Alright, so I'm employing a new answering system for the rest of my stories/series (when there over the three-shot limit). For now on, I'm putting answers to guest and member questions from the review section. It just occurred to me that people could all be having similar questions and I'm answering some via PMs and not publicly so my bad. Also, if you just leave a comment I will be issuing out thank yous. Bass may or may not give cookies.

terratasha: Yeah, customization navis weren't really much of a thing around the time when Megaman and Bass were created. Consider them the breakthrough models and then after we start seeing customized navis become their own field. The "simulation" was part of the error report. It's like when you get a list of possible solutions; in this case, there was no answers to fixing Hub's eye color.

True-inTha-Blue: Guess we were just on the same mental pathway! Thanks!

Also, thanks to MysteriousClue for joining the community! ( u/2495740/)

A six year old Lan Hikari walked home extremely upset. Today had been terrible! His mom was acting weird and his friends, Dex and Mayl, always seemed to stop talking when he walked over. When school ended, they ran off without him! Plus, his dad had been at SciLab all week—which wasn't too abnormal—but today was special! It was annoying way to start off the first grade. Figures that everything would go bad on his birthday.

No one had even told him Happy Birthday today. Not even Roll had said anything, which was weird because she was the nicest navi he had met! The little boy sighed as he opened the door to his house. ACDC was a relatively calm neighborhood with the only disturbances being the children playing outside so most parents felt at ease with letting their kids walk to school. As he walked into the Hikari home, he noticed that all the lights had been turned off.

"Mom?" the boy asked as he flicked on the light switch.

"SURPRISE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LAN!" everyone yelled, almost scaring the little boy. As he looked around the room, he cracked the biggest smile he could and ran towards his parents. Everyone was there; his parents, Mayl, Roll, and Dex! They had thrown him a surprise party!

"ThankyouThankyouThankyou!" Lan yelled excitedly as his parents knelt down to hug him.

"You're welcome, Lan," his mother gave the boy a quick kiss on the check while his father chuckled at the boy's embarrassment.

"Moooom, Dex and Mayl are here…" the boy whined as he tried to rub of the invisible kiss.

"Sorry, 'bout not talking to you today, Lan," Dex started.

"Your parents told us to not tell you, but we couldn't stop talking about it at school. We were afraid we were going to spoil the surprise," Mayl said excitedly as she ran over to the table and grabbed a small box. After returning, she handed him the wrapped gift, "Happy Birthday!"

The boy said a quick thank you and tore into the package; his smile widened as he realized what it was. It was an Escape battle chip! Lan's mind almost warped. It was his very first battle chip. He had wanted one of these things ever since he got his PET, his fifth birthday present!

"I know you don't have a Net Navi yet, but I thought when you did you might be able to use it," Mayl said with her hands behind her back.

"I love it! Thanks a lot, Mayl!" he said as he hugged the red haired girl. The rest of the party just kind of blurred along for Lan. A Billy virus piñata was set up—Dex ended up being the one to break it. Mayl won the Pin-The-Tail-On-The-Spikey contest; though Lan insisted that pinning Dex should have counted for some kind of points.

As the party began to move to a crawl, Lan's mom pulled out a cake with six candles on it. The boy closed his eyes, wished for his own net navi, and blew out the candles. Many kids never got there first Net Navi until they were six—an exception being Mayl who got Roll almost six months ago. He didn't really care what his first navi looked like—though he was pulling for a strong navi he could Netbattle with—he just wanted a Net Navi. As he opened his eyes, he realized that a small box had been placed next to him. He looked at the box and turned his head to see his father was sitting next to him waiting for him to open it, "Happy Birthday, Lan."

Excitedly, the boy ripped off the wrapping and opened the box.

The light somewhat hurt Megaman's eyes. No one could blame him, he had been in a dark box for the past two hours waiting for Lan to open the present; though he was happy Lan hadn't rattled the box first. When Dad said he was waiting for the right moment, he could have given him a little more forewarning about the delay.

"You got me my PET?" Lan asked confused. The boy had gotten so excited that he had completely missed the navi in the corner of the screen; then again, he wasn't used to having to look in that corner.

'A little dense, isn't he?' Hub thought before he cleared his throat.

"WHOA!" Lan yelled as he heard the noise. It didn't take him long to realize that there was a navi in the corner, "You got me my own Net Navi!" the brunette yelled as he began to connect the dots.

"Happy Birthday, Lan! I'm Megaman," the blue navi said.

"Hi, Megaman!" Lan said excitedly, turning back to his dad to give him a hug.

So this was his brother. Hub had only seen him a couple times in person. After he had passed his testing, SciLab had cleared him for operation. The Navi Project had eventually been closed and the files and processes containing his design models had been stored away somewhere deep in SciLab's mainframe. The only reason why SciLab had kept them was because he existed. His father had insisted in keeping the files just in case something happened. However, some of the higher ups hadn't been too happy to learn of his dad's actions, especially when it was a year after the fact. He had suffered a month suspension for it, but he had never been happier.

Hub on the other hand, had been stuck at SciLab. Many of the scientists had questions for him and he answered most of them with ease. The only question he never responded to was his name. He had promised his dad that no one other than him and mom would know that he was really Hub unless dad gave the okay. Despite originally being confused by the idea, he had started to realize why his father had acted in the way he did.

If he told the world he was Hub Hikari…no it would be too confusing. His brother may just keep him his PET for the rest of his life. He would be questioned over and over again by SciLab, probably even more than he was the first time. Hub shook his head slightly. He didn't want to be a test subject anymore. No, he may be Hub Hikari, but he was also Megaman. EXE. He was a Net Navi now and he had accepted that. To be honest, he didn't really care what he was; just as long as he could be with his family, he would be fine.

"Megaman?" Lan asked.

"Huh?" he shook his head; he hadn't actually realized that he had blanked out for a couple of seconds.

"You okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine," Megaman said as looked past Lan for a moment, "Hey, how come everyone's leaving?"

"Oh, well we have school tomorrow. Buuutt, we can jack into the Net once everyone leaves. Then you can meet Mayl's navi! And we can bust viruses! Oh, but don't tell mom or dad."

"Lan, I don't think we should go against Da-I mean your parents. You do have school in the morning…"

"Ah, come on Megaman. Please…five minutes. Jack in, jack out. I promise!" the boy said, sporting the best puppy dogs eyes he could.

'Wow…this is how little kids get whatever they want…' Megaman thought as he turned away from his brother. But he could still feel him staring at him. The blue navi sighed, "Five minutes."

"Yes! Thanks Megaman!"

It was seven o clock when Megaman was jacked into his homepage for the first time. He had to admit, the computer space here was a lot better than at SciLab. Much more cozy and home like. However, he didn't have time to admire his new scenery.

"Come on, Megaman! Mayl said she going to go to sleep soon!" the blue navi sighed as he took the link in ACDC Area 1. The net area was a little quiet with a few navis here and there running around and the Mr. Programs floating around enjoying themselves. Despite getting lost a couple times, Megaman soon found his way to Mayl's PC. However when he got there, he found a green cube in front of the entrance to her link.

"Lan, did Mayl send you her security cube password?" the blue navi asked.

"Um…oh yeah here it is! I forgot to download it when I read her email." In seconds the cube in front of Megaman was unlocked and he walked into Mayl's PC.

When he came in, he was surprised by all the music notes around him. He didn't take the red haired girl to be a lover of music. He had seen the girl a couple of time when she had come with Lan to SciLab when he was five just seven months ago. It didn't surprise him now that she had come with him that day. Apparently it seemed that once they had started walking, the two children had somehow become friends. He would have to ask Dad or Lan just how their friendship started.

"So, you're the new navi," a female voice said. Megaman, startled, flew backwards and landed on the ground. When he looked up again, he saw a pink navi staring at him with surprised green eysn. The navi's eyes soon lost their shock and she giggled a bit as she extended a hand, "Sorry. Didn't mean to scare ya."

"I wasn't scared. You just surprised me." Megaman said as he took the hand.

The pink navi merely continued laughing and helped him up, "I'm Roll, Mayl's navi."

"Megaman, I'm Lan's new navi."

"So what do you think of my navi, Mayl? Pretty cool, huh?" Lan said as two screens appeared next to the navis.

"He kinda looks like you a bit…" Mayl noted.

'Shoot! Please don't notice! Please don't notice!' Megaman thought.

"Maybe a bit, but maybe dad just designed him like that." Lan said. Megaman blew a quiet sigh of relief. Lucky for him, his brother was dense enough to dismiss their similarities.

"Maybe. Well, I'm going to bed now," the small girl said.

"Wait, we just got here!" Lan argued.

"We've got school in the morning, Lan. We can't stay up all night. Plus aren't you tired?"

"No, I'm not," Lan yawned.

"Well, that settles it." Megaman turned back to Roll, "It was nice meeting you, Roll."

"Nice meeting you too, Mega!" she smiled.

"Mega?"

"Oh, sorry. I guess I just made a nickname for you. I just thought that…" the navi trailed off, thinking she had just insulted him somehow.

"Mega's fine," Megaman said, "I like it."

The navi's green eyes shined for a split second, "You do?"

"Yeah, it's not crazy and it's a lot shorter than saying Mega-man, all the time." He could help but smile himself when her happy demeanor came back.

"Thanks, Mega," she said warmly. The pink navi waved good bye as Mayl jacked her out.

"I think you got a new friend, Megaman." Lan remarked.

"I think I got more than one, Lan," the navi quipped back.

"Really who's the other? Mayl?"

"No. You. You're my NetOp, Lan. We might as well become friends, especially if we're going to win any Netbattles one day."

"You bet! One day, we're going to win a tournament!" the boy agreed excitedly.

"But in order to win tournaments, you need sleep. Time to jack out, Lan."

"Okay, okay."

As Megaman jacked out, he realized one thing. Despite having to hide who he really was, he enjoyed being Megaman. Besides, the only way he would ever not be Hub is if he forgot about the life he was forced to leave. As he made it back to his PET and looked out at his brother jumping into his bed, he knew that he would never want to forget that life. Why? Simple, because he was still living the life of Hub Hikari.

And thus...let the games begin.

Currently this is the end of Hub's file. If I come up with an idea somewhere else along the line, I'll add to it (suggestions work too).

Okay, just addressing a one thing really, if anyone is wondering why Roll is kinda shy/unsure of herself in terms of Megaman's nickname remember that this takes place after the flashback in Ch3, DNB: YNA (acronyms are so much easier to write...). It's only been about six months since she was given to Mayl and so she's still coming out of her shell after her hostile SciLab experience. Not really much else to say except hope you all enjoyed this installment of the DN series.

Hope you guys stick around. For everyone who like darkness, well...DN3 is probably for you

Megaman Double Network 3: Spiral Into Darkness comes out March 21!

*record scratches* What...Stop staring at me Bass...I'm just going to..Yikes! Saber, Roll! When'd you two get there? No, stop following Bass's actions. Heh...why are you all staring at me...I didn't do anything!

Megaman: Why's DN3 taking you an extra month to finish?

Oh, heh...see what happened was that...well...alright fine, I messed up. My original write up for DN3 needed to be redone so it's delayed! Gav and I are still working on the final project.

Saber: But you kept on mentioning all the time in DN2 you jerk...And I was only mentioned...what was up with that?

*sigh* Things like this just happen okay. It's not like I intended for this to happen, sometimes things need to be redone in order to be better. Plus, you'll get your moment Saber. Anyway everyone, when I move the date up, I'll put out a story with the new date (also, my profile will have the most up-to-date info so check there). I may even be sorry about it too...(if what I said makes no sense, you have missed the joke). So until then, well...I'm going to go hide from four angry navis. Wish me luck! Don't forget to review!