Grand Unveiling!

"...are my Sunshine, my only Sunshine..." the golden NormalNavi rises up, waltzing around, humming a strange tune. It seems he's quite out of it--shock? "Please... please don't take my Sunshine away..."

He jerks. "But they did... they took all the Sunshine away..." Sobbing, he collapses again. "It was supposed to be the start of a new era, a new era of Sunshine... and they took all of it! All 100 Sunshine chips!"

Voltman sighed.
Dang. That's a pretty good chip, too, by what I hear. Ah, well.
He turned to Tenshi.
Sorry. I'm leaving. Here's my e-mail!
Voltman skipped towards ACDC net, humming the song about sunshine... but he decided to wait a bit longer in case there was still something to salvage... then, feeling guilty about leaving the navi, he ran back over.
I'm not gone! What can we do to help?! Where did they go?! TELL ME!

"???"

Alphonse heard a weep from out side of the cafe. Closing his books and transferring it to his PET, he slowly walked out and saw a strange normalnavi sobbing. Alphonse, with his gentleman instinct, immediately came up to him for aid.

"Dear fellow, what's the problem you have?"

"Are you...Are you dead?" Came Rayth's voice in his ear.

"You wish." Chaos groaned as he pushed himself to his feet. "Huh, they took the prizes and ran off."

Chaos scanned the crowd, searching for any sign of where the criminals had gone. Various groups of Navi were standing around in confusion, though most seemed to want to know exactly what had been stolen. Chaos chuckled to himself. The loot did not matter. Those thieves had insulted him, paralyzed him, and they would die for their insolence. Chaos would rip them to shreds with his bare hands.

"Did you manage to track them?" Chaos' voice held a cruel edge.

"Why would you want to..."

"Shut up and answer me."

"No, they vanished without a trace."

"Damn your uselessness."

"Why do you want to follow...?"

"To kill them. Those damn Navi won't survive the day. Tch...If you find them, perhaps we can snag a share of the loot."

"Sigh, I prefer stealing things that are a bit more substantial, but whatever. At least we'll be hampering the competition. Still, there are a lot of NetPolice who are going to be asking questions. Put your disguise back on."

Chaos didn't respond, but the beige NormalNavi appeared once more. He moved closer to the dazed, questioning crowds of Navi, attempting to find out where the criminals had gone.

"Sunshine-" Seraphim began slowly, as he heard the word chips. What could those be? He'd never heard of anything called chips before.

"Chips are a-- um... Technological way of using spells. You use them in a way kinda like that, but not quite." The girl shrugged and blushed slightly at her lie, hoping her navi didn't notice, which hse quite did not.

"Oh, so if I get one of those Sunshine chip thingies, I'll get a spell and go up a level?" The navi asked, cocking his head.

"Yes, exactly." The girl said, nodding.

"I'll bet this is just a plot to get me up to the right level... Or a sidequest for that particular chip! Maybe it's really really really strong!" The navi looked like he was fit to burst with happiness.

"Sunshine, huh...hey!"

Raiden whipped around at the sound of the monkey-like Navi's voice, and went running back over.

"Are you okay? I'm sorry, I'm really sorry...we got hit by some kind of paralyzation blast. I got knocked out, and dropped the pole..."

He quickly held out his hand. "Do you want some help?"

Kobo's Burst of yellowing changed to "No more sunshine now the plants won't grow AHHH!" His pattern also changed from a circle to dashing around and poking out from behind things.

"OH!" Capuchin took teh hand as she stood back up, "Thanks. You were fine. It was my fault. I need to train more." She then gave a giggle, "I want to be able to sleep on my pole! I just need some more training and then I'll sucessfully do it." She then listened to teh sad golden navi's whimpering, "Huh? What's a sunshine chip?"

MeleeMan sprung up suddenly amongst a pile of fallen navis, darting his head back and forth rapidly. "Battle! Did I... did I miss the battle?" he cried out, his broad jaw agape as he surveyed the dismal looking scene.

"No, MeleeMan. There was no battle," Rania sighed. "A bunch of heelnavis took the prizes and ran off with them. They're calling the stolen property 'Sunshine' battle chips now. Apparently, they're gone. All one hundred of them."

MeleeMan sat stunned, clutching the ground tightly with both fists. "Damn them... damn them all!" he shouted at the top of his lungs. He beat the ground hard with both knuckles in rapid succession. "They killed the hosts and took off with the loot! Not only was this a waste of time, it was a waste of life! These enemies fight like cowards! If I could get one of my fists around their scrawny, coniving skulls, I'd crush them then and there!"

"MeleeMan, don't worry about it. We're still new, so there wasn't much of anything we could do. We should be happy you didn't get deleted, unlike a few of those unlucky Progs and NetPolice..." Rania pointed out. "I feel sorry for that golden one there. He seems so out of it now. I guess the strain broke him."

"Puh!" MeleeMan spat, hitting the ground once more with his fist. "I'll go see if he's got anything to say. This whole time wasted... if I can figure out any additional information about those lousy pie-and-punch bandits, I'll go make mincemeat pies out of them! And I'll use... uh... their blood to make the punch! Navi-meat pies and bloody punch!"

"Oh... okay," Rania cringed. "Just find the golden host navi, okay?"

"There he is, right over there. Some other guys are talking to him already," MeleeMan noticed, strutting up next to the navi. "I'll just listen in."

"Hey, now that I think about it, I hope Rass was okay," Rania muttered, remembering the small pink navi from earlier.

"Heh, I have a feeling he'll be fine. The little guy has the warrior's spirit; it is not so easily diminished," MeleeMan responded, keeping his arms crossed confidently as he listened in to hear if the golden navi had anything else to say.

Aduro turned to look at the crying Navi, unsure of what he should do to help. The sobbing was becoming to much for him to handle, along with the song being sung. He let out a sigh and said, "Sunshine chips?" Adam was already searching for data on the chip. "Never heard of it before," He began. "Does damage to all enemeis." Adam looked back to the PET screen. "Well worth it." Aduro nodded and asked the Navi, "Any clues on where they went, who they were?"

Raiden smiled thinly at the monkey-Navi. "Thanks, Miss Monkey. Oh, and by the way, my name's Raiden. Hold on a second."

He crossed the Netsquare, closing in on the raving golden Navi. He put a reassuring hand on his shoulder, and switched his voice to a calmer version. "Look. Please, calm down. I understand that these HeelNavis have done something terrible, and you're upset about it, but all of us together have a great chance of getting those Sunshine chips back for you. Please tell us everything that could help us recover those chips."

Bard watches intently as the panic and fear is spread over the crowd. Some of the net police are even sheading GMO armor and showing their true form. "This is insane. I love it!" Bard delcared. Leo rolled his eyes and said, "No reason to love it. You never know what could happen to us." Bard shrugged and said, "Whoever took to the time to do this really planned it out!" She said in observation. She nodded and looked around once more, keeping a steady beat on the ouside rim of her drum.

Suddendly she felt a strong pain in her as he smog overtook her, causing her to pass out.

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Bard awoke not long after, with the sounds of Leo's frantic voice yelling into the PET. "Bard? Thank god you are ok!" He nodded his head and said, "The pies, basically exploded. Bard placed her hand on her forhead and let out a moan. "The pies did what now?" "Exploded and realsed the stunning gas." "Oh, you know that makes perfect sence," She said rolling her eyes. Bard slowly pushed herself to her feet, holding tightly onto her drum along the way up. The choas cause was ungodly and unheard of. "Ugh. Bah. Wake up Bard, wake up," She said slapping her forehead to try and jump start her actions. She began to play a soft tune on her piccolo, both to lighten to mood, and figure out more of what happened.

Bard's questions were soon answered as the golden Navi began to cry and sing the sunshine song. Bard kept playing her tune, making sure to overhear as much of the crying navi's words as possible. The mention of the sunshine chip quickly caught her ear. "Hmm?" She stood up, replaceing her piccolo where it belonged, and headed towards the small roup already fomring around the golden Navi. She sat down, a moderate distance away and said nothing. Bard simply listened as she sat there. Leo let out a long sigh. "You seem to be more than ok right now. Works for me. Gather infomation." Bard let out a sigh. "There is nothing to gather. Everyone else passed out just as I did." She turned her attentions back to the golden Navi's words.

"Sunshine?" Chaos asked, a disgusted grimace would have crossed his face were it not for his GMO. "What is a Sunshine Chip?"

"I think I've heard of them before," Rayth offered. "Some sort of low damage, attack all BattleChip. Supposedly it is more effective against those without an elemental nature."

"Bah, sounds alright, but what kind of name is...Sunshine?"

"Err, I'm not sure myself. I heard that it was designed by some sort of NetBattling genius who had a grudge against normal types. It is supposed to be part of an anti-Normal chip offensive. It could become a valuable part of our folder."

"Meh, if you say so..." Chaos turned his attention to the golden Navi, feigning a concerned tone. "Did you see where they went? We can not allow them to escape after commiting such...horrible crimes."

"Well..." Moonlight said, joining the small crowd. "Looks like we have a job ahead of us. You can count me in if you need me. I think it's some crap that we got thrashed like that..." He shrugged a bit. "This guy's kinda lost it. I hope he gets better..."

Capuchin gave a nod and moved over to teh golden navi as well. "Id be gald to help get back the chips too. My name's Capuchin by the way."

A large bell is heard, and the sounds of a cannon explosion. CRASH! A bunch of smoke appears and dissapears shortly after, and a navi was standing in the middle, is unveiled.. 'Ar, what all this be?" His operator shrugged, "Heck, I don't know, Marshanks! How am I s'pose too?" Marshanks grunted. "Aye, Soda. You are right. But I wonder.. what could be goin on?" Soda yelled, "WHY DONTCHA GO AND FIND OUT!?" Marshanks yelled back. "WELL IM JUST 'BOUT TOO!" He sighed and looked around at the group. "Arr... Well this be odd." The navi scratched his head and walked around a bit.

"Sunshine Chips?...I think I heard about it in the Netopia BBS...but I thought it was made-up..."

Alphonse stood as he patted the Golden navi's back with a gentle smile. "Don't worry too much, I'll try to retrieve the chips that you long for...And I think everyone else it also taking interest"

"I'm not sure what's so special about these chips," said Pianissimo, walking up next to Capuchin, "But I'm also willing to help."

"I'll tell you what's so special about them, P. They hit all enemies with an attack powerful enough to completely obliterate metools and cannons, and will do even more to nonelemental enemies," said Rigel, irritably.

"The ability to destroy mets and cannons means nothing to me, seeing as I have never fought any. Sounds like a decent chip, though."

Cyber scrached his hand,"wow I zoned out or something,"he said,"Damien can you jack me out?"asked Cyber.

"Ok Cyber...but since when did you whant to go into your P.E.T.,"said Damien.

"I think something washed out my memory I can't remember how I got here,"said Cyber.

"Alright I'm jacking you out,"said Damien as Cyber disappered in a beam of light retreating into the sky above netsquare.

Pain... oh dear lord, the pain...

Man up, Rasshole! I know the body can take more than that!

Hmm... supposing that Rass didn't make it, I will be happy to serve as the body's administrator, Rass heard Tem say, It's not like we'd be missing out on all that much with him gone.

I... I'm not dead yet! thought Rass, shocked at his subsystem's uncaring demeanor and attitude, I... I just... everything's spinning and...

"Rass? Rass, it's Suien, can you hear me?"

Rass staggered to his feet, swaying lightly as he looked around, obviously confused. "Suien?" he asked cautiously, "I'm s-sorry, Suien. I couldn't f-find the source of the attacks b-before they went and s-stole everything. I t-tried my best but..."

"Don't sweat it, Rass," replied Suien, shaking his head as he gingerly put away his battlechips, "I'm just glad you didn't end up like some of those programs and navis. You did a good job healing those who needed it as well.

"But Argo was making fun of me about it..." whined Rass, adjusting his helmet awkwardly as he spoke, "and Tem said she wanted to take over..."

Suien sighed. "How many times do I have to tell you? You're the system administrator, so you don't have to listen to them. You're the boss, not Tem, not Argo, not anyone. Anyways, did you meet any new friends?"

"Friends is s-sort of a relative term," replied Rass, "There's the big guy who likes s-street fighting, but... to be honest, I'm a l-little intimidated by him." Rass glanced over toward MeleeMan, who had since joined a quickly growing group surrounding the downed golden navi. Rass hesitated momentarily, then began to walk over toward the crowd. "Other than th-that, there's not much that I know about the s-situation," he said, "I'll t-try to find out more."

In the real world, Suien nodded and glanced backward with an awkward smile to the stunned group of fourth-graders he had been lecturing to. He suddenly realized the entire class had bourne witness to several deletions, a terrorist attack, and a massive act of bulemia on the part of several navis. Ah geez, he thought, glancing nervously toward the equally-stunned teacher, well, it's nothing a few months of therapy won't handle...