Chapter 7: Old friends, New opponents.
"And the first fight of round two begins! Lan and Drew, please face your opponents!" The announcer said. Lan and Drew walked to the battle machine.
"Blake?" Drew said to one of his opponents, "You were chosen to fight?"
"Yeah," the one named Blake said, "and how is your new Navi?"
"He's not that new, had him for three years already," Drew said, "And how's Multiman?"
"He's fine," Blake said.
"Drew," Lan said, "how do you know him?"
"Well," Drew said, "one day, I found this Navi on the net. I didn't have one yet, so I downloaded him into my PET. His name was Multiman. A few weeks later, I found his Op, Blake. It urns out they had been separated. I returned Multiman, and a few days later, I made Solarman."
"Lan," their other opponent said, "how are you?"
"Wait," Lan said, "Dingo?"
"Yeah," Dingo said, "I was paired up with this guy from my school, and he aint too bad!"
"Can we just start the battle?" The announcer asked.
"Jack-In, Solarman, Transmit!"
"Jack-In! Megaman Execute!"
"Multiman," Solarman said.
"Solarman." The purple navi replied.
"Multiman!" Blake said, "Multiply!"
"Solarman," Drew said, "activate the "Sun Dogs" program."
"Rodger," Solarman said. Two Solarmans appeared on either side of him.
"Only two clones?" Multiman asked, "That's nothing compared to the thousands I can create!" Tons of him appeared everywhere.
"Whoa," Megaman said, "How is Solarman supposed to deal with that?"
"Lan," Drew said, "keep Megaman out of Solarman's fight. Deal with Tomahawkmanan."
"Have you lost your mind?" Lan asked, "Solarman is strong, but he can't possibly beat that many navis!"
"Just don't interfere." Drew said, "Solarman, I'm going to try and install Savoc into you, if it works, this will be easy."
"Ready," Solarman said, "the Memory Expansions we have found should give me enough memory to allow that to fit."
"Initiating Savoc program!" Drew said. A sword just like Drew's appeared on Solarman's back.
"Drew!" Solarman said, "it worked!"
"Perfect." Drew said.
"Time to see what your clones are made of!" Multiman said. Multiple clones of him tried to attack Solarman's two. The real Solarman jumped up and drew his sword. It looked like a normal sword, not a sword used by a navi. He span it around above his head as the sword changed from its golden color to the purple color of the symbols on it. It started to conjure an immense amount of wind, enough to allow him to fly. Upon contact, Solarman's clones disappeared.
"Heh," Solarman chuckled, "clones are for weaklings, I just make illusions." Solarman allowed himself to fall to the ground, right in the middle of the Multiman horde.
"Well," Multiman said, "If you are so strong, let's see you destroy all my clones!"
"With pleasure," Solarman said, "I need a chance to show off."
"Full-Synchro," Blake said. Multiman's clones changed slightly in appearance.
"Oh," Solarman said, "you want to battle like that. Well Drew, should we go Full-Synchro as well?"
"Sure," Drew said, "Full-Synchro!" Solarman and Drew united, and they were eager to show off some more of their powers. "Transform," Drew said. Darkness started filling his body. His skin turned bluish, his hair spiked itself up, his headband lengthened into a mask that covered his eyes, his hands turned into claws, his scarf tails turned into wings, and his teeth sharpened to a point. 'It's been a while since we turned into our vampire form,' Drew thought, 'I hope we don't go berserk... again.'
Drew sheathed the sword that he held in his hand. He opened both his hands, then he took off, flying everywhere within that crowd of Multiman, slashing all but one of them to chunks of data. He transformed back, and drew his sword.
"My clones," Blake said, "deleted, every last one of them. I have one chance... the Multibuster." Blake's hand changed into a cannon, and four smaller ones appeared around it.
"Oh, crap," Drew said, "If he gets us with that, it's all over!"
Blake started charging up energy for the Multibuster. He unleashed it when it was at it's maximum power, the large barrel let out the main energy burst, while the other four launched supplementary ones. Right before Drew was about to be obliterated, something in his mind clicked. "Pile-Driver!" Drew yelled. A mirror appeared in front of him, and it reflected the blast, right back at Blake. It nearly deleted him, but he was blasted right back into the PET. Meanwhile, Megaman was fighting with Tomahawkman. Megaman had gashes from Tomahawkman's attacks, but he wasn't about to give up.
"Program Advance!" Lan said, "Life Sword!" A large sword replaced Megaman's hand, and he was struggling to lift it. He swung it, and got a pretty good hit on Tomahawkman.
"Z-Saber, Battle Chip in! Download!" Lan said. Megaman took up the Z-Saber, which had a constantly shifting size, and he got another strike on him.
"We can't beat him," Megaman said.
"One last try Megaman!" Lan said, "BassAnly, Battle chip in! Download!"
Bass appeared in front of Megaman, and he released many wheels of darkness.
Solarman noticed this, having just defused with Drew, and his eyes narrowed.
'Bass,' he thought, 'only Megaman has ever defeated him.'
The wheels struck Tomahawkman, and he was sent back into his PET. Lan and Drew jacked out. And Drew went home. He was tired, and he was reminded of something... his life before this, his friends, his family, and his job... a job that he quit because they had no more work, a job were he always risked his life to keep the world safe.
"The Liberators," he said to himself. He remembered that they were a secret organization made up of navi teams that constantly kept the net safe from Darkloids, the organization that Baryl had found out about and started up a small team of his own, the organization that had run out of work after Nebula was defeated, and the organization where his worst memories took place. And Drew was out for revenge. The one who destroyed his team, wrecked his life, killed his friends, and made his life miserable, and also the one Drew and Solarman hated beyond all else. Drew's memories were bad ones, they were filled with pain and suffering, enough to make someone want to end their life to make them go away. But Drew wouldn't give up. He would go to the ends of the earth to get his vengeance, and he would have to endure all of the memories that haunted his mind to do it. But he needed to destroy that person; he had to face his fears, his nightmares, and that person's sheer power, all at once Drew knew that no matter how powerful Solarman and he got, that one would get stronger to match them. He had to use all his power to survive the last time they fought, and afterwards Drew and Solarman had been changed forever... Falzer's power had been granted to them that day, and even that wouldn't be enough. He was still more powerful than Drew ever could hope to be, no matter what he did. But only Drew and Solarman had enough power to destroy him... and they would do anything to accomplish this. Drew tried to sleep, but nightmares of his past kept him awake. Nothing could make them leave, and Drew would be tormented forever by them. Of course, he didn't want to worry Lan about his past, so he kept it secret.