Disclaimer: I hate saying this. I don't own Mega Man. Now stop asking me.

Chapter 4: The first, or second date

It was finally a Monday afternoon, Lan Hikari saw that it was going to be a wonderful day and walked to Mayl's house.

"Lan!" She called as she opened the door.

"You wanna go to that new Japanese restaurant now?" Lan offered.

"What? But I'm not ready yet… will you please give me thirty minutes?" She asked as she ran back in, and Lan waited outside the front door. He sat down on the ground. it wasn't like he was suppose to see her changing or anything. If he did, well, then this whole thing would be screwed.

Man, I should've asked sometime else so we can go later. Thought the blue bandana wearing… uh… Net Battler! What other words can I use?

It was over thirty minutes now, and Lan was losing his patience, when suddenly, Mayl came out from the door. She didn't look exactly as pretty as Lan thought, but hey, at least Lan thought it was good enough.

Author, shut up. I'M supposed to say that in my thoughts.

Oh, right. Sorry.

The young couple went to that Japanese restaurant. A sushi bar, yes. They took seats and picked their favorites.

Control your eating habits, Lan… you're in a DATE now… The young Net Battler thought.

Lan ate rather calmly. He didn't want to embarrass himself, or Mayl probably, in front of other people. He ate just like Mayl; calm and slow. She didn't make a single spill at all. Lan's eating habits always made spills around, so Lan didn't want that.

"Lan… is something wrong?" Mayl asked, looking worried.

"What? No!" Lan replied, blushing.

"This isn't really the way you eat. So it makes me think…"

"I'm fine! More than fine!"

Mayl smiled.

"You're just doing it because you might humiliate yourself, right?" Mayl teased as Lan got a little embarrassed, even if no one heard.

"That's okay, Lan. Eat as much as you want."

Wow. Lan didn't believe it. He then started chewing like a pig. Mayl was still eating calmly, and Lan, well… uh… he's eating like a cow. Because he didn't want to eat like a PIG. That'd be worse.

The young couple finished. Mayl wasn't anywhere near full while Lan was might have been exploding if he took one more bite.

As the chef came with the recite, Lan became shocked.

For all that eating, it cost him 1000 zennies.

1000 ZENNIES?

Lan was shocked. But he paid for the money anyway. Asking if Mayl can pay would have been more than humiliating. He would never have forgiven himself.

Lan and Mayl walked around. The Den City was just more than peaceful. Maybe just too peaceful.

They looked at some little kids playing. That made them somewhat remembered them playing around when they were kids.

Lan and Mayl came back to ACDC by Metroline. Lan stretched and put his hand around Mayl's shoulder as they went. He escorted her home.

"Thanks, Lan. I had a great time." Mayl smiled and whispered.

"No prob. I had fun too." Lan replied and smiled back.

"Well… see you."

She went inside her house and Lan watched. He took a deep breath and went home as well.

Lan was about to open his room… when suddenly…

"BOO!"

As the door opened, the author jumped and scared Lan, which made him drop.

"Whoa! What in the world are you doing here?" Lan wondered.

"I saw you dating. What else?" The author grudged as he shrugged (nice synonyms… enough English lessons)

"Are you trying to stalk me?" Lan questioned the author.

"Pheh, you said you wanted me to help so I'm doing that for you." The author smirked.

"Oh, right. So how do you think?" Lan asked as the author thought for a moment.

"I'd give that a 4.25 out of 5." Author answered with many thoughts.

"What? Why was 0.75 cut off?" Lan wondered.

"Eating part, Lan. Eat just like Mayl!" The author replied.

"Wait, she said I can eat all I want like that." Lan explained as the author did an anime style fall.

"YOU MORON! SHE'S ONLY BEING PATIENT SO YOU CAN BE HAPPY!" The author yelled with complete idocity in Lan's mind.

"Oh wait… was that right…?"

Lan thought back. It was true. She was being patient.

"Uh… so can I ask for another date tomorrow?" Lan suggested.

The author's face got red of complete frustration. How was he able to teach this boy to do things right for once?

"Aw man, come on… you just had date today. You can't expect her to date you again." The author sighed as he slapped his forehead.

"Yeah, you're right. Hey, wanna Net Battle for today?" Lan challenged.

"Sure."

The author's Net Navi was there, named DarkZ. Then Mega Man EXE appeared as well.

"Wanna fight somewhere else?" The author suggested, "there isn't much space here."

"Yeah. Sure."

The two went to the ACDC Area 1. There were a few Net Navis, but far away to at least make them know they were Net Battling.

"All right! MEGA MAN! Use your Mega Buster!" Lan ordered as Mega Man readied his Buster.

"DarkZ!"

The author's Net Navi fired some Plasma weapons at Mega Man, who managed to dodge a lot of them. A few managed to hit him, but they weren't too big of a deal.

As for the Mega Busters, they hit DarkZ, but most of them were not effected due to his 10 HP barrier Chip. But Mega Man's charge shot was fired, and that destroyed the barrier.

"Not bad, but how's this?"

DarkZ got his Step Sword attack, and Mega Man was lucky enough to dodge and counter with his Air Shot chip Lan sent.

"Now! Program Advance! Z-CANON 2!"

Mega Man was invisible and shot canon after canon after canon. DarkZ had some trouble, but the author got his Dark Aura Chip fast.

"This can be trouble… Lan, try the Life Sword Program Advance!" Mega Man suggested as he huffed from tiredness.

"Not now! The PA is still in effect! We can't use that now!" Lan replied with struggle.

"Crap." Mega Man snapped as he looked at DarkZ.

Mega Man waited until his invisibility was gone. After a few seconds later, it was disabled.

"Now's my chance!" DarkZ shouted and used his H-SPREAD PA.

That hit Mega Man badly, which made him fall from his feet. But Mega Man soon got back up.

"I have my chance too now…"

Mega Man readied his Life Sword and slashed at DarkZ's aura. It hit directly, and the powerful aura was now gone.

"All right, now let's try this. Blue Moon Laser!"

A huge laser appeared above Mega Man.

"Oh yeah? Red Sun Laser!"

Another laser appeared above DarkZ.

Both directly hit each other.

"Mega Man!" Lan called as Mega Man fell down to his feet.

Suddenly, an arrow was going on its way to DarkZ. But he barely dodged and hit a Mettaur Virus that was on the way instead.

"Mega Man! Are you okay…"

It was Roll.

"Hey! We're in a middle of a Net Battle here!" DarkZ complained.

"Uh… he's right, Roll. It's all right." Mega Man answered Roll.

"Oh. Come on, Mega Man! You can beat him!" Roll cheered.

"Thanks Roll…"

Mega Man sprinted at DarkZ in attempt to hit him with Step Cross, and hit DarkZ.

"Damn! Okay… ULTIMATE ATTACK!" DarkZ announced rather loudly.

"What? Ultimate Attack? What are you talking about?" The author asked, confused.

"Hey, you said I had an ultimate attack, y' know!" DarkZ reminded.

"When? Well, we do, but I don't know if it can beat them… let's give it a shot!"

Author inserted a Dark Chip, Dark Sword.

"Uh oh! Mega Man! RUN!" Lan shouted with big warning.

Mega Man tried to hit him with his Buster, but had no effect. The Dark Sword penetrated them.

"Uh oh…"

DarkZ slashed Mega Man. That made Mega Man's HP down to 1HP thanks to the UnderSHT program installed.

"MEGA MAN! PILE DRIVER!"

In front of Mega Man was a Pile Driver. It hit DarkZ and damaged him very badly, especially since he was in his Dark Chip state.

DarkZ now had 1 HP as well.

Mega Man and DarkZ narrowed their eyes and concentrated on their final attack.

DarkZ was about to use his Step Cross at Mega Man, but just as he appeared, Mega Man readied his Slasher Chip and countered him.

Mega Man won.

"Mega Man!"

Roll ran and embraced Mega Man, and healed him.

"Oh... Thanks Roll... but I need breath..."

Mega Man gasped in a huge battle. Next to Proto Man and Bass, DarkZ was the toughest oppoenent.

"Great Net Battle, Lan. We should do that someday." Author said with honor.

"Same here, Author."

The two handshook.

The author was gone that evening, and Lan was on his bed, looking at the cieling.

This IS somehow working out... and I fought those feelings as well... for Mayl. Lan thought and sighed of happiness.

"Soooooooo Lan! You wanna talk about what ya did with Mayl today?" Mega Man teased from the PET.

"Hey! Cut that out! You know I screwed up a little!" Lan complained a little bit.

"Take it easy, Lan. You did pretty good, for a second try." Mega Man complimented his brother in the real world.

"Yeah, but I thought I wouldn't make it at first... remember the last date we had with Mayl?"

BEGIN FLASHBACK

Lan stood in front of Castillo, the new amusant park.

"Lan, since we're in a park like this, how about getting some ice cream?" Mayl asked her date.

"What? Ice cream? Well... uh... okay!" Lan replied and looked at Mega Man and whispered VERY quietly.

"Wow, this date thing is sure a pain in the neck..." Lan whispered quietly as he could to Mega Man.

He went down to find an ice cream wagon. He got his zennies ready.

"Um... two ice creams... two strawberries please?" Lan requested.

"Lan?" A familiar voice was heard.

It was Nanako. She was the girl who worked for Higsby's. Lan was obviously confused at the situation as well. Who wouldn't?

"N-Nanako?"

"I pretended I had a stomach ache, so I decided to work here. Well, I'll give you these for free just for you! Don't tell anyone, especially Higsby!"

Nanako handed two cones of ice cream. Lan shrugged, because Nanako did give it to him for free.

He came back to the red haired date. He handed her his ice cream...

After they finished their ice creams, they looked around the park.

"Lan! Isn't that thing cute?" Mayl asked as she pointed at a not so cute looking teddy bear, maybe for Yai.

"Uh... yeah! It is!" Lan replied.

THAT'S cute?

After looking at the gift shop, the two lined up for a water slide. It was quite exciting, but Lan didn't really like it much, because it was about to make him sick.

"That was fun! Hey, how about that one?" Mayl asked Lan as she ran. She must have been wired.

It was ANOTHER thrilling ride. After that Lan would get more than just sick. But he accepted it after catching some breath.

The ride made him lose his breath, but hey, at least he's alive.

The last one was a haunted house. Lan and Mayl decided to go inside.

Lan and Mayl walked around. The place was, as said, haunted like scary. They looked around the paintings, which shone a picture of a dracula. And then another one was a statue of a solar boy named Django. After Lan passed the statue, he looked behind him. Mayl wasn't there!

"Mayl? Where is she?" Lan said out the question out by mouth.

He then saw her running away from a bat, and while she was, that accidentally tripped Lan off his feat.

"Aw man." Lan muttered.

The house exit was nearby, but there was a bridge, and it shook like mad. Lan thought he might fall off, but he was being careful and moved steadily as close as he could. Lan saw a door. He hoped it wasn't another room, because one more, and he was gonna be SHOCKED.

Lan closed his eyes and ran like mad to the door. He kept on running, but Lan opened his eyes. He saw that he was outside the building from about ten meters away. He was FINALLY outside, and Lan gasped.

"Finally." Lan muttered.

END FLASHBACK

Lan rested hiseyes and laid down. He had one rough day.

TO BE CONTINUED...