Beads of sweat rolled down from Jeremy's face as he desperately tried to remember what the moves were. He had to concentrate if he wanted to win this battle. Bam! He was hit! He quickly tried to use all the combos he knew. But to no avail, with one swift push of a button, Stuart sent Jeremy to hell.

Jeremy felled to his knees. "Argh! No! Why?!"

"Hah! Nobody can beat me! I'm King!" Stuart proclaimed.

"Bah! You just got lucky...." Jeremy grumbled.

"Hah, looks like our 'leader' isn't so great at fighting games either," Matt smirked.

"It's my turn!" Jake said as he tackled Stuart who turned at the right time to send him flying into the console. "Oww! *****!"

Ding Dong!

"Ooh, ooh! I will get it!" Johnny raced to the door, only to find no one but a small non-descript bag with a symbol on its sides. He picked it up and peered in, mouth gasping at their contents...

He ran to the pizza-box conference table, arms raised and he nearly squealed "Fate gave us fortune cookies!"

"Man, his rewards are really getting cheap, I mean, fortune cookies?" Jake asked rhetorically.

Jeremy took a handful and began breaking them, taking out the slips of paper and eating the two halves. All of them took a handful too, and began eating them; it was not long before they finished the whole bag.

"Let's commence with the fortune reading!" Matt announced.

"They have fortunes you can read? I thought they gave you good fortune or something." Johnny asked as he swallowed the last of his cookies.

".........." The others were dumbstruck.

"To the Victor belongs Gamma." The group read their fortunes (except for Johnny), which were all the same. The group stared blankly at the pieces of paper. That was, until they noticed there was something on the other side.

It read:
"Acid Hackers, go to Undernet 2 and find a custom. Operator: victor"


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The green factory-made navi was obviously no match for the sword wielding custom. The green navi took out a Magnum and fired but the other navi quickly side-stepped then jumped to the green navi; with a quick slash, the green navi was defeated and logged out.


"Wah......." The green navi's operator could only manage to let out a gasp.

The sword-wielding navi's operator just smirked and said in an accent, "That's what you get for challenging me. 20000Zs please."

The operator gave him the money grudgingly and jacked out.

Meanwhile, the Hackers were looking at the match.

"So, this guy has a gamma piece? Only one lone navi to fight? Hah, newbie." Jeremy was sure it was to be an easy fight.

"How about we just dive headfirst? He doesn't look much to me, Nij wields a sword, and Beastman have claws, so?"" Jake stated the obvious, as he unknowingly always does.

"Just what I was thinking!" Jeremy said and the group all prepared to go on the stupid and suicidal mission.

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"Go, Punk!" Jeremy ordered his navi to attack the sword-wielding navi.
Punk rolled into his Mad Roller, ramming straight into him. Then, the other navis surrounded him preparing to delete him.

"Victor, we're here for the gamma piece!"

Victor was cool. "You want that useless piece of data? Humph, then I must even the odds up a little bit. VIRUPAKSA! DHRTARASTRA! VAISRAVANA! 帮阻你的兄弟VIRUDHAKA!" Three other navis showed up, one with a snake, one with a pipa, and one with an umbrella, respectively.


"Nij, Matt you guys take on that guitar-thing(pipa) navi; Jake, Stuart deals with the snake guy (FYI, not a snake but a purple gold dragon ermine); Johnny, Bubbleman delete that weird umbrella navi. And I will get the sword dude." Jeremy gave out the orders as Punk charged at Virudhaka.

Like two tentacles, Punk's arms were reaching out, trying to grab onto Virudhaka, who was skilfully dodging them. Punk used his Shield and Chain, but Haka just sidestepped it. Haka slashed Punk with his default weapon, a sword with dragons adorned on it, which acted like a Variable Sword. "Ghm!" He snorted as he missed his target.

Meanwhile, Flash and Desert were having better luck than Punk, marginally. Dhrtar had placed trumpets on the field, playing their loud awful music and paralysing Flash,

"Ah...the flasher gets flashed," Nij smiled at his own pun.
"Shut up and battle! Damn it!"
Nij chose some chips and slotted them in. "Looks like it's up to me..."

Beast and Plant were, having a field day, literally. Plant was popping up his flowers in the field, and wherever Virup went the pollen followed. Virup became confused and swayed like a drunk. Beastman took the chance and slashed him with sword chips.

"Rinse, Wash and Repeat!" Jake smugly said, "Dyna wave!"

Johnny's Flameman and Bubble were not working together as well as they hoped.

"Your candles are blocking my bubbles, blubber!" Bubbleman was not pleased fighting together with Flame.

"It is your bubble lead that is dousing my flames!" And neither was Johnny.

Vana took the opportunity, and blasted them both with Zap rings and Bubblers with his weapon.

Haka hit punk with the blunt end of his sword. He fell to the ground; and Haka came for the kill. Just as he was about to impale Punk, a stray flame from Flameman hit Haka and it missed Punk by centimetres. Punk recovered swiftly, using his hands to strangle the shocked and down Haka.

"Virudhaka! Use the Fighter Sword!" Haka ducked and rolled, while his sword became a Fighter Sword and he impaled Punk.

"Argh!" Punk cried out in pain, hit points drained,

Jeremy face sunk... Was he going to lose? He thought before an evil grin crept up his face.

"Punk, use the EverCurse!"

Haka rushed at Punk, preparing to finish him off, but at that crucial moment, Punk unleashed the Ever Curse.

Navi logged out!

"使用EverCurse!　贱！" Victor was taken aback by his abrupt defeat, "But your other navis won't be able to defeat the other three Devarajas!"

"Hey, good job, Punk! Let's jack you out. He even left us some zennies," Jeremy commented. Punk picked up the zennies, counting them before exclaiming, "Not bad, not bad at all! So are we going to help the others?"

"Nah, one of the perks of being the leader is watching your minions do the job for you," and with that, Jeremy jacked Punk out and proceeded to watch the others. "Why don't you just gang up on just one navi? Wouldn't that be easier?"

"What the hell? Why didn't you say that earlier? We could have ended this long ago!" Stuart exclaimed.

"Why didn't you guys think of it earlier?" Jeremy retorted.

Wising up, the others ordered their navis to attack one target-Vaisravana. Bubbles, flames, claws, sand, lights and vines came at him him. Navi Logged out!

Victor gave one cold look and said, "道."

Seemingly understanding him, Vana gave a nod and suddenly stabbed and deleted himself, much to the shock of the Hackers. The data of Vana enveloped the final Devaraja. Dhrtar was now in a meditating position and the data became a huge umbrella covering him.

Dhrtar began chanting, "Nothingness is Material World, and Material World is Nothingness. Lose oneself in Nothingness, and one becomes one with the universal essence."

"Oh....my...god..." The hackers looked on as Dhrtar steadily grew an aura of infinite.

"We are in seriously in deep shit. Anyone here has any idea of what to do?"

"North wind? Anybody here has north wind?" Jeremy enquired, but nobody had thought of stocking north winds.

"Hacks?"

"Takes time."

"I think I may have chip that may help us," Jake took out a chip from one of his many pockets, "My cousin G gave it to me. The golden-hooped compliant rod: The only weapon to ever defeat the Devarajas in myth.

"Use it then!" Jeremy grabbed the chip from Jake, "Insert chip, slot in!"

A huge rod appeared on the field, prompting Punk to try and lift it, but to no avail.

"Blub, blub, let a real navi try." The hamster of doom tried, but to no avail. The rest of the navis also tried to lift the monolith, but nobody can do it.

"F**king rod," Punk gave it a kick, and it started to tremble. "Oh shit."


Victor looked on with glee, all they had now was a huge useless rod. Suddenly, the rod shrank, and a navi suddenly appeared and held it above him.

"Oh my god, it's Sun Wu Kong?!" Jake exclaimed.

"Who?" The rest of the group asked.

"The Monkey King." Jake answered.

"Oh."

The now free Monkey looked around his surroundings. He spotted the Deva, his 'nemesis', "Dhrtar! Die!"

Before operator and navi had a chance, Monkey took one swing of his rod and logged him out. "Take that! And now, to enjoy my new freedom!" Monkey teleported out.

Victor, to put it lightly, was shocked, but he just gave the Gamma.dat.

"Sweet! Punk, jack out! Navi, jack in! Upload Gamma.dat!" Jeremy was very, very pleased.

Later...
The group was rewarded with even more zennies, which bought them a new game console, even more chips( including Northwinds) and yet another TV.

"So, whatever happened to Monkey?" Jake asked.

"He probably went off to some place to wreak havoc." Jeremy replied.

"So we aren't doing anything about it?" Johnny said.

"We're the bad guys, duh."

"Oh...."

The End

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