Chapter 2

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Netto skated to Sci-labs through all the rubble and flames. Hearing the cries of people and seeing the corpses in the streets, almost made him break down. But he couldn't, at least not till he found his father that is.

Finally he made it, the building was in fairly decent shape, a few broken windows and by the smoke he could tell something was on fire.

He turned around to make sure everyone was accounted for. Rockman look very scared; while forte look the same as always, cold, stern, emotionless, Dark Rock on the other hand had a big grin on his face loving the misery. Jezz how big of a jerk can you get.

Netto and the others hurried into Sci-labs. Climbing the stairs to the third floor when they got there Netto mentioned the navis to stay here till Netto told them, so that his father wouldn't have a heart attack. Of course Forte snorted in a 'whatever' way while Dark Rock made an insult that Netto just ignored. He left knowing that Rockman would keep them in place.

"Papa!" Netto cried as he entered the main area. "Papa"

"Netto" Netto spun around and saw his father there. "Netto"

Yuichiro hugged his child, he was close to tears. "I called home, but when Haruka said you weren't there I-I thought…" he didn't finish his sentence instead he hugged Netto tighter.

"Papa its okay I'm okay, besides we have bigger problems." Netto said giving the signal for the navis to come in. Rockman was the first to appear.

Yuichiro was shocked. "Rockman how are you…" he stooped when he saw the other two dark navis. Instantly his protect parenting went on and he ran in front of Netto.

"Netto stay behind me" Yuichiro said.

Rockman was about to say something till Netto cut him off.

"Papa, its okay they're with us, they're helping us for a short amount of time." Netto explained. Yuichiro eased down a little but Netto could see he still had his guard just incase one of them stabbed us in the back.

"Papa, that thing knows my name and yours, why?" Netto asked.

Yuichiro got pale, real pale.

"Papa" Netto asked, his father looked like he was in a trace.

"Netto, I don't know if you can remember, but do you remember John?" Yuichiro asked looking at his son with pleading eyes.

"John?" Netto asked him self.

John

Joen

JOEN

Netto gasped as the memory came back.

Yuichiro entered a hallway with lots of doors, following him was a four year old Netto.

"Okay Netto, I'm going to be in that room" He said pointing to the room. He helped Netto get up on a chair.

"Okay" Netto said. "Here," Yuichiro said handing Netto some money. "If you get hungry there is a vending machine over there." He pointed where it was.

"And if you have to go to the bathroom its just a few doors down. Got it"

"Yep" Netto said cheerfully.

Yuichiro smiled "Good I'll be out in a couple of hours then we can go to the park"

Netto watched his father leave.

It's been an hour, and Netto was bored stiff. He spent all the money and was still hungry.

'Wish Papa come back' he thought and sighed.

He heard the door open and turned his attention to it, a young man around the age of 17 or 18 came out. He had short cut hair, light blue eyes.

"Hi, I'm Netto who are you?" Netto greeted happily. The boy didn't answer at first.

"My name is John" he said looking over Netto.

"Joen" Netto said slowly, not really pronouncing his name right. Netto happily put a big grin on his face.

"Why are you so happy?" John questioned.

"Because I made a new friend" Netto cheered "Joen's my new friend, my new friend~" Netto sang.

John grinned, "Well it's was nice meeting you kid, See ya"

"Bye-bye" Netto waved and continued singing. "Hope to see you again"

If anyone was watching closely, they could see a small tear from in John's eye before he went back into the room.

Netto dozed off and woke back up. He looked at the clock and counted, he'd been here for three hours. And three hours to a four year old is a long time.

He decided to go see what papa was doing when something caught his eye: the lights were flickering. Netto went under the light and looked up at it.

It kept flickering then it went out. The ground started shaking

Hard

Making Netto hit the ground and stay there. A horrible screeching noise filled Netto's ears making him cry out. The screeching only got louder and louder.

Netto cried out for his father, hoping he would come.

Then it stopped.

Silence

It took Netto a minute to get up. He crawled over to the door, tears rolling down his face.

"Papa, Papa" Netto sobbed "I want to go home." He knocked on the door. It didn't budge.

"Please, I want to leave." He said waiting for his father to come out the door.

No body

Realizing that his father wasn't coming, Netto crawled under the chair, and curled up, softly crying to him self.

After awhile the door opened and Yuichiro came out.

"Papa" Netto cried crawling out from under the table and hugged his father's legs. "Papa can we go home?"

Yuichiro nodded. Then Netto remember John.

"Papa, is Joen okay?" Netto asked his face full of worry for his new friend.

Yuichiro remained silent then he spoke, choking back tears "he's not coming back Netto" it was a gently answer.

"Okay" Netto said his happiness gone and now he just wanted to go home.

"Netto-kun" Rockman said touching his operator's shoulder. Netto came back to reality.

"What did you do" Netto growled it wasn't a question it was an order. Yuichiro looked surprised that his son would talk to him in such a way.

"I-We were doing some research on other dimensions, seeing if there was a way we could make contact to the other side. John was our tester, if we made contact he would have been the first to know.

We didn't know that we were going to make contact so soon it was just practice, when the door opened something grabbed John and pulled him in and it closed. We tried to reopen the door but…" he stopped letting his sentence hag. "John's your cousin"

Netto was tense; his fingers curled tight in his hands make white-knuckle fists. "Please, please tell me that thing is not him."

Yuichiro went silent. "Netto, He – he isn't the same."

Netto turned around facing the navis. "I don't care. We're going after him and we're going to change him back" Netto's voice rose.

He left, Rockman fallowing close behind, and the other two after him.

Yuichiro slammed his fist on the walls. What have I done?

Me: well I hoped you enjoyed that little chapter

L: yeah next one coming real soon like we just started after this one