Protoman's Little Kitten

By: Allison Hillman

"Protoman, have you found the data yet," Chaud asked from the screen above.

"Not yet Chaud, sir," said Protoman.

Chaud was having Protoman search the web for information on a small company that IPC was sponsoring. Apparently they had the technology needed to create the latest P.E.T. programming system. Protoman was searching their website to see what kind of reputation the small organization had with other companies when making business deals. Chaud's father had wanted him to do as much research as possible to make sure that this deal didn't blow up in their faces. It wasn't a very important deal but Chaud's father didn't tolerate failure. It made his company look bad.

Just then Protoman heard something. It sounded like someone screaming. "Chaud sir did you hear that,' Protoman asked.

"Yes Protoman. I did. You should go check it out," Chaud said calmly.

Protoman rushed to the source of the screaming. There was a blonde cat like navi being attacked by several mettaurs.

"Help," the poor girl screamed.

Protoman jumped over the viruses and grabbed the girl before deleting the viruses. He held the girl in his arms and looked her over. She had burns and a large gash on her leg. There was no way she could have taken all this damage from a couple of minor viruses. She let out a soft whimper before passing out.

When the girl awoke she was in a strange home page. It looked like it was designed for business. She didn't know where she was or what she was doing here she just needed to leave. She tried to get up but pain shoots up her leg and she falls to her knees. Then a tall silver haired navi logged onto the homepage. She was scared even more. Protoman approached the shaking girl and kneeled down so that he was at her level. "Good your awake," he said firmly.

His harsh tone scared her even more and he realized he should try to keep his voice in a kind caring tone. Something he wasn't used to doing. "Errr…sorry I didn't mean to frighten you," he said in a gentler tone, "Are you feeling any better."

The girl didn't know what to say. She was still very confused. Protoman let out a sigh, "Lets try something simpler, like your name."

"My name," she asked.

She went into deep thought but she couldn't remember. "I can't remember," she stammered, "I..I can't remember anything."

"That's strange," Protoman said concerned.

"Protoman."

Protoman looked up. Chaud was on the screen above. "Have you found out anything?"

"Chaud sir, yes! It seems that she has lost her memory," Protoman said quickly.

"I see," Chaud said, " Here apply this to her wounds. I' going to see if I could get someone over here to help."

He inserted a navi heal program into the P.E.T. "Wait," the girl said "Who are you? Where am I?"

She seemed about to cry. "It's okay. I'm Protoman and that was my operator, Chaud Blaze. You are on his homepage."

"Oh," she said, "Then who am I?"

"We don't know," Protoman said truthfully, looking her over. She was slender with hot pink and black strips on her arms and legs. She had white paws and face. Her stomach was black with whit in the middle. She was blonde with blue eyes and a little cat nose with whiskers. Sticking out of her hair was to black and pink cat ears. She even had a smooth black and pink striped tail.

"Here let me get rid of those burns," Protoman said.

He applied the program and the burns disappeared. The gash how ever did not. The program he had used was only designed for minor injuries. The gash would have to heal on it's own. He then slowly wrapped a large Band-Aid around the gash to protect it. She studied him closely. He seemed to be a nice guy but they had only just meet so she would judge him later. For now she would trust this Protoman guy. When he finished she thanked him and tried to stand. She was on her feet but as soon as she thought that she could stand she fell. Protoman caught her just in time though. They were so close that their noses were almost closes. The cat like navi let out a little purr. Protoman blushed, which surprised him. He usually was very careful about showing any emotion. He cleared his throat and laid her down carefully. "Well you should get some rest," the confused red navi said, "You seem to have been through a lot today."

She smiled at him. He was right and she was tired. She lay down and closed her eyes. She was asleep in no time at all. Chaud appeared on the screen above. "How is she," he asked.

"She is doing much better Chaud Blaze sir. She is resting now," Protoman replied.

"That's good but I can't help wondering who she is and how she got this way," Chaud said with a wondering look on his face.

"Chaud sir were you able to find anyone willing to help," Protoman asked.

"Yes but it's only Hikari. I doubt he'll be able to do much," Chaud said frowning.

"Oh well," Protoman said, "We have another problem as well. We have no way of identifying her. She has no name that we know of."

"We'll ask her about it tomorrow when Hikari gets here. Hopefully he won't bring his friends. For now we should get some sleep," Chaud said.

"Right Chaud sir," Protoman said going into sleep mode. For some reason though he thought about the girl and a faint smile formed on his lips before completely falling a sleep.

At eight o'clock exactly he awoke. He woke Chaud up next like he did every morning. As Chaud got up and started his normal every day routine Protoman thought that he would check on the girl. He felt different, almost cheerful. He logged onto the homepage to find the girl siting on the floor grooming her self like a cat. Licking her paws and rubbing them on her face.

"Good morning," Protoman said almost happily, "I see your feeling better."

She looked up and smiled. "Good morning Protoman," she said her tail soundly thumping on the floor.

She tried to stand up but couldn't. "I still can't seem to get up on my own," she said sadly.

"Here," he leaned down and carefully helped her to her feet, "Is that better."

"Yes. Thank you," the cat said happy to be off the ground.

"Today you are going to meet someone new," Protoman said.

"Really that sounds fun," she said cheerfully.

"Our hope is that he would recognize you, or have seen you around Net City," Protoman said truthfully.

"What's he like," she asked curiously.

"Well," he thought for a moment, "He is very caring and most navis seem to enjoy his company."

"He sounds a lot like you," she said kindly.

"Well… not really," he said confused.

"Oh come on. You took me in even though you didn't now who I was. You saved me from those viruses and I thank you for all of it. I don't know how anyone couldn't enjoy your company or think that your not a good person," she said her eyes glowing with happiness.

"Oh," he said taken aback by her words. No one had ever said something that kind about him and he certainly wasn't expecting those words.

"Something," wrong she asked concerned.

"It's just… oh nothing. He'll be here soon and he might bring his friends so you should get ready," he said deciding it was best not to tell her what most people usually thought of him.

Lan walked up to Chaud's office door and knocked. It opened automatically. "Hello," Lan said looking around.

"Come in Hikari," Chaud said from his seat behind his desk.

"What's up. You sounded stressed," Lan asked scratching his head.

All of the sudden Dex fell into the room followed by the rest of his friends. "Dex I told you to keep up," Lan said annoyed.

"Sorry," he said getting up off the floor. Maylu let out a little giggle.

"Chaud, I hope you don't mind, I brought my friends along," he said embarrassed by Dex's entrance.

"Not at all," Chaud said irritably, "I hate to admit it but I'm going to need as much help as I can get."

"With what," Lan asked confused. Chaud had been a little shaky on the details.

Chaud then explained the whole story from beginning to end. "Wow," Lan said, "That is a problem,"

"Yes and we were hoping that maybe Megaman would recognize her and I guess you bringing your friends along will probably increase our chances," Chaud said deep in thought.

"Alright lets jack in and see what we can find out," Lan said happy to help out.

"You to Roll."

"Same for you Gutsman."

All of the operators jacked their navis into the computer on Chaud's desk. Standing in front of the navis was the nameless cat navi. "Hello," she said trying to think of what to give as an introduction.

"Hello. I'm Megaman. This is Roll, Gutsman, Glide, and Iceman," the blue navi said kindly.

Protoman walked up from behind them, "Good you're here."

Iceman jumped up and whirled around, "Gosh don't do that. You almost gave me heart attack," the Eskimo like navi said in a state of panic.

The girl gave a little giggle. Protoman let a faint smile show on his lips. "Chaud explained the situation I assume," he said resuming his usual attitude.

"Yeah. He did," Megaman agreed, "I don't think I've ever seen or meet her before." This thought was unanimous.

The girl sighed. She wanted to have a name so badly. "We also have another problem she needs a name. So that we can identify her," Protoman said reading her expression.

"I don't know lets ask her what she would like to be called," Roll suggested.

"Good idea," said Megaman turning to face the cat like navi, "What would you like to be called?"

"I don't know," she said, "I want to know what Protoman would like."

They all turned to look at Protoman. "Errr… well…I don't know," Protoman stammered.

"Oh come on Protoman please," she said with a mock begging tone in her voice.

"Let me think," he pondered for a moment. The name had to be simple and suite her personality, "How about Kitten." He shocked himself at how childish the name was but it was the best he could come up with.

"I like it," Roll said, "It's a cute name."

"Me to," said the girl.

"Kitten it is," Megaman said like he was making a declaration.

"Thanks Protoman," Kitten said beaming.

Protoman blushed, "It wasn't that big of a deal." Once again he was acting weird. He was never shy and he was blushing again.

Megaman was watching Protoman. He could tell. Something was up. Protoman was never this open at all. Megaman decided that he would keep an eye on Protoman to see if he kept up the strange behavior. "Kitten do you remember Net City," Roll asked breaking into Megaman's train of thought.

"No, what's Net City," Kitten wondered.

"We can take you if you'd like," Protoman said. Once again surprising him self with his openness.

"Chaud sir could we take Kitten to Net City? It could jog some of her lost memories," Protoman added in quickly.

Chaud looked confused for a moment but hesitantly said, "Ye-yes Protoman you can. Good idea."

The operators logged their navis in to Net City. "What's with Protoman," Lan asked when the netnavis had disappeared.

"Yeah," Maylu added, "He's acting kind of funny?"

"I don't know," Chaud said with a curious look on his face. The navi's sudden change was very puzzling.

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"Look at that," Kitten shouted gleefully running over to a near by shop and peering into the window, "What are those?" She was starring in at a bunch of cyber gold fish swimming around in a large tank. Protoman smiled and walked over, "Those are fish," he said admiring her child like innocence.

"Wow, Protoman really likes Kitten," Roll said watching the two of them observe the fish.

"No kidding, guts," Gutsman commented.

"It's weird. He seems happy. I didn't know he could be happy," Iceman said with a shudder.

"That's not very nice guys. Give him a break," Megaman said trying to defend his silver haired friend.

"It's true," said Roll sadly, "This is the happiest I've ever seen him. I wonder why he doesn't act like this all the time?"

"I don't know but it has to have something to do with that new girl," Megaman said doubting his own words.

"You don't think," Roll cut her self off.

"No couldn't be guts guts," Gutsman said.

"Eeeeek…." Kitten screamed. A large dog was chasing her. She ran up a near by tree and began to hiss at the beast.

"We had better help Protoman get rid of that dog," Iceman said exasperated.

"Wait," Megaman said.

Protoman scared the dog away with a few slashes of his sword. Megaman and his friends watched Protoman gently help her get out of the tree. She looked very embarrassed. Protoman was smiling again.

"Yep that settles it Protoman is in love," Megaman said with an absolute tone.

"Ahhhhh…that's so sweet, I never thought it would happen. It's just so cute," Roll cooed.

"We had better not bring it up with Protoman though. We may know but I don't think he does yet," Megaman suggested.

"I hope she feels the same way. Having your first love turn you down really hurts," Roll said wisely.

"The really sad thing she doesn't have any of her memories so it's going to be really hard for those two to have a relationship," Iceman said.

"Wait guys I think we may be getting a little a head of our selves. Let's just wait and see what happens before we jump to the conclusion that their soul mates," Megaman said quickly.

"Yeah your right," Roll said, "But I'd still like to help with this in any way I can."

"Me too guts guts," Gutsman cheered, happy to help Roll in any way possible.

"Hey guys come on," Kitten yelled.

"Coming," Megaman yelled back, "We had better keep up them."

When they finally did catch up they found Protoman sitting on a bench well Kitten chased a butterfly. "Hey Protoman," Megaman shouted.

Protoman kept his eyes on Kitten the whole time as if he felt that if he looked away she would vanish.

"Protoman," Megaman said as the others went over to try and catch the butterfly too, "Are you all right. You seem different." He didn't want to give it up that they already knew he liked her.

"To be honest," Protoman said looking over at him, "I don't know." Protoman got up.

"I don't know," he repeated.

Megaman thought for a moment. He doesn't know what love is does he? That had never accrued to him.

"Well describe it," Megaman said waiting for Protoman's reaction.

"Well…when ever I'm around her I act strangely, different. Like another person," he said this realizing how open he was being again. He was getting used to it but it still bothered him.

"You really like her don't you," he asked not expecting Protoman to give him an answer.

"Forget I said anything got it," Protoman said angrily. Megaman knew something that he didn't and it wasn't making him anymore willing to ask.

A/N: I know I've already used this 'Kitten' or Flow character in a different story but to tell you the truth I wrote this before I wrote that one. This is the first one I ever made and well it's also the longest one so far. I just found it well I was looking for something and decided to read it because I forgot it and it seemed good to me so I decided to post it. Review for more! I won't write any if no one wants me to because well I need inspiration!