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Kale Hearthward	Meet Drillman.EXE. "Aaaaarrrrrrgh... for... World Three!" Bye, Drillman.EXE. This is the situation: Dr. Wily is making his move on Alpha. A few days ago, he sabotaged Scilab security, and now he's sent one of his agents. Drillman.EXE, as the vanguard for the actual attack. Drillman.EXE did an admirable job of breaking through the various layers of security, including four cyberlocks immediately protecting Alpha, drilled open a portal from Scilab out into cyberspace, made his escape through it, and then - well, then security caught up to him, here deep in cyberspace. Security is blue, gun-armed, and hero-coded. "Great job, Megaman!" And there's a kid in a cyber viewing window that's floating nearby, cheering him on. "Now, let's secure Alpha, and get it back to Scilab!" Fortunately (or unfortunately), the Watch group has been retained as backup for the smash and grab, as part of the deal. Forte's already here. "Leave," he says, floating up to put himself between the blue hero and the floating basketball-sized orb that Drillman.EXE dropped on death. "What - wait, that's Bass.EXE... the evil one," says the guy in the window. "Be careful, Megaman!" "I've got it..." says Megaman, readying his armcannon. A fight's about to break out...!
Kupot	Kupot watches silently as DrillMan.EXE works. Hm. Would swords work the same way in defenses? Perhaps some way to move across into actual cyberspace. No, he does not want to perceive hacker set ups with his actual physical senses. Still, Kupot does the job, playing defense to any SciLab navis. Kupot moves around this little problem by only playing defense. SciLab netnavis have to fire against the moogle's sword, blasts and cannon shots easily parried. Then, a Megaman. Kupot's HUD lights up, filling his vision with targeting reticles over the NetNavi. Data, abnormal. Possibly Paladin oriented or based on Paladin oriented person. Likely has stacked deck with floor breaks and sword chips. Heroic defender sort. "Please leave," Kupot says, trying to be polite as possible. He even has his hand off the hilt of his sword. He simply stands, three feet tall, looking upward at the two young children just trying to protect the world. Inwardly, he curses. Fighting corpsec is one thing, but fighting a real actual hero is another. "Something greater is at work, kupo. And I don't want to harm you." There is a gentle tone of pleading that slides in. Terrorist actions are one thing, but killing a boy hero? Kupot is not going to be allowed to die for years just for this.
Rita Ma	Rita is already here, but isn't. At the first sign of trouble, she'd vanished into thin air. The hard ground of the Cyberworld doesn't record her footprints. The crowd of Elites drown out the quiet sounds of her movement.      Tap, tap, tap. Except for those. A sound like pitter-pattering steps just behind Megaman. If he doesn't turn around now, she'll--!      Her hand bursts through the floating cyber-island's floor and grabs his ankle, immobilizing him with a shockingly tight grip. Rita hangs upside-down on the island's underside, held fast by her fingers and shoes digging in.      Her eyes are scrunched tight, desperately trying not to look down. Why did I think this was smart?! Body, we're scared of heights!      "Now! Come on!" Outwardly, her voice only trembles a little. A second later, she yanks in her instinctive need for a more secure handhold, pulling Megaman into the hole up to his knee.
Gaonoir	Forte moves into position to guard the intended prize, for lack of a better way of phrasing it. Which also does a really good job of getting the attention of the one intending to retrieve it after defeating DrillMan.EXE. A couple more people move in on... is that a variation on a MegaMan? Looks like it... and sounds like it, by the calls from a real space operator. "This world really is quite facinating," Erika murmurs as she keeps back near the orb with Forte. "It's not quite the same as the Digital World, but some similar hallmarks are there." For the mission she's adopted a more '133t h4xx0r' get-up, complete with the black jacket, HUD glasses with tinted lenses, and fingerless gloves for no other reason than it looks cool. But she's not the problem, either. What would be Gaonoir entering the fray, using his voidstep to teleport up behind MegaMan while the others are in front of him, and swing a shadow infused punch with one his gloved fists.
Wonderlab Trio	"Captain Catt--!"     Bounding ahead of the other two agents, Catt cuts across the winding path of tiles through cyberspace, leaping up to land in a crouch on top of a derelict and flickering advertisement (infuriatingly simple pin puzzle askew, piling treasure and lava together in the corner). Black ribbons of their EGO suit flutter from the jump, wide eyes locked on Megaman. "Observing behavior. Hostile; not erratic. Watch the arm. Going in now."     "Oh dear, we'd better hurry up." Taii and Rose, unable to skip the corners like Catt can, are left behind. Taii especially is having trouble bringing themselves up to a run, too nervous about the drops into the void to either side. Taii has their EGO weapon drawn already, a golden rapier-like rod that they hold by a ring on the bottom, and it streams fog out behind them.     Catt readies Bitter Medicine out to their side, head tracking Megaman's movements while they wait for a moment to strike, and Rita's grapple gives it to them. The instant that Megaman stumbles from the tendril wrapped around his leg, Catt is falling from the sky above him, EGO spoon crackling with black energy across its entire length. One hand on the hilt and one hand bracing the neck beneath the bowl, Catt arcs the spoon downwards, using the sharp point to scrape down Megaman's side and bury into the ground, creating a staticky storm of thorny black energy at the impact. Unfortunately for Rita, this jolts the platform that she's clinging to the bottom of.
Angela	Coming along with the Wonderlab Crew today from the Lobotomy Corp main branch is Nonon, the jovial muscular lady from Disciplinary who wields one of the stronger EGOs from LobCorp--the Gold Rush from the King of Greed. She has volunteered herself to come along as part of her overarching desire to help out Rita's world due to Disciplinary's fondness for her family (we'll worry about Gebura's feelings later). Along with her is a new Agent, wielding a black and yellow rifle and wearing a black and yellow suit. The rifle ... seems to have teeth on the upperside of it? That's probably fine. The new Agent has lime green hair swept up down to the back with uncolored short hair along the side of her head. She wears a black choker with spikes and numerous chains across her neck. She flings the rifle over her shoulder and is briefly surprised to see they have been brought here to take on a kid. "Yo," Tweed says. "The Fuck? All this for a hit on a kid? You shittin' me Nonon? You said it'd be a fuckin' rumble not some sort of playground bully bullshit." "Haha, well, maybe he's tougher than he looks! Let's find out!" Nonon says as she springs forward, a mystical circle rippling around that golden gauntlet she's wearing as she attempts to SLAAAAAAAAAAAM it into Megaman's face. "You ok down there, Rita? Ha ha!"
Kale Hearthward	> "Please leave." "What - no, we won't leave! You're part of the World Three group! Villains who are here to destroy the internet!" Rita goes to grab Megaman and pull him down. "A hole!" gasps Megaman. "They're dastardly villains, using evil traps!" declares the boy in the window. "But - Lan, don't we have a lot of traps in our chip folder...?" "Sh- shush, it's only evil when they do it!" declares Lan. Gaonoir comes in with a shadow punch. Megaman twists around, trying to dodge, and only mostly succeeds. "Let's deal with those tricky traps first - Megaman! I'm sending you chip data!" calls Lan. He yanks what looks like an SD card from his backpack, and slams it into a handheld device. "Battlechip slot in - PopUnder! Execute!" The hole Rita's punched through abruptly expands - and Megaman drops through, and gravity simultaneously seems to reverse for him, letting him stand on the underside of the platform and come face to face with Rita. This does also let him get out of Catt's attack and Nonon's charge, with only minimal splash damage taken from each. "Ah - um, Lan, it's... a little girl?" "What? Mega, it's obviously a monster that looks like a little girl, or something..." says Lan. "Don't be fooled!" Megaman looks fooled. He tentatively aims a buster shot at Rita, purposefully aiming to miss - but probably shooting one of her veiled tentacles or something else regardless. Forte goes to follow up with an attack of his own - but he gets interrupted by someone arriving via the drilled-open portal from Scilab. It's... another Forte? "I should have known!" This one's not wearing a poncho, and also isn't floating. "I should have deleted you when I had a chance!" "You - bothersome copy," growls Forte. The two start fighting each other to the exclusion of all else. Meanwhile, Lan's messing with more of those little SD card things. "Battlechip slot in - Landmine! And another landmine! And another landmine! And another landmine! See how you like it, when we turn your evil trap strategy against you!" Megaman, who is now on the underside of the floating platforms, is on the move - and anyone trying to go after him might well find the ground exploding out from underneath them!
Gaonoir	Well this turned into a very unexpected and chaotic fight extremely fast. Being the experienced hunter that he is Gaonoir is quick to make pursuit after MegaMan. The mines are given minimal attention, as is his style to just charge through. Several go off as he does, but he's moving fast enough it's only minimal impact as he avoids being in the heart of any blast radiuses. Erika turns as if to ask their Forte something, only to see him occupied with another Forte. So he's also busy. Oh well, that will have to wait. She shrugs, and flicks the D-Port into her hand. "He's not the only one that's got assistance!" She thumbs the device, and a projection flickers on allowing her to see what Gaonoir sees as he's chasing after MegaMan. "If he really wants to claim this thing he's not going to stray too far from this point, watch out for him trying to double back." "Or we don't give him the chance to." Gaonoir closes in with a bounding stride. As he closes in he makes like a small version of a certain big bad wolf-- "WILD ECHO!" --and lets out a whailing howl-like cry that blasts a darkness infused sonic shockwave at the digital version of the Blue Bomber.
Kupot	Kupot takes his katana, flipping it upside down against his side. "Kupo," he says, sadly. Little after images of a stocky virus deposit mines all over the battlefield. Kupot's HUD traces over each one, giving him a deadly boss mods readout as they go down. Kupot's right hand moves to the sword on his left hip. "Remember to run away. These people will not be so fair." The moogle simply leans forward. He brings off one food with a CRACK of the tiles underneath him. A black and red blur races down the tiles towards the floating platform Megaman.EXE floats away, safe behind a wall of trap chips. Time slows down for Kupot, the first mine exploding underneath his feet. His sword ripples out from the sheath in a clean motion, a silvery arc in the air. The shockwave continues upward, but split by the arc. As the blur proceeds down the line, every explosion follows, cut down to a limited explosion. The swordsmoogle leaps out of the last explosion, becoming still, arcing slowly in the air towards the young NetNavi. He brings that blunt side of his sword around, hand downard. Energy roils down Kupot's hand to the blade, enveloping it in a ghostly blue flame. Then, in a snap of motion, Kupot bursts across Megaman's side, the blunt side of the blade a flashing blur as he goes past. TIGER FANG!!!
Angela	NOnon says, "Eh?" as her punch goes wide. "Eh?? Trickier than you look, aren't ya kid? But you're keeping us from somethin' we need, so sooner you go down the better, yeah?" She promptly steps on a mine which explodes, obscuring her body with fire and smoke. She steps right on through the smoke, charred and bruised but seemingly undeterred. Her EGO Gear is REAL GOOD at resisting red damage and explosions count as red damage. "Well well guess the kid's packin' some fuckin' heat, was feelin' like a chickenshit." Tweed says. "Like I was lit'rally ordered to do chickenshit shit but if you're actual a tough cookie..." She raises her rifle and points it at Megaman! "Sure I'll shoot a crotchspawn in the face. Who the fuckin' hell you talkin' to anyway?" Tweed opens fire! She doesn't actually really need to aim too much, the bullets will shift in midair to home in on Megaman! Oh no! Not a HOMING attack! Nonon doesn't throw another punch but she is cracking her knuckles and steadying her position, readying herself to do something... ...Unpleasant!
Rita Ma	"I'm fine!!" Rita squeaks to Nonon. She does not, in fact, sound fine.      When her fingers feel the very beginning of Catt's jolt, they reflexively let go; she yelps in panic, but catches herself with her feet and a couple of cloaked tentacles, now standing upside-down. That puts her face-to-face with Megaman a moment later.      "Mega, it's obviously a monster that looks like a little girl, or something..."      Lan's words bother her more than the shot does. She doesn't even flinch when it passes right by her head, tousling her (strangely right-side-up?) hair. "Don't worry about that," she says, with her eyes on the floor. One hand rubs her arm uncomfortably. "I'm here for Alpha, too. So... please get out of our way."      That isn't likely, of course. Rita starts to 'run' after him upside-down, neatly flips out of the blast of the first landmine she encounters, and decides to change approaches. She disappears topside for a moment, and reappears with...      Is that some kind of hoverboard? No, it's just a flat floating monster, isn't it? That, for some baffling reason, tolerates her standing on it.      With that, she's able to coast right up beside Megaman without risk from the landmines. She's serenely tense, hair and clothes rippling in the breeze of the pursuit. Something appears behind her back- a branching shadow?- and then coalesces into dozens of sharp chitinous missiles, which zip after him like a swarm of hornets and detonate on impact. They're liable to cook off the landmines, too.      "I'm sorry," she says softly, and at least halfway means it.
Wonderlab Trio	"-- Gone?" With Megaman dipping through the platform at the last second, Catt's momentum throws them off-balance, hitting the ground with more force than they expected. Rather than stumbling, they switch their grip on Bitter Medicine, sliding their hands up to the base of the haft and gripping the end of it to continue forwards in a flip, vaulting over the hole in the platform where Megaman was.     Being in the air for that brief moment gives them a glance at the the mines scattered across the ground, touching their toes down between two of them, the black mantle of their outfit fluttering up off their shoulders. Taii and Rose, only just arriving, aren't so lucky, forced to cross a lot of ground without a lot of time to look around.     "What was that? Traps? Preparing the environment isn't evil at all! It's just proper battle-- Wahh!" Taii's steps get faster and longer once they're off the path and onto the wider platform, shoe-soles clicking against the ground without their heels ever touching, until one step clicks a little louder than the others. The ground erupts besides them, and they twist away from the explosion, pink suit scorched and fluffy hair blasted around wildly.     "H-how do we get to him now? I-I'm not jumping down there, no way!" Taii teeters to a halt, some distance away from the hole, and looks back at Rose. "You have to trust in your abilities, Taii. *I* trust in them, too!" "A-alright-- you're right."     While Catt is laying down Bitter Medicine across the length of the pit, Taii clenches their fist and grips their EGO weapon with both hands, running and jumping down into the pit to swing the rod sideways across Megaman like a rapier-- and continuing down into the infinite void below it. Catt immediately flinches and drops down through the hole themselves, holding on to the haft of their EGO weapon as a crossbar to reach out to Taii with the other, but Taii is already swiping Chignon through the air a second time, creating a cloud of fog below them that they tumble into. The fog envelops them, and they appear right back up top again, inside the stream of fog they made earlier.     "Aaaaa--gh! That's so scary!"
Kale Hearthward	"Oh..." The boy in the cyber-window peers down at Erica. "Hey, Megaman. That thing has an operator too, doesn't it?" "Lan! Focus more on defense, please!" yells Megaman, as Gaonoir's sonic howl echoes through the panel he's standing under. "Hey, what sorta chips are in your folder? Want to see my program advances?" "Laaaaan!" Megaman is relatively defenseless as Kupot dashes underneath the platforms to reach him. "Laaaan, Popunder's not woooorking! Slot in another defensive chip already!" "Guh - Megaman, have you ever heard of dodging?" "Lan, you're not the one fighting five opponents at once!" "Okay, okay, keep your buster on..." He digs out another chip. "Recover, slot in!" Some of the damage from Kupot's attack is cleared. "And..." Nonon's bullets curve around the panel to strike Megaman, and then Catt's fog damages him further. "Hurry already!" "- Uh, um, screw it, big guns time! Battlechip slot in! LIFEAURA!" As Rita closes in on Megaman... a bubble appears around him. An angry yellow-glowing bubble. Rita's attack, the dozens of venomous needles... just seem to get absorbed by it. The bubble fades quickly, but not before blocking all of Rita's attack. This feels like... this feels like something that Megaman got from another powerful monster. Something stolen from something above his tier. "... Jeez. Just in the nick of time, Lan." "Hey, just in time is still in time!" "Like how a 70 C- is still a passing grade in math?" "H-hey! We agreed we weren't going to bring my report card up in all this..." Meanwhile, Forte and Bass.EXE are still going at it. Why there's two of them isn't explained. "I found you, you faker!" "Faker? I think you're the fake navi around here... you're not even good enough to be my fake." Meanwhile, Megaman's 'pop-under' effect expires, and he appears back on the right side of the platform - but before anyone can take another shot, Lan's slotting in more chips, rapid-fire. "Raton - Triple Slot In! Program Advance!" "Z-Raton!" calls Megaman, holding up one hand, Legend of Zelda-style, as an item materializes in it - it's a low-polygon rat. He immediately throws it, and the rat lands on the panels, scurrying off towards the nearest target. And another one appears in his hand immediately - he throws that one as well, and again and again and again- It's plain and simply ratspam. A swarm of rats. A saturation of rats. And of course they all explode when they reach their targets.
Rita Ma	Rita has a way of seeming oppressively omnipresent. As soon as Megaman's conjuring the rats, she's on top of him- one swift leap carries her from her hoverboard-like steed onto the underside of the platforms again, then she fearlessly weaves around explosions and her allies' projectiles.      The rats turn to follow her, as they do. They converge on her and Megaman both, detonating on the two of them--      And she isn't there. She never was.      The real Rita, connected by an invisible umbilical of flesh to her decoy, is topside, delivering a diving kick to Bass.exe's back.      <J-IC-Scene> Rita Ma says, "Mr. Forte! Are you going to be alright?!"      <J-IC-Scene> Kupot says, "Mr. Forte is a skilled combatant."      That's true. But against himself, it's no assurance. After impact, Rita entangles herself with Forte's doppelganger, grabbing one of his arms and wrenching it back so he can't aim at his counterpart.      Mr. Forte wouldn't want me to do this, she's dimly aware. If I were in his place, I wouldn't either. So she doesn't make eye contact with him. If it comes off as a rescue, he'll hate it- but they're just teammates. That's all it is.
Kupot	PROGRAM ADVANCE. Z-RATON. Something so terribly cute, running across the field. Kupot's HUD flashes around, desperately pulling up information. Explosive. Kupot bounces off the bottom of the grid, grabbing another platform to flip back up and land in a ready stance. One swing, first to strike down the rat, then another to cut the explosion. Another rat takes its place, forcing Kupot to swing again, a horizontal cut, then a vertical cut to sweep the explosion off to both sides. More rattons keep coming from every side, forcing Kupot on the backfoot. Horizontal, vertical, horizontal, vertical, each one blasting against his body armor. Horizontal, vertical. They just keep coming! And he's talking about homework?! More ki flows down the blade, this one taking on a brilliant white shine. FUGA! The blade flashes forward in an arc, swinging out to clear the fog and sweep away a hole in the Rattons, even if they do explode against the moogle. Just as the explosion clears, Kupot takes another step that shoots him forward like a cannon. The reverse side of the sword is up once more, flashing high above him. A foot strikes the ground like a dance step, suddenly spinning him around in a circle, the force of the blade clearing out a full swath of the Rattons and leaving an opening in front of Megaman.EXE. MANGETSU!! Using the momentum of the spin, he leaps forward again, striking the pommel of the blade at the NetNavi in a quick flash. All of it coming together like a tornado flashed forward to punch him in the face. HIGANBANA!!!
Gaonoir	Erika looks up as Lan speaks at her from his view port. "Oh, Digimon operate on more than just chips." "Erika, don't get distracted." Gaonoir snorts, even as he's maneuvering in on MegaMan again. Only for him to appear to start charging up some more attacks. "Relax, relax." Erika flicks her thumb across the D-Port's touch screen. "I've got you covered." She thumbs a few options. Gaonoir clenches his fists as a swarm is manifested and the rodents are let loose upon them. With a snarl he kicks one away, punches another as they start jumping on him, and keeps trying to do so despite the numbers. Until they start exploding as well, and these are trying to cling to him so he can't just juke and jive like he did the mines. But at the same time Erika hits the final command. "Digivolution... EXECUTE!" There's a bleep and a flash from the device as it releases a surge of digital energy, channeling it to her partner even while he's there on the other side of the grid. The flicker of energy can be seen briefly just as Gaonoir is being swarmed by the rats and explosions. DarkGagomon, Digivolve to... In a matter of seconds digital structure is stripped down, reshaped, and reformatted. But no one really sees anything until another eruption of energy sends the remaining rats flying off as they finish exploding. But it's not the human sized canine standing at the center of it. "DARKGAOGAMON!" roars the beast, that looks more like a giant huskie with the build of a bear. Gloves still cover his front paws, now with claws having poked through the tips. And what had been a headband was now around his neck as a scarf, partially lost beneath the thick collar of fur. His eyes immeadiately lock back onto MegaMan.EXE. A growl bare his fangs, and he braces himself.... As it's the lengths of that scarf that literally whip into motion, extending to lunge forward at MegaMan like a pair of dark tendrils, the fringe on the end flaring out to reveal to actually being rather sharp claws rather than anything made of cloth!
Wonderlab Trio	"Hff... hff... they seem like really good friends, don't they? It feels like we're the bad guys here." Taii hunches over to catch their breath, heart racing from flash-stepping their way out of the fall, while Rose takes their place in front. "We *are* working with a mad scientist, Taii. To them, I'm sure we *are* the bad guys."     Taii frowns and swipes Chignon through the air in front of them, sending out a cloud cover of fog to shroud Rose's approach from Megaman. "But we could just explain that we need Alpha to help save another world, couldn't we? We--"     "Stupid mouse. You'll get yourself killed chittering like that instead of fighting." Catt jumps down in front of Taii, right before the unnoticed mechanical rat would've exploded directly beneath them. They tilt their head back and smile wide, Bitter Medicine dug into the platform to scrape the rat up into the bowl. "Even if Catt would laugh, it would cause trouble for Catt to choose another little helper so soon."     They fling the rat from the EGO spoon like a catapult, sending it rocketing through the air right past Rose's head, and they jerk to the side before realizing who threw it. "Oh no, the Captain's being mean, are they? Maybe you would feel better working that energy out on our opponent instead of us, Captain~ together on three?"
Angela	Nonon's power is FIST. Tweed's power is GUN. They don't seem to be working perfectly in concert, perhaps they don't usually work together, but that isn't to say they're fumbling over each other, there's just a small incongruency with how they're fighting-- --Megaman unleashes a swarm of rats! "Rats!" Nonon shouts, catching a pair of rats and squashing them into shreds but the rest fly past her and explode against Tweed which results in-- "MOTHER FUCKER GONNA FUCKIN' THROW FLEA BITTEN VERMIN AT ME I'M GONNA PISS DOWN YOUR NECKHOLE--")] Tweed is struggling to get back up but it's going to be a minute, especially since she's expending a lot of energy to swear at Lan rather than doing anything helpful. Nonon exhales slowly. "Weren't you the one feeling bad about facing down a kid?" Another barrage of insults that aren't worth printing are thrown Nonon's way. Nonon laughs it off and slams her foot into the ground, staring right at Megaman.EXE with unusual patience for the Agent. "...Sorry kid, a world's well being might depend on this. Think it's time to stop playing around." With a speed ill fittong of her bulk, Nonon's feet push off the ground as she lungers forward, using her size to cut off potential escape routes as she moves to wrap around Megaman-- --and twist back behind her to suplex him into the ground, shifting to a style more befitting of wrestling than fisticuffs. "Just tap out and you won't have to worry about us again, kid!"
Kale Hearthward	Forte gives Rita a look as she tags in. It's unreadable. "A favor. One minute," he says to her, and then he turns and air-dashes off. "You - don't think just because you helped me out, means I'm going to go easy on you!" declares Bass.EXE. "I've got a rep to maintain!" It's uncanny. It's the same voice, from the same face, but a quite different personality. One that hasn't been tempered by what Forte went through, perhaps. In any case, Rita's now grappling with Bass.EXE. And Bass.EXE has a sword. Actually just a sword blade without the handle, sticking out of his wrist where his hand was a few minutes ago before he started fighting - which you'd think would be less agile and dynamic than actually just holding a sword, but somehow it still works just as well. Gaonoir digivolves. "Oh, a style change?" says Lan. "We can do that too! Megaman, I'm sending you style data!" "Now, in the middle of a fight?" Megaman sounds incredulous. Megaman starts shimmering in spite of his protestations. STYLE CHANGE TO: AQUAGUTS! ... The extended transformation sequence means Kupot gets a free hit in, followed by Gaonoir. Megaman is basically a sitting duck! The transformation barely finishes in time for Megaman to jump clear of Catt's returned fire. "Jeez, give me a warning next time, Lan..." "I did give you a warning!" He looks more blue now, and also has an armcannon. > "...Sorry kid, a world's well being might depend on this. Think it's time to stop playing around." "Yeah - it's our world, that I'm trying to saaaa-" SUPLEX. "Ugh-" "Megaman! Charge attack!" The bluer bomber's armcannon starts charging, and fires a point-blank blast of water at Nonon, trying to get her to break her grip, followed by similar jets of water fired off at everyone else! It's just water, but it still hits pretty hard - and it might knock them off of the floating platforms!
Gaonoir	"... Yeah, that's close enough to be understandable," Erika replies, deciding to not take the extended amount of time she would need to properly explain the intricate aspects of Digivolution. Since she can see everything Gaonoir sees via her device she gets a good look at MegaMan.EXE having a shift in form as well, and start firing on the group. "That is kind of neat... Oh, Water element attack! Batten down the hatches!" Gaonoir growls, mostly at her attempt at being clever. But with how long they worked with the Hikari Fleet can't really fault her for using some nautical slang when it's relevant. He digs his claws into grid, bracing himself, and just lowers his head and leans into the attack. The water blast hits head-on, but with his defense and bulk he barely budges even with the high pressure behind the strike. As he's resisting the attack his legs flex, waiting until it ends before leaping into action. Despite the bulky appearance he lunges forward with a surprising burst of speed speed! To the point that he blurrs, becoming almost like a living moving shadow for a few moments, being really hard to focus on. "TENEBRAE BLITZ!" Right before he comes hurtling upon MegaMan like a big furry locomotive, enervating dark energy radiation from his entire body!
Angela	"Nah, bro, Miss Rita's!" Nonon says. "She can control it and take it off yer hands." Though admittedly she's not really sure if this is true but this kid is a lot tougher than she expected and she's paying the price of her earlier underestimation of the kid. She takes a strong hit in the chest with the water burst--Nonon doesn't entirely let go, but her grip slips enough that Megaman can slip out of her arms. In the distance, more swearing! Tweed is struggling to get back up to her feet since she's not anywhere near as tough as Nonon who has weathered some of the City's most frightening monsters even before making it to Lobotomy Corp. Nonon sees Megaman trying to escape and throws a kick for his leg in an attempt to trip him up. "I'm not unreasonable like my lil' friend over there..." She says. "You might take down one or two of us, but you really think you're gonna take down all of us? And even if you do, we'll just be back with more later. Can't afford not to, kid." She looks over towards the Wonderlab group. They could run to fight another day too. It wouldn't be the worst idea but the next time they won't be able to have the advantage of an ambush. No, this time's the best time to go for it.
Kupot	Water? Kupot swings his sword out, again cleaving the water vertically to spread it out to either side. "Flee! Kupo! Get-" Water smashes up against Kupot, crashing through a block as he swings his blade once more. The rattons, at least, allowed him a rhythm. There is no such luck here. The water rushes up and rushes Kupot off the edge of the platforms! A tiny hand grips the edge of it, shuko latched into the tiles. Kupot wheezes, "We may have made a mistake, kupo. He has the heroic spirit." He pulls himself up onto the edge with his other arm, elbow over the edge. His head strains over the edge to consider his opponent. He moves too fast. The others around him cannot press their advantage. "It's the only way..." Black suddenly runs down Kupot's blade as he hoists himself up onto his feet. "If I cannot stop you, kupo. Then feeling pain from them will have to." Another floor cracking leap forward, charging at Megaman.EXE. The katana trails behind him, and with each sweep, he twists in place and bounds another step, first around each corner of Mega Man. Then either side. He waits for Gaonoir to move in like a terrible freight train, moving along each side of the NetNavi. His slices become a cage of inexorable steel. ECLIPSE BLADE!!!
Rita Ma	"A favor. One minute."      Rita finally looks at Forte, smiles a small smile, and nods. "Mmmm!" But that moment of tenderness is cut short by a blade. She has to lean near-vertically back to duck under the energy sword, holding on only by her hand on Bass.EXE's wrist and her legs around his body.      Fwooosh.      "Eeeep!"      He's like a younger version, isn't he? Just as strong, but not as experienced. I'll have to get one over on him. But in a grapple, that means... The moment for a counterattack passes in hesitation. When Bass.EXE swings again, Rita has to seize his sword-arm too, now thoroughly entangled with the floating navi.      It's fine if they see me. Everyone will have to, sooner or later. It's fine, it's fine, it's fine! But the ones from Lobotomy Corporation- and Geburah, too- and, and...      She hesitates again, eyes strangely conflicted.. It almost gets her hurt. But then her cropped jacket unravels into tendrils- fabric on one side, and jellylike flesh every shade of daylit sky on the other. They spike into the ground like pitons and jerk to reel both her and Bass.EXE to the ground. She's on top of him, trying to pin him down- but the pin only needs to last a second.      Long enough for her to cast a vulnerable, fearful glance back over her shoulder at the clash with Megaman. She tries to see who might be watching. But she's already committed. If she doesn't, that sword might--      It's fine.      Rita's whole body splits along a spiral seam and violently unravels into more tendrils. A dozen sharp-edged strips of what looked like her clothes, her skin, her hair, her eyes slice into Bass.EXE point-blank like a blender. What's underneath is pale, and wrong-shaped, and hard to make out further through the blizzard of organic blades.
Wonderlab Trio	"Then we're each fighting to save different worlds! You can defend yours as much as you can, but don't look down on us for fighting for our own goals!" Rose crosses their arms in front of their face when Megaman blasts water at them, white sleeves sprouting feathers when they're knocked back and into the air. The torrent sends Rose clear over the edge of the platform, past the point where they could scramble a recovery by grabbing onto the edge, but when they reach the zenith of the arc, they hold their arms out to their sides and glide down instead.     Water and white feathers shed off of their EGO suit when they shake their arms out, already running towards Catt. Taii's mist has suffused the wider area at this point, spreading around to lightly coat the whole area, and in each barely-visible smear of white, Taii blinks in to swing Chignon once, drawing Megaman's attention, before teleporting away to turn him around. Charge shots pierce temporarily-clear tunnels through the fog, but never land on Taii themselves.     "Okay, Captain! Together!" Rose peels off a brownish-red stripe that merged into the red splatters on their EGO suit, unfurling it into a wormlike whip, fleshy and ribbed. They fling it out to its full length, the end curling towards Megaman on its own, and it wraps around his arm to bury rings of teeth embedded in the end into his arm.     With him distracted, Catt charges in, Bitter Medicine braced across their shoulders as they run, and in a twirl of polearm maneuverability, scoops across Megaman's armor and then bludgeons him with the base of the hilt.     Seeing Rita transform, Taii stumbles in their teleportation rhythm. They flinch, wide-eyed, at the sight of her unpeeling, disappear with a flash-stepping slash they'd already started, and then lose their focus and wobble. "R-Rita? Is that-- are you okay?!"
Kale Hearthward	"Dang it - where's that Protoman chip... Megaman, stall for a bit!" "What - dang it, Lan..." Gaonoir comes in with the blitz. Megaman tries to aim another water jet - with no luck in fending the charging digimon off. > "I'm not unreasonable like my lil' friend over there..." "What's reasonable about any of this!" says Megaman, as he tanks the kick. "You're working for Dr. Wily, trying to steal Alpha and use it to destroy the world! And you're acting like I should just listen to you?" > "It's the only way..." "The only way for what?" Megaman takes the hit. > "You can defend yours as much as you can, but don't look down on us for fighting for our own goals!" "By - by taking a world-destroying weapon? Do you even know what Alpha *is*?" Another hit. Megaman is looking a bit more beat-up now. His earlier heroic countenance is fading. Meanwhile, Rita loose some of her true form. Megaman isn't paying attention. Lan is fumbling with battlechips. Forte is nowhere to be seen. But Bass.EXE... "... What... *are* you?" Rita's blades slice at him - through him - at point blank. It'd kill a regular person. Bass is still standing and breathing, despite having massive holes cut through him. But still... "D-damn it... I'll remember this... and remember you..." Bass.EXE goes to get clear, and logs out. That is one less combatant to worry about... "Agh - we're on our own again... Megaman! I think it's time for some assistance!" Lan holds up the chip he was trying to find. Megaman's face immediately lights up. "Battlechip - slot in! Protoman.EXE, summon!" There's a blip as another navi logs in... a red one with a visor. And a sword. "Hikari, sir. Awaiting your orders." says the newcomer, readying a very sharp blade arm. "Master Chaud sends his regards, and wonders if you're even able to clean up your own messes anymore." "Tell him to shut it - and... Slasher - CustSword - Varsword, slot in!" Both Megaman and Protoman start glowing as they sync up. "Program advance - DOUBLE HERO!" The amount of armcannon shots and energy sword slashes is enough to quite simply saturate the battlefield.
Gaonoir	Gaonoir skids to a stop as he uses his claws to brake, and eventually digs one of his scarf claws into the grid as well to help arrest the momentum. Which might of been a mistake in the end. He might of been better off continuing to move as MegaMan summons another Navi. First the Forte counterpart and now... a swordman? "Mod dammit, how many more people does he freakin' have to call?!" Not that Gaonoir gets long to muse on that matter. "Oh, damn, damn, that doesn't look good." Erika flicks, flicks again. "There's not a full charge built up yet!" Gaonoir growls. "No time to wait!" "Better than nothing!" Erika hits the command with her thumb again, sending as much digital energy as the device can manage. At the same time Mega and Proto together are turning the grid space into some fricking bullet hell scenerio. Gaonoir braces himself, bringing the scarves up to form a sort of shield to protect his face as the brief surge of energy passes through him. Followed by repeated energy blasts and energy slashes slamming into his body repeatedly. To the point the exterior, for lack of better phrasing, can be seen breaking away and dematerializing. For several moments what looks like a wire frame of blue and purple can be seen, before the Dark Digitron that makes up part of his code attempts to seal off the damage with the additional energy. But it's not enough. The onslaught is just hitting more than he can recover. Finally there's a blast of energy, sending motes of dematerializing digital energy scattering through the air, as the evolved more is essentially exploded. The much smaller shape of Gaonoir's original base form can be seen hurtling backwards from it, until he hits the gridframe and tumbles for a bit longer until he finally stops. One hand on the ground, managing to lift himself up a little bit.... "Damn. That actually stung." Then collapses. For a moment it looks like he might be dematerializing as well. But then there's a bleep from the D-Port, a flash of the screen. And an dog-face icon that manages to look really annoyed despite being pixilated. "It's okay everyone, he resynced into the Digivice when he couldn't mantain a physical form anymore." Erika sighs. "But he's out of this fight. Sorry guys."
Angela	"Ugh!" is Nonon's frustrated response before she gets distracted by Rita transforming. Nonon looks up and over to the young girl. She is looking at Rita, she is looking at Rita just fine. ''... What... *are* you?'' Nonon murmurs, "The kid really is a mermaid. No wonder the Red Mist's been so weird..." She reaches over to her back, drawing the Workshop Harpoon she has been carting around for use against the Leviathan's, her hand tightening against the handle. Nonon stalls like an amateur in the moment. She thinks. She thinks. She thinks. She thinks. She thinks. She thinks. She's just a kid, she's just a kid, she's just a kid, but she's a mermaid. And mermaids--it's a mercy. It's a mercy isn't it? Now that she's seen it it's a mercy-- ''You gotta try the roasted fish skewers around here.'' Nonon shakes her head quickly, her hand tightening around the harpoon. It's not her, it's not her, it's the memories, the memories. She gets viciously carved in the chest by the energy sword while she's spending all her effort to stay still and not resort to the bloody instinct of it all. She stumbles back, blood spilling from the wound as she reaches to her chest like she intends to hold it in through her gauntlet. "Fuck... my fault or getting distracted, haha... Did you know, kid, you can drown in old memories even easier than salt water." And with that she twists on her heel and slams her harpoon for Megaman's chest. "A world destroying weapon? Maybe that's just what we need." Tweed finally gets up, moments too late.
Kupot	Kupot grits his teeth. "Not all things are black and white, kupo. Sometimes a terrible thing must be done to save people." He doesn't bring up the point that he'll probably just stab Wily in the end. Another swordsman. Kupot recognizes the stance, the way the arm is held. A swordsman. Just as Kupot was building up to bring his sword against Megaman one more time. One more time to block him in. He brings up his sword, a defensive flick upwards, blocking the first sword shockwave. Again, the monoblade flicks up, struggling to hold away another sword blast. A cannon shot takes Kupot in the side. Another in the chest. He brings his sword out in a swing to block one more sword swing before it swings down too far. The guard breaks and the slice comes down, ripping through Kupot's chest, throwing him to the ground. Flesh is sliced open, but much of the dermal plating is keeping him from outright bleeding out. Would it be better to strike the boy down? Better to let someone else do it? Blackness means rest.
Rita Ma	"R-Rita? Is that-- are you okay?!"      "I'm okay, Taii," Rita lies in a quailing voice. "This is normal. Don't be scared. Please?" It still sounds like her. It feels like it shouldn't. A monster like that should rasp or screech, not speak in the voice of a scared girl. And it- she- is a monster, beyond denying.      At the convergence of a dozen cruel-sharp tendrils each blossoming thirty feet long, there's something more or less like a human figure. But what passes for her 'clothes' are fin-like lappets of pale flesh, and her skin is shot through with veins of inhuman tissue.      She still has hair, at least- even if more tendrils have started to colonize it- and one good eye. That's enough to convey a vulnerable wistfulness with her stare. The other one, ice-blue and cruciform, is hard to read.      "What... *are* you?"      "I'm sorry," Rita says, and that's her best answer.      Her tentacles stab into the floor, effortlessly six inches deep, and lift her off the ground like a spider's legs. They lift Bass, too, like they're going to rip him apart. They make a noise like leather as they tighten.      Then he's gone, and she turns her attention on Megaman.      Her tentacles lunge to bear her forward in an eyeblink, unnervingly whip-quick. They overmatch the storm of blades effortlessly; for every shot there's a tendril to deflect it, and for every energy sword slash there's two. Their clash is nearly invisible for its speed, but the current- that the sea of attacks perfectly parts around Rita- is clear.      In a heartbeat, she's already on Megaman and Protoman. Six tentacles for each of them: two to slice and two to stab and two to grab and crush. She's calmly detached, like the harrowing storm of whip-cracks around her is just automatic- until they're seized, and then she turns her gaze on them to entrap and squeeze the life out of them with more and more. There's something nauseating about it, like watching a spider eat a bird. Heroes are supposed to beat monsters, not the other way around.      The only thing to rouse her from her trance is when Nonon bleeds- then Rita's head jerks towards her, and both the alien pupil and the human one constrict to points. She trembles for a moment, then smiles sadly. "A mermaid," she says. "You're too sweet to me, Ms. Nonon. Are you going to be okay?"
Wonderlab Trio	"By - by taking a world-destroying weapon? Do you even know what Alpha *is*?"     "Well-- w-we haven't actually been explained much about how Alpha will be used... we only have Miss Angela's records to go off of for Rita's world. Captain Catt, did Shasha tell you anything else?"     Catt tilts their head demurely and closes their eyes, dainty gesture undercut by the solid *thud* of the bowl of Bitter Medicine crashing into the side of Megaman's helmet like a hammer. "Catt doesn't remember. Just boring old stories that Catt didn't care to listen to."     "It doesn't matter either way! If a world-destroying weapon is what we need, then that's what we'll get." Rose's gloves, elbow-length and feathered, sprout claws on the hand that isn't holding Phlebostomy. A swipe to Megaman's chest elicits a scraping-squeal, pushing past him to unravel the leech-whip from his arm. "We have our orders! If Lobotomy Corporation is fighting for good, then it's our duty as Feathers of the Wing to guide it towards that! That's why this *has* to succeed!" "This is normal. Don't be scared. Please?"     "R-Rita..." 'N-N-N-Na-Narae! Wh-what happened to you?! Please, turn back--' Taii stares at Rita, face shadowed a sickly grey with horror. It'd happened before, right? Narae's limbs jumbled up and broken through a fleshy approximation of a house, made monstrous and rampaging, until Taii finally put them down. No-- it wasn't really 'them' that Taii killed, because Narae died the moment they entered My Sweet Home. It was just... a monster.     Taii's hands are already squeezed around Chignon's ring, instinctual resolve driving their body ahead of their thoughts, until Rita's voice pierces their mind. *Rita's* voice, actually hers. The rapier slowly lowers, and Taii nods tentatively. "It's... normal? So you can turn back? ... Okay. I won't be scared. I'm just glad you're okay, Rita." "Program advance - DOUBLE HERO!"     A combo attack needs a combo defense to survive. Fog clouds Megaman and Protoman's vision, with Taii blinking around within it, blunt golden rod swung at joints to bend elbows and twist wrists at vital moments. Catt swings Bitter Medicine through a spray of armcannon shots, black lightning trailing behind the spoon to vaporize the lasers. Phlebostomy coils and squeezes, pulling Protoman down to a halt while Rose weathers the attacks, their white EGO suit shredding under his sword.     And then, within the flailing storm of tendrils around them, Taii blinks in front of the dazed Megaman to jab him right in the face with Chignon. The touch of golden EGO on skin floods him with a maelstrom of self-doubt and misery, temporarily making him absolutely certain that he can't stop them from taking Alpha, that it's not even worth fighting them on it, and even that it's not worth fighting or being a hero at all.
Kale Hearthward	The fog of self-doubt envelopes Megaman, slowing him down. Can he really do this? Can he really do... anything? Was every victory up to this point just sheer dumb luck? > "A world destroying weapon? Maybe that's just what we need." "N-no..." The harpoon impales through Megaman next. It's a clean hit on what would be his heart - navi fortunately don't have organs, though, so he's able to (painfully) wrench himself off of it. And then the tentacles lash out. Six each. Protoman disappears on the first hit - Megaman, being actually here and not just summoned by a chip, doesn't have that same luxury. The blue bomber stumbles back, getting clear, while his operator tries frantically to find a last resort chip or come up with some new strategem. "D-dang it... can we not win...? Megaman! We need to log out! We'll heal up and come up with a plan and-" And then Forte reappears seemingly from out of nowhere., and grabs Megaman's neck with a glowing hand, lifting him up. "AAAAAAH!" "Megaman! Hub!" There's a moment of Forte staring Megaman, looking deep into his eyes as if searching for something... and then Forte drops him. Megaman is still alive, but barely just. "L-logging... out..." And Megaman's gone. (And Lan's gone too.) "... I owe you another favor, it seems," says Forte, glancing down at his hand as the glow fades. "Rita Ma."
Gaonoir	Erika lets out the breath she'd practically been holding since her partner was recalled into the D-Port, slumping a bit where she was standing. "Whew, that was getting a bit hairy. Is that it?" She glances at the device, knowing she's a sitting duck if another fight started while he was still in digi-stasis. "Let's grab the thing, grab Kupot, and get out of here before something else shows up."
Angela	Nonon blinks twice at the guy just pulling away from a fatal wound. It's honestly a bit of a relief really.''You're too sweet to me, Ms. Nonon. Are you going to be okay?'' "Y-yeah...should be. Sorry if I'm making you hungry." Nonon draws out a gun and fires and HP bullet into her chest. The stench of blood doesn't really go away but it's now mixed with chemicals. THe wound pulls back in on itself and it is soon gone as if it never happened. Even the stain on the EGO gear is gone, like the blood pulled back into her. Her mind rewinds a bit. ''A mermaid'', she had said. Nonon isn't sure Rita ... "...I'll be alright. Sorry we flubbed the job, shouldn't have had to go this far." She pauses, giving Rose a strange look at the idea that Lobotomy Corp is fighting for 'Good'. Maybe it is, by a certain viewpoint, but not really in the way that she'd think anyone would actually say it. She pushes up to her feet, helping up Tweed after. Nonon looks to Taii. Nonon studies their expression for a moment. They seem to cool down and that helps Nonon make it feel real. "Alpha sounds real dangerous, though. You sure this creature--won't be an even bigger problem to deal with when the dust settles?"
Rita Ma	"... Okay. I won't be scared. I'm just glad you're okay, Rita."      Rita hadn't been tense before. She was resigned, if anything. But those words make her shoulders droop in gentle relief. Even her sharp-edged tentacles seem to soften. The idea that that could be anyone's sharpest worry touches her heart.      "Thank you, Taii," she says, her voice heavy and quiet. When Protoman dissipates, a few more tentacles are reserved to guard Nonon and Rose: they hover nearby like vipers ready to strike, strangely comforting if stomach-churning.      And then it's all over, soon enough after. Rita's many, many limbs lower her feet to the floor once more. They draw in, whickering through the air one more time, and weave themselves back around her with wet squelching sounds. For a moment she looks like a mummy; then they morph shape, color, and texture, re-becoming clothes and skin and hair. Wrapped in her layer of color-changing alien flesh, she looks almost the same as before.      Almost. This time was hasty. There's a diagonal stripe of blonde 'hair' on her skirt where she mis-wove herself, and a stripe of blue 'jacket' on the back of her hand. And now that you've seen it, it's hard to stop imagining the mutated form just underneath.      She seems to feel the same way, holding herself all stiff and withdrawn. "Please don't feel that way, Mr. Forte," Rita says with a little bow. "I was just helping you help me."      "Sorry if I'm making you hungry."      Nonon speaking so bluntly seems to startle Rita anew. She twists around and puts up her hands defensively, embarrassment overcoming awkwardness even as her eyes follow the retreating blood. "Well- that's beside the point! You're the one who's injured! You shouldn't be worrying about me, Ms. Nonon!" Which means 'yes'.      After re-composing herself, she searches out Taii to give them a shyly reassuring smile. It says: 'See? I'm okay. It's still me.'      "Thank you, too," she tells them. But her eyes (both brown again, now) fall to the floor. "For believing in me."
Kale Hearthward	> "Alpha sounds real dangerous, though. You sure this creature--won't be an even bigger problem to deal with when the dust settles?" "If it is, I'll deal with it. Alpha and I have... a history." Forte goes to grab the armored basketball if nobody else has by now. > "Please don't feel that way, Mr. Forte, I was just helping you help me." "Not that. That much was already paid for. But I saw an opportunity to get something useful." Forte's hand shifts, forming an armcannon like what Megaman was using. "I don't recall if you were with us - there was another Megaman in the Paladins. One that called himself 'X'. He also had a powerful weapon. I thought this one might as well." He sights down the armcannon, and then changes it back into a hand. "I suspect I'm not wrong."