My Shining Star: Tenth Anniversary Edition

It's been a long time coming, guys, but Star Force has returned to my mind. And I decided to check up on this place. And I noticed that for some weird reason, I have 23,000 hits on my old fanfiction, and some of them continue to be recent.

Due to this… I'm going to do it, guys.

I'm going to give you all a new story. But since I've already spoiled the ending, which admittedly was tied to the Firefox story anyway, I'm going to have to do some… revision.

I'm going to make it a bit more of an adventure this time instead of JUST a lot of fluff.

Oh, and the intro is skippable if you remember the games well enough. But I mean, it's been a LONG time, even since the third game, so I included it to set the tone.

In any case, there's only one thing left to say.

Welcome back, everyone.

Chapter 1

It is the year 220X.

Technology has advanced greatly in the past year following a series of crises. First, an alien race attempted to destroy the Earth due to a misunderstanding. When it was cleared up, the resulting formation of a BrotherBand with Planet FM gave rise to a new era of EM Technology, including Matter Waves, Navis that controlled materialized EM waves, and Link Power, a physical manifestation of the strength of BrotherBands. However, this also caused the emergence of a second crisis – the reappearance of the Lost Continent of Mu. Mu unleashed an ancient plague of EM viruses upon humanity, those naturally from Earth. This led to the development of the Hunter VG, a new type of terminal created for the sole purpose of hunting these EM Viruses. Murian technology also led to the development of more advanced Real Waves, objects without sentience made from materialized EM waves, previously only used for Battle Cards. Additionally, it led to the readoption of a two hundred year old idea: the creation of Wizards mirrored the idea of the NetNavis of old, with the added benefit of being able to materialize and help more directly in everyday life. However, the creation of Wizards and the increase of technology was not without its drawbacks. A corrupting influence called Noise emerged across the world, and began to cluster together, sometimes causing significant harm especially to man-made EM beings exposed to too much, and other times creating pocket dimensions or wormholes. Noise clusters would come together sometimes, and form a tangible type of deep red Noise, called Crimson. EM beings in battle would often produce quantities of crimson unwittingly. The Ace and Joker programs were developed to control Noise and Crimson for their beneficial purposes. A third and final crisis arose when an ambitious man named King tried to take over the earth using the power of a meteor made of Noise and Crimson. In all of these crises, one hero stood up to defend humanity, one who had learned the power of bonds firsthand, a blue shooting star for the blue Earth, and even worlds beyond. His name echoed the name of a hero of old, who had saved the earth in the distant past.

His name was MegaMan.

April 220X

Small tufts of cloud drifted lazily by in the night sky. A cool early spring breeze blew through the air, gently wrapping the world in its calming touch. And there, on a bench in a grassy park, slept Geo Stelar. It wasn't as if his presence there was too abnormal – he loved going out to Vista Point to look at the stars, even after his father had returned. But lately his mind had been drifting as he did. The past year had brought him quite a few changes. Just a year before he had shunned other people, so he wouldn't have to lose them like he thought he'd lost his father. But now, it was different. Friends, Brothers, the bonds he had created over the past year were bonds he knew wouldn't easily be broken. But for one in particular, he had been thinking a bit more about than others. With everything that happened, all of his friends were at his side, but none so more than one Sonia Strumm. She was his first Brother, the one who made him realize that he could trust others again, the one who made him realize just how much one person could affect another's life. And because of that, recently he'd been drifting off while stargazing, just thinking of her. Of course, he wouldn't quite tell anyone that, he wasn't ready and it was all sort of weird. But then, a certain Wizard knew better. A Wizard from Planet AM.

"Geo. Wake up."

The boy stirred slightly, mumbling in his sleep.

"Geo, you've been sleeping on that bench for an hour now," said Omega-Xis.

"Huh…? Waugh!" Geo jumped up, suddenly alert. "Who what where's going on?"

"Relax kid, you just fell asleep on the bench again."

"Ugh… why does this keep happening…?" asked Geo, standing and stretching.

"Kid, I couldn't tell you. But you might want to get home already, your mom's probably starting to get worried."

"Since when are you so concerned with that, Mega?" Geo gave the Wizard a one-eyed look while stretching.

"Since because I feel like it, and just sitting out here is sort of boring. Why bother coming to this particular place anyway? You can see space way better from the Astro Wave, or even Planet FM."

"It's nothing, just sort of like this place in particular…"

"…Humans," he muttered. With that, Omega-Xis returned to Geo's Hunter-VG. Geo started down the nearby stairs and headed towards home, still wondering why Sonia was the only thing on his mind.

Recently, there had been some changes to the yard next door to Geo's house. Specifically, an entire unoccupied house had been demolished, paving the way for a statue that gave information on Echo Ridge. It was sort of a bother though, lately – after all, the world knew that the young boy was MegaMan now, and many people had wanted pictures with the statue right next to his house as a result. Eventually, the city got involved, and it was decided that the statue couldn't stay there if they wanted to protect the peace of the place. The lot had stood empty for most of the winter, but as Geo turned the corner, he noticed a change in the street.

"Hey, Mega, does something look different to you?"

Mega materialized himself, then blinked in surprise. "Geo, put on your visualizer. You're not going to believe this."

Upon doing so, Geo realized why something felt off. "It's… a Real Wave house, next door to mine? But I thought they were leaving that lot empty?"

"Apparently, they changed their mind. Hopefully it's not someone too MegaMan crazy. The last thing we need are more crowds around here."

Geo walked past the new house, quietly returning to his own. Entering the door, he raised his voice slightly. "Mom, I'm home!"

"Geo Stelar, do you have any idea what time it is?" His mother, Hope, had been waiting for him.

"Actually, no…"

"It's 5 in the morning, Geo."

"What!?" Geo turned to look at Mega. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"Don't blame me," the blue alien retorted, "I got bored when you fell asleep so I decided to mess around on my own for a while. I didn't exactly check the time when I got back…"

"Mega, the last time I looked at the clock, it was 9."

"Boys," interrupted Hope, "don't you have anything else to say?"

Both Mega and Geo flinched at her words. "Sorry," they muttered in unison.

Then Geo spoke up. "Well, I do have Mega with me, so it's not like I was going to have too much trouble anyway…"

Hope blinked. "Well, I guess that's true… but you still should be more careful. You might have saved the world more than once, but that doesn't mean I get to stop worrying about you, Geo."

"I really am sorry though." Geo looked down and away, towards his bedroom. Hope caught this change in expression.

"This is the third time this week something like this has happened… Geo, is there something wrong again?"

"No, nothing like that, it's just… I don't know, I'm annoyed at it too."

"Geo… just try to not do that in the future, okay?"

"Right…"

"Can I get you anything?"

"Breakfast, I guess…" The boy looked up. "Might as well get ready for the day…"

"Alright, I'll go ahead and make something for you…" Hope knew her son. As she watched him walk upstairs to his room, she couldn't help but feel like something just wasn't right with the boy. She headed over to the kitchen and materialized some pancakes for Geo, yawning.

Real Waves were a funny invention. Instead of just connecting people, they could create beautiful things that sometimes wouldn't be physically possible. Things like a statue that stood on a string, or a house going up overnight. As Geo got ready for the day, he couldn't help but wonder who had moved in next door, and if they were going to attend Echo Ridge Elementary…

The sound of water filled the air as the girl finished rinsing off. She stepped out of the shower, wrapping herself in a fluffy pink towel. Having dried off and gotten dressed, she brought up the local news as she waited for her hair to dry.

"…And in trending news, pop idol Sonia Strumm has announced another vacation for herself in the spring following her successful exit from retirement, saying she's taking some more time to be with the friends she's made. In a statement yesterday, she said that her friends are, quote, 'the inspiration for her songs,' and that she would be 'returning after with all new music.' She says she loves her fans, and hopes they will understand her absence."

The girl looked up at the time and started brushing her hair, quietly humming a nameless tune.

"Two hundred year old culture making resurgence this month as a time capsule was dug up in Time Square. Among the items inside the time capsule were hard drives full of movies, images, and television series, as well as an antique device called a PET, which functioned much like today's Hunter VGs. Local theaters will be showing movies from 200X in special viewings this coming month, and radio station WEKO will be playing hits from 200 years ago."

"Sounds interesting," the girl said to no one in particular. Her hair done, she headed toward the door. "Well, then, I guess so is today. Real Wave, activate!"

The door opened, and the brown haired girl stepped outside, greeting the day with shining emerald eyes.

Wew lads.

So that's our first chapter this time. I'm hoping I capture the characters a bit more closely to their canonical appearances, while at the same time maintaining at least some of the humor of the original. Seven years ago Poketoa was a very different person, turns out, but was also pretty good at THE KEIKAKU.

"But where's the Sonia scene?" asked the reader. It's nowhere yet. Last time, I literally said "don't ask me why she's there, also lol I forgot to explain an important plot point xDDDDD"

Yeah, no. This chapter already has enough trouble with telling over showing as it is. In the old version, it reads as a semi-trollfic, and were I not the writer, I would ALMOST expect it to be a troll. Not sure if that's good or bad… In any case… I'm hoping I handle this rewrite alright. Onwards and upwards.