Mega Man Star ForcEXE

A story about Lan from Mega Man EXE. In it, he gets frozen in time for 200 years. What will happen? (It's a cross-over of Mega Man EXE and Star Force, as the title suggests.)

Chapter 1: Frozen In Time

"Gee, Lan. You sure look cold. Maybe you should've worn more clothes?" commented the program that lived in Lan's PET.

Mega Man's words were accurate. Lan was shuddering out of sheer coldness, as he was unexpectedly called for a mission regarding yet another one of so many villains that Lan was only too willing to thwart. He was clad in his usual attire, a white shirt and orange jacket, black shorts, shoes, and his favorite blue bandana, nothing more. This outfit of course was not suited to protect from the biting cold of the northern regions.

Lan responded with, "Don't worry about me, Mega Man. Just hang tight so that we can deal with the villains."

But there was reason to worry. What appeared to be the remains of a dry river was actually a river dammed with solid ice that stopped the water to a halt. It was a wide, deep river, one that a person could drown in if there was any water present. With all of the water pressure that was applied to the ice, it was due to give way any time now. And that time was when Lan was walking across it.

The ice-cold water burst forth, prompting Mega Man to exclaim, "Lan! Don't get submerged by that water! If you do, you'll freeze over!!"

But Lan was transfixed out of fear by the liquid that was surging in his direction. He wanted to move, but could not. It was too late. He was completely sunken under the wintry water, which quickly froze due to the chilling, incessant winds.

"This doesn't look good. I'd better alert somebody right away!" Mega Man said to himself, as he desperately contacted whoever came first into his mind.

Not before long after…

Dr. Hikari, Mayl, Dex, and everyone else made it to the site of the ice river, where Lan stood motionless. Everyone was silent, but were struck with shock.

Mega Man was able to ask them through the frozen water, "Guys! It's terrible! What should I do?"

Dr. Hikari replied, "There's nothing much we can do. But despair not, for Lan is still alive, only in suspended animation. If we can get him defrosted, he will be able to get back on his feet. But I don't think that there would be any way for us to thaw him out. You'll just have to wait until the climate changes, which will take a very long time, if you want to hear from Lan again."

Mega Man proceeded with, "I'll wait 100, even 200 years if I have to! I'll stay by Lan's side as long as I have to!"

With that, Dr. Hikari wistfully bid goodbye to Lan and Mega Man, and departed along with the others. From then on, over the next few weeks, Lan's name slowly ceased to be mentioned around ACDC Town, and many other places.

Months passed. Mega Man was still waiting patiently, detecting no change in the weather. As more months, then subsequently years passed, the climate was gradually increasing in temperature, although even less than marginally. About 50 years had passed, but the ice had not even started to melt. To say that Mega Man was growing a little anxious was an understatement. He had spent nearly all of his time watching Lan, sleeping in his icy prison.

As time progressed, the dependency of networking has substantially lessened, with the world being networked with electromagnetic waves. The cyber world, as well as Navis, did continue to exist, though it was not nearly as necessary as it used to be. Satellites were used to administrate the radio waves of the world.

(This is the transition from EXE to Star Force.)

200 years have passed since Lan's fateful encounter with the sub-zero river. The small landmass that it occupied had long since been slowly drifting towards a warmer area of the earth, soon nearing the town of Echo Ridge.