OK, in this chapter I introduce World Three into the plot of the story. Soo exciting! I hope you all like it! Please R&R! Those reviews are what keep me going. Enjoy!

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Chapter Three

While Lan is still stuck at school, a plan is being devised at WWW headquarters.

Mr. Wily is sitting at his desk, watching the reactions of Mr. Match as he blamed him for the failure of Torchman in the effort to get rid of Megaman that last Saturday.

"I am sorry sir, but this other Navi stepped in to save Megaman." said Mr. Match in his Scottish accent.

"What?! Who stopped you? Was it that Gutsman?" Mr. Wily exploded.

"No, it was a water-type Navi. It put out Torchman's flame..." Mr. Match explained hesitantly.

Mr. Wily leaned back in his chair to ponder this information. "A new Navi to foil our plans? This could be a big problem for our goal to rule the Net. We should find out about this new foe." he stopped, and then, as a evil smile came over his face, he stood up and spoke to no one in particular. "We will have a small NetBattling tournament to find our foes! They won't be able to resist such a challenge. We will find them, and destroy them!" he laughed evilly and then looked at Mr. Match. "Prepare the others. We will need people on the inside of this tournament. Perhaps we need someone that they do not know yet." he sat back down and struck a thoughtful pose. "Send me the most promising new recruits of World Three. The youngest, and most promising. We will need them to go on a little spy mission." he said with a evil smile.

Mr. Match nodded and walked out the door.When Mr. Match shut the door, Mr. Wily turned his chair around completely to face a screen behind his desk. He turned the screen on to show images of Megaman fighting WWW NetNavis. "You will pay for your actions against us. You will pay." he seethed.

As the last bell of the day rang, Lan jumped out of his seat and hurried over to Maylu who was getting ready to go home.

"So the plan is to meet at your house, right?" asked Lan.

"Yup, that's the plan." she replied.

"OK, just wanted to make sure because I'm gonna go home first. Seeya later!" he said as he began making his way out the door. He put his rollerblades on in the hallway and started picking up speed as he headed for home.

When he got there, he was greeted by the smell of apple pie baking in the oven.

"Mmm, what's that for, Mom? Dessert, I hope." he said as he walked in.

"No, it is for our new neighbors as a housewarming present." she said, shaking her head.

"New neighbors? I didn't know we had any new neighbors." Lan said with a puzzled look on his face.

"They moved in across the street from us this last Saturday. I think you were at Dex's house that day so you must not have seen the moving trucks. I went over and met the family while they were moving in. Nice people, and the father works at SciLab with your dad. They also have a girl, about your age, I think, i didn't get a good look at her since she was riding away on that scooter of hers. Probably trying to stay out of the way of the movers." she stopped and noticed Lan's slack jaw and astonished expression.

"Are you all right honey? What's the matter?" she asked.

He snapped out of his daze and looked at her. "Is the the family's last name Taki?" he asked, trying to rule out the last possibility that it couldn't be who he thought it was.

His mother thought for a moment. "Why yes, I think it was. Why?"

"Oh, it's just that we got a new girl in our class today by the name of Kris Taki, and I thought it might be her familiy moving in, and I was right." he said. "Mom, I am gonna be at Maylu's for awhile, OK?"

"All right honey. Hey, there's an idea, why don't you invite Kris to go with you? She must be kind of lonely not really knowing anyone yet." she suggested.

"All right Mom. Seeya tonight at dinner!" he said as he went out the door and across the street. He stopped at the door and knocked, and the door opened to reveal a man in a SciLab labcoat. He was about Lan's dad's height with mussy, light brown hair much like Kris'. He looked down at Lan with curiosity.

"Hello Dr. Taki, is Kris home?" Lan asked before remembering to add, "I'm Lan Hikari from her class at school. I also live across the street."

"Ah, so you're Hikari's son that he has been saying so much about at work. I thought I recognized you from somewhere. It was from the picture of your family on his desk. Yes, Kris is home. Come on in and I'll call for her." he said warmly, opening the door to invite Lan in.

"Thank you." Lan said as he stepped into the house. The house was immaculate, which was surprising because they had just moved in two days ago. Dr. Taki went up the stairs that were right across from the door and went across the canopy-like hallway hanging over the floor below. He stopped at the door at the very left of the upper hallway. "Kris! There is a boy from your class at school here!" he called through the door.

She opened the door and stepped out. "Dad!" she said, annoyed and slightly embarrassed. Then she looked down to the door and saw Lan standing there.

"Oh, hi Lan." she said as she walked past her dad then down the stairs. "So, why did you want me?" she asked.

Lan was starting to get uncomfortable under the weight of Dr. Taki's stare.

"Umm, I was wondering if you would like to come with me to Maylu's house this afternoon. If you're not busy, I mean..." he stammered.

Kris smiled then looked up at her dad on the stairs. "May I Dad?" she asked pleadingly.

Dr. Taki looked at Lan for a minute or two then asked Lan a question. "Who will all be there and how long will it be?"

"Maylu, Yai, Dex and I and we plan to end before dinner, sir." Lan replied quickly.

Dr. Taki thought for a few more moments, and then he finally said, "All right Kris, you can go, but be back before dinner."

"Thanks Dad!" she said as she rushed out the door pulling Lan out with her by his hand.

"Nice to meet you Dr. Taki!" Lan said as he was dragged through the door.

As soon as they were out the door, Kris breathed a sigh of relief. "Sorry about my dad, Lan. He has never acted this way before.." she apologized as she walked towards her scooter leaning against the house.

"It's OK, I guess I can understand where he's coming from." Lan said as he started rollerblading down her sidewalk.

She joined him and they rolled side-by-side.

"He still shouldn't have been so rude." Kris said.

Lan shrugged and stopped on Maylu's doorstep.

"We're here." he said, opening the door.

Everyone was sitting on the couch and looking like they had been waiting awhile.

"You're late." Yai said, annoyed.

"Sorry, I figured Kris would want to come too." Lan explained.

"And we kinda got held up at my house.." Kris said, stepping into the house.

"What happened to hold you up?" Maylu asked.

Lan and Kris looked at each other, each challenging the other to tell everyone else.

After a few seconds, Kris spoke up.

"Oh, my dad just was being paranoid at the fact that Lan asked for me, so he kept interrogating him." Kris explained.

"That must have been, uncomfortable." Maylu said slowly.

Lan nodded and said, "Very."

"Anyway, why did you call us here Maylu?" Lan said, trying to divert the attention away from him.

"Well, while we were in study hall at school, Roll was surfing the Net and she found an ad for a small NetBattling tournament this Saturday and I figured that you guys would wanna know about it." she explained, looking around the room.

Everyone's faces lit up with excitement.

"Let's all enter!" Lan said excitedly.

"Yeah!" everyone else said simultaneously.

After a half hour of excited chattering, from the NetNavis and the kids, Kris looked at the clock and realized it was almost time for dinner.

"Uh, guys? I think it is time to go.." she said cautiously, not wanting to break up the happy moment.

Lan looked up at the clock too and realized she was right. "Yeah, it is. We'll have to enter the competition and plan our strategies later." he said.

"Yeah." Dex said. "We had better plan are strategies separate though, because we never know if we'll go up against each other." Dex advised.

"Good point Dex." Lan said, preparing to leave. "I gotta get home. I don't want to be late for dinner!" he said as he began walking towards the door.

"Yeah, I hafta go too." Dex said, standing up and walking towards the door as well. "Mom's making my favorite food tonight and I wanna get there before Dad eats it all" he said.

"I need to get going too." Yai said. "Daddy doesn't like tardiness to dinner." she said as she walked towards the door was well, leaving Maylu on the couch alone.

"Yeah, me too. My dad will have a fit if I am not home on time." Kris said.

"Well, see you all at school tommorrow!" Maylu said as everyone made their way out the door. She got a bunch of "See you tommorrow"s and waves as they walked out the door, almost getting stuck because they forgot to go single-file. Maylu laughed and got up to help her mom with dinner.

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Who will Mr. Wily send to spy on them?

Find out next chapter! I'll post it right after I post this one, so you won't have to wait long.