[Notes: Beware of the suicidal part. Suicide is not a release, peoples.]
Chapter 6; Knowing
= Netto-kun was in Dencity when it happened. It was World Three again, another attempt at taking over a city. They almost came close, you know. If I hadn't screwed up, everything would have been fine. Nothing would have gone wrong, no one would have gotten hurt. Instead, I made a wrong decision, and I could have cost thousands of lives. Including the person I cared about most. It feels like he died, because of me. =
Netto ran to the Metroline to take the train down to Dencity, where his NetNavi MegaMan was already fighting off the WWW's attacks. Grabbing his ticket, Netto caught the train headed to the destination. He kept a close eye on his PET in his hands, following MegaMan's every move. There were dozens, no, hundreds of viruses attacking the city, and surrounding him. He was blasting them away as much as he could. "I have to stop whoever is operating the Navi responsible for this..." Netto muttered to himself. ''Dencity, Dencity, arrived'' the train announcement rang throughout the metro car. Netto dashed out as soon as the doors opened.
As soon as he got out of the Metroline, there was a car crash right on the road in front of him! He looked at the traffic lights, and they were all messed up, changing from green to red and red to green, and the cars couldn't stop! Netto looked down at the PET's screen just as MegaMan got blasted by a NetNavi that looked like a clown. MegaMan could only hold on for so long... Netto ran to find who was causing all of this.
He crossed many streets and ran down along many blocks, and finally found a large crowd of angry and panicked people huddled in a corner as if surrounding somebody. As Netto drew closer, he could hear some of what they were saying. "If I buy this program, my car will be accident-free! And it's cheap too, only 100,000,000 dollars!" One of the men said. "Stop! It's all a trick played by the WWW to get your money!" Netto announced so all the people could hear him. All the people looked up, and realized that it was indeed a cheap trick. "Thanks, kid!" A woman said to him as the crowd dispersed.
An angry looking girl with pigtails remained, growling at him. "You dare foil in my plans?!" She said angrilly, staring down at Netto. She then pushed him into the road, and Netto was sent sprawling right in the middle of the intersection, the traffic lights going haywire.
Meanwhile, in the net, MegaMan was finished with the clown Navi named Colorman, and was staring puzzled and confused at the device before him. It had two levers, one green, and one red. These levers controlled the traffic lights. But which one should he pull down, and which one should he leave up? Something caused him to look at the screen that showed him what was happening on Netto's side, and he saw Netto was right in the middle of the road with two cars coming right his way! "Netto-kun!!!!" Panicking, MegaMan pulled down the green lever in a blur. He didn't mean to do that, but couldn't change it until 5 seconds later! "Netto-kun!!" MegaMan cried out.
Netto was scared out of his mind at the two cars speeding head on towards him, headed straight for him! The lights changed suddenly, and the cars stopped, but not before hitting Netto, giving him a nasty gash across his chest and a twisted ankle from scrambling out of the way at the last possible second.
MegaMan lay on the ground in the cyber-world, trembling, his hand still clutching the red lever on the device. "Netto-kun... I screwed up... he's... dead..." MegaMan muttered softly. A single teardrop fell at his knees.
Netto forced himself to sit up on the sidewalk, clutching his chest, some blood coming down out of the rip in his clothes. But he was alive. If the lights hadn't changed, he might have been... MegaMan had saved him! He must have been stopped by the clown NetNavi, and needed time to get the lights back working. Holding up the PET in his hands, he said MegaMan's name. "Mega!" He said.
MegaMan's head shot up, his eyes immediately going to the screen. When he saw Netto's face, he was both relieved and confused. "Netto-kun! You're alive!?" He said. Netto nodded in answer. "All thanks to you!! I thought I was going to die! That clown Navi really must have given you a hard time!" Netto said, calming himself down from the trauma he'd just gone through. MegaMan stood up, and nodded his head slowly. 'Netto-kun doesn't think I screwed up... I should tell him the truth, but... it seems okay this way too...' MegaMan thought in his mind. Netto nodded. "I'm hurt, but I can make it home in one piece." Netto said, catching MegaMan's immediate attention. "Mom's going to be a nervous wreck..." He muttered as he got up off the sidewalk, forcing himself up onto his ankle. It really hurt to walk, putting strain on the twisted ankle.
"Netto-kun, I'm sorry... you got hurt because of me..." MegaMan started saying. "I could have gotten you killed because I screwed up!!" He cried. He hung his head in shame, and guilt. Netto blinked his eyes, already down two blocks on his way to the Metroline. "I panicked and pulled the wrong lever! I screwed up!!" He continued to say. Netto understood, a small smile on his face to make sure MegaMan knew that. "It's OK. It was just a little mistake, Mega. You saved me actually, you pulled the right lever a little late, but that's okay. I'm still breathing, right?" Netto laughed, trying to cheer his NetNavi up a bit. MegaMan looked up at him, and slowly nodded his head. There was a lot of guilt still within him, but he tried to ignore it for now.
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After school the next day, everything was normal as if nothing had happened. None of the teachers had talked about what had happened in Dencity, but some students talked about it amongst themselves. Netto was catching up to his old childhood friend Mayl, to ask her out to the movies that night, since it was Friday. "Hey Mayl? Do you... want to go to see a movie with me tonight?" Netto asked her. Mayl looked at him with an especially mean look on her face. "I'd NEVER go out with you, of all people, Lan." And she walked away, leaving Netto completely stunned. Those words hurt deeply. MegaMan had also been stunned by her words, he hadn't been expecting them either. She'd put him down so brutally, completely crushing him... as if for no reason at all. 'What did Netto-kun ever do to her?' MegaMan huffed, and looked up at his operator. He had a dark look on his face, and looked incredibly sad and depressed. MegaMan couldn't think of anything helpful to say. 'Poor Netto-kun... it took him a while to gather up the courage to ask her, and now this happens... and now I don't know what to say...' MegaMan thought to himself.
When Netto arrived home, he barely ate his dinner. His mom was worried but he lied and told her that he ate a big lunch at school. He then went up to his room and tried to get through his nightly homework assignment. "Lan, I'm going out with the neighbors, bye sweety!" Mom yelled up the stairs. "OK." Netto replied. He heard the front door shutting and sighed. He said nothing after a while.
"Mega, I can't take it anymore." MegaMan barely heard the soft mutter. Before he could say anything in reply, Netto got up abruptly from his desk chair and ran out the door, letting the bedroom door slam behind him. "Netto-kun!!" MegaMan called after him, but was unsuccessful in getting Netto back or getting an explanation from him about where he was going. He knew something was wrong when he heard the front door slam, and Netto hadn't taken him with him like always. He had a -very- bad feeling that Netto was going to do something bad. To himself.
Netto ran where his feet led him. He clutched his heart, it hurt so much, Mayl's words were cutting into him like daggers and swords. The whole scene was repeating in his mind, like a broken record. 'I'd NEVER go out with you, of all people, Lan.' And that mean look she gave him... combined with the loneliness and depression within himself, it was all too much. No one liked him, no one paid attention to him, his parents couldn't understand him... What else was there to live for? He had nobody...
Running as tears blinded him, he found himself in a park near a high bridge. Without thinking he got up on the ledge of the bridge, and wiped the stinging tears from his eyes. And then, he jumped, falling down into the water underneath the bridge. He let himself just stay under the water, letting his air supply dwindle. It really wasn't worth living anymore...
Everything was getting dark, and the water surrounding him and smothering him was all fuzzy dark blue. He thought he was in a dream when he heard a splash like something entering the water, and then someone swimming towards him. Netto smiled faintly, in a dream, not comprehending much in the state he was in without much air. The person took his hand and lifted him to the surface, where they resurfaced and Netto was put on the grassy riverbank, coughing the water out of his lungs harshly. When his vision cleared a little, he saw the knight in shining armor from his dreams. He then lost consciousness, his drenched and weak body falling limply into the knight's arms. ...................................................
Chapter 6; Knowing
= Netto-kun was in Dencity when it happened. It was World Three again, another attempt at taking over a city. They almost came close, you know. If I hadn't screwed up, everything would have been fine. Nothing would have gone wrong, no one would have gotten hurt. Instead, I made a wrong decision, and I could have cost thousands of lives. Including the person I cared about most. It feels like he died, because of me. =
Netto ran to the Metroline to take the train down to Dencity, where his NetNavi MegaMan was already fighting off the WWW's attacks. Grabbing his ticket, Netto caught the train headed to the destination. He kept a close eye on his PET in his hands, following MegaMan's every move. There were dozens, no, hundreds of viruses attacking the city, and surrounding him. He was blasting them away as much as he could. "I have to stop whoever is operating the Navi responsible for this..." Netto muttered to himself. ''Dencity, Dencity, arrived'' the train announcement rang throughout the metro car. Netto dashed out as soon as the doors opened.
As soon as he got out of the Metroline, there was a car crash right on the road in front of him! He looked at the traffic lights, and they were all messed up, changing from green to red and red to green, and the cars couldn't stop! Netto looked down at the PET's screen just as MegaMan got blasted by a NetNavi that looked like a clown. MegaMan could only hold on for so long... Netto ran to find who was causing all of this.
He crossed many streets and ran down along many blocks, and finally found a large crowd of angry and panicked people huddled in a corner as if surrounding somebody. As Netto drew closer, he could hear some of what they were saying. "If I buy this program, my car will be accident-free! And it's cheap too, only 100,000,000 dollars!" One of the men said. "Stop! It's all a trick played by the WWW to get your money!" Netto announced so all the people could hear him. All the people looked up, and realized that it was indeed a cheap trick. "Thanks, kid!" A woman said to him as the crowd dispersed.
An angry looking girl with pigtails remained, growling at him. "You dare foil in my plans?!" She said angrilly, staring down at Netto. She then pushed him into the road, and Netto was sent sprawling right in the middle of the intersection, the traffic lights going haywire.
Meanwhile, in the net, MegaMan was finished with the clown Navi named Colorman, and was staring puzzled and confused at the device before him. It had two levers, one green, and one red. These levers controlled the traffic lights. But which one should he pull down, and which one should he leave up? Something caused him to look at the screen that showed him what was happening on Netto's side, and he saw Netto was right in the middle of the road with two cars coming right his way! "Netto-kun!!!!" Panicking, MegaMan pulled down the green lever in a blur. He didn't mean to do that, but couldn't change it until 5 seconds later! "Netto-kun!!" MegaMan cried out.
Netto was scared out of his mind at the two cars speeding head on towards him, headed straight for him! The lights changed suddenly, and the cars stopped, but not before hitting Netto, giving him a nasty gash across his chest and a twisted ankle from scrambling out of the way at the last possible second.
MegaMan lay on the ground in the cyber-world, trembling, his hand still clutching the red lever on the device. "Netto-kun... I screwed up... he's... dead..." MegaMan muttered softly. A single teardrop fell at his knees.
Netto forced himself to sit up on the sidewalk, clutching his chest, some blood coming down out of the rip in his clothes. But he was alive. If the lights hadn't changed, he might have been... MegaMan had saved him! He must have been stopped by the clown NetNavi, and needed time to get the lights back working. Holding up the PET in his hands, he said MegaMan's name. "Mega!" He said.
MegaMan's head shot up, his eyes immediately going to the screen. When he saw Netto's face, he was both relieved and confused. "Netto-kun! You're alive!?" He said. Netto nodded in answer. "All thanks to you!! I thought I was going to die! That clown Navi really must have given you a hard time!" Netto said, calming himself down from the trauma he'd just gone through. MegaMan stood up, and nodded his head slowly. 'Netto-kun doesn't think I screwed up... I should tell him the truth, but... it seems okay this way too...' MegaMan thought in his mind. Netto nodded. "I'm hurt, but I can make it home in one piece." Netto said, catching MegaMan's immediate attention. "Mom's going to be a nervous wreck..." He muttered as he got up off the sidewalk, forcing himself up onto his ankle. It really hurt to walk, putting strain on the twisted ankle.
"Netto-kun, I'm sorry... you got hurt because of me..." MegaMan started saying. "I could have gotten you killed because I screwed up!!" He cried. He hung his head in shame, and guilt. Netto blinked his eyes, already down two blocks on his way to the Metroline. "I panicked and pulled the wrong lever! I screwed up!!" He continued to say. Netto understood, a small smile on his face to make sure MegaMan knew that. "It's OK. It was just a little mistake, Mega. You saved me actually, you pulled the right lever a little late, but that's okay. I'm still breathing, right?" Netto laughed, trying to cheer his NetNavi up a bit. MegaMan looked up at him, and slowly nodded his head. There was a lot of guilt still within him, but he tried to ignore it for now.
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After school the next day, everything was normal as if nothing had happened. None of the teachers had talked about what had happened in Dencity, but some students talked about it amongst themselves. Netto was catching up to his old childhood friend Mayl, to ask her out to the movies that night, since it was Friday. "Hey Mayl? Do you... want to go to see a movie with me tonight?" Netto asked her. Mayl looked at him with an especially mean look on her face. "I'd NEVER go out with you, of all people, Lan." And she walked away, leaving Netto completely stunned. Those words hurt deeply. MegaMan had also been stunned by her words, he hadn't been expecting them either. She'd put him down so brutally, completely crushing him... as if for no reason at all. 'What did Netto-kun ever do to her?' MegaMan huffed, and looked up at his operator. He had a dark look on his face, and looked incredibly sad and depressed. MegaMan couldn't think of anything helpful to say. 'Poor Netto-kun... it took him a while to gather up the courage to ask her, and now this happens... and now I don't know what to say...' MegaMan thought to himself.
When Netto arrived home, he barely ate his dinner. His mom was worried but he lied and told her that he ate a big lunch at school. He then went up to his room and tried to get through his nightly homework assignment. "Lan, I'm going out with the neighbors, bye sweety!" Mom yelled up the stairs. "OK." Netto replied. He heard the front door shutting and sighed. He said nothing after a while.
"Mega, I can't take it anymore." MegaMan barely heard the soft mutter. Before he could say anything in reply, Netto got up abruptly from his desk chair and ran out the door, letting the bedroom door slam behind him. "Netto-kun!!" MegaMan called after him, but was unsuccessful in getting Netto back or getting an explanation from him about where he was going. He knew something was wrong when he heard the front door slam, and Netto hadn't taken him with him like always. He had a -very- bad feeling that Netto was going to do something bad. To himself.
Netto ran where his feet led him. He clutched his heart, it hurt so much, Mayl's words were cutting into him like daggers and swords. The whole scene was repeating in his mind, like a broken record. 'I'd NEVER go out with you, of all people, Lan.' And that mean look she gave him... combined with the loneliness and depression within himself, it was all too much. No one liked him, no one paid attention to him, his parents couldn't understand him... What else was there to live for? He had nobody...
Running as tears blinded him, he found himself in a park near a high bridge. Without thinking he got up on the ledge of the bridge, and wiped the stinging tears from his eyes. And then, he jumped, falling down into the water underneath the bridge. He let himself just stay under the water, letting his air supply dwindle. It really wasn't worth living anymore...
Everything was getting dark, and the water surrounding him and smothering him was all fuzzy dark blue. He thought he was in a dream when he heard a splash like something entering the water, and then someone swimming towards him. Netto smiled faintly, in a dream, not comprehending much in the state he was in without much air. The person took his hand and lifted him to the surface, where they resurfaced and Netto was put on the grassy riverbank, coughing the water out of his lungs harshly. When his vision cleared a little, he saw the knight in shining armor from his dreams. He then lost consciousness, his drenched and weak body falling limply into the knight's arms. ...................................................