Megaman Battle Network – Sibling Rivalry
Chapter 6 – Hidden Truths
I rubbed my arm nervously. What was I going to tell them now? I decided to go on with it a little longer.
"I was in hospital from an early age. My parents came in about once a month I think. They never liked me that much because of my condition. After a while they stopped, I didn't notice for a year.
"I took to taking my PET apart to see how it worked. The doctors encouraged me as it was the first thing I'd taken an interest to. That's how I met Dr. Hikari.
"The doctors brought him in to help me learn about the PETs. Sometimes he couldn't make it so he'd send an assistant along. I think he knew my mum before as he used to talk about her. I couldn't remember her at all," I said all this to Lan and Mayl.
"You can't remember anything about your parents," asked Mayl.
"Not a thing, I can't even remember what colour my mum's hair was," I replied, "Is that bad."
"No, but it is really sad."
"They brought in new PET models for me to examine and textbooks. They even got a computer set up in my room so I could mess about with programming Navis. I remember I used to call Dr. Hikari 'Daddy'." I laughed after saying this. I hadn't heard myself laugh in a while I think and I was surprised by the sound of it.
"After a while he brought in a new model with a navi installed. Scyler, he said that she was dangerous but he thought he could trust me. After exploring her abilities I began to release viruses onto the computer and watch her absorb their data. In fact I think I am personally responsible for the bunny virus itself.
"After viruses I asked Dr. Hikari to bring me some navis so I could experiment with her absorbing skills. It was then I ran into the Devil Chip.
"A few days before I had absorbed a bit of data from another girl's navi. Not enough to cause any damage but enough for a new style. I forget what it was."
"Hang on Sarah, here it is a Ring V3.8 I believe it was," interrupted Scyler.
"Thanks. Anyway a few days later I was studying with Dr. Hikari when this same girl runs into my room screaming that her navi had turned evil. We rushed to the computer system where the navi was and I jacked Scyler in to take care of it.
"I just grabbed a chip and downloaded it. It was the Ring Style chip. Imagine the surprise the three of us had when there were two identical navis standing there.
"We checked the PET and Dr. Hikari recognised it for what it was. Luckily I had a tornado chip on hand to deal with it. I asked Dr. Hikari for the chip and any data he had on it.
"A few days later I got a delivery of six entire files on records of Devil Chips. Not computer records, folders of 500 pages each. The Officials had had 2 departments working full time to the collection and recording of Devil Chips. And those files were only the ones they released. 4 months later I got 8 more delivered. Luckily someone had broken the program code that time and included it with the files so I set to work.
"I lost all sense of time. The wardens often found me asleep at the computer working on my project. I had two windows of programming code stuck in my head at all times. The Devil Chip's and Scyler's.
"Finding no clues I asked Dr. Hikari for information about all the Scylers that been programmed as well as the program code as well. I hit the break with V1.0.
"Six identical lines of code all relating to the physical matrix. It turned out that my research showed that the Devil Chip implanted these six lines of code into the Navi. Those that Scyler V1.0 could implement actually had this code placed into there physical matrix.
"I also found something else though. This came through in the line of code that appeared to do nothing."
I typed the line of code into the computer.
"I'd never been on the web before and the line was meaningless. It turned out it was a web address for a backdoor into the WWW computer system. It was then that the Officials cancelled my research and confiscated the Devil Chip.
"You wondered what caused the WWW computer system to crash 8 years ago allowing the Officials to capture 60% of the WWW. Now you know it was caused by a little girl in hospital."
I went downstairs to find Dad sitting on the sofa. "Nice cover, good thing you based it on real events, how did you know it was caused by that girl anyway?" said Dad.
"Lucky guess."
Chapter 6 – Hidden Truths
I rubbed my arm nervously. What was I going to tell them now? I decided to go on with it a little longer.
"I was in hospital from an early age. My parents came in about once a month I think. They never liked me that much because of my condition. After a while they stopped, I didn't notice for a year.
"I took to taking my PET apart to see how it worked. The doctors encouraged me as it was the first thing I'd taken an interest to. That's how I met Dr. Hikari.
"The doctors brought him in to help me learn about the PETs. Sometimes he couldn't make it so he'd send an assistant along. I think he knew my mum before as he used to talk about her. I couldn't remember her at all," I said all this to Lan and Mayl.
"You can't remember anything about your parents," asked Mayl.
"Not a thing, I can't even remember what colour my mum's hair was," I replied, "Is that bad."
"No, but it is really sad."
"They brought in new PET models for me to examine and textbooks. They even got a computer set up in my room so I could mess about with programming Navis. I remember I used to call Dr. Hikari 'Daddy'." I laughed after saying this. I hadn't heard myself laugh in a while I think and I was surprised by the sound of it.
"After a while he brought in a new model with a navi installed. Scyler, he said that she was dangerous but he thought he could trust me. After exploring her abilities I began to release viruses onto the computer and watch her absorb their data. In fact I think I am personally responsible for the bunny virus itself.
"After viruses I asked Dr. Hikari to bring me some navis so I could experiment with her absorbing skills. It was then I ran into the Devil Chip.
"A few days before I had absorbed a bit of data from another girl's navi. Not enough to cause any damage but enough for a new style. I forget what it was."
"Hang on Sarah, here it is a Ring V3.8 I believe it was," interrupted Scyler.
"Thanks. Anyway a few days later I was studying with Dr. Hikari when this same girl runs into my room screaming that her navi had turned evil. We rushed to the computer system where the navi was and I jacked Scyler in to take care of it.
"I just grabbed a chip and downloaded it. It was the Ring Style chip. Imagine the surprise the three of us had when there were two identical navis standing there.
"We checked the PET and Dr. Hikari recognised it for what it was. Luckily I had a tornado chip on hand to deal with it. I asked Dr. Hikari for the chip and any data he had on it.
"A few days later I got a delivery of six entire files on records of Devil Chips. Not computer records, folders of 500 pages each. The Officials had had 2 departments working full time to the collection and recording of Devil Chips. And those files were only the ones they released. 4 months later I got 8 more delivered. Luckily someone had broken the program code that time and included it with the files so I set to work.
"I lost all sense of time. The wardens often found me asleep at the computer working on my project. I had two windows of programming code stuck in my head at all times. The Devil Chip's and Scyler's.
"Finding no clues I asked Dr. Hikari for information about all the Scylers that been programmed as well as the program code as well. I hit the break with V1.0.
"Six identical lines of code all relating to the physical matrix. It turned out that my research showed that the Devil Chip implanted these six lines of code into the Navi. Those that Scyler V1.0 could implement actually had this code placed into there physical matrix.
"I also found something else though. This came through in the line of code that appeared to do nothing."
I typed the line of code into the computer.
"I'd never been on the web before and the line was meaningless. It turned out it was a web address for a backdoor into the WWW computer system. It was then that the Officials cancelled my research and confiscated the Devil Chip.
"You wondered what caused the WWW computer system to crash 8 years ago allowing the Officials to capture 60% of the WWW. Now you know it was caused by a little girl in hospital."
I went downstairs to find Dad sitting on the sofa. "Nice cover, good thing you based it on real events, how did you know it was caused by that girl anyway?" said Dad.
"Lucky guess."