BATTLE NETWORK CYBERSYSTEM: The Manic Saga
Vol. 1: The Darkness of Our Pasts
Chapter 3: The Hunt
Kinzoku and I looked at each other to see if both our apartments were mangled as well, and they were.
"Who did this?" I asked, not expecting an answer. I was angry now, angry that someone had broken into my own apartment to steal some lowly datasilver. I could see that Kinzoku wanted to let out some vengeance on whoever did this as well.
"We should go down and see if anyone knows anything about this," Kinzoku said as he and I paced back towards the elevator quickly. I pushed the ground floor button and the elevator came to life, taking us downward. As the elevator ran, I wondered what someone would want with some mere datasilver. Most of them were easy-to-get ones, too. I didn't even bother to check about which ones they stole, but my apartment had told me that it didn't matter what was stolen so long as the person who did it would pay.
The elevator stopped finally on the ground floor. It was now night outside as Kinzoku and I ran outside to be greeted with a sight of people outside asking questions to each other everywhere. That once peaceful city was now turned upside down in panic. Even ONBA officials were there to check out what happened.
"Come on," I quickly said to Kinzoku as I ran towards the group of officials near the metroline. We both made it there within a couple of minutes and listened in on their conversation with a theft victim.
"Ma'am don't worry, we'll find out who broke into your house..." Anyone could tell that the ONBA was baffled about this as well. There was no possible way that one person could have done this alone.
Then, out of complete coincidence, I saw someone jumping out a window from the corner of my eye. I turned my head to get a better view of the person and he started running down the street.
"Hey, over there!" I said as I ran towards the supposed theif. Kinzoku saw him too and ran after him as well. It was pretty obvious that he was one of the thieves who robbed the town, judging from the bag he had with him and his black dresswear. We almost caught up to him, too, until he put on his cyberband and vanished from our sight.
"Crap," I said under my breath as Kinzoku and I skid to a halt.
"He's probably heading towards the metroline station," Kinzoku said, "that's the only fast way in and out of this town. Let's go!" Kinzoku then started to run back to the station as I ran as well.
We made it just to see the burglar come back into the real world after taking off his cyberband and run into the station. By now, more people were following Kinzoku and me as we ran after the theif. We quickly ran down the steps into the station just in time to see the theif wave at us from inside the metroline car. I glanced at the sign on the car, 'Marine Harbor, Car 6'. The rest of us waited for the next car, which luckily came fairly shortly. We piled in and waited for the car to arrive in Marine Harbor, expecting the ONBA officials already in the car to contact other officials in Marine Harbor to pursue the burglar.
I looked next to me and saw the kid with the green stripe of hair waiting for the car to stop at the Marine Harbor station as well.
"You know what he stole from you?" I asked him, trying to make some small talk before we started up the chase again.
"No, I just know that he stole from me," he said while staring at the door. Kinzoku was standing to my left and was just as intent on catching the burglar as I was.
"Name's Manic," I told the kid with green hair.
"Hi. I'm Ryuu, Seitamashii Ryuu."
"Kinzoku," Kinzoku said in response as well as we both briefly shook hands with Ryuu. Finally the train stopped and we all piled out and up the stairs out of the metroline station.
I stopped at the top of the stairs to look around for a crowd running after someone. Finally, I found one that the rest of the crowd ran after. I watched where they were going and ran the other way, Kinzoku and Ryuu following me.
"Where are we going?" Kinzoku asked as he ran behind me.
"I know these alleyways, we'll catch up to him before the crowd does," I responded.
"He might jack into the cyberworld before we catch him, though," Ryuu added in as well.
I grinned a bit. "Then we'll just chase him there too," I responded as I quickened my pace through the alleyways. I knew the alleyways easily, having to run errands quickly in the past years and using them as a quick route through the city.
Suddenly, we turned a corner and saw the theif running towards us, shocked by us.
"Stop!" I yelled as we sprinted towards the theif. Ryuu's assumption came true as the theif went into the cyberworld before our eyes. I skid to a halt while Kinzoku and Ryuu did the same.
"Ok, let's follow him," Kinzoku said as we all took out our cyberbands and put them on. Instantly, we were all in the cyberworld version of Marine Harbor. The area there seemed almost the same, except that the sky was laced with wiring and the buildings surged with electrical power and data. My cyberform kept the same appearance as my real life form, but Kinzoku and Ryuu looked much different. Kinzoku had a black form-fitting tank-top with his kendo uniform keigoki, the wide-legged pants, and black arm-sleeves while Ryuu had a light green armor on with a cybernetic eyeguard in front of his eyes.
We saw the thief run in the opposite way and take a right. We followed him quickly, all of us used to our cyberforms well enough to be in total control of them. By now, the three of us were panting as we ran after the criminal, but we weren't going to let him get away.
Finally, we were running after him in an open area.
"Ok, Kinzoku, Ryuu, run ahead to corner him," I told the two. They briefly nodded their acknowledgements and ran ahead of me to block the theif's routes of escape. The theif hesitated for a brief moment when he found that he was cornered, which was when I made my move and tackled him to the ground as he turned towards me. I rolled off him with the bag of the stolen things in my hand and threw them to the side.
"No..." the theif said as he saw that his bag was gone, "no... you!" He got up from the ground quickly and glared at the three of us.
"Why did you steal those?" Ryuu barked at him as we closed in. He was getting nervous, but he kept his ground.
"None of your business!" the theif barked back at us. We weren't phased at his ferocity as we kept moving towards him. By now, a few ONBA officials were now in the internet, but they kept their distance from us, seeing that a fight could happen soon.
"You stole from us, you made it our business!" Kinzoku yelled at the thief. After Kinzoku's statement, the burglar snapped and ran towards us with a large broad sword of fire drawn.
*My fire sword!* I thought as I ducked under his swing while Ryuu and Kinzoku jumped to the side. I was now even angrier that he decided to use my own weapon against me.
I activated a datasilver of my own, which covered my fist in a plate of iron, the big punch datasilver. I thrust my fist into the theif's stomach, making him step back and grip his abdomen in pain.
"I have a few tricks of my own," I said to him as I uploaded another datasilver to myself. I could feel energy growing inside the palm of my hand as the datasilver I uploaded through my cyberband started to activate. I aimed my palm at the theif, who looked up at me.
"Next time, don't mess with netbattlers," I said to the theif as I was about to shoot a cannon blast at him. However, I wasn't quick enough as the theif tackled into me and sent me to the ground.
The theif laughed maniacally. "Try this one out!" His entire body became doused in flame as the datasilver he uploaded activated and took effect. I could feel my body burning up from the scorching flames, but a purplish blur dove into the theif and sent him off me. I could see the burns on myself from yet another datasilver the theif stole from me as Kinzoku had rolled away from the burning theif. The burglar got up from the ground as Kinzoku and Ryuu let loose with their own attacks, Kinzoku's a sword doused with bright light and Ryuu's own sword that seemed to be made completely from water. Both swords cut through the theif, sending him to the ground, as Ryuu finished off the theif with a cannon blast that I couldn't shoot at him.
The theif's cyberband had reached its limit of abuse and logged him out of the cybersystem. Kinzoku and Ryuu walked over to me and picked me up from the ground.
"You ok?" Kinzoku asked me while he helped me up.
"I'll live..." I responded weakly. We then took off our cyberbands to see the theif being handcuffed by the officials and the bag of datasilver in another official's hands. We looked at the crowd around us and saw that they were all relieved the theif was brought to justice. The official with the bag of datasilver started passing out the stolen datasilver to their rightful owners. I got my fire sword and body burner special datasilver back while Kinzoku got his dark sword datasilver and Ryuu got his armor adaptor bit.
"Well, another day saved," I said jokingly as I turned to Ryuu and Kinzoku, who were smiling that we had basically saved the day for everyone. We watched the theif being dragged to the ONBA headquarters and the crowd's response of cheering when he was being taken there. The theif struggled constantly as they dragged him down the sidewalk.
"Hmm... all that fighting made me hungry," I said as Ryuu and Kinzoku nodded in agreement with me.
"What say we get something to eat?" Kinzoku responded as Ryuu and I nodded in compliance. We started to walk towards the Wildfire Cafe until I heard the theif yell at us.
"He knows who you are, Grave! He knows who you are!"
I turned my head to watch the theif being dragged down the sidewalk, still struggling.
"What do you suppose he meant?" Ryuu asked. It didn't make much sense to me either, so I shrugged and we continued walking towards the cafe.
Dinner there was pretty nice, the three of us talked about random things all through our meals, laughing a lot at each other's humorous stories and such. I still couldn't believe that I made that many friends in ACDC in such a short period of time, but now I had two new friends who fought alongside me. I was happy about that.
We stepped out of the metroline station in ACDC and parted ways with Ryuu. He had inherited his own house from his family a while ago and lived by himself, so Kin and I went back to the apartments for the night and talked about the fight earlier that night.
"Why do you think he stole all those datasilver?" Kin asked me as the elevator began to rise towards the seventh floor.
"I don't really know..." I responded, looking at the elevator ceiling. "Maybe he just wanted something to do?"
Kin shrugged. "You never know, he could have been so bored he felt like going on a stealing run..." The elevator doors opened up and we walked down the hall to our apartments.
"Well, g'night, Kin," I said.
"Night, Manic," Kin responded as we both went into our apartments.
I closed the door behind me and leaned against it to observe my wrecked apartment.
"This is going to be a long night..."
Chapter 3 up! You think it's finished... but you're wrong! Please review with good things or constructive criticism, thank you ^_^
Vol. 1: The Darkness of Our Pasts
Chapter 3: The Hunt
Kinzoku and I looked at each other to see if both our apartments were mangled as well, and they were.
"Who did this?" I asked, not expecting an answer. I was angry now, angry that someone had broken into my own apartment to steal some lowly datasilver. I could see that Kinzoku wanted to let out some vengeance on whoever did this as well.
"We should go down and see if anyone knows anything about this," Kinzoku said as he and I paced back towards the elevator quickly. I pushed the ground floor button and the elevator came to life, taking us downward. As the elevator ran, I wondered what someone would want with some mere datasilver. Most of them were easy-to-get ones, too. I didn't even bother to check about which ones they stole, but my apartment had told me that it didn't matter what was stolen so long as the person who did it would pay.
The elevator stopped finally on the ground floor. It was now night outside as Kinzoku and I ran outside to be greeted with a sight of people outside asking questions to each other everywhere. That once peaceful city was now turned upside down in panic. Even ONBA officials were there to check out what happened.
"Come on," I quickly said to Kinzoku as I ran towards the group of officials near the metroline. We both made it there within a couple of minutes and listened in on their conversation with a theft victim.
"Ma'am don't worry, we'll find out who broke into your house..." Anyone could tell that the ONBA was baffled about this as well. There was no possible way that one person could have done this alone.
Then, out of complete coincidence, I saw someone jumping out a window from the corner of my eye. I turned my head to get a better view of the person and he started running down the street.
"Hey, over there!" I said as I ran towards the supposed theif. Kinzoku saw him too and ran after him as well. It was pretty obvious that he was one of the thieves who robbed the town, judging from the bag he had with him and his black dresswear. We almost caught up to him, too, until he put on his cyberband and vanished from our sight.
"Crap," I said under my breath as Kinzoku and I skid to a halt.
"He's probably heading towards the metroline station," Kinzoku said, "that's the only fast way in and out of this town. Let's go!" Kinzoku then started to run back to the station as I ran as well.
We made it just to see the burglar come back into the real world after taking off his cyberband and run into the station. By now, more people were following Kinzoku and me as we ran after the theif. We quickly ran down the steps into the station just in time to see the theif wave at us from inside the metroline car. I glanced at the sign on the car, 'Marine Harbor, Car 6'. The rest of us waited for the next car, which luckily came fairly shortly. We piled in and waited for the car to arrive in Marine Harbor, expecting the ONBA officials already in the car to contact other officials in Marine Harbor to pursue the burglar.
I looked next to me and saw the kid with the green stripe of hair waiting for the car to stop at the Marine Harbor station as well.
"You know what he stole from you?" I asked him, trying to make some small talk before we started up the chase again.
"No, I just know that he stole from me," he said while staring at the door. Kinzoku was standing to my left and was just as intent on catching the burglar as I was.
"Name's Manic," I told the kid with green hair.
"Hi. I'm Ryuu, Seitamashii Ryuu."
"Kinzoku," Kinzoku said in response as well as we both briefly shook hands with Ryuu. Finally the train stopped and we all piled out and up the stairs out of the metroline station.
I stopped at the top of the stairs to look around for a crowd running after someone. Finally, I found one that the rest of the crowd ran after. I watched where they were going and ran the other way, Kinzoku and Ryuu following me.
"Where are we going?" Kinzoku asked as he ran behind me.
"I know these alleyways, we'll catch up to him before the crowd does," I responded.
"He might jack into the cyberworld before we catch him, though," Ryuu added in as well.
I grinned a bit. "Then we'll just chase him there too," I responded as I quickened my pace through the alleyways. I knew the alleyways easily, having to run errands quickly in the past years and using them as a quick route through the city.
Suddenly, we turned a corner and saw the theif running towards us, shocked by us.
"Stop!" I yelled as we sprinted towards the theif. Ryuu's assumption came true as the theif went into the cyberworld before our eyes. I skid to a halt while Kinzoku and Ryuu did the same.
"Ok, let's follow him," Kinzoku said as we all took out our cyberbands and put them on. Instantly, we were all in the cyberworld version of Marine Harbor. The area there seemed almost the same, except that the sky was laced with wiring and the buildings surged with electrical power and data. My cyberform kept the same appearance as my real life form, but Kinzoku and Ryuu looked much different. Kinzoku had a black form-fitting tank-top with his kendo uniform keigoki, the wide-legged pants, and black arm-sleeves while Ryuu had a light green armor on with a cybernetic eyeguard in front of his eyes.
We saw the thief run in the opposite way and take a right. We followed him quickly, all of us used to our cyberforms well enough to be in total control of them. By now, the three of us were panting as we ran after the criminal, but we weren't going to let him get away.
Finally, we were running after him in an open area.
"Ok, Kinzoku, Ryuu, run ahead to corner him," I told the two. They briefly nodded their acknowledgements and ran ahead of me to block the theif's routes of escape. The theif hesitated for a brief moment when he found that he was cornered, which was when I made my move and tackled him to the ground as he turned towards me. I rolled off him with the bag of the stolen things in my hand and threw them to the side.
"No..." the theif said as he saw that his bag was gone, "no... you!" He got up from the ground quickly and glared at the three of us.
"Why did you steal those?" Ryuu barked at him as we closed in. He was getting nervous, but he kept his ground.
"None of your business!" the theif barked back at us. We weren't phased at his ferocity as we kept moving towards him. By now, a few ONBA officials were now in the internet, but they kept their distance from us, seeing that a fight could happen soon.
"You stole from us, you made it our business!" Kinzoku yelled at the thief. After Kinzoku's statement, the burglar snapped and ran towards us with a large broad sword of fire drawn.
*My fire sword!* I thought as I ducked under his swing while Ryuu and Kinzoku jumped to the side. I was now even angrier that he decided to use my own weapon against me.
I activated a datasilver of my own, which covered my fist in a plate of iron, the big punch datasilver. I thrust my fist into the theif's stomach, making him step back and grip his abdomen in pain.
"I have a few tricks of my own," I said to him as I uploaded another datasilver to myself. I could feel energy growing inside the palm of my hand as the datasilver I uploaded through my cyberband started to activate. I aimed my palm at the theif, who looked up at me.
"Next time, don't mess with netbattlers," I said to the theif as I was about to shoot a cannon blast at him. However, I wasn't quick enough as the theif tackled into me and sent me to the ground.
The theif laughed maniacally. "Try this one out!" His entire body became doused in flame as the datasilver he uploaded activated and took effect. I could feel my body burning up from the scorching flames, but a purplish blur dove into the theif and sent him off me. I could see the burns on myself from yet another datasilver the theif stole from me as Kinzoku had rolled away from the burning theif. The burglar got up from the ground as Kinzoku and Ryuu let loose with their own attacks, Kinzoku's a sword doused with bright light and Ryuu's own sword that seemed to be made completely from water. Both swords cut through the theif, sending him to the ground, as Ryuu finished off the theif with a cannon blast that I couldn't shoot at him.
The theif's cyberband had reached its limit of abuse and logged him out of the cybersystem. Kinzoku and Ryuu walked over to me and picked me up from the ground.
"You ok?" Kinzoku asked me while he helped me up.
"I'll live..." I responded weakly. We then took off our cyberbands to see the theif being handcuffed by the officials and the bag of datasilver in another official's hands. We looked at the crowd around us and saw that they were all relieved the theif was brought to justice. The official with the bag of datasilver started passing out the stolen datasilver to their rightful owners. I got my fire sword and body burner special datasilver back while Kinzoku got his dark sword datasilver and Ryuu got his armor adaptor bit.
"Well, another day saved," I said jokingly as I turned to Ryuu and Kinzoku, who were smiling that we had basically saved the day for everyone. We watched the theif being dragged to the ONBA headquarters and the crowd's response of cheering when he was being taken there. The theif struggled constantly as they dragged him down the sidewalk.
"Hmm... all that fighting made me hungry," I said as Ryuu and Kinzoku nodded in agreement with me.
"What say we get something to eat?" Kinzoku responded as Ryuu and I nodded in compliance. We started to walk towards the Wildfire Cafe until I heard the theif yell at us.
"He knows who you are, Grave! He knows who you are!"
I turned my head to watch the theif being dragged down the sidewalk, still struggling.
"What do you suppose he meant?" Ryuu asked. It didn't make much sense to me either, so I shrugged and we continued walking towards the cafe.
Dinner there was pretty nice, the three of us talked about random things all through our meals, laughing a lot at each other's humorous stories and such. I still couldn't believe that I made that many friends in ACDC in such a short period of time, but now I had two new friends who fought alongside me. I was happy about that.
We stepped out of the metroline station in ACDC and parted ways with Ryuu. He had inherited his own house from his family a while ago and lived by himself, so Kin and I went back to the apartments for the night and talked about the fight earlier that night.
"Why do you think he stole all those datasilver?" Kin asked me as the elevator began to rise towards the seventh floor.
"I don't really know..." I responded, looking at the elevator ceiling. "Maybe he just wanted something to do?"
Kin shrugged. "You never know, he could have been so bored he felt like going on a stealing run..." The elevator doors opened up and we walked down the hall to our apartments.
"Well, g'night, Kin," I said.
"Night, Manic," Kin responded as we both went into our apartments.
I closed the door behind me and leaned against it to observe my wrecked apartment.
"This is going to be a long night..."
Chapter 3 up! You think it's finished... but you're wrong! Please review with good things or constructive criticism, thank you ^_^