And everyone was Kung Fu fighting! WHA-HA! (Karate chops thin air) HU- HA! FEAR MY NINJA/AUTHOR POWERS!! (Bass appears and kicks author in the head) OW! Okay, I'll cut it out and get on with the story! Jeez, no respect... Disclaimer: Clamp owns Chobits, while Capcom owns MegaMan. I'm just writing the fan fiction. ------

"You are I? Chii doesn't understand..." Chii leaped out the window, landing gracefully on a treetop. The wind surrounded Chii, causing her hair to sway.

"Close your eyes. I'll send you an image." The voice told her. Chii did as she was told, and in her mind a darker version of herself appeared. "Hello dear sister."

"Chii does not remember having a sister..."

The darker version embraced her lighter sister. "You don't remember? There should have been a disk on you when you were activated. Did the person who found you not install it in you?"

"When Dr. Light plugged Chii into TV, he said there was no data."

Chii's sister shook her head sadly. "It seems the data was lost. It's probably better that you never remember anyway."

Chii tiled her head, as if trying to comprehend what her other self was saying. "Chii does not understand..."

"That's okay. I will help you. But now you need to go back. Call on me when you need me..." Dark Chii closed her eyes, and Chii followed her example

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Chii opened her eyes again, and the image of Dark Chii had faded. She jumped back into the apartment in the nick of time. Dr. Light walked into the room, carrying a phone and ranting about the U.N. forcing so much work on him and MegaMan.

"Chii, could you find MegaMan? The U.N. wants him to fight off the newest threat to peace for the millionth time."

"Chii." She nodded to Dr. Light -even though she had no idea what he was talking about- and headed to MegaMan's room. Upon entering, she found him reading "All quiet on the Western Front". "MegaMan, Dr. Light says that you need to fight someone."

"Huh?" MegaMan dropped the book. He immediately jumped up and grabbed his helmet (He has it off when he's in his section of the lab/room). Plum also hopped on his back, holding on for dear life.

"MegaMan..." Chii reached out and touched his hand, causing him to stop.

"What is it Chii?"

"Chii doesn't want you to fight. Last time you fought, you got hurt. If you get hurt again, Chii will hurt here again." She gently placed her hand on MegaMan's chest, causing him to blush slightly. "Chii doesn't like to hurt. But if hurting Chii is what makes MegaMan happy, Chii will not complain..."

"What?!? No! Chii, I would never want to hurt you! But I don't want innocent people to get killed, and that's why I fight. If I don't fight, then I cant protect innocent people like you." He removed her hand from his chest, gently placing it on hers (thankfully, he never touched her chest himself). "If me getting hurt makes you hurt, then what makes me happy should make you happy, right?"

"Chii." She nodded.

"Then we can both be happy when I get back, even if I have been hurt. The reason we can be is because I protected you, and your one of the people I want to protect with all my heart." He smiled at her, and she smiled back. "So don't worry. I'll try my hardest to come back in one piece, okay?"

Dr. Light suddenly rushed into the room. "MegaMan! I've just contacted ProtoMan and Roll about the situation. They say they're closer to the factory than we are, so they'll take care of it. I still want you there in case they need backup, okay?"

"Sure thing Dr. Light. I'll be back soon, okay Chii?"

"..." Chii searched for what to say, but was at a loss for words.

Dr. Light understood her plight. "Chii, right now you would say 'good- bye', okay?"

"Good-bye... Good-bye MegaMan." She smiled as he waved and walked away, but somehow the words didn't feel right...

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"ProtoMan, you ready?"

Bass stood at the entrance of the steel mill, priming his buster arm. ProtoMan was explaining who they were to the authorities, who had only been given permission to let MegaMan through.

"You go on ahead. I'll follow as soon as I finish telling police who we are."

"Sure thing!" Bass ran head on into the facility, buster at the ready.

Roll watched the black android disappear. 'Idiot, you'd better come out of there alive. If you don't...' She charged in after him, much to the annoyance of ProtoMan and the Police.

Bass back-flipped over a walking robotic eye, who's only attack seemed to be trying to ram itself into him. Bass landed his jump on the opposite side of the room and fired his buster at the one eyed menace. The machine exploded, allowing him to proceed through the next door. A blast of intense heat announced his arrival at one of the main processing plants, which held several top-like enemies that fired energy blasts at him. He dashed away from the hail of energy shots, settling himself behind a maintenance unit. One of the tops got smart and hopped over the temporary barricade, but Bass kicked it off of the walkway he inhabited and sent a few rounds of his own at the remaining machines. A few shots struck his armor during the firefight, but the damage was minimal at best. Alone once more, he continued on, carefully avoiding the holes created by the fight. He assumed that falling into the molten steel probably wouldn't be a good thing, and rightly so. After a few minutes of mindless jumping and dashing through the factory, Bass finally reached the other side of the processor and journeyed into the remainder of the mill. After a few more rooms, he spotted the main control center and made haste to it. As he entered said control center, someone spoke from above.

"So my prey has finally arrived... MegaMan! It will be a pleasure fighting you." MagmaMan stood at the main control panel, which was several levels higher than Bass's own position.

"Sorry to burst your bubble MagmaMan, but I'm not blue."

Bass took aim and shot a circle around MagmaMan's feet, causing the robot to fall through. MagmaMan hit the bottom level hard, but received no damage from the impact. He stood quickly and took aim at Bass.

"Bass? Hah! I should have known you were helping that blue fool again."

"Helping? No, I'm just paying my rent." Bass smiled as he began to glow. "And in return, I got a little surprise for you!" He brought up his buster and fired a charged shot, which MagmaMan barely avoided.

"You were upgraded by Dr. Light I see. No matter, I will still have your head for Dr. Wily's personal collection! MAGMA CANNON!"

MagmaMan launched a stream of magma at Bass, who sidestepped the attack. Bass rolled to the side to dodge another attack, then retaliated with his normal buster and hit MagmaMan in the chest. It slowed the robot for a second, but he recovered quickly. He launched stream after stream of lava at Bass, but the android was much faster than MagmaMan. More and more of Bass's shots impacted the robot, considerably draining MagmaMan's energy reserves. Bass jumped to avoid one of MagmaMan's magma streams and charged while he was in the air. Upon landing, he fired the burst of energy at MagmaMan, who took the blast in the legs. The flood beneath him melted away under the impact, sending MagmaMan plummeting into a pool of steel...

"Loser. You don't even have the speed to hit me, so how did you expect to win? Jeez..." Bass began walking away, only to feel a tremor run through the factory. "The heck?"

Bass turned around just in time to see the melted remains of MagmaMan rise out of the hole and fire the Magma Cannon one last time. The attack caught Bass by surprise and gave him no time to move, so he instead braced for the impact. But instead of the stream of magma striking him, someone tackled him. Roll, who had been watching the fight, barely cleared the line of fire before the attack passed Bass and herself. MagmaMan had used the last of his energy in the attack, and therefore he finally lost all of his power and 'died'.

Bass shook his head and knocked Roll off him. Standing, he glared at her. "The heck was that for? Stupid, you could have gotten yourself killed!"

Roll gripped a nearby pipe and hoisted herself upright. "But you could have died too, you jerk! Why can't you just be nice for once and say thank-you? Can't you bring yourself to trust me?"

"I don't trust ANYONE! I've lived like that ever since Wily betrayed me, so you have no right to complain about it!" Bass turned and began walking away. Before he could get very far, he heard Roll sniffing...

"You could have been a little kinder about it..." She said as the tears began to fall. "I trust you, so why can't you trust me back?"

"Huh?" Bass turned around. "Wh-what are you talking about? I..." Bass stopped, realizing what he was saying. He shook his head. "No, your right. I'm... I'm sorry for yelling. I shouldn't have been so mean. After all those years of fighting your brother, I'm still kinda bitter at the way he makes friends so easily. You're just like him, you know? Guess that's why you're a family..."

"Bass," Roll wiped her tears away and walked to him. "I think you can be just as nice as MegaMan if you really tried."

"Really?"

"Sure." She smiled slightly. 'He's just like a big kid. He's had a hard past, but he still had a kind heart, albeit mechanical.' The two walked out of the factory side by side. It was a little too far apart for Roll's liking, but she could live with it...

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After everyone returned home, Dr. Light threw a party for Bass. The new 'hero in training' -as ProtoMan called him- wasn't exactly in the party spirit, but he had a good time just the same. When the party finally settled down, MegaMan and Chii sat down to read the second book.

"All right Chii, you ready?" MegaMan took the book out and opened it to the first page as Chii nodded. "Okay."

The same rabbit-like Persocom stood, head bowed, before a large group of buildings. Its depressed demeanor is still present.

"There really isn't anyone in this city at all. All the people are busy with Those. They'll never wake up from the happy dreams they can dream with Them. The time people spend with Them is a dream. It's entrancing like a dream. Those can make any dream come true. They'll do anything the way a person wants them to do it. They'll be any way a person wants them to be."

The creature looks up and stares at the hundreds of silhouettes in the windows of the buildings, but the streets remained empty.

"Because They are not people, they can become people's dreams. But there is on thing that even Those can't do. They can't become people. Even if they take the place of people, they can't become them. I know that all too well. I know it because of who I am."

The Persocom looks away from the buildings. Her eyes are closed, and she holds a tiny star in her 'hands'.

"Today I'm going to go look for the person only for me again. The person who will love me because I am who I am. The person who will love me, even if I can't make dreams come true."

She opens her eyes again, and finds a mirror image of her has appeared. The image is darker than it's other self.

"But the other me says--"

"Does a person like that really exist?"

"I want them to exist."

"Will that person really love only me?"

"I hope so."

"Will that person really not demand anything of me?"

"If not--"

"If that person won't love me just for who I am, then that isn't the person only for me."

"Really?"

"Really."

"Is there really such a person?"

"There really is."

"But where? Somewhere very close to me, I'm sure. Yes, somewhere not far away is the person who will love me."

"But, if that person doesn't love me, what will you do?"

"Then I will have to decide. People Aren't like Them. You can't erase their feelings."

"People aren't easy to change."

"I know. But people do change. Their feelings are dynamic. Feelings of love are more resistant."

"But what if he never loved you?"

"Then I would have to chose. I would decide what to do."

MegaMan turned the page, really getting into the book now. Unfortunately, it stopped there.

"What?!? Aw man, these books really are deep AND short! I'm lost..." MegaMan shook his head, but smiled when he saw that Chii was happy that he had read to her. "Oh well. Guess we'll just have to wait for the next book, won't we?"

"Chii!" The Persocom nodded in approval and hugged/tackled the blue android.

"Awe, aren't they a cute couple?" Dr. Light smiled.

An irritated ProtoMan glared at Dr. Light. "Oh, shut up old man. You're crazy, you know that? They're two separate models. They could never get together."

Dr. Light sighed. "Yes, your right. But as long as they're happy, I don't care. I'm going to bed now, and so should all of you. We've all had a long day, so we all need the rest."

"Good night Dr. Light." Roll called out from the couch, where her and Bass were playing Mortal Kombat 5.

Dr. Light yawned, as he entered his room, not even bothering to cover his mouth and slipping off his lab coat. "ProtoMan believes that two different models should never be together, eh? That's like saying a white person can't marry someone of African decent. It's wrong. Hopefully, Project R will dispel that notion for good. For all Persocoms, Humans, and Androids..."