The next area was pretty much the same, just with different layouts and such.

When they both proceeded. . .

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!" A scream came out of nowhere!

"I recognize that scream!" Their companion said as they both tensed up.

"Yeah."

"Valor, look ahead..." Chroma replied with a bit of anger.

It was the giant red beast that was causing this whole mess, but it wasn't that part that got them surprised...

"Wh- Where are we?!"

"L- Luna?!? What's she doing here!? In fact. . . What's she doing over THERE?!" Val spoke worryingly and was confused.

Over at the very far edge of the Truck's CompSpace. . .

Luna continued, "Bud?? What were you thinking, bringing us to a place like this?!"

The red bull couldn't quite say much that sounded like Bud at all, "Mmmrrrrgh..... Mmmrrrghhh!! I'm gonna crush those punks! I'll show not just them, but you too, Prez! I'll show you just how strong I am!" He growled. "Mmmmrrrrgh! Now where are THEY HIDING!?"

"Hey! Are you listening to me? Answer me!" Luna shouted.

Flames erupted in between them, then, when they died down, Zack screamed. "Eek!"

They both took a step back in frieght! "Mmmrrrrgh! Don't waste your breath. Sweetie." The fiery alien responded. "Right now, he's completely under my control!!"

"Eek..." She uttered out in extreme fear. "Wh- who are you?!" She pointed at it, "You- you changed Bud into this, didn't you?!" She begged. "Please! Change him back!!"

"Mmrrrgh... Now, now!! Let me set a few facts straight for you. While I did, in fact, give him these powers, you, Prez, are the one who is responsible for his misery." It explained.

Luna was taken back, "wh- what? I said I would cut our BrotherBand, but I..." She fumbled over her words.

"Mmrrrgh! That's enough out of you! I don't care to hear anymore of your screams, so it's naptime for the two you! Mmmrrrrgh!!"

"Ahhhhhhh!"

"Argggggh!"

"Looks like something is going on there. . ." The boy in blue right next to her mumbled.

Val spoke seriously, "we need to hurry, I know he's over there." 'It's impossible for her to be here...let alone Wave Change...'

"You're right, but what are those two doing here in CompSpace?!" He too, was perplexed.

"FM-ians can change humans into waves." His partner replied.

Chroma hummed. "That is correct. They were too close to an FM-ian, so they were dragged along for the ride, as you humans would say."

"They got picked up by a real nasty one too." The other one added.

"A nasty one?" He had a bead of sweat rolling down his face, seemingly losing his courage.

"That's Taurus. He's one brutal guy who charges at things like a bull-headed cow he is." He scoffed.

"And you want me to fight a scary guy like him??" He questioned nervously, taking a look on his partner.

Valor chimed in, "He's not even that bad. He just. . . had us on a bad day..."

"He's strong, but he moves in straight lines. If you keep your cool, he's a pushover! If you want to save those two, then have some guts!! Let's go!!" The blue alien said, almost dragging his own partner from pulling his whole arm.

"Y- yeah!"

"Let's do this!"

They continued onwards, "Hiya!" One of them shouted as they slashed the little viruses in half, finishing off the last of them.

For now. . .

"*huff, huff*. . .Hey, you guys?" Val called and everyone directed their attention to her. "Is it me? Or are the viruses suddenly jumping up in numbers?"

As a few more came lurking around in their vicinity, they deleted some of them. Ayaka rolled her arms and shoulders, stretching in attempts to wash away some of her fatigue.

"She's right, hey, why's that?" *huff, huff*..." Her companion asked.

"It's probably because of that FM-ian, we tend to attract some enemies due to our energies we give off. At least it's nothing we can't handle, kid."

"Can't handle?" She laughed, "what about that little commotion back there? If we hadn't came..." Val cut herself off. "You know what, never mind. We're getting a bit off-topic here, we need to hurry."

She walked forward without looking ahead, since she was glancing at her ally in blue. "Wait, watch out!"

"Huh?" She turned her head. . .

*Bam!*

Only for her face to be kissing a gray, brick-like wall. "Oof!" She shook her head.

"Nice going, Val. . ." Chroma sweatdropped and huffed.

She bit back, "Oh shut up! Ow. Who's idea is it to place this here? Wait a sec!" They both scanned their surroundings, even the areas in the distance. "Hey, since when were these Rock Cubes ever here?" The cubes kept materializing in random places, they even disappear after some time has passed.

"Beats me, kiddo." Chroma hummed.

"Hey, look over there, pass that gate." They approached to the nearest path that leads to the left, "You see that purple, glowing square on the floor? What is that?" He asked.

"It's probably a warp point of some sort, right?" She asked her partner, which Chroma agreed.

The gate reads:
[Security in operation. . . Please present 4 TetraKeys.]

They all sighed at this redundance...

On the right, a bit further into the path, is a green-floored bridge, it had something that looks like "20•08".

Upon talking to Mr. Hertz; which is a blue EM being that looks somewhat like a Chao; says, "BEYOND HERE IS THE TRUCK'S STEERING SYSTEM."

Another gate blocks them.

"Four Tet.Keys. . . This'll better be that last we'll ever do this again." She whined slightly.

"Agreed. . ."

https://youtu.be/jjPt9tZAM9U

(MMSF : Virus Battle Theme)

When they did one trip on the bull programs, they fought more of those pesky EM Viruses, Mettenas weren't as common now; Salamader viruses were everywhere. Their flames don't really bother Val and Chroma though.

"Duck!" She bellowed, her 'ally' did as he told and moved out of her way like a mole. "Let's see how they can handle this!"

Valor readied herself, a fiery ring materialized into her hand; it crackled ferociously between her fingers. Valerie closed her eyes in a mere moment...

She took one step back and shifted her body a bit to the side as her arm extended to throw it; she snapped her eyes wide open as both her red eyes and Chroma's flashed for an unnoticeable second. "RAGHHHH!!" With great strength, she hurled it mightily to the enemies in front of them! They panicked as the flaming hoop rolled into them! "Blazing Boomerang!!" They all exploded into bits and vanished into nothing!

"Wow..." He was, at the same time, both amazed and frieghtened at his 'frienemy'.

The head on his hand wondered. "That was just a normal battlecard... FireRing1..." 'Why is it different than usual?'

Card Detail:

[FireRing1, 60 DMG: "A far-reaching, fire ring boomerang."]

"C'mon you guys, I pretty sure that we haven't got all day. Or.... Night. In this case. . ." Val waved.

"O-oh, hold on!" She ran ahead before she could even hear his response. 'It's a good thing they're on our side. . .' He thought worringly.

"You might as well head over to that control panel there for the key, kid."

It was a split, on the right was much more short, distance-wise, compared to the route Val Ayaka took.

He fixed the controls and something came out of the hatch from the control panel. . .

He obtained a Tet.KeyA!

The left, has a few turns for the tiresome bull riding. . .

Valor was ahead, she looked around and spotted something. It was a... "Blue Mystery Wave, wouldn't hurt to find out what it is!" To her, she honestly likes to see what they hold, the Mystery Wave in that color particularly has some pretty neat things.

Val examined the Blue Mystery Wave. . .

"Ya! I got a subcard: Sm.Energy!"
(Small Energy)

She used the subcard since she generously gave her D.Energy for her enemy, which still bugs Chroma. "That hits the spot, I feel so ready to beat that bull down!" Her partner growled excitingly as well as with a grudge.

Val took a quick look at where the next key is at, "I'll leave that to him while I get the other 2, I guess." From where she stood, she can see another one, but there was no path that leads straight there.

More of the annoying foes appeared!

"When will they realize that they'll just get destroyed when facing us??" She grumbled.

"They never will." Chroma answered.

'Rhetorical question there. . .' Val sighed inwardly. She fought them off flawlessly, seeing that their attack patterens was clear-as-glass predictable; enabling her to easily achieve Counters.

She found something that was dropped by an enemy, "180z, cool." She smiled.

(A/N: The currency is Zennys, if you forgot.)

She rode the little red bull, "Woah! This one's much more wild!!" Val quickly pressed the balancing buttons on it as it trampled all over the place non-stop. "AH! I lost my balance!!"

"Hey! Two more times and we'll BOTH be flying off!!" Her FM-ian warned.

'That's right, just like what that Mr. Hertz said... Aw, man... This won't be an easy one will it?'

The bull went crazy for at least more than six times, "I hate riding bulls!"

"Quit complaining and get those keys!"

'This is a bit tiring though. . .' She cried on the inside.

She repaired the control system and the item came out of the hatch.

Val got Tet.KeyC!

"Alright, now for the last one. . ." She has to ride the program one last time to reach the final key, the path was even longer, there was more turns, and she has a feeling that this won't be as easy as the other ones...

Valor mounted herself, and readied for the thrashing. "Waaah!" It jumped in every single direction, she missed one time!

When they were further, almost halfway, it started to go into a rampage again!

"Ack! I almost got a second miss!"

"Focus! I don't think you want to be thrown off!"

"That ain't helping me!" She didn't get it on time! "Eek! Now that's 2nd strike!"

After it calmed down, Valerie saw Luna and Zack unconscious, "It's them..." She knew she just got distracted... "Aw crud! I missed too many times!" She got thrown off! "AHHHHH!!"

"Brace yourself!" Chroma shouted.

*THUD!*

"OW!!" The crash was so unpleasant, that Val could've sworn she broke a bone or something on the way down... "Owowowow..."

-25 HP

[VALOR - 75 HP]

In the distance, they saw what happened to her.

"Ouch, that has got to hurt." The other FM-ian said. "Let's hope that doesn't happen to us, right kid?"

"O-OK. . ." He said with uncertainty.

When she took the ride again, she almost missed like last time, but Val made it nonetheless. "That'll be the last, I SWEAR."

"We still got to fight that big guy over there, you know that." Val herself slumped, they both sweatdropped.

"At least we got TetraKeyD!" She smiled briefly. A bit down below, she saw him. "Hey! I got Keys C and D! I'll take the warp and wait for ya there!"

'That kid has quite a bit of energy.' His partner thought.

Valerie took the warp point and ended up the very beginning, "It was like a gigantic loop we just did." She took a seat on the floor and sat criss crossed, crossing her arms and thinking.

"Valor. . ."

"Hrm. What is it?"

"So why did you refused to do the finishing blow?" Chroma asked begrudgingly.

"There's something about him that tells me that we're aiming for the wrong person. . ." She places a finger on her chin, er, the tip of Chroma's lower jaw.

"Aiming for the wrong person?" He scoffed. "Prove me wrong."

Val countered. "Heck, he doesn't even know what the Andromeda Key is. He doesn't seem like a bad guy either."

"You say that, but what can you say about his partner?" Chroma refuted. "We can't trust him, he's probably hiding things from that boy."

"Welp, no one instantly opens up to another person. So, we'll just wait and see." She took a pause, "besides, how would you know that? How would I know that you aren't doing the same thing??" He was caught off guard, dumbstruck for a bit. "Exactly.

"If you don't trust me so much, then why did you even let me stay in your Transer in the first place?" Chroma was very curious and perplexed.

Valor stayed quite for a moment, humming in thought. "To be honest... Even I'm not sure either. Well..." She paused, deep in thought. "You weren't doing so good, last time I checked when I first encountered you. You were being targeted too. . ."

"Because of the dire situation I was in... I had no choice but to turn to you."

She grinned. "It would've been so boring without you."

"What?"

"Seriously, without upon meeting you, I would've just continued my boring life. I saw that you needed help, so I wanted to help you anyways. Even if you're an alien."

"Gagh! Help?? You're making me sound weak! I was just... caught in a bad spot. . . Yeah. That's it."

Val could tell by the tugging around the arms and head, that he was possibly crossing his arms and turning his head to one side in disagreement, or embarrassment.

She stood up as a ray of light was shot down from the Warp Point, "What took you so long?"

"We're nearing the point of 'midnight'. The viruses are starting to grow restless."

"Then let's hurry."

They used the four TetraKeys to unlock the gate, then sprinted down the bridge to disable the other security gate.

"Crud! There's so many of them! Urgh, they're in the way." The duo stopped in their tracks, "You."

Her companion turned his gaze to her.

"Go, we'll hold them off." Val turned to the wave of enemies.

"To face that many ALONE? You..."

Valor cut him short, "Just go on ahead!" She yelled harshly, but when she turned to meet his gaze, "Don't worry, we'll be just fine." He had a sneaking suspicion that she was smirking as she ran off to fight the EM viruses.

Valerie whipped her arm to summon a burning blue blade, her mask activated and both of their eyes glowed as she took aim.

"Let's rumble Chroma."