"Megaman!" Lan shouted, "It's on!" It showed footage from the preliminaries, and also showed Lan operating. After that was an ad for the Expo.
"What do you think?" Lan asked Megaman,
"It's really embarrassing." Megaman said,
"Oh, cheer up." Lan said.
*RIIIIIIIIIING*
"Hello." Lan said answering his phone,
"That was one of a commercial you guys were in."
"Mayl!" Lan said giggling,
"Hey Lan! How are you doing?" Mayl said,
"I'm doing great how about you?" Lan said,
"I'm doing well." Mayl said,
"So what made you call?" Lan said,
"Duh, from the commercial that just aired." Mayl said,
"Wow!" Lan said, "I didn't know that they were going to air all the way to ACDC."
"Well, you and Megaman look awesome." Mayl said,
"Thanks." Lan said, "So how are things at ACDC?"
"Things have been going well." Mayl said, "But things aren't as great without you, and the town hasn't changed a bit."
"Really?" Lan said surprised,
"Yea." Mayl said, "Since you left, Dex doesn't have anyone else to lose to." Mayl and Lan laughed.
"Well, I'm off from school Friday through tuesday," Lan started, "so I was planning to come back down to ACDC for a day or so." Now it was Mayl turn to be surprised.
"I was just about to say that." Mayl said giggling,
"Then it's a deal," Lan said, "I'll come back to ACDC and stay for a couple days."
"That sounds great!" Mayl said,
"Before we hang up, how's Dex and Yia doing?" Lan asked,
"Well, Dex's brother is turning seven, I don't remember when, but he's going back to Netopia to visit him." Mayl said,
"When is he going back?" Lan asked,
"He's going back I think sometime next week." Mayl said,
"What about Yia?" Lan asked,
"She's doing fine." Mayl said, "Being her normal self."
"Well..." Lan said, "I need to ask my mom if I can stay first."
"Ok," Mayl said, "Send me an email when you get there answer ok?"
"Sounds good to me." Lan said,
"Well see/ talk to you whenever." Mayl said,
"See ya." Lan said, and they hung up.
"Who was that?" Megaman asked,
"You won't paying attention to the call?" Lan asked,
"Not really." Megaman said,
"Then what we're doing?" Lan asked,
"Asking mom if we could go to ACDC for a couple days." Megaman said with a grin,
"So you WERE paying attention!" Lan said,
"Lan you are so dense." Megaman said facepalming. After two days of anticipation, Lan was off on the LevBus to ACDC. Lan left the house at about 1:00pm and got to ACDC at about 4:00pm. It was a long first two minutes for Lan, until he fell asleep. Lan woke up for the last 20 minutes or so of the ride, and got off at the all too familiar station. He walked those all too familiar stairs, into the all too familiar town. Mayl was right, I didn't change a bit. He walked passed Higsby's chip shop, and noticed a sign in the window saying that he was off at Netopia again. Then he started walking through the ACDC park. He saw the old jungle jim he used to play on as a kid with his friends. Lan smiled remembering the memories that he had on that jim.
"Nostalgia huh?" Mayl asked from behind,
"Hey Mayl!" Lan said, "Where did you come from?"
"I was walking back from the store and I saw you in the park." Mayl explained,
"So where is Dex and Yia?" Lan asked,
"Dex left early to go to Netopia, and I sent Yia an email saying that you were coming, but she didn't reply yet." Mayl explained,
"Hmmm," Lan said, "So how's life after I left?"
"It got a little boring in the morning since I didn't have anyone to walk to school with." Mayl said,
"Yea same thing too." Lan started, "Let's sit down and talk some more." Lan and Mayl sat down at the park bench near by, and talked for about an hour. They got interrupted when it started to get cold. After a little bit it started to drizzle a little bit. Lan and Mayl decided to go up to her room so they don't get drenched in the rain. As they were walking out of the park it started pouring down rain and hail. By this time Mayl was shivering and Lan could see his breath. They ran as fast as they could without slipping to Mayl's house and up to her room.
"Hey Mayl?" Megaman asked,
"Yea Megaman?" Mayl said,
"Does Roll know I'm here?" Megaman asked,
"She knows you're coming but she doesn't know you're here already." Mayl answered,
"Cool." Megaman said. Lan jacked Megaman in to Mayl's computer and sat down with Mayl to continue there conversation. Megaman quietly teleported into Mayl's homepage. He looked around the homepage to see if he could find Roll. He saw Roll on her couch laying down sleeping. Megaman walked up and looked at Roll for the first time in months. He lightly shook Roll.
"Mayl..." Roll groaned, "Five more minutes."
"I'm not Mayl." Megaman said,
"Mega?" Roll said,
"See for yourself." Megaman said. Roll rubbed her eyes and sat up and look towards Megaman.
"MEGA!: Roll said pouncing on Megaman, " I missed you so much."
"I missed you too." Megaman said. Roll and Megaman stood there for a couple of minutes hugging.
"Get a room you too." Lan said laughing. Megaman sighed and facepalmed.
"Follow me Mega," Roll said, "I'm going to show you something Yia made on the net." Megaman and Roll walked through the teleporter into the net. They walked a little way until they got to ACDC's BBS.
"This is what you wanted to show me?" Megaman said,
"No." Roll said, "I want you to read these two posts." Megaman looked at the first post he was told to read. It was called "Done Moving" and it was posted by "Lan Love".
"Did Mayl post this?" Megaman laughed,
"No." Roll said, "I checked all her recent posts and she didn't write it."
The post read: I heard that the most famous kid in ACDC, Lan, has moved away! I'm a big fan and I was hoping to get an autograph, but I was so shocked when I heard he had moved that 20 pounds! If this keeps up I'll have to become a sumo wrestler! Someone tell me the truth! What happened to Lan! I don't want to become a sumo wrestler!
"Yea," Megaman said, "Roll did not post this."
"Read the reply above that one." Roll said. This second post was called "ClassmateHere?" and it was posted by a person named "Kelly".
The post read: It seems that one of our classmates went to Lan's house on Sunday, Everyone went to see Lan off with sad faces... A girl with red hair even started crying over Lan not being there anymore... I hate to say it, but the rumors are all true. He moved.
"Did Mayl really cry?" Megaman asked Roll. Roll nodded her head.
"She really loves Lan." Roll admitted,
"Well Lan loves her too." Megaman said, "You should've saw the look on his face when he heard Mayl's voice two days ago. So what are you planning to do?"
"I want to get Lan and Mayl together." Roll said, "It's a perfect time since Dex and Yia are semi-out of the picture."
"Well, I could tell Lan that Mayl likes him." Megaman said,
"Yea!" Roll shouted, "Then I can tell Mayl that Lan likes her and they might get together without our help!" Right after she said that a screen appeared by Megaman with Lan in the frame.
"Megaman, can you please tell Mayl that you have the power of a cybeast." Lan said. Megaman heard Mayl giggling in the background.
"Yea." Megaman said,
"See!" Lan said laughing,
"Ok. Ok. I believe you." Mayl said laughing, and the screen behind Megaman disappeared.
"What were they talking about Mega?" Roll asked,
"The WWW tried to capture the cybeast Gregar, and during the capture of the cybeasts, I captured one of them by absorbing one of them into my body." Megaman explained,
"Is- isn't that dangerous." Roll said,
"Yea." Megaman said, "The cybeast tried to take over multiple times in the past." They stood there awkwardly for a two minutes looking at each other.
"Hey Roll," Megaman started, "Do you mind if I take you to a secret place of mine?"
"I don't mind." Roll said. Her heart was pounding with excitement. Megaman took her a little bit out of ACDC Cyber Town, into a strange forest.
"Where are we going?" Roll asked, "It's getting dark out."
"That's why I asked you out here." Megaman said, "It's better when it's dark out." They started walking deeper and deeper into the forest. They were hiking up a hill in the forest, about 3/4 to the place Megaman wanted the bring Roll, Roll tripped and cut her hand on a tree branch.
"Ahh!" Roll said as she slipped, "Ow!"
"Roll!" Megaman shouted running to Roll, "Are you ok?" Roll shaked her head no and clutch her wrist. Roll had tears going down her face. The cut was pretty deep, so Megaman took a large leaf of a tree branch and wrapped it around Roll's wound.
"The place I want to show you is right over the hill." Megaman said helping Roll. They walked slowly but surely made it over the hill. When they walked over that hill, Roll saw a majestic garden with tons of colorful flowers.
"Wow!" Roll gasped, "How did you find this?"
"A found a post on the ACDC BBS a while back saying something about this. I did some reasearch, and sure enough, it exists." Megaman explained, "But this isn't the best part." Megaman lead Roll to a waterfall flowing over the side. The view was spectacular. It overlooked the lake that was flowing over the side, and the moon light reflected of the lake's quite water.
"It's beautiful." Roll said. Megaman was still holding her hand and lead her over to the edge. There was a fence blocking you from falling off.
"I was going to bring you here the weekend when we moved." Megaman said, "So how is your cut doing?" Megaman said carefully removing the leaf.
"It still throbs a little bit." Roll said,
"I'm sorry." Megaman said,
"Why are you sorry?" Roll asked, "It was my fault I tripped."
"You wouldn't of tripped if I was there behind you instead of like 10 miles in front of you." Megaman said, Megaman said looking into her eyes. Her eyes sparkled in the moonlight.
"Did I ever tell you how beautiful your eyes are." Megaman said with a smile,
"No." Roll said blushing,