YEAH!!!! I got a new laptop! Sweetness! No more having to deal with the crappy spell check on my old laptop. However, I now have Microsoft Office '03 instead of Microsoft Word 6.0, so bear with me as I adjust. It's black! Like Bass! And it's got a little silver emblem on the top that says Dell. (The author is wreaking havoc in his house over this thing.)

A.N. to L.C. Techno: Sorry to hear about your curse dude! Hopefully you won't have the same problems in this chapter. About MegaMan's other name, Clive actually had no thought what so ever in it. It was the first name I saw that sounded decent, so I used it. Hope that answers your question!

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Minoru was kneeling beside Yuzuki, who had shut down without warning a few minutes' prior. He had called to his other Persocoms, but none had come to Yuzuki's aid. In fact, he had not heard from them since Yuzuki had shut down . . .

"Dang it, why won't she restart?! I've tried everything!" Minoru was about to give up hope for the Persocom when she suddenly re-booted. "Yuzuki! Are you alright?"

"Minoru, no files were damaged."

"That's not what I asked! I asked if you were okay. You, not the files in your system..."

Before Yuzuki could answer, her eyes went blank. "Sir, we have a call. It's Dr. Light."

The teenage genius sighed. "Please put him through."

"Minoru! Are you okay? Do you know what's going on?"

"I don't know Dr. Light. What's happening out there? My Persocoms shut down a few minutes ago, and just now they restarted."

"I don't know what's exactly going on, but MegaMan and Bass are tracking down the cause at this very moment. I hope everything has calmed down at your place."

"Yes, everything seems to be in order. I still need to check on the Persocoms down stairs, but Yuzuki and I are fine. We should still be able to come over if you were still wondering."

"Ah, that's good to hear. We can compare theories over dinner. Seven thirty still okay?"

"Depends on the traffic, but we should be able to make it." The line cut out after they had said their good-byes.

"Do you really think it's such a good idea to be going out so soon after an event like this?" Yuzuki wore a slightly worried face.

"I think it's best if we try to get back to normal as soon as humanly possible."

"If you say so . . ."

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"I got a signal earlier. It's coming from Tokyo's center."

"Then let's move."

"The signal stopped. It may have moved."

"Can we guess as to where it's headed?"

"Dita, we have to wait again. It's okay."

"Fine..."

MegaMan and Bass came in through the window, hopping to avoid any suspicion. Of course, it's hard to miss four people flying into a building, but with everyone still recovering from the last crisis they were blissfully ignored.

"Dr. Light!" MegaMan called out to his creator, still cradling Chii in his arms. She hadn't moved since he caught her, and he was starting to worry if she would move ever again

"MegaMan, is that you?" Dr. Light rushed in, Plum still in hand. "Thank goodness you're all. . ."

Bass didn't have time for pleasantries. "All of us are NOT okay Dr. Light. Chii isn't moving, so could you please try to help her and ask questions later?"

"Okay. MegaMan, bring her into the main lab so I can run a few scans."

"Yes Dr. Light." MegaMan jogged into the lab and placed her on the operations table. Dr. Light was slower, but eventually made his way to a control station. Bass and Roll simply sat off to the side. "She's ready Doctor."

"Good. Please have a seat MegaMan, as this will take a little while."

Mega did as he was told, sitting beside Bass and Roll. He looked at Chii one last time as several scanning arrays slid into place.

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"Well Mr. ProtoMan..."

"Just ProtoMan please."

"Okay. She's going to be okay ProtoMan. She sustained a few second and third degree burns at the point of impact, and theirs a little bit of internal bleeding from the impact, but other than that she's fine. She'll be under observation for a few weeks, and then she can return to life as it normally is."

ProtoMan smiled. "Thanks Doc. Can I speak with her, or is she still knocked out from the pain killers?"

"She's awake, but don't take too long. She needs her rest." He turned to leave, but stopped suddenly. "What about you? Didn't you get hit in the chest with the same beam?"

"I'm fine. I am an android after all." ProtoMan smirked as he walked away, his course taking him to Misu's room. He hesitated at the door when he heard two voices speaking inside. Turning up his hearing, he listened to the conversation.

"So, that android guy named ProtoMan saved you? I thought he was one of Dr. Wily's robots."

"Nope. Don't you remember? ProtoMan was the first one created by both Dr. Light and Dr. Wily. He ran away before Dr. Wily went evil."

'Well, at least some people have it right.' ProtoMan shook his head. 'I'd better not go in. She's probably talking with her boyfriend or a family member.'

"Oh yeah, that's right. I didn't have you when all that was taking place, did I? Hey, who's that outside the door?"

'Or maybe I will go in to avoid embarrassment.' ProtoMan knocked softly on the door. To his surprise, a Persocom answered the door.

"Hello. Who might you be?"

"Tsubasa, that's ProtoMan!" Misu giggled for a second before waving him in.

ProtoMan followed Tsubasa into the room, quietly sitting next to him at Misu's side. "So, how are you feeling?"

"I'm feeling a lot better now that I have a dozen painkillers in my system."

"The actual number is five."

"Hmpf." ProtoMan smiled. "I see. I just came to see how you were feeling. I'm sorry I couldn't protect you. It was stupid of me to think that I could take him down in one shot."

Misu sighed. "I knew you'd blame yourself. It's okay ProtoMan. No one is perfect."

"But..."

"No. It wasn't your fault. Besides, I needed a brake from work." She smiled quietly as ProtoMan smirked and shook his head.

"You're crazy, you know that? I've have to get going. You need to rest." ProtoMan stood and reached for the door.

"Will I ever see you again?"

He hesitated. "I don't think so." He opened the door. "Get better and have a nice life." He waved as the door closed behind him.

"Goodbye ProtoMan..."

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Dr. Light studied the readings he was receiving from Chii. After a few minutes of "Hmm"s and "Huh"s, Bass and MegaMan were about to go insane. Unfortunately for Dr. Light, Bass was the one that snapped first.

"WOULD YOU STOP GRUNTING AND TELL MEGAMAN WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?!?"

"Bass, please just give me five more minutes. I'll be able to make some sense of this by then. It was hard enough to get past her pass code."

MegaMan stood up at that announcement. "You were able to get into her files?!"

"Well, yes and no. I'm able to see what she has on memory, but I can't touch it. Actually..."

Dr. Light looked at his read outs again. After several more grunts and an "Arrg", he finally decided to explain. He pulled up all of his findings on a bigger screen and called it to their attention.

"MegaMan, you know that we could never get into Chii's hard drive because of an advanced firewall program, correct?"

"I didn't know it in those exact terms, but yes."

"Well, it appears that Chii had a military grade firewall installed on her. Using my Military grade Anti-firewall software, I was able to bypass some of her security. As far as I know, there are only six folders on her hard drive. One is labeled Chii, and I'm assuming that this is her Personal file."

Bass raised his eyebrows for a second. "What do you mean her 'Personal file'?"

"Her personal database. All of her knowledge, schedules, system commands, and other programs are in that file supposedly. The other files are labeled Unit-C1, Unit-C2, Elda, Freya, and Chobit. The Elda folder is almost completely corrupted, while the Freya folder is untouched. I can only assume that Elda and Freya may have been previous personalities that Chii had at one time."

MegaMan had an idea. It was crazy, and didn't have anything to do with the current situation, but it was still important. "Does that mean we can speak with the Freya personality? We could learn who made her if it was the first."

"It is possible. I still need more time to get past the rest of her security. I'm clueless about the other folders, however. I've also been able to access her system log. According to the last few entries, a defensive program from the Unit-C2 folder was run, and several large programs from the Chobit folder were initiated. They were stopped by Chii before they could be complete, but starting and stopping them took a lot out of Chii. That explains why she shut down."

"Will she wake up?"

"Yes MegaMan. We just have to give her some time. She should wake up in about a half hour, just before five o'clock."

"That's good." Bass stood and walked away. "I'm going to check on Roll. She said she was going to get dinner started."

"Dinner eh? I think I'll join you!" Dr. Light moved as fast as his old legs would carry him to follow Bass.

"Here they go again." After a few minutes, MegaMan could hear Roll yelling at them for tasting the food. "Yeah, they need to stop. Otherwise we won't have a dinner to eat when Minoru gets here."

MegaMan smiled as he turned his attention to Chii's sleeping form. The lab was quiet except for the humming of hard drives and monitors. Though archaic, the computers in the lab were comparable in speed and power to the latest models of Persocom. Several cords were attached to Chii's ear, then run to the main computer. MegaMan silently pulled out the picture Minoru had given him, the picture of what looked like Chii. He looked back and forth from the real Chii to the one in the picture.

"How could anyone throw out someone as adorable as her?"

Before he could wonder any more about it, several alerts popped up on a nearby screen. He walked over to inspect them, knowing it might have been something important.

"Do you wish to access 'Freya' folder? Sure, why not? I can always try." MegaMan clicked on the okay button. To his horror, several thousand alerts popped up to replace the first. Then the entire system reset. "Not good. Definitely not good."

"Why would it not be good?" The voice that spoke was oddly familiar.

MegaMan spun around, looking everywhere for whoever spoke. "Wha? Who are you? Where are you?"

"I'm right behind you."

MegaMan turned on his heel and found a girl just like Chii on the monitor he had just been looking at. "Chii?"

"No. I am Elda's sister, Freya, and you're MegaMan. Nice to meet you."

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Freya speaks! How and why is Chii's sister speaking to MegaMan? What the heck happened to VineMan? (He'll be here next chapter, I promise.) Unfortunately, I won't be in the country for the next week, so I can't update for a while... Until I next update, please review and eat lots of chocolate.