GammaTron: Sorry for the long wait.

"So~cool~!" Roll awed.

"Dear…" Megaman shook his head, smiling softly as he watched how much his wife was enjoying herself.

"Ne, ne, Mega-kun," Roll whispered as she looked out the window, "They never did finish that rail system back then, did they?"

"Nope," Megaman replied, glancing out the window at the sky-high scenery of the city, "Still, do they have precautions for if the Denpa stops working for a moment?"

"After an incident a few months ago, they had to include an emergency system that doesn't interface with Denpa but activates if it's not there," Geo informed, trying to not look at Roll as she unconsciously shook her behind as she was on her knees on her seat to look out the window behind her and Megaman, "It locks the train in place and slides on the underside of the train are deployed to reach down to the ground at a 50 degree angle."

"Thank you again, Ms. Stelar, Geo," Megaman thanked.

"It's no problem," Hope replied, "And just call me 'Hope,' okay?"

"We're not all that comfortable with Denpa-infused technology. The place we came from didn't use it," Megaman explained.

"Like I said, it's no problem," Hope giggled, "Plus, it's a sale~ day~!"

"Oh jeez…" Geo bemoaned under his breath, burying his face into his hands.

"Hmm…" Omega-Xis looked at Megaman's emblem on his jacket, earning a look from Megaman, "I got it!" he pointed at Megaman's face, "Your mark…is an H!"

"Um…Mr. Light," Geo pointed at Megaman's emblem while raising his Visualizer, "Could I ask about that mark on your jacket?"

Megaman nodded, "It's a really old mark, passed down from generation to generation. It's meant to represent an abstract symbol whose equal proportions are meant to symbolize balance between two people, two things, or two anything really. Though people tend to say it's just a stylized 'H' for one reason or another."

"Oh! That sounds like a Brother Band!" Hope compared.

"?!" Megaman and Roll's eyes widened.

"B…Brother Band?" Megaman repeated.

"It's widely used by everyone nowadays and the levels are even used to seal areas of great importance to people in the Wave Roads," Geo informed, "Guess it wasn't where you're from?"

"N…No…" Megaman replied, "It…It was still a new concept when we left for here. A physical way of showing one's bonds to another, the level going higher and higher the stronger the bond and lower and lower when the bond is weak." 'It…It's still around.' he looked out at the sky outside the window briefly, 'Lan…Even if everything else…Link Power…Brother Bands…They've become important to many so far in the future.' "?!"

"Oh! Dear, look at that!" Roll exclaimed as she pointed at something out the window.

'Can't…! Breathe…!' Megaman thought, trying to get his neck out of the hold Roll had it in.

Hope giggled, 'Oh my goodness. She's quite the Genki Girl…'

'This…' Geo thought as, for a moment, he saw a younger version of his mother replacing Roll and a man around her younger age being in that hold, '…It's like I'm seeing the story of mom and dad's first date in real life.' He noticed Roll suddenly tense, '?'

'That…' Roll thought before shaking her head, 'No. It…It couldn't have been.'

"Dear…"

"Hm?" Roll looked down to see Megaman's face was going from purple to blue, "Oh!" she released him, causing Megaman to fall over, gulping in as much air as he could, "Oh dear! S-Sorry. Got a little too excited."

Omega-Xis laughed, "Done in by that?! Bwahahahaha! I…I thought NetNavis were…Bahahahahaha~!"

'I am so going to get that guy…' Megaman thought with an eye twitch.

"Is everything okay?" Hope asked, seeing Megaman and Roll looking around with a small bit of unease.

"W-Well…This is a lot more people than we've seen before," Roll replied.

"It's a lot bigger than the town we used to live in," Megaman added.

"Oh? Where did you live?" Hope asked.

"Oh, just a small town out in the countryside," Roll replied, "A small population of around two hundred and fifty-one, a nice school for all grades, and that one rich family in the mansion."

"Those maids…It was like the heiress had her own personal army of maids that could do virtually anything," Megaman noted.

Hoppe let out a slow whistle, "That's some rich girl…"

"Yeah," Megaman nodded, "She also had this one butler we were friends with."

"Her only butler, mind you," Roll added, "He was quite the gentleman and Rock-kun and I learned quite a bit about manners from him."

"Is that why you use '-chan' and '-kun?'" Geo asked.

"Oh yes. Our friend was quite researched in the old age of talking when Electopia was known as Japan," Roll informed, "I really liked it, so I studied up."

'Sorry, Glyde,' Megaman thought, 'But, well…if you did know the Dead Language of Japanese, I'm sure you would've taught her it.'

"Well, it's a nice verbal tic, Roll," Hope noted with a giggle.

"Arigatou, Hope-chan!" Roll bowed.

"So, where to first?" Megaman asked.

"What is with girls and going ga-ga over sales?" Omega-Xis grumbled as he watched Hope and Roll zipping about the market district.

"I have no idea," Geo replied.

"Agreed, and I've lived with two girls for almost sixty-six years," Megaman added.

"How old are you?"

"What month is it?"

"May."

"Including the time I've been in that PeT, I'm two-hundred and twelve years old."

"Without the time in the PeT?" Omega-Xis asked.

"Eighty-six."

"And yet you don't look a day over twenty."

"NetNavis don't age unless you have the right program. It was only about eight years before we were put in there that Roll and I got an aging program and both of us looked like twelve years old for the most of our lives."

"Wait, so you two had eternal youth, but now you're going to die of old age?" Omega-Xis raised a brow.

"Possibly. It was something Lan and I made. I…I was never comfortable with the thought of him dying while I'd continue to live forever."

"So…This upgrade made you both more human?"

"Almost human. We're missing some things that humans have," Megaman admitted, 'At least…I think we do. Who know what whatever that alien did changed for us aside from letting us be in the Human World.'

"Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait," Roll held a hand up, "You mean to tell me, Hope-chan, that I can just tell these men what I want from this book and it'll be delivered in the same day?"

"Yep!"

"…I love this place," Roll giggled before turning to the man at the register and began to point out just what she wanted to order while Hope was doing the same thing with the other cashier.

"Huh…So that explains why you're here," Megaman noted, looking up from a recently-updated history book.

"Yep. I…was actually involved with that. When I tried to take over one of them, I could feel…something," Omega-Xis informed, "I think it was the Link Power from his Brother Band. Anyways, I turned everyone on that ship into Denpa. Don't know where they all are, though, but the only one I really do know is the guy who helped me change my ways is out there, trying to make Brother Bands with other planets like he did between Earth and Planet FM with that piece of the satellite still out in space."

Megaman nodded, smiling a little. Creating Brother Bands between planets? He wasn't sure what to think about that. Nearby, Roll giggled to herself, discreetly taking large stacks of manga to the counter to have them delivered to her house, Geo helping both her and his mom since she found the cookbook section again. Geo really hated days when there were sales.

"I knew it…I just knew it," Megaman sobbed comically as he and Geo were behind the happily chatting Hope and Roll, the two males carrying bags of clothes.

"What is with this place and sales today?" Geo comically whimpered.

"Heh-heh-heh. Glad I can't interact with the Human World," Omega-Xis chuckled, "Won't catch me doing this."

Megaman and Geo glowered at Omega-Xis as he laughed. Eventually, everything had been settled for the day. Roll hummed as she fiddled with a pink Transer on her wrist, Megaman finishing putting away the last of their new dishes in one of the cabinets of their house. Nodding to herself, she took out a USB and inserted it into the port.

"Roll, what are you doing?" Megaman asked.

"Oh, that nice girl that kept causing Omega-chan to give those poor fish headaches yesterday gave me a copy of the latest BrotherBand setup when she learned that I never had a Transer before," Roll informed.

"What happened to just connecting the devices?" Megaman asked.

"It went wireless," Roll giggled, "Now let's see…First, I need to write my Handle."

"Handle?" Megaman repeated.

"What people will call me if I don't verbally introduce myself," Roll informed as she began to type something down, "There we go. Roll Light. Ii jan, Hub-kun?"

Megaman nodded, "It's good. So what else has changed?"

"Well…It's even more in-depth," Roll noted, "Back then, all we could really do was have an image of the Brother, their name, and the Link Power between us." Some information was displayed on the Transer's screens, "Oh! There's a section on it. There are three satellites up in orbit. They're called Pegasus, Leo, and Dragon. All Transers are hosted between all three and Transers of the same Satellite are all connected in their own network. Everyone is connected to one of the Satellites, based on if their Transer is red, blue, or green." Looking her Transer over, she noted, "Mine's pink. Does that mean that I'm connected to the Leo Satellite?"

"Probably," Megaman shrugged.

"Okay. Now I have to work on my Personal Page. It's what my Brothers can see," Roll informed.

"Hmm…So we can see the six favorite BattleCards used by people and their best combinations with BattleCards," Megaman noted, rubbing his chin in thought.

"Now I need to write a Message for when a Brother sees my page," Roll noted, "Hmm…"

"Let's go for simple now," Megaman advised.

"Hai~!" Roll saluted as she just wrote a simple greeting, "Okay. So Secret…Secret…Can't tell anyone about being a you-know-what…" Roll muttered, "Oh! I got it! 'I hate rat-themed viruses.' There we go. All done. Now let's see…" she took out a folded piece of paper, "Just gotta add this name and…Yay!"

"What's that about?" Megaman asked.

"I finished making my page on my Transer!" Roll beamed, "See?"

"Huh. You have Hope as a Brother?" Megaman asked, raising a brow as he saw the image of Hope's headshot in the bottom of the screen with a '40' below that.

"Yep!" Roll beamed, popping the 'p' at the end, "I learned so much from her, too! Oh, and that preorder catalogue stuff she introduced me to…"

"Only two orders every other month. And only three items each order."

"Aw man~"

"We may be rich, but we are not going Yai with it."

"Oop!" Roll's eyes widened, "I-I wasn't going Yai!"

"Roll, when we were at the ice cream shop, I had to convince you to only go with three flavors and not all fifty seven," Megaman frowned, "Be thankful that only Omega-Xis heard us discussing that, too."

Roll blushed, "S-Sorry…"

Megaman smiled softly before pulling her into a small hug, "Hey now…It's fine that you're excited. But we just need to put things into moderation. We already got more than enough today to furbish the place. That reminds me…" he poked his head out the doorway of the kitchen to the living room, "Hey, Mr. Hertz, everything set up in there?"

"Yes, sir! Connection has been made and your new yearly subscription has been made," the Mr. Hertz that hung around the building saluted, "And thank you for giving me this chance to be a good worker here, sir!"

"No problem," Megaman nodded before going back into the kitchen, "It's nice to see that AI are still around, though…"

"Yeah," Roll agreed before pursing her lip, "Ano…Mega-kun…Those cards we saw…"

"Never existed. They weren't NetNavis, just programs made with one goal in mind and just that. There was no real personality, no real conversation skills; just that one goal," Megaman snorted before Roll's Transer began to buzz, "Roll, you have Mail."

Roll lightly slapped Megaman's shoulder as he chuckled before she opened her new E-Mail, "Oh! It's from Geo-kun. He's hoping we're doing okay. And that Omega-Xis wants to fight you still."

"Nope," Megaman replied, "Don't wanna. …But…" he looked at the Transer, "Roll, send Geo an E-Mail to meet us here so he can take us on that Wave Road again."

"Huh?"

"There's somewhere that I think-no-that I know we need to see," Megaman informed as he picked up a history book with a bookmark in it, "For a sense of…closure."

"Huh?" Roll blinked twice.

"A graveyard? Why are we here?" Omega-Xis pondered, feeling solemn as he looked around the empty area.

"I…I think I understand," Mega Man replied, looking over at some well-preserved graves that the two NetNavis stood before.

"Huh?"

"NetNavis almost always had NetOps, or Network Operators," Mega Man explained softly as he watched the two looking over each grave, trying to find something, "They're…I think they're looking for their NetOps here. As a sense of closure."

"Oh. …Ugh. It's not good holding onto the past like that. When they're gone, they're gone," Omega-Xis snorted, "You just gotta say 'goodbye' and move on."

"That's…actually deep, coming from you," Mega Man noted in a mix of awe and disbelief, "Especially with your issues with Cepheus…"

"Oi!" Omega-Xis growled.

"I wonder if they know we can hear everything they're talking about," Roll whispered as she looked at another grave.

"No," Megaman shook his head before stopping, "Found them."

"You did?" Megaman nearly jumped when he noticed Roll was instantly beside him.

"D…Dear…Honestly, I forget that out of the two of us, you're the fastest."

Roll didn't really pay attention to him. She knelt down, lightly tracing the carved images on the stone before her with her index and pointer fingers. Even if the color wasn't there, Roll could still remember the once-red hair and almost eternally youthful skin of the woman who laid beneath. It was still lovely that this gravestone was custom-ordered by Lan just for her.

"Hey there…Maylu," Roll whispered, "I really hope you walloped Lan good for me once he got up there with you."

Megaman chuckled softly at that comment as he knelt down beside her, looking closely at the other carved image Roll had been tracing, having been added after his death. Even at his old age, that boy just never took that bandanna off. Everyone would try to do it, but he had actually added a taser function to it during high school. Honestly, what was wrong with what he hid under it? He still remembered the last time he saw him. His once-chocolate brown hair now a soft grey, his once-youthful features aged with the years, the chocolate-brown eyes filled with life now filled with untold wisdom. He gave a soft exhale.

"Lan…It's been so long," Megaman spoke, "Guess me shouting at you won't work anymore, huh?" his chuckle was more forced than anything, "We…We finally awoke after you shut the PeT off all those years ago. How your great grandson was able to activate it and keep us sleeping, I'll never know. But…But it's happened; everyone in the world is using the Brother Band System. People know about Link Power, about how strong building bonds are and how people grow stronger with them."

"Remember when the first tests began?" Roll asked with a soft, forced giggle, "The four of us did it and the numbers were all at 60. When…when it was almost…then…" her eyes watered a bit, "You and Mega-kun had almost 450, you and Lan had well over 800, and…and you and I…you and I had…" Megaman gently slid an arm over her shoulders as she began to cry, "I miss you so much, Onee-chan. I…I just…"

Megaman let Roll cry into him as he looked at the graves, "I…I don't know how to feel right now, Lan. Should…Should I be pissed that you just threw Roll and I away like we were nothing? That I was nothing? Happy to learn what has become of the Brother Band System? Saddened to hear what's become of the Network Age? Or…Or be thankful you gave us a way to live on?" he shook his head, "But…There is one thing I know. The Darkloids are back and the world needs to be saved once more." He glanced over at Mega Man and Omega-Xis, "And…there's someone to inherit the title. Well, someones." He gently picked up the pink-wearing NetNavi and walked over to where the two were, "Next time, I'll come with some curry for you…Nii-san."

"Ah! Is…Is she okay?" Mega Man asked, noticing the state Roll was in.

"I…I'm fine, Geo-chan," Roll sniffled, wiping a few tears on her face, "I…I just needed to cry, is all."

"Geo…Omega-Xis…" the two looked up at Megaman, "Dark times are coming. The Darkloids, dangerous NetNavis from my time, have come back because of the last days of the Network Age. They've most likely had years to train with all this Denpa stuff and I've only had, at most, two days worth of it. Even with all the BattleChips and Programs I'm equipped with, they'd probably beat me six ways to Sunday by now. So…I want to make a deal with you." The two looked at him with wide eyes, "You teach Roll and I all about this modern society we're in and, in return, I'll train you to be the best Mega Man you can be."

Character Data: Roll EXE/Roll Light

Age: Actual: 207, Physical: 20, mental: 83

Gender: Female

Height: 6' 2"

B-W-H: 125-50-95

Weight: *SMACK* ...Classified.

Partner: N/A (Maylu Sakurai-Hikari – Deceased)

Brothers: Lan Hikari – Deceased (445 before death), Maylu Sakurai-Hikari – Deceased (1000 before death), Hub Hikari/Megaman EXE/Rock Light (800), Hope Stelar (40)

Bio: A NetNavi created for Maylu Sakurai, given and activated on the girl's sixth birthday. As Maylu grew up, the two would see one another more as sisters than NetOp and NetNavi, showing their powerful bond. Despite not being the strongest NetNavi of her four friends, Roll was easily the fastest NetNavi of them. Roll was involved in many events during the three years Lan and Megaman were fighting criminal organizations, even being kidnapped for four months due to a criminal organization. Using a CopyBot, she was the Head Bridesmaid for Lan and Maylu's wedding. When Maylu Sakurai eventually passed away after almost eighty years of life, Roll started using the Medical programs Lan had given her to try to 'stay in the past.' Megaman stopped her from doing it a few days before Lan sealed them away in an old PeT. In the year 22XX, the AM-Ian Omega-Xis converted the two into Denpa Ningen, and she nearly went back to trying to drug herself before Megaman, in trade of losing his strongest BattleChips, sealed her medical skills until he felt she could safely use them. When she's not on the Wave Roads, Roll is normally either hanging out with Hope, watching something on the TV, chatting with her home's Mr. Hertz, or trying to stealth-order things.