Disclaimer
This is only a fan-fiction therefore this story does belong to Capcom. I would like to make it perfectly clear that I do not own any of the characters (apart from specific ones which I will mention at the start of each chapter).
I hold all rights to the characters named "Vodka, Outlaw, Metal & Gadget" any copies of my fan-made characters must be allowed by me before being used. Chapter pre-view is inspired by the series and AMZ.
Thank you and enjoy the story.
Chapter 3: Metal Head
Lan slowly walked through the blossoming field as the wind blew through his hair. It is a beautiful day. The birds are chirping, small squirrels in the trees are happily playing on the branches and the bees are busy collecting pollen from the gorgeous flowers that looked like they grew on a rainbow.
"What a nice place," Lan said happily to himself as he broke into a light jog through the grass as it gently swept his trainers with the aid of the wind. Lan lay down in the green pasture, content as he put his arms behind his head with a smile on his face as he gazed up at the clear blue sky. Lan closed his eyes slightly as the wind played with his messy, brown hair. Lan suddenly shot up on his feet as it started raining hot dogs and cheeseburgers.
"I'm in heaven!"
"Oi, Dingo! We're gonna be late for school," Tomahawkman called urgently from his PET, which lay on the dresser as he reminded his net-op, while Dingo tried to wake the sleeping brunette up.
Dingo turned off the fan and took the cheeseburger from his side, which he had placed in front of the sleeping teen in the futile hope of waking his friend up.
"Man. He sure can sleep," Tomahawkman muttered as Dingo stood up and looked down the hallway, Tory had already finished shaving and was now sat on the sofa with a bowl of Net-Flakes, while watching TV.
"Ok, time to bring out the big guns," Dingo said with an evil grin as he pressed himself against the floor and stuck his arm under his bed.
"Oh no, Dingo. Not that," Tomahawkman said sarcastically as he brought up a window labelled Record
Lan smiled happily as he hungrily wolfed down his seventeenth cheeseburger, "Mmm," Lan moaned in between mouthfuls of burger. An awful smell stopped Lan as he slowly pulled his mouth away from the once beautiful cheeseburger to realise that he was staring at a rotten pile of green meat. Lan's stomach turned as he rolled his tongue against the meat in his mouth. The brunette stopped breathing for a few seconds out of shock and quickly spat out the rancid meat, wreathing as he emptied his mouth of meat and past products.
The area rapidly grew dark as the rancid smell spread its foul smell through the air as the smell intensified beyond rancid meat to dead animal to vomit inside of a backdoor trot toilet.
Lan snapped his eyes open as the foul odour invaded his nostrils and stung his eyes as his pupils filled with tears.
Dingo and Tomahawkman tried their best to choke back their laughter, failing miserably.
Lan's eyes adjusted to the morning light that came streaming through the window above his bed to see what was obstructing his vision; a miniature panda bear stared at him, giving a cheeky wink.
"Dingo," Lan muttered from gritted teeth, "Get your rank underwear outta my face."
"Crikey!" Dingo exclaimed as he put on his best Australian accent as Tomahawkman doubled over laughing hysterically.
"Here we have a Lanagator. He's just woken up and is very fierce. He could take my hand off with one quick motion, but let's get a closer look," Dingo continued while Tomahawkman managed to control himself long enough to control the zoom function of the PET's camera effectively, still laughing.
"The Lanagator is fighting a losing battle against a Boxerpotamus. A Boxerpotamus is a foul smelling creature that bathes itself in sweat from…"
"Dingo," Lan interrupted through gritted teeth as he reached beside his bed and grabbed a padded baseball bat, "last chance to remove them."
Meanwhile Tory watched TV with Iceman and Megaman watching via the PET's holoscreen.
"Have you got anything riding on this game Tory?" Iceman asked as the whistle blew to start the match up again.
"Yeah. I get 6,000z if the Lakers win," Tory replied as he kept his eyes on the television screen, trying his best to ignore the clattering and the cries for help coming from Lan's room.
"Isn't it illegal to gamble?" Megaman quizzed the brown haired teen as he looked at Tory.
"Not if you don't get caught." The boy countered, his eyes still glued to the screen, as was Iceman's.
Megaman sighed deeply. "It's your turn to wake him up tomorrow Tory," Megaman reminded the brown haired teen.
Tory huffed at the blue navi's comment as he replied, "Why don't you wake him up? You're his net navi after all."
"I try but I can never wake him, then he complains when he's late." Megaman pointed out as the Lakers scored from a slam-dunk. Tory jumped out of his seat and pumped his fists into the air "All right!"
"And that's game biatch!" Iceman cried, getting strange looks from Tory and Megaman. "No? Just trying it on…" Iceman said nervously as he began to look down at the ground and shuffled his feat.
"Anyway it's the weekend tomorrow." Megaman reminded his two friends as Tory sat back down in his seat. Suddenly Dingo came lurching out of Lan's room, holding his left shoulder in his right hand. "He's up," Dingo said with a smile as he started to sit down.
"AAAIIIIIII!!!!!" Iceman screamed as Tory quickly snatched the PET from the danger zone, which is Dingo's big bottom.
"Watch where you're sitting!" Iceman scolded the boy as his and Megaman's PET was placed on the table.
"Sorry little dude," Dingo said apologetically. Iceman instantly puffed up his cheeks and cupped his hands over his mouth.
"I'M NOT LITTLE!"
A sudden crash from Lan's room made everyone jump as the towel-clad brunette ran out of his room and into the bathroom, slamming the door behind him.
A brief moment of silence passed before a click followed by the shower starting up broke in. "I guess he learnt his lesson," Tomahawkman said as Dingo put his PET down with Iceman's and Megaman's.
"Well it wasn't really Rush's fault," Tory argued, "it was Lan's fault for leaving the door open."
"Well…" Megaman started as a knock on the door interrupted. Tory decided to slink away quickly into the kitchen while Dingo answered the door.
"That's strange…" Megaman said to the two other navis.
"Yeah, he's been doing that a lot recently," Iceman, commented as Tomahawkman looked over towards the front door to see Dingo let in Jasmine and a very tired looking Maylu.
"Morning!" Jasmine cheerfully greeted the gang as she took a seat on the sofa and sat down a white PET on the coffee table next to Tomahawkman's green PET. A familiar face popped up through the holoscreen as Medi appeared with a smile on her face "Good morning!"
Tomahawkman blushed a little as he replied bashfully back, "G-Good morning."
Everyone looked as a zombified Maylu slumped down on the sofa, resting on one of the arms, looking more than a little drowsy as her eyelids fluttered from open to close every couple of seconds. Dingo closed the door as he pulled a chair next to the sofa and positioned the chair backwards so he could lean on the back "What's up?"
Maylu slowly sat up and plucked a PET from her belt as she clumsily placed the pink PET on the coffee table next to Megaman's, yet another holoscreen appeared as a very tired looking Roll appeared from the small pink device "Good morning" the pink navi greeted, still half-asleep.
"Good morning Roll," Megaman greeted the pink navi, "Are you ok?"
Roll instantly perked up when she saw the blue bomber's concerned face and nodded "Yep"
"We were up all night with Mr Famous," Maylu cut in.
"Oh really?" Tory said with a giggle in his voice as he walked out of the kitchen, "Sounds like you had fun."
A slapping sound echoed through the apartment as Jasmine's hand connected with Tory's face. The other members of the group chuckled while Tory held his red cheek "Ouch… that was totally worth it," Tory mumbled as he sat down next to Maylu.
"Anyway as I was saying," Maylu continued as she gave Tory an icy stare, which wiped the smile off his face "Mr Famous had me and Roll repeat Cross Fusion over and over changing something each time. He's studying the data and trying to figure out an alternative for everyone else with a Synchro Chip," the red haired teen finished as she yawned.
"Ah that was good! How are we doing for time?" Lan asked cheerfully as he walked into the living room, wearing nothing but his towel, the brunette's face instantly went bright red.
"Yo-ho! Lan, smile!" Roll and Medi shouted as they started taking pictures from their PETs while Jasmine wolf whistled. Maylu turned around to see what the fuss was about and instantly perked up when she saw Lan frozen to the spot "Hey there."
Oh crap! Lan managed to silence the voices in his head just enough to allow him to retreat quickly back into his room.
"Awww," Jasmine, Medi, Roll and Maylu mutter in unison as they took back their original positions.
"Umm, where's Yai?" Dingo asked Jasmine while he put the chair back into the kitchen.
"She's ill. I think she's caught a cold," Jasmine replied.
"Oh she's ill," Tory muttered while nodding, he suddenly froze "how are we getting to school then?"
"Oh that's the fun part," Jasmine said with a smile, "we walk."
Dingo came rushing in from the kitchen as soon as he heard the word walk "B-B-But the school is five blocks away and starts in ten minutes!" The group turned to their PETs as all the navis put on their best innocent expressions on.
"Whoops," Megaman said nervously as everyone grabbed his or her respective PETs and headed out of the door, followed closely by Lan wearing some jeans and a white t-shirt.
"You could'a reminded us!" Maylu shot at Roll as the group bypassed the elevator and took the stairs.
"Well if Lan hadn't distracted us," Roll shot back at Maylu.
"At times like this I really, really, really wish we didn't live on the eighth floor!" Dingo whined from near the rear of the gang as they rushed down stair after stair, finally reaching the bottom and dashing out of the reception area into the street.
"Taxi!!!" Jasmine cried out as she managed to hail a passing cab, everyone threw themselves quickly inside and fastened their seatbelts, if they had one "Dentech School!" the group cried as the Taxi sped off.
"Heh, made it," Dingo said with a sigh of relief as the group scrambled from the vehicle, with Tory last "Why do I always gotta pay?" Tory moaned as the Taxi pulled away.
"Because you always seem to have spare cash," Jasmine happily informed the brown haired boy as she smiled at him.
Tory smirked as they walked into the playground, "I gotta go see someone. See you guys in class!" Tory shouted over his shoulder as his disappeared in to the crowd of students.
"That's strange," Dingo muttered as the gang walked inside of the School.
Tory looked over his shoulder to confirm he was alone as he jumped over the school fence and landed feet first on the pavement.
"Where are we going Tory?" Iceman asked from his PET as he tried to recognise the area that the boy was walking down "I don't think that we should be here."
"Cool it Iceman," Tory said coldly as he turned into an alleyway and turned off Iceman's PET.
"Tory wait!!!" Iceman managed to cry before he was put into sleep mode.
"Sorry Iceman, but I don't want you to worry."
A clatter of cans made the boy whip around to face a small group of five teenagers "Have you got our money?" A girl demanded as two of the bigger built males stepped out of the group, cracking their knuckles inside their fists as they leered at Tory.
"W-W-Well I-I…erm," Tory stammered, "I have six thousand of it."
"Only six?" The girl demanded as she held her PET out towards Tory's. Tory activated his PET, ignoring Iceman as the girl took 6,000z from the blue PET; Tory then switched his PET back into sleep mode.
"This'll do for now," The girl informed him as the two boys backed off and re-joined the small group.
"But we want another sixteen thousand by the end of next week," A different boy with glasses spoke up as he fiddled with a calculator.
"If not…" Another girl cut in, a slight giggle in her voice, "we'll come looking for you." Tory looked down in fear as his hand begun to shake, he quickly shoved them both into his trouser pockets, "Don't worry, you'll have your money," Tory assured them.
"Good. See to it that we do," The first girl said coldly as they turned and disappeared into the street, a couple of them laughing. Tory let out a huge sighed and pressed his back against the wall as his legs crumbled under him; he embraced them and nuzzled his face in them as he began to cry softly.
The street was awoke by the roar of an engine as an old fashioned motorcycle ripped through the streets with haste as the bike tore through a red light. Upon the antique contraption was a male in his late teens dressed in black jeans, a tight black t-shirt, a leather jacket and boots, topped off with a pair of black sunglasses. He grinned as he poured on more speed while the wind played with his shaggy bleached blonde hair and the tail of his cape-like coat.
The bike suddenly came to a screeching halt in Dentech School's car park, leaving a two-metre skid mark.
"What a dump," The biker grunted to himself as he peered over the top of his shades.
"Settle down class, settle down," Ms Mari ordered as silence broke through the class. "That's better," She muttered as she quickly sent off the roster through her computer "does anyone know where Tory is this morning?" Ms Mari quizzed the class as she looked in Lan, Maylu, Dingo and Jasmine's direction, all four of the teens shook their heads.
A gentle clank and cluttering sound made everyone look towards the door as the sound drew closer, suddenly the door was pushed open and a boy walked through the door as his long leather jacket hovered a couple of inches off the floor behind him.
"Oh, um. Metallic Chief?" Ms Mari asked with a slight tone of shock as he lowered his shades and winked, "That's me sweet heart."
A soft drone of whispers broke through the class at the response this boy gave their teacher. Ms Mari's features shown a mixture of shock, flattery and bewilderment, the only response she could manage was a finger pointing to an empty seat near the window. Metallic clicked his tongue and pointed his index finger at her as he walked past her desk. Ms Mari blushed as he walked by and took his seat as he looked around the room and spotted a cute girl with long red hair sitting at the desk next to him.
"Hey you sweet thang. How about me and you find a closet somewhere?" Metallic whispered as he lowered his shades to reveal his green eyes as stared at her.
"Get bent you loser," Maylu shot back as she slapped him across his face. Metallic narrowed his eyes and growled as he spoke, "You'll want me sooner or later baby-cakes."
Maylu managed to choke back her angry laughter enough to open her mouth to respond to the pig-headed-biker-boy, only to be interrupted by the bell. Everyone pushed back their seats and quickly departed from the room, some excitedly gossiped in a group while the majority paired off.
"Maylu what subject do you have now?" Lan asked the red head while they walked around to the new bit of the school, "Hey where are we?" Lan asked excitedly as they walked down the packed corridor.
Maylu sighed at Lan's dullness as she fiddled with her backpack straps "Don't you remember Lan? They converted the school into a high school ages ago."
Lan blushed a little as he pointed to his face and said sarcastically, "Do I look awake to you?"
Maylu smiled as she looked at him "You never look awake." she teased as she giggled and stopped outside of a room "I'll see you at break."
Lan waved as he continued walking down the corridor "Say Megaman, where am I meant to be going now?"
"You have Art with Mr Hakumei," Megaman called from his PET, as Lan turned left following a sign reading Art Department.
The brunette scuttled through the door as he quickly apologised for being late then took his seat next to a bigger male wearing black leather That's the new kid.
Metallic glanced at Lan briefly a look of boredom was plastered on his face and then he scribbled something on a spare piece of paper that was lying on the desk. Lan felt a hard nudge on his arm as he looked towards Metallic as the biker-boy shoved a folded up piece of paper in front of the brunette. Lan awkwardly unfolded the paper as he read the note inside of his head "You were with that red haired girl before weren't you?"
Lan let a look of confusion plant itself up on his face as he pulled a pen out of his pocket and wrote "So what if I was?" Lan then folded the paper and pushed it back over to Metallic. The bleach-blonde teen read the note and scowled as he madly scribbled something down and folded the note, pushing it over to Lan as the teacher continued to demonstrate manga techniques. The brunette gulped as he unfolded the paper and read the note "You're asking for it punk!" Lan looked shocked as he stared in disbelief and looked at Metallic "Punk?"
Metallic grinned at Lan, showing his white teeth as he whispered, "Gotta problem? Punk?"
Lan opened his mouth to answer but was interrupted by a beeping sound as Mr Hakumei pulled out his PET from his jacket "Yes?"
"I-It's you're wife!" A voice desperately cried from the small device, "sh-she's having the baby now!"
Mr Hakumei began to shake as he shoved the PET back into his pocket, gathered his things and ran out of the door as he shouted over his shoulder "Sorry class!!!"
As the door slammed Metallic bolted up onto his feet and towered over Lan "You got summit to say? Punk?"
Lan got out of his chair and stood upright, facing Metallic, but unfortunately the blonde hair boy was a head taller than Lan "Yeah I do!"
"Hey Lan, new guy! Break it up!" A girl shouted as she walked over to the two boys.
"Lan? Lan Hikari? The Lan Hikari?" Metallic asked the girl in disbelief, his eyes wide as he pointed to the brunette. The girl raised an eyebrow in confusion and nodded. Metallic grinned as he ran over to the teacher's desk and pressed a button. "Lan Hikari! I challenge you to a Net Battle!" Metallic cried as he stood in the middle of the classroom as the projector switched on, displaying a live image of the cyber world. Lan grinned at the thought and jumped up onto the nearest desk "I accept!" Lan cried out proudly as he whipped out his PET and aimed it at the computer terminal on Mr Hakumei's desk "Jack in, Megaman! Power Up!
Instantly Megaman appeared on the enlarged screen as the class scrambled to their respective seats, some even got their PETs out and sat them on the table so their navis could watch. Metallic grinned at the audience as he calmly pointed his silver PET decorated with the letter 'G' as its logo at the jack-in sensor and announced "Jack in, Gadget! Power Up!"
The cyber world flashed as a blue light placed a new net navi in to the system this navi wore a silver jumpsuit with three white lines that ran down his back, thick metal armour that covered his torso, his right hand was metal while on his left wrist was a chunky three fingered claw, the navi's head was protected by a standard grey navi helmet that shown his red eyes and a mounted cannon on his right shoulder. Megaman formed his buster and smiled at the challenger "Hi."
The navi growled in response as he threw himself at Megaman, fist extended. Megaman barely managed to dodge the huge metal fist "Whoa, slow down there metal head!" Megaman said cockily as he dodged more brutal attempts.
"Let's show these two who they're messing with. Battlechip, Wide Sword! In, Download!" Lan called to Megaman as the blue navi's primary weapon hand turned into a funny looking purple sword with a wide tip, the small blue navi instantly started blocking Gadget's attacks.
"Hmm, not bad. But we can do better," Metallic scoffed as he produced a few Battlechips from his jacket pocket "Battlechip, Gold Fist! In, Download!"
Gadget's metal fist instantly became a fist of pure gold as he began to press even harder on the offence. The two navis sparred sword to fist, fist to sword as the class cheered on the two boys as their navis battled on, the audience was oblivious to them. Megaman placed his Wide Sword defensively as each blow weakened his weapon bit-by-bit "Lan!" Megaman cried out in surprise as the Gold Fist broke his Wide Sword and connected with his face, sending the blue navi skidding across the area a couple dozen metres.
"Hold on Megaman, we'll use our special ability! Battlechip, Soul Unison! Metal Soul, In, Download!"
"Soul Unison?" Metallic repeated as he thought it over "What's that?"
Megaman slowly got up and was instantly bathed in light as his body began to change into his new form, Metal Soul. Gadget covered his eyes as he cried out in surprise. Megaman's shoes had turned from blue to red with blue trim, slim gloves had become silver and chunky, his shoulder pads were now gears that met with his armoured torso and his helmet had turned red and blue with a razor sharp half gear sticking out of the top. After a brief couple of seconds Megaman emerged from the light, fully powered by the Soul Unison "Get ready Gadget, because you haven't seen anything yet."
Gadget snarled at the comment, lowering his hand as his mounted gun targeted the small blue navi "So, just because you changed forms doesn't mean that you're gonna win. Take this! Gadget Laser!" the metal navi bragged as he fired at Megaman.
Megaman held his armoured fists to his face for protection as the red laser hit him. Lan watched as the laser seemed to have no effect, but after a couple of seconds the brunette noticed that the spot where the laser was hitting, was in fact melting Megaman's heavy armour. Megaman groaned in pain as his arm suddenly became white-hot, the armour dripping slightly It's burning through to my skin the blue navi realised, a sudden twist of his body and he was free of the laser.
"Hey that kinda weapon is illegal!" Lan shot at Metallic as he grabbed the bleached-blonde haired boy by his jacket arm. Metallic answered with a wave of his bided arm, sending the brunette back onto his backside as Megaman's PET clattered on the floor.
"Ouch…" Lan muttered, cursing under his breath. A scream of pain from the blue navi caused Lan to let the confrontation slide as he grabbed the discarded PET and stood up, watching the screen.
Megaman zipped through the air like an Eagle as he landed like a sack of potatoes, coming hard down on the floor, as the metallic navi withdrawn his claw hand with the aid of the chain attached. Megaman slowly got up, losing his Metal Soul in the process as he created some distance between himself and his opponent "Lan!"
"Gotch'a covered Megaman!" The blue bomber heard the voice of his beloved brunette operator as he ran away, hoping to get out of firing range.
"Battlechip, Rockcube! In, download!" The brunette called as a cube of rock hurtled down from above; the impact shook the area briefly while Megaman hopped on top and landed behind it "Battlechip, Soul Unision! Search Soul, In, download!"
A flash of white light illuminated the area behind the Rockcube as Gadget started to cut it with his laser. The cube of rock started to glow red as the laser worked its way through the rock, picking up speed as Gadget increased the intensity of the heat. The Rockcube finally cracked in to two pieces as it was deleted, exposing the blue navi.
"Heh, not even going to run, huh? I admire that, but not enough to let you win. Now I'll take my victory!" Gadget bellowed in his usual gravely voice as he fired his laser, making a small hole through Megaman's chest. The blue navi exploded in a shower of dust as Gadget and Metallic both smiled at the sight, while the class gasped at the sight of their beloved town hero
Metallic huffed as he proudly announced, "Too easy."
"I think not!" A familiar voice shouted as the dust settled letting the surprised duo gaze upon a chibi dummy of Megaman with a hole in its chest, as it fell to the floor.
"A-A decoy?" Gadget said out loud with a surprised tone in his voice. Suddenly Gadget's laser cannon exploded as the now useless, bulky gun blew smoke from its barrel. The metal navi looked around frantically as he spotted Search Soul Megaman aiming a sniper rifle at Gadget, a small red dot appeared rapidly on his leg joints, each accompanied by two plasma shots, forcing Gadget's legs to buckle under his own weight. Gadget roared in pain as he slumped down onto his knees, data dancing out of his wounds. The metal navi felt something cold and long press against his temple as he slowly looked up to stare up the long, dark barrel of Megaman's new sniper rifle.
"I-I surrender…" Gadget snarled as he looked back down at the ground in shame.
The class erupted in a roar of cheers and applause as the students surrounded Lan, each crying out their congratulations, as if the brunette was deaf. Lan smiled as he enjoyed his little celebration party. Lan caught the boy's look of defeat as it moulded into anger "Lan. You'll pay for this." Metallic promised coldly as the bell rang out. The entire class grabbed their bags and quickly made their way to their next lessons, including a nervous brunette and an angry blonde.
"Diffusion is basically the process which…" The teacher began, as a ringing sound interrupted her. Maylu blushed, apologising to the teacher and class as she shot a glare at her pink navi "I-I-It's Mr Famous calling," Roll said defensively from her PET on the desk stand, avoiding Maylu's dagger-eyes.
"Oh?" Maylu whispered as her glare melted into an expression of wonder.
"Maylu!" The teacher shouted in a cold voice, "Do you mind if we continue?"
Maylu responded by collecting her things and apologising as she left the room, PET in hand. The red haired girl disappeared into the closest set of bathrooms and locked herself in a stall.
"Maylu, there's been a break through in the research! Bring Lan over to Sci labs and we'll test out Dr Hikari's theory," Mr Famous happily announced as his face appeared on the PET's holo-screen.
"What kind of break through?" The red haired girl asked as Mr Famous's smile became a toothy grin, choking back most of his laughter.
"You'll see soon enough." Mr Famous managed to say with a straight face as the call ended.
"It sounds interesting Maylu, lets go and get Lan." Roll said enthusiastically as she grinned.
The red head smiled as she caught a sparkle in her navi's eye "I saw that," Maylu said pointing to the pink navi's eye.
"S-Saw what?" Roll protested as she avoided Maylu's gaze, blushing as red as the girl's hair.
Maylu giggled as she walked out of the bathroom, carrying her PET "If there's Lan, then Megaman is there too."
Roll blushed at the thought as she fantasised about Megaman running up behind her shouting happily "Roll! You're the only one for me!"
Maylu smiled as Roll wrapped her arms around herself while wriggling and mumbling happily "Oh Mega, here?"
Maylu tapped the screen as Roll broke out of her trance and turned her head to face a grinning red haired girl "You're not back at the apartment you know?" Maylu reminded her little pink friend as she stopped outside of a room "We're here." Maylu knocked at the door three times before entering "May I speak with Lan please?" she politely asked as the teacher nodded and the brunette joined her in the hallway.
"What's up?" Lan asked curiously as he leaned against the wall.
"Mr Famous has news. Grab your stuff, we need to go to Sci labs right away," Maylu informed the brunette haired boy as he disappeared back into the classroom, then reappeared seconds later as he grabbed the red head by the hand. Maylu blushed a little as she ran with Lan, holding his hand all the way to the schools' parking lot, where Maylu unlocked a new model scooter and Lan snapped on some rollerblades from his backpack onto his shoes and headed towards Sci labs.
"Oh, hello. You two got here quick," Dr Hikari greeted Lan and Maylu from behind his desk as Mr Famous shown them in.
"So what's the news papa?" Lan eagerly asked as he, Maylu and Mr Famous took a seat.
"As you've already been told we have made a remarkable discovery and have set a check point for ourselves," Dr Hikari began as he got up from his chair and walked over to an office cabinet. The two teens passed each other glances of confusion as Mr Famous cracked a smile, but managed to keep it hidden. Dr Hikari returned to his seat as he laid a middle sized box on the desk "Take this Lan."
Lan looked at the box, then back at his father, then back at the box as he slowly picked it up and lifted the lid slightly, allowing him to peer in. The brunette looked as if he had just discovered that he had trodden in gum "You…you've got to be kidding," Lan choked out in surprise, suddenly a hole appeared in the floor next to the desk. Everyone bolted on to their feet, but sat back down in relief as Rush popped out and sat on Maylu's lap, barking as if he was chipping in with the conversation. Lan glared out of corner of his eye at Rush for a second or two, he quickly averted his eyes back to his dad's smiling face. Dr Hikari pointed and wagged his index finger at the virus dog as he continued to smile, "Using Rush here we've been able to make a significant discovery, as you already know."
The two teenagers shook their heads simultaneously as the brown haired doctor grinned sheepishly, making a 'why do I bother?' look at the famous scientist in the chair opposite, taking a deep breath Dr Hikari started again "Using Rush and Maylu as subjects…" Maylu and Rush shuddered as their names were called out. Dr Hikari cracked a smile as he continued "…along with Dimensional Converters and Synchro Chips, we experimented through-out the night and just finish analysing the data."
"And?" The two teenagers repeated, each of them eagerly awaiting an answer.
"And your Synchro Chips are as of now useless…well without working convertors. We can still use them using this new method." Dr Hikari said casually as he continued his speech, "Apart from Maylu's Rush Synchro Chip which is very interesting because we've never thought to try Cross Fusion without a Dimensional Area. But Rush can maintain Maylu and Roll's Cross Fusion as if he was just appearing in our world. At the minute we're in the process of trying to implant the properties of a Dimensional Area into a Synchro Chip, we'll call it the Dimensional Synchro Chip. Effectively a person would be able to Cross Fuse in the real world, without a Dimensional Area. "
Lan let out an excited cry as he pulled out his PET while dancing around and asking Megaman if he heard the news.
"But!" Dr Hikari shouted over the noise of his son "We really need you to test out that suit we have for you, otherwise it's just Maylu stopping emergencies by herself."
Maylu nipped Lan as he cried out in pain, rubbing his elbow he muttered, "Yeah. I'll try it on."
"Excellent! Let's head on down to the experiment chambers," Mr Famous announced as they all got up and walked to the experiment chambers.
Lan disappeared into the changing rooms as he put on his new suit, he moaned and complained as he wrapped himself in a few towels before he made his appearance in a near bare room. A few scientists marched up to him and removed the towels, with quite a bit of protest from the teen as they successfully remove the towels to expose Lan in the new suit.
Lan looked around with a face as red as Protoman's armour at the numerous scientists as he held his PET in front of his crotch.
"Lan…I know that we're meant to be close…but move the fricking PET away from your crotch!" Megaman practically screamed, getting a laugh or two from the scientists and Maylu. Lan looked down at Megaman as he looked over his Synchro Suit, it hugged his body so much that if he wanted to tie his boot the suit would rip, the shoulder pads were too stiff, the gloves itched and worse of all it was purple. Lan held the PET in his gloved hands and slid in some chips including his old Synchro Chip and nodded at the control room. A green light flashed on as Dr Hikari's voice echoed though the intercom, "Ready when you are."
Lan rolled his eyes as the PET began to glow "Cross Fusion!" Lan announced, as the room exploded in a flash of blinding white for a brief moment as the Cross Fusion transformed the brunette. The light suddenly died down, as R Megaman appeared, looking himself over.
"Cross Fusion is a success!" Mr Famous announced as the room filled with cheers. Dr Hikari nodded at the team of scientists "Get ready for weapons testing."
"Yes sir!" The team of scientists replied as they continued to operate their terminals.
The final bell rang as Dingo, Jasmine, Vodka, Lan and Maylu walked out of the building, chatting excitedly about the new chips that Lan's dad was working on, apart from Vodka who just walked along side of Maylu.
"So when'll they be ready?" Jasmine asked excitedly, skipping happily on the spot while Medi franticly warned her "Don't go jumping around like that, or we'll have another sick person!"
"I'll be fine thanks to a well balanced lunch…" Jasmine argued
"Of chocolate and hamburgers," Medi cut in with a friendly mocking tone in her voice.
"Hey that's where my lunch went!" Lan said as he stared coldly at the girl.
Jasmine made puppy dog eyes at him and wrapped her arms round his waist as she cried out for forgiveness, burying her face in his chest. Roll whispered softly to Maylu from her PET, "Even though I've got no competition for Mega, it appears that you have competition for Lan."
Maylu huffed as she; Tory and Vodka continued to walk towards the gate with Lan shouting after them for help.
"Why do people do that?" Vodka asked Tory as they walked out of the school gate and onto the street.
"Do what?"
"Show affection…they're not going to stay like that forever and eventually it will hurt…so…why do people do it?" Vodka continued to query the brown haired teen. "Well…umm…" Tory bit his lower lip as he fumbled for an answer and sat on the wall, Vodka and Maylu stopped too.
"I guess…" Maylu started, facing ahead at the distant sunset as Lan and Jasmine caught up to the group "that…even though people may get hurt in the end…it's the time together they think about, not about if or when they find that they don't think of each other that way anymore. Because what's the point of affection and love if…if," Maylu sighed as the group started walking back to the apartment, once again leaving Vodka behind.
Author's notes
Oh and if you're wondering about Roll's small fantasy in her PET about Megaman, I've been watching Saber (No, that's how they spell it) Marionette (the entire Ultimate collection!) and thought I'd try out Cherry's character speciality (goofing off about the man she loves…or net navi in this case). Also I forgot to update this with the new chapter, I found it on my laptop and thought 'why not?' so here you go.
And another thing, I'm using the term 'papa' instead of dad because I love the Rockman.exe series and thought that it sounded better, more unique.
Backdoor trot is another name for Diarrhoea.
Chibi, I think is a Japanese word meaning young or child