Second part of the mission. Gammatron's characters belong to Gammatron. Enjoy.

Third Mission Part II

"Too easy," Will said, slicing through another robot, slicing in half to reveal circuitry.

"You'd think these would be built to withstand a simple sword," Zero said, destroying three robots in swipe.

"And what is simple about your Z Saber or Will's G Blade," X asked, firing his buster repeatedly at the Great Axe viruses surrounding him.

"Point taken. But still, I wish these guys were just little more challenging. Why can't they make them more resilient?"

"Please don't give them any ideas. Hey, how are you and Max holding, Geo?"

"Just fine over here," Geo answered. "But it looks like Max is sleeping on the job." He pointed over to where Max was leaning against a tree, apparently asleep. "Is he normally this relaxed on missions?"

"Yeah," Will said. "One time, he even offered to stop the fight and share lunch with his opponent. Don't know where he learned to be so nonchalant." He stopped to dispatch the last robot with a swing of his blade, slicing its head off. "That's the last bot."

X fired one shot and said, "And that's the last virus. I say we go on now."

"Yeah, but we need to wake Max up first," Will said. "I've got just the thing." He walked over to Max and whispered something in his ear. Max was instantly alert and was looking around.

"What did you say to him?"

"That's between me and him."

***

"Alright, I don't get it," Zero said after Omega-xis told them a joke.

Omega-xis slapped his hand to his face, sliding it down. "What is wrong with you people? How can you not get the joke? You get it, don'tcha kid," he said to Geo.

"No. No, not really," Geo said.

"I give up."

THUNK

"What was that," X said, his buster held at the ready. They all looked to the middle of them to see a large shuriken with four points along its edges in the ground. "Who's there?"

"Me," a voice said.

"Where are you," Max asked, settling into a stance.

"Right in front of you."

Max looked around, but still saw nothing. "Where in front of me?"

"Right…HERE!" Max was suddenly knocked to the ground.

"Ungh," was the only sound he made when he hit the ground. "Damn it. You're Cameo, right? And you're using your camouflage system, aren'tcha?"

"Perhaps. Who are you?"

"Just some visitors to the forest…who happen to be enemies of your bosses."

"Ahh. I thought you seemed familiar. You are the one who made Andromeda leave."

"Wrong. He left of his own accord. And his name is Meda." Max took a pistol from his hip.

"Wait. That's Andromeda's pistol isn't it?"

"You know it." The pistol began to glow, while Max was surrounded by an aura of blood red energy. "Ya know what the great thing about getting a new Aura Fusion is? The fact that if I have an item that they gave to me willingly, I can still set one up with them. And it would seem that our auras have become similar enough for me to have one with Meda." Max was surrounded by light and when it disappeared, his armor was now red, with a silver streak going down his boots. His helmet now had two spikes, a reddish orange color on them, that extended two inches backwards and he now had a large blood red blade on his back. "Say hello to Meda Fusion."

"That isn't going to help you against a stealth expert such as myself," Cameo said, appearing in front of them. His armor was black, with green stripes running along it, and boots with a spike on the calf of each. His helmet covered all but his mouth, a blue visor covering his eyes. On the helmet was a single spike running backwards and on his right hip was a black pistol, which looked like it was part of the armor. "Especially when I can do this." He suddenly faded out and within two seconds, there was no trace that he had ever been there. "When you have trained as long as I have in stealth techniques, you learn how to leave minimal traces of your presence," his voice coming from their right. "But it is rumored that if you train long enough, you will be able to leave no trace," his voice now coming from their left. "I have nearly mastered that technique. You will help me to test this technique," his voice behind them.

"Damn it. How do we fight an enemy like this," X said, putting his back to the group, everyone else following suit.

"We need light. Lots of it," Will said. "You have anything suited to that, Max?"

"I think so. All of you cover your eyes," Max said. "Blinder, battlechip, download." A bright flash filled the immediate area, blinding anything that was unfortunate enough to look at the source of the flash, including Cameo. Max got just enough of a glance to see a shadow and then the light was gone. "Damn. Too short of a flash time to attack. We'll have to figure something else out."

"I've got it," Omega-xis said, flying off into the woods. "Hold 'im off as long as you can," he called to the others.

"What is he doing," Zero asked, looking to Geo.

"Don't look at me," Geo said, shrugging. "But I'm gonna try something myself. Tribe On: Wood Shinobi." A swirl of leaves surrounded Geo and when it went away, Geo was standing there with green cloth around his body and a black mask over his mouth. On the front of his forehead was a golden shuriken and in his right hand was a large green shuriken. He closed his eyes, listening for small movements. "Max, to your left, he's drawing his arm back. He's about to throw the shuriken. Right about……now!"

Max whipped his left hand out and caught the shuriken, which reappeared once it left Cameo's hand. "Ok, so now we can defend ourselves. Now how do we attack," Max said.

"Like this," Omega-xis said, coming out from behind a tree. He gave a whistle, looking behind himself. "Come and get 'im boys." They heard howling and snarling and the pack of wolves and pack coyotes that had been chasing them earlier came bounding out from behind the trees, running to one spot. They heard a high-pitched scream and then Cameo appeared, running around the small area, trying to get away from the wolves and coyotes.

"Nice job, Omega-xis. How'd you get them to help us," Zero asked.

"Simple. I apologized first and then said that this guy…," Omega-xis whispered the rest into Zero's ear and Zero shuddered at whatever it was that he said.

"That is sick and wrong."

"Eh, what are ya gonna do?"

***

"Thanks for the info," Max said, talking to Cameo, who was currently tied up to a tree.

"Yeah, whatever. You're sure these guys will let me go and leave me alone, right," Cameo said, a suspicious eye at the wolves and coyotes still around him.

"Yes, they will. However, I would suggest you run as fast as you can. You only get a five minute head start. And these guys can," he was interrupted by a growl, "sorry, guys and girls, can run fast." He put his hand to his ear. "Alright, ladies. We're ready for teleportation." They began to fade out and were soon gone.

***

"So, how'd the mission go," Rockman asked.

"Pretty good. I got a new Aura Fusion and Omega-xis almost single-handedly beat Cameo," Max said.

"Wow. I feel sorry that I missed it," Lyra said. "Omega-xis actually being competent. That musta been quite a sight."

"That was uncalled for," Omega-xis said, crossing his arms and turning his back to Lyra.

"Oh, don't be like that." She went over to him and put an arm on his shoulder.

"Too late," he said, flying off.

"Ignoring those two. How'd the new fusion handle," Naruto asked.

"Don't know. Never got the chance to actually use it," Max said. "Shame too. I was really hoping to try out that Blood World move. Or maybe the Blood Slash." He walked off, saying, "I'm gonna catch some z's. See ya later."

"Man, he has got to be one of the most relaxed guys I have ever met," Kyuubi said.

"You've never seen him when he's really pissed off, have you," Jen asked.

"No. Why?"

"Oh, nothing, nothing at all." She walked out of the room, leaving a confused looking Kyuubi by himself, as everyone else had already left to do whatever they had been doing prior to the group coming back.

Their third mission is done. Gammatron's characters belong to Gammatron. Please Review.