Being in love is not easy...
16. The Plan
By: Sailorjj07
A/n: I thank you all for reading my fic and making me feel so special!! THANK YOU!!
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"Talking"
'Thinking'
Actions
(Me!)
"Lan, Roll was attacked again last night. It seems the viruses can get into our homepage even without our security code. Either that or they know it already." Maylu said, looking up at Lan. Lan and Maylu were sitting in the park that Thursday, after school. Yai had invited them over, but Chaud showed up and it was time to go.
"So Dex can control viruses now?" Lan was sitting in the tree on a branch. He looked down at Maylu and their eyes met; Lan knew the answer to the question.
"What should I do?" Maylu asked, looking away from Lan.
"Change the code."
"And if he finds that one out?"
"Then you're pretty much screwed."
"Well thanks a lot!" Maylu cried, exasperated. Lan jumped down from his spot in the tree and sat down next to Maylu.
"I was trying to help."
"Well you suck at it." Maylu huffed, crossing her arms.
"I try." Lan replied, putting his arms around her and giving her a big smile.
"Lan..."
"Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....?"
"You're too close to my face. Either kiss me or move." Maylu smiled, leaning closer to Lan's face.
"What do you want me to do?"
"Oh shut up and come here. You're taking too long." Maylu smiled and tugged Lan to her so their lips met.
At the W3 Building
"Honey, how can we separate them? They're always together! If we can defeat them when they're alone, we won't have to separate them at all right?" Natalie cried, holding onto Dex's arm while walking down the halls of W3 with him.
"Stop calling me that. I hate it. Anyways, if we separate them it'll be easier to kill them. Neither seems to be very strong when they're apart." Dex tried to remove his arm from Natalie's but she wouldn't budge.
"But honey-cakes! We don't really want to kill them do we? I thought we were just going to delete Megaman and Roll?" Natalie clung even tighter to Dex at the thought of killing someone.
"Stop calling me that too! And I'm not just gonna delete their navis!! I want those to dead at my feet! I'll never ever get a chance with Maylu as long as Lan is alive. Why can't I kill him after I destroy his navi?! With no one to protect them, everything will be easy to take over! THEN GUTSMAN AND I WILL REGIN SUPREME OVER ALL OF DENTECH CITY!!" Dex laugh evilly while Natalie moved away from him, looking very afraid.
At the park
Birds flocked in multiple directions and Maylu got up from her spot on the grass. She looked around and realized she had fallen asleep at the park. Maylu looked over and saw Lan still snoring, and gently began to shake him.
Lan didn't get up.
Maylu sighed; she should have known it would take more work then that. She began to shake him a little more roughly.
Still Lan didn't get up.
'Dear Lord. This boy sleeps like a friggin rock!'
Maylu sighed again, and stopped shaking him. 'What can I do to wake him up...........? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..................Oh, I got it!' Maylu leaned in really close to Lan's ear.....
"LAN, DINNER!!"
Lan shot up, almost knocking Maylu over, "What are we having?"
"Air. I was trying to wake up. It's a good thing your stomach is bigger than your brain or I'd never have gotten you up." Maylu grinned, while Lan looked slightly confused.
"What time is it?"
"Time to go home."
"Ok."
In the W3 Building
"So let's go over this plan." Dex said, sitting down on a couch next to Natalie. Natalie blushed at being so close to Dex, but nodded and paid attention.
"Ok, so Friday at 4:00 in the afternoon, Lan and Maylu will each get an e-mail. They'll both be full of viruses and then when they get to the last one, it will tell them about what's happening to the Net. In the meantime, Gutsman and Nadalia will be wreaking havoc on the Net causing computer crashes and anything else to waste time until Roll and Megaman get there. That's when we'll separate them. Roll will follow Nadalia to your homepage and Megaman will follow Gutsman to mine. That's where we delete the Navis. After that, we let them wallow in their own self pity until the Saturday, where we'll make the kill."
"Are you sure you want to do that? Murder two people, who have barely reached their teenage years?" Natalie asked, worried about the look on Dex's face.
"Yes. I do. I want end their life now! That way I don't have to suffer anymore!!" Dex turned to look at Natalie, his face turning slightly red. Dex took a couple of breaths and smiled at Natalie. He put his arms around her and drew her to him. He ran his lips along Natalie's neck, causing her to shudder.
"Nat...Baby...I thought you would do anything for me? Isn't that what you said? I thought you loved me? You love me, don't you?" Dex smirked mentally. He knew he had Natalie wrapped around his finger and he always would.
"Of course I'd do anything for you, Dex honey. And yes, I love you. I always will. But are you sure you want to....kill them? Do we really have to do that?" Natalie tried her hardest to resist him, but she was falling quickly.
"But Nat.......If we don't, then how can we ever be happy together? They'll always be in the way. You don't want that, do you?"
"No. Of course not."
"But you doubt me still?"
"....No. No, I don't doubt you. I don't know what I was thinking! Of course we have to kill them. We have to." Natalie said, looking into Dex's eyes and smiling.
"That's my girl." Dex replied, standing up and walking away.
As soon as Dex was out of the room, Natalie hurriedly left the building, to go home. As soon as she got there and reached her room, she turned her PET on.
"Nadalia, I need you to do something. Are you willing to betray Gutsman for me? Can you do that?" Natalie asked her netnavi, hoping that she'd say yes.
"Of course, I am." Nadalia replied, her eyes shining in curiosity.
"Good. Send an e-mail to Lan and Maylu as soon as possible. But make it as secret as you can."
"Ok."
At Lan's house
"Thanks Mom, dinner was great!" Lan called downstairs, while he walked into his room.
"Lan, you just got an e-mail! It says, 'I need to meet you and Maylu in our classroom tonight at 12:30. I don't need you to do anything; just meet me there. P.S.: Delete this after it's received.' Signed Natalie. What do you think Lan?"
"I think we should take her up on her offer. We just need to be ready for anything."
"Ok. I'll let Roll and Maylu know."
"Good."
At 12:20
"Lan, come on! It's time to go!" Megaman whispered, loudly. Lan hopped out of bed and grabbed his PET. He leaned out of his window, watching as Maylu climbed down the side of her house on a rope. She stopped and waved at Lan then hopped to the ground.
"Come on! We're gonna be late if you don't hurry." Maylu whispered, up to him, pulling her foldable scooter out of her backpack.
"Here I come!" Lan slid down the rope he had tied to his bed and landed on the ground, pressing the button on his shoes so they became skates. (Where is all this rope coming from anyway?)
"Ready?"
"Yep."
"Let's go then."
At 12:25
Lan and Maylu walked into their classroom 5 minutes early. In one of the back desks sat Natalie, a cloak over her shoulders and a hood covering her face.
"Natalie?" Maylu asked, quietly making her way slowly into her class. She stayed as closed to the door as possible, whereas Lan sat down on one of the desks in the front row.
"Yes, it's me." Natalie took her hood off, smiling slightly.
"So what is it that you need?" Lan asked, his curiosity taking over his kindness.
"I brought you here to warn you. Dex....he wants to kill you both." Natalie looked toward the windows and put her hood back on.
"He wants to what?!" Lan almost fell out of his desk and Maylu nearly fainted.
"He wants to kill you. I came here to warn you because I don't want you two to die. I actually like you both. But Dex doesn't and he wants you dead. He plans to kill you on Saturday, with my help. But I don't want to be a part of this. If you two can help me, I'll help you."
"What do you want us to do?" Maylu asked.
"Promise me that no matter what, you make it look like you beat me up. Dex plans to separate you both and then have me fight Maylu in a net battle. He wants me to delete Roll and then Saturday, when you're all sad and stuff, he wants me to kill you. I may love Dex, but right now he's wrong and I won't have blood on my hands."
"But how is beating you up going to do anything?" Maylu asked, sitting down in the desk Lan was sitting on top of.
"Dex and I will have some form of communication. Friday, it'll be by cell phone; Saturday, by walky-talky. If you take it from me, I'll appear beaten. Plus, I'm in theatre arts; I can fake a pretty good painful groan."
"Ok. So what will happen after that? After that Dex will be forced to leave you alone until he finds someone else to work with him. He thinks he has me wrapped around his finger, but he doesn't." Natalie blushed at the stunt Dex pulled on her today. The little stunt of his was the last straw.
"Natalie, I'm sorry. Maybe if things were different..." Maylu started to say.
"But they aren't and I'm perfectly fine with that. I just want you to promise you won't get yourselves killed."
"We won't." Lan and Maylu replied, together.
"Good. So here's the plan." Natalie turned on a flashlight and shined it on the chalkboard. "I even wrote it on the board. See?"
"Wow! That looks good." Maylu said, with a smile.
"Thank you. Anyway, tomorrow at 4:00 p.m., Dex and I will send you both an e-mail full of viruses. There are 20 in each e-mail and they consist of Lv. 2, 3, and 4 viruses. So they should die pretty easily. Now after you kill the last virus, you'll get an e-mail telling you that Dex and I are wreaking havoc on the Net. And of course being the little heroes that you two are, you'll rush over and try to stop us. Lan, Gutsman will lead you and Megaman away from Maylu, Roll, Nadalia, and I. Maylu, I'm supposed to lead you away, but we won't go to far. I don't want to fight you."
"Ok."
"Now when Maylu goes off with me, you, Lan have to follow Gutsman. If you don't he'll know something is up and then our plan will fail. Anyway follow him, while Roll and I waste a little time. Then Roll will go after Megaman and Gutsman."
"And the rest is up to us?"
"Yes. If you take Gutsman out well enough then he'll be useless and Dex will have to take a break from planning to get him fixed. By then I'll have the W3 base surrounded with cops and Mr. I wanna-kill-everyone will be in Juvey (Juvenile Hall) until his teeth shatter and he's 80 friggin years old."
"But what will you get him arrest for? He hasn't committed a crime? Has he?" Maylu asked.
"He has a gun, he's underage, and he doesn't have a license. He's gonna get arrested."
"Oh."
"That's my plan for Friday. We'll meet again tomorrow night for the Saturday plan." Natalie stood up. "I'll see you guys later." She smiled, and left the classroom.
End Chapter 16