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Chapter 8

For once in a very long time, X was at a current loss of words. As he stared at the impatient NetNavi before him, his mind raced frantically, trying to find something to say. It all summed up to an intelligent "Wha?"

Protoman.EXE sighed. Hours of waiting, just for this? "You heard me."

X sighed. Protoman was in the PET, and things had just gotten alot more complicated. "Sorry, but I don't know where Chaud is. To be honest with you, I don't even know how you got here." The blue reploid briefly considered telling him the truth, but he'd cross that bridge when he came to it.

The Red Raider blinked. "What do you mean?" Since he'd laid eyes on the person in front of him, he couldn't shake the feeling that he knew him from somewhere.

X held his head in one hand. "What was the last thing you remember before you got here?" He asked finally.

Protoman frowned. "My operator and I were fighting a Navi named Shademan...we had been knocked out of crossfusion and he had been charging up some kind of attack..." he said finally.

"Do you remember what it was called?" The Maverick Hunter asked.

The Net Official thought for a moment. "He called it the White Oblivion attack. After that it gets kinda hazy."

The Blue Bomber resisted the urge to bang his head on his desk. "Welcome to the club." he muttered.

Even though it was said softly, Protoman still heard it. "What do you mean?" he demanded.

X sighed again, coming to a decision. "Apparently, the White Oblivion attack boots you out of your world and into another one. Because you were in your PET, you didn't get as damaged as I did."

'As he did?' Wait a minute...it couldn't be..."Lan Hikari!"

The Reploid smiled a sad little smile and nodded. "Knew I couldn't keep you in the dark forever, Protoman." Wow, I came to that bridge pretty quick.

"But...but how?" the navi stuttered.

X winced. "It's...kind of a long story, and I don't have the time to tell it at the moment. First, I need your help with something."

Protoman lifted an unseen eyebrow behind his visor. "With what?" he asked, curious.

"Well, see, it's like this..."

"Nothing seems to be wrong, Megaman. And you say you have no idea where that Soul Unsion came from?" Dr. Hikari asked.

"No idea at all, papa." The navi answered. It had been about a day since Megaman had gained the X Soul Unsion, but with it had come a few problems. Namely, he couldn't access it again. Since Lan had disappeared, Dr. Hikari had fixed it so the blue NetNavi could activate any of his Soul Unsion forms without the help of an operator. The problem was that the new form had locked itself up and refused to run. The two had tried everything they could, but nothing had responded.

"I did find something in your Megabuster program, however."

The Navi perked up. "Really? What?"

The scientist frowned a bit as he gazed at the computer screen. "It seems to be weapons data. But the strange thing is, it isn't any kind of data I've seen before."

Megaman.EXE looked at his creator/father in confusion, then looked at the program itself. There were eight different headings, all with different names and picture icons. The names seemed to be shortened, and they just looked strange, period.

There was ShtgnIc.wds, and the icon looked like a blue ball with issues. Next was StrmTrnd.wds, and that looked like a purple cylinder. After that came FlmWv.wds, a simple flame. Then came ChmlnStng.wds, three darts with one going straight ahead, one diagonally upward and one diagonally downward. RllngShld.wds was just a pink-colored sphere. HmngTrpd.wds was a missle-thing picture, and BmrngCttr.wds was a silver-colored boomerang of some sort. Finally there was ElctrcSprk.wds, and that was a blue spark of some sort.

"Can you access the programs at all?" the doctor asked. Megaman closed his eyes and focused for a moment. After a few moments he sighed and shook his head. "Sorry, papa. None of them at all."

Before either of them could do anything else, a loud siren began to wail. "ALERT! ALERT! UNAUTHORIZED NAVI DETECTED! ALL SECURITY PROGRAMS REPORT TO AREA D-3 IMMEDATELY!"

"I'd better go!" the blue Net Savior exclaimed as he started to run. "Be careful, Megaman!" Dr. Hikari called after him.

The trip to Area D-3 was rather uneventful, but the Navi reaking havoc wasn't. "Burnerman! What do you want!" Megaman yelled.

The pyromatic Darklord turned with a manical grin on his face. "Your head!" was the shouted reply as he charged the blue Navi.

Megaman shifted into a battle stance as he dodged the Fire-Navi's charges. I need to put those flames out NOW! he thought desprately, glancing at the destruction all around him.

Unknown to the blue-colored NetSavior, that thought triggered something deep within him...

Burnerman had finally backed Megaman into a corner. "Got ya!" Burnerman yelled geefully and charged.

"Great...NOW what do I do?" Megaman muttered. Suddenly, a click! sounded in his mind as a text message showed up in the corner of his vision. StrmTrnd.wds activated. Executing...

A great flash of light surrounded the shocked Navi and when it faded, he found that the blue parts of his jumpsuit had turned different shades of purple. Not bothering to think about it at the moment, he lifted his buster, aimed, and fired. Said buster hummed for a bit before showing its latest trick.

A purple funnel of plasma-y death erupted from his weapon and engulfed the Darkloid. Being that he was practally point blank when it went off didn't help much either.

"YAAAHHHHH!" Burnerman crashed against the ground and skidded a couple of feet before stopping completely. There was a pause, then Burnerman logging out. was heard as he disappeared.

The blue navi stared at the place where Burnerman used to be, then at himself. The status screen was still in the corner of his vision, but now it read Storm Tornado and displayed a weapons energy screen with plenty of juice left.

Megaman.EXE could only think of one appropiate word that pretty much summed up the situation.

"Woah."

MH Phoenix: Finally! The damn thing is finally done! No thanks to the fact that I had writer's block the thickness of Maverick Hunter HQ's bunker walls...grumble

Thanks to everyone who reviewed the last chapter, and I apologise if you didn't like it. Also, thanks for not lynching me for the six month wait, but I just got over my freakin' writer's block.

Axl plushies to whoever figures out what the new weapons are! I already gave ya one, but I'll show it again:

StrmTrnd.wds equals Storm Tornado.wds, or Storm Tornado.Weapons Duplication System, if you want to get technical.

Anyhoo, my muses went on vacation to Hawaii, but they said to say hi, and please review! Thanks again for not shooting me for the wait, and I'll try to get the next chapter out sooner!