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-Prologue: Children Of Hope-

The Year 199X

The streets were quiet. The night was peaceful. At least outside Beach Street Hospital it was.

Yuichiro Hikari, a SciLab scientist, gripped the hand of his wife, Haruka Hikari, and lent her his support in the struggle called childbirth. At first, Haruka moaned in pain, but the pain grew too much to bear and the moans grew louder. Eventually, the soon to be child deliverer couldn't help but scream in agony. The blank atmosphere of a hospital turned into an intense scene.

"You can do it, honey! Just a little longer!" Yuichiro assured his wife, but his words were drowned by the screams of pain.

As Haruka pushed harder and harder under the doctor's orders, the pain grew stronger and stronger. How long did it have to go on? Why did it have to hurt horribly? When would it all be over?

Somehow, though, it was all over. Haruka made it through. After all the pain and torture, what appeared as two infant boys finally arrived into the human world. As the twin sons wailed in the warmth of their new blankets, the witnesses to the childbirth couldn't help but feel overjoyed.

"They're... beautiful..." Haruka cried happily, tears flowing down her eyes. What should we call them, Yuichiro?"

He had names for his children for a long time. In fact, he had ideas before he was even married!

"Let's name them Hub and Lan Hikari," Yuichiro smiled warmly.

After showering every single doctor and nurse in Beach Street Hospital with gratitude, Yuichiro and Haruka left in happiness. With twins Lan and Hub to watch and raise, they were officially a family and nothing could tear the four apart.

Right?

Two Months Later...

Life was nothing but pure bliss. While Yuichiro was off at work in SciLab, Haruka stayed behind at home to look after her recently born sons. The Hikari family lived in a comfortable house in the center of ACDC Town, located within the boundaries of DenTech City.

The white and blue house's lower floor was padded with glossed up wooden planks. The kitchen, one with all the basic essentials and a bit more and where Haruka was warming up the babies' milk, was tucked away neatly in the far left corner of the entrance. Outside the kitchen was the dining table, covered with a red and white checkered cloth. Far behind the tucked in chairs was the living room, with a flat screen TV installed on the wall, a small seating area in front of it and a tall lamp to the side of it.

Sitting in separate baby seats were Hub and Lan, playing with their educational toys. Lan found it amusing to reach over and knock down Hub's number block tower. Hub countered by stretching his arm to destroy Lan's alphabet block tower. The two brothers messed with each other frequently, but laughed off what the other did. Life was good.

Suddenly, breaking the sound of Hub's laughter was a furious cough! Following this were several very throaty coughs. Immediately, Haruka stopped what she was doing and rushed over to Hub.

"Hub! Are you okay!" she demanded to know, only to receive gruff coughs as a response. "Oh no... What do I do? I have to get him to the hospital!"

Lan noticed his mother's very panicky tone and made a little 'Hmm?' sound.

"Nothing's going right at all!" Haruka snarled, taking the babies from the seats.

As she rushed to Beach Street Hospital, Hub continued to cough roughly. Lan responded to this by reaching his hand over to his brother's and gripped it as tightly as he could, giving him a smile in the process.

The doctors were alerted of the problem and quickly brought the family another room, took Hub and inspected him. Meanwhile, Haruka called Yuichiro to alert him of the dilemma. Right after the call, the scientist rushed over to the hospital and demanded to see the rest of the Hikari family. In no time flat, the assistant led Yuichiro into their room.

"Yuichiro! Thank goodness you're here!" Haruka sobbed, wrapping her arms around him and throwing her face to her husband's shirt.

"Honey, calm down!" he told her. "I'm sure the doctors can do something about this!"

"Uhh..." Lan sounded worriedly from his mother's arms.

"Your brother will be okay, Lan," he spoke to his son softly. "At least, I hope so..."

On of the doctors looked at the heart monitor and was devastated. Hub's heart beat was all over the place! One second, it beat as fast as a cheetah, but the next, it crawled down to a snail's pace.

Oh no! It can't be... HBD! Urgh... And I can't use the defibrillator on a baby! His body wouldn't be able to take the electrodes!

Frantically, possibilities popped up in the doctor's head, but they all had fatal flaws. Other ideas simply wouldn't work out! Quick discussions were made with the rest of his team, but none of their ideas would work, either! Rarely were there cases of HBD in Beach Street Hospital and every attempt to cure the one or two victims before have ended in failure.

Unfortunately, for the Hikari family, this would be another one of those cases.

At first, the staff didn't know how to tell them, but they managed to find the correct words. They broke the bad news to the rest of the Hikari family.

The result was Haruka breaking down into to a flood of tears, Yuichiro being filled with despair and rage and Lan reacting to his parents' negative feelings by crying himself.

"No... He can't be..." Haruka murmured. "Why...?"

Suddenly, Yuichiro's eyes were filled with determination.

"I have an idea."

"What...?"

"Yes... Hub will live on."

Had a good Halloween? Well, as a late treat, here's what I have in store for you.

Hiya. My name is UpbeatButNegative and welcome to my novelization of 'Megaman Battle Network'!

Some of you may recall that I wrote something quite like this before on an old account. However, because I wanted a fresh start after a long time of being gone, I decided to rewrite and reupload it all here.

MMBN is one of those games that I think pales in comparison to most of its sequels. However, that doesn't mean that it's a bad game on its own. After all, the idea was fresh and new to Capcom, so any mistakes with the game are excusable.

The Battle Network series is quite different in gameplay to the other subseries of games, but I still find joy in breaking out the games and busting those viruses.

However, that entire prologue scene didn't happen in any game. It was all made by me! Expect that as a sign of things to come. For the most part, this will be a straight forward story version of the game, but with my own little twists and turns. A staple of my novelizations will be the addition of filler segments, whether tagged onto the ends of chapters of as individual chapters themselves. That way, you guys get something original out of my retellings.

Anyway, thank you for reading this prologue, guys. Stay tuned for the actual beginning of the game!

-Have a great day, week, month, whatever, and stay upbeat, y'all!-