Chapter 3 Hanging Out with Saito and Net
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"Rockman, wake up," said Netto when he woke up. Rockman kept snoring. "Wake up, Rockman!" yelled Netto. He was in his computer and checked the door. Mejin had allowed each one of them to tell one person about the switched places. Netto and Rockman's one person was their papa. They had told their papa and their papa told their mama that Saito and Net were exchange students and Netto was on a trip with Enzan.
He didn't want his mama finding out so he switched names.
"Wake up Saito!" yelled Net. After about half an hour, Hakura came up and found Net yelling, "Saito wake up!"
"Don't you call your operator with any formalities?" asked Hakura when she heard him. "Oh, ma- I mean Hikari-san. Yes, I meant to say wake up Saito-kun," said Net.
"I'll wake him up. Don't worry about it, Net," said Hakura as she shook Saito, "Your operator sleeps like my son, Netto."
"Hehehe…. Their like twins," said Net as Hakura looked at oddly, "Probably," said Net quickly. Hakura nodded as she turned back to Saito. "Saito-kun, wake up."
Saito woke up and found Hakura. "Ohayo Hikari-san, do you need anything?" asked Saito as he sat up.
"Just for you to call me Hakura instead of Hikari-san," said Hakura as she left. Saito got up and got ready for the day.
"Isn't weird calling mama Hakura?" asked Netto quietly when Rockman was ready. Saito nodded as he headed downstairs.
"Here's your breakfast Saito-kun. I have to go to my son's school for a PTA meeting, bye," said Hakura as she headed out the door. Saito started eating breakfast and Net looked at him and started staring.
"What are you looking at, Net?" asked Saito as he swallowed.
"I'm used to having breakfast and why didn't you wake up early like usual?" asked Net. "The bed was comfortable and I usually don't eat. Now stop drooling, you can't even feel hungry," said Saito as he finished his breakfast.
"Want to try cross fusion?" suggested Net innocently. "Drop the idea Net, you can't feel hungry."
Net muttered under his breath as Saito grabbed the PET and headed outside. "Want to face Dekao to lighten up the mood?" asked Saito. "Could you try cross-" "Drop it, Net!"
Saito made his way to the arcade and saw Dekao and Thoru there. "You want to net battle?" yelled Dekao when Saito came in.
"Um… Sure, I'm Saito and this is Net," said Saito. "I'm Dekao and this is Gutsman. Let's start!"
"Plug-in Gutsman Transmission!"
"Plug-in Net Transmission!"
Netto was plugged in. He let out a yelp because the world was spinning when he was plugged in. The others looked at him.
"Why did you scream?" asked Saito quietly. "I'm not used to the spinning! And that sounded weird coming out of your mouth when you plugged in."
"Tell me about it."
"Battlechip Sword slot-in!" A sword formed on Net's hand as he stared at his arm with a face that looked like he saw a ghost, but the look only lasted a minute.
He jumped at Gutsman and slashed him. "Guts Hammer!" The guts hammer hit Net and he screamed. "It doesn't hurt that much," muttered Saito.
"Well, I'm not use to it," said Net. "Forget it, battlechip wide sword slot-in!"
Net did the same thing again when it formed on his arm. He slashed it at Gutsman, but missed.
Gutsman swung his large fist at Net as he backed away. Net kept slashing his wide sword. Gutsman and Net kept going like that until Gutsman punched Net.
"Net Buster!"
Net shot his buster and hit Gutsman. Gutsman slammed his fist on the ground and an energy wave came out and hit Net.
"Battlechip Canon slot-in!" Gutsman shot the canon the same time Net shot a charged net buster shot.
The shots hit them in the symbol and they both plugged out at the same time.
"Good match," said Saito as he held out his hand. Dekao looked at him then shook his hand.
"I'm Thoru and this is Iceman. Want to hang out with us?" asked Thoru. "Sure, what should we do?"
"Did you hear that they're making a Star Potter 3?" asked Dekao. "Do you guys want to watch the second one? I haven't watched it yet," said Saito. He had watched the movie with Netto. He thought it was kind of weird, but he didn't mind it and wanted to find out what would happen.
Dekao and Thoru nodded, "Let's invite Meiru-chan!" said Dekao. "Does she live next door to Hikari Netto?" asked Saito almost blowing his cover.
"Yeah, why do you ask?" said Dekao.
"Netto's mama told me that Netto-kun is on a trip with Iuujin Enzan. I'm an exchange student staying at his house. I think Meiru is not in town. She went to Kingland to visit her friend," said Saito. Meiru had told him her lie and he told him hers.
"Her friend is staying with her mother though," said Saito as they went to the movie theater. After they bought the tickets and snacks and chose their seats, the movie started.
'I don't even get this movie,' thought Saito as he watched it with little interest. 'I think it's good,' said Net through their link.
'I forgot we have a link. At least I won't be bored while watching it.'
'At least I won't miss anything. I already saw the movie when I dragged Enzan to the movies with Meiru and me.'
'I can't believe you Net.'
'You know I would do that any day, Saito-kun.'
'You better get used to calling me Saito-kun or Saito-san when we aren't around the others.'
'I still want to eat you know.'
'Just drop the freakin' subject. I am not going to attempt cross fusion to let you eat.'
'Even if I-'
'Drop it!'
After the movies were over, the three decided to go to the park. "Want to race?" asked Saito smirking at Dekao.
"Alright lets race! Nobody gives me a challenge I can't defeat!" yelled Dekao as Thoru sweatdropped. "You think like Music," muttered Saito.
"Music? You mean Lora-chan's navi? How do you know her?" asked Dekao. "Wh-who's Music? I said you think like Mary. She always accepts challenges," said Saito as he laughed nervously.
Dekao nodded. "Ready, get set, GO!" yelled Thoru as the two started running. It was who ever could run five laps around the park first won.
Saito finished when Dekao was on his second lap.
"Do you want to have our navis run around in the squirrel statue? I heard they made it into a maze," said Thoru. Rockman always hated it when Netto made him do that, but now he could get payback.
"Sure, lets start," said Saito ignoring Net screaming no mentally and waving his arm signaling no.
After they plugged in, they found the squirrel comp was a maze. They were standing at the entrance of the maze. A sign said that navis can only plug out when they are injured or they found a warp panel and no battlechips were allowed unless they had something to prove it or they were an official with a good reason.
"So we can attack each other?" asked Net. Iceman nodded and ran in. The other two followed. They started running around and attacking each other.
Net rounded a corner and shot a navi who was running by. When the navi looked back, Net saw it was Pride. "Sorry for hitting you and what are you doing here?"
"I wanted to have some fun since I was bored and I got Steve to plug me in. They have about five warp panels in every area that lead to this maze," said Pride, "You can even unlock it and get a link to this place."
Net was about to say something, when Iceman blew a blizzard. The two parted ways and started attacking.
Pride swung her mace and hit Gutsman with it. Net shot his buster and got Iceman with it. After an hour of playing in the Squirrel Maze, Saito introduced Steve and Pride to the others.
"Are you like one of those dorks from Kingland?" asked Dekao, "Like the ones that say "let's have fish and chips old sport!" Dekao started laughing.
"That wasn't very nice Dekao," said Thoru. "Who's your navi?"
"This is Prin-I mean Pride," said Steve as he held up his PET. Netto and Rockman now noticed that Knightman had an accent like he came from Kingland. Dekao laughed even more when he saw Pride.
"She looks just like Princess Pride in cross fusion! I know a lot of guys that like the princess, but you're probably in love with her to have a navi like that!" said Dekao as he laughed even harder.
"What did you do? Program a Princess Pride 2?" Dekao howled with laughter. Inside the PET, Pride gritted her teeth and felt like punching Gutsman.
"I hope you don't mind this Princess Pride," muttered Steve, "Plug-in Pride Transmission!"
Pride had already been plugged in once that day and knew about the spinning. She shut her eyes as she was plugged in. When she opened her eyes again, she was facing Gutsman. "Like a girl navi that looks like Pride will beat Gutsman," said Dekao.
BATTLE START
"Kingdom Crusher!" Pride threw out her mace and it hit Gutsman directly and he plugged out.
"Never insult me!" yelled Pride, "You better be happy I ended it so quickly Butman!"
"My name is Gutsman, de gutse." "I don't care. I will keep calling you Butman until I feel like it."
"Why de gutse?" "For the thinking I was weak for being a girl and not realizing that."
Steve left and Dekao stayed silent.
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It had been two hours of eating pizza and the Squirrel Maze. They three boys were now in Netto's front yard.
"Do you have a group of friends you hang out with?" asked Thoru. "Hai, what about you guys?" asked Saito.
"Oh in our group is Dekao, Meiru-chan, a girl named Yaito, Netto, and I," said Thoru. "Well, Netto is not exactly in the group anymore," said Dekao, "and Meiru-chan."
"What do you mean by that?" asked Net. "They kind of made their own group of friends after Netto defeated the Darkloids and got cross fusion. At first he was still with us, then he made his group of himself, Iuujin Enzan, and a soldier from Sharo named Laika," said Dekao.
"It was like that for a while until the time he pulled off a prank on Enzan and Meiru-chan. That group is of him, Meiru-chan, Enzan, a girl named Nylorac, Laika, and Laika's younger sister, Rosesade," continued Dekao.
'Who's Rosesade?' asked Net mentally.
'You expect me to know?'
"Who's Rosesade?" asked Saito, "I've heard of all of them except Rosesade."
"How did you hear about all of them?" asked Thoru.
"Meiru-chan is kind of my neighbor when she comes back, Iuujin Enzan is the teenager who is vice president of IPC, Laika is a soldier from Sharo and is the youngest net savior there, and Nylorac, um…"
"Nylorac can do cross fusion like the rest of them," said Net.
After they were done talking, Saito and Net, especially Net, decided to call everyone and tell them to go to the HQ.
Everyone met in the lounge a few minutes later.
All the navis were plugged in and on the big screen.
"Why did you call us here, Hikari?" asked Red as he looked at Net. "I bumped into Dekao and Thoru and they told me Netto wasn't part of their group," said Net.
After Net and Saito told them what they were told, Laika said, "So you called us here for friend troubles?"
"No, my point is who is Rosesade? Laika, do you have a younger sister?" asked Netto.
Everyone held in their breath. "What do you mean? I'm an only child," said Laika. Netto's father had managed to make a link for everyone in that room so they could talk to each other in private.
'You thought you were an only child until you remembered Rosesade-san when you saw her Laika-san,' thought Searchman.
'Shut it Searchman and Rosesade doesn't want you calling her Rosesade-san. She wants you to call her Rosesade.'
"I thought there were only five people in our group. Sometimes Rose being with us, but now she moved- just who is Rosesade?"
All of a sudden, Net collapsed and started to disappear like Pride did.
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Netto opened his eyes and found himself connected to some wires. He saw he was on a small bed and his PET was next to him on the pillow. In the PET was a white chip. Netto looked over to the side and saw Meiru in the same position. He tried getting up, but felt too tired.
He couldn't remember what he was fighting about when he was on the net. He closed his eyes and lost conscious.
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"Netto, are you alright?" asked Meiru. "I'm fine. When I woke up in my body, I saw you in the bed that was next to mine."
"What about our PETs?" asked Laika. "Our PETs are probably all on our pillows like mine and Meiru's." "They must have added another PET since they have our real PETs," said Blues as he looked at his red and gray PET.
"I was on a bed when I woke up, but at the time our PETs were in another room on a table with wires connected to them," said Pride, "They must have moved the PETs."
"I can't remember what we were fighting about though," said Netto. "We were fighting about, um, why your hair is red," said Enzan.
"Yeah right." "You wanted to do cross fusion so you could eat," said Roll since Rockman told her.
'Why isn't anyone telling me what we were fighting about?' asked Netto mentally.
'I don't know,' thought Rockman even though he didn't tell Netto in case it was something the other wanted to keep secret.
"Why is everyone keeping it a secret?" asked Rockman quietly. "I'll tell you later," said Roll. Rockman nodded, "Do you want me to tell Netto-kun?" Roll shook her head.
"Can we please try cross fusion so I can eat?" asked Netto. "Wait, I want to stop Netto-kun from being annoying," muttered Rockman.
"Netto-kun, shut your eyes for a minute," said Rockman. Netto shut his eyes as Rockman took his orange and blue PET and went into a testing room. The others followed.
He turned on the dimensional area as the others looked at him.
"Syncro Chip, slot-in. Cross Fusion!" Rockman cross fused quietly.
He looked just like Net except his hair was dark blue instead of red. "Can I open my eyes now?" asked Net.
"Wait a minute longer," said R Net as he opened a can of soda. He chugged half of the orange pop and inside, Net opened his eyes and started coughing.
"You got your wish and you also choked on fizz," said Rockman as he put the can down. "I can taste it, but I don't feel full or hungry."
"Navis can't feel hungry or full Netto-kun," said Rockman as he crossed out. "I thought you would keep eating," muttered Netto.
"Stop being annoying. Let's go home," said Rockman as he turned off the dimensional area and left.
When he got into Netto's room, he plugged Net in and Net yelped. "Stop screaming whenever you get plugged in. If it scares you that much, just close your eyes like Princess Pride," said Rockman as Net ran around the net.
He picked up his PET and called Mei Lin. "Hello?" said Roll.
"Who is Rosesade? I have Netto-kun plugged into the net, so he can't hear us."
"Remember when Linda said she was moving and Netto said "first Rose leaves and now Linda leaves?"
"Yeah, what about Linda?"
"And remember when the twins and Jay-kun gave a weird look and were about to say something until everyone gave them a look that meant 'shut it?"
"Yes, I was wondering about that," said Rockman slowly.
"Linda is Rosesade," said Roll. "What about being Laika's little sister?"
"Have you ever gotten a good look at Rosesade?"
"Not really, but- oh she does look kind of like Laika!" said Rockman.
"And remember Rose?"
"What about her?"
"Rose is just Rosesade in a wig."
"What about her eyes? Rose has brown and Rosesade has blue eyes," said Rockman.
"Color contacts and that is why everyone who doesn't know thinks Rose likes Laika. Also that day we went rock climbing."
"Thanks for telling me Roll. I won't tell Netto-kun, bye," said Rockman as he hung up.
"What was that about Rockman?" asked Netto as he returned.
"Oh, just talking to Roll," said Rockman.
After dinner, Saito went to bed.
"Good night Saito-kun," said Hakura as she closed the door.
'I wonder how long it will be before we're back to normal,' thought Saito.
'Me too, and who knew Pride out of all people would call Gutsman, Butman.'
'Hai, that was funny though. Pride calling Gutsman, Butman and Gutsman is just saying, 'my name is Gutsman de gutse,' thought Saito who was trying not to laugh out loud.
'Are you going to do any sports or activities?'
'I use to do baseball when I really was Saito. So I'm going to do that again.'
'Are you going to join a net battling club?' thought Net hopefully.
'I didn't plan to.'
'Do you want to?'
'I don't really care.'
'You should sign up for one.'
'Do I have to?'
'Hai, at least you can't get hurt.'
'I guess, what do you think everyone else is doing?'
'Meiru-chan already does piano and that's all I know of.'
'I wonder if our bodies and PETs are okay.'
'We'll have to see.'
'What are you thinking?' thought Saito.
'I want to eat. Can you try to cross fuse?'
'Drop the idea!'
"That was a weird day as a navi," said Net as he put himself into sleep mode. "It was a weird day of being Saito…again," said Saito as he shut off the light.
'Can you sneak out and cross fuse?'
'Drop the idea and go to sleep!'
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