Chapter 4

Welcome to Los Angeles

"Don't look so surprised doctors," Regal said as he saw the silent shock come over both of the scientists' face's, "I told you I was a being that transcended mankind, Dark Protoman, Megaman, would you kindly take the doctors to the underground shelter?" Regal asked as both of the darkloids pixilated into the room.

"Yes master," they both replied as they walked over to Dr. Hikari and Famous quickly getting behind them and binding their wrists and then leading them out of the room.

Regal watched them leave and a few seconds later he called again. "Dark Whisper?" he asked beckoning the third darkloid.

"Yes my lord?" the girl asked as she appeared beside him.

"Find Dr. Javedson and collect the rest of our guests would you please?" Regal asked.

"Yes sir," Dark Whisper replied as she walked over to the computer consol and slipped a non handheld phone over her head. Regal looked on thing pleasure, it was all fixing to come together…

Terra looked out the plane window down at the ground below, or more correctly the lack of ground, water, water, water, and guess what more water! Everyone was doing something different to pass the time, Terra, Chaud, and Proto were all reading, Mega and Lan had headphones on to block out the noise from the videogame they were playing, and Maylu and Whisper were playing chess. Terra turned back to her book just in time to see Chaud get up and head to the back of the plane, she waited for a few seconds before she headed over to his seat.

"Before you even ask I don't know." Proto said as she sat down.

"How do you know what I was going to ask?" Terra asked back.

"Terra I can read you like a book," Prot replied without even looking up from his, "You, probably like everyone else on this plane is wondering why Chaud of all people suggested taking a vacation, especially one out of the country. And believe it or not, but even I don't know the reason."

"He didn't tell you?"

"He didn't give me a reason," Proto replied, "Chaud's not one to complain we all know that, but a couple of days ago after I commented on how everyone looked as if they were all tiring out he said that it was clear that we all needed a break, next thing I know he's talking about L.A. with you guys."

"You mean you didn't know about this until yesterday at Lan's?"

"Yeah, you didn't see the shock on my face?" Proto asked.

"Well it's not like your emotions are always right on the surface," Terra replied, "but no, I didn't notice, I was too blinded by shock to see anything else. So you have absolutely no idea why he would suggest going on vacation. Being tired can't be a reason because he's never been one to complain. Do you know of a reason why he would pick to go to LA?"

Proto gave her a funny look from behind his shades.

"I'm sorry!" Terra exclaimed, "but I'm grasping at straws here this whole thing doesn't make any sense."

"Well to tell you the truth I might have a little insight on that, but don't say anything, I don't know for sure," Proto replied as he handed Terra a newspaper, "turn to the marked page." When Terra did she read the headline: "King of Corporate World Still Rallying Troops." As Terra scanned the article she saw that it mentioned that the President of Blaze Quest Games was still in the middle of his latest crusade, which entailed convincing a pretty sizeable corporation to merge with his, and the company was stationed conveniently in one amazing city: Los Angles, California.

"I still don't get it though," Terra said, "Chaud doesn't even like his father, why would he go to LA when he's there? And don't even say teenage rebellion, that would just be too weird."

"I don't thing its as much teenaged rebellion as it is asserting independence." Proto replied, "Dad's controlled him for so long it's more like he's saying he wants his life back."

Terra stayed silent for a while, she wanted to comment on how weird that Proto was calling Mr. Blaze Dad but decided against it, now probably wasn't the time. "And conveniently embarrass Mr. Blaze if he gets on the cover of a tabloid." Terra added thinking about the numerous paparazzi that were in the city who just waiting for the child of a notable person to make a scene, or do something out of character. This vacation was definitely going to be interesting that was for sure. "And maybe," she said thinking to her self; Chaud had thought that far ahead.

"LAND!" Lan exclaimed as he stumbled from the plane kissing the ground once he reached it. Being in a plane wasn't bad in its self; it was just being on one for 12 hours.

"It wasn't that bad Lan," Mega commented as he came up behind him.

"Well you know your brother," Terra said as she came down behind the two, "he has ADHD, he can't sit still for very long. But I am glad we're here."

Once everyone was off the plane and inside the airport they took in their surroundings, one thing was for sure, they weren't in Japan anymore, the pace of the U.S. was different. Sure things were crazy in Japan but there was orderliness to the craziness, here there was no order, things were just crazy. Entrepreneurs and families taking vacations were everywhere, as the group walked toward the exit of the airport Terra started getting a lot of weird looks.

"Why is everyone looking at me funny?" Terra asked when people started to gaze and stare.

"Look at your outfit," Chaud replied, "you're the one who's wearing all black and has metallic silver streaks running through her hair. You kinda stand out."

Terra looked at her clothes with consisted of a 3-quarter length figure hugging black tee that had a sliver corset tie up the front, a black and sliver belt, dark indigo washed jeans and black boots turned down at the top to reveal the fluffy sparkly silver lining. As she looked into the groups of people she saw they wore all brightly colored clothes. "Well I'm not gothic," Terra replied as she walked on. "These people need to understand that a full black outfit doesn't mean someone's goth."

"Them and the rest of the world." Mega said as he leaned over and handing everyone their luggage.

"So now what do we do?" Lan asked as he adjusted his duffel's straps on his shoulder.

"Get out of here I hope," a new voice stated. When everyone turned to attention they saw another young man, a little older than Jackson coming up to them, he had a plum shade of hair and teal eyes, and wore the same slacks and button up shirt that Jackson did, proof that he was a Blaze Quest employee. "The name's Chase and I'll be your chauffeur."

"All this rich stuff's starting to freak me out," Lan whispered loud enough for everyone to hear except Chaud and Proto.

Whisper snickered, Terra and everyone else smiled.

"What happened to Jackson?" Terra asked.

"Nothing," Jackson replied as he walked up, out of his uniform, "I'm on vacation, this is Chase he's in charge of the American side. Keep an eye on these kids Chase, make sure they don't get into any trouble," he said with a wink addressing the other boy.

"Will do." Chase replied.

"Well then see yall at the end of the line." Jackson said as he turned and walked into the opposite direction.

"So," Chase said once Jackson had disappeared into the crowd, "You ready to see the big city?"

"We're ready to get out of here," Lan replied.

"Well, then follow me," Chase replied as he began to walk to the front doors, once he reached them he pushed both of them open, "Welcome to Los Angeles."

Walking outside they were greeted with the bright California sun, as their eyes adjusted to the sudden sunshine, once the glare was gone they were greeted by a sleek and shiny jet black town car. Like that was a surprise. Chase opened the door and everyone climbed in.

"I can't believe we're finally here!" Maylu said excitedly as she looked out of the window as they pulled off.

"I can't believe we're in another country." Lan added as he looked out too. "Hey, Chase is driving on the wrong side of the road!" Lan exclaimed when he noticed Chase was going down the right side of the freeway.

"He's not on the wrong side of the road Lan, they drive on the right side of the road here." Mega commented.

"So everything's backwards here?" Lan asked.

"Not backwards just different." Whisper added.

While everyone else was talking Terra looked around the limo, there wasn't anything special about it but she was looking for a specific switch. After a few minutes she found what she was looking for on the ceiling. Smiling she reached up her hand and flipped it opening the sunroof, getting to her feet she climbed out.

"Hello, Los Angle- AHH" Terra yelled suddenly when she felt someone pulling her down. Looking across her she saw it was Whisper who had pulled her down, but at the same Whisper was smiling so she knew she just did it for the heck of it. "Welcome back sis," Terra said. Whisper just rolled her eyes.

"Welcome back?" Lan asked Chaud quietly looking to him for an answer.

"Whisper and Terra were pretty violent to each other when they were younger." Chaud said back in a low tone.

"I can't really picture that." Lan whispered back.

"Believe me in a few weeks you will." Chaud replied.

"Wow" Terra whispered when they pulled up to the hotel, it was seriously huge and majestic, the next few minutes passed by quickly the whole doorman thing, "Welcome back Mr. Blaze" and all that, everyone tuned it out even Chaud and Proto. But after all the formalities were over they all came back to life. They were getting their tour of the hotel when Terra noticed something that she had hoped would be there. The hotel was like a huge condo complex, it had everything: indoor and outdoor swing pool, gym, video arcade, even a golf course, miniature and full size; but it was when Terra saw the door for the inside skating rink that she knew her vacation was set. She let out a smile as she passed.

"So what do you guys want to do?" Chaud asked as he opened the door to their room and dumping his luggage on the floor.

"How about checking out this room it's incredible!" Lan exclaimed as he walked in, and it was. It was a suite, no more like an apartment. When they walked in the first thing they noticed was the huge living room, not to mention the 62-inch plasma screen. Next to the living room and kitchen was a hall that led to 2 bedrooms which they later found out had their won bathroom.

"How about we look at a map?" Maylu asked as she pulled one off a nearby table, "it would make more sense to actually know where we're going."

"I think we should wing it," Lan stated, "see the city for ourselves."

"And get lost and on the wrong side of town?" Maylu asked.

"Well why not?" Lan asked, "It's not like there's such a thing as gang bangers anymore, maybe net bangers who want to delete your netnavi but it's not like you have to worry about that." Lan replied.

"Well I suggest we sleep." Terra stated.

"Sleep?" Lan asked her, "we just got here."

"Lan there is such a thing as jet lag, Dentech is nine hours a head of us out here, not to mention the 12 hour flight it took to actually get here. If we party all day today we are going to be wasted tomorrow."

"She is right," Proto commented, "all this travel offset all our internal clocks."

"And the only way to rectify that is to get some sleep, so good night." Terra said ending her statement in a singsongy tone as she grabbed her pillow….

"Dr. Hikari we're here," Manuela called as she and the chief walked into the lab finding it empty. No one was around all the staff and technicians were missing. "Where is everyone?" Manuela asked.

"Something's wrong." The chief commented.

"How very right you are." A voice stated, when the two adults turned around they were greeted with Dark Whisper, the next thing they knew they knew everything was black.

"Oh where are we?" the chief asked groggily as he came to, h e soon found out that he was bound to a chair. "What is the meaning of this!" he demanded.

"The whole meaning is that you don't escape." A cool smooth voice stated as a figure stepped out of the shadows, it was Dark Megaman.

"And we can't have that now can we?" stated another as someone else came into the light as well, Dr. Regal.

"Regal what are you doing here?!" Kiefer asked in demand.

"Bringing an end to you and the net police, what else would I be doing?" the dark scientist asked in reply.

"You'll never get away with this, out agents-," the chief started when Regal cut him off.

"Won't be helping you." Regal stated as he interrupted the older man.

"What do you mean?" Kiefer asked.

"You don't know?" Regal asked, "You're agents are AWOL."

TBC