Chapter 2: Data Threat

In the old abandoned Mansion, evil is stirring and what is this that the stranger found? Doesn't look good by his expression.

Now having found the shiny object that caught his eye, in the corner of the mansion, the individual is looking the object over with his smile never fading.

"A virus information disk." The stranger speaks, reading the label of the CD-rom. "Maybe I could revive the beast with this, making it much stronger and flawless, better then how grave constructed the data in the first place, but then, that would be too easy."

Continuing to read the label of what other data is stored on the cd, an idea suddenly pops in his head.

"Why revive and rebuild the beast, when something much more useful can come of this virus data." The individual speaks, with his twisted smile sticking to his lips. "I have a much better idea, one so good, it can't and won't fail."

Standing from crouching, the individual takes the disk over to the laptop computer sitting on a table in front of the wide video screen and opens the cd-rom drive, setting the cd on the tray and closing the drive back. Upon slipping the cd inside the unit, a prompt window comes up on the laptop introducing what information the cd contains.

Looking over the information scrolling on the screen, the individual smile gets wider.

"Excellent." The stranger hisses. "Exactly what I need. Now to put my good idea into action."

Dentech City Library

Lan and Maylu are continuing to work on their term papers.

"Ok, almost done." Lan says to himself, continuing to type. "How are you doing on yours Maylu?"

"It's coming along nicely." Maylu answers, not taking her eyes off the computer screen. "Almost finished."

"Alright, not too much longer with me as well." Lan speaks. "I have to go look in the stacks to find a book. I'll be right back."

Maylu nods, not taking her eyes off the screen as Lan walks away from the computer he was seated at.

Continuing to look through the information that is on her screen, Maylu's eyes scans through the series of paragraphs, now seeing the word grave in a sentence. A chill shoots up her spine, with an overwhelming feeling of fear, following. Not noticing Lan has come back, Maylu's mind begins to wonder back to the past when the grave beast nearly deleted all of net city, along with their net navi's. Her attention falls from the screen, as the images begin flooding into her mind.

"Can you believe this library doesn't hold a lot of information on Apollo? If it's not a book, it's an electronic Internet source." Lan begins complaining. "I mean, with this being a library, you would think they would hold information on nearly everything."

Maylu doesn't respond.

Not hearing a response to his complaint like usual, Lan turns to Maylu and notices the expression on her face has changed, different from earlier, and before he walked off to the stacks shelf.

"Hey Maylu, this is where you usually say, 'You expect too much from these people Lan. Be happy they had something here for you.' speech, but this time I get nothing. What's up?" Lan inquires to Maylu, who isn't paying attention to him.

Becoming worried about his friend, Lan snaps his fingers in front of her face, now catching her attention. Snapping out of the world she was in, Maylu turns to Lan.

"Hey, are you ok?" Lan inquires. "You look a bit pale."

"Yeah, I'm fine." Maylu speaks, shaking her head and turning her attention back to her work. "It's nothing. Just caught a slight chill that's all."

"No, I don't think a chill would cause you to zone out and appear as if you seen a ghost." Lan speaks in concern. "It's something else that is bothering you and I would like to know what it is."

The typing on the keyboard slows down and completely comes to a halt as Maylu turns to Lan.

"What is it?" Lan speaks in concern.

"Lan, I'm worried about our net navi's." Maylu speaks.

"Why are you worried about them?" Lan inquires, becoming confused. "They're fine."

"What if grave is really hiding out, but making it appear to everyone that he is dead? What if he's secretly planning to delete Net City, along with our navi's and this time, actually succeeds? " Maylu inquires, with tiny tears beginning to form in her eyes.

"Maylu, grave is dead, Chaud told me so." Lan speaks up. "There is no way he could do anything beyond the grave."

"We don't know if he is dead. For all Chaud could know is, he could be hiding, but just fooled everyone into thinking he's dead. He disappeared after the beast was deleted with no trace of where he could be right now, which could mean our net navi's are in danger, this time worst then ever." Maylu continues to worry.

"Maylu, I can assure you that nothing else will happen." Lan gently speaks to her. "I can understand that you're worried about Roll, as I am Megaman, but if there are anymore threats that happen to occur, then our Navi's will be able to handle it. If Megaman was able take down the grave beast, then anything else, wouldn't be a competition."

"I get what you're saying, but something about the defeat of the beast and grave's mysterious disappearance, just doesn't settle with me." Maylu speaks, clearing what tears that were forming, away from her eyes. "I don't understand why, but something just isn't right."

"Well, whatever it is, it's just a nagging thought of what's not to come, so I wouldn't worry about it." Lan says in comfort to Maylu. "Our net navi's are fine. Megaman is there to protect Roll if something were to arise."

A warm smile forms on Lan's face, making Maylu smile as well.

"Just put the thought to the back of your mind and let's get done with our work." Lan speaks gently. "We can finish our conversation about grave's death later. I'm sure you don't want to hear Mrs. Mari's speech on organization and the importance of homework."

"You're right, I don't." Maylu smiles as she turns her attention back to the computer screen. As she begins typing, she can't help but worry about what threat maybe around the corner.

:I sure hope you're right about what you said Lan, about our navi's being safe because something tells me, they aren't.: Maylu mentally says as she continues typing, trying to push the thought to the back of her mind.

The abandoned Mansion

The individual continues scanning the disk, discovering every aspect of the virus data information written on it.

"Interesting, the virus beast was created from this data." The stranger speaks. "I underestimated grave and Wiley. They actually knew how to construct data this powerful, but their downfall was how they used it. If I had joined forces with them, I would be in the same predicament they are in now and I'm happy I didn't."

The computer finishes scanning the disk, and a prompt action box appears.

"Interesting, very, very interesting." The stranger speaks with a twisted grin. "I will take this lost data and build the ultimate, unstoppable, indestructible Net Navi. With grave and Wiley out of the picture, both Dentech City and the Cyber World will tremble at the hands of me, Mr. Moss. I will complete the job that they didn't have the skill and common sense to do." (I know his name lame, but work with me here.)

Internet City

Roll and Megaman are walking around by the construction site, watching as the workers repair the top of the Internet City skyscraper.

"It's really amazing that they were able to rebuild this skyscraper, despite how badly damaged it got." Roll comments, as she continues to watch. "It was in really bad shape, and yet, they were able to get it back to its original form and design."

"Well, the design and form of the skyscraper wasn't exactly hard to remember." Megaman comments with a smile, turning his attention away from the construction and to Roll. "Despite the beast destroying a good percent of this city, the Architect navi's have blue prints to every building made here so when a disaster occurs, they are able to rebuild it no problem."

Roll turns her attention away from the construction and to Megaman.

"I know that silly." Roll laughs. "But I'm talking about the way it happened and how they still have the courage to rebuild it after how horribly it was destroyed. This skyscraper is the most important part of Internet City, like a symbol of something important. When it was destroyed, a part of every one in Net City were destroyed along with it. Even though grave didn't succeed at deleting Net City, he was able to delete apart of us all, that he did accomplish."

Megaman notices the change in Roll's voice, and tries to think of something comforting to say to her.

"It's being rebuilt now, so hopefully the piece that everyone lost when the skyscraper was destroyed, will return." Megaman says to Roll in comfort.

Roll smiles.

"Come on, let's go see what they are doing to the Cyber Café." Megaman says to Roll with gentleness in his voice. "I hear they are putting in a new snack station."

"Sure, ok." Roll agrees as she nods.

Turning away from the construction site of the skyscraper, Megaman and Roll begin walking towards the newly modified cyber café, when suddenly an explosion sounds, catching both navis off guard.

"What was that?" Roll inquires, turning around towards the construction site of the skyscraper, and noticing a herd of Net Navis scrambling from the site.

"I don't know, but by the swarm of these terrified navi's, it can't be good." Megaman comments. "Better go check it out."

"Right behind you Megaman." Roll replies as they both head to the site of the explosion.

A/N: Ok everyone, end of chapter 2. I apologize if this chapter is boring. As I promised, the story will get good as it continues. If anything is confusing, do let me know and I'll modify it for you all. No flames please and chapter 3 will be out the next chance I can. This semester at the university is really draining me. If nothing else, plase do review.

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