Review Responses: (Wow, a bunch this time! Thanks everyone!)

RedemptionWarrior: I know right. Ah Dawn, you could've been so much...instead you're a hypocritical mad woman who's trying to blow up the entire net with technology no one has even considered at this point of time.

terratasha: Tune in next week to find out! (Typical Saturday morning cartoon voice) XD

Judy the Sylveon: Thanks! I mean the process always seemed like he always copied data. Unless it was the anime; then yeah your scenario is pretty much true. Oh, don't worry about it! I love long comments! Actually, I just love comments in general but you get the picture. XD

Lucario: Np, man. And, huh weird... Yep yep!

Mysterious Mr M: The reason that is not happening is because she's literally siphoning power from Hub's soul. Since that is happening and Dark Hub is part of Hub's soul, his power boost is none existent. Also, whatever power he has been able to hold was being used for other reasons.

DN Quiz Answer: Dr. Cossack. While not defined in the BN series, the manga does state that Bass's original purpose other than being the first solo Net Navi was testing network security. As he was blamed for random accidents on the Net caused by Alpha, it is reasonable to think that Bass's other purpose stands true in the game saga as well.

Day 5 Part 1 - Waking Up

Waking up to the feeling like your whole body was on fire and that all of your inner parts had somehow been messed with was easily on the top of Roll's things never to go through again list. The pink navi lazily opened her eyes for a brief moment and promptly shut them as the light was too much for her to take in. What the heck had happened to her? She tried to think back, but her memory was a little foggy. It was coming back together in patches, so at least that was a good thing.

The navi groaned as she turned over on her side painfully. Everything felt sore; she didn't even know she could feel this bad. Well, learned something new everyday. She braced herself to look out once again; she at least wanted to know where she was. She didn't remember the place, but the activity of a few Mr. Programs put her at ease. The little green programs couldn't do much but freak out whenever they were in trouble; so at least she had been safe.

"Roll! Roll, please! Wake up! Don't go!" Roll winced as her NetOp's voice played back in her head. Right, Mayl had found her almost unconscious after...whatever the heck had happened to her happened. She didn't think she had been close to deletion; but from the small pieces called her memory she had to go on, she could have easily just have been delusional and had been laying on the ground dying.

The pink navi shook her head as she tried to push herself off the ground. She hadn't gotten much more than a few inches before plopping back on the ground. Her body felt like heavy weight; there was no way she could pick herself up. She glanced around the room, trying to find something to help prop her up or something. Unfortunately, she had come up short since there was nothing in the area. Roll groaned. Just her luck. She had gotten herself beat up to some extreme point and was now stuck in some area that she could only guess was safe because of the Mr. Programs' emotional states. Speaking of them…

"Hey," she said. However, she had to clear her voice since it had sounded pretty unused. How long had she been out? "Hey," she said again, louder this time, trying to get the attention of the green programs who had just been chatting with each other. Her voice was still not completely together, but it still carried a bit.

"Hmm...did you hear something?" One of them asked as it began to look around the room quickly for any disturbances. Of course, the thing had moved to fast and had missed the fact that the pink navi that they were supposed to be monitoring was awake now.

The other seemed to wear...well the same face since Mr. Programs could only look one way, but it at least sounded confused, "You mean other than me? That wouldn't make sense. She's not supposed to wake up for another day or two, you know that. So she couldn't be the one talking. I think you're hearing things."

"She is awake. She is also trying to get your attention!" Roll said, a slight aggravation taking over. Okay, she was clearly in a safe spot if these two were talking so candidly. Although, she was beginning to think that the dulling pain she was feeling was beginning to express itself.

"OH! She is awake! Quick, get Dr. Itumi and notify the others!" one of the programs quickly spoke as the other rushed over to the pink navi, "I'm so sorry! You weren't supposed to wake up for some time. Just hold on a minute!" the Mr. Program said.

"Wait...what am I doing in...Dr. Itumi's PC, right?" Roll asked, as she put a hand to her helmet.

The Mr. Program shook his body, probably its way of shaking its head, "You were injured pretty badly when Mayl and Lan found you. You were lucky that they got you here so quickly otherwise you could have ended up like that other navi we found." It said. Suddenly its eyes widened; it wasn't supposed to say that.

Roll took her hand off her helmet, "What other navi?" She asked. However, she answered her own answer as a bit of her memory dusted off. She had been coming back home with Hub after his copybot battery almost went dead. He went into his house and she went into hers. They were supposed to meet up afterwards at ACDC Area 1. But...but he hadn't shown up…

The pink navi looked up at the green program who was trying its hardest to not be looked at without seemingly even more obviously suspicious, which of course did the opposite, "Where's Megaman?"

The Mr. Program seemed to jump in the air, "What Megaman? I don't know any navi by that name. Nope, no ma'am. I'm sorry but I have no idea who that blue navi is….oh bugfrags."

Roll looked at the program hard, sending him a stare to make him crack and trying to remember for herself. Either it or her memory would give her the answer. What happened after she had gone back to check on him?

"Don't look at me like that." it said.

Glare.

"I said I know nothing about a blue navi!"

Harder glare.

"I AM NOT THE DROID YOU'RE LOOKING FOR!"

The Mr. Program was just lucky that his companion had come back. Although he hadn't been too helpful when he had seen the scene in front of him, "You now, I thought you were going to say 'What am I fighting for' but then I realized that didn't make much sense. Haha, funny right? Well, you two seem very preoccupied so I'm just going to leave you two before one of us tells her that Megaman's soul was ripped out of his frame and that's all we have of him right now since we have no idea where the perpetrator ran off to."

The silence lasted for a whole second before the Mr. Program next to Roll turned to look at the other program, "Really? You cannot…"

"Shut up when I'm scared, I know." The Mr. Program sighed as he saw the pink navi's face, "I'm sorry. We were trying to wait until the others got here to tell you but…" He fell silent as the pink navi merely covered her face with her hand.

Of course, now her memory had kicked in.

"Megaman? What's up? It doesn't take that much time to get out of a copybot." Roll asked as she stepped into the blue navi's PC. She had been outside waiting for five minutes before she had decided to call it quits and go find him. They had just gotten out of the graduation so there was no way that he would run off to somewhere on the Net knowing that they were still going to be with their NetOps as they celebrated.

"Roll! Get out of here!" Megaman yelled as he noticed the pink navi and tried once again to push off the black navi that had jumped him as soon as he entered his PC. Apparently, she had been waiting until he had gotten back into the computer so she could attack him. However, the navi he was fighting was much tougher than he had thought and a few Soul Knives later, he knew that he was on the losing side of the fight.

Roll's head whirled to the left where the struggle was occurring, "Mega!" She said immediately pulling her bow out, "Let him go!" She yelled as she kept her weapon trained on the pink navi.

However, the black navi only cursed and pulled out a ghostly looking knife, stabbed it into Megaman, and then pulled a gun and pointed it at the navi's head, "Put the bow away Roll or I'll shoot his adorable head off." She said as she smirked at her as she pushed the blue navi's head with it, "Well?"

Roll scowled as she dropped her bow as the smirk on the black navi's faded, "Good girl." She said before turning the Soul Gun on Roll and firing a few shots at her. The attacks hadn't done much damage, but they definitely hurt. Roll felt like every place where she had gotten shot had been put on fire. She was able to get back up, only to see Megaman trying to snatch the weapon from her.

And that's when time slowed. The black navi made the gun disappeared, spun around, and landed a kick straight into Megaman's gut causing him to double over. A ghost-like ax appeared in her hand and a second later it had disappeared after she had attacked. Megaman had fallen to the ground as she knelt next to him. Roll tried to push herself off the ground, but couldn't as for some reason she couldn't do anything but watch.

The black navi summoned claws, turned Megaman over, and reached inside of him. Seconds later, she pulled out a soft blue orb from the screaming navi. When she did, Megaman didn't move anymore. He didn't say anything anymore. It was almost like he was gone. But it didn't make sense; his body was right there. Navis just didn't die like humans. When they died, every piece of them disappeared and what was left became residual data that floated around on the Net until its formatting. Despite knowing that he was also human, Roll never thought that he could ever really die like a human. Stunned by the scene, she failed to she the black navi walk over to her and stabbed her with a small knife.

"Hmm...that shouldn't have worked. You have something you would like to tell me navi?" The black navi asked as Roll yelled out because of the pain, "These weapons were modified to only affect real souls. But you aren't human. Just a very close imitation. So would you like to explain to me why you get hurt from my weapons?" The black navi seemed to gaze at her hands as a claw appeared, "Maybe it's just too close that you're actually confusing them. But this one I made special. Let's see if this one hurts."

Roll yelled out as the claws sunk in and seemed to grab something from her core. As she looked up, she saw a soft pink orb in the hands of the black navi who seemed to be even more curious, "Hmm...looks...almost mutated? No, that couldn't be it. Though," she said as she looked at the navi who seemed to be trying to summon the strength to grabbed the orb from her hands, "You're still awake. So, you're clearly not human. But still, a soul core this developed couldn't possible be sole programming alone. I even factored you in when I made my Soul Claws…"

The black navi shrugged, "I guess it'll just have to be a mystery for the grave." She summed up as she placed the orb a few feet away from Roll, "Ah well, damage already done. Have fun Roll." She said as she walked out of the PC with Hub's soul in her other hand, "Oh, and just to let you know, there are at least three minutes left in my jamming program. If you manage to live that long, your NetOp will now about your condition. So, if you want a better chance, I'd try living for that long."

"Roll? Roll? Roll!" The voice of Dr. Itumi snapped her out of her memories. The woman was wearing a worried expression as her first and only navi's eyes stopped looking glazed over and she began to focus on the woman's face.

No...she...what the heck was going on? She rolled over to her side and once again pushed herself up from the ground. Everything hurt. Actually, she almost blacked out a few times as she pushed herself up from the ground. She needed to get up. The Mr. Program was right about one thing, she shouldn't have woken up so soon. She could tell one of her main programs was trying to shut her down, but the rest of her wasn't listening to it.

"Roll! Stop! You'll only hurt yourself!" Dr. Itumi said, but the pink navi paid no attention to her.

How the heck was she able to ignore her protocol? Something else was overriding the command to knock her out. Navis weren't able to deal with this much stress at one time. Any navi would have been deleted instantly after what she had been through. She should be nothing but data pieces by now. So why was she still here somehow getting back up?

A few moments later, she had managed to stagger to her feet. Against the odds, Roll had actually managed to stand up despite the fire that blazed in her body. But even underneath all that, she felt something else there. She felt her soul. When Dr. Itumi had told her about it, she had never felt it but merely accepted it. But now, after whatever that black navi had done to her, she could feel it.

The pink navi looked back at the doctor, who just seemed happy and scared that she had actually stopped trying to force herself to do things her body wasn't ready yet to do. However, it all evened out to a frown as the navi looked at her, "What am I?"

"What...what do you mean by that?" Dr. Itumi asked incredulously.

"What. Am. I?" Roll questioned again. Something about this didn't feel right. If those weapons were only supposed to work on souls like Hub's then why didn't they work on her? Was it just a mere glitch in their programming that caused the weapon to identify her to be like Hub?

"I...I don't know what you mean? You're Roll. You're a Soul Navi. I don't know what you…"

"Don't give me that! You created me! What am I?" She yelled as the black navi's words began to playback in her head. A mutated soul core? No, she was a navi capable of understanding and feeling human emotion. But then...why did…, "None of this makes sense. I'm not like him. I should've...I shouldn't be here! I shouldn't remember any of this!"

A navi's core, or soul, was the heart of the program. It contained who they were. Any tampering with it caused ensured deletion. Even if a back up chip was used, they would never be the exact same. There were blocks of memory missing. The navi would have to be modified in order to operate the same simply because parts of their original coding would forever be gone. But she...she remembered everything. And despite it all, nothing had been changed about her. She was the exact same as she was when she had been attacked. It didn't make any sense.

"Roll…" Dr. Itumi said as she saw the pink navi fall back to the ground trying to hold it together. It was clear that she was beginning to lose some of her sanity being bent up over this question. And in her condition…

"Please...I'm sorry for yelling. Just...if you know anything...just tell me," Roll pleaded, sounding broken. She wasn't even sure what she was. Was she even a navi anymore? She knew she wasn't human. But what if that black navi was lying to her only to get her this worked up. No, that wasn't it. If it had been, then her genuine curiosity and confusion over her soul would have been very rehearsed.

Dr. Itumi shook her head as she sighed, "Fine. I'll tell you." Roll's eyes widened as she looked back up at her creator. The doctor sighed, "I wasn't lying about the fact that you're a Soul Navi. But I did hide from you one of your functions. I… I lied about your adaptability," The doctor confessed, "When I first made you, I thought I had gotten you right the first time. But and you probably don't remember this well, after your first showing in front of the scientists...you had actually gotten pretty depressed. It was like you couldn't move on after the fact. And that when I realized I had missed one important thing that isn't even an emotion. Adaptation. After that, I rethought my whole plans on you. Your...your emotions are a machine learning program. That's how you are able to feel and understand. Whatever you see, you interpret, analyze, and make your own modifications to. It's...it's how you adapt," Dr. Itumi explained to the navi.

Roll didn't talk for a little while, "So...my emotions are simulated?"

Dr. Itumi shook her head, "Not at all. Those are very real. I told you I redrafted my design of you. Creating those emotions would have destroyed the point. No, your emotions are real because you gained them the same way a human does. By watching and learning," She said smiling at the navi, "But I supposed you want to know about your soul. Mayl said she found you clutching it for dear life. The only explanation I have for that is that you've spent a lot of time around Hub Hikari.

"I think somehow your program may have been adapting to him. You've been around him all of your life. The program must have mutated your soul to be...well sort of a navi, human mix. Not really human since you were never that to begin with, but now with his soul digitized...I suppose it would be possible for your program to have mimicked the design." Dr. Itumi summed up. The woman sighed before continuing, "Your programming was the reason I wanted so long to give you to someone who I knew wouldn't hurt or take advantage of it. On the outside just looks like an expansive emotions program, but if one were to look really carefully at its core they would discover just what was there. I hadn't realized the dangers of the program until after I built it, but...you were already awake. I couldn't just delete you. You were...well...you are the closest thing I have to a daughter Roll." Amaya said.

Roll looked up silently before releasing a breath, "Wow...I'm…" She had been called family before, but daughter just felt like something entirely different. Something...special.

"Dr. Itumi!" a female voice said as the sound of running footsteps also sounded the halls. In moments, out bursted Saria, Lan, and Mayl. The red haired woman stopped in front of the doctor, "She's awake? I got your email. I thought she wasn't going to wake up for another day or so and…" Mayl rambled as Lan put a hand on her shoulder.

The red haired woman flushed as her friend rolled her eyes, "What our excited NetOp is trying to ask is can we see her?"

Dr. Itumi smiled as she turned from the trio and looked back at the computer, "Well, since you've been so persistent Roll, you think you can handle a jump into a copybot?"

The pink navi returned the gesture, "Yeah…." The excitement alone from hearing her voice was enough to distract almost everyone in the room from the later half of her sentence, but not Amaya Itumi. The woman merely smiled brighter.

"...mom."

Update: Friday

Ghost: Yay! Roll's not dead! Or close to death, either of the two were hard fates. So, at least we can all be happy. That and the mystery of the Soul Navi has finally been unveiled!

DN Quiz: In the original mock up of Double Network, Roll was originally a human. What was her name? Bonus Point, who's daughter was she? Ghost501 logging out!