11:28 AM (Japan Time), Tuesday June the 16th…
"… That was some intense training, Right, Red?"
"Sure. I missed it…"
"Let's assume those jerks will send our buds against us…"
"Wouldn't surprise me!"
"Guts! Those sneaky jerks!"
Delta, Red Sword and Guts Man talked as they walked down an avenue in Internet City along with many other pedestrians.
"Puku! The ultimate Bubble WWW Trap!"
"Not that fool again…"
They looked up at their right and saw Bubble Man dancing atop a shelf.
"Guts! Wait, guys! There are mines around us!" Guts Man warned.
"Whose plan is this? Jupiter Warrior's?" Delta questioned.
"Hmpf! The mighty Bubble Man's!"
"Sure, sure… So much for "mighty"!"
Red Sword jumped into the air and flung a Prism upwards, followed by shooting a Mega Cannon into it, making the energy break down into smaller beams and rain down around them, taking out he mines.
"Guts Shoot!"
Guts Man shot his right fist at Bubble Man, and he jumped away to dodge.
"I've got more toys! Puku! Bubble Parade!"
He exhaled air and formed a bubble which split into several smaller ones, and they slowly displaced across the air.
"Guts Machinegun!"
Guts Man used his machinegun attack to burst them as the other two jumped over him and began to chase Bubble Man down the avenue.
"What's this fuss about?"
"See, Blues, that stupid Bubble Man started a brawl…"
"And we wanted to catch the moron…"
Blues and some of his men arrived at the scene to question them.
"Hmpf. If it's that pathetic moron, handle it. I'm busy enough trying to find that deathly thing!" He grumbled.
"Roger that. Let's go, Red!"
"Sure! I won't be satisfied until we kick the moron's butt!"
"Let's split ways! Maybe they're trying to ambush us!"
"OK! I won't let them!"
Delta turned left at a junction and followed a trail of puddles.
"Too obvious, even! I'm sure it's bait…"
He drew his Buster and glued his back to the wall.
He dared a glance into a nearby cul-de-sac alley.
BEEP – BEEP – BEEP
Three beeps rang out in a sequence with a small pause between them.
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
The beeps turned louder and sounded more tied-together.
"I don't like this!"
Delta jumped away from the alley.
BE~EP!
A brutal explosion formed out of nowhere and all Navis were hit by thus being sent flying in all directions and landing, hard, on the ground.
Some were deleted and others got gravely wounded.
Delta had been near the outermost edge, so he only suffered burns and was pushed into the ground.
The crowds began to disperse in panic and Delta was trying to get his bearings as he was being pushed around.
"Hell! That was in the middle of the avenue!" He cursed.
"Make way!"
"Terrorists!"
"Run!"
"Flee~!"
"Escape~!"
BEEP – BEEP – BEEP
Delta was pushed into the ground by some of the fleeing Net Navis and when he managed to stand on his fours, he ended up facing a white object.
He grabbed it out of instinct and looked at it while his body shook.
His face contracted into fear.
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
"By all the…!"
He managed to stand up and threw it into the air as far as possible.
A spheroid of energy formed on the air plus a 5-meter-wide shockwave which cut through it.
"A bomb…? But who makes such bombs? Jupiter Warrior?"
BEEP – BEEP – BEEP
He turned around to see another of those explosives and it was too far to be picked up safely, so he ran away from it just as it exploded and left a crater on the ground.
BEEP – BEEP – BEEP
"By all the…! There's no end of them?" He cursed.
He ran away and managed to escape.
He stopped as he leant next to a building and looked towards the stadium and surroundings.
Wounded Navis were still scattered on the grounds close to it and various craters had formed there.
CLANK! BEEP – BEEP – BEEP
"Hell!"
Delta stepped away of the building as another of those fell from above and next to his right foot.
He ran away but suddenly found another one in front of him.
He turned to the left and found a bomb, so he tried the right to find yet another bomb.
"Battle Chip, Area Steal!"
He warped into a building's rooftop just as the four bombs exploded and he began to shake.
"Devil! Those jerks are trying to beat me! Red! Are you OK?"
"Insofar! I had to deal with a Mettool horde that that kid sent for me!"
"Be careful! There's some bomb maniac spreading bombs!"
"I heard the fuss! Gotta be a cousin of Bomber Man from the WWW!"
"Hmpf. Sure… Or of Konami's Bomber Man…"
"Guts! I found Bubble Man and beat the jerk up, but it was a dummy!"
"Classical! That jerk is a coward, after all! They won't expose themselves so openly!"
"I'll move and try to find the bomber!"
BEEP – BEEP – BEEP
BEEP – BEEP – BEEP
BEEP – BEEP – BEEP
BEEP – BEEP – BEEP
Delta noticed another four bombs set around him and he jumped into an adjacent rooftop to run away as the bombs took out the whole rooftop of the building he'd been standing at.
He ran until he was forced to stop and try to recover.
"Heck! There's something slowing me down! A bug!?"
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
Two bombs were placed at his sides, so he cursed and jumped down into the street to take cover as they blew up and scorched the rooftop.
"Delta Team! What's the situation like?"
He felt a hand tap his right shoulder from behind and turned around to see Omega there who looked amused.
"Omega! Someone's bombs on their path!" He exclaimed.
"Bombs?"
"Small, oval, they make three short beeps followed by three sharp beeps… They cover about 5 meters and if you're close then you're deleted Navi!"
"I see! Deathly Shadowy is filling the field with toys! Deathly Shadowy~! I'm your worst nightmare! The Cincinnati Butcher!"
"Devil! Thought it had to be one of them, yet…"
"There! Hop! Basketball! 100 points for Uncle Omega! How was that? Deathly Shadowy~?"
"You lowlife!"
"W-what the heck?"
Omega grabbed a spheroid with two grooves on the inner sides and two white spots on the outer sides.
There was a small space between each half which emitted light as well.
He made it bounce off the ground with his right hand as in basketball.
Death Shadow's voice rang out from inside of the spheroid and Delta's jaw hit the floor.
"Death Bomb!"
BEEP – BEEP – BEEP
"Recruit! Tune the retreat tune! Go!"
"Devil!"
The spheroid jumped into the air and formed another bomb.
Omega ran away while pulling Delta along by gripping his right forearm.
They escaped from the bomb's explosion and Omega looked around.
He heard a sound and spotted the spheroid bouncing off the façade of a nearby building as another bomb was formed.
"Why don't you get serious? Else that thing is going to destroy us!"
"I was trying to shake off tension, but guess it's enough of that…"
"Go! Pawns!"
"METTO~!"
"Devil!"
A horde of Mettools appeared from a nearby alley and ran for them as if it were an estampida.
Both jumped atop a building's rooftop only to find a horde of Spark Bees.
"Run from the pickaxes into the stinger!"
"You could patent that!" Delta sarcastically suggested.
"Guess that! Anyway… I'll handle this. You take shelter!"
"Delighted! Now's not the time to be prideful!"
"Well, well. Looks like our folk are struggling to beat the punks!"
"Sheesh. There they are! It's Mine Fujiko!" Delta grumbled.
"Got no business with you, Ms. Thief. Find DTV and smash them!"
"DTV? That's their name nowadays? Sure. They must believe they're the new bomber man, blowing up stuff there and there~!"
In the meanwhile, both took out the Viruses and resumed their escape.
"Guts! Beat another 8 dummies!"
"How many dummies does the guy have?" Delta sighed.
"Hmmm? Whose dummies?"
"Bubble Man's!"
"Guess Kurayami or Kanaya are giving the kid ideas…"
"Suspected as much! No way he could come up with that on his own!"
"Too bad! It was my idea~! Blame Shadowy Man!"
"Sheesh. You mean Shadow Man…"
"Must be busy scolding Carnival Festival Man!"
"Guess that means Killer Man…"
"This is Red! I found a bunch of thugs and beat them up!"
"Found you! You're not getting away this time!"
"Hmpf. Blues, was it? You seem eager to become food of the strong!"
"Gloat while you can!"
"Let's see how Blues handles it…"
Blues rushed for Death Shadow and closed distances in the blink of an eye, managing to land a couple of attacks on the foe's chest but he shrugged.
"I am already "dead"! I feel no pain!"
"Save me the edginess! You simply lack pain sensors!"
"Hmpf. Guess he removed those after I gave him a beat up in Vietnam…"
"Sheesh. How sneaky of the jerk!" Delta sighed.
"The guy's a nutjob to begin with, it's hardly a surprise…"
"Whoever designed it was a nutjob, indeed…"
"From what little records remained, it gave that impression…"
"Maybe you need to sell them almonds instead of nuts?"
"Very original, Mine! Go sell them to Lupin!"
"Delighted. He'll believe they're exotic and try to resell them!"
"Do we look like we care?"
Blues used his quick steps to launch several attacks at Death Shadow but, since he didn't feel pain, they didn't stop him as he countered with bursts of his arm cannon and missiles.
"Dream Sword!"
"Hmpf! Vanity!"
Death Shadow extended his left hand and gripped the Dream Sword.
"Be gone!"
He loaded up his arm cannon but then the Dream Sword exploded and damaged his left hand, startling him and Blues used the chance to thrust his Flame Sword into the chest, but it barely was able to pierce the armor.
"Fool!"
Death Shadow rebuilt his left hand and formed a sphere of blue energy, which he flung at Blues.
He warped at some distance as he left a Jizo statue on his stead.
The statue was hit and a bolt of lightning hit Death Shadow.
He paid no heed to it and formed another of those bombs.
He flung it at Blues, who spun around his axis and kicked it away.
The bomb detonated in mid-air as both combatants rushed for each other, with Death Shadow forming a pale blue sword and clashing with Blues.
"Whatever you do is in vain, fools! Fate is already set on stone!"
"Fate? Hmpf. Gloat while you can!"
Blues formed a Hell's Burner and shot the attack at the foe, but it only managed to leave light burns on the skin.
"My armor is fire-proof! I covered my weakness time ago!"
"Hmpf. It was worth a try…"
"Is that all? Savior of humanity?"
"Hmpf. I never claimed to be that… Elemental Blade!"
Blues jumped away before attacking with four consecutive attacks.
Each one left a light cut on the armor, but the foe wasn't fazed.
"I had those two run tests on armor prototypes!"
"Hmpf. Which means they tested it against high output attacks…"
"As expected of Armory and Pillory~!" The woman giggled.
"Sure, sure. Go design an armor for a Middle Ages fantasy movie!"
"Delighted. I'll go help Marvel Studios with designing the costumes for the Valkyries!"
"Sheesh. The frequency is constantly shifting, can't jam it…"
"Maybe you need strawberry jam and strawberry milk?"
"I'm sure you could sell those to Ms. Ayanokouji!" Delta sighed.
"Sure. And then she'll claim to have invented the combination!"
Blues and Death Shadow kept exchanging blows but neither yielded.
"Give it up, Blue Blues! It's beyond your level!" Kurayami laughed.
"Sure, bad boy! Unless you want to join the club!" Kanaya giggled.
Blues ignored them and loaded up energy on his Neo Variable Sword.
"Eat this!"
He swung it and shot several Sonic Booms before warping and reappearing behind Death Shadow, turning the blade into a Drill Arm and plunging it behind him, managing to break through some of the armor.
The foe growled and formed a couple of boosters to shoot forward.
"Hmpf. They have pain sensors beneath the armor!" Omega muttered.
The foe turned into the spheroid and loaded up energy before shooting forward at Blues, shattering his shield and hitting him, leaving a mark.
He dropped a bomb and the explosion pushed Blues away.
Blues growled and tried to counterattack but he found that his wounds had the blue gel over them, and it was being absorbed by them.
"By all the…"
"Emergency retrieval! Blues! You need a purge!" Enzan ordered.
"Sheesh! Can't be helped! I'll settle the score next time!"
"Hmpf. You cannot escape the inevitable, fools!"
"Seen enough. Alright, Delta! Head out and I'll deal with it!"
"OK!"
Omega jumped down and landed on the ground, drawing his blade.
"Alright, ugly! This time I'll beat you up!"
"Hmpf! Come, fool! I shall turn you into food for the strong!"