As soon as the bell signaling the end of school rang, Netto and Saito's PET's both started to ring loudly. Netto took his out and turned on the screen, "Yes?" he asked.

What seemed to be Manabe appeared and smiled at them. "Netto-kun, Saito-kun, I have a mission for you. Can you two go to the downtown Net City Bank building and help with a virus problem?"

"Yes ma'am!" Netto said and the screen went blank.

/Netto-kun, I can't Net Battle…/ Saito warned his twin.

/It's easy, just follow my lead/ Netto said while grabbing Saito's arm and pulling him out of the class room.

"What on earth is going on here?" Meiru asked as she, Jasmine and Dingo watched them leave.

"I have no idea," Dingo and Jasmine said together.

"They could just be part of this world," Medi said. "I mean, they would have said something to us, or at least Netto would have."

Roll nodded, "Right and Rockman wasn't in Netto's PET either. A female navi who said her name was Gem was in there. That's not the Netto from our world."

"So, is Netto here?" Dingo asked.

"Who knows…" Meiru said.

Before the kids could speculate further their PET's began to ring in much the same way that Netto's did. Meiru was the first to pick hers up. "Hello?" she asked.

Mejin nodded, "There is a problem downtown and we need back up, can you go there."

"S-sure…" Meiru said.

The screen went blank after a hastily said good bye. "He normally calls Netto…" she said.

"Netto's gone," Jasmine pointed out.

"Yeah, but they were sent for back up. We're being sent to an emergency," Meiru said.

"Maybe this world's Netto can't cross fuse?" Roll suggested. Miraculously, all three has syncro chips upon entering the world but apparently Netto didn't.

"How odd…" Meiru said.

"Worry about it later, right now we need to help," Dingo said.

"Right!" Jasmine replied and together all three left the school room.

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Netto and Saito walked to where the small red dot on the map indicated they should go. Interestingly enough this world was a perfect mirror image of the world they knew. Netto didn't even need to ask for directions because he already knew the way. "Well, there it is," Gem said looking at a large building that was giving off random spurts of electricity.

"Not looking in the best of shape is it?" Netto mused.

Saito sighed/Netto-kun, how do I fight./

Netto looked at his twin/Just… copy what I do for now, okay? I'll try and teach you later./

Saito nodded and plugged in Stone/All right./

Netto plugged in Gem and the navi appeared next to Stone. "Mostly electric viruses here Netto," she said.

"All right then, Aqua Sword, battle chip, slot in!" Netto yelled and put the chip into his PET.

Saito looked at Netto who nodded back and he too slotted in an aqua sword, although with not as much vigor as his brother.

Both net navi's launched themselves into a concentrated bunch of viruses and began to attack. After about three minutes of hacking at them with the aqua swords the viruses were gone from that area. "All right!" Gem said. "This is more like it."

"Yeah," Netto chuckled while sending her a sword battle chip. "School was pretty boring, wasn't it?"

"Netto-kun!" Saito reprimanded.

Netto elbowed him playfully. "Be careful and send Stone a battle chip or he'll get hurt."

Saito sighed and sent Stone a sword battle chip and once again the navi's launched themselves into another small fray.

/Enjoying yourself/ Saito asked.

/Just because I'm stuck in psycho back world with you doesn't mean I can't enjoy the fact I'm with you/ Netto said while giving Gem an aqua tower battle chip.

/Netto-kun…/ Saito said softly.

/Hey, we'll find out what's going on. But since this world apparently wants us to net battle then we'll net battle, and get some answers when we go back to HQ to report it/ Netto said.

/That is a surprisingly good plan/ Saito teased.

/Now who's having fun/ Netto teased back.

Saito gave Gem a mini bomb, starting to feel a little more confident. /Fun/

"Hey, you two are being awfully quiet!" Gem yelled while pulling out a default bow and arrow and aiming it at another virus.

"We're just thinking!" Netto yelled back while giving her another sword chip.

"That's new," she muttered.

"I heard that!" Netto yelled at her.

Saito hid a small smile behind his hand and gave a side shot battle chip to Stone.

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When it was all over Netto and Saito quickly left to go to the head quarters where hopefully they could find some answers.

They walked into the familiar building and went straight to Manabe's desk. She looked up at them and gave them a warm grin. "Hello, I see you two have already wrapped things up. Excellent work."

Netto and Saito both nodded, playing along with the invisible script that world had set up for them.

"For now, can you two stay here, I think there might be another attack soon and it'd be easier if I knew where you two were."

"All right," Netto said. It was perfect, it would give them and excuse to explore and look around.

They left her office and started to walk down to the rest area where Netto had fallen asleep many a night after particularly hard missions.

/Let's go to the archives, maybe some answers will be there/ Saito said.

Netto nodded and they both went into the elevator to go to the archive floor.

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In a different part of the head quarters, Laika, Enzan, Jasmine, Pride, Miyabi, Tesla, Charlie, Dingo, Yuriko and Nenji were all trying to make sense at what had happened.

"It's like our lives were re-written," Pride said softly. "I don't even have a cousin in the 'real world', abdicating was never a choice I was given. Yet here…"

Laika nodded, "My unit is on permanent deploy to Japan to keep an eye on a tension between two countries that don't even exist."

Tesla scoffed, "Well, someone is obviously toying around with us, and I don't like it."

"Duo?" Jasmine asked.

Charlie sighed and crossed his fingers over his mouth. "Most likely."

"If that's the case, then why isn't Netto here?" Enzan asked coolly. "He was the first to crossfuse and the first to be marked with the crest."

"Netto is here…" Meiru said hesitantly. "But Rockman sure isn't… and Netto… he…"

"What?" Charlie asked.

"I don't think it's 'our' Netto. I think the Netto here is a product of this world. Like Manabe-san and Mejin-san. They're not the people we know, they were just created for this world."

"Then were is the Netto we know?" Laika asked. "Enzan is right, if this is some kind of test from Duo then why isn't Netto here?"

"Maybe it isn't a test from Duo," Jasmine ventured.

"Then why are only the crest holders here?" Yuriko asked. "I agree with Enzan and Laika, the kid must be here. Somewhere."

"There where is Rockman?" Roll asked. "He's most certainly not here at all. His ID signal doesn't exist in this world."

"Right," Dingo murmured. "And when we did see Netto he…"

Everyone else looked at Dingo, "He what?" Enzan asked sharply when Dingo trailed off.

"He was a twin…" Dingo said. "It sounds weird but in this world there is a Netto and a Saito Hikari. Rockman doesn't exist and their navi's are Gem and Stone."

Enzan blinked while everyone else tried to absorb the news much like Jasmine, Meiru and Dingo did that morning. "What do you know?" Yuriko asked Enzan who looked thoughtful, rather then shocked.

"I…" Enzan sighed. "A while ago I was looking through old newspaper articles to try and get some information on an old criminal. While I was looking through the archives I stumbled across a birth announcement for a Netto and Saito Hikari. Saito Hikari did exist as a human for awhile but…"

"But?" Nenji asked.

"Well… after I saw that I wanted to know why I had never met a 'Saito Hikari' so after I found the information I was looking for I continued on that link. Turns out, Saito Hikari died at the age of 18 months from a heart condition called HBD," Enzan said.

"So… in this world, if Saito Hikari exists maybe, there was no need to have Rockman," Laika mused.

"It's a theory," Enzan said with a shrug. "Maybe if Saito Hikari did exist then Hikari-Hakase would never have had to create a navi as powerful as Rockman to protect and look over Netto."

"This is all speculation though," Meiru said. "And it still doesn't answer the question of where is Netto and Rockman."

"Maybe that is Netto, but because Saito exists Rockman does not," Miyabi pondered.

"Then why didn't he say anything to us this morning?" Jasmine said.

"Well… he was with Saito and his navi, maybe he couldn't?" Meiru ventured.

"Then where is Rockman?" Searchman asked.

"And how does this fit in with what Duo may or may not be planning?" Tesla said crossly.

"Who knows…" Charlie said. "Once again, this is all purely speculation. We don't have anymore of an idea about what's going on here then what we did before. Whatever the reasons for why we are here the only obvious this is that who ever or whatever brought us here rewrote our lives so that we are all conveniently in one place."

Tesla sighed and rubbed her head, "This is giving me a headache."

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