Megaman Battle Network – Rebirth
Chapter 4 – Roll Model
"What are you talking about Sarah?" said Dr. Hikari.
"Don't try and pull that one off on me! You know that Empress wasn't created by modifying Roll, it was the other way around," said Sarah.
"So where did Empress come from then?" said Dr. Hikari.
"Nice try, Empress' real name is Scyler V3.0," replied Sarah.
"Wrong, Empress was developed from 3.0s data. Roll was simply an adaptation of the Empress data."
"You still haven't answered my question," said Sarah.
"Just in case."
"In case of what, Empress getting lose? You do know Megaman will point blank refuse to destroy Empress if he finds out the Empress running around and destroying the net is Roll don't you?"
"I was hoping Megaman could calm her down," replied Dr. Hikari.
"I've been Empress, there isn't a lot that can do that."
"You did it."
"No, I simply wrote subroutines to suppress Empress' influence. It's not that difficult."
Sarah and Dr. Hikari just sat there for a moment.
"I guess Ring was made from the same experiments then," said Sarah.
"And Mary does have the original one," replied Dr. Hikari, "I should have known someone would find out."
"Put it this way, if anyone can calm Empress down its Hub."
"I hope your right."
The next day was Sunday and Sarah's last day at home. As a special treat they took her out to a restaurant. More specifically they took her to #1 Curry. The four former WWW officials were surprised to see Sarah as well. But after the stuff Wily used to do they managed to get over it quickly.
The next day Sarah and Dr. Hikari went back to SciLab where the security guard blocked them from getting to Dr. Hikari's office.
"Excuse me, can I get through to my office please?" asked Dr. Hikari.
"I have orders not to let either of you pass," said the security guard.
"Why not?" said Sarah.
"Dr. Hikari has been temporally suspended pending an investigation by the officials."
"What for?" said Sarah surprised.
"Apparently you were seen sabotaging the SciLab security systems. Therefore we are suspending Dr. Hikari in case he was involved in any way."
"But he lives for SciLab, why would he sabotage its security?" said Sarah.
"I don't know. There was something else," said the security guard.
"You're under arrest Sarah," said an official from behind.
Three officials grabbed Sarah and as she struggled she accidentally activated new subroutines in her systems and remotely Jacked Into the system.
"She must have jacked in!" said an official as her body went limp, "Scour the system for her with a toothcomb if necessary before she damages the system any more."
Sarah stood up in the system. She hadn't expected to Jack In but she could work it to her advantage. Her she may find the evidence to clear her name. She twisted her crest and cut her connection to her PET. Hopefully her new programming would allow her to hide and find the information quickly. Before Lan did something stupid.
Hopefully.