"Rockman?" Blues asked the trembling navi softly.

"He… no…"

Blues and Searchman exchanged worried looks. "Rockman, what's wrong?" Searchman asked.

Rockman looked back down at his trembling hands, "Why am I not deleted?" he asked himself softly.

Blues and Searchman both took in sharp breaths.

"If Netto-kun was dead then I…" Rockman let the rest of the sentence hang in the air.

"Let's… just get everything working again," Searchman suggested.

Blues nodded but Rockman continued to stare at the floor with a vacant expression in his green eyes.

OOOOOOOOOOOO

After they managed to set up the Dimensional Area to work again Blues pulled out the little diskette that Lividity had tossed to him and let the computer scan the data. His eyes widened as he read it and Searchman came over to see what was going on. "It's how the humans are being brainwashed…" Blues said softly.

Searchman looked at it, "Of course, all humans have the same brain frequency, so if someone tapped into that frequency and kept a constant program going it's possible. So that's why Netto-san wasn't affected, the link must have put him on a different frequency."

"So we know the why but not the how…" Blues said softly. Suddenly he curled up his fist and punched the wall, "Damnit, they're toying with us. This is all a game to them," he hissed.

"Don't worry, we'll do something," Searchman growled. "This can't continue forever."

Blues nodded, "Right," he said.

Rockman continued to look upset in his own little corner until he looked up suddenly. "What's wrong?" Searchman asked.

"Roll-chan…" he said softly. "She just sent me an e-mail but my PET…" he said softly.

"How can you tell?" Blues asked.

"I know who sends me e-mail according to their address in my PET if it's logged but I thought my PET was destroyed," he said softly.

There was a small alarm that warned them of a possible incoming threat on the screen. Rockman looked at it sadly and sighed, "I bet that's her," he said softly.

Blues merely pressed a button and they all logged out as the Dimensional Area went down. They re-emerged in the internet to see Roll appear right by them flushed and out of breath. "Rockman!" she said happily, "Oh thank god you're okay. You nearly gave me a heart attack when I couldn't contact you at your house. It took me this long to track where you were!" she said breathlessly.

Rockman felt Roll hug him but he didn't return the favor. Roll peered up at him with a frown on her face, "Are you okay?" she asked softly.

"Netto-kun…" Rockman muttered.

Roll's eyes saddened, "I know, it must have been a big shock to see him like that, I know you two were so close."

"How did you know?" Blues asked.

"Know what?" Roll replied. "All humans are like that."

Rockman snapped out of his wallowing pity state and stared at Roll, "He's alive!" he asked suddenly.

Roll put her hands on her hips, "Of course he's alive. Am I missing something here?" she asked suddenly.

"Blues, reactivate the Dimensional Area," Rockman said quickly.

Blues did such and Rockman quickly reappeared in the real world and ran towards the nearest computer. "Am I missing something here?" Roll asked Blues and Searchman.

They exchanged a silent chat and nodded at one another, "You don't know what's happened here over the past few days," Blues said slowly.

"What?" Roll asked, sensing something important.

Searchman looked at the hall Rockman had just ran down moments before, "Do you know about Netto and Rockman's link?" he started.

Roll shook her head slowly. "What?" she asked.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Rockman looked through the program he had hacked into to look at his house. Sure enough Netto was there, safe and sound and just like every other human. Rockman's heart was torn between being relieved he was safe and wondering what had happened to make him like that. What happened to the link?

Roll came into the room quietly and Rockman turned around to greet her. "Rockman?" she asked tentatively.

Rockman turned off the monitor and greeted Roll with a watery grin. "Sorry about earlier," he said softly.

Roll rushed forward and hugged Rockman tightly, "What are you talking about?" she asked in a harsh whisper. "It's all right."

Rockman hugged her back tightly and Blues and Searchman suddenly felt slightly out of place. But before anyone could really note anything else there was a loud crash in the far distance of the hallway they were right by.

"What was that?" Roll asked.

"G-ghosts?" Rockman asked with a slight waver to his voice.

Roll smiled at him with a little concern, "I… don't think that's it," she said while patting Rockman's hand. "Let's go check it out though."

Blues and Searchman silently agreed with her and they started to walk down the hallway to see what was going on.

There was a loud bang on a door across from them and Rockman took shelter behind Roll who looked ever so slightly embarrassed. "It's not a ghost Rockman," she sighed.

"What is it?" he asked.

Blues reached out for the doorknob to the closet when there was another crash inside. He pulled on the door knob and found it to be stuck. "It won't open," he said softly.

"Try harder," Roll said simply.

Blues twisted the door knob harder but it wouldn't budge. "It's stuck," he said finally.

Roll looked at it and sighed, "All right, stand back," she said. All three male navis took a step back all wondering what on earth she was going to do. Roll slashed at the poor door with her yellow antennae and effectively destroyed the knob, lock and anything attached. "There," she said brightly.

Rockman reached out and opened it slowly as if almost afraid of what was inside. When the door swung open it revealed a five year old Netto pushing a cleaning bucket off his head. He looked up at Rockman and waved sheepishly, "Ah, hello," he said.

"Netto-kun," Rockman breathed.

Roll was the first to attack however, "Ah, you're so cute!" she squealed and pulled him from the mess he was stuck in into a large hug that seemingly blocked off his airways.

"Ah, Roll-chan… that hurts," Rockman said. "Wait…" /Netto-kun/ he asked.

/Finally, I can hear you/ Netto sighed/I've been trying to contact you for like an hour. What did you do, shut down or something, did Lividity hurt you/

Rockman realized that when he tried to shut out the world upon believing Netto dead he had inadvertently shut out the link it's self. /Sorry/ he said.

"What is going on?" Blues asked.

Netto looked a little less then happy, "Mind telling me? Cause I sure as hell have no clue."

Rockman gave him a small grin, "At least you're alive," he said.

"I'm a little kid…" Netto muttered.

"Why?" Searchman asked.

Netto shrugged and Roll finally put him down. "I don't know. I remember shoving Rockman out of the way, then waking up around here, not very happily either," he muttered. "I was looking for you guys, when I kinda got stuck…" he said with a sheepish grin.

"In a closet?" Rockman asked.

Netto shook his head, "Don't ask."

"Wait, Lividity said that the attack it used only destroyed data but it hit you as an organic being," Searchman said softly.

"Yeah, and?" Netto asked.

"Well, maybe it didn't destroy the link but merely separated it from your human body," Searchman said.

"How long have you had the link?" Blues asked.

Netto and Rockman thought, "I'd say it started…" Rockman said softly.

"When I was five and a half," Netto went on. "When I got stuck in the container and Rockman saved me."

"So the body you're in now is a physical manifestation of the link," Blues concluded.

"Is that possible?" Rockman and Netto both asked.

"Obviously," Searchman replied. "Because there's not really any other explanation is there?"

"Now what?" Netto asked. "I'm stuck as a five year old and apparently everything else is still the same, huh?"

"So it would seem," Rockman sighed. /But at least you're okay./

Netto smiled/I'm not happy about it though/ he reminded his twin.

/I don't care. I'm just glad you're with me/ Rockman said.

/Me too…/ Netto replied.