(Hi guys been a while but I finally got a new chapter for you all. Enjoy away.)
One night in the lair of the Shadow Master the Dark Warrior mastermind himself was at a computer typing in some stuff, "Traximus and my own shadow soldiers have been proving to be failures. So now I will enlist the aid of someone else. Someone who can trap those two in a place no one will be able to reach them." He typed a few more keystrokes and appearing on his computer screen was a blue digital creature that was made of electrical energy with yellow eyes and teeth while his head was lightning bolt shaped (Appearance is that of the Phantom Virus from Scooby Doo and the Cyber Chase which I don't own).
"You called master?" the creature asked with a chuckle.
"Yes Cyberdread, I have a job for you."
"I'm always open for a job." The digital being answered.
"I want you to go to all the computers of Mahora Academy in Japan and all computers close to it in the dorms." He instructed.
"And do what?"
"Seek these boys out," Shadow Master pulled up image files on Negi and Dustin, "Once you found them digitize and dispose of them. Can you do it?"
"I sure can." Cyberdread answered.
"Good, now go!" he ordered and the cyber creature vanished and traveled along the electrical posts all the way to Mahora academy where he entered all the computers in the lab with his face appearing on each of them before they went blank. Finally he found himself in another computer inside the dorms.
"Hmm this place will do nicely, the next time those two come to any computer around here I'll be ready," he chuckled until he noticed some of the files on the desktop of the computer he was in, "What's this? Chiu-Chiu faves?" he opened it and popping up were numerous pictures of a gorgeous pink haired teen girl cosplaying in all sorts of get ups, "Whoa, this Chiu-Chiu is good with her computer." He admitted.
The very next morning in class 3A Negi and Dustin were going through their lesson while in the back row Chisame Hasegawa had her eyes fixated on the clock wanting class to end so she could get back to her dorm room. Soon the bell rang and Negi spoke, "Well that concludes today's lesson girls." Negi announced.
"Class dismissed!" Dustin announced and the girls started packing up while Chisame quickly bolted for the door.
"Bye senseis!" she quickly said leaving unaware of something falling out of her bag.
"She was certainly in a hurry to leave wasn't she?" Zyphon asked the boys.
"Well she must have a lot of things to do." Negi suspected.
"I don't know all the other girls say she spends all her free time cooped up in her dorm room, but never understand why," Dustin answered until he spotted what Chisame dropped, "Hey check it out." He picked up a magazine with a picture of Chiu on it.
"Oh Chisame must've dropped it," Negi noted as he looked at the girl on the cover, "Net Idol Chiu."
"Well we better go and return this to her." Zyphon suggested.
"I'll come with, I hardly get to see the regular dorms even during the day." Rin offered.
"Alright let's go." Negi said as the four left with Chamo and Domino still acting like the animals they were.
At the dorms Chisame went to her room quickly dropping her bag, "Finally I'm back, now to get down to business." She turned on her computer and started changing and putting on makeup. Soon where Chisame was now stood Chiu dressed as a Playboy bunny.
"Hey there boys, Chi-Chiu's here," She winked at her cameras. She then thought, 'Ah this is the good life. By day a normal junior high girl, but by after school hours a top rated net idol!' she ranted in her thoughts as she checked all her cosplay pictures, "Now what could I try for today?" she asked herself until a voice called.
"Chisame-san?"
Suddenly the girl jumped and spun seeing her two profs, child classmate, and robot in her dorm room, "AHHH what're you all doing here? And how'd you get in her?!" she demanded.
"Forgive us but your door was wide open." Negi apologized.
Chisame gawked at her own error of not closing the door having been too caught up to get in, 'Oh no have they found out the truth? Do they actually know I'm Chiu?' she thought terrified.
"We noticed you dropped this on your way out so we came to return it to you." Dustin held out the magazine.
"Huh, oh that fell out?" Chisame asked taking it back, "I didn't even know it did."
"Well next time be more careful." Negi instructed.
"Uh sure sensei." Chisame said still hiding her terror of being found out.
"So whatcha got going on in here?" Dustin looked around at all the lights, camera, and computer equipment until he saw the Chiu pictures, "Hey Negi it's the same girl from the magazine."
"Really?" Negi asked as he and Rin
"Gah, it's nothing! Nothing!" Chisame blocked his view of the computer only to be nudged out of the way so the kids could look.
"You're right it is." Rin recognized while Chisame nerves were being shot.
Negi and Dustin looked to Chisame as the English boy spoke, "Chisame-san are you by any chance this Net idol Chiu?"
Chisame was panicking inside but before she could give an answer her computer started cracking and beeping with the screen fizzing which was confusing everyone, "Oh this doesn't look good." Zyphon feared.
Suddenly appearing on screen was Cyberdread, "Ah-hah I found you two!" the group gasped as Rin backed further away from the screen than Negi and Dustin, "We're gonna have us some quality time boys!" Cyberdread extended his arms out of the screen grabbing the two boys who screamed in fright as their bodies started becoming data encoded and were absorbed into the computer screen.
"Holy crap what's happening?!" Chamo shouted but Domino quickly clamped his mouth shut before Chisame noticed him speak.
Suddenly the light died down as the two girls and robot noticed Negi and Dustin were no longer in the room, but really were assimilated into the computer, "Tell me that didn't happen." Chisame said with a shocked expression.
"But it did." Zyphon replied feeling the same way.
"Where'd they go?" Rin asked.
To answer her question both Negi and Dustin had suddenly appeared inside the internet itself where data was being processed and sent throughout the entire world (Design of Cyberspace is the same as TMNT Back to the Sewers I also don't own). Negi and Dustin themselves however had undergone a change in their outer appearances with their bodies looking black while their outlines were glowing blue, with blue digital numbers and wires glowing around their bodies.
"Oh that was freaky." Dustin rubbed his head as he and Negi got up making sure they were in tact until they looked all around.
"Uh Dustin, where are we?" Negi asked frightened.
"Negi, I think we've been digitized into a TRON-esque world." Dustin gasped.
"Digitized?" Negi asked, "Well that would explain our different looks." Negi noted on how they looked.
"But how we got here is the question." Dustin said until electrical energy zapped the cyber bridge they were on with Cyberdread appearing.
"That would be my doing boy."
"What is that thing?" Negi gasped as Dustin got ready.
"I am Cyberdread, and you're in my world now." The cyber being stated.
"Cyberdread?" Dustin asked.
"Yes, a digital virus given form through the use of Dark Warrior energy created by my boss the Shadow Master." He explained.
"Shadow Master?" the boys gasped remembering Traximus mention that name through his interrogation from the Dragon Riders.
"Yes, he ordered me to personally dispose of you, and dispose of you I shall!" he chuckled while extending his right hand sending electrical energy from it almost zapping them had they not jumped away.
"That was close." Dustin sighed until he saw a screen appear with Zyphon in it and Rin squeezing it to look.
"Master Dustin!"
"Negi, are you two ok?"
"We're fine, listen you two have to get us out of here, this cyber being is trying to terminate us!" Dustin cried.
"Don't worry we know who to go to for something like this, we'll contact you later, just stay alive." Zyphon ordered.
"We'll try." Dustin said before the screen vanished.
"Stay alive, that's a laugh!" Cyberdread chuckled.
"Negi let's fight!" Dustin said as they started engaging Cyberdread using their kung-fu skills.
Back in Chisame's room Zyphon ended his link up to her computer, "Come on we must find Satomi and Chao, they're the only ones smart enough to help in this situation. Chisame you're coming with us."
"What, why me?" Chisame asked not wanting to be dragged into others affairs.
"Satomi said you are an expert hacker, your skills are also what we require." He explained.
"Satomi you traitor." Chisame grumbled.
"Besides you're a witness to this, the girls will ask you questions about what happened to Negi and Dustin." Rin warned her.
"I could handle some complaints." She replied.
"But can you handle your secret exposed?" Zyphon warned her as she looked shocked.
"You wouldn't!"
"I will!" he warned her.
"Alright let's go." She sighed reluctantly.
"Let's go." Zyphon seconded that as they left her room only to see Kaede and Mana in the hallway.
"Zyphon, where's Negi and Dustin?" Kaede noticed they weren't with him.
"No time, you got to follow us." Rin said as she dragged the two along while Chamo went to Kaede's shoulder and Domino to Mana's.
"So you wanna fill us in?" Mana asked.
"Negi and Dustin have been digitized into cyberspace by some digital entity." Domino explained.
"What?" Mana and Kaede gasped quietly.
"Yeah we're hoping Chao and Satomi can help." Chamo added.
Back in cyberspace Dustin and Negi were still going head to head with Cyberdread as the mage launched some magic arrows while Dustin fired his spirit gun at him. Unfortunately Cyberdread turned into wireframe resulting in the attacks passing right through him.
"No way!" Dustin gasped.
"Our attacks didn't work." Negi was shocked.
Cyberdread chuckled, "You fools don't get it, in this world I reign supreme!"
"He's right Negi, we're in the cyber world, and the laws of our world don't apply here." Dustin realized.
"So what do we do?"
"Retreat and come up with another plan! Follow me!" Dustin started running with Negi following him.
Cyberdread chuckled, "Fools, you cannot hide from me in this realm!" he vanished and reappeared before them blocking their path.
"Out of our way!" Dustin tried to attack only for Cyberdread to phase out making Dustin's attack missed.
"Come here!" Cyberdread tried to attack Negi who slid underneath the cyber being with him and Dustin still running for their lives trying to stay alive.
Back at Mahora the group had arrived at the Mahora labs where Satomi, Chao, Chachamaru, and Evangeline were, "Oh thank goodness you guys showed up." Satomi sighed in relief.
"Then you know what's happening?" Rin asked.
"Yes, a digital anomaly has hijacked just about every computer in range of the school and campus." Chao explained.
"While I was busy loading here for my daily tune up, I noticed a distress signal coming from the cyber realm." Chachamaru explained.
"Well your senses are correct, that digital anomaly has digitized masters Dustin and Negi into cyberspace." Zyphon explained.
"What?!" Eva gasped in shock before everyone noticed how shock she was until she spoke casually, "I mean, what?"
"Oh this is bad." Satomi feared.
"Isn't there any way we can de-virtualize them?" Kaede asked.
"As a matter of fact." Chao began as she and Satomi remove a veil revealing a laser device.
"What is that?" Mana asked.
"A cyber laser, it has the power to beam objects from our world into the cyber world." Satomi explained.
"You two have a lot of time on your hands." Chisame quipped.
"Will it work?" Rin asked.
"Yes but it's a slow process." Satomi warned.
"Do what it takes, we got to get them out of there before that virus creature eliminates them." Zyphon said.
"Right." Chao said as Chachamaru helped the two geniuses wheel the laser out of the lab.
"Chisame, use your laptop and try to pinpoint where Dustin-sensei and Negi-sensei are." Satomi ordered.
"Alright." Chisame said not bothering to argue.
In cyberspace the boys reached the end of the cyber bridge seeing a circular slide leading downward to another level. Dustin looked prepared to take it until Negi spoke, "Dustin are you nuts? You don't even know where that goes, there's no way we can…"
They heard maniacal laughter as they saw Cyberdread traveling along a data stream catching up to them, "Either that or we're dead Negi, come on!" Dustin jumped to the slide on his stomach doing a belly burner down the slide.
"Wait for me!" Negi cried as he slid down after his friend.
Cyberdread stopped before the slide, "You'll never slide fast enough!" he slid down after them.
The three slid down going through numerous twists, turns, and loops while screaming or in Cyberdread's case laughing. Negi called to his friend up ahead, "Dustin what do you see up ahead?!"
Dustin looked ahead as his eyes widened, "The end of the line!" he screamed.
Negi looked ahead and shrieked in fright as his friend was right the end of the slide was actually a ramp pointed upward. They screamed as they each flew off the ramp and flying upward crashing onto another level of the cyber world.
"Oh if this were the real world I would've had severe belly burn." Dustin rubbed his stomach.
"That was a frightening experience I never want to live again." Negi panted until Cyberdread reassembled himself before them.
"You forget about me?"
"Not anymore!" Negi cried as Cyberdread tried to grab Negi only for Dustin grab him from behind. Cyberdread however pried Dustin off him attempting to throw him off the cyber bridge only for Negi to sweep kick his foe making him fall down and release Dustin.
"Our turn now!" the two knocked Cyberdread off the bride as he was plummeting to the bottomless digital realm.
"We did it." Negi gasped.
"Oh yeah, that's what I'm talking about!" Dustin pumped a fist until Cyberdread rose up from the floor surprising them.
"Have you forgotten already? You cannot destroy me here! But I can destroy you!" he fired electrical blasts at the two as they jumped away.
"Close call." Dustin said.
"Dustin if we don't think of something we won't survive much longer." Negi cried.
"I know!" Dustin tried thinking until he realized something, "Negi!"
"Yes?" he asked while dodging another attack from Cyberdread.
"Since the laws of the physical world don't apply here we have to try and take advantage of the laws here!"
"Take advantage?"
"Yeah think like a cyber being." Dustin said as he concentrated and suddenly vanished like Cyberdread's been doing and reappeared behind said villain nailing him with a slug to the face sending him falling to the floor.
"How did you do that?" Negi gasped.
"You can to Negi, just like me you need to think like a cyber being." Dustin encouraged.
"Like a cyber being, hmm," Negi smiled as he started uttering an incantation and fired a cyber magic blast at Cyberdread splitting him into two halves, "I did it!"
Cyberdread however pulled himself back together, "You may have found a way to fight on my turf, but it matters not. Soon you shall be no more!" he tried zapping the two as they continued dodging.
Dustin looked and saw some kind of portal, "Negi let's throw him off in there!"
"But where does it go?"
"We'll find out!" Dustin and Negi jump in.
"Come back here!" Cyberdread ordered as he followed the two through the portal.
Back in the real world the group was wheeling the laser beam outside the school building by the school fountain, "Chisame any lead on Negi and Dustin?" Rin asked.
"Nothing so far. Wait a second I think I got something." Chisame said typing in some keystrokes.
"Did you find them?" Satomi asked.
"Well my scan is picking up two signatures coming from, oh no." she gasped.
"What's the problem now?" Eva crossed her arms.
"I have this feeling Negi-sensei and Dustin-sensei have stepped into someplace they shouldn't be." Chisame feared.
Back in cyberspace Negi and Dustin landed on solid ground, "Oh rough landing." Dustin groaned as he and Negi stood up and saw they were in a forest.
"A forest, Dustin I think we're home!" Negi cheered.
"We made it!" Dustin cheered as the two danced around until they heard a roar and flying above them was a dragon.
"A dragon?" Negi asked.
Suddenly they started hearing battle cries from all around them. They turned and to their shock saw all sorts of medieval knights, sorcerers, warriors, barbarians, archers, etc charging into battle against other creatures.
"Oh no we're still in the cyber world!" Negi cried.
"And not only that, we've landed in the online game Chambers and Chimeras!" Dustin cried.
"We should probably find a way out of this game." Negi suggested but shrieked as a flaming arrow nailed a cyber tree he was standing next to.
"And fast!" Dustin called as they started running through the battlefield avoiding any monster or warrior avatar in their way.
Negi was panicking avoiding all sorts of attacks from gamer avatars and monsters, "Can this get any worse?"
Suddenly the two heard a familiar laugh and they saw Cyberdread wearing knight armor and carrying a sword, "You had to ask?" Dustin asked dryly.
"Welcome gamers to the final stage of your lives!" he sent an electrical blast through his sword at them.
The two dodged as his blast nailed the ground making the blasted area glitch a bit. A knight avatar saw this, "Wow that was a wicked attack, what do they call you on this side of the kingdom?"
Cyberdread answered, "Your Demise!" he answered before zapping the knight avatar as it dissolved. Back in the real world on some nerds computer, the nerd boy himself was confused, "Hey what happened to my knight?!" he called in a nasally voice.
Back in the cyber game Negi and Dustin were shocked, "He destroyed that avatar." Negi gasped.
"Which means he could do far worse to us." Dustin added.
Suddenly they heard two voices they felt were familiar, "Negi-sensei can you hear me?"
"Master Dustin do you copy?"
"Chachamaru?" Negi asked.
"Zyphon?" Dustin asked.
"How're you all?" Negi began but was cut off.
"No time to explain, are you and Dustin-sensei all right?"
"Yeah we're fine, but we don't know for much longer!" Dustin called.
"Don't worry we're going to get you out." Zyphon explained.
"And how?" Negi asked.
"Satomi and Chao have a laser to beam you two out but you must get to the portal it'll open between our world and the digital one." Chachamaru explained.
"Well hurry!" Dustin called.
In the real world Chisame sat her laptop on a bench while Chao and Satomi aimed the laser at the computer while charging, "Girls if this laser fries my hard drive you'll be paying the price!" Chisame warned the resident geniuses.
"What's one computer compared to the lives of our senseis?!" Rin lectured.
"Ok-ok." Chisame said knowing her fellow student brought up a point.
"Laser charged and ready." Satomi said.
"Let's hope this works." Kaede said.
"It has to for their sake." Mana replied.
"Here we go!" Chao activated the laser as it sent a beam at the laptop.
Both Chamo and Domino held onto each other in worry hoping their pals would make it out alive and in one piece.
Back in the game Dustin and Negi saw a portal open up, "Negi the way out! Come on!" Dustin flew for the portal dragging Negi along.
Cyberdread seeing they were trying to escape shouted, "No you cannot leave!" he followed them coming right up on them as they passed through the portal before it closed.
Back in the real world the portal from the laptop opened and flying out through it were the two boys and Cyberdread who was now on the physical plane and out of his knight armor. The group was shocked as Cyberdread got up and looked around, "What, where am I?"
"You're on our turf now pal." Dustin answered as he and Negi stood tall.
"What?" the virus asked in shock.
"And on our turf the rules of your world can no longer help you." Dustin said as he launched like a bullet tackling Cyberdread making them roll across the ground. Cyberdread kicked Dustin off him and got back to his feet.
"I will not fail my master!" he tried to grab Dustin but saw Negi slide under his legs before him and did a double upward kick to his chest knocking him flat on his rear.
Dustin ran and jumped while flipping over Cyberdread landing on the other side of him leaving the cyber being surrounded by both sides, "Negi throw him to me!"
"Right!" Negi charged using whatever combat methods learned from Ku and punched Cyberdread sending him face flying right for Dustin who started a wind up with his arm.
As soon as Cyberdread was close enough Dustin delivered an uppercut to the virus sending him flying upward and back landing ring into the fountain where he started sparking and screaming, "OH NO! YOU FOOLS!" he cried as he saw himself fizzing. He stepped out of the fountain while still sparking, "The water's getting into my system! I'M GONNA BLOW UP!" and suddenly he blew up in digital pixels that vanished.
"Whoa!" the group gasped.
"He's gone." Kaede said.
"What happened to him?" Rin asked.
"The water shorted out his system." Satomi answered.
Negi and Dustin smiled at each other until the group approached, "Hey girls." Dustin greeted.
"Everyone ok?" Negi asked until Eva started pinching his face.
"You idiot! Do you have any idea how worried we all were because of what happened?!" the little vampire shouted.
"How worried we all were?" Zyphon asked as Eva saw everyone was pretending not to be worried which put her in an awkward position.
"Don't you al give me that look, you were worried as much as I was!"
"You were worried for me?" Negi asked.
Eva did a double take but started pinching his face again, "Absolutely not! I wasn't worried in the slightest!" Everyone started laughing while Chisame stifled a giggle but shook it off.
While at the Shadow Master's lair the guy himself was pacing, "That cyber idiot failed! Just what does it take to destroy two boys?!" he grunted.
Back at the school Dustin and Negi were thanking them all, "Satomi, Chao, we can't thank you enough for rescuing us from the cyber world." Negi said.
"It's great to have such fine geniuses like you for students." Dustin added while Chao and Satomi blushed.
"Well we just did what any student would do for their teacher." Satomi answered.
"But I think the real dept should go to Chisame here." Dustin added motioning to the hacker.
"Me?" she asked.
"Of course," Negi agreed, "After all you're the one that found us in that online game."
"You really are a computer whiz, so thanks a lot." Dustin added as he slid over whispering to her, "And don't worry your secrets safe with us."
Chisame blushed a little realizing they did know about her secret and that they promised to keep her secret, "Uh thanks. Well I don't about al of you but I'm out of here." She started walking and thought, 'Wow I can't believe all of that happened to me. Normally I'd just deny any of this ever happened but I can't ignore the fact it did. Negi-sensei and Dustin-sensei, you two really are special kids.'
Dustin turned to Negi, "Negi, you and I just went to cyberspace and back again alive!"
Negi smiled, "We did didn't we?"
"I'll say you two have really been through a lot." Kaede said.
"Sensei you got to tell us!" Satomi and Chao stood before the boys, "What was cyberspace like?" Satomi asked.
"Was it anything we'd imagine it would be or more?" Chao asked eagerly.
"Well we could tell you girls over dinner, if anyone's interested in joining us?" Dustin answered.
"That's a wonderful idea, a whole meal from my restaurant on me!" Chao declared.
"Why don't you and Chachamaru join us Evangeline?" Negi offered.
Before Eva could voice her answer Chachamaru spoke, "We would be honored sensei."
"Well let's get going." Mana said as the whole group walked along feeling glad their senseis were back in the real world where they belonged. But Dustin however was deep in thought, 'Shadow Master, what does he want?'
(And that's the chapter hope you enjoyed it. Don't miss next time where the class is on the road for Kyoto and the dangers that lurk within it. See ya then. And Cyberdread is a character I made up while Chambers and Chimeras is a spoof of Dungeons and Dragons.)
