Author's notes: Sorry for the late update. I have been busy lately.

Netto wondered why his bed felt hard and uncomfortable. He groaned as he opened his eyes.

"Huh?" Netto sat up in his sleeping bag, he looked around him. Netto found himself sitting in a small grassy field surrounded by trees, one of the trees has a tire swing attached to one of the lower branches. Lying next to him was Enzan sleeping in his sleeping bag.

Netto felt his head hurt. He closed his eyes in order to concentrate. He remembered that he and Enzan were in the hospital room with their Navis. Suddenly the fire alarm went off and everyone ran around screaming. He and Enzan ran out to help others escape the fire. Then the fire sprinklers system went on, he heard a woman screaming. He remembered about running towards the woman and saw an animal that he never seen before, a humanoid black panther standing in the smoking room. The big creature looked at Netto, opened it's mouth and screamed. Netto eyes widened.

"Rockman." Netto called out into the field.

"Netto kun," Rockman's voice called back. "Stay where you are, don't move."

Netto looked around, he couldn't find him anywhere. "Rockman where are you?"

He heard a low growl. Netto looked around, but couldn't find the source. Suddenly, he felt someone grabbing his arm and twisting it to his back. A black arm snaked around his neck, locking him in a head lock.

"Rockman!" Netto cried. "Gah!" He felt the grip tightened around his neck and the pain on his arm.

"Netto kun! Are you alright? Answer me!"

"He is alright," another voice said calmly answered him.

Netto opened his eye a bit and saw a creature or something that appears to be a human with a bear's head. He examined the creature closely. He realized it was a robot when he saw the metallic limbs and glowing red eyes. In it's claw like hands are the PETs.

"I would advice you not to move."

"And what if I don't?" Netto demanded.

The claws sparked with electricity. Netto heard Rockman cried out in pain from the blue PET.

Netto caught the hint and he allowed his captors to tie him up to a tree and gag him. The robotic bear walked up to Netto. He put the PETs on the grass. It's hand transformed into a knife and Netto felt the cold edge of the blade touching his throat.

Netto watched Enzan stirred from his sleep and opened his eyes. Enzan blinked his eyes a couple of times, and analyzed their situation. Like Netto he noticed they are in a small valley surrounded by trees, but not alone. He counted one humanoid panther, a gorilla, six wolves. A robot that looks like a humanoid iguana, a robotic falcon and when he saw the robotic bear holding a knife at his friend's throat, his face paled.

"Who are you?" he asked darkly as he allowed the panther tied him up to another tree next to Netto.

"I am Bear, a robot. My data files tell me you are Injuin Enzan, the operator of the red Navi and the blue Navi belongs to Hikari Netto who is next to you."

Enzan was surprised that they knew who they are, but he did not give them the satisfaction of knowing it. "Yeah? So why do you want us here? To fight?"

"No, there is someone that I believe you know. I left a message telling him to come here tonight."

Laika! Netto thought.

Enzan came to the same conclusion as Netto. "You will regret it when he comes."

Bear chuckled a little, "If I have emotions I think not."

At the same time, Laika walked through the dark woods.

"It's quiet," Laika muttered in his headset. "A little too quiet."

Searchman listened. He agreed with his operator, he couldn't hear a peep from the night.

"According to this map we are close to the fort."

"Laika san, are you sure the map is accurate?"

"No, but it is our only clue in finding Netto and Enzan. I hope they are alright."

"I also hope Rockman and Blues are fine as well."

Laika thought he saw bright orange cloth on a tree and a red one on the other tree standing next to it. He examined them carefully and he realized they are big. Then he realized they are actually Netto and Enzan tied to the trees with gags over their mouths.

"Ah!" Laika cried out and ran towards them.

Enzan and Netto shook their heads at him warning him to get back.

A canon aimed at him and fired. Laika saw the lighted orb and dive to the ground. The orb hit a bunch of trees and exploded behind him. Laika looked up to face his attacker.

"This is a surprise. I did not expect to see you here," the owner said as he stepped out from the shadows.

Laika's eyes widened as he stepped back. He pulled his PET from his holster.

"I would advise you that it is useless to use it here." The creature said.

"Meijin san dimensional area!"

To his surprise and disappointment, all he received was static on his PET screen.

"Nani?"

"As I said before, it is useless to use it here," the robotic humanoid bear said again. "My master created a device to cut off your communications from your PET."

Laika gripped his PET tightly. He needed to think fast, Netto and Enzan are counting on him to act. "What do you want?" he asked hoarsely, formulating a plan in his mind.

"An answer."

"Answer for what?" Under his breath he muttered to Searchman through his headset. "Searchman, see if you can find out what is blocking the signal."

"Roger."

"For my question; what are you doing here?"

"Huh?" Laika asked. He noticed Netto and Enzan stopped squirming and blinked at the thing in confusion. In his headset he heard Searchman's voice. "Laika san, I found the barrier he is talking about. The problem is that I can't remove it. It's coming from a huge satellite. But I can't penetrate the signal coming from it"

Kusso.

The robot sighed in exasperation as if 'he' had to repeat or explain everything to him. "Last night I arrange a meeting here for someone else as in exchange for the lives of your friends. Although I am surprised that you receive the invitation instead of him and I wondered how you found it."

"Huh?"

KA-BOOM!

Laika and the robot turned around to see a huge explosion followed by smoke and fire.

"Kusso!" The bear swore.

"Laika san, the barrier has been removed!"

"Meiji san Dimensional Area!"

"No need for formalities!"

A huge dome appeared above them.

"Cross Fusion!" Laika and Searchman cried.

"What!" Exclaimed the bear.

"Impossible!" hissed the giant lizard.

The other animals growled in protest of the bright light.

Laika aimed his scope gun at Bear.

"I would not do that," the creature growled as he held out two objects in his hands. Laika instantly recognized the PETs.

Before Laika could react. A bright light erupted behind the bear. The robot cried out in pain as static erupted all over it's body. It dropped the PETs and fell down face flat, revealing the dapple colored Navi with a gold and white X symbol on it's crest pointing it's smoking buster at it.

"X!" Laika heard Searchman cried out in his headset.

X pointed at him with his hand and moved his finger at the hostages. Laika understood the message. Save your friends. I'll take care of him.

The bear growled as he struggled to get up. "I see that you have finally arrived…Project no.19XX001XEON."

X didn't say anything. He pointed his buster at Bear. The buster transformed into a sword.

"Oh I see. You want to be my opponent." Bear's arms transformed into cannons and fired at him. The gray Navi dogged his attacks. As the gray Navi distracted the robot. Laika used his scope gun to cut the ropes and handed them their PETs.

"Laika! How did you find us?" Netto asked.

"This was one of Dawn's favorite places to go." Laika replied. "I asked Grandma to show me some of her prized possessions and ended up finding a map that leads me here. I would recommend you two to Cross Fused."

Netto and Enzan took out their Synchro Chips. "Synchro chips! Cross Fussion!" They called out in unison. They were enveloped in a sphere of white light. When the light disappeared, Cross Fussed Rockman and Blues appeared and began fighting the monsters.

"Rockbust!" CF Rockman shouted as his arm transformed into a buster. He aimed at a wolf and fired and continued blasting.

"Long Sword!" CR Blues commanded as his arm to transform into a sword and he slashed at the panther.

The gorilla howled and charged towards CF Rockman. CF Rockman launched himself towards the gorilla. The panther screamed shrilly as CF Blues's sword plunged into it's chest before he turned his attention towards the lizard while CF Searchman fired at the wolves and then he activated his jet pack and focus on the robot falcon.

Oblivious to everything that was going around them. CF X and Bear fought furiously.

Bear fired at X. X ducked out of the way and returned fire. His aim was true and hit Bear on the chest. But it had no effect on him. Bear laughed. "What is this? No damage?" he mocked, "You certainly are an antique. Your ammunition has no effect on me. As you can see no. 001 I am a new kind of robot, my body is built to absorb your plasma attacks. Aided by mega plasma cannons of course." To prove his point he charged his cannons and fired. X leaped out of the way and landed behind him. His buster transformed into a sword and he thrust it into Bear's unprotected back and destroying his core reactor in the process.

Bear roared in pain as his internal engine exploded. The robot collapsed on the ground. "It appears that I am defeated," he murmured. "But I still have one last trick." He weakly pointed his cannon at CF Rockman who was still wrestling with the gorilla. A bright ball of light began to form at the nozzle of the cannon.

"Netto!" Laika and Enzan cried out in unison.

Bear fired at CF Rockman.

Before anyone of them could react. X leaped across the field and grabbed Netto. A rocket pack appeared on his back and blasted them both out of the battle field and the dimensional area.

The energy ball hit the gorilla in the process. Purple static spread all over it's body, the gorilla screamed. Laika and Enzan ducked behind the trees as the mechanical robotic gorilla exploded and bits of metal and machinery flew all over the place. When they look, they saw its remains burning.

Bear sighed wearily; he dropped his cannon and collapsed. The dimensional area disappeared. Enzan and Laika crossed out. Laika ran up to Bear and positioned the body to lie on it's back. He grabbed the head in order to force it to look at him straight in the eyes.

"Tell us where he is taking my friend." Laika demanded.

The red eyes flickered. "I need…energy," he whispered.

Laika was furious and he shook the robot, "What are you talking about? Tell me where is he!"

But the robot didn't say anything and remained motionless. "Kusso!" Laika hissed under his breath. He released his grip on the robot and watched it fall on the ground with cold eyes.

Enzan collapsed on his hands and knees wearily. His head bowed down.

Not so far away from them. Behind a tall tree, a young man with dark brown hair and wearing a black suit and white shirt with a black tie heard every word that they said. He knows they won't find X. He was way too clever. The man pulled a dark gray PET from his holster strapped on to his belt.

"Control here."

"We got a problem here."