-1I'm typing this up, staring at 5:09 March 12, 2006. (I don't know why I bother to put the date since I'll probably finish within a nine month range right?)

Disclaimer: I don't own Rockman.exe or Megaman or Capcom.

Okay, on with the story.

Intruder

Chapter Four: Relief (Hahaha. Fooled you.)

"It's dark…It's so dark…am I…dead?"

"Shut up."

"Who's that?"

"Your mom. And she's saying you're not dead." light flashed. A face appeared. "Lan."

Lan freaked. "KOMI! I thought we were dead!" Komi hit herself.

"Oh come on. Do you think I'll let use die that easily? Who do you think I am?"

"Oh, yeah."

It turns out, that Komi had managed to pull up a wall barrier just as the rocks hit him. (A/N: ME: HA. HA. HA. HA. HA!)

"Gosh. Thank god."

"Yeah. You must have been thinking, 'No! Mommy! I'm too young to die!'" she said in a mocking voice.

"What about my dad?" Komi fell on the floor. Literally. (Anime style.)

"Lan. Can we just get…" the de-crossfused. The dimensional area had disappeared all of a sudden, as well as the generators.

"Odd. It just vanished."

"Can we just get out of here! I'm tiiiiired…" Lan complained, sagging.

"Yeah, yeah. Hold on to your horses." They stood up, grabbed their PETs and left.

"So…" Came Chaud's whisper when she returned. "How did it go?" She could barely hear him. She took a minute or two to try and find out what he just said to her.

"The dimensional area disappeared. We were going to be crushed by boulders and all the floors above us caving in. Thankfully I had the sheild up in time." she paused. "Oh. And Lan thought he was going to die." Chaud would of given her a weird look if he wasn't in sickly, ill, pain.

"Hm…" He turned the other direction on his bed and fell asleep.

Suddenly, he twitched weakly. He started sweating.

"Eh hem…" Chaud looked up weakly; fear.

Komi waved a medicine bottle around in the air by it's cap. Chaud sighed in defeat.

"So, Lan. How did it go?" Dr. Hikari asked when Lan returned.

"The dimensional area disappeared."

"Oh."

"And…the whole building crashed in on us. I thought I was going to die."

"…and how did you get out?" Famous asked, interested.

"Komi managed to get through cross-fusion with a foot stuck in the dimensional area. But she held up a wall shield in time."

"Oh. Okay." Everyone turned back to work.

Dex invited Travis over for dinner. But that was only because Maylu told him that he was too rude. So, reluctantly, he invited him over.

"So nice of you to invite me over Oyama." he smiled sweetly. Dex's mother swooned. His dad was bewildered.

"Yeah. Uh, right. Sit down!" Dex motioned him over. Travis shook his head.

"I will. Maybe in a bit, Dex." He walked into the kitchen.

"Hello, Mrs. Oyama, Mr. Oyama." he greeted kindly.

"Hello there!" Mrs. Oyama.

"How are you?" Mr. Oyama said.

"Ah, just great!"

They smiled back.

"Here, why don't I help you! I thoroughly enjoy cooking!" He walked over to Mrs. Oyama.

"Why, thank you Travis! You're much too kind." Travis smiled back.

After cooking, Travis helped bring the dishes over to their respective owners.

"That one's for Dex honey." Mrs. Oyama said.

"Okay." Unbeknownst to them, something had been added into Dex's dish…

"Here." Travis set the plate in front of Dex.

When all the dishes had been set they all sat down and started eating. Dex picked up his utensils, and lifted the food to his mouth. Travis watched as he chewed. (Travis chew.)

All of a sudden, Dex threw up! All of them gasped, including Travis who had felt a singe of failure go through his mind.

"Sweetie!" Mrs. Oyama hurried over and helped his son along with Dex's father.

"Please excuse us Travis. We're all sorry about this." Travis winced and nodded.

"No, no. It's okay. Please help him."

"Thank you honey." Mrs. Oyama helped Dex up into his room with Mr. Oyama.

"Curses…Failed twice in one day…"

"Please calm down, sir. If they shall all be killed in the end."

"Yes…how pitiful. I just thought I'd be able to have some fun for a chance…"

When the parents came back down, they explained to Travis that Dex ate a little too much curry this morning for breakfast. That caused him to throw up. Travis said he understood, and helped clean the table. He picked up Dex's dirty dish by the clean side, and threw it in the trash. Dex's dish was thrown away first at the bottom of the bag.

All the respective trash had been thrown away and Mr. Oyama had started taking the trash out to the trash can outside after saying goodbye to Travis who had left.

For some reason, the bottom of the bag was burning. Mr. Oyama took no notice of the smoke that came from the very bottom of the bag. Just as Mr. Oyama was about to throw the trash bag away, the trash bag itself had somehow melted and had a hole through it, just as had thrown it away. Mr. Oyama watched bewildered. Then he shrugged it off and went back inside.

Rats and flies inside the trash can flew around the burnt trash bag. They landed on a white substance that was growing on Dex's former dish. Immediately, they melted, burned in pain, and died. Just like that.

"What are your next plans sir?"

"Heh. Would the ice boy be a nice choice? You know, the one who's father works at the water plant, is it?

"Yes, sir."

"Good. I heard tomorrow he had plans on visiting his father. This would be a good opportunity." An evil grin appeared and glowed in the darkness. "This, will be fun."

Next Day…

Lan had just came out from visiting Chaud, who didn't seem to be getting any better. This worried Lan, knowing that Chaud didn't seem to be like the type to get sick. But, this was Lan, so he just shrugged it off. Hopefully he would get better nonetheless.

Lan had promised Maylu that he'd meet her at Higsby's to do training.

"What time is it Megaman?"

"1:14." he answered.

"Good. We have one minute." he paused. Megaman shook his head and quickly covered his ears.

"ONE MINUTE! OH NO!" And off he went.

Maylu tapped her shoe. She twitched. It was 1:30.

Lan burst in, door whooshed open. Maylu glared.

"You're…late…"

Lan laughed nervously. "Sorry…"

Maylu sighed and shook her head. "Come on, let's go. Stop screwing around Lan." she walked into the practice room. Lan followed her inside.

After practice, they decided to get some curry for lunch. They sat down, and ordered.

"So? I told you I got better right?" Maylu said, grinning.

Lan scratched his neck. "Hehe…yeah. You were right."

Meanwhile…

Tori was walking around the water plant, helping his dad with some minor inspections.

"Hm…they seem alright…" he said, examining the pipes and pipe holders.

He walked along, unknown of the flood of water that was going to come behind him.

Far away, a pipe stared to undo itself, the main pipe. The doors started closing, shutting tight. This wouldn't let anyone come in from the inside.

The pipe undid it self slowly, yet with fast movements. It glowed a purplish glow as it did. Digital sparks ran about behind it.

"Hey, why don't we get Tori to eat with us too?" Maylu advised. Lan thought for a moment.

"Yeah! Good idea! I'll call him up." Lan took out his PET…

"Hey Tori, it's Lan."

"Huh?" Tori stopped, and took out his PET. "Oh, hey Lan."

"Tori! Why don't you come to the curry place for some lunch?"

"Curry? Uh, sure. I'll come now. See you." Lan disappeared.

"Curry…" Tori put away his PET. "Let's go Iceman!"

"Yeah! I haven't seen Megaman and Roll in a while either. Can't wait!"

Tori passed through the last door that was just about to close. He ran through, and heard the door close behind him. He told his dad where he was going, then quickly left, heading towards Lan and Maylu's location.

Once he left, all the doors locked shut, and all the water came out. Flooding the entire room within the door's borders. Suddenly, a white substance came out, preferably freeze, froze all the water in a split second.

An employee attempted in coming, and had to punch in the security number manually, before opening the door to find it was entirely frozen. He immediately reported this, and called in services to do repairs.

Had Tori stayed in, he probably would have died a cold, frozen, slow, suffering death. Had he stayed in.

"Report?"

"Failure."

A grin.

A look.

"More fun later on…"

Tori opened the door to his home. He found his father in the living room in deep thought.

"Dad?"

Tori's father looked up.

"Oh. You're back."

Tori nodded and closed the door.

"What's the matter?" he asked. He walked over and sat down near his dad on the couch. His dad was sitting on his armchair.

"You left with Lan and Maylu for lunch, right Tori?"

Tori nodded. "Yeah."

"And you were inspecting the water pipes right before you left, right?"

"Yeah."

"Do you remember what time?"

Tori thought for a moment.

"It was like…2:55." Tori replied. "Yeah. It was exactly 2:55 when I left."

"2:55!" Tori's dad seemed alert.

Tori gave a confused look.

"Yeah. 2:55. What's going on?"

"Son, at exactly 2:55 today, the water pipes opened and the water came out! Then, shown on camera, all the water went up to the ceiling, and froze! All at exactly 2:55!"

"What!" Tori gasped.

"There were no traces of what had happened, except that we know there was a violet glow on one of the pipe wheels as it opened."

"So, how is it going now?"

"We thawed out all the ice, managed to melt it all. Some of the pipes had suffered temporary damage, but all is fine." Tori's dad ruffled Tori's hair. "I'm just glad you're alright."

Tori nodded before watching his dad leave upstairs, Tori following moments later.

The next day, Tori went and told Lan and Maylu. Everyone was shocked.

"Wow! All that happened within a sixty second range?" Maylu was awed. Tori nodded.

"I bet if I stayed any longer, I would have frozen to death or die from hypothermia." Tori said glumly.

Lan set a hand on his shoulder.

"Don't worry. At least you're alright, right?"

"Yeah. My dad said so too. At least I was safe."

"Hey, Iceman. Did you see what happened?" Roll asked.

"Mm…I copied the file from the security camera." Iceman brought up a screen. "Here." He pointed at where the handle glowed purple. "See? Then it starts turning by itself."

"Hm…I wonder what could of caused this in the real world. I mean, the digital world is one thing, but the real world is another!" Roll exclaimed.

"Well, there was a power outlet source nearby, but I do have doubts that an electrical surge or power energy could travel that far."

"So you have no idea, whatsoever?" Iceman shook his head.

"That's as much as we caught. There were no traces of any human, besides Tori."

"Oh…" Roll noticed it was only him talking. "Where's Megaman?"

"Hey…you're right…he was gone right after I showed the video." They looked around.

They went looking for him, and finally, Iceman found him…in a corner.

"Hey, Megaman. What's wrong? You look like you just saw a ghost."

Megaman laughed nervously at this and quickly waved goodbye, retreating back to his homepage.

Unknown to Roll or Iceman, Megaman was afraid to look at the video, because he heard how it moved on it's own.

'G-ghosts c-c-can't be r-real…can they?' he thought.

"Lan, can you report to Sci-Lab?" It was a call from Dr. Hikari.

"Huh?" Lan took out his PET. "Oh, uh sure."

"Okay Lan. I'll meet you here." Lan put away his PET.

"Hey, uh, I have to go. I'll see you guys around, okay?" Maylu nodded and waved.

"Later Lan." Tori said.

"Yeah, just be careful around those pipes, okay Tori?"

Tori laughed nervously. "Heh heh, yeah."

Lan skated off to Sci-lab.

Roll heard a beeping sound.

"Maylu, you have email."

"Huh?" Maylu took out her PET. "It's from Travis. There's an address."

Tori came and looked over her shoulder.

"You have to leave?" Tori asked.

"Yeah. Travis wants me to see him."

"Oh, well, it just so happens, I have to go too." Tori started off, waving behind him.

"Well, I'll see you Maylu!"

"Yeah! Bye Tori!" Maylu waved back as he disappeared.

"Okay, now to Tori's house…" Maylu started walking.

"First turn on your right, Maylu."

"Okay." Roll had opened up a map to Tori's house.

But…was it really a house?

Ohohen: I'm so sorry. About the super long no update. More then a month. XD But don't worry. Just because I haven't updated, doesn't mean I'm discontinuing it.

I'm not sure if you've noticed yet, but I haven't been putting any hinting in the story. Even if it's rated Romance as a genre. This story is also rushed, so that probably explains why it's not getting as many reviews as Surprises.

Though I'm still quite confused. How the heck did Surprises gain such popularity? I mean, it's so…OOC…probably one of the most OOC stories I've written, in my attempt to keep them in character.

Yes. You can yell at me for the long update.

Finished April 28, 11:47 PM. Charlotte, North Carolina.

MAYBE submitted April 29. (From this point, that's tomorrow. I don't think any submissions at 11:47 will get much popularity. And I can't login so it might be after that.)

Haha...ends up to be a day later...I couldn't log in yesterday for some reason. o.O I haven't logged in since forever since it wasn't working for me...and it wouldn't let me log in.