Megaman Battle Network – Sibling Rivalry
Chapter 15 – Truth
I stood outside Lan's bedroom door. I still hadn't thought about what I was going to say or how to tell him. It was going to be my biggest challenge yet.
It's stupid, before all this I wouldn't have seen this as a challenge but if Lan stopped treating me like a sister or a friend because of this, I don't know what I'd do.
I went into Lan's bedroom. Lan was sitting on the bed. He appeared to have been waiting for me.
"Megaman and Roll went back to YumLand and picked up on Scyler V1.5's signal. She isn't a solo," said Lan.
"Are you sure it's her's?" I asked, "It could have been Scyler V5.0's."
"I thought that too," replied Lan, "They are 'cut from the same cloth' after all. But there were three signals coming from there at that time. The funny thing is, all three of them led here."
"How can you trace signals from six days ago?" I asked.
"We traced them faintly about half an hour after you fainted. After that I called in some favours from the officials."
"And what officials owe you favours?" I asked.
"Chaud," replied Lan.
"Chaud the legendary NetBattler owes you a favour. Pull the other one. That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard."
"Ok then Scyler," said Lan, "That good enough for you."
To tell the truth it was kind of a relieve that Lan had found out by himself and I knew him well enough to know he'd keep it secret. But it was kind of painful watching him look at me like that.
"Who else knows then?" I asked.
"Just Mayl."
The look on his face was one of disgust.
"How pathetic are you making up that stupid story that your mind is dying? You're nothing but data!"
That hurt. It hurt to think that Lan thought of me like that and it hurt to think Dad had been right.
"It's not like that Lan. When we started this we thought my data was degenerating. Now we know it's eventually going to revert to the original Scyler."
"Great. Now not only do I know that you're really a navi who thinks she's human. But you're going to become dangerous too. You're less than human."
"And what does that make me Lan?" said Megaman.
"What do you mean Megaman?" said Lan.
"If she's less than human because she changed from how she was made, what does it make me?" saidMegaman.
"Lan," said Sarah, "Did you know the more time I spend on the net, the faster I revert. This PET I'm in was designed to slow down my degeneration. When I went on the net to save Megaman and Scyler I was putting myself in more danger. Doesn't that mean anything to you?"
Lan just looked at her blankly.
"Lan, is she so different to me?" said Megaman, "She exists like this because if she was stuck in a normal PET she wouldn't have much of a life. She became like this to spend her last few months living a better life than she had. Just like I'm like this so as I can have a chance at life."
Lan realised what he had said and how she must have felt. He looked up to apologise but she had already gone.