Reviewer replies!
Star Holder Commander: I'm sorry about the chapter length, but I'm glad you like the fic. :D
Rose Kitsune.EXE: Feel sorry for the bullies? Feel sorry for the bullies! They don't get physically hurt, but yeah - I guess you've got a point... ;-)
Jhvh777: You honestly think so? If you do, you're in for a surprise... XD
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Lan's POV
The skin around Mega Man's eyes tightened. Dex and Maylu were standing neck-to-neck to me, almost glued together, watching with bated breath, their eyes wide. I followed Mega's battle with the bullies through my own slitted eyes, momentarily aware of my hand, which had dropped to where my now-empty PET lay in my shorts pocket.
Mega glared at the bullies, his eyes grave and bright, glowing like hot sky-blue coals. As the chubby Chris was carefully helped to his feet, my former Navi's eyes remained locked on Jed Watson's and never wavered in his stare.
Jed was panicking, I could tell. His eyes were frantically whipping from left to right at the sight of this dangerous enemy, but he quickly composed himself. He reached for his PET, which was suspended from the belt that held his shorts together. Slowly, carefully, Jed detached the clasp from the chain of his belt, from which hung his PET. He deliberately unwound the chain from his azure terminal, then suddenly snapped the thick cord from it.
He held up the handheld computer and Navi holder combined, his big blue eyes boring into Mega Man's; my former Navi stared back at him with a level, even gaze. Jed's head was lowered so that a lock of his thick platinum-blond hair covered his eyes, which were glowing through his curtain of hair, just like Chaud's a short while back.
"NetBattle? I don't think so."
Jed gave a start and stared at Mega, who gazed back, the greenish glow from his eyes never wavering. They shone brightly through the contacts, like lighthouse beacons on a stormy night at sea. Jed finally pulled his gaze away from Mega, pivoting on his heel and leaning against the brick wall against him so that shadows covered his figure and cast his eyes into darkness, making him look eerie and-in an anime kind of way, of course-very annoying.
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Pikasqueaks: Aw, you blew it!
Lan: How?
Pikasqueaks: You were going on a perfect narration, just there, but you blew it with the anime comparison.
Lan: Well, if you must know - it was very annoying and anime-ish.
Thecrazyfanficcer: (to Mega Man) This has seriously got to be the most intelligent piece of conversation they've had together since the beginning of this fanfic. It's really annoying.
Pikasqueaks and Lan: (both grin evilly)
Mega Man: I hate those evil, annoying, good-guys-will-rule-the-world-type grins.
Pikasqueaks: Well, we will rule the world!
Lan: Not to mention, this is the part where we lean back and watch Mega Man and Fanficcer fall to their inevitable doom!
Pikasqueaks: Doom!
Pikasqueaks and Lan: Inevitable, supreme, über-annoying doom-ful thingy!
Thecrazyfanficcer and Mega Man: (stare at each other and roll eyes)
Mega Man: Ah. Yes. Indeed.
Lan: (glances at PET) Lemme think for a second here. If we're gonna have a big battle, then about the only thing I can do is throw my PET right at Mega's forehead... Hey, that's not such a bad idea after all...
Mega Man: Uh... (sweatdrops) You wouldn't, would you?
Pikasqueaks: Would he ever! (cheeks begin to spark in a most evil, annoying way)
Thecrazyfanficcer: Let's hit the road, Jack!
Thecrazyfanficcer and Mega Man: (running) Aaaaaaahhh!
Lan: (throws PET) Go us!
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"You expect me to believe that?" Jed asked.
Mega Man stood rooted to the spot, his green eyes blazing into the shadows that Jed's face was swimming in. I watched in pride and stupefied amazement as my Na-uh, former Navi miraculously managed to keep his cool and bit his upper lip, then glanced to the right. His eyes locked on mine: now we were one weird force, one Lan Hikari of DenTech City, and one Jack Miller, former NetBattler Mega Man.EXE, ripped straight out of Navi-world. I grinned, suddenly and evilly, and gave him the thumbs-up sign. Mega drew courage from that; his teeth fell from his lip and he swung slowly around to face Jed.
Jed seemed honestly and truly scared. Still surrounded by his group of bullies, he suddenly turned tail and ran, ran as fast as he could just before the bell rang. The kids around me began chanting, cheering and pumping their fists in the air as Mega Man grinned and flashed the peace sign. The peace sign - no offense - looked much better with me doing it than him. But either way, us, the kid population of the shining metropolis of DenTech City - well, we cheered and cheered for him.
In the corner of my eye, I saw a small yellow figure: he grinned and flashed yet another thumbs-up before darting away, his yellow coat melting in the daytime light. I raised one eyebrow, somewhat sarcastically-okay, a lot sarcastically-before I turned to make my way into the DenTech Academy.
Just as I ducked through the doors, swinging because of the many kids tramping through the entrance, I felt a hand on my back. I turned around, but it was just Ricky Marshall, a boy from the grade under me. His braces shined in the misted light under the canopy of the asphalted awning of the school entrance and his curly hair shivered slightly in the small wind. "Did you see that?" Ricky marvelled to me, his brown eyes glowing brightly.
I grinned. "That was Me-Jack Miller for you," I declared. "Hey, aren't you with the bullies?"
Ricky smiled back. "It was a fake," he assured me, "I'm on your side."
And with that, we proceeded to tow the poor, fallen Chris out of the concrete and into the light.
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Hee, I love putting good guys on the bad side to spy on them. It was just a fake - Ricky, the African-American bully from before, was just faking it. I also happen to LOVE OC's. The other two bullies are Hank Douglas, the redhead, and Fred Wysocki, the oaken-haired shorty. Jed's NetNavi is a kind of white-suited electric-type named Rinny. (grins dementedly)