Love Between Navis

By: Sailorjj07

13. Payback, Part 1

A/n: MY COMPUTER DELETED THE FIRST VERISON OF THIS CHAPTER SO I HAD TO REDO IT! GRRRRRRRRRRRRR! Man, I was so mad...I had just finished this chapter, then I went to save it and open it on another word processor and the freakin' disk went crazy and deleted everything. So now I have to redo 6 chapters (from other stories plus this one) over from memory! Anyway, THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO REVIEWED!

Disclaimer: I do not own!

"Talking"

'Thinking'

Actions

(Me!)

"Ms. Maylu, could you please tell me who it was that kidnapped you?" Maylu gave a sigh as the cop stood beside her bed, holding a note pad and a pen.

"I just told you, I don't know."

"Are you sure?" Lan watched in frustration as the cop tried to get info out of Maylu and then he realized she wasn't going to give anything to him. Lan saw a frown cross Maylu's face and decided it was time he intervened. The cop had been asking her questions for about thirty minutes now, and Lan could tell her patience was wearing extremely thin.

"I'm dead sure."

"Maylu, we won't be able to find the people that took you if you won't tell us-"

"Excuse me, sir, but I think Maylu's getting a tired. She just woke up last night and I don't think she should be staying up this long. I'm sorry, but she needs to rest. My dad's orders."

"But, I wasn't done-"

"Please? I am really tired. I took my medicine before you got in here and I'm about to fall asleep in mid-question." Maylu faked complete and total fatigue once again glad her mother made her take theater.

"Well, I guess so. But when will she be able to answer my questions?"

"I'd say in about...a week and a half. She should still be here by then seeing as how we have to help her bruises and everything else." Lan told the officer, opening the recovery room door. He held the door opened and watched as the officer put away the note pad and pen.

"Oh really? Then I'll be back in five days. Good bye Ms. Maylu."

"Bye!"

"And you too, Mr. Hikari."

"Yep. See ya!" Lan closed the door as the officer went down the hallway toward the exit a mischievous grin on his face. "Maylu, aren't you glad I've gotten smarter?"

"Very. Lan that was pure genius!" The two laughed together and then Maylu's face got extremely serious,"Lan, I won't tell them anything."

"Really? Why not?"

"Lan, I want my payback on my own. I want them to pay for what they did to me, by my hand."

"Maylu..."

"No Lan. I want my payback and I want you to have yours too."

"But Maylu, I really just want to see them behind bars."

"Lan that may be enough for you, but it isn't enough for me. I am going to get my payback." A determined look crossed Maylu's face and she clenched her fist in the sheets at her lap.

"Maylu, we'll help." Megaman said, from the computer a determined look on his face as well.

"What? Megaman, not you too!" Lan sighed, exasperated with his navi and his best friend. He knew there was no sense in arguing; he would have to help wither he wanted to or not.

"Yes Lan. Me too. Whoever kidnapped Maylu and Roll needs to be punished and not by just going to jail. Sending them to jail wouldn't give me the kind of satisfaction I would get if I destroyed that entire building and THEN put them behind bars."

"Are you guys listening to yourselves? This is crazy!"

"Lan, it has to be done." Roll said quietly, looking down at her hands. Even she wanted payback and she knew she was going to get it.

"Fine. We'll do it. But only if we get a Dimensional Area over that entire area, so that we can attack in cross-fused form." Lan stated, crossing his arms. He figured it would be impossible for Maylu to get them a Dimensional Area, so they wouldn't be able to do it.

"Did someone say Dimensional Area? What are you guys doing in here?" The entire group turned to find Serena standing in the doorway, with a white lab coat on over her regular clothes. Obviously they were so engrossed in their conversation that they hadn't noticed her open the door. Rini logged in with a happy smile at both Roll and Megaman.

"Ummmmm...Uhhhhhhh...Nothing Serena. Nothing at all." Lan answered, laughing nervously.

"Na-ah. I heard you. You said you needed a Dimensional Area. I could get you one of those!" Serena grinned and went up to Maylu, pressing her palm to Maylu's forehead. She took a small notepad out of her lab coat pocket and wrote something on it.

"What's with the doctor look, Serena?" Maylu asked, wondering why she was dressing like a doctor to see her.

"Silly! Didn't you know? I work here."

"WHAT!" Lan, Maylu, Megaman, and Roll all stared at Serena at the same time. No one could seriously believe that Serena worked in the Sci-Lab.

Rini laughed, "You guys didn't know that? Ms. Serenity is one of the heads of Sci-Lab. Lan; she's even over your father."

"Seriously!" Maylu gaped at Serena, who was checking various things around Maylu's bed.

"Yep! I thought you guys knew?" Serena asked, writing something else down on the note pad before placing it back in her pocket.

"How come you didn't tell us?"

"How come you won't tell me what you're planning?"

"Well...We need a Dimensional Area. Can you get us one?"

"If you tell me what you need it for, when you need it, and where. So go ahead, spill everything." Serena grinned at Maylu and took a seat at the edge of her bed beside her.

Three Days Later

"Maylu, you can go home now. And since it's only Thursday, you can go to school tomorrow if you want." Dr. Hikari smiled at Maylu as she began to zip up her suitcase. He knew she was happy that she could go home; he could feel it in the room. Lan took a suitcase from the pile by the door and went ahead toward the front of Sci-Lab where Maylu's dad waited with their car.

"Thank you very much, Dr. H! I'm really glad that you guys are letting me go home." Maylu answered, zipping up another suitcase.

"Maylu, you deserve it. You've been through so much. You deserve to try and have a normal life again."

"I promise I will try. But with your son that's extremely hard!" Maylu laughed and picked up the suitcase, making sure she didn't knock her PET out of its case on her hip.

"Good luck to you, Maylu. I'll see you later."

"Bye Dr. H!" Maylu dragged her suitcase down the hall and smiled when she reached the outside of Sci-Lab. The raining had stopped for the past two days and the sun was out, making the world seem an even better place to Maylu.

"Hey Maylu! Give me that so you can go home!" Lan waved from behind her parents car and waited while Maylu brought her second suitcase to him.

"Here Lan." Maylu handed him the suitcase and ran to the passenger side of the car where her mother had her arms hanging out the window for a hug. Maylu hugged her mother, then climbed in the backseat and hugged her father, who had been driving.

"OH MAYLU! I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE HOME AGAIN!" Maylu's mother cried, hugging her daughter again with tears streaming down her face. Maylu tried her hardest not to cry and failed greatly, with just as many tears going down her face as her mother.

"Thanks Mom. I missed you guys a lot."

"And we missed you Maylu." Maylu's dad's voice was chocked; he could barely get his sentence out. He smiled and hugged his daughter for a second time himself, then nodded at his wife, who once again leaned out of the car window.

"Lan! Would you like to ride home with us? I'm sure your father wouldn't mind and neither would we!"

"Okay, thank you, Mrs. S!" Lan slid into the backseat with Maylu and smiled as she tried to wipe all her tears off her face quickly.

"When we get home, we're going to celebrate! Lan, care to join us?"

"No. I couldn't take away from your family reunion." Lan said, with a kind smile. He watched as Megaman laughed silently at his attempt to be overly nice.

"But Lan, you are family!" Maylu cried, with a giant smile. She gave Lan a hopeful look, but he shook his head.

"I'm sure you'll have fun without me."

"Are you sure?" Mr. Sakurai asked, glancing in the rearview mirror. He knew Lan was up to something since he declined a party, but figured he shouldn't worry about it.

"Yes, sir. Thank you anyway."

"Suit yourself, Lan."

At 11:30 p.m.

"Lan, did you bring all of your chips?" Maylu dumped a pink box of chips on the floor and watched as they made a pile of chips.

"Yes, even though they aren't in a box." Lan showed Maylu the blue binder he had behind him and opened the cover, showing her all of his chips in little plastic slotted sheets.

"So what chips do you think we should use, Lan?" Maylu glanced at Megaman and Roll, who were looking at all the chips they had between the two of them.

"Well we need our cross-fuse chips...And I also have some MultiChips..." Lan said, showing Maylu the four chips that allowed them to use five extra chips.

"Can I borrow two of those?"

"Yeah, here." Lan handed her the two chips and then watched as Maylu grabbed two Aqua Towers and two Fire Towers. She also moved a three Shockwave chips and placed her selection into the case where her PET usually was.

"Okay, so with these two MultiChips we can use five more, right?"

"Yep."

"So we can use fifteen chips?"

"I'll go get us two more MultiChips tomorrow, and then we can use twenty."

"So I need to pick out twenty chips?"

"Yeah and since you have aqua and fire, I'll use elec element chips and wood element chips with the other ones that I'm using."

"And cause elemental damage!"

"Yeah, and that will probably take out all the electricity in the building."

"And we can call a few viruses in too."

"And they'll destroy some of it too."

"You're so smart when you want to be Lan." Maylu grinned and began to sort through her pile, moving chips into her PET case. Lan also went through his binder and moved all the chips he wanted to use to the front.

"Roll, do you think we'll be able to do this?" Megaman asked, watching their OPs sort through battle chips.

"Mega...You can do anything..." Roll answered, not looking at him. She hadn't meant to say what she was thinking out loud, but it slipped.

"So can you, Roll."

"Not as good as you can."

"Roll..." Megaman watched her almost sad expression and felt his heart (if navis have one) warm. He leaned close to Roll's ear, brushing his lips across her earlobe, "Either way it doesn't matter. I'll still love you." Megaman grinned to himself when he saw Roll's cheeks flame red.

"M-Mega...I don't know what to-!"

Megaman shook his head with a smile and went back to watching Lan and Maylu. He then burst into laughter, making Roll wonder what he was laughing at.

"M-Megam-man, i-it isn't f-f-f-funny!" Lan tried to say between laughs. Maylu was tickling him for saying something sarcastic to her and she had placed her hand over his mouth to muffle his laughter. It was eleven at night after all.

"Oh, but it is Lan...It's so very funny." Roll said, laughing as well. Maylu grinned at her navi and then her eyes widened.

"YOU LICKED MY HAND! LAN! DON'T DO THAT!" Maylu cried, and Lan knocked her over as quietly as he could, covering her mouth.

"Maylu, you're going to get us in trouble, be quiet."

"Oh yeah, I forgot. But don't lick my hand!"

"Don't put your hand over my mouth then." Lan stuck his tongue out at Maylu and ran to her window before she could get a hold of him. "I'm going home now, since we're done. Time to say bye Megaman."

"Bye Roll!" Megaman let Roll hug him as tightly as she wanted to and glared at Lan when he laughed.

"Bye Mega. Good night!"

"Night Roll." Megaman logged out of Maylu's computer with a single wave at Roll and then he was once again in Lan's PET.

"See ya tomorrow Maylu."

"Get out of my room Lan." Maylu grinned and held onto the top of a ladder as Lan began to climb down. When he reached the ground, he moved the ladder and then leaned it up against his house.

"Bye Lan!"

"Bye Maylu." Lan climbed up the ladder, opened his bedroom window and climbed in, closing it behind him. Maylu waved one final time, before closing her window curtains and going to change for bed.

End Chapter 13