ZOMG!!! I updated!!! "que people dying and screaming" the end of the world!!! TO THE BOMB SHELTER!! "puts on helmet and dives under bed"

"ahem" anyway... sorry this took so freakin' long to update... illness and crazy screwed up highschool kept me busy... and lack of ideas... "sighs" but now as I said, I am RE-WRITING the story as promised, here is the first chapter! sorry for the lack of a opening note... I currently have a fever of 103.3 but I felt I had to update since I hadn't and forced myself to the computer for you people "gives you all cookies" ok... me ish gonna go die now... please read and review!!! Thank you all my amazing loyal reviews and readers (you know who you are) I love you all


Chapter One
Memories from the Past

It was a calm, quiet summer morning in Den-Tec city. Most families were out walking together in the busy city streets, or having picnics in the parks. On the outskirts of the city, there was a small cliff that reached out over the rocky beach below, which lead out to the ocean. Around the cliff, it was very grassy, very green. The vegetation always seemed to he at it's healthiest. Many cherry blossom trees stood tall and blooming, their color perfect and far more pure then any of those in the city. It was almost like it's own mini paradise on earth.

Under of of the larger trees, a large navy blue blanket was spread, with a small group of people sitting on it. Four adults sat watching their children play tag around the small field, making sure none of them got hurt. Two of the children, identical twins a boy and a girl, belonged to Dr. Hikari and his wife. The other child, a small girl, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sakurai.

"Lan's it!" the female of the twins piped up, rushing past the other girl laughing after she had just tagged her brother, "Run Maylu! Don't let him catch you!" Maylu smiled at Lan apologetically before turning around and racing after the other girl,

"Wait for me Sakura!" she shouted, trying to keep up with the energetic girl.

"You're both going down!" Lan shouted, taking off after them, a big grin on his face. The parents laughed as they saw Lan trip on what looked like a stick, and the two girls stop, they walked forward slowly, unsure if he was ok or not, and shrieked and started laughing all over again as Lan yelled,

"GOT YA!" and jumped up, attempting to tackle and tag one of them. Of course it failed and he ended up tripping for real as the girls speed off again towards the cliff's edge, hoping to scare him away, since the boy didn't like going near the edge. Lan's mother placed a hand on her cheek in worry and muttered,

"Dear... shouldn't we call them back? They're getting to close to the edge..." Dr. Hikari smiled and wrapped an arm around his wifes shoulder,

"Don't worry, they know how close they're allowed to go, they're good children and follow the rules..." he said, but his eyes were focused on Sakura, who was much closer then he would have liked to said cliffs edge. Standing up he muttered,

"Perhaps you're right..." and started walking over, so as not to shout and startle her and send her over the edge. As he got close, Lan ran past him and towards the two girls. Maylu darted forward, ducking under Lan's arm and rushed towards her parents, hoping for a temporary base. Lan sighed and ignored Maylu for the moment and started towards his sister again.

Sakura laughed and took a few more steps back, not seeing that she was mere inches away from the cliffs edge. Dr. Hikari noticed this and panicked slightly, but kept his cool as he held out his hand to his daughter,

"Sakura honey..." he said gently, "Come here..." he stepped forward again and stopped as she took a step back, smiling,

"No way daddy! You're helping Lan!" she said, crossing her arms, "I'm not falling for that trick again." Dr. Hikari bit his lip, he had helped Lan with the same trick earlier, and he didn't want to risk her jumping back again by moving forward more. Opening his mouth to speak again he froze as he saw Lan dart out to tag his sister, who yelped loudly and jumped back. Too far back.

A scream was heard behind him from his wife, and he knew why. He jumped forward to grab his daughter, who had gone to far back and fallen over the cliff, but he wasn't fast enough. Lan, who realized what had happened before anyone else, ran to the edge and was about to jump off himself to get his sister, not knowing of the dangers below, but was grabbed from behind by his father. His mother ran over, close to hysterics and took her son as Dr. Hikari carefully climbed down the cliffs edge. Mr. Sakurai had pulled out his cellphone and dialed for medical help as his wife held a crying and scared Maylu back.

"Mommy!" Maylu sobbed into her mother's chest, "Where is Sakura... why did she fall... is she ok?" Maylu, even though she was young, wasn't stupid, and she knew that when people fell like that, it wasn't good.

"Shhh..." Mrs. Sakurai comforted her daughter, "It's alright hun, Sakura is going to be fine... her daddy is getting her now..."

Lan peered over the cliff, stretching himself as far as his mothers grip would allow him, he saw his father hunched over something, there was red all around him and whatever he was bending over. His father moved back and the small boy chocked on a scream. Down on the rocky cliffs, was his sister. Her eyes were closed and she was unmoving. Sticking out of her stomach, was a large jagged rock that she had hit upon impact. His eyes glazed over in fear and the last thing he remembered was his mother shouting his name, and the sounds of sirens before darkness took over and he fell limp.

Lan shot up in his bed, breathing hard, his hands were gripping the sheets tightly, and his knuckles were white. Looking around the room, panting hard, he sighed as he realized it had been a dream. That dream... the dream of the incident that had happened almost ten years ago. The image of his sister at the bottom of the cliff, bleeding, and as far as he knew, dying, was still stuck in his mind. The images would never go away, and almost every night, since he was four and until now a fourteen year old. Sighing, he pulled the sheets back and climbed out of bed. His legs felt like jell-o as he walked, and he was trembling. His pajamas were soaked in sweat, and his eyes still wide with fear.

He walked into the small bathroom in his bedroom, and turned on the light, looking at his reflection in the mirror. He was pale and shaky, he looked someone who had just had the life scared out of them. Reaching a hand up, he poked his face, it was so pale, who could barely believe it was his own. Turning on the tap, he splashed his face with cold water, still pushing the vivid images of the cliff out of his mind.

When he looked up at himself again, he sighed in slight relief. He wasn't as pale as he had been a few minutes before, and he had stopped shaking. He walked back into his bedroom and opened his closet. Pulling out his normal attire of shorts, shirt and vest, he slipped them on and sat down at his desk, staring dully at the blank computer screen, still attempting to gain control of his senses again.

Next to him on the desk, sat a small blue machine, a PET dock. Inside the PET his net-navi, Megaman, slept in a small bed programed into the PET. Hearing movement in the room, Megaman had woken up and was now watching Lan with worried eyes. He'd seen the pictures of Lan and Sakura sitting on the desk, and heard the story from both Dr. Hikari, and even a sobbing Lan himself one night when he had woken up from having the dream the fourth time that week, and had finally broken down.

Megaman sighed sadly, he hated the fact that he could do nothing more then talk soothingly to his net-op, in hopes he might calm down before his mother came in. Opening his mouth to talk, he stopped as he heard the link behind him activating. A net-navi that looked much like himself in "Proto-soul" form appeared, ((SEE PROFILE FOR PICTURE!!!)) the navi smiled slightly and walked over, looking out of the screen of the PET,

"Did he have that dream again?" a gentle voice said, it was much like Megaman's, but smoother, gentler and much more feminine sounding,

"Yeah... how's Sakura?" The navi next to him shook her head and sighed,

"Not changes at all... she's still off life support, but she just can't seem to wake up..."

"I see..." he sighed and looked away from Lan for a moment to smile at the female navi next to him,

"How have you been Blaze?" he asked, hoping to lighten the mood for them a bit,

"Not much Mega..." she said, pushing the navi symbol on the side of her helmet, causing the green visor in front of her eyes to slide up, and reveal green eyes that matched his perfectly, "I've been training with some of the medical navi's and other patients and their visitors custom navis... no offense to them... but you're the only one who proves challenge to me... and even then we both end up collapsing at the end..." Megaman gave her a stern look,

"Sis... you haven't been doing anything ruthless have you?" Blaze laughed and grinned,

"No no, I'm innocent... don't worry, I hold back big time on anyone who wishes to battle. If I went all out, I would've deleted over half by now..."

"That's why I worry..."

"You're stronger them me!"

"Yes, well I hang around stronger navi's and I get better training..."

"You suck..." Megaman laughed lightly and turned back to Lan, the smile fading as he saw his operator with his face in his arms, resting on the desk,

"Lan?" he asked gently, walking closer to the screen, "You ok?" he asked, wishing more then anything he could hug his 'brother' and help more. Nodding, head still in his arms, Lan sat up slowly and turned to Megaman, smiling. His eyes were red, it was obvious he had been crying, but Megaman let it drop, Lan never liked to talk about his sister when asked, everyone would have to wait for him to bring it up, or else he'd stay silent and say nothing on the matter. No one could blame him, after what he'd seen, but it didn't stop people from worrying.

The link behind them opened again and a pink navi appeared. Megaman turned around and blushed as Blaze snickered.

"R-Roll!" he said, smiling happily at the female navi, "What brings you here so early?" Roll smiled lightly at Megaman, her own blush lightly dusting her cheeks. She pushed it away as she smiled sadly,

"Maylu saw Lan's light on... she's coming over now.." Lan stood up, walking over to the window, and dropped down a rope ladder down from the balcony that was outside his room on the second floor. It was a habit for him, normally whenever he'd had the dream, he would call Maylu or go to her house himself. Most of the time, Maylu would see his light on when she woke up, and send Roll over to warn him of her arrival.

Sure enough, a few minutes later, Maylu was opening the sliding glass door and slipping inside. She made her way silently over to Lan, who was standing by his bed, staring at the wall dully. Wrapping her arms around him in a gentle hug, she eased him down, so that they were both sitting on the bed. Lan turned and hid his face in Maylu's chest, hugging her tightly as he began sobbing silently all over again. Maylu frowned, a sad look in her eyes as she rubbed her hand up and down Lan's back. They had only been four, but Sakura and Lan had been closer, closer then she and Lan were now, and they'd known each other for almost fourteen years now.

Roll watched the two of them for a few minutes, the same sad look in her eyes. She held Megaman's hand tightly in hers, seeing them like this mad her want to cry herself. Blaze watched the other four in silence. Megaman had wrapped his arms around Roll and was now hugging her, he didn't want to see her in tears too. A small beeping filled the PET and an e-mail appeared in front of Blaze. Opening the navi sighed and waved to the two navis staring at her,

"Sorry... nurses want be back... training begins in a few hours and I'm in charge of Sakura's schooling."

"Oh... right, they send knowledge into her brain or something right?" Roll asked, pulling away from Megaman very slightly,

"More or less... it's a simulator they use... sort of like the machines net-ops can use to get into the net, or the bots net-navi's can use to come to the human world... just..." she frowned crossing her arms and looking thoughtful,

"It's like... um... a machine... that...sends knowledge into your brain like..."

"Like in the Matrix?" Megaman said, smiling, hoping to sound helpful. Blaze blinked then laughed,

"Yeah, something like that, only no Smiths or Neo's or world saving is needed in the end."

"You're one to talk..." Megaman said darkly, frowning.

"Aw... I help!" Megaman laughed and smiled, "I'm messing with you sis, you should hurry back before they send more." Blaze nodded and ran off towards the link,

"I'll stop by later today to tell you if anything has changed or not!"

"Right, thanks." Megaman said, nodding,

"Bye Blaze." Roll called after the dark navi as she disappeared into the link. Megaman turned and looked at the clock, eyes wide,

"Shoot! Lan! Maylu!" Maylu looked up from her comforting of Lan and frowned questioningly at Megaman.

"Sorry..." he said, looking guilty, "But... you two have to be at school in thirty minutes... why don't you two go downstairs and grab some poptarts for the walk eh?" Maylu nodded, and helped Lan up. They walked into the bathroom, and the faucet was heard as Lan washed his face again. Lan grabbed his PET, and Roll jacked out and back into her own, which Maylu had brought with her.

They both walked downstairs, and Mrs. Hikari smiled at the both, it wasn't unusual for Maylu to come downstairs with Lan these days, and the mother was grateful that Maylu was able to comfort in Lan in ways she couldn't.

"Good Morning..." she said kindly, holding out a pack or wrapped chocolate poptarts for the both of them, "Sleep well?"

"Thank you Mrs. Hikari..." Maylu said, taking them both and handing one to Lan, who was much calmer and in a better mood now,

"Pretty good, and yourself?" The women smiled,

"I slept find, thank you Maylu." Lan walked into the kitchen, grabbing two water bottles and a paper towel. Walking back over to Maylu he smiled gently at the girl, then looked back at his mom,

"We gotta head out, see you after school mom."

"See you later, have a good day." his mother replied, smiling at the both of them as they headed out the door

Den City, Den Private Hospital, Second Floor, Room 234, 9:02am

Several large machines sat around a bed, several different wires that came from each of them lead down to a small figure in the only bed in the room. A girl with long brown hair laid silent and unmoving in the bed. Next to her bed, near her head, a table sat, on it was a laptop, and a PET that resembled Lan's only black in color and not the usual blue. The laptop was on and plugged in, on the screen, Blaze stared out at the girl, a sad look on her eyes.

Her net-op, or who would be her net-op when she woke up laid in the bed. Blaze sighed to herself, she had been told the story of her master many times by the nurses. She had been created at the same time as Megaman, by Dr. Hikari himself. While it was unlikely his daughter would ever wake, he still stayed determined in the matter, and refused to believe that she was gone. Whenever he updated Lan's PC, or anything, he'd to the same to Sakura's. A second bed still sad in Lan's room, on the opposite side of the room as his, and a second desk by it held her PC, a very nice one that matched her brothers.

Blaze sat down silently, watching Sakura, in her heart she knew it would be another day of disappointment, but her eyes and mind held hope that today would be different. They'd all gone through enough pain, and she didn't want to see any more tears of sadness coming form the Hikari's... or the Sakurai's. Glancing at the clock Blaze sighed again, it would be another five or so hours before Lan and Maylu made their daily visit. While Blaze didn't mind waiting for Sakura to wake up, seeing Lan, Maylu and their net-navi's were the only silver lining in Blaze's life thus far, other then program updates from Dr. Hikari.

Standing up, she turned towards the link in the laptop she was hoping to sneak off into the Internet to find a game to entertain herself with and get back before anyone noticed she was gone. Jumping g as she heard something behind her, she wiped around, an excuse ready to fly out of her mouth at whoever might ask what she was doing. Seeing no one in the room she frowned, a cyber sword appearing on her arm, eyes darting around the screen. Taking a step forward, she froze as she heard a small groan and the rustling of covers.

Gasping loudly, she send an alert to the nurses and ran over to the edge of the screen, looking down upon the bed, where Sakura Hikari was moving under the covers. A few moments later, the girls eyes slowly opened, and the chocolate brown eyes that matched her brothers so well, were slowly revealed. Grunting, she sat up and looked around, frowning. She put together she was in a hospital, and looking down she knew what the wires were for, but why she was there...she shut her eyes and put a hand to her forehead as she thought back to the last thing she remembered seeing.

Flashes of the day at the cliff filled her mind and her eyes shot open again as she looked around,

"So... I'm...ok?" she muttered, eyes falling outside the window. Everything looked different, but she understood what was going on, she saw things outside, and knew what they were, which confused her. A small sob from her left caused her head to turn. Her eyes fell upon the laptop, and the navi inside,

"You're... a net-navi..." she said softly, turning so that her pale legs were hanging off the bed, reaching out, she picked up the PET from it's stand, which Blaze quickly jacked out into,

"And...this is a PET..." she said, looking at the screen, "Are you... my net-navi?" she asked, seeing the symbol on the side of her head.

"Dad used to draw that all the time on his work papers... are you my dads?" Blaze shook her head, smiling,

"No... I'm yours... Dr. Hikari made me... just as he made Megaman..."

"Megaman...?" Sakura repeated, frowning slightly,

"Yes he's..."

"I remember the name... the strong blue navi... I remember seeing the news reports in my dreams... he got hurt... many times... but the pink navi... Roll.. and the red one...I can't remember his name... they helped him a lot."

"Yes! That's right! Wow, machines around here work well... the Roll is Maylu's net navi... and the red one..." she paused,

"I don't know... I've only met Roll... he might be Protoman, who belongs to a boy named Chaud... he's Lan's best friend... Megaman talks about Protoman often... you'd think he was Protoman's brother sometimes and not mine..."

"Oh... Megaman is Lan's...?"

"Yeah, Megaman is Lan's net-navi." Sakura smiled,

"That makes sense... Lan was always a big computer nerd like daddy and me.. it figures he'd be the strongest..."

"Hey hey! Don't down me like that..."

"Net-navis get stronger when trained... I haven't..."

"No, I trained with the nurses, Lan... Maylu and other people here."

"Oh... I see..." Sakura said, looking around again,

"Where...?"

"Den City, a private hospital, Dr. Hikari would only allow the best for you." Sakura nodded, showing she had heard as she tried to stand up,

"Wait Sak.." Blaze fell silent as Sakura stumbled slightly, but was able to stand without to much trouble. She took a few steps forward, looking almost like a small child who was just learning to walk, but she managed not to fall. She made her way closer to the window, but the wires only allowed her about halfway there.

Sighing in frustration, she looked down at the wires and was about to reach for one when Blaze said,

"I wouldn't, the nurses are coming soo-" she was cut off as the door slammed opened, scaring Sakura and causing her to fall over in shock, still clutching the PET close to her.

"My god... Ms. Hikari..." a nurse rushed over and helped Sakura up again, checking her over, "My god... you're already standing and... can you understand...?"

"I understand you fine Ms..." Sakura said quietly, her voice wasn't raspy, but since she hadn't used it, it wasn't loud either, "Blaze told me about a machine you used... to help me learn... it worked fine, thank you for the assistance..." The nurse blinked turning to Blaze,

"Just what level did you...?" Blaze scratched the back of her head sheepishly,

"Sorry... I think I set it a tad to high... I wasn't sure how it would work... the only setting I could get was freshmen..."

"She would be a ..."

"At collage..." The nurse gapped at Blaze,

"Blaze! We told you to..."

"Excuse me Ms... my brother, Lan... Blaze told me that he visits me daily...when is school released for him...? Might I see him soon?" The nurse smiled kindly,

"Not now I'm afraid... we have to run some tests and make sure everything is alright... I'd say a week at the latest... then you can go home and tell everything you're alright... that is to say if you continue recovering at this rate... already standing and walking... thats amazing..."

Den-Tec City, Lan's House, 3:36pm

"Mom! I'm home!" Lan shouted, walking through the door.

"Welcome back." his mom said, sticking her head out form the kitchen, "Hello Maylu." she greeted the girl next to Lan with a smile,

"Have a good day at school?"

"Yes, thank you Ms. Hikari." Maylu said smiling, "Lan aced his Math test."

"Did he?" Mrs. Hikari turned to her son, "Well done Lan, I'm proud of you, and I'm sure when I tell your father he will be too."

"Mooommmm!" Lan moaned, "I'm not like I was in elementary anymore!" Maylu giggled and smiled,

"That's right, he's at the top of his classes, just like me Ms. Hikari, although he's still and idiot at heart."

"Hey!" Both girls laughed as Lan blushed and growled, walking towards the stairs, "I'm gonna grab my roller blades, I forgot them this morning, then we can head over to the hopsiptal."

"Visiting Sakura again?" Mrs Hikari said gently to Maylu as the younger girl watched Lan go upstairs,

"Yeah... he always visits her ASAP when he has the dream..." Mrs. Hikari walked out of the kitchen and sighed,

"Hard to believe it's been almost ten years now... and still nothing..." she sighed and looked down sadly, "We're all saddened by it... but I think Lan's the worse... and I'm their mother... I should be the saddest... I feel... guilty somehow..." Maylu smiled,

"Don't worry Mrs. Hikari... don't down yourself like that, the only thing that would worry me is if you didn't care at all, you care very much, thats the point, not a contests to see who is the worst off..." Mrs. Hikari smiled and nodded at Maylu,

"Yes... I know... just the rantings of a mother... you're such a good girl Maylu..." she said before turning and walking back into the kitchen. A few minutes later Lan came downstairs, he smiled at Maylu and opened the door when a beeping filled the room.

"Wha-?"

"Lan!" it was Blaze in his PET, pulling it out he looked at it, seeing a smiling Blaze,

"What's up?" he asked, frowning, "What's got you so chipper all of a sudden?"

"Nothing really, sorry to say, but the hospitals visits are closed for you."

"WHAT?!" Lan shouted, earning a look from Maylu who peered over his shoulder,

"Why?" she asked, looking worried, "Is she...?"

"Don't worry, everything is fine, no visits for a week ne?" And with that, she disappeared again into the link. Lan's eyes fell on Megaman who shrugged and said,

"Don't look at me, your dad programed her."

One Week Later, Den-Ctiy blah blah hospital blah... WITH SAKURA!

Sakura stood at the doors of the hospital. She was wearing blacks shorts with a white stripe up both legs, an orange vest and a long sleeve white shirt with black squares on the elbows.

"Alright, here's the..." the nurse paused, looking at Sakura, "Dear you don't need me to tell you all this do you?" Sakura smiled,

"No ma'am, I'll be fine, I understand everything just fine, your machines here work really well." the nurse beamed and hugged her,

"You're your brothers spitting image, thats for sure... if it wasn't for you hair people would think you were him... or the other way around, it doesn't matter..." Sakura laughed and pulled a hair clip from her pocket, clipping up her hair, causing her bangs to fall over the light blue headband with the Hikari navi symbol on it, causing her to look even more like Lan.

"Well dear, good luck... and have a wonderful life." Sakura nodded again and started out the door,

"Oh! And dear?" Sakura turned back,

"Don't worry about money, your family is still very well off, and your father and brother still put money in your own bank account, so a train ticket won't be a problem, your mother knows you're coming, and given the time, your brother will be back from school about an hour after you get home."

"Thanks." Sakura said before waving, attaching the rollerblade attachments to her shoes, and taking off down the road towards the train station.

"Sakura?" Blaze called to her net-op as they waited at the train station,

"Yeah Blaze?" she replied, pulling out the PET to see the screen,

"How do you think Lan will react to seeing you?" she asked, knowing full well the boy would be over the top about seeing her again, alive and well.

"..." Sakura was silent for a moment as she looked up at the sky, "I don't know..." she finally muttered, sighing, "Hopefully... he'll be happy so see me... I really want to see him..." she smiled, "I want to go on adventures with him, and Maylu... the ones the machine showed me... they seemed like to much fun..." she looked down at the screen, "I wanna net-battle and make friends! Sure, there's school true, I'll do that on the side, but I wanna kick back relax and enjoy the rest of my childhood." Blaze smiled sadly,

"You never had a full one..." Sakura shrugged,

"Don't mind, because it happened to me, it won't happen to someone else eh? Not likely anyway." Blaze chuckled, she even sounded and acted like her brother, and they hadn't hung out in almost ten years. A whistle filled the air and Sakura stood up, walking forward and waiting at the edge of the yellow line until the train pulled up and the doors opened with a 'swish'. Stepping inside, she made her way towards the back of the train, into the food car.

Sitting down she sighed and leaned her forehead against the glass of the window, it was hot out, so the cool glass, along with the box cars AC was nice relief from the heat. The trip took about forty-five minutes, and like most train trips, it was fairly boring. For most of the trip, Sakura talked to Blaze about what she'd missed over the years, how things were going at home, enjoyed a soda and some fries and played a game of cards with a friendly old man.

"Next stop, Central Den-Tec City station." a womens voice came over the intercom, "Please make sure you have all your belongings such as bags, wallets, coats, PET's and other such items, thank you for riding Den-Rail, please travel with us again." Sakura stood up, bowing to the old man before she left and started towards the door when he called after her,

"You look a lot like that Hikari boy... the one who always seems to be helpin' people in this city... you act like 'im too..." Sakura chuckled,

"My name is Sakura Hikari, it was a pleasure to meet you sir." she smiled, waving before heading out the door into the station. Swinging the duffel she had gotten from the nurse over her shoulder and walked up the stairs into the sunlit city streets. Looking around she smiled,

"Still just how I remember it..." she said, taking a right and st starting down the side walk. She crossed two roads and a few minutes later saw a large familiar pink house. Stopping in front of it she smiled,

"Maylu still lives here... thats good to know..." turning to face forward again she looked up at her own house. Taking a deep breathe she walked up to the door and sighed,

"Well... ready or not... here I come..." she muttered, reaching up and knocking on the door.