Disclaimer: I don't own any of this, besides the idea, Aya, Melody, and Ryou... so far.

Laika woke up bright and early the next morning. He had slept well. Whenever he thought about yesterday, he found it odd that he had thrown a tantrum. Really. He had gotten more pissed off at other things. That wasn't even important. But he decided that for some reason he had snapped. Oh, well. Not that it really mattered. It wasn't as if anyone had seen him and video taped the scene. He went downstairs to find Enzan and the new kid, Aya, at the elegant dinner table. He stopped.

"Um, hi." He said uncertaintly. Aya smiled. She really did look completely like Enzan.

"Yo!" She said as he sat down. "I wanna ask you something, Laika-san." He stiffened for some reason.

"What is it?" He asked. This time Enzan responded.

"Well, it's something sort of big. I'd be surprised if you hadn't guessed it by now. Which is why it bugs me that no one else had recognized it by now." Laika realized what had bugged him about the two finally. He gasped, and stood up in doing so.

"You're... you're..." He started.

"Twins,right?" Aya finished. "Great guess, Laika-san. We're gonna let you in on whatever we plan now, if you pledge to something. To not reveal this." Laika narrowed his eyes.

"Or what?" At this, Aya and Enzan smirked identically.

"This." With a grand gesture, Aya pulled something out of her jacket pocket. Today she wore a short ruffled skirt, a simple white blouse, and a cute jacket that went at about her first rib. What she took out was a kind of microchip, a custom made one.

"What's so important about that?" He asked her, although in his heart he probably knew he shouldn't have asked.

"Either you keep your promise, or this is going on YouTube." She inserted it into her laptop, and let Laika watch it. He turned a deep red.

"So, promise?" Enzan asked.

"Promise." Laika said through gritted teeth. Aya laughed.

"I told you, Enzan, Melody's plan would totally work!" Laika blushed deeper as Enzan laughed at what his sister said.

"I never said it wouldn't work, Neechan. I just find it funny that he didn't notice them! You'd have thought Searchman would be more aware about this kind of stuff, too." When Enzan said this, Laika turned to his partially okay and partially destroyed PET, his eyes burning into his Navi's.

"They. Were. With. You?!" He said calmly and yet threateningly. Searchman shuddered and then looked sternly at Melody and Blues, who were on Aya's laptop, looking innocent. He mouthed, Thanks a lot, to which they just smiled and waved back to him. He hurriedly explained to his operator,

"See, Laika-san," he tried to smile convincingly while saying these cheerfully, "I didn't know what they were doing. I never saw Melody, Laika-san, only Blues, and he just talked with me."

"Actually, Searchman," Blues put in honestly, "I was distracting you so you wouldn't see Melody under her cybernetic box sneaking closer to the screen so we could videotape Laika. That's why I wanted to talk to you." Searchman glared at Blues, who blinked in return, though we can't really see him doing that, 'cause of his visor.

"Search. Man. You are so dead. So unbelievably dead. Dead to the point of no return. Hell, I am sending your fucking ass down to hell. You are so dead that-" Laika continued to rant at his Navi, as Enzan casually sipped his coffee. He stopped Laika in the middle of his rant and said,

"Let's go to HQ now. Aren't we supposed to do something for the tournament?"

They arrived there earlier than anyone, besides some nobody employees, Meijin, Yuuichiro, and Kifune. Meijin was the only one there, though, when they entered the lobby. He waved them over, saying, "C'mere. There's something important." They shuffled over quickly. When they got over to him, he started walking, and the threesome followed him. He indicated to a computer, and said, pointing at the screen, "Look here. It seems that the tournament isn't only about the regular stuff, like netbattling, and fighting in crossfusion. It seems like everyone else is supposed to learn about your other skills, like areas in cooking, working, your own abilities without the advantage of crossfusion..." He continued on, listing things like this. "So," he stated simply, "we're going to start doing some of these things to decide who's participating in what." Laika raised his eyebrows, and the twins looked at each other. Searchman, Blues, and Melody all looked at each other from their operator's shoulders, from where they were perched on.

"But, Meijin," he started, "I have high doubts that many of us know how to do most of these things. Cooking, for instance." Enzan and Aya nodded, agreeing with him. They weren't saying they couldn't do these things, but that the others mightn't be able to. Meijin sighed.

"Look, I know that, guys. But if we don't train ourselves in these areas, the other groups will dominate us. Hell, they'll kick our asses. We'll be laughingstocks for the rest of the century. We have to do this. Okay?" He asked. Slowly, first Enzan, then Aya, and finally Laika, they nodded their heads.

"Alright." Meijin grinned.

"Good. Let's get everything ready for when everyone else arrives. We'll have a lot of time, though, if I know Netto."

In Densan, on a building, a massive private jet plane landed silently. It bore the emblem of Gabcom. The door opened, and a movable stairway was set up so to make an easy exit. First came a girl, with a huge, shiny forehead, blonde hair in two long braids, and a red dress that she usually wore, anyways. Then came a somewhat obese kid, whom we all know and had blue shorts one with a green shirt. The last two that accompanied them was another cute girl with green eyes, looked plain and simple, wore earrings and had a cute ruffled pink shirt, the other being a tall guy, also with green eyes, but with dark hair that was neither long nor short, but medium length. He wore jeans and a graphic tee. The first one spoke.

"Well, then, shall we go see them?" Yaito asked Dexao, Mary, and Ryou. Ryou shrugged and Mary nodded earnestly, but it was Dexao that actually gave a definite, obvious answer.

"Hell yeah!" And then they went off.

"Are we finally starting?" Maylu asked, for all of them except Netto had arrived. They had all been waiting for at least more than one and a half hours, and they were all ready to start except the kid that hadn't come. Meijin shook his head no, and told her,

"We'll wait 10 more minutes; if he doesn't arrive by then, we're not doing this with him." Everyone groaned, because if they were Laika, Enzan, and Aya, they had been waiting for three hours, Meiru and Jasmine for two and a half, and the rest for two hours or one and a half.

The clock ticked by. 9 more minutes, and no Netto.

8. Zip.

7. Nada.

6, 5, 4. Zero.

3, 2, 1 minute left and Netto still wasn't there.

59, 58, 57, 56, 55... Aya counted in her head.

43, 42, 41, 40, 39... Enzan counted.

25, 24, 23, 22, 21... Laika, Jasmine, Dingo, and the others counted.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1... Meiru mumbled, just as Netto burst through the door right before they all said in their heads, 0.

"Hi, guys!" He panted as they all turned to look at him like he was crazy, which, in a way, he was. "Am I late?" Enzan slapped his hand on his face, covering his eyes.

"Maybe really, really late, Netto! We were supposed to be here at 10 AM or earlier! Not 12:53 PM!" He told him. Netto blushed.

"Oh. Sorry." He muttered, and then turned his attention to what they were all wearing. "Why're you guys wearing aprons?"

"Because, moron," Aya told him as she walked over and punched him in the stomach, "We're going to practice cooking. Did, by any chance which I bet is 0%, anyways, did your mom's cooking skills rub off on you?" Netto was on the floor, and after a little bit, mumbled,

"No." Aya sighed, got an extra apron from Meijin, and tossed it on him.

"Well, hurry up. We're starting now." She and the others walked towards the kitchen.

Netto was collecting himself when the door slid open again, this time letting in a group of four people. He looked up. "Oh, hi." Yaito looked at him disdainfully.

"That's all you can say? 'Oh, hi?' At least give us a proper welcoming!" She stepped on his head. Dexao grinned at him and said,

"Wanna netbattle? Gutsman and I will kick your ass!" Netto shook his head no and then turned to the two others.

"Hi, Mary. Who's this guy?" Mary grinned.

"Hi, Netto-kun! This is Ryou, my older brother." Ryou looked at him and said,

"Hi." When Yaito finally stopped stepping on him, Netto got up and put on the apron. Mary looked puzzled.

"Why're you wearing that, Netto-kun?" She asked him. He replied,

"Oh, because we're going to cook. I think."

"Can we come up too and see what you're cooking? Why're you cooking, anyways?" Netto shrugged.

"Sure. I don't know why. I bet they'll be surprised to see you guys, though." He said, and lead the way.

Cooking. I just find it funny to see some of them trying to cook. Who should I make suckish at cooking? I have no clue. The video that Aya played was of Laika's tantrum, of course, and I just decided to reveal the fact that the two are twins to one of the NS. The only thing I don't know is how to stretch it out to make it seem like one month! Plus, I have to include the tournament, which'll be who knows how long... Oh, well, I'll figure it out. R&R, please. Thank you!