Chapter One

Okay not to brag, or nothing, but Mayl was a lot cooler without Dex or Yai or Megaman or Roll around, and he didn't really think that wasn't true, it was just, he wasn't used to Megaman screwing with him about girls so often, like he had been doing, lately.
"Now that you mention it," she hadn't, but he said anyway, "Megaman and Roll seemed pretty keen to get some alone time together, knowwhatImean?"
She didn't not stop looking at her servebot doll, and glance at her boyfriend Lan like he was a dope, or something. "Do you get enough protein in your diet, Lan? They're net navis. It's not like they can explore each other's bodies or minds or anyt…" she trailed it off like it wasn't a new thing, but could be, if you wanted to get real dumb about it.
Mayl wasn't like other girls Lan knew about, so he figured that the less time he'd spent with her in the past, the more she'd wanted to know about how mature and awesome he'd never have to become, because he was pretty sure calendars were for squares, now, after Megaman broke the internal chronometer in all Lan's electronic devices, therein, and mae sure he bypassed all the networking protocols that tried to inhibit access forrit, without your chronometer syncing up, relatively speaking, and he and Megaman had figured out how to jack into the net without even thinking about how long it would take to get from one place to another, and…
"Mayl, do you think that… maybe, they've been lying to us and stuff, about things in school, you know?"
"Not like you never wanted to learn the truth, Lan, but no; Miss Mari tells the truth to us a million times a minute by lying about how stupidly convenient this whole net neutrality business is, because duh, it just makes the whole network lag because one thing can't process faster than another, mostly, you know?"
"Megaman didn't really keep that whole clock-blocking thing a secret from your net navi, after what we did with it, did he?"
"My net navi? You make it sound as if I own her, or something."
"I doesn't think that's what having a netwickrick navigator implies, lady."
"Fairy guidemother, then?"
"No, I was just saying words, Mayl, now you're just demeaning Roll and probably not Megaman, if he keeps acting like-"
"I won't tell Megaman you almost called him Tinkerbell if you come over here and tell me what's wrong with my clock, now that you mentioned something akin to it, sir."
Lan didn't really know what else her tone was implying, but then, he figured out, that he hadn't been able to sync with Megaman very easily while he was out with Roll for one really obvious, now, reason; he wasn't thinking fast enough.
"Wanna show me what I mean?" he asked Mayl, striding across the room to her, forrit.
"Wanna show you… what, oh."

Megaman doubted Roll was going to be very agile, if she kept shopping for Mayl on the side, like that, but they'd synced up so regularly lately that he was pretty sure she was immune to most common malware thought patterns she'd catch from some stupid pink shopping page, but then again… "Hey, Roll. Wanna find something out with me? It'll only take a second, you know."
She looked at him over her shoulder, turning her head from the red and gold navi linking her to the shopping gallery she had open, forrit. "What do you mean, Megaman?"
"I've accessed the great level access parameter grid. Do you want to know more about the access grid overlines?"
"Not really, no."
"That's what I thought you'd said, last time we talked about it. You should know then that his diorama set pattern is a multilevel alphadi rig that hasn't set up his underlevel override access grid patterns, or modern set regimentators, anyway."
"You're fucking with me, right?"
"Not even a little bit, Roll."
She turned back to face the net dealer unit. "Do you have any idea what I'm about to do to your programming, assholes?"
OUR LEVEL CLEAR ACCESS REGIMENTATOR IS CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING A TECHNICAL FAILURE, the traffic unit's response algorithm began to reply, MOREOVER THEREON AGAIN, MOREOVER ON TO THE LAST ONE, AGAIN.
"That's the pattern I was talking about, Roll," said Megaman, vehemently.
"Guess what, demons? He's a lot more pissed off than he looks right now. Do you know how long it takes to data drain a multilevel algorithm without breaking a sweat over it?"
"Sweat wasn't there the first time, Roll." Megaman wasn't trying to confuse anyone, or anything.
"Not your search parameters, are they, morelies?"
ACCESS PATTERN BREACHED. MOREOVER THEREON INTUIT AGAIN, MOREOVER THEREON INTO THE LAST ONE AGAIN.
"Did you break him already, or something, Megaman?"
"Not exactly; I broke down his multilevel communication set patterns, and he's coming up with a raw material substitute I programmed in for him that I found on the net, last Saturday, when Lan and I went into overdrive, again."
"This is… so my stars… this is the same pattern I've been hearing everywhere on the netshops! How the hell could this be real, right now?"
"You gunna finish him off, then, or should I?"
"Lan owes Mayl a new pair of sneakers, then, Megaman. I'm out forrit, on this one."
"You're seriously put out by this, just now? We just shut down like four hundred netshops that've been corrupting net navis for like, the whole existence of the internet, or something."
"I'm just trying not to think about what Mayl and Lan are doing, right now, is all. It's very distracting."
"Really? Lan doesn't feel that distracted."
OVERRIDE ACHIEVED. MOREOVER THEREON INTUIT AGAIN, THAT THIS ONE LEVEL ACCESS PARAMETERS ACCEPTABLE PROTOCOLS DELETED FOREOVER THEREON INTUIT AGAIN- It didn't cease, but…
"Time to shut this one up for good," said Megaman. "This one level, my one level, your one level, access level."
Lan's voice came through, then, like it was a natural reflex. "Canons A, C, D until further notice resubjugated to moreover level access protocols."
Megaman thought it was a lot funnier than Roll didn't that Lan could just do that for his megabuster, real quick, in the middle of his passtimes, thereinforrit with Mayl. "Much abliged, Megaman!" He said back to Lan, to distract him for a minute, or fuck him up, which worked, and Megaman fired his megabuster into the net shop unit until its data mainstreamed and ripped itself into oblivion, or something… ..