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This story was abandoned. It was too good to be abandoned, so I thought about taking it up from where it was dropped.

First Chapter:

Puku de puku! (9/18/04)

Internet City was a peaceful place most of the time. The digital sky was always a bright sky blue color with fluffy white clouds floating around. Mysteriously, the "sky" darkened, bewildering many of the navis in the area. Suddenly, a streak flashed across a block and all the witnesses of this spectacle screamed in horror. The navis in that area were sucked dry of their vital data, leaving them as empty shells of their former selves.

"Everyone, we have a new student," Mariko said, gesturing to the boy in front of the class. "This is Soltone Sabata."

At once, everyone leaned forward to inspect the boy more closely. His large red eyes blinked in confusion at the questioning looks of the students in front of him. Flipping back one of his large purple bangs, he cleared his throat and tugged on his moonlight scarf a bit. No words escaped his lips, but the expression on his face automatically told the kids, "What, is there a sunflower with a giant nose floating behind me or are you guys just stupid?"

"Well now, you can sit next to Netto-kun, Sabata-kun."

Sabata only nodded to the teacher's suggestion and took his seat next to the brunette boy. Netto looked at him weirdly.

"Rockman, doesn't he seem a little bit familiar?" he whispered into his PET.

"A little bit," the navi replied. "But I'm pretty sure we've never met him in the past..."

Sabata sighed and plugged his navi into the school system and prepared for a lesson learned when he was much younger. The little navi he plugged him fell over with a sheet of white "cloth" over its head with two little holes for its gray eyes.

"Uwaa... I'll never get used to that..." it groaned. Rockman, Roll, Gutsman, and Glyde walked up to the peculiar navi.

"Hello there!" Roll greeted in a friendly way. The navi looked up at her and made a waving motion with a "hand".

"I'm Rockman," Rockman introduced. "This is Roll-chan." The blue navi put a hand on the pink navi's shoulder. "And those two are Gutsman and Glyde" The yellow and red navi pounded his chest in an ape-like manner as the winged one bowed politely. "What's your name?"

Before Sabata's navi could reply, a screeching noise flooded the entire school, knocking over most of the standing navis. Rockman saw a brightly colored navi grab another and suck it dry of data. The victim shriveled up and exploded in digital dust, leaving the surrounding navis stunned in horror. The assailant glared at the other navis and suddenly, they were completely drained of their vital data. A darker navi glided next to the brighter one, smirking as the two stared at Rockman.

"This is Rockman, right?" The darker navi inquired. Its voice was quite feminine as well as the shape of the body. The brighter navi has a much deeper voice, and the azure navi could only assume that it was male.

"Pianissimo, I believe we're after the Solar Boy and only the Solar Boy." The brighter one coughed. Pianissimo rolled her eyes.

"I know that, Fortissimo," She replied. "I just want a toy to bring back..." She looked at Rockman with lust in her eyes. "I think I've found one." However, a pink heart stopped the black navi from advancing towards Rockman.

"Stop it, I won't let you hurt Rock!" Roll cried out, ready to fight. Fortissimo glared at her.

"Shut it, wench!" He snarled, sending the pink navi flying back with a simple screech blast and locked her in place. Pianissimo clicked her tongue a few times, looking at Roll with pity.

"Shame, you would have made a lovely snack for the way back... However..." Her crimson eyes turned over to Rockman once again and a sickening smile formed on her lips. She was ready to take the blue navi as her prize if Sabata's navi had not intervened.

"I won't let you take him." The navi said, partly muffled. Pianissimo chuckled without mirth.

"And you're going to stop me?" She growled. The navi nodded and held up a gun to her heart.

"Tai..."

Rockman became temporarily blinded, partly from a bright light, and partly from the flutter of the navi's shroud being thrown off.

"YOOOOOOOU!"

Pianissimo shrieked in pain as the solar blast hit her directly on her navi symbol. Steam rose from her body as well as the fresh smell of burning data. When the smoke and screaming died down, Rockman gasped at the familiar crimson scarf waving around.

"Ja... Django-kun!" He gasped. The boy turned around a little and smiled at his friend.

"Battle chip, Sword! Slot in!" Sabata said, pushing the chip into his PET.

A sword spun in front of Django and he grabbed it with his metal glove. Suddenly, the melee weapon glowed with solar energy as the boy placed the gun on its holder on his belt. Django leapt at Pianissimo; however, he was blown back by Fortissimo's screeching. The Solar Boy tumbled as he fell and dropped his sword. The white navi grabbed Django by the neck, squeezing it tightly as he gasped in pain. A pink blast managed to blow Fortissimo's arm off, letting Django drop to the floor once again.

"We'll meet again..." He hissed as he grabbed Pianissimo and logged out. Roll, now mobile again, rushed over to Rockman, hugging him.

"I'm glad you're safe, Rock!"

Outside of the network, Netto stared at Sabata with curiosity. Sabata eyed the boy with his red eyes, not saying a single word. Shyly, a girl walked up to the purple haired boy.

"Um... Aren't you the Dark Boy Sabata?" She asked. Sabata only nodded and to his horror, she began to grin. "I LOVE YOOOOU!!"

"GET AWAY FROM MEEEEE!"

Django chuckled as his brother was being pursued by insane fangirls.

"Niichan, now do you know why I wanted to be the 'navi' now?" He laughed. Rockman could only stare at Django in confusion as he giggled at the boy outside with the PET.

Fortissimo grunted as he continued to drag Pianissimo around.

"If you hadn't have lusted over that blue navi, you wouldn't have ended up like this." He growled. There was no reply from Pianissimo. His eyes widened as he gazed upon a figure ahead of him. He gasped, falling to his knees from both the weight of Pianissimo and the bond between master and slave.

"Hn. You both failed." The mysterious navi stated in disappointment. "But, it only served as a warning to those two visitors... Don't worry, you two will recover and grow stronger and stronger."

With a wave of a hand, Fortissimo's arm reformed as well as Pianissimo's wounds.

"In order to defeat vampires, Django has to take them to a pile driver... I believe one lies deep in the Ura Net, however... He needs a special solar sensor in order to get his sunlight. Another flaw in his little plan is that his operator... his brother... Sabata... He is like us; he is weakened by sunlight."

"But sir!" Fortissimo gasped. "Django already has a friend who can take the sensor out for Sabata! Remember what happened to Shademan?"

"Of course I do!" the shaded navi barked, causing the bright navi to flinch. "I am well aware of Hikari Netto and Rockman... And I've already come up with a plan to destroy the two."

Without another word, the navi disappeared, leaving Fortissimo to wonder what his master was talking about.