Music:
https://youtu.be/4Dfi5uJ2thw
Once again months have passed. How many?
I can’t rightly say, but things certainly can’t stay peaceful here for
long if this trend keeps up. It all
started with the N1 Grand Prix Preliminaries.
Music: https://youtu.be/OcBwAwnwm-Q
A competition between Navi seemed
like a nice distraction from running an underground organization so I
entered. As with the license tests I
took months ago it was a cakewalk to get through. MegaMan and the others also heard about, and
joined the N1. When they asked me what I’d
do about an operator I simply told them I had my ways. Once everyone got through the preliminaries I
was invited to a chat Yai decided to host, and decided I could join them. Once the chat was over it was brought to
everyone’s attention that Dex had left his homework disk at the school. Everyone decided to help him out, so I took
refuge in Lan’s PET like I had before and joined them as they attempted to
enter the school at night.
The gate was obviously locked, so I
volunteered to go unlock it for them.
MegaMan decided to accompany me and together we got it open with no
trouble. After the operators scrounged
around for Dex’s disk Lan ended up finding it and giving it to him. As we were leaving noises could be heard from
the teacher’s lounge which was strange because not even the maintenance staff
was here. An unknown voice said
something about obtaining the first TetraCode and everyone but Lan charged in to
confront the burglar. FlashMan uses the
screen from a laptop to hypnotize the three of them and they ran off believing
they were animals. After finding a
parasol to block the hypno-light Lan jacked MegaMan and myself into the laptop.
Music: https://youtu.be/PZxKG7LhpeM
Inside the principals laptop it was
completely dark. Lan had to turn the
actual lights in the school on in order to grant us visibility. I thought it was a stupid design choice
myself, but kept that to myself as we made our way through the laptop. There were some barriers we had to find keycards
for but it didn’t take us long. When we
got to the end we found the perpetrator Navi, FlashMan. I felt a slight connection with him since we’re
both elec element Navis, but like with ElecMan the feeling didn’t stop me from
kicking his but with MegaMan. Before he was completely beat he did…something to
MegaMan and myself. We weren’t sure what
at the time, but I stayed with Lan at his father’s insistence for the time
being.
Once we discovered that there was
something wrong with us, Lan decided to take us to go see his father to fix the
issue. When Lan tried to board the Metro
it was blocked by a little kid wanting to see his brother who he claimed is the
number one netbattler in town. Since Lan
obviously didn’t have a brother and I was just a Navi (and didn’t even
technically live in the ACDC part of the net) we figured the mystery brother
was probably Dex. Checking the school
for Dex we discovered it really is him and his brother (Chisao) came from the
other side of the world to see him. He
wanted to see his brother’s skills in action so Dex had no choice but to battle
Lan and MegaMan. All I’ll say is that he
didn’t win.
With the Metro finally open we went
to the SciLab. Unfortunately Dr. Hikari
was in a meeting, but he let Lan know that he’s give him a sub PET to use while
he fixed his actual one. When we got
back to ACDC the guy that told Lan about the N1 let him know that the second
round of the preliminaries were about to begin.
He gave us passes to SciLab square and left. We jacked in to the net and took on the
second round with gusto. Finding it easy
we went to jack out when all of a sudden our connection to Lan was forcibly
cut. This was bad for MegaMan because he
relied on Lan for battle chips. I was
used to being on my own, so we made it back to manually jack out without
incident. Lan’s father came home that
night and promised to figure out what was wrong and gave Lan a sub PET in the
meantime.
The next day Lan’s class was having
a field trip to Yoka and Lan as always, overslept. Luckily the class hadn’t left yet and he made
it in time. I would have preferred to be
out on the net searching for information about the TetraCodes, but whatever
FlashMan did to me was too big of a risk to leave unfixed. After a day of enjoying what Yoka had to
offer Lan’s father sent an email with programs to fix myself and MegaMan, as
well as a Navi Customizer for Lan and MegaMan.
Once I had my freedom back I chose to explore the net in Yoka while
MegaMan and Lan slept. I came back after
discovering nothing in the area surrounding the Inn and slept through most of
the following morning.
Music: https://youtu.be/FuusYNXld9g
I was awoken in the middle of the
crisis. The animals were running wild
and the cause was the zookeeper doing something to make them go berserk through
a radio tower or something. I wasn’t in
the mood for it honestly. I joined
MegaMan in searching for a solution to the problem in the ZooComp. There were animal programs and viruses we had
to match up to progress like some weird puzzle… Anyway we managed to make it to
the zoo keeper’s Navi, BeastMan. He had
some speed to him, not on QuickMan’s level, but still decently fast. MegaMan and I were faster though, and beat
him together with relative ease.
Music: https://youtu.be/OcBwAwnwm-Q
A little after the zoo incident the
next round of the prelims were being held. Naturally I got through them without
issue, as did MegaMan and some others I recognized.
The next day however, was another
incident. A new brand of dishwasher
called the Bubblewash was all the rage and many people had bought one. However, they were nothing more than a way
for WWW to spread more chaos again. The
machines trapped the users in bubbles that would explode after a certain amount
of time, and Lan’s friend Mayl and their teacher Ms. Mari had gotten caught up
in it as well. For the most part I didn’t
do anything to help solve the incident, being in the UnderNet as I was. I took the time to gather information and
found that WWW were the ones who were after the TetraCodes.
Music: https://youtu.be/aVGLWZoTxME
The next phase of the N1 was
underway, I kept to myself and got through it as quickly as possible. I made arrangements for some random hacker to
be my faux operator and took refuge in an unfamiliar PET as we made our way to
the Beach area. As we waited for the
next phase to begin I took the time to challenge some of the competition to
more friendly battles before the real fights would begin. Most of them were forgettable, but KingMan
stood out and the battle we had was enough to remind me that I should be
enjoying the tournament. I heard MegaMan
later battled him and also won.
The battles were to be held at the
mysterious Hades Island, and everyone took the same boat to get there. It was at this point I realized that I was on
national, perhaps even international television. It made me nervous even though I knew the
only challenges would be MegaMan and ProtoMan.
The first test was to weed out some of the less resourceful entrance and
find Victory Data. A fitting name,
seeing as there were only a certain amount of them. Afterwards the actual battles began. I went up against two no name Navis and
joined MegaMan and ProtoMan in advancing. Glyde, MetalMan and GutsMan were all
knocked out of the tournament.
As I waited for my match it seemed
the enjoyment of a tournament couldn’t last.
WWW had an operator in the tournament the entire time. Sunyama and DesertMan. I wasn’t about to endanger the guy who agreed
to be my operator, so I let Lan, Chaud, MegaMan and ProtoMan handle the
situation as we left.
Music: https://youtu.be/k0RoyRIkxtU
While I wasn’t there to witness it
myself, Lan and MegaMan had a run in with another WWW Navi at the hospital of
all places. It seemed that they had befriended a sick boy there with the same
disease that Hub had. Poor thing. Luckily, he was going to have an
operation. If all went well he’d be
cured. PlantMan had other things in mind
however, and the power to the hospital was cut during Mamoru’s operation and
things were tense for a while. But Lan
and MegaMan were resourceful as ever and found a way to save the day. The operation ended up being a success and
Mamoru was set to make a full recovery.
Music: https://youtu.be/tKnOHmKR11s
Afterwards, Lan ended up being
tricked into doing some of WWW’s dirty work for them by Mr. Match, who he
believed to have reformed. There were
net fires all over. I couldn’t do
anything but help evacuate some Navis and programs before something happened to
them. Thanks to the Navi Customizer MegaMan
was able to put out all the fires and I followed him into the UnderNet.
I chose not to interfere and
watched as MegaMan fought and beat FlameMan.
He tried to delete MegaMan but was suddenly interrupted by the arrival
of Bass. He quickly deleted FlameMan in
one strike, then set his sights on MegaMan.
I thought the fight would have been less one sided, but Bass’s Life Aura
had increased in power. Megaman couldn’t
break through it and was knocked out.
Before he could delete MegaMan as well I rushed in and broke his Aura
with his own move. Bass seemed surprised
that I was there, but before we could continue our reunion, Wily of all people
called him back after claiming to have gathered all of the TetraCodes. Bass left without a word and I was left
thinking my stars I didn’t have to fight him right then. I made myself scarce as MegaMan was getting
up and watched him leave. Things were
getting much worse.
A while after that I found out that
MegaMan was going through the UnderNet rankings, trying to get to S, the rank 1
Navi. I myself had only met Serenade
once befrore, and we fought to a standstill.
I managed to get a really powerful ability from him called “Sonic Boom”. Limiting myself to rank four, when MegaMan
finally found me during his quest I simply gave him the rank. I had no use for it, hence why I didn’t go
and beat numbers two and three. He was
successful in doing whatever it was that he needed to do had to face the Navi
DrillMan. WWW had managed to start
awakening Alpha, the prototype of the Internet itself. There was still time to stop WWW, so I joined
Lan and MegaMan once more to put a stop to their plans.
Music: https://youtu.be/uKymeuwwtAk
After going through some hoops to
get access to the WWW base we left to stop Wily. We got to have rematches with the WWW Navis
we beat earlier, but our friends came to finish them off so we could move on
ahead. The rematches with the WWW Navis
proved to be no challenge even if they were synched with their operators. BeatMan and his operator were strangely
absent. I later found that they had been…taken
care of by Wily due to their failure.
Why them only, I’m not sure. But
it helped MagaMan and Lan achieve a Full Synchro again since a Pulse
Transmission chair was free. The details
of the final battle are a little lost to me, but in the end, Bass and Wily were
absorbed by Alpha and MegaMan and Lan managed to defeat the prototype of the
Internet incarnate. I’m sure it was
quite the battle. Lan and MegaMan got to
learn a little about their grandfather as some of his personality data was
inside Alpha. It’s destruction caused
the Island to begin self destructing and before the two could Jack out a
remnant of Alpha captured them and MegaMan sacrificed himself to save Lan.
Music: https://youtu.be/boG50lHq0qg
Lan was devastated. He lost not only his Navi, but his brother as
well. Everyone around him managed to
cheer him up a bit and stop him from becoming depressed. I would have offered to stay with him as a
replacement Navi, but something in me knew that it’d never be the right thing
to do. The days of peace returned, and
everything was almost normal. The fact
that MegaMan was no longer with us was an ever present fact of life. During the time between the defeat of Alpha
and Lan starting the sixth grade I set out again on a journey to discover what
new secrets hid in the Net. Hidden
Navis, the Secret Area and more. I even
got abilities from ProtoMan (The Delta Ray Edge) and GutsMan (A portion of his
toughness. Flinching was a thing of the past for me). To everyone’s surprise however, Lan’s father
managed to do the impossible with a little help from his own dad. MegaMan returned they day Lan begun the sixth
grade and it was soon as if he never was gone in the first place. Bass also resurfaced, albeit with slight
memory loss and another increase in power.
I fought him to a standstill once more and found out how he survived. Some remnants of Gospel had fused with him,
submerging his memories until he consumed enough Bug Frags to regain his
strength. His memory returned only after
MegaMan and Lan beat him though. And
that was the end of that chapter of my life I this world.
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