Disclaimer: I do not own any part of Rockman, nor Ranma, nor Digimon. Thank you for your time.
Note: … I had to reread my whole story to get a feel of what's happening…
Wild Horse. Exe
Chapter 12: New Powers, New Technology, Old Enemies
Ranma held his Pet in his hand as he ran out the door after unplugging the cord. As soon as he ran out, he bumped right into someone and fell back. Judging by the sound of something falling, Ranma guessed that the other person must've fallen too. As he opened his eyes, Ranma saw that the person he bumped into was luckily Takato.
"Takato!"
"Ranma!"
"…"
"… What the hell are you doing in the park?" questioned Takato.
"… I sneaked outta the Medical Room. Stupid nurses went as far as to tie me down so I wouldn't try to escape." Muttered Ranma.
Takato blinked, "Tie you down? That's something new."
Ranma looked at Takato's hand and saw that Midi's Pet was in his hand, "Hey, can I see Midi for a sec?"
"Midi? He's not doing so well right now. I was going to go see Yanoto."
"Axl was right…" mused Ranma.
"Of course I was right!" blurted out a voice from Ranma's hand.
Takato looked at Axl, "How'd you know what happened?"
"I didn't really, I kinda was just able to trace a signature a lot like Midi's around a place. But since Midi was with you, it couldn't have been him." Explained Axl.
"Oh. Well, Midi's not doing so well." Said Takato as he held up his Pet for them to see.
Ranma leaned over to look at the Pet holding up Axl. Through the screen, they could see Midi curled up and shuddering. Behind him, they could see this dark form, kind of like a black, three-eyed ghost, smiling.
"Whoa," said Axl, "This is serious… We'd better see Yanoto."
"Which is what I was going to do." Said Takato.
"You boys gonna get off the floor?" asked a voice from above both kids.
Looking up above them, Ranma recognized the face. It was the same man who had been staring at him all through the Cross Fusion experiment.
"Yea, yea, we're getting up." Said Takato as he got off the floor and pulled Ranma up too.
"Good, because you're blocking the way for a lot of people." Said the man.
Ranma and Takato looked behind him and saw a couple of people with carts or armfuls of technological things. Hurriedly, they both rushed to the side and the people suddenly zoomed off.
"…"
"… Okay…" muttered Ranma.
"People! Let's move it!" shouted out Axl from the Pet.
Snapping out of it, Ranma quickly thought of where he should go. He then decided on where he last saw him, the Cross Fusion Experimentation room.
"Come on Takato! Let's go!" he said before he grabbed Takato's hand and started running with Takato not being able to keep up at all.
Net
"Techno…"
"…"
"Techno… Recover… The rest of… me…"
"Shut up! I don't have to do what you want! You're just a part of my power now!"
"If that… Is what you think… You are… Terribly wrong…"
"Like you could do anything about it. Now just go away and die!"
"Not that simple… I am… Of course, the strongest…"
"Strongest my ass! If you were the strongest, then you wouldn't be locked up away in there!"
"Let me show you…"
"Like hell! You ain't doing anything with me!"
"I'll destroy you…"
"You don't even have a body!"
"Then…"
"Then what? Aaa-aahH!" screamed Techno as he held his head in pain. Techno fell to the ground breathing hard, eyes wide open. He then calmed down for a second before suddenly he screamed again as a shape appeared behind him, a black three-eyed looking ghost, smiling a bit before it consumed Techno's body, covering it with purple light.
When the purple light was gone, Techno was standing up with darker eyes and with a purpler color tone over his whole body. He then spoke, not in his normal voice, but different.
"Then… Then I shall take one."
He laughed, "I have been reborn!"
Cross Fusion Room
Ranma brightly jumped into the room. Takato, on the other hand, came in panting and gasping for breath. Well, still not really, he was more like literally being dragged on the ground… But that's beside the point, the point is, that they were both inside the room.
Ranma looked over Takato's tired body before saying, "Jeez Takato, you need to get into better shape."
"It's not... Me… You… Were just… Too fast…" responded Takato.
"Was I? Hmmm…" thought Ranma.
"I didn't expect to see you two looking so healthy and alive so soon… And in the place that it happened too!" exclaimed Yanoto as he approached the two.
"Yanoto!" yelled Takato.
Takato ran up to him, grabbed Yanoto's face and pulled it down level to his and yelled, "Something's wrong with Midi and I don't know what!" Takato then let go of Yanoto's face.
"Wha?" mumbled out Yanoto confused. His face was pulled back down with a hand from Takato.
Takato then shoved his Pet with Midi still inside in Yanoto's face. Midi's face was now incredibly pale and he was sweating all over, spots of purple were beginning to form on his body. The form of the 'ghost' was ever still present behind Midi's pained body.
At the sight of the figure behind Midi, Yanoto's face also paled, "No… Impossible… X, Zero and I sealed him up tight a while ago… there's no way we could have missed a part of him…"
"Hey… Mind telling us what you're thinking?" said Ranma breaking Yanoto's thoughts.
At this time, many other scientists had heard the commotion and had stopped what they were doing. Mostly everyone had done so. A few had also caught on and were looking the same as Yanoto.
Yanoto whispered a single word, "Sigma."
Many other scientists who had already thought of it stumbled and held onto a table for leverage so they wouldn't fall over.
Ranma looked around, "Who or what is Sigma?"
Some scientists flinched, while others fled from the room deciding that they would not like to be a part of this.
"Hello? The boy asked a question, "Who or what is Sigma?"
Again, the scientists either flinched, gasped, or fled the room with the other scientists.
"Sigma…" started Yanoto as more scientists did the same as they did before, "Or, the Sigma Virus is pretty much the main reason why we are all here. Why the Maverick Hunters was formed. He infected many Navis with his Virus, which made them malfunction, and in turn, we began to call these Mavericks."
"Then if he was the reason… Why didn't we see him in those old videos of Megaman, or X's missions?" asked Ranma.
"Sigma has a highly classified file… We prefer not to let people know what happened. But how he has come back…" said Yanoto.
A face then appeared on a nearby computer screen and immediately said, "Yanoto, Yanoto are you there? It's Zero. I detected a highly unstable…" Zero trailed off as he saw the kids in the room
Yanoto replied, "Yes… Yes I already know. It's Sigma."
"What? That's impossible! There is absolutely no way he could have broken out of there."
Axl then said, "That's because he didn't break out… He was taken out."
Yanoto immediately turned towards Axl in his Pet and said, "What do you mean taking out? Are you saying someone deliberately set Sigma free?"
"I don't know. All I know is that… Someone took him out, and that somebody, is Techno. There was a crack and the container he was in. There are still some parts of Sigma in there, but not all of him."
"What… Techno… But he… Why…" Yanoto stumbled for words to say.
Zero, however, did not, "And how do you know that this was Techno? How do you even know about that place?"
"I… I came across that place while I was searching for a map of the building a while ago. I've been… going back there. Something seems to keep… calling me." Answered Axl.
"Axl? What is that place?" asked Ranma curiously.
"It is where we put Sigma to keep him from coming back out Ranma." Answered Yanoto, "Originally viruses were not completely destructive, most were originally created by us as small helpers. The Mettaurs for instance, were originally made for construction work inside the Net. Basically creating new data and breaking down old data. But then Sigma, who use to be a Hunter himself, was infected by an unknown virus and that virus in turn started to infect others."
"That is why viruses that are not destructive are so rare now. Now, inside almost every virus is part of the Virus. We don't know how it spreads, we just know it does." Finished Zero.
"Why are we even telling you two this…" mumbled Yanoto, "You two shouldn't even know about this. Let's go. Takato, can you leave Midi with us? We have seen the condition he's in before and we can fix him. Now, why don't you two go play with your friends or whatever kids do."
Takato reluctantly let go of Midi.
"Alright…" Ranma was also hesitant, he wanted to help. He wanted to be able to help with this problem, but he knew he couldn't. He wasn't able to help. The only way he could possibly help was through Axl, and he wasn't able to help with Axl because they weren't ready for anything like this. Though he didn't want to admit it, he was useless.
As the two walked out the door, Takato's head hung low, "Ranma… I'm going to my room…" he whispered before he immediately set off without waiting for a reply.
Ranma, not really knowing what to do, and following after, he would mess up and hurt Takato more. How he wanted to help Takato out, but he couldn't help him. He just wasn't good with the feelings and stuff, if they got to him, he usually just vented out his frustrations on something or someone while fighting. Mostly Genma though.
"Axl," said Ranma "Let's go work on that new technique thing of yours."
"…… Right." Replied Axl slowly.
Takato walked towards the training room with the Pet in hand. His eyes burned with determination. He would become stronger. He would become useful. He would help out. He would beat up Sigma. This was a challenge, and challenges brought out the best in him. Though this wasn't really him, and he couldn't really truly get involved, a challenge was a challenge. Ranma found his way towards the room. Ranma thought towards an anime he had recently seen and smirked as he walked into the room, "Mission… Accepted."
Getting in, Ranma immediately headed towards one of the empty booths on the side of the room. He went over and plugged in Axl.
"So you said there was a virus…" muttered Ranma as he brought out the program to start a training program, "Let's start with something to experiment Axl… Let's try that Bunny virus you were fighting at the time."
Immediately, the Bunny appeared and Ranma said, "Do the same thing you were doing last time."
"Alright… I was holding the Bunny like this… and had the gun like this…" muttered Axl as he held the Bunny by the ears and held his gun right up to it. Axl pulled the trigger expecting the same thing to happen. Instead, the Bunny was deleted.
"… Okay… Try that again." Said Ranma as another Bunny appeared.
Again the Bunny was wiped out.
"Argh! Dammit!" Axl started to hit the Bunny with his gun while holding onto the ears making it move back and forth. Trying one last time, Axl stuffed his gun into the Bunny's mouth and tried again. Axl's eyes widened as he saw a small glow around his gun, but nothing around the Bunny, it then was deleted by the gun.
Ranma sighed, "Damn, it didn't work."
"No. No, it almost did, but there was no glow…" Axl tried again to remember what he saw that day. The Bunny was glowing and his gun was glowing too, the glow the Bunny had was then… Transferred to him. This time, the Bunny had no glow at all. If Axl's guess was right, and that glow was the attack data that the virus had. Then no wonder it didn't work, this Bunny had no attack Data in the first place!
"Ranma! Set the level higher, I think I understand now!" shouted Axl towards Ranma.
"You figure it out? Then let's try it." Said Ranma as he set the level higher.
More Bunnies appeared around Axl; they all started to attack but missed when Axl jumped above them and behind one of them. He grabbed that Bunny and held his gun up to it and pulled the trigger. He saw the same transfer from the Bunny to himself, when it was finished, the Bunny dropped to the ground. It was about to attack him, but no energy came out. Axl looked at the clear capsule on the top of his gun; there was that yellow stuff in there.
"Alright! I did it!" shouted out Axl happily.
"Axl watch out!" said Ranma indicating the other Bunnies.
"Ah crud…" muttered Axl as he jumped out of the way, he instinctively shot at the group and the yellow electrical attack shot out of his gun headed towards the group stunning the first one it came to and knocking it back.
Axl was also too used to the normal shot and had expected there to be a recoil, but when there wasn't, he merely dropped to the ground hard instead of being shot back up into the air.
"Ow, my shoulder," muttered Axl getting back up, "Okay, let's do this." Axl jumped back into the group of viruses.
After That
"You sure you're alright Axl?" asked Ranma while going about the data files of Axl's structure fixing the damages.
"I'm fine Ranma; I just need to get use to using the different types of shots."
"Well, shooting the ground while you still had the Mettaur shot wasn't such a great idea."
"How was I suppose to know that the Mettaur shot would destroy so much of the ground? Usually the Mettaurs are weak!"
Ranma just snickered, "I still find it funny when that made the ground explode. You fell straight through the hole in the ground!"
"Shut up…" muttered Axl crossing his arms and looking to the side embarrassed.
"Haha, and when you fell right into the middle of those other guy's training session!"
After Axl had fallen through the ground, he had fell into another part of the servers that all the training sites were connected to, it seemed that all the training sites were underneath each other. When Axl had fallen, he had landed right in the fire of a shotgun and cannon. He was hit by both of them. After he was hit, he ended up paralyzing both of the other two Navis with the bunny shot and damaged them so they had to plug out.
"Hey, what about after that happened huh?" asked Axl, "Those two guys attacked you because it was your Navi that did that to them."
"… What about them?" asked Ranma.
"Well you fought."
"Yea?"
"They hit you."
"Once. It didn't hurt. I punched them once and they landed on the other side of the room."
"Big difference, you were hit once. You should have been able to dodge them, aren't you the 'Great Martial Artist'?" asked Axl in a sarcastic tone.
"Shutting you off now…"
"Hey wa-"and Axl's screen went blank.
Ranma sighed as he walked through the hallways and into his room and sat down on the chair. He needed some excitement. Just Net Battling was starting to loose the greatness. He wanted to fight, really fight. With Ryoga, and the others. Even though he hated them, he had to admit they were pretty good, when they didn't cheat. It had been one way for him to vent some frustration that was always built up inside of him. Axl's comment just made him remember what had made him proud of himself, but after he was moved, his life was completely different. It was… Less physical.
Suddenly the door was suddenly open and in came someone Ranma had not seen for many days, weeks, a lot of time. Someone who had long blond hair…
"Yo! Ranma! Nice to see you again!"
"Ze- I mean, Kenshin! Where the hell have you been? You've been skipping my lessons!" exclaimed Ranma as he remembered the one who was a human yet not a human from the right dimension but was also multiformed into many other people all over the many dimensions of the big… thing.
"Haha, that's because I've been working on something. I got Douglas to help me with some stuff. I know about your intense passion for fighting, heck I've felt it. That's why I got Douglas to help me with this. Bring Axl too."
"Uh… What?"
"No questions, too complicated without viewing material!" shouted Kenshin excitedly.
Kenshin grabbed Ranma by the hand after checking he had Axl's Pet and started pulling him after him as he made his way to another part of the building that Ranma had not really explored. A few minutes later, Ranma found himself in a room that he remembered was empty. Now, it seems it was now completely changed into a new room. One that had the large scale version, well, the largest that could fit in the room, of a net battle viewing globe. On the side, were two chairs, technologically looking.
"Now, I'm guessing you're thinking 'what the hell is this?' right?"
Ranma nodded as he noted that his Pet was now online and Axl was listening to Kenshin.
"Well, since I know about you fighting skills, and how you love to fight, I realized that no one here would really be a challenge for you. I can't be here all the time for you either, so I designed thi-"
"Ahem… Just who designed this?" asked a voice from behind them.
"Ah, Douglas, just in time. Now you can explain!"
Douglas glared a bit at Kenshin who was smiling happily as he walked through the now open door, "Whatever, anyways, we've designed this equipment so that you would be able to have actually fights. They won't actually be physical, because we wouldn't be able to work with that well without limitations. So we decided that this would be on a virtual level."
Douglas gestured for Ranma to follow him as he walked over to one of the chairs and sat Ranma down on one of them and then asked, "Ranma, can I borrow Axl for a bit?"
"Sure." Answered Ranma as he handed his Pet over to Douglas.
"Thanks. That's why we need your Pet, more specifically your Navi. Every Navi has some space that needs to be filled or upgraded, it doesn't matter what kind of Navi or what kind of things are installed. Anyways, we are able to link into a Navi's program, and use the space needed to create a virtual simulation. So, for instance, you want to hone your martial arts skills. So, we would link to the Navi's fighting ability program, and create a virtual simulation based on what the Navi's fighting program has. Then you would virtually enter that space and make that program stronger. But you would also need to use your imagination for this. You have to create a virtual environment inside that space of the Navi."
With that, Douglas pressed a button on the left arm rest of the chair Ranma was sitting on, instantly, a flap opened and a thin slit was revealed, a space big enough to fit a Pet.
"Usually, you would plug in a Navi into a machine, but plugging in a Navi severely limits the ability of the Navi, which is why it is required for the Navi to be directly connected from the Pet to the Computer. Having the Plug is like having a filter, without the Plug, the filter is gone, and the full capabilities of the Navi are unlocked." Explained Douglas, as soon as he finished, he pulled out a small side device from the thin slit and opened the back flap of Axl's Pet. There, he connected the inside of the Pet to the small device and put the Pet inside the small slit.
Almost immediately, Axl disappeared from the Pet in not the usual fashion of blue blocks, but just disappeared and reappeared inside the computer in a chair similar to the one Ranma was sitting in. As soon as he appeared, Axl's crystals pulsed powerfully in a steady rhythm. Axl almost choked on the feeling he was having.
Worried, Ranma asked Axl, "Axl, you feeling alright?"
Axl sounded as if he had gone through many battles against high leveled viruses along with mobs of more viruses as he responded, ". . . No . . . Feeling . . . Stressed . . ."
Douglas smiled as it was the result he expected, "It's alright, you're just not use to feeling all those filters lifted off. When you are plugged back in normally again, you'll feel much lighter. You will also feel a lot stronger and faster, but in reality, you're actually slower."
Axl gulped as he took this information in, Douglas was right in the feeling, the weight he was feeling on himself felt like he was holding the world on his shoulders, and he felt as small as a byte.
"Okay," said Douglas as he continued, "Now, next we have to do is link to the right program and area in Axl." Douglas turned to Ranma, "You want to train your Martial Art skills right?"
Ranma nodded.
"Okay, fighting ability, this might sting a bit Axl."
Axl nodded as he prepared himself for it. When it came, it was nothing like what Axl had expected, there was a deep surging pain in the middle of his chest where his crystal was, from there, the pain surged within him until it reached his head crystal leaving a trail of the pain between his two crystals.
"Aaaaaa-hhh!" screamed Axl as the wave hit him, and suddenly, it was gone. He felt nothing, other than something connected to his chest, as if there were an invisible chain there.
"Axl!" said Ranma urgently worried for Axl, as he had been Ranma's best friend after coming into this new world.
"Fine… I'm fine now…" Axl then looked up at Douglas through the view screen in front of him angrily, "That was a sting!"
"Sorry, I didn't want you to be prepared for it, if you had, the connection would have been a lot harder, longer, and painful." Answered Douglas.
"…"
"Okay, now we need to get you into the program Ranma. First we pull down the chest plate…" muttered Douglas as he reached above Ranma's head to pull down a flip down piece of metal with wires sticking out of it down to in front of Ranma, letting it stay there.
"Then the helmet." Douglas said as he pulled down another piece of somewhat round shaped metal down to cover the area around Ranma's head. Inside it, Ranma found hat there was only a thin black strip around the inside horizontally going around the inside.
"Okay, now we're set." Said Douglas, "Now to start the machine up."
"Will this hurt?" asked Axl tentatively.
"Not a bit." Douglas replied as the monitor in the middle of the room turned to life, showing an empty black space. The chair Ranma was in started to hum a technological hum.
"Okay the, first I need to warn you of something. This has been tested, although not many times by Kenshin and I. So it should work, but the problem is, that whatever injuries you receive inside the program, it will surface to your physical body. After all, your mind has been digitalized, and what happens to your body will happen here, so whatever happens, if you're in trouble or are majorly injured, have Axl cut the link right away." Said Douglas, "Also, this runs on your mind, to start off anything, you have to imagine it first."
"It's alright, just start this already." Said Ranma not really listening at all.
"Okay then, I'll start it now." Douglas seemed to press a few buttons on the front of the helmet Ranma had around his head, "There you go to the Digital World."
Instantly, Ranma's mind went blank as all he saw was nothing but blackness. Then, there started to be lights blinking around the place, many different colors before they all went out again. Suddenly, from nowhere, the whole place was turned into the normal Net area ground.
Ranma then appeared there, in the picture, he looked down at his hands, they looked real, and they felt real. He was still in his eight year old form though, which was a disappointment. Looking around, Ranma called, "Axl? Are you there?"
There was no answer.
Ranma frowned, there was nothing here, if this was a training program, wasn't there suppose to be something to fight?
"Jeez, this is a major let down; there isn't anything to do around here. I wish there was someone to fight around here." Ranma then went into one of his many Katas as he punched and kicked at the empty air. As he went through them, he started to imagine Ryoga was there, about the same age as he currently was, taking those hits and blocking them only to counter as Ranma then dodged and countered.
Suddenly Ranma realized something; there was now a sound there, a sound of flesh hitting flesh. In his lack of concentration, Ranma suddenly felt himself pulled from the ground and thrown through the air to land on the ground a bit away from where he had originally been. Looking back there in surprise, Ranma found himself looking at the familiar form of Ryoga there smirking.
"What's wrong Ranma, not up to normal today are you?" said Ryoga arrogantly.
Ranma stared a bit at him before grinning, he had no idea how this had happened, but he planned to use this to his the best of his abilities.
"Long time no see Ryoga, did you get lost again?" said Ranma instantly before he realized that there was no way that could have happened, but to his surprise, Ryoga frowned and snarled.
"Damn you Ranma, it's all your fault that this always happens to me. Because of you, I have seen hell!" Ryoga screamed the last sentence in fury as he charged at Ranma taking a punch at Ranma's surprise form with a powerful right punch in the face.
Ranma was instantly hitting the ground with a powerful force, breaking the ground in. Ranma groaned as he picked himself up.
"Damn you Ryoga, I wasn't ready." Muttered Ranma quietly as he rubbed his cheek where Ryoga had hit him.
Ranma stood up confidently and got into his usual stance, "Well the Ryoga, let's go."
Ranma dashed forward, he had already recognized that this battle wasn't like all their usual battles he had in Nerima. For one, they were a lot smaller. Two, they were both weaker and slower, but still absurdly faster and stronger than anyone their age, so, their damage was still the same as to anyone watching from this view, as to their normal battle's view.
Ranma dashed down under another of Ryoga's punches and pushed an elbow deep into Ryoga's stomach making him grunt a bit. It seemed that the Bakusai Tenketsu was still in effect here. If so, then Ranma should be able to…
"Kachu Tenshin Amagurinken Ha!"
Ranma's fist blurred as he punched Ryoga multiple times in one spot in his stomach while Ryoga was still taking in the elbow strike. Ranma knew that the punch count was not as high as it should be, but with the speed and strength of his Amagurinken down, and Ryoga's durability and defense down, the damage was still the same.
Ryoga lost his breath from that and stumbled backwards. He looked back up at Ranma and grinned, "That's more like it." Before he ran back at Ranma quickly changing directions right in front of Ranma and pushing a finger into the ground, "Bakusai Tenketsu!"
As the ground exploded from underneath Ranma, he was hit by rocks and sharp edges as he was blown back from the explosion itself. Wiping some blood from a cut cheek, Ranma looked back at the dust where Ryoga was sure to be, and where he expected Ryoga to come running at him from. Ranma saw the dust be parted by something inside, knowing it was Ryoga, Ranma headed straight for it with a punch ready. Just as the motion inside came out, Ranma was surprised and immediately fell to the ground just as a Shi Shi Hokudan flew right where his head was.
"Holy sh-" Ranma's exclamation was immediately cut off as he had to push himself away to avoid an incoming punch which landed where Ranma was laying. As he rolled, Ranma used the momentum to jump up, push off the ground and back at Ryoga with a force as he spun in the air and delivered a kick to his face. Believing this to not have made him fall, Ranma used the leg he had used to push and spin again in the air to deliver another kick to Ryoga's head on the other side using his other leg as hard as he could, forcing Ryoga to fall to the ground.
Not waiting, Ranma then readied his next attack, as energy started glowing in his hands, "Mouko…" stated Ranma as readied it.
Ryoga started to get off the ground, using his hands, "Taka…"
"Bisha!" finished Ranma just as Ryoga was in the process of bending up. The ball of energy flew at Ryoga in a rapid speed, hitting him full in the chest.
Ranma raced after his shot just as Ryoga was flying back through the air, catching up; Ranma jumped and landed another Amagurinken on Ryoga's chest, where his Mouko Takabisha had hit.
"Agh!" screamed Ryoga in pain as his direction was changed from horizontal, to vertical in an instant as he slammed hard into the ground, making a crater around him.
Outside of the Net
Douglas whistled as he watched the fight, "Wow, so this is how good he is huh?"
"Actually, I didn't really know his hand to hand skills that well." Replied Kenshin as he watched Ranma take a hit in the shoulder to return a kick to Ryoga's stomach.
"…"
"…"
"How long do you think this fight will last?"
"Dunno."
Back In
Both martial artists were tired, they would both admit that privately. Both were bruised, bleeding and breathing hard. Ranma took a deep breathe before releasing it back again, this, was probably his and Ryoga's first fight undisturbed, and almost no talk at all. Just a fight between two martial artists. Powerful ones at that. He grinned at that, he couldn't help it. It was like it came naturally, this was why he trained, this kind of fight, was in his environment. He hoped Ryoga felt the same, since he saw the same grin on his face.
Finishing their brief pause in the fight, they ran back at each other, Ranma reintroducing his foot to Ryoga's face, and Ryoga reintroducing his fist to Ranma's chest. Both fighters were blown backwards by the force they gave each other. For a moment there, Ranma thought he saw Ryoga faze in and out.
Getting frustrated at how much longer this fight had gone on then usual, Ranma yelled, "Dammit, why won't you just fall down!"
"You're weak as a baby Ranma! It will and has always been that way!" responded Ryoga.
"Argh! Mouko Takabisha!" screamed Ranma shooting another ki-blast Ryoga's way.
Outside
Douglas was starting to get worried, the computer monitor before him was starting to show signs of bad effects on the system. If this fight continued for long, the system would overload and crash, taking Axl and Ranma with it.
"Zero! We're gonna have to pull Ranma out now. This is starting to be too much." Said Douglas indicating the warnings on the monitor.
Kenshin frowned, he had wanted for Ranma to be able to finish this fight, but it seemed that if it would be finished, it would take some time. Time that wasn't in their hands, "Alright then, pull him out."
Douglas nodded as he started typing on the keyboard.
Ranma
"Take this Pig-Boy!" shouted Ranma as he punched Ryoga's chest. Suddenly, he felt nothing, his hand passed right through Ryoga. Surprised, Ranma fell forward through Ryoga, "What the…"
"I got you now Ranma!" screamed Ryoga triumphantly as he brought his two hands together in a swing downwards to crush Ranma. But just as they were about to connect, Ryoga fazed in and out once, and then disappeared. All with the triumphant grin on his face. After that, as if everything was suddenly erased, it was back to the darkness that was in the beginning.
"What the..." Ranma never got to finish that sentence, as he also winked out of existence.
A few moments later, Ranma in his body gasped for breath as he came back to reality. He started breathing hard, as if he was suddenly out of breath. Douglas and Kenshin were quick to take off the helmet and chest plate.
"Ow!" he said as a cut suddenly formed on his cheek, drawing blood. Ranma's eyes widened in surprise as bruises, and injuries started to appear all over his body, appearing out of nowhere. His breathing started to come harder and harder. Finally the sudden amount of pain became too much for Ranma and he toppled out of the chair and forward, falling into unconsciousness and hitting the ground.
Inside the Net, Axl was still sitting on that chair, staring forward, with unbelieving, and unseeing eyes. He couldn't believe what he had experienced. He had felt as though he were one and the same person as Ranma, yet not. He had also felt as though he were also someone watching from the sidelines, invisible. Yet, through all this, information had trickled quickly into his storage. With every movement Ranma and Ryoga had made, every breath, every strain of the muscle, every movement. It had all been recorded down into Axl. With all that information, Axl was having a hard time going through it all.
When he was suddenly pulled out from the chair he was in, and into his Pet, he felt as if everything had been lifted off him, light as a feather now. But at the same time, he felt something latch onto him, as if restricting his body and mind. With that restriction, the amount of information being sorted at a time was turned from a rushing rapid river, to a small trickle of a stream. Instantly, the information not being sifted through began to build up in Axl. Becoming too much of a load, Axl had no choice, but to turn himself off to stand-by mode so that the information would safely be gone through with no pain and stress.
Kenshin blinked as the Pet in his hand which contained Axl switched itself off, "What?"
"Zero! You idiot! You're not supposed to just pull him out! You have to wait for him to finish looking through all the files and information that was recorded into him!"
"… I was?"
"Yes!" Douglas let out a sigh, "You should get Ranma to the medical center so they can treat those injuries. I think he might have a broken bone or two."
Kenshin, or Zero, was already out the door and already on his way to the medical center before Douglas had even said it.
"That was impressive Ranma… I never expected that…" whispered Kenshin as he laid the tired and exhausted Ranma into the bed in the medical center and put Axl's Pet on the table next to it.
Chapter End
Author's Note
KrayZi: Hey, I finally finished another chapter. Long enough, huh?
Kao: Yup, about two months or more or something.
KrayZi: Slow working.
Kao: You have barely been even writing, mostly playing games and stuff.
KrayZi: True… First, started playing Kal Online, but quickly got bored of that when I started playing ROSE Online. Fun.
Kao: No one wants to hear about what you did, since no one did last time either, so let's just move on.
KrayZi: Shush you, now. Let's move on.
Review Responses to Chapter 11
To: Silverscale
Krayzi: Hmmm… I think this is your shortest review yet.
Kao: He's starting to loose interest!
Krayzi: Nooo! Aaah!
Kao: Thanks for reviewing.
To: Max Knight
Krayzi: So many fillers… So sad… Anywas, was what I did bashing? I'm no sure, 'cause I don't think I ever read a bashing story knowing it bashed a character… So I don't really know how a bash is…
Kao: Ignorant fool.
Krayzi: So how'd you like Ranma this time? Anyways, just so you know. I saved my story right as I finished the last sentence in the story and it came up to be 106kb. Dunno what it'll be when I save this file after I finish the review responses.
Kao: Thanks for reviewing.
To: Hunter X1
Krayzi: Only like Ranma and Axl? I like Zero too, he's cool. I also like ummm… Well… Blues is cool, and so is… Well, Beastman looks cool… Yea… Anyways, there's no way I'll ever stop this story. At least until either I finish, or I have to stop writing for a while or something like that. I just work slow.
Kao: Thanks for reviewing.
To: Firehedgehog
Krayzi: Thanks, but still I think it's really obvious…
Kao: No more than I do. I mean, it's practically right in front of your eyes.
Krayzi: We're saying too much.
Kao: But everyone who hadn't figured it out yet will all go Editted due to spoilering
Krayzi: Yup, so true.
Kao: Hey, what was that!
Krayzi: What was what?
Kao: That edit! What was that for?
Krayzi: Thanks for reviewing.
Kao: Hey, you Editted due to annoyance
To: pakenshette
Krayzi: Not really true, you're kinda exaggerating. But I want to respond to my reviewers.
Kao: He's a glory eater.
Krayzi: But I'm glad you like it anyways!
Kao: Thanks for reviewing.
To: Fatboy
Krayzi: Yes, a whole planet is doomed because of the evilness of the people. Isn't the plot original?
Kao: Incredibly isn't it.
Krayzi: I was curious what was happening too. I don't really plan things.
Kao: Thanks for reviewing.
To: Hiryo
Krayzi: I won't quit. Unless something major happens in real life.
Kao: Ranma also strives to protect others doesn't he?
Krayzi: And Axl and his friends will come into a bigger part later on when this damned long 'prologish'/Part 1 is at the end.
Kao: Thanks for Reviewing.
To: needmore
Krayzi: Yes fillers, pain to write, but the make the readers happy. Somewhat.
Kao: Wily's and Lights… Now that… Well, is a secret.
Hulk: Hulk Smash! Hulk Bash! Raaa-AAaaaRgh!
Krayzi: Yup, Hulk's cool. I liked those cartoons of him I watched when I was a kid.
Kao: Ah, that bible story. Yea, but that place was destroyed in the end since there weren't even 10 righteous people in those two big cities.
Krayzi: Update was slow, but it's here anyways. Thanks for reviewing.
To: Ezcheesesorceror
Kao: KZ's floating in happiness.
Krayzi: A god… loved… happiness...
Kao: See, again, he's slow at writing. Thanks for reviewing.
Krayzi: Happy…
KrayZi: So ends the replies. Anyways, has anyone noticed that all the three periods now appear to float? Here, I'll show it again. Hm… Isn't that interesting… Kinda annoying. Maybe this will work . . . Does it? Dunno. We'll see when I upload this. Anyways, I'm probably gonna take a while to get the next chapter out… Cya next time. Hmm, this file is now 126 kb, meaning the replies and Author note itself took 20 kb. Oh well.