Chapter 2: What does Bass want?
Bass landed next to Megaman, who immediately ducked. The devil was no one to play with. Bass raised his hands. A blast of purple flame erupted from them. He lowered his head. X raised his own hands. White blinding light erupted from them.
"A worthy challenger…"
"A worthy opponent."
The two navies turned the flame and light they had into swords. They dueled, both having the power of a few Beta Sword. Most of the navies had logged out, wanting to be safe. Not Megaman.
The battle raged long and fierce, having lots of misses with the Armageddon blasts. Bass got in a lucky shot.
"Arggg!"
"Heh, prepare to be absorbed!"
The next move stunned Megaman and Bass. X's hand glowed bright blue. X placed the hand on the injured spot. The light washed on the injury and in an instant, the scar was healed.
"What?"
"I'm made of a much more advanced code than you Bass. How's Cossack?"
"Do not speak about that bastard…"
X sniggered. He had heard about Cossack.
"Megaman is somehow also advanced than you, too."
"What?"
"He is… Human. Saito Hikari, in fact."
"What? How did you know?" Megaman gasped.
"Heh, I just know everything." X sneered.
"Hey! Anyone still noticing me?" Bass yelled.
"No!"
"Then die!"
Bass, irritated, sent a blast of purple energy towards X. X sighed, and disappeared.
"What! Where i…"
"Behind you."
Bass panicked. The new navi could warp! He shifted uncomfortably. He suddenly felt a buster behind him. A new navi could have killed him! Bass tried to teleport out. X released his charged blast as Bass turned into the teleport beam.
The whole net shook from the charged Armageddon blast. X logged out, followed by the remaining navies. The operators looked in shock. Shin's new navi just shook the net, literally. In Electopia, fellow operators logged their navies out due to a high tension shockwave.
Officials covered this with "Experimental Testing" and slapped a D-notice on this, meaning it was top secret. Shin walked along the street humming "Runaway" by LINKIN PARK, the group of rock band who had similar punkish navies.
He liked the group. He had collected tons of their posters and albums. He…
"Shin?"
"Huh? What! Oh! X, don't scare me like this again."
"Okay…"
Back home, X was surfing the Net when various Netsaviors ambushed him.
"Come peacefully or be deleted." The Netsaviors warned X.
X sniggered. He decided to touch on a touchy subject, for the fun of it.
"Want another shock wave?"
"Why you insolent…"
"Take it or LEAVE!" X turned serious. The Netsaviors looked at each other, most ready to retreat. That was when Protoman, aka blues, jumped in, sword in hand. X activated his custom built-in Z-Saver. Proto blinked, and dashed out of the way when a beam came slashing down on him.
"Hm… a hilt for the saber... Means unlimited use till the hilt breaks." Proto narrowed his eyes, behind the famous visor.
"A stupid looking shades, with a single design, too simple." X laughed, dashed and swiped in a split instant. Proto blinked, he immediately took out his new shades and looked at them. He noticed they absorbed all the light, and had a built-in scanner and battle chip arsenal display. Proto put them back on. They fitted to his face like his second layer of skin.
They did he get alarmed. X had moved so quickly. Deleting himself was an easy task. For once, the emotionless Protoman.exe felt fear striking his emotional programs. He stood straight, and contacted Chaud. After a conversation, Proto turned, and offered his hand to X.
X shook it. Proto had invited him to join the Netsaviors and he agreed. Shin was alarmed. X had become a Netsavior! Shin ran to the local chip shop and bought several programs. Z-shield's, Triple Rod's, Z-buster's necessary components. Shin could edit the programs to become the above aids.
Shin was already working on a suite of battle armour, Zero Armour, for X. The Zero Armour was derived from Shin's favourite game, MM Zero collection. Shin ran home to finish up on it.
He edited the programs as they were simple enough, and let X play with them. He then concentrated on the Zero Armour.
"Status Report,
90 complete
Approximate 2 hours left"
Shin let X try the incomplete armour out. Aside from a few missing patches, it fitted X perfectly. Shin then devoted the rest of the time completing it. X was trying out the speed set, dash rolling, slashing, and shielding.
X would find the set good as he could only do one of those light speed moves twice in an hour. The set let him move in 220km/h all the time, hypersonic when dashing, one point past light speed move trice an hour. Shin finally finished the armour. A bounding X placed his weapons in the respective slots on his thighs, elbows, and vest.
X noticed his blond long hair reaching his soles of his feet.
"Shin… I'll need tons and tons of conditioners for this…"
"X! No fear cause the hair is auto regenerative and can take care for itself!"
X blasted a clump of hair, and true to Shin's words, the hair regrew. X then tested the rest of the sets as Shin put the PET in the charger while he took a bathe. X rested, shutting down. Shin bathed, and woke X. X felt his energy go over the peak.
"What?"
"The armour upgrade does that, and there's no need to shout your vocal programs out. It enhances your defence and attack, speed, strength and stealth too"
X acknowledged the information, before fooling with his armour set again as Shin ate his dinner.
"Shin! Email!"
"Okay, open it."
Shin's eyes grew wider than his rice bowl. His parents, too absorbed in the soprano star singing off key on the television, ignored him. Shin reread his email. Then he punched the air in triumph, bringing his knee up as a result of reaction, knocked his knee hard on the table.
"OWWW!" Shin screamed.
"Better than the ridiculous soprano maniac… wait! Shin! Are you mad?" His father shouted.
His mother took a gentler approach. With the same meaning that he was crazy. "Shin, do you need a shrink and a doctor? Are you hurt?"
The N1 Grand Prix was starting soon, and the competition was going international, one in a million chances to get X known to the world…