Buttercup Rogue Shadow
STAR FORCE
I own Megaman NT Warrior, you hear me, I own him and every other character even remotely related to the show!
-CSSF (Capcom Special Strike Force) elite commandos begin descending down the outside walls and proceed to break in through the windows, while more strike teams knock down and storm through the doors and proceed to wrestle the offending party (me) to the ground, before taking the above mentioned offending party away to be locked up in a maximum security prison for copyright infringement.-
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Dr. Hikari's office.
Dr. Hikari is, rather defensively, talking on the phone with someone.
DR. HIKARI: Yes, yes you can reassure the prime minister that our best net saviors will be there. Yes I understand… yes I know, yes I… yes, goodbye Mr. Ambassador.
DR. HIKARI: Oh, these Russians will be the death of me! I'd better see what Lan and Chaud are up to.
Meanwhile…
CHAUD: I'm telling you this is how it's done!
LAN: And I'm telling you, you're wrong!
CHAUD: Then how about putting your money where you're mouth is, Hikari?
LAN: Is that a challenge? Bring it on! Looser pays the winner's lunch.
CHAUD: Well then, I hope you con get your next three allowances early, my lunches can get quite expensive.
MEGAMAN (Jokingly to Chaud): You obviously haven't seen any of Lan's lunch bills. (more seriously to Lan) However Lan, I hope you know what you're doing, you're all ready on a tight budget as is.
LAN: Hey, I needed those extra plates of curry for more energy.
MEGAMAN: Uh Huh, and Yahoot probably paid all his monthly bills with just the money from your last tab.
LAN: Even so, I know I'm right, I can feel it.
MEGAMAN: Ok then, I just hope you like leftovers for lunch, being a pedestrian for the next half year, and I hope you've got a good excuse for wanting 3 months worth of early allowances.
However, before Lan and Chaud could make good or their bet, Lan's PET rang.
MEGAMAN: Lan, it's dad.
LAN: Hi dad, what's up?
DR. HIKARI: Lan, is Chaud there with you?
LAN: Yea he's right here.
Chaud moves in view of the PET screen.
CHAUD: What is it Dr. Hikari?
DR. HIKARI: Lan, Chaud, something just came up, and I need you both here right now. I'll fill you in on the details when you get here.
LAN: Where on our way dad.
MEGAMAN: Sounds like it may be something serious.
CHAUD (To Lan): Our bet's still on Hikari.
LAN: I wouldn't have it any other way. Now come on, dad's waiting.
Sci Lab, half an hour later…
The door to Dr. Hikari's office is seen open slowly and Lan stick his head through the opening.
LAN: Dad?
Dr. Hikari comes out from under a PC in the back of the room.
DR. HIKARI: Lan, Chaud, you're here.
CHAUD: Yes Dr. Hikari, what is it?
LAN: Yea dad, what's wrong we got here as fast as we could.
DR. HIKARI: Yes follow me.
Dr. Hikari leads Lan and Chaud out of the room and Sci Lab, to Famous' car outside and drive off.
FAMOUS: Ah Lan, Chaud, glad you could make it.
LAN: Mr. Famous, what's this about?
FAMOUS: Just Famous, and I'd rather let your dad fill you in on this. It's his project after all.
CHAUD and LAN: Project??
DR. HIKARI: Yes, you'll understand better when we get there.
LAN: And where's that exactly?
FAMOUS: An old, abandoned weapons research facility, roughly 60 kilometers north of Dentech City.
MEGAMAN: Weapons research facility?
PROTOMAN: Is this about some new experimental weapon Dr. Hikari?
DR. HIKARI (Smiling): No, no. This isn't about destruction, it is about exploration.
FAMOUS: As you well know, NetNavis are the most complex programs ever created by mankind. And yet dimensional areas are not only perfectly capable of bringing them into the real world but also sustaining them during crossfusion. So this made us wonder, what else was it possible to create in the cyberworld and bring into the real world.
DR. HIKARI: Almost the same year that crossfusion was first shown possible, a research program was started, to determine the true power of dimensional areas, a program during which many technologies thought impossible at out current technological level were developed in code and brought to the real world via dimensional areas. There seemed to really be no limits to what could be programmed and brought into the real world other than imagination itself.
FAMOUS: Encouraged by the successes, the program become a multinational deal with funding in the tens of bilions zennys, which involved many countries and brilliant scientists, yours truly included, and your dad, as one of the top world scientists on dimensional areas was chosen to lead its most ambitious incarnation yet.
The car came up to the gate of an abandoned looking base and a second later, an infrared laser beam from the top of the fence post on the right of the car shone through the windscreen and scanned the retinas of all those inside the car.
PROTOMAN: Chaud, an infrared laser beam has just been shone through the windshield on your faces. Most likely a retinal scan.
MEGAMAN: Yea, I saw it too.
FAMOUS: It is a retinal scan, a needed security measure. Infrared lasers are used since they're normally invisible to the human eye.
DR. HIKARI (Facing the fencepost on the left side on the car): These too boys are official net savers.
The gate slides open allowing passage to the car inside the base courtyard before promptly closing again. The car then continued to drive forward on the straight, time ravaged road for another half kilometer before stopping next to a very large, empty field in between two airplane hangars on the verge of collapse.
CHAUD: And what exactly is this project, and where do we come in?
FAMOUS: Security, you are the best net savers in the world, there's nothing your experience will be needed more than for what we are about to show you.
Dr Hikari and Famous get out of the car and turn towards the empty field, shortly followed by Lan and Chaud who also turn towards the desolate field, not sure what to expect as lightning bolts start shooting from the middle of the base which is beyond the field into the sky and at a certain height from the ground, change direction towards different parts of the base perimeter, striking the perimeter fence.
Lan and Megaman look in awe at the lightning show while Chaud and Protoman seem unfazed by what's going on around them.
LAN (Whispers to Megaman): They spent billions of zennys on lightning shows? Typical.
MEGAMAN (putting on a serious face whispers back): Lan, have a little more respect for dad's work. (then chuckling a little at Lan's comment) Besides lightning shows are big with the crowds these days don't you know.
DR. HIKARI: The project is the next step in human exploration.
The lightning bolt strikes increase in frequency and intensity as something invisible in the middle of the field begins warping light around it. Several minutes later the object becomes fully visible in all it's super sized glory.
LAN: WOW… Is that what it looks like?
MEGAMAN: That's amazing.
CHAUD: I must admit… That's impressive.
PROTOMAN: Indeed it is Chaud.
DR. HIKARI: Lan…, Megaman…, Chaud…, Protoman…
DR. HIKARI: I give you the Prometheus!
This Story is based entirely on the anime dub (allthough, the action is post Beast+) and to that efect, (and) it is my understanding that (at least several) countries have their normal names, not the fruty ones of the original (Lan mentions Siberia at the end of Axess episode 8 The Friendship In The Mirror for example).
I used Star Force for the name, not as a reference to the cheap ripoff they killed Megaman NT Warrior for, but for the fact that said ripoff got too god a dub title, and I thought It could use a better story (It certanly can't be worse than that pathetic excuse for a ripoff ).
Megaman referres to Dr. Hikari as dad, not in reference to the game storyline, but in reference to actual anime fact. Dr. Hikari is Lan's dad (duh), but he also created Megaman himself and is thus technically Megaman's father as well thus technically making Magaman and Lan halfbrothers (two kids who share only one parent).
A anime fact to ponder on.