MegaMan Battle Network – Dreams Come True
Chapter 3 – Party Time
8 Days Later
Dr. Hikari ran through the empty parking lot, he'd accidentally stopped over so engrossed in his project that he'd forgotten that it was his own birthday.He heard a clanking noise behind him and turned to investigate, seeing nothing but the cars belonging to the night workers he moved towards his car carefully until he heard a hissing sound. Realising the only thing it could be he sprinted for his car but collapsed from the sleeping gas as he grabbed the handle of the car.
Back at the Hikari house all the preparations for a party were there except for Yuchirio himself.
"When's he going to get here?" asked Lan eyeing the food over for the party, he gingerly reached out for some before Hakura slapped his hand away.
"You know what he's like," replied Hakura, "He'll have forgotten to come home, I'll get in touch with Papa to tell him the time." She walked out to get her PET from the kitchen. "And get away from the food Lan, you too Dex!" The girls laughed as Dex and Lan sat down quickly. It soon stopped as a pale faced Hakura walked in and almost collapsed into a seat.
"Mum what's wrong?" yelled Lan and Sarah rushing over to her.
"Papa says that he left nearly two hours ago," replied Hakura weakly.
The words had barely left her lips before everyone had grabbed their coats and gone to search for the missing Doctor.
Half an hour later Lan, Mayl, Dex, Yai and Mamoru stood outside as Chaud's car pulled up and Sarah and Chaud climbed out.
"We couldn't find him anywhere," started Lan breathlessly, "You pair have any luck."
"The desk guard says he saw Dr. Hikari go into the parking lot about three hours ago," replied Chaud calmly, "His car's still there and the computer says that the last car out was over four hours ago.
"Did you scan for his PET?" asked Mayl automatically.
"No use," replied Sarah rolling her eyes, "It would only work if he could respond or if Papa was in his PET."
"So we have a three hour time frame to account for his disappearance," replied Dex, "How are we for kidnap here?"
"How long did it take you to work that out?" asked Yai sarcastically.
"Calm down," replied Chaud, "We'll get on the phone to the Official HQ now and get as many officials as possible on this."
"I thought kidnap was a police matter?" asked Mayl confused, "What do the officials have to do with it?"
"For most people it would be," replied Sarah, "But we are talking about the kidnap of the greatest net scientist here, even Dex can do that math. The bad news is that no official is getting much sleep tonight."
"Oh boy," replied Lan, "No sleep and it's all footwork, just great."