Hey everyone! Its me, Sword of the Phoenix! It seems that a lot of people like this story! So I guess I have a lot of people to reply to!

Replies:

Exe-sami- Thank you for the confidence

Nikki- Yea, I've never seen any Netto/Proto either so I decided it would be fun to do

HR - I'm glad you think so

Firehedgehog- I'm glad you liked the chap. I hope you like this one too!

Adele.exe- sorry, it seems that I can't do you/Rei. It would be a bit too hard and stressfull for me....

Kayono- Proto scares you? Well, they are friends already...

Crystalstorm21- You sure you haven't? Oh well, I guess you're gonna see what happens huh?

Chaos Kid- Hopefully this came out fairly quick too

windwingxs- Well, I'm sorry to hear you don't like shounen-ai pairings. But Adele/Rei would cause a little too much problems for me

Chrono Cross- I'm glad you like the story.

Raifiel- I'm glad you like the pairings!

person- um... I have nothing to say...

Kiri-san no neko-shoujou- Thanks for the support neesan!

Jill- Thanks for the compliment

Anime Master ZERO- Um...since Dr Hikari installed a multi-language program in him? I dunno...

Zeromaru: Chaos Mode: Yea, its a little unexpected, But i think they fit together perfectly!

Iniora Nackatori- Well, I'm glad you like

Black RoseL Me- Of course I would be your beta reader. And if you wanted me to, I'd be your co-author. Just send me an email sometime or an IM...in other words, find some way to get in touch with me and we can talk about it

Now on about the vote or poll or whatever you call it that I asked you readers last chapter. I got quite a few votes for Rei/Adele, but not as many as I got for Rei/Proto. Please don't worry, shounen ai is kewl! I'm sorry for the people who didn't want the pairings. Please just ignore the parts that do have the pairings. It will not be anything much since I'm still not that great at shounen ai.

And I know that I said that Proto gave Rei a link to his homepage. I actually meant to say that it was a passcode to his homepage. Sorry for the confusion. Now onto the chapter!

Tenshi no Rei

Sword of the Phoenix

Chapter 8- What Protoman finds out

Rei sighed in boredom. It had been a few days since he had met Megaman's other friends. He was surprised at how open Protoman had been with him. Rei knew that Protoman was normally closed up around others. So why was Protoman so open around him?

Then Rei had an idea. Maybe he could introduce Protoman to Adele! Rei quickly wrote out an email to Adele, asking her to meet him in the ACDC square at 5pm. Rei then made sure that he knew the time. As he thought, it was four in the afternoon. He had one hour to ask Protoman.

Rei quickly headed towards the main computer where Dr Hikari was sure to be working. When he got there, he saw that Megaman and Dr Hikari were talking.

"-do you really think we should let him go off by himself anymore? I mean, we've both seen the trouble he gets himself into when he's by himself. He could get de-" Megaman was saying, but Rei didn't hear anymore than that. Rei had logged out of the Sci-Lab server. Megaman, hearing some noise turned around.

"What's wrong?" Dr Hikari asked. Megaman frowned.

"Rei must have overheard us. He just logged out." Megaman stated, worried about his younger brother. What would happen to Rei if he was left by himself? What would happen if Bass showed up again?

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Rei ran as fast as he could to where Protoman's homepage was, crying. 'They don't trust me anymore… They think I'll delete myself… They don't trust me…' Those thoughts kept repeating themselves over and over in Rei's mind.

When Rei finally reached Protoman's homepage, he quickly used the code to access the page. Inside, he heard Protoman talking to someone, probably his operator.

"Netcrime has risen recently. Could they be back, sir?" Protoman asked. Rei peeked around a corner and looked at the face on the screen. He had bi colored hair that was black and white. His face and expression were sharp. He wore a red vest with a black shirt under that.

"It is a possibility. I highly doubt it though." Rei unfortunately, chose that moment to sneeze. Protoman spun around quickly, thinking Rei might be an enemy navi.

"Who's there?!" He demanded.

Rei stepped forward, still sniffling from all the crying earlier.

"It's just me, Protoman." Protoman relaxed a bit and seeing Chaud's confused face, decided to introduce them.

"Well, Rei. Please meet my operator, Chaud. Sir, this is Rei. He was activated only recently by Dr Hikari." Protoman said. Rei shyly looked up into Chaud's ice hard blue eyes.

"Oh. So you're the navi Protoman was talking about. It's nice to meet you, Rei." Chaud said. Rei nodded.

"And you." Rei replied.

"Well, I need to continue my work." Chaud said and the communication box closed. Protoman put a hand on Rei's shoulder. Rei turned around to face him, his eyes still red from crying.

"What's wrong, Rei? Why were you crying?" Protoman asked, his voice sounding caring for the younger navi.

"C-can I sit down?" Rei asked softly. Protoman nodded and Rei sat down. Protoman, not wanting to make the other navi feel uncomfortable, sat down next to him.

"So what's bothering you, Rei? Why are you crying?" Rei sniffed again and then clung to Protoman and started sobbing. Protoman made a noise of surprise and awkwardly patted Rei's back.

"T-they don't…don't t-trust me anymore, Proto. T-they don't trust me anymore. They think I'm gonna go and get deleted if I'm by myself." Rei said in between sobs. Protoman sighed softly and tried to calm the small navi.

Sometime later, Protoman had calmed Rei down enough so that he could talk again. Rei was now leaning against the taller navi's chest, enjoying the warmth radiating from Protoman. Rei looked up to Protoman's face and asked a question that was on his mind.

"What time is it?"

"Five of five. Why?" Protoman responded. Rei gasped and pulled himself away from Protoman. He frowned slightly when the warmth faded.

"Oh no! Adele! I promised to meet her in the ACDC squared! It normally takes me almost ten minutes to get there!" Rei exclaimed and started panicking.

"Calm down, Rei! I know a direct link to the square . I'll take you there." Protoman offered. Rei calmed down and nodded.

"Thank you." Protoman held out his hand. Rei smiled slightly and took the offered hand and the two vanished from Protoman's homepage.

At ACDC Square

Adele waited by the BBS for Rei. He seemed very eager to talk to her. Then a thought or rather a question crossed her mind. Why am I doing this? I've never really done this for anyone before. After she thought about it, a different part of her mind answered her. He reminds you of Blazer. Adele sighed. Gracious, she missed little Blazer. But by now, he was probably president or at least vice president of his father's company.

Adele snapped out of her thoughts when she saw a familiar figure dressed in silver and black running towards her. She frowned when she saw Rei more or less dragging another navi behind him. The other one was dressed in red and had a visor on his helmet. He had long white hair tied back into a low ponytail.

"Hi Adele!" Rei exclaimed, wearing a big smile. Adele couldn't help but smile at the small navi's enthusiasm.

"Hi Rei. Eh…who's your friend? And what did you want to talk about?" Adele asked. Rei smiled and finally reached Adele.

"This is Protoman! Protoman, this is my friend, Adele! And I emailed you because I wanted to introduce you to Protoman!" Rei grinned and laughed. Protoman and Adele were both surprised at Rei's child-like innocence.

"So uh…Adele…who is your operator?" Protoman asked, trying to start even a small conversation. Adele suddenly looked a bit nervous.

"Well um…I-" Adele was cut off by a super energetic Rei.

"Adele and I don't have operators! We're indepe-mmhp!" Rei's last word was muffled as Adele hastily placed her hand on Rei's mouth to stop him from saying that last word. Adele chuckled, embarrassed for some reason.

"Hehe…Rei. That's not important. Remember what I told you about saying irrelevant things?" Rei blinked then shook his head. Obviously, Rei had yet to gain experience in drama or lying. Adele sighed. Protoman was piecing the clues together. Then it clicked for him. He looked at them in shock.

"You're independent?" Protoman gasped. Adele shook her head.

"Nope!" She said just a little too quickly. Rei finally managed to break free from her grip on him.

"What are you talking about, Adele? Yes we are." Adele nearly fell over. Did Rei not know how to lie or something? Protoman looked like his was quite shocked. But then again, he had every right to be shocked.

"But I'm still not that strong…not like you two!" Rei exclaimed, smiling slightly. Protoman thought for a moment then came up with an idea.

"Well, why don't I train you for a while, Rei?" Protoman offered. Rei uncertainly looked at Adele. After all, she was the one who was training him at the moment.

"It's alright, Rei. Go ahead. I'm sure Protoman will take care of you." She said.

"Thank you, Adele. Thank you, Protoman." Rei smiled. Adele smiled. Protoman nodded. Rei then checked the time and gasped. It was 7! Where did the time go?

"Well, I'd better get going! Megaman's gonna be worried about me…again. Bye, Adele! It was nice seeing you again!" Rei exclaimed and was about to leave when he felt a hand on his shoulder. Rei turned around to find Protoman standing behind him.

"I'll come with you. I don't Megaman bursting at you for not telling him where you went." Protoman said. Rei smiled and nodded.

"Good meeting you, Adele. I'm sure we'll meet again." Protoman said.

"Yes, I'm sure we will. Take care of yourself, Rei. And don't go challenging opponents stronger than you until Protoman can teach you." Adele told the smaller navi. Rei laughed slightly and took Protoman's hand.

"Come on, Protoman! We need to get back to Sci-lab!" Rei exclaimed. Protoman rolled his eyes, not that it could really be seen by Rei or Adele.

"Alright." The two logged out to the Sci-lab server to where Megaman was going frantic. Megaman quickly ran over to Rei as soon as he logged in.

"Where were you?! You had me worried! I checked everywhere for you!" Megaman exclaimed very quickly. Protoman and Rei sweatdropped.

'At least I know where Rei gets his perkiness from' Protoman thought to himself.

"Calm down, Megaman. Rei was with me." Protoman said. Megaman sighed.

"Oh. Alright." Megaman said. Rei yawned.

"I'm tired, so I'm going to bed. Night Megaman. Thank you Protoman." Rei said and went off. Megaman raised an eyebrow and shrugged.

"Alright. Well, I guess we'll see you soon." Megaman said and went off too. Protoman sighed and went off to his homepage where he was sure Chaud would be waiting for him.

Yeah! Another chapter done! I'm sorry this one didn't come out as quick as some of the others. Lets just say that I had a bad case of "No ideas" block. Well, that's what I call it anyways. So R&R ok?