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Wild Horse. Exe
Chapter 6: Anime… More Friends… What's Next?
A week after Takato came over into the world; Ranma finally met someone that was inside the Net. Someone that Ranma did not expect.
"What the hell? How the hell did you get here? Much less into the Net!"
"Hmm? What are you talking about? I've been here for my whole life." The person who Ranma had just recently met was wearing a brown cloak.
"But I remember seeing you in my world! I even remember talking to you!"
"Believe me kid, we've never met."
"Zero! Great to see you again! How was the scouting trip?" exclaimed X as he burst into the scene.
Zero pulled his cloak off revealing his long blond hair and laughed a bit, "Boring as ever X, boring as ever."
Ranma spluttered and said, "What the hell? How is this possible?"
Suddenly another person came. Not into the Net, but where Ranma was.
"Ranma! I've been looking all over for you, Yanoto asked me to come get you, and he said there was something he wanted to talk to us about. I don't know what it is, but there still some time to squeeze in some more training."
Ranma went wide-eyed as he looked between Zero and his sword instructor.
"Ranma, what is it?" asked Axl from inside his Pet.
"Look… look at him and Zero."
Ranma pointed the Pet screen at his teacher then back at Zero inside the Net. Axl remained silent.
"How the hell is this possible?" asked Ranma.
Ranma's instructor looked over and saw Zero inside the screen.
"Hey Zero, nice to see you again."
"Yes, it is nice to see you again… Zero." Replied Zero from inside the Net.
X looked between the two, the resemblance was uncanny. Same hair, same face, same eyes, same smirk. Heck he could go on for days except the person out there was definitely human while Zero next to him was definitely a Navi. X had a confused expression on his face until a few seconds later, his face lit up in recognition.
"O yea! Now I remember!"
"Explanation? Please?" asked Ranma.
"Well, you're going to have to know this sooner or later…" stated Zero.
"It's like this. You know who Zero is right?" asked X.
"Yes…"
"So you know how much he's died right?"
"Yea, but how does that have to relate to this?"
"Well, I've died a lot of times but that was because somebody couldn't take care of themselves. A more appropriate way to put it is self destruct a hell of a lot of times. Every time I self-destructed, I was reborn in another world. That's how life goes. You die, and then you get respawned into another world or dimension. But then because X and Yanoto repeatedly brought me back to life, I kept being reborn so the consequence was that there were two Zeros. So there was now a Zero in another world and a reborn Zero in the same world he originally died."
"This is confusing…"
"Sorry, but Zero's right. Since each of us Zeros had a knack for saving other people's lives at the cost of their own, they kept being respawn in another place. But since each Zero just happened to live in a technological advance world, they kept getting brought back to life. Now, there's a whole crap load of us Zeros running all over the whole Universe and many other Dimensions."
"I'm the original Zero of this World and Timeline. The Zero that's right beside you out there in the real world is another Zero from another dimension." Said the Zero that was beside X.
"God… This is so complicated… My brain hurts…"
"Don't worry, it'll get better. Axl, at least you understand, right?"
Axl just merely did his trademark nod.
"Well, since you know about Zero's great ability with a sword, you do realize why he chose me to teach you, right?"
"I think so…"
"Great! Then there's nothing to worry about. Come on Ranma, Yanoto's waiting. Oh yea, just call me Kenshin Ranma, it's the name I go by when I travel around. Out of all the Zeros that exist, I hop dimensions the most. Heck I even met an alternate version of myself only he was in another time. A time that was a very, very long time ago."
"Kenshin? Okay then."
As they both reached Yanoto's office, they noticed something very different about the place. It was usually bright a maybe cheery but today, there were no lights on and they couldn't see anything.
"Whoa, what the hell happened here?" asked Kenshin.
Suddenly the a light flashed on in front of them making the only light source shining down on Yanoto who was currently wearing dark glasses and dark clothes with white gloves. His hands were folded in front of his face and he was looking straight at them.
"Okay… Yanoto, what are you doing?"
Suddenly the lights came back to normal and Yanoto got out of the position he was in. He started chuckling a bit.
"Haha, I couldn't help my self, sorry. I was going through some files that we had in storage and found these TV shows that people use to call Anime, heard of it?"
"I certainly have, a lot of people like it in the many places I've been to."
"I've heard of it too, but I never had time to actually watch it…"
"Well you should, here's the key to the room, and it's in the old storage section. But before you go check it out Ranma, there's something we have to talk about."
"Ummm, okay."
"Zero,"
"Kenshin, call me Kenshin. It's easier to say than Zero to me and Zero to your Zero."
"Alright Kenshin… Anyways, can you wait outside?"
"No problem."
As soon as Kenshin walked out, the door closed. It just so happened that Kenshin's hair was too long and got stuck in the doorway.
"Ow! Dammit! Stupid door! Ow!"
Soon enough Kenshin got his hair unstuck from the doorway when Ranma pressed the button to open the door.
"Well Ranma, after staying here for about two months, how do you like it?"
"It's great! I'm doing things I would have never gotten to do and best of all, I'm free! I can pick my own decisions!"
"Well Ranma, I'm glad to hear it. But unfortunately, you can't get far in the world without a family name. So…"
"You want someone to adopt me?"
"Do you?"
"It would be better if someone did. Like you said, I can't get far in the world without a last name."
"Okay, so how would you like me to adopt you Ranma?"
"Sure! How long will it take?"
"Not that long. Since there are very few orphans in this world, we don't need an adoption center that badly."
"Alright! Wait, I won't have to call you dad or anything right?"
"You can call me whatever you would like as long as it doesn't insult me."
"Alright pops!"
"Pops?"
"Sorry, it's just a lot easier and more casual to say 'pops' instead of 'dad' or something like that and just saying 'Yanoto' feels awkward…"
"Okay then, I would talk to Takato too but he says he has a family already so I don't want to bother him about it."
"Right!"
"Now go along and go see those anime things. Take Takato with you too, I have a feeling he'll be really glad you took him once he finds it."
"What do you mean?"
"You'll see."
"Okay…"
Soon enough after Ranma left the office, he found Takato in his room doing something that Ranma considered useless.
"You're drawing him again?"
"Guilmon? Yea, but I've been trying to make new forms for him. I mean, I just remembered about the X forms and all the Mega-Ultimate Level Digimon. So I thought I would try to see what my imagination could give me this time."
"... Right… Anyways, have you heard of Anime before? Yanoto says that it was a big hit a long time ago on this world and also in other worlds."
"Anime?! There's Anime here? Where!"
"It's down at the storage…"
"Righto! Let's go!"
With that, Takato ran out of the room and through the hallways. Unfortunately, he did not come back for directions.
"Great… Now I have to find Takato THEN find the storage without getting lost… Wait… Maybe it would be easier just to get lost…"
A Few Minutes Later…
"Damn… I wonder if this is what Ryoga feels all the time… Stupid room, I've seen you more times than I want to so go away and leave me alone until I have to come back."
"Ranma? What are you doing here? You better not be hoping for another lesson."
Ranma paled as he recognized Alia's voice. He turned. He didn't know what to say. Counting on his experience with the opposite sex, whatever he said would get him in trouble. If he said he hated it here, she might think he said he hated her and that would be a big no-no, after living this long, he had learned to try not to make females angry at him. If he said he wanted another lesson here, she would hate him more since he knew she hated it here. So, there was only one thing to do of course that is to…
"Ever heard of Anything Goes? It's my martial arts school's name! Wanna see the final move? Aaaaaaahhhh…"
Run away.
As Ranma ran away, he finally bumped into Takato.
"Takato! Where the hell were you? If there's one rule in this goddamn place it's that you don't just run all over the place without a destination or directions!"
"Sorry," said Takato sheepishly, "But I got really excited…"
Ranma sighed, "Right then. Axl? Can you go into the building's mainframe and try and find a map of the place and download it?"
"Yes."
"I can't believe I didn't think of this sooner… All right Axl. Plug In! Axl.Exe! Transmission!"
Soon after a few seconds of aimlessly wandering around the mainframe, Axl stumbled across something that he wished he didn't see. My god, he thought. What are they doing keeping this here? This is way too dangerous!
"Axl?" said Ranma breaking Axl out of his thoughts, "Find something?"
"No, nothing. I'll continue looking for that map."
"Okay…"
With that, Axl tried to forget what he just saw. He didn't know what it exactly was, but he knew it was dangerous and would get the whole place in trouble.
"Found it."
"Alright, Plug out, Axl. Exe. Okay Takato, let's go."
As they got to the storage place, they noticed that it was very, very dusty. The only marks that anyone had been here lately were someone's footprint in the dust. Guessing immediately that it was Yanoto's footprints, they forgot about it.
"Okay, Yanoto said that it was somewhere near the back… Found it!"
"Whoa! There are so many boxes!"
Immediately, Takato ran into the maze of boxes and began reading all of the labels.
"Come on… With this much it has to be here…"
As Takato ran through it frantically, Ranma walked calmly through and found a title that caught his attention. It spelt 'Rorouni Kenshin'"
Kenshin? Wasn't that the person who Kenshin said he met as an alternate version? As Ranma thought about it, he got curious and pulled the box out of the pile with a grunt of effort. He looked inside the box and saw pictures of a long, red haired man with an 'X' scar on his cheek holding a sword.
"What the… Was the guy Sensei met from an Anime?" mused Ranma, "I admit he looks like my Sensei other than the red hair… I think he has something like that scar too… What do you think Axl?"
"They look almost like brothers."
"Well I know that."
"You asked for my opinion, I gave you it." Shrugged Axl.
"I can't believe it! It's here!" Takato's happy cheerful laughter was followed by a coughing and a sneezing fit, "Ranma! Come over here!"
Leaving the Kenshin box after closing the lid, Ranma ran towards where he heard Takato's voice coming from. As he neared it, he saw Takato standing beside three other boxes.
"What's in those boxes over there Takato?"
"Digimon!"
"What?"
"Digimon! They're the Digimon Anime! Digimon Adventure, Digimon 02 and one more that I haven't heard of called Digimon Frontier… I bet its season 3! I'll have to see it later. But can you help me bring these up to my room? I really want to see them."
"All three? Come on Takato, how about we get them later with some help?"
"Come on Ranma! I really want to see them!" begged Takato.
Being the person he was, Ranma eventually gave in and helped Takato. But unlike what he use to be, he made Takato help him in return. First they would both carry a box up and for the return trip for the last box; Ranma would take the last Digimon box while Takato would take the box that Ranma had found.
As Ranma and Takato rounded the last corner that led to their rooms as per Axl's instructions, Takato was groaning and barely able to manage to pull the box around. Ranma was having a bit more luck but not by much, they were in little 8 year old bodies after all. Suddenly Takato tripped and fell backwards and was greeted by Yanoto's face smiling down at him.
"Hello Takato, Ranma, Axl. How are you all? Takato? Where's Midi?"
"Midi? Uhhhh… Whoops… I think I forgot to bring him with me so he's probably still in my room."
"Okay, can I borrow him for a while?"
"Sure, why?"
"Something that's far too technological for you to comprehend."
With that, Yanoto left for Takato's room and towards his lab where he always worked.
"Will you two move it? You're blocking the ."
"Huh?" Ranma looked behind him and saw a brown haired and tanned boy looking very annoyed. He was wearing casual red T-Shirt that had the words 'I'm a pyromaniac. If you see me running, try to catch up'. With brown, brown, slack shorts, and a spiky haircut, he was nearly unrecognizable. He was one of their classmates. He was older by one year and it seemed that he loved Net Battling. Ranma had seen his Net Battling skill and they were nothing to sneeze at. He was absolutely ruthless when it came to Net Battling.
"You that kid from our class, Niro wasn't it?" asked Takato.
"Damn straight. Now move."
Ranma made an effort to pull his box over to the side when suddenly he felt the box a go bit lighter. Ranma looked behind him and was surprised when he saw a blue haired girl helping him move the box over to the side. She too was also in his class. She always seemed to be quite the sweet girl, although she did have her boyish moments. She was wearing a yellow blouse and blue pants, presumably to be a bit rebellious as a small tomboy. However, she seemed to be wearing a seashell ornament in her hair.
"Hey there, if we let you do it by yourself, it would take too long, right 'Rai?" she said as a blond haired boy helped out Takato with his box. This boy had sandy hair and a graceful look to his features. If he was a lot younger, it wouldn't be surprising to see him being mistaken for a girl. He had a green dress shirt on, along with black jeans. On his wrist he wore a watch.
"Hurai, stop calling me 'Rai. Anyways, she right, you guys are gonna take too long so let's go. Where are your rooms?"
"Down the hall a bit." Said Takato gratefully.
"Ugh… Just hurry it up." Grunted Niro.
"Heh, come on Niro, they're just helping those two… Ranma and Takato was it?" with a confirmation from Ranma with a nod, he continued, "Like I said, Evani and Hurai are just helping them so that one, they're outta the way faster and two, they'll be done faster." Said another boy from behind Niro's bigger frame. He had black hair and he usually kept quiet in class. Ranma recalled his name was Tom. His name was a lot more normal then the other three. Tom had a slim frame, and seemed to be from this area. He looked like he had a weak composition, but Ranma could see in his eyes, a determination he would see in martial artists. He seemed to be quite the lover of black though.
All four of them were in the same class as Ranma and Takato. Ranma didn't know how the other three Net Battled but he suspected they were just as good as Niro in they're own way.
"All right then, let's go!" said Evani cheerfully.
The four carrying the boxes were soon done and Ranma and Takato stood in front the four that helped, complained or just said nothing.
"Thanks for helping out." Said Takato.
"Yea, thanks."
"No problem."
"Just don't try and move things too heavy for you."
"I won't hold back next time you get in my way."
"Dammit, calm down Niro."
"Right then, see you in class tomorrow." Said Ranma as the four left.
Ranma and Takato both went into their respective rooms but Takato came in through his closet and into Ranma's room to drag Ranma into his room to watch Digimon with him. Of course Ranma complained but was soon very interested in the various Digimon. Of course he didn't become another Digimon major fan, he just found it interesting. Interesting enough to watch because of the many battles. Ranma found himself trying to figure out if he could do the same moves on many occasions when he was training.
Eventually, Yanoto came back with Midi and chuckled when he saw them watching Digimon. When asked what they were doing, Yanoto said the same thing as before and Midi merely said,
"Nothing much."
Next Day in Class
As usual, the teacher was explaining some more things on Net Battling before having another practice Net Battle. Before everyone got up to pick their partners, the teacher suddenly stopped them saying that they had to pick a new and different partner. They had been having the same partner for over two months now and they would have to switch. They would be exchanging partners at the end of every month.
Ranma groaned, he didn't know if anyone would ask him and Takato was just too shy to ask someone else. But surprisingly to them, the four kids they met the previous day came up and Tom and Hurai asked Ranma and Takato to partner with them.
"I heard you were really good and Net Battled more differently than others. I want to see what they mean. Okay Ranma?" said Tom.
"Sure, let's do it."
"Plug In! Escuro. Exe! Transmission!"
"Plug In! Axl. Exe! Transmission!"
"Ready Takato?"
"As ready as I can be…"
"Plug In! Viento. Exe! Transmission!"
"Plug In! Midi. Exe! Transmission!"
"Come on Evani, this is probably not going to take very long so let's Net Battle. I don't want to waste any time."
"Okay."
"Plug In! Feuer. Exe! Transmission!"
"Plug In! Eau. Exe! Transmission!"
Ranma's Net Battle
"All right Axl, we don't know how Tom Battles with Escuro so keep on your toes."
Axl nodded.
Escuro wasn't a Standard Navi. He was stream lined and was dark with white parts on his hip, shoulder and on his helmet that covered most of his face except for his eyes and mouth.
"Let's do it Escuro."
A little horn sound started from inside the dome signifying the start of the match.
As quick as could be, Tom quickly slotted in an Area Steal chip making Escuro disappear from view. As Axl looked around, he didn't notice something sneak up from behind him which Ranma did see. Ranma quickly defended Axl with a Barrier chip just as a sword connected to Escuro's arm came crashing down.
"When the hell did you slot in a Sword?" asked Ranma.
"When you didn't see."
"Okay Axl, Battle Chip! Cannon! Slot In!"
A Cannon appeared beside Axl and started to shoot at Escuro. Just before the blast hit him though, he suddenly disappeared through the use of another Area Steal.
Not knowing where Escuro would appear this time, Axl instead decided to run all over the place so that he wouldn't be hit by another surprise attack. The Battle field after all was all flat.
Suddenly Escuro appeared in front of Axl with his sword chip still on. Ranma gave Axl a Sword chip to keep it equal.
"Okay Axl, go for it!"
The two Navis rushed at each other holding their swords at the ready. Just before they clashed though, Tom slotted in yet another Area Steal making Escuro disappear again. This time though, he reappeared right away from the left of Axl. Because Escuro was on his left and his sword was on his right arm, Axl and to make a turn but still try to block at an angle. Unfortunately, he was not fast enough and Escuro scored a hit on Axl's shoulder.
"Good for you Axl, most Navis would have lost from that manoeuvre. But you just barely managed to get out of it with only a shoulder wound."
Axl nodded his thanks at the praise and quickly settled into the battle again.
After a few moments of DBZ style of just standing in the middle of a fight, Escuro disappeared through another use of Area Steal and didn't appear again.
Ranma thought for a moment but then he gave Axl another chip.
Battle Chip! Boomerang! Slot In!"
A big light brown boomerang appeared on Axl's left arm connected to a dark brown mechanism that looked a lot like a cloths pin.
"Okay Axl, take a shot right in front of you, let's see how far it can go."
Not knowing what Ranma had planned but trusting him anyways, Axl shot the boomerang as far as it could go in front of him. Right after he shot it though, Escuro reappeared behind Axl with a sword silently running towards him. Just before he reached Axl though, Ranma shouted out a command.
"Axl! Drop and do a back leg sweep!"
"Back leg sweep?" asked Tom.
Axl immediately dropped and swept his left leg backwards which tripped up Escuro which he didn't know was there. Escuro was knocked off his feet and Axl took it from there realizing Ranma's plan. He then used his sword to slash upwards which left a mark on Escuro's chest and quickly followed with an uppercut. Escuro was now more damaged than Axl. Just as Escuro was coming back down, the boomerang that Axl had earlier shot came coming back to where it came from. But just as the Boomerang was to hit Escuro, Escuro did a midair flip and was now standing on the boomerang as it spun. Somehow, Escuro did not spin with it, but just stood straight up on it.
As the Boomerang turned once again to go back to it's owner, Tom gave Escuro another sword chip which he activated on his left arm. Escuro now wielded two swords, one as each hand. After receiving the second sword, Escuro held out his two swords and started spinning with the boomerang creating a dangerous whirl of blades.
Dodging the first pass by Escuro, Axl found himself on the ground and quickly got up. But was too slow and was cut on his leg and his chest. Suddenly he remembered that the Boomerang was his chip and deactivated it removing Escuro's transportation. Escuro stopped spinning just in time to catch himself from falling on the ground. As soon as he landed, yet another Area Steal was given to Escuro leading to his disappearance yet again.
"Dammit Tom, how many Area Steals do you have!"
"Ummm… A lot."
"Great… Just great…"
"Okay Axl, I got another idea. Take this, jump then shoot it at the ground to create a lot of smoke! Battle Chip! Shotgun! Slot In!"
Obeying Ranma's instructions, Axl received the Shotgun on his left arm keeping the sword chip activated and jumped up into the air as far as he could go. He then quickly used up the Shotgun by shooting the spread blast across the battle field producing lots of smoke and cracking the terrain in multiple places.
"Okay, now look around for the slightest movement. Use this. Battle Chip! Airshot! Slot In!"
Axl waited patiently for any movement, as soon as he saw it though, he used the Airshot to attack thinking it was Escuro. Unfortunately, he was wrong. It was merely a cracked piece of the terrain. Realizing he had been tricked, Axl quickly turned around to see Escuro grinning. Axl then lost when he was sliced by both of Escuro's swords.
"Axl! Damn… You did your best, I did too. But it seems that Tom and Escuro have a lot more experience than we do."
"Heh, nice of you to admit that Ranma. You did pretty good, considering you lasted this long. Another match next time?"
"You can count on it! Next time, Axl and I will win!"
Rewind, Takato's Battle
"Plug In! Viento. Exe! Transmission!"
"Plug In! Midi. Exe! Transmission!"
As Midi and Takato looked at the opposing Navi warily, unlike Midi, Viento was an Original Navi that was bright green with two rocket boosters on his back. He had white patches on his hip and shoulder and his helmet was had two pieces which slanted backwards. They were two small fin shaped pieces on each side of his head.
"Judging by those two fins on his head, his rocket boosters and his small frame, I'd say that he's going to be flying a lot Takato."
"I guess you're right."
"That's a smart Navi you got there Takato, even though he's not an Original Navi. Been tinkering with him?"
"No, he was like this when I got him."
"Well I guess you were lucky. Let's do it!"
The all familiar blaring horn sounded signalling the start of the match.
"Okay Viento. Take off!"
"Right."
With that, Viento shot up into the air which gave him a considerable advantage over Midi since he couldn't fly.
"Okay Midi, let's start this off with a Cannon! You know what to do! Battle Chip! Cannon! Slot In!"
Midi nodded as he accepted the extra program.
"Guns will never win against a well used sword! Viento! Battle Chip! Sword! Slot In!"
Viento also took an extra program as his right hand was replaced with a sword.
"Whoever said Midi was going to attack Viento?"
"What?"
As if answering that question, Midi started off by running towards Viento. When he got up to the desired speed, he aimed the cannon under his feet and shot the blast sending him up into the air.
"Okay, Battle Chip! Sword! Slot In!"
Meeting Viento up in the air, the two clashed sword to sword. Unfortunately, Midi was not Ranma and therefore, did not have the advantage in air. Eventually the pull of gravity took over and Midi was pulled back down but not without a goodbye Airshot blast from Viento. Midi crashed into the ground terribly hard sending lots of shards up into the air. As he saw the shards in the air, Midi quickly formed a plan.
"Takato! Send me a Shotgun Chip quickly!"
"Shotgun? Okay. Battle Chip! Shotgun! Slot In! What are you going to do?"
"You'll see."
Midi then raised his arm that had the Shotgun attached to it and aimed at Viento through the mass of shards falling down. He then unleashed the spread shot of the Shotgun. Each blast hit a shard and sent it up at Viento along with the blast making a Shard and Energy attack. Not having the time to receive a defence chip, Viento took the brunt of the attack and was scraped and blasted back by the attack.
"Not bad Takato. That Navi of yours is really smart using the shards to add more to the damage output of the Shotgun."
"Thanks, always knew he was smart. Right Midi?"
"Damn right."
"Enough talking! Let's go! Viento! Dive!"
"Midi! Watch it!"
"Right."
Responding to Hurai's command, Viento immediately turned around in mid air and dived right at Midi holding his sword at the ready.
"Midi! Jump to the left!"
Fortunately, as Viento passed around the first time, Midi was able to dodge thanks to the instructions of Takato.
"Thanks Takato."
"No problem, but here he comes again! Watch out! To the right!"
"That won't save you this time. Battle Chip! Sword! Slot In!"
Just before Midi was about to dodge, Viento formed his second sword on his other arm and held them out wide and sliced them together causing a pincer movement. But like all Navis, Viento made a mistake and attacked too quickly and only managed the hit the front of Midi.
"Viento missed that first time, he won't the second though!"
"He's going to miss."
"One more time Viento!"
"Stand your ground Midi!"
"What?! Are you crazy? Takato!"
"No, I'll give it to you soon."
"I don't know what you have planned, but it better work Takato."
"Just trust me."
Midi wondered how Viento would miss if he was just standing there. He didn't know what Takato's plan was but he didn't like it. Viento grew nearer and nearer.
"Now! Battle Chip! Cannon! Slot In!"
The cannon then appeared a bit distance away from Midi and shot at the ground in front of him causing a smoke screen effect and making a lot of the shrapnel to fly up.
"The same trick won't work again Takato."
"Who says it's the same trick?"
"Takato… What now?"
"Battle Chip! Sword! Slot In! Get him while he's disoriented!"
"So that was your plan huh?"
"Just go…"
Midi went through the smokescreen and saw Viento a bit in front of him still moving a bit funny from hitting a cloud of dust and shards and then hitting the ground hard. Midi made his way to slash at Viento and would have gotten a direct hit if Hurai hadn't helped out.
"Watch it Viento! Battle Chip! Barrier! Slot In!"
A barrier then appeared around Viento knocking anything else away. That was what Midi was. But he was able to get a hit in before he was pushed back. When the barrier disappeared, the dust had already settled and they had plain sight of each other.
When Hurai saw the damage on Viento's rockets, he sighed.
"Looks like we'll have to finish this on the ground. This will be the last attack!"
"Don't be too sure of it!"
"Battle Chip! Shotgun! Slot In!"
Battle Chip! Met Guard! Slot In!"
As Viento shot the spread shot at Midi, a Mettaur's construction helmet resized appeared in front of Midi making all of the shots bounce off.
"Not too wise Takato. Battle Chip! Area Steal! Slot In!"
"What? Why would you use Area Steal?"
"Watch and learn. Viento!"
In the middle of his shooting, Viento then disappeared from view and appeared behind Midi where the Met Guard did not protect. Suddenly, he continued his shooting and Midi was hit by many shots. Some direct and some bouncing off the inside of the Met Guard. Not being able to stand the pain he saw Midi in, Takato plugged out Midi.
"Seems you care a lot about Midi Takato."
"Yea… It's hard enough to make him battle like that."
"I know what you mean, when I was younger, I was too scared to battle. But Navis are supposed to battle. It's in their programming which is one of the saddest things about Navis. You did really well Takato. Want another Battle next time?"
"Sure. That's alright, right Midi?"
"I guess… But don't plug me out like that next time!"
"Fine…"
As soon as Takato finished his Net Battle, he went over to where Ranma was to watch the end of it. When they finished, Ranma walked over to where Takato was.
"Did you lose too Takato?"
"Yea, Hurai and Viento are really good!"
"Yea, I can say the same about Tom and Escuro."
"Hey, look at that, Niro and Evani still aren't done." Ranma then thought a bit and whispered to Takato, "Just between you and me, I think their names are kinda funny. Same thing goes for their Navis."
Takato laughed, "I know what you mean. It seems Tom has the only normal name."
Both boys then looked back towards the Net Battle taking place in front of them. Ranma, being his usual Martial Artist self watched as both Navis battled. Both were Original Navis. One was a big red Navi with a big right arm. He too had a white patch on his hip and shoulders. The other Navi seemed like his exact opposite. It was blue, small and slender which made it really fast. It also had a white patch on its hip and shoulder. What really surprised Ranma though was that the Navi was a female? He didn't know that they had already been created already; he would ask Yanoto the next chance he got.
The bigger Navi was probably Niro's, since it seemed to rely a lot on his strength. And obviously, the female Navi belonged to the female, so that one had to be Evani's. As the two battled, Ranma found out that Niro's Navi was named Feuer and Evani's Navi was named Eau. That made Ranma snicker a bit as he realized that all of their Navis had funny names just like they did themselves. But Ranma then realized that all of their Navis had pretty much the same design. A base colour and then a white patch on their hip and shoulder. What was up with that?
Soon enough, the Battle finished when Eau got through Feuer's attack a final time and got yet another hit in. Eau was simply too fast. When they finished up, they walked over to where their friends and Takato and Ranma were.
"I knew it, didn't take too long did it?"
"Actually Niro, my battle with Ranma just ended about two or three minutes ago." Replied Tom.
"Mine ended five." Added Hurai, "They're pretty good too. If they had more experience, they would certainly have beaten us."
"Hmph, I don't know how you two battled, but you'll always be beaten." Said Niro towards Takato and Ranma.
"Don't mind him guys, I'm sure you two battled really well." Said Evani.
With that, the class sat through a few more minutes of talk from the teacher and finally the class ended. Ranma and Takato went to their rooms, or rather, Takato dragged Ranma to watch Digimon with him, and the other four went off to do whatever they did. Ranma was very certain that he never wanted to go back now. This was the life for him. The only thing he did miss though was all of the fights. Net battling was close, but not close enough. Ranma sighed as he sat to watch Digimon with Takato.
Somewhere Else Which I Won't Reveal To You
"Pyro Sphere!" shouted Guilmon as he shot another fireball at the funny black and yellow balls. It seemed there was no one friendly around here other than the two companions he was now traveling with. He would much rather play with the funny balls but they kept hitting him with those little sticks. Either the funny animals attacked them, or some people yelling out 'Virus!' and then attacking him without warning. Why was everyone so mean?
"Mreow!" hissed one of Guilmon's companions as it swiped its way through a couple of the balls.
"Watch your back Guilmon! Hya!" shouted the second companion as it punched another that was about to attack Guilmon from behind.
"Rock Breaker!" shouted Guilmon as he hit the ground making a small earthquake shaking the ground in front of him.
Ever since he had begun traveling with these two, his strength had increased a lot. He had realized that even though this wasn't the Digital World, it seemed a lot like it. Once he was able to defeat the funny animals, he was able to load their Data. He didn't know what they were but it felt different from the Digimon back home. But Data was Data. It made him feel a bit stronger. He would much rather be fighting by Takato's side, but they still haven't found him or whatever the other two were looking for.
He was still black though, he had started to think of himself as Black Guilmon, since he was black. No matter though, he was still Guilmon, and he would find Takato.
"Pyro Sphere!"
KrayZi: Finally! End of chapter! God I'm tired now… I would have put a real battle between Feuer and Eau, but I was just too tired from writing Midi's and Axl's Battle. Sigh.
Kao: If you were wondering, Met Guard is Guard in the game, but Met Guard in the Anime, the original, not too sure about the dub.
KrayZi: Personally, I like Tom the best out of the four.
Kao: Are you still wondering where the hell Guilmon is? Well now you know. Guilmon will make a comeback. Just not yet.
KrayZi: Now onto the Replies to Reviews! Frankly, I'm disappointed in you. Only 7 reviews?
Kao: I'm sure this happens a lot to you authors. At first, your story gets a lot of hits. But when you start to go a certain way, people don't like it anymore since they expected it to be different. Am I right?
Krayzi: Don't you dare ask who the hell those four are! 'Cause I ain't telling! Now enough stalling! Let's go!
(Screw it, I'm not gonna write nor copy that stuff down again. Besides, there is no notes down there anymore.)
To: Max Knight
Review:
BWAHAHAHAHAAH I just got the Rockman.exe game and started playing it. I'm now fighting against that small Navi named Iceman. What a weirdo.
Anyway, I'm so glad you updated. There are some minor grammar mistakes here and there with a few missing words.Just minor but you can fix it though.
Good luck on everything and Keep up the good work.
Reply:
KrayZi: Ah yes, Iceman… They killed him in the dub. Making his voice like that. He sounds like an old man now.
Kao: He certainly is weird…
KrayZi: I think I'll fix those when I finish… This story. Then I'll go about making another story. Is this chapter good?
Kao: Thanks for reviewing.
To: Gopu
Review:
Great chapter. I'm looking forward to the reunion of Takato and Guillimon
Reply:
KrayZi: Keep reading and waiting. It'll probably take a few more chapters. I dunno.
Kao: Thanks for revewing.
To: Hiryo
Review:
As I saw the entries of Axl and Midi It's kind of funny that I had to think of AXeLFoley.midI ne? As for some review... I would like to read more of Ranma & Takato to interact more with their classmates & people around were they live! So they see more people and the reader get a feel for your fic! Anything else I can't complain!
Reply:
KrayZi: I would say 'Ah, yes.' But instead, I'll say this. What the hell does 'AXeLFoley.midImean? How's this for interacting? Huh? Good ain't it?
Kao: Don't you dare complain about us not understand what AXeLFoley.midImeans.
KrayZi: Thanks for reviewing.
To: needmore
Review:
the Gallantmon Crimson Mode comes at the end of the series, not a movie - Gallantmon gets the upgrad because the Ark sacrificed itself to give Gallantmon more power and the ability to fly - so it was during the D-Reaper final fight which ended with the immediate sealing of the two worlds (i think...haven't watched it in a LONG time)
okay...so u didn't kill him but where is Guilmon now? i don't seem to recognize the people he is with (OCs?)
anyway - nice chapter and interesting choices for Takato (wonder what will happen when Guilmon returns...do they merge?)
keep up the good work
Reply:
KrayZi: Yea, that's how it goes… I think… Don't dwell over it. Movies are pretty much just extras. Like say, take for example, the DBZ 'movies' and most other anime movies, they don't really take place anywhere. Their just extras. Just go along with it.
Kao: Of course he ain't dead! Guilmon's KZ's favourite Digimon.
KrayZi: Ain't telling… Ain't telling…
Kao: Ingenious isn't it. Can't tell… Can't tell…
Krayzi: Thanks for reviewing.
To: Firehedgehog
Review:
great chapter, keep going. and i wonder how bigeveryoens eyes will eb when they actually find out how old ranam is. but... nahh... keep it a secret. more fun that way, that will keep everyone curious and annoyed at teh same time. and out of curiousity, why teh hell is takato a kid?
Reply:
KrayZi: like saucers, the flying kind. Heh, no, no one's gonna find out. I think. It's kind of like Jeffrey 'Oneshot' Wong's fic, 'Just Won't Die'. He keeps his curse a secret since he's been cured. Hell, go read it if you haven't! Even if Ranma's cured, it's frickin good!
Kao: Takato? I think it happened when he was taken away from Guilmon. More on that in later chapters.
Krayzi: Thanks for reviewing.
To: Silverscale
Review:
Whoah what a chapter! You got to update.
here's a tips for you: Ranma makes a ki technique which he can use to transfer himself into the NET.
Wouldn't that be something?
Reply:
Krayzi: Just did.
Kao: As to the Ki technique, there was already someone who asked about that. If you want to see what I said, go back a few chapters or something. I don't remember where it is.
Krayzi: Thanks for reviewing.
To: ( ) or something like that.
Review:
The only train digimon that the Tamers encounter was a LOCOMON, not a Trailmon (which didn't exist at the time)in Runaway Express (the 6th movie)
Reply:
KrayZi: My god your right!
Kao: Well, it was only twice he made the mistake, in about the last chapter? Or the one before… I can't remember.
KrayZi: Thanks for noticing that. I don't want to fix it yet… Too tired and lazy…
Kao: Thanks for reviewing.
Thanks for reviewing everyone!