"How was he one step ahead of us!?" Chaud said in frustration as he hit the table. Their dimensional area destabilizer was planned several years ago. It was top secret that only a couple of scientists and high officials knew about. Lan was not one of them. How could Bass know about it too? It was all painfully written down on paper to keep it away from hackers.

"Mr. Famous, have you checked with every single person that was on the project?" Mr. Famouse was just as puzzled as the young man was. He knew every single individual who was on the project. He had close eyes on them from the very start, but none of them seemed out of place.

"Yes, yes I have Chaud. 20 times as a matter of fact." Mr Famous replied.

It had been One week since that Lan, or as he went by 'Kent' for whatever reason, attacked the park. They never thought that he would be cable of attacking innocent civilians. Luckily no one had died or was fatally injured. They had been fortunate enough to catch his attention before he fired upon the civilians themselves.

"Whoever it was must have had some knowledge of the project," Laika said entering the lab. He walked up to the group that was lost with themselves. "We are beginning to interrogate them as we speak." They were gathering everyone who had knowledge about the project.

He then walked up to Mr. Famous and Dr. Hikari.

"Including the both of you."

"What?!" Maylu yelped in shock at what she was just hearing. How could both of them be seen as a suspect? They would never do something like this.

"Calm down, Maylu. The sole purpose is to eliminate as many suspects as we can. We had Chaud and you don't see him complaining." Laika responded to Maylu.

Chaud looked over to the pair.

'Perhaps a bit'

"Soul where are you?"

Roll was looking for the small navi. They were currently playing a game of hide-and-seek on her homepage. Gutsman and Glyde were also joining them. They had both agreed to the game, Gutsman felt as he was an Uncle so he happily joined them and Glyde was under the order of his Mistress Yai but that's not to say he didn't enjoy it.

Roll was looking between every nook and cranny, even places she didn't even know that existed until now. All of a sudden she heard a giggle nearby. She went into a grin and continued to look oblivious to her daughter's presence. She was getting closer and closer to the source of the sound which lead to a toy block with letters on it. The other two navies caught wind of this and decided to play along.

"Where could she be?" She said in a playful voice. "Could she be hiding in this corner? No? How about behind this block?" Roll looked up at the other two to signal them. They nodded in reply.

"Oh My, where is the little miss? I can not seem to find her." Glyde said knowing quite well that the little Navi would fall for it. He did enjoy these little games every now and then.

"Where's Gut's little niece, guts?" Gutsman was clearly having fun with this game of 'hide-and-seek'. Usually, they would have some other 'questionable' games. One of them involved tieing Gutsman and pinning a needle on his butt. He still had nightmares about that.

Roll got closer to the block hearing Soul giggling uncontrollably now.

She reached out behind it. "Gotcha!"

"Yay mommy found me!" The child exclaimed in excitement.

Roll held on to her child as she saw Soul laughing. She enjoyed every moment like this. Ever since she first laid eyes on her she swore herself to give up until her last remaining data to keep her safe. She knew she wouldn't be able to keep her safe forever. Soon she would be able to defend herself like any other Navi.

Dr. Hikari explained that Soul would grow like a human child, but much faster. However, the growth rate was unpredictable. During the first two years, she did not grow at all. Then soon after that she rapidly aged to the equivalent of a 3-year-old. She continued to grow at a consistent rate until yesterday. She was now the equivalent of a seven-year-old.

*Beep*

"Hey Roll having fun?" Maylu asked as a screen popped to the side.

"Yeah, we were just playing a game of hide-and-seek."

"Aw, no pin the Gutsman?" Maylu said slightly disappointed.

"Guuuts…" came a low sound from Gutsman.

"So what's up?" Roll asked her NetOp.

"Both Dr. Hikari and Mr. Famous have been taken in for questioning."

"What?!" Roll said in shock. She couldn't understand why they would suspect them of doing anything. "Why?"

"They should be fine, they were brought into questioning if they knew anything about the dimensional field disrupter cannon plans being leaked out somehow." She explained.

"..."

Kent was sleeping on his bed in his apartment. He had been able to live in secret without being found out by the authorities. Part of it was thanks to Bass-Cross hacking into the system and changing any security checks on his area. He wore a device that changed his face slightly enough to hid his face from facial recognition when he went outside to the city. He had come into friendly term with his neighbours so it didn't seem like he was doing anything suspicious.

All that said he still spent most of his time sleeping in until noon. If he had nothing to do he just laid in bed until something came up. Obsidi came every now and again. She would chat for a few hours then leave.

He wondered why she stuck around him and Bass-Cross. She knew what he was doing. Yet she still wanted to be around him. Yes, she was extremely skilled at creating programs and bringing materials when it was too risky for him to go out. Something was clearly up with her. Bass-Cross seemed to know but didn't tell him.

"What is going to happen now?" He asked to finally break the silence in the room. Bass-Cross was just standing there on the corner of his computer screen doing nothing. All they have done was attack and hide.

"The next target is the child of Megaman." Bass-Cross paused for a moment. He didn't know why, but he left a connection to the small Navi. Something felt so familiar about her. The moment he saw her he felt a pull towards her. Was it her power or something else?

"Why her? She doesn't look very useful to us." Kent asked not knowing why they would go after some experimental navi.

"Did you forget?" Bass-Cross looked annoyed at the boy. "She was made using Megaman's data. So she inherits his powers."

After the short explanation, Kent understood now. If they were to get the small Navi they would become even more powerful from absorbing her.

The only problem was that she was heavily guarded by many navies and was being carried in a special PET. If she was on a server then it would be simple but PET had additional security added to it. The PET didn't allow Netnavies to enter unless given access to it by the NetOp. Even if he was able to get into the PET the device could manually be turned offline, leaving him trapped.

"When do we strike?" Kent asked.

"When they do another of their...check ups"

Kent was now alone in his apartment. Bass-Cross had left to the undernet to gather some more info.

However.

Kent was feeling a bit off.

Ever since he returned after his assault in the park. He was questioning why he couldn't fire his weapon on the civilians. He didn't have any trouble doing it to the Cross-Fusions. They didn't mean anything to him, so why couldn't he bring himself to fire?

He felt uncomfortable doing this sometimes. Those feeling only lasted a few seconds. Was it Lan trying to break out? No. He was destroyed, wiped out of his brain. Wasn't He? His brain was rewritten he was someone entirely different. He only kept a few memories so he wasn't left lost on what was going on. They weren't meant to cause him any trouble.

So Why was he Doubting himself?

Why didn't you wake me up in time?

So, you're my Net Navi?

Program Advance!

MEGAMAN!

"Stop it"