Shade watched as the next Mettaur virus appeared.
"Alright Shade." The net navi said. "Time to learn about 1 last battle strategy. Discarding chips." Shade wondered what the net navi was talking about. He didn't see the point of discarding chips that could be useful, yet he remained docile & watched.
"Sometimes you get chips that would turn out to be useless in your current situation because of how random the pick is." The net navi explained. "That's where the discard function comes into play. With this, your Net Op can discard useless battle chips for later. Plus, you see the bog empty space under the battle chip slots?" The net navbi asked. Shade looked at a nearby screen that looked like the screen you see when selecting battle chips while in battle in the Mega Man Battle Network Series. An arrow pointed to the blank space underneath the chip slots.
"Yeah, I see it." Shade asked. "What's it for, sir?"
"When your Net Op discards a number of battle chips between 1 & 5, the number of discarded battle chips will be added to the number of slots. The highest you can get is 5 more than the 5 you currently have."
"Okay." Shade said, not fully understanding the net navi's words.
"Now." The net navi said. "Dr. Opelle, I suggest you get rid of the 3 HP-10 chips, you won't need them now." Shade wanted to make sure this wasn't a trick so the net navi would make sure he wasn't gonna have Shade be defenseless when he needed to heal.
"Are you sure?" Shade asked.
"Trust me." The net navi said to Shade. "You'll get better battle chips from doing this." Shade pondered for a bit. For all he knew, it was a trick, but he didn't see any other way of doing this. He hung his shoulders in defeat.
"Alright then." Shade said in defeat. He wahthed as Dr. Opelle selected the 3 HP-10 chips. Then he saw the button next to them that said "discard". Shade stared at this in amazement, after a while he figured that the humans probably programmed him to understand their words, since he knew what it said. Before, he wouldn't have been able to make heads or tails of the humans' strange language. Now, he knew every single word they said. Shade watched as Dr. Oppelle pushed the button. Then, the screen vanished.
"Alright, Shade." The net navi said. "You'll have to wait a while until the bar behind your side of the field fills up again." Shade looked at the back of the field & saw a black bar with an arrow pointing to it. "When that's all yellow, then you can use battle chips."
"Okay." Shade said. Shade turned back to face the Mettaur, realizing that he'd have to wait until the bar filled up before Dr. Opelle could download battle chips to him. So all he had against the virus for now was his Shade Buster. Shade then decided he'd have to make do. He fired 6 Shade Busters at the Mettaur, taking 6 hit points from it. Then he heard a ping behind him & saw the bar all yellow. Shade lit up under his face guard. He could use battle chips again! Dr. Opelle then pressed a button on the side of the P.E.T. on the screen & the screen reappeared again. Shade looked at it, & to his astonishment, 3 new slots appeared before him. The chips inside were shaped like green boxes on poles with a circle on the top left corner, & a mouth coming out of the right.
"You see those 3 new chips, Shade?" The net navi asked. "Those are cannon chips. Cannon chips are chips that attach a cannon to your arm, allowing you to fire a huge burst of power from it before it disappears. Got that?" Shade nodded. He looked at his arm. He'd seen it do 2 very strange things. He'd seen it fire beams from it, & watched it transform into a sword. He wondered what a cannon chip would do to it. Then again, Shade figured it was obvious. He watched as Dr. Opelle selected a cannon chip, & the ok button. Then, to Shade's amazement, his arm sprouted 4 green thin long things. Shade watched as green metal-like panels grew from the things. The then saw a mouth, like the mouth on his Shade Buster, only longer, sprout from his palm. Then he saw a cylandar unfold on the top back part of the cannon. He looked at in in awe. He never thought anything like that would happen. However, he soon remembered the virus. He saw it send a shockwave at him, & he dodged in the nick of time. He then fired the cannon at the virus, & was amazed that he saw it explode the instant the blast connected.
"WOAH!" He shouted. He looked at the cannon as it retracted back into his arm. "That was amazing."
"Wasn't it though, Shade." The net navi asked. "Well, that concludes your training Shade. Now I'll show you what you wanna know." The battlefield, & the single panel the net navi was on slowly returned to the ground, & vanished.
"Alright." Shade said as his mask vanished. "Now what did you do to me?"