Megaman Battle Network – The Greatest Challenge
Chapter 2 – Sorrow
After a few tests were ran to make sure that mother and baby were healthy Mayl and Hub were discharged from the hospital. It was then that Mayl found out why Lan hadn't been at the hospital much. She walked in the nursery to find Una sitting on the floor while Sarah in her body was reading her a story.
"Do you like it?" said Lan, "Me and Dad worked for the last week on this."
"But how?" said Mayl amazed.
"Holograms," said Sarah going to touch Una. Her hand went straight through and Una giggled.
"Doesn't that bother her?" asked Mayl.
"No," said Sarah, "She's too young to realise that my hand shouldn't technically go through her, plus it tickles."
"How do you know?" said Mayl.
"Well who do you think tested it?" said Sarah.
"Sorry," said Mayl who gasped as Megaman walked straight through her. Sarah, Lan and Megaman fell about laughing.
"Jack Roll in," said Megaman, "She'll love this."
Mayl jacked Roll into the system who ran over to Una and picked her up. It wasn't long before the adults were playing a board game using the system with the babies on their mother's knees.
"So the navis use pieces and dice that are holograms as well?" said Mayl.
"Yup, it was designed so that Hub and Una could play together," said Lan, "We're also working on things like balls that the navis can manipulate so even simple games like catch can be played."
"And Sarah and Megaman helped to test all this?" said Mayl, "Thanks you guys."
"No problem," said Megaman.
"You should thank Dad as well," said Sarah, "It was his idea."
Mayl smiled and picked up the dice to roll. "Opps," she said as her hand went through one of them. She picked up the other die and rolled.
It was two years before any problems were noticed. Hub and Una were in the nursery with Megaman keeping an eye on them both. Mayl was out shopping and Lan was doing some work in his study. Suddenly Hub looked as though he was having trouble breathing. Megaman called an ambulance and shouted Lan up.
"What is it?" said Lan running in. Seeing his son on the floor Lan ran over and picked him up.
"Call and ambulance Megaman," said Lan.
"Already done," said Megaman,
"Do you know what's up with him?" asked Lan.
"I hope it isn't what I think it is Lan."
"Daddy," said Una, "Why Hub breathing funny?"
Megaman bent down to pick her up. "Hub's very sick," he said, "He has to go to hospital."
Tears appeared in Una's eyes. "Una," said Megaman holding her close.
In the hospital Lan paced the corridor once more when he realised something. Pulling out his PET he asked Megaman, "What do you think it is?"
Megaman just looked at him. A small tear appeared in his eye.
"No," said Lan, "Not that."
Mayl and Sarah ran up the corridor.
"What's up with Hub?" asked Mayl.
"The doctors are running some tests," said Lan, "It looks like HBD."
"No," said Mayl sitting down on the seats, "Are you sure?"
"Megaman thinks it is," said Lan, "We have to remember he's been through it to. We're just lucky we have one of the best experts on HBD here in Dentech city."
Mayl just put her head in her hands.
The doctor came from up the corridor. He looked at Lan and said, "I'm sorry Lan, it's HBD."
"There is a cure though, the operation right," said Lan.
"He's too young at the moment," said the doctor, "Don't worry Lan, you helped me through this disease. It's the least I can do to help your son."
"Thanks Mamoru," said Lan, "That means a lot to me."
"You can take him home for now," said Mamoru, "I've seen that nursery of yours and I can give you a program to monitor him while he's in the nursery. It will send us a signal if he has another attack so we can operate as soon as possible if needed. If you want we can do a small operation to try and prevent the attacks for now. It won't cure him, but it may keep him alive until we can perform the operation to completely cure him."
Mayl and Lan agreed to the operation. Mamoru performed the operation the next day. They took him home a week later.