Hey everyone I'm back. I've hit a block for "Awakening" so I'm starting this story for now. Just a few notes about it!
1. In this "universe" people's PET's have become their smart phones.
2. I have created my own character for the first time and she has an Iphone!
3. REVIEW!
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Megaman or any of the characters except for the one i made up.
Geeze...I've never done something like this...He said writing about all of it would help me...deal with it. I guess I should tell you my name...It's Margaret Engill and I'm a net savior.
Sorry you know what this isn't going to work... I shouldn't start in the middle like that, it can get confusing. Alright... the beginning well I guess it all started when I got this weird email...
Two years ago
"Email for you sir." Said an awfully robotic voice from my phone. It was my replacement netnavi X. I say replacement because my actual netnavi was gone. Don't worry he wasn't deleted or anything, we had a fight and well he went solo and now I'm stuck with this piece of crap that I threw together in a rush.
Getting ahead of myself again. You should probably know that I build and program netnavis; and well, I had made one that I had named Hawkman, me and him were sorta like freedom fighters or something. I don't know, we saw a problem we took care of it end of story got out of there before the officials would show up. But it was never enough for Hawkman, he wanted to do more and security was getting tighter in the areas that kept springing problems so I suggested that we lay low for awhile or work on becoming officials. He didn't like that very much and we had an argument. In the end he ran off and I haven't seen him since. That was about four months ago.
"Piece of crap...If I have to restart you one more time because that stupid piece of shit speech program is on the fritz I'm going to throw you into the undernet." I said under my breath as I reached out to grab my phone.
I saw the little red "1" over my mail icon and ignored it for the time being and turned back to my monitors. I was sitting in my "lab" which was really three computer monitors hooked up to my pc. But hey college student, tight budget, got the job done, yada yada yada. If you must know I was trying to track down any trace of Hawkman, just to make sure that he was still ok.
"X have you found anything in that area?" I asked him. He was nothing special, grey humanoid armor with a grey face mask and no navi mark. I had jacked him in to analyze some data that I had found at a battle site.
"Email for you sir." Was all X said.
I sighed in frustration, on my last nerve with this thing.
"Maybe I should have spent more than a few hours on you...fine let us take a look at this." I said as I picked my phone back up.
"Email for you sir"
"I KNOW!"
I logged him out and opened up my email. And almost deleted the message when I saw it was from SciLab; thinking it was the same safety warnings for the net. But my finger slipped and I ended up opening it. I didn't really know what to think about it, pretty sure that I read it eight times. It said:
Ms. Engill,
I would like to invite you and your netnavi to come to SciLab at 8pm to take the netsavior exam. I have been observing your skills on the net and feel that you are ready for this test. If you pass it your training will begin immediately. If you fail you will be free to go. The choice is yours.
-F
"Who the hell is 'F'?" I asked out loud. Wondering if this was a scam or not. "It must be...If this F guy was actually watching us he'd have seen what a piece of shit you are..." I put the phone back down on my desk and stared at the monitors, lost in thought.
"Email for you sir."
"Ok dummie time for bed I'll deal with you in the morning." I said as i grabbed my phone. I was surprised to see that X was actually right, a rare occasion. I opened the new mail, also from SciLab. All it said was:
This isn't a scam.
I checked my pocket watch and saw that it was 7:30pm. I grabbed my phone and stuffed my watch back into my pocket and ran out of my room, hoping that I wouldn't miss the train.
"Ma! I'm going out I'll be back latter!" I yelled out to my mother who was somewhere in the house. Come on don't judge, it's summer break and I wasn't going to pay to live somewhere when I could just go home.
I grabbed my bike and rode for the station, lucky for me it was all down hill so I ended up just catching the train.
"Man that was close." I said to myself clutching my bike, wondering what to do with it. "I guess I'll just lock it up there..." I found a seat and pulled my bike into the tiny aisle. I didn't feel like dealing with X so I pulled my pocket watch out and fiddled with it. There was nothing high tech about it, just a normal silver pocket watch. It's cover was an angel wing and where the wing wasn't present you could see the black and silver face behind the cover. I really liked being about to see the gears in the center and on the back of it. I don't know what it was, but it had charm I guess.
I let out a quiet sigh and took a look at my reflection in the window. I guess I looked ok. I have long blond hair that shines like gold in the light and blue green eyes with gold centers. I wore thin black frame glasses that framed my eyes nicely and looked good on my angular face. Today I happened to be wearing my favorite blue jeans and a red t-shirt with my school's logo on it. Over that I was wearing my favorite grey striped button up shirt. I'm not one to wear jewelry but I never go any where without my college ring on my hand and my high school ring around my neck on my thick chain. I was also wearing my new black leather arm band, but it was too big so it just rested on my wrist, but that was ok, still looked cool.
I pulled my watch out again and saw that it was a quarter to eight already. I had lost track of how many stops the train had gone through.
"X, how many more stops?" I pulled out my phone and looked at X's vacant expression.
"The next stop is our target destination sir." He replied.
"Good, I was worried that we were going to be late." I said out loud as i stood up and pushed my bike out of the seat. I went to stand by the doors as the train pulled into SciLab's station, I looked out of the door and I could see the top of the main building sticking out above the trees.
The train pulled in and I stepped off, bike in tow and looked around, a few others had gotten off as well. I could point out some scientists.
"Maybe I'm not the only one who got an email from F" I said quietly looking around. I made my way to the road and got back on my bike and made my way to the labs, eager to see what kind of test I was going to have to take.
"I hope its ok that I leave this here." I locked my bike around a tree outside the main entrance. I looked around and stared at the the four other buildings connected to this one by a series of above ground tunnels. I saw some other people walking up and decided that I should head in.
The big glass doors opened up as I got near and after going through two sets of doors I was standing in a large lobby. That was when I realized I had no idea where I was supposed to go. I moved my eyes over the walls looking for a directory or anything that would point me in the right direction, but with no luck. Then I saw some guy sitting cross legged on top of a counter talking to a receptionist who was sitting behind it.
"Umm excuse me..." I said quietly, oddly enough I'm a pretty shy person when I'm in a new place. They didn't hear me, so I gathered up some courage and walked up to the counter. "Excuse me, I received an email about the netsavior test and I'm not too sure where I'm supposed to go."
The woman looked up at me and gave me a warm smile and giggled at some joke that I was missing. The man turned around and unfolded his legs so that they hung down. I quickly took him in. He seemed to be taller than me, with spiky brown hair. He was wearing a white lab coat over an orange t-shirt with a red "15" on it. He was wearing green pants with bright orange sneakers. The weird thing about him was that he was wearing glasses with white lenses on them, at a second glance I realized that they were like one way windows. That was when I realized that he had said something and I completely missed it.
"I'm sorry sir I missed that can you say that again?" I asked the man, a little embarrassed.
He chuckled slightly and slid off the counter and took a few steps towards me, putting his hands in his pocket.
"I said, you must be Margaret. Sorry about forgetting that bit of info, you were a last minute add in and in my rush I forgot to tell you where to go. I figured you would come here so I've been waiting." He said to me, a smile on his face. He had a british accent, but it wasn't overpowering it was nice actually. What can I say, I'm a sucker for an accent.
"Oh, I'm sorry to keep you waiting Mr..." I said, fishing for a name.
"Famous. Just Famous, no 'Mr.' Ever." He said very seriously.
"My apologies..." I mumbled, at a lost for words. I had heard of this guy before, he was a famous net battler or something. The last time I had heard his name was a few years ago, he had fallen off the presses radar since then.
"Shall we?" He said, not waiting for a response as he turned around and headed for an elevator.
With out saying anything I followed him into the elevator and pushed myself up against the wall, determined to give this guy as much space as possible. He smiled and leaned against the opposite wall and looked at me.
"So, tell me about yourself, your in school right? What are you studying?"
"Umm I'm a theatre major...I'm studying lighting design and I work as a lighting technician." I said quietly looking down at the floor.
"Interesting." Was all he said. The elevator stopped moving and the doors opened up.
Famous walked out and I followed close by. We walked into an empty room with another door on the opposite wall. There were five other people inside. Famous walked through them to stand by the door, he opened it a crack and said something to someone on the other side that none of us could hear. He closed it and turned to face us, clearing his throat.
"I'd like to thank you all for coming here tonight to participate in this test, you have all proven yourselves to be unique netops. The test is simple and I guarantee that none of you will get injured. Like the message said, if you pass then we start right away, if you fail you are free to go." He looked at us wordlessly for another few seconds, and I had this weird feeling that he was looking right at me.
'Is that you' I nearly shit myself. I spun around looking for the voice. It was so loud and clear. I couldn't figure out where it had come from.
Then I blushed everyone was looking at me like I was crazy. Famous was definitely looking at me now, I could see an eyebrow raised. I just stood there and looked down at my sneakers. He cleared his throat again to get everyone's attention back.
With out a word he opened the door all the way and walked through, the six of us followed him. I was the last one to walk through. It wasn't what I expected. There were computer consoles and monitors all over the place. The room wasn't even that big. Most of it was taken up by a giant data tube in the center of the room. I couldn't really see what was in it, but I wasn't really trying to look. My head was pounding all of a sudden and I just wanted this test to start.
"Come on, everyone in. Shoulder to shoulder if you would please." Famous said. He was standing by the tube, staring at us.
I took my place between two guys, still looking at the floor, holding my head with one of my hands, the pain was getting worse. I didn't know what we were waiting for. We were just standing there, and Famous was just looking at us.
"Anything...anyone feel anything? Any one hear anything?" Famous asked, looking around. "Ms. Engill? You alright?"
I looked up at the use of my last name and my eyes went straight to the thing in the data tube. It was a white netnavi with giant wings folded around itself so all I could see was its head. It's eyes were closed like it was sleeping. It was so beautiful, I felt emotional all of a sudden.I don't what came over me or how I did it, but I felt my self running up to it screaming:
"ANGELMAN! ANGELMAN WAKE UP!"
