Just a note, the reason Netto, Rockman, Enzan and Blues don't get much action time is because stuff in Axess is still going on. The end of the fic will probably be set around the end of Axess.
(Chapter 8)
"Analysis Complete, you were right, this isn't going to be easy to get into" Dragoman reported.
"No matter, Regal-sama wants Saratu loose, and he asked us to free her" Ademu replied. "Besides, he gave me this" he added as he held up a battlechip, it wasn't a dark chip, surprisingly.
"What is that?" Dragoman questioned.
"A special little chip called Firewall Break, it's going to get us into the Science Labs' computers" Ademu answered.
"Are you ready then? The sooner we get in there the sooner we can get to Saratu" Dragoman questioned. His operator stayed silent. "Ademu, I think the only danger Saratu has there is herself at the moment. I was watching her fight with R-Rockman, and the Synchro Chip she used messed with her head, I'm not sure if Pyra was affected by it too or not, but I am sure Saratu was" Dragoman replied.
Ademu turned his head out the window 'Saratu, what did you agree to when you got that chip?' He asked himself as he took out his Data Sync Chip and Synchro Chip.
(On the net...)
As R-Dragoman appeared in the server, after using the Firewall Break to pass straight through the firewall, a Navi ran out and hugged him. Surprisingly, the Navi was Heart!
"What're you doing here? I thought that they were going to delete your data" Ademu asked.
Heart looked up, and her face was different to Meiru's, she now had green eyes too. She pouted as she looked at him "Why didn't you tell Saratu? I could've been deleted!" she questioned.
"We were short on Navis, I'll make it up to you Michirure, but I've got to set Saratu loose. Any idea where the part of the server for her room is?" Ademu asked.
"Not a clue, but I can't believe you'd do that to me Ademu-niisan! I'm your sister!" Heart yelled at him.
R-Dragoman reached his fingers under Heart's helmet "Sleep Program, initiate" he whispered and she fell asleep. He put her down and looked around for something that would aid him in his search.
"You didn't have to do that Dragoman, I can understand how scared she must've been. Ask me first next time, okay?" Ademu asked his Navi, whom nodded. The two then returned to their search.
"Ademu, we should take Heart with us, if one of the Science Labs' Navis finds her, then she would get deleted for sure" Dragoman advised. They crouched down and picked up Heart.
(Elsewhere...)
"What? You can see?" Saratu asked. Kurisutaru was on the other side of the barrier, for safety reasons. Kurisutaru nodded.
"Something happened when I was Cross Fused with Mama, and it somehow fixed my eyes. Even if it was an accident, both Umi and Mama are happy for me" Kuristuaru answered, smiling.
Saratu couldn't help but smile a little herself. Her sister was happy. A dark chip formed in front of her and fell to pieces. "W-what just happened?" she questioned, surprised.
"Mama knew how well we get along, and how we've helped each other over the years. She thought that I might be able to help you unknowingly cure yourself of the Dark Chip" Kurisutaru answered. A screen in Saratu's room lit up. Data flowed out of it and formed into R-Dragoman. Heart was asleep and being carried under his arm.
"About time Ademu" Saratu said as she noticed him enter. She got up from where she was sat talking to Kurisutaru and walked over to him.
"Battlechip Heat Shot! Triple Slot-In!" R-Dragoman called as he formed the large weapon in place of his hand and aimed at the barrier, where Kurisutaru was, and fired. The barrier took the force of the blast, but it disappeared. Both he and Saratu walked out, and began to look for Saratu's PET.
As the two walked away, Kurisutaru went to put a hand on Saratu's shoulder, to try to convince her to stop. R-Dragoman formed his sword and pointed it in her face. "Don't even think about trying it" he told her coldly. When he turned around to carry on walking, all he saw was a fist flying into his face. The Cross Fused Navi stumbled back a bit, and he saw Saratu's fist clenched, it seemed that she had been the one that hit him.
"Never threaten her like that, or you'll have me to deal with" Saratu replied. The two continued walking.
Kurisutaru dropped to her knees, a voice called from her PET, and Umi appeared beside her.
"Don't worry, things'll work out" Umi told her, trying to comfort her. It seemed Kurisutaru wasn't listening and tears formed in her eyes.
Saratu looked back "I'm only doing this so you and Papa don't get into trouble Kuri-chan, please try to remember that" she told her, then disappeared around the corner.
(With Saratu and Ademu...)
Heart was coming to. She yawned slightly, making Saratu look at her "What?" she asked.
"What are you doing here Heart? I thought they would've deleted you by now" Saratu questioned.
"I don't think they know I reformed in the server after separating from that Meiru girl, Ademu-niisan found me when he first got into the server" Heart answered.
"Niisan? Ademu, you didn't miss telling me anything important about Heart, did you?" Saratu questioned her companion.
"We were short on Navi data, so I gave Heart to you to use. I did miss out the fact that she's a Soul Navi, and my little sister Michirure" Ademu replied. He looked at Saratu, and she raised a brow. 'Great, Saratu thinks I'm nuts' he thought.
"I'll get some answers about that from Heart when we get back, but first, we need to find my PET. Can either of you sense it?" Saratu asked.
"What? You mean this black one?" Heart replied as she produced a black PET from her program storage.
"Now I'm confused, where'd you get it?" Saratu said as she took the PET from Heart.
"The room where they were keeping it was in a separate Dimensional Area to the one that is over the whole building, like the one you were in" Heart smiled.
"Damn, I can't get out of here with you two the same way you got in, I don't have a Synchro Chip" Saratu realised.
"Here's your old one and your Data Sync Chip. Regal-sama won't be happy, but I can't watch you go mad like you did again" Ademu replied, handing the two chips to her.
Saratu smiled slightly as she took them, and slotted the Data Sync Chip into her PET, then slotted the Synchro Chip in and Cross Fused once again with Pyra.
"They'll probably know we're loose by now Saratu, we should get going" Pyra advised her other half.
Their head nodded "You're right" Saratu replied.
Netto and Kurisutaru ran from around the corner. Both Netto and Kurisutaru had their PETs open and were holding their Synchro Chips.
R-Dragoman let Heart drop onto her feet, he started to feel a new program come into his system, and a transmission also came. 'I'm giving you a new program Ademu, I know all about Saratu's being cured of the Dark Chip, I want you to use this new program to make sure Saratu stays loyal to me. When she's too busy fighting R-Rockman, knock her sister out of Cross Fusion and fuse her with her own Navi' it was from Regal.
"Understood, I'll bring her straight to the Nebula server once she's fused with her Navi" Ademu replied back. 'How the heck do I do that without Saratu wanting to kill me?' he thought.
"I heard you Ademu-niisan, and I think I can help you with it, with this thing I swiped from the server" Heart said as she produced a virus from her program storage, it resembled a wind up toy.
"Heart, are you crazy? You don't know what that thing will do to you!" Ademu scolded her, Heart just shrugged.
"I have a special kind of anti-virus program installed, I can handle this thing without getting infected" Heart replied.
"Whatever you say Heart, but if that thing infects you then don't come crying to me" Ademu told her, Heart nodded.
Netto and Kurisutaru had both Cross Fused, R-Rockman leapt forward and tackled R-Pyra, knocking both of them into one of the nearby rooms.
Heart smiled at this as she sneaked up to R-Neta, and set the virus on its feet to do its work. The virus hit R-Neta on her left foot.
R-Neta looked down at the virus, and Kurisutaru's side of the fusion kicked it away from her. She then formed her Net Blaster and began to fire on R-Dragoman.
'Kuri-chan, Dragoman isn't good with speed attacks, and I know Ademu can't keep up with them, I'm switching over to Elec Neko' Neta told her other, their head nodded. 'But I know you wouldn't be able to keep up with them either Kuri-chan, I'd better take over' she added, Kurisutaru nodded again as Neta switched styles and AIs. She charged forward with her claws tensed and cackling with electricity.
R-Dragoman smirked as he formed his sword, and charged forward too.
Suddenly, as R-Neta was about to connect with her claws, she reverted back to normal style, her limbs straightened and she couldn't seem to bend them, she fell to the ground. R-Dragoman stopped his attack to watch what was going to happen.
'Mama! What's wrong!" Kurisutaru asked, worried.
"Something's... messing... with my system, I can... hardly move..." Neta replied "Cross Out...Kuri-chan..." she added. Color was starting to drain from her face. She passed out before her form broke and formed back into her PET.
Kurisutaru got onto her feet and picked up the PET. Umi formed beside her and stood between her operator and R-Dragoman.
R-Dragoman smirked at this as he put his blade to her throat, she backed up a little "Foolish Navi, how do you expect to protect your operator when you're scared stiff?" he questioned "You may be an Aqua type Navi, but you don't scare me" he added as he took his blade from her throat and formed it back into his hand. He grabbed her by the head and lifted her from where she was able to hover from. He then placed his hand on her icon and her form disappeared into it.
"Umi-chan! " Kurisutaru called out.
Once all of Umi's data was inside her icon, R-Dragoman turned to Kurisutaru. As one would expect, she did the only thing she could, she ran for it.
(Meanwhile...)
"Rock Buster!" R-Rockman called out as he fired a barrage of buster shots at R-Pyra. They had done quite a bit of damage to the Science Labs and had now ended up quite a way from R-Dragoman and Kurisutaru.
"Battlechip Cannon!" R-Pyra yelled as she formed her arm into a dark looking cannon, she fired a round at R-Rockman.
"It wasn't the dark chip affecting her chips? She can still do it?" Netto questioned as he dodged the shot, R-Pyra also dodged his.
"It must be one of her Navi's abilities, either that or the Dark Chip still has some influence over her" Rockman replied back, Netto nodded.
"Kuri-chan said that the dark chip appeared in front of her and broke, so I don't think it's the dark chip, it has to be her Navi" Netto answered.
R-Pyra smirked as she stared R-Rockman down. "Yuugou Program! Navichip Dragoman.EXE! Slot-In!" Saratu called as she activated a new program, Pyra's armor changed to a red color and in places changed to resemble Dragoman's. She leapt forward and formed Dragoman's sword in place of her hand, she moved at quite a speed.
A scream was heard, R-Pyra stopped herself before she could make contact with R-Rockman. She ran back in the direction that they had ended up coming in during their fight. R-Rockman dropped himself down, exhausted.
"Netto-kun! Are you feeling okay?" Rockman asked, worried.
"Don't worry, pant I just need to catch my breath pant. I guess we won't get to see what that program of hers can do then" Netto replied.
(End of Chapter)