Ooooh we've had four reviews so far . . . Thanks to everyone who's reviewed, reading them made me feel really warm and I'm more than happy to reply to any questions you guys have!

So . . . questions. And stuff.

First of all, I guess I should answer one of Emily P's reviews - you asked about Black and White and whether or not Chaud and ProtoMan's friends know about ProtoMan's blindness at that point since it's Axess-era. The answer to that is no, since ProtoMan can see via the helmet and there's not really much need for either of them to tell anyone about ProtoMan's handicaps. However, rest assured everyone else will find out in a later 'part', though I'm not sure when I'll write that because I've got some other ideas that I want to write at the moment.

And since I wanna write stuff, I'll also reply to blazenight01's review here, though there's not a question in it like there was with Emily P's. Sleep exhaustion is definitely not a joke, although some comedies can manage to make it funny in a way that isn't offensive - but that's not the case here, so it's treated very seriously. It's likely that Chaud got ill after the events of Exhaustion, and I'm debating whether or not to write a sort of follow-up 'part' to show what happened after those events.

I'll actually ask everyone who's reading this a question - do you want a follow-up 'part' for Exhaustion?

But for now, have No Secrets For You, a 'part' where the title really doesn't fit the mood of the content (which is intentional, I appear to specialise in making angsty scenes less serious by throwing in the dumbest jokes ever).

Oh, and Chaud's twelve. This is set after Beast but before Beast+. I'm sort of pretending that Beast+ doesn't happen, not because I don't like that series (I like it a lot, actually), but because only ten of the episodes have been subbed and I can't watch the others until they also get subbed. So for the purposes of convenience, Beast+ never happened and Beast is the end of the series for this fic.

I don't own MegaMan Battle Network/NT Warrior, on with the show!

OOOOOO

Everything was black and white, as it always was for Chaud and ProtoMan during their Cross Fusion. Barely two weeks since they'd gotten back from the insanity that was Beyondard, and they were already having to fight against Navis misusing CopyBots and, somehow, materialised viruses. Chaud wasn't sure how the Navi they were fighting right now had managed to get the viruses into the real world and neither was ProtoMan, but at the moment that didn't matter.

What did matter was deleting the viruses and forcing the Navi back into the cyberworld, or alternatively deleting the Navi as well.

[Take your next right, the control room should be at the opposite end of the hallway,] ProtoMan informed him as he ran.

Chaud wordlessly followed his Navi's directions, breaking right and sprinting down the hallway. As he'd said, right at the end was a half-open door that lead straight into the control room.

As soon as he was through the door, Chaud skidded to a halt and took half a second to get his breath back. Then he spun around, slammed the door shut, and pulled a nearby desk over to it to barricade himself inside. The desk would have been impossible to move had he not been Fused with ProtoMan, thus giving him inhuman strength.

Once again he turned around, and this time he studied the interior of the control room.

There were three semi-circle rows of monitors. The largest of the monitors was directly attached to the wall opposite in the further row, and it, along with three others in the other two rows closer to Chaud, was active. The others were all black and blank.

Chaud moved over to the nearest monitor, the only one in the row closest to him, and leaned down to get a better look. It was showing him an empty hallway, and it took him a moment to realise it was the hallway just outside the control room.

"We're safe for now," Chaud said, "unless there's something on the screen we can't see."

[I don't believe that's very likely, but it is good to be cautious all the same,] ProtoMan agreed. [What about the other monitors?]

Chaud went into the second row. The other two active monitors were side-by-side. One showed the spacious foyer of the power plant, while the other showed a room with nothing but what looked like cardboard boxes in it.

He glanced up at the largest monitor on the wall. That one was showing him the turbine room, which was even bigger than the foyer. There were several viruses crawling around in there, either on guard or looking for prey.

"Aside from the viruses, it looks clear," Chaud said. Underneath his faceplate, he was frowning. "But . . . why? It doesn't make any sense."

[Yes, the Navi we're after should be in the turbine room as well, yet he is not anywhere we can see,] ProtoMan commented. [And where are Lan and Raika?]

Chaud shook his head, and pressed a hand to the side of his helmet. "Lan," he tried, "Raika. Come in. We've found the control room. Can either of you hear me?"

Nothing.

After a moment of silence, ProtoMan spoke up. [It seems the Navi is somehow blocking communications with them,] he said. [Should I attempt to contact Famous?]

"If we can't contact Lan or Raika, I don't think we can contact anyone outside of the power plant," Chaud muttered. "They could be somewhere else, maybe dealing with the Navi."

[Or they have been injured and are being held captive.]

Chaud rolled his eyes. "You always assume the worst," he half-complained. "Did you turn into an old man when I wasn't looking?"

[Well, I am several years older than you,] ProtoMan replied. Chaud could feel his amusement and heard the smile in his voice as he spoke.

But their shared amusement quickly vanished when Chaud spotted movement in the room full of cardboard boxes. For a moment he thought it was Raika, but then he realised the shape was bulkier and didn't have a sniper gun - it was the Navi they were fighting, creeping around.

"That room probably connects somewhere we can't see because of the angle of the camera," Chaud realised.

[Is there any way to change the direction the camera is facing?] ProtoMan wondered.

Chaud tapped away at the keyboard attached to the monitor, but he was unfamiliar with the systems and gave up on the task after it became clear his attempt wasn't working.

"Doesn't look like it," he said quietly, watching the bulky Navi move around on-screen. "What is he doing?"

The Navi was now opening up the boxes carefully. Each time he checked the contents of one box, he would scowl and move on to another one, leaving them open - and this time, the camera angle allowed Chaud and ProtoMan to see what was inside the boxes.

[Chips,] ProtoMan said. [Those are the power-up chips that power plant employees typically use on their Navis so that work efficiency can be increased.]

"So he's looking for something specific, but it's not the power-up chips," Chaud mused. "Is there any way to check what else should be in those boxes?"

[Not unless we Cross Out so you can jack me into the network. But that is ill-advised, because it would put you in danger and I do not wish to leave you alone should any viruses or the Navi himself find you in here.]

Chaud didn't think that ProtoMan would be gone long enough for something like that to happen, and besides, he could see the Navi on the screen anyway. But ProtoMan did have a good point.

"Okay, forget that idea, then," Chaud sighed, leaning back. "So we have no idea where Lan and Raika are, but we know where our enemy is. The only problem with that is that we also can't contact Lan and Raika to tell them where this guy is, and if we go looking for them, we may end up losing the Navi again."

[Try turning on the other monitors, perhaps they can give us a better idea as to where everything is,] ProtoMan suggested.

Having no other options left and no suggestions himself, Chaud went to work. Turning on the other monitors proved to be a much easier task than trying to change the direction of the camera in the box room, and within minutes he had managed to turn on all monitors aside from two that had cracked screens. They now had a much better view of the power plant's halls and rooms.

"There they are," he said, breathing a sigh of relief. He'd spotted Lan sneaking through a narrow hallway, looking around as though he was expecting an attack at any moment - which could end up being true - and Raika was in a room not too far away from him, hiding behind a metallic-looking machine with his gun trained carefully on a virus that was searching the room for him.

[There is an announcement system in these monitors,] ProtoMan noted. [We can use that to contact them - though I do not think Raika would appreciate his position being given away . . .]

"I'll wait until he's okay, and then I'll try it," Chaud decided. ProtoMan agreed, so they both kept an eye on Lan and Raika's positions.

After almost a full minute, during which Lan had gotten further away from Raika's position, Raika finally made a move. He fired on the virus that was stalking him at point-blank range the moment it found him, and stood up with a visible look of relief.

Chaud turned on the announcement systems for Raika and Lan's positions only.

"Lan! Raika! Can you hear me? It's Chaud, I'm in the control room!"

They both jumped on-screen and looked around wildly until they managed to spot the cameras in their respective positions. Lan, being Lan, waved wildly at the screen, while Raika nodded to show he was listening.

"That Navi's after something in a room full of cardboard boxes," Chaud told them. "ProtoMan says they're full of power-up chips that the workers use, but he doesn't seem interested in them. We don't know what he's after, but he's still in there. I'll tell you where to go."

Raika's mouth started moving, but Chaud couldn't hear what he was saying. In fact, and he'd only just realised this, there was absolutely no sound from any of the monitors. All he had was picture.

"I can't hear you," Chaud told Raika. Lan looked confused and pointed to himself. "No, not you, Raika."

Now Raika looked confused.

"No, I mean- ugh. There's no sound, I can only see you, and you can only hear me," Chaud explained. "Just follow my directions. Lan, stay where you are, you're closest to the Navi at the moment, but don't try and go after him on your own. Raika, get out of that room and go down the hallway to your left, and follow it until you get to a . . ."

And here he paused. The door he had been about to tell Raika about was light grey, but he wasn't sure if that was its actual colour or if it was some other colour that he couldn't see because of his current colourblindness.

Raika was frowning at Chaud through the screen, even though he couldn't see Chaud. He was talking again, but Chaud had no idea what he was saying.

[I believe he's asking why you stopped talking,] ProtoMan said. [Though I'm not certain about it. I can't lip-read any more than you can.]

"This is gonna get annoying very quickly," Chaud muttered to himself. He raised his voice so he could be heard by Raika. "Okay, there's a door that's . . . five doors down the hall I told you to go down. It's on the left side of the hall as you're running up it. It should lead out into the hall that Lan's in."

Raika mouthed something, and it was pretty obvious he was repeating Chaud's instructions incredulously.

"If it helps, the door's light in colour," Chaud added.

Raika sighed and visibly decided to just go with it. He went out of the room and ran to his left, following the hallway as Chaud had said. Chaud kept an eye on the doors that Raika passed.

"Stop!" Chaud called suddenly. "You just passed the door I told you to go through."

Raika froze in place, looking at the door he'd just passed by and then at the one he'd been about to open. He looked around for the camera in the hall he was in at the moment, and gave Chaud an irritated look. He held up four fingers.

[You miscounted,] ProtoMan informed him helpfully.

"Yes, thank you, ProtoMan," Chaud muttered.

Raika gave Chaud an exaggerated shrug and pushed open the door. When he'd finally joined Lan, Chaud checked the box room. The Navi was still searching through the various boxes in there.

"He's still there, if we hurry we can catch him," Chaud told Lan and Raika, who both nodded to show they'd heard. "Alright, keep going down the hall you're in. There's a dark grey door at the end that leads into a room with a couple of computers on your right. There's another door inside that room that'll take you through another hall. I'll give you more directions when you get there."

His friends nodded and ran off down the hall. They reached the end within moments, and turned to their right. Once again they looked confused, and seemed to have a small discussion before turning to look at Chaud through the screen again. Lan was gesturing to his body for some reason, and Raika was looking irritated again.

"What does that mean?" Chaud wondered. Maybe they should learn sign language in case something like this ever happened again, because this silly game of charades was confusing him to no end.

Lan waved his arms up and down, and then spread them wide. Raika was gesturing to him now, pointing to the darker-toned parts of Lan's body.

[ . . . I believe that door may have been blue in colour, not dark grey,] ProtoMan realised. [You confused them.]

Chaud froze. He tried to speak, failed, and then tried again.

"Oh," was all he could say. "Uh. Guys, that's the right door, I just got the colour wrong. Sorry about that."

Lan rolled his eyes and had probably muttered something very offensive, but Raika was looking up with a concerned and contemplative expression. Chaud coughed awkwardly.

"Just . . . just go through the door," he mumbled.

This was not going well at all.

OOOOOO

Poor Chaud, he can't see colours and they might actually be necessary if he wants to direct his friends through the power plant.

Anywho, who can guess why this 'part' is called No Secrets For You? I'll give y'all a hint, it has something to do with Chaud and ProtoMan not telling anyone - not even Dr. Hikari and Famous - about the whole 'we're colourblind during Cross Fusion and we have no idea why' thing.

But yeah, have some more sassy ProtoMan and Chaud getting frustrated. I love sassy-ass ProtoMan, it just fits him somehow. He seems like the type to be sassy, while Chaud is more cutting sarcasm.

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