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Rockman: The Forgotten Link

Netto's telepathic communication 'blah'

Saito's telepathic communication "blah"

(Hylian)

Chapter 1

Netto was rushing towards the school as always trying to make it on time. "Netto-kun I told you not to have those last four helpings of curry.", said Rockman in his 'I told ya so' voice.

"Oh shut it Rockman. That's not gonna help me now is it?", responded Netto as he narrowly avoided a collision with an elderly woman and her dog. "That was close." The teen continued to speed towards the 'prison' as he called it some many times a day.

As the brunette made it to the school gates he saw Meiru waiting there for him. "Netto hurry up or we're going to be late.", she shouted at him. The red head smiled thinking that Netto may actually be at school on time when she looked back at him to see that he was skating too fast to stop. Even worse was that he was traveling straight towards her and couldn't turn without throwing himself on the rocky pavement.

Time seemed to slow down for both humans and their NetNavis. "I've gotta do something fast or else Meiru's going to be hurt.", he thought just before he was to impact with Meiru. Then everything went blank for the young NetSavior.

Netto awoke to see himself no longer at the school but someplace that he'd never been before. He found himself lying inside of a huge church like place with huge stone pillars supporting the ceiling and an altar near the wall on the opposite side of the open door. Directly underneath him stretching only slightly into the room was a silky red rug and in the center of the large room was a large pedestal with three triangles forming a larger triangle.

The teenager approached the altar after seeing three lights shrining over it. Upon reaching the alter the shining lights revealed themselves as three floating jewels each encrusted with gold. One was green, the middle one was red, and the last was blue. As he looked past the altar he saw a passage way behind it and over the passage was the triangles again.

Summoning his courage the teen moved around the altar and slowly entered the passage way. Once he entered the passage he found himself in another large room with a number of stairs leading up to another pedestal at the far end of this room, but unlike the last one this one lacked the triangles. Instead it had a beautiful sword sticking out of it. The one window in that room was shining down directly on the well crafted blade.

As he looked closer at the sword he noticed that it had the triangles near the base of the blade on both sides. "What is this symbol? It seems to be everywhere.", he muttered walking closer to the blade.

"It's called 'The Triforce'.", said a strong masculine voice.

Netto jumped away from the blade and started searching the room that he could've sworn had been empty when he entered it. "Maybe I missed a secret passage or something.", he thought. One quick look around the room proved that theory wrong. "Where are you?", he asked feeling vulnerable right then.

The voice laughed and it's owner stepped out of the shadows behind the sword. "I'm right here. Always have been.", the unexpected guest replied.

Netto glanced over the new guy standing in the room. He inwardly cursed that he hadn't seen this guy sooner. He had blonde hair and soft blue eyes. This new guy was taller than Netto and very well built. Netto could easily see all of the muscle and hoped that he wouldn't have to fight this guy. He was apparently in his late teens and wore a green tunic over a white shirt and pants. He had leather gloves over both hands and had silver gauntlets over the gloves. The blonde wore snug leather boots and had a green hat on his head. What really caught Netto's attention was what was sticking up next to the hat. There on both sides of the warrior's head were pointy ears.

When the brunette's eyes settled on the ears the warrior growled and said through gritted teeth, "I'm...not...an...elf."

Netto smiled nervously and backed up as far as he could towards the exit. When he reached where the door was he found a solid wall in it's place. He looked around frantically hoping to find a way out and found nothing but walls on all sides. "Who are you and how did you do that?", Netto demanded accusingly.

The blonde sighed and replied, "My name isn't important right now. And that door vanished as soon as you entered the room. I don't know why." The warrior continued to eye Netto and saw how unsettled he was. "I'm not going to hurt you, but I do need your help."

It seemed to do the trick as Netto visibly relaxed a little. "Go on.", said the brunette.

"There is a powerful evil growing in your world. An evil which was ultimately responsible for my death and exile from my homeland.", said the blonde. He motioned for Netto to have a seat and watched as the other teen sat down on the other side of the pedestal. He tried not to smirk, but couldn't help himself. "A long time ago a being known as Ganondorf went after the power of the gods that we call 'The Triforce'. He was only able to capture one piece of it while I have another and the princess has the final piece. After sever years and six months of hell me and my friends were finally able to seal the darkness away in the sacred realm. But as you know from experience...evil never stays gone forever. Ganondorf returned forty years later untouched by time while I had aged past my prime. He again tried to take over my world and I stopped him again, but this time it came a terrible price."

Netto could see that the proud warrior was fighting back his tears. The young Hikari forgot his fear of the blonde and moved closer. "What happened? What was the price?", he asked trying to coax out a response.

The blonde took a deep breath and his lower jaw quivered with sadness. Finally he spoke, "All of my friends died that day and I lost my own life as well. Evil was beaten back, but price was steep."

"But you're here, alive now.", Netto objected reaching towards the other teen. When his hand reached the warrior his hand passed right through the flesh and Netto felt a tingling sensation in his hand where it was inside of the other guy's arm and back. "What the..."

"The evil has come to your world to make it his own. Be wary Netto or else you'll suffer the same fate as I.", said the strange boy before he faded away.

Netto felt himself being shaken, but saw nothing holding him. He could hear whispers saying, "Netto snap out of it." and "Are you sure that he's ok?" With a bright flash the ancient temple vanished for the Hikari's sight and he heard another whisper, "My name...is Link."

When Netto came to he found himself holding Meiru bridal style and many students surrounding them. Mrs. Mariko walked over to them with shock plainly visible on her face. "Netto what happened?", said asked.

Netto looked to Meiru and realized just how close his lips were to hers. With a lot sputtering and blushing he dropped Meiru on the ground and back up. "I...I...don't ask me. I don't know.", he said rambling.

Meiru stood up glaring at Netto and said, "That's no way to treat a lady. Really Netto and after you just saved me."

Now the brunette was even more confused. "I saved you? How? When?", he asked.

Roll's hologram appeared over Meiru's shoulder. "When you almost ran her over.", said the navi. The pink navi smiled and said, "When you were about to crash into her you scooped her up instead and back flipped off of the school wall. It was very impressive given that it was you doing it. I didn't know that you were so good with the acrobatics and don't go off thinking that I didn't notice how you were looking at Meiru. I thought that you were about to devour her face or something."

"ROLL!", shouted both blushing teens. Rockman whom had seen and heard the whole couldn't stop himself from snickering at his little brother's predicament. Having spent his entire life with Netto he'd never witnessed such a degree of skill from his little brother. It was too well executed to have been done by his twin and yet the recent display of skill proved otherwise.

Mariko made matters worse for the embarrassed teens by saying, "Now Netto, Meiru you both know the school's policy on such displays. If you want to romance each other do so on your on time and off campus."

The two teens started to object, but they were silenced when Mariko ordered everyone back into the school. As Netto was walking into the main building he realized that it must've been Link that took control of his body and performed those actions while they were speaking to each other in that dreamworld. On one hand he wanted to thank Link for preventing Meiru from getting hurt and on the other he wanted to strangle the blonde for holding Meiru bridal style using his body.

Once everyone was seated in the classroom Rockman and Netto noticed the glare that the young Hikari was getting from Dekao as well as the Yaito's mischievous smile. "Yep, Netto's going to die before this is over with.", thought Rockman.

The NetSavior saw Dekao cracking his knuckles and knew that the larger boy was going to kill him for something that technically wasn't his fault. After all it had been Link that held Meiru, not him.

Thankfully for Netto Mariko came to his rescue. "Alright class as you all know I've been planning a field trip in regard to our current history topics. Tonight I want all of you to get your parents' permission and signatures to attend this trip." She started walking around the room and said, "This is an excellent chance for each of you to bring your grades up." She look straight at Netto and Dekao. "Some more than others."

"Where are we going Ms. Mariko?", asked a curious Meiru.

"Well I've decided on 'The National History Museum'. There's plenty for everyone to learn about the ancient civilizations of our world and they have the greatest collection of ancient artifacts on this side of the planet.", Ms. Mariko said proudly. "All right let's begin turn in your homework and let's start on today's math assignments."

After that Netto tuned her out and concentrated on his encounter with Link. Some many questions plagued his mind like how would he stop this evil, when would it attack, and why did Link choose to make contact with him of all people.

Rockman was only able to feel his brother's conflicting emotions and it worried him. In all of there years as brother Netto had never once blocked off his mind as he was doing now. Saito also began feeling as though a colossal event was almost upon them and he didn't know if anyone would survive it.