GT: Yeesh...They made that Orochi fight hard in Okami...but so worth it to get the first Glaive of the game. *laughs* But I can't help but crack up that you can whizz on enemies to get Demon Fangs!

SZ: Oh yeah...you can do that. You can also...know what? I'll let him find that out for himself.

GT: Eh?

SZ: You'll see once ya find the dojo again and get more moves.

GT: Okay. In the meantime, I hope everyone's feeling great! I have not. Been sick with the flu for a week.

SZ: But he's feeling better, and ready to write once more!

GT: Eeyup. Especially since I now have cable and internet once more as well. Now in the meantime, we own no one but OCs! Let's a go! *pulls out a Yellow Imp and ties it to the curtains before fleeing*

SZ: Eh?

Imp: !#!?

Amaterasu: *barks while running into the room*

SZ: Oh geez! *runs for it*

Imp: *screams as Amaterasu pounced it*

"This is...an interesting report," Dr. Goodall admitted as she looked up from the report before her and then at the grown man and three teens before her, "Mists that cause petrification, a giant toad that could turn smaller toads into the creatures you encountered in the mall, and even actuas gods. You've had quite a busy day, haven't you?"

=Des….not….com...ppute….= Acid sputtered

"That answer your question?" Ace deadpanned a bit.

"Oh, poor Acidna...He may have too much logic and not enough faith in his programming," Goodall shook her head, "I'll have to take care of him for tonight, but in the meantime…" she typed something and, after a few moments, an officer entered carrying a dead plant in a pot and placed it on her desk, "Thank you." the guard nodded before walking out, "Sonia, could you demonstrate this new ability of yours? This 'Bloom' ability?"

"H-hai," Sonia nodded, pulling out her brush as she 'drew' a circle around the dead plant before, within a second, the plant came back to life, flowers blooming about it.

"Oh, how fascinating!" Goodall smiled, "The scanners didn't even pick up a smidge of electromagnetic radiation from you nor from the plant that entire time! How did you do that?"

"Ano...I'm not sure exactly…" Sonia replied as she looked at her brush, "Everytime I use this, the world around me turns sepia and...well it's almost like a canvas in a way."

"...And Bloom?"

"I just 'draw' a circle around the dead plant and it comes back to life."

"Interesting. Perhaps we can experiment a bit then," Goodall nodded as she typed something and an officer came in with a few pots of dirt and a packet of different seeds before leaving them behind while leaving, "Try using Bloom again."

"...Okay," Sonia nodded as she planted the seeds before she 'drew' another circle, one big enough for all the pots before plants grew out of them, "Oh!"

"So it works even on plants that haven't fully matured yet…" Goodall noted before pulling one plant, revealing it to be a fully grown carrot, "And seems to work on vegetables as well. Interesting. Bud, if you'd please try it?"

"Uh, sure," a bit of a bulky teen in a brown and yellow shirt with an orange cutlery design on the chest and brown baggy shorts replied as he walked over and accepted the offered carrot before eating it, "...Huh. This is better than the carrots I normally eat at home."

"And you say a monkey called Sakigami gave you this ability?" Goodall looked at Sonia.

"Hai."

=He said he was part of a triumvirate known as the Hanagami= Lyra added.

"Do you think you can translate what it means?" Ace asked.

"I feel that 'Hanagami' translates to 'Flower God,'" Sonia replied, "And 'Sakigami' means 'Bloom God.'"

=There was also that one name that frog kept calling us…= Lyra spoke up =Fudegami=

=Flu day gummy?=

=Baka-inu=

=OI!=

"It means 'Brush God,'" Sonia translated, "Kinda makes sense since, well…" she held up her brush, "The brush."

"...I see," Goodall noted, "...Where exactly did you get that brush?"

"From a store in the mall," Sonia explained, "Geo-kun and I both received a small box from the owner and in mine was this brush."

"What about you? Did you check it yet?" Goodall asked, looking at Geo.

"Um, well, no," Geo admitted, "It's still on my desk back home."

"Ahh...I suggest you check it just in case then," Goodall informed before an officer ran in, panting.

"Dr. Goodall! We...we just found...a lab…" the officer informed.

"A lab? Well, why didn't you call?"

"Security...system...fried the...the VG Hunter…" the officer held up his arm, revealing a broken, sparking VG Hunter on it, "Had to...run all...the way here…"

"...What exactly happened?" Ace ordered, a serious expression on his face.

"We...we're not...not sure…" the officer panted, "We were...we were…"

'He's really exhausted…' Sonia thought before looking at her brush, '...' she held up her brush and the sepia sight returned to her before she drew a circle around the man, 'Maybe this can work?'

She put her brush away and the circle flashed green. For a moment, the man glowed green before he sprung up.

"We were investigating reports of a disturbance in the area and discovered something was producing a large abundance of Noise. We were able to triangulate the location to a park and found a hidden entrance buried beneath a patch of grass near the center of the park near the lake. The Noise is emanating from an underground laboratory, but attempting to breach the doors resulted in the doors releasing an EMP that was able to fry the VG Hunters we had on hand before it started shooting lasers at our feet until we left sight of the doors," the soldier informed with a salute.

"I see," Ace noted, "Geo, Sonia, you two go check it out. Bud, you're on standby until you're needed."

"Yes, sir," Bud nodded.

"It's hard to imagine something being underneath a peaceful park," Sonia noted as she and Geo entered a fairly large park, the redhead wearing a white parka over a green shirt and blue jeans, the hood of the parka hiding her hair while sunglasses kept her eyes hidden.

"Yeah. It is something I think I've heard of only in movies," Geo agreed, wearing a black jacket over a red shirt and black shorts with a bulky hat on his head hiding his hair.

=Maybe there's some freaky mutant Wave virus down there or something= Omega-Xis said =...Oh, I'm gonna go buckwild on their asses!=

=Oh come now. It could just be an advanced security system= Lyra scoffed.

"Hold it!" an officer called and the two stopped, "There is an ongoing investigation at this moment in time. Civilians are being asked to stay away from the area."

"We're here on orders from Ace," Geo informed as he and Sonia showed their VG Hunters to the man.

"Ah! Carry on, then. We were informed you'd arrive as quick as you could once we got the backups from HQ's branch here," the officer nodded.

"We won't be long...hopefully," Geo replied, whispering that last part to himself as the two continued on.

=Heh. Sometimes it pays to be buddies with a cop= Omega-Xis grinned.

=Baka-inu…=

=Seriously, what does that even mean?!=

=...Want to know? Fine. It means 'stupid dog'=

=Oh…...HEY WAIT A MINUTE!=

"Cut it out, Mega. We're here," Geo informed as the two stopped before a square-shaped opening in the ground, exposing a flight of stairs heading down, "...Feel anything abnormal, Sonia?"

"Iie," Sonia shook her head, "Lyra?"

=I'm not sensing anyth...wait. There's some Noise down these stairs=

"...Better transform just in case."

"Hai."

Minutes later, the two were making their way down the stairs.

"I'm relieved that Dr. Goodall made a Noise filter for us," Lyra noted.

"Hai. Demo...It doesn't have all the neat features the AceJoker Program does," Lyra Note admitted as she looked over at Megaman.

"While the filter part's still working, but it hasn't really be working with the Noise Change feature or Finalize since we fought the Crimson Dragon," Megaman explained.

"Oh…"

"Yeah. Still, we better be careful. Who knows what else is down here," Megaman advised.

"Hai!" Lyra Note nodded.

Eventually, the stairs gave way to a stone path. Walking down it, they soon came upon two metal doors sealed up tightly. Lyra Note was about to reach for the door before Megaman stopped her.

"Not yet. There's still that EMP wave trap," Megaman stated before holding his chin in thought, "We need to figure out how to get around it…"

"...Eh?" Lyra Note pondered as she spotted something, "A doggy door?"

"...Hey b-"

=Don't you even finish that sentence!= Omega-Xis snapped at Lyra.

"Why is there a dog door here?" Megaman pondered as he knelt down to it before looking at his Buster Arm, "...Hmm…" he put his arm through the dog door, "Wizard On."

"Gah!" Omega-Xis hit his head on the tiny tunnel on the other side.

"Hurry and open it from the inside, Omega-Xis," Lyra giggled.

"Aw screw you, stupid out-of-tune harp…" Omega-Xis grumbled as he started crawling down the tunnel, "Gah...so dusty in here…"

Megaman pulled his arm out of the tunnel and a screen appeared before him, showing a feed of what Omega-Xis was seeing, "What do you see?"

"Dust. Lots and lots of dust…" Omega-Xis muttered, "Wait...I think I see something."

"What is it?"

"Dunno, but there's a lot of red lights aiming right at….me….oh shit! It's a turret."

*KACHINK*

"OH SHIT! IT'S A TURRET!"

"Should we help him?" Lyra Note whispered, hearing the sounds of laser fire an Omega-Xis screaming behind the doors.

"No, no, no. Give him a moment," Lyra replied, an amused look on her lips.

=This is Beta-7 all over again!= Omega-Xis freaked =EEYOW!=

"Hit you on the tip of the tail?"

=It hit me on the goddamn tail! It's just like Beta-7! That's it! Come 'ere, you stupid turret! AREA EATER!=

*SLASH! BOOM!*

=HA! Suck it!=

"I think Omega needs therapy…" Lyra Note sweatdropped.

"An Insane Asylum is what he needs…" Lyra muttered.

=Okay, I took that down and now I'm in a big lab= Omega-Xis noted as the screen showed a large cavern =A lot of it looks like it hasn't been touched in years=

"Try looking for a switch or something to open the door and disable the security outside of it," Megaman instructed.

=Yeah, yeah. Yeesh, you sound like Cygnus back on Beta-7…= Omega-Xis grumbled =Least you're not clinging to me like my Ex…=

"Your what?"

=NOTHING! YOU! HEARD! NOTHING!=

"Ahh!" Megaman and Lyra Note yelped at the exclamation.

=Okay, I think I found it= Omega-Xis noted after a few moments.

The screen showed the various computers on different levels turning on as the lights above flickered on. The doors hissed before sliding open, letting the two teens enter. Now that they had a better view than just Omega-Xis', the lab was big with the support columns all sporting dense springs at the bases and tops while vines with flowers on them decorated them. A natural waterfall cut the lab in two, a set of wood-like stone bridges acting as a way of crossing the river made by the waterfall. Several modems, despite their age, hummed quietly where they were on shelves in the walls. Panels in the floor were sliding shut and the two barely made out turrets in the holes before they sealed shut. There were various antiques and books of various sizes perfectly preserved in sealed shelves along the walls and in sealed bookcases screwed into the floor. What was interesting was that there wasn't a single monitor in the laboratory despite there being modems.

"What kind of lab is this?" Megaman pondered.

"Looks like it doubled as a home-away-from-home," Omega-Xis noted from the second floor where he was floating in a kitchen with the fridge, freezer, and shelves empty before looking over at a king-sized bed in a room after the kitchen.

"Demo...question is, who lives here exactly?" Lyra Note pondered as she looked around.

"Or lived here. There's a layer of dust on everything that's not sealed tight," Lyra noted.

"Lyra does have a p…" Megaman paused as he looked in one of the cases, "Sakigami!"

"The monkey?" Omega-Xis asked as he flew over as Lyra Note ran over.

"In here!" Megaman pointed at the case.

"Huh?" Lyra Note looked at the case to see a statue of Sakigami inside of it between a monkey playing cymbals and a monkey playing a flute, all three pure white and decorated in scarlet detailing, "Oh! It is Sakigami!"

"What's with the squiggles?" Omega-Xis pondered, pointing at the base the trio were on.

"Um…What are you talking about? It says 'The Hanagami of Greensprout: Sakigami of Bloom, Hasugami of Water Lily, and Tsutagami of Vine,'" Sonia read.

"You got all that from squiggles?" Omega-Xis asked.

"It's in Japanese."

"That dead language you and the Out-Of-Tune Harp speak in?"

"Baka-Inu…"

"I will gut you! I mean it!" Omega-Xis growled, flexing his claws, "And I'll make it look like an accident!"

Lyra Note looked around the case. The Hanagami were not alone. Several other statues were in the case with them. One resembled a white mouse on top of a broadsword, another a white horse with a fan on its back, a third was a white cat on a wall while a fourth was a white rabbit with a wooden mallet that was longer on one end in its paws. There was a white boar on an orange ball...fleeing from piglets with lit sticks in their mouths, a rooster-like phoenix with a large pipe in its beak, a large ox with a red net on its neck, and a drunken white sheep with a red cask of something on its back. There was a pure white penguin sliding down a scroll on its belly and a whale bouncing two smaller fish on its waterspout. There was even a white dragon with its tail stuck in a scroll carrying four yellow orbs in its claws and a menacing white tiger with a huge archer's bow on its back with a white snake stuck in an orb filled with water.

"'Yomigami of Rejuvenation.' 'Tatsugami of Power Slash.' 'Bakugami of Cherry Bomb.' 'Yumigami of Crescent.' 'Nuregami of Waterspout.' 'Kazegami of Maelstrom.' 'Moegami of Inferno.' 'Kasugami of Veil of Mist.' 'Kabegami of Catwalk.' 'Gekigami of Thunderstorm.' 'Michigami of Guidance.' 'Kyokugami of Magnetism.' 'Itegami of Blizzard,'" Lyra Note read the base of each statue before noticing an empty spot, "...There's one missing."

"Huh?" Megaman blinked at that.

"I don't know why, but I feel like...there's one missing from this set," Lyra Note answered, "Like...a dog...Iie. A Wolf."

"A...A wolf?" Omega-Xis repeated, "You mean that Shiranui the old geezer talked about from the story of that giant snake?"

"Hai...and Iie…" Lyra Note answered, "...Amaterasu…"

=Password accepted= the three jumped as Lyra Note held Lyra closer.

A panel opened before exposing a metal container shaped like a thermos. It rattled before popping open, releasing a forest-green burst of EM radiation. It dispersed exposed a tiny EM-being...no, literally, it was tiny. At exactly one inch in height, the figure was made of the forest-green EM waves covered in a dark-blue/grey armor resembling a beetle.

"...Uh…what?" Omega-Xis blinked.

The one-inch beetle yawned as he stretched. Smacking the lips beneath the rhinoceros beetle-themed helmet, the figure opened a pair of black eyes a bit.

"Ohayo gozaimasu…" the beetle mumbled, rubbing one of the two eyes before noticing Megaman, "...Yo."

"...Uh…hi?" Megaman greeted in confusion.

"?! Oi...Why the hell do you have my frequency?" Omega-Xis demanded.

"What?" Megaman blinked.

"Whoa! Back! Back, I say, you big baka-ryuu! I'll cut you with Denpamaru!" the beetle yelped, pulling out a needle-shaped blade on his waist and pointing it at Omega-Xis.

"...I hate him. Instantly hate him…" Omega-Xis' eye twitched.

"The feeling's the same here, Baka-ryuu!" the beetle declared, bouncing on the top of the thermos-like device.

"The only way that someone could have the same frequency as an FM-Ian or AM-Ian is either cloning like what Dealer did or…" Lyra began before her eyes widened and slowly looked at Omega-Xis.

"Shut. Up. Now," Omega-Xis growled, "That ain't what happened. Probably a damn clone. It's smashing time!"

"Bring it on, you baka-ryuu! The great Issun isn't afraid of...of…" the beetle began before noticing Lyra Note as hearts appeared above him as his EM waves turned pink, "Konnichiwa~, Tenshi!"

"N-nani?" Lyra Note blinked.

"Boku wa Issun!" Issun declared as he bounced from the thermos, off Omega-Xis's head, and landed on her shoulder, "What beauty~! I have to paint someone as beauty personified as you are!"

"Paint?" Lyra Note repeated.

Issun reaching into his armor before pulling out a green tube of paper. Unrolling it, he tossed it into the air and it began to float before him. Sheathing his sword, he pulled it scabbard and all to expose the end of the scabbard was a brush. His arm became a blur and, after several seconds, put it back on his waist and showed the unrolled paper to reveal a painting of Lyra Note, leaning against a tree while strumming Lyra Note. Pulling out a gold mallet, he tapped it on the paper and it grew until it was the size of Lyra Note, the girl barely grabbing it as it lost its fight against gravity.

"A wonderful sumi-e for a wonderful beauty such as yourself!" Issun flirted, putting the mallet away.

"...Wow. It...it's really good," Lyra Note gasped, "...Demo…"

"Why's her chest particularly big…?" Lyra asked with a slight frown.

"Hey, hey, hey! I just paint how life reflects through the brush!" Issun replied, now sweating a bit before jumping from Lyra Note's shoulder, off Omega-Xis' head, and onto the top of Megaman's visor.

"...He's a lousy little pervert," Omega-Xis muttered.

"I am the great Issun, baka-ryuu!" Issun declared, pointing his blade at Omega-Xis once more.

"I will crush you like the bug you are!"

"I will jump into your gut and make you leak whatever you drink!"

"I will literally grind you into dust!"

"I will slice you into sashimi!"

"I WILL AREA ERASE YOU FROM EXISTENCE!"

"I WILL GO UP YOUR NOSE AND CUT WHAT YOU USE FOR A BRAIN UP!"

"Oh kami above there's two of him now…" Lyra groaned.

"CAN IT, OUT-OF-TUNE HARP!"

"Oi! Don't go insulting the tenshi!"

"I can insult whoever I damn well please!"

"Wizard Off," Megaman deadpanned.

=Aw come on!=

"Ano...Who are you exactly?" Lyra Note asked.

"Hm? Ah. I thought I already introduced myself," Issun noted, "Boku wa Issun." he bowed, "Yoroshiku."

"You know the dead language?" Megaman pondered.

"Dead la...How long have I been sealed up?!" Issun exclaimed, the Em waves turning yellow in surprise, "Wait...what year is this?!"

"22XX," the teens replied.

"One hundred and fifty years?!" Issun jumped almost to the ceiling in shock before landing on hi thermos container, "I thought I was asleep for fifty!"

"...Eh?" Megaman and Lyra Note blinked at that.

"...Wait. Please tell me I'm not old! I'm too pretty to be old!" Issun's radiation turned water-blue in color.

"Well...not really, no," Lyra Note replied.

"Phew!" the blue turned sky-blue, "What a relief!"

"His radiation changes color to reflect his emotions…" Lyra noted, "Interesting."

"So you're over a hundred and fifty years old?" Megaman pondered, "Wait...does that mean you're an FM-Ian or AM-Ian?"

"I have no idea what those are," Issun replied, his radiation back to its normal coloration, "I was made in this lab one hundred and sixty years ago if that helps."

"A hundred and sixty years ago?!" the two gawked.

"Does everyone in the future repeat everything these days?" Issun snarked.

"G...gomen. Just...in shock is all," Lyra Note replied.

"Making EM beings is considered new technology," Megaman admitted.

"So baka-ryuu's a baby?"

=I WILL END YOU!=

"No, no, no. It's...a bit of a story," Megaman admitted.

"Ah, a tale, eh? Well, if it's interesting enough, I'll be glad to paint works of it," Issun noted, "Ah! Matte! I introduced myself, but who are you two?"

"Oh...well...I'm Geo Stellar, but as this…" Megaman paused as he motioned to his outfit, "I go by Megaman."

"...You look more like a Rockman to me. No no….Shooting Star Rockman," Issun commented before looking at Lyra Note, "And you are, tenshi-sama?"

"Watashi Strumm Sonia. But I go by Lyra Note when I'm fused with Lyra," Lyra Note introduced.

"Subarashi!" Issun beamed, his denpa a bright gold now.

"So this little guy was in here along with all this?" Ace pondered.

"Hey, hey, hey! Take your shoes off while you're in here! We have the shoe cubby with slippers there by the entrance for a reason!" Issun shouted, bouncing angrily as evident by the red radiation coming off him.

"There was a cubby out there?" Ace raised a brow.

"Right there by the door!" Issun pointed his sword over at a metal cubby that indeed had slippers in them, "Haven't you...no, wait...this was something that vanished when Japanese became a dead language." he facepalmed, "It's considered proper etiquette to not wear shoes indoors because that's just welcoming demons in here!"

"Ahh…." Ace nodded in understanding before rubbing the back of his head sheepishly, "Sorry about that."

"Now I need to go get a bucket and mop up where you stepped with water mixed with purified salt…" Issun grumbled, "FILSS!"

=Yes, Issun?= a woman's voice came from the ceiling.

"Purification treatment where that guy was walking about with his shoes on please!"

=Beginning treatment=

A panel on a wall slid down and a robot on plastic wheels with a mop in its hands rolled out with a mop bucket filled with water following it.

"What the…?"

"This place gets dirty a lot, so FILSS has to do it for us… er... me," Issun explained, "She's been the family's handy AI for two centuries as of now! Right, FILSS?"

=Correct=

"Your family, Issy?" Dr. Goodall asked, having already been wearing slippers.

"Yeah! I was made by Sakurai Skye and so was FILSS," Issun explained, "Er...I guess it's Skye Sakurai since you don't completely know Japanese."

"? Skye Sakurai? The man said to have a million plans in his mind the moment he did a single action?" Goodall asked, "One of the key developers of the Metastability Program for Network Navigators?"

"Who else?" Issun grinned.

"I'm quite amazed. He was actually able to create you when EM technology was barely even a concept," Goodall noted, "It will be interesting to get to know you, Issy."

"Well thanks, Granny Goodall!" Issun bounced happily, "Anything you wanna know, just ask away!"

"Ano...who's Skye Sakurai?" Sonia asked.

"He's the guy who made me!" Issun explained before pulling out another rolled up paper, unfurled it, and quickly painted on it, "And…" he pulled out his mallet and bopped it, making the paper enlarge itself to show a lifesize portrait of a man with bits of sunkissed blonde mixed into long silver hair, wearing a lab coat, a floral-printed shirt, and brown slacks with a cane in hand, "This is how he looked when he made me! I was told he was quite the looker when he was younger. I didn't really know him long, just a few months, before he put me in stasis until someone said the password."

"...Amaterasu…" Sonia whispered in realization.

"Yep! The Sun Goddess herself!" Issun beamed as he pulled out another rolled up paper and enlarged it with his mallet, depicting a Sumi-e of a pure white wolf with scarlet markings and a mirror floating above its back, ignited in flames.

=Wait a second...That guy looks like an old fart version of the punk who nicked some of my radiation from that Clockman Incident!= Omega-Xis snapped.

"The what incident?"

"Let's just say it involves time travel…" Geo sighed.

"What?! You never mess with time! EVER!" Issun snapped, "Why would this Timeman mess with time?! Why?!"

"Harem…" Lyra deadpanned.

"..."

"...Issun?"

Issun fell over, pink smoke coming off his head with hearts as his radiation turned bright pink.

=Perverted little gnat=

"Little gnat that can kick your ass…"

=WHAT WAS THAT?!=

"Seems that Issy's been cooped up for longer than one should be."

"Damn straight I have!" Issun snapped, "Please tell me the women out there are as hot as Misora-tenshi-sama!"

"Ano...it's Sonia."

"A monkey, a peach, and now a bug all call you 'Misora,'" Omega-Xis snickered, "Maye you should keep that as a fake name when you hide from the paparazzi."

"That's….not a bad idea actually…." Lyra admitted.

"Wow. The baka-ryuu had a good idea for once since I met him!" Issun exclaimed.

"I will eat you!" Omega-Xis growled.

"I don't swing that way, bub!" Issun declared.

"Why you little…!"

"Considering you already know these four, they could be your tour guide through the city. You've missed much in the last century and a half," Goodall offered.

"That sounds good to me, Granny Goodall!" Issun beamed as he jumped onto Sonia's shoulder, "Onward, Tenshi-sama!"

"So you don't mind them being here without you?" Geo asked.

"Nah. FILSS has blueprints for everything here if they want to take something apart," Issun shrugged, "You just gotta be nice ta her."

"Ahh….noted."

"Well what should we start with?" Sonia pondered, once more having her hood up and sunglasses on.

"S-Sugei~! This is the outside? It's huge~!" Issun awed, "I've only been in the lab!"

=It's not that impressive…= Omega-Xis muttered.

"Quiet you!"

"Wait, you've only been down there?" Geo asked in his hat and sunglasses.

"Yep! So being out here's really, well...I can't even begin to describe! Look at all this nature around us!" Issun beamed, bouncing happily on Sonia's shoulder, "It's amazing~! Oh! How big are the cities now?!"

"Well, we're in a park in the center of it," Geo replied.

"This is just a park?!" Issun fell off Sonia's shoulder in shock before getting back up, "Sugei~! I'm so glad that nature is still in balance in Nihon!"

"Nihon?"

"Oh! That's one of the older names for this country. It's also gone by Japan and Nippon," Issun explained, "Yeesh. Has the history been lost, too?! Well, it's a good thing that PILSS has a backup of the entire country's history in her databanks."

"Entire history?!"

"It was said that the guy who made me and PILSS, Skye Sakurai, would make a million plans the moment he made even a single movement. He probably has hidden labs all over the globe with copies of the entire history of the places the other labs are," Issun explained.

"...Sonia?" Geo spoke.

"Hai?"

"I think we may need to look for these labs when we can…" Geo whispered.

=What?! Oh come on! I was hoping you guys would look for more of that game data!=

"Game data?" Issun repeated.

"A friend of Geo-kun's, Dr. Boreal, is looking for old game data to restore them," Geo explained.

"Oh...well it might not be much, but the lab's got a bit of that 'game data' in the computers," Issun replied.

=WHAT KINDS?!= Omega-Xis demanded in a semi-excited tone.

"I'm not telling you, mutt."

=HATE YOU!=

=...Issun, can you be a dear and please tell us?= Lyra asked.

"Gladely!" Issun beamed.

=You perverted bug…=

"Quiet, baka-inu, the adults are talking," Lyra scolded as she formed.

=BITE ME!=

"Well, there's a neat RPG involving a human and digital monsters, a fun two-player involving dragons and popping bubbles, and an entire collection of games involving a chubby red plumber fighting a dragon-turtle for a princess," Issun explained.

=NO FIGHTING GAME?!= Omega-Xis snapped =What a…!=

"There's also this crossover fighting game between four series, including this...Blazing blue game, and a show focusing on female hunters fighting against demonic creatures. I didn't really play it much, but I did like the art gallery in it!"

=...Geo, when we get back to the lab, get that game data!= Omega-Xis declared.

"After Issun's done looking around the city," Geo replied.

"I like ya, Subaru-san!" Issun beamed.

"Subaru?"

"Ya look like a 'Subaru' ta me!"

"Oh…"

"Yeah. I got a appropriate name for the mutt, but he has to earn it. And guess what? That ain't happening anytime soon."

=I WILL END YOU!=

"Try it and I'll go up your nose and turn what you use for a brain into ribbons!" Issun declared.

=Bring it shrimp!=

"SHRIMP?!"

"Geo-kun, please mute him," Sonia sweatdropped.

=Geo, don't you d-!=

"Oh, that's a neat feature!" Issun beamed, "So what's next on the list of things I can see in this place?"

"...Ano…" Sonia pondered for a moment, "...Museum?"

"It would help him catch up to speed on what's happened during his slumber," Lyra added.

"Oh! I can't wait to see the works of art they've got there! Lead on!" Issun cheered as he jumped onto Sonia's shoulder.

"...Oh sweet Fudegami…" Issun whispered in awe as he looked around the museum, "So...much...history...so...much...ART!"

"Shh!"

"!" Issun flinched before bowing repeatedly, his aura blue, and whispered, "Gomen nassai."

"It's fine. Just...please stay quiet while we're here," Sonia advised.

"Okay," Issun nodded.

"And don't jump on any of the exhibits," Lyra added, "They're very sensitive about these things being touched."

"You got it. I'd get pretty mad if people put their feet all over things I've painted," Issun nodded, "Still, look at it all! It's so amazing! I've only seen the art stored in the lab and what I've made before I was put into stasis. Seeing so much art...it's subarashi!"

"Well glad you like it," Geo nodded, "So what exhibit do you want to check out first?"

"All of them!"

"...Why don't we check out one of them first?" Sonia muttered as she looked around, "Ano...oh. Maybe the Renaissance section? They have copies of all the works from then in it."

"Then let's go….!" Issun exclaimed quietly.

"So a lot of these buildings are made of EM Waves?" Issun asked.

"The tallest ones, yeah," Geo replied, "They're meant for businesses."

"Well, what happens if you're in those places when something causes the EM Waves to break?" Issun asked, "Aren't there safety measures in place for if that happens? Aren't there security measures in case anyone attempts to disrupt those EM Waves?"

"...You like to plan ahead a lot, do you?"

"See a need, fill a need. That's what my creator always used to say!" Issun beamed, "And I've gotta say I think I know a need I can fill!"

"How so?"

"Well, why not travel the country and tell them the stories of the past?" Issun asked before pulling out a roll of paper and began to paint on it, "I can tell them and show the stories with my sumi-e paintings!" once he was done, he pulled his mallet out and tapped the painting, enlarging it to show an ink painting of him travelling, "See?"

"Huh...cool," Geo noted, "This is pretty good."

"Thanks. I am a master artist afterall," Issun beamed, pride evident in his voice.

=Just don't get a swelled head…=

"Like you?" Issun snickered before yelping as a drop of rain hit his head, "Ah! I've been hit! Help!" he jumped into Sonia's hood, "Water Attribute attacking! Misora-Tenshi-Sama, tatsukete~!"

"It's not an attack, Issun," Geo noted, "It's just rain."

"Oh…" Issun poked out from under Sonia's chin, "...I knew that."

=Would you mind getting out of her shirt now?= Omega-Xis snorted.

"Aw man~What a way to rain on my parade," Issun whined as he jumped out and landed on Geo's shoulder once they were under some cover, "Literal rain! Makes me wish I had the kind of power a Fudegami could and use Sunrise."

"Sunrise?"

"It's where you use a brush and paint a big circle in the sky," Issun explained.

"Really?" Sonia pondered as she looked at the cloud-filled sky while taking her brush out, "So...it's like Sakigami's Bloom, but you paint it in the sky and not on plants?"

"Huh? I guess so," Issun shrugged, "I haven't seen Sakigami's Bloom technique."

The brush glowed faintly as Sonia watched the sky become sepia tone. Holding up the brush, she made a circle in the sky before putting the brush away. The ink flashed red before a kanji appeared in the sky briefly. It resembled two blocks-one standing straight up and one on its side with what looked like a two-toned musical note without the bumps on the bottom legs-above four small dashes. Sonia swore she heard a rooster crowing when it briefly flashed in the air.

"照 (Shou - 'To Shine')," Sonia whispered before the rain stopped and the clouds vanished almost instantly, letting the sun shine once more.

"N-n-n-n-NANI?!" Issun exclaimed, jumping twice Geo's height into the air in shock, "Th-That was it! That was Sunrise! But...but how!? Only Amaterasu can use that! ...Unless..."

"...Unless what?" Sonia repeated.

"...Unless you're the reincarnation of Amaterasu herself!" Issun exclaimed, pointing at Sonia.

"Eh?!"

"A-Are you kidding me, Issun?" Geo asked.

"No way I'd kid about that!" Issun replied, "Sunset is a power that only Amaterasu was said to have! So that means Misora-Tenshi-sama's Amaterasu reborn!"

"B...But..how?!" Sonia exclaimed, "I can't be the reincarnation of a goddess! I'm just a normal girl that was hit by some strange light that was being held by some dark sphere!"

"Gods are capable of the impossible and redefine what is possible," Issun replied, "It could be that when you reincarnated, you separate yourself from your powers. It makes sense that sooner or later you'd get them back!"

=Seems he's stuck on you being this Ammy whatever gal= Omega-Xis snorted in amusement.

"N-n-not funny!" Sonia blushed in embarrassment.

"I'm actually meeting the Sun Goddess herself! And she's so cute, too~!" Issun swooned, his radiation pink once more, "Okay! I've decided!" his radiation turned back to normal, "I'm gonna tell the old stories, but also draw your current story!"

"...Say what?" Geo looked up at the beetle EM Being on his head.

"I'll stick with ya both so I can draw the legend in the making!" Issun declared as he pulled his sword out and pointed it high, "This I swear on my blade Denpamaru and on my skills as an artist!"

"...EH?!" Sonia exclaimed.

'She just had to test that out…' Lyra thought.

=Oh great. Now we're stuck with the dumb gnat= Omega-Xis grumbled.

"You can leave anytime you want, Baka-ryuu."

=Jokes on you. Geo NEEDS me so he can turn into Megaman, so ha!=

"Hey, I could do the same ya know! I'm made from your Denpa after all!"

=My what?=

"Denpa!"

"EM Radiation," Sonia translated.

=...You ain't my kid!=

"Who wants to be known as a baka-ryuu's kid?!"

=Oi! Anyone would wanna be my kid!=

"They'd probably be mentally damaged!"

=No! They'd be badasses who do what they want!=

"Then I'm staying!"

=Fine! ...Wait. What just happened?=

=Ahahahahahahahaha!= Lyra cracked up.

=Shut it, out of tune harp!=

=Baka-inu!=

"Hai! Baka-ryuu!"

=I WILL RIP YOU TO SHREDS, THE BOTH OF YA!=

Issun quickly painted another rolled up paper and enlarged it with his mallet, "I call it…" Geo caught the picture, displaying Sonia painting Sunrise in the sky, dispelling the rain, "'The First Sunrise!'" he bowed to Sonia, "Please take care of this lowly wandering artist."

'What have I gotten myself into…?' Sonia thought.

=WILL YOU STOP LAUGHING?!= Omega-Xis snapped as Goodall was holding her stomach as she laughed.

"I can't help it!" Goodall replied between laughs, "It's just so good!"

"We've contacted the museum and they'll be happy to set up a permanent wing for the relics you've got down here," Ace noted.

"Really? That's great! It'll only help with reviving interest in the history of our homeland!" Issun cheered, "Just leave the revival of the old stories to yours truly!"

=Don't bother. They're most likely gonna be perver-=

=Oh thank you…= Lyra sighed in relief.

"Oi, oi, oi!" Issun snapped, "Don't go insulting the stories of Nihon like that, baka-ryuu! Especially the ones about Amaterasu!"

"Please stop laughing…" Sonia pleaded as Goodall laughed harder.

"S...sorry! It...it's just so funny…!"

"It's not…" Sonia whined a bit.

=You must admit that to those who don't fully know the old stories, it does sound hilarious that a god would become a young girl= FILSS noted.

"Not. helping. FILSS!" Sonia exclaimed, an embarrassed blush on her face.

"Still...we now know you can cause rains to stop with your brush," Ace noted.

"Ending rain's just the beginning! Sunrise lets her call the sun anytime! She can even turn night into day!" Issun informed, "Yeesh! You really need the old stories told to ya involving the Fudegami!" he hopped over to the case of animal statues, "Like the Hanagami! Ever hear the saying 'See no Evil, Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil'? Well, that's because it comes from the Hanagami! As Sakigami's face is blocked by his shō while playing, he 'sees no evil,' while Hasugami's mouth is preoccupied by his shakuhachi so he 'speaks no evil.' Cymbals are known to be loud, therefore, Tsutagami 'hears no evil.'" he hopped around excitedly, "And the trio have the power of the Greensprout! They control plantlife! And Kazegami can control the winds, Gekigami lightning itself, and don't get me started on Kasugami and her power over time itself!"

"...So glad this Kasugami didn't meet Timeman during that incident…" Geo muttered.

=Yep. Sheep looks like it's drunk=

"I don't know this Timeman guy, but I do have faith that if he ran into Kasugami, he'd be pleading for mercy!" Issun declared, "But the strongest of them all is Amaterasu, because she can earn all their powers!"

"Really?" Sonia and Geo blinked.

"How else do you explain Misora-sama being able to use both Sunrise and Bloom?!" Issun threw his hands up in the air, "For even the great mother of all to forget her history...It's a real crying shame is what it is!"

"...Ano…"

"...I GOT IT! We just need to find the other Fudegami so she can relearn them!"

"But we found Sakigami by pure accident," Geo noted.

"Wrong! You found Sakigami through performing deeds of Praise! Such as giving the fruit back to the Guardian Sapling from that big fat toad ya told me about!" Issun replied, "We just need to find other Guardian Saplings and help others in need and that should let us run into more Fudegami!"

"Didn't Ms. Sakuya mention there being more of those trees out there?" Geo pondered.

"You met Konohanasakuya-hime, too?! Oh...oh the gods of luck must be in my favor!" Issun beamed, "Is it true she's got cutouts on her dress shaped like peaches? Was she really beauty divine?"

"We lost him again," Sonia sweatdropped.

=Maybe Omega had a point on him being perverted…= Lyra muttered.

"Well, I think it's becoming clear now," Ace chuckled, "Geo, Sonia, I think I got a big mission for you both; go out and find all the Guardian Saplings so we can get more information from Sakuya when she shows up at them."

"Eh?!" Geo and Sonia exclaimed.

"And don't worry. If you guys need some backup, just give me a call and I'll make it happen."

"Don't worry, Misora-sama! I'll make sure to record the journey for future generations to tell of it!" Issun declared, already painting another rolled up piece of paper, "Hey, FILSS, you make sure to listen to everything Granny Goodall tells ya to do for her while I'm out travelling!"

=Understood, Issun=

"Oh boy, this is gonna be so great! Travelling all over, spreading the tales of our land's lost history, and even getting to be up close and personal on writing new tales to tell!" Issun cheered, his radiation a pure gold now, "Aside from having to deal with a baka-ryuu, it's gonna be sugei!"

=I can grab a piece of paper and roll it up. No one will be the wiser= Omega-Xis growled.

"Ignoring~" Issun sang.

=Oh, you little gnat!=

"Great! Head on back to Geo's place and we can start looking for those Guardian Saplings first thing tomorrow!" Ace grinned.

"Got it, taicho!"

"...Uh…"

"It means Captain."

"...I like it!" Ace grinned.

=Oh. This'll be good. What's yer mom gonna think 'bout the gnat?= Omega-Xis snorted.

"Now why didn't you tell me you had a son, Mega?" Hope asked, pouting a little as he mock-glared at Omega-Xis while Issun was flat on his back, his radiation pink with hearts floating out of him.

"I'm surrounded by beautiful young women. Did I really come out of stasis or did it malfunction and delete me and this is heaven…?" Issun mumbled happily.

"Like hell this little perv's my son!" Omega-Xis snapped.

"Well, he did say he was made from your radiation," Kevin snickered, "In a way, I guess he is your kid."

"Oi!" Omega-Xis snapped before groaning, "Geo, please tell me you got that game data from that lab the gnat was in…"

"Dr. Boreal's working on it," Geo replied, "He said it'll take a while before he can get to the fighting game since he's more interested in the other ones first."

"OH COME ON!" Omega-Xis complained.

"Huh...So this is what you've managed to figure out so far?" Issun asked as Kevin showed him his notes, "Ya got it all right so far, but...you're missing the writing."

"The writing?" Kevin repeated.

"Yeah. It's not done phonetically, but symbolically," Issun explained before making three slashes on a piece of paper, forming the image of what appeared to be a man or something on fire, "Like this. This means 'fire' and it looks like it."

"I see...I see…" Kevin nodded, "Think you could draw a little sheet of the Japanese alphabet for me?"

"Sure thing!" Issun beamed.

"Where do you think the next Guardian Sapling is?" Sonia pondered.

"I'm not sure," Geo replied, "Ms. Sakuya mentioned a Kamiki Village, but I've never heard of it."

"Kamiki Village? Oh! That's from the story that old man told us, wasn't it?" Hope pondered, "The one about Orochi and the wolf Shiranui and the two lovers Nagi and Nami?"

"Hai," Sonia nodded.

"Ah...Now that's a classic tale," Issun reminisced, "Though not without some sadness mixed in. It's said Orochi was freed a hundred years later and that Amaterasu slaid the beast with help of Nagi's descendent Susano'o. But defeating Orochi caused part of Nihon to break off and vanish."

"Really?"

"Oh yeah...Didn't help there were some nasty spirits that were released from Orochi's curse, especially a rather nasty nine-tailed fox!" Issun replied, "But there is legend that when Amaterasu reincarnates, the missing part of the land would start to reappear, praying for the day it can reunite with the main part of the land!" he crossed his arms and tilted his head in thought, "In fact, it was said that the part of the land that went missing included the capital and a few villages."

"?!" Geo and Sonia's eyes widened at that.

"...Geo...you don't think…"

"That the 'mysterious dissapearing island' we heard about in the news is the missing part he's talking about?"

"Disappearing island?" Issun repeated.

"It's been on the news lately. An island keeps appearing off the coast at random times throughout the day," Hope explained.

"Huh...Sounds like the perfect place for the country-wide trip to start at!" Issun beamed, "Where was the island last seen?!"

"I think it was just north of Alohaha the last time the news reported it," Kevin replied.

"Aloe-haha?"

"No no. Alohaha," Hope corrected, "A beach."

"?!" Issun's eyes widened, "That sounds so sugei~!"

"Little perv probably just wants to see girls in bikinis…" Omega-Xis muttered.

"HOW DARE YOU! I AM NOT A LITTLE PERV!"

"OH YEAH?! THEN WHAT ARE YA?!"

"I am the great Issun! A wandering artist who tells the tales of Nippon's past through his art!" Issun declared.

"More like a perverted little gnat with a fetish for big boobs!" Omega-Xis snapped.

"Don't make me come in there! I'll jump in yer stomach and poke so many holes in it, you can water a field by just taking a sip of water!"

"I'll grind ya into powder and make ya inta a cup of coffee!"

"I'll go in yer nogging and make ya dance the disco!"

"I'll chew ya up like bubblegum!"

Geo and Sonia sighed. This was going to be a long trip.

GT: Well, ladies and gents, introducing the tiniest EM-made being around, Issun!

SZ: Eeyup, and already Omega-Xis hates him.

Omega-Xis: How can I not?! He's so annoying and perverted!

GT: Annoying, huh? Gee, where have I experienced that before?

SZ: Yeah. Where…?

Omega-Xis:...what's that supposed to mean?!

GT: Ah well. Hope you readers enjoyed this chapter. Make sure to leave a comment for the chapter!

SZ: Eeyup, so until next time. I am Seanzilla115, he is Gammatron, and we will see you all next time! Oh and...a little selfish, but be sure to check out my youtube channel for my LP, and for any LPs GT has planned on his channel.

GT: Possibly. So until then, read and review everyone!