Note: This is the only chapter that will be focused on this kind of stuff.
Chapter 6: Matchmaker
"LAN!" Megaman yelled, "WAKE UP!"
"Wha!" Lan said, now awake, "Am I late for school again!"
"No Lan," Megaman said, "You're in school. You just dozed off again."
"Oh," Lan said, "thanks," then he dozed off again.
"Ugh!" Megaman groaned, "How am I supposed to wake him up now?"
"This is how I wake Drew up when he keeps falling asleep," Solarman said, who was in the same computer now, "watch this." ZZZZZT!
"Ah!" Lan yelped, wide awake.
"Hey!" Drew yelled to Mayl before she left, "Lan and I are going to a movie at six! You want to come?"
"Sure!" She said.
'Good,' Drew thought, 'phase one of the operation is almost complete.'
Then, he ran back inside. "Lan!" He yelled, "Mayl invited us to a movie at six!"
"Alright!" Lan said, "Meet you there at six!" Lan walked out the door, and headed home.
"Solarman," Drew said, "Did you tell Megaman and Roll the plan?"
"Yeah," Solarman said.
"Good," Drew said, "Now, I just need to persuade someone to let me use a CopyBot or three..."
"We off to Central City?" Solarman asked.
"Yes." Drew said, "I need to grab a spot on the LevBus."
"WHOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!" Drew yelled as the LevBus sped through the sky. But of course he wasn't inside, he was on top.
"Are you sure this is the smartest thing to do?" Solarman asked
"No," Drew said, "But it's a whole lot more fun!"
When the bus landed, Drew did his best to blend in. When he got out of the station, he looked around. 'Lan once told a place called Asterland was around here' Drew thought, 'oh, there it is!' He ran in and saw a short boy. "You must be Tab!" Drew said, "Listen, I'm one of Lan's friends from ACDC, and Lan needs to borrow three CopyBots, and he sent me to get them."
"Well," Tab said, "The only CopyBots we have are broken an-"
"I'll take three of the broken ones!" Drew said quickly, "I'll bring them back by tomorrow!"
"Tell Lan I said hi!" Tab yelled as Drew dashed out the door.
"Alright," Drew said to himself, "I've fixed all three up. Solarman, jack into one."
The CopyBot quickly took Solarman's form. "Alright, here's our PET," Drew said, handing it to Solarman, "I called Lan and the others and told them to leave their PETs at home. Now..." Drew said as he made one last change in the Navi Customizer. Solarman quickly changed into a human look, with clothes, hair, everything.
"Alright," Drew said, "Now here are six electrical chips. I've connected the batteries to the PET, so insert them all into the chip slot, and the electrical power should keep you running for six hours."
"We better hurry," Solarman said, "It's only an hour till six." Solarman picked up one CopyBot, and Drew carried the other one. They took the same way home, on top of the LevBus.
Solarman knocked on Mayl's door, as Drew knocked on Lan's. They both said that Lan and Mayl had left their PETs on accident, and wanted them to bring them to them.
They went into their rooms, grabbed the PETs, and ran out the doors. They met outside.
"Alright, hook Roll's PET into the CopyBot, and install this in her," Drew told Solarman as he did the same with Megaman. Drew handed Megaman and Roll five Elec chips each, and told them to do the same as he had told Solarman to only one hour ago.
"Alright," Drew said, "Megaman, you're gonna be Roll's boyfriend, and you will go by the name "Hub", Roll, you are Megaman's girlfriend. You two have to pay on your own, so here's some money, and remember not to interact with us. Solarman, you're my best friend from my old hometown, Kevin. Now, everybody already knows the plan, right?" Drew could barely believe he was talking to navis, they looked like average humans. He also installed a voice changing program in them, so Lan and Mayl wouldn't recognize their voices.
"Yeah," 'Hub' said, "try and get Lan and Mayl as close together as possible."
"And at the end, we show them it was us," Roll said.
"Yeah," 'Kevin' said, "let's go, we're late as it is."
They all ran towards the theater, which was about five minutes away.
"Drew," Lan said, "where are you?"
"He'll be here." Mayl said facing, Lan.
Suddenly, Drew and someone else ran through the door. Drew stopped in front of them, but the other person bumped into him, and Drew bumped into Mayl, who fell right into Lan, who caught her. Drew fell, face flat on the ground.
"Oh, sorry Drew," The other person said.
"It's okay Kevin." Drew said getting up, "Uhh, are we interrupting something?" Drew said, commenting on what appeared to be Lan hugging Mayl. Lan blushed as he let Mayl go.
"Uh," Lan said, wanting to change the subject, "Who's this?"
"This is Kevin," Drew said, "A friend of mine from an old school. I met him again on the way here and I invited him along."
"Nice to meet you," Lan said.
"So," Drew said, "what movie are we seeing?"
"Cyber Warrior Cybo," Lan said.
'Well that sounds promising,' Drew thought sarcastically.
Nearby, Roll and Hub were listening in on their conversation. They bought their tickets and walked in, ahead of the others. When Lan walked inside the theater, Hub tripped him up with his foot, and then pulled it in before Lan noticed.
"Wow Lan," Drew said, "You're quite the klutz!"
"Ouch," Lan said, "that hurt."
"Here," Mayl said, "let me help you." She grabbed his hand, and pulled him up.
"Thanks," Lan said, still holding her hand. When he realized he was, he let go. 'Man,' Lan thought, 'these awkward moments are making it hard to keep my crush on Mayl a secret.' They walked to their seats, and sat in them. Hub and Roll were in the row right behind them.
'What to do to them after the movie,' Drew thought, 'blackmail? No, too scary. Lock them in a closet? No, too predictable. Give Solarman a cannon chip and threaten them until they admit that they have crushes on each other? No, too dangerous, Solarman is trigger-happy.' He thought all through the movie, while Hub and Roll tried to get them closer to each other, but they failed. Afterwards, they walked home, and Drew and Kevin turned towards Drew's house. They continued to follow Mayl and Lan without them noticing. In front of their houses, they said goodnight.
"Solarman," Drew said, "Put this invisible chip into the PET, and force them to kiss."
Solarman downloaded the chip, and he vanished from sight. He walked over to them, thought for a second, and then he pushed their heads together. Instead of pulling themselves apart, Mayl wrapped her arms around Lan's neck. Lan was too surprised to do anything. The chip wore off, and Kevin reappeared. Mayl and Lan turned.
"Kevin?" Lan said.
Roll and Hub emerged from a nearby bush, and Drew walked into view.
"Who are you?" Mayl asked, pointing at Roll and Hub.
"You know them quite well," Drew said, "Megaman, and Roll. And Kevin is really Solarman."
"What?" Lan asked, "Megaman? But you look..."
"Like a human," Drew said, "actually, this is how Hub would look."
"But," Lan said, "Solarman looks nothing like you."
"Let me explain," Drew said, "You two obviously had crushes on each other, but you wouldn't admit it. It was driving me insane, so I got Megaman, Roll, and Solarman to help you guys out. It was the perfect opportunity to test out my new program. It can make your Navi look like a human by altering their armor so that it looks like clothes and it removes their helmets. You can also customize how they look, so I made Solarman look like one of my friends. He really looks just like me without his armor. Oh, and Tab says hi Lan. He also expects these CopyBots back by tomorrow, so if you would kindly take your PETs, I could take these CopyBots back to him."
"Drew," Lan said, "you just tricked me and Mayl into kissing, didn't you?"
"No," Drew said, "Solarman forced you to. But it was for your own good... please don't hate me."
"Hate you?" Lan said, "I'm thanking you. If it weren't for you, we might never have known each others secret."
"If you weren't so oblivious I wouldn't have had to do it." Drew said.
"What do you mean?" Lan asked.
Drew just laughed as he handed Mayl and Lan their PETs. He grabbed a CopyBot, and Solarman grabbed the other, then, they headed for the metro-line. That night, Lan wondered about what Drew meant.
