Lan did his best to outsmart Megaman, sliding into alleys, turning in circles pretending to run one way when he actually ran the opposite, but Megaman could easily predict all of his moves and was finding this no more than a test.

He could tell Lan's moves were becoming sloppy and unstable, most probably from tiredness as Megaman thought, which was true.

Megaman had been chasing Lan for almost an hour since the alley up till now, they had practically ran circles around net city and Megaman could probably go on for a few more hours, where as Lan, who never really did anything like this and had his rollerblades do all the work for him started to tire.

It was only a few seconds longer until Lan tripped over his own feet and rolled to an unsteady and rough stop a few steps ahead.

"Lan!" Megaman screamed running up to Lan's side.

The boy was slightly unconscious but his eyes lingered open to see Megaman stood over him. He blinked heavily, trying to keep his eyes open for as long as possible to hear the horrible words Megaman was to utter.

"Lan… Your such an idiot! Running off on your own through the city, and then tiring yourself out completely just so you could do as you please?!" He complained

Lan didn't bother listening to his navis lecture; he never really did so there wasn't much point starting now.

"You almost gave me a heart attack when you ran off! You left me in mortal shock; I told you its too dangerous for you to be on your own out here!" Megaman carried on blabbing for a few more minutes until he was certain he had vented all of his boiled up anger on Lan, but by the time he was finished, Lan had fully fallen asleep, bored out of his mind.

Megaman couldn't help but smile at the most adorable sight in front of his very own green eyes. He was a little hesitant to pick up his friend at first, but there wasn't much of a choice, he couldn't drag Lan back to the pet, or chuck him over his shoulder, carrying him seemed better.

He picked Lan up so his body was over his arms and he opened up a link back to pet.

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Back in the pet, Megaman rested against a wall of the pet mainframe (or something…) sliding down to the floor and Lan was resting along the top of his body. Megaman's body acted as a bed for Lan and his arms were safely resting on Lan's back. He didn't mind the extra weight on top of him, he rather enjoyed it.

"Night Lan" He spoke softly into Lan's ear and gently he kissed Lan's ear along with it.

Lan smiled quite smugly beneath Megaman's head which is where his rested as they both settled to sleep again.

Megaman had yet to tell Lan of his special admiration for him, but now wasn't really the time, if he told Lan, he could take it badly and end up running off just like today… but luckily Roll had spotted him and had helped Megaman in finding him, or even worse could happen.

One day, I will tell him, I promise that.

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When morning came to, and it was Megaman's set time to get up, he stood up with quite a lot of ease… thinking something was wrong. "Lan!" he called out, he opened up the screen, checking on the boy's original body.

And as not expected, the body had moved from its position last night, Lan's face was facing the pet screen and he was breathing normally.

"Lan, Wake up!" Megaman screamed.

Lan slowly but happily complied for the first time ever, "What is it Megaman?" He asked

"You're back in your world…" he sadly said

Lan lightly tapped places of his body to confirm what Megaman was saying and it was true… he couldn't remember what happened after he tripped over his own two feet last night… but something did feel weird when he passed out… he felt like he was on his bed, even thought it was a little warmer and silky… his bed isn't usually like that.

"I don't get it…"

"What?"

"Well… after I passed out, where did you take me?"

"I brought you back to the pet… then when I woke up this morning you we're back in your own bed… weird how you got here though, it shouldn't happen… you were real when you were here, I could carry you and everything but… you're body was still in the real world"

Lan thought about it for a second, it was too mind boggling to even think of a reasonable explanation of how he got there.

On the other hand, Megaman was pretty satisfied that he'd actually been able to interact with Lan for the first time.