Chapter 1.
Home Sweet Home.
It has been several months since the ALPHA BEAST incident, and Lan is at home, resting and rejoicing at Megaman's reconstruction. He sits on his bed with his trusty and ever-present PET device at his side, and within it, the rebuilt Megaman yakking away and nagging him as usual to complete his homework. It's as if nothing had ever changed; as if Megaman has never been deleted. His Navi is well aware that he is not the original Megaman, that he is not the Navi that Dad had built.. That he was not Hub. But despite it all, he still feels like he is Lan's brother, and that nothing could ever change that. Lan suddenly smiles, taking the blue bomber by surprise.
"What? What are you smiling at?" Asks the blue Navi. "You never smile at anything ever related to homework, or at me nagging you for that matter. In fact, by now you're usually stuffing your pillow at my screen." He says, crossing his arms and raising an eyebrow.
"It's just.." Lan pauses. "It's just good to have you back, Megaman.." He smiles softly and raises the PET to eye-level. "I gotta admit.. It's been tough without you, buddy. I even missed you yakking at me and waking me up every morning." He chuckles. "Bossing me around, telling me to make my bed. To do my homework. I just.." He lowers his eyes, recalling the moment they thought that they had defeated the ALPHA BEAST.
"Good bye, Lan!" Said Megaman as he ejected his NetOp. Lan remembers the bright light, the feeling of being pulled away and back into the real world. He remembers the sudden shock of being back in his own body; flesh and blood. Alive. He remembers looking over to Wily, the blank look in his eyes... The soullessness. Wily was gone. Stuck inside ALPHA. With a shiver, he weakly looks down at his PET, the words on the screen... His eyes moistened and the tears streaming as the words "DELETED" flashed, again and again. His best friend... His brother... Megaman... Hub... He was gone... He remembers trying to fight off the Officials that were taking him away from the machine. It couldn't be true. It just couldn't. After all they had been through... Defeating Gospel... Defeating Zero and making him into a Navi... They did the impossible! It couldn't be! It can't! "MEGAMAAAAAAAN! HUB! NO! GET OFF ME! HE NEEDS ME! HUB! Hub.." He sobbed. "Come back... Please.. God please, let him come back..." He whimpered as they carried him away and put him in a stretcher and loaded him onto the rescue chopper. "Get him to the hospital as fast as you can. Now!" Ordered Chaud. He looked at Lan, giving him a hard look, which gradually softened into a deep sadness. "I'm sorry, Lan. I truly am." Said Chaud as he placed a hand on his rival's shoulder. "For what it's worth... He died a hero."
"Lan...?" Asked the Navi on the screen. "Lan... Are you okay...?"
"Uhm.. I uh.." Lan looks away as he wipes the tears from his eyes. "Yeah. I just.." He smiles tenderly at the blue Navi. "I'm just glad you're back. Even if you're a pain!" He chuckles, flashing Megaman his signature stubborn grin.
Megaman stares at Lan for a moment, then laughs. "A pain? Well look who's talking, Mr. 'I'm a hero but have the brain of a sponge!'"
"You! Why I oughta!"