It has been a week since Megaman's deletion. Lan hasn't been the same since. He is depressed, nothing would cheer him up. Roll has been slumped over in Maylu's PET with her head dug into her legs, sobbing.
"Mega...please come back to me, please…" she would say.
Maylu became very concerned for both Roll and Lan. She didn't know what to do either.
"Losing a friend must be hard, especially twice." Maylu thought to herself.
"Hey Roll, are you okay?" Maylu asked Roll.
"No!" Roll spit out.
"Do you want to talk about it?" Maylu asked.
"I never got to...!" she snapped, "...I never got to tell him how I feel! And I never will be able to!" Roll said, balling.
"We'll get him back like last time!" Maylu said, trying to cheer Roll up.
"We can't! The memory orbs aren't here like last time! (NT Warrior) Roll yelled, tears flowing down her cheeks.
"Megaman, please come back!" Roll yelled at the top of her lungs.
At Lan's house, he is sitting on his bed, going through his battle chips, sorting them for optimal strategy. But there was no point, Megaman was gone. All Lan could think of was Megaman and how bad he wanted him back. Then Roll Appeared in Lan's empty PET. Lan turned to face the table next to his bed.
"Wassup Roll?" Lan asked
"I just wanted to stay here for a while." she replied
"That's okay." Lan said and looked back at his chips.
She stood there for a few minutes, looking around the PET, though there was nothing to look at. It was all green.
"You liked him didn't you?" Lan asked with a smirk.
He startled Roll "what no!" She spit out.
"If and when we get him back you should tell him how you feel." Lan knew she was lying.
A couple hours later, Roll went back to the coliseum where Megaman was deleted. When she looked around, she got flashbacks of him, being torn apart, in pain. It hurt her. She began to cry again. After a while of looking around, she saw something glimmering. She ran over to see what it is. When Roll picked it up, she gasped. It was half of Megaman's emblem. Just by holding it, she could feel his presence, next to her.
"You found a piece of Megaman!?" Lan and Maylu both said in unison, exasperated. Lan is at Maylu's house so she can help him with his homework.
"Yeah, I found half of his emblem at the coliseum." Roll told them while she held the piece up so Lan and Maylu could see.
"Why would his emblem be there?" Lan asked
"That Navi ripped half of it off which was what deleted him." Roll said hurtfully, then she looked away.
Lan thought for a moment. "What if you could find the other half?" Lan suggested.
"Huh?" Roll looked up.
"Maybe If you could find the other half of the emblem, It could bring him back?" Lan continued.
"I don't know." Roll thought out loud.
Then the emblem began to glow a bright neon blue. Roll fell back from fear and dropped the piece in front of her. Lan and Maylu covered their eyes.
"Roll?-You found half-Help me-Under Net-Please…" It cut off
The light faded away just leaving the half-emblem. Roll sat there, in shock. As well as Lan and Maylu.
"Mega? Was that you?" Roll whispered
"What was that?" Lan asked, wiping his eyes.
"It sounded like Megaman." Maylu said.
"If it was...what was the demonic voice?" Maylu continued.
"Most likely the Navi who deleted him." Lan replied
"He said the Under Net. Is he there? Roll asked with a glimmer of hope
"Must be Megaman!" Lan yelled in excitement
"Yes!" Roll yelled in extreme excitement.
Roll immediately teleported to Net City to access the Under Net.
"Roll! Wait-!" Maylu started
Once Roll got to the city, she ran for the edge of the city because the edge was prone to Under Net openings. After a while of searching, she found an opening to the Under Net. she hesitated, but she thought of Megaman, and how she could bring him back. With the thought, she jumped in. It was about a fifteen foot drop. Once she landed, she looked around a little intimidated. Roll has never been here before. She picked a direction and walked. After about ten minutes, she spotted something coming in the distance. she looked closer, and saw that they were two Under Net Navis. She gave a quick yelp and jump behind a data mound. The Navis never said anything as they got closer. Once the two were in about ten feet from where Roll was hiding, one of them stopped and so did the other.
"Do you hear something?" one asked.
Roll covered her mouth with her hands once she realized she was breathing heavily.
The other Navi paused to listen.
After a second he answered, "No, I think you're hearing things."
"Maybe I am."
The Navis continued on their way. Once they were out of sight, Roll made a break for it. She was too busy running to notice an oncoming downwards slope. Once she realized it was there, it was too late. She lost her footing and tumbled down the slope. Once she reached the bottom she tried to stand back up but she was still going to fast, she lost balance and fell on her face and skid to a stop. She pushed herself up and rubbed her cheek. She looked forward and saw another Navi standing a ways from her. But she immediately recognized the colors of the Navi.
"Mega?" she asked to herself
She started to run to him. Once she got closer, she saw it was Megaman. But he was still damaged, his helmet was crushed, and still without an arm, and his head slouched down, leaking data.
"Oh no! Mega you're still...are you okay? She yelled once she saw his condition.
When Roll was standing a few inches from Megaman, He placed his hand on her shoulder, startling her.
"Mega-?" Roll began
Then Megaman lifted his head, revealing his pale face and blank, white eyes, and an evil smile.
"AHHH! Megaman!" she screamed, in utter fear.
Megaman began to drag Roll into the ground. Megaman began to laugh non-stop.
"No! Mega!" she yelled while trying to escape.
Roll closed her eyes, then the laughing stopped. She opened her eyes and saw that she was laying on the ground in pitch-darkness. Roll stood up, trembling from fear.
"Roll!" She heard Megaman yell.
"Megaman?" she asked. Megaman sounded normal this time.
Roll began to run towards the voice. The darkness slowly being illuminated until the darkness was gone. Then Roll saw him, he was normal and not damaged.
"Megaman! You're okay!" Roll exclaimed.
"Roll!" Megaman said again, smiling.
Then an arm appeared out of thin air behind Megaman. The arm suddenly thrusted right through Megaman's stomach, like what happened last time.
"AAHHHH!" Megaman yelled as he faded away. The arm disappeared as well.
Roll screamed and began to cry, this was too much for her to handle. Especially having see Megaman get deleted like before and the look of pain on his face as he faded away. When Roll turned around, the same mangled Megaman was standing a foot away. His blank eyes, glaring through Roll's soul.
"Leaving so soon?" He asked coldly, then proceeded to grab Roll's arm with his one hand.
"Please no!" Roll begged with tears rolling down her face.
Megaman smirked and through her back into the darkness. Roll landed and slid back about five feet. She stood up, about to crack from the emotions. Then a pretty large screen appeared in front of her. It showed Megaman's face as he was screaming in pain while his head was being crushed by the Navi's hand. Then he fell limp, and it ended. Roll couldn't move from the fear and anger towards whoever was doing this to her.
"Oh Roll…!" she heard behind her.
Roll froze as tears were flowing down her cheeks. She slowly turned around and saw the deathly Megaman again.
"Please no…" Roll begged
Megaman just smirked. Then He kicked Roll and she fell on the ground, back down. He walked over and pressed his foot into Rolls gut.
He then activated what's left of his Mega Buster and pointed it at Roll.
"Megaman! Please no! She begged while crying.
"Tur-ret!" Roll heard, the signal was weak.
"Maylu?" Roll asked herself from under Megaman's foot.
Then a green turret appeared and shot at Megaman once. It hit him in the chest. He screamed and then faded away.
Once he was gone, Roll stood up but quickly fell to her knees and began to sob. Then she was teleported out.
"Thank gosh I found your signal."
Roll didn't say anything.
"What were you thinking? Going out like that on your own! You could have got deleted!" Maylu told Roll angrily.
"I just wanted to save Megaman." Roll argued.
"Well I don't want you to end up like Megaman!" Maylu snapped.
This made Roll very angry, using Megaman as an example like that. Without a word and single tear, Roll went into sleep mode.
"Hey Roll, Roll! I'm sorry I-" Maylu sighed, now Roll was mad at her.
Roll hasn't spoken to Maylu all day. She won't even look at her.
"Roll, come on I'm sorry!" Maylu would try to say, but Roll wasn't having it.
The next day, Roll snuck out while Maylu was in school. She was going to try to find answers. The place she went to was a data log center, where all kinds of files about anything was kept. She went to the Navi section. After a while of searching, there was nothing about it, until she found the last file. "Unknown" was the file name. When she began to read it, she gasped. The info sounded like the Navi.
"There's not much known about this Navi. But it was created along with the cybernet. The Navi is rarely seen, it is thought to live in the Under Net. It only comes out to gain strength from Navis with high fighting power. Every powerful Navi it faced all got deleted. But eye-witnesses say that it rarely talks, only says one or more words at a time. They say it is the most unholy and evil voice ever heard. Stay away from this Navi, anyone who faces it will be deleted." the file read.
"So Megaman is in the Under Net, was it that Navi who tricked me like that? Making Megaman do that do me." Roll thought to herself
"So you're researching it." a voice said from behind Roll
The voice scared Roll and she quickly turned around. A male, human looking Navi that had green armor with black accents was standing behind her.
"Who are you?" Roll asked
"My name is Derek, I am the only one that escaped from one of the Navi's attacks. I understand you lost a dear friend of yours to it, Megaman is it?." he asked.
Roll sighed, "yes."
"I have some information to possibly bring him back." Derek said.
Roll perked up, "Really?"
"From what I've experienced, The Navi takes a piece from everyone of its victims, no one knows why." he informed.
Roll brought out the half of Megaman's emblem. Derek examined it.
"It is quite possible it has the other half of his symbol. If you could somehow get the other half from him, you could bring Megaman back." Derek continued.
"Are you sure?" Roll asked with a little bit of doubt.
"Absolutely, I have confidence that you could do it." Derek replied.
Roll pondered this for a moment and looked down at Megaman's emblem.
"Wow, thank for-" when Roll looked up, Derek was gone.
Roll looked around for a minute, wondering where he went. Then she really smiled for the first time since Megaman was deleted.
Thanks for reading! let me know what you think and what I can improve on. The next chapter will be out in the next day or two. The last chapter I had to take down about three times to fix mistakes I somehow missed. But whatever. So have a good day!
