Hiya guys, it's TheCrimsonSkyline online with her first MegaMan a.k.a. Rockman Fic ever! Like I wrote in my profile, I'm not a native speaker but an 15-year-old Austrian girl, so if there are any mistakes in my way of writing or words that don't fit or mean something totally different, please let me know!
I base this Fic on the ANIME of MegaMan Starforce, mostly on Ryuusei no Rockman Tribe, the second season. So I'll be using the Japanese names and descriptions as well. I'll list everything that's different from the games beneath, so be sure to read it through if you haven't watched the Anime and don't want to be confused. Also, my first intention was to hand this in to my English teacher, so the first chapter contains descriptions and explanation of things that everyone reading this here on surely knows. Sorry for that, just skip the parts you already know. I'd recommend reading them though, as the Anime is WAY different from the games, like I said before.
Note: In Japan, the Last Name is written before the First Name, so I'll also do that here. I'll use the Japanese –san, -kun, -chan etc. as well, but they should be common.
Hoshikawa Subaru = Geo Stelar
Hibiki Misora = Sonia Strumm
Bly = Solo
War-Rock = Omega-Xis
Denpa-Henkan = Wave Change
Rockman = Megaman
Denpa: Jap. 'Wave', refers to electronic waves
FM Planet: A planet just like Earth, only being inhabited by Denpa beings called FM Life-Forms, who are a pugnacious and brutal nation that have eliminated the AM Planet long with most of its inhabitants.
AM Planet: A planet just like FM Planet, only being inhabited by Denpa beings called AM Life-Forms, who are a nice and calm nation that were eliminated by the FM Life-Forms. The only AM Life-Form left alive is War-Rock. The three wise men of AM-Planet, that died shortly after War-Rock had realized he was an AM Life-Form and not from FM Planet, gave their lives by changing into almighty Battle Cards then given to Subaru in order to protect earth.
The country of Mu: A country that exists in a different dimension than earth and was wiped out by Ra-Mu, their former guardian, which they sealed away together with their strongest warrior shortly after that by giving most of their lives.
OOPArts: Short for Out Of Place Artifact, an OOPArt is an ancient relict of great Power that was found in a place where it seemed, like its name says, out of place.
"Battle Card! Predation! Gatling Gun!"
"Battle Card! Predation! Wide Shot!"
"Haah!"
The three Denpa-Humans clashed together, or rather, their attacks did. A huge explosion occurred in the middle of the yellow-orange Wave Road only Denpa-Beings could reach and use, causing all the people in the city underneath it to look up. Look up to a fight they wouldn't even know was there without the big, dark cloud of smoke that hovered around over their heads, and the noise that happened to accompany it.
Hoshikawa Subaru cursed at the sight of the cloud. He was one of the three Denpa-Humans up there in the crucial area that had launched the attacks which had caused the explosion, but he still wished that the cloud hadn't appeared. That would blind them, and be good for the enemy. While he was in Denpa-Henkan with War-Rock, an alien from the AM Planet, his body was changed to a state called Denpa State, made him a Denpa-Human and gave him the power to change into his alternate identity, Rockman. As Rockman, he had the power to fight Denpa Viruses directly, use the Wave Roads all over the planet and communicate with Wizards, Denpa beings that were a great help for the whole humanity. Also, if War-Rock 'predated' a Battle Card that was normally just put into a little device called a Transer and that could fight Denpa Viruses, Rockman could use it in battle and so be able to fight them more effectively. Naturally, Rockman was still able to use the human ways as much as he wanted to, if he just changed his body's state, but to avoid nuisances, he did that only when he absolutely had to. The last advantage of Denpa-Henkan was that their combined strength merged together and even duplicated after that, so that Rockman was able to heave a whole train without showing any effort, if he had wanted to.
Subaru sped up on the yellow-orange Wave Road he was standing on and could dash on with just one movement, going in the direction of the smoke cloud. A few Wave Roads away, he could see Hibiki Misora, in her identity as Harp Note, just landing on the ground made of Denpa and dashing away as well. They exchanged a short look and showed each other the Battle Cards they'd use next, in order to have a chance of teamwork up ahead. Then Rockman looked up into the sky, searching through it with his eyes.
"What are you thinking, not paying attention to your foe anymore," a harsh voice led his look directly upwards from his current position. The brown-haired grinned a little as he saw Bly coming down to him rather fast, his big badass sword in his right hand, where it always was.
Bly was a bit of an exception if compared with other Denpa-Humans – as a descendant of the ancient country of Mu, which existed in a parallel dimension to the common known world, he didn't need to fuse with a Denpa-Being in order to change into Denpa-Henkan and also didn't need to predate Battle Cards to launch various strong attacks. He still needed them, but only thinking of them was quite enough to activate them for him, so it looked like he didn't use one at all for someone that didn't know about Battle Cards. Despite that, his power level wasn't below those of Rockman and Harp Note; it was quite the opposite. During their first encounter, Bly had wiped the floor with them, practically and literally spoken. Believing that he wanted to cause destruction, Rockman continued fighting Bly on several occasions, mostly while trying to get the OOPArts that Bly had been trying to hinder from getting together. However, as the person Rockman was fighting for turned out to be the real one wanting destruction by resurrecting the greatest and most uncontrollable warrior of Mu, Ra-Mu, him and Bly had joined forces at last and drove Ra-Mu back into Mu as it was close to enter earth. Since then, they hadn't seen each other again, as there had been no other choice for Bly but to go back to Mu together with Ra-Mu, to prevent such a thing from ever happening again. Even if both sides had never spoken it out aloud, shortly before their separation they had made the promise to see each other again. They'd just needed looks for that appointment.
The reason for their reunion after one year could have been on a better note though. Bly had successfully destroyed all the OOPArts, absorbed their power and sealed Ra-Mu away again, but seeing as he was, after all, a human being, he wasn't able to do each- and everything. Ra-Mu had been nearly as big as a god for Mu – sealing him had, even with the power of the OOPArts, which contained a power as big as that of Ra-Mu, drained Bly's powers to the minimum amount he had needed to stay alive, which was the cause for him to not notice that with this new seal, he had made a thin crack into another one.
If truth be told, it wasn't his fault completely. The crack had been there before and nothing had happened, but the extension of the one micrometer Bly had caused seemed to have been enough to let the power of the beast inside dwell out. Rockman was just glad that it only broke out completely after Bly's power had been nearly fully resurrected, as he didn't want to think about a scenario where he and Harp Note had to face that thing alone, without Bly telling them what it was and what powers it possessed.
"Especially this foe," Bly continued as he took his space next to Rockman and kept up with him using the Wave Road as well, even though he was able to fly. "Tomorrow at this time you want to be still alive, yes?"
"Of course", Rockman replied, knowing Bly's offending tone was just the way the citizen of Mu was talking regularly. He had been sealed together with Ra-Mu for so long he himself only referred to the time they'd been sealed as 'long ago', so nobody cared if he was expressing some things a little bit oddly.
"You know, Bly, I wouldn't have thought that you'd talk this much."
Bly seemed like he actually had to think that line through a few times before getting slightly angry about it. But much more than the bit of anger, the surprise was clearly noticeable in his face.
"Why are you telling me that all of a sudden?" the older boy replied then, looking straight forward, as the dark cloud came nearer and nearer – or rather, they came closer.
Next to him, Rockman shrugged his shoulders. "I dunno. Maybe I wanted you to know, just in case."
That made both of them grin out of gallows humor, as both of them knew, what they were just going to encounter.
"You're some sort of a pessimist, eh, Rock?"
"Rock?" repeated Rockman phrased as a question, thinking if he had just overheard the 'man' part or if Bly had really not spoken it. "You didn't forget I'm Rockman, right?"
"Nah, but you need a shorter name. Harp Note there is Sora for me."
Hibiki Misora, Misora, Sora, Rockman tried in his thoughts and after a few moments had to admit that the name fit Harp Note. He was on the verge of deciding to call her that way too, but then held himself back. Bly may've been able to take this whole situation a bit lighter, because he possessed more power, but he himself had to focus completely if he didn't want to get killed.
Focus on the big thing ahead of you, focus on the big thing ahead of you, he chanted in his mind, clapping the palms of his hands flat against his cheeks in order to be fully awake and there. He repeated that action a few times then looked up again, just to see that the smoke cloud was a few seconds up ahead of them.
"Well, Rock?" Bly whispered, all of his former calmness gone and instead replaced with a nearly deadly seriousness. It was just a slight movement, but the instant he had raised his voice Rockman noticed that the fingers of the citizen of Mu had tightened his grip around the sword's handle. "Ready to face the real evil behind Ra-Mu? Ready to face Amun-Re-Mu?"