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Chapter 12: The Battle Takes Flight

The space room's computer space is like an actual galaxy with the EM Wave platforms and roads' colors being green and purple. Yusei, in his Mega Man form, appears at the Far East side at where the main system of this computer space is. As the teenage boy looks around, Omega-Xis starts a conversation with him.

He said, "Be careful, kid. We don't know what Cygnus has in store for us."

Yusei nods his head as he ventures the computer space. He is being cautious of his surroundings as he runs like a soldier marching through enemy territory. He quickly hides behind a small wall made of solid EM Waves. He took a slight peek and found out that the next path is clear of enemies. Just as he is about to take another movement, he felt a shiver down his spine as he heard the sound of a cannon fire behind him. Yusei dodges the attack, which causes an explosion behind him. He wonders who is attacking him and he is shock to see about twenty cannon and Mettenna viruses gathering around him.

"Where all these viruses coming from?" Yusei shouts as he readies his self from pulling out a Battle Card.

"These viruses work for me," Cygnus voice echoes around Yusei.

Tom in his EM Wave form appears hovering behind the twenty viruses. He bows to Yusei and said, "It's a pleasure to meet you, Mega Man. I am Cygnus Wing."

"I know who you really are, Mr. Dubius!" Yusei retorts. "Why are you putting these students in a hostage situation? They have nothing to do with your problem!"

"They do serve a purpose," Cygnus spoke, "to lure you here!"

"Me? Why me?"

Tom spoke, "Mega Man… you may not believe me, but you shouldn't trust Omega-Xis, the traitor. He is only using you for his own end."

"What do you mean?"

"Cygnus told me that he stole the Andromeda Key that controls the Planet FM's last defense, Andromeda! He's going to use Andromeda to destroy this planet!"

Yusei tilts his head. "If that were the case, wouldn't the planet be destroyed a long time ago? Also, how is he using me?"

"He's using you because he needs a place to hide from the FMians. He is also using you as a battery to charge the Andromeda Key. Am I right, Cygnus?"

The FMian, Cygnus, appears next to Tom. "That is right, Tom. Though the Andromeda Key needs negative emotion to activate its power to control Andromeda."

Yusei got curious when Cygnus spoke about negative emotion; however, he doesn't want to pry the information because he isn't sure if that's true. He figures that Cygnus told a lie by saying that he is a victim for the traitor. In a normal circumstance, Yusei would immediately doubt Omega-Xis. However, as the more time he spends with the alien, he grows to trust him with a small amount of doubt. The only thing he doubts is his enemy who is treating the lives of innocent bystanders as a means to get him here.

"I don't care what you say!" Yusei shows his anger from his tone. "There's no way I can trust someone who uses the lives of innocent people who have nothing to do with this!"

"I see… that's too bad then." Cygnus whistles, which epically echoes throughout the computer space. Coming out of nowhere are viruses surrounding Yusei as he disappears.

"I'll leave them to you," said Tom as he flies away.

"Where do you think you're going?" Yusei shouts. "Get back here!"

Before he can chase after them, the viruses attack him. Yusei dodges the attack by jumping over them; however, a cannon virus fires a shot at him. The shot hits him causing him to fall in the middle of Fire Boxer viruses. The Boxers didn't waste any time to give Yusei a surround beating as they punch his face, arm, and gut. A Boxer did an uppercut that sends him flying towards a firing squad of cannon and bomb launcher viruses. Those viruses fire their shots at him, which causes an explosion with smoke covering Yusei's body. When the smoke clears, they gasped when they see that Yusei's body disappears. They frantically look around to find him, but he's nowhere in sight.

At a platform a bit far away from the viruses is a line of rockets that acts as a wall. Appearing behind the wall is Yusei who uses the Invis Battle Card to escape the firing squad. He breathes very heavily as his knees touches the ground.

"Kid, are you okay?" Omega-Xis asks out of concern over Yusei's health.

"I'm fine," he pants his answer. He pulls out a Battle Card from his deck box and his hands begins to shake. "Man, Ayane is going to have a hissy-fit after this. Battle Card! Recovery!"

After he inserts the Battle Card into his Transer, his body begins to glow in a green aura. His wounded body begins to heal as the bruises on his body have partially disappeared. Even though he is partially healed, he still feels tired and his body feels even more sluggish than after his fight with Taurus Fire. He didn't realized that these viruses can do so much damage to him when they're working together like an army. He knows that he is not prepare to face an army since the only number of viruses he can defeat on his own is fifteen at least.

Yusei starts to chuckle, which sounds like he's unsettle with the whole situation. "I think Cygnus has got us now. There's no way we can take down a whole army of viruses."

"We could use a Battle Card…"

Yusei shook his head. "I only have thirty, or should I say twenty-eight, Battle Cards in my deck box. I don't have any Battle Cards that can delete a large army and I don't want to waste any of them for our upcoming battle against Tom. Sometimes I wish Nicole was here, she could help me deal with these guys quickly without wasting any of my Battle Cards."

"Nicole…? Who's Nicole?"

"She was my partner during my time when I was a notorious Robin Hood-like Hacker," he answers in a sad tone. He sadly looks down at the EM Wave ground he's sitting on. "She always help me with difficult situations, including an army of viruses this large."

"What happen to your partner?"

Yusei is hesitant to answer as his body trembles in fear. Omega-Xis notices this as he wonders why the guy who quickly accepts that his parents are dead to be trembling.

"I killed her," Yusei spoke and that surprises the alien. He looks at his hands and he continues, "I killed her with my own two hands."

Seeing how Yusei is acting has made Omega-Xis to understand him a bit more. "Is that the reason why you chose not to kill Taurus?"

Before Yusei can say anything, he notices a small yellow bird hovering in the air. He wonders what's that bird doing here. That is until he notices that the bird is squawking very loudly as soon as the bird looks at him. The bird's squawking has alerted Yusei's position to the army of viruses as he quickly runs away while he's being chase.

The viruses that can shoot try to shoot him down, but they all miss. Yusei keeps running until he gains some distance away from them so he can strategize his attack. However, the viruses didn't give him the chance to get some space. The viruses have chased him down at the edge of the last platform with no other paths except the one where he's coming from. Feeling like he's trap in a corner, Yusei turns to the viruses as he acts like a wild animal snarling at them.

Though Yusei has gotten a bit curious if he jumps off the platform. He knows that below the platform is some sort of void, but he doesn't know what happens if he jumps into the void. Whether he wants to take a chance, he doesn't want to risk his life by jumping into the void. Before Yusei can pull out a Battle Card, he heard a yell echoing around him.

"Giga Card! Destroy Missile!" the mysterious voice yelled as a barrage of missiles rain down upon the viruses, deleting most of them.

When the missiles stop raining down, a man wearing red armor is standing in front of him. Yusei also notices that this red armored man has a glowing red sword on his left arm.

"Thank you, but… who are you?" Yusei asks as he wonders if this man is a friend or foe.

The man turns to him and he answers, "My name is Proto Man and I'm here to help. But first, let me take care of these viruses first. Battle Card! Typhoon Dance!" He inserts the Battle Card into his glowing sword, which Yusei thinks is his Transer, and his whole body is engulfed into a tornado.

The viruses try to get away, but the tornado sucks them in, whether they're big or small. As soon as they get inside of the tornado, Proto Man is cutting them down to pieces. After the viruses in front of the pathway are gone, the tornado stops and Proto Man walks up to Yusei.

"So… Mega Man, are you okay?"

"Yeah." Yusei nods his head. "If you hadn't shown up, I would have probably done a leap of faith to get away from them." Then Proto Man tosses him a deck box and Yusei catches it. "A Battle Card deck box? Why are you giving me this?"

"You need to be prepared when you're going up against an army. This deck box has Battle Cards from my own personal collection."

"I promise you that I will give it back to you as soon as we save the people from the space room."

Proto Man punches Yusei at his shoulder with a smirk on his face. "You better! Oh, by the way, I'm your ally. You and your alien partner don't need to be so wary of me."

Yusei gasps, "How do you know that I have an alien with me?"

"We don't have time to continue this," Proto Man spoke, "We should hurry and save the civilians." With that said, Proto Man runs up ahead with Yusei following him.

Yusei follows Proto Man's plan on reaching Tom's location. Proto Man handles close combat, while Yusei does the shooting. Yusei uses any Battle Cards that shoots is more powerful than the power of his Mega Buster.

The two EM Wave Warriors got attack and ambush by viruses when they run towards Tom and Cygnus. Proto Man cuts up the ground viruses and Yusei shoots down viruses that can fly in the air, including Cygnus's scouts. During their fight against these viruses, Yusei has realized that he and Proto Man have pretty good teamwork, which is strange since this is his first time meeting him. When they reach up to the platform where a large amount of viruses, the big viruses, are waiting.

"Judging from these viruses, I say that we're getting close to Tom's location." Yusei dodges an axe attack from a virus as he fire a cannon shot from his purple arm cannon, which is called the Heavy Cannon.

A knight virus slashes at Proto Man, but Proto Man jumps over the virus to avoid the attack and stabs the virus in the back causing it to be deleted. "I'll handle these viruses! Hurry and save the people!"

"But I can't just leave you alone!" Yusei yells as he kicks away the axe-wielding virus. "I don't want anymore innocent dying!"

Proto Man smirks. "I'm not going to die that easily! Battle Card! Berserk Sword!" He inserts the Battle Card into his Transer and he disappears.

Then the axe-wielding virus that Yusei kicks got slash three times and then it got deleted. Proto Man reappears in front of Yusei with a smile on his face.

"Were you saying?"

Yusei is dumbfounded at first, but he feels reassure that Proto Man can handle things on his own. He left the area as he puts his trust in Proto Man to handle the viruses while he goes to take Tom out. The other viruses try to stop Yusei, but Proto Man stops them as he continues to fight them off.

Meanwhile at the space room, the students are panicking over the situation. They're stuck inside a room, wearing spacesuits to live temporary since there is no oxygen, and a crazy person is monitoring them in the room's computer systems. All hope is loss to these young people.

A girl is crying, "I want to go home!" And she starts sobbing in her spacesuit. Hearing her crying has even lessens their spirits.

"This sucks!" Bud cries out in anger. "We're going to die soon! I don't want to die in a spacesuit!"

"I don't want to die too!" Zack agrees with Bud as he cries.

Luna can't stand to see everyone losing hope so quickly. She yells, "Everyone calm down! We're going to be saved so don't lose hope!"

"P-Prez!" A male student spoke in shock. "Aren't you afraid? I mean we don't have much time left until our oxygen tanks are empty."

"I am afraid to die! But that doesn't mean we give up! We just keep believing that someone can save us!"

The adults in the room; Kevin Stelar, Mr. Shepar, and Aaron Boreal, are happy to see that there's someone trying to keep everyone's spirits up. Aaron turns to the monitor to see Tom watching them in a serious manner.

"Tom! Let these kids out!" Aaron shouts.

"I can't do that, Aaron," says Tom, "and my name is Cygnus Wing."

"Listen, Tom! There has to be some misunderstanding! I didn't betray you!"

"Don't believe him, Tom. He's only saying that to save his own life." Cygnus floats next to Tom.

Tom and Cygnus are in the main computer system of the computer space. Tom is watching his trapped victims from the space room's security cameras to the monitors in the Wave World. Cygnus is typing something on the EM Wave keyboard as if he is activating some sort of code.

"I understand, Cygnus. By the way, are you sure it's a good idea to copy some data off of AMAKEN's system?"

"It is," Cygnus spoke. "It's equal exchange. I give you power and you give me something of equal value, which is AMAKEN's data." After copying the data out of the system, he absorbs the data into his EM Wave body.

"This stops now!"

Both Tom and Cygnus heard Yusei's voice as he turns to him. They're astonished to see Yusei here since the last time they saw was when they left him with an army of viruses.

"Mega Man!" Cygnus gasps. "How do you get here?"

Yusei inserts a Battle Card into his Transer and his arm transforms into a green long sword. He points the tip of the blade at Tom and he said, "Mr. Dubius, it's time you stop this. You're endangering innocent people's lives over a misunderstanding. Don't you think you're quick to judge Mr. Boreal's actions without even talking to him?"

Then Tom answers, "What about you, huh? That alien you're working with isn't exactly trustworthy."

"Don't dodge the question!" Yusei is irritated for Tom trying to shift the topic around. "At least my alien didn't suggest me to trap people in a lock room with a lack of oxygen! I don't care what kind of reason you are trying to make, but my alien isn't the bad guy! If I were you, compare your current actions to mine's."

Tom was taken aback from Yusei's words. He truly believes Cygnus is the good guy who is helping him to get some good payback for Aaron betraying his trust. He even believes Cygnus's story about Omega-Xis stealing the Andromeda Key and he will use it to destroy Earth. However, after hearing Yusei's opinion, he's starting to have some doubts.

Yusei notices Tom's doubts as he figures that reasoning with him is different from the time he reasons with Bud. "Mr. Dubius, I want you to think. Does Mr. Boreal look like a person who betrays people? Think back at the times when Mr. Boreal generally helps you and compare that to my question."

He didn't answer Yusei's question. Tom remembers that Aaron is the one who gave him the job in AMAKEN. More doubts is starting to weigh on him as he ignores Cygnus's pleads to not listen to Yusei.

Yusei lowers his sword and uses his other hand to point at him. "Also, I'm calling your threat a bluff!"

"W-What do you mean?" Tom asks in a stuttered tone.

"I know people like you," said Yusei as if he's doing psychoanalysis on Tom's actions. "People like you don't have the courage to take the heinous action after being betrayed. Tell me, is that room really without oxygen?"

The people who are listening through the monitors that Tom leaves on, they are asking Yusei what he means. Kevin even points out that he made sure that the room has no oxygen before Tom took over the controls. With those factors pointed out, calling Tom's threat a bluff is hard to reassure the trapped victims.

"Kevin's right!" Tom agrees, but he still feels scared.

"Then let's prove my reason with a simple trust exercise!" Yusei smiles have caused everyone to feel uneasy, including Omega-Xis since he knows Yusei cares about the safety of others than himself. "Mr. Boreal, how much do you trust Tom?"

Mr. Boreal answers, "I trust him as a friend!"

"Even if it means that you trust him with your life on the line?"

"Yes, I would!" Aaron answers without any sort of hesitation, which surprises everyone, including Tom himself.

Then everyone screams when they saw Aaron removing his space helmet. Mr. Shepar tries to stop him from doing that, but it's already too late. Everyone tries to cover his or her eyes from watching someone going to die; however…

"Hey… There's oxygen in the room!" Aaron exclaimed and it surprises everyone. "It's thin, but there's definitely oxygen in the room. I know I can trust Tom!"

"But it's Mega Man who made that argument," said Tom, "What happen if I'm not bluffing? If Mega Man asks you to remove that helmet in a room with no oxygen, you would have died!"

"Well, it is a gamble…" Yusei freely admits it, which is more surprising for everyone.

"It's a gamble! Then why?"

Yusei made a gentle smile as he answer, "It's because I trust humanity. Even though I don't know much about you, but I can trust that you still have some humanity in you to know what's right and wrong. Also, I think you want to know the truth behind the misunderstanding."

"I want to know the truth…" Tom mutters as he looks at his shaking hands.

Yusei smiles, but for some reason, he thought this situation is too easy. He knows that simply talking to Tom hasn't proven the fact that Cygnus is done. In other words, he knows that sooner or later that Cygnus would take over Tom's body. And he is right.

"I know I shouldn't trust a human…" Cygnus voice can be heard from Tom's mouth as he roars and turns to Yusei. "But he already made his uses. Now Mega Man, I'll be taking that key from you once I rip it out of that traitor's body."

"I like to see you try!" Yusei charges and he tries to attack Cygnus who is controlling Tom's body. However, Cygnus avoids the attack by flying up in the air. "Yep," Yusei smirks, "this guy is going to be a tough enemy to beat."

"Cygnus Feathers!" Cygnus shouted as he flaps his wings. A barrage of feathers came out of the flapping wings as they're flying towards Yusei.

"Battle Card! Barrier!" Yusei inserts the Battle Card into his Transer and he raises his non-sword hand in the air to summon a thin barrier that acts like a bubble around his body.

The barrier manages the block some of the feathers, but it shatter as soon as more feathers keep striking it. When the barrier is gone, Yusei got hit by about ten or twenty feathers. The feathers felt like gunshots to Yusei despite that he is in his EM Wave form and he fells onto the ground, still feeling the pain from the feathers.

"Damn… I know I should've dodge it…"

"Kid! Look out!" Omega-Xis calls out when Cygnus appears behind Yusei.

"Dancing Swan!" Cygnus twirls his body that causes him to generate a whirlwind and he is moving towards Yusei at the speed of a car driving at the speed limit of a freeway.

Yusei quickly pulls out a Battle Card and he said, "Battle Card! Plasma Gun!" He inserts the Battle Card to transform his sword into the Plasma Gun.

He then jumps over Cygnus's head and aims his Plasma Gun at the center of the whirlwind. He fires a plasma bullet that hits Cygnus and stuns his movement for a moment. Yusei quickly runs up to Cygnus and grabs him by the arms to immobilize him.

"Battle Card! Ghost Pulse!" He inserts the Battle Card into his Transer and his body starts to emit sound waves that hurt the victim that he's holding.

"Damn you…!" Cygnus grunts as soon as Yusei lets him go. He tries to move, but his body isn't responding. "What did you do to my body?"

"It's not your body to begin with!" Yusei knows that the Ghost Pulse Battle Card has stunned his movements even more, which gives him even more opportunities to take the FMian down. "Time to use Proto Man's Battle Cards. Battle Card! Brave Sword!" Yusei's arm transforms into a golden double-edged sword and attacks Cygnus with it.

Before Yusei can attack him again, three knight viruses ambush him. The knights attack him, but Yusei dodges and blocks the attacks.

"Kid!" Omega-Xis gets Yusei's attention. "Cygnus is getting away!"

Yusei turns to where Cygnus is and he notices that he's leaving the area. He wants to chase after him, but first he has to deal with the three viruses. Yusei kicks one of the viruses away and stabs the virus that charges him from his left, which causes that virus to be deleted. The other virus tries to stab Yusei from the back, but he jumps over its head and slices its back that deletes it. As for the last knight virus, he and the virus try to do a samurai showdown with their swords. They took a moment to glare at each other and in a single flash, they both strike at each other and the virus got deleted while Yusei is still standing.

"Good job!" Omega-Xis praises Yusei's actions. "Lets hurry and go after Cygnus!" Yusei nods his head and he gave chase after Cygnus.

On the pathway where the FMians run from, Cygnus feels irritated because he can't believe that his plan has failed. He didn't anticipated that Yusei and the traitor has made their way over to him since he has a large army of viruses in the computer space. Cygnus wants to pulse-out of the Wave World, but for some reason, something is interfering with his ability.

"Why can't I get out? Damn it!"

"Cygnus!" Yusei yells to get the FMian's attention to see him running towards him. "Battle Card! Plus Cannon!" His sword transforms into a yellow cannon and he aims at Cygnus and he fires off five cannon shots.

Cygnus flies up in the air to dodge the artillery fire. He retaliates by firing his feathers at the Blue Warrior. Due to the narrow pathway that Yusei is on, and the fact that he knows he can't fly like him, he knows that there's no way to dodge the feathers.

Yusei fires off shots to destroy some incoming projectiles, but the feathers are too fast for him as some have managed to hit him. He finally realizes that he can't take keep firing at the feathers as he jumps back to get away from the feathers.

"I got you!" Cygnus exclaims as he snaps his fingers to summon five small black birds and one small white bird surrounding Yusei.

The birds huddled together with Yusei. He felt like the birds are squeezing the life out of him as they lift him off the Wave Road. The birds bring him over the abyss underneath the EM Wave Platforms. Yusei knows what they're trying to do.

"If you order these birds to drop me down in that abyss, you're going to lose your precious Andromeda Key!" Yusei tries to reason with Cygnus with that argument.

Cygnus laughs at Yusei's naivety. "Omega-Xis must have told you that the Andromeda Key can't be destroyed by any means. Once your body is gone, I'll be taking the key out of your deleted corpse. Though I'm not sure if that abyss can delete you." He orders his birds to drop him, which happens as Yusei starts falling into the abyss.

"Kid!" Omega-Xis screams. "You better have a quick idea before we're going to be gone for good!"

Yusei wants to panic and scream like Omega-Xis, but for reason he doesn't want to. He closes his eyes and he clears his mind from all distractions. In his mind, he starts to picture a jetpack on his back. Yusei remembers when Omega-Xis instructs him to imagined the Mega Buster and he should apply that into creating a jetpack to save their life. And it works as his back has two small rocket nozzles at the bottom and they ignite causing Yusei to fly up in the air.

This surprises Cygnus as he shouted, "You can fly! That's not in the data!"

"Even I'm shock!" Omega-Xis exclaims.

Yusei hovers at the same level of air in front of Cygnus with a smirk on his face. "You should really update that data right now. You see… I'm full of surprises."

Angered by Yusei's remark, Cygnus calls in his little birds and orders them to attack him. Unknown to Cygnus is that Yusei has fully charged his Mega Buster and fires a charged shot at the white bird causing the other birds to disappear. Cygnus is shock again since Yusei has discovered his little birds' flaw in battle, which is by destroying the odd bird in a group of birds of the same color, can cause them to disappear.

"Time to finish this!" Yusei pulls out the golden Battle Card and inserts it into his Transer.

"Finisher! Mega Kick!" the belt shouts as it glows bright green. The bright light sends its electricity into Yusei's right leg.

The rocket nozzles from Yusei's back switches from the bottom to top so he can direct his flying kick towards Cygnus. He flies towards Cygnus as the FMian tries to retaliate by firing feathers at him. However, the speed that Yusei's flying kick is going to has nullified Cygnus's projectiles as they're knocked away. Yusei's flying kick has hit Cygnus in the chest, causing him to be separated from Tom's body. The FMian disappears while Tom starts to fall, but Yusei catches him and he flies back to Proto Man just in time to see him finishing off the last remaining viruses.

Proto Man claps as he praises Yusei's actions. "Good job at defeating Cygnus! By the way, is that man okay?"

After Yusei checks Tom's pulse from his neck, he sighs in relief. "He's fine. He's only unconscious."

"Also, what happened to the FMian?"

Yusei scratches his head. "I don't know. He must have gotten away somehow, but it's not like I'm going to chase after him."

He hands Proto Man the unconscious Tom as he walks up to the main system to release the space room's trapped victims. After that, they got out of the computer space by becoming beams shooting up at the sky.

The doors of the space room have been opened, which surprises the Satella Police Officers. Coming out of the room are the victims who are happy to be out of that room as they remove their space helmets. Seeing them cheering has made the officers happy. Then a bright light blinds everyone in the area, which surprises everyone. When the light dies down, the unconscious Tom appears on the ground. Everyone wonders how Tom appear like that, until someone spoke out Mega Man's name and it got the police to search for the Blue Warrior.

At the rooftop of AMAKEN, Yusei wants to talk to Proto Man; however, he notices that he is nowhere to be found. He figures that Proto Man must have leave the area when they make their way to the rooftop. Despite that rude leave, Yusei felt relief to know that he got an ally to fight against the FMians. Omega-Xis, on the other hand, is skeptical about this Proto Man person. The alien isn't sure that this Red Warrior is someone that he and Yusei should trust. He keeps his opinion about Proto Man to himself as he decides to watch these events unfold.

When Yusei transforms back into his human self, he felt his body is in extreme pain as he collapses onto the ground. Yusei chuckles as a way to shrug off this painful feeling as he said, "Just great. Now how can I explain this to my classmates."

Then Omega-Xis suggests, "Why not use that miracle medicine that your friend of Choina gave you?"

"I didn't bring it with me. Then again, I think I'm starting to run out of it pretty soon. I should email my friend to send me more of that medicine."

Then he notices a pair of black high-heels in front of his face. He looks up and saw a woman wearing a long black trench coat, pair of black gloves, a black bowl hat, black-tinted glasses, and a scarf covering her mouth. Looking at her, Yusei wonders why she is wearing those things in a somewhat warm weather. He stops with his mental joke about this woman's choice of clothing as he wonders who this woman is. He also wonders if she saw him transforming out of his Mega Man form. He gulps in fear from looking at that woman.

The woman giggles as she spoke, "Don't need to be so wary of me. Proto Man asks me to help you."

"You're Proto Man's ally?"

The woman pulls out a black gun and seeing that gun scares Yusei. She pulls out a weird Battle Card that is red and white like an ambulance. She inserts the Battle Card into the gun's barrel that looks like a device similar to how the Transer reads the Battle Cards. She closes the barrel into the gun and spins it, which causes sparks to be shown during when the barrel spins.

"Burst! Ambulance!" A high-pitch male's voice yells out from the gun.

The woman points the gun at Yusei and pulls the trigger. When that happens, the barrel stops spinning and a loud banging sound can be heard. Though instead of a bullet, a rainbow glowing beam engulfs Yusei's body. Inside that light, Yusei starts to feel his pain is going away at a rapid rate. He doesn't understand what is happening to his pain, but all he did know is that he won't need any more excuses to tell his sister about today's injury. The beam disappears as Yusei gets up and he moves his body to know that his body is fully healed.

"Uh, thanks." He scratches his head. "Who are you? You say that you're Proto Man's ally and that means that I can trust you."

The woman giggles. "You surely trust people who just help you so easily. I'm starting to wonder if you just trust anyone who just save your life."

Yusei shrugs with a smile on his face. "I just don't know why. It must because I trust my gut, that's all. So answer my question!"

The woman didn't say anything. She turns her back towards Yusei and she hums some random tune. Her humming stops as she said, "You should head to the ground floor. If you don't, Tom would be taken away with a very nasty label."

Her words have reminded Yusei that Tom did make a threat when the Satella Police follows him to the exhibition hall. Tom would be sent to jail and the reports would label his actions as "attempted murder." Also, the students are victims of that threat, so that would mean that the public wouldn't forgive him despite the fact that his reasons are misunderstood. He groans and he quickly left the area, leaving the woman to be alone.

"I guess I should take my leave as well," said the woman as she disintegrates into particles of light until she's gone into the wind.

Yusei uses the stairs to reach back down to the lobby area because it's much faster than the elevator. When he gets down to the lobby, he saw Alan sitting next to a sleeping Sonia.

He approaches Alan by saying, "Hey, Alan! Why is Sonia sleeping?"

"She just got bored waiting for you," said Alan, "You took a long time in the bathroom, you know!"

Yusei ignores Alan's comment as he shakes Sonia's body to wake her up. "Sonia! Wake up! If you don't wake up now, I will slap you!"

The idol slowly opens her eyes as she yawns, "Morning, Yusei. What's up?"

"We have to get the exhibition hall! Our classmates are finally free and safe!"

Her eyes are wide open with surprise. "Really?" she gasps. "You better not be lying!"

"I'm not!" Yusei shakes his head as she drags Sonia to the exhibition hall. "Let's hurry and go! Hurry! Hurry!"

Alan follows them and he finds it amusing to see Sonia to be flustered to have Yusei dragging her by her hand. When they got to the exhibition hall, they see the students are acting like a mob slandering Tom, calling him a monster for putting them their lives in danger. The Satella Police tries to calm down the mob as they surround the sad-looking Tom to protect him.

Seeing this scene has made Yusei mad as he yells, "That's enough!"

His yell has made everyone in the room to be silent as he runs up to them. He glares at his fellow classmates and he couldn't believe what they're doing. What he sees isn't the act of kind humans, but monsters who just picks on the person who isn't defending himself.

"You guys make me sick," he said in a stern tone. "What gives you the right to pick on him?"

Bud spoke, "B-but Yusei! That guy just almost killed us!"

"Y-yeah!" Zack agrees. "Even though Mega Man and Mr. Boreal points out his bluff, it doesn't mean that we can forgive him!"

"Really?" Yusei clicks his tongue. "Can I ask you this: do you guys ever experienced betrayal?"

No one answers his question. They couldn't answer it because they never experienced betrayal before. All they do know is to make Brother-Bands with people they know are their friends. The adults in the room are listening this and they're surprise that a high school boy is trying to reason with the mob.

Then Geo said, "None of us have experienced the betrayal that Mr. Dubius have. If I do have someone betraying my trust, I guess even I would do the same what he did."

Yusei smiles at Geo's words. "Well said there, Geo! What about you, Miss Class President?" All eyes turn to Luna.

Without any hesitation, Luna nods her head as her answer. "I have to agree with both Geo and Yusei. The misunderstanding only blinds this man to do this sort of crime. I too have experienced a misunderstanding that makes do something that I would regret." She remembers when she threatens Bud and how he transforms into Taurus Fire to kill her. She clenches her hands into a fist and she gritted her teeth for remembering that.

This made Yusei smile as he solemnly turns to Tom. "Mr. Dubius… I may have defended you from my classmates, but what you did was still a crime. It doesn't matter who you should blame. You have to face up to your crimes and you must atone for it, if you want another chance."

Tom looks up at Yusei and mutters his name. Then Mr. Boreal agrees with the high school boy, though for Tom getting another chance part, which made Tom to mutter his name as well. He felt happy to hear that there is people trying to steer him back from the path he started before he met Cygnus.

Director Bowen walks up to Tom, which surprises him. He said, "I'm sorry, Tom. I hope you would forgive me for being the caused of your crime."

Everyone looks at him in a confused manner and wonders what he means by that. Though Tom actually asks, "What do you mean, Chief Director?"

The Chief Director answers, "I'm not actually planning on firing you because of your lack of performance. That was actually a lie to help you to understand that you can't keep pushing people away because of one betrayal."

Tom is shock to hear that. "I'm not being fired!"

Bowen nods his head. "Kevin is the only one who is in on this plan, Aaron isn't. I've been watching you Tom and I see that you have potential. However, your distrust of people has halted your true potential. I want to see your potential again when you get out of jail. There will always be a job open for your return, so I'll be looking forward to that day."

Hearing those words coming from Bowen has made Tom really happy. He's so happy that he is crying tears of joy.

However, Yusei looks at the Chief Director with a sarcastic expression on his face. "Wait… You come up with this lie of firing Tom and you didn't let Mr. Boreal in on this because you know he would defend Tom by taking the credit for his invention so Tom wouldn't get fired just because you want this guy to trust in others. That sounds so stupid! Have you guys ever considered the possibilities from that scenario? It's no wonder why that guy acts like a villain!"

"Uh, Yusei…" Kevin spoke. "How do you know that Aaron would take the credit for Tom's invention?"

Yusei explains how he met Tom to Kevin again and this time with the full details of him seeing Tom's invention. Yusei knows how much Tom is so distrusting of people because he is afraid of it being stolen. So he knows what would happen if the Chief Director would go on with his plan.

The Satella Police took Tom away. Director Bowen talks to Mr. Shepar by saying, "I'm sorry for this terrible experience."

Mr. Shepar chuckles in an awkward manner. "That's okay," he said, "we're safe and that's all that matters!"

Yusei watches the adults talking to each other. He rubs his forehead as he mutters, "Adults, really…"

Sonia pokes his cheek with a smile on her face. "Come on, Yusei! Don't be like that! They're just dealing with adult problems."

"More like problems from elementary school kids," he replies in a sour tone, "I just hate it when adults don't find a reasonable solution to solve their problems."

Sonia quickly changes the subject. "I wonder how everyone got out that room?" she asks Yusei.

Then Luna exclaimed, "It's Mega Man, Sonia!"

The idol girl turned to Luna as she responds, "Mega Man… saves you…"

"He did!" The blonde hair girl squeals. "Mega Man is so cool when he starts calling that man's threat a bluff!"

"Yeah, that is awesome!" Bud agrees. "Though I'm scared when he asks Mr. Boreal to remove his space helmet to gain that man's trust, but he's so confident that makes him so cool!"

Then Zack said, "I hope we get to meet him again so we can thank him for saving us. I wonder what kind of person he is."

Hearing them praising Mega Man has made Sonia to make a sad expression. She too wanted to thank him for saving her before, but she couldn't since she was asleep before. Though it is strange for her to sleep, but she doesn't know why she fallen asleep.

Yusei, on the other hand, felt happy to hear them praising his alter ego and he loudly laugh, which surprises everyone. He smiles and he said, "Thanks guys! You guys really brightened my day." He starts humming some random tune, ignoring the confused expressions on his friends' face.

Luna whispers to Geo, "You're right about Yusei being weird."

Geo chuckles. "Its just Yusei being Yusei."

Sonia starts giggling from seeing the sudden change of Yusei's mood. She is happy to see Yusei happy.

Meanwhile at the abandoned factory, Taurus is laughing at the injured Cygnus who has miraculously survived from Yusei's assault. "So much for your absolute plan of getting back the Andromeda Key, huh!" Taurus remarks. "Not only that, your human host has quickly got his senses back, faster than my human host!"

"Shut up, you dumb bull!" The swan retorts. "How should I know that Mega Man has an ally and ability to fly? It wasn't in the data before!"

"That's why you shouldn't rely on your data too much," said a female voice, which surprises the two FMians.

Both Cygnus and Taurus turn to the person and they gasped when they saw four colorful EM Wave beings floating in front of them. The first is Ophiuca, a purple FMian who looks like a ghostly woman wearing a purple-red facemask, shoulder pads, and a V-shape waist belt. Next is Libra, a yellow FMian that looks a like a balance scale and his armor and scale pans are brown. Then there's Wolf, a blue FMian that looks like an actual wolf wearing a dark blue mask that shapes his upper wolf head, tunic, and shoulder pads. Lastly there's Lyra, a blue harp with eyes and two glowing pink EM Wave flames on her curled ends.

Ophiuca moves closer to Cygnus, which causes the FMian swan to be a bit nervous that he actually sweats. "Poor Cygnus," said Ophiuca, "you always rely on your gathered data. You should have learned by now that this is how far your data have gotten you."

"S-Shut up!" Cygnus stutters.

Wolf chuckles out of amusement. "To think that you two have lost against one traitor and his human host. It's funny that I can't wait to spread this around back home after we get the Andromeda Key back!"

Taurus glares at Wolf. "I wouldn't be smug if I were you! Lets see you guys handle Mega Man!"

The FMians watch the bull and wolf growling at each other like wild animals. Libra decides to break the tension by asking, "Cygnus, is Gemini with you?"

"Gemini?" Cygnus spoke. "No, he's not with us. Why are you asking?"

Libra explains, "Before King Cepheus sends us to Earth, he asks us if we have seen Gemini. We figure that he must have followed you two. But since he's not with you, then where is he?"

Taurus snorts, "Who cares about him! Gemini is always secretive! I wonder how an FMian like him is the king's right-hand man. But let's focus on how we should get the Andromeda Key back from that traitor!"

"For once I actually agree with this bull," said Ophiuca as she turns to Lyra. "How's about we send you, Lyra? Since you were friends with that traitor, I'm sure that you can get the key back."

"Leave it to me!" Lyra salutes to Ophiuca with a wink.

Then Libra notices Cygnus leaving the area as he asks, "Where are you going?

Cygnus answers, "I'm going to my personal computer to see if the data that I've stolen from AMAKEN is worth the trouble."

Lyra looks at the FMian swan. "You have your own computer?"

"I made two; one for us to communicate with the king and the second is for my own personal use." Cygnus heads to one of the rooms of the office area, leaving the FMians to talk amongst them.

Wolf clicks his tongue out irritation. "That guy just never learns…"

While the rest of the FMians are discussing some things related about Mega Man, Lyra sneaks away from them as she heads to the roof. From there, she sees Echo Ridge City in the horizon as she giggles out of amusement. However, she becomes sad when she remembers her reason why she's here on Earth.

"Omega-Xis…" is her last words to mutter before she heads back inside the abandoned factory.