MegaMan – Tournament Time
Chapter 41 – Forgive and Forget
WB: I probably am, the bad thing is with the way I write these fics I don't know what it is myself yet.
It was the day after the N1 had abruptly ended, Nebula's attack had brought the entire city to a state of panic that would pass in a few days. It wasn't noticeable unless you looked, cars seemed to stop for the smallest thing and people went around looking nervously over their shoulders.
Sarah walked to the spot where the floating arena had been and looked around, sitting a little further down the way on a patch of grass was a boy in a red jacket looking out to the sea where the arena had been, she walked up behind him.
"I thought you'd be here," she said sitting down.
"What do you want Sarah?" said Chaud picking a stone up from the pavement and throwing it into the sea.
"I'm sorry," said Sarah, "I called you a jerk yesterday and I was the jerk really, I acted without thinking and forgot that you had your own opinions on navis."
"No," said Chaud shaking his head, "I didn't think about the way you felt towards navis, being a navi yourself gave you a different view of ProtoMan from me and I should have respected that."
"Hey you pair," said ProtoMan, "Let's say you were both jerks and leave or we'll be here all day. We're all ok and that's all that matters."
"You're right," said Sarah.
The pair sat in silence for a few moments until another voice broke the silence.
"He banged his head on the hospital wall after you walked off yesterday Sarah," said Empress from the second PET on Chaud's waist. Sarah gave a small giggle as Chaud turned red.
"I think Roll wants this back," said Chaud handing Empress' PET to Sarah.
"Me too," said Sarah taking it from him.
"Oh yes," said Chaud reaching into his pocket, "ProtoMan says this is yours too." He handed a data disk to Sarah who pocketed it.
"How is he anyway?" said Sarah.
"None the worse for wear," said Chaud, "A little shaken but he'll recover."
Sarah nodded and smiled.
"So am I forgiven?"said Chaud.
"After getting us lost on the way to Yoka yesterday," said Sarah, "No way."
"Don't forget who my navigator was," said Chaud.
"Only after you went four miles in the opposite direction and then decided to ask for directions," replied Sarah. The pair just burst out laughing.
"Forgiven?" said Chaud,
"Forgiven," said Sarah.
Dr. Hikari finished typing a report of BattleStyle up in his Lab at SciLab, he had displayed everything important to the BattleStyle and how it was achieved in the report and copied it to a disk. He went upstairs and nervously knocked on the door to the office of SciLab's CEO.
"Enter," said a voice from within the office
Dr Hikari walked into the office and stood at the other side of the desk from the CEO.
"What is it Hikari?" said the CEO simply. Dr. Hikari threw the disk onto the desk where it landed in front of the CEO. The CEO picked it up and inserted it into a laptop on his desk. He read it for a few moments before removing the disk.
"This report is nearly twenty years late Hikari," said the CEO.
"I had sufficient reason to update it," said Dr. Hikari.
The CEO shook his head the broke the disk in two.
"Hikari listen to me now," said the CEO, "I want no more company time wasted on this little project involving your 'daughter'. I want all files relating to this deleted and no more company resources to be spent on this project. Do I make myself clear?"
"Crystal," said Dr. Hikari with a hint of venom in his voice before turning and leaving the office.
A figure stepped out from the shadows in the back of the office.
"A shame that had to be done," said Commander Beef.
"Yes," said the CEO, "But you know as well as I do, that if Wily or someone got their hands on that research then we would be doomed."
"It won't stop his research for it, will it?" said Beef.
"No," said the CEO, "If I know him, he will do it in his own time."
Dr. Hikari sat at his computer and brought everything on BattleStyle he'd been able to find, except for the locked file he selected them all. His finger hovered over the delete button for a second before he inserted a blank disk and moved them all onto it. He made sure nothing of them remained before he left SciLab that night.
To be continued:
A/N: That's it for TT. Here's what's coming next.
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Ten years on, Wily is under a life imprisionment and Scyler has been forced into the lowest levels of the UnderNet. But now Lan and Mayl must face their greatest ever challenge.