Omega-Xis' screen appears…with him in it.

Mom gasps, while Dad simply stares.

"Mom, Dad," I say, but Omega-Xis raises his hand and says, "Let me tell the story. They'll believe me if I tell them, more than likely."

Omega-Xis turns to my parents and says, "I am Omega-Xis, an AM-ian, not an FM-ian. The FM-ians destroyed my world."

My parents relax a little.

"I lived as an FM-ian for a long time," Omega-Xis says, "as a soldier for the former FM king, who didn't know of my true identity. I was merely waiting to take the key to the weapon that destroyed my planet: the Andromeda Key."

Omega-Xis closes his eyes as though reliving the memories.

"When I did take the Key," Omega-Xis says, "I fled to Earth to hide with it. There, I met my first partner, a boy named Geo Stelar. I'd met his father shortly before I fled to Earth, and had turned the father into EM waves to save him and his crew."

I can almost see Geo when I close my eyes: a boy about ten with brown hair, dark eyes which reflect a loneliness I couldn't experience, and a Transer like a person would wear in his time.

"We beat the FM-ians who arrived for me by fusing," Omega-Xis continues, "into a being known as MegaMan. After beating the FM king's right hand, we went to the shuttle where the FM king turned it into a mix of human technology and FM-ian destruction. He'd taken the Key from me, and Geo and I were going to defeat Andromeda."

"Wait…" Dad says, "You mention Stelar…was the father, by any chance, named Kelvin Stelar?"

Omega-Xis nods.

Dad nods and says, "Continue."

"Geo died to stop Andromeda," Omega-Xis says, "And Geo's last wish was that I take the Andromeda Key again and hide…again. So that's what I did for 200 years: hid until I found someone with a similar EM wave frequency…who just happened to be Layla. That was when she was late for curfew…that was my fault."

I can't help but want to smack Omega-Xis for reminding me of that punishment that I received.

"As you both know," Omega-Xis says, "the FM-ians are back, we defeated Taurus Inferno as MegaGirl, and we're going to find a certain FM-ian to take care of so we can get the rest of the Battle Card data. What you don't know is that there's two more like us: Lyra, who's on our side, and Crown, who's after me. Crown broke into Layla's room, and he killed the infant human."

Mom gasps again, but Dad says, "So what do we do to help?"

"Don't tell anyone about the Battle Card data," I say, "and don't tell anyone that your little girl is MegaGirl."

"Taurus threatened to put you two out," Omega-Xis adds, "We don't want that to happen again."