Disclaimer: I don't own Rockman.. yada yada yada. Poor college student… you know the drill.

Blues rules! (And so does Neko-Salosa. Get your butt over and read her work darnit!)

Edit: I replaced the navi's name because I got a review stating it was confusing. Also, the new name was the original name I had.

Chapter One: Rise of the Shadows

Shouts went up amoung a couple of the mettaurs; they had found a trail. The female navi was already gasping for breath as she ran along the paths through the Undernet. She glanced over her shoulder to see the mettaur and a few other assorted viruses in hot persute. Cuts and burises already littered her body from scuffles with that swarm of viruses. Atleast the navis chasing her seemed to have disappeared.

Unfortunatly they didn't disappear for very long.

Towers of sand burst up from the ground ahead, causeing the female navi to skid to a stop. Dark green eyes widened and she dove out of the way as a lion head made out of sand came racing towards her. She cursed when she glanced behind her only to find that she had now been backed towards the edge of a cliff. She looked ahead of her and saw Desertman form between her and the swarm of viruses.

"Give up," the sand navi hissed as lion heads formed infront of his two hands, "You have no where else to run."

The black and dark silver clad net navi smirked, laughter flashing in her dark green eyes. "Really," she asked before backing up so she was a hair's breath from falling over. "I guess I'll just have to stop running then."

Desertman surged forward, attempting to grab the girl as she titled backwards and let herself fall. The Neo WWW navi growled as she disappeared within the darkness. He turned back to the virus swarm before motioning for them to return.

Suyanama was NOT going to like this.

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Blues continued to move along the streets of the net, on his way back to his net-op's PeT after having been sent to retrive a file for a meeting that had been called at the last minuet. He was almost back when silver colored feathers began to float down from the sky. Immediately the red navi stopped dead in his tracks and glanced up. A short ways ahead he saw something plummeting towards the ground. Blues raced forward and jumped, catching the other navi before they would have hit the ground. He blinked, part of him wondering what had happened to the navi while another part swore he had seen this girl before.

Sleak, dark silver armor covered her chest, lower legs, lower arms, and waist. It was modeled to look a little like the armor of a samurai but also had markings that gave it the illusion of a wolf. A dark silver headband shaped like a pair of wolf ears held back all but the bangs of her dark blue hair. A black body suit covered anything not covered by armor from her neck down. There was a silver-white image of a pair of outstretched angel wings on her back and on her chest was an insignia of a silver star over a gold sun on a black field.

Blues gently set the female navi down as she stired slightly. She was covered with cuts and bruises, making the male navi wonder even more as to what had happened. He gave a small start when her eyes fluttered open part way, revealing a pair of dark green colored eyes that remined Blues a lot of a certain blue colored navi.

"… mei…jin…san….," she struggled to say as unconsiousness pulled at her. She had to get to him, to tell him what she had found in the Undernet. Unfortunatly unconsiousness won out and her eyes slid closed as her body went limp once again.

"Nani," Blues muttered in surprise when he recognized the name of the leader of the Net Saviors. What did this girl have to do with Meijin? He shook his head to try and get his thoughts back on track. He hadn't failed to notice the urgency in her voice and it was obvious that whatever information she held, had been important enough to risk deletion to get. Blues quickly gathered the unconscious female in his arms before continuing on his way back to his net-op's PeT. He needed to tell Enzan about this.

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The vice president of IPC sighed in annoyance and checked his watch for what seemed like the fifth time in the last minuet. What was taking Blues so long? He jumped slightly when his PeT let out a beep to let him know said navi had returned.

"Enzan-sama," Blues called as the boy picked up his PeT to look at the screen. The net-op raised an eyebrow when he noticed the burden in his navi's arm. "We have a problem."

"Apparently," the boy replied before turning to a couple of other exsecutives waiting for the meeting to start. This meeting could wait until later. Right now he had something more important to deal with.

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Everything ached although that was no surprise. This was the draw back of full-synchro. Slowly eyes fluttered open to reveal two dark blue orbs with silver flecks that rivaled the color of the night sky. As soon as the world came to focus the teenager attempted to sit up.

"Easy Little One," A familiar voice gently order from the right. The officer moved forward and wrapped an arm across the girl's back to help steady her as she sat up. "You've been through a lot Katana."

Katana Skye Ryuuza let out a small, almost bitter, laugh. "Yeah, I noticed," she quirped before looking up at her legal guardian. She smiled, trying to reassure him that she would be alright now. It was obvious from the look on his face that she had nearly worried him to death. However, the girl's expression fell a few moments later as her mind finally caught up and replayed the last few things she remembered before she had blacked out. "Seiya-sensei, Angels… is she…," she couldn't bring herself to finish the rest of her question.

The middle-aged man sighed. John Seiya had been dreading having to answer such a question but he had to. Even if he tried to spare the girl the horriable truth she would find out. It was best to tell her everything straight forward. "We lost her signal shortly after you passed out," he informed Katana, his gaze remaining locked on the young girl to gauge her reaction. "So far, we haven't heard anything. No one has seen her nor has anyone picked up her signal. However we do belive she escaped." He paused for a moment, this would be the hardest part to tell. "But, if we do not find her soon it might not matter."

Katana didn't say anything. Instead, her dark blue eyes remained locked on the sheets infront of her. Idlely, her mind took note that she was in the small hospital ward in the net-police head quarters. It didn't surprise her since she had collapsed in an office only a couple floors above this one. Slowly she raised her right hand, clenched it and then unclenched it, testing it. Bandages were wrapped around her palm and the back of her hand, covering a small cut across her palm that stung a little when she had clenched her hand. There were more bandages wrpped around her upper right arm, just below her shoulder and her lower left arm. She could feel a couple around her rib cage and left knee. Besides a small rectangular bandage over a cut on her forehead close to her right temple; those seemed to be it from the injuries she had recived while in synch with her nat navi. Nothing was broken or bruised and the cuts were shallow enough to heal within a few days. After a few moments of staring at her hand Katana finally spoke, "I guess, we'll just have to give everything we have into the search and hope for the best."

Officer Seiya frowned, unable to hear any hint of emotion in her voice. While that was usually rather normal it also worried him. Katana tended to let her guard down a little near him and many times he could detect hints of different emotions in her voice. However, at the moment he couldn't find any hints as to what might be going through her mind at that moment. He was about to open his mouth to say something when the door swished open.

"Which is why I am here Kai-chan," The leader of the Net Saviors announced with a wide grin.

"Meijin-san!"

"The san is not nessicary," Meijin Eguchi sighed before he looked at the younger of the two occupants of the room. He had been called in for a meeting that would start in a few minuets and had come down to see how the girl was doing. Her mission had been assigned to her by the police but Meijin had known about it since the information gathered would be sent to him as well. "As soon as the meeting gets out I will set my boys on the case," he informed the girl, "If anyone can find Angels-chan it will be those three."

"Arigato," Katana said, a sigh of relief echoing through her mind.

"It's good to see you again Meijin," John announced while getting up to shake the scientist's hand, "I just wish it was under better circumstances."

"As do I."

Silence reigned for a few moments before another person burst into the room, causing all the occupants to jump in surprise. The rookie officer panted a couple of times, having ran as fast as he could from the command opps, before relaying his message. "SciLabs…," he gasped, "They've found her…. They've found Angels!"

"NANI?" Three voices shouted in unison that one word before they exploded in questions. The young man waved his hands, trying to tell them that he didn't have any other information beyond that. John turned to the teenage female that was now on her feet.

"Go Little One. Let us know what you find as soon as you get there."

Katana nodded before grabbing her backpack and PeT holder that lay next to the bed. She ran out the door while digging into her back to pull out a pair of roller blades and a leather leash. A bark from down the hall alerted her to a grey blur running towards her. "MoonStriker I'm glad to see you but right now we need to jet to SciLabs," she told the wolf while continuing towards the main entrance of the police station. He barked and continued after her. Once outside the girl clipped on her skates to the bottom of her shoes and hooked the leash onto MoonStriker's collar. With only a whistle as a command, the wolf took off at a breakneck speed down the sidewalk, towing the girl behind him.