The girl on the messy bed was groaning and complaining about something, morning rose and dawn ripped the remaining darkness from the skies. The sunlight rays lanced through the crevice of the curtains on her window, she shifted underneath her sheets, eventually popping her head out of it like a mole out of a hole.

"Ugh... I hate headaches and soreness..." Valerie's body felt incredibly numb, her muscles are stiff, and her body protested in pain - as if Val was electrocuted a couple of times. "Was...was that just a dream?..." She mumbled in bewilderment, grabbing her emerald-tinted Transer.

She opened the screen of the device and blushed, much to her chagrin. She muttered something gibberish and hesitated.

"U-uh... Hello, Chroma? Are you in there?..." She looked around, even though no one was in the house. She still surveyed the area like someone was spying on her - she didn't want to talk to her Transer alone like a crazy.

"No, it's too cramped and squished in there."

She turned her head to her right, the alien appeared right before her eyes, "Ah!"

*Thud!*

She jumped out of her mattress and toppled to the floor. "Oh man... I wish this is just a dream... Please, just, leave. . ." Her eyes was wide with many emotions stirring inside.

"That's too bad, kiddo. You'll just have to go with it." He started to levitate away, "I can just leave and let the planet get eliminated anyways if that's what you prefer." He said carelessly.

"Wah?!" She fumbled over her words and scrambled to her feet hastily, "Wait, hold on! Don't leave!" Her purple hair was a mass full of tangles, her eyes enlarged even bigger. "Why - is the world gonna explode?!"

"Nope! Just did that to get you out of bed!" Chroma laughed, Val groaned in annoyance. "C'mon kiddo, I want to see the rest of the giant city instead of this little town here, I'm quite interested in other humans...And their Transers..."

"No...I don't wanna speak to other people, I'm fine in this comfy house - thank you very much." She retorted and frowned, disliking the thought of such thing. "We can explore the city though."

"Finally, so, we're we heading to?"

"Grocery Shoppin'."

The FM-ian tilted his head to express confusion, "What's that?"

"A place to buy food and other resources with Zennys." She quickly explained. "Oh, and you can't let other people see you. I don't want to attract attention. . ."

'Obviously. . .' Valerie thought.

"Ugh. . .I'm going in the Transer." Chroma turned into a sphere of light again and entered the device. She made coffee for herself and headed out.

Val nodded and has gotten ready for the shopping hour, the alien gazed their surroundings as she traveled and boarded a train. It sped across the massive city, the whole place was already in sight before even nearing it. She sat, then opened the lid of her device on her arm.

"(Hey, so, can you please tell me what's goin' on here with the 'whole-world-is-gonna-be-destroyed-thing'? I need to know...)" Val asked, uneasy.

"(If we get to peep people's Transers. . .Maybe I'll tell you, if not, I'm gonna take my leave and the entire Earth is going to be demolished because of you.)" Val wouldn't have taken that statement seriously, but with Chroma's serious tone and no laughter - not even a hint of it at all - Val couldn't help BUT believe and give in to the deal.

'Oh brother. . .I'm too gullible. . .'

"(*grumble, grumble* Fine. . .)" She whispered and took a sip of her drink.

"(Long story short, the king of Planet-FM is planning to devour the entire galaxy if we don't do anything about it.)"

"WHAT?!" She spat out her coffee inside the train, everyone looked at her from that sudden outburst... "Hehehe..." Pink dusted her cheeks as she closed the screen of her Transer. "The coffee was a bit too hot..." They didn't say anything and went to their business...

"(Hmph. Nice going, kiddo, what happened to 'attracting attention'?)" The FM-ian retorted with a huff.

She became redder and frowned, "(Oh, shut up...)" She turned away, her poor attempts of hiding her blush, for, Chroma could clearly see it. "(Now, the 'FM-ian King' thingy?)" She questioned seriously.

"(Ha! Now I've got your attention huh, well, you'll know more after our little 'deal'...)" Chroma replied with a hint of mischief laced within his tone.

Valerie muttered something inaudible under her breath as she got off of the train, 'Construction: Spica Mall, huh?' She headed to some of the department stores. When she entered, even her eyes still caught an out-of-place thing in the corner of her eye. 'Even an EM Vortex is here.' She noted.

"(Alright, let's go pulse in and look into their Personal Pages! Hehehehe.)" Chroma chuckled lowly.

"(Ugh...Might as well journey a bit in EM Wave Form.)" She sighed tiredly. "(How do we look into people's...Personal Pages anyways?)" She spoke softly.

"(Easy, like last time when we went into the Car's CS. Now let's hurry up and get on with it, I'm curious!)" Val rubbed her eyes in annoyance, but complied anyway.

She observed her surroundings, weary of anyone going to witness it. . . 

"(EM Wave Change!

Val Ayaka,

On The Air!!)"

She fused with her partner once again, Valor placed a finger on her chin. 'OK. . . So, who should we...?'

"Hey, kiddo." Chroma appeared right beside her in a flash. "Let's try that one." The FM-ian pointed at someone who was at the edge of the isle, surprisingly, the store wasn't as packed, especially when some new famous thing popped out of nowhere - everyone was thinking that this one new item, was a must-have.

"This feels so wrong. . ." She sighed. "How 'bout we venture outside first? Then we'll loop around and return where we started."

"Certainly. As long as it gotta do with some peeping around..." He paused. "Maybe some practice on these viruses lurking around here, they like to hang out in Wave World. Gotta hand it to ya, kiddo, you've got a talent in battling. You fight like you did yesterday, and we'll be fine."

"U-um. . ." She blushed inwardly. "I only fought for others. . ." That still made the alien confused about her reason, but didn't question it - he wanted to take a little 'tour' first.

They journeyed along the EM roads, encountering different viruses. "Alright, let's try Ground   Wave 1 from the Card Box!" Val accessed her Transer's menu, selecting a section called 'B.CARD' and looked into her deck of organized battlechips, a category named "BattleFldr" was equipped for fighting. When wandering around she approached something floating on the path, it was green.

"Those are called 'Mystery Waves', you can examine them for something useful. Green ones usually only hold some kind amount of Zennys, blue contains battlecards and such, let's see what this one has in store for us."

Val examined the Mystery Wave. . .

"Ah! It's EM viruses!"

"Oh yeah, those too."

Valerie sighed, she engaged the viruses. This time, they weren't Mettenas. It was Crowcars, an enemy that looks like a crow, it dashes forward as an attack. 'Gotta time it. . .' She had a sword card, just waiting for one of the two EM viruses to vault to her.

Her red blade of energy made contact, slicing it in half! "Hiya!" She shouted, almost getting hurt by their attack!

"One more left!"

As the foe propelled towards her, she went in for another attack! "Ragh!" Val activated the Ground Wave 1 card; she brought down her fists, smashing the ground, unleashing a shockwave! It exploded, leaving something to drop to the ground, "Huh? What's this?" She picked it up.

"You just got another card from those viruses, that's Jet Attack 1. Nice going, Valor. Barely any scratch." Chroma praised. "Ooh, I think I found our first victim. . ."

"Victim of invasion privacy? Do aliens get this nosy?. . ." Valerie strolled over, as close as she could get to the lady. "*sigh* Nothing personal. . .here we go." Valor viewed the woman's Personal Page. . .

'It was a secret about love. Typical.' Valerie thought in boredom.

They checked everyone in the area and every single Transer they could find, nothing amazing or interesting happened. Except for a strange looking man with glasses that had a secret about having a ginormous collection of ultra rare battlecards.

Along the journey (encountering a bunch of Mr. Hertz. . . .) she found another levitating one, but blue instead of green.

Val examined the Mystery Wave. . .

"Cool! A battlecard: Lava Stage!"

"Ah, very helpful for Fire viruses. . ."

"I wish we were Fire types. . ."

"Actually, we are." Chroma confirmed and spoke it flatly.

Valor was caught off guard and Chroma appeared in front of her, she could sense a ghostly smirk o the FM-ian's face... "Is that why the Salamander viruses do NOTHING against us?. . ." Her eyebrow was raised (Though, he couldn't really see it. But he can hear her questioning tone.)

"It's better to explain in a battle, unfortunately, we can't really. . . Preform this action in particular. Nothing serious, but it's really one of my abilities and, both a trump as well as wild card." He interpreted.

"Alright, if we can't use it right now, at least tell me this whole thingy once we get back home from shopping."

She pulsed out.

Now back at Echo Ridge. . .

"I can't wait to cook using these!" Val beamed excitingly.

"You cook? . . ." The alien wondered in amazement, Val only turned red for the umpteenth time today. She didn't say anything and she fell silent, her shyness getting to her. "Ha! You're as red as a. . ." Chroma interrupted himself.

"(What's wrong?)" She queried, then her scarlet eyes widened. "(Is it?!. . .)"

"I'm afraid so . . . There's an FM-ian presence near, VERY near indeed . . ."

"(Well, I'll just walk around and pretend...)" Valerie did as she said herself, looking around in extreme caution . . . 'What's that?' She noticed the group of people gathered in front of a house; the house's roof is colored in light blue.

When she watched by the battlecard store called 'Big Wave', the shorter one turned around, she hid quickly behind a corner. "(Oh God! He almost saw me!)"

"Who? Is it an enemy of yours?"

Val poked her head to see the commotion again, "(No, It's just an annoying group of people that won't leave me alone...)"

"What are you mumbling about now?!" Chroma shut his muzzle as she listened intently.

'. . .Bud and Luna is there too. . .' She thought begrudgingly.

 "Look, jerk. Just be good and come to school!!" Bud's voice rose as he took one step closer to another idividual - he was average-sized, have brown hair, and wore red clothing.

"(Blue kinda fits more for him. . .)"

"*Shush!*"

"It's for your own good anyway . . . ." He finished.

*BAM!*

"(Woah! He just - )"

"That kid knocked him out cold in one punch. That's pretty gutsy."

"(You can say that again. . . I almost done the same thing to be honest. . .hehehe...)" Valerie admitted sheepishly as she scratched her head.

"Ungh. . . Little . . . Creep. . ." He the final words sounded out of his mouth before being unconscious.

"Bud!" Both Zack and Luna shouted, the boy that did a uppercut on him was also appalled, he mumbled something. Val could only faintly make out what he was saying by the movement of his lips. 'I hit him. . .' Was all she could see.

"I - I'm sorry!! Please, just stay away from me!!" The boy rushed back into his house (that's what Val could assume).

She waited patiently after placing the grocery bags in her home, Bud took quite a while to recover. They were all at Vista Point, near a train. No matter how many times Valerie complained in her head of wanting to head home and rest, she wanted to see what they were up to.

"(I'm calling those idiots 'The Triple Threat'. . .)" Ayaka whispered.

"Bud! What good are those muscles?!" Luna yelled in anger, Val felt bad for him, she could even see that Zack was worried for Bison. . .

'What a complete brat she is . . .'

'I can see why Valor hates that girl. . .'

"That was so sloppy letting him knock you out in one punch!!" She continued to shout in complete disgruntlement.

Bud only stared at the grassy ground, sadness written all over his face. "I - I'm so ashamed..." He spoke.

"If you didn't have a BrotherBand with me, you'd be just another useless meathead! If you ever disgrace me again. . .

I'll cut our BrotherBand!!"

"(That nerve of that girl! That's just messed up, you're just treating him dirty!)" Val softly sounded in rage, Bud was left in absolute shock as well as horror, he was speechless.

"Now stay here and cool off, hothead!" She was too hard on him, "Let's go Zack!"

"(Gotta hide!)"

They left Bison all by himself, 'Poor guy. . .'

"Let's go, we can't do much here anyways."

With that, she left him alone, he still stood in the very same spot. He didn't budge at all, "(Cutting your BrotherBands?...Why would you do that?...)" Val wondered, she couldn't get her mind off of it. Chroma stood strangely quiet, much to Val's obliviousness.

"OH MY GOD, LOOK EVERYONE! IT'S SONIA!!!" She approached a young boy, her face beginning to fluster

She quickly explained. "No, I'm not Sonia, You're mistaking me for someone else. . ."

"Then, why do you have the same colored hair as her?"

"This is just my hair, I didn't dye it."

"Or," He gave an angered expression and pointed an accusing finger at her! "You're just a Sonia impostor!!!"

"Wha?! No! I'm not! Believe me!" The boy was now followed by a group of angry people! She sprinted for her life, looking back once! "AHHH!" Her face went blue for a minute, then ran faster!

_

She finally made it to her house, losing a huge riot that's been hunting her down for a good half an hour. . .

"OK, you've done your part of the deal. Now, it's my turn to explain things. . ." Chroma came out of the Transer as she began organizing food items in her fridge. "The truth is... I wanted to check people's Transers because FM-ians might've been hiding there."

Val finished and they both went to her bedroom. "The FM-ians could be anywhere huh?" She assumed. He nodded in response, "Shoulda guessed... You coulda told me earlier, Chroma."

"I apologize. . ."

"There's no need for an apology, Chroma. But. . ." Val turned to lay on her belly while on her bouncy mattress. "Apology accepted anyways." She gave a sincere smile.

The alien felt something foreign inside of himself. 'I never expected a human to be like this... She's so different compared to others...'

*snore...* "I'm . . . gonna . . . dye my hair. . ." She mumbled.

'And a lot drowsier. . .' 

Then, there was a sudden shift in the air. . .

'?!' He turned towards the windowsill. 'They're here. . .'

Chroma gazed at Val and at her window. . .