Digital Strider

"Slade!" Kai exclaimed. He never thought his Navi would sacrifice himself to protect someone. Although the effort remain in vain as the flame covered both Slade and Arbalest, Kai felt that his Navi's action was the best decision at that time.

"Gaahhh!" A sudden scream was let out by Slade, enduring the burn on his chest as he felt on his two knees. The thought of him failing to protect his partner hurted him even badly. But he won't give up. He'll still protect Arbalest at any cost even if he would be deleted. Blue sphere emerged from the Navi's right arm. The sphere fainted as a blazing shotgun was formed. "...heh..."

"Alright Slade, here's the plan" After noticing the heatshot had fully materialized, Kai began his strategy discussion with Slade. "...line the virii up and blast them with the heatshot."

".....that's a plan?.....tch..just upload more chips for me. I'll do the battling." Struggling to maintain his battle stance, Slade got up, saving his energy for a moment and darted to a spikey. His left hand which had fused with the rageclaw started glowing as Slade clenched his claw and delivered a mighty punch, attempting to throw the spikey towards the lone bunny.

It didn't take Slade a mere second before he aimed his heatshot and dropped on his knee to prevent the heatshot's recoil. He aimed directly towards the same spikey, timing his shot carefully and unleashed the destructive power of a heatshot. "How do you like fire now...heheh?"


Summary
1. Rageclaw to SpikeyA [20 Dmg, throw to BunnyA for 20 Dmg]
2. Wait for the thrown Spikey to hit aligned with the bunny
3. Heatshot to SpikeyA [30 Dmg, Splash to BunnyA]
As Arbalest watches Slade begin his attack, he's suffering from the blazing fireball....eventhough Slade tries to defend him, the attack burns them both....now it's more difficult for Arbalest to move....things are just starting to get wrost for Arbalest when he misses to hit a spikey using his arrow skill....he's stunned, cannot believe that could happened....slowly he begin to lost his confidence, he has no faith on himself that he can win the war against the spikeys and bunnies....after seeing Slade's pushing to the limit, attacking and defending at the same time....he thinks that he's nothing but a troublemaker....he's supposed to kill the incoming viruses from the 'hole' and protect Slade....it looks like Arbalest has lost his strength, but then....

" hey, snap it out....it's not like you to act like this....aren't you the someone that do things without no boundaries....when the task is full of hazards, you're willing to take the risk....how come you want to achive that when you cannot even handle a small matter like this....why do you bother so much about your injuries, look at Slade....he's actually suffering a lot more than you do but did he just laying around and pray for a miracle....he's trying his very best to accomplish his job no matter what will happen....you're dissapointing me to the end Arbalest, I guess that i've waste so much time on you....I should've stayed with the tribe.... " Arch tries to encourage his navi....

Arbalest heard what Arch said to him, then he wake up and realizes....

" hey, you're right Arch....this is not myself, I supposed to help Slade because that's what I need to do but look at me right now....became a weakling and let Slade fight by himself, he's also hurt but he keep on fighting....surprisingly, he sacrificed himself to defend me....and I want to fight like him as well, this injuries is actually nothing but to distract me.... " respond Arbalest to the encouraging words from Arch....

and with that, Arbalest finally come to his senses back....

" so, it did work....ok then, i'm going to give you this special battlechip....i got this very recently, it's called markcannon....I don't know if it's worth it or not, so give it a try....and take this vulcan chip also.... " Arch glad that Arbalest have the will to fight, he slot-in the markcannon and vulcan chips....

Arbalest receives the data, he aim his buster towards a spikey....then he noticed that there's a cursor marking the spikey that he's about to attack it.... "is this the battlechip special ability???" Arbalest wonders....to test it out, Arbalest closes his eye....too bad that he don't have a blindfolder....without no hesitation he fires the markcannon that he don't know where he aimed it to....then he loaded his buster with vulcan gun....he dash towards another spikey seeing the spikey attempt to run away from him.... "just a little bit more...." slowly said by Arbalest as he's still chasing the spikey....he fires the vulcan gun as soon as he managed to catch up with the spikey....he saved one shot for another spikey, "this one will never miss"....

" hmm, i'm not sure if you really.... " Arch slot-in a rageclaw chip, he want to test Arbalest....

Arbalest felt his left-hand is morphing....he looks at his hand, he realized that his finger is growing....and it's growing fast, transforming into a claw....he want to scream but he not, he knows there's nothing that he need to be afraid of....it's just a claw....sadly, he don't know how to use the rageclaw properly so he throw it towards the spikey that he blow it using vulcan gun....

" don't know why but i'm more to kill the spikey, I knew that there's a bunny here somewhere.... " Arbalest talks to himself....

[ Turn 1 - markcannon(70+10) >>> spikeyB ]
[ Turn 2 - vulcan1(10+10) >>> spikeyB, vulcan1(10+10x2) >>> spikeyA ]
[ Turn 3 - throw ragelaw(20) >>> spikeyA ]
The Spikey is thrown before being blasted along with the bunny it landed on. Arbalest then locks onto the Spikey and shoots it down before moving on to the one Slade left over. He kills it.

SpikeyA: DELETED!
SpikeyB: DELETED!
SpikeyC: DELETED!
BunnyA: DELETED!
BunnyB: DELETED!
BunnyC: DELETED!

Arbalest: 80
Slade: 110

Rewards: Slade: Zapring, 100z
Arbalest: 250z
"Alright! Way to go!" Kai sudden exclaim shocked the NetNavi, not knowing the reasion behind Kai's excitement. "You know Slade, Arch..after the last battle the door lock seemed to be unlocked for some reason. But the threats haven't decreased yet. The PET scanned that there's some more unknown data inside the home system, so I might still need your help Arch, Arbalest."

Panting, Slade laid down on his back after seeing the last virii defeats. A sparkling shard dropped on his hand as the viruses data slowly float around, fading gradually. The data revealed to be a weapon from a bunny, the zapring, with some zenny. "Kai, here..." As Slade transferred the weapon and money, Kai had already readied to write the zaprings code into a blank chip. While the process took place, Slade looked towards his partner who had badly injured, too.

"Say, Arbalest....I think you should heal yourself back at the PET first...you took quite some damage back there...." Slade started, watching the bruises all over Arbalest's body. "Kai had already succeed in opening the door, so time is not an issue right now. Right now, what matters is our vitality to survive until we can defeat the main threat to the home's system."

"Slade's right....like I said before, we don't know what are we going against, so it might be better to prepare." Kai agreed with his NetNavi's opinion to be safe than sorry. "Don't worry, we'll need your help some more, so we'll wait until you've recovered inside your PET."
" ermm, let me have a chat with Arch.... " said Arbalest to Slade, then he asks Arch what should they do....

" I think you might need a rest, I know that you're back to your normal self but....those injuries are not going too recover, so back to the PET.... " answered Arch...

" okay, we will see you in a few more minutes.... " Arbalest agreed with his operator....

" I might went to the chip shop....do you guys need anything??? because you guys looked kinda busy....if you wanted to, phone call me okay.... " Arch offers some help to Kai and Slade....with the amount of zenny they have, Arch seems want to purchase another battlechip....then he jack out Arbalest.exe....

Arbalest.exe >>> Arch's PET
".....by the way, you're also being hurt a lot, jack out?" The brown-haired NetOp watched his Navi from the PET screen, while sipping on a glass of orange juice. Seeing that his Navi had took quite a great deal of damage, he suggested that they should log out, too. But his NetNavi disagreed.

"If we're to jack out....we would have to start over from beyond the firewall. So, I guess I'll stay."


Waiting for De-1337-ed, he's waiting for Soryu at the chip store, so please don't make virus attack XP
after minutes searching for the portal, Arbalest finally managed to locate it....he went inside and he found himself at the same place like the last time he came....

" okay, i'm here....where are you Slade??? " said Arbalest with a loud voice....

" patient, you will meet him.... "

as he awaits for Slade, Arbalest take a sit on the floor....
"...I thought I heard someone...."

Kai had already fallen asleep, after the shopping and walking around town, he probably deserved a good rest. Slade who had laid down got up quickly, hearing that a voice had been echoed in the house's system. ...Maybe Arbalest... Slade walked to the source of the sound, eagerly dashed through the Net.

The Net Area seems a lot calmer, though he knew that the threat had not yet been deleted, looking at the viruses which were still roaming. A lot of thought echoed in the Navi's mind as he made his way to the source of voice. He had been thinking about whom would do such a thing to the house's system, and what really happened when he and Arbalet defeated the last group of virii. But the thought disappeared at looking the familiar Navi near the Portal.

"Arbalest!"
Arbalest heard some voice at the back, he turned around and saw a blue navi....it's Slade!!

" i'm here!! " said Arbalest while waving his hands, he get up and walk towards Slade.... " let me say it first, i'm okay....my wound is almost recovered...I felt really relieved... "
"That's good. Now we can move on..." Slade clenched his fist, after a little smile to Arbalest. The Navi was starting to walked away as he suddenly recalled about the portal. Slade then walked to the rear of Arbalest, the portal, which Arbalest had just came from. "...So, I'll destroy this portal. Kai, energybomb."

The Navi stood there, waiting for Kai's response but the NetOp had yet to be awake. Slade sighed as he turned on the PET volume, and screamed, "Kai!", which echoed in the house. The NetOp eyes popped open as he nervously grabbed his PEt, dropped it several times before picking it back. "What?! What?!" was the first words came from his mouth.

"Gimme energybombs!" Slade demanded, not bothering to talk. He'd knew that Kai would madly shouting at him later.

"...dammit, and I'm just having a good dream....battlechips, energybomb. Double Slot In." He transferred a two chips from his chip cases, titled Energybomb, sending their data throught the PET into the NetWorld. As two grey bombs appeared in front of him, Slade quickly tossed both of them towards the portal, breaking it apart.

"I hope you won't mind....this way we'll only need to deal with the virus left." Slade turned away from the explosion, walking towards Arbalest before he pointed to a random path, suggesting that they should start busting there.


Battle....1, isn't it?
THE BRITISH ARE COMING! THE BRITISH ARE COMING!

Or something.

MetoolA: 40 HP
MetoolB: 40 HP
MetoolC: 40 HP
SeedbatA: 50 HP
SeedbatB: 50 HP
SpikeyA: 90 HP
SpikeyB: 90 HP
SpookyA: 50 HP
SpookyB: 50 HP

Arbalest.EXE: 140 HP
Slade.EXE: 150 HP

--FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE!--

Arbalest nodded his head and followed Slade until at one point they found a group of viruses invaded the network area....there's too many of them....Arbalest counted and find out that there's nine of them, there's also a new virii....he tell Arch to scan what is that, after that he talks to Slade....

" hey, we better prepared ourself....anyway, here's the plan....i'm going to blow out the spookies using vulcans and i'm not sure you really want to do this but I think you should attack the spikeys first because they're the strongest among them and you got just when weapon that can kill them in a single strike....let's split up so we got some room to move and dodge and one more thing....happy virus-busting!!! "

Arbalest changes his normal arm into crossbow-buster....loudly he requests for a vulcan chip, Arch understands and insert two vulcan battlechips....

" heh, i feel like i'm more to a gunman than a archer....back to the old times!!! " Arbalest teasing Arch....

" please, concentrate on the fight....and that thing over there is spooky "

Arbalest nodded his head and say thanks....he scout around the battlefield, attempting to locate the mets....he found them at the upper-left corner, he dashes toward them but he musn't let himself from being spotted by the spikeys in the meantime....he's really close to the mets but then he stops, make a turn and move far away from the mets....Arch questions, " can you tell me what's that??? " Arbalest answers, " nothing, I just want to change my battle tactics.... " and lay down to the ground as well, he straighten his right arm....he moved the bow inch by inch using his left arm, attempt to aim the mets that jump a lot. " damn it, stop moving you guys.... " cursed Arbalest, finally they stop moving....he fires the first, second and third shots towards the same spooky....

" this is not gunman, you're a sniper.... " sighed Arch

" now don't try to provoke me, that didn't work "

Arbalest ignores what Arch said, he's busy aiming the spooky....it took him five minutes before he could target locked it....he fires the last two shots towards the unharm spooky...he don't want to know wheater all the six shots directly hit the spookies, he get up and running around in a circle....

" you're beginning to act weird you know, maybe you should stay awake when you're sleeping.... " Arch sighed once again....

[ Turn 1 - vulcan(10+10*3) >>> spookyA
[ Turn 2 - vulcan(10+10*3>>> spookyB ]
[ Turn 3 - runs in a circle/dodge ]

((i don't know wheater I can perform GMO's in a fight, please tell me....))
<(Yes, but it takes an action)>
"....hehe." A maniacal grin was set upon the blue Navi's face as he looked upon the new wave of virus. The biggest horde of virus they had ever encountered, but instead of fearing them, he felt extremely excited. "..Kai, better give me a sword now...instant kill will be nice.."

"Okay, but look out for the Spooky, they're tricky...Battlechip, Sword! Double Slot In!" Kai took out the swords from his chip's cases and inserted them into the PET. The chip reader then analyzed them, streaming the chip's unique data to Hauth via the infra-red.

While Kai played his role, Slade had also began his charge towards the virus. He'll be the melee fighter while Arbalest will cover him with a series of sniping, that way, they'll be abalanced team. Upon reaching the virii group, swords had completely formed onto the arms of Slade. Gripping to the digital blades as strong as he could, Slade spun his body around, swinging his blade freely in between the two flaming hounds.

"Dancing Swallow..!" The slashing went through for a while, until Slade had finally felt a little unstable after the repeated spinning. The Navi fell down but quickly got up and dashed away from the virii group, still feeling a bit dizzy.


Summary
1. Sword to SpikeyA [90 Dmg]
2. Sword to SpikeyB [90 Dmg]
3. Run away....dodge?
<(Wups, missed this, Arbalest cannot split up the hits from vulcan in that way, each does 3x10 to one enemy, edit plx)>
((bump))
<(Listen, De-leet-ed, you can not split the damage from a vulcan amongst enemies, fo you, it will deal 3x20 damage to ONE ENEMY ONLY)>
((bump, and sorry))
The first ghost warps after two shots land and the second only allows one bullet to hit. Slade has better luck, taking down both Spikeys. A Met attacks Slade, but misses, and the same happens when a Seedbat attacks Arbalest. However, a Spooky then appears right in front of Slade and licks him.

MetoolA: 40 HP
MetoolB: 40 HP
MetoolC: 40 HP
SeedbatA: 50 HP
SeedbatB: 50 HP
SpikeyA: DELETED!
SpikeyB: DELETED!
SpookyA: 10 HP
SpookyB: 30 HP

Arbalest.EXE: 140 HP
Slade.EXE: 135 HP
"Ergh! What the hell do you think you're doing?!" Slade exclaimed as he wiped off the saliva of the virus, cursing the virii. Enraged by the virus action, Slade decided to swung his former sword recklessly upon the Spooky while yelling out, "..disgusting bastard!"

"Chill out...it's just saliva.." Kai grinned, looking at how his Navi had been overreacted. Kai still played his role, inserting another battlechips and giving out a battle strategy to his NetNavi. "Now that the damn mutt gone, better concentrate on the seedbats. Try killing them with this heatshot. Sending rageclaw and heatshot in 3, 2, 1....sent!"

Slade felt the weapon phased into him, as the Navi decided to side-roll, towards the rear of a seedbat. A burst of light emitted from Slade's left hand morphing his fingers into a metal claw, while his palm grew furry. The blue Navi then held out his hand as far as he could before slamming it heavily, in the attempt of throwing the seedbat towards his partner.

Not long before the previous attack, Slade had another one coming as he detached the rageclaw, replacing it with somehow a flaming shotgun. Slade then aimed directly towards the Seedbat he had just tried to attack, timed his attack carefully as the trigger for the gun was pulled. A loud explosion echoed the moment Slade blasted the heatshot, but to his surprise, the recoil for this attack seems weaker. Maybe I had gotten used to this weapon that the recoil does not mean so much...


Summary
1. Sword to the Spooky that had just licked me. [90 Dmg]
2. Rageclaw SeedbatA [30 Dmg, throw towards SeedbatB]
3. Heatshot SeedbatA [30x2= 60 Dmg, Heat, Splash to SeedbatB]