Chapter 4: Detention Avoidance

"Wake up Drew," Solarman said, "You're gonna be late again."

"Wha-?" Drew said, "Not again!" He jumped out of his bed, rushed to the bathroom, brushed his hair and teeth, applied deodorant, and ran out the door.

'Oh crap, oh crap, oh crap...' He thought as he ran as fast as he could. He rah through the halls and barged into the room. He looked around and saw everyone looking at him. Lan wasn't there yet and neither was the teacher. "Solarman," he said, taking out his PET "I thought you said I was late."

"I lied," Solarman replied, "it was the only way to get you here before you were late for the twentieth time this school year."

"So what if I've been late every one of my nineteen days here," Drew said, "the teacher's a pushover."

"Oh am I?" Mr.Lare said from behind him, "that comment, added up with all the days you've been tardy, just got you a detention. And where is Hikari?" The bell rang.

"Three, two, one, queue Lan," Drew said. Lan roller-bladed into the class.

"Hikari," Mr.Lare said, "you're late, and no roller-blading in the building! You get a detention as well."

"Great," Lan said, "and I thought you were a pushover... Hey Drew,"

"Yeah?" he asked.

"Why is there a sheathed sword strapped onto your back?" Lan asked, pointing at the sword on his back.

"Whoops," Drew said, "I forgot to leave Savoc at home!"

"No weapons in school!" Mr.Lare said, "I'll have to confiscate that."

Suddenly hatred filled Drew's eyes. "Don't ever even think of touching Savoc," Drew said, "because if you do, you won't have hands to touch it with!" Drew put his hand on Savoc's handle.

"Okay, j-just t-take your s-seat," Mr.Lare said.

"Hmph," Drew grunted, "coward."

He and Lan walked to their seats. Everyone was looking at Drew, terrified. Mayl didn't even give Lan the "you're late" speech, in fact, she'd have grabbed onto him for protection if she weren't in class.

Drew tried to jack Solarman into his desk computer, but he couldn't. "So they restrict access to our computers when we get a detention," Drew said, "hmph, nothing a little hacking won't fix." He quickly typed in a code muttering what the screen said under his breath as he did,

"ACCESS CODE: TAIYOH

ACCESS DENIED

ACCESS CODE: INITIATE OPERATION: BUG

CONNECT SOURCE: PET CONNECTED

SCANNING PET

ENERGY TYPE F DETECTED

F ENERGY CAUSING SECURITY OVERLOAD

WELCOME TO YOUR COMPUTER

ACCESS CODE: TAIYOH

ACCESS GRANTED"

Solarman appeared on-screen. "Solarman," Drew said, "Hack Lan's computer too, but don't use the F type energy until you check Lan's computer for any sign of B energy, then use the F energy, letting Lan access it. It could help us find "him"" Solarman did as Drew commanded, and returned to his computer. Drew typed an E-Mail to Lan's PET, letting him know he could now access his computer. Lan's PET started beeping.

"E-Mail for you Lan! It's from Drew!" Megaman said, loudly enough for the teacher to hear.

"E-Mailing each other huh?" Mr.Lare said, "Well then, read it aloud Lan!"

"Uhh, yes sir!" Lan said, standing up,

"Hey Lan, check your computer, I unlocked it for you.

Signed,

Drew"

"Unlocked?" Mr.Lare asked, "no one has ever been able to hack the school's security before... but you did break another rule Drew and Lan, E-Mailing, and accessing your computers when you were banned from them. Report to the Principal's office immediately!"

They both got up, and walked to the principal's office. When they arrived, they sat in the two chairs on the other side of his desk.

"Lan Hikari and Drew... what's your last name Drew?" the principal asked.

"I don't have one," Drew replied.

"I see..." the principal said, "and did you hack the school's security?"

"Yes," Drew said.

"And you brought a weapon into school?"

"Right again."

"You've also been tardy for nineteen out of your twenty days here?"

"Give the man a prize," Drew said sarcastically.

"I will have to think of your punishment," the principal said, turning his chair around. Drew plugged his PET into the principal's computer. He typed "OVERLOAD" into his PET, and suddenly, sparks started to fly off of the computer. He unplugged his PET before the principal turned around, and when he did, he started typing frantically on his keyboard.

"Viruses!" he said.

"Lan!" Drew said, "Jack-In! We need to stop those viruses!"

"Jack-In!" Lan said.

"Jack-In!" Drew said.

"Megaman,"

"Solarman,"

"Execute!"

"Transmit!"

Solarman and Megaman appeared in the computer's cyberworld, and around them, thousands of gray colored Mettaurs.

'Crap,' Drew thought, 'I just wanted to overload his computer! Not the viruses!'

"Megaman," Solarman said, "I have an idea."

"What is it?" Megaman asked.

"Fuse with Lan, I'll fuse with Drew, then, we double-soul!"

"Heh, I haven't double-souled with anyone in a long time..." Megaman said, "Lan?"

"Full-Synchro!" both Lan and Drew said, fusing with their navis.

"Ready?" Drew asked.

"Yeah," Lan said, "Double-Soul!"

Drew, Solarman, Megaman, and Lan were all fused together now. They looked Sol-Cross Megaman, but with brown eyes and a sword (A real sword, not a cyber sword.)

'What do we do now?' Lan and Megaman's half thought.

'You want to see why Savoc is named so?' Drew and Solarman's half thought, 'It means Solar Storm in a language we made up just to name the sword. And this is why.' They walked forward and planted the sword into the ground. "Taiyoh!" They yelled in all their voices at once. Lightning struck the blade, and it also started to flow through them, disrupting their synchronization, and splitting them all apart. All four of them had a hand on the handle, and electricity flew out of the blade and it eliminated the viruses. Then they were all forcibly jacked out.

"I'd like to thank you two," the principal said, "for deleting those viruses; I'll let you two go unpunished. And I'll also take away that detention, if you do one other thing for me."

"What is it?" Drew asked.

"There is an interschool team Net-battling tournament every year that we host. Seeing how well you two worked as a team, I'd like you two to be our candidates this year. There are five rounds, and one round is held every week on Friday. If we win this year, we would win the most advanced technology available for the school... the prize is a hundred CopyBots! And the winning battlers get two for themselves! So what do you say?"

"Solarman?" Drew asked.

"Megaman?" Lan asked.

"Lan?" Drew asked.

"Drew?" Lan asked.

They all nodded.

"Okay, we're in," Drew said.

"This way we can replace that CopyBot that was stolen," Lan said, "and we'll be the best net-battlers in the country!"

"Actually, schools from all over the world are competing!" The principal said.

"So we'll be the best team in the world!" Drew said, "Which means everybody will be challenging us! And we've been short of those recently!" Drew said to Solarman.

"Can't wait." Solarman said, smiling.

"The first round is in two days at the first bell, be there..." the principal said, "on-time," he added.

Lan and Drew went back to class, and slept through the rest of the classes for the day.