Chapter 3: The Mysterious S: Fire Panic! Mew Mews in the Net!

Lan and the Mew Mews ran downstairs to see the oven on fire and Mrs. Hikari running back and forth in panic.

"Mom, what happened?!" Lan asked, covering his nose to avoid smelling the smoke.

"Lan! I was trying to make some hotcakes and look at what happen!" Mrs. Hikari panicked.

"But the repairman said it was fixed!" Lan's eyes widen in shock as he realized the situation at hand. Something's not right here, if the repairman fixed the control panel, then why is the oven on fire?

"I thought so too, but the oven goes on fire for some reason!" Mrs. Hikari panicked again as she got out a rag and attempt to put out the fire by flapping the rag.

"If this keeps up, the whole house will burn down!" Bridget covered her mouth in shock.

Lan got out his PET and told MegaMan "MegaMan, let's jack into the oven and find out the cause of the fire!"

"Roger!" MegaMan acknowledged as Lan got cloe to a safe spot to where he can can jack into the oven.

"Jack in! MegaMan, execute!" Lan shouted as he jacked in his NetNavi,

MegaMan appeared in the oven Cyberworld and did a thourgh inspection, he can see the Mr. Progs floating around frantically because of the crisis in the real world.

"MegaMan, are the oven Mr. Progs here?" Lan asked from the PET screen.

MegaMan nodded and replied with "Yeah, I'm heading over to check on the master control."

"Okay, be careful! If there is a virus, I'll send some Battle Chips to back you up." Lan acknowledged as MegaMan headed towards the pipeline like path until he spotted a Mettaur glaring at him with malice, it has a symbol of a W on its helmet.

"Uh oh! You were right, Lan. There's a virus, and it has the WWW's signature on it." MegaMan got into a battle position just as he said those words.

"Just like Mayl was saying…" Lan nodded slowly before getting out his Battle Chips. "Okay, let's try the Spreader Battle Chip we got from Glyde. Spreader! Battle Chip! Slot-in!" Lan inserted the Battle Chip and MegaMan fired a shot that when it hit the Mettaur, it exploded into multiple shots which deleted the virus.

"Nice work, MegaMan!" Lan gave his NetNavi a thumbs up, proud that MegaMan made quick work of a messily virus.

"Thanks Lan." MegaMan rubbed the back of his head with a chuckle before his face got serious. "Let's move on. We're bound to find whoever is responsible for this."

"Right." Lan nodded in agreement.

MegaMan continued his journey in the oven's Cyberworld, he encountered some fire viruses, but it was nothing he can't handle. He got a new Battle Chip. Lan figured this Battle Chip will be good in dealing with wood type viruses or NetNavis. So he decided to keep it for a special occasion. Lan loves to collect Battle Chips and use them in his and MegaMan's future NetBattles, because you'll never know if you need a Battle Chip for a tougher foe or virus.

After two minutes, MegaMan made it to the thawing section where to his horror, several Mr. Progs were badly damaged, fortunately, one of them is still functioning. MegaMan rushed over to the functioning Mr. Prog and checked its body for any damages. "Hey!" MegaMan began as he shook the Mr. Prog in an attempt to get it to function. "Are you alright?"

"MegaMan…" The Mr. Prog said in a raspy and broken voice, meaning he is cracking up in the voice moduelaier. "Please help… A WWW Navi came in here and used a virus to wipe out the remaining programs…" The Mr. Prog coughed as he made an icy program appear in mid-air. "Please use the Ice Programs to thaw out the fire just south of here," The Mr. Prog instructed before adding in "you'll find a warp point to the master control. The WWW Navi is there."

"Will do," MegaMan nodded slowly before he stood up and reassured the Mr. Prog with "I'll be sure to avenge the other programs for you."

However, just as MegaMan was about to head south, a hailstorm of fireballs were hurling towards him and he was hit, knocking him to the ground, slipping into an unconsciousness state.

Back in the real world, there was a minor explosion as the oven's fire got larger. "EEEEEEKKK!" Mrs. Hikari shrieked in terror as she backed away from the oven.

"What happened to MegaMan?!" Bridget shouted, worry evident in her cute features.

Lan was also concerned for MegaMan's well-being as he got out his PET and shouted out with a frantic tone "MegaMan! What's wrong?!" No answer… "Come on, MegaMan, respond!"

Suddenly, Lan's PET ringed and he answered it, he heard a cruel Scottish laugh came on the PET's speaker.

"Don't bother calling your Navi, laddie! Ole Fiery Nessie just blasted him to kingdom come!" Wait a minute… that voice sounded familiar… No doubt it was the one who caused the town wide oven explosions!

The Mew Mews hunched over to Lan and saw the repairman's dark smirking face. "Hey, you're the repairman!" Kikki growled, realizing that Lan, his mother and her fellow Mew Mews have been had.

"Heh!" The repairman chuckled darkly before continuing. "You're pretty small brained for a young lassie! The repairman was a disguise! I work for the great WWW!" The fake repairman took off his hat and added this statement "I'm known as Mr. Match, the most feared fire user in the WWW!" Mr. Match grinned with a sinister composure.

"So all the other oven explosions…" Lan's eyes widen, now figuring out what caused the oven explosions.

"Me and my NetNavi, FireMan did a good job, aye? Well there is no escape for ye!" Mr. Match laughed darkly as he hung up.

"Now what do we do?! That fire is getting bigger and bigger by the minute!" Corina shot a worried glance at the fire, indeed, it is getting bigger and bigger.

Lan closed his eyes and started to think. What does he have in his room that can put out a fire? After 10 seconds of thinking, a light bulb appeared above his head. "That's it!" Lan shouted out in inspiration as he ran up to his room to get something important.

"Lan! Where are you going at a time like this?!" Mrs. Hikari shouted out in frantic worry. Her question was answered as Lan came back downstairs with a water gun.

"Eat this!" Lan grinned heroically as he aimed the water gun at the oven, the gun fired a spray of water at it, dousing the flames a bit.

"Thank heavens!" Mrs. Hikari sighed in relief before adding in "The fire has died down a bit." Lan got out his PET to see if that can help his NetNavi.

"MegaMan! Can you hear me?!"

Back in the oven Cyberworld, MegaMan groaned for a bit before lifting himself up and rubbed his helmet. "Uh… Lan?" He murmured as he looked at screen.

"Good, you're okay!" Lan sighed in relief before he smiled at his NetNavi with confidence and told him "Anyway, let's head over to the master control to stop FireMan!"

"Roger!" MegaMan acknowledged as he pressed on.

In the second area of the Cyberworld, MegaMan had to use his Ice Programs wisely to clear out some fires. Some viruses got in his way, but they were no match for Lan and MegaMan's teamwork. Eventually, MegaMan made it to the master control where a Navi who is red and looks like a living blowtorch was waiting for him.

"Hmm?" The Navi noticed MegaMan and asked in not in the friendliness of tones "Who the heck are you?"

"I'm MegaMan!" MegaMan glared at his adversary before turning his right hand into his MegaBuster and pointing it at the WWW Navi. "And you must be FireMan, a WWW Navi! Well, your mischief ends here!" MegaMan shouted in a heroic way that heroes uses to confront their enemies.

FireMan laughed at that heroic speech and asked in a amused tone "Oh? So you and your kid operator think you can beat me and Mr. Match?"

"You bet!" MegaMan challenged before turning to face Lan by saying "Lan, get our Battle Chips ready!"

Mr. Match came on a second screen and chuckled sinisterly at Lan and MegaMan's determination to beat him and his Navi. "You managed to save your Navi, aye? Well, this will be a fight with Ole Fiery Nessie herself! Me and FireMan are strong as bagpipes!"

"We'll see about that!" MegaMan glared at his foes before turning to Lan. "Lan, get ready for battle!"

" You got it, partner!" Lan grinned before he was serious again by shouting out "Battle routine, set!"

"Execute!" MegaMan acknowledged as he got into a battle position.

(MegaMan VS FireMan)

"Get ready to be deleted, kid!" FireMan taunted cruelly as he used his Fire Arm to blow a fire at MegaMan, but he dodged rolled out of the way and fired his MegaBuster at his torso, damaging him a little bit.

"WideSword! Battle Chip! Slot-in!" Lan got out a Battle Chip with a picture of a wider sword on it and inserted it into the PET's chip slot. MegaMan's right hand is replaced with the same sword that was in the picture of the Battle Chip.

"Sweet!" MegaMan smiled as he charged at FireMan, dodging his fire blasts, he got up and close at FireMan and used his WideSword to slash the WWW Navi four times before backflipping out of FireMan's Fire Arm's range.

"Why you little….!" FireMan growled as he launch more fire blasts at MegaMan, but the blue NetNavi was agile and managed to dodge them and got in front of FireMan and slashed him two times with his WideSword.

"Keep it up, MegaMan! He's about to be defeated!" Lan cheered as he pumped his fist in the air in confidence.

"Tch!" Mr. Match spit on the ground from his location in the real world, but let out a unpleasant smirk by saying "Let's see if you can handle my fire Battle Chips, laddie!" He then got out a Battle Chip of some stove like virus blowing fire. "FireTower! Battle Chip! Slot-in!" Mr. Match inserted the Battle Chip into his PET's chip slot.

FireMan's left Fire Arm was glowing as he began to crackle manically. "Now you're in for it! FireTower!" FireMan slams his glowing Fire Arm into the ground. A great fire pillar erupted underneath MegaMan and he was hit badly. MegaMan screamed out in pain as he kneed down, panting that such an attack has taken a toll on his Hit Points.

"Hah! How do you like that, laddie?!" Mr. Match boasted with all his ego.

"MegaMan!" Lan gasped in shock that his Navi was heavily damaged.

"If this keeps up, he'll delete MegaMan…" Said a worried Bridget.

Zoey frantically looked around. 'What should we do?! If only we can jack into the Net or have our own NetNavis!' She panicked in her thoughts.

Suddenly, time came to a stand-still and everything was black and white. The Mew Mews were the only ones unaffected by this strange phenomenon and they see Lan and Mrs. Hikari frozen in time for a while.

Corina looked around, the eerie stillness is creeping her out. "What just happened?" She asked her friends, hoping for an answer.

Renee shrugged and simply stated "I don't know. I'm not even sure what's going on right now…"

Then suddenly, a white light appeared and it blinded the Mew Mews, when the light cleared, a woman that is brown, her clothes are black and she have gold ornaments on her arms, shoulders and chest, she has white Aladdin like pants, her helmet is gold looking with two green rubies on the top, she has three blonde like hair substances on her helmet, two pink ruby like cloth with a sun and a diamond embedded in each of them, the symbol on her chest is a green circle with a black rectangle on the top. The Mew Mews recognized the symbol of a NetNavi, there's a NetNavi standing front of them! But NetNavis can't enter the real world! The female NetNavi looked at them, a look of determination on her face.

The Navi continued to stare at them, only with a smile this time. Zoey mustered up all her courage and asked timidly "W-Who are you?"

The Navi continued to smile as she crossed her arms and said "It appears I was right on bringing you to this world."

"Did you bring us to this world?" Renee glared at this Navi as she got into a battle stance, ready to strike down this Navi if she is a enemy.

"Do you want to save your friend?" The Navi asked them, with such kindness and encouragement. The Mews' tension lowered down a bit. They can tell this Navi is a friend.

"Y-Yes! Our friend is in trouble right now!" Zoey nodded hesitantly. "We'll do anything we can to help him!"

"Very well… I will grant you the power to go into Cyberworld." The NetNavi smiled and held out her right palm and a rainbow ball of light appeared in her palm, then the ball of light splits into five rays of light, and they fly into the Mew Mews' left hands. When they hit the left hands, the same symbol on the NetNavi's chest appeared on their hands, only they have different colors and a letter with one of the Mew Mews' names, Zoey's mark was pink with the letter Z in the middle of the symbol, Corina's was light blue with the letter C, Bridget's was green with the letter B, Kikki's was yellow with the letter K, and Renee's was purple with the letter R. The Mew Mews stared in awe at the marks, and then turned to the mysterious NetNavi.

"How do we use these to go into Cyberworld?" Zoey asked before asking again with "Just who are you?"

The Navi chuckled a bit, it was filled of hope and playfulness before she smiled and bowed lightly by saying "Just call me S. Now hold out your hands and say the words 'Jack in! Marks of S!' This world's fate rests on your shoulders." The Navi known as S smiled as she disappeared in a blinding light.

When it cleared, the Mew Mews looked at their hands where the Marks of S are now on, with determination and courage, they held their hands up high and shouted "Jack in! Marks of S!" The Mew Mews disappeared in a blinding light. And time returned to normal.

Lan turned to where the Mew Mews were once were and asked "What should we do, Zoe-?! Where did they go?!" Lan was flabbergasted by his new friends' missing whereabouts.

Back in the oven Cyberworld, MegaMan was struggling to get up as FireMan walks toward him slowly, his Fire Arm emitting fire.

"Time to say your prayers, kid." FireMan cruelly stated as he got ready to fire.

However, before he can land the finishing blow…

"Deep Surge Attack!" A tidal wave of water appeared out of the blue and hit FireMan, he groaned in agony as his flames were put out for a moment.

"What in blazes?!" Mr. Match gawked from his screen, who launched that attack and why?!

MegaMan was also confused as he managed to get up and looked around. And then, five girls who wear filly tutus and have different animal parts on them appeared. MegaMan at first was confused on who they were, but he immediately recognized them.

"Zoey? Corina? Bridget? Kikki? Renee?" MegaMan stuttered in disbelief. "What are you doing in Cyberworld? And how is this possible?"

"It's a long story, but right now, we need to take care of FireMan!" Renee told him stoically as she got out her whip and shouted "Silver Slash!" With a quick flick, she slams her whip down and it made an energy crescent slash which hit FireMan for large damage, the WWW Navi groaned in agony.

"Tambourine Trench!" Kikki got out her weapons and slams them down on the floor, making an earth shattering attack appear and hit FireMan for even more damage.

"How can humans enter Cyberworld?!" FireMan groaned as he struggled to get up.

"Let me finish this!" MegaMan urged as he recovered all his strength. He turned to his NetOp and shouted out "Lan!"

"Right!" Lan nodded as he got out the Sword Battle Chip. "Sword! Battle Chip! Slot-in!" He inserted the chip.

MegaMan with his Sword rushed up to FireMan and slashed him five times, ending the battle. FireMan screamed in agony as his data disappeared, meaning he was deleted.

"We did it!" Zoey jumped up in the air with joy.

Mr. Match couldn't believe it! A wee NetNavi and five wee girls deleted his NetNavi?! "How can one puny NetNavi and five human girls defeat FireMan?!" Mr. Match snarled and spit on the ground. "No matter, I completed my mission."

"Mission? What mission?" Kikki glared at Mr. Match's screen.

"Well lassie, I found the program we need for our master plan, in your oven!" Mr. Match grinned darkly at our heroes.

"Program?" Lan was confused by this, but he continued to glare at Mr. Match.

"Uh…" Mr. Match sweat dropped as he may have spilled the beans. "I shouldn't have told you that, laddie. But no matter! We'll meet again and I will have my revenge on your Navi and wee friends!" Mr. Match swore as he cut the connection.

"Wait!" Lan tried to stop him, but no avail. Frustrated, he growled out "Dang it!"

MegaMan walked over to Zoey and her friends with a cheery smile. "Thanks to you girls, we managed to foil the WWW's oven exploding plans. And thanks for saving my butt back there."

Zoey stared at MegaMan with awe. She looked at MegaMan and he is almost her age. 'He's cute!' Zoey looked away, a blush appeared on her face.

"Uh… You alright, Zoey?" MegaMan titled his hand to see if Zoey is okay.

"N-Nothing! Come on, let's go check on Lan and his mom!" Zoey said quickly, changing the subject. Her friends nodded in agreement as they all jacked out.

Back in the real world, the fire was gone and Mrs. Hikari let out a sigh of relief.

"Thank goodness the fire is gone." Mrs. Hikari said, relieved that their lives were saved by MegaMan and the Mew Mews.

Meanwhile, the Mew Mews were telling Lan of how S, a mysterious NetNavi gave them the ability to jack into Cyberworld with their human bodies. They even showed him the Marks of S on their hands.

"We should be thankful for this S character." Lan smiled, before he resumed frowning, pondering on why Mr. Match was after a program in his house's oven. "But I don't understand why Mr. Match was after some program. There's so much I don't understand…"

"Well, we won't let the WWW get away with this and take control of the net! Not if I'm around!" MegaMan said with confidence before adding this with a smile "Plus, we have Zoey and her friends to help us. Together, the WWW won't stand a chance"

"Yeah but… we have no idea where they will strike next…" Lan reminded his NetNavi with a sigh, realizing they have no clue on where the WWW might strike next.

"Then we'll wait until they make their next move!" Kikki slams her palm on her hand to prove her point, her friends couldn't agree more.

"Hey yeah!" Lan grinned, before he realizing something else. "But first, what about dinner?"

The Mew Mews sweat dropped while MegaMan face palmed and muttered in embarrassment "Lan…"

To be continued…

Next chapter: The Great School Jacking

A/N Took me awhile to improve a bit on my writing skills and this chapter. Tell me if this chapter and my writing is better. Anyway, see you next chapter. Next chapter will be even longer.