Mamoru's Blizzard
The elevator came to a stop on the thirtieth floor. The doors to the elevator opened and Mamoru wheeled out, with Sean right behind him. The duo walked into the hallway, before Sean turned a corner and stood in front of a door.
"Is this it?" asked Mamoru, looking up at his eighth grade friend. Sean wordlessly nodded, before pushing open the door. As Sean walked in, Mamoru saw the many machines and servers around the room.
"Every room on every floor is full of servers exactly like the ones in here. They're all off though." said Sean as he opened a door and headed into another room. Mamoru quickly wheeled after him, revealing a room with servers and machines that looked much more powerful than the ones Mamoru had already seen.
"Wow…" whispered Mamoru, wheeling over to one of the servers and pressing him hand to it.
"It sure is big…" piped Blizzardman, looking on from the screen on Mamoru's PET.
"Yeah, and I bet it's as strong as the Undernet servers…" added Mamoru.
"Here's my old PET." said Sean, interrupting Mamoru and Blizzardman's conversation. Mamoru turned around to see Sean holding up an old PET, equipped with a fold-out keyboard. There was a wire trailing from part of it and into the laptop on the desk in front of a large screen. "So… While I try to get the Dark Chip out, can you see if you can find Freezeman?"
"Alright." replied Mamoru. He wheeled over to the Jack In port and aimed the in fared sensor at the small point below the Jack In port. "Jack In, Blizzardman! Execute!"
Blizzardman appeared in the Gospel Server. The ground was thin and spiky, and to his left and right was a bottomless pit. Nervously, Blizzardman skied onward, keeping an eye out for any odd activity.
A NetNavi looked left and right inside one of the deepest parts of the Gospel Server.
"Where is he…?" whispered the Navi, looking down the side of the platform he was on.
It's body was thin and it was entirely covered in green armor. It was very tall and had a long neck, and it's face looked like a small green metallic skull with eerie yellow eyes. Two horns jetted out from the side, their tips yellow, making the whole thing look like a bug's head from a distance, the yellow being the eyes. It's torso was connected to it's hip with a short but thick metal pole, and it's shoulders were also armored. It's arms were actually two large green scythes, and it's thin green legs ended with thick hooks as feet. It's knees had a skull on it, and two green wings shot out of it's waste. On it's chest and shoulders were it's icon.
The Navi's icon was a light green insect's head with yellow eyes. The background was a dark gray and the border was a very dark green.
"No one is here." said the person on the screen. It was a boy who looked in his late teens. He had golden eyes and dark green hair, and was wearing a red t-shirt with his Navi's icon on the right breast and a strange insignia on both shoulders. "No one from G-II, or anyone else. The rumors about Flashman being here must have been false."
"Are you sure?" asked the Navi.
"Positive." replied the teen. "But then again… Flashman isn't our main target, he would have just made it easier for us to find what we really want to destroy."
"I suppose we're going to wait until it surfaces then?" asked the insect-like NetNavi.
"Yes." replied the teenager, ruffling a hand through his hair. "Who knows? Maybe someone else will get rid of it for us. Anyway, I'm jacking you out, Mantisk."
"Okay, Kamaki…" replied the NetNavi called "Mantisk."
Mantisk, Jacking Out
After the Navi had completely disappeared from the area, another NetNavi appeared out of seemingly nowhere.
"Hm…" said the Navi thoughtfully. "So, those Invis chips really work… Perhaps… Hm…"
This new Navi looked like an odd mix of sea animals. It's long neck and head looked like that of an eel, but it had ears that looked like fins. It's body was small dark blue armor and shaped like a regular human-Navi's, and it had light blue fins coming out from where arms and legs should be, though the lower set of fins was quite large, and the Navi was using them as feet. It's icon was on the left chest plate, and it had two very long tails coming out the back of it's waist, both of which ended in a yellow sphere.
The Navi's icon was a blue spiral with a yellow thunderbolt behind it. The background was a lighter blue, and the border was black.
"It looks like they couldn't sense your presence when you used those upgraded chips." said a voice. A screen popped up behind the Navi. "Volteel, there is an intruder inside the server. He isn't one of them, but he defeated Flashman. Return to the server now, and we'll retrieve Freezeman another time."
The Navi now known as Volteel nodded it's long neck, before another screen popped up. The person on this screen was a young woman who looked in her mid twenties and was wearing a snorkel, goggles, and had three blue earrings shaped like lightning bolts all hanging on one ear. She had on an orange bikini, and her Navi's icon was not only all over the bikini, but tattooed to her left shoulder. Her blonde hair was short and her eyes were light brown.
"Got it. Let's go Volteel!" said the woman.
Volteel, Jacking Out
The last screen stayed for a moment, and the person on it murmured one sentence as the screen faded away.
"Blizzardman, you too will be mine…"
Blizzardman was a very very bored NetNavi.
"There aren't even any viruses!" exclaimed Blizzardman in an annoyed tone, making a whoosh as he finished his sentence. "I hope we find Freezeman soon though, because I keep feeling really weird."
"What do you mean?" asked Mamoru, looking from Sean to his PET. Sean was having a hard time tugging the Dark Chip out of the PET, and unfortunately, Mamoru couldn't really help him with his weakened body.
"I keep feeling like someone's watching me or something…" replied Blizzardman. "But… At the same time it feels like this place is completely empty."
"Oh…" said Mamoru. He heard a crash and looked to the side to see Sean on the ground, clutching the Dark Chip in one hand and smiling triumphantly.
"It's out!" exclaimed Sean. He set down the PET and took the Dark Chip in his hands. After looking at it for a moment, he snapped it in two. "And it will never be used again."
Tossing the pieces of the ancient Dark Chip to the side, Sean walked over to Mamoru's PET. However, right under the server by which the broken chip landed, was a chip that looked exactly like it.
"Has Blizzardman found Freezeman?" questioned Sean, looking at Mamoru, who simply looked back at the screen.
"No… Wait a second!" Blizzardman began skiing at a faster pace. When he finally stopped, Sean's jaw dropped.
There, in some kind of tank, was a NetNavi. It's body was light blue and looked like crystal. In fact, it was shaped like crystal, no, ice. It's eyes were closed, and it wore blue armor over it's torso and covering it's arms, as well as boots. The Navi didn't seem to have feet, it's legs just ran to the bottom of the tank, not changing shape. Crystals poked out of it's arms and legs, and one on each side of it's head. There were two dark blue lines on it's head, going to back of it, and one smaller line in the middle. Where the crystals came out as well as on the torso armor was green lining, and in the very center of it's chest was it's icon.
The Navi's icon appeared to be a light blue hexagon with a small black one inside of it, with a black background. The icon's border was green and fitted right in with the green armor on the Navi.
"Freezeman…" whispered Sean softly. Sean ran over to his PET and pushed buttons, any button, every button. "Is he waking up?"
"Um…" Mamoru stared at the screen. Suddenly, Freezeman opened his eyes, revealing two completely dark aqua eyes.
"He woke up!" exclaimed Blizzardman. Sean stared at the screen of his PET as it slowly, but surely, activated. Freezeman coughed and punched a hole in the tank he was in. The cyber-fluid drained and went off the side of the net area. Freezeman looked around.
"Sean? Sean?" called Freezeman. A screen popped open right in front of Freezeman. Freezeman smiled. "Sean! Sean, what happened? I just remember… You used that chip and…"
"I know, I know…" said Sean. "Listen, Freezeman… Things… Well, so much has happened since I used that chip and you changed… I changed and I left you… But now I'm back."
"Sean… What happened after you used that chip?" asked Freezeman quietly. "All I remember is you getting these crazy ideas, that man giving you the chip, and then you used it…"
"I'll jack you out and explain everything." said Sean. He smiled and pulled the plug.
Freezeman, Jacking Out
"You too Blizzardman." added Mamoru.
"Alright." agreed Blizzardman, looking up at the odd skies of the Gospel Servers.
Blizzardman, Jacking Out
The two were at the ElecTown metro line station. The entire trip had been Sean explaining everything to Freezeman, as well as five or so apologies thrown in every other five minutes. Freezeman had forgiven him. Sean and Mamoru had jacked in to a computer and were saying their farewells.
"Thank you, Blizzardman, Mamoru." said Freezeman from Sean's PET. "I cannot express my gratitude, thank you… Thank you."
Blizzardman and Mamoru smiled.
"No problem, none at all." said Blizzardman cheerily. "Hey, maybe someday we'll NetBattle!"
"I look forward to it." said Freezeman, holding out his hand. Blizzardman set down one of his ski poles and shook Freezeman's hand. "Well then, I suppose we're parting ways now?"
"Only for a day." said Sean. "Well, time to go."
Freezeman, Jacking Out
Blizzardman, Jacking Out
"I'll see you tomorrow, Mamoru. And by then, I'll have a new PET and everything. I just hope I get home before my uncle gets worried…" Yes, it seemed that Sean had one living relative who wasn't cruel, but had been away, and hadn't learned about his sister's death until he arrived at her old mansion to discover someone else lived there. He had hunted down Sean and they had been living together since.
Mamoru smiled slightly as Sean ran off to make his purchases.
"Well Blizzardman, now what?" asked Mamoru, looking down at his Navi. Before he could reply, the PET started beeping.
"Mamoru, we have mail from Hanabi!" exclaimed Blizzardman, making a whoosh as he did so. "Hmm…"
"What does it say?" asked Mamoru.
"Hanabi says: 'I just finished my homework and I know you finished yours during lunch. Wanna come to my house and NetBattle? You've also been invited to dinner. See ya, Hanabi.'." recited Blizzardman. He looked at Mamoru.
"Sure." said Mamoru. "Can you tell her we'll be there as soon as the train comes? Oh yeah, then e-mail dad and tell him to let mom know I'll be eating at Hanabi's house."
"I am on it!" exclaimed Blizzardman, entering the information and sending the e-mails. Just as Blizzardman finished, the train pulled in. As Mamoru entered, he heard the voice of the conductor.
"Next stop, ACDC. Repeat, out next stop is ACDC."
"This'll be fun…" said Mamoru to himself.
End Chapter
Disclaimer: Mantisk and Volteel are both from Megaman Zero 3, so I don't own them,just their operators. I also do not own anything from the Megaman Battle Network series, except the OCs I make.