In the SciLab, many scientists had been observing the first day at Cyber Island for Netto and his pals, including Meijin and Netto's father. Unknown to the kids, the Island had camera rigged all over the place to monitor for any problems involving the transfer from Net to Reality.
"That Netto! I'll have to scold him for underage drinking!" Dr. Hikari sighed. He had felt slightly embarrassed that his coworkers had to see that. Meijin was sitting in front of a monitor next to him.
"I think we have a little problem..." Meijin called for Yuuichiro to look at the screen. They had many graphs showing the vital signs of the Navis. Rockman's one had been enlarged and Meijin was pointing at it.
"What's this?" Yuuichiro noticed something off about his signs. They were going haywire. "Bring him up on screen!"
There was a large screen that took up a whole wall of the lab, which blinked to life, focused on Rockman's last known location – the suite. Everyone had come to, looking fairly sick. They looked at the image and found something wrong.
"Where is he?" a scientist said out of the blue. There was a large commotion among the workers. Yuuichiro finally got up and called for attention.
"Now is not the time for this! I want everyone to scan the island and find him, now!" everyone scrambled back to their seats and frantically searched for the missing blue bomber. Soon someone spoke up.
"Uh, sir... I found him, I think..." one of the scientists raised their hand, and Yuuichiro and Meijin went to take a look. The monitor showed one of the hotel's hallways.
They saw Rockman on the screen, but it wasn't the human Rockman it should've been. On the screen was a smaller, child-like version of the NetNavi Rockman, armor and all, standing strangely still. The only other difference was he wasn't blue. He was brown.
"Well, this is definitely classified as a bug." Meijin remarked after seeing the Chibi-Rockman.
"Um, sir. I found him too, but he's not the same one." Another scientist called. Confused, Yuuichiro went over and took a look, followed by Meijin.
"Huh?" Yuuichiro's face went blank. Meijin took a look and found out why. Another Chibi-Rockman was seen, this time outside the hotel sitting in the woods. He was baby blue though.
"We'd better get Netto on the line. He'll want to know about this." Meijin went off set things up for the transmission.
Netto awoke with a deadly headache. He groaned, rolling out of his uncomfortable position. He stared at the ceiling, feeling really weak. A sound caught his attention, but he couldn't be bothered to take a look.
"Anyone else awake?" Netto said weakly. He was greeted by everyone else's voice. They had gotten up long before him, and had already recuperated to a point of at least moving without too much trouble.
"We've been up for some time, it's you who we've been waiting for." Meiru informed him. "The day you wake up before us is the day the Net crashes."
Netto laughed, but stopped when he felt pain in his stomach from doing so. He slowly got up and looked around. He instantly noticed.
"Hey... Where's Rockman?"
"He must've gotten up before us. Why don't we go find him?" Roll suggested. Judging from everyone's dull groaning, she deducted they didn't want to go. "Well, I'm going! You guys can come whenever you're ready!"
Roll skipped off to find her friend, leaving the others behind to recover. Her head peeked in through the door just as she stepped out.
"Hey Dekao, Enzan... You guys know you're like, naked, right?" Roll mentioned, then continued on her way.
The two painfully turned to look at themselves, then groaned again. Enzan reached out and managed to find his pants, and groggily put them on.
"I thought I could feel a draft." Dekao was still too sick to move, instead falling asleep again.
Netto heard his PET beeping at the other side of the room. Unfortunately, he was too dizzy to go get it, so decided it could wait a few hours.
"Rock! Rock!" Roll was strolling around the hotel looking for him. She had searched for quite some time, but hadn't found him anywhere. Suddenly she felt a beeping in her pocket. She pulled out the PET that Meiru had left for her safekeeping. She found an email from Meijin.
'Roll, Rockman needs your help. Couldn't contact Netto. Please head to the lab, where I will explain everything. –Meijin'
Roll could tell it had been written in a rush, only serving to make her even more worried. She ran downstairs and made her way to the lab as fast as she could.
Roll had made it outside, and was about to head into the lab when she heard a faint sobbing. She looked around and saw Rockman crying in the middle of the woods. She ran up to him and gasped.
"R-Rock? What happened to you?" she looked down at the baby blue Chibi-Rockman, who was wiping his nose with his finger.
"Auu... Roll, something's wrong! Auu!" Rockman rubbed his eyes. Roll picked up Chibi-Rockman and cradled him in her arms. If this hadn't been such a strange occurrence, she would've thought Rockman was kind of cute this way. She continued to carry him, and took him with her to the lab.
At the bottom of the stairs, she saw something that almost made her drop blue Chibi-Rockman. Right in front of her was a tall man standing in front of her, holding onto a green Chibi-Rockman. He had short gray hair, glasses, and wore a lab coat.
"Daaah, lemme go! Lemme go!" Green Chibi-Rockman flailed his arms about, but to no avail.
"I guess this is the dopey one..." the tall man looked up and saw Roll. "Ah, you've arrived! Meijin sent me through the Net to help you! Call me Doctor!"
Roll realized he was another NetNavi. She walked up and took a look at the green Chibi-Rockman.
"You must be confused, please let me explain." He proceeded to put the green Chibi-Rockman into a small cell, then took the baby blue one and did the same. "Now then, what you are seeing is the effects of a bug which seems to have infected Rockman. At the moment, we have found seven of these little Rockmans running around all over the island, all different colors, and also different personalities."
"Different personalities?" Roll remembered how she had found blue Chibi-Rockman crying, then came in to see the green one acting fairly stupid. "I see."
"The scientists have dubbed this the 'Seven Dwarves' virus. They have found a way to fix it, however we will need to gather up the remaining five Rockmans. Which brings me to why I'm here." He reached his hand out to Roll. "I'll be working with you to get him – er, them – back! I hope we can cooperate well!"
"Same here, and thanks for the help!" Roll took his hand and shook it. Doctor made his way to the stairs.
"Let's go! The sooner we get these little guys, the better!"
After receiving some information from the SciLabs, they managed to find the next Rockman at the beach. He was running around screaming with joy.
"This must be the happy one." Doctor said. "Well, I think this shouldn't be too hard for you to do alone, right? I'll go look for another one." Roll nodded, and Doctor followed another set of coordinates obtained in the lab to the next one.
"Here goes..." Roll walked over to the yellow Chibi-Rockman. When he saw her, he yelped in joy and jumped into her arms.
"Hiya, Roll! So happy to see you!" Chibi-Rockman snuggled onto her, making her blush and hug back. She remembered what she was doing, so proceeded to carry him back to the lab. She put him in with the others, where blue Chibi was still moping around, and green Chibi was trying to eat his elbow.
She sighed, then looked at a screen to find the next one. One of them was nearby, and was moving closer to the lab. She looked at the stairs to see Doctor come down, covered in scratches and bruises, holding onto a very fidgety red Chibi-Rockman.
"I think this is the angry one." He said dully, as he put him into the cell with the others. He slumped down, wiping up his glasses. "Sorry, but in the condition I'm in, I don't think I can manage to get another one of them. You'll have to get the last two."
"Don't worry, leave it to me!" Roll saluted him, then went to get the final two Rockmen, who just happened to be close to each other, both being inside the hotel.
"This sucks." Doctor sighed, poking at his wounds.
Roll had gone into the hotel's lobby, and already spotted the final two Chibis. One of them was brown, standing perfectly still, and the other was pink, twiddling his thumbs and rubbing his foot on the ground.
"Hey, come on, you two, you're coming with me!" Roll said happily. The brown Chibi didn't move an inch, but the other one took a few steps back blushing wildly.
"B-But Roll, it's so sudden!" he fidgeted some more, hiding his face with his hands and scratching one of his legs with the other.
'THAT'S SO CUTE!' Roll thought to herself, squealing. She pulled herself together and grabbed the brown Chibi, who made no effort to resist her, yet he weighed quite a bit more than the others. She took the pink Chibi's hand, who squealed in embarrassment, and took them back to the lab. The brown Chibi was still heavier though, and since he wasn't moving much, she had to drag him along behind her. The pink Chibi just blushed, constantly trying to cover the distance between them, before blushing madly and moving back.
"You know, Roll..." the pink Chibi said shyly. "I really like you a lot..." Chibi blushed out, as well as Roll.
"T-That's just because you're the bashful side of Rockman! Besides, he could have anyone in the Net! He'd go for the more amazing Navis!" She stuttered. She thought it would be too much of a coincidence for Rockman to like her, especially since he could choose from practically any girl Navi around. He was famous, after all.
"But... You are amazing." He whispered.
She got the two last Rockmans into the cell, and Doctor sat by one of the computer consoles.
"That must be bashful then!" He knew instantly from the pink Chibi. He looked at the rock-hard brown Chibi. "Haha, and that must be the 'rock' part of him, get it?" Roll didn't get it.
An abrupt silence followed.
"...Well, let's get this done!" he pulled out a small data disk, and inserted it into the computer. He typed something into the console, then hit 'enter'.
The capsule at the center of the room roared to life. The very same capsule that brought them here.
"Roll, would you please put the Rockmans into the chamber?" Roll nodded, and slowly lifted them one by one into the capsule.
"Stand back now, we're going to rearrange his data in the Cyber world." Roll stood by Doctor, as the capsule burned brightly. Minutes passed, and Roll was growing impatient. She was about to ask Doctor how much longer when it suddenly powered down, the light disappearing. There was a little smoke in the way, blocking the view.
"Rock?" Roll slowly walked up to the capsule. She could barely make out the outline of a man standing there. The smoke cleared to reveal Rockman, back to his human self.
"Hi, Roll." Rockman smiled at her. Roll smiled back before grabbing him into a hug.
"Good to have you back in one piece!"
"Well, I'll be heading back! It was nice meeting you Rockman! All seven of you!" Rockman chuckled nervously, then Doctor pushed the blue button on the console, starting up the capsule once again. He stepped in and waved goodbye, as he slowly dissipated into data.
Back at the Lab, Yuuichiro and Meijin watched on.
"Well, that's another crisis in the bag!" Yuuichiro stretched his back. "I feel like celebrating. What say you and me grab the guys and play Twister?"
"Sounds like a plan." Meijin agreed.
Back in the suite, the gang had gained enough strength to talk, but still didn't feel like moving too much. They passed the time playing a game.
"Chicken." Netto said.
"Noodles." Meiru followed.
"Shrimp." Glyde said.
"Pasta." Yaito said.
"Apple." Blues said.
"Egg." Enzan followed.
"Garlic." Gutsman said. There was a slight pause to consider whether it could be labeled food, then let it slide.
"Chicken." Dekao said. They would've argued it had been said already, but again couldn't be bothered.
"Sigh... Noodles."
END CHAPTER 6