Disclaimer
This is only a fan-fiction therefore this story does belong to Capcom. I would like to make it perfectly clear that I do not own any of the characters (apart from specific ones which I will mention at the start of each chapter).
I hold all rights to the characters named "Vodka & Outlaw" any copies of my fan-made characters must be allowed by me before being used. Thank you and enjoy the story. Chapter pre-view is inspired by the series and AMZ. Thank you. Chapter 2:
Mysterious Showdown
Tall shiny cyber-skyscrapers reflected the pre-programmed cyber-sunlight to create maximum realism; this busybody place is littered with wall-to-wall cyber-shops and things for navis to do. This fantastic place is the heart and soul of the net it is Internet City. This is the most popular and the busiest place on the net and it is used solely by net navis. Six pieces of data streamed through the security passes flashed as it gave approval to each and every stream as it landed in the shopping centre of the vast cyber-city. Six net navis emerged from the light "That was an awesome trip!" Tomahawkman said excitedly with Medi clutching to his normal arm, like always, "Lets go again!"
The rest of the navis sighed at the Native American-themed navi's comment.
"You always say that," Medi added wearily as Tomahawkman sweat dropped.
"But it's so cool." The Eskimo-themed navi added as he adjusted his parka coat.
"Yeah it is," Roll agreed with a titter in her voice as she clung to Megaman's right arm.
"Well I for one think that this place is a charming sight," Yai's net navi, Glyde added in his usual posh accent.
Glyde is a male net navi clad in a black jumpsuit with brown armour covering his torso to match his brown and gold helmet, gloves and boots. He also has white wings to support his name.
"Whatever you say Glyde," Medi said as she yawned sleepily and lent her head against Tomahawkman's shoulder. Tomahawkman and Megaman exchanged glances after a moment or two before Megaman finally spoke up, "What's wrong?"
Medi stirred as she parted her eyes slightly and murmered sleepily in between yawns, "These new Super Viruses kept attacking Jasmine's computer last night, so I guess I'm a little tired."
Tomahawkman gently blew on her face and cooed as she nodded off to sleep. Medi Logging Out
"I guess I'll go watch over her computer," Tomahawkman said as he watched the words that his love had transformed into disappear, "Adios." Tomahawkman Logging Out
"Well I for one don't mind a challenge," Glyde added as he formed his Glyde Cannon and pointed it to the sky.
"Me neither!" Iceman exclaimed as he formed an Ice Ball. "Bring'em on!"
Suddenly a warning siren filled the streets, as passing-by navis looked around with a worried expression on their features, those with features of course.
Lan's PET bleeped as a familiar face occupied the screen, "Mr Famous."
"No need for formalities," Mr Famous commented as he brought up a map of Internet City with a glowing red patch, "There is a virus attack currently underway on Net City's Archives."
"Why the Archives?"
"Because," Megaman chimed in, "the Archives hold important data such as bank details, train schedules, logs of net navis that have come in and left the city…if someone were to delete the Achieves…"
"There would be mass panic," Mr Famous finished. A new face appeared on the screen next to the famous scientist; a teen about Lan's age with black and white hair, kinda like a skunk.
"Chaud," Lan greeted the teen, "long time no see." Chaud just put a hand through his hair and nodded, "I've sent Protoman ahead. He'll hold them down until Megaman arrives."
Lan nodded as the transmission ended, "Megaman to the Archives!" Lan ordered as the blue net navi nodded in agreement.
"Understood Lan."
"What about us?" Iceman interrupted and he juggled the single Ice ball in his hand.
"Yes we are coming too…right Iceman?" Glyde asked with a slightly worried tone.
"Right," Iceman reassured his upper-class companion.
"Oh no. It'll be dangerous you guys have to log out now." Megaman ordered in his most serious tone. Glyde put on his best tough-guy face, but instantly melted away when Megaman gave him the coldest stare he could muster. Glyde Logging Out.
Iceman sighed as he too logged, out leaving Megaman as he turned and ran through the empty streets that had once been occupied by so many of his fellow net navis but now lay bare as thoughts raced through his internal AI I wonder what it could be this time. No lowly group of viruses could get past the entry scan…there must be a ringleader somewhere...but who?
"Fire Blade!" A voice called out as a red and white human styled net navi sliced a group of Fishy 1viruses as they exploded into thousands of tiny pixels.
"Protoman!" Megaman called as he ran up to his friend, Mega-buster at the ready as he cradled his weapon with his free hand.
"Good. Your here Megaman." Protoman acknowledged as he struck a Spookie 1 behind the blue bomber, instantly deleting it "This area is crawling with low level viruses."
"No Super Viruses?" Megaman asked curiously as he spun around to make sure no pesky viruses were behind him.
"No," Protoman replied calmly, "Lets liberate this area of viruses."
Megaman nodded, then blasted a couple of Mettaur 1s with his buster, deleting the viruses on impact while Protoman took care of a small cluster of Spikey 1s with his burning blade.
"The-there…mu-must be a l-leader," Megaman said exhaustedly in between breaths and shots.
"I agree," Protoman responded as he sliced more viruses as he switched his Fire Blade for his default weapon; The Proto Sword. "There is no way that low level viruses like these could get through the filters without someone clearing the way." Protoman finished as he swung his sword at the final group of viruses sending off a sonic wave, instantly deleting the viruses as they bleeped in terror...then silence took ahold of the area; like a hungry Ape seizing the last banana from a tree.
"You're right partner," a new voice interrupted.
"Who's there?" Protoman demanded calmly as he pointed his sword in the direction of the new voice.
"You sure do live up to you're reputation, yes sir'e," the voice called out as a male net navi appeared from the shadows. The navi wore a black Stetson hat, a black waistcoat over his grey jumpsuit, black gloves and brown boots that reached up to his mid-leg fully equipped with spurs, a belt with a holster attached that housed two pistols. He also had a symbol of a gold background and a black star in the foreground printed on the front of his hat," The name's Outlaw. And I'm a calling you out."
"How fitting," Megaman said calmly as he cracked a smile, "because your out numbered and out of you're league."
"Heh heh. That's what you think partner," Outlaw said cockily as two strange looking Shrimy viruses digitized either side of Outlaw.
"Super Viruses." Protoman muttered in disgust as he raised his sword in a defensive stance.
"Darn tootin. These lil critters exceed the strength of Omega level viruses by three," Outlaw bragged as he thrown his head back and laughed as the Super Viruses forced Megaman and Protoman to stand back-to-back as the viruses circled them slowly.
"Any last requests?" Outlaw offered as he tucked his thumbs behind his vest, beaming from ear-to-ear.
"Yeah I got one," Megaman started as he held his buster and aimed it at the nearest Super Virus, "call off the viruses and surrender."
"Ha! Begging for you're lives already?" Outlaw mocked.
"Ready critters?" Outlaw called to the viruses, as they readied themselves.
"Ready Protoman?" Megaman whispered. A silent nod from the red and white warrior brought a smile to the blue navi's face.
Meanwhile back at ONB HQ Chaud and Mr Famous were working on a strategy.
"That should work," the famous scientist said finally as he sat at the controls, "but it won't last long."
"How long?" Chaud demanded.
"Three seconds." Mr Famous replied.
"It's all the time I'll need, ready Protoman?"
"Affirmative Chaud." Protoman replied in a serious tone.
"Draw!" Outlaw shouted as the Super Viruses fired on the two official net navis.
"Super Barrier activate!" the white coat clad famous scientist ordered as he slammed his hand down on a button.
Smoke, dust and debris scattered like shrapnel, blocking a clear view of where the two net navis were standing. Outlaw spun the pistols on both of his trigger fingers, and then shoved them back into their holsters as he muttered, "Too easy."
Two flashes of light shot out from the smoke as each one struck a Super Virus, deleting them instantly. "What the?" Outlaw yelped in surprise as the smoke cleared to reveal Megaman and Protoman unscathed.
"I-im-impossible!" Outlaw stammered as he stepped back.
"Nothing is impossible when you use teamwork," Megaman chimed in cheerfully as Protoman huffed and added seriously, "And master the Program Advance."
Megaman sweat-dropped and smiled sheepishly.
The door slammed as Mr Famous and Chaud whirled around towards where the sound had originated as a hot and bothered Lan dragged himself into the room.
"Nice of you to drop in Lan," Mr Famous said cheerfully with a grin on his face.
"A fat load of good teamwork does ya if you don't even use it!" a familiar voice shouted angrily.
"Aup aup!" Another added.
"Ah good to see you Maylu, Rush." The famous scientist greeted the red haired girl and the virus dog as they stood next to the two Net Saviours.
A pink navi stood by Megaman as she formed a Sword on her right arm.
"Hey Roll," The blue navi greeted as she winked and smiled.
"Instead of flirting let's get back to the task at hand," Protoman cut in as he formed his Proto Sword.
"Uh oh. Looks like the Cavalry has arrived," Outlaw said to himself as the three navis marched slowly up to the cowboy themed net navi.
"Reach for the skies!" Outlaw demanded as he desperately drew his twin pistols, only to have Megaman blast them out of his grip with his buster and Protoman press his sword against his throat.
"Stick 'em up," Megaman said in his best western accent.
"This is a hold up," Roll chimed in, also with her best western accent.
"You varmints'll never defeat me, I'm as slippery as a greased up rattle snake and twice as fierce," Outlaw cried as he disappeared from the digital world then reappeared in the real world, opposite the net agents, the girl, the dog and the scientist, "Now you will all taste my power," Outlaw threatened as he thrown his hat in the air, then caught it with his fist, the top of the hat morphed inward to reveal a barrel.
"Run!" The famous scientist announced as the small group heard Outlaw fire and then swear after them while they ran full speed down the corridor and down the stairs.
"Stetson Cannon!" the group heard Outlaw shout after them as bullets soared past them, barley missing.
"Arrrgghhhh!" Maylu screamed as she put her hands between her palms while she ran, while Rush summoned several viruses in attempt to slow their pursuer down, succeeding only for a second or two at a time. The group ran into a room and locked the door behind them. "No good. Net navis don't use doors," Chaud pointed out as his point was proven as Outlaw blasted holes in the door.
"That's not gonna last," Maylu fretted as she looked through the window at the adjoining room, "The dimensional area controls. Can't we do something with them?"
The two Net Saviours looked at each other then at Mr Famous, "Right," The scientist added as he scooted them down another flight of stairs.
Lan, Maylu and Chaud started downloading Battlechips to their PETs while Mr Famous typed furiously away at the controls. A loud bang got the groups attention as the sound of a door being blown to bits echoed through the building. Mr Famous pulled out a grey PET and put it in a jack-in dock. "Punk! Activate the Dimensional Area!" the famous scientist ordered as a spiky, pinkish red navi brought up a few pop-up windows followed by the hum of the Dimensional Generators as the walls became discoloured. Mr Famous turned towards the teens and nodded, "We're all set."
"Right." Lan and Chaud said together as they each produced a strange looking plain blue Battlechip with a green sphere in the centre and a mini Hikari logo at the bottom left of the chip. The group paid no heed of the rapidly approaching footsteps as a figure passed the large window and headed towards the stairs.
"Synchro Chip, in! Download!" the two boys called out in unison as their PET screens shone a brilliant white as they nodded to each other and announced together while holding their PETs in front of their chests "Cross Fusion!"
The light from the boy's terminals engulfed them completely. The PETs seemed to break apart, but in fact they had been turned into pixels. The pixels started to form over their bodies, styling the boys like their navis. Lan's shoes turned blue as boots formed around his feet which reached to his mid-knee stopping to form the tops of his new boots, with green diamonds off the front of his cuffs, while the data around the brunette's hands moulded into blue gloves that reached almost up to his elbow with a similar style to the boots. The Hikari logo appeared on his chest as a navy jumpsuit formed over his entire body. Suddenly white data lines streamed out of the logo stopping at the boy's shoulders to form chunky gold shoulder pads. Finally a helmet materialised over the top of the teen's head complete with mouth guard and power pack on his back.
While Chaud went through the same transformation with Protoman. The skunk haired official hand's turned into black and red gloves with his symbol on the backside of his hand and his shoes turned into red boots with a spike at the top of them as his hair became long like Protoman's. Just like Lan, Chaud's family symbol appeared on his chest as a purple and black jumpsuit formed over his body complete with a helmet that almost exactly matched his navis'. The light died down after a brief moment from which the boys emerged as C Megaman and C Protoman.
"Cross Fusion was a success," Mr Famous proudly announced as C Protoman shrugged and replied, "What did you expect?"
"Well I…"
"There ya are, ya yella bellied varmints!" An extremely annoyed Outlaw interrupted as he slowly walked out of the door towards the group with his fingers hovering over the butts of his pistols.
"So it's a shoot out then," C Megaman muttered as he formed his buster
"Mr Farmous! Find cover!" C Megaman ordered as the scientist grabbed his PET and ran straight past Outlaw up the stairs as he shouted, "No need for formalities!" followed by Maylu and Rush.
"Lets settle this," C Protoman calmly said as he commanded, "Battlechip Area Steal, Long Blade!" C Protoman disappeared then reappeared in front of Outlaw with a yellow, long blade attached to his right arm. C Protoman then swung his Long Blade only to connect with a whip that Outlaw had whipped out, "That's a cheap trick," Outlaw argued as he punched C Protoman in the stomach, reducing the red crossed warrior to a heap on the floor.
"Yea, you should know!" C Megaman countered as he used his newly formed Magnet Bolt weapon to pull Outlaw towards him and away from his friend, "Battlechip Hi-Cannon!" C Megaman commanded as his other arm turned into a chunky blue cannon while his other weapon continued to pull Outlaw even closer.
C Protoman finally got back on his feet; just in time to read Outlaw's attack "Lan watch out!"
Unfortunately Outlaw was already in close range.
"Snake Whip!" Outlaw announced as he extended his whip then struck C Megaman's neck with it. The whip wrapped around on impact, forcing C Megaman to cancel his weapons as his hands failed around the whip that was tightening around his throat.
"Let him go!" C Protoman ordered as Outlaw Spun C Megaman around so he faced C Protoman allowing him to use the boy as a shield from the other, "You bastard," C Protoman swore under his breath as he stood, trying to think of a chip that he could use to free Lan.
"Roll Arrow!" C Roll cried out from behind Outlaw as the arrow hit the whip, breaking it, allowing C Megaman to slip free.
"Battlechip FireBlade, AquaBlade!" C Protoman ordered as each arm took form of a blade. C Protoman then ran up to Outlaw and struck him with both blades in a cross fashion. Outlaw was sent flying across the room, coming in for a hard landing against the wall, "Ouch…" Outlaw muttered as he slowly got back up on his feet, using the wall for support, only to find C Protoman, C Megaman and C Roll, each armed with their main weapons.
"Who sent you?" C Protoman quizzed the dazed cowboy as he stared up in to the barrel of C Megaman's buster.
C Megaman's question was answered as a new navi materialized in front of Outlaw.
This strange navi looked almost human wearing a striped dress, apart from the two big horn-type things sticking out from his back.
"Laserman!" The group of teens cried out in surprise as Laserman put his hands in the air and boomed, "Laser Interrupt!"
The entire room seemed to lose the odd glow and return to normal.
"Oh god no," Mr Famous muttered as he pressed his face against the glass, just to make sure.
The three teens looked at each other as C-Protoman and C Megaman crossed out and turned back in to Lan and Chaud as they individually caught their PETs confirming Mr Famous's suspicion He can cancel Dimensional Areas? But why are Roll and Maylu still in Cross Fusion?
C Roll looked at the two boys as they each passed her a strange look, as she looked at her hands, they were still Roll's Why?
Laserman stared at the pink clad girl for a moment as he cocked his head slightly.
"Let this be a warning. Next time I will not feel so generous," Laserman boomed as he and Outlaw disappeared.
Silence swept the room for a moment or two until C Roll crossed back out in to Maylu as she caught her PET.
"What just happened here?" Chaud asked as the Rush Synchro Chip ejected itself from the pink PET as it broke apart to turn back into the virus dog.
Preview for Chapter three;
Megaman: How come Maylu and Roll stayed cross-fused after Laserman destroyed the Dimensional Computer?
Lan: What? When did he do that?
Megaman: When he announced his attack, the computer that controls the Dimensional Areas blew up we can't fix it!
Megaman: We're going to have to rely on Maylu and Roll for a while until we can figure out an alternative. I hope they can handle it.
Lan: Megaman, we're needed at school! A kid is challenging other students to net battles for navi parts!
Lan & Megaman: Next time on Megaman Evolutions "Metal Head"
Editor's notes;
The chapter took me awhile to capture the battle scene and the cross fusion, but I'm happy with it. Until next time! And I finally had it checked; I can (hopefully) safely say that there are no more mistakes.
Oh and sorry for the use of the language (one word), but I thought it was appropriate.