Ok, this chapter starts of pretty much right where the last one left off, then jumps forward about a month and a half.
Much thanks to everyone who is helping me with navi ideas, but for future reference, Netto happens to be a guy. A-trans can do cross-gender transformations just fine, but somehow I doubt he's gonna be totally comfortable turning into a girl. And to Kodaim Garaton: sorry, but I've decided he's too much like Forte for me to actually be ale to use him, plus I already have another character I was going to use the exact same back story for. (minor detail: look at Forte's backstory. Not just Forte having it, but the existence of the Get Ability itself was a total accident.)
People who tried to help me with Forte's atacks: I'm looking at the EXE3 guide here and it says his attacks are Explosion, Air Shot, Shooting Buster, Gospel Cannon, and Banishing World. It just fails to actually tell you anything about that last one.
Change of Heart
Chapter 4
by LanHikari2000x
Netto had to admit, the facility Forte had led hem to was certainly impressive. Everywhere he looked was impressive looking equipment, though he couldn't even begin to guess what most of it was for.
He stopped when he came to a wall and looked left and right. The hallway stretched a good hundred feet in both directions. "Which way should I go?"
Forte's voice came from the old model PET he had attached to one of his belt loops. "Left. It's the second door on the right."
Netto followed the directions, but found the door to be sealed with a key-pad lock. "Forte?" Netto questioned.
"The code is 7-2-3-2-8-3-3-2-6-2-4-1-3-2. You should work on memorizing that."
Netto nodded as he his the 'Enter' key and the door opened. "Ok, For-" he stopped when he caught sight of what was on the other side of the door. Unlike the other rooms he had been able to see into, everything in this room was obviously powered up and attached to a central device. This device was a hi-tech looking chair - not that it could look anything but hi-tech, what with the myriad of cables connecting it to the various computers around the room and the headpiece that almost looked like and old VR helmet.
"Forte?" Netto asked, still looking around in awe, "What is all of this?"
Forte didn't answer directly. "plug me into one of the computers and sit in the chair.
Netto did as he was told. He sat in the chair and looked around the room, wondering what was supposed to happen. He started to panic when the headpiece lowered over his head. "Forte? What's happening? Why is-" he was cut off when the headpiece fully covered his face and muffled his voice.
Netto was blinded when his world suddenly went white. As his vision cleared, he was surprised to find himself standing upright with a familiar silhouette standing over him.
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Mettaurs, Netto decided, are not worth the time it takes to delete them.
Netto looked around. Forte had found a server that was totally overrun with Mettaurs. It was supposed to be 'training' for Netto. Netto just found the whole thing boring after the first half hour or so. Not seeing anymore Mets, he concentrated for a second and the sword he was holding flashed briefly and vanished.
He concentrated again and this time he dissolved into a shower if pixels, which fell and melted smoothly into the ground.
He reappeared through a similar process in front of Forte.
"I did it, Forte. I got rid of all the Mettaurs. Can I go home now?"
"Kidnapped persons are generally not allowed to return to their home."
"Oh," Netto wilted. He hadn't realized that Forte was going to go through with his plan so soon. "So... what happens now?"
Forte felt his eye tic. Intentionally or not, Netto was doing a very good impression of a kicked puppy.
"Fine," Forte relented. Netto brightened and Forte continued, "However, you will come back here whenever I tell you to, understood?"
Netto bowed his head. "Yeah, I get it."
"Good," Forte said, and deactivated the lock on the PTS, letting Netto return to his body.
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Forte watched Netto take down a group of Shrimpy viruses. He's getting better, but is he good enough to take on an actual navi?
Netto's appearance had changed over that past month and a half. He seemed to be absorbing aspects of the viruses he destroyed. He currently had the armor of an Armadill virus on his right forearm, a pickaxe and an umbrella crossed on his back, and two loops of wire on each and that his could use to fire weak ZapRings. Added to the transparent white saber he could summon at will - which he was surprisingly good with - and Netto was on his way to being quite a force to be reckoned with.
Forte pulled himself out of his thoughts when he heard Netto call his name.
"This is getting boring. When can I fight stronger enemies?"
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Netto watched the various navis walk by, searching for the right one. Eventually he found the right one: a tall black navi with an obvious video tame theme and a projector on his forehead. He raised a arm and aimed, firing a ZapRing right in front of the navi's feet. He waited just long enough for the navi to catch a glimpse of him before darting away around the corner.
Netto spent the next ten minutes playing chase with he navi, leading it away from the more populated areas towards an area he had picked out earlier.
Videoman found himself smirking when he realized where he was being led. This path led straight to a dead end, and his attacker was backing himself against a wall.
He turned the corner to find his attacker leaning against a wall, holding a strange white blade. It was a child! He opened his mouth to ask for a name, but he was beaten to the punch.
"So who are you anyway?"
Videoman frowned; this kid attacks him and doesn't even know who he is? "I am Videoman. Who are you?"
"Who am I? Hmm..." he seemed to think, "I don't think I'm, anybody, at least not yet. Videoman, huh?" He nodded too himself, "Ok, that'll work."
Videoman wanted to ask what he meant, but his didn't get a chance when the kid exploded in a shower of pixels.
The next thing Videoman knew, that strange white blade was sticking through the center of his chest. His mouth opened in a silent scream as he was deleted. The last thing he heard was his attacker whispering in his ear.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Videoman. Hope you had a backup."
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Netto Gasped when Forte released the lock on the PTS and returned him to his body.
The power! The seer rush of power he's got when he'd absorbed Videoman! Even now the phantom sensations were making him jittery!
Netto stood up and nearly danced to the nearest terminal. "Forte! Forte! When can I do the at again? That felt- That was just- I don't even know the words for it! It just- Just was! Please let me do that again! Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease," he had to stop to breath at this point.
Sometime during Netto's hyper ranting, the screen in front of him had flared to life, revealing Forte.
"Tomorrow. For now, the room directly across the hall holds a small kitchen and a couch." Having seen the room before, Netto nodded, though with a bad feeling about what Forte was going to say. "Get something to eat and got to sleep. Tomorrow I introduce you to the Uranet."
Before anyone complains about Netto being OOC, remember that he's only 7 years old; he's just having fun. And he's been hanging out with Forte for most of the past year, so his morals are going to be a bit of.
Netto's sword. I didn't even try to describe it. It looks like Ulrich's sword in Garage Kids (look it up on YouTube), except it's white and the whole thing is made of the scrolling binary, not just the blade.
Netto's virus thing. One thing that bugged me about MMZXA was that even though you could supposedly transform into any one you defeated, there was no way to turn into the random enemies you fight along the way. I'm changing that. Netto can transform into
any of the viruses he defeats, but he doesn't, 'cause that'd just be stupid. Instead, if he kills enough if a particular virus, he can use it's (basic level) attack/ability. He can only keep 4 at a time though.