Darkmega and Richard looked towards Chad, Roll, Anna, Ryu, Shademan and Xiahou Dun, as they all got their weapons ready. Xiahou Dun with his scimitar, Roll with her arm cannon, which forms into a pink bow, Shademan with his sharp claws, Ryu with his fists, and Anna with nothing…she felt a little embarrassed, since she left her pistol back in her bedroom this one time, but at least she could use battle chips when she needs them…
Chad smirked at Darkmega. He had just appeared right in front of them, in the middle of a base filled with heroes and not-so heroic types that can easily gang up on him and his friend. "Dark Megaman. Well, your gonna be a lot easier to deal with then I thought. You just came right to me without hiding-"
Chad had gone suddenly silent, as a purple energy bullet from Darkmega's arm cannon just missed the side of his head, and barely missed his cheeks as it shot by, and burnt itself into the wall behind them.
"Chad! Are you alright!?" Anna said, obviously worried.
Chad stayed silent, as he looked at Darkmega, the arm cannon still aimed at him.
Darkmega smiled, and lowered his weapon. " Chad Chad Chad… Hub seems to have decent memories of you. A good enough friend of his. First, the name's Darkmega. Second, I only needed to hide for just a little while, in order to prepare things, with Richard's help of course."
Chad kept his Blade of Darkness at the ready. "Prepare for what? To create an "empire"? come on Darkmega, that's delusional. You got to get through everyone here before that would even happen!"
Darkmega just kept smiling. It wasn't a friendly smile, it was an evil one. He was certainly surprised that Chad knew of the plan, but he remembered that him and Richard heard something run off from nearby Richard's room…someone overheard them…oh well.
"Heh…that's the long run plan Chad. I'm talking about the steps to it." Then Darkmega thought to himself 'Once Chaos has given out the chips, that is. He said he could do it in minutes.'
Xiahou Dun pointed his blade at Darkmega. "Shame you won't live to complete those steps! Even as we speak, Liu Bei and Pang Tong have probably told the docs about Richard here, and others are gonna be on their way!"
Richard shrugged. "So what if they have told gramps and the others? We have no real intention to stick around for much longer. oh, and don't be so sure about the others….some of them might not be your friends anymore."
Roll looked surprised at him. "Richard…what do you mean by that? There are others working with you both too?"
"Possibly Roll….possibly."
At that moment Samus Aran, Mr T, Cao Ren and Guan Yu arrived, their weapons ready from the corridor closest to the labs, flanking Richard and Darkmega.
Cao Ren of Earth V, Belonged to the Wei kingdom, led by his brother Cao Cao. His into his 40's, and was known for his war experience. He was heavily armoured, and his weapon was a steel shield with a doubled ended blade connected underneath it. He is the smallest officer of the Wei kingdom…of any kingdom to be honest. His a midget. (Well, not a midget, but the shortest of all the earth V warriors.)
Mr T of Earth X. His a Lean, Mean machine, with extreme strength and endurance. He was known for being in the A-Team a few years back before they got disbanded, and for the art he uses, the art of Hokuto Shinken. He came to the base thanks to Optimas Prime suggesting it. He holds, in the training room, the third highest amount of wins in a row. One of his battles, he lifted Megatron of Cybertron by the robot's foot, and spun him around, before slamming him to the floor.
At the same time of these four arriving, Darkmega and Richard heard Chaos, whose adapt in the skill of psychics, in their minds, informing them that his sent the control chips out, personally making sure they get to the targets he felt were usable for a distraction, and made them teleport out of the base.
Richard looked at Darkmega. "Well, seems like we've outstayed our welcome now. Suppose we should leave.".
Chad shouted at them "No! Don't you dare run away!"
Darkmega sighed, and looked at Chad. "Oh? Or what? Your gonna fight us? With just this little band of ten? I'm surprised the docs haven't come out…maybe their scared. Oh well. Richard? How about I leave you to have a moments fun with Chad and his buddies before leaving too?"
Richard shrugged, and moved a few steps towards Chad and co, as Darkmega teleported away. "Meh, sure. Why not? It's only a little bit of fun."
Guan Yu looked towards Richard. "Don't be foolish. We have superior numbers, you should just give up and simply get told off by your grandfather, rather than suffer from losing a fight."
Chad readied his Blade of Darkness. "Richard, don't make me fight you."
Richard rubbed his hands together for a moment, smiling kindly towards Chad and the others…there was a moment of silence… "Alright then Chad. I won't make you…I'll deal with you before you can act!"
Richard had ran forward. Chad was caught off guard for that, and tried to raise his weapon in order to attack…but that was too late, as Richard had shot his right leg forward, and directly hitting Chad in the chest, sending him backwards, and smacking into the ground. Anna activated a cyber sword chip, and swung it at where Richard was, but he had already moved, and was to the left of the sword. He punched her in the face, then quickly turned round to see Xiahou Dun come at him with the Kirin Fang, but before Xiahou Dun could do anything, Richard had socked him in the stomach, then punched him on the chin, sending him upwards a little, before landing on the floor.
Richard only had a moment to recover and turn around, having heard someone running up to him, and found that Guan Yu's Dao blade had been swung at him. Richard quickly leapt back to avoid it, then saw the shadow of Shademan, who had jumped into the air and was diving at him from behind, with his left hand claw ready, and he took a swing…looking shocked, as Richard had managed to get under the attack by ducking, and grabbed Shademans arm. As he stood back up, with Shademan looking at his back, he flipped Shademan over his shoulder, and slammed him into the ground.
Richard had quickly activated a M-Cannon, and aimed it at Samus, as she aimed her arm cannon at Richard. Richard quickly fired his weapon, and knocked Samus back, and to the floor, then aimed it at Ryu, who was preparing one his powerful Hadoken, and fired a few shots to stop Ryu, and knock him on his back to the floor.
He next looked at Mr T, Seeing him run towards Richard. Richard knew fighting him head on was stupid, so he waited, until Mr T was up close and rose up one of his fists, before leaping back, and getting a mini bomb out, and throwing it. It hit Mr T, doing nothing, but caused a lot of smoke, as Richard wanted…as the smoke begun to clear, Mr T was looking around for Richard quickly…and saw the boy, right behind the now flying towards him, Cao Ren. Cao Ren was knocked flying towards Mr T by Richard using a ability called program advance, which allows you to combine three battle chips into one powerful attack. As such, Richard mixed three Hi-cannon chips into an attack called Zeta Cannon, which unleashes a massive blast of energy.
Cao Ren had rammed into Mr T, and both fell to the floor. Richard turned the double handed blue cannon towards Guan Yu, after ducking to avoid another close encounter with the Dao, and fired it at him, knocking the large man flying back and slamming into a wall. Richard looked proud of himself, as he disabled the weapon, until he heard movement behind him. "Ah yes…one more.." behind him, was Roll, with her arm cannon at the ready, with a roll arrow armed, an arrow with a heart shaped pink tip, and aimed at Richard's back.
Roll didn't want to attack him, Richard knew that already, or she would of tried at the start. "Richard…don't make me hurt you, please, I don't want to..".
Richard was thinking of turning around, pretending to have given up, then punching her in the stomach, then choke her for a moment, before chucking her into a wall…
But something held him back, he didn't really want to. Something told him...not yet. She wouldn't be worth lifting a finger to yet. Richard just teleported away.
Roll lowered her weapon, slightly annoyed at him escaping, and slightly being thankful she didn't have to hurt him, and looked over to Chad to see if his okay, and sighs in relief, as his just seen getting up.
Chad looked around, and noticed that everyone didn't last long, he thought even Roll had tried, and was able to avoid the attack or something. "Okay…that…didn't go the way I was expecting…"
NOW, Dr Wily, Dr Light, Liu Bei and Pang Tong come out of the hospital, looking concerned at the others. "Chad, Roll, everyone! Are you alright?" Dr Light said. Liu Bei rushed over to Guan Yu's side, and checked if he was okay, helping him up.
Chad frowned at him. "Well, some more support would have been great, or even some support from you Liu Bei, and you Pang Tong. It may sound like a hobo and a guy that fights for virtue wouldn't make a big difference, but it could of."
Liu Bei looked hurt at that statement, after he checked his sworn brother for injuries. "We did try to open the hospital door, but it was stuck. Dr Light said someone must of locked it from the labs."
Chad sighed and guessed it must've been Darkmega and Richard, doing so before they came out of the labs.
"And it was…slightly a good thing really. While that had occurred, me and Albert had picked up 8 energy teleport signals in the base on the computer in the hospital." Dr Light added.
Chad was frowning again. "…So?"
"So, as you know, people normally contact me to be teleported. Which means they've been teleported away by someone else other than anyone in this base, since me, Albert, my son and his were all in the hospital at the time."
Roll looked worried. "Wait…Richard said about others working with him and Darkmega, Do you think he meant.."
Soon, the others were up, with mainly Mr T cursing how he let that punk get away, as Chad looked at Roll for a moment, before understanding what she was getting at. "Dr Light? Who were the 8 that teleported out?"
"Well, it was the AI Mother Brain, along with her old cyborg body. Sun Ce, Megatron, Sima Yi, the Navi Laserman, Jak, Mario and Sonic. We Got Regal and my son trying to track them now. It shouldn't take too long." Dr Light replied.
Anna wasn't happy with what's happening. "Richard. I knew he would do something like this to us at one point. He always had that evil gleam in his eyes."
Roll shook her head. "No…Richard's entire family is here. Surely he wouldn't do it that willingly…maybe Darkmega threatened to kill them or something, unless Richard helps him.."
Chad had to agree there. Even though Richard seemed like the guy who would willingly do something like this…hell, his a Wily family member, evil is their forte, he wouldn't turn on his own family…heck, he cares for them, as far as Chad can tell, and he likes talking to Roll and some others. He was guessing that maybe Richard was being controlled, not made to by bribe's or anything.
Dr Light was in deep thought over it. "But why 8...why just 8? Why not more than that?"
Chad thought about this too, as did the others…before they all turned and looked at Dr Wily. Mr T beat them to saying what they wanted to say. "Seems like the Wily blood carries the same crazy ideas down the generations."
Dr Wily didn't understand for a moment…but it dawned on him. His old taking over the world schemes always included 8 robot masters, stolen or created by himself. "…Well, I suppose SOMETHING had to be passed down from me to him."
Chad slapped his forehead. "Ugh, great, Richard is pulling a Wily…and we gotta go through it. Damnit! It's only suppose to be Rock that puts up with this shit!"
Meanwhile, within a dark, purple clouded void, was a black fortress, with no pathways to it, nor from it…it just floated there, on top of a chunk of earth, that was floating in this abyss…inside it, in a huge hall of it, where the floor was tiled with black stones, and the walls held white candles with glowing blue flames, were Richard, Darkmega and Chaos, all near each other. The ceiling couldn't be seen in the darkness around them, the blue flames only giving them enough light to see the ground and themselves.
Darkmega looked around carefully, before focusing on Chaos. "So why do we need to back off? Why couldn't we take them all on at once? You put the control chips in right? With those 8 friends of theirs, we could of easily dealt with them!"
Chaos smiled at him. "Unlike you, I know Chad and his friends very well…with Chad with them, you would have been defeated, and that would have been the end of it. His very special. More special then you could ever understand…that's why we need him out of the way first. These 8 allies we got…they're just diversions until the right time comes."
Richard was looking at Chaos, annoyed with him wearing shades that denied them looking at his eyes. "And what will happen when that time comes then? We jump Chad and kill him off?"
Chaos laughed slightly. "No. We, put him aside. In a place where he can't help his friends, and your empire can grow…then, we can crush him, after he finds out everything is lost, that there's no hope left."
"Why help us anyway Chaos? Your being pretty bold on teaming up with people who want to start universal domination." Richard pointed out.
Chaos stayed quiet for a moment, before responding with "Because I hate Chad a lot more then you know Richard Wily. Your grudge against him is nothing compared to what I have against him."
Richard accepted that reason…with the way Chad is, he would have a lot of enemies that would want to kill him.
Chaos then looked away from them, looking into the abyss beyond the lighted area. "The 8 idiots we have under our thumb should begin attacking in the areas I sent them to. It'll keep Chad and his pals busy until the last one…enough time."
Back at the hero base, it had been a few hours after the incident with Richard and Darkmega. Chad, Anna, Dr Light, Dr Wily, Dr Regal, Dr Robotnik and Dr Hikari had all gone into the labs to continue tracking the 8 that left the base. Dr Robotnik had contacted Keaton about the situation…and he wasn't pleased that the doc's experiment was running loose, and demanding that if anything should go wrong, THEY'LL be paying for damages.
For once it's not the other way round.
Roll and the others had gone to rest in their rooms until they're needed. Keaton had promised to commence a full scale search for the missing 8...although thanks to the GF and their efficiency, that could take about 6 months. 3 of them include contracts and agreements on doing searches on certain planets, and those papers being lost at least twice and need to be redone.
But that won't be needed…as the tracker on the lab computer finds one person…Mother Brain is picked up on Mute Gaia, where the famous F-Zero racing is mostly held, in it's capital, Mute City.
Dr Light looked worried, when it showed where she was. "Mother Brain is there…that could be a very bad thing. it might be attacking the city."
Wily nodded. "Most likely Thomas, it's too fat and huge to hide in that place."
Chad then knew what to do. "We gotta go and stop it then! I'll go and handle it!"
Anna had suddenly grabbed on his arm, before he could even move…which he wasn't going to do anyway, but she wanted to make sure. "No Chad! Going alone is suicide! The thing might kill you! It's massive!"
"But…we can't just let it run amuck, especially if it's working with Darkmega!"
Dr Light looked at Chad "Anna's right. Fighting it alone is stupid…we'll call in a few of the others to work with you and deal with Mother Brain."
Dr Wily added "And do try and not completely destroy it if it refuses to give up…we could sell off it's robotic remains for a good price."
Chad looked stared at Wily, as did Anna and the others. Wily looked at them all, and shrugged. "What? I'm just thinking of any possible benefits to us, we could do with a updated hologram room…"
Chad sighed. "Whatever you say doc…alright, we need to think who should go. I'm going no doubt, I call first dibs on kicking ass."
Dr Light thought about it carefully. "Well…Samus would be effective, since she's had past battles with Mother Brain…Shademan can fly, which would be useful thanks to Mother Brain's height…"
Chad then suggested Quickman, his Net Navi, due to his speed, and Dr Wily suggested Knuckles for his climbing and gliding abilities.
Knuckles the Echidna, From Mobius, was known as the guardian of the master emerald…until the GF took over that duty for him, saying he wasn't fit for the job. He had tried to beat up a few GF troopers that were trying to escort him off angel island, but was soon arrested…it was the help of Chad and Sonic that got him out of that mess with the GF, and they suggested he stays with them in the hero base for the moment, until they can find a way to help him get his job back…that was over a few months ago, and the GF still completely refuse him.
Soon, the people they had thought up had arrived in the labs and were told of who they were to face, and soon, were teleported to their destination, with Anna staying behind, after finally letting Chad go…
At Mute City, Mother Brain had just easily grabbed a nearby towering building, and pushed it down, making it collapse as it fell, crushing countless vehicles and people, around it, was mostly rubble already. By the looks of it, it hadn't got far, due to the rest of city looked intact…the GF force were busy getting everyone safely out of the city, when Chad, Ryu, Quickman, Shademan and Samus had arrived in a street near where Mother Brain was…who was only a few roads away, thankfully looking in the opposite direction.
Chad was horrified at the mess already caused. "No….Look at this place!"
Shademan looked around. "Seems like it's really pissed off…maybe we should be extra careful and call in a little more support."
That's when Mother Brain turned around, spotting them standing there. They noticed something different about it right away, it single eye was completely black, without a pupil. It snarled at them, knowing who they were. "Little bugs, so, you have come to die!"
Mother Brain was the one eyed big red spiky brained freak from Planet Zebes. The thing is, this Mother Brain is a copy of the original. Samus Aran destroyed the original a good 2 years ago. This copy was made by the GF in order to control their defence turrets across the empire…but it soon chose to ignore orders, and was shut off before it could even turn on them, as it had planned. Dr Light bought it off the GF for a small price, and had it stored away in one of the spare supply rooms until the docs had time to fiddle around with it.
Soon, Samus told the docs about the original mother brain having a cyborg body, that was destroyed…thanks to Samus remembering it well, and reading the space pirate files, they were able to make a copy of that, so that eventually, they could turn Mother Brain into their own personal defense unit.
That cyborg body idea of Samus's must be pissing off her right about now, since this is the result of granting the thing that.
Knuckles was the first to point out the obvious. "That certainly isn't right, look at it's eye…maybe it's being controlled by something!"
As soon as Mother Brain made one step towards them…which was a huge step in their point of view, Chad got his Blade of Darkness ready, and turned into his red hedgehog form. "Let's do this!"
Samus prepared her missiles, Shademan was ready with his claws, Quickman had got a high cannon out and ready, and Knuckles was ready with his fists…Mother Brain made the first move, by firing, from her mouth, several large neon blue energy rings, flying at the team.
Chad had quickly sped away from the road, avoiding the energy attack, into an alleyway between two tall buildings, and quickly begun to jump from one wall to another, slowly going to the top of one of them. Samus had leapt backwards to avoid one energy ring that nearly hit, and unleashed a few basic missiles to counter, which all hit the main eye of Mother Brain, making it scream in pain. Knuckles had avoided the energy rings, and jumped towards a wall of a building, using the pointed, sharpened knuckles on his gloves to dig into the stone wall, and begun to quickly climb it, making new small holes with each move, making sure he avoided windows in the process.
Shademan had been able to change his arms into their bat wing state, and used them as a shield to stop the energy rings…which it did with ease, before turning his arms back to normal, and forming the high cannon, firing it at the torso of Mother Brain's cyborg body, at the same time Quickman did, after he used his speed to easily avoid the attack. The energy shots though, done nothing to the torso or Mother Brain, not even phasing it after it had recovered from Samus's attack.
Chad had arrived on one of the rooftops, to find Mother Brain already spotting him, as he looked to where it was. He fired his Chaos energy beam at it, which just hit the arm that it rose to protect its eye from the attack, before fighting back with the energy rings from its mouth at him, and he quickly form a barrier from the battle chips, as the dozen or so energy rings hit the rooftop, and around Chad, thanks to the barrier. "Nice try MB!…uh oh."
The "uh oh" was due to Mother Brain noticing him still being alive, and raising its arm, ready to crush the entire rooftop, along with him.
But that was put to a stop, thanks to Samus using her suit's space jumping ability to leap up to the rooftop where Chad was, and quickly firing a much more powerful super missile into Mother Brain's eye, making it screech again and cover its eye with its hands.
Samus smirked, then looked at Chad. "It's a rather obvious weak spot, isn't it?"
"Shame it doesn't kill it!" Chad responded, pointing at Mother Brain, who had recovered already, and got ready to crush the roof again.
"BOOT TO THE HEAD!" Suddenly, leaping from another rooftop, and making his foot connect to the left side of Mother Brain's face, making her head turn from the force of the blow, was Knuckles. He soon, leapt away, and landing on the same rooftop as Samus and Chad, as Shademan and Quickman both take this chance to use program advance, and create zeta cannons, firing the huge cannon shots at Mother Brain's torso. The attacks hit dead on, as she just begun to recover from Knuckles attack, and push her back a few steps.
Mother Brain hadn't been beaten though, as she looked at the rooftop with Chad, Knuckles and Samus, and this time, fired the energy rings, at least several dozen. at the actual building. This was enough to damage one side of the structure, and making it begin to collapse. Samus had jumped to a nearby rooftop, as did Knuckles, but as Chad was about to try, the floor under him shook abruptly, making him stumble as he was about to jump, and fall to the floor…and begin to slide down, towards the side which was now showing the ground, as the building started to fall down.
But he wouldn't be going with it, as something blue had shot by…and he suddenly being grabbed by his spare hand, and flying off the building…the blue object, as he could see, had fallen off the breaking rooftop, and pummeled to the ground, exploding on impact. He knew what it was though…it was the Blue Falcon, with the cockpit open, meaning the driver…then, Chad had landed on another building, that was across the road to the one he was just on, and the person let go, and landed in front of him, with his back turned, before spinning round, looking at Chad, doing his normal salute…Captain Falcon.
Captain Falcon of Port Nova II is a champion of the famous F-Zero racing, and a bounty hunter, who mainly goes for jobs that include evil villains. He is known for visiting the hero base often, but wasn't a person who stayed longer then a day. He was always on the move, and had always made it to any F-Zero race that included him, not missing one of them. He was visiting Mute City for a race, when Mother Brain attacked, and saw Chad and the others start fighting when he was trying to get through the GF and people who were fleeing in order to help out, which he had just done, in the nick of time….with style.
"Hey Falcon, Glad you were around. Thanks for the rescue."
Captain Falcon smiled. "No problem Chad! I thought you hero guys wouldn't bother showing up! What took you so long to get here?"
"Well, the bitch machine that we're fighting didn't exactly want to be found right away…". Chad then looked over to where Mother Brain was…Samus had just been swiped away as she tried to fire another missile from the rooftop of the building her and knuckles had made it on, and Knuckles had avoided the blow, by jumping into the air and gliding towards Mother Brain, and punched Mother Brain in the head, which pushed it back slightly, but as he leaped away, it swiped at him, and knocked him through a building with its hand.
Quickman had ran towards Mother Brain, and fired his quick boomerang, aiming it towards it's eye…it easily swiped the golden shape boomerang away, but that was just a diversion, as Shademan had flown up right at its face, deadly close to its eye, raised his claws on one arm…and gashed the eye with three cuts, making black bile flow out, as Mother Brain covered it's wounded eye, trying to stop the bleeding.
Samus saw this as a chance to finish Mother Brain, thanks to her being blind. She had landed on the ground, and begun to run towards where Mother Brain was…as she ran, energy begun to build up around her, as she went into super speed, and she jumped as she got close to the huge creature…it was the perfect time, as Mother Brain had finally moved her hands away for that moment…Samus, without a care, tore right through the wounded eye, covered in the energy that had come from her suit, through the back of it, and out, of the back of Mother Brain's head, leaving a human sized hole in her wake, black bile flying everywhere…Mother Brain stood there, before falling backwards, and hitting the floor, dead.
Samus landed nearby the remains, and looked at them, smiling in her helmet. "That's one point up to me on the kill board."
Captain Falcon seemed relieved it was over before he had to do anything serious. "Well, glad that's that. All I had to do was save you kid. Now, I'll just get my blue falcon and be on my way."
Chad looked at him, then motioned at the smoke that was flowing from the ground, going up into the night sky. "It's there if you want it."
Captain Falcon was about to thank Chad…But it dawned on him what Chad was saying. "Oh…You, don't think the docs at the base would mind if they could pay for a new one, ya know, for saving you and joining in this fray?"
"I'll put in a good word for you Cap."
Soon, they had gathered around Mother Brain's remains, and tried to figure out what made her do this…the answer didn't take long to appear, as Knuckles had looked around the head of Mother Brain, and at the very top of it, on the red flesh of the brain, was the black control chip, embedded into it.
"Hey guys! I found something!" Knuckles ripped the control chip out, and met the others near the body of the being. He showed it to them.
"Ugh gross, it's still got a little bit of the flesh on." Captain Falcon pointed out.
"What is it?" Quickman asked them.
Shademan looked at it carefully, and knew what it was after a moment. "A control chip…"
Chad looked at him. "Controls things right? How the heck did Darkmega and Richard get their hands on it?"
Shademan thought about this. "It's not in production, but Dr Wily created prototypes of it before, probably Hub knew of the blueprints and prototypes, and what Hub knows, Darkmega knows. I remember hearing about them from Regal. Suppose to have been used on humans, and in a mild way, not forcefully and utterly control them. Keep stubborn bastards in line and such. But it seems Darkmega and somehow edited them to work on more than that."
"Hmm…well, the docs might want to take a look at it." Chad said to them…speaking of the docs, they had just contacted Chad on his com-link. He opened it, to hear Dr Light's voice….seems like things were going to get worse, as Laserman was found in the Wily Fortress, which was on Earth X, which was Wily's….13th fortress to date. Laserman had taken it over, and had activated it's defenses.
Chad and the others didn't need to think about anything, after asking Captain Falcon to come along, they got the docs to teleport them near the fortress in order to confront the controlled Laserman…
On Gaia VII, Keaton was once again in the Shinra Building…he was at his desk, looking at his computer…E-mails of reports from Mute City kept coming through about Mother Brain, first, her attack, then the heroes arrival, then about her death and the damage that was left behind as the heroes teleported away.
Keaton wasn't impressed with them. They had allowed the thing to cause a fair amount of damage, meaning he would have to pay for the loss of lives and repairs BEFORE they pay him…and the chances are, the docs will try to con their way out of paying him even a speck of gil.
Then Master Chief walked in, and went up to the front of the desk, looking at Keaton after saluting him. "You wanted to see me sir?"
Keaton looked up at him, and nodded, before standing up. "Yes Chief. I want you to inform everyone in the GF to be on top alert for a dark version of the Net Navi Megaman called Darkmega. Tell the forces on both fronts against the United Federation and Galactic Empire to hold fire untill this problem is cleared up."
"Sir, we had only just begun to gain the upper hand for the border of the Galactic Empire. Two of their space stations had been taken over seven days ago, and Barrel is planning a breakthrough assault on their defenses. We shouldn't stop everything for something so small."
"That doesn't matter, we need to focus on one thing at a time, first this Darkmega problem, as he seems to want to build his own empire, as Robotnik and my, other sources informed me, then the two rival empires can be dealt with."
Master Chief went quiet for a moment, before saluting again. "Yes sir, Cortana and myself will get right on it."
When Chad, Knuckles, Shademan, Quickman, Samus and Captain Falcon arrived just outside the Wily Fortress on Earth X, They found it…pretty well guarded…by the simple fact that every single robot master was seen just coming out of the place…it was an expected welcome.
The thirteenth Wily Fortress was a remake of the very first Fortress, just designed inside to be more for luxury then world domination, unlike all the previous ones…still, Wily couldn't resist on adding a few traps here and there. Inside it as well, was a machine that could recreate the robot masters, in case they were needed for defensive purposes.
Chad didn't mind much…heck, Wily let him fight the Robot masters before for training, so this wasn't gonna be bad for him. The others didn't seem to have much trouble either, as soon as the robot masters showed they were hostile. Quickman had easily smashed up Heatman, Iceman and Gutsman with a cyber sword, and had used area steal battle chip, to quickly move behind the robot master Quickman, and hack his head off.
Shademan just kept using his claws to hack anything that was machine, and Samus was letting rip with her missiles, not fully focusing on the amount of targets coming at them…which got Knuckles a little worried, as he was near her, breaking apart the likes of Centaurman and robot master Shademan, two that she failed to notice.
Turboman had just been blasted to pieces by Captain Falcon and his trademark falcon punch, and Chad has just hacked Elecman in half with the Blade of Darkness, before firing a Chaos energy beam at Stoneman, who was coming up behind him…and now who had a massive hole in his stomach, as he fell to the floor. Chad looked around afterwards, and saw the robot masters were easily wiped out…they were just cheap editions, designed to be nothing but cannon fodder.
He soon noticed the lack in cannons coming out of the fortress walls to fire at them. Wily told him about new defenses being added, and they were supposed to have been activated by Laserman, yet, nothing had come out. "Hmm…odd."
Captain Falcon looked at him. "What's odd? The fact we won easily?"
Chad shook his head. "No. Wily said about the defenses being activated. But all we had are the robot masters. There should be a swarm of cannons coming out of the walls and filling us with holes."
Knuckles then turned to Chad. "…So? That just makes things easier for us! Let's get inside and deal with Laserman!"
Shame that weren't happening so soon, as another bunch of the Robot masters marched out to greet them…then another bunch…and another…it wasn't the fact that they were any danger to them, it was the fact that Chad and the others were being slowed down by endless fodder, as they wouldn't stop. Those robot building machines must be going nuts.
Samus had ran out of missiles, much to her anger, and begun to just blast the robots with energy shots, like she just did with a copy of Needleman. She looked at Chad, as he took down two iceman's in one swing of his sword. "Chad! I don't think we'll be progressing anytime soon! I can see a lot more coming out of the fortress! We're pinned down!"
Knuckles just had socked the head off a Junkman, and then punched a hole in the stomach of a Hardman. "We should tell the docs to send others near the fortress to get inside and handle Laserman! We're gonna be down and out by the time he stops sending these at us!" He yelled.
Chad nodded, and after kicking away a Quickman, before slashing a Napalmman in half, he quickly uses his com-link to call the docs.
It was a good idea, as Laserman, who was inside the main room of the fortress, which was designed to be as large as the base one, was watching Chad and the others fight the endless hordes of robot masters on a computer screen. The Control chip could plainly be seen on the top of his head.
Laserman is the former Net Navi of Dr Regal Wily. His cruel, sarcastic and gives a lot of people the cold shoulder when they talk to him. He is one of the few Net Navi who do not have the life program installed into them, due to the fact he has no real mouth, or nose, or even eyes, thus he wouldn't be able to survive by eating or drinking, or even breathing.
He is now, as they call those that have no longer an owner, a Freelancer Navi. Those who have no humans in which to control them if need be. Those with human control are called PET Navi's. Laserman was allowed to become a Freelancer when he felt no need to follow Regal anymore when the base was created. He keeps the old PET he once lived in as a reminder of his past, serving Regal.
Laserman is a known wait-for-the-right-moment fighter. He can easily take a lot of hits from enemies, before countering with one of his laser-like attacks, which are known to do tons of damage, and in one fight with the hardened Navi Gutsman, he nearly killed with one attack. The only types he has trouble with, are speedy people, who can easily dodge his attacks if he fails to aim well and surprise them with the sudden counter.
As he watched Chad and the others, he failed to notice the arrival of back up, as they had appeared right close to the fortress walls. It was Zhao Yun, Sam Stone from Earth II, and the robot created by Wily, Forte, of Earth X.
Zhao Yun aka the dragon of Chang Shan aka the poster boy of the great Shu kingdom. He can wield a spear and melt girls hearts without even realizing he was doing it…while killing hordes of enemies…back in those days. Now he faces off the odd enemy now and then, otherwise, he just chills out at the base, keeping contact with the watcher of the Shu kingdom on earth V, Liu Bei's son, Liu Chan. (which he keeps claiming was just an accident…he even said it to his son, and made him cry…he never regretted it.).
Sam 'Serious' Stone, or as he preferred, Serious Sam, was a merc for hire on Earth II who was able to survive the most ridiculous of odds. He was known especially when a part of the space pirate forces decided to lead an invasion against that earth…for a sum of 300,000 gil, he not only single-handedly took out over 5,000 pirates, but managed to destroy all of their vessels, within a day. Some sources claim it was a few weeks, whatever the case, he still defeated theme, and It can't be denied that his swift with guns.
Forte is a robot master created by Albert Wily, designed to be the rival to Rock, a robot created by Dr Light to stop Wily and his mad schemes back then. Now he just acts as a law enforcer in the base, making sure no trouble is caused…a job that he fails badly at, since he doesn't care if there's trouble at all, but Wily and Light don't mind, as long as he stops trying to pick fights with Rock 24/7.
Zhao Yun got all three of them to hide near the wall of the fortress, as another batch of robot masters run out the main entrance, going to Chad and co. "Alright, we need to charge in, take out any enemies in our way, and defeat Laserman!"
Sam looked at him, then at the entrance, as yet another batch of robot masters run out. "Yeah…not gonna lie to you fella, but I doubt my pair of energy blasting Uzis are gonna get us through that lot."
Forte started to walk away from them, and heading round the back of the fortress. Zhao Yun and Sam notice, and quickly follow.
"Forte! Where are you going!? We need to commence the attack!" Zhao Yun said, once he caught up.
"I'm getting us in a simpler way then the suicide charge that you suggested." He replied, as he stopped next to a wall, with no sign of an entrance.
Sam looked at the wall carefully, then looked at Forte. "You're drugged up, aren't you? See, I knew robots could get high, no matter what people say about them lacking the parts."
Forte sighed at him, then began to feel the wall a little. Zhao Yun looked at what Forte was doing, then at Sam, who shrugged, then used the gesture to suggest Forte was a bit cuckoo in the head. They then notice Forte knocking on the wall, then suddenly, forming his arm cannon, and firing at it, making a nice large hole.
Zhao Yun gave him a smile. "Ah! I see! There was a weak point in the structure that you remembered about!"
Forte shook his head, as they went inside. "Nah. I just couldn't be bothered to look for the proper back entrance anymore."
All three soon begun to run through the corridors of the Wily fortress and, after a good few minutes, found themselves inside the main room, where Laserman was still busy watching a computer screen…before he turned around, finally realising that there was more then just one person in the room. "Humph. Seems the doctors decided to call for backup."
Zhao Yun readied his spear. "Laserman! Cease your actions, or I will be forced to stop you!"
Sam sighed, shaking his head, looking at Zhao Yun, after pulling out two Uzis that were attached around his waist. "Really? You think his just gonna stop?"
Laserman stood there, staring at them…before using area steal, and appearing in front of Zhao Yun, who quickly moved back a step, and swung his spear at Laserman, only for it to be blocked by a cyber sword. Forte took this moment and fired a few energy shots at Laserman, they hit, but they didn't even bother him or move him.
Laserman then blocked another attack from Zhao Yun's spear, before using his spare fist to punch him away. Serious Sam fired his guns, spraying energy shots all over the tall Net Navi, who didn't even seem to notice, as he stopped Zhao Yun again, who had charged, and kicked him back. Sam looked at his prized beauties, and knew he had to try something else, putting both guns away. Laserman had just got a mega cannon battle chip activated and shot Forte into a wall, When Sam screamed "DROP IT!" and made Laserman turn and look at him, just as the sunglasses wearing guy dropkicked right into Lasermans chest, with such a force that it sent the Navi flying back and smacking into a wall himself.
"THAT'S how you take down enemy officers!" Sam said in a smug tone, as he got himself up off the floor. He had said it to annoy Zhao Yun, who was frowning. The people of Earth V were prone to say such things after someone has been beaten…unlucky for them, Laserman had got himself off the wall, looking at them again. "Oh come on! I just dropkicked you! Can't you have the courtesy to stay down!?"
Laserman fired a few laser beams from his hands at them. Forte had dodged the ones coming at him, and charged up an energy shot, before firing it, and hitting Laserman in the head, making him a little dazed from the attack, but not for long. Sam just kept leaping around to around the lasers, and Zhao Yun readied his spear, as he dodged a few of them himself. "Laserman! I shall defeat you!". A green aura begun to flow around Zhao Yun, then, he bellowed out, as he charged forward, "MUSOU!"
Laserman quickly formed a Vulcan cannon on one of his hands, and fired it at Zhao Yun, dozens of energy bullets flying at him, as he ran at the ex-Wily Navi. Zhao Yun spun his spear around in front of him at blinding speed, deflecting the energy bullets, some of them hitting back at Laserman.
When Zhao Yun finally got close, he leapt up into the air, the green aura around him glowing brightly, and was about to simply plunge his spear into Laserman's head, when he noticed the control chip on top of the Navi's head. He had duelled the Navi before, and knew THAT wasn't there before. He flew back down, and as he was about to land, he threw his spear at Laserman…and the spear just, JUST hit the control chip, and stabbed into it, before pulling it out, and flying into the wall, the spear head now embedded into the wall, with the chip, now crushed, at the tip of it.
Zhao Yun was panting a little, as his green aura faded away, and Laserman just stood there…before weakly saying, in a confused tone, "Where…am I…whats…" He slowly fell backwards, and hit the floor with a huge thud.
"Damnit Zhao Yun. We're supposed to be helping these people, NOT kill them." Sam pointed out.
"I have not killed him. I believe he is knocked out from being controlled. I noticed a device on top of his head, and destroyed it." Zhao Yun said, as he looked at Laserman. "Forte, I suggest you disable the Robot Master creating machines so Chad and our allies know that we have regained this fortress."
Forte nodded. And soon, After the machines were shut off, and Chad and the others had all destroyed the last of the robot masters, they all met inside the main room of the Wily fortress. Zhao Yun explained what happened on their end of it, after pulling his spear out of the wall, and collecting the little remains of the control chip that was on Laserman.
"Here, this is what is left of the odd small device.". Zhao Yun showed it to Chad and the others, motioned as well as to where it was on Laserman.
"Looks like another control chip. We got one off Mother Brain after kicking her ass." Chad said, before showing Zhao Yun the control chip they got…it still had the dead flesh on, and was starting to smell a little. "We should head back together, and take these to Dr Light and Wily…and also get Laserman in the hospital, so he can recover."
He heard a beeping sound, and it was coming off his com-link in his pocket. He got it out and opened it. "Yo."
It was Dr Light. "Chad, How is it going, have you dealt with Laserman?"
"Yep, all taken care of."
"Good. Well, We found another three of them. It's Sonic, Mario and Jak. They're working together in the ACDC network, My sons hometown network. They seem to be causing damage to data there. Return to the base and use the pulse transmission devices to get yourselves in the net, and stop them."
Chad sighed, so much for a quick break. "On it doc. We'll get back now." He put the com-link away. "Did you guys hear him?"
"Loud and clear." Sam replied.
"Well, we should all go together. Nine is better then six."
Captain Falcon interrupted. "Hey…look…I gotta get back to mute city. It's great helping you guys, but after those robots, I think I've had my fill on fighting…sorry for being a killjoy and all, but I'm sure you guys can handle three people, right?"
Chad sighed in annoyance. "Alright alright. Eight on three is still good….unless anyone else wants to back out?". He knew that no one else will support them from the base unless they can be motivated to help, so whatever team he has now, is what they got.
Everyone else shook their heads. Chad thanked whatever gods were watching over them, and soon, they all teleported away, and returned to the Hero base, taking Laserman with them.
…When they left, Sephiroth and Phantom suddenly appeared in the Fortress, with Sephiroth looking towards where the others were. "Two down already…another six to go. It seems Chaos and Darkmega are allowing their slaves to be beaten…to lure Chad into a trap."
Phantom also looked over where the Heroes were. "Bah. That Chad hasn't personally slain either of the previous minions. I'm beginning to doubt that his the descendent of him…he used to slay every foe that he came across himself, never once dared to allow others the finishing blow if he could."
"Every foe Phantom? No…not even he killed all his enemies, his allies had a role to play, like Chad's. We shall continue to watch, as the old man hasn't made any moves yet…". The old man was Zuo Ci, his rival. They had clashed hundreds of times over the time of the universe, with either one or the other the victor. If one wins one fight, then they know the next fight, they will lose. It has always been like that between them, neither have truly proved which is the greater deity.
Phantom grunted a little, as he looked around the room. "Why should we wait for him and Griffon to make any moves? I personally want to test this boy to see if his really made of the same stuff as his ancestor."
Sephiroth looked at his summon. "If you wish to, but your actions will be your own. If Griffon or Zuo Ci try to hinder your path, I shall not support you."
When Chad and the others returned to the base, Sam, with the help of Forte and Captain Falcon, got Laserman into the hospital to recover, before Captain Falcon said his farewells, and left.
Dr Light was waiting for them in the labs, with Dr Wily, Liu Bei, Pang Tong, Roll and Anna. When Chad and that arrived there, they showed Dr Light and Wily the control chips.
"Then all we need to do is deal with the chips, and everything will be back to normal. that's what you need to do with your next three enemies, Sonic, Mario and Jak. Get those chips off and make them…hopefully, sane again." Dr Wily said, whilst looking at the computer of the labs.
"Albert is preparing the pulse machines for all eight of you. They should be set within a few minutes." Dr Light added.
Anna walked over to Chad, while Roll just stood there, watching him from afar to see if his okay. "Chad…just be careful. I don't want you pushing yourself too hard. Let the others fight and you come back if it gets too much." Anna said to him.
"I'll be fine Anna. I'm still full of juice." he replied to her. Roll was about to say something, when Dr Wily beat her to it.
"Chad, it's all ready, you can get going now. Sooner the better."
"Got it. Well see ya Anna, Roll." Chad then went into the room connected to the labs, with Zhao Yun, Quickman, Sam, Forte, Knuckles, Shademan and Samus.
Roll watched them leave the lab, then, she quietly said to herself. "Just keep yourself alive Chad…don't overdo it…"
Soon, Chad and the others, with Samus taking her helmet off and putting down nearby, sat down in these huge metal chairs, with large dome helmets above them, and hundreds of wires going into both the chair and helmet…these were the pulse machines, designed to transmit the brain waves of a non-Navi into the cyber world. Shademan and Quickman simply went to a computer nearby the machines, and transferred themselves into the network.
It works on all kinds of races, including machines as well. It was so that the races of the Galactic Federation could explore the world that Navi's felt they were once confined in. it's very useful to edit data on computers that are connected to the networks. There are dangers to using the machine mind. One serious danger is that if you're on the net, and your network aka the one where the pulse chair is, is disconnected from the network your actually in, you're dead. As your brain waves would have actually been severed from the main body, killing it and yourself. The effect on yourself, your image on the net is varied, some have reported the host's image simply dissolves away, sometimes screaming in pure terror and pain, others silently and quickly. Other times the image becomes a ghost, recorded and saved in the network, often just repeating itself and wandering aimlessly, signalising it's brain dead state. Robots are immune to this fatal danger, as their minds have back ups at the ready, so if they were disconnected, they would simply use back up data to stay active.
Soon, their brain waves were sent to the net, and they arrived at their destination right away, hence why it took Albert a little while to get it ready. They all had their gear on, as it was digitally transmitted. Samus even had her full armor on, including the helmet. All eight of them looked around the blue area, which had white panel flooring…and they saw Sonic, Mario and Jak dead ahead, all attacking bits of data flying around…important data at that, for the hometown, for all Chad and the others knew, things could be blowing up in the real world in that town right now if they don't stop this.
Chad looked at Sonic, and smirked, as he changed into his Mobian red hedgehog form. "Alright guys, Sonic is mine!"
Zhao Yun was about to tell Chad to wait, but Chad had sped off right to where Sonic is, appearing in front of him, just before he attacked another bit of data. Sonic was a little surprised…he had the chip attached to his head. "Chad. What are you doing here? Gonna try and stop me?"
"Nah….I'm just here to prove whose faster by leaving you in the dust!" Chad turned away from Sonic, and ran off into another part of ACDC network…Sonic looked stunned…before looking pissed off, clenching his fist.
Fact was, Chad was a common hedgehog Mobian. And yet he seemed to have gifted speed like Sonic. Normal mind state Sonic always sees this as a friendly racing rivalry. The mind controlled Sonic? An insult.
"OH he did NOT just do that!" Sonic shot off after him.
Soon, he caught up with Chad, as they were rushing around the net, and then, they were side by side, keeping with each other's pace. Chad looked at Sonic and smiled. "Hey! Not bad! I thought you were gonna give up before even trying!" Then, he gave Sonic a serious look. "Now let's see if you can fight while running at this pace!"
He quickly elbowed Sonic, making him slow down…before Sonic rushed back up to his pace, and rammed into Chad, knocking him, and make him lose speed…he also came back up within moments, and it kept going like this, as they rushed on, and Chad was loving every moment of it.
But soon, it got real serious, as Chad knocked Sonic once again, Sonic simply rolled into a ball, and spun towards Chad's legs. Chad just jumped the attack, and came to a stop in one of the ACDC areas. He saw Sonic continued his spinning rampage, as he turned around, and spun back towards Chad. The red hedgehog quickly fired a chaos control beam, and it hit Sonic just before he reached Chad, making him fly back and hit the ground. He quickly got up, snarling in anger, showing the beam didn't do much.
Chad rushed forward, and kicked Sonic in the face, pushing him back a little. In response, Sonic ran at him and delivered a punch right in the nose, knocking Chad back. Chad was recovering from the blow, looking in a little agony as he rubbed his nose, when Sonic came again, and kicked him in the stomach, using it as a jump point, he pushed on where his foot was on Chad, leapt backwards into the air…and rolled into a ball, and done his homing attack, flying right back at Chad as he was now recovering from the previous attack, and rammed into him, sending him crashing to the floor, as Sonic shot by, rolled across the ground, and stood up, turning around to where Chad is on the floor, and smiling. "Guess I'm a little too fast for ya Chad!"
Chad groaned a little. "Uhh…that…hurt more than I thought it would…" He just laid there, acting all tired, as Sonic walked up to him, and looked down at his face, bending his head down…clearly showing the chip, which was right on the top of his forehead.
"Aww, that's it Chad? Already beaten?" Sonic said in a smug tone….it was short lived, as Chad suddenly raised his hand, and fires a very small beam of chaos control energy at the control chip, destroying it. Sonic stood there…stunned, then confused at Chad, then finally, as Chad quickly moved out of the way, Sonic hit the floor, out for the count.
Chad got up, and smiled at where Sonic was. "Nah, I was just waiting for the perfect moment. Maybe next time Darkmega won't put those control chips in obvious spots."
Meanwhile, Mario hit the floor, his hat was nearby on the ground, and the control chip that was imbedded into his head was on the floor nearby as well, broken. Forte lowered his arm buster. He got a direct hit on the chip. Jak was freed from the control chip was well, thanks to Shademan clawing it, as it was on his arm. He was out for the count as well.
Zhao Yun looked at Quickman, Sam, Shademan, Forte, Knuckles and Samus. "Once again, victory is ours!"
"Not completely. Chad hasn't come back yet, he might of not defeated the blue hedgehog." Samus pointed out.
That's when Chad returned, in his hedgehog form still, carrying Sonic. "Hey Guys. Did I miss anything?"
Quickman smiled at his OP. "Nah Chad. Mario and Jak were quite easy to handle. We got the chips off them. By the looks of it, you sorted Sonic out."
"Yeah, had a little bit of trouble, but it wasn't anything I couldn't handle. Let's call the docs, maybe they'll be able to trace where their actual bodies are currently." Chad said, before putting sonic on the floor.
They managed to get in contact with Dr Light, and after several minutes, He and Albert managed to find out where their signal, aka their net images, were coming from. To Wily's annoyance, it was from his fortress.
Albert said about activating an override protocol, which made the images of Sonic, Mario and Jak each change into the words 'LOGGED OUT' in teal colouring, before dispersing, meaning they were disconnected at the source. With that, another victory, Chad and the others were ready to disconnect, and by saying the command "Network, Log out." for Sam, Samus, Zhao Yun, Knuckles, while Forte, Shademan and Quickman had to all merely think it, they were all logged out of the net, bar Chad.
"Network, Log out." He said, like the others, and closed his eyes, waiting for the feeling of being pulled backwards, like he always experiences during the log out…Nothing happened.
"….O….kay…I'm sure Dr Light knows I'm here.." Chad gets on the com-link, and tries to call Dr Light. But, the com-link doesn't appear to be working at all… Chad was a little alert now, something wasn't letting him leave.
Something had suddenly made Chad get his sword out and turn around to look behind him, The sound of something large moving…and it was large alright, as he saw…it was the summon, Phantom, it was slowly moving towards him, it's claws at the end of its limbs stabbing into the network tiles as it moved closer and closer, and Chad begun to back away a little, his sword at the ready. He could feel the intense heat coming off Phantom.
Phantom looked at Chad carefully, and stopped moving towards him. "Ha, you're a lot smaller then what I really thought you were. Disappointing…this could just be a waste of time."
"Okay, I've never seen a virus like you before…I take it you're a new edition?".
"Boy, I am no virus…I am the great and mighty Phantom! I will be the very thing that will end your worthless life!" Phantom raised one of his front claws, and Chad quickly fires a chaos beam at Phantom's head, knowing the spider…thing, was not gonna be very chatty at this point. His beam down jack shit to the summon, as it's claws came down at Chad, and he had to quickly jump away, firing another chaos beam at Phantom's head, doing nothing at all to him.
Phantom opened his lava mouth towards Chad, and Chad quickly rolled to the left, as a huge fireball shot out of the summons mouth. Chad felt this would be a chance, and ran at Phantom, and before the creature could close its mouth, he stabbed the blade of darkness in it…Phantom stood there, with his mouth open, with the sword inside it…and suddenly closed his mouth, nearly on Chad's hands, if he didn't let go of the blade of darkness, and let it get swallowed up, much to his horror. "Oh no fucking way! That was a direct hit!"
Phantom chuckled, as the blade of darkness went into the centre of his insides…although it did simply vanish, due to the fact it was just a data copy one for the net, much to his annoyance, but at least Chad's lost it. Chad tried to use a hi-cannon, followed by a super Vulcan, and finally a few mini bombs on Phantom…and none of them effected him, as he fired fireballs at Chad, all of them missing thanks to Chad's speed, but he knew this fight was against him. It looked like a standoff for now, but with nothing of Chad's doing any harm, Phantom could eventually overpower him.
Phantom charged forward, and tried to swipe at Chad with one of his front claws. Chad quickly dodged the attack, and tried program advance, combining three hi cannons together, forming the zeta cannon, and fires it at the fire being…it still done nothing, it simply hit, and Phantom was running at him while it was, not being effected, raised his claw, and swiped Chad, knocking him flying to the floor, disabling the zeta cannon.
Chad started to get up, but a fireball had hit him, engulfing him in its explosion, before he found himself back on the ground, in pain, the attack had burnt a little of his clothing. Phantom was beginning to move in to finish Chad off, when Chad had suddenly vanished, in his place momentarily, the words 'LOGGED OUT'.
"What the!? But I blocked those fools in that base from being able to…wait…" Then, he knew who made that possible. He heard the flap of wings behind him, and landing nearby, was Zuo Ci's summon, the large demonic bird, Griffon.
Phantom snarled a little, turning around towards Griffon. "Griffon…well, I had expected either you or Zuo Ci to arrive sooner or later…"
Griffon looked at the rival summon in anger. "Phantom! How dare you attack a member of the destined blood so soon! You know the gods have ideas for them!"
"Forget the gods! Let's just cut to the chase and see which summon is superior Griffon, you know that words are never important to me!"
Griffon growled. "Very well Phantom, once again, I cannot promise you will survive this fight!"
"As you always say."
Chad now found himself on a soft bed, with his eyes shut, and hearing Medi's voice nearby, as well as Anna's voice, Quickman's, and Dr Light's. He felt like he had just been in a bad dream for a moment, fighting that spider thing, before suddenly waking up to reality…with the pain of what that thing caused coming with him.
He heard Medi say something. "His alright, just, I think, when his pulse and mind came back to his body, he may had just fainted in the process. It can happen now and then."
Dr Light responded. "Alright Medi, just keep him safe and sound then. I'll send some of the others to deal with Sima Yi. His been found in the Mushroom Kingdom, near Princess Peach's castle."
Chad relaxed a little, keeping his eyes closed, a little rest wouldn't hurt him, and there were plenty of people here that can do some fighting instead of him. What Dr Light says, goes.
Anna sat down near Chad's bed. "I'll stay here and keep an eye on him too."
Chad was content with that, and just laid there, as he heard Dr Light leave, and begun to think about Phantom…why did it attack? It claimed it wasn't a virus, and hell, there isn't a virus in the net that talks. Maybe it was a minion to Darkmega, or someone else….one person came into mind, but he quickly left that idea alone. Chaos hasn't been doing anything in ages. His sworn enemy surely wouldn't get active just because of Darkmega's actions.
In the main room, Dr Light formed a new team together. It was Zhang Fei, Xiahou Yuan, Link and Charlie.
Link is the well known hero of Hyrule on the planet Hyrule. The planet's name was done by the GF, as the Hylians refused to be put with a number e.g alpha II or something. They wanted to keep a unique name….the GF couldn't be bothered to think one up that wasn't on the planet itself. Link had defeated many evils on it, and gained great fame. Right now, peace had reigned over the planet since the arrival of the GF, and Link chose to come here with Princess Zelda.
Xiahou Yuan of Earth V was a warrior of the Kingdom Wei and a cousin to Cao Cao. His one of the few that actually pronounce his cousin's name wrong. Some of the people on Earth V say Cao Cao's name as 'Cow Cow', not how it should be, which is 'Sao Sao'. Calling Cao Cao the Cow one often annoys him to no end, and leads him to heavily dislike them for a very long time. Xiahou Yuan is an exception…Cao Cao just claims his been hit too many times over the head.
Xiahou Yuan is an expert marksman with a bow, and often uses his battering rod to deal with close range opponents. His rather a nice person outside fights, and often gets along with people quite well, even those in opposing kingdoms from their planet.
Dr Light smiled at them. "I'm sure you four will be more than enough to deal with Sima Yi, just remember to target a black device on him called a control chip, don't kill the poor man."
Zhang Fei smiled. "Hey! Relax doc! We'll only kill him if it's by accident! And with me, accidents happen alot!"
Charlie, Dr Light, Xiahou Yuan and Link all seemed to just stare at Zhang Fei, who had this cheery grin on his face after that statement. "That's…very encouraging, Zhang Fei…Well now, good luck to you all!" was all the doctor could say to that.
The four soon got teleported away, and Dr light stood there, thinking to himself, when Dr Wily walked in from the labs. "Thomas. I think something isn't right…"
"Hmm? What? After when we lost contact with Chad for a moment?
"It's the entire tactic of Darkmega's. His attacked Mute City, My fortress, ACDC network and now Princess Peach's castle…it's just not adding up."
Dr Light looked confused for a moment, then shrugged. "Maybe Darkmega is just insane."
A new voice spoke up. "Or perhaps, the attacks are not his main focus." Walking into the room, carrying his famous feather fan, was Zhuge Liang of Earth V. "Forgive the intrusion, but I had overheard from Zhao Yun what was going on."
Zhuge Liang is a loyal retainer of the kingdom Shu. His hated by many from opposing kingdoms on that planet for simply being more of a smartass then them. His known for his pre-planned strategies and quick counter plans that simply break any armies morale that challenges him. He has a calm yet commanding aura around him, and never, ever leaves his white feathered fan anywhere, always keeping it with him, with it's teal coloured jewel in the hilt glinting now and then as the lights of the rooms catch it.
Dr Light looked at him. "Pardon?"
Zhuge Liang walked over to them, waving his fan back and forth a little on himself. "As Albert Wily pointed out, the attacks are flawed. If Darkmega succeeded in taking and destroying those areas, it would not be a victory or an advantage. ACDC is a small town, hardly worth taking over. Albert's Fortress is heavily defended, but it does not hold anything else then an army of robots which are weak cannon fodder, lacking real intelligence…no offence, Albert Wily. And the destruction of Mute City would only cause an effect in the trades around that sector of space, nothing else. If they take over Princess Peach's castle, they will gain nothing from it other than a castle that is vulnerable to attack. Destroying it will also produce little results."
"…Diversions, perhaps? From his real goal?" Wily suggested.
"Quite possibly, but we must wait and see. Five of those taken have been dealt with. Three remain. One, we are dealing with now. Let us wait for the other two…Then we shall see what he is planning."
1. Musou is the special attack from the dynasty warrior series. It normally is just one set combo of attacks, followed by a powerful finish. In the story, musou is technique descendent from the art of Hokuto Shinken, which is commonplace on Earth V. The technique is a pressure point sealer and body enhancer, it greatly rises the warrior's inner power, boosting their abilities for a set time. The only ones lacking in musou are Lu Bu and Zuo Ci.
2. The Cow Cow thing is actually from the Dynasty Warriors series, up to number 5. The US/UK voice actors kept calling the ruler of Wei this, failing to say his name right. This also effected the ruler's son as well, Cao Pi (Cow Pi, when it should be said as "Sao Pi"), and his brother, Cao Ren. This was permanently corrected in Warriors Orochi and beyond.