Talking

Thinking

Ahhh... writing Megaman fics while listening to the Protomen... anyway sorry about the wait, school and such! Also I guess I'll put this in at the beginning of every chapter for the reviewers to just say thanks to them for reviewing. This was Az The Dragon and two anonymous reviewers named Phoenixblaze500 and FicReaderAlpha. Also MERRY CHRISTMAS! (or whatever it is you celebrate).

Chapter II: Vile Happenings

"Culprit captured." a strange mechanical voice spoke from beneath the thing's helmet that sent terror flowing through Chip's entire body, "Preparing to neutralize and carry to holding facility."

Chip struggled desperately against the purple thing's hold.

"Resistance is futile. I will be taking you to detainment center."

"Oh yeah you and what army!" Chip tried to keep up a brave appearance

The purple humanoid let a chilling, grating laugh akin to metal scrapping against metal, "I believe that I am more than enough to deal with an inferior being such as yourself. Now cooperate or I will be forced to shoot electricity through your body until you lose consciousness. I, Vile will not take kindly to any more resistance"

"How pleasant." Chip muttered under his breath before looking into the thing's black abyss behind the helmet, "What about two of us?"

"Two of you?" Vile's body language shifted for the first time into uncertainty since he had abruptly arrived. "But I didn-"

Myles jumped onto Vile's back and applied a crackling electrical wire to either side of his head. The purple monster let out a high pitched screech before collapsing to the side of Chip. A crack was heard

"Uh-oh." Chip and Myles muttered practically in symmetry, "That can't be good."

Suddenly the floor collapsed from the stress of a very heavy Vile falling onto it. Chip and Myles fell down and down for what felt like ages, until a pipe swallowed Chip up and separated him from his friend. Then Chips only company was the darkness. He slid and slid down the tube for several minutes, sometimes going up sometimes going down, until a small beam of light began to grow bigger. Then, all of a sudden, Chip was launched out of the pipe painfully into a shallow puddle of water.

Chip groaned and gingerly picked his pain filled body out of the small pool of water he had landed in.

"Where am I?" Chip looked at the strange wreck of what appeared to be an old laboratory through his eyes, which were slowly adjusting to the dim light, "Some day this has been so far. Guess I might as well take a quick look around, and see if I can find a way out of here, and maybe Myles as well if he's stuck down here."

Chip picked his way through a sea of cables and concrete to the massive computer situated at the back of what he could tell was one room. Suddenly the tile his foot stepped on sunk an inch or two into the ground. Lights turned on everywhere, and the computer came to lie with a low purr that shattered the silence of the room. Chip took a step back, as a voice not unlike one of those butlers in old movies came from somewhere in the room.

"I request that identification be given sir or madame. Otherwise I might be forced to take measure against you for entering this place without permission"

"Ermm..." Chip was shaking. "My name is Chip Hikari if that helps anything."

"Indeed it does." the computer's voice took on a much more jovial tone. "Welcome young master Hikari!"

"Master Hikari?" Chip echoed the computers words in confusion, "I'm glad you're not going to terminate me or anything, as I've had enough of that today as it is, but what's with all the formalities?"

"Well Master Hikari, your great grandfather programmed me in part as a research computer, and in part as his butler. Therefore as the inheritor of his... well inheritance, you are by default my new master.

"My great grandfather...?"

"Oh..." the computer's voice turned sad, "I suppose you never knew him. That would explain why this place is a shambles. The man never trusted anybody after the united world government was overthrown. Your great grandfather was the legendary Lan Hikari.

"That's not ringing any bells," Chip scratched the back of his head, "But I've never trusted any history lesson at those propaganda filled schools anyway. I don't suppose you could tell me anything about him?"

"Well... that's a story for another time."

"Another time?" Chip looked at the computer with a confused expression spread across his face, "Isn't that kind of important?"

"Not nearly as important as what I'm about to give you." the British voice turned much more serious, as a small tray slid out of the side of the computer. "Go on. Take a look."

Chip stepped up to the to see what looked to be a largish size thing that looked to be some sort of computerized wrist watch. Chip picked up the strange device and rotated it in his hands, curiously examining it. The letters M.E.T were engraved in the side of it.

"If your wondering, M.E.T means Miniature Exploration Terminal. For now it will essentially serve as a extremely small laptop that can connect at anytime to the net. It features a holographic projection type screen, thus allowing for its compactness. It also will serve as the unit to hold your future NetNavi.

"A NetNavi!" Chip bobbled the device in shock.

"Yes Master Hikari."

"How the heck did you get a hold of one? Only the government is allowed to have them." Chip strapped the M.E.T on his wrist, marveling at its lightness.

"You forget Master Hikari. I am a computer, and before your great grandfather died, he implemented a code in me to build one. It should be finished any time now." Chip could almost imagine a old man in a suit winking at him, "In fact... go ahead and point the side closest to me at me and press the blue button."

Chip did so and heard his M.E.T. speak in a generic computerized voice, "Download commencing."

"Really?" Chip looked at the massive computer with a bemused look on his face, "You have a British accent, and my M.E.T. is a generic computer voice in every old episode of science fiction ever? I hope my NetNavi has a bit more personality."

"Well you might as well see." the computer sounded amused at his outburst, "The download is finished."

Chip terminated the link by pressing the blue button on his M.E.T, "So what can I call you anyway? It's going to be awkward calling you computer all the time."

"You may call me Alfred sir."

"Alright," Chip swiped his hand across the top of the device, "Let's see what great gramps left me."

A shimmering light blue display popped up from the device and a figure slowly materialized on the interface. Its head was mostly a dark blue, but had two yellow ridges running from about the bottom of the front of the face's helmet to the back at a ninety degree angle with each other. In between the two The face itself was human skin colored and the Navi had green eyes. He had a strange blue backpack shaped like an x, as well as am x inside a pure red circle on the front of his chest which was covered in a thick blue armor. His arms were covered up to just before the elbow with a dark blue armored glove, while the rest of the arm was a lighter blue.

As for his chest, the dark blue slowly faded to a lighter blue as it moved down towards his legs, before a pair of armored boots of the same color as the helmet began at a little below the knees. On the ankle are of the boots rested the same x symbol on either side of both boots. The boots themselves had a yellow trim.

"This is...?"

This time the Navi answered him instead of Alfred in a friendly tone, "Megaman X. Or just X if you prefer, and from what my memory banks are telling me, we've got some work to do."

"If by work, you mean taking down an entire government," Chip's face slowly cracked into a grin, "I'm ready whenever, but out of curiosity, why exactly are you called Megaman X? Are you the tenth Megaman my great grandfather developed?"

"The X represents unlimited potential I was designed for similar to the variable in math that can mean any number in the universe."

Chip practically tripped over his own feet while pacing, "U-unlimited."

"Apparently," The NetNavi shrugged as if it was something, "That's what my creator tells me in my memory banks."

Chip turned to look at the computer, and Alfred confirmed what X had said.

"So unlimited potential huh..." Chip though as he looked down at his M.E.T., "So how do I get out of here Alfred?"

"In a hurry to leave so soon?"

"Yeah. I need to look for Myles. He got separated when I fell down here. We went down separate pipes."

"Myles?" X curiously asked.

"A friend of mine. We've been buddies since preschool."

"Well according to the information regarding this lab on the M.E.T..." X pulled up a map up next to himself, "the pipe next to the one you came out of would have led to this location."

Chip looked at the place X was pointing at, "That doesn't look horribly far from here. Mind guiding me as I walk?"

"That's fine by me...?"

"Oh right, completely forgot to tell you my name. It's Chip. Chip Hikari." Chip sheepishly laughed.

"Good to meet you Chip Hikari," X smiled briefly, "I'd shake your hand if I could."

"Well," Chip stretched and turned back to the Computer. "We'll be off then."

"I will see you later Master Hikari. Always know you're welcome here, and I will try to clean the place up a bit before you get back.

"Thanks for everything Alfred." Chip set off into the darkness, the new flashlight app on his M.E.T lighting the way.

Funnily enough, playing Portal 2 gave me the inspiration to finally write the freaking scene after Vile attacks. I had way more trouble then necessary writing that part out. Also I didn't make up the X thing, that's from some Anime OVA that was made at some point. Day of Sigma I believe it's called. Also, I could use a beta reader. Sometime it gets to the point where I don't want to read it anymore, and I miss things

-Forscythe