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Alter Ego: This is her second post even though she wrote it first. Personally, I think that neither of them are too...

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The New NetOp in Town

"EEEEEEEEEEEEE!" squealed someone in the distance. Lan had just stepped out of his house into the fresh air of a perfect Saturday afternoon. He was going to the Net arcade, his favorite place on earth.

"We should check out who screamed," Lan's netnavi, Megaman, said.

"No, we shouldn't," Lan said, sarcastically.

"All right, you don't have to be snappy about it," said Megaman.

"Sorry," Lan said, taking out his PET to look at Megaman. "It sounded like it was coming from Mayl's house." He rushed over to her house wondering what might be wrong. Then he heard squeals and yelping. "Mayl! Are you all right?"

"Of course, I'm all right," She said, her eyes glistening with tears, yet they were paired up with a wide grin. "My old friend, Gracylin, is coming, here! You know, she used to live here before she moved to SeenaCity. She moved away when she was two, hasn't been back here since. We all used to play together, don't you remember?"

"No... I don't. But does..." Lan was going to ask Mayl if her penpal had a Navi, but he was cut off. He hardly remembered growing up with any other girl besides Mayl.

"Oh, well, you're going to re-meet her! She's coming today!" she squealed, and she jumped into a long story about what they all did when they were little, and how she remembers her still because they were penpals.

"... and she's coming today because..." Lan was jolted back to my senses when he heard a sniffle. Mayl had started sobbing silently. "She's coming today b-b-b-because..." She stopped, took out a tissue, blew her nose loudly, and continued, "Because both of her parents died."

Lan took in a sharp of breath. Mayl's Navi, Roll, said, soothingly, "Mayl, don't cry, please."

He didn't know how to react in this situation. Mayl was happy and sad at the same time. Hard to believe, but true! He decided the best thing to do was to pat her lightly on the back. So he did, and her face lit up and she pressed onward. "Her parent's never had an idea of where she would go if something happened. They had always thought they would be there for her. She's been living with her aunt in ElecTown. The feds decided that she could choose where she wanted to live and she chose to live with us! My penpal is coming to live with me. Oh, Lan, I'm so excited..."

"Oh, really, I didn't know," I said, sarcastically. Why am I so sarcastic today? Lan wondered. Luckily for him, Mayl laughed.

"We're getting Grace's room ready. Want to see?" Mayl said, standing up.

"Sure," Lan said, but really wanted to go to the Net Arcade. Oh, well, he thought, I hope I can go later. He walked into her house and was led down the hallway to a room. It was being painted a light blue, kind of like the color of the sky, and there was a tan carpet being vacuumed and cleaned. That color was too blue for him. "How'd you choose this color?" he asked. Seriously, Lan thought, who would pick a light blue to be that blue.

"It's Grace's favorite color. She said so in one of her letters." And then she repeated from memory, "My favorite color is light blue. Not a baby blue- light blue. More of a blue like the sky... in the fall. Oh, I love how she describes it. It fits perfectly doesn't it."

"Not exactly what I would've said," Lan replied.

"Oh, be quiet," she snapped, but smiled none-the-less. "We're trying to make it mimic her room at home. Well, her old home, anyway. Where were you going?"

"Net Arcade," he said, "Megaman and I feel the need to fight."

"Speak for yourself," Megaman said, chuckling.

"Okay, fine," Lan said. He cleared my throat. Mayl and Roll both giggled. "I want to fight other NetNavis. And crush them," he added. "Are you happy now, Megaman?"

"Yep, very happy." All of them started laughing, but stopped when Mayl's dad took his break.

"Hi, Lan, Megaman," he said.

"Hey," Megaman and Lan said, in unison.

"Mayl," her father, turned to her. "Grace will be here in two hours. We just have to get everything into the room."

"Okay!" she said, enthusiastically. Lan stared at her like she was psycho, I can't believe it. Lan thought, Mayl is actually excited about moving heavy furniture into an overly-blue room. Just then, Mayl turned to him and started pleading with her eyes. Lan figured that she wanted him to help her.

"Okay, fine. I'll help, too."

"Yes!" she exclaimed, triumphantly, punching her fist into the air.

"Lan. Hey, Lan!" Megaman was called.

"Oh, sorry, Megaman."

"I thought you wanted to go to the Arcade."

"Oh, yeah. Well, I'm going to go."

"LAN!" Mayl yelled. "Besides Grace has Navi, too. We could go to the Arcade together!"

"Fine." It didn't take too long to get the room ready. Lan, however, was sweating. "That took forever!"

"No, it didn't. It has only been an hour and a half," Mayl replied.

"You weren't helping to carry furniture. All you brought in was a lamp and a picture."

"Well, I can't help it if my dad always asked you to help carry everything," Mayl said, sprawling out lazily on the bed. Just then the doorbell rang. A loud squeal filled the room accompanied by a rushing noise, and Roll saying, "Slow down! She'll still be at the door when you get there!"

Lan walked to the door to see Mayl checking her hair. She breathed deeply and opened the door. A deafening scream, or squeak, or whatever that was, was the thing Lan heard, and possibly the whole neighborhood. Lan thought it kind of like there was a train going by. Mayl and another girl were hugging and jumping around like maniacs. He only got a few words out of their conversation:

"I can't believe...

"I know...

"What are we...

"I will show you. But first I'd like you to meet Lan." That was the first time he had heard my name in the whole conversation, not to mention they had calmed down a bit. "Lan, this is Gracylin."

"You can call me Grace, though." Grace looked up. Almost immediately, Lan was nearly knocked over by sheer force. Grace flung herself on Lan, squealing at the top of her lungs. He had no idea why. Other things that were heard were Megaman screaming, "Lan, are you okay!" and an unfamiliar voice yelling equally as loud, "Why are you so excited!" Then she backed off. Lan started gasping for air. But then he stopped, frozen. Not breathing. Wow! he thought Grace is very pretty. No, that's putting it mildly. She's beautiful.Grace had auburn hair half up, half down, in a knot on the back of her head. She was wearing a blue (obviously) spaghetti-strap tank top made out of what seemed like a towel, and a short white skirt. She had several thin silver necklaces, dangling around her neck, with matching bracelets on her wrist. Her earrings were dangling silver with, what looked to be, a sapphire. And her eyes were almond shaped and a deep emerald green. Her smile was worth a million dollars.

"OH, MY GOSH!" she yelled. Mayl's dad even covered his ears. Mayl just stared at her with a huge grin on her face. "Aren't you the Lan Hikari? Son of the famous Dr. Hikari?" Lan nodded slowly, not knowing what she was getting at, and said, "My dad isn't..." but was interrupted. Grace squealed again, and ran to Mayl giving her a hug. "You didn't tell me you knew Lan Hikari."

"That was the surprise I told you about," Mayl said, slyly. And without further ado, Grace pulled out a sky blue PET, the exact same color blue that was in her room. She started talking to her Navi.

"Gymna, guess what?"

"What!" said the voice heard earlier. "You were screeching so loud I had to go on silent mode." The Navi laughed.

"Enough with the jokes, since you will be squealing, too," Grace said. "I met Lan Hikari." There was silence and then...

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAA!" Just as Grace predicted the Navi screeched, even louder than her NetOp, if that's even possible. "OH MY GOSH! Can I meet Megaman, pleeeeeease, pleeeeeease," the Navi pleaded.

"Okay!" Grace took out a small gray-silver cube and pressed a button. The cube grew to the size of a small box. "Jack in, Gymna. Power up!" A beam of red light shot out of Grace's PET, and went into the cube. "Lan, jack in Megaman. Gymna has been dying to meet him. Mayl, jack in Roll, too." Lan didn't know how she knew about Megaman, but he did what she told him to do. He didn't even have a second thought.

"Jack in, Megaman. Power up!"

"You, too, Roll. Jack in. Power up!"

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