Chapter 4; Serenade 1/3
"Ack I'm going to be late for school again!" Netto said as he ran to school. He didn't even stop to say hi to his childhood friend Mayl, whom he walked with to school almost every morning. She called after him, but Netto was too caught up in an effort to make it to school on time. She huffed, and called him an idiot. Netto was almost through the park, the last stretch before school, when he decided to walk the rest of the way, having seen the clocktower on the school reading 8:25 am, 5 minutes left to get to school. He'd eaten his toast, and was ahead of everybody else. Why not talk to his Navi a bit while walking? He held up his PET and there MegaMan was, as if waiting for him to stop and listen to him, wanting to say something.
"Thank you for saving my life, Netto-kun. I thought that you'd have left me to die, since I am a piece of worthless junk afterall..." MegaMan said. "What?? No you're not-" Netto began to say, but MegaMan shook his head. "It's true, I'm useless, a waste, the worst NetNavi ever, I'm no good to anyone. Nothing makes sense..." MegaMan continued. "Mega, stop talking like that. You're not any of that! You're my NetNavi and you're the best!" Netto said, but it seemed to be wasted words. "Why did you save me? I'll only cause you trouble in the long run..." MegaMan inquired. "Because... I..." Netto started, but couldn't get the words he wanted to say out of his mouth. "See? There was no-" "I needed a friend." MegaMan stopped his sentence dead at those words. Netto-kun... needed a friend? A friend?? F-R-I-E-N-D??? "You wanted to... find a friend... in me?" MegaMan stumbled over his words. But Netto couldn't answer him. He was in class, and couldn't talk to his NetNavi while the teacher was giving the lesson, or he'd be in trouble.
MegaMan put his head down, and turned Netto's words over in his head. 'you're my netnavi, and you're the best' 'I needed a friend'. The words ran over and over within his mind. 'He wants to find a friend... in me...?' He thought. 'Why? Is he... like me?' His thoughts were interrupted by the teacher's voice yelling at Netto. "Lan Hikari, what in the world is this???" Netto looked up at the teacher, who was holding the page of his notebook up for the class to see. It was the poem he had written last night, about how he hated his life. The teacher shook her head as if disappointed in him, handed him the notebook, and ordered him out of class to go to the principal's office.
MegaMan didn't know what was going on. Why was Netto getting in trouble, and what for? Was it because of him and the fact that he took him to school? From Netto's face, the guess was wrong. It was something with the notebook, and the teacher certainly didn't like it much at all. MegaMan took a look at the notebook in Netto's hand, and read what was on the open page that the teacher had pointed out. It was a poem.
: This is your wake-up call
your alarm clock is dead
you had no idea
all your friends are your enemies
and they're after you
there's no way to go
no where to run
This is the sum of all your fears
You thought you could trust them
you shared all your dirty little secrets
and depended on them to be around
they never told you lies or tall-tales
always, forever, friends "the oath"
fell apart, bit by bit, all of it, with one mistake
Everyone hates you
you're lost in your own turf
when you move on,,,
who will accept your goodbye
but an empty soul like mine
off to be filled again. :
'This is how... Netto feels?' MegaMan gasped. 'He's like I am...' He turned to look up at Netto's face again. He could see the tears threatening to fall. MegaMan knew that he had to say something. The principal was going to yell at him, call his parents, tell everyone about the poem. It was obvious that Netto never meant to let anyone find out about it. "Netto-kun, don't go. Plug me in and I'll get you out of trouble." MegaMan spoke up. Netto looked down at him with a little bit of hope in his face, much to MegaMan's surprise. "You don't have to get in trouble, Netto-kun." MegaMan said, and Netto connected the PET into the phone in the school lobby and into the school network. MegaMan's figure appeared on the phone screen, and a maze was laid out in front of him.
"It's your private work, and no one should do that like hold it up in front of everyone to see! I'm going to protect your work. You don't deserve any of that to happen to you. It's beyond me why you're getting in trouble... but that doesn't matter to me." MegaMan talked to Netto as he navigated his way to the center of the network. He found the database center, where he took Netto's file that the teacher had just put in. The principal would never know. MegaMan glanced at the other files in there too. He saw some of Netto's poems in there that had previously gotten him in trouble. "Shall I remove these too?" MegaMan asked Netto, who gratefully nodded. MegaMan grabbed all of those files, and left the school network to return to his happy owner.
"Mega, I can't thank you enough." Netto said. MegaMan laughed. "I owe my life to you, Netto-kun. I'll be here for you whenever you need me to be. Besides, us in depression and despair should stick together." He said. Netto's smile wavered a little. What was his NetNavi depressed about anyway? Did he have to be like this? He already knew that each NetNavi had their own unique personality, but this was ridiculous. "Mega?" Netto said his name aloud. "Yeah, Netto-kun?" Came the answer. "Why do you feel like that?" There was a silence between them. After a while, MegaMan spoke. "I don't know, really... it's probably just the way I was programmed or something. The Battle Network System disapproved of me from the beginning and declared me defective, and stuff... All the other NetNavis were the same, while I wasn't. It's a long story." The NetNavi said. Netto frowned, upset.
"That kind of stuff doesn't matter, Mega. You are who you are, and that's that. No one should judge you on anything, anyway. It's not fair." Netto said. "And besides, I've been victim to that kind of treatment too. Those kinds of people never add up to anything." He continued. MegaMan listened to him as he watched him walk out of school, and no one stopped him. "Netto- kun, are you leaving school?" MegaMan asked him out of curiousity. "Yes, I am. They're not going to stop me either." "Why don't you just go back in?" MegaMan said. Netto looked at him, almost out the school doors. "Why would I do that?" Netto questioned him. "Because, you're just running away now. Besides, you left your backpack there in the classroom and there's only an hour left of school." MegaMan convinced Netto to go back in to school.
Netto re-entered the classroom and took his usual seat, and neither the students or the teacher looked up. Netto pretended to look very upset like he was in deep trouble, but for real he was really happy. Happy that he had a friend like MegaMan ready to help him out.
"Ack I'm going to be late for school again!" Netto said as he ran to school. He didn't even stop to say hi to his childhood friend Mayl, whom he walked with to school almost every morning. She called after him, but Netto was too caught up in an effort to make it to school on time. She huffed, and called him an idiot. Netto was almost through the park, the last stretch before school, when he decided to walk the rest of the way, having seen the clocktower on the school reading 8:25 am, 5 minutes left to get to school. He'd eaten his toast, and was ahead of everybody else. Why not talk to his Navi a bit while walking? He held up his PET and there MegaMan was, as if waiting for him to stop and listen to him, wanting to say something.
"Thank you for saving my life, Netto-kun. I thought that you'd have left me to die, since I am a piece of worthless junk afterall..." MegaMan said. "What?? No you're not-" Netto began to say, but MegaMan shook his head. "It's true, I'm useless, a waste, the worst NetNavi ever, I'm no good to anyone. Nothing makes sense..." MegaMan continued. "Mega, stop talking like that. You're not any of that! You're my NetNavi and you're the best!" Netto said, but it seemed to be wasted words. "Why did you save me? I'll only cause you trouble in the long run..." MegaMan inquired. "Because... I..." Netto started, but couldn't get the words he wanted to say out of his mouth. "See? There was no-" "I needed a friend." MegaMan stopped his sentence dead at those words. Netto-kun... needed a friend? A friend?? F-R-I-E-N-D??? "You wanted to... find a friend... in me?" MegaMan stumbled over his words. But Netto couldn't answer him. He was in class, and couldn't talk to his NetNavi while the teacher was giving the lesson, or he'd be in trouble.
MegaMan put his head down, and turned Netto's words over in his head. 'you're my netnavi, and you're the best' 'I needed a friend'. The words ran over and over within his mind. 'He wants to find a friend... in me...?' He thought. 'Why? Is he... like me?' His thoughts were interrupted by the teacher's voice yelling at Netto. "Lan Hikari, what in the world is this???" Netto looked up at the teacher, who was holding the page of his notebook up for the class to see. It was the poem he had written last night, about how he hated his life. The teacher shook her head as if disappointed in him, handed him the notebook, and ordered him out of class to go to the principal's office.
MegaMan didn't know what was going on. Why was Netto getting in trouble, and what for? Was it because of him and the fact that he took him to school? From Netto's face, the guess was wrong. It was something with the notebook, and the teacher certainly didn't like it much at all. MegaMan took a look at the notebook in Netto's hand, and read what was on the open page that the teacher had pointed out. It was a poem.
: This is your wake-up call
your alarm clock is dead
you had no idea
all your friends are your enemies
and they're after you
there's no way to go
no where to run
This is the sum of all your fears
You thought you could trust them
you shared all your dirty little secrets
and depended on them to be around
they never told you lies or tall-tales
always, forever, friends "the oath"
fell apart, bit by bit, all of it, with one mistake
Everyone hates you
you're lost in your own turf
when you move on,,,
who will accept your goodbye
but an empty soul like mine
off to be filled again. :
'This is how... Netto feels?' MegaMan gasped. 'He's like I am...' He turned to look up at Netto's face again. He could see the tears threatening to fall. MegaMan knew that he had to say something. The principal was going to yell at him, call his parents, tell everyone about the poem. It was obvious that Netto never meant to let anyone find out about it. "Netto-kun, don't go. Plug me in and I'll get you out of trouble." MegaMan spoke up. Netto looked down at him with a little bit of hope in his face, much to MegaMan's surprise. "You don't have to get in trouble, Netto-kun." MegaMan said, and Netto connected the PET into the phone in the school lobby and into the school network. MegaMan's figure appeared on the phone screen, and a maze was laid out in front of him.
"It's your private work, and no one should do that like hold it up in front of everyone to see! I'm going to protect your work. You don't deserve any of that to happen to you. It's beyond me why you're getting in trouble... but that doesn't matter to me." MegaMan talked to Netto as he navigated his way to the center of the network. He found the database center, where he took Netto's file that the teacher had just put in. The principal would never know. MegaMan glanced at the other files in there too. He saw some of Netto's poems in there that had previously gotten him in trouble. "Shall I remove these too?" MegaMan asked Netto, who gratefully nodded. MegaMan grabbed all of those files, and left the school network to return to his happy owner.
"Mega, I can't thank you enough." Netto said. MegaMan laughed. "I owe my life to you, Netto-kun. I'll be here for you whenever you need me to be. Besides, us in depression and despair should stick together." He said. Netto's smile wavered a little. What was his NetNavi depressed about anyway? Did he have to be like this? He already knew that each NetNavi had their own unique personality, but this was ridiculous. "Mega?" Netto said his name aloud. "Yeah, Netto-kun?" Came the answer. "Why do you feel like that?" There was a silence between them. After a while, MegaMan spoke. "I don't know, really... it's probably just the way I was programmed or something. The Battle Network System disapproved of me from the beginning and declared me defective, and stuff... All the other NetNavis were the same, while I wasn't. It's a long story." The NetNavi said. Netto frowned, upset.
"That kind of stuff doesn't matter, Mega. You are who you are, and that's that. No one should judge you on anything, anyway. It's not fair." Netto said. "And besides, I've been victim to that kind of treatment too. Those kinds of people never add up to anything." He continued. MegaMan listened to him as he watched him walk out of school, and no one stopped him. "Netto- kun, are you leaving school?" MegaMan asked him out of curiousity. "Yes, I am. They're not going to stop me either." "Why don't you just go back in?" MegaMan said. Netto looked at him, almost out the school doors. "Why would I do that?" Netto questioned him. "Because, you're just running away now. Besides, you left your backpack there in the classroom and there's only an hour left of school." MegaMan convinced Netto to go back in to school.
Netto re-entered the classroom and took his usual seat, and neither the students or the teacher looked up. Netto pretended to look very upset like he was in deep trouble, but for real he was really happy. Happy that he had a friend like MegaMan ready to help him out.