Neko-chan: Hello, sorry about the late update. I have finals next week.

WARNING WARNING!

This ACT contains errors. It has been emailed to my beta, Dai-san, and I'm waiting to get it back. Since I'm in a good mood, I decided to update anyway, but I will replace it with the beta version as soon as I get it back. There, you have been warn.

Enjoy the ACT!

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ACT 4: Meiru's Dream

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/Wednesday Night/

"Finished at last!" Meiru stretched out her arms. "Sakura-sensei gave us a lot of homework today."

"Now that you're finished, what do you want to do?" Roll asked her NetOp.

"Let's see." Meiru looked at her clock, which read 9:00 pm. "Let's watch some TV. What's on right now, Roll?"

Roll pulls up the TV listing and started scrolling down. "There's American Idol on the International channel, Ah! Megumi-sama on 12, a rerun of Neon Genesis Evanglion on 31, and Tsubasa on 37."

Meiru turned on the TV and pondered about what to watch. She decided to turn to channel 37 to watch Tsubasa.

After Tsubasa ended, xxxHolic started and the girls decided to watch that too. It was 10:00 pm when Meiru turned off the TV and got ready for bed.

"Good night, Roll," Meiru yawned.

"Good night, Meiru-chan. Sweat dreams." Roll turned off the lights and went to sleep mode.

Hours later, Meiru tossed and turned as her dream wove into existence.

Meiru's Dream

Meiru found herself walking home from school when a Dimensional Area appeared around her. She looked around to see what was going on but couldn't find anything. That was until she saw a building collapse a block away from her.

"Roll, go find Rush!"

A few moments later, Rush appeared in the real world. Normally, it would take forever to find him at a time like this, but today was different.

"Rush, I need you to transform now!" Meiru demanded in a kind way.

Rush made his puppy dog eyes of not wanting but he soon knew that he was going to lose the argument. He did what Meiru asked.

"Syncro chip, slot-in! CROSSFUSION!" Bits of data surrounded Meiru as they pieced together to form her armor.

R Roll quickly rushed to the scene of the crime. There she saw R Rock fighting…Shademan! She called her bow and aimed it at the revived Darkloid, but since the two fighters were moving at high speed, she was afraid that she was going to hit R Rock.

'Where's Enzan?' she thought.

Shademan notice a pink shape as his eyes glazed off his opponent for a split second. He saw his advantage and broke away from R Rock. He dashed towards the pink figure.

R Roll saw him coming her way and fired her arrow, "Roll Arrow!"

Shademan had managed to dodge the arrow and now made contact with R Roll's neck.

"Meiru-chan!" R Rock yelled as he saw his crush in the hands of the monster.

Shademan's claws tighten against her neck, making it hard for her to breathe.

"Rock Buster!" R Rock fired at Shademan, carefully missing R Roll.

The shots caused Shademan to loosen his grip, allowing R Roll to use Area Steal to get away.

"Arigatou Netto!"

R Rock nodded. They both continued the fight.

It was another few minutes into the battle that a familiar figure enters the scene.

"Sonic Boom!"

"You're late," R Rock complained.

"I was coming back from a business trip in Hokkaido," R Blues explained.

"A-huh," R Rock said sarcastically.

"Battlechip, Aqua Tower!" R Roll summoned an Aqua Tower.

Shademan evaded the tower as it came near him by jumping up. He then dive down, claws first at R Roll.

R Rock caught sight of this, and without thinking he jumped in front of R Roll when Shademan was just about to make contact. Instead of making contact with R Roll, Shademan's claw went right through R Rock.

"ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" R Rock screamed.

Both R Blues and R Roll stood there, frozen in shock. Their best friend had just taken a direct hit in the chest. Shademan had pulled his arm back, and R Rock dropped to his knees and fell backwards. There was now a hole in R Rock's chest.

A split second later, R Blues deleted Shademan. R Blues rushed to his friend's side. R Roll was already there, holding the blue bomber's hand.

"Netto!" cried R Blue.

"Netto…" R Roll began to cry.

"Rockman, daijobu desu ka?" asked a concern Blues.

"Rock-kun…" Roll cried.

"Meiru chan/Roll-chan," Netto and Rockman said at the same time.

"Yes?" the girls replied.

"Ashiteru…" And with that, they both closed their eyes.

"NETTO/ROCKMAN!" They all yelled.

/Dream End/

"NETTO!" Meiru screamed as she woke up from the nightmare. She quickly looked around and was relieved that it was just a dream, no a nightmare.

Meiru lay back down and thought about the nightmare. She would tell Roll about it in the morning. Her eyes quickly dozed and she was sound asleep again. But this time, it was a quite slumber.

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