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"Miran?" hs father asked, wondering why the kid was looking somewhat..surprised. Miran shook his head, regainig his composure as he went over. The navi regarded with a piercing light green gaze, a slight flash of memory seeming to appear in them as he saw him..then he just looked tired and the memory faded, unplaced...
"W-whos this.youre like la- a navi! is it a robot?" he asked this last bit to this dad. Megaman stood shakily "M-my name is Megaman, i am a personal net navi...thank you for helping me." all this and managing a bow. The man nodded "don't worry about it, ah, megaman, its nothing after what you did to save the bank.." he smiled "i saw everything you did, you put yourself on a heluva risk.."
Miran listened to the conversation, and saw the navi had to sit down again, shivering lightly. "he saved the bank from the robber?!" he said, eyes wide. his father nodded "knocked him otu cold..bravest little thing ive seen...but your not a robot are you?" at this the navi looked a little sad..
"N-no..not exactly..i dont really know what i am to be honest sir..i ended up like this by accident.." miran bit his lip, and couldn't shake the scared feeling, if the navi knew it was him...his owner would be furious..Lan would hate him, and/or call the police...
Luckily his dad was too occupied with asking the navi was he ok to notice his sons silence..Megaman tried to stand, but his legs gave way and he sat down, shock setting in, even though the cuts were starting to repair themselves bit by bit..he was still very exhausted.
His faher turned to him "miran, youre the expert with PETs, see if theres anything you can do..and take care of the little fella.." miran nodded shakily, blinking as the navi leapt lightly, albeit somewhat staggeringly, onto his shoulder, and clung to his collar.
As he went upstairs, his fathers message of "dinner'll be about an hour..." ringing behind him, he snuck a glance at the navi out of the corner of his eyes. The little figure looked worn out and pale, and appeared to be shaking a little. he glanced back around again, finding himself unable to say anything...here was an injured realistic navi..and it was there because of him..hurt because hed been playing about with those chips...
He heard a tiny, slightly stifled groan, and turned his head, seeing the navi had blacked out again, and was tipping over about to fall off..quickly he grabbed him, steadying him agaist his shoulder as he ran the rest of the way up to his room, one question nagging at his mind: if he told the critter what had happened, would the little navi forgive him? and his owner...
Once inside his room he cradled the navi in the crook of one arm..and switched on his own PET "nekoman?" the cat-man appeared on screen. "Yes miran?" he placed the navi on the desk in front of his PET "recognise him?!" the navi stared "yes, thats the navi i was talking to just the last day...is he OK?" miran shook his head "he got hit trying to help my dad stop a robbery at the bank..and hes in a real mess!!"
The neko navi watched as his owner changed the bandages on the navi's delicate body, and he couldnt help but wince at the blood, seeing a navi, one like him, so hurt and damaged yet unrepairable by data, it was scary...
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He could hear tapping, what was it? Slowly he opened his eyes, seeing unfamiliar surrounding all about him. "ah.." he sat up, biting back the yelps of pain that threatened to flow forth, pushing them awya like he had with all his personal worries..
He jumped when a hand supported hs back until he could sit properly. He looked up, seeing the kid who'd brought him upstairs, Miran. "Stay still" Miran warned him "you seem to be repairing yourself somehow, but dont move too much..."
Megaman nodded, smiling at him, even though he felt close to be sick, he was scared and worried, something he normally didnt allow himself to feel, afterall, his job was to look after and protect Lan, he couldnt bring his own messy feelings into it..
These thoughts were disturbed seconds later by miran asking "are you hungry or do you need a drink?" the navi blinked to clear his head again "just some water, i dont think i fancy eating again..." the kid nodded, and shot off downstairs, pausing to look over at the PET screen, which had its back to Megaman. "Nekoman, can you go find out Lans address for me?" the neko navi nodded "roger sir!" Miran smiled "thanks bud, ill be back asap!"
Out of view of the PET screen, Megaman felt a painful jolt go right through him, hands clenching in his lap... -Lan...- all of the stress welld up again, and, in a rare moment of sadness and worry let loose, he lowered his head and felt un unknown feeling swell up, water blurred his vision..-what..whats happening?!?!-
It was a weird sensation, all those feelings, he culdnt stop them..the result was the crystal tears which now splashed onto his pants leg....he tried to stop them, raising one hand to bat them away, panicing, surrpsied by the dampness of the things..he didnt understand it, he felt worried, did that cause him to act like this?
Next to him, the phone started making sharp sounds, like its dial tone was being strangled, and the TVs in the house began going haywire..but he didnt notice...
Back on the PET screen Nekoman had returned, and was startled by the cacophony of noises from around him. his screen kept twitching, the phone was making all manner of noises, and beyond that...the sound of someone crying. He switched to the larger compter screen, which gave a wider view of most of the desk. He looked towards the crying sounds, and saw the still-injured navi sitting up on the pillow, tryng to stop the overwhelming emotion he was so unused to..trying to calm himself down...
He ran a scan to pcik up on all the noises, but oddly, above all the racket, he could hear megamans cries clearly in his head, echoing slightly, as if it was resonating with the electrics.but that was impossible...
Miran barged in, and the sound of the door flying open startled Megaman so much his cries stopped mid-choke. At once, all the noises shut off, and the TV continued its broadcast..."you guys OK?" Megaman quickly wiped his eyes on his sleeve, managing a smile "ah yes" Nekoman nodded, but he kept glancing to the navi, who was trying desperatly to hide his feelings...
Miran noticed Nekoman was very distratced, and kept staring away into space..or else at Megaman. He didnt ask at the time, deciding to wait until Megaman was asleep, in case it concerned the navi. Luckily it took not long, as the brief sobbing fit had worn the already tired navi out, and he simply fell asleep after taking some of the water miran had brought up with him...
"What's up nekoman?" the navi turned to him, seeing the injured navi was in another fitful state of sleeping. "It's about him, i found Lan's address, i sent a message detailing we had megaman..." miran nodded "good, we'll go round very early tomorrow!"
Nekoman nodded smiling, then it faded from his face "theres something else..." miran frowned "what is it?" nekoman sighed "after you left, i heard a lot of strange noises, all the electrics started going haywire..and," he paused "it was at exacty the same time megaman began crying for some reason.."
Miran shot a glance at the sleeping navi, sure enough, his pale expression retained the flushed appearence of one who has been upset...he turned back to nekoman "and?" he questioned, baffled, nekoman sighed "i could hear all the noises as i would normaly..but..." he shook his head "i could hear his cries as if it was inside me...like the decibel volume of the sound was above anything else..it overrode the TVs, everything..driving them crazy...almost like..it was communicating to all the electronics.."
Miran shook his head in amazement..-no way.-
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Megaman barely slept at all, his head was hurting, and the injuries were stinging..f he had looked down he would have seen them patching themselves up...he eventually fell properly asleep, and the cuts slowly sealed up for good as he slept....
The noise of Mirans alarm woke him, he sat up with a jerk "wha?" and rememebred just where he was. -ill be back with Lan today!- he smiled..his crying but a memory - i cant believe i went all doo-whacky like that..pretty silly of me..must've just paniced..- he brushed it aside, and sat on the edge of the desk as miran rushed about getting dressed and grabbing hs backpack. Luckily it was a saturday, so no school.
On his way out he grabbed his PET, and the navi, who sat on his shoulder again, seeming to be much happier now.
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"Is it ready?" an irratating scottish accent asked, a girl with pink hair scowled "yeah yeah, keep your skirt on!" "watch it Maddie.." "hmph.."
But she stepped back to regard the new weapon. It resembled an icredibly oversized canon, and was the boss's latest plan to send that goody-two-shoes navi to hell and back in one shot. And if the navi wasnt available to be a target..then the city would do....
Oh, what a lovely plan..
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"Which way nekoman?" "left" he followed the navi's directions until he reached the main town centre. "right! onwards to Lan's place!" "yeay!" Megaman responsded cheerfulyl. Miran felt a worried twinge of guilt, he still hadnt told the navi about the chip....-its best he AND Lan find out at the same time...i just hope he can forgive me..-
At the same time, lan was beetling towards mirans place with dex and maylu, via town centre, so they were both closer then they thought...
The miran group was about to cross one of the roads, when there was a large expplosion, and they were flung all directions as the road tore apart under them. The blue-clad navi barely managed to land on his feet. "What the?!" he heard Miran yelling something, but his attention had already been diverted..
On the top of one of the buisness buildings, two figures were standing behind a large canon-style machine. Smoke was emerging from its end, as it had been fired mere seconds ago. Megaman's eyes widened, "they're...world three?!?!" he yelled. At that moment the huge TV screen that had been set up behind the figures crackled into life. It fuzzed a second then cleared, showing a shot of him standing there. "Well well....if it isnt the nusience navi haha.." the amplified scottish voice said, followed by a girls high-pitched laugter.
"You." his ahnds clenched "STOP THAT THING RIGHT NOW, YOU'LL KILL SOMEONE YOU DEMENTED FOOLS!!" megaman yelled. Maddie just laughed "thats the plan, you de-digitised doofus, and for once, you're not much of a threat..we can fire this where ever we want, level entire cities for our boss..." Megaman shook his head, didnt these people ever quit?
Another explosion rocked the ground before he could react, and he felt panic welling. Over by Miran, Nekoman saw what could be the only oppertunity to stop this mad weapon. He told Miran to chuck his PET console to Megaman, which he promptly did. The blue-clad navi caught the PET and stared at its screen "what is it?" Nekoman's expression was cruel, -please forgive me Megaman..but this may be our only choice...i have to upset you..make your heart ache enough to cry for real again..-
"Don't you see how useless you are, sitting here whining!!" Megaman's eyes widened "w-wha?!" but Nekoman had only started. What followed was a tirade of derogatory sentances that made the navi feel like he was being torn apart..then came the final blow. "You cant do a thing, your useless!! Don't expect to save this city, EVER!!"
At this, ashtonished and miserable tears welled up in the navi's light green eyes "i..i.." he shook his head, stunned by Nekoman's words.."I WANT THIS TO STOP, I DONT UNDERSTAND IT!!" he cried, and the tears spalshed to the floor as the panic and overwhleming desire to protect his operators city combined, and the whole city was thrown into dissaray...-Bingo..just cry your heart out kid, i hate having to do this but right now its all we can do..- Nekoman thought.
"Argh." maddie clapped her hands to her ears..up on the screen, the whole city watching saw the sadness in the navi's eyes then the tears threatening to oevrflow, then falling like shards of pure crystal as the navi clsoed his eyes and yelled at the top of his voice that sentance.
Every navi for blocks around could heard the spirited cries, as clear as a bell, they were something beyond digital sound, resonating in their very coding...up on the tower the weapon sparked, Maddie growled "whats that cry baby doing, how can he be doing this..?!"
Down on the ground Megaman had laid the PET aside, and was walking towards the building. In his wake technology went haywire, and, as the anger grew, the tears fell aagin, shining on the wind from the explosions aftermath..he made no effort to brush them asie this time, the fury was too great..the goal too important..he stared right up at the building "go...hrrg...GO AWAY!!" he yelled at the weapon and its oeprators. He felt like everything was drawing to that point...everything around and inside of him..
The machine exploded with a firece BOOM, which sent Maddie and the other worker running like hell. "WELL GET YOU YOU LITLLE WHINY CRYBABY!!" Maddie screamed.
As they departed, the noise died down, and Megaman just slumped to his knees in relief on the pavement, expression blank. Behind him he heard voices "Megamaan!" he turned, and Miran was standing there, holding out Nekoman's PET, the navi looked very apolllogetic "Megaman, i..i'm so sorry for what i said..none of its true at all, you're the bravest navi i've ever met, but.." Megaman wiped his sleeve across his face as NEkoman continued "i had to do that to unleash the power you displayed at home..."
Megaman binked "i did..w-what?! Ah U-unleash.." nekoman sighed "when you felt sad earlier about missing your operator...you did what humans do, started cyring..and when the devices in the house picked up on it..they all went crazy. It was a desperate shot but it was the only way we could have done this...once again, im sorry...i only hope you can forgive me.."
Megaman was silent for a moment as he took it in, "crying..i was crying? That's what its like then...feels horrible.." he looked at Nekoman and smiled, feeling much happier now he understood something new "eh, i udnerstand it now, just forget about it, its OK..really, id prolly tried the same if i had to....kay?"
Nekoman looked relieved "i cannot thank you enough for forgivng what i did..you truly are way above the rest of the Navi's, your heart is kind as its possible to be, you owner must treasure you for your kind nature.." MEgaman laughed slightly, flushing a litle at the compliments as the incident faded from his mind "ahehe..well i-"
The another voice came through the fading smoke "MEGAMAN!!" he stood up, "ah, its-" and his hope was confirmed a second later as a brown haired boy raced towarsd them. "LAN!" Megaman yelled, running up and jumping onto his operator's outheld hands. Lan was smiling from ear to ear "oh thank god you're OK, i saw what you did, that was awesome, you wanted to save evryone, and you did!" Maylyu smiled "its true, a persons feelings CAN change the world, your tears beat World Three.." Dex gave a thumbs up "way to bust their plans megaman! That ws awesome, you looekd so cool! haha!"
Megamans' eyes widened slightly..they didnt think it had been stupid for him to start crying to save the city...a big smile appeared and he jumped up, clinging happily to Lan's collar, not speaking, just grinning all over his face.
Maylu and Dex shared smiles, seeing the navi was as happy to be back with lan as lan was for the navi...
Miran sighed..he had a job to do.... "uhm..Lan.." Lan looked up "oh yeah, thanks for taking care of him for me, i was worried sick!" Miran nodded shakily, and Nekoman sighed "there's something you need to know...about the reason Megaman is real.." they all stared. "What is it?" Lan asked. Miran bit his lip "it happened because of a chip, a rouge chip that wasn't ready..." he looked down, shoulders slumped in defeat.
"And...im really..really sorry..but...the chip was mine, i created it...so this has all been my fault...."
Megaman felt like his stomach had blown up along with world three's machine...it had been a chip..that had been the start to this..
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KC: finally! A new chappie done, dedicated for all you darling's that reviewed! Thank yuu!!