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Battle Network X: The Next Generation – Episode 5: The New Guy
Their data swirled all around him. Dozens more fell at a swing of his sword. The Mettaurs were no match for him. Even the Omega’s were nothing but annoying flies to him. It was a giant horde, but after a few minutes, all of them were deleted.
“Well done, Chip. Log out.” A voice said.
“Yes, sir!”
He plugged the PET out of the computer. “I have a few more minutes before I have to go to school again.” The boy said.
“Why do you ever go?” His Navi asked. “You get yourself kicked off every time, so why bother?”
“Because, Chip, I have to go. And it is sort of fun torturing younger kids. Especially after you make them think first you are a really nice guy.”
“Agreed, my lord.”
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“Sakana-hakase! Doctor!” One of the employees yelled. “Doctor, come over here, quickly!”
Sakana-hakase walked over to the terminal were the employee was working. “What is it?” He asked.
“Doctor, look!” The man pointed at the screen. “An assault has been launched on Project M! It has been destroyed!”
“What?” Sakana Sebastian pulled the man out of the chair. “That’s impossible! It was guarded by the best defence programs! There doesn’t simply exist a Navi of that strength!”
The other man kept his mouth shut. He knew they both knew better. Sebastian looked at him.
“What are you standing there?! Send a team in to investigate!”
“Yes, sir!” The man walked off.
“Impossible… Project M…” Sebastian muttered.
??? ??? ??? ??? ???
He swung his right hand around. It felt good to have a sword instead of an underarm, somehow. He pulled his clear green visoir into his helmet and looked around. Data of deleted Heal Navis swirled into nothingness around him.
“You won!”
He turned around, just in time. A girl jumped at him, hugging him to death.
“Woah, take it easy!” He said to the blonde girl.
“I can’t believe it! You won!”
“Well…” He said grinning.
“There’s no way he could’ve done it without me.” A familiar voice said.
He looked up. “DEMI?”
It was clearly Demi. Who else he knew had such bright green eyes and looked like he was always smiling?
“Well done, my friend!” Demi said. “Metto.EXE, log out.”
Then, his vision blurred, and all became black…
…
“FOR THE LAST TIME, RYUUDO METTO, WAKE UP!!!” A voice bellowed through his room.
“GAH!” Metto shot up. “What’s wrong?”
“What’s wrong? What’s wrong?” His mother shouted. “It’s MONDAY! SCHOOL! Now get the hell out of that bed, so I can clean up!”
Metto got out of bed, and took his clothes which were hanging over his chair. He looked at his mom. “Shoo shoo.” He said, waving his hand at her.
She sighed and went out of the room. Metto put on his clothes. He wasn’t bothered at all. He took the PET out of the charger and went downstairs.
He ate breakfast quickly, omelettes with bacon on a piece of bread with extra ketchup, then he took his obentou bade his mom goodbye - “Bye, Metto,” she replied - and he went to school.
… … … … …
“Okay class,” Mary-sensei said. “We will get somebody new in this class today!”
“I hate it when she does that voice.” Metto whispered behind his hand to Sara. “It’s like we’re 3rd graders or something!”
“Okay, Wemtoo-san, you may come in!” Their teacher said cheerfully.
The door opened slowly, creaking as loud as it had ever done. A sudden chill spread through the classroom, the open windows creaked in their hinges, the wind blew the autumn leaves through them, the lamp went off and on and off and on…
A figure stepped through the doorway. A tall boy. Raven-black hair with dyed white stripes and with hair gel through it. Cold, marine blue eyes with a slightly visible bloody red shimmer, colored contacts. He wore black pants with red stripes on it, looking suspiciously much like blood, a black shirt with a close-up picture of the sun on it and black and red sneakers. He held a bag over his right shoulder, and he seemed relaxed, though the look in his eyes made you think like Death had come to claim you.
Mary-sensei closed the door behind the boy.
“Everybody, this is Wemtoo Ivan. He’s a new student in your class.”
“It’s Wemtoo-Miraji Ivan.” He said calmly. But Mary-sensei had heard a sense of anger in it, according to the slightly scared look on her face.
“Well, er… yes, what he said,” She said. “Well Ivan, find yourself a place to sit!”
Ivan looked around the classroom. He looked at Metto intensely for a short while, and gave Sara a short look of interest too. There were three empty seats.
“Hmpf…” He walked towards one of the empty seats halfway in the back, in the left middle row and sat down. He put his bag onto the floor, pulled out a PET the color of dried-up blood, and plugged it into the computer which was built into the desk.
“Okay then class,” Their teacher said. “Let’s continue the lesson.”
… … … … …
Metto sighed. “I was almost asleep back there! Man, that woman talks!”
“Metto, you were asleep back there.” Demi replied.
“Yeah, whatever,” Metto said. “But now is virus busting class! Woohoo!”
“And I’ve heard we’re going to do something special this year…” Demi said.
“Something special?”
“Something special.”
“Something special!”
“Something speeeeeeeeeciaaalll…”
“Shut up Demi.”
“Meh…”
They entered the classroom. It was large, and there were computers all over the place. There were seats along the sides, and Metto knew that behind the mirror in one of the walls, was actually a window if you looked from the other side. On that other side were people to control the school’s network and to keep track of everything that happened and the student’s results.
The students sat down on the seats and plugged their PET’s into the computers. A few dozen voices could be heard through the entire school. “Plug-in! Demi.EXE! Transmission!” Metto yelled.
The Navis appeared inside the cyberworld. In front of them stood their teacher’s Navi, Sensei.EXE. They knew what they would be going to do. One Navi after the other would battle three viruses of their choice. This was their first lesson of the year. But, as Demi had said, this year, they had something special for them.
“Seeing as how many students will be participating in this year’s World N-1 Grand Prix,” Sensei said, “Your netbattling classes have adapted to that. That means that this year, you will also actually netbattle against each other. This has been done so that the N-1 Committee won’t have to include you in the preliminaries, since these lessons are actually your preliminaries. So in these lessons, you may battle eachother or viruses, which can be found beyond that door overthere, for practise. We hope you’ll have fun.”
Sensei disappeared, and the students and their Navis started talking loudly to eachother.
“Silence!” Their teacher yelled, “Start the Netbattling already!”
The students shut up immediately. They knew what temper this teacher had. Within a few moments, half of the class was busy Netbattling.
“Well,” Demi said, “Who shall we challenge Metto-kun?”
“Why not the new guy?” Metto said. “I wonder what kind of Navi he has and what their skills and techniques are. Plus, it’s a big challenge.”
“Then New Guy it is.” Demi looked around to the Navis who weren’t Netbattling yet. “Any idea who it is?”
“Just look for one who you’ve never seen before, probably male, and who looks tough.”
“Got him.” Demi walked up to a Navi who was standing a little away from the others, observing the battles. “Hey, you! You the new guy, right? Why don’t we battle?”
Metto sighed. For God’s sake Demi, use tact for once!
“Whatever…” The Navi said. He wore a spiky green helmet, his left underarm was a giant green fist covered with twisted spikes. On his right shoulder was a spiky shoulderplate for protection and on his back, was, like with all other Navis, his power pack, which was green and, obviously, also spiked. His boots looked just the same as Demi’s, except that they were green, and that the tips of his boots’ spikes were glowing. The icon on the middle of his chest was a light blue star. Also, have I already mentioned he was green?
He just stood relaxed in front of Demi, who didn’t know what to do, so he just did the same.
Just a moment later, the Navi had disappeared from his spot. He appeared behind Demi, smashing his fist to his back. “Gotcha, rookie.”
Demi stood up, cracked his back and wiped the blood from his mouth. Now he was ready to fight.
You really gotta hate that Navi. >.<
I’m calling the World Netlife Fund! They should arrest him for killing all those innocent Metts!
Mettlife is Netlife! *waves WNF Anti-Metthunting flag*
“KEEP DA METTS ALIVE!!!”
Anyone who can figure out what Sakane-hakase means get 10 points and a cookie!
Project M will be of great importance later on, but if you guys are smart, you would’ve figured this out already for yourself, seeing what a short part it was.
Well, after the scene in the lab, there weren’t ‘--- --- --- --- ---’ nor ‘… … … … …’, since a dream isn’t actually in the real world, nor in the cyberworld. Now, about Metto’s dream, ‘cause that’s what it was if you haven’t figured it out already, I think many people and Navis alike would like to trade places for a day or so. The blonde girl is obviously… erm… 10 points for you if you figure out!
I based Wemtoo’s name off a semi-evilish character from an anime. NOT NTW. And it wasn’t even human, but a lot of people loved him/her/it! If you guess correctly… Correct! 10 points you get!
Anyone here who already hates this New Guy? You’re probably not the only one!
I figured out that I should make him quite full of himself, and proud of the fact that he’s ‘more’ than other people, considering he emphasized his twofold family name. So… if you guess what I mean with Miraji…
You know what I would be going to say, dontcha?