Megaman Star Network
GammaTron: Yeah…I've been meaning to do this for a while now. Things went completely left field for the original story-Hoshienger-, so…yeah. This.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Megaman Franchise. It is owned by CAPCOM. Now, please, CAPCOM, MAKE MORE MEGAMAN STAR FORCE AND BATTLE NETWORK GAMES!
The year…was 21XX. After a century of existence, the Network Age had begun to close. However, the race that humanity created in order to interact with the network known as the 'Internet'-the Network Navigators AKA 'NetNavis'-began to rebel. The military had already finished removing all internet components from their weaponry and security systems, however…The Days of Darkness was one that no one would forget. For ten days, vehicles were taken over and used to assault multiple humans and structures. The worst day was the final day when the NetNavis were able to hijack every single airplane in the world, using them to attack major buildings and districts. Millions of lives were lost all over the globe within minutes.
The UN convened hours after the attack using an experimental technology developed by Tsukasa Hikari, a descendant of the famous Tadeshi Hikari-who developed the Internet and NetNavi-, Yuchiro Hikari-the man who created inventive ways in that the internet could be used to help humanity-, and Lan Xavier Hikari-known for saving the world on multiple occasions from threats such as World III, Nebula, a meteor, and the legendary CyBeasts Gregar and Falzar-. Tsukasa, using notes he discovered in an abandoned PeT he found in his family's ancestral home in the ACDC District of DenTech City, used it to create a new way of life that was almost the same as using the Internet; Denpa (Electromagnetic Waves). With this technology, he was able to give the UN a way to communicate with one another without the use of the Internet.
In a mere hour, the UN reached an agreement: Project Shutdown. In each nation, the 'brain' of their networks were simultaneously shut down. With that act, the genocide of the NetNavi race happened and the Internet was no more. All PeTs (Personal Terminals) were confiscated all over and-after any information on them was removed and placed into drives-destroyed along with the knowledge of how to create them. Over one trillion, fifty billion, fifty-seven million, eight hundred and fifty three PeTs were destroyed during the Rise of Denpa. By 218X, society had begun to move on to utilizing Denpa in everyday life, but were also given restrictions.
Three Acts were drafted and made by the UN: The Laws of Denpa. To be short: the three laws basically stated 'Artificial Intelligence made utilizing Denpa must be programmed with the Three Laws of Robotics,' 'Vehicles are forbidden to be connected to Denpa for fear of the Days of Darkness,' and 'All AI created using Denpa must be registered within ten days or the creator of said AI will be publicly executed and said AI deleted and anything it was involved with be purged immediately.'
"'Many have said that there will come a day when the Internet will return, bringing with it horrors of the past far beyond what the Days of Darkness had been,'" a young preteen read, lying on their bed with the book in hands, "'Some say that NetNavis were able to evolve during those ten days to secretly invade the Denpa Network, waiting for us to lower our guard before enacting their attempts at genocide for what we've done to them.'" The preteen closed the book, "…"
"Jeez, kid," the preteen blinked at the voice nearby, "And to think that I thought your Humans were lightweights. But public executions? Heh. Guess Planet FM and Earth have something in common after all."
"Omega-Xis…" the preteen sighed.
The preteen slowly sat up, stretching a bit. The teen was a young boy, on the verge of entering his teenage years. His chocolate-brown hair was tied up on the back of his head. He stretched a bit, the fabric of his red long-sleeved shirt stretching a bit as well, before getting up. He picked up a bulky blue item on his bedside table and slid it onto his left wrist. He opened the upper half of the device, revealing a pair of screens.
"So whatever happened to that Hikari Family they were talking about in that book?" a strange creature resembling green flames combined in blue armor and red eyes asked.
"Well, Tsukasa Hikari, after signing his name on all three acts, left the spotlight, his family soon forgotten," the preteen noted, "There are rumors that he made his grandson swear on his life to take his wife's name when he would marry."
"And the pet?"
"Pet?"
"Yeah! That thingy where he found that information for Denpa!"
"Oh, you mean 'PeT.' It's short for 'Personal Terminal,' Omega-Xis. And as for that thing, he donated it to his hometown's museum," the preteen informed, "But he had the museum swear that it would never sell it, trade it, give it away, or anything with a contract signed in both his blood and the blood of the current owner at the time. What's more, the owners following that were all the next of kin of that owner in order to keep the contract valid."
"Seriously? That's pretty cool," Omega-Xis noted, "I wanna see it now!"
"Seriously?" the preteen asked in disbelief.
"Geo, I am serious. If that thing is the remnant of a race like those NetNavis, I wanna see just what those guys used to use," Omega-Xis grinned.
"Well…The museum isn't too far from here," Geo admitted.
"Then let's go, go, go!" Omega-Xis shouted before Geo yelped as his arm was suddenly tugged towards the stairs of his bedroom.
"Okay! Okay! Just let me tell Mom before going!" Geo called out.
"Okay, Mega, we're here," Geo noted softly as he entered a hallway.
Omega-Xis emerged from the Transer and blinked a few times. This wing of the library felt like it had seen better days. There weren't many people around, which brought a bit of amusement to the FM-Ian since he could talk a bit more with Geo and not have people think he had an imaginary friend or something like that. Floating around, he noticed that the few Mr. Hertz there were all more elderly as if they had been living there for a long time. He floated over to one standing before a grim-looking portrait.
"What's this?" Omega-Xis asked.
"Oh, this is the painting Flight of Fear, something that was painted with light coatings of acrylic and oil paints," the Mr. Hertz informed, "It's meant to show what the artist witnessed on the day the NetNavis hijacked all those planes. This one was in Sharo, hitting the side of its SciLab branch."
"SciLab?"
"The organization WAXA was originally called SciLab," the Mr. Hertz informed.
"Ah. Okay then," the AM-Ian nodded, "Hey, is this the place with the pet?"
"Hm? Do you mean the 'PeT?'" the Mr. Hertz asked.
"Yes," Geo replied before Omega-Xis could open his mouth.
"It's right over there," the Mr. Hertz replied, "It's the pride of all of us who live here."
"Really?" Geo blinked twice under his Visualizer.
"Indeed. Dr. Hikari told us to protect it for when the power within could be let out once more," the Mr. Hertz informed before going off, "Right this way."
"'The power within?'" Geo repeated.
"Hmm…" Omega-Xis smirked, "Let's go see it!"
"Here it is; the PeT," Mr. Hertz informed.
Geo and Omega-Xis gazed at what the Mr. Hertz was motioning to. Before them was a small display case. Within were a case of chips displaying different images, a picture of a young boy around Geo's age with his brown hair held with a blue bandana and wearing an orange vest, and one last item. The item was a strange blue and orange device. It was opened, revealing it to house a screen on the left side and a keyboard on the right. A camera could be found in-between the screen and keyboard, the lens-like the screen-broken. A slot was on the right side of the keyboard, Geo noting that the chips looked like they fit perfectly into the slot. Along the bottom was a battery which could have doubled as a handle and folded up for most likely easy storage. A retractable cord was also shown coming out of the wide with the screen, the plug on the end broken off.
"Dr. Hikari informed us that this PeT was one of the very first ones made and was used by his late great-grandmother, Maylu Sakurai-Hikari," Mr. Hertz informed.
"You sound like you knew Dr. Hikari."
"Indeed I did!" Mr. Hertz replied, "Denpa was still new then, but there were still times the two worlds came into contact at times you'd least expect it. He told me about this PeT and gave me orders to keep it safe for the awaited day."
"Awaited day?" Omega-Xis repeated.
"Why…The Awaited Day the Legendary Blue Bomber and Pink Priestess will return of course!" Mr. Hertz beamed happily, "Oh, when I first heard those names, I just had to learn about them! And what I found was incredible! The heroics! The daring! The whipping!"
"…The whipping?" Geo asked.
"…What were you looking at?"
"Something called 'Rule 34,'" Mr. Hertz replied.
"…Geo, you are forbidden from looking that up until you are fourteen," Omega-Xis informed, recalling a tidbit of information he found when he had been bored one day.
"Huh?" Geo blinked twice.
"So that was all they had about NetNavis, huh?" Omega-Xis noted as Geo exited the museum.
"Yeah," Geo replied, looking at his Transer, "There really isn't much about what went on exactly in that time since the NetNavis began to start attacking all memory banks during the third Day of Darkness, wanting to delete everything they could to mess with the humans."
"Ugh…Just my luck. They went with Strategy 47: 'Information is Key, so make sure they can't get it!'" Omega-Xis sighed before his eyes widened, "G-Geo!"
"Hm?" Geo blinked before an explosion erupted from the museum, "That…!"
"Wave Change!" Omega-Xis barked.
"R-Right!" Geo nodded, quickly putting his Visualizers on and looking around…spotting an orange vortex on the ground in a nearby alley, hidden away from any nearby cameras and people, "There!"
"Man, I am really hoping you humans will have taken Denpa technology further to where we can Wave Change anytime," Omega-Xis grumbled as Geo stood on the vortex.
"EM Wave Change! Geo Stellar! On the Air!"
Omega-Xis appeared behind him and engulfed the preteen in his EM Radiation. The radiation dispersed, revealing Omega-Xis was gone in all but his head, which now rested over Geo's left hand. Geo's body was covered in a dark-blue (almost as dark as the night sky) bodysuit, a trimming of yellow going up the sides of his body.
"Time to get going," Geo noted, looking out at the museum behind his red-tinted visor and blue mask, his hair a shade of purple now.
He proceeded to run towards the museum, his metallic blue and silver boots that reached his knees making only the sound akin to a normal pair of shoes on someone's feet in a run. Going into the museum, he stopped, the light from a window reflecting off the shooting-star emblem on his torso armor. There was no damage to the main area of the museum, but towards a familiar path.
"Someone's heading for the Network Age wing?" Geo pondered, slightly tensing as another panicking human phased through his body, "Ugh…That still feel weird."
"At least they can't see us right now," Omega-Xis noted, "Let's get going."
Geo nodded. As he ran deeper into the wing, he felt…weird. As if his body was unclean. Glancing around as he ran, he noticed that everything seemed to be growing darker and darker with each several meters he ran. Finally, he skidded to a halt before what remained of the entry to the main attraction of the wing. His eyes widened and he felt ill, seeing a bloodied hand in the rubble.
"…" Omega-Xis frowned, "We need to keep going."
Geo nodded. Jumping over the debris, his eyes widened. The dark feeling he had felt growing had just become more like an intense pressure engulfing him. What…What was it that he was feeling? He winced at seeing the damage the entire hall had, pillars broken, statues collapsed, tables and stands crushed. One thing Geo noticed was that every single window had been shattered…in fact, everything with glass had been shattered.
"Did the bomb cause this?" Geo pondered.
"Kid, dodge!" Omega-Xis ordered.
"?!" Geo rolled out of the way of a fast-moving bat, slamming into the ground where he had been standing.
"Well, well…What do we have here, Wheeee…?"
A small flock of bats emerged from the shadows before coalescing together in the shape of a figure. If the figure had been standing flat on the ground instead of floating a few inches above it, he would be at an impressive 7' 6" with a lithe, intimidating shape. Geo took a step back, his eyes widening as color immediately formed, revealing that the bulky claws on its hands were actually its real hand. The upper body was covered in a purple armor, bits of tainted white detailing the lower arms while gold trimmed the point the armor turned into a black, abyss-like bodysuit that went down, turning into tainted while talons for feet.
The figure's head was the same sickly color that the hands were, sporting sharp red eyes and a black beard, finely trimmed likes its mustache. Resting around the head was a purple helmet, the sides shaped like bat ears with an orange interior to them.
Geo felt the air in his lungs freeze as he gazed upon something directly on the torso. It was a dull-gold ring that extended half an inch out of the spot on the figure's body, an emblem resembling a pair of solid red fangs in a black abyss-like background nestled within.
"It…It can't be!" Geo gasped as he took a step back in shock.
"Surprised, aren't you? Weeeee…" the figure sneered, his tainted white fangs glistening, "Well, you should be, boy."
"A…You're a NetNavi!"
"Yes," the figure replied, "But I am much more as well. Reeee…!" he spread his arms out, "I am Shademan of the Darkloids!"
"Darkloids?" Geo repeated, his eyes widening.
"Yesssss…We are NetNavis who have obtained the power of Darkness! Because of the Days of Darkness, our Dark Power came back stronger than ever, allowing us to be reborn! Weeee!" Shademan declared, "We used the Dark Power to evolve us to adapt to your Denpa Network so that we could continue to thrive!"
"What?!" Geo gasped.
"Whoa. Interesting. Hey, Kid, why didn't you tell me about these guys in that book?" Omega-Xis asked.
"Oh, don't bother. The NetNavis attacked many areas of information to try to stunt your race's actions," Shademan sneered, "Now who are you?"
"I…I'm Mega Man!"
"…" Shademan narrowed his eyes, "You? You are Megaman?" he snorted, "What a pathetic little boy. You actually think you're him just because you call yourself that name?"
"Huh?" Mega Man blinked twice.
"Wreeee…Insolent brat!" Shademan hissed, "Prepare yourself! Black Claw!"
"Whoa!" Mega Man yelped as he jumped back from the swipe at him, "Wave Battle! Ride On! Battle Card Predation! Heavy Cannon!"
Omega-Xis chomped down on the card tossed into the air by Mega Man. His radiation covered his head before dispersing, revealing a magenta cannon had replaced his head. Mega Man fired at Shademan, who turned into a set of four bats that began to fly about. Megaman managed to shoot three of the bats, but the fourth seemed to have vanished.
"Black Claw!"
"GAH!" Mega Man cried out as he felt small chunks of his back being torn out by the claws of Shademan.
"Fool," Shademan sneered before kicking Megaman away, "The real Megaman would have easily countered that."
"What are…you talking about?" Mega Man grunted as he discreetly loaded a Recover 30 into Omega-Xis.
"Even now…" Shademan hissed before his eyes widened, "Oh…" he chuckled, "Oh, I see…" Mega Man shuddered as the dark, maniac laugh erupted from Shademan, "They wiped any mentions of him, didn't they?! Oh, that is rich, Wreeeee…!"
"What is with this guy?" Omega-Xis grumbled as Shademan turned to the table with the PeT in it.
"Why…Why are you doing this?" Mega Man demanded.
"Why? To show the world's true colors, after all," Shademan sneered as he gazed at the intact PeT, "Quite durable, even after all these years. Those first models were truly something. Hard to believe that the Legendary Programs are all sealed within this small thing."
"NO!" Shademan swatted the Mr. Hertz that tried to tackle him into a pillar.
"Ah! That Mr. Hertz…" Mega Man's eyes widened.
"Hmph. Useless," Shademan snorted.
"KAISER KNUCKLE!"
"?!" Shademan's fingers extended before a red membrane formed between them and from his armpit to the pinky, taking flight before a massive energy fist resembling a shooting star hit where he had been, "Oh?" turning in the air, he looked at the panting Mega Man, "Hard to believe that a weakling like you actually has such a strong attack." His grin turned malicious as he swooped down at Mega Man, "Fine!"
As Mega Man fought Shademan, neither noticed the Mr. Hertz wobbling towards the PeT. With a grunt, it managed to float up onto the display and hovered over the PeT.
"A…A shame…" Mr. Hertz noted as he started fading away, "I always wanted to see them…even though I am what's keeping them within…"
"CRUSH NOISE!" Shademan screeched out.
Mega Man and Omega-Xis cried out as they fell to their knee, the powerful sound waves Shademan was releasing paralyzing them. Shademan swooped down, slamming his claws into Mega Man, cutting into his upper body and sending him crashing into the display. Shademan laughed as he landed and slowly approached him.
"Kid, you gotta get up!" Omega-Xis grunted.
Mega Man grunted as he slowly began to get up, his body wracked with pain from his new injuries. If he wasn't half-Denpa at the moment, he could swear the attack punctured a lung. The sound of three bells ringing went off, halting Shademan's laugh. Mega Man looked down at his hand to see his hand had pressed against the Power Button. The screen, a crack in it, began to light up.
"It…It was charged?" Mega Man asked.
=WELCOME LAN HIKARI= Mega Man's eyes widened while Shademan's eyes narrowed.
"That PeT…! HIKARI!" Shademan screeched as he lunged at it.
Mega Man grabbed the PeT and quickly rolled out of the way of the attack, sliding in a Recover 300 into Omega-Xis's mouth. Shademan went through the wall behind the stand the PeT had been on. As Mega Man readied himself for another round, he didn't notice Omega-Xis look at the screen of the PeT.
"Hello…What have we here?" Omega-Xis muttered.
The wall erupted in an explosion, making Mega Man turn to it. Shademan erupted from the smoke, screeching in rage. Neither noticed Omega-Xis eat the PeT in one bite, especially after Shademan slammed into Mega Man, sending him crashing into a wall.
"Let me show you…the power of Darkness! DARK SWORD!" Shademan roared as his left hand twitched before turning into a black futuristic guard with a menacing glowing, violet blade of energy emerging from it.
"What?!" Mega Man gasped before Shademan swung the blade, unleashing a shockwave, "?! …" Geo collapsed, Omega-Xis hitting a wall nearby and coughing out the PeT on the floor just inches before the AM-Ian, "…" Geo let out a breathless pain-filled gasp as he collapsed onto his back, a massive gash cutting through his shirt and across his body diagonally from the left hip to the right shoulder.
"Foolish human. Like those before you, like that insufferable Lan Hikari and his NetNavi…" Shademan taunted as he slowly approached Geo.
'I…I can't move…' Geo thought, coughing up a trickle of blood, as Shademan was soon standing over him, his claws pulled back, '…Dad…'
"Now to finish this!" Shademan hissed, swinging his claws at Geo's chest, the young preteen's eyes shutting close, a lone tear falling from the right eye.
"MegaBuster!"
"RollArrow!"
Shademan screeched in pain as his arm was shot off by a magenta energy blast while the shoulder was impaled with a pink and marigold arrow. He turned and was met with a blue boot to the face, knocking him away from Geo. Geo began to try to get up when a gentle pair of hands covered by pink gloves pushed him back down.
"Easy now, Geo-chan," Geo looked up at the young woman's jade eyes, seeing the concern in them and on her soft cream face, "You took a rather large beating from that Darkloid."
Geo let out a small groan, trying to stay awake despite the pain. Looking down, his eyes widened at seeing the young woman's pink and black bodysuit had a gold ring on her bosom, a heart in the ring.
"A…NetNavi…" Geo shivered.
The young woman nodded. Geo slowly looked down to see her hand just an inch over the massive wound going over his body…and seeing the wound healing rapidly by the gently pink glow emanating from the hand. A roar of rage made her and Geo look to see Shademan get back up, his injuries completely healed with a dark aura erupting from his body.
"You…You…!" Shademan hissed, trembling in rage.
Standing between him and the two was the last figure. He seemed to have a decent build. He wore a black bodysuit with a set of white lines going up from the middle of the front of his legs upwards on the middle of his body. He wore the strangest armor he had ever seen. Blue armor in various shades adorned the lower arms, shoulders, torso, head, and lower legs. Baby-blue gems covered the elbows and kneecaps with a gold border on the tops and a white border on the bottoms. White trimming adorned the wrists on the armor with a pair of white gloves covering the hands while white armor covered the area that turned from his legs to his feet with gold soles on his boots. White detailing on the torso armor seemed to make an 'X' in it with the white line on his bodysuit going into the bottom of the letter with a white and cyan belt around his waist, a gold ring with a pair of red blocks divided by a black line acting as the buckle. His helmet was a series of blue shades with a pair of black rings trimmed in gold on the sides and a baby-blue gem directly on the helmet's forehead area, his ears covered by the same emblem as on his belt.
"Megaman!" Shademan snarled.
"So…The Dark Power revived," the blue figure stated, his emerald eyes narrowing.
Character: Geo Stelar
Age: 13 going on 14.
Gender: Male
Height: 4' 8"
Partner: Omega-Xis
Brothers: Sonia Strumm (250), Luna Platz (100), Bud Bison (100), Zack (90)
Bio: Geo was once a normal child with a great mother and a great father. His father was a scientist known as Kevin Stelar and Geo always wanted to be like him. Once day, his father had to leave to go to space, aiding in the utilization of a space station named 'Peace' to make contact with extraterrestrials. The ones they contacted…were not wanting to be friendly. During the aftermath of the station's destruction, Geo became introvert and began to stay at home, taught only by a teaching program. For almost five years, he would study hard to get closer to becoming an astronaut to go out and find his father, gaze out at the stars at Vista Point at night, and avoid making friends. In the early Spring of his twelfth year, an alien known as Omega-Xis collided with him, escaping from Planet FM and its FM-Ians. By combining with Omega-Xis, he became the reluctant hero-Shooting Star Mega Man-to fight the forces of Planet FM, eventually overcoming his issues with making friends. He still doesn't go to school, though. Not because of him not wanting more friends, but because his current level of study is grades ahead of others his age.
Appearance: Hairstyle and eye-color the same as in-canon. Wears a navy-blue shirt with white sleeves under an open red button shirt with yellow trim on the ends of the sleeves and bottom of the shirt. Wears red fingerless gloves with his symbol on the backs and his necklace and Visualizers. Shorts are same as canon. Will wear a baggy hat at times to hide his hair (strangely, it works at hiding him from Luna and the others when they try to take him to school).
GammaTron: Like I said, this is a reboot of what I was originally doing with Hoshienger. The reason I did this was because the other story was just going too far off what I originally had it for. Got too excited over too many things, so I just kept trying to add them all to the story and it ended up like that. So, this is the reboot. If you want to offer any ideas or just talk about it, join spacebattles and check out my forum page called 'Random Story Ideas.' Join. Don't join. I don't mind. Just makes things easier, I think. So review please!
