19 reviews at time of typing this up. Thank you! That's normally how much I get for three chapters!
Slight change of plans. Well, big change of plans, but whatever. Last chapter I said that Netto knows about Saito in this. Turns out the way I went with this means that I no longer have to do that, so you can forget I ever said that.
Also, I have a new Poll on my Bio, please go vote on it.
Now, one last thing. My primary internet access is through my Wii, and for some reason it won't let me save documents on FFN, so most of my stuff will likely end up on my LiveJournal before it gets here. My LJ can be found at my Homepage link.
Change of Heart
Chapter 2
by LanHikari2000x
The area he appeared in was mostly empty, save for a digital representation of one chair in the center.
This chair - a Pulse Transmission System - was why he was here. The PTS scans the electromagnetic pulses in the user's brain and converts them into a virtual avatar, essentially allowing a human to appear on and interact with the network without the aid of a netnavi. This particular one was an old model, merely a prototype, and had been all but forgotten by the world. Prefer for his purposes.
He sat to work clearing up the system. He started sifting through the subsystem; ediing some and deleting others.
Hours later he stepped back to examine his work. The PTS chair was now mostly functional. Some of the the systems needing some fine tuning, bu that could be done later.
Forte linked back into Netto's computer and was surprised to find the room empty. He checked the time to be sure and frowned; Netto should have been back hours ago, yet there was no sign anyone had been in the room all day.
He checked the local news forecasts for anything that might have held the boy up, but was unable to find anything.
He closed the search and stormed out to look for himself. Damn brat. Probably got himself kidnapped or something.
Forte started his search at the school, which was fortunate, and that's where Netto was. It seemed someone had broken into the school and locked down the whole network. Discovering why was a simple matter of scanning the network for anything out of the ordinary. Buried deep in the network, and under more protection than most of the files at the Science Labs - and he should know, having helped refine most of the original firewalls - was a program hew couldn't even begin to scan without direct access.
Now why would something like that be in a school?
He paid no mind to the navi trying - and failing - to sneak up on him. That is, until th fool tried to attack him. The weak buster shots exploded harmlessly against his cloak, but they did create and decently sized dust cloud, giving his attacker the illusion of victory.
This illusion was quickly shattered when he reappeared behind he navi. He was slightly disappointed to find that his would-be attacker was merely a standard Alpha model. A simple Explosion was all it took to delete the Alpha and he continued toward his goal.
Unknown to Forte, at this exact moment the operator of said Alpha model had planed to have his navi appear on every screen in the school and give the obligatory 'bad guy' speech. So he was understandably surprised when, instead of a speech, the entire school was given front row seats to see his navi get busted into oblivion.
One child in room A-2 was still staring at the blackboard-screen in surprise. Forte? Did you just ...save me? He wanted even more now to get home so he could talk to Forte.
Meanwhile, Forte had just arrived at the mysterious program. The firewalls he had noted before weren't as powerful as they had first appeared. Though they did require passcodes dozens of characters long, they had fallen easily under the force of an Earth Breaker attack.
The officials arrived just in time to see the Black Shadow leave with eh powerful Model A upgrade program.
Netto ran home as soon as he was released and hurried straight to his room. eager to talk to Forte. Thus hes has disappointed when he saw that Forte was not in his computer.
Forte was in fact back at the lab with the PTS chair. The program he had stolen was the 'Model A' upgrade program and research notes. The Model A was designed to upgrade the standard Alpha models in a way similar to his own Get Ability program. The power boost had proven to be too much for the Alpha's primitive AI, causing it to go berserk, and the project had been abandoned. Why it had been kept in a school? No idea.
The Model A worked much like his own Get ability program, except it copied the form of a defeated opponent and allowed the user to move between these forms through a process called A-trans, rather than coping abilities used against him.
Forte loaded the Model A into the blank figure sitting on the chair - a default navi with no AI used when someone used the PTS without attaching a PET. He turned and linked out. Now he just had to get Netto here.
Yeah, lots of techno-babble. And yes, that's Model A from MMZXA. That's all I have to say now, though I do have one question. I know all of Forte's attacks except for two. Does anyone know what his Banishing World attack looks like? Or that name of the where he basically chucks a Darkness Overload at you? By the way, 19 reviews at time of typing this! Thank you! That's more than I usually get after three chapters!
Next chapter will be rather short, but it's mostly filler to set up for the next chapter anyway, so what ever. Also, it's almost done.
Anyone who has there own OC netnavis who would like to donate them for use with A-trans, feel free.