My own Battle Network story.
My diary.
The southern islands are what Ran said to be. A natural beauty filed with tradition and a charm for the wind deity. Anyone who goes there ends up believing in the wind deity.
Also, Maylu got her memories back with help from the spirit of Priestess Talim in her request of love.
Ran as the new priestess of the wind deity, looks like we're all ready for the N-1 Grand Prix. So we waited for the moment for the final battle that would prove who's the top Netbattler in Electopia.
Chapter 44. – The N-1 Grand Prix prelims.
It was a very early morning when we got up to meet at Yai's manor. The time was like 4:00 AM, and the first thing we did was revising our battle tactics with Lan and Megaman. Also make a second folder check for any problems in the battles and a new programming in the Navi customizer.
Lan: Let's see… Folder check, Custom settings check, PA memos check, Battle tactics check. We're ready.
Megaman.Exe: I feel like we're gonna rock!
Aldo: We're ready too.
Frogashi.Exe: How are you going to rock with us in the competition?
Megaman.Exe: Then we'll rock even harder!
Mrs. Hikari: Looks like you two are ready for anything. Aren't you?
Lan: Of course mom! We have been waiting for this tournament since they said it would come!
Mr. Hikari: I know you will do well Lan. After you are my son, and I will never doubt that.
Mr. Hikari walked closer to Lan petting him.
Lan: Dad!
Mrs. Hikari: Anyways, Yai called. She said that the Ayano one is ready for take off.
Aldo: Then we better get going. We'll have breakfast on the Ayano one.
Lan: So we better get going like you say.
Lan stood picking his backpack, and I also picked mine.
Mrs. Hikari: Good luck both of you in the tournament.
Lan: Sure mom.
Aldo: Thank you.
It was still dark and a little foggy. But we made our way to Yai's manor. Yai and the others were waiting for us at her big living room as they talked about their illusions in the tournament.
Thori: Well, I guess I want to be in the tournament to fight Oscar again. He was excellent, and I want to fight him full potential!
Dex: You know. Chisao might not be young enough to fall in my self-greatness illusions again, but I want to prove that I can do it without lies, and also to fight Lan once again.
Maylu: I wanna prove Lan that I can be strong to look after myself in battles and that we can give a good fight.
Yai: I guess I want to show the world that even a rich girl like me can prove herself in strength.
Lan: Of course, being number one and have some awesome fights like before on previous tournaments.
Brandon: We can do it, and we'll do it at least to a good place.
Aldo: I just have a feeling that this tournament will answer lots of questions in our minds. Like who's the best!
After those words, my face kept a burden silence… as I felt something digging up in my head…
Dex: Hey Aldo! You all right?
I felt the world like a crazy blender. As gravity increased on me, I hit the couch in a very heavy way.
Lan: What? Aldo!
Yai: Please take the dead person away from my expensive couch!
Maylu: Yai! This is serious! He just passed out!
Brandon: Just poke him like this…
Brandon pokes me three times.
Brandon: That's it. He's death.
Thori: Someone can't just pass out like that!
Lan: What are you waiting for guys! Get some help here! Come on! Wake up!
I saw only darkness. A road of darkness… followed by a gate of light… after the gate; there were ruins… ruins of the world…
Aldo: What is this place?
There was a person… looked like a poor person or a castaway from the ruins. I walked to him.
Aldo: Excuse me sir?
The man looked at me…
Man: Ooh… just another like all the others…
Aldo: I have a question… what happened here?
The man pulled a torn can of beans. He opened as he ate telling me the awful story.
Man: There was a war…
Aldo: Who?
Man: We trusted them very well… and at the end they turned against us.
Aldo: Who?!?
Man: The programs for god's sake!!!
Aldo: What?!? How could the programs do this?
Man: After the last N-1 Grand Prix. There was a boom. Every household program in the world… every Netnavi, everything in the Cyberworld turned against the humans and declared a war against the real world. Their power was even stronger than we expected. Humans fell easily like pieces of dominoes lined up. But 5 years after that, a little group of survivors organized a resistance. I think the name of the one who established it was Lan Hikari. But the resistance fell easily. And the world… turned into this.
Aldo: I don't get it! But if Lan had Megaman, then why this happened?
Man: Have you been living under a cave boy? The one who started all of this was Megaman!
Aldo: What?
After those words, a sudden flash of light blinded me as my mind traveled to the Cyberworld turned into a mega polis. Lights everywhere and the image of a single maximum ruler…
Aldo: Who?
The Netnavi ruling all… was awfully familiar… a vision of the past returned to me… my vision even got stronger and proved having connection with this actual vision…
Aldo: You are!
He was the Netnavi on top of the tallest building in Net city. The one who stood up the flames. Watching the destruction. The Netnavi with Megaman's face…
After that, an even brighter flash, I opened my eyes to find myself looking at the ceiling.
Aldo: Uh?
Lan: Guys! He's awake!
Maylu: What happened!
Aldo: That is my question…
Brandon: You passed out for like 15 seconds.
Aldo: 15 seconds? Glad I didn't passed out for longer.
Frogashi.Exe: What happened anyways? It isn't like you to pass out just like that!
I wanted to keep my mouth shut for that terrible vision. But somehow, my soul wanted to scream.
After keeping silence and nodding that nothing happened, we stood up heading to the Ayano one. It was still the same airship as before, and the breakfast was an infinite… well, not, but almost infinite endowment of hot cakes.
After the delicious breakfast, we landed near Castillo, where the prelims would take place. There were lots of people gathered from everywhere in Electopia.
Frogashi.Exe: Look at alt eh competitors!
Aldo: They sure are a lot!
Lan: We better find spot, guys. Ribitta will give further instructions of the new system of the prelims.
So we found a nice spot. Ribitta proceeded to her microphone as she cleared her throat.
Ribitta: Hm hm! Welcome all to the N-1 Grand Prix preliminaries. As everyone knows, the amount of participants has increased in greater numbers than last years. So we now created a new preliminaries system. Normally people is used to the typical three tasks system and the first eight who pass them go to the tournament. But now everyone has a chance for a battle in the new Preliminaries. We need eight participants for the tournament, and we got like more than 800 participants. So I'll explain how this is going to work.
Ribitta made a sign to her Netnavi Toadman to display a tournament board for 200 people.
Ribitta: We'll divide the total 800 participants in eight groups of 200, and then each group will be labeled with blocks A to H. Individual blocks will fight until one is lasting, and the winner of the block will be in the tournament. Like that, we'll get 8 participants for the official tournament at the new Dendome later this day. We already took the liberty of making the sorting and pairings for each group before you arrived here. So E-Mail will tell you in which block you are and which opponent you are facing. Make this quick in about 7 hours before the N-1 Grand Prix tournament begins at 9:00 PM. So with that, we declare the N-1 Grand Prix preliminaries started!
Everyone got E-Mails in a simultaneous post.
Lan: Looks like I'm on block A.
Thori: Yai and I got to be in the same block: B.
Yai: I hope we get to fight each other.
Dex: I'm block C.
Maylu: We're going to block H.
Brandon: And I'm on block F.
Aldo: I got block D. So looks like we're splitting up and them meeting at the Dendome when we win.
Lan: That's the spirit!
Individual block Netbattling terminals have been placed in the convention rooms of Castillo. I looked around all the Netbattlers of block D. I stared at one single Netbattler… His outfit was familiar… a white lab coat with short brown spiky hair… and those shades…
Frogashi.Exe: Hey! You all right?
Aldo: Uh… yeah. Is that guy… very familiar…