Netto ran into his house and up the stairs a quickly as he could. He opened the door to Saito's room with such force that it slammed into the adjacent wall and jerked Saito out of his studious mood. Saito looked up and saw Netto; he gave him a misty grin, "Hey Netto-kun, what's up?"

"Rockman," Netto growled. "Something's wrong with this place. There's something here that's forcing us to… I don't know; think its real or something."

Saito looked a little frightened, "It is real!" he gasped.

Stone moved forward to say something but he felt a hand on his shoulder hold him back. He looked behind him to see Gem shaking her head from side to side. Stone sighed and watched the small drama unfold in front of him.

"No it's not!" Netto snapped. "You're Rockman, you're my navi and we've been together since I was 11 years old. Papa made you from the DNA of Saito Hikari when you died from a heart condition called HBD at 18 months. Come on Saito, I know you remember," Netto said with a small note of begging in his voice. "You knew who you were when we came here."

Saito backed into his desk, "No," she shook his head. "You're lying, why would you make up suck a story!" Saito's voice started to have an angry edge to it.

Netto looked a little sad when Saito accused him of lying. "Rockman…"

"Don't call me that!" Saito snapped. "My name is Saito, and you're my little brother! Our navi's are Gem and Stone, you know that!"

Netto shook his head, "Nii-san," he said, deciding to use a neutral way of calling him. "Don't you remember, WWW, Gospel, Nebula, the Darkloids, the Asteroids, Neo WWW, everything? Come on, if you weren't a navi I think the world might have been taken over from the get go. You're Rockman, and my older brother, we've dealt with that for two years now, right?"

Saito shook his head, but unwillingly the memories came flooding back. "No," he gasped. "I don't want…"

Netto ran over and pulled Saito into a tight embrace. "You don't want to leave either," he murmured. "Just like I didn't want to."

Saito's eyes widened, "Netto-kun." He returned the tight hug and resisted the urge to cry. "Then mama and papa and everything…"

Netto shook his head, "It's not real," he said softly. "And we knew that."

"Why?" Saito asked softly.

There was a laugh behind them that came from the monitor making Netto, Saito, Gem and Stone all whirl around to see Slur laughing in the back of the monitor. "So that's what makes you two special," she laughed. "Your bond with your navi, it's so strong because he's your older brother. I wondered but…" she laughed again. "Amazing."

"Slur!" Netto yelled out angrily. "Were you the one who brought us here?"

Slur gave a mocking bow, "Duo and I wished to see how strong you and your friends were. If you were capable of breaking free from our illusion. But you two… how intriguing."

Netto and Saito both took a step away from the monitor. Gem threw herself at Slur screaming angrily. "How could you!" she yelled while pinning Slur to the ground, "How could you do that!"

Slur grinned maliciously, "Why not?"

Gem's eyes widened then she brought back her arm and summoned her default arrow. But before she could fire Slur disappeared and reappeared behind Gem. "Foolish navi," she snapped, throwing Gem into the far wall.

"Gem!" Stone yelled as he ran over to his fallen friend.

"You two are just part of the illusion. Objects created by this world to increase the realism. You only exist because this place exists. You're not real," Slur sneered.

Gem glared at Slur with pure hate in her eyes, "So? Even if we aren't, they are! And our programming be it non-existent or not tells us to protect those kids. Who the hell are you to play with the lives of humans like that?"

"Have you not been listening?" Slur laughed. "Saito isn't human. He's a Net Navi, and because Netto was also affected by my little program, I'm beginning to suspect he isn't fully human either!"

"What program?" Netto growled.

"I inserted a program into Saito to make him believe he was really part of this world," Slur said. "Just to see how things would pan out. Your body took the program in as well and you began to believe the same thing. How interesting," she said with a small laugh.

Gem growled, "So, now that this little farce is all over, what do you plan to do, keep them here forever?"

Slur laughed, "Oh, of course not! Now I get to see if you and the other crest holders can break out of this place without being destroyed," she said with a small grin. "Are you strong enough? Do you think you can escape Duo's power?"

"Why you!" Gem spluttered and dived at Slur who simply vanished. Gem crashed into the ground and immediately pushed herself back up. She looked around wildly, "Where is she?"

In front of Netto and Saito a small shadow began to solidify until right in front of them was Slur. "I'm sure you've guessed by now there is no 'real' world and cyber world here. There is but merely planes that navi's can transcend at any time they please."

Netto had half a mind to try and attack Slur himself at that point but Saito put a hand on his shoulder to hold him back. "What do you want?" he hissed.

"I want to see your power," she said with a grin. "Show me what your true power is Rockman!" Slur lifted her arms and small black cords snaked out of her sleeves to wrap themselves around Saito.

"Rockman!" Netto yelled and ran to his struggling twin. Netto tried to pull at the cords but they were just too tight for him to move.

"Pathetic," Slur said in a soft voice as she summoned her sword. "I've waited a long time to finally get Duo-sama to destroy your pathetic planet."

Netto tried to shield Saito with his own body, waiting for the finishing attack but it never came. When both of them dared to look up they saw Gem with one of her arrows sticking through Slur's chest. Slur grinned then vanished. "An illusion," Gem hissed.

The small black cords binding Saito disappeared as well and Saito found himself being pulled to his feet by Stone.

Netto looked up to see Gem offering him a hand. "Ready to get out of here?" she asked him kindly.

Netto grinned and took her hand, "Yeah," he said.

Saito looked at his hand and sighed, "Netto-kun, we can't let everyone else know about us," he said softly.

Netto looked at his twin, "Well, you appearance is just an illusion as well right? Based on your DNA."

Saito nodded, "Yeah, you're right." Then he picked up on what Netto was trying to tell him, "OH! I can rewrite my programming to be like it was."

"You should," Netto said.

Saito gave Netto a sad smile, "I kinda like looking like this."

Netto shrugged, "Bah, it's to confusing," he teased.

Saito giggled sadly while Gem and Stone looked on silently. He walked forward, gave Netto a big hug that he only had a few seconds to return before Saito took a step back. "All right," he said softly. He shut his eyes and found the programs he knew were there, he deleted several files that he knew didn't belong and when he opened his eyes Netto was smiling.

"Hello, Rockman."

"Oh my!" Gem gasped. Stone just looked dumbfounded.

Netto grinned at them, "This is my navi, best friend and older brother, Rockman," he said with a small laugh.

Rockman waved, "Hey."

"Now what?" Netto asked.

"Now we can get out of here," Rockman said.

When the foursome went outside they saw that the world around them had completely changed. In fact, it no longer seemed to exist. Outside was just a large nothing, and once they left the house it disappeared as well. "So much for the illusion," Netto sighed.

"Rockman!" a voice called behind them.

They turned around to see Roll running towards them, "Roll-chan!" Rockman actually smiled broadly as he was hugged by the pink navi.

"So, you finally found him," Enzan said coolly. "What happened?" he asked Netto in a low tone.

Netto shook his head, "I'll tell you later," he murmured back.

Gem and Stone nodded at the other navis. "Aren't you part of the illusion?" Blues asked.

Gem shook her head, "We're real navis. Just created for something that didn't exist."

Rockman shook his head, "That's horrible."

Gem shrugged, "I think we have other things to worry about."

Charlie nodded, "She's right. Now that we've called the bluff we need to get out of it."

"How do we do that?" Netto asked.

A voice laughed behind them, "By getting through me," Slur said.