Battle Network: The Foundation
Chapter Three: Finding the Truth.
Lan couldn't believe he was doing this but he had no choice. He knocked on his parents' bedroom door. "Mom I need your help." He said.
Haruka smiled and said. "Sure, I'm always will help in any thing you need me to." She knew what Lan's problem was so they went to his room and Lan sighed. "Now I know that you think this is silly but it's necessary."
"I just don't see why I have to wear a bra." Lan said as he took off his shirt. Because of his growing appetite over the past month he now was 300 lbs. and had folds of fat on his chest that looked like breasts.
"If you don't wear it they will bounce and right now it's easy to be confused on gender unless you wear certain clothes or hair styles."
"Okay I just can't get it to snap together."
"Don't worry your father has a little trouble getting his bra on too."
"Has he found any anything new on the virus?" Megaman asked.
"He isolated it but at the rate it multiplies he's having a hard time finding away to stop it." Haruka said.
"Well thank Mom." Lan said as he put on his shirt.
"He's look so good, almost like I wanted him to be." Haruka said. Now the plan was in Phase Two. This meant that though certain manipulation companies began to make elastic clothes that would stretch to fit fatting people, bigger chairs, and larger portions served at restaurants and the like. "I better get to my office and get to work."
"Sure Mom." Lan said.
Haruka went to the basement and turned on her computer showing a technical schematic. "I can't bring about Phase Three with out Yuichiro's help. I have to convince him that what I'm doing is for the best."
Lan was looking around the attic. "What are you doing Lan?" Megaman asked.
"I was just going to find some of Moms' school records. I could find out what orphanage she came from. Then I could find the circumstance about how Mom came to be there. Who knows I might find out; who Moms' parents are." Lan said.
Lan looked for the papers but couldn't find them. "That's weird. There should be some hard copy of Moms' school records."
"She might keep them somewhere else."
"Maybe, but we keep all our old records up here." Later that day Lan had a meeting with local Net Savers. Mayl became one a few years ago and has since become good at cross fusing. Chaud was also there, he and Protoman were not happy about the weight they put on but refused to show that they were upset even thought the fat didn't seem to inhibit a Navi's ability in any way.
"I think we may finally have a lead to who is behind all this fatting." Chaud said.
"What kind of lead?" Mayl asked. Chaud then took an out a black box with a gold arrow mark pointing down with an F on it.
"No one in the net police was able to I.D. this symbol. But I compared it to some records at my dad's company IPC and found that this is the mark of a secret financial group called The Foundation. Not much is know about there motives but it's said that they own a small part of every big company."
"Well it's not much but we have something now." Lan said.
Meanwhile Haruka went to SciLab to talk to Yuichiro. "Hey Honey. How's the work going?"
"Slowly, I have to find a way no only to delete the virus but also to keep them from getting infected again." Yuichiro said.
"Yuichiro what if you can't find a way to undo all this?"
"Right now society is trying to coup with being fat but I don't know if it can stay that way."
Haruka could not hold back any more. "Yuichiro I can't keep this from you any longer! I'm responsible for all this. I'm the one who made us all fat!"
"What? How? Why?"
"You remember that when we first met that I was fat."
"Yes, when you started gaining weight from this you looked like you did then."
"Well I liked being fat then as most of my family before me. It was a Fattington tradition. But when I fell in love with you, you told me how worried you were about my health so I started to lose weight. But my family has had a dream for generations. To make the world see fat as we do, not as ugly and unhealthy but beautiful. With our fortune we have tried many different ways to do this but failed then my mother came up with the chemical that increased the human appetite but when we finally had what we needed to all mankind fat Your father made the Net Navi and we had to find a way to make them a reflection of us. So I spent years working on this plan."
"This is a lot to take in but why are you confessing now?"
"I need your help to finish what I started. I need your help with dimensional area generators."
"You can't be serious. You want me to help you continue this criminal act."
"What I'm doing is making the world a better place."
Meanwhile back at net police HQ Lan was called to an integration room to question a member of the Foundation that was caught. Chaud was also there.
"Alright we know you're a member of the Foundation. Just tell us what you know about their operation."
"Only because I was ordered to give myself up and tell Lan Hikari that all you need to know about The Foundation is in his mother's office computer." That was all he would say.
"I don't understand. What would my mom have to do with this?" Lan said.
"I don't know but there is one way to find out." Megaman said.
Back at SciLab. "What do you mean "Making the world a better place."?" Yuichiro said.
"I want to do more then just make people fat. I want to stop war and crime and for that I need you to help me make some adjustments to some dimensional area generators I acquired." Haruka said trying to explain.
Lan and Chaud just got to Lan's front door. Lan was about to open it when they saw Mayl come out of her house crying. "Mayl what's wrong?" Lan asked.
"I can't stand myself. I have a blob for a belly and my face looks swollen but my parents don't seem to care! They just sit and eat as soon as they come home." Mayl said.
"Mayl we might have evidence that can put an end to this." Chaud said.
"Chaud we don't know anything yet." Lan said.
"Lan I know you don't want it to be but your mother is a suspect."
"Suspect what do you mean?" Mayl asked.
"A member of the Foundation told us that we can get information on the Foundation from the computer in Mrs. Hikari's office." Chaud said.
"Lan, I'm so sorry."
"We don't know anything yet." Lan said.
"Well I'll help you. Who knows, we might find how to make us thin again." They went down to the office and began searching.
"I'll look at the computer files. Lan, Mayl you look through the hard files." Chaud said.
Lan pulled out a file and looked through it. "Hey here is a birth certificate. Haruka Fattington? But Mom said she was an orphan that didn't know anything about her family."
"There are a few college degrees here. Finance, Biology, Chemical Engineering, even Advance Data Science." Mayl said.
"Why would she lie about all this?" Lan said. He was really upset.
"From what I tell from these files Haruka is the one in charge of the whole Foundation. She has done deals on the net using several identities including Nancy Sutter, Diana Jones, and Rusty Shackleford." Chaud said.
"She's the leader?" Mayl asked.
"The Foundations name is the Fattington Foundation. Apparently a single family has been the driving force of it."
"Mom why?" Lan said.
"There's more she owns one of the two mines that have force metal."
"What's that?" Mayl asked.
"It's the source of power for our dimensional are generators. What would she want it for?"
"Chaud, I found something I think you should look at." Protoman said.
"According to this file she put considerable money in a research project in refining force metal into something called supra force metal. It seems to have incredible energy producing abilities. Wait if they put this into a dimensional area generator it could break half the laws of physics!"
"Chaud, see if you can find where my mom is?" Lan said.
"Nothing on her whereabouts."
Meanwhile back at SciLab.
"You want to rewrite reality?" Yuichiro said.
"I only want to make a world where people are honest, kind, and don't judge each other because of how they live their lives." Haruka said.
"I'm not sure if I should help you."
"If you have to turn me in go ahead but know what I'm doing is right."
"This would really rid us of all crime and war?"
"Yes."
Yuichiro gave a long sigh. "Okay I'll help but we have to tell Lan about all this."
"By now he must have gotten all the information in my office. He might have called the net police and I'm sure they will try to contact you. I have a place where we can finish our work but we have to go now."
To be continued.