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Chapter 13: Nicole
At an unknown location, Yusei is at some laboratory filled machines and tools lying around the area. He felt familiarity in this lab, but he wonders why he's here. Then he heard the sound of a bottle shattering when it is drop. He also heard footsteps stepping on the shattered glass. The teenage boy is afraid of who else is with him as he turns around.
This other person is actually a robot. Its color scheme is yellow and white with the yellow being the hardened plating and the white just its body. At the chest is a green glowing orb and on its face a really small green glowing orb.
The robot slowly raises its arms as it walks slowly towards Yusei. A female voice coming from the robot statically said, "Yusei… Yusei… Please… Help me…"
"N-Nicole!" he stutters in fear. "You have to regain control! Please!"
The robot called Nicole has gotten near Yusei as her robotic hands are on his neck. "I can't… stop this… body… You… have… to…"
Her hands started to squeeze on his neck, choking him. They both fall onto the ground with Nicole on top of his body while strangling him. Yusei is slowly losing breath as he begs Nicole in his mind to regain control of her robotic body. He frantically moves his right hand around until he grabs an electric cable that is cut open to have sparks coming out of it. He uses that cable and thrust the open end of it at the glowing chest piece, which causes Nicole to scream in pain due to the electrical current surging in her body. Her screaming has made her to let go of Yusei and he looks at Nicole helplessly as he watches the electricity hurting her.
When her screaming stops along with the electricity, her robotic body falls onto the ground causing a large thud sound. Yusei frantically runs up to her and opens her back compartment as he pulls out a small, white handheld computer that is connected via cable to the body.
He removes the cable and spoke in a scared tone, "Nicole! Nicole! Please speak to me!"
A static sound can be heard through the small computer. Then Nicole's voice can be heard through the static calling Yusei's name before it goes silent. Yusei tries to call Nicole's name again, but the small computer has no response.
Hearing no response from Nicole has made Yusei to cry in tears. "Nicole… I'm so sorry… I'm so sorry… Please answer me…" His sobbing voice echoes in the laboratory.
Yusei awaken from his bed with tears streaming down his face. He figures that he must have been dreaming of that incident as he raises his upper body and sees the brightness of the crescent moon shining through the window.
"Mega… Are you awake?" Yusei asks when he turns to his Transer that is sitting on a drawer next to his bed. He heard no response as he sighs and gets off his bed.
He opens a shelf from his drawer and pulls out small, handheld computer that looks similar as the one in his dream. He took the computer with him as he leaves his room and heads to the kitchen downstairs. In the kitchen, he made himself a cup hot chocolate and heads back upstairs to the room next to his bedroom.
The room he enters is what he considers his workshop for making inventions that are small and medium by size. The walls are reinforced just in case of explosions that may occur during his time inventing some stuff. On his workshop table are machine parts that Yusei took with him from Harmony Town and his toolbox.
Next to those parts is another handheld computer, but it's unfinished. The handheld's frame is put together, wires and parts are out, and the computer screen is not even attach.
Yusei sets down both his cup and white handheld on the table and grabs a chair. He pulls out his tools and starts working on the unfinished handheld. A few sparks has been made from the handheld as he installs the typing keyboard to check certain installed parts are working. He types in a few things and the next thing happens are wild sparks, though small, shout of the unfinished handheld.
When the sparks die down, he sneers at the handheld. "God damn it, Yusei… That's the third time this week! I need to replace some parts…" He sadly looks at the white handheld and melancholy said, "Don't worry, Nicole. It's not your fault for that nightmare, I'm still feeling stuck with my promise to you. As your friend, I will keep my promise no matter what." There's no response coming from that small device. "Though I wish I can hear your voice again."
His reason for the Matter Wave Project wasn't for creating a personal assistant, but to revive his friend, Nicole. Yusei first got Nicole as a gift from his father that was supposed to be his birthday present on his seventh birthday. After his parents' death and his transfer to Harmony Town, Yusei activates Nicole and he treats her like his friend. The two are perfect partners who sometimes argue with each other, Nicole acts to be more rational, while Yusei is more finding the impractical solution or the third option. It was because of them being opposite to each other was their growth as Nicole finds reason in the impractical solution and Yusei thinks more on his action before jumping the gun.
Their bond is strong enough for Nicole to ask Yusei to make her a body. Her reason for the request is that she wants to move freely and to see the world around her instead. Yusei complied with her request when he discovered an old Copy-Bot that he once found in an abandoned factory outside of Harmony Town and uses that bot to give Nicole a body. However, Yusei didn't realized that the bot had a virus that was hibernating inside its programming as it took over the Copy-Bot with Nicole in it. That event transpires into that dream that Yusei had before, causing him to feel guilty for her "death."
"So that's Nicole," Omega-Xis spoke, which surprises Yusei.
He looks around the area, until something drops on his head. The drop item is his Visualizer and he puts it on to see Omega-Xis floating in front of him. "Mega!" Yusei gasps, "I thought you were asleep! How long were you watching me?"
"Ever since when you ask me if I'm awake or not," he answers as he curiously looks at the white handheld. "So Nicole is this device… I thought you actually killed a person, but she's actually a machine. Can you tell me what happen?"
Yusei sighs and he replies, "If I tell you, then you must tell me why you stole the Andromeda Key. It's a good exchange if you ask me." He smirks as if he's having fun making a deal with Omega-Xis since he knows that the alien won't tell him his reason.
Omega-Xis clicks his tongue. "Fine then. But I want to ask, why are you clinging to this Nicole? I thought you're a person who wants to move forward just like how you labeled your parents dead."
That sort of caught Yusei off-guard as he looks at his shaking hands. He then solemnly said, "Her death is different from my parents' death. I killed her. Even though she's not human, I killed someone who is precious to me just like my sister and my friends."
Omega-Xis gasps when he notices that tears are streaming out of Yusei's eyes, despite his solemn face. The alien feels bad for making the young teenager to cry. "I'm sorry what I just said. I live with you for so long, I would have guessed the reason why you treat this Nicole differently than your parents."
Yusei wipes off his tears as he replies, "That's okay, Mega. It's just that it is my first time killing a friend who is close to me. Do you also feel sad when you first kill a friend?"
"Sadly, no. I live in a planet where I have to fend for my life and keep raising my rank to save myself. I do kill some of my allies, but I only did it to fulfill my goals." Omega-Xis decides to stop his talking from there, as he just remains silent for a moment.
Yusei sighs. "I know I shouldn't ask you that question. But it's reassuring that we may get to know each other." After seeing Yusei smiling at him, the alien heads back to the Transer to get some sleep, leaving Yusei to continue working onto the Matter Wave Project.
A knock can be heard from the door of Yusei's workshop. "Yusei!" Ayane's voice calls out to him. "Are you sleeping in your workshop? It's morning now! Wake up!"
Yusei had been sleeping in his workshop and hearing his sister's voce have woke him up. He looks at the unfinished handheld and spoke, "I need to find more parts."
He went back to his bedroom and change into his usual clothing. He also put on his Transer and heads downstairs to eat some breakfast, which is made by Ayane.
"Morning, Yusei!" Ayane cheerfully greets her brother. After she serves him his breakfast, she continues to say, "I know today is your weekend, but you shouldn't choose to stay up all night in your workshop. It's just not healthy and it worries me."
"I know that," Yusei replies, "I thought I should use that time to work on the Matter Wave Project."
"So you can create your assistant?" She takes a sip of her water after she finishes chewing her food. "Well, I guess it's okay. At least you're moving on with your life since Nicole's 'non-active state' last year. Nicole will be happy that you're replacing her."
Yusei makes a depressing face as he sadly looks down at his food. He doesn't want to show the face he's making.
"Yusei, are you listening?"
"Huh?" Yusei gasps. "What is it?"
"I'm heading to work now. Have you made my lunch?"
Yusei nods his head. "It's in the fridge. Be sure to warm it before eating."
After his sister takes her lunch out of the fridge, she heads to her car and she leaves for work. Yusei is washing the dishes, but then stops when Omega-Xis starts talking to him.
Omega-Xis asks, "Does your sister know what you're really using the Matter Wave Project for?"
"Sadly, no she doesn't. And it's better that way."
As soon as he finishes washing the dishes, he heads upstairs and grabs his backpack. He then quickly opens the front door, only to notice that the door hit someone.
"Ow! My foot!" Tama's voice exclaimed. Yusei opens the door to see Tama who is hopping on one foot. "What's the big idea, Yusei?" she angrily yells at him.
"Sorry about that! By the way, why are you standing in front of my door?"
Tama stands but her left foot is stinging with pain. "I came here to return your wrench that I borrow from you yesterday. At least let me know when you're going to open that damn door!"
"How would I know that you're standing there?" Yusei retorts.
Then she notices the backpack as she asks, "Are you going somewhere?"
Yusei explains to her that he's going to Dream Island's Junkyard to gather some parts for the Matter Wave Project. He got this information from Sonia before the Cygnus Wing incident.
"So you're starting to work on that project?"
"I have you know that I've started to work on it last week. I need some parts to replace the damaged ones." Yusei grabs the wrench out of Tama's hand and place it on the table in the living room of his home. "Thank you for giving back my wrench and if you're done here, I'll be going now."
Tama stops Yusei from leaving as she said, "I'll help you with carrying those parts."
"Huh? Are you sure?"
"Of course I'm sure. I still remember that one time when you have trouble opening your front door while you were carrying five grocery bags."
Yusei felt happy to hear that Tama offers her service to help him. He hands her his second backpack and they took a bus to Dream Island.
The two teenagers have arrived at Dream Island. It's definitely an amusement park with a lot of green on the grasses and trees. The amusement park has all kinds of rides; Ferris wheel, roller coaster, merry-go-round, etc. Yusei's child side wants to have some fun since he saw the people are enjoying the amusement park, but he doesn't want to lose focus on the objective.
Yusei asks, "Tama, how long was this amusement park was here? I know this place wasn't here seven years ago."
"I think about three years ago," she answers, "I also think Sonia did her debut here during its grand opening."
"Then do you know where the junkyard is, right?"
She points at the west side of the amusement park. At that side, Yusei can see the junkyard with a few hills of garbage. The junkyard has a gate and fence that acts as boundaries so that no one from the amusement park accidentally wanders in.
They enter the junkyard and it seems like no one is going to stop them. Yusei thinks that they're understaff or taking a time off. They look around the junkyard to find and Yusei found some useful parts that would definitely replace the damaged ones. Tama also found some interesting parts amongst the garbage and it looks like she's excited into finding them, which is weird for her since the reason she came is to help him with the carrying the parts.
"Awesome!" Yusei shouts, which surprises Tama who is nearby.
"What is it, Yusei?"
"Tama! I found a stash of Link PET Exceeds, Progress PETs, and Advanced PETs!" Yusei points at the collection of handheld devices on top of a pile of garbage.
Tama tilts her head as she asks, "What are PETs?"
"PET is short for Personal Terminal. They're handheld devices from 200 years ago and you can think of them to be the same as our Transers of today. It's amazing that we found such a rare stash! These can be very useful for my Matter Wave Handheld!" Yusei happily stuff some of the PETs into his backpack.
Seeing Yusei acting so happily has made Tama happy as well. She turns away and continues to find some parts nearby. When she notices that Yusei is already done putting the PETs in his bag, she started a conversation by asking him a question.
Tama asks, "Do you really think that your Matter Wave assistant can replace your friend, Nicole?"
Yusei drops a junk machine part when he heard that question. "How do you know about Nicole? I never told you about her."
"Your sister told me about her the other day when I was shopping for some new clothes. She told me that Nicole is an artificial intelligence program and she is one of your closest friends. She also told me about that incident and how that day affected you. Though I am a bit surprise that you have friends that aren't human." She places her hand on Yusei's shoulder and gives him a face of pity. "I'm sorry for bringing up bad memories, but I really want to give you my opinion about that incident. I want to say that it's not your fault and I may not who Nicole is, but I believe that she would be happy that you're making a new assistant to replace her."
Yusei, at first, felt a bit irritated that Tama is giving him her pity. He doesn't like people pitying him. However, he felt comfort from her words despite that he doesn't believe that comfort words would work on anyone. He really wants to tell Tama to stop pitying him, but deep down, he really needs her help.
He spoke, "Tama, I'll ask you one more time. Can you please help me with my project?"
"I keep telling you the same answer. No, I don't want to."
"But there's actually a reason why I want to create a Matter Wave assistant." This got Tama to listen what he has to say. "I'm actually reviving Nicole, not replacing her."
"Huh?" Tama gasps in shock. "But I thought—!"
"She's not dead," Yusei spoke in a firm tone.
He explains to her about why he believes that Nicole is still active despite not being really active. After the incident last year, he checks on Nicole to discover that her hard drive and CPU are still intact. Despite that and batteries being replace, Nicole couldn't respond to him. He doesn't know why Nicole isn't responding to him, but he doesn't want to give up on her. So he believes by giving her an updated handheld system would bring her back.
"But Yusei… If she were not responding, then she would most likely be dead. Also, isn't it better to replace her?"
"No, it's not! How can you say that I should replace a friend like some toy or game? She's not a thing! She's my friend and I'm the one who is responsible for her death!"
"Yusei…" Tama mutters as she sees tears coming out of Yusei's eyes. This is the first time that she actually saw Yusei showing tears as she always saw him to be happy and easy-going.
Yusei clenches his hands as he cast his eyes down at the ground. "Please Tama… I can't make this project work on my own. No matter how good I am with machines, I know that I need some help once in a while."
Tama sighs and then she smiles. "Fine, I'll help you."
"Really?" Yusei exclaims in a happy tone. When Tama nods her head, Yusei immediately hugs her, which surprises the girl. "Thank you! Thank you!"
Tama starts flailing her arms to break free from his hold. "Let go of me! I don't want your tears on me!"
Yusei lets her go and wipes his tears away with his sleeves. "I'm sorry, I'm just happy so hear you say that."
"However, if you're reviving plan doesn't work, then you should give up on her and just move on creating a new assistant to replace her. That is our deal, got it?"
Yusei doesn't like that deal, but he really appreciates Tama's kindness. He shakes her hand and said, "Deal! Thank you, Tama!" After they put some junkyard parts in their bags, they quickly head back to the bus station to get back home.
"I still can't believe that you invented this deodorant device to eliminate our junkyard odor," said Tama as she looks at a silver, metallic disk while she walks beside Yusei to home.
Yusei scratches his head with a slight chuckle. "Yeah, well… ever since my first dumpster diving back in Harmony Town, Ayane got mad at me for smelling so bad. So I thought I invent the Deodorant Disk to get rid of the smell to please her."
"You can invent something like this, but you have problems with the Matter Wave Project?"
"Using deodorant for an invention is easy, trying to create EM Waves to be real is not."
When they reach their houses, Tama went to her home to take a bath to get rid of the junkyard germs on her body. The same goes for Yusei as he decides to wash the junkyard parts to rid of its germs. As soon as they're done washing themselves, Tama went to Yusei's home. Yusei take her to his workshop room and she is surprise to see the progress that he's making on his project. Then she notices the handheld that is housing Nicole's data and picks it up. She looks at it with a sad look on her face as she wonders how are they going to revive a program that is most likely dead.
Yusei took out the clean junkyard parts and the two teenagers started working. Thanks to Tama's help, the progress of the project has gotten a bit faster. Whenever Yusei hits a snag, she gives suggestions and alternatives to him that he never thought about. Then Yusei connects his Transer to the new handheld via wires. The reason is because he remembers that he still have some EM Wave data he got from his Mega Man job and he plans to use them to become the Matter Waves. By the way, Omega-Xis is not in Yusei's Transer because of this method as the teenage boy asks the alien to hide in his computer. After he transfers the EM Wave data inside the new handheld, the two teenagers felt like they complete it. The handheld has purple-silver frame and it looks like a Link PET Exceed with a dial that has two letters, Y and L.
To find out if the Matter Waves works, they did some testing. They start with something small like a baseball to something medium like a chair to something large as a fridge. They're extremely happy to see that the Matter Waves work as Yusei tries to amped up the ante by using the Matter Waves to create a human body. Though the Matter Wave human looks blank and ghostly, it still works as it made them happy.
"This is great, Yusei!" Tama exclaims as she turns off the Matter Waves. "We have successfully finish this project for just a few hours!"
If it weren't for the junkyard parts, PETs, and Tama's help, this project would probably took Yusei about months to finish. He's glad that Tama helps him and he wish if there's some way he can repay her. But he stops thinking about the repayment and he starts transferring Nicole's handheld's components to the new handheld.
After reworking the purple handheld with the components, Yusei becomes excited to see if Nicole would be reactivate. He mentally crosses his fingers in hoping this new handheld would bring her back. When he turns on the handheld, there's no response. Well to be exact, it's more like the screen is on, but there's no sound. He has no idea why she's not saying anything and tries to think up possibilities on this phenomenon.
However, Tama sadly looks at Yusei and places her hand on his shoulder. She gently said, "I'm sorry, Yusei. But you have to face the facts that Nicole is gone. We can continue working on this many times as we want, but the results will just be the same. It's better you give up on her. After all, you're the person who already accepted your parents to be dead."
"Yeah," he solemnly spoke, "I guess you're right."
He couldn't disagree with her. Nicole's death happened last year and the time between then and now, it becomes too obvious for him. Nicole will never come back no matter how much he tries. He just couldn't accept her death since he's the one who killed her and he doesn't like killing anyone, even his closest friends.
Tama takes the sad Yusei downstairs. When they're gone, Omega-Xis appears in the room and he looks at the purple handheld. He clicks his tongue as he pulses in to it.
The Wave World inside the handheld is in a purple background with black blocks that act like platforms and mountain-like scenery. At a very large black platform that is in the middle of a giant chasm there's a black birdcage. Inside that birdcage is a purple, human-like ghost in a fetal position sitting.
Omega-Xis appears in front of the cage and he looks at the purple ghost. He asks in a rough tone, "Are you Nicole?"
The purple ghost looks up at the EM Wave alien. "And you are?"
"I'm Omega-Xis," the alien introduces himself, "I'm friends with Yusei."
"So you're friends with Yusei, huh. My name is Nicole and I'm guessing that you're my replacement."
The alien tilted his head. "I'm not your replacement. I came here to talk to you."
"Talk to me?" Nicole starts chuckling. "What is it that you want to talk to me about, junior?"
Omega-Xis felt irritated when Nicole starts calling him her junior. However, he calms down and just talks to her how he talks Yusei normally. "Why are you inside this cage?"
"I'm in here just to protect Yusei."
"Protect him? Why? What happen?"
Nicole chuckles again. "I thought Yusei told you about that incident, junior."
"Stop calling me that!" Omega-Xis roars at her as he slams his claws at the bars of the cage. "I have you know I killed a dozen of enemies before coming to this planet!"
Hearing that from Omega-Xis has caught her interest. "So you're an alien… Now that's interesting. But I'm still calling you junior!"
Omega-Xis both glares and growls at her. "Do you want me to delete you?"
"I don't mind," she solemnly said. "Go ahead and delete me. Set me free from my sins."
Seeing her acting like this has made Omega-Xis to regain his composure as he took the reasoning route. "Can you tell me what happen last year?"
"Last year?" Nicole gasps. "It's been a year already? Boy, how time flies when you're stuck in this cage."
Nicole explains to him about what happen last year from her perspective. She even recalls how she was strangling Yusei and saw the fear in his eyes. Looking at his eyes has affected her and she isolated herself into her system and shuts off her communications because she doesn't want to hurt Yusei anymore. Hearing her sad story has made Omega-Xis to feel sympathetic and he now knows why Yusei doesn't want to talk about it.
"I scared him," said Nicole in a trembling voice. "I almost killed him. If I have never requested him to give me a body, then that would never happen. I bet he hates me."
"No, he doesn't!" Omega-Xis retorts as he slams his claws on the bars. "I don't know how long you're friends with that idiot, but I have been with him for over a month, I know him that he's not the type of person to hate others. If you're truly his friend, you should know that as well."
Nicole shook her ghostly head. "You're right, but… I failed him! There's no way I can face him after doing something like that to him! I sealed myself in this cage to protect him! I cut off communications so I won't hear his resentment!"
Omega-Xis slams his claws against the bars again. "You're an idiot! Do you know what you're doing right now has make that idiot to go through some lengths to get you back! He still wants to keep his promise to you by using the Matter Waves!"
The purple ghost lifts her head and looks at Omega-Xis. "Is that true, junior?"
"Of course!" Omega-Xis roars like a wild animal. "That brat did say that he wants to hear your voice one more time! He even cries when he admits that he's the killer of your supposed death to his friend! Just hurry up and go see him already!" From that last yell, Omega-Xis forcibly rips the bars he's holding off the cage, surprising Nicole. "Just go and see him, you dumb program!"
"Yusei, I'm home!" Ayane calls her brother's name as she got back from work. When she enters the living room, she gasps in surprise to see Tama sitting on the couch watching TV with Yusei. "Tama, what are you doing here?"
Yusei explains, "She's helping me with my project. We're making some progress and right now, we're taking a break."
Tama is surprised to see how good Yusei is at lying to his sister without showing any signs of the sadness from earlier. She thinks that the reason why he is lying to her is because she doesn't want to worry, which is not surprising since she knows Yusei pretty well. She didn't want to say anything as she focuses her eye onto the TV.
"So when are you making dinner?" Ayane asks as she puts her purse down on the table and sits on the chair next to the couch.
"I'm just waiting for the water to boiled for the spaghetti," Yusei answered.
"Spaghetti sounds good," says a familiar, yet not familiar with the current people in the room, voice says.
Yusei turns to Tama and asks, "Did you say that?"
"Me?" She shook her head. "No way, I thought it was your sister!"
Everyone turns to the stairs and both of their eyes and mouths are open very wide as if they're shock to see another teenage girl. The girl's skin is light brown and her shoulder-length hair is black. The clothes fit well with her attractive body; she wears a violet shoulder-less, sleeveless dress with split tails, decorated with a red gem-like broach. The split-tailed dress shows that she's wearing white pants. She also wears purple fingerless gloves that reach halfway to her elbow, purple shoes, and a black belt that has a familiar handheld hanging on her right side.
Both Ayane and Tama are flustered to see another girl in the room while Yusei just stares at her. Ayane asks, "Yusei, who is this girl? Tama, do you know her as well?"
"That girl wasn't here when we're in the house!" Tama answers in a tense tone.
The unknown girl ignores the two girls talking to each other as she walks up to Yusei. She looks at him at eye level and places her hand over his cheeks. She gasps, "I can touch you." Tears are streaming down her face, but she's not crying in sadness. "I'm so happy. I can't believe that I can feel your warmth like this. Thank you, Yusei."
Yusei gasps in surprise as soon as he recognizes the girl's voice. "Nicole, is that you?" Yusei's voice trembles when he asks the unknown girl. The girl nods her head as her answer and he quickly hugs her with a happy smile on his face. "It really is you! It works! Tama, it really works! Nicole is back!"
Ayane points at Nicole, though her body is shaking because she's shock from Yusei's words. "Is that really you, Nicole?"
Nicole nods her head again with a warm smile on her face. "I'm Nicole and I'm definitely back."
Ayane quickly hugs her and Yusei together with tears coming out her eyes. "No way…! I… We thought you were dead…"
Nicole has managed to force the two siblings' grip to let go as she explains everything what happen to her. Everyone couldn't believe her story since the actions she has made are out of her character. Ayane and Yusei know that Nicole isn't the type of person, or program, to worried over the details of her actions last year.
"Are you stupid, Nicole?" Yusei yells at her. "If you're that worried, then you should have come talk to me and we can work things out!"
Tama jumps in the conversation by asking, "How come you're out of your containment now?" That's the question that everyone wants to talk about.
"You can say that I heard Yusei's voice," she said, but it's actually a lie. There's no way she can say that an alien comes in and knock some sense into her. "Thank you, Yusei for keeping your promise. I love this body!"
Yusei is happy to hear that, but he feels skeptical. He's pretty sure that he doesn't design Nicole's appearance. He finds it weird that she has this sort of appearance instead of a ghostly appearance. Though he decided to keep this information to himself, as he doesn't want to ruin the mood.
"By the way," Nicole spoke as she turns to Yusei, "isn't the water over boiling right about now?"
A moment of silence fills the room. After a few clicks in Yusei's mind, he gasps and he quickly runs into the kitchen. Nicole giggles as if seeing Yusei's reaction amuses her.
In kitchen when Yusei lowers the temperature of the stove to let the boiled water in a big pot to settle down. He quickly puts the noodles so it can be soften. He pulls out a second pot and starts making the spaghetti sauce.
"Mega, are you in my Transer?" Yusei asks during the time he's making dinner.
Omega-Xis answers, "Yeah. Why? Do you want to ask me about thing?"
"No, not really. But I want to say this… Thanks for bringing Nicole back."
"What are you talking about?" The alien plays dumb.
Yusei chuckles. "I didn't know that Nicole isolates herself in her own system and the only one who can enters the computer space is you. But I have a question, why did you do it? You're helping me to fend off the FMians from destroying this planet."
"I guess I'm just tick off of seeing you to look all sad and such. It's pretty annoying."
Yusei chuckles again. He wants to hold back his laughter of Omega-Xis's amusing words. Though he appreciates Omega-Xis's "kindness" of bringing back Nicole out of her isolation.
At an apartment room somewhere in downtown Echo Ridge, Sonia has return from her long day of her idol work. She feels extremely fatigue. Her face is flush in red as she checks her temperature by placing her hand over her forehead to feel her temperature. She can feel the heat coming from her forehead as she realizes that her health worsens a bit.
She looks at a picture frame with a photo of her young self together with her mom. Her mother has a complexion of a thirty-year-old woman, fair light skin, and long, flowing purple hair. Sonia's mother wears a white dress.
"Don't worry, mom." Sonia smiles at the picture. "I'm going to be fine for tomorrow. Also mom, I'm sorry for not talking to you for so long, I've been swamp with a bunch of things thanks to my awful producer. But I have about two or three questions to ask you and they're sort of related to this boy that I've told you about. Do you think I'm causing Yusei a bit of trouble? Also, what does he think of me? And, um… what else should I ask you?"
Sonia becomes extremely flustered when she asking the image of her dead mother. She doesn't know what else to ask her mother for relating about Yusei. Even though she's talking to a picture, deep down in her heart, she still misses talking to her mother like she used to do.
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot!" she gasps in surprise. "Yesterday at the radio show, I get to see Mega Man again after for so long. He saves my life from a small explosion in the radio booth. He's amazing and nice! Though for some reason, he reminds me of someone I know and I don't know who." She quickly change the topic by saying, "I still miss you, mom. I'm still singing for you and my fans, but for some reason, I feel like something is missing when I sing. The fans didn't know that, but I know. It's just that I don't find singing to be enjoyable anymore, but I have to deal with it since these songs are meant for you. Am I losing the passion of singing?"
After talking to a picture of her dead mother, she quickly changes out of her clothes and into her yellow pajamas. She turns off the lights and put her Transer next to her pink bed. She starts humming some random tune.
"Your mom is pretty," said an unknown female voice.
"Thanks!" Sonia replies, but then she gasps as she realizes she doesn't know who says that. She looks around for a moment, but there's no one in her room. She shrugs it off and said, "Guess that's my imagination." She lays on her bed and drifts off to sleep.