Rockman EXE
Guardians of the Light Circle
Opening Song:
BoA – Every Heart
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(1:27 minutes)
Ending Song:
Kukui - Hikari no Rasenritsu
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(Full video)
(I don't own RockmanEXE and I'm going to try and upload 1-2 chapters per week)
Enjoy!
Episode 3: Jealousy strikes once again!
"18...19...20! Ready or not, here I come!"
A golden sun...
"Onee-chan?"
Deep blue skies...
"Where are you, Onee-chan?"
But... I still can't see you...
"Don't leave me alone!"
It's so dark...I'm lonely...but I don't want to be alone...
"ONEE-CHAAAAAN!"
"AAAAAAAHHHH!"
Meiru's eyes snapped open. Her face was pale, like a ghost. Her entire body was shaking, while tears went down her cheeks, with no stopping.
"Meiru-chan... are you all right?" asked Roll, with a tired face. Meiru had never screamed that loudly, after having a nightmare.
"Y-Yes, I-I'm okay..." Meiru didn't want Roll to worry. She looked at her clock, '4:07am'. It was very early and it felt as if she had not slept at all, but she didn't want to go to bed. There were a few hours left before she had to go to the Akihara Park, to meet Netto and the others.
Meiru got up and gave Roll a weak smile, "Roll, h-how about you g-go back to bed? It's too early..."
"Nah... I'm just going to stay awake" Meiru was not the only one who had not slept well. Roll seemed to have had a heavy dream too, however what none of them knew was that both of them had the same dream.
Meiru went downstairs to the living room, her mum had to go to work at 3 o'clock in the morning, because of an urgent meeting, while her father traveled over the world, he was a businessman after all. She left Roll on her desk, she put on the television and made sure that it was not that loud.
Roll felt heavy, but got up and raised her hand. A screen appeared and on that screen was pictures, which showed memories and special moments that she could not forget. One of those pictures showed her and Rockman, it was during the date between Netto and Meiru (Axess episode 42), as she had covered his hand with her own and secretly to a picture of the moment. She brought the screen towards her and embraced it.
A golden sun...
Deep blue skies...
But... I still can't see you...
It's so dark...I'm lonely...but I don't want to be alone...
Roll's eyes opened wide, she remembered a part of her dream, the golden sun, that reminded her of the pictures that showed all of her friends, together, celebrating the moment in which Dr. Regal had been defeated, deep blue skies...blue...deep blue, that colour was him, the net navi that had somehow locked her heart that way no one but him could go near it, Rockman.
The feeling of not seeing him, the feeling of being lonely and the feeling of being covered by a blanket of pure darkness.
She let go of the picture and decided to stop thinking about that dream, for now. That is when she decided to go out, even though it was still very early, she didn't feel like staying in her PET.
Internet City
Roll left a message that way Meiru would not get worried about her and left to Internet City. There seemed to be far more navis than usually. That was when she saw a crowd of navis right in front the mall. The prices came down all of a sudden? Now that is bizarre...
The blonde-haired navi walked towards the crowd, but couldn't see anything. She then saw a navi really closed to her and she asked her what was going on.
"Sakurai Flora and her navi arrived at this shop a few hours ago and now all the prices have down to almost 0 zennys because of them!" the navi was excited, just like the feeling that the crowd reflected.
"Who is she?" questioned Roll
"You don't know who she is? Flora is the famous 14-year old Pop singer and her navi, Emmie, is very well known too!" the navi seemed to know a lot about them.
"Eh?" Roll was little curious about those two, but then, she noticed that the crowd of people had doubled.
The doors of the mall opened and the Net Police arrived to clear the entrance, "Stand back, there is nothing to see, now go home before anyone gets hurt".
All the navis were desperately trying to go back, because everyone started to push the others in their way, even though there was not much space.
They were panicking and you could tell that they were because of racket that they were causing, "Run for you lives!" "It's the Net Police!" or even "But I want to see Emmie!" could be heard from there.
The coast was finally clear, but Roll was still near a group of rushing navis and one of them pushed her. She was not expecting this, well the crowd was almost gone, and once it happened, she slipped and fell right on her face, "OOOOOWWW!"
"Gomenasai!" the navi that had pushed her kept on running, instead of helping her out, which didn't make Roll really happy.
"Mou, why am I the one who always falls, gets hurt, or is always near danger!" whined Roll, she drifted her body weight from her knees, onto her feet. That's it, the next someone wants me to go shopping because of a low price call, count me out!
Roll returned to her home page and transferred herself into the real world, "Ohayou, Meiru-chan!"
"Ohayou!" greeted Meiru back, even though her face was not very readable because of her tired eyes. The red-haired girl, however, was very shocked after hearing about Roll's little adventure.
"... and after that, a random navi pushed me and then I came back" Roll didn't mention that the crowd was there to see two people, well at least on of them. Sakurai...she has the same last name as Meiru, but I'm not going to tell her, not just yet...
At 12:00pm in the Akihara Park
Meiru had finally arrived at the Akihara Park, where all the crossfusion members, besides Netto, were waiting. Netto was never early in anything, so he not being there yet was not a surprise.
"Why is he taking so long!" complained Raika, he was not in the mood for waiting. He wanted to start and not in 5 minutes, not in 2 hours, now.
"He is coming, besides he is the one who called us here..." Pride was trying to calm him down and this is one of the things that she likes to do the most, when in to comes to Raika.
Netto had finally arrived after 15 minutes of the planned time.
"NETTO!" Jasmine called out his name as she tackled him on the ground.
"J-Jasmine!" said Netto, with a pain in the tone of his voice.
Meiru was not very happy about that, because once she saw Netto on the ground, she grabbed him by the arm and helped him to stand up, "Are you okay, Netto?"
"Yeah, I'm okay," answered Netto and he thanked her with smile. He turned to face the team.
"Oh yeah! I almost forgot, after this 'experiment', do you want to hang out or something?" asked Jasmine, who was seriously hyper about holding Netto's arm, because she didn't let him go, not even after tackling him just now.
"Hey! We came here to train, not to think about going out and if Netto would ever want to hang out with someone... it would be me!" Meiru didn't like competition and even though her rage was nowhere near like her navi's jealousy problems, she still had to show Jasmine who was the boss here.
"Oh really? Well then how about this, since we are going to netbattle today, the one who wins the most times gets to go on a date with Netto!
"I'm going to win, trust me Jasmine!" exclaimed Meiru.
"I'd like to watch you, tomato head!" Jasmine was already insulting Meiru, which did not improve the anger between them.
Netto came between them and tried to calm down, "Jasmine, Meiru-chan, calm down..."
The two girls turned around, that way their backs would face each other and no eye contact would have to be made between them.
"Well then Netto... you called us for a netbattle?" asked Charlie, with a cool look, like always.
"Papa wanted us to help him out with testing a new style of netbattling, so I thought that all of you would have wanted to come," Everyone got very excited after hearing Netto's announcement.
"That's right, so who would like to go first?" Hikari-hakase wanted to try this experiment for a while now, but he also wanted it to go well.
"How about-" he didn't get to finish, he was interrupted.
"I challenge you to a netbattle, Netto!" Enzan immediately pointed at Netto, when it came to netbattles, these two could almost strangle each other with no stopping.
Hikari-hakase knew that if those two would battle, now it would take hours for one of them to win and ages for them to stop complaining about who won.
He had a better idea, "How about a boy-girl netbattle?" he did want to enjoy the show and there was no way that he was going to get it with a boy-boy/ girl-girl battle.
"Netto, I want you to battle... Meiru-chan," Netto could tell his dad was grinning, which made him sweatdrop and laugh nervously.
"Papa, I'm not going to fight Meiru-chan!" shouted Netto, even though he knew that it would only be a net battle, it still felt wrong to fight against his best friend.
His dad, however, ignored his complains and asked Meiru with a friendly smile, "Meiru-chan, Netto, I want both of you to get ready, the dimensional area will be activated in a few minutes"
"O-Okay" Meiru didn't have a good feeling about this either; the idea of fighting Netto was something that she had never imagined that would happen. Even though she had made a bet with Jasmine, she still didn't want to fight Netto, she would fight anyone, even Enzan, as long as she wouldn't have to fight Netto.
The Netbattle
Both of them were standing on the edges of the Akihara Park, opposite from each other.
"Mejin, the dimensional area!" commanded Hikari-hakase.
"Roger!" Mejin pressed a few keys and the dimensional area covered the entire park. The first phase of the experiment had gone smoothly, now to see if phase two...
Netto took out his powerful chip and inserted it into his PET, while Meiru followed the same steps. Netto and Rockman called out in unison "CROSSFUSION!"
"CROSSFUSION!" shouted Meiru and Roll at the same time. Both operators were standing on the same place, only in their crossfused form.
Netto's arm transformed into Rockman's powerful blaster as he lifted his right arm into the air and yelled "Rock Buster!"
Purple lasers shot out, towards Meiru, but she dodged them. I know that you won't hurt me, but we are going to have to finish this at some point!
Meiru's speed increased with an Area Steal and she began to swing her sharp antennas at Netto, "Roll Whip!"
"Battle Chip, Shot Gun!" a blue blaster replaced Netto's blaster and he tried to signal Meiru that he was going to shoot and she immediately jumped back by doing a double back-flip.
"Here I go!" exclaimed Netto, he pointed his blaster and made sure that it wouldn't hit Meiru. It worked and Meiru was all right.
She sprinted toward one of the walls of the park and shouted out "Battle Chip, Earthquake!" hundreds of heavy viruses kept on falling from the sky, of course, Netto was able to easily dodge them.
"Netto-kun, Meiru-chan, we want both of you to use a sword chip!" ordered Mejin, even though this was certainly a new style of netbattling, none of them were really attacking each other. They needed to break that imaginary barrier between each other.
"What!" Netto was panicking, fighting with swords was the last thing that he wanted to do.
Meiru was nervous too and her breathing was becoming heavy. She was getting tired by the minute and needed to finish this, but using a sword was a type of battle chip that she never used.
She jumped down from the wall and ran towards Netto, "Battle Chip, Aqua Sword!" Her right arm transformed into a sword and she prayed that she would not mess up.
She swung her sword and Netto dodged it. He raised his arm and yelled "Battle Chip, Bamboo Sword!"
Meiru swung her Aqua Sword and made sure that it hit Netto's sword. Both of them kept on pushing each other's sword's back, but nothing else.
"Gomen, Meiru-chan, I just can't fight you..." murmured Netto, only she could hear him, but she was a little confused, it was hard for her as well, but he took it so seriously. It was as if they had to kill each other, or something. Netto... we never get to see each other, only at school, and now that we have the chance to be together, you simply... stop trying to have a little fun... because of my safety... it makes me feel so... so...
It's so dark...
Meiru's eyes became wide and her heartbeat became faster. The dream, the feelings that had left her terrified...
I'm lonely...
Her breathing was heavy and her strength had left her entire body, the urge to fight was gone...
but I don't want to be alone...
Her vision was becoming blurry and she couldn't stand anymore. Meiru stumbled slightly forward and was about to fall onto the ground, but Netto was able to catch her just in time. Everyone came running towards the two, while Mejin deactivated the dimensional area. Both Netto and Meiru's crossfusion forms disappeared and Hikari-hakase ran as quickly as he could to see what had happened.
He looked around for any injuries, but nothing, Meiru was not injured.
"Meiru-chan! Meiru-chan! What's wrong? Answer me!" Netto was sweating, his nerves were coming back and at a hundred percent. He gazed at her chocolate-brown eyes, which seemed to slowly disappear.
Netto watched with despair, as Meiru was no longer conscious. At that moment, his nerves could no longer calm down and they exploded inside of him. Tears were filling his eyes and simply would not stop. Netto grabbed Meiru's shoulders and embraced her, squeezing her, while calling her name.
"MEIRU-CHAAAAAN!"
Flora: Could someone PLEASE tell me why I'm not there yet?
Emmie: You don't have any patience now do you?
Flora: They only said my name but I want to do something! I'm dying of boredom here!
Emmie: Well I have a feeling that waiting is no longer going to be necessary!
Flora: What do you mean?
Emmie: You are going to have to find out in the coming episode!
Flora: Aw another week of waiting...
Flora & Emmie: Coming next... Forgotten Memories