Narcy, Suyanama, Inukai and Rei sat at their respective computers trying furiously on the keyboards and cursing at random intervals.
"It was right there!" Inukai yelled. "How could you miss that?"
"Well, it was a difficult shot," Narcy whined.
Rai rolled his eyes and carefully aimed a shot at a jewel. It hit dead on and he received 10 points.
Narcy ground his teeth together in frustration and pounded his fist on the spacebar. "Curse you!" he yelled. The bright shot emerged from the battle machine and missed the jewel he intended to hit. Instead it hit a -5 and he lost gold. This brought a torrent of curses and the other three burst out laughing.
"Why don't we play against someone else?" Narcy said. "I'm sick of this."
"What, you mean play as a team, against someone else?" Videoman asked with a hint of disbelief in his voice.
"Was there something implied there?" Narcy asked.
"No, of course not," Videoman said looking innocently to the side. The other Neo WWW navi's smiled but didn't say anything.
They entered their virtual selves into a room that was looking for a team to play against. The room was labeled "Hikari-Labs."
Netto watched from his computer as the team came into the room. He smiled as he saw they were all fairly low level. "Ready, Meiru?" he typed to his friend in a different window.
He got an evil face emoticon in response.
There was no pre-battle banter which was fine with them, sometimes it got annoying to talk to people who didn't seem to listen or care what you wanted to say, they just wanted to insult your aim and level.
The battle started and Narcy was first. He fired off a shot but let go of the space bar way too soon. His beam left and went just far enough to score a direct hit on Suyanama's character.
"What are you doing?" Suyanama yelled.
"Sorry," Narcy said sheepishly.
Dekao and Yaito both cracked up at their computers and waited for Meiru to take her turn. She scored a direct his on Suyanama as well.
Suyanama growled and aimed his shot as carefully as he could. It arced and almost hit Dekao's car, but not quite.
Dekao laughed even harder and aimed his weapon, he hit Suyanama again and his vehicle started to pant and turn grey.
"Stop hitting me!" Suyanama yelled at his computer.
"Having problems?" Rei smirked.
"Shut up," Suyanama said through gritted teeth.
It was now Inukai's turn and he fared better then his predecessors, which wasn't saying much. Nevertheless he managed to score a few points of damage on Yaito's vehicle.
"Oh, they hit me," Yaito said in a bored voice. She took careful aim and scored a direct hit on Inukai.
"What?" Inukai growled at his computer.
Netto took aim and finished off Suyanama. "Heh," Netto laughed as the little character went up off screen.
"Netto-kun, don't you think you guys are being a little harsh?" Rockman asked.
"No," Netto said.
Rockman sighed, "I thought as much."
Rei fired off his weapon and actually managed to do some damage to Dekao, but not enough. It was a matter of minutes until the rest of Neo WWW was finished off. The Neo WWW members growled and signed off of the game.
"Let's never do that again," Narcy said.
"I agree," Suyanama said.
They left the room, leaving their navi's behind in the computer.
"Five zenny says there here tomorrow," Videoman said.
"Tomorrow? You're giving them too much credit," Flashman said.
"Yeah, I say they're back here in an hour," Sandman said.
"Five zenny?" Videoman asked.
"Sure, why not."
Half hour later they were sitting at their computers and cursing at each other.