Bass's Assault: The Chaotix Vs The Pirate Ghosts

by Maurice Elias A. Nigma

This is a first Rockman Exe. crossover fic that I've tried to do for my series of stories. It all starts for when Lan founds a shard of the most powerful gem in the Sonic Universe: A Chaos Emerald. What happens when Miguel, Sylphiel Nels Lahda, and SEGA

9. Chapter 9

Note to readers: I'm very sorry that I've been late with putting up this latest chapter. It's just that it's been very hard for me to catch up with both my work as well as my college Java assignments. That's the last time that I've travel with both my parents. Now, I would like to note that I did manage to put in the former members of World Three in this chapter and probably this story but it wasn't easy for me to do so. It's very hard for me to get more characters into the story, but then it would be too long for me to write. As for Shadow the Hedgehog fans, don't worry. I'll put in him and his new girlfriend in the next chapter. Also, there might be some references to the MegaMan X series in this chapter as well so I would like to say that it belongs to CAPCOM., not me. I've been in this type of situations before and I'm sure that I could pull it off. Now, I would like to thank the group Generation-A for their continued support and for allowing me to put in their characters Air Jay and Maliska into this fic. As I have mentioned in my previous chapters, the characters do not belong to me but belong to the owners mentioned in the first one. Now enjoy!

Part 9

Just as soon as he sensed a powerful surge of energy coming from the planet that he once nearly laid his judgement upon, Duo turned his full attention towards the direction where the blue planet Earth is located.

"What is this powerful energy signature that I'm feeling from within the earth?" the outer worldly navi thought to himself just as he continued to scan the planet to see where the energy originated from. "Whatever or whomever is emitting this energy is certainly powerful. But a human couldn't be responsible for emitting this type of power. I must head towards Earth in order to..."

Just before Duo could have the chance to finish the rest of his thoughts, he was suddenly shocked for when he heard a mysterious and human-sounding male voice saying to him in a rather urged tone in his voice, "I wouldn't dare to try to interfere with Master Arias's mission, Duo. Even as we speak, there is a conflict that would not only determine the fate of the planet Earth, but the fate of this entire universe as well."

"What do you mean by those words, human?" the huge advanced Navi said to whoever or whatever was speaking through him with such words telepathically. "Who are you to tell me what planet and race to judge or not? What is your business with the Earth and the humans that inhabit it?"

As if to answer his question, the huge space asteriod navi felt a sudden surge of great and unknown power flowing throughout space that his asteroid was surrounded in. Just as soon as the energy surge was finished flowing throughout the area that he was in, Duo felt as though that whatever was emitting this great power was draining the very energy out of his huge armored body. He also felt that the being that was emitting this strong and yet unknown power could crush him in mere seconds if it wanted.

"I'm one of the servants of the one that would save this universe as well as many others from destruction," the mysterious visitor said to the Duo just as he tried his best to regain the strength that he just lost. "I'm not a human being that you've just assumed. What you've just felt was only a small portion of the power that was once apart of a lord that ruled all universes long ago. Now, I've just placed a seal around the galaxy that contains the planet that you've once place your own judgement just to ensure that you wouldn't dare to interfere.

"It's only fair to warn you that if you plan to once again place your judgement upon the humans of that world, then you would be the one that would face the ultimate judgement by my hand. This is your one and only warning, Duo. I, along with my two other companions, have learned all about you and your ancient history. We've also learned all about your creation along with other knowledge about you throughout the many millennia that we've spent protecting our creator's most powerful weapon. So I would suggest that you keep your distance from the Earth before anything lethal would happen to you."

As soon as those words were said and done, the outer worldly Navi began to tremble for when he heard those last words said from his mysterious visitor. It was an emotion that he hadn't really experienced in all of the millennia that he had traveled through space. He then felt the powerful disturbance throughout all time and space beginning to disappear without leaving a single trace of its existence behind. All that Duo could think about was those words that the mysterious being said to him as he could still feel a bit of its power throughout his entire huge body.

As soon as he finally reached the office where Mr. Famous would usually be at, Lan sat down by a nearby chair and began to wait. Mr. Famous's office hasn't changed much since all of his recent missions. It was still filled with nothing but three monitors in order to see what his other agents were up to or for when he received their reports. Just as he felt that he was going to be stuck in the room for the rest of his life, the head-banded boy soon heard the door from Mr. Famous's office beginning to open. He soon found himself staring at both Chaud Eugene Blaze and Mr. Famous entering the room with serious expressions on their faces.

"So what's this all about?" Lan asked both of them while at the same time feeling nervous about what they were going to ask. "I mean, from what that e-mail said, you both wanted to talk to me about what happened yesterday. Why do I have to be a part of this investigation? Think that you could fill me in on the info, Mr. Famous?"

"Lan, how many times do I have to tell you that my real name is Famous?" he heard Mr. Famous saying to him with both a serious and annoyed tone in his voice just as the young boy saw the older adult going over to his desk and sat at his chair just before he saw him turning towards the huge video monitor. "Well, as for your question, some eyewitnesses that were at the scene at the time just happen to spot you heading towards the entrance of your school just before the large disturbances began. As soon as the Net Police were able to get to the scene, they didn't find any evidence of a terrorist act anywhere in DenTech Academy. Not even a single trace of explosives or devices that could cause a powerful magnetic field were found anywhere in sight. The only thing that was out of place were the numerous chairs and desks that were scattered in a strange way."

"That's where you come in, Lan," Lan heard Chaud adding to one of the commanders of the Net Savors's words just as the screen came to life and showed a distorted picture. "The only piece of evidence that we've got so far is this piece of phote data the we've retreived from the scene. However, it was corrupted from where caused the magnetic field and our specialists are doing all that they can in order to reveal the suspect's identity. We have reason to believe that you might somehow know something about this suspect from someone who reported in seeing you with someone last night."

That was when the head-banded began to sweat profusely for when he heard those words come out of the skunk-haired Official's words. Meanwhile, MegaMan in the cyber world was having his own confrontation with ProtoMan about the subject at hand. "What makes you think that Lan and I are involve in this, ProtoMan?" the blue navi asked his crimson companion with both a worried and yet nervous tone in his voice while fearing what he might have to say about it as well as trying to keep what he knew about the Chaos Emerald or the Chaotix to himself.

"The owner of a nearby electronic store reported seeing Lan near the facility at about 6:35 p.m. before another strange phenomenon occurred," answered the long and silver-haired Navi while at same time looking down on MegaMan as if he were in a middle of a police interrogation. "He said that he saw a male teen that looked to be about eighteen or nineteen with brown short hair while wearing a white shirt and blue pants walking by with Lan while at the same time noticing the guy acting as if he were watched. Fortunately, the disturbance that occurred at the time wasn't as powerful as the ones that we've experienced before that time. But that's not real reason why both you and Lan are here today, MegaMan."

Back in the real world, right after Chaud's same briefing about the case, Famous began to ask Lan with a serious tone in his voice while at the same time turning away from the pixel ridded image and turning towards his direction, "Lan, who was the person that you were with for when you were going home? He might have something to do with that suspect that could be responsible for all of those powerful magnetic interferences. For all we know, he could very well be the suspect."

Just as soon as he heard those words, the young boy started to sweat profusely just as his Navi did in the Cyber World. "T-T-The guy t-t-that was w-w-with me was a-a-a-a friend that just came f-f-f-from out of town," Lan replied nervously to both Famous and Chaud while at the same time being careful not to mention anything about Miguel, Sylphiel, or the Chaotix as well as anything that would fit with the Chaos Emerald. "Y-Y-Yeah! He's just an old family friend that came to visit in order to see how I as doing. That's it."

As soon as he finished his explanation, Lan saw that the eyes of both Chaud and Famous were on him like as if they were tigers all over their prey. The head-banded boy was growing more nervous and frightened with every moment that passed as the silence continued. As for MegaMan, he was having a similar situation with ProtoMan who was now staring down at him with his shade-covered eyes the same way as his black and white hair-colored NetOp and the scientist were.

"MegaMan, do you know something about this person that you're not telling us?" the red serious Navi said to his small blue friend as he continued to stare his visor concealed eyes down at his small blue frame. "He wouldn't happen to be that suspect that we're looking for, would he?"

"Hey, you know how Lan can't keep up with current events," MegaMan replied to ProtoMan with the same nervous tone of voice that his NetOp used while at the same time trying to avoid the subject. "I mean, how would he know all about that guy from the news that you're trying to catch? He's as clueless as any boy his age would get."

That was when the blue Navi heard a rather angry and annoyed voice coming from out of nowhere scrowling at him. He soon realized that the voice that he heard was Lan's, "MegaMan! I'm not as dense as everyone says I am! Why did you bring that thing up anyway!"

As he shrunk down to the floor in order to hide the terror and wrath that he was afraid that his human friend might bring, MegaMan soon noticed the rarely impful grin appearing all across Protoman's face. "Okay now, if the two of you are finished acting like a married couple, could we maybe continue with this investigation?" the blue bomber heard the voice of Chaud asking with a rather miffed and impatient tone in his voice.

In the real world, just as Lan felt an uneasy feeling crawling up towards his spine again from the stares that both Chaud and Famous were giving him, the feeling was soon forgotten for when he saw a steel-enforced, medium-sized, and yet light box in his rival's hand. "Hey, what's that you got there, Chaud? Is that your lunch box?" the head-banded boy asked his skunk-haired friend with both a curious and yet nervous grin on his face.

That was when he heard an annoyed sigh coming from the vice president of Blaze Quest Games as he spoke, "No, Lan, it's something that I think might be the source of all of the disturbances that's been going on last night. It's something that both me and ProtoMan have found while on our way to one of my father's own merger meetings. It was right behind a dark alley near some trash for when we saw it."

As soon as he heard those words come out of his former rival's mouth, Lan began to think to himself with a sort of clueless look on his face, "What in the world could Chaud be talking about? I mean, what in the world would cause a guy like him to look around in a pile of garbage that..."

The young Netbattler's thoughts were soon cut short for when he saw Chaud opening up the steel box and green light started to appear right before his wake. Before he could have the chance to think about what was happening, Lan soon found himself staring at a piece of what appears to be a shard of a Chaos Emerald emitting a green light that wasn't as strong as the one he'd felt before the first time. In the Cyber world, MegaMan and ProtoMan suddenly felt a powerful surge of energy sparking all over throughout the area that they're in. The blue Navi felt his entire body's data being scramble and broken apart as if they could do the best they can to keep together while at the same time feeling the pain.

"It's just like that feeling back for when both me and Lan found that Chaos Emerald yesterday," MegaMan thought to himself just as he did his best to endure the pain that came along with the energy before realizing what it was before realizing what he just thought about. "A Chaos Emerald! If that's what both me and ProtoMan are feeling right now, then that would mean that one is nearby!"

Back in the real world, Lan was too amazed at the fact that the last piece of the Chaos Emerald was right in front of his face that he didn't hear the numerous commotion being emitted from the outside of the office. "Just how in the world did Chaud manage to get the last piece of the Chaos Emerald?" the boy thought to himself just as he continued to watch the emerald shard that's in the holding box that Chaud's holding. "Not only that, but how did he manage to keep it safe all this time without either Miguel, Sylphiel, or even those crazy green pirate ghosts knowing about it?"

Just before he could think about anything else, the head-banded boy heard the voice of Famous saying to Chaud with a amazed and astonished tone in his voice, "Chaud, just where in the world did you managed to find a stone that emits this much power! The power that came from Bass doesn't even come close to what's causing the equipment right here to go haywire!"

As soon as he heard those words, Lan began to turn his attention away from the Chaos Emerald shard and saw that the electrical equipment that Famous has in his office was starting to overload with the energy that the emerald shard was emitting. From the way that cracks were appearing in the office, the boy knew that they would eventually blow up. That was when he finally snapped himself out of his shocked state and shouted out, "Chaud! Close the lid of that box right now! Trust me!"

He knew that the older NetBattler would be a bit relunctant to follow orders from a boy younger than him, but he also knew that now wasn't the time to argue. The light soon subsided and everything electronic within the area began to turn back to normal for as soon as Chaud closed the steel box. "Lan! What happened! I was cut off from the PET again!" he heard the voice of MegaMan saying to him with a rather panicked and worried tone in his voice. "It's just like yesterday for when the Chaos Emerald first appeared!"

The head-banded boy was soon in a panic for when he heard those words come out of his Navi's mouth. Just before he could have the chance to speak or scold MegaMan about what he just shouted out, Lan soon heard the voice of the skunk-haired vice president saying to him with both a curious as well as a serious tone in his voice, "Chaos Emerald? Lan, is there something that both you and MegaMan haven't been telling us? Do you know something about that green gem shard that we don't know about?"

As soon as he heard those words, the boy feeling both afraid and nervous for when he found himself being stared at by both Famous and Chaud with even more suspicious looks on their faces. As for MegaMan, he was sort in the same situation for when ProtoMan was staring at him like he was a harden criminal or something. "MegaMan, what really happened to the two of you yesterday for when you've went to Dentech Academy? It seems to me that you know all about that field that caused both of our bodies to malfunction like they did before."

The blue Navi felt so small for when he saw he saw red armored and silver-haired navi going up towards him like a giant. Back in the real world, Lan was sort of in the same situation with both Famous and Chaud as they both continued to look at him with the suspicious looks that they've kept on their faces. "Boy, am I in for it now," the head-banded Netbattler thought to himself while at the same time thinking of a way to get out of the situation that he's in now. "How am I going to get myself out of this mess? Boy, would I like nothing more than to have something that would cut in on this situation that MegaMan got us into."

As if to answer his silent prayers, Lan suddenly heard the sounds of loud sirens beginning to sound all around his commander's private office. Then the boy saw the huge screen behind Famous starting to come to life and before he knew it, he was looking at the huge image of the face of the learder of the Net Police Commissioner Kifune.

"Famous! Please turn on the surveillance video and watch what's happening on the surveillance right now!" he heard the older adult saying to everyone while at the same turning his full attention towards both Famous and Chaud who were facing their eyes towards another monitor that he didn't notice up until now before he silently thanked whatever force had answered his thoughts. Before he knew it, he was staring at a group of what appears to be attacking viruses appearing out of nowhere and attacking the entire city block with numerous attacks.

"A horde of virues is attacking the shopping district of the city!" he heard the head commissioner saying to all of them while at the same time sounding very serious. "We don't know who or what is behind these viruses's sudden appearance, but we have reason to believe that this might be the work of the same person that was responsible for the huge disturbance that was over Dentech Academy last night.

"Lan. Chaud. I want the both of you to get over there and tried rid these viruses as soon as possible before innocent bystanders get hurt! Also, if possible, see if you could find the one responsible for this phenomenon. Contact Mr. Famous to dispatch a Dimensional Area for as soon as two of you arrived at the..."

Just before he could allow the chief to finish those words, Lan began to quickly latch on his skates to the bottom of his shoes and skated his way out of the building while at the same time avoiding anyone who were in the way.

"The shopping district is where Yai told me that she's planning to hang out with Miguel and Sylphiel as well as the Chaotix last night!" Lan said in a panic while trying his best to get to the area that he heard Kifune talking about while forgetting about what Chaud and Famous would do to him if they found out that he just rushed to the scene without their consent. "Man, those viruses sure do pick a bad time to appear in the real world. But there's no Dimensional Area that could possibly allowed them to come from the Cyber world. And there's no sight of any Asteroid Navis that would be the cause of this since the Duo incidents. So what's the cause of all of this?"

As soon as he finished those thoughts, the boy began to hear the voice of his Net Navi saying to him with a rather relieved and yet worried tone in his voice, "Thanks for jacking me out, Lan. I mean, the look that ProtoMan was giving me was starting to give me the creeps. But now that's the least of our worries. Just what was that weird energy that both me and ProtoMan felt for when it happened? It's just like the same feeling that I had for when I was near the Chaos Emerald."

"Well, you're not going to believe this, MegaMan. As it turns out, Chaud managed to get the last piece of the Chaos Emerald," Lan responded to MegaMan with a sort of exhausted voice while at the same time keeping his eyes on the road ahead of him. "What I'm really concerned about is how was he able to surpress its great energy for so long without either Miguel or Sylphiel knowing about it. I just hope that the wrong person didn't sense and trace it to wherever it came from. But right now, a huge army of viruses just broke out of nowhere and are attacking near the shopping district where Yai told us that's she going to take them."

"How could I forget a thing like that, Lan?" he heard MegaMan saying to him with a rather thoughtful tone in his voice. "It was right after our little unexpected conversation with the Chaotix right before we went to bed."

Flashback

As soon as he cut off his comminucation with the aliens, Lan started to sigh in relief, confusion, and annoyance for when he said to his Navi friend, "Man! Now what was that all about! When did those nosy aliens started to butt into my own personal life like that, MegaMan!"

"Hey, I'm just as confused and annoyed about this as you are, Lan!" he heard MegaMan saying to him with the same annoyed and confused tone in his voice. "I mean, who are they for when it comes to our personal relationships with both Roll and Maylu!"

"You could say that again, MegaMan," Lan said to his friend while starting to calm himself down as he started to lie back down on his bed while still trying to calm the red blush on his face. "Man, how could things like this get any weirder or worse?"

As if to answer his question, he heard a sudden beeping coming from his P.E.T. and just as soon as he answered, Lan saw the image of his rich friend Yai smile at him for when she said with her usual cheery tone, "Hey Lan! How's it going? I just thought that you would like to come with me to the shopping district along with Maylu, Miguel, Sylphiel, and the Chaotix."

As soon as he heard those words come out of Yai's mouth, the head-banded netbattler soon began to become a bit annoyed for when he heard the Chaotix were going along with Yai on her trip to the shopping district as well. Now, normally Lan would just try to be as polite as possible in order to keep himself from acting rude. But like his usual self that didn't quite use his head for when he's in these type of situations, the boy began to quickly say to his rich friend while sounding like that he was in a hurry, "I'm so sorry, Yai! But I have to go to the Net Police HeadQuarters to help Chaud fill out some paperwork! Bye!"

End Flashback

"Man, from the way that you lied to Yai and hung up on her, it would've made anyone think that you have a big test coming up at school," the blue Navi responded to his NetOp with a rather smart aleck tone in his voice just as Lan continued to skate through the streets.

"Now's not the time to act like a smart aleck, MegaMan!" the boy responded to his blue friend with a rather annoyed tone just as he passed by some developing traffic in the streets by the sidewalk. "I mean, you would panick too if you just found out that the very guys that asked you about your relationship with one of your best friends were going along with Yai. I mean, can you imagine how many questions that they would ask if we were to come along?"

"Well, let's just forget all about that for now and get over there to see if all of the everyone is alright before something terrible happens," he heard MegaMan saying to him while going as fast as he can to the scene that was happening in the shopping district. "With all of those viruses out there in the real world, our problems are the least of our worries."

"You're right, MegaMan. We have to get there to stop those viruses before anyone in the area gets hurt," Lan said to his Navi friend while at the same time checking to see if he still has his Synchro Chip within his pocket just in case of any emergencies. "But one thing's been bothering me. Just what in the world is causing all of these viruses to appear in the real world?"

While watching everything from its home dimension, Nightmare Parasite Chaos watched as it saw its werewolf servant Dilgear along with its green ghostly minions searching throughout the city unnoticed by its residents. Before it could have the chance to smile to itself about what its undead minions were doing, the creature suddenly sensed the presence of a Chaos Emerald's energy bursting from out of nowhere.

"Hmmmm. A human must have found the remaining shard of the emerald and was somehow able to surpress its great energies up until now," Nightmare Parasite thought to itself as it wondered about the situation that just presented itself. "But judging from the way that the energy is flowing from the shard, I'd say that the human of that world doesn't know the full extent of what it's power could really do. Not only that, but he or she is unwittingly breaking the barriers of not only their world, but of that realm called the Cyber world as well. I wonder what's going on in that world now?"

As soon as it finished with its thoughts, the powerful Chaos clone used its great mental abilities to create another bubble screen that's showing another scene. What the creature saw next caused its three green eyes to turn their full atttention towards it. Nightmare Parasite saw that the creatures from the Cyber world had somehow managed to cross over from their own world to the human world while also attacking the city streets like wild animals.

"Hmmm. Now this is getting interesting," the red and black creature thought to itself just as it continued to stare at the scene of the beings from the Cyber World continuing to decimate the city buildings as well as beginning to attack any humans who were unlucky enough to nearby. "It seems that those creatures from the Cyber realm are acting very wildly for as soon as they entered into a world foreign to their own. Now, they're attacking the entire city while at the same time attacking innocent humans that are so unfortunate to be in the area. I wonder if those two humans Miguel and Sylphiel have sensed the remaining shard's energy yet? Not only that, but did they even sense the presence of their friend Shadow as well as his new lover yet? If they managed to find each other, then they would certainly be a big thorn to my plans."

With those thoughts done in its mind, Nightmare Parasite began to once again use its great mental abilities in order to increase its range between both time and space. As soon as it did, the Chaos clone began to mental speak with a rather stern tone in its mind's voice, "Shade, have either you, the werewolf, or anyone one of his men have found the shard of the Chaos Emerald as well as either those two foolish genetic parents of yours yet? I'm starting to grow impatient."

As it waited for a response, the creature began to hear the mental voice of its loyal creation saying to him with a rather calm and obedient tone, "I'm afraid that neither myself, Dilgear, or his men have found the emerald shard that you seek, Lord Parasite. However, I did sense a rather strong disturbance in this world's dimensional fabric. It would seem that some rather strange creatures have entered from another realm and is now beginning to ravage the city. Do you want me to step in and help the werewolf and his pirate minions in their search for the emerald?"

Nightmare Parasite begin to think to itself for a moment about the option that its human/vampire creation just offered. It could allow Shade to intervene with the situation that was starting to stir up in the world that he was looking at. It would be rather interesting to see how the two humans responsible for its very first defeat would handle the powerful vampire that was made from their own flesh and blood. But soon Nightmare Parasite decided against the thought. It wasn't a very bright idea for Shade to confront his own biological parents real soon.

"No, not just yet, Shade," the Chaos clone responded to his vampire creation with the stern tone never leaving its mind's voice. "I just want for you to keep a close eye on Dilgear and his men to see if they're doing their job. Not only that, but I would also like for you to keep a close eye on both of your genetic parents. Just be sure that if any humans of that world send in their military forces to interfere, step in and eliminate them."

"As you wish, my Lord," it heard Shade responding mentally to his creator just before the creature cut off its psychic link with its vampire creation just as it continued to stare at the scene that was shown on the two bubble screens in front of it.

That was when it began to sense the presence of another powerful entity beginning to enter the room that it was in now. "So, Air Jay, what brings you to to this place?" Nightmare Parasite said to the teenaged-human known as Air Jay just as it turns its full attention away from the bubble screens and towards the raven-haired male.

"I'm only here because the old man told me to tell you that he just started experimenting with the Bras Demons that we've defeated and captured, Jello Mold," the raven-haired teen answered to the powerful Chaos clone with a rather annoyed tone in his voice. "Damn that old bastard! As soon as both me and Maliska finished rounding up those ugly things, he tells me to come see you in order to let you know all about it. Now, would there be anything else that you would like to know, Lord Parasite?"

"Hopefully something that won't be able to get Lord Parasite all riled up and mad about," the powerful creature heard the voice of the young red-haired female named Maliska saying to her companion while at the same time seeing her appear out of nowhere just before she spoke again. "We've already finished rounding up a large group of Bras Demons as best as we could, Lord Parasite. We've managed to gather a large group of them as you and Master Diol requested. But I've got to say that they weren't a match for both me and Air Jay for when the two of us approached them."

"You could sure say that again, babe," Nightmare Parasite heard the voice of the long-haired young man saying to the fiery haired young woman with disappointed look on his face. "I mean the ugly bastards charged at us with their claws and fangs bared at us, but as soon as we launched our attacks, they never stand a chance."

"That's because both of your bodies have been give great enhancements thanks to Professor Diol's gained knowledge of genetics," the black and red liquid creature responded to Air Jay's words with a mild tone in its voice. "I was a bit surprised for when Diol told me that he was going to be picking two human specimens for his very first experiment. I just didn't think that the humans that he had in mind would be the two of you."

"Well for once, I have to agree with you, man," the young black-haired responded to him with a calm and bored tone in his voice. "I mean, I was a bit curious on how the old man was able to pick Maliska of all the women he could've chose from. He should've at least pick a babe that's nicely grown has the biggest pair of..."

Just before it could hear the last words coming out of Air Jay's mouth, Nightmare Parasite saw a beam of blue energy appearing out of nowhere and shot towards the teen's direction, barely missing an inch of his long black hair. That was when the creature saw that that Maliska was holding her hand out with a blue energy aura being emitted from it with a rather angry and annoyed expression on her face just as it saw that the floor that she saw was instantly frozen solid. Just as soon as it saw Air Jay turning towards her direction, Nightmare Parasite began to hear him saying as it saw flames enveloping his entire hand, "Hey, bitch! I'd watch where you'd throw those beams of ice if I were you! Otherwise, some people might think of you as a real ice queen! Not to mention the fact that you'll get burned for pulling that stunt!"

Before it realized what was happening, the liquid creature soon saw a huge fiery battle aura enveloping Air Jay's body. The same went with Maliska as Nightmare Parasite saw a large light blue energy aura appearing all across her womanly body. Just before the two of them could have the chance to charge at each other, the creature suddenly heard a sort of insane laughter coming out of nowhere. That was when the Chaos clone began to sense something that made it want to smile with pleasure if it had a mouth to do so.

"I see that Shogar is already back from his mission," Nightmare Parasite thought to itself just as he saw a huge dark shadow beginning to appearing on the floor and a hand jumped from it and touched Maliska's rear. "I really hope that he was able to get the items that I've requested for our 'special guest.' Diol seems so interested for when I've first brought the doctor to this realm. The good doctor become more than enthusiatic about the offer that I've made to him for when I've told him all about the secret pasts of his enemies."

As soon as it finished its thoughts, the creature was finally able to hear the frighten shriek of Maliska as it saw her jumping away from the shadow and ran towards Air Jay. As it saw her glomping the long-haired teen for protection, Nightmare Parasite soon saw the dark black shadow taking form and soon after that, Shogar's full form and body finally materialized with his huge menacing grin appearing on it's huge face.

"Hee! Hee! Hee! Well, it seems that the girl is still a bit shy about being touched on that spot!" the creature heard its dark phantom creation with a sly and evil grin on his face while at the same time seeing its four other living long arms moving about lively.

As soon as it heard Shogar finish speaking, Nightmare Parasite soon heard an angry growl coming from both Air Jay and Maliska's direction. It saw the red-haired female pushing her raven-haired companion off of her and began to say to Shogar with a not so pleasant tone, "Why you! Just because you're one of the three generals, it doesn't give you the right to touch my ass! The only person that I'd expect this type of thing from is Air Jay!"

"Well gee, it's good to know when I'm being appreciated," Air Jay responded to Maliska's words with a sarcastic tone in his voice while at the same time feeling like he was turned down by a girl.

Just before it could allow either Maliska or Shogar to speak again, Nightmare Parasite decided to break up the situation by putting up an energy barrier around each of them while saying, "That's enough out of all of you. The last thing that we would want is for a war to break out right before the one we were going to launch is about to be begin. Now Shogar, I'm to assume that you've managed to get what I've asked for?"

"Oh, I did my lord," the creature heard the ghostly phantom replying to in a very mechanical and yet loyal tone while at the same time lowing the energy shield around him just before it saw the ghostly creature presenting a huge blue energy sphere within one of his four arms' hands. "I've got all of the data that you required of the robotic beings that are called Reploids, Lord Parasite. Ones that have been considered traitors or 'Mavericks' as they prefer to call them. It should be more than enough for our special guest to keep himself entertained. Though, I'm a bit disappointed for when I've encountered one of them and he didn't put up much of a challenge for me. But I'm sure that our guest would find a way to make these machines much more interesting."

"That's excellent work, Shogar," Nightmare Parasite said to its creation with a pleased tone while at the same time accepting the blue sphere of energy with the use of its psychic energy to levitate it towards its direction and landed the sphere towards its hands. "I'm sure that the doctor would be more than pleased with all of the data that this very sphere contains. You may go now and rest up your energy while keeping a watch at Shade's younger brothers and sisters until he returns."

With those words said and done, the creature saw Shogar fading into the darkness and is now out of sight. As soon as he sensed the ghost's presense out of the area, Nightmare Parasite then released both Air Jay and Maliska from the energy field that it surrounded them with. "Hey man! What's the big deal!" it heard the black-haired teen saying to it with a rather miffed tone in his voice while the creature turned its full attention back towards the bubble like monitors behind its own makeshift throne to see the chaos in the world continue. "I mean, I know for a fact that the perverted shadow creature went to another world just to get some info on these mechanical beings named Reploids. Just who is this doctor that you keep telling us about?"

"Well, Air Jay, all would be revealed to you and the others as soon as Shade and Dilgear return from their own missions," Nightmare Parasite responded to the long-haired and raven colored teen with a calm tone in his voice. "In the meantime, I would suggest that the two of you just stay here with me to watch events unford as that foolish human and his friends deal with the powerful occurances that are starting to develope in the world that they're in. I wonder how in the world would they deal with the beings that came from the Cyber World? I guess that we'll know soon enough. Hee! Hee! Hee!"

As she along withYai and a newly-dressed Maylu were walking across the streets in order to get to the arcade, Sylphiel was still feeling a bit embarrassed for having to dress as she is now. The shrine maiden looked at herself and blushed for when she saw what she was wearing. She wore a rather nice and elegant yellow sleeveless sundress with it's skirt near her knees. She also is carrying a bright pink, huge, and nicely-designed bag that also contained her regular priestess gown, boots, and other under garments and accessories that she usually carries as well as another set of cloths that Yai got her to purchase. She also wore a nice pair of perfectly matching heeled shoes that were just about her feet's size.

The shrine maiden panicked at first for when she found that the near-completed Chaos Emerald was still in her regular outfit but soon calmed down for when she checked that it was still there along with her personal belongings. The skin of her shoulders pretty much revealing that she is in fact a rather attractive young woman. She was even able to listen to some men passing by saying how pretty she looked or how much of a goddess she looked.

Of course, her case was unlike that of Maylu's who she wearing a decent white dress with sleeves along with a yellow over sweater of sorts that also comes with a beautiful matching hat with a beautiful sun flower design on it. Sylphiel saw that the red-haired girl's face was just as flushed as her own. However, it was not only that of embarrassment or flattery but of jealousy towards Sylphiel as well. "I'm betting that Maylu is starting to feel as self conscious about the way she looks almost as much as I do," the shrine maiden thought to herself just as she continued to walk towards the streets in order to get to the arcade where Miguel and the Chaotix would be waiting. "I mean, I could tell from the look on her face that she has a crush on that boy, Lan. Not only that, but she seems to be rather jealous for when she saw Lan blushing near me last night. I mean, a young girl like her falling for a boy at her age so soon. But then again, who am I to judge for when it was I who's having problems of the heart with...?"

Just before she could have the chance to finish the rest of her thoughts, Sylphiel began to notice a hand waving in front of her face. That was when she soon noticed that the hand in front of her was that of the young girl Yai while hearing her saying, "Hello! Earth to Sylphiel! Are you paying attention!"

As soon as she heard those coming from the blonde little girl, the shrine maiden began to speak to her with a rather flustered voice, "Oh, I'm sorry Miss Yai! I was just thinking of other things."

"Those things wouldn't have to do with that guy Miguel now will it?" she heard the voice of the girl Maylu saying to her with a mischievous tone.

Sylphiel soon began to blush with a red shade on her face just as she heard those words coming from the red-haired girl's mouth. That was when she heard Yai adding to her older friend's words by saying with the same mischievous tone, "Oooohh! I bet that she is! You were thinking about Miguel, weren't you? Is it about what the two of you did last night for when you're in the same bed sleeping together?"

That was when the shrine maiden began to finally become even more flustered and embarrassed for when she heard those words coming out of the little girl. Just as she was trying her best to hold out the blush that was surrounding her face, Sylphiel heard the voice of Maylu saying with a rather excited tone in his voice, "Oh my god! Sylphiel, is that true! Did you really sleep with Miguel? What did you two do while you were in bed? Did you snuggle up and wrap your arms around each other in order to keep yourselves 'warm'?"

The last comment was the very thing that finally set her off. The normally calm and polite shrine maiden began to face towards the two young girls with a rather flustered and annoyed tone in her voice as she yelled out, "The two of you please knock it off! What I do with Miguel in bed is none of your business! So just keep your comments to yourselves and be quiet!"

As soon as she shouted out those words, Sylphiel began to take a moment in order to gather air into her lungs in order try to calm down. Just as she felt her frustration melting away, the shrine maiden turned her full attention back towards the two young girls and saw the frighten and shocked expressions on each of their faces. Not only that, but when she turned her full attention towards the crowds of people nearby, Sylphiel saw that every eye was pointed towards her direction. She could even hear one of the people in the area saying, "What in the world is her problem? She looked as though she just did something bad or something."

The shrine maiden began to become filled with embarrassment for when she saw that everyone was looking at her as if she were some wacko. "This is just great!" she thought to herself just as she felt every face in the public eyeing her. "Here I am being bothered by two girls that accused me of making out with Miguel in bed last night! Making out in bed? Just where in Ciephied's name did I get that from? Whatever that is, I just hope that..."

Just before she could have the chance to finish the rest of her thoughts in embarrassment, Sylphiel soon heard the terrifying scream of a young woman from the distance that made her completely forget about the embarrassment that she was in. "What in the world was that!" she heard the voice of Yai shouting out just as the shrine maiden turned to see where the source of the scream was.

As soon as she looked at where the terrified woman was screaming from, the shrine maiden saw not only one, but about dozens of people running for their lives like a wild stampede of horses. Just before she could allow any of the people to plow over them or even realize what she was doing, Sylphiel took this last second chance to grab both of the young girls in her strong arms and began to run towards an open but abandoned alley which thankfully had no people heading in that place despite the fact that she's wearing healed shoes. She was even able to carry her pink bag despite the weight that both girls put on her. Just as soon she got Yai, Maylu, and herself within the alley, the young woman looked at the two of them with a worried expression just as she said to them, "Are the two of you alright?"

The shrine maiden then turned her attention away from the frighten young girls for a moment and turned to see a huge amount of people running like a wild herd of bulls while hearing Maylu saying to her with a rather surprised and shocked tone in her voice, "We're both fine, Sylphiel. But what was all that about? Why were all those people suddenly starting to run blindly towards us as if they were running from a monster?"

Before she could have the chance to respond to the red-haired girl's question, she heard the voice of Yai responding to them with a rather miffed and yet tired tone in her voice, "I've just thought about something! What if it were those people saw what the Chaotix really were?"

Those words that she heard the young blonde saying began to make her panic. Sylphiel was about to say something about the situation before she felt a powerful surge of energy beginning to erupt to where they're at. "This energy! It's so powerful!" the shrine maiden thought to herself just as she began to scan the not so dark alley to see where the energy source came from. "Not only that, but it seems that there's a large amount of life forms emitting this type of power coming this way. Just what in the world are these things that are emitting the Chaos Energy that I'm sensing right now? Whatever they are, the creatures that are emitting it are somewhere near..."

Just before she could have the chance to finish the rest of her thoughts, Sylphiel heard the sudden frighten shrieks of both Yai and Maylu appearing out of nowhere. Just as the young woman turned towards the girls' direction, she saw something that she never thought that she would ever see since yesterday. What the shrine maiden saw were the same group of green pirate spirit creatures that she saw before Miguel had blown them away using the power of his own Ra-Tilt spell.

"Arrr! It looks as though were right on the money for when we've sensed that great amount of energy being emitted around here, mateys!" she heard the voice of the leader of the group of spirits saying while at the same time revealing another pack of ghost appearing behind his back just before she saw him turning towards her direction. "Well fellas, looks like we've got ourselves a lovely young woman right here! The dress that she's wearing makes her a real treasure to behold. What do you say that we have a little fun with her and her young friends as soon as we turn the Chaos Emerald that they possessed over to Master Dilgear."

"Girls please get out of the way!" Sylphiel shouted out towards the two girls with a rather serious tone in her voice while at the same time throwing her huge pink bag to them before beginning to make her own magical sword of fire appear out of her hand and using both her hands to aim its blade towards the ghostly group. "I'm going to try my best to hold them off while you to get away with the emerald! Go now!"

"But Sylphiel, what about...?" was all that she could hear from Maylu just before she noticed one of the green pirates starting to advance towards her direction at a great speed with its sword in the pirate's hands that looked as if it were ready to strike and slash at her with his glowing green blade along with a menacing grin on his face.

Just before she would allow the pirate to slash or touch his blade towards any part of her body, Sylphiel managed to block the assault with the the fiery blade of her magical sword while trying to keep her feet in balance with the heeled-shoes that she's wearing. Just as she tried her best to keep her strength on trying to keep pirate's blade at bay, the shrine maiden took a moment to look where both Maylu and Yai were and saw the two of them beginning to run for their lives just as soon as they saw that they were in immediate danger. Just as she saw them going out of sight, Sylphiel soon began to push the pirate back with her weapon and once again swing her fiery blade towards the direction at her attacker in order to get ready for another assault.

Just as he was continuing playing a random fighting game that he wasn't quite familiar with, Miguel was just starting to get the hang of it for when he heard a huge cheer coming from the direction where he last saw Vector playing. It was about two hours since they've started to explore and play around at the arcade and he heard that the Chaotix were already starting to attract attention. As soon as he purposely lost the game that he was playing, the teen began to walk over to where he last saw the green croc. As it turns out, he found that the green Mobian along Espio, who has a rather annoyed and yet flustered expression on his face, dancing on a symbol platform that's apart of a game that's a dance game of sorts.

"Just like those two Dance-Dance Revolutions booth games that I've seen from the arcade back in my world," Miguel thought to himself just as he saw the huge crowd of kids and teens seeing two members of the Chaotix dancing to the music that the arcade game emitted. "Of course, if anyone around here saw me doing that on the arcade machine, then I would be the laughing stock of not only my world, but this one as well. But it seems that Vector and Espio are having fun. Well, Vector is anyway. Espio looks like a nervous wreck out there after a few hours of trying to get the hang of it. I wonder how both Charmy and Mighty are doing anyway?"

As if to answer his thought's question, the teen turned to see that both the young bee and the armadillo playing an air hockey game of some kind. From the way that Miguel saw the two Mobians playing with one another, he could tell that the game could go either way. Mighty seemed to be in the defensive while Charmy was using speed to his advantage. He chuckled as the two groups of Mobians seemed to attract a rather nice crowd of kids and teens that noticed their presense.

Miguel even managed to hear one young girl saying, "Wow! Can you believe those guys, Britney? Those guys in the animal costumes sure know how to put on some good moves! Their costumes aren't so bad either!"

"You could say that again, Diana!" he heard the voice of the young girl's friend Britney saying to her friend as he continued to look at the Chaotix doing their separate things. "I mean, that green talking croc that's dancing with the purple lizard looks so cool with those head phones on his head and the golden chain around his neck! He's so awesome!"

"Hey, let's not forget that purple lizard, Brit," he heard the other girl named Diana saying to her friend while at same time turning to see both Mighty and Charmy beginning to once again start another game of the air hockey game that they were playing. "He has that mysterious and cool look going for him. But I think that the bee is the cutest among them. I could just go up to the little thing and give him a hug right now like a teddy bear!"

The last comment that he heard from the girl named Diana caused the teen to chuckle a bit with a amused tone. "Looks to me that the Chaotix are becoming the most popular gang in the arcade here," Miguel thought to himself just as he continued to look at the groups of two that the four Mobians formed as he also looked in his pocket to find some tokens still in his pocket. "I guess that I could just play a bit more before the girls would get back from their shopping spree. I wonder how Sylphiel would look in the beautiful modern day cloths of this world? I guess that no matter what she wears, she'll always look beautiful in my eyes..."

That was when the teen began to snap himself out of his dream-like state just enough to find out what he just thought before thinking to himself again, "What the hell was I thinking! How could I be thinking about something like at a time like this! I mean, we should be out there looking for the last piece of the Chaos Emerald and not playing games! Why am I feeling this weird towards the thought of Sylphiel having a new beautiful dress anyway? I mean, this doesn't mean that I have the sudden hots for her...does it?"

As he tried to think of a reason as to why he was feeling a bit flustered about mere thought of the shrine maiden in a beautiful modern outfit that would make her something that would be hard to ignore. Just before he could have the chance to re-think about what he thought, Miguel felt the finger of someone trying to get his attention. As he turned to face who it was, the teen found that Vector was right near him with a sort of worried and curious expression on his face.

"Yo, Miguel. Are you alright?" the green Mobian asked the teen with both a concerned tone in his voice. "You seem to be spacin' out every few minutes for whenever you tried to decide on what other game you should play. You wouldn't happen to be thinkin' about Sylphiel, would you?"

As soon as he heard those words, Miguel suddenly panicked for as he tried to come up with an answer to Vector's question. After what seemed to be like an hour to him, the teen found that he couldn't find a single idea that would get him out of the awkward situation that he's now in. As he tried to look around to find anything that would allow him to change the subject, Miguel soon found like about two dozen sets of young teenaged eyes staring at him, along with Espio, Charmy, and Mighty, with both curiosity and anticipation showing in each of their eyes.

"Oh great! Now what am I going to do?" he thought to himself just as he continued to feel the stares of the Chaotix as well as the crowds of teens and children staring right at him. "I just had to space out for whenever I think about Sylphiel! This is so humiliating! I wish that there was something that could get me out of this rather awkward situation. But since there isn't one, I might as well suck it up and take my lumps like a..."

Just as he was about to finish the rest of his thoughts, Miguel suddenly felt a sudden jolt of power flowing through his body. This in turn caused him to shiver as if he were in the middle of a snow storm. As soon as he did that, the teen heard the murmurs and whispers of the crowds beginning to talk amongst themselves as they saw him continuing to shiver because of the power that he's feeling.

"Just what in the hell is this power that I'm feeling?" he thought to himself just as he rubbed his hands onto his arms in order to cease the shivering. "It's like nothing that I've ever felt from last night. However, the energy that I'm feeling is very similair to a Chaos Emer..."

That was all that Miguel could think of before he heard the loud terrified shriek of a woman appearing out of nowhere. Just as the teen began to turn towards the direction where he heard the scream coming from along with the now panicked crowd, he felt his arm being tugged rather hasty and quickly away from the crowd as he continued to figure out what was going on. He heard the voice of the woman in charge of the arcade trying her best to calm the frighten and curious teens and some of the kids were soon paying attention to whatever was happening outside of the building through the windows. As soon as he turned towards whoever was tugging at his arm, Miguel soon saw that it was Vector, along with the rest of the Chaotix, dragging him away from the scene so as to get away from the crowd that was beginning to get too big for comfort.

Just as soon as he found himself and his Mobian friends in a spacious and yet abandaned part of the arcade, the teen began to hear Mighty saying to him as he continued to feel the rather cold draft crawling all over his body, "Hey what's up, Miguel? Are you feeling chilly from the AC around here or something?"

"It's not that, Might," he responded with a steady tone despite the fact that he felt as if he were in the middle of Winter weather without a sweater on. "It's just that I'm feeling some sort of strange and yet frightening energy being released into this world. It's as if someone or something has ripped a dimensional hole into this world."

"Whoa! You could tell all that?" he heard the young voice of Charmy saying to him with an amazed tone just before he spoke again in a much quieter tone of voice. "Did something like this happened to you before?"

"Well, as a matter of fact, yes, Charmy," Miguel responded while still maintaining a rathering steady tone in his voice while trying to shaking off the chill that's still on his body. "It happened for when I was in Sylphiel's world a while back. It seems that I have this ability to sort of feel the presense of harmful and dark energy being emitted by a nearby enemy. As it turns out, the being that I've felt at the time was a monster called Xellos who was spying on us. However, as to why he's doing so or what he is exactly, it's a different and long story."

"So what is it that you're feeling right now, Miguel?" he heard Espio asking him with both a curious and serious tone in his voice just as he turned to see the purple chameleon looking all around the area in order to see what was the cause for the surge of energy that the human teen felt.

"Well, to be honest, Espy, I'm not too sure," Miguel responded to the Mobian just as he felt the incredible chilling surge of power suddenly cease from his body. "But whatever it was, it seemed to have stopped flowing through my body and that's usually not a good thing."

"Yo, what do you mean by that, Miguel?" he heard Mighty ask with a rather curious and yet worried tone in his voice as the teen was finally able to regain the normal feeling in temperature.

"Well, whatever was emitting the energy that's causing my body to have a chill either pulled a disappearing act," Miguel responded to the armadillo while beginning to worry about what's going to happen before speaking again. "Or it means that the thing that caused the energy is already nearby. I just don't know where it is or what caused it."

"Well, that's just swell!" he heard Vector saying as the teen noticed that the crocodile was trying to keep his voice down in order to keep anyone from the crowd from noticing their absence. "Just what in the world would cause a guy like you to shiver like it was the middle of Winter?"

As if to respond to the green Mobian's question, Miguel suddenly heard the terrified screaming from earlier suddenly raising to panic as he turned to see the kids beginning to exit the building rather quickly.

"Looks like we'll be able to get our answer from the outside, guys," he heard Vector saying to the rest of the Chaotix while at the same time seeing all four Mobians beginning to run out towards the exit where the crowd of teens and kids went through earlier.

Just as he ran after the Chaotix in order to find the source of the disturbance, Miguel suddenly found himself outside and saw something that he really didn't expect. What the teen saw rampaging through the streets were a group of what appears to be viruses from the Cyber World attacking the streets. The same kind of viruses that he usually sees in the game or the anime. Metools, Jellies, Spookies, Boomers, and viruses of many different types and elements were in the streets in front of them attacking and destroying everything that got in their path.

"Yo, just what in the world are those things, Miguel?" he heard the voice of Vector saying to him with a rather surprised tone in his voice. "Is all of this what you've felt for when you were having the shivers from before?"

Just as soon as he heard those words come out of the crocodile's mouth, Miguel began to hear the voice of Espio saying to his friend while turning to see the purple chameleon taking out a metalic ninja star from within his gloves, "Well, I would definitely place money that these are the things that Miguel had sensed from before. From the way that those creatures are reacting towards this city, I'd say that they're not too happy about being here."

"But just where exactly did these things come from anyway?" he heard the young voice of Charmy saying to his friends while continuing to look at the carnage that the viruses are causing. "I mean, they couldn't have just appeared out of nowhere. They had to come from someplace."

"Well, I honestly don't know where those things come from, Charms, but I bet that the power of the Chaos Emerald is responsible for all of this," he heard Mighty saying to the young bee with a rather uneasy tone while he turned to see the black and orange Mobian facing towards his direction. "Miguel, do you have any idea where these things come from? I mean, the four of us aren't experienced in traveling to other worlds as much as you do."

Just before he could have the chance to answer the armadillo's words, the teen heard the angry roar of the nearby viruses starting to take notice of their presence and then turned towards their direction. As he saw one of the Metools starting to go up towards them with a powerful swarm of shockwaves aimed towards their direction with the help of the picks they have in their possession.

"Guys, hold onto me real tight! Now!" Miguel shouted out to the Chaotix with a panicked tone in his voice while at the same time feeling the arms of his Mobian friends starting to immediately hold onto his waist before activating the Chaos Control. "Chaos Control!"

Just before the shockwaves could have the chance to hit their targets, the teen found himself along with his four Mobian friends began traveling through a tunnel that goes through both time and space to a random place. As soon as he felt both himself and his friends beginning to drop somewhere at a random location that happens to be the rooftops of Dentech City.

"Whew! Thanks for gettin' us out of there, bud," he heard the grateful voice of Vector saying to him with a sigh of relief. "You got us out of there just before those cute stuff animal things could finish us off. But we could've handled those things by ourselves."

"Vector, now is not the time for you start with that macho act of yours," he heard Espio saying to the croc with a sort of annoyed and serious tone while turning to see the chameleon looking around the area that they're in. "This looks to be the rooftops of Dentech City. From the looks of things here, Miguel warped us here by random. The guy must've panicked really good in order to get us here this soon."

"Espio, now is not the time to start cracking jokes in a time like this," Miguel said to the purple ninja Mobian with a rather serious tone while at the same time seeing what appears to be a pear of Yellowgon dragon-like viruses flying above the city firing electrical beams towards the buildings. "Look at those things, they may look like dragons, but they're actually computer viruses that came from Cyberspace."

"Whoa! Whoa! Are you serious, Miguel?" he heard the voice of Charmy responding to the teen's words with a shocked tone in his young voice. "Are you trying to tell us that those things come from electronical devices! Just how in the world would you know that sort of thing?"

"Never mind on how Miguel would know this sort of thing, Charms. Just look down on the ground and see what I mean," he heard the voice of Mighty responding to the young bee with a rather worried and sort of angry tone just as he turned towards the armadillo's direction and saw the older Mobian pointing towards the edge of the roof where they saw people being terrorized by viruses on the ground.

As soon as he and the rest of the Chaotix saw what Mighty was talking about, the teen turned towards his Mobian friends in order to say something to them before he heard the voice of Sylphiel appear in his mind. "Get away from me, you disgusting creatures! I said, get away from me!" he heard the shrine maiden's voice shouting to whoever was attacking her. He then heard to what appears to be like the sounds of pirates growling at her with almost annoyed tones in their voices.

Just as the voices in his mind began to vanish, the teen suddenly heard the worried voice of Vector saying to him, "Yo, Miguel! Are you alright? You look like you've just heard a spooky ghost or something."

When he heard those words said by the green crocodile, Miguel began to speak to all four of the Chaotix with a worried and horrified tone in his voice, "Guys, I think that Sylphiel is in trouble. I can't explain how, but I know that somehow she's in trouble!"

As soon as he said those words, the teen saw the expressions on the four Mobians' faces were that of surprise and shock. Charmy was the first to speak his mind as the young bee spoke with a rather worried tone in his voice, "Whoa! How could you tell that, Miguel? And what about both Yai and Maylu? Aren't they in danger as well?"

"I don't think that they are, Charmy," Miguel responded to the young Mobian with a calm and yet confused tone in his voice just as he thought about what he just heard in his mind. "When I've heard Sylphiel being attacked, I didn't hear the voices of those two from the area that Sylphiel was in. But I do know that she's being attacked by those same green pirates that tried to get the Chaos Emerald last night."

"Whoa! I may not be too familiar with this psychic power thing going on," he heard the voice of Vector saying out loud with a confused and yet confident leader sounding tone. "But I think that we should all act and stop those green ghost pirate things from harming the babe!"

"I don't think that it would be a very easy thing to do, Vec," Miguel heard the voice of Espio saying to the over confident crocodile with a serious tone in his voice just as the human teen saw the purple chameleon looking down on the streets. "The streets are crawling with those computer viruses that are out here in this world causing some serious havoc to the people down there. Well, I for one am not going to just sit here and just let these people get hurt."

"I'm with Espio on this one, Vec," the teen heard Mighty adding to the purple chameleon's words with a bit of determination in his voice. "I'm afraid that we can't just go after Sylphiel while the people down there getting attacked by those computer viruses."

"But what about Sylphiel and the two girls?" he heard the young voice of Charmy saying to everyone while at the same time feeling both worried and concerned. "I mean, we can't just abandon them while those pirates are out there trying to get their hands on the Chaos Emerald."

"That's the reason why I'm going to be the one to look for Sylphiel and girls, you guys," Miguel responded to the Chaotix with a serious tone in his voice while at the same time drawing out the Star Sword placed from within the dimensional place that is his mind. "I would be able to handle anything would dare to get in my way. I want you four to do what you can to help the people of this world from getting hurt by those viruses. At this point, trying to hide our true identities is now the least of our worries."

"Well, when the guy puts it in those words, then I guess that we should just split up and go our separate ways," he heard Vector's voice saying while he turned to see the leader of the Chaotix grabbing their full attention before he spoke up again. "Now, from the way that I sees it, Miguel would be able to take care of himself since he has that sword of his as well as his powers, but the four of us would best to stick together."

"I can't believe that I found myself saying this, but I think that Vector's right about this," Miguel heard Espio responding to the green crocodile's words with a sort of embarrassed tone while at the same time turning to seeing the purple chameleon looking like he was getting ready for a serious fight before speaking up again. "But I don't think that even the four of us put together could take those things down by ourselves. I mean, from the way that they're multiplying, it looks as though that we could be up against an army."

"Well, allow me to fix that then, you guys," the teen responded to Espio's words with a smile on his face just as he rose his weapon's blade up towards the sky, closed his eyes, and began to focus his mind on creating like about four dozen golden Power Rings.

Just as soon as he opened up his eyes, Miguel saw what appears to be about fourty golden and shiny Power Rings hovering right above the sky shining with their golden light. Before he knew what was happening, he saw the many golden rings starting to fly towards the Chaotix's direction. Just as soon as he turned to his four Mobian friends' direction, the teen saw the rings beginning to attach themselves around each of their arms in order make themselves a perfect fit for them to wear. He even saw the rings that attached themselves to Charmy beginning to shrink in order to fit his little arms. Before he knew it, Miguel saw each of them being surrounded by a golden aura of energy flowing all around their bodies before disappearing.

Just as soon as the phenomenon passed, the teen soon heard Vector saying out loud with a rather energized tone, "Whoa! It feels like that my whole body just became super charged with energy that allows me to do anything!"

"You could say that again, Vec!" Miguel heard the voice of Mighty responding to the his friend's words with the same energized tone while turning to see the armadillo beginning to pump up the muscles in his arms. "The power from those rings seemed to have increased my stength by ten-fold. I feel like I could lift an entire building now."

"I agree with you, Might," he heard Espio saying to his friend with the same highten and enthusiatic tone as his two friends. "My legs feel like that they could withstand anything and I could feel muscles starting to bulge out of my arms as well."

"Even I'm feeling more stronger by the minute, guys," Miguel heard the voice of Charmy saying to the three members of the Chaotix just as he turned to see the small bee beginning to grow from normal size to his small one. "It feels like that I could travel around this whole planet at top speed in less than a minute!"

"Well, don't get too excited about it, guys," the teen responded to his four Mobian companions while at the same time putting the Star Sword's blade down towards the ground while not allowing its blade to touch it yet. "The power from those rings would only last for a short time. But it should give each of your natural abilities a good boost. As for how long the effects would last, even I don't know. It could be either for an hour or maybe even more than that depending on how much power that you guys use. Either way, I would suggest that you guys not to waste too much power while you're getting the people to safety."

"No prob, Miguel! Just leave the monsters and the people's safety to us while you go get the girl!" he heard the leader of the Chaotix saying to him with a confident tone while also feeling a bit flustered and embarrassed by his words. "Alright, guys, what are we waiting for? Let's go show those butt-ugly viruses what we're made of!"

"Right!" Miguel heard the answer of Mighty, Espio, and Charmy responding to Vector's words just as the teen saw the four Mobians going over the roof tops of the building and, with the help of Charmy's new awesome strength and flying ability, were able to go down in the streets below where dozens of people were in danger.

As soon as he was by himself, Miguel began to think to himself while at the same time still feeling a bit flushed at what the crocodile said to him, "Man, does Vector know how to make a guy feel like he's been through an embarrassing moment. At least he doesn't do it in public while trying to get everyone's attention. Well, as best as he could anyway. Now, back onto the mission ahead. I just hope that I'm not too late for me to help Sylphiel before those pirates do anything bad or worst to her."

With those thoughts said and done, the teen began to concentrate his mind on trying to locate the shrine maiden's own Chaos Energy. After to what appears to be a half hour of trying to sense Sylphiel's own energy, Miguel was finally able to feel a jolt of energy surging throughout his body. "Bingo! Don't worry, Sylph, help is on the way," was all that the teen thought just before he had his hand on the silver surface of his weapon's blade and began to shout out the words to Shadow the Hedgehog's special ability. "Chaos Control!"

While he was stirring the ingredients that he was preparing for the costumers in the popular restaurant named Number 1 Curry, Dex was just testing out the flavor of his latest creation to see if it would be appropiate to serve to the customers. His little brother, Chisao was getting the orders, along with Count Zap, for the people that wanted to buy what type of curry. As for the rest of the actual owners of the restaurant, Mr. Match just returned from doing his normal daily deliveries through his cart. Maddy was doing all of the dirty dishes that were leftover by the costumers while Yahoot was doing the daily task of managing the money in their savings account that they been making ever since leaving the now non-existant crime organization World Three.

Just as he was about to pour a bowl of curry for the costumers for when he heard the frantic voice of his friend Dingo coming in from the back of the restaurant while screaming his head off and looked like he had just seen a monster or something. "What's the matter with him?" he heard the voice of Mr. Match saying with his usual Scottish accent while at the same time sounding a bit curious about the Indian boy's outburst. "The lad looks s though he's seen a ghost or something."

"Probably knowing the way he aways messes up the deliveries, I'd say that he probably made someone upset for getting their orders late again, as usual," the huge kid heard Maddy saying to the red-haired man while continuing to wash the dishes. "Whoever he was delivering the curry to must be pretty mad if he were to scare the living daylights out of him."

"You're probably right about that, Maddy," Yahoot responded outloud to the young pink-haired woman from his office with a rather stern and calm tone. "You think that after all of the time that he's spent with us, that he'd at least find a way to get to the place where he's suppose to make the delivery."

"From the way that the kid is scared out of his wits, I'd say that he probably deserve what he got for being late," he heard Count Zap saying to his companions with his usual English accent while at the same time feeling a bit confused about what just happened. "What I would like to know is what has gotten Dingo so frighten that he looks like that he's seen a monster."

"Perhaps I should try to talk to him," Dex suggested just as he finished pouring the last batch of delicious curry into the bowl just as he turned towards the direction of where he saw his friend going to. "Someone has to keep the guy from scarin' the pants off of Yahoot before he gets there."

Just as he got away from the pot of curry that he was preparing and headed towards Yahoot's office, the big kid could hear the voice of Dingo shouting like he was a madman. "He's probably going through the same thing that Higsby going through yesterday," Dex thought to himself just as he was beginning to grab a glass a water from a nearby sink and continued onto towards his boss's office. "Maybe the same thing that Miguel did with Higsby would probably work on Dingo too. From the way that he scared out of his mind, he looked like he's seen one of the Chaotix or something."

The large boy did his best to surpress the thought of thinking that his Indian friend managed to accidently see one of the aliens that he saw from last night while he and his friends were trying to set up for this coming Halloween. Just as he was about to reach the office, Dex immediately heard the frightened and hyper voice of Dingo shouting out random and yet crazy words that no one would understand. "Ahh! Dingo! Would you please just calm down and try to talk straight!" he heard the voice of Yahoot saying to the panicked Indian boy with a rather annoyed tone while the large kid saw Dingo still in a state of panic while causing his boss to accidently drop the bills and budgets onto the floor.

"Black! H-H-H-Hedgehog! Cute Girl! Hugging! K-K-Kissing! Attacking me!" Was what Dex heard his friend saying along with other things that were just either to mixed up or too fast to understand. "Alien Invasion! Green light! W-W-W-World take over!"

"Dingo! Snap out of it, man!" he heard the voice of TomahawkMan saying to his NetOp while at the same time feeling like the only one calm enough to try to handle the situation. "No one in this entire building could hear or understand a single word that you're saying! Just calm down and relax!"

"GutsMan think that Dingo go crazy. Guts," he heard the voice of his navi saying while at the same time feeling the same thing as his NetOp is right now.

"Allow me to handle this one, guys!" Dex said to the Indian type navi bravely as he still held the glass of water in his hand while remembering what the teen Miguel did to Higsby last night in order to calm him down.

As soon as he was within range of Dingo, the large kid began to toss the water over towards his once panicking friend therefore ceasing his crazy actions. Before anyone could have the chance to realize what just happened, Dex soon found his friend now coming back to his full senses as well as regaining his sanity.

"(Cough!) D-Dex! What was (cough!) that for! " he heard the Indian boy saying to him with an annoyed tone while at the same time trying to cough out all of the remaining water that seemed to get into his lungs. "Why did you (cough!) throw all that water at me!"

"Well, it's not like that I've got any choice at the time, Dingo!" the large kid said to his soaking wet friend as he saw him trying his best to dry up while also trying to squeeze all of the water out of his sweater and hood. "You were rambling on like some crazy nut job from the crazy house while at the same time scaring most of our costumers! Just be happy that throwing cold water was the worse that I could do to you or otherwise I'd pound the living daylights out of you!"

"Both of you please calm down and relax for just a moment!" he heard Yahoot saying to the both of them while at the same time still feeling a bit aggitated about what just happened just before calming down himself. "(Sigh!) Now Dingo, what exactly happened that caused you to go on a screaming rampage? Did you happened to miss your delivery rounds again? This better be a good excuse than last time."

As soon as he heard the former Yoga master finish his questions, Dex turned his full attention towards his still soaking wet friend as he heard him saying, "All of you are not going to believe this, but..."

"Well, we're all ears, Dingo. So spill the beans," he heard the voice of Maddy saying to the Indian boy while at the same time seeing both Mr. Match and Count Zap appearing in the hall along with Chisao.

"And make it fast 'cause it looks like our costumers are getting restless and waitin' for their orders," the huge kid heard the red-haired adult saying to Dingo while at the same time feeling a bit annoyed for the delay.

After what seems to be a moment of silence, Dex was able to hear his Indian friend saying with a rather frighten and yet surprised tone, "All of you won't believe this but I've just had a close encounter with two strange looking aliens! One of them looked like a pretty and attractive girl in a magician's outfit while the other looked like a big black hedgehog with red streaks on its spikes. It also talks, and has one mean attitude! That was what was attacking me which caused me to panic before I came running back here!"

Another moment of silence passed through the room as everyone was trying to comprehend what Dingo just said. Dex has one thing on his mind though. "A black talkin' hedgehog with red streaks? Well, that couldn't be one of those aliens, the Chaotix," the large boy thought to himself while trying to think about what his friend just said. "As far as I know, they're all back at Yai's old treehouse along with both that guy Miguel and that beautiful girl Sylphiel. That thing must be from the world that Vector and the guys was talking about. But just how in the world did...?"

Just before he could have the chance to think further into his thoughts, Dex heard loud and roaring laughter coming out from Mr. Match, Maddy, Count Zap, Yahoot, and even his own little brother. He either seen them trying their best to calm themselves down or on the ground laughing their heads off. When he turned his attention back towards Dingo, he saw his friend feeling a bit red from either embarrassment or anger for when he said those words.

"Hey, I'm being serious here!" the Indian boy said to his four bosses as well as his little brother while at the same time trying to hide the red embarrassed expression on his face. "Both me and TomahawkMan saw both a pretty and attractive girl dressed in some female version of a magician's outfit with a black and red hedgehog that attacked us! Come on, TomahawkMan! You saw them along with me, didn't ya!"

"Well, you've got to admit that what you've just said is a bit farfetched, Dingo," Dex heard the voice of his friend's Navi, TomahawkMan saying to his NetOp while sounding a bit tired. "There's no way that these guy would've believed us if all we're talking about is pretty girls and black hedgehogs that came out of nowhere!"

"GutsMan thinks so too. Guts," he heard GutsMan saying from within his P.E.T. while still feeling a bit suspicious about what Dingo just said.

Just before the large kid could have a chance to say anything, he heard the voice of Count Zap trying to speak while at the same time trying to surpress his laughter, "Y-Your Navi's got a point there, kiddo! Ah Ha! Ha! Ha! I mean, what else are you going to tell us? The Blue Fairy and a talking cricket told you that the world is coming to an end? Please!"

"You've got that right, Count Zap!" he heard the voice of Maddy saying to her companion while at the same time trying to struggle with the laughter that she had. "I mean, that's just about the lamest excuse that any of us have ever heard since you started working here! What would you going to tell us next? A group of ghost pirates are coming here to attack us?"

As if on cue with her very words, Dex suddenly heard a loud commotion beginning to erupt from outside near where the customers were still waiting for their orders. This also brought the laughter that the former members of World Three and his little brother were emitting to a halt for when they heard the voice of someone that sounded like a pirate, "Arr! I'm Captain Blood and anyone who dares to try to be a hero would pay the ultimate price!"

End of Part 9