eats like if nothing is happening, but I got the feeling that the museum exposition is gonna be related to this new Virus tomorrow…