A small red beam shot from the bottom of the P.E.T. & Numberman vanished from the P.E.T.. He reappeared inside the room the kids saw the virtual Great Valley in.
"How did he get out there?" Ducky asked.
"That entire room has a dimensional area over it." Chaud explained. "As a result, whatever is jacked into the computer here will enter the dimensional area & be projected as a solid hologram."
"What is a hologram?" Ducky asked.
"A hologram is an image of something." Chaud explained. "Normal holograms can't be touched or felt, but solid holograms can."
"Oh." Ducky said. They then turned back to Numberman.
"Anyway, here's how the rules work." Chaud said. A velociraptor charged at Numberman.
"LOOK OUT, IT'S A SHARPTOOTH!!" Littlefoot shouted, fearing for Numberman's safety. Numberman smirked & whirled around to face the raptor & threw a large dice at him.
"DOOM DICE!!" Numberman shouted, the dice rolled to the velociraptor's feet & stopped on 6. The velociraptor looked down & sniffed it. The dino kids sweatdropped.
"That's his attack?" Cera asked skeptically.
"Pretty wimpy if you ask me." Shorty said. Just then, they were amazed at what they saw next. The dice exploded in the velociraptor's face, sending it flying backwards.
"WOW!!" Shorty shouted, amazed. Cera just gazed, mouth agape. The velociraptor the stopped moving & became encased in a clear cube. The cube separated into 27 smaller cubes & they all broke apart.
"Wow." Shorty said.
"They delete when you hit them?" Littlefoot asked.
"Sort of." Chaud said. "The data is sent back to the main computer until it's uploaded again."
"Oh, I see." Littlefoot said, Shorty walked up to him.
"What does deleted mean?" He asked.
"It's like dying, only for stuff in the cyber world." Littlefoot explained, they both shuddered.
"Anyway." Chaud said. "Now that Numberman has attacked defensively, he's earned points. You get points by attacking predators that attack you, attacking predators that attack the plant eaters, or attacking predators that attack other net navis or humans."
"Neat." Littlefoot said. Numberman stood in the spot he defeated the raptor in with a huge smile on his face.
"However, you can lose points by attacking predators that don't attack first, attacking the plant eaters, attacking the other humans or net navis, or being attacked first." Chaud said, causing Numberman to get nervous.
"Oh dear." Numberman said, as if on cue, a velicoraptor rammed him from behind & sent him flying. He hit the window, causing the bulb on his head to break. He slid down the window to the floor. The kids looked down at him.
"Is he alright?" Ali asked. Numberman had swirly eyes.
"This just isn't my day." Numberman said, he then turned to a pillar that said "LOGOUT" going down.
"Numberman, logging out." A voice said. The words then disintegrated.
"What happened to him?" Shorty asked.
"He logged out." Chaud explained. "He's back in Higsby's P.E.T.." the kids turned to Higsby & he showed them his P.E.T. with Numberman inside. Chaud turned to Raoul & Princess Pride.
"Care to show us some more of the rules?" Chaud asked. Raoul & Princess Pride smiled & held up their P.E.T.s.
"Of course, Chaud." Raoul said. He & Princess Pride walked up to the control panel & aimed their P.E.T.s at the control panel.
"Jack in, Thunderman! Power up!" Raoul shouted.
"Jack in, Knightman! Power up!" Princess Pride said. Just then, 2 thunderbolts showed up & zapped the ground. When they cleared, they revealed 2 net navis. The net navi on the left had a slender purple body & his front was white with black horizontal lines on it with an orange line going down on both sides, same as between his legs, undersides of his arms, hand palms, fingers, & ankles. There was also an orange line on his shoulders, neck, & wrist. His feet are purple with 2 orange lines on them, as well as orange souls. His face is purple with green eyes. His head is cylindrical & white & has a white spike sticking out of the top. He's got a spike on each knee, & his symbol is on the backs of his hands as well as his chest. It's an orange ring with a black circle inside. Inside the black circle is a lightening bolt. On each side of his head is an orange circle. The other net navi is purple & larger than the other. His body is kind of sharp dome-shaped & looks like armor. On the top is his helmet, which appears to be welded to his torso. The feet are made of several pieces, with the 2 bits at the end a lighter hue of purple, the arms look sorta like axes. The shoulder is as purple ball with a black arm attached, & a purple axe blade-shaped thing on each shoulder. The purple forearms are much bigger than the thinner black arms. His left arm has a big black hand on it with sliver lumps on the knuckles. His right arm has a big black ball covered in silver spikes on it. The middle of his body has a light purple line going across it with a few diamond-shaped bits in it. His eyes are shining through the visor, they're glowing yellow & look like lines, his "ears" are a silver lump on each side of his head & on top is a set of orange plumes. His symbol is a white circle with an orange plus sign on it, & the top right & bottom left corners are black with an arrow sticking out of the bottom, left, & right. Raoul pointed to the smaller net navi.
"That is my net navi, Thunderman." Raoul said. Princess Pride pointed to the big purple net navi.
"That's my net navi, Knightman." She said.
"Now to continue." Chaud said. A velociraptor came in chasing an apatosaurus. Thunderman charges up electric energy in his hands.
"Wrath of thunder!" he shouted. The electrical energy flew into the sky & took the form of a dragon. The kids were frightened.
"Wh-what is that!?" Littlefoot asked.
"That's Thunderman's most devastating attack, wrath of thunder." Mega man said. The dragon dived at the raptor gave it a huge electrical shock. The raptor disintegrated & the apatosaurus ran off.
"As I said before." Chaud said. "You get points for saving plant eaters & other net navis." Just then, another raptor dove at Thunderman. Thunderman raised his arms, however, a huge mace came in & slammed the raptor into a wall. The mace retracted & was revealed to belong to Knightman. Just then, a duckbill ran by & a raptor divebombed it. They then saw it bite the duckbill, but the duckbill disintegrated. "& instead of showing the carnage of a kill, the plant eaters that are attacked will be sent back to the main computer."
"Nice demonstration, Chaud." Lan said. Chaud smiled.
"Thanks, Lan." He said, then turned to the others. "Anybody hungry?"