I daresay I don't need to say this anymore, but whatever... Here are the reviewer replies!

Terratasha: OMG, somebody new actually reviewed! Yay! Right - about the Mega Man-deletion thing, I never actually (blushie) realised it was that confusing. (sweatdrops) OK, so here's the explanation: See, Mega Man is a Navi in the Real World, right? So, when he gets back to the 'Net - presuming he does, somehow - and he gets deleted, who knows what could happen? He could become fully human, or so fully NetNavi that he could be separated from Lan... (Oh, and bonus, Lan's mom will find out about her son's Navi - actually, she'll figure it out. Heh heh heh). Yeah, something interesting will happen now, trust me... Right, glad you liked it, and thanks for reviewing:-)

Jhvh777: What does p.o.e mean? Anyway... Whaddaya mean, nothing's gonna happen? Of course something's going to happen. :-) You just have to keep reading... Anyway, thanks for the review!

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Mega Man's POV

As soon as Lan's hand danced away and pressed the PET's plug into the jack-in slot, I felt my feet being wrenched away from the carpeted floor under me. I stuck out my hands to balance myself - I could feel myself going up, up, up through the air, as if I were a puppet and someone had pulled the strings.

What in the world's happening? It didn't make any sense - all this time I'd been trying not to get into the Internet. If I did, who knew what could happen? There was always the chance something crazy would happen - I could even cease to exist altogether! I know it's crazy, but still... Just as soon as my head was about to touch the top of Lan's ceiling, I saw my feet disappear in a flash of blue light, like a gigantic laser beam. Before I knew what was happening, the rest of me had faded into the laser beam and I was vaulting, vaulting into another world.

Building tense or saying the obvious? In any case - for some weird insane reason or other, I was travelling via a long, thick, cerulean-blue beam of light to the Internet. Before, I had been nervous and a little scared of what could happen if I actually made my way back here - no thanks to Lan, of course - and now, here I was. If I ever make it back to the Real World... The thought kept popping in my head. If I ever did, what did that mean? Am I a Navi, a human, or a mix of both?

But my anxiousness evaporated as I fell through the air for what seemed like miles before finally landing, one hand stretched toward the ground, knees slightly bent, on the high-tech blue floor of the familiar Internet. I sighed with relief. I was back in the good old Cyberworld, despite the fact that my crazy (and possibly insane) Net Op was grinning in an uber-annoying way at me from his place in the Real World and that my life - as a human, as a Navi, and as a strange mix of both - could be in danger. Still - I had other troubles first. Lan Hikari. Turning around so that he could see my front from his place in the Real World, I scowled and rolled my eyes.

I'm back where I belong... Maybe if we're lucky I could somehow be caught in a time/space continuum between both worlds, one that can let me live as a Navi and as a human, one that could change my life, and possibly every other Navi's out there... As it turned out, though, my fate was already decided for me, as written in the chapters of this fanfic. Furthermore, Dex's Navi Guts Man and Arnie's Navi, Morgan, were jacked in right in front of me. Morgan made move to speak, but I held out a hand as I struggled to my feet.

Rubbing the crest on my chest, I got up on unsteady feet, shook my head to clear himself, and proposed a new battle tactic with a grin: "All right, guys, we'll play it two on one. You and Morgan versus me. Alone." It was odd, actually - now that all my traces of fear were gone, I felt elated, joyous, triumphant. Enough to have a battle two-on-one. That thought in mind, I smiled to myself, somewhat grudgingly. I suddenly knew why I was so happy - it was because everything would turn out for the better, and some small part of my subconscious knew it. Anyway -

Morgan looked surprised. "But that won't be fair."

"Yeah, but considering the number of times I've fought Guts Man and won, it shouldn't be too hard even if he's paired up with another Navi," I explained with a laugh.

It took Guts Man half a minute to figure out he'd been insulted.

"Hey!" he cried, taking a lunge for me, but I only laughed again and nimbly sidestepped sway from the big gray, yellow and red Navi..

Morgan was worried, though. "Mega Man, are you sure?" he asked, biting his lip. "I mean, we don't want to delete you or anything."

"Nah, it's me you should be afraid of if anything," I joked. "After all, I have twice the IQ of Gutsy here."

He glowered at me, a look of pure hatred, but I only grinned in an uber-annoying way and held up my Buster hand. "Let's start, shall we, guts? Maybe, if we beat you this time, Roll will like me."

At that point, I actually wished Morgan was one of our fellow crimefighters. Had he been, Guts Man would have been on the receiving end of a slap by now. And had it been Arnie slapping Dex, Dex would have sweatdropped in traditional anime fashion.

Morgan and Guts took their places across from me, Guts still angry, Morgan looking nervous and slightly agitated. (Whether it was from that first battle with me or from the fact that we were unevenly matched, I'll never know.) As soon as the battle started, they both tried to get me, one with Guts Punches and the other with plant capsules, but I ducked cleverly and aimed a Mega Buster shot right at them.

Morgan cried out in pain and clutched where my shot had hit his arm, releasing his other hand from where it had been hanging limply by his waist. He powered up this arm, charging up his own Buster, which I supposed - judging by the size of it - had a big barrel-shaped shot, probably plant-related in some way or another.

I twisted artfully, all the while avoiding the Morgan's green and white vine shot and Guts Man, who had ditched strategies and BattleChips entirely and was standing a few feet away from me, fists out and ready. Suddenly. I felt something hard smack against my helmet, toppling me to the ground.. Guts Man's punch, I thought instinctively, rolling around to no avail as I felt the weight of his big fist crash against my noggin again.

Man, that hurt. Nevertheless, I got up straight and faced the other two. Guts Man's broad chest stopped rising and falling in his exhaust as he took time to glower at me. Morgan, meanwhile, rubbed his green-gloved hands together, kneading them, over and under, up and down, and the next thing I knew was that I was suspended by absolutely nothing in the air, though thin, creeping green vines had bound me so tight that I could barely move. I wriggled furiously, but to no avail.

Finally! Some aid! I felt the smooth roundness of a MiniBoomer BattleChip in my hand for a second, grinning in relief. My smile evaporate as it then proceeded to disappeared suddenly.

Huh? I thought wildly, struggling in my bonds. Why hadn't it worked?

It must have to do something with the Real World-Internet connection, I realised, just before a wave of emotion splashed over me. I didn't care anymore. I was a NetNavi, for cryin' out loud! And Mega Man.EXE would not succumb to the not-so-awesome power of Guts Man, senseless Navi, and Morgan, plant Navi.

I summoned up all the clamouring power in my Buster that I could, and let it all out in one fell swoop. The blast was enough to knock the vines away from my body, shrivelling them into a pile black ash.

"Great move, Mega Man, but are Buster shots all you can do, guts?" Guts Man asked sarcastically as I dropped lightly back down on both feet.

"The BattleChips aren't working," I told him, holding out my hand out and letting the Buster disappear as I took my breath. "Something's wrong."

"Let's try a trial run, Mega Man," came Arnie's voice from the Real World. "Lan, try giving him a chip."