Chapter 2: Memories of a Tainted Soul

'Lan and the gang have started a new life and everything appears to be perfect, but will their new lives remain that way?'

Abandoned Demolition Site

On the other side of the city, in what appears to be a junkyard sits the remains of Dr. Regal's tower. The top and a small portion of the middle of the tower has been completely destroyed, but from the ground level to what is left of the middle, is still standing with dimensional area generators still attached and intact. Scattered around the particle-standing tower are broken dimensional area generators, a small pile of dark chips, and the remains of the tower that was destroyed. Inside the tower are the destroyed remains of the top and parts of the middle when the tower collapsed inward, a pile of damaged dimensional area generators, a pile of dark chips, Dr. Regal's throne, and wall to wall computers. One of the computer screens is flickering as it switches from a fuzzy to a clear screen.

The demolition site has been completely undisturbed for two years, that is, until now.

The door of the tower now swings open as the shadow of a 5 foot 11 inch teenage boy appears in the doorway. Being in the doorway, the teen now begins looking around at the scattered mess in front of him. Continuing to observe the mess, the teen now leaves the doorway and begins walking into the tower. Continuing further into the tower and now reaching the middle of the room, the teen stops as he continues scanning the wrecked site.

Continuing to look around the messy room, the teen's attention is now drawn to the left corner of the room and notices a pile of dark chips as the light from the barely functional computer screen shines on them. Being curious, the teen now walks to the left corner and squats down as he reaches for the pile. Being within grabbing range, the teen now grabs a hand full of the dark chips and begins looking them over.

"What a waste." The teen speaks up as he stands, continuing to hold the dark chips and now turning to the right corner. He spots a huge pile of damaged dimensional area generators.

"All of it was a complete waste!" The teen speaks with anger building in his voice. "All of it!"

Turning from the left corner, the teen now walks over to the computer that is barely functional and sets the dark chips down on the computer's console. Having set the dark chips down, the teen now begins looking over the console for the operation button for the computer. Continuing to search the console, the teen now spots a red button and presses it as the computer screen in front of him now becomes clear with the screen displaying a list of information on it. Noticing this, the teen begins looking over the information on the screen.

"What's this?" The teen inquires as he begins reading the information on the screen.

Continuing to read the information, the teen now reaches the section that mentions the reconstruction of the deleted dark loids, the planned destruction of Internet City, the construction and blue prints of the tower, him getting rid of Shademan, and the completion of his satellite.

"These were his plans." The teen speaks as he continues reading.

Continuing to read, the teen now comes across a passage that says:

'Lan Hikari has gotten in the way of my destroying Dentech City for too long, but that will soon come to an end as I have constructed the perfect invention, my untraceable satellite. With my satellite being invisible to even the best of technology, I can attack Dentech City while not being traced. This is only phase 1 of what I originally have planned.'

Having read that passage, the teen continues reading. Continuing to read, the teen now comes across another passage that says:

'Now that my tower has been fully constructed and equipped with the best of technology, today I will show Dentech City what a real genius can do as I unleash my ultimate assault upon the city. Along with my finally destroying Dentech City, today I will finally be rid of that annoying Net Savior, Lan Hikari.'

After reading that passage, the teen continues reading what's left of the plans and now reaches the end.

"Lan Hikari..." The teen speaks as his words trail off.

Now feeling his anger building at a rapid rate, the teen now balls his hands up into fists and grinds his teeth.

"Lan Hikari is responsible for my father's death!" The teen speaks in anger through his teeth. "All of his accomplishments and everything he worked so hard for went to waste thanks to him!"

The teen's eyes now slant in anger as he keeps his blazing gaze on Lan's name.

"He is not going to get away with any of this!" The teen hisses. "I'm going to make him suffer greatly for that!"

Reaching into his right pants pocket, the teen now grabs his bluish black PET and pulls it into his view with his navi appearing on the screen.

"I want you to do a full search on Lan Hikari." The teen says to his navi. "I want to know everything about him down to the very last detail so leave nothing out."

"Right away." The navi replies as the teen now aims his PET towards the inferred slot on the computer's console. The inferred beam from the PET now shoots into the console's inferred slot.

After a minute of waiting, a window now appears on the screen displaying Lan's picture and his information.

"Now, let's see who this Lan Hikari really is." The teen speaks as he begins reading the screen.

Beginning to read Lan's biography, the teen quickly reads through the first couple of sentences and now arrives at the paragraph that mentions Lan's past statistics.

"Lan Hikari successfully defeated the mad scientists Dr. Wily and Grave with the help of his Net Navi, Megaman." The teen begins reading aloud. "Along with defeating Wily and Grave, Lan and Megaman also defeated the ruthless the Grave Virus Beast, saving Internet City from totally destruction."

"Very interesting." The teen speaks in a slightly calm tone as he keeps his eyes on the screen. "His navi Megaman sounds very familiar. I remember hearing about him somewhere before, but I can't quite place my finger on where exactly."

Having read that, the teen skims through the rest of the first paragraph and now arrives at the second paragraph that mentions Lan's current statistics.

"After a long and hard struggle, Lan Hikari managed to defeat the mad scientist Dr. Regal and saved Dentech City from complete and total annihilation." The teen continues reading aloud. "Lan currently works with the Dentech City's Police department as the city's Net Savior."

Continuing to read, the teen now reaches the end of Lan's biography. Having read all of Lan's information, the teen now turns completely away from the computer screen with his back facing the screen.

"This Lan Hikari seems to be very powerful, especially since he was able to defeat Dr. Wily, Grave and my father, who all had the same agenda in mind." The teen says as he begins thinking. "And from what his biography states, he hasn't lost a battle because of the help of his navi, Megaman."

Now turning his attention back to the scattered mess in front of him, the teen begins looking around the room. From the damaged dimensional area generators, to the dark chips and having regal's plans in mind. The teen's expression changes from angry to devious as an idea now springs into his mind.

"But I have a feeling that is all going to change soon." The teen speaks as he develops an evil smile.

Now turning back to the computer screen, the teen aims his PET towards the inferred slot on the console and his navi is transferred back to the PET. The teen now hits the delete key on the computer's console and erases the window with Lan's information on it. The window with the plans now reappears.

"Good job." The teen says to his navi. "I have all of the information that I need. Lan may have been able to defeat the greatest minds that ever existed, but he won't be able to escape the nightmare that he will soon be living in and I'll personally see it to that."

Beginning to look over the plans once more, the teen now places his PET into the console's PET reader.

"And I know exactly how I'm going to go about it." The teen speaks as he now begins typing in commands prompts on the computer's keyboard.

Dentech High

The trio now arrives on the grounds of Dentech High as they continue going over their schedules.

"My sixth hour class is French and my last hour is Intro to Computing." Tori says as he now places his schedule in his shirt pocket. "For my first year in high school, my schedule isn't as exciting as I thought it would be."

"My sixth hour class is Music and from 2:30 to 3:30pm I have office assistance." Maylu finishes reading her schedule. "My schedule doesn't appear to be any different from when I was in middle school, well except for the office assistance part."

"My sixth hour class I have Spanish and after that I have gym." Lan finishes reading his schedule unenthusiastically as the trio now reaches the steps of the school. "Even in high school, I have bad classes."

"Ok, now we need to decide on a place where we are all going to meet everyday after school." Tori speaks up. "I say whoever's class or locker is closer, we will all meet up there."

"I agree." Maylu agrees as the three now climbs the steps and begins heading for the entrance of the school.

"Excellent idea Tori." Lan agrees as well as the three now enter the school.

Now being inside of the school, Lan's eyes go wide as he begins looking around the hall they are in.

"This place is huge." Lan says in awe as the three begins walking down the main hall of the school. "Our old school has nothing on this place."

"That's an understatement." Tori says. "You can do all the sight seeing you want later, but for now, we have to get to our first class. Just let me grab my schedule so we will know where to go."

Reaching in his shirt pocket, Tori grabs his schedule and pulls it out as he now brings it into his view. Looking at the 8:30-9:30am time slot, Tori looks next to the course name and spots the room number 354.

"Our first class is on the third floor." Tori informs them. "It's a quite a distance so we better make tracks."

Lan and Maylu nod as the three continues down the hall. Continuing down the hall and now reaching the end, the three now make a right into the next hall. Beginning to walk down that hall, the three are suddenly stopped by the shouting words: Wedgy!

Turning around, the trio now spots Dex pulling the elastic band of a kid's underwear into the air and lifting the kid off of the ground.

"Dex?" Tori inquires.

"He actually made it here?" Lan says in confusion.

"Well, at least we all know what his place is going be here." Maylu adds in.

"Doesn't look like Dex has changed at all." Tori speaks. "Hey Dex."

Hearing his name being called, Dex turns in the direction of the voice and now spots Lan, Maylu, and Tori standing at the other end of the hall with Tori waving in his direction. Smiling to them, Dex now drops the kid and waves back as the kid begins running down the hall.

"Hey guys!" Dex yells to them as he now begins making his way towards them. Now being within reaching range of the group, Dex stops an inch from them.

"Hey Dex." Tori greets to him with a smile.

"Hey guys." Dex greets to them. "How's it going?"

"So far so good." Lan replies with a small smile. "We're just on our way to class."

"That's cool." Dex speaks. "I was heading to class myself. I have gym class. I hate gym, but the only good part about having that class is that I get to give a countless number of wedgies to any wimp in there."

"Go easy on them Dex." Tori replies with a nervous smile. "This is just the first day of school."

"Yeah, let them at least enjoy this day." Lan adds in. "And after today, then you can hang them on the flag pole if you like."

"Yeah, I guess you guys are right." Dex agrees.

"Well, we have to get going now, so we'll catch up with you later." Tori speaks to Dex. "Have fun in gym."

"Alright." Dex replies. "See you guys later."

Lan, Maylu and Tori wave to him as they now begin walking down the hall. Dex returns the wave as he now turns around and begins heading in the opposite direction. Walking down the hall, Dex now spots a kid wearing a white short sleeved shirt, black ankle high pants and black loafers. Grinning, Dex cracks his knuckles.

"Hey you, do you wanna know what a wedgy feels like?" Dex yells as the kid now stops and turns around.

Having turned around, the kid now spots Dex running in his direction. The kid is quickly consumed with fear as he begins running down the hall.

Continuing to head to Chemistry class, Lan's PET now begins beeping. Hearing the beep, Lan reaches for the PET case on his waist and opens the pocket the PET is in. Grabbing his PET, Lan now brings it into view, with Megaman appearing on the screen.

"What's up Megaman?" Lan inquires to his navi.

"Me, Roll and Iceman are going to head to Net City now." Megaman informs Lan. "We'll meet up with you guys after school."

"Sure thing, see you then." Lan says to his navi as he now places his PET back in the carry case and continues on his way.

Regal's Old Tower

Having read over the plans once more, the teen has begun transferring regal's plans from the computer and to his PET. As the plans continues transferring to the PET, the teen now begins looking through the dark chips on the computer's console.

"I have everything I need to get my revenge on Lan." The teen speaks. "I'm going to see to it that he pays for what he did, no matter what it takes."

The transferring of the plans to the PET has now finishes as a sign in red pops up on the PET screen that reads: Transfer complete! Noticing this, the teen now removes the PET from the console.

"Now, let's just see how powerful Lan is with what I have in store for him." The teen speaks as now looks on his PET screen, to the plans. "Once I revive these plans, I'll finish the job that my father didn't and see to it that this is one battle that Lan Hikari doesn't win! Even with his navi's help!"

Now hitting the clear button on the PET's panel, the window with the plans disappear and the navi appears on the screen.

"I have a little job for you." The teen speaks to his navi. "I wantyou to do a little spying around the net for the one called Megaman."

The navi nods as an evil grin now crosses it's face.

A/N: Ok end of chapter 2 and I hope you all enjoyed it. I apologize greatly if this chapter is long and boring. My ideas were all jumbled, but the story will get more exciting as it continues. You do have my promise on that one so please bear with me. No flames please and if anything is confusing, please let me know and I'll modify it for you. Chapter 3 will be out when I get a free moment. If nothing else, please review.

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