Part 3
Note to readers: Now I would like to say to everyone that I'm sorry that I took so long to update this story, but I've been focusing all of my attention on trying to pass my C+ class that I didn't have all of the time that I thought I have. I hope that you all understand. I also would like to point out that for when I've dedicated my story to Maxus-the-Fox's friend called Fyro-15, it turns out that it was nothing but a prank by someone named Fenix91 in the site I can't believe that I've allowed myself to be tricked that easy by someone with a bad sense of humor. Anyway, I would like to thank the group named Generation-A for their continued support. I would also like to say that I have tried my best to make the pirates in this chapter as good as I could. I hope that you all like this next chapter. Oh, and birthday is today. That's it. Now enjoy!
As he tried his best to regain his eyesight, Lan started saying to everyone in the room as he rubbed his eyes in order to regain his full sight.
"Did you all see that! It's the same light that I was talking about from before!" the head-banded boy shouted as his eyesight started to return to him, "This emerald is the cause of it and it now shines with a strange green light! Now that all of you could be sure that it's not like any other jewel that any of you have ever saw!"
As he waited for a response, he heard his Net Navi starting to say to him with a calm and yet shocked tone in his voice.
"Whatever it is Lan, I think that it's stopped," Megaman responded to his operator just before Lan was finally able to regain his sight and looked at his Navi through his P.E.T.'s screen, "That emerald that you were holding caused the same magnetic field that cut off my cybernetic communication with you as it did before. Whatever force that gem just released seems to have an effect on all other electrical appliances near by it as well."
"Not to mention that it also cut off our way back into our own P.E.T.s as well," said the voice of the pink Navi Roll as she suddenly started to appear on the screen of Maylu's P.E.T., "Good thing that it faded like it did or otherwise we would've...!"
Before the pink Net Navi could have a chance to finish, Lan started to hear the voice of his teacher Ms. Mari saying out loud while at the same time seeing her trying to regain her eyesight, "Could someone please tell me what's going on around here? I was about to scold Lan for being late for the meeting when suddenly a bright light appeared out of nowhere and blinded my eyes!"
"It was all caused by that stupid green emerald that Lan has, Ms. Mari!" he heard Dex shouted out as he saw the huge kid continuing to rub on his eyes in order to regain his own sight. "Lan was showing us this strange but cool-looking emerald just before he told all about these strange looking aliens that...!"
That was all that he heard before hearing his brown-haired friend Tory saying to all of them with a sort of shaky and fearful tone of voice, "Uh, is it just me or does everybody else seeing a bunch of guys dressed in pirate costumes in this classroom right now?"
As soon as he had heard those words, the head-banded boy soon found himself looking all around the entire room and saw what appears to be a group of grown men wearing what appears to be pirate costumes. Lan also noticed that the people appeared with a green eerie aura surrounding their entire bodies. He then started to notice one final detail about them: the fact that their bodies appeared like that of ghosts.
"Uh, Lan? D..d..d..did Tory just say that there are pirate ghosts in the classroom?" Megaman asked his operator with a frighten tone in his voice as he tried to hide himself within the safety of the P.E.T.
"Well, whatever they are, they sure don't look friendly!" Dex responded to the blue Net Navi with the same frighten tone in his voice, "If all of you want my opinion, they look like pirate ghosts!"
"Pirate ghosts!" said Megaman with fright as the blue Navi ducked out of sight behind the screen of Lan's P.E.T. "Please somebody tell me that that's not true!"
"Don't be ridiculous, Megaman!" said the tiny Eskimo type Navi with a disguised tone of voice, "There's no way that those could be pirate ghosts and, for you information, they're called ghost pirates!"
"No, Iceman, they're pirate ghosts!" Lan heard Roll responding with a shout as the boy noticed the pink Navi's voice becoming a bit annoyed. "Just how many times do we have to go over this before...!"
"Now is not the time for the two of you to start arguing about this, Iceman!" Lan heard Tory saying to his Navi as he saw his friend lifting his own P.E.T. up his face, "Right now, we all have to concentrate on how to get out of here without having to deal with those weird-looking pirates!"
"Tory's right, Roll!" he heard the voice of his long time best friend saying to her Navi while at the same time feeling panicked about the situation. "We have to keep our heads together in order to find a way to get away from those pirate ghosts things or whatever they are!"
"Don't be ridiculous, you two!" Lan heard his teacher saying as he turned his attention towards her attention and saw Ms. Mari walking towards the group of pirates, "I'm sure that they're nothing but a bunch of trouble making young teenagers dressed up as ghost pirates or whatever they're called so that they could just scare a bunch of people and cause trouble! Okay everyone, the joke's over! If you all don't stop..!"
Before the teacher could have the chance to finish the rest of her sentence, as if responding to her question, one of the glowing green pirate began to take out his sword and swiped it towards Ms. Mari's direction. Fortunately, Dex was able to get her out of the way just in time before the sword's long and rusty looking blade could have a chance to slice through her or a part of her attire for school. That was when Lan heard his large friend began to talk to the one who attacked his teacher with his sword.
"Hey, buddy! You shouldn't be swiping a plastic sword at a teacher like that, even if she does give us a ton of homework!" Dex began to say to the strange glowing green figures with an angry tone while at the same time sounding brave. "Now, are all of you here to start some trouble or are you punks here to..!"
As if responding to the balled man's question, Lan saw the same pirate who swung his rusty-looking sword at Ms. Mari began to swipe his blade towards the huge fat kid. Luckily, the sword just barely missed him by an inch just before it could have made contact considering his size. In response to this, Lan began to ask the pirate fiends that just attacked that looked as if he were a deranged psycho.
"Hey, pal! What's your problem!" the boy shouted to the glowing green pirate, "There's no need for you to start a fight and swing your plastic sword at Dex and Ms. Mari like tha...!"
Before he could finish the rest of his sentence, Lan started to see the pirate turning his full attention towards him and said to him, "Arrr! Now listen here, land lover! We don't take orders from young know-it-all lads like you or a woman with buns on her head! We only came here for that emerald that you're holding onto! Now hand it over or you and your land lovin' friends are going to walk the plank over the seas of time for all eternity!"
When the boy heard those words come out of the pirate's mouth, Lan soon began to think to himself while looking at the near-complete emerald in his hand, "Those creeps are after the emerald that I have in my hands? Now I know that I'm losing it or I must be having a dream and sleeping in my bed while MegaMan is trying to get me up for school! But then why...?"
Before he could have a chance to finish his thought, Lan began to hear the shouts of one of his friends. Before he realized that the scream came from Maylu, Lan was suddenly attacked by the pirate that tried to slash his sword at Ms. Mari and Tory. Luckily, the sword blade that the strange pirate slashed with missed him by a hair, literally. When the boy recovered from the assault that the green glowing pirate delivered, he immediately began to put two and two together as he began to shout out to everyone in the room.
"That sword isn't made of plastic! It's the real thing!" Lan shouted to everyone in the room as he saw the same pirate that slashed at him slowly walking up towards his direction as the green glow around the man began to grow brighter.
"Arr! Alright, land lover!" the pirate began to speak to Lan as he or it pointed his rusted blade at the boy's throat, "I'll give you one chance to hand over that Chaos Emerald that you have in your hand. Gaarrrr! If you do that, then you along with all of your little friends could go free without any harm and won't have to hear from us ever again."
"Chaos...Emerald?" Lan began to ask the pirate with a confused look on his face as he pointed to the near completed green gem, "You mean that's the name of this jewel over here? What's so important about..?"
Before he could finish the rest of his sentence, Lan heard the voice of his blue Net Navi saying to him while still shaken with fear. "Lan! Just do what that pirate says and give him that emerald!" MegaMan said to his operator while Lan saw that the Navi still hid behind the screen of the P.E.T. 3 for protection, "If you don't, then you won't know what could happen to all of us! Besides, he's still giving me the creeps!"
"Arrrrrgh! I would do what your little blue friend in the blue box says, little boy," the pirate said to Lan with an evil looking grin on his bearded face, "If you refuse to co-operate with us, then I'm going to have the rest of my friends to..."
As if to finish the rest of his threat, Lan saw the glowing green pirate began point his index finger towards a plant that Ms. Mari had on the brown desk on days that he would normally sleep through class. Before the boy knew what was happening, he saw a beam of intense green light shoot out from tip of the finger and vaporized the green plant that was once on the wooden desk. As he was frozen still at the sight that he witnessed, Lan began to quiver a bit in fear as he saw the pirate beginning to point his index finger at him.
"Well, what is it going to be, matey?" the pirate asked him as he continued to eye Lan with a menacing look on his ugly looking face, "Are you going to hand over that emerald to me or suffer? Or rather, maybe all of us should make your friends suffer for your wrong choice. Arrr! It seems as though you have no other choices to go by. You have two minutes! Arr! Har! Har! Har!"
With those words said and done by the pirate, Lan thought hard about what to do in his situation. "Man! This is the most intense situation that I've been in!" he thought to himself as he began to watch helplessly as the pirates began to pull out their swords and pointed them towards every one of his friends, "This is even worse than all of those times that I've have to face World Three, Gospel, Nebula, and Neo World Three put together.
"But then again, who says it has to be? That creepy ghost pirate said that if I hand over this Chaos Emerald to him, then he and the rest of those creepy ghosts would just go away. Guess that makes the decision pretty obvious then."
With his thoughts done, Lan began to turn his full attention back towards the ghost pirate leader as he extended his arm with the green emerald inside his hand.
"Alright, then," the boy began to say to the green glowing pirate as he walked closer to the goon with the emerald in hand, "once I hand this emerald to you, would you and the rest of your pirate group leave me and my friends alone and never come back?"
"Arrrrrgh! Of course we would, matey," the pirate responded to Lan's question with a smirk on his bearded green face, "Just hand over the emerald and I promise that we'll just disappear like a bad dream. Isn't that right, boys?"
As a response, Lan heard the voices of the other ghost-like pirates responding with an, "Arrrrrgh!" along with a nod all together in unison. With a big gulp of his throat, the boy began to walk closer to the pirate leader as his hand with the green emerald in his hand came closer with green hand of the pirate's.
Just before he could have a chance to drop the green gem into the hands of the leader, Lan suddenly started to hear the voice of a young man shouting to him, "No, kid! Don't listen to what that ghost guy says to you! If you give that emerald to that guy, this world is doomed with you and your friends along in it!"
"What the...!" was all Lan could shout out before he began to back away from the ghost pirate leader with the emerald still in his hand as he looked around the room to see who was the person that shouted to him.
Lan looked at his group of friends that the rest of the now-bewildered green ghost pirates held hostage and began to wonder about the voice that shouted to him just now. He knew that the voice sounded male so it couldn't be either Maylu, Yai, or Ms. Mari. He also noticed that the voice sounded like that of a teenager's so then he ruled out both Tory, Dex, and Rush since the cyber dog isn't even human. Before he could think more about the voice, Lan heard the voice of the his blue friend MegaMan shouting to him while still having a spooked tone in his voice.
"Lan! What in the world is happening over there?" shouted MegaMan from within the P.E.T. as Lan grabbed the personal terminal and looked at the screen with the blue Navi appearing while still quivering a bit in fear. "Why didn't you just hand that emerald over to that pirate so that this nightmare would end? Why did you listen to that shouting voice anyway?"
Before the boy could answer his blue friend's question, he heard the voice of the pirate leader shouting to him with an annoyed tone in his voice, "Arrrrrgh! Don't just stand there, laddy! Just give me that emerald and we'll leave you and all of your friends alone like we promised!"
Lan started to turn his full attention towards the pirate leader with the realization of the truth that he heard in the young man's words. The young boy soon came to the conclusion that the green ghost or the rest of his gang would just kill him and the rest of his friends as soon as they got what they wanted. The shouting of the male teen that he heard just confirmed Lan's suspicion. But he couldn't tell if the voice that shouted to him was either on the side of good or with the ghost pirates. However, it didn't change the fact that his friends were being held hostage by a bunch of ghosts dressed as pirates.
"Man! I don't know what to do!" Lan thought to himself as he looked helplessly at his friends still being held captive by the green phantom pirate group with their swords pointed at them while gripping the partly-completed emerald in his hand in confusion. "Now that I know that these bunch of rip-offs for Black Bread's crew would kill all of us either way, I don't have a clue of what to do! If only there was...!"
Before Lan could have a chance to finish the rest of his thoughts, he heard the voice of the pirate leader saying to one of the members of his group, "Arrrrrgh! I'm starting to grow impatient with these little game! Mr. Bones! Bring in the girl with the pink reddish hair to me!"
At first the boy was confused about who the pirate leader was talking about. That was when the answer suddenly came to him in the form of one of the pirates, who was nothing but a skeleton with a pirate costume and sword, bringing in Maylu from within the group of his friends.
"Maylu!" Lan shouted with shock as he saw the moving skeleton pulling Maylu towards the leader's direction and scowled at him. "You coward! Let her go! I'm the one that you're dealing with, not her!"
"Arrrrr! Well, it seems that the lad here has a soft spot for this little lady, fellas. Arrrrr! Arrrrr! Arrrrr!" the green pirate leader said with a laugh as Lan saw him grabbing the red-haired girl, "If that guy wants to see this girl in one piece then he would have no choice but to hand over that Chaos Emerald to me right this instant."
With those words finished by the leader, Lan was about to willingly hand over the near-completed emerald within his hand to the pirate leader when he saw a sudden eruption of green light appearing out of nowhere. Then, before he could have a chance to figure out what was happening, Lan saw a beam of intense green energy shot out of nowhere and freed Maylu from the ugly ghost's grip as it torn through his hand.
Sylphiel and Miguel both continued to run towards the place where they detected the strong disturbance of Chaos Energy that they've both felt for when the two of them were in the back of the building before. But on the way, Sylphiel noticed that her friend Miguel was feeling a bit tense as they both continued to run towards the source of the great amount of Chaos Energy.
"He did seem a bit shocked for while we were running," the shrine maiden thought to herself as she stood by her male friend with a look of concern as both she and Miguel looked over at the open door. "He looks as though he had seen this world from before. But that shouldn't be possible since he hasn't actually been here before. I guess..."
Before the shrine maiden could have a chance to finish the rest of her thoughts, she suddenly found herself cease running as she saw Miguel stopping in his place. Sylphiel then saw her male friend beginning to slowly walk up towards an open door. As she walked up slowly behind Miguel who was looking at the door, the shrine maiden began to wonder why he stopped and looked at the door that was open in front of him. Before she could ask about what was going on, Miguel started to gently cover her mouth with his hand before he began to whisper to her.
"Shh! Listen to what's happening over there, Sylphiel," he said to Sylphiel with a quiet tone of voice as he carefully leaned his ear close to the open door. "You'll soon see what I mean for when you hear what they're saying."
The shrine maiden obeyed by leanning in her own ear right next to her friend as she began to listen in on what Miguel was listening to. What she heard was the voice of what appears to be a bandit talking to a person.
"Arr! Alright, land lover!" Sylphiel heard the voice of a man saying to someone with a terrible and crooked voice, "I'll give you one chance to hand over that Chaos Emerald that you have in your hand. Grrr! If you do that, then you along with all of your little friends could go free without any harm."
"Chaos...Emerald?" the shrine maiden heard the voice of a young boy asking the bandit with a tone of confusion in his voice, "You mean that's the name of this jewel over here? What's so important about..?"
"Lan! Just do what that pirate says and give him that emerald!" she heard the voice of another boy saying to his companion as he sounded a bit frightened but also sounds like he were a recording as well, "If you don't, then you won't know what could happen to all of us! Besides, he's still giving me the creeps!"
"Arrrrrgh! I would do what your little blue friend in the blue box says, little boy" Sylphiel heard the voice of the person the evil and terrible sounding voice saying while using a menacing edge in his voice, "If you refuse to co-operate, then I'm going to have the rest of my friends to..."
As she listened to the sound of swords being unsheathed from their resting places, the shrine maiden soon realized that whoever the person with the terrible and menacing voice was talking to were the two young boys who took the Chaos Emerald shards. The same young boys that Vector was raving about before she and all the others were awake. Before she could have a chance to ask Miguel about the situation that was developing, her friend then shh'ed her for when he turned towards her direction before he started speaking.
"I think that there's trouble stirring up in that room over there, Sylphiel," Miguel whispered to her with a calm and yet, worried tone of voice, "It's..."
Just before she could hear her friend beginning to talk, his words were soon cut short for when the shrine maiden heard the voice of the evil person saying to the young boy while keeping the menacing edge in his voice.
"Well, what is it going to be, matey?" Sylphiel heard the voice of the man saying to one of the two young boys as she continued to lean next to Miguel in order to listen in on the conversation, "Are you going to hand over that emerald to me or suffer? Or rather, maybe all of us should make your friends suffer for your wrong choice. Arrr! It seems as though you have no other choices to go by. You have two minutes! Arr! Har! Har! Har!"
For the moment, the shrine maiden was terrified for when she heard those words come out of the strange man's mouth. She also noticed the same reaction from Miguel for when she heard him gasp with horror as he heard those words. Before Sylphiel could have a chance to speak, Miguel started to say to her while keeping a calm tone in his voice.
"Stay where you are, Sylphiel," her friend said as he held his hand to her and began to lean in closer to the open door, "I'm going to check and get a closer look at what's happening. From the looks of things, I'd say that we've found the kid with the Chaos Emerald shards. However, it seems that someone else besides the two of us and the Chaotix are after the emerald shards. Whatever they might be planning to do with them you can be pretty sure that it's not going to be good. I want you to get ready for anything in case something bad happens, okay?"
As a response to her friend's question, Sylphiel nodded her head towards Miguel and waited patiently as she watched Miguel lean in closer towards the open door in order to listen in on the situation at hand.
As he leaned in on the open door for a closer look at the situation that was developing, Miguel began to see what he had suspected of seeing.
"Man! Just like I thought," the young man thought to himself as he looked at the quiet scene in front of his eyes, "Me, Sylphiel, and the Chaotix were transported into the world of the MegaMan NT Warrior/Exe. Rockman anime series takes place. What I'm also seeing is Lan Hikari holding a nearly-completed Chaos Emerald in his hand. That means that the emerald shards fused together for when the six of us arrived to this world. But what I don't know is what are those ghostly-looking pirates doing in that class room to..."
Before he could have a chance to finish the rest of his thoughts, Miguel heard the voice of Lan saying to the pirate leader while extending his arm with the green emerald inside his hand.
"Alright, then," Miguel heard the boy beginning to say to the green glowing figure as he saw the boy extending his hand towards the fiend, "once I hand this emerald to you, would you and the rest of the pirates leave me and my friends alone and never come back?"
"Arrrrrgh! Of course we would, matey," Miguel heard the pirate responded to Lan's question as he saw a smirk on his green-bearded face while turning to the rest of his companions, "Just hand over the emerald and I promise that we'll just disappear like a bad dream. Isn't that right, boys?"
As a response to the boy's question, Miguel heard the voices of the other ghost-like pirates responding with an, "Arrrrrgh!" while seeing them nodding their heads together in unison. While hearing a big gulp in Lan's throat, Miguel saw the young boy beginning to walk closer to the pirate leader as his hand with the green emerald in his hand came closer with green hand of the pirate's.
"Miguel, what's happening over there?" the young man heard the whisper of Sylphiel's voice asking him with a worried tone in her voice.
"I think that the boy who has the emerald shards is going to hand a near-completed emerald over to what appears to be green glowing pirates," Miguel whispered back to the shrine maiden as he saw Lan getting closer to the pirate leader, "Whatever they may be, I don't think that we should just stand aside and let them get a hold of that near-completed Chaos Emerald. If they do, then who knows what would happen?"
"Wait. What do you mean by...?" Sylphiel was about to ask before her voice was interrupted by Miguel.
"I'll explain everything to you and the Chaotix once we get that boy and the rest of those innocent people as well as the emerald out of here," he whispered just before he began to shout out to the blue bandana boy, "No, kid! Don't listen to what that ghost guy says to you! If you give that emerald to that guy, this world is doomed with you and your friends along in it!"
Miguel then scooted back away from the open door that he just yelled from while he had the shrine maiden to move away from the door as well. However, the two of them only moved a couple of feet from the open door in order to still hear what would happened next.
"Miguel, why did you yell like that?" Sylphiel asked him with a firm but calm whisper, "You know that everyone in that room heard your voice and one of those pirates that you saw could come over here and..."
Before he could hear the rest of the shrine maiden's sentence, Miguel heard her words being cut off for when he began to hear the sounds of footsteps coming towards the open door. Then the teen heard the voices of two of the green ghostly-looking pirates saying to one another with the same kind of pirate tone as their leader used.
"Arrrrr! The voice came from over here, Ravy Jones," the young man heard the voice of one of the approaching pirates saying to his comrade, "Whoever was the one that yelled is going to be in the depths of Hell for when we're through with him! Arrrrr! Arrrrr!"
When he heard those words, Miguel began to back away from the open door and whispered to Sylphiel, "Sylphiel, grab onto my hand very tightly! I'm going to warp the two of us to a place nearby using the Chaos Control. I'm not so sure where I'm going to end up, but I'm hoping that it would be some place that's not here."
He saw the shrine maiden agreely nodded in response to his question. Then, while grabbing a hold of her hand, Miguel began to concentrate his mind on saying the two words in his mind that would allow him to use Shadow the Hedgehog's special ability.
"Chaos Control!" Miguel thought quickly just before both he and the shrine maiden were surrounded by a green aura of light before they once again found themselves traveling within the fabrics of time and space to a safe destination.
After a moment of traveling through the green tunnel with his eyes closed, Miguel began to open both of his eyelids and saw that both he and Sylphiel are on the very rooftops of the school building that they were once in. Before he could have a chance to ask the shrine maiden if she was okay, the young man soon began to realize that he had his arms wrapped around the young woman's body without even realizing that he did. While blushing about the position that he was in, Miguel immediately released his hold of Sylphiel's body while at the same time turning his face away from her in order to hide the embarrassment.
"Damn! What was I doing!" he thought to himself as he tried to calm himself down from the embarrassment that he'd suffered whiel at the same time trying to get rid of the red color on his face, "For that matter, what was I thinking?
"I just wrapped my arms around an extremely beautiful anime girl! Not only that, but she could be about twenty years of age while you've just barely turned eighteen just as you're about to go to college at the same time! Oh, and let's not forget about the fact that she is probably the first girl that you've ever wrapped your arms around with on you own free will! Boy, this totally embarrassing! I wish that I...!"
Before he could have a chance to finish his thoughts, Miguel was suddenly startled by the voice of the shrine maiden saying to him, "Miguel, just where exactly are we? Where did you teleported us to for when you used the Chaos Control?"
When he turned to face Sylphiel's direction, he saw that her face was a bit rosy for when he faced her direction. The teen also saw the young woman's face shy and embarrassed. Before he could be taken back the reaction of the shrine maiden's face, Miguel began to say to her while trying to shake off his embarrassment, "(Ahem!) I think that I might've warped the two of us above of where we were, Sylphiel. If only I knew where here is, we could find out exactly how far are we from the boy with that near-completed Chaos Emerald that I just saw."
"Just exactly what do you mean by what you said about seeing a near completed emerald, Miguel?" Sylphiel asked him with a curious tone as he continued to look around the rooftops to see where they are.
"Here's what I think, Sylphiel," Miguel began say to the shrine maiden while continuing to scan the area that they were in, "I think that when you, I, and the Chaotix each came into contact with a shard of the Chaos Emerald, they must've been fused together for when we've arrived into this world. But what I couldn't figure out though is how did the Chaos Emerald shatter into pieces to begin with."
Just before he could hear Sylphiel's reply to his theory, Miguel suddenly heard the shouts of the green pirate leader yelling towards Lan with a more serious and angry tone of voice than before, "Arrrrrgh! Mr. Bones! Bring in the girl with the pink reddish hair to me!"
Miguel didn't need any more clues to hint to him that something terrible was about to happen. As soon as he heard the words, the young man began to turn his full attention towards the shrine maiden and said to her with a panicked tone, "Sylphiel, did you hear what I just heard? If you did, then that means that the boy along with whoever is in the classroom is going to be in trouble. Regardless whether he hands that Chaos Emerald over to those pirates or not."
"What are we going to do about it?" Sylphiel asked as he saw the young woman's face filled with concern. "We can't just stand here and do nothing."
"I think that we may have to attack those pirates in order to keep them from getting their hands on the Chaos Emerald as well as prevent them from hurting the boy and his friends at the same time," Miguel answered the shrine maiden with an anxious and serious tone, "If we don't, then everyone in that room is going to be killed by those pirates regardless of whether that boy hands over the Chaos Emerald or not.
"Not only that, but this entire world would be in danger if we don't act now. I'm going to use the Chaos Control to warp the two of us inside of the room. Once I do that, I want you to go over to the boy and get him along with his friends out of the room as far away from here as you possibly can."
"But what about you, Miguel?" He heard the shrine maiden asking him with a confused and yet worried look on her face, "What are you going to do while I'm leading those people to safety?"
At that moment, Miguel felt a bit hesitate to answer at first, but then decided to come clean with the young woman despite knowing what he must do.
"I'm going to try to fight off those pirates as best as I could, Sylphiel," the young man responded to his friend while turning away from her gaze at the same time. "I don't know whether or not it I'm going to make it, but I want you to get these innocent people to safety while I drive these pirates' attention away from you by attacking them."
"But Miguel..." was all Miguel could hear from Sylphiel's mouth before he cut her off with a more stern and commander-like tone of voice.
"No 'buts' Sylphiel. I don't want either of you or any one of those people getting hurt because you've felt concern for my safety. Is that clear?"
As he turned towards the shrine maiden in order to hear her response, what he saw was her face beginning to become a little sadden as she nodded in order to answer his question while not facing his direction. Miguel sighed a bit in order to get some of his hot air out of his system. The teen then started to feel ashamed for when he said those words to Sylphiel in a harsh tone that he used towards her. That was when he went over to his female friend side and gently placed a hand on her shoulder as he said to her with a more nicer tone of voice.
"Sylphiel, I'm sorry for the way that I've just spoke to you just now. It's just that I don't want you to get hurt like with what happened for when we both first fought with Nightmare Parasite. I guess that some of the pressure has finally gotten to me and just went out all at once. Look, the point is that I don't want you to get hurt because of what I did wrong or what I didn't do. So let's just help out these people before they get hurt and get them to safety. Afterwards, when we get a moment to ourselves, we could talk about it some more, okay?"
While seeing a nod of her head with a renewed smile on her face, Miguel began to smile back to her just as he took a hold of her hand while shouting out, "Chaos Control!"
Before he knew was happening, both he and Sylphiel are traveling through the green tunnel in between both time and space before arriving to save the day. When they finally arrived in the room, Miguel began to quickly point his index finger towards the pirate leader that was once holding a girl with pinkish red hair hostage and shoot out a beam of intense green light at his shoulder causing him to release his prisoner.
As soon as he arrived back at the Dentech City's main server, Bass suddenly stopped for when he soon felt the energy that he was detecting disappeared from his sights again. The Black Shadow Navi became enraged at the fact that he once again lost the energy source that he searched for. So enraged that he almost bursted into a fit of anger that could be enough to cause the entire Cyber World to tremble and quake with the huge vibrations of his enormous power.
"I was so close with trying to gain the great power I've sensed and now I've lost it once again!" Bass thought to himself as he felt his entire body pulsing with his own power along with his anger. "Just how is it that I was able to find this power one minute and lose it in the next! Just where in the world could this great power be!"
As if to answer his question, the Black Shadow suddenly felt a sudden jolt of energy surging all over his body for a moment before fading out of existence again. This in term calmed the Navi's anger enough for him to think clearly about what he just sensed.
"This power that I'm sensing isn't like the others," Bass thought to himself as he became curious of the new source of power that he's feeling. "It feels as though the fabric of time and space is trembling before this source. But this source doesn't feel as frightening as the first one that I've sensed. It feels gentle and yet very powerful as well.
"Whatever this is, it hasn't disappeared completely like the others. It's as if this source of power is begging me to come search for it. Well, I can't let an opportunity like this to just slip through my fingers again. I have to get there and see what is causing this enormous amount of energy. Then, once I found the source, I'll be powerful enough to not only conquer the Cyber World and the Human World. Nothing would be able to stand in my way. Not even MegaMan and that dumb Net Op of his."
With those thoughts done in his mind, the Black Shadow started to speed his way through the Cyber Link towards the source where he sensed the powerful disturbance and continued to wonder just what caused the surge of energy that he just felt.
When both she and her friend finally appeared at their destination, Sylphiel began to look around the room that they were in and saw what she expected. What she saw was a group of people who were in fact composed of a group of young kids along with one female adult. She also saw that the room is also filled with creepy male pirates that glowed with a evil-looking green aura that surrounded their bodies.
But before she could have the chance to look around the area any further, the shrine maiden suddenly saw her friend starting to shoot a beam of intense green light with this index finger towards what appears to be the leader of the gang of pirates. As soon as the beam collided with the fiend's shoulder, Sylphiel saw that the villain suddenly releasing his grip of his hostage, who was a girl with pinkish red hair, and screamed with pain as he gripped onto his own wound.
"Sylphiel, go and get out of here now!" she heard Miguel saying as she saw him in a fighting pose while unseathing his Star Sword at the same time, "Get those two along with their friends to safety while I take care of these pirate scum bags in order to buy you the time you need to escape from here!"
The young woman felt a bit hesitant about leaving her friend's side to do battle with a group of green pirate men by himself. But she then decided to do what he said and prayed that Miguel would come out of it alive. Before she could have the chance to say for him to be careful, the shrine maiden saw the girl who was once being held captive by the group leader shouting to her while see her drag the boy with the Chaos Emerald in hand by his other hand, "Let's just do what your boyfriend says and get our butts out of here, lady!"
While feeling a bit flustered at what the young girl said to her, Sylphiel followed the two young kids towards the rest of the group of people who were still frozen with shock about what just happened in front of their eyes.
"Now what in the world just happened here!" she heard a woman who appears to be wearing her brown hair with two buns saying out loud. "First Lan shows up late while holding a strange green emerald in his hand that shines with an enormous amount of light. Then, these green pirates appear out of nowhere and threaten to hurt us if Lan hadn't turned in that emerald in his hand, and then...!"
That was when Sylphiel began to interrupt the woman by saying to her with her usual polite tone of voice, "I think that we'd better save all of the explanations for after all of us get out to safety, Miss! There would be plenty of time for me to explain everything once we all get to someplace safe away from this area! So please get a move on!"
"Hey, wait a minute! Aren't you that girl that I've just saw in the alley with those mutant aliens a while ago?" she heard the boy, who was still holding the Chaos Emerald, asked with a sort of frighten and curious tone in his voice as he got a closer look at her face. "It is you! Just who..!"
"Let's forget about that for now, Lan!" Sylphiel heard a younger girl shouting to her friend, "Right now, let's do as she says and run for it! Besides, she and her friend are here to help us, not kill us!"
While seeing the rest of the group agreeing with the red-haired girl's suggestion, the shrine maiden began to lead them out through the door and ran in the hallways of the building.
"Excuse me, miss! What about that friend of yours?" she heard the voice of the one of the kids, a brown-haired boy with a yellow sweater, saying to her. "Shouldn't you go back and help him as soon as we get to safety?"
Before Sylphiel could have the chance to answer the young man's question, she suddenly heard the large kid with the strange shark-like hairdo saying to her, "Hey, babe! Do you really have a boyfriend? My name is Dex Oyama and I would like to go out with a pretty young lady like you."
"Dex! Now is not the time to start flirting with beautiful girls!" she heard the voice of a young little girl with blonde braids saying to her large friend. "We're being attacked by a horde of green pirates that might be ghosts with bad attitudes! So just shut you mouth and keep running!"
As she and everyone else continued to run for their lives, Sylphiel soon bumped into a hard object that made her fall onto the ground. When she landed the ground, the shrine maiden started to look for whatever was in her way while at the same time trying to regain her mind's senses. That was when she heard a familiar male voice saying with an angry tone, "Man! Who's the punk that just rammed me into me like a wall this time! When I get my hands on him, I'll..!"
"Whoa! Whoa! Chill out, pal! It's not that the guy would want to do it on...!" That was all Sylphiel could hear from the person's companion right before she regained her full senses and heard his next words. "Sylphiel! What are you doing here!"
As soon as she heard those words and faced whoever she accidently bumped into, she saw that it was none other than two of the members of the Chaotix, Vector and Mighty. But what she didn't expect was that the two Mobians were being accompanied by a tall man with glasses that looked as though he didn't comb his hair for about weeks or maybe even months. The shrine maiden soon noticed that he was on the ground just as she while at the same time trying to find the glasses that were on his face. That was for when the priestess realized that he was the one that she bumped into by accident and caused his glasses to fall off of his face.
"Oh! I'm so sorry, sir! I didn't mean to bump into you like that!" Sylphiel said to the person as she reached for the glasses on the floor and handed them to him while at the same time helping both herself and man off of the ground.
"Oh, that's alright," she heard the person say for when she saw him grabbing onto her hand as he put his glasses back on while at the same time getting onto his own feet. "It's just that I haven't been watching where I was going and..."
His words were soon cut off for when she saw the guy looking up at her with his eyesight back to normal. Sylphiel soon began to notice the man starting to blush for when he saw her face. She too began to blush for just before the shrine maiden saw the person started to drool over her like she was beautiful princess.
"Why, you're the most beautiful girl that I've ever seen!" the man said to the shrine maiden as she was becoming a bit embarrassed at the praise that she just received. "I bet that...!"
"Now is not the time to be flirting with this girl, Honey Bee!" said Vector as he said to the person who just praised her right before her very presense with a rather miffed and exhausted tone. "We got some wacky pirates on our tails that want to...!"
"Oh, let's forget about all the introductions and just run for it!" Mighty said with a panicked tone in his voice as Sylphiel started to look at where the two mobians just came from and saw another group of pirates running towards their direction.
"Oh, great! Just our luck! First we saw a beautiful girl being accompanied by a guy with a sword, then two of the aliens show up with Mr. Higsby, and now this!" she heard the boy named Lan saying out loud with a tone of annoyance before she saw him turning his full attention towards the huge talking crocodile and saw his face turning pale just before he screamed. "Ahhhh! That's the mutant alligator that both me and MegaMan saw in the alley behind the school cafeteria! I told you all that he was real!"
"Hey! I recognized that voice!" Sylphiel heard Vector starting to say as she saw him turn his huge-mouthed face towards Lan's direction while at the same time grabbing him by the shoulders and started to shake him like crazy. "You're that punk kid that took the emerald shards away from us as well as have the nerve to call me a mutant alligator! For your information, I'm a crocodile, not an alligator! Secondly, I'm not a mutant alien either!"
"Vec, now is not the time for this!" she heard the black and orange armadillo saying to his friend while she saw him prying the crocodile's grip away from the head-banded boy's shoulders. "You could settle your score with this kid this later for when we get out of this mess! Right now, we're all surrounded by a band of ghost pirates that want the Chaos Emerald for their own! Just how are we going to get ourselves out of this mess?"
"I think that I know what to do about that, Mighty," Sylphiel answered to the Mobian with a calm voice as she turned her full attention towards the young boy named Lan, "Excuse me...uh, Lan wasn't it? Can you please hand over the Chaos Emerald that you have in your hand? I'm going to need it in order for all of us to escape from here."
As soon as she was finished, Sylphiel began to noticed the head-banded boy beginning to blush for as he continued to look at her while at the same time staring into space. Just before he could have the chance to say anything, the shrine maiden started to see the red-haired young girl beginning to pinch him right in the ear just as she said with a panicked and annoyed tone, "Lan! This is not the time to start spacing out like this! That girl is asking you to hand over that emerald! So do as she says and give it to her now!"
When she heard the young girl finishing her sentence, Sylphiel saw Lan quickly snapping himself back into reality and started to quake in fear for when he saw the frightenly mad expression on her face. She saw the boy quickly turning back towards her direction and handed her the green near-completed Chaos Emerald that was in his hands as she sweatdropped at what she just saw. As soon as she felt the emerald within her hand, the shrine maiden suddenly felt the incredible energy of the Chaos Emerald surging throughout her entire body.
Then as soon as the energy began to subside, Sylphiel started to speak calmly to everyone as she looked around and saw the hordes of the glowing green pirates approaching them, "I'm going to have to ask everyone to hang onto me and each other tightly for while I start to perform the Chaos Control to transport all of us to safety. Just fair to warn you, it could be a bumpy ride!"
"Chaos Control? What's that?" she heard the voice of the small blonde girl asking her just before she heard Vector answering her question while the shrine maiden continued to see the pirates starting to surround them.
"Little girl, I think that we ought to save the questions for later and just do as the young lady says," the crocodile said to the little girl while beginning to feel the hands of everyone around her grabbing onto her cape. "Alright, babe, it's all you out here! Now say the magic words and get us all out of here!"
Before Sylphiel could have the chance to say something in order to protest against what Vector just said, she heard the voice of Mighty saying to her with a reassuring tone, "Don't worry about Miguel, Sylphiel. I'm sure that the guy could take care of all of those things by himself. We've seen what he could do back then for when we've all met in his world. Just warp us out of here and we could worry about trying to find him later!"
As soon as she heard those words from the armadillo's mouth, Sylphiel soon began to remember the times that she saw Miguel fought against monsters that were far stronger than the ones that their facing at the moment. She then started to concentrate her mind on the task at hand. She felt great amounts of Chaos Energy surging throughout her entire body as she tried to find a location that was far enough from the group of green pirates that they were facing. When she finally found a desired location, the shrine maiden began to shout out to everyone, "Everybody please hang on to each other tightly because this is going to be a long and rough ride! Here we go! Chaos Control!"
With those two words shouted out through her mouth, the shrine maiden felt herself as well as all of the others in the group being engulfed in brilliance of green light. Before either she or her passagers knows what was happening, the young woman saw that she and the large group of people were being pulled along the tunnel of green light as they were being pulled towards their destination.
As he felt a huge surge of energy pulsing through his body, Miguel immediately recognized the reaction. He recognized it even as he continued to slash at the phantom-like pirates one by one with his huge mystical blade.
"Sylphiel just used the Chaos Control to warp herself out of here. I just hope that she took Vector and Mighty as well as all of the others along as well," he thought to himself as the teen gave off a long sigh of relief for as he clashed swords with one of the pirate that has one arm missing. "Can't seem to detect the presence of both Vector and Mighty life force anywhere near this area for when Sylphiel used the Chaos Control. I guess that now that everyone is out of the area, I won't need to worry about their safety anymore. That also means that I could use the most powerful attack spell of astral magic to exterminate these ghosts with one attack! Well, here goes nothing."
As soon as he slashed at the pirate with the one arm out existence, the teen began to place his Star Sword back in its resting place and positioned himself to start chanting the words the Ra-Tilt. Time seemed to stand still all around his presence ceasing the movement of the large group of ghostly pirates.
"Souls that flow within the eternal and infinite,
ever lasting flame of blue.
Let all the power hidden deep within my soul
be called forth here and now!"
When he saw a huge amount of silvery light gathering within his hands, time around his being soon started again. Miguel then faced his full attention back towards the entire group of pirates and said to them, "Well, here's something that'll teach you Black Beard pirate rip-offs not to mess around with innocent people's lives! Now go to back to hell where you came from! Ra-Tilt!"
As soon as those words were right out of his mouth, the teen fired off a powerful amount of silver spirit energy towards the direction of the charging pirates. Before he knew it, as soon as his attack collided, the once threatening group of pirates began to fade out of existence from within the river of slivery blanket of energy being fired off towards their direction. After a moment passed, Miguel saw the bright light beginning fade out of his sight. When the light had fully faded away from within the room, the teen looked around and saw that not a single pirate phantom remained. He also saw that the room that he was in was still intact and untouched by the spell he just fired off.
"I guess that this means that I, as well as the people around this world, are safe. At least for now," Miguel thought to himself as he began to collaspe onto the ground and breathed in some air into his lungs while trying to regain his strength. "Boy, I guess that the last attack pretty much drained me of all of my strength and energy for when I've attempted to do that Ra-Tilt. I guess that I'm still not used to casting that spell with that much of my own power before.
"But that's not what I should be worrying about right now. What I'm worried about the most is if Sylphiel and all of the others have made it to safety alright. With Sylphiel using the power of the Chaos Control, they could be at almost anyplace. I guess I could just lay here for a moment and give myself some time to rest while my body has time to recuperate."
With those thoughts said and done, the teen began to look all around the class room and was amazed at what he saw. "Boy, it's so hard for me to believe that I'm right here in the room where Lan Hikari himself who, along with his Navi MegaMan, are the stars of..." that was all that Miguel could think of before he turned his full attention towards a small security camera on the wall and saw that it was facing his direction. Before he could have the time to think, the teen began to point his index finger towards the camera and shot at the lens with a piercing beam of white light.
"What the..! Just who was watching me just now?" Miguel thought to himself out loud as he began to pick himself off of the ground that he was laying on and tried to keep his feet's balance. "I know that the camera was on because of the way that its lens is moving around and facing my direction as if someone was watching me. I'd better rejoin Sylphiel and the others before the local authorities start coming around her to investigate. With the commotion that I've made by using the Ra-Tilt, I'm sure that someone was bound to notice it. Well, I'm outta here!"
With those words said and done, the teen began to concentrate on finding any traces of Sylphiel's own Chaos Energy. When he finally found the energy source that he was looking for, Miguel started to shout out the two words that would enable him to warp between the boundaries of time and space, "Chaos Control!"
As soon as he heard the human young man shout out those words from within the Cyber Matrix inside another hidden camera, Bass watched with both awe and interest as he saw the human vanishing from his sights within a huge brillance of emerald-colored light. The Black Shadow was amazed that a human was able to evade his sights just by disappearing within the enormous amount of green light that he just saw. He was also amazed by the large amounts of energy that he detected within the mysterious human for just before he lost sight of him.
"Just what in the world is he anyway?" Bass thought to himself as he continued to stare into the space that the human young man was once lying on before he teleported away. "Could he be the one that emitted one of the energies sources the I've felt from before?
"No, that's seems unlikely. How is it that a mere human like him would wield such power? It's just not possible. Humans are nothing but dirty apes that use Navis to do their work for them! Well, whatever force this might be, I have to keep pursuing my goal until that power is mine. Now that I know who was emitting the gentle energy that I've sensed, I'll just track down this human's energy and keep a close eye on him from within the shadows for the time being. I'll bide my time in order for me to seek out the perfect opportunity for me to claim that power for myself. I don't know when or how I'll do it, but I'll get that power by whatever means necessary. In the meantime, I'll just watch over that human and see what happens."
As soon as those thoughts were done, the Black Shadow disappeared out of the camera cyber mainframe and began his search for the human being that he sensed emitting the incredible amount of power that he sensed.
Just as he continued to hide himself from within the the large green bushes near the building, Dilgear began to sniff around the air of the area in order to see if he could find a trace of energy or astral energy within the area. From what he just saw a few moments ago, the part wolf and troll witnessed a sudden burst of silver energy being erupted from within a elementary school building that looked empty for about a few hours now. He wanted to get a sniff around the area before any of the humans within the world that he's in started to come around and investigate what just happened.
"Hmmm. The energy that I'm smelling around this area is very strong," the werewolf thought to himself just as he was finally able to pick up a trace of astral energy with his nose. "Not only that, but it seems that it was somehow manipulated in order to be fired off as some sort of spell. I haven't felt this sort of thing since my days with that no good betraying chimera, Zelgadis. But it's strange.
"From what I've heard from Nightmare Parasite in the past, neither the boy Miguel and Sylphiel don't have the knowledge or the strength necessary to use the most powerful spell of the astral plane: the Ra-Tilt. But from what I just saw a while ago, that definitely looked like the blast coming from that of a Ra-Tilt. I may not be able to cast spells like the Ra-Tilt, but I seen Zelgadis used it in the past enough times for me to know that it was stronger than usual. The residue that's left behind is still all around this place like a morning mist.
"Well, whatever I saw either the boy or girl do from within that building, they were able to defeat an entire group of those spiritaul pirates that Parasite sent along with me for when we arrived in this world before they left the area. They didn't even have a chance for when that Ra-Tilt hits its mark. But luckly, there are still more where those fools come from."
"Captain! Come over here!" Dilgear shouted out just before he saw strongly built male with a long but strong black beard on his chin along with a huge black captain's hat on his head appearing right in front of his presense while at the same time emitting a powerful green aura around his ghostly body.
"What is it, sir?" the black-bearded pirated asked while at the same time bowing at the werewolf like he was a loyal dog just before he answered. "For what task do yee want me to accomplish."
"I want you to have all of the remaining groups to start searching the streets for those brats that have the Chaos Emerald. Also, have them search the area for any traces of the boy Miguel and his woman, Sylphiel. When or if you find the slightest clue to their whereabouts, let me know. Don't start the attack without my command."
As soon as he was finished, Dilgear saw the glowing green pirate vanishing from his sights without leaving a single trace of his existence. Just as the werewolf was about to leave, he suddenly smelled something in the air that he hadn't noticed before. Something that didn't smell quite human.
"What is this weird stench that I'm picking up?" the werewolf thought to himself as he continued to sniff around the area to see where the astral sent that he picking up with his nose. "Whatever it was, it sure doesn't smell human. It doesn't have a physical presense in this plane but it sure wasn't no ghost.
"The energy that it's emitting is incredible. It's as if it were like one of the Monsters back in my own home world. But that's just talking crazy. Well, whatever it was, it's gone now. I'd better keep my focus on finding that Chaos Emerald as well as those two humans before they elude my sights again using that Chaos Control ability of theirs. Not that they could thanks to my new enhanced abilities and senses. Heh! Heh! Heh!"
With those thoughts done in his mind, Dilgear started to march out of the area quietly as he did his best to sneak into the darkness of the shadows without any of the people within the city to notice.
As she continued to walk back towards her own home after getting what she needs from the market, Haruka Hikari was suddenly startled for when she saw a pillar of bright green light appearing right near her direction.
"Now what was that all about?" she thought to herself as she approached the tower of intense light with a bit of curiosity crawling up her mind. "Whatever it is, I'm not too thrilled of finding out what it is. I just finish shopping for tonight's dinner and I can't image what would happen if Lan should miss one of my meals. I'd better get home before he..."
The woman's thoughts were soon cut short for when she began to see the pillar of light subsiding its brilliance before fully disappearing into the dark alley below. Just as she was going to give out a sigh of relief and resume her route back to her home, she suddenly began to hear the sound of voices coming from the alley.
"Hey Charmy! Watch where you're going!" she heard one of the voices that sounded like that of a teen. "You could really hurt someone while flying like that! What if someone would've caught a glimpse of you flying around like that! You know how the people of this world would react if they ever saw you!"
"Sorry, Espy. I was only flying towards the same location as you were just before we crashed into one another," Haruka heard another voice saying to his companion as she noted must be that of a six year old. "And for your information, I was flying just high and fast enough in order to be invisible to the people within the tall buildings and neighborhood! It was not my fault that I wasn't able to see you for while you were invisible!"
As she continued to listen to the voices that were being emitted throughout the entire alley way. For when she got closer to the source of where the voices were being emitted from, the woman saw two forms appearing from within the shadows thanks to the light that was being emitted by a broken street lamp. Just as she was almost approaching towards the two people, Haruka was finally able to see that the two friends that are arguing amongst each other were wearing the most strangest and bizarre costumes that she's ever seen.
One of the two looked like he was dressed as a small cute cartoon bee. He also seemed to be wearing a small fighter pilots outfit that came along with a pair of adorable goggles. She turned her full attention towards his other companion and saw that he was dressed as some type of lizard that didn't look as frightening as most lizards that she once studied as a teenager. He was all purple and green with a golden horn on the top of his forehead. He also wore a set of white gloves that make him look liked a ninja.
"Look Charmy, I'm sorry that I've went right into your flight path. But with the way that you fly around, it's like getting hit by a fighter jet. Now, we don't know just where we are and...," that was all that the woman could hear before she stepped up towards their direction and spoke to the two of them while startling them at the same time.
"Excuse me, but are you two kids lost or something? I would be most glad to help you both with how to get around this city if you want. I happen to know my way around this city. Now, could you both tell me where your parents live?"
The reactions that Haruka saw on the two boys' faces were that of both shock and disbelief about what she just said to them. After a moment of silence, the child in the purple costume was the first to say a piece of his mind.
"Uh, miss? What makes you think that we're kids?" the boy with the reptile costume said to her with a confused and yet annoyed tone in his voice as well as sounding like a teenager. "For your information, I happened to be about fifteen years old and Charmy here happens to be six. Then, we both just happen to crashed into one another while we were searching for something that we lost and..."
That was all that she could hear just before she spoke up to the two of them, "Oh, it must be a condition of some kind. Well anyway, I'm sure that whatever it is that you two were looking for, I'm sure that the police would be able to find it the next day or two. In the meantime, why don't the two of you come over to my house and have dinner with me and my son, Lan. I'm sure that he would be able to help you to find whatever it is that you're looking for as well as your parents."
"(Ahem!) Well, as much as we appreciate the offer, miss, but I'm afraid that we must decline," she heard the child in the purple lizard costume saying to her with a calm and serious tone in his voice. "I'm afraid that..."
That was when she heard the boy's words being cut off by the younger boy's voice as he spoke up with a teary eyed expression on his face, "Aw! Come on, Espio! The young lady just asked the two of us if we could follow her to her home so that she could give us some delicous food. Besides, I haven't eaten all day since that time that I've found that Cha..."
At that moment, Haruka started to become confused for when she heard the words of the small boy in the bee costume was being cut off by the one in the purple lizard costume covered the younger boy's mouth with his own hand. Just before she could have a chance to ask what was going on, the woman heard the purple-costumed boy saying to her, "Well, it looks like that we're going to be joining you after all, Miss. Once Charmy here starts to cry over something such as food, we'll never hear the end of it."
"Yay! Some chow!" she heard the eager voice of the small boy in the bee costume named Charmy saying as she saw him jumping up with joy. "Thanks, Espio, you're a true pal!"
"Yeah! Yeah! Just keep in mind that if Vector finds out about this, he's going to be chomping our heads right off," said the one named Espio with an embarrassed and cool tone just before Haruka heard the loud sound of a stomach rumbling loudly all across the alley. That was when she realized that the loud rumbling was coming from the boy in the reptile suit.
"Um, it looks like that Charmy isn't the only one who's hungry, young man," the woman said to the one named Espio with an cute chuckle just as she saw him facing down the ground in embarrassment with a shade of red on his cheeks. "You both must be hungry for traveling around the city this much looking for whatever it is you're looking for as well as your parents. Just come with me and I'm sure that those tummies of yours would be full in no time."
As soon as they both heard those words coming from the human woman's mouth, Espio began to reluctantly follow both her and a starry-eyed Charmy out of the alley. He could also see a bit of drool coming out of the young bee's mouth.
"I guess that I have no choice but to go along with this," the chameleon thought to himself as he followed both the woman and his little bee friend as they exited out of the dark alley while soon beginning to notice a thought that didn't occur to him sooner. "But what I'm more concerned about is what happened to that Chaos Emerald shard that both me and Charmy were after. Did someone get their hands on it before we could reach it? Whoever got it is asking for a whole lot of trouble if that thing goes out of control like it did before. I guess that all we could do now is just get some food to get our strength back so that we could go back to the others and..."
Just before he could finish his thoughts, Espio heard the shouts of a teenaged young woman shouting out towards him, "Whoa, Brad! Did you just see the two kids with the costumes? They must really trying to impress people for Halloween in order to dress that strange."
"You've said it, Kate!" responded the voice of a young man saying to his female companion as the purple chameleon scanned the area and saw that both he and Charmy were starting to attract attention. "I mean, look at those gloves that kid with the purple lizard suit is wearing! Come on! A lizard wearing ninja gloves? Now that's the most dumbest thing that I've ever seen!"
"Well, I think that the boy in the bumble bee outfit is simply adorable!" Espio heard the voice of a elderly woman saying while starting to gain up towards both the woman and his young bee friend. "That fighter pilot outfit is just the cutest thing that I've ever seen. It makes me want to give that little guy a big hug!"
"Well, at least some of the people of this world doesn't suspect that both me and Charmy are from another world," Espio thought to himself as he gave out a small sigh of relief before focusing on more important thoughts. "But what I'm more concerned about right now is just whose hands that Chaos Emerald shard is in right now. I just pray that whoever has it is smart enough to keep it in a safe place and out of sight. Otherwise there's going to be a huge mess that'll be enough to cause the apocalypse."
End of Part 3