Una.exe – Vengeance

Chapter 7 – Meeting

It was a busy night for Hub and Una after that, the first to arrive were Blu and Yai. After that as Una said, "They came in drones."

Everyone had squeezed into the playroom, Prota had been put back into Blu's PET and the only navis in the room were MegaMan, Roll and Sarah who had jacked in for some reason.

Hub and Una had assumed this would be a family affair with maybe a few friends, he realized that he was actually right when Sarah commented that even more wanted to come but they didn't have room.

Hub recognized few faces in the rabble, his grandparents were there as well as his Uncle Chaud and Sam, a few solos stared in off screens or navis of those who couldn't make it, Dex and Chisao had appeared early on and even the three secret netbattlers had arrived although he recognized the masks rather than their faces. Hub and Mayl were rushed off their feet trying to get everyone somewhere to sit or something to drink.

Eventually everyone was settled and Sarah began.

"It may be common news to most of you but Wily has officially been dead for over a week now," she began, Hub noticed most of them nod, it was old news to them, "However, three days ago the officials noticed a signal coming from a computer system in Demon Waters."

The room exploded with cries of, "No way!" or similar things echoing around the room until Sarah raised her hand.

"People," she said, "I am simply stating what we know to be fact, a signal came from Demon Waters, it doesn't have to have anything to do with Wily.

"What we do know is that SciLabs highest security data vaults have been hacked. We have used what data we have as well as information from some sources to discover what the threat looks like."

Sarah waved her hands through thin air and an image appeared, all eyes in the room switched from the image to MegaMan.

"It wasn't me," said MegaMan.

"Remarkable likeness," said Dr. Hikari, "Perfect camouflage as well, MegaMan is so well known that no one would question his motives."

"That's the point," said Sarah, "So long as MegaMan remains on the net, then he can go anywhere and no one will question him, so long as he remains silent anyway."

The figure in the centre looked exactly like MegaMan, small details like the colour of it's eyes gave it away but to someone who had only seen pictures or heard descriptions it could pass for the real thing.

"What do you mean remains silent?" said Lan.

"His voice is weird and high pitched," said a small voice from the back of the room, it even took Hub a few moments to figure out who it was.

"This girl," said WoodRose in a state of shock, "Is your source for this."

"Blu keeps a clean homepage and respects her navi," said Hub, "I doubt that she'd set up some of the things that me and Una saw at her homepage or cut her navis connection to her PET for a joke."

"I agree with Hub here," said Sarah, "I may see most of her in the classroom but I still think that she wouldn't go to those lengths. From what I know of her, she is a truthful girl and a serious study, I doubt she'd even think of doing something like this as a joke anyway."

WoodRose's gaze settled on Blu before Mysteriu put her hand on her shoulder and nodded.

"So getting back to the point," said Commander Beef, "What do we do about it?"

"Nothing direct," said Sarah, "We can't track someone who's in two places at once or even off the net by now. Lan, your PET please."

Sarah pulled out her PET to show her official badge, dejectedly Lan handed over his PET, Sarah transferred some files to a SubPET and handed the SubPET to Lan.

"He can enter the house network and that's it Lan," said Sarah, "The SubPET can't access normal computers."

"Why not just take it Sarah?" said Lan, "Why didn't you just take MegaMan and the PET?"

"Lan," said Sarah, "You have trouble sitting still without MegaMan."

"I do not," said Lan who was virtually hopping from foot to foot.

"You can't stand still when faced with the prospect of losing him," said Sarah, "How the hell will you survive without him out in the world?"

Everyone fell about laughing, even Sarah and Lan smiled at the joke.

"So this room only then," said Lan.

"Wire the entire house up for all I care," said Sarah, "Just don't let him on the net."

"Ok then," said Lan.

"Everybody else," said Sarah, "Just look out for MegaMan on the net, if it is Wily it will be dangerous to approach him, take it from me."

Everybody agreed and the Officials said they'd put an alert out for the MegaMan impostor tomorrow so everyone but Blu, Yai, Chaud, Sam and Sarah left.

Sarah went back into her body and turned to Blu and Hub.

"Something we need to clear up," she said, "This never happened, I am not an Official, you will not try and find out who's behind this and stop him. That last part is the most important."

She picked up Sam and she, Chaud and Sam went to leave before she turned back to the pair of them.

"I still want your maths homework in tomorrow as well you realise," she said as she walked out.

"No!" cried Hub, "I forgot about my homework!"

"Don't worry," said Blu, "I'll help you with it now."

"Blu," said Yai, "We're going home now."

"Is the world conspiring against me here or something," said Hub to Una.

"Don't look at me," said Una, "We'd best get it done anyway, I don't want to go on virus duty for a week again."

"Consider yourself lucky," said Hub heading to his room, "I've got to clean the boy's toilets if I don't get it done, and the kitchen schedule this week is curry on Monday and chilli on Wednesday."

"Ouch," said Una.