Megaman Battle Network – Sibling Rivalry
Chapter 3 – School Days
After the weekend passed it was time for school again. Although they'd spent the previous day helping to clean out Sarah's new room Lan was still surprised by Sarah the next morning as she jumped on his bed to wake him up.
"Come on, come on, get up. It's time for school," she shouted to him.
When Lan got up he found that it was Megaman who'd set it up.
"Sorry Lan, when you didn't get up at the alarm I E – Mailed Sarah to see if she could get you up," was his reply when he asked him about it.
Lan went downstairs to see Sarah half – way through her breakfast and still going strong. She finished and then asked for seconds. His mum looked a little surprised but served up a second helping fast. Lan was even more surprised when she finished that before he finished his.
On the way to school Sarah kept running off all over to look at things. Lan didn't mind too much, it gave him a chance to talk to Mayl about her.
"She is weird, she eats as though she's never tasted food before and never puts on weight. And the way she acted this morning when she knew she was going school," said Lan.
"Well the weights an easy one. Look at her go like that, she's running everywhere," said Mayl
"Hey, what's this?" said Sarah running up to them holding a small white flower.
"That's a Daisy, Sarah," said Mayl, "They grow in grassy areas."
"So this is grass then," she said holding out the clump of grass in her other hand, "Ok then."
Sarah ran off again and Mayl turned to Lan.
"You have some explaining to do Lan," said Mayl.
"What about?" asked Lan.
"About why your sister doesn't know what Daisies and Grass look like."
"How should I know?"
"Lan."
"She has amnesia," said Lan hoping she'd fall for it.
"LAN!"
"Ok, ok. She has a terminal condition that means her mind slowly degenerates, I guess part of her memory has gone"
"She must have spent a lot of time in hospital too then."
"I guess. Don't tell the others ok."
"Sure."
Lan and Mayl arrived early for school after the conversation because they realised Sarah had disappeared. After a quick search they had decided to go get Dex and Yai's help to find her. They arrived at the school to find that she was already there and had been introduced to Yai already. The pair were talking about rare BattleChips and were getting on well. Well, as well as someone who was arguing with Yai could.
"The most powerful rare BattleChip is Holy Sword," said Yai.
"No way, the most powerful is Holy Dream," argued Sarah.
Before it got any further Lan managed to interrupt.
"Hey you pair, I see you've met my new sister Sarah then Yai."
"Oh so your Sarah then, Dex told me about how you beat Lan the other day," said Yai, "Well done, it's about time someone put Lan down a place."
"Hey, just because Glide's never beaten me yet, even with all your rare BattleChips," said Lan.
"Just shows you how good Holy Sword really is Yai," said Sarah.
"Now, now you guys, look, Lan got to school early today so…" started Mayl before the bell rang.
"And I'm still late for class, we'd all best get moving now," finished Lan.
In class Ms. Mari started by introducing Sarah who sat down near Lan. Then she started to talk about the lesson.
"Today we'll all be studying advanced virus busting techniques. This is because there is an increase in advanced virus types recently and it will give us a good idea of how advanced our new student is in virus busting.
"You will all be split into groups of two to deal with groups of Bunny viruses. Now can anyone tell me why a Bunny is considered a difficult virus when encountered in groups?"
Sarah's hand went straight up. "Yes Sarah?"
"Bunny viruses have the ability to paralyze our NetNavis. That means that if you are hit by one you most probably be hit by them all," said Sarah.
"Good but can you tell me what the best type of chip to use against them is Sarah."
"Simple, Bunny is an electric type virus so wood chips do a lot of damage against them."
"Good job Sarah. Now if you all listen then I'll explain so details about…"
Lan was finding it hard to concentrate on the lesson. I fact it wasn't long before he started to fall asleep.
"Lan Hikari you wake up now! Just because you are one of the best virus busters in the class does not mean you have the right to fall asleep whilst I am talking. That goes for you too Sarah. Now I think you two should give us a demonstration of how to delete a group of Bunny viruses. Jack into the blackboard both of you."
"But I have no wood chips on me Ms. Mari," said Lan.
"Here take these Lan," said Sarah handing him a handful of chips.
"Um, thanks. Lets see Bamboo Sword and some Boomer chips. Great."
"We use the Bamboo Sword to get rid of most of them, then the Boomers should finish them off," said Sarah.
"Ok then. We'd best Jack In before Ms. Mari gets mad."
The two of them Jacked MegaMan and Scyler into the blackboard.
"Now remember Scyler your fighting the Bunny's and not me," said MegaMan.
"You think I'm stupid Mega," said Scyler.
"Stop arguing you pair," said Sarah.
"Ok, I'm going to release the viruses now," said Ms. Mari.
Ms. Mari released the viruses and the first thought that came into all 4 heads was "Group? More like an army."
"Right! Bamboo Sword, Download. Power Up!" said Sarah and Lan in unison.
Megaman and Scyler used the Bamboo Swords to cut the number of Bunnies in half. When the Swords effects wore off only a few Bunnies were left.
"Ok, time to use those Boomer Chips to finish them off Lan," said Megaman.
"Same here Sarah," said Scyler.
The pair downloaded one boomer chip after another until Sarah's entire supply had been used. There were at least ten Bunnies left.
"Looks like we're in trouble here. Ms. Mari, how many did you release?" said Lan.
"I only released ten of them!"
"Well there was a lot more than that," said Sarah.
"Can't you use the schools anti – virus to stop them?"
"I've just tried, I'm locked out the system."