Melody looked around again. The coast was clear. She rushed to the control room, and peeked in. The coast was clear. Again. For the 40th time, maybe. "Ok, this is just sad. How lackadaisical can they be here? Aya-san, where are you? I need to know so I can find a safe route for you. I just hope you're not in the air vents again. Last time, that took a really long time to get you out. Remember?" She hacked into the system, scanning all the areas, both in the real world and net.

"Well, I'm not really sure, to tell you the truth, but, yes, I'm in the air vents. Doesn't this remind you of when I full forced Enzan to sneak around with me & that caused complete chaos and turmoil in our house?" Aya reminisced.

"Yes. So I'll check out the vents?"

"Sure. I really don't care anymore, as long as I get the hell outta here. Air vents and all that crap were easier to move through when I didn't to bring my crap with me, and before I was smaller! That was 10 years ago!" She fumed.

"Alright, alright. I'll lock onto your location for you." She fiddled around with the controls for a little bit. "Found you! You're near the main command room, Aya-san. That's where Enzan and the other Net Saviors are, I double-checked. Just crawl forward until you see a cross, then head left, then right, and then keep going straight. Got it?"

"Yeah, yeah. Left, right, straight." Aya muttered this over and over to herself and continued forward until Melody asked her something. "What is it?"

"Well, what if you get caught, then? You can't say your family name's Ijuuin, so what'll it be?"

Aya thought for awhile, lying on her stomach in the air vent. "Mmm, Mitsuki, I guess. That was Oka-san's maiden name, right?" Her eyes grew softer, remembering before then.

Melody nodded, getting ready to plug out after collecting necessary info that they might need, and something that she shouldn't have, as usual. "Yeah, that would be nice. Plug me out, would you, Aya-san? I don't really mind getting caught, it's easy to escape, but, it's better not to. I wonder where those crummy guards are, though. They really suck at their jobs, I have to say. The system Navis, too."

"Hey, Bob, what's this?" a Navi guard asked his partner.

"I don't know, Henry." Bob replied. "But I think it's a hole."

"I can see that, Bob." Henry said through gritted teeth, as other workers gathered around the hole, including the system Navis that worked the controls. "But why is it there?

"What's that?"

"I have no clue."

"Did a terrorist do that?"

"No, that can't be."

"Why not?"

"Because," Henry answered, "Do you remember when we all screwed up, causing the Ameroupe militia to come here, including the militias from other areas and uberly important Navis like Colonel to come here, because someone accidentally set that damned fire alarm – why do we even have it?! – and the sprinklers started and someone started using their attack to try to stop it and others joined in and then someone blew up all the overly important systems causing mass hysteria and the emergency alarm to sound and in the end we could have been executed for our idioticness so it's a miracle that we actually have jobs still? DO YOU REMEMBER THAT?! And don't even make me say all the shit about when we made this super powerful baby Navi drop her ice cream cone! I don't even WANT to remember!" he glared an if-anyone-speaks-anymore-about-this-shit-i-will-personally-screw-up-your-digital-lives-for-good look, and immediately everyone shut up.

Silence.

Dead.

Silence.

And then, one brave Navi spoke up.

"Hey, who's watching our stations?" Everyone looked at him blankly.

"What?" He looked at them exasperatedly.

"We never switched with anyone, right? So maybe the thing that made the hole is in there?"

More silence.

Then,

"O SHIT."

"You're almost there, Aya-san!" Melody whispered. She was back in the PET.

"Ok, Melody, but I'm not going in. I'm going to eavesdrop, alright?"

"Alright." Melody fiddled with her hair for a little bit. Aya crawled further on until reaching an opening that was covered by a grid. "So, Aya-san, what are they saying?"

"I don't know yet. But here, I'll move the PET closer so you can hear. " She did that. "Better?"

"Yeah." Melody grinned. "So…" And she turned her attention to Meijin's voice.

"Hey, someone hacked into the system!"

"And, the operator is in the building. See? But I can't make them out!"

"I told you so!"

"My God, we are so SCREWED!"

"NOW do we tell Meijin-san?"

"Yes! But who's going?" Everyone looked at Bob.

"W-wait! But why ME?!"

Henry shrugged. "Because you said so. So there." And they all plugged out.

Bob sweatdropped.

"Oh, shit. Screw them all. Assholes." Then he turned to contact his operator.

"So," Meijin was saying, "There's going to be a tournament in about a month, but before that, the day before, we are going to host an official ball, with all the major companies' presidents and vice presidents and so on."

"A tournament? And ball?" Melody asked quietly and looked at Aya. Aya shrugged.

"I guess so, then."

"During this ball, you'll meet the other Net Saviors there. Until then, you won't see much of them, because they'll be training for the preliminaries, same as you guys."

"Hai." They responded.

"Well, actually, because we are hosting the event, everyone passes, really. Just don't trip as soon as you walk up. Don't. And we've invited some people who kind of need to be here, like Yaito-chan. Mary Towa's coming too, not only because she's sort of important, but also because she has this older brother whose named Ryou, who's a Net Savior and a big favorite. He's, like, 22 years old, I think."

"Oh, my God. Asshole Ryou?!" Aya nearly shouted, barely keeping her temper down. "Hell, I care about Mary-chan, she was like my best friend, but RYOU? He's a basturd! A bass plus a turd! And I know it doesn't mean that, but STILL! HIM!"

"And how do you think I feel? I still hate his bitchy catlike girlish Navi. What is it anyways, female or male?" Melody commented.

"Oh, and you guys, Tohru and Dexao and your other friends can come, too." Meijin was saying, and Netto said,

"That's cool, Meijin-san."

"No need for formalities!" he said again, as he whipped his finger in Netto's direction. Just then, the door opened, and all heads turned to find a bulky guard, the operator of Bob the Guard, and, coincidentally, the bulky guard's name was Bobbert. Anyways, he told Meijin,

"Eguchi-san? Umm… Someone broke into HQ and they're somewhere in here. And, there's like this big hole in the area they came from, meaning that there's a big hole in the entrance to here. Yeah."

A pause.

"Oh! And, they hacked into our system and obtained something that we don't know and we have no idea what they look like.

Another pause, but longer.

"But... WHY didn't you catch them at first?"

"Well, Eguchi-san, you see, we forgot to call in replacements and took our break. It was for coffee, and that is very important. And Bob here said that all the Navi workers were all on break, too, even the replacements, because of this weird yet touching anime called Sailor Moon. It made me cry before, you know?"

Silence.

An even longer pause, so long that... Whoa, I can't even describe it.

Then Meijin broke it.

"So let me get this straight," Meijin said with a creepy smile on his face to the terrified guard and his Net Navi as the Net Saviors watched in a slight mix of amusement and horror.

"First, you let someone hack into our system, and destroy part of the area.

"Second, you let them steal some data of something that we probably need but can't identify.

"Third, you didn't see who they were. No evidence. Nothing. And whatever there actually was, you guys CAN'T FIND!" he was practically screaming his head off now, as Bobbert and Bob cowered in fear and screamed 'Sorry, sorry, we're so SORRY!!" And in an air vent someone smirked, contrary to the other NS there.

"You know, Bobby –" Meijin started ranting again.

"Well, sir, it's Bobbert, actually…" Bobbert started.

"Shut up!"

Silence.

"Anyways, Bobbert, I don't need to hear anymore of this BS!"

"Wai- what? BS? What's that?"

"Bull shit, Bobberina, bull shit. I really don't want to relive another humiliating event like that fire alarm one. Go back and check it out with the others, unless you want me to change my mind and make you very damned sorry and –" he didn't finish, as Bobbert was out in record time.

"Whatever. Guys, go check it out, too, while I make myself and the other adults coffee. With LOTS of sugar crap. Go, go." And they all left.

"Do you think we can go out yet?" Melody asked Aya.

"Soon, but not yet. Melody," Aya asked, "What DID you take, anyways?"

"Oh, nothing." Melody giggled. "Just something that they might need for their ball. I took some data that was for some big event, and it said some crap about a ball. Now I know why it said so."

Aya rolled her eyes. "Great, just great. Shh, Melody, someone's coming!" They froze.

Enzan walked into the room, looking around the seemingly empty area. "Blues, what is it?"

"Well, Enzan-sama, you know how you felt uncanny earlier? Well, I just did, too. It also just seems like something's HERE right now. In this room."

"Hey, you know what else is weird, Blues?"

"Nani?"

"Well, the air coming from the vents isn't even like usual. It kinda reminds me of what Oka-san and Oto-san would say when they knew we were in the vents, but didn't spoil Aya's and my fun. 'Say, the air vents are acting up again. I wonder why?'"

"…Enzan-sama?"

"You think so too?"

"Yeah."

Enzan took a deep breath and said, "Neechan, what are you doing here? And why are you in the air vents? And you guys are the so-called invaders, right? Melody, what did you take again?"

Silence.

Silence.

Silence.

"Stop spoiling all my fun, Enzan-chan!" a shout came from the air vents. "Now help me out!"

"Heh." Enzan smiled and walked over to the vents, taking the panel off the covering. Aya squirmed out, and dusted off her clothes. Her dress was sort of dirty now. She groaned.

"Now I have to wash this! It's hideous. Now stop LAUGHING!"

"Yeah, yeah. By the way, nice board. Anti-grav?"

"Yes. And, I have some programs to install into Blues. You have some for Melody?"

"I do. Specially customed for her. And, I finished up my part of our special project. Did you finish your part?"

"Yeah. Did you hear that Ryou's coming with Mary?"

"Yeah, I did. Hell, I'm gonna murder him as soon as I see him."

"No, you won't since that's Blues' job. They were rivals, right?"

"Right. Until Blues died, of course. But that'll be fixed as soon as we finish that program."

"Same for Melody, too."

"How're you going to fit in with the others? I mean, you're in here, coming out of nowhere, and then you need a new name as to not seem related to me."

"Easy. You'll see how. Ja ne, then. See you soon." Aya got out her board, and Enzan opened up the window.

"So I'll see you soon? Melody too?"

"Yeah. Don't say anything about this. And play along as if we've never met, 'k? cause Daddy'll have a heart attack when he sees all of us together."

"Sure… wait, you RAN AWAY?!"

"Yeah. So? Nothing you can do about it, otherwise, when I'm caught, I'm bringing you down with me. That being said, wanna help me?" Aya asked, as she got ready to step out.

Enzan sighed. "Fine. I don't have another choice, anyways."

Aya smiled. "Good. And by the way, I'm known as Mitsuki now. Aya Mitsuki." And she left.

~Next Day~

"Well," Meijin sighed, "We didn't find anything yesterday. And, I found out we have to have at least one or two more Net Saviors in our group to be able to participate." A collective groan came from pretty much all the NS. Meijin brightened.

"But, we found one other person who's willing to join. She comes from a wealthy family too, so she's staying in a mansion. She also has the Crest of Duo on her right hand, too. She's new to town. You can come in now." Meijin motioned his hand to the door, indicating, 'C'mon in'.

A girl with dual-colored hair entered, looking much like Enzan. She looked adorable, as did her Navi. She had oceanic blue eyes, a gothic-lolita style dress on, cute black boots, and a pale, neon-orange haired Navi on her shoulder, holographic, that had a clear see-through blue visor on, and matching blue boots with a matching short dress that coordinated with her blue eyes. The girl smiled, particularly in one Net Savior's direction, but the others didn't notice this. She smiled again at all of them. Enzan smirked. Great idea, he thought.

"Hello, and nice to meet you. I'm Aya Mitsuki, and this is my Navi, Melody. It's a pleasure to meet you all."

I had a lot of ideas for this chapter, but decided to go with this one! It took awhile to me, though. Sorry! Oh, and Melody's Navi data is like a blue musical note on a staff on an orange background.

Thanks for the review! ~3