Megaman Battle Network – Rebirth
Chapter 3 – Cybernetic Psychiatry
Early the next morning Sarah knocked on Mayl's door. Mayl answered and jumped back a bit.
"Opps, sorry Mayl," said Sarah, "I guess I forgot to mention that I'll be coming in my body."
"Yeah, I was expecting you over the net," replied Mayl.
"I can't do what I want to do over the net Mayl," said Sarah.
"Ok then, come on in."
Sarah and Mayl went upstairs. The first thing Sarah did was disconnect the P.c. from the net.
"Why do you always do that when you may be working with Empress?" asked Mayl.
"I've been Empress. I know what she'd be capable of on the net," replied Sarah, "Jack Roll in then disconnect the PET."
When this was done Sarah typed in some commands into the Pc.
"Hey what are you doing?" said Roll.
"Roll.exe shutting down," said Mayl's Pc.
Sarah pulled up a screen of code and examined it. She then pulled up another two and compared them, then a third. After that she shut two of them to leave the original screen.
"Have you been using the Empress Style Chip a lot?" said Sarah.
"No, I haven't used it since we defeated Scyler," replied Mayl.
"It may be something about the devil chip interfered with the Empress Chip," said Sarah.
"So you're blaming it on the devil chip so it's not your fault."
"No, it could have happened eventually but the Empress Chip sped it up."
Sarah turned to Mayl and noticed she'd turned white.
"You're scared of Empress aren't you?"
"I keep worrying, what if I use the chip and she goes all the way? What if she can't turn back? It's not like I can put a tornado chip in and she'll change back. I don't want to lose Roll to her."
"You won't if I have anything to do with it," said Sarah typing into the computer, "I've replaced her main personality data with the backup. It should last until I can find a way to purge her of the devil chip data."
She typed a few more commands in.
"Interesting," said Sarah.
"Is something wrong?" said Mayl.
"No, nothing to worry about. I'll start Roll up now."
Roll started up and appeared to be back to normal. Mayl turned to Sarah.
"Fancy going shopping for a bit Sarah?"
"Ok then, just one moment," said Sarah reconnecting Mayl's pc, "By the way, you should try and get over your fear of Empress, she's a bad enemy but a great ally."
"I'll try," said Mayl uncertainly.
The two of them went shopping for the rest of the day but Mayl couldn't help noticing that Sarah was distracted. She decided not to mention it but wondered if it had something to do with Roll.
Sarah got home that night and found her Dad was there. She waited until her mum and Lan were out of the room then turned to him.
"Why has Mayl got the original Roll?" she asked.