MegaMan Battle Network – Christmas Time
WBuilder: If that's your answer you were very close, I'll explain it at the end of the chapter.
Chapter 2 – Party Time
Early Christmas morning, about 4 hours after Sarah's rude awakening from Lan, the pair raced downstairs to the presents by the tree. Lan and Sarah received decidedly different gifts.
Sarah had received what at first glance had looked like computer parts from Dr. Hikari, after Sarah explained to Lan that they were actually for her body she found the note saying that her Dad would install them later for her. From other people she had got mainly clothes and books, but no matter how much she searched she couldn't find one from Chaud.
Lan had received BattleChips and PET upgrades from his Dad (Three of the upgrades weren't even on public release yet), he had also gained more chips from his friends as well as a new bandana from Mayl. His present from Sarah was some Field Change BattleChips. Both of them opened Higsby's parcels to be snowed under with a load of cheap BattleChips Higsby had tried to give away the week before.
Lan and Sarah went upstairs to get changed into clean clothes and came downstairs to hugs from their parents for their gifts, luckily for Lan. Sarah had, had the sense to write, "From Sarah and Lan," on the gifts. Mrs. Hikari and Sarah managed to get the new microwave working whilst Dr. Hikari explained the upgrades to Lan.
Sarah called Chaud and asked for a lift to Yai's party, when he turned up Sarah simply climbed in and didn't mention the lack of a present, she simply felt the BattleChip in her pocket and thought of the prices she could get for it.
Yai had a surprise when Sarah and Chaud turned up early for the party, but when she saw the presents in the car, she decided to keep her mouth shut, especially when Sarah pulled out a large box with "Yai" written distinctly on it.
Sarah put the box and a smaller one down in front of a surprised Yai and said, "Happy Christmas Yai."
Yai ripped the paper of the large box to reveal…
"A milkshake maker?" said Yai.
"I keep telling you," said Chaud, "It's those Strawberry milkshakes you have that give you that large forehead."
Yai was about to explode when Sarah bent down to whisper in her ear.
"Open the other gift first," she said, "That one's from Chaud."
Yai opened the gift to find a large pack of Strawberries.
"Appreciate them," said Chaud, "I had them specially imported for you."
Yai thought for a moment before seeing the funny side of the joke and started to giggle.
Sarah and Chaud pulled some more presents from the car, as she pulled out Dex's present he ran down Yai's drive towards her. One quick throw and Sarah gave away her fifth present that day. She had to drag him into Yai's house to stop him from rushing home to play the game. Mayl and Lan arrived almost arm in arm soon after, Sarah handed over the bracelet to Mayl leaving her with just one present left.
Although more people came the party had already started and Sarah had taken to comfort eating over Chaud forgetting her present, although Mayl and Yai had tried to talk to her she simply brushed them off, everyone but Chaud and Sarah had started to play charades with the navis, Chaud was sat going over some company details with ProtoMan whilst Scyler was trying to talk Sarah out of eating much more.
Chaud sat oblivious to the party when he was roughly pushed to the floor.
"What's the deal not getting me a present?" said Sarah angrily , "I spend most of my money on you and you get me nothing," she pulled the chip out of her pocket and threw it at him, "Here, I hope you choke on it."
Chaud picked it up and looked at the symbol. "GaiaBlade," he whispered.
"I didn't think you had one," said Sarah, "And I knew how much you collected Sword Type BattleChips."
"How much did this cost you?" said Chaud.
"More than you spent on me obviously," said Sarah, "Did you get me anything at all?" She picked Chaud up and threw him back onto his chair.
"Lan!" cried Chaud, "I think something's wrong with your sister."
Lan looked over at Chaud and Sarah. "Sugar rush," he said, "And with what she's eaten, I'm not surprised."
Chaud somehow scrambled out of his chair and ran over towards Lan. "What do you mean Sugar Rush?" he said, "More like furious."
"Look," said Lan motioning towards Sarah who was walking over with a hurt look on her face.
"Why are you running away from me Chaud?" she said, now sounding more hurt than frightened, "I thought you liked me."
"You just tried to kill me," said Chaud squashing himself against Lan's chair.
"Oh," said Sarah sounding surprised, "I'm so sorry." She bent down and gently hugged Chaud.
"I don't know which one is worse," said Chaud, "Scary or cute? Why is she like this anyway?"
"Sarah's body processes sugar for energy," said Lan, "If she can't hold anymore energy then it doubles the amount she uses, but normal people just become hyperactive, with Sarah, it all goes to her head and makes her act drunk."
"Anything you can do to help?" said Chaud.
"Wait it out," said Lan, "Should only be until tomorrow morning."
"Anything faster?" said Chaud.
"She needs to burn off the excess energy," said Lan. Lan thought for a moment before smiling. "How's about your new party trick Sarah?" he said.
"I don't have a party trick," said Sarah.
"That upgrade Dad installed today," said Lan, "The DP module."
"Ohhh," said Sarah, "Is that safe?"
"Sure," said Lan crossing his fingers behind his back.
"Ok," said Sarah stepping back a few steps before yelling, "Dimensional Projection!"
Sarah seemed to flicker for a moment before a flash of light appeared and Sarah stood in her navi form.
"Now deactivate the module," said Lan.
The navi form faded as Sarah stood in her human form with a look of horror on her face.
"Oh no," said Sarah, "I didn't have a sugar rush did I?"
"Yeah," said Lan turning back to the game to see everyone staring at Sarah, "Ok, shows over, lets get back to the game."
People slowly began to stop staring as Sarah and Chaud found a small corner to talk.
"What was that?" said Chaud.
"I can't cross fuse normally," said Sarah almost embarrassed, "So Dad mad the DP module to allow me to project my navi form into the real world. If I'm not in a dimensional field, it creates a small one just big enough for me, but I can't hold it for long as it takes a lot of energy."
"No wonder Lan used it to waste the excess energy," said Chaud.
"I tried to kill you didn't i?" said Sarah, "What was that about?"
"Because I didn't get you a present," said Chaud.
"Oh yeah," said Sarah, "Why did you forget?"
"I didn't," said Chaud pulling a box out of his pocket, "I got you this."
Sarah opened the box to see a necklace lying in the box.
"What do you think?" said Chaud.
"It's beautiful," said Sarah.
"It's platinum," said Chaud, "I didn't dare get gold as there are so many fakes out there you don't know if it's the real thing. Here let me help you with that." He prised the necklace from Sarah's fingers and fastened the clasp around the back of her neck. "How does that feel?"
"Thank you," whispered Sarah, "Thank you so much."
The coded message in the last chapter was in morse code, if you take 1 as a ., 111 as - and 0 to seperate them, with a bit more work you can get the message "christmas". Should have been Merry Christmas but it would have spilled into the second line.
Next Time:
MegaMan Battle Network - Memories
When Empress is split from Roll and suffering from Amnesia, is Sarah right to trust her, or will she turn on them at the firstchance she gets?