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Note: Man, can you believe this? Double digit numbers! Chapter 10! Isn't that great!?!? But I have noticed that I just so happened to only get 4 reviews for the last chapter… What's up with that?
Also, did you all read Midboss's story? If you haven't, I suggest you do. I already know that Silverscale, Rodaiogin and Master Chaos have read it since I can see their reviews. Thanks Firehedgehog, I heard it from her then I read it then I suggested that you all read it. Did you like it? Just keep reviewing my story too! 4 reviews… What are you people thinking?
Wild Horse. Exe
Chapter 10: Dimensional Feelings
"What I need your help for Ranma, is Cross Fusion."
"Cross Fusion? What's that?"
"It's a technology which allows a Net Navi to come to the real world through the body of his or her Operator."
"You mean the Navi would take over his Operator's body?!"
"No! I just mean, it's kind of like a fusion between the Navi and human."
"Fusion huh?"
Ranma wondered back, that last few weeks, he had been watching a lot of Anime when he wasn't practicing his Martial Arts, sadly doing homework, hanging around with his friends, or Net Battling. He remembered one of the times when he watched an Anime that had over powered people… The story seemed to just drag on too… What was it called? Sounded like Chocolate Barz… Or was it Digger shockz…. Dagger… Dragon… Dragonball! Dragon Ball Z! Super strong people, but a very boring plot…
He had tried to copy a lot of what he saw there, mainly trying to fly, but he could only hover a few inches off the ground. He didn't have enough control over his Ki at this stage. A lot of what he use to do with his Ki wasn't as precise. Axl had watched a couple with him and last time he had gone down to the storage to look for another; Axl had actually picked one out for him…
Anyways, he remembered in one of the episodes that they did some kind of Fusion… Maybe it was like that?
"Ranma? Are you there Ranma?"
"Huh, what? Oh… I guess I must have started day dreaming…"
"Yes you did, now I'll explain it a bit more clearly. Cross Fusion is when the Human and Navi fuse together in a certain place we call, Dimensional Area. When those two fuse there, the Human is in more control that the Navi. The Navi's abilities are added onto the Human. But the mind will still be separate. Or they should be, since it's still in experimentation. But I still want you to try, I'm sure you can stand it."
"Why didn't you pick Takato instead of me?"
"Well, I thought you could be more mature than he was about this and besides, you have great physical abilities and this process is very draining on the Human."
"Oh… So I do this with Axl?"
"Exactly. Will you do it?"
"Ummm… Axl, it sounds okay, but what do you think?" asked Ranma as he looked towards his Pet.
"Actually, it sounds pretty cool. I want to know what it feels like to be in your world too. I want to be actually able to feel, taste, smell, anything that you can do over there that I can't."
"Yea… Okay then, I'll do it."
"Alright! Come with me then!"
Yanoto quickly stood up and grabbed onto Ranma's hand and dragged him out of the room and down the stairs.
"This isn't exactly following!" complained Ranma.
"Don't worry, you'll be fine!" replied Yanoto not slowing down at all.
Soon enough, they were both downstairs and in the Lab itself. Many scientists were looking at him curiously, wondering what a kid was doing there. Ranma felt very uncomfortable under all their gazes. Especially a certain man who was dressed like any other scientist and had black hair. He also had an eye patch over his right eye. Too many machines were blocking the full view of him.
Yanoto led Ranma to the front of a table with a single case on it surrounded by many notes and papers. Yanoto sat down on the nearby chair while Ranma had to stay standing. Yanoto picked up the case and opened it. He then sighed and looked towards Ranma.
"You're sure you want to do this?"
Ranma nodded defiantly.
"Alright. Ranma, we have been able to condense the Cross Fusion data into a single battle chip shaped chip. You can use it like you use a normal battle chip but it only works in a Dimensional Area. Anywhere else and it would be just a pretty paper weight. We call this chip a Synchro Chip."
"Alright."
Yanoto handed the chip over to Ranma. Ranma took a closer look at it. It was the same colour as a normal battle chip. But it had a green crystal center which was surrounded by black lines. There was also the all familiar sign of the corporation. A red circle crossed by a diagonal black line and encased within a golden yellow outline.
"Cross Fusion eh? All in this small chip…" murmured Ranma.
"Yea, I for one don't understand how that small thing would be worth lots of time and money invested into." Said Axl.
"That's not the real thing! It's just all the Data we've collected crammed together!" said Yanoto rather angrily. Yanoto then took a deep breath to calm down, "Alright, Ranma, please follow me again."
"Alright." Both stood up and started walking again. It was towards a cube shaped machine with glass windows. Again, Ranma saw that the strange man was staring at him again. Ranma glared right back at him.
"Alright Ranma, put these on." Said Yanoto as he handed Ranma a couple of mechanical parts.
"Sir! What do you think you're doing getting a kid like that to do this!?!" shouted a man coming up rather angrily.
"Don't worry, Ranma can handle it." Replied Yanoto waving the other man off.
"Sire! Use some sense! There's no way a kid like that could handle this!"
"Yea, right, this kid is in way better shape then most of the adults that have tried to do this."
"There's no way a kid like that could do anything!"
After hearing all that, Ranma was shaking with anger.
"See? He's already afraid!" yelled the other man as he pointed to Ranma shaking mistaking the reason for it.
Yanoto sighed and turned to Ranma and said clearly for everyone to hear, "Ranma, just this once, I'll let you hit someone else other than your teachers."
Ranma looked up, grinned, and disappeared. Shocked, everyone looked around. Suddenly the small boy appeared again right in front of the man that had angered him. Ranma smiled brightly before his face twisted into an evil smile. Ranma then lashed out with one palm and slammed it into the stomach of the other man. The man's eyes went wide as he was hit by the young boy. He then flew backwards and slammed into the back wall.
"Is that enough?" said Ranma rather calmly before turning back towards the parts that Yanoto had handed him.
Everyone else stood there staring at him not even trying to hide it. Out of the corner of his eye, Ranma could see a few inching out the door and running away quickly as soon as they were out it. He could smell the faint smell of urine too… Ranma ignored them all and kept going about putting on the too big equipment the best he could. Yanoto smirked and opened the door that led into the clear chamber. Ranma picked up his Pet and took the Cross Fusion chip before walking in.
Suddenly the door opened and in walked a tired man.
"Yanoto! What are you doing!?"
Yanoto turned around and saw Yuuichirou.
"Hn? Yo Yuui! Ranma agreed to help us with this experiment!"
"Ranma? There's no way a kid like him… Actually…" Yuuichirou's concerned look changed into one more thoughtful "Nevermind…" he said as if remembering something, "He'll be able to handle it."
Ranma looked questionably at him. As with many other scientists who believed that he would put a stop to the experimentation on a child.
"Don't worry about it Ranma. Just concentrate on this." Said Yanoto.
Ranma nodded and walked into the chamber and stood in the center. Waiting for whatever he was suppose to do.
"Alright Ranma, I'm turning on the Dimensional Area now. Tell us if you feel anything unusual."
"Okay." Replied Ranma. He looked towards Axl inside his Pet, "Excited?"
Axl nodded enthusiastic, "I'm really excited!"
Suddenly the glass cube started to glow a mix of many colours. Eventually, the glow stopped and became multiple pentagonal shaped panels around the inside of the glass. Ranma looked around in confusion. What was this stuff?
Another Part of the Building
Takato gasped. He quickly got up from his seat on the floor in front of the TV and pulled his Digivice from under his shirt and looked at it with his eyes wide. His Digivice was beeping. It was detecting Guilmon. Surprisingly, he wasn't all that far. Takato quickly brought his Digivice out from around his neck and held it in his hands. Quickly putting on his Pet with Midi, Takato ran out of the room following the beeping red dot.
As he ran, there was only one thing on his mind. Guilmon. He would save Guilmon.
Somewhere Else
In the midst of smashing his claws through another mysterious digital animal, Black Guilmon paused. This feeling, he had been waiting for it. Takato. Just as he was about to head towards it, the small thing jumped above him, turn into a large statue and smash down on top of him. Forgetting about the feeling for a moment as his eyes turned feral, Black Guilmon growled as he got his jaws free. Its arms weren't too far away, if he could grab onto them, he could…
Suddenly, the statue disappeared and reappeared in front of him as a floating white animal. Grinning toothily, Black Guilmon roared as he leapt forward much like any other raptor would. Using his feet to keep the thing to the ground, Black Guilmon bit into its head, feeling a short resistance before it gave in and disappeared into data. Data which Black Guilmon could absorb.
With that distraction gone, he could concentrate on Takato. He felt Takato. Takato was there. Looking for him. He must find him. Black Guilmon started running towards the feeling. As he ran, he felt surer of finding Takato. He would find Takato, and they would be happy together again. As these thoughts came to him, his eyes slowly calmed down from his feral look.
Not that far from where Black Guilmon had felt the feeling, another two had also felt it. The exact same two who were traveling with Black Guilmon.
"You feel that?" asked the Cat.
"Yea, I'm positive it's him."
"Do you think he'll let us come back?"
"Probably not… He hates us remember? But… Anything's better than staying here… After being alive and all… This place feels like hell… No real feeling of anything…" mumbled the girl.
"Stop it… I don't want to remember that right now…"
The girl sighed, "Sorry about that, let's go. Maybe we can reach him. Hopefully, he'll accept us again… After what happened…"
Both the girl and cat turned and ran off towards where they felt him. They needed to get back to him. Any longer in here… and they might loose themselves…
Finally Back to Ranma
"Ranma, you okay? The dimensional area has been activated."
"This is a dimensional area?"
"Yes…"
"But I thought… It would be more… You know… Bigger…"
"That's why it's in a testing stage Ranma…" sighed Yanoto, "Alright, now start the Cross Fusion."
"Ummm… Alright… Ready Axl?"
"Yea, let's do it."
Ranma held the Synchro Chip at the ready. He realized that he had been sweating a bit in his nervousness.
"Alright. Cross Fusion!" Ranma yelled as he pushed in the chip.
He then felt something he had never experience before. Something was being brought out of him and being used for something. Suddenly, he could feel Axl. Really feel him. He suddenly knew what Axl was thinking. His feelings. His actions. Everything about Axl. He then felt something soft cover his feet. Looking down, he saw dark blue boots appear on his feet with a red stripe running straight down them. His eyes widened. Those were Axl's!
He then felt something appear on his hands. Knowing what it was but looking anyways, he saw bits and pieces of white Data float around his hand to appear there and create gloves. Right after the gloves fully materialized, more pieces of Data, this time dark blue with a few pieces of red floated around his forearm and materialized there to create some of Axl's armor. Next, on his shoulders appeared more pieces of Data. They were the same as before, dark blue with a bit of red. The floated around his shoulders and materialized into Axl's shoulder guards.
Again, he felt something attaching to his back. Looking behind him, he saw Axl's small white jetpack appear. When it fully attached to him, it suddenly out of the bottom of the jetpack shot out two long pieces that would have clearly been shown as long as him from his back to his knees, if it weren't for the fact that they went very wide outwards.
Then, from the bottom of each of the things that had appeared flooded out a bright white light. It completely covered his body except for his head. When the light disappeared, he saw he was wearing Axl's armor. The crystal in the center of his chest seemed to be dull with no power.
He then felt his hair being pulled up at the back. He felt a round helmet surround his head leaving an opening at the back for his pigtail and some strands of hair that stuck out a lot like how Axl's stuck out, only his hair curved back a bit. Two white pieces then appeared on either side of his head and attached to the side of his helmet. The two white pieces then had a red line running down them. The helmet that was on Ranma's head flashed and a seemingly dead crystal appeared in the socket in the front of the helmet. The whole front of his helmet then became red with a thick line running from front to back.
Then from the bottom of the white pieces of his helmet appeared two small yellow pieces. One on each side. All in all, he now looked like Axl, only with different hair and body shape, and the crystal. Suddenly, the blue crystals flashed. Alternating until they were quickly flickering back and forth so fast you couldn't tell that they were ever going off. Then they finally flashed a final time and stayed brightly shining.
All of his armor and body then seemed to have some kind of Data come out of it. It then shattered and fell apart, as if Ranma was shedding some skin like a snake. When the Data disappeared, The Dark blue was now jet black while the red stayed the same. One or two lines had appeared on each of his limbs and his white wings and jetpack had turned to golden yellow like every other yellow part was. His black hair was now curved slightly back with his pigtail just a bit longer too. Thankfully, his eyes were still the same blue color.
Finally, he realized the transformation was finished. He looked over himself in amazement. He looked almost exactly like Axl other than the darker tone colour. Ranma held his hands up to his face. After a few moments of staring at them, he wondered out loud.
"Axl?"
"Ranma?"
"Axl! Where are you?"
"I think… I'm in your head… I can see what your seeing, but we're not really one person. It's amazing… I never would have thought I would experience this…"
"I'm glad you enjoy it."
"Well… This is interesting… I think you're in control. But I can still think and everything. I can mentally help you, but not physically. You have to do everything that is physical yourself, even though you have my abilities and strength and such."
"No problem."
Ranma smiled. Axl was happy; he looked around the place letting Axl see everything in the Lab. As he looked around, he could see many scientists murmuring in excitement. Many were quickly taking down notes. They were all recording the Data that they were reading off of Ranma's Cross Fusion with Axl. Ranma could feel himself get weaker. Very quickly. He couldn't hold this form for much longer. It was getting very tiring. He slumped down to his knees, starting to breathe hard.
Axl snapped out of his excitement and looked felt Ranma's tiredness, "Ranma, you okay?"
"Fine…"
Axl mentally frowned, Ranma was lying again…
Ranma gritted his teeth. He would hold on for just a few more moments… for Axl's sake… Axl had been his first real friend in a long time. Ukyo could have been… But she… No, he wouldn't think about that. Ranma mentally screamed in pain. He couldn't handle it anymore… Ranma let unconsciousness claim him as he fell forward as everything went black for him, yet bright white to others.
Takato
Guilmon… He was almost there… Guilmon… Takato ran as fast as he could through the hallways of the building, not even stopping to say 'sorry' to those he crashed into. Guilmon was the only thing on his mind… And Guilmon was right behind the door he was now standing in front of. Takato looked down at his Digivice just to double check. There was no way he was wrong, the signal was coming from behind this door marked 'Lab'. Takato was about to push the table open when Midi interrupted.
"Takato, what are you doing!"
"Guilmon… Guilmon is here…"
"Guilmon? What? Why?"
"I don't know, but Guilmon's in there and I'm going to him!"
Without another word, Takato entered the room and saw everything at once. Many scientists working at machines, a cubed machine from the middle of the room and a white light that looked exactly like when a Digimon digivolved would look like and his Digivice was indicating that Guilmon was in front of him, right where the cubed machine was. After seeing it all, he came to one conclusion. They were experimenting on Guilmon!
"No! Guilmon! Let him go!"
Takato ran forward towards the machine where Guilmon was. As he ran, adults began wondering what was happening. Soon, some started running after him. Because the adults were stronger and faster than Takato, they were able to catch him and hold him back.
"No! Let me go! I won't let you hurt Guilmon!"
"Takato?"
Takato turned towards the voice and saw Yanoto.
"Takato, what are you doing here?"
"Stop experimenting on Guilmon! I won't let you!" Takato struggled in the adult's grip.
The white light then died down and it was gone. Takato looked at what they had done to Guilmon and was surprised at what he saw. It wasn't Guilmon… Not Guilmon… Then… Why? The only thing there was the body of a small boy and a Pet on the floor. A boy with a pigtail… Ranma! What was Ranma doing there!? What happened to Guilmon? Takato saw the unusual plates start to fade. Along with those plates, the signal from Guilmon also started to fade. What was happening here?
Ranma lay down on the cold floor of the machine tiredly while looking at Axl from the Pet next to him.
"Sorry Axl… I couldn't hold out any longer… sorry…"
"It's alright Ranma… But are you okay?"
"…"
"Ranma?"
"…"
"Ranma!"
Ranma laid there… Everyone started gathering around him to see if he was okay. Then…
"ZzzZzz…"
Ranma was sleeping…
Takato slumped down to the floor. He was so sure that it was Guilmon… So what had happened that would make his Digivice activate? Yanoto then went over to pick up Ranma and his Pet and told Takato to follow him. When Takato just sat there staring, Yanoto gave a sigh of annoyance before picking up Takato too.
Elsewhere
Black Guilmon stopped in his tracks and turned his head from side to side in confusion. Where did Takato go? He was so close! It wasn't fair! Black Guilmon then went angry. He started slamming his claws into the ground faster and faster not realizing what he was doing. Blow after blow, his claws smashed into the ground creating hole after hole making a deep crater. He then heard a voice which snapped him out of his demeanor.
"Guilmon? What are you doing?"
Hearing his original name made him loose his anger. Looking up at the voice, he saw his friend. He then realized what he had been doing. How did he loose control like that? It had never happened before… Except that one time… He didn't even remember that time what had happened. But he was with Takato at that time. Right now, he was by himself… How had this happened?
Black Guilmon trudged slowly out of the crater and towards his friend.
"What's wrong Guilmon?"
Again, when he heard his true name, Black Guilmon perked up again.
"What's wrong?"
"Takatomon…" he said quietly.
"What?" she asked.
"He said 'Takatomon'." Answered the cat.
"Takatomon… Takato leave Guilmon again…"
"Leave you? Why would he do that?"
"Guilmon can't feel Takato again."
"Again?" the girl asked.
"When Guilmon with Takatomon, Guilmon feel Takatomon. When Guilmon come here, Guilmon no feel Takatomon. Guilmon then feel Takatomon again. But now Guilmon don't feel Takatomon again…"
"I'm sure he's looking for you Guilmon… Maybe he just can't get to you?" said the girl trying to cheer Guilmon up.
"Takato…" said Black Guilmon sadly again.
The girl looked at the cat, "Do you think…"
"Maybe… He's the type of person to help others even if it doesn't benefit him… If it doesn't involve something he doesn't like I mean."
"Yea…" he girl trailed off as she thought of him.
"People are starting to wonder what happened, we have to get out of here now." Said the Cat interrupting both the girl's and Black Guilmon's thoughts.
"Alright," the girl nodded, "Guilmon, we have to go now!"
Black Guilmon nodded sadly and got up.
"Let's go!" shouted the girl as she started to run off.
Back to the Building
Takato gazed longingly at his Digivice and sighed yet again.
"Takato." Said Midi.
Midi was met with another sigh.
"Takato…"
Another sigh.
"Ta-Ka-To!" shouted Midi.
Startled, Takato fell backwards in confusion. Takato rubbed his head where it had hit the floor. He looked down at Midi angrily.
"What did you do that for?"
"You wouldn't snap out of it. Is Guilmon that important?"
"Of course he is!"
"But you can't find him."
"Exactly. But for a moment… I could detect him on my Digivice… "
"Don't worry Takato, you'll find him someday."
"Yea… but when is someday?" asked Takato.
Midi looked downwards depressed. Takato was always hung up about Guilmon… Why couldn't he just be patient and wait until Guilmon showed up. Until then, wasn't he enough? It wasn't fair… He was a Navi, but he had feelings too. Just who exactly was Guilmon anyways? Maybe he would meet him one day. Maybe…
Midi's eyes went wide as he clutched his chest. No… What was that idiot thinking…? What was he doing? That idiot… Techno… He clutched at his chest again. It was burning him from the inside. Techno!
Takato looked confusedly at Midi. He then pulled up Midi's status file. His eyes went wide as he saw Midi's status. His damage counter was going up incredibly fast while his health meter went down outrageously quickly. What was going on? Quickly, Takato picked up his Pet and ran out the door to look for Yanoto. Yanoto had dropped him off in his room and went on to carry Ranma to the Med Center.
As Ranma stayed in the Med Center, Axl had been told by Yanoto and X to go off and do something useful and not sit around moping around for Ranma. And so he did. Axl was walking around one of Zensan City's Nets. Axl grumbled as he walked down the many pathways. Why the hell were there stupid pathways with no walls and almost like a maze? Wait… No walls… Axl hit himself in the head as he realized he should have remembered this earlier. He turned towards where his destination was and started jumping across the pathways.
As soon as he reached there and stepped through the portal, he found himself in the midst of a bunch of Viruses. He looked at them and realized in horror that he was in the middle of a bunch of Bunny viruses. He remembered last time what had happened. He felt a blow come from behind stunning him. It was happening again. Axl gritted his teeth as he stood up again and felt another blow. This would take a while…
Only one more left. It seems that it had gotten tired too from all those attacks. He was also a bit drained from using his gun so much, but he would survive. This virus would not get away after causing him so much trouble. He dashed quickly up to the virus and grabbed it and held it up by the ears. Axl sneered as he held the gun up to the virus's face.
"This is your fault you know? If you hadn't been here at all, I wouldn't have had to delete you all." With that, Axl pulled the trigger to delete yet another Bunny Virus. Unfortunately, his gun didn't shoot. Axl tried again, but nothing happened again. He then realized that he, the gun and the Bunny were glowing. The Bunny seemed to be loosing the glow while his gun and himself… Started to get brighter? Not by much… but if he didn't concentrate on it, he wouldn't have even realized it. The glow started to dim down when the Bunny virus barely had any glow left.
The glow then subsided. He let go of the Virus in surprise. Upon falling, the Virus started to go through the same motion of attacking... rearing back first, the throwing itself forward a little bit to release the electrical blast. Axl stared at it. It had done the same motions… But nothing had happened. It wasn't attacking him… Axl looked at his gun and realized in surprise that the vial had something in it now. A small yellowish liquid. He shook his gun to see the liquid shake too.
Shrugging and thinking it was nothing, Axl aimed at the Bunny to delete it for sure this time. When he pulled the trigger, the usual blast did not come out… Instead, an unusual shape blast came out and it had… electricity crackling around it? He saw the blast hit the Bunny and he saw it freeze in motion. No way… that was the Bunny Virus' attack. The stun blast… It was the Bunny's attack. So why had he been able to use it? Did he… Steal it? The Bunny wasn't able to attack him. He then remembered the glow. The Bunny's glow had almost disappeared while his had grown very little… Did he… take something from the Bunny? How was that possible? This was getting too much for him.
Axl did his best to forget about it and continue on jumping across the pathways which made many other Navis stare at him then hit their heads in annoyance, why didn't they think of that earlier? A few tried to copy Axl's motions. When they tried jumping across, the ended up missing the platform and falling very far down and injuring themselves and being forced to Plug Out. When a few other Navis saw this happen, they got smart and continued walking. Axl smirked as he saw this. It seemed no one here had any real creativity like Ranma did.
Axl looked around; he had ended up in a small town square. All the Town Squares in the Net were so… Boring… The only one that remotely held any interest was the Net city and that was still unfinished. The shops didn't have much here either. Only five or six chips of variety in the shop in each Square. They didn't have any firewalls up to protect their stock either. Axl jumped and then walked behind one of the shops completely unnoticed. He rolled his eyes in annoyance. What kind of Navi wouldn't have noticed someone walk right behind them? He could have stolen something and they probably wouldn't have noticed. They just kept standing there… Staring forward…
Axl continued thinking. He thought back to when he had experienced the Real World. The sensations there were so much different. He now felt so… Deprived. Life here felt so empty now. He couldn't help but want to feel it again… Those sensations… He would ask if he could try it again first thing when he got back. Axl then stopped himself in horror. What was he thinking? Ranma was barely able to handle it that time. And all he could think about was trying it again? What was wrong with him? He was like… like… Axl searched through his Databanks for the right word… Like an addict on drugs! He shook his head to try and get rid of all these thoughts. He would tell Yanoto as soon as he got back.
Axl continued wandering and thinking about anything. He went out of the Square and stared jumping across the walkways. In one of his jumps in midair, he saw something unusual in the distance… Just another Navi. But unusual… The Navi was female, wasn't wearing any armor that Navis had. Because she didn't wear a helmet, he could see some red, but he couldn't tell what it was because she was wearing a cloak. Maybe hair? She was with odd company. Two weird animals, seemingly a cat and a dinosaur. In fact, they looked much like viruses. She didn't seem to be fighting them either, and they didn't seem to attack her. They seemed to just be standing out there. His eyes widened when he saw what was on the dinosaur's chest. Was it? Axl fell back down as gravity took over. He quickly jumped high again to get another look, but they were gone. But that couldn't have been… It couldn't have been the Hazard… The one that Takato was always talking about. He shook his head again, so many unusual things were happening.
Axl continued on, he had remembered Takato's pictures and descriptions of Guilmon, and Guilmon was a dinosaur looking thing. Would he be, mistaken for a virus then? This was getting on his nerves. Why was he thinking so much? Suddenly he crashed into something in midair and fell forward onto the catwalks. Looking up, he saw it wasn't something, but someone. A kind of bird, mostly purple and black.
Axl rubbed his head and grimaced at the feeling, "Ow… Who the hell are you?"
The bird rubbed his chest where Axl's head hit and looked downwards, "It's not nice to attack people when their in a hurry."
"Well sorry, but who was it that was flying around now?"
"Hmmm, I don't know, who was it that was jumping up high? Why the hell are you jumping around anyways?"
"It's easier to get around. It feels nicer up there too."
"Ah, someone who feels the same way I do."
Axl got up from the ground and stood up, "My name's Axl, what's yours?"
"Wind Crowrang. Say… You wouldn't happen to know Red would you?"
"Red? You know him?"
Wing Crowrang fluttered down and hovered in front of Axl, "I'm part of Red Alert too."
"Really? How many people are in Red Alert? So far I only knew about two and now three." Axl scratched his head.
"Not very many, we're a secluded group. Doing jobs here and there. Ah yes, Red had asked us all that if we see you, we would ask you if you had decided whether you would like to join Red Alert or not." Stated Crow.
"Join… Red Alert… I'm still not sure, but it's more likely that I'll join than not. I might… If I something happens…" said Axl hesitantly.
"Right… So you want us to do something about that Operator of yours…" murmured Crowrang.
"No! That's not what I mean! I meant if something happens to us, I might join." Quickly shouted Axl.
"Oh, pity, I heard from Red that you had pretty good reflexes."
"Well, we all have our own things to deal with."
Wind Crowrang nodded and said, "Yes, I understand what you mean. People are continually always looking at me and saying, 'What a weirdo, can't he just walk down here with the rest of us?' and such."
"Well, I kinda envy you; I wish I could fly any time I wanted too." Replied Axl.
"First time I've ever heard that. Maybe we'll see each other again; maybe we can have a small battle too. See if Red's really right about you."
Axl nodded, "I'm curious about how good Red Alert is too."
"Well, I have to go, bye now." With that, Wind Crowrang flew off into the distance.
Axl watched him fly for a few moments before continuing on. He the stopped in the middle of a jump and thought a moment. Why didn't he just log out instead of jumping the whole way back then going through all those connections? Well, a lot of things had happened so far that was interesting, might as well continue on and see if anything else happens. Axl continued jumping.
Before he got back to the computer, he made another stop at a certain secluded place. Again, there was the Virus enclosed inside its container. Axl walked up to it, what kept bringing him here? He stopped and looked closely. His eyes widened in horror. Someone had taken part of the Virus out. No… who was it? Axl scanned the surroundings. He detected a trail that led off into a hole in the Net. It was closed maybe only an hour earlier. He scanned the trail over again. It looked familiar. The trail was like… Midi? But Midi had been with Takato the whole time. So who was it?
Axl then remembered back. The day Takato had received his Navi Midi. When Ranma walked in with Takato, he remembered hearing Yanoto mumble about something…
"Goddamn programmers… Ask for one and you get two… Waste of materials… Now the one Navi's abilities are split into two… Damn them…"
He also remembered that there were two Navis that looked the same. One was Midi, and the other was…
Flashback
As the other Navi appeared, they saw that it was purple with white highlights. He too had a crystal on his chest and on his head but his face was almost stuck in an evil sort of grin.
"I don't know who the hell you people are but I know for sure that my name's Techno. Hell, you better hope that none of you will be my Operator; you all are way too wimpy. There's no way in hell that I'll listen to any of you. Heh, I bet that you can't even lift a rock and throw it over a house! You guys all suck."
"On second thought, I think I'll stay with Midi
"Okay, I think it would be better too."
Yanoto then proceeded to turn Techno off.
"What the hell do you think you're doing? Screw off dude; don't get your greasy hands all over this Pet, because this is MY property! Hey! Damn… I'll get you for this…"
End Flashback
Techno. That was his name. The programmers had created two Navis from one Data. So Midi and Techno were like two sides of one coin. So… What would happen to Midi? Another thing he had to check up on. Why did he have to keep going around the place? Axl took the quickest way back by plugging himself out.
Axl got back to his Pet and saw that he wasn't connected to the computer anymore but in a plug import inside the inside park. His Pet was currently resting on a bench and he saw Ranma doing a couple of katas. Axl smiled as he saw Ranma go through the motions. Maybe he would learn how to fight like that someday. But he quickly brushed that off and yelled at Ranma to get over here.
Axl quickly explained everything that he could tell him, about how something might be wrong with Midi and about how he needed to report to Yanoto about the Cross Fusion experiment. Ranma groaned at this. More running and helping out. There was a limit to how much he could take. How much more helping did he have to do? It was like he was an errand boy. Too many things to list that he had done. Heck he had even helped someone find all their chickens. Chickens! Why would there be chickens in this goddamn building?! Then there was those goddamn bugs! Who cares if someone lost their bugs in here? He could just find them all again! Then that lost puppy, there were so many in that pack, why couldn't the people who asked him to help actually come with him to help out and identify their dog and not just stand at home waiting for him to do everything?
Ranma sighed, "Alright, let's go Axl. To Yanoto first?"
"Right. Oh yea, another thing."
"What now?"
"Well," Axl explained about this new ability of his.
At this news, Ranma perked up a bit, "Well at least there'll be something interesting to do when we finish. Let's go, the sooner we finish, the sooner we can work on that."
Author's Note
KrayZi: Done! Done this! Not much in this too… Kinda like another filler. Well, there was that Cross Fusion part and some more stuff about those two with Guilmon… But most of this chapter was pretty much another filler… Sigh… This sucks, it's gonna take a while before I actually get to the actual Exe timeline… Gotta go through all the introductions… Battles… Explanations… Ugh…
Kao: Well, it's this is marked the 11 chapter in that thingy up there and at the bottom but it's actually the 10th chapter. I really don't like the numbering on those…
KrayZi: Me too. You know, when I first went through this story, I accidentally wrote 'Rabite Virus' instead of 'Bunny Virus'.
Kao: Yea, KZ's an idiot isn't he? Always makes with the mistakes.
KrayZi: Shut up! And what have YOU been doing huh?
Kao: Stuff, I've been trying fix some stuff of those plot ideas.
KrayZi: Fix? What do you mean 'Fix'?
Kao: Well, some of your ideas sucks. No Romance? At least put in some crushes and stuff or maybe even 'like's.
KrayZi: Who said I'm not putting those in? Just no Romances.
Kao: Bleh.
KrayZi: Shut up. Oh yea, I got this neat poster from fatboy too! It says, 'Keep reviewing fellow KrayZi fans! Remember it makes KrayZi happy and keeps us all stocked with Wild Horse. Exe Chapters!'
Kao tries to write over it: Oh does it now?
KrayZi grins: Yup, I put unwritable plastic over it, that way; you can't change and screw it up again.
Kao: Damn!
KrayZi: Also, there might be some sort of Side Story upon what happens with Ranma during the time period after I finish this part of Wild Horse and the actual Exe timeline. Do you people want me to make it in a different story, or do you want me to put it here every once in a while? I'll say this again at the bottom.
Kao: Onto reviews!
Note: Four reviews… What is wrong with you all! And you people that have me on Author Alert! Review dammit!
To: Rodaiogin
Krayzi: Is this fusion not good enough? Damn… Well about the curse… Well… That's a secret!
Kao: Wait, hasn't there already been a battle which involved the Bunny Viruses with actual detail?
Krayzi: Yup, it's back in chapter 8, my chapter 8, not the Fanfiction numbered 8. 'Virus Breakout in the Maze' or something like that.
Kao: What were Flappies again?
Krayzi: Were they those ghosts looking thingies?
Kao: Well thanks for reviewing.
To: Firehedgehog
Krayzi: Guilmon? I'm still thinking about what I should call him. I'll probably be calling him Black Guilmon in Narration but Guilmon when someone's speaking. Do you actually think anyone would go through the trouble of saying Black Guilmon when he doesn't even really like the name in the first place?
Kao: Cross Fusion, sadly it's been licensed by the same people, I think. I hope they don't destroy it again, but they probably will… sigh…
Krayzi: Thanks for reviewing.
To: fatboy
Krayzi: Yea, I knew that and well, Yanoto gave the key to a unused storage… You would think that Yanoto would look through that place first… Don't you?
Kao: Well, I think we already explained why the boys didn't find their respective animes earlier…
Krayzi: Yea! This is one of your favourite fics? I really still can't believe I'm actually writing this either. I didn't think I ever would. Actually, I got this idea a year before I actually started writing. I just didn't really write. Well, I did write the prologue, chapter 1 and 2, but I rewrote the prologue because the first one pretty much sucked. I might put it up after this fic is done. Thanks for the Poster too, like what I did with it?
Kao: Goddammit… well, thanks for reviewing.
To: needmore
Krayzi: Ahem… Well, that'll be a secret won't it? But just to tell you, your right about that, that's actually a main part of the story… well part of it anyways.
Kao: No! It's not too early!
Krayzi: It's actually because of a secret reason that I have to hide from you all until we actually get to that part where it explains what happened.
Kao: So until then, no leaks!
Krayzi: Really, I thank you for reviewing every single one of my chapters. It's great to know that there's someone who has been reading your fic from the very start. So I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Well, it's done now. Done, done, done. Also, another thing I want you people to know about and to tell me your opinion about.
Note: There might be some sort of Side Story upon what happens with Ranma during the time period after I finish this part of Wild Horse and the actual Exe timeline. Do you people want me to make it in a different story as in a different title, or do you want me to put it here in Wild Horse. Exe every once in a while? Comments please!
That's about it… Well, I need sleep. Been watching a lot of anime lately… Playing a lot of games too… sigh… Finally got to watch 'Spirited Away' and 'Princess Mononoke' too. How old is that movie? Anyways, after all this time, I would have to say that my favourite out of that guy's movies, dunno what his name is, but my favourite one would have to be 'Laputa: Castle in the Sky'. So glad they put the Japanese version with subs on it too… Now if only they would put some of the swear words in the subbing part too… I heard a couple of swears but they never really put it in the subs except once in Mononoke. Damn… This whole thing was 136 kb… close to highest which is 139 kb mark…
Review! Review this time! I want more than 10 reviews this time because I only got 4 reviews for the last chapter! Well, not really, but it wouldn't be that hard for you guys… I mean, a while ago, I got more than 10 for one chapter… Man… Keep reviewing people. It makes all of us Authors happy.