Ta-Dah! I'm back!!!!!!!
Shila: *groans* WHY ME?!
Kay: why what?
Shila: YOU?!
Kay: Me? What about me?
Shila: YOU'RE JUST... YOU!
Kay: So? I like me. My friends like me. Why don't you like me?
Shila: eh? I dunno...
Kay: Exactly. You don't know. Anything. Anyways. Here's chappie 3. I have decided to postpone making Running from a one-shot into a... not one-shot for a little while, 'cause I have a million ideas for this story. And, yes, there might be a sequal to this story. Why? 'Cause I want to do a screwed-up cross-over. Those are fun. Although I'm pretty sure that a lot of people out there (namely my beta-reader, who decided to take a break before she even started reading) are going to kill me for what I'm planning... but I'm still a bit confussed about how to do one part.
Shila: Talk much?
Kay: yup! All my teachers say so. But my parent's don't believe them, and that's good for me! Anyways, for those people who actually read this story, here's a little explanation from my comlex mind, so if it's still a bit confussing, I'll explain it simply. Er. Anyways, ON WITH THE STORY! Or something like that... hehe:)!
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Characters (great... long list *groans*)
Lan Hikari aka Netto Hikari; Navi: Megaman, aka Saito
Mayl Sakurai aka Meiru Sakurai; *Navi: Roll, aka Eria (in this story!)
(And we all know the rest, right?
Dex aka Dekao; Navi: Gustsman
Chaud aka Enzan; Navi: Protoman aka Blues [whee!]
Yai aka Yaito; Navi: Glyde
Tori aka whats-his-name-again? Tahoru r summin? Navi: Iceman)
*The name Roll is used when Mayl's Navi is the normal, pink-red-black colored Navi with long, blonde hair with the green bow.
The name Eria is used when Roll was being refered to as Eria by Sho in the first and begining parts of the second chappie.
Eria is also the name used for Roll when she completes her transformation.
It is also the original name of Empress.
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It walked through the undernet, blasting and deleting every Navi that he saw. A few put up a good fight, like that cloaked Navi, but they were all helpless against his almighty powers in the end. He desperately wanted to find a way to the CyberNet, but because of his currently limited capabilities, he would have to act through his new power source. Both Navis that he had first encountered had been great energy sources, but the one in the pod...
He grinned, and searched his mind for the small strands of data that conected him to his new flunkies. Both black and white Navis were doing great, blasting anyone that came within blasting distance. And as guards. He praised himself for thinking of using them as energy sources and guards, because not only did they give him power, but they were now able to tap into his own great power supply to eliminate all oposition. And what they were guarding was more important to him than anything or anyone else that he had ever considered important, even his own life.
The Navi in the pod. She was beautiful beyond comparison, and had such strange attributes... a side as innocent as innocent could be, but another side that was ruthless, blood-thirsty beyond comparison. She was quite a prize, and he was willing to protect her with his own life until she was ready. Ready to join him to decimate the net. All the nets. Ready to rule. By his side of course. He would prepare for her a great Cyber Kingdom, and in return, she would give him a great prize, for he had hacked into the programming, and changed it to his liking. Yes. She would give who ever gave her what she needed most is what he had programmed. So, she would give HIM the only thing that he had ever wanted, more than true power, more than a home, more than the next poor Navi for him to delete.
She would give him herself.
As not only a co-ruler, but something like a prize. With her hate and intelligence and battle strategies, and his iron fist (litterally) and brute strength, they would be unstopable. He grinned as he saw another few Navis see him and run. He was about to chase after them, when another thought struck him. If he could convince some of these Navis to convert, if he promised to give them power, and then send them out to convert more Navis to his new great kingdom, he would not only have faithful followers for his new Queen- but a limitless energy supply. And those fools would never know it.
Using some of the power he had, he made himself a disguse out of spare data floating around, and wrapped it around himself like a cloak. He sped away after the Navis, fake fear in his eyes, and he spun a lie, that would convince anyone, and they would surely join him, and spread the word. Then they would wage battle against his enemies, delete them once and for all. And if they didn't like that? Then he would use the same techniques that he had used to get those other two Navis- their names were comming back to him, Shonæsa and Fojou- to his side.
Whether they wanted to or not.
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Mayl sighed peacefully as she curled up against Lan. They had moved from their position in her house to their position in Lan's house, so that his mom could bring them food while they worked tirelessly, looking for Roll. They had brought up more chairs, so that not only Lan, but also Mayl and anyone else who came over to help, like Yai and Tori, could sit around the computer. Yai and Tori, however, had gone home long ago, and while Lan had been trying to get ahold of either Dex or Chaud, he was having no luck. Mayl had decided, thanks to his mother's invitation, to stay at Lan's hosue for the night, at least. He knew that if they didn't find Roll tonight, that Mayl wouldn't be able to participate in the school's NetBattle day. It only came once a year, but was a huge event, since you were never allowed to NetBattle on school grounds at any other time.
Other than the time that Higsby had locked them in, just to get Yai's rare battle chips.
He looked down at Mayl's sleeping form, and felt a weird sense of peace. It seemed that no matter where he was, if he thought of Mayl, or was around her, he always seemed more calm, more [dare I say it!] mature. His mother and father had said so.
He relaxed in his seat, thinking about what would happen if they found Roll, and what would happen if they didn't.
As he slowly began to fall asleep, he failed to notice the small noise that ment, as the AOL guy says so simply, "You've Got Mail!"
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Megaman and Quersoæn fell in a heap on the floor. They had just finished deleteing what had to be more than 100 different viruses, and at least 5 of each kind.
[If anyone isn't doing the math, that would be at least 500 viruses!]
None were easy to delete, and even the usual one-hit wonder Mettaurs were harder to delete- probably because they had to keep their eyes on all the viruses that could hit them, which were pretty much all the viruses. So it really wasn't easy. But by watching each other's back, they were able to delete them all.
"*Gasp!* remind me- *pant* -to never, ever, EVER! *huff* do that a-*gasp* gain!" Quersoæn managed to get out, as she slowly lifted herself off the floor.
"Well... I guess we know that some one doesn't want us here." Since Mega had much more experience virus-busting, he wasn't as tired. "So... where do you think we should check next?"
"We didn't just do all that to leave," she stated firmly, "we're going in there, look up all the records, and then try to find where Roll's gone. She STILL owes me a CACDC PASS!" Quersoæn punched the air, and then dragged Mega up the steps. He caugth a fleeting gimpse of the sign beside it, "Hall of Records" before she dragged him through the doors.
Inside were many Navis, all of them the strongest that Mega had ever seen. There were some legends, some that he had never heard of, 'Good guys' and 'Bad Guys' alike, searching through the shelves, looking through records of who-knows-what.
Quersoæn dragged him through all of the shelves to the back desk, where another Navi stood, watching over everyone with hawk-eyes. Although at first intimidating, there was a hint of gentleness underneath that rough front. Which Quersoæn must have been able to pick up on immdeiately, or she would have been cowering behind Mega by now.
"Excuse me. Do you know where the history for Navis who enter and leave the Net through homepages in ACDC1 is?" She asked politely. Mega gasped at how offical sounding she seemed.
"Who's enquiring?" He pointed this question directly to Mega, and he spoke in such a deep voice, Mega could feel it through his non-existant bones.
"Um... well, er..."
"Speak boy!"
"Me-Megaman.EXE and Quersoæn.EXE, and we're trying to find a friend- Roll.EXE?"
"And to get my CACDC Pass!"
He looked them over, and them made up his mind. "Quersoæn, you can see the records. However, your friend has not been truthful."
Quersoæn was stunned. "What has he not been truthful about?!"
"His name."
Mega blanched, and nodded. "You're right, but... do I have to say it?"
The huge Navi thought about it, then nodded. "You may whisper it- but loud enough so that Quersoæn can hear."
He gulped. "Fine... S-Saito Hikari."
Quersoæn looked at him in shock. However, the other Navi nodded. "You have both proven your worthiness, and your truthfulness. I shall personally guide you to what you seek. My name is Risuko.EXE."
He led them down shelf upon shelf, row upon row, and up too many floors for Mega to count. They remained silent in thought, and it was obvious what Quersoæn and Risuko were thinking. Mega was trying to figure out how Risuko was able to tell he was lying, but didn't have much time to ponder it, because Risuko stopped suddenly, and accessed a file. It wasn't that big, but, except for one other file right beside, it, it was the biggest one there.
"That is your file." Risuko stated, pointing the huge one out to Mega. "There will soon be much more when we find the rest of your file, from before. But here is the one you were looking for."
He gave it to Megaman, who opened it immediately. He scanned through quickly, until he realised that it was in chronological order. Then, he flipped quickly to the last entered page, read the last few lines, and almost 'fainted'.
Quersoæn looked over his shouled, and gasped at what was written.
~19/12/200X
-Entered net at 21:47:23 at point 1;78;56
-Used one-use CScilab Pass at 21:53:56 at point 2;45;12
-Entered Scilab at 22:00:15 at point 6;95;12
-Warped to Scilab Square at 22:05:35 at point 6;03;60
20/12/200X
-Exited Scilab Square through un-known means at 5:49:01
-Lost track of subject at 8:00:00 due to power surges with unknown source~
"Unknown this, unknown that, what is going on here?!" Quersoæn asked the air. Mega had made a quick copy of the last page of the file, and opened his own.
~15/07/200X
-Began to fight Protoman in N1GrandPrix at 12:00:18
-Activated Program Advance at 12:06:42
-Structure deleted at 12:12:12 due to Pharoman~
Megaman stopped reading with a sigh of relief. "As long as Roll isn't deleted..."
Quersoæn grabbed him and shook him hard. "What do you mean?! You just going to give up searching for her?! And how do you know she wasn't deleted?!"
Mega sighed, and first showed Quersoæn the copy that he had made of Roll's last page of her file, and then his own. "I've been deleted once- that's what this says. And Roll's file just says that she left by unkown means. There's still a chance."
Risuko grunted. "Just because it doesn't say that she was deleted, doesn't mean that she isn't. The records give facts- if something is done because of an unknown reason, or by an unknown way, then that it was what it says."
"Rain on our parade, why don't you..." Quersoæn muttered.
"Come on, Quersoæn," Mega said with a sigh, "we should get going. There's nothing here that could help us out now. Um, Risuko? Can I still keep this copied file, or do I have to delete it?"
"You may keep it- but only if your Net-Ops, and any other Net-Ops and Net Navis that you feel are worth seeing it see it."
Mega nodded. "Thank you, Risuko... I hope to see you again."
The taller Navi nodded. "May your travels be well, and in good health."
With that, Megaman dragged Quersoæn out of the Hall, since she was still glaring at Risuko.
"Lan and Mayl would really want to see this..."
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Roll turned her head around. The fog was still surrounding her, but now it was almost completely blue. The two voices, who now had dark shapes for figures had disappeared for some time. Now, however, they were back in full force, arguing- and gicing Roll the biggest head-ache that she had ever had.
"What, do you mean the Base-Gate program activated here?!" The silky voice [now know as voice 2] was filled with worry.
"Simple- it did." The sinister one [aka voice 1] replied. Roll wondered for a moment what this 'Base-Gate' was, but it was driven from her mind by the next comment.
"Well... I guess we should get the troops out. He is probably wanderign around the Undernet right now, deleteing everything... why is it that in each dimension he's always different?" Voice 2 asked.
"Who knows... but I'm glad that she chose Eria."
"BECAUSE you fed your representative the wrogn information!"
Roll blinked. Representative? Who was that?
"Excuse me..."
"Yes? Oh, sorry- we were ignoring you, weren't we?"
Roll sighed. "Can I just ask you one thing?"
Voice 1 snickered. "No need to ask- your body is going through the changing process. But, because He found a way to get from His prision, it will take much longer to complete your trnasformation."
"He? Who is He?"
Voice 2 sighed. "He is the embodiment of all evil- and we were just able to restrain Him the last time- with quite a bit of help from 2.2, might I add. And before that 2.1, and before that 1.1- TWICE! There's been many re-incarnations of him, whether alive or... not. And it happens that He just found a way here."
Roll thought for a moment. "So... am I... deleted?"
"Hell no!" Voice 1 called out. "Dead?! YOU?! That is the funniest thing I have ever heard!"
"Um... why?"
Voice 2's shadow reached over and- "OW!" seemed to punch Voice 1 in the head. "Ignore her..."
"Ignore me?! She deserves to know!"
*sigh* "Fine... you see, Roll- you have won favour with many beings that do not exist in this dimension, including us. But you are not the only one. The other will get visits soon enough from those who have chosen to guide them. But there can only be one other being from outside this dimsension that will guide. And all those must answer to one being. And they answer to four beings, who answer to the one creator. And all the beings are spread out throught the dimensions. Did you get that?"
"Um... I think... but... what do you mean that only one guide? So why do I have two?"
Voice 2 sighed. "Because, Roll, you are you. And you need two guides."
"That doesn't clear anything up."
"Just because Roll- just because." Voice 1 spoke up, in a rather calming voice. "Just trust us."
Roll snorted- she wasn't sure if she could trust them, but another beam of dark light suddenly came out of no where, and struck her in the chest. As she once again driffted into unconciousness, she wondered who this "Him" was, and if he was anywhere near her friends...
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Kay: Well, I thought that I would put in some kind of prelude to some weird romance-ish stuff that will probably happen later. That and some stuff that will lead into my oh-so-pretty messed up crossover that I think I've already got written in my head. Yeah!
Shila: And what would you call that sorry excuse for a story, then?
Kay: Something that I'll come up with- eventually. And I'm planning on putting Tialsia in there, somewhere. Even though I hate cameos by the writer, or director, or person who lives around the writer. But some are cool.
Shila: Yeah... so, about last chappie...
Kay: GAH!!! I was just reading through chappie 2, and I caught some horrendus errors.
Shila: really? Who would have thought...
Kay: Shush. Anyways, here's the corrections:
1) I meant to say Bedroom. Not bathroom. I was reading, and I was like, What was I talking about?! And then I realized that I wrote that part at almost one o'clock in the morning, after reading a... VERY adult story that my friend happened to send me, featuring Inu Yasha and Kagome. And it was also this friend, aka Damino, that pointed out this little mistake... she was wondering if I was going to turn this into a lemon. Trying to convince her otherwise was a REAL hardship, and she even offered to DO a lemon, taking it's cue from the last chappie. I think that she still is... *groans* what have I done?!
2) Okay, I'm just going to say it all here: a ton of spelling mistakes. Response, extremely, and finding were some of the many words that I spelt wrong. Man, I stink at spelling...
3) Mrs. McGrath is my English teacher. She's nice to people who get over 60%, but everyone else seems to get the death-glare/evil eye from Hell. Okay, think of the old man's eye from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart". His "vulture" eye. Picture it glaring, with-out the film on it. That's Mrs. McGrath's evil eye. *shudders*
Okay, I think I'm done.
Shila: Yeah! So, R&R, 'cause I want to prove to Kay here that no one likes her stories...
Kay: And I want to prove that Shila is an incompetant idjit. Did I spell that right?
Shila: And if anyone has read the book "Eva" by Peter Dickinson, please tell Kay what's happening in it. So she can explain it to me.
Kay: Yes, since Shila here doesn't seem to understand English.
Shila: Japanese.
Kay: Same difference. Anyways... okay, I'm still not sure if I'm going to actually continue Running now. Why?
Shila: You're lazy?
Kay: Ye-NO! I just... um... want to finish this thing first, ya know?
Shila: Actually, I don't. But I'll be glad to take over writing it for you!
Kay: Why do I get the bad feeling that that would be a VERY BAD idea?
Shila: Feeling? What feeling? Especially considering that you got frost-bite in your feet... how are your toes anyways?
Kay: IN PAIN, NOW THAT YOU MENTION IT! Besides... it's just my Big toe on my left foot now, and although it feeling almost like i broke it, I don't think I did. Doesn't feel that way- not alot, anyways...
Shila: And what if you did break it?
Kay: Then I know that snowboarding at the outback at Mount St. Louis Moonstone is not a good idea when it's only your second time on a snowboard.
Shila: No, ya think?
Kay: Well, anyways, see ya next chappie!
Shila: Whenever that is...
Song of the chappie: "I Am- Inu Yasha opening theme-Japanese version" by hitomi. Awesome song. Download it today! Yeah!
Shila: *groans* WHY ME?!
Kay: why what?
Shila: YOU?!
Kay: Me? What about me?
Shila: YOU'RE JUST... YOU!
Kay: So? I like me. My friends like me. Why don't you like me?
Shila: eh? I dunno...
Kay: Exactly. You don't know. Anything. Anyways. Here's chappie 3. I have decided to postpone making Running from a one-shot into a... not one-shot for a little while, 'cause I have a million ideas for this story. And, yes, there might be a sequal to this story. Why? 'Cause I want to do a screwed-up cross-over. Those are fun. Although I'm pretty sure that a lot of people out there (namely my beta-reader, who decided to take a break before she even started reading) are going to kill me for what I'm planning... but I'm still a bit confussed about how to do one part.
Shila: Talk much?
Kay: yup! All my teachers say so. But my parent's don't believe them, and that's good for me! Anyways, for those people who actually read this story, here's a little explanation from my comlex mind, so if it's still a bit confussing, I'll explain it simply. Er. Anyways, ON WITH THE STORY! Or something like that... hehe:)!
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Characters (great... long list *groans*)
Lan Hikari aka Netto Hikari; Navi: Megaman, aka Saito
Mayl Sakurai aka Meiru Sakurai; *Navi: Roll, aka Eria (in this story!)
(And we all know the rest, right?
Dex aka Dekao; Navi: Gustsman
Chaud aka Enzan; Navi: Protoman aka Blues [whee!]
Yai aka Yaito; Navi: Glyde
Tori aka whats-his-name-again? Tahoru r summin? Navi: Iceman)
*The name Roll is used when Mayl's Navi is the normal, pink-red-black colored Navi with long, blonde hair with the green bow.
The name Eria is used when Roll was being refered to as Eria by Sho in the first and begining parts of the second chappie.
Eria is also the name used for Roll when she completes her transformation.
It is also the original name of Empress.
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It walked through the undernet, blasting and deleting every Navi that he saw. A few put up a good fight, like that cloaked Navi, but they were all helpless against his almighty powers in the end. He desperately wanted to find a way to the CyberNet, but because of his currently limited capabilities, he would have to act through his new power source. Both Navis that he had first encountered had been great energy sources, but the one in the pod...
He grinned, and searched his mind for the small strands of data that conected him to his new flunkies. Both black and white Navis were doing great, blasting anyone that came within blasting distance. And as guards. He praised himself for thinking of using them as energy sources and guards, because not only did they give him power, but they were now able to tap into his own great power supply to eliminate all oposition. And what they were guarding was more important to him than anything or anyone else that he had ever considered important, even his own life.
The Navi in the pod. She was beautiful beyond comparison, and had such strange attributes... a side as innocent as innocent could be, but another side that was ruthless, blood-thirsty beyond comparison. She was quite a prize, and he was willing to protect her with his own life until she was ready. Ready to join him to decimate the net. All the nets. Ready to rule. By his side of course. He would prepare for her a great Cyber Kingdom, and in return, she would give him a great prize, for he had hacked into the programming, and changed it to his liking. Yes. She would give who ever gave her what she needed most is what he had programmed. So, she would give HIM the only thing that he had ever wanted, more than true power, more than a home, more than the next poor Navi for him to delete.
She would give him herself.
As not only a co-ruler, but something like a prize. With her hate and intelligence and battle strategies, and his iron fist (litterally) and brute strength, they would be unstopable. He grinned as he saw another few Navis see him and run. He was about to chase after them, when another thought struck him. If he could convince some of these Navis to convert, if he promised to give them power, and then send them out to convert more Navis to his new great kingdom, he would not only have faithful followers for his new Queen- but a limitless energy supply. And those fools would never know it.
Using some of the power he had, he made himself a disguse out of spare data floating around, and wrapped it around himself like a cloak. He sped away after the Navis, fake fear in his eyes, and he spun a lie, that would convince anyone, and they would surely join him, and spread the word. Then they would wage battle against his enemies, delete them once and for all. And if they didn't like that? Then he would use the same techniques that he had used to get those other two Navis- their names were comming back to him, Shonæsa and Fojou- to his side.
Whether they wanted to or not.
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Mayl sighed peacefully as she curled up against Lan. They had moved from their position in her house to their position in Lan's house, so that his mom could bring them food while they worked tirelessly, looking for Roll. They had brought up more chairs, so that not only Lan, but also Mayl and anyone else who came over to help, like Yai and Tori, could sit around the computer. Yai and Tori, however, had gone home long ago, and while Lan had been trying to get ahold of either Dex or Chaud, he was having no luck. Mayl had decided, thanks to his mother's invitation, to stay at Lan's hosue for the night, at least. He knew that if they didn't find Roll tonight, that Mayl wouldn't be able to participate in the school's NetBattle day. It only came once a year, but was a huge event, since you were never allowed to NetBattle on school grounds at any other time.
Other than the time that Higsby had locked them in, just to get Yai's rare battle chips.
He looked down at Mayl's sleeping form, and felt a weird sense of peace. It seemed that no matter where he was, if he thought of Mayl, or was around her, he always seemed more calm, more [dare I say it!] mature. His mother and father had said so.
He relaxed in his seat, thinking about what would happen if they found Roll, and what would happen if they didn't.
As he slowly began to fall asleep, he failed to notice the small noise that ment, as the AOL guy says so simply, "You've Got Mail!"
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Megaman and Quersoæn fell in a heap on the floor. They had just finished deleteing what had to be more than 100 different viruses, and at least 5 of each kind.
[If anyone isn't doing the math, that would be at least 500 viruses!]
None were easy to delete, and even the usual one-hit wonder Mettaurs were harder to delete- probably because they had to keep their eyes on all the viruses that could hit them, which were pretty much all the viruses. So it really wasn't easy. But by watching each other's back, they were able to delete them all.
"*Gasp!* remind me- *pant* -to never, ever, EVER! *huff* do that a-*gasp* gain!" Quersoæn managed to get out, as she slowly lifted herself off the floor.
"Well... I guess we know that some one doesn't want us here." Since Mega had much more experience virus-busting, he wasn't as tired. "So... where do you think we should check next?"
"We didn't just do all that to leave," she stated firmly, "we're going in there, look up all the records, and then try to find where Roll's gone. She STILL owes me a CACDC PASS!" Quersoæn punched the air, and then dragged Mega up the steps. He caugth a fleeting gimpse of the sign beside it, "Hall of Records" before she dragged him through the doors.
Inside were many Navis, all of them the strongest that Mega had ever seen. There were some legends, some that he had never heard of, 'Good guys' and 'Bad Guys' alike, searching through the shelves, looking through records of who-knows-what.
Quersoæn dragged him through all of the shelves to the back desk, where another Navi stood, watching over everyone with hawk-eyes. Although at first intimidating, there was a hint of gentleness underneath that rough front. Which Quersoæn must have been able to pick up on immdeiately, or she would have been cowering behind Mega by now.
"Excuse me. Do you know where the history for Navis who enter and leave the Net through homepages in ACDC1 is?" She asked politely. Mega gasped at how offical sounding she seemed.
"Who's enquiring?" He pointed this question directly to Mega, and he spoke in such a deep voice, Mega could feel it through his non-existant bones.
"Um... well, er..."
"Speak boy!"
"Me-Megaman.EXE and Quersoæn.EXE, and we're trying to find a friend- Roll.EXE?"
"And to get my CACDC Pass!"
He looked them over, and them made up his mind. "Quersoæn, you can see the records. However, your friend has not been truthful."
Quersoæn was stunned. "What has he not been truthful about?!"
"His name."
Mega blanched, and nodded. "You're right, but... do I have to say it?"
The huge Navi thought about it, then nodded. "You may whisper it- but loud enough so that Quersoæn can hear."
He gulped. "Fine... S-Saito Hikari."
Quersoæn looked at him in shock. However, the other Navi nodded. "You have both proven your worthiness, and your truthfulness. I shall personally guide you to what you seek. My name is Risuko.EXE."
He led them down shelf upon shelf, row upon row, and up too many floors for Mega to count. They remained silent in thought, and it was obvious what Quersoæn and Risuko were thinking. Mega was trying to figure out how Risuko was able to tell he was lying, but didn't have much time to ponder it, because Risuko stopped suddenly, and accessed a file. It wasn't that big, but, except for one other file right beside, it, it was the biggest one there.
"That is your file." Risuko stated, pointing the huge one out to Mega. "There will soon be much more when we find the rest of your file, from before. But here is the one you were looking for."
He gave it to Megaman, who opened it immediately. He scanned through quickly, until he realised that it was in chronological order. Then, he flipped quickly to the last entered page, read the last few lines, and almost 'fainted'.
Quersoæn looked over his shouled, and gasped at what was written.
~19/12/200X
-Entered net at 21:47:23 at point 1;78;56
-Used one-use CScilab Pass at 21:53:56 at point 2;45;12
-Entered Scilab at 22:00:15 at point 6;95;12
-Warped to Scilab Square at 22:05:35 at point 6;03;60
20/12/200X
-Exited Scilab Square through un-known means at 5:49:01
-Lost track of subject at 8:00:00 due to power surges with unknown source~
"Unknown this, unknown that, what is going on here?!" Quersoæn asked the air. Mega had made a quick copy of the last page of the file, and opened his own.
~15/07/200X
-Began to fight Protoman in N1GrandPrix at 12:00:18
-Activated Program Advance at 12:06:42
-Structure deleted at 12:12:12 due to Pharoman~
Megaman stopped reading with a sigh of relief. "As long as Roll isn't deleted..."
Quersoæn grabbed him and shook him hard. "What do you mean?! You just going to give up searching for her?! And how do you know she wasn't deleted?!"
Mega sighed, and first showed Quersoæn the copy that he had made of Roll's last page of her file, and then his own. "I've been deleted once- that's what this says. And Roll's file just says that she left by unkown means. There's still a chance."
Risuko grunted. "Just because it doesn't say that she was deleted, doesn't mean that she isn't. The records give facts- if something is done because of an unknown reason, or by an unknown way, then that it was what it says."
"Rain on our parade, why don't you..." Quersoæn muttered.
"Come on, Quersoæn," Mega said with a sigh, "we should get going. There's nothing here that could help us out now. Um, Risuko? Can I still keep this copied file, or do I have to delete it?"
"You may keep it- but only if your Net-Ops, and any other Net-Ops and Net Navis that you feel are worth seeing it see it."
Mega nodded. "Thank you, Risuko... I hope to see you again."
The taller Navi nodded. "May your travels be well, and in good health."
With that, Megaman dragged Quersoæn out of the Hall, since she was still glaring at Risuko.
"Lan and Mayl would really want to see this..."
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Roll turned her head around. The fog was still surrounding her, but now it was almost completely blue. The two voices, who now had dark shapes for figures had disappeared for some time. Now, however, they were back in full force, arguing- and gicing Roll the biggest head-ache that she had ever had.
"What, do you mean the Base-Gate program activated here?!" The silky voice [now know as voice 2] was filled with worry.
"Simple- it did." The sinister one [aka voice 1] replied. Roll wondered for a moment what this 'Base-Gate' was, but it was driven from her mind by the next comment.
"Well... I guess we should get the troops out. He is probably wanderign around the Undernet right now, deleteing everything... why is it that in each dimension he's always different?" Voice 2 asked.
"Who knows... but I'm glad that she chose Eria."
"BECAUSE you fed your representative the wrogn information!"
Roll blinked. Representative? Who was that?
"Excuse me..."
"Yes? Oh, sorry- we were ignoring you, weren't we?"
Roll sighed. "Can I just ask you one thing?"
Voice 1 snickered. "No need to ask- your body is going through the changing process. But, because He found a way to get from His prision, it will take much longer to complete your trnasformation."
"He? Who is He?"
Voice 2 sighed. "He is the embodiment of all evil- and we were just able to restrain Him the last time- with quite a bit of help from 2.2, might I add. And before that 2.1, and before that 1.1- TWICE! There's been many re-incarnations of him, whether alive or... not. And it happens that He just found a way here."
Roll thought for a moment. "So... am I... deleted?"
"Hell no!" Voice 1 called out. "Dead?! YOU?! That is the funniest thing I have ever heard!"
"Um... why?"
Voice 2's shadow reached over and- "OW!" seemed to punch Voice 1 in the head. "Ignore her..."
"Ignore me?! She deserves to know!"
*sigh* "Fine... you see, Roll- you have won favour with many beings that do not exist in this dimension, including us. But you are not the only one. The other will get visits soon enough from those who have chosen to guide them. But there can only be one other being from outside this dimsension that will guide. And all those must answer to one being. And they answer to four beings, who answer to the one creator. And all the beings are spread out throught the dimensions. Did you get that?"
"Um... I think... but... what do you mean that only one guide? So why do I have two?"
Voice 2 sighed. "Because, Roll, you are you. And you need two guides."
"That doesn't clear anything up."
"Just because Roll- just because." Voice 1 spoke up, in a rather calming voice. "Just trust us."
Roll snorted- she wasn't sure if she could trust them, but another beam of dark light suddenly came out of no where, and struck her in the chest. As she once again driffted into unconciousness, she wondered who this "Him" was, and if he was anywhere near her friends...
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Kay: Well, I thought that I would put in some kind of prelude to some weird romance-ish stuff that will probably happen later. That and some stuff that will lead into my oh-so-pretty messed up crossover that I think I've already got written in my head. Yeah!
Shila: And what would you call that sorry excuse for a story, then?
Kay: Something that I'll come up with- eventually. And I'm planning on putting Tialsia in there, somewhere. Even though I hate cameos by the writer, or director, or person who lives around the writer. But some are cool.
Shila: Yeah... so, about last chappie...
Kay: GAH!!! I was just reading through chappie 2, and I caught some horrendus errors.
Shila: really? Who would have thought...
Kay: Shush. Anyways, here's the corrections:
1) I meant to say Bedroom. Not bathroom. I was reading, and I was like, What was I talking about?! And then I realized that I wrote that part at almost one o'clock in the morning, after reading a... VERY adult story that my friend happened to send me, featuring Inu Yasha and Kagome. And it was also this friend, aka Damino, that pointed out this little mistake... she was wondering if I was going to turn this into a lemon. Trying to convince her otherwise was a REAL hardship, and she even offered to DO a lemon, taking it's cue from the last chappie. I think that she still is... *groans* what have I done?!
2) Okay, I'm just going to say it all here: a ton of spelling mistakes. Response, extremely, and finding were some of the many words that I spelt wrong. Man, I stink at spelling...
3) Mrs. McGrath is my English teacher. She's nice to people who get over 60%, but everyone else seems to get the death-glare/evil eye from Hell. Okay, think of the old man's eye from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell Tale Heart". His "vulture" eye. Picture it glaring, with-out the film on it. That's Mrs. McGrath's evil eye. *shudders*
Okay, I think I'm done.
Shila: Yeah! So, R&R, 'cause I want to prove to Kay here that no one likes her stories...
Kay: And I want to prove that Shila is an incompetant idjit. Did I spell that right?
Shila: And if anyone has read the book "Eva" by Peter Dickinson, please tell Kay what's happening in it. So she can explain it to me.
Kay: Yes, since Shila here doesn't seem to understand English.
Shila: Japanese.
Kay: Same difference. Anyways... okay, I'm still not sure if I'm going to actually continue Running now. Why?
Shila: You're lazy?
Kay: Ye-NO! I just... um... want to finish this thing first, ya know?
Shila: Actually, I don't. But I'll be glad to take over writing it for you!
Kay: Why do I get the bad feeling that that would be a VERY BAD idea?
Shila: Feeling? What feeling? Especially considering that you got frost-bite in your feet... how are your toes anyways?
Kay: IN PAIN, NOW THAT YOU MENTION IT! Besides... it's just my Big toe on my left foot now, and although it feeling almost like i broke it, I don't think I did. Doesn't feel that way- not alot, anyways...
Shila: And what if you did break it?
Kay: Then I know that snowboarding at the outback at Mount St. Louis Moonstone is not a good idea when it's only your second time on a snowboard.
Shila: No, ya think?
Kay: Well, anyways, see ya next chappie!
Shila: Whenever that is...
Song of the chappie: "I Am- Inu Yasha opening theme-Japanese version" by hitomi. Awesome song. Download it today! Yeah!
