Mega Man Battle Network (Part IX)

And then she whispers in his ear... "Your fly's undone"

Welcome to paaaart... nine? Yeah, part nine. Of Mega Man Battle Network! In our last... chapter, I guess? I don't know what a fancy name for these would be. Well anyway, we've just beaten the snot out of Color Man. Now as usual, there is a little transition scenario that wraps up this event and introduces the next one.

I think we're supposed to get the impression of "stuttering with rage" here, but I personally like to beleve that he's just so old his tongue has wrinkled up.

So then you get an e-mail from your dad and it's all lovely and happy and all that, and we're supposed to go home and talk to our mother or something but first we're going to run around and do other stuff because our mother is probably drunk and grumpy.

First talk to this old man hiding in the bushes and give him Escape chips coded F, H, J, L and N. If you've been following this you should have them all by now. You get the KnightSword G in exchange which is AMAZING.

Also there's a man by Higsby's shop that says "The WWW is taking advantage of our reliance on machines"... You don't say!? That almost made me smack my head on the desk right there. And yet this series goes on for SIX GAMES and people NEVER STOP RELYING ON MACHINES FOR EVERYTHING THEY DO. SJJHSDHGSDUWH </rage>

I forgot to screen cap it because I am a bad person, but I S-Ranked Numberman and got the V3 chip.

Did get a picture of this one, though.

Also, this man here has had some money stolen. The fastest way to check this out is going through Desx's pc into Area 2. Head to the area wher you fought Stone Man for the first time and talk to the purple WWW navi there (showed you a picture of one of these a few posts back, so I'm not going to include one this time).

Beat up the two ice cube bear guys (like the ones we fought in the first section of the water works) and return to the man to get 10,000 zennys. Yes, really.

This girl in the ACDC Metro Station wants to give you an X-Panel3 S chip in exchange for a Hammer M... kind of a lousy trade on your end, but as always I made the trade just in case someone else wants the X-Panel chip later on.

I then went to Dentown, where a little girl in the southeast corner requested a Shotgun K, CrossGun K, Spreader K, and a  M-Cannon K for a Recover300 C. And I was like "No, gtfo." Mostly because, as usual, I did not have all the chips needed. Also partially because I highly suspect this is relating to a Program Advance and I want to try it out myself before I give the chips away.

 The only other thing to do here is battle Miyu again for the Skull Man V1 chip. It does 150 damage to one enemy, not so bad.

With that taken care of, let's head back to ACDC town and talk to our mother. Lan decides to go ahead without his mother because she always takes too long. Forreal, this happens. But oh well, head over to the government complex. Naturally there's some stuff to do in this area as well.

First of all, we can have another go at Sal's Woodman... and it looks like she has a new friend! We'll be taking him on too, in a bit.

Three Fire Man chips in the first two turns. Poor guy never stood a chance.

Jack into the fish cart to get @Masa, though note the other mystery data in here can not be decoded at the moment. Also note that if you used the @Miyu you got earlier to explore the net and get the Fire Armor, you should proooobably unequip it before taking on this guy's Navi.

Shark Man

700 HP

Fin Glide: One of the three fins will charge across the screen at you. They can only move in a straight line.

Aqua Tower: Whenever the real Shark Man is hit with an attack, he will come ot the surface and use this. 

That's it, as far as I can tell.

Yet another one I am bad at. However, for winning you get an HPmemory, which was a nice little surprise.

Head on up to the water treatment area now and talk to Dr. Froid. He will give you the WWW Pin, so you can open those gates on the net blocked off by skull and crossbones. Yay! You can also challenge Ice Man V3 now. (I went ahead and got both the V2 and the V3 chips... it took a while.)

I realize it's a bit late in the game to be realizing this, but I really enjoy the music that plays during the end-of-battle grading thing. I like most of the music in this game so far, though.

So anyway, head over to the SciLab section of the first floor and waddle over to the tvs. You'll see a familiar face here.

Or maybe it would be more accurate to say a familiar BUTTface. Anyway, after Chaud is mean to you some more you'll be teleported to a party. Let's ignore everyone, since no one has anything interesting to say, and go jack into those PETs on display in the northeast corner. You can find an HPmemory in this area.

I was wandering around and I encountered a couple of those tank guys. And I was like "Oh, no big deal. They're not even an upgraded version or anything." And up until this point, I had pretty much been convinced that they didn't have a chip at all in this game. BUT THEY DO. And it is the one that guy at the Government Complex has been looking for. I HAVE FOUGHT SO MANY OF THESE THINGS AND HAVE NOT GOT A SINGLE ONE OF THESE UNTIL NOW AND I AM GOING TO HAVE TO GIVE IT AWAY. SDSDSFFDSADSDSA.

Okay anyway. Talk to Lan's dad.

"Because your mom is always drunk when I call and won't give you the phone."

More on the dysfunctional Hikari family in the next installment!
*Note: This is a lie.

Continue to part X --->