Chapter 8; WWW's Mind Control!
DELETE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!argh
MegaMan watched from his viewpoint on the top level of the net as some NetNavis and viruses scoured the UnderNet. He had a serious look on his face, as if he knew that they were up to something. He moved on quickly, not wanting to stay in one place for too long. Those NetNavis looked like they meant business, even from way up where he was.
: The PET could not be found, but we do have a lock on the NetNavi somewhere in the net. It might be because the PET is already owned by somebody. What shall we do, Master? / Capture the NetNavi. We can activate the device from there. : Roger that. Moving out! DELETE!!!
MegaMan saw Colorman and 3 other NetNavis coming up closer to where he was. He fled down the sidewalk of the net, flying past other programs and Navis that looked at his rapidly moving figure moving like a blur behind them. He had to get out of there, and fast. But he didn't know where to go. Taking a wrong turn led him to a dead end. Before he could take another direction, the World Three NetNavis were almost on top of him, and he was in their sights. He tried attacking them with everything he had, which wasn't much at all. But they all ganged up on him all at once, and they grabbed him and he couldn't struggle free. He felt a painful numbing sensation flow through his body, and he blacked out. With his loss of consciousness came a flashback of three days earlier.
~ MegaMan was in Netto's room, watching his operator do his homework. Netto was having a conversation with him about friendship and what he thought it was when his mom came in after hearing voices coming from his room. She caught him talking with his NetNavi, whom she hadn't met or even known about. She yelled at Netto for having kept the PET after she'd told him to throw it out. Netto, still being depressed from the events earlier that week, grew even more miserable. MegaMan now had proof that he was causing Netto to get into trouble and just causing him to lose friends. In order to save Netto from being in even more trouble, he decided to leave. He ran away deep inside the net, planning to stay there and forget about Netto. It was impossible. He occassionally found himself hanging around Netto's PC homepage, but his will kept him from going in. He didn't want Netto to be in any more trouble, but he also missed his operator dearly. ~
/ I'd like to say 'good job', but you screwed up. The NetNavi was supposed to be with its operator you dolts. : But sir, the PET does not have the required black chip we'd planted in it. We couldn't control the NetNavi with the PET even if we did have it in our hands. / Ah, then I won't say good job anyway since I'm not a nice guy. Throw the NetNavi required in one of the test tubes in the lab. I will get to work on it right away. Mwahahahaha. = I wonder what the old man's going to do with that NetNavi to get it to cooperate with us. : I'm sure that neither one of us want to know...
-Several days-or maybe just hours- later- '' Project ANNIHILATE THE WORLD was put into action by the WWW. They have unleashed a super-powered, ultimate NetNavi upon the internet networks and it is destroying everything in its path, be it programs, other Navis, and entire databases of information. So far, the Official NetBattlers have not even gotten close to make an attempt to contain it. WWW must be stopped, at all costs. '' Netto shut off the tv with the remote control. He was sick of just sitting around, watching WWW commit crimes without being able to do anything. It was his fault that his NetNavi and best friend was gone. If he was here with him, by his side, they'd be fighting that ultimate NetNavi right now. But MegaMan... wasn't here. He was somewhere in the internet and Netto had no idea where.
His mom burst into the living room and grabbed the remote up off the table, and turned the tv on. "I'm going to miss my favorite cooking show!" She exclaimed. Just as she changed the channel, Netto caught a glimpse of the news channel he'd been on earlier. There was an image of a blue and yellow NetNavi laying waste to some Official NetBattler Navis. A very familiar blue and yellow NetNavi. Speeding past his mom, he ran up to his room immediately, racking his brain to figure out what he was going to do. He hoped that what he'd just caught a glimpse of hadn't been the Navi in mind.
He quickly booted up his computer and was on the internet in seconds. He went to the city database, and Dencity and Yoka were down, their databases destroyed. He had to find where the battle was going on right at that second. Where could he look next? While he was deciding where he should look next, he searched his mind for answers too. Why would Mega attack the Official NetBattler's Navis? Then something clicked in his mind, as if MegaMan himself was telling him the answers. Mind control.
Dr. Wily, the leader of WWW, watched as the ultimate tool of destruction lay waste to anything he commanded it to destroy. Dencity and Yoka cities were at his mercy. Project ANNIHILATE THE WORLD was becoming very successful. He watched as the NetNavi he'd brainwashed destroyed NetNavi after NetNavi in its path. The only problem was that he'd had to use mind control to get the Navi under his absolute control. No matter. The plans were going as he wished, and it was only a matter of time before nobody stood in his way.
The mad scientist's evil grin vanished, and in its place appeared an expression of slight fear. His hold on the NetNavi was slipping rapidly. He watched as the Navi on screen grew more violent in its actions and it started doing things as it wished instead of carrying out his wishes. The NetNavi was breaking out of his control. Dr. Wily shrank back from the screen when he saw the Navi's face; the expression was simply terrifying. It was like the face of a crazed, out-of-control and dangerous lunatic. "Abort the project! Abort! Abort!" The scientist screamed. The NetNavi aimed his blaster at the screen. And then there was static.
| The amount of destruction was incredibly massive. There were internet cities burning to ashes and entire databases were crumbling to dust. NetNavis were vanishing off the internet in the blink of an eye and a blast of a cannon. A blur ran across the screen and took its place atop a crumbled building that was now rubble. The ultimate NetNavi stood overlooking the area it had just trashed, laughing maniacally. The flames crackled and shimmered, outlining the figure of this bringer of destruction. A blue-and-yellow helmet covered his black hair, a few strands sticking out of the back. He wore blue armor and yellow armor took its place on his shoulders. There was a hand on his left arm, but a blaster cannon was on the right. His red eyes burned with anger and an expression of immense pain was on his face. He blasted a shot at the only building left standing, and was off in a flash, disappearing in a blur of speed. Two brown eyes tore themselves away from the screen, filled with tears. Those two eyes belonged to the NetNavi's operator, who was forcing himself to watch his NetNavi go berserk, obliterating all that they had protected once before. |
Netto tried telling himself that it was only mind control, but he knew it had gone much farther than just that. MegaMan was berserk and was under no one's control anymore, annihilating anything and everything in existence. He could feel the pain his Navi was going through, mentally and emotionally. MegaMan had no control over anything. How WWW had gotten ahold of the run away NetNavi was beyond him, but they had, and they were the ones responsible.
Netto clenched his fist in anger, his PET he clutched close to his heart in the other hand. If only he could stop Mega from doing any more damage. The pain he must be going through too; the good MegaMan was still in there, watching himself do such wrong and horrible things. Netto banged his fist on the desk table, hitting his cd player in the process. To his confusion the music turned on, and was playing on the internet for all present to hear. It was his favorite song, the song he had written and made together with MegaMan. It was called 'Fake Wings'. He was shocked when the berserk NetNavi stopped dead in his tracks at the sound.
: shine, bright morning light
now in the air, the spring is coming
sweet blowing wind
singing down the hills and valleys
keep your eyes on me
now we're on the edge of Hell
dear my love, sweet morning light
wait for me, you've gone much farther
too far :
The NetNavi clutched his head in pain. "NETTO-KUN!!!!!" He screamed before falling to the floor on his knees. The memory was making something within the berserk Navi fight its way back. "Mega!!!" Netto cried, thinking that his Navi on the screen couldn't hear him. But MegaMan heard, loud and clear. Two faded green eyes looked around the area as if searching for someone, but like a blind man, he couldn't see anything at all. Netto could only watch as his best friend struggled in an internal battle. "Don't give up Mega!!! Fight it!!!"
Mega heard, but couldn't see. He was fighting a major war, against himself. Netto was there and needed him, and to his astonishment was suffering like he was. He could see the demon within him, staring at him with its piercing, angry red eyes, its hands covered in blood. And it was hungry for more. MegaMan screamed once more, and something caused him to teleport out of that area, leaving Netto incredibly worried. He too had seen the demon within. He searched and searched the internet, looking for his NetNavi. He searched for what might be hours. But he was nowhere to be found. Netto could only stare at the ruins and flames that scattered the net. He couldn't find MegaMan, who was suffering greatly. He couldn't find him, no matter how hard he looked or where he looked. He was nowhere.
MegaMan stumbled, trying to get away from the WWW NetNavis who were shooting rounds at him, trying to take him down. Worn out and wounded, physically and emotionally exhausted, he could barely move. Two dice landed in front of him where they had landed. And with an explosion, MegaMan collapsed onto the ground, too weak to move or run away anymore. When the smoke cleared, the WWW NetNavis moved to grab the NetNavi that they had been sent after. But there was nothing there but bare ground. All four NetNavis looked around confusedly, wondering where the Navi went to. When they couldn't find him, they blamed it on NumberMan for killing the NetNavi with the too-powerful explosion.
Netto lifted his head off his desk and stood up when a light became present from his PET. A limp body crashed into him, scaring him out of his mind. It felt frozen, cold, and bloody. He cringed at the touch, but managed to get it off him. To his horror, it was his NetNavi, MegaMan. Half-frozen, and horribly injured. Motionless. He swallowed the scream that he was about to utter, and set his friend upon the bed. The light blue sheets immediately stained red. MegaMan was bleeding, and heavily. "Mega...." Netto threw himself onto him, crying onto his chest. To his surprise, it rose and then fell with a shudder, hand twitching once. Clinging to the life that was escaping him.
Netto quickly put him full on the bed, where he had previously hung half off the bed. He tore his favorite shirt into strips, and used them to wrap up whatever injuries that were bleeding, while applying pressure to them. The bleeding soon stopped.
Netto ran downstairs, grabbed a bucketful of hot water, and brought some clean rags up with him. Mom was busy over at the neighbor's house baking cookies for Christmas with her. Netto saw no choice but to take his NetNavi's armor off, so he could get all the wounds taken care of. Taking off the armor allowed him a look at his muscular form, perfect for a warrior like he was. He hung the armor on his desk chair to give it a chance to dry off. Then he dipped a rag into the bucket of water. He didn't really care about his bed yet, and he was afraid that moving MegaMan might hurt him. As he lifted the left arm to clean it, he wondered if the movement hurt MegaMan.
Looking on his face showed him a painful expression, and he saw the sweat dripping down his forehead. He wiped that off carefully, also noticing a gash that had been hidden under a few bangs of hair. There were dark rings under MegaMan's eyes, showing fatigue and exhaustion, and days of battling endlessly. There were bruises and cuts all over his arms and his legs looked like they'd taken quite a beating too, from running extreme distances. Netto glanced at the blue boots on the floor under his chair. They had holes on the soles and were worn. He brushed back the sweaty bangs, and placed a wet rag on MegaMan's forehead, because he felt a bit warm. Netto placed the covers over his best friend, and hoped for the best.
He went down to the kitchen and grabbed something for the both of them to eat. More liquidy-type foods, such as apple sauce and chicken broth, and he also brought plenty of water up. He went into the closet in his room and dragged out the warmest blanket in the house, and set it over MegaMan because he still felt cold. He sat in his chair, knowing that he wouldn't be getting any sleep that night. Even if he wanted to. Tending to his best friend in his time of need was more important than sleeping.
Besides, how many times had MegaMan saved his life? Many, many times. One, two, three, four... His teachings pointed him in the right direction. He'd thought that friends didn't matter but Mega said they did. He was right in saying that, only meant the 'other' kind of friend. Netto remembered MegaMan's every word. "Friends matter, they care and will be there for you. They like what you like and you like what they do. And they're sometimes too loyal, like me." 'But how far does our friendship go?' Netto wondered seriously. It was able to send Mega flying when he needed him. It was able to send him spiralling down with him into depression where he could make him happy again. And it made MegaMan snap out of mindless annihilation. If their friendship could do that, they were very close. No, if their friendship was that strong, then it wasn't friendship anymore.
MegaMan watched from his viewpoint on the top level of the net as some NetNavis and viruses scoured the UnderNet. He had a serious look on his face, as if he knew that they were up to something. He moved on quickly, not wanting to stay in one place for too long. Those NetNavis looked like they meant business, even from way up where he was.
: The PET could not be found, but we do have a lock on the NetNavi somewhere in the net. It might be because the PET is already owned by somebody. What shall we do, Master? / Capture the NetNavi. We can activate the device from there. : Roger that. Moving out! DELETE!!!
MegaMan saw Colorman and 3 other NetNavis coming up closer to where he was. He fled down the sidewalk of the net, flying past other programs and Navis that looked at his rapidly moving figure moving like a blur behind them. He had to get out of there, and fast. But he didn't know where to go. Taking a wrong turn led him to a dead end. Before he could take another direction, the World Three NetNavis were almost on top of him, and he was in their sights. He tried attacking them with everything he had, which wasn't much at all. But they all ganged up on him all at once, and they grabbed him and he couldn't struggle free. He felt a painful numbing sensation flow through his body, and he blacked out. With his loss of consciousness came a flashback of three days earlier.
~ MegaMan was in Netto's room, watching his operator do his homework. Netto was having a conversation with him about friendship and what he thought it was when his mom came in after hearing voices coming from his room. She caught him talking with his NetNavi, whom she hadn't met or even known about. She yelled at Netto for having kept the PET after she'd told him to throw it out. Netto, still being depressed from the events earlier that week, grew even more miserable. MegaMan now had proof that he was causing Netto to get into trouble and just causing him to lose friends. In order to save Netto from being in even more trouble, he decided to leave. He ran away deep inside the net, planning to stay there and forget about Netto. It was impossible. He occassionally found himself hanging around Netto's PC homepage, but his will kept him from going in. He didn't want Netto to be in any more trouble, but he also missed his operator dearly. ~
/ I'd like to say 'good job', but you screwed up. The NetNavi was supposed to be with its operator you dolts. : But sir, the PET does not have the required black chip we'd planted in it. We couldn't control the NetNavi with the PET even if we did have it in our hands. / Ah, then I won't say good job anyway since I'm not a nice guy. Throw the NetNavi required in one of the test tubes in the lab. I will get to work on it right away. Mwahahahaha. = I wonder what the old man's going to do with that NetNavi to get it to cooperate with us. : I'm sure that neither one of us want to know...
-Several days-or maybe just hours- later- '' Project ANNIHILATE THE WORLD was put into action by the WWW. They have unleashed a super-powered, ultimate NetNavi upon the internet networks and it is destroying everything in its path, be it programs, other Navis, and entire databases of information. So far, the Official NetBattlers have not even gotten close to make an attempt to contain it. WWW must be stopped, at all costs. '' Netto shut off the tv with the remote control. He was sick of just sitting around, watching WWW commit crimes without being able to do anything. It was his fault that his NetNavi and best friend was gone. If he was here with him, by his side, they'd be fighting that ultimate NetNavi right now. But MegaMan... wasn't here. He was somewhere in the internet and Netto had no idea where.
His mom burst into the living room and grabbed the remote up off the table, and turned the tv on. "I'm going to miss my favorite cooking show!" She exclaimed. Just as she changed the channel, Netto caught a glimpse of the news channel he'd been on earlier. There was an image of a blue and yellow NetNavi laying waste to some Official NetBattler Navis. A very familiar blue and yellow NetNavi. Speeding past his mom, he ran up to his room immediately, racking his brain to figure out what he was going to do. He hoped that what he'd just caught a glimpse of hadn't been the Navi in mind.
He quickly booted up his computer and was on the internet in seconds. He went to the city database, and Dencity and Yoka were down, their databases destroyed. He had to find where the battle was going on right at that second. Where could he look next? While he was deciding where he should look next, he searched his mind for answers too. Why would Mega attack the Official NetBattler's Navis? Then something clicked in his mind, as if MegaMan himself was telling him the answers. Mind control.
Dr. Wily, the leader of WWW, watched as the ultimate tool of destruction lay waste to anything he commanded it to destroy. Dencity and Yoka cities were at his mercy. Project ANNIHILATE THE WORLD was becoming very successful. He watched as the NetNavi he'd brainwashed destroyed NetNavi after NetNavi in its path. The only problem was that he'd had to use mind control to get the Navi under his absolute control. No matter. The plans were going as he wished, and it was only a matter of time before nobody stood in his way.
The mad scientist's evil grin vanished, and in its place appeared an expression of slight fear. His hold on the NetNavi was slipping rapidly. He watched as the Navi on screen grew more violent in its actions and it started doing things as it wished instead of carrying out his wishes. The NetNavi was breaking out of his control. Dr. Wily shrank back from the screen when he saw the Navi's face; the expression was simply terrifying. It was like the face of a crazed, out-of-control and dangerous lunatic. "Abort the project! Abort! Abort!" The scientist screamed. The NetNavi aimed his blaster at the screen. And then there was static.
| The amount of destruction was incredibly massive. There were internet cities burning to ashes and entire databases were crumbling to dust. NetNavis were vanishing off the internet in the blink of an eye and a blast of a cannon. A blur ran across the screen and took its place atop a crumbled building that was now rubble. The ultimate NetNavi stood overlooking the area it had just trashed, laughing maniacally. The flames crackled and shimmered, outlining the figure of this bringer of destruction. A blue-and-yellow helmet covered his black hair, a few strands sticking out of the back. He wore blue armor and yellow armor took its place on his shoulders. There was a hand on his left arm, but a blaster cannon was on the right. His red eyes burned with anger and an expression of immense pain was on his face. He blasted a shot at the only building left standing, and was off in a flash, disappearing in a blur of speed. Two brown eyes tore themselves away from the screen, filled with tears. Those two eyes belonged to the NetNavi's operator, who was forcing himself to watch his NetNavi go berserk, obliterating all that they had protected once before. |
Netto tried telling himself that it was only mind control, but he knew it had gone much farther than just that. MegaMan was berserk and was under no one's control anymore, annihilating anything and everything in existence. He could feel the pain his Navi was going through, mentally and emotionally. MegaMan had no control over anything. How WWW had gotten ahold of the run away NetNavi was beyond him, but they had, and they were the ones responsible.
Netto clenched his fist in anger, his PET he clutched close to his heart in the other hand. If only he could stop Mega from doing any more damage. The pain he must be going through too; the good MegaMan was still in there, watching himself do such wrong and horrible things. Netto banged his fist on the desk table, hitting his cd player in the process. To his confusion the music turned on, and was playing on the internet for all present to hear. It was his favorite song, the song he had written and made together with MegaMan. It was called 'Fake Wings'. He was shocked when the berserk NetNavi stopped dead in his tracks at the sound.
: shine, bright morning light
now in the air, the spring is coming
sweet blowing wind
singing down the hills and valleys
keep your eyes on me
now we're on the edge of Hell
dear my love, sweet morning light
wait for me, you've gone much farther
too far :
The NetNavi clutched his head in pain. "NETTO-KUN!!!!!" He screamed before falling to the floor on his knees. The memory was making something within the berserk Navi fight its way back. "Mega!!!" Netto cried, thinking that his Navi on the screen couldn't hear him. But MegaMan heard, loud and clear. Two faded green eyes looked around the area as if searching for someone, but like a blind man, he couldn't see anything at all. Netto could only watch as his best friend struggled in an internal battle. "Don't give up Mega!!! Fight it!!!"
Mega heard, but couldn't see. He was fighting a major war, against himself. Netto was there and needed him, and to his astonishment was suffering like he was. He could see the demon within him, staring at him with its piercing, angry red eyes, its hands covered in blood. And it was hungry for more. MegaMan screamed once more, and something caused him to teleport out of that area, leaving Netto incredibly worried. He too had seen the demon within. He searched and searched the internet, looking for his NetNavi. He searched for what might be hours. But he was nowhere to be found. Netto could only stare at the ruins and flames that scattered the net. He couldn't find MegaMan, who was suffering greatly. He couldn't find him, no matter how hard he looked or where he looked. He was nowhere.
MegaMan stumbled, trying to get away from the WWW NetNavis who were shooting rounds at him, trying to take him down. Worn out and wounded, physically and emotionally exhausted, he could barely move. Two dice landed in front of him where they had landed. And with an explosion, MegaMan collapsed onto the ground, too weak to move or run away anymore. When the smoke cleared, the WWW NetNavis moved to grab the NetNavi that they had been sent after. But there was nothing there but bare ground. All four NetNavis looked around confusedly, wondering where the Navi went to. When they couldn't find him, they blamed it on NumberMan for killing the NetNavi with the too-powerful explosion.
Netto lifted his head off his desk and stood up when a light became present from his PET. A limp body crashed into him, scaring him out of his mind. It felt frozen, cold, and bloody. He cringed at the touch, but managed to get it off him. To his horror, it was his NetNavi, MegaMan. Half-frozen, and horribly injured. Motionless. He swallowed the scream that he was about to utter, and set his friend upon the bed. The light blue sheets immediately stained red. MegaMan was bleeding, and heavily. "Mega...." Netto threw himself onto him, crying onto his chest. To his surprise, it rose and then fell with a shudder, hand twitching once. Clinging to the life that was escaping him.
Netto quickly put him full on the bed, where he had previously hung half off the bed. He tore his favorite shirt into strips, and used them to wrap up whatever injuries that were bleeding, while applying pressure to them. The bleeding soon stopped.
Netto ran downstairs, grabbed a bucketful of hot water, and brought some clean rags up with him. Mom was busy over at the neighbor's house baking cookies for Christmas with her. Netto saw no choice but to take his NetNavi's armor off, so he could get all the wounds taken care of. Taking off the armor allowed him a look at his muscular form, perfect for a warrior like he was. He hung the armor on his desk chair to give it a chance to dry off. Then he dipped a rag into the bucket of water. He didn't really care about his bed yet, and he was afraid that moving MegaMan might hurt him. As he lifted the left arm to clean it, he wondered if the movement hurt MegaMan.
Looking on his face showed him a painful expression, and he saw the sweat dripping down his forehead. He wiped that off carefully, also noticing a gash that had been hidden under a few bangs of hair. There were dark rings under MegaMan's eyes, showing fatigue and exhaustion, and days of battling endlessly. There were bruises and cuts all over his arms and his legs looked like they'd taken quite a beating too, from running extreme distances. Netto glanced at the blue boots on the floor under his chair. They had holes on the soles and were worn. He brushed back the sweaty bangs, and placed a wet rag on MegaMan's forehead, because he felt a bit warm. Netto placed the covers over his best friend, and hoped for the best.
He went down to the kitchen and grabbed something for the both of them to eat. More liquidy-type foods, such as apple sauce and chicken broth, and he also brought plenty of water up. He went into the closet in his room and dragged out the warmest blanket in the house, and set it over MegaMan because he still felt cold. He sat in his chair, knowing that he wouldn't be getting any sleep that night. Even if he wanted to. Tending to his best friend in his time of need was more important than sleeping.
Besides, how many times had MegaMan saved his life? Many, many times. One, two, three, four... His teachings pointed him in the right direction. He'd thought that friends didn't matter but Mega said they did. He was right in saying that, only meant the 'other' kind of friend. Netto remembered MegaMan's every word. "Friends matter, they care and will be there for you. They like what you like and you like what they do. And they're sometimes too loyal, like me." 'But how far does our friendship go?' Netto wondered seriously. It was able to send Mega flying when he needed him. It was able to send him spiralling down with him into depression where he could make him happy again. And it made MegaMan snap out of mindless annihilation. If their friendship could do that, they were very close. No, if their friendship was that strong, then it wasn't friendship anymore.