Chances

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A/N: ...Crap. So sorry for not updating this, I've been busy with my life outside if FF dot net. There is no other excuse on my part. So here is chapter 4 of Chances.

Title: Chances.

Summary: The world was safe. But a new threat is rising. Enzan returned to Densan after the four years he has left. Netto bumps into him one day in the most unfortunate of circumstances. How will things go for the two when Netto never told him her secret before he left for England years ago?

Timeline: After MM Access.

Characters: Enzan, Netto, Blues, and Rock most of the time.

Rating: 15+Content not suitable for readers under 15 years old.

Warnings: Female Netto, age alteration, Blues and Rockman relation, Fem!Netto and Enzan relation, some OOCness, dark themes, mild cursing, and mentioning of other characters in different continuity.

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Chapter 4: Clash

Rockman, the security Navi's and their NetOp's all but stared with steady growing fear.

The Navi before them-Eclipse, was for the lack of a better word gargantuan for a Navi his size. With the height of 23 ft if not a few inches more, the Navi was the epitome of a Boss monster one would see on popular MMORPG games. His frame was muscular but fit, strong arms lay lax on his sides as his right clawed hand carried his default weapon; a battle axe. Eclipse's appearance was animalistic, with the head of a dire wolf with devil horns, his fur underneath the gleaming black and yellow armour was a dark midnight blue. His eyes were an eerie red with a fiery glow. Armguards protected his wrists as the lower part of his body was that of a Minotaur with black fur. Lastly, his tail, which was a snake. Literally a snake was the actual appendage for his tail. A cobra head, hissing and all.

"That's a-" one of the security Navi's began,

"A New Generation Navi." Which Rockman finished.

True to their words, it was a NewGen Navigator program that was released only two and a half years ago. The designs written down the program that will enable the Standard Navi-if personally programmed by the operator-would have a real life appearance. Be it animal in design, mythical or not. It was the next step to the brilliant future of technology.

Which the enemy-the Dessians-planned to use.

Unlike their predecessor, the NewGen of the Navi program has new features; the Navi will have their default weapon at the ready and always on their person. Another feature was the Active Defence/Offence feature. Said feature enables the Navi to use their chips they have once it has been used it beforehand. Because the chips, once used, will be encoded and saved within the PET.

Rockman swallowed his fear as well as steeling his courage. "Are you responsible for SciLabs sudden security breech? If you are, then why?"

Eclipse snorted. "We, the Dessians, have finally began to move forth with our plan. Our goal; conquer the cyber world as well as the real world. Starting with attacking the worlds root defences. You have relied too much on technology and the cyber world. Your livelihood, schoolings, construction, business', and especially your security. You have practically opened yourselves to an attack no matter how unconsciously your decisions were. It has happened before and will happen again. But unlike Wily, we will succeed! And once we destroy the defences of every security network in the cyber world, nothing will stop us from creating pandemonium and a new world order to rule with an iron fist!"

"And to do that, we-the Navi's of the Dessians-must eliminate any threat no matter how big or small. But first and foremost, deleting every Navi's like you in existence!"

The smaller Navi's didn't know what hit them when they were all suddenly blown away from Eclipse's axe swing. The strong gust of wind threw them all back. Some were forced to logout, others unfortunately were deleted.

The large Navi did not give them a moments interval when he charged at them with a roar of a battle cry as he raised his weapon.

"Everyone scatter!" Rockman was quick to give the order as he and the security Navi's spilt up.

"Eclipse, jack out immediately! Or you will be deleted!" one of the security Navi's warned as he started to fire.

The animal Navi grunted in amusement. "Delete me? How droll."

Swinging down his axe the Navi was deleted before anyone had the chance to blink.

Outside the net Netto gritted her teeth. "That's it!" she snapped as she took out a battle chip.

"Battle chip: Shotgun, slot-in!"

Back in the cyber world Rockman's rockbuster changed immediately from the chip. Firing, it made contact with the enemy Navi. But the plasma shots were not working. Eclipse just swatted them away like annoying flies.

The beast Navi roared before swinging his weapon down, making large spider cracks as the digital ground upturned from the force it's taken. Rock and the rest security Navi's teeter and unbalanced, some even fell down.

Netto gritted her teeth as she saw it happen and pulled out five battle chips. She needed to widen the distance between the Dessian Navi and come up with a plan to defeat him.

"Battle chip: Mini bombs, slot-in!"

Rockman grinned a little when he received the battle chips, quickly throwing the bombs at the Dessians direction. It exploded on contact as smoke covered the area. The security Navi's saw their chance and fired at the enemy. More smoke permeated the area, nearly blocking their vision.

As seconds painstakingly passed into minutes of nothing, some released a sigh when the smoke cleared and there was no one there. They cheered on a job well done and patted each other on the back.

...If only things were that easy.

Rockman had only a few seconds to look up when he sensed it, and only a nano second for Netto to equip the Aurora Dream chip.

Eclipse had jumped upwards the second the smoke lifted, and once he was coming down with an amazing speed, the Navi positioned his battle axe face down. "Blazing Earth!"

Ramming down the head of his weapon in the ground the crater Eclipse created cracked even more before the digital ground has turned into a field of blazing inferno of lava. Rockman and the remaining security Navi's steered clear from the edge of their chunk piece of ground.

Outside the net, Netto as well as the remaining security personnel activated a health chip to their respective Navi's. Back inside the net Eclipse snorted as he stood back up when he saw the health chips do their work.

"You are all persistent, I admit. But it will not help. In the end you will all be deleted." Eclipse roared again as he attacked again.

"Battle chip: Area steal, slot-in!" Netto used the skill chip and Rock blurred out of existence for a moment before reappearing a little ways to Eclipse's left side.

Pulling out another chip Netto used it. "Battle chip: Sword, slot-in!"

The solidified plasma sword formed around Rock's lower right arm as the mask covered his lower face. Dashing towards the Dessian in a fast speed, jumping up close the Navi's side and swiped down his weapon. It clashed as it made contact with the blade of the axe. The security Navi's shot plasma after plasma at the intruder, helping Rockman from their spot.

Rockman and Eclipse were in a stalemate but it was one-sided. With a shove, Eclipse threw the blue Navi in the air and crashed into one of the data storages. The file gave a out sparks of light but it was undamaged. Rockman groaned from the pain as he fell back down to the ground with a loud thud.

"Nii-san!" Netto cried in worry an in pain, their link was still their. Pushing passed it the brunette pulled out another health chip. "HP 500, slot-it!"

Gasping, Netto leaned as she supported herself on the desk in front of her. Breathing heavily still even when the health chip did it's job.

"Netto!" her father cried out as he ran next to her. "Are you alright?"

"...I'm fine, papa. It's nothing Rock-nii and I can't handle." They knew that they've gone through much worse in the past. This was nothing.

"But still..." Yuuichirou insisted but stopped. He knows very well that no one can easily break the sibling duo once they've decided.

"It's okay, papa. Rock-nii and I can handle this." Giving a smile to her father she moved to insert another chip.

"Battle chip: Elec sword, slot-in!"

"Elec sword!" called Rockman's he ran towards Eclipse again, but instead of jumping up like last time, he aimed his attacks at the enemy's legs. Slashing and wounding the beast Navi as the sword delivered a strong electric attack.

Eclipse grunted in pain as he teetered in his spot, he wasn't as damaged as the others hoped. And he was mad.

"Pests! Lava shower!" calling out his attack the lava from the field started to bubble in an unnatural matter before gravity itself have seemed to reverse and gathered the molten rocks in the air before it rained down on them.

It was fortunate that Lady luck was smiling down on them because Rockman and the security Navi's retaliated back with Aqua towers and Tsunami chips from their Operators that cancelled the Lava shower.

But was unfortunate that it was only a diversion and thus they didn't get out of there in time.

"Meteor slash!"

The Navi's screamed as the attack hit them, it was strong. Very strong as it made contact. A sonic boom was released from the shockwave formed from the weapons speed and strength as it collided with the ground, added with such force and the intensity of the flames made some of the Navi's to log out or deleted.

"Aaahh!" Netto screamed the strong sensation of pain she felt from her brothers end shot through her body, making her spasm as she collapsed on her knees to the floor, dropping he PET in the process.

"Netto!" Yuuichirou screamed as he caught his daughter before she fell back any further. "Netto, Rockman!"

"...Crap..this-bites...!" the young brunette said between intakes as she tried to get back up but she collapsed back as she cried.

"This sucks...Move! C'mon, move!" pushing herself to the limits she had managed to move her muscles enough that she was on her hands and knees and crawled towards her PET to quickly help her brother.

"Netto please, don't move too much." Her father pleaded but she was not listening. Instead she pulled out her last health chip.

"HP 100, slot-in..." she gasped as she felt the chip affecting her brother as well as herself. But the pain was still there. Very much there.

Rockman pushed himself up but fell back to his knees, the effects of the attack were still there. He watched wearily as the Dessian Navi came towards him, towering his slumped form. If Eclipse attacks he will have a small chance to dodge and counter back with his default buster. Unless his sister inserts a chip he was a sitting duck.

"To the victor goes the spoils." Eclipse quoted. "You have lasted thus far, Rockman. But still a disappointment without your partner."

Rockman's eyes widened. He knew who Eclipse was talking about. 'Blues...'

"But still an excellent spar."

'Spar? Is that what it all was? A test?!'

"Our plan predicted as much that you will show once we attack SciLabs. You are one of our targets to eliminate, after all."

It was already planned. 'One of the targets? But who...'

A red Navi clad in red and grey with long silvery hair flashed in Rockman's mind. 'Blues!'

"You fought valiantly but I must do my task." The beast Navi raised his battle axe back into a swing. Rockman could not get out fast enough without an Area steal.

The weapon swung down.

"Aqua Globe!" a new voice screamed. Female.

"Tempest Blade!" a second one screamed. This time male. Who...?

Rockman was slipping into unconscious. He cursed, it must be Netto. He had barely an inkling of what he saw as four blurred forms flew passed him from both sides, calling out their attacks as he heard Eclipse roar in pain.

"Scorching Earth!" a third male voice joined in.

Rockman had a fleeting feeling of being caught as he keeled over. One of the ones that arrived had a fifth member with them.

"This is not good. I have to heal him quickly." Said another female voice in a panicked hurry.

That was all Rockman remembered before a warm feeling enveloped him as he drifted into unconscious.

The scream of the defeated Dessian Navi was cut off as he was forced to logout. Blues slumped to the digital floor on his knees as his Murasame form was dismissed. Breathing heavily, the red Navi took a few moments before standing back up to his feet to look to where the intruder last stood. They were bold to infiltrate IPC, these Dessians. Very bold indeed.

"Blues." Said a slightly deep voice of his Operator.

"Enzan-sama. The intruder was dealt with but unfortunately logged out." Blues reported.

"Yes, and by no means of little damage." Enzan made a point. The IPC net was damaged, but the files and data were intact. The enemy didn't even bother with them. And that worried the dual haired young man.

"Logout, Blues. After you rest we have some work to do." Said Enzan before his screen disappeared.

Blues released a sigh as he took one more look around the area before logging out. Why bother attacking the IPC buildings mainframe and take nothing? And besides that, why fight them when they were half across the world to do it? Something was up, and they will get to the bottom of it.

TBC

A/N: How was the chapter after my long absence? I hope it's good. Please tell me what you think and what I should improve. See you all soon.