Mega Man Neo

Chapter 1 - They Call Him Rokku Akihiro

Dark clouds overcame the previously blue sky. The sun was slowly being consumed by the thunderous mist. The heavy rain soon followed, pouring towards the vast metropolis down below.

The metropolis itself was in peril, however. Large fires and smoke were in various sectors of the city and mechaniloids of various sizes roamed the ruined streets. These were Mavericks…

Innocent people, human and reploid, fled for their lives. But while the innocents ran away, a group of soldiers clad in aquatic blue stepped forth with their giant firearms in hand. They took aim and immediately fired at the Mavericks. The Maverick Foot Soldiers, the Galleons, fired back while aerial mechaniloids such the King Flyer and Cutting Gyros took the skies to get an advantage in the air. The soldiers were not fazed in the slightest by the Mavericks' strategy and took them down with their combined efforts. But, more Mavericks would appear, and the soldiers would continue to shoot at them.

While these brave soldiers fought the Mavericks, one individual was standing before three other individuals with similar appearances. They all wore some type of armor, and if a human or reploid was to look at them, they could potentially mistake them as Mavericks. But the blue one, however, could possibly be seen as some type of "sentai hero". The others, however, looked a little different. They too had a sentai appearance, but they weren't completely... "heroes." Two out of the three looked like troublemakers or villains, while the other looked quite innocent in comparison. One was clad in red and black, the other was clad in light blue and white, and another clad in yellow. The red and yellow ones were boys and the other was a girl.

Nonetheless, the blue one had an arm cannon for his right hand and it was smoking. His face appeared to be rather youthful and filled with determination, but he looked very antagonized as his eyes darted between each of the three standing before them.

The red one had flames emit from his gauntlets, the light blue one wielded a giant hammer with rainbow data energy swirling around the crystal end like a planet and the yellow one had purple glowing gauntlet wrist-blades.

The Blue Fighter begins to sweat a little, sliding his left leg to get into a better battle stance. The trio seemed to be prepared for anything this hero was going to throw at them.

The yellow one's hand transforms into an arm-cannon and he points it at the Blue Fighter. "I am going to annihilate you now! Let's see your smirk now!"

The girl "lightly" bopped the yellow one's head with her giant hammer, making him wince in pain. She had an annoyed and upset look on her face. "I told you, we aren't going to kill him!"

She then looked at the hero with a rather kind expression. "We're just going to...Umm, knock him out! Yeah, that's right!"

The red one's hands transformed into giant mecha hands. He pounded his fists together with a sadistic grin. "Oh, I have no problem knocking him out!"

"Do I...Do I really have what it takes...?" The Blue Fighter asks himself, trying to keep his composure. "Am I truly capable of saving the world...?"

The Blue Fighter growled as the red one taunted him with his finger, tempting the hero to approach him. The tip of his arm cannon's barrel started to glow a blue color, followed by the sound of something charging up.

"...Of course, I do. I have what it takes...! I made a promise to her that day..."

The Blue Fighter holds his arm cannon tightly. He adjusts his stance ever so slightly and takes his focus on the red one, having now conjured up a strategy to beat his foes.

"...And I'm not going to go back on my word!"

Once the charging sound is no more, the hero lifts his feet off the ground, rushing towards his opponents with a battle cry.

"Hyyyrraaaah!"

A Month Earlier...
June 25, 25XX

In the serene blue horizon, a female house sparrow descends peacefully towards a nearby tree branch, a pink worm in her mouth. The bird moves about, taking tiny little hops around the tree, going deeper into the greenhouse. Inside, the sparrow holds the worm above a nest filled with five baby sparrows. The babies all grab onto the worm, fighting over who gets what part of the worm. Suddenly, a male house sparrow enters the scene, holding two worms, one pink and one brown and pink, as if it's been in the dirt. The male sparrow tosses both worms into the nest, and the babies have no reason to fight anymore.

The grass was green, the flowers were like a rainbow in the sky, the clouds were beautiful, and everyone around this area was happy and so peaceful. This place of serenity was the country known as France; located in Europe.

There were rumors spreading that something big had gone on over at Cinq Ville, a city in America, involving the Slither Inc. corporation. Some say that the president of said company, Serpent, did something evil. Perhaps these are just rumors since Serpent is welcomed as a hero ever since he and his company unearthed ancient technology and even provided Europe and Asia with multiple energy sources while providing Cinq Ville with it. Serpent was known worldwide, but most people had their suspicions on the Reploid due to rumors from random strangers or even ex-members of Slither Inc.

However, these rumors turned out to be true and Serpent has died one month ago near the end of May. His company's status is currently unknown. However Legion is sorting out the company's fate.

The baby sparrows chirp in cheer, happy that they have gotten their breakfast. Suddenly, a window opens in a brown house. A red-head young woman with golden eyes opened the window, her arms spread out, holding the glass. She inhaled and exhaled happily as she smiled at the nearby sparrow family.

"...Today's a new day..."

The woman entered back into her home, looking around her living room, which was tidy as she had always expected it. The woman was wearing a white tank-top and black pajama pants. The woman appeared to be between ages 16 and 17. She looked at her heart-shaped clock above a nearby desk which read "7:33 AM". She sighed and headed towards the stairs and climbed. Upstairs was a bathroom and her room. She continued to go further upstairs, which led to an attic room. Up there, there was a Six-Shelf with the bottom shelf being a cabinet. On all of the shelves, aside from the cabinet, were books of multiple genres; adventure, mystery, suspense, hurt/comfort, friendship, fiction, nonfiction, you name it. It was like a mini-library.

The woman looked over to her right and smiled. There was a small bed over there, but really caught her attention was a young boy sleeping on top of the covers with an opened book covering his eyes. He snored quite peacefully. The boy had brown, slightly spiky hair. He had a white T-shirt with black pants. The boy had white and black socks on. His left leg was dangling off the bed while his right stayed where it was. She walked over to the boy, took the book off his face and shook his body softly. She opened her lips, speaking...

"...Hey, kid... You gotta wake up now..."

The boy shook around with a displeased groan. He wanted more sleep. The woman got up and smiled. She chuckled to herself as she stared at the sleeping boy.

"Poor kid... He must have spent all night reading my books..." she said. "Heh heh... I know the boy said he wanted to read my books, but I would have never expected him to read all night. He must love to read... That's the type of people I like... Smart and knowledgeable... His parents must be real proud of a guy like him..."

The boy suddenly yawned, slowly opening his light blue eyes as he looked over at the window on the right side. The sun beamed through the window as he stared at the glass. He looked over to his left and saw the woman staring at him. The woman quickly blinked as she instantly realized that the boy was awake.

"Oh, Rocky. You're awake." the woman exclaimed.

The boy sighed with a smile on his face.

"Cynthia, my name is Rokku, not 'Rocky'."

The girl, known as Cynthia, had a drop of sweat slide down her cheek as she had said his name incorrectly.

"Oops. Sorry kiddo!" Cynthia said rubbing the back of her head.

"It's okay Cynthia," Rokku said with a smile. "What's up?"

"It's time for you to go. Remember? You told me to wake you up at this specific time... Well, it's been 2 minutes since you didn't wake up." Cynthia explained.

"Oh, right! I gotta get going!" Rokku quickly jumped off the bed and stretched all about. As he was stretching around, Cynthia spoke up...

"If you want, you can take a shower. You know where the bathroom's at."

"Thanks!" Rokku said as he walked over to his bag.

He pulled out a black T-shirt. He pulled out navy blue shorts, a belt with a light blue line, a white line, and black line, as well as a yellow hexagon shaped belt buckle, and the same pair of socks similar to what he had on. Rokku went downstairs and Cynthia followed. While Rokku went into the bathroom, Cynthia went into her room and towards her closet. She slid the closet open and brought out a white dry towel along with a white towel for washing. She closed the closet and went to the bathroom.

"Here." said Cynthia as she gave Rokku the towels.

"Thank you." Rokku said.

Rokku closed the door and locked it. Cynthia chuckled to herself as Rokku would actually lock the bathroom door.

Rokku sat his new clothes on the rack and turned on the water for a shower. While Rokku was taking a shower, Cynthia went into her room and undressed. She came out three minutes later with her hair tied into a ponytail (from the top). She had a green and gold turtleneck sweater on with a black, no sleeved bodysuit-like shirt underneath. She had her black fingerless gloves with the white fingertips on with white cuffs on the gloves. She had on purple pants with green civilian shoes on. She walked back upstairs and saw that the books Rokku was reading were all in a neat stack next to the bed. She grabbed the books and placed them back on the shelf according to category and in alphabetical order. She fixed up the bed nice and neat again.

Cynthia headed downstairs to her living room and towards a door. She opened the door and placed a stopper to keep it open. The room she was in was large and tons of computers were there. There was a back room that led to a workspace. Nearby the door leading outside was a brown desk with a CLOSED/OPEN sign sitting there. She looked at the clock and it read "7:36 AM".

Rokku had a fresh pair of black boxers. He had used the white dry towel drying off his hair. He used his hands to create the "spikiness" on his hair. He grinned at the mirror as his hair looked "awesome as always". He grabbed his shirt and threw it on along with his shorts, clicking his belt buckle to hold his shorts up. He unlocked and opened the bathroom door and headed upstairs to the attic again.

Once in the attic, the young boy went into his grey and black backpack and threw his dirty clothes into a smaller pocket for where he threw his dirty clothes in. He went over to the door and closed it slightly to reveal a hanger attached to the back of the door. This was where his blue collared jacket-hoodie was at. The jacket-hoodie had no sleeves and had a light blue collar (that looked like a handkerchief/bandanna strangely). He went into the coat pocket and pulled out two, big black fingerless gloves with a white cuff lock around the wrist area of the gloves. They had holes open for fingers to enter. Rokku threw the gloves on and his fingers were shown. These gloves did not have the white fingertips like most of them did, revealing that these were his actual fingers.

Rokku grabbed his jacket-hoodie and threw it on; It went down all the way to his waist. He then snatched his backpack and threw it on his back as he headed downstairs.

Cynthia grabbed the sign and placed it outside the door. It read OPEN. Cynthia went to her desk and sat on her swivel-chair, stretching out her arms. Rokku had grabbed his blue civilian shoes and threw them on his feet. He walked through the main door and stood over the desk. He had a smile on his face as he stared at Cynthia.

"I never did ask, but what do you do around here?" Rokku asked. "Is this place secretly a fast food restaurant or something? Or maybe a library?"

Cynthia giggled and reminded Rokku what her job was, "Rokku, my job is intense research, not order books for you like a library."

"You must be 17..." Rokku started.

"16." Cynthia clarified.

"16..." Rokku corrected, "... and you are doing "intense" research? In a top secret government sorta way?"

"Sure, let's go with that." Cynthia said with a snarky attitude.

"Anyway, thanks for allowing me to stay here for the night!" Rokku said.

"Eh, whatever. When I heard that name of yours, I knew you belonged to Cass and Joe." Cynthia smirked.

"Cass and Joe?" Rokku said in surprise, piecing together names Cynthia had said. By Cass, Cynthia meant 'Cassandra' and by Joe, she meant 'Joseph'. "That's my Mom and Dad! How do you know them?"

"Well, let's just say I'm a family friend." She replied with a sly smile.

"Hehehe, is that so?" Rokku asked. "Anyway, I better get going then!"

"Hold up a sec." Cynthia said. Rokku turned around and looked at Cynthia.

"Wha?"

Cynthia reached into her desk's drawer and pulled out a red and green card with an upside down triangle symbol on the upper left-hand corner. It had Cynthia's phone number and her job, which was researching. Rokku looked at Cynthia who gave her a wink.

"Call me if you ever want to see me. I'm kinda like your Aunt, ya know~" She quipped.

"A 16-year-old Aunt? Haha, sure! You bet~!" Rokku replied as he was heading to the door again. "Well, see you around!"

Cynthia waved to the teen with a smile.

A smile was on Rokku's face as he was walking outside. The entire area was a large open green field. It was quite beautiful. From afar, Rokku could see a large city. That was his next destination.

"Alright! My adventure awaits, so there's no time to waste!" Rokku cheered to himself.