Log in! Zero.exe , a loud house story

Lincoln hummed as he walked about the playground. Trying to decide on something to do.he had recently recieved a personal terminal as a christmas gift from his aunt Shirley. And along with it a general purpose internet navigator, netnavi for short. And with some money he had saved up, some battlechips to battle about for fun. suddenly a familiar boy walks up to him.

"Heyy... Uh, whats your faceYou wanna battle ?" Chandler asked. With a little smirk holding up his own PT

Lincoln pretended to think, after chandler took advantage of lincoln's generosity , and by extension lori's. Lincoln began noticing many more of the taller boy's more notable character flaws.

Still lincoln was always one to try and be polite. "I... Don't think so man, sorry" he turned away to see three larger , meaner looking boys glaring down at him.

"You sure about that ?" Asked chandler with a smirk, causing loncoln to give a nervous laugh

"Uh, actually, yeah. Lets go." The two walked to a nearby battle terminal lincoln got ready. Pulling the courd from his Personal terminal.

Chandler spoke up "oh yeah, if i win you gotta give me all your battle chips.that okay?" He 'asked' as the other boys cracked their knuckles. Lincoln gulped.

"Uh... Haha, sure!" The white haired boy said with a nervous grin, "alright, gen-nav 1616-5 Log in , power up."

Chandler followed suit "vile.exe,log in and power up."

And thus, in the combat terminal the two navis appeared , one a generic green robot, with the other looking like a bounty hunter lincoln saw in some scifi movie a while back.

From the getgo it was clear lincoln would loose, generic navis while more than stromg enough to handle a few basic viruses, were no match against custom or premium navis like this vile.

"Alright, sword.exe , download" lincoln called inserting the battlechip into the PT. Causing his robot to spout a sword on it's arm. The data charged at vile readying a swing.

Chandler smirked he onew lincoln wouldn't have any worth while battlechips, It was more just taking them from the poor kid than actually using them. "Hi cannon!exe download" he inserted the chip as vile's shoulder gun became a massive , blue barreled canon, and with a might singular blow, lincoln's navi was damaged beyond any reasonable repair, being half destroyed.
Lincoln was just about to withdraw his navi. But before he could chandler inserted another powerful chip. "Delete it! Redwave! Download!" And from nowhere a vast wave of virtual water crashed down on lincoln's net navi, deleting it.


Lincoln was shaken, general purpose navis were just freeware, mass produced . ao in battles accidents would be sure to happen. The fact his navi was completely wiped out wasn't the issue.

The issur lied in the fact the rich brat did this on purpose. Lincoln , in His stupor surrendered his battlechips. And walked home from the park

When he got home, he began searching online for premium navis.
Premium navis were replicas of old netnavis used in tournaments. They weren't as good as the real thing, but they could keep up with true customs like vile. But sadly, lincoln couldn't afford even the weakest.

Defeated he sat back against the wall he would be stuck with generics until he could save up but then without warning, lincoln got an email. With a download link, 'free custom. Click here' the message read followed by an arrow pointing to the link, the one who sent the email addressed themself only as 'z'

Lincoln was surprised , this seemed awfully convenient, probably just some bait sent by the school , his school /was/ going through web safety and legality week after all, and royal woods elementary was renowned for the 'scare 'em straight' kind of method,

But then, what if it wasn't bait, and he didnt get teachers disguised as cops at his door like ronnie anne did? What if this was just a lucky coincidence.

Lincoln clicked the link, knowing in his mind it was probably a very big mistake. And on his personal terminal, a program began installing itself


The morning soon came, and he wasn't woken up by his parents for having 'cops' at the door, so that was a good sign. Then he heard a notification from his personal terminal.

For this to have taken twelve plus hours was no surprise. Custom and premium navis were absolutely massive, especially if you didn't have a basic navi to work as a template.

Lincoln went to his PT. And started it up, his bnackgrount was no longer like it was. Now a deep red. It said that his navi wasn't active.

Great, so he wouldn't get to meet his partner for a whi-

"Sir?" A nigh demonic voice came from his PT. He looked down and saw a rather intimidating navi, that looked more like a monster than a netnavi. But in spite of being kind of creepy, lincoln was amazed at the cool design. Long blonde hair, sleek red armor. He was the whole package

"Uh, yes?" Lincoln spoke to the AI.

The navi glared up at lincoln though, perhaps it was just the navi's neutral expression. "My name is zero.exe. and i chose you to be my partner"

This left Lincoln with a couple questions.
"Alright, uh. Why?" Was the best summation of his questions that he could  give

The monstrous navi responded accordingly "Lately several Navis have been going rogue. Breaking away from their partners. And causing chaos. Professor hikari in japan had declared it necessary that i find a partner to assist  in eradicating these threats." Lincoln was aghast, he got a navi STRAIGHT FROM DOCTOR LAN HIKARI?! This was easily the coolest thing to ever happen to him. And certainly got his attention.

Lincoln took a moment to calm down. "Wait, what makes you think i':m qualified to be your partner?".

Zero hummed " it's all a part of the assignment. Our partnership is temporary, until you gain the skill necessary to become a junior net police." That...certainly dampened Lincoln's mood.

But on the other hand he would getg the world's coolest title. So he was all the more willing to go along