Disclaimer: I don't own any Battle Cards and Star Force characters. I do own a few original characters.
Chapter 2: Mega Man
Yusei's walk led him to the downtown part of Echo Ridge City. It's a bustling part of the city with its large buildings, cars driving through the streets, and the many people walking pass Yusei. This is the liveliest part of the city of Echo Ridge City as he is amazed to look at the buildings.
Omega-Xis asks, "Aren't you giving me a tour?"
"Why should I?" Yusei bluntly replies. "I'm the same as you, Mega; I just arrive here with no knowledge of this place. Though I use to live here seven years ago, I never had been this part of the city before."
So they wander around aimlessly with not much finding an idea place to hang out and relax. Omega-Xis is interested in seeing humans interacting each other by talking or ignoring each other. Yusei couldn't help but smile to see that the EM Wave alien is interested in the human race. Then Omega-Xis saw something even more interesting, which is the monorail train. Yusei knew Omega-Xis is going to ask him to take him there, so he complies with his request and walks up to the station.
As he walks up the stairs to the station, Yusei notices a young girl looking at the station's directory screen on the wall. The girl wears a pink hooded jacket with two buns on the hood, yellow shorts, and blue boot-like shoes. The girl seems to be frantic as if she's having a hard time understanding the directory. Yusei's sighs and decides to approach the girl to help her.
Yusei asks, "Are you okay? Do you need any help?"
The girl looks at him with a surprise look on her face. Pink sunglasses cover her eyes so Yusei doesn't know her face, but he can see her dark red hair. She nods her head and answered, "Yeah, I need some help. I was supposed to take the train to the studio, but I don't know which trains that I should take. The train routes are so complicated."
Can't she use her Transer? Yusei thought as he notices the girl's green Transer on her left arm. "Why can't you use your Transer? Doesn't your Transer have a map that tells you which route to take for trains?"
She shook her head in response. "No, I didn't download an app for one."
"Then how do you travel around the city with no map or even taken a train?"
"My producer usually picks me up, but his car sort of broke down today. So I have to take a train. And in case you're wondering why I couldn't take a taxi is because my producer is kind of a cheapskate."
"Producer…?" Yusei gasps. "Oh, you must be an idol. Well, it doesn't matter if you're famous, I'll help you out. So what's the name of the studio?"
The girl becomes silent and just stares at Yusei as if she's suspicious of him. She asks, "Do you know who I am?"
Yusei tilts his head. "No, not really. Why? Are you famous or something?"
She sighs in relief. "I'm sorry for my behavior. I guess you really don't know about me. The name of the studio is WBG Studios."
He checks the studio's name through his Transer and found the address. Using the address, he found which train would take the idol girl to her destination. Fortunately it's only one train that can take her to WBG Studios and that train is going to arrive at this station in the next twenty minutes. He also notices on the directory that the train route to WBG Studios is also close to Times Square, a mall where his sister is working at. His sister works as a store clerk at the clothing section in Times Square. Yusei thinks to himself that he should visit his sister during her work, which he thinks may be fun for him.
After Yusei told the idol girl about the upcoming train, the idol girl thanks him. "Thank you! I'm going to buy myself a ticket!" When she buys her ticket, she notices that Yusei is also buying a ticket. "Huh? Why are you buying a ticket?"
"I'm going to visit my sister during her work," he answer, "And since your train is on route to Times Square, I thought I should accompany you as your bodyguard until I arrive at my destination."
"I don't need a bodyguard," she retorts with a pouting face.
Yusei chuckles in a kind tone. "Fine. Not as your bodyguard, but as your friend you want to kill some time with. Is that okay?"
"Friend?" The idol girl tilts her head. "Are you hitting on me?"
"Why would I hit on an idol or a girl who I don't know?" Yusei asks with a smirk. "By the way, I'm Yusei Light. It's nice to meet you."
The idol girl just looks at him with a smile and replies, "My name is Sonia Strumm, likewise." They shake hands as they walk pass security and sit on a bench until the train arrives.
Yusei and Sonia both got on the train as soon as the train arrives. They sit next to each other and started about some things in a whisper tone so that no one around them can hear them talking. Sonia started by asking, "So you really don't know who I am?"
"No, I don't." Yusei shook his head when he said that with a smile on his face. "I'm not into the trends like most people in the world does, so I'm not up to speed when it comes to famous people like you. Then again, how famous are you?"
"I'm famous all over Electopia, possibly Netopia and other places in the world," Sonia bluntly answers, which shocks Yusei.
"So you're that famous! Wow, I'm amazed that I don't know you." Now that I think about it, the news did mention about a famous idol's song is at the top of the charts this morning. The famous idol's name is Sonia Strumm, ironic.
Yusei mentally slaps himself for being this stupid. He wonders if he's offending her because he doesn't know her. However, seeing her giggling means that she isn't offended. He finds that strange for a famous person to be acting, he always thought that famous people like being the center of attention. Sonia is different, but he couldn't figure out why she's different from other famous people.
"It's okay," she replies as she giggles a bit more. "It's kind of refreshing to talk to someone who just talks to me as a person instead of a famous person. Though the way you talk to me sounds like you have some experience talking to girls."
Is she thinking of me as a player? He mentally asks himself. "I do have some female friends before I move here, so I'm always good at talking to girls. However, I don't date my female friends because I only considered them as friends and nothing else."
Sonia wonders what he means by "before he moves here" as she asks, "Do you just got here?"
"Truth be told," Yusei spoke, "I use to live here seven years ago, but some incident happened and my sister and I had to move away. We lived at our uncle's place for a while until my sister had enough money for us to be living back to Echo Ridge City."
"What is that incident?" she asks as if she's prying out information from him.
Yusei couldn't help but feel like he's being interrogated by this girl's cuteness. He wants to make some friends, but he doesn't want people to pitied him and his sister because of their loss of their parents. He doesn't want to talk about it, but for some reason, he also doesn't want to be a jerk to the idol girl. So he becomes hesitant and doesn't know what to say, leaving a weird awkward silence between them. The silence is broken when the train slowly takes a grinding halt at the station of where Times Square is.
"It seems like I have arrive at my destination," said Yusei as he stands up from his seat. "It's very nice talking to you, Sonia. I have to get going."
Sonia grabs his arm that prevents him to walk away. Yusei looks at her as she asks, "Will we see each other again?"
He replies, "It's a small world, so yeah! We probably will see each other again!" His smile is enough to make her smile as well as she lets go of him.
Yusei walks out of the train with some other people. He turns around to see Sonia looking at him through the train's window. He saw Sonia waving a goodbye to him and he waves back, making her happy. Then Yusei gasps when he realizes that he didn't form a Brother-Band with her, but later realizes that it may be a bad idea to form a bond with a famous idol. He doesn't want to have people to think that he's in some sort of scandalous relationship with an idol who he doesn't know.
After a new group of people enters the train, the train's doors closes. Yusei stands on the station's platform as he watches the train moving, leaving the station. He just smiles as he watches, but then he turns away and headed down the stairs to get out of the station. As soon as he got on the ground floor of the station and walks outside, a loud explosion occurred above him. He looks up and he gasps to see the train that Sonia is currently on stops moving with smoke coming out from below the tracks. Yusei isn't the only one to notice something's wrong with the train, he looks around to see people looking at it as well.
"Yusei!" Omega-Xis yells through Yusei's Transer. "Put on your glasses!"
He puts on his Visualizer and uses it to see what's wrong with the train. When he did, he gasps to see EM viruses attacking the train on the Wave Roads. "Why are the viruses attacking the train? I thought they could only attack the Wave World inside the technology!"
Then Omega-Xis spoke, "I did mention the trouble that comes with me stealing the Andromeda Key, right? The FMians will keep coming until they get their hands on the key, especially if it means that they have to wreak the city for it."
"Then we have to stop them!"
"Hold on, we? I don't remember you agreeing to work with me, and now you telling me that we should work together! Also, I thought you want to protect Ayane from the FMians' assault!"
Yusei cringes for a bit and looks down at his feet. "I know… But my parents always told me to protect the people that I cherish. Sonia, even though we just met, she's my friend and I cherish my friends, got it!"
Then they heard sirens coming from the distance behind them. They turn around and saw two ambulances, two fire trucks, and five police cars driving up to the area. Coming out of one of the police cars is a man, who is wearing a light brown trench coat over his white shirt with an orange tie and a pair of brown pants. On his head is an antenna that functions like a siren and on his left arm is a black Transer that only a member from the Satella Police wears. Yusei can hear one of the officers calling the trench coat man, Detective Copper and tells him about the situation.
After hearing the situation, Detective Copper orders his men to rescue the people inside the train and also to take care of the EM viruses that are in the area. Everyone follows his orders as the firemen gets their ladders up to the train to rescue the people inside and the Satella Police Officers bring out their special backpacks. With a push of a button, the backpacks summon antennas and the antennas create a sonar scan of the area of where the viruses are in the officers' Transers. The officers are baffled about their scanners showing a large amount of viruses in the area; however, from Yusei's perspective through his Visualizer, he can see about twenty to thirty viruses attacking the train.
Yusei started to shake out of the mixture of anger and fear; he's angry that he can't do anything to help and he's afraid that something bad may happen to Sonia. "I can't just stand here and do nothing," he growls, "Please Mega… I'll help you fight off against the FMians! I don't want anyone to lose their cherished people like I do!"
Omega-Xis can tell that Yusei is holding back his crying when he says that. He sighs and replies, "Okay, lets work together to save those people. But first, we must find a place to do an EM Wave Change."
Yusei looks around and found an empty alley near where he is. He walks inside the alley and looks around to see that there's no one around him. He pulls out the blue Battle Card from his deck box and shouted, "EM Wave Change! Yusei Light, on the air!" He swipes the card in his Transer and he transforms into his EM Wave form.
He looks up and saw a Wave Road above him. He quickly jumps on the Wave Road and follows it to where the viruses are attacking the train. When he arrives, he saw the viruses: Cannonbase viruses, Mettenna viruses, Zapace viruses, and McCleaver viruses. Yusei looks down to see the Satella Police Officers fighting off some of the viruses with use of Battle Cards, but with the lack of a Visualizer, the officers can't tell if they took them down. Since Yusei is a witness, he saw that the officers have taken some of the viruses down, which leaves about 12 viruses for Yusei to kill.
Yusei pulls out a Battle Card from his deck box. "Battle Card! Cannon!" he shouted as he swipes the Battle Card in his Transer. His arm transforms into a blue arm cannon, but much bigger than the Mega Buster.
He jumps at the viruses and fire five cannon shots at the viruses. Yusei has good aim as his five cannon shots hits two Mettenna viruses and one Cannonbase virus. The nine remaining viruses turn to him and try to attack him. However, Yusei is too quick for their attacks to hit him.
"Battle Card! Long Sword! Invis!" he shouted as he swipes the two Battle Cards into his Transer. His arm cannon transforms into a long green sword with a yellow hilt and his body disappears, which surprises the viruses.
The viruses panic as they become cautious of their surrounding. They waited for Yusei to appear, but they're all defeated quickly with a few slashes. Yusei appears in front of them with his eyes closed and all of the viruses exploded.
"That's all of the viruses," he said as he lets his guard down.
Omega-Xis gasps, "Kid! Behind you!"
Yusei turns around and saw a gigantic knight virus with a huge axe. The knight virus is called the Great Axe virus. The virus swings his huge axe at Yusei horizontally. He jumps away from the attack, but the Great Axe swing his weapon again in a vertical way like a hammer. Yusei dodges the attack again as he let the huge axe hit the Wave Road, which creates a shockwave for the train.
Then Yusei heard a girl screaming from the train. He looks at where the train and saw Sonia is being rescued by a fireman on the ladder. He gasps when he realizes that the shockwave made by the Great Axe virus causes the train to shake. The shaking causes Sonia to slip out of the fireman's hand and fall out of the train, which everyone gasps. Yusei quickly reacted by jumping onto many Wave Roads below him to quickly head down to Sonia to catch her before she falls. Omega-Xis quickly changes the EM Wave Frequency for Yusei's EM Wave form to be visible for every human to see. The Long Sword transforms back into his hand as Yusei puts all his strength into his legs for one final jump to reach for Sonia, which he is able to save in time as he carries her in his arms and landed on the ground where the people are staring at him.
"You're safe now," he said to reassure the idol girl.
Sonia looks at her hero who save her as if she's smitten, which is too bad that she doesn't know that is Yusei in his EM Wave form. She replies, "Thank you, but who are you?"
Yusei puts her down for her to stand as he decided to talk to Omega-Xis before he answers Sonia's question. He asks, "Mega, how did you do that? Making me to become physical to catch her?"
Omega-Xis explains, "I can change our EM Wave Frequency to make us physical to the Real World, which allows you to save her. I can also change our EM Wave Frequency again to make us go back to the Wave World."
Yusei is impressed to know that information as he turns to Sonia to answer her question. However, he hesitates to answer her question because he's afraid of the people around them; if they know his real name, the FMians would use his loved ones as his restraints to hold him down. He doesn't want to have the people he cherish to be involved in a battle, so he tries to think up a name for his EM Wave form. He looks at Omega-Xis and thought he should used his name for his EM Wave form.
"I'm Mega Man," Yusei answers with a smile on his face. "I have to take care of the remaining virus! See you later!" He jumps as Omega-Xis changes the Wave Frequency to go back to the Wave World, which surprises everyone who couldn't see the Wave World.
He went back to the Wave Road where the Great Axe virus is. The virus glares at him and attacks him.
He jumps away as he shouted, "Battle Card! Air Spread!" He inserts the Battle Card into his Transer as his left arm transforms into a blue arm cannon that resembles an air pump.
Yusei aims his arm cannon at the Great Axe and fires a bullet made of air at the virus. The air bullet hits the virus at the chest, but that shot didn't fazed the virus. The virus swings his axe at Yusei, but Yusei quickly ducks down to dodge the attack.
"Battle Card! Plasma Gun!" He swipes the Battle Card into his Transer as his arm cannon transforms into an arm cannon with a drill spike instead of a barrel. The arm cannon also has two small antennas that conduct electricity for the spike.
He fires an electrical plasma bullet at the virus. The bullet hits the virus's chest and it stops moving for a few seconds. Once the numbing is gone, the virus attacks again but Yusei dodges again.
"This virus is different from the previous viruses," said Yusei as he gritted his teeth. "I don't have any other Battle Cards that can destroy him completely. I need a more powerful Battle Card to beat him!"
His wish is granted as his belt's green orb started to glow. When he looks at his belt, the glowing orb stops glowing and a Battle Card pops out of the top of the belt. Yusei picks up the Battle Card out of the belt and looks at it. This Battle Card is different from other Battle Cards: yellow Battle Cards are regular Battle Cards, white Battle Cards are blanks, green Battle Cards are Navi cards, blue Battle Cards are Mega-Class Battle Cards, and red Battle Cards are Giga-class Battle Cards. However, this Battle Card's color is shiny gold and he doesn't know what kind of Battle Card it is.
"Yusei!" Omega-Xis yells. "Look out!"
Yusei gasps to see the Great Axe virus is about to attack him. He quickly dodges the attack and looks at the gold Battle Card. He swipes the Battle Card into his Transer and hope that this Battle Card does something instead of nothing.
A male voice shouted from the belt. The belt's voice shouted, "Finisher! Mega Kick!"
The belt's orb started to glow as electricity sparks on his right leg. Yusei has no idea what's going on with his leg, but then he remembers about an episode from a superhero show recently. He recalls a superhero finishes off his enemy with a kick. So he decided that do the same thing just like that superhero.
He jumps up in the air and dives down at the virus with his right leg sticking out for a kick. "Take this!" he shouted, "Mega Kick!" His diving kick at the virus's chest causes a crack on the virus's armor.
As soon as Yusei landed on the ground behind the virus, the crack started to grow all over the virus's body. Then the virus started to crumble from the crack and later explodes while Yusei isn't looking at the virus's defeat. He sighs in relief and just smiles as he turns around to see that the firemen have rescued all of the passengers from inside the train. He scans his surroundings to see that there are no more viruses in the area. With no viruses, Yusei quickly leaves the area and headed back home through the use of the Wave Road.
Omega-Xis is concern about his decision to leave without receiving any gratitude from the people. He asks, "Kid, you're not going back to get some thanks from the people?"
Yusei answers, "I think it's better not to do that because the Satella Police would only just arrest us. Besides, seeing the people are okay is more appreciated than receiving gratitude." With that said, they disappear into the blue sky of the Wave Road.
Detective Copper receives his report from the other officers that all of the viruses in the area are gone. After receiving the report, he orders his men to check on the people as he looks up at the sky. "Mega Man," he mutters, "What or who are you?"
Sonia is in a dazed as she too looks up the sky. Her mind is filled with her blue hero saving her earlier, but she couldn't see his face through her hero's red visor. She wonders who Mega Man is, until she gasps and realizes the time.
"Crap! I'm going to be late!" She scratches her head out of panic as she wonders how she gets to the studio.