Poor Rose... I feel sorry for you. Chaud is nigh-demented in this one, but there's a reason. A secret that shall be uncovered near the end of the fic... Wen I write my Rockman.exe fanfic I'm gonna make the timeline after Axess. Anyway, on with the fic!

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Mega Man's POV

"Beat it, Blaze."

Chaud Blaze stood in front of me, his midnight-blue eyes flickering evilly through his sheet of pale hair, his expression triumphant.

"No," he said, leaning forward so that his dark eyes shone through the gaps from his dyed-white bangs (and you're telling me girls think he's hot? Not when he looks demented like that, he isn't). "I know who you are, Mega Man. Or should I say, Jack Miller."

I felt Lan recoil from behind me. For a guy who's had so many adventures before, as soon as I step into the scene, he's using me as a safeguard or a shield or something. "I-I don't know what you're talking about," I stammered as bravely as I could, though, of course, I did.

"You know what I'm talking about, little Jackie," Chaud retorted, leering, his every word careful and deliberate. He leaned back suddenly, as if to let me take in the sight of him; Chaud Blaze, supposedly cool teenager (in reality a dolt, of course), with his red jacket and army pants. As for the white hair-well, if you asked me, it looked ridiculous. The guy was one of the youngest Official NetBattlers out there. Even when the NetPolice were starting to get concerned about us and why we kept fighting evil, I had the distinct impression that Lan and his crowd (aka: the ten of us) could fight crime just as easily as Chaud could - even if he was more successful.

"I've seen you, Mega Man, I've seen you. I've watched as you woke up that fateful morning to find the sunlight streaming into your face, watched in quiet brooding as you discovered the joys of living in the Real World, of becoming human." He looked at me, seemingly more evil than before. "And now it's time for my revenge."

Oh, no, I thought, freaking out, What kind of revenge?

He held up his PET.