Chapter 3: Training

Shin woke early. X woke earlier. X had already been blasting approximately one million micro-viruses. X had reached the Undernet. He explored the new area, and found a lower area full of powerful monsters. X grinned. Challenges lay ahead.

He blasted away lots of enemies that survived the X aura. Walking, he reached the Undernet of the Undernet. X walked on. His levels increased rapidly. Soon, X reached a dead end with a wall in front of him. He began popping Armageddon blasts at the wall, creating tons of cracks on it.

X finally broke through. That was when Shin woke up. Shin walked to the bathroom, leaving X to his Crusade, or, in fact, mass deleting. X walked through the door, and reached another Net.

X was amazed. The new area was like a seaside, with frozen navies on a frozen wave, and… Wait! X was alarmed. He turned into his fire element, melting the frozen pathway. The recognized all of the frozen. They were crime committers.

X walked around, switching into his ice element. X Dashed most of the way, finally finding a hut. He knocked on the door, and somebody opened it. X was alarmed by a weakened Bass.

Bass jumped back, getting into battle stance, when he passed out. X ran over, switching into the fire element and warming Bass up. X carried Bass out to the entrance, and using his elemental ability to seal the place up.

X then tended for Bass. Soon, Bass woke. Bass sat up in an instant, eyes never leaving X. X squatted so he could see Bass at eye level.

"You can go." X said, pointing the opposing direction.

Bass stood up and limped away. X threw a Full recovery Chip at him. Bass used the chip, and with new found strength, flew away. X stood up, happy the only challenge was still alive. X walked away, continuing his training.

X was exhausted when Shin came back from school. Shin had forgotten to bring his PET along, but it was alright as Miss Maruto had already excused X from class prior to his "show of talent". Shin had spent the rest of his time creating new weapon designs and new armours.

By end of class, Shin had two complete weapon designs and an incomplete armour. X was resting when Shin bounded in, and was left alone as Shin did his homework and worked on the upgrades. By three, X was bored out of his skull, and surfed the net once more. He met Megaman and chatted with him.

"How's Lan?"

"Skiving."

"Shin's working on a new armour."

"I've tons of Soul Unisons, no armours."

So they chatted on and on, until Glyde, Roll and Gutsman came. Guts had gone by another way, and when he saw Roll, he went overboard.

"GUTS! It's Roll!"

He dashed through Megaman, unlike X who had shifted out of the way almost immediately when he heard Gutsman. Megaman fell and Roll ran over to pull him up.

"Guts! Ignore the blue pest on Guts quest to Roll's lo…"

"Gutsman! Stop your babbling and help me!"

Gutsman was too excited and ran over. He tripped, smashing Roll off. X ran over, jumped down and activating his new hover wings. X slowly hoisted Megaman and Roll up. Gutsman was dazzled.

"Gutsssssss…"

X was deactivating his hover wings and it was when Shin called.

"X! I just finished 'em! Bring your friends along."

X cocked his head and led the way. The group followed behind, Gutsman being held by Glyde and Megaman. Soon, they reached X's homepage. They followed him in. No sooner had they warped (Yup. Warp. My explanation. How else can you explain the characters distorting and re assembling at the end?) had they seen X switch into his new Axl Armour. Shin had based the armour of another of his favourite game characters, The Megaman X Total Collections.

The new armour had hovers, wings, and the weapon was only two rapid fire guns. Shin uploaded a few chairs for the entourage and used a program to carry beverages to them. X tried out his guns, exploding the data targets around him. He continued to try out his hovers and wings.

"Visitors here!"

Gutsman was recovering when he heard Shin's announcements. He mistook it for Roll saying "I like you Gutsman". He drooled and said a sentence that pissed Shin off.

"Roll, guts heard you said 'I like you Gutsman' RIGHT?"

Shin could be heard screaming. "Gutsman mistook my choke voice for Roll's sniffle voice…" Then they heard someone barfing, or being sick in the toilet. Soon, Shin came back, grinning evilly.

He asked a data program to stick an amplifier to Guts by "accidentally" bumping into him. As the "very tragedy" was carried out under Shin's maniacal eyes, Shin also tested the mike.

"I AM BLIDDY HELL NOT ROLL! DO YOU HEAR ME LOUD AND CLEAR GUTSMAN! DO NOT CONFUSE ME WITH ROLL BEFORE I ASK X TO MASH YOUR HEARING PROGRAMS TILL THEY FILCKER AND DIE AND YOU WILL NEVER HEAR A SINGLE SQUEAK FROM ANYBODY EVER AGAIN! Whew. That took a lot out of me."

Guts was trying to clear his headache and Roll was giving Shin the "thumbs up". Shin smiled, going back on track."

"Alright visitors, while I fit X out, please yourselves with this play area with gyms, baths, and targets."

So twenty minutes had passed when Shin let them out. X was in his Zero armour, practicing his martial arts. Glyde shrieked and logged out. Roll was sure Yai was yelling at Glyde, when Guts screamed, logged out, facing the same fate as Glyde. Only Roll and Megaman was left. X stopped his training and chatted with them. Soon, they also left, fearing their operators might get worried.

X then went back to his training while Shin ate his dinner. All while X was slogging his guts out. X had heard of a name of a great challenge. The name only few had heard about. He found the information on the web. He was intrigued.

X wanted to make sure he could beat him. Zero.exe. The Zero Ultimate Virus…