Maylu walked her way to the mysterious hideout with her hands on the pockets of her pants and maintains the stoic attitude. As she walks by inside the building, her new WWW friends are doing a little research about her.
"Oh, look at this, everyone," Mr. Matched started to type in the Net from the supercomputer and his accomplices, Maddy, Count Zap, and Yahoot, all joined in. "The Sakurai, a cursed family."
"Ooh," his accomplices said in unison with their hands on their faces and looking at each other.
"Well, here's one interesting fact that made Maylu's family go crazy. They have a curse of hatred," Maddy looked closely on the topic with her holding the mouse and highlighting the details behind it.
"It says here that it can be traced back when an ancestor of that family is enraged about her best friend's betrayal that she declared war on her even if that betrayal was against her will," Yahoot reads the story of the ancestry of their new member of the team.
"Just like our little performance in the N1 Grand Prix," Count Zap stated happily.
"Well, here's more to come, everyone," Mr. Match types in more details on the Sakurai family. "Because of this war, even as time goes by, the descendants of the warring best friends continue on the battle with each other. The descendants of the betrayed best friend came to known as the Sakurai, while the descendants of the betrayer best friend came to known as the Mori. What feuding families, indeed."
"Oh, and it says here that when the Sakurai have love and friendship above all else, but when they lose someone they cared about, their love turned into hatred. And that's how Maylu's yellow eyes, the Reflector, is born. It's born from when her Navi disobeyed her orders because we put her under our control," the pink-haired girl read out on the story.
"Well, could have been worse," Count Zap contradicted on the statement.
"It gets worse, Zappy. It says here that the Sakurai will react violently if one slightly hints or mentions the person who is responsible for losing themselves. For Maylu, it's Roll," Maddy reads out the details. "Well, that must mean her family is one cursed bloodline. Revenge is the destiny of every Sakurai family member and it looks like we're the ones who turned her like this thanks to what we did to her Navi back in the N1."
Suddenly, Maylu comes to where the four are and they changed the topic from the computer.
"Ah, the avenger is home," Yahoot stated calmly with his arms crossed.
"Yeah, yeah," the young girl couldn't care less of his greeting. "I'm going to have training time here right now."
She activated a watch from her left wrist and as she presses a button, a portal appeared on her. Entering through it, she appeared in the screen in front of them. It looks like another training session is in for her.
"Well, it's time for another session," Mr. Match stated as he types in the keyboard to get the training started. Just then, a training simulation of Empress Roll suddenly appeared. "Now, take out your anger on her. This is what you should have been doing back in the N1."
In the cyber world, Maylu is about to have a practice. Of course, this is not really her Navi she's confronting with, but it's just a training simulation. Now it's time for her to practice her anger.
"Being like that isn't going to look you good, Roll," she taunted boringly with her right hand holding her sheathe.
"How dare you use my old NetNavi name?!" her simulated enemy swings her whip to the ground as a yellow shockwave is about to appear in front of her. At least Maylu could dodge this attack by lunging to the right and went in front of her. Once that is done, she makes a fist on her right hand and punches it in the face. Then another from her left hand. It is repeated two times until she throws her inches away from her. She got up from this. "Forget the old Roll. I'm new and improve."
Meanwhile, in the real world, the rest of World Three is seeing this training by the supercomputer.
"Oh, look at that, Mr. Match," Maddy laughed at this. "Isn't that what she said to her before?"
"That's right, Maddy. And this training program is to show what Maylu should have been doing on that day," the redheaded man replied sinisterly with his hands clasp to the chest level.
"Now, let's enjoy the rest of the show, shall we?" Count Zap stated, enjoying this moment. Of course, he's Empress' 'controller' but not anymore after having witnessed her changing into that form but her mind is still intact.
Back at the cyber world...
"Like I'll ever believe something like that. Too bad you should quit if you have the chance, Roll," Maylu throws another taunt to the program.
"That's not my name anymore! Call me Empress!" the latter started to swing her whip at her direction but the former grabs a hold of it as her Reflector got activated, and she is taken by surprise from it. Next, she appeared in front of her and sends a kick to her stomach, throwing her a few inches again. "Why, you!"
The training simulation then summoned a lot of virus after swinging her whip to the floor. It's the same ones from before. Next, she is sitting on a bubble just like the last time.
"Minions, attack!"
Maylu smirked at this as she pulls out her sword from her right hand. It's obvious she mostly holds it with her right hand, but she can hold it also with her left hand if necessary. She slashes the virus so fast and they got deleted.
At the other side of the simulation, there's TorchMan and ElecMan watching this from a platform.
"Wow, that girl really is something," the former stated.
"I couldn't agree more," the latter added. "How ironic of this. Now Roll will feel her pain from when she didn't respond to her."
Back at the training...
"Why are you talking that, Roll? Don't you recognize me?" Maylu stated to reenact on what she should have been doing and puts her sword back to her sheathe.
"That's funny. You do look a little familiar?" the training program stated boringly.
"Roll, I'm Maylu. Remember me," the redheaded girl look stoic while reenacting the line.
"You are so dense. Of course, I remember you. Oh please, you're the useless one who used to be my NetOp."
Hearing the word 'useless' has caused Maylu to get really, really angry as a fist is clenched.
"Oh, here it comes. It looks like she's not going to take that from some piece of junk," Maddy stated excitingly from the real world.
"Useless, am I?" the young girl is really getting into anger.
"That's right. You're out of the loop, Maylu. I have no intention of being controlled by you anymore because form now on, there will be someone else running the show."
She thought back of what her rogue Navi said before. Now she can use it as hatred, the source of her power. With each hatred on Roll for what happened on that day is getting stronger, Maylu is getting stronger.
"I see..." she said angrily. "Then take this!"
Maylu points her left hand at her simulated enemy as a large fire-covered spear appears and hits it in the right shoulder.
From the real world, Mr. Match, Maddy, Count Zap, and Yahoot are overseeing this.
"Well, it looks like Fire Spear is one very good spearical attack!" the count said excitingly.
"At least she has more powerful attacks, but she should save it in the real confrontation," the pink-haired woman replied boringly.
Back at the training...
"Roll, it's time for you to get deleted," Maylu stated on the program.
"Call me Empress!" the latter insisted as she swings her whip which now has thorns to the ground to send another shockwave. This time, it hits her.
"Oh, I can call you whatever I want and you'll like it or not," a voice is heard and it has come from Maylu. As the training simulation looked behind herself, she is surprised by this.
"If you're there, then..."
Upon looking at her front, the figure of Maylu just turned into a log.
"And this is the power of Substitution Teleport," TorchMan remarked on the matter.
Maylu then points her right hand where a stream of electricity is emerging to zap the simulation, but it just dodged the attack. She now can master electricity attacks. Unfortunately, it's not fast enough for Maylu to appear in front of it and shoots it with a stream of fire from her right index finger. A smirk has appeared on her face as she's enjoying this.
"Now, let's put the battlefield into more difficulty if you want to become strong enough to delete your own Navi from existence!" Count Zap excitedly typed in the computer to do something to the training simulation.
"Well, a good way for her to show no mercy," Maddy stated as a thought is filled on her head.
Prior to the training session before, Maylu is shown inside the cyber world and she has taken down the TorchMan, ElecMan, and MagicMan. Too bad WackoMan isn't since he got deleted by MegaMan's attack during the last N1 Grand Prix match. She went to the real world after this session.
"Like I said, they're not the ones I want to delete."
"Here's one thing you should learn, Maylu. One of the other components you need to delete 'Empress' and get your revenge is to show no mercy," Maddy taught her new friend.
"Oh don't worry, Maddy. I won't," was the reply coming out of the redheaded girl who was once optimistic.
The thought ends as her new pink-haired friend is going to enjoy this kind of training.
Inside the cyber world, the training simulation figure of Empress started to transform like before with parts like ElecMan.
"Let's finish the game, shall we?" her whip started to transform into sword and she has a smirk on her face. "Time to say goodbye, my NetOp."
She started to swing her sword and just as she is about to hit her, Maylu blocks it with her sword on her right hand while holding the sheathe with her left hand, making her simulated enemy's smirk die down. Not only that, but also she's covered with black marks at the left side of her face due to the mark on her neck. The figure has really underestimated her abilities then she tries to grab her by the top of her head. But before she can do so, Maylu stabs it with her sword before tossing the simulation a few inches.
Next, she takes off her jacket and ties it around her waist as a transformation occurs in her; the black marks spread for it to happen. Her skin turned white, eyes turning black but her irises remained yellow, hair turning black and growing long, sharp teeth and nails appear before her, and lastly, wings grow from her back; the last part is the reason why she wore a sports bra so that her wings can open up in the transformation.
"Aw, did little Roll fall down?" she steps on her stomach and a smirk is on her face as she goes to the program closely. "Good! So tell me, are you getting tired of our little game? Maybe we should spruce things up a bit."
Maylu goes a few inches away from her and her left hand is starting to form a dark flame. It's time for her to finish this training session.
"Fire Punch!"
As the training figure gets up, she launches her attack at it, impaling it in the process. Then it just disappeared, a sign of deletion.
Her training is complete.
Going back to the real world, Maylu turns back to her normal form and has found praise within her former enemies.
"Very nice, Maylu. Another training session completed," her former rival Maddy applauds in this. "Now, what do you want to delete her?"
"Tomorrow, that's what," was the reply with an emotionless tone. "First, send those Navis of yours into battle, then I'll deal with Roll myself."
"Oh, I should warn you, Maylu. If you delete her, you will be just like Empress," Count Zap stated with a tease.
A fist is clenched into the young girl's right hand. It's a sign of trouble.
"Oh, here it comes," Maddy is enjoying her anger, the source of her strength.
"Count Zap, can you come closer to me?" Maylu acts all calm and the count follows her instruction. Once that is done, she gets all angry and grabs him by his throat. "Don't ever compare me to that mad NetNavi!"
She tosses him aside to a vase holder and a vase hits him in the head. It looks like the more she goes further into darkness, the stronger she will become.