First Mission

Nitro stepped out of the portal and looked around at his surroundings. He could tell that this place wasn't anything like ACDC. He turned to face the portal and waited for his teammates to appear.
Nitro found himself standing upon a wide cyber walkway amid a vast virtual cityscape. The buildings, obviously servers, databanks, and local ISP distribution points, towered into the sky. Between rows of buildings, and off in the distance, he could see transport programs shuttling Navis, data packets, patches, and programs back and forth at dizzying speed along a wide communication line. All around him, countless Navis and Progs moved about their daily business.

A short distance away, he could also see a group of Netpolice Navis fighting a small, but extremely nasty looking, group of viruses. He'd apparently just caught the end of it, as the NP's mopped up the viruses with a flurry of chip attacks, then moved on.

Turning towards the portal, he watched as Barretta emerged first, turning her head to look this way and that. She was obviously taking in the sights here for the first time, just as Nitro had, as indicated by her awed expression. She moved away from the portal and began turning about, examining the area in greater detail than Nitro had.

Gunther emerged a moment later, the package still effortlessly held up by one hand. He was whistling a tune to himself, and largely ignored the network environment. One could guess he'd been here before.... Then he looked up at something past Nitro, stopped whistling, and set the package down as he bellowed "HEADS UP."

Barretta turned, looked at his face, then followed his gaze to... Whatever it was, it prompted her to summon a clip of battlechip data, and slide it into the bottom of her buster arm. "Nitro, we've got company!"

Sure enough, a cloud of crystal orbs came flying down the path towards them; a few ghostly shapes among them....

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Summary
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---Allies---
Nitro.EXE: 100 HP
Gunther.EXE: 150 HP [2 moves ahead]
Barretta.EXE: 100 HP [ahead and to your right]

---Objects---
Security Cube (package): 200 HP [3 moves ahead]
RockCubeA: 200 HP [2 moves to your right]
RockCubeB: 200 HP [to your left, and slightly behind you]

---Enemies--- [Some distance behind you, closing rapidly]
MaruA: 20 HP
MaruB: 20 HP
MaruC: 20 HP
MaruD: 20 HP
MaruE: 20 HP
MaruF: 20 HP
MaruG: 20 HP
MaruH: 20 HP
MaruI: 20 HP
SpookyA: 30 HP
SpookyB: 30 HP
SpookyC: 30 HP

---Locations---
NetSquare Portal [4 moves ahead]

Terrain: 100% Normal
((Please forgive the lateness of this edit, I was kind of taking a break from the RP, collecting my thoughts and so forth.))


Nitro turned around to see the large group of viruses headed toward him. He was fairly sure that there would be viruses during this mission, but this many at once? Still, he thought they looked pretty weak. He soon shook this thought from his mind, however, because he knew that underestimating your opponent was one of the worst mistakes you could make.
Nitro then noticed that there were a couple RockCubes nearby, and they looked fairly sturdy. It would probably be a good idea to get the package behind one of these, for extra protection. He didn't think he'd be able to get the package over there in time, so he kept this in mind for an opportunity where he would be able to. He did know a way in which he would be able to temporarly keep it from being harmed, however.
"Chris!" He shouted. "Send me the Guard chip!"
"Ok, here it comes!" Chris replied as he slotted the chip in. A large, yellow shield appeared over Nitro's arm. He figured from this postion, he'd be able to cover more of the package than if it were immediately behind him. He crouched down, making sure the shield covered him entirely. He knew the shield would only sustain one attack, so he planned that as soon as it was hit, he would dodge to the left and back to the right, keeping himself aligned with the package.

1: Guard1 on Nitro
2: (Dodge left)
3: (Dodge right)
*Actions in brackets haven't actually happened, but are there as a precaution.
Nitro turns around, raises his Guard, and stands his ground as the other Navis begin to move.

Barretta aims at a group of the Maru-01's with her long buster-arm, and a flash of fire erupts from the barrel. An instant later, a series of spherical explosions rips through the cloud of viruses, deleting several in a chain. Another blast issues from her weapon, and another group of the glassine orb-like viruses is consumed in a series of similar explosions.

The Maru-01's returned fire, each flashing before sending a beam of light lancing back towards the Navi crew. One beam struck Nitro's shield, only to have a return beam from the Guard1 smash through it's ball-like body, causing the virus to crack, shatter, then crumble to the ground. Nitro dodged out of the path of a second beam, which brought about the same result as a counter beam identical to the one from his Guard1 lanced back out at the virus, deleting it as well.

The Spooky viruses then began to vanish one after the other. It didn't take much guesswork to know they'd decided to gang up on Gunther, as the short, yet stout green Navi began shouting "Bring it on, scrubs!" and the sounds of a brawl could be heard from his general direction. A moment later, the sound of a loud, meaty impact heralded a Spooky's uncontrolled flight between Nitro and Barretta, past them, and across the street. The virus' existence ended with it's non-too-gentle collision with the side a Netopian skyscraper.

"Safe!" she exclaimed as she dashed behind the cover of a Rockcube, a Maru beam narrowly missing her. "Did you see that, Mitch?" She was obviously talking to her Net-Op.

The three young Navis were holding their own....

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Summary
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---Allies---
Nitro.EXE: 100 HP
Gunther.EXE: 140 HP [2 moves behind]
Barretta.EXE: 100 HP [2 moves to your left, Behind RockCubeA]

---Objects---
Security Cube (package): 200 HP [3 moves behind]
RockCubeA: 200 HP [2 moves to your left]
RockCubeB: 200 HP [to your right, and slightly ahead of you]

---Enemies--- [Some distance behind you, closing rapidly]
Maru-01A: Deleted
Maru-01B: Deleted
Maru-01C: Deleted
Maru-01D: Deleted
Maru-01E: Deleted
Maru-01F: Deleted
Maru-01G: Deleted
Maru-01H: Deleted
Maru-01I: 20 HP
SpookyA: Deleted
SpookyB: Owned
SpookyC: 30 HP

---Locations---
NetSquare Portal [4 moves behind]

Terrain: 100% Normal
Nitro jumped to the right and crouched behind the Rockcube. He marveled at the display of busting he just witnessed. After shouting his congradulations to Barretta and Gunther, he turned his attention to the two remaining viruses. It didn't seem like too much effort had to be made in deleting these two.
"Nitro," Chris said to Nitro. "I'm sending you the Shotgun chip, I'll leave you to figure out what to do with it."
It seemed that Chris had been thinking the same think Nitro had, for the second that Nitro recieved the Shotgun data, he aimed around the corner and fired the weapon at the adavncing Spooky. With any luck, Nitro thought, the shot should spread to the viruses partner Maru.

Summary:

1: Dodge right behind RockCubeB
2: Take Aim at SpookyC
3: Shotgun at SpookyC (50dmg+Spread1)
Nitro jumps behind the cube, the Maru's beam just missing him, and takes shelter behind the RockCube. He then aims his shotgun around the corner at the Spooky, and fires at it. Barretta mirrors his move, and fires a cannon at the Maru. As both viruses are struck and deleted, the female Navi announces "Scratch one."

"Thaz da last of 'em." remarked Gunther as he banished his weapons and picked up some data left behind by the enemies he'd fought.. He then turned towards the package and hefted the object once more. "Hnnngh.... uhh. Thaz some dense data." he added as he began walking towards Nitro and Barretta. He began whisting to himself absently as he walked along.

Barretta stepped out from behind the RockCube, and began walking into the virtual city. She looked over at Nitro and simply said "We should get moving." as she walked past him. She stopped to pick up chip data from the Maru she'd nailed with the Cannon, then continued on.

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Summary
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VICTORY!!

---Allies---

Nitro.EXE: 100 HP
GET: Recover10, 120z

Gunther.EXE: 140 HP
GET: Invis1, 120z

Barretta.EXE: 100 HP
GET: Maru-Blaster1, 740z

---Enemies---
Maru-01A: Deleted
Maru-01B: Deleted
Maru-01C: Deleted
Maru-01D: Deleted
Maru-01E: Deleted
Maru-01F: Deleted
Maru-01G: Deleted
Maru-01H: Deleted
Maru-01I: Deleted
SpookyA: Deleted
SpookyB: Owned
SpookyC: Deleted

---Locations---
NetSquare Portal [behind]

Terrain: 100% Normal
Nitro picked up the remianing data and followed his partners. "So," he said, trying to start a conversation. "Where are you guys from?"
Gunther continued to whistle while Barretta responded to Nitro as the group continued to walk on. "I'm from Yumland." She said simply. She paused for a bit before adding, "It's nothing like this network. More grass and forests in YumNet than here." She said as she looked out at the various transport programs traveling along the net highway that ran along side the path they were walking.

Gunther stopped whistling for a moment and joined in the conversation with his usual lazy speech... "Yeaaahh... Heh heh." He raised his other hand and waggled a finger back and forth with an amused air... "Don't let her fool ya, Nitro. YumNet has it's share of cityscapes." He paused and lowered his arm again as Barretta let out a quiet sigh. "Anyway. This here is my home. An' yer welcome to it. Gunther added as they rounded a corner....

....And encountered another group of data-seeking viruses ahead of them. A few sword wielding viruses in something resembling knight's armor hovered forward as a mass of the small spherical viruses they'd encountered earlier swarmed and surged overhead.

"And what about them?" Barretta added in a dry tone as she pointed at the virii.

Gunther set the package down carefully then started forward... "Dey ain't welcome." Gunther growled as he pounded his fists together with a bang.

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Summary
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---Allies---
Nitro.EXE: 100 HP
Gunther.EXE: 140 HP [To your right]
Barretta.EXE: 100 HP [Ahead and to your left]

---Objects---
Security Cube (package): 200 HP [Behind you, and to the right]


---Enemies---

---Group 1---
Maru-01A: 20HP
Maru-01B: 20HP
Maru-01C: 20HP
Maru-01D: 20HP
Maru-01E: 20HP
Maru-01F: 20HP
Maru-01G: 20HP
Maru-01H: 20HP
Maru-01I: 20HP
Maru-01J: 20HP
Maru-01K: 20HP
Maru-01L: 20HP
Maru-01M: 20HP
Maru-01N: 20HP
Maru-01O: 20HP

---Group 2---
SwordyA: 60HP
SwordyB: 60HP
SwordyC: 60HP

---Locations---
Building [2 moves to your right]
Sidewalk <5 panels wide>
NetHighway <W/ traffic> [2 moves to your left]

Terrain: 100% Normal
((Sorry about the long no-post time, a bunch of stuff has been goin' on around here. Also, you repeated Marus F through J in your battle summary. May as well keep the topic alive with a filler post.))

Nitro looked at the incoming viruses. There seemed to be almost twice as many as before, and the three armoured viruses seemed much tougher than the other ones. He also took in his surroundings, thinking of ways he could use them to his advantage.

Summary:

No actions used currently, waiting for activity.
((I have arrived at the conclusion to gracefully back out of this mission. Sorry for any inconveniences.))

A screen suddenly appeared in front of Nitro, bearing Chris' face.
"Nitro!" He said. "We've gotta go right now! There's something important I forgot about!
"Alright," Nitro replied in a dissapointed tone. He turned to Gunther and Barretta. "I'm sorry that I have to leave, good luck on the mission!" Nitro then dissapeared in a flash of green light.