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Chapter 4

Megaman.EXE stared out a window and sighed. It had been six years since Lan had disappeared. Six long years. He knew Lan was gone, yet he didn't feel his death through the link that they had.

Sometimes, when he was offline, he had some strange dreams. Usually, they were just feelings—confusion, joy, anger, pain, sadness and fear. But sometimes he got pictures to match the feelings. He was looking through someone else's eyes then.

It was weird, but somehow he understood the dreams. They were visions, a gift from some merciful being, letting Megaman know that Lan was still alive, somehow, somewhere. But the 'where' of the matter was still unknown.

"Hee hee hee. Poor little Navi, missing your pathetic human?" an evil voice said from behind him. Megaman whirled around. "You!" he snarled.

There, standing in attack range with his arms crossed and smirking evilly, was the Navi responsible for so much pain caused to both him and his friends. Shademan. "What are you doing here?"

Shademan unfolded his arms and continued smirking. "Oh, just coming to see how the human lover is doing. If you're that anxious to see him again, I might as well help you along."

"Just try it." Megaman stated, his arm converting into his Mega Buster. "What are you doing in Scilabs's computers!" he demanded, pointing his newly acquired weapon at Shademan.

"Oh, nothing. I took care of that other Net Savior with a White Oblivion attack, and I figured I'd finish the job. Pity I didn't get the human, though."

In pure shock and rage, Megaman fired. Shademan easily dodged and fired off an attack of his own. It came too fast to dodge—the blue navi was hit head on and slammed against a nearby wall. Bands of energy formed around his arms, legs and body, effectively pinning and trapping the blue-armored Net Savior.

"Now it's your turn, little navi." Shademan snickered, raising his arm to attack. Megaman closed his eyes. 'No, not like this.' he thought. In the back of his mind, something clicked.

'NO!" a strange yet familiar voice yelled, full of anger. Power flowed through him, shorting out the energy restraints and forming a protective sphere around Megaman's body.

"What the…!" Shademan screeched, flinging up an arm to cover his eyes. "AHHHH!"

Throughout the building, numerous scientists were instantly notified of the fight by off-the-scale power ratings. Dr. Hikari took one look at the readings and said one thing. "Megaman."

The sphere of power finally began to die down. "About time." Shademan grumbled, his arm still shading his eyes. When the light was completely gone, he lowered his arm—and gasped.

Standing tall was Megaman in brand new armor. His boots were bulky, reaching up past his knees with a light blue line running from the tip of the pointed toe to the top of the knee guard. He had gained new hip armor, glinting silver in the light. The blue navi had also gotten new chest armor, colored azure blue with the Hikari family symbol shining proudly in the center. Light blue lines ran along the chest and shoulder plates, connecting to the crest. The Net Savior's new gauntlets were like his boots, reaching up past his elbows with light blue lines running along them.

Megaman's helmet had remained nearly the same. Nearly. A ruby red gem had appeared in the center of his helmet. The wings on the helmet were now light blue and started at the jewel, going away toward the back of the helmet. Bluish-black hair stuck out from the back of the helmet as the changed Navi glared at Shademan with bright green murderous eyes.

Shademan, in spite of himself, gulped. "I've never seen that before…What is it!" he asked. A small voice whispered in the back of Megaman's mind.

"This is the X soul unison, Shademan." The blue official replied. He suddenly grinned as he cracked the knuckles of his left hand. The grin was pure murder. The Darklord hurriedly backed off a few steps.

Megaman followed him, still grinning and cracked the knuckles of his right hand. "Guess what, Shademan? It's payback time."

And the fight began. It is useless to describe how much pain and anguish Megaman felt over the loss of his brother, and how much of it he poured into this fight. Any onlookers would have only seen an azure blue blur pounding the living crap out of a purplish black shape. Needless to say, Megaman beat Shademan to within an inch of his life. Finally the two shapes separated. On the left, Megaman stood a little out of breath, but otherwise fine. Across from him stood a very battered Shademan. "This isn't over, Megaman. I'll be back." he growled.

Shademan logging out.

"Megaman?" Feeling very, very weak, the Blue Bomber slowly turned around to face his creator and father. Megaman's eyes widened suddenly as his entire body went rigid. A gasped out "Lan!" was all that was heard as he went limp and collapsed the X soul unison dissolving as he hit the ground.

Yay! Chapter 4 is done! I'm sorry it took a while for me to update, I hadn't really had the time to type this out. I figured we needed to know what Lan/X's family was up to, so I did this. I'm kinda nearing the end of my written material, so you're gonna have to wait a while until I get Chapter 5 written out. I'll try to get it out in 2-3 weeks or less, but I'm not making any promises. I hate long delays myself, so I'll try to meet my deadline.

Now, onto Review Responses!

Firehedgehog: returns glomp Thank you for reviewing my story! I don't know if I'm gonna have the original Megaman created by Dr. Light show up yet, all I know for sure is that I will have Blues show up. Don't know when, though.

Iridescent Hope: I'm sorry if I confused you. I'm part of the group that say Megaman and X were two different people, so stuff in my fic would work out okay. And technically, Lan never 'died'. How can that be, you ask? Sorry—telling you would be considered as a spoiler. You'll just have to suffer like the rest of us.

Spellcasterz: Hope this chapter answered your question. Thanks for reviewing!

Snickerer: Plot twists are fun. X) When I saw the last sentence of your chapter 3 review, it made me laugh—and since I was checking reviews at school before I got out for summer, it also made people look at me funny. I must quote it. "Blues + Protoman.EXE + Zero Oh, dear lord…" Thanks for your reviews!

Light Mage: You're welcome, and thank you for the review!

Later peoples, and remember—you gotta wait until I'm done, and if ya kill me, you don't get to know what happens next!

Maverick Hunter Phoenix