Well, here's chapter 2. More entries from both Hub's journal and Jena's diary. Thank you cricketchick1990, Charlow, Megaolix, Shadowkeeper13, and LemmingRebel for reviewing. Enjoy the chapter!

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Lan and Mega got back from the parks around dinnertime. Lan slotted in the gateway chips and let his brother go up to his room since he couldn't eat being a navi and all. "I can't believe that Jena got away with writing my letter during class," he thought as he refolded the letter. "I mean, this doesn't even look like a notes page. She probably just had another sheet on top. Where did my Journal go?" He walked over to Lan's bookcase, and found it on the bottom shelf. "I guess mom cleaned." He pulled the book out and found a comfy spot on the bed to read on as he opened his journal.

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January 17, 2030

Well, the nurse, Mrs. Winston, just gave me this book and told me that I'm supposed to write in it. I knew better than to ask what I was supposed to write. I think that this is a journal, or a boy diary. I guess I can tell you about myself, book. My name is Hub Hikari, and I have HBD. I am 4 and a half. I spend almost all of my time in room 363, only because I'm forced to. My nurse is really mean. I almost never get to go and play. All the other kids do, but all the other kids have nice nurses. I think that my nurse is supposed to work with old people.

I can tell that tomorrow is going to be a good day because I get to go to the playroom. I think that I'll just sit in the reading place with my favorite toy, a panther named Velvet, and read to my toy. Hopefully there won't be a fight. There is this one group of kids who always pick on everyone, and always pick on me when I'm there, and there is this other group of kids who always be mean back to the bullies. Well, I had better get to sleep. The nurse is due to tell me lights out in ten minutes. But first I need to think of a name for you. Um, how's Light. That's what my last name means, so why not? Also, this place is pretty sad for me, and you are my light in here. Light it is.

'Night Light

Hub nearly laughed at the book's name, but remembered what it was. "Well Light old friend, I'm glad that you survived all of these years. You're probably the only good thing that the nurse gave me," he thought as Lan came into the room.

"Mom says that it's time for bed. You should go back to the PET so you can use the speakers to wake me up tomorrow," Lan said as Mega went and put his Journal in the back of the bookcase and logged into the net.

"Well, goodnight," said Mega as he put the PET on sleep mode. Lan responded by climbing into bed and falling asleep.

JDJDJDJDJDJDJDJDJDJDJDJDJDJDJD

"Wow Lan," said Tory the next morning at school. "This has to be a new record. You're here twenty minutes early, and you don't have a netbattle to attend."

"Yeah, well I made the mistake of giving Mega permission to use the speakers to wake me up this morning. I got a nice little wake up call from Linkin Park," said Lan, rubbing his ears.

"Hey, you have to admit that the song fit in the normal morning situations," said Mega from his PET.

"What song was it?" asked Tory as Maylu walked up.

"Lan, Mega, what was waking us up with Faint?" asked Maylu with a smile.

"It was that loud?" asked Mega as Roll appeared in his PET and gave him a hug. "Good morning to you too."

"No, but we could hear it because I had the window open," said Maylu.

"So, why does Faint fit in with your mornings?" asked Tory.

"Well, every morning, I try to get Lan up, and he either ignores me or tells me 'five more minutes', and then yells at me for not getting him up," said Mega. Tory just about fell over laughing.

"I would do that if my dad didn't wake me up every morning. If I don't get up when he tells me to, he'll leave and come back with ice water. Where's Chaud?" he asked, looking around.

"What?" asked Lan.

"Mary told me that Ryuu was Chaud. So is he back at work?" he asked.

"Yes, he and his father have made up," said Maylu as Dex ran up.

"Lan? You got here early?" he asked. Lan sighed.

"No, I'm still at home asleep and you're just hallucinating," said Lan sarcastically as he looked at the clock. Five minutes till class starts.

"We had better get into the building," said Tory as they started walking into the school.

JDJDJDJDJDJDJDJDJDJDJDJDJDJDJDJD

About halfway through the third lesson, Roll came over to visit Mega. "Hey, how's your day going?" she asked.

"It's fine, and yours?" he asked as he looked at Lan, who was dozing off.

"It's ok. Lan looks tired," she commented.

"Math makes him drowsy. Hang on a sec," he said as he tried to wake Lan up. "Lan, wake up before Ms. Mari catches you," he whispered. Lan replied by turning his face towards the teacher.

"Wow, I didn't think that would have worked," Roll commented. Mega just smiled.

"He's a lot easier to wake up in school," he said as he went over to the table in his area. "So what did you need?"

"Well," said Roll as she went over to sit down next to him, "I was wondering what you were going to do after school."

"I was going to start reading my hospital journal, but I think that now I'm just going to send it to the net, and see what you want to do," he said with a smile, which made Roll blush.

"Well, Maylu wanted to visit Yai, so do you think that you and Lan could come with us?" Roll asked.

"I'll ask him at lunch. Speaking of which, it's in five minutes," he said, looking at the clock.

"Well, I had better get back to Maylu," she said as she stood up, "Bye."

"Bye." "I wonder how Yai is," he thought as Lan received an email. It was from Famous. "Fun" he sighed as he opened the email. "Darkloid five blocks from here." "Lan," he whispered as Lan looked at his PET, "Blizzardman is attacking the park. Famous just emailed saying that you need to get there ASAP."

"How am I supposed to get out of class," he whispered back.

"Lan, is there something you wish to share with the class?" asked Mrs. Mari. "Class will be over in five minutes, could your conversation wait?"

"Um, Mrs. Mari," he said, walking up to the teacher with his PET. "I just got this email from Mr. Famous. I need to go. There's an attack on the park," he continued in a whisper. Mrs. Mari looked at the email, and released him from class. The moment he made it outside, he pulled out his blades and skated to the park.

He arrived there three minutes later, and found that a Dimensional Area had been activated. Lan skated back up the street a ways, slotted in half of the battlechips that he had in his pocket, and started skating at high speed. As soon as he hit the dimensional area, he slotted in the Synchro Chip, and Crossfused. He heard an explosion, and ran towards it. There was Blizzardman and CF Protoman battling it out on the playground. Lan ran up behind Blizzardman, and slashed him with a Heat Blade sword. "Sorry to keep ya waiting Chaud," he said as Blizzardman fell. "I had to get out of class."

"No problem," CF Protoman responded as he watched Blizzardman stand up.

"You're going to pay for that," the Darkloid responded.

"Really?" asked CF Megaman. "I think that you're going to pay for destroying the swing set and the monkey bars." CF Protoman just shook his head.

"Heat Shot," he yelled as CF Megaman shot him with Flame Tower. Blizzardman was able to dodge the Heat Shot, but got hit with full force with the Flame Tower. "Nice shot you two."

"Thanks," they both responded as Blizzardman activated a Full Recover. "Not good."

"Blizzard!" Blizzardman yelled as he sent the freezing wind at the Net Savers. Both decided that this would be a good time to activate the Salamander battlechip. Their bodies became engulfed in flames, and the two ran at Blizzardman. CF Protoman had triggered a Fire Sword inside of the Salamander, while CF Megaman initiated a Meteor 5. All four attacks hit the Darkloid, who was deleted due to the amount of damage.

"Cool," came a voice from outside of the Dimensional Area as the boys Salamanders wore off and the Dimensional Area collapsed. Lan and Chaud looked over and saw Dex, Tory, and Maylu running towards them. "That was so cool," said Tory.

"How did you get out of class?" asked Lan.

"It's lunch time Lan," said Dex.

"How did you know where I went?" he responded.

"I was moved to the front row, remember?" asked Tory. "I barely heard what you said, but I heard that you were going to the park."

"Well, I think that I need to go to Sci Labs. Could you tell Mrs. Mari for me, and get my homework?" asked Lan as Chaud walked towards a limo.

"Sure," said Maylu.

"Lan, you coming?" asked Chaud from the limo.

"Yeah, thanks guys," he said as he ran for the car. He got in and the driver drove towards Sci Labs. "Thanks for the ride. I'm only going to Sci Labs because I don't want to go back to class."

"I don't blame you," Chaud replied. "No offence, but school was very boring to me."

"It is to me too," said Lan as they approached Sci Labs. Waiting out front was Famous.

"Hello boys," he said as they exited the limo. "How was the fight?"

"It was ok," said Chaud as they walked towards Dr. Hikari's office. They walked in and saw Dr. Hikari working on a document.

"Hey Dad," said Lan. Dr. Hikari turned around and saw the boys and Famous.

"Hello Lan, Chaud, Famous. Lan, I thought that you had school today," he said, giving Lan a 'why are you here' look.

"I wanted to come and see you. And Maylu's going to bring me my homework," said Lan.

"Well, ok. You can stay. Boys, your PET's please." The two net savers handed Dr. Hikari their PETs, and he put them in the analysis program. "I'm just going to do a routine scan over the two of them, it should be finished in a few minutes."

"Thanks Dad," said Lan as he went over to sit on the couch. Chaud just looked at his friend and shook his head. "What?"

"You skipped school," Chaud said plainly.

"Well, technically, you are too Ryuu," Lan joked. Chaud just rolled his eyes.

"Ok boys, the scan is complete. Both Navi's are fine," said Dr. Hikari, giving the PET's back to their owners. "Lan, are you going back to school, or should I tell your mother that you are coming home right now?"

"I'm going home," he said. "There's no way that they're going to get me to go back. I have other, more important things to do. I might do a fly over in my car, but I doubt that Mom would let me. She'd just tell me to go back since I'd be there already." Lan and Chaud walked out of Sci-Labs, and said goodbye to each other before going their separate ways. Lan took the quickest way home, which, incidentally passed the school.

"Lan, are you coming back to class?" asked Ms. Mari as he flew past the window.

"No time, there's another problem. See you tomorrow!" he yelled as he wound his way around the corner. "That was close Mega. I need to remember to avoid the school if at all possible."

"Yeah, I really don't feel like trying to wake you up for the rest of the afternoon," he commented just loud enough for his Op to hear. "Lan, could you please slot in the Gateway chip when we get home so I can take the book Jena sent me in the net?"

"Sure," said Lan absentmindedly as they entered the house. "MOM, WE'RE HOME!"

"Ok," his mom said, as she walked towards the front of the house. She gave her son a hug, watched him slot in the Gateway chip, and gave her other son a hug when he materialized. "How was your day?"

"Hectic," replied Mega as he followed Lan upstairs. Mega picked up his Journal, and grabbed his PET while Lan went to take a shower. After entering a code that Jena had sent him, Mega's Journal was sent to the Net. He then sent himself back so he could read it. "Now, time for my second entry."

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January 18, 2030

Hey Light,

Well, I think that my nurse is trying to make my life miserable. I finally did something today that might have made me a friend, but before I could, the nurse took me back to my room. Let me tell you what happened. I finally got to go to the playroom today. The first time in a month. When I got there, I found Velvet, sat down in the corner, and started to read to her. It was a sad story called The Velveteen Rabbit, and it made me sad. But when I was done, everyone in the whole playroom started to clap! They liked my reading, and I was like "wow". And when I was about to say thank you to everyone, Mrs. Winston came in and told me that I was 'being a disturbance to the peace' and that 'I had overexerted myself', whatever that means. She then made me go back to my room. I tried going as slow as I could, so I didn't have to go into my room, but she kept telling me to 'get a move on'. She says a lot of weird things. I thought that I heard the playroom door open, and when I turned the corner, I saw a girl with long brown hair and green eyes following us. I was amazed that the nurses didn't see her. I was sent back to my room, and I watched TV for a while. There was nothing good on.

Daddy, Mommy, and little Lan are coming to see me tomorrow. I hope that they bring candy, especially chocolate. I love chocolate, but the nurse never lets me have any. She says that I'm going to 'rot my teeth out'. Oh well. I need to go to bed now.

Goodnight Light.

"I have to never let Lan read this. He'd probably get mad at me because of what I called him in here. Little Lan," he thought with a snicker, "He was little back then." Just then, the door opened, and Lan strolled in and got dressed.

"Do we have anything that we need to do after school?" Lan asked as he put his recently washed headband back on.

"Maylu and Roll were going to visit Yai and Glyde today, and were wondering if we wanted to come. I said yes," Meg replied as Lan looked at the clock. It read 2:50.

"Well, we had better meet them at school," he said. "Then we can walk them there."

"Always the gentleman," Mega said under his breath. "Let's go." Lan grabbed the PET, said goodbye to his mom, and walked out the door. It took him seven minutes to blade to the school.

"Well, should I walk in and say, 'I just got done, -cue bell-, oh well! Got to go!' or not?" he asked as he looked at his watch.

"Just stay out here, because if you had any work, she'd make you stay behind," said Mega, remembering the last time that Lan pulled that. "We have to take the girls to Yai's office." Lan shook his head as the bell rang and the students left the building.

"Hey," said Maylu as she walked up to Lan, "Time to go to Yai's."

"Yep," he replied as Roll jacked into Mega's PET, and gave him a hug as the NetOp's walked off.

"So, what was the 'second attack' about?" asked Roll as soon as the Op's had rounded the corner.

"Lan didn't want to go back to class, and he forgot that the fastest way home passes the school," Mega replied. "I personally didn't want to spend my time waking him up either. We just went home and Lan took a shower."

"Oh, well, I can understand that. What I can't believe is that Ms. Mari didn't make him come back to class," she responded. Mega just laughed.

The couples arrived at the building a few minutes later, and made their way up to Yai's office. "This is a really nice building," Lan commented as they entered the elevator.

"Well, you know Yai," Maylu commented as they entered her office, and she ran towards her friend. "Yai!"

"Maylu! Lan! How nice to see the both of you!" Yai said as she stood up to hug her friend. In the Net, the same sort of thing was happening.

"Ah, Roll and Megaman, what a pleasant surprise," said Glyde as he shook Mega's hand, and kissed Roll's. "Yai and I hadn't been expecting guests, or we would have cleaned up some more. Mega looked around the Net area before commenting.

"Glyde, you obviously haven't seen our rooms," said Mega, noting that the only thing out of place was a few magazines that were across the table.

"And Yai," said Maylu, "this office is spotless. It's not like your room is messy."

"Well, if I knew about your coming, I would have had everything organized," she protested.

"Ok, you win," said Lan, throwing his hands in the air in mock defeat. "You are the most organized person in the world. How are we ever going to compare to you?" Both girls fell down laughing at the boy's antics. Mega just shook his head while Roll all but fell over laughing. When she came dangerously close, though, Mega caught her and helped her calm down and maintain her balance.

"Thanks," said Roll after she calmed down enough to talk. "But Lan's right, Yai does try to be impressive."

"You got that right," Yai said as her secretary gave her some documents to look over. "I don't mean to be rude, seeing as how you just got here, but I need to look over these things, and I don't want any distractions."

"It's ok Yai, we have homework that we need to do anyways," said Maylu as she and Lan jacked their Navis out, and left the office, then the building. They walked together until they reached Maylu's house. Lan dropped her off, and then proceeded to his own room.

"Hi Mom, I'm back," he said as he started up the stairs.

"Ok, I'm going to have dinner ready in an hour or so," she replied from the kitchen. Lan walked up to his room and pulled out Jena's diary. He opened it to the bookmark, and began reading.

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January 19, 2030

Hello Velvet,

Well I did it. I made it to Hub Hikari's room, not Hickory. That kid in the playroom was not to smart if he got that wrong. Anyways, Hub's a nice kid. Let me tell you how I met him.

I was pulling a prank on the mean nurse, Mrs. Winston, when she started to go around the corner. The prank was a simple one, all I did was I put a bunch of jello on the floor, so when she stepped on it, she would slip and fall and get what she deserves. It went as I wanted it to, but she didn't slip, she was able to catch the counter, and she started to look for me. I was caught 'behind enemy lines' as they say on the movies. Well, there was only one room in the hall way that I knew had a somewhat nice kid was room 363, Hub's. His room was about three doors down, so I ran for it. I ran into his room and said 'if the mean nurse comes in, I'm not here,' and he said 'ok' and I went under the bed. The nurse came in, and asked him 'did a young delinquent come in here?' and he said 'what's a delinquent?' The nurse then got all mad and went away. I then crawled out from under the bed, and introduced myself, Jena Alexis Walker. He introduced himself as Hub Hikari. I asked him if he wanted to be friends, and he seemed really happy about that. I think that he really didn't have any friends. I told him that I would go and see him tomorrow, and he was happy. When I was leaving, I saw people walking towards his room. I think that they were his parents and his brother, since they walked in without knocking on the door first.

Before I went back to my cell, I mean room, I went to see Howie, and he told me that he was leaving tomorrow to go home. He's lucky, but I am going to miss him very much. He is a very nice person to be friends with. But now there is room for Hub to be in our group. Sam and I might go and visit him tomorrow, but I need to go to sleep

Night Velvet

"Well, that answers my question on how they met. I wonder why Hub didn't turn her in. He's such a stickler to the rules," he thought as he replaced the diary. He looked over to his PET and saw that Mega was asleep on his bed. "I had better not wake him now. He seems tired. I guess that that fight took more out of him than me." He looked at the clock and saw that it was 4:30. Lan walked over to his backpack, and pulled out his homework that Maylu had given him. He then sat down and started to work on the assignment, knowing that it would make his brother very happy.

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