Whee.. finally an update.
Ghosts from the Past
By Firehedgehog
Chapter Fourteen: Air Viral
Netto hummed to himself as he put his backpack on his bed, he then grinned to himself. By evening his friends from Canada would be here.
He then paused and wondered if they would recognize him, he'd cut his hair and wore a totally different clothing style before.
Maybe he should wear clothing from before he got his memory back, but he'd keep his bandana with his family's symbol on it.
He went to his dresser and pulled out one of his favorite sets; quickly he pulled off his school clothing and pulled them on.
Soon he wore a black tank top, tight blue jeans, grey sneakers that wee a bit scuffed and a black leather jacket... something no one had seen yet.
Netto's clothing would cause his friends some surprised looks, but they had to realize he couldn't always dress like they expected him too.
"Looking good," Kage said from his PET.
"Strangely, I have to agree, it's rather stunning with your white hair," Rockman admitted.
"Good, now let's get going. I want to meet my friends as soon as I can," Netto said, he grasped the two PETs and placed them in there pouches around his waist.
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Meiru had just stepped out of her house when she spotted Netto, she froze and was it her imagination or was she drooling a bit.
She quickly unfroze and checked for drool, thankfully for her sanity she hadn't.
That would have been beyond mortification.
"Netto-kun," she called to the white haired teen, he turned and gave her his usual lop sided grin. Was her heart beating faster?
He looked like a rebel, especially with that white hair of his; he looked so hot… and not in the body heat way.
"Hello Meiru-chan, I was wondering if you'd like to go meet my friends at the airport with me?" he asked.
She nodded mutely, not trusting her tongue to reply… she'd probably blabber and annoy him.
"I already called a taxi," he said, not noticing her rather flustered state. She nodded.
"And here it is," he said cheerfully.
Within moments they were climbing in, Meiru was still quite flustered about her childhood friends looks.
Did she mention that he looked hot?
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"Were here, were here, were here!" Alex said, jumping about his seat like a five year old on a extreme sugar rush.
"Dear lord," Kat sighed; she forgot her friend could get like this now and then.
"Sir, please put on your seatbelt… we'll be landing in twenty minutes," a stewardess said coming to the overly hyper teen.
Alex gave an overly dramatic sigh, but did as she asked.
Kat sighed in relief as he stopped chanting, ahhh... quiet.
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Netto took a deep breath; he didn't want to say anything but he was nervous. He wiped his sweaty hands on his jeans, he knew it was an irrational fear... but it wouldn't go away.
What if they didn't like the new him, or oldish him... what if he was too different then what they knew?
"Are you okay?" Meiru suddenly asked; he blinked startled.
"I'm fine," he said smiling, trying to ignore his stomach which was twisting with his anxiousness.
"There it is." Meiru said, spotting the plain above.
"That's great!" Netto said.
Suddenly a plume of dark smoke appeared from one of the wings.
"But that's not great," the pink haired teen said.
Both ran to find out what was going on.
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Kat screamed as the plane seemed to decide it longer wanted right, Alex's face was totally white with a greenish cast to it.
"There's a navi and virus in the airplanes computer!" a voice shouted over the speakers, obviously not realizing there were on.
"Aw Crap," Alex said.
'Where's Yami and Kage when you need them' were her panicked thoughts, she and Alex weren't good against navis, Yami was the one that kicked ass.
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"VIRUS'S AND A NAVI!" was the collective cry.
"Where's a netsavior when you need one," cried the airport security, somehow resembling a five year old in his wails.
Netto frowned and bit his bottom lip nervously, he had been a netsavior before his ordeal and following amnesia as Yami… did he still count as a netsavior.
"Netto-kun…" Rockman said.
"You can do it Netto!" Kage said.
"Sir… I was once a netsavior… would you let me try till the official's arrive?" Netto said stepping forward a bit; the main security boss stared at the white haired teen with grey eyes hardened from the airport chaos.
"What's your name kid?" the man said, Netto wanted to say he wasn't a kid but didn't.
"Hikari, Netto Hikari sir," Netto said.
"Come to the main control room with me kid, the have the code to get in there," the man said, Netto nodded.
"Lead the way, by the way I'm Frank," Head security said, Netto nodded and soon enough they were on there way.
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A navi leaned against a data cube, a smirk on its lips.
"There coming soon, and when I win... the boss will be happy," the unknown navi said, and commanded its virus drones to cause more chaos.
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"Are you ready?" Frank asked, Netto nodded from a seat.
"Yeah, as ready as I'll ever be," Netto said, pushing a bit of bangs from his eyes.
"Alright, codes in," a control tower official said.
"Rockman.exe, Kage.exe, Log on!" Netto shouted aiming the PETs.
'Alex, Kat... be alright' he thought, scared for his friends lives.
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The two navis, one blue one mostly white appeared in the planes dark computer.
"Where's the viruses? or the navi reported?" Kage said looking around.
"I don't know," Rockman replied frowning.
A strong bolt of lightning answered the two navis' question. Spinning around, Kage and Rockman quickly leaped out of the way just in time to avoid the bolt.
"Who's there?!" Rockman demanded. Silence was the only answer the two had for a few moments before another bolt of lightning struck out, catching both by surprise. It was a strong attack, and incredibly quick, an unlikely combo in many navis' attacks.
As the attack ended, Rockman and Kage gasped for breath.
"Why, Rockman...I'm sooo disappointed...don't you recognize me...?" Rockman thought the voice was definitely female, and definitely sounded familiar. But who..?
Rockman had been right; it most certainly was a female. But the female was definitely NOT a welcome sight.
It was Empress. The same navi that had been a result of the Devil Chip back from the N-1 Grand Prix. How she had managed to get to be her own being was beyond Rockman, but it wasn't important at the moment. The more important thing was that she looked like she had gotten a major reprogramming.
She was no longer the bright pink that she had been before. Instead her bodysuit was a crimson, blood red while her helmet, whip and boots were midnight black. And even worse, she looked even more evil than before, with a terrible smirk on her face that seemed to say 'I know what your weakness is and I won't hesitate to exploit it'.
Kage looked between the blue bomber and the new female in confusion.
"Uh...someone mind filling me in here?" He finally said, breaking the tense silence.
Rockman took a deep breath, this was beyond a nightmare. In fact, he wondered if Hell had decided to come take a vacation in his life today.
"Well now Rocky, tell the little Kage-poo," Empress practically purred, giving a rather wicked smirk.
"Kage-poo," Kage said, looking beyond insulted.
"Rocky?" Rockman said bewildered, where the heck did she get nicknames like that for them.
"Now now, cute boys need cute nicknames," the dark navi said rather cheerfully.
Kage twitched, and he looked ready to strangle the female navi.
"Years ago, Meiru used a chip she thought good. It wasn't it was actually a devil chip. It turned her into Empress, Empress was defeated and Roll became normal again. But I don't understand how Empress can exist now and away from Roll, it should be impossible," Rockman said frowning.
"That's messed up." Kage said.
"Empress, how are you here?" Rockman demanded.
"That's a secret cuties," Empress said, Rockman groaned knowing this was big trouble.
"I think I'm scarred for life," Kage shuddered.
"Well then, I'll just have to hurt you more," Empress said and leapt into the air.
"Scatter!" Rockman shouted and the two leapt apart, as lightning hit the sot they'd just been. The data ground they'd stood on fizzled and deleted itself as its data was destroyed.
Sudden confusion filled them as they found themselves no longer touching the ground; Kage reached out a hand and felt a strange substance.
"A bubble?" he questioned, how the heck did he get in a bubble. Turning he saw Rockman also captured in a bubble, the blue haired navi looked horrified.
"Oh look, my own Rockball and kageballs to play with, I always wanted more toys," Empress said in an overly innocent way, so innocent the two males wanted to gag.
Kage then had a jarring experience, as Empress landed beside them and somehow began to dribble them around the area like a pro basketball player. Then she tossed them upwards.
"Score!" she cried, and then went through a hoop and bounced on the ground... the bubbles finally popping.
Kage glared upwards, wondering where the hoop had come from, his eye twitched a bit as the hoop popped and changed into a virus, who skittered away.
'That's it, she's so going to get it' Kage thought, she'd made enough of a fool of them as it was.
Cheering sounds came out of nowhere, Rockman glared at Empress who was doing a slight over exaggerated version of a cheerleader.
"Do I want to know where the cheering is coming from?" he asked Rockman, the blue navi sighed.
"Best not ask, we probably just be punned out of existence, she seems to be having a lot of fun," Rockman said, they quickly began to dodge empress who was trying her best to turn them into fried navi on a stick.
"Netto-kun, we need chips now!" Rockman called to Netto.
I'm trying, but something is interfering. There's some kind of firewall around the area your in now, the netsaviors are here and trying to break it down. Sorry, but your both pretty much on your own… we're lucky enough to be able to talk," Netto said frantically, Rockman winced.
At least they knew why Netto hadn't helped or said anything lately; he'd been trying to break the firewall.
"Damn…" Kage muttered. "Then lets do our best," and started charging his blaster.
"You right; and we have to hurry… they have to land the plane properly," Rockman said.
"Too bad I'm a sore loose, your going to die so I always win," Empress said smirking; she cracked her whip in a very disturbing manner.
Kage actually took a step back; there was something about Rolls evil look alike that wanted to make him run.
"We don't have much time…" Rockman whispered; Kage nodded. Hundreds of lives were depending on them.
"I hate to say it, but delete her," came Nettos sad voice, both knew Netto hated to delete... no kill Navis.
"Then so be it," Kage said, changing from buster to sword.
Then, as if given a signal the two navis sped forward determines to end their nightmare.
"I never loose," Empress screeched, also speeding forward, her whip sparking like lightning.
"Too bad, first time for everything," Kage smirked, dodging a whip strike and slashing her side. The dark navi gasped I shock, then in anger began to try to capture the two in her bubbles again.
"This is taking too long," Rockman shouted firing his busters, Kage agreed… they had a minute left before it was too late.
Then the plane was truly doomed, all those lives... no he mustn't think of that horrible possibility.
Suddenly Empress gave a gasp, her data shaking, through her shoulder was a familiar sword.
"Blues!" Rockman cried, glad to see the familiar red navi.
"Sorry were late, a certain firewall was in the way," Blues said, as he said were a familiar army style navi appeared.
"Army of viruses," Searhman smirked, banging his weapon against his chest.
"This isn't over," Empress hissed angrily, and logged away not even bothering to move from where Blues had her slashed.
"She'll be back," Rockman said sadly.
"We have the plane back under control, log back to Hikari," Blues said.
"Hai," Kage said, in moments they were gone.
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With a sigh of relief, Netto sagged in a chair. It had been total panic when he realized he couldn't help his partners. Thankfully the firewall had finally been breached, just as Laika and Enzan had arrived.
"Everyone's safe and sound," Enzan said, returning blues to his PET.
"Good," Netto said, suddenly something was dropped onto his lap by Laika. Looking down he saw in surprise a certain chip, a chip that would introduce a certain program. It was a program that told people they were Netsaviors.
"Welcome back," was Laika's simple reply as he left, Enzan smirked as he left.
"Welcome back indeed," Netto smiled, he had actually missed being in the group once he regained his memory.
"Meiru-chans waiting," Rockman said, Netto slipped the chip in Rockmans and Kages PET's easily and then got up, he was back and better then before.
"Better not keep her waiting," he said, smiling he went to find Meiru.
Then, he couldn't wait to see his Canadian friend react to Meiru-chan.
TBC
Omake Omake
Whips and demons?
By: Aki Kochou
"Well now Rocky, tell the little Kage-poo," Empress practically purred, giving a rather wicked smirk.
"Kage-poo," Kage said, looking beyond insulted.
"Er...well..." Rockman looked around, incredibly distressed before logging out. Kage's eyes widened.
"What?! Rockman, you get back here now!! Who's going to help me get this plane under control?!" Kage yelled into the air. Of course, there was no response and Empress simply smirked and started walking towards Kage slowly, her hips swinging back and forth seductively. Kage nervously moved back a step with each step that Empress made towards him.
"Now, now, Kage-poo...I won't hurt you...not if you just do what I say..." She purred. Kage made a sound almost like a wimper.
"Um...no thanks?" Unfortunately for Kage, his back then hit a wall and he was cornered. Empress soon had him trapped in the corner and leaned in close to him.
"Are you suuurree...?" She whispered in his ear, softly blowing on it. Kage felt a bead of sweat roll down the side of his face.
"Y-yes..." A smirk grew on the demonic woman's face.
"I don't know, Kage-poo...you don't sound too sure..." Her hand ran down Kage's chest and then slowly ran back up and cluched Kage's chin tightly. "I can give you what you want..." She purred again. Kage gulped.
"W-wha...?" Empress giggled, a high pitched giggle that made Kage's ears hurt.
"Now, now, Kage-poo...you know exactly what I'm talking about..." She smirked. Kage finally got a hold on himself and shoved Empress aside and tried to log out. Only to find that she had disabled the log out function. So instead, he settled for the next best option: run like hell.
However, poor Kage only got about four steps before Empress' whip wrapped around his abdomen and pulled him back into Empress' waiting arms.
"Ah, ah...not so fast, cutie...you're not going anywhere..." Kage whimpered.
"Help..."
The sound of a whip cracking filled the air.
Owari