Z: Whew! 'Bout time! Oh, and I posted the pictures of Sol and RCM on my art-page.
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Pyra Akaidra: I'll give you girls one hint, you need to use ALL letters of ALL four words. (PS: You girls forgot Thunder Soul, Junk Soul, Aqua Soul, Wood Soul & Wind Soul.)
Navi-Zero: A lot of people do.
remaine of ERL: ???
Sol Sabre: Jesus Christ! What'd they give you for god's sake?!
ERL survivors: Is that all?? [whistles] Hey guys! Get yer gear and let's rock!! We got a group of monsters to slay! (D. Zero: "WHOOO!!!" D. X: "Kicking!!" Night. Z: Bloody… :)" Z: "You with us, Red?" RCM: "[unsheathes Chaos-Sword] Hell YEAH!!" Z: "Right, THEN LET'S ROCK!!")
TJ and Rikumon: [rubs back of head] Well… uh… Oh, and thanks for the fan-art! ^^
Aori Tsuki: Geez! I'm doing the best I can!!
RCM: Yep. That's Skeith. And don't worry about it. Another thing, I'm seriously thinking that Nightmare's beginning to affect me again, 'cause… Ah dunno wha's the matta, but… GACK!!! DAMMIT!! [slaps herself] Ow! I needed that! Anyway, one of my last drawings was… a little…… well, I'm sure you saw the drawing of Nightmare and Zero. Oh, and about that attention… Ah can do SO much worse than tha! FUCK!!! [slaps herself *again*] OUCH!!
Song the Allmighty Pinabble: Thanks girl.
DRAGON-KNIGHT4: I'm doing the best I can.
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Chapter IX Part 2: Nightly Soul Deletions
"Muramasa!! Look out!!"
"ACK!!! SHIMATTA!!"
"Are you all right?!"
"Stop fussing about me and watch yourself!!"
"Yikes!!"
"Chikuso!!"
"At this rate, we'll be dead before the sun will rise!!"
"I didn't need to know that!!"
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Muramasa jumped out of the way of another blow, the large sword jamming into the ground. Her Buster was out, but she was still charging as she continued to make almost flying leaps away from the large Navi's claws. Because that was what they partially were. The spikes on his hands truly made them seem more like claws than anything. At the same time, she had to avoid every stab from Skeith's sword sent her way. Things weren't looking to bright for them, but what choice did they have than to wait him out?
Mega yelped and dodged yet another blow, while trying to get out of the way of Skeith's every move. But now that he was in HeatGuts Style, it was becoming rather difficult. Every Guts Style was seriously slow, and it would take twice the effort to get away from someone. Luckily, Skeith wasn't as fast as he had thought the giant to be, so that made it slightly easier, though not by much. The Blue Bomber had noticed several hacks and tears across the bigger Navi's armor, but it hardly seemed to faze him. Either this guy knew how to mask his pain very well… or he just didn't feel it.
Proto dodged yet another blow, leaping away quickly. He'd already pulled out his sword, but he was still waiting for the moment the giant would weary. But that didn't seem to be happening anytime soon. This guy seemed to be programmed to work on nothing less that optimum efficiency. He had actually hoped that Chaud's plan would work, but that just didn't seem to be the case. If this kept up the way it did, they were pretty much deleted.
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"Chaud!!" Lan suddenly shouted, yanking on the door.
"What now, Hikari?!" Chaud ground out.
"Something tells me Rei locked the doors," Lan mumbled as he tried to catch his breath again.
"He what?!?!"
Chaud quickly put his PET down for a second and walked over to check the door himself. The result was the same though; the door had slid into the lock.
"Damn it! He was expecting us!!"
"Very, very clever of you, Chaud Blaze," a cold, but all too familiar voice said from the intercom.
"Rei…"Chaud hissed in anger.
"Jesus fuck, Blaze! How many times do I have to tell you that I refuse to be called that?!?!" X's angered voice shouted.
"Just what the hell are you after?! What do you think this will achieve?!?!" Lan screamed in anger, finally getting himself involved in this.
A cold chuckle was heard from the speakers, before X spoke yet again.
"Working with little kids now, eh Blaze? You never cease to amaze me."
"I'M NOT A KID!!!" Lan shouted in absolute anger.
"Hikari! Knock it off!!" Chaud hissed. "That's exactly what he's trying to do!!"
A slight 'hmm', came from the speakers, before X said: "So, you're MegaMan.EXE's Operator? I had expected you to be older, for someone taking out both World 3 and Gospel."
Lan growled from the back of his throat, feeling anger well up inside him. But he tried to keep it inside as best as he could.
"And as to why I'm here, I'm sure you'll be able to figure it out for yourself. Because I do not share my plans with wimps like you or Blaze."
"Chaud, is he always like this?" Lan managed to ground out, angrily.
Before Chaud could reply, another familiar voice spoke up.
"You have seen nothing yet, Hikari. But I'm sure you will learn that lesson on your own."
"Zero," Chaud said coolly, as if greeting the Navi.
"It's been a while, Blaze," Zero's voice rang out. "But I have no time to chat. And I'm sure you're busy enough with just Skeith."
"Quite true. It's been nice talking to you. Ciao!"
And the connection was broken.
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X chuckled coldly, and picked up a simple object he had brought with him beside the PET resting on his hipbone. Calmly pocketing it, he took a long drag of the cigarette dangling from his mouth, before tossing it to the ground. As he exhaled, he butted the cylinder out with his heel.
Calmly, he strode out, giving one last pat to the object in his pocket.
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Once again, Muramasa found herself thrown down to the ground, a bloody tear running all over her face. She whimpered slightly as she put a hand on her face, pain searing through her entire being. How he managed to hit her face, she didn't know, but it goddamn hurt!!
"Muramasa! Are you all right!?" Mega asked as he quickly pulled her to her feet.
"Itai… I'll be fine… I hope…"
The duo broke apart quickly when Skeith's sword almost tore a hole straight through them. The three Navis continued to dodge everything Skeith threw at them, but finally, Muramasa just about had enough.
"Oh! That's IT!!" she shouted after she dodged the up-tenth attack sent her way. "This guy's deleted!"
Her Buster whined in protest upon being charged to the limit, before the charged blast was released. The giant pelt of plasma sliced through the air and crashed into Skeith's chest, sending the giant to the ground with a loud crash.
"Nani??" Muramasa murmured.
"That was almost too easy," Proto mumbled. "Something tells me this isn't over yet."
Just as Proto said that, Skeith rose to his feet again, a large burn-mark where the blast had hit him, but otherwise he didn't appear to be harmed any further. Blood dribbled from the wound, but Skeith hardly seemed to notice.
"What the hell?!?!" Mega exclaimed. "The guy didn't even flinch!!"
Muramasa's eyes were wide in horror. No one had been able to stand a fully charged blast from her and pretend like it's nothing. And Bass didn't count, because he never really faced the blast.
Proto growled in anger and said: "Forget about wearing him out! Let's just delete him!!"
Muramasa narrowed her eyes and gave a nod. There was no way she was going to let this guy get away with this! Mega nodded and clenched his massive fist, ready for action. Because he wasn't planning to lose to anyone, especially to this guy.
"Let's go!!" Proto screamed, and his mouthpiece slid in front of his face as he did.
"Roger!" Mega shouted, sliding his own mouthpiece in front of his face as well.
Muramasa said nothing for a moment, and watched the entire situation for a moment. She could tell he was trying to prevent them from approaching something behind him, but she couldn't be too sure of what it was. Finally though, Muramasa pulled her Buster back out, and charged it again.
"Let's do this!"
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Sonica pulled down her goggles, and allowed it to zoom in.
"Oi, looks like tha demon-girl showed up! 'Long with two red Navis," she stated.
Razor gave a soft sigh, softly shaking his head.
"I should've known Muramasa would somehow get involved in this," he mumbled, before he coughed yet again, sending another gallon of blood onto the ground.
Sonica looked over at her friend, a look of sadness on her face. She called up a scan of her friend, and the results were simply frightening.
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Razor.EXE
- HP: 3/679
- Data intact: 1913/8000 TB
- Recommended action: Plug out
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She knew that much, but how were they supposed to plug out when their Operators wouldn't respond?
Whatever happened to their Operators, anyway?
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Pyra groggily opened her eyes when she heard a dull thud and muffled cursing. The darkness was startling, and it seemed to take forever for her eyes to adjust.
When they did, she could only vaguely make out Mike, who was now sprawled on the ground, his hands and feet bound together by a single piece of rope and his mouth taped with duct tape. He had most likely toppled over, if the pained expression was anything to go by. But he also seemed determined about something.
He easily managed to roll onto his stomach, making his legs hover over his body. His back arched and he slowly brought his hands to his feet. Pyra watched in awe as he brought his hands over his feet and lay down on his side.
After that, he easily managed to sit up. He brought his face to his hands, and took hold of the tape covering his mouth.
"OUCH!!!" Mike screamed as he painfully ripped the tape off.
The yell was enough to make Sara and Shun wake up as well. Mike continued cursing for a while, before he leaned forward and started pulling at the ropes on his wrists with his teeth. Once he had his hands free, he started working on the rest of the rope, freeing himself within a few minutes.
He quickly freed the other three Operators as well, which didn't take long.
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"Ow… my head hurts…" Shun whimpered, rubbing the back of his head.
"You'll get over it," Sara stated plainly.
"Both of you, stop it!" Mike said angrily, looking up from trying to open the door. "Damn it!! Door won't open!!"
Pyra thought about it for a while, then started: "Maybe we coul'---"
Before she could even finish, Mike's foot solidly collided with the metal door, sending it careering to the ground with a loud crash.
"…Neva mind…" Pyra finished.
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Sol growled at the sight of three Navis facing off with Skeith. Even though Skeith was unable to feel pain, he could be deleted. But before that happened, he had to get low on HP, and whenever that happened…
But… there was something different about the girl… what, he didn't know, but something was off.
"Red, how's it progressing?!" Sol asked his Navi.
"Hey! Don't expect me to do magic! Alright?!?! I'm working as fast as I can!!"
Sol shook his head, mumbling: "Sounds like it's someone time of the month…"
"I HEARD THAT ONE, SOL!!!"
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"Bamboo Sword!! Slot in!!"
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A massive sword appeared on Proto's arm, and he quickly shot forward. Skeith was too slow to be able to dodge or block it, so the sword slashed right through his the armor on his side. But Skeith wasn't helpless.
"PROTO!! LOOK OUT!!!" Mega screamed as the spikes on Skeith's armor suddenly lit up.
Before anyone could blink, the spikes suddenly extended, and even Proto dodged most of them, one of them managed to hit him on his arm, thus causing him to scream in agony.
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"Triple-Lance!! Slot in!!"
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A sudden thrust to his chest sent Skeith careering through the air and onto the ground with a massive slash-wound over his chest.
Ragna easily landed on the ground, his lance still grasped in his hand.
"Ragna?!!?" Mega exclaimed in surprise. "The hell are you doing here!?"
Ragna straightened up, grasping his lance in both hands, before he answered: "Helping out alright? Sorry if I'm late, but I had to look for somebody. Took me a while to get him here."
Mega cocked his head to the side, but then ran toward Proto. Proto was clutching his injured limb, groaning painfully as thick cyber-blood poured from the wound. Muramasa was already at his side, holding him up to his feet.
"You gonna be all right?" Mega asked, worried for his friend.
"…Ugh, I hope so. This damn hurts!" Proto mumbled.
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"Recover 120!! Slot in!!"
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As the chip was slot into place, Skeith easily got to his feet again, not even seeming to notice the blood now freely pouring from the wound on his chest. By the looks of it, either Skeith didn't have an Operator, or he/she could care less about Skeith.
Ragna frowned at the towering Navi, and finally contacted his Operator.
"So, now what?"
"What do you mean 'now what'?!?!" Jinn questioned. "We delete him! And fast!!"
Ragna nodded and tightened the grasp on his lance.
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"Are we almost there?!" Lan asked, panting slightly from all that running.
"Let's hope… I have no idea where they're hiding," Chaud mumbled.
Both teens continued to run, both unaware of the dark figure watching from the darkness, a vicious smirk playing on pale lips and eyes sparking dangerously. A hand carefully reached into a jeans-pocket, bringing out a small piece of what appeared to be a chunk of wood. But with a silent click, it slid open to reveal a bloodied Stiletto, still dripping wet.
The grin morphed into a bloodthirsty grin, and within a second, the blazing knife was sent soaring, and crashed into the wall mere millimeters in front of where Chaud's nose would've been if he hadn't stopped in time.
Lan crashed into his back with a yelp, but Chaud's attention was solely on the knife right in front of his face. The sudden appearance of the knife had sent his heart leaping up to his throat, practically making him faint. Because if there was one thing he was really afraid of, it was blood.
He didn't regularly have to face with (much) blood before, the only times of that being either a bloody nose or a simple paper-cut, and it was clear that this blood was from neither. For one, the blood was too thick and black, and secondly, there was just no way to get so much blood on a knife from just a minor cut.
"Holy crap!!" Lan cried out when he saw the knife too. "Chaud?! Are you all right?! It didn't hit you, did it!?"
Chaud was lightly shaking, and Lan was really starting to worry.
Finally though, Chaud managed a shaky nod, and stammered out: "I-I'll be fine…"
In the darkness, the figure pouted almost childishly, but the maniacal glint didn't leave those piercing eyes.
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Ragna easily aimed his lance and made it extend to about 4 times its original size. But it didn't help as Skeith easily grabbed the weapon in his massive hand, snapping it in half almost easily.
"Uh-oh…" Ragna mumbled, before leaping aside from a stab of the Nijata, Skeith's sword.
He had to admit, finding the plans to the robbery on the disc had been quite the shock, but to find the plans of Skeith on it as well had been the biggest shocker. And even though he had learned it all from the back of his head, taking him down would take a little longer. But maybe if Jinn's plan worked out, it would be over with pretty soon.
A massive blast of plasma was shot at Skeith, but the behemoth managed to block the blow with the Nijata.
"Ah CHIKUSO!!!" Muramasa cursed wildly, stomping her foot in anger. "Just what does it take to bring this bakayoro down?!?!"
"No idea, but I think it'll take some time to find out!!" Mega shouted, bringing up his massive Buster, which morphed into a flame-thrower, and sent a blast of blazing fire at the behemoth.
Now there was something he couldn't block, but he could surely dodge. Proto growled as Skeith easily avoided the blast, and countered the attack with the Nijata. There was no way to injure Skeith close up with those treacherous spikes all over his armor, so how were they supposed to do this?
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"Wide Sword!! Slot in!!"
"Long Sword!! Slot in!!"
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Before Skeith could turn around, two Navis used a set of massive blades to slice an 'X' across Skeith's back, catching the behemoth off guard.
The two Navis responsible easily ran over to where the others were.
"How the hell did you all get here?!" Razor shouted in anger.
"How did you get here?!" Proto countered.
"Eva thought o' usin' the front door?!" Sonica said with a cocky smirk on her face.
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Chaud frowned, still lightly shaking, as a connection was opened on his PET with Mike.
"Whatever this guy is, he means business, Blaze. He actually had Razor down to 3 HP," the brunette said. "You might want to watch your back. You too, Hikari."
Chaud blinked and looked over his shoulder to see Lan peeking over it down at the PET.
"Okay!" Lan said with a nod.
Mike nodded back.
"Good luck. Michael Necros, Out."
And the connection was broken.
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Click clunk… kachunk!
X smirked widely, once against placing the object in his pocket. He easily kicked open the door once he reached it, and stalked inside.
The other person in the room wasn't at all shocked to see him.
"Greetings, Sir X," Sol said calmly, not looking up from his hacking on the computer.
"How is it going?" X questioned, the smirk disappearing and a serious expression taking over.
"Red is doing the best he can, Sir," Sol replied. "It's taking longer than we imagined."
X scoffed a little, and looked up at the screen. He blinked in surprise when he saw what was shown.
"What the fuck…??" he questioned and quickly yanked out his PET.
He typed in several commands, and the results had him gaping down at the screen of his PET.
"Sir??" Sol questioned, not liking the way X was staring at his PET.
"Something is definitely not right here! And I'm going to find out what that is!! Activate! Zero Omega!! Transmission!!!"
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"This can't be good!!" Mega cried out as Skeith was really starting to look bad.
But instead of weakening, Skeith was much like Muramasa and seemed to get stronger with every hit delivered to him. Not even Ragna had managed to get through to him, and Razor and Sonica had also faced severe problems. Muramasa had (voluntarily) taken several hits to make her own strength increase, but it also made her a better target. So they were forced to guard the gray-haired female until she was finished charging her Busters.
"I'm almost done!" Muramasa suddenly shouted out, both Busters held together to merge the plasma.
"That's good!" Proto shouted. "Because I don't know how long we'll last!!"
"Not as long as you think you will," a familiar voice suddenly said, and the dark form of Zero Omega crashed down onto the Net.
"Zero!?" Proto exclaimed in shock.
The blonde was glaring in absolute rage and anger, though why, that wasn't clear. His eyes were burning like a raging wildfire, shining like pools of blood.
"YOU?!?!" Sonica screamed in anger, and she would've hurtled herself at the other blonde if Razor hadn't stopped her in time.
Zero hardly seemed to notice, and instead, continued glaring at the group. Surprisingly, Skeith had actually stopped his assault as well, though the glare from the dark Navi was not aimed his way.
"What are you doing here?!" Razor ground out, not having forgotten what Zero had almost done.
"Standing," Zero answered sarcastically.
Razor blinked, then rolled his eyes.
"Are you always such a smartass!?" he demanded.
Zero's expression was completely blank as he answered: "When you spend as much time with Sir X as much as I have, you tend to take over some of his habits."
"Ha, ha, ha. Very amusing, Zero."
No link was opened with X, but it was not necessary. The guy's voice was bad enough.
But no one noticed a single Navi among the group sporting an almost bloodthirsty grin.
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"Listen up, Thimoto!" Mike hissed out in anger, his fist clenching his PET almost too tightly. "I am most certainly not thrilled at having been chucked aside like a piece of trash, so if I were you, I'd give me one good reason why I shouldn't just go out and kill you."
"Mike, stop jamming everything in a single sentence already!"
"Shut it, Razor."
X chuckled coldly, a chilling sound to all ears.
"Your idle threats mean nothing to me. If you really want to impress me, you seriously have to try harder than that."
Mike's fist clenched tightly, nearly crushing the PET in his hand. A look of pure anger became etched upon his face, and he started growling from the back of his throat.
A generally smaller hand suddenly closed over his own, and Mike whipped his head around to stare at Sara, the one responsible for the simple act. She softly squeezed his hand, telling him without words to remain calm.
The brunette gave a small nod, and loosened the death-grip he had on the poor PET.
"Thimoto, you've go exactly 10 seconds to explain what you want the Dimensional Area for before I rip off each of your limbs and force-feed them down your throat!"
That threat was rewarded with silence from both Operator as Navi, both shocked that they knew what they were after. But it surely didn't last long.
"Fancy threat… but if you think I'd tell a weakling like you what we were planning---"
Before X could even finish… the sound of a Buster being fired sliced through the air, followed shortly by a scream of absolute pain and agony.
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The blast of burning plasma tore away at the red armored Navi, making him scream out as he was literally torn apart from the single blast. Before he even had the chance to drop to the ground, he dissolved and formed 6 burning red letters.
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DELETE
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"PROTOMAN!!!" Chaud screamed in despair, unable to believe what was happening.
Every single Navi was left staring in absolute horror at what had just transpired, though with X and Zero, it was more of a strange awe. But there was one Navi that was unaffected.
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Muramasa grinned evilly and straightened up, blowing the smoke away from her Busters and finally bringing out her arms again, eyes sparking with an almost evil glint to it.
"Woopsie," she said, the grin never leaving her face. "Sorry about that one."
Razor whipped his head toward the gray-haired Navi in disbelief and anger.
"Muramasa!! How could you do that?!?!" Mega demanded in sheer disbelief, the horror still evident in his voice.
The grin wavered and she blinked.
"Muramasa?? Who the fuck is Muramasa??" she questioned, almost sounding genuinely confused, before realization dawned. "Ah. That must be that 3rd class Navi you're mistaking me for."
Zero blinked, but then his eyes widened in surprise, before a grin spread.
"So this is that special power you kept bragging about?"
"Muramasa" frowned in anger and she shouted: "I DO NOT BRAG ABOUT ANYTHING!!! ALRIGHT?!?!"
Suddenly, "Muramasa"'s entire body lit up, and before anyone knew it, a different Navi stood in her place.
He seemed to be no older than MegaMan, but his face had an X-shaped scar running over his face, and his eyes were a piercing bluish-gray. From the back of his helmet came a spiked mass of orange-red hair, two caps on the side of his helmet moving back with two yellow plates resting on his cheeks. His entire armor was a deep bluish-gray, much darker than his eyes, with blood red race-strips running over it. From the pack on his back came a set of heavy-looking twin-spikes, arched downward. Instead of a Navi-Symbol, the Navi had a piercing mist-colored crystal resting on the center of his chest and one on the area of his helmet that overlapped his forehead. The shouldercaps were slightly pointed and aimed to the side, with two yellow caps just at the joint under his shoulder. The jumpsuit was a much lighter shade than his armor, and the gloves on his armored arms were light bluish-white.
"But yes," the Navi stated with a smirk, placing his hands on his hips casually. "That is just about the best technique I have."
Ragna blinked in surprise, unable to comprehend what was going on, but then…
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Red let out a loud whoop when the last of the firewalls crumbled to his will.
"I did it, Sir X!!"
"Perfect!!" X said. "Now get the data out of there! I'll keep those fools busy enough."
"Sir??" Red asked in surprise.
"Just watch…"
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"This was jus' a distraction?!?!" Pyra screamed in anger.
Lan and Chaud had finally managed to make it to the control room, but at what cost?
Chaud, having figured out he could actually get ProtoMan deleted in this situation, had made a backup of his Navi just before leaving the mansion. He worked as fast as he could, but it just didn't seem to help anything.
"This is just PERFECT!!!" Sara cried out in despair. "My Navi actually got deleted for nothing!!!"
"Sara… calm down, alright?" Mike said gently.
The girl in question fumed silently for a while, before she let out a shuddering breath.
Shun softly shook his head, unable to believe that they had failed. This shouldn't have happened. They should've been able to stop them from continuing whatever they were plotting. But looks like they failed in that department.
"Now what do we do?" he asked softly.
Mike thought for a second then, and, seemingly coming to a conclusion, turned to Chaud.
"Blaze, you said you know X a little better than the rest of us, right?" he asked calmly. "Where do you suppose he'd be?"
Chaud looked up from what he was doing at Mike.
"Knowing him, the surveillance room, how so?"
"Because I have a threat to hold up!" Mike hissed, cracking his knuckles. "So, mind showing me the way?"
Chaud's brows furrowed and he nodded plainly, saying: "Gladly."
But just as they turned to leave…
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With a loud ringing sound and a massive crash that made the floor vibrate from the force, the door was slammed down to the ground, kicked in from the outside. Before anyone could even twitch, a pale hand was raised with a single swift motion, and a seemingly loud bang echoed throughout the entire room as the object grasped by the hand shot out the single item it could let out. It sliced through the air with speeds unmatched as the light glimmered off of its surface… before it finally reached its goal.
A choked gasp came from the whitehead's mouth, as his eyes widened to almost twice their normal size. The color began to drain from his face as thick red blood began to trickle past paling lips, a sickening color against the white of his skin. Heavy coughs followed, sending the even darker blood from a now almost clogged up throat, sending it flying to the ground.
His knees began to buckle under his body's weight, as he tried to stay upright, but found that he couldn't as he dropped, his arms wounding around his waist to try and stop the bleeding wound in his stomach. The thick, dark black blood poured uncontrollably from the wound, and his body had started to shake in absolute pain and agony.
Faintly, he could hear a digitized female voice screaming in absolute terror, as the tremors of his body grew more violent. The coughs became harder, making his body shudder and shake even harder, before his body slowly stopped moving. He could do nothing about it as his eyes rolled back into his head, and his body fell face-first to the ground.
The blood began to pool over the marble tiles, dying them a deep red and black. And no matter what… the blood continued to spill…
Always spreading…
Never ceasing…
Always…
And…
Forever…
Spreading…
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RCM: OO!!! Zeal!! What the hell's the matter with you?!?!
Z: I DON'T KNOW I DON'T KNOW I DON'T KNOW!!! [wails]
D. Zero: :( [clocks RCM]
RCM: OW!!!
D. Zero: 'Ey!! Stop making my sis feel bad!!! [pulls Zeal in a hug] Ssssh. It's alright, sis. Dun worry already.
Z: [sniffle]
D. X: Oh god… [turns to reviewers] Listen people. If you guys want Chaud and Proto back, I suggest you send in who has to fight who in the N1. I'm sure it'll make Zeal happy and more willing to continue. [looks over to Zeal] And a little less distressed.
RCM: [rubbing sore head] Ow… you want me to check her for the Nightmare Virus again?
D. X: I think that's a good idea. But you should wait until she's calmed down. Trust me, if there's one thing worse than Zeal when she's mad, it's Zeal when she's distressed.
RCM: Oo;;; I'll take your word on it then.
D. X: Good. And so should you guys! [points accusingly to reviewers]
RCM: Hey!!
D. X: Not you!!
RCM: Oh… okay.