Author's Notes: I do not own MMBN or lay claim to any characters thereof.

Maritta, I don't know, seeing as how there's only two chapters left in this one, I don't have much time to work... and I've already established that this is a Lan/Maylu(Meiru) but I'll see what I can do... (I've got an interesting idea here...)

Cross-Fusion, this is only possible when a Dimensional Area is in existence. To activate it, an Op must insert a 'Synchro Chip' and if the bond with his Navi is strong enough then the two will merge, allowing the Op to gain his Navi's appearance, but often with a few small changes. The Op and Navi can communicate by thought while merged, for clarity, conversation between a fused Op and Navi will be in Italicized text. You can use Battle Chips while in Cross-Fusion, but only if they are inserted before the Synchro chip. Lan is capable of using the Unisons while fused, but they drain his energy and leave him extremely weak, so that approach is rarely used (I know of only one instance so far). While the Cross-Fusion is denoted as 'R' in Japan, I have no idea what that means, so I will indicate a Cross-Fusion with the letters 'CF'.

Mega-Man CF: (NOTE! These are the Cross-Fusions of Axess, NOT the Stream versions) Lan gets the standard black bodysuit, followed by the gloves and boots, but the squares on the gloves and boots are replaced with glowing inverted triangles. The lines running down his sides now only reach to his thighs before stopping and running around his legs horizontally. He gets some light blue lines running through the crest across his chest, and the blue stripes going over the top of Mega's helmet are now raised into small fins.


Proto-Man CF. Chaud gains Proto-Man's fancy black and purple suit, along with the red gloves, the red boots now run up past his knees to his thighs (why? I don't get the point). He now has some gold and yellow trim across the top of his chest armor, and the visor on the helmet is more transparent. And that silver hair appears as well.

Begin Chapter.

"We're running out of time!" I ran down the Hospital corridors, hoping that I wouldn't run into anyone. According to Famous, the Converter would activate in just a few minutes, and we had to get to the basement and shut it down. Fast.

"You're almost there!" Roll shouted.

"Where's that door?" I ran my hand along the wall and I kept moving, the Converter was supposed to be in the basement, and I was desperately trying to find a way down there.

"THERE!" My Navi shouted, "About four feet away, right hand side, and it's wide open!" "Then they're already here." I found the opening. Here it was, now, all we had to do was to get down there and stop the converter from activating.

If only it was that easy.

Just as I began to step down the stairway that would take us to the basement, a strong arm wrapped itself around my waist, pinning my arms to my sides.

"Let me go!" I shouted, this was not good, not good at all.

"I've found you at last," A slightly metallic voice came to me, I knew I'd heard it before, but where?

"What do you want?" I felt around with my foot, trying to find my captor's leg. If I could locate it, then there was a chance I could break free.

"Your Navi, she knows Mega-Man's secret." That voice said.

"What? BASS!" I recognized that voice, it was the voice of 'Kid Grave', the robotic decoy that Wily had used to distract everyone from the true head of 'Grave'. As far as we knew, Bass had seized control of the robot, and used it to travel the physical world, as well as the digital one. "How did- why do you want Roll?"

"There is something different about Mega-Man's Ultimate Program." The Robot stated, "It was more powerful than Grave's and mine put together, I want to know why."

"And you think Roll knows why?" Where was the guy's ankle? Then it hit me; Bass was inside of a robot, kicking him in the leg wouldn't accomplish anything because he wouldn't feel it. I was in deep trouble.

"Her program must be just as strong as his is." My adversary continued, "for they were gained in the same manner."

I felt a hand lifting my terminal out of its pouch. I didn't care what happened, this Navi was NOT getting his hands on Roll, and there was only one way to keep him from succeeding. I took a deep breath and got ready.

I lunged forward as hard as I could, pulling Bass with me.

The robot lost his balance amd his grip faded away as he tumbled headfirst down the stairs.

"Maylu? Are you alright?" Roll's voice came to me.

"I think so." I got to my feet, "What about Bass?"

"It looks like he got it worse than you did." My Navi explained, as I headed down the stairs, "He's not moving."

"That's nice to know." I steadied myself, and got ready to find that Dimensional Converter. But as it turned out, I didn't have to go looking for it.

"MAYLU?!" Lan's voice shot through the air. "What are you doing here? That Converter's going to go off any moment!"

"That's why I'm here." I took a step forward. "You're going to need help."

"No offense." Chaud's voice drifted through the air, "But I don't see any way that you can help us. The Dimensional Area's not like fighting in the Internet, the Navi come to our world. And that means-"

"I understand," I tried to explain the situation, "But I've got- Do you feel that?"

"The energy? Yeah, it's activating." Lan stated, "Maylu, don't be stubborn, get out of here NOW!"

"Lan, I-"

"Well, well, three Ops with one stone." A strange voice came through the air.

"Dirk." Chaud snapped, "Who are you working for?"

"Hmm? Oh, that's none of your business." The renegade replied, "I'm just a field tester, doing some preliminary tests for the boss. Once he's sure that the stuff works, you're going to be in a huge mess, those who oppose Nebula will be removed."

"Nebula? So that's their name." Our soft spoken ally muttered, "Dirk, I'm giving you one last chance to save yourself, deactivate this Dimensional Area now!"

"Nah, I'm going to destroy you instead." Dirk snapped, "Cross-Fusion now!"

"Wait!" Lan shouted.

A muffled explosion sounded, and then I heard Dirk groan.

"He didn't have a bond with his Navi." Lan's voice was low. "The Fusion backfired. Badly."

"But mine didn't!" A new voice shouted.

"Who are you?" Lan demanded.

"My name is unimportant. But for now, you may call me Dark-Man." The Navi stated. "Prepare for deletion!"

"He's one strange Navi." My Navi sounded puzzled; "His black gloves and boots are bulged in the center, he's got chest armor, and a gray bodysuit."

"I don't think so." The brunette snapped, "Ready Chaud? Let's give these things a workout."

"With pleasure," The bi-colored haired Op replied.

"Synchro Chip in, Download!"

"It looks like the chips worked." Roll informed me. "Mega-Man and Proto-Man have merged with their respective Net Ops."

"Then it's our turn." I pulled out the chip that Famous had sent us. "Let's do this Roll."

"Maylu, Get out of here now!" Lan's voice snapped. "Roll, talk her out of this!"

"Dark Energy Attack!" Dark-Man bellowed.

I could feel the energy flooding the room, but I wasn't going to leave Lan and Chaud alone, not when I could help anyway.

"Mega Buster!" Mega-Man CF cried.

"Sonic Boom!" Proto-Man CF shouted.

Their attacks exploded, and I heard the energy crash into them.

A split second later, I was grabbed by a strong force, and thrown backward into the far wall, adding another item to my list of bruises. "Oh, so that's what it feels like." I got to my feet, then I gasped in panic; I had dropped the Synchro Chip in the attack! "Oh no, Roll, do you see the chip anywhere?!"

"You dropped it?" Roll shouted back.

"If I had it, I wouldn't be asking if you could see it would I?" I felt along the ground, where was the thing? If we didn't find it soon... "Energy Buster!" Dark-Man shouted.

I heard the attack explode, and the idle part of my mind guessed that he had missed. But the majority of my concentration was focused on finding that cartridge. Without it, I couldn't help Lan or Chaud at all.

"Cyber-Sword!" Mega-Man CF shouted. "Uh, the sword didn't form!" Mega-Man CF's voice cried out. "I don't get it, Dad said that we should be able to use chips without an Operator, but we can't activate them!"

"Let me try." Proto-Man CF's voice said, "Wide Sword! What?"

"You foolish humans." Dark-Man chuckled to himself, "You never think! In Cross Fusion, you can use Battle Chips, but only if they're slotted in before you transform. Now, Dark Energy Blast!"

"Uh oh," I stopped searching and tried to figure out a way to dodge this, I didn't want to repeat the experience. "I see it!" Roll shouted.

"Mega Buster!" Mega-Man CF shouted, I heard his blaster fire repeatedly, and several small explosions sound, he had stopped Dark-Man's attack. "Maylu, get out of here now! I can't protect you like this and stop him at the same time!"

"You should be worried about saving yourself, not her." Their opponent muttered, "Dark Berserk Attack!" "Maylu, you're in line." Roll whispered. "Thanks." I lunged forward, hands outstretched, trying to find the bit of plastic that could turn this battle around. I slid along the ground, and felt the cartridge enter my hand... "Dark Buster." Our Opponent stated.

"Sonic Boom!" Proto-Man CF shouted, I heard his attack roar through space, and crash into something, he had bought us some time, I just hoped that we could use it...

"Ready?" I got to my feet, and remembering X's words, jammed a couple of chips into my P.E.T.

"I was programmed ready!" Roll stated.

"Then here goes." I held the chip over my terminal. "Synchro Chip, in!"

I waited as the Cross-Fusion occurred, it was strange, I couldn't see what was happening, but I could, I don't know, sense what was going on...

First, I gained Roll's black bodysuit, followed by her pink and red boots, but there was a small difference, the boots had a red gem set in the trim to serve as kneepads. After that was done, the pink gloves appeared, but with another pair of gems protecting my elbows, the vest appeared, but now it ran into a pink skirt, and finally the helmet, complete with Data Ribbons materialized, out of which flowed my now long red hair. The Cross-Fusion was complete.

"Another Op with Cross-Fusion?" Dark-Man shouted in disbelief.

"That's right!" I stated boldly, the 'sense' faded away and I was in the dark world once again.

"Roll? Are you there?"

"I, I am..."

"Great, let's stop this guy, where is he?"

"Maylu, we, we have a problem..." Roll's voice was low, "I... can't see."

End Chapter.

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