MegaMan Battle Network – Memories
Chapter 6 – Meet the Family
We arrived in Net City's main square to see a pink navi looking exactly like me generally blasting anything that moved, anything that didn't and anything she hadn't blasted. Oh yeah, ProtoMan and MegaMan were their too and nearly died of shock when they saw me.
"No wonder she seemed so strong," said ProtoMan, "Its 1.0 isn't it?"
"Yup," said Sarah, "Number one on the most wanted navis list." She stepped forward and fired a shot in the navis direction.
The navi turned and looked at me and Sarah.
"I'll think I'll drop this disguise then," she said, "It's pretty useless when you deliver what I wanted all along into my lap."
She closed her eyes and her transformed, her face looked like Sarah's, but her armour resembled me and Roll more than Sarah, it was smooth and black, the only part of her armour that resembled Sarah more than me was her helmet, and her hair was jet black unlike Sarah's muddy brown.
"You're under arrest for various crimes against the Net and humanity Scyler," said Sarah, "You can come quietly or I will be forced to use reasonable force to stop you."
"Reasonable force," said Scyler, "If I remember correctly, priority number one is protection of civilian navis."
"Proto, MegaMan," said Sarah, "Crowd control."
ProtoMan and MegaMan looked frustrated but began to clear the crowds from the streets. They moved quickly, ProtoMan's Sword and MegaMan's MegaBuster were perfect incentives for moving. A few minutes later they contacted Sarah to say they were done.
"Right then," said Sarah, "DarkVulcan activate!"
Sarah's arm moved into the DarkVulcan, I made sure Sarah was between me and Scyler whilst it fired.
"Pathetic," said Scyler activating her DarkAura, "You know what I want, and that I'll leave the city alone when I get it."
"Why do you want Empress?" said Sarah.
"Don't you get it yet?" said Scyler, "Roll and Empress splitting was no accident, no, it was planned.
"The DarkSoul Beam brings out the worst in people, in Roll's case, that would be Empress, now in order to bring out the very worst it must split Light and Dark, so for a split instant we have both the Dark side and the Light side co – existing, if the beam is split then, one becomes two."
Sarah's face was set with frustration as she listened. "Of course," she muttered, a faint hint of a smile emerged, Scyler wasn't looking properly, too caught up in her monologues effect on me.
"Now Empress," said Scyler, "Come join me, your great creator and Mistress."
"No," I cried.
"What?" said Scyler taken aback by this turn of events.
"I don't remember you being my Mistress," I yelled, "I may not remember much, but even if you were, I know where my loyalties lie!"
"Where?" hissed Scyler.
"With Sarah," I said, "Did you even know I had amnesia? Did you sit by my side for a week making sure I was strong enough to survive? Did you retrain me to fight? Would you have trusted me enough to let me out on the net on my own?"
Scyler didn't say a word, instead she bore down on me with a DarkSword and struck out and as I moved aside to dodge I saw her real target.
"Squeeee," went Squeeze as Scyler drove the DarkSword through her.
"There goes one of your loyalties," said Scyler as she pulled the blade from the barely conscious Squeeze, "How would you like the rest to go?"
"How dare you hurt Squeeze," I said, "I was all she trusted. How dare you hurt her!"
I activated my blade and charged forward, Scyler jumped back and started to speak in the same tone Sarah had used to control the Mettaurs.
"You don't want to hurt me do you?" she said, it felt like I was thinking them rather than her saying them, "You only owe loyalty to one person, me."
I felt the words begin to take control, I knew I couldn't hold on to my own thoughts much longer, with my last free thought I flung my sword at Scyler, as hard as I could.
I was finding it hard to think now, the only voice I could understand was the voice of my Mistress Scyler, the other insignificant navis were speaking but I couldn't understand the words, all's I could hear was my Mistress screaming in pain.
Wait a moment, my Mistress, no way, I'd never call anyone that. Scyler's screams had brought me round moments before I had lost my mind to her completely. "You," she hissed at me, my sword stuck in her stomach, "You will pay."
"Empress," said Sarah to me, "Squeeze won't hold on much longer."
I ran over to the blue and silver mouse and looked her over.
"It's too big for me," I said looking at the deep gash in Squeeze, "Can you get Roll here quickly?" I said.
"She's coming," said Sarah, "But there's not enough time."
I brushed tears from my eyes as I thought of the program dying here and now, not even a day old.
"Empress," said Sarah, "She can live under one condition."
"What's that?" I asked desperate to save her.
"You have to combine with her," said Sarah, "It's the only way."