MegaMan Battle Network – Memories
Chapter 3 – Kindness
When I recovered I found Sarah sitting next to me.
"Don't you have school or something?" said a voice snidely, it took me a couple of seconds for me to realise the voice was mine.
Sarah raised her eyebrows.
"Watch that mouth of yours," she said, "Dex would find that sufficient reason to delete you."
"Sorry," I said, "I didn't mean to say that like that, but it is a bit confusing for me."
"I understand," said Sarah, "When Dad first suggested the idea to me I nearly fainted too, now it's just another day for us when I jack in and out of computers."
"Why are you like that anyway?" I asked.
As Sarah explained her past with her sister and her battle against Wily's programming, I felt a pang of envy, and a sense of irony, Sarah was a person who wanted to forget her past, she tried to act every day like it had never happened, and alls I wanted to do was remember mine.
"Roll and Mayl will be glad your awake anyway," said Sarah, "They've both been worried sick, if not for you but for themselves."
"Why?" I asked.
"You are, or were, a part of Roll," said Sarah, "During the second N1 Grand Prix, we managed to separate you and Roll but at a cost, if either of you were deleted, the other would be too. We reintegrated you into Roll, but when you were separated we were all worried about that cost again, we were unsure if deleting you would delete Roll too."
"Why did I collapse?" I asked.
"Two reasons," said Sarah, "First, your shock at seeing my human body, second, your loss of a connection to a PET cost you a lot of energy."
"I was connected to a PET?" I said.
"Your body still believed you were connected to Mayl's PET," said Sarah, "It began using energy that you couldn't replace without a PET on our journey back."
"I don't feel a connection," I said, "Is that normal?"
"You aren't connected anymore," said Sarah, "You always were a strong one, not many navis have lost the connection to a PET and survived when they were programmed to survive connected to one."
"I'm free," I said, "How am I supposed to find my memories without anyone to help me?"
"I'm not sure that's a good idea yet," said Sarah, "Going to find your memories may be a bad idea so soon."
"Why?" I said.
"Because," said Sarah, "You may not like what you find for starters, the other reason is that you can't fight yet. Don't worry about that second one though, that will be fixed as soon as you feel ready."
"I'm ready now," I said pulling myself out of the energy restoration program I had been lying in, "But how can you train me?"
"Oh don't worry," said Sarah, "I'm quite an expert with your moves." She walked a little distance away from me and turned around, as she turned she changed until she was an exact replica of me.
"First things first," said Sarah, "Using your whip…"
She retrained me in my old fighting style for nearly a day, I noticed flaws in the way she moved and began to take advantage of them, modifying my style to take advantage I pulled in quite a few good moves that landed a few heavy blows on Sarah.
"Well," said Sarah as the training finished and she began nursing her wounds, "I was considering making a support program for you, but I see you don't need it anymore than I would."
Suddenly there was a flash of light as Roll landed in the system.
"Perfect timing," said Sarah, "Can you train Empress to use her healing abilities for me? I'd do it myself but she's learning her own style instead of her old one and she landed some pretty heavy blows."
Roll smiled as she came over and showed me how to use what little of her healing power lay in me to restore wounds on other navis, although I couldn't heal the larger wounds on Sarah, I healed up some of the smaller ones that Roll showed me.
"Ok then," said Sarah, "I'll ask Mayl to leave a training program on for you, if you could just practice for a week, I'd do some more but Miss Mari will be mad if I miss much more school on your sake."
"Miss school?" I asked Roll after Sarah left the system.
"She attends the same school as Lan and Mayl," said Roll, "In fact she's in the same class."
"What did she mean miss much more school?" I said.
"She was pretty worried," said Roll, "She stayed by your side for nearly a week and transferred what energy she could after you cut your connection."
"Why?" I asked.
"Scyler's her sister," said Roll, "After Scyler was deleted, the only thing that kept enough of her alive to be resurrected, was the thought of deleting Sarah. Sarah would never admit it, but she feels responsible for what happened to us."