Woot! I am on a roll with this story. I had no idea I would get so many reviews so quickly with just one chapter! LoL, Kasuchi, Koichi, I hope you get an FF account soon, you are my favorite reviewer ever! Lol, you've got some great ideas hun. I have a lot to learn still, I have no idea what shipping means. And I don't like to have the netops be paired differently than the navis because it complicates things for me. I want to keep it simple. LoL I don't mind you reviewing the same chapter twice, I do that all the time. I asked you guys to give me some animal ideas for the navis I didn't have any for yet, thank you so much for your ideas! Lol, recap time. Ok, so, last time, we got to meet Chaula, Raika's energetic house-mate and Chaud's cousin and we got to look a little bit into her past and daily life. Rather than rush into the secret right now, I am going to bring into play one of Chaula's biggest achievements, the "Call of the Wild".
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Raika walked down the hall, Chaula and friends close behind. He turned to the left and walked into a room, Chaula close behind. Everyone walked inside and was met with a bunch of file cabinets and computers, with what looked like a couple of scanners in the back of the room. Raika and Chaula sat behind a control panel and brought up a screen with complicated-looking statistics on it. They set their PETs down and looked at the others.
"Chaula has been working on this program for years and we perfected it last year." Raika said to everyone as he and Chaula plugged in their net-navi's. Megaman and the other navis were shocked at the red female navi that showed up next to Searchman. They looked back and forth from her to Protoman, awed by how similar they looked. She had Protomans basic style, except that she wore no helmet. Instead, she had a visor wrapped around her eyes that curled backward. Her hair was different too. It was white with a thin black stripe going down the left side. She smiled and walked up to Protoman, giving him a hug before turning back to everyone.
"I'm Protias. I was made from leftover data from Protoman's creation." She said. Protoman only nodded, lost for words. Everyone marveled at Protias when Raika cleared his throat, turning their attention back to him and Chaula.
"Ok, so. Ready to see what the program is?" Raika asked. Chaud looked at him skeptically.
"What does this program do Raika?" He asked.
"This." Chaula piped up as she and Raika input a couple of chips into their PETs. "Lunar Sphere, Battle chip in, Download!"
"WindRush, Battle chip in, Download!" They called out simultaneously. In the cyberworld, Protias and Searchman were engulfed in a bright light that blinded everyone. When the navis and their operators opened their eyes, they were met by a couple of cyber-beasts. In place of Protias stood a white wolf with a black stripe going across its sides (basically, the reversed coloring of the creature Raika talked with in chapter 2) and it had bright blue eyes. Next to the wolf in the place of Searchman stood a giant mint green falcon, only a slightly darker shade of green than Raika's hair, it had ruby-red eyes and a dark green stripe going down the middle of the top of its beak. Their eyes grew wide as the wolf stood up on its hind legs and looked toward the screen showing Chaula.
"Now?" It asked in Protias's voice.
"Not yet hun, let everyone take it in before we shock them again." Chaula said, giggling. Raika smirked as he saw the shocked expressions on their faces.
"I think it's going to take awhile if we are waiting for that." He said to her.
"You guys are acting like you've never seen cyber-beasts before." The falcon said in Searchman's voice.
"Well, it's not everyday that your friends navis turn into animals." Dingo said, still shocked.
"If you think that is amazing, take a look at this, stand back. Ok guys, go ahead." Chaula said to Searchman and Protias. Both navis nodded before Protias' claw extended. She raised her paw up high and brought it down, tearing a hole in cyberspace. Searchman quickly flew into the hole, Protias close behind just as it closed. Everyone held their breaths as they looked for the navis. Suddenly, a claw tore through the air and ripped a hole in the dimension, a human-sized falcon and wolf tumbling out of it before it closed up. Everyone froze as they got up and looked at everyone, the falcon smirking and the wolf grinning idiotically.
"What are you staring at?" The wolf said. They couldn't believe it, it was Protias and Searchman. Everyone quickly looked at Raika and Chaula and were about to bombard them with questions when Chaula held a hand up.
"Let us talk before you do. As Raika said, I have been spending years working on this program. I created this program to bring humans and their navis closer together. I wanted to bring netnavis to life, make them living breathing creatures. And with some help from Raika and my friend Manuske, I have perfected it. Well, almost anyway." She said, walking over to Protias and picking the huge wolf up. Chaud looked disbelievingly at his cousin.
"Almost? What part of this isn't perfect?" He asked her, still in shock.
"They can't reproduce. They can eat and drink and everything, but they are infertile. I have only made one navi that can reproduce, hahaha, and I don't think he would like it very much if I told you how I know that, hahaha!" Chaula said as she and Protias burst into laughter. Raika shook his head at them.
"Don't ask, I don't know either. They were the only ones that caught him and he threatened to pulverize them if they told anyone." He said before anyone could say anything.
"Who was it?" Lan asked.
"You'll find out later, I have a feeling you'll get very mad at us if we tell you who it was." Raika responded. Chaula grinned at everyone before putting Protias down.
"So, who wants to have their navis answer the "Call of the Wild"?" She asked, glad to be able to share her gift with others. Lan and Jasmine rushed over to Chaula with their PETs, eager to bring their netnavis to life.
"So what do we do?" Jasmine asked them.
"Yeah, I want to get Megaman out here as soon as possible!" Lan piped excitedly. Raika turned to the scanners and pointed.
"Plug them in there, we'll scan your navis to see which animals work best. After we finished the program, we changed the scripting to it so that we have a wide variety of animals to work with." Raika explained to everyone while Lan and Jasmine plugged Megaman and Meddy into the scanners. Their images appeared and Chaula began the scanning process. In a couple of minutes, the results from the scan were in and Chaula and Raika began analyzing them. Pretty soon, Chaula walked over to one of the many file cabinets and open a drawer, taking out a medium-sized, very full box. She walked over to them and opened the box, pulling out two battle chips. She gave one with a fox sillouette on it to Lan and one with a rabbit on it to Jasmine.
"Just use those installation chips and they'll be good to go." Chaud said smiling.
"This won't hurt, will it?" Megaman asked. Searchman looked toward the scanner containing Megaman and smiled (at least, in a weird birdy way, I dunno, LEAVE ME ALONE!).
"Don't worry, it'll feel weird the first time you change, but you'll get used to it quickly." He explained as he fluttered over to the control panel to stand next to Raika (since I have never heard of a walking falcon, Searchman can't walk in the real world. This'll serve us in the future for more comedy). Lan and Jasmine put in the chips and Megaman and Meddy were engulfed in the same bright light that Searchman and Protias were. Instead of them remaining in the scanners however, a hole ripped open in the dimension and a blue fox and a really big white rabbit (about human sized) came tumbling out. Everyone gasped as the two creatures struggled to get their footing and they stood. The scanners were empty and Megaman and Meddy were nowhere to be seen.
"M-megaman?" Lan said cautiously as the creatures stood up and looked ready to attack at any moment. Chaula and Raika only smiled as everyone else shifted nervously, unsure of what would happen next…
TBC.
Muahahaha! Cliffhanger! LoL What do you guys think? Like this chapter? So, tell me what you think and I'll bring you ch. 5 in the morning. Right now, as I am typing this, it's almost 10:30 at night and I need to go to sleep. Again, thanks so much for your help in this chapter and I hope you enjoy your results. I still need a creature for Tomahawkman because while I did want him to be an eagle at the beginning, I decided against it because I don't want any two navis to be alike. See you later guys!