The Story So Far

[Phen]

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||The Story So Far||

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The year: 25XX

It's been 500 years since Lan, Chaud, and the others walked the earth. Much has changed since those days; The net is now used by EVERYONE. Even the poorest of the poor have, and use Net Navis.... Navis are now used for every electronic function imaginable....

In these days, net-crime was unheard of. The officials were believed to have destroyed the final evil Navi along with the WWW and Neo Gospel. However...

...Peace never lasts.

Netbattling was still a favored pastime, and in peacetime, it only grew ever more popular. In Electopia, the Melee Stadium was the most popular spot for both battling and spectating. A whole city springing up around it, providing clean entertainment for a largely conflict-less world. This would breed a new kind of navi, ones powerful and destructive fine tuned by their operators and experiences to fight. In the wake of such impressive fighters, the Net slowly grew more dangerous. Soon, with so many talented fighters roaming the net, it was unclear if it was truly safe. Before long, remnants of the past began to pop up. The entity known as Nebula Gray appeared again, spreading darkchips throughout the net once more, and their tainted power drew in navis just as it did before. Within even a short amount of time, the Undernet resurfaced, and the net returned to its old ways.

The utopia fallen, the ONB had grown weak in peacetime, and soon groups of navis took to keeping the net safe on their own hands. Organizations both good and evil, light and dark arose to combat each other. However, their playful quarrels, no longer isolated to the stadiums, would not last. An entity known as Eon would make itself known, challenging powerful navis on threat to eradicate all network society as it was known. His power was unheard of, wiping clear those who opposed him before falling into a slumber.

A short time passed before Eon awoke again, bringing with him a demonstration of his power. The Electopian network eradicated entirely. Panic in the real world ensued, as Navis and humans alike attempted to gather to face this power. All throughout the net, dangerous beasts and powerful beings seemed to be awakening, as if ushering in Ragnarok. Yet still, those that stood to stop Eon took the path to the Galaxy network, facing off in a hard fought battle. In the end however, Eon finally fell, preserving the network for a short time.

5 years then past since Eon's fall, the ONB issued a Navi licensing system requiring all navis to be registered in their database for safety purposes. As there always are, those who disagreed with the system rebelled, and another period of conflict arose. Those who resisted were part of a group simply called the Revolution, refusing to be registered and under watch of the ONB. The ONB and Revolution clashed multiple times, with the ONB eventually enlisting new help in the form of navis known as Terra and his Stardroids. The fighting intensified, the ONB attempting to lock down each area as the Revolution attempted to liberate what it believed to be oppressed navis under the ONB's eye.

As the fighting continued, a new entity appeared to threaten the net once more. Juno, and his four horsemen revealed themselves, boasting a new net paradise under Juno's rule. Lifting a large portion of Netopia's network upwards near the Galaxy Network, Juno sent his subordinates to convert those to his utopia. However Juno's utopia was one of indecision, and the denizens of the net once again fought against a titanic force. Once again a great battle took place, this time offering threat not only to those who lived on the Net, but also to the planet itself. A weaponized satellite having almost decimated capital cities around the world, was stopped by the efforts of Navis and humans alike.

Recent Developments (6 months after Juno's fall)

Following the every major incident, politics play a huge role on the course that the world takes from that point onward. This wasn't as noticeable until the resolution of the Juno Incident which resulted in the falling of Juno's Satellite into Earth's atmosphere causing catastrophic damage. This disaster could not be ignored and had much larger impacts than world-scale incidents of the past, which led to Humans taking a stronger initiative against the potentially planet-altering effects that Navis could cause.


Thus the first of the current major factions rose: the Netopian Intelligence Agency (or NIA). They had existed in the shadows for quite some time, but now the time had come to step into the light. NIA valued the usefulness of Net Navis, but condemned the existence or production of the higher-end entities dubbed "Titans". Mankind's place as Earth's dominant species was threatened by them, and if they didn't react accordingly, they see themselves as becoming potential slaves to these powerful beings. Although Navi-freedom is still highly valued by NIA, they are unwilling to risk the loss of mankind's freedom and security in order to maintain it, and thus they actively pursue and seize Navis that are deemed "too powerful" in fear that they may later achieve the status of "Titan".

In response to these rational yet extremist measures, the second of the current major factions, Creamland's Knights (or CK), rose up in rebellion against NIA's initiative. Led mostly by independent navis that value their freedom, they proclaim that humans are largely to blame for catastrophic world events, reminding them of their past wars before Navis had existed and how close they came to destroying the planet on their own. CK claims that they creation of Net Navis was what brought about world peace in the Real World and that selfishly downgrading them to "Ancient AI" would only lead to more dark times. CK cannot ignore the damage caused by Titans, but they insist that humanity should allow Net Navis to deal with their own kind rather than trying to recklessly take things into their own hands.

As tension grew between these two factions, remnants of Electopia's Official Net Battlers sought after a better solution, and thus the third of the current major factions was formed: The New ONB (or NeONB). NeONB believes in equality between Humans and Net Navis, but say both are to blame for the major world crises. Many independent Navis with a grudge against humanity have respectable reasons for holding that grudge: they were either abandoned or mistreated by Humans (be it from abusive operators or from being raised by scientists as a labrat) and that leads them to using their incredible powers for destruction. Rather than abandoning their creation, NeONB insists that humans be held more accountable for the way they treat Net Navis so that the bonds between the two species will strengthen and that, together, they may overcome any challenges that the world may face, just as they had done countless times in the past. NeONB strongly accuses NIA for attempting to employ dictatorship over the Cyber World and they also rebuke CK's rebellious reluctancy to work together with humans to deal with the Titans. Despite its strong following, NIA and CK both insult NeONB's mission as being "childish" and "irrational" and regularly use terms like "the power of friendship" to devalue its meaning.


With the political state of the world in disarray, many major countries have closed their physical and digital borders to prevent the influence of these factions from sparking warfare on their own soil. Tension continues to rise as the malevolent powers in the shadows take advantage of this "Cold War" to make preparations of an even greater world threat.

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[Warrior]

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Act I - New Forces

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1 - Border Crisis

1A.1 - [Bayside Chronicles] - Electopia
- Xion, K414, Kajira, Esperanza and Serix appear to be fighting some building-esque navi that had escaped the Animus Syndicate
- After the "building" escapes, but before K414 is able to pick a fight with Xion, Rosso arrives and fights the collective
- In short, Rosso has to leave, Serix is deleted, K414 gets ejected from the area, and Xion and Kajira both leave after outlasting Rosso's attack

1A.2 - [Border Crisis: Electopia] - Electopia
- Ruin attempts to destroy the border, accompanied by Jin
- Kajira and Nightshade arrive to contest them
- Trishula arrives and disrupts both sides
- Ruin destroys the border anyway and then leaves
- Serix arrives from the Netopian side in pursuit of Ruin
- Blues arrives and halts further violence, also revealing that Trishula is a part of NeONB
- Blues takes everyone present back to New Life for debriefing

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1B - [Border Crisis: Netopia] - Netopia
- Genesis attempts to destroy the border after Ruin passes through to Electopia
- Serix aids evacuation as K-414 fights Genesis
- Vanguard destroys the border as they fight
- K414 loses and is deleted; Plagueman changes hosts to Genesis
- Rosso arrives after Genesis leaves for the Electopian Border. He takes Vanguard to NIA HQ

2 - After the Border

2A.1 - [ONB Commander's Office: Border Crossing] - Electopia
- Blues debriefs Kajira on the events of Bayside and the Electopian Border

2A.2 - [New Life Prison: Border Crossing] - Electopia
- Blues debriefs Nightshade on the events the Electopian Border
- He assigns Nightshade on a reconnaissance mission to Netopia
- Other present entities: Jin, Rosary, Trishula

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2B.1 - [NIA Headquarters - Sequester] - Netopia
- Rosso debriefs Vanguard
- Unnamed assigns Vanguard to border control as parole
- Unnamed assigns Rosso the task of "transporting the bird"

2B.2 - [Netopian Border Investigation] - Netopia
- Vanguard patrols the border and notices two people
- One crosses to Electopia, the other is Magnolia
- Vanguard confronts her and they fight
- She leaves midfight; he barely survives and returns to NIA HQ

2B.3 - [Netopian Border Report] - Netopia
- Vanguard reports to Mistair, discussing his fight against Magnolia
- He heals up and then heads back to the border

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2C - [Moonlit Rose] - Netopia
- Genesis takes a break after destroying the border. Meets Regis.
- Zaven joins as a Gorilla Mechanaloid attacks them.
- They defeat it and salvage its remains before Genesis and Regis spar.
- Noticing Regis is unable to heal properly, Genesis heads back to the border

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2D - [Rammount City Streets] - Netopia
- Shine and Rime entry point
- Along with Esperanza, Thorn, and Rosario they defeat two mutated mega viruses

3 - Back to the Border

3.1 - [Looking around] - Netopia
- Nightshade and Thrash investigate the area in suspicion of Cybeast activity on Blues' orders
- Vanguard confronts them, and with Rosso's help eventually confines the two of them
- All parties learn of the "Mortality Anomaly" in Netopia, courtesy of Vanguard
- Shine is led away by a nameless npc after witnessing it all
- Genesis and AD were there too, they both come and leave of their own accord
- This is the last known location of Shine.

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3A - [The Isolated Field] - Netopia
- Vanguard and Rosso discuss Rosso's, NIA's, and ONB's motives
- When Vanguard mentions the similarities he has with Magnolia, Rosso denies knowing who she is, but says that she started the "change" in Netopia
- He then directs Vanguard to return to NIA HQ

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3B.1 - [NIA Headquarters - Sequester's Return] - Netopia
- Thrash and Nightshade are debriefed by Mistair
- They spill pretty much everything they know
- They are given comms and tasked by Mistair to aid in evacuation duty

3B.2A - [NIA HQ - Operation GTFO] - Netopia
- Thrash is assisting in evacuating an infiltrated NIA HQ as a much larger fight is going down at Rammount Castle
- Another mutated Brute and Hawk are here that he fends off

3B.2B - [Crimson flames in the night...] - Netopia
- Nightshade is carrying out Mistair's orders when he is approached by a Navi calling himself "Egress"
- Egress asks to be taken to NIA HQ and if the whereabouts of Rosso were known to him, both of which Nightshade provides
- Magnolia appears, asking to be taken to NIA HQ as well
- Egress reveals himself to be Gate, controller of WWW
- He summons Dynamo, and later High Max, to fight Magnolia
- Seeing the evidence of Genesis and Rosso fighting at Rammount Castle, Magnolia wishes to cease fighting Gate and his crew
- Having gathered enough combat data on each other, the two parties agree to fight another day

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3C - [The Town of Dusk] - Netopia
- Genesis returns from the border once again, this time to meet Resonance
- Thorn also gathers information before leaving
- Genesis and Resonance agree to make a play on NIA by attacking Rammount Castle

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3D - [The Edge of a Lost Reality] - Electopia
- Scarface, Rank 1 of the Undernet, seeks audience with ONB's leader on behalf of the Under King
- Trishula comes to him and they speak briefly, foreshadowing things to come, then go about their ways

4 - Attack on Rammount

4.1 - [The Netopian Castle Network ~ Rammount] - Netopia
- Genesis ambushes Rammount head on as Resonance infiltrates quietly to find information
- Challenger appears to help Genesis break through Mistair's wall
- Rosso arrives to help fend off the two attackers, driving Challenger off successfully
- AD entered the scene to assist Genesis
- Inside, Resonance is confronted by a snake-like mechanaloid and destroys it after a fairly decently fought battle
- Deeper inside of the catacombs of the building, Resonance finds a sleeping Greiga and sees a woman (later revealed to be Magnolia) before she escapes
- As Greiga awakens, Falzar approaches the network from outside of the castle
- Resonance downloads files before escaping while Genesis and Armored Destroyer, having fended off Rosso, shutdown the network by causing catastrophic damage to its core
- Mysteriously, the network is still accessible despite being offline

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4A.2 - [Nia Headquarters~ Logic and Trickery || Pg. 1 - 4] - Netopia
- Nightshade returns after his encounter with Gate
- As Mistair questions him, Shadowdevil reveals itself and attacks the HQ
- The combined efforts of the two, alongside Thorn and Vanguard, results in the monster being defeated
- Rosso returns and receives a sample of the Shadowdevil from Mistair, then he is off again
- Nightshade and Thorn are sent to Rammount Network to investigate what became of the Cybeasts

4A.3 - [A Beast in Ranmount] - Netopia
- Nightshade arrives with Thorn to confront the Cybeasts, only to discover that they'd already been badly damaged by something else
- Forte arrives and Greiga bites Nightshade's arm off and disintegrates alongside Falzar. Forte then leaves after not finding what he wanted: the Cybeasts
- Embera comes to give "encouraging" words as well, then Greiga Beast Out Nightshade awakens and leaves the area
- Embera also leaves; Persephone comes and immediately leaves

4A.4 - [Nia Headquarters~ Logic and Trickery || Pg. 5+] - Netopia
- Thorn and Nightshade return and cause a bit of a scene
- Amidst it, Forte appears and demands Mistair find the Cybeasts
- Thorn and Nightshade leave after Forte leaves
- Vytrex arrives shortly afterward as Mistair is recovering and reveals to Vanguard that the Cybeasts are still alive based on the evidence of his (honestly boring as hell sounding) job

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4B.3 - [Netopian Bug Lake] - Netopia
- Merrill finds a mysterious sword. Aeron's there too.
- Rosso and Slypner arrive, as does Xion
- A fight breaks out over who gets to keep the sword
- In the end, Aeron is deleted, Rosso has to go, and Xion ends up keeping Polaris; Turbine's Sword

5 - Moving Pieces

5A.1 - [Beauty and the Cybeast] - Electopia
- Nightshade crosses paths with Kajira and shares everything he knows about the happenings in Netopia up until this point

5A.2 - [Brink of Disaster] - Electopia
- Nightshade is redirected here while trying to access the Undernet
- Scarface informs him of a "curse" that is over him and denies his access
- He is sent to find Dr. Psyche to study this "curse"

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5B.1 - [World 3 Outpost: The Mastermind's Invitation] - Netopia
- Shadowdevil returns after its failed attack on NIA HQ
- Gate leaves shortly afterward, just before 14 intruders arrive
- Among them are Glint and Magnolia
- They release Napalmman from a holding pod who briefly fights the two of them before escaping
- The 14 intruders leave afterwards

5B.2 - [A Lost Time] - Netopia
- Napalmman briefly crosses paths with Embera and Siega just after escaping Gate's Lab
- Interaction goes down, but nothing detrimental to the main arc's plot other than they all leave afterward

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5C.1 - [The Town of Dusk ~ Aftermath] - Netopia
- Genesis, Resonance, and AD arrive here to discuss the information that Resonance was able to gather from Rammount Castle
- They notice they are tapped, so they move to a more secure location

5C.2 - [World 3 Deleted Archive] - Netopia
- AD arrives with himself, Genesis, and Resonance to discuss the aftermath of Rammount
- Napalmman arrives too, as does Plagueman, to add to the meeting
- Upon learning of an attack on New Life, the group moves out to intervene

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5D.1 - [The Monolith] - Secret Area
- Xion arrives in response to a call he felt and is swept away in a white light

5D.2 - [Darkness of Light] - Secret Area
- Serenade holds a discussion with Xion and requests him to be a part of his personal guard
- Xion accepts and then heads for Element City

6 - New Beginnings

6A - [New Life: New Beginnings] - Electopia
- Trishula accepts Unity and Joker as the newest additions to ONB
- Gravity Beetle begins their training, but it is interrupted by an invasion of Reaverbots on New Life
- Genesis, Kajira, and Embera arrive to help
- Meanwhile, AD infiltrates New Life in attempt find any information they might have on Rosso, Magnolia, Trishula
- During his mission, AD comes across two unknown individuals. One exits New Life, the other is Glint
- While Glint is occupied manipulating New Life's altitude, AD takes the opportunity to download his files
- During this time he also uploads footage of the events that went down in Netopia up until this point, however in this footage, none of the New Force members appear to be present
- Everyone evacuates as New Life is set to self-destruct after taking heavy damage during the invasion
- Other notable presences: Var, Deav, Dainsleif
- This is the last known location of Blues, Joker, and all who were in ONB's holding cells

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6B - [Element City: Reaverbot Chaos] - Electopia
- Reaverbots are invading Element City, various navis band together to fight them
- After Resonance destroys most of them, Rosso appears and confronts him
- Embera interferes briefly and it is revealed that Rosso is actually Zane
- She is immune to Resonance's temporal manipulation because of her Somnium Cross and is given Purgatory before leaving to join the fight above at New Life
- In the end, Resonance and Serix are deleted, but Rosso's barrier is temporarily disabled
- Xion comes to challenge him, but gets trapped in a black hole until the New Force needs him
- Tornadoman comes as well, but only to talk
- This is the last known location of Xion, Resonance, and Serix.

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6C - [LifeVirus vs K-414 & Nightshade] - Electopia
- K414 and Nightshade combat the Life Virus after discovering it is festering underneath Element City while the battle against Rosso goes on above (and above that: the invasion of New Life)
- Trishula arrives after Nightshade escapes to help K-414 destroy the virus
- Despite this, in the footage of the fight, Trishula is absent

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6D - [A trip in Kotobuki] - Electopia
- Nightshade finds Dr. Psyche who intends to study his Juuka and his "curse" (the Mortality Anomaly)
- He removes the source of the curse and the symbiotic virus that was functioning as Nightshade's arm ever since Greiga bit it off
- It is discovered that Nightshade was the host that caused the Mortality Anomaly to spread to Creamland and Electopia

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6E - [The Current: A Status Report] - Electopia
- Xeel is meeting with a Mysterious Entity
- It debriefs her of her recent actions and intelligence acquired

7 - Adjusting to Change

7A.1 - [Aftermath, Heap of Stories] - Electopia
- Embera fills Genesis in on what went down in Element City during the attack on New Life
- Genesis calls Zerix and Zaven to get more info on Zane's motives
- Just then, he receives an Email from Dr. Psyche concerning Nightshade's status
- Genesis leaves to investigate New Life in search of more information
- This is the last known location of Zerix and Zaven

7A.2 - [A Capital Idea] - Electopia
- Embera bargains with Lex Loath to fund a fortress-esque proxy network between Netopia and Electopia
- Not much comes of it, but the future holds potential
- Afterward, she leaves for the invasion at Bayside

7A.4 - [A Drowsy Detour] - Electopia
- After her activity in Bayside City (See: 7B.2), Embera visits OEL to learn more about the Somnium Cross
- Excerpt about Crosses: "they themselves, being data cores unto themselves, are capable of holding the entire memory of a Navi in themselves"
- Somnium Cross pulls Embera into a lucid trance as Everett Higsby, the OEL receptionist, continues their discussion
- Somnium Cross holds the memory of Eon. His body and power are elsewhere
- Embera reawakens right where she had left off in the conversation and elects to keep the Cross as she heads to the remains of New Life to join Genesis
- Once she's gone, Everett initiates an investigation and requests the use of Project Striker

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7B.1 - [Familiar Bayside] - Electopia
- Hollow, under the guise of Xion, takes survivors of the New Life catastrophe and debriefs them on his activities since Bayside Chronicles (See: 1A.1)
- Afterward, they respond to the invasion at Bayside

7B.2 - [The Coming Flood] - Electopia
- Hollow and Kajira arrive to the scene as a fleet of W3 warships approach on the horizon; a full scale invasion
- As they fight back, MagicMan finds some ruins below the city
- Bob's Handy seems infected with something and he struggles to keep it under control. Eventually it relents and he gets and email from DSI regarding the incident
- Embera and several others arrive on the scene as well, leading to the revelation that Finale is the captain of the brigade
- The attack of the W3 ceases as the ruins are discovered, as that was their only purpose for being there
- Volt Kurageil appears, but causes no damage. It ends up leaving along with Encore
- Jax and Hollow find and enter a portal in the ruins

7B.3 - [After Action Report: The Coming Flood] - Electopia
- Finale has a comical dream about Embera, then is woken up by MagicMan who debriefs him of the events that had just transpired at Bayside
- Finale is sent out to collect information about the New Force
- Finale assumes the guise of Warrior/Exile before leaving

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7C.1 - [Hunting Bounty] - Creamland
- NapalmMan and Magnolia cross paths at the outskirts of a city in flames
- A D-Rex attacks and they take it down
- They leave for Sharo to discuss matters privately

7C.2 - [Meeting in the Shadows of the Daylight] - Sharo
- Magnolia gives NapalmMan an excellent summary of recent history
- They leave for a place called Xanadu
- This is the last known location of NapalmMan

8 - Rising Action

8A.1 - [World 3 Outpost: The Mastermind's Plan] - Electopia
- The New Force, led by Glint, Magnolia and Trishula, invade the outpost
- Part of the Force splits and runs into Gate, but he escapes and they end up fighting Eregion in his stead
- They defeat Eregion and promptly leave afterward
- New Force Member Names Learned: Cap, Rig, Pal, Liv
- This is the last known location of the New Force

8A.2 - [The Unwinnable Outcome] - Electopia
- Glint's company (of 5 others) arrives after splitting with the rest of the New Force
- He fights Vile alone as the rest of his company steps back
- Neither are victorious, but the New Forces eventually leave and Vile is left to himself afterward
- This is the last known location of the New Force

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8B - [The Aftermath of New Life] - Electopia
- A collection of Navis are searching the wreckage of New Life, looking for clues
- They manage to dig up K-414 who had last been seen fighting the Life Virus, as well as a few Scuttle Viruses that Plagueman and General Mary each keep
- Plagueman begins to lose control of its primal instinct, but Genesis tells it to be cool and so it calmed down
- Genesis and Embera each found a Prison Pylon that they brought back to The Heap to further investigate
- This is the current state of Slypner, Sharkman and Rook

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8C - [Starry skies...] - Electopia
- Merrill, possessed by Death, waits to confront Challenger
- Instead, a cloaked navi arrives, followed shortly by Finale under the guise of Warrior/Exile
- Finale comes to seek information on Rosso as he presumes that is the navi that Merrill is waiting for
- The cloaked navi leaves as they continue their interaction
- The exchange dialogue and then go their separate ways
- This is the last known location of Merrill and Finale

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8D.1 - [Evolution.] - Netopia
- Nightshade returns to NIA HQ after a long series of events
- He does his best to explain them to Grom and Mistair, but noteworthy details are stated to be missing
- During the brief, Rosso arrives and attacks Mistair while Grom moves to a more advantageous position to assist him
- Vanguard comes to assist
- During the standoff, Nightshade escapes but loses his Beast Force as a result
- After Rosso leaves, Vanguard and Mistair run into Vamin and engage in combat
- The duo manage to drive the Reaverking back, but then are immediately confronted by Forte afterward
- Forte leaves after having tested Vanguard
- Vanguard and Mistair complete their evacuation of the base after taking a short detour for Mistair to grab some mysterious devices in one of the storage rooms in the facility]

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8D.2 - [Software Updates] - Electopia
- Nightshade returns to Dr. Psyche after escaping from Rosso, though Rosso appears almost immediately behind him
- Dr. Psyche's discussion holds him off as he works on Nightshade's arm
- After fixing his arm, Dr. Psyche force-logs Nightshade out and continues his conversation with Rosso
- They discuss a lot, but eventually Rosso extends an invitation to Psyche in the form of a device that would lead him (and any that he chose to occompany him) to a designated location in Sharo when he chose to access it
- Rosso stated that he would give Psyche time to choose which path to take forward, then left him to himself
- Psyche emails Genesis to come meet with him immediately as he makes preparations

9 - Crossing Lines

9A.1 - [An Answered Call] - Gigamerica
- Warrior, Feint, and Faith Nymphra have been isolated in Gigamerica for a year, unaware of the events taking place overseas until the leaked footage from New Life (see: Ch.6A) makes its way to them
- Wanting to learn more about these events and seeing this as a call to arms, the trio traveled overseas in the real world to investigate the eastern networks further

9A.2 - [Rammount: Reassessment] - Netopia
- Warrior begins his investigation in Rammount Castle's destroyed network
- He meets Nightshade who vaguely briefs him on the happenings of recent events
- Taking what he's learned, Warrior leaves to investigate other networks
- Nightshade, Rosario, Siega and Grade continue with further dialogue before leaving
- This is the current state of Nightshade

9A.3 - [Gigamerican Consulate (Post 1)] - Real World
- Faith Nymphra had been searching for Seth Pele, but could not find him
- Warrior relays the information he found in Rammount to Faith
- Faith instructs him to travel to Sharo in search of his old contacts and he does so
- Faith starts her own investigation, but begins with training exercises in the Forrest Network first
- Cherish Pele, also called "Feint", is Pulsed into the Cyber World from this location
- This is the current RW location of Cherish Pele

9A.4 - [Elbrus Range: Silence] - Sharo
- While searching for old friends, Warrior notices something strange in the air of Sharo's cyberspace
- He finds a variety of things, from myseterious bug creatures to peons mining away at the mountain he had pulsed-in on
- Investigating further, he eventually finds himself going deep into the mountain and, after a bit of less-than-graceful puzzle solving, is confronted by Vestil, the fourth and final Reaverking
- This is the current location of Warrior

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9B.3 - [Pride's Price: NIA Field Base] - Netopia
- Having acquired Shine sometime after she was led away by an NIA Agent (see: Ch.3.1), Feint approaches their Field Base with a proposition to join their ranks in exchange for the captive they had lost
- Grom accepted them both, assigning Shine the duty of collecting information and briefing Feint on NIA's Most Wanted
- Shine left to fulfill her purpose immediately
- Feint was told to standby until receiving her communication device, so she explored the base in the meantime
- This is the current location of Feint

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9C - [Where it Began] - Netopia
- After surviving the battle against Vamin and then Forte, Vanguard and Mistair finally escape from NIA's Base and take reprieve to discuss everything that has happened up to this point
- They destroy their NIA Isolators and receive an email from Genesis to meet them in the Forrest Network to share information, so they leave to go meet up with him

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9D.1 - [Homecoming] - Electopia
- Genesis, Embera, and Plagueman return to the Heap after investigating New Life's ruins
- They discuss their information, feelings, and concerns of recent events
- Genesis receives an email from Psyche requesting his presence, so he leaves along with the others to go meet him

9D.2 - [The Fragmented Meeting] - Electopia
- Genesis, Embera, and Plagueman arrive in Psyche's lab some time after Rosso had left
- Psyche discloses the full situation and the group discusses which path forward to take
- Genesis elects to meet up with Vanguard in the Forrest Network before moving on to attack NIA's Base directly if all went according to plan
- He leaves but fails to mention to the rest where he was headed
- Psyche sends Plagueman directly to Genesis' coordinates as he and Embera make for Sharo after some back and forth dialogue

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9E.1 - [For Purpose and Power] - Electopia
- Joker is making arrangements with Deav as Faith Nymphra is returning from her training and catches sight of them
- Genesis arrives in expectation to meet Vanguard, but finds Joker and Deav instead
- Fighting breaks out, Faith and Genesis taking sides against the Reaverking and the behemoth, then are joined soon after by Vanguard and Mistair
- Joker retreats after K-358 is deleted, whom he had summoned to aid him
- The group manages to fend off Deav, destroying most of the Forrest Network in the process, then moves on to discuss each others information and motives
- Mistair reveals to the group that she is the former NIA secretary
- Faith Nymphra reveals to them that she is human
- Genesis and Vanguard share their perspectives of all past encounters
- After some discussion, the group decides to band together and investigate a lead that both Genesis and Vanguard had that pointed to Sharo
- Plagueman enters Genesis coding just as they all jack-out to Faith's PET for her to carry them overseas in the Real World to get around Sharo's virtual borders

9E.2 - [Com Square: Answers] - Sharo
- Upon enterring the Sharonian Network, Plagueman loses control of itself and is no longer able to supress its primal instinct
- Pandemic, a new Cybeast repressed by Plagueman, finally emerges and begins consuming the entire continent of Sharo before the group has time to react
- Rosso appears and utilizes Juno's power to subdue the newborn Cybeast and manipulate the group's perception of the reality around them
- He is accompanied by Nero, who was last seen fighting Ninetails in Gigamerica (see: Ch.9H)
- The two of them engage in combat with the group, decisively defeating them
- Nero goes on to confront Embera and Psyche (see: Ch9.G)
- Rosso finishes off the group as a result, taking special effort to disarm Genesis of his sword, Fate
- The group wakes up in an underwater prison some time later

9E.3 - [? ~ Undersea ?] - Sharo
- Genesis, Faith, Vanguard, Centurion, Armiger, and Mistair wake up in isolated cells that appear to be a part of a facility at the bottom of the ocean
- Vanguard is able to hear Rosary's voice in a cell nearby his, who has been in captivity since the Border Crisis (see: Ch.2A.2)
- This is the current location of Rosary, Genesis, Faith, Vanguard, Centurion, Armiger, and Mistair

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9F - [The One-Sided Ultimatum] - Sharo
- The Armored Destroyer arrives to investigate the last known location of Genesis after his defeat to Rosso and Nero (see: Ch.E.2)
- Rosso confronts him, but they do not fight
- Instead, they exchange cryptic messages and go their own ways once again
- This is the last known location of The Armored Destroyer and Rosso

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9G - [The Revolution's Tale] - Sharo
- Embera and Pysche arrive in the Fortress Lost in Frozen Eternity after activating the program that Rosso had left behind to guide them here (see: Ch8.)
- Zerix greets them and shows them to a room of archives where they are shown various recordings of Zane's endeavors over the past years, accompanied with his personal thoughts on each of them and how they contradicted what others perceived
- Embera is most devastated by these discoveries and Nero arrives after having just defeated Genesis and company in Com Square (see: Ch9.E.2)
- She expresses her feelings to him, but ultimately chose to take inaction as she still considers him family
- Nero goes on to discuss matter with Pysche, who had downloaded the archives that he had viewed previously with Embera and had up to this point been waiting outside of the room as things began to get personal between them
- This is the current location of Embera, Psyche, and Nero

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9H - [The Sky Tower] - Gigamerica
- Jax climbs the Sky Tower, discovering Ninetails at the top and commences in battle
- Jax is defeated, but shortly afterward Nero arrives and challenges Ninetails
- The conclusion of this fight is not publicly determined

[Warrior]

Ch. 8 "Rising Action" -- Closed Out

Ch. 9 "Crossing Lines" -- Added