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Lan wondered how to explain it to his mom, like "oh yeah, my navi's real, eats far too much and can out-belch the whole class" er..riight..
He looked over his shoulder, the navi was snuggled into his bag, leaning half out the top, snoozing after all he'd been through that day. He shook his head -wait until i send dad an e-mail about this! its so cool!- he opened his front door "hey mom!"
She turned, smiling "hey dear, good day at school?" he nodded, setting his bag on the table and lifting the still snoozing navi out, popping him on the counter top. "Yeah it was great, and look mom!" she turned, "oh, isnt that!?" he nodded "yep, my net navi, he's somehow outta the PET console.."
As his mother stared at it, and began asking how on earth it had happened, the navi turned over on the counter, mumbling "cookie..." his mother blinked "cookie? lan, whats he on about?" lan laughed "i was feeding him cookies earlier...didnt seem to go down well, he out-did sanja in the loud burp leages.." his mother shook her head "lan, i dont need to know.." but she was laughing softly.
At that point megaman finally woke "huh...??" he sat up, rubbing his eyes. Their brilliant green gaze locked onto the two watching him, "huh, lan, were home?". lLan nodded "yup, and you know mom!" the navi hopped up, sayig a polite hello, his mom smiled "at least you have good manners -hmm-?" she glanced pointedly at lan, who was swigging some soda right from the bottle. Lan blinked then grinned sheepishly "sorry, i was thirsty.."
"How did this happen? No navi's ever been re-created this real." "hes not a re-creation mom, look" he showed her the PET console. Sure enough, it was empty, and the navi was sitting on the counter. She shook her head "amazing...."
As she was about to ask a question, the phone rang, disrupting the talking. While his mother answered it, Lan raided the fridge, finding some nice food nyeheh..
"Lan!! its your father?" "huh?" Lan turned, then grinned, taking the phone "hey dad!" as he spoke on the phone, his navi hopped up onto his shoulder to listen. "Hows that navi of yours been behaving? I hope it went well.." Lan sweatdropped, how to explain..."uh, y-yeah, its fine...megaman's great!" he heard his dad laugh "thats good, but by the sound of your voice, somethings up, come on, whats bugging you?" owner and navi shared a glance before Lan finally said "uh well, about megaman..hes kinda...real now.." he heard his dad laugh.
"Don't be silly Lan, they're not REAL people.." "no, im not kidding, here, ill put him on.." he held the phone up to his navi who stared at it for a second, then finally said: "um, hi? Lan's not kidding, im not in a PET console anymore.." he heard a gasp from the other end of the line "but..thats impossible litle fella, lan must be staging this as a joke.."
The navi shook his head "hes not, honest..hey Lan, send a picture!" Lan grinned, setting the navi on the counter again, with the vacant PET console right by him while he snapped a picture of him. He then attatched it to a mail and hit send.. "check your mail now dad!". On the other end of the phone his father shook his head, but clinked the "open email" tab anyway.
And stared. Lan wasnt lieing, there it was, clear as day, a snapshot of the small, somewhat bemsued looking navi waving cheerfully at the camera. And..the PET console beside him, the navi wasnt on its screen anymore..in the message it read "see? told you, hes as real as we are, and has the appitite of a horse..." under which had been typed in tiny italic font "oi".
He shook his head "this is amazing, like a small human being..." Lan smiled "yup, i got a real-life navi, Miss Mari thought he was adorbable, haha!" his poor embarassed navi whacked his head into his hands "oh boy..."
At last, after being quizzed on school and his homework, lan eventually passed the phone back to his mom.
He wandered upstairs to his room, navi right with him...asking what was for dinner....
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Miran stumbled in his bedroom door as soon as he got home. Locking said door he raced over to the Computer..
"That navi..h-he's Lans..what am i supposed to do?"
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But Lans classmates werent the only ones who knew about this weird change...
News of this had passed quickly through the net, and one particular user found an interesting snippet on an online journal...about a real-life navi..a familiar navi...
World Three was waiting to disptach of this annoying navi for good..but how do you delete data when its real...?
And how to get a hold of that rouge chip..
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As it rapidly aprpaoched night, Lan wondered where the navi would sleep. In the end he made a comfy sleeping bed from a large pillow and lots of warm blankets..and plopped the small being into it. "sleep well!"
The navi nodded and fell instantly asleep, snoring slightly. Lan sighed, flopping into bed himself..thank god it was saturday tomorrow..he fancied a lie-in, then meet up with Yai, Dex and Maylu.
Wait until yai saw megaman..way cool...
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Aa predicted, Yai was gobsmacked by the real-life navi, and barraged poor Lan with far too may questions, while Megaman cheerfully yabbered away to Glyde behind her.
"I must say, its exraordinary! You feel things the humans do?" Megaman noded to Glydes question "yup, and its great!" although he was about to discover what a mistake thinking THAT was...
As they walked home, Lan saw the navi looked sorta tired "you ok?" he asked, the navi nodded "i just need a bit of a walk, you go on home ahead..ill be fine 'k?" Lan sighed "you sure you know the way back?"
Megaman gave him a sarcastic look "of course i do..now go, ill be OK" he leapt up onto the top of a streetlight and sat there, enjoying the fresh wind...but something below caught his eye. A suspicious black saloon car was pulling up outside the local bank.
Dropping silently down to the pavement, and using the potted plants by the entrance as a cover, he peered out at the car. Two shapes were inside it, and the door was flung open as one dashed up the steps. Megaman would have ignored it had it simply been an ordinary peron, but this figure wore a mask over his face, and was carrying something gleaming in one hand. -This feels bad, i have to warn someone..- as the door began to swing shut behind the man, he darted in, diving for cover as fast as possible in the leaves of a pot plant.
"Alright this is a hold-up, nobody move!!" the man yelled, wavig the weapon Megaman now recognised as a gun of some sort -oh no..- he tensed up, trying to keep silent and think of a way to stop this man before the gun got a target...
The staff behind the desks pancied, pleading with the man, but in answer he shot one of the display screens, stating whoever disobeyed him would be next...The navi's hands clenched as he watched this..it was horrible, the younger female workers were crying, the men were trying to bargain with him but to no avail..it seemed hopeless...
Then he rememebred what he was -surely i can..at least use my blaster..- he closed his eyes, hoping to summon his weapon. But all that happened, whe he opened his eyes a second later, was a small blue ball of compressed energy had appeared in his hands "uh..close enough.." he muttered. He leapt up from the plant, touching down on the mans shoulder as he made to grab a bag of money from a terrified staff member.
As the man reacted, he threw the ball upwards, it cut the cord on the heavy ceiling light just above them. It plunged down, hitting the man on the head. But sadly the brave navi didnt get away unharmed. The robber had gotten sight of the blue navi, and had struck out at it blindly with the barrel end of the gun. It caught a direct hit in the small navis stomach, flinging him like a ball from a slingshot across the room, smashing, unnoticed it seemed, right through an office window from the furious force of the hit.
All he could hear at first was the splintering sound of breaking glass as hs small frame hit the window like a stray cannonball. Pain lashed through his left side and arm as he hit a desk, landing sprawled across it..He heard yelling, an alarm going off, as he struggled to get up. he saw a red stain growing around him, his scared mind tried to say it was from him, but he couldnt comprehend..
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"Whoa, OK, calm down everyone!" Mr. Nakashima, the head of the bank, yelled to silence the sobs and mutters. The criminal had been hit unconious, the police called. "All of you, get outside!" as they filed out he ducked behind the door of the office with the broken window, not sure what was inside..
At first glance, as he stepped inside warily, was nobody was there and the window had been broken by a stray gunshot. But then, just as he was about leave he heard a small whimper of pain, a cough..he made straight for it, and was astounded by what he saw.
Lying on one of the desks, in a small pain-riddled heap, was a tiny little human, wearing an oddly familiar uniform..it made another attempt at movement, and his shocked mind registered the small, but growing, pool of red around the thing..
As he hurriedly stepped up to the desk, it opened its eyes, thier pained green gaze locking onto him. It tried to say something but only slumped to the desk again, unable to comprehend the pain it was in...
He whipped off his suit jacket, using a hankercheif from his pocket, shredded quickly, to bandage the cuts. Then he carefully wrapped the thing up in the jacket hurrying outside as the police sirens split the air.
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"Im home!" he yelled as he stepped in. His son came out from the kitchen "hey dad, how was work?" his father sighed. "Bad, there was a hold-up, luckily it was prevented and nothing was taken.." His son nodded wide-eyed "im glad you're Ok dad, that must've been scary..."
His father nodded "took ten years of my life it felt like.." he saw his son wander back towards the kitchen, and he laid the bundle in his arms carefully down. "The very thing that saved the bank.." he murmered. He shifted the jacket aside, and saw the foot-high navi, with blood-stained bandages aroudn his middle and arm.
Before his mind could finish the sentance, the net navi stirred and slowly opened its eyes. Their hazy depths focused on Nakashima as he looked down at him....
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Pain, that was first to return. He opened his eyes. Slowly his vision sorted itself out, and he saw an older man...
His eyes widened, where was he? He leapt to hs feet, but pain flashed through his side and he sat down with a small "aoomph." The taller man spoke first "don't try that right now fella, you cut yourself quite badly.." Megaman looked up at him, "who..who are you?"
"My name is Nakashima, this is my home, you were hurt in the bank robbery." his memory rushed back as he winced again. Then, as he was about to ask a question again, they heard a kids voice "dad? who're you talking to?". The man turned towards the kitchen "come here kiddo".
The boy stepepd out from the kitchen, and felt like hed been slapped acros the face with one of Masa's wet fish...sitting on the sidebaord in the hall, with blood-stained shraeds of fabric wrapped around his arm and side.was the net navi that had been hit by his loose chip..what was he doing here??
Nakashma smiled at megaman "young man, i'd like you to meet my son, Miran."
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