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"The year is 2053, and humanity's extensive technological advances have allowed for new heights to be reached. In the modern world, advances in Pulse In Transmission Technologies have allowed people to access the Net through Pulse In as well as through the external use of Netnavis. Pulse In, if you do not already know, is a process where the human consciousness is temporarily separated from the body in order to allow the corresponding person to roam freely through the internet as an independent program. This recently added feature of the internet allows an entirely different dimension of reality to be realized. Using specified terminals that are shaped as chairs, people nowadays are able to enjoy this resource to their hearts content..."
The boy saying this continued for about ten minutes, which is when his teacher lost patience and forced him to discontinue his speech for Net Phenomena class. The name of this boy was Saito Ichiro, a fifth grade school-kid known to have quite a knack for computers, but nothing else. He had brown hair, a blue T-Shirt, a pair of denim shorts and a blue Bandana with a strange insignia on it. The insignia looked like a red circle with a black triangle on the two opposite sides, which were joined by a black line going through the middle. The resulting image was then surrounded by a golden rim.
"Saito..." asked his teacher, Miss Mari, hesitantly, "I'm sorry but if I don't stop you now, there will simply be no time for the other students to present their speeches."
"It's okay..." Saito said, not even being the least concerned with this, "I think I've proven my point by now."
Saito then proceeded to his desk while a boy wearing an unusual outfit came up to the platform. The next boy had brown hair and an outfit consisting of the color scheme of the colors orange, black, and white. He wore a black pair of workout pants with yellow stripes on the sides, a white long-sleeved shirt with black patches at the elbow area, orange and black shoes, and a bright orange vest to top it off.
"The next speech," Miss Mari said with a sarcstic enthusiasm, "will be presented by Lan Hikari on the topic of the capablities of the modern Net!"
Lan, despite being called out by Miss Mari to start his speech immediately fell silent, as did the rest of the class, and continued to stand motionless with a "Holy sh**!" expression on his face.
"So..." started Miss Mari, already fuming with rage, "let me guess... You don't even have a speech prepared because for the past few class periods, you were goofing off instead of doing the research for your project."
"Ah!" Lan said abruptly before he finally gave in, "yes..."
"Why do I even bother?" Miss Mari said, questioning her sanity.
Proceeding this, the entire room remained silent until the bell representing the end of school rung.
"Those of you who haven't presented thier speeches yet..." sighed Miss Mari, "Will present them tomorrow."
"And Lan," said Miss Mari in a bothersome tone, "I expect you to, at least, start your speech tonight."
"You are excused." said Miss Mari airily towards the class.
At this, the class rose and proceeded to continue with their own lives and flooded into the schoolyard where they would coagulate into their cliques and eventually leave the school entirely. This was, of course, a different story for Saito, who was already walking home with his "best friend", Lan Hikari. It turns out that they are both equally unusual, so they tended to hang out more often than not at school.
"Lan," Saito said with a slight hint of urgency, "why didn't you do your project?"
"Well," started Lan with in an explanatory manner, "it slipped my mind mostly because I had given it absolutely no attention over the past week and also because that even the thought of doing it was BORING."
As they went their separate ways going home, Saito made a last comment pertaining to Lan's project.
"Remember," Saito called out, "if you have to repeat the fifth grade, it won't be my fault."
After making his point, Saito continued home where he finished the remainder of his homework and immediately Pulsed In. Most people who access the Net through Pulse In create an Avatar that they appear as while they roam the Net. These Avatars usually look like the people themselves, but Saito's avatar looked more like a customized Netnavi. He had a navy blue suit with stripes of a lighter blue on the sides, a blue helmet decorated with yellow stripe coming up from the back that stoped to reveal a yellow square just below it, with blue gloves, boots, and a jet pack like object protruding from the back of his suit. He also had an insignia on his chest that was the same as the one on his bandana, and this insinia also appeared on his helmet where his ears should be. On the Net, Saito shed away his name and was further known as Megaman. Usually, Megaman would have an extensive list of errands to run, but today's list was especially vacant, so he decided to go to the Cyber Square to spectate the current netbattle tournaments. He walked over to the shortcut that he made on his desktop and walked onto it, and before he knew it, he was standing in ACDC Cyber Square. He started walking but immediately stopped when he saw that Lan Hikari's Pulse In Avatar was walking over to him.
"Hey!" shouted Lan from across the square, "Come over here!"
Megaman walked over to Lan's Avatar, who looked just like Lan himself and put a quizzical look on his face.
"What happened to your project?" Saito questioned with a slight hint of irritation.
"I actually finished it already!" said Lan, almost ecstatic, "Turns out that making it was easier than I thought. Want to see it!"
"Sure..." said Megaman with an intense sarcasm.
It was then that Lan lead Megaman into his homepage where they went into his computer. Lan then searched in his files on a floating screen and took one out which he opened to reveal his speech. Lan took the speech and began to read it to Megaman with a tone that would normally be expected from an aclaimed professor, which continued for about seven minutes. Despite Lan's reputation as an idiot, his speech was almost, but not quite, as good as Saito's speech.
"Wow," Saito said in astonishment, "that was, actually, very good Lan."
"Thanks." said lan with a slight blush.
"So what brought you to the internet today?" Megaman asked Lan, with a friendly tone.
"Well..." Lan started, deep in his own thoughts, "I wanted to buy a Navi for my PET (PErsonal Terminal) but I don't have the money to buy one ao the resources to customize it once I get it. So I was going to go virus busting so that I could raise some money."
"How much do you have so far?" Megaman asked.
"0 Zennies" said Lan with an embarrased look on his face.
"And the model you're looking to buy is?"
"15,000 Zennies..." admitted Lan.
"Well it's okay..." said Megaman apoligetically, "I could just give you 10,000 Zennies to get started."
He gave Lan the money and continued to say "And I could help you bust some viruses."
"Thanks." Lan said gratefully.
"You're welcome." said Megaman , "Now let's get started. It would take you about four hours to raise all of the money you need so we will fight alongside each other to cut the time in half, making four hours time into a total of two."
They then went into the open internet, where they found a swarm of about seven Mettaur SP's. Which resemble black blobs wearing hardhats that are dark purple with a pitch black stripe along it's side. They attack by using their pickaxes to launch shockwave towards their enemies which with these types are so powerful that they spit the ground where they pass.
"Where did these viruses come from?" Lan said as he dodged a particularly powerful shockwave.
"The real question is," Megaman said as he launched a shockwave at one ,which deleted it instantly, "why are they so powerful?"
The fighting continued with Megaman using a Curse-Shield 3 that bit into another Mettaur SP, deleting it and Lan using a Z-Cannon Program Advance, deleting three of the remaining Mettaur SP's. Megaman then took the last move and deployed a Guardian Statue which one of the MettaurSP hit, causing it to shoot the last of the Mettaurs with bolts of lightning from the sky, deleting the last of them. The leftover data from the deleted viruses then gathered to form a data signature that formed into 4,000 Zennies.
Lan picked up the money and looked up with a interesting face.
"SOOOO CLOSE!" Lan said with a huge smile
"Here," Megaman said as he handed Lan yet another 1,000 Zennies, "I picked up while we were walking."
"YESSSSSSSS!" shouted Lan with an even more interesting expression on his face, "I can finally get a NetNavi!"
"Let's go to get your Navi this weekend." Megaman said, beaming with joy, "We'll both go to Higsby's. Meet me in front of the store at 2:00 pm on Saturday!"
"Sure!" said Lan with a look of grattitude, "I'll see ya later!"
"See Ya!" Megaman said.
Lan pulsed out, while Megaman continued to walk through the Net.
Meanwhile... at the ACDC Electrical Plant, an unusual virus lurked into the current control panel. The Virus looked like a black blob that was leaking purple drops of data as it floated from place to place. The virus was noticed by the current regulator program, which proceeded to delete the virus. However, all of the attacks that hit the mysterious virus had no effect and when the dust lifted The control program was gone. The virus then attached itself to the system and overloaded the system.
Back at Saito's house, Saito was still Pulsed in and his body was still in the chair. Without warning a power surge rattled all of the electronics in the house until everything turned off by itself. Except for the Pulse in chair. One of the Circuit breakers in the chair was malfunctioning, allowing the current to rise out of control. This was easily noticed by Megaman as he walked through the currently empty ACDC Square.
"Well..." said Megaman as he prepared to pulse out, "It's getting late."
As he tried to pulse out, however, he found that he could not and an error message apeared. At that exact moment, the motherboard of his computer fried. Destroying the computer and causing the transmission program in the computer to self delete itself. Proceeding this, a huge, countless number of error messages engulfed Megaman. At first, this had no effect, besides the light show, but eventually a pain started to resonate in his head. The pain kept growing and growing, until Megaman lost consciousness among the billions of error messages.
End of Chapter One...
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A Sneak Peak On the Next Chapter of Megaman and the Hidden Hero: After the dust has settled, and the error messages lifted, Saito finds out that he is still logged in as Megaman, but is in some strange area where he finds himself lost. Will He be able to come back from the dead? What about his life before the accident? What will result from the product of a stroll gone awry? Find out next time, on Megaman and the Hidden Hero!