ForteZero Drabble...

[ForteBX.EXE]

ForteZero begins to have thoughts on Fairy Leviathan, after Shadow’s failed attempt of destroying Maverick Hunter HQ. He thinks to how the two had gotten together, to how fate separated them. Has minor fluffiness and minor swearing.

Disclaimer: I do not own any characters from the RockMan series (EXE, X, Zero series). I own myself, my wife’s character Alia (not the same Alia as the X Series’ Alia, mind you), and ForteZero.EXE, aka The White Shadow.

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“Shadow! You son of a bitch!” Two weapons clashed together, before both fighters neared one another, weapons locked.

The 17th Unit Leader David, who has used the Pulse technology to send himself into the cyber world, was fighting against his arch-nemesis Shadow clad in the Command Armor.

David’s boots were slightly bulky, but they looked to be thin and easily maneuverable. There were red gems set into yellow knee guards, with a V-shaped white line outlining it on the lower boot. The main color was mostly azure blue, with white and yellow highlights. White ankle guards surrounded the lower leg, with small red gems set into the ankles. A black body suit covered his body underneath the armor, with his Command Armor belt adorning the waist. The belt itself is white and light blue, with a yellow-colored, pentagon-shaped buckle with an emerald gem set in the center of the belt buckle. A gun holster was connected to the left side of the belt which held within a strange shaped pistol. Three thin white lines lead away from the belt; two connected to his boots, the third running from the tip of the belt buckle to the chest plate. The chest plate was two-toned blue with light blue breast plates and an azure blue main plate, all trimmed in white. The shoulder plates were azure blue as well, circular in shape with a yellow band marking the end of the shoulder plate. The gauntlets were a lot like the boots; azure blue, trimmed with white and a ruby-red gem set into the yellow elbow guards. A yellow neck guard finished off the body armor. A circular helmet rested on his head, with his and his Navi's emblem as ear guards. Indigo blue framed his determined face, with azure blue for the helmet’s main color. A final red gem was set into his helmet, with an indigo blue strip running along the top of his helmet.

Shadow... the New Generation Darkloid, born from darkness... and the son of ShadeMan. He grinned evilly.

He’s a tall mega-virus, wearing a sleek flexible black armor suit with lightning bolt stripes running down his hips. He wore thick black boots with yellow spiked anklets and black gloves with yellow spiked bracelets. Black and yellow armor covered the top half of his torso, including a large pair of crimson shoulder pads that almost gave him the image of an American football player only much broader. Hooked on the torso armor from the back area was his famed Pulverizor Cannon with a vent exhaust, hooked by wires and cables. His helmet is large with pointy crests, two round orbs that emblazoned the yin-yang sign, only green and dark green on opposite ends of his helmet covering the ears. His red eyes were dark and piercing, green streaks running underneath his eyes, and emblazoned on the center of his torso armor was his emblem design of a vampire bat, the right lower half and the fang blood red, the rest black, with the outline of the vampire bat white.

“What’s the matter David? Surprised I have an army of Pantheons?”

“Bastard!” David pushed him away and unleashed a triple sonic boom attack, then rushed forward. “Youdantotsu!”

Shadow growled in pain from being struck by the wood-element Saber Technique before kicking David in the chest and jumping away. David followed shortly after recovering from the minor pain. All around Maverick Hunter Area 1, it was an all-out war. Many Navis were attacking the army of one-eyed blue Navis. Several Hunters from their specific ranks were leading their ranks in victory.

“Fire Force!” Marino, the female ninja of the Stealth Unit unleashed a storm of pink flames, eliminated several Zombie Pantheons.

“Royal Flush!” Although he’s a Maverick Hunter, he has no specific rank he works with. The bounty hunter’s poker cards flashed brilliantly as he threw them at a flank of Pantheons, deleting them instantly.

Forte, the 0th Special Unit, grinned as he drew in some dark energy before throwing several wheels forward. “Hells Rolling!”

“Raikousen!” Zero, also part of the 0th Special Unit, flew forward, striking several enemies with an electrified Z-Saber.

While in the real world, Alia and two other Navigators Layer and Palette (both Navis using Copyroid bodies) were concentrating on several enemies that were breaking through the resistance lines, mainly the aerial Pantheons.

* * *

Cinnamon was busy healing the injured Navis with her healing powers, and Massimo struck down the heavy combat Pantheons with his Berserk Axe.

ForteZero (also a leader of the 17th Unit) was the only Navi taking out the Aerial and Seraph Pantheons. “Annihilator Hadoken!” ForteZero thrusted his K Knuckle covered fists forward, unleashing twin energy beams of pure energy. The beams ripped through the flying Pantheons with ease, eliminating them quickly.

“Shadow, why can’t you freaking die already!?” David swung his saber, which the Darkloid evaded with ease.

“I already told you and your other friends form the other worlds; I cannot die until I murder you in cold blood.” The viral Darkloid struck the human down with a powerful Pulverizor Cannon, sending him crashing into the ground from mid-air.

“Shadow Scry-ed!” Shadow spliced out of existence, before striking an unsuspecting David with thirteen separate sword slashes from all four directions before upper cutting him with his fist, sending him into the air. He leapt up higher than him, pointed his cannon down and fired a beam of black energy that sent him crashing into the ground.

“Heh... I promised father that I would eliminate you. And I will see to it that I slice you up, as the rest of your friends in Electopia.” He grinned, raising his sword to eye level, licking the dull edge like a villain licking blood from his weapon.

“Shadow... this is the last time I have to deal with you.” He glowed brightly, before a large pillar of light shot down and engulfed him. Shadow had to back up to avoid getting burned. When the beam of light vanished, David had entered Hyper Mode.

His entire bodysuit is brown with golden-orange stripes running down the sides. The legs are encased in a pair of shining golden knee-high boots. A large red gem is set into each knee guard and the toes slanted upward with a darker golden stripe lining the soles and tops of each boot and running down the center of the shins. His gloves are infused with shining golden bracers covering the entire lengths of his forearms with guards extending over the backs of his hands, which were covered with black, with red gems embedded into the material. Darker golden stripes lined the cuffs of the bracers and ran along the outer sides of his forearms. Golden armor had covered his torso and his shoulders and the outline of a blazing sun is set in the middle of his chest. Two green shoulder guards covered his shoulders and brown mouth guard with two dark gold stripes under the eyes covered the lower half of David’s face. His helmet was also shining gold and had been redesigned with four spikes jutting out the back and two crests on either side of his head, creating a resemblance to a lion’s main. A single horn stood up from the forehead flanked by a pair of red and white eye-like designs. A long crimson scarf was wrapped around his neck and flowed all the way down to his feet.

“Time to burn down your energy... Sol Flare!” SCR David flew forward, striking Shadow with bursts of solar energy, which was burning away the darkness. He hissed at David, teleporting away.

“Pile Driver!” When Shadow reappeared behind David, two machines rose from the ground and struck the viral Darkloid with double solar piles. He was caught in its trap.

SCR David summoned the GunDelSol and charged in solar energy. “Time to send you back to the Uranet... Burst Shot!” He fired, launching a burst of solar energy. Shadow cried out in pain before he evaporated, and turning into a wave of bats flew away, critically wounded.

David returned to normal, exiting his Hyper Mode, and let out a sigh of relief. All around, the rest of the enemy forces were eradicated, and the base was safe once again.

“Sweetie, damage report,” David declared.

“No casualties. Cinnamon was able to save those who took in heavy damage with her nurse healing powers,” Alia reported.

“That’s good. Damn, what is Shadow up to...?”

Forte and the others gathered around David. “All enemies we’re eliminated.”

Zero nodded, putting his Z-Saber away. “I’ve never seen this many forces focused in all at once.”

“Make’s you wonder what Sonance has planned,” Marino said.

“Well, we can’t dwell on it. For now, we’ll just repair damages dealt to the area then get some rest.” David closed his eyes and pulsed out of the net, returning back to the human world. As the Navis split up to help with the repairs, ForteZero warped away.

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“Hmm...” ForteZero walked through the Ajiina net area, deep in his thoughts. He waved at several Navis he knew, chatted with Red for only a few minutes, and then reached Ajiina’s Internet City.

He sighed, starting to get depressed as he floated high, and stood on an outstretched cyber statue from the tallest building in Internet City, looking out.

“It’s been six months... since fate took you away from me...”

/FLASHBACK/

“So... you’re the one who attacked the Science Labs eh?”

Leviathan turned around, and there standing three feet from her was the White Shadow. Leviathan was a beautiful female Navi. She wore a white bodysuit and ocean-blue armor. Long blue gloves covered her arms and her high-heel boots went well up her thighs. Her helmet was the same color as her armor, but it had a lighter blue visor over the front and a pair of white fins pointing downward at the back with her long white hair flowing out from underneath it. Her icon (a coiled up Ice Dragon) was displayed on her chest and strapped to her back was a long spear. “Ahh, I know you. You’re the brother of the Black Shadow. ForteZero... hehe, you look cute.”

He blushed, but he shook off that feeling, as he pulled out his Forte Sabers and held them tightly in his hands. “Flirting won’t help you much. I’m here to take you out.” He then dashed forward.

Leviathan jumped away and smacks him across the back with her Ice Spear.

"Frozen Barrage!" She swung her spear and several ice shards flew out from the spearhead and shot towards the White Shadow. He spun around, slashing them down before launching an X-shaped Sonic Boom, clipping her over the right shoulder.

She growled, trying to contact her Operator Diana, but to no avail. “Don’t bother... I’ve locked this area so we BOTH can’t contact our Net-ops.” She growled before charging him. It proved to be a mistake. ForteZero quickly accessed his Style Change, and entered Neutral Style; Icarus Form.

The battle was over in a matter of minutes, with ForteZero victorious over Leviathan. He had her pinned towards the wall, looking at her, no longer in Neutral Style.

“You bastard,” she spat out, angry. ForteZero grinned.

“You really think that I’m cute huh?” The anger faded from her, and a light blush formed on her cheeks.

“What do you mean?” His grin only widened, nearing close to her face, she can feel his breath.

“You like me do you?” She stammered, trying to say something, but unknown feelings kept her form speaking fluently. She couldn’t speak any longer before their lips connected, sealing in a deep kiss. She tried to resist, but soon she found herself returning the kiss, as his hold on her loosened, and her arms wrapped around his neck, pulling him closer...

/FLASHFORWARD TO ANOTHER MEMORY/

ForteZero was looking around, as if he felt he was being followed. Once knowing that he wasn't being tailed, he entered this cyber karaoke bar at Internet City on Epsilon Boulevard and R Avenue, and sat down at a nearby table next to the stage.

At the entrance, Fairy Leviathan; General of Ice, shown up and looked around. She spotted ForteZero, and calmly walked over, and surprised him with a kiss. He was startled for a bit, but then he smiled and drew her into his lap for a more passionate kiss. Five minutes passed before they slowly broke it off, and she took a seat next to him.

"Levi-chan... were you followed?"

"Hopefully not. You know Diana and my other friends are gonna tear you apart when they find out," the girl told her secret lover. The White Shadow nodded.

"I don't think my friends and family won't appreciate me falling in love with the enemy." He looked down for a bit, but she gave him a warm smile.

"They just don't understand... none of them won't..."

"... You know that you will eventually be forced to do something that will require me to delete you... but I can't bear to lose you..." She looked up at him, and smiled softly.

"We'll see what fate has in store for us..." He slid a hand over, and the White Shadow grasped it in his grip.

"Yeah..." The two leaned closer, and shared another prolonged snog session.

"Hey! Let's sing a song together!" She exclaimed. The White Shadow sweatdropped.

"Uhh..." She only giggled before yanking him up from the seat as they entered onto stage. A crowd cheered for them as a song started to play out from the cyber speakers. But in the back near the entrance, three Navis entered the building.

The first NetNavi was dressed in a white bodysuit underneath green armor around his torso and green gloves and boots. Two small wings were mounted onto his back. His helmet was also green and sported a pair of crests similar to wings in appearance. Clipped to the belt around his waist were two silver cylinders. His icon (a white diamond surrounded by green wings) was emblazoned on his chest.

The second Navi was wearing a red bodysuit with white running down the middle. Red armor covered the top half of his torso, including a large pair of shoulder pads that almost gave him the image of an American football player only much broader. He wore thick red boots with yellow anklets and red gloves with yellow bracelets. His helmet was red with a white border surrounding his face and two yellow horns shooting up from the front like a beetle’s. Attached to his right arm was a flame-thrower, which was also equipped with a large pincer-like claw. His icon (two yellow spikes pointing upward against a red background surrounded by a yellow ring) was emblazoned on the right shoulder pad.

And the third Navi who stood behind the first two wore flexible navy-blue armor overtop a white bodysuit. His arms were covered in navy-blue arm warmers that doubled as additional armor with yellow along the edges. His boots were also similar, going up past his knees and stopping about halfway up his thighs. Protective yellow bracelets and anklets served as stronger armor for certain areas. A red scarf hung from around his neck and reached down to his waist. His white and navy-blue helmet covered his entire head and came halfway down over his face, forming a Batman-like mask. A red gem was set in the center of his forehead while two projections shot out from the portion covering his face almost like horns. Clipped to his side was a white circular device the size of his palm with four slots along the edge and a short katana hung from the back of his waist. The icon (a blue shuriken) was emblazoned on his chest.

"Explain to me why we are trailing after Leviathan?" Fefnir asked, annoyed.

"Because Saiba is concerned she is doing some things that could hinder our plans," the Green General replied to the fiery one-man army. Fefnir only growled but nodded, and Phantom remained silent as always. Just as the two were about to leave after they searched the crowds, the ninja Navi snapped his fingers and pointed towards the stage.

"What the hell?" Harpuia was the first to notice, then Fefnir. The three Generals saw their fourth comrade on stage singing beautifully, with ForteZero!

"What the hell is she doing with that bastard?" Fefnir shouted. Phantom quickly slapped a hand over his mouth to shut him up.

"Shut up Fefnir. We found her, but now we'll have to keep a close eye on her." The three grab themselves a table hidden from view, but able to have a clear view of the stage, and watched as she and ForteZero sang the song "I.D.E.A." beautifully.

(A/N: If only I had the lyrics to the song I would also include it. Well, unless you have the soundtrack, ehh... oh well...)

When the song finally ended, they got a huge wave of applause from the crowds. The couple left the stage, and soon exited the building, with the Generals tailing them in secret.

"Levi-chan... you want to just stay the rest of the night with me?" She thought about it for a moment, before she nodded.

"Sure. But where to? Your operator may send the others on me, and then my friends will try and kill you on sight if we head to my place, which is off-limits." She then squeaked and blushed furiously as ForteZero swept her off her feet and held her in his arms.

"We can go to that cyber hotel off 10th and Met Avenue? I'm practically rich since I'm in a successful organization and all. I'll treat you like a queen." She smiled and pecked him on the cheek before the two went off to their destination.

"Damn him. I wanna tear him to shreds!" Fefnir shouted from the alley-way.

"No. Now that we know where Leviathan has been vanishing too lately, we'll report back to Saiba and our Net-ops."

HARPUIA LOGGING OUT

Fefnir growled, but only closed his eyes.

FEFNIR LOGGING OUT

Phantom narrowed his eyes at the two vanishing on the horizon.

PHANTOM LOGGING OUT

/FLASHFORWARD TO ANOTHER MEMORY/

“Yeah Levi-chan.” She giggled. ForteZero had told her the times when his brother would play pranks on Zero, like this one time, Zero woke up as usual, and the whole base was snickering at him for some reason. He was chasing after Forte slashing like a madman after his brother when he noticed his hair was braided into pigtails.

The couple was returning, after... spending some quality time at the Presidential suite of that cyber hotel.

“I bet Zero was really pissed off,” she said.

“Yeah.” He laughed, before he stopped. There in David’s PC were all of his friends, and Harpuia, Fefnir, and Phantom.

“What the?” Harpuia flew over and glared at her.

“Leviathan! How could you go out... with this cretin.” The White Shadow growled and brought Levi-chan behind him.

“Back off Sage!”

Fefnir growled, before he leapt into action. “You bastard!”

ForteZero quickly grabbed Levi-chan and jumped away before Fefnir's Torch Claws would have struck him. He set Leviathan down next to his friends before he leapt towards Fefnir, sabers ripped out.

“Fefnir, calm down!” Nicol said, but it was futile. The two Navis let out battle cries as the two collided. Fefnir punched his opponent away, but he was slashed across the chest in an X-shaped fashion.

In the real world, the two groups that formed a truce were beginning to argue amongst themselves, as David slipped away and entered into the cyber world via Pulse In.

As like their Operators, the Navis were arguing about this as well.

“Firewave!” ForteZero swept his sabers up and released two Fire Towers that struck him. It only stunned him long enough for a Drill Crush attack to be successful. Fefnir punched him away.

“Meteor Rain!” He fired several volleys of flames into the air that came raining back down as flaming meteors. ForteZero switched to his R Scythe, and protected himself in his AT Field, lowering all forms of damage to barely minimal damage.

“Tornado Scythe!” ForteZero flew forward at lightning speed and spun his scythe, slashing him twice. Immediately he followed with reverse 360 vertical slashes dragging the fiery Navi into the air, then another powerful strike the sent him colliding with the ground creating a small crater.

“Boys! Stop this now!” Leviathan shouted. She couldn’t bear to see ForteZero hurt, nor any of her comrades.

He summoned his K Knuckles in place of his R Scythe. He leapt at Fefnir when he got up from the hole in the ground. “Senpuukyaku!” He landed in triple hits from his spinning tornado kick, and landed.

“Take this!” Fefnir charged forward and surprised him by latching on with his Torch Claw and pelted him numerous times with close-blank buster attacks.

David stepped forward, as he raised his buster behind him, the barrel glowing brightly and his entire arm shaking with immense energy stored in.

“Big Bang Strike!” He thrusted it forward and immediately was recoiled from launching an immense surge of plasma energy. His friends were caught in the recoil when was sent back from the blast, Leviathan moving out of the way in time to avoid getting hit.

The attack flew so fast, neither battler had time to react when they were both struck down. The attack effectively stopped the battle.

Leviathan ran over to ForteZero and helped him up, as Harpuia and Phantom ran to Fefnir's side.

David narrowed his eyes in anger, walking over to his Navi. "Why? How could you and Leviathan find love with one another? You are a Maverick Hunter! And she is part of Neo Arcadia!"

"You won't understand. None of you will!" ForteZero hissed at him, before he was punched in the face.

“ForteZero... you are forbidden to see Leviathan again... got it?”

He growled and ran off, vanishing into the depths of the Uranet. Leviathan called out to him, but he never heard her. She closed her eyes before puffing her cheeks, walked over and slapped David across the face.

“Like he said. You will never know what true love is!”

David held the sore spot on his cheek, before he closed his eyes. “I’m keeping my promise...” He turned towards Harpuia, and nodded, “Get out of here before I take it back and call the Officials and the Net Saviors.”

Sage Harpuia looked at him before nodding, and he and Phantom logged out. Fefnir growled and logged out as well, and Leviathan soon followed. She and Diana were arguing with each other as the Generals left. David’s friends left as well, and he soon pulsed out.

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ForteZero sat alone on top the tallest structure of the Uranet, watching the activity below, before he received an e-mail. Quickly accessing his PET, he read it... then quickly logged in the location and date. He just remained there... cooling off his head.

/FLASHFORWARD TO ANOTHER MEMORY/

"ForteZero!" The White Shadow turned around, only to be glomped by Levi-chan. The two shared a kiss right away, but the other Navi sensed that something was wrong.

"Leviathan?"

"Listen... I don't know what will happen. I'm here to tell you that... well; we may not return again for awhile."

"Saiba’s gonna start his plan, right?"

"Right... I'm sorry. Just... promise me that if you do arrive and stop Saiba... you would save me?”

She looked down, back turned towards him. ForteZero spun her around and held her in his arms.

“I promise Leviathan. I’ll save you from this darkness...” She looked up, a blush forming on her cheeks before she pulled off his helmet and tossing it onto the cyber sand. ForteZero pulled off her helmet, letting her full hair fall free, before the two neared one another as her helmet clattered onto the sand next to his...

/END MULTIPLE FLASHBACKS/

By now, the White Shadow was in tears, pain gripping his soul. “Leviathan.... I promised that I would save you from the darkness... but I wasn’t able to save you from sacrificing yourself...”

/FLASHBACK/

ForteZero yelled in pain, crashing into the others, as Redips loomed over them all from the vastness of space on the destroyed space building. The Navis within reploid bodies were damaged heavily.

“You fools! I have more power than each of you combined. You are utter fools to think you can defeat me. I told you that the Crest of Arcadia’s original source had unlimited potential.” Great Redips chuckled sinisterly, clenching his segmented clawed fingers.

“You... maverick...” David muttered, trying to get up. Before he could aim and unleash a charged attack, Redips shot him with a powerful blast of energy, seriously hurting him. Thankfully, the helmet’s full-face visor didn’t shatter; otherwise the vacuum of space would instantly kill him.

“Bow down to your new leader of both worlds.”

Zero looked up, and his eyes widened. Leviathan, in a Copyroid body had climbed out form the ruined door behind Redips, and leapt high onto his shoulder that held his regenerative powers. The super-powered Navi noticed it as he craned his long neck towards her.

“What the fuck are you doing?” He raised a hand at her, and shot her off his shoulder. But, she also was able to free the Crest of Arcadia’s crystal from the shoulder before crashing into the ground, damaged.

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After the raging battle...

“Do not worry. I shall make sure that no one... manages to obtain this crystallized data turned real.” Leviathan smiled softly, turning her back towards the Hunters.

Suddenly, the falling ruined space building they were standing on begun to shudder and shake.

“Damn, this whole place is starting to enter Earth’s atmosphere. C’mon you guys, let’s hurry up!” Zero shouted to his friends. Leviathan turned towards them, and hung her head low.

“I’m sorry... for all that happened...” She then shocked them all when she leapt off the falling building, and floated away. She was too damaged, and would be deleted soon, as inside, she accessed the core of the Copyroid, and started to overheat it.

ForteZero reached out to grab her, but his hand felt nothing as she was floating away too fast. Tears welled in his eyes as he closed them slowly, before letting out a pained yell of agony. The others entered the emergency hatch as the building was crumbling and breaking apart. David dragged his Navi with him, as the gates begun to close as he, Forte, Zero, Marino, and ForteZero forced down the hatch jumped down. The last thing he had on his mind was Leviathan as the emergency area locked down and was blanketed in darkness.

/END FLASHBACK/

He clenched his hands tightly, crying softly to himself. Nearby, but hidden from view, the Diva of Space frowned.

“I never knew he fell in love with that Leviathan girl. Hmph... Guess you can find love when you least expect it.” She closed her eyes and vanished.

* * *

ForteZero returned later that day, walking past his brother and Zero.

“Hey ForteZero,” Zero waved at him, but he went unnoticed. Forte noticed the depressed look on his face.

“Best if we don’t disturb him...”

“Why?”

“I think you know why Zero...” Zero was about to open his mouth, but realized what the Black Shadow meant.

“Oh...”

The two stared at the White Shadow as he exited the building into the back garden. “He still misses her...” Zero frowned, and Forte sighed before walking off, the Blond Bomber following after him.

* * *

ForteZero sat down at the bench overlooking the Koi pond, tossing in bits of bread onto the water, watching the fish and the mallard ducks snack on the stale pieces of bread.

"I still love you ForteZero... I’ll always keep watching over you..."

The Navi snapped his head up, and looked around franticly. “It... couldn’t have been...” He shook his head, thinking he heard a voice... a voice that was familiar to him, “Leviathan...”

He sat back down, and looked towards the center of the pond, where a marble statue of Leviathan was carved and shining brightly in the sun. Tossing the rest of the bread into the pond, he got up after ten minutes. He cast one last glance at the statue of his lost love, before he walked away.

Inside the statue’s PC, Leviathan smiled, watching him walk away. “Don’t fret. I’ll come back... when I’m ready...” She closed her eyes and warped out of the PC area.

/END/

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Well... this IS my first fic. Heh, before you ask... allow me to answer the following questions that may come up.

1. Forte is a good guy, who still hates RockMan, but finds himself helping him and his Operator Netto more than he wants to.
2. Yes, Slur is still alive, even after she was brutally deleted by Forte-kun. Reason is that she was revived after her scattered data recollected and formed back into her.
3. This is from the RP's I've done on Acmlm's Board on the "Story Board Forum" and "Sim Battle Forum." You can look me up by doing a search on Acmlm's Board under the username "Forte.EXE."

Well... any thoughts on this fic? Good, bad?

[Type-BLUES.EXE]

Nice story, is there gonna be a second part to it?
you did have some mis-spellings(i.e. franticly should be frantically). mebbe type it out on Microsoft Word, spell-check it and then C+P it to forums?
EDIT: more nit picking:
main -> should be mane
we're -> should be were
form -> should be from
His friends were caught in the recoil when was sent back from the blast, Leviathan moving out of the way in time to avoid getting hit. (sentence doesn't make sense, appears to be missing a part).

[ForteBX.EXE]

Part of the “Drabble Series” I’m guess (with persuasion from my wife Becky). She’s an EXE fan... heh. These are thoughts about Zero’s current life, and how he feels about the future.

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“C’mon, if you keep attacking blindly then you will never strike your opponent,” Zero in his Battle Armor said as a human rookie of Hunter HQ rushed him again with a kendo stick. Zero dodged the swipe from the young man’s weapon of choice, and knocked him away and held him down with his own kendo weapon.

“You need to improve your focus Marcus. If you think blindly, then you will you’re your life if you are sent into battle against enemy forces in the real world. You need to think clearly, and watch how your opponent moves before making a move yourself.” Zero tossed the weapon onto the ground, and dismissed the class as they left the training area.

“Had trouble again with one of your students?”

Zero smirked, glancing over at his Net-op. “You could say that. What are you doing here Dave? Shouldn’t you be working?”

David chuckled, getting up from leaning against the open door frame. “I’m taking my lunch break. It’s already noon.”

“Time flies when you’re having fun.”

“Heh, all work and no play makes Zero a dumb blond,” said another voice. Zero felt this left eye twitch.

“Shut up, Forte!”

“Hello to you too Zero,” The Black Shadow said with a smirk. Although he was in his reploid body, he was in his human form. His black hair is long, some brought up as bangs with purple highlights that partly covers his face, wearing black clothes. His black pants were a bit big, the bottom rims of the pant legs connected to gold anklets, a belt with his icon as the emblem over the belt buckle adorning his waist. He wore black Velcro sneakers with dark purple stripes tied with crimson red metal straps snapped together. He wore a black long-sleeved baggy sweater. The wrists of his sweater were connected with gold bracelets encrusted with a large diamond shaped emerald from the top, bottom, and the sides.

“C’mon you two... I don’t want this to be a repeat from last week.”

/FLASHBACK/

“FORTE! You damn bastard!” Zero was snarling, his Z-Saber ripped out, cold murder written all over his face as he chased the black armored reploid Navi down the main hallway. His face had women’s makeup on his face, his checks applied with a faint blush and his blond ponytail braided into pigtails once again.

Forte was running like hell, laughing as he kept an easy pace ahead of the pissed off crimson hunter. Everyone who was in the hallway quickly ran for cover. This sort of thing was common sometimes. As the rampaging reploid passed by David’s office, the doors slid open and David and Alia peeked out. Both humans had flushed cheeks.

“Great. They’re at it again...” Alia said sweatdropping.

“Ignore them... Zero will run out of steam soon. That, or Mitani from Red Alert steps in and takes care of the situation.” With those two cents offered, the two ducked back into the office as the doors closed shut and locked again.

/END FLASHBACK/

“You’re just lucky I didn’t tear him to shreds.” Zero was growling, his hand placed on his saber. That day, Mitani had indeed interfered, but only to make sure he didn’t do anything rash to Forte.

“Heh... like you could.”

David cleared his throat and raised his voice before a fight could break out between the two. “C’mon you two, shut up and play nice!”

The two grunted as Zero walked past Forte and headed down to the Mess Hall, and Forte went back to his room. David went to the Training Simulation Area and set up battle routines to face off against all the Darkloids of Nebula all at once.

* * *

Zero sat down at his usual spot at the cafeteria. He took a bite from his fries, and looked out the window, having a perfect view of the nearby lake. “I can’t believe it’s been so long. Been long since my days as the dreaded Zero Virus...”

He closed his eyes and smiled. From when the Prof created him, to after his defeat at the hands of RockMan was he able to see what he did was wrong and reformed his life and become a NetNavi thanks to Dr. Hikari.

* * *

“Neon Lights!” David jumped high overhead the attacks, then quickly dashed just as BeastMan appeared and tried to slice him from behind.

“Sand Lion!” DesertMan launched his hands forward, which they turned into lion heads.

“Wild Rush!” BeastMan howled before his arms and head detached from his body and flew forward. David pulled out his D-Saber and blocked the attacks, then blocked the Sand Lion attacks with Big Guard.

“Rekkoha!” David punched the ground with his left fist, and then almost instantly a massive blast of energy beams came crashing down into the ground, deleting FlashMan, DesertMan, and BeastMan. The next wave of Darkloids materialized.

“Swallow Strike!”

“Cosmo Prison!”

“Blizzard Ball!”

“Goro Thunder!”

David smirked as he blocked the next blaze of attacks while landing a slash when SwallowMan passed by him, but in doing so, his Big Guard shattered. “Time to get serious...” David leapt right in between the four Darkloids, and grinned.

“Shadetsyurei!” He spun around rapidly with his saber extended out, cutting into them. Three times he spun around; black sonic booms were released from the D-Saber. By the time he pulled into a defensive state, all four Darkloids were deleted.

PlantMan, BurnerMan, SparkMan, ColdMan, and StarMan materialized next.

* * *

“Ha!” Zero thrusted his saber forward. He claimed the second Training Bay Area to himself, as he was practicing his saber skills. While training himself, he was deep in thought.

/FLASHBACK/

Zero sliced through another Megalian virus, aura included. It’s been several years. He’s recently saved a village of Mettaurs from being experimented by a group of rouge Uranet Navis using Darkchips, and now he had taken out the final wave of viruses that were rampaging the deeper recesses of the Uranet before the outbreak could break into the upper net.

But, he’s never seen the Navi that snuck on him until it was too late. He cried out in pain as the face mask blocking his mouth loosened and clattered to the ground. His ghostly pale skin squinted in pain as he fell to one knee. He had pale green eyes behind that face mask, which were widened in pain.

“Heh heh heh heh... so... you are the great Zero? They claim you are powerful, but it would seem I just took you out.” The death Navi chuckled as his right arm morphed back into an arm. He wore midnight black armor with trimmed red edges, and a crimson bodysuit under the body armor. He bore spiked dark gray shoulders, spiked wrists and ankles, and his head resembled more of a skull with blood red glowing eyes. He was clenching his hands, which the fingers were segmented claws. The feet were tipped with small spines lining around the bottom feet.

“You! You dare attack me?” Zero got up, but then he felt a severe pain as the death Navi pierced his clawed right hand through Zero’s chest.

“I think that this places me as the strongest of the Uranet...” Zero growled as the world around him faded to black. It can’t be... I can’t be deleted...

He collapsed onto the ground as the Navi jumped back, and fired a massive beam of energy at Zero. The attack resulted in a powerful explosion that sent his battered and half deleted body flying through the air. It had also destroyed the transmitter he wore around his left wrist that was placed on him by Yuuichiro seven or eight years ago.

However, the Navi never noticed a black blur fly by at the last second and snatched Zero before logging out. The Navi laughed in victory, before he turned around... and was deleted by Forte.

/FLASH TO ANOTHER MEMORY/

“Ugh... what the?” Zero opened his eyes, and slowly got up from a medical bed. He found himself in someone’s PC. When he got up, he noticed that he had someone shrunk in height. When he saw his reflection in the cyber mirror nearby... well, he was very surprised.

His bodysuit was completely black, located on the upper right part of his bodysuit on his legs was a white elongated triangle pocket. His boots are thinned out near the top and is a red color, with gold anklets. His gloves where now white around the hands while the rest had transformed into a pair of red bracers, gold bracelets around his wrists. Red vest-like armor covered his torso, zipped up. His helmet was a medium-small sized helmet. The middle and ends was a cobalt blue and the rest was red. In addition, a pair of red crests curve backwards from the sides near the top. At the sides of his helmet was a red dome shaped box, with a short white triangle heading to the front, but stopping before it reached the lines of where the skin and metal met, and a longer shaped triangle reached out a bit ways towards the back, the same length as the red crests. Long yellowish blond hair flowed out from the back of his helmet down to his waist, his eyes emerald green instead of pale green.

“What the hell?”

“I see you woke up Zero,” said a voice. A Navi walked up to him and smiled. It was ForteZero.

“Who are you?” Zero questioned, immediately going into a defensive state.

“My name of ForteZero. I saved you before you fell into the black abyss and could have been deleted by that death Navi.”

“Forte... Zero?”

“Yes. I’m David’s Navi. I am also the younger brother of the Black Shadow. Although he doesn’t know of me yet. I was just revived once again from deletion... hm, it would seem Dave and Alia have returned.”

As if on cue, David and Alia entered the bedroom, sharing another prolonged make-out session. ForteZero cleared his throats, making the young teens blush.

“David, Zero’s woken up and he’s fully recovered from his critical injuries.”

David walked over and sat down at the desk. “Glad you’re alive Zero.” He smiled.

“You saved me?”

“Yeah. If Netto found out you were deleted, I would think RockMan would be saddened that he lost such a great friend.”

“You know Hikari Netto and RockMan?”

“Know them? We’ve been friends since middle school before Alia and I vanished from Electopia to travel the world.” Zero blinked twice.

“You were going to be deleted from your damages, so I had to completely reformat you. I’ve already contacted Yuuichiro and I have taken responsibility over you.” Zero looked at him.

“You mean that you decided to take me as your NetNavi?”

“Yup. But I am still letting you walk free as you like. You just have an Operator you can come to whenever you feel like talking to someone.” In a long time, he smiled.

“Well, I appreciate it. Thanks.”

Both teens smiled, as a pink ninja appeared next to ForteZero. “Marino? Where were you?”

“Oh, I was chatting with Youko and Kenshin-sama at the Electopia Net Areas.”

“Oh... alright then.” Alia and David got up and left the room. ForteZero turned towards Zero with a smile.

“Before you leave, I should have you your newly upgraded Z-Saber.” He tossed Zero the deactivated weapon, which the blond swordsman caught. When he activated the weapon, it produced a bright bluish green triangular beam blade.

“The new Z-Saber. It’s the same one as the Z-Saber Battlechips that are known in the cyberworld now.”

“I’ve heard of those. Those Z-Sabers were rumored to have come from another world or something.”

“David also acquired you a buster weapon, the Z-Buster.” Zero put his weapon away, and as if on instinct, the Z-Buster phased into existence, gripped in his left hand.

ForteZero then begun to show Zero how to use the new weapons like the Shield Boomerang and the Chain Rod. Long afterwards, Zero returned to the internet, and roamed once again.

/END FLASHBACKS/

Zero put his saber away, as he disabled his Battle Armor, and now wearing his civilian clothes. Still obtaining his teenager looks, the clothes he wore were red and white. His dark red jeans had a faded look to them; the bottom of his jeans connected with golden anklets. He wore a white short sleeved shirt which overlapped a red long-sleeved shirt with the Z imprinted on the upper right chest of the shirt. He wore green cloth wristband on both wrists, his icon emblazoned on it. His green eyes show passion and strength, but it also has the looks of a fierce swordsman fighter, and something that looks like he's seen many wars in his life. The shoes he wore were red and white with green metal strapped over the top and small green bulbs indented into the sides of the shoes.

“Who knew that I would have to work with Forte of all Navis of the EXE Maverick Hunters...” He chuckled, remembering all the threats he and the team faced against. From the Dark Nation, to the Rebellion Army, to Neo Arcadia and the threat of Commander Redips, not to mention constant attacks from the New Generation Darkloid Shadow over those three years of college with David, Alia, and their friends.

“No matter what, I vowed that I shall protect the innocent, and that’s what I shall do.” The doors opened, and Cinnamon walked in.

“Hey Zero,” she greeted the crimson hunter. He smiled back.

Damn, that cheerful smile of hers is like an infection, he thought, “What is it Cinnamon?”

“Alia needs you at Command Central. Though I don’t know why she needs you.”

“Alright, tell her I’ll be there in five minutes.” She nodded and skipped out of the room. He sighed to himself once the doors closed again.

“She’s always cheerful. I guess it can’t be helped. She was created to be the human equivalence of a young teenager... like Axl.”

Zero left the room and proceeded down the northern hall. “Hmm... I wonder if Axl would find Cinnamon attractive.” He grinned to himself, mentally thinking how it would end up. Seeing Axl stammer while talking to the youthful nurse.

* * *

“Big Bang Strike!” David fired the immense blast of plasma, recoiled from the force as it deleted the rest of the Darkloids with ease. Once he slowly got back up form his small dent in the wall, he sweatdropped, realizing he’s trashed Training Area C once again with his intense training.

“Damn, Alia’s gonna kill me for this...” He sweatdropped.

/END/

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Another Drabble fic completed. Reviews on how good it was... ^^;;;

[Type-BLUES.EXE]

Nice new chapter, although there are a few more grammatical errors. Somewhere at the start, there was a sentence that didn't really make sense, and "mentally thinking" is like a double negative itself.
P.S I WANT LEVI CHAN!!!!! >=(

[ForteBX.EXE]

Now... time to see an up-close look on our favorite Black Shadow. Random flashes into his background and how he’s totally changed from the Navi that once hated humans now protects them, plus a certain young man who’s changed his views on life and the passion for battle...

Disclaimer: Schwa and any characters not EXE-ified are owned by my friend Schwa on Acmlm’s Board. EXE characters except my custom characters belong to Capcom. The Main Flashback is from an Sim-Battle we had, but it's edited to fit story-based terms.

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It was a quiet ride back to HQ. The main group was piled into a large SUV. David was driving, Alia at the front passenger seat. Zero was dozing off with his arms crossed over his chest in the middle seat on the driver’s side, Marino and ForteZero were playing Poker in the back seats, and Forte was listening to some music on his Mp3 player (A/N: I was listening to my Rockman X Command Mission Soundtrack CD when I wrote this drabble). The ‘roids themselves were wearing their civilian clothing as opposed to their Hunter armors.

Zero wore red jeans, black sneakers, and a white long sleeved shirt. Forte wore a black unzipped vest overlapping a purple short sleeved shirt, black shoes and faded black jeans. ForteZero wore the same clothing, only with reversed colors and he had a medallion of his Navi insignia hanging around his neck. Marino wore a light green women’s poncho overlapping a pink short sleeved shirt, light pink bellbottom jeans and a purple belt.

“You know, I still don’t understand WHY you decided to update our Trans-server System today,” ForteZero said as Marino lost another hand, and 500 zenny.

Alia looked at the White Shadow. “Well, remember that last virus outbreak that erupted from Black Earth?” He nodded. “Well, there you go.”

“ForteZero... are you cheating again?” Marino threatened the White Shadow.

“Oh come on! I’m not like Spider!”

She gave him a piercing glare. “You remember the last time he cheated me in several rounds of cards?”

/FLASHBACK/

ForteZero covered his face, sweatdropping. Marino had screamed loudly, catching the attention of David and Alia’s friends as they arrived to move into the rented house next door.

“I should’ve KNOWN you were cheating Spider!” Marino shouted as she choked the poor card player.

“Aggh! I’m telling you…I never cheat…”

“Oh? Then explain the ace up your sleeve cheater!” She just began to choke him harder than ever, and the card playing bounty hunter was gagging, trying to get lose from her vice-like grip. Marino found the ace in his sleeve when he raked in the third ante and when she noticed the well concealed card, she snapped. “Give me MY money back!”

“No…” Spider croaked, though it held the same vigor as Marino’s.

“No one EVER cheats Marino out of her prize! Especially not some low life scum card playing mercenary!” Spider attempted to reply but his windpipe got cut off, “We can do this the easy way or the hard way, bub! It’s your choice!”

“Marino... uh...” ForteZero was about to speak, but when she gave him a deathening glare, he kept his mouth shut and scooted away. He could have sworn he felt the room’s temperature drop fifty degrees when she glared at him.

/END FLASHBACK/

“That was before the beginning of our third semester at Den University, before we knew of the Neo Arcadia threat!” Marino only closed her eyes and just sighed.

“I haven’t forgotten that incident,” Alia spoke up. David agreed with his wife.

Forte however was drifting away in his thoughts. He shifted through the play list and changed to “Place of Oblivion”.

It’s been too long. When I came into existence, I was betrayed by the humans and left for dead, blamed for what the primal beast Proto attempted to do.

He glanced out the window, as they were crossing over a large river. I was supposed to eradicate the humans, and destroy the Navis who worked with or obeyed humans, but now I’ve changed after so long...

Heh, I just can’t believe that of all the people who have changed me, it was my rival Schwa... before then; I was still an Independent Navi. It was after the Dark Nation no longer existed, and I helped my brother, Blues in his Muramasa Style and RockMan in his acquainted Saito Style in deleting the Ancient Navi known as Genesis Sephiroth.

/FLASHBACK - Three Years Ago.../

The day began like no other. While the others are busy with life, David and Alia worrying about work at Maverick Hunter HQ, and also the work stress from Den University, Forte is enjoying his time-off at Sim Battle City.

Forte is acting like his cool dark self, pretending to not give a damn about anyone, watching a recent battle between a male human named Grey, and a live stuffed teddy bear named Teddylot.

“Hmph… they fight well, but they won’t last a round with me…” Forte says to himself, smirking. From the other side of the Arena, Schwa waltz right in. Now about Schwa, he is a male human wearing loose white robe like clothing, with dark hair. No one could ever see his eyes since a pitch black blindfold covers them. Many wonder how he can walk without running into anything. His hands are flaring with turquoise etheral energy.

Forte promptly gets up from his seat, tosses back on his cloak and vanishes. Schwa, sensing Forte’s dark energy, followed after him into the cyber world. Forte appears back in Black Earth, the darkest regions of the Uranet. He walks through the darkness filled areas, until he stopped. As he turned around to face whoever was foolish enough to spy on him, his pet Gospel came out from the shadows and growled at the newcomer.

“Schwa... what is it that you want?” Forte asks of no importance.

“Whoa... This place is freaky. Now start talkin'! You looked like a demon from a distance... I could be wrong, and if I am, I apologize... just trying to do my job. If you are, though, prepare to die. Tell the truth, and do not lie.”

The figure's hands flare with blue, etheral energy. “By the way, you will refer to me as Schwa.”

The dark Navi laughs at Schwa's futile attempt for a fight. Of course, he was to soon learn just how much honor fuels Schwa’s strength and passion in battle. “Alright then, the truth is, somehow, you have transported yourself onto the internet. This is the darkest area known to many who fear it as Black Earth. It is a unnatural wasteland of junk data and bugs. Only the net's strongest viruses and shadow Navis reside here in this domain.” As Forte began speaking, his body suddenly flared up with a Dark Aura, “Me and my friend Gospel who stands behind me are the strongest here besides RockMan...”

Gospel is what many know as a multibug organism. He's a giant dark purplish black wolf mutated of viruses, Navi data, and gigabytes of bugfrags. The virus wolf roared intimidating Schwa as a blast of cyber wind flow by. If looked closely, Schwa could of swore he saw something that looked like a round icon with a deep slash across it on Forte before the cloak covered it again.

The Black Shadow laughs again, before his face takes on a more serious look. “By the way Schwa, I am a NetNavi. All those who fear me know me as The Black Shadow, because I show no remorse for weak individuals. My real name is Forte... the world's first NetNavi turned on by the humans... but enough with the chatter; I shall delete you and absorb your power to add to my own!” With that, he surprises Schwa by blasting him with Darkness Overload. Apparently, while he spoke, he was charging energy to toss at his enemy once he finished speaking. Gospel helped his master by launching a blast of green fire from its mouth.

“Nice!” Schwa folds his arms across his body as his whole body flares brightly with blue ether. The damage is lowered quite a bit, and though Schwa took small damage he shows no signs.

“If you are not Evil, I have no intention of “deleting” you, Forte. But it's time I introduce myself as well...” Schwa stood up and looked Forte dead in his eyes, “I am Schwa, Psi Warrior and embodyment of Good. My soul is infused with the Living Assets, Virtue, Respect and Honor. No matter how strong you are, I will be stronger. Watch.”

Schwa holds his right arm in the air, and rainbow-colored ether explodes from it, lighting the entire area with celestial brightness resembling a sun. The ether swirls all over the area, burning images in the mind of those who look directly at the swirls and forms... A few powerful viruses in the area that resemble demons of some kind shield their eyes at the sight of this heavenly sight. The ether dies down after about 12 seconds, and the viruses fall to a kneel and chant something illegible. That was something that is not out of the ordinary of everyday viruses. Schwa currently wasn’t fooling around. But it was something all the more better for Forte to enjoy this battle that was about to ensue.

“And that was less than a fraction of the power of the Living Assets. So I wouldn't brag about power if I were you. Now, should we do battle, I would be incapable of using that kind of force against you... I am a living Psi Warrior, and until I die, my body limits me to an a-hundreth of my true power. It is my SOUL that contains that power, not my body... my soul is stronger than all Holy Gods combined, as is every Psi Warrior in existance.” He then backed a little, but still showed signs of strength.

“And that was a powerful attack you used! You too, Gospel! Congrats to both of you... You must be more than elite enough to combat viruses all over the Net. But I can't ignore a comment like “I shall delete you and absorb your power to add to my own”. If you did that, you would destroy yourself, for the Living Assets that flow through me are off limits to those who have not been Chosen by them. But the hostility is enough, so... let us do battle. As it stands right now, I am outnumbered. So what I will proceed to do is summon my guardian angel, Emily. Come forth!”

Schwa waves his hands, and a blue portal opens next to him. Something steps out of the portal, and it closes. The creature that entered the area, Emily, is in the form of a blue fox made of fiery ether. Its eyes are silver and full of kindness.

“Emily, this is Forte and Gospel. We will be having a 2 on 2 battle. They are not Evil, so no killing.”

Emily the Emily speaks back, in a telepathic, echoing voice that all can hear. The voice is that of a 25 year old woman. “Thank you for telling me, Schwa... This wolf-creature's presence is enough to... infuriate me...”

Schwa puts his hand on the ether-fox's head. His hand is seemingly not hurt. “Easy, Emily... Sorry Forte, but Emily takes combat more seriously than I do. This will be a clean two on two fight. You may both attack again, and we will counter. Note that I am not out to kill anyone, but I didn't approve of your comment so this fight is half-sparring, half-revenge. Go.”

Schwa and Emily take offensive stances, and Forte and Gospel stood nine feet away from the duo.

“Nice pet kid. Hells Rolling!” Two balls of energy appeared in his hands, and when he threw them, they turned into spinning wheels of pure darkness. The raced over to Schwa, tearing up the floor panels at the same time, “Gospel, attack!”

The megavirus growled before unleashing a devastating Aqua Gospel Breath.

While the Hells Rolling was inching towards his opponents, Forte clenched his right hand tight, “Dark Arm Blade!” Forte’s right arm transformed into a Dark Sword. He jumped into the air, and sent out three Sonic Booms.

“Interesting. You haven't fought an embodyment of Good before, have you?”

Schwa flares up with blue ether as he fires pure Holy energy at the Hells Rolling attacks. The two opposite forces collide and create a powerful explosion of light and dark. Schwa is engulfed in the blast, and something is happening to him, but it's not clear what…

Meanwhile, when Gospel attacked Emily, Emily countered with an energy blast of her own. Her breath weapon, instead of blue flame like Gospel, is bright purple ether; compressed Psychic energy. It should be about as strong as Gospel's attack, and immediately an explosion occurs there as well, not nearly as powerful as the light-dark blast but still something. Emily backs up a small bit and is only nicked by the blast. Gospel shook off the slight damaging effects, and roared.

“Do your worst, virus.”

Schwa then has to deal with the three shockwaves. As the light-dark blast clears, Schwa is glowing rainbow colors. He seemed to have absorbed the light energy from the blast and extracted it from the dark energy. Although he suffered recoil damage from doing so, he releases the light energy in the form of a huge Holy/Psychic energy beam fired from his palms, which engulfed the shockwaves and destroyed them. Schwa had purposely stepped to the side before attacking, though, so the beam wouldn't hit Forte.

“Huh… Schwa had the perfect aim to nail a direct hit on me. What is he up too...?”

“See? That's power. You and I are pretty evenly matched. Watch. Gyrowell Advance!”

Schwa throws blue ether all over the arena, which swirls around and gathers in front of Schwa in the form of a white energy ball. The ball acts as a Gravity Well, pulling everything but Schwa and Emily, steadily toward it. The force isn't strong enough to be devastating, but Forte and Gospel had to be careful with how they and dodge while the force of gravity was slightly altered. The Gyrowell Advance ability seems to be like GravityMan’s Gravity Drive attack.

“Can ya keep the heat on?” he shouted towards Forte.

A red aura flared up around the Dark Messiah as the explosion rushed head-on. The barrier was at least strong enough to escape with any minorities. He called Gospel back, which the megavirus did so, only suffering moderate damage. “If you thought my Darkness Overload was my most powerful move, think again Schwa!”

The Black Shadow's grin was intimidating, as his eyes glimmered. Gospel roared before unleashing a mixture of all its elements – Fire, Aqua, Wood, and Electric -- at the two opponents. Forte's hand was glowing as a ball of energy rushed into the palm of his hand. First it was a small ball, but then it grew at least three times in size.

“Even if you manage to escape, sooner or later, you'll be brought down!” With that, he threw the explosion of dark energy down when Gospel ceased its flames. There was a huge explosion, smoke covering up the battlefield. Gospel growled a bit, as Forte landed on the ground.

He still waited for his opponent to make a move if Schwa or Emily had survived the Dark Messiah attack, but suddenly felt winded. He got on one knee, grasping for breath. Damn, using that attack drained me of my energy...

Gospel, worried for his master, walked over to him. “Gospel, head back to Uranet 13.” The megavirus wolf growled gently before he turned around, and vanished into the darkness.

The Black Shadow could sense that Schwa survived the attack, but how much damage was inflicted, he had no clue. This battle is getting more interesting by the minute.

When the smoke cleared away, most of the damage was dealt to around the battlefield, and deleted unlucky viruses that happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Schwa somehow, is still standing, surrounded in lavender ether-- the most defensive type. Emily however, is transparent.

”Sorry, Schwa... I had to return to the Etheral Dimension to survive. It was too powerful. I have to sit the rest of this fight out.”

“That's fine... It's 1 on 1 now anyway.”

Emily fades out of existence. Schwa, though he doesn't show it, is damaged.

“Forte, you are incredibly powerful! But I shall fix that. Crimson Bubble!”
Schwa waves his hand, and a red bubble appeared five feet from Forte's head. It orbits Schwa's foe forever, never changing distance. The orb is smoky red and contains gold wisps of light in high quantity.

“It seems I am no match for you... I will do my best, though. This IS just a spar, you know. If I only knew how to use this battlefield to my advantage... Let's see... Internet, eh? I've never been inside the Net before. Aha! That's why I'm having trouble-- new field!”

Immediately, Schwa begins going over a plan in his head.

What the hell... Forte thought to himself, noticing the bubble. He began thinking up an attack plan in his mind. He then smiles, and raises his right hand into the air, palm open. He holds his right arm in his left hand, and his left and right hand, and right lower arm began glowing a holy type of energy. The glow quickly subsided, and he pointed at Schwa. “Air Burst!” Somewhere in the darkness, a faint light was seen, before two dozen of glowing balls made of holy energy rushed along the ground. They all passed Forte, his cloak being brought out by the rushing wind of the energy, heading towards Schwa.

He uses some sort of energy for his defense, I hope it somehow passes through... the Black Shadow thought, keeping an close eye on the orb circling around, That bubble must be used for some sort of purpose if he brought it out... but what could it be... I'll make a quick scan of it with my Get Ability Program later when I have the chance...

Schwa readies himself for the attack, grinning.

“Holy energy, it looks like? Bro, you're diggin' your own grave today.”

Schwa flares up with white ether, and all the spheres of Holy energy are actually drawn into him like a magnet! They all damage him, but since it's Holy he feels no pain. Damage resistance to the Psiwarrior was slashed by fifty percent. When Forte scanned the bubble, it activated.

As soon as Schwa finished receiving damage, the bubble grows bigger, then shrinks again while expelling hundreds of tiny wisps of energy into the dark Navi. Since the bubble was closely orbiting Forte, dodging these wisps was out of the question, and they come from every angle. The total damage Forte would receive is equal to the damage Schwa would have received without Holy resistance. So in this case, x2 of the damage Schwa took was equal to damage dealt to Forte. The Navi shouted in pain as the damage was shocked through his digital body, as he kneeled down in pain, gritting his teeth.

After the wisps are gone, Crimson Bubble is still there, but a bit duller in color and it is empty of wisps. However... as Forte watches, the bubble is slowly re-filling itself with wisps.

“Ya like Crimson Bubble? Nothing counters damage better than that thing! I would suggest not using Holy energy to fight an embodiment of Good!” Forte swore to himself.

“Okay, note to self, no more Airburst strikes…”

Schwa had other things on his mind. Okay, I got a plan. Need to contact Allaura.

Telepathically, he contacts a friend of his, another Psi Warrior. Allaura, come in. This is Schwa. I need you desperately.

After a few seconds, a soft female voice echoed back in his mind.

Kinda busy. What do you need?

Well, I'm trapped inside the Internet. I'm battling a NetNavi with insane battle techniques. I'm doing alright in holding him off, but I got the feeling that if I lose this fight, I'm done for.

Okay, I'll help you! What do you need me to do?

Access any computer with Internet access first.

* * *

Far away, Allaura makes the finishing blow against the Dark Garuda, killing it and ending her mission... only to begin a new one. She rockets toward Civitas Alpha, a high-tech city functioning with the best of the world's computers, a little anxious because she doesn't like computers very much... but Schwa's in trouble, and duty calls...

* * *

Seeing the effects Crimson Bubble performs, Forte decided it was time.

“I used it against RockMan to gain that Soul Unison Program, now it’s time to take some of his power…”

He quickly flew at Schwa, seeing the bubble follow the same distance circling, but ignored it. He grabbed Schwa's arm, and grinned, staring deep into his soul. He was up close to his face. “Let's see how your powers do well for me, shall we?” His hand glowed in a black aura, which soon engulfed him. Schwa’s aura flared up, but it was the opposite effect.

My my... these abilities are strong, and what can I steal from you… After awhile, Forte let go and flew back. However, what he didn’t know is that Schwa was expecting him to activate the Get Ability Program, so he played along. This will come back to haunt Forte later in the battle, but the damage was already done.

“I wonder...” He pointed at Schwa, the index finger glowing red. “How would you fare against your own attack: Alpha Psibeam!” He sliced his index and middle fingers through the air before him, launching an arc of silver ether energy locked-on Schwa’s soul. Alpha Psibeam’s effect is that it targets the opponent’s soul for a sure-hit, but Schwa had other plans, as he smiled.

Schwa smiles as the attack come right at him. He brings his hands above his head crossed together, as the arc of light stops and shimmers.

“Aw MAN, I seriously feel bad about doing that to you! Wanna know what happened? You grabbed my right arm... That's where the infused Living Assets are stored, if you do recall. That means when you picked up my data, you also picked up some of my Living Assets energy... which I am in control of. Therefore, when you attacked, some of the Living Assets were infused into the attack... and by focusing; I was able to convert your attack's Energy type into the same as mine using the infused energy! Think of it as getting a virus embedded into your PC's system files.” As Schwa smirks after the speech, Forte is mentally swearing at himself for being stupid.

“Here comes your own attack! Boomerang, right back at'cha!” Schwa thrusts his right arm forward and the converted attack streaks toward Forte in exactly the same way as it originally targeted Schwa.

* * *

Allaura reaches Civitas Alpha, and is greeted by a droid.

”Welcome to Civitas Alpha! Please state your name.”

“Uhh... Allaura. But why do y-”

FLASH!

A card prints out of a slot beneath the droid's face. ”This is your ID Card! Keep it handy. Thank you for visiting Civitas Alpha, city of the future!” And it flies away. Allaura stares at the card, and then continues on.

“Need to find a library!” Allaura thinks, looking for one... preferably with Internet access...

* * *

Forte, in disbelieve, got over it and lifted up his Life Aura. The beam crashed against the purple aura, pushing Forte back quite a ways. At first, it looked like it couldn't get through, but it slightly pierced through. A huge explosion followed shortly, smoke and cyber dust floating through the dark filled air.

An eerie silence followed after, and then Forte began laughing. The Black Shadow came out, but he was scarred from the attack. His cloak, what remained of it, was ripped away and thrown away.

Schwa could now see the icon on Forte's chest, and the horrible scar that was given to him by the SciLab Elite Corps years ago. “I haven't felt this alive since my last battle with RockMan... Now I know you are a worthy foe Schwa...” He then started walking a bit to his opponent. He stopped when he was within sight distance.

“How about we take our fight to the next level...?” He asked in a series tone, his eyes narrow and piercing.

Up above in the Uranet on a floating invisible platform, ForteZero stood watching over his brother. That Schwa character has the same fighting spirit as I do... Forte... don't get yourself deleted...

“Uh oh… that can’t be good,” Schwa muttered to himself. Thinking to Allaura, Damn it, Allaura, hurry up!!

Alright! I found a library. Just hold him off for a little while longer!

Schwa folds his arms, staring at Forte, not unnerved even the slightest bit. “Forte, let me ask you a question. Why do you choose the path of a fighter? I am not criticizing you, for I have taken the same road... But you are quite ruthless and spirited in battle; your heart is in it. That is a good thing, and I would like to know what your drive is, what gives you that inner fighting spirit. Tell me, and I would love to go to this 'next level' of yours...”

About now Schwa is thanking his ability to read minds, as he communicated with ForteZero for a brief moment before turning his attention back towards the Dark Messiah.

* * *

Meanwhile, Allaura reaches the library and looks around for a computer that is available for use. She finds some, MANY of them, all in a row. People, mostly teens, are using them and having a fun time it seems. But there are 2 or 3 that are available still.

Allaura heads over to an empty seat and boots it up, having slight difficulty. A boy next to him notices Allaura having trouble getting it to run, and he is interested in her as she is dressed quite differently than the other kids; white loose clothes and a grey blindfold, rather than a futuristic T-shirt and pants.

“S’cuse me, can I help you get that to run?”

“Oh, uh... sure! I'm not familiar with how these work...”

The boy presses a few buttons on the keyboard, and it loads. “You aren't from around here, are you?”

“No, not really...” In though, Alright, Schwa, I found a PC with Internet. Now what?

Just a sec... I have to be on guard right now...

* * *

“The path of a warrior... heh... if you must know why... it's because of those traitorous humans at Scilabs years ago... after what happened long ago, I choose my path to become the greatest.”

(FLASHBACK - ??? years ago.)

“Yes... you see gentlemen, Forte is not a doubt one of the world's first independent NetNavi.” Dr Cossack finished his speech to the board men of Scilabs, getting positive comments.

”At first, my net-op, and father, cared for me more than anything in the world. He treated me like his son ever since I was born into the net. I was put through rigorous tests and training programs, and I surpassed all of them, but with limited power. My Get Ability Program that Cossack created for me was put on a stasis hold until I was ready to be freed from them. But one day...”

Alarms blared out from the main controls of Scilabs, many scientists and men running around trying to find out what was happening.

In his cell in the cyber world of Scilab was Forte. He had Zaprings holding him in place so he wouldn’t escape or anything. He was wondering what happened when a part of his cell was destroyed by a powerful blast, which freed him of his chains. “What.... what's going on?” The black Navi stumbled out, and was surrounded by the Scilab Elite corps.

“Forte, you are to be hereby deleted. Prepare to die.” ”When they said that, I was suddenly attacked by them without warning. I did all I could, evading their attacks, and fighting back, also trying to contact Cossack. When I couldn't get through, I turned around... and that's when IT happened...”

“Father!! Please talk to me!!” Forte yelled out. He turned around, and the leader slashed down across his chest, damaging his icon on his chest, spilling a bit of blood. Forte's eyes were widen in pain, as he fell down on his back. The leader pressed the sword against the black Navi's throat, and sneered.

“Goodbye...” A glimmer of light escaped Forte's eyes as he suddenly broke free from his stasis hold, and grabbed the sword arm of the Navi. Using his Get Ability Program, he copied the same sword that damaged him. Now armed with a weapon, Forte snapped and unleashed his fury on all the security NetNavi’s. One by one, every Navi was brought down, until most of Scilab's computer mainframe was in ruins. Standing on top of the rubble, he glanced across the horizon. ”When the attack happened, I was blamed for it all and my, father... was put under arrest. They sent that team out to delete me, but I broke free and accessed my full power. I felt so betrayed, that I grabbed the cloak from the leader's unconscious Navi body, and shot him to deletion before walking off into the depths of the net.”

(END FLASHBACK)

“I hid most of my body in that cloak, and I kept that scar on my chest that you see as a reminder of that day. Soon I found out it was Proto that caused the deletion of most of the internet. From then on, I choose the warrior's path, becoming stronger and stronger until I met RockMan, and was deleted by Proto on that same day.” He looked towards the ground for a moment, before locking his eyes at Schwa again.

“When Gospel, the multibug organism, came to me when I broke free from that red prison, he helped me. I lost all memory of what happened before that incident, but I soon learned of it with each year that passed, each time I was awaken from my slumber I would drive to fight him.”

He chuckled a little, as those memories flashed through him. “I then met David, and his Navi ForteZero, and my ways changed a bit.” The Black Shadow then smiled, “Knowing there was a Navi who would fight for me despite the hatred from all the others and the damned Officials... made me different, but I still fight as the darkness, but now I fight with that darkness with my heart.”

I'll never forget that day when I first met Forte... I'm glad to have a good brother like him... ForteZero, The White Shadow, thought to himself, a smile plastered on his face as he sat down.

Schwa listened intently to Forte's speech, almost crying by the time he was done. He took a step forward, a smile on his face.

“Wow. A Navi with a past, that's you. I have kind of a shameful past... I used to be a pillager... I never knew my father, and although Mom was the one who raised me I never really knew her either, if you know what I mean... At 12 years old, I became a Psi Warrior, an embodyment of Good... and decided to change. I took my old sword, burned it to ashes with all my Psi powers, and followed the path of Honor instead of pillagery.” He grips his hand a little, as he continues.

“But we are in the middle of a battle. Keep the heat on! This fight will help us both-- me, for I have a new sense of honor for you; you, for it will make you stronger, both in battle and in spirit. Never let your warrior's heart die, Forte-- and hit me with all you've got! I can take it!”

Schwa's hands flare with blue ether as he takes an offensive position.

Meanwhile...

“Gah! What's this Dialogue Box mean?”

“Oh, that? That's just the Warning message. It states that this is a Library PC and that you may only use it for 60 minutes.”

“Great...”

“So, what do you need to look up?”

“Just a sec'...”

Allaura contacts Schwa. Okay! On the Net. Plan?

Do a Net search for 'Schwa' and 'Forte'. Use Google or something.

“Let's see...”

Allaura opens Google with help from the boy, types in 'Schwa Forte', and hits Enter. Many pages open. The boy nearly jumps out of his skin.

“Forte! He's that famous Dark Navi... and Schwa... must be YOUR Navi! Dude, you don't use Google for that. Here.”

The boy opens some different pages, and after a minute or so, Schwa and Forte appear on the screen, facing each-other in what looks like a digital arena, which was really the dark areas of Black Earth.

“What's a Navi?” Allaura asks. This puzzles the boy.

“Okay, that's Schwa right there... I think... and that guy on the right is Forte. That's Schwa's opponent.”

“I know that!”

Status, Allaura!

This time, the boy hears the telepathic message, due to Schwa being visible on the PC.

“Oh! ...Telepathy? You two are Psychics?”

“Yeah... Okay Schwa, what do I do?”

“Well, I don't know if these will work, since he's not a Navi, but you oughta give it a try...” The boy opens his pack and brings out a box full of assorted CPU chips, each with a different colored design on it.

“Uhh... I believe you may be able to give me battle enhancements once you find out where I am on the Net. But I don't know how.”

“Heh heh... I do!”

* * *

Forte's smile vanished, and was instantly replaced with a sly evil grin. “Dark Arm Blade!” He morphed his right hand into his blade, and dashed up at Schwa, unleashing three dark energy slashes in the path of the three slashes.

“I'll win this battle no matter what it takes Schwa, so don't disappoint me!”

“Here comes... Halo of Graceful Charm!”

Schwa focuses, and a lavender ring of ether and energy forms around his hands. It then fires straight forward, to envelop one of the sonic booms. One of them is, just one, and as that happens, blue ether surrounds the attack... and it slows to a stop, and reverses direction. Schwa does a high jump over the other two attacks.

Forte's converted attack fires back at him. When Schwa landed, he happened to land on a cracked panel, which shutters and breaks. Schwa gets out of the way with 0.01 second to spare, in fact he trips while leaping out of harms way. Rolling backward and managing a half flip, he manages to get up again quickly.

* * *

“Wow! Did you SEE that?” the boy exclaims, “Schwa converted Forte's attack with one move! He must be crazy strong!”

“Yeah, he is... Look, what are these chips for?”

“Oh...” The boy clears his throat, “These are Battle Chips. You can use them usually to power up your Navi with special weapons and abilities in a battle. The catch is that Schwa isn't a Navi, so I have no idea what kind of things w--”

“Great! This one. What does it do?” Allaura interrupts, holding an orange chip with three circles linked together symbolized on it.

“Oh, that? Beta Bomb. Three different kinds of explosives at your disposal!”

“Um, oh... How do I activate it?”

The boy takes the chip and presses some buttons on the keyboard, then takes a small mic attached to the PC. “Schwa. Schwa, can you hear me?” he asks.

Whoa![i] He mentally exclaimed, [i]Okay, who's sending me a telepathic message?

“It's me, Ricki. I'm talking to you through a microphone on a PC. You ARE in the Net, after all.”

”Ricki? Never met you. You know Allaura?”

“Right here next to me. Listen, I'm powering you up with an attack called Beta Bomb. I designed this myself, and I've tested it many times, so it should work... but only on Navis. I don't know what it would do to you.”

”Hit me! Hurry! This guy is a powerhouse!”

“Oh, alright... Battle Chip, active!”

Ricki thrusts the Chip into a USB slot on the front side of the computer, and rings of light begin surrounding Schwa...

* * *

“Okay… minor setback. This is it Schwa… You will be brought down!” Two black orbs of dark energy gathered into the palms of his hands, and he rushes towards the Psiwarrior.

“WHOA!! Ricki, Allaura, what the hell is happening to me!?”

“Just a few more seconds... Dang, this connection is slow today! What is this, a 1Mbps connection or something?” Ricki replies through the mic, that last part half-unintentional. Allaura is bewildered.

Then Forte closes in. “Don't... you... dare!”

Schwa finishes glowing RIGHT when Forte reaches him.

“Take this! Darkness Overload!” Schwa tries to dodge, but he can barely move; his body seems to be in shock, as he has changed form entirely as the explosion of dark energy engulfs him as Forte flies back to spread distance between them.

“AAAARGH! Dammit, that's... Ah...”

Schwa stumbles back, looking down at himself. No longer is he dressed in white, loose clothes...

“Who or what the hell am I!?”

Schwa now has steel armor around his arms and legs, grey loose clothes, and a bomb-shaped emblem on a headband tied around his forehead. His black blindfold is gone; it seems to have become the headband. But Schwa still sees things as if he had the blindfold on.

“Great, it worked! Schwa, you've become Beta Bomb type!”

“What!!?”

“Quick, do something! You have new attacks!”

“Y'know, kid, you gotta learn when to shaddap...”

“This is getting interesting,” ForteZero said to himself as he watched from a safe distance high over the battlefield, out of view of the two humans.

“Shooting Buster!” Forte morphed both hands into his Forte Busters as he began blasting away with hundreds of plasma shots.

Schwa dashes at Forte, doing his best to avoid the plasma shots, and this is when he notices his first change-- he is ONE FAST SUCKER. He moves at the speed of a blur and no shot manages to hit him or even come close.

“Ricki, how's Schwa doing that?” Allaura askes.

Ricki smiles and cups the mic. “Beta Bomb is designed to work for my personal NetNavi, CrystalMan.EXE. CrystalMan's energy structure seems to have a lot of Holy in it, and this Chip made him a bomb-throwing ninja... So all these chips are bound to work on Schwa, who's also Holy, in the same way they would my Navi. But there is a catch... Each Chip can only be activated for a limited time.”

Ricki was truthful. Beta Bomb has 6 turns to work, as do each Chip in that box. A display of Schwa’s Emotional Window showed a different image of Schwa, and the number 6 was displayed next to it, underneath the HP Counter.

Beta Bomb Schwa leaps into the air and tries focusing Holy energy into his palm, and instead, small metal spheres covered in lights show up in his hand, seeming to have come from nowhere.

“What the hell! What are these? Oh forget it...”

He throws the spheres, about 4 or so in total, at Forte. They all drop faster than expected and hit the floor tiles close to Forte. They each blow up in small explosions, and firey-geyser shockwaves spread out in a 4-way fanshot towards the dark Navi.

Schwa stares in disbelief as he lands from his jump. He looks at his hand and focuses, as more bombs appear there.

“...Wowzer... Ricki, I take it back. You got the moooooves, man.” And he chuckles evilly at his new discovery of himself. Though damaged he is, he has a GREAT feeling about this battle now.

Forte however isn’t impressed, but is pissed when he was caught off-guard from the explosives.

“Damnit!” Forte stopped, and jumped into the air, just a second before the bombs crashed to where he once was. He took flight and flew off, gaining some distance. He then spotted something, Black Spiral towers with an evil glow coming from them. He hid himself there, but tended to his small wound on his right leg. It wasn't much, but it didn't matter, he suffered attacks worst than Crystal bombs and worst than any threat he faced head-on in the past.

The way that attack came, reminded him of, “Genesis...” He then snapped. Hearing that fearing laugh that almost deleted him once, he revealed himself, but something was much different about Forte; he seemed to have gone into a rage.

“Oh no not again...” ForteZero said to himself. “Whenever someone's attacks remind Forte of that damn ancient Navi, he gets totally pissed.”

Forte's eyes were glowing red, and his entire color scheme changed. All the gold on his crests and armor turned from a bright gold to a dull purple. His black bodysuit was now a dull red. He was screaming at the top of his digital lungs, both arms morphed into Dark Arm Blades.

He's become his Dark Soul version again... now his speeds match Schwa's, The White Shadow thought to himself, though he was sure the psychics heard his thought anyway.

“DIE GENESIS!!!” He screamed in anger, slashing and hacking at Schwa blindly but with deadly accuracy and speed. Schwa was normal looking to the others, but to Forte, he saw the white haired black angel of destruction laughing at his futile attempt for an attack.

“What? No way! Get back--!!!” Schwa backs up a few steps, but the angered Dark Messiah comes in at such a close speed, Schwa was forced to defend himself.

He dodges... one, two, three, four, almost five... taking a nick on five, one that shouldn't do nearly as much damage as Schwa takes...

“Argh! Get a hold'a yourself, man...”

Schwa tries reading his mind, but gets shocked by an energy feedback. Too much anger in Forte.

“What's he doing?” Ricki wonders. Allaura has faith in Schwa, but they can't help much...

Schwa finally gets the hint. “Ricki, he's hallucinating. Take off this Chip and give me something with Holy powers. I can shape Holy energy easier.”

“Got it! Let's see...” He begins searching.

Schwa tells ForteZero in the corner, Please, get out here and help me! I can't take this! His voice, even telepathic, sounds pained. True, Schwa has taken more punishment than he would've preferred so early in the battle.

“AntiSword!” ForteZero dropped down between Schwa and Forte, and blocked the blades before they could cleave through Schwa. He pushed Forte back before retaliating with three Sonic Booms, each one connecting to the dark Navis’ chest.

“Forte! Get a hold of yourself! Gospel!” Upon calling out the mega virus’ name, it returned. Gospel witnessed what was happening, and it roared before pouncing onto Forte, pinning the raged Navi to the ground.

The White Shadow rushed over after gaining his footing, holding onto some sort of purplish pink Subchip. Forte was squirming to break free, but failed. ForteZero pressed the chip against his icon, and the chip’s effects took effect, removing the Berserk Status.

On the PC screen on the upper right corner, his Emotion Window changed from Angry Mode to Normal Mode.

“What the hell, happened to me?” He asked as he got up after ordering Gospel to let go.

ForteZero wanted to say something, but didn't want to risk him going raged again, and jumped onto Gospel's head, “Brother, were heading back to Maverick Hunter HQ... ok?” Gospel turned around and headed east, the direction to Electopia's net area, and where Maverick Hunter HQ was located at.

“Sure little brother... sorry about that Schwa, shall we continue?” Forte asked, as he began charging up with energy.

Schwa however, nodded. “Continue... yeah, let's go...” Schwa's voice is tired and pained, yet he STILL chooses to continue the spar. In a distant library, though...

“Ricki, that beeping sound... Is that good?”

“No, Allaura... That means Schwa's HP Level is in critical condition. He appears to be below 200 out of 1500 HP. And most of Forte's signature attacks should do around 200 damage... which means?”

“Oh no! That means... one more hit!”

“Exactly. But since this isn't against a Virus and just a Navi, Schwa should be perfectly alri--”

Schwa, hearing the whole thing, interrupts. “Dude! I ain't a Navi! It doesn’t work that way!” He began to cough.

“OH! Well, in that case... that isn’t good.”

“Time to end this match for good!” Forte rushed Schwa at the last moment, avoiding the attacks the Psiwarrior launched, and raised his glowing palm into the air, “Earth Breaker!”

The attack crashed over Schwa, which activated Crimson Bubble’s counter-ability and sent damage equal to Earth Breaker at Forte, but it took its toll on Schwa. It was the attack that ended this match… as much to the disbelief of Allaura.

/END FLASHBACK/

“Where here.” Forte snapped back to reality, as David pulled up to base, and parked around the back. Marino pinched Zero, which woke him up.

“Gah... don’t do that!” He then yawned loudly as David turned the van off and got out. The others piled out, and headed inside. Zero right away went towards the bar with Marino and ForteZero following the blond swordsman. David and Alia headed towards Central Command. Forte headed back to his room, turning off his Mp3 and tossing it onto the desk, flopping down onto the couch and turns on the TV.

“Since that battle, I’ve acquired Alpha Psibeam, and not only that; I have also gained trace amounts of the Living Assets.” He lifted his right hand and stared at it, as energy swirled around his open hand. It was a golden shade of honey, vaguely similar to the color of sunlight.

I hope you return Schwa... I may think about wanting to visit your Sensae friend... He smirked to himself. “From a Navi who wanted revenge against the human race, I now am part of the Maverick Hunters, who’s sworn duty is to protect the innocent from the evil mavericks. Of course, I’ll only be happy when I finally delete my female clone Sonance...”

He then began flipping through different channels.

/END/

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Finished with this drabble segment. Reviews anyone?

[Type-BLUES.EXE]

'course, there are minor typos and grammar errors, still nice stories. WILL SOMEONE ELSE PLEASE REPLY.

[ForteBX.EXE]

Now, I shall step up onto the light and share my part of the drabble chapter. This drabble shall also explain Shadow’s origins (narrated by the bastard who won’t die himself), and as posted in the first drabble chapter, Shadow is the son of the digital Immortal ShadeMan.

Disclaimer: You should know by now... o.o

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“Nice concert. Heh...” David closed his eyes as he and his friends gathered back stage with their instruments and stuff, they were currently up next as their band name was announced, they all exited onto the stage with their stuff, and got into position.

“Here they are, the EXE Hunters!” The large crowd cheered on, as everyone around the world watching on television. Even their friends all the way from Electopia (Netto and the gang) all cheered.

“You think they may win this year?” Netto asked.

“We did pretty well ourselves. But something tells me that David and his band may perform better than us,” Tohru said, chugging down a cold can of soda.

Back at the Oakton Stadium in Ajiina, The crowds soon went silent as the band begun to play their song.

(A/N: I do not own this song nor the lyrics but... well.... it’s one of my favorite j-pop songs. That and my wife begged me to do this part... o.o)

The bang begun playing their intro notes, as the music echoed out throughout the stadium, and across the television speakers ‘round the world. Alia stood up on stage with her sister Kristi and the two begun to sing the lyrics.

WHY suki na kimochi wa surudoi toge
WHY mayoisugiru to jibun ni sasaru
dandan to hanabira wo sakaseru
bara no you demo
hontou wa kokoro ni furueteiru ai ga kowai
kowaresou de

dakishimete kureru yori
motto wakatte hoshii
yasashisa wo kureru yori
samishisa wo koete yuku chikara hoshii

makenai ai datte
kono mune ni kanarazu aru hazu yo
tashikana ai datte
motomereba itsuka wa mieru kara
ima dounatte yukou to
ima unmei ni sakarau
tsuyosa wo shinjisasete

WHY odokenasa kara umareru tsumi
WHY shiranai koto de dareka wo semeru
kanjou ga nanigenai fuan wo
fukuzatsu ni suru
kankei nai kotoba wo erande wa iiwake shite
nigete bakari

nagusamete kureru nara
motto shikatte hoshii
machigai wo yurusu nara
kizu sae mo tsutsukomu yume ga hoshii

makenai ai datte
kono mune ni kanarazu aru hazu yo
tashikana ai datte
motomereba itsuka wa mieru kara
ima dounatte yukou to
ima aijou ni shitagau
tsuyosa wo shinjisasete

The band went silent except few of the players, before the song burst back into full play.

makenai ai datte
kono mune ni kanarazu aru hazu yo
tashikana ai datte
motomereba itsuka wa mieru kara
ima dounatte yukou to
ima unmei ni sakarau
tsuyosa wo shinjisasete

The band continued play before the music slowed to an end. After a few seconds the silent crowd went into an uproar of cheers and applause. The gang all bowed or waved as they soon cleared off stage.

“And what an astonishing song played by the EXE Hunters!” Kero exclaimed.

“Yes, I think David and his friends may have the Blitz Boys a run for their zenny,” Higure explained, “Last year Netto, Dekao, and Tohru otherwise known as the Blitz Boys won the Music N1, but this year we may have a different first place winners.”

“Well, only time and the votes for the favorite bands will decide. We’ll take a short break, then continue on the rest of the competition.”

“And cut!” The “On Air” sign turned off

“God... I need a break,” Kero said as she lounged back in her chair, and took a drink from her bottled water, “Glad we’re in a sound proof booth otherwise all those loud cheering would make me deaf,” she said.

* * *

“Heh, did great!” David said with a smirk.

“You know, last year Scarface, Epsilon, and Ferham interrupted the competition and it turned out into a music battle between the superviruses and Netto’s band,” Forte said as he remained in his seat next to the drums he played earlier on stage.

“Forte, don’t say that! You’ll jinx us!”

As if on cue, a familiar laugh echoed out just as Kero and Higure went back on the air. David, Alia, Zero, Kevin, Kristi, Markus, and Marino all glared at the Black Shadow.

“What?” They all sighed, as David called ForteZero who remained back at HQ, to head over to the stadium.

In the cyber world’s stadium of Ajiina Internet City, Shadow was blasting Navis from the stands, causing chaos and destruction as always. He grinned as he targeted a group of young teen looking Navis, before a familiar attack was called out. The New Generation Darkloid leapt away to avoid the EarthBreaker attack.

“Well, so you have come to stop me?”

A helmet-less ForteZero grinned, landing at the edge of the large crater in the ground. “You bet, bitch!” Shadow who landed on the opposite end of the crater frowned, before he laughed. “What’s so funny Shadow?”

He calmed down, and gave him a devilish smirk. “I am certain that over the years, you and your friends have scoured the net in hope of finding out how I came into existence.” ForteZero raised an eyebrow.

“Well, I think you, and the entire world owned the right for an explanation.” At Japan’s Net Savior HQ, Kifune, Manabe, and Meijin-san who were watching this gasped, as did all of David’s friends at Den University’s QUAD Stadium. He motioned the floating cameras to get an up-close of his face, which the Camera Progs did so.

(A/N: The following text finally tells of Shadow's origin. Words in Bold Italics is the viral Darkloid Shadow narrating.)

”For years, everyone was wondering who I was and how I came into existence. Well, it’s quite simple really. It's really quite simple really, for the reason of my existence is all ShadeMan’s doing.

I am his son, because he created me; so in shorter terms... ShadeMan is my father.”

Everyone gasped.

“You see... I was born from Dark Matter, and my soul is the origin of Darkchips; hence the reason why when I use a Darkchip, nothing never erodes my data. I am a New Generation Darkloid cause of it.”

ShadeMan has just returned back from Django's world, wounded but still alive.

“Damn that Solar Boy,” he hissed, “He will pay for purifying me...”

”ShadeMan who had suffered defeat in another world, possibly the Boktai world, he struck an idea, and he gathered in as much Dark Matter as he could, before supplying it within another coffin buried deep within the Nebula Regions of the Uranet. He had the last piece of Darkchip data he saved -- the Dark Sword, and used it as my soul, and in a matter of years, I was born... born from the darkness and hate of all those who shared the negative feelings in their hearts and souls. By the time I awaken from my years of slumber, I learned of Hikari Netto and friends in their teen years, and his closest friends he made during elementary years ago... David and Alia.”

Shadow's eyes opened, as from outside, the coffin lid creaked an inch before a white gloved hand slid out, and lifted the heavy shell of and it hit the ground with a loud thump. Shadow rose up from the silk lined coffin, and stepped out.

”So, my son, you are finally awakened...”

“Who... father?” A shadow soul of ShadeMan materialized in front of him.

”Yes my son, I am your father. I am ShadeMan, and you are Shadow, a Navi made completely of Darkchip data and the black substance known as Dark Matter. This is the year 201X. The world has changed alot from my absences, because by the time you've received this message I am currently dead thanks to RockMan and his friends. I found it quite difficult to delete the pesky blue boy or his friends, but I learned of a young lad by the name of David Abbott who slid into a dark depression during the first reign of Darkloids.

He's alone, but with his girlfriend Alia Sakamoto currently living in Amerouppe. I want you to go make friends with him, then when the time is right, kill him. Cause in the next few years he would bring Crossfusion into the next generation. I want to see that his dream never happens...”

“Yes father...” The Dark Vision vanished and Shadow grinned, as his left arm -- which had transformed into a large translucent sword -- crackled with energy, “I will fulfill your words. I'll kill David, and then go after your nemesis RockMan...”

”Before I sought after David, first I researched alot about David's history. From what I learned, David suffered a hard blow to his young life when his only family was brutally murdered during a Den Rail attack led by the Darkloid known as SparkMan when Nebula first appeared. He slid into a dark depression and remained that way, and Alia stayed by his side.

“He was in that dark mood for a long time, and Alia was loyal to him because she deeply loved him. Makes me sick to my stomach... Once SparkMan was deleted, David slowly pulled out from his depression, and they vanished by the time Duo and Slur arrived here to Earth. A lot of bullshit happened between the ultimate judge of light and the Crossfusion Rangers, which led to you humans surviving extinction thanks to those Net Saviors. Once the two graduated Den-san Jr. High, they left Japan and traveled the world.

“In the next few years trailing the two, I finally found them when they settled down in a house of their own in Amerouppe. I played my first move and surfaced onto his homepage of his computer. And, biting the bait like a dumb bass, he took me into his care and “healed” me of my “damages.”

David in the back growled, tightening his right fist. Shadow smirked.

“From there on out, we remained good friends. Of course remembering my original mission, I played along, knowing that he spoke alot of his past -- like I gave a damn anyway -- and of his Navi ForteZero. The Navi during David’s Jr. High school years was revived by Cossack, giving him a format similar to Forte, and then disappeared without a trace. Sources say he went into hiding... which was unconfirmed.”

He took a short pause, before he continued to tell his story to the whole world that was witnessing this on live television. The people at Net Savior HQ, and those at Science Labs were listening in real close.

“During David's senior year in high school, he was working with Science Labs at the time from overseas, and was creating new technology that would've brought Crossfusion to a whole new level, all without the aid of the Dimensional Generators, or the use of a Dimensional Area. Of course he used the data that Yuuichiro Hikari used. I remember the words my father told me, that he wishes for Crossfusion to never be attainted at all. Once the work was completed... I made my move...”

“Pulverizor Cannon!!” Shadow launched his powerful attack, which destroyed the core of David's PC, thus destroying it altogether. David rushed into his lab, and was shocked as Shadow was running amok, destroying everything he saw. One of the nearby computers near him exploded, sending him to the ground. He got up, winched by the immense heat.

“Shadow!? What the fuck are you doing!?!?”

“What's it look like David... I'm deleting all of your hard work.” David growled, before he jacked in ForteZero.

* * *

“Shadow!” The yellow and black Navi glanced at the White Shadow, who was gripping his Forte Sabers.

“Damn it! What are you doing!?”

“Well, I already told you! I'm deleting all of David's work.”

“You bastard!” ForteZero dashed forward, and swung his weapons, but Shadow clearly had the upper hand in strength and speed and blasted him to the ground before he shot him, piercing through the icon.

FORTEZERO DELETED

David's eyes widen in fear and shock, as he watched his Navi die before his eyes once again. Shadow grinned and told him to burn in hell before he streamed away, just as the lab exploded. Outside, Alia had just pulled up in her sister's car, and both girls got out, horrified. The house was up in smoke and flames, as Alia ran towards the burning building.

“Alia wait!” Kristi swore before she ran after her friend. Amidst the rubble, David's hand stuck out from underneath a pile of bricks. Alia and Kristi were digging him up, and by the time the ambulance arrived and worried neighbors came to help, David was safe, and still alive, his battered and bloody body held in his girlfriend's arms.

* * *

”I thought I had accomplished my job for my father, but then I learned the following week that the bastard survived being blown apart. That lucky bastard dodged the damn bullet, so instead of coming out to delete him, and risk being deleted by the Officials and Net Saviors, I remained hidden from sight. I waited every day, waiting for the chance to kill him in cold blood... waiting so that I may finally accomplish my mission...”[b]

[b]End Narration

He generated a powerful wind that blew the cameras away from him, as he glared at ForteZero.

“Around that time before I attempted to kill David by blowing up the house, you and David recovered Zero from near deletion, reformatted him, then he went on his way to exploring the net once more. I was gone for a week during that time... but hey, none of you know that it was I who sent that Death Navi after Zero in the first place.

“Heh, then there's the parts of me coming back during those three semester's of college you and your Operator’s wife went to with Netto Hikari and the others at Electopia. That’s my whole story...”

“Nice... tell me, why did you targeted Zero in the first place those years ago?”

“Well, let’s just say getting rid of the strongest Navi in the cyber world next to Forte would help me in the long-run.” Zero growled in the back.

“I have been wondering though; how did you come back to life again?”

ForteZero smiled. “Alia luckily kept a back-up of my personality and format body in such emergencies.”

Shadow only spat at the ground. “Well, never knew. And now that you know how I was born and who my creator was, I shall fulfill that long-term mission by ending your life here and now, starting with you, InuYasha,” He taunted the Navi.

(A/N: ForteZero’s voice is the same as InuYasha from the anime. I also can do a great InuYasha impersonation. >.>)

“I don’t think so!” ForteZero ripped out his sabers and flew towards Shadow. Once in position, he slashed, but the viral Darkloid warped away, and shot him down with a Pulverizor Cannon.

“Annihilator Hadoken!” Changing his color scheme to crimson red, gold, and white, he put his sabers away and thrusted his fist forward, blasting Shadow across the stadium battlefield.

“Hey guys, I think this is the chance to put that new music of ours to the test,” David said. The others knew what he meant, and they all nodded, bringing their stuff back on stage. The crowd before them was wondering what they were doing, before David gave the signal, and they slowly played, which immediately went into a catchy upbeat.

(A/N: Play the DS version of Rockman EXE 5. “Capcom - 26 - Powerful Enemy”)

ForteZero back in the net grinned as he charged Shadow at full speed, and landed a powerful roundhouse kick to the jaw.

“Bolt Plume!” He fired a powerful bolt of lightning at ForteZero, and paralyzed him before splicing out of existence. ForteZero broke through the paralysis quickly and jumped before Shadow appeared and slashed a heavy downward thrust through an after-image.

“Get back here!”

“Bite me!” Shadow growled and jumped up at him. ForteZero quickly countered his sword strikes with his own weapons. The two once landing leapt away, then charged again. ForteZero managed to attack first upon arriving face-to-face, slashing upwards with the right weapon while slashing downward at 15 degrees. Shadow forced himself to defense, blocking the attacks while sending some back. The two eventually locked weapons.

“Give up now!”

Shadow growled. “Never!” He kicked him at the mid-section, before knocking his sabers out of his hands and kicked him across the jaw, then jumped and slashed him, sending him crashing into the ground.

“Heh heh heh, die!” Suddenly, five cards that resembled a Royal Flush streaked through the air, and blasted him back five feet. Quickly regaining his sight, he looked up at the stands, and there stood Spider.

“Hey! Don’t you dare hurt one of my friends! Got it?” Spider quickly ran out onto the battlefield, pulled out a random card and flung it forward. Shadow sliced it in half before charging Spider. The bounty hunter picked up one of his friend’s sabers before blocking Shadow’s attack.

“Counter Card Battlechip, slot-in!” Five Spade cards appeared in front of Spider when he pulled back, and Shadow accidentally triggered the trap, suffering the counter’s full force, and falling flat on his face. In the real world, David and his friends continued playing the apparent battle theme.

“ForteZero, you alright?” Spider helped the InuYasha voiced Navi up, and handed him his right saber weapon.

“Thanks to you I am,” he said, smirking.

“Glad I showed up.” The two got up and glared at the Darkloid, who got up as well.

“You think having an ally will help you ForteZero? Guess what? I’m getting warmed up!” He began to glow brightly as he laughed manically. Shadow dashed into the center of the arena before kneeling. “HAHAHAHAHA!” He jumped in the air and, focusing the blade on his arm, created a huge pillar of energy. This came in the form of several powerful lines created by Shadow slashing the air through the center of the pillar of light. The glowing radiating from Shadow faded.

Zekt at his hotel in Amerouppe pulled out another chip. “Magnum Shield Battlechip, slot-in!” Spider and ForteZero hid behind a powerful metal medieval shield nearly the same height as an Asteroid Navi summoned to the real world via a Dimensional Chip. It shattered after protecting them from the onslaught of Shadow’s Nightmare Storm.

“Let’s do this!” ForteZero, acquiring his R Scythe, flew forward and flung it forward. The bastard avoided the attack, but it boomeranged, and slashed him multiple times on the return trip.

“Crimson Vortex!” Using Red’s signature attack, he spun the scythe in his hands as a funnel of energy erupted under the stunned Darkloid, damaging him further. Spider pulled out five cards, discarded three, and took out three more.

“My lucky day. Royal Flush!” The cards begun to glow as Spider shot them forward. They exploded once striking Shadow, covering the field in smoke around him.

After a few moments of tense silence; aside the music playing, Shadow erupted forward, screaming in anger. He slashed a powerful energy wave forward, grinning like crazy. However, the powerful attack broke against the armor of Massimo who teleported in front of Spider and ForteZero.

“Massimo!” The hunters exclaimed.

“Heard you had trouble. Markus contacted me moments ago back at base and I came as soon as I could.”

Spider grinned. “Then help us triple-team the asshole.”

Massimo gripped the Interceptor in his hands, and smiled behind his mouth guard. “Let’s do it! Hunter Missile!” He fired twin missiles that streaked through the air. Shadow aware of the situation, deflected the missiles before slamming the blade on the ground, sending a blinding shockwave that streaked along the ground.

Massimo with his powerful defensive strength managed to block the attack, but not without taking minor damage, while ForteZero flew forward and sending his scythe back to his weapons inventory, he attacked with his Forte Buster. Spider and Massimo ran after the White Shadow.

Shadow was slowly losing against the relentless attacks, and the White Shadow wasn’t letting up. He fired a charged shot which stunned the Darkloid, and the three Hunters nodded.

“Execute! Final Strike!” ForteZero with his recovered weapons flew forward and begun to unleash a powerful stream of saber slashes. Massimo dashed forward and was striking him with his Interceptor weapon, while Spider stood his ground, releasing waves of energy missiles and begun to attack with a wave of cards fired like a sub machine gun.

The two Navis has somehow gained invincibility as the attacks flew through them. Shadow was receiving a powerful storm of unrelenting attacks. After three seconds, the band faded the music they played to a stop as the two Navis dashed back to Spider, who stopped his rain of cards.

Shadow collapsed onto the ground, exhausted of his energy. “Damn... you...” He growled, groaning in pain.

“Heh, you just won’t learn Shadow,” ForteZero said.

“Why... why can’t I... kill you or David...?”

“Because, we are strong, and we have friends who will gladly help us when you decide to attack the innocent.” Shadow growled, before he slowly got up, glaring at the White Shadow.

“Just you wait... once your luck runs out... I’ll kill you both, and all of your friends.” Shadow then vanished in a streak of black lightning, leaving a small scorch mark on the ground of where he once stood.

* * *

After the entire incident had passed, the rest of the competition played out a week after due to an investigation, with the EXE Hunters winning first place. Now, at Maverick Hunter HQ, David was in his office, looking at the only photo he had of his family. His parents, his older sister, and he was hugged by Karen. He was only 5 when the photo was taken.

He closed his eyes, as he set the picture back down next to two other picture frames. He looked up when he heard a knock at the door. Clearing his eyes from the tears, he managed to call the person in, disguising the pained voice from the soft crying he did minutes ago.

It was his wife. “David?” David turned away, as she walked up to him.

“What?”

“David... I’m sorry that Shadow’s story of his origins brought back old painful memories...”

“Alia! You don’t know how much pain went through me when he was telling the whole world that story! Being reminded of my deceased family... it still hurts, being the only one alive from the family...” He closed his eyes, as a wave of sadness washed over his body again, and he broke down crying.

She held her husband in her arms. “Shh... it’s alright... just let it out sweetheart...” He continued to sob uncontrollably, as painful memories flashed through his mind, the ones he buried away years ago.

* * *

12 year old David was riding in a grey car, as it slowly pulled up towards the Metroline station.

“I can’t wait to see ma and pa again. And big sis too!” His grandmother smiled.

“I know you missed them when they went off. You know where they will be dropped off, so we’ll drop you off. You can go greet them.”

“Alright. Thanks guys. Love you.” He got out, and his grandfather drove away after he waved goodbye to them.

“Can’t wait to see my family again ForteZero.” He pulled out his PET, and inside was ForteZero, a standard black and gold Navi.

“Yup, can’t wait to get into a net-battle with Kirbynite again.” Just then, he heard lots of terrorized screaming then an explosion echoed out.

“What was that!?” David put his PET away and ran towards the source of the explosion. When he got there, he was stunned. It was the train his family was coming in from. It was nothing but scrap, set into blaze.

“Mama? Papa? Sis?” He called out, but no answer. The Officials came by, and he was dragged away.

* * *

David sat in the main lobby of Net Savior HQ. Chief Kifune and Meijin-san walked up to him.

“David?” He looked up at Meijin.

“What happened!? What happened to my parents and sister?”

The chief was silent, before he spoke. “It was an attack by Nebula again. The Darkloid took control of the train your family and Karen was on, and crashed it into a dead-end of the station. Everyone didn’t survive. Sorry...”

David was stunned. He lost his parents. His older sister was an Official, and they chalked it up to getting rid of her and also killing the others on the train as well. After a few hours, his grandparents came by and picked him up, and he was taken into custody by them.

* * *

Months later, he was in a very dark depression, and was homeless. His grandparents were murdered during a bank robbery incident, and he was living in an alley of Netto’s neighborhood. His best friend Alia was out looking for him, and when she found him, he was sobbing in the cold alley behind Higure’s chip shop. He recently lost his Navi when he was ambushed by hundreds of viruses. ForteZero fought bravely but when he was struck and the attack shattered the icon on his chest. He only apologizes as the deletion consumed him.

Alia took him to her home, and that’s where he lived. When SparkMan was deleted, Alia managed to drag him out from his depression. The next four years of middle school he and Alia grown attached to one another, and developed a deep relationship.

It was also around that same year before the final days of Jr. High that David met up with a recovered Dr. Cossack. He asked Cossack to help repair and revive his NetNavi ForteZero. Seeing that this may be a chance for Forte to see that humans are not evil, he agreed. Soon, the White Shadow was born. Then, just as quickly as ForteZero came back to life with the origin of the Get Ability locked in his format, Cossack vanished.

After graduating Jr. High, he and Alia left Electopia and traveled around the world, and returned years later to enter college at Den University, along with Netto and the gang.

* * *

Back to the present time, David and Alia had long since left the office, and they were strolling through the Botanical Garden downtown. David and Alia held hands, with her staying close by him.

“A lot has happened... most of those painful memories I want to keep buried.” A lot has happened. The second college term, they met an angsty boy named Noah. After the Rebellion was defeated, Noah made amends for his inner demons and reformed his life, being a genius. Third term in came Neo Arcadia. That threat was soon taken care of... along with ForteZero learning the hardships of falling in love and losing true love.

Also it was the same time after the Neo Arcadia threat, that their Commander, a Navi named Redips, stolen the true source of the Crest of Arcadia, but... the evil Maverick was killed after being chased up to a space station orbiting Earth. After that, the third year of college ended, and they moved to Ajiina to their new base of operations working alongside Mitani and Red Alert.

She looked at him. “Don’t worry, you have me. And you have your family too.” He slowly curled his lips into a warm smile. He may have lost his original family, but he has a new family. Netto, Meiru, Enzan, Shun, Tohru, Dekao, Yaito, Noah and their families. There also were Alia’s parents, and all his Navis and their Navi friends.

“You’re right... I have all of my friends I consider family.” She held him closer as the two shared a prolonged passionate kiss. They thought they heard soft piano music playing, but they didn’t cared much.

* * *

Meanwhile... back over at Maverick Hunter HQ.

“HA! I win again!” ForteZero was grinning like crazy, as his brother growled, and paid up one 1200 Zenny. “I can’t believe you suck at playing Billiards!”

“Shut up brother!” He said, raising the cue stick threateningly.

“Fine... wanna play someone else?”

“YES!” The White Shadow looked around, then spotted Zero.

“What about Zero?”

“You want me to play against the blond?” Zero looked over at Forte heading the “blond” comment.

“What was that?” He asked, glaring.

“Nothing.”

“Better be nothing...” Zero downed the rest of his beverage. Forte growled, before he played against his brother again.

“If I find out you’re cheating I’ll kick your ass!”

“How can one cheat at Billiards?” Forte smirked.

“You tell me.”

“I am not like Spider, brother!” The bounty hunter then entered the bar area, hearing his name called out.

“What about me?”

“Shut up, Spider!” They both exclaimed at him before returning to their game. The purple haired reploid blinked twice, sweatdropping.

/END/

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Well, another done... >.> Hopefully I can get other people to review... u.u

[Type-BLUES.EXE]

Nice again, with some background to shadow.
-> Try to keep using the same font, my eyes get tired getting used to the new one. The first font was the best, I'd say.
-> Again with the typos and grammar errors xD. It's minimal now, nice job.
Now, someone else review, I feel lonely here.

[ForteBX.EXE]

Shadow’s Thoughts

Disclaimer: Should I repeat...

“Darkness and despair, hate and destruction, distrust and chaos... all words that I know. Those bastards no matter what they’ve tried to do, delete, brutal deletion, purification, data absorption...

“No matter what they did, nothing could ever get rid of me... Those bastards tried everything possible, and now they are relying on a source that this world has not known or even heard of except myself and Mistress Sonance.

“The power of the Psiwarriors has been a tapped power of holy. The holy of this world is easily manipulated by the Psiwarriors, cause they have trained millennia to easily combat the darkness of the worlds in the entire universe, and possible other universes beyond our own existence. I have sampled a great deal of their power.

“... I swore to my father that I will kill David and ForteZero, and one day... when they least expect it, they will die a slow and agonizing death... then the world shall fall into complete and total chaos...

“... and once that chaos has spread, the light will have no place to shine...”

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Very short, yet simple. For god sakes... SOMEONE ELSE REPLY OTHER THAN Blues? >.<

[Fluttershy]

Okay, I will. All I read so far is ForteZero's drabble, but it was VERY good. So good in fact that you inspired me to make my own comic about a MMBN Mav. wars. Thank you very much.

[ForteBX.EXE]

Silent Ninja Marino

Disclaimer: You should know by now folks...

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The area was silent. The setting is a Medieval Japanese city in the dead of night with nothing but a few candlelit lampposts and a full moon to illuminate the area. The moon shined brightly in the sky, until for a split second two blurs passed through the full view of the moonlight.

Two weapons clashed against one another, before the two said blurs vanished. Suddenly a rain of shrunken appeared, flying down from the skies, as a black blur dashed about evading every single shot, while unleashing several back at the purple blur.

The two blurs then collided, as the visible forms of Marino and ShadowMan had their weapons in a deadlock.

As for the pink ninja, she was in her SX Cross. Her armor was now a purple and black armor, with the armor thinning around the legs and arms, and sandals fused to her boots. The bodysuit is pitch black but loose fitting like cloth, an unzipped vest with a long red scarf reaching down to her lower back. Spiked wristbands were wrapped around her wrists, with knuckle guards around her gloves, and white armor is clamped around her thighs.

“Marino, it seems you have mastered all of the elements of my Cross form,” ShadowMan commented to his apprentice. Marino smirked, as their deadlock broke and the leapt back onto two lamp posts, then they both frontal flipped onto the ground.

Marino whipped out her Windmill Shuriken before taking up a battle stance. ShadowMan slid his leg back into his own stance and grasped the hilt of his sword with one hand. In the next instant, both ninjas leapt at each other and swung their weapons. They landed behind one another and turned their eyes. ShadowMan’s sword had left a small gash in the side of Marino’s mask while his opponent had done the same to his. The two ninjas backflipped into the air and swung out again as they passed each other. Their weapons blocked one another and they simultaneously brought their feet up and pushed each other away. The two of them landed on different rooftops on opposite ends of the battlefield and rose to their feet.

“Marino, since you have mastered SX Cross, we shall take this fight to the next level,” ShadowMan spoke to her.

“Yes, let us see if I can surpass the master.”

Marino placed her weapon away and leapt from one rooftop to the next. ShadowMan re-sheathed his Muramasa and did the same. Before the met they quickly leapt away. ShadowMan was quick on the draw and launched a wave of kunai. Marino quickly spun her weapon in her hand, deflecting them back. ShadowMan barely managed to dodge the reflected attacks.

When he got back up, Marino was already gone, but he quickly followed. No sooner had he reached where she dashed to, the two combatants then returned to their fight and their weapons clashed once again. ShadowMan lashed out with a kick that his opponent managed to block and launched another Fire Force. Marino cut through the flames with her Windmill Shuriken and threw a punch, which was blocked.

She then spun around and kicked ShadowMan, but the purple shinobi caught her foot. The SX ninja immediately jumped and twisted in the air and slammed her other foot against her opponent’s head. She pushed off and threw her shuriken, which ShadowMan managed to dodge.

It returned to its owner’s hand and she rushed forward and swung with the Muramasa. Her opponent blocked every blow with his sword as she backed away. As soon as an opportunity presented itself, ShadowMan jumped back and landed on the first tier of the pagoda. Marino spun her shuriken in her hand, re-sheathed her blade and leapt after him. They met on the roof and blocked one another before pushing away. The ninjas jumped up towards each other and attacked again, landing on the second tier. Their continued exchange of blows inevitably brought them to the top of the pagoda. As they stood on opposite corners facing each other, a wind started to blow and their scarves flapped in its flow.

“Time to see who the best is, Marino.”

“Gladly...”

The two then leapt at each other again, and their weapons clashed, sparks flying in the air. Both ninjas poured in their strength and will, neither falling to fatigue. When they leaped back, they each launched their own Fire Force attacks. The pink and red flames collided in the center, resulting in a powerful explosion that destroyed half of the pagoda. When the smoke cleared, ShadowMan could be seen breathing heavily leaning on his sword for support. Marino on the other end was struggling to keep standing, panting heavily.

Marino slowly put away her Windmill Shuriken, and slowly unsheathed her Muramasa one final time. The two ninjas rushed towards each other at maximum speed. The contrast between their auras was overwhelming. The opponents jumped into the air, met midway and slashed. They reappeared behind each other on opposite corners of the roof and remained motionless. A gust of wind blew past and everything was silent.

Marino stood erect and sheathed her sword as ShadowMan leaned down on the ground, chuckling. “Well, it would seem the student surpassed the master.” The entire city glowed before returning to its black and green scan lined room, the floor made of glowing blue octagon shaped platforms.

Marino exited her SX Cross and walked over to her master and helped him up, offering him a Full Energy Subchip, which he gladly accepted and regained his health. His arms suddenly held Marino as her knees gave way and she collapsed.

“Well, it would seem even though I lost you have used almost all of your energy.” She only swallowed and chuckled lightly, as she used a Full Energy Subchip. It seemed almost like a romantic moment between the two ninjas... until the moment was interrupted.

Phantom suddenly appeared, and took out his shuriken and held it in an attack pose. He dashed forward and knocked ShadowMan away, and grasped Marino in his arms, and.... smiled. Marino right away got ticked and punched him away, growling.

“Axl, for the last time... stop pissing me off!”

“Phantom” glowed before transforming back into the scarred Navi known as Axl.

“How’d you know it was me?” He whined, getting up.

“Phantom NEVER shows any emotion,” was her curt reply. Axl cursed to himself.

ShadowMan sweatdropped as he stood up, and brushed himself off. “I’ll be taking my leave now,” he told Marino before he logged out.

SHADOWMAN LOGGING OUT

Marino only looked at the spot where ShadowMan once stood. “Hey Marino, you got a crush on ShadowMan?” he teased her. This remark only granted him another smack to the back of his head. She chuckled as she left the cyberworld’s training area. Axl however got up and logged out.

* * *

In Ajiina’s Internet City, Marino stood on the tallest structure of the city. She was deep in thought, remembering her past training battles set up by the purple shinobi.

“So what if I have a crush on ShadowMan...” A faint blush formed on her cheeks as she turned around and logged out. Elsewhere, ShadowMan was having the same thoughts on Marino, as his Muramasa slashed through another virus.

"In time my Marino... in time..." He spun around and slashed his target in half, deleting the evil Navi.

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Reviews anyone? Yes, you could say it's a light attempt on a fluff between Marino and ShadowMan... >.>

[Protosoft]

Yay! Swearing, hehe! Good job!

[ForteBX.EXE]

Command Mission

Disclaimer: Battle Routine Style and other known elements from the game RockMan X Command Mission apply in this story/drabble/ect. And you already know I don’t own any X/EXE characters ‘cept my customs.

Now... there will be a bit of dialogue from the game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The dialogue is from “N.O.E.”, which is the second hardest mission of the entire game (the hardest is when you bust in on Big Smoke at his Crack Palace near the end of the game, so for those who never played the game, it may contain spoilers, but you decide with that).

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“The energy signature is coming from the left portal guys. And I am getting a definite reading that Sonance is beyond the portal,” Alia informed the Hunters on the field, which in this case the mission took place in the cyber world.

Alia, one of the main Navigators, could only watch and pray her husband makes it out of this tough battle alive. “And David, please be careful...”

She sighed as the Hunters all enter through, and HQ lost contact. “Alright you guys, get a definite lock in their data signatures right away, and re-establish contact. Report to me when you have done so,” Alia ordered to the crew working before she got up from her post and left the room to clear her mind of some things.

“David... you always love to protect the innocent, but I worry that one of these battles would kill you...” She closed her eyes, as she remembered the pain that swept through her heart the first time her husband died.

/FLASHBACK/

“GAH!” David’s eyes widened in pain and shock as Sephiroth’s hand pierced through his chest. Every single Navi and several viruses capable of facial expressions that were still alive and the humans at SciLabs could only look on in shock. The ancient Navi only grinned as he slowly pulled his blood covered arm from David’s body.

“Sephiroth...” The winged Navi who floated back only smirked when he was told these two words, “You bastard...”

The cyber human’s eyes slowly lost its life and glazed over, and his shocked expression quickly changed to a dull look as digital explosions ripped throughout his entire body. Slowly at first, his feet broke apart and slowly were erased in the digital explosions. Soon the whole area started to get brighter. By the time the deletion reached to his pierced torso the entire Uranet and the screens in the human world was blinded by a bright white light. His silhouette was seen as it melted into the light, then all sight returned slowly as the explosions ceased in a final echoing boom.

David’s body in the real world slumped in the chair it occupied, as his vital signs vanished.

/END FLASHBACK/

“That was when Genesis Sephiroth was revived after the terror of the Dark Nation was brought down... I thought I had lost him forever until the HolyData somehow revived him, giving him a second chance at life...” She stopped at the corner of a hallway and leaned against the wall.

/FLASHBACK/

“Shadow’s dead, and soon Noah, you will be taken down!” David shouted at the boy genius, who had pulsed himself into the Omega Virus X’s only existing cyberworld.

“I beg to differ...” He snapped his fingers, and a bloodshot eye appeared overtop him, and fired three green rings. The entire team of NetNavis behind him could only watch in absolute fear.

“Data Drain!” A beam of light struck him, and David cried out in pain as he was drained completely of life. When it ended, he vanished, but his real body slumped to the floor off the chair, shocking everyone. His energy signature was non-existent.

/END FLASHBACK/

“His life was drained by that beast before it was deleted, thus reviving the entire cyberworld, and those who were Data Drained were brought back, except those who were killed in the attack...” She closed her eyes yet again. Twice she’s felt the fear of losing the man she loved, and twice he’s somehow managed to get out of even the worst situations.

When Neo Arcadia and the four Generals came to Electopia, she had enough and went to speak to her husband. It was just a week after Vincent Rebellion and Elpizo were defeated, with the Navi deleted and Vincent captured and in jail.

/FLASHBACK/

“Hey Zero, you’ve seen David?”

Zero turned around from speaking with one of his human friends. “I think I last saw him down at the Executive’s Rec Room.”

“Thanks Z.” She hurried on past the two and headed down the hallway, and turned left towards the elevators. After getting in she went from Floor 3 to Floor 7, exited and took a right to the end of the small hallway, and entered the key code before entering the room.

Inside the Executive’s Rec Room, David was lounging in a giant bean bag chair, playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

She gently closed the door, and set it on lock, as she gently walked up to him, and sat down next to him and curled up. David noticed and smiled as she wrapped an arm around him.

On the TV screen, C.J. is standing in front of an open hanger at the abandoned air base. Toreno slowly sneaks up behind him, and then grabs him in a choke hold, catching C.J. by surprise.

“Got you again, Carl. You’re half asleep. I could have killed you in nine different ways.” He then lets go of C.J. as C.J. catches his breath, “Wake up and smell of coffee.”

“You need to lay off the coffee!” He yelled.

Toreno ignores what C.J. said. “We got a problem. I got some guys out on the field that need equipment, and if they don’t get it, they’ll be dead by nightfall.”

C.J. gives Toreno a weird look. “Take it to them.”

“Me take it to them?” He asks.

C.J. shrugs. “Yeah, why not?”

Toreno walks up to C.J. and gets up in his face. “I got five guys watching me all the time. Two in that hill,” Toreno points towards the southern direction, “One over there,” Points behind C.J. then in the air, “and two by satellite. If I go then my guys and I will be dead. I don’t have a death wish. I’m a man of peace.”

C.J. scoffs a bit. “Yeah, clearly.”

Toreno then points over at the somewhat old plane that’s sitting in the open hanger. “Take the plane. You’re not ready yet so stay low under the radar. Questions?”

“Yeah, just one thing...” Before C.J. can ask, Toreno interrupts and tells him to go. C.J. yells at him and Toreno stops walking off. “Wait. Hey Listen! Listen to me for once. Why won’t these guys come after me?”

Toreno turns to face him again. “Oh, they can’t because they’re all posted on me. One DEA. One FBI. A Russian, a Cuban double-agent and my paymasters. Cheques and balances. Nobody is watching anybody watching nobody. You know what I mean?” Toreno stares at C.J. then tells him to get going and he walks of.

“Whatever, man...”

David resumes playing the mission, cursing as he somehow got spotted and has two Hydras on his tail. He manages to lose them by barrel rolling through the bridge and the two high-tailers crash, and he soon gets to the spot, drops off the stuff and heads back the long way, thus completing the second hardest mission of the game.

“Hey Dave?” Alia finally speaks up.

“Yeah?”

“David.... listen, I know that you are a great fighter and all, but the past two incidents that happens. You were killed, came back to life when RockMan used the HolyData to restore the entire cyberworld and revive the deleted, then when Noah unleashed his powerful virus...”

“I remember. I pulsed into SciLab’s mainframe with the rest of the Maverick Hunters, and we all teamed up with Colonel who led the rest of the Navis who came together to help take down the Omega Virus X. Then after deleting Shadow a second time, Noah appeared, and Data Drained me...”

Alia closed her eyes and scooted closer. David set’s the game on pause, places the controller on the table nearby and holds her close. “Listen sweetie. I’ve been through thick and thin, we all have. I love you a lot, and I fight only because I want to protect you... keep you safe...”

She smiled a bit. “I know... which is why I want to join you guys out on the battlefield.” David’s eyes snap open and he gives his wife a weird look.

“What?”

“You heard me David. Now listen, I have already developed plans for my own Command Armor I call the Sakamoto Armor, after my family name.”

“Alia, you’ll get hurt!”

“You get hurt everyday when I can do nothing but sit back at home or at HQ and watch you get your ass kicked around. Now, I will be joining you and the others on the field... and I will persuade you one way or another...” Alia pushes him into the bean bag seat and straddles above his waist.

“Sweetie...”

She smiled. “Please, I know how to take care of myself. And with the two of us fighting for peace... we can make sure that long-life dream can be achieved.” She leaned closer and their lips locked in a heated passion.

/END FLASHBACK/

She smirked to herself. “Hmm, David...”

“Alia, please report to Command Central immediately. Alia, report to Command Central immediately.” She slowly smiled as she ran back to Command Center, and took her place at her post area.

“Status report!”

“David and the others have reached Sonance’s Throne Room, and they have confronted her. But, Shadow has already made his escape, and the stolen data from SciLabs was already absorbed by Sonance.”

On screen and on the speakers, they could hear the conversation that was going on. “... and furthermore, my Maverick Hunters... with the data that I sent Shadow to personally steal, it shall be your own demise...” She grinned sadistically, as an ominous aura surged around her.

“Sonance, you have done enough harm! First you caused terror as part of the Super Navi Team, then after eliminating The Master by your own hands, you then start up the Battle Network Tournament in hopes of deleting the number one greatest NetNavi and absorb him or her...” Forte growled, pointing a finger at the female clone, “And now, we will take you down once and for all. Today, you shall join Sigma and Juno in hell!”

She only smiled, and laughed. “I would like to see you try...”

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Sonance | Type: Boss
Ground | Air
~Elemental Damage~
Flame - 50%
Water - 50%
Thunder - 50%

Active Members: Forte, David, Zero
Reserve: ForteZero, Marino, Spider

(Insert Music File -- MegaMan X Command Mission\39_Executive_Battle.mp3)

“You have no chance! Give up now!” Sonance laughed as she swung her blade. An immense wave of energy sliced through the Hunters, causing a critical strike on Forte.

“You bitch!” Forte shouted as he and the others quickly resumed battle positions.

“Time to die!” A purplish beam of light that roared loudly shot down upon the Black Shadow, engulfing him in a powerful aura. He cried out with power as the gold on his crests and armor change to a dark purple, as the crests warp until the back edges resembled Gospel's collar. Forte's hands turn from white to black, his fingers tipped with Gospel's claws, while spines formed on his forearms, feet and shins. Black menacing armor forms over the torso, following a transformation of his gloves and boots. Ripping off the cloak from his body, a pair of black and dark purple wings that resemble Gospel's color and body sprouts from his back as the aura fades away.

“Take this, mortal!” Forte brought both arms forward as Gospel’s head formed around his balled fists and half his arms. The eyes glowed brightly and the mouth snapped open as energy was charging in the back of its throat. Forte grinned and released a powerful Gospel Cannon (Vanishing World) attack. The destructive attack ripped through Sonance’s defenses easily, but with the data she absorbed, damage was cut cleanly in half.

“Here goes!” David leapt into the air, and hovered as a barrier of digital data swirled around him, completely changing his armor. When the barrier faded, he was completely different. His entire bodysuit was brown with golden-orange stripes running down the sides. The legs are encased in a pair of shining golden knee-high boots. A large red gem is set into each knee guard and the toes slanted upward with a darker golden stripe lining the soles and tops of each boot and running down the center of the shins. His gloves are infused with shining golden bracers covering the entire lengths of his forearms with guards extending over the backs of his hands, which were covered with black, with red gems embedded into the material. Darker golden stripes lined the cuffs of the bracers and ran along the outer sides of his forearms. Golden armor had covered his torso and his shoulders and the outline of a blazing sun is set in the middle of his chest. Two green shoulder guards covered his shoulders and brown mouth guard with two dark gold stripes under the eyes covered the lower half of David’s face. His helmet was also shining gold and had been redesigned with four spikes jutting out the back and two crests on either side of his head, creating a resemblance to a lion’s main. A single horn stood up from the forehead flanked by a pair of red and white eye-like designs. A long crimson scarf was wrapped around his neck and flowed all the way down to his feet.

David fired a double shot with the Gun Del Sol before dashing forward and slashing twice with the Sol Sword before leaping back.

“Hmph...” Sonance waved her arm in front as she created a Crimson Shade.

“Ha!” Zero dashed forward after creating a crimson shadow via Heat Haze, and he and the crimson shaded clone double slashed Sonance before Zero leapt back to his spot, the shadow vanishing. Sonance still had her defense up.

Gospel Soul Hyper Mode Activations: Five Rounds Left

Forte flew forward and slashed with his right claw, then spun 360 degrees, smashing the back of his heels over her head and floated back.

[Counter] Sonance smiled as she spliced before Forte and slashed a triangular pattern over him, which then exploded as she spliced back to her spot. However, despite it looking like it hit, the attack missed completely due to his evasive speed.

Sol Cross Rock Hyper Mode Activations: Four Rounds Left

“Taiyohhhhhhh!” In the real world, sunlight was striking the solar sensor attached to a PET Alia held out a window next to her post, which added increased power to the Pile Driver that suddenly locked Sonance in place, and four beams of sunlight struck her down. She lost considerable amounts of damage, as it even dissipated her Crimson Trace when the attack ended in fifteen seconds.

Active Members: Forte, David, ForteZero
Reserve: Zero, Marino, Spider

Zero leapt into the air and teleported away in a beam of light. Seconds later, a beam of light shot down and deposited the White Shadow. “Time to kick some ass!” ForteZero flew forward and landed a powerful EarthBreaker, before ripping his sabers out and double slashed before floating back, sabers still gripped tightly in his hands.

“Try and dodge this!” She placed the sharp end of the heavy broadsword on the ground and slashed upward, releasing a powerful white shockwave, which knocked their LE to near-death. David and Forte’s Hyper Modes blocked the Blind status, but ForteZero went blind.

[Sub Tank Energy: 900% -- All L Gain MAX]

“Hmph...” ForteZero struck a victorious pose before green swirling energy surrounded all three Hunters, this bringing their LE back to full health.

“Hahahahaha!” She brought her broadsword back, and then slammed it down, releasing a wave of explosions that rippled across the battlefield, damaging them multiple times.

[b]Gospel Soul Hyper Mode Activations: Four Rounds Left

Forte flew forward and slammed the back heels of his armored boots over Sonance’s head before floating back.

Sol Cross Rock Hyper Mode Activations: Three Rounds Left

David flew forward and struck Sonance with Sol Flare, before grabbing the blade that materialized in his hand and slashed her twice before back flipping.

[Execute Final Strike] The battlefield dimmed as David smirked. “Let’s finish this!” All three hunters converged and begun wailing on Sonance; David unleashed a melee of Sol Flares and kicks, ForteZero was rapidly slashing away with his Forte Sabers, and Forte was slashing and kicking with his legs and clawed hands. After three seconds they fell back as Sonance struggled to keep herself standing, using the Sonance Blade to stay standing.

(Fade Music File -- MegaMan X Command Mission\39_Executive_Battle.mp3)

* * *

“You Hunters... I swear you all haven’t seen the last of me...” She glared at them, and then vanished in a swirl of pink magic.

They all stared at the spot before the Hunters one by one logged out. David closed his eyes, and pulsed out of the cyberworld.

* * *

Later that day, everyone was relaxing. They had destroyed Sonance’s old base, but now they had a new problem; locating Sonance’s new base of operations. It wouldn’t be easy...

“Alia?” The young woman snapped out of her thoughts, as she looked up form her laptop and smiled at her husband who sat down at the table across from her.

“David... I-“

“Alia, sweetheart... We’ll find Sonance and Shadow soon enough... for now we’ll have to work on the case and help General Stolz review the murder cases he’s sent us.”

“Yeah. We still haven’t found any information on Count Avarice and his Navi VoltMan, and recently, we have obtained minor information on a 800 pound man wearing a pig printed muumuu who goes by the name of Gorge and his Navi SavageMan.”

“Hmm... Alia... we should get to work now.”

She closed her laptop after saving the data from one of her classes, and got up, holding it under her arm. “Yeah. We’ll send Forte and Gospel out to scout for any information. I’m sure he’ll want to roam the cyberworld again.”

David nodded, and the couple exited the lounge, and headed to his office. I just hope my hunch isn’t correct and that we may be dealing with sick individuals who correspond with the Seven Sins of humanity.

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Well... another one finished... o.o

[ForteBX.EXE]

Grand Theft Auto: Singe City

Disclaimer; Capcom owns Rockman characters, but they don’t own my customs, nor do I not own any GTA references mentioned in this fanfiction. And please, don't rag me on the title of this certian drabble... >.>

Huh? Never got any reviews for the last drabble fic, "Command Mission."

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Zero’s left eye was twitching a bit. “And the reason for this simulation is?”

“Think about it. One of these days Sonance may launch a full assault on the city we’re defending. It’s only fair we do this simulation.” And as David finished explaining and donned his Command Armor, the training area turned on, transforming into Singe City in chaos. All around buildings are on fire, people are running in chaos, and battalions of Pantheons running rampant. Suddenly several Ride Chasers appear. Zero, Forte, ForteZero, and David jumped into a large assault vehicle.

“C’mon Zero! Floor it!” Zero nodded and put his foot to the pedal as the whole vehicle propelled forward on its air supporters, as the enemy ride chasers we’re quickly on their tail.

David punched the roof hatch open and stood tall through the hole in the roof and looked out. There were three Ride Chasers behind them and moving dangerously close.

“Zero, keep driving. Concentrate on the road! Forte, ForteZero, alert me of any surprises!” David then switched his buster to AK mode and begun unleashing rounds of small but powerful buster shots in rapid succession.

Forte up on the front passenger seat switched on the radio, and a song begun playing which for David, somewhat added in the mood. And Forte... he was singing the lyrics!

“Just waking up in the morning gotta thank God
I don't know but today seems kinda odd
“No barking from the dog, no smog
And momma cooked a breakfast with no hog”

“What the hell Forte!” Zero shouted, quickly turning down 7th Street off Cashew Street.

“Shut up! I like this song!”

“David! Bogeys to our left!” ForteZero shouted.

“You’re left or mine!” A buster shot from his right clued him in. David quickly turned towards the right and fired upon the enemy ride chaser before it blew up, the two Pantheons instantly deleted.

Suddenly the heli-ship above dropped a Guts Style Pantheon on them, and landed a punch on David. ForteZero sat on the open window and fired several Airbursts, deleting it.

“Duck!” ForteZero retreated back inside and David crouched down just as they went through a small open garage.

“Damn!” The other two chasers crashed into the walls, deleted. And Forte was still singing along the song as they exited the garage from the other end. They ended up on Sal Avenue, and riding up the hill pass Northwest Bank.

“David! More behind us!” David nodded as he stood back up, and unleashed his salvo of buster shots.

“Drove to the pad and hit the showers
Didn't even get no static from the cowards
“Cause just yesterday them fools tried to blast me
Saw the police and they rolled right past me”

One appeared on Forte’s side, and tried to punch the door off. Forte noticed and sent an EarthBreaker, taking out the front air wheel.

“David!” David turned around quickly enough to head-shot the two Pantheons, deleting them before the Ride Chaser exploded, then returned his direction at the assault buggy that appeared.

Up on the hill, more Ride Chasers started running towards them, so Zero made a harsh turn at a nearby street, as the assault buggy turned, and as did the rest.

“Holy shit! Too many!” David tried to take out the larger vehicle first. He managed to pop the tires but they managed to keep control before it flipped on the roof, and crashed into several Ride Chasers, either exploding, deleting, or both. Several of them managed to jump the flames.

“Going through the car wash!” Zero said with a smirk as he turned towards the nearby Jentra Wash ‘N Go.

“What!?” David quickly donned his face visor as the car wash activated and sprayed soapy water. Cause of the somewhat narrow passage, most crashed at the front which added in the pile-up.

“Damn, they’re still after us!” ForteZero shouted, then sat up on the window again and begun fighting with a Guts Style Pantheon.

David who was busy picking off the enemies that showed up on his left got nearly shoved out, but he quickly turned around and blew the enemy’s head off, then ForteZero sent a Hadoken attack, deleting it, which the beam also crashed into an appearing assault buggy, destroying it quickly.

Forte unleashed a rain of Airburst from his spot in the open window, destroying the Ride Chasers as the riders and shooters in the back crashed into the pavement. Then Zero took a turn that led them to the same road the started from, and driving past.

“Have we been here before?”

“Shut up! We’re taking the scenic route!”

“Damn it! I should of just stayed locked up in my room!” Forte exclaimed.

“You wanted to do something instead of waiting for Schwa to return,” David said, as he begun wailing on the heli-ship that managed to keep track of them. The Shadow brothers begun taking out the Ride Chaser enemies that were appearing as they were soon chased out of the city, and ending up on the deserted highway. The heli-ship that David tried to take down flew farther ahead of them, before it started to lower to the ground.

Behind them, five more Ride Chasers shown up. David quickly managed to take out the shooters, and ForteZero and Forte took out the Ride Chasers themselves with a a rain of Airburst strikes.

Zero looked ahead, and noticed the ship. "Hey, David!"

“What’s happening Zero!”

“That damn airship is starting to lower before us, and the hatch is opening!” The three turned around and soon enough the doors opened all the way, and a large bolted-down Ride Armor appeared, complete with a large laser cannon. Lots of heavy-duty cables were connected to it, as it seemed to draw its power from the ships main engine.

“Holy shit David! What kind of crazy simulation is this,” Forte shouted at the human.

“Shut up Forte! You wanted action? Here it is!”

Forte grinned. “C’mon, let’s take it out!” By now, the other song faded, and a new song begun playing.

“Mista Busta, where the *&!% you at?
Can't scrap a lick so I know ya got your gat
“Your $#@% on hard from %@^#%$ your road dogs
The hood you threw up with, ------ you grew up with
Don't even respect your ass
“That's why it's time for the doctor to check your ass, -----
Used to be my homey, used to be my ace”

The three charged up before they unleashed their attacks, while Zero was doing the driving. The enemy Ride Armor activated the cannon and fired a huge energy beam. Zero quickly swerved to the left just as it crashed, destroying a chunk of the highway bridge.

David switched to his charge mode, and drew in energy into his buster. ForteZero and Forte released a rain of Airbursts. Several of the shots knocked back several deployed Ride Chasers, as they crashed onto the pavement, and Zero drove to avoid crashing.

“Zero! Get close!” Forte yelled.

“You’re crazy!”

“God damn it Zero, just do it!” Zero cursed before speeding, getting close. Forte’s right hand was glowing, energy quickly being drawn into the palm of his hand.

“EarthBreaker!” Forte managed to slam his palm onto the side before Zero braked hard, then quickly sped up again as half the ship lost half the armor. ForteZero used his Annihilator Hadoken to blast the large chunks of blue armor out of their way.

“Hells Rolling!” Forte released two dark rings that buzzed through the road, but they only collided with two deployed Ride Chasers, destroying them immediately.

“Gotta go with our more powerful attacks, you guys!” The Shadows nodded as ForteZero switched to his most powerful Special Weapon, Iron Griever. Forte charged in dark energy into both palms of his hands, and David’s buster was charging and brightly glowing with a white light.

“Zero!” David called out. He nodded as he sped up, avoiding the energy shots form the half destroyed Ride Armor.

“Darkness Overload!” He launched an explosion of dark energy, which destroyed half the wings.

“Iron Griever!” When Zero got close enough, ForteZero sent a earth-shattering punch which cracked the ship in several places before the blonde braked hard.

“Big Bang Strike!” David thrusted his buster arm forward, as an immense charge of golden energy erupted forward. The attack crashed into the ship, tore through the armor, which soon led to a mighty powerful explosion.

“Damn! That was good!” Zero said as the four exited the assault vehicle. The entire place glowed bright, before the entire surroundings vanished, and was its bright white room again. The music also vanished too.

“Well, gotta admit it was a good simulation, even if it had trace elements of that one mission from Grand Theft Auto San Andreas...”

“Told ya, Forte,” David said with a smirk.

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... o.o What?

[ForteBX.EXE]

Just a regular normal day...

Disclaimer: You know by now folks. Oh yeah, DragoMan belongs to the one who created him.

What happens... when a regular day at HQ passes by with no threat from evil terrorists or the bitch Sonance and her lackey Shadow? How should I know? o.o;

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Last week was sheer hell. David always hated the fact that his professors handed him extra work just because he was the leader and commander of an official organization similar to the Officials or the Net Saviors.

Of course, his wife Alia was also in that same predicament as well. Thank god they have no classes on the weekends.

The clock rang out annoyingly as the couple stirred from their sleep. A small hand reached out and tapped the clock, silencing it.

“Do we have to get up?” David’s tired voice came out from the huddles mess of blankets. Alia got up slowly and stretched out, stifling a loud yawn.

“We have to David...” She then nudged her husband until he gave up and woke up from his slumber.

* * *

“This sucks. Make’s me wish Signas was still alive,” David mumbled as the two activated their armor’s, but not wearing them.

“So, when’s your sister and Markus coming by?”

“Soon, after breakfast. They went out for breakfast at that new restaurant in the Park area downtown.”

“Wouldn’t be surprised if the two ended up dating. Markus is a good man for your sister.” Alia smiled and pecked his cheek.

“Hey, need any help guys?” asked Marino as she walked in, and grabbed a fudge donut and took a bite.

“We could use an extra hand until Markus and Kristi come back from breakfast.” Marino nodded as she went to grab a lab coat.

“So, doing upgrades and recalibrating systems on the armor’s, huh?”

* * *

Meanwhile, in the cyberworld, everything is running quietly. There was a virus outbreak that erupted from the dark hole in Area 2, and with some quick thinking on Alia’s part, they we’re able to create a force field around that hole to seal off the exit. In Area 1 next to the Navi and Virus Training machine, ForteZero had some classes to teach. Because he had to go back to class with David, his teachings have been moved to the weekends.

“And that folks is how to delete a Mettaur in 40 ways in less than ten to five seconds. Now... let’s get to the real part of the lesson. Today, each of you is going to try and take me down.” He had to suppress the urge to laugh, as each of his students all stared at him with shocked expressions, well... the Navis that have facial expressions.

“So... who’ll go first?”

* * *

“Nice restaurant, but they could go without that damn accordion player...” Kristi nodded as Markus pulled up to base and parked in his space at the underground parking area.

After reaching the elevator, they rode it to ground level, and entered the building. “We’re already fifteen minutes late, we should hurry Markus.”

The man nodded as he ran off after Kristi.

* * *

“Well, you did great, but never think that with a disarmed opponent he’ll be weaker.” To prove his point, he morphed his hands into his busters and fired a volley of buster shots. Quitel’s rapier flew in the air and embedded itself right next to a sleeping friendly Met.

It shouted some gibberish before it walked away to find a better place to snooze.

“You almost had me Quitel, but next time, don’t judge too quickly.” He helped the caped Heel Navi up and smirked.

“That was a thrilling battle though White Shadow,” Quitel spoke in his Spanish-like accent. The caped Heel Navi walked off, retrieved his weapon and sheathed it before he sat back down Indian-style.

“And who’ll fight me next?” Well in short, it was three hours before everyone had had a shot at defeating ForteZero. So far, only three came close to pinning him down, while others had medical treatment by the Medic Progs in the area.

The last Navi to fight was DragoMan, who floated up, his eyes gleaming with delight. ForteZero smirked. “Alright DragoMan, let’s tango shall we?”

“Lets.”

* * *

Inside his room, Forte was slumped on the couch with his AC Unit turned on. Today was a somewhat muggy day outside, so he decided to stay in his room in the cold. He got up off the couch and walked over to his large window, and stared out to the small patch of desert behind the base.

“Hmm, hard to believe that used to be a lake. Heh, it’s not surprising the water drained after that horrible earthquake seven years ago. This part is the only place with a small desert, since Ajiina is a lush green area.” He smiled, as he could have imagined the fun it would have been had the lake not dried up.

* * *

DragoMan slashed with his claws, and managed to land a small scratch on his back as ForteZero floated away.

“Iron Reaver Soul Stealer!”

“Drago Claw!”

The two passed by one another, landing brutal slashes on their chests. DragoMan recovered long enough to launch a Dragon Blast from his Drago Cannon. ForteZero quickly spun around and knocked them away with his Bashiyou Fans, then switched them out for his Velocity Hanger weapon. He spun the daggers in his hands before he dashed towards DragoMan. The dragon Navi wished he had lips so he could smirk.

“Let’s see what you can do, White Shadow!” DragoMan summoned a Sword as he flew forward, and their weapons entered a dreadlock.

* * *

It was two hours that Forte finally decided to leave his room. He was bored from using an infinite Health cheat on his San Andreas game and killing off as many cops as possible before the cheat defying helicopters killed him (when he fumbled with pressing the right buttons to rejuvenate health and armor). He entered the elevator and headed down to the cafeteria. Once arriving at his destination fifteen minutes later, he scanned the area. Then a malicious grin formed across his lips.

* * *

“Hey Zekk?”

“Yeah?” Zekk glanced at his Navi who was in the PET at the moment.

“Do you ever get this weird feeling that Zero’s being tortured again?”

“What made you think that, Spider?” Zekk asked, raising an eyebrow.

“Oh, for some reason I can almost imagine Zero’s hair being completely covered in a hell of a lot of whipped cream with a cherry topped off and some person insane enough to do such a thing laugh manically then run like hell. Though, it’s just a feeling.”

Zekk only blinked. But Spider never knew how right he was.

* * *

David, Alia, Marino, Markus, and Kristi we’re in the Research and Development lab, working on upgrading the Command and Sakamoto Armors. They’ve been there nearly all day, and the sun was beginning to set. Of course, there was a certain reploid Navi in the building who just suffered a wounded ego.

The four humans and NetNavi ‘roid we’re busy testing out new systems that could be utilized into the Command Armor and the Sakamoto Armor. Used microchips scattered the work benches as new chips replaced old ones, and David testing out the new systems and fixing up any bugs or glitches.

“The energy stabilizers can be diverted to an output, which then can allow more powerful buster attacks,” Markus stated as Kristi had finished fixing some chips in the buster cannons before closing the panels.

“With these tinges of power boost we could deal in more damage to our foes. But still... they always find a way to get stronger,” said David. Then before Alia could speak out her thoughts, the doors burst out and clattered to the floor with a loud clang.

“I’M GOING TO WRING THAT SON OF A BASTARD’S NECK!”

The gang all looked up to see the doors forced out. Needless to say that everybody gaped with opens mouths at the figure who had just entered the R&D Lab, swearing almost as much as most scientists themselves that work at the Science Labs.

Zero darkly glared at each of his employees before he stormed off, shouting more curses and literally making dents in the walls, leaving behind trails of cream on the carpet floor. When Zero was in one of his moods, they always keep their mouths shut, or laugh.

“Whoa, Zero did this?” ForteZero asked as he walked in about three minutes later. He picked up the destroyed door without much difficulty, and set it against the wall for repairs.

“What happened?”

“Ohh, Forte. Food fight in the cafeteria, cheesecake down shirts, not to mention food flung in all directions...” ForteZero pulled off his shirt and crumbs from a cheesecake fell to the ground, “he also sprayed whipped cream in Zero’s hair, topped it off with a cherry, laughed manically and bolted off.”

“That must have been a hell of a lot of cream to cover Zero's hair like that,” Kristi stated as she blinked while remembering the sight.

The White Shadow chuckled a bit. “Well, amazingly he didn’t go berserk and try to kill Forte. Only his ego was hurt, I think.” ForteZero then ran off to console his friend. He’s taken on the task to calm down Zero.

“Sheesh, glad we weren’t there,” Markus said after breaking the five minute silence. Then they went back to work. They all blinked when they though they heard Zero’s voice cry out, “He ruined my hair!!” but decided best to ignore it for their health-sakes.

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A normal day? You decide.

[ForteBX.EXE]

A Dark Soul Drabble...

Well... my character in RPs and such, has a dark secret that nobody knows of. Here's a hint, he's from a different universe, as well as other characters mentioned here. The character Zekt belongs to a guy named The Letter H on Acmlm's Board.

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You think you can handle the power of the Cyber Beasts?

David winced a bit. He's hated keeping this secret from his best friends and family, even from his wife, but it was for the best. Well, RockMan can handle them, then so can I.

Well, just don't forget, that I am the only force that can prevent you from going Beast Over.

Yeah... seeing as you are an evil dark soul hellbent on using me for your own selfish gains.

Now that I resent David. You should know that by now... you should be dead right now had I not infuse your soul with my own, and thus since my soul was part data you came back to life because of your friend RockMan using the HolyData after Genesis Sephiroth's death. No one, not even that no good mother fucker Zekt and his so-called dark powers cannot rip me from you, for that will only end up destroying your whole psyche, and your entire soul, which would leave you an emotional wreck and a lonely man with no memory of his destroyed life. The reason that shadowy reploid who think's he's Phantom-sempai didn't rip me form you is that even he knew that I couldn't be properply extracted without damaging you in the process. Which is why...

Which is why what!?

... Nothing.

David growled a bit, not allowing his anger to get out of control like last time. What... what were you going to say? That unless they want you to die, I have to die as well, is that it!?

Now, RX felt hurt by that, and David's anger diminished a bit upon feeling sadness coming from the link the two shared. ... Partily true. The other reason is that I can never die; I'm like the Black Plauge, only my host doesn't die but become mentally and physically stronger, and when we.... do finally part ways, you'll still remain stronger metally and physically. You're still mad at Zekt because of that incident that nearly resulted in your own death had I not take control of your body at the last second and shifted your weight to dodge the bullet, as the old saying goes.

... Yes... even though I hate you, I'm stuck with you... and you've saved my ass before more than once.

David could see him make a taunting smirk. Oh yes, Slayer. The Navi who with my help managed to make him look like an amature. But, we should get back to the business at hand.

Oh yeah... the Beast Out properties.

And what better way to test them out than on one of Zekt's friends. I can contact Phantom-sempai via the Limited Virus, and have him show up at the Japanese Geisha Arena, then we can test out the Beast Properties.

... Maybe. Since Marino and RockMan share the same Cross System Data, but their Cross System friends are different, and-

I've already looked over the data. RockMan's Cross System are; On the Faltzer side GroundMan, DustMan, AquaMan, TenguMan, and TomahawkMan. For the Gregia side we have HeatMan, SlashMan, ElecMan, KillerMan, and ChargeMan. For Marino, her Cross System data consists of ShadowMan, Harpuia, Fefnir, Leviathan, and Phantom. While RockMan is powerful to have his Cross data go Beast Out, Marino however will be unable to cope with the huge power increase and thus will go berserk. So, in order for you to control it, I'm your inhibitors, to stabalize the power inflow coursing through the Command Armor.

Yeah... yeah, alright then.

He through David's eyes watched as the data process was downloading from a port from the computers in his laboratory, into a slot connected on thr right arm of the Command Armor David was clad in. Now all we need to do is wait for the data transfer to be uploaded. Should be glad your friend Netto was obediant and nice enough to make a copy of this power, incase the original chips ever gotten stolen. Knowing your arch-nemesis Shadow would gladly love to have them to devour, the Beast Chips are just like Darkchips.

Don't remind me... I've been around when the Super Cyber Beast of Gregia and Faltzer fused together came from Beyondard, and Netto and RockMan being the heros that they are come to save the day.

Really, where we're you then?

Ammeroupe to escape from my dark past and try to move on with my love Alia.

Sweet...

You wouldn't know much, considering how dark you are.

David frowned, hearing him chuckle a bit. Oh, my dear yandoushi... you should remember, that I'll always be here with you until it is my time to execute my well thought out plans. Never forget that Davie-kun.

I won't... RX.

RX, the evil twin brother of RockMan X from a different universe, smiled evilly. I know you won't...

For the next half hour, the two we're silent with one another, other than the random generated beeps and computerized sounds from the laboratory.

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Confusing eh? Also, if you can emulate Yami Bakura's voice, that's RX's voice...