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Lain looked Sheena directly in the eye. Lan and Tory stepped back, wondering if it was going to get violent.

"Sheena, listen: that piece of data you got there is a Dark Chip. Dark chips were created by this guy known as Dr. Regal, leader of the former organization Nebula," Lain began. "He's gone now, but we need that chip, Sheena. You shouldn't even have it- you should've given it to one of us immediately when you found it. So give it here now."

"Please, Sheena," Maylu added in, pleadingly.
"Darkchip......wait let me hang on to it abit long till tomarrow at least I want to analize this chip again but with something abit different" Sheena said to them "please just let me do this I want to see something" she said.
Lain looked at Lan and Maylu.

"What do you guys think?" she asked them.

"I don't know..." Maylu said.

"It's a bit risky to let her hold on to something that threatening," Lan put in.

Lain thought for a moment before turning back to Sheena. "Here's the deal: we'll let you keep holding on to that chip until tomorrow and that's it. After tomorrow, you give it to us. If you don't, we'll be forced to involve the law which means lawyers and the police which includes us and HQ, and I can have a warrant for that chip issued real quick."

"Somebody's been watching too much CSI," muttered Tory.

"CSI: Miami, actually," Lain corrected.

"You do realize Famous will be angry that your taking the matter in your own hands," said Lan.

"He won't as long as he doesn't know," said Lain. "Well, Sheena? Do you accept?"
"Alrighty then you got yourself a deal besides one day is all I need" she said.

After school

Sheena began to walk home "so then this chip is known as a dark chip huh" she said.

"Seems so but what did you want to look at?" Yoru asked her.

"I want to compare your data and this chips data" she said.
"Mr. Famous might take away your position as a Net Savior, you know," Lan continued to say after school. "You've put your job on the line."

"I know, I know," Lain grumbled.

"Why did you let her keep the chip anyway?" Maylu asked curiously.

"... I'm all about compromise, Maylu," said Lain.

"Like Hell you are," said Lan.

He's right. I don't even know why.

"Shut up, moron."

"Quit calling me that!"

"I will, once it ceases to be true."

"You are such a b***h, you know that?"

"I know."

"Both of you, enough!" Maylu yelled.

"Sorry."

"Lain, you've got an e-mail from Chaud," Faye told her operator.

"K, open it up."

'Yes or no?'

"Yes or no to what?" Lan asked, reading the e-mail over her shoulder.

"It's rude to read other people's mail without their knowledge, Lan!" Lain scolded. Then she noticed Maylu was doing the same thing. "You too, Maylu!"

"Sorry, but what's he asking?" Maylu asked.

"None of your business!" Lain skipped a few steps ahead. "Reply 'yes', Faye." She didn't have any homework, after all.

"Got it."

"C'mon, Lain, what's Chaud asking you?" Lan pressed.

"Is it an invitation to a date?" teased Maylu.

"You guys are so nosy!"

"Lain, a reply." Faye showed Chaud's reply.

'I'll pick you up at six.'

"Send a confirmation," Lain ordered.

"Ooo, it is a date!" gushed Maylu.

"You and Chaud are dating?" Lan asked incredulously.

"AUGH! Leave me alone!" Lain shouted. "And no, we are not dating, moron!"

"I am not a moron!"

~~~

Lain stood in her large walk-in closet, in a bath robe, having just finished a shower, debating on what to wear.

"Why don't you call Maylu and ask her?" suggested Faye.

Lain scoffed. "With her help, it'll probably take longer to choose an outfit than if I did it by myself. Besides, she hasn't even seen half of all the clothes I own."

"You better hurry, though. He's gonna pick you up in less than half an hour," Faye warned.

"What?!" Lain checked the time and screamed out in frustration.

"Okay, okay! What about that black dress you only wore once?" suggested Faye, trying to calm her operator down.

"Which one?!"

"The one that reveals your shoulders, a bit Lolita-ish..."

"This one?" Lain held up a short black dress.

"Yes, that one!"

"I guess it's okay..." Lain bit her lip. "Ah, to heck with this! I'm wearing it!"

"Hurry. He's coming in less than ten minutes."


~~~

User Image That's the dress Lain's wearing.
Sheena sat at her computer analzeing the chip and Yoru's data "hmmm this very interseting" she said.

"What is?" Yoru asked her he was laying down.

"As I thought your data and this dark chip data is pretty much the same" she said.
"So, Lan tells me that that Ieit girl has a Dark Chip, and that you let her keep it," Chaud said at dinner.

Lain looked up, startled.

"Is that true?"

Unable to lie to him, Lain nodded.

"You do realize that when Mr. Famous hears about this, he's going to take your rights as a Net Savior away?" continued Chaud.

Again the girl nodded, biting her lip. Chaud had said 'when Mr.Famous hears about this', not 'if', so did that mean he was going to tell him?

She couldn't blame him if he did. He had once lost Protoman to the Dark Chip, so he was rather sensitive about the thing.

Chaud sighed. "Why?"

Lain shrugged. "I don't know... She was practically begging for me to let her keep the chip till tomorrow... So I let her..."

"You're usually not that sympathetic," commented Chaud.

Lain shrugged again.

"I'm not going to tell Mr. Famous, but don't let it happen again, okay? You went against your duty as a Net Savior and let that girl have something dangerous," said Chaud firmly.

"I won't. I promise." Lain felt very small at the moment.

Chaud gave her a smile. "It's alright."

"Right... So, does this mean Dr. Regal's back?" Lain said, moving on to a new topic.

Chaud shook his head. "He can't be. He's gone, remember? I bet it's someone else who's just finishing what Regal started."

"But what if he's not gone?" insisted Lain. "What if he's like Voldemort, who disappeared off the face of the planet and came back a while later, more evil than ever?"

Chaud gave her an incredulous look.

"Sorry, but it can be true!"

"Lay off the fantasy and come back to reality, Lain."
"Really how interseting then" Yoru said.

"Yes it is I find this really weird that your data is the same" Sheena said.

"Well you did say that your father created me from some kind of dark data that his navi found in the undernet" Yoru said to her.
When Lain awoke the next morning, it was to voices talking animatedly.

She sat up in her bed, waiting for her head to focus. When it cleared up, she was met with the sight of Chaud, Lan, Maylu, Tory, and Dex lounging in her room.

"What the Hell are you bitches doing here?!" she shrieked, instantly pulling her covers back up to cover her bright orange bunny-patterned pajamas.

"We aren't bitches!" Lan shot back.

"Well aren't you loud in the morning," muttered Chaud.

Maylu smiled apologetically. "Your parents let us in and told us to make ourselves comfortable before they left for work."

"Man, what the Hell is wrong with them?" Lain muttered. "Faye, you let them stay here?"

Faye shrugged from the computer screen. Around her were Protoman, Megaman, Roll, Iceman, and Gutsman. "They brought me company!"

"What are you guys doing here anyway?" Lain asked.

"We need to get that Dark Chip back from Ieit, remember?" said Chaud.

"Oh yeah..."

She got out of her bed and headed to her washroom.

"Yai's in her limo outside," said Tory. "She didn't want to come in."

"Good thing she didn't," Lain said darkly.

"Better hurry up," Dex called. "She's waiting!"

"The more reason I take my sweet time!" Lain called back.

~~~

"Okay, let's go," Lain ordered almost an hour later. She was dressed in a black skirt and a sleeveless white shirt with a black tie. Her PET was strapped to her waist.

"Aren't you going to eat?" asked Chaud.

"Oh. Right. Be right back." She headed to the kitchen and came back with a Raspberry frosted PopTart and a chocolate bar.

"That's not healthy, Lain," Chaud said, looking at her choice of food with revoltion.

"Alright, alright." Lain went to the kitchen once again and came back with a bottle of Iced tea.

Chaud rolled his eyes.

"So where does Sheena live, anyway?" Lain asked, getting into Yai's pink limo with everyone else.

"About time!" snapped the midget.

"Oh, shut up," Lain shot back. "No one told you to wait."

"Hmph!"

"Actually, we don't know where she lives so we sent her an e-mail and told her to meet us at NFC," said Maylu. NFC, or Net Fried Chicken, was a fast-food restaurant.

"But I prefer NetDonalds!" Lain whined.

"Oh, shut up," Yai grumbled.

Lain glared at the large-foreheaded girl.

The large-foreheaded girl glared back.

"Hey, Lain, can I have some of that?" Lan asked, poiting at her chocolate bar.

"Get your own, moron!"

"I am not a moron!"


~~~

Here's what Lain's wearing: User Image
Sheena was up and getting ready to go out for the day "alright then already" she said happily spinning around looking at herself. "So Yoru did I get any mail at all?" she asked grabbing her bag.

"Yes its where your suppose to meet everyone at NFC........your wearing that how about something abit more inconspicuous" Yoru said to her.

"Noooooooo I love this outfit I got it when we where in Nettopia its one of kind as most of my outfits are" Sheena said to him as she grabbed her PET put it in the pouch around her waist and walked outside.

((her outfitUser Image))
"What's taking her?" Lan demanded impatiently, viciously biting into a chicken wing.

Tory shrugged. "Maybe she didn't get the e-mail...?

But Maylu shook her head. "No, Roll made sure she got it."

Lain pointed her fork at the person who just entered the restaurant. "S'that her?"
"Good morrning" Sheena said as she walking over to them "sorry it took me so long I got stopped on the way here.....alot" she said.

"Told you to where someing inconspicuous" Yoru said to her.

"Shut up Yoru" she said to him.
Maylu smiled at the girl. "It's alright, Sheena."

"So, do you have the dark Chip with you?" Lain asked, getting straight to the point.
"Of course here you go" Sheena said giving it them "now then I'll be off" she said as she began to leave.
"Wait...!" Maylu called, but it was too late. "Aw, she left!"

"Seriously, what's her problem?" Lan grumbled.

"I wanted to know what she needed the Dark Chip for," Chaud commented.

"We can ask her once we see her again," said Lain, pocketing the chip. "Shall we head to HQ now?"

"After I'm finished my meal," said Lan, now eating a drumstick.

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